skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Affiliate marketing does not magically get rid of waste. It just transfers the risk involved to another downstream party, while buying a shield of deniability of the unethical and scam tactics commonly used by affiliates.
Physicists decry call for US visa restrictions on Chinese researchers
Life long friends can be formed anytime but I think you make such friends during undergrad. Back in India during Engineering (i.e ungrad ) I made 8 life long friends because it was age where I was bit mature and not childish (compared to my time in school) , had no responsibilities (financial) and had lot of time , so it was so nice to get along with ppl and make a good bond. Compared to other phases of life where I am either childhish or there lot competition between group of people where real motive of forming bond is different.
that people have public and private opinions and they know when and where to express both?
Growing pains for 3D printing
Many places in North America, it is forbidden to park a car on your property in front of your house except on a driveway leading to a garage. The result — unsurprising to anyone except an urban ‘planner’ — is houses whose face is almost entirely garage.
> Over time, Big Pharma learned how to game the law. As the patent for the original drug approached expiration, companies added wrinkles — a new coating for the pill, a time-release version, and so on — that they then patented. If the patents were approved, and they usually were, the exclusivity clock would start ticking all over again.

I don't understand how that would ever work.

Time-release version of X, now with new coating: patented

Old version of X, with no time-release and without new coating: patented expired, correct?

If so, what stops the generic manufacturer from just manufacturing the old version of X?
I wish MS would open source this! I’ve noticed it tends to segfault randomly if you connect to the wrong IRC server, so it must be riddled with security holes.

However, it beats the heck out of slack on resource utilization and functionality. :-)
It'd be difficult to argue that most drugs do not bring extreme joy to their users, it's just coupled with equally or even more severe lows after. If you could take heroin without getting addicted or dealing with withdrawal, why wouldn't you?
Based on what exactly? ML is not that common in adtech companies, many just lie about some basic regression testing. Some even just put up a facade in front of grunts with excel.

Even the most sophisticated ad modeling pales in comparison to fintech and bioscience/pharma where the real money is.
Synecdoche (which I eventually learned is four syllables) is the name of that linguistic phenomenon.
Like that time US subsidized Ebola Vaccine? By buying rights for 200K from publicly funded Canadian Uni research.
There are not that many actual hard data science experts in adtech. Much of it is smoke and mirrors with every vendor claiming "AI" even if it's just some excel tweaking. The industry can't even agree on standard metrics or run a campaign without 20% discrepancies.

Also you can definitely apply ML techniques to data without PII, it's just harder, which actually makes the job more in-demand for high-quality talent.
There is nothing to stop them. The only reason why "evergreening" works is because doctor's write scripts for the "new" drug.

Sometimes it's worth it! If you need to take a drug three times a day and the new version is only once, that can improve patient adherence and outcomes.

However, sometimes the added value is minuscule. In that case insurance companies should just say "we're not paying for it since the added cost is not worth it".

Problem solved.
> ...how many CO deaths from accidentally leaving the car running in the garage were happening before the introduction of key fobs vs. now.

The great thing about the free market is that information spurs innovation. News stories like these make consumers aware of risks they couldn't recognize before. Now we, as informed buyers, can seek out these safety features in the products we buy.
Traversable wormholes, the “Slow Zone” and yes pretty much everything about the protomolecule. It’s hard, until you realize theres more energy and time at play than is feasible given the age and total volume of the universe. They’re also ignoring relativistic effects on approach to the wormholes, which would be necessarily extreme. Some elements are hard, but it’s just a skin of it.

I guess to me hard sci-fi = “physically possible” and that might not be fair. As I said though, I don’t mind soft sci-fi, because after all it is fiction and that’s fun. It’s just, if you’re going to throw magic into the mix, why not have at it?
Docker is a dangerous gamble
Thanks. I have just started scuba diving and am looking at getting the ultra budget Cressi Leonardo Dive Computer. Is getting that a bad idea given I am just a newbie?
Even by the standards of altcoins, it's sort of hard to take a project seriously when the homepage starts out by rambling about Game of Thrones.
It would be easy enough to only use the CO detector when the car is in park or the emergency brake is on. That way it could never activate while driving.
Security Flaw Impacts Electron-Based Apps
Is there a hashing algorithm whose sequence of operations is heavily determined by the input, so that an ASIC targeting it would need to be roughly as flexible as a standard CPU?
I liked the predictability of Java code; no nasty surprises like in Scala, no changing API like in Python, no incoherent addons like C++. You just learned how to express some things and then you could focus on algorithm/problem itself uninterrupted. With Scala or C++ I have to fight with some weird definitions here and there, dig deep into compiler to understand why some error is happening, waste a lot of time on things that should be trivial but aren't. Now I am worried that Java is going to become the same with the newer additions.
US has regressed to developing nation status, MIT economist warns
Huh, interesting. I've never actually known this. I live in an extremely rural area (300 people population, only ever lived in a larger city curing college) and it's pretty common for cars to be parked wherever (one of mine has been parked in the lawn diagonally for sale.) Never made the connection.
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I'm tempted to apologize on behalf of my countrymen, but hell no- those reprobates are a national embarrassment to us all over Europe, and deserve the antipathy. I'm sorry you have to suffer through their douchiness, however.

I audibly groan whenever I see GCC license plate on the road in London; these fuckers are part of the reason why I have to either lie about my nationality when asked, or to slowly explain that most of us drive Hyundais back home, not Bentleys.

Edit: regarding the diplomatic immunity, it's not as much of a carte blanche as most assume it is. The bills aren't waived by any means just due to the immunity- they just go to the embassy instead. The embassy usually pays up then chases them down back home to get reimbursed, though often unsuccessfully I'm afraid.
GA is useless if you don't know how to use it.

I can't imagine giving it up either, but that's because we actually use it to produce useful insights, not just look at our traffic and referrers which is probably what most people use it for in aggregate.
You can loathe another artist style though.
I'm not sure you have a fair understanding of what isolationist rural poverty is like, or what 'universal poverty' under the CPC looks like. Are you referring to a particular time period? The cultural revolution was pretty bad, but you'd be hard-pressed to make this claim for the decades that followed.
No. I'm all in on Jon Snow coin.
> Speaking of which, what is the best way to start a python project in 2018

Pipenv[1] and flit[2]. Together, these do most of what npm/yarn provide for a Node.js project.

Pipenv for installing packages. It’s a virtual environment manager (like pyenv, virtualenv, venv) that’s aware of and stays in sync with the package requirements list, and supports repeatable builds. It claims to be “officially recommended”, and Travis and Heroku, for example, detect its configuration file.

Flit for publishing a package. It’s driven from a declarative project file.[3]

EDIT: Added details and a link to [3].

[1] http://docs.pipenv.org/

[2] http://flit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

[3] http://flit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/flit_ini.html
As long as the backups expire within a reasonable amount of time there's no problem with this.
It's a mix depending on what market segment you're looking at. I watch it from afar. There's still a lot of silicon use, esp for accelerating TCP/IP or decryption. I also found one recently you all might enjoy with slides on using a GPU:

http://on-demand.gputechconf.com/gtc/2017/presentation/s7468...
I think that this really sums up Tolkien's attitude best:

Tolkien did not think fairy tales were children's stories, and Disney treated them as if they were.
I know the feeling. As a very young boy I saw an anime adaptation of The Little Mermaid that was a faithful adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's version and thought it was incredibly moving.

A few years later the Disney version came out, and the production value was incredible while the story and all meaning was just lost.

And the messages Disney sends to young girls, in particular, are horrible.
Java was propelled by investment banks that saw Java as a manna from heaven comparing to C++ CORBA and the mess it was. Suddenly you had something simple yet even more powerful than C++ when it came to time to deliver a flawless distributed app. Java's main drawback is the amount of boilerplate code, but frankly that's more of an issue of framework/design patterns than the language itself; similar problems are in Python, Scala or even Haskell, just at a slightly higher conceptual level.

Language-wise C# overtook Java quickly, but SUN was all about openness and about not being big bad Microsoft, and that resonated with the majority of idealistic developers.
Oops, you are right, I misread that.
Talk to the guys at HashRabbit. They've been quietly working on this for years
A10 actually lists the number of FPGAs in their mitigation appliances for sizing purposes.

"Select Thunder TPS models have high-performance FPGA-based Flexible Traffic Acceleration (FTA) technology to detect and mitigate up to 60 common attack vectors immediately in hardware — before data CPUs are involved. "
Robinhood supports ACH
I think living in a totally foreign culture is essential to recognizing the actual values (and fundamental issues) of your own society. It also gives you perspective on what‘s human, what‘s culture and how to relate with any other human regardless of th latter. Was quite the eye opener for me. I hope more people can and want to do it in the future.
I think he's probably referring to their PoW hashing algorithm: https://ravencoin.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/X16R-Whitep...
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But drugs are produced in other countries, too, and they manage to do so without charging what US companies do.
It's still a bit new, but I think pipenv [1] is the new standard now. No need to directly work with pip or virtualenv anymore, and the equivalent requirements file works more like npm/yarn.

[1] https://github.com/pypa/pipenv
We most certainly do get out of market economics for some things we deem important. Think defense, water and electric utilities, and law enforcement.
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> Sometimes it's worth it! If you need to take a drug three times a day and the new version is only once, that can improve patient adherence and outcomes.

For the moment, let's ignore that case by simply calling the improved drug a new drug.

> However, sometimes the added value is minuscule. In that case insurance companies should just say "we're not paying for it since the added cost is not worth it".

I'm still lost.

1. Doctor writes prescription for "B", which is really "A" with an insignificant change and a price bump.

2. Patient goes to pharmacy and looks at their copay for "B." Whoa! they say-- that is surprisingly high.

Wouldn't the pharmacist then have the responsibility to jump in with their expertise at this point? Say: "B" is just a slightly altered "A" to get you to pay more, so call your doctor and ask them if you can take "A."
That is around 90 Billion dollars. I'm not sure where you got that number exactly, but phrma member companies list their combined 2016 R&D expenditures at 65.3 billion[0] so it seems plausible. For context that is around the GDP of Slovakia or Sri Lanka. (65th and 66th biggest world economies)[1]

[0] https://www.phrma.org/press-release/randd-investment-by-u-s-...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
If we take the somewhat liberal assumption that pharma's marketing budget is ecomically optimal at present - eg marginal costs equal marginal revenue, how is making marketing more expensive helping anyone? All it will do is decrease revenue/drug which will have a knock-on effect on marginal revenue of R&D: reducing gross R&D expenditure and thus approved drugs.

In the end, you can have more new drugs (new antibiotics, orpan drugs, etc.), or cheaper drugs(Less qualified, fewer, off label usage, not qualified for efficacy, etc.) There are different ways to make either happen but short of attacking an inefficiency in the system there's no free lunch. Equipment costs money and scientists need to eat.
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What was the theological and philosophical significance they were supposed to communicate?
>Is it really that hard to assume there could be solutions to problems like that?

That's kind of venturing into a recursive loop of pointlessness.

The "problems like that" you mention, are actually the ostensible "solutions" that cryptocurrency was designed to provide.

So the solution to those "problem solutions," is to acknowledge that 10 years of cryptocurrencies with little more to show than Willybots and hot potato hype-machines, says something about their essential value to most of society.
You do that and in in a few decades, after a few rounds of negotiations, most of your research money will go to funding ex-researchers pensions. For an example, take a look at where California's tax revenues go.

In addition, public funding tends to more risk averse. Private industry generously rewards innovation. Public funding tends to reward not rocking the boat.
You can remove CGO_ENABLED=0 by using the Go Alpine image (golang:1.10-alpine). The issue is caused by Alpine images being musl libc based.
It is somewhat hypocritical to lobby for removal of the same protections that enabled your own success.

I don't think "hypocritical" is the right word to use, I think it's completely reasonable for a company to want to lock out its competitors (even unborn competitors) even if it means shutting the same door that company used to achieve success. It's up to elected lawmakers to uphold the interests of common citizens, and we all know how that goes.
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Cell phones aren't the best example for you. As soon as economic and technical hurdles were cleared, cell phones became one of, if the most, rapidly and widely adopted technologies ever.

Cell phones also provided something genuinely novel and useful for those who adopted them, in a package that was familiar and easy to use.

Bitcoin, by comparison, okay I can pay for some things, well I could already do that. I have to adopt hard to understand security measures and my every action with my 'money' is fraught with peril if I'm not exceedingly careful. Well, that's new, but it's not something that appeals to most people.
I remember banning people using it as it used to spam channels with CTCPs for the comic book state
...except, at least in NZ where they do some of that marketing, the drugs are purchased via the state body Pharmac, which will not pay the inflated prices that the drug companies charge in the US.
>"High speed network processing got weird."

I was curious about this statement. Can you elaborate, weird how?
> forced the developer to adopt a specific folder organization

Well, so does C (and basically everything else). Alternatively, you can pass tons of -I and -L flags to your compiler calls but you can do that with Go, too.

The point of GOPATH was to make this unnecessary because everything can be deduced from the source code and its location within the file system.
It should, but I believe you'd still be out the deductible.
...what do you mean by "peak speed for only a short time because of fuel limits?" It's space. You don't need fuel to maintain speed. What's going to slow you down?

Oh: To clarify, "Escape velocity" is the speed you need to escape Earth's gravity well entirely, so that you are no longer orbiting the Earth at all; it's about the amount of velocity you need to go on interplanetary missions. If you just want to go to, say, the Moon, then you don't need to go that fast. If you just want to go to low Earth orbit (LEO), then orbital velocity's only around 7 km/s.

But that isn't "peak speed" or anything, that's just ... how fast you have to go to be in low Earth orbit. The International Space Station is traveling at 7.67 km/s right now.
`dep` is actually a good tool and suppose to be the official tool. But out of no reason, `vgo` came out and said to be deprecating `dep`. I don't really understand how the Go team make decisions.
I just installed it on Windows 10 and, if you change the configuration, it's high DPI aware and looks gorgeous on my screen! That's something I did not expect.
> I’m thinking the discoveries should be made public goods through rewarding breakthroughs somehow.

Maybe the people who create new medicines could be given a temporary monopoly to recoup costs and make some money, and in exchange their research becomes part of the public domain? I'm just spitballing here, but something like that might work...
Contractually, you can make whatever agreements you want.
I would consider someone offering a warrantee for bug free software to be an inexperienced amateur. I would consider someone expecting a warrantee for bug free software an unrealistic and thus bad client.

Now obviously, if you are making software for a medical device and you are willing to pay for what that entails, you can get very close to “probably won’t kill someone” but it still probably won’t be bug free.
The messages that old Disney movies send to girls were a product of their time. I think the more modern Disney movies send excellent messages to girls.
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>which is the reason for .NET core existing, I suppose.

True, .Net Core exists because Microsoft eventually realized its mistake of tieing its programming framework too closely to its operating system. But... that mistake is now in the past, for some years now.

>all the interesting things in cloud happen outside of Redmond.

We're getting a bit off-topic from OP with this, but can you please give an example of some other cloud provider's service for which there is no Azure equivalent?
How do you propose to force other countries to pay more for medicines than they do currently?
What I find odd is that no-one is forcing these companies to sell their products at a lower price - if they weren't profiting, they wouldn't sell their product.
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> What was the theological and philosophical significance they were supposed to communicate?

I don't know, but I can think of an analogy: If angels were commonly depicted as cheerful and a bit silly characters in cartoons, perhaps religious people would have the same complaint.
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and I'm referring to the hero spot on their homepage which literally starts with "In the fictional world of Westeros, ravens are used as the messengers who carry statements of truth"
>When it comes to consumer ISPs, who are the people paying for the high-end packages?

Gamers don't need high speed or thousands of services and telly channels, just good ping
Personally, having no clue on the background of what/who "Bitsavers" is/was, just the words "Software Archive" or "Communications archive" help little. Software of _what_? Communications for _whom_? Took a bit of browsing to orient myself.
Rhetoric around the blockchain hints at problems with techno-utopian ideologies
I think it's more like if you made an iPhone game and sold it for 99 cents and the government came along and told you you had to give it away for free to people who didn't want to pay.
> Will programming ever evolve from programming languages to more complex building blocks in the form of programs combined with pipes in the bash terminal?

1) A bash script

or

2) Those are called libraries.
> I also wonder why attack often last only a few hours.

Using the botnets costs either money (if you're renting one) or opportunity (if you own one and could be renting it out).
What have I failed to engage with? I am looking at this from the perspective of ordinary people who live, visit, or do business in that region. While sex tourism is a problem, I believe those ordinary people outnumber the sex tourists. I understand that the context in which you encounter SE Asia may be mostly reports of sex tourism. For me, it is not--it's just another place I've had meetings. I think sex tourism there is around the same level as something like the opiate epidemic in the USA--something most people are aware of, but not something that directly touches most people's lives. There are many poor people, and there's also an educated professional class. There's little "tech" by the standards of California venture capitalists, but lots of manufacturing.

This exchange began when you posted a comment that I suspect caused some pain to a guy who (we have no good reason to doubt) was engaged in a loving relationship with someone from that region. Now, you've just said that your viewpoint is better than mine, by that specific standard. How do you make that consistent?

If I said that it was "entirely reasonable" to suspect that the black shoppers were thieves, on the basis of your Bayesian statistics, then I suspect you would call me a racist. I think you would be right. Where does the analogy fail here? It's wrong even though they really are more likely to be shoplifters, if we do statistics considering nothing but the color of their skin. That correlation by itself is not a reason to act, before considering the size of the correlation, and the social consequences to the group that you're about to harm.

If you see a post like his again, then you could reply "They are probably thinking of sex tourism. That's a bad problem in the region, which then also casts a hurtful shadow on any relationship between a local woman and foreign man. I hope any foreign man who dates there does so with respect for this problem." Why not?
> The subtleties are not longer fresh in my mind, but "throws" rubs me the wrong way. Why declare whether a certain function may throw an exception? The beauty of exceptions is that you can use code that throws exceptions without having to know exactly where exceptions can occur.

Throwing an exception does not alter the ABI for a function, since the mechanism for throwing exceptions is separate from normal control flow. They call into library code for unwinding the stack. This is what makes them "slow", and it's why they require heap allocation since there's no pre-made place to store the value.

Throwing a value (as proposed) does alter the ABI for a function. That value needs a place to go, it's essentially another return value. Removing the requirement to add throws to the declaration would be like allowing these two functions to be the same:

int foo();
std::either<int, std::std_error> foo();