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From the standpoint of someone who works in healthcare epidemiology and has always been fond of phage therapy, a few reasons:

1) Even with resistance on the rise, we still have antibiotics that work. Phage therapy is a "someday we're going to need this...we think" type treatment.

2) There's no such thing as a "broad spectrum" phage. They're organism specific, and that means not only would you need to keep a phage library on hand, but you'd have to do a lot of diagnostic tests. That's going to be both expensive and tricky.

3) Phages are living things. Not only is that a weird regulatory framework to be in for a drug, but it also means that you need to be able to keep phage alive. In contrast, antibiotics are inert.

4) Phage therapy is also relatively new in the West, which means there's just less of a R&D infrastructure behind it.

There have been people working on commercializing phage therapy since I was in undergrad (I'm now a tenure-track professor). The problem is it's hard, and antibiotics are so much better as a treatment that there's kind of a ceiling on the excitement that they can generate.
Nurse practitioners are already great for when you just have an infection and need some anti-biotics. They have little clinics with them in many drugstores these days.
I'm one of those people (though, not starbucks). It's a drink I can't get without relatively expensive equipment and effort at home. It's a chance to catch up with news without the expectation of being on call for work or feeling like I should be doing something productive around the house. It's a moment of calm before going in to chaos, err, work.

It's also a chance to socialize, with no expectations, with other regulars.

It's a treat.
I have the same problem and I took the same approach: if I'm not immediately good at whatever I was doing, I'm over it. If I need to buy special tools to do the hobby, I buy quality but beginner's tools, and if I'm good at it and outgrow the tool, I have no issues buying a new better one. If I'm not good at it, I didn't waste too much money on professional equipment I'm never going to use.

At first it was hard to admit I'm not good at something and for years I spun my wheels trying to get good. Now I give it a reasonable amount of time and if it hasn't gotten easier, I'm done. There are enough things I am good at and that do come easily, there's no sense in spending time doing something that I don't really want to do.

Also since it's a hobby, I don't make promises to anyone about finished products. I'll show it off when it's done, but in-progress stuff is just for me. That way there's no shame in failure, since no one even knew you were trying.
I loved the gifs and thought it was well written and 'fun' to read. You can't please everyone.
Startup compensation for developers makes zero sense, because market rates can easily jump 50 - 100% per year of experience. This means that at some points of the year a developer might be earning market rate, but other times they are vastly under-compensated and very vulnerable to getting poached.

There should be a way that startups can just automatically give people a raise every two weeks, so that way they make the same amount of money over the course of a year but their compensation is always equidistant from a projected fair market rate.

Then for the employees you'd just need to give them a tool so they could see how much money is going to hit their bank accounts every two weeks.
> I wonder if Riot would consider building the scripting UI they show into some kind of training mode.

The game would probably be more vulnerable then, because now you have "cheat" scripts designed to work with the game.

> If players could train with the spell range circles, skill shot path projection, last hit helpers, etc in a sanctioned way, I wonder how much this would remove the desire to seek out the cheating programs.

People who cheat aren't trying to practice; they're trying to win games. There already exists a "practice mode" which lowers cooldowns and shows tower ranges. And it doesn't make sense to practice with cheats because it won't help you play the game without cheats very much.
I know for my own work, which I think has commercial potential, I go back and forth as to whether or not the juice is worth the squeeze as far as commercialization is concerned.
I'd be fine with that, but I'm acutely aware living in the deep south that MANY people would not be happy with that. If we're talking about what's politically feasible within the US, "universal" healthcare is only really an option at the state level, or maybe with some federal maneuvering, as a multi-state regional coordination. It's simply not going to be accepted anywhere in the near-future on a national level.

For the parts of the country that are rabidly anti-universal healthcare, a more free market solution would be a nice consolation prize.
You can find various benchmarks and testing results here: https://www.acceleratewithoptane.com/stories. We're working on some Postgre, or I invite you to do some benchmarking yourself on our community lab.

Disclosure: I work at Intel partly with the Optane SSDs (the
PCIe version you mention).
How about USA government instruct the owners to cease access or take ownership like with Kim Dotcom's New Zealand (?) based storage company.

I don't recall hearing about anyone recovering access to their data in that case?

This makes every additional user an increase in risk, as even without a warrant it seems if USA TLAs consider someone a valid target then those servers are going down (or getting taken over by people with unknown service standards in order to run a sting, or ...).

tl;dr you have to worry about accusations (of law breaking or copyright infringement) against others too as some jurisdictions have a strong overreach in such cases.
I have zero issues with HiDPI on Ubuntu + xmonad set-ups. In particular, setting xrdb's Xft.dpi to a good value (e.g. 144, an "even" multiple of 96 for X1 Carbon) seems to work well. However, I mostly use my laptop for Chrome, emacs, and terminal, so YMMV. HiDPI screen is definitely worth it for your eyes.
We would not have Amazon, Netflix, Youtube, Facebook, Google Docs, Deep Learning, name any other modern software technology or product, if we were still writing and optimizing everything by hand in assembly or C. Those "2 to 4 orders of magnitude" that are "sitting on the table" are actually being used to make it possible for developers to work at a much higher level and be much more productive.

I totally agree with your first paragraph, though.
The author of the linked article is a math professor.

Additionally, not all math is writing proofs. It's also applying their results (a student doesn't need to prove 2+2=4 to use 2+2=4 in some computation) and developing intuitions about the nature of mathematical objects (which can then be used to guide future development by helping to discover new hypotheses to prove).
Weird, pasta is in the database. What happened to you is probably the slowness of the search. The database is loaded entirely to the client and searches are done in memory.

Right now it's pretty jumpy even on high-end hardware. I need to fix this.
Easier to go to the speedpass+ app, if you have set that up. They have your rewards card there already and you just assign a pin #.
I have mixed feelings about this, especially considering the US is the only first world country where direct-to-consumer marketing is allowed for medications.

Bypassing the prescription requirement is of course of significant value to drug companies, who expend quite a bit of resources to sway doctors with free lunches, conferences and soft persuasion tactics.

Usually I welcome the freedom to chose but this doesn't increase availability: the bottleneck is not with the doctors, it's with pricing. Drug prices aren't going to go down with this measure, and will remain 3-5x the price of the exact same meds sold in Europe.
Ok, I guess no one calls it an indel if theres no net change to the length. It doesnt really matter to the example if its an indel or substitution.
Ooo! I have a question! Where do I learn more about overlays? The BSD 2.11 code I've read has comments about overlays, but I have no idea where to learn more about how to understand the topic. I came across it while I was seeing if I could get newlib to compile for the PDP-11.
Surely the far greater risk is one other person using the service does something the feds don't like (justified or otherwise) and they take every server that person's file fragments have touched.
Thanks for the feedback! To your point Sam had great points as always.

The book does get into some of the other issues you mention in other sections. There are only a few pages about "managing in a downturn" (which is literally the name of a section later in the book).

I think when we finally end this long bull market run we have been in, there will be lots of pain (and lots of articles and blogs about what to do now that the sky is falling).

Thanks again for taking a look!
I am in the same boat as the author. This is why own machine is a chromebook too. Gallium OS (the distro with chromebook fixes) uses the driver from chromeos and it is way better.

I would donate at least $100 towards this and would contribute if possible.

Maybe a more technical paper on the history and current state of things would be nice too.
IEEE Patent Policy Revisions: An Empirical Examination of Impact
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_hidden_variable_theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_test_experiments#Hensen_e...
I think many people would find intellectually boring your position of absolute personal freedom with no objective measure of excellence, along with your aggressive defense of such. But there is also objective information which would support OP's position for someone who considers objectivity in the personal sphere of little value: heavy computer and mobile use has been linked many times with psychological difficulties, including anxiety, depression, stress, etc. Please don't pontificate on other's allusion to human well being by presenting your own moral code to be imposed.
ASIC Resistant Proof-Of-Work: Avoiding Centralization Through Complexity
The best durability is probably achieved by Amplidata, but it does not matter.

You need to do the same calculation for your meta data, which is probably not erasure coded. If you lose this, you don't lose your data, but you no longer know where you put it.

So you probably add your meta data to your data as well in some kind of recoverable format. That's fine, it means that you can harvest the meta data again.

But how long does this take ?
Startups grow like bamboo
That's why no sane entity would use one earth. Use two and you can quickly recover.
I agree that the Netflix experience can be a little annoying - but that's because we keep coming back to that show and navigation over and over.

The way these have been implemented for blog posts is more of a single use situation. That is, you are likely only going to hit this article once and never again.

The small moment you create at the top of your content - whether it be a banner image, video or animation - is pretty non intrusive to the experience imo.
NPs can already prescribe drugs (just not narcotics, iirc).
Do you use external monitors that have different resolutions?
Sure, sorry if that offended you, I'll refrain from using that here in the future. It's a shorthand for the people commenting here not adding anything to the discussion and projecting one aspect that I associate with the oft-derided "tech libertarian" culture - that is, that nothing every really happens, coupled with an unwillingness to dig deeper to find a deeper understanding of the issue at hand.

If you think the ~15 other posts here saying "I don't get it, these aren't election meddling" are adding more to the conversation than my comment because you were offended at the word, then I think perhaps you should continue reading the rest of it. Psyops is real, Russia does it, the US does it, and sowing dissent and funding extremist political groups in our country is a known part of Russia's global political strategy.
ABC’s, Airway, Breathing, Circulation. Having said that, it’s clear in context that survival needs referred to external factors such as food, water, shelter, and fire.
Does your GF really want to rubber stamp things epipen Rxs? Once you have the allergy diagnosis, it generally doesn't go away.

It's kind of like low tech automation.
I think I'm going on 7 years with my x220. It simply refuses to die, and I love it.
Show HN: Gradient Hunt
Finally we come to common sense.
I second the need for "simpler" solutions like this. At Perfect Audience (where I worked with the CloudForecast team!) we spent a lot on AWS and used vendors to help monitor the spend. Because these vendors were venture backed, they needed to charge a lot of money. To justify charging that much money they needed to build a lot of features...when all we really wanted was a good email each day to alert us if something was awry.
I can't disagree with you. But regarding backwards compatibility, the simpler the standard, the easer it is to write an implementation, the more practical it is to simply start fresh every iteration. Considering how cheap and disposable hardware is becoming these days, the more obvious is the false economy of flexibility in the design.

I don't do much traditional driver development (mostly USB related, at least when it comes to hardware). I know enough that dealing with the ARM ecosystem can be much more of a headache than in the PC world, for two reasons: diversity and more opaque specs. (Even if the PC stuff is proprietary, there's enough publicly leaked info to at least get started.) But ARM features are also often much simpler and straight-forward. If the documentation were always and completely freely available[1], then I think many developers would prefer dealing with ARM platforms than with PCs. You may be writing more drivers, but development would be more efficient and reliable and you could move on without having as much of a maintenance and bug-fix burden. It can be a worthwhile trade-off, and fits better with the open source model.

[1] I spent months trying to sign an NDA and gain access to NXP's iMX53 Security Reference Manual. After repeated back-and-forth with two NXP resellers, Mouser and Digi-Key, I just gave up.[2] I've heard of lone developers getting access to the manual, but they must be more familiar with the process than I am. Now I'm pivoting and have decided to use seL4 on PC hardware rather than bother with the TrustZone and the iMX53 crypto hardware, even though the ARM route would have been easier but for the documentation issue.

[2] I think it's NXP that kept dropping the ball, but I'm really not sure.
I never claimed it was in bad faith and I don't think it was. Considering incentives and conflicts of interest is perfectly normal and does not mean that someone is operating in bad faith.

I just claim that it's reasonable for the company not to take it at face value as the doctor is not impartial and may have been considering a different standard for "not fit to fly." I certainly do not take it at face value. Could he have been put on a plane with extra medical assistance, for example? That may still have been cheaper than surgery.

I think what the guy did was the best choice if he can afford it, but I also think it's not unreasonable from the company to say that it was not what travel insurance covers.
I don't know why people are bothering to point this out.

All things considered, those places are very rare. Surely you're not saying people should disregard advice that's accurate 99.99% of the time because of a handful of counterexamples?

New Orleans and Death Valley are particularly silly examples because New Orleans is not wild in the sense of the article, and a person will almost certainly know when they're in Death Valley and be aware of its unique situation.
But anti-cheat is largely obfuscation. Unless the host system is locked down (i.e. game consoles, systems with TPM-based verified boot), any state the game has access to is also going to be accessible to attackers.

You can limit what state the game itself has access to, but that's just one class of attack. It won't prevent aimbots, for instance.

It's the same reason why secure DRM is so hard. If the user has root, it's not a level playing playing field for developers.
Hah, good catch, I know that but somehow made the error anyway. I corrected it.
Elad Gil having quite the PR push today on HN. Conveniently first on the Stripe Press article, earlier post with the Altman interview. Well done on the marketing game today!
Those crossings are equally pointless for drivers, but we are still expected to obey the law.
>You've also mistaken his desire to finish receiving treatment in Singapore as a desire to avoid the NHS

It's right there in his e-mail. He was concerned:

"About potential waiting times on the NHS".

>They were asking him to fly for 20+ hours in a coach seat, considering his hand was unstable that seams unreasonable. It also increases the likelihood of additional injury as he travels.

IMHO if his hand is well enough to be discharged then the presumption is it's well enough to travel. Of course, he can provide evidence from his doctor to rebut that presumption. The insurance co asked for that but it's not clear he ever provided it.

>The were asking him to transition his medical care from one hospital to another in another country on the other side of the globe.

Which is the service he paid for. Travel insurance is to pay for emergency care until you are able to fly home. If he wants an "any hospital, for any treatment, in any country" policy those are sold too, but, naturally, are much more expensive than Bronze level travelers insurance.
Hey Hacker News,

Gradient Hunt is a curated collection of beautiful gradients.

The Story
While finishing up another side project (Html Colors), I unexpectedly noticed the popularity of colors and gradients websites. I started this project because I wanted to create a webapp and learn vue.js

Solid colors are useful, but what was missing was a tool that enables non-technical folks to create and use all the beautiful gradients. I wanted to make a website that was so intuitive and easy to use that you can understand it in less than 30 seconds. So Gradient Hunt was born .

🇦🇷 Maker Bio
My name is Franco, I’m a 15 years old kid from Argentina, designer and web developer with a big passion for colors. I developed Gradient Hunt in the last 2 months. I maintain, review gradients, and update Gradient Hunt on a daily basis to showcase the very best of the gradients the users create.

Please let us know what you think! I would love to hear your thoughts
That's literally impossible. The entire point of the game is to have client-side input and for that input to be generated by a human and not a computer. There's no way to move that to a server.
I don't think anyone will deny that Apple has effective marketing. But they also deliver a product that is above average in almost all factors, except for repairability. For PCs you need to research quite a bit and select the right configurations.

It seems you favor repairability over all other factors: display quality, touchpad, HD speed, battery life, weight, a physical store for support, etc. I used to repair laptops over a decade ago and at that time I would also put repairability at the top of my list. That was a time with failure prone mechanical hard drives, CD-drives, and chassis made of cheap plastic. Most laptops even back then survived water or tea spills fine though they didn't fare so well with soda, coffee, and urine. Perhaps that history is what's driving your personal bias. These days machines are more reliable and I personally would prefer a smaller and lighter machine even if the tradeoff is repairability.
Are you willing to share snippets on HN?
Made $73,500 last year as a freelance software consultant last year. Sole breadwinner in my house - my wife doesn't work.

Paid my estimated federal and state income taxes through the year, paid federal and state taxes at the end of the year, paid for a decent tier in the healthcare exchange, put away as much for retirement as was prudent, and still had more than enough money to take two months of the year off and pay for a three bedroom, two bathroom house in the suburbs (mortgage, utilities, and insurance all paid).

It's not impossible here, but it is impossible in the Bay Area.
How do you envision this to work in practice?

Do I need to read a manual for the ad? Also, the ones that actually are dependant on the keyboard will already use Vimium or something else.
To be fair, the Federal Reserve is not responsible for labor law and the like. They are clearly very late in their response, but it's notable that a non-political organization felt the need to comment.
Anyone downvoting you is an idiot. It's disrespectful towards locals and unless you are of the exact same culture there is a ton implicit cultural context one is not aware of. So, unless one has some concrete mission (in which case one is not a tourist but entirely something else) any disrespectful comments are likely to only hurt feelings and project ill will towards the transgresssor.

Any tourist activist is a pure idiot. People are quite capable of taking care of themselves, and if something human behaviour related looks like it needs fixing it's likely a non trivial thing to fix.
Good point. I haven't bought a laptop in a while, so my view is probably outdated. I do like the keyboard on my Lenovo work laptop though.
The "Sunny"/"Cloudy"/"Stormy" is based on the personalized threshold (E.g 10% increase compared to yesterday). The alerts can be set for your overall AWS spend but also at the Product (EC2, RDS), Region and Tags level.

For our tech stack, we are mostly using AWS Lambda with the Serverless.com framework. We were able to get off the ground quickly while keeping the cost down
This looks like serious witchcraft. Is it safe?

I have some suspend working on X1 2018, not sure which one! Switching from Mac is... hard. My true-wireless bluetooth earbuds don't work too well either. I guess it's gonna take few weeks of tweaking configs to get to a decent situation.
> In reality, most claimants are going to spend much less than 1% of that £5 million limit before they get flown home. It only really applies to people who are at death's door and end up with a long stay in intensive care, or need a fully-staffed medical flight to get them home.

Exactly, but you're saying it like it's a bad thing instead of "this is just what travel insurance is and why it's so cheap."