skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A data point from the USA: I take a very low dose of lamotrigene extended-release (mild epilepsy). The brand-name cost of this was $1200-$1400 per month. The recently available generic version of this costs nearly $400/mo. And this is, again, for a very low dose. For someone with a moderate or severe seizure (or bipolor - it's used for that too) disorder, the cost might be 4-5x this.

While one might argue that the name-brand version costs so much because of high R&D costs (dubious in my opinion), it's difficult to make that argument for the generic. It's expensive because the manufacturer can get away with it -- it's very much needed by the patients but the market is sufficiently limited in size that few potential competitors choose to target it.

Generics can be inexpensive if the drug in question has a very large market - statins for example. But if not, and you don't work for a company that provides health insurance with prescription drug coverage, a drug you need may well be a drug that you cannot get because of its cost.
Opera acquires AdColony
as if the US didn't go through a debt-ceiling crisis every other year.
If you're in tech, the way to do avoid this is:

- Develop mission critical systems.

- Make sure no one else understands them.

- When you're gone, break them so your employer suffers and realizes they can't be without you.

- Act like you don't care and want your time off.

Works for raises,too.

Of course, if you have a good employer, none of that is necessary.
map, reduce and concat are all slower than the native.

Chrome / Win7

http://i.imgur.com/nksvDAE.png
Dreams and Nightmares
WW2: If planes are back with no damages on the tails, add armor on the tails...  [pdf]
The ad also inspired several parodies, including this one from Ford. The Cadillac ad is clearly trying to sell to an affluent, white, conservative audience which still believes their hard work and no vacation pays off. In the ad, they show their success with the car they drive. It's a study in market segmentation.

Ford's parody spins it around by focusing on social consciousness, eco-friendliness, and diversity, a better message for their electric vehicle audience. You could look at the ad subject's "dirt from food" startup as a literal circle of life, an homage to organic farming and green living.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAN61QK0aUI
Welcome to America! Land of the Free!
If someone thinks that an article is low quality, they're supposed to flag it, right? You're entitled to your opinion, but I'm not surprised a lot of people flagged it.
Consider the book 'Becoming a Technical Leader' [1], by Jerry Weinberg. He and his students (e.g. Johanna Rothman, Esther Derby) have a whole host of excellent books and courses in the space you describe. They're also very approachable, if you want to discuss these matters.

[1] http://www.geraldmweinberg.com/Site/Technical_Leader.html
Roi UX
Of course. But cases like this takes a tiny, tiny fraction of all programming effort. Very few programmers get to work under such tight constraints.
One of the most important factors in the case is the country that you are from, it is hard to say anything without knowing that piece of information.
The second row of cannons was added at the insistence of the king, the shipbuilder knew it would doom the ship. Also, I've yet to meet anyone who thought the Vasa sank because "Swedes were stupid."
After my employer was acquired we adopted the new owners' "unlimited" vacation policy. I have heard from a manager in another part of the business that her staff now take less holiday, but for my team I'm making it clear that I wish them to take at least 20 days off per year. That's 5 days more than we were officially allowed previously. I figure that if they go around claiming vacation is unlimited they don't have much choice if someone holds them to it (and 20 days really isn't that much).
I did. Thanks for pointing that out. Here is the source

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230418120...
Predictions of economic chaos as baby boomers grow old are wrong
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WEBLOL xD
My experience with "Unlimited Vacation" was bad. I took maybe 3 weeks off over 1.75 years and always felt bad about it because there were others who never took days, though some later burned out. I get the idea, it's actually a nice idea, but you must have a culture around it that supports the idea or it won't work.
The Problem With a Culture of Excellence
Sensu – open source monitoring framework
Sure, but I'm willing to bet that if DO offered failover, you'd be willing to pay them more to take advantage of it. Perhaps not a lot more, but it's money they're leaving on the table.

I do think that offering IP failover would be a much better way for DO to pick up extra revenue in the future than offering a competitor to S3 or EBS or Cloudfront or whatever.
Hotbit HB-8000
Enable Heads Up Notifications on Android [Xposed module]
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Refreshing hack news, after all that startup BS.
> I don't know about the security vulnerabilities,

About 14 months ago, it caused some of the most serious vulnerabilities in the Ruby on Rails world ever: http://tenderlovemaking.com/2013/02/06/yaml-f7u12.html

> why not just use JSON?

JSON is not really human-editable. Those quotes and commas, ugh! Also, JSON lacks comments.

The vulnerabilities in YAML (which is a superset of JSON, by the way) point at why YAML and JSON both aren't appropriate for configuration: they are _serialization_ formats. Configuration isn't what they're built for.

And you're right, it's really just not a huge deal in any way. Especially once we have `cargo project` to autogenerate the basics.
Those are concrete claims (wrong or right), but they are made after Wolfram has shown why he thinks they are so, not at the beginning of the post like the now-deleted parent quoted.
http://laptops.reviewed.com/content/asus-zenbook-ux301la-dh7...

Asus Zenbook UX 301 has the best touchpad (according to the site). So, I guess if you are objectively looking for a touchpad - you do have option.
Nearly all of these are slower than native in Firefox 32.
(disclaimer: I'm friends with the author.)

You're right, you could probably learn similar things from "Strunk and White," but right now the problem is that most people check their grammar rules from random websites. Try google searching for any rule, and I guarantee you that you'll find contradictory advice...

So in comparison to "random grammar advice from the web" this book is superb in its comprehensiveness, clarity, and succinctness. The author doesn't have a print version yet, but I deemed this book to be "worth printing"-level quality, so I have it on my desk now.

(undisclaimer: I wasn't friends with author before I read the book.)
Defending Against Algorithm Substitution Attacks
Yep. I didn't take 1-2 months last year, but took over the standard 15 days most people get. This year will be the same.
Looks great! though I'd have loved it even more if there were binaries available. I just like having all my favorite applications in one portable folder. I'm guessing using something like py2exe to create one won't be hard.

Also, what are the chances that the jrnl[encrypted] package will work on Windows? (without using Cygwin?)
Both thank you for the reasoned comments, and you're welcome. Also, I cede the "theoretical" point, as that was mostly me being snarky.

I agree that publishing the 'exact' same results is a no go, and that will usually get you a demerit (it's just too easy to discover these days). However, I would argue that the level of detail/justification that people change can vary dramatically. Some people are on the honest end of the scale, like you say, and change each version significantly. In fact, to step away from hyperbole, I would say that probably most trend that way.

However, I feel like the current system also incentivizes dishonesty, particularly with how brutal the associate professor and tenure tracks have gotten for many fields. For example, while CS is a relatively nice field, since its both new, and the job market for its PhDs is hot, others like Physics, Math, most liberal arts, ect... are awful, with 10:1 ratios in some cases between candidates and positions. In those, you'd better be perceived as a rockstar, or you're going to be flipping burgers. And the natural way to be seen as a rockstar? Publish. A lot.

Actually, now that I think about it, that would probably make a good sociology paper. Possible correlations of plagiarism, minor-edit multi-submissions, yatta... to the level of competition for professor spots.
When did they ever say iMessage would be an standard? I recall them stating FaceTime would be, but didn't some patent nonsense get in the way?
I imagine working in Emacs would sound like Mozart playing.
I suppose this depends on the company. My firm recently enacted this policy, and it's worked out great. Everyone is taking a lot more vacation, not less. People don't come into the office when they're sick any more. When the company trusts its employees and wants them to have a good quality of life (because this makes for happy, productive workers), this policy works.
I agree as far as lock-in goes, but there are some fairly simple "cloudy" things that don't really require lockin. One thing I miss at DO is just being able to set up network-attached storage, e.g. an 100GB drive that I can NFS-mount on a droplet. Instead the only storage available is the instance storage.
micro-benchmarks are the root of all evil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65-RbBwZQdU Vyacheslav Egorov - LXJS 2013 talk

i don't know if he actually said these word, but it was the overall theme of this (very entertaining and very enlightening) talk.
That's basically what I'm doing today. I'm trying to figure out what the hell that guy that originally wrote this codebase was thinking. (Probably something like "Oh hey, Ruby has this feature Java didn't have, let's use it in exactly the wrong way!")
The plan isn't to jettison TOML, but even though it's 'unstable,' it hasn't changed in a very long time. And, given, uh, Tom, I doubt it will very much. He has better things to do these days.

I can see an argument for INI files, but TOML is basically INI with some extensions. And YAML (which has no Rust parser, and nobody who wnats to write one) and JSON (which does have one in the standard library) are very poor configuration formats.

Which one would you have preferred? It seems like a reasonable choice to me.

> And from a purely perception manner, seemingly reaffirms concerns some have had about the bundler team building cargo (right or wrong).

You could just spell out the personnel issues rather than being all FUDdy about it. (I'm friends with Yehuda, but also was room-mates with the current maintainer of Bundler (until very recently). Bundler isn't perfect, but lots of that had to do with people assuming a pre-1.0 project is stable, and upstream bullshit with RubyGems.)
Show HN: Track JavaScript Errors Easily with Track:js
The main thesis has a large hole.

Let me say that again: Your Facebook Privacy Settings should be *Public*
for professional posts and *Friends* for family posts. Then you adjust your
Followers settings to allow people to "Follow" your public posts. Your Followers
will never see your Friends posts, only your Public posts.

What when you don't want your friends (or family, or whomever) to engage with your public posts?

Facebook's compartmentalization is not quite as good as G+'s (and Twitter doesn't even try), but for me, and I presume for many people in the article's target audience (after all he's trying to address FB's main complaint and missing the point), the compartmentalization is something that's easier to do by keeping posts segregated by site.

It's going to remain that way until sites come up with a way to allow me to post something to public-except-family, public-except-(school, college, football), or something else like that. I won't post professional things in an environment where I welcome unprofessional comments from a drinking buddy in some posts but not all, and make it his responsibility to choose which of my posts he can interact with me in the way drinking buddies do. After all, he's in the "drinking buddy" compartment, so that's how he knows me.
> No car on the market offers a driving assist at this level (both lane tracking and distance keeping).

Yes they do. Mercedes, BMW, Audi and Volvo (and probably many others) offer this technology in their cars, and adding that option is much cheaper than $10k, comes fully integrated, and appears to offer the same benefits.

Meanwhile, this Cruise thing only works on Audi S4/A4, sits on the top of the car, costs more than the manufacturer charges for it, and doesn't appear to be better than that version.

It's really impressive to offer an after-market adaptive cruise-control system, kudos for that, but who is the customer here? Who would buy this thing?

If you have an Audi A4/S4 and $10k, why not trade to one that has the option installed?
Author of the post here.

Yes, you're right however, as I explained in the post, it was a friend of ours who introduced us to this guy. Our friend would haver never foreseen this outcome.

In other words, all his references seemed to be ok.
You do know that if your salaried like 99.9% of NH contributors are your not paid by the hour your paid to perform a job or function.

Some weeks I get hardly anything done but I once saved my employer 1/2 million pounds in an afternoon.

And British Telecom the company accountant and I once saved 3/4 million in around 2 days (fixing the AR system the FD brought)

You salary is averaged out over the 52 weeks for ease of running the payroll and tax systems for one.
Pools are very noisy. I'm sure insurance adds costs as well.
Don't forget the self-control necessary to avoid the Dutch disease. [1]

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease
Remember when Steve said he was going to the standards boards the next day with the spec for FaceTime?

I checked intermittently for about a year afterwards: never saw any activity to substantiate that claim.
Does science link carbs and obesity?
Sure, we all knew that already!
QuickLens: a new Mac App for UI Designers and Developers
While your points are valid, this is an automated solution. We can sit here and debate this, but software doesn't debate anything.

There will be one conditional statement.

If criminal at any point in time, deny.

That's it.

The overwhelming majority of those utilizing such services do not have the depth or foresight to distinguish between various offenses nor the time periods involved.
So VI would be god hehe
Nest will automatically adjusted your snooze button time duration so you will not be awoken until it deems your house properly warmed.
5 key metrics for chooosing a good mobile ad network
This is exactly the sort of thing I want to do next. Good luck guys!

It's perfect. A real world problem with world changing impact. It's hard. Its orders of magnitude harder than anything else startups are doing around here! The opportunity is almost infinite, and there are potentially billions of dollars to be made. I wish I was working on it!

I really hope these guys go all the way – although I'm sure there will be a ton of offers along the road. I wouldn't be surprised if Google X hadn't already made an offer, but if it comes down to it, I hope they go with Tesla over Google X. I got an inside look at their autopilot project a few months ago, and I'm really excited about it!

Honestly though, there are probably a lot of other big players who could be interested – Amazon especially. Again though, I really hope they take this all the way to a mass market consumer product, preferably with multiple iterations, while expanding the capabilities toward what Elon described as the 99% Autonomous autopilot.
Yep, totally valid, and like I said basically a preference thing.

I personally like to work with explicit variables within the function rather then array indices. With your system I could easily call extract on your resulting array, but I also like defining the variables I want overridden explicitly in code so I my IDE doesn't think they are undefined (though JetBrains does a pretty good job of determining which variables are being created by extract in most scenarios anyway).
Paid Parental Leave Should Be Offered to Workers in US, President Says
Looks good, like the color that's been added and the user accounts and scoring.
> "like override the schedule and turn the heat up when you take a day off work, or turn the heat down when nobody is home, all with no user interaction."

Useful sure, but is it that useful? Which is to say, will people choose it over walking over and twisting a knob?

The same argument can be made for motorized blinds. Sure, yeah, it'd be kind of cool for your blinds to raise and lower themselves with the day/night cycle. Or I can just yank that cord over there.

Ditto the garage door thing. It'd be nice to have a system that just closes the door for me, but I'd call my neighbor, what, once a year to check on my garage? Worth a $100 system + installation + integration into some larger, overarching home automation network?

That's the problem with home automation, it's a bunch of janky, expensive, high-maintenance tech that solves a "problem" that nobody was really that bothered by. It's an incredibly minor incremental improvement that solves a pain that was never actually painful, and it has historically required a lot of infrastructure/installation in the home.

The new stuff is lowering a lot of the installation/infrastructure pain, but it's still relatively expensive, and for the most part their improvements are so minor, and the original problem so inconsequential, that I don't think they'll see mainstream market success. IMO none of this will take off until they find the "Killer App", the one that solves a problem that really bothers people.
I dislike seeing this sentiment all over HN just because it isn't as absolutely true as everyone wants to believe.

I work for a company with unlimited vacation, and in my first 10 months working there will have taken ~3-3.5 weeks of vacation days cumulatively that I probably wouldn't have if I had to conserve a limited set of days. Nobody has given me crap over it, nor have I felt pressured to not take those days. It's just a matter of having a company that actually wants reasonable work-life balance for their employees.
Say No To "Yo" and Join Team "Hey"
Exactly. It's not so depressing when you realize that Cadillac is selling to generally older people who have already made these decisions. It's a 60 y.o. thinking "I did work hard, and I deserve a Cadillac", not a 25 y.o. thinking "I'm going to bust ass working for the Man so I can drive a Cadillac".

Interestingly, the car is a hybrid, which is barely mentioned in the ad.
> There's about zero content in your response

While I don't necessarily agree with their reply, you are both stating your opinions here. Saying MS has a more clearly though out user interface is highly debatable. And while I think the majority of people that have used Visual Studio would say it trumps the Eclipse based Android Toolchain, the fact that (s)he prefers it is still opinion.
I'm not arguing that scientific theories aren't useful, just that the point of science is to continue to search for ways to disprove things, not to ever prove something. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge about our universe that has yet to be discovered or understood, the only way to go about making sense of it all is to start by disproving things one at a time. There is always a deeper level of understanding and knowledge that could potentially make something previously thought to be true untrue.

Considering the billions of dollars both sides of this debate have on the line, spending a few thousand to incentivize individuals to disprove this theory would be quite rational in my mind. Whether Global Warming can be disproven or not is a completely different question.
Previous address history was pretty rough (it listed the same address twice as consecutive residences, put me in a city I'd never lived in, and got most of the dates wrong).

That being said, I'm into it. Those arguing about it's usefulness seem either oblivious to, or annoyed by, the vast number of background checks that are run in this country every day.
Yes, it will be supported. The Bundler guys were specifically contracted by Mozilla to sort out the mess. They are actually using Rust in production at the moment, so the have a big stake in its future.

The quiet nature of the development process of Cargo was actually a response to the previous package management failures. The idea was not to publicise heavily before it was ready for dog fooding. This seems to have paid off.
That is taking the "wrong tool for the job" thing to such spectacular heights that I can't help but admire it.
Since we're on the topic of English and writing, I'd like to share with y'all something that deeply inspired me when I first read it. Here's a short essay by George Orwell on the English Language (1946).
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm

<request>Please, please for God's sake. For sanity's sake. For my sake. Please stop using "utilize" instead of "use" to spice up your technical writing. It's horrible. I can't explain why. Please, just use "use" and don't try to be fancy. Thank you.</request>
Greece and Portugal barely qualify for being developed. Greece in particular is basically a third world country that sits on Europe's doorstep. They got into the eurozone through gross fraud and manipulation of their own economic statistics, then borrowed money at German rates for years to enjoy a first-world standard of living. But the fundamentals in Greece were not first world at all. One memorable quote I saw in an article about this was, "We imported flat screen TV's and exported tomatoes".

What's happening in Greece is basically the huge pain of reality reasserting itself. Greece is more like a poor Asian or African country; enormous corruption, largely unskilled workforce, rampant tax evasion, no real industries to speak of outside shipping, huge imbalance of payments and so on.

Portugal is in much the same boat. It's "developed" in a sense, but like Greece up until very recently was actually a military dictatorship of the like you'd expect to see in the developing world. It's not developed in the same way Germany is.

With respect to the others, Ireland and Spain are indeed first world nations, suffering very badly thanks to the financial crisis. Ireland took on its banks debts and became poor in the process. Spain had a huge construction bubble.

France, well, OK .... ;)
Well this goes back decades when in order to massage the unemployment figures GP's (family doctors) where encouraged to mark people as disabled to get the figures down.

now the government has outsourced the test to a third party who get paid on the "savings" the produce so you get things like terminally ill people so yes the tests are now being fiddled
Rajeep Sardesai standing by the spirit of journalism? That's a laugh.
The 'Batcave fantasy': why your engineers don't communicate
Guess which country does the most good for the planet?
Why the Debate on Net Neutrality Dooms us All
> To get on that road we need to start getting this tech into consumer land, a beachhead.

But it's been there for years! All of the high-end car manufacturers offer this technology, in their current cars, well-integrated, well-tested, and for less money than what this company charges!

Remember, they're not offering self-driving, they're only offering lane assist and adaptive cruise control.

But the vehicle manufacturers are also working on self-driving, it's not just Google! BMW and Volvo have both committed to having self-driving cars on the roads by 2017.
Would you quit your job for $25,000?
As a data exchange format, JSON (understandably) has no comments in its grammar. This is a big problem for config files. TOML is actually designed for this kind of thing.