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They're having issues right now, but they'll pull back. We've been through this before. Look at how far Intel's chips have come from just the Core2 processors of a few years ago.

Either way, this is nothing compared to the mess of delays the G4 and G5 went though, especially on mobile. Compared to what Apple has seen before this is a tiny detour.

And of course since Intel is the market leader, Apple is (at worst) in the same boat as everyone else. With the G4/5 they were falling further and further behind each year.
Other articles on HN have supported the idea that height restrictions contribute to scarcity, and that scarcity contributes to high prices. The supply is not allowed to increase to meet demand.
It was built in 30 hours by a high school student, to name one difference.

(Dear downvoters, this was meant to be laudatory.)
Hmmm... Not sure how I missed that. Sorry. I suppose I read your comment with a bunch of pent up cognitive bias expecting most people to be bashing the pharmaceutical industry. My mistake.
I would suggest you don't force people to sign up to add a location. I just didn't add Coffee Bar in the mission district because I simply can't be bothered to sign up.
If this were to become a more serious (but still open/free) project, what is the projected speed, in your opinion, that can be achieved by a hobbyist with an FPGA board or similarly available technology, say by the year 2020?

I ask because this seems like one avenue to create a full stack open source/hardware machine whose security can be vetted by the community. I wonder if by 2020 we might be running your core on handsets.

On a related note, I wish I could run a USB stick that runs a ROM-BIOS burned into an FPGA stick. Is that possible today?
Unfortunately, thanks to globalization, India's health problems become our health problems. A recent NY Times article [1] said:

Medicines Made in India Set Off Safety Worries
...
India’s pharmaceutical industry supplies 40 percent
of over-the-counter and generic prescription drugs
consumed in the United States

BTW we're even more dependent on China. The same article goes on to say:

The crucial ingredients for nearly all antibiotics,
steroids and many other lifesaving drugs are now
made exclusively in China.

Edit: I may not have made my point clear. What I'm referring to is a cultural issue. What I would consider to be the "casual" attitude in large parts of India toward sanitation means they might not be as conscientious in adhering to proper manufacturing safety procedures as I would like.

The NY Times also ran a recent article on poor sanitation in India. [2]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/15/world/asia/medicines-made-...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/world/asia/poor-sanitation...
Small but important note, it's $1000 / pill and $80,000 for the curative course of treatment.
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Where are you getting your numbers? You believe that these companies are making in excess of 100% profit? Also, are you not happy that these drugs exist in the first place?
We've changed the title (from "Identifying Images With an API that Actually Works") in an attempt to share the credit fairly.
You can now use https://news.ycombinator.com/active to get around the penalty thing.
It's a fascinating and thought-provoking experience, but I'm not sure I'd call it a great game in the traditional sense (not that it aims to be)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chia_Thye_Poh
If it was not 'for-profit' and public. It could be shared more freely. Meaning you'd ideally have a global effort towards drug R&D. This would easily dwarf any number the current US pharmaceuticals invest, or the NIH budget. Advances would be shared and make the cost of an advance cheaper.

Also if it were open (globally) countries could be the checks and balances for each other.

And no, pharma don't need marketing. Marketing is always used to trick people into buying things, or to create brand awareness, it's never about the good of the recipient. Dr's could simply have a database where they look up drugs and supporting material (i.e pull information rather than push marketing).
I can understand the cringe-inducing nature of wiping, but it doesn't actually have negative health consequences. Thus, it is not really comparable.
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To be fair, "your son is dead" is a very tasteless way of saying it in English, too ;)
>I did see (in the Straights Times) a PAP politician about 1.5 years ago go down for having accepted sexual favours from the sales staff of a corporation in exchange for granting that corporation government contracts (I can't remember any names with which to google the case). I loved the fact that in Singapore, this behaviour is punished and government members are held accountable. In many Western countries (not to mention guanxi), it's the accepted means of doing business. Let's not even get into what happened with US defense contracts in the last 10 years...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Yamamah_arms_deal

"In 2010, BAE Systems pled guilty to a United States court, to charges of false accounting and making misleading statements in connection with the sales."

The China, the West and Singapore all enforce rulings against corruption sometimes... and sometimes not. I don't think you'll see any of the corrupt Indonesians who stash their money here get prosecuted for instance. They're even better protected by the financial secrecy laws than oligarchs in London are.

>In my experience, all government officials I have known have been professional, rational people with great values, imbued by a sense of mission conspicuously absent from the civil servants I have known in other countries (who fit the "House of Cards"/"Yes Minister" profile more closely).

Basically because they pay better here. That's good in some ways. In other "yes minister" countries they actually supply a state pension to poor people over the age of 65 instead of forcing them to scrape shit out of a food court toilet in the last pathetic years of their lives.

It's a country of polar opposites. The greatness of the country depends entirely upon your position in its class system, though. Based upon all of your answers, I'd say you're pretty far up, and believe me, I can well understand why you love it here.
I love the idea and the scrappy implementation, but how does anyone know that this works? What was it validated against? Should the title maybe be "Idea for cheap disease analysis via blood sample and iOS"
Is there any reason to trust closed-source FPGA synthesis and place and route tools any more than an Intel CPU?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OB_marker
Huge props to Tejun Heo and everyone else involved in this effort.

This is a big deal in our modern container powered ecosystem.
Some interesting panorama effects on that Heart Coffee photo.
How is this in any way related to sanitation problems in Indian villages?
why can't maids and construction workers be paid market wages?
> Gent and Brussels had connections to the Scheldt, but never were on the coast.

That's true. Both Ghent and Brussels had harbours that were on the coast though. The Brussels one was less than 20km from the city center, the Ghent one less than 5. And those harbors, were technically on the Schelde river, sure. But the Schelde is a river delta. Where does the coast start ? At the end of the river (which was a ~150km stretch of nothing but water), or where the waves stop (there were tides and waves in the Brussels harbour). So I see where the argument comes from, but let's be fair here : they were as much on the coast as, say, Rotterdam harbor is today. I think most people would agree that is on the coast.
Two words. Hats off !!. My initial pessimistic instinct told me that this was not completely built at the hackathon. Glad I read through the comments.
Sometimes "uncreative" is praise.
Apologises, I was a bit flippant, I merely meant fair-use wasn't a 'right'. It was instead a 'defence'. Saying it was like self-defence, was incorrect. You are correct.

But my point is, it is unlike other countries where it is a right (i.e. you cannot be taken to court at all for it).
In the absence of IP protection, this drug would likely not exist.
Public and private spending in most single-payer countries is far, far lower than what it is in the United States. The bloat is a product of market inefficiencies:

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.PCAP

What you are suggesting is essentially that market failures have made private health care "too big to fail." Not a reasonable argument when public health is at stake.
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The opinion about standards is probably subjective to personal (and cultural) preferences. Your criterion for 'worst' toilets in Japan might be same reasons why someone of a different culture would prefer those toilets over the western conventional ones.

(They would argue that squatting allows for a healthier bowel movement, and feel that dry toilet paper can never wipe off poop as well as hand+water.)
one question: why is every single person in the YC Hacks photos using a variant of the macbook? i'm someone who is about to pursue a CS degree, and also embarking on an autodidactic journey in software development and i'm entirely used to windows machines and do not personally like the mac interface that much (possibly simply out of habit). why is it so prevalent for developers and programmers to use macs? are windows machines inferior for such purposes?
"This question comes up a lot, and I'm not sure that it's really as hard of a problem as it's often made out to be."

The speed or novelty of a solution to an interviewers pet problem provides no insight at all into how the candidate will perform on the job.

At my last company we would re-interview a sample of our staff using the same interview questions we were going to ask externals in order to gauge the quality of the questions. Pet problems provided the least value out of all the interview techniques we tried.

"In other words, it might be difficult to tell the difference between someone moderately better than you and someone vastly better than you."

It is very difficult to determine if somebody is better, and how much better they are, than you when you are close in skill level.

On the other hand if somebody is 5x better than you it is easy to determine. You are right though in that it is impossible to tell the difference between somebody who is 5x better than you and 10x better.
This Tim O'Reily blog post on Linked In is about a Time magazine article which is about the rescue of the Healthcare.gov project by technical experts from "outside government" and is actually pretty interesting, at least to skim.

Could we get it a better title for the HN post that might encourage more people to follow the link?
That is way too many significant digits. Also no instructions on how to install it.
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Actually, outhouses like you describe are still surprisingly common in poor rural areas in the U.S. also. When I was about 10, my family moved from an urban city environment to a very rural one.

While we had flush toilets and running water, there wasn't a public sewer system, everything ran into a large septic tank in the backyard. We had to call a guy to come out every few years to pump it out.

Several of my neighbors, while they had running water, didn't have toilets indoors. Their homes having been built basically by hand by the owners. They were decent enough homes, but if you had to go, you went out to their outhouse in the backyard, which was basically a deep hole in the ground over which was a wooden frame you could sit on. While they had toilet paper to clean up with afterwords, they were simply too poor to move the toilet indoors. Most of these same neighbors got most of their protein supply for the year during deer season or fishing in local farmer's ponds.

It also wasn't uncommon for my and my friends, while off playing around in the woods or out in a farmer's field to just find a secluded spot and do our business there.

Most of this wasn't a surprise to my father, who grew up in an area and a time where outhouses like this were perfectly normal for everybody and cleaning up afterwards usually involved tearing pages out from the Sears catalog or using dried out corn cobs.

For my mother, who grew up later and in a Rust Belt city, it practically terrorized her.
As a non-mac user, the one thing that mac does have over windows is ready access to a unix terminal out of the box. That's about it.
If that's what you want though, just go with linux and skip the apple tax.
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Debugging is not that hard. It hasn't really dropped off the radar, I just think most people are waiting for the arbitrary 1.0 tag to hit.
I simply exchanged it for the new model, without issue. Smooth as milled aluminum.
Where did they get malarial blood during the hackathon?
The current title definitely caught my eye. Not sure there's a need for a change.
In all seriousness, drive for Lyft / Uber. I've met a number of people doing this recently, and it really seems like the perfect side gig. The main reason is that it fits around your schedule (no matter what your schedule is).

But yeah, you could always pick up some contracts instead. But sometimes having a little diversity/variety in your income stream is nice.
All things that require getting other people to simultaneously change to a new standard. E.g. things with lock-in or network effects. They are almost always suboptimal in some significant way, but no one can do anything about it. This seems to be the root of a lot of the problems posted here.
I believe around 1/3 to 1/2 of all medical R&D in the US is paid for by the government; if we had an actual program in place to ensure the government kept a financial interest in these things (instead of just giving it away), we could choose to either lower prices or recoup funds, or some mixture of both.

This is nothing new; the railroads were built with massive federal subsidies and guarantees (making Ayn Rand's hard-on for railroads hilariously misguided). Especially the trans-contitental railroad which was seen as a massive risk and almost entirely funded by US federal government loan guarantees. The US Interstate highway system and the internet were funded initially by the government as well.
There's no need to single out Europe. The Black Plague is believed to have started in central Asia and also depopulated India and Muslim regions including Mecca.

Nor is there need to go so far back in time. The British were in such poor health that 40% of their military volunteers for the Boer War and the First World War were unfit, in part because of malnutrition and diet deficiencies like rickets. Much of this was due to poverty, and a belief by the rich in laissez-faire capitalism, where issues like clean water, working sewage, and uncontaminated foods were something best left to the markets, not the government.

Much of the gains were seem to have been through social democracy in one form or other, with at least government oversight if not outright control of water, food, health services, etc. It probably helps they haven't continued their long held tradition of invading each other every generation or so. I can't say though I'm fond of the 'sacrifice' that is the White Man's Burden, or the hard work that is conquering and ruling other countries.

Personally, I think Japan and (South) Korea also have impressive rags-to-riches stories, especially considering Japanese seclusion until the mid-1800s. (Japan of course modeling itself on Imperial Germany, and hoping to keep itself out of the the hands Western imperialism, as befell China and India.)

Of course, it's also possible to rank "riches" by GDP, in which case Qatar is the clear winner, since it became a high income economy only since the 1950s.
I hear of advances in program obfuscation. They're working on improving performance. Whether they are secure or not, I do not know.

But if it is possible to obfuscate a program, I think it should be possible to create something on an FPGA that is secure and private.
> I'd say that a field where food is grown is among the worst places in which to defecate.

It wasn't all that uncommon (and may still be in some places) for people to use a removable catch in their outhouses so they can remove it and use it for fertilizer. I don't know about India, but I've seen traditional systems like this in various parts of Asia.

I wouldn't recommend it today now that we know about germs and things. But I wouldn't be surprised at all if people defecated in their crop fields with some regularity since it's good for the plants.
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must i use linux? are windows machines really so terrible to use for software development and programming?
I can't imagine government employment and software engineering culture ever meeting. In a government job seniority and time in job counts more than competence. You sit on your ass for long enough and you get more for it. In the Bay Area the new and young eat the still beating hearts any of the old and cranky people who made the poor decision to mentally check out later in their career and stopped learning. Most engineers who want a career don't check out because they know this, the fire inside them never dies.

This field is fast paced, and the government bureaucracy is antithetical to fast moving changes. It crushes souls, it does not inspire innovation. Not even powerful technology behemoths with lots of brain power can save themselves from new kids beating out new technology in their dorm room. How could the federal government ever adapt to such a system? Expect more healthcare.gov disasters until they figure this out.

I am specific about the Bay Area although I know some other places are similiar because I've seen cultures clash when a big company from Texas acquire some new SF startup and the cultures collide when you have a place where being friendly is important meet a startup where competence is the only currency that counts. It doesn't matter if you're friendly, it doesn't matter how long you've been in that position, here nobody cares about these things, although being friendly is nice it is not enough, and in many places you can get by somehow in a way you can't in the Bay Area tech scene.
Thanks for these comments!

Humans have been designing congestion-control schemes for 30 years; what's interesting about our work is that we are starting to learn how to teach a computer to do the same thing from first principles. (And then learning from what the computer comes up with to inform human designs...)

I can't tell you yet exactly how computationally taxing the computer-generated algorithms will turn out to be, compared with TCP CUBIC or similar. So far we've found that because the RemyCC's rules are just dumb lookups into a precalculated lookup table, the CPU requirements are pretty mild. But we need to play around with RemyCCs a lot more before I can speak more confidently. We're close but not there yet.

To your other point about whether the algorithms "vary based on link/endpoint characteristics" -- I don't think they will have to. Quantitatively, a single RemyCC has been able to outperform TCP CUBIC over a thousand-fold range of link rates, and with similar results for ranges of latencies, etc.

Just as servers currently use a single TCP congestion-control scheme (often CUBIC) to talk to many different clients over diverse network paths, there's no particular reason you wouldn't use a single computer-generated algorithm to do the same. Trying to "learn" different parameters for different ranges of remote IP addresses is an interesting idea, but not one we have explored or are proposing.
I know someone who was part of a trial for an early (but highly unpleasant) Hepatitis C cure that was administered more than a decade ago. It was effective and he is still free of the disease today. He was on welfare at the time.

Many people forget how difficult it is to produce a good, generalizable cure to any disease. It requires billions of dollars with a lot of dead ends. Occasionally it pans out. No one wants to spend the money for research that may never produce anything of value but they want the product of persistent and very expensive R&D for next to nothing.

One of the biggest government investors in unpopular diseases is the US military, largely because they have a lot of veterans with them due to blood transfusions, environmental exposure, etc in the backwaters of the world. Organizations like the US Army are willing to put money toward relatively common diseases like multiple sclerosis, because it impacts their people, that the government at large is uninterested in because it is not politically sexy.
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As an analytical chemist also with a degree in biochem who has worked extensively on blood analysis, this will not work at any meaningful rate of reliability. I sometimes get frustrated when the key part of some great breakthrough is hid behind a buzzword as if its a cure-all for the details. I would love to know how "machine learning" is going to just magically make this work at a reliable rate. I guess I am just a pessimistic lab rat.
I used the hour of code version of light-bot on the first day of a 5 day intensive programming course for 11-14 year olds to get them exposed to programming concepts. It worked great - we graduated from it to other content after a few hours with it but it was a great introduction to programming for the kids.
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They have no use for us, and We have no use for them, either.

If we (engineers) would stop serving the state, which has now become tyrannical, it would be forced to change.

Engineers supporting tyrannical states is a classic case of Rand's "sanction of the victim."

(I'm looking at you, NSA. But also at anything involving Obamacare.)
Reg-Reg MOV doesn't use an ALU, though.

It would be interesting to see if the Intel C Compiler knows about this false dependency.
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Well, I'm on an S2 pass (so not that high) but I know people from 2k/month to 30k/month, and they're all pretty happy - in particular, the lower classes appear considerably happier than those in the UK, France, the US, and a half dozen other countries I've lived in. It's irrelevant to the discussion, though.

The idea of money origin mattering to another nation state is a red herring, in this case. If somebody comes to a Swiss private bank with USD 500 million, unless the Swiss government has an agreement with the country from which the individual comes regarding money laundering, it's none of its business how the money was obtained. Refusing "corrupt Indonesian money" via Singapore law forbidding banks to take it, would be Singaporean interference in Indonesian sovereign affairs. Not good. Terrorism is a separate issue - you want to avoid terrorists using your banks, but that's not a problem for the bank, it's a problem for your foreign intelligence service (and in practice, is probably handled by larger agencies like the NSA via collaborative defense agreements).

Regarding food court retired workers, I prefer this system to the one in the West, which encourages recklessness with savings instead of responsibility, and will end spectacularly badly considering demographic trends. A state pension (i.e. redistribution) is also an infringement of the rights of savers to their own savings. But if we go down that path, I'm almost certainly philosophically the opposite of you (by putting the individual's rights before the "greater good") and we'll never agree, even if I understand where you might be coming from.
Look at the humongous type that Hindley-Milner infers for this tiny program