skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's great to see Netflix taking disaster recovery and chaos mitigation seriously. Learning to work with constant failure is one the biggest challenges to anyone working with distributed systems and scale, and concepts like the Chaos Monkey help enormously. I hope other companies follow suit, and soon.
Apple Watch in 3D
You still need to pay for drugs in Canada but they are generally cheaper than in the US.

However, go to the real home of 'socialist medicine' [who thought up that name?] in Europe or the UK, you pay a fixed price (8 pounds in England - completely FREE in Scotland) for drugs. Drug companies get to charge a fee which differs but if they rip the piss out of the pricing then the NHS gets to set a price (the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme - it's complicated but it's discussed here https://www.ucl.ac.uk/european-institute/analysis-publicatio...).

Now, countries like India are even more aggressive - rip the piss there and they just license a local company to make the drug and you get a kick in the nuts for your price gouging ways.

The result is companies really rip off US patients and elsewhere they are a lot more careful and can charge dramatically lower prices (but still as much as they possibly can) to avoid regulation or enforcement measures.

Americans really need to rethink healthcare - starting by dropping all the pejorative stuff like 'Socialist Medicine' would help refocus peoples minds.

People in Europe don't focus all their attention on getting healthcare like people in the US - I have a friend who uses his measly 1 week vacation every year to come to Europe and purchase his year's supply of medication as it's way cheaper than even his co-pay, including flights, accommodation etc, to buy over the counter in Europe. That's just nuts.
Yeah, and Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Go, Hulu, Crackle, or any sports app for video.
It would be nice if there was a good way to queue up requests for someone's next context switch (end of CS round, as a trivial example).
You're absolutely right, but it's still a crapshoot. You being right doesn't mean that the cabbie won't argue with you, and won't just flat out refuse to take you anyway, despite the risk of being reported.

In a perfect world, etc.
Was the link changed, because I don't see that quote in the linked article?
Apple Watch Compared to Motorola, Samsung, LG Smart Watches
Arachni v1.0, the F/OSS webappsec scanner with integrated browser environments
I would biased-ly recommend javapubhouse.com (I host it). Is a tech dive on a Java topic that you can listen while on the radio/threadmill (you can close your eyes and follow the code) :)
Wow, that was fast! Nice animation...
Absolutely. I have a regular backups strategy that also backs up to a ZFS system :).
> Any platform you buy into includes lock-in. Buying an Android phone locks you into the world of Android apps just as much as an iOS device locks you into iOS apps.

Yet I can build an android app,deploy it, share it with my friends and co-workers without having to put it on google play,owning a specific computer with a specific os, or paying a fee.

Try to do all that with an iphone.
I put in several of my e-mail addresses.

E-mail addresses are not secrets and were never intended to act that way, so I don't care if they are harvested.

I operate several mailing lists that allow postings from non-subscribers, to addresses that are easily harvestable from the web. Yet, the "mean time between spams" is on the order of many months.

I also use my real e-mail address in the From: header of Usenet postings.

I simply don't have a problem with spam because of my mail server's terrific anti-spam setup.
It gives you the highest quality Apple has for the song, if it's matched. I had a ton of terribly transcoded files that got replaced with 256kbps AAC files. In my reading and own personal testing the difference between 256kbps AAC and 320MP3 is negligible. The only issue I ran into was some stuff didn't full match an album. I would get 10 out of 12 tracks matched, or 5 out of 12. Still for 18K songs I think I only had 100-200 that didn't end up being matched.

Amazon does offer this too but I have no idea how well it works in comparison.
Just testet it on a few pages... I'm sorry. It's not going to work out between the two of us.

I was hoping it was really just doing by pixel testing, but it seems to pick up on html elements too.

Or could it be buggy on my retina fisher price here?
I also checked www.flatsevenshop.com the guy below posted. It is really nice, indeed.
The Bonelli house in Kingman, Arizona was built before central air conditioning became common in homes. Temperatures in Kingman regularly reach > 110F (43C) in the summer, yet the Bonelli house was comfortable without air conditioning or fans. To cool the house, a trap door in the center of the first floor was opened, drafting cool air from the deep, unfinished basement, through the intervening floors, and out a roof cupola. The system was passive and still functions today.

http://kingmanhistoricdistrict.com/homes/bonelli-house/index...

Other locals would hang burlap or bedsheets over open windows, periodically dampening the material with a hose. The hot breezes would blow through the wet material, evaporating the moisture, and cooling the air. Many older homes still have the blanket hooks above windows, though residents have long since switched to air conditioners or swamp coolers for cooling.
>Programmers typically swap capslock for ctrl

I don't think typically is the right word here. I've certainly done it before, but I'd wager that under (and possibly well under) a quarter of programmers actually have this remapping on their machines. This could be totally wrong, but is based on the people I've worked with and gone to school with.
Well. My kid started throwing chairs when it was time to do something else than play on the computer. He does not usually do that. I would suggest contexts vary. As a parent I'm not as concerned that the games would somehow "eat their brains". I'm more concerned about the noticeable negative long term effects too much screen time have on their behaviour. Whatever the underpinning psychological and longterm effects may be I mostly become annoyed at the poor behaviour. Social dynamics vary, of course. With our children too much screen time means more scream time.
Ask HN: How much time on average do you spend a week reading technical books?
> the original poster has utterly ignored the evidence of their senses to focus on electronic devices exclusively.

I think given the pervasiveness of electronics and their popularity with youth, this is decently probable.
Not the same thing at all because your e-mail address isn't a security token. e-mail addresses aren't secret; you give them away all the time.

Would you put your credit card info on a business card and give it to people you meet?
(1) Google has partnered with Diane Von Furstenberg on Glass and...there isn't a whole lot to show for it. Glass has ~zero mindshare among fashion-forward people. I cannot stress the importance of design as a core competency.

(2) You're the second person to respond with "data is everything" in machine learning, but it's more complicated than that. While Google has Hinton working on deep nets and Kevin Murphy on knowledge representations, this cutting-edge work represents something closer to MS Research or Bell Labs. These models take years to affect production.

My experience is that "a couple of percentage points" above 90% actually matters little--the marginal cost of obtaining those points is enormous (many many hidden layers in your convolutional net really slows it down) with little real-world benefit (a user can't tell the difference between 90 and 95%--they'll just think of the product as "really really good").

I believe Apple can approach the point where their NLP/speech tech is "good enough" relative to Google.
What needs to happen is a better connection between drug prices and the outcomes they produce.

The EU does not have price controls on their drugs (only in limited circumstances). What the EU does (particularly the UK and DE) is evaluate drugs based on their own metrics to determine what a reasonable price is. If a drug is priced too high, they don't cover it.

Right now the system for determining how much value a drug brings is broken (understandably since it's not easy to do). The best example I can provide is Sovaldi (used to treat hepatitis C). The manufacturer priced the drugs at $84K for a course of therapy. Insurance companies in the US screamed blood murder.

The UK, which has a system to evaluate the utility offered by drugs (called QUALY - quality-adjusted life year) approved Sovaldi without any complaints. The drug is cheaper in the UK, but not by much.
I did say most of the USA. I also am quite confident that the average temperature in the south is much higher then even those countries.

A quick search shows that in Texas the average is 36 degrees while Greece is 28 degrees and 28 degrees in Barcelona. Also that doesn't even include our lovely humidity!
If you put aside political left and rights, then the arguments seem to be a bit more justifiable. At least, the author isn't sticking to party talking points and making new arguments.

I think what the author is saying is that prisons are, by them selves, a bad way to encourage reasonably low and sustainable crime rates. Wherever possible, criminals should be "punished" by out-of-prison solutions and rehabilitation. The author is pushing the point of executing everyone as an almost rhetorical argument. If you want to imprison so many people, why not simply kill them?
Is there any 3D animation for the iPhone 6?
I believe it also have something to do with gender, boys are more susceptible to computers/screens/games per my observation.
Let's not overcomplicate things. Marx believed in class struggle and had a favored side in that struggle. That's quite enough. If a government believes in class struggle and has a favored side, it's obvious that atrocities will follow. Same as with a government that believes in a master race.
As with antibiotics, OTC anti-fungals are often ineffective due to resistance from over/improper use.
Functional Programming and Big Data
Ontario wants to regulate Netflix like it's a TV channel
Was your Gmail compromised in yesterday's attack?
>> there's something I need to watch closely and control,

>I humbly suggest you teach them self control. It's usually better to set an example rather than set the rules.

I humbly suggest you attempt teaching self control to four year olds and then come back with that comment. Children are not small adults. Their brains are different. That's why you need parents, to tell the child what to do and what not, set the boundaries and so forth.
For NYC to New Jersey the fare estimate does not take into account bridge and tunnel tolls. I was getting $19, $23 and $23 for Taxi, Uber and Lyft respectively, which is very low for all of those services. A typical taxi will cost $45-$55 from Manhattan to Jersey City or Hoboken.
It's picking up everything visible, not just images.
>Sodium and chlorine are very active chemical elements

How active are the sodium and chlorine ions, which I assume is what you actually get since the salt is dissolved. Do they still have a major effect on most of the chemical reactions in the body? It's not like anyone is ingesting sodium metal.

Disclaimer: I have a physics degree but haven't taken chemistry or biology past high school, so I'm very ignorant here.
Show HN: Feature on Advertising in the digital age
What is more interesting is that I can see anyone who has had their accounts breached.

I now know that I can collect one of my friend's cell number from the snapchat breach or that an other famous person had his info leaked by Gawker.

(edit - punctuation)
An insanely detailed dissection of a high-converting long-form homepage
> But, hey, that's why people buy/wear different things.

I often wonder if the motto let's have our own tastes and buy different things is not just some recent invention intended to help us spend more money. I wonder if in the past, e.g.in the middle age, people were that much obsessed by external differentiating assets like clothes, perfumes, shoes and so on. Maybe, just maybe, this is a vast scam. And maybe without ads and tv we would be very happy to wear similar clothes, and let other things, more important things like intelligence or knowledge, differentiate us from the crowd.
I'm interested in point 2, can you clarify how and why Linux in-kernel virtual memory is crippled or provide a link?
I still don't understand the "cheat". Any well-designed app that wants to take advantage of larger screen sizes on the new iPhones to display more content will use autolayout and the new size classes (compact and regular). There is no cheating involved.

For transition purposes, apps that haven't been updated yet will simply be scaled up (everything on screen will be slightly bigger). This is similar to when the iPhone 5 introduced a lengthened screen and apps were letterboxed until they submitted an update confirming that they were compatible with the larger screen.
Inside Apple's well-oiled propaganda machine
Yes, but they would already have your e-mail address anyway. Lookup by hash precludes the case where you're giving them information they didn't already have.
A counter example works only on an absolute statement. He didn't say literally ever skinny person met those criteria, rather:

>Not really. Those skinny people are eating less (in aggregate) than the fat people, again barring some very rare metabolic condition. Guaranteed.
Closing the High-Tech Gender Gap
You have...unusual taste for someone who loves apples and "eats a lot of them". May I humbly suggest you try a few varieties further afield.
iOS/Android iBeacon conference app – how we did it
People who know "pwned" are probably more resistant to phishing attacks than the average schmuck.

Also, a lot of the material entered into the site will be fake. This is not a good way to harvest genuine e-mail addresses.

Not only is it open to fake addresses, but it is open to deliberate spam-trap addresses: addresses whose only purpose is to detect spam. I can generate a fake address "nothanks@<mydomain>" and feed it to this site (or, generally, allow this address to be widely harvested).

Then, whenever an SMTP request comes in with a "RCPT to: nothanks@<mydomain>", I can drop the connection and ban the IP address for 7 days. Any use of that address is 100% spam; no legitimate sender knows this address.
Basically nobody gets 'em straight from the tree, though. I live in an apple-growing state, and all the Red Delicious apples in the supermarket still come from Washington, 2,000 miles away.
This article claims that Uber is actually better than cabs because the drivers don't know your race when they agree to pick you up. http://www.racialicious.com/2012/11/28/cab-drivers-uber-and-...
And this is why in situations like this you need one large buyer (like the British NHS) to negotiate pricing. If you have one, suddenly the market price becomes much close to the cost to provide the item.
There's a park near me that appears to have several hundred or thousand Asian people living in it. I'm not sure how accurate this data is...
Turn the Tables on Slow Diners
Dropbox, Box, Picturelife, Photostream, etc all give you ways to get photos without using iTunes
This is quite funny
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2014/09/11/10557...
This is only true with regards to screen resolutions. From my experience, there are more issues caused by different hardware (making camera work with all devices require a lot of testing), and custom keyboards also cause problems. (Custom keyboards will affect iOS 8 as well, but we will see if it will cause problems. This depends a lot on API design.)
Chill out dude, I wasn´t implying anything but, using your words here, being "too lazy for instant noodles" seems like a problem to me.

And yes, eating properly is fixing some of my health problems. And no, I am not talking about obesity or high blood pressure. I mean some serious health problems.
Java and C++ All Time Low
"scientists haven’t yet found a viable back-up banana to sub in for the Cavendish"

What? But what about the Goldfinger? I thought that was Race 4 resistant (Wikipedia seems to agree: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfinger_banana ), as well as tastier than the relatively bland Cavendish.
Yes, it occurred to me I did overstate my case slightly. I ought to have said there are two possibilities:

1. They're right, or
2. There is a very strong bias causing them to ignore their senses

And the OP should have enquired which is the case. I think either is possible, while I edged too strongly towards the former.
"Valeant" is all you have to say. You can see what the In the Pipeline author thinks of that company by reading the archives, too. Or any number of other chem/r&d pharma blogs. In particular a lot of ink has been spilled over their ongoing hostile bid for Allergan.

Valeant has a controversial business model. The acquire successful R&D pharma organizations, drastically cut R&D spends, raise drug prices, and then use accounting (IMO) to understate R&D costs as goodwill/depreciation for the acquisitions. Not a fan.
Assuming you mean books in the traditional sense and not just online material, about 2.5 hours.
From OED

Addiction: the fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance, thing, or activity

Wikipedia includes a category for behavioral addiction and computer addiction:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addiction#Behavioral_addiction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_addiction
It's so true. The entertainment/consumer shopping industries seems to have surpassed banks/governments in availability. It's also pretty ridiculous knowing that some of these companies are tasked with keeping our data/money safe, and yet they still don't allow extremely complex passwords.
I believe the autonomous cars simply can't operate in adverse conditions and have mechanisms in place to detect when the sensors are failing. This is why they still require an operator in the driver's seat. It's also why the car they showed without the steering wheel is a bit ridiculous.
Our approach to crime here in the US strikes me as the dark underbelly of the myth of meritocratic rugged individualism. If success is individual in nature, failure must be as well, and it's much easier to dehumanize an entire class of "failures" when you believe that the blame lies entirely with them.
iPhone 6 Screens Demystified
> In my opinion, healthcare is a sector that really shouldn't operate along capitalist principles because the goal of a national healthcare system should not be to maximize economic efficiency: it should be to maximize the health and well-being of its citizens

Why should we stop at healthcare if we're deciding that health and well-being is more important than economic efficiency? Energy, transportation, and service are all industries that have huge health effects. Agriculture obviously has huge health effects. Why not socialize all of them in the name of health?
That's a stupid response. You're the only one who has made claims about what holds in "every state". I don't know enough about the situation in other states to say anything - it's conceivable (if unlikely) that every other state than the one I happen to know about works the way you say; but that still makes it "not every state", and means it applies to a good 12% of Americans.

Edited to add: The comment above was changed from an assertion that the CA law didn't apply everywhere. Responding to the new comment:

Yes, there is a specific impediment law. One that generally permits impediment of traffic while placing some bounds on it. The bounds are more lenient than what a bicyclist should be doing - 21656 would totally permit biking (or driving) substantially under the speed limit for hours so long as you're only inconveniencing four cars, but that would make you a jerk. If someone's waiting on you, get over when you get the chance.
hindsight is 20-20. Apple was oft quoted as saying they wouldn't do it. The ROKR was a disaster but perhaps made them realize they had to do it themselves.
Cephalon came up with a cute idea. Rather than acquire generics makers, they buried them with bogus patent lawsuits. Then they offered to settle: a bunch of cash up front in exchange for delaying production of generic drugs for a few more years.
They ended up getting a C&D from Uber.
Well, it's not like Monsanto is going to publish press releases about their lobbying efforts.
Yes, this one factor will be the key to the success of this kind of technology. As much as I love Google spearheading this movement, other car companies have made good headway into catching up in a way that is more robust to rain/fog etc and also doesn't need pre-mapped routes.

Mercedes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHqB47F12vI
Note the lack of GIANT lidars :). Though I'm not entirely sure how much of it is really autonomous.
If that's the case then it sounds like a higher price is a good thing.
Very nice newsletter about design, 6 links a day
Guess What: You Don’t “Implement” Innovation. It’s Created Through Principles
Petition to Defend Net Neutrality: Nearly 5M Signatures
APIs will glue together the Internet of things
The obvious question: is this site to be trusted?
It's not quite as clear as that, the California Driver's Handbook states:

"Do not enter the intersection if you cannot get completely across before the light turns red. If you block the intersection, you can be cited." [0]

You might think this is only referencing situations where you are stopped in the intersection (i.e. blocking it) but there is no reference to speed here.

There's a question on the test: [1]

Q: It is against the law to enter an intersection when:

A 1: You can't get all the way across before the light turns red

A 2: The light is flashing yellow and you didn't stop first

A 3: The light is yellow and you can stop safely

The correct answer is 1.

So, when viewed by a normal person, you may assume that this only applies if you're forced to stop in the intersection (and therefore block it), but neither the driver's handbook, nor the test itself (sorry my link is just an unofficial practice test, but it's on the real thing too) make any reference to speed.
Therefore I think it's absolutely reasonable for your "instructor going out of his way to mention that it was illegal to be in the intersection when red" [GP]

I haven't looked up the actual law to see if the wording makes it OK to be in an intersection with the light red, providing you entered legally (yellow/green) and have a clear exit path - but I'm guessing it does not.

[0] http://apps.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/hdbk/traff_lgts_sgns.htm

[1] http://www.elitedrivertrainingservices.com/tests/AdultPracti... (Q10)
> Some people are just bastards and can't be helped.

I'd say that's a difficult assertion to prove in a system that provides every incentive for recidivism. In addition, how would you (or anyone else) fairly evaluate who falls into this category?
Why would you put your gmail address into a random website? Google, being Google, has already taken care of this: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/09/cleaning-up...

You should also already have two-factor authentication setup, so you shouldn't have anything to worry about: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/180744?hl=en
I usually never enter any personal information in sites like these, but this clause won me over:

> If you don't like to specify your full email address for any reason, you can replace up to 3 characters with asterisk sign (e.g., for myaccount@gmail.com enter myac*nt@gmail.com), thus we'll show you a count of matches for this pattern. We respect your privacy.
Code HTML in Half the Time with Emmet
Anybody know what window.devicePixelRatio will report on the 6+?

Raster-based pixel manipulation applications suck in this brave new hidpi world!
Mozilla Launches Experimental Tool for Cross-Browser Debugging