skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you had read the actual book, you'd know that this article is completely mischaracterizing her arguments. From the article:

> Angell’s attack came at the same time that the FDA was reporting that much like 2011, 2012 has proven to a great year for patients with the approval of 35 innovative drugs.

Here is the actual argument from the book:

"In the five years from 1998 through 2002 [...] 415 new drugs were approved -- an average of 83 per year. Of those, 133 (32 percent) were new molecular entities. The others were variations of old drugs. And of those 133, only 58 were priority review drugs. That averages out to no more than 12 innovative drugs per year, or 14 percent of the total."

"Over the four years beginning in 2000, there were just 32 innovative drugs out of a total of 314 approved drugs. Even in this small collection, only seven came from the top ten U.S. drug companies."

The book was published ten years ago, but if you look at the most recent data from the FDA then it's similar:

In the five years between 2007 and 2011, a total of 119 New Molecular Entities were approved by the FDA. Of these, only 50 were granted priority review, meaning they were classified by the FDA as having the potential to provide a therapy where none exists or providing a therapy which may be potentially superior to existing therapy. Of these 50 priority NMEs, 30 were orphan drugs, meaning they were approved for diseases that affect 200,000 or fewer Americans. Of these, it's not clear how many (if any) were created by large American pharma companies. [1]

http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DevelopmentApprovalProcess/HowDrugs...
Currently, you can do it manually or using http://apidocjs.com. (The latter is disabled for new accounts due to heavy load; will be back this week.)

Swagger (and a few other even cooler options) are on their way!
Shoot...try the municipal tap water in Tampa, FL. Nasty, sulfurous stuff. You get used to it after living there for a while, but whenever I go back, it's bottled all the way.
[Firebase founder] There is a Firebase C# SDK on the way. We've had some other things, that we've been working on for the last year, that are shipping in the next few weeks which have taken priority. After that, we'll be shifting focus to new SDKs (they're a little complicated and take a bit of time to build)
What's Wrong with the Amazon Fire Phone?
The Experiment (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0997152/) is a fictional version of the Zimbardo study with Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker.
It saves a lot of developer time, you would just have to write the docs in markdown, not have to worry about the layout, hosting or building another app just to manage your docs. IMO it provides a lot of value for money. You could always just use the free plan and then upgrade later. With markdown files, you wouldn't really get locked into the platform.
I think it's safe to say they're charging for it because they haven't raised the money to develop and manufacture the thing.
There is no way for JavaScript code to implement the blocking behavior of alert().
Got the suggestion from Danny at StatusPage.io. We really wanted people to be able to try everything out without needing a credit card or feeling pressure.

The "upgrade!" alerts get more and more naggy if the system detects you're cheating and using it for internal use :)
Is that satire? I'm not kidding... To a British mindset that video on https://www.myvessyl.com/ feels exactly like satire.
OP is correct. You've quoted the general language around move semantics but unique_ptr itself has a stronger gaurantee.

From 20.7.1

Additionally, u can, upon request, transfer ownership to
another unique pointer u2. Upon completion of such a
transfer, the following postconditions hold:

— u.p is equal to nullptr,

unique_ptr isn't what's unsafe here. Null pointers are. The difference, admittedly, is mostly semantic. There is nothing undefined about using a unique_ptr after moving unless you use the internal pointer in undefined ways.
The moment they said "you recharge it" I closed the video
Video Digest of “How to Start a Startup”
Yeah. I'm just a bit averse to apps scraping data for the reasons you mentioned. It should have been the work of the mobile website, not an app. Speaking purely from the user's point of view (not the developer - I realize this is a community full of app developers) - one can't just keep installing apps for every website which is not mobile efficient yet. You all must have seen a lot of websites showing messages like "Welcome, we have an app, pess OK to install that, or Cancel to continue". Most of those websites don't do anything which a mobile website couldn't.
I disagree - Madoff was extremely secretive about his "strategy" (because there was none) and financial statements. He wouldn't meet with individual investors. So the transparency & access that I recommend simply weren't there with him.
What a great little vignette on a part of our modern world. The clash of tradition, politics, love, and garbage. My family owns an auto repair shop and I could just feel the clothes that Sayyid wears on my skin again (grease and salt, similar, but not the same as his). My father also deals with most strata of society and Sayyid's observations ring true to me as my father's words: 'Assholes have all manner of 0's on their bank slips'.
NoSQL Databases: An Overview
Sadly not. A cup that tells you what you just poured into it is a real product.
Sounds easy but in practice it's not. There is a surprising amount of high speed things flying around at altitude. Not to mention that RCS reductions aren't always just about reduction, but also obfuscation.
I really hope this ends up in a recursion.

edit: yay!
You can leak information with just one range: "We received between 332 and 334 NSLs." If they require larger ranges, it's not so different going from there to, "We received between 133 and 533 NSLs."

Whether a judge will agree that you've complied with the requirements after that sort of trickery is something else entirely. I can't imagine them not complaining about that sort of tactic and whether you get away with it might depend on the judges and lawyers involved.
"If you are going to have 3D capability, why not incorporate a way to make some compelling 3D images with the phone?"

That's actually a good point. Most phones are big enough that two cameras at opposite ends would be as far apart as human eyes ...
Isn't there also the issue of missiles needing an object to look for as well? IIRC, missiles are often measured by the minimum RCS (radar cross section) needed for a successful targeting + hit.
I enjoyed reading your pipe dream, it's a pretty interesting thought. It would be like living in our own matrix, where everyone can be Neo.

VR is still missing the ability to simulate smells, tastes, and tons of other sensations. I think I would get bored in the world like that. Plus my real life is pretty fun.
Swagger would be great. Make sure that you can regen the docs without losing anything when the Swagger spec changes.

What are the cooler options?

(Also, the Blog link in your main menu on the home page 404s)
> [Wow Alert] overrides the existing alert function.

That is an absolutely terrible idea. It overrides alert() but doesn't - and can't - duplicate its blocking behavior.

I'm not criticizing you for liking the idea! I can see its appeal myself. I'm criticizing Wow Alert for letting a nifty idea result in bad sofware design.

https://github.com/al0p/wow-alert/blob/b3224bc34fea6a49aac2d...

Their version of window.alert() returns immediately after setting up the alert window and actions - because that's all it is capable of.

If you just drop this into existing code without inspecting each and every alert() call to make sure it doesn't rely on the blocking - both in your own code and every library you use - you will definitely break things.

Far better to leave alert() alone and make this a separate function with its own name.
It's worth noting that most popular web apps today started out as related but different ideas, and it wasn't always a result of some clear-cut vision. Twitter for example was a group SMS service and there was a lot of uncertainty about its actual purpose and utility, even among the founding team:

>>"With Twitter, it wasn't clear what it was. They called it a social network, they called it microblogging, but it was hard to define, because it didn't replace anything. There was this path of discovery with something like that, where over time you figure out what it is. Twitter actually changed from what we thought it was in the beginning, which we described as status updates and a social utility. It is that, in part, but the insight we eventually came to was Twitter was really more of an information network than it is a social network." -Evan Williams

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#History
In the US, the big benefit of Chip and PIN will be that retailers don't have any credit card information to store.
There's no good accepted definition of weak vs strong typing in the literature, but I don't think many people would agree that PHP or Perl are weakly typed. I would say they are both strongly, and dynamically, typed. Can you argue otherwise?
Fruit bats are really interesting from a zoonosis perspective. They are common carriers of a wide range of viruses. It seems their immune system tends to not ever fully control viral infections so as they pick up new infections they never really lose them.

While the idea of killing them all is attractive, this is not really practical in a place like west Africa.
What other games like this exist out there?
I encourage you to think about how you might help, beyond donating money.

While thinking about this is a laudable idea, I encourage everyone to donate money first, right now, since odds are it's by far the most effective thing you will be able to do.
This can be avoided today by using one card for subscriptions and other recurring payments, and another card for physical purchases.

I do something similar already, where I never carry around the debit card associated with my primary checking account.
It says in the article "the team isn’t so much excited about Fathom’s NoSQL and MySQL capabilities, but about its ability to watch how data changes and then push those changes out to users." At the moment meteor polls the db every 10 sec to see the changes which isn't very efficient or does oplog tailing if your mongodb has replica sets enabled, which can be much better for scaling (though more expensive/or more work). However, oplog doesn't really work for other dbs, i.e mysql,so I'm guessing FathomDB has been working on a better implementation then simply polling over the last couple of years. My guess is that they will try to abstract out the db layer, which is really tightly baked into meteor, so more dbs can be supported, though I think that will prob take quite a bit of time since its not in v1 release plan and they will most likely need to change how their packaging system works and some of their core system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_AI

>Weak AI (also known as narrow AI) defines non-sentient computer intelligence, typically focused on a narrow task. The intelligence of weak AI is limited.

Typically people refer to algorithms that use machine learning, optimization, or other things once believed to be part of the field of AI (once we understand how to do them, they are no longer "AI".) People have been using the word "AI" like this for decades, to the point it's used far more to refer to weak AI than strong AI. When you talk about strong AI you generally have to specify it.

I would say that AI is very closely related to this though. Deep learning is taking over machine vision and simpler hand coded algorithms. It has the capability to generate good synthetic images, and it will probably be used for stuff like this a lot in the future, if it isn't already.
My favorite such lunacy remains "State of Texas v. One Gold Crucifix". [1]

[1] https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22state%20of%20...
The websites for both Plastc Card and Coin do the
"animate images and diagrams as users scroll" pattern.

I want to punch the designer in the face who ever thought this was a good idea.
That would pretty much destroy the "drugsr'bad'mmkay" arguments that every politician uses (along with "it's for the children").

There's really only one sensible solution: make everything legal and leave it up to the end-user to decide how much they can tolerate. Those who are wrong take themselves out of the population. Those who are right will survive.

Extreme Darwinism. Next on ESPN.
Volition is a huge part of deciding how we want to punish someone and even whether a specific act was criminal at all. If you did something bad of your own free will, the law probably wants to have a word with you. If you were forced into doing something bad against your will, you very well might not be punished at all, and instead the person who forced you to commit the act might be culpable because it was their volition that caused the law to be broken.
Interesting. Sounds like a lot of these people get caught when they either get too greedy, or when they try to expand too much.
True! Worked a lot in building broadcast studios and i usually went for http://www.bbslighting.com/products/area-48-soft-remote-phos... due to the Phosphor filter. Wonderful color representation from a small, efficient fixture.
Anyone else reminded of the garbageman from Dilbert?

http://dilbert.wikia.com/wiki/The_Garbageman
There are ways around that: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mixing_service
Show HN: PDF Crawler
Ah, then you want Readable.

http://readable.tastefulwords.com/
That feeling, that you're feeling is actually delight.
The women in my life would find this incredibly useful. Several popular iPhone cases can hold a couple cards. This product would allow you to carry your phone, ID, and every other card in one compact package.
> a hundred and fifty, is the number of people we call casual friends—the people, say, you’d invite to a large party. (In reality, it’s a range: a hundred at the low end and two hundred for the more social of us.)

And I thought I was doing well with 4 casual friends and one close friend.
Holy crap, that was fast. Impressive!
Ask HN: “Physical” subscription allowed in iOS?
We operate a subscription service similar to Birchbox, Craft Coffee, Naturebox etc. for events. Would we be allowed to collect credit cards in our app.
Show HN: Site calculates how long it takes famous authors to write books
Any Linus rant about how Objective-C sucks? :-)
The API was just announced today. Maybe give him until tomorrow to reinvent Hacker News. ;-)
I'm wondering what their killer feature is. On the whole their product looks very similar to New Relic's Insights product (http://newrelic.com/insights).
These boxes can still be found in the surrounding communities, too. I assumed they were no longer working until I read this article.

Loved this quote:

The fire alarm systems of other Massachusetts towns aren’t quite so advanced. Incoming telegraph messages in Milton, for example, work by punching holes in a piece of paper, according to Milton Fire Chief John Grant.

So if someone pulls alarm box number 57, the message will be sent to the dispatch office with five holes in a piece of paper, a space, and then seven more holes. Fire department dispatchers then turn that hole-filled paper into coordinates to send a team.

“It’s obviously old technology, but it’s fairly simple,” Grant said. “They work.”
Here is an interesting article on a business plan is to copyright every conceivable image and make money on the royalties:

http://torrentfreak.com/copyright-apocalypse-trolls-attack-t...

>“Qentis aims to produce all possible combinations of text (and later on images and sound) and to copyright them,” Qentis’ Michael Marcovici told TorrentFreak.

>“Concerning text we try this in chunks of 400 word articles in English, German and Spanish. That would mean that we will hold the copyright to any text produced from now on and that it becomes impossible for anyone to circumvent Qentis when writing a text.”

>In terms of graphics, Qentis promotional material states that a subsidiary has already generated 3.23% of “all possible images” in the 1000×800 pixel format.

>“We are now generating images at a much faster pace and expect to complete 10 percent of all possible images by the end of 2015. At current projections, we will by 2020 generate every possible image in the 1000×800 pixel resolution,” the company claims.
I already have a backpack. The same one that I've had since I was more of a pupil than a student.
Because the /newest page is fortune's fickle wheel, where worthy essays like this one are lost, more frequently than not, in the flood of spammy chaff.

I thought it was worthwhile, so I submitted it again. We got lucky this time ;)
Thanks for the question. The comments below have a couple similar games, but we built JavaScript Battle because we felt it was unique. Let us know what you think!
Introductory Resources for Go
Doesn't #1 matter less in Rust? C++ has to deal with backward compatibility in syntax, Rust doesn't.

Based on this article, immutable references are the most common kind of declarations. It seems to me that rust code would look much cleaner if they had the shortest syntax (including in pattern matching etc)
Inside the Booming Business of Kickstarter Coaches
From the fraud perspective:

One of the costs associated with fraudulent card use is turning a set of number into a physical object. Several retailers will avoid the "Just write the number onto an existing card" approach by verifying that the last four digits on the card match the number on the magstripe, which increases the cost per cloned card by a reasonable margin. Using Plastc instead would break that assumption. It'll be interesting to see how merchants react.

But, more problematically, this answer:

> What happens if one of the cards stored on my Plastc Card is declined?

> The acceptance of any transaction has nothing to do with your Plastc Card. In this event, we recommend you contact your bank.

seems like a problem if the auth failure that comes back is one that requests that the merchant retain the card…
I would love a personal API too where I can download my own data (i.e: saved articles).
Genuinely curious if your comment is meant to be ironic?
Exactly. If a dog views the same scene as me, and it presumably sees only black and white, did we see a different reality? No, we saw different colors.
In the tech specs they claim a 30-day charge. No other details. I wonder if that's the equivalent of a cellphone "standby" spec.
Have you seen 'Back to the Future'?
CSS Loading Animation: Fade-in Fade-out Effect
Does this encoding: &#x27;

have a name ? I can't actually find anything useful on the 'net.
It's rechargeable.
Github highlights code; so do many popular blog engines.
TL;DR: How to get people to stop at your startup's Tech Day booth -- use a movie tie-in and an opener that they'll likely answer "yes" to
One way to achieve some degree of both might be a time limited embargo on disclosure of particular cases.
Linux Foundation certifications are taking off
I don't deny that it's more work. The question is whether it's worth the investment. I think for large, complex codebases (not little one-off apps) the gains in performance and long-term maintainability are worth it. Having the ability to know the exact performance implications of a query (and not having to waste brain cycles on questions about lazy vs eager loading, etc) is more desirable.
You're assuming that "economically optimal" is the best way for a society to do something.
Truly great UIs aren't memorable - they just work and you don't even think about them. Elevators, gas ovens, hourglasses. If you can make a useful application with a UI as simple, intuitive and forgettable as any of those, you've succeeded.
Yeah, acknowledge things are always easier said than done and this is still a very complicated problem but fundamentally it's a pattern recognition puzzle that could be solved IMO.
Brad Cox had a huge impact on the world because he helped author a computer language used by millions. Most of us here haven't come close. We should have a test before we can post to the internet. Here's the first thing you need to understand.

http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/trsorbonnespeech.html
Actually a better approach is to use longer wave radar, getting a reflection from the whole metal airframe as a conductive object rather than just bouncing waves off the surface. Apparently this technique has difficulties with clouds but was successful in shooting down an F117 in the Balkans.
You can achieve something very close to that by just disabling javascript and CSS. It's amazing how much better the web is without that modern cruft.
In high school I had 30 casual friends and 15 close friends, at University I had 20 casual friends and 10 close friends, now I have 10 casual friends and 5 close friends, I predict them to reduce to zero when I get married. :(
It's part of HTML.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encodings_in_HTML
While I am strong believer that great ideas can change the world for the better, in this case we don't have time. What We need is strict quarantine and functioning hospitals. As the CDC has modelled, if we can get 70% of the patients into properly run hospitals then we can get on top of the outbreak - the corollary is that if we don't then we won't.
There's a cheat to work around that limit: use the created_at_i parameter.

Example: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-download-all-storie...
In the USA at least, many bottled waters are tap water...
Until now I've been using the RSS feed to write a Maildir archive of stories.

It will be nice to write that directly via the API :)
Will artificial intelligence render human music makers as useless?
It's tough for me to discuss this, as I don't understand what free will actually is. Could you define it for me?
Your maturity is showing. Seriously, all you have done is make sarcastic remarks...at least the other guys brought counter points. I hope somebody in this world likes you...good luck kid.
It's unfortunate you don't consider your spouse a close friend.
Yes, I'm (conveniently) separating the problem of detection and destruction here.
Here's a trivial example of what I mean by strong vs. weak typing in dynamic languages:

Python (strongly typed):

>>>1 + "1"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'str'

Ruby (also strongly typed):

irb(main):001:0> 1 + "1"
TypeError: String can't be coerced into Fixnum
from (irb):1:in `+'
from (irb):1
from C:/Ruby193/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'

PHP (weakly typed):

echo 1 + "1";
2

Perl (also weakly typed):

print 1 + "1";
2
Well done Can! keep up your work.
This works well for system resources, but what about custom objects destructors?
No, I'm an awesome developer. But I mostly do games, video streaming, and app development, so I don't know the relevant Web APIs.

Would probably take me 3-4 solid days to get to MVP, maybe even the full first week, given that I'd be slowed down by the learning curve. But I'm also very busy (see: "I'm an awesome developer").
That's an interesting thought, indeed. I guess it sums it up nicely.

Unfortunately, before convincing people that design is inevitable, you have to convince them that design is not decoration. :)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130423102328.ht... yay