skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mixing doers, thinkers and feelers (+autostart vid)
Different things seem cool to different people. In particular, different things seem cool depending on your social class, especially depending on which social class you want to signal membership in/which social classes you think you could be mistaken for and want to disclaim membership in. I bet you don't think gold-colored iPhone cases with fake jewels on them look particularly cool either.

See part 1 here: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/22/right-is-the-new-left/
Hmmm... the XYZ days part could be a problem. I'll look into it, though—thanks!
We are talking in a thread about insulin costs and generics.

Trying not to mention how things are funded is a bit like Basil Fawlty trying not to mention the war.
I know what you're talking about, but honestly none of your items enter into my top tiers of porting pains. They tend to generate nice little compiler errors (and warnings you can upgrade to errors), and the refactoring tends to be a straightforward 1:1 replacement affair. Noticing the "lock free" code is just plain broken and testing the fixes tends to eat more time than the actual porting.

The "abstractions" written by those who don't have multiplatform experience (aka the ones writing platform specific code in the first place) tend to have broken designs that require refactoring even if they do exist. Very little difference in work between fixing a broken abstraction and implementing a missing abstraction for those items, IMO.

Unabstracted or poorly abstracted rendering, input, user management, matchmaking, leaderboards, achievements, save systems, async I/O, and platform specific serialization (image loaders, varying-size bytewise copied structs)... all without unit tests or an assertion between them... I find all much worse! You get to refactor, redesign, and retest all at the same time, leaving behind a trail of breadcrumbs: backwards compatability hacks and compromises...

(Also fun: When you discover existing abstractions were discarded instead of cleaned up, in favor of new abstractions, and you get to re-fix all the re-introduced TCR violations and corner cases.)
These Japanese Engineers Invented $7,900 Bike Wheels
The kola nut is actually no longer a dominant flavor in modern colas:

>Despite the name, the primary modern flavoring ingredients in a cola drink are sugar, citrus oils (from oranges, limes, or lemon fruit peel), cinnamon, vanilla, and an acidic flavorant.[2][3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cola#Flavorings
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> I think a bigger threat is event driven code which IMHO is notorious for making things happen in unexpected order.

What do you mean by unexpected order? I find event driven code to be the easiest to understand and maintain.
Typically, you will be forced to specify order explicitly, i.e. nesting callbacks for sequential execution or not for parallel.
Of course I'm not saying that you don't exist.

I don't have to try a Tesla to know I don't want one. Having to plan so carefully to find charging stations, and the extreme downtime to recharge tells me as much as I need to make a decision.

I also did not say that the market doesn't exist, just that I can't understand the reasoning of the large number of people apparently in the market.
>So why is insulin still so expensive, 90 years after it was first introduced? Because the insulin we're using now is a heck of a lot better than the insulin 90 years ago. You might as well ask why a Tesla is so expensive when the Model T was launched over a century ago.

That analogy would make more sense if I needed a car to continue living. It feels somewhat akin to being okay with amputees having to live with peg-leg style prosthesis in the first-world due to being under-insured.

Some people think that healthcare should be subsidized by societal infrastructures (whatever government you're a part of) due to the inherent benefits that a healthy society provides for itself and its' citizens, not including whatever morality certain folks subscribe to.

In short : People tend to feel as if it is particularly low-brow for pharmaceutical companies to engage in the same type of strategies that you see normal capitalism-centric companies engage in, even if they are driven by that same normal capitalism, economies, and market.
You'd have to keep boosting it where it is, which means it needs extra thrusters. Otherwise it'll just decay.

Also, changing orbits is expensive. Remember you need to change both height and angle, and the delta-V is huge.

Bringing them back down is almost certainly the easiest option.
How cyclists, not drivers, first fought to pave US roads
If you remotely attest your own software, how is that anti-freedom?

I use remote attestation to verify that my firmware, kernel, initrd, and configuration were booted as expected. It's a tool you can use for your own benefit.

What you are describing is someone else attesting that their software booted on your computer. That was the scary scenario people were afraid of when trusted computing rolled out, but it never materialized. Nobody is using TXT for DRM.
The costs of bringing new drugs to market are not simply artificial. Quite aside from the costs of developing the drugs in the first place (tweaking a couple amino acids is cheap; knowing which amino acids to tweak is a bit harder) and the costs of production (significant in the case of insulin, considering the lengthy process for biosynthesis and then purification), demonstrating that a new drug is both effective and safe costs billions of dollars.

Novel insulins are harder than most drugs too, since insulin is very closely related to some oncogenic hormones. A lot of novel insulins have died in trials when animals were found to have increased rates of cancer.
This comment is cynical even by HN standards.
I like the sanity check right after the rant. Nice touch.
HiSmart Raised More Than $50K After First 35 Hours on Indiegogo
....you do realize that Steve Jobs built the power structure he sat on top of, that it floundered when they pushed him out in the 80's, then became successful again when they hired him back in the 90's?
You need a 2nd trusted but independent person, who writes an application that runs on your webserver checking its own signature, and the hash sums of your code, after this trusted person started it with a password only he knows to access the encrypted database of hashkeys and other metadata.

The drawback is, that you can show that the site is not compromised directly after a reboot, but you need to call your friend to login, to give the password for his validity checker. Once his app runs, other can connect to it, and use the public key of the app to check if your own app is ok.

The problem is to find someone who is independent of you, so your community trusts him, and you also need to trust him, as his code is running on your server.
Fixed Fortunes
This has been discussed here several times before; I recall enjoying the discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8831172 (January, 2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6410821 (September, 2013)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=575122 (May, 2009)

also relevant is the response of Adobe's John Nack:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=593286 / https://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2009/05/some_thoughts_about_th... (the URL has moved since the HN discussion happened) (May, 2009)
| ...by the time the Feds get around to doing that, the market will have likely already made Google's dominance is search a lot less important.

Can you elaborate on how that might happen, operationally?
Artoo actually can directly run on single-board Linux computers, such as the Beaglebone Black[1] or Raspberry Pi[2].

Running on such a device, it can in fact control other supported platforms connected to it, such as the Leap Motion or Sphero (with addon hardware as applicable).

For simpler stuff like the Arduino (or other micro-controllers), however, Artoo needs to run on a beefier host platform and connect to the device remotely.

[1]: http://beagleboard.org/black
[2]: http://www.raspberrypi.org
Do you find this experience pleasant? I mean being behind the wheel, not having anything to do technically, but still having the full responsibility and not being able to dose off or do other things with your eyes than looking ahead for a few hours? Even with podcasts I'd be bored to death I think. I'm glad to live in places where I can just take a train instead, read or even work on the way, and still arrive earlier than if I took the highway.
A bibliography would be nice. :)
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I've been doing react for a bit and I really like it, but my friend has been doing polymer and really loving it. From what I can tell they seem the same. What the difference between them?
How will delivery work if it is illegal to fly drones over bystanders?

Another win for the corporate lobby, meanwhile start-ups can throw another idea in the trashcan or risk fines and possible jail time.
> From 1922 until 1981, the only insulins available commercially were extracted from bovine and porcine pancreases -- a process which was both expensive and dangerous

From the medical paper being summarized in OP:

"A series of innovations in the insulin manufacturing process in the early 1970s helped to improve purity and reduce these side effects. In short succession,
Novo introduced “monocomponent” insulins and
Lilly introduced “single-peak” insulins. These
safety improvements extended insulin patents
into the late 1980s...Although recombinant insulin was heavily advertised as a clinically superior
agent in the 1980s (Fig. 1), almost no evidence
was provided to demonstrate its superiority to
the best available animal-extract insulins. 26"

> This makes it act roughly twice as fast as regular insulin, roughly matching the time taken for a meal to be digested and to enter the bloodstream -- thus reducing the postprandial "peak" and cutting down on the chronic hyperglycaemia related complications of diabetes...but it wasn't until 2003 that the first "24 hour" insulin was released.

From the medical paper:

"Although long-acting analogues cause less hypoglycemia than NPH does, 27 it has yet to be shown that analogues lead to better long-term outcomes than standard recombinant human insulin does. 28"

> Because the insulin we're using now is a heck of a lot better than the insulin 90 years ago.

"On the whole, insulin today is
demonstrably safer and more convenient to use
than products available in 1923. But whether
each incremental innovation is worth the price
we pay, in a world where insulin remains unaffordable to many patients with diabetes, is less
certain."

Tesla vs Model T?
(disclaimer: I'm the founder of Apiary)
First things first - Readme.io is a great product and congratulations to Gregory for following his dream. I did so with my own, similar passion a couple years ago.

That passion was connecting developers - API builders & users. Documentation is just a part of this (interaction, collaboration, prototyping, and testing being others), which is why it’s a bit harder to be completely free-form. That said, we're aware that there's a lot room for improvement and we're working very hard to make Apiary better. Your feedback is really appreciated, I'd like to know more. @dmak, @special and @sidi would love if you could contact to me directly at jakub@apiary.io.  Thanks for speaking out and pushing us to improve.
OpenSSL is how not to do an important project. It is not indicative of C, opensource, underfunding, or any of the other common reasons normally given.

It is the result of too many cooks in the kitchen. Some of who in fact are not cooks.
I've thought about this. All the spammer has to do is 'buffer overflow' the capacity of the heuristics algorithm. If google's anti spam can only worry about X number of unique spam message signatures write a script the generates x + 1 unique human readable spam messages. Not easy but probably possible, what's a good guess for X?
There are fundamental flaws in this idea of trying to treat hardware as software. They are very different animals. A better designation might be "physical products". It seems these discussions tend to ignore the fact that physical products are not simply circuit boards with a handful of chips and code.

As an example, we developed an advanced high power LED light source. The design took a year of engineering. During this time hundreds of LED's and a myriad of circuit technologies and driving approaches were explored. Thermal management alone required six months of iterating through a family of designs. Initial designs were tested and fine tuned with thermal FEA tools and physical test candidates were machined in our CNC shop for real testing.

Past that, some of the advanced approaches we used required designing and building custom manufacturing tools and production test equipment.

Just think about the cost, not just in man-hours but also prototyping, testing, materials, regulatory, etc.

So it is because of this and over 30 years in the hardware manufacturing wold that I say, with all due respect, that the view being put forth is rather myopic and naive. Fine for little Arduino type gizmos and perhaps even some chips but it breaks down very quickly once you start to hit what I am going to call "the real world". This is where reproducing or iterating a design might require an infrastructure in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and potentially deep multidisciplinary capabilities.

In the software world any 15 year old with enough motivation to dive into a large open source project can do so armed with a $200 laptop. They can learn and iterate at practically no cost. Not so in the case of physical products.
Automated cars can in principle make subtle, shockwave-damping decisions in high density flow, zip together neatly at on ramps and make space for lane crossers at off ramps. And bonus, they can also in principle be doing useful things rather than occupying parking lots.

I expect a slow phase change to car-as-public-transport that never stops rolling when it isn't in maintenance.
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Insulin would still be expensive if medicine were subsidized, you just wouldn't see the price tag yourself. I don't disagree with your point, but it doesn't seem entirely relevant.
You wrote the article because you feel others can somehow benefit from your glorious observations.

But then you went off and created a strawman example that no reasonable person would agree with. Namely that somehow the person who claims they're going to do something in the future is "lying" because there are no guarantees.

Rewrite the article without the horseshit and maybe you'll get a better reaction.
They even served Tesla, here in California!

Click the map to load the hi-res version, then zoom in on the San Francisco-Oakland area, and look below the Oakland label.

Background: http://www.teslacoalmines.org/Tesla.html
Pretty sure I read about at least a few million automatically on demo day, depending on the startup my guess is getting up to 10 in the year following is not a bad bet. I suppose someone whould have to crunch the numbers.
> This data comes from a unified Google Analytics profile

I wish my tax dollars were not being spent to help a for-profit entity track me across the Web.
This is awesome! I myself am a former mechanical engineer who now does Ruby (and JS), and now that Ruby is finally on other embedded machines, I can finally start building some gay robots.
Good for him. However this part of article bothers me:
"As a longtime advocate of open source — an online model that allows free access to websites’ source code — Recordon was awarded the Google-O’Reilly Open Source Award in 2007."
It isn't the point that Gates made money. The point is: at what cost?

In capitalism, its considered fair to hurt people within legislation, just to make oneself rich. It is argued as the market and "the better shall win", but we are far away from sane market mechanics. More often people suffer than profit from it. The overall goal is to make everyone happy. But this can't be achieved by our capitalism.
Just because it doesn't run on the basic Arduino boards doesn't mean it can't run on other chipsets. It runs just fine on Beaglebone, Raspberry Pi, newer Arduinos, and Intels.

Essentially, don't confuse the general robot with the highly specialized Arduino.
Please don't bring Norway into this. I'd rather not see it inspire yet another subthread with a bunch of cocksure foreigners who think they know what this country is like. Their analysis tends to be shallow.
You're seeing the recoil because it's expanding to place we haven't seen before. The outsourcing and remote trends gained traction in 2002, and despite a lot of failures and false starts, it's growing and reaching places and industries it hasn't been to before, hence the backlash by people and teams that aren't competent with them.
UN ruling raises hope of return for exiled Chagos islanders
I think it is likely that the rush becomes longer
Have you discovered https://unhosted.org? For the server-side, you could let users provide their own backend (https://unhosted.org/practice/31/Allowing-the-user-to-choose...).
The answer is literally on...Bing
The world's environmental problems is ultimately a single over-consumption problem.

We consume too much:

* fossil fuels

* trees

* fish

* food & fertiliser & antibiotics

It'll be difficult to convince others to spend less. We're currently taxed on how much we extract the earth's resources for other's use. I think to solve the consumption problem this is the wrong way to go. It would align incentives more to tax consumption instead. This will better encourage people to not spend.

Of course this goes against what the ECB and the Federal reserve's objective, to increase GDP and thus, consumption, reducing our forests, increasing our CO2 output, and destroying our fisheries.

The world's capital and political system is aligned the wrong way around in creating a sustainable system to manage humankind's allocation of production and consumption. I think it will be too difficult to change the world, and the only thing I can do is to encourage my own frugality.
Absolutely. It's been around for at least a year or two.

My Landrover has this technology as an option as do most brands e.g. BMW, Mercedes.

Tesla is merely playing catch up this in regard.
I know, let's pass a law to make this illegal!

How many more examples do people need of government maleficence? Voting won't change the status quo, you've already been cut up and dealt with as pleases those in power.
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When you learn something you can't unlearn it.

>>"then unfortunately is replaced by other things"

I don't think that is how it works!

To answer your question:

The best way to use what you have learned is to share it or to connect it to something your are interested in.

I highly doubt high-school Physics would inspire one to become an astronaut, but it some how helps to see the things in a better way.

Always share what you learn and keep learning. At some point your subconscious works things out for you.
Thanks. I've looked into Elixir, I like it, but decided to not look into it further. Erlang is already niche enough as it is.
"Although long-acting analogues cause less hypoglycemia than NPH does, 27 it has yet to be shown that analogues lead to better long-term outcomes than standard recombinant human insulin does. 28"

Doctors vs. patients. Regardless of what doctors may think, as a patient I can assure you that not randomly passing out due to hypoglycaemia is a better outcome. Similarly taking one shot of basal insulin per day is better than three shots per day.

"On the whole, insulin today is demonstrably safer and more convenient to use than products available in 1923. But whether each incremental innovation is worth the price we pay, in a world where insulin remains unaffordable to many patients with diabetes, is less certain."

Bovine and porcine insulins didn't go away simply because newer insulins were more profitable. They went away because 99.9% of patients didn't want them any more.
This is cool. I like this better than GRR and osquery.
The code seems cleaner, more portable than osquery, and as powerful as GRR, all this without making terrible security compromises such as "this tool is the key to all my companies machine's with admin/root rights and let you run anything you like like a pssh command".

Nice job.
I had an '88 Korando with blind spot assistance. It was a $5 option, self install. I put a convex mirror on in addition to the flat ones.
Are we seeing Medium's monetization strategy come into play here?
Inside the U.S. Antitrust Probe of Google (org. behind pay-wall)
Taxes are around the lowest they've ever been.
Teslas are in line with other luxury sedans (of course you may view all of those are insanely expensive). The 60 starts at $64K, cash price counting tax credits, and the P85 is $96K.

Compare that with the starting prices of the BMW 5-series, $50K (base) to $94K (M5). The Porsche Panamera is $78K to $180K starting price. The Model S has been tested against the Mercedes S550, which starts at $94K.

If you look at the performance of the P85D, especially its horsepower and torque, you arguably get far more for your money than you do with any petrol-powered sedan. It's even quicker than the Panamera Turbo.

I prefer lighter vehicles -- the P85D is 50% heavier than my RWD manual transmission'd sports car -- but if I needed a sedan Tesla would now be my default choice.
A voting system should not allow someone to vote twice, and should allow the voter to verify it afterward, but must not allow anyone else to prove what their vote was afterwards or even allow the voter to show it to someone else. Can your one-word system do that?
Talking about Reddit as though the entire site is one big hate group is kind of like saying America is one big hate group--it's unfair. It's a collection of many small hate groups, oftentimes opposed!

Also, the expressed concern about some evil gaggle of racists over in the corner in their own bubble is pointless. Who cares what backwards things a group believes if they keep to themselves about it? If they do, they're a curiosity, and if they don't, they're dealt with straightforwardly.

There's no reason to enforce the majority's taste and perspectives on them.
Are you joking? Everyone talks about this.
I wonder if the US gov't wouldn't mind donating $11m/year to this org to deal with the increased costs...
"A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week." - General George S. Patton
Spot on. I'm an information security consultant for a major SIEM vendor. It's not an easy job by any means, but I don't have to fight tooth and nail for a job in an overly crowded market, I don't have to live in San Francisco, and I don't have to work overtime for less than market wages.
> the community frowns on saying the same thing over and over.

You must not be aware of the pros and cons of working remotely, how terrible we are at hiring people, and the real reason that YC is awesome. ;)
The petitions are ranking pretty high...
Got it. I hadn't noticed that earlier. Will look into it - you are right that the entire header should highlight instead of one line at a time. Thanks!
Wrong Way Molly- Cope and Interuption
I envision a not-so-distant future where sleepy drivers wake up 5 states and hundreds of miles away from home. At least with Tesla, drivers might find themselves waking up at a Supercharger.
Next, make it squishy and stick some quartz on it.
I'm familiar with Tessel, which is something similar, but with their own hardware and node.js. One of the implicit selling points is that Node is uniquely suited for soft realtime stuff because of its completely nonblocking nature. Is most Artoo code blocking?
"If you want to get married and have kids, you should just do it."

Most of the women I know who are considering egg freezing would LOVE to "just do it". Not everyone is fortunate enough to meet the right person (who is also willing to commit and settle down) early on.
Research papers that could upend our understanding of economic inequality