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7Z7on Google DeepMind's first deal with the NHS was illegal, UK data regulator rules

>U.K.'s weaker privacy laws

Weaker than who's?

7Z7on Google DeepMind's first deal with the NHS was illegal, UK data regulator rules

Morals were not the comparison, the element of control was.

7Z7on Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mobile

“the girl who sits for hours poring over a novel to the damage of her eyes, her brain, and her general nervous system, is guilty of a lesser fault of the nature of suicide.”

"[novel reading is] one of the most pernicious habits to which a young lady can be devoted. When the habit is once thoroughly fixed, it becomes as inveterate as the use of liquor or opium.”

"I have seen two poor disconsolate parents drop into premature graves, miserable victims to their daughters' dishonour, and the peace of several relative families wounded, never to be healed again in this world. 'And was novel-reading the cause of this? inquires some gentle fair one... I answer yes!"

"Girls are not apt to understand the evils of novel-reading, and may think it is only because mothers have outlived their days of romance that they object to their daughters enjoying such sentimental reading; but the wise mother understands the effects of sensational reading upon the physical organization, and wishes to protect her daughter from the evils thus produced... Romance-reading by young girls will, by this excitement of the bodily organs, tend to create their premature development, and the child becomes physically a woman months, or even years, before she should."

- various sources

7Z7on Apple Announces macOS High Sierra

I mean, macOS is free, so long as you are putting it on Apple hardware.

7Z7on Get started making music

Maybe don't use synths for getting your ideas down.

If I have the beginnings of a song in my head, or I have been humming to myself, sometimes I just record the parts I have as vocals - humming or full-on beatboxing the bass/strings/lead/beats separately and as close as I can make them to my head-song (including filters with my mouth)- and then replace as I go, figuring out how to achieve the sounds that were in my head.

7Z7on PhotoScan: Taking Glare-Free Pictures of Pictures

Easier for the developer or the user?

7Z7on PhotoScan: Taking Glare-Free Pictures of Pictures

maybe

7Z7on AlphaGo Is Not AI

>I don't understand why so many commenters here are so furious about the author's claim that AlphaGo is not AI.

I don't think they really are. I think they are annoyed because nobody (who knows the difference) ever claimed that AlphaGo was strong/true/general AI) - and the article feels like it's swatting at strawmen.

7Z7on How Victor Hugo came to write “Les Misérables”

Show HN: I wrote a book?

7Z7on Do we need a new heading element in HTML?

Isn't that the point? Betteridge's Law worked again.

7Z7on The Forgotten 'China Girls' Hidden at the Beginning of Old Films

As the white husband of a brown wife, let me tell you, group selfies where I'm the only white guy in the picture invariably leave me washed out. Sometimes I make a point to expose for my face and everyone else darkens too much.

7Z7on CVS just announced a cheap generic alternative to the EpiPen

Bridgewater, NJ - Sanofi US is voluntarily recalling all Auvi-Q® (epinephrine injection, USP). The recall involves all Auvi-Q currently on the market and includes both the 0.15 mg and 0.3 mg strengths for hospitals, retailers and consumers. This includes lot numbers 2081278 through 3037230, which expire October 2015 through December 2016.The products have been found to potentially have inaccurate dosage delivery, which may include failure to deliver drug.

http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm469980.htm

7Z7on CVS just announced a cheap generic alternative to the EpiPen

From reddit:

Clarification here, CVS cut the retail price of the existing generic for Adrenaclick (known as Epinephrine).

This generic has been around for a while, but isn't an A/B rated generic so it's illegal for a pharmacy to dispense this if a prescription is written for EpiPen. We can dispense this if a prescription is written for Adrenaclick or Epinephrine.

Make sure your doctor writes a script for Adrenaclick or it is illegal for us to dispense this cheaper generic to you

Edit: The injection device of each product is what limits the A/B rating. Adrenaclick and EpiPen have different autoinjector systems. Yes the regulations are that strict. Here's[0] a video showing the difference between Adrenaclick, Epipen, and AuviQ (which has been recalled and discontinued).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRgqwgCh4Fs

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/5njj2x/comment/dcbyju...

7Z7on Why are developers switching from Mac OS X to Linux?

You've misunderstood. One is RAM, one is storage.

7Z7on The Real Name Fallacy

>I contend that the US doesn't belong in that list..

I'm not engaging with that, as I said "the author contends".

However, the single enumeration stands as it is addressing a US audience. It isn't a special case on the list, it is a special case to that audience.

>"Software pirates, including 7Z7, often..."

If the article that included the above sentence was addressing an audience of people to whom I was particularly special (ie. the 7Z7 Fan Club), then this is completely appropriate, even if I am not a particularly rabid example amongst other software pirates.

>Except that the UK and the US is quite good about these things..

The point then, is that despite patting ourselves on the back, we are not yet as good as we could be, nor as good as we apparently think we are - despite there being worse examples in the world.

7Z7on The Real Name Fallacy

>That's not the argument here. It's stating that it's tiring that the US is always singled out as if it's somehow _specifically_ bad.

And that isn't the case in the original quote. The US isn't listed as specifically bad, it is included as a member of a list where the author contends mistreatment of some groups is common:

"In societies including the US where violence.."

Nothing special or notably different there. Additionally, usually the kind of articles you are alluding to are addressing a US, or at the very least a Western/Anglophone audience, so if the US or UK are pointedly included, the intent may be read as "'we' are not any better at this thing than we imagine 'other' countries are".

7Z7on A movie that doesn’t exist and the Redditors who think it does

Probably. But some people are acknowledging both films, and remembering that when they saw the Kazaam publicity that it looked like a crappy rip off of Shazaam.

I have no truck at all with this being mystical or a conspiracy, but I'm enjoying the idea of it.

7Z7on I Dialed a Wrong Number and Stumbled into International Phone Fraud

Does it count as phreaking if you own the infrastructure?

7Z7on Watch out: ɢoogle.com isn’t the same as Google.com

Doing the "ɢ" conversion here[0], I get

  xn--1na

[0]https://www.punycoder.com/

7Z7on Ask HN: How do you stay focused while it's compiling?

Agreed. My Houdini sims and cooks are between 10-20 minutes per stage. Evil.

7Z7on Don’t Mess with The Google

is this sarcasm again?

7Z7on Don’t Mess with The Google

By bundling competing browsers

7Z7on Why is airline food so bad?

>I didn't pay to fly on a packed moving restaurant.

I don't understand this line of thinking. Ultimately, you did pay for that. If you didn't want the inclusives there is usually a budget airline that let's you select every line item as required, and gives nothing for "free".

7Z7on Is Nuclear Power Vital to Hitting CO2 Emissions Targets?

OT: the irony.

7Z7on Visual Studio for Mac

My personal experience disagrees with you. Waves, Native Instruments, and others, have had various issues over the years with OS X upgrades. I have projects spanning several years that forced me to wait a revision or two before upgrading to ensure they would continue to load and mix down as intended.

7Z7on How can I avoid my MacBook Pro giving me minor shocks?

This has been happening to me in both UK and Ireland, which use three pin plugs as standard, with every metal-bodied Mac I've owned since the Titanium PowerBook came out in 2001

7Z7on Poor people pay for parking even when they can’t afford a car

>as long as it has free wifi.

"You may pay for the cost of free-wifi even if you never go online"

7Z7on Poor people pay for parking even when they can’t afford a car

I have to disagree here. I spent some time in Dhaka recently and they have some of the worst traffic problems on the planet, through a combination of incredible population density, lack-of-infrastructure, and partisan-political strong-arming.

Everyone suffers because of it, whether they are actively utilising the roads or not - because the people who are using the roads are their customers/staff/suppliers/whatever. If half of my staff can't get to work on time, my business suffers. If my customers can't get to me, or don't feel the time investment is worth it (I've done 3km in 3 hours in Dhaka), my business suffers.

Losses from Dhaka's traffic nightmare: http://print.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/old/more.php?news_id...

https://newrepublic.com/article/118416/what-dhaka-bangladesh...

7Z7on Visual Studio for Mac

That's fair. I definitely have done a lot of sample-based and multi-track audio work and again have never hit that limit (on this MBP). However I do agree that if you rely on 3rd-party plugins there is a crapshoot every year as to how long you have to wait before compatibility reaches 100% and you can upgrade your system without breaking previous mixes or set ups.

7Z7on Visual Studio for Mac

>..musicians,..

I'm running a Logic set up on my 2012 MBP, and I've never felt limited by its capabilities. I've been running Macs for music production for almost 20 years, and in my experience they have all at some point not had quite enough in the bag to let me do what I wanted of them. This is the first one (now fours years old) that has stayed ahead of my needs. I can run multiple copies of Massive, and rows of Waves plugins no problem.

I have hit limits with real-time 3D stuff, like gaming and Houdini, but music production is still well within its capabilities for me.