skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Economists (notably Ludwig von Mises and Carl Menger) attempted to answer the question, "Why does money have value?" with the explanation that people have a desire for goods (including money) because of what they use them for. With money, they expect to trade it for other goods in the future. But the problem is that argument is circular when using it to explain the market origination of money: Why did people originally want to trade other goods for money before it was money? Mises' regression theorem is to answer this by using Menger's explanation for the origin of money. That is if we take time into account, people expect money to buy stuff in the future because they have memory of what it was traded for in the past, and if you keep going into the past with this logic money must have originated from having some other value. For example, people start trading things for butter because they like to eat it, and when everyone ends up with butter they start trading other things for butter solely because of what they can trade for butter in the future (Money), because many people both have and want butter.

Bitcoin doesn't seem to have originated this way. It doesn't appear to have been originally valued for its own sake (like Gold or butter). So Mises' regression theorem seems to fall apart when applied to Bitcoin.
I totally agree with the expandable tweet. Down with the indexed tweet-essay! Down with having to quote blocks of text with screenshots!

Unfortunately, the overwhelming sentiment appears to be that posts over 140 chars would "kill the platform", as though it's some kind of pristine thing today.
One has to just inspect this title to see no real mathie wrote this. Proof is left as an exercise to the reader. ;>
Is there any historical reason that conhost is the only executable able to open a master handle?
"Think of all the illegal things that happen over bitcoin. T"

Sure, but if the US gov makes bitcoin illegal that means most of the buyers and sellers - regular people - have to withdraw from the market.

Many of bitcoins biggest owners are big name dudes - like the twin brothers from Facebook, the Winklevoss own something like 10% of all bitcoins.

If they perceive a change in law, they'll have to sell their bitcoin before that happens, as will all legit owners ... it will flood the market and might very well crash it.
Everyone in the job market needs be on such a roster or it won't work, thus it is not a failure in itself.

If every business was required by law to have a tea lady (or man) per every 50 employees it would not make any business uncompetitive, and would be sustainable, and it would reduce unemployment, and I'd get a cuppa.
Probably. I think it basically proves that any rule structured game without randomness is solvable.
You don't need to settle every transaction on the blockchain itself.

See https://lightning.network/
what system is that? a mac? If so , the sadly you do have to get py3 yourself. If a Linux distro, then you likely already have python 3 preinstalled. `/usr/bin/python` won't point to python3 in anytime in the near future.
I'm quite happy with a similar Asus model. I have a rather odd combination of needs: Touch screen, occasional keyboard use, and ability to run Jupyter/Python. So far this can only be done with a Windows tablet. Websites describing the installation of Linux on Bay Trail tablets all end in despair.

I'd be interested in a Chrome tablet if it would install Linux with touch screen support and let me run Jupyter/Python on it.
From the article:

“Michaels said the information was withheld pending a determination on whether it is covered by a confidentiality agreement. It is possible that that portion of the complaint — which appears to contain a detailed account of Pompliano’s brief tenure at Snapchat — could become public.”
Just because there are a few buyers and sellers trading bitcoins at a specific price, does not mean there is any real validity or pricing support for the rest of the market.

Facebook could sell most of their shares for today's bidding price.

If all bitcoins went on the market today, it would probably crash and never recover.

Even in a housing crash, there are creditors, deal-seekers and people who need a place to live who will stop the bidding from getting too low. And then people will come back eventually.

If/when bitcoin crashes, it's gone for good.
It is still a thing. (Source: I work there.)
What's the touch screen support like, when running Ubuntu?
So is the Tablet version of Android dead again? Is "ChromeBook" an operating system, a system architecture, or what? It uses the App store from my Android phone, does that mean my phone apps will work on this thing?

As a technologist and someone who spends way more time picking apart computer architectures than is healthy, I think it is great that Google is enabling a 2-in-1 ARM architecture which Microsoft pioneered with Windows Surface. I think Google's approach of making it more phone+ rather than laptop- is likely to be better at setting performance expectations.

That said, whomever is responsible for brand communication at Google should be let go. I have never seen branding so confused by such a large company. Pixel is a high end chromebook, uh no its a phone now, Nexus is a phone, no its a tablet, no its a speaker system? Android is an OS? Phone OS? Just Linux? Free? Not free? Open? Not open? Chrome is a browser? An OS? A type of device? A TV peripheral? A way to talk to TVs?

It stuns me how so astonishingly bad this is. Someone should tell them "Hey this is like Star Trek OK?, a lot of nerds follow you and you really have to get what is canon and what isn't canon straight otherwise you'll lose the entire audience."
I've gotten pretty comfortable with emacs on account of doing Erlang development for work for the past 5 months. This may be gateway for me to start actually learning/using Lisp (at least for personal development).
Most supply-chain components can be economically produced in-house. You just need the capital to build a 5B factory, which is a whole different kind of problem in my opinion.
Reminds me of how YouTube's website doesn't let you full screen in Safari on the iPad but every other HTML 5 video is able to. And how YouTube throws a fit if you try and background it so that you'll buy "YouTube Red".

Somebody at YouTube has a hate on for iOS in general.
Thanks! just tried this out, and it seems to work pretty well.

I'm having some trouble using the margin option -m to strip the vertical sidebar text from an arXiv paper, would you happen to have a solution to that problem that doesn't involve a lot of manual intervention? Using '-m 0.5in' handles the vertical text, but then the body text isn't coming out quite right...
I wonder if someone has made a video of this - asking for a price and getting a response like "we can't tell you" or "we don't know." It shows how absurd the system is.
I think you guys are getting screwed.

1) unless this is the first time they've done it, they'll at least have a range and an explanation for the difference.

2) They're motivated to not tell you. By staying quiet, they prevent you from shopping around. They maintain the ability to decide charges rather than having to negotiate. Telling you only once you owe them is something other businesses would love.

Is there a doc in the house who can give us their perspective? What's up with this pricing?
> That's certainly not true. Try it.

Your suggestion is laughable. We asked three different hospitals what the cost for our daughter's birth was going to be; none of them could provide us with the answer until after the claim was submitted to our insurance. The out of pocket from the hospital we picked was $12k.

Now negotiating a bill down after the fact? Sure, if you can't afford to pay and document it, it can be done. But if you can afford to pay? Be prepared to be raked over the coals.

US healthcare sucks, and your anecdotal evidence is weak at best.
It reminds me of the many ways that Congress could legislate better behavior from existing players in the health care field in order to achieve their objectives.
Hosting a DNS domain on the blockchain
They implemented bash into Windows 10, and their web-ish/app-ish "platform" Silverlight does not work in their own browser in Windows 10 and isn't intended to.

Microsoft have improved leaps and bounds in the last few years but saying that a story is immediately hyperbole because "X-good-technical-reason" isn't something I'm willing to commit to for any large corporation.
I can confirm that, at least for an N of 1. Contracts with individual insurers are typically negotiated to be set to a percentage of (known) Medicare reimbursement for a given procedure. As it is with any negotiations, more powerful insurers get better rates. The costs are usually monitored at a macro accounting level, since what really matters is staying in the black.

As an aside, in addition to other confounding factors, cost accounting would likely affect physician compensation since it would shine a light on their actual effort. Expect that to Just Not Happen in an organization with more than one provider. They enjoy their compensation, and they will fight to keep it.

Edit: perhaps the physician compensation scheme I am familiar with is wildly atypical. Hence the N=1 disclaimer.
This is not common. Not sure why you feel so compelled to disagree with all the other posters regarding their headaches with healthcare billing/cost experiences throughout this thred. Odd.

I contacted multiple hospitals for cost estimates on a simple procedure (hours of phone calls) and only one would actually give me an "estimate." They went out of their way to explain that this was only an estimate and it could easily end up costing more than this due to a number of factors.

I really doubt any hospital will ever give you a committed price for any procedure. I would love to be proven wrong from any other posters :).
Or open in wordpad, save (which will convert the line endings), then open again in notepad and edit there.
Not necessarily, just unknown authors who may have a lot of great content, but would never achieve escape velocity for the world to discover them if there's a patron paywall in place.
I am not sure there is any difference in your opinions, I get the impression that he and you are just putting it differently.

Many of these sorts of discussion end up being about the meaning of words. Parfit seems to have had a talent for avoiding that.
From a basic data structures class in college, one might recall that nodes in a tree have can have child nodes.

Filesystems, most of them anyway, are structured as trees of files and directories.

Therefore one would expect a command named "Get-ChildItem" executed against the current directory to do...?

(Aside from that, the Powershell default alias set translates both "dir" and "ls" to Get-ChildItem.)
Very interesting, I'll try out Hops. Hadn't come across it before - perhaps you can post a "Show HN" for others like me. And best wishes for your paper presentation!
Probably still solvable with randomness. Add a few more layers of convolution networks.
Well, originally, console handles weren't real handles. They were userspace hacks, which is why DuplicateHandle[1] has special cases for console handles. (Imagine using negative file descriptor values that libc understood.) Originally, the terminal emulator ran as SYSTEM and was spawned from (IIRC) csrss (which is special, because reasons). In Vista, with integrity levels introduced, the terminal emulator had to run in a different security context, and so wasn't themed. (To prevent shatter attacks.) In Windows 7 and 8, Microsoft developed a real, honest-to-god pseudoconsole API, with a real protocol. In this implementation, console handles are real handles and conhost is just a normal program that speaks a protocol.

IIRC, the only thing at this point stopping Microsoft creating a pseudoconsole API based on real, honest-to-god kernel HANDLEs is a willingness to externalize, document, and support what has been until now a Windows-internal API.

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms7...
Why yes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tct38KwROdw
Agreed - I listen to podcasts with gmaps running on my phone, and about once a week some random non-google phrase will trigger it.
I for one would like to see a real billionaire and/or genius as president. Or at least someone who acts on data.
I think we see many here pump up their abilities that they could homebrew an excellent implementation of [insert special feature] better than [insert framework/library]. Truth is, I don't trust most software engineers to do that without a vetting of some sorts, and open source software provides that. I consider myself pretty good, having done some serious open source work in the frontend world, but if I had to homebrew a framework like React and all of the pieces to make it work (or Angular, even with my intricate knowledge of it), I would not be able to match everything with performance, flexibility, and good API signatures. Most developers are not experienced with thinking about all 3 factors in tandem, and it shows with the code that is written on a typical basis.
As long as you don't mind reloading the app every week...
That's not true, due to price discrimination. They can't precisely tell how much they can get paid for something until they submit invoices to insurers.
Bitcoin isn't backed by any assets. Bitcoins ARE assets. They don't have value because someone just came along and claimed they do (try to start your own Bitcoin clone and see how much people will buy them for). They have value because people are willing to trade for them, and there are many potential reasons for that (some less reassuring than others).
At open enrollment this year, our insurance rep explicitly told us not to ask questions at the yearly physical. Absurd.
Fastboot is still being actively worked on. Glimmer 2 is used in production by LinkedIn and others, and they continue to work on it with other Ember contributors. In fact, almost all of the things you listed are still being worked on by their respective contributors and I can confirm because I know this first-hand.
Our water is as soft as a baby's bottom - so no limescale here. I'm not aware of how a drip irrigation system is affected in areas with hard water.
I understand what motivated your question; it's not that interesting to me. I'm more interested to see what percentage of the wealthiest are publicly politically active.
Anyone else have the tune to this song play in your head as you read? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bwVVpwBKUp0
Sometimes this goes horribly wrong: https://i.imgur.com/uxcATG6.jpg
Yeah, clippy is a bit of an outlier because it hooks into the compiler itself to extract information during compilation. These are APIs that will never be "stable", nor are they really part of the "stdlib"; it's just that they're around and accessible in a nightly compiler.

Given that clippy is a tool, not a dependency, folks aren't overly concerned about this -- it cannot infect dependency trees and only requires nightly for local development. Most people do `rustup run nightly cargo install clippy` followed by `cargo +nightly clippy` to run it locally without needing to change the default toolchain.

There are plans to distribute clippy as part of the rust "extended" distribution, so the stability issue will go away.
How dangerous is it, really? Most only communities have some form of moderation. And besides, I think that there really must be options for shaping the feed that reduce the ability for abuse to be magnified. See https://twitter.com/StateFarm/status/811603055762436096 for an example of not doing that.
Sure, but the degree of usage of cmd makes Silverlight's usage look like a hobby project. It's used everywhere, including all over Microsoft's own software. It'd easily be the single biggest backwards incompatible change ever made by Microsoft and would affect software going back to the 1980s. The engineering effort involved to migrate anything that is using cmd is mind boggling, to the extent of being completely infeasible. It's a safe bet that for as long as Windows is around, cmd is going to stay with it.
Bitcoin Nears Parity with Gold
I've often heard/personally espoused the belief that health shouldn't be treated like a commodity. Interesting argument here that if health were only "truly" treated like a commodity, we'd have much fairer pricing. Capitalism has many faces, of which the free market is only one aspect. The healthcare industry in the US functions a lot more like other examples of what Naomi Klein might call "disaster capitalism": preying on the fact that health is by its very nature un-commodity-like to extort the sick.

The problem with this whole line of reasoning may be that health just can't be fairly priced according to free market principles, and that acting like it can be will just continue to enable the status quo.
If you're checking your code into GitHub anyway, you could turn on GitHub Pages [1] for your project and serve it from there.

[1] https://help.github.com/articles/configuring-a-publishing-so...
You dismiss the effect it has on real world and the markets it enables, among many other attributes/advantages.

Obviously it's not perfect, nothing is, but it's upgrade-able and you overlook the value of global decentralized trust, for some it's really valuable and its value will keep increasing the more we get connected (e.g: see R3 and all the banks that try to use the blockchain tech, even if they miss the point).
I suspect that this is not a case of Powershell "sucking" but it being a tool that is completely unfamiliar to you.

You say you run compare-object and you're surprised that it returns an object; Powershell is essentially an object-oriented pipeline, so a return object should always be the expected case. You say is that it's hard to coerce the object into a text-stream that you can munge, but again I suspect that your difficulties are again a misunderstanding of exactly how you should be operating in Powershell. Even me saying "coerce the object into a text-stream" is disingenuous, because what you'll end up with is almost always going to be `string[]`. Once you've thrown away all of the data contained in the object except for the one string property you want, you've thrown away all of the value of Powershell.

None of this difficulty is your fault. In bash you would "just" pipe the output of `diff` into `awk`, but that "just" is a cop-out: bash is nearly as complex as Powershell itself before you throw awk into the mix. You already know awk and bash, so it's natural to you and all of your preconceptions about how the shell should work are met.

Powershell is entirely capable of doing what you want to do with it, but it's a completely different world. If you persist with it, and you do get the hang of it, I promise you'll understand the value of the concepts behind it.
I, too, have been looking for a tool that will generate clean, styleable structural diagrams, but I haven't found the perfect one yet.

The best I've found is Mermaid [1], which has a Graphviz-like grammar. Unlike Graphviz, it can generate very clear, orthogonally laid-out diagrams with minimal effort, and it works better because it's designed for flowcharting (it supports classic flow diagrams, too). On the other hand, because it was designed for flowcharting, the automatic layout can generate less reasonably clutter when you have many entities with many connections. In particular, if you tried to generate the OP's diagram, I suspect it would accidentally lay out the boxes in a way that made some arrows cross — but I didn't actually try.

I've been considering writing a better tool for some time, but the layout is a hard theoretical nut to crack, and I'm not sure I would be up for it. The best idea I've had so far is to use genetic algorithms with some a fitness measurement that promotes cleanness (overlapping lines, density, horizontal/vertical extent and so on).

[1] https://knsv.github.io/mermaid/
The current system sucks but I have trouble picturing your alternative. If a person has abdominal pain it could be caused any number of things - some of which could have no cure at all and some of which will just go away on their own. What price list could they possibly consult?
Looks pretty neat!
I will take a look at the site over the coming days and report back with feedback :)

Side comment, I am wondering why you've bothered with putting your email as: salmaanpehlari[at]gmail[dot]com considering you've got the raw email address in the source code of that anchor.
Ah, I get you. I could understand that if, say, someone had not read comments from the NYT's public editor. One example:

http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/as-print-fa...
You're both under- and overestimating the worlds' government:

- You're underestimating their capability to shut down trade in bitcoin. Sure, they won't be able to stop you from running the software. But they have the ability to stop any transfer into/out of the digital world. That part is quite easy to proof: real-world usage of bitcoin requires exchange for regular currency. And bitcoin was founded on the belief that governments have too much control over the flow of currencies. (This argument hints at a common mistake in the tech community: overestimating the power of technology and underestimating the power of law).

- You're overestimating the governments' wickedness. Functioning democracies work on a default-legal basis, and it appears to me as if a to of governments have found a good balance b/w ensuring existing mechanisms are applied to bitcoin, without creating unnecessary burdens blocking its adoption.
Huh. Didn't know. Perhaps I should take a look at Arch more seriously :)
How do you know all this? :)
Lyft’s Ridership Reaches 52.6M in Fourth Quarter
Buy the music, not the live performance. A live performance is usually suboptimal because the audience is noisy, the venue's acoustics aren't wonderful, the performers have done the same sets for the last three weeks, and you have to make a significant effort dealing with transportation and the like.

Just buy the music. Cut ticketmaster out, cut live nation's venues out, and listen to a great performance with good acoustics in the comfort of your own home as often as you wish. For much less money.
See the sibling comment for an example. I really don't see the challenge here.
Bullshit. cmd has an extension mechanism specifically designed to allow for breaking extensions [1] to the cmd command language. This mechanism hasn't been used very much, but in principle, you could easily add new SETLOCAL [1] commands to enable support for modern command shell features.

But cmd is in "maintenance mode", which means nobody is interested in adding features. Powershell is the new hotness. And Powershell wouldn't even be so bad if some of the more shameful problems were fixed --- a pipe between two native programs should be 8-bit clean!

[1] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb491001.aspx
Well, not completely useless, at least for now. However, these days it’s much less useful than amd64.

PCs: Steam hardware survey currently says “Windows 64 bit: 87.64%, Windows 32 bit: 8.08%”
Some person from MS said 2 years ago “no less than 92.8 percent of the new PCs sold worldwide and running Windows are powered by a 64-bit of the company’s operating system”

Macs: the OS doesn’t support 32-bit hardware since 10.7 Lion.

What else runs x86, servers? Microsoft just stopped making 32-bit server OSes, Windows Server 2008 was the last one of them. Don’t know what’s happening in *nix world, but I’d be surprised to learn 32-bit OSes still popular there, servers typically have lots of RAM.
Also I suspect why mining equipment is seemingly always a net-loss: if your goal is to escape capital controls, you're willing to take a loss vis-a-vis someone who is just trying to make more of the same currency. (USD->BTC->USD)