skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Less than half the population works and pays for everything everyone else uses. The majority are not in the "people like to work" camp. Its not going to be a major problem. Over half the population either strives (no change necessary) or simply exists (no change necessary)

There's a lot of political sloganeering about redistribution and basic incomes that make it politically impossible. What seems likely to me is utility-ization of more services and abstraction of who pays (if anyone). That's a free public utility sounds a lot more likely politically than "forced redistribution of wealth at gunpoint" or "basic income" or "universal welfare" or whatever. Even if it ends up being the same thing with a different name.

You don't need to wave cash in the air to obtain a policeman's service and this seems quite normal. Obviously "somehow" some kind of shuffle game is producing salary for that policeman, but its kinda abstract and out of sight. Likewise our supermarkets are likely to go extremely downscale in quality, but will have no cash registers.

People will continue to trade labor for money and trade money for services and better class of stuff. I'm just thinking in 2075 it'll seem conceptually weird to pay an electric bill, just like it would seem conceptually weird today to obtain a policemans services by waving a $20 in the air. Paying an exit fee at a register at a public food store will seem as weird as paying an exit fee to a public library. Why would I pay for medical care, I don't pay for water or oxygen or wifi? No one expects a bill for storm drain service today, its very abstract. Likewise no one will get a bill for natural gas service, although in a very abstract sense someone will get paid for it.

Now the public food store will have little better than human kibble able to keep alive but if you want the fancy stuff, get a service job and trade for really good food. I suspect the black market will flourish.

How the new economies will deal with legacy economies like real estate or FIRE sector in general or the legacy IP economy will be interesting to watch.
Yeah, that's true, I do dream of a future where more people are creating toy apps for their friends and family with no intention of scaling. Udacity has strayed a little bit from this with their focus on ML courses, but SMBs are absolutely preferable in my mind.

EDIT: also why I love FOSS.
How do you bridge the gap between now and what you've described without recreating the Russian Revolution?
I don't know what you mean by 'exploded' but mods haven't touched this thread. It has been flagged by users.
Love is not exactly long division.
> When you say insurance isn't paying what it costs for a vaccination, what determines the cost of the procedure? Is it the vaccine itself?

The vaccine itself. Medicare and Medicaid are notorious for this, as they have no mandate to cover marginal costs of supplies (and they have the ability to force providers to accept less than that).

So, depending on the practice, those providers could very well be losing money on every Medicare patient they treat before they even have a chance to think about paying for their office space, paying their staff, etc.
From what the article said, I understood the hard drive the wallet was on was encrypted. Once mounted, the wallet would be accessible to anyone with login access to the OS.
Thanks! He is like the David Attenborough of stats!
privacytools.io is great too. (Disclaimer: I contribute to it a bit)
The article says his password was 30 characters long. But maybe it still wasn't a strong password. Weak ones can be brute-forced pretty easily.
I agree on distance but there is a massive difference between an 8" device with 300+ PPI and one that's 224~ PPI, and if I'm getting a slightly larger device I'm going to want it as sharp as possible, it's a bit like having a 27" monitor - they look dreadful at 1080P, and I think they're only just good enough at 2160p which is generally 163 PPI - now you can really see the difference between that and a 27" 5K display at 218 PPI which lots a lot clearer.
Good luck! I am rooting for you.
> and their salary

Computers have made office workers an order of magnitude more productive than they were 60 years ago. Their salary hasn't gone up proportionately.
Yeah, in England the GP sometimes asks which hospital you'd prefer, and the answer is always "you're the expert, I'll do what you recommend"
pretty insane he was making 50 btc for mining in a day....he must've had a sizable sum.

I really do not condone ripping people off or hacking but I have to admire the tenacity of these hackers, nothing is out of bounds, every opportunity to steal or rip people off is a naked call option where only their time is the currency that can be lost with a failed heist.

It's the new bank robbers of our age but without films or hollywood glamourizing it (yet) the same bank robbers.

Crime does pay but it's a shame smart talent is being used to destroy not build. We can't point fingers at specific regions or countries with a depressed economy and expect them to find honest work-they may not exist there when government corruption has already robbed their citizens of the livelihood they were owed. This is not a justification for criminal action but a mere observation of the structural environment giving rise to such behaviours.
How about this?
'U.S. Visa Process Missed San Bernardino Wife’s Online Zealotry' [1]

She had a visa, but perhaps she should have been further vetted, yes?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/us/san-bernardino-attacks...
Stopping Alice from murdering is more dangerous? Interesting.

(I don't agree with your analogy but I'm playing along)
"<Insert Irreverent Thing Here>" is the new symbol of protest. Every protest I've seen has had a slew of various comedic signs and slogans.
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The number of positive results found by the RAND experiment is completely in line with what you'd expect from false positives from multiple comparisons, particularly given that these results were all found in non-preregistered segments.

nor are competing therapies or competing providers of the same therapy offering a commodity product that can be freely selected between, just as if you suffer a catastrophic injury you won't get a timeout to make choices about which emergency room offers the best bang for the buck.

The vast majority of medicine is not emergency medicine. This idea that patients are unable to price shop and compare providers is completely debunked. India's free market health system represents 1/6 of the world and Indians do this every day.

Like any sane person I want to minimize the overall cost of healthcare, but I also want to minimize avoidable suffering.

As RAND and Oregon show, free and reduced cost healthcare do not minimize avoidable suffering (at least suffering caused by medical conditions) any better than high marginal cost plans.

This isn't just a matter of altruism or anxiety about high healthcare costs; if you have a maximally efficient healthcare delivery system then it's likely to fail in the event of a black swan public health crisis because all the gains from efficiency have already been booked for profit.

Can you provide an argument why a more efficient medical system - specifically one where patients don't visit the doctor for frivolous/moral hazard reasons - would be somehow susceptible to black swan events?
I am pretty sure that when that happens, the majority of stock players lose, not only my little side project.
So you are saying you trained your models on EOD data and your bot performs live trading on live feed from Kite.. Ok, enjoy the Bull Run..
Yeah, he references some good resources, but the post doesn't go into any technical detail. I don't think this article hurts him in any meaningful way. It's not like the basic idea of ML for trading is novel.
> but certificates of need

But they came about to protect the consumer from high prices.

If I own a hospital and buy a $300,000 MRI machine I need to make that money back over the 10 year life of the machine. I charge one price if it's used by 10 people a day; I need to charge double if it's only used by 5 people a day. The extra supply reduces demand and thus increases prices to the customer.

And it's unethical to just scan more and more people, because of the problems of overtesting and overdiagnosis.

EDIT: Citation that CONs came about to reduce prices: http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/con-certificate-of-need-...

> The basic assumption underlying CON regulation is that excess capacity stemming from overbuilding of health care facilities results in health care price inflation. Price inflation can occur when a hospital cannot fill its beds and fixed costs must be met through higher charges for the beds that are used. Bigger institutions generally have bigger costs, so CON supporters say it makes sense to limit facilities to building only enough capacity to meet actual need or demand.
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Interesting. That's way cheaper than I was expecting, most higher than 4-core Xeon-D configurations are more like $1000/node. I'm seeing a 24 node 3U server for $16k.

http://www.wiredzone.com/supermicro-multi-node-servers-micro...
My bad there. I though you were referring to GitLab.com

We're planning a bunch of performance improvements for 9.0, which is intended to make GitLab faster for everyone.
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues?scope=all&utf...
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You may be right about medical innovation being partly driven by the profit and cost-heavy US healthcare system. We need to get comfortable with the idea that economic, profit-driven interest is less important than using our considerable resources to rebalance the care for everyone in a more equitable process. I am willing to slow down the pace of innovation for this goal, and I hope others are, too. This directly parallels environmental concerns, where we as a species are destroying habitat, driving species extinct, and negatively impacting the climate, so we can enjoy many unnatural conveniences. We have to take a step back and realize that fixing these fundamental issues is more important than innovation and technological progress.
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Which graphics card/driver is that? I have it running fine on Nvidia (although it doesn't properly support pulse and updates are broken... but it runs fine)
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I have a feeling the author is really much more interested in selling his tech than he lets on in the article. I can't imagine any other reason for going after the press.
You can create a local account independent of the MS network, they just make that option partially obscured.
I completely disagree. Backtesting matters, especially in HFT. What would you rather have: an algorithm that has performed well on 5 years worth of historical data or one that has performed well in the past 2 weeks.
Sorry, but the little content available on the page, the Amazon ads and the very short run time makes my BS detector sound like an air-raid alarm.

Do you have anything beyond "I'm making $3.5k using methods I won't disclose on an initial investment that I won't disclose"? What's your return on your investment? Sharpe Ratio? If you apply your investment criteria in historical data, do you beat the market?

How different is it from the guy who invested his tuition money on Tesla?
Sounds like a fake story: not too much facts, no neural net details, no links to public profile where all the trading happens.

I was trading stocks, it's really easy to fake even videos. You don't even need to fake it - just record everything and publish only successful deals.

If this story is true, it should be confirmed. Otherwise, the article can't be considered as serious.
It doesn't inspire much confidence in the study when it doesn't even acknowledge the pervasive issue of astroturfing online.
He said that in his signing statement, or in some other speech referring to the executive order? Where's your link?
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>In which an outspoken libertarian asks for support from society.

He's asking for voluntary contributions. That is not inconsistent with libertarianism. If he applied for a government grant to pay his bills, OTOH, that would IMO be inconsistent.
As I do whenever Dwarf Fortress comes up, let me retell the tragic story of Môsom.

Remember that nothing in this story is embellished. It all happened within the simulation. Dwarf Fortress is at the very least the best story generator game of all time.

I needed to tap a source of water to create a nice waterfall in my dining room. Everything was prepared: the waterfall would fall through the dining room, and then a channel under the dining room led off the side of the map through a fortification. All I needed to do was open the wall of the tunnel which was touching my water source.

Feeling too lazy to channel in from above (and slightly evil), I decided to go ahead and sacrifice a dwarf for the effort. I had the dwarf wall itself in and then open the wall. Two seconds later multiple bad things were revealed about this decision:

- The dwarf was actually a mother carrying her child under her arm

- The water was under high pressure.

- I had forgotten to make a floodgate to stop the water if needed.

The water shot out of the wall, instantly killing the baby and smashing the mom against the wall of the tunnel. She was dragged along by the water, fell down the waterfall and was pushed up against the fortification on the edge of the level with two broken legs and a bruised spleen. The baby's corpse was caught under the waterfall right underneath the dining room and wasn't going anywhere. The mother kept trying to run upstream but was unable to.

I felt pretty bad at this point. But thinking there was not much I would be able to do since the mother would certainly die soon anyways, I just tried to quiet my bad conscience and focus on other things, awaiting the inevitable message the mother had died.

A day later the baby's corpse started to fill my dining room up with miasma, making me have to wall out the waterfall to keep my dwarves from vomiting. Quite poetic justice, really: the stench of death was on my waterfall.

I was still waiting for the message that the mom had died.

It didn't come.

After a week of game time or so I looked to see what she was doing and my jaw hit the floor. She was FISHING. The mom was fishing to stay alive while drinking the water. She was in an obviously really bad mood having witnessed death and the decomposition of her child. But she was barely staying sane because she was being "comforted by a lovely waterfall".

That did it for me. I finally decided to launch a rescue mission to save her. Not 2 seconds after I had given the command to dig a tunnel to where she was, she went insane and died of thirst shortly after. I was too late. sniff

Her name was Môsom.
Too bad she wouldn't have been affected by this ban in the first place.

Edit: that dodges the main point. A better response would be, the other attacker was a US citizen, does that then make a good argument for banning US citizens from entry?
Except a lot of people are forced to use FB either for work or by friends/family. Without the right IRL social network these people are very disadvantaged given that practically everything social (as in, real life people hanging out, not "social" media) is on FB nowadays
That comparison is at best a stretch. It makes sense if you're young, but at the time of release Quake was the one of the most graphically and technologically advanced games available. One of the first truly modern FPS games, one of the first fully 3D texture mapped games, one of the first real-time action games to be widely played on the internet, one of the first to take advantage of 3D acceleration, etc. At release Dwarf Fortress was talked about in the exact same way it is talked about today...

The mechanical depth you're talking about is a lot less like the depth people talk about when talking about Dwarf Fortress simulation complexity, and closer to emergent complexity of found in any good multiplayer video game. If you're talking about the Quake family tree, some of the most played current day first person shooters (CS:GO, COD, TF2) are direct ancestors of Quake, sharing some of Quake's source code.

I have a ton of respect for Quake, its movement mechanics and its influence, but I don't really get the comparison.
"regulations don't come about because some lawmakers got bored, they come about in answer to a problem"

Sure, if you consider the desire of incumbent businesses to lock out competition and artificially inflate their profits to be a "problem".
Invest in value-based healthcare - it's the future (in like 15-20 years, that is)
Ask HN: Why do mobile browsers no longer support native camera input?
It used to be the case that the W3 standard getusermedia API worked on mobile browsers. Since roughly a year or so ago this support was largely dropped, and there is no cross platform way to access the native camera inside a mobile browser with HTML5.

Does anyone know why this is not supported? Is it strictly that handset makers want to drive users to native apps that utilize camera functions?
Correction: in which an outspoken libertarian asks for the freely-given support of his fellow free citizens, which is exactly in accordance with his principles.

Libertarians don't object to charity: we object to robbing Peter to pay Paul and then congratulating oneself on one's charitable activities.
Really not. If that was my intention, I would went directly to the source. I was invited to share my story with the sole purpose of inspiring others. I have no plans of selling it whatsoever.
>Privacy has literally no tangible value to most people. It's just a warm fuzzy to a few, and a practical value to even fewer.

There is evidence showing the cost is real, though it's difficult to put a pricetag on missed opportunities.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13571554
We don't. We, as humans, share the qualities of other animals, in our own species-specific mix and flavour, of course.

I have no idea where you picked up the notion that "dogs do not love you" or "cats are not independent". Why shouldn't they do or be? Don't or aren't you?
Opened up article, was not met with anything because I use an ad-blocker.

Opened article in different browser to see said politically charged ad. I would say it's a decent ad, it just states the facts (Trump is president, thus his era began, role of media is to keep power in check), not sure why it offended you, and said publication is pretty fair and balanced in my view.
This is of course why bitcoin is a bad choice for most people, except for beer money amounts. Despite a lot of security precautions from a savvy user, someone made off with this stash.

Shame he didn't keep them in an exchange. Oh wait...

I always thought had I got in early in bitcoin I'd plan to sell off in tranches at $1, $10, $100 value etc. Then at least when the coins get stolen or worthless I'd have something to show for it.

My prediction: Bitcoin will become worthless in the long term once the crypto is cracked by mathematics, a backdoor or quantum computing
You've just come up with a variation on the theme of "First they came..." [1] by Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892-1984).

> First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—

> Because I was not a Socialist.

> Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—

> Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

> Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—

> Because I was not a Jew.

> Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

The deeper reasons for privacy are historical, political, and ultimately may become a matter of life or death. It wouldn't be surprising, history is full of precedents.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
Next time a non-human asks me where it can find a doctor, I'll take it to the vet myself.
Bitcoin will take off when global c2b gets more reliable and more used (aliexpress is the beginning)
I am in Indiana. We pay new grads about 70k. Senior software engineers (10y/xp) are earning 100-130k+bonus.
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> There are many non canonical books. That was however, not the original argument. We have no arguments from early church leaders that heretical sects were using an alternate version of various books.

The marcionites (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcionism#Marcionite_canon) for one had different versions Luke and the pauline epistles.

> This makes no sense. Obviously as you go back to the source there were fewer followers and thus fewer versions. Thousands of years of schisms produced much more variation, not less.

It makes perfect sense, early schisms had much more genetic material to draw there variations from and no centralized authorities. Are there any sects today as diverse as the Ebionites and Marcionites?
It's unfortunate that you use such inflammatory language because you are basically correct. Dissent cannot exist in a culture without privacy. Either privacy through obscurity, or privacy through so much being out in the open that finding signal in noise is impossible.

Unfortunately modern machine learning tools all but destroy any chance of privacy through noise.
"Take other jobs" where the Return on Investment (ROI) of AI or Automation can not exceed employing minimum wage earners. The higher the income for that worker the more likely that position can be justified in being replaced by automation.
I'm sorry, but I'm somewhat confused by your comment. Are you for or against the current H1B system? I'm not sure what economic outcome you're saying is its natural result.

To your point on corporate taxes, please see [1] and [2]. The effective tax rate on US corporations is on par with that for corporations in other large Western countries. I'm all for reforming the corporate tax code, but talking about it as though the effective rates are sky-high is not really going to get us very far.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/taxanalysts/2015/03/25/the-truth...

[2] https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42726.pdf
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At the point where the people can all stop working and nobody starves.
It was not a public statement, but was used behind the scenes. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/29/tr...
That's totally fair, and I would expect it.

So there's a major benefit for server owners...
That battle was lost years ago.
Do infants ask?
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What does MongoDB bring that couldn't have 'built on top' of MySQL codebase, and used MySQL transational layer as it's underpinnings.

There are two challenges here. One is that MongoDB has a different data model than MySQL: hierarchical, schema-less documents instead of uniformly-typed flat tables. It's possible to map one to the other--look at Postgres' support for JSON datatypes. That involves extensions to both the storage format and query language, but it's certainly doable.

The bigger problem is that MySQL's local transactional isolation is nice, but not particularly helpful in a distributed context. Distributed transactions--even single-document ones--are still tough to implement correctly and efficiently. As an example, consider Percona XtraDB, or MySQL+Galera Cluster. Both are building on a serializable single-node system--but in a distributed context, they wind up failing to provide snapshot isolation, let alone serializability.
Clarification needed.

It was unpopular then, but have starting become popular now.

Late edit: to clarify, it was an unpopular opinion at the time Rosling said it, however if he had said it today, it probably have beeen a different reaction, the unpopular opinion have starting to become popular.