skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Several BBR flows do actually converge quite nicely to a fair share of bandwidth. Take a look at the presentation the guys from google gave at the IETF 97 in Seoul: https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/97/slides/slides-97-iccrg-b...

I think there is also a recording of that session somewhere on youtube.

Also, the complete paper can be downloaded for free at http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3022184
I wouldn't go down the what-if road. While it is obvious that human rights are a result of progressive European and American countries. But the world would be a much different place if the Europeans didn't go around colonizing. Several of the Victorian era rules imposed by the Britishers in India were regressive. They also caused communal divisions for their own gains. It's not fair to forget the evils of imperialism while basking in the grandeur of industrialization.
It's almost irresponsible to write an article on this topic in 2017 without explicitly mentioning bufferbloat or network-scheduling algorithms like CoDel designed to address it. If you really want to understand this article, read up on those first.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoDel
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I recently started a new project in .NET Core because i really like C# (mostly from working with Unity) but i am pretty sure that i won't use it again for some time. I naively believed i could now use the .NET ecosystem on a small microservice running on linux, but i quickly learned that support for .NET Core has to be actively built by maintainers of libs and the current choice isn't great, documentation is lacking and there is a lot of confusion like the issue linked to here or the whole project.json vs csproj debacle.
This is both scary and interesting. Did you get the chance to discuss it with him further? I wonder how prevalent this sort of thinking is.

What's he actually trying to achieve? Presumably in most cases when he searches all he'll see is a name and a thumbnail photo, given that most people these days have at least a little concern about online privacy. Unless he's actually 'friending' all his candidates before he hires them, which would be super weird.

Also, doesn't Facebook have a setting where your profile doesn't show up in searches? So he could potentially be rejecting people that actually meet his own (weird) requirement.

Or maybe I'm reading too much into what was probably just pub talk!

I'm going to start to make a point of discussing tech-related subjects with non-technical friends more often, because their opinions often surprise me. Case in point: Theresa May's quest to ban maths.
Tell that to the originals
I wonder if the opacity and significantly less money coming from YouTube (YT) here is a bit of "Headline bad - Bottom line pad"

i.e. When a business encounters a major problem like this, fix the problem ASAP but also use these opportunities to try to add new profits (another example of how this works: when Uber faced criticism about driver background checks they used the negative publicity to add a $1.50 "safe ride fee" to every ride)

Q: Could enough YT stars with 7 and 8 figure subscriber counts band together and move to a different platform or get staked by a well-funded new startup to create a YT competitor site?...In theory sure anyone can try to compete with a google product...but how realistic is this here? And if it's not realistic then YT can cut the % it has been paying content creators and get away with it.

I have no clue if ad revenue $ will return to previous levels for YT content creators. I hope so. But I wouldn't be surprised if YT used this opportunity to change how it has been doing things and grab a bigger piece of the ad money profit pie at stake. Either way this is a fascinating story: on one hand YT has almost a monopoly when it comes to this kind of monetized online video content. On the other hand, YT is dependent on a pyramid of quite powerful content creators to maintain the very monopoly they are subject to.
While it's just an inkling at this point, I cannot help but feel that this book and the analysis provide a very interesting perspective on the 'angry white men' phenomenon that is often brought forward in recent discussions about SJW/redpill/Trump/alt-right.

(Whether these 'angry white men' actually exist as a group is separate question, of course)
The sad part here is that Microsoft knows much better about this stuff. So it's not like they don't have the know-how, it just looks like the PMs just didn't care. I can only assume that no part of the MS SDL was applied to this system.

I expected better from MS, I really did. This is security engineering on the level of the other AVs, Linux Desktops and similarly insecure software, i.e. no security engineering AT ALL.
I'm actively moving away from .NET now. Wait for me.
The middleman role of insurance companies in American healthcare seems completely useless. They're not serving patients, doctors nor the national economy by siphoning off enormous profits from the 17% of GDP that gets spent on healthcare.

Getting rid of them would be extremely hard, of course, given how well entrenched they are thanks to lobbying and regulatory capture.

Insurance companies are a massive-scale version of the car dealerships that have managed to keep Tesla out of many US states by taking advantage of local legislation -- nobody would want to deal with a car salesman or an insurance company given the choice.
And capitalism in health care brings 29 million uninsured. Ask them about rationing, waiting lists, supply shortages.
Still works on win7, with renaming command prompt to stickykeys.
I can't make any general statements. I checked both tools against a document that was recently corrected by a human proofreader. Out of six errors found by the human, Grammarly identified three and proselint none.

"only half of the mass if accounted for by the stars", misspelling "if" -> "is"

"in the heath death scenario", misspelling "heath" -> "heat"

"The quantity follows Gaussian distribution.", missing article
Please drop your pride for a second and take a look how things proceed in Europe in terms of healthcare.

There is no waiting lists or rationing and many countries do well with this setup.

It has been years since Soviet Union collapsed, it is amazing to see same boogeyman yet again.
Since VC is such a #s game it's hard to analyze by example.
(Did they get the one outlier that pays for the fund?)

I would still like to look at Cloudera as an interesting example. As an investment, they most certainly lost money on it. But if their investment helped Cloudera grow, they may have sold a ton of chips that Cloudera ran on. Big data requires chips. Being able to make money indirectly allows them to benefit from otherwise seemingly unprofitable deals. (And allows execs to hide from mistakes - even less skin in the game)
Well, there are more differences but the most important one is that with Freenet, you get content pushed to you, you help the entire network host whatever is there. Someone can push content to your node, that you might not want to host.

While with IPFS, the only data shared from your node, is data you explicitly agreed to share. So data is not implicitly available on the network, people have to agree to help share it.
You can already send "draft" or how I call it "preview" messages to Slackbot or to yourself. I am not sure why would anyone pay for a Slack integration when Slack already provides such feature for free.
Drug prices are high in the US but drug spending overall is nothing compared to overall healthcare costs. With a handful of exceptions, even the most expensive drugs cost 10k a year.

In contrast a few weeks in the ICU can easily top 100k. A visit to the ER is usually 1500 just to walk in the door. Healthcare costs are largely a result too many middle men and overhead from extremely high healthcare provider salary.
As with most politically-powerful entities: first shrink, then drown.

That, ultimately is how the tobacco industry was (mostly) quashed.
Health care costs would be lower, if more people were able to provide health care service. If the world focused less on rate my sandwich apps, and more on fixing humans, the prices would be much more affordable.
>This always seems such a strange view to me

Well as someone from Canada, living in a provincial capital, who can't get a doctor (for years), I'd say I agree with the OP.

I guess the family doctor waiting list I've been on for two years and counting is simply a "bogeyman".
No, because I have worked with several dozen code bases, hundreds if not thousands of bugs, and Unit Tests are if anything a bad sign associated with code in desperate need of refactoring. They are the uncanny valley of quality.

Ed: Unit Tests become more valuable as code quality decreases.
Switzerland doesn't have single pay either and they're definitely rich and western. I agree with the rest of what you said though.
Sweden has all of those problems

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/akut-brist-pa-vardplatser-i-hela-...
> The OLPC's Pixel-Qi screen (listed in that Wikipedia article) was fantastic when in its black & white mode.

I'm sorry, but that's terribly inaccurate. I have a OLPC and the screen is poor. It is grainy and has a mesh like appearance to it in both color and transflective grayscale mode.

> It looked like e-ink and refreshed at 60Hz. Apparently the company died in 2015 though :(

The P-Qi screen refreshes fast, but it looks nothing like a kindle panel.
> Socialism in healthcare brings rationing, waiting lists, supply shortages

This isn't always true. The UK is single-payer, and their wait times are lower than in the US[1].

Even if that were true, those things are acceptable on average as long as outcomes improve. Australia, the UK, and France (all single-payer) have longer life expectancy[2] than the US.

In fact, the UK is doing better than the US in nearly every health-related metric[3]

> and all the kinds of things you don't want when dealing with people's lives.

So "better care for people who can pay more" is a better system? That's what we want when dealing with people's lives?

If anything should be socialized, it's health care. No one should die because they weren't born with the opportunity to work a high-paying job or accumulate wealth.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/aug/25/gp-appointme...

2. https://data.oecd.org/healthstat/life-expectancy-at-birth.ht...

3. http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/20...
Maybe large teams are worse at development than small teams, so they need more tests.
I thought I had a decent understanding of the ecosystem until

> ASP.NET Core 1.1 which runs on .NET Framework

I thought it runs on .NET Core?
Polyspace [0] allows full state space checking. Usually, this is feasible because the kind of modules you test are heavily constrained 12 bit (or fewer) fixed point values (sensor output/ actor input) and contain no algebraic loops. With floats and/or large integers, this quickly becomes unwieldy (verification then takes weeks).

[0] https://de.mathworks.com/products/polyspace.html
'Healthcare costs create huge problems'

Yes, right, problem is abnormal cost of healthcare in US, that should be fixed first. But when only thing you do about this is letting wild free market put price tags as they want and let poor people be hopeless under costs, that is 'unhealthy' for the society.
>There is no waiting lists or rationing and many countries do well with this setup.

Look at Canada, where this stuff is happening in spades. I'm living it.
Parent was talking about full coverage. While fuzzers are great tools, able to generate test inputs for easily coverable parts of the code, formally correct software has to be designed for provability.
To be fair you can't exactly call the current system in the US free market. There are ridiculous restrictions on hospitals and insurance companies that prevent proper competition from occurring in many cases.

While single payer is often a better system, it's not without its problems - in Canada ER wait times are ridiculous, my sister had to wait 10 hours recently and if you want to find a GP? Good luck. Everyone is booked solid.

I thought Obamacare seemed like a good compromise to be honest. Unfortunately it doesn't seem like that's been a miraculous solution. I think some sort of free market solution with a safety net on the low end could do the job, but I don't know what that would look like. And I don't think we've seen any proposals in that direction.
Most Windows APIs actually were designed, unlike POSIX.
Omnichannel is about meeting your customer where he is Where is your customer?
My default statement is always that the best Civ is (and always will be) Alpha Centauri. I still have it installed and give it a playthrough every now and then.
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To bring us costs to western europe levels you need to have
1. Slash labor compensation
2. Slash medicine prices.
3. Reduce amenities in hospitals
4. Reduce medical student debt.
5. Reduce equipment cost
6. Reduce somewhat the freedom of patients to choose doctors and doctors to choose patients.
7. Outright kill hospital prices.
8. Reduce malpractice insurance. Reduce malpractice compensation.
9. Forbid direct medicine marketing to consumers and doctors.

Any of those is hard on its own. Combined - it is impossible.
Which does not make this offer reasonable, it is still ripoff. They are better off keeping money in box at home.

Criticising this offer is as valid as criticising any other expensive and bad service.
Which European country has no waiting lists for non-trivial procedures?
Americans unable to afford healthcare are just waiting in line to become bankrupt.

A study done at Harvard University indicates that this [medical costs] is the biggest cause of bankruptcy, representing 62% of all personal bankruptcies.

http://www.investopedia.com/slide-show/top-5-reasons-why-peo...
Time and other resources are scarce. The more resources that are tied up in the healthcare the less available for other things.

Other countries are getting better health results for way less money which all other things equal makes Americans comparatively less well off.

When I pay $1500 and dozens of hours of time for something that costs $2 and 15 minutes in another country, I am less well off.

I like being healthy, but I'd rather be more healthy for less money than less healthy for more money.

You are right, the money isn't transferred off into a void, it is a wealth transfer from consumers to the healthcare industry.
Broken window fallacy.

Total Money spent on heath care has very poor correlation with outcomes. Largely because it includes things like medical billing and advertising which increases costs without providing any benefit. You also often do more dangerous and unnecessary procedures and give more drugs risking poorly understood interactions.

Something like 80% of the benefit of modern heathcare comes from the first 10% of spending. EX: Sanitation and quarantine are cheap and amazing tools to stop the spread of disease where hospitals are extremely expencive and gather sick people together to spread disease. A vaccine is vastly cheaper and more effective than dealing with outbreaks.
"Everybody in London uses Citymapper and nobody uses Google Maps."

Well I live in London and actually prefer Google Maps directions over CityMapper which I think is slow to start and a bit slow in fetching and updating alternative routes.

I do like the "preferred tube car" to use based on your entry / exit tube station but after a while you don't need the actual app for this as they don't change.
Ruby can also use the Python solution nowadays.
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Socialism is definitely not the answer, however many European systems are not directly socialism, there are many different ways of solving health care, US system is just too expensive.
Are you talking about Victoria? Because I hear lots of complaints from people living here that they can't get a GP, waits are awful, etc etc. But I pretty much always get in to see a doctor within 45 minutes if I drop in, and every time I actually try to access healthcare it seems to work much better than my friends led me to believe it would.
You have to be determined, not just determined, but Ralph Nader determined. If you are Ralph Nader determined, then in America there is no company or lobby that can stop you. That's in fact one of the best things about America, out of everything else. That activism can't be stopped. That free speech is for the most part respected. And if you are determined to get some truth heard, you will eventually succeed if you try hard enough.
> seems completely useless

Some people (not me) would argue that their existence and competition create better choices for consumers.

For example, in theory, a single-payer system could have a single price (via taxes) and a single level of coverage. By contrast, private insurance companies are able to offer many different products depending on someone's tolerance for risk.

I don't think the private, market-driven system for health care is better in that regard, but some people do.
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Our family live in a socialist country as seen through the US American lens: Germany.

Germany is interesting, depending of your annual income and your work contract, you can either go with a private health insurance and a public health insurance. Only about 10% of the population is going with the private system. Once you decided to go private, you cannot go back to the public insurance. At the moment, a lot of people regret their switch to the private system, because with low interest rates, the insurance costs have been increasing drastically.

In fact, proponent of a total privatization of the German health insurance system are now backtracking and thinking about the reverse, stopping the private system (but if the interest rates rocket again, I suppose the private system will make money again).

For that, Germany is pretty interesting as it allows observation of two parallel systems within the same country with the "best case scenario" for the private system because only rich people and state employees are allowed to go with a fully private health insurance.

My personal opinion is that health insurance like education is a basic "right" but this has nothing to do with the effectiveness of one approach or another, just an opinion.
In the US the health care cost since 95 went from 13.1 to 17.1 while in Germany they went from 9.4. to 11.3. It is actually way worse than the article tells if one considers the age structure of the two countries where Germany has 21.7% over 65 vs. the US with 15.25%.

The non tangible cost are also non negligible. There is friction in the job market as changing job risks incurring a potentially catastrophic coverage gap. There are bizarre industries focused on renegotiating issued medical bills, collecting those or managing the health related bankruptcies.

Pricing of pharmaceutical usually generally defies the laws of gravity as the incentives of regulators, suppliers, distributors, doctors and insurers have been distorted beyond anything resembling a fair playing field. In such an environment playing games is superior than providing value and adhering to generally accepted rules. When it comes to pricing the costs of providing the service is often the least important input.

Steve Balmer recently: “If you look at these tax deductions for employer-provided health [...], they’re really subsidies to the affluent, which I guess I hadn’t thought about them.”

The biggest problem society faces at the moment is the vanishing middle class and lower qualified jobs that are still providing enough to subside. For the latter the cost of food, shelter, fuel and health are key. Lower the cost of living and there will be more jobs that are worth taking.
Amazon could disrupt providing Health Care services in the US. Current price overhead versus over developed countries is huge, so an efficient provider could shock the whole HC market.
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I think most people are fine getting rid of middlemen, but there is a deep divide over who should actually be paying the bills.

Personally, I think health insurance should be, you know, insurance. For catastrophic things you wouldn't wish on yourself and cannot save for. And there's a definite role for government to make sure that market is solvent and available to everyone.

For day-to-day healthcare, that should just be included in "cost of living" calculations. General-purpose welfare programs (or ideally a minimum income) would guarantee that people could afford checkups, birth control, etc.

Getting employers out of the business of all of the above is paramount and what businesses should be lobbying for. I believe the slow recovery from the recession has been affected by unintended (though not unpredicted) consequences of the ACA's failure to address this issue. The Republicans likewise seem happy to punt on the issue. It's this sort of thinking that is making the American electorate disgruntled with politicians and each other.
A person being a customer of a bank means the bank has first access to that persons business when they need mortgages, other loans, home insurance, buying funds for retirement savings etc.

I suppse where bank accounts are free including services like ATM that might be an indication that banks compete for all customers - which might ni turn be an indication that all customers are reasonably likely to buy financial products such as taking loans or savings products in the future.
Monopolistic practices == industry protected from competition by government violence.

If the health industry wasn't, you'd have people making a killing importing 2 dollar generic antibiotics from overseas to compete with the 70 dollar generic antibiotics sold at CVS.
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This is one of those citation needed moments. IIRC insurance companies paid 90% of their income as "medical loss ratio". Even if you made them NPO - the cost will drop some percent. US needs healthcare costs to drop times.
So am I right in assuming .NETfx and .NET Full are the same? Or... Yeah I still love .NET not a fan of the weird transition phase, I can't help but think that Core should of been stuck into Alpha for this time frame, but then people would complain it's ready for prime.
Bastiat for the win! https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Essays_on_Political_Economy...
>Sweden has all of those problems

It seems like healthy people spend a bit of time in wealthy nations with socialized health care and see nothing wrong with the system.

Live it. Have friends and family suffer illness or disability and try to find treatment. There is very little preventative care where I'm from because the doctors have no time. It's emergency after emergency.

So, sure, in Canada you won't break the bank if you dislocate your shoulder and have to go to the ER. But any special procedures and you'll be waiting years sometimes for an appointment.
Not sure you can blame capitalism here, because capitalism is economic system, not a political system, i.e capitalism and socialism is not it's counterparts because they are different entities, apples & oranges.

Health care in US is political regulated system, badly done as well.

Yes, you can have capitalism and government funded health care system.
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