skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why should voters care if they pay the government for a service instead of private enterprise, if government can provide the service for a lower price?

I don't get why voters think there is something inherently worse with paying taxes than paying insurance companies.

Taxes have the benefit that they can not typically be higher than your income, while insurance can easily be higher than your income.

If you are sick for a long time with say cancer treatment and lose your job, then your insurance costs will quickly get higher than your income.
Is your dad Professor Bitcorn?
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Referenced below and applicable here, O'Reilly state they continue to support DRM-free formats (available from outlets that support them, like Google Play) and acknowledge the PDF issue in this post by Laura Baldwin.

https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/the-mission-of-spreading-the-k...
I don't understand why these places can't just use regular mail.

I wanted some discrete through-hole MOSFETs for bidirectional level shifting as described in this application note [1].

The ZVNL110A satisfies all of the requirements [2]. In small quantity they were $0.604 each at the time from Mouser, and I wanted 10, so $6.04 for the MOSFETs. And then another $7.99 for freaking shipping. (I ended up ordering 30, figuring maybe I'll eventually need that many, and then I'm "only" paying 50% for shipping instead of >100%).

These things are very small, and only weigh half a gram each. Just take an ordinary letter envelope, drop them in, put a first class postage stamp on it ($0.49), and mail it. A $0.49 first class stamp allows up to 99 grams, so orders up to a couple hundred of these could be shipped that way.

For those curious, the size constraints on a first class letter in the US are:

3.5" <= height <= 6.125"
5" <= width <= 11.5"
0.007" <= thickness <= 0.25"

0.25" is 6.35mm. A large number of through-hole components would usually fit, such as transistors, diodes, resistors, and disc capacitors. Most surface mount components would fit.

[1] https://cdn-shop.adafruit.com/datasheets/an97055.pdf

[2] http://www.mouser.com/ds/2/115/ZVNL110A-95598.pdf
I really wonder how the top-speed is on those cars in their various configurations. For me this is the deal breaker on all other "affordable" solutions thus far.
I don't think they are technically pyramid schemes either, as pyramid schemes require multiple levels.

I think it's just fraud: taking people's money with no intent or ability to return anything.
Its one thing to tell someone to "drive less" when they have to go to work and don't have the capital/opportunity to move closer or change jobs.

Eating less is entirely a personal willpower issue.
Please cut it out with pretending the poor prefer to buy a cellphone instead of health care. The most expensive phone on the market, the iPhone, costs less than one month of health insurance premiums. And most poor people aren't using iPhones - most are using Androids they bought for a few bucks on a plan. That is to say, a modern smartphone costs the same as a landline phone of yore. That's not even getting into the whole discussion of their smartphone is typically the only computer they have. Try navigating our healthcare system without a phone or a computer. Good luck with that.
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A reasonable Musk critique: Fremont, You Have a Problem, and It Starts with an M
I only use their web UI, mostly for free online storage / sharing.
Here is a list I've come across, I'm not sure how exhaustive it is: https://www.smithandcrown.com/icos/
How would someone convert crypto currency to real cash? is it even possible?
Generating Oracle Selection and Transformation JSON Rules for Multiple Schemas
Obliterate Imposter Syndrome
I've always wondered why Windows and other OSes don't offer a 'cold storage' area where you need thaw out files before editing. Files not modified within a selected time freeze from further modification. I've got plenty of files that are archived that I'd never want to change, but it's a hassle to unmount/remount just to add a new file to an existing directory.
The article is misleading, as it compares Bitcoin power consumption to VISA, which is a payment processor.

Bitcoin is a sound money system, so the proper comparison is all the people, buildings, vehicles, weapons, etc used in the creation and protection of the global fiat currency system.

I don't know for sure, but I bet fiat costs dwarf the $640M or so that Bitcoin costs.
If employable programmers are as rare as brilliant young mathematicians, we have a serious problem.
I haven't been able to do my job with respect to this project. There's a distinction between hard and impossible
There is little evidence that annual checkups actually produce better health outcomes for people without serious chronic medical conditions.
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It could be soon!
The top-speed is really a prime concern for choosing your car?

Interesting. Do you live in a no-speed-limit jurisdiction, such as Germany?
Exactly. The general idea is that you get a measurement of the applied force, so integrating that value gives you an approximate velocity.
Ethereum raised 20000 Bitcoin giving away 2000 Ether per Bitcoin. Today, one Ether is worth 0.1 Bitcoin. That's a 200x return. Also, they created the most widely used Blockchain. Does that qualify as "delivered"?
Pesticides are not enough to explain all the harm to bees. Fungus and parasites can destroy colonies too. We have to consider how to live without as many bees as we have now, because we don't know how to save all the bees.
> a real market value hasn't been established yet. The one possible true market value, micro transactions, seems to have been overcome by simple small step technological evolution.

A real market value, in the sense that "something is worth what someone will pay for it", has been established. There's just a lot of people scratching their heads about it.

What's the real market value of diamonds? Or gold? In the apocalypse, you can't do anything with either, but I think you'd have a hard time making the case that there's no "true market value" to these goods, even if you find their utility dubious.
The X++ stuff is for the product formerly known as AX though? Based on my experience with AX its a lot nicer than JDE or SAP.
Facebook acknowledges election manipulation by malicious users
I'm very upset that we didn't get the story behind #10.
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As an older, former developer who has pretty much decided to pursue a career in MS Dynamics, I am having a great deal of difficulty trying to find useful information on which "track" to pursue, especially considering the change (?) Dynamics365 may be bringing to the model. (By track I mean, which product to focus on, AX vs CRM I assume are the most reasonable options, and technical vs functional (if that's the correct terminology)). And, where best to find good training and a strategy for getting one's foot into the door.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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> It's different from the sort of value that a startup creates: at least a startup is trying to affect the world in a tangible way that can usually be explained in a couple of sentences.

I agree that it is different. Arguably, though, if Bitcoin gains enough traction, it would affect the world too.
> Tesla’s Model S outsells Mercedes S-Class, Porsche Panamera, and BMW 6/7 Series combined in the US

Those cars are not even in the same class, of course Tesla would outsell them. Compare sales of the model S in Germany with the C class, BMW 3 (or maybe the 5) and just forget about Porsche.

Other cars you could compare it with are larger sedans of the premium variety Japanese manufacturers (Toyota -> Lexus, Nissan -> Infinity).

I'm really happy to see Tesla make moves but if you're going to make comparisons it helps if they're apples to apples otherwise you just make Tesla look bad.

Downvoters are encouraged to spend some time behind the wheel of an S class (even a 10 year old one will do) and then to go drive a Tesla for a bit.
It's not even gambling. If you're not the one creating the ico scam, you are flushing money down the toilet.
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Not to say that the MacBook is better, but I found the Surface Book's keyboard to be infuriating: No right Ctrl key (how do you press Ctrl+I/L/M/P?). Fn lock lamp (one more mode to remember). Hard-to-find Home/End keys. Home/End/PgUp/PgDn mapped over F8/F9/F10/F11 keys. And ironically, I find the key labels easier to read in black with the backlight off, than in white with the backlight on.
So, the system for protection of personal data in the NHS is broken then - if managers can choose to flout the law without any personal repercussions then that law is useless.

IIRC you have to have a license to work with certain types of data, that person/those people need to lose grades to the point they have no controlling decision with respect to personal data. It shouldn't be up to their colleagues whether they get held responsible.

I work in a craft studio and face a large fine - so I'm told - if I reveal personal data, or make that possible ... because perish the thought someone could learn you painted a piece of pottery, but reveal personal health information against patient wishes and nothing happens?
I actually specifically wrote about this after receiving an email calling imposter syndrome out as the reason the person wanted to stop the interview process. Some thoughts on how to overcome it are in the article.

https://medium.com/@DavidMcKayV/obliterate-imposter-syndrome...
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Investment will descrease which will decrease supply making what is still dug up more expensive.
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I think the cryptocurrency story is real, just like the internet story was real in 1999, but these ICOs show that the market is getting way ahead of the tech, regulations, business models, etc. I have a longer rant about it, here:

https://twitter.com/jonst0kes/status/880806655067291649

(Sadly, twitter's threading model is now so broken that you have to do lots of clicking to get to the good back-and-forth dialogue in there.)

Anyway, I'm sort of toying with the idea of doing a kickstarter for a big explainer book on blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and DLT in general, which would basically be like my CPU architecture book ("Inside the Machine"), but for this topic. (I'm spending all my spare mental bandwidth right now on understanding this tech, mostly so I can think through shorting this space eventually, but I'm not convinced it's worth my time to try to explain it to the general public... a kickstarter would help me price that. I dunno though, I've never even backed anything on kickstarter so I'd have to spend a bunch of time figuring out how to set up a successful campaign, first.)

But to sum up, people I've talked to in this space think the ICO thing is a frothy mess, but it's also set to get worse as the general public gets more opportunities to buy in. A lot of these ICOs are built on top of ETH, and the path to USD liquidity is through ETH, so despite the platform's issues it seems likely that ETH is going to get much of the benefit of this bubble (and much of the negative impact when the bubble pops).

I'm keeping an eye on the upcoming ETH exchange-traded trust, and I think there will be an ETH ETF that will eventually launch and get bid up.
I don't think any car I've ever owned has spent more than a minute or two at its top rated speed. Even acceleration is only important up to a minimum to get along in traffic. Even in Germany where cars are allowed to go pretty quick in some areas hardly any of them go at or near their rated top speed.
As long as someone who has cash wants the crypto currency, you can trade with them.
How is 'thawing' your files more/less of a hassle than mounting a drive?
US citizens should note that US Federal law requires you to file a statement of your overseas accounts every year, and your foreign bank must report your assets to the US government. There are steep fines if the foreign bank does not comply. This puts a burden and risk on many banks so they sometimes refuse to let Americans open bank accounts with them. And even when they do open an account for you, expect to provide a lot of official documentation (passports, social security number). Just another benefit of being from the land of the free.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance...
I'm a strong believer in the promise of cryptocurrency, but 90% of these ico's are scams and the recent run up in ethereum and btc is just based on nonsense speculation.
Several species of Pacific rockfish.
I think I'm trying to say, talking about how farming practices have harmed American honey bees is a little like talking about how farming practices have harmed dairy cows.
Several years ago, ICOs were a way to crowdfund and distribute a new crypto currency. With your example you would sell "pre-mined" FrogCoin and there wouldn't be any real world asset that make them valuable, only speculation.

Today, most of the ICOs are made on the Ethereum blockchain, it's a way to crowdfund distributed/decentralized application and protocol. It's not about currencies anymore.

The tokens that are sold are "API keys" that will be needed to use the protocol / application.

Lots of things are good candidate to decentralisation : VPN, cloud computing, cloud storage, social media plateform, Quora, Reddit, HN, any service that make the bridge between users and take a HUGE commission : Uber, Airbnb ...

I don't know if any of these decentralized application will ever succeed but the business model / crowdunding model is evolving and in some area, like open source projects it makes lot of sense to create / use decentralized services.
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>It's worthwhile to note that not a single once of the thousands of "ICO" things that have been launched in the last year have actually done anything of value. They all generate hype, raise money, and then give up and go to work on other things.

I agree that many ICOs are scams, but I disagree with your statement for the following reasons:

1. Most large ICOs have not been scams, but several have failed (see theDAO). Because you choose a short time horizon (launched in the last year) it excludes both successes like the Ethereum ICO and failures like theDAO.

2. We say "They all" however most of the larger ICOs have not been scams. I only need to provide a single counter-example: look at the Brave ICO.

>It happens over and over again with no memory of the past failures, apparently.

I'd be interested in seeing some examples? What ICOs over 5 million USD in the last year were scams? For the record I don't doubt you can find some.
cost per aquisition
Elsevier and others represent a massive and punishing private tax on the basic operation of science and academia. It's a scam but it's so ingrained in academic
culture that very few groups of scholars seem willing or able to break away from it. They basically steal copyright from the authors of these papers, they don't compensate the authors or the peer reviewers, but they collect outrageous prices from libraries and individuals for access to already-publically-subsidized research. It's utterly depressing that they continue to exist.