skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You realize that Apple admitted to collecting cell tower and wifi data years ago, wholly separate from any location data, right? That they still do to this day.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2011/04/27Apple-Q-A-on-Locati...

It is impossible that a unique device submits data about cell and wifi locations in an "anonymous" way aside from putting another party in between (a party that you'd have to trust), and that caveat is outrageously nonsensical to anyone with a hint of technical capability. But we trust that Apple is then mangling it up. Or do they?
Please let me buy contact lenses or a CPAP without a prescription
Most doctors tend to specialize anyway so why should a heart surgeon spend so much time learning about other organs which they're never going to sink their scalpels into?

Because everything is linked?
While we are on the topic, may I bring up John Oliver's June 1 2014 episode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbOEoRrHyU

tl;dw - For those who want to understand how closely the government is related to those who benefit from NO net-neutrality.
More students are accepted to medical school than there are residency spots available.

See "Figure 1" http://www.nrmp.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Main-Match-Re...
I feel a simple solution would be a law hospitals/clinic etc have to publish prices and all people/companies have to pay those prices.

It would stop this dual pricing and encourage healthy competition. And private insurance companies would negotiate better rates for the market as a whole.
Isn't it implied, "mentally competent people"?
For those interested in the broader picture, I recommend Aaron Carroll's series "What makes the US health care system so expensive":

https://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/what-makes-the-...

Physician salaries are a part of the problem, but by his numbers they are a pretty small part (as shown in his pie chart at the bottom): https://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/what-makes-the-...
Got an email from Techsmith (Snagit and Camtasia) a few days ago about a Cyber Monday sale. No figures mentioned, but the above 2 products were mentioned.
I disagree. I think guest lecturer still are a position of authority, but there are degrees. HP CEO was fired for dating a contractor or something like that. Where is the line?

Also Bill Gates.

Anyway, my personal wish is coworkers should never, ever date. There are so many options, why take one that has the potential to blow up? Yet, it's one of the common ways people meet. I even knew one who married a woman he interviewed and hired. If only we could all be more logical about relationships. :/
You can also get a cheap shared hosting plan, or better, two cheap shared hosting plans for redundancy, and just (s)FTP(s) the files ...
I don't think it is fair to compare physician salaries from countries where education is heavily subsidized by the government. Are new doctors in the UK or the rest of the EU starting their careers $200k+ in debt?
Having their technology not kill people?
Apple has very few stores in communities of color
I sorta figure if you spend around about a DECADE of your life training in a profession then that profession should give you that sort of salary.
The amount of education doctors have to do compared to the other routes to getting $200k p.a. makes me much more sympathetic to this outcome than say investment banking.
meh. individuals will eventually figure it out for themselves. we don't need nannies. something tells me this sort of argument will get used to prop up anti net neutrality arguments.
Are they really that super skilled?

If medical school was free and had unlimited places, do you think we would have the same number of doctors that pass the bar?
Additional residency spots are funded by other grants. The number of residency spots has increased, just not through medicare funding.
I think there is a more nuanced libertarian argument that you haven't mentioned, and that is not so much "I am against all regulation" as much as "I think regulation is generally bad for efficiency and/or disagree with it on moral grounds so I want to be convinced why it is necessary."

In other words, I want to be convinced that:

1) There is a problem here at all. The regulation that is being repealed was only introduced 2 years ago; how did we get along before that?

2) This problem can be solved by this regulation (not all regulation achieves its goals, and sometimes it is even counter productive).

3) Regulation is the best/only solution for this problem (what other solutions to the problem described in 1 have been proposed, and why are they not suitable)

I think serious answers to these types will be far more convincing than the typical simplified arguments along the lines of "What if comcast creates a competitor to netflix and prioritizes its own streaming service".

TL;DR: I think some libertarians are not so much against regulation as they are skeptical of it, and are willing to be convinced that certain regulations are good, on a case-by-case basis.
Software practitioners could learn a lot career-wise from our counterparts over in medicine. Here's a profession with salaries more consistently high and more commensurate with the value they provide, where they're not as worried about global competition, and where ageism is not a factor. They have strong professional organizations who not only set competence standards and control labor supply. They lobby the government to mitigate competition and legislate who-can-do-what, with results very friendly to M.Ds. This is in stark contrast to the free-for-all race-to-the-bottom that characterizes tech labor.

I'm not sure what an "AMA for software developers" would look like or do, but I'm pretty convinced a strong organization would be overall beneficial.
Getting paid what your worth in Content Marketing
More and more it feels like the _sec world wants to go back to C64s dialing into big irons...
We (disclaimer: I'm the co-founder) have developed a Git-based add-on for Excel workbooks. Basically, it starts where Git left off in the Excel world. Here's a short blog post how it works out for one of our open source projects: https://www.xltrail.com/blog/xlwings-is-now-on-xltrail
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We already have a version of this, it's called NHS direct. You explain your symptoms and the person at the other end of the line runs through a set of scripted questions.

Real life example:
I phoned once when a friend of mine thought he was having a heart attack. Some of the questions were pertinent, some not (such as: could your friend be pregnant?).

After 10 minutes it was decided he wasn't having a heart attack and should make an appointment to see his GP.

I believe it is possible to escalate the call to a medical professional if you know the system.
I believe all lispers know this, and don't abuse it. They'll craft a simply-functional metalayer and then drop a few macros for syntactic purposes on top. The whole ordeal being used only if it has more pros than cons. It's an experience based thing.
You're right, market cap is not the best indicator. But the point is that it's not an equivalent comparison, and that point stands.

Let's do some math:

In Feb 2014, ~12,400,000 BTC had been mined. In the case of BTC, that's not really equivalent to "being in circulation", as many of those were probably forever lost in various unrecoverable wallets, but we'll pretend it was 12.4 million anyway(^1). 850,000 BTC ($450 mil) were stolen in the MTGOX day parade. That equated to nearly 7% of BTC in circulation.

This whole Tether thing, though also valued at around $500 mil, is not equivalent.

$500 mil right now is 61,000 BTC. There are currently 16,700,000 BTC in circulation. Making the Tether stuff only equate to 0.3% of all Bitcoin. I'm assuming that is what OP meant, and they are right - 7% is very different from 0.3%.

[1] - this actually makes my estimates more conservative than they could be, because I can almost guarantee that the BTC mined from 2014-2017 are more accessible than BTC mined from 2009-2014.
There will be many more people doing this sort of thing in the years ahead.

The main reason not to do it now for those genetic alterations known to exist in humans and have beneficial efforts, or to address genetic disease, would be that presently available approaches do not have reliable, high degrees of transfection. The cell coverage is low.

That is being solved. The work on gene therapy for muscular dystrophy is one line of research to watch as a marker of progress on this front.

As soon as reliable, high-enough levels of transfection are a reality, there will be a lot of unofficial gene therapy going on. The FDA and other regulators impose enormous cost and delay, as well as removing the agency of patients and those who desire enhancement rather than therapy. They will be bypassed, just as they were bypassed for stem cell therapies.
I've never heard anyone equate a CNA with a nurse.
Yes, and the US government. The US military contracted out the development of "online persona management" software to Ntrepid, as revealed by the HBGary hack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntrepid

HBGary was not awarded that particular contract, but does create its own astroturfing software anyway. I have no doubt it's common among US companies and I find it incredibly grating when Americans call this a Russian or Chinese phenomenon.

From an attachment in an email by then HBGary CEO Aaron Barr:

> "Persona management entails not just the deconfliction of persona artifacts such as names, email addresses, landing pages, and associated content. It also requires providing the human actors technology that takes the decision process out of the loop when using a specific persona. For this purpose we custom developed either virtual machines or thumb drives for each persona. This allowed the human actor to open a virtual machine or thumb drive with an associated persona and have all the appropriate email accounts, associations, web pages, social media accounts, etc. pre-established and configured with visual cues to remind the actor which persona he/she is using so as not to accidentally cross-contaminate personas during use.

> To build this capability we will create a set of personas on twitter,‭ ‬blogs,‭ ‬forums,‭ ‬buzz,‭ ‬and myspace under created names that fit the profile‭ (‬satellitejockey,‭ ‬hack3rman,‭ ‬etc‭)‬.‭ ‬These accounts are maintained and updated automatically through RSS feeds,‭ ‬retweets,‭ ‬and linking together social media commenting between platforms.‭ ‬With a pool of these accounts to choose from,‭ ‬once you have a real name persona you create a Facebook and LinkedIn account using the given name,‭ ‬lock those accounts down and link these accounts to a selected‭ ‬#‭ ‬of previously created social media accounts,‭ ‬automatically pre-aging the real accounts."

> Using the assigned social media accounts we can automate the posting of content that is relevant to the persona. In this case there are specific social media strategy website RSS feeds we can subscribe to and then repost content on twitter with the appropriate hashtags. In fact using hashtags and gaming some location based check-in services we can make it appear as if a persona was actually at a conference and introduce himself/herself to key individuals as part of the exercise, as one example. There are a variety of social media tricks we can use to add a level of realness to all fictitious personas"

https://wikileaks.org/hbgary-emails//fileid/2142/726
I'm a web developer and I agree with all that's been said here, especially the "reintermediation" bit.

It has become clear to me as well that the web is no longer what it used to be and will probably never return to what it was, because of these monetization practices. I am interested in finding out what the "next" web will be. Maybe it will be built on existing protocols, and maybe something else entirely?

There are also certain web-focused techs and companies I see as being bastions of the "old way," such as Wordpress and Ruby on Rails, and I'd like to get more involved in preserving and promoting those techs in a professional setting.

I'm also interested in walking back some of these misguided monetization tactics you speak of. Programmatic CPM-based ad networks are one of those I'd like to see reversed.

I feel that we as developers often underestimate the collective influence we have as technology experts. We are the creators of tech; our culture is essentially tech culture. Do Google and Facebook have the power they have because we give them that power? If so, what do we get in return?
Optometrists can prescribe glasses...
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> If you're concerned about this level of location tracking, don't carry a cell phone at all.

What do you think a cell phone is? It's literally a portable phone. It's purpose it literally to be carried with you. You completely missed the point and you gave up all your rights as a person and as a customer to a foreign corporation. Millions years of evolution and we ended up with someone like you.
Gambling is definitely comparable to (and possibly worse than) cigarettes. Gambling has ruined plenty of lives, and it can ruin your life in a few days while smoking takes decades.

Addiction can be horribly destructive without causing physical harm.

I don't know how bad these apps are. Gambling apps can be as bad as a slot machine or a roulette wheel, but we have no idea what kind of psychological damage the more insidious ones cause.

And there is physical harm. Obesity is a public health crisis. I don't know to what extent these apps contribute to it, but it's not zero.
I think that was Fare who said there's no syscall or drivers, only bytes, you can nicely generate them in CL, so that's it.
The second sentence is "We tend to blame the high prices on things like drugs and medical equipment, in part because the price tag for many life-saving drugs is less than half the U.S. price in Canada or Europe."

Its point is that drug prices are only part of the issue.

Quoting https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/health-expenditures.htm for "Percent of national health expenditures":

* for hospital care: 32.3% (2015)
* for nursing care facilities and continuing care retirement communities: 4.9% (2015)
* for physician and clinical services: 19.8% (2015)
* for prescription drugs: 10.1% (2015)

If drugs were free, expenditures would go down only 10%.

If "health expenditures for physician and clinical services" were cut in half, it would also go down 10%.

In any case, neither alone are enough to explain why we pay "more than twice as much per person for health care as other wealthy countries".
> Doctors are part of a guild. They artificially limit the number of doctors available by capping the number of medical schools

They do not. You may be confusing the AMA (which less than 25% of doctors even belong to) with the AAMC. The latter does cap the number of medical school positions nationwide, but they've also made a concerted effort over the last ten years to increase that number steadily.

But even if they eliminated that cap entirely, it wouldn't matter, because the number of medical school slots isn't a bottleneck for the number of practicing physicians. The number of residency slots is, and the funding gap for that comes from Medicare, which is responsible for funding them.

Unless more residency programs are funded, increasing the number of medical school positions would simply increase the number of people who have medical school debt and aren't licensed or trained to practice medicine, which would be even worse,

> which also allows the existing schools to crank costs to astronomical levels (“don’t worry, you’ll make enough to pay it back”).

Hardly - in fact, there's already been significant downward pressure on these, because the debt level is already at the tipping point. Today, the typical person who enters medical school can expect to pay off their medical school debt in their 40s. That level of debt load is already having a negative impact on qualifications for medical school applicants (who wants to be past child-bearing age by the time they've paid off their debt, when they can just go into another better-paying field without any of that)?
Not too mention the personal sacrifices they have to make to maintain a career (long hours, odd schedules, being on call, the stress of having someones life in your hands, etc).

Not to mention one mistake could cost you your entire career and all that training/money invested into education would be thrown away. And someones life is in the balance.

Pay them more by taking the money out of the hands of big pharma and insurance.
If people have to pay to use every web app then people without money won't be able to use any web apps.

Or do you think it's the opposite?
I went from a fully decked out vimrc to Spacemacs when I got tired of managing a .vim directory. I had things like Unite integrated everywhere and a generic repl experience via tmux so I had an inferior-mode for anything I wanted (sql, python, clojure, javascript, bash, ruby), even on remote machines (since it was just copy something from a register to a tmux pane, which could be ssh logged into a remote machine with a repl). I had autocompletion and doc lookups for the languages I cared about. Life was pretty good, but it was beginning to get tedious.

I decided to try Spacemacs hoping I might find their vim imitation to be 90% of what I was using in vim, such that I could take advantage of the excellent CIDER mode for Clojure development rather than hacking an analogue in vimscript + a user.clj file. I found Spacemacs to cover everything I had been doing in vim, almost universally better out of the box than I had before.
Article mentions companies by name: "This is just an advertisement! Shill journalism!"

Article doesn't mention companies by name: "The reporter didn't include any specifics! Lazy journalism!"
>because it was too complex to compute such shape and no one believed it would actually work

I don't want to put down your enthusiasm, but this is not very exact info. Stealth design never makes the plane invisible, it just increases the detection distance or the power requirement of the radar.

You get relatively long way by simply avoiding corner reflectors. There are rumors that Avro Vulcan used to disappear from friendly radars accidentally just because of that.

One of the features that increases stealth is the radar. Because radars tend to show on radar. SR-71 had "side looking radar" which might have been optimized not to show the array towards any hostile ground stations.
These questions will get very interesting when self-driving car manufacturers try to enter markets outside the US. It is highly desirable to have local training data, but any large enough effort to collect that data looks indistinguishable from mass surveillance. In Western Continental Europe this is bound to conflict with their expectation of privacy in public spaces. Meanwhile Russia and China might not be so thrilled about the USA having LIDAR scans of their entire country
One problem not covered by this story: it takes too many years to acquire a medical degree. In India, you can go to medical college right after graduating from high school. It only takes 5 years in the medical school to become a doctor. By age 22 you are a doctor. Compare that to the US: you have to get degree from a 4-year college before going to medical school. This is wasteful, unnecessary, and increases the cost of medical education, which in turn increases cost of medical care.
Isn't HIV with the current medication "cured", since with viral load below the limit of virus tests, a person cannot transmit the virus anymore?
I'm interested to see how this will evolve.

Right now you can use bitcoin's network effects to some degree with altcoins. eg. You use xmr.to to buy anything that you can buy with bitcoin with Monero.

This is a band-aid of sorts for the time being but I don't see why services that currently allow you to use bitcoin could not upgrade to include a better currency/currencies?
I don't know any more clear way to state that this regulation isn't new. But I don't think it matters, because I get the vibe that you're super into one of those ideologies that provides a handy, concise, internally consistent answer to any question with which you might find yourself confronted, and it's just a shame that reality so often disagrees. Enjoy your ancap or Randianism or whatever you happen to call it. I'll be over here wishing reality was less complicated than I've consistently observed it to be.
good approach IMO
> Let psychologists prescribe common, low-risk psych drugs (instead of scarcer psychiatrists),

What the hell? No, there's no way you want a psychologist to be prescribing medication. They receive absolutely no medical training whatsoever.

If you want psychiatric drugs without going to a psychiatrist, find a GP or NP. They're at least trained to practice medicine, even if they're not specifically trained in psychiatry.
In Russia most of doctors getting very low salary, less than MacDonalds employee. It doesn't work very well, talented people moving to other professions.
The downvotes are likely because you're taking an Uber thread veering it off to GM's management and your children, neither of which have any relevance here.
I don't think "less" and "more" should ever be used when discussing rules, regulations, and laws. Only "better" and "worse".

As for "specializing" in a type of medicine, this is naive. The human body is not separated into discrete modules; every part is extremely interconnected to many others. Doctors must understand general medicine because treatment can effect all body systems.
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> Internet is still incredible learning tool. If you want to learn. Much better actually than it was 10 years ago. You have free university-level courses, you have Duolingo where you can learn two dozen languages or so, you have Wikipedia, you have SciHub, you have enormous quantity of scientific and scolarly content available absolutely free... But of course if you insist on going to sites with fake news, nobody can prevent it.

The internet still has plenty of amazing sites, but compare and contrast these two lists of sites and you'll see what people are talking about - not the whole internet, but the new Internet(tm):

Good Internet:

- Education sites (wikipedia, duolingo, coursera, khan academy, etc)

- Big-box or indie games

- Research sites (SciHub, Examine.com)

Bad Internet:

- Engagement-optimised social media (Facebook, Twitter, SnapChat)

- Bank-account-draining skinner boxes (Pay-to-win games, Mobile F2Ps, lootboxes and microtransactions)

- Fake news and hidden-bias politics (Facebook, Twitter, a growing number of other sites)

- Spying and unethical practices (Google, Amazon, Uber)

That's to say nothing of the Good/Bad SV dichotomy illustrated by some of the shadier companies that are often parodied on the TV show.
Managing bandwidth based on a paid fee is a type of a bandwidth management. In analogous fields, we accept paid prioritization. Pricing/auctioning is a commonly used method for assigning resources efficiently.

If my ISP is hitting peak throughput at 8pm on monday night, it makes sense for high priority traffic to pay for priority (streaming, telephony, etc), while low priority traffic (bittorrnet, dropbox updates, etc) slow down because they are unwilling to pay.

I don't think outright blocking is justified or even purposeful slowing down (rather than speeding other stuff up). But i don't think treating everything the same is economically justified.
Do you mean to suggest that physicians' incomes should be several orders of magnitude less than what they are currently? If not, I'll continue to be "distracted" by the Tylenol.