skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doctor pay has almost nothing to do with the absurd medical costs. With 1.1m doctors in the US, and median pay at 180k, that's $200B. US healthcare spending is 3.2 trillion. Beyond that, I think they deserve that much when factoring in the cost of education, liability of the job, and decrease in years of employment.

Here's some math:

- median age of retirement: 63.

- median UPS salary over lifetime: $70k.

- UPS driver lifetime earnings = 70k * (63-18) = $3.15m

- Median doctor salary: They usually earn around 150k total during their residency, and the median is around 180k beyond that (typically age 30+)

- MD lifetime earnings = 150k + 180k*33 = 6.09m.

- MD education debt is typically around 500k, adjusting earnings to 5.59m. Accounting for hours worked, MD equivalent lifetime earnings are 3.72m.

I mean no disrespect to the work ethic of any blue collar job, but do you really believe the guy who cured you of cancer isn't worth the extra 600k over their lifetime compared to the guy who dropped off your replacement phone charger?
Two things could've happened.

1. The saw all the buzz about BFX and Tether and decided to pile the negative buzz all at once.

or

2. Let's tell them we got hacked and shift the attention their; plus they might feel bad for us.

They were good when they first started but then they got full of themselves and started implementing very odd and sketchy operations. Personally, I won't use them until they become verified: https://cryptonaire.com/digital-assets
Although it was publicly branded as a merger of equals it was pretty clear that Flixbus is the one who took over the other. Just after the merger, management was almost completely from Flixbus (the MFB founders even left completely soon after) and operation moved to their Munich Office immediately.
NoScript Add-On Is Updated for Firefox 57 and the New WebExtensions API
> I've been watching the censorship and manipulation in r/Bitcoin (and bitcointalk forum) for a few years now.

It was pretty obvious that sub was created to shill for bitcoins and to manipulate people into buying bitcoins. It's pretty much a boiler room for bitcoins. The tactics on that sub are the same as those you see on penny stock forums.

> A lot of people are going to get hurt.

Oh they've been hurt. There have been a couple of major run-ups and collapses of bitcoin prices on reddit. The running joke on that sub was posting suicide hotlines for those caught holding the bag.
We have invented that really useful thing named version control to know about the history of code.

If yours has commit messages not good enough to properly understand its history, fix that.
This is where the battle should be. Net neutrality is little more than a gateway for further regulation of the internet by the federal government. Remove barriers to competition and innovation on a local scale and see the need for ISP regulation diminish drastically.
> After all, the employees of the ISPs are humans and must also be benefiting from Net Neutrality, no?

Corporate policy is not written based on fully-informed democratic vote of employees. Its set by management who is paid to act as an agent of the shared (usually, purely financial for a large public firm) interests of the shareholders.
I’d be in favor of a much narrower legal avenue for achieving some of what falls under the banner of “net neutrality”. What the FCC previously did in declaring ISPs to be common carriers is unacceptable. It purports to solve problems which haven’t materialized and which may very well never arise in the US.

This is Congress’s place to act.

EDIT: I’ve removed this bit because it’s based solely on the claims of AT&T, which don’t seem to be corroborated elsewhere: ”It subjects the internet to content regulation at the whims of the FCC.”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/att-claims-commo...
I love this documentary, I watch it at least twice a year.
DJI cant be trusted at all, some countries has also launched investigations into mafia like behaivour by them.
Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People
You're wrong. Sorry. Read up on it -- or, just, look at the kernel mailing list.
No one here has given you a good answer because they simply don't know what day-to-day life in China is actually like.

If you're a young and reasonably-educated Chinese person, you probably wouldn't notice that the app was taken off the store. If you did notice, you would probably see a message from the government about the app not complying with its standards. Then, you might grumble about it on the internet forums, poking a few jokes at the government, with the knowledge that this is just how tech in China currently works at the moment. Then you'd just migrate to WeChat to handle your voice calls.
> One release with three breaking changes is better than three broken pushes.

Why? Each of those pushes you have one thing to check, and if it is messed up only one thing to revert. With a batched release you have multiple things to check, and are reverting other people's working stuff when you have to revert. Even worse, you have to choose between reverting slowly (but checking every feature) and possibly having to revert a second time because there was another bug you missed!

> Personally, I favor stability vs. easier troubleshooting. This works for some products and not others.

I don't understand. If you make the same number of changes with the same number of breakages, is packing them into a smaller window really more stable? Even worse the more time it takes you to fix those breakages, the less uptime you have... The opposite of stability.

> All of the environments I govern match production 1:1 (sans data sanitation) in every way possible. I feel pretty strongly about this, if you can't test your code without pushing it into production, you should not be automating anything

I agree with this! But... Then why are you advocating for staging to digress further from production waiting for a big release?
Troy you have bulleted out most items of interest, I would also advise you to add mitigation methods: as a computer scientist I am shocked that more conglomerates are not legally obligated to encrypt information and also ensure that information is only decrypted while it's being used and looked at. Data that is not being currently used should be hashed and inaccessible to someone without the credentials (unless you're the NSA and have the brute force to work the search space). Data, like a person's address and social security number, can be encrypted such that we only need a small portion of the correct data to decrypt the entry, but we need to tie the ends of the conversation together: "can I have your secret answer and last 4 digits of your SSN?" should actually initiate the decryption of the data, and should be a real preventative layer instead of just a delay for the clever social engineering ploy.

So please recommend that conglomerates be forced to encrypt data in ways that protects the vast majority of accounts in case of a data breach.

Thanks a lot for taking the initiative to ask the community, regards to you my friend in freedom.
The first thought looking at the picture -- it could be interstellar probe created by some alien race. Rotation and metal body -- something to think about. This reminds me "The Dark Forest Theory" described in the fantastic trilogy "The Three-Body Problem" by Cixin Liu [1] -- Chinese Isaac Asimov. Really great read in case you didn't read it yet.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/07653...
My tinnitus is a side effect of a double stapedectomy, replacing the stapes bone in my middle ear with a titanium replacement. I have no regrets, my hearing went from 20% of normal to 80% and allowing me to have mostly normal hearing.

At first, the tinnitus was maddening, I would wonder if I would rather be deaf then have the constant ringing. Then I read an article about counseling and training as an effective method. I ended up training myself to not focus on it, now it isn’t an issue unless I think thoughts like “wow, I haven’t thought about my tinnitus in a long time”, am asked about it or see a mention of it.

My ENT surgeon told me at my last checkup after surgery that the tinnitus is in the brain and that I would have ringing even if he removed the inner and middle ear. I sometimes wonder if the ringing is there if I am not thinking about it.
Summary: The Firefox 57 update removed many APIs for addons, which broke an incredible amount of add-ons, including noscript.

Noscript finished updating to the new API, it's working again now after being forcefully disabled for 1 week.
https://www.reddit.com/r/blackmagicfuckery/
https://www.reddit.com/r/nevertellmetheodds/
https://www.reddit.com/r/surrealmemes/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/
So some of the reasons are "structural" as well. Good point.
I bet there are other, similar, reasons along those lines.
+1 for org-mode and GTD. But then, I'm an Emacs Everywhere person also. I spend all day in org-mode. It's both a task-management _and_ a knowledge-management system, my exocortex. Couldn't survive without it.
>"If you like your cable company, you'll love what this does for the Internet, because it gives Internet service providers the same kind of control over content and price as cable operators have today."

Except it's not, even. In the world of cable TV, the base cost is set by the content providers - the Disneys and such. With this, I guarantee you are going to see ISPs taking action on their own to tier websites and apps, pocketing the extra money, without input from nor payment to the sites which they intend to profit directly from.
Not if that property benefits from any public services. Once the public is subsidizing something (like roads, mail, utilities, education, emergency services, etc), the public gets some say in who gets to be included.
Show HN: Microsoft releases AirSim
fwiw if you put a webextension on AMO they manually do a review of your code before it's release to make sure it's not malicious. not 100% safe but what is?
Sugar industry tried to hide the health effects of its product 50 years
Thanks for checking it out and the feedback. I really appreciate it. The site design is a bit rubbish. It's really just a placeholder so I could get something launched.

I'm not familiar with intercom but I'll take a look - thanks for the tip.

The paid service will be a B2B service which is more about process management thank just form filling. That's a while away yet though.

I'm really interested in your comment around the .com domain. Perhaps being from NZ we're more relaxed about domain names but I thought with all the new gtlds it wasn't so important any more. Good to know that a .com domain is still important to some.
Apparently google and the traditional media ( nytimes, wapo in collusion with the government/cia ).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15748579
> Places with a lot of people?

It doesn't depend on numbers. Depends mostly whether there is some other ISPs besides the coax provider (which are the most widespread).
Ok, but the curators would need to provide a suitably large range of content in order to stay competitive.
Show HN: Bitcoin prices in terminal
Because it will ultimately lead to censorship, which will be very profitable.
If I move the hardware switch into the off position, I expect that the cellular connection won't work.

I feel like I'm misunderstanding your question.
Get a Marpac-Dohm and kiss your tinnitus goodbye.
Tell them the story of Almon Brown Strowger, the 19th-century undertaker whose business mysteriously took a nosedive when the local telephone company hired an operator who was related to a rival funeral director.

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

I've always loved that (admittedly apocryphal) story. It's one of the vanishingly-rare cases where someone successfully solved a social problem through purely technical means. Even if there's not a word of truth to it, it's a completely realistic description of what consumers can expect in a world without net neutrality. It can be considered a modern-day Aesop fable.

Once you've related the Strowger story, then you can speculate on how it might have unfolded if Ma Bell herself had owned the competing funeral home. That's basically where the Comcasts and Verizons of the world want to be.
I think the Austrian school is considered legitimate school of economics though, right? It's not like these are amateur economists or anything.
AI cameras
Obama was no saint.

https://sharylattkisson.com/2017/09/24/obama-era-surveillanc...
This story is false according to Musk, which was widely reported when this first hit back around August

http://mashable.com/2017/08/11/elon-musk-fired-assistant-ane...

According to Musk, "Mary Beth was an amazing assistant for over 10 yrs, but as company complexity grew, the role required several specialists vs one generalist." She was given, Musk claims, 52 weeks of salary and stock for her contribution & left to join a small firm, once again as a generalist.
I'm no early bird, but I can still keep a schedule if I must. I suffered years of waking up at stupid o'clock for public school, frequently sleep deprived, and that was back when I only knew about caffeine for helping to counteract sleepiness... These days I'm fortunate enough to be working for a geographically distributed team. I'm salaried. I can work from home when I want (and did almost all the time for 2 of my 3.5 years).

I generally come into the office around 10:30am, though sometimes it'll be 8am. I wouldn't mind coming in around 2pm and working into the evening, but I frequently need to work with other employees who have a more normal schedule, and I have an 11am standup so I have to be awake by then anyway. When I know I need to go to sleep, I pop a melatonin tablet and put on a sleep mask to block out light. When I first started, I forced myself to bed before 11 each night and made sure to be at the office before 9 each morning, until I observed that people didn't care about strict schedules.

There's an understanding that as long as I make the meetings I agree to (some are in person and require travel) and management is happy with my output, my schedule can be quite flexible. Some weeks will be less than 40 hours, some weeks will be > 50 because of some deep bug I just want to get over with. Some days I'll spend a bit too much time on HN or taking breaks to the snack kitchen, other days I'll sit down when I arrive in the morning and not stand again until late at night due to focus. It all tends to balance out. In any case when the lines aren't drawn clearly it's important to find out at what point the fuzzy boundary becomes solid. This "cultural shift" that OP was complaining about is just the new generation of employees finding out where the hard borders actually are, and discovering that at many firms they're a lot further back than they used to be and they can be pushed even further with a bit of pressure. I'm waiting to see someone show up to work in a fursuit, and wish there were an old-timer suited IBM employee there to witness it too. Many firms have realized that to a large extent, for many jobs what you wear simply doesn't matter.

At a previous job, I also had a pretty flexible schedule, but we tried to keep it "between 10 and 11" yet I kept coming in closer and closer to 11 all the time until a few times I was in after 11 and more than once I overslept and came in past noon. We changed it to "be here by 10 or we might have to cut ties". No further problems.
I am amazed at the things Uber gets through and is still standing after...
This is nonsense, sorry. The Web Extensions API is designed (1) to prevent add-ons from breaking as the Firefox browser changes; (2) to allow constraining the behavior of add-ons to limit their ability to compromise the security model of the browser. The API is not intended to prevent you from changing the software you're running on your own system. If it were, you'd see pervasive obfuscation like PatchGuard, not sandboxed EME plugins with clearly defined interfaces.
> Maybe the next iOS update comes with privacy intrusion because it's more lucrative.

Apple has demonstrated time and time again their commitment to privacy and to protecting user data.

Apple does not see user data as something to be hoarded. They see user data as a liability and work very hard to collect as little as possible in order to provide the services they do.

The idea that Apple is going to discard all of this and add privacy intrusion into iOS, doing a completely 180° on their business model and discarding all of their corporate principles, is extremely unlikely.
> Its out of print now, and I've seen copies on eBay for > $1000.

For the rest of us there's this great talk from Brain Schul which covers this story and a few others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wigZsFypdyI
Woops yeah, I realise that. I just saw a reference somewhere from AMD + Trustzone and clicked on the first link I found :D Sorry
Android has surpassed Windows as the largest share of web traffic[0], though maybe that means those social apps like Instagram, Facebook, etc. Stat counter also states that >35% of web browser traffic is mobile not desktop[1].

[0] http://gs.statcounter.com/press/android-overtakes-windows-fo...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#/m...
Read Linus' rant about why the Linux kernel shouldn't use C++: https://lwn.net/Articles/249460/
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> Uber said it will provide drivers whose licenses were compromised with free credit protection monitoring and identity theft protection.

This happened more than a year ago, and only now that they're planning on offering identity theft protection? That's ridiculous.
> I'm not sure what most of the anti-net neutrality side's supporting arguments are

My friend was a lawyer for an ISP and now works for the FCC (I promise she's a good person otherwise).

The main argument is that small ISPs can't compete if Net Neutrality exists, because they can't build a network big enough for every customer to stream Netflix and YouTube. If they could have most of their customers blocked from those services, they could afford to offer it to the few that want to pay extra for it.

The other main argument against it is that it's not fair that Grandma, who only wants to read email once a day and look at the kids on Facebook, pays the same as the kid next door who is watching Netflix while playing an RTS while torrenting three movies.

They're both decent arguments, and would totally make sense in a world where multiple ISPs could reach everyone's home.
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You can do click-to-play HTML5 videos with NoScript.

Can't do that with UMatrix.

FYI you can actually use both NoScript and UMatrix at the same time.
That CEOs should be accountable for lazy security.

That everyone does security theater, no one does real security. Mostly for convenience to marketing data is not encrypted in REST, data is not segmented into different data stores (own store for passwords etc.) but stored in the same MySQL database, employees can dump millions of records instead on one-record-at-a-time, people let fly unencrypted Excel sheets everywhere etc.
Place the palms of your hands over your ears with fingers resting gently on the back of your head. Your middle fingers should point toward one another just above the base of your skull. Place your index fingers on top of you middle fingers and snap them (the index fingers) onto the skull making a loud, drumming noise. Repeat 40-50 times. Some people experience immediate relief with this method. Repeat several times a day for as long as necessary to reduce tinnitus.Dr. Jan Strydom, of A2Z of Health, Beauty and Fintess.org.
> Can someone who drank a beer a couple days ago be trusted not to drink one 30 minutes before starting work with the concrete cutters? Trusted enough to bet your company on? (Because you know that if the worker drinks a beer just before working with the concrete cutters, and someone gets injured or killed, the owner loses the company in the lawsuit.)
Ever since Susan Fowler told her story about what happened to her at Uber, I have only used Lyft, and have encouraged all my friends to do the same.

I plan to never use Uber again.
My personal opinion is that in order to make sure that breaches like the Equifax one are preventable and handled correctly, these measures should be imposed

1) An entity storing personal data, must be audited by a government approved 3rd party and their rate must be made public.
2) Any breach (or suspicion of a breach) must be reported to this 3rd party within 24 hours.

The issues I saw with the Equifax breach was that there was NOTHING that told us how bad their security was and they were allowed to not report the breach for a month.
Non-paywalled: http://archive.is/jyavW
The U-2 is so difficult to fly that it requires external sensors to land. AKA another pilot racing down the runway in a chase car radioing instructions to the pilot in the plane.

https://jalopnik.com/5537629/the-140-mph-chase-cars-of-the-u...
Thanks. It seems like preview is the go to option for mac users. For me it was missing a couple of features but I'm also looking towards a mobile solution for users on tablets.
Connection fee + metered internet is fairest of all, and aligns incentives nicely. Of course, users don't like "pay for what you use" and want "all you can eat" plans which leads to... this stuff.
@Thlom well they have these exorbitant medical school loans to pay off, you see...
> Once the shackles are off maybe they can block websites that promote fascism, racism, fake news, and so forth.

And lgbt, atheist and other fake news also. If we are going to censor, why not just censor every anyone might find offensive.

> It is very unfortunate that we live in an age where everything has "two sides" and where anything liberals support is automatically rejected by conservatives (and, to be fair, vice versa)...

We live in a strange time. Liberals want net neutrality, conservatives do not. Conservatives want free speech, liberals do not.

There was a time when both liberals and conservatives wanted both net neutrality and free speech.

But with the media push partisan propaganda, they have been able to normalize censorship in order to consolidate their control over information/propaganda.
They don't need to stay competitive because most areas of the country only have one option.
Uber Concealed Cuberattack That Exposed Personal Data of 57M People
Agreed. I just tore down an old chimney, ripped out the wall, replaced the floor, the wall, put in a big window, fixed the section of the roof, and put in a new wood stove. Just youtube and google search to figure most of it out. I did have to "phone a friend" a few cases, but that could have been done on a forum with greater latency. I figure that I saved a lot of money doing this myself.
how does this stop being the case? money > all else.