skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> $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.

That's also not the correct way to look at it. The price hasn't been a constant $8200 during the issuance of those tethers, it was lower earlier. So way more than 61,000 BTC could have been bought with that money.

Besides, to figure out what effect tether has had on the price you need to factor in liquidity, not the total supply of BTC. If the real value of tethers is much lower than their nominal value (because they are not actually backed by dollars), and they were used to take a significant percent of BTC off the market, then the price of BTC is significantly higher than it ought to be.
the argument isn't just theoretical, it's why the term "medical tourism" exists.

Can you explain that in more detail? What's the connection to regulations? Does medical tourism exclusively happen from countries with heavily regulated medicine to countries with light regulations?

I would have assumed it was more about the distinction between state-run same-care-for-all healthcare systems versus commercial pay-to-play systems. If you have the money and you need the care, of course you're going to pay for better service if possible. But that seems orthogonal to regulations.
Key point that takes some time to sink in: there are only 2^32 32 bit floats in total. Meaning that you can easily enumerate them all.
Yes, I saw your tool before. I recommended it to somebody a couple months ago and they're very happy with it for their use case.

It is brave of you to integrate directly with Excel, and I commend you for that. Maybe some day I will work up the courage to do something other than basic one-way import.
Your description is only true for web startups.

Try to have a look in the defense or finance industry.
"bad electoral system."

First Past The Post Voting - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo

Range Voting - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3GFG0sXIig

Single Transferable Vote - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI
I can't agree more with this, especially with respect to undergrad. I've taught hundreds of undergrads about ohm's law so that they could go on to become doctors. And that was one of the more useful skills they learned. They also took classes on western legal theory and renaissance art and modern Russian literature.

Don't get me wrong: some doctors need hard science skills, but while I want my neurologist to understand ion channels I don't need that from my orthopedic surgeon.

As for the liberal arts base, personally I'd rather have a doctor who entered medical school 4 years earlier, and had a chance realize that med school wasn't for them 4 years earlier. With our current system, acing the MCAT means that you will be a doctor if you want to be one. And once you're in medical school you've sunk too much into education to back out and try something else.
Could this be the beginning of some kind of alt-Internet being created to bypass any kind of throttling?
User: clicks "No location tracking"

Google: "Yah, ok, I know no means no, but...."
If you have determined that the task is a net negative, is avoiding that task still a fear? At that point, wouldn't avoiding the task be the most rational/optimal decision?

There have been many times where I have followed something to its conclusion due to fear of feeling like a quitter.
This is true for about every facet of the Constitution.
Perhaps because the behaviour in question is not actually criminal. Since Ajit is a lawyer, I suspect he knows very well where the lines are drawn.
>Democrats were vehemently opposed to states authority

No they weren't. This is a total lie. I'd call it a mis-characterization but it's been beaten down so much that you have to be purposefully lying at this point to keep repeating it.
Or... on any post? Because...It was crazy when Rand Paul said it, and crazier when you say it.
From what I read they were suggesting users can choose so by learning to run the adb commands.
Chancellor to unlock hidden value of government location data
After seeing the level of interest here, I set up a (tentative) github org where I'll put the repo for the evaluator when it has some reasonable subset of the desired functionality.

https://github.com/exorgan
> This is exactly what you want if you care about security,

A deliberate panic could be the basis of a denial-of-service exploit.
This is an extremely ironic example. Google controls what content you see more than any ISP ever will, with or without net neutrality.

If anything, this FCC change will cement Google's dominance. They'll pay some rent to ISPs to maintain their priority lane, something an incumbent won't be able to do.
we will need to pay more the more we consume

Not necessarily; under utility pricing your bill might be $49 for maintenance of the network and $1 for usage.
This is very cool! There must be a way to do it on mac, too. Does anyone know the equivalent commands to grab the current window title, and grab the clipboard or currently highlighted text?
So, anyone know how does it work? I mean, the "tracking a package in Cortana". I'm intrigued now.
Fair point. I use a little hyperbole to emphasize the fact that a product with an incredible global reach should default to well-planned and executed features, particularly if they are sprung upon you with desktop alerts. Hate it or not, someone did a very, very bad job here. Most likely many someones.
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The marginal cost for additional bits through an existing hookup is tiny - likely not worth charging for. We'd likely pay based off the bandwidth available to us - and we pretty much already do that today, there's higher-bandwidth tiers available.
What UI library?
That's the idea. Get the Federal government out of the business of regulating the internet & open it up to competition.

The cartel practices of the ISP oligopoly is a separate issue. They bought the state legislatures. The people of each state that is under the influence of the ISP cartels should demand an open internet for their state.
Is that your argument?
It's certainly a factor, but I think claiming that is the only factor is an oversimplification.
As we've gone on in this thread, you've provided an increasing amount of actual details on how this works (thanks!) and now express knowledge of external sources that back this up (though citations to those would be useful). Your initial claim read to me as just, "it's simple free market incentives", which is not the same as the more full picture we've gotten as we've gone on, which now includes more analysis of how the Medicare incentive might play out for different decision makers. I feel like that was peoples' point (at least it was mine): an indirect "follow the money and don't worry about why it works the way it does" argument was not sufficient. So thanks for taking the time to fill in a bunch of gaps!

I still think you may be downplaying the impact of the risk calculation hospitals have to make regarding their ability to receive the stipend now or in the future. It may be only 80k, but clearly that 80k is enough to incentive many hospitals to have residents, so it must be material to them to some extent.

Your point about increasing supply of doctors being in hospitals' interest in the long run is interesting, but this is the same training conundrum everyone has: it is often difficult to make the decision to invest in the near term when the payoff is not realized until much later.

I'm sure you're right about all this in general - training people is a tricky and expensive problem for every industry.
Then perhaps it should not be advertised as "autopilot".
Net neutrality in danger – low orbit satellites to the rescue
Or rather, because people can't be trusted to update their browsers and turn their machines into a danger to themselves and others. No need for assuming malice.
D.C. Metro Tracks Covered in 'Felt-Like' Layer of Human Hair and Skin, Officials
Don't be lured by the temptation of victimhood, men! It is more hateful to call jokes about men "hate speech" than it is to tell jokes on men. Prickliness never endears you to anyone.
But if I fix all X bugs in code block A, then a code block containing B+A still contains X bugs.

That's one of the big problems with code duplication. "You fixed a bug? Great. Did you fix it everywhere?" It's better if there's only one place to fix it, because when you've fixed it, you've fixed all of it.

But as others have said, eliminating this is not the only good thing in programming. There are limits to how far you should go to prevent or eliminate duplication.
It certainly does nothing of the sort. There should absolutely be some kind of consequence associated with this kind of flaming dumpster fire making it's way into a production environment.
It usually just reads your email and shows you the packages based on that. I've never had any problems with it.
> The fact that some places only have one ISP is because government over-regulate right to pass and instal fiber.

Limiting how many companies can dig up the streets is a good thing. Imagine if every delivery company wanted to pave a road to your house.

Where the government screwed up is not making the last mile common to all ISPs.
> To play devil’s advocate, are we really ready for Internet to be regulated like a public utility?

Yes.

> Like water, we will need to pay more the more we consume.

We already do, though it's more noticeable for mobile broadband. Also, not all public utilities are metered—I’ve lived in places with unmetered public water, for instance, so the connection you draw between metering and public utilities is false.

> You and I can pay but what about poor people?

Public utilities are often subsidized for the poor (that's actually one way that broadband is already treated like a public utility).
Agreed. The whole piece was emotional, but just reading that statement took it to irrational.

I think the underlying point of the article is that the experience of using Cortana could be improved, and Microsoft should be providing explicit next steps at every phase so that you aren't left wondering what's going on. I'd agree with that. But claiming someone should be fired is ridiculous, especially considering that the author still doesn't know what the feature does and it could still pleasantly surprise him. It may just need an additional dialog explaining what to expect next.

I assume the feature gives you desktop notifications when the package transitions between tracking stages, and even if that's all the functionality it provides it'd still be more useful than manually checking the tracking website yourself.
It looks like http://brandmark.io/ as well
Wouldn't that be closer to interval arithmetic?
> In recent years, the number of medical residents has become so restricted that even the American Medical Association is pushing to have the number of slots increased.

This does not sound like a system where students can fulfill their residency requirements working at general care facilities with trained doctors who have years of experience.

> The major obstacle at this point is funding. It costs a teaching hospital roughly $150,000 a year for a residency slot.

So why exactly is there a slot shortage if people can literally fulfill their residency requirements pretty much anywhere? There are plenty of hospitals that could easily use the labor.
What exactly do you mean by "take a significant percent of BTC off the market"?

If this is some sort of Ponzi/exit scheme like many people are thinking, and all that BTC is effectively stolen by Bitfinex, I'm sure they'll spend it eventually. It's not like they're taking Bitcoin, giving people Tether, and then burning the Bitcoin.
It's more difficult to gain admission to veterinarian school than medical school (in America).

Veterinarians pay about the same for their schooling (but they don't really have residencies) and vets make ~70k-80k/yr.

If we think of a job's salary as a function of the talents used by the job and the cost of admission to the job, it's unclear why doctors and vets should earn substantially different amounts of money.

But I agree that it's easier to accumulate wealth as a non-doctor than a doctor. Just treat the first couple years of your career like medical school and it shouldn't be too hard to crack 6 figures - if you live modestly outside a megaopolis, you can save 40k/yr and get a six figure headstart over a doctor.
Excel totally totally missed the wonderful opportunity to do so much better than Google Spreadsheets. They could have created a centralized shared way of creating, editing, sharing and storing data. Their limitations as it exists today are ludicrous at best - 10 max users? Give companies a way to keep the data in a centrally managed place with access control and auditing and users the ability to freely share their creations (and data)...
I wouldn't mind they kept me within Apple Music if Apple Music, iTunes were Great, or good, or at least half decent. But no they are a piece of crap. Every single part of the UX in Apple Music Sucks, iTunes has become an after thought. And to add insult to injury, the collection of Music is only good in UK or US, in Japan and SEA region it absolutely horrible.

So to me Apple Homepod is just another way to try and sell customers into the Apple Music Services Revenue, bound and pulled by the iPhone halo effect.
> Basically if we "encrypt all the things" then ISPs will only see opaque encrypted traffic and will be unable to effectively implement really fine-grained traffic prioritization/de-prioritization.

Wouldn't the ISP's default in that case be to de-prioritize all opaque encrypted traffic?
>but the package id won't get you the name of the package in a human readable format so nickname is necessary.

Google can figure it out. I order something, i get cards in Google Now telling me exactly what i ordered and its shipping status, without any interaction on my part. It just happens.

If microsoft can't figure out how to do this, fine. But if they're going to pop up notifications saying "hey, i can track packages for you", they should be at least sort of on par with the competition.
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It’s true. We should all avoid alarms and sleep until we feel rested. Why don’t we do that?
The whole experience of the start search / cortana / mix is horrible.

It can't even fuzzy search. Type "view event" and it brings up "view event logs", if you type "view events" it instead searches bing, in edge, for "view events".

Edge isn't even my default browser. Bing isn't my default search engine, and I didn't want to browse the web.

Any slight deviation from an exact phrase and it goes straight from "here's the program you want to run" to popping up it's search engine.
> Residency at an ER isn't necessary for someone to become a pediatrician.

You may simply be talking past each other here. All of my (now doctor) friends who went through residency pulled at least one, and usually more than that, rotations through ED. I can't imagine all 3 hospitals had wildly different residency programs than the rest of the nation, so I imagine 3-6mo of ED rotation is quite common during residency.
Your blog is acceptable to me.

More specifically, I like the dry humor and scattershot nature of the content. Reminds me of how the web used to be.
The Constitution gives the federal government the ability to regulate interstate commerce, which, effectively, means almost everything.

Taxing the hell out of non neutral ISPs at the state level may be viable, though? IANAL... It may be a case where a successful state level action in (say) New York and California covers enough people that national ISPs won't want to build a whole second system for all the other states; this is how many California environmental protection laws become de facto national.
That's no a problem of macros, but bad design. You should use macros to build multiple well designed DSLs to reduce as much complexity as possible. Not petty syntax one-liners.
The FCC is superior because it involves interstate commerce. Whether a local law can survive alongside a federal law depends on whether there's undue conflict, and conflict is determined by whether the local law intolerably intrudes on the federal law's scheme. Intolerable intrusion isn't the actual term of art but it may not matter because fed/state conflict doctrine is a big bowl of mush.
If they have the power to reverse the transaction, then what does Bitcoin add over a Database?
Unless the desire is around building it yourself, why not just purchase a small ~20 ft Class-B or Class-C RV? They have all the amenities built-in (including a toilet, shower, and waste storage tanks). Brand new they can be expensive ($50k+) but these depreciate quickly and you can find them routinely for a fraction of that.

If you're in the US, a motorhome counts as a house. Which means loans are mortgages: 15-30 yr terms and tax-deductions on property-tax and interest. (2018 may change that of course).
The carriers shouldn't even have any visibility to what is being carried, beyond what is necessary to route it to its destination.

Just like I don't want snail mail carriers opening my letters (even if it is strictly for the purpose of deciding whether or not they are important for speedy delivery).

There should be a protocol in which as much as possible is hidden. Even things like port numbers. From the traffic pattern it will usually be obvious whether it is bulk or interactive and such, and it has to be addressed, but beyond that, what protocol it is using, what port number and all that should be shrouded from prying eyes. If I have two connections going to the same host, it should not be possible for a wiretapper to tell which packets belong to which connection only "host A sent some blob to host B".
A C++ project that features generated code will probably run the generator during the build process - and possibly build it too, if it's written in C++ itself - and so the generated code might well not end up in the repo.
I don't know why you'd call it an argument. It's a statement referencing a matter of fact. It's a lie.
The Google approach is much better. Tracking numbers go out in email to the customer and you can put little xml snippets in there so that gmail can put 'track order' in the subject with a little button to click. This goes to the URL provided in the email, not to some magical service that magically determines if that tracking number came from UPS, USPS, Royal Mail, China Post, or whatever. Due to how couriers merge and get acquired you don't even have consistent tracking numbers for a given courier. So it is much better for the customer to not be guessing this stuff with Cortana.

Not everyone uses gmail. But, in the UK, for ecommerce, you can fully expect more than 50% of the order emails to be gmail addresses. Therefore the xml snippets approach is worth doing.

https://developers.google.com/gmail/markup/
Does anyone know of a website that will alert you on deals for a particular product?

I.e - if I am looking for sales on a laptop, a site where I can punch in the product number/name and get an alert when a low price is reached?
Why does it need to be "half-baked"? Why do you assume that writing a good DSL is impossible for most Lisp users? Are you sure it's actually the case?

Writing and maintaining a good DSL is like writing and maintaining bug free code. You always start with the best of intentions, but human fallibility and entropy are always pulling you in the wrong direction.

This doesn't mean that the attempt is not worthwhile. But it does mean that you should expect eventual failure.
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The article makes some good points. The problem the article illustrates is that the interconnection points that comprise the hardware of the internet are commercial property that costs money by commercial companies who derive profit from those piped.

A valid solution is to regulate both the network providers and the content providers. The network providers should not be allowed to selectively throttle connectivity to targeted sources. At the same time the content providers should not be allowed to exploit their users with malicious script execution pushed through online advertisements and excessive privacy violations.

If the online advertising industry weren't fixated upon stalking users and harmful negligence perhaps there would be less incentive for the network providers to throttle that content. There would certainly be a lot more bandwidth. I will just leave these here:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15703061

* https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/an-alarming-numb...

* https://www.engadget.com/2016/01/08/you-say-advertising-i-sa...

* https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/security/news/cybercrime...
Net Neutrality Is Fiction, No Matter What FCC Does
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The term "Net Neutrality" was a very poor choice to describe the situation. The majority of people have no idea what the term is referring to without reading the details. In hindsight, something simpler like "Keep the internet free" or "Fight for the internet" would have been much more effective to rally up non tech individuals who have no idea what we are fighting for. Just my 0.02
Mostly agree about 2000. I mostly blame Liebermann. And the Supremes.

re HRC and the DNC... That’s just not how it works. There is no monolithic “Democratic Party”. Just loose coalitions of power centers, big and small, that brand themselves as “Democrats.” And 1/2 of “party politics” is always the candidates parasitic relationship with the various interest groups, making promises to earn endorsements and contributions, to be forgotten once elected. Use them and then disgard them. There is nothing (comparable to the right) on the left where elected are held accountable to their constituents.

If voters want more choices, then they have to lower the barriers to entry, by (greatly) reducing the cost of campaigns. Public financing, restore fairness doctrine, time box campaigns season, universal voter registration, compulsory voting (most campaign money on the left is spent on GOTV), etc.
Amazon Key flaw could let rogue deliverymen disable your camera
Maybe I did not appreciate it properly, but I remember using Lotus Notes at my work a few years ago, and I can remember it being the most awful piece of software I have ever used. Admittingly I am not a specialist, more an employee trying to use it to do my job.
Likely it was a private "mercenary" consulting firm behind the activities, paid out by telcos.
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This letter has nothing to do with the substance of the regulations. It amounts to finger pointing about "illegal conduct". Probably the next thing, we will hear the Russians are behind all of this...

Why can't the FTC regulate or prosecute monoplies, which is its job, instead a bunch arbitrary rules by the FCC?
Yeah - it is pretty good at finding packages in my email that follow conventional tracking numbers. I have personally experienced the problems mentioned in the link when trying to add them manually though.
Hmm. What I'm dreaming about is doing the same but with a proper bus or an old flatbed truck instead of a van. That allows for stuff like a proper shower and toilet (given you have a place where to dump the sewage, and I don't mean dumping it in the next available river), in addition that you can actually stand up in a bus.
While this does corroborate the story the original commenter was making, it’s not a quote from Feynman or any of his books. I am sure this is probably true, but this book/excerpt has no citations or sources I can find. Can we find the root of this?
Search floats oddly on page. Would not expect the top nav to be a category picker. Sorting doesn't seem to work. My whole screen flashes when I move from "Save" to price. I don't really care for the spinning triangle on every page view.