skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your advice is great, thanks for sharing. Can you share some more of the stuff that you do?
*had. It's just been blown up.
Transplants are expensive (not just the procedure, all the after-care for the rest of the life), and leading-edge medical treatment will continue to be expensive, even if we can get the cost of transplantation itself down (my hunch is that most of the hundreds of thousands is in the cost of the surgeons, the cost of the medical facility, and all the intense recovery from extremely invasive surgery stuff).

In a reasonable universe, things like this would be discussed openly in terms of public-vs-private health care coverage, limits of cost, and liability for "uncaused" stuff (genetic bad luck, etc) vs "caused" stuff (e.g. alcoholic or obeseity-caused cirrhosis) so that we weren't simply writing blank checks with future people's money. Especially with the potential to grow organs - now your rate limiter on the costs is potentially gone! But in the US we can't even decide that people deserve health care access at all, so discussing the limits of it will have to wait for later, I suppose.
If those tax cuts were given specifically to you (as is the European Commission's conclusion[0]), then yes. It's immoral to pay less.

[0] http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-2923_en.htm
Respect.
Id love to see the alt right and hard/extreme/radical/(or whatever else you are calling)the alt-left to do the same rather then attacking poor citizens.
> You don't understand the arguments you're making.

Graduate students get special treatment which bumps up their real compensation.

So do military families.

What makes this treatment "special" is that it's targeted at a subpopulation. That's all.

You're the one attaching moral weight to these purely factual statements.
> he addresses it quite clearly

I don't think that sentence at the end of his article is particularly clear; it doesn't give the question much attention. I'm not even sure the linked article supports the point that Aaronson is trying to make with it; my mental model of this could be wrong but it seems to me that the NIH overhead tightening is saying that more money must be spent on direct research (researcher salaries, reagent costs, etc) and less on overhead like facility operating costs, administrators, etc. So after the tightening there should be more money for direct research costs and less for overheads.

But the student tuition fee laundering scheme that we're discussing is not about the split between overhead vs. direct research costs as far as I can tell; it's about taking the direct research spending pot and laundering it so that it can be spent on anything, such as a new campus, which wouldn't be covered by the NIH grant at all.

If the laundering scheme goes away, then the university can't spend the direct research or overhead earmarked funds on a new campus, and so the campus just won't happen. And if the direct research portion of funding grows, then there's actually more money that can be spent on students, not less.

If that's right, then there's definitely a question about whether universities can adapt to be more efficient and lower overhead, and if they can't then research could well be disrupted, which would not be good -- but that's a very differnt concern than "the destruction of graduate education in the USA".

> If you think the system should be attacked and US research Universities defunded and destroyed

I'm not sure where you got that impression. I think that it's worth trying to improve the system so that grad students are treated more equitably (and that will have to be at the cost of the administrative class). I'm not sure that this tax change will have a net positive effect on students' wellbeing, as I already mentioned, and I think that's a bad thing.

But most importantly, I don't think we should give universities or anyone else a free pass to make this a "Trump VS Students" story, when it's more complicated than that.
I say good. Those coins don't need to go mainstream so they can be held, pumped, and dumped. Let people use them for buying drugs.
Reminds me of my Swedish friend who spoke like an American until he gave himself away when ordering food at the restaurant.

He'd say "I order the fries" to the waiter.
for example if everyone on a team is from the same background, the working culture will be heavily influenced by that, which can make it harder for people from other backgrounds or cultures to join or fit in
If you are going to downvote me, atleast tell me why.
EDIT: Just realized I misspelled price gauging - it should be price 'gouging'
So vote for every position that's not the president. i.e., the ones that matter.
Long time side project that's now in beta stage. Curious to hear what people think. My day job is as a software engineer working in Java.

The idea is that you can save and share your favorite places in the world, even if they don't have physical addresses. For example, a specific spot on the shore of a lake, a mountain lookout on a hiking trail, or a waterfall.
Ad hominem is the best way to get the point across. Don't ever change, sir/madam.
> Until everyone can automatically and without cost obtain an ID for voting

And yet, no politician campaigns for that because it would actually resolve the issue.
so if requiring an id has nothing to do with race then what does it have to do with? cases of voter fraud where someone impersonates someone else are very rare. Are there more people out there would want to vote so badly that they will impersonate someone else (but not make up a fake id to do so) or are there more eligible voters without ids?
A private bucket isn’t going to turn itself public on accident. This error wasn’t the bucket suddenly becoming public, it was a developer making it public because that was the easiest way to get the job done.

Your testing system would not help here at all, and if you spent the effort to make the system, you are already the type of person who isn’t going to turn the bucket public to make your life easier.
Good digital currency will be useful to terrorists just as a good internet is. But just as the internet creates a more connected and prosperous world that reduces conflict and terrorism overall, so will digital currency.

Also, it reduces the threats posed by governments against their own people. Government repression, like that seen in Venezuela or for a more extreme example, North Korea, can kill far more people than non-state terrorism, and tools that empower individuals help resist that.
So long as you never use your currency to buy anything you've got a great anonymous currency. Sounds very useful.
So You Want to Be a “Radical” Philanthropist?
Ask HN: Is whitelabeling your software a good idea?
I’ve been getting a handful of requests of people who loved http://upstart.me and asked if I was planning to whitelabel it. Has anyone here whitelabeled their project?.

What are the pros and cons?
It's probably very hard to prove fraud when no one uses an id
They're not that expensive. I bought one for £150 earlier this year, just to see what all the fuss was about. It is a fantastic machine and I use it for something new almost every week.

It took quite a lot of assembly, and there is an ongoing maintenance burden (there's nearly always something that isn't quite working as well as it could) but I couldn't imagine living without one.

I'd like to upgrade to a higher-quality machine but I'm putting it off as long as I can tolerate because they just keep getting better and cheaper the longer I wait.

But if you're at all interested, I highly recommend getting a cheap one, learning how to use it, and learning some basic CAD. It's a great hobby all of its own, and is a great addition to almost any other hobbies you might have.
Any game that has goods that can be exchanged by players is a potential for illegal money transfers even without the ability to get money back out of the game. For example, there's a shadow market for both CounterStrike weapon skins and Team Fortress 2 items. Here's how it works: I have a big supply of items. They have an assigned value. You give me money and the name of the receiving party. I send some items to a broker across the planet. They receive the goods, take their big, and give the rest in cash to the receiving party. We have now just made a wire transfer inside of TF2.
This is debatable and its own rabbit hole that is beat to death on other recent stories. But anyways, I understand the point, and this is why I stated:

> and, more importantly, the justification provided by the student groups that organized those votes
It's great that finally the popular packages are pretty much all supported.

But the question is, is that really the problem? It's a bit like Microsoft Word: so many alternative word processors implement all the popular features. So what's the problem? The problem is, nearly everybody has some obscure feature they depend on. So even if an alternative has all the popular features, still almost nobody can use it. I think the constant referral to how many "popular" packages support python3 leads to a bit of false sense of optimism in the python world: it's perfectly possible to support all the popular packages with Python 3 and yet have it be unusable for a large percentage of users.
> ancient appearance

You mean usable and fast without needless animation like everything in material design?
I thought his points were thoughtful and honest, even if a bit personal. Bias exists, in all parties (even you). No point in shaming him.
" If this were any other manufacturer, they would be burnt at the stake."

Nah. Look at Samsung: you can make a TV that spies on you, a washing machine that explodes, and a smartphone that spontaneously catches on fire. And then go take a look at how their stock is doing this year.

We've reached the pavlovian phase of western consumer culture: we'll just keep on buying and buying and buying, no matter what.
Not sure why you think you're banned, I can see your comment.
Two of the worst quality phones available, as we all now know. This only reflects poorly on The Verge.
I appreciate the spirit (I am no DF fan either!) but in the state of New Jersey if you serve alcohol at a party, you are responsible if you allow an inebriated guest to drive off and they mow down people.

If this is about gun control, there is no reason to panic. Your guns are safe.
I think that reading the article before posting usually leads to more relevant comments.
A good time to remind that Django has met all milestone, bug fix, and security fix release targets since the introduction of the Django Fellow which can only be funded with donations.

https://www.djangoproject.com/fundraising/

I’d like to encourage everyone that uses Django in a commercial setting to speak to their company about donating to the DSF to continue getting timely bug, security, and feature releases.
I was burned by that problem two years ago, but I tried again recently and absolutely everything was supported. Heck, it's starting to be the case that py2 is not supported anymore..
Met a few people from CHOP a few years ago during a conference, made me wish I could work in the US as I was pretty impressed by both the staff and the place
The (conservative) Tax Foundation article totally ignores that Norway also has an individual wealth tax (0.85% on assets above about USD $179,000), which is quite progressive compared to income taxes. They also have higher capital gain and dividend tax rates than the US (which the article mentions).
People have been cynical about politics and politicians for hundreds -- thousands -- of years. This was the single most illuminating fact of some of my college literature courses -- reading the views of the past as recorded at the time, vs the slanted "everything was great!" or "everything was terrible!" perspectives we usually get from today. (Your specific mistake here is thinking that not caring about something you care about -- like the NSA stuff -- is the same as total apathy.)

There's no magical "back in the day" when everything was better. It's up to us to make things better, lamenting changes or new technology and longing for a lost past that never was won't help.

Long before we had "fake news" vs "real news" we had "no news" and hearsay from a dude in a bar. Same shit, different day.
When I visited Beijing, I noticed the nicest and most secure places were always the bank and government buildings.
Aristocracy and privilege are about as far from communism as it gets.
The only ostensible difference between crypto-currencies is in their code and network strength (people and computing power).

By value cash, and namely US $100 bills, are used for more crimes than anything else in the world, ever.

Don't do anything illegal with your bitcoin and you should be fine. Don't worry about what other people do, that's an endless and naive vortex of insanity. Basically mind your own business unless someone asks you a question.
Do you have any information on how you've set that up and which cards and readers you use? I've been thinking about playing around with a similar concept.
An email from a Bitfinex support employee that was sent to
multiple users and seen by Business Insider puts it in
blunter terms.

"Trading is a 0-sum game," the email reads. "We cannot start
compensating users who trade leveraged positions and see
their position liquidated. If we would [sic], we would soon
have every user that gets liquidated request a compensation
and users would start to trade at maximum leverage all the time.

A totally reasonable and accurate response which raises the question of why bitfinex paid off people in the exact same situation in the past.
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I looked at the code and all it's doing is opening a browser.

I was expecting a little more, like, actually following through an order.

I am currently adding a feature in my bot to do this. Handling payment and different addresses is awkward though. It'll almost never be as good as actually opening the site either.. but a good default pizza to a default address is fine for 99% of cases. :>
The US has close to the highest spending in the world on k-12 education per student.
So then who manages the HSM infra? I feel like there few good choices but maybe someone like Neustar would be a good fit?
Welp, time to sell! What a house of cards.
It's not an issue ofndata itself being transferred.

It's that our clients don't allow us to send our code to third parties that haven't been audited by the clients.

Essentially, our source code must be secret.
For a small nation, it's one of the few outsized competitive advantages they can try to offer (that is, something they can do that can benefit them far beyond the scale of their population).

Ireland's corporate tax rate + joining the European single market, resulted in one of the greatest booms in modern economic history. From $40 to $280 billion in GDP in just 17 years.

Given the extreme nature of the benefits, a small nation is probably crazy not to do it.
AHEM. As above, it takes work to be as wrong as you are, so this seems like either an amazing amount of ignorance, or deliberate deception.

1. What it shows: Students good enough to get accepted into PhD programs are good enough to get paid more in general. Good we're talking about this -- the market clearly values these people!

2. What it misses: ... But what if a PhD-capable person instead just went directly into industry? What is the opportunity cost of taking a pause of 4-7 years to do R&D for the public?

3. What economists found: By looking at students graduating from a good school and therefore PhD-capable, and then comparing the result of them doing 4-7 years of PhD vs not.. the students who took time to contribute to science lost out on a ton of money. They're quite literally donating their time to society.

Phrasing it as _subsidizing_ these people to do R&D is misleading. The reality is the government is underpaying for the public service of growing the economy, especially relative to market rates for people equally qualified to make a bunch of $$$ working on social media ads and fancy juice machines.

But that breaks the narrative. The actual studies show the salary sweet spot is somewhere between a BS and MS. That means federal institutions must _lure_ PhDs, not drive them away.
I agree completely. IMO, voter ID laws should only be legal if photo IDs are free. If a state simultaneously restricts access to IDs while requiring them, then that's voter suppression.
This was just mentioned today at north bay python.

Another alternative for a fast speed up by changing your base image is trying out the pypy images.
>I am willing to bet that many of them do not share her drive

The flip side to this: I'm self-taught and I've worked with plenty of CS graduates from good schools who didn't strike me as particularly driven or value-adding. On the theory side, I'm not sure they could talk through a basic DS&A problem if I gave them one as well (that they hadn't seen before).

To your point, it's not where your knowledge comes from, but what you do with it that counts (and I might add, that the foundational bits exist).
Here's my key bindings:
Ctrl+Z = undo
:Z = Changes mode to enable the following
F = Make food
D = Make dishes
C = Clean
S = Shower
T = Brush teeth
W = Wash clothes
T, followed by 1 or 2 = Go to the toilet
M, followed by W=mute wife B=mute boss

Makes life easy as a clicker game. Dot files are on Github.
It is a violation of privacy rights.
It appears flagged to me but I was able to see it before. Maybe it took a while to show up, so the user edited the comment to complain about Marxist moderation, unaware that it had not been removed by mods, causing the mods to remove it..?
For those interested the preprint is at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.10981.pdf
The satellite carries a very large BGO calorimeter https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.3886
We'd have to monitor outgoing data at the time the code was being analyzed.

Even then, we'd probably need the code-review program to be open-source or audited by a third party.

Keeping code secret is somewhat useful for security and vital for maintaining some trade secrets.
Daniel Day-Lewis Opens Up About Giving Up Acting After Phantom Thread
But how you calculate how much % change on price based on order book? Can you give me an example?
From the article we know that each uterus recipient can have up to two births before the uterus is removed. But specifically when it is removed after that possible second birth I'm not sure. Looked around a bit and couldn't find anything. I'm assuming that would make the most sense, but I'm not a surgeon.
The thing you're missing is that in order to achieve scaling, Lightning Network sacrifices one of Bitcoin's main advantages, decentralization: https://medium.com/@jonaldfyookball/mathematical-proof-that-...
I did a finance PhD. We don't have PIs. Email cost is trivial, etc.

Put it another way: I don't care if my employer just spent a bunch of money on a better building or more comfy office chairs. I don't care if the IT department charges my unit $XYZ for expenses (call it "tuition" if you want).

That's something that happens on the back end of my employer, and is not an income for me. That's the same thing for grad school. I got paid 20k to work on research, teach, grade, and help in maintaining the school's name so they can get MBA students (who ultimately pay the bills in our case). Why should I care if one unit at my school charged another unit? Heck, I paid taxes and social security on those 20k, got health insurance, had a W2, etc.

For all practical purposes, PhD students are employees. Make them pay taxes on their income, and not on the incidental expenses of their employers.
Usually you judge whether something is broken when it fails to meet your expectations. In America with it’s individualistic culture I suspect the government is expected to behave differently than in those eastern european countries. A fair amount of people in the US don’t expect it to be a welfare state at all.
Furthermore, measuring people’s happiness says nothing of their satisfaction of the government.
Yeah I thought it would be nice to release this at North Bay today. We also released our new website redesign (and new infrastructure setup) last night so there is probably some dust on a few things we'll clean up over the next few days.
Google Will Block Third-Party Software from Injecting Code into Chrome
Does this sort of activism really help? I mean, this isn't an Apple-only issue and if Apple is obeying tax laws, then are they really going to consider paying more just because a small group of people chanted in one of their stores for a while? Even if Apple is breaking the law, isn't it worth putting up with a handful of activists for a few hours if it saves them millions in taxes and makes their investors happy?

I think a more effective form of activism would be to flood representatives' offices with requests to change tax laws and to vote for candidates willing to do so. I think most governments and taxes in the world today render "fair taxation" an oxymoron. It is a mess at all levels and should be fixed, but I'm not sure localized protests at places of business are the most effective way to go about doing it.
Things you can’t do you in Rust: destructure vectors
If a coffee shop accepts bitcoin, your transaction is effectively as untraceable as cash is today.

The more that people use bitcoin, the more useful it gets and the harder it is to stop.
http://codeforces.com/ and https://www.topcoder.com/ have really good algorithmic challenges with frequent Competitions.
Your first quotation should go:
> In its first 530 days of scientific observations, DAMPE detected 1.5 million cosmic ray electrons and positrons above a certain energy threshold

So presumably the total number of recorded events is more than 1.5 million.
This isn't a new problem, is it? It's just that the models are more complex.

Science shouldn't ban any type of input data, as long as it can be considered scientific. There's no scientific standard for determining race, so maybe the data should be excluded on that basis instead.

I'll point out that self-reported demographic data can be useful in health and social science, even if it's not scientifically tied to actual genes.
Can you recommend me if you feel it a good fit ?
Being undocumented only creates an underclass if you require people to be documented!

There's nothing inherently wrong with existing as a living being without declaring your existence (or, realistically, asking permission for your existence) to the government.

Nobody is complaining about animals roaming the world freely without documents. In fact birds routinely cross borders without being stopped or even noticed.

Why do people need to be monitored?
When I upgraded a laptop from Windows 7 to 10, and then it wouldn't resume from sleep anymore, I told Windows 10 to revert and it took a long time but worked perfectly.
Seriously?
I'm really really pleased that I waited before updating to iOS 11.
Apple, what are you doing?
Put together a basket of such companies and invest a bit in each, weighted by risk or perceived potential payoff, or whatever criteria you see fit
> I'm lucky enough to know a lot of incredible software engineers who happen to be women (and were also CS grads or PhDs), much smarter than me, and I don't like this attempt to associate all women engineers with people who clearly only have a superficial understanding of code.

I don't know that many experienced female programmers, but the ones whom I do know are not advocates and tend to avoid the subject of their gender. So my own experience leads to the conclusion that I made, not about all women programmers, but about those who advocate women in tech.
It's flagged and dead, so you may need showdead on to see it, but it's still there.

AFAIK the mods never actually delete content from the site. I don't even know if they can.
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FYI, Bitcoin can't be used for coffee purchases anymore, due to throttling of transaction throughput, but Bitcoin Cash and Ethereum can.