skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UK doesn't have fully nationalized healthcare.

* GP surgeries (doctors offices) are private businesses, and may provide NHS services or private services.

* The NHS contracts out for a growing number of services, ranging from operating whole departments (e.g. Virgin operates the out-of-hours walk in centre for non-emergency care next door to the A&E/ER at my local hospital) to cleaning.

* The NHS rents out facilities to private providers, and individual NHS trusts may derive income from carrying out private work (though the proportion of this income is limited, and the revenue goes back into their budgets). This is in addition to NHS staff often renting NHS facilities to carry out private surgeries outside their normal rotation.

* Dentists are mostly private and generally dentists that do NHS work also do private work, and often mix and match with the same patient (e.g. the NHS does not reimburse more expensive types of fillings, so your dentist may recommend e.g. things like porcelain veneers on visible teeth and stick to NHS options for less visible work).

* Pharmacies are mostly private - the NHS mostly operates pharmacies only in hospitals etc. but they too can be privately operated.

* 10% of the population have private health insurance. This is mostly "top up" insurance offering additional services or faster turnaround for non-essential surgeries etc. than the NHS.

* Many types of healthcare services are mostly private. E.g. while you can get some types of cosmetic surgery on the NHS

As it stands, the NHS is the most cost-effective hybrid or private system in any developed country. Too cost-effective some would say; to the point where it comes at the cost of making things more miserable for patients. But that's what you get when we pay far less than any other countries at a comparable income level.
Ask HN: Arbitraging Bitcoin – Am I in money transmitter business?
I am in a unique position to be able to arbitrage bitcoin successfully with a profit of 5-15% between US based exchanges and my home country exchanges. Basically, I buy bitcoin from US exchanges and sell on my home country exchanges with a guaranteed profit, then move money back to US exchanges.

I am a resident alien for tax purposes in US. I will report all my earnings in my tax returns. My question is:

- Am I in money transmitting business? I move around lots of money. My home country has no regulations on bitcoin currently. Should I form a company in US or can I get away with reporting this as personal income?

I don't see any difference between this and currency arbitraging on foreign exchanges, which I think it is legal in US. Whom will be better to ask to? An accountant? A tax attorney?
You should include the free plan on the pricing page.
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Ken Schwaber—the cofounder of Scrum and founder of Scrum.org—says Waterfall 'literally ruined our profession. It made it so people were viewed as resources rather than valuable participants.'

That's how I feel about Scrum now.
Who would take the other side of that trade ... ?
I think you're right that it's not an ideal situation, but humans are not an ideal species. We don't yet live in some Star Trek (or The Orville) world where currency has been abolished and everyone acts altruistically all the time.

Cryptocurrencies might be able to serve as a stop-gap before we figure out how to get there. It keeps everyone honest. In the future, it might even replace the entire tax code. There would be no more fines or punishments, and companies would no longer be able to hide their profits offshore. Taxes could just be automatically collected from each transaction, and managed by some global organization (maybe the UN). The world could even agree on a "basic income" contract that solves inequality.

These are all hypothetical examples, but I think this would be a worthwhile use of electricity. Especially if it's all cheap and renewable energy.
Many phones are connected to reliable WiFi for a significant percentage of the day.
Years ago I setup a local http proxy that cached everything. I never tried searching it but was able to pull pages and sites that had 404ed from the cache using it as an archive.
edit: Apparently wanting to see data is offensive to drivers on HN. /shrug
This is really Slack's fault for not automatically turning the password into stars. IRC has done that for years!
Those algos, ideally should weigh the twitter handle. Or else it's a stupid algo.

One need to spam through authoritative handles.

Pretty much like tricking google ranking algorithm with site-farms and fake backlinks. But hey, a lot of people were able to do this before Google started to improve its algo.
plot twist: the book is actually on Kotlin
I really question this "90%" number for "failed" data science teams.

While I certainly can see overhype in the space leading to team failure (and I have indeed seen that), I'm just surprised that the 10% of teams I've been on were so successful by comparison.

But one of the nasty things I see happening in the space is that often times really great data science folks, in studying a space, come up with a way to invalidate a lot of the business models. If a major player adopted these, there is a chance of success, but it's also a major risk (as it basically unseats the rest of the business).

As such, I think there is a lot of pressure for good data scientists to end up in small teams leading what we'd call 'highly disruptive' businesses. We see this in the finance sector (where it's least likely to succeed) all the time.
It's not so different to burning diesel to dig up rocks so you have a chunk of metal to wave around.

Which isn't, you'll notice, necessarily a counter argument to yours.
Trust and security, maybe, but actual utility? That's far from clear. Cryptocurrencies have a rather extreme threat model and it's not clear at all that people who are not regime critics or criminals (I don't mean to disparage suppressed people here by lumping them in with criminals though) really benefit from that model.

Most people are quite happy with trust-based currencies which don't have the proof of work overhead. Cryptocurrencies have their utility, but not for the whole population.
The my prognosis is good, the pain is mild to severe but with medication mostly under control.

It doesn't actually impair me physically but the pain makes me not want to move, sometimes it's just gritting my teeth and getting it done.

Given the rareness and potential severity I got off damn lucky, I have to remember that occasionally.
That's pretty much what I did. Top half of first page: summary of skills. Remaining half covered most recent employment. 25 years ago that was the suggested format and I never saw any need for change.
> What is the free plan rate limit?

Landing page said 1500 I think.
True, but I'm only pointing out how it is, not how it should be.

Unfortunately, not liking an outdated law doesn't invalidate it or prevent it from being enforced. That's a separate issue.
Based on what Google has shared a second generation TPU which includes four chips is capable of 180 Tflops which would be a decent amount more powerful than this new Nvidia option.
"Free IP Geolocation API" vs. "Choose Your Pricing Plan"

What Geo IP service would people suggest instead?
I like his rhymes if I had kids I'd buy his book. Some of them seem maybe a little much for the age group, even with the pictures. I don't know if things like a garbage collector really conveys much useful information to someone that young. But I guess it would depend on the kid. Still a cool idea for a kid's book though.
> But Satoshi also recognized that having more computing power on the network made the network stronger as long as the people with the power, like Laszlo, wanted to see Bitcoin succeed.

Not sure if I entirely agree with/understand this. Even if they do want Bitcoin to succeed, how different is it from the current capitalist system if 40% of the bitcoins are owned by 1% of the population?

Doesn't the (economic) power that Bitcoin takes away from governments end up in the hands of a select few? We are then back to square one.
The man who risks his life to rescue zoo animals from war zones
> I've seen some customers of ours being quoted six and seven figure prices by their internal data science teams to essentially slurp and transform a handful of SQL tables.

They don't wanna do it so they give a ridiculous estimate
Instead of answering your question, I will leave this:

Very small children understand and recognize property, since it is a natural right. The toy in my hand is "mine," and when some other kid comes along and takes it, I get upset.
So Waymo was trying (and succeeding) to patent a basic electronic circuits designs that has existed for decades. This is not surprising at all as the grandiose claims of innovation coming out of SV, perpetuated by unscrupulous and mostly clueless tech news writers who don't understand the technology they're writing about, haven't had any substance behind them for a long while. The USPTO should be embarrassed as well for rubber stamping these applications coming from big companies.
Original Poster replied to my tweet where I asked him if he has an Apple Watch:
>Hey Tonny. No I don't have an Apple Watch so it's not related. I did connect an external screen before opening the MBP though, so maybe it's related to that?
Note that I can't reproduce it, happened only once so it must be a shady bug.

See https://twitter.com/BenoitLetondor/status/939164367962148864
Yes, the hole in the wall gang example is a political and appealing to any politician. However, if they were to support say, unions…
Well that was a useless article...?

Maybe the purpose was just to incite discussion here.
What about the open-source drivers? The state of Nouveau (open source Nvidia drivers) is pretty terrible[1], right?

The proprietery AMD Catalyst™ (fglrx) drivers are known to be bad[2], but AMDGPU[3] is supposed to be the best, when it comes to open source GPU driver support on Linux, based on what I've read.

Better than Nouveau or Nvidia's proprietery blobs. Don't people sometimes buy AMD cards just for its excellent native/open-source driver support?

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nouveau-...

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=openclos...

[3] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AMDGPU-Driver | https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver
Maxmind
As long as it's not the same paragraph repeated 10 times over 6 pages. We see a lot of people, for some reason especially those from big banks, who pretty much write "wrote stored procedures, gathered requirements, wrote unit tests" 10 times.

My favorite resumes are the ones that make me curious about the person and show some enthusiasm but that requires a good writer.
I've around +12 years of experience and my resume is one and half page. Half of that will be opensource contribution not related to any organization. If recruiter needs more info, we can always discuss that during interview itself :-)

Edit: If anyone curious about the format/layout, here its: http://www.giis.co.in/LakshmipathiG.pdf
Citation: http://bash.org/?244321
You bring up a good point. My counterpoints:

1. Decision fatigue
- A longer resume doesn't make the choice easier, it makes it harder because now I have more to compare and contrast more.

2. Half-life of knowledge
- I did computer vision about 5 years ago, but I leave it off my current resume because I know the field has changed so dramatically since I last did it that my knowledge of it is out of date.
> "What AMD's seeking to do by changing up their high-performance Linux driver is having a completely free kernel driver that's relied upon by Catalyst and would live within the mainline Linux kernel in order to ease support for Linux consumers."

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_cata...

I think AMD has gone above and beyond, especially since 2014's above announcement. I think today's AMD are better than NVIDIA's and they are a much better company for Linux
> steal bitcoin

Denial of service. Should the +51% choose, they can simply ignore certain transactions and those will never end up on the chain.

Our fiat private finance system does concentrate weatlh, but DOS attacks are only possible by subverting the legal regime.
Not disagreeing with what you said, but a lot of multi page resumes I've seen are formatted poorly and have a lot of unhelpful fluff. More pages are fine as long as the info stays relevant.
BTC's deflationary nature appeals to type of people who enjoy getting in at the top of pyramid schemes (and then shouting down that anyone can bootstrap it too)--I suspect GP simply wishes he were one of the 100K.
I live in Ireland and recently my wife got a speeding ticket having supposedly been caught by a mobile speed detector van. She was pretty certain that she hadn't been speeding as she knows the particular stretch of road is notorious for hidden speed traps.

The court summons photo had the GPS co-ordinates of the vans location embedded in the corner. So I types them in to Google Maps and it supposedly showed that the van was 50 meters away from the road in a farmers field. I tried again with other mapping sources including Ordnance Survey Ireland - all produced the same result.

So our case was simple, if the GPS in the van was so inaccurate then that called in to question the accuracy of the rest of the attached equipment - including the speed detection gear.

So I built up a portfolio of documents from both government, commercial and academic sources stating that the GPS equipment in the van should have been more accurate - to at least 5m and ideally more than that. I was also able to call upon my experience having worked on various GIS systems and on the development of lone worker emergency beacons in the past.

When I spoke for my wife in court the prosecutor asked me if I was was a certified GPS engineer. I said that I didn't believe such a title existed and that I was offering evidence based on my professional experience. But that was enough to sway the judge who said that unless I had someone from "GPS" [sic] with me than my evidence counted for nothing.

Fair play to the guy in the article for putting up a fight.
I think you are joking but I don't think this is out of line with the original vision. Wall Street still will not control the block chain, and there was never any intention of excluding anyone from its use.
I think the freemium model is pretty common in Saas. And I think a free tier of 45 000 requests a month, 1500 per day is pretty generous. Anything running as a hobby app/side project would run pretty well within that tier. Most users making more than 1500 requests a day have no issue paying.
"is it a waste of resources, to chop down trees, to then use thousands of gallons of water to turn them into paper, followed by using paint made out of oil extracted from the ground to draw pictures on them, followed by cutting said paper and then using vehicles which again burn oil to deliver said paper, just to have a chunk of it so that you can possibly buy shit?"

Also yes.
It would be awesome if people with my values (my tribe) were in charge. Similar to the view that communism is a great political system; all those failures you point to are not true communism.
My take was that it was an interest in and dislike of patent lawsuits, combined with some knowledge of the actual area, especially since it was actual hardware and not software nonsense patents.
Query: Any good free books on C# and/or ASP.net ? I'm looking more from a perspective of an experienced C++ developer who's looking to learn C#.
Speak for yourself. I work as a data scientist at a large (non-tech) company. Our team of data scientists is directly responsible for massive amounts of profit that the company would not otherwise have. This article seems like a baseless generalization.
Here's the problem with long resumes. Most people don't have anything useful to say. Most of the time when I see a resume of any length, they contain very little useful information. Longer resumes just make it worse. Now, there are ones that describe a project in detail, and you're like "Wow, that's really amazing." Most of the ones I've seen in the programming space are more akin to the 3 paragraph long description of writing stored procedures for a database. I include myself in this group, and that's why I keep it short.

Having a short resume is also a test I use. The hardest paper I ever wrote was in an advanced Psychology class where we had to perform some sort of analysis on a character in a book. The paper had to be at most 4 pages, for something that could have easily taken 10 or more. Understanding how to communicate effectively is one of the best skills that people can have. Do I discount people immediately for not being able to do this? No, but it is something I take note of when I see it.
> Up to 1500 free requests daily with no credit card or signup required

Neat. I'll make an updated express-geoip using this today or tomorrow.
adam-seeliger deleted a comment it appears, but I'll respond to what was there anyway.

No, I'm not embarrassed that my wife wrote this -- it's brilliant writing. No, I'm not embarrassed that she "aired our private lives in public." She didn't. Why would I be embarrassed that my wife writes about my spinal cord injury? Sounds like maybe your father was ashamed of his paraplegia, in which case I'm sorry he felt that way. That is why we need articles like this and more ramps, so people like your father don't feel ashamed of their disabilities.
That's probably what's causing the confusion, thanks. Adding that right now..
I remember seeing something like this with an some version of 10.12 as well. Stupidly it didn't occur to me that it was a security issue.
I was thinking the same thing, based on some discussion we had about a big contract we entered into that can terms where if we as the supplier got into financial difficulty, our customer could release our code from escrow and run it themselves. The concern was that the customer might deliberately try to push us into financial difficulty (e.g. by not paying us on time) as a way to in effect permanently avoid paying for our service. So our legal team added wording to the effect of "except if you caused it".
The Most Common Ways You Could Get Tricked into Compromising Company Data
Nobody ever gets to do the fun parts of their job.

Who would sign up if they told you up front that your main contributions would be shuffling email, filling out TPS reports, attending pointless meetings, and being roadblocked every time you tried to automate, eliminate, or improve that drudgery? You can smash your head against the wall trying to make things better, but all that ends up doing is pissing you off and giving you a headache.
Anything mildly complex is difficult. And I guess an unpopular tool wouldn't have an increase in questions for a long time. The people would either leave it, or learning. So the number of questions should be decline or at least be around the same number.
Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems

https://amzn.com/B06XNKV5TS ($24.99 Kindle)

This book has picked up quite a bit of buzz as an intro to machine learning. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15772174

>cloverich: The quality of the book (thus far) is so high that I immediately started Googling about the author to try and learn more

>chillee: He used to be the PM of youtube video classification too.
Yes. Thousands and thousands of engineers still use Rails to be produce valuable web applications and APIs. For a large number of use cases, there is little benefit to moving to a different stack.
Nothing should be able to hack outside of of the lock screen. That should require some crazy special permissions.
Two issues with a one-page resume.

First, to get to the phone screen many companies now use some form of automation to weed out applications. Less words simply means less chance of an automated match against the job description criteria.

Second, never underestimate how lazy the HR screener is. They aren't technical, they aren't ambitious, they're generally borderline incompetent people whose sole marketable skill is that they are pleasant to talk with. If you don't spell out, in detail, that you're a Front-end Developer who uses X, Y, Z tools for N years the screener won't be able to read between the lines.

Quick example... I was in a time crunch so I asked a recruiter to find me a Front-end Dev. She came back and asked for a job description, project brief, culture brief, competitors / no hire list, and salary range. I felt like she was asking the right questions, she seemed smart. A week goes by, "Sorry, no candidates." Oh... Ok, well it's a hot market... we can up the price $5k.

Next week, "Sorry, no candidates." Hmm, that's really odd. She apologized, said she had gotten over 100 resumes, and said, "Nobody has 5 years of HTML / CSS experience listed on their resume." After a brief talk, she fundamentally didn't understand anything past a direct keyword match.

Anyway good and bad recruiters, but you never know when your resume is going to end up in the hands of someone really junior. Better to have everything spelled out. Better to be explicit around what you did with each past job. Generally the posted job description is all the recruiter is going off of to match you, so it's easy to tune your resume to fit.

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Possible example: a few months ago when the price tanked after someone gave away < 20 Bitcoin on Reddit.
People doubted the Federal Reserve long before 1971...
The main things that Mesa lacks for "pro" customers are support for OpenGL compatibility profiles, and ISV certification. You also generally will want to use AMD's proprietary OpenCL until ROCm stabilizes and the requisite patches are (of a quality suitable for) upstream. Though as a professional, and a user of a "professional" AMD card (Radeon WX Pro 7100, bought entirely for the amount of VRAM), I opt for Mesa.
That 40% is far more likely to consolidate than to be sold off.
> If I was a millionaire in BTC I'd have a hardware wallet with my secret keys in a safe and that's about it.

Lending or investing your BTC would always make you net more than just hoarding it (at least when all prices are denominated in BTC already).

> Sure, but conversely I can tell you that the people who don't save money are overwhelmingly poor. For a big chunk of humanity saving money is a luxury.

True, I didn't say that low-class can save. But most savers are middle class IMO.

> Coin mining will take care of filling that gap, don't worry.

Wrong, 2 links:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-07/bitcoin-i...

https://blog.bitcoin.org.hk/bitcoin-mining-and-energy-consum...

> How can you assume that switching from an inflationary to a deflationary economy "will be almost imperceptible"?

Because when all prices get denominated in BTC, you won't see your holdings appreciate. The only effect you will see, caused by deflation, is that prices of things diminish over time. Which is kind of what happens nowadays with hardware (because it's the goods where the effects of technology improvements are noticed in the most sensible way), however I don't know anyone that hoards their holdings to be able to buy a better and cheaper computer tomorrow.