skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much does it cost to get wisdom teeth removed in the US and in Taiwan? My dentist in Toronto charges around $400 CAD per tooth for extractions, and that’s with full general anesthesia. The price is the same here with private insurance and without.
WHAT’S Your HOPE FOR 2018? OUR HOPE IS CDC AND WHO WILL REVERE THE TRUTH
Police officers in Suffolk County New York get $250K-$350k/year compensation packages.

The former Suffolk County Police Chief is currently in federal prison for attacking a handcuffed citizen. [1]

Sorry, but paying Police Officers as if they were SAP consultants does not improve the quality of their policing.

Oh, and if you're wondering, why didn't the District Attorney protect citizens from the police? Well, he is under federal indictment for covering up police crimes. [2]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/03/nyregion/james-burke-ex-s...

[2] https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Suffolk-County-Distric...
> I received something like 200+lbs of meat from a single animal, raised well, grass fed at a cost of around $8/lb. The lifestyle change has been far easier than I expected

I think this illustrates why it's so hard to make any large-scale progress on industrial animal welfare. I'm glad that this works for you and you're able to make a difference in your own life, but spending $1600 on meat, even 200lbs of meat, is not an option that most people have.
Data please, showing that Seattle/San Fran have a tax income booms, that the tax income boom is due to changes in laws, that tax collection workers are paid ridiculous 6 figure salaries (note, $100,000 is not a ridiculous 6 figure salary), and finally that homeless populations have grown or remained stable even after tax income booms that resulted from legal increases in tax rates.
IANAL but I believe it could be classified as second-degree murder (no premeditation required)
Who the hell creates a social network?
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Giving up meat entirely is an option everybody has. Plant based diets are not only cheaper but healthier. I switched to a plant based diet in 2017 and it's the best decision I've made in a long time. I feel better physically and mentally and feel better about the role I play on the planet too.
The "many eyes" theory needs to go away, it is completely false when egregious bugs exist into their teenage years. That doesn't mean closed source fairs any better, but "many eyes" are largely blind to sophisticated bugs
On the flip side, I can’t recommend against reading the book enough. Your summary is pretty much enough to get the point across, minus endless pages of self-aggrandizement and throwing around preemptive ad hominem attacks toward any group he thinks might disagree with him.

I genuinely can’t understand how anyone could have made it through that book.
Can someone suggest a stable priced crypto that is actually useful for transactions? I have zero interest in speculating on the values of these things, but I would really like to start using crypto currency obtained from cash ATM's for all of my online purchases and avoid ever entering a credit card number anywhere again. Why hasn't that been solved?
This is why swatters often call non-emergency police numbers instead of 911. In this case the swatter called Wichita's City Hall.
the only "stable" coin is USDT, but stay away, it's not useful for anything, and it's legitimacy is in question.

As long as there are finite-ish supply, I don't think any crypto would be stable.
I would like to ask you what you found so compelling about Antifragile. When I read the book, I found it simply repeated the claim using various examples that were specific to Taleb's life: [My career as an author is antifragile because I could beat up an economist and I would gain notoriety and increase sales.]

However, I was unable to gain any insight into how that applied to typical situations, e.g. investing, career choices, romantic relationships, home purchasing. That is, beyond "do these things in an antifragile way, not a fragile way."
What will it mean to be human when we no longer have to work?
Hah, jokes on you Facebook. I deleted my own account!
Farming this way is better for the animals and the environment but it can never scale to meet even current demand for meat. Farms like the one you describe are a tiny minority and there are even fewer small independent slaughterhouses. 99% of the meat people eat comes from places like the one described in this article. This book explains in detail why this is the case:

https://meatonomics.com/
What’s your goal with that set up compared to something like one use credit card numbers that cc companies and banks provide for online shopping?
Can this be a boon to rest of the world. Trump gift to all the new tech hubs outside US.

I understand short term it will be a pain for people like me but long term I think this might be the right to break US monopoly in technology sector.
Ha ha ha.

Sorry, couldn't resist. Yes there's probably a fine on car drivers, but typically you pay a smaller bribe and get out.

Bus drivers are difficult to punish due to unions, etc
In behavioral economics, this phenomenon is sometimes called "risk compensation".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation
Yeah the PR tells it as it is

Ignoring btc's problems and calling forks"scams" won't fly for long
TrustZone is not enough
> How did you manage to turn a discussion about atrocities and demagogues into a complaint about your pet peeve of tax collectors being highly compensated?

I didn't turn anything: they are the same thing more often than not.

> Your argument is completely incoherent. Are you suggesting that raising taxes on the rich through closing loopholes, raising capital gains tax, removing 529 and housing subsidies, and yes, increasing income tax, would actually end up with Gini inequality getting even more skewed?

And thus my examples of Seattle and San Francisco: cities that have had exponential tax income at the same time as a net increase in homelessness. + TAX + (extreme?)Poverty simultaneously. It is disproven constantly that what the state gathers, it does not distribute appropriately.

The city of san francisco spends 20k+ a year per homeless person, but if you look at the way they live, you can be pretty certain they don't get that.

Raising taxes is not the solution to poverty. Specially when everybody pays them.
'Given that my wife would only have that one review this has more of a damaging effect on her ability to use the service in the future than it does on the host with dozens of "fabulous/great place!"'

I have had to trash an established account with 16 great profile reviews because an agent acting for a host left a vindictive review for me.

Creating a new account takes a few minutes and I found no downside to getting places without any review history.

AirBnB isn't Facebook, people don't think it's funny that you don't have an established account.

Conversely, it doesn't work the other way around as I would be wary of booking a place with zero reviews and, I expect, most other people think the same?

Oddly though, the only place I have stayed with zero reviews (limited number of options at the time) turned out to be the best place so far?
Use Apple Pay then.
Google Glass, Oculus, HoloLens: The Race for Augmented Reality Glasses
> decrease in the perceived prestige of an engineering job at Facebook

Actually FB became a haven for xooglers that wanted to escape deteriorating engineering at lower levels at Google; there is still burning spirit of hacking present, even after IPO. FB works hard to retain it (outside noisy open offices though).

If you ever went through engineering interview process at FB, you'd have noticed it's one notch better prepared than the one at Google. Their Glassdoor rating is even slightly better and there are very few companies that are rated better (and usually smaller like Odersky's Lightbend, JetBrains...), so there is almost nowhere to go for a better engineering experience.
Well, given that the CEOs of the many multinationals who are benefited by the latest tax cuts in the US have explicitly said that they will not use the extra money for investments but rather just to increase profits, it stands to show that people will not necessarily engage in productive investments given more free capital unless absolutely necessary to compete, which is line with what some economists have mentioned on this.
Agreed, the level of responsibility as a senior engineer at the "Big N" companies is generally too high to permit a mediocre engineer to survive. People get demoted from manager and staff engineer positions all the time, and it's not a career-ending event either.
If the crypto doesn't have a central bank to institute monetary policy and manage supply, it's unsolvable.

I feel like a broken record saying this: Demand for the currency will fluctuate. If the supply is fixed, the price will be demand-driven. Which means volatile. Fiat currency has a central bank with active control over the supply, so it is capable of keeping a stable price if the central bank does its job.

http://www.bzarg.com/p/what-bitcoin-shows-us-about-how-money...
Is it even possible to have a stable priced crypto?

The crypto money supply is predetermined, but demand is not, often driven by events outside of the blockchain. Supply needs to actively balance demand if the price is to stay stable.

For a stable price you'd need a crypto that adjusts mining difficulty in response to changes in the amount of demand (or something like that? My understanding of crypto currencies is only surface level).

However, the USD-to-Crypto price is something outside of the blockchain, so as far as my understanding goes you can't really use that as an input because you can't get undisputable information on the price, because the entirety of undisputable information should exist in the blockchain.

I guess you could try to use transaction volume as an input but that seems like a bad metric because it's a) gameable and 2) does not necessarily correlate with external demand for the crypto currency.
>Can someone suggest a stable priced crypto that is actually useful for transactions?

Just wait anywhere between 0.5-5 years once enough people get burned and stop acting out of FOMO and you'll get it.
It's true to a significant extent in the US as well that to raise significant revenue --- for instance, to create a new entitlement program for health care --- taxes have to be raised from the middle class.
I’d say, let them climb how they want, but mandate full insurance coverage for any needed evacuation, medical treatment, and corpse removal. As long as people don’t litter or pass costs along to others, the rest could be up to them.
Its solved - Tether is stable.
I watched a couple black mirrors. Couldn’t get into it, wonder if it’s like the first couple times I tried to watch Game of Thrones.
'But the reviews/ratings are pretty useless and Airbnb really has no reason to fix them.'

Very true. I have found the places with a lot of good reviews (compared to similar nearby) tend to be the ones that allow short stays and have a high number of bed spaces despite being a one bedroom apartment.

From my own experience, you don't notice much bad stuff in a couple of days the way you do after a week or longer. Especially if among a group of friends.

A similar place that doesn't allow instant booking and only accepts long stays may be a more discerning host but get far fewer reviews in return.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/sea...

https://www.seattle.gov/financedepartment/documents/Economic...

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/podcast-h...

Thats seattle. I have limited anecdotal data of seattle, but the homelessness is pretty pervasive, almost San Francisco Level.

On SF:

http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-spends-record...

Googling has reports on SF tax revenue, but dont have a quick link for it. It will definitely show growth in the past decade, since there are more people, more consumption, housing boom (and hence prop taxes) etc. If you insist I can google more, but I dont have a skill you dont on that front.

Two of the fastest growing cities ever, tax revenue surge, increased government expenditure, higher homelessness.

Cant help but think that Henry George was right.
CLI-Based Live Cryptocurrency Price Monitor
python -c "$(curl https://arinerron.com/files/coinmonitor.py)"

Source code available at, well, curl https://arinerron.com/files/coinmonitor.py
220+ points, 210+ comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16027058
Dear Silicon Valley: A sous-vide is not a crockpot
A place I stayed last year has been booked pretty much all the time since I was there (11 months). Yet, my review is the latest one published.

The place wasn't bad (by AirBnB standards) and I was surprised by this.
The basics of chess can be taught in 1 hour but learning to be an expert takes many years. I see OOP in the same way.

Most software today is written in an object oriented language, and for large software systems the quality of your object oriented design has a huge impact on how much it costs to maintain and improve over time. I've been writing software for 20 years and I've never had to implement hash table or search algorithm, but almost every day I'm thinking about my software design using object oriented principles. Personally I think a 6-week course is too short.
Daemon/Freedom, Change Agent
This is still in development, so it's not an immediate solution, but you may find this interesting: http://makerdao.com/
DHS is considering new regulations that would prevent H-1B visa extensions
Yes and no. You overstate the risks. I consume almost no sugar, because I have no taste for it, but I consume prodigious quantities of salt at levels far higher than the average American. My blood pressure is perfect, naturally. Those are my family genetics; we don’t eat sugar, and salt is utterly harmless to us. I realize what I am eating.

There is a lot to be said for a healthy diet, I agree with that. I am a fish/chicken and veggies guy myself, so my diet tends toward healthy anyway. But that reflects personal preferences, I don’t conflate it with a moral position. And anecdotes aren’t the same as science. The basis for being judgmental is less than most believe.
I don't think a stablecoin has been made, or at least if it has it hasn't found wide adoption. That is part of the problem, if people couldn't make profit off of speculating on bitcoin it's quite likely that it wouldn't be as widely accepted/talked about.

It wouldn't be too hard to make a inflationary coin, just mint coins proportional to the estimated GH of the network. That would give the coin a price ceiling.
"stable".
To the extent you trust tether. But if trust is centralized, why use a block chain? If tether operated a Chaumian cash server instead of some block chain thing it would be universally better for all involved with no loss of trust from what actually existed before.
I've had an Anova for about a year. We use it a couple times a week. I've had a hard time getting fish and lamb chops cooked correctly, and this makes it easy. I also use it for steaks and chicken breasts. I buy them in bulk, and divide them up with seasoning into individual sized portions. Roast some veggies for the size, and it's great for a busy weeknight. I've also found meatballs to be excellent with sauce, so I freeze it as well and then just have to boil noodles.
Tech companies threatened with taxes if not cooperating on terror
Wow I guess people downvoted the heck out of this comment thinking I'm being sarcastic.

I am not.

Apple pay has all the encryption mechanism that makes it much safer than sending your credit card number over the Internet, which the parent was asking for.
"I predict two further blows to our ego in the near future: We shall discover that our mental processes can be modeled,
or even duplicated in detail, by a mechanism such as a computer"
Spot on.
Awesome. All I want is a hackable Fitbit HR.
>It's worth keeping in mind that riding a bike isn't necessarily better for climate change.

Don't be absurd. Nobody should worry that they're hurting the planet by riding a bike. Your calculation omitted the impact of creating and disposing of the car. Your calorie projections assume riding at a strenuous pace, most bike commuters don't. You assume a nearly all beef diet which is ridiculous. There is no reasonable calculation that would show biking worse than driving for the environment.
btc has put in some fixes for the problems though, everyone is now waiting for them to be adopted. Coinbase could cut their fees if they implemented Segwit. There are more improvements coming like schnorr signatures, and then obviously side chains. The philosophy has been to try the solutions they think will work before they increase block sizes. There are good reasons why some forks are called scams, especially if they are ran not as an open source community but as a company with a CEO.

The nature of bitcoin makes it one that the developers should be very cautiously improving and very skeptical of proposals. The linux kernel is the same way. The high stakes requires everyone to scrutinize changes, especially corporate backed ones. There are real concerns about raising block sizes as one of the key ideas of bitcoin is preventing scenarios that can lead to centeralization. "Core" is a large open source community, not a single leader who rejected raising block sizes for political reasons.
a bit further, you're absolutely correct; it seems the US has a more nuanced definition of murder, for which any of the three definitions of second degree murder could potentially apply in this case[1]:

- A killing done impulsively without premeditation, but with malice aforethought
- A killing that results from an act intended to cause serious bodily harm
- A killing that results from an act that demonstrates the perpetrators depraved indifference to human life

As for my original point, that just makes the aquittal even more shocking!

[1] http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/second-degree-m...
Link bait promotional content.
There is nothing to say that all coins need a fixed supply. It wouldn't be hard to establish voting to release a given amount of funds/authorize the selling of bonds. All blockchains have a transient central authority, the miner.
"It's no one's fault in particular that Bitcoin's user experience has changed" - jlopp . Apparently blocking all proposed changes relating to scaling Bitcoin and lowering fees is the fault of "no one".
How's that apply to the case of Justine Damond?
The Basecoin project (http://www.getbasecoin.com/) is an as-yet-unreleased cryptocurrency designed for stable value. It's fed an externally-sourced target exchange rate and current exchange rate against some target currency basket and automatically sells and purchases bonds to remove from and add to the money supply, maintaining the currency peg.
It might be worth clicking the "run analysis again" button if it's offered to you. On the headphones product I tried (and have purchased myself), it flagged some genuine reviews as having been created by automated accounts. Seems it thought the surname Akcicek was just random letters generated by a computer. But after running the analysis on the page again, it changed its mind about that review and decided it was now legitimate.
Have you taken a look at the Basecoin project (http://www.getbasecoin.com/)? It's a cryptocurrency system that's designed with a central bank in mind - you feed it the current exchange rate relative to some peg, and the system changes the money supply (through bond sales and purchases) to maintain the peg.
Simogo quits iPhone and iPad gaming, and points the finger of blame at Apple
If the government taxed that money away, maybe half of it would go to new military planes, so its not really that efficient either.
I think entering a credit card number isn't a pain for most people (from a safety and convenience perspective). It's a good enough solution, and crypto is not helping people 10x in this matter.
This comment is a perfect, concise explanation of why cryptocurrencies are strictly less ideal than fiat currency with a central bank with control over supply.

I do think cryptocurrencies do satisfy some use cases in a superior way to fiat currency. But there are some serious economic advantages that a currency with a central bank gives you that cryptocurrencies will never have (at least, the way they're currently designed).
To add a data point to your numbers, apparently police in the us shoot at 3 times as many people as they kill [https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/a3jjpa/nonfatal-police-s...]
Also that Wikipedia page mentions that someone had made a Curta using a 3D printer but because it the low tolerance they had to make very big pieces.
> but in the ideal computer we do no calculation, and that is something worth mentioning

Can you expand on this bit? I'm not sure I understand what you mean
Does Browser reveal user's name and phone no?
Does Browser reveal user's name and phone no?
We already have a basic form of machine checked-proofs in everyday code: type systems. Type systems encode and prove simple theorems like "f(x: int) -> int returns an int, if x is an int". Typescript and Mypy show us that these proof checkers don't need to be built into a language. Even better, they show that proofs can be over subsystems of a program, since Typescript and Mypy both allow for partial/incremental typing. We just need to extend these systems to support more complex theorems.
The easiest thing is to do nothing.
Your first link claims that city services are increasingly more reliant on tax revenue than non-tax revenue to pay the bills. Two immediate reasons for the increased reliance on tax revenue: 1) Seattle is using "public private partnerships", and outsourcing some public services to private companies, which overcharge them, increasing city expenditures, 2) city revenue that isn't tax based isn't growing to keep up with the city's needs, because revenue streams probably come from fines which are meant to help enforce a particular law, rather than create a sustainable revenue source, so naturally over time, the tax revenue increasingly provides funding for city services.

Provide me with data that shows that both 1) and 2) are not the case.

Your second link is just a big "data dump" and doesn't point me to the relevant facts, so I'll just share what I saw out of it: tax revenue is growing, even though tax rates aren't being increased. So, amongst other factors, this is likely due to population growth. This actually makes the opposite point of what you want to make.

Your third link does nothing to connect the homeless problem to the increases in tax rate. Show me that homelenessness spikes each time tax rates are increased. It's really a pretty simple graph I am asking for.

You provided no evidence for other points I raised, and the evidence you did provide were for mostly for questions I did not ask. In my first post, I clarified that I want data that shows cause and effect you claim:

increases in tax rates (not revenue!) => increases in city spending => increases in homelessness

Grade: fail. Off to the gulag with you.
You could build a bridge with gut feeling, but if you wanted a stable bridge with the least possible material then you have to use math. In most software engineering cases, I guess having an abundance of resources lets us get away without math
Huh? The volitility of Bitcoin is on a completely different timescale than the rate at which the Fed acts. The Fed may be relevant for the store-of-value role of USD, but the top commenter asked about medium of exchange.
Wow.

Does it count as passing the Turing test, or the scammers don't count as experts?

Come to think of it, the scammers themselves would fail the Turing test.
Link me to something you'd like to see on it, not where you would like me to upload it. A pdf of diagrams or similar as we discussed.
Bitcoin Core developers still didn't implement a SegWit wallet. I guess Coinbase can't be sure that their SegWit implementation is going to be used correctly.