skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All I want is for every establishment to accept Apple/Google/Samsung Pay, with an auto-emailed receipt to a Gmail folder that never hits my inbox (with an explicit, normalized, return policy on each receipt), and no paper receipt or signature ever.
I honestly don't know. I follow Brenden Eich and a bunch of smarter people on Twitter who could answer that better than I can.
Yes he does. Obama threatened Assad repeatedly in public as part of his role as commander in chief.

Examining how people would handle Obama acting as Commander in Chief on Twitter is a great way to determine whether they're against threats by military leaders or simply against Trump.
I suppose that's true, but I'm not sure it's fair to attribute the rise of a newcomer to the death of this specific cartel. WWII did a number on the global economy
Meqanic: http://meqanic.com

Game that attempts to teach intuition about quantum mechanics and particularly quantum computer circuits.
There are limits to angular resolution, and one way to get around them is by combining data from distant detectors.

From a recent thread, current detectors can image objects the size of Mercury's orbit around the sun, at the distance of Sagittarius A* - were these scaled to the size of an adult human eye, it would be like seeing a small apartment building in London, while standing in LA.
I don't really consider this a problem.

Specialists are packed to the gills already and very expensive. Specialists don't want to spend time with patients who don't actually need specialized care and insurance doesn't want to pay specialists without first qualifying the issue.
Great video. Thanks!
I use github for all my private code, and then I backup my entire workspace as an encrypted 7zip file to Google Drive 2-3 times a year (about 10 gigs). There are plenty of services that do client side encryption + cloud service, but Google Drive is probably the only one you can do completely for free.
maybe we should let the cops have this...
Pretty lousy argument. Firstly, the majority of inmates in the US are white (58%). I'd assume mug shot stats are similar, or at the very least not mostly black people.

Moreover, if a algorithm enforces bias to the detriment of inoccents, it's a bad algorithm
IE support? Only an old version of grid is supported in IE. One which is not compatible with the new spec.
Why do you say "attempting to teach my daughter programming" and not "I am teaching my daughter programming"? You make it seem like she's not interested.
This. Spotify should be worried about the growth of Apple music - which is only available on iPhone's but already have 50% of the subscribers?

Then you account for the other big platform which is Google Music... I don't see a play for spotify here.
> Im just saying it happens everywhere, not OK but also unavoidable.

You're saying such behavior should be accepted and left without comment, because you claim "everyone's doing it." At best, that's and argument for apathy that rejects the idea that progress is possible.
I've rendered the data as a stacked bar chart; I think the reason a bar chart is ineffective here is clear. It would have to be logarithmic to deal with the wide range of values, and logarithmic charts make it extremely difficult to quickly compare values.

Stacked bar: https://i.imgur.com/TfjDJyA.png
not exactly what you're looking for but kind of close

http://flexboxfroggy.com/
Browser support as well. Grid is only about <90% covered.

https://caniuse.com/#feat=css-grid
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Well you could define 'economic' transactions as those that leave one of the participants with less bitcoin and another participant with more bitcoin.

In that sense mining pool distributions are double-counting - the distribution of the mining reward to the pool and then the distribution of that same reward from the pool to an individual member. (I understand that correctly right?)

A mixer is just shuffling it's coins around so it's non-economic. Spoofed trades are obviously non-economic. 'Market Manipulation' could mean lots of stuff but I wouldn't be surprised if there are bots that enter lots of offsetting trades on both sides of the orderbook to generate volume around specific events. If they're offsetting that's non-economic.

Now maybe 'non-economic' isn't the best term but I do think those sorts of activities should be given a meaningful distinction from the other third of the volume that is 'normal transactions' of individuals buying and selling from/to each other.
LE doesn't have the best track record following best practices. For example, they still rely heavily on notoriously unreliable eye-witness accounts and polygraph tests, two things science has largely debunked.

They were slow to let go of phrenology as well.
A lot of transfers between banks that seem arbitrary have incredible amounts of economic value. Consider inter banking lending (the overnight market), which on the surface seems like banks arbitrarily swapping money between each other, but in reality controls inflation and the monetary supply.
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I honestly began with double-blind to remove bias and perhaps to increase trust. Open to revisit that assumption :)
This is all true yet I don't know whether such stats are helpful or misleading for cryptocurrency investors. All of the value of cryptocurrencies is currently due to speculation. You can verify this by putting the economic activity into the velocity of money equation and you get a fundamental value around 1% of the current price. So even if "real" economic activity were to increase massively, it's not clear that there would be any discernible impact on prices.

(And yeah, if my salary counts as an economic transaction then why shouldn't miner payouts? You can avoid double-counting by not counting coinbase transactions.)
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GPL protects the freedom of the users of the software.
If Apple Music had as many curated playlists as Spotify, I'd be in. And almost solely for the Siri integration.
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I definitely do. That's why I just skimmed this article, quickly looking if there are any hyperlinks or keywords suggesting something new. I found just this[0]. Total time spent on article: 10 seconds.

And people complain millennials have too short an attention span to read long-form. I suggest that maybe it's because long-form articles today have incredibly low information density, and are generally a waste of time.

(The article had pretty pictures, though.)

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[0] - https://www.nasa.gov/topics/moon-to-mars/lunar-outpost
Because of unconscious bias, which you seem unwilling to attempt to change.
edit: apparently the exit _menu option_ cleanly closes all windows...woops.

I only use this to restart the browser cleanly when I have multiple windows open.

I use the "restore tabs/windows from last time" option and I don't see how else to close/restart ALL windows natively within FF. Guess I'll go back to killing it.
> It does make some sense considering the ideal user for an ad-supported business: Has money and either isn't savvy enough to block ads or, even better, ethically opposes blocking ads.

It is concerning that a business model can be dependent on necessary ignorance of the users. Sounds like a bubble waiting to pop.
As a bitcoin critic, this is a pointless criticism. No one uses bitcoin as a currency, and everyone knows that already.
There's also been a lot of discussion and research about how to best interact with autopilot, and when the best times to turn it off and operate the airplane manually are.

There is a talk[1] about this that is really popular among pilots, and I honestly think it seems increasingly relevant to the rest of the world as more and more things become computer automated in some fashion.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN41LvuSz10
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But are the injury and mortality rates higher because C-sections are riskier, or because high risk childbirth are done through C-section? You need to control for the prior, otherwise the statistic is not very useful.
This week!? I thought they did that a few weeks ago because of Cambridge Analytica? What did they do this time?
Deezer also aportions each individual's payments directly to the artists they listen (unlike Apple Music, Spotify et al who distribute in aggregate to the music labels)
Why would the music industry negotiate? If Spotify tries to play hardball and doesn’t agree with the terms of one of the three major record labels, they lose access to the music. Neither Apple, Google, nor Amazon really care if their music streaming service is profitable or barely break even, they are using music streaming to sell other higher margin products.

Apple is still growing faster than Spotify and YouTube is a bigger brand.

If they try to raise prices - Apple Music and the YouTube offering starts to look a lot more attractive - it’s hard to compete against the default.
Nothing wrong with a sales tax being part of a possible solution.
An side of this that most people aren't aware of is that insurance companies will refuse to pay for any medical test they deem to be unnecessary. So, while a doctor may order additional tests to "CYA," it's pretty likely that the hospital won't be reimbursed for all of them and will just eat the cost of the tests. And, while a hospital may charge thousands for a test, the actual costs might only be in the hundreds. Depending on the hospital system, this can be a win-win because the tax write-off can be worth more than the actual test costs.

The healthcare system in the US is insane.
Long-term, yes, that's basically the only thing they can do. Short-term the imbalance in ARPU between regions is massive and they can't really invest that much in developing nations when there's a magnitude of difference or more in between revenue, regardless of the potential user base.
As a software developer, I'm hugely in favor of this. These companies conspire to suppress wages via anti-poaching agreements and H1B lobbying. Not only that, but Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are using their size to put software developers and sysadmins out of work, McDonalds-icizing software with proprietary, walled-garden service stacks. The money those three make on their hosting services is coming out of our pockets (see: AWS cost monitoring and optimization is its own role!), but nobody seems to notice or care.
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Claiming the algorithm is racist because your data is racist is inflammatory bullshit.

Unless the designers of the system are aware of and account for biases in the training data, the system will be biased and will be biased due to the actions of its designers.

I don't see what's so hard to accept about that. It's literally the oldest problem in computing (going back to the "Pray Mr. Babbage, if we put into your machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out" days).
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See here: http://articles.latimes.com/2001/aug/23/business/fi-37278

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

It's all old stuff, but you said your interested was "I didn't even know that existed until now".
Probably because it's flat out wrong and shows a shockingly incorrect view of how things actually work.

> The patient can only sue if the patient has been harmed.

No, the patient can sue for whatever reason they want to. The doctor's malpractice insurance is going up regardless. Even a completely frivolous lawsuit will cost the physician real money out of his or pocket for years to come, not to mention the cost (if they choose to pursue it) of counter-suing the patient.
Your first paragraph and your second are not tied together.

You say these things like Google and Apple are inherently better because music streaming is a bolt-on.

I like Spotify for the same reason I like Roku. The product they provide is their mission. Spotify doesn't want me on Google, or Apple, or Echo. It wants me to listen on its platform.

Roku doesn't give a damn what content I view. Its mission is to make a good streaming player.

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Now, you're correct, they need to make more money. But I use them in principle because I want them to win.
> My wife is a doula and apparently the injury and mortality rates for mother and child are much higher than through natural childbirth.

That is of course true, because C sections are primarily used in high-risk pregnancies and in emergencies. But what you actually care about is the counter-factual: if a given set of deliveries were "natural" rather than a C section, would mortality go up or down? It's hard to develop studies to answer that counter-factual. But there is good evidence that C-section rates are negatively correlated with mortality (i.e. they lower deaths) up to about 20% of deliveries, and have no positive or negative effect beyond that: http://www.skepticalob.com/2017/10/more-wailing-and-gnashing....

Indeed, there is new evidence that "natural" births are in the long term bad for mothers, dramatically increasing the risk of things like incontinence later in life: http://www.skepticalob.com/2018/03/what-if-c-sections-are-be.... As a practical matter, these negative effects will impact far more women than differences (if any) in morality rates.
Also, the article provides no supporting figures for the assertion in the title. All of the data is from the Ethereum network.

How are they accurately identifying the purpose of Bitcoin transactions? I cannot think on any methodology that would not be wildly speculative.

Elementus seems like perhaps they don't understand what they are getting into either.
Your diatribe is a complete distortion of economic history and facts, best crystallized by your use of "concentrated wealth" when what we have witnessed is an enormous creation of wealth.

Search engines, social networks, mobile phones, high-speed Internet, same- and next-day e-commerce, interactive maps, video streaming, 24/7 access to world-wide news and commentary, electric cars, cloud services, solar panels, wind farms, fracking, online banking, fitness monitors, 4K tvs, retina displays, tablets, e-book readers, voice-activated assistants, cleaning robots, advanced medical devices, tailored drugs, reusable rockets, etc. etc. are all created and those who create and finance the creation of these products and services deserve a) our accolades and admiration and b) reaping the rewards of their actions.
It protects the code which happens to protect the users, but it doesn't let people do whatever they want with the code. Which you prefer is up to you. Using the word freedom is just problematic when there are restrictions.
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Yes, all have different processes, but they all speak the same language. You should take a 1 - 2 days course in ITIL, so you use the same terms as they do. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITIL
Spotify conquered the living room.

I recently canceled my Netflix subscription.
I was an early and long time Soundcloud paid user. Also canceled that this year.

Somehow Spotify keeps me hooked. The Discover Weekly is great. Listening to some Paul Simon on the Bose Bluetooth speaker thing as I type this.
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the natural document metaphor of web pages and the tooling built on it (hyperlinks, forward/back, bookmarks, history) falls apart unless you do extra work to ensure that experience is maintained

But not everything needs to be a document. Sometimes the thing you're working with really is an application and not a document.

To me, one of the biggest problems with the current web is that we've commingled "app stuff" and "document stuff" so badly that browsers have been forced to become a shitty, inferior X-server (or Operating System outright), instead of being really good browsers. Browsers for browsing is great... browsers as a UI remoting protocol, is a bit janky.
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> Spotify should be worried about the growth of Apple music - which is only available on iPhone's

Say what now? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.andr...
Firefox Android doesn't suffer from this defect.
If we're going with software analogy, then articles like this one are journalistic equivalent of Java EE-style bloat, or Electron apps.
Our company has recently released a boating safety course done through an interactive story. Might be the kind of thing you're looking for:

https://www.ilearntoboat.com/washington/
I'm sure I read a paper recently that said you need four suppliers in a market before it becomes competitive. They were using mobile phone operators as an example and it seems three or less delivers lots of profit but a poor offering for the customer.
How do you propose feeding New York City's 8.5 million people with local family farms?
True, but here's a point the NYT missed: caps on malpractice claims don't have to change how doctors practice medicine to reduce costs. By capping liability, they should make malpractice insurance cheaper and thus reduce the cost of providing care.
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FTA: Spotify operating at a $460m loss up from $220m a year ago...
I've read Griffiths, most of Shankar, some of Sakurai, and some of Feynman.

Of those, I would say Griffiths is the best option for someone with your background. It's short enough that you have some hope of going through the entire book, and it has you doing real calculations. The writing is good.

Shankar has lots of good stuff, but its 600+ pages long, so a bit overwhelming. I also found the explanations not as clear as in Griffiths.

The perspective in Feynman and Sakurai is quite different than in Griffiths, and it is possibly a better approach. But Sakurai is much more challenging than Griffiths and not nearly as well written. Feynman lacks the worked examples and exercises that Griffiths has, so is not (IMO) appropriate as your sole textbook, but definitely worth looking at for the different perspective. A text taking the Feynman (or Sakurai) approach, but at the length and level of Griffiths, would be valuable.

(I taught myself basic QM prior to going to grad school in physics, with a background similar to your, so I have some direct experience here. This was about 12 years ago. Perhaps there are better options now.)
Dumb question but does the lensing distort what we would see if there was no lensing at all? Or does that information get compressed as part of the lensing and we need to "stretch" it out to see it?
Glad to hear your daughter is doing so much better, and it's fortunate that you're near Stanford. We're going through this right now. A little over a year ago, my then-6-year-old son caught a fever and quickly lost his mind. It felt a lot like demonic possession. He progressed from OCD to psychosis, eventually losing all of his language and academic abilities. Experiencing this as a parent has been horrifying.

To compound things, many medical providers either don't believe in or don't have experience in treating an autoimmune encephalopathy (brain inflammation) when there are no known markers for it (they've only identified around 18 antibodies for this condition, but there are likely thousands). There's also still, in the minds of many providers, an arbitrary distinction between so-called organic (i.e., coming from the organs) and psychiatric pathogenesis. (As an aside, the first comprehensive guidelines for treating PANS were published only last summer (https://home.liebertpub.com/news/revised-treatment-guideline...)

Anyway, my son has received steroids, antibiotics, IVIG, a tonsillectomy and, just this past week, plasmapheresis (to say nothing of all kinds of exotic supplements prescribed by our more fringe providers that, I think, pretty much have no effect). We've never been able to identify a specific infection at the root of this, although staph has been suspected at times. Post-plasmapheresis, he's already progressed to about 50% of his baseline. The next step will be either more plasmapheresis or rituximab.
This is a project I launched somewhat recently. It's all crowdsourced and has been translated into 14 other languages. Licensed under CC.

Any and all feedback is appreciated, as are language contributions and item suggestions.

Hopefully this tool will come in handy the next time someone says they have 'nothing to hide.'
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>Your diatribe is a complete distortion of economic history and facts, best crystallized by your use of "concentrated wealth" when what we have witnessed is an enormous creation of wealth

Yes, created and concentrated. It used to be that economic activity led to the improvement of everyone's lives. Think the model that worked great for us from post WWII, until the financial deregulation and tax cuts of the 70s/80s. Now it leads to record corporate profits which enrich a select class of wealthy shareholders.

The average American has been absolutely forgotten and left behind, as evidenced by our current political climate.
In my experience creating robust, usable code that responds properly to adverse conditions always requires tons of error handling. The closer to the problem you deal with it the more accurate your diagnostics can be. Otherwise it becomes very difficult to provide meaningful feedback to the user.
That part is incorrect; however, the overall message of the post is correct. In a for-profit system, it's the patient's only recourse. Don't like it? Fight against for-profit healthcare.
>So why did the Chinese merchants exchange their tea for opium? If they didn't already have a market for it, did they set about creating the market.

The market built up over the century before the war by introducing it then importing enough to make it affordable.

>AIUI the opium was traded in local ports, then smuggled to the interior by locals (because other ethnicities couldn't get access). Is that wrong; could you cite sources.

The opium was generally traded in ports, but more as different boats were needed. Access was not a major issue. I don't know what sources you want, river deltas have been trade hubs for millennia.

>just to trade tea ... Why didn't BEIC choose some other product (whatever drug was being used, for example) if opium wasn't already in demand -- it must have taken decades to create that demand, especially as they might AIUI be killed just for being there (in the interior) and stood out from the crowd quite considerably.

"Just to trade tea" made them filthy rich in Britain, it's like saying the Spanish conquered Peru "just for gold and silver." There weren't other British products the Chinese had interest in, and the British decision to push opium happened sixty years before the war.
My personal opinion: in spite of your efforts, this is too easily mistaken for an official Ycombinator service. The name is a problem - it creates trademark confusion. But the orange header at the top is a problem as well, because it mimics the style of the official YC website.

My recommendation would be to bite the bullet now and change the name. It will allow you to build a brand of your own, and succeed on the strengths of your service instead of on a misunderstanding.

You have a good idea that could succeed with good execution. It deserves an identity of its own.
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Caps on malpractice claims exist in numerous jurisdictions, and studies have shown them to have no discernable effect on either total healthcare costs or even specifically on malpractice insurance costs.