skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are literally millions of people living with less than 50k in Paris...

http://www.journaldunet.com/business/salaire/paris/departeme...
Closing California's Housing Gap
The web interfaces for Google Compute Engine/Disks/Networking are much more intuitive. The pricing calculator is built right in. And - they offer free consulting services to help you migrate out of AWS. We are moving out of AWS to Google Compute Engine and it has really gone fairly smoothly and within a couple of weeks was already saving us money.
Thanks for your comment Paul!
Kudos for a book a day, just in my honest opinion, that's an overkill.

I think it's really important to have time to think and make notes about what you read. Even re-reading the same books can often give you different insights, depending on your inner state, life circumstances, etc.

I respect your opinion on your points, and I'll not argue those.
I shared my insights, based on my experience, and I wish I knew some of them before much earlier - it would save me a lot of time.

-Jovica
Seriously. The quote from the article:

>> In the end, this entire ordeal set me back about 1,300 euros, or $1,455. I sometimes wonder how my health crisis would have played out had I returned to America instead of deciding to stay in Paris more than 20 years ago.

In the U.S., it's likely they would have died; or at least gone $100,000+ in debt - if they could have even qualified for that much credit.

I can understand not covering things like lung transplants for lifetime smokers, or other similar "meh it's their own fault" situations. But when it comes to treating the health of citizens who are not severely at fault for their conditions, there should be absolutely no cost to the individual. Taxes should be enough to handle this, without one's own insurance being part of the equation.
Healthcare alone is just one piece of the puzzle. Having a french style healthcare system without corresponding safety nets in other areas to fight poverty/addiction/inequality etc would be better than the status quo, but not very effective.
Well, at least in Germany there's virtually no homelessness due to a lack of resources. The government has to provide sufficient housing.
The reasons for homelessness around here are most of the time different ones than "can't afford to pay rent". In many cases mental health issues and bureaucratic hurdles which might be too high to tackle for those stuck in a difficult situation.
It's mostly down to having Street Workers which are able to connect to those people and help them doing the first steps into the right direction.
Ah, if my understanding is correct then this makes sense.

In my initial argument I bring in relativity and the invariant speed of light. What I neglected is everything else in relativity, like lorentz transformations.

I mentioned a discontinuity between invariant speed of light and summing velocities to calculate momentum. The discontinuity is distance. Velocity is distance x time, but under lorentz transformations distance is relative. The discontinuity is resolved if you include length contraction (and time dilation).
I think just the opposite is true. Biology can not explain life without physics, there might not be a complete understanding yet, but physics and math are the only tools that will get us there. Chemistry too, needs physics all the time. I think separating science is a historical relic, everything we know is physics and math, even if it might be hard to recognize in some biological phenomena. But after all, they tend to be rather complex. I am not sure what indistinguishable from physics is supposed to mean, but it sounds philosophical to me.
Have you ever been to Switzerland? I have and I find this comparison absurd. It is a very small, very wealthy country with almost none of the structural problems faced in the US.

The nominal GDP in Switzerland is actually much higher than in the US, it's just that the country is way more expensive to live in. Therefore, when adjusted for cost-of-living (PPP), the GDP are about equal.

Of course, the absolute amount of money per capita is still much higher, which lowers the relative cost of, say, medical equipment.

The private healthcare in Switzerland is also compulsory and insurers are forced to offer a basic, non-profit plan. Furthermore, individual payments may be subsidized by the government. It's therefore not that different from Obamacare, nor are private insurers left to the devices of the "free market".
>> I don't see how charging $30k for a heart bypass is unreasonable for somebody making $50k/year.

Wow, just wow. You must not have ever had a family member or close friend fall ill. If you think someone making $50k/year is financially capable of paying $30k up front, you need a reality check.
> Until we fix this RCE vulnerability, the attacker will
> still be able to execute code on our host [...]

With Docker, it seems to me like we're moving closer and closer to the server being an executable of its own, but with the necessary Linux kernel bits compiled in such that it can execute on (virtualized) hardware.

I'm wondering how far we can take this. The ability to execute code on the host is there because that's what Linux does, but what if we removed this interface, and replaced it with an interface that just accepts one or more ELF binaries at compile-time? Then these would become the only Linux executables that this kernel can execute.

As far as I can see, we could do the same to system calls: if an executable can enumerate all the system calls it needs, we can compile a kernel that will accept only these system calls, which should be a small subset of all available Linux syscalls.
> The problem here is Chrome.

Chrome 55 (due to be released on 6th December) is meant to use upto 50% less RAM [1].

[1] https://chromeunboxed.com/chrome-update-significantly-reduce...
As I've replyed to the sibling comment, CO2 has not much to do with air quality, and that's actually a problem, because if it'd be linked to local air pollution, we'd have already insisted on less CO2 output long ago.

EdSharkey replied that the dire days are over. Yeah, in air pollution, great, applause, bravo, but not in climate things, like ocean acidification, storms and hurricanes and so on.
Does that require the cows to be entirely fed on the seaweed or does it work as part of a mixture?

Edit: found the paper: https://sci-hub.ac/10.1071/AN15576

According to figure 2 it looks like 2-10% of the feed is sufficient to achieve near-total methane reduction and <5% does not negatively affect digestibility, so 2-5% is the sweet spot.
Not a film, something printable, that lasts without battery or can be put on a poster at a protest. At 3kB/in^2 in a 3x3 grid of barcodes you'd scan left-to-right, top-to-bottom, if the text itself were compressed with PPMd down to 25% of its original size, that 3x3 barcode grid gives you 108kB of text

or 12kB in a single barcode (of plain text, compressed down to 3)

wikipedia says: "Microsoft claims that laboratory tests using standard off-the-shelf printers and scanners have yielded readable eight-color HCCBs equivalent to approximately 3,500 characters per square inch"

so I'm being optimistic, but not wildly so

Here's some neat pics:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

I've read about this a bit and I really wish there were an unpatented color barcode and a reliable/fast open source reader also, even if it's not quite as dense as my dreams. I think it would make for some neat possibilities.
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Retirement age in Japan and Germany is around 65 years. Not everyone qualifies for social benefits (owns house, work history...). And regions like Bavaria are bloody expensive. So yes, some pensioners have to work even in Germany (but it was about Japan in reference to old people).

I would be happy to discus my "questionable ideas". I live in Athens and I actually tried to hire some of them for manual labor. Most of them had better shoes than me, were lazy as fuck, and all want to go to Germany.

To start a discussion, please post employment rates among migrants ;-)
https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/3ygjbg/estimated_...

Estimated battery life is quite bad for it. This is I'm assuming the base configuration with 16gb ram, so if you jack that up to 32 or 64, battery probably drops significantly more.

It's these details of actual use that drive me to apple, as I've tried thick, full of ports, jacked up laptops with touch screens and in practice they almost always never work well.
This is a topic that has come up on HN so many times that I have lost count. I have come to the conclusion that the US milieu is so dogmatically against any alternative that the standards of a proof that they will demand to be acceptable far outstrips the standards that they will demand of other things. This is the diametric opposite of preaching to the choir. Ultimately its them who gets handed the shorter end of the stick. Some are rich enough that it does not affect them as much. What intrigues me is the behavior and rationalizations of those who cannot escape the adverse consequences. Forget drug and hospitalization pricing for the moment, just the institutionalized control (cartelization) of the license to practice medicine is a tell tale sign.
I wonder if the seaweed influences the taste of milk or meat.
Microsoft will happily send you up a creek if you are a large paying enterprise. Don't think you'll get useful support if you pay $60 a year. Their cloud stuff breaks all the time and the typical support offer is to wait and see if it's better tomorrow.
Yes, there already is. Firefox enforces the same manifest permissions in WebExtensions as Chrome.
> Except not everyone paying the same amount. Most pay nothing. That is, in socialist health care system.

Ehm, the national health care systems in Europe are paid by our taxes. The only persons who do not pay to them are those that are entitled NOT to pay (below poverty level, children, etc).
I'd like to be in a position where such altruism had no downside, but I have one family member who requires round-the-clock care and another being laid off at the end of the year with no meaningful prospect of reemployment. Picking up ten thousand dollars that someone else is leaving on the table would do them a great deal of good right now.
> If you're not in the fac mindset

what is a "fac mindset"?
Singapore is still working really hard on being hospitable to foreign businesses. It works quite well.
Yeah, I have postsrsd set up now, although I only set it up after setting up rspamd.

I'm not sure why it would improve things without also setting up a spam filter? In that case, you're just lowering the reputation of your own server by passing on a lot of spam while acting as if you sent it.
>> free education ( university included )

keep in mind that this is not a given in all EU countries. In the UK (still an EU country, though not for long) one has to either get a student loan from the British state, or cover their own tuition fees.
There probably isn't an incentive to reduce methane emissions for farmers right now though, right? We'd have to pass regulations mandating a reduction, or an emissions tax or something.
> been set back for many centuries

Oh come ON, Internet...
Is it more or less ok to let someone starve? ( do they still get handouts if they could have a job if they wanted to work, but they just felt the work beneath them? )
In a neighborhood I drive through every day the city cut off with a painted divider roughly 4 feet on each side off the road for bikes. I think as a result the speed I drive has decreased somewhat.

Drivers adjust speed according to visual clues. The speed limit is only one factor and probably not even the most important one.
It was a quantum leap, just like the iPhone was to phonemarket, nothing before or after comes close.

And Bob Yannes went on to found Ensoniq after designing the SID at Commodore.
Not one warning about undefined behavior? Not quite everything...
A ThinkPad P-series workstation takes four disk drives: two SSDs, one HD, and one DVD. It has four RAM slots so you can have 64GB. Low-end CPU is an Intel Core i7-6820HQ but you can upgrade to a Xeon.

It's a highly configurable, professional machine.

http://shop.lenovo.com/gb/en/laptops/thinkpad/p-series/p70/

The Dell Precision M6800 (no longer available) supported a 4 drive configuration if one was a Mini Card plugged into a slot on the motherboard, It had three 2.5in drive bays. You could have a look at the current Dell models, or an HP Z Book.
I merely pointed out to a parent comment, that things still can (and are likely to) get worse, even if he (she?) can't see it presently, and that might be a reason why "global warming aware" hippies are screaming.

The Canadian border wall part is completely irrelevant, and yes, absurd.
A century is a very long time, even for a President.
Exactly, in Brazil is the norm. I didn't think it could not be in english. My only while writing was if it should be "XIX century" or "century XIX". Apparently, neither :)
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I think one of the reasons the French can afford it is because their doctors don't get paid an asinine amount like in North America. Imo one of the reasons healthcare system sucks here is because our doctors get paid way too much, and that is probably caused by neeldless high entry requirements to become a doctor.
My brother lives in a geodesic dome, and it doesn't have these problems. The furniture fits in just fine. The high part in the center is occupied by a loft, with the master bedroom.
Didn't downvote you but I for one am totally happy with taxes being used to help speed up this process; that is as long as it isn't just used as an excuse for increasing the general tax burden.

This is why I was happy last year when gas taxes were raised and the money fed back to cut taxes and help reduce ticket prices.
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First we brought JavaScript to the back-end, now we're bringing JavaScript to shale gas extraction.
a book a day

Wow! What kind of books are these? How long do you spend everyday reading?
Rabobank in NED uses QR-like square codes with color. While it generally works well, it breaks down when you try to scan from a screen running f.lux or night shift.
I never understood why the function signatures/types in functional languages were written like this:

func: arg1 -> arg2 -> arg3 -> result

But after I used LiveScript and then ES2015 it finally clicked. In many functional languages, every function is "automatically" curried or to say it differently, every function only takes one argument and you have to "implement" you multi-argument-function with closures, which leads to curried functions in the end.

But languages like LiveScript are a bit nicer to use in that regard, because they don't require () to call them. This leads to curried function-calls looking different from normal ones in JavaScript.
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Sorry, the references can be found under the title 'nordic green to scale'. e.g. http://www.greentoscale.net/en/events/climate-change/nordic-...
It's not my job to tell other people how to make money. They all got good prices from me that they were happy with.

If I had a model for stock trading that was better than the people I was trading with, is it unethical to use it since I could just tell people the stocks are worth more and they shouldn't sell it to me?

I buy products for resale all the time, and I don't need to tell the people I buy from how much more I plan to sell it for.

(Plus, some of the product was bought from larger companies that would never have bothered to get the refund themselves. One person I bought around 20 peaks, I'm pretty sure they were selling them on Amazon before they banned the listing and needed to liquidate. Some stuff I bought from Amazon directly, where it would clearly be impractical to tell them.)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.techstonia...

I built PokerQuiz, which is an android app and (as the name suggests) about poker. It generates random cards for you and opponent and you have to guess your chances of winning. It has another "mode" too, but that's a bit too technical.
My brother's renting a geodesic dome made of wood and roofed with shingles. No leakage problems in evidence so far.
Great that it was posted. I personally am pretty interested in signal flags (possibly thanks to reading about their evolution in the fictional world of Safehold book series), and I particularly liked the idea at the end of the article.
This reminds me of a part of Taleb's "The Black Swan", which I've been rereading in light of recent events.

In it, Taleb describes how a process or event can be misperceived as strengthening those who go through it, when actually it weakens all of them, killing some.

His example is submitting a cohort of rats to radiation. As they are subjected to higher and higher levels of radiation, more will die, the ones who are naturally stronger will survive. Our cohort will appear stronger and stronger as the radiation increases and the dead drop out of the group. But crucially, all will have been weaker after the radiation than before it.

But since we observed a stronger group the more we increased the radiation, we may say that it "hardened" them, in the sense of "that which doesn't kill one makes one stronger".
“This is probably the most complex technology that our species is involved in — weather prediction is,”

I think this is just a pattern of people seeing the complexity in their field, but not knowing anything about other fields and thus believing that they are doing the most awesome thing ever.

LHC guys will say their technology is the most complex one, Intel, the AI guys, and so on..., not to mention the global infrastructure required to run the Internet.
Too many factual errors in the article. Many of the comparisons state DDR3 - but DDR4 is not DDR3.

> the difference of power draw between DDR3 and DDR4 is almost negligible.

It's NOT. The article he's citing mentions IDLE standby power consumption. Not the same thing as active power consumption.

- Correction: Power draw of DDR4 and LPDDR3 is very similar under active usage (i.e. not in standby). DDR4 might be possibly slightly lower.

I couldn't find a direct comparison, but according to Samsung:

* LPDDR3 vs DDR3L uses 15% less power in operation [1]
* DDR4 vs DDR3L uses 37% less power [2]

- Correction: LPDDR3 is much more efficient for STANDBY (yes, you can have that 30 days standby). [3]

So without LPDDR3, in my opinion, the standby of MBP would be reduced to ~15 days from 30 days (haven't done proper calculations but it's roughly half). But it wouldn't matter in normal usage.

I still believe Apple didn't consider DDR4 due to size concerns as even SODIMM DDR4 on the logic board would larger.

[1]: http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/global/file/media/Samsu...

[2]: http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/file/me...

[3]: https://www.micron.com/~/media/documents/products/product-fl...
Statements of inconvenient facts have to get suppressed, you know...
I think I (living in the UK, currently an EU country) understand the mentality behind the US healthcare system(s).

I think it's along the lines of "Why should I pay for someone else's healthcare?".

I've heard similar arguments from British people (I'm rather more socialist in my outlook than average, for a UK resident, I fear) and I don't really have an answer to that. Why indeed?

I'm probably conditioned to answer this with a "duh, because they're your fellow citizens". But I guess that's not everyone's cup of tea.
I wonder how much
Seaweed dries and rehydrates well, and like all vegetables it's mostly water, so if it's grown somewhere where it can be sun-dried then total energy cost for transport could be low.
Deleting too many stories will get you banned. Don't delete them unless it's a clear mistake.

Also, if we can see the stories that you submitted it's easy to see if they are on-topic of off-topic. Even if a story is [dead] someone can "vouch" it and unkill it if it's a good story.

A YouTube video about rebuilding a 1970 computer in your backyard is on-topic. A YouTube video about the 10 cutest kittens of 2016 if off-topic. What have you submitted?

And I think that most google.com URL are not useful (perhaps a few easter eggs).

Anyway, for this kind of problems it's better to contact the mods directly hn@ycombinator.com
I don't think it's intentional.
So there are intelligent living things that influence our world that we can't see and don't understand? Funny, that sounds an awful like a God to me.

Or what about, Musk's we're living in a virtual reality? That is, a reality defined and determined by unseen powerful forces.

Is Science finally preparing to offer Religion at the table of "What is Life? And Why?"
Increasing private provision in the NHS would probably make it more similar to the French system!

There's a lot of talk about privatisation of the NHS, but personally I'm really not ideologically attached to the idea of a state-owned health service provided coverage is still universal and free at the point of use.
rspamd has three levels of handling, depending on the spam score: (1) ham, which gets passed through, (2) spam, which does not, and (3) "not sure", which gets passed through but gets headers attached with the spam score and how the score is built up. So I get (1) and (3) in my GMail account, but all the stuff for which rspamd is confident it's spam no longer makes it into GMail.

Of course, rspamd lets you tweak the thresholds for these levels. For example, after a while I lowered the threshold for "spam", increasing the amount of stuff that gets discarded by rspamd, because I noticed that rspamd was doing a pretty good job of scoring, and the false positives I was seeing had a lower score anyway.

I'm actually not sure grey-listing is the correct term, but I noticed in my server's MTA log that Google was rate limiting me a lot because my server was sending through significant amounts of email. This was also noticeable sometimes because it would take quite some time for email to get through, which I found annoying.

Yes, you probably want to run SRS as well, otherwise GMail will be unable to correctly understand your headers. However, this effectively puts your server on the hook for any email forwarded; this is why I don't think you want to go there without also putting some kind of spam filter in place, otherwise I assume your server's reputation will deteriorate.
They're speaking of Chaos Theory, which was invented/discovered for weather prediction.

'Complexity', in this sense, doesn't mean 'it's rocket science' bus is a definable quantity.
fac = faculté, basically a French university.

I guess what the parents refer to is that Universities in France are not as elitist as in other countries; the most prestigious higher education public schools are often considered to be the so-called "grandes ecoles" (engineering schools) or some specific administration/economics schools.
50k€ is above the 90th percentile. Maybe even the 95th.
Oh boy, what a flurry of buzzwords. Game changer, Breakthrough, revolutionize...

All I got from the actual information is a better resolution and faster analysis, nothing that would support the hyping.
I believe once they are commissioned they are given a number (eg current ones are GOES-13, GOES-14, GOES-15). They are also given a designation as GOES-EAST or GOES-WEST depending on where they are being used. So GOES-13 was GOES-EAST until it had an anomaly and GOES-14 was moved out of a storage orbit and designated GOES-EAST. It returned to storage once they fixed the issue with GOES-13.

The R is just a sequence number for launching; S and T are slated next. If there is a failure before commissioning, it won't receive a numerical designation.

So the GOES-R name was just a happy accident I guess.
Important to note that the opioid addiction epidemic is actually exacerbated by flaws in the US healthcare system, so adoption of standards from France or elsewhere could help with that too.