skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention how many people need addiction treatment and/or psychiatric care who are instead incarcerated.
Not just for Bovines, for humans too, Seaweed can come to rescue:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/02/a-new-leaf
This is thoroughly encyclopedic, so not concise as you ask for, but it may nevertheless interest you: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/stoicism/
For automatic-type mirrors, no. That sort of mirror has a hinge to let the mirror rotate forwards and backwards on one axis. This is there to fold the mirror in, and to help absorb whacks. The mirror angle itself is adjusted by a separate, finer mechanism inside the unit.

For manual-type mirrors the same joint - some kind of ball-and-socket affair, I imagine? - performs both functions. The joint has a much wider range of movement than you'd expect if it were just for catering for the position of the driver's head.
Can eating seaweed make human farts smell less offensive?
I imagine (from looking at it briefly) that it would not even nearly come close to the effectiveness of fracking. It looks very similar to water jet fracking - which doesn't work very well either
May I ask how you get the time and how you are able to read a book under a day?
The biggest producers are and will always be the mass market stuff, though. Who cares if 1% of beef is produced carbon neutral? It's nice, but it makes no tangible difference. Sadly this method of encouraging better behaviour won't work unless a costco or a mcdonalds, for some insane reason, wants to cut their profit margin and buy more expensive beef.
Feynman integrals are somewhat numerically tractable through quasi-Monte Carlo methods.
> All Smith needs to do is to invent a new cuisine based on filter feeders and seaweed

That's the problem - I'd love to eat more, but a lot of it it's just not appetising. Eating the salads you get in Korean / Japanese restaurants is like eating soft leather.
> Are the CPU units comparable? Is the networking what it's cracked up to be? How easy is it to autoscale? Is the capacity you need available when you need it? How long do instances take to start? What are the dynamic storage options? How does disk IO performance compare?

In order.

Yes. Google networking is superior (cheaper & faster). Variable, depends on your application/workload, not just the cloud. Yes. < 30 seconds on Google, 1-3 minutes on AWS. lcoal SSD, remote SSD, or remote HDD on Google VS a mess of many complex & expensive disks on AWS (it would take more than a blog post to explain their disk offerings). Google disks are 3-10 times IOPS and/or bandwidth, lower latency.

This article is just on basic pricing. I plan more articles for the future. Starting with one on disk benchmark and one on network benchmark.
My problem with Google Cloud is I find their pricing too opaque. Will I find myself with a huge bill overnight is my worry. Is there some way to get started with a cap on my monthly bill?
They'll smell of the sea. Which to the people around could suggest, subliminally, it's time for a beach holiday. A chance for some guerrilla marketing right there...!
Indeed - I'd say this is close enough for the lay person. I've been on many vertical wells that were fractured (out side of the US), but that is mostly irrelevant to what is being discussed. It is certainly true that shale gas was only cost effective due to horizontal drilling + fracking.
And that makes LastPass your SSO :p
As a freelancer with no employees you don't need any of this. LLC gives no tax advantage in your case, and you can't get insurance to cover you if you don't deliver on your commitments or break the law (i.e. using copyrighted material).

You don't need any of the trappings of a "real" business. You need customers and some basic understanding of contracts.
http://cloudcheckr.com/

https://www.cloudability.com/

And there is a 3rd competing tool that I can't seem to remember the name.
The drug problem is intimately related to the healthcare problem. America's private system is absolutely lousy at preventative medicine and public health.

In most of Europe, it's easy to get into rehab even if you're destitute. We have drug workers out on the streets providing advice, clean needles and referrals to other healthcare services. Homeless addicts still have access to exactly the same services as anyone else. The death toll from addiction falls remarkably quickly if there's a concerted effort to abate it.

We also avoided the opiate epidemic that is currently blighting the US - pill mills simply don't exist when there's no profit motive to dole out opiates like tic-tacs.

Setting aside the obvious humanitarian issues, failing to address the healthcare needs of the very poorest is costing the American taxpayer dearly. The economic benefits of preventative medicine and social care were described better than I could in Gladwell's essay "Million Dollar Murray".

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/02/13/million-dollar-...
>> Like the Democrats in the US, they wanted immigrants from all over to change the political landscape and keep them in power. Regardless of native population.

You're being downvoted to unreadability anyway, but I feel I should clarify this just for the sake of people who are unaware of it: immigrants to the UK don't get a vote in parliamentary elections and therefore Blair's Labour could bring in the entire population of Asia, he still wouldn't have got a single vote out of them.

And he couldn't have just given them all British citizenship either: in general one needs to have residence before being elligible for citizenship.

Residency is obtained automatically after five years of living in the UK (if you can prove it anyway). Parliamentary elections happen every four years. We now have a Tory government, the second after ten ish years of Labour. Clearly, if Blair had a cunning plan it wasn't cunning enough.

And even if the numbers don't move you, think of it this way: if immigrants had any say in the governing of the UK, the country would not have just jumped off a cliff with a weight tied around its neck (a.k.a. Brexit).
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> 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.

"influence" is an interesting word, because the difference is, if they influence or world in terms of nature, that's a wholly lot different than the concept of God, a powerful entity watching your every step, ready to place you on a burner for eternity at any point, if you don't please him or if he is just having a bad day.

Bacteria also influence our world, I would argue however, that they're quite removed from the concept of God.
Read what the coverages actually mean first.

http://www.techinsurance.com/products/

If you work off-site, don't have employees, don't have people visiting your office, you probably don't need general liability.

I suspect E&O would be prohibitively expensive for a freelancer working from vague requirements.
Apparently they don't want to touch it once it's made contact with the toilet seat and their butt. Probably 'contaminated' now.

And yes, small failures like that seriously annoy me because they leave the bathroom looking dirtier than when they came in.

(Or those people who do not flush properly - don't get me started on them...)
Wait, if GOES-* is placed in a synchronous orbit, shouldn't the name be GOES-NOWHERE?
Already quit Facebook, but this article just convinced me to quit LinkedIn too.
> The current lines of Mac spin up to near-screaming, even despite those special, so-quiet fans, when one watches a video

Ugh, no they don't.

Video decoding is CPU intensive in Chrome and VLC. Video decoding in Safari and QuickTime uses negligible CPU resources. This difference is so striking that I abandoned Chrome. I use Safari, which I don't like, but 100% vs. 2% CPU usage it's so worth it.

Mpv has pretty good performance too, sometimes approaching QuickTime.
Cant post anything. Fuck this site. Waste of time....
The US healthcare system has lots of problems, but the quality of its infant care isn't really one of them. Infant mortality rates are calculated very differently in different countries which accounts for much of the US's "poor" rating. The biggest factor is that the US considers all births, regardless of how premature they are, towards its mortality rate and is aggressive in its treatment of pre-term births. Many other countries don't count early births or babies born with weights below a certain threshold towards their infant mortality rate.
> The system runs a massive financial deficit.

French person here. Although the deficit of the healthcare system is often pointed at by the media, it is far from "massive".
From [1] translated in English:

"This budget is in deficit, (...) but this deficit is far less than the budget of the State. In 2011, the deficit of the Social Security represented 2,66% of its total budget (11,7 / 440,8 billions €) compared to 45% for the State budget (92 / 200 billions €)."

I'm not saying that it's OK to have a deficit because the State deficit is bigger. But we should keep orders of magnitude in mind (the French budget would be in super-duper-massive deficit then?). Plus, as you can also see in [1], the deficit is shrinking since 2010 and getting close to zero.

Yes, there are some optimizations possible in the French Social Security. I can't find the source anymore but the cost of running the public Social Security is lower, in percentage, than French private healthcares (if my memory is right its 8% vs 25% of the total budget of each organization)
It is not hard to imagine that economies of scale play a major impact for this.

[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_de_la_S%C3%A9curit%C3%A...
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In the cynical British context I see the stickers on windows regarding the scheme and assume that it just means there are no public toilets any more. I would not go in to the cafe etc. for a quick visit to the lavatory, I would still feel odd about not buying anything.

It is a cultural thing and I expect most British people would expect their council to maintain public toilets rather than not bother and have some community business scheme. It reeks of privatisation and down sizing the local council.
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I found flights to Venice on flychecker at 50 €
"I pay an annual income tax of about 23%."

So you don't pay any kind of VAT?

That also wouldn't mean anything, if the State is not taxing you so much, but it still has money to finance these things, it is obviously because it is taxing other people a lot more and using the money to treat your health.

I would not find it very good to have my needs fulfilled with stolen money, as you seems to be finding.
I would guess that it's because the confined space of a mall makes this this efficient to staff.

Firstly, there are multiple toilets within a relatively small area, so one cleaning team can service multiple toilets. Secondly, the small area of a mall minimises travel time (wastage) between toilets. Thirdly, in places where keeping the toilets clean doesn't take enough time to keep the cleaners occupied full-time, there are other general cleaning tasks to occupy them.

It's also worth considering the deterrent effect of footfall and supervision: if the toilets are used frequently, and checked/cleaned frequently, people are less likely to carry out wanton acts of vandalism, for fear of getting caught.

If you take the example of a city with public toilets on the streets, either each toilet has to be staffed, which would generally be expensive/inefficient, as each toilet wouldn't require a full-time cleaner, or you would need a cleaning team to travel from toilet to toilet, spending time stuck in traffic, looking for a parking space, etc.
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Same in Paris (JCDecaux). But I wonder the cost for just 400 toilets in a city center with 2 million inhabitants and lots of tourists.
Nacira Guerroudji-Salavan launched last year a "circle of women in cyber security " in part because she was tending a booth at her kids' highschool and when a girl wanted to check the booth because cyber security interested her, the father said"No, this is for boys, for hackers"
This is 2015/2016.
Two reasons really, the first is that AWS has become this bloated mess of "stuff", making it increasingly harder to use, because so much time is needed to either constantly look at it to see what's new/changed or vigilantly document everything. GKE, based on my experience, uses more "convention over configuration" approach, so the UI is much less cluttered, easier to understand, and comes with good defaults out of the box. And yes, K8s is a first class citizen on GKE and it overall fits nicely in the google compute engine environment.

The only downside is that Google Cloud doesn't have a hosted DB offering for PostgreSQL, like AWS RDS, so it took me a while to set up everything properly.

Finally, from a purely subjective point of view, Google's Material design is easy on the eyes.

This is roughly what we ended up with for our stack: https://cl.ly/1z141g0e1w38 (The top three instances are K8S, then two GlusterFS instances which hold persistent volumes for pods and finally three PSQL instances that also run Redis Sentinels with a quorum of 2 - Redis itself is on Kubernetes as a DaemonSet)
I agree with you. I'd rather see faster, broader action. But it's not happening soon. But instead of waiting around ask your butcher if they can purchase a "zero carbon" cow (or better yet go vegan/vegetarian :)), don't buy mass market stuff with huge carbon footprints (this Christmas I'm mostly giving food or other things). I used to think the "your wallet can change corporate behavior" line of reasoning at the end of Big Corp exposé-style documentaries (e.g. Fast Food Nation) was a little naïve. But look at how many smaller ethical businesses are out there. Yeah people might make fun of the "small batch artisanal" shops out there, but we're making progress because it is popular enough to be a common punch line.
> Strong type systems come with their own things that require extra thinking, but I think it is less than ...

Well, that's your bias. As I said in practice I don't see a problem. And also, as I said, there are static analysers, and you really HAVE to have strong type you can always use typescript.
I check when needed, and I think it's better than having to compile code, yes.
Was wondering when someone would say this. It always boggles my mind reading the discussions about "insurance". It's what Americans have become used to calling insurance even though much of it isn't insurance at all.
McCulloch's papers have many, many problems[1]. No credible theory has been posited to date, and the experimental evidence fails to properly address systematic errors. If this device worked, one could use it to create an over-unity generator. It would also invalidate most of known physics. The chances of it working are nonzero, but that's the best that anyone can say about it. Most likely it will waste people's time and money for a few years before the public loses interest.

[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/EmDrive/comments/3hjmtv/my_conversa...
I will believe it a little bit more once the number of people who has the right to practice is not artificially capped.
Which in turn was the word allegedly scrawled over the walls in the Enfield haunting which inspired the film 'Poltergeist'.
Can you identify the top 5-10 keywords in spam that never appear in legitimate emails, and set up a filter to discard those immediately or move them somewhere else?
The British student loan system is essentially a graduate tax in disguise. You only repay 9% of your income over £21,000, deducted automatically from your wages in the same way as income tax. The loan is cancelled after 30 years, regardless of how much you have repaid. Young people understand that it's not a "debt" in the conventional sense of the word.
> Seaweed can be rich in protein, Vitamin B12, and trace minerals.

The USDA nutrient database lists 8 types of seaweed. Only one of these these ("Canadian Cultivated EMI-TSUNOMATA") contains B12, and it appears to be a proprietary land-cultivated strain of Irish moss, so hardly representative of normal seaweed. The generic Irish moss is also listed with zero B12.
That impression probably comes from the fact that you're not on the payer side of the bills, you're always on the receiver side.
It's not just that the costs of getting healthy are taken care of.

Here in austria free, yearly "health checkups" are offered to you by every doctor. Meaning, when you go there because of a cold, he will tell you that you ought to do a checkup every year, which include blood tests, psychological screening for alcoholism and other individualized tests like prostate cancer for men.

It's just convenient to use the system. I even had multiple MRIs and dozens of XRays after minor sport injuries just to be sure.
Extremes should always be evaluated carefully. Social media's place in the CS field has two main reasons for me.

1) To show how the mind works and to showcase it on a CV.
2) To be available to this thing called the 'internet' which is basically a giant global party where the only information that we can find out about one and another is either through what others say about us or what we say about ourselves. If I purpose a crazy solution to a problem you will most likely want to verify who I am to see if my idea has any credence.

The article is right that it is a distraction but for CS minds to come together and share ideas it is almost a necessity to help drive innovation.
1) Too many young people didn't insure themselves meaning that the relatively low cost of having them as insured couldn't be used to balance out the higher cost needed for later on in life. This was putting the primary burden of the cost on the older generations.

This shouldn't be a significant problem. In an actuarial sense, the burden of the cost should largely be born by the party with the risk. If you aren't doing that, it isn't insurance. If you are providing healthcare instead of insurance, you don't pay for it by taxing poor young people (those are the young people opting out of the system, not the wealthier ones).

So the premiums the young people weren't paying should anyway only be high enough to cover the cost of insuring them.

The real problem with cost in the US healthcare system is that the majority of people have a third party payer that will cover almost anything, so they don't care whether prices are remotely fair or not. The "agency problem".

We should stop making it advantageous for employers to provide insurance (I'm sure someone will be outraged by my supporting this opportunity for employers to lower compensation, I don't care, I paid out of pocket for 2 CT scans last year and know our healthcare prices are nonsense).
If doctors and nurses are at breaking point, its down to them been underfunded and under resourced. Blaming this on immigration is unhelpful and wrong!!
It is correct that unless I explicitly say otherwise, I do not officially speak for Pivotal. It'd basically be a terrible idea to give me an official mouthpiece, given how bombastic I am.

And, of course, my opinion of GCP is just, like, my opinion, man.

In my personal projects I have stuff on AWS. In fact I'll be adding more soon, since Pivotal Web Services is housed on AWS. And there's still a lot that AWS can do that GCP can't. It's just that, for the tiny slice of the world I've seen, I like GCP a lot more.

No matter which platform you prefer, everyone will benefit from the fierce triangular tug-o-war between Amazon, Microsoft and Google.

Especially if they're on a relocatable platform like Cloud Foundry (disclosure: Pivotal sells a version of this) or OpenShift.
I haven't hit any yet.

The AWS docs are enormous, cover every angle, and take me quite a while to work out. I'm not very bright.

That said, Google's concepts are confusing in places. The one that caused me a lot of head scratching was the difference between forwarding rules and global forwarding rules. AWS has better diagrams in a number of places.
How does it compare with the great buffalo herds that roamed the plains 200 years ago?
> It’s much better to read the best book on the topic 5 times, than to read 5 different books on the topic once.

Rather than being an obvious truth, for me it is a grave mistake.

I rarely read a book a few times (but also: I am very slow (careful!) reader), and go back if I want to quote something verbatim, or lookup a number/reference. In book reading I prefer quality than quantity.

But what is crucial, rarely there is a single, obvious "best book". At the same time, reading only a single book leaves false impression that everything is known, there are no controversies, no different looks or approaches, etc.
There is also another aspect. In theory your personal life and work are separated. Your religion or political opinions should not matter at work.

But many people (sadly even on HN) think it is ok to fire people, based on their opinions.
That stuff has been around for a billion years; meteorites have hit the ocean before (Yucatan for instance); no apocalypse yet?
If seaweed eliminates methane it likely will affect some gut bacteria more than others. We would not blindly swallow antibiotics affecting what is happening in our gut. There will be side effects one way or another - usually the more effect the more side effect.

Seaweed is worth studying and has promise but I'm skeptical when it comes super food claims.
Personally I went full circle on the issue. I did table layouts when I was a kid, then I learned the "right way" and fought great battles to make CSS behave. Then, after I did a bit of that stuff and saw others doing it, it dawned upon me that the whole "separating layout from content" is just a religious dogma, and like the best religious dogmas, those loudest about it are least likely to actually try and follow it. We've replaced clean tables with an ungodly mess of divs, which are placed in our HTML for the sole reason to provide CSS hooks - there's no semantic reason for them. This is not separating presentation from content, this is shitting presentation at content through a high-speed fan!

So nowadays, I look more favorably at tables again.
>It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.

>There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.

-Epictetus
The worst move the environmental movement did is let the environmentally sensitive product be associated with consumption by a rich liberal urban elite.

Until someone can fix this and disassociate ecological efficiency from the limousine liberal, these programs are unfortunately going to only be marginal. Minimizing environmental externalities can't be seen as optional.

Lots of reasonable things increase cost - such as refrigerated storage and inspection. We don't tier the product market like this though, "oh you want your meat to be free of disease? Well then mr fancy pants... Here's the luxury product."
This is called a Unikernel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unikernel

> Unikernels are specialised, single address space machine images constructed by using library operating systems. A developer selects, from a modular stack, the minimal set of libraries which correspond to the OS constructs required for their application to run. These libraries are then compiled with the application and configuration code to build sealed, fixed-purpose images (unikernels) which run directly on a hypervisor or hardware without an intervening OS such as Linux or Windows.