skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has a rather cartoonish view of large scale farming. E.g. one of my father's best friends, until he was somewhat disabled by a stroke a few years ago, assembled large farm machinery, at fairs and the like for display, those delivered to farmers, and a fair amount of business at harvest time for truly huge scale harvesters, by and large in Texas. But unless my impression of the sort of work he did is way off, machinery of the "64 row" level is fairly rare, and it also bears mentioning that farmers aren't idiots, they aren't going to use machinery and techniques that quickly ruin their soil, or use more chemical inputs ($$$) including fertilizer than they think necessary.

And I'm pretty sure cereal grains including sorghum for silage for animals is going to continue to be the forte of big farms, and absolutely needed, while this sort of small scale thing sounds great for "truck farms" like the one highlighted in the beginning.
Customers not happy with Apple’s ‘pitiful’ cure for iPhone ‘touch disease’
> and other individualized tests like prostate cancer for men.

Mass screening of healthy men for prostate cancer is probably more harmful than helpful.
A simple way to break a bad habit it, Ted Talk transcript:

judson_brewer_a_simple_way_to_break_a_bad_habit
Machine Learning with Clojure and Apache Spark
I imagine a proxy with a whitelist/blacklist setup should be easy to throw together in quick fashion, then set your browser to use that. TLS sites become a little more problematic, unless you feel like MITM'ing your traffic there as well.
I agree that reading a book a week is not impossible. However, the author mentions reading ~1 hour per day. That's also doable for books that can be consumed at ~60 pages per hour, and for some topics (and some fiction) that's also not impossible. But for challenging books, particularly technical books and 'literature', 60 pages per hour is probably 2x-5x too optimistic.
Doesn't mean it's right, it just means people are assholes. Lets we forget, not believing in slavery was socially objectionable not that long ago.
Compared to the United States, it is.

If you want actual numbers, you can start here:

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

It is not a huge difference, but it's there. I wouldn't consider religion the top factor to pivot on, I would consider things like native language a better model.

Here is data that suggests infant mortality ranges from 9.6 in Mississippi to 4.2 in MA. So by this metric, infant mortality is in fact LOWER for many people than in France (or many parts of Europe).

http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/infant-death-rate/?curr...
I wish I was that talented. One of my friends is an incredible artist and I asked her to make those for me.
> Having a pipeline built through your lands usually doesn't bring you any jobs, or money.

Are you saying the land owners don't get paid?

Besides, this is primarily about oil wells, not pipelines. I know having oil wells on your land can be very lucrative.

> If you have any doubts about that, check out how the Exxon Valdez spill was handled

That was a one of a kind, history changing event in the arctic ocean decades ago. It's hard to think it's typical of rural Texas in the 2020s.

"The rich bastards will always screw you" is a fine sentiment over a beer in a country bar, but not a great analysis to to base trillion dollar decisions on.
My first instinct was to agree with you. Sadly, I know quite a few Americans who could care less about their homogeneous neighbors, let alone those of different colors/creeds/cultures.
I make 1,300 euros a month (net) and live comfortably in the 14th arrondissement.
I would suggest a DO droplet since the learning curve is very small compared to the AWS services, the cost is predictable and they have a decent bandwidth allowance.

If you want to compare for prices, just search for "VPS with hourly billing" and you should find some alternatives to DO which may be worth considering.

And if you want to dig deeper, I have written a book [1] which I hope can clear the confusion and give you a better idea of what hosting you need for your apps.

[1]: https://www.hostingforappdevelopers.com/
Android still has it
> To me, it sounds like he doesn't like or know much about the algebraic side of math, and resents how much it dominates in math today.

Given that Arnold was a student of Kolmogorov, was awarded the Wolf prize, and was denied the Fields medal due to some Soviet-era politics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Arnold#Honours_and_aw...), I think it's safe to say he understood algebra. You can also read his books, and find out that he used abstract algebra quite well. That's not what he's saying here, I think you misread.

> Which is fine, he's entitled to his opinion. But the stronger argument that "mathematics is only good when it's tied to physics" argument is wrong and outdated -- belongs to the pre-computer, pre-information age.

I think you're missing the point he's making and cherry-picking examples from the article. Indeed, much of the article is directed at how very conventional mathematics is taught at the school and undergraduate level, and one key point is that the way it is taught is too far divorced from how it was discovered a long time ago. He claims that teaching mathematics in the algebraic way makes it unnecessarily more difficult to solve mathematical problems that used to be essentially trivial, making people worse at mathematics for no good reason.

So you picking out the example of categories of algebraic varieties is misleading because that's not at all the focus of the article, it seems like an incidental example. I think the determinant and group examples are a much clearer illustration of the difference he's talking about.

I also have no idea what you mean by your comment about pre-computer, pre-information age. If anything, mathematics became much more of an experimental science (thus closer in spirit to physics in Arnold's view) now that you can run computational experiments so easily with this much computing power. Note his example of the difference between observation - model - investigation of the model - conclusions - testing by observations and definition - theorem - proof.
Hacker News doesn't have the churn that means other news sites are always different when you visit them...perhaps you could call that a downside, but I actually really like that aspect.
Just curious, have you learned ST ? I went through a good deal of languages and I have to admit, ST surprised me more than expected and mostly positively.

I don't like the smug some STers glow when they talk about REALOO but except that it really has some exceptional qualities (self consistency, humane interface, small size of the basic system).
Some people honestly have different opinions and world views than you, without being corrupt, stupid or evil.
Or you could use prune, so let's say robert is your teammates origin name:
git remote prune robert
Because deleting your comments removes all context for other comments.

And sice we usually don't quote here, or only very sparingly, you'd affect lots of other people.
New for AWS Lambda – Environment Variables and Serverless Application Model
Family of a medic here.

There are a number of problems with this statement.

First, immigrants are overwhelmingly young and healthy. They are overwhelmingly in work (and therefore paying National insurance....)

So, to answer your questions directly:

1) you can't get an appointment because GPs are either going bankrupt, or retiring faster than they can be replaced.

2) Baby boomers are all starting to succumb to chronic problems like diabetes, cancer, dementia etc. This costs a very large amount.

3) Diabetes costs 20% of the total NHS budget[1].

3) Social care budgets have been slashed, which means that old people come in to hospital for X, go home too early and with no support and come back with either a compound fracture or pneumonia.

4) The increase in NHS demand is 4% annually.

5) the "funding increase" comes from the cut in community & social care.

6) the degradation is entirely down to the lack of funding since 2010

[1]http://www.nhs.uk/news/2012/04april/Pages/nhs-diabetes-costs...
Amazon to sell Fiat cars in Italy
I saw an interesting article about finding people on linked in that recently changed jobs as good prospects for contacting regarding sales opportunities.
You really should know a little bit of Clojure – Ben Orenstein
It's an extension for chrome that I'm using, as I tend to not have a problem with my phone during work.

I'm not near my PC to be able to say which one exactly, but there are several made specifically for this kind of thing.
30% of the ranking's rating is based on nobel laureate/fields medal in alumni or staff. 20% based just on amount of publications in Nature and Science.

I never know why people rate these rankings so highly when there are such unimpressive metrics like these.

Not to mention that this particular ranking does not seem to consider education at all anyway, which is what the GP was talking about.
If you can fit an iMac into your backpack/luggage, you could probably also fit a screen and a Mac mini in there.

I've traveled with a similar setup. The Mini has the additional benefit that you can keep it in your hand luggage when flying and governments can't randomly fiddle with hardware in your checked-in luggage. (Look at my shiny tinfoil hat.)
>Its also fair to say that there is a large amount of households in France that pay no taxes at all.

It should be specified that this is because the French tax code provides exemptions to people making less than I-forget-how-much per year.
Just to make even clearer, residents cannot vote in general elections, unless they are from the commonwealth.
I've read the whole article, but this is where I should have stopped.

> I’ve never had a social media account.

He basically summarized that procrastination is harmful and social media is to blame. He doesn't really share anything I haven't known as a social media addict. Kinda like saying to a smoker that smoking tobacco causes cancer. I know that, what now? I tried shutting down social media sites with plugins, blocking sites in the hostfile and other slow to circumvent things. They kinda worked, sometimes never. I also noticed that if a site gets shut down, something new emerges that replace it.

This is something you have to deal with, regulate it. If you find yourself constantly opening FB, Twitter or whatever your addiction is, then it signals that something you are having problems with something you should be really doing.
> This hits the nail on the head. Abandoning time zones would only make sense if there were no more need for time translation. But you'd still need to translate for the sake of biological clocks, and without time zones it would become more challenging to communicate that translation.

I argue it'd avoid mistakes, such as the assumption it's dark at the other clock's 18h because it is here.
It would be interesting if we could create a retroviral treatment that cause your body to create these new antibodies. Curing one virus using another.
EcoHelmet: A folding, recyclable helmet for bike share
I just finished three years in a job in which I worked on a GUI containing an editor that does not do that.
That works for the kicks but not the book on a single topic though IMO, not only would reading the same book more than a couple times be boring but you wouldn't learn a whole lot.
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Interesting! Based on when this became law I assume it was to protect workers who were interested in labor protection and socialism.

Now it can be used to protect those who political beliefs are more on the right. How the worm turns!
Makes me think of this: http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html
"and my characters only live halves"
Intel’s spec for the CPUs in that macbooks say “Max Memory Size: 32GB” for dual-code models, 64GB for quad-core models:

http://ark.intel.com/products/91156/Intel-Core-i5-6360U-Proc...
http://ark.intel.com/products/91166/Intel-Core-i5-6267U-Proc...
http://ark.intel.com/products/91164/Intel-Core-i5-6287U-Proc...
http://ark.intel.com/products/88967/Intel-Core-i7-6700HQ-Pro...
http://ark.intel.com/products/88972/Intel-Core-i7-6920HQ-Pro...
He's not assuming anything. He's saying garbage in, garbage out. How can there be a reasonable discussion if we don't even know what the thing is we are trying to discuss?
Critical Infrastructure Goes Open Source
Another counterintuitive result in this vein is to think about randomly sampling uniformly distributed points in a sphere. As the dimension rises, the chance of finding a sample within, say, r/100 of the surface goes to infinity. In high dimensions, all of the mass of the sphere is concentrated at the edge.
>If you identify with a group that literally burned people in ovens though?
Many nazis dont
Suggesting Sounds for Images from Video Collections
Why are you thinking about free speech in terms of things that need to be penalized (or rewarded)?

I encourage everyone to avoid answering that question, it presupposes that the mindset that resulted in such a question is valid on some level and worthy of engagement.
The message is fear this. Don't ever let it get this bad because no one is fixing it once it does.
Don't downvote the parent comment, those following British news sources will know that for quite some time UK government seems to be trying to undermine the system and make it so bad that they can then point to how bad it is as justification for privatization.

Just a few examples:

- https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/oct/15/bma-theresa-...

- http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/dr-zoe-norris/nhs-cameron-hu...

- http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/health/news/article4713380.ece

- https://www.ft.com/content/35a3e764-705a-11e6-a0c9-1365ce54b... (or without paywall: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/aug/31/bma-announce...)

Other articles were written by doctors in the NHS, what they had to say didn't sound good at all. But the problem is that the government wants to abolish the "socialized" system and mishandles it (deliberately, as many article writers claim).
Yes, I understand the expression. What I'm asking is precisely what things he did that example that he would not have had to do if he were using a dynamic language like Ruby or Python. In other words, I'd like to understand specifically what you think are the extra costs he paid for using a static language.
>Combine that with labor laws, unemployment benefits, food stamps and other "poverty fighting schemes" and no one is ever incentivized to take such a job for such a pay.

Such laws subsidize automation research. As I think this research is undersupplied by a market with access to cheap labour, I'm all for them.
Even though I own some rudimentary power tools, including an ancient Sears tablesaw, my hand tools get the most use. For one thing, though I have made a fair amount of furniture, the biggest return on my woodworking skills has come from maintaining my house. A few basic tools can go a long way.

Besides, the tablesaw is almost always piled with crap, mostly from bike maintenance. ;-)
The invention of containers (FreeBSD jails) was to automate restoring vulnerable web apps that couldn't be patched / updated (edit: as well as allowing shared hosting with different perl requirements to co-exist on the same server) Every time tampering was detected they automated restoration and watched the attacker squirm as their changes kept reverting and files were disappearing.

Don't dismiss this concept. It's a perfectly valid approach in some scenarios.
Create your own digital whiteboard
It's almost £10000/year for EU citizens. Much higher for everyone else
3 Unlikely Areas in Which Virtual Reality Will Take Off – Galactic Brief
Community, Community, Community ….and Sustainable Competitive Advantage
Bathroom time is already wasted, so it's a guilt free opportunity to check your feed.

Unless you spend 5 minutes finding the phone first.
Here is data that suggests infant mortality ranges from 9.6 in Mississippi to 4.2 in MA. So by this metric, infant mortality is in fact LOWER for many people than in France (or many parts of Europe).

http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/infant-death-rate/?curr...
Interesting. In my part of the world a bathroom must contain either a shower or a bathtub and a toilet (or a WC) must contain a toilet bowl. In the article the word toilet was used in the title, switching to the "bathroom" in the text was confusing.
Not sure I agree with you. I'm here because I'm moving into the tech world but I'm coming from a background in photography.

Nearly all my friends in that world (me included) use topped out MacBooks for portable stuff and the video folks are using Mac Pros or hackintosh's. They certainly need more RAM, I know at least two guys who would have killed for 64GB RAM in a Macbook for their 4k video work. And I could certainly use it to speed up batch operations of hundreds of images, or even to be able to basically use the laptop when pushing around several 24mp RAW images in photoshop or even use a single RAW edit on a 42mp file from a Sony A7r2 which utterly killed my current MacBook with 8GB RAM.

I see loads of retorts like 'just use a desktop for the heavy lifting stuff' but that's so ignorant of the requirements on some markets. Needing to edit on the go is essential for many creators, especially for location shoots, and not even particularly complex ones, so power in a portable package is absolutely essential to folks well outside the 'developer' or tech world.

No one I know is thinking about getting the new MacBook. Some are hoping for next years update but others who are running older models and need an upgrade now are now casting around for alternatives.

They may know their market, but their market might not be what we think it is. It may be their market is moving to be like their phone market with a significant portion buying the brand jewellery Apple carries.

So I guess I'm saying that there is a large segment of media creators (who are often suckers like me for the styling of the Apple laptops) who are now not seemingly part of Apple target market, and that might be bad for the wider Apple brand.

I'm not particularly beholden to any manufacturer and nor are most of my friends. They go where they need to to get the kit that lets them do their job. There's an elastic period where a few issues can be overlooked but for me and others coming from this creation world the limit has been reached.
The current system - a bunch of clinical commissioning groups buying care from GPs employed by their surgeries not "The NHS" and from a bunch of separate hospital and mental health trusts not "The NHS" is pretty much what you describe.

We see a lot of private provision via the NHS (NHS patients going into private hospitals) in mental healthcare, and it's almost all lousy. (Even worse than the NHS MH care, and that's saying something.)

When you have 1 million patient contacts every 36 hours the gap between "good enough" and "good" is a lot of people and a lot of harm.
not to ruin your idealism (I agree with your sentiment) but university is not free in large parts of Europe (it is generally cheaper than US though).
> Your wealth will survive a health problem.

Really? Maybe a long duration but highly curable health problems. What happens to the blind or someone who loses both arms? Do they really have more wealth than their counterparts in the US?
> Although this test campaign was not focused on optimizing performance and was more an exercise in existence proof, it is still useful to put the observed thrust-to-power figure of 1.2mN/kW1.2  mN/kW in context. The current state-of–the-art thrust to power for a Hall thruster is on the order of 60mN/kW60  mN/kW. This is an order of magnitude higher than the test article evaluated during the course of this vacuum campaign; however, for missions with very large delta-v requirements, having a propellant consumption rate of zero could offset the higher power requirements. The 1.2mN/kW1.2  mN/kW performance parameter is over two orders of magnitude higher than other forms of “zero-propellant” propulsion, such as light sails, laser propulsion, and photon rockets having thrust-to-power levels in the 3.33–6.67μN/kW3.33–6.67  μN/kW (or 0.0033–0.0067mN/kW0.0033–0.0067  mN/kW) range.

Read More: http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/full/10.2514/1.B36120#_i36
The Psychology Behind the World's Most Recognizable Sounds [video]
The war isn't primarily an outlet for economic surplus in 1984, it serves as a justification for repression, labelling dissent as sabotage, rationing (in a way that preserves the best for loyal party members), and the normalisation of violence. See also the "two minute hate".

There are a lot of takeaways from Orwell's book, basically on how "Stalinism with English characteristics" might look, extrapolating from Orwell's encounters with actual Stalinists in Spain. Orwell is pretty much required reading for anyone who wants to be on the sensible left. But a need for war is not one of them.

(Brave New World has leisure industry as an explicit sink for surplus, though).
Avoiding HN entirely doesn't really solve the problem though.
Not quite. It's mostly not social media but there are similarities. There's a friends list here for sure where certain topics or people attract either similar or the same people. A small community effect happens there in the sub-threads. There's no private messaging but anyone posting an email or contact option will get messages if their posts are worthwhile. Anyone with HN Replies commenting a lot will have a pile of posts in their inbox on topics of interest. The last requirement mostly doesn't apply to decent members of the community but the sketchy ones dodge with with throwaways on a regular basis.

So, a bit closer to underlying mechanics of social networking in practice than it would seem on surface. Enough to get a similar participation high. That's on top of the knowledge expansion we use to justify the other high coming from the fact that we just enjoy reading this stuff. ;)
> Oh funny thing I found I was wrong about showdead setting there... I had assumed if I wanted myself to be declared dead/offline I could set my profile to show dead.. lol

What's its functionality?
Is Android Bloatware Coming to Chromebooks?
The general message is good: stop procrastinating and actually work (which is what I should be doing instead of mulling over the wording of this comment). The way it is written, however, is less than ideal because it has entirely too many unsupported claims. Without evidence it isn't a solid argument.

For example:
"My second objection concerns the idea that social media is harmless. Consider that the ability to concentrate without distraction on hard tasks is becoming increasingly valuable in an increasingly complicated economy. Social media weakens this skill because it’s engineered to be addictive. The more you use social media in the way it’s designed to be used — persistently throughout your waking hours — the more your brain learns to crave a quick hit of stimulus at the slightest hint of boredom."

I know it is a newspaper article and not an academic paper but I still need evidence to make me believe these claims are true. I've read people claiming that we are becoming more distracted but I haven't read that the ability to not be distracted is becoming more valuable. Similarly, while I've read claims that social media is addictive but not that it is engineered to be so.