skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FPGA Frontiers: New Applications in Reconfigurable Computing
I agree that lowend salaries are comparable but presumably people working on a startup are earning anything but lowend.

The social benefits are only worthwhile when you are older (you should have done it the other way around :) ) and you are reminded of the administrative difficulties half the time you use them.

Mid-range food may be less expensive here but service is just terrible (well, not 100% of the time but it happens often enough to be really annoying).

I thought the AZERTY and QWERTY layouts were about the same if you touchtype. There should be a software option to switch it.
About state health insurance, this link should be clearer, despite not being an official source. People with more Google-fu than me can post other links if they wish.

http://www.agipi.com/espace-public/consulter-nos-experts/san...

"Depuis le 1er janvier 2007, des sanctions contre toute personne qui, par quelque moyen que ce soit, inciterait les assurés sociaux à ne plus s’affilier à un organisme de Sécurité sociale ou à ne plus payer leurs cotisations sont applicables. Elles prévoient, entre autre, une peine de six mois de prison et/ou une amende allant de 7 500 euros à 15 000 euros."

Translation: incitating people to have no health insurance at all can get you to jail (up to 6 months).

About abortion:
http://www.20minutes.fr/societe/1931599-20160927-ivg-gouvern...

"Si l’amendement du gouvernement est voté, le délit d’entrave concernera désormais les sites qui véhiculent «des allégations ou une présentation faussée, pour induire en erreur dans un but dissuasif sur la nature et les conséquences d’une IVG»".
If it is not limitation of freedom of speech, I think it is very close.

http://www.france24.com/fr/20161129-france-episcopat-proposi...

"Si le texte est voté, ces faits seront punis des mêmes peines que l’entrave physique à l’avortement ou à l’information sur l’avortement, soit deux ans de prison et 30 000 euros d’amende."

So presenting biased information about abortion (at least in the "wrong" direction) can get you to jail (up to 2 years). If my sources are correct, this proves my points.

PS: sorry for French quotes. Too lazy to fully translate them.
A way to mitigate the attack is to use Google's Password Alert extension in Chrome [1]. If you enter your Google password on a non-Google domain, it immediately tells you that you've been phished and prompts you to change your password. I use this extension in conjunction with two-factor auth.

1. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/password-alert/noo...
> Recent iPhones are a distant second in terms of security architecture.

Source? Apple does some pretty sophisticated stuff around hardware security mechanisms and software correctness.

(I genuinely want a technical description of the mechanisms consoles use these days so I can read it -- not trying to start an argument...)
Easy XMPP: What are we doing here?
Totally been looking for something like this. Thank you!
Exactly. The first 25% I mentioned includes health insurance for your whole family with close to 0 deductibles (usually a few euros here and there), retirement plan and unemployment insurance (if you get fired, you can expect to get ~60% of your previous gross salary the first year, slowly decreasing after that) and at the very least 5 weeks of paid annual leave.
64-bit Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 ships for $25 to $30
The metaphor is extremely poor because you can't "do whatever you want" with your house. In fact you are extremely limited with what you can do with your house.

Real life example: I can't put an extension on the front of my house because it's prescribed that my house must be set back from the road X feet. I can't build a third story because the max is two stories in my neighborhood. I can't bulldoze my house and build a duplex as my lot, as well as entire neighborhood, is zoned single family. I can't buy a 3000 square foot lot and build a house, my city says all houses have to have at least a 5000 square foot lot. I can't even leave my garbage can outside unless it's garbage day.

And I don't even have an HOA!

There's no "debate," you can't come even close to doing what you want to your house and you never could. And you know what, for the most part, everyone who lives here is happy with it.
If the Eurostar were typically that expensive, then its competition (both aviation and coaches/ferries) would be absolutely crushing it in the market, and they aren't, which suggests that that is unusual.
I have also always pronounced /etc as "etsy". I'm always thrown off when people say "ee tee see" or "etcetera", but that's pretty rare in my experience.

The people who pronounce /usr as "you ess are" instead of "user" kind of drive me crazy though.
Dave's advice is excellent. Keep it simple, don't try to learn 20 different tools at once, and go from there.

My standard suggestions: start with the recently-revamped official React docs ( https://facebook.github.io/react/ ). Use the Create-React-App tool to set up a new project with no build configuration needed ( https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app ).

Beyond that, I keep a big list of links to high-quality tutorials and articles on React, Redux, and related topics, at https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links . Specifically intended to be a great starting point for anyone trying to learn the ecosystem.
A couple options:

If you want to self-employ and like the Netherlands: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAFT

If you recently graduated or are still in school: Irish working holiday

I'm sure there are others, but those are what come to mind if you're an American who wants to live/work and Europe and you don't have a sponsor and aren't funded (if you have capital, you have far more options, of course).
On average, a tenured physics professor will graduate a bit more than 10 PhD students over the course of their career. Physics as a field is not growing, so at most 10% of PhD students become professors. If you don't become a tenured professor there are very few jobs that aren't postdocs, and even if you wanted to you can't keep doing postdocs forever.
I found flights to Stockholm on flychecker at 67 €
It sounds like they're trying to fix that :)
I'm pretty sure I have never encountered "ect" from any person of any nationality.
> gave us the immense positive benefit of moving all capex to opex

Isn't it more correctly stated moving fixed costs to marginal costs? capex is mostly fixed, and opex is mostly variable, so you are not strictly incorrect.
I can see how your general point about political censorship could be true (I don't know enough about this to pass judgement), but I'm asking specifically about your comment on homosexuals.

Just to recontextualize this: This is a thread about the viability of startups in France. As I mentioned a bit further up, there are "no hate speech" rules all over Europe. Germany for example is far, far stricter than France about it ... and Berlin has a vibrant startup scene.

I generally agree that "inciting" is a loosely defined term and I, too, dislike how easy of a tool it can be for political censorship. But there's worlds between those details and some of the claims I'm finding in this thread.
I would love "real" specifications. But right now I'm already dealing with a boss that has no idea what he wants in terms of the UI. Simultaneously demanding I "know" what should be done without "taking on things nobody asked for."

Alas, I don't work at NASA where these formalities exist. I'm given a rough sketch that I'm expected to bring into life, throw away and recreate again on a whim.

Please note that I am not complaining, nor excusing. Only pointing out that our expectations, environments, and programming languages are different. Each can massively affect how the program should handle the input. Adding checks helps, but does not mitigate the need for a nice set of test data to help verify everything runs the way we expect it to behave.
Indeed, Ruby is a beautiful language, but so ridiculously slow.
Real Time Communication in the Startup World
A little-known Dutch visa for US entrepreneurs
Oh, I thought you needed to register an organization to use scoped packages. Thanks! (And yes, I don't mind the length... unless I'm paying for it.)
The first humans arrived in North America a lot earlier than believed
Which languages got the most GitHub stars in 2016? (interactive visualization)
Got links?
I'm an American that just spent five years in France. My experience, for what it's worth: I can't say enough nice things about it in every aspect outside of work. I lived in the south of France and I now realize how nice life can be.

Life -- not work. Working there was a nightmare. The pay is low, and while you can live on it, you're not really saving. For a while I was part of the startup community there and while there are many great programs from the government, there is a bit of a local mafia deciding things. Investors were so unsophisticated that technology itself seemed to scare them.

All-in-all, if I could have made it work, I would have done so in a heartbeat. Living there is simply a small piece of heaven on earth. There's just no way to viably work there that I could find.
Nim Language Draws from Best of Python, Rust, Go, and Lisp
I believe it's a common mispronounciation, but I have come across this quite often.
Automatically check code style for 9 languages on PR's with this new tool
They lie because the constraint is a lie. The years of experience requirement is entirely made up by a lazy hiring manager, and is just a poor proxy for "has this person tried and failed and learned enough from their mistakes to make well-reasoned decisions about future things without my constant oversight and input."
Well, I grew up probably under the federal poverty line, which tends to make undergrad cheaper, and in that sense I'm quite privileged ;)

I got a CS degree so that I could be employed, but have come to greatly appreciate the friendships that I made in school. MBAs are sometimes sold on the basis of the networking benefits, so my perception comes from that.
There's also miniNodes. They offer Pi, Pi 3 and other options, but they are more expensive than Scaleway: https://www.mininodes.com/hosted-arm-servers/
Not to mention one could certainly debate the definition of "free world".

Certainly wonder why this is being downvoted. If you're in prison you're certainly in no part of a free world. Even given the definition of the free world as being the democratic world, are you really a part of it in prison?
Hmm we may have a misunderstanding. I didn't make a comment about homosexuals, specifically. My point was rather that there are, de facto, state-enforced standards for political correctness in France and that this maps directly onto a form of censorship.

Or am I still missing your point?
"Strings which may cause human to reinterpret worldview"

Hah. Totally filtering for that one now.
Also, note that if you _do_ get a Blue Card it lets you work in most of the EU

"..The Blue Card is an approved EU-wide work permit (Council Directive 2009/50/EC)[1] allowing high-skilled non-EU citizens to work and live in any country within the European Union, excluding Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom.."

Though that is subject to change depending on the political climate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Card_(European_Union)
Yeah, I've talked to Thorsten over a email a little. I'm excited about his book too, and I hope it does really well. Go is a cool choice for a language book. It's low-level enough to let you show some of the fundamental algorithms, but not as tedious to work with as C and its manual memory management.
Someone's perception of their abilities is (usually) not the same as their actual abilities—that is, some people will over/underestimate themselves, which manifests as overconfidence or low self esteem. Sometimes its in a specific area too, like one person who thinks they're god's gift to programming (when they actually cause more problems than they think) but also hold the simultaneous belief that they're unattractive and un-datable to the opposite sex (the reality is somewhere in between).

> I can't understand something so it must not be real

Maybe that's a problem with you more than reality.
"The Plausibility of Life ends with a brief critique of intelligent design, suggesting that the concept of facilitated variation will provide a solid argument to rebut creationists. I applaud the authors' intention, as it seems to me that more scientists ought to face the realities of public misunderstanding of science. But their presentation is too brief, and a bit too simplistic. The "controversy" about evolution has nothing to do with the soundness of scientific explanations of the history of life: It's not a scientific controversy, but a social, cultural and political one. Creationism is the result of centuries of anti-intellectualism in the United States, coupled with sometimes cynical exploitation of the issue for political gain. In addition, many scientists have no interest in getting out of the ivory tower to talk to the very same public that pays their salaries and funds their precious research grants. The recent defeat of intelligent design at the trial in Dover, Pennsylvania—at the hand of a conservative judge appointed by George W. Bush—will do much more to promote sanity in public education than any theory about facilitated variation, as scientifically sound as the latter may be." http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/have-we-solve...
I live in Chicago, and the biggest inconvenience is when the weather is bad and they have to drive. That's honestly much more burdensome for people who live in the suburbs than people who live in the city itself. I've not even known Obama was in town until I rode my bike in to a checkpoint a block or so away from where he was eating lunch.

I honestly get much more annoyed when the secret service do their thing for presidential candidates, because the candidates tend to travel around a bit more and screw things up that way.
Thanks :)

Yep, planning on keeping the e-mail free forever!

Hopefully down the road I'll be able to monetize some other aspect, maybe an archive of all the emails or something like that. I'm open to ideas!
Political Determinants of Competition in the Mobile Telecommunication Industry
There can be little doubt that, in terms of environmental impact per passenger kilometre:

bus and train better than car better than air plane.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es4003718
Sorry, yeah. Those are the markers that the build script uses to insert the code snippets in the right place in each chapter.

I know it makes the code hard to read. I should probably slap together a little script to strip them out.
I think the issue with XMPP is the myriad of XEPs (XMPP extensions) which are optional, causing excessive fragmentation.

Some clients are excellent, like conversations.im. The problem is accidental complexity. Perhaps a solution would be to have a meta XEP that aggregates a few basic XEPs and defines a minimum common denominator.
Supposedly Google now doesn't count these as negatives, they just disregard them. Specifically because of this vulnerability.
> presumably people working on a startup are earning anything but lowend.

Perhaps not, and that's the reason for this program.
I have 0 friends using signal so it's hard to give it a try: Did they fix the multiple devices end-to-end problem? Can I continue a conversation from my smartphone on my desktop? (should be possible by mirroring the conversations and having 2 keys). This was what killed OTR for me (and that it fails on unstable mobile connections, and the setup).
chabuduo is the tradition of cutting corners long formed as the basis for china's fast economic growth. you can build the largest and the biggest infrastructures in the world as fast as possible but it won't be the longest lasting structure which NOT what current day china is about.
All property and privacy rights are societal norms in the first place. Society isn't violating any natural rights by taxing you. On the contrary, modern society actively protects you from having all your stuff taken by anyone strong enough to take it.
Yes, we'll do NaN-tagged values in the last chapter on optimization.
Look behind you
My link about health insurance was poorly proving my point indeed. I provided another one in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13411732

Your point concerning talk about the aforementioned minorities has already been answered.
Yes! PL Pragmatics was the first book on languages I read and I really enjoyed it.
To echo the sentiment of other replies here - I learned Mandarin (an incredibly difficult and tonal language) because I literally would have starved without it, and I became fluent in German in 6 months because of a woman. And I too spent years in high school learning Spanish and still lack the ability to construct basic sentences. It's all about the situation you're learning the language in.
> A single decision by Moxie or a single court order in some country can make Signal unavailable to a large part of its user base.

This is a great point made later on the thread.

And already happened in some countries, for example, with whatsapp.

Social pressure was big enough to revert it in a reasonable time, but time is very relative on how much you or your business relies on it.
It would (will..?) be a crying shame to see XMPP grind to a halt - but I suspect, sadly, that the honest answer to the question is "not one heck of a lot really". I don't know if it got started too early, or moved too slowly, or what - but in the end, it missed its boat.
France doesn't offer "free healthcare". If you go to the doctor on an outpatient basis, you pay for the visit up front* and will be reimbursed 80% of the reasonable and customary charges. If you need to go to the hospital, then you're not paying anything. Medicine is reimbursed at a lower rate with it's own plusses and minuses: Many items that would be over the counter in the US require a prescription (e.g. lactase enzyme). So it's a hassle to get it, but you'll also get reimbursed for it if you need it.

The schools are good, but they are also going to be very hard on your kids unless they are very young. Homework volume is high, and my own cynical view is that at least part of it is training kids for the experience of dealing with the difficulties of filling out lots of paperwork and dealing with the French civil service.

Source: Worked for two years in a French overseas territory.

The indigent and extremely poor have special programs whereby they are exempted from this.
*You can buy additional insurance that will increase the coverage to 100% and/or remove the need to pre-pay. That comes with the tradeoff of having to use the provider network that the insurance company has (a la US healthcare).
Techblog: How We at CLIQZ Protect Users from Web Tracking
That portrayal of the French system is a little bit biased. You could just as well say:

So what you are saying is that it is a great place if you are content with the government saving your life when you are ill without expecting hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills that will ruin the rest of your life? Without considering whether you are able to pay, as if you were a human being that deserves help and humanity? And helping you if you lose your job??!?!

As you see, neither of them helps the discussion a lot, as they are aggressive and the typical reaction would be to take a defensive position.

> Is there even an incentive to work?

Most of the people there work. A little bit later, as they take more vacation. And they survive. And on average wouldn't trade it for an American lifestyle.

It is a matter of life choices. And the point is that these programs enhance mobility so more people can choose, which is better.
I've heard France is a poor location for startups due to their existing regulations, incentives etc. It sounds like they should fix that first.
Jews are moving out of Frances by the thousands to Israel because they no longer feel safe in France as a result of radical Islam. Really sad.
I didn't love this book, it was OK. It's heavily based off The Goal, and I thought that book was a bit better. I think if you have a certain dysfunction in your team AND the mandate to fix it, then The Phoenix Project is a must read. For everyone else it's kind of a waste.
> I thought the AZERTY and QWERTY layouts were about the same if you touchtype.

... and never need a comma, or numbers.
Another data point (throwaway for privacy reasons) -- senior data scientist, 5 years experience, in Paris, working for a large American networking company. I am making 65 kEUR gross incl. bonus, i.e. 40 kEUR after all taxes.

And I am happy to be leaving soon for job in London paying 85 kGBP gross.
The airport in London and Paris aren't very convenient if you actually have to go to the city, and you need to add transportation costs to and from the city on both sides. Eurostar takes you to locations where people actually want to be.

AS for your 600 euros for a ticket, it's likely a last minute bought one at the most expensive time, it goes as low as 39 euros for a single, most people will pay under 300 for the round trip I guess...
Except, for the parts of the timeline when there was a Republican in power, the casualties (and drone strikes) were significantly less.
Yeah, that is annoying. I think for my previous book, I used a little cookie support in JS to hide it persistently after the first time you closed it.

I'll try to resurrect that for this one.

https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/issues/11
It's. Not. Free. It's why the salary numbers are what they are.
ok ill ask - i'm a bit confused why this is on the top

has anyone else gained anything from this - could they point out insight i've missed?

my 2c:
It seems like though it does have the word "Deep Learning" - it does a rudimentary approach to stock price prediction and from a research level does not make any novel contributions to learning, architecture or signal finding in finance necessarily -- though I might just be missing something :)
>he pays $27 per month for his health insurance through his employer, and it's a nice plan.

This is really an outlier. The US average for employee premiums is $104/month for individuals and $392/month for families.
eBay sellers overwhelmingly offer items with private value, as opposed to, say, Pork Bellies for resale, so the Winner's Curse does not apply.
Public housing, medicaid, food stamps aren't the only form of government assistance. It's better to not make comments that tell your story that depend on partial statistics. It's easy to respond that states voting for Trump on a whole receive more federal aid than ones that didn't. The situation is likely more complex than what you've described.
Yeah those are usually referred to as "terminal masters", meaning that you terminated your education with as MS.
It's a branded thing from a guy who wrote a book called the Bulletproof Executive. He uses MCG oil instead of coconut oil. I heard about it from Ace of Spades's blog. Ace is on a diet called "intermittent fasting" and he writes about the coffee here: http://ace.mu.nu/archives/364949.php

I can't testify as to its magical properties, but it does help me get through several hours without breakfast and tastes great.

For me it's one large k-cup of coffee with:

1 tbsp unsalted butter

~1 tbsp coconut oil

1 packet Flavia sweetener

pinch of cinnamon

Get an immersion blender (a little hand-held device that looks like an O-shaped coil at the end of a wire) and use it to mix it all up frothy...
"good enough", if you don't want to google
Still it doesn't make me want to use their services.

They may indeed be really good at securing their data but 'their data' ironically is derived from my emails and browsing history and that of my friends.
Don't get it wrong, we're not lacking interesting tech jobs at all, we're lacking interesting salaries.