skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"the attitude towards healthcare : it's not a business, rather a right"
"I first heard the words "Preexisting condition" when I moved to London and researched private insurance there."

Might that be a reflection that it's private healthcare in a country which already provides free healthcare?

The human right to healthcare is already catered for in the UK, through the NHS, so private healthcare doesn't have to accommodate the right, it's simply a business.
Thanks for your comment, i edited it.
I mean they didn't mention what the fee would be. Or did I miss something?
Craft your resume around the job you want. Add in the other details to fit. If you dont know what you want, do more internships, soul searching, or perhaps even explore career coaches.

The best thing getting my food in the door in silicon valley was to move there; quite a few opportunities for qualified candidates afterwards. Even research labs at Stanford or Cal still value hiring the broad experiences you describe and could be a foot in the door.
I said this in another thread, but I want to make it clear here as well:

> 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.

I don't particularly like the idea of restrictions on free speech. But I also don't particularly like when people's health and livelihoods, public safety, the earth's climate are all damaged by sleazy tactics from people who want to make a quick buck.

I don't like that said restrictions are a tool that can be abused by those in power ... but isn't that just about everything? Surveillance? Police forces?

We make tradeoffs because our world is not made of absolutes. The US makes those tradeoffs as well, the line is just elsewhere. Being a "terrorism sympathizer" in the US will potentially earn you a free trip to Cuba. And that is also a tool that has been used for political censorship.

When I look at the end result, though, we have a country where abortion is a right and saying "god hates fags" is not. The US is the other way around. I know which outcome I prefer.
Biometrics leads to arrest of accused child molester on the lam 17 years
He make an error, indeed

In fact, the tax we will be a bit lower than your (correct) calculation, because the calculation should be made on 90% of the income only.

So, the result is 1530 € (there's another insignificant reduction after calculation). And that's an effective 6,6% tax rate.
I doubt human programmers can be fully replaced, and I'm not saying testing is completely useless. But the sheer number of “naughty strings” in that list is an indictment of our languages: They have way too many corner cases, way too many traps for us to fall into.
This is clever, but it's kind of a case study in pedantry - ignore the surrounding context in favor of hyperfocus on one element, the focus level being largely irrelevant to the surrounding context.
There's an issue where navigating to the next slide from the first slide brings you back to the first slide.
I'm not sure if this is intended.
Such things are not mutually exclusive.

You can protest more than one thing at the same time. One person can work on protesting something less important, while 50 other people protest more important things. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that.

If one were to follow the logic you're suggesting, absolutely nothing can be protested at any given time, except for the single most important thing (and how is that going to be decided exactly). Otherwise, it would always come back to: hey wait, this isn't our best use of time, because there is something more important to focus on.
> Just to use round numbers, here is a breakdown for a single person making $120k/yr in California at a typical tech company.

Is that total cost to employer for that employee? Or are there additional expenses that are not considered part of employee gross income but instead fall under "employer pays for them" category?
Let's make it simple:

Paris has maybe 10% of the tech scene of London.

Lyon (2nd city of France) has maybe 10% of the tech scene of Paris.
The evolved role of female breasts in sexual attraction and arousal is as "inherent" and biologically-based as the evolved role of the male penis in sexual intercourse.

The idea that a body part having a sexual function is a good justification for banning it from being uncovered in public is dubious, and trying to spread a false narrative about breasts having no such function just so you can defend reasonable treatment of breasts without challenging this dubious social standard is fairly self-defeating.
To work on theoretical physics, you anyway do need a job in physics or win the lottery - doing it as a hobby for 15 hours a week after a job doesn't count, to get anywhere you do need to be able to work on it full time for a few years.
This is great. Though I must say that more than few people here believe they deserve $200K+ pay for next generation CRUD app.
I don't know why people assume I live in the US :/ I have no idea how the US system works in practice, I'm just saying to the OP that as a person who did emigrate for work within EU the arguments he listed mean very little to me.
Intel’s new Kaby Lake processors: No performance gains
My comment contained an opinion and I believe it to be well-founded, even if unpopular here.
right... nothing valid to say...
Have you thought about de-emphasizing the less relevant experiences? Find the companies you're interested in, tailor your resumé to be mostly what is applicable, and then hint at your expanded experience. As an example, a one-liner on "optics, microwave engineering, and semiconductor fabrication" says a lot already.
We Must Learn How to Talk about Science--Fast
> "Juergen Schmidhuber, often referred to as the father of AI"

What?

reading further...

> he New York Times recently referred to him as a would-be father of AI.

Clicking the link to the NYTimes article

> When A.I. Matures, It May Call Jürgen Schmidhuber ‘Dad’

English as a second language person here, but is it just me or the Bloomberg subtitle does not reflect at all what the NYT title is saying?
The Plan for Immortality
In case the headline in the article confuses anyone, there still are living people who walked on the moon (for instance Buzz Aldrin), but Gene Cernan was the most recent person to do so, having been on the final Apollo mission. Nobody has walked on the moon since
damn, thats crazy when you put it like that. I really hate the music that is played in our office, rather bad. I've been considering wearing headphones but don't want to damange my ears!
Expand your imagination, it is a predictable dynamic.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/opinion/sunday/artificial...

https://www.propublica.org/article/breaking-the-black-box-ho...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/09/19/amazon-echo...
Simplified map from national geographic helps show migration patterns of the world: https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/human-journey/

Actual article is open-access: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

Simply amazing that a human community existed for 8,000 years in total isolation from the world.
I thought Android is one of the best-supported platforms with conversations.im?
Uh, maybe I'm missing something, but aren't backlinks the entire concept Google is based on?
So is yours. That "50ghz ASIC" isn't even going to generate enough BTC to even pay for the power it uses, much less actually make money. So it literally might as well not be there.
yep, I see a lot of people gravitating towards this.

or...host it yourself!
> This happened with reddit in Russia...

Is reddit really blocked in Russia? It seems there are many Russian posters there, particularly in t_d...
Same argument could apply to slavery. The point is that cultural conventions are not always right.
You're so wrong on each and every point that I don't know what to tell you, man.
They're treated differently because western culture treats women and their bodies as objects to be consumed and nothing more.
I am American and say "ee tee cee" for /etc.. but this could possibly be because I taught myself computer science online when I was a kid and so never heard people say many of the terms out loud.
I'd be inclined to skip this sort of thing on handheld-scale batteries.

It only makes sense when a large battery serves as a power store for something like a vehicle, where a fire extinguisher stands between a cabin full of concussions and a cabin full of charred corpses.

Cell phones are sold to us as disposable trash, that corporations and governments use to eavesdrop on our lives. We're trained to sneer at a cell phone more than a year old.

From Wikipedia:

However, an increasing number of studies
have linked exposure to TPP with reproductive
and developmental toxicity, neurotoxicity,
metabolic disruption, endocrine effects, and
genotoxicity. TPP has also been found to
induce significant estrogenic activity

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

There aren't a lot of teeth to regulations for responsible battery disposal. Even in countries with healthy recycling programs. If I threw all my old cell phone batteries into landfill today, I could safely gamble with any punishment risked.

Now add unspent fire suppressant to the list of things that go in the garbage with last year's cell phone?
You've surely run across them, but: Brad DeLong and and Mark Thoma post a ton of interesting links every day.
I don't have first-hand experience as a candidate so I can't really contribute more to the discussion. I assume that like most positions where the job isn't a 1:1 mapping with the degree, some initiative beyond just presenting the degree will be necessary and you'll need to demonstrate an awareness and competence in the field you're pursuing.

I've done a fair amount of hiring and I know that a candidate with a physics or mathematics degree who also had a programming background that was commensurate with the position would look a lot better to me than one with a compsci degree, all else being equal.

That should tell you what college degrees are worth these days, though. The candidate primarily needs commensurate background. Degrees are effectively neutral -- too widespread to penalize people for taking that route, but really not worth much extra, unless in the course of your studies you accidentally did something really interesting, but then you probably could've done interesting things without the educational institution.
Did you miss the part where he said he had health insurance paid for by his employer?
Animatronic dinosaurs, why bother?

It's because keeping a highly intelligent animal captive and part of a circus borders on cruelty even if the crew is doing their utmost to help the animals.

In the wild they roam over extraordinary distances. They're creatures that explore. Keeping them penned in, if not for conservation or academic purposes, is something we should avoid.

If they could give consent, sure, but I don't see that bridge being crossed any time soon.

Note this also applies to dolphins and other non-human people.
EU: Robot Workers Are 'Electronic Persons'
Precisely. You can celebrate the animal without keeping them captive.
McDonald's is in complete control of the prices inside their restaurant. That sounds like a "monopoly" to me!
I'm someone who would look forward to being able to buy drugs without a prescription. Doctors are expensive and in many cases useless. I have low testosterone. It was easy to diagnosis via a blood test. It's easy to treat via simple drugs, and it's easy to follow best practices(every 6 months get a hematocrit, and testosterone test) But I have to drive across town and spend $200 every 6 months for some guy to do the same thing.

But you're right there is the issue of it's hard for an individual to consent without being informed. So I think the manufacturers should be responsible for putting out a course that teaches and informs the end-user about the drug, and it's risks. (of course they would be legally responsible for any unreasonable omissions, or reasonable misunderstandings)
But who is being the pedant? The owners of the account, or Instagram, or the unexamined cultural norm?
I'm not saying it isn't a valid debate, I'm saying in this instance the premise is already misogynistic before a single line of code is written, so the debate doesn't apply here.
I wonder how it compares to this: https://tinyjpg.com/
Continuity of insurance is an issue. My wife currently requires a fairly expensive drug (thousand+ per dose), and gets 1-3 months supply at a time. With insurance, it's quite affordable. (separate rant)

Every time I switch employers, or my employers switch insurance, it begins a long process of getting the right info (the insurance always contracts out specialty drugs), then getting that info to the doctors office (Drs offices, btw, never make it easy to talk to someone), then the doctor has to send the info to the right insurance company (rare is the doctors office that follows through the first time), then the insurance company will sit on it for a while (I've heard crazy things like "it takes 48 hours before we can confirm that we got the fax, and only then can we begin to 'process' the fax, which can take 1 day to 1 week"), and probably reject it. Then I have to find out this happened (this is absurdly difficult), then the drs office can appeal. Last time the appeal actually involved my wife's doc talking to an insurance company doc on the phone! Thankfully, her doctor is unusually reachable and was willing to do this.

So, generally speaking, it takes 1-2 months before she can get the medication that prevents her from being effectively crippled. since the previous insurance gave 1-3 months at a time, she often ends up falling behind on doses when this occurs.

I've had 2 jobs in the last 5 years, but 5 insurance companies (my companies kept spinning off or getting absorbed), and each time the process was stressful, even though each health care plan was quite good, relative to most of the US. So I can see a healthcare argument as being highly relevant.

Add in those that work 1099 or other such arrangements, and it matters more.
A comment I thought I'd never see on HN.
I don't intend to write these, but I know that people are working on things like plugins for Network Manager, which has a GUI, so I think a GUI-able WireGuard will be a reality at some point.

I also have an Android client written but still private, which I suppose constitutes a GUI.

So: the future will probably include clicks and swipes!
Signing the cookie with IP would break the site for everyone with changing IPs, e.g. mobile users on cellular networks. Web site sessions should persist across IPs.
Presumably at a large scale there would be resources available to design and manufacture a completely custom board -- its the low scale applications this unlocks that make it exciting.
I agree, @Soared - where you at?
> I basically got 0 value out it, considering I'm young and healthy I would not have to pay much for insurance, you're mostly footing the bill for the pensioners.

Wait, what? What if you are diagnosed with a major illness? Are in a major car accident? etc, etc.

The problem in the US is that people who are otherwise comfortable and healthy have their entire fortunes turn around, for the rest of their lives, due to unforeseen illness/incidents.
automated disavowing, maybe? Sucks, but may be necessary.
Yes, so it's not "technically illegal". That's how courts work when deciding law.
Git-quick-stats – A simple and efficient way to access various statistics
In 2013, the xmpp community decided to enforce TLS on all server-to-server links [0]. Google still doesn't support this, essentially preventing non-gmail users to communicate with them.

While OTR is a possible solution, it has its own can of worms (multi-device, offline use).

Besides of this, Gmail xmpp silently fails if the other party upgraded to hangouts.

[0] https://github.com/stpeter/manifesto/blob/master/manifesto.t...
هام: ولد عبد العزيز يلوح بقطع العلاقات مع فرنسا (تفاصيل)
In the next few months? Zero. This year, there's the Compute Module 3, and the Pi 3A. Eben Upton said not to expect a Pi4 anytime soon.

The bcm2835 (in the Pi1) was chosen for convenience, because of the connections the developers had, and price. The 2836 and 2837 worked out because they were close to drop-in replacements, so when the chip costs came down enough to be affordable, the modifications were relatively minor. To move forward, they'll need to redesign the next board, and at the very least choose a different chip family that includes real USB host hardware.
The phenomenon of "citogenesis":

https://xkcd.com/978/
I definitely find this. I often put my headphones on without music just so people won't bother me
One of the challenges of North American archaeology is that it's likely that many potential archaeological sites are now underwater, since sea level was about 400 feet lower at the peak of the last ice age.
I still wonder how come the first syntax was considered a good idea in the first place ?

Figuring how to configure webpack 1 (haven't tried 2) is crazy, and I don't understand how people able to construct such a complex tool that is currently unique on the market, and works so well, managed to design a conf settings that badly.
I'm gonna second what steve1011 says. If it's just dampening down noise you're after good earplugs are probably better than the best noise canceling headphones.

I wore industrial grade earmuffs and earplugs most all day long when I did metal work. That's not the same as wearing them in an office environment all day but I didn't find earmuffs terribly uncomfortable and I just looked at few newer models that look pretty close in design and weight as the Bose headset for about $30.

Both plugs and muffs have pros and cons. Plugs are less conspicuous, and muffs are easier to get on and off.

My own experience is that they work about the same (if both are high quality) and I generally wore both when doing metal work because the loud hammering and grinding I did was especially damaging to our hearing and there was a very noticeable difference than when using only one of those.

The earplugs I used were made out of "memory foam" (like the bed mattresses use). There are other types I tried but they were not near as good.
I keep joking with my kids that they need to prepare for university in Europe somewhere... I think I would have loved the experience of it in my past, but I hesitate to force that upon them now.
> Should I be able to post a picture of my scrotum to Instagram?

I'm radical enough to say, "sure." Doesn't hurt me any.

Sadly, we live in a society where genitals (and acts of sex) are not typically tolerated in public. That sucks. And if you want to undo that, I'm with you. Sex in public!

But there's also a different standard here. Restraining your ability to display your testicles in public (for example, on Instagram) doesn't, to my knowledge, affect your capacity to get by in life.

You might not realize this (or maybe you do), but for poor or homeless women, the difference between being able to breastfeed in public (and in some cases, at work) is the difference between being able to breastfeed and not, which in turn is the difference between statistical likelihood for a number of favorable health outcomes and not.

There's no reason not to tolerate - in fact embrace - the display of breasts and breastfeeding in socially normal places. It is a huge help to many women.
I generally use RemarkJS to create my slides (https://github.com/gnab/remark).

However, what's the difference between this tool and https://slides.com/ (and it's MIT open sourced at https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js/) ?

EDIT: not saying you should not create this tool...but what was the motivation? (or the differentiation factors?)
Duterte is pretty clear about this question. Those who are not parasites or degenerates will be left.
That argument doesn't work since you can say the exact same thing about necks and thighs.
I've heard people say "ek cetera" quite a bit.
Not sure what's your point. Or why you used quotes around the word breasts.

Since you assert that complaining is a valid way to get companies to change their practices, then certainly you're in support of an account which is designed to complain about Instagram's practices, right?
But this convention is right. And I guess even most women don't want to free the nipple because they are happy with this cultural convention.
> people in the french administration aren't going to communicate with in you English.

They won't communicate in French either. They bark at you. And you bark at them. Whoever barks the louder wins.
Godspeed Gene. I hope another generation soon has the fortitude to put forth the effort you and everyone else did to make Apollo happen.

It's a shame to see the mantle of the last man on the moon not be passed on before he passed on himself.
And what's the answer if you DONT believe someone with a clear financial incentive to discourage competition? What an awful quote!
SmartThings with “Several Unpleasant Announcements” for 2017
Strange, I have it working with rc3.
I have an ES6 module exporting tons of Array utils. I definitely see the build size fluctuate depending on whether I import 1, 2, etc of these util functions, whether with webpack 1 (or most bundling tool apart from rollup) I would pay the entire file's price upfront.
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Ask HN: How do you offer your startup employees 100% health insurance?
Hey all!

Coming from one startup to another and trying to assist with growth and recruiting. We really would like to offer 100% paid health insurance (100% employee, and possibly couple/family, but likely a percentage of couple/family.) When speaking to brokers/PEO's I've been advised that if we offer 100% it becomes a non-contributory plan, and ALL employees must enroll. We were planning on offering a salary stipend if they didn't need it, but seems with 100% that's not possible. Has anyone run into this? How do you offer your employees 100% insurance without redundantly paying for it for those who don't actually need it (i.e. on spouses' plan, etc.) Thanks so much!
Do you have the option to pay into the French state pension as a non-resident French citizen? For example, in Canada I'm not aware of any mechanism to voluntarily pay into the Canada Pension Plan for a strict Canadian non-resident.

This would only be of note if you plan to retire in your original country of origin, in your case France.
Yes, you're correct; but I found the UI too ugly and at that point I was already too frustrated. It's probably me, but I had put already too much time on something that shouldn't be an issue.
I made my own "noise cancelling" headphones by buying a set of ex army ear protectors and wiring in the drivers from an old pair of Sony headphones. They are very effective. Once in work I watched everybody in the office stand up and put on their coats, then start to wave at me. I was very confused until I took off the headphones and realised the fire alarm was going off
That happens when you play loud music with them on. Not just wearing them to cancel noise. They protect your hearing used that way.