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I totally agree. I think the conversation around healthcare in the US seems incredibly polarised, to the point where no reasonable middle-ground can be achieved that works for both Democrats and Republicans. The system you've described seems to cover both bases, with coverage for all in times of need but the ability to leverage the market to drive innovation and improved quality. It seems to work well in the UK, for those that can afford BUPA cover.
Your assuming seats cost significantly more. That's not nessisarily true as the fuel costs are offset by need 1/2 the aircraft and far less crew time etc. So, if someone is looking at say a twenty percent premium and thinking about trying to sleep in coach that's an easy choice.
I didn't see error bars or distribution within each category on those graphs. Are these results significant enough to indicate these traits have more then a few % points impact on upward mobility chance?
Its "whats God's phone number?" you filthy casual ..
>Basically, the only way to prove that it works is by showing that modern medicine adopted the approach after systematic evaluation and at that point it is part of modern medicine.

I don't think that's true. That study you linked to indicates that it is possible to do clinical research on many alternative modalities. Indeed, I see plenty of papers coming out that make the attempt, and lots of reviews and meta-analyses thereof. They tend to conclude one of two things:

- the methodology of the stud[y|ies] is poor

- the research is positive but too small in scale/particular in conditions to base decisions on

- they don't demonstrate a strong correlation between the application of the treatment and the desired outcome

If some of those studies from the second block were repeated with larger, more diverse samples, I'd be less wary of alt med in general, I think.

>Another example that still isn't fully accepted is cupping. Wikipedia page on it suggests that it is not useful beyond placebo. But here [1] is a recent study that says it's effective.

The Wiki page seems to suggest that cupping, when recommended for chronic neck/shoulder pain, is treated with cautious optimism by most scientists, for the reasons noted above. The study you mentioned is strong methodologically, but the sample size is tiny, and composed primarily of women.

>A modern medicine alternative might be to take some kind of painkiller that might damage the liver in large doses.

I think this is a pretty unfair stereotype; certainly painkillers are over-prescribed, but that doesn't mean that all of modern medicine is wrapped up in the use of pharmaceuticals. Lifestyle changes, physical therapy, massage, etc. are all things that conventional physicians will recommend.
This generally won't solve the commute issue; you spend time driving, parking, on the train, walking/subway to work area. And then all of that in reverse. You still 'lose' 50+ minutes each way.
That's a name I hadn't heard in a long while.

Almost a decade ago, I worked on a project with them, where we added tracking for Halal/Kosher status of their additives — As many of their products end up in food, ingredients coming into the factories were marked as Halal and/or Kosher, and those properties had to be correctly bubbled up the intermediates all the way to final products.
Surgeons and anesthesiologists in Argentina. Is a famous trade quirk here. I think surgeons cannot unionize by law, but anesthesiologists can, but im not sure about that.
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There's also Symrise, Firmenich, IFF and Takasago. No need to boost Givaudan over its competitors.

Fun fact: Symrise used to be two companies, Dragoco and Haarmann & Reimer, both based in Holzminden, Germany, and separated by a two-lane road.
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Wow, I completely forgot the ranges of different atmosphere regions since I was in secondary school.

This picture here makes me wonder:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Earth%27...

Did any spacecraft manage to fly through an aurora? Wouldn't it be cool if someone did that and shoot photos from within?
>I get the feeling that when you're winning at life in America, you're really winning

Depends on what you mean by winning.

If by winning you mean having lots of money to buy your family a bunch of stuff, then yeah.

However, if by winning you mean having the time to build a strong relationship with your family and maintaining your own physical and mental health, then you might have a more difficult time with that.
>Getting new hires up to speed is expensive enough that they'd be pretty stupid to actually do this. Sure a few do, but it isn't common.

I believe the point they were making is simply that they can. You're not protected (aside from the small handful of reason that actually are protected).
It's not a sugar-content analyzer -- though it can do that. It is a consumer grade NIR spectroscope that pairs with a smart phone. Whether that will prove to be useful or not is up for debate but the capability for consumers seems truly novel to me.
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Isn't the point of elahd's story that Uber/Lyft drivers are already regulated (particularly) extensively in NYC, but that the regulations (at least in that instance) are ineffective?
I barely have any machine learning experience, I would need hours of research to come up with sth good enough to show.
It's not that.

The 95% is the limit. You can't extract solar power with a higher efficiency. (Funny thing that you can extract energy from Earth, radiating it away, with ~99% efficiency.)

86.8% and and 40% are theoretical limits to some current technologies. The others are people debating what is the best available on the market (with varying definitions of "available").
I would stop using Google, and so would a lot of people.
cancel cancellation fees. problem solved.
100% the best success story I can think of to come out of one so far.
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I've not worked for Google, but their campus always struck me as a slick disguise for a poor work-life balance for single twenty-somethings.
Machiavellianism (willingness to manipulate and deceive others), Narcissism (egotism and self-obsession), Psychopathy (lack of remorse and empathy), Sadism (pleasure in suffering of others) in REAL World
I think that decision to withhold the destination of the ride from drivers was a very bad idea they should repeal.

They wanted to be sure that drivers don't choose convenient riders and leave less convenient ones unserved, but a) it didn't work, only introduced this "you cancel, no, you" game after destination becomes apparent, and b) opportunistic drivers can no longer give a ride to people who go in the same direction, because they can't tell; limiting driver base to semi-professionals who have nothing else to do.
Conspiracy theory, this is related to the changing dynamics of popular media. These advertisers are actually concerned about money going to non-approved media sources. The extremists videos are a happy coincidence / excuse for them to act on.
Surprise, surprise. Propaganda and "fake news" existed during Romans' time, too.
There's not a duct tape mod?
Well, my impression is that the big family holiday in the US is Thanksgiving more than Christmas?
Speaking of Scythia - somewhat bizarrely Scottish legends claim that the Scots were originally from there!

"They journeyed from Greater Scythia by way of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Pillars of Hercules, and dwelt for a long course of time in Spain among the most savage tribes, but nowhere could they be subdued by any race, however barbarous. Thence they came, twelve hundred years after the people of Israel crossed the Red Sea, to their home in the west where they still live today."

Declaration of Arbroath, 1320.
You are probably right. I just used the authors title. I also found it fascinating and the scroll effects were a nice bonus :)
I've also found these to be helpful:

The Language and Grammar of Mathematics, from The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, by James Gowers: http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/gowers/gowers_I_2.pdf

Reading Mathematics, by John Hamal Hubbard: http://www.math.cornell.edu/~hubbard/readingmath.pdf
Yeah, I bet parent comment was generalizing from the UK.
there is evidence dinosaurs and humans lived together, look at the fossils found and the ancient art.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVSx2wTZ3UU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xas8UixoMIQ
I'm not sure I understand the question. What do you think the options are? I only see a few:

* Give it your best shot

* Bail and tell them you can't/won't do it

* Tell them you need more time to show you what you're capable of

Not knowing what the test actually involves it's difficult to provide any meaningful advice. There are a lot of packaged solutions for ML these days, and many of them are relatively easy to get started with. There are even books that walk you through the process.

If I were doing it I'd just resign myself to the fact that a weekend, even assuming you could be productive for 48h straight, is only 48h.

If I really wanted the job I'd take a good portion of those to giving it my best shot, but I'd sleep and take breaks to avoid the burnout and poor quality that would come through.

If, on Monday morning, I felt comfortable enough with my result, I'd send it to them and say "this is what I had time to do". If I didn't feel like it was at the caliber I believed they'd accept, I'd tell them I took my best shot, but it wasn't up to my own standards, and ask what they thought the next steps should be.

I'd be honest about wanting the job, I'd be honest about the holes in my knowledge, and I'd ask for advice.
Parenting is now much more involved then it used to be. You can not tell your seven years old to go play alone outside. You don't just have four-five years old playing whole day, they have to have enriching activities up to teaching them letters etc.

In the past, you would marry for many different reasons that had nothing to do with children - including simply social pressure or wish to be more independent from parents.
Weekends have hours. The internet and books have enough to get going.

So far it sounds like you already have your answer.
Im pretty sure that even after adjustment, savings rates for software engineers in SF is much higher than in Berlin.

There are many perks to Berlin over SF, but salaries and net income are not it.
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Exactly. Along with taxis, diesel vans are another huge contributor that must be prioritised.

They're some of the dirtiest, most polluting vehicles - and many are on central London streets constantly making deliveries, etc.

It would make sense to focus subsidies on getting these guys into electrics/hybrids first. Each diesel van off the road has a much bigger impact on air quality than, say, getting Grandma a subsidised Nissan LEAF.
So basically emacs is faster than sublime on tests that are not completely made up? So why am I seeing so much praise for sublime here?

Also, mg is starting to grow on me. I think it should replace nano and vi as the default unix editors.
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My history books from school reported on the inclusions of gypsies and gays in the Holocaust without being labelled holocaust denial. This sounds like a red herring.
No it's not. He stated that he went to the regulator and complained and they dismissed it.

He actually received remedy from his credit card, which is not a regulatory requirement but rather the free market at work.
> I'm even of the mind that mere possession of any piece of media cannot be properly regarded as criminal, precisely because it interferes with the far more important right to free speech.

While I agree in principle with the sentiment, by calling it "piece of media", you presume it to be something inert.

Stepping outside the context of obscenity for a bit, code is data and data is code. It used to be (50-100y ago) a reasonable valid argument that any media is "just words" or images, unable to hurt anyone/thing unless interpreted and acted upon by human volition. However in today's information technology-enabled society, we have automated systems and machines that will consume the data on a piece of media, and automatically perform real-world actions that have large consequences and may hurt people.

Weaponized exploit code (etc) can exist on a piece of media, and you can imagine how a rule that "mere possession of any piece of media cannot be properly regarded as criminal" can somehow always be wrangled into a loophole that abuses this rule. Information is a very weird and fluid beast, just look at the oddities around "illegal primes" or "coloured bits", to see where computational science and law collide.

I believe that our old intuitions about the fundamental nature of "information" are being challenged in a way. I don't have solutions or answers, either. I want the freedom too, but saying it's "just information" on a piece of media is a bit too quick.
The ex-aerospace engineer in me is super excited. But the realist in me fears this a decadent polluting toy for elites in a post-combustion world. Versus VR and other remote technologies which will solve many of the issues it also attempts to address it just seems like a moonshot from a bygone era.
Does anyone know a good website were you can buy small amounts of different "engineered food flavorings? I would like to experiment with them in my cooking.
Ask HN: How Is Stripe Radar Performing?
Since stripe introduced Radar, we've seen our fraud rate drop to literally zero. We're low-risk for fraud as we don't ship anything physical, but this still seems remarkable: is Radar really that good? How has it affected Stripe's valuation?
Its just a smart ass comment with no real value.

Yes the Linux scheduler doesn't differentiate between threads and processes(see NPTL vs LWP) However I was pointing out that although the kernels just schedules "tasks" instead of threads and processes it is far more efficient to schedule threads than processes on some processors - example pre-ARMv6 didn't use address space tags on its TLB so a context switch to a different process required the whole whole TLB to be flushed which means the kernel will need to walk the page table to get the translations for the physical pages for the newly scheduled process.
> I'm a neophyte player (1250), actively learning. I can definitely see how learning chess to a respectable level (~1500) can help you make decisions in everyday life.

It won't. Chess is a game, you can learn chess to play a better game of chess and maybe you'll find other games where you can use the knowledge gained (but less likely), but you will rarely - if ever - be in a position where you apply a lesson learned in chess to a real life situation. And if you did you probably would end up making a mistake.
Yeah, exactly. Parent comment is just someone who wants to believe that regulation is inherently good and productive.
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The biggest reason to not use jpeg for pictures of text [1] is that as more compression is applied it discards the higher frequency components first. Text being full of thin little lines (aka high frequency changes) is one of the first things to be mangled.

A quick little test I ran was to take a screenshot of my desktop and the file sizes were:

PNG: 735k

PNG (optimized w/ pngcrush): 589k

JPEG 80: 660k (minimal artifacts, but they can be seen on inspection)

JPEG 30: 313k (text regions are starting to get muddy and take more effort to read)

JPEG 10: 163k (this is like trying to read text in a colorblindness test, lot of distracting artifacts)

On a more positive note, I enjoyed browsing your Documents folder :)

[1]: IMO screenshots should use lossless formats in general
Usually spacecraft are launched near the equator if possible, so aurorae aren't particularly prevalent there. Furthermore, since the atmosphere is ionized there, I'd guess spacecraft would avoid launching if it meant passing through it. Since atmospheric charges due to thunderstorms and clouds are already a concern I wouldn't expect an ionized part of the atmosphere to be any different.
Check this out https://www.nasa.gov/content/flying-through-an-aurora

Also google image search for "space shuttle aurora"... spectacular pictures!
No, it does not show that. /dev/zero and /dev/null are special.

If you want to abstract away disk IO then use a memory drive.
Aren't we at the stage where "balance of system" costs are starting to dominate: wiring, mountings, inverters, installation labour and so on? Or is that only true for house-scale systems?
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Could you explain why 95% is "the limit"? Are you saying 95.0% efficient solar panels are possible, but 95.1% efficient solar panels are impossible? What's the limiting mechanism here and why is it such a nice round integer?
Yep. History is written by... the people that cared to write it down. And Romans wrote a lot.
While I personally wouldn't buy it if I can help it, I don't see a problem with commercially offering compilers per se.
The thing I'm having trouble with is potential injection of code (backdoors, etc.) and other security concerns, eg. if a customer of yours is having an imminent issue with your product, you're dependent on the third party tool provider.
We both have health insurance and both of our out of pocket maximums in health savings accounts as well as one years expenses in liquid assets not to mention our retirement accounts. We also both have short and long term disability though our jobs. If both of us became ill there is a possible scenario that we have to sell the house, yes but we prefer to have the oppuntinity to own a home as opposed to renting a apartment with slightly less risk. It isn't a big home, it is extremely modest and costs less than an apartment in our area. Our mortgage is our only debt.

We got here by saving together and living in a one room apartment for 5 years. We don't have new cars or iPhones and we go out to eat about once a year (that we pay for her mother offers to take us out from time to time). I just upgraded my 30 inch CRT TV to a 50 inch 4K after a decade of loyal service. Its not for everyone but its certainly not impossible. I make about 43k a year pretax and she makes 37k for reference. Median income nationally is 55k or so and about 75k in my county so I suspect a great many people have the opportunity to do just as we have done.
This initial paper on the concept seems to dig into that: https://staff.aist.go.jp/tanaka-akira/pub/prosym49-akr-paper... .. but it's in Japanese and a bit above my pay grade.
He also uses ubuntu 14.04 which probably also means a really old JRE
> If you end up choosing the US, and go to an at will state, keep in mind that your employer can fire you for wearing the wrong color of socks, even if they never told you which color is the right one (no, really)

I live in a country where you have to pay insurmountable amounts of money to fire employees. The salaries that us pays are about 8x. Gimme at will employment.

> I would definitely take the 60K if it includes awesome public transport, unemployment money, affordable healthcare, a month of holidays, and having free time in the evenings for hobbies.

I had plenty of free time in SF to do whatever i wanted when I worked there. Maybe i was lucky, but i did not find work-life balance to be particularly out of whack. Europe is more relaxed, but also less ambitious in terms of culture. That can be frustrating as well.

> I would definitely take the 60K if it includes awesome public transport, unemployment money, affordable healthcare, a month of holidays, and having free time in the evenings for hobbies.

You are paying for all those things, its not like they are free in europe. You can also pay for them in the US on software engineer salaries. Google has ample pto, facebook has parental rights, etc. You can always take unpaid time off, something easier to do in the US than in other countries.
>One reason that drivers can specify for a cancellation is that the rider wasn't at the pickup location

I mean it's not that hard to check the location of rider when driver cancels the trip. If he isn't at the specified pick-up location, charge the rider or else charge the driver.
Yep, perfect use case for 'Click to Remove Element' extension.
I have a much shorter commute than many of my colleague who actually live in Boston.

If nothing else it's much more pleasant, anyway.
Well, I hope, no user has space at the end of his homedir.
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What do you mean when you say "Americans"? Wikipedia says that 94% of businesses offer paid time off for 12/25[0]. Even Walmart is closed on Christmas!

What is your implication, that the government should require all businesses to be closed on Christmas Day? Does that happen where you're from?

>Would the religious right not support that?

Perhaps you have a bit of a boogeyman image of the 'religious right'. Regardless, the question is moot because just about everyone celebrates Christmas in the US, religious or not. A better place to examine the question would be Easter weekend, where only 26% of businesses offer PTO for Good Friday and 6% offer it for Easter Monday. I try to follow religious and political news, and I've never heard of anyone try to make a push to make Good Friday a federal holiday. I'm sure some politically active religious folk would support it if asked though (and it can be achieved by secularizing the name, making it "spring holiday" or something like that[1]).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_the_United_...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday#United_States
What does it look like if a rent bubble pops? Can such a thing even happen? Rents tend to be difficult to change without moving. I guess rents can fall if demand considerably outstrips supply and the landlords get desperate, but most landlords I've seen are pretty stubborn and will hold out until the last second before they lower the rent a single penny.
Does anyone regularly use checksums as part of their 'routine' for downloading normal, or special files?

It seems like a great system, that isn't used regularly by people in my circle.
Ah, good point, I forgot that the ISS effectively passes through that region anyway.
It's also interesting to compare the tax burden plus the costs of healthcare: since the U.S. medical system is so inefficient that tends to close the gap even further: e.g. taking those figures shows the average Dane making 54,013 and paying 36.1% (19,444) while the average American makes 50,964 and pays 25.6% (12,741). That $6,703 difference looks great until you notice that Denmark pays for almost all of their citizens healthcare cost but the average American has to kick in an extra $4-5K, steadily increasing year-over-year:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/health-costs-how-the-us-...
I live in the South Shore near the commuter rail. It's pretty affordable for someone making $80k.
Not literally forever, of course, but I think it's naive to say people's inability to have the lifestyle they want will deter increasing rents. Empirically, society on balance doesn't care one tiny bit how much hardship people endure, and people will endure the hardship. I'm not seeing what mechanism is assumed to counter that.
Well, I restart about once per month too. But that's not ideal. I would like to apply security updates as soon as they're available, but I always put it off because I know I'll have to restart and lose all session state.
Ask HN: Any cricket fans out here?
I have been working on a side project from last couple of years and would really like to get some feedback.
In last two years I digged deeper into T20 data and fantasy cricket, and as a result of this effort I built BonaFide Fantasy, https://www.bonafidefantasy.com

Please take a look and let me know your thoughts, specifically do you think cricket fans would be interested in a concept like this?
Appreciate your time.