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The thing is, the fees discussed in Germany ( ~1000€ / semester) are no where near covering the costs of a seat for one student. It's just a drop in the ocean, so they might as well keep it free. And when tutition is free for Germans, it seems wierd and discriminatory to take fees from foreigners. I grew up in Germany, but don't have a German passport. Should I pay more? Where do you draw the line?

I was studying when they introduced the tutition fees around 2006, and protested against them. We strongly had the impression that it was never about covering costs, but rather an "educating" measure: to teach students that education has a monetary value, and so that they view themselves as customers.

In the US, people view their education usually as an investment on which they expect return (from this thread, "It makes absolute sense to go $250k in debt for an MIT or Harvard degree, makes less but still some sense for Tufts and Olin, and makes no sense at all for the rest."). Some people view it that way in Germany, too, but I think many others, like me, find that very strange. We study mainly whatever we are talented at, and what we enjoy. Financial considerations are made, but not the main driver.

I believe certain people find that mindset threatening or wrong, and work(ed) actively against it. In Germany most notably neoliberal and center/conservative think tanks, like Bertelsmann foundation. These organisations lobbied for tutition fees, but also for the introduction of the Bachelor+Master system, which is much more schoolish and streamlined than the old Diplom/Magister system (which let you more freedom to study at your own pace and according to our interests).

When I look at how the money from tutition fees was used, it didn't improve teaching at all (which was the stated goal), but we got fancy new desks and cashback for books (ridiculously). This reinforces my feeling that it was driven by ideology and not by necessity.
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Indian food in Malaysia/Indonesia/Singapore is Southern Indian, mostly Tamil, not Bengali but spicier like British Indian food. Japanese Indian food is Bengali by way of Britain with no hint of spiciness. Tex-Mex for food snobs is called Southwest cuisine. American pizza is very different from Italian and good enough to have a small niche in Italy itself.

I'm not really familiar with US-Chinese but you're wrong about Tex-Mex and at least one kind of Italian-American food. I'd be surprised if you were wrong about US-Chinese food because UK, DE and IE Chinese food are all awful.

In English an ethnie's way of cooking is a cuisine not a kitchen.
Yes, nearly everybody speak English, in companies it is however expected, or at least appreciated if you speak Dutch.

Also, the Netherlands changes tuition. The annual tuition fee at TU Delft for the BSc is 10 kEuro, 15 kEuro in the MSc program for non-EU citizens.
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You chose to reuse the password and not enable 2FA. That's "fine" if you don't care about the account, however if you _really_ didn't care about the account you wouldn't be posting this, correct?

> Come on guys, I'd have to use my security email from before the time I was hacked, not the current one!

This comes back to the question of how to differentiate between legitimate and illegitimate use. What if your recovery email address was compromised and you changed it, should it still be possible to use the old compromised recovery email address for recovery?

> Google, a company that makes self driving cars, seems to use zero AI to detect fraudulent behavior?

Google seems to ask me for my 2FA whenever my login seems odd (another place, another computer, ...) and emails me about the new sign-in just as it did for you.
What would you want them to do when they detect fraudulent behaviour?

If Google were to use AI to somehow block user sign-ins their support, if it exists, would be flooded due to edge cases.
there is no true journalism in America anymore. It's all done with a political agenda. For the most part the news media is just the political arm of a party, mostly democrat but in some cases the republicans. You have to read multiple sources about the same subject to get a fair account.
It's also well written and rolls along at a decent pace.
> Isn't it possible to rent a 3-bedroom home in Munich for EUR 1,228 per month?

Good luck getting a flatshare these days. Landlords don't like it very much, because they associate flatshares ("Wohngemeinschaften"/"WGs") with noise complaints due to partying and trouble when one of the renters can't make rent.

Also, 3-bedroom homes are already in scarce supply these days in Munich - any type of home is in scarce supply, and landlords will abuse this situation to pick only the most profitable (i.e. they pay their rent on time and don't generate complaints) kinds of renters: either DINKs (Double income, no kids - kids cause noise and thus complaints of neighors), or welfare clients where the Arbeitsamt pays the rent. Everyone else - low-income persons, families with kids, persons with their own company, persons on time-limited employment, persons with dogs (again, noise complaints), refugees, persons of non-German origin - is left to fight for the scraps. That there has been no build of "welfare housing" the last decades and many of the "welfare housing" projects exited the programmes only amplifies the need doesn't help much either.

Oh, and if you got a family name that doesn't sound German... well, good luck. Many landlords and brokers won't even bother to return calls.

Source: live in Munich, only got my apartment due to a friendly relationship with a broker.
Because 40k€ a year is not a lot of money after the high taxes. For example, for a non-married 25 year old 40k€ p.a. results in about ~2k€ net per month after taxes. When you further deduct the costs of a apartment rent, utility bills, car, food, insurances, phone bills, various little "fees" that are actually taxes (e.g. Rundfunkbeitrag), you are very lucky if you have 1k€ left left. That is not a lot of money to send home.
SpaceX is launching a spy satellite for the US government
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14225602
Where containers would make kernel calls, unikernels make calls to the VM hypervisor. (Not exactly, but kinda.)
I can't speak for Germany, but e.g. in Norway and the Netherlands which I know best, there are a lot of nice tech jobs and you don't have to speak a word of the native language. I know because I've had colleagues over a decade who don't speak the native language and who are still just fine.

Most tech companies today use english as work language anyway. Not necessarily social talk among people, but usually in meetings, emails, documentation etc.

Still I recommend learning the local language. It has advantages but it is not something you are completely dependent on.
This is being pedantic, but I imagine they probably could, but they don't because it's expensive. An upstart hitting the marketplace without the incredible brand of Lego, plus higher prices would be a monstrous risk.
If MITM on HTTPS traffic and spewing ram contents into global caches wasn't enough to convince you that cloudflare doesn't care about security, I don't really know what to say.
Quite a bit more. This is from my jump box:

$ wc -l ~/.ssh/known_hosts
1240 /root/.ssh/known_hosts
Bloomberg has a very interesting article on this topic also:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-02-05/germany-s...

Reading in between the lines, it seems as if a good chunk of gold has gone missing and there is an attempt by both sides to save face.
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My experience in Germany is the exact opposite, foreign students are usually the most communicative and the most dedicated at the same time.

And it is not like getting a degree is an automatism. If you are bad, you will fail and drop out. There has been an inflation in grades in the recent years, but most degrees are still hard to obtain and require that you really learn what you are doing.

Maybe it is different in different fields, but at least this is my impression in physics and the natural sciences.
"I am not criticizing the Bundesbank for storing 37 percent of Germany’s official gold in in a place there it has no control over it. It seems clear that they negotiated hard with the US and acted rather shrewdly."

I am sorry, but as a layperson, I do not know what's to negotiate. If I own something, I should be able to take it home whenever I want?? This is mind-boggling. What's the point of property that you cannot access? That's not property.
I'm not sure about what US statistics are available, nor about how many US towns have such rules, but this is often cited as the explanation for why bike shares fail in many Australian cities that would seem to be perfect places for them.

To borrow from the recurrent discussions on this issue: if biking requires you to suit up for urban warfare in spandex and armor, it's a much greater hassle, making you less inclined to bike. Furthermore, you look like a weirdo to people who may have been thinking of biking but don't want to deal with that large barrier to entry.

So bike usage decreases, robbing us of the health benefits and probably making biking more dangerous because cars aren't looking for the rare cyclist like they ought to. Helmets in fast or competitive biking make loads of sense, though.
...and Serbia. And Bosnia. And Montenegro. And Croatia. And I'm like 70% certain that I've seen similar billboards in Poland as well a couple of months ago, but can't confirm it.
if you're into reading about gold, you can do a lot worse than reading the archives of http://fofoa.blogspot.com/
> when tutition is free for Germans, it seems wierd and discriminatory to take fees from foreigners

German citizens subsidize this "free" university with their taxes. This includes low-level workers who have never visited a university. So essentially you are asking poor people in Germany to pay for the education of middle-class or rich people from other countries.
In addition to the other comment, 73% is counting all grown up germans. The current generation has an university enrollment rate of about 50%. So while many older germans have basically been trained on the job, many younger once wont which is one of the reasons many younger foreign europeans now learn a job in germany as no inlanders apply.

Tradditionally we have the concept that kids can fail a grade and have to repeat it but more and more educators are not in favor of this anymore, so its more or less changing.
You can find every major Chinese cuisine in Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Guangzhou and possibly Shenzhen and Guangdong, with great quality. That said the selection of Yunnan, Tibetan, Mongolian and Xinjiang may not be great but they're all there. That said Vancouver, New York and Tokyo are all in the top ten cities in the world for Chinese food.
> That's "fine" if you don't care about the account, however if you _really_ didn't care about the account you wouldn't be posting this, correct?

Yes, I'm more worried because its so ancient that I don't remember what it is connected to (in the sense of having information that facilitates a hack).

In the first years of Gmail I made a lot of fun accounts, that I have since forgotten about...

> What if your recovery email address was compromised and you changed it, should it still be possible to use the old compromised recovery email address for recovery?

Good point, had not considered that..
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That's why it's called assistance.
Blindspots can still be checked by physically moving, and they should be.
The gold is stolen.
Don't fall into the trap of thinking that mosh is based upon SSH, that mosh is just another SSH client. mosh is not "mosh special" SSH in place of "normal" SSH. The actual main run-time operation of mosh does not involve SSH at all.

It is not even architecturally the same as SSH. mosh runs an internal terminal emulator on the server machine. SSH employs an external terminal emulator on the client machine. The terminal emulator on the server machine is the mosh-server program, which is necessary for this architecture to work. If there is no server-side program installed, part of the overall system is missing, for which SSH is not a substitute.

mosh uses SSH, but merely at client startup, as a means of remotely executing the server command that it speaks to and exchanging a shared secret with it. In theory, it could even be changed to use something other than SSH for that, without changing the primary operation of the mosh client and server. (Parsing the output of a shell, including the output of whatever non-interactive startup scripts that shell may run, for a magic sequence is a somewhat rickety mechanism; reminiscent of Fidonet handshakes and Zmodem, but not done as well as they.)
Yeah. Can anyone comment on the trustworthiness of this blog post? I also do not understand what is there to negotiate (except storage fees).
Czech, correct. I didn't use our letters for the sounds easily replecated in english, so sh and ch would be š and č in Czech.
I'll just leave this here: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-02/why-jpmorgans-gold-...
There is software collections for RPMs, which is basically namespacing. Can have quite an operational overhead if the thing you want to install has a lot of dependencies though.
I stand by my comment. Any trained Sushi chef knows how to cut the fish properly, all they need is access to a good wholesale fish market like Tsukiji or one of its resellers to offer you some very nice fish - but the way they treat the rice is where you see the biggest difference between a trained sushi chef and a master. No matter where you go in Japan it's still way beyond what you'd get in expensive places abroad with a high likelihood though.
You can also get the Chinese menu at many of the nice, American style, small town chinease restaurants.

However, China has a wide range of food stiles. And, there is plenty of back and forth. Much like how Pitza is not really Italian you can still find it in Italy.
Did you miss the part where gp said they were translating for the US Army?
Personally can't agree more! I definitely can download anything thats on netflix etc. The only reason I am subscribed to it, is the ease of use.
>Would you prefer if all those command were prefaced with `systemd`?

Well, I'm fine with journalctl and machinectl as they're part of systemd. I'm not really fine with having to install respectively arch-install-script, deboostrap+debian-archive-keyring, debootstrap+ubuntu-archive-keyring to run an Arch, Debian or Ubuntu container. What if I want to run something like CentOS or Alpine?

>But then, I can't expect Red Hat to invest into advertising for a core system component, because developers ought to be aware of it.

That's why Docker has the market. systemd is huge and scary, developers see it as a sysadmin only component. You cannot expect developers to know systemd without explaining it to them in a way they can understand.

>nspawn also offers faster startup time

Is Docker slow? Starting a container is usually instantaneous. Maybe the engine? For me it's managed with systemd and its weird socket binding, it's pretty fast too.. Fast is good but I can't remember thinking "wow docker is slow"

>better integration with cgroups and chroot jails

How? Why do I need this better integration?

- - -

I'm convinced there are not a lot of things Docker cannot do in comparison to systemd-nspawn. On the contrary, with systemd-nspawn:

- how do I spawn a container remotely?

- how do I share my "images"? is there an easy way to bundle the app I want to isolate? something at least kinda portable between Linuxes, so no .deb/.rpm

- can I include a file to my source code and tell my users something like "run docker build, then docker run and you're good to go"?

- my sysadmins just gave me the rights to run the docker command (we configured the user namespace so that I'm not indirectly root on the host), would it be that easy for them with nspawn?

- say I want a specific dependency, redis for example. Can I do something as simple as `docker run -p6379:6379 -v/data/redis:/data --name redis redis` or would I have to manually install the redis in the nspawn?
Not the subjects - maybe they could run a comparison for the two accounts? They would see matching emails from 2006 up to 2014.
> Just google "doesn't work in chroot" and you'll be reminded of a litany of issues that come up when trying to build/run things in a chroot

Yeah, some newbie forgot to mount-bind a necessary directory like /proc or
/dev, didn't provide sensible /etc/resolv.conf, or messed up host's and
chroot's paths, either in request or in configuration. Nothing that would
render chroot unviable. Is this what you meant?
There's also something else: Try shifting unsigned char x to right. >> 1 through 3 produce correct results, 4 changes the shift to some optimization too early, and the >> 5 the correctly optimized version. It's definitely not a very good compiler.
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Ranking has nothing to do with quality of education. It is bullshit. Studies show they don't improve your grades, results or earning potential. They just look good on paper because they do creaming. They got the best research professors and students clustering there which makes their results look good.

But what matters is how much of an improvement does an ivy league mean to a student compared to going to an average ranked university. Turns out it makes no difference. In some cases it actually makes your grades worse. E.g. if you are at the lower tier of a ivy, then it will kill your self esteem and motivation being around so many smart people, that studies show you will perform worse.

Ivy's are like useless luxury products, like a Gucci bag. It is for show off. No wonder asians are so obsessed with university rankings. They are also obsessed with luxury products. That is because those are societies obsessed about showing status and accomplishments.

If OTOH you don't care about superfluous things you don't need an ivy. I've seen how going for Ivy stuff can screw up people. Being around all these bright people, can create an insane expectation on yourself, and if you don't live up to that afterwards, it can haunt you for the rest of your life. Many people would have simply been happier individuals if they dropped the Ivy's altogether.
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So, she wants to be at a company that makes her feel welcome, supports her, helps her grow her skills. Why is any of that arrogant, selfish, dysfunctional or unrealistic?

For years now, I've been reading about how people in IT are expecting more than just a salary out of the companies they choose to work for ... why is it arrogant when a woman does it?
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That's very entertaining. I wonder what other sort of guest editorial could prompt such a reaction? Probably not the best business move for NYT, to further explore that question...
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The article is wrong on so many ways.

The author states that foreign students _plan_ on staying in Germany, however that is not what is actually happening. 41% of students abandon their studies before they have a degree. Out of the students that finish their degree, only 36% remain in Germany. Out of those remaining, more than half of them need more than 1 year(!) to land a job, indicating that they may not have the best grades or skills.

Furthermore, many seem to assume that Germany somehow needs to offer this tax payer subsidized "free" university program to attract foreign students to fill shortages in the workforce. This is not the case. First, despite constant media reports saying otherwise, there is no major talent shortage expect in very few niches. Second, any EU-citizen (thats 600+ million people outside of Germany) can work in Germany without any permission required. Third, for non-EU citizens there already is a visa program (the "blue card") that allows them to work in the EU if they are qualified, e.g. have a Masters degree from their home country.

In summary: German tax payers are asked to fund the education of foreigners at little to no return. Given the "free" nature of the program, it attracts rather unqualified students (or, lets say at least not the top notch).

All this may sound harsh but it is simply not the job of German tax payers to provide some sort of indirect third-world aid to middle/upper-class students from foreign countries.
I usually hate pages that try to monetize via related affiliate links but this looks so genuinely useful and transports such a positive, down-to-earth and user-friendly vibe that I just love it. Well done!
I see an immediate solution to that riddle and it matches the idea of the Wikipedia page you link. But I don't see any connection to Penney's game. Can you explain?
I think the background to this is that, during the Cold War, Germans were worried about a possible Soviet invasion, so storing gold in the US at the time made sense. As the article states, conditions have changed somewhat and there has been political pressure to return some of the gold in recent years.
Ask HN: Is it possible to replicate 30TB from 20 DBs to PostgreSQL real-time?
If you had 20 databases spread across 20 servers, could you replicate them all into a single PostgreSQL instance? And can this be done on a server costing less than $100,000?

The databases total 30 TB on disk. There are ~30,000 tables. The maximum number of rows in a single table is 1.2 billion. The number of rows changed per second is modest (100s or less).

Some of the servers run PostgreSQL, some MySQL. The versions are different, but they're relatively current (PostgreSQL >= 9.1, MySQL >= 5.6).
>So, she wants to be at a company that makes her feel welcome, supports her, helps her grow her skills

So does everyone else on the planet.

>why is it arrogant when a woman does it?

It's not arrogant when "a woman does it". I'm failing to understand what any of it has to do with being a woman.
Same experience. I think despite the ranking, European universities are actually higher quality. American universities use too much student assistants. Too much of the teaching is hand holding and high school like. When I compare my dutch university experience with my American, it was more research oriented in the Netherlands. You learned to think more scientifically. In the US it felt like it was just about learning lots of stuff. Also the grading system in the US is a weak spot. It is usually far too easy to get an A in the US.

I've also have friends who have gone to top US universities, but who mainly can speak of the advantage being that, because they are big, they can offer more variation of course, but with respect to quality there was little difference.
There are none. The only practical example where a blockchain does things a centralised database doesn't is a Bitcoin-style cryptocurrency.

(Even then, proof-of-work mining naturally recentralises, as we see with Bitcoin. Ethereum claims to be planning to move to proof-of-stake, but there's no working implementation or date for this.)
I wouldn't deny that the Democrats took those voters for granted. But the Russian interference campaign (which you're right about - America does this too and probably a lot better) might've helped tip it one way.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13249578
I agree with most of your points. However, this part really turned me down:

> If the hacker somehow put up all the episodes on a site and it was just one click to stream then maybe I'd go for it.

I just don't think that's ethical, given Netflix isn't only about ease of use, but content creation too!
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