skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem in the U.S. isn't that costs are hidden--in Canada, with fully socialized insurance, health care consumers are actually much less wasteful of resources because they pursue health care in the degree they feel they need it, irrespective of money.

Which lead to a 6 month delay to get an MRI in BC (which proud itself to be no. 1 province). Not to mention that the public insurance does NOT include dental, or if it does, only the bare minimum. I had to personally pay for a root canal because only a complete extraction was being reimbursed. Moreover, all my cleaning have been out of MY pocket, on top of MSP/RAMQ.

I really don't get why Canadian think their healthcare is so star sprangling awesome... It's not.
No, the article is correct. Wikipedia says, “A problem p in NP is NP-complete if every other problem in NP can be transformed (or reduced) into p in polynomial time.” They cite the paper “The complexity of theorem-proving procedures”, Stephen A. Cook (1971), which says:

It is shown that any recognition
problem solved by a polynomial time-
bounded nondeterministic Turing
machine can be "reduced" to the pro-
blem of determining whether a given
propositional formula is a tautology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP-completeness
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&id=805047
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I personally run syncthing on several devices, and don't worry about the cloud. It's self-hosted, devices replicate files between themselves, and there's no real limit other than hard drive space. It runs on just about anything too; several of my backup systems are Raspberry Pis.

It can be a bit weird to set up initially, and is a lot less magical in the interest of putting you in control for privacy reasons, but the flexibility added is pretty useful. I have a music folder that I sync to my phone without needing to pull the rest of my backups along with it, since they wouldn't fit anyway. Several of my larger folders aren't backed up on every single device for similar reasons, but some of my really important smaller folders (documents, photos, regular backups of my website's database) go on everything just because it can.

Anyway, check it out. Highly recommended all around: https://syncthing.net/
> It must not be that bad or else they would work around it, using their professed skills in controlling computers.

They did and do. Where do you think adblockers come from?
We've been using roughly the same formats for a couple hundred years already, well before computers were a thing. Problem is, that also means every government has its own slightly different databases that that no one wants to integrate.

I've rarely seen dates encoded because they don't provide much useful information. Sites themselves rarely have firm dates and individual excavations get their own (infinite) ID blocks. Each feature and artifact within that excavation is tagged with the block, alongside a bunch of metadata and paperwork. Every artifact carries with it a stack of paperwork documenting where it came from and how it was buried, making shipping the things expensive.

These collections eventually get bundled into larger site or regional packages alongside computational models and research papers, adding yet another hierarchial later.

The whole thing is very bureaucratic and a bit crusty at times, but still very scalable for a system designed before computers were even imagined. As with most things, the friction comes from trying to move things between the physical and digital worlds, not the IDs themselves (which are just guaranteed unique tags).
Uh oh, but that would mean frontend developers have to reason about their resource usage, and have a vague idea how many programs they are even using! Javascript usage is simply out of control, things load themselves automagically, asynchronously, unpredictably.
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Saying gerrymandering is self-limiting because the party has to choose how to allocate its power is like saying sexual assault is self-limiting because the perpetrator can only use one orifice at a time.

Gerrymandering gives an absolute advantage. At the core of it, you are destroying part of the votes of your enemies, either by bundling them in one district, or completely destroying their power by cracking them.

Flawed argument, but good on you for noticing the tradeoff. Yes, there are two types of gerrymandering, with almost exactly opposite mechanics.

Unfortunately, the rest of your comment isn't even sophomoric...the US political structure is about sloppily conceived and aimless as your constant use of the phrase "X modulates Y".
I'm generally not in favour of mandatory voting either but I do think one way of moving forward with Brexit would be to demand a vote from those who didn't turn out for the referendum. When the direction of a nation has been decided by less than a majority (in this case, by 34% of the electorate?) I think special measures can be justified.

It shouldn't be hard to identify those voters; I always have to hand my voting card to someone when I go to a polling station so I imagine there are lots of lists somewhere of people who were registered but didn't turn up.
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I will definitely share it that way as soon as I fix one issue.
Given limited set of sounds a human can pronounce, and a natural tendency to keep the most common words small, can we calculate a probability of such a coincidence? Because it seems to me it's probably a classic birthday paradox example.
Because it isn't linux iso's.
Conservation of fuel. Especially as the fuel for "classic" two stage rocket would be vastly cheaper than magic-fuel they used later in the movie.

Why everybody brings up this honestly stupidest ctiticism about the movie is beyond me. It's like you lack both imagination and understanding how space missions work.
If you're cynical you'd think "of course they'd offer a free version and then make you pay for it." But that's basically the cloud storage market in a nutshell. All the cloud storage providers are in a race to the bottom, and once they have your data they want to upsell you on other cloud technologies. If you just need to store data, that's actually great news, because these providers are working hard on the optimizations that make it possible to give you storage as cheap as they can.

Cheap options are Glacier at $0.004/GB, Backblaze at $0.005/GB, GCS Coldline at $0.007/GB. That's the monthly cost for bare cloud storage with no egress. Anything cheaper than about $50/year for 1TB will fall in one of two categories:

1. Subsidized by the provider, but probably not for long. This has happened so many times I can't even remember them all, Amazon is just the most recent.

2. Strictly DIY, probably with a much higher chance of data loss than you realize.
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Yes, thank you for pointing out the typo.
I see there is mistake in the email, it should be: j.verhoeve@goldrepublic.com

For more info about the company: https://www.goldrepublic.com/
I hope not. :D

But until now, data miners have always found some way to work around the restrictions that browsers imposed. (Though, admittedly, an adblocker is the toughest such restriction.)
You can't live in your index fund like your house. But if you invest the value of your down payment in an index fund, and rent a property, the fund may grow to be large enough to purchase a house, in about the same amount of time. (It depends on your local housing market, of course. The index fund may not keep up with a boom-town like Silicon Valley of the past few decades, but it is unlikely to turn into Detroit, either. Choose your risks wisely.)

And if you put a down payment into a fancier house instead of in a simpler house, most of the gains you'll get from doing so are delivered in the form of immediate consumption of "nice house" over time, not in the form of something you can reinvest (indeed, maintenance costs will be higher as well.) And you've committed to this much house for a long time.

That said, the huge thing that houses have going for them in the US today is special tax treatment - if you're in a higher tax bracket, even more so. You get both mortgage interest deductions and some special capital gains treatment, I do believe. You're the darling of the US tax code.

Consequentially, this special treatment in our tax policy distorts the incentives to invest, encouraging people obsess about the housing market instead of other forms of more-diversified investments, and thus contributes to damaging asset bubbles. It also generally impairs social mobility by incentivizing homeowners to support land use policies that drive up housing prices (directly harming the poor, lower middle class, and any other non-homeowners like the youth), and while the policy overall is pitched to the middle class, many of the biggest winners are the rich, as their tax brackets are higher and their houses more expensive.

Huh. Who could have seen any of that coming? cougheveryeconomistevercough
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That very article says that the serial numbers of replacement banknotes are distinguishable by an asterisk.
TL;TR;

Why are the petunians illegal in EU?
And that's precisely the problem. A handful of people can work this way and do great. But their visibility will make others try to emulate them, usually with disastrous consequences.
So what would be the effect on the ecosystem if a species with built-in insecticides got out?
Do you have an examples of how to get started with Telepresence and a go app? Thanks
edit: too late to delete. I misunderstood the OP.

Appologies.
I feel like the comment about bandwidth got ignored—you only pay for egress bandwidth, which basically means you only are paying high bandwidth fees if you lost all of your data and it's an emergency, at which point they seem pretty reasonable because you just lost your house in a fire or something like that. Uploading is free (well, you pay your ISP).

Most of the time, people only need to restore a few files from backup because they were accidentally deleted. The bandwidth costs for a few GB here and there are pretty cheap.
Part of gerrymandering is diffusing the vote of your opponent among "safe" districts. Look at Austin, Texas for example[1]. One would imagine the city would vote as a block.

I do concede that odd shaped districts can be more representative. I've been told the "famously gerrymandered" Earmuff district in Illinois[2] actually represents a single Latino community that was split.

[1] https://www.austinchronicle.com/binary/3468/h309.jpg
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois%27s_4th_congressional...
Sounds like your expectation of the percentage (or of the total endowment) used to follow a bimodal distribution.

Or that you expected the 1% to be higher and the 13 billion to be lower, which is the same thing. (Or the reverse of this last thing.)
If it is backup, it doesn't need to be super safe. The risk that you lose both your primary data, (optionally your local backup) and your online backup at the same time is pretty insignificant, given that the online backup will be uncorrelated as in a different physical location (primary and local backup very correlated I agree).
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$DAYJOB is about deploying satellite equipment.

> Are these satellites in geosynchronous orbit?

Yes. Satellites in other orbits require tracking antennas. A typical one has a four-figure cost at the very least. And if you need uninterrupted connection, you need to have at least two of them, one for tracking the one that sets, and another for tracking the one that rises.

> I'm willing to bet that satellite downlink performance degrades in bad weather

Ku band, as deployed, is highly resilient to bad weather. The SNR will drop, sure, but it will be well above the threshold where it will be unintelligible to the receiver. These things are designed with worst weather conditions in mind. If ever you lost satellite tv during bad weather, that's due to your antenna shaking because of the wind, not rainfade.

DVB-S2 in particular supports adaptive coding modulation (ACM). The standard supports between 4psk and 32psk which can be changed by the ground station when fade is detected in their reference terminals scattered around the footprint region.

You can't really do that for TV links where the bandwidth allocation is more-or-less constant, but you can definitely change modulation for data links which are actually designed to handle such fluctuations in available bandwidth.
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As someone completely unfamiliar with this space, this prompted me to do some reading into this rclone issue. I'll record it here for anyone else similarly curious.

It seems that as of a few months ago, two popular (unofficial) command line clients for ACD (Amazon Cloud drive) were acd-cli[1] and rclone[2], both of which are open source. Importantly the ACD API is OAuth based, and these two programs took different approaches to managing their OAuth app credentials. acd-cli's author provided an app on GCE that managed the app credentials and performed the auth. rclone on the other hand embedded the credentials into their source, and did the oauth dance through a local server.

On April 15th someone reported an issue on acd-cli titled "Not my file"[3] in a user alleged that they had received someone else's file from using the tool. The author refered them to amazon support. The issue was updated again on May 13th with another user that had the same problem - this time with better documentation. The user reached out to security@amazon.com to report the issue.

Amazon's security team determined that their system was not at fault, but pointed out a race condition in the source for the acd-cli auth server (sharing the auth state in a global variable between requests...) and disabled the acd-cli app access to protect customers.[4]

In response to this banning, one user suggested that a workaround to get acd-cli working again would be to use the developer option for local oauth dance, and use rclone's credentials (from the public rclone source).[5] This got rclone's credentials banned as well,[6] presumably when the amazon team noticed that they were publicly available.

To top this all off, the ACD team also closed down API registration for new apps around this time (which seems to have already been a strenuous process). I suppose the moral of the story is that OAuth is hard.

[1]: https://github.com/yadayada/acd_cli
[2]: https://github.com/ncw/rclone
[3]: https://github.com/yadayada/acd_cli/issues/549
[4]: https://github.com/yadayada/acd_cli/pull/562#issuecomment-30...
[5]: https://github.com/yadayada/acd_cli/pull/562#issuecomment-30...
[6]: https://forum.rclone.org/t/rclone-has-been-banned-from-amazo...
The main problem is that TLH is irrelevant in tax-free/deferred retirement funds, which is where you should be sticking your savings if you haven't maxed them out, which is the situation of most people who use these robo services.
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My comment was on people putting too much trust into computerised systems, of which facial recognition is one. It also referenced comments other people had made here for when the rules and programming in such a computerised system broke down in the real world.

In the case of facial recognition there was examples of twins being rejected for IDs because the system thought it was the same person applying under different names.

I'd also be dubious as how well it can identify people based on grainy and low resolution camera footage.
Not really, there is a net gain for deferring taxes on gains beyond $3K. But irrelevant for tax-advantaged retirement funds.
The problem is sometimes you only find out your backup is corrupted when you need it.
> That is why in every country that has single payer there are additional coverage plans that allow you to have even better coverage...

No there isn't, unless you go private, speaking of which France has pretty much made private "mutuelle" mandatory.

> What is really amazing is that it also returns Emergency Rooms back into a place where you go in an emergency so you can actually get treatment in 15min rather than wait for a few hours at 3am as you drip blood on the floor

You have obviously never been in an emergency room in Canada, and I really hope you have not to, ever. My friend got a whiplash injury and got told to go back home, and I had to walk 3 days on a broken foot in Quebec because the ER turned me down (and incidentally asked me to pay CAN$1k to have my foot looked at).
Important note: so-called "live" air quality measurements are in reality never "live" due to the nature of the measuring stations (taking measures takes time) and the way data is compiled and shared by the monitoring agencies. As a result typical delays range from 1 to 6 hours, which means you end up using "old" data or signaling a peak when in reality the pollution peak is already over.

This is solved by using models that predict air quality levels down to the hour. One option is to use https://plume.io
I'm not judging the persons who made the decision. However, I do judge the people who justify such war crimes today.

There are people who to this day say that using the nukes was the right decision meaning that they would do it again given the opportunity. That to me is the tragedy.

If we believe this, we can no longer support non proliferation. In fact, we must actively support all nations to develop and stand by these weapons in such a way that they are capable of second strike. The world is worse off as a result.

I'm not saying whether Truman was a bad guy. He likely wasn't. However, we have the benefit of hindsight. We should know better than to say it was the right call.

"Right or wrong, my country" is stupid. Patriotism does not mean we support all the stupidity done in the name of my country.
tip to the uninitiated, this is called "closet indexing", and it's bad. If you want an index fund (and you should), buy a no-load, low-cost index fund.
More people should be aware of static blog generators.

It's a kind of software used to make websites where you write your posts in a markup language like reStructuredText or Markdown, and once done a script transforms it into HTML and CSS. Various plugins exist, including for comments, although this tends to sacrifice your "staticness" in varying degrees, especially if you just use Disqus.
stand up for yourself. From what you've just said it looks like you've been treated unfairly at least. It's not worth to beat yourself up over it. What do you have to loose? There's a shitload of jobs there. You can be unappreciated/undermined at million other jobs just as well.

Doesn't mean you need to be arrogant or an idiot about it, simply speak your mind like you did in this post.
> When you run your own services and they break you have total control and do have the power to fix it.

If I had total control of a service, I would make it have 100% uptime. Wouldn't you? The fact that there exists no service with 100% uptime indicates to me that nobody has total control of their services.

Similarly wrt having the power to fix my services. If I had unrestricted power to fix things when they broke, then I would use that power to fix all breakages immediately. Since nobody seems to be able to do that, I conclude that nobody actually has unrestricted power to fix breakages in their systems.

Or do you mean to say, I have some limited ability to control and fix the systems I run? I would agree with that. That's my whole point.
> You gotta have buffers for bad weather, malfunctions, changing stuff when it turns out some worker did bad job, yadda yadda yadda

Private projects face the same issues, but do not necessarily stop for these reason. After all, time is money, and a dead construction site not running cost the owner money.
Ooops, missed this thread. I did a little mini-writeup of what happened on a different branch if anyone is curious on the details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14512598
I've found an interesting divide amongst contractors on this - some are happy to treat it precisely that way, complaining a little about the crap they have to produce, but mostly content with the fact that it's not forever, maybe the next contract will be great, and the money really makes up for whatever crap you have to deal with. (Let's face it, if you're contracting and you're not making good money, you're just doing it wrong.)

For others, and this was very much me, the better contracts are those that last longer and are, really, much more like a full-time job, except it's typically just one project (and yes, there's the money aspect again).

The best contracts I had were greenfield projects where I was the team leader, had a lot of responsibility, and saw the project through from start to finish over the course of a year or more. The worst contract I ever had was three months - or, at least, it was that long until I quit - where I was paid better than I'd ever been paid before to produce total crap with a team of perms who were angry and aggressive and hated contractors, a horrible manager who hated everyone, and fellow contractors who either didn't care, weren't really up to the job, or were also miserable and quit - three in the space of a week at one point. I remember buying myself a sandwich one day, eating it, thinking to myself that the time I'd spent eating it had earned me more money than the sandwich had cost, smiling grimly to myself, and still being miserable because the job was so hateful. (In all fairness, I left at 5 every day and didn't give another thought to the job until the following morning, apart from a general sense of misery on the commute in. I'm sure I did complain bitterly about the job to anyone who would listen...)
Just an FYI, HN is staunchly against mongodb. If this is good or bad you decide but you won't hear good things about mongodb from HN.
I totally agree with the tldr here. I think the tipping point is probably somewhere around $10-12M in assets, where you should start looking further than what Vanguard has to offer. At that point, following the 4% safe withdrawal rule, you can have an income from returns that puts you at or near the top 1% of Americans. Beyond that is when you should start looking into things that the truly rich consider, like hedging for capital preservation.
Make a tool that makes photo files out of data files. In its simplest form you just need to make the according header files (added benefit: additional meta data can be easily encoded). Because as a Amazon Prime photo storage is for free and unlimited.

Could be a nice hack.
Yeah, agree. And I am not talking about enterprise level of reliability. More like personnal / small office.

But for anything above a few TB, running your own hardware will be way cheaper if you take say a 5y horizon. Disks are so large today that you don't need a big config. In fact you might even keep two copies to reduce the risk.

Of course there is the occasional trip to the datacentre. I made that mistake. I pay more in uber than I saved by picking a datacentre far away.
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Which fits the grammar. Sure, you are using some literals, but that is an application of the list procedure with 5 arguments.
I think the best educational utility of those millions of dollars would likely be subsidizing tuition for two year schools.
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This beautiful exfiltration technique of actively sending packets to an IP address that will be routed on a link you can passively eavesdrop on -- in this case, a satellite link -- is one that appears in the leaked Snowden documents: (warning, classified document) https://snowdenarchive.cjfe.org/greenstone/collect/snowden1/...
Cool, i´m using vivaldi too. Pretty good browser by the way.
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