skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is still competition in the sense that another author can write a book on a related genre. Second hand books are as common as in the US I’d say. The first Harry Potter is 8.70€ as a pocket book on Amazon.fr and I see $7.20 for paperback in the US.

The big difference is in school books, I just looked into solid mechanics, we are une the 30-70€ range in France and $80-130 range in the US (in a bad comparison, I see stuff completely irrelevant in my query result).

The trick is that the French gouvernement is not passive, it often tell industries that if they don’t change this or that, they’ll just use the law. In the end I feel it works better than in the US. In particular on book, France is under constant watch by free market entities, so they’d better reach some measure of success for the consumer or the EU will just intervene.

The goal is to preserve the French culture, it only works if French people read and write French books. If it's too expensive, people don't buy books, if it's too low, authors don't survive.
I still pay for cable TV because

1) its my cheapest option to have local channels

2) of the DVR options (so I don't deal with those ads), it still has the best experience (tried Hulu, DirecTVNow, YouTubeTV) - YouTubeTV was the closest, but they inject ads you cannot skip in on demand programs and replace your "recordings" with on demand programs as soon as the network makes them available.
Norway is in the EEA.

Norway basically applies all EU laws without being able to vote on them.

Fine by me, if the UK wants that. Oh, and by the way, Norway declared it doesn't want the UK in the EEA: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/07/norweg...
That is a poor reason for casting doubt...that the facts are inconvenient to your politics.
The shipping only costs 1€ because China is abusing the international post system - the shipment cost is subsidized from your own taxes.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2169144/ch...
How did you survive if you didn’t make any money last year?
There are people who identify as Irish and hold Irish passports who live in Northern Ireland and would be cut off from the Republic without the backstop. It's precisely the making of national identity a non-distinguishing factor that underlies the peace process.

The backstop is publicly popular in Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland voted by a substantial majority to Remain. The DUP is the only party that voted against the peace agreement.

It was the UK who wanted the backstop to be extended to Great Britain, not the EU.
This is very good - next step is to hook something like circle to make sure the code actually compiles and does something. Another idea is to put a flag to praise people who do not put compiled artifacts (like matlab mex).
Fortunately, you can resell your books the price you want. There is no money for the publisher.

Alas, no money either for the author.

And yes, books are expensive in France. And alas again, only a small part of the price goes to the author.

They are pretty much greedy yes. Or, mainly, the big publishers. Small one struggle to survive.

And the worst part of it ? Epub and PDF are almost the same price than the hardcover versions !

The official reason is that it protects small book stores from Kindles (or any ebook reader), but I'm pretty sure it's just publishers lobbying.

And, again, in the end, the author receives only a small part of the sell.
anybody else find the JS on the site they host their demo video on weird?
uMatrix shows stuff being loaded from 127.0.0.1.
Not a web person, so I'm confused...
Back then we had publishers' catalogues, and we would follow reviews in the newspaper, the weeklies and the relevant journals. Besides, Amazon's catalogue is a giant pile of shit.
Ask HN: Why UNICEF is giving tetanus shots to young women
I received this morning a voice message from my 20 years old sister, and from her voice and message, she is clearly worried. A couple of days ago she received a vaccination at school from agents of Unicef, a tetanus vaccine supposedly. The vaccine was only administered to females aged 15 and higher. Her school is not the first one, tens of thousands of young women are receiving these shots for reasons unclear. I am not suggesting that there is anything wrong, but it's really curious to me that a tetanus vaccine would only benefit women? These shots are being administered without any parental consent to teenagers without any explanations. This is clearly wrong and shocking. This makes me realize that due process is only relevant for these NGOs if you live in countries where citizens are properly represented.

I am writing this to try and see if anyone here has a good understanding of tetanus and could help understand. Why would a tetanus shot be only administered to young women?

I have always been myself an advocate for vaccination and know for a fact that most conspiracy theories are just that, theories. I would love to be able to call my sister and as usual, tell her that she shouldn't believe everything she reads on the internet.

Why I am posting this here?
HN is one of the most diverse fora in terms of background, and I believe, having been a reader for a decade, that most people here care about the truth, and spreading it.

For obvious reasons, I am posting this from a newly created account.
Would also like to get involved in one. My ML community right now is entirely those who work in my group.
I'd say "comic" is a better translation, since the term BD encompass both self-contained stories (like Poyangang) and album series like Tintin, and newspaper strips. You wouldn't call Asterix a graphic novel.

The term Graphic Novel was invented in the US initially to describe comic books which contained a single self-contained story - as opposed to newspaper comic strips and superhero periodicals with never-ending storylines. So it is a subset of comics, which are marketed differently.
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Agreed. Had some irregular heartbeats with it as well that spooked me. I do love the energy boost it gives you though, it’s mildly nootropic
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Japan has fixed book prices too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_book_price
They weren't "undocumented". They all had valid student visas from a different school, were present in the US legally. They wanted to transfer out to a school that allowed them to use Optional Practical Training to work but without needing to attend classes, which is a violation of immigration law.

The ironic thing was this sham school was in the list of the DHS certified list of schools eligible to enroll international students. While they did this to help the investigation, what credibility does that list have any more?

Instead of running sting ops with fake colleges to go after students, they should run sting ops with fake students to go after colleges that violate rules and recruiters.
Sure, I get it, but when you tap into your empathetic side this article smacks of insensitity and whining. Assuming, as Lionel asks us to, that some of these things are true—should we really be complaining about the inaccessibility of these works or should we perhaps think about what the victims might have experienced, and that in many cases the abuse they suffered was in part enabled by the power the popularity of the so-called artist’s (many of the examples in this article art not in fact what I’d call art but rather entertainment) works bestowed upon the artists—a lot of these people got away with stuff precisely because the wide scale distribution of their works elevated them to a position of social immunity. That’s finally changing, and that’s a good thing.

Just as it’s the consumers choice to refrain from consuming its the distributors choice to refrain from distributing—publishers aren’t some beacons of moral and political neutrality—they’ll do whatever benefits the bottom line. To hold them to this weird demand that they be neutral and toss public opinion aside is predicated on a much different reality than the one we occupy. Changing the nature of distribution is a separate economic and political issue.

On the whole, this is a pretty infuriating article. So-called artists should not have some sort of special moral immunity—that’s precisely the problem that’s finally being solved with some of these banishments—and yes it is a problem initimately tied to the popularity and avilabilty of their works, as this is what gave them a veneer of invincibility in the past. It’s not some simple situation in which these people would have been served justice regardless—the dispatch of justice in these cases is often hindered by the artist’s success and notoriety.

Common approaches to morality weigh the bad more highly against the good. And yes the ideas and actions behind the art matter. The extreme logical extension of this argument is that you should be able to enjoy nazi artwork in a sort of epicurean way without having to admit of any of the implications enjoying such work might suggest and basically putting history, reality, and thought aside while you indulge in whatever it is about the work that appeals to you—it’s a very shallow, one dimensional, solipsistic and childish approach to comprehending and consuming art.
Strongly disagree. For many people a cold with congestion turns into a sinus infection if not treated with decongestants. Then you actually do need the antibiotics!

It's dangerous to assume that just because the "cold medicine" doesn't attack the virus that it doesn't work.
One I came across today is SPD (Selective Powder Deposition). Powder is deposited for later curing, such as in a kiln e.g. http://www.iro3d.com/
Were the last people to illegally practice homosexuality in your country punished? It is societies choice to decide whether to enforce a law.

I meant 're-examine' very broadly. And the 2 examples I've given so far in this thread have both involved the authorities.
This is the TempleOS of computer hardware.

I don't know whether to be impressed or weirded out.

I am also a network engineer, and I have an X200 and an 11" Chromebook (yeah ChromeOS can do FTDI serial) set up as rudimentary on-the-go engineers stations but they're still not at flexible as my 15" MacBook Pro -- so I just end up lugging my 15" MBP around and propping it up precariously in racks.

I still dream, though.
To use the car analogy, a lot of people buy cars that are fun to drive. They aren't buying said cars to run people over with.
For me the single best thing has been to schedule "deep work" first thing in the morning. blocking out 1-4 hours to work with no music, no access to my phone and if it makes sense (it rarely does) no internet connection. I find that if I start my day like this I'm more easily able to focus for the rest of the day even if I return to a more normal working environment. I don't have to be at an office at 9am though so it might be less achievable for you.

While on the internet I use a pomodoro timer and website blockers to try and keep me focused on the task at hand, both of these are pretty crude solutions that can sometimes even be counterproductive though.

(shameless plug: I'm working on an "intelligent" website blocker in my spare time - https://awakely.herokuapp.com)

Modafinil/provigil can be helpful if you have a clear and inflexible plan for what you need to do during the day. I find that they often make things even worse once I do get distracted though. And they are more conducive to productivity on simple repeatable tasks than complex, difficult tasks that require context switching to learn new things. I take 100mg first thing in the morning and drink extra water to prevent headaches.

Making lists of what you want/need to accomplish that day can be useful for keeping you accountable to yourself, but again they often work better with well-defined tasks, otherwise you end up with your original list half-complete because you had to do other things that you couldn't anticipate and the day ends up feeling like a failure.

A low-carb/slow-carb diet has been helpful for keeping my focus more constant throughout the day, especially a fat/protein based breakfast. Some advocate a ketogenic diet for this too, although I haven't gone that far myself.

Getting 8 hours of sleep each night makes a huge difference. Strangely, I actually find ~4 hours sleep makes me more productive than 6, this certainly isn't good long term though.

As others have said, your biggest issues is probably just attempting to work 12 hours a day in the first place - most people just can't pull this off on a regular schedule.
Same, no. But in a reasonable reference frame, "evenly developed", probably. I think the point made is that obviously the whole "freedom of movement" concept didn't come as a trick to "dump bluecollar workforce into richer economies so that wages don't go up".

Even assuming this was the sole purpose of it today (an extremely ignorant opinion if you ask me, and one that I don't see being backed by OP with evidence) it still doesn't prove that that's what "freedom of movement" is for. At best it would show that that's what it became.

It's more or less like saying that cars are for polluting the environment. They may or may not pollute but certainly that's not their defining trait, rather just a side-effect.

Unfortunately much of the population commenting here was born in a "freedom of movement" environment as such they have very little personal experience with its benefits for anyone. They did however read an article in the Sun once.
Banning GMO meat doesn't protect consumers. It's just unscientific pandering to special interest groups.
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Maybe, maybe not, but how would you know? As of now, IQ is the _only_ measure of intelligence, so there's nothing to compare it against except anecdotes. You can say, "so and so has a low IQ but he seems smart to me", but there's nothing objective to compare it against, so there's really no good way to tell if it does measure that ephemeral quality that we attribute to the term "intelligence". It does track pretty closely with every other objective measure of intelligence, though, like academic performance and financial success.
Interesting and honest read. Freedom is costly. Mistakes are costly. It's the price of learning.
It is a big misconception that the placebo effect must be ineffective — there wouldn't be an effect at all if that was the case. I hear it's sometimes even effective when you're told you're taking a placebo.
Sorry, I'm not very interested in debating subjective views of what more than 17 million people might have wanted. Little of value ever seems to result from such discussions.

All I'm saying is that the original comment by tonyedgecomb seems a bit pessimistic, because whatever happens with Brexit, either the UK will retain the benefits of the new EU arrangement or the UK and Japan have declared a very public intention to form an analogous agreement as quickly as possible to retain the same benefits for both parties.
Well Brexit kind of is being forced upon the people Scotland and Northern Ireland who voted to remain (and, as Arethuza correctly noted, it's now likely that a majority of the UK population overall are against it anyway).
If your goal is a portable SSH client, even an original iPad mini with a bluetooth keyboard would be a better option than this thing.
This is generally a good idea but what about the people who can't afford to pay for news? Do they not deserve to know what's going on? I'm not aware of what the general consensus on this is and how it's handled but I think objective news (both local and international) are a basic right of citizens of a country.
It's the native app, albeit in beta, so you may not have it yet. You can turn on smile functionality in the app, but you must turn on all notifications.

"Also what does Amazon have to do with SV?"

Amazon is part of metaphorical Silicon Valley. So's Microsoft, for instance. Metaphorical Silicon Valley is too large to fit in literal Silicon Valley.
Thanks for reading!

I had a healthy stockpile of savings from working 10 years at various software jobs that paid well. I was at Google for the last 4 years, did consulting before that, and worked at Microsoft before that.
nobody likes the withdrawal agreement.
Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway
Great point. If someone without credentials were truly doing ground-breaking stuff in the field, then getting a PhD should practically be a formality--schools should be banging the door down trying to recruit that person just for the status of having him or her (with full tuition waiver plus generous stipend being the bare starting ground).
Well, if the UK side believes that the EU cannot be trusted, then there shouldn't be a deal at all.

Because there are always small details cropping up later that need to be fixed "fairly".

Unfortunately that fits very well within the "go whistle" stance, and that's why I don't really support any Brexit deal and think the UK should just crash out, consequences be damned.
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It is not a very conspicuous signal. I don't know which one of my friends use Amazon Smile. I don't think the dark pattern would work well if Amazon Smile was only social signalling. Seems to me it relies much more upon the fact that actual money is given to charities. Pretty gross of Amazon to add unrelated self serving conditions to such giving.
OSMAnd sucks in the states. Can't find any standard address that all other GPS apps can. Its sad since I would use it more.
We're not talking about law; we're talking about hearts and minds, identity, nationalism, the stuff that causes wars and keeps peace.
So I have something of a different experience, not exactly with DePaul or U of C students per se, but let's say, A and B respectively, where A=practical and B=theoretical.

A or B students could generally get the job done, but B students tend to be able to go deeper because of their greater theoretical horsepower. I could assign them tasks of greater difficulty and they will figure it out on their own and deliver.

If the organization only requires A-level talent, then let's be honest, there's no difference between A or B students. The majority of enterprises out there really only require A-level talent.

But if your organization has the kind of challenges that require B-level talent (a minority of organizations, to be sure), I think you might struggle with A-level talent. I faced this first hand when I learned that I couldn't scale because I was limited with the A-level talent that I had and was spending an inordinate amount of my time training and guiding them that I barely had time to do my work.

In general you are correct, but in some very specific situations, my experience has been there's value in identifying the right kind of talent that fits the problems you are trying to solve.
Agreed.

If you can figure out exactly where the residential rooftop panels are, you’ve found a goldmine of people susceptible to door-to-door sales of “get 10% returns guaranteed per year by letting us sell you/install/use your ______”.
It doesn't even matter anymore if they can tie your actions to your identity, so long as they can tie your actions to the information that they choose to let you consume.
I'm not sure if you understand what "bias" or "opinion" mean, as the Fox News headlines you gave as examples are also not even close to being good examples. "Trump dismisses border wall negotiations as 'waste of time'" is an entirely factual, unbiased description of Trump's characterization of the border wall negotiations. You could not have given an example of a more fact-based, unbiased headline if you had tried.
I think the difference here might be the percentage of religious/educational institutions that survive > 1-2 centuries vs. the percentage of commercial ones that do.

It's not that corporations can't exist for that long. It's that they're much less likely to, and are thus a poorer bet for the survival of an extremely long-term project.
And yet different enough to sometimes cause issues when they get mixed and matched (e.g. A4 document on Letter printer, or vice versa).
Ask HN: Are dev bootcamps worth it even if you don't want to be a full-time dev?
I'm in a PM role right now, but want to do a heads down code bootcamp to get from a 3 to a 7-8 as far as my technical chops go. I don't necessarily want to be a rank-and-file developer at a startup or big co, but I want something to push me to learn so I can either be 1) better at my current job or 2) start my own company. Has anyone gone through a bootcamp without the intention of becoming a professional developer?
50MB/s is tiny, you can push 500 on commodity disks.

https://www.slideshare.net/ConfluentInc/kafka-on-zfs-better-...

Full talk: https://www.confluent.io/kafka-summit-sf18/kafka-on-zfs (shameless plug)
Eric Schmidt is a horrible human being. Nothing surprises me coming from him.
That's neat. Do you get a lot of people using it and signing up?
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As a counterpoint, I use NYT + uBlock Origin and never see a banner about disabling the ad-blocker.

In general though, I agree that paying customers should not be subjected to ads. But as someone who worked in the news industry (quite some time ago now) I don't think newspapers have learned that lesson yet or can afford to do that.
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Mmm I would say art is a necessity but it’s economics are weird - winner-take-all, etc.

I say it is a me necessity because it is impossible (and perhaps a contradiction in terms) to imagine a human culture or society which had absolutely no art at all.

No music, no visual art, no literature, no fashion, no film or theater, no sculpture, no “craft arts” (which are really just plain art) like architecture, pottery, interior design, graphic design, product design, etc ...

Even propaganda and the fashion of military uniforms ultimately depend on art.

It’s just not possible. And somehow if it was, who would want to live in it?

Therefore art is a necessity :)
Well, I guess the IRA had always had a legal obligation not to kill people.

It hasn't stopped them. Maybe the view needs to be widened a bit.
The site recommends building domes out of Sulphur. That doesn't seem like very good advice. As a non-expert in survival, I'd be wary of trusting anything written by a person with a creative interpretation of what's real and what isn't. You never know what else they're having unconventional opinions of.
Beyond the obvious implications of this statement, it makes me consider Fredric Jameson's argument that the separation between modernism and postmodernism is that postmodernism replaces temporarily with spatiality. How this connects to Schmidt's statement is that it, too, denies the temporal dimension, in that an individual might have something they don't care is known, but that when is of prime importance, whether that be in in regards to what might be called more intense circumstances, or simply that, say, and author typically does not want the first draft of a book out there.
assuming the stated mission is the real one.

if you follow the history since 9/11, you might realize what the real mission is.
I think one of the most interesting questions of the next few [hundred|thousand|?] years will be whether humans move on to new planets (or moons, etc?), or whether humans will construct stations or habitats of some sort in Earth's orbit?

Or both, maybe? It could be that we try to, for example, go live on Mars, find out that it isn't worth it or feasible or something, and then go with Earth-orbit habitats.

Or maybe, neither.
I’m impressed that there are no leaking capacitors in the pictures on this post. I have a few late-90s-to-about-2005-era machines that are leaking capacitor juice all over their motherboards.
US poultry workers wear diapers on job over lack of bathroom breaks (2016)