jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Salaries do vary significantly between different European countries. For example, salaries in Germany are much higher than in Spain or Portugal. Within a country you can also expect some variation depending on the city. I don't know about Austria in specific but I would expect higher than that.

To give you a point of comparison, in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), I've known of several people with a salary like that, take or give 5k, and around 2-3 years of experience.

Suggestions: Check glassdoor, payscale and those types of sites. Remember to check how much tax you're expected to pay, some countries in Europe have very high taxes. Finally, cost of living, especially property, is a big factor in how much your money will be worth.
A large windfall like this would be structured in a SPV that pays out over many years anyway, also in Australia, no?
I am a programmer living in Vienna (currently self employed, but I was an employee not that long ago).

45,000 EUR is above average programmer pay in Vienna (that is about the same as the highest offer I ever got here, for doing java enterprise stuff about a year ago).

Sounds about right.

However, as a contractor you can make significantly more (500-600 euros/day).
it's not, IE10 is just the fastest in the benchmark
>Get around the blogger problem by generating a referral token for each blogger to use in linking to your site, and show them the token/link in their account page.

this would solve the problem of people who don't produce clickthroughs getting paid, but it wouldn't solve the problem of looking scummy, and if you have a bunch of duplicated content all over the place, you look scummy, and the person who actually wrote the content is going to be cheesed.

Reputation management (which is to say, wanting to not look scummy) is the primary reason why I don't have a referral system. Well, that and I'm not willing to put that much cash in to customer acquisition. But it's primarily about reputation; It's hard enough presenting a consistent message when you have two or three employees.

Even if you only care about money, reputation is worth quite a lot.

I'm sure there are ways to do affiliate marketing without looking scummy, but it's not obvious or easy.
> Is nostalgia a permanent long tail phenomenon, or a fad from which people will move on?

I think you can count on it as long as the 'retro gap' [1] holds at the current level.

[1] http://www.theonion.com/articles/us-dept-of-retro-warns-we-m...
I liked that part the most
In general, CPUs are definitely not the problem with those devices.... it's the terrible software and tiny app store.
For racing, yes, but not for street-legal cars.
If you get it to run on Linux or OS X, there would be no shortage of buyers, including the company I work at. R is our primary toolset. I spend 4-5 hours per day in R studio, & it could certainly use some beefing up - handling large dataframes without borking, simple Charts button rather than the ggplot2 ceremony, tighter integration with hadoop...
My workflow currently is - run a bunch of Scalding jobs to mapreduce few hundred GB on hadoop, then pull the results into R, deep dive analysis, some ML ( CART & the like ) to see if we can influence customer behavior & improve retention & conversion. If I could fire up R in Visual Studio & do all this, I'd definitely spring for it.
Related: http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/09/26/
That's the original repository.
This is offtopic for the acquisition, but it looks like Microsoft has a tutorial ready to go for building a forecasting service with R and Azure Machine Learning:

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/mach...
That trick wasn't limited to 8-bit. The original Macintosh used a variant of this to generate sound and to adjust the rotation speed of floppy disks. Just past the bitmap for the screen, it had two 740-byte buffers.

It read a single byte from those buffer at the end of each horizontal scan line, and fed it into the sound system/as a PWM signal for the motor of the floppy drive (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_128K/512K_technical.... I think the section on the floppy drive is incorrect; the original Mac didn't have a IWM; it was all done in software)

If you wanted to generate continuous, non-repetitive sound, you had to fill the sound buffer with new values at the end of each vertical blank interrupt.

Quite a bit easier than on the 2600, as the update frequency is only 60 Hz and the CPU a lot faster, but the same principle, and still quite a challenge at the time, if you wanted to do something in the screen at the same time.
As far as I know, numerous studies have shown that some medications work only due to their placebo effect. Though I actually doubt it refers to all groups of drugs. I do buy some pain killers via http://www.rx-discountcoupons.com/pharmacies/xlpharmacy/ service. I believe that my pills work and it has nothing to do with placebo effect. But who knows...
In some ways this is true, and in some ways it isn't. It's complicated.

You are correct that broadcasters back then were more free to transmit the content they wanted. You could get away with most vulgarities as long as they were after 10pm. Heck, I worked at a radio station in suburban New York where the morning DJs would regularly use words like "apeshit" and nobody cared.

Back then, if someone was offended they would write a letter to the FCC, and the FCC would take it seriously. For the most part, broadcasters genuinely worried about losing their licenses.

Since then, the FCC has declared that it, for the most part, has no authority to regulate the content on the airwaves. That gap has since been filled by political correctness, social media campaigns, and other organized artificial mob outrage. So the broadcasters are kept mostly in line by social pressure instead of the government.

That said, if you watch or listen to old broadcasts from the 1970's, it's amazing how free free speech was back then. Redd Foxx saying the N-word on the sitcom Sanford and Son. Candice Bergen calling Iranians "towel heads" on Saturday Night Live. Stuff that would bring out the lynch mobs today in our so-called "enlightened" times.
In particular, in data processing, all dimensionality is equivalent, since and infinite set S the same cardinality as S^n for any whole number n, and any finite set is smaller than the 1-dimensional set of naturals.
America soy beans are famously bought in China, as are American bonds.

Well, they used to be.
Dry sheets, according to the article.
Thank you. I may well do just that. (this is what I love about open source -- when it works well everyone is giving each other a helping leg up).
The answer is “tradition”. Shore access has been important to human civilization since before recorded history. Wars have been fought over shore access.
It helps if you reframe your question. Emacs facilitates working outside of silos. If you're using Outlook for e-mail, for example, there are some built-in mini-silos you can interoperate with (decent calendaring, decent contacts database, fairly simplistic task management, etc.), but if you want to take notes about an e-mail you received, you might end up alt-tabbing to OneNote and then pasting some text, then writing a deadline down there and then alt-tabbing to Outlook to set up a reminder (there is separate reminder functionality in OneNote but it's rudimentary), then alt-tabbing to Slack and maybe adding a comment there related to the e-mail. The promise of Emacs is working in a single environment for all of this. One more-or-less consistent interface on top of everything.
I agree, 100 percent. Some of the brands they mentioned are surprising as well.
I think all companies should be social media competent (and keep an eye on what people are saying) but participation is not required.
I beat the 350 MB by going to the Atlas Obscura website. Firefox managed to use up 550 MB with only a single tab open. This too after a clean start. Firefox just keeps on leaking memory when the Atlas Obscura website is open.

I hate saying this but Firefox 4 is shaping to be a disaster of epic proportions. The Javascript benchmarks are all nice and good but dear Mozilla folk you people also need to write a garbage collector for your implementation of Javascript that actually collects garbage.
For the SEO nerds:

lds.org
6,236 Linking Root Domains
190,722 Total Links (followed, nofollowed, 301'ing pages)

catholic.org:
4,029 Linking Root Domains
61,409 Total Links (followed, nofollowed, 301'ing pages)

Source: SEOmoz' Open Site Explorer
the stacking of income , is why I don't see op's idea working. If doing a dime worth of work is really worth a dime's worth of time. Why wouldn't I just do it on my own time, till I work up enough money to cash out.. rather than taking a risk of possibly never seeing any money.
I first thought that was a solution written in pseudo-code. Then I realized, "Hey, that's Python!"
I wish it were this simple, but you forgot about word-wrapping. Also, what to do in the event that space_left is negative, but the user hasn't reached 150 words.

(Also, it's layout for print, so better to think in terms of pts or picas.)
It's all good :) see above http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2033334
Yeah, why wouldn’t a person in a country known for its oppression just identify himself when talking about someone who was or wasn’t disappeared by the government of that country?
I could be wrong, but I believe one of the few metrics that the US outperforms in is cancer survival. I have heard that there are quite a few wealthy people (even from places like canada and the uk) that come here for cancer treatments that are not provided in their country because the public health system will not pay for them.
Yes exactly. I meant there is a huge reservoir of various corona viruses in bats.
A low hanging use case would be scripts for a distributed data analysis system. e.g. You type in a function and then it compiles to wasm and is sent out to run on worker nodes. Or you write code snippets for code to run in a distributed dag.

This exists with e.g. shared file systems (how hpc works, how hadoop works) and Python can pickle code and send it over a socket (be aware that this is a security risk). WASM seems like a nice and direct solution for moving code to data.
Don't you still have to pay to license SiFive IP?
This was later, but I learned a lot from Game Developer magazine. The entire archive is available for free.

https://www.gdcvault.com/gdmag
I did some further research and it seems like The Art of Prolog gets the most love even though it's from the mid-nineties - and still hella expensive like you say!

The only thing I'm wondering about are skipping any important developments made in the last 25 years, but I guess I can always jump into the more up-to-date online resources by then.
My recollection of that mall is that if you're more than 30 feet from an entrance, you'll be completely unaware that there's a thunderstorm going on outside unless it knocks out power. However, Google Earth does seem to show skylights through some of the major walkways and one of the larger stores, plus the food court. They didn't accomplish much.
Sixteen useful tips for those who work remotely and would like to do it better.
It's a symptom of the culture, not the big driver of that culture.
Let's not conflate Uber with ride sharing/app-taxi in general. Uber wasn't the first company of its type, it's only the one that became most known. It also wasn't like all the other ride share companies, it was well-known for utter disregard for laws and deeply sociopathic management. And it's not like this behavior was necessary to bring in all the innovation; disruption of the taxi space by private companies was happening for a while now. Uber only used its antisocial behavior to gain market dominance, and as a side effect it legitimized such dishonorable practices in the startup scene.

Personally, I like and use this "new breed" of app-based taxi services (except Uber). I just want to see Uber finally die. It should have died years ago.
Here are the issues that I still have (other than that it seems smoother):

- I could not make copy/paste work from a Wayland host to Wayland guest in a Qemu/KVM VM.
It seems that the guest utilities like spice vagent only work for Xorg.

- I noticed that chrome/firefox are still relying on X and run in XWayland (at least on my arch setup).

- Fractional scaling make some applications blurry but it seems that they are the ones running in Xwayland.
Yes, I understand the concept. I totally get that certain situations call for batching operations, including things that need to work transactional.

I think though that most operations don't need this. It's not an optimization I would blindly add to any operation, unless there's a specific case that warrants it.

I don't think that this is an anti-pattern. Most APIs do '1 thing at a time'.
I used to worry a lot about everything and had severe anxiety most of the time. Not anymore.

Add meditation to your daily life, excercise at least 3 times x week. For both activities you want to start SMALL, as small as you can so you don't end up discarding them inmediately. With meditation I recommend starting with an app like headspace or calm, also going to a meditation center after you have the basics (or inmediately if you can). In my case I meditate for about 7-10 mins each day. With excercise it doesn't really matter what you do, just pick up any physical activity and get your work done each week. It is important that you pick something you enjoy, so you see it as a hobby and relaxing activity instead of a chore: in my case I practice martial arts.

Also read the book "Feeling good" by David Burns, this book touches mostly on depression but some stuff can also work for anxiety.
This squares with my experience.

In 2007 I had a social conversation with a well known and successful operator / VC in the valley about new ideas. Having just gone through negotiations for a raise at my corporate job, the information asymmetry between corporations and employees about salaries was huge.

So my thinking was that it was only a matter of time until salary information became more open. He was adamant that it would never happen. Sharing salary information between employees was heresy. Mind you, I was also 30 and he was in his 50s.

12 years later Glassdoor, levels.fyi, etc are all things.

For whatever reason - he hadn’t gone through a salary negotiation in a long time, generational culture, etc - this was a major blind spot for him.
> It's not repetition, it's the deliberate creation of a comprehensible perceptual model which lives in the sweet spot between trivial prediction and surprise

Exactly!

The sweet spot between repetition and non-repetition - I cal it evolving repetition (same base but minor different touches or changes that evolve the pattern over time) and having different layers doing it - keeps the listener intrigued instead of bored, still keeping the predictability but giving the element of surprise.
If anything, all Apple have done in effect is build a nice shiny internet banking UI on top of a normal credit card.
Yawn. Them again. Wake me up when they have some tracks for it.
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> And the American format just makes no sense

> Maybe the European date format is better because the elements are in the order of relevance?
> ... when we’re talking about events occuring on a day-to-day basis, however I can think of numerous cases when the year and the month are more relevant

I think that's the "sense" of the American one. It optimizes "metal sort" for month.
> For example, why does any app need to know which other apps I have installed, and how long I use them? This permission should very sparingly pass the review process, and only for apps in specific categories.

Since I can't edit my original comment, I chose to reply to it instead of replying to everyone who corrected me. Yes, there's no API to directly query installed apps and usage on iOS. I think I got the wrong impression from years ago, when the function canOpenURL() could be abused to detect which apps were installed[0]. Thank you all for the corrections.

0. https://useyourloaf.com/blog/querying-url-schemes-with-canop...
Its their first pure tech play, surely deserves a mention of this major shift of their attitude towards 1. unprofitable 2.tech stocks? Surely their investors are anxious to know where they stand on it
Nope, it's not just you, the judge is confused about what incognito mode means.
I believe the mind of a 90 yo Buffet is not the same as the 30 yo Buffet.

My general point being that even if he's aware and picks some number less than 5% inflation (which is debatable), sitting on a giant cash pile and getting fear paralysis or whatever it is he's waiting on (clearly not a buying opportunity) isn't what a present day champion would do. But thats fine. Just can't expect him to be the past champion he once was.
> I love the idea of an off-grid house but it always comes with too much DIY.

Are you seriously complaining that homesteading is DIY? That's the point. You belong in SV, just buy a copy of stardew valley.

>I wish there were sellers with fixed affordable off-grid packages. (...) I realize this is contrary to the spirit.

You don't get it. It's going to break and if you've got the maintenance skills of a disillusioned tech worker, it's never going to be anything more than a money pit for you. Stay in whatever tech hub you're in.
It allows you to use a full Turing machine rather than restricting yourself to a Finite State Machine.
Does Signal share contacts the same way others like WhatsApp does?

https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/

> Signal clients will be able to efficiently and scalably determine whether the contacts in their address book are Signal users without revealing the contacts in their address book to the Signal service.
> The suppression of SIGPIPE was done in the Go code, not in the Python code.

What? Your earlier comment I was responding to mentioned only Python, not Go. And Python suppresses SIGPIPE:

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Python/pylifec... ,

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Doc/library/si...

> Does the POSIX standard mandate that programs receiving EPIPE/SIGPIPE die silently?

Not to my knowledge.
South Korea and the US found their first covid positive case on the same day[0]. I can't understand how the richest nation in the world failed this hard at containing and controlling covid.

[0]https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-testin...
I dont get it, isn't this a service similar to Goodreads? Why was it not free? Or what they were charging for?

I have never used it can someone please explain what are pros/cons compared to Goodreads?
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3550308
For some informed ideas about temperatures/climate and coronaviruses
thx u -
> However, the real losers from that will be property owners in SV not programmers.

Those aren't necessarily exclusive categories.
> Exactly. Remember when this was OK? https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1047935416182235136?s=19

Did they break into the offices and steal things?
Fun fact, on glibc, an extension feature is that you can define your own custom conversion specifiers for printf().
Ironically, xeroxing books is a pretty similar case, in that it's commonly done to school and university textbooks, because publishers are running similar rackets. It's hard to ethically justify fighting that either.
Lol no of course not. They tried to use force to terrorize the US government, so they could get their way. But they should be stopped with the minimum necessary force to prevent harm to others.

So I think the individual police officers (mostly) acted appropriately for the situation. The police organization’s planning was beyond negligent though.

You make a good point about some people’s response — the insanity caused by polarization clearly goes both ways, if there’s people saying everyone should’ve been shot. I’m kind of surprised more people weren’t shot though tbh. I always thought there were snipers and armed guards ready 24/7 around that whole area
That would be a little late.
They already censor, Apple just wants them to censor differently...
> our immune system learns over time with the number of exposures

> extroverts

QED
But isn't that point pretty obvious?
Elixir. The combination of pattern matching with Erlang processes and "let it crash" philosophy is an absolute joy. Actors/Erlang processes and FP are really great for modeling the problems I find myself solving in a clear and easy to understand way.
Absolutely true, my 3 bedroom flat rent in the south is now 450 EUR month ;)
"The big problem is the ABI sucks"

The problem is that there is no standard ABI call for C++, as implentation is vendor-specific (it may change even for same vendor between different compiler versions (!)). It would be hard to "fix" that, e.g. virtual function tables, exceptions, etc. For standard bindings, C is the only sane option.
I'm not seeing the moral distinction between title 3 wiretaps and Tor infiltration. It can't simply be that people on Tor have expressed an unwillingness to be tapped. Every rational actor has that preference in both scenarios.
+1
Even though I am not any good at it, but it's very ruby-ish (without shitty slowiness), perfect at data manipulations and great for regex-ing
I'm not a lawyer, and at the risk of sounding stupid, there's something I don't get.

Every time someone talks about debt v. equity in funding a startup they say that debt is better because it is less paperwork, easier and cheaper. For instance, Carolynn says:

"Financing documents, no matter how streamlined, have a lot of provisions that are complicated and require a not-insignificant amount of time and attention to slog through. Should the investor have a board seat? What protective provisions are appropriate versus onerous? What voting threshold should trigger this drag-along provision? What exactly is a registration right? Startup founders are typically not savvy about financing terms and are thus required to get up to speed at a particularly inconvenient time in the company's lifespan. The purpose of these small checks from seed investors is just to get the company off the ground - do people really want to worry about what a "deemed issuance of Additional Shares of Common Stock" is at this point in time?"

So equity docs are more expensive than debt because they're more complicated. And they're more complicated because they have all these provisions and protections that debt docs don't. But if you created equity docs that didn't have all these provisions, wouldn't they be pretty much as simple as debt docs?

A typical equity deal has these docs:
1. A stock purchase agreement--17 pages, 13 of which are reps and warranties, and closing conditions, things that debt docs usually don't have;
2. A Voting agreement, protections that debt docs don't have;
3. An Investors Rights Agreement, protections that debt docs don't have;
4. A Restated Certificate of Incorporation, protections that debt docs don't have along with changes that debt docs also need to make (increase authorized shares).

So if you took out all the stuff that debt docs don't give investors anyway, you have a 4 page stock purchase agreement. Compared to a 8 page convertible note. (I didn't count signature pages in either doc.)

This is an honest question, I assume there is a reason, I just don't know what it is.
Yes, that's exactly what I mean. The entire country sat quietly whilst the western companies poured billions upon billions into it. Fast forward 30-40 years and everyone is super surprised that once humble and kowtowing country showing a middle finger to the rest of the world and nobody can do anything about it. Huawei has been operating like this since its inception.
Yes. Just watched a race where two different race leaders lost, because they( and not the car ) made a mistake.