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Agreed - the last job offer I got was for 95k CAD and they would not budge higher.

Currently working remotely for about 115k CAD with a number of other perks.

I moved from Dublin, Ireland to Vancouver. Dublin rents are very high - probably as bad as Vancouver. The cost of living here is slightly lower though.
Anyone know if RedHat plans to fix this for their distros (and downstream like CentOS)? Poking around in their bugzilla, I can't find anything yet.
Like what? Driving a taxi/Uber? No, that'll be automated too. Working at McDonald's? No, that'll be automated too. Becoming a software engineer? If they were any good at that, they would have done it already.

The fact is, all these low-education jobs are going away in the near future, to be replaced by robots and automation. We're not going to need hordes of poorly-educated people to work any more.
Heres something I wrote a while back on healthcare data integration[0]. Yes, this is a real problem. Yes, it's worse than you can imagine. No, I don't see it getting much better in the short term. Given enough volume from the people it should change.

Disclaimer: I used to work on these problems at a major academic medical center.

[0] http://siculars.posthaven.com/health-data-integration-regula...
I'm from a place where less than one percent of all household waste ends up in a landfill, so moving to the US and learning that most of my trash actually just goes on a dump somewhere was quite a shock to me. So why doesn't the US have more trash incinerators? It seems like such a no-brainer to me if you care about the environment?
I'm not sure who you're arguing with, but I don't think it's me.
Personally, I'm a big fan of the "Source Code" zip file download. I use it regularly, and have never had a problem.
Nice.

We have a Crestron Pyng as the central hub with attached goodies.

We also have our own Raspberry Pi based data logger that captures up to 40+ channels of temperature, humidity, luminance, occupancy, and thinking about a thermal imaging camera. Also can capture circuit based power usage and PV production to get a better sense of consumption/production cycles.

Keyless locks
Dropcam
Operable shading
Lutron Pico wireless light switching with scenes
Leak Detection
Remote management/security (AirBnB) features.
Whole home media
etc.

We are looking at appliance connectivity, but want real function not just gadgetry. It's an quickly changing landscape, so the list will grow and morph, but pushing for real utility and performance enhancing tech.
ROTFL. I report only when they have really annoying bugs and still don't condone their way of hiding issues from other (paying) users inside a private system. They answer after weeks, if they do, and then they expect me to retest next day. Sorry, but that's not gonna work.
Because they are owned by CBS.
That way they can also encourage, supply, and track downloads of "illegal" music/video sharing apps :^)
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> What they're worried about is 15 years from now, where all communications and storage technology is end-to-end encrypted ...

Encryption is basically a branch of mathematics. Outlawing all mathematics that can be used for the purpose of encryption, requires to accurately describe the precise boundaries of this branch of mathematics. It is trivially easy to prove that this cannot be done:

You cannot construct a predicate function that accepts as argument another function and returns true/false if the argument is an encryption function, because it means that this function implicitly claims to be able to determine if such function will halt. The theorem of the halting problem precludes that a predicate function could exist that returns true/false if the function supplied as argument will always halts. Therefore, no function could ever be constructed that can generally determine if another function is an encryption function.

This means that encryption cannot be defined. Without definition, it is not possible to outlaw it.

> no warrant or judicial order of any sort can retrieve evidence from them ...

Warrants and judicial orders are just verbiage while encryption algorithms are machine-executable instructions. It is simply not enough to mumble verbiage. They will also have to speak in terms of machine-executable instructions, in order to overcome the encryption measures that they are facing.

Why would it be necessary to preserve the power of people who are only capable of mumbling non-executable verbiage? If their jobs have become obsolete due to progress in technology, they will not be the first nor the last ones that this happens to. Join the club.
You say that, but much has changed in the past 10 years.
If it truly were "up to enterprises", we wouldn't be using Git in the first place.
It's sad that TwoBit's perfectly reasonable objection to this got downvoted to death rather than countered with some plausible argument. Why is real estate unlike every other useful property?
The trend of foreign investment in the Vancouver market has been occurring well before the slide of the CAD. The immigration regime in Canada is much friendlier to foreign nationals, and especially so if they are wealthy. Until 2014, the federal government had an investor visa program that offered a route to permanent residence and citizenship in exchange for $800,000 investment (not in real estate) and demonstrable assets of $1.6 million.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/ENGLISH/immigrate/business/investors/in...
In the UK I had two wheelie bins. One was for landfill, the other was for recycling. The recyling bin would take paper, carboard, most plastics, cans, etc. Not glass, which had to be taken to separate bottle banks. Also not some kinds of plastic --- yoghurt pots, mainly.

But on the whole recycling was hardly a burden.
For the kinds of projects my company tends to do, when we're getting into repeat business we're generally not competing with other contractors. Our clients know that the other contractors would have a ramp-up cost that we don't, and an unknown working relationship vs our good working relationship. Instead, they look for per-hour discounts and ways to 'cut costs' while delivering the same value. They also typically have their own development team who don't get paid nearly as much per-hour as my company charges, so they look to share more of the work with their internal team. Since we do product, services, and support, including training, it's hard to argue that the internal team can't or shouldn't do the work.

It gets complicated, but in the end we mostly come out alright. Our clients are well aware that taking on additional work reduces our likely development cost but increases overhead costs and raises project/schedule risks. It's a tradeoff they accept, and we work with them to ensure the project is successful.

My point is, in the real world you can't just charge by the value you provide rather than by the cost of providing that value. That's a simplistic point of view.
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> Taking a step back, and putting aside copyright, which is a no brainier, providing access to the law is not free

Neither are lots of the essential functions of organized society. OTOH, universal access to a complete and accurate account of the law is arguably is an essential element of government of, by, and for the people.

> Best solution would likely be to have three non-profits take compete to provide access; otherwise you end up with situations like this were the states outsource access it an attempt to reduce costs and make money too.

I don't know that that's the "best solution"; a national rule that no government act has the force of law until and unless published in an official, universally and freely accessible, public domain, repository of the law meeting defined standards that include provisions relating to functionality and exportabilitym would not prevent states from outsourcing the work of providing the online repository, but would prevent it from being put behind a copyright wall preventing free use, and would prevent technical barriers from being erected to effective use in order to advance commercial interests, and would prevent it from being a way to make money rather than a way to provide free and equal access to the most fundamental information about government -- what their official, binding decrees are.
You're right. Once in a while, I encounter a user that has clearly given up. You can normally tell because they're running windows XP and their IE6 Crapium edition has 7 browser bars, some from defunct adware companies, and bonzi buddy in a corner...
> Just as the diagnosis of an ingrown toenail doesn't mean you need special treatment, neither does a mental health diagnosis.

Nonsense. Try getting a top security clearance if you have a mental illness diagnosis. Try getting certain kinds of insurance, or preferential treatment in many professions, or any number of other examples in modern society -- a mental illness diagnosis is a burden for a lifetime. The fact that the "illness" may have resulted from a fantasy like recovered memory therapy or be based on a make-believe ailment like Asperger's or homosexuality, doesn't matter -- same burden, same stigma.
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Well, even if quality is declining I wouldn't know where else to go for now. Gerrit doesn't cut it and neither does Bitbucket. Guess we will see.
>Don't put hard commitments into the contracts then. Why slave yourself to something that you aren't sure you can deliver?

Because you know full well that the contractual time limits will not, in fact, ever be relevant as you've added some neat tricks so as soon as the spec changes you get to adjust them (and the spec always changes). One assumes therefore that the commitments are simply part of the bidding process as you try to craft a somewhat realistic but very attractive looking bid
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I think it's important to keep in mind that crypto is probably not on a Moore's-Law-like track, so that the ciphers we're relying on today will probably be trivial to break in 20 years. In fact, the things that make 80s-90s crypto breakable mostly aren't algorithmic weaknesses but rather implementation flaws that weren't well understood then but are now.

Quite a bit of 90s crypto remains unbreakable, because the data is at rest and will never be put back into a circumstance that exposes the weaknesses of its cryptosystem.
>The founders didn't carve out a rule saying that individuals had the right to conceal evidence

Please, sir, read the fifth amendment [5].

[5] https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/fifth_amendment
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That sounds more like they cannot eradicated all enclaves of rebels, but they can control mouch of the territory. Namely the higher-privileged rings.

If you try to run your "free" software stack inside a javascript engine inside an approved browser inside an approve operating system then your data is neither secure nor do you actually have control over the execution.

If they can blacklist apps they can also blacklist domains from which you load javascript. It cascades down and you're basically retreating to the position where you say "as long as I can do some computation everything is fine".

It's not fine if you lose control over more and more parts of your computer.

You think laptops are safe? Think about secure boot and those Windows RT devices which do not boot linux despite being capable ARM devices.
"1. Build really tall. Hasn't worked out all that great in Hong Kong, though."

What do you mean when you say it hasn't worked out great in Hong Kong? Is it because prices are still high in a lot of neighborhoods there? I'd say the build-really-tall strategy has worked out quite well in HK. There is a range of affordability in close proximity with good transit, and lots of parks and open space. It's a remarkably livable city.

The fundamental problem is that real estate in major cities has become a scarce luxury good covered by the wealthy. Restrictions on building - rent control and aggressive property taxes basically fall into this category - only make things worse.

The only way to make Vancouver, SF, and anywhere else affordable is to radically increase supply relative to demand. In practice things aren't that simple.

The best bet for someone looking to live and raise a family is probably your fourth option. There are a lot of really nice cities out there.
It's fairly nuanced and there are different standards used, but one key one is arm's length pricing. You need to charge what you would charge an arm's length customer (ie. market price).

Another standard does, in fact, set a minimum level of transactional profit based on comparable businesses. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_pricing#Comparable_pr...
I'd argue its impossible since $2350 is almost half your monthly salary before tax!
The interesting discussion from the occupational licensing story was whether a given licensing requirement creates an undue barrier to people that want to pursue the career. That's what I was getting at, regardless of how terrible this hours requirement might be, it doesn't create much of a barrier to people that want to become insurance brokers. It's little more than an inconvenience.

(There's an argument to be made that an inane hours requirement is unfair to people that must work long hours to support themselves, but in this case it was the company urging paid employees to spend their time otherwise)
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I am currently in the same position you are in except with school. I love learning but I am burned out from reading chapters on top of chapters and writing "novels". My brain is definitely on strike and the quality of work I am producing is not the best. Not to mention, I am averging about 3 to 4 hours of sleep a night.

I decided to take a break for a few months after this last class I am in. I did not want to, however at this point it is very necessary. I can't wait to just do nothing for a day or two.

I hope you find balance and are able to find some time to step away from everything to reset.
Sure. No problem.

The vast majority of people in China can't come to the US no matter how good of programmers they might be due to immigration reasons. Even if that weren't a barrier, the vast majority of Chinese people don't have the language skills to work in the US. As with many other places, the best coders often aren't the best language students. Think of some of the most well-known and respected programmers in the US. How many of them could function professionally in another language? Very few excluding immigrants.

A lot of the best engineers in the US don't want to work for a huge company. They want to join a start-up or start their own. This isn't usually the case in China. Kaifu Lee has struggled greatly trying to get top talent to consider anything other than a large company like Alibaba or Tencent (or for the government). The Chinese people you meet who are working in the US aren't a very representative segment of the market.

I wasn't speaking specifically of AWS. The territory occupied by Chinese companies is divvied up a bit differently than in the US. Shengda (a gaming company) was a relatively early cloud provider for example, and Alibaba is late to that market. On the other hand, Alibaba also does a variety of things that Amazon doesn't, and its e-commerce is beating Amazon in multiple countries that aren't China.

Alibaba's pace of expansion in developing countries is brisk, they dominate Chinese e-commerce much more thoroughly than Amazon does US e-commerce (80% to ~30%) and most importantly their business model is less capitally intensive than Amazon's. In fact, according to their annual reports, their net margins are clocking it at over 40%!

The one possible caveat that will be interesting to watch is Amazon India. That model is much closer to how Alibaba operates and could be key to winning in other international markets.

Amazon and Alibaba have a lot of of similarities and I don't at all think Amazon is incompetent. Amazon is terrifyingly competent, but just has some problems around reputation amongst prospective employees, partners and pretty much everyone except for customers. Alibaba is also terrifyingly competent, but loved and even leaner and even more efficient.

(I don't have any investment in either company)
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So, basically MBA's, and tasteless Americans.
In my town you just have to sort the plastics from the papers and they will collect it for free every Tuesday. The trash bags on the other hand are very expensive and not very big, I find myself trying to get as much as I can in my recycling to avoid having to buy more.

In fact the first week I moved in I didn't crush or sort anything because my landlord told me that was all I needed to do and they still collected it (even though my landlord was wrong).

Its also worth noting that as a result of this system, every house on my street always has a larger amount of recycling then garbage (we don't use bins so its easier to notice), it would be nice if more places did this.
In addition to my last comment regarding these ~40yo women now wanting to have kids, what's even worse is that it seems a ton of them are getting themselves inseminated (artificially or otherwise, probably artificially for these high-income women so they can screen the genetics of the donor more accurately) and deciding to become single moms.

As someone who was raised by a single mom, it's a horrible experience, and prepares you for a life of never being able to be successful in an adult relationship, because you've never seen such a relationship except maybe on TV (which we all know is not reflective of reality at all).

I do not see a good future here for our society. I'm not a social conservative in most ways (I'm a big believer in poly relationships for instance), but what I'm seeing with the 30-45 women makes me very worried for the future of our society. Maybe the Millenials and Gen-Zers will do a better job than us stupid Gen-Xers; they seem to be much more open-minded and willing to try out different relationship styles, rather than not having relationships at all.
> Why is this such a big problem?

These needs are not a problem. But not stating them clearly creates a problem, where you do what you think would help, but your needs are still not satisfied.

> I don't like this sentiment that everyone must be a rock and steel-strong independent individual who never has to rely on others/relationships/family/society and just cuts through life like a knife through butter.

I didn't say that either. The more clear and honest you are in expressing your needs to others – the more likely you to get them fulfilled. But for that you often need to do some work first; you can't rely on others to know your needs better then you.
GCHQ have made a point of recruiting people with autism spectrum diagnoses.

There's plenty of people with severe mental illness who have security clearances.
Interesting idea. But no, they know of each other. No probs.
Also, having backdoors into encryption is akin to the Government having a remote kill switch that would render your legally owned gun useless. But that is a whole other debate.
Very interesting, does it affect libvirt / lxc? I wonder what is the frequency of this problem.
I'm probably not wrong about this. As I've said: the Supreme Court has more than once confirmed that the common law principle of the state's entitlement to evidence is, in fact, the law of the land here as well.

We limit the state's access to evidence through judicial oversight. We do not, as a general rule, allow individuals to further overrule that access.
In my town, after the landfill filled up, they built an incinerator. The town dump was turned into a "transfer station" where residents could bring their trash and recyclables. Trash would get "transferred" into trucks and hauled off to the incinerator, where it was converted into ash and electricity. The recyclables which we dutifully sorted into glass, plastics, newspaper, cardboard, metal.. were also hauled off to that same incinerator.

As a condition of building the incinerator in the town, the builder granted us a yearly quota of so many tons of garbage we could dump in there for free. Since our garbage was under that quota, they just brought the recycling there too! Why pay for it to be properly processed when we could burn it for free?
CAD 110k is definitely enough to get a decent place, live comfortably and save some money in Vancouver.

But then again 'decent' and 'comfortably' are subjective.
Mike, thanks for your work, in particular on contracts. I believe you're drawing the wrong conclusion. Yes, Bitcoin is very imperfect, but developer power was never a problem addressed in the system. The crux of the matter has to do with imperfections in PoW itself. There is no reason whatsoever why a better system should not exist, which gives users more control (again) and also has more use cases. And there is no law which says Bitcoin has to succeed at massive scale. It is high time for a realistic assessment of the amazing invention of Bitcoin, and then start working on better systems which address its short-comings. Let's face it - CPU power as a proxy for users is just not functional anymore. And yes, solutions for stopping developer coups will be need to be found also, but those should be actual protocols.
Which videos does this occur on? The e10s system is new and some plug-ins may not accommodate e10s yet.
Ask HN: Do some YC values need to be softened?
From what I understand, Homejoy was one of the fastest growing companies in YC history, and if I'm not mistaken, it closed down in part because it pursued too much international growth too early.

Additionally, it seems that the "macro" scandal at Zenefits may have been a result of taking the "hack-the-system" mindset too far.

In YC content, there is an influential essay emphasizing growth, and the YC application itself asks potential founders about moments when they've hacked a system to their advantage.

Are the YC values of "startup = growth" and "hack-the-system" taken too seriously or too far by founders? Are there healthy ways to soften the values to help founders avoid the pain Homejoy and Zenefits experienced?
It really depends on how long or short sighted the economic rational wants to be. If you include the cost of pollution, including people's desire to live without pollution and the cost to reduce it to acceptable levels for people, then economics encompasses everything needed to correctly assess a scenario (but whether we can correctly create and interpret the model is a much more dicey).

Edit:

> The main problem being is that (obviously!) economic forces have driven us into the situation in the first place.

Yes, costs of pollution were (are?) not being correctly applied to those creating the pollution. That's not a failure of economics, it's a failure of people to correctly account all the economic factors that exists.
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It's almost as if they did that, then we would be reading a post on why it is taking so long, and why didn't github supply realtime daily blog posts on exactly what every single engineer is doing every day.

They are damned either way since everyone now days believes they deserve every question they post answered immediately and if they don't they are ignoring their customers. If they do, and then don't turn around and immediately release a product they are also shunned. But the sentiment here these days is pretty needy and entitled so I understand...