skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. Personally, I would love to move to Denmark, and I am actually on the job market right now (I do scientific computing with Python and some related data engineering tools, so I have no idea if I fit the OP's company) but my immediate instinct is to be really skeptical of this.

For me to feel like a job offer to Copenhagen is attractive, the take-home pay needs to be similar to what it would be in Boston in the US ... so mid to high 100k USD range of gross pay, say something close to 100k USD take-home pay, which roughly corresponds to a take-home pay of 688k Danish krone per year. With high taxes there, I'm guessing this means a salary of greater than 1MM krone/year to be roughly equal to a competitive offer in a mid-cost urban area in the US. And if it is in the finance industry as the OP suggested in another comment, then there should be some opportunity for profit sharing as well.

Cost of living doesn't factor into this so much, though cost of living in Scandinavian cities is pretty high. There is career risk and visa / tax hassle to worry about, relocation and housing costs, and the usual start-up risk. It's not at all the same as taking on a risk in the Bay area, where there are many jobs to switch to if your company doesn't work out.

I think a lot of start-ups don't consider these things, and often they don't have to consider them because there's a line of schmucks down the street waiting to work for them.

But if you are a thoughtful person and you consider visa risk, tax risk, career risk, relocation risk, regular start-up failure risk, etc., then for a job like this you might even expect a significant premium when compared to US-based jobs in the same field. A lot of European start-ups, I find, don't fundamentally think this way, and they expect that American workers should be happy to accept "European" salaries, which are then taxed at a higher rate, all while you're bearing many additional risks.

Unless your personal preference function puts a huge, huge premium on the status of "living in Europe" then it's probably a bad deal in terms of net life happiness.
Wow, it sure looks nerdy. I hope version 2 (or 3? Is meta 2 version 2?) is a bit more discrete. It must be bigger than a crash helmet!
How powerful are the burstable aws t2 instances
Then I highly suggest you to watch the tutorial (I found the re-uploaded version on YouTube[0]). It's ridiculous. Here's my favorite quote:

> I don't know what it does, it just makes everything super louder. [...] It just sounds very very way more stronger.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IPxxeb-4gk
The thing to realize is that outside of very simple cases like connecting your Echo to your lighting, the smart home is a high-end product. If you can't afford a custom installation and hands-on support, you're not a real customer of the smart home. That means, for the 97%, it isn't a usable product.

People who can afford it can get a well-integrated smart home that works and continues to work and isn't spying on them (to the extent that anyone with a home security system isn't being spied on). Just don't try to do it yourself. Sure, some people can, but it's in the same category as home-built airplanes. For every one that flies, there are 500 sitting partially assembled in teh garage.
Why are they working on mostly useless ventures?

How about some really captivating features like:

Tor integration/awareness
I2P integration/awareness
ZeroNet functionality
IPFS functionality

Start working on hard features that will make the internet better, and also more distributed. It's one thing to have throw-away garbage that nobody will use. It's another thing entirely to support new protocols that make Firefox a go-to tool.
In Israel, 1 out of 3 engineers wants to move to the U.S
How is this different from other overlay networks?

Does "utilizes Bitcoin cryptography" mean that there is a BT-ish system of bandwidth credits?
What about the fact that drugs are incompatible with the lifestyle we want our society to have?

Society doesn't havena lifestyle. Individual members of society have lifestyles, so I'll rephrase that question to be more correct:

What about the fact that drugs are incompatible with the lifestyle we want our people to have?

Now it sounds as authoritarian as it is. And who is "we"? Sure, the majority is against drug legalization, but this is in a society where everyone has been exposed to lies and propaganda demonizing drugs since their childhood. Before the propaganda started, people didn't care about drugs.

What about the fact that religion is incompatible with the lifestyle I want people to have? Isn't it better instead of allowing churches to exist to find the root cause which is forcing these people to seek comfort and stability from these lie-peddlers?

I don't want to live in a society of devotees, I want to live among people of sound mind and spirit, who think for themselves and strive to consider the big questions in an intellectually honest way.
This is a cool concept!

After attempting to upload a CSV or JSON file, I get: "Service unavailable."

On a positive note, the sign-up/onboarding process was a breeze. Will try again later.
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True, though it's harder to calculate. The average salary for a Stanford MBA is $142,834. Believe that's less than what my friend was making at the time. So, using averages, it's a net loss.

Of course, that's silly. There's still a MBA premium. Even if you assume $50k, you're talking 12 years to break even. That's simple math: you could take into account the time value of money or the fact that salary increases also impact future salary increases.

We're still talking at least a decade, we're assuming the premium is real, and we're assuming that if you're at the far end of the curve (high earners, successful entrepreneurs, etc.), you're not going to be successful anyway.

My friend's point was compounded by this fact: he could spend $500k more effectively elsewhere.
Well, it's not.
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Ubnt mFi gives you root access over ssh, a rest API and a web page that'll probably work from your phone...

They're not perfect, but damn, we should stop treating IoT devices like closed crap that'll never get updated and they at least try...
Good question, I was looking for the same information. Unfortunately their entire Dev area is behind a login screen and I see no way to register:

https://www.metavision.com/devcenter
The fundamental issue is that, if I were to put down a list of things I wish were easier/automated around the house, there's very little that overlaps smart home or home automation products.

- Heat control. OK but I have a non-network connected programmable thermostat that's really pretty effective.

- Vacuuming. OK. Roombas are a start in this direction although how effective they are depends a lot on your house layout.

- Clean up dirty dishes, wipe down counters, etc. Nope, unless you count my dishwasher.

- General food prep. Cutting/chopping. Nope, unless you count things like my food processor.

- Smarter light control. Eh. A few dimmers work pretty well.

- General dusting, bathroom cleaning, etc. Nope.

- Laundry. Nope (other than my dumb washer & dryer).

- Lawn cutting, general yard maintenance. Nope.

- Water plants. One can setup complicated systems but you still need to get water from a water source to individual pots without leaks.

The list goes on. The bottom line is that the tasks I'd like to eliminate or streamline are largely not things that I can buy devices to help with.
They make it sound like there's no native SDK, only a Unity SDK. That seems like a mistake if it's true. Unity it's great for prototyping and for certain kinds of applications but as a current VR and possibly future AR developer I want the option of a native SDK, not least for access to other engines like Unreal.
After Black Holes Collide, a Puzzling Flash
If you opened some of the built in audio files in Windows XP with a hex editor, you could see that they were created with a cracked version of SoundForge.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/pirated-software-used-to-creat...
I thought the idea of dept is something like slavery.

You don't want your money back, but rather that people owe you something.

A financially independent country would do much more things you don't like.
This is a super cool tool with some interesting tech behind it. Plus that website is damn sexy...
> They're dominating the connected home right now with the Echo

Have any numbers to back up this assertion as opposed to sales figures of iPhones, iPads, AppleTVs, Macbooks, AirPorts, etc. - all integral fixtures in the smarthome ecosystem?

> integrating the Echo with Plum's Lightpad is extremely easy

Amazon does not have tight enough control over its smart home ecosystem. While it may be easy for you to integrate your thoroughly designed and tested product, it's also easy for shady vendor x to integrate their cheap, disaster of a product, and Amazon will not expend the resources to vet it, but in the end the user will blame Amazon when that product catches fire because they branded it as OK to work with Amazon products.

Apple doesn't want an outside dev ecosystem building up around its products before its in a position to tightly vet and control what engineers create to enhance the ecosystem. Third party applications/devices are an integral part of the user experience, and by extension, the customer's feeling towards Apple as a brand.
Strokes: Let's pretend D3 was written in ClojureScript
Do you have any experience with anything similar to Toastmasters? If so, do you think that Toastmasters is a good first step when considering the potential of an MBA? It seems to line up with several of the benefits you mention.

http://www.toastmasters.org/
Containers vs. Virtual Machines: What's the Difference?
How the Brexit would impact the UK startup scene
I'm trying to decide if this is an incredible work of art, or an elaborate waste of his time. The music was top-notch either way and it's ingenious in any regard...
No, the grandparent post was saying that men were similarly influenced by societal pressures. It wasn't downplaying the societal pressure.
Whoa thank you for this, I love it! I do wish there was a Windows version, but it will be a nice-to-have while working on OSX.
HK has insane amounts of expats, significant amounts of which smoke weed. Probably almost half the expats I met, mostly rich young folks though so it's not surprising at all.

If you're white and walking around during the night you'll constantly be approached by people trying to sell you weed and coke. (Steep prices, but significantly easier to find than in most western cities)

Edit: Wrote that in a bit of a hurry. When talking about HK you need to take into account the massive income inequality between expats and many of the locals working "normal" jobs.
Weed is rather expensive for many of the locals, but for some western bankers making 10k+ USD a month it's a relatively cheap way to take a break from the rather hectic life in HK.
Doesn't translate "é" as "&eactue;" ("&#233;" instead).
This is just hand waving. It's impossible to replace editors with computers, you even say so yourself.

Netflix is a studio; you're trying to change the meaning words because the facts don't fit you.
yup! There's other reasons I use CyanogenMod, but PrivacyGuard is on of the biggest
While pricey, the Hue Tap seems to be a good middle ground. Its powered by the press of the button itself, so no wiring needs to take place. Pair, stick it onto a wall, and then you have 3 light switches ready to go.
Intro to Debugging React Native (iOS and Android)
"monads they usually only include `bind` and `return`"

All you need for a monad is `bind` and `return`. Is the problem that there are not polymorphic monad combinators like `sequence`, `traverse`, etc.?
Thankfully this is false. This would be incredibly dangerous and unreliable. The general design is a heating coil with an insulator that is then then jacketed in a steel or iron sheath.

When the element on my neighbors electric stove failed, the heating coil found its way through the insulator and the steel jacket. The electric current bored a hole through the aluminum pot she was using.
Zynga in deeper chaos as CEO Mark Pincus resigns again
Yes I did in fact, but the actual states don't really matter as much as the idea.
What technologies to use for building mobile apps?
I'm looking to create a social networking app, something like Tinder or MeetUp.

What technologies would you recommend for the same? Should I develop the app first in Swift and then in Java for Android? Or should I use a cross platform tool like Xamarin?

Is there enough ROI in developing natively for each platform?
Will Cost per Engagement Become the Go-To Metric for In-App Advertising?
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It is 2016, and indeed most of the music software on my computer is tied to no dongle whatsoever.

Dongles are understandably thought of as a bit of a pain by many musicians, and I'm sure many developers understand that they'll lose customers by requiring one.
Sure - for highly specialized stuff. But, let's not pretend that 99% of the published work couldn't be well served by standard LaTeX templates and a little effort of learning the basics.
If that is too much, then how do they send you the formatting specifications anyway? In some custom, poorly self-invented format?
90-degree field of view and 2560 x 1440

In other words, not a breakthrough in regards to the readability of text. I'm not saying text will be unreadable. I mean, I do run a project that has a significant text-editor component in VR, and I do this on the DK2, which is significantly lower resolution. But I think that also means I'm one of the most qualified people to say that it's not going to be "like unlimited monitor space". For the application support they are touting, this is going to be a bit like the old 800x600 days. Now, we certainly got work done in that time. And for a variety of reasons, the perceived resolution of text is higher than the actual resolution in an HMD, but it's maybe only a factor of 2. You're not going to be replacing your office with this device. We just aren't there yet. I'm working towards that day, and I think the work needs to be done now to be prepared for that day. But we aren't there yet.

Given that VR is already pretty taxing on modern, top-of-the-line hardware, I'm personally waiting until at least the next generation for an AR device.
We had a class which was essentially toastmasters, so yeah, it really helps with the communication part.
You can somewhat switch Haskell to being strict-by-default with the new Strict/StrictData pragma[0], which should be in GHC 8.0. There's also a great write-up of it here [1].

As someone else mentioned, Backpack is trying to "fix" the module system in Haskell[2], which should be interesting. That said, I don't have much of a problem with it, but then again I haven't seen the light of the OCaml way yet :)

[0] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/StrictPragma

[1] http://blog.johantibell.com/2015/11/the-design-of-strict-has...

[2] http://plv.mpi-sws.org/backpack/
I read AR googles... I was so excited. But once again, Meta is awesome too.
"To purchase the software you have to go through a bunch of screens, enter payment info, download, install, and then enter a serial number"

You're forgetting the iLok. Physical license keys are one of those laughable gimmicks of pro multimedia. My laptop only has 3 USB ports - fairly normal - one is always taken up by this dead weight (or I have to use a hub).

Plus, since iLok has the monopoly when it comes to dongles, they racket everyone into purchasing an additional "insurance", otherwise if you lose your key, your licenses are gone forever, unless you pay $130 (+$50 for the new iLok, + $30 for the insurance I belive). Seems obvious to me that this figure is not based on any actual required work, but on the fact that most people have well over $130 of licenses on their iLok, so they eventually give their money to iLok or move to pirating.
Disease is nothing to sneeze at! One new virus could quite possibly have wiped out an entire population (as it did so often in more recent human history). The end of the glaciers was the perfect condition to increase mobility and thus disease vectors.

In fact, this is so inevitable we'd have to explain why it couldn't happen, before speculating on less-likely scenarios?
CSLA.Net move to MIT license
+1 to teaching concepts - but I don't agree with the author's opposition to word problems and learning to apply a "bag of tricks". I'd argue that "deciphering vaguely-phrased word problems and figuring out which of a selection of tricks to apply" is the MOST transferrable skill somebody can take away from a math class, because it's a major component of working in lots of other fields. For instance, the biggest difficulties I've observed in novice developers are in breaking apart a big challenge ("write a program that solves this Sudoku board") into digestible / implementable pieces and in understanding which piece of information they already know can get the result they want.
The US works well for many reasons...being united at the federal level is only one small part of it.

Look of course I am aware of legal issues and all that, but doesn't make sense to enact such sweeping legislation as legalizing drugs or socialism on a small scale first before going national?
Interesting article. Frank and honest. Good to read the experiences of others.

To get the disclaimer out of the way I'm a co-founder of Vamos Deploy. Our product addresses many of the deployment problems that have been discussed here so I thought I'd mention it. We are looking for feedback on the product and an early adopter or two - https://vamosdeploy.com

I'd like to cover some techie details here. Vamos Deploy encapsulates an application with it's dependancies and runtime config so it can be deployed as one to any number of machines irrespective of the OS (well, Linux and Windows at the moment). This encapsulation is achieved by configuring a 'grid' with all the application package versions, library/runtime dependancies, runtime property values and local repository names (hostnames usually). When the grid is deployed (all via CLI) the respective local repos get updated. You can have multiple grids on a host (in a local repo) thus enabling multiple, differently configured, encapsulated applications that don't conflict. It avoids duplication by the grid sharing the underlying application packages and libraries in the local repo.
There is a audit log of all actions for traceability and transparency. A simple ownership model prevents non-prod code getting into production and restricts who can deploy to production. It can be combined quite easily with any config management tool for release orchestration. You don't need RPM/Deb packages or deal with Yum repos. We have concentrated on making it easy to learn and use so max benefit can be attained quickly.

I'll stop there. Be interested in anyones feedback here or https://vamosdeploy.com#contact for a chat.
U.S. military invites vetted experts to 'Hack the Pentagon'
Didn't realise it was a long standing graphics in joke. Reading this took me back 20 years to my time as an AVS/Express developer. AVS used the teapot as a standard object for testing geometry pipelines.
One thing i wonder about - why does it take so much hardware and sales to try out a new consumer product concept ? Isn't there a process to aim the products better and a simpler way to verify them ? What is it, and why aren't more companies using it ?
Offer HN: AMA on insurance tech and large companies
Been working on the business side of insurance for a few years and wanted to help anyone who's curious or interested in disrupting insurance.

Also, we're an enormous company so if you need insights on how the sales process works at large companies (I've approved and rejected vendors), ask away!
"The Power Broker" biography of Robert Moses is a truly exceptional look at the intersection of interpersonal and organizational power.
On the one hand, these services are really cool. Especially for prototyping etc.

On the other hand, don't all "real apps" require some business logic in the backend? These are basically CRUD, right?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Create,_read,_update_and_delet...
The reason why the smart home is such a failure is because even the "smarter" home is a total failure. I had a programmable thermostat in my residence. I always used it in "hold" mode and just turned it off when I left for the day. This thermostat also had the option for the power company to disable the AC during peak load. I could care less about this as the interruption was brief. The problem was after they re-enabled the AC, the thermostat always returned to "program" mode. Twice this turned on the heat with a setting of 85 F in the middle of the summer. Needless to say, that thermostat is now sitting in a cupboard.
Is this because they are using projector screens to display the image?

What would stop them using rgb lasers to display vector graphics?
I loved everything about it until I saw this image and then I literally laughed out loud. I think the "you look ridiculous" factor is even higher than VR... Imagine going to a meeting with this on!

https://d3mzncm6cj8c3y.cloudfront.net/assets/pages/home/side...
As technology has become more and more pervasive in society the role of security, at least in the preventative sense, has fallen more and more on the people who make the technology.
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I've experienced it in Amsterdam (albeit in busy-over-the-counter style), glad to hear there is spot like that in US.

the thing is, effects (at least on me) can be so starkly different from type to type (i never experienced different stuff with same effects). very different to consistent dumb-down-but-generally-happy effect of alcohol (again, purely on me).
Product Hunt release story for Standup Bot – One big happy accident
And here I am, stuck with LMMS... Honestly, LMMS is rather cool once you get used to it.
The problem is you cannot test economic policy in the states. Social policy, absolutely. But if you try socialism in one state and its neighbor is a tax haven, business interests will just jump over the border and you will see wealth flight. It is too easy to move between states when you have money. It is much, much more complicated to move between countries.
Pero que bueno es fumar una rica flor y programar en Python // :)
Author here. Any questions? Fire away.
they had to tone it down from their original headline "Apple Fight Could Lead To End of the World As We Know It"