skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a millennial immigrant to Vancouver (came with my family when I was 10).

I'm a software developer by trade.

The problems are real, but the outcome is greatly exaggerated.

The fact is MOST millennials outside the most lucrative STEM/Law/Finance fields are in no position to be buying real estate anywhere in North America.

And the Vancouver rental market is actually not half bad. You can get a basement suite for under $1000 in the city proper. You can get a 2 bedroom downtown for $2000. Or at least you could a year ago, the Canadian dollar has plummeted.

Meanwhile people are weighing in with terrible salary stories. It's also not exactly true. Yes, I could make more in Seattle, and even MORE in Silicon Valley. But there are lifestyle costs to both. I value the Vancouver lifestyle quite highly. Now, full disclosure, I moved to Europe for a 2-3 year transfer with my company last year. But this was also a lifestyle based decision to allow me to travel more - I took a paycut.

The truth about salaries is Amazon pays very well (though not as well as in the States). Microsoft pays very well. So does Facebook, and Apple, and Salesforce pays the best (supposedly they are competitive with US salaries).
These big players are forcing the rest of the market to kick up. And all these players are also relatively new to the scene (most growth in the last 5 years). As a result, I foresee in the next few years a lot of ex-employees from these places going out on their own and doing great things in the startup community, or commanding similar salaries from local shops that want to get experienced engineers with big scale experience.

The problem with Vancouver is it's hard to find a city to compare it to. Yes, the economy isn't the strongest it can be, but the proximity to nature is unbelievable and very difficult to match. That intangible IS worth something despite people not taking advantage of it complaining that "that's all there is". If you don't care about world-class ocean and mountain sports in close proximity to outstanding international food options, this city is not for you. There are places with more vibrant art and culture and nightlife scenes, no doubt. But if you make the most of Vancouver's strengths, it is unbeatable.
This is a major issue everywhere. Take stagnant wage growth and stack that up against high housing costs and you have a double pinch. Prospects are extremely bleak.
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Google Is Giving Itself an Encryption Report Card
Actually the do want to Sydney - they just can't afford the rent on the salaries offered.
The difference is that Brits feel poor when they come to the US, whereas Americans feel rich when they come to the UK.

Sure, PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) comparisions are important (e.g. it's easier to live in Thailand with $1000 per months than in NYC), but absolute values matter as well.
'Star Wars' FX team used a purring kitten to make Kylo Ren ominous
So this is basically Conda?
Thanks for reading.

I might not have been clear enough, when I mean "API" I mean stuff like keen.io, algolia, contentful and others, which are SaaS products with an API-only/-first mentality.

It's not a an API "connector" for a SaaS product, but the API is the product.
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Metro Vancouver (2800km^2) is quite a bit bigger than SF (600km^2), so you may want to include rents in other outlying Bay Area cities.
I don't know, don't tenements generally have "familial unit" rooms? The rooms are shared, but usually not with strangers or on a large scale. Barracks or "worker dormitories" fit better.
The issue in India is that our IT Companies are way overhyped. None of them are doing well financially, all of them barely scraping through each quarter given the Industry at-large stance on outsourcing.
You haven't been to argentina then. Money is an inconvenience every single day. Handling change, and having to have dozens of bills in your wallet all the time is a hassle. Visiting an ATM every couple of days, or running short of cash and being unable to pay for anything.

Cash has other inconveniences cards dont have , and viceversa.
Just checking: Are you saying people are wrong to not like change? Or are you saying that it's uninteresting when people dislike change because it's a predictable response?
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You mean every single company building electronics in China? "Companies like Apple" includes effectively every single company making electronics at a large scale.
Presto also has a high quality codebase: https://github.com/facebook/presto
Someone asked the same question here

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-word-defence-the-only-uncap...

but at least in my browser, I can't see the actual answer (it says "2 Answers" but I can only see one, which just confirms that the word is not capitalized).
The cost of living in London is higher, but the increase in pay more than makes up for this

Are you sure? I made the opposite move for reduced cost of housing (and commuting).
>I'm not looking forward to when these people start referring to phone numbers as "phones".

In my native language (Russian) people already do (and have done long before email existed). In fact, I don't see why that would be unusual. When faxes were used, everyone used to refer to fax numbers as "fax", right?
Not so drab -- that sort of thinking can lead to a pretty big deal, namely,
the Curry-Howard Isomorphism[0]. From the linked WP page:

In other words, the Curry–Howard correspondence is the observation that two families of formalisms that had seemed unrelated—namely, the proof systems on one hand, and the models of computation on the other—were, in the two examples considered by Curry and Howard, in fact structurally the same kind of objects.

If one now abstracts on the peculiarities of this or that formalism, the immediate generalization is the following claim: a proof is a program, the formula it proves is a type for the program. More informally, this can be seen as an analogy that states that the return type of a function (i.e., the type of values returned by a function) is analogous to a logical theorem ... and that the program to compute that function is analogous to a proof of that theorem. This sets a form of logic programming on a rigorous foundation: proofs can be represented as programs, and especially as lambda terms, or proofs can be run.

(Of course, in the context of those job interviews you mentioned, this sort of thing would probably be overkill, unless the job involved functional-programming...in which case, though, they might well not have asked you how your "skills in mathematics would transition to programming" in the first place :-) ).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry–Howard_correspondence
You can stop spamming that blog now. The author has a wrong understanding of what syntax highlighting tries to achieve and because of that he comes to questionable conclusions.

It's really just a way to get people to visit his blog by making a bold statement.
>This is going to continue until planning commissions start allowing the construction of higher density housing.

This is already happening here in New York City and has been for a few years. It's not solving the problem and honestly this seems like pretty a reductive way of stating the problem.
I think you mean the specific plugin "Adblock Plus", other blockers like uBlock don't do this AFAIK.
Love Cloak, great app (not encountered the wonkyness you speak of).

For me I love the OS X and iOS integration, plus feels somewhat less dodgy than alternatives!
Thank you!
Without having worked with the new UI, I do like the looks of the new palette. The form fields on the other hand look like they could be overseen easily.
Aren't all world-facing websites "a public service"? BBC within UK has a special remit because of the funding structure (thanks to the increasingly-inaccurately named "TV" licensing fees), but BBC [Worldwide] is just another content provider in the big old crazy world.

It doesn't seem surprising that BBCW use an external advertising network: it would be a pretty huge investment to operate their own advertising markets throughout the world ... and surely if they did, they'd then on-sell those services!

Seems that the notable part of this attack is that several high-profile websites were affected, so BBC (and NYT, and AOL, etc) suffered some damage to their brand, so they'll have to work on that. The article notes that "malware was delivered through multiple ad networks", which speaks to failures by those service providers. Reckon there will be some very heated conversations and perhaps fee renegotiations with the networks happening over the next few weeks ;-)
"If an interviewer is not capable of determining my knowledge level by a normal interview" -> So it turns out that mostly, no, you really can't, even though you think you can.
ARE WE TOO CANADIAN FOR FINTECH INNOVATION?
I'm not usually one to appeal to classism, but it did make me laugh that Mr. Zuckerberg is buying up neighbouring properties around his multi-million dollar mansion, so as not to be disturbed by people in the vicinity. Meanwhile, Facebook employees are jammed into 200 square-foot dormitories.
So I think that housing prices would naturally fall if interest rates went up.

The problem is that falling house prices put people "underwater", and rising interest rates put people on variable rate mortgages in arrears. This inflicts a huge amount of pain on middle class floating voters.
Tech companies are investing in artists to improve creativity
Better than they underestimate it
Stop complaining and get to work
That mirrors my impression as well - here in Germany credit cards just became mildly common but customers are still far from being expected to carry one. Debit cards however, are very common, however they won't help you when getting a beer at sunday league football or visiting the local bakery.
The BBC has adverts for people geo-located outside the UK.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc.com/faq/

> You will have noticed that the BBC website features a limited amount of advertising when viewed from outside the UK.

There's a bunch of people outside the UK who use BBC content and who want a way to pay the BBC. It's a shame the BBC uses ads (which are pretty horrible) rather than working out a better payment (or even micro payment) system. The BBC said this in 2014:

> Can I pay a subscription to view the site without ads?

> We're unable to provide a subscription service at the moment but will be able to do so in the future. As soon as the service is ready we'll communicate it to all our international users.
Have a degree? Get a TN status (non-immigrant work permit). All you need is a job offer from an American company.
Sure they matter, but only to the extent that foreign expenditures are a part of your costs.

I.e. sure when you go to the US and have to buy USD with GBP you'l be at a disadvantage, or when you buy some electronics priced in USD, but how big a portion of your spending is that compared to food/rent/commuting/hobbies etc., all of which are priced in your local currency.
Not so simple if criminals made you withdraw funds from ATM.
i suspect people disagree with the "good idea" part, not the "nightmare" one.
Most pixel shader post-processing doesn't work too well with VR to start with, certainly any current implementations will look a little freaky when viewed through two eyes depending on shortcuts that are only convincing from a single camera perspective.
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> it would be a pretty huge investment to operate their own advertising markets throughout the world

It is becoming clearer and clearer to me that this is one of possibly two options left for businesses wishing to make money online via advertising. Self-hosted adverts are probably the best way to regain trust and circumvent ad-blockers. A quality, trustworthy third-party network is the only other possible option I can imagine, but that seems far less viable.
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JavaScript libraries should be written in TypeScript
If Bob breaks his arm, he doesn't have to worry about losing his job because federal law protects it (FMLA). If he loses his arm, federal law requires he keep his job if he can perform it with reasonable accommodations (ADA). FMLA also covers the elderly parent scenario. One doesn't need to depend on the "kindness" of a companies policies for these.

They're also not really equivalent, they're not elective, child rearing is. I get that propagation of the species is a common life activity and it's reasonable for it to have special benefits. The U.S. should have a paid family leave law for it. Still, it would be nice to have something for life's other pursuits.
Oh, the monetary award is likely real - the collective worth of their members is in the billions.
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Replace suburbs with smaller plots and just accept there is a density limit. Take advantage of video conferencing to merge areas.

http://tinyvillages.org
> A quality, trustworthy third-party network

I'm sure that most networks start off with such lofty ideals, maybe they even believe them ... :-o

EDIT: To expand a little on the previous thought: you were shocked that the BBC website was serving up dodgy ads, presuming maybe that they'd have their own curated advertising portfolio. Closest comparison I can think of is perhaps the Economist website, also London-based, and no small prestige branding that they make sure to protect by only showing ads for Lexuses and Rolices (Rolexen?). The major differences of course are that Economist is somewhat more up-market, and the ads are seen locally in the UK.

I can't readily find any figures on how much cash BBCW makes off website ads, but I'd have to assume that it's burger money -- a few quid here and there for negligible effort, and after all who cares if the brand is tarnished abroad?! If on the other hand BBCW went into the ad curation business, and even if it happened to be profitable, there's every chance that voters or MPs would get stroppy about it, and BBC gets a hard time going into the next licence fee negotiations. Ultimately, BBC's brand outside the UK isn't something that the UK public necessarily worries about.
> When Spike originally released this list, many noted the lack of female filmmakers. Lee accepted that critique and released an updated list.

Does that mean that he saw movies that he felt were worthy of being on the list and (perhaps subconsciously) decided not to list them? Or did he end up listing some movies that he didn't feel were as good as the others, just to meet the quota?
The FBI don't want the data on the phone, it has nothing of value, it's a consent-to-monitor work phone the FBI already has 6 weeks iCloud backups of, that wasn't at the scene of the crime and Farook didn't attempt to destroy, unlike his personal phone which was both at the scene and destroyed.

The FBI didn't ask for the data because they don't want it, they're after the legal precedent that compels any Technology's own company resources against them to compromise the security of their own products so they can use it to compel the hundreds of other phones they have in their possession that they also want unlocked.

Despite having no chance of producing anything meaningful, the FBI chose this tragedy to break character and go Public on because they're using the tragedy for maximimum PR and Political effect to increase their surveillance powers - frankly I find it dispicable that a law enforcement agency is so transparent, egregious and has stooped to such lows to make be making personal statements against Apple they know to be completely false so they can enrich their political agenda.
so I'm basically filing your response under the "Vague "this'll change everything" statements don't count" clause. The Oculus, Vive etc. are merely the new kids on the block in a neighborhood that's been around for decades.

> Not to mention it's still in the first inning of development and is accelerating rapidly.

No, VR has literally been around for decades. I've used probably a dozen different systems over the years, some great, some terrible...at this point I feel like the hype machine is preying on either the young who don't remember or the uninformed who simply don't know.

VR systems builders have some very hard problems to solve beyond head tracking and game-style hand controls to become immersive. There's probably 20 years alone researching haptic feedback systems and none of the ones I've used were all that great and had very large performance cost and capability trade-offs.

Solving all of these problems means that all of the issues I highlighted in my grandparent post simply magnify.
So you're saying we can't tie physics to the framrate?
I lived in Vancouver for 5 years. Beautiful spot. Met a lot of interesting people from all over the world. But, even by Canadian standards (which are much lower than the US) the salaries in Vancouver are notoriously low. A much better (2X) offer brought me to Toronto.

Staring to feel the same about Toronto too expense and hassle wise. Want to try remote work from the States and live in the country in Canada. Only interia prevents me.
Whoops, I didn't even look into the paper. Kind of makes my comment superfluous …
Then help scientists and researchers to change the current incentive structure, that heavily encourages over-promising. Simply saying "don't do it" wont help.
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Do you sometimes get frustrated with not being allowed to park close to the office in the handicap parking spots? Do you feel jealous of your handicapped co-workers? What about co-workers who are addicted to cigarettes and get to take smoke breaks?

Children are a known hardship, but you don't really see it because it happens at your co-worker's homes and it's deemed unprofessional to talk about it at the office. Also, it sometimes appears to be rewarding. Trust me, we're not cheating the system, you shouldn't be jealous. Every other country in the world has this "perk" baked into their laws of government. But because the US is so pro-corporation only something that is necessary to treat workers with respect gets lumped into the "perk" category with your free fitbit and monthly massages.
From modern evolutionary biology's perspective "individual organisms" are NOT the "basic units/modules etc." of life. The basic ones are genes at the core informational level level and species at more loose and macro level.

So the living things to software analogy would be more like:

- gene == source code of a program's module (like an "independently testable unit of code" - natural-selection + sex-based recombination are actually the tests)

- ... (organizational levels with with no direct analogy to software go in between)

- individual organism == set of processes (running instances of programs) running together with heavy inter-process communication

Then at a higher level, genes and their manifestations constitute the "hardware" (more like a VM), run the software called "memes", with its own organizational patterns that are outside the field of biology.

What you call living thing or individual organism is, from "life's perspective", closer to a transient group of running processes that can be killed at any time because their sources and binaries are safely stored as genes or memes. Your body and your psychological self are closer to "running threads of nginx on a particular server handling a particular set of requests" than to "the program nginx itself" in source or binary form :)
>it's actually very sad that in America it's the corporations who are taking the role of defending citizens rights

Why is that sad? It's precisely how it should work. Corporations have the power, money, organization and man-power to push a progressive agenda. It's just a collection of people afterall, not some nebulous, evil entity.
I think one way to soften the blow could be to make all property sales, even your first home that you live in full-time, fully capital-gains taxable. Homes need to be seen less as investment vehicles.
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List on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls070332247/
Surprising lack of Citizen Kane. At the same time, a lot of social/cultural struggle films.

No Psycho by Hitchcock but 3 other movies by him?

Updated list completely different from the first list?
It's 37 lines of wrapper CSS. You don't need a library with a cute name and a package manager and an HN thread and a fucking logo to do something that you can replicate in a minute.

Imagine someone posting a repo of their alternatively-named C integer typedefs on here.

nt
An integer framework using stdint.h

Simple
It's just a header file
Light-weight
It's like 10 lines
Flexible
You can do anything

...
#include <stdint.h>
typedef int32_t nt32;
...
They're aiming for rendering at 60hz from what I can tell. Graphics will still have to take a hit to meet that, but not quite as badly.
You have missed the outrage over Gitmo, have you?

Or is it a problem that this article in particular dares to mention this person's imprisonment without also mentioning Gitmo?
Apocalypto by Mel Gibson? Huh.
Ideally, us tech workers should research such places. Anyone up for creating a Github repo with,

* Location

* Work Authorization (and/or Visa issues)

* Average weather throughout the year - Max temp - Min temp

* Exchange rate

* Avg. Internet Speed + Prices

* Language barriers (or lack of).

Something similar to this [1] but with a crowdsourced/community aspect with solid sources.

[1] - http://fundersandfounders.com/where-to-start-your-startup-be...
Argentina is a living proof that cash is the king.

Until very recently, as a visitor you will be losing 30% of value if you withdraw funds from ATM or pay with card, as opposed to bringing USD cash and exchanging it on street.
> just to meet the quota?

Probably that one, because the Thought Police is always watching. Nevermind that most movie directors are male, so even if you were to be representative in terms of %, you would probably still end up with 90% movies made by male directors.
I was quite peeved when I first saw a "tl;dr" comment concerning one of my blog posts. My thought was, and still is somewhat, "if you didn't read it, how can you say it was too long for what it needed to cover? Why do you feel the need to tell others that you have the attention span of a fly?"

We already have terms like "summary", "digest", and even "précis"; why create a new term imbued with snark?
This industry (and most things where many people are involved) is very complex system. There are several different motivations and goals at stake at the same time. I don't know if it is even possible to tell single direction of this system.

I studied industrial automation and I see it as a automation system a bit. To make it simple I compare it to i.e. temperature control. There are many things influencing temperature in a room. Yet we want certain temperature in this room. We try to maintain good temperature and "good" can have multiple meanings. But everything in environment changes constantly and even if nothing changes we still have inertia.

That illustration probably is not that helpful. What I try to say is that it is probably almost impossible to tell where we are heading. We can recognize some general trends for a while, maybe even few longer term. This is very complex system, we see things as we go. In case of this system if we would commonly start to believe that system is heading in certain direction for sure, because of feedback loop it would change this direction.

Maybe what I want to express is just that I think that I should read more on systems and game theory.

I didn't have time to make this post shorter, sorry.
A few observations:
* No citizen kane, some other "classics" have also been omitted
* No French cinema
* No silent cinema
* The omission of what is generally heralded as Kubrick's strongest work surprises me
* No Tarantino