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Ask HN: What to do when your country offers you nothing (as a programmer)?
Hello,

I'm an italian CS student. Next year I'll take my bachelor and I'm starting to think more and more about what I have to expect as a programmer.

I'm experiencing a deep sense of confusion, since I think I'm quite a good hacker, I truly like writing software, solving problems, reading about tech, but when reading job advertisements I easily get bored: they typically search for a Java/PHP developer, for maintaining a platform that's either has no users or has no chance to survive in the next 5 years.

I don't wanna get involved in that shit: living onto the top of a bubble, inflated by some investors that have no clue about where tech is going today.

Moreover, underpaid: junior developers take something as 50% of the average salary for the country. Even seniors are paid bad -- compared to more common jobs here.

Working remotely is a nightmare to me: I want to work in a team, dealing with people. I already spend most of my time alone, and I'm looking forward to confront someone real, talking about code, design choices, splitting stuff to get done, and the like.

Also, moving to another country it's not ideal. Here, I have a person I'm taking care of. I think I might be willing to do it if the salary is at least decent; but as far as I've understood, it's no easy to move to US or even in the rest of Europe.

I'm discomforted. I'm even thinking of getting my degree, then switching to a less ambitious career.

Thanks for reading, at least.
1. There's an enormous amount of MS created wealth in the Seattle area. Yes it doesn't match NYC, but it's also a pool of people likely to be interested in investing in software and technology startups.

2. Seattle is a huge city with a ton of people, saying "Seattle doesn't have a high risk appetite" is a pretty absurd generalization. It'd be best to talk about specific causes and effects rather than making assumptions about millions of people's psychology.
What to do about it? One thing might be to not invest in any company that is dependent on a retail sales channel that doesn't have a specific plan to avoid getting Amazoned this way. Amazon's basically found a great way to free ride on other firms product and market development -- which is fine, up until the reduced expected return from those investments dry up capital to invest in those areas for products that might be exposed to Amazon's tactics.

Oh, you mean what for existing firms with business models that are threatened...
Oh, I thought it was earlier than that. I also couldn't remember if Sherlock was the Apple tool or the 3rd party one.

I didn't come back to the Mac until a hair before 10.4, so I don't have first hand experience.
I would. The hunting to scarcity of gray wolves led to a boom of deer who ravage crops and woods, carry disease, and create hazards for humans on roadways and when they end up in cities. And look up rates for CWD in your state, and hope it never becomes transmissible to humans.

Bison have the same issues with overpopulation and overgrazing, and they're being allowed to roam outside of Yellowstone again soon, which is making people nervous. They're destructive, dangerous, and carry diseases transmissible to other cattle, and they've been underculled in recent years, so no one is sure what's going to happen.

So you hear things where the people are the bad guys, but that doesn't make the problems for people living around these animal populations go away. It's a common oversight by people from (sub)urban areas; because they live in world built by and for humans, they forget they're only a relatively few miles in any direction from unforgiving wilderness.
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Anecdotally, their list is nonsense, it's obvious to me how much more employable I am in Cambridge compared to NYC.
But is it the default the largest seller of android phones is samsung which makes all its own apps as default on its android phones. It even has its own appstore.
Insofar as we can never really know the internal state of anything, and yes, from chemistry, to particle physics to psychology. All we can know for sure is that a machine (we did create) spat out a bunch of numbers and a text book (written by people we don't know) said those numbers were 'correct'.

(Moreover, we already know a lot more about the measurement of internal mental states than you appear to be aware:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23249520 )
Plus, upthread someone cites the Eagleworks guys as preparing to test an EM drive capable of 'producing' 100uN (yes, microNewtons) of thrust; LEO's various weirdnesses are more than capable of fucking with that small of a delta-v.
We use ES for the rest of benchling search already, so that was the main reason why we stuck with ES (ngram indexing is pretty standard there).

As for why we were using ES for the rest of search: we were using it for things like language stemming, matching terms with "slop", things like {'minimum_should_match': '3<67%'} (require exact matches if 3 or less terms, 67% if more than that), searching _all to match anything in the document, etc etc. I think a bunch of these (maybe even all) you can do in PG, but it was way easier to get going with ES.

ES is also distributed, which makes scaling up and doing maintenance a lot easier - a bunch of times we just threw new nodes at it and remove old nodes that had gone bad.
>why isn't Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill on it?

No one wants to live there. It's not in the same league as NYC, LA, Boston, Seattle etc.
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> These holes are also being talked about in the new Wayland display server on Linux. Warping a mouse pointer, color picking, knowing your apps place on the desktop are all security violations. They are being very careful with that stuff because it's an insecure free for all with X.

I know the quip about how in IT paranoia is not a sickness but a job requirement, but damn it...

As for web developers pushing for more information. No surprises there, its so they can more precisely fine tune the layout of the "app" (notice how they refer to what used to be called a site with a term that used to denote something running locally).

That it also can be used to fingerprint the computer, and by extension the user, is a side effect, not a goal.
How could it save you money? 18 Trillion is the entire US GDP. It's literally the cost of all our products made annually in the US combined.

edit: oops. Its 18 trillion over a decade. So 10% our GDP.
There is such a thing as single-serving wine, and it's a growing market.
> why doesn't the "netflix" of journalism exist? Or why can't I just pay X$ more to my ISP

There are many, many reasons.

One somewhat pedantic difference is Netflix deals with evergreen content. Any bundling of print journalism (especially with ISPs involved) is going to look closer to cable company bundling. Personally, infrastructure providers should not be in the business of selling content. I won't rehash those arguments here.

So, the ISP aside, the question becomes, who should you pay for a subscription to print journalism? Note that you already pay separately for a Netflix subscription; there would be no difference here.

Content is already bundled at the site level, eg a NYT sub gets you all the NYT articles. If we were to go up another level, eg buying a combined sub to NYT + WaPo + WSJ + Buzzfeed + HuffPo + <tabloid-blog> + etc -- then people would be complaining about the opposite, paying for content that they never read. Which is effectively the complaint that many people have with cable television.

The open question for these sites is is whether lower per-subscriber revenue, from a third-party bundling service, would altogether be greater than trying to solicit subscriptions on an individual basis. That might be the case, but sites also certainly don't want to straitjacket themselves in the manner of HBO, where bundling is their only form of allowable distribution.

Note that most cable networks would never be viable with an a-la carte model: it is only through massive bundling across millions of users that the smaller networks can achieve enough revenue. And not everybody can be HBO. That effectively rules out micropayments for most sites, and I still have my doubts that micropayments would even be feasible at the scale of the WSJ.
The deer population in Michigan appears to be quite a lot higher than it might be under predation, the DNR manages the herd to have a large population so that there can be a larger harvest.
The problem is the exact opposite. The question you should be asking, is: how can I use my go code in Rust/D/C++? The answer is, not very easy, given that go's runtime is largely incompatible with C.

At least with C++, you can easily write C shim layers and your code becomes compatible with most runtimes in existence. The opposite is not true with Go.
I used to go hunt sabbing. everyone else that went had lived in villages for most of their lives. You're simply wrong about that - lots of people in HSA are by any definition rural people.

You're wrong about nursing and teaching too. Lack of women in STEM comes up on HN because HN has a STEM focus. All the teaching / nursing unions, professional bodies, colleges, etc think that the lack of men is a problem. There are plenty of news paper articles about this too.

It's weird that you call your opponents infantile yet present such a simplistic, and wrong, set of argument.
See also the Woodward Effect, which was the previous generation of reactionless thrust device.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodward_effect

The tl;dr for this is that Woodward proposed (based, AFAICT, on actual science) that rapid internal energy changes cause transient mass fluctuations. His device used a capacitor on a piezoelectric effector so that the effector would only push while the capacitor was charging or discharging, and only pull while the capacitor was _not_ charging or discharging, so producing an assymetric effect and, therefore, thrust.

There have been a number of attempts to verify this experimentally, all of which have been inconclusive; turns out the measuring very small forces when your test equipment is vibrating is very, very hard (see the Dean Drive).

My feeble understanding is that the underlying theory is at least plausible; it doesn't seem to violate anything we know about the universe. The last report I've seen of work on this is this (rather good) BoingBoing article from 2014:

http://boingboing.net/2014/11/24/the-quest-for-a-reactionles...
Yeah but General Catalyst is a pretty well-known Cambridge, MA based VC firm (unless you were joking, in which case, sorry!).
http://generalcatalyst.com/contact/

Looks like you're correct. "Just outside" is absurd
No, the biggest risk is that Amazon will kill innovation by reducing the expected returns to product development expenditures so that investment in product development is reduced.
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Agreed; I never said anything otherwise: "Land is valuable for its many uses"
Precisely. To be clear, eradication of invasive mosquito species where they aren't native is a great idea. Thinking that removing mosquitoes from the ecosystems everywhere won't have a negative impact on the environment is less so.
> Microwave cavities have been a workhorse technology in many fields for many decades, and everyone has found that existing physics (classical electrodynamics, superconductivity, and a few other things) is entirely sufficient to explain how they work.

Not that I'm disagreeing but you could have said "Newton mechanics has been the workhorse method for centuries and everyone has found that they work" then Einstein came along and dumped the apple cart.

Not saying there is anything to the EmDrive (personally I'm on the side of experimental error) but the correct way to do science imo when you have something you can't explain is to keep at it until you can.
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Not always. I've been on HN long enough to see quite a regular rate of complaints against those who self-promote, even when on-topic. I don't think anyone wants to see self-promotional summary comments like this one regularly showing up in what are supposed to be discussion threads, all linking back to an Apply HN post. That's going to drive the quality of discussion down.
Really excited about this launch.

Citus is starts on an unprecedented level. Postgres is some of the best software ever invented already, and the team is continuing the tradition of continuing to add the best features to the engine.

I'd pick Citus over (almost%) any NoSQL solution at this point. Great data guarantees while keeping decades of engineering, tooling and know how.

Then I'm biased having worked with them for years but the team behind Citus Cloud is awesome. They understand both Postgres and how to build and operate reliable services better than anyone out there.

Congrats on the launch, Citus!

% I'm using DynamoDB right now because I don't have big data needs. But I miss developing against Postgres dearly
If you use broad enough definition, where making a car entails mining your own iron ore and building lathes, presses and milling machines from scratch, sure. Otherwise plenty of people have built cars (including engines) and other vehicles from start to finish.

The question was not about building however, but understanding the design of the whole thing down to a fine detail.
Relevant: GitHub Large File Storage https://git-lfs.github.com/

On paying for this. When data operations are built around pipelines, it's often easier to re-run the pipeline or restore a snapshot. Which requires a good server, but not a service. So before paying, I'd check why the new tool is better.
Xiaomi is a better example. They're doing surprisingly well -- wikipedia says 70.8m units sold in China, and they run their own app store. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaomi
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IIRC quite a few animal-source protein strings that are "fully compatible" with our own ('animal') bodies are taken up as-is without breakdown into AA and resynthesis into "human protein". Much more efficient.
Any kind. JSON or XML could be input. Or things like SQL or protobufs.

Git itself doesn't work well for large-scale data (https://help.github.com/articles/what-is-my-disk-quota/). I'm thinking terabyte or petabyte datasets.
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People have been doing "research" into reactionless propulsion for a long time, such as this science fiction writer:

http://rexresearch.com/dean/stine.htm
Would you use a menstrual cup, if you menstruated, Steve? If other women are anything like me, that thing will remain a very niche product.
> The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' - Isaac Asimov.

This could be complete bunkum but it's fun watching anyway as an interested bystander.
> this "ads everywhere" has leaked into Windows 10 (though you can turn them off a bit).

Where? I've been using Windows 10 everyday for months and haven't seen an ad. There was that one time that something resembling a Tomb Raider ad was served to users' lock screens, but I never saw it myself and I've never seen anything else.

Maybe it depends on which version of Windows 10?
The key word being independent. There is still a natural baked in dependency ordering. That is all that I meant. I realize I could of phrased it better.
The only times 'adult supervision' has been added to startups I've been employed at, it has been the pointy-haired, wingtipped, point-the-company-in-the-worst-possible-direction-for-all-involved kind.
> the results have since been replicated several times by several organizations

The results are random. Sometimes nonzero thrust is observed in a direction opposite to what was expected [0]. Know what that sounds like? A null measurement dominated by statistical and systematic uncertainties.

> including NASA

I'll repeat what I said elsewhere: NASA is so big that that doesn't mean anything. Not everyone affiliated with NASA is a top-notch researcher. The word "NASA" is not automatic proof of good research.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RF_resonant_cavity_thruster#Te...
We're dumb because we know how to RFTA?

> There’s little evidence, though, that mosquitoes form a crucial link in any food chain, or that their niche could not be filled by something else. When science journalist Janet Fang spun out this thought experiment for Nature in 2010, she concluded that “life would continue as before—or even better.” I arrived at the same answer when I looked into the same question for a piece published three years later. “There’s no food chain that we know of where mosquitoes are an inevitable link in a crucial process,” one mosquito-control expert told me.

Or because we like reading other sources? http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html

How ironic.
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Except it's really not very constructive, is it? It's a summary with no context or part in discussing the actual article. I know we all love TL;DRs, but I don't want to see every article that takes >60s to read have promotional summaries. That will make HN rather low quality.
Would you carry an extra cup of your own blood, mucus, tissue pieces, piss and bacteria in your purse, though?
I have so many opinions on this and could quickly devolve this into a long winded tangent, but the short answer is: Yes, there are many screens and Microsoft clearly has strategies for all the fronts, mobile included. Also, just because Microsoft is down, don't count them out just yet in the mobile screen front. Microsoft has the best leverage right now, of any company/platform, to turn wins on any screen into possible gains in all of them...

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Hm, unless I'm misunderstanding, the bottleneck here isn't running regex over all the sequences - it's in filtering out a large % of sequences before running a regex over the remaining ones. You're storing trigrams (3-byte keys) in an inverted index - compressing them won't get you much other than space savings. Re: caching, we're using Elasticsearch's bitmap caching to speed things up. If you search for something twice, the second time it'll take the cached bitmap from the first search and use that instead.

We use fast languages when we need them. Python is just parsing a regex to generate constraints - for DNA search, parsing a 1000-char regex is super fast and rarely an issue.

In this case, we're already at sub 100ms searches (usually sub 50ms) so I don't see much benefit from playing around with L1 caches and JIT-ing when higher-level structure already gives the perf characteristics we need.
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Hunt in this context is "ride to hounds", or fox hunting, on horseback, with dogs.
My own hunch is that it's at least partly to do with the 2008 banking crisis, where NYC was the epicenter. How many of those smart, driven people who are making their mark in NYC startups would have, instead, been drawn into finance if it hadn't been for that chaotic period where Wall Street's draw was lessened? I'd bet that what we're now seeing is at least partially the natural consequence of a temporary interruption in the "brain drain" from the finance sector where, 6-8 years into their careers, these talented people are starting to make their mark.

I wonder whether it will be sustainable now that finance is, once again, able to recruit the best and brightest who want to work in NYC. Silicon Valley will always have this advantage over NYC...out west, tech is king. In NYC, no matter how successful tech gets, it's always going to be smaller than Wall Street.
Sagnac effect shows that speed of light is not constant and can be changed.

[1] http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0609222.pdf
I'm wondering when there ever was a golden age of journalism. In the 80's, I was working in an office building that had a natural gas leak for hours and then blew the roof off.

I taped the news broadcasts that evening on multiple channels. Each TV news anchor recounted a different set of facts, all them wrong. It was an eye-opener for me. And it wasn't even a case of any agenda, it was just laziness and doing as little work as possible.

It makes me wonder how much we think we know about history from the history books is completely wrong.
Every person/company that creates an ad thinks they are providing a legitimately useful service.
The same situation applies in all language ecosystems, there is nothing exceptional about Node in this regard.
OK, so obviously this is not really about barriers to entry for hardware startups at all but is a puff piece written by a VC guy trying to promote something a firm he invests in is trying to sell. No need therefore to discuss actual barriers to entry for hardware startups (which are an interesting topic not covered at all in his article).

Instead let's look at his product, which was his actual article goal, for people to think about and discuss the product. It's a sort of plastic or aluminum wine bottle that has a LCD touch screen on the side and wifi. We can see exactly where this concept came from, it's the IoT model. Put wifi on everything, and if its large enough, put a touch screen on it as well. Plus some sensors, like the temperature sensor and a clock that pretty much costs nothing to add since most embedded chips have a temperature sensor in there already. So for each thing in everything: add wifi and touchscreens. At some point thing is wine since wine is part of everything. Thus this product's provenance is in asking "What can we do by pairing a wine bottle with wifi?" And so they answer this and make a product to answer that pairing. The design process and reason for being has nothing whatsoever to do with what anyone wants or would be or that would sell or be useful. It's about pairing every conceivable preexisting product with wifi and touchscreens and forcing them to do something, anything, and desperately hoping it will somehow catch on, no matter whether it makes sense, no matter whether it addresses any real problem or need.
Went thru an accelerator there. Great area, awesome people, and punching up a bit on what they've accomplished startup-wise. But there is damn near zero funding there, particularly for anything in consumer/media.
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Related: because there was a bounty on rats the farmers started growing rats secretly.
> why doesn't the "Netflix" of journalism exist?

Blendle (blendle.com) seems like it's aiming to be that
Fake moral superiority for the purpose of subjugating others.

Some people value being 'right' more than they value being happy. Some have an agenda or hidden motivation to talk down to others.

As long as there's an advantage to be gained from it there will always be individuals who bully others. Old school bullying has been replaced with 'moral' grandstanding and public shaming.

We used to teach kids, "sticks and stones will break my bones but words can never hurt me." At some point, that tradition was abandoned and some individuals shifted to assume the stance of 'perpetually offended' so they have a justifiable platform to attack others.
> Just freeze a bunch of eggs.
Sadly, I never thought of that. Great point.
(For example, one reporter called it a "warehouse", when you could see it was an office building.)