skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As one those engineers who has worked in SV for 5 years, you definitely do not have to be in the top %5.

You probably spent 4+ years of your life going to some sort of university to get a degree to help get something like 60k euro per year software job. So is spending a couple of months really getting good at cracking the coding interview and doing some practice interviews is definitely worth the $70k+ equivalent after tax salary bump. Even getting a job at a FaceGooSoft european office and later transferring to HQ in SF would be a good idea. Do realize though it's hard to change jobs with an L1 visa vs. H1B once you have one, so that should be your goal.

Now the USA has it's non-salary downsides for sure, but if you're just thinking in salary terms then the USA beats CH as far as I can see.
They only sold their mobile device segment. They still power a ton of the world's networking infrastructure, especially since they acquired Alcatel-Lucent a while back.

For unix nerds: yes, Nokia now owns Bell Labs.
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"Just implemented better"? "Just"?

If it were as simple as you imply it is then surely we'd see this change made trivially to SMB, NFS, WebDAV, or SSHFS.

I agree with you that in hindsight this is an obvious feature, but they actually decided to implement it, and I bet it wasn't entirely trivial.
Trains may already be a solution, yet a very large percentage (as high as 75%+ in Europe) of freight is carried using trucks. There's plenty of business for the driverless trucks to take over without having to tackle competition with rail.
RSS really simplifies reading news. Having multiple sources in a single place and compact lists are obvious benefits, but even if you only subscribe to 1 site, you'd save a ton of time simply by not having to rescan over stuff you've already read or decided not to read. Over the past month I've logged out of and stopped going directly to media sites and replaced them with RSS feeds. That's including YouTube, which was a pain to do but I only subscribed to about 15 channels. I do fear Google will kill the feed urls at some point.

I've been searching for a cross-platform desktop RSS reader. Thunderbird is what I use for now and I would stop looking if I could just filter URLs but the filtering only seems to be built for email, which works if the URL is in the "body" of the feed item, but not all feeds are structured like that (e.g. HN). RSSOwl looks real promising but doesn't run for me on Windows 10 and hasn't been updated in 2 years. I'd prefer a standalone RSS reader, not a email client with RSS tacked on. I looked at everything in the comments so far but they all fall a little short.
>Remember all of those scenes in movies from the 70s and earlier when halfway through the rape, the woman starts to get into it, and when we cut to the morning after and she's like "never leave me," and now the viewer is expected to sympathise with the rapist and his victim against the world?

Actually, no. I've seen plenty of old movies, but I don't recall many rape scenes, much less such rape scenes where the rapist is meant to be sympathized with, or where the rape victim takes pleasure in it.
Or: go to private tracker, hit download button, wait 60 seconds.

Don't pay $10/mo to some random, don't pay $10/mo for HD netflix subscription.
DNSCrypt is marginally useful. But don't bother with DNSSEC. It does more harm than good.

http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/01/15/against-dnssec/
Show HN: Atom plugin: better navigation panel
it displays structure of given JavaScript file (imports, classes etc.) on side panel.

It can analyze whole JavaScript project and give informations like "what files in project import
current file?".

It works with JavaScript (support for CommonJS and ES6 imports), it currently partially support AngularJS, and has basic support of CoffeeScript.

I'm also working for project explorer like these in Smalltalk-IDEs, when you can easily explore all entities (classes, functions, modules, components etc.) in project, but this part of the plugin is still in beta stage.

http://atom.io/packages/atom-lupa
I really enjoyed using my Withing as my daily weighing tool.

However, Nokia is not a brand that I associate with statements like "creating beautifully designed products" or general consumer products period. I wasn't aware they're tapping back into the general consumer market after selling off its mobile division? (Though I did hear something about making a come back in making phones for Nokia)
That is a great solution. Glad it works for you!

I am to awkward to put myself in front of a camera every day, and honestly i probably would not want to hear any negative comments on what i am doing (on the other side, i am doing well in this thread, its just the anxiety that scares me i guess ;)
> How long before the parents of a child say ... "Why wasn't he replaced by a machine?"

The ultimate point being that the answer might be "decades." It might take that long for the prevailing opinion amongst the public and/or politicians to change that way. And it is affected by the actual accidents involving automated vehicles in the short term.
This.

With years of experience from dealing with "ask for quote" businesses, this strategy is by now an immediate k.o. criteria for me when considering anything.

I may return for your offer only after spending considerable time of not finding any more transparent business (quite rare, but possible for very customized products like renting glass fiber for an office).

In practice this never happens and I've been a much happier customer ever since - with my business life cleaned up from 95% of dealing with crappy sales reps.
Microsoft only bought the Nokia phone manufacturing business and got a license to use the name for a period of time. The rest of the business still exists and seems to be doing well.
Any hints as to when this feature will be rolled out?
I never said I was never bullied or beat up. I was. I'm not sure where anyone is saying that white males never experience any hardship. I'm pretty sure no one is saying that, except people that want to argue with the term "white male privilege".

Everyday things like going to a store, going to a bank, taking out a car loan, going to a movie all, on the whole, in the united states in the last 50-100 years, tend to be less troublesome for "white" male folk than for non-white and non-male folks. My assertion here is based on decades of anecdotes and sharing experiences with friends/colleagues/families. Is my assertion scientific proof? Nope. I just don't understand why people can't grasp that being part of a majority in a society generally confers some benefits, even if those benefits are just measured in lack of hindrances/obstacles/barriers.

I would say that when people are talking about "white male privilege", it's generally understood to be US/Western Europe/'white' areas that are being talked about. Me being a 'white male' in Shanghai had 0 benefit to me, and was actually a hindrance (though having a poor grasp of the language contributed greatly).
A huge percentage (perhaps the entirety?) of their margins?
Rubbish. I spent 5 years living in Sydney, Australia, before moving to Singapore.

Unless you want to live a high roller expat life-style in a condo and own a car, Singapore is NOT expensive.

And please don't refer to that terrible study that puts Singapore as the most expensive place to live, it's designed for companies to create packages for people for recruitment. It includes things like owning a car (something that is definitely not needed in Singapore), the price of alcohol (not a requirement to live), and living in an expensive condo (HDB's are excluded from the study)

Sydney on the other hand, costs more for an apartment in the city, public transport is more expensive, especially taxis, food and drink is more expensive (exception is Alcohol and Beef), utilities (power/gas/internet) is all more expensive.

My last tax bill in Sydney was about 22k when I left. My first full year in Singapore was like ~3k, and the government gave $1000 back. And the best part about it is you see all your money going back into the country, rather than lining the pockets of individuals to pass the blame on the failing like they do in Australia/New Zealand.
I recommend moving to SendGrid. You can get 12k emails a month for free and do transactional and newsletter emails from the same platform.
They started truck automation in mining and container terminals in ports. Areas with no other traffic and the possibility of active guidance (beacons along/embedded in the route and so on.)

Highways are the next obvious use. I could see automated trucks driving down the transcanadian highway for example or similar long interstate stretch.

I gotta say though, if we're going that way, why not go intermodal, add a RR right of way through the interstate with a double-track, operate automated freight trains and automated transshipment terminals. Just load the trailer onto the train and go. I know rail isn't sexy but it'd make sense in terms of carbon footprint (trains could be multimode diesel-electric/electric depending on corridor.) And most of that rail net could be fully automated.
open floor plans suck but you get used to them

Open floor plans are not a requirement of "agile". That people think this, is evidence of the real problem here: hucksters have been selling something else, but using the word "agile" to promote it. If one wants to argue that the term "agile" is dead, then maybe one has a point. But I'll argue that the essence of agile is just as sound as it ever was, it's just that we let the term get misappropriated. How to proceed from here is an open question...
> I probably only watch a movie every couple of months.

In which case you're an outlier and frankly entirely uninteresting as a customer to all these companies from a commercial poverty anyway.
They are -- the opportunity cost of more revenue. Just because you have low marginal costs doesn't mean you should train your userbase to expect discounts.
I think this is modern tech poking it's holes in our economic model. I know that it costs $some_amount_of_money to make a batch of beer. But there's only so much of it. Sure someone can make another batch, but that costs another $some_amount_of_money.

It also costs $some_amount_of_money to make digital media, yet once created, it can be duplicated indefinitely for free.

At least, that's what always hangs out in the back of my mind.
I just got back from a 2 week business trip to Singapore, and I loved it there. Everyone was friendly and helpful (if they spoke English) and the vibe of the place was good. People seemed really proud of their country and they should be given how far they have come since their area was horribly affected by the Second World War.

Public data like that for mass transit is available for use so perhaps some of this new data will also be publicly available?

My impression of Singapore was so positive that I could easily live there.
This package is very useful. I use it to run youtube-dl and attach to my irssi container. I do lots from irssi/termux; tweet slack irc. The termux-url handler is great as well. You can process shared urls from your browser based on their domain name. For some urls I pass them to youtube-dl for others I push to getpocket and a couple of other special cases I have as well. My tablet wouldn't be the same without it.
McDonalds already has automated order takers around here. There are still humans, but so will there still be manned trucks, just fewer.
In rereading my comment, you are right that my wording is a bit unfair. But my general feeling is that human civilization generally does make progress in ways beyond the economic, and most societies grow in a balance way across the spectrum, while Singapore has leapt dramatically in one way while not changing in another, and this has created (in my opinion) some contradictions within its society, not the least of which is lack of free speech. It may seem trivial on the surface that someone can't boldly criticize a government policy, but this has effects that go much deeper than the actual "problem" such a policy tries to address.
Here's the specific issue

https://getsatisfaction.com/newsblur/topics/unread_items_are...
> look at the great rates on home mortgages your grandparents got (if they're white Americans)

I am a "white American" and my grandfather grew up in a home with dirt floors then built his home with his own hands (twice, because his first home burned down). Quit making such pompous assumptions.
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So many comments here are in the form of "People won't trust autonomous vehicles." Well I'm people, and I trust them. And it's for one simple reason: Whatever bugs they have can be fixed for every autonomous car on the road at the same time. That just can't be said for human beings. Every one of us has to learn how to idle icy roads, fog and other hazards individually, with wildly varying results. A computer program does it once, and is constantly getting feedback from the millions of cars on the road all the time.

Sure, people want someone to blame for accidents. And people might not like the idea of cars without drivers, or worry about contrived "Does the car kill the driver or the pedestrian" situations. But at the end of the day, statistics is overwhelmingly on the side of driverless cars. Saying "Yes, but people aren't reasonable enough to see that" isn't helpful. The question is, how quickly can we get people to do what's best after the technology has been perfected?
> Public and political perception need to consider autonomous commercial trucking to be safe, rather than safer.

No, safer than humans is the bar.
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> For all the talk about white privilege, I never hear the solutions to it. What is OP supposed to do: not get the job? Not feed his family? How is he supposed to prove that he is aware of his "white privilege"?

Of course he should take the job. The point of this discussion isn't to punish one group in favor of another; its to raise awareness that there is an underlying disadvantage for some types of people that has impacted their ability to get as far as you have.

The goal is to change your frame of mind ever so slightly, so that when you are faced with two identical resumes, one from a 25 year old white male and one from a 35-year old black woman, you don't immediately choose the white male due to "culture fit." You may take the time to stop your colleagues from belittling a marginalized employee rather than ignoring it. You may actively push to create programs that bring underprivileged groups into your organization rather than scare them away.

It's about using the position that you gained through your own hard work to help others who through no fault of their own have to work harder for the same success.
See also [2] for a description of the verification challenges of a fictitious (but informative) Amazon last-mile autonomous delivery vehicle.

[2] https://www.cs.york.ac.uk/ftpdir/reports/2015/YCS/496/YCS-20...
Sure, but unless the car running into the truck _prevents_ the truck from being at-fault in a different accident further down the road, that doesn't really matter.
> It's not worth it for them to target the small fish

Actually they do target the small fish, that's why they won't publish prices. The idea here is that $big_co may pay $5m for $software, but $small_co will get the near equivalent for $100,000. $big_co doesn't want to feel it got ripped off, so secretive pricing all around.

Also, this pricing allows for a lot of negotiation, volume pricing, and "we'll beat the competition" tactics. Now the competition needs to also engage in secretive pricing to stay competitive.
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Reliable self-driving highway trucks are indeed quite far off. And the OP does at least admit that entry/exit ramps would need to be massively upgraded to support peloton-style semi-automation. Full automation would require a huge investment in road maintenance that many jurisdictions currently skimp on. At some point we'd be far better served to seriously invest in a high-capacity high-speed railroad network. It could move people and freight far more efficiently and could be far more easily automated than automated semis, which are really just a kludge on the current overbuilt and undermaintained highway system. The money follows the infrastructure you have. If we have to rebuild our highway infrastructure to accommodate self-driving trucks maybe we should rethink whether those trucks are the right way to ship goods over long distances after all.
> and this isn't really debatable

Citation?
I don't think it is fair to discuss voting and democracy in the context of a nation that has been run by a single family for almost its entire history. A family, incidentally, that is profiting handsomely from the policies it imposes on its citizens.
People say things like this, then we end up with the cable (TV/Internet) industry.
This is actually the biggest issue I have with the intersection of social justice and the technology industry. The concepts of "white privilege" and "stereotype threat" are borne of the non-falsifiable, non-reproducibility "science" of sociology departments everywhere.

Here on HN, where people ostensibly require the weight of evidence to accept a concept, I would expect nearly 100% of people to reject this evidence-free, baseless emotional concept immediately out of hand. Yet somehow, this community of rationalists buy into handwaving without any critical thought.

We nerds appear to be just as dogmatically religious as those whose ideas we reject on the basis of lack of evidence. A little saddening.
Mine is ociule. Can't wait to try Docker For Mac.
Canada signed the TPP, which tadically changes things
It's difficult enough for driverless cars to know where the lines on the road are. I don't think we can expect in the near future to be able to not only detect pedestrians, but to have an idea what series of events may happen during an avoidance maneuver. There's a lot of things to go wrong.

However, stopping distance in real-world scenarios is wayyyy farther than in practice runs, because even a second faster braking by the driver can save a hundred feet. So robotic braking (that we have today in passenger cars) could improve the distance a lot. But...

Trucks are still 10-20x heavier than passenger cars, and there are practical upper bounds to the size of their brakes and the g's they can pull. If a passenger car normally stops in 388 feet at 65mph (not uncommon) and it would stop at 196 feet at 45mph, a truck at 45mph would stop in 265 feet. So yes, the truck could in theory stop faster than the passenger car.

But passenger cars don't just slam on their brakes in front of trucks (often). They also just drift right the heck into the truck. Perhaps mechanisms could be developed to safely merge away, and they'll probably be developed in passenger cars first. But there's no denying that a dedicated roadway would not only save repair costs for passenger-vehicle-only roads, it would remove the risk of colliding with passenger vehicles no matter whose fault it was.
The funny thing about Singapore is that I know a lot of Malaysians who think very highly about the Singaporean Government but the Singaporeans that are know are usually much more critical.
And Singapore shows how much you can accomplish when Marxists are removed from society.
You forgot to remove the vowel.
Yes it is about tearing someone down - white males. Because some white males in the US/UK/etc did some bad things some time ago.

If it weren't about tearing people down, you would be trying to support everyone equally without making others feel guilty.
One of the most impressive things I saw for the 8-bit Atari is Chris Hutt's 2011 conversion of Space Harrier. It's probably the best home conversion of the game this side of the Sharp X68000.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Oi3zgpGu8

Also, the graphics chips in the Atari 2600 and 800 were designed by Jay Miner, famous as the "father of the Amiga". I'm no Atari expert, but I wonder if there is an evolutionary link between the display list techniques of the Atari 800 and the Amiga's Copper Lists? Long ago I read an interview with Archer Maclean, where he described the '800 as a "little Amiga". I wonder if anyone could expand on that?
Ocean and air freight real prices are the cheapest they have ever been.
> and paying a massive insurance premium I'm sure

Nah, it'll be much cheaper than what they pay for humans since the bots will be in far fewer accidents and insurance companies actually care about statistics.
>>So you viscerally dislike VCs, but you're cool with VC-funded startup perks.
>>Everything is terrible.

Hey man, life is complicated. People are complicated. Winning is losing. Peace is war. Love is hate.

The author does an absolutely riveting job of evoking all of the mixed-feelings that make up our day-to-day lives. Kudos to her for doing it in such a lovely piece: personal and vulnerable and at the same time so clinical and cynical. Beautifully written.
Ouch.

Nokia has a market cap of $23B and did $14B in revenue over the last year.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=NOK+Key+Statistics
TL/DR: Author wishes Homebrew's analytics were opt-in.
"You should not track your users. If you need anonymous data, you should ask your users first."

Now I'm imagining a website where when when you first visit it, you get a popup like "for capacity planning purposes, this website would like to record that you visited [yes] [no]". I wonder if this author would like such a website?
`gcc` still as bugs. `clang` still has bugs. There was one recently on HN where one pass in clang caused undefined behavior in another. Are these not yet ready for prime time?

Furthermore, this is a known bug, and not too high priority probably since it's pretty rare to stack allocate something huge and then use it in a way that could cause a vulnerability (instead of crashing). The fix would involve replacing the segfault with a stack overflow, which also causes a crash.
So my criteria was very specific so I'm proud to say I'm still "not wrong" :p

Netflix and Hulu are not renting services - though I'm excited to learn they have full VR theater support!

YouTube's cardboard stuff I don't think allows you to browse for videos to select, you select them and then launch it into VR mode. Cardboard is still rough around the edges that way - though with some of the hints of Android N enabling a VR mode I'm excited. I'm also not sure whether or not the YouTube app allows you to watch your rentals (you might only be able to do this in Google Play Movies)
My concern is if Nokia or someone else drops the ball and the online accounts are deactivated that all these cool products become nearly useless. I very much depend on my Withings scale to automate my weight measurements on a daily basis.
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Have they got a patent on this?
I've been betrayed enough times on the Internet not to be surprised.
May I ask what you don't like about Shomi? Is it the content?
It's understandably annoying from a consumer perspective but perhaps there are valid reasons for not being in other markets just yet and Amazon decided to launch early and incrementally roll it out?
Dropbox can't seriously write a "Universal Compatability" headline and not include Linux support. Disappointing.
Netflix streaming isn't really for movies unless your use case is along the lines of "I'll watch whatever is available." The primary value is TV shows. If the only thing on Netflix streaming were its movies, I'd drop it in a moment. I still use Netflix DVD for this reason.
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Larger discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11569726