skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well since you just bulked Czechia, Poland and Germany into one group, I can understand how you fail to see it.

Since you mentioned Germany, I'll use that. A Czech earns about a third of what a German earns. But everything costs more or less the same (except for housing, but the difference certainly isn't multiples). Gasoline costs the same (and much more than in US), vast majority of consumer goods costs the same, food seems to be cheaper, but that's because it's of lower quality.

Yeah, education is "free". As is government free to take more than half of what people earn.

By "2nd world" I mean "1st world prices, 3rd world wages" (yes I know 3rd world is something incomperable).
Why do you consider this clickbait? It's not untrue, nor does it tease with hidden information alluded to in the title. It's a straight-forward headline describing the contents of the article.
> You need to consider the economics of "grid tie" you generate excess power into the grid and "buy it back" when you aren't generating in excess.

Depends on the state.

Sometimes, you buy at retail prices and sell at wholesale prices. Which honestly, is far more fair. You're basically using the utility's batteries / energy storage at no charge right now (if you're in a state with pure net metering laws)

And yes, purchasing a PowerWall is more "fair". Instead of relying on the service and tax-incentives to give you a free battery pack, its definitely more fair if you got your own.
The sorry state of the blockchain
More infos :
https://medium.com/@bendersej/scrolling-through-my-facebook-...
Survey finds roadblocks keep developers from fully adopting containers
And unfortunately, these spots would be very windy. There'd be a constant barrage of cold wind as the air in the hot side rose.
Was air moving around the vehicle to simulate typical driving speeds?
Hawaii island is dealing with a fungal pathogen that impacts the most abundant native tree similarly: http://www2.ctahr.hawaii.edu/forestry/disease/ohia_wilt.html.
Approximate Nearest Neighbors in C++/Python
Vert.x basically gives you everything that node.js has - and it spins up several event loops, making your code scale without having to run several node processes.

It also allows you to mix in worker threads that are allowed to block (for I/O, for example).

You can develop in JavaScript, Java, Ruby, Ceylon, Groovy.

It's fast, async and robust.
Import repositories with large files
Flats in London really should give the floor area. If it were required, I think it would be a small help against landlords cramming extra beds into tiny rooms, or dividing up properties.

It's a huge waste of everyone's time looking at places that are far smaller than the agent suggested. "2 bedrooms", but one used to be a closet.
I think you're being a little unfair with the S&P comparison: you should be comparing the returns on your actual investment with the expected returns on the S&P, not its actual returns. The stock market got a 5.4% return over that time, yes, but that's above average; we should expect its long-run returns to be close to the rate of economic growth, or more like 3%. And it could easily have been zero or even negative over a short time like 13 years.

By comparison, the risk that your solar panels will stop producing electricity, or that someone will invent Mr. Fusion and drop the price of electricity through the floor in the next decade, is quite low.
“You may block our ads, as long as you promise not to block our ads”
If a person wants to use an ad-blocker and then opt-in to ads then that's their choice.

But the default should be to block ads, because that's what an ad-blocker is supposed to do.

ABP allowing ads by default is just another one of the reasons uBlock Origin is better.
Split and Pay bills with your roommates
Craigslist is barely used in Europe, certainly in Germany.
It's creating new peaks at previously non-peak times.

We don't know precisely what effect that will have on the grid utility business, or what effect that will have on overall grid supply price rates. One could argue that grid power should get cheaper... one could argue that there would be a net canceling effect among all the factors involved... or one could much more reasonably say that it's a chaotic system so no outcome is guaranteed.

Disruption!
I'd honestly rather have slower compilation time than hearing the sound of a jet engine.
Then you run into the problem of idiotic sites not allowing special characters, or numbers, or even uppercase (I am looking at you, rvtrader.com...)

The second main reason passwords suck (after the fact users trend to choose weak passwords) is that developers implement all sort of contradicting password rules.
The performance bump alone sold me on uBlock. Switched a year or so ago and never looked back.
I wonder if there is any correlation between genius and a sense of humor.
So...paper valuation is now negotiable not only between founders and VC's but also with later stage mutual fund investors?
Sadly this gives no information about what the exploit is. I was interested to see how it was found or what it was targeting specifically.
If he was satoshi he would just sign a message with the genesis block's private key saying so. He wouldn't announce that he's going to move an early coin on the bbc. It's simultaneously the most convincing proof and the easiest proof to do.

In my eyes, he's a fraud until he does it.
> And during the day, when you have peak-solar energy, you'll be at work and won't be taking advantage of it.

I'm in Central Texas and I have two dogs at home. Even if I'm not there, I still leave the air condition going so they are comfortable. The last time I checked, my A/C system was the biggest power hog and so my electricity consumption aligns very closely with when the sun is shining.
That's what I'm saying. I refuse to call people that build things like Firefox incompetent. Apparently, there's intrinsic difficulty to using the language both productively and carefully at the same time.

Note: Firefox is coded in C++, though. Rather than contradictory, that what you say is still true given C++ is a safer, more organized C they still can't use safely.
No, this is a terrible idea that is being spread like a cancer by people who don't know their history.

First of all, static rendering CMS-es are IN NO WAY missing as you say; in fact, as your own comment hints, such systems are incredibly abundant. There are MANY other static-render-HTML products that could be added to that list, and they stretch back into the 1990s.

The basic problem with this approach is well understood: As the corpus of content on a given site grows, render time quickly approaches time between updates. In other words, you start waiting for renders to complete before you can change something else on the site.

This happens in part because changes to a single particular piece of content often cause changes to multiple pages — think blog views, archive pages, index pages, tag pages, RSS feeds. Meanwhile, as a site grows, the number of contributors tends to grow, including authors, editors, illustrators, photographers. So not only are the static renders taking longer as the site grows, there is also a growing likelihood that someone will want to touch a piece of content in a given time period, thus triggering a new render.

Probably the most high-profile example of how this could fail was when there were a lot of people using Movable Type for their blogs in the early 2000s; MT did static renders and many bigger blogs had switch to other blog engines or carefully operate around massive render times for MT sites.

If you have a small personal site, static renders are fine. But SO IS BASICALLY EVERYTHING ELSE. You can build a personal site using any number of primitive-but-effective technologies, like server side includes, emacs macros — hell you could literally make a Microsoft Word template and publish everything from there via SFTP. On the flipside, you could install the most inefficient, computationally intensive, database driven crapfest of a web app and it won't matter because you don't need to scale.

In other words, static CMSes are fine if you don't actually really need a CMS. By all means, for yourself, or a tiny project, use whatever you want. But we don't need MORE of those tools.
Looks nice, but why does the "When did you move in?" at the end only go back to 2012?

I moved in to my apartment back in 2011 and can not complete the form.
Is anyone aware of any pre-industrial epidemics of a similar scale?
> When a human first laid claim on a stretch of land, you could argue that this in itself constituted theft, at this very moment this person deprived every other human being from accessing or cultivating this land. What moral right did this person have to claim this land?

In many countries, including Switzerland, there are of course specific laws that recognizes that property rights does not extend to full monopoly rights on land use.

I'm from Norway, and the Nordic countries in particular have very extensive exemptions to private property rights that recognises that there are certain rights to land use, as a limited and fundamental resource, that are held in common irrespective of property rights.

Sweden has this baked into the constitution. Norway until the late 50's I think did not have a law mentioning this right as it was considered so fundamental that it was long considered unnecessary to codify and courts would apply the principles anyway (this may not sound unusual from a common law perspective, but Norwegian law is a codified system of the Scandinavian model that evolved from Germanic law with Napoleonic influences, not at all a common law system) - the way you don't specifically cover the right to freely breathe the air.

In Norway (and it's much the same in Sweden and Finland), this e.g. means that outside of urban settlements you don't need to ask permission to walk through a privately owned forest, or across a field, for example (though you may not walk across cultivated fields other than when frozen). Even if fenced in. Nor is the land owner entitled to stop you or erect barriers to prevent you access (that does not mean barriers are illegal if they have reasonable purposes, such as e.g. keep wild animals out, but there'd be expected to be gates etc. allowing access). You can pick berries or mushrooms etc. for your own consumption but not hunt without permission. You can camp. There are limits, but they are in line with what you would expect of considerate campers. It is also generally considered rude to e.g. camp right outside someone's garden without introducing yourself and asking, even if on land you may technically have right to camp on. There is a general zone of 100m along the shoreline that it is not normally permtted to build on, even if part of your property (though exemptions are granted, with the caveat that it is still not permitted to prevent access or usage of the immediate shoreline no matter how close you've been permitted to build).

This is considered so ingrained in our culture that it is (or at least was when I was a kid) taught repeatedly in primary school.

Fencing off or otherwise trying to restrict access to "utmark" ("outlying land"), even if it is your own property, is not just legally restricted but considered reprehensible and morally indefensible to the point where it regularly causes major outrage if someone is trying to push the limits (or e.g. if particularly extensive exemptions are given to build near the shore).
I don't agree with the comment you replied to for a variety of other reasons but your reply is really out there. You could say exactly the same thing about any job benefits including a salary. Whether it's "essential" to the company on paper doesn't mean much.

We're blessed to work in an area where it's possible to grow your own skills while staying within the same company. If a company can provide this to its engineers, it's a win-win - employee skills improves, they want to stay longer, etc. And let's not forget humans, not AIs, are at the helm of those companies.
Most chromebooks don't have replaceable storage. Acer seems to be the only one making new chromebooks with replaceable storage. Also, eMMC isn't an SSD

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chrome_OS_devices/Chrom...
Would be interested to hear about his role at Open AI - I would have thought you'd need at least a PhD in Statistics/CS to be able to contribute to AI research, no?
Good points.

Agencies certainly have their flaws, but a lot of change also has to do with the lack of loyalty that companies have. Back in the day, people stayed at their jobs longer.

Since many decision-making roles are a revolving door, you end up with new people coming in that want to use their people (agencies). So even if you're doing a good job, you can lose a client. Companies don't hire for long term anymore either because they don't have to. It's a tough business model because you have to replace about 25% of your revenue every year.

You also have specialist agencies as you mentioned that are taking a nice slice of business and companies aren't afraid to have multiple shops on their roster anymore. Smaller agencies are teaming up and pitching together and that allows them to compete with the old guard.

The business fundamentals are really terrible but it's an exciting industry because you get exposed to a lot of technology, verticals and problems.
She talks about risk/reward and acknowledging the benefit new tech can bring to an organization. Minimizing risk doesn't mean no risk. High risk regardless of reward should not be preferred; risk/reward discussions and reasonable decisions should be preferred.
> Not a collaborative coder? No room for you here. Not a people person? No room for you here. Want to use the latest technologies? No room for you here.

That's corporate life in America. No room for individualism. But I've heard it's even worse in Japan, so there's that...
Waybackpack: download the entire Wayback Machine archive for a given URL
Really clever design - love the maths behind it.
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Currently our biggest 'gap' is on the front-end, so I'd like to particularly encourage Javascript/UI/UX experts to apply.

We're also looking for OpenERP / Odoo developers, to ensure our smooth operations:

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We can support remote workers, and are willing to assist in obtaining a work visa for Germany if required.

We have been profitable for several years, so we can offer very competitive salaries, with stock options.

Some relevant background videos:

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Our hiring process involves 'offline' programming tests followed by ~2 interviews.

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Confident Cannabis (YC S15) is hiring developers in the Bay Area
I'm trying to validate my product. Would you pay me $5/day for an annoying headline?

"10 Crazy ways to validate your product for free that startup gurus won't tell you about!"

PS: I don't know what the 10 ways are, I just write headlines.
Well, isn't Crouton also a more stable way to play with a Chrome OS system? If things go wrong, can't you just blow away the Crouton chroot and keep the stock Chrome OS install (with updates) intact?
I recently developed a probabilistic programming framework in C#. There's a fun example [1] in the tutorial that should give you a pretty good idea of what a PPL "feels like" to use.

The example is originally from the Anglican website (another PPL), but the general idea is transferable; PPLs make composing entire probabilistic models as easy as adding integers. We can perform complex inference on our models, and even compose our inference methods to form more powerful ones.

[1] https://github.com/joashc/csharp-probability-monad#modelling...
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Me personally? No, I don't mind remoting into my server.
That is really cool, thanks! I've spend a lot of time conducting research and restoring Oak Savannas in the Upper Midwest, and I'd hate to see anything happen to few remaining areas we have left. The Oak Savanna exists because of fire, rather than in spite of it, and it would be really interesting to see if fire did more for oak trees beyond burning competing species.

In the course of writing this comment, I checked the Wikipedia page for Oak Savannas to see if it had any interesting insights. I didn't realize that California oaks formed oak savannas as well. Hopefully that means that research in the Midwest and Californian savannas can be shared and used to draw insights into one another.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_savanna
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Where I live (Sierra foothills), the Oaks are enjoying the space opened up by the Pine tree die-off thanks to bark beetle. People are paying thousands of dollars to cut down towering pines.

I have five enormous oaks and four full-size pines on my 1 acre lot. That adds up to a potential liability of $18,000 or more. Doing nothing does not sound appealing.
The US Census has an address to latitude/longitude service, which I've seen put things about a block and a half from where they are supposed to be. I wonder if Apple is using that?

Here's an example of a URL to lookup an address and get back the latitude/longitude in JSON, in case you are curious to see where it places you:

http://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/locations/onelinead...

The address I used in that URL is 747 Howard St, San Francisco, CA 94103, which is Moscone Center.
I don't understand the comment about Orlando. The metro area is the same size as Pittsburgh's, and it's a 90 minute drive from an even larger metro, Tampa.
Sometimes that behavior arises because the person is bored, or they feel their skills aren't being utilized, or they feel like their concerns about an existing system are being minimized.
What universities are you talking about, being taken over by MBA's?

In my experience, it's pretty much academic faculty with decent track records that move on to the uni Dean/President path.
Alpha Payroll fires employee victimized by W-2 Phishing scam
And I'd submit that a "good" engineer is, by definition, the kind that understands when it's appropriate to use new technologies, and when it's not — and "Look, shiny!" isn't, IMO, a good enough reason.

And pushing — let alone threatening to move on — to use new tools when they aren't appropriate? Please, go be someone else's problem.
I just walked past a long row of diesel cabs, sitting with engines idling, waiting for fares at Canary Wharf. They sit there all day pumping out noxious fumes. I'd much rather see the efficiently-allocated modern hybrid vehicles of Uber.

Taxis aren't dying nearly fast enough in London
Where is a good place to read "idiomatic Go?"
A Note on the Indigestion Caused by Eating Class Struggle
I love the dataset, but square meter/dollar is VERY difficult for me to correlate quickly as it takes a few calculations that are difficult to do in my head to compare apartment sizes.

What if you could see prices by particular sets of square meters? If I have a 300sq meter apartment, I'd want to see prices by the same size.
How much of these low bids in Dubai are due to the low cost of labor there? Also I am guessing that various building regulations are significantly cheaper to meet than in the US. I remember reading about the huge building boom in Dubai being possible because of large groups of extremely low paid laborers. I'd guess any other utility project in Dubai would benefit from this as well.

That isn't to say that there aren't improvements in solar cost. There are improvements. I just wouldn't compare a bid in Texas to one in Dubai.
> I am a very compassionate, empathetic (to a fault) person, but I just don't see the justification for the theft.

I find it impossible to reconcile the two parts of this sentence. To me, there is nothing compassionate about even prosecuting a case like this.

I understand that people don't want to be stolen from. Of course not. Nobody wants that. We all want better alternatives.

But the world isn't perfect.

To me saying there is "never a reason to steal" is equivalent to saying you value property over someones life.

To me, that is cold and callous.

No, that does not mean I think it would be good for hordes of starving people to descent on shops. But if the alternative if starvation, then society has a problem. And theft is the smaller part of that problem.
you guys brexit too much. don't complain.
Good point. What about GPU scaling though? Doesn't Nvidia and AMD drivers support that for lower than physical resolutions?
Back End as a Service: Security and Privacy
Unless it's dorm-fridge-sized, you can definitely run your refrigerator only during the day, generating ice to cool it during the night. Building HVAC systems often work this way, running the chiller to generate ice during the night (when electricity prices are low or even negative) and running the resulting chilled water through heat-exchanger coils during the day. And superinsulated fridges like Sunfrost models can stay cool during the night even without such extra thermal reservoirs.

A thing I haven't seen, but which ought to be practical, is a solar thermal fridge — for example, using the ammonia-absorption cycle that propane-powered fridges use, but heated with sunlight instead of flames. PV panels are typically 16% efficient, but it's easy for solar thermal collectors to reach 50% efficient, and they're also about five times cheaper per unit area (still). So you'd think it would make sense to power the fridge directly from sunlight.
The fact that the currency dropdown offers a choice between euros and Swiss francs is also quite a strong hint.
That's your choice. But as a professional, you should do the best for your employer or customer while they are paying your salary, and that means adopting the right tools for the job, not your resume.
Yeah - people don't tend to say "house" when they mean "apartment" here, so a housemate would imply that you are living in a house.
Black cabs can be truly vile, with horribly racist drivers and nasty attitudes. And I certainly wouldn't say minicabs are any more reliable than black cabs unless you're paying 2x the price of a black cab, and then your UberLuxe is probably just as reliable.
An employer is legally required to pay you for your time.

They aren't anything whatsoever to let you build things that they're somehow going to depend on using NewHotness-0.1.3.

EDIT: Look, I'm not saying growth and exploration are bad things. I'd never have learned the tools and technologies that have fed me for years now, or been able to expand those skills in ways that have made me tremendously valuable to the people who've decided to pay me nontrivial sums of money in exchange for my knowledge, skills, and time, if I hadn't been, as you say, "blessed" with opportunities to try new things.

But there's a difference between acting like you're blessed, which to my mind entails exploration with respect for the needs of the folks who are paying you to explore, and gratitude for the opportunity to do so — and acting like you're entitled, which ignores those things, and treats it as an exercise in résumé-padding.