skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Few thoughts off the top of my head:

a) Language barrier — Spanish is only the fifth most spoken language in the EU, with only 15% speaking it as a first or second language (around half of whom are Spanish citizens);

b) Lower salaries on offer (as others have noted) as opposed to working in the UK, Germany, or France;

b) Given the economic situation in the country, and high levels of unemployment, Spain isn't anywhere near as attractive to skilled migrants as the other leading EU economies.
I think it might have to do with the poster's mother tongue. As a Spanish-speaker I'd tend to say "pagarían 20% menos" (which roughly translates to "they'd pay 20% less".

Some idioms are very difficult to get rid off. I sometimes can distinguish Brazilians from Argentines just by the way they write in English.
> There's nothing to incentivise someone to stay once he's learnt the skills he needs to get a position elsewhere.

So it's better if they remain low skill and they stay. Great value for the company's product / services.

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Yes, on a computer there are certainly nice options, but on a phone this is always very cumbersome.
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The Tesla confused a white trailer with the sky, accident very likely wouldn't have happened if the driver was paying attention.

I did think calling the system 'autopilot' was a mistake, I could see it creating a false sense of the expected capabilities of the system which most of us would know but I'm not sure the average member of the public would.

I like Tesla's goals but they could do with dialing back the hyperbole sometimes (autopilot, bioweapon defense mode etc).
The restaurant as iOS is a flawed analogy, though. It's my phone that I purchased and now own in which Apple's "restaurant" exists and dictates rules to me, the owner?
I'm pretty sure Elon knows.

"lies, damn lies and statistics."
I've seen software projects where this was a big issue. Many ambitious Spaniards wind up working in London or elsewhere. Then Spanish companies have to hire overpriced consultancies to fill local tech positions with underqualified resources.

I wonder how much the Brexit will send folks home.

My impression is that many companies are looking at Spain as alternatives to London HQs, but those are also the kind of jobs for elites, rather than the 5M unemployed. Very hard to convert housing builders into programmers.
Wasn't something that basic what Weev was convicted for doing to AT&T?
Fascinating that someone is clueful enough to write an open source 3GPP LTE implementation ... yet clueless enough to host it on sourceforge.
I don't think so.. Most of my friends left Spain looking for better long term opportunities rather than money. Even if our economy (and politicians) sucks, quality of life is pretty high with those salaries.

I think the problem is the polarisation in the population. Very well trained people is leaving the country while non-skilled people remain.

Skilled people do not trust the system therefore they leave as soon as they can.
I think this concept works well until you consider "lateral movement" between companies. ie. it works as long as a developer leaving / laid-off-from the company will be compensated at their new job just as well as the manager will.

Don't get me wrong. Some people will embrace this. Namely those who aren't interested in managing others. But it seems a bit disingenuous to say you can "level the playing field" by having a value structure that doesn't map well to how most other companies' value structure is set up.
It's actually not Kevin Bacon but rather every single human is connected by 6 degrees of separation or less. Although the idea sounds crazy, it might make sense. I'm 3 degrees away from Obama, which means everyone I know is at most 4 degrees away from him, etc.
That's not the way the appropriations process works. Congress does not set aside money for FOIA or for this bill. Generally appropriations are made to each agency, and each agency must carry out its operations in a manner consistent with all laws, including FOIA.
Wasn't Midori killed?
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How many people from Eastern Europe speak Spanish?

Obviously not as important for low-skilled, manual labour, but we're talking about highly skilled jobs in the tech sector here.
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I still remember when Tuenti opened and they started paying developers a normal developer salary (instead of the insanely low standard stuff here) and eeeeevery dev business here was mad as fuck about that. They understood it as if Tuenti were stealing developers from them, paying the unpayable for men
Thanks for the reminder! Of course from time to time I consider the possibility. There's no particular reason why I don't give it a shot, other than the global competition for US remote gigs.

Probably it's easier when you specialise in a niche language - which I'm doing lately!
The judge that stands to lose biggest is the one no longer holding the gavel (Judge Roger Bradley). I wonder if somehow those audio transcripts of the racial slurs will suddenly get lost.

I see no reason the audio transcripts could not be released to address the original suit. Truth is the best antidote to defamation.
I value what Homeboy Industries is doing and I respect the people who are participating in their programs and trying to turn their lives around. I wish them nothing but success.

That said, it isn't a normal job training program. If you had a friend with no criminal record who was looking for work, I doubt you send him to Homeboy Industries in order to get job training.

Ray was in prison, but he isn't someone trying to turn his life around after falling in with gangs or crime. He was a Sergeant in the U.S. military who had his freedom taken for no reason.

He has just been forced to spend 11 years of his life with people from backgrounds that led them into the criminal-justice system. Some of them are good people, others are not. But none of them came from the same circumstances as Ray, a man who risked his life for our country and never did anything to society for which he needs to atone.

I will certainly tell him about Homeboy Industries and let him make his own decisions. But I think it's totally reasonable if, after being forced to spend 11 years surrounded by convicts, he now chooses to seek out situations where he will be able to spend time around "normal" folks.
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You are splitting hairs and I think you know it.

No, not really. I'm explaining how a fact can impart bias. Not sure why this is such a difficult concept to understand.
1. 5 million unemployed people 2. very highly sought after workers

"If there was excess of people in group 2, then there'd be no upward pressure on wages, in the fashion that there is none in group 1. If we import or train enough of group 2, perhaps we can make this happen..."

Basically, the message for each group - "we want to pay less".
As a native (Portuguese) speaker I completely understand why something like this may have appeared!

You must understand that we have such a small country and few foreigners bother to learn our language, even when they come to visit us. As we are a very nice bunch of people (we are, even our political revolution was made with carnation flowers [quite similar to roses], not a single bullet was shot), and we are very proud of having the oldest stable borders of all Europe (since 1180 or something like that), we are proud to be able to provide our visitors with the best possible experience. Therefore, if you don't learn our language, we must try to communicate with you in other ways! You see, we don't want foreigners to make fools out of themselves. I'll give you an example: we cook almost every part of the pork, even the pork's balls, so we don't want you to eat "tubaros" (pork's "balls") without you knowing it. we also cook the intestines (bucho), so we want you to be prepared for the experience (put some lemon).

On a more serious note (although I'm speaking some truth above), if you only know a very small subset of the english vocabulary, you have to be creative. So you have to speak in English as you would do in Portuguese. Unfortunately it doesn't help that the english language sometimes mixes the verb and the predicate(?) (from our perspective, of course). An example:

- João - John

- é - is

- tipo - guy

- porreiro - nice

So "O João é um tipo porreiro" translates directly to "The John is a guy nice". Then, when you translate "to the letter" local proverbs such as "Quem tem língua vai a Roma", you start getting stupid things like "With a tongue one go to Rome" which in fact means something like "He who as a tongue can go to Rome" (meaning that anyone who can speak [has a tongue] can ask for directions).

All in all, in the end we just don't want our visitors to eat something they'll regret later!
> All thanks to advertising companies

No, it's all thanks to the availability of cheap storage and video cameras and fast internet, driving the price of recording almost to zero. Couple that with the love people have for mobile phones, which are spying devices.
Is he a very special kind of dev ? Why would an US company go to that length to hire someone.
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Macy's deserves to get sued, and the people directly involved should be charged with false imprisonment. This is totally ridiculous. Almost like corporate vigilante justice, but since corporations aren't people, it's really just wrong.
> to show that no elephants exist, start with the (infinite) set of all possible chromosome sets. The proportion of them that produces an elephant is zero

This is not obvious. If you're going to postulate an infinite number of possible chromosome sets, you're also going to have to admit that an infinite subset of them all produce elephants.

For example, if you show genome A which does not produce an elephant, perhaps I could show genome A', consisting of (1) genome A; (2) a reference elephant genome; (3) some chromosomes that have the effect of disabling genome A.
Spanish here. I moved to Sweden, I prefer the business culture here. Less non paid extra hours. More respect from managers. Better pay. Etc.

They rant about not being able to use more people as part time slaves. It's a problem of using industrial business mentality in the high tech industry. They care only for reducing salaries and getting long hours with no respect for the developers that are expected to be code monkeys.

So yes, they don't find as a big supply as they want.
Are you saying legislators are forbidden from earmarking allocations for a specific executive branch agency for specific expansion of scope?
Completely different topic. This is talking about reducing counter-party risk in derivatives by creating central counter-parties. (Of course derivative counter-party risk was more a symptom of the real estate driven crash, but that's another story)

There are dozens of other problems which can cause the next one. Most regulations fight the last war, so the next one will be different.
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What is "the ability to deal with senior executives"?

Patience and prudence.
This is a very good reply. My hat off to you.

That being said, could you give us a good example for these privacy-enabled phones and apps? I am willing to make a collection out of these and write a guide on hardening Android. And I am not just talking apps that are incredibly hard to use; I mean the better generation of them who are actually mass-audience-friendly.

Of course we must not forget that Android phones could have a backdoor at the kernel or even at the hardware level. But I still think we should do the best that we can. As many security researches say, you aren't absolutely breach-proof, but if you work hard enough you're not a target that's worth the effort, especially having in mind you're not a legitimate threat to any government.

I view this sort of like the people who got away from the Matrix in the movies; as the Architect and the Oracle implied, as long as these people aren't an escalating threat for the entire system, they're allowed to live however they choose.

What's your opinion on the Turing Phone and Sailfish OS in general, by the way? Do you think that it gives us a fair progress in the direction of the more snoop-proof end-user tech?
Commercial compilers from chip manufacturers are common in embedded world - from Keil and IAR for ARM (you can use GCC but the code quality wouldn't be that good) to almost everything proprietary down the road to FPGA and ASIC.
Quite right. Let's look at the summary they give:

> Signed: SB880 by Sen. Isadore Hall III, D-Compton, which expands the definition of “assault weapon” to include specified guns capable of accepting any type of detachable magazine.

> Signed: SB1446, which makes it illegal to possess magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition.

> Signed: AB1135 bans the so-called "bullet button" by defining a "'fixed magazine' to mean an ammunition feeding device contained in, or permanently attached to, a firearm in such a manner that the device cannot be removed without disassembly of the firearm action."

> Signed: SB1235 requires background checks for people buying ammunition, a license for people selling bullets and purchasing data submitted to the U.S. Department of Justice.

> Signed: AB1695, which makes falsely reporting a gun as stolen a misdemeanor, aimed to discourage straw purchasers of guns, who may claim a gun was stolen if law enforcement have found it to be used in a crime.

> Signed: AB1511, which would remove the exemption for "persons who are personally known to each other" from the lending of firearms without the use of a licensed firearms dealer. Family members would still be exempt for going through a dealer.

This kind of stuff is why no gun owner in their right mind trusts the "common-sense" gun regulation that everybody else seems to believe in and support.

At the very least, it's a huge attack on property rights.
20k isn't the going rate of an agile software developer, it is the average salary in the country. So the average of all the janitors, and chefs and construction workers and agile software developers combined.
> Just saying 'cutting spending = bad' is about as baseless as this article

I'll grant you that. But Spain is the country who was in the top 5 countries in solar RD in the 200x, a lot of education program in that sector for instance.

The cutback were mishandled/misplaced. The Spanish government purposefully pushed to have low skilled labor as they intended to compete with Turkey on manufacturing. The thing is, that not what the market wants so it unbalanced it further.
Thank you.

You should be aware that people like you are unsung heroes and I'd like you to know that many of us who are busy struggling to stay afloat are feeling better knowing that people like you are doing the work you do.

Have that in mind. I wish you well.
I've used Slackware back in the day. Nowadays it feels like it's a terribly outdated distro. Why would anyone still use it?

The packages are pretty much up to date but the distro itself feels dusty.
I agree that measuring productivity is a hard, universal problem.

While I don't claim to commit 10x more LOCs, I do write exceptional abstractions that allow me to get things done in a quick, robust way.

I've met far too many 'senior' developers blatantly breaking DRY because they don't really know/use all features $language or $framework has to offer.
Says the guy whose trailer killed the Tesla driver. Also, he did not see Harry Potter playing, he just heard it.
How does he know HP was not playing from, say, audiobook?
Also, how many 62-year olds can recognize HP on the spot?

Yeah, I would wait for some other proof.
You might have a separate "Google Settings" app.
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Greek here, living and working abroad.

Spain is doing a bit better than Greece but its on the same boat.

When I speak with friends back home, I do get a feeling that they don't want to work. Is it because they are lazy? part of me wants to say yes. I can't ignore the fact that the working conditions are awful. Salaries are quite low compared to the rest of Europe, an employer has full control over you, and can fire you any time. An employer won't ever promote you. They will just hold you as long as they can and then they will just hire someone else for less money.
Also when you have internet and so much information avaialble to you, and you can see what are the working conditions in other Countries it kinda makes you sad.

I live in London, and tbh there have been many times that I've been thinking what am I doing here. London is quite expensive and the salaries are not as high compared to rent, food etc (at least for developers).

Now I just made this comment in order to give an overview of whats going on to a country that is on the same boat as Spain.
Nooooooo why on SourceForge :-(
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This is a criminal government that is totally out of control.
King hired in Barcelona a lot of highly senior developers, people that were leading protects, being architects, etc in other companies.
How? Better pay, better conditions and it gives more autonomy to the developers.

A fraction of them are talent brough from abroad because they wanted to live in Barcelona. So it is less hard to find talent when you are willing to be competitive.
You are thinking "given N, what is the probability that N is a perfect nth power?". Think about it in the reverse. "given N, what is the probability that the nth root of N is an integer". For a whole bunch of different Ns, we will get some real number between 0 and 1.

To match up to your example. "For a number M, m is the remainder of M: m = M - floor(M), what is the probability that m is zero given M"
I think the root of office politics comes when positions and influence within the company become a zero sum game. It wasn't until relatively late in Microsoft's career that you started hearing about all the reindeer games in Redmond. I'll be interested in seeing how this culture develops as Facebook reaches a growth fixpoint.