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Where exactly do you think those words come from?
If I understand, you work for a US company remotely and are curious about moving to a new country that is not the US (regardless of where you live today). I am by no means an expert, but if you are permanently relocating I believe most Countries will require you to prove you have sufficient stable income (or wealth) to make reasonably certain you will not become a burden or nuisance. Depending on your current citizenship the requirements will vary, e.g. a UK citizen going to the US or Canada or vice versa is totally different then other Countries.

If it was me, I'd consult an immigration expert for the Countries I was thinking about going to, mostly because the requirements seem to have multiple ways they could be interpreted. I do have a few friends that do this, and each time they have told me they talk to immigration experts to figure it all out (generally an attorney). One has done it all himself from what I understand just by doing all the research etc, but that seems quite hard and potentially error prone.
Divergement of languages, dialects and accent are affected by different groupings, one of which is geographical grouping. Boiling it down to geography alone is a blind oversimplification, even in the historical context.
Agree there are huge advantages to us all agreeing on standards (English as language of business, metric system, etc). But from that doesn't follow that we all need to be monolingual.
> Why is that a problem instead of a perk [you] imply you could not live there because of this

Well, it's because I like guns. Firearms are an amazing hobby. It teaches responsibility, maintenance of a fragile and precision machine, puts you in control of your personal safety, and can put dinner on your plate if you're ever up for a bit of hunting. I subscribe to a very Locke-esq philosophy of life. Where some group begins by regulating one freedom I enjoy, they will not simply stop. All governments will slowly etch away at freedoms that people have in the aim of securing more control over it's citizens (furthering the divide between the peasants and the ruling class). Firearms rights are a very good litmus test for my case since it quickly points to, in my opinion, if the population has given up their own rights to protect themselves and is ready to pack up their freedoms and hand them over to their ruling class.

In my personal opinion, an unarmed populous is a completely ruled populous since the people have given up all hope of being in control of their own safety and government's actions. They do this not even for safety but for the illusion of such.

I'd like to reverse the question to you. Rather then as "Why is that a problem instead of a perk" in relation to owning firearms, let me ask this about banning fire arms.

The facts simply don't align with the assessment that banning fire arms will positively effect anyone. Firearms ownership simply does not correlate to crime.

I'll agree that it does correlate with firearm related deaths since that is plainly evident in the data but those deaths are replaced with other means when firearms are taken out of the equation.

There are very few recent studies about this on a federal level. This is largely due to the CDC being prohibited from researching firearms related topics.

The 'best' source I have found was a source from '07. [0]

An "ok" secondary "check" for this, that is by all accounts not a very good measure, is by looking at some charts wikipedia has made [1] [2]. If you go to those two pages you will see that the places with the most fire arms are seldom the most dangerous places. Now, if you change your comparison from Guns vs Intentional Homicide to % People Living Below Poverty Line vs Intentional Homicides you will see something interesting [3]. Once you have >10-20% of the people living below poverty there is a huge increase in homicides. I think if this is studied further that you will find that firearms are a single means to some crimes, not the only mean and that crime correlates to poverty, not firearms ownership.

Personally, I don't want my rights to be taken away "just because;" I want a reason for rights being revoked. The plain fact of the matter is that there does not seem to be any reason to revoke the right of firearms ownership.

[0] - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047235214...
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_c...
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_percentag...
I agree that it's not much of a freak accident, and you got me thinking that there might be some additional aspects of this case that might be worth considering.

For most of my life I have lived somewhere with lots of snow, and where the sun hangs out close to the horizon during the entire day during the winter, and I have never understood why white cars and tractor trailers are legal on public roads. In some conditions you are lucky if you see them at 1/2 the range of a vehicle of just about any other color. Even compared to ligt grays/silver metallic it's a huge difference.

Maybe something with the faint silhouette not looking very vehicle-like making the brain ignore it, I don't know?
While white vehicles can be harder to spot only with the sun being close to the horizon, add some drifting snow and they essentially becomes ghosts.

So while the accident clearly show Teslas autopilot is not good enough for hands free driving - of which it has made no claim to be - it might also be telling us a very simple fact: That white is a particularly bad colour for tractor trailers regardless if it is a human or a computer interpreting the visual field ?
I was wondering if this was an older article but apparently it is recent (2016). Synthetic spider silk has been on the cusp of revolutionizing "stuff" (clothing, tethers, ballistic vests, etc.) since at least 2010. So far the secrets of mass production have eluded people, and bespoke production is waaaay too expensive for anything except science experiments. The $750+ "moon parka" is a good example of an impractical piece of clothing.

That said, once the necessary techniques are learned it opens up some interesting things. But it could put a lot of sheep out of business.
All commercial aircraft have TCAS (collision avoidance).
A lot (maybe most) programming jobs in the US are 9-5 but they're not at companies or places HN would be interested in discussing.
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I had a memory lane trip few months ago. Got to run turbopascal 7.0 in dosbox. It's an amazing piece of software. The included help is great. And the language was deceptively simple. I didn't understand the value of intervals, set types, even ordinals (succ and prec)... Pretty neat.

Small sidenote: even QBasic was amazing for a free code environment in these days. The language is bare, but QBasic had some form of modularization. I thought nothing of it at the time, but it feels they tried to make people think in terms of isolated "objects" not large source files full of global variables.
JavaScript has the same problems, and that hasn't stopped every major JS engine from building a JIT.
I haven't encouraged locking anybody up, or fining anybody. They don't care. It doesn't work. I know. Please don't put words in my mouth.

"They're just doing what they must to survive" doesn't justify the street behavior of san francisco vagrants any more than it justifies a hungry dog ripping the face off a kid.

Do you live in a neighborhood where you deal with the homeless and mentally ill on a daily basis and at all hours?

Do you step in shit? Are you spit on? Accosted? Have your roommates come home with phlegm and spit in their hair? Have you left your apartment to find a man's face pressed against the window, yelling "You look like you've been waiting to eat my ass your whole life"?

I'd need a yard to put the Y in NIMBY, but all I have is a feces-caked grate that I routinely kick people off of so I can open the door and get into a street that stinks of piss. Sorry if you're bummed that I'm interrupting their pill sales.

Live and let live doesn't cut it here, not for me. The idea that these people should be left alone regardless of the blight and destruction they cause to public spaces is short sighted and wreaks of "I don't actually experience this problem".

The homeless are struggling. They need help. But they're a scourge, too, and I'm sick and tired of people boo-hooing about how they're just trying to survive as the streets in this city rot from their presence, as though their being in pain makes it acceptable that they erode the quality of every public space in the city. It is not acceptable.

The solutions we have for homelessness and its associated ailments are weak, and need to be better. They need to be rooted in generosity and upward mobility. I completely agree. I'm all for huge city spending on building, and on every conceivable social program, especially for mental health.

What I am not for is turning a blind eye to the realities of homelessness' effects on the city in the mean time, and to distance the crimes and destruction from the individuals who commit them.

You do not get a free pass to fuck up the world because your life sucks.
I don't get the argument that using the name Autopilot implies that the driver need not supervise the car. In aircraft autopilots require pilot supervision who can take over in the event of autopilot failure. In marine applications autopilots are even simpler. No-one would think that an autopilot in either of these fields where the word has been traditionally applied can function completely independently.
No matter what he might think he feels, he is not amongst his 'brethren' at def con.

I thought the reference to the film 'good will hunting' was appropriate, because the subject of the article is a sell-out.
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a) Well, according to a review paper from 2011, it has an effective aperture that is about twice that of the Arecibo telescope, can see three times the amount of sky that Arecibo can, and has 30 % better spatial resolution. The larger aperture and newer design probably accounts for the fact that it is predicted to have three times the raw sensitivity of Arecibo, and the design of placing just a reflector on the wires instead of the entire receiver is probably the cause for the 10 times faster surveying speed.

The raw sensitivity alone means that it will roughly speaking accomplish three times the science per time unit as Arecibo.

b) One is a gigantic dish and the other is a bunch of big dishes. Correctly arranged the bunch of big dishes can emulate a very very big dish in the resolution sense, but not at all with the same sensitivity as the very very big dish they emulate. The advantage with a gigantic dish is that you get high sensitivity, so science can happen faster. The advantage with a bunch of big dishes is that they are much cheaper than the very very big dish they can emulate.

c) Waves from the normal go to one focus, waves from directions away from the normal go somewhere else. So you simply put your detector in the focus corresponding to the direction you want to look at. The FAST also has an ability to deform the main dish to help with this directionality.
I like my DAS keyboards. But this is teh stupid.
"Sticker shock: Why are glasses so expensive? 60 Minutes Luxottica"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfxERwUFZHc
You know that "5 years from mass production" is an euphemism for "never gonna happen," right?
Unfortunately there are a lot of jobs in North America that are stated as 9-5 but include unpaid on-call and overtime. There are laws that make it so that IT does not have to be paid overtime.
This problem seems to crop up across many issues. Things like law enforcement, social safety nets, health, transport, etc. All require wide scale planning with responsibility resting at least at regional levels, if not state or national levels in some cases. But we aren't set up that way.

Case in point, why are there so many cities in the Bay Area? There should be far fewer, at least all of South Bay should be one municipality, but there's seemingly dozens.
Oragenics.

They are not the only effort. more info at on them and others at:

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

The science: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3708248/
wasn't it "information SUPER-highway"? :)
Given that the worst offenders are, in order, China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia...

...no. They don't have free and open elections to their legislative branches, and even if they did they are rubber stamp chambers, and even if they weren't, the autocrats who run those countries are going to do whatever it takes to maintain power.

What you need to envision is a path to a world where the Russian/Brazilian/Chinese/whatever poor aren't going to riot if their below-market fuel supplies are cut off, or at least a world where such riots won't cause the fall of a government. Because until we get there, democratic pressure is going to be trumped by street power and autocratic populism. And the Brazilian "street" isn't going to riot for cutback to fuel subsidies, so...
I read a comment on HN a while back arguing that today's companies are essentially human-powered AIs. It made me think quite a lot -- large companies especially take a lifeform of their own. They tend to mostly care for themselves. Actions are taken "for the company" without any one person being actively aware of why. Higher-ups have some form of backdoor access to the direction the company takes; a symbiotic relationship with what is, in a way, a parasite.
The homogenization and stabilization of language started with the printing press.

Radio, and then TV, started homogenization of pronunciation.
Maybe you're looking far too restrictively and only thinking of tech companies, because of course it happens.

Last 10 years? Alan Mullally at Ford and Richard Anderson at Delta are two off the top of my head.
Vladimir Horowitz's Inverview [pdf]
I wonder why people still use Itanium CPUs? And Intel is still producing them, they even going to release the next one, named Kittson?

Hasn’t x86-64 architecture basically won?

Or there’re some specific niches where Itaniums work better for some reason?
I learned Mandarin. I don't regret it but not sure if I'd do it again. I've been tempted by the notion that it being the world's most spoken language makes it somehow useful. There's little interesting Chinese content online (unless of course you're interested in something inherently Chinese which is true of every country). You won't want to read tech stuff in Chinese. You won't want to read news in Chinese. You won't wanna use a Chinese search engine. Heck, even if you live in China, the people you'll want to talk to you'll want to talk to in English.

It's always cool to know a language especially if it's distant from the ones you already know. Sure I'll occasionally watch something in Chinese on youtube, someone might ask me to look at documentation for some machinery that's only in Chinese etc. But truth be told it's just a nuisance.
This some time cube level nonsense.
Is... this an advertisement disguised as an article? Nothing indicates this is sponsored content but it sure reads like it...
> a) How much more can this accomplish in comparison to the well known Arecibo Radio Telescope?

It's bigger and therefore collects more light. This lets users see dimmer targets. It could also have a different field of view, different wavelength sensitivity, and/or different instrumentation. I don't know details of this new telescope. FWIW, Arecibo is also a radar (it can transmit pulses and look for reflections). I don't know whether the new telescope can do that.

> b) How is a fixed parabolic dish radio telescope different from a radio telescope array like Karl. G. Jansky Very Large Array? What are the relative pros and cons of one over the other?

Very generally, single dishes will have much nicer point spread functions, so the images are more like camera pictures. Aperture synthesis images can have weird artifacts. Huge dishes like this are also huge and this have more collecting area than many small dishes combined,
anthough the big arrays, in contrast, have much, much better angular resolution.

> c) How do you 'steer' the telescope to look at different parts of the sky? I understand the dish is fixed, but the feed horns can be repositioned, but I don't really understand the physics/math behind it, other than the focus is changed.

Imagine a big mirror on a wall. If you stand in a different place relative to the mirror, you see a different image in the mirror.
I read those stories and wondered when they got time to be 'pampered'.

For the jobs listed, if they averaged out the compensation/hours-worked it would be interesting to see what the numbers are (with and without RSU).
If you start kicking out the major subsidizers and then promulgate a policy against subsidies, what have you really accomplished?
Eyes are just squishy cameras
> I haven't encouraged locking anybody up, or fining anybody.

Well, you encouraged "consequences," which usually means one of those two things.

> But we encourage this behavior every time we allow it to happen with no consequences... There need to be consequences, but how do you discourage someone who has nothing? They're almost inherently unpunishable.

So, there need to be consequences, but you don't agree with locking people up or fining them? What consequences were you referring to then?
They're not that different. Once you've learned a few, picking up new ones is pretty easy.

Only if you stay in the same family. Going from C to C++, Java, or C# is pretty easy. Try going from C to Haskell or Clojure or Erlang.

You can play the same game with natural languages. It's easy to go between French, Italian, and Spanish. Try going from Icelandic to Mandarin.
Also, Adam Smith's example of the invisible hand was as a mechanism to prevent so-called free trade, and raise protectionist tariffs. The people you mentioned have twisted Smith's words into the exact opposite meaning - they say Smith's invisible hand sweeps away protectionist tariffs and allows international free trade. He said the complete opposite of what they say he said.
That was, in (slightly) less horrible form, what they did. It's apparently still disputed that this shows empathy, however.

For your experiment, you could counter-argue in the same way: Maybe the free rat was just particularly tired of the torture screams and that's why it freed that rat first...
Probably gone to Cuba with the cure for lung cancer.
Would any of you make your children monolingual [0] speakers of your national language? Wouldn't you feel like you're doing them a disservice?

[0] monolingual in the sense that the national language would strictly be their native language spoken at school/education, with friends and family even if they'd still be learning English
| not any more but damn fess up about the Armenian genocide already

I read PP as talking about the Turks present day treatment of the Kurds, not their previously reprehensible treatment of the Armenians. Are you excusing the way Kurds are treated by Turkey? (and Iraq and Iran and Syria)
Educated by society, about democratic principles, through any means available, to teach informed decision making. No authority required, except for a commitment to the democratic proces; the rest is up to society itself.
I have to disagree with this. Most IT jobs in the U.S. aren't 9-5. Every place I've interviewed have always hinted at the fact that it's not a 40 hour a week job. This may sound jaded, but companies really do expect to get more than what they pay for, and it's not just the silicon valley ones. I think the real issue is that most programmers feel a dedication and passion to what they do and they want to see the project succeed, and so the get taken advantage of.
Depends on the middle part: is "move fast and kill people" viable? We'll see. (Which is to say, viable from a PR perspective: people are still scared of flying compared to manual car driving, despite the odds; I'm willing to take a wild guess and say that non-assisted driving is more dangerous than assisted driving, yet considered safer-because-familiar)
I'm convinced, why don't we have stronger underride standards?
There also BoringSSL[1] but that might be even more of a departure than LibreSSL in terms of API compatibility. I still think it's surprising that we don't see more BoringSSL being used especially with nginx.

[1] https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl/
And the bacteria eat sugar and produce acid. That whole site is a load of nonsense
Reminds me of Mark Zuckerberg.
If you can tele-work from country A then I see no reason you cannot work from country B unless it is subject to US export control restrictions and your job deals with such matters. You/your lawyer may also want to look at any tax/banking/financial restrictions that the US may have placed on country B as it could affect salary reaching your account. Even more so if you are a US citizen.
There's a huge logical fallacy here; that data is equivalent and that data makes it safer.

They are using different models for their data, different types of data and so on.

Data itself eventually stops helping; although finding more edge cases is certainly helpful.
The things we could do to improve air safety at this point are not technology related. If we want to spend money on air safety, paying pilots more, spending more on their training, and reducing their work hours would make the biggest difference.
Well, a female mantis occasionally decapitates its male mates after copulation. Does that mean that it is moral for women to do the same to men?

No one is arguing that nature is moral.
Why would you use it, if the people making it explicitly recommend against you doing so?
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