skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think anyone in this thread is blaming it all on social programs. Even the opening post mentioned that corruption was largely to blame.

If you want to get into discussions on socialism, one might ask the question whether nationalization of industries presents an opportunity for corruption or if socialist ideology can present a cover for kleptocracy. It looks a lot like that's what happened in Venezuela.
I have direct experience with getting offers in an area with cost of living similar to Omaha. With no negotiation, the pay was the same as in the high cost of living area where I chose to live.

I don't have direct experience with Phuket, but I've heard of friends who get paid US level contract rates in similar areas.
Angel.ai, a company that builds chat bots, acqui-hired by Amazon
You can "Sign in with Google" in Chrome.
I don't like apps for websites that work well in the browser.
Games do not work in mobile browsers, so those I may download (but I don't really play games).
Apps such as Facebook and Snapchat waste battery and attempt to datamine.
I try to keep my phone down to as little apps as possible because I hate rogue battery use and data mining, but many apps choose to ignore those wishes.
If google play services wasn't required for some apps that I would try, I wouldn't have them installed.
" the most popular mobile OS "

iOS at 23% and falling...

http://bgr.com/2016/06/02/apples-mobile-market-share-sees-bi...
The cars will be mechanically simpler (electric motor connected to wheels without a traditional gearbox), require less maintenance (no oil changes), be cheaper to insure, and inexpensive to operate. The electronics and software will do what they always do - get better and less expensive. Lighter cars that don't crash (often) can be made from different (cheaper) materials than current cars. They will be similar to today's golf carts. I think a basic car will cost less than $10,000.

A lot of the same innovations that go into producing a self-driving car apply to the construction and repair of the car itself. One of the most expensive parts of a new car is paying for wages, benefits, and pensions for the people that made the car. I'm thinking self-driving cars will be built and serviced by other machines. I would bet that before long, you buy a car the same way you buy a cell phone. You subscribe to a plan and upgrade every 2-3 years. Maybe you would subscribe to a shared fleet for $50 / month or maybe you "buy" your own car for $250 / month.

This is all assuming a few years have passed and human driven cars are rare.
I see, that comment was totally unnecessary ..
> I don't use the computer enough for tabs to be useful

Fine, but why are you posting on a forum principally made of developers?
Using your thumb print for a password on bank apps is like aaahhhhhhhh thank god why didn't this happen earlier. And remote check deposits omfg woooooooo! But you are right for at least 75% of apps.
They'd never do it but I imagine a system that was loud, flashy, and embarrassing, that activated when autopilot is misused (i.e. auto-pilot is demanding user intervention and intervention is not given) would be most effective in incentivizing drivers to change their behavior.

I.e. a loud beeping noise that annoyed pedestrians and other drivers until you took the wheel. Kind of like how accidentally triggering your car alarm in the parking lot will lead to a very hasty correction on your part.
What do you call an indiscriminate smear campaign against a large target, parts of which are incompetent, and parts of which are competent?

"Self-serving"?
JScript is simply Microsoft's name for its JavaScript implementation. Presumably to avoid Sun's ire.
If you're selling labor that I don't currently need, what kind of obligation did I take on and for how long? Am I supposed to apologize to Subaru for not buying another car this year?
I have to say, I'm pretty confused about what the state of 2.0 is. There's been no official announcement and the latest stable version on npm is 1.8.10[1]. That being said the latest release on GitHub is 2.0.2, with no official release of 2.0 (or 2.0.1 for that matter) listed anywhere[2]. There's also no active milestone on GitHub for the 2.0 release, but there is for patch versions of 2.0? I'm sure this all just means 2.0 hasn't been released yet, but it's super confusing.

[1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/typescript

[2]: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/releases
That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about actions a user is taking. For instance, HN just performed a full page load for me to make this comment, and will do another one after I click "reply", and then I'll have to find my place again. That is sucky and would be much better implemented with javascript and a background POST. This is somewhat ok on HN because actions like commenting are much more rare than passively reading content (and because I find enough value in the commentary here that I'm willing to put up with quite a bit of suckiness), but it is a lot less ok for applications that are a lot more behavior based.

To put it in concrete terms, I came to the conclusion that SPAs (or at least using javascript to implement most behaviors on individual pages of a multi-page application) make a ton of sense after spending a few years building an internal line-of-business application with a lot of behavior and not much content as a normal Rails multi-page app, noticing that the user experience was not great at all, and finding it to have very low return on investment to attempt to do it with progressive enhancement. We would have saved a lot of time and money by starting with a JS-based SPA approach for an application like that. If I were building a blog or news site, I suspect the opposite would be true.
Ask HN: My work permit was just denied because I don't have a degree. Can I
Hello,

I'm a software developer with 5 years of experience. Recently I got a dream job offer from a Swiss company. Unfortunately the Swiss immigration agency denied issuing the work permit because I don't have an official degree. The company thinks I'm qualified enough and offers a good salary (by European standards) of ~$140 000.

Until now, the degree has never been required. I've worked in other European countries without any problems (I'm from one of the ex-Soviet states).

I've been programming for almost 10 years now, and I'm pretty comfortable with the theory, so I'd be able to complete all required courses within a couple of months. However I haven't been able to find a university that would allow me to get a quick degree.

For example, the Open University is a good accredited institution that allows you to get a degree remotely. But they don't have the so called "challenging" of the courses where you can pass the course by simply taking the exam.

I know that most of North American universities allow that. Do you know if there is a school that could help me obtain a degree within a couple of months?

Thanks
Fine. But the point is the WSJ should be looking at improving their site instead of using google's offering here. It's laziness otherwise.
They don't have to implement SAE 2 and if their implementation isn't safe, doing the best they can might not be good enough.

I think there may be a fundamental flaw with lane keeping. It removes the driver from doing anything but still requires constant vigilance. That might be asking too much. My ADD is too strong to wach the road without having to do any part of the driving. I suspect a lot of people are the same way.

If most drivers are just keeping their hand on the wheel while day dreaming, Telsa should be forced to just disable the feature until the tech is ready for Level 3. Or use the Level 2 tech as a backup only.
This seems like a nice application of two related principles:
1) The harder it is to tell which choice is better, the less it matters which you choose, and 2) a decision has value even in the absence of proof that it's the very best decision because it frees up resources for the next decision, which may be more important.
I use Plain Clip (https://www.bluem.net/en/mac/plain-clip/) which is a tiny application which will remove formatting from text in clipboard. It's meant to be triggered from a hotkey / launcher app like Alfred or Spotlight. One plus is that you can set preferences to remove extra spacing or new lines.
Mike Rothenberg allegedly wired $5.2M from bank without permission
Maybe not in version 1. Think bigger, you'll get that promotion!
Mushroom Packaging plz.
This is free.
JavaScript BabyNoggin App – To Make Sure Babies Are as Healthy as They Can Be
She has no problem cashing my paychecks though!

All joking aside, it is certainly a downside to the job I do, but she understands. "Upset" is kind of a hyperbolic word to use, she fully supports the work I do as it affords us a lot of freedoms we might not have otherwise. I can't say how often we've turned a business trip into a vacation just by switching the credit card on file with the hotel to my personal card, or left for vacation in the middle of the work day as long as I bring my phone and take my calls from the passenger seat. Not to mention she doesn't have to work full time, so she can pursue her own dreams and hobbies.

Not that any of that matters to you, I just didn't want anyone thinking I was being selfish or insensitive to my wife's feelings.
Valid points (at least, they would be if you actually stated them). But:

> > an owner-class hell bent on sabotaging and completely backed by the US

reeks of conspiracy-theory paranoia, at least in the absence of actual evidence.
Not in CA. http://www.adp.com/-/media/Compliance/2016%20Fast%20Wage%20a...
Using the logic in this article on other, more established companies highlights the silliness of the "$10M per person" sound byte:

Uber is valued at $60bn, has 6000 employees -> $10M per person

Google is valued at $500bn, has 50000 employees -> $10M per person
When I see posts like this I just assume everyone at [ insert company y ] up voted.
Makerbot doubles-down on its sure bets, professionals and teachers
I'm not blaming scrollytelling for making the claim, I'm blaming them for making Al Jazeera switch to a different tool, rather than asking them for a testimonial and some credit on the article page, which would have been much better marketing.

Scrollytelling would have written much the same post, except "AJ was using us in an article without their knowledge, we asked them to credit us, they did, and gave us this awesome testimonial as well".
EconomySim: A Consequence Based Realistic Economy Programmed in Unity
maybe all of this was planned in advance ...maybe just a big PR stunt that worked brilliantly. I hope the NYT steals the code from my website. I could use the pR
I hope I wasn't out of line by vouching the comment to reply to it. I see it is dead again, but I think maybe a lesson was learned? Anyway, thanks for keeping HN's discussions at such an exceptional level. There really is nowhere else like it that I'm aware of.
Yeah, I'm only half sarcastic. Polaroid cameras are also fun to play with.
TL;DR

- Clustering https://blog.couchdb.org/2016/08/01/couchdb-2-0-architecture...

- New Query Language https://blog.couchdb.org/2016/08/03/feature-mango-query/

- New Admin Interface (written in React) https://blog.couchdb.org/2016/07/27/fauxton-the-new-couchdb-...
OS X doesn't use Mach IPC to emulate POSIX, but it uses (or did last I checked, which was a while ago) Mach IPC directly for things like launchd.
Upholding an unjust law is not ethical. The right thing to do is repeal the law. It is absurd to say refugees and fruit pickers living on next to nothing are cutting in line, as though they are in an equal position to German mechanical engineers with PhDs.
You people are hilarious.

Hey, YC, I've got a great idea for a startup in the incredibly hot cert/encryption space. The team is world class and in place. The product is shipping and customers are doubling every 6 months. $8 million at $40 million please.

Y'all idolize the bloodsuckers in Teslas that run this site, and give Josh and team grief. Jeez.
A big reason I switched to iOS is that Apple cares about letting me control what runs on my phone and how much apps can nag me and what they can access. Google does not care about this at all and it's reminiscent of the huge risk of downloading anything on a PC. That's exactly what I'm trying to get away from on the phone.
I appreciate this, but I should clarify that I'm speaking specifically to active defense (hence defensive operations) rather than developing, publishing, and using defensive best practices, which I'd personally consider more passive than anything else.
Getting ready for a new macbook hopefully
Which is exactly as retro!
This is really really cool - great work!

I think if you could limit the internal angles of the triangles (as in, closer to equilateral) then you would get more aesthetically pleasing results.
hah thats funny, back in the day Opera also supported webkit prefixes[1], today it uses the blink engine.

1. http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/presto2.12/css/aliases/
Hey, we made this app to try and help people new to investing understand the stock market. This is what we've tried to do:
- explain unfamiliar concepts
- provide risk data
- aggregate price targets
- curate highlights of companies ethical/environmental activities

It'd be great to get your thoughts. Thanks in advance
Thank you. HN allows title changes for a brief period, so I squeezed it in.
I feel like this is equivalent to saying that if a founder decides she will buy a house if she exits, that she is denying employees of equity. Have I missed the point?
Is that behavior not eventually used to influence ranking? If users continue to click AMP results more often than non-AMP I'm pretty sure the google algorithm will start favoring AMP.
The car already cuts the stereo for a moment and beeps at you. If you ignore the first warning, it mutes the stereo and beeps until you resolve the situation.
What I'm suggesting is the decision on what you do in the case of long tail performance problems, is not something you can back into.

If you are going to have timeouts with logic, that has down stream implications. If you are going to have truly independent event loops, that is a fundamental architectural decisions.

None of those things match the "make it work, then make it fast". You literally have to design that into the system from jump street as it is part of the definition of "works".
Yes like this one - just dropping part of current SVG standard that was supported by all browsers. Without any notification and replacement it broke some sites. Why? Because it was too much code, low adoption and it is depreciated in SVG 2.0 draft.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=539385
I'm fine with AMP as long as i can get a link to a result that is opted out of it. Which i did not see a way to easily do, recently. So basically, I'm not fine with AMP.

Because SPOF's are bad. Not just from an architectural perspective, but from a privacy, independence and total systematic perspective. You want to be an agent in between me and the Internet that basically caches a fast version of everything after being pushed through your systems? Let me opt out.
Yes, it is horrible. I have started to populate and use Google Reviews for this reason. If I am desperate enough to need to read Yelp reviews on my phone, I enable 'Desktop Mode' and then Yelp shows the reviews without trying to coerce me into installing their app. So sad.
Not really, except for the aforementioned homemade stuff. I used to have a couple hundred books, but I gave them all away a few years ago. I'm not a minimalist, I certainly have more stuff than I strictly need, but they're all practical.

Art is wonderful. Art at home eventually loses its appeal and becomes more crap to maintain.
Unless you don't consider games as Actual apps, I gonna have to disagree with you. Most mobile games are also not worth downloading.
Mothballing the World's Fanciest Oil Rigs Is a Massive Gamble
Not really, imron did a fine job.
Agree with this. Some in south India make 100K USD for the job that would make 140 to 180K in USA. But not everyone though and like other post mentioned it is about the companies perception of your value and most of the Fortune 500 companies have some base setup for each title irrespective of where you live.
They probably don't care about the locals who bounce either. Readers who won't pay and who won't even download an app are just parasites.
This is the right general idea to be concerned about. Chrome was, in my opinion, an attempt to undermine Microsoft's dominance. It was also a business strategy, since a browser monopoly by MS could be the death to www.google.com. (I think that there is enough desktop browser competition to keep things in check for now, but it could become a problem.)

I think a bigger potential threat is the dominance of Apple and their control over iOS with the requirement that "Apps that browse the web must use the iOS WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript" and other platform restrictions.
App Crash on Long Passwords or yet Another UIKit Bug
They need to spend less or they're the next Tor foundation, an ineffective black hole of hacker wannabes and hanger-ons. Running high performance services don't cost very much as evidenced by their hosting entry. Maybe 5 engineers max. No way they are working on features every day. Should be very slow outside of patches. CA/SSL specification does not change weekly...
This is another one of those PLace-Oriented Programming (PLOP) problems. Rather than a fictional "now" read at a place, perceive a factual "then" which may be cached to your heart's content.

Granted, if you aren't taking advantage of immutable data in the first place, it can hurt to get there.
"Apple is notorious for swiping design and elements"
They even patented swipe to unlock, probably swiped that one too.
Which, really, does nothing. The problem is that the country's economy is dependent on a single extracted resources for export, making it do well when prices for that resource are high and badly when they are low.

Whether its privately extracted by firms paying taxes on income and leases for extraction rights or publicly extracted by the government, the same fundamental problem remains (and the same broad economic results have been seen in economies dependent on a single extracted resource all over the world, independent of the public or private nature of the extraction.)
No that is simply not true. Just because someone doesn't think that the war on drugs is a good idea or that prostitution should not be criminalized, etc. doesn't mean they think "governments can do nothing right"

libertarians != anarchists
This is a good observation. I'd wager that an increasing number of startups these days are executed with an acquisition by BIGCO as their exit goal (inversely proportional to the frequency of startup IPOs). The startup is a more involved test than a whiteboard exercise, as it credibly demonstrates that you have the management skills and network to assemble a team and onboard a few customers.

I think facilitating the creation of new, smaller companies is less about removing hurdles which, in the case of tax/legal regulations are mostly there as a (failing) mechanism of equitably redistributing wealth; it's more about waiting for (or moving towards) the explosion of the next paradigm-shifting tech platform that will actually allow the next generation of weirdos and mavericks to build/deliver supremely useful products/services. Color me skeptical on Facebook/Snapchat/Twitter...but I think we'll look back on this period as a time when biohackers/wetware were truly ahead of their time.
A Shocking Amount of E-Waste Recycling Is a Complete Sham
Free portfolio relationship software for investors who care about their founders
This. It's a CDN based on Google replacing the thicket of tracking companies.
We already had a solution in theory, but that's worth little when in practice we've had a mess that was rapidly getting worse with no sign of turning around. AMP is not the optimum, but it's actually happening, and it's one heck of a lot better than most of the status quo.
On the other hand Mr. Kai gave some portly dude 50 bucks to dance around his living room. Without community and roots, religion is a scam.
> Average income here is way below Bay Area however, and it has less EV per capita than Norway. Perhaps you chose a poor metric.

I'm not sure I did pick a poor metric. Income in the Bay Area is pretty uneven. You see a lot of Teslas at the Google campus, but relatively few at Wal-Mart. Salaries at tech companies are six figure but minimum wage is just above $10/hr.

> Parking is not free, although some municipalities subsidize rebates for EV spots in select garages. Urban dwellers (majority of EV market) nearly never take ferries. Incentives were clearly temporary from the beginning, you are hardly breaking any news to me here.

The article I read indicated that they were, but maybe not. Obviously the tax exemption is the big factor.

> The price of car is not subsidized, a Tesla here costs more dollar-to-dollar than it does in California before rebates.

That's not a realistic claim if the government is waving taxes that would otherwise amount to half the total cost of the car.

It's not very interesting to compare the absolute Tesla cost there and in California. What's interesting to compare is the Tesla cost there vs California relative to other options. A Tesla Model S in California costs about as much as a BMW M3. It looks like in Norway the effective cost of a Model S is closer to a basic Model 3.

> Sure there are (also temporary) import tax incentives, but it's about the only way a government can encourage adoption of clean tech in chicken and egg infrastructure situation. There has to be some upside for being the first guy in the town who can't fill at gas station. As soon as it gains momentum, the incentives will be rolled back. It is however already clear that EV adoption in Norway is a success.

I'm not opposed to tax incentives. My point is just that the "revolution" here is being driven by massive government subsidies. A 50% subsidy will make almost anything a success.

> Also you have to be really really broke to see an ordinary German sedan as a status symbol, certainly not anywhere in Western Europe.

I think this says something about your financial situation that you think the only way to see an Audi as a status symbol is if you're "really broke". I don't know about Norway, but most cars sold in Europe are not Audis or BMWs. Fiat outsells BMW and Audi. So does GM. So does Ford. And Peugot. And Renault. Volkwagon beats Audi and BMW combined. BMW and Audi are not "ordinary German sedans". They are luxury cars purchased by a minority of the population. They are absolutely status symbols.

http://www.acea.be/statistics/tag/category/by-manufacturer-r...
Here is a hopefully more useful open-source app for Facebook: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.indywidualni... . I use it on my tablet running Cyanogenmod with no Google Play and it works well for most features.
I agree in terms of results and like them. Yet, I'll ask you since you're still in industry: "Wouldn't it be cheaper if they got hackers in Germany like close to Berlin? And not be operating in a police state with secret courts and such?" The latter is ironic given Germany's history.

Legal aside, I've seen plenty of folks over there putting together OS's, VPN's, cryptophones, etc. Most doing heavy lifting don't make SF wages or have office costs that high. Plus, one could poach some veterans in PKI from one of the big security companies. At least one of them. I doubt it's the only such place given all the country names in my files on cutting-edge research.
Ask HN: Which podcasts do you listen to regularly?
> Google runs the tracking and advertising infrastructure

Oh, is that what this is all about? AMP caching is a mechanism to extend Google's lock-in on user tracking. Smart, in an evil sort of way.