skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe if you go in circles. If you cover 20 miles/day, even in places like Alberta or Wyoming, it's hard to go much more than two days without bumping into another one in one form or fashion.
You can definitely find tech jobs in Portugal and Spain, mostly in Lisbon and Barcelona. They will not pay the same as in Germany, the Netherlands, UK or here in Sweden but you can live very comfortably with a tech salary there, so there's middle ground.

Italy unfortunately doesn't really have a well developed tech industry as far as I know.
It's like I've been saying about Hillary for months. The idea that Hillary knew how any of her email infrastructure works is an affront to IT people everywhere.

Hillary and every other politician, CEO, etc: "Can I get email at home?"

IT guy: "well, from a security stand point...(they hear blah, blah blah)...."

Them: "So, was that a yes? or should I find someone else that can?"

None of them give two shits how any of that stuff works including trump.
I'm very new to this sort of thing, but it seems like "stereoscopic video" isn't nearly as common as I expected it to be. 2D panoramas seem to be very much the norm. I'm not sure if this is down to production difficulty, delivery difficult or stereoscopy just not being impressive enough.

One thing is that it seems to me that anything that's recorded by a camera (rather than rendered in realtime) is going to be "wrong" once you tilt your head, as your eyes are now on top of each other rather than next to each other.
> Initial reviews seem really positive.

Not everyone likes it though: "The Google Pixel Is Too Dumb and Ugly to Replace Your iPhone"

http://gizmodo.com/the-google-pixel-is-too-dumb-and-ugly-to-...

The main problem is: It costs way too much and delivers too little for that. To be a competitor to the iPhone at the same price point, the Pixel has to really shine. This is where it fails and is reduced to a lighthouse product for a very special, small group of customers.
Very interesting. I actually read this as a more nuanced take on the Vox article (which I'd read more as saying "it's not economic anxiety" rather than "it's this other thing than economic anxiety"). The verdict seems to be, we cannot tell whether it's economic anxiety or something else. Anyway, interesting blog, which I've now added to my subscriptions, so thanks for that!
Read before booking that next coffee meeting
Doesn't seem to work well with custom orientation in Chrome devtools: http://i.imgur.com/fp2kSO8.png
Comparing apples and melons.

Weibo has very strong payment system.
Pixel Nexus? ;)
One crazy takeaway from this: Greeks work longer hours than Germans
I think it's overpriced. As someone with a Note 4 I don't really see m/any killer features to upgrade to. I half considered the iphone7, being waterproof is a decent feature but I'm not comfortable carrying a phone around that costs as much as a budget car in my pocket. I'd gladly miss this upgrade cycle because in my opinion we've hit "peak phone". A smartphone is a commodity item at this stage. What I do value is not having to work a day extra to afford a phone, those extra 8 hours are now mine.
I wrote the article and I agree. I brought up a lot of things without (as it's apparent to me now) clearly stating which were my fault (mostly everything) and what I blamed on Google.
I'm also curious if you are open to sharing.
Fair enough about Alembic.

ILM and Pixar are very much Disney employees though, as in employees of the wider Walt Disney Company (which this page is for; the specific page for WDAS is here [1]). If you get a Silver Pass and your pay comes from TWDC's bank account, I'm pretty sure you are a Disney employee. WDAS, Pixar, and ILM are all just individual subsidiaries under the wider TWDC umbrella.

[1] https://www.disneyanimation.com/technology/opensource
A sub-pixel would be amazing
> hand-crafting Atom for every native platform and toolkit is not feasible.

Somehow both emacs and vim exist, and run on more platforms than Atom!

It's not a bad thing that Atom exists, although I think it's sad that folks who care about extensibility and flexibility don't just hack on emacs. But I think that if they wanted to, they could support as many platforms as emacs and vim do.
The socialist tradition has a suitable term: "class traitor".

The ruling class is ruling, in substantial parts because they are better at cooperating than other classes (and are good at seeding discord in other classes). One aspect of ruling class cooperation is ruthlessly punishing their own class traitors.

I suspect that is part of what the whole saga is about.
From my perspective and talking to people who use Android phones, none of them was waiting for iPhone comparable priced Android device. For tech people: it is just assembly of generic hardware components, this time by Google. For non-tech people: it is not an iPhone, so why it is so expensive.

I don't think Google is trying to gouge people. It could be that half million sales of a device does not give economy of scale to price any cheaper.
I'm intrigued.

Do you have a link or something that I can read more about the "new approach" as you say?
I'm assuming this article was posted here for laughs.
- how do you prove planned obsolencence? That sounds like a witch hunt waiting to happen

- integrating garbage management as part of the product - so that entail would subsidies for biodegradable and taxes for unrecycleable materials? Lets say a coke bottle is recycleable. It is now up to the consumer to recycle it. A television has many parts, some unrecycleable, some recycleable. Its often more expensive for a consumer to recycle it than to just dump it.
So let's compare tax rates in the US vs Norway where I live, arguably a "socialist bastion" according to the rest of the world!

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_rates

Corporate tax Norway: 25%

Corporate tax US: 35%

Individual (Min/Max) Norway: 0%/46.9%

Individual (Min/Max) US: 0%-3%/52.9%

Payroll tax Norway: 0%-14.1%

Payroll tax US: 20.2%

VAT Norway: 10%-25%

VAT US: 0%-11.725%

The tax systems are different though, for Norway, the max tax bracket is from 950.000 NOK (a bit over 100k USD).
You do not pay tax until you make around 80k and the rates are progressive. You do have loads of deductibles though like paid interest, children, transportation etc.

So I wouldn't say we pay vastly more in tax here, but we still get social services.

The salaries here are not on EU level, but a bit higher.
As an analyst I make about 1.1 million NOK/year. From that I pay around 350k in tax and that is not too bad compared to what we get in exchange. I actually have no objections to paying the tax.

Edit: BTW, I work 37.5 hours a week and two of the days are from home. And I have 27 paid vacation days a year + the public holidays :)

Edit2: the tax stuff was mangled, reformatting
> Suppose you have two identical codebases that each need to have the same 200 lines changed. Functions need to be added, comments to be removed, templates need modifying, and so forth. In one of the two codebases, you use Nano to apply those changes. In the second codebase, you use Vim. Assuming the Vim user was proficient at Vim, you can be sure that he/she used 1/3 -> 1/2 as much hand and wrist effort than the nano user to make the same changes. It could be that the effective Vim user ended up using less than 1/2 the hand effort than the nano user.
> If you extrapolate this over these two coder's careers, you realize that the Vim user is going to be glad he spent the time learning Vim.

This I completely understand, and if I was a professional programmer who had to deal with those sorts of operations regularly I'd probably find Vim very rewarding to learn.

The perspective I come from is that of a sysadmin. If I'm editing large amounts of text I'm probably on a system where I control what's installed and thus can have whatever editors and IDEs I want, within reason. The situations where I find myself forced to use Vim are stripped down appliances where more often than not I'm looking to make a single change in a single line of text.

For that use case basically any editor with a working find feature is equally fast, so I'd much rather have one that uses a standard or at least discoverable user interface.

To me Vim is like one of those simultaneous torquing machines used in modern vehicle assembly plants, where I'm just looking for a torque wrench to check my lug nuts.
> I think they're right about Trump, and therefore that they're very wrong about continuing to endorse Thiel.

I think it's a very slippery slope to base endorsement on a person's political actions. It raises some important questions:

-Do you stop endorsing and associating with everyone who supports Trump? Where do you draw the line logically?

-Why can't people with opposing views work together and agree to disagree on the elections and let the votes speak?

-I imagine Trump haters and Hillary haters have very strong reasons,facts,opinions and speculative thinking to backup their claims that the other candidate is a threat to democracy, will start WW3, corrupt practices etc. This should lead to well informed debate as it seems to be happening here but without calling for distancing from person X for endorsing a different candidate. What will you achieve by distancing people based on differing views? A monoculture? Differing views and discussion on the views is one of the things that makes a democracy work.

I believe Sam is right on this. It's Thiel's money, he can support whichever candidate he wants (it's legal). His views differ from Sam's and PG's, and people seem to extend it to YC as an organization and call for distancing Thiel from YC. It achieves nothing, and if anything weakens democracy.
seems a tad overpriced to me. I ordered Xiaomi Mi5s for 2/3 the price
And working more hours doesn't necessarily mean more income.

I support an AEC firm and the 'architects' (quotes because most have not been licensed yet) typically work 10-12 hour days, sometimes weekends on a salary. Their take home income might be at a certain level but their effective hourly rate is reduced.

Now, there is the argument out there that working those incredible hours can lead to more income since in American work culture a lot of managers see overwork = strong work ethic / good employee (rather than, as I see it, poor planning and utilization of resources).

I've worked crazy hours (80-90 hours/week) in other circumstances but I was paid for each and every one (with OT and double time). It was great money but I burned out eventually and have pursued the 40 hr/week life instead.
It's not just "their own tools"[0].

webpack

moment

jquery

mocha

lodash

eslint

grunt

[0] - https://js.foundation/projects/
It is not live yet for everyone, we are testing it as we are building it with a subset of users.
Our disagreement isn't on the question of Trump's existential threat status, it's on the question of what should be done about it (incidentally, the same disagreement you seem to have with Sam Altman and Paul Graham).

If you have a different solution than tossing out the heathens, I'm all ears. In Sam's blog post the solution he decides on is continuing dialogue. While this may be an imperfect solution, it seems to me a less imperfect solution than purging, as that generally results in communities being destroyed.
London is particularly expensive because of the massive banking industry. They rake in the high salaries and drive up the prices for everybody. But it's true, programmer salaries in the US are higher than in the EU, and sometimes a lot higher.

The point is: what are you going to do with all that money if you don't have the time to enjoy it? Even a cheap vacation can be more fun than slaving all year long and having only two weeks to do something with it.
Why is the leading contender disqualified? The Samsung Galaxy 7 is still great.. remember the burning phone as the NOTE 7 (and it's more a phablet than phone)
What a load of bullshit. If an investor of a known Republican centered industry, let's say a gun manufacturer, donated 1.25M to Hillary's campaign, Marco would be saying praises of him while the people in the gun lobby would be calling for that investors head.

This election cycle has brought the worst out of everyone in the US. I regarded people like @sacca and @marcoarment in a much higher esteem before this began.
That is a viable strategy. If, however, solar energy is eventually cheaper than fossil fuels there will be less incentive to be efficient.
What are these healthcare cost problems? U.S. software companies pay for employee health insurance while still maintaining higher salaries. Perhaps the healthcare system in England is marginally better than in the U.S., but I'm not aware of any health care crisis among U.S. software professionals.
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12731507

Again, this is NOT CS this is stuff that can be bolted on (just like I am doing). It's a net waste of time for everyone to make these things mandatory. I'd say that from the math and science classes here I've taken I remember nothing. From the things I've needed, banged my head against the wall for hours to learn and implement, and then used for a real project I still remember. This is about 3-4 years after learning the material on my own as opposed to learning the other material last semester.

The only thing that's useful is something that you actually remember and use. That's one of the hugest reasons why most of these math courses are useless garbage. I just see it as a way to suck money out of students.
You know who "they" refers to in the original poem, right?
Guess we need an independent HN
Bit off topic: does $1.25 million really seem like that much money? I mean I accept it is a huge sum of money in a normal context, but in this context (donations to political parties) is it really exceptional?

I mean I've heard of wealthy men losing multiples of that at Poker.
I think that Plan 9's filesystem-based namespacing (and lack of a superuser) actually have a lot to offer for container-like solutions. Any Plan 9 user can set up namespacing of the network and of resources and spawn a process within that restricted namespace.

The whole process is much simpler, I think, than that of creating a Linux container (that's the whole reason Docker exists: to simplify & abstract something which isn't really inherently complex, but is accidentally complex).

Plan 9 certainly wasn't perfect, but it had some really high-quality ideas we still haven't assimilated in mainstream platforms.
I don't live in US, and I think Trump is a terrible person.

But if I lived in US, I probably would still vote for him.

First, some points of why to avoid voting Hillary and voting in any of the other candidates (including the weaker ones).

1. Hillary should be in jail, specially after the home e-mail server.

2. Hillary foreign policy style caused hundreds of thousands of needless deaths.

3. Hillary want to make that foreign policy even stronger, Hillary's and her friends and employees rhetoric about Syria suggests she is fully willing to outright attack Russia military there to ensure her goals, risking a WW3 scenario.

4. Hillary is clearly in the banks pockets, and will help them cause whatever 2008-style crisis is next, even if unintentionally.

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Now some specific Trump points.

1. Trump wants to bring manufacturing back to US, this is very attractive to a massive number of poor men, that currently are just out of the labour force to the point of not even counting in unemployment statistics anymore.

2. Trump, despite being a unstable madman, also made clear he thinks US foreign policy should be related to leaving other countries alone and stop meddling, US is in serious need of a president that believes that, because all the presidents in the last 30 or 40 years were interventionists.

3. Trump wants to fix several social and economic problems of poor rural americans, unfortunately this topic is huge by itself, and I can't explain in detail, also I am not sure Trump knows what he is doing, but he wants to do /something/, differently from Hillary that called these people "deplorables" and think laws should be made harsher and 'punish' them more for being 'oppressors' of women and blacks.
I disagree. I think Marco’s point, which I strongly agree with, is that donating to Trump goes beyond just supporting a political candidate that you don’t happen to agree with. The fact that Trump has some valid policy ideas is completely besides the point. Amongst other things he is inciting racial and ethnic hatred, undermining trust in American democracy, encouraging violence and legitimising sexual assault. When you donate to Trump you are supporting this behaviour just as much as his policy ideas. This is the problem and is what is completely immoral in my opinion.

I think I should also mention that I am not a US citizen and do not live in the US so I speak as an outsider here.
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You think this a damning argument. But no reasonable reader thinks we couldn't blow the thread up to 1000 more comments, each choc-a-bloc with vivid details, about the terrible flaws of Donald Trump.

The reason I'm not taking the bait is that the debate on this thread isn't about Donald Trump, and I'm not going to help you muddy the waters.

No, I mean what I've said repeatedly. If you support Donald Trump, or even just think he's no worse than Hillary Clinton, I'll agree to disagree with you and move on. But Sam Altman does not agree with you. Sam Altman compares Donald Trump to a dictator. Paul Graham compared him to Stalin.

The debate is about whether Altman can continue to endorse an important member of Trump's campaign while still believing that Trump is an existential threat to democracy. If Altman is sanguine about a Trump presidency, his support for Thiel is understandable. I don't think that he is.
That is true, but it is a slightly different product, no? I wonder why they didn't simply let users to decide which hypervisor they want to use for Docker.
I can hardly see a use case for having Docker for Windows for software development.
It's a very light analysis from me, so might not be fully true, but I live in the US, now in Europe, and in Canada before that.
You could also say Canada is kind of in the middle.

Well, maybe correlation doesn't imply causation in that case but here is what I can see:

- US > Canada > Europe in terms of opportunities, be it starting salary, end-of-career salaries, and everything in the middle such as promotions, personal growth, etc.
- Europe > Canada > US in terms of social support
- Europe > Canada > US in terms of work/life balance.

And it's interesting to see how things are different and it looks like there IS causation.

- People in the US work more

- The separation between work and personal life
In the US people all have their emails/chats on their personal cellphone, will work on weekends without much reason, will be talking about work with friends more, will show more passion about their company, will show more ambition.
In Europe, people seem to take their job more as a secondary things AFTER their life. Their have less coworkers-friends, they talk less about work, show less ambition about a promotion/new job coming.

- People seem to try harder at lower scale jobs in the US
There is often the excuse of the tips for waiters etc.. but it's the same for customer support and things like that.
When you call cust sup in Europe, the service is way worst. People to try as hard to make the extra effort, etc.

Overall you really explicitly see and feel that most people just see their current job as an end state, versus in the US people constantly work hard to reach the next step and have more ambition.

I'm sure it's in part because there are indeed less opportunities (harder to get promotions, salaries varies less, etc.) and it's harder to move from a class to another compared to the US.

That's mostly my feeling, but it seems like it's so obvious... and Canada, really, is in the middle of those 2 extremes.
> If you think I have nothing to lose by antagonizing Sam Altman

Altman's handling of this Thiel situation suggests that he'd handle it gracefully and would not hold it against you, out of respect for your personal beliefs and out of respect for your acting in a principled way, even if he disagreed with your conclusions, etc.
I know it misses the point: but Noam Chomsky didn't get his professorship by being a social critic, I think it's more of a hobby for him. I believe MIT thinks him worthy of tenure due to his expertise and innovation in the field of linguistics...
You sound just like the republicans in 2008 when a gasp black president was elected. Oh dear, the world is ending, the end times are coming! What's the world coming to! We are doomed. A socialist Kenyan Muslim is in the whitehouse!

What actually happened? Nothing. If you looked at the country for the last 8 years you wouldn't be able to tell whether a republican or democratic was in the whitehouse.

Same thing will happen if trump gets in. A lot of talk, but little action.
As far as I understand, actually both the hashes and symmetric ciphers will continue to work "after quantum" and "just" increasing the number of bits can be enough to keep them secure. And the whole cryptography can be (re)based on these two? Which doesn't sound too bad, just that some of the now used systems will have to be replaced.

But first we have to see how many qubits can technically be kept functioning. Anybody knows the current record? Is it better than March 2016:

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2673

"Briefly, the new work uses Kitaev’s version of Shor’s factoring algorithm, running on an ion-trap quantum computer with five calcium ions, to prove that, with at least 90% confidence, 15 equals 3×5."

"In any case, regardless of how long it takes until we can factor enormous numbers like 91, congratulations to the MIT and Innsbruck groups on what’s certainly progress toward scalable ion-trap QC!"

It's not 91 bits, it's 91 as the number, that is, 7 bits as a goal, 4 bits (for the number 15) in the successful demonstration.
> Most of Trump's supporters don't accept that he's racist, or generally sexist, or the other charges being made.

I wonder if we have enough evidence to reach that conclusion? Respectfully, I'm not sure you've talked to enough supporters to generalize about the whole group.

Speaking only for myself, if I end up voting for one of those two, it will be for Trump. I accept the strong possibility that every one of the negative personality traits he's shown are genuine.

I think in policy matters he's basically a wildcard. But I find Clinton so undesirable as a candidate that I would prefer a wildcard.

Does this mean I approve in any way of Trump's apparent personal characteristics? Absolutely not.
Define chugging along. I was under the impression it was broken down at the side of the road and moment away from being abandoned.
How many times will you post this?
If Trump is elected President of the United States will the author disown the United States?
This is South Florida, 40% of the Uber drivers don't speak English well enough to drive and comprehend at the same time.

And my worry is automated cars with no steering wheel still rely on these mapping services. They aren't 100% accurate and if you don't have any controls you can't correct for that.
In the U.S., more people over 65 are working than at any point in the past 50 years

Also, more people over 65 are alive, compared to any point in the past 50 years. Inability to draw insight from data is the 2nd biggest problem of media these days (the first is the linkbait/profit/ad broken business model)
Mercurial 4.0 Sprint Notes
> I am no scientist, my question is this: wouldn't it be a zero sum game at best?

Worse than zero sum.