skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>They compare Donald Trump with a fascist dictator.

A bit childish, considering the slot the candidate is running for is not in a dictatorship. If you think Trump could convert the US to a dictatorship, I would like to see the evidence supporting this.
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This is FTE salaried positions you need to reduce that by 66% to compare it to a contrcator
Not sure what this is caused by but rates for freelance developers in London are lower than in many other parts of Europe with a significantly lower cost of living.

So, London might just be an outlier. Not taking Silicon Valley into account (which is another outlier, albeit in the opposite direction) in my experience US and EU rates for development work generally are quite similar
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In almost all European cities except for London (where the cost of living compensates for the disparity, anyway), you're lucky if you're making EUR 70k per year as a senior developer.

From what I've heard in the US a senior developer in a comparable location, i.e. West Coast/East Coast makes at least $ 100k per year.

On top of that, many American software companies give out stock, which almost no European companies do.
And you can still do that in Europe, no one is stopping you from working more.

And even better, as you have more free time, you can use it for your own projects.
We live in an era when a cartoon frog can bring down companies and disrupt elections.

What a time to be alive.
And once that happens, that legitimizes DHH firing Basecamp employees who vote for Trump. I understand that Thiel's involvement with YC is not "employment," but the point is that 1) yes, people are suggesting excluding Trump supporters from employment and 2) high visibility people doing so would have a massive ripple effect on everybody else. It's just another thing that goes from "that's insane and you can't do that" to "these other companies have done it, so it's no big deal."
In fairness, that's a pretty privileged opinion to hold.
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What is next? Perhaps YC should ask applicants for political affiliation?

I think you're wrong and I think the reason YC will not drop Theil is very practical: Theil is valuable for the underlying goal of the program (money) and dropping Theil would also alienate a huge (yes, yuuuge) swath of investors.
Bizarre. The study apparently did not collect data from Canada. That would be a good way to compare against the comparatively fewer differences between Canada & the US.
See comment above, scrypt was not designed for cryptocurrency wankery it was designed for password hashing, you don't want the attacker to test billions of hashed passwords per second as that lets them trivially brute-force a DB leak or dump. You want costs to the attacker (hash/second/dollar) to be as similar as they are to the regular user, so that the regular user can crank up difficulty as high as acceptable for their use case (e.g. >100ms/password for a web login).
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Nah, still too big. If there's a Pixel Mini in a year and a half when I'm looking to replace this SE, then we can talk.

But let's be honest, the product line is a lot more likely to go Pixel -> Pixel 6 -> Pixel 6R -> Pixel 6 Max -> Pixel 7 -> Pixel One -> Pixel X or some nonsense like that.
A bit Off-topic:
Definitively watch Westworld if you have some time to spare. Only three episodes aired so far and every single one of them was amazing and worth to watch IMHO.
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Federal charges can only be pardoned by the president, are limited in number, and don't expunge your record with very few exceptions. You still need to report the conviction, and still need to ask various states for "forgiveness" to restore your rights.

Personally, I'd stick to the PowerBall for a get rich quick dream.
The amount of time spent commuting certainly doesn't help either.
What % of the population do you think that applies to? I'm very glad for you that you love your work enough to dedicate all the time you have available to it, but there a hell of a lot of people out there in the US who have to, and neglect their families, mental and physical health just to get by.
There’s a major problem with Muslim refugees in Europe right now. My girlfriend used to love visiting Paris, now it’s basically a no-go zone even in daytime. What he’s saying is based on reality, even if it makes you feel all bad inside when you hear it. Even in the US, where the refugee problem doesn’t exist, you still learn after terrorist attacks that, f.e. the family knew, or that the attacker had bomb equipment all over the apartment, but nobody said anything.

These are national security issues, and they need to be addressed by the president, i’m glad he’s doing it, same for illegal immigration, even if he’s doing it in a cringe-worthy, populist way. He’s not a life-long politician.

Anytime a tragedy happens right now, first thing you hear is Obama and Clinton taking about guns being the problem, and wanting to disarm you, or that all Muslims are amazing people. You never hear the problem being addressed. It is rather scary to see your president, and potential future president do that.
There is a urban fantasy novel by Mike Sheldon based on the two oldest quit rents mentioned in this article.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6673065-sixty-one-nails
The parent comment is taking about "the market for people staying places when they travel", and you're giving numbers for "the market for people staying in hotels". Those two things were almost equivalent for a long time, but are now detached, and AirBnB occupies that gap.
>What are we to determine what is and isn't deserving of our compassion?

We are ourselves? Seems like the perfect individual to decide who deserves our compassion.
We're uniting the community by...declaring that we're uniting the community!
The less inflammatory way of putting that is that the costs of employing someone in most European countries are rather high; up to 100% of salary in many cases.
https://youtu.be/mOwYlhUbsko

https://youtu.be/jJOgF15LLZk

https://youtu.be/-FCNA-RwRBQ

Initial reviews seem really positive. The touch response looks much improved, and that camera is a beast. Battery life looks much better than other Android phones too.
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> And you can still do that in Europe, no one is stopping you from working more.

Well, unions do. But that's a good thing, it prevents a race to burnout.
No, that is not what "ad hominem" means.

A pretty good resource on this can be found by Googling "ad hominem fallacy fallacy".
If they are irreconcilable, then you should be petitioning to have every fired at work who supports different political candidates than you.
Some simple features could be implemented which would allow to reduce noise, because that's the main issue with Twitter, the noise. If I follow someone because he twitted about #microservice or #elixir , I don't want to hear updates about his baby daughter, his wedding or what political candidates he supports. Twitter still didn't fix this, in fact during all these years they add very little new features to their product when it comes to content curation or filtering. That's what makes Twitter so "toxic".
> The only practical security boundary for software as complex as Linux or Windows is physically separate hardware

Maybe you will be interested in a paper concerning air-gapping by Joanna Rutkowski: http://invisiblethingslab.com/resources/2014/Software_compar...

tl;dr: air-gapping has its own strong disadvantages.
I worked on a revamp of the system for controlling those cameras remotely, viewing all your pictures, etc... (the cameras had cell modems) at my last job.

Its insane. Not only are the cameras a little pricey (not crazy), but HOLY SHIT the data plans are expensive. Granted, that's where they make money, but still.
I am not living there but I think salaries for generic Java/.net/Webapps etc is going down mainly due to high supply of tech workers.

In US our company offices are moving from major tech hub to smaller city. Initially most people decided to collect severance and find another job locally but now many are finding it difficult to find job with generic IT skills sets and reevaluating their initial decision.
Since the eastern US is only five hours behind London, you could have free time during the day and work mostly in the evening? Matinée prices, lunch specials, and most importantly sunlight abound! Right now I work for all of the good parts of the day and have free time during the bad parts.
Barrels.
No, he just can’t understand why somebody would tolerate an idea they disagree with.
Personally, I don't have problems to choose clothes to wear in the morning, but I don't like deciding what clothes to buy (there's always someone to criticize). It's tempting to buy several versions of the same item, but people around you may think you're dirty because you wear the same thing everyday.
One idea goes like this: We use nuclear or renewables to power a process to capture extant CO2 to be used as fuel, which turns it back to CO2, which will be recaptures, so run-away processes are reigned in. (I can tell by your comment that you get this.)

Here's the kicker: the energy density of liquid fuels is super-hard to beat. Batteries (and super-capacitors) are getting better, but relatively speaking, on a whole bunch of dimensions, it doesn't get much easier economically, technically or infrastructurally than burning some hydrocarbon. Hopefully sulfur and mercury free.

Tieing "the energy of the future" with "the infrastructure of today" is a very attractive concept that draws a lot of funding from a lot of folks. And researchers, in labs, are working on things that have various limitations of their own, such as "well, gosh, how do you make a copper-iridim-mesh-alloy-hydromister in volume?"
HTTPS should just work. Just add s to http in the URL. You can expect a cert issued to IBM. Background on my blue mix:

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/bluemix/2014/06/introducing-myblue...

Mods, can someone please change the submission URL to HTTPS?
This artical seemed to be more biographical than subject information. That aside, the problem that is worth discussing is how to incentivize more individuals to recycle every chance they get rather than throw everything away.

This however, presents a different problem.

- can tie inflation to how much is recycled - if a government is willing to pay more money than a peice pf plastic is worth. It can provide insentive for individuals to recycle a lot more. However, it also opens up opportunities to take advantage of the system when done in massive bulk.

- can add a tax to plastics - this already exists but the taxes can just be passed on to the consumer. Taxes at an extremety can be offset by High recycleable value. Though this can be considered rediculous overreach by the gov.

- limit plastics use to only large quantities - boats, cars, etc. If plastics are not allowed to br used for plastic bags and soaps, controlling the recycling becomes mich easier

I would love to hear more insights about this
> For all the crazy things Trump says, for all is egoism he has some very important points which needs to be addressed and discussed and he represents a group of people who haven't been represented for the last 40 years.

Is there a line that Trump could cross where you would start to say he's dangerous and doesn't deserve his spot at the table?
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Things that are easy to recycle, like metal cans, plastic, and glass bottles, are indeed collected by less well-off people for money, sometimes in a competitive fashion. Some people even steal segments of working electric cables and sell them for scrap, because of high profit margins. So there are areas where recycling is commercially viable and prosperous.

These areas are few, though. Most of the time the cost of separating valuable materials from each other in a trashed item far exceeds the value of the materials recovered.
I didn't say I think that. If anything, I hinted at it as a possibility worth considering (not phrased as extremely as "US jobs are generally laid back").

It should be looked into if you want to put things in perspective.

In Germany business culture is certainly one of more intense focus, at least in office jobs. Not that it's representative of the whole Europe, of course.

Still, raw numbers don't say the whole story. That's why such findings should be taken with some distance.
You can construct a slippery slope out of any argument. I can get you to "DHH fires Basecamp employees" from "refusal to donate to Donald Trump" in just a few more steps. So that argument is not compelling.

It's more productive for us to concentrate on the arguments that are actually being made. You don't have to, of course, but I don't think you'll get very far otherwise.
Charcoal?
Others have mentioned hardware breakpoints but I also want to mention another type of breakpoint that can be used for both code and data and does not require program modification. And I can name at least one debugger that uses this method. The method is hooking Page Faults. Set the present flag of the page you want to debug to false and you'll be notified of any code that is executed there. But you can also be notified when data is accessed and by which instruction and address.

On Windows this can be done with SEH and Linux has its own thing too.
Energy. Fossil fuels are finite and are getting expensive to extract. Fission is a good stop-gap, but again finite. Breeder reactors are supposed to help with that, but they don't exist yet. Renewable options are limited to geothermal and hydroelectric unless you want to invest in a lot of high capacity batteries.

AIs will be dependent on electrical energy for survival, what else would they care about?
I had a boss (CTO) who worked in the USA (SV) and the UK he commented that he got about the same amount of work from both teams bear in mind that the UK team was ex civil service :-)
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It must be nice, to be able to just say whatever you like, make any claim, with the only requirement being clicks. A little soul-crushing, horribly ignorant and dishonest, but relaxing at least.
I think you're confusing loving to work and loving to be at work.
That's if you find yourself in an ideal condition: No health issues or no social issues that blocked you from having a perfect career.

If for any unfortunate reason you are not able to land a decent-payed job, the situation in Europe is much, much better.

So yes, top workers life Software Engineers may earn less. But the safety net for the whole population is way better in Europe.
In theory, it could help reduce housing costs, by making cheaper land still usable for commuting.

In practice, many of the cities with the highest housing costs are now strongly anti-infrastructure and anti-transport anytime it involves cars. (What good is a self-driving car if it's getting stuck in the same-or-larger traffic jam everyday?). Cities like this problem because it adds to the inflation of their own property values, and they get to pretend they are being "greener" or "safer" (even though self-driving EV cars eliminate the majority of those issues).

So I suspect that in practice, self-driving cars won't lower housing costs much in most major markets. It could help smaller cities, but they already struggle less with housing costs in the first place.

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The biggest changes will probably be felt elsewhere. Such as by professional drivers (school/city bus drivers, truck drivers, taxi/uber, etc). I also suspect some spill over against flights. It might soon be cheaper for a family of four to rent a self-driving Chevy Bolt to drive from ORD to MSP or ORD to ATL, than to fly there. Especially since, once you land in MSP/ATL, you'll need a car to get around anyway.

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Wealthy people will continue to be mostly unaffected, as they can already afford to live where they work, and can already choose to have no meaningful commute, anytime they desire to.
My kids aged 4 8 9 and 12 each use the desktop every day, for recreation and for homeschool, but they use Windows 10, they each have their own user account, and they use it for various apps, including games like Minecraft and Factorio, painting programs like Photoshop and Paint.NET, beginner programming environments like Scratch and Sublime Text (for Love2d games), and more heavy programming environments like IntelliJ and Visual Studio Express. Tablets and Linux desktop distros wouldn't really make sense for us. But maybe this is an atypical setup for children?
Pretty intentionally misleading but handily, by posting to HN, makes sure lots of people visit and then cause a DoS. Looks like someone posted this with a nice innocent smiley face.
Huffington Post, seriously?

Per ABC News (which is still pro-Clinton), they are both equally unpopular:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/poll-clinton-unpopularity-hig...
>>Always, always, always ask yourself the following: if everyone else in the world would do what you do, would the world still work.

The sun would still rise tomorrow. Supposed time as we think to know it really exist. Some people say that there is not such a thing as time and we all are one. In this case everybody is doing what he is doing. And the world seems to work for me.
People --- more of them on my side of this debate than yours --- say this a lot. But I think more highly of Sam Altman than to believe he's standing by Peter Thiel, despite Thiel's work to elect someone both Altman and I believe to be an American Mussolini, simply out of financial expedience. It's that basic respect for Altman that motivates me to keep pressing this argument: the effort seems hopeful.
This is the situation: Identity politics makes gross hyperbole socially acceptable with ~50% of the population and "fightin words" with the other half.
I currently have an condition that requires surgery that I'm putting off because even with my insurance (which costs me about 25% of my rent every month, or more than the total of all of my utility bills including phone and internet) it's still expensive enough that I can't do it now. This condition is the result of minor issues that I noticed nearly a decade ago, when I had no insurance, and I decided that I needed to tough it out rather than not have enough money to pay rent.

Just wanted to make this less abstract for you. Lack of insurance led to a more complex situation that underinsurance leaves me helpless to solve, while homelessness waits for me to choose health over shelter.
Precisely! We monitor the network traffic very closely. The only data over the wire is API requests/responses which are counted. Every 5 minutes we compare that against the actual number of requests performed according to the application counters. If the traffic doesn't line up, it pages the whole ops team.

Every day we are looking at total network egress. It would take an attacker over 200 days to move the data pool at full line rate. It gives us time to detect and remediate the inevitable breaches without ever exposing any passwords to an attack.

The best part is we don't see the login, we don't see the password, we just see the hash. And without the salt it's just a random number. We don't even know if the login is valid or invalid, and there's nothing we could do to make an invalid login appear valid. So our customers effectively retain full control over their authentication process.

The hash determines where we read from the data pool. 64 bytes read from each of 64 uniformly distributed locations. The 4K result is hashed and the digest is sent back in the response.

On the customer side, they use the response to run one HMAC and save the result (we call it Hash2). The original hash (Hash1) can be discarded, or if you want a way to leave the service sometime in the future, encrypted using a public key with a semantically secure (non-deterministic) algorithm.

Large enterprises where we are doing pilots also tell us they like this because it defends against insider threats as well.
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He personally endorsed the opposing candidate. What more can he do?

Any more would send the wrong signal and establish a odious norm in our free society.
> Nobody denies Sam Altman's right to support Peter Thiel

Of course; what upsets people (you included, probably?) is the hypocrisy and rationalization. For his friend, Altman is willing to throw all principles and grand declarations about "no asshole policy" through the window. In a way it's charming; in another way, it's hard to fathom.

If anyone on HN said 1 thousandth of what Trump says everyday, they would get banned. But giving $1M to his campaign so that he can continue saying those same things, that's totally fine.
I think it was more than community hype. Sean, for whatever reason, made claims that turned out to be objectively false.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/Games/comments...
I'd presume that people in Tennessee may still prefer to burn a carbon-based fuel that does not leave behind a toxic ash slurry [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Fossil_Plant_coal_fly... http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2015/may/10/r...
You'd support an affiliation filter?
Again, this is an argument you might first take up with Paul Graham and Sam Altman, because they disagree with you.
Wonderful read, interesting on so many levels.
>..it certainly appears the nation working the most, has the biggest economy/power

Mexico? Interesting, I'd never have thought it.

http://fortune.com/2015/11/11/chart-work-week-oecd/
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If there is no consensus on drag direction, Littlstar's player should be the consensus. It gives a major wedgie to every other player in the space, at the moment. Especially when it comes to motion and drag.
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Reading what you've written, it sounds like you are saying that Altman and people associated with YC are sufficiently petty that they would refuse to work with you in the future because of a political disagreement. Am I interpreting this correctly? That would seem to be at odds with Altman's actions and public persona so far.
I would love to live and work in Italy (or any other Mediterranean climate country), but there are simply no [tech] jobs. And what few software jobs there are are not interesting at all and pay very little.

I value my time and I am willing to take a pay cut to live in Europe, but the jobs are not simply there. Why can there be no middle ground? For now, the plan is to work hard and retire early. Real estate price chages in Europe can be considered flat compared to the US.
It's more like 500 quid these days. In addition to that, the recent plunge of the pound has made it increasingly unattractive to be paid in pounds at all.
More and more Americans are getting stuck with High Deductible Health Plans, which for all intents don't exist until you fork over several thousand dollars to meet your deductible (excepting a limited range of "preventable care" items that are covered).
When you show the string in memory order, they are the same. Its the operation on the string that's important, not the way you print the hex byte-order-dependent value. Both become 01 00 01 06
>Americans love to moralize and punish each other. Instead of saying that they think somebody is wrong they like to make the other person into some evil person who can't even be argued with because they are so evil.

That used to be mostly confined to the conservative side of the political spectrum. Now it's spread to the liberal side as well.