skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Finnish government is cutting the education budget pretty heavily (especially higher education). I would still say that the fall in education rankings during the past years is more due to many Asian countries getting better and better instead of Finland getting worse.
Or read The Game for case studies and some idea of possible side effects when people thought it can be reduced to few simple tips.
I kind of fired off my initial comment and should have maybe thought it through a little more, non competes are one of many reasons holding this region back. Our very risk averse investment culture is probably the biggest one actually (example: http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20160204/NEWS/1602099...).

And of course as you said, our brutal, brutal winters.

I was more agreeing with knoepfle's comment in rolling my eyes every time one of these articles pops up and gets shared all over my twitter, linkedin and facebook feeds. There's many reasons a lot of our talent flees the west coast or Chicago or NYC, and we'd rather read these fluff pieces instead of acknowledging and trying to fix the issues that would keep them here.
Have you considered that Republicans might consider their opposition and obstruction to be in the best interests of America?
Re: Russia can also be expected to threaten Europe with more confidence; hopefully our defense spending will increase to pick up the slack.

Any real threats to Europe will lead to nuclear conflict. It's not 1910 - you don't need to be afraid of rifles and spending money on tanks.

You can say - but the Ukraine! - well, it's not European country, and it has no valuable partners that deeply invested and pledged to protect it.
This was probably 10.6 before they dropped Atom support in the XNU kernel or are you using a replacement kernel?
> Having a population of idiots is not something Trump can claim responsibility for.

> large fraction of the electorate are ignorant fools.

if you think the roughly half of all American voters that voted for trump are idiots or ignorant fools, than it is perhaps you that is the idiot. Simply by the law of large numbers there exists a significant number of them that are smarter and better educated that you are. Disparaging them as an lesser group is a dangerous way of thinking.
A few months ago, I spent a few evenings trying both Elm and Purescript. Elm was easier to get started with, but felt much more cramped and difficult to scale up to large programs. Purescript was more complicated to figure out (I had to read about F-algebras to understand Halogen's UI query algebras), but it's substantially more powerful and flexible. It's very similar to Haskell, with the addition of built-in record types.
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I was able to find a job rather quickly on berlinstartupjobs.com if you'd like to consider Germany as an option.

Germany is a rather good option for working abroad as getting a visa is pretty easy if you have a college degree and make a certain amount of money. They're pretty liberal about handing out something called the EU Blue Card. That's what I had when I was over there. You don't even need to do anything before you get there. All the paperwork happens when you're in the country. The trickiest part of the whole process is making sure you end up at a place when you get there that you can register at with the local government as you have to show your registration confirmation as part of the Blue Card process. If you can get registered and receive mail wherever you stay initially everything is pretty easy.
People remember! The 47% comment did not do well for Romney neither did the basket of deplorables comment from Hillary. Note to future candidates, don't make these comments. Please run for office only if you are genuinely passionate about serving people.
That would require time and effort, and it would force you to actually think and reason, which is a tiring activity and costly to your body. So in other words, ain't nobody got time for that.
> And with all the companies of the world racing towards robotic labor and domain applied machine learning, the kinds of US manufacturing job growth here will be few, high paying, and highly technical. But these innovations will mean net fewer manufacturing jobs, even as manufacturing may go up.

> And the fact that driving is one of the most frequent jobs in most states of the US, and with Uber having made an automated truck delivery of beer recently... there's no way that manufacturing jobs will keep pace with job loss.

> These people are screwed without welfare, and after welfare, there's nothing else to be done for them.

You've pointed out that automation, particularly of the trucking industry, has the potential to lead to extraordinary job loss.

I agree that automated cars are the future, and I look forward to the day when all cars on the road are automated.

There's also an extraordinary amount of money to be made in this space. But it's likely going to be made by private companies.

If there were a way that workers (rather than capital investors) could primarily reap the financial benefits of this new technology, I would think that would help ease the job phase-out.

Obviously, it's unrealistic to expect worker-owned cooperatives to catch up to those private companies at this point. But could there be an alternate way?

I wonder if the federal government could do something similar to the auto-company bailouts of a few years back.

It essentially purchased shares of the companies, and then later sold them at a profit.

I wonder if it might somehow institute a way to purchase shares of automated-trucking companies on behalf of truck drivers, so that when automated trucking causes job loss, the truck drivers would have a cushion of investment income. Perhaps it could be on a subsidization basis, where the government matches investments.

There are probably terrible problems with that idea. Just spitballing. But I don't want to say, "meh, welfare" until more creative solutions have been exhausted.
Democrats don't want to let individual states decide for themselves (Republicans for the most part don't want to either). They want national control over as much as they can get.
A lot of the newer developer grade laptops have nvme options anyway (which work on both Windows and current Linux kernels). My XPS 13 runs on Linux with nvme fine.
That's what turned me into a fan of Ted Turner:

http://www.tedturner.com/turner-ranches/
So are you are for the prohibition of tobacco and alcohol or are you just logically inconsistent with your rhetoric?
Yes. Lua could have been the Julia of its time if they had decided to pursue a more advanced compilation system rather than trying to embed lua everywhere in everything. Luajit is fast because of the nature of optimizations upon the tables structure and single table architecture. Julia is a better, faster lua and I don't find myself missing being able to embed my code when I can just call into what I need FROM julia.
The subthread OP (antisthenes) was referring to the global (system level) inefficiency of large-home far-out living, not the inefficiency for a household's budget (which is distorted by policy).

For purposes of that calculation, it's double-counting to include the solar panel energy, because we can already put a solar panel at that location regardless of whether you live and commute from there; your choice to live there did not expand our solar energy capability, and you're still avoidably drawing down the supply of clean energy.

Just to clarify: I'm not criticizing your decision, only justifying why it's not an argument against this being a systemic inefficiency.
It is literal:

See "End Illegal Immigration Act" outlined here: https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/_landings/contract/O-TRU-102...
I didn't know that over 600 firms have applied to join the Hyperledger consortium. That seems like a large number.
Give a goosebump to your bank account  HOW?? SEE
I've only made a cursory glance, but the statistics on that site appears to be the work of an MBA named John Williams. A lot of other sites claims to have debunked ShadowStats.com and that their data is flawed. In addition to that, no other source claims that the US employment rate has stayed constant since 2010.

Oh, and to explore the data he is using to draw the graphs you need to be a SGS subscriber which costs $89 for six months.

In Pennsylvania (which I think is the center of the Rust belt) unemployment has decreased from a high of 8.7% to 5.3%. It is important to note that even if you believe the numbers are fudged, they aren't more fudged today than they were in 2008. Even if the real unemployment rate is double, that just means the decrease is from 17.4% to 10.6% instead.
Oh yeah, I love commuting listening to music and livestreams, but you can't assume everyone does.

Public transit shouldn't be reserved for major east-coast cities and for poor people.
> Maybe Trump won't build a wall, but voting for a candidate promising X while thinking "There's no way he will actually do X" is a risky decision.

I think Thiel might Trump a little too much credit in the planning, just because I feel that Trump seems erratic, like when he lied about the NFL commissioner sending him a letter about the debate schedule. Not so much that he lied but -- why would you lie about such an obviously disprovable thing that is of little consequence anyway? [0] So for all we know, maybe he doesn't even hate immigration that much.

On the other hand, Trump is always talking about how good he is at making deals. One of the most well-known parts of psychology when bartering is demanding a too-high/low price to set the others' expectations, and Trump could just have been doing that. But either way, he was making a clear call that he prioritized limited immigration and free trade in a way that Clinton only talked about in politically pleasing ways. I always thought it was annoying how he bragged about his deals, but if this was his mindset, then I'm impressed.

But my Trump will be Trump complacency is a little mitigated by the fact that we now also have a Republican-controlled congress, and very soon, a Republican-controlled SCOTUS. So the scenario of Trump actually doing the crazy things he promised is no longer just a far hypothetical.

[0] http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-denies-writing-letter-...
With the trump presidency coming up, we'll need more people like this.
Even the common people can do so, try dominating to some organizations.
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>The issues this election raised aren't going to be solved by writing code.

I agree, but I would say that actively selecting what kind of code you will write using criteria that value wide economic utility -- much wider, say, than the goals of the average me-too unicorn chasing project -- is a healthy and all-too-rare thing.
Everyone needs to break out of their own bubble to some extent, though other equally misinformed people may not be the best source.

My advice is to read the most informed, reasonable representatives of different viewpoints you can find, and then see why they disagree. Often people will play fast and loose with the facts in order to convince people they consider less educated, but when directing their words towards those they consider their peers, they will be more honest.

An example from the right is the many economists who should know better refuse to distance themselves from the idea of the "Laffer Curve", the idea that you can raise revenue by lowering taxes. Even though they know the Laffer Curve is bullshit, they don't want to refute it because it is a useful rhetorical tool.

An example from the left is that most moderate liberals agree that black Americans commit much more crime (EDIT: I meant "per capita", personally I think a reasonable reading of this comment as a whole would take that as implied) than white Americans. However, they don't want people to hear this fact except in the context where it's already agreed that the main cause for this is structural factors (i.e. a cycle of poverty, crime and lack of education). So in liberal circles this fact is "obvious" and "uninteresting" since the real question is how these structural factors operate. And yet at the same time, outside liberal circles this fact is considered "racist" and liberals do nothing to clarify that it is in fact true.
Interesting, once I get ThreeJS support working for HolographicJS (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12913052) I'll be sure to get give this a shot with HoloLens!
​When to use NGINX instead of Apache
Yea I understand that Trump is volatile and has talked about repealing Trade pacts, but he's still a billionaire republican that economically came of age in 1980s NYC. You'd think Wall Street would love him from that description.
Did you follow the official guide, step by step? Honestly, I think Vue's official guide is a better starting resource than ANY of the tutorials out there, please don't ignore the official docs and reach for "easy" tutorials.
I agree that specifics are still needed, but H-1B reform was in fact a conservative issue this cycle[-], and Trump spent a lot of energy promising to broadly regulate manufacturing and trade.

- http://www.computerworld.com/article/3014365/it-careers/sen-...
Are we?

> ...industry supplies the bulk of the funds devoted to research and development, the public sector—primarily the National Institutes of Health (NIH)—supports most of the nation’s basic biomedical research.

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/30/2/332.full

This quote seems to indicate the majority of R&D is coming out of the private sector.

Moreover, this overhead of medical R&D from the public sector doesn't explain price differences in drugs between US and other developed nations:

http://usuncut.com/news/us-drug-prices-in-the-us-are-literal...

http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-the-u-s-pays-more-than-other...

There are deeper, systemic issues IMO.
Sure, my point was just that if vocational jobs are naturally X% of the US economy, you're (largely) not 'creating jobs' just by making it easier for people to get trained for those vocations, you're just creating more competition within that sector and driving down wages of existing workers in the process.

That said, it might still be a worthwhile policy to pursue, since vocational education has been neglected for decades in favor of 'college for all', which IMO is misguided.
You can check some work at https://www.uptrail.com/ for example.

I am actually in the making of a swedish job site for developers. But you will have to wait for that one though.

Otherwise, you can search for your language of choice at https://www.arbetsformedlingen.se/. I am sure lots of jobs will turn up, at least in Stockholm. What you want to do is probably to use Google Translate on that webpage or something because their english version sucks ass.
Yeah they definitely exist. And the ratio of those vs. the Googles will affect how elastic it is. Anywhere between 0.1 and 0.9 for the elasticity sounds plausible to me (not an economist, I could be not even using the right concepts, so take that for what it's worth).
There is plenty of demand for unskilled labor in the USA, just look at the farm industry (especially fruits and vegetables) or in other areas (landscaping). Most USA citizens, however, aren't keen on working long hours, in back-breaking conditions, for low pay. And so the migrants come to fill those roles.

If we had better pay and working conditions for those industries, more citizens would take those jobs, and there'd be less for illegal immigrants.

But there was such a stink about raising the minimum wage... I don't think that's going to happen any time soon. No one cares about the farm workers it seems.
They were mad because she attacked US citizens
Ah, apparently I replied to the wrong comment.
When people are looking for jobs is great, America was founded upon immigrants looking for good working conditions. Some people will end up unemployed because they aren't able to adapt, yep, but that in the end makes production cheaper and more competitive.

The problem happens when government burdens a group of people with taxes and makes their livelihood more expensive, and becomes the cause of such inability to compete in the market. Limiting immigration is the dumb man's solution to that problem, the real solution would be a yuge cutting of expenses in order to reduce tax burden, and consequently the size of government.
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A largely Apple-customer imposed specification, and one which I, for one, welcome.
After Hillary became the Democratic candidate, what was Sander's incentive for doing endorsing and continuing to support Hillary? What leverage would force/coerce him? He had at least two other options: remain silent, or endorse Trump.
On the plus side, CCA (private prison company) is up 50% today.
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Was watching NBC news last night (for entertainment, I added them to the "fun stations" list along with "Fox"). And it was funny how they were baffled and backpedaling hard on why Trump won, and they never expected it.

However, one thing that seemed to make them happy was the stock markets. "Oh look, stocks are crashing worldwide" and they kept belaboring that point, as a validation in a way "see we warned you how bad Trump was" kind of sentiment.

For example US Steel (X) jumped a whopping 20% since yesterday. Something tells me they probably won't be focusing on that.

One wonders, does anyone there look around and say "What have we become? Are we just clowns here making stuff up? What if we actually tried to tell the truth, maybe just turn the spin level from 9 to a 3 and see what happens... as an experiment"
For the immediate, I think Trump addressed this in his victory speech.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL_wh-d1pP4&feature=youtu.be

Rebuilding infrastructure. Construction (and associated services) jobs.
I saw your post over here. You said this "Also, your first name has no ancestral or family implications so is fair game,"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2121880

That is totally not true. In Chinese culture,a "zibei" (generation name) is used as the first part of a first name. The "zibei" is related to family naming. All children of a particular generation in a family have the same character for their "zibei" taken from a generation poem.

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

Please don't spread misinformation about Chinese naming customs. Thanks.
> I'm just saying "the US could do it too" ignores, well... the very core of economic and tax policy in the US.

Hardly. It was the core of the tax policy for a very long time.[1]

1: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historical_Marginal_...
It's more likely due to this: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/11/gun-ballot-initi...
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Did you ever consider that ever person has their own burden to bear? That maybe the white male dominant hierarchy placed oppressive burdens on the groups you have now come to resent? You don't at all see the irony in your reaction to feeling similar pain?
Every good dev I know makes 100K+
Did you try the "web" link above?
Is "too many choices" in this context really that valid of a critique when the entire purpose is to "choose what's applicable to your need, ignore what isn't"?
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Well, I don't disagree with you, but I can add some merit to my recommendations.

1. Each cable has a bend radius recommended by the supplier. If this bend radius is exceeded (too small) then it is very unlikely that the cabling will function properly electrically, especially for high speed communications. Cross-talk, dropped packets, etc. If anything the supplier is off the hook for meeting their spec since it wasn't installed correctly.

2. The plastic insulation will take this for a while but two things happen to polymers with a constant stress on them.

2.a They suffer stress relaxation via creep. The long linked molecules will reach a new alignment over time. They will no longer be in their plastic range and settle in a new configuration. This could result in more crosstalk or even a complete insulation failure as a function of time.

2.b Flexible plastics typically slowly lose plasticity over time due to the breakdown of the plasticizer that made them flexible. (That nice new cable smell) Most cables have PVC made flexible due to these additives. If this box is warm due to the heat from the drive and pi, then it's entirely likely that the cable could further degrade under the constant strain and creep and fail. Causing not only thinning but brittle breaking of the jacket. It doesn't have to be visible breaking for it to stop working electrically.

Basically you can't trust your wire anymore. It could work forever. It could fail randomly. It could just cause communication errors that are hard to trace.

As for the box, they just used too much plastic and pushed the thing through the machine too fast without cooling. But then again, I am not an ultra expert on injection molding. It's an art. My recommendation would be "Have a sit down with your molder, these faults do not need to be."
>So he knew the polls were off.

This is my thinking as well. Towards the end Nate Silver kept upping Trump's chances and other pollsters were baffled by Nate's changes. Nate kept arguing that due to curring polling methods, current models, the lack of young turnout, and a lot of disenfranchised voters coming out that Trump was doing better than he seemed. There was no "liberal media conspiracy" but the model changes you needed to make in what was an extremely oddball election year. Note, the pollsters that got Trump wrong got the last few elections right or wrong but within a respectable margin of error, so from a question of bias, the conspiracy theories just don't hold. Same with the Brexit, the pollsters just didn't see that silent majority voting yes.

Nate obviously didn't change his model enough but he certainly saw the winds of change here and clearly other people like Thiel did too. Also, being a libertarian there's really no reason for him to support a Democrat anyway, so if he's going to play this game he's going to pick the GOP candidate.

>He also could probably see the media had gone 110% to shill for Clinton.

I didn't see this. Instead, I certainly saw the media play both sides as being less terrible than they truly were. I think there's a narrative of "oh they're just like each other so it'll be tight" and promoting a moral equivalence of "questionable email server use is just as bad as saying celebrity lets you grab women by their crotches with impunity" that sells ad impressions.
There has been plenty research into mobile networks by people who have the resources to acquire the necessary test gear and documentation, aka nation states and intelligence services.

It's just that they have decided they would rather keep us all insecure than lose the ability to deploy their little spy toolkits on journalists and such.

Cool talk from Nohl where they deploy a location tracker over the air to the SIM card:

https://media.ccc.de/v/30C3_-_5449_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201312271...

If I remember correctly, that wasn't even a bug, but a feature mixed with insecure configuration.