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> had no idea Broadcom chipsets didn't have Linux drivers

Actually, it was a Realtek chipset (I'm not currently using that laptop, so I remembered incorrectly). The driver was available, but it was severely unstable, dropping connections and packets, and even triggering kernel panics a few times (once it even happened during a coding interview!)

> On the security point, SuperFish was on a different product line

Unfortunately, SuperFish was not the only fiasco that Lenovo plagued its devices with:

http://thehackernews.com/2015/09/lenovo-laptop-virus.html

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150812/11395231925/lenov...
Those 'entry-level' houses are being bought up by idle capital and rented on AirBnB.
We've banned this account for trolling.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13291505 and marked it off-topic.
One of the most interesting parts of the talk was the fact that the boot code checks that the game contains the Nintendo logo @19.15. Very smart way of keeping control of the game releases. They have always been very good at keeping their games and copyrights.
I live in Atlanta but originally from South Florida. Spent 13+ hours (lots of stops with a baby) driving for the holidays to see family. I would have much rather done a train and rent a car for a few days. Unfortunately, the Republican governor of Florida rebuffed any thought of high speed rail because it's from Obama.

Trump has an infrastructure plan, maybe he'll see that China and Europe has better trains and that would spur him to propose HSR (being cynical, but he can power it by coal since he wants to bring back coal to the US :) )
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Ok, that makes it much better - I had the impression that the battery is soldered or fixed in a more anti-hackable way, but just a few srews are ok! Hopefully they keep that design!
I did a search on the most recent How's Hiring thread to see how many jobs are offered in each city. I think it's fair to assume that most people posting there are "real tech companies":

San Francisco: 170
New York: 96
London: 90
Boston: 38
Berlin: 34

I just did a full text search so there might be some double counting.
> we should blame Ubuntu for 6 month release cycles

16.04 and onward can now have apps decoupled from the OS release for apps that provide snaps, like Krita does. `snap install krita` will get you 3.1.1.
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> There's also plenty of affordable housing stock in LA...

Hahaha, I suppose if you're willing to live in near skid-row conditions.
Ok, we changed it back to what you had.
GANs seem really interesting, and a logical step if I'm right? As far as I understand they essentially make the fitness function more detailed, leading to higher quality output from the network as it get's more accurate good/bad feedback.
Sounds like you want to go travelling, perhaps you can get some contract work from some of those online contract/freelance sites.

You need to decide what your work life balance is to be. If you want to do more soaking up the culture, consider the above option, if you want to do more work and learning then decide what area you want to work in and then look for companies that might present those opportunities. You'll have a mix of costs where ever you go in the world and within a country. I could say lots of jobs in and around Cambridge, and whilst the city is expensive to buy, many students manage the costs of renting shared accomodation, but move outside the city heading anywhere but south towards London and costs can fall.

I guess its a case of setting your standards accordingly. You dont say where your Aunt lives either which might also limit your options.

Here in the UK you can get on the job training as an apprentice, but I dont know if its restricted to just UK Citizens or people from overseas as well.

Perhaps a bit more detail in your Ask HN might help you get more detailed useful info.
I downvoted you for the ludicrous statement that middle-class is $200k in household income, especially in a mid-to-small-size city.

Wages have not been keeping up with costs or you might have a point.
> I got a fever! And the only prescription.. is more -v!
The tech investments in Sweden are nearly as big as the other three countries together [1]. Most of which goes to Stockholm.

[1] As an example, this is for November. http://www.nordictechlist.com/content/reports/The%20November...
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> Is your private life SO boring, you need to do something that many of us do not even like doing during office hours?

Yes. Or rather, what happens at work is so interesting that it usually beats refreshing reddit for the 5th time in 10min while in the train.
The problem could be lessened if NIMBY's would stop trying to dictate how property they don't own should be used (that is, we allow construction) and if we'd stop subsidizing people who can't even marginally afford to live there.

I figure if we'd eliminate the latter, we'd take care of a lot of the former.

In NYC, we have recently seen rents reduce due to new housing supply coming on the market.
I'd imagine that's less so when you look at popular cities. The parent post wanted an opinion on middle class. My opinion is that middle class incomes in cities is around $200k (or should be if you want to be somewhat comfortable). I see houses all around me in Portland going for $800k, $900k, and $1mm plus. That's certainly much more than what a middle class income could afford. So considering those prices are fairly standard, the middle class income has to be at $200k. Whether that's reality or not the math just doesn't work any other way.
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I do that too, but I have to keep in mind that most headlines are sensational. HN comments are great.
If they can't afford to live where they work maybe they're under payed?
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By and large Manhattan public schools are nothing to write home about either. The same is true of someplace like Cambridge where the high school is ranked pretty far down in state rankings. Public schools in cities are mostly fairly poor by objective measurements, even when they serve very high cost neighborhoods.
It defines 4 separate objectives (profit maximisation and 3 types of fairness), and shows that they each result in different thresholds. Just click any of the 4 red buttons.

It then goes on to advocate a particular kind of fairness.
While I'm ultimately not a fan of the books themselves the "Seven Languages in Seven Weeks" series tries to do exactly this.
If seen on a massive scale, I'm not so sure about some these arguments.

Air transport will need management for safety reasons, which means air corridors, landing areas, some kind of ATC system. Which correlates to infrastructure costs, not so straight line transportation and not so time efficient commutes.

As activity centers tends to be somewhat concentrated, huge amount of flying cars will tend to go or left small areas at the same time, creating air traffic jams to land or take off.

Classic infrastructure will still be needed to transport heavy items, such as large quantities of food, machinery, etc. Even the construction phase a new developments will need those roads and bridges.

Strangely, faster transportation doesn't mean shorter commutes, quite the contrary, the average commute time tends to go way up when transports evolve to become faster and denser as it enables urban areas to grow even more. The real alternative is to "de-concentrate" activity centers to have relatively autonomous parcels with residential, work and commerce close together and necessitating only light transport forms (by foot, by bike, or light transports like tramways).

Flying cars are also mostly "fail catastrophically systems", it's good that motors are redundant, but there are not the only items that can fail. Batteries, the control surfaces, the inboard computer, or the whole structure can fail. Flying is also quite hard, specially in difficult meteorological conditions, building automation to handle such cases will be extremely hard (I've no competences in the area but the picture of a vertical landing in windy condition, seems a bit frightening).

Interesting statistic: on a per journey basis, airplanes have 2 to 3 times more death than cars, (on a per km basis it's very safe), imagine what it would looks like with a lot of small commutes.

I'm not convinced it's really the solution... I see it at best as a cheaper and more accessible helicopter ride.
I haven't tried either in depth, but AFAIK GIMP targets the image manipulation space, while Krita targets the painting space. Of course the will be some overlap, but I think both are the best in their respective niches.
I think people are misinterpreting my opinion of what middle class should be and the realities of what the middle class has become.
"The building's collapse was not caused by poor choices in materials, but by inadequate inspection procedures."

Any number of things could have prevented the bug. So lets do all of them.
At the moment, though, we are probably better off shrinking our numbers.
It is that way. I learned the same way you (without the class) and pretty quickly learned assembly after that.

The problem is the our universe was so small back then compared to what you have to know today. Networking, security, so many frameworks, the Internet. Even learning JS is harder than basic.
There's no way you can maintain that when you compare very different languages to one another, e.g. Scheme, APL, Haskell, Smalltalk, Go, Forth and Prolog. They're all such different ways of telling the computer to do something, that it isn't just the same 10 ideas being shuffled around.
It's probably a domain (as e.g. in Windows Domain, not DNS) setting that forces given phone to have a certain permissions before allowing integration with corporate services (including email), but usually it doesn't have a way to discover a rooted phone.

On the contrary you can disable other rules - like enforcement of PIN (if you know how) if you have a rooted phone.
If you're considering doing this, it's important to consider what you will do when you inevitably add additional values to the enum. If you have persistence or partial rollouts (and networked services always have partial rollouts) this is likely to break horribly. If the app never changes or it's used entirely in memory on a single process, you're fine.
I am assuming he means $100k per person in NYC/SF. That's the entry level salary for even marketing/business workers in many companies.
I actually believe that the mental strain of making 'breakthrough' level ideas is so high that workers who demonstrate they have that capacity should get whatever time and space they need, after deadline day or whatever. If you can't afford to give it to them that then you can't afford those people.

Imagine Greg House MD bouncing his ball against the wall...that is what it takes to constantly make big breakthroughs. Once these people are in the zone you wont have to motivate them
Boring private life is the leading cause of internet trolls.
If he's on Android, the app can use SafetyNet[0] and rather accurately detect rooted devices, or even devices with bootloader unlocked.

[0]https://developer.android.com/training/safetynet/index.html
The argument was that middle class could afford a decent place in cities with lowered standards -- but you define middle class as "people who can afford a decent place in cities?" Surely you see the circularity here.
> 200000 household income.

You realize the median household income is 50000, right? So, in a small city you have to make 4x the national median to just survive?

Wow, I know the West Coastians live in a well-protected self-imagined bubble, but this comment really brings it to light.
I wonder if this will have the side effect of enriching and stabilizing the Central Asian countries. Many of them were quite rich in the days of the Silk Road and basically starved when China went down and most trade moved over to ships.
I'd be interested to hear more about why you think two kids is "excessive".
I agree with the article. However, people should be able and willing to make the appropriate sacrifices commensurate with their future expectations.

If someone is 22 and is making 35k a year, and can keep all of their expenses at 15k per year (it's easy to find places in Dorchester 850 rent all inclusive for a room plus 150 food and 3k year entertainment), save 5k per year for retirement and emergencies and finally save 10k for a house they'll be have 100k when they're 32. With 100k in boston that's 25 percent on a 400k house in a suburb or parts of Dorchester. Worst case, move somewhere cheaper and that can be as much as 50% down.

Keep in mind this assumes no salary increases and no spouse. It's very doable, but people want to live a lavish life. Can you live a lavish life in Boston for 35k? Nope.
Same shit, different toilet.
Books on management theory only work for people who already made the conscious shift and just want to refine their thinking imho
> his is to protect the weaker part of the equation, the employee

Presumably you are in hi-tech industry -- software, hardware etc? These employees have never been weak part of the equation (not even in France ;-), since I can remember, as far back as 1997. One could always slam the door, cross the street and get a better job.

> i always thought that configure the work email in your phone or home computer is apart from stupid a security and privacy risk.

Agree! But what if the employer have given you the mobile phone you use, and pays the subscription fee?
They're not the same.

Krita is more of a painting application akin to Illustrator, whereas GIMP is more of a Photoshop-like editor.

Also, work on GIMP 3.0[1] continues, but there's not enough people working on it, so it takes a while.

1 - https://www.gimp.org/news/2016/07/13/gimp-2-9-4-released
Making it harder to fire employees for another reason might protect the existing jobs, but it lacks the foresight to understand that these practices simply disincentivize employers from making future hires in the country. As a result, this is another move by the French gov to protect the status quo. The French labor market has already been regulated to the point of anti-competitiveness. This immediately hurts younger workers who are willing to work harder than their entrenched counterparts, but instead find themselves unemployed at a rate nearing 25%. More business as usual for paternalistic government lawmakers.
My wife had a similar problem at work a while ago. Policies changed and the company required the ability to wipe her phone in order to get email on it. She basically told the company that, if they wanted her to have access to email/calendar on her phone (given that requirement), they would need to provide her with a company phone. She went for a couple months without access to email/calendar (when not at the computer) and then they provided a company phone.

Giving your company (or anyone) total access to your personal phone is insane. Your phone, with access to your email, is effectively a master key to your life. Through it, they have the ability to do almost anything to you (reset your bank password and take all your money, etc).
What our disposable friend claimed was that there are few "real tech companies", not that there are few roles. There's some truth in that; there are lots of jobs working for banks, supermarkets, consultancies, publishers, etc, but relatively few in companies which are either pure-play tech (who is the British Microsoft or Dropbox?) or even consumer web (who is the British Facebook or Google?).

That might or might not be a bad thing. It means you're more likely to be working for a real company, with a real business model, rather than some freak kept above by advertising and VC misallocation.
> they have other incentives and their time is (and should be) tracked differently.

Huh? The only difference between a manager and a non-manager is that the former manages others.
The reasons behind the housing supply crisis are many, and the situation can seem intractable.

I have been assisting architect Eugene Lew with a comprehensive and audacious solution to this problem. If you are interested in reading a draft version of his white paper, DM me on https://twitter.com/jamiepitts.

The concept is tailor-made for the west districts of SF but can be applied to any city.

It combines finance, architecture, land-creation, community involvement, and propagation, and the output is a nonsubsidized 3BDR, 2BA home for households with incomes between $100,000 and $150,000. There are 15 homes in a six story elevator building, and the goal is to build hundreds of them across SF.
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Hasn't Trump turned this completely upside down?
> For salaried employees, there are going to be times you need to work late, weekends, check email at home, whatever. It comes with the job.

That's a curiously un-European way to look at things. In every private company I've worked for, if they wanted more than my agreed salaried hours they either paid overtime or gave me TOIL (Time Off In Lieu). If they wanted me to be on call, they paid me an on-call rate.

If it was the other way around - you suddenly needed to leave early every day for a week - how do you think your employer would react?
In science, we use a lot of words that were borrowed from Latin and Classical Greek. It is an interesting mental exercise, to imagine yourself trying to explain notions of modern science and artifacts of modern life to a person from, say, 2,500 years ago, whose native language was Latin or Greek. Not only would it be difficult to transfer our jargon - because the the original meaning of the word might have been different (why is 'atom' divisible? or, why is amber a basic constituent of matter?), many things we are so used to would make little sense (what is it that you are computing all the time?).
>"To put it simply, the US worker gets a salary and buys a car, while the Chinese worker makes a deposit in a bank for a construction firm to borrow and build a railroad."

Have you been to Beijing recently? I can assure you the Chinese worker is also buying a car. China has the highest automative sales of anywhere on the planet.

Here is some data:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-08/china-wra...

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/motoring/2016-01/26/co...

http://www.accessmagazine.org/articles/fall-2012/will-chinas...
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It is fairly trivial to construct an example where editors are editing _different_ sentences and OT takes two locally semantically correct states and converges to a semantically incorrect (but grammatically correct) state.

I think OT and other "real-time" collaborative editors are practical if you are willing to (or your use case can) live with "silent semantic errors".

The greater the document "interconnectivity" (eg, paragraph A is semantically related to paragraph C), the greater the likelihood of having far-flung silent semantic errors.

For documents like spreadsheets this is very obvious because you start getting nonsensical results and (hopefully) errors very quickly. For Word-like documents, the errors are "silent" and thus much more insidious.

My point was that that is an element of OT which many users don't realize.

With regards to predictability, I would not call the results of OT predictable from a user's perspective. It is predictable in the narrow sense that for a sequence of arrival of operations AT THE SERVER it is predictable.

However, it is impossible for a user to predict how their local operations will interleave at the server with other users' local operations. For all practical purposes the converged result is unpredictable from the user's perspective.

The only property which one can confidently assert with OT is eventual consistency.
Being pedantic, what does he mean by "learn"?

I'm sure I could look at Go code and roughly explain what it does, or take a problem and roughly explain how to do it in Go.

I'm sure it would take 3 months of misery or 3 months of practice for me to be able to write Go from scratch as quickly as Python.

And there's really no reason to learn 500 languages. There's barely reason to learn 10.
> You obviously didn't do any research into the subject you are talking about, or are just ignoring it, so let me inform you.

Can you provide some research?
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It's the scope (see my other comment).

When you learned it was possible to create and sell a commercial product by learning 1 simple language with no frameworks and no rest apis. That's just not possibly today.
To be fair, Microsoft asked for licencing fees for ActiveSync used with Gmail. Of course, Google is not going to pay that for the free users, while Gapps users have that included in price (the legacy free Gapps users aren't getting ActiveSync either).

There could be another way for Apple to support push email - they could support third party plug-ins providing protocol support for Mail.app, so Google could implement Gmail support, fastmail jmap support, etc. It is exactly this way, how Gmail app for Android supports ActiveSync.
It's less of a ladder than a Ponzi scheme. In SF housing prices have grown at a compound growth rate of 6% for over 50 years. Older generation squats on property paid for by debt, low taxes, and then retires at 60 -- all paid for by a younger generation that doesn't have jobs and can't afford housing.
Right, which is why everyone let the US slip by when the economy collapsed. If it were some African nation that had their entire housing market collapse, you really think the rest of the world would've just let it slide?

It's no different with China. The world can't afford to let their economy collapse, and so they won't. This isn't Russia we're talking about here, who for all intents and purposes is completely isolated outside of providing arms to the world, space launching (although that reliance is quickly going away), and cheap natural gas to Europe. If/when their economy collapses again, it will have almost no effect on the western world. If China collapses, we're all in trouble.
It seems very strange to compare gross income to housing costs and deem a situation 'affordable'. When FICA and Federal income tax is subtracted from that $51k ($9,800)[0], we're left with $41,000 of net income.

I pay around $1600 monthly for a $227,000 house in Austin, so the housing cost would be $19,200 / $41,000 or _46%_ which is absolutely not 'affordable.'

[0]https://smartasset.com/taxes/income-taxes#1DOWfkzhx3
> Next year, Japan/US/EU is going to impose import tariff on China,

[citation needed]
Is this a parody or something? I guess it'd explain a lot about HN if there are a lot of people on here who only read about start-ups and JavaScript frameworks and never look at other kinds of news.
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How do you know where the money is going? You can pick an example of what you consider a successful conservation program in an African country and we can speak about it in very concrete terms.
If the Russian state wants to mess with your blog, they will regardless of the geography it's hosted in. Case in point - the recent DNC email hacks.

This post assumes livejournal is somehow working with the state to facilitate censorship or surveillance. That seems a little presumptuous.
And yet you still don't disprove his point. "More than needed in a year" doesn't deny a relatively inferior financial position.
well, you're presumably not as privileged as marco and can never hope to be. no matter how many cars you have.
$5/day for food...you're a very long way from lavish.