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But once you have completely bought your house/apartment, you have that warm comforting feeling that it's yours. Nobody will get you out to puts in his children, nobody will raise the rent because, you know, he has no choice, etc.

But in the case of a house, you'll have to repair it as times goes by and that can be quite expensive. But the one who rents it to you would have to do it as well, so, buying a house just makes sure you don't pay the little profit margin of the landlord (just the one of the bank :))
Let me elaborate on the isolated part a bit maybe.

I speak almost fluent Japanese but the problem comes more in the very strong cultural difference that you are mostly not even aware of unless you are indeed fluent and surrounded by people that tell you your mistakes (which doesn't happen often).

It is (IMO) very hard to make 'good' Japanese friends (not talking about occasional drinking buddies). People seem nice but (especially in Tokyo) often don't tell you what they really think or feel. Being direct and honest about certain things is just not the way things are done here, that starts already at the language level and why you would rather say that something is difficult than not possible (それは難しいです・・・, pretty sure you heard that already a few times.)

Being direct as a foreigner and speaking in a direct way can work but is thus because of the difference in talking and nuance further isolating you and giving you the 'foreigner / 外人' stamp on your forehead, maybe without you really realizing that it's happening. A side-effect of that is that you get considered as, well, a foreigner. Maybe someone who is fun and weird to hang out with but not actually someone who could become a deep friend.

Then of course you have the other group of people that are strangely open and direct to you, but more than often that's the kind of people that only want a foreign boyfriend or someone to practice english with and nothing else.

Sure, everyone is indeed very very friendly and supportive but that can easily be confused with the polite nature that's rooted deeply in this country. That can also come over as shy and introverted, but if the majority of the people comes over as shy and introverted it's maybe not the people that's different but rather you.

Not saying at all that it's bad here. I am still really enjoying my time with a rough 4 years in total but it definitely depends if you want to be fully integrated or always wear that foreigner hat.
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I'm still waiting for a USB C battery pack that can output the 20V that the XPS 13 requires. That said Dell's external battery pack is excellent, though extremely expensive.
I'm working on one of those standup bots that would then use the data to automatically update PM services like Trello.
Grav has samples for many different web servers, including nginx: https://github.com/getgrav/grav/tree/develop/webserver-confi...

It is classified as a "flat-file CMS", explained here: https://github.com/getgrav/grav/issues/516

It does not require a database.
Are you talking about the normal startup visa here that's valid for 1 year? I wasn't aware that it's this annoying to get. From my understanding, you have to hand in the papers (with a basic business plan), incorporate your company and after a year, proof that you indeed make money.

For all other visas you just need a sponsor (company) / proof that you can make money as a freelancer and, well, a university degree.

Japan might even be one of the only countries that effectively lets you skip the university degree (and 10 years of work experience) requirement with the right certificate that should be no problem to get if you know your computer science basics
Bonsai (http://tinytree.info/); because no other static page generator has been so easy yet customizable.
I'll be doing a lot of work on my registry for open hardware electronics projects.

https://kitnic.it
The method of interaction is so different it would be nicer to advise people to not use a pointing device at all. I've always wanted to like them, but the track point is a poor man's trackball, and where do you see a trackball these days?
I didn't live there but I did travel for work. Totally common to get stuck with a $50-70 bill for lunch. And, like a lot of places in Europe, getting charged for a pitcher of tap water is really off-putting to Americans. Geneva was by far the worst place I have ever been for charging for water.
I'd say it's probably a matter of not having a 'european palate' so to speak. It's like if you give two red wines to someone who doesn't usually drink wine. They'll tell you they taste the same, but to someone who drinks red wine daily, they are totally different. I have traveled the US, and have lived in Europe for several years, and would completely disagree with your assessment.
You'd change the weather, but not the rent and taxes? :)
I can confirm that Ubuntu 16.04 works great on a T460p. The only issues I had were with the high resolution screen I chose and that was solved by finding the Gnome scaling options and also launching Chrome with '--force-device-scale-factor=1.4'.

EDIT: Oh, and swapping out the hard drive isn't super easy any more. It's a matter of watching a Youtube video then everything goes smoothly, rather than look at the bottom of the laptop and everything goes smoothly.
Continue to work on apostello - "sms for your church" - https://github.com/monty5811/apostello
Yeah that's the tricky part. You can subscribe to job alerts on stackoverflow careers and linkedin and hope for something to pop up. Alternatively I would say find a remote contract job and do that for a few months while being in Seoul. Go to local startup meetups and you will almost certainly find something nice as your first stepping stone
Middle of nowhere with an internet connection. I'd be pretty happy in Alaska but living in Alaska is very expensive.
There are varying levels of sophistication from which data can be learned from. Pigeons can learn non-trivial word concepts and statistics but they do so at a rate that is much slower than a human infant.

Thus far, machines have not done well in scenarios of low stationarity. Those are scenarios where the past is not so good a predictor of the future or where the data manifold is rapidly changing. This occurs for example, when the act of predicting changes what is being predicted. The related notion of Antipredictable Sequences is the most interesting consequence of the oft misconstrued notion of the No free lunch theorem.

Humans are far from the ideal machine for this scenario but they vastly outmatch current algorithms. This is because humans are much better in the kind of generalization that is based off theory building. While not perfect, it does well enough at generalizing from observations (think Newton deriving the laws of gravitation from observations and Brahe's data) to scenarios that are not so close to the data.

This means that for now and in complex environments, simpler models that are adaptable to change online are better. Additionally, their inspectability means they are more easily modified to better match any very changed dynamics.

So your examples of: `speech recognition, face recognition, object classification and detection, speech`

Are of the type where a learner, such as a deep network, whose generalization ability mostly hails from interpolating to fill in missing structure based on data (implying poor out of sample performance) does well when you can give lots of examples which provide good coverage.

Language translation is sort of inbetween (the space is not as smooth but is still fairly stationary at the scale of years) and so we also find that the advantages of deep learning have not been as pronounced and dramatic as has been the case for image and speech.

The digital machine advantage is two. Their memory capacity is outmatched. Second, and related to the first, energy needs are not so pressing a concern.
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TL/DR: "Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe."
Any leads on how to land a job in SV? (for non US citizens).
The Thinkpad p50/p70 also have the Xeon option and can be configured with ECC.
That's how we got our current governments and economic model.
Istanbul, Turkey.

Warm climate, fantastic food and friendly people. Modern city with developed infrastructure. I lived there between 2011 and 2013 and enjoyed every bit of it. Upon leaving, I knew that I would go back to live there again because I loved it so much. However recent events and overall political direction Turkey is taking is killing that wish within me. I really hope things get better in Turkey.
Shopify's biggest issue is the fact that you can't edit the line items for an order, or the billing information. This is a monumental flaw, which has been round since day 1.

To get round this Shopify's sale people recommend hacks like 3rd party app that delete the original order and create a new order. This actually has a whole heap of unintended consequences. I'd say this is the biggest reason for us looking for an alternative.

The best ecommerce backend I've seen is Neto.com.au however their performance (front end site latency) is shockingly terrible.
You actively sabotage your employer by keeping part of the code you write secret?
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yeah, i really don't know what these guys are talking about. the business day to day has been massively revamped by automation. there are hft ops that are blasting millions and millions of orders a second and probably account for 70%+ of all trading volume.
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Your examples are companies that produce goods and services to consumers. We're discussing regulation of investing in such companies. Different cases.

Setting that aside, I think it's far too early to say the crypto exchange market has improved. The exchanges remain pretty opaque still.
It's definitely easier if you speak the language. Koreans don't really hold your hand and tend to bombard you with long, fast-spoken sentences even if you try to explain that you don't speak the language :p At the same time it's very easy to make friends that don't mind giving their broken english a try in order to make a conversation with you.

I am not fluent in Korean (still very far from becoming) but still consider Seoul as one of my favorite cities (if not my favorite) period
I have avoided buying anything significant made by Todhiba for 30 years. It's probably time for me to drop my grudge against them (it has to do with milling machines and corporate misconduct during the Cold War).
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What can it do that https://middlemanapp.com can't?
To HN moderator, a new submission of this just posted. Please, merge this post with new one.

Thank you.
Right. But I would you change `custom/conf/app.ini`
> but pay is ...mediocre.

sure, it's no Silicon Valley but you can get decent/well paid jobs with a bit of trying. My salary was even slightly better than what I made in Germany before
The link to the doc of the Encyclopedia 404s for me - this link (PDF) works: http://www.dod.mil/dodgc/defense_ethics/dod_oge/eef_complete...
Every few years I consider moving somewhere else, and then I remember I won't be able to go to the cricket and footy at the G anymore, or the tennis, or the formula one :(

Melbourne has got to be one of the best cities in the world if you enjoy sports.
Continuing to work on http://asoftmurmur.com

I've been working on an iOS app for a while that is due to launch in the next couple of weeks, after a long period of having no time to work on the project
Here's my point of view as a Swiss citizen: Many of us tend to see banking secrecy as just another check and balance. The Swiss government is supposed to be the employee of its people, not the other way round. Banking secrecy gives a tool into people's hands against overly aggressive taxation. For Swiss this has worked well, in general the tax revenue is just fine and taxes are kept reasonable. I'm fine if it gets cut for foreigners though - Switzerland isn't responsible for the checks and balances of foreign citizens towards their nation.
Thanks, yeah, I´m trying to understand that.. Since I need to do it for my wife...

It looks super complex :(
Spent a few months working in Helsinki. Aside from the cost of living (mostly rent), I can say it's truly a wonderful place.

I would go back if there was a decent job waiting for me.
The hardest part what I think is that we are surrounded by numerous web frameworks which makes it difficult to choose one of them. It may be due to the scope of the framework, community support and learning curve. I am a JavaScript Developer and I too find it hard sometimes to move ahead due to the design paradigms (both frontend and backend), database drivers (MongoDB my fav), community support for the project. It doesn't end here but we also feel that our project or a small app that we make might be neglected because the stack which we used while developing it was too much flexible or was easy to implement.

A solution to this can be making your development stack more and more compact according to the current needs and choosing a open source project or framework to work on which offers good community support and has a future scope.
That's a great idea.

Do you have any devices in your house, yet?
While that would be true of IP in the US, it is not true where I live and the scripts belong to me.
Thanks, exactly what I was looking for!
Not at all. I do keep part of the code that I write secret. This is not a form of sabotage. My employer likes the fact that the things that I am responsible for run smoothly.
Palm detection is pretty terrible still though (on Linux at least). Tap to click is unusable for me for this reason.
Large IBs do hire dozens of new graduates every year into IT.

You have to be bright, articulate, interested.
By definition, a person using a union to extract above market wages (I.e. rents) is a rent seeker.

He resorted to name calling, but which of his names do you think is actuslly incorrect?
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Been there only once for a couple weeks, but it's the best city ever, hands down. A hub of many industries and the urbanite heaven. Having visited many of the usual suspects referred in this thread plus some, nothing compares really.
I think you have cash equity in mind. This is a very small subset of what investment banks trade.
> This is cultural dissipation [...] the primary method by which cultures evolve: a person's thoughts and preferences are expressed to others, verbally or via creative acts, which can appear as suggested priorities, and often are promoted into mainstream culture.

This.

Tangentially, one of the things I really liked about the film "The Cloud Atlas" is the subtext of cultural dissipation through low-probability events. The implied moral being: "Try to always be the best person you can be, because you don't know which moments of yours are going to end up having lasting significance.
1. Start fund to buy copyrights for works no longer in copyright in an electronic form with rights to print.

2. Relicense works that have been purchased where possible for open access.

3. sell subscriptions to people to accrue money which helps buy works.

4. Let people who subscribe prioritize the purchases.

5. Let people who leech know that they are slowing the purchase process down by merely reading and not contributing.

6. Negotiate buy out clauses for those who claim royalties on their out of print works (shouldn't be much since the works weren't in print and hence no royalties could be produced!)

7. Start fund for authors to actually produce new works. Delivery of payment upon completion of work. ~patron model.

8. Probably work with writers' guilds and unions to help make sure payments are fare and reflect the needs of authors. But don't let them take the piss and renegotiate contracts when they let go of royalties for their out of print work but their work suddenly becomes popular.
Well, where the cost of living is cheap, the salaries will follow as well (or the other way around). Unless you work with a company in Barcelona and live somewhere else, you're not gonna be poor (money-wise) as a developer there.
To some extent what you say is true, but only partly.

I'm not part of the cult of the "rockstar programmer". I do write a lot of good code, and I tend to do it much faster than other programmers that I work with. But programming is not actually my job description.

Without going into details - I do something else for living, that uses computers quite heavily, and automating my job is more of a hobby. I have a huge amount of flexibility in what I do, so there is an element of substituting 1,2,3 for X,Y,Z because I find them more interesting. My boss wouldn't care one way or another - he is more interested in whether or not the tasks get finished, and maintaining a high quality level in the final product.
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They're not yet 24/7. They run through the night only on Fridays and Saturdays which still allows TfL to do maintenance on weekday nights.
Would love to see what others more experienced have to say. The two considerations I'd have myself are 1) do I have enough cash to actually buy those ($1300 is a steep strike price) and 2) is the company still growing fast and is that based on things I feel good about or hype.
Sorry, but unless it has some traction already and it has been IPO'd the Expected value of those options 4yrs from now is zero.

Unless you are really sure about it, think of it as a bit more than a lottery ticket
It's more likely to mean that Wordpress works well enough for most non-technical site owners, and that building a competitor is a losing proposition.
Any reason? I'm not sure I disagree, but it would be helpful for you to provide some justification for calling them "ridiculous".
Really depends on how much risk you're willing to take. I personally don't value stock options and would look purely at compensation that can be used today.
i switched to a mac for work 2 years ago, and i still miss the track point.
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I don't know if you've lived there or not, but I'm going to assume you haven't and give you my experience over 3 years.

1) Public transport is good, when it works. It often doesn't.

2) Public transport is good, until you have a job that has structured hours- which is most jobs, as evidenced by the INSANE rush hour. 20 minutes in some guys armpit feels like multiple hours.

3) You can't afford to live somewhere nice. I mean, I earned quite a bit more than the average and was spending 50-60% of my take home salary on rent. And I lived in a bad neighbourhood. (because I wanted to live alone).

4) Pubs have the same problem as the transport system, super crowded at rush times.. spills into the streets, especially in the west end/theatreland.

That said, if I had the money to live well in London, it would be a great place to live.
I am fine with purely the base compensation.
I remember taking a quick look at this when I experimented with THREE.js first, I didn't get the hang of it though and I ended up just using blender as the main editor for my game (levels, models and similar assets)
I like this article, however, I would emphasise that there is a balance that must be struck between writing mini-DSL/fixture generating code v.s. writing simple data structures (e.g. Object literals that mimic JSON).

Its a good thing to take extra care writing the generating code, as any brittleness is passed onto dependent tests.
The link you provide does give no data on games played on 1717 or 2121. They were played on the standard 19*19 board.
One of the attractions of the trackpoint is that you don't have to move your fingers from the keyboard. Hence, people who are keyboard-centric get pointer access without the usual tradeoff. A dev running a tiling window manager can still have full use of their web browser.

Expect it would be messy to work with for photoshop. For example, it recalibrates if you hold it down too long, and then creeps away when you release it.

Idea for precision work: small trackball and scrollers built into the side of the laptop (like a port).
The grain doesn't quite line up across the surfaces and the edges are unnatural. Quite a good simulation of someone 2D texture-mapping a block of wood, rather than the more expensive volumetric mapping.
and France too.
The article just skims the surface so here some background (see conclusions for UK and France)

http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Sess...
The company is still growing fast. Incredibly fast actually.
How did you handle the stress of traffic jam?
It can be a-la-cart. We'll find ways to make it possible to edit our genomes so that we can have:

* dark skin when we want it (for practical reasons or style)

* stripey zebra skin (just for this week, it's a novelty)

* genetic tattoos (program your skin to make tattoos of your design)

* cuttlefish skin, glowing jellyfish skin (for parties)

* change eye/hair color to match our clothes when going out

* change mental processing style for exams, getting jobs, learning languages (this week I'm autistic)
Whilst I only have empirical evidence to go on, I will say that when I have used autopilot.. I've felt like I am paying more attention as I am not distracted with keeping the car placed central in the lane and following the slight curves in the road. This means that more attention can be focused on situational awareness, of what is happening ON the road.
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Thanks for pointing me to the correct wording 'palm detection'. Investigating this I found it was completely disabled and now when using it it seems to improve the situation, but will test further.

I'm wondering why this touch pad issue is so important for you if you do development. When I'm not mobile I have a mouse, an external keyboard, headset or external sound system, external monitor etc
How do I gauge the value of stock options that I have
been offered?

Faith.

Most metrics are generally useful for tax purposes and tax purposes only until the company IPO's and 6-12 months (or longer) later you can cash out your options the company's stock has no market value.

Will you work at the company for the full vesting cycle? Will you tolerate the culture that long? Will the company still exist in 4 years? Will the company even IPO? How long _until_ the company IPO's?

These are all risks. Most purely emotional. So your evaluation must also be based on emotion.
nope, an x86 CPU without legacy extensions. x64 only would permit to not have x87 extensions ;)
Rulebased messaging web app for a multiplayer war boardgame (Bobby Lee multiplayer variant applied to EastFront/EuroFront II).
I saw small/medium company offering 60k $ for normal position.
How much do you make ? What kind of company ?
agreed about Liquid templates, it's extremely limiting after working with Jinja/Nunjucks/Twig.
You know valuation, option count, and strike price. I think the missing pieces are total shares outstanding and cap table.

I.e. if there are 1 billion shares already out, your options are currently worth -1299 and unlikely to gain that much value. If there are 10k options the value changes a bunch.

But agree with others for a later stage company like this, I would value at 0 or maybe the same as an extra vacation day when comparing offers.
> If you believe that Russia is absolutely bad and the US and Ukraine are infinitely good and righteous, then you might want to look at what the other side says: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KHCNk9BYy4

No one is absolutely bad or good but Putin and the Russian government is responsible for the situation in Ukraine.

Ukraine was doing badly enough on its own, it didn't need Russia fucking it over. And its such a stupid panic it's not like Ukraine would have been admitted into EU or Nato, next election or 2 (with a mildly less corrupt/nasty candidate) things would have swung back to Russia friendly candidates.