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That is a very interesting video series, thank you!

I have been thinking about the next levels of repetition since watching vihart explain how all of elementary algebra is just "fancy counting" https://youtu.be/N-7tcTIrers

This was a wonderful continuation of that.
This might interest you: https://www.jobfluent.com/jobs-barcelona/

From what I see, wages are considerably lower than in the rest of Europe and the US.

On the other hand, some offices I have been in have spectacular views of the sea :)
I am an engineering manager, formerly a dev, so I know what you mean.

I have a rule that I'm the gatekeeper to my group's time. My people know that if someone tries to contact them directly (unless as part of an ongoing project/conversation), they're to direct that person to me, where I can set expectations appropriately. It doesn't happen much anymore.

I see part of my role as a liaison between my group and the rest of the company.

My people don't fight fires, there's a team for that. I'm sorry that you don't feel like your issue gets the attention it deserves over there. Those guys are swamped. Pinging my team directly is not the appropriate resolution.

Usually, what happens is someone from some other group (sales, support, services) will come to me to ask a question. If I don't directly know the answer, I'll throw the question in a Slack channel. My ask of my team is that they check that before they head out to lunch, head home, etc., because it's usually a 5-minute investigation.
A couple of times I've been caught out where I've wanted to present my pitch deck to someone, but I haven't had access to a projector or decent sized screen.

I made Slidecast to solve that problem - it allows you to quickly broadcast your slides live to multiple devices, making it easy for others to follow along while you present.

Oh, and it was my first foray into React.js :)
There are a couple companies attempting to solve this,

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gotenna/gotenna-mesh-of...

and https://www.beartooth.com/
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I'm sure I could improve your life by forcing you to do certain things at gunpoint: are you eating right, saving the maximum possible for retirement, using your time as efficiently as possible, gentle in your relations with everyone?

Whether some Japanese derived some benefit from the ultimatum doesn't change that it was a coercive relationship, enforced by a nation with a history of destructive exploitation of other nations and races, justifying its exploitation in terms of cultural and racial superiority over its subject people. Your argument is straight out of "White Man's Burden."
How would you compare this to Khan Academy, which also has math up to (and beyond) 9th grade
Not charged. Not even accused by victims.
The omission of the number of very public death threats he's received as a possible factor is less than balanced at best.
Oh, I see. You just don't underestand how absolutely vital water is to
keep our civilization running.

No water or sewer installations wouldn't just mean you have to endure some
inconveniences. It would mean hygienic catastrophe, with all the diseases
eradicated just by making everybody wash their hands come back. And no easy
access to water would literally kill almost all industry. Industry nowadays
consumes twice as much water as households, mind you. Take that away and you
don't have no production of anything at all. (Agriculture takes twice as
industry and households combined, but I'm not sure if I can pull it under the
same argument here.)

On the other hand, if we make internet disappear, we would go to where we were
just twenty years ago, thirty at best. Most of the information produced and
processed through internet is only useful for working with internet, so it's
not as big deal as you want to paint it.

> However, without Internet access I cannot work, I would have a much harder time acquiring new knowledge.

You'd just land in some other industry. And new knowledge you would just get
from somebody else. People didn't magically become more knowledgable once
internet became common. It's not like an average person today knows more than
average person three decades ago (and it seems it's actually the opposite).

> If the entire Internet were gone for everybody that would be a huge killer for much of our economy,

For our industry, IT+web, not economy. For economy it would be a big
inconvenience, because IT is so big nowadays, but nothing more. Lack of water,
on the other hand, would make impossible most of the production processes,
including agricultural chemistry.
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I agree for the third, but how sri will protect you from the first attack?
Exactly, BcacheFS, HAMMER2 are other file-systems that are being worked on by some REALLY good programmers for years and years to come. It seems like a file-system takes longer to stabilize than a kernel.
Sounds to me like there's too much cultural inertia. They're not stupid, but admitting that sex causes pregnancy means admitting that Bob's wife cheated on him; it means some poor desperate soul really did shag Ugly Betty; it means accepting responsibility for life-changing events that it's much more convenient to write off as "acts of god".

The clincher is the fact that they've been informed of the link now, and still won't accept it. That's not stupidity, it's denial.
Salsa20 and ChaCha20 are faster on modern hardware than built-in AES instructions. AES is just old and complex. As Salsa family and other modern ciphers have shown you don't have to use complex function to achieve security.
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I do not think that the language is going to be a barrier for the kind of companies you are looking for. Also, you can always look for a remote job.

If I was you I'll double check other cities like Valencia, Málaga and Mallorca.

Bear in mind that the cost of life in Spain can vary a lot from one city to the other.
Not sure why you are being down-voted with a legitimate question.

Maybe the down voters can explain why it's a bad idea to move to another country and create a startup?
> even more than the Snowden disclosures.

Snowden took only documents that describe the overall global surveillance infrastructure.

Snowden had access to raw data streams for almost all SIGINT operations. System administrators like Snowden received special "root access like" clearance called PRIVAC (Privileged Access) where people allowed to be exposed to information of any classification, regardless of what their position actually needs, apparently because they are sysadmins and need to see what's going on. Snowden had 'technical' access to live feeds for all active operations, drone feeds and other information regardless of classification all over the world was wider than anyone participating in operations had.

It's not hard to imagine that there are other people with PRIVAC access who are actual spies. Just by observing important stuff and not taking anything compromises the system. If they downloaded some of that stuff, it has been open doors all this time.

Only after Snowdon's revelations NSA has added the two-man rule for sysadmins. Apparently it was too costly before. Increasing the data collection was more important than building the system.

I think there is systemic failure in US/UK intelligence organizations. They constantly emphasize offense over defense even when they know that they are very vulnerable. It's hard to show results for good defensive posture.
> What the heck is a hobbyist journalist?

Shills and Kool-aid-drinking zealots mostly - they are the ones usually motivated enough to do 'journalism' for free. Don't expect any professionalism, depth or any form of investigative journalismbeyond tweet-storms.
> Genuinely interested why someone would consider taking a huge cut in salary.

Friendly people; easier life; excelent food; nobody shooting you at the shool; Wyoming winters; no coyotes, alligators or snapping turtles trying to dinner on you or your pet, swimming at the sea in april...

Oh, and there is the universal, excelent and almost free healthcare also. I forgot it.
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> Trump just let slip some random bit of classified information

What was that information? And according to who?
Just keep in mind whether you like Mr Assange's manner and or politics or quite the opposite that his rights are your rights. Support the destruction of his right by all means just be sure you know they'll be gone for you. Both directly, when you need them and indirectly, when someone exposing crime affecting your family needs them. Is it a price you can afford to pay? It's not a one time payment.
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So you're admitting you don't know the facts and evidence, but you are calling him a rapist. Repeatedly.

That's a level of cognitive dissonance which is surprising to admit publicly.
EDIT: my point (3) from above obviously belongs under the second bullet point and should be labeled (1)... did a stupid text moving around and a renumbering thing I guess... sorry for the confusion and hope you didn't understand backwards what I was saying :)
I am aware of zero credible accusation that Wikileaks has suppressed publication of anything, ever. If you are and have any evidence of it, the front page of the new York Times is yours.
That sounds like hell, and I fear I'm heading there pretty quick myself...
There was a moment during my wife and I's honeymoon to Mallorca/Barcelona where I was jogging through Gracia and I truly thought that this was where I was meant to live. A really...really beautiful and amazing city. Once my two huge dogs pass(I can't bear the thought of moving them overseas) I will try my darnedest to move to Catalonia.
The only reason to put the license in every file is if the "project" is really a loose collection of independent files, or if you stay up at night fearing a madman on the loose randomly downloads and reuses single files from your projects.

MIT specifically calls out that the notice must be included in copies of "substantial portions" of the software which makes no sense if the entirety of the notice is already part of every file.

> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.
Agreed about the build quality. Something to consider about assembly is also the circumstances of the installation. Was talking with a person recently who together with an engineer assembled one of the Pax systems with the large sliding rail doors in a space that had literally about a half an inch gap between the top and the ceiling. Because of this it ended up mostly being assembled upright, not to mention the task of affixing the upper clips in the narrow space at the top to hold the slider for the rather hefty dual doors. So at times there can more factors involved with the frustration than something like the instructions themselves.
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It's a VW Polo from the early noughties. Petrol, albeit a rather small engine to match the car :)

To clarify my earlier post, I meant of course that a single bottle of oil is enough for the refill (between 3 and 4 litres) and more than enough for any top-ups for the about 30000 km before the car starts to remind of the end of the “Long Life” maintenance cycle. Oil is certainly not up there when it comes to costs of owning a small car, ICE or not.

A cursory look at used oil: it's still rather like the stuff that goes in, albeit black, of course. Without specific tools, I think it's impossible to tell it apart from oil that's used for, say, 10000 km.
(born in Barcelona, lived on both cities): these two are really different places. Tech scene is also clearly different. As I see it, Barcelona is smaller and cozier, tech scene might be hotter, but that might be from my own bias. Madrid is big, active and noisy. There are plenty of jobs on Madrid, compared to Barcelona, although I still think the hot stuff is on the latter.

Being both cities relatively near, why don't you take a week to visit them both? Register to some meetups, visit tech hubs, incubators, etc, and see for yourself which one feels like the place you want to be in. Now is a good time to visit, as the weather is calm. I would stay away from Madrid on august.

As for freelancing, I wouldn't recommend unless you are going to work for foreign clients.
> It seems like a file-system takes longer to stabilize than a kernel.

For good reason in my opinion. An unstable kernel will cause application glitches, unnecessary slowness or OS crashes. They are annoying but not persistent (ie a reboot and you can carry on for a bit). However an unstable file system are persistent and thus could destroy all of your data forcing you to recover from backups (assuming you're diligent enough to keep tested backups).

Plus file systems still have to deal with buggy consumer hardware and other similar edge cases (eg storage devices, power failures, etc) just like a kernel would.
Well, good journalism would necessitate including the President Obama facts as background for the Trump piece. It is the same context - US President, Syria, Russians, classified info - less than 1 year earlier.

Also, it does change the perception of the story. As someone who has followed the Syrian civil war somewhat closely, I get the sense that the US has repeatedly tried to "cooperate" with Russia on Syria (while putting Ukraine on the back burner). In other words, the US - not a democratic or republican president - has a policy of constructive engagement. That changes the story - it is about cool academic cucumber handling one way, smarmy braggadocio salesman handling it a different way.
Other than lack of evidence. Well argued anti-wikileaks comments on HN that rely on actual facts don't get down voted. That comment was neither.
>What was that information?

"Facts pertaining to terrorism and airline safety", in Trump's own words.

>And according to who?

People present at the meeting with the Russian ambassador in the White House. Sources in the US and Israeli intelligence communities who had to deal with the fallout.
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Ask HN: How to handle “backlog overflow” from user feedback and feature ideas?
While developing a product (or side project), we accumulate a big amount of user feedback. We use Trello right now for tracking and managing the development. But it's terrible for keeping user feedback, feature ideas, bug reports, etc.

As a developer, the original user feedback or "user story" is often extremely useful. It helps to understand the real problem and implement the most efficient bugfix. Same for feature requests, which are just problem descriptions explained as features.

How do you capture and manage inputs for your project, so nothing slips through the cracks?
I think I know a bit more about he subject than you, having studied the Edo era academically and being a licensed instructor in the military techniques carried down by one family of Tokugawa bodyguards, including the oral history that comes with that.

That era was a shitshow ruled over by oppressive sociopathic samurai where life was short, domineering, and often brutal. They kept their country isolated from technology for the only reason of disempowering potential reformers. It is only looked back with fondness by those whose naïveté keeps them from knowing better, or who have nationalistic political agendas.

The gunboat diplomacy was frankly a move of liberation that benefited the people of Japan. And it was not an occupation either -- fair trading terms were what was offered, by the standards of the day, a far better deal than China had for example. Japan was enabled by the deal, turned into a prosperous trading partner and world superpower a mere 40 years later.

I don't know what lense you are looking at his through, but it is not refracting history correctly.
There is no parallel between the two cases, so it would not be good journalism to artificially draw one. The problem with what Trump did isn't that he shared classified information, it's that he did so (i) without the permission of the ally from whom the information was obtained [1] and (ii) without properly thinking through the consequences (or most likely even realising that he was doing it).

http://www.timesofisrael.com/horrified-israeli-intel-officia...
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Took a while to find a comment that gets to the meat of the issue:

Does culture matter?

Most people on Hacker News will breathlessly tell you it does, at least when running a company.

Well how about a community, a school, a neighborhood, a family?

There is a cultural problem, with many layers. 72% of of black children are raised without fathers.

Do people think that might have some impacts on culture, education, discipline, crime, poverty?
+1

I notice a hive-mind of looking-down on "ordinary work" even if it's not really challenging, and is actually isn't less purposeful than open source projects that get to the HN front-page.

'Coolness' is an unmeasured and a dangerous motivation.
> That's only true for the US. He isn't being asked to talk to US police, he's being asked to talk to Swedish or British police. In both those countries the population have little to fear from the police.

This isn't true at all. The specifics of American law are unique, but the general ideas apply everywhere. The idea that you shouldn't talk to the police is much older than the recent rise in police brutality in America. The 5th amendment was originally a response to overreach by the British government.

> And it takes a special kind of idiot to run from the police, skip bail, and hide in a cupboard for years.

Why does that make him an idiot? It is the smart play if you think you won't get treated fairly in court, which is obviously what he believes. You might think he is wrong, but that doesn't make him an idiot.
I get the feeling the author wanted to write something given events and this is the result. Personally, I would have gone with an article starting with Mother Love Bone and how the member friendships resulted in Temple of the Dog and other collaborations tying in Chris Cornell that way.
I usually push things to GitHub. When I replace my laptop every 3-5 years, I'll download the things I want to work on and leave the rest.

I also try to always put up a paragraph or two and maybe a screenshot on nfriedly.com/portfolio.

My projects are rarely "done", but "good enough to include in my portfolio" is a major milestone that often coincides with when I stop working on it so much.
If what is holding you back is fear, then perhaps I can make a recommendation to break it. Start with meeting like-minded people! Whether it's volunteering, meetup groups or tech events ... just pick one.

While it sounds nerve-wrecking - it was for me - actually, it's a low commitment activity. You're not trying to prove anything. You're not even expecting to make new friends. But watching other makers in action, and listening to what they say can slowly build up that push for yourself to become one.

It's different to reading and watching interviews at home because when you're out there, it all becomes personal. If I read about a guy who dreams of the next guitar picker, I'd probably roll my eyes and move on. But actually meeting one who is excitedly showing his prototype, and talking about his dream and motivations, that's endearing and actually inspiring. I may not see the guitar picker to ever change the world but I add this to my mental stock of maker stories, and this helps me to keep going.

Lately, I've found that it's much easier to slide into my project and focus on the real essentials. The more I go out and meet people, the more confident and articulated I get, and my idea gets refined further. And yes, inevitably you do make new and quite interesting friends :)

When it does become too much, then just step back a bit - remember, this is supposed to be low commitment!

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VR. People living in a place/time/body they physically aren't. When I'm old I'd like to VR to all the places I missed out on visiting because I was working too hard. I won't be alone.
Zune is the open-source reimplementation of MUI:

http://aros.sourceforge.net/introduction/status/zune.php
It will take awhile from the breakthrough to when it becomes part of everyday life.

The internet was around for a decade or more before the web. The web was the breakthrough required for mass adoption -- rich media over the network. Also ubiquitous PCs were necessary.

I argue that the internet didn't become part of every day life until 2004 or so. I've been on the web since 93, and am a programmer, but in 2002 I went a whole summer without internet access because I was subletting a room without it.

Before 2004 or so, the web was really for looking up stuff. After Facebook and MySpace, "life" started happening on the internet. The nightly news would report things that happened on Twitter.

So I'd say that augmented reality hasn't had its www moment yet, and after that it may take a decade or more to become part of every day life. Really adoption is a social issue, so what needs to happen is that the old generation dies.

That said, Snapchat might later be viewed as the precursor to AR, and it has wide usage. It might be that generation or the next.
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Club Loft and Anca Magureanu, the daughter of former SRI director Virgil Magureanu. I'm on mobile and am too lazy to link here, but the info is easily searchable.
"The Internet is a dangerous place at times. As anyone who needed the NHS a few days ago is all too aware, modern technologies can be vulnerable to very damaging attacks."

But this was a failure of the government to fund the required security for the NHS. It was dangerous because the government was complacent, they cut funding to the support that kept the data safe, they used outdated technologies. This incident was the governments fault.
And after reading this manifesto, it wouldn't surprise me if they let it happen on purpose to help push this agenda.
Google, Facebook, and Apple all have walled gardens for reading the news on mobile.

The web as we know it was killed when you couldn't link to a news site because it'd serve ad interstitials (Forbes) or full screen pop-over ads (basically everyone).

I think the real problem is journalists rely on advertising income to do their job. That model requires them to rely on Apple/Facebook/Google for their livelihood, and to focus on sensationalist headlines and quantity over quality (to get ad impressions). One of the most shocking things for me was seeing Buzzfeed have some of the better written pieces in the last year -- all of those stupid "10 best/worst/funniest" type lists provided the ad revenue to do actual journalism that other publications didn't have the budget to do. But it's not clear to me how to break this dependency; for example, UBI might come with strings preventing the publication of pieces critical of the government.
Ok, it doesn't work int the Apple ][ because of timming, but could it work connected to an Atari 2600?
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I estimate it would cost around $300-500 to get assembled depending on volume. That's just the assembly price. This is based on some online quotes with 15k pads (I checked 25-100 boards).

Then you have actual BOM cost which is maybe another $150-200. A 2N7002 is about $0.02 even at 100k volume. Resistors and small passives are often free, and the remaining bits are cheap.

The board is probably $100 each in small volume. Big four layer beast, not cheap.

I used www.7pcb.co.uk and Mouser/Farnell for prices.

So we're looking at a cost of up to $700-800 plus taxes and shipping. That's without any kind of profit for the designer, distributor cuts and so on. At $1k they're breaking even, $2-3k would be standard markup to cover overheads etc.
Thanks for alerting us to this!
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