skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Pay. People. More. Money.

The problem is that this has really bad social consequences. People look at the new high-tech economy as invasive. In the beginning, it's not a big deal - a few unfamiliar faces, and the town treasury finally has a surplus year, so everybody wins, right? But when the higher salaries start to pull up the cost of living, pretty soon everybody who grew up there starts to feel squeezed, and resentment grows. The town's no longer recognizable.

The global economy's been throwing money at the Gulf States for decades now. And the wealth is pretty evident in places like Dubai. But when the oil money dries up, Dubai will turn into a ghost town, because the underlying social drivers of underdevelopment were never addressed. "My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel." -Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum

If you want to catch up to California, you have to nurture local talent. For sure, you have to give it not just the proper funding, but also the proper human resources from abroad, to give the benefit of their experience. But the growth must always have a local flavor, taking from and giving back to the local community, if it's going to be sustainable. Otherwise, it'll all just brain drain when the global economy changes course and faraway opportunity calls.
You decided to exchange money for time, which is pretty good solution! As for daily MOOCs, music dabbling etc. it's about making the best of bad situation - if you are stuck commuting and don't have money to move closer, at least you aren't wasting all that time looking around, feeling miserable about your life and getting depressed ;-)
All this just sometimes makes me wonder if you can develop into a big organization without indulging in shady practices. Is it even possible?

We all know about Uber and Greyball [0]. Then, you have Onava and Facebook to peek into user data [1]. Now, this with Google. We have seen this across other industries like GMO and food too.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-...

[1] https://outline.com/WnGGRk
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> I didn't vote

FYI, when you're not voting, you're inevitably siding with the majority, in this case your vote being #leave, whether you wanted that or not ;-)
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If you were paying for even half your impact on the land, most people would be taxed out of California. Why? You use it, you need to pay for it.
Sometimes people live in the city and commute to work in the suburbs.

I propose, instead, that New York City is a suburb of Philly.
Show HN: DataHub, open source datasets for Artificial Intelligence
Hi HN!

I am an undergrad student trying to build interesting things with AI.

Recently, I was looking for a dataset I could use for a new project. I realized that it is really frustrating to go through all the government websites (with terrible UX) just to find some usable dataset.

I set out to build a GitHub for datasets, named DataHub. Right now, we have more than 1000 datasets from Montréal and New York City, with more cities coming soon (and possible government agencies).

All of this is wrapped into a powerful search. It's a breeze to find a dataset to work on.

I'd be interested to know what you guys are looking at when searching for datasets and if DataHub could be of any help!

https://datahub.now.sh/
This is exactly how I feel about the whole Brexit mess, as an European that is working in the UK. For me, moving here was as simple as getting on a plane and handing my Spanish identity card to a customs officer. This is my benchmark for the post-Brexit immigration system: if it is one iota more inconvenient for an European like me to move to and work in the UK, I will pack up my stuff and go somewhere else, because I would not have even considered coming here in the first place if that was the case.

Like you said, there are plenty of other places full of smart people in Europe. I feel strongly about doing this as a political statement, or "voting with my feet". In Spain, brain drain is a serious problem that politicians pay attention to, so maybe it will give the UK's negotiators some pause when thinking about this.
There's nothing sacred about science that makes it untouchable or puts it above all other spending.

It's talk like that which leads to bloated budgets that never get resolved because everything falls in that category to someone.
Re: Japan all houses built since 1981 are earthquake safe. Before then houses were built with heavy roof tiles which would not blow off in a typhoon. Tiles falling off or the roof causing the entire building to collapse were responsible for many deaths in the Kobe earthquake.
Not sure about worst, and you can make a decent living as a contractor, or going into coding for a financial firm.

But in terms of money on offer for a generic development job, yup, the pay is peanuts and they do indeed end up hiring monkeys.
Hey you'd probably like a project I've built -

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There is an interesting interplay between stuff and space. I'm married and have two children (3 and 18 months) and we live in a two bedroom apartment. Whether I'm justified in wanting more space or not, I really, really do want it. My wife and I talk all the time about how having more space would be nice.

I'm interviewing for jobs (finishing phd) and our income/cost ratio will hopefully increase, and I think we'll end up in a place with more space. But I don't have the experience to have calibrated to the exact amount of space I'll need. We'll probably overreact and be gluttons for space. Then we'll fill up the excess with stuff.

I don't know, maybe I'm wrong. It just feels like you want space, then you get it, then you fill it with stuff you don't want.
As a developer in London I take issue with "skilled workers who would be paid relatively well wherever they live".

Yes, I could do python contracting outside of London, but there aren't nearly as many.

Most of them pay less and would need to take ones further away (so need a car).

While I like London, I would love to move out but there isn't enough well paid work for my skillset to justify it.
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I really feel for the raw deal Poles, Romanians and Bulgarians have had in the UK media. People act like these are primitive countries with hordes of would-be immigrants desperate to take advantage of the UK's "generous" (HA!) benefits system ... and it's simply not true. Charlie Brooker had an excellent piece on the news coverage, once the EU restrictions were completely lifted in the last few years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jai4v4aNe-s
Yep, but you can choose Berlin, Milan, Madrid
The UI might be worse, but everything else about Maps is better. It knows where front doors are, you can get directions through buildings if you're walking, it's far more traffic-aware, you can schedule when you want to arrive somewhere and it's public transit is smart enough to adjust for available busses, it works in areas of the world like Kiev with Latin or Cyrillic spelling, it has photos of the insides of most places, you can send the directions to your phone and it opens in the maps app there.

My only major complaint about maps is that it isn't friendly to people with limited data. Tapping on a restaurant in Thailand where I might have 50 megs of data for the whole month loads around 1-3 megs of images when all I want to do is see what time it opens. There are minor UI annoyances but overall Maps is a much, much better product than 5 years ago.
You ever been to LA? Or San Francisco? Chicago? Miami? Boston?

New York might be a huge metropolis, but it's by no means the only one.
I don't know if this relates or whether I'm misunderstanding, but one approach to impose a bit more structure on the functional approach that I rather like is 'behaviours' in Elixir (and Erlang?):

https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/typespecs-and-behavi...
No, I suggested the hypothetical future international HN funders could have ulterior motives.
The politics and social Dynamics in the US seem completely wrong for growth that I would consider positive in most regions. There is instead a lot of low density strip mall style growth and the resulting structures and density will largely be protected from reexamination due to risk of losing grandfathered building rights.

I would be interested to know which cities are consolidating high density areas while growing such that they will have a Manhattan.
They could at least link to the papers they mention...
This is very true. However it also creates weapons that are sitting around waiting for justifying their existence. Unless you really need these weapons (and I absolutely recognize it can be the case), shouldn't we use the money on other pursuits that will not have this nasty side effect?
PSA: Those who have useful stuff they want to get rid of can give it away on freecyle.org.
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Looks like there's an XSS attack there

https://serverlessblog.com/blog/page/8syxjygpwyz9gb6m5am2uma...
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I'm a US citizen freelance developer living in the UK (not London) and freelance is the only way I can justify living here. It seems like tech jobs in the UK (and EU generally) pay almost half as much as in the US, so by taking a job here I'd be leaving money on the table. From what I can see, the tech jobs all pay £45k on the high end, whereas similar roles in the US would be $110-120k. I haven't done all the calculations of differences in living costs / etc, but it seems like a stark difference in pay.

What is your experience with this apparent discrepancy?
I live in near London Bridge for just a bit more than double that, in a two bed, sharing with partner and daughter.

The prices on the edges have gone up much faster than the middle, it's worth considering living centrally.

On the outskirts I don't feel like you get the benefits of living in the city, I may as well live actually outside.
She was the furthest from an engineer except for all the other candidates in the field. As I remember, our "real engineer" presidents were Carter and Hoover, both famously ineffectual politicians. So, yeah, I think it's safe to infer a kind of trend.
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Most of what we do is in the open, so check out our Github activity: https://github.com/kinvolk/

We are not VC funded, but work almost exclusively with companies that are.

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INTERNS are also welcome.

We hire based on cooperativeness, respectfulness, attention to detail, and technical skill; in that order.

If not in the EU, we can help with a VISA to Germany provided you have a college degree.
Tax-wise, it's actually the other way around. Taxes paid by Londoners pay are bankrolling all the infrastructure of the country.
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Whilst some people may have had racist intentions in voting leave, it is not fair to say that 50% of the country voted in a racist way. Also why does a desire for lower immigration automatically mean you must be racist?
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I wonder how many times I need to repeat myself on HN before the message gets across...

I voted for Brexit, but I did not vote based on immigration policy. In addition to seeing no major problems with the current immigration arrangements from an economic perpective, one of my grandfathers was an immigrant to the UK, and I'm glad to have my mixed ancestry, if nothing else it made my childhood more interesting.

The problem really is with the media. They've set out Brexit as a two-issue debate. The only two issues that get discussed are immigration and the economy. So if you voted for Brexit you're either a racist or an economic luddite. I bet you can't even guess why I'd vote for Brexit without being driven by those two factors. That's the level to which the debate has been simplified in the media.

So let me say this, speaking as a Brexit voter, you are welcome in this country. Don't let the media tell you why those 50% of voters (which wasn't 50% the UK population) voted the way they did, they haven't got a clue.
Are you so nonconfrontational you were unable to ask for what you wanted? If a contractor wont do the work, find another. Don't just accept what some random guy tells you. Conversely, don't blame your contractor for your inability to decide for yourself.
Almost all research has ulterior motives in this sense, particularly government-funded research. You want to guide policy so you collect information on the impact of that policy, existing or proposed. The alternative is to make policy in the absence of data.

Research guided this way is problematic only if it amounts to cherry-picking of facts, studying only the benefits or costs to the exclusion of the other.
> It passes shared_ptr via reference

Talk about not getting it.
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It's not just economics, it's quality of life, the commute, the noise, for yourself and family. That's not the same as living standards though. Is London more like SV in that it's okay for younger developers, but struggles to attract when the developer gets older and has more of a life?

That's the main thing I've heard - living in London has a worse quality of life than in other cities, it appears. I've heard young developers who love the vibrant city of London and I've met older developers who moved from London for this reason.
How can you run a good analysis without math?
This project is very good. Thanks :)
It's not even fully C++11. Massive fail.
This is really encouraging to hear, thanks!

Wow, you figured the LCD out. I'm very curious how the LCD actually works - how is it updated? Through some kind of serial protocol? I get the impression it's pretty fast - I made a program in OPL a while ago that created a borderless window a metric stupid number of pixels high and EPOC was able to scroll it up the screen remarkably quickly (I was trying to see whether it could do haptic scrolling, it definitely could). It also seemed that I could drag windows around the screen faster than the liquid crystals could keep up - there was no choppiness here, it was rather an organic problem, so the LCD controller bandwidth/implementation seemed really good.

Flexible circuit boards are such a cool technology. To clarify, though, you're saying the Psion's keyboard is large? I presume the $500 is for initial tooling and that individual membranes will be a couple of dollars to run.

Another keyboard approach I think is really cool is that found in the original BlackBerry 850/950. I've admittedly only seen pictures of these but it looks quite usable.

> If you really wanted to do it properly, I don't think that would be massively expensive either.

That's incredibly encouraging, thanks.

> Having a prototype might help. There are a bunch of companies that /do/ agree to do small runs.

Oh okay, cool to know.

> And I know many people how have done this.

:D

> Often you end up having to visit the factory a bunch to push them to do what you want, and have occasional failures.

Hmm, plane tickets...

> But it's often still far easier than it might be elsewhere.

Duly noted. Thanks.
> As a non-EU immigrant who ... is still struggling with visa issues

Amen. I was trying to decide between working in the UK or in Europe several years ago. I'm from a common wealth country so I assumed getting a UK visa would be cheap/easy.

No way José! The UK visa requirements were positively assinine in their requirements (everywhere you've visited the last 10 years, visa fees totaling over 800£). Requirements for someone with a university education and no criminal record or even a speeding ticket, which yes, you must also declare when applying.

It was basically an complicated and expensive process designed to catch you lying (intentionally or by omission) so they could deny you the visa.

I ended up going to a European country. Showed them my working contract and a copy of my university degree. 110€ and I had a 3 year work visa within 6 weeks.

The UK is insane for immigration.
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You speak for yourself, I hope. Because I (for one) found this useful.
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Just to expand, to live and commute it's more like: £995 + £200 (council tax, utilities and Internet) + £216 (monthly travel card) = £1,411?
Maybe the Greek characters confuse the sorting?

By the way, are you Greek @smafisher83?
> juice press theater

Yes, this should be their epitaph.

It's actually hopeful in a way. Substance still has sway over style.
Even craigslist, your local community board (real or virtual) or just your curb can be enough. Just be sure to clearly define what is free, lest you accidentally donate your mailbox, puppy and fountain.
@RightMillennial described it quite well so I won't go into those details other than point out that Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Che, Castro and co have killed far more people that Hitler and Mussolini did but somehow being their follower is not considered to be grounds to be tossed out from the guest lists of the dinner parties among people who have panic attack at a mere mention of word "Trump".

> I must have missed the part where Antifa gets a free pass. Antifa, like nazies, is a label used like a bugbear. Most often it's seen by ideological opponents who use it to discredit gatherings of protestors: "Oh, there were $LABEL there, therefore everyone there is $LABEL". Every time Antifa is mentioned in the media, it's as a negative. No-one seriously gets an Antifa onto talk shows to discuss their views, and they're painted as thugs and professional miscreants.

If you believe that antifa mentions in the media are negative then you clearly are not watching CNN, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, CBS or PBS or reading mainstream press. At most a couple of writers/contributors tip toe-ed into "we should not really be encouraging antifa" over last week or so just to be met with screams of "False equivalency".

I'm not, however, talking about traditional media here. Instead I'm talking about Google, CloudFlare, GoDaddy, Twitter, etc. Youtube demonetizing what Google considers right wing while letting communist garbage stay up.
As a UK contractor who has worked in Australia and the US - yeah what the hell?

The money for permanent staff here is derisory, it's terrible.

I contract, consult and freelance wherever I can because that is the only way I can come close to what I earned in Aus.

It seems like developers here are really undervalued. Though given how god-awful some of the permanent staff I've worked with recently seem to be, maybe it's a case of low pay and low expectations in much of the industry.
He's not on-point at all. You can find amazing content not touched by ads all over the internet.

Making money is hard but his way of doing it is nothing to admire.
I wish I hadn't gotten so conditioned to think that free speech is nazi speech. Every time I hear someone defending free speech on the internet, they always seem to be defending the most vile opinions or someone's right to be unsympathetic or uncaring. The EFF doesn't seem to be doing that here, though, yet reading the headline puts me on guard.

Why isn't anyone ever defending free speech for good, positive things? I like free speech, but the positive associations I have with it, like allowing individuals to criticise politicians or the government, never seem to be what people on the internet are trying to defend. Free speech should be used by the disenfranchised to defend against those in power, but people want to defend it being used to attack the powerless too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ breakdown of juicer. So fantastically overengineered. Beautiful.
For public investment, this is because spending £1 in London might generate £1.50 of economic improvement, but a similar project in Birmingham or Manchester might generate only £1.05 of improvement.

Are you comparing similar areas of London and other cities? If you don't visit anywhere outside central London, it's only fair to compare that with the centre of other cities.
The general amount of bs can be very high dealing on CL, even giving stuff away. From scammers and spammers, to the usual suspect who no shows after you rushed home from work to meet them in your free hour that day.
If you are in the US, that is. Their paywall bypass doesn’t work for all countries.
> As long as high paying jobs exist

Reading the news and from rumors, companies are planning to move away or at least to keep London on hold and instead hire people somewhere else.

Brexit is also weakening the pound, which means that is much easier for European companies to be competitive with London salaries.

I've been in London for almost 4 years and I've a very good position so I'll probably stick around for a while and see what happens. In the meantime, I'm having a look for better opportunities somewhere else.
I contract in hampshire. I'm more of a C/C++ guy, with some Java and Python thrown in.

While I could probably make a fair amount more in London, and I do have to commute (often 45 minutes-ish), I've made in the region of £400 a day for the last few years, less in some contracts, more in others. Given the relative cost of living, and the relative quality of life (I'm no longer a fan of huge cities) I think I'm ahead of the game.
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I just go to the hotel website directly.

Booking.com sometimes has more info (e.g. hotel website doesn't mention arrival times but booking.com does), in which case I use it for information purposes only and cringe at the dark patterns every time.
Communications breakdowns like that are funny. I remember communicating with a recruiter one time years ago that I'd be happy to do a part time contract to fill a need that I had a lot of experience with. He calls me up and immediately starts talking salary and full time so I had to re-explain everything that was in the email conversation as if he'd never seen it.
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For some interesting reading, go pick up a Kevin Mitnick book like Art of Intrusion. It's not a technical how-to but a collection of social engineering stories that are fun reads. Gives you a lot more insight into where the real vulnerabilities are.
On a religious note, the probable reason the amount is $36M is that 18 is a special value in Judaism. In Hebrew the word chai (which means "to life")is represented as the number 18, and it is considered a good deed to give donations in that amount. He and his wife apparently combined their $18M amounts. For more: http://www.shiva.com/learning-center/commemorate/chai/