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>I wanted to leave the US during the Bush administration. It’s not easy to do. I would have to gain work in a foreign land in which I possessed valued trade skills, adapt to cultural changes, and build a new network in place of existing ties both socially and professionally. I might have give up my pets, acquire new furniture and amenities, and restart my career from a lower tier. I might have to consider regions with harsher climates than I would prefer. I might not be able to relocate with my spouse if she doesn’t want to, or can’t, do the same.

Isn't the alternative a totalitarian banana republic in your view? Shouldn't these be minor inconveniences in comparison? Syrian refugees have similar concerns when they choose to leave after all, yet they seem to wish to leave and the American left chooses to stay. What is different if not the conditions of the country?
The small midwestern town from which I hail is rotting. The residents could never afford the luxuries flowing here in the valley. They are angry. They are huge Trump supporters. They don't want handouts. They want jobs. They want to contribute. They don't want to leave their homes. They are stuck.
I have to agree. Add a lot of stock listed large companies which have not invested in IT and infrastructure for the past two decades apart from compliance enforced maintenance and Germany is basically 3rd world... startups also are lacking value. Looking at Berlin you kind of say „oh this is a copy of ...“ most of the time.
When MS released the first version of Windows NT it was buggy as hell. Internal to MS they ran Banyan VINES. Bill ordered it to be ripped out and replaced with NT. It was a mess. All the coders in MS quickly started to fix all the stuff that effected them. NT 3.51 came out pretty quickly after and to be honest it was quiet good for the time. For as much money as they spent trying to get people to buy the phone or write apps, they could have given a phone to each employee and family member, told them they would pay for the cell service for a year. You do not have to take it but all other phones are banded from the office. Every app you submit you get X number of RSUs. Pretty sure all the needed apps would have turned up in that year.
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I think were shooting ourselves in the foot. We did the same with antibiotics. Disease gets worse and we make super bugs and are more and more reliant on our defenses. Eventually GMO will be the same thing. You won't be able to grow nonGMO crops because we have weaponized the crop killers to such a high degree.
Disagree. Fight the problem at every level you encounter it. If startups are begging for more women, universities won’t be able to tolerate students or staff who discourage women from applying and/or finish their degrees.
Yea right, turning into a pickle is very sciency
Agreed. The parent post reads like "the overwhelming numbers of our competitors beat poor Microsoft despite our talent, ability and courage!"

No, Microsoft beat Microsoft. It was their game to lose.
> After all, many people have given up sugar so that they can eat almost exclusively fat on the Atkins diet.

And when they do so, the overwhelming majority lose weight.
It’s about fairness. Would it be fair if a SF hire had a lower wage (after expenses) than an argentinian hire? No. So Gitlab tries to optimize for every employee having the same disposable wage, no matter where they live.

That’s why they have this system.
>but only by massively subsidizing its rides through investment capital

This is not true for many cities. Most of the subsidizing only happens in new markets to get people interested. Uber/Lyft are still better than cabs when unsubsidized.
That's not bread, that's sliced industrial cake branded as bread sold in wharehouses. Get your bread from a boulangerie and slice it yourself. And yes, buy no "pasta sauce" because it is just industrial pseudo tomato jam with a formula that has 50 "ingredients", just buy tomatoes and cook them slowly with some onions.
There is a lot of research that tries to figure out how things actually work even if you assume irrational humans (or collectives).

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

You can do the same thing with business. They are also not purely rational but the market causes those to die who are to irrational.
> you can't treat customers with blatant disrespect time and time again and be shocked when they finally leave.

Has this actually ever happened? Maybe it's just to early but I can't think of any.
The overlords of Silicon Valley need to do a bit more to turn America's best minds towards solving serious social problems.

Personal anecdote: Right now, I am building software that automates the process of filing super-simple Chapter 7 bankruptcies. We give the product away for free.[1] Technologically, this is a really straightforward problem and solution: You just collect some documents and fill out a long questionnaire, fill out a PDF, show up to a couple of meetings, then you've discharged a bunch of unsecured debt and have a fresh start in life and the economy.

There should literally be millions of these Chapter 7 bankruptcies filed every year[2]... but nobody has built the software before! Despite its enormous potential impact and amazingly low cost (we have two full-time employees, though we could use more), nobody has really tackled the problem because there's no way to simultaneously get rich while building the most successful product.[3]

There is a crazy amount of low-hanging fruit out there like this. Much of it could be plucked by small, bright teams of the sort Silicon Valley has in abundance. The most powerful people just need to dedicate a little more money and 5-20% of their time to it - not just money, but serious, ongoing advice. [4]

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[1] https://Upsolve.org. The product is free and we're a non-profit because you trigger an avalanche of regulatory activity if you try to make money doing this. We've also been able to garner an incredible amount of institutional (judicial) buy-in because we are a non-profit.

[2] http://econweb.ucsd.edu/~miwhite/white-jleo-reprint.pdf

[3] Our #1 success metric is simply "number of Chapter 7 bankruptcy discharges received".

[4] Real advice - not sending it down the black hole of billionaire philanthropy. Without even getting into the subject of how those institutions grind their founders' personal axes, there is a huge qualitative difference between their advice and Silicon Valley-level "Let's build a huge thing on a lean budget" advice.
I worked 3 years as a windows phone dev and i'm sorry to say but Microsofts efforts were ... almost insultingly bad.

It started with windows phone 8 and the Metro UI. Bad Idea. The UI was too far away from Android/iPhone to be easily ported and adding corporate design to it was hard as it was too different. Silverlight and XAML was okay for the time.

Then came windows 8.1 and windows desktop 8 which was universally hated. The whole fullscreen apps debacle was just horrible and all the unnecessary restrictions on store apps for desktop made no one ever consider porting their desktop app to a store app. The whole phone and desktop app in one was a joke aswell since it was (and still is!) horrible implemented. Did I mention they broke compatibility from 8.1 to phone 8? I didn't even bother starting all over again for windows 8.1 i just straight up skipped it.

Then windows 10 came and it finally looked like the UWP Plattform might do the trick. Well nope. The SDK is garbage. Scaling from phone to desktop is hidiously bad and afaik still not solved. The Live-Tiles got even worse since you couldn't programm them like the windows 8 ones. Just a whole mess. Couple that with the hillariously bad store interface (backend aswell as frontend) and 0 User engagement and it was bound to fail (as will all UWP apps)

You guys build a, I'm sorry to say but after 3 years of frustration it's fair to say, half-baked half-assed phone plattform that at no point had even a single feature that wasn't available better on iOS and Android, restricted the developers unecessarily, broke compatibility once a year requiring a complete rewrite and frankly build a product that only microsoft liked but was universally hated by their users.

It's a story of too little too late and a whole lot of arrogance on microsofts side.

Oh and don't even get me started on microsoft completely ignoring the european market where they actually got up to 15% marketshare of new devices sold for a while.
> UBI is the answer when you believe that all economic productivity must come from the US coasts.

No, it's not.

UBI is the answer when you recognize that capitalism directs the gains from productivity (whether made in the US coasts or anywhere else) to a narrow class of megacapitalists, that it's gotten more efficient at that over time, and that the welfare state of the modern mixed economy is an overly complicated, inefficient corrective measure for that that leaves lots of gaps for people to fall through and responds slowly to changes in the details of the mechanisms of capitalist wealth capture. UBI is the simple, low-overhead, responsive implementation of a mixed economy, which gets out of the way—compared to classic welfare state programs—of realizing the value of labor, especially including labor marked as worthless and prohibited from sale by minimum wage laws.
My initial comment was extremely vague and off the cuff because I spent too much time in internet echo chambers and I erroneously assumed HN readers would immediately arrive at the same conclusion as me.

My issue with this article is the entire concept of video games meeting basic needs is extreme reductionism at best. People are complex creatures and almost never have singular reasons for liking a type of entertainment.

People's preferences can be measured and graphed fine, but you can't, in good faith, assign a simple basic needs reason for their preferences.
Your lease being reviewed... if you mean by some kind of robot lawyer then I doubt it. Lawyers have the best trade union and have successfully resisted the Walmartization of their trade for decades and I can't see that changing in the US at least.
That student was the only one using TOR while the threat was made. If he had made up a plausible excuse for that he would probably have won; they didn’t get at the contents of his traffic.
In addition to all the features you'd have to pay someone to add, and software you'd have to pay someone to write, what are the noise immunity, temperature, shock, vibration, and emission etc. specs for a RPi? Does it have UL, CE, etc. approvals? Does it have a warranty?

Does it still have all these things after you've modified it?
Well, you did talk about "balance" so you are to some extent.

[Edit] Also, you called it "PC" so, yes you are minimizing it.
No, people can't sense anything. They keep forgiving the biggest cheaters in life and politics and reward thzir misbehavior with power and money. Better that people will do what's best for them assume they put a thought into it. They don't. They just react. And very basically.
I am an introvert, like a lot of coders, and having to give a presentation in front of a live audience, and in addition, writing code (or doing demo) at the same time, is a LOT of pressure. It's hard enough to try to remember what I need to say, and my mind would sometimes go blank, sometimes trying to remember what I did wrong when there's unexpected error or forgetting a function name or parameters, etc.

It might also useful for for screencast recording / Youtube tutorial. Bisqwit has his own tool, running on DOS, that does something similar, which mimics him typing code on the editor. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Da6ZyQJjE0)
Dear media: You created a new scapegoat for systematic inequality distracting from the corrupt society we live in, and lo and behold people buy into it.
And then those MBA types are wondering why their "business strategy" is not working. The same applies to the Windows Store on Desktop. All that walled garden nonsense they are trying to impose is not going to work. The only thing I could seriously recommend to those clerks is to eat their neckties and finally become living human beings.
I wouldn't be in favor of increasing the minimum wage if I knew that most of the workforce could easily find a better paying job elsewhere if they weren't happy with the compensation. This is clearly not the case for the general population but probably mostly true for the type of profiles gitlab wants to hire.

Furthermore while I can believe that gitlab's salaries are below the average I doubt they're below any reasonable proposal for minimum wage. If software developer salaries start dipping below what we consider fair I think the most efficient solution would be unionizing to raise the salaries for the profession at large.

Quite frankly I find it a bit obscene to conflate both these issues.
Antibiotics: don't make it into your beef in an amount that will affect your life. You can consume more drugs by drinking tap water in LA.

Hormones: I guess we should ban birth control as well, correct? Because that's all it is...

But, I believe in a free society, so if people wish to remain ignorant of science, that's their prerogative. But it's important to recongize those are just marketing campaigns: there is nothing "healthier" about eating beef raised antibiotic/hormone free, all other things being equal (living conditions for the animals).
I think they are making a caricatures of themselves when they talk about how smart the show is.
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The "ugly vegetable" movement is slowly picking up (or maybe just in my social circle). Like you I grew up with a garden and it never dawned on me until college that people shun "ugly" produce.

I also believe in the promise of GMO food. Unfortunately the business practices of the main players get wrapped in with junk science for many in the anti-GMO crowed. It becomes an involved process to convince someone I don't think that someone's business practices are ethical while I admire the science they do, and isn't always received well.
DB just like every bank in EU actually is legally forced to make some compliance changes for interoperability.

Thus releasing this and possibly pushing workload and costs onto other banks from business side makes sense.
Lots of ARM64 changes! Has anyone here tried running OpenBSD on one of the supported boards? How was your experience?
Latin and French were the languages of science for quite a while. Arabic before that and Greek before that.

This is ignoring Eastern science intentionally.

They searched for 'peer review.'

I don't see any indication that they searched in other languages, what those phrases might be, and how they accounted for that.

Well, that and it looks like they are conflating two ideas. They appear to be speaking about more modern journals and ignoring that philosophers shared and published their work, sought students, and held their findings up for scrutiny.

So, not just the phrase part that you mention, but also the language used may impact this. I have no idea how to say peer review in either French or Latin and I am a scientist.
I mostly agree, but the media (and a slew of other industries) are pro-minority, not anti-minority, so if the media are undermining minority confidence, it's not necessarily intuitive. Further, even the implicit bias theory has a lot working against it; chiefly, it is utterly dependant on the principle tool for measuring implicit bias, the IAT, which fails to actually predict bias or even return consistent results (in short, it fails basic psychology tool standards). Implicit or explicit bias may well be the cause of these disparities, but we shouldn't punish skeptics as severely as we have been doing given the dearth of supporting evidence.

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2017/01/psychologys-racism-meas...
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> You want a really nihilistic show? Watch Seinfeld.

Eh? Do you mean nihilist in the (meta) sense that the show "is about nothing" and has no inherent meaning? Because none of the characters on Seinfeld strike me as nihilist either.

That's not to say I disagree with your point about Rick and Morty having nihilist characters; I don't think Rick is a nihilist, but I also don't think nihilism translates well to film and television. It's difficult to maintain compelling character development that can bring in a large viewership if a character is truly nihilist, in my opinion.

For my purposes I don't believe it's enough to have a character profess adherence to existential nihilism - I don't agree a character is nihilist unless they also act like it, and that is fundamentally difficult to do convincingly. I very often see writers use stoicism, ruthless utilitarianism, (dysfunctional) cynicism and even atheism as proxies to demonstrate a character is nihilistic, but none of those really hits it on the mark. I consider it like free will: you can make extremely compelling arguments that free will (in the sense of the capacity for non-deterministic decision making) simply doesn't exist (or is at best implausible), but there's not really a convincing framework for altering your behavior even if you claim to believe that. This is unlike atheism or agnosticism, which do have clear behavioral proxies when you abstract them away from considerations of intrinsic meaning - simply don't participate in religious communities, gatherings or activities for its own sake.
Good, a company that cares about open source to dethrone Github.
That's actually fair and I wouldn't be surprised if, at some point in the whole Juicero debacle, someone uttered the phrase "Keurig for Juice" or something along those lines. The thing with Keurigs and the like is that there's actually a market for making single cups of hot coffee. I don't personally own or want one but it's a compromise that a lot of people are willing to make both at home and the workplace in exchange for convenience. (Really Keurig is effectively positioned as a better instant coffee.)

But there were very real differences between Keurig and Juicero that make one costly/wasteful/but fills a niche and the other just stupid.
I was interested if the parent moved and maintained his (adjusted) total comp and was happy with his decision, or was happy despite a loss in total comp. Obviously there are good companies and bad companies everywhere. :)

(FWIW I'm not in SV)
Depends on your device. I have had issues on some laptops, other laptops worked flawlessly. I know this is anecdote but a lot of people share this anecdote.
Strongly agree with ygra on the cross platform GUI view. This has been my experience since I coded against XVT [1] 25 years ago. I suspect it's a general truth that applies to any abstraction layer; for instance ORMs or AMQP. Abstraction layers attempt to hide complexity, but they can't make it go away.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XVT

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Message_Queuing_Proto...
> The oddest turn is that of blaming the global rise in income inequality on SV

The rise in income inequality is tied pretty directly to pervasive automation. Economic efficiency is not always social progress, especially when coupled with retrograde politics and social policy. We're not having "more leisure" or whatever because of it, we're having people ground to dust in worthless jobs because the computers are doing more and more.

To that end, tech (and not just the Valley, but the Valley is a particularly visible and awfully smarmy representation of tech) probably should get more shade thrown at it than it does.

> then to lambaste SV for trying to come up with solutions to ameliorate that problem

Tech is doing no such thing. Tech is reifying capital, it is not trying to solve the problem on behalf of labor.
You are more than welcome to enlighten us.
I loved the look of the tiles... but outside of that I never really understood the value proposition.

It's great to have more competitors but did they ever really shoot for 1 key differentiation that would make people switch?
Hi there,
Thanks for your interest in Intellexer Summarizer. Let me answer the questions for you.

>> I wonder how it works (deep learning ?)
We use hybrid approach to text information analysis which is based on using not only linguistic and statistical information (deep learning technique), but also a set of complex semantic rules.

>> I wonder if it's good
Please, download it from Windows store to evaluate :)

>> If there's a way to try the app before buying
Sure, we provide a 30 day trial period
I live in Uruguay and I don't earn "SF money", a 70k paycheck would be huge here (and in Argentina as well).

And to avoid the currency inflation you should of course choose to earn in U.S. dollars, or negotiate to be tied to the regular - currently bi-annual in Uruguay - pay increases in countries with inflation (which usually lag inflation and are a bad deal, but offer some buffer to it).
Worse than useless: it can become spiteful and counterproductive.
Sure, I understand this was definitely a problem for a long time, it just seemed odd to post it now (I initially thought maybe it was a new submission of an old blog post).

FYI Your shell script is still not really valid. You should either fix the bash-isms (best option) or target bash specifically in the shebang line.

ShellCheck (http://www.shellcheck.net) should help with making it sh (posix shell) compatible.

Edit: probably more friendly.
This article misses the mark. Spot on.
I think gp was being descriptive and not prescriptive - one preferred language is how the web works today (and I speak as a someone who is multilingual).

> It feels weird saying this, but it reeks of a very anglo-american worldview to have a single language preference.

This is a the browser-side problem[1], so perhaps the browsers authors have an anglo-american worldview? You could file a bug/feature request with your favourite open-source browser. Alternatively, an extension that selectively sends per-website "Accept-Language" headers would work - I haven't checked if one exists but it can be written in a weekend (not sure if Firefox new extension framework will allows messing with the headers).

1. Some sites work around this by allowing you to have a choose a language that overrides the one requested by the browser and persist this in a cookie or your profile. Defaulting to the language requested by the browser is a sane default compared the other alternatives (like Geo-IP look-ups: "Oh, I see you are visiting Germany. I will assume your browser requested English in error and will serve you the German version of the article instead")
Ok, getting paid in local currency sucks.

I work for an U.S. company from Uruguay and I get paid in USD.
Exactly that was the original intent with Metro apps. For developers, Visual Studio was able to provision keys (online), but otherwise you had to be inside AD domain, or have the Enterprise SKU and "sideloading key".

Only with Windows 10 it became possible to sideload non-win32 apps.
Yes, country of origin. Did that beef come from China, Argentina, United States, or Switzerland?

For instance, I do not eat eat oysters from China (due to their record of gross pollution) or japanese seafood after the Fukushima incident (which continues to poison the ocean).
> You make it sound like white males get together with conferences to discuss new ways of oppressing people.

Ahem. https://www.thestranger.com/news/2017/10/04/25451102/we-snuc...

As usual: it's worse than you think.
Having dealt with in the past RHEL 6 to 7 is supported but only for the server edition: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/637583. At a certain point I'm not sure what Debian does so much better, but that's just because I have not really needed to investigate it to the same depth as RHEL.
Most nihilists don't spend countless hours inventing complex devices and embarking on adventures.
Looks like Fortune picked this up. Nice! http://fortune.com/2017/10/09/amazon-google-snowflake-data-w...