skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Varies, of course. Average house is basically $100 to $350k but the average in Stockholm is probably around $1M depending on what areas you count. Not sure what the average salary is, but loan caps now are ~5 times the household (gross) salary. which sets the equation somewhat.

So a couple buying a stockholm home at $1M today (which isnt an uncommon price) would be borrowing say 75-80% of that, so making at least $1Mx0.8/5 as a couple or $1Mx0.8/5/2 each, or $80k/year. That's a good salary, but more commonly this couple would be selling something they made a nice profit on, and borrow less, lowering the income requirement.

This equation could be cut in 2 for a more average (4MSEK house, not 8MSEK) city or cut in 3 for more rural areas. Salaries fall off slower than house prices do, so rural areas spend less on housing than city dwellers.
My tips to be a happier developer
> It's a question journalists like to ask themselves at the end of ever year.

This sentence has had a typo for 21 years.
Here in Germany I know nobody who has this gluten sensitivity, but I meet more people abroad with this issue, esp. many digestive problems seems to appear in US - so maybe something is different during food processing? Do you have this problem if you eat say pasta imported directly from Italy?
Maybe housing shouldn't be a market system. Instead, housing should be free and landlords should be abolished.
Trying to organize my Twitter timeline, using unsupervised learning
Really hard to understate the "Massive ecosystem" aspect for Node.

It's the reason why Node was at the forefront for this new wave of client-centric graph query systems (GraphQL, Falcor) that is well on its path to displacing REST as the go-to model for client-server communication.
It's not moving, per se, but I've almost convinced my colleagues to use Rust for future projects to move our prototype and research grade machine learning pipeline implementations and data services to Rust. The alternatives were go and C++.

Rust is a clear winner over either in my view because of its traits system and immutable-by-default story. It feels like the kind of C++ I write, but with less boilerplate and typing. The safety story is irrelevant in our case (it's nice, but wasn't an explicit factor in the decision: the other features in Rust may have been developed to support safety, but safety need not exist to provide them). The biggest pain point is that it's not an appropriate language for high performance numerical computation, so we'll have some "glue" there. How that will work is yet to be determined, but the data engineering and infrastructure around the pipeline is definitely going to Rust.
Absolutely, though the fine-grained ness of that interaction won't be very good for a while.

People are working right now on replicating some classic BCI paradigms with these consumer headsets (i.e. motor imagery and the P300 speller). These are slow and require training to use, though.

What I think is more promising in the near term is using these devices to passively influence software. Like in Muse's app, EEG could be used to determine whether you're engaged, distracted, fearful, or frustrated. This affective data could lead to a whole host of interesting possibilities in gaming and health.
I am willing to bet that he didn't give to all AGs in USA at least the same amount...
> Salaries don't necessarily rise at the same rate as inflation. If they did, there would be 0% real growth in the economy.

You are confusing “salaries” with “output”; salaries (or even domestic incomes in total, which involves more than salaries) growing at the rate of inflation can occur with negative or positive real growth. Zero real growth means output growing at the rate of inflation. (National economies aren't closed systems, and some output may produce foreign rather than domestic income, as in returns to overseas investors.)
The Final Days of a Tax Haven
I have XPS 13 9343 and I haven't noticed the coil whine. Which model do you have? Do I not notice it because it's not there or because of ambient noise/poor hearing?
I don't like the new default interface at all, but at least it's mostly customizeable without addons.

I changed to the "light" theme, disabled animations (toolkit.cosmeticAnimations.enabled;false), turned the title bar back on, turned off all of the pocket/highlights junk on the new tab window, and changed the density to "compact".

I like the experience now, except for the square tabs really bug me.
I still prefer my IBM-inspired font... https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font
Maybe you could try out something like https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse for getting around the pulseaudio requirement.
I don’t see a donglegate -
I’m carrying

- current MacBook-Escape

- 29W USB-C Power brick

- USB-C Cable

- USB-C to Lightning Cable (iPhones and iPad)

- USB-C to HDMI/USB Adaptor I bought for EUR10
A newspaper a century ago is an excellent analogy.

Then, the front page was filled with advertising. The content was almost entirely sponsored, or in times of war or national fraction, overwhelmingly towing the official line.

Newspapers a century ago are exactly the same as popular web today.

It's like looking at an article from a news site today, and being presented with a splash-screen 5-second advert, or not being sure who sponsored the content you're reading.

100 year old press is identical to web-news today.
Having used BeOS back in its halcyon days of the mid-to-late nineties and a as somebody that maintains an active Haiku installation (albeit under VMWare) I have to agree with you.

It is definitely lacking in the browser department (which seems so crucial to most people) but beyond that, it’s a very dependable and responsive OS with absolutely modest hardware requirements.

(I also have a working BeBox 603e 133 MHz but I use it very rarely because I’m very concerned about the health of the IDE HD.)
It means that if you have vested options to buy stock at an illiquid company (one that is still private, for example), you can quit the company and defer exercising those options for up to five years after your termination date.

This is in contrast to current law, which requires only 90 days of grace period.

This effectively legislates what AirBnB, Pinterest and others have been doing due to free market pressure [0].

This is good for employees, since you might not have enough money to pay for the taxes on the stock that you vested and exercised (due when you exercise under current and proposed law). But arguably, it’s not really important for the government to mandate this; it’s sufficient for the government to allow deferred option exercise dates (which is the case in current law).

As tptacek wrote, this has a stench of pandering to it; the new tax law is IMO largely bad (and I say this as someone who probably stands to benefit from it). But this wrinkle is most certainly better than the proposal from yesterday, which I believe would have been stifling to startups and would have pushed most startups to either defer any fund-raising to keep valuation low and thus options affordable to new hires (bad for startups and VCs; good for incumbent companies due to reduced competition), or to do huge raises to compete on salary alone (bad for startup founders and employees due to presumed higher percentagowned by VCs; perhaps good for VCs if it didn’t damage startups too much; good for incumbents since it again makes startups higher-friction).

[0] https://github.com/holman/extended-exercise-windows
Highly elastic shape-memory material discovered
Sometimes when I look things up, I find forum discussions from over 15 years ago. It's interesting observing how at first you might not realize it, and then they make references that make you look at the date and you realize you're reading a back and forth discussion that took place over a decade ago and it's still available to look at. Do those people still have those same interests? So many little meaningless questions.

Anyways. Randomc omment but your comment reminded me of this lol.
No, it's nothing to do with Apple's tax arrangements. They're not in the business of buying houses. It's a simple supply and demand issue. There are a lot of young people who want to buy a home, and not enough housing stock to meet their requirements.
Well I was mostly talking from a C dev standpoint. At first I think it's easy to think of C++ as "C with classes". It just feels like syntactical sugar for stuff you'd do in C. RAII just means calling a destructor function at the end of the scope. Virtual functions are like stuffing function pointers in structs, templates are like "macros on steroid" etc... It's like C with some stuff on top.

Of course it turns out that it's a lot more complicated and powerful than that and it's probably the wrong way to look at C++ but it might take a while until you realize that you're not in Kansas anymore. Rust on the other hand forces you to become acquainted with its paradigm right away, unless you're willing to put all your code in unsafe blocks.
> Could this be a result of Ireland being somewhat of a tax haven?

In short, no. It's not as if the EU lacks capital markets.

Also: "Is anyone really so naive to imagine that these balances are not already fully available to finance new investments by U.S. companies here? Do they think the global financial system is that unsophisticated? At present interest rate levels, a company needs only to issue debt at favorable rates in the U.S., invest the funds held abroad at floating rates, enter a fixed-floating interest rate swap, and voila, the company has access to the funds exactly as if they had been brought home. Indeed, this is just what many U.S. corporations appear to have done. So cry me some crocodile tears for companies that hold profits abroad." [1]

[1] https://www.hussmanfunds.com/wmc/wmc170821.htm
Silicon Valley is in a bubbly race to wash your clothes
SpaceX set to launch mysterious Zuma payload tomorrow night – The Verge
I'm kind of expecting to see a chain reaction happening next..

- Housing falls

- Investors sell

- Stock drops

- SEK value drops (We are here)

- Import prices goes up

- Goods prices goes up

- Less people are wiling to buy goods due to risk

- Wages go down

- People are let go

- Fewer people are willing to buy goods

- and so on..
His latest book came out last year: https://www.amazon.com/Anti-Tech-Revolution-Theodore-John-Ka...
It’s a follow-up to a post from the other day that was strongly against the bill.

EDIT: here’s the older story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15686442
I think that there are two lines here that are easy to conflate.
1) That the golden rule "treat others as you would like to be treated" is sufficient to make you A Good Person, or at least not complicit in any sort of -ism.

2) That, as (assumption here) a member of the ethnic/cultural majority in tech, there's some obligation to speak up for those who may not be able to do so themselves - the social dynamics are different when a member of the 'in' group calls the group out on exclusionary behavior, as opposed to when an 'out' group-er does so.

On some level, this is a cultural divide, and at least from my perspective, we're perhaps realizing that the first line is insufficient - plenty of repugnant norms and behaviors have been implicitly approved by mainstream society despite everyone conforming to the 'golden rule'.
Why Go and Rust Are Not Competitors (2015)
From bitrise link

> We randomly selected 10,000 apps as a base

"2/3 of all enterprises" can only be true if all enterprises are building apps on bitrise.
Cool idea with a design matching the purpose of the website (from my perspective).

Any chance to expand this to other continents as well? What's blocking you from including Europe for example?

I did a test search (New York, NY to Montreal, Canada) and I got a pop-up asking me to spread the knowledge on social network if I like the site - at this point in time it's too soon to ask for that, consider moving that to a later stage of the workflow.

Perhaps you could consider limiting the suggestions to random ~30 results no matter the length of the trip as to me it looks like that currently the longer the journey, the more suggestions you give.

Other than that, I became strongly interested as this type of travelling we prefer. I'd love to learn about the news on the progress, would it be possible to sign-up for a newsletter?

If you want feedback from more people, you can try https://usability.testing.exchange (disclaimer: I am associated with it).
What really changed laptop buying for me was the cloud.

No laptop is going to have 8x discrete GPUs, but all of them can manage to SSH using my cellphone as a hotspot.

So I started buying laptops that were easy to carry, nice to type on, etc.
You don't have to pay for health insurance in Sweden.
The Autonomous Database Future
No, we're too rich.
Broccoli (https://github.com/broccolijs/broccoli) has a really nice concept of "trees" that can be split or merged and composed together.
I hear you. Body parser is now bundled with express though so at least that is getting better.
Black workers' lawsuit claims Tesla is a hotbed for racism
Of course, it was merely an example of an unhealthy obsession I've personally seen. There are many more. Another would be neglecting to save anything for retirement because you believe your home is your retirement fund.
https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/Arm32

Having tested this, Debian and Ubuntu on a RPi2, I prefer Ubuntu for the packages available.

Correction, Ubuntu's official releases only support RPi2
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/releases/17.10/release/
Hey, you're that guy who did "minecraft in 500 lines of python".
> If that was true, you should see significant differences between religions.

You do! I'm guessing (apologies if wrong) that your thinking modern mainstream religions like Christian / Islam / Judaism. Much of these are from the same roots and and naturally similar.

Look at religion over longer history in distinctly separate branches of the tree e.g Buddhism is more relaxed than afore mentioned. The Greeks, Romans and Norse (same tree) were very liberal. Shinto / Confucianism looks as sex as healthy. Among the plains indians sex could be part of a spiritual ceremony to pass power. Australian aboriginals used to share women.

And I'm not saying religion is the cause of these views. A better way to look at that would be to see how sexual views change as religion does. It does seem Christianity brought a lot of judgement around sex and other matters that were not there before during colonisation period. I dont know much about this so someone can likely add to this much better.
What happens if you accidentally commit your AWS access token to public GitHub?
To be fair, Avicenna was Persian, although he had been definitely influenced by the Islamic science developed by the Arabs.
Yea, IMO Firefox 57 is about Firefox finally being able to compete with Chrome in terms of speed. This is easily the main reason Chrome ever took over (that, and Google aggressively advertising it and borderline malware-installing it in bundles of other software). I'd say Chrome and Firefox are identical now in terms of general snappiness and ease of use and it's giving Firefox a chance to actually race ahead with more smart improvements in the future and a believable commitment to protecting its users from aggressive data-leeching and advertising.
The post explicitly says:

"This means that the Senate has now made the tax reform bill a win for those who work in startups instead of a loss."

Not the provision about options - "the bill."

So he's clearly saying that the bill as a whole is better for startup employees than the current system. GP point is that the bill may now be better from one single perspective but on the whole is still much worse than what we have today due to other issues.
That does make sense, but would I be right in saying the proposal doesn't address any of this?
> I'm pretty confident that McLaren Applied Technologies is looking a lead C#/.NET developer.

Are you certain? Maybe they have an internal promotion but company policy/legal compliance forces them to advertise the role publicly?

> On another page, the UK Mobile network '3' is offering 12Gb for the price of 4Gb. I know that's true because I took them up on it (and even for 4Gb it's still cheaper than any other network).

How long for? Is this one of those contracts where it is 3 for 1 for a year then double price next year...

NB I'm absolutely not accusing either of these specific companies of being dishonest.
I'm assuming that $80k/year is gross? Given Sweden has high income taxes, borrowing say $800k on a $40k net salary (for a house!) seems like extremely bad financial management.

Which sane person who is good with money does that? That sets you up for a life of misery (and not unrealistically, an underwater house during your lifetime).
MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and MySQL: more choices on Microsoft Azure
TV and magazines were big business with specialized design experience for decades (over a century, in the latter case), the public web was brand new and mostly had developers or content creators dual-hatting as designers at that point, with very little tool support even.
That's the point. It used to be very slow, clunky, and simply ugly compared to Chrome since the Australis redesign. It's a lot better now, and is about the same in speed plus more memory efficient.
Cooling Redefined – ICEOTOPE
As someone who has attempted to contribute to the GNOME project, this makes me super happy. The current process is archaic: attaching patch files to weird bug trackers and then sorta just waiting for someone to get back to you... A proper pull request system with code review would lower the barrier of entry for contributions to these projects significantly.
The Rust book [https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/second-edition/] is by far the best resource to break into rust and get yourself started with a good foundation.
Clyp: Upload an audio file (or record something new), get a shareable short link
Especially with the dev tools open, I had several sites that could reliably crash Firefox on an i7 which led me to finally switch to Chrome.

Firefox rendering speed and dev tools penalty were pretty bad and I'll take any improvement I can get.

I want to switch back, but for that rendering speed, quality of the development tools and sandboxing need to be at least on par with Chrome.
Good on Tesla for standing its ground and making its case publicly. Musk's pushback is nuanced and important.

The establishment institutions outside of Silicon Valley in America — the media and Capitol Hill — have united recently to spin a decidedly anti-civil rights narrative about large tech companies. Some of it is valid, but much is not, and relevant complexities and subtle moral distinctions are lost on a general public which only has the bandwidth to digest memorable headlines and themes.

And what could be more complex and morally thorny than how to mediate social issues — particularly those involving race — in a highly visible tech company employing tens of thousands of people? Speaking for myself as a black tech co-founder, I agree with the cliffnotes of Musk's message entirely: those of well-represented groups should consider the challenges they never had to face, but no one from any group should have free license to be a jerk. And for god's sake: when you misrepresent facts to serve a handful of minorities you end up undermining all the other minorities.
there's also https://mbasic.facebook.com if we're going to talk about light versions of websites.
Mulu Travel Chrome Extension – Save Places as You Go
Yep! Then I saw them again a few years ago when they played a show at a park in Baltimore. I won't lie, it was enjoyable (if only because a band I grew up loving was playing at a park in my town) but me and my group of late-30's/early-40's friends couldn't help but laugh at Perry's "stage banter".

It was either the most rehearsed and corny thing I'd ever heard or a brilliant troll. Lines like:

"Hello Baltimore! My tailor's from Baltimore...she keeps me looking good in all my nice clothes...yeah...love my tailor...but back when I was younger, I didn't buy my clothes...I just stole 'em..." (opening riff to "Been Caught Stealing")

Every few songs there was another rambling, tangential "story" that was clearly planned out as the way to introduce the next tune. They still played and sang great, but it was a far cry from the shows I listened to on dubbed tapes as a high school kid in the early 90's.
Thanks for the recommendation. I've been listening to Dan Carlin and his history podcasts and am almost done with all of them. I needed something to add to the queue.
I thought they have done this for a long time, at least since they sold that poor woman a laptop with Ubuntu, causing her to drop out of college.
No, they're not. The commonly accepted definition of Null Hypothesis is "the hypothesis of no effect or no relationship" (source: statistics master's degree, but it's also the first sentence in the wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_hypothesis)
That's an old word.

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twit

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noun: twit; plural noun: twits

a silly or foolish person.
this x1000

I've done maybe 100+ tech interviews, easily. The ones that have been the best have been conversation based. The worst are take home projects that take days to complete. (the worst I had: create a poker game)

A good inbetween can be try-before-you-buy for a day or two, but if the scope of work isn't managed correctly you may not see what you want. I had that happen recently in an interview - i asked what success looked like (being communicative on the work to be done) but at the end was told they didn't see enough front-end work.

If you can't tell within 30 minutes of talking to someone whether they are competent or not, you shouldn't be doing the hiring.

Likewise, if you can't express yourself in a casual setting - what kind of person are you to work with? How will you handle disagreements or feedback? What will you offer the team?

Lastly, if they have OSS work, take a look at it. If they have contributed to an OSS project, take a look at their PR and how they worked with the main devs to get it merged in. That is a much stronger indicator to skill and quality than a random coding exercise.
So a connector is /less/ fragile than a soldered connection?
I don’t think so.

If you’re really depending that much on the ad-hoc access to a backup, drop an additional external SSD in your bag and add it to timemachine. That’s even more secure.
I highly doubt that you are currently packing an external adapter to transplant your internal SSD to in case your notebook fails....
You do not have the freedom to dictate what other people should believe. You don't have the freedom to oppress.
Ask HN: Does your Facebook Page bring good traffic?
I have a FB Page that have 500 likes. I shared a link to the page 6 hours ago and now it shows only "9 people reached".
Traditionally yes, but it's not one that modern progressives seem to have much interest in.
RHEL for ARM only runs on 64 bit ARM server hardware which supports UEFI and ACPI. Things like the Cavium ThunderX/X2, Qualcomm Centriq/Amberwing, HPE Apollo 70, Gigabyte MP30.

Fairly recent u-boot provides some UEFI APIs, not sure if enough to run RHEL, and as far as I know no ACPI at all. However in general terms RHEL for ARM isn't going to run on RPi-style hardware. (CentOS is quite different, they have a team taking the RHEL work and targeting cheaper hardware).
Why Reddit is replacing PMs with chat
>> What existing wayland server?

I don't know what was around when Mir was started, but plenty exist today:

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

It was always obvious to me that Wayland was the future replacement for X for a long time. Why they had to take the ideas in Wayland and do something a bit different in Mir has always been a mystery to me.
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