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Setting up a Java/Kotlin/Groovy project takes two clicks these days: http://start.spring.io

And that is a simple template that just takes advantage of curated OSS ecosystem dependencies by the Spring team.

There’s really no magic, I find Maven or Gradle to be as opaque as say Gem bundles, Bower, or NPM and Grunt (Or whatever the new flavour du jour in Node land is). That is to say, the core concepts are all mostly similar but just slightly different enough to cause hair loss. And let’s not talk about Golang dependency managers...
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Careful. I wasn't arguing that corporations minimising their tax burden is immoral. I was arguing that a moral obligation is orthogonal to a legal obligation, and may be either higher or lower, depending on your viewpoint.

My opinion is that moral tax obligations are so far below legal obligations that almost any effort to minimise taxes is perfectly fine. But you still have to pay your legal minimum if you don't want to go to prison.
You have to check for a Broadcomm wifi chip, since those can sometimes give trouble. However, if that's switched out then there's no issues.
> is why would I pay tuition as a legal immigrant on say a F-1 visa, but if I came in illegally

You need a bank statement in order to get your I20.
You might want to try Xiaomi Notebook Air 12" a budget clone of MacBook 12". It might work over 8 hours from the battery. And doesn't have any fans.
I think it pretty important. The logic goes like this.

"This person seems really knowledgeable on law" which leads to

"Must be some sort of a lawyer"

They then go on to assume they have gained valid legal knowledge.
Can you say anything else about your experience with the purism laptops? I just priced one out, and I'm prepared to put down the cash for my daily driver, but what kind of battery life are you getting out of it? I'm looking at the 13". Which one do you have?
As an unhappy Bitbucket user, I have my fingers crossed for better Github enterprise pricing (does not scale for dev agencies with many repos), but mostly for AWS Code Commit.

It's somewhat scary the breadth that AWS has in their ecosystem now; however, Bitbucket is wrought with issues like:

- no large file collapsing, i.e. lock files

- random downtimes ( I wonder if they actually meet their SLA )

- feature requests on boards where Atlassian members ask why x is needed, followed by a slew of +1's, to only see someone ask 3 years later, "where is this at?"

I'm a jaded Atlassian user who believes they buy competition and then stagnant the product's evolution.
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It is too bad there can't be simpler legal ways to compensate someone for distributing their works.

Spotify has allowed me to find and enjoy so much amazing music that I wouldn't have had the budget to pay for via iTunes.
I agree with what you say, but you attacked OP for not providing evidence, and you didn't provide any either.
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You've posted plenty of comments that break the HN guidelines. If you keep doing this will ban you. Especially, please cut the ideological flamebait and—as in this case—nasty snark.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> I don't know if this is a problem in the US...

With respect to STEM career fields, that's a gratuitous no.

For an idea of what a grunt GS-12/13 engineer's salary in Silicon Valley (highest locality adjustment in the country) looks like, see [1]; management is at GS-14/15 level. For the sake of completeness, other locality rates can be found here[2]. Keep in mind that it takes 18 years to progress from Step 1 to Step 10. Not all federal organizations apply the GS scale (the NSA may be one), but they don't deviate far from it either.

[1] https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries...

[2] https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries...
I've met enough international students to know different countries have different strategies to bring the knowledge home. Some have 2x time retainer for whatever length one studied on their expense. Others have guaranteed government jobs. Mine had any general engineering/it jobs in the private sector. Where are you drawing the conclusion from that this is the exception?

I fully get that a STEM graduate has an easy life in USA, we have that anywhere. But you have to look at regular people, with average jobs. What you refer to as "developing country" most of the time offers better free healthcare that the top notch USA option that's simply out of financial reach.

Not to derail the discussion but just to illustrate. Canada just brought a law for maternity leave to be up to 18 months, paid.
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Out of curiosity, which parts of .NET bytecode do you believe to be "too far abstracted from the hardware"? The object model, certainly, but you don't need to use that. On the other hand, the basic instruction set for arithmetic and pointers seems to be on the same abstraction level as WebAssembly to me.
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Hey, I bought one of their phones a couple years ago when I had this idea that I needed a dirt simple phone -- upgraded to a an iPhone SE last year, but I digress. Do you have any experience with this device?
>> Spotify has allowed me to find and enjoy so much amazing music that I wouldn't have had the budget to pay for via iTunes.

Napster allowed me to find and enjoy so much amazing music that I wouldn't have had the budget to pay for via iTunes.
Donate to the Internet Archive. It's not a "what if", it's a "when".
As I understand it, uptalk began as more typically spoken by adolescent or young women and then spread to some men --but not just in the bay area but generally, initially east and west coasts. Then there is vocal fry but that's a different phenomenon.
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This is an exciting research area. See unikernels, HaLVM (Haskell on Xen), MirageOS (Ocaml), OSv, Microsoft Singularity / Midori.
Soundcloud is obviously still very alive. I switched my Spotify plan to Soundcloud, because the independent stuff is so good there. With a paid account you also have access to most things you would find on Spotify. Also I'm pretty sure the Spotify Windows Client has some horrible security vulnerabilities, I don't trust it at all.
Yes, but when someone's calling Google evil for this behavior, it's clear they consider this act immoral. And I am asking whether similar logic extends to individuals too.
Seriously. I understand the desire to be "funny" in job ads and I am not against it in all instances but this is such a specific joke that it might as well just said "bonus points if you are a little nerdy but not too nerdy, 30-35 years old, American, a guy, and/or grew up in at least a middle class household."
I've posted on this before here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16023771

Path of least resistance (and troubleshooting) IMO is to stick with laptops with Linux preinstalled (Although some of the Lenovos are good as well). You also save a little money b/c you dont have to buy Windows with the laptop. :

- Dell XPS 13 with Ubuntu preinstalled (dev edition)

- Dell Precision 5000 or 7000 with Ubuntu preinstalled (these are better than the XPS 15s - less problems in my experience + business support and quality. My XPS 9550 took me a while to get stable... :() I would have probably went with 5520 instead of XPS 15 if I had to do it again.

- System 76 boxes - no experience with these but look pretty good

The nice thing about the Dell Precisions (and even the XPS 15) is it is easily user upgradeable for SSD, memory (up to 32GB), wifi card, battery. The XPS 13 seems like a great box too, but know that the RAM is soldered to the board.
I believe Loewen's argument is that Chinese ran the grocery stores, and because whites viewed merchant labor as distasteful (they all wanted to be agrarian landowners, even poor whites) Chinese had extra leverage because they were the only group supplying necessary goods in these small rural towns.

A case that established Chinese exclusion from white schools (Lum v. Rice, 1924) came out of Rosedale, just north of the town of Greenville mentioned in the article, when a white public school did not permit a Chinese grocer's daughter to enroll. Interestingly, the lower county court ruled against the school district and upheld the Chinese girl's right to attend the white school. The decision was subsequently overturned by the Mississippi Supreme Court and US Supreme Court in favor of the school district. It's telling that the court closest to the case ruled in favor of the Chinese: these merchant families had economic leverage in their communities because they filled a role that white planters needed but disdained for themselves. A town that treated its Chinese unfairly might soon find itself with no place to buy canned goods.

There is a similar story for Jewish immigrants, who ran (and in some cases whose decedents still run) the general/department stores in these Delta towns. The oldest synagogue in Mississippi is in -- you guessed it -- Greenville.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lum_v._Rice
This has gotten a major tweak with a 2.x BIOS update, and it's a lot better now (IMHO). It's still there, but barely noticeable.

Also, now the minimum brightness setting is now super low, which is kind of refreshing actually.

Personally I like it, but I can see how some might not.
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I have a Thinkpad T460p with 32GB of ram and a 1TB SSD running Ubuntu 17.10. I get about 7 hours with the extended battery. everything works except the fingerprint reader.

The current versions: the T470, T470p or the T25, are great Linux laptops.
>Racism against Americans is still racism.

It's unproductive to dismiss a factual claim as racist. You can simply show data that disproves the parent's claim and implicitly confirm their racist tendencies towards Americans rather than screeching "racism".
> So because my mother cheated on him it's his fault for leaving

No, independently of your mother cheating on him, it's his fault for refusing to uphold his legal obligation to materially support his children.

Leaving the spouse is not the issue. (Leaving the children may be an issue, but to the extent it is it is at a minimum mitigated by fulfilling the legal support obligations a parent who is not raising their children has to those children.)

> If my father had cheated on my mother I'm assuming it would still be his fault if she left him

Whoever's fault leaving is, it would be his fault if he chose to refuse to meet his legal obligation to support his children.

> We grew up poor because my mother cheated, not because of my father leaving.

From your own description, the poverty was at least in large part because your father refused to pay legally-required child support after leaving you and your mother. Assuming that there was not a custody contest that you omitted in which your mother was awarded full custody, leaving children is not necessary with leaving their mother, however justified the latter is, and in any case, neither requires being a deadbeat on child support.
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He's not exiled? The US wants him back very much.
Not just that but those same students want GTA positions. To fund those positions the universities are increasing fees and no-credit courses on students.
That's obviously not the only skill involved. Please don't post reflexively dismissive comments to HN.
Kinda like it says, they get it from fleets, app makers, etc. For example, you might put an OBD2 device like Automatic in your car to lower your insurance - the company making the OBD2 device might be selling location data of that OBD2 device. Commercial fleets have those as well, and that data is also sold. Same for mobile apps - a lot of them collect user location data, especially anything related to motion/navigation.

One example - http://www.coyotesystems.eu/ but there are dozens, if not hundreds, more companies selling this kind of data on their users, and companies like Inrix aggregate it.
Good to know on the X1 carbons. They look like good machines, maybe I can find a good refurb as a secondary box to try them out.
They are also the ones defining "internet crime" and "evidence".

Those of us who do understand don't have an appealing alternative, because the entire thing is nonsense.

We have the same problem with DRM and software patents.
I'm sorry, but the last time I tried OpenCage it was terrible. And by terrible, I mean in line with everything else that uses OSM-based data. Geocoding is hard and I wish you luck, but you've got a long way to go.
I don't know, you'd have to ask those people. I don't personally think it's evil for either Google or an individual.
Presidential pay is not outrageous because those seeking the Presidency should be motivated by public service, not remuneration.

Of course, the President doesn't really have bills. He or she doesn't exactly pay to rent the White House.
NYC has fast food Tex Mex joints run by Chinese. It's not Chinese-Mexican fusion, but it is something. They even make their own tortillas fresh: http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/02/nyregion/where-east-meets-...
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yep, the broadcom that came with my xps 15 9550 was total garbage in both Windows and Linux. I swapped for an Intel and it has been smooth sailing...
We have some of the best talent in our country.

I worked for a well known (in this area) science non-profit agency, and while we did attract good talent, after I moved to the private sector (and literally earning twice the salary) that I found much more brilliant people working at the high paid private sector jobs.

So while I agree that public sector jobs can attract good people, I think that most of the best people are in the private sector where they can earn more money.
You should use their web client. It uses less resources/permissions than the electron app and I prefer the barebones UI. The day they deprecate their web app (which I predict they will to avert adblocking) is the day I'll stop using Spotify.
Stross seemed to be talking about AI more as systems operating beyond human comprehension rather than "intelligence" like you or me or a mouse would have. A hyper-efficient but brainless agent could still be incredibly destructive, just like viruses or locusts are
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Thinking about it, part of the reasons music labels got big is for economy of scale when mass producing CDs for example. Of course, such economy of scale was not needed anymore with the move to digital distribution. This didn't work well with the current debt-based economy where shareholders depends on stocks always going up for things like retirements. I assume that Hollywood has similar problems, right?
That's a good question.
Yep - and (comparatively) not many people focus on open source geo tools, so the developer experience is not where it should be.
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I would prefer if they did away with most self checkout.
> Government employees tend to excel at working organisational politics (i.e., in serving their organisational customers) rather than in serving their taxpaying customers

In my limited experience this depends on the area. For example I know scientists who work for the government because environment and policy is their passion and for better or worse the EPA is/was the place to be. First choice not second.

But I've also met developers that work for state government and... I don't think they could handle a private industry job for the most part.
I have no data to offer, but I do have a simple, heuristic model that might hint at GP's thinking process:

1. tolerance to short-term career uncertainty varies greatly between individuals (e.g. changing jobs, moving, having money in the bank to cushion the cashflow turbulence)

2. the gov't largely underpays in dollars in return for high career stability

3. if level of tolerance to short-term disruption is strongly positively correlated to general 'ability', then the government will end up with on average less capable workers

Not saying this is necessarily true, and certain fields are probably exceptions (do people who choose to become cryptographers prefer a quiet peaceful life?) but certainly the movers and shakers of industry are people who can stomach enormous amounts of short term risk.

And there are also heuristic arguments to think (3) might be true on average. Like, if people with more money in the bank can take more short term risks, and it's usually the most capable people with that cash available (because they had more earning power in the past), then 'valuing career stability' might be a negative signal for candidate ability.
TVA, a federally owned corp, had its salaries uncapped by congress in 2004. If not for that law, they would be subject to the cap also.

Also, that $995k for the CEO is just the base salary.. his full comp package is about $6.5m
Alibaba does give him the authority to offer a unrejectable offer. Although the math behind statistics and big enough capital is the true decider. Like Godfather, he is not making an offer unrejectable, he just knows how to force the other party to accept it...
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Universities should not make up budget short falls and high administration salaries in the backs of students.
Google has stated that they would move to the power9 if the performance claimes live up to the hype. That has yet to be seen.
They did not attack the OP, they criticized their argument. It's a fundamental difference.
"Points" the gateway drug of JIRA. It's honestly the most difficult/simple concept to understand, since it's all about "don't think intuitively, because in JIRA that's the wrong way to think."
I don't see the need to make the distinction - if you could readily grow animal cells for food, why even consider eating your own?

Morally speaking, yeah sure. Practically speaking, no?
High touch means talking to people.
How many lawyers does it take to shoot somebody into space? A thousand fewer than it takes to operate a music streaming service.
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Choosing available criminals and quantifiable laws is, in my opinion, our justice system's worst shortcoming.

It plagues our judicial system from the most trivial crimes (speeding), to the most awful (sexual abuse and murder).
If there was no intent to allow companies to get away with this, then these tax escapes would have been closed once they were abused. But they are not closed, because they were left there intentionally due to lobbying.
You are assuming 100% utilization, which is almost never true, and even if it were, most of that money goes to the contractor's employer.
These sort of cards have been around for years, specifically AMEX has been offering these deals for a long time, with lots of points and free flights every year.

I can't see what is different about this card, so I think their complaint stands. This looks like a puff piece.
Yes. That's literally the reason most of us deal with bullshit at our dayjobs every day.
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Have you looked at GitLab's offering recently? It might be a better fit than GitHub.
The verilog it generates, however, is on the edge of readable, which makes it a problem if you need to debug something using waveforms.

I tried to make a verilog DSL in julia, which was a lot of fun, but I got stuck on how to implement sequential logic (instead of just combinatorial logic). Even better (and should be reasonably doable with clever application of julia's macro and type system) would be to take a julia function and transparently generate verilog from it.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s found out later Apple helped convince others or fund research for this lawsuit in some hidden deal on the down low
it's also super unprofessional when candidates send emails for job postings that aren't even close to a match.

For example, I posted a staff (level above senior) front-end / architect role about a year ago. I promptly received inquiries from 50+ intern candidates, many of which were based out of the country.
I agree that 90% seems to be the upper end, but 50% is the extreme low end and is a dated figure and the other sources seem to show this. Notably that quote you cite was written in the early 80s, and according to most those sources, wars are getting more deadly for civilians and less deadly for combatants (drones and other remote killing methods?).

UNICEF et al cover this at length.
https://www.unicef.org/graca/patterns.htm

https://www.iraqbodycount.org

Edit: Intersting discussion here, suggesting much of the difference comes down to how you measure and when you stop measuring. The longer you measure, the worse it is for civilians and in particular, women. https://files.prio.org/Publication_files/Prio/Armed%20Confli....
Generally breaking the law and seeking to escape the consequences has always resulted in effective exile, throughout history. In fact, how could it not? Would you like the law to be suspended in this case, but not in the case of people leaking secrets to China? Where's the difference? Is it just that what you like should be an exception? You could argue it was patriotic to break the law, but working for the NSA hardly forced him to break the law, nor did it force him to avoid the consequences. He could have been like Rosa Parks who accepted the consequences. Admittedly, hers were smaller in magnitude, but there are other options than what Snowden took.
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Hm. Okay. Interesting idea. I would argue, that it defeats the purpose of a shared library, if you have a branched copy of a dependency with your own patches in your own library project. Plus if you work on, say, 10 libraries at the same time, each having its own branched copy with individual patches, oh well, i wouldnt want to do that manually. You would have to send the patches upstream, so that all other libraries can also profit from it. And you blow up the final jar size. And you get in namespace conflicts (maybe modularization solves it) and so on.

Did you mean that?
Ha, it's cool. Nowhere near NYC, I'm afraid, but I'll keep that in mind if I ever manage to get an on-site there.
Too old for this == I prefer to use ATMs only?

Because human interaction == high touch.

Especially if you only want to talk to a man at the bank! That's extra high touch!