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As someone who hasn’t even worked in the US, let alone SF, is this a typical wage for that area?

I live in a small European city, earning around half this, but my outgoings are a lot less (under €1k/mo) than what I would be paying in SF, so I’m probably saving more at the end of the day. I’d argue my lifestyle is a lot better too.
> I don't care about the imbalance, I care about what I'm getting

Yeah that's how they get you.
For large loads, at $0.32 to $0.50/kWh in Hawaii it is now much more economical to disconnect from the grid entirely, unless you have some limiting factor that would prohibit large scale low cost mounting of a huge number of 1.65 x 1.0 (60-cell) or 1.99 x 1.0 meter (72-cell) size high efficiency PV panels. The ROI can be well under 6 years.
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Such an idiot. But so am trying to have at least 2 device that I can control. I sure wish that one in Victoria take the time to teach me. Geek squad totally no brainer. I'm old and blonde. But I need a big break. Please just want I device to learn beading or even is. But I get 1 and someone on my ads while I'm figuring out etc I'm doing. Did u offend someone? Sorry. But if anyone has a heart I'm not too old to learn so I keep on. Haven't much money but stay in s very good mood most the time. Nudge nudge. Despite it all. Bet I'm screwing up just bbq putting on where it's none of my business at all. O get it
It is like game. But may be e to go back to work cuz old man is gonna retire. Been smoking since 11 49 yrs. Do gotta make the most of each day. Might not no have s tomorrow.
I voted you back up.

There's famine, there's lack of clean water and toilets, there's lack of potable water, etc, etc, etc...

I'm a defender of "pure science", but there are better engineering projects to challenge yourself with.
Certainly it isn't the same in absolute terms? You can get a two-bedroom apartment in Copenhagen for $300,000 or so. I haven't heard of any place in Europe where you can expect to make anything close to this for any normal software engineering role.

(I earn around, maybe less than half the average in this graph, in Norway).
The author argues against project-based learning but then states his "5-minute attempt to come up with an alternative way to teach these skills" which are, effectively, all projects or pieces of a project. Ultimately it doesn't boil down to project-based learning being ineffective, but lack of teaching for communication in engineering teams. If a student's goal is to learn network programming, then they should speak up that they want to focus on that aspect of the project. I took a few CS course post-grad after already beginning my programming journey and found the methods of teaching to be highly ineffective (the practice problems were too abstract and most students couldn't draw the connection to real-life problems - this is at a uni with a top CS program). Upper level courses should definitely keep focus on the complexities of theory, but entry-level CS courses would serve students better by fostering their interest in a topic and showing what it's like in the work force, and then if it's still something they want to pursue then teaching the theory makes sense as it's something they would end up trying to learn about on their own anyway.
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Punctuated equilibrium[1] — growth followed by sudden collapse — could be the umbrella term for the scenarios you are thinking of.

The phenomenon, originally from biology, shows up in sandpiles and avalanches as well; it could explain the growth (or lack of it) of mountains too.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuated_equilibrium
I'm Greek and indeed "nai" means yes in Greek. But I thought "ne" means "no" in Serbian, not Bulgarian. It's probably both.
Yes, with complete overcast even a very large PV array such as quantity 80, 370W high-efficiency 72-cell panels, will not produce more than 3 to 5kW. In bright sun it'll be well above 23kW. Under STC (standard test conditions) that's a 29.6kWh array...

what you should care about is your kWh/month produced.
What a fitting poem.
Can someone tell me why almost every time I visit this site I get 403-blocked?

Very occasionally it works, but only very occasionally.

This is the first time I've loaded the site from a HN story (most visits were from searches); maybe it's overload, it might not be.
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I’ve been wanting a robust open source, end-to-end encrypted, Dropbox-like system for awhile.

Bonus points if it has any of the following features:

* certain nodes can store encrypted blobs without being able to decrypt them

* certain nodes can have read but not write access

* certain nodes can have access only to specific subdirectories

* you could set a policy for retaining old versions of files, to use it as a backup system

Is there anything like this out there?

I wonder if IPFS (and eventually Filecoin) would be a good foundation for such a system.
okay, please donate 10% monthly from your salary to medecins sans frontiers and welthungerhilfe. oh wait, you don't do that, but as a typical HN commenter you probably own something at least as expensive as a macbook pro...
French people also nod upwards to say "no". This is just one swift nod, not an up-and-down nod, and it's usually accompanied by a quick drawn-in breath. I've never seen that anywhere else. My friends who did that were Occitan btw. so maybe it's not all of France.
School gives some a useful fiction, which is primary motivational. E.g. campus, classrooms, professors make you feel better about spending your time on some esoterica.

The other benefit is subject gate keeping. Departments at least in STEM, don't offer pointless classes.

An autodidact might not know what's valuable and might not always muster the energy to get through. They also might not have the integrity to give themselves a fair test.

So yeah, school is useful beyond addressing the scarcity of books.
Looks good!

Given this is unity and not Gnome, does this mean that typing in a file explorer window will select matching files folders in the current directory? (Forward search I think it's called?)

Because currently, Gnome in 17.10 performs recursive search and it's terribly annoying and unhelpful and there doesn't appear to be any way to change it.
Processor speeds are probably a good example of this. Also developer efficiency. All kinds of biz can now afford developers, not just software houses.
I don't find that to be true. Both go to extended lengths (but not herculean lengths like RHEL) to provide ABI and API stability over a defined set of time. The primary difference is that Ubuntu LTS releases happen on fairly hard calendar boundaries with a well defined two year schedule. The Ubuntu 6 month releases seem like an antiquated idea to me, a stabilized rolling release like Debian -testing would be a better fit for the Linux desktoper. So LTS to LTS they are quite similar https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.release-life... and modern Debian stable releases have been taped out smoothly on a roughly 2 year schedule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history.
Since I obviously have very little insight here to your possible situation, but was it perhaps too much weight?
Or not enough ancillary training involving the supportive muscles?

And I believe, depending on your goals, there are ways to hit your goals safely, but they tend to take quite a bit longer, since it's a much slower progression and a slower set of actual set work.

It might be worth looking into, if you haven't already :)
While I am a fan of the few monads I'm using in C# (IEnumerable[T] and Maybe[T] among them), I will admit that composing them is still a black art for me. I haven't been able to find any solutions besides "write specific code for each possible case", which unfortunately grows exponential in the number of different monads.
appealing to people's pretentiousness and such is a fine art and many a marketing scheme has arisen to do just that. exclusivity by price is just one feature. at these price points you can go all out on ingredients as well as packaging. in many cases packaging itself has more effort put into it than the product.
If you are not cutting silicon then you are gluing. Everyone is gluing. Standing on the shoulders of other geeks.
>I’d argue my lifestyle is a lot better too.

Looks like the majority of the European "better lifestyle" involves convincing people on the internet that making a fraction of a Bay Area salary is somehow a good thing.
Tesla super charging stations don’t have normal fast charging stations co-located.
"Cheapskate"? ;)
Meanwhile, Vancouver BC boasted about the famously low salaries of its software engineers and people with similar skill sets, in a failed bid to attract Amazon HQ2:

https://www.google.com/search?q=vancouver+amazon+hq+bid+sala...

In my opinion a pretty stupid thing to do, considering the low probability of Amazon choosing either Portland or Vancouver as second headquarters. Too close to Seattle and still within the same regional talent pool, and regional market demand.
I don't see why not. It's always a useful exercise to take a step back and see how things from different domains might connect up. It's also useful to understand how a discipline has evolved. Computing and information seem like very fundamental concepts now that we've stumbled upon them so it seems right and proper that we figure out how these things interface with all the other things we know about.

Incidentally I've seen Wadler suggest we call the field Informatics. I'd prefer that I think. The word science is doing too much work nowadays and computer science is only a science in the formal science kind of way, if that's even correct. It's definitely not a science in the way biology or chemistry are. By that reasoning I'd prefer the philosophy of informatics. Floridi has suggested the philosophy of computing and information but that's cumbersome. There's also philosophy of the digital which tries to cast its net the widest.
Yes. Do I really have to explain how most things in life are not black and white issues?
I don't think it's entirely fair to expect Tesla to _wait_ for the rest of the car industry to agree on a standard that suits everyone. When the Model S was developed, no other car company except Nissan had any notable interest in electric cars, and no other company had plans to make cars even _close_ to Tesla's in terms of battery capacity.

Assuming that a charger network was necessary for success, which I would argue it was, waiting for the others to catch up could have killed the company.

Note that there have still been no large-scale deployments of charging standards with more than 50-60kW of power, which is half what Tesla is currently deploying to most of its charging stations in North America.
It is only dismissive ironically - the author is not really belittling Slavic languages. Context and intent are important, and it is possible to be unduly sensitive.

I think it is worth expecting readers to expend a small amount of effort to try and assess a writer's intent, so that we might live in a world where people can use colourful language. Teasing someone is not the same as insulting them.
No surprise RH would not be interested, they have the Linux ecosystem by the balls.
In Greece we had a writer called Nikos Tsiforos whose schtick was exactly that. He wrote entire history and mythology books in a Greek argot (the language of the "manges" and the rebetika, which you probably won't find about on the 'net). He used the slang of a criminal subculture that was full of profanity, sarcasm and disdain for authority and polite society to treat scholarly subjects like the Francocracy, the Conquistadores and the histories of Greece, France, Britain and the United States.

That was back in the '50s or so and his books were widely panned by the literary critics of his time but they were still popular several decades later when I was growing up.
The problem with teaching programming in functional languages is that those languages use a different PARADIGM than imperative languages. Learning the functional paradigm is very useful, but it cannot replace programming in like C. They are different. They teach you different things. For my taste and my carrier as mostly a performance / graphics programmer reading the source code of DOOM was a much better, interesting, and inspiring school than learning to program in SML in a university course.
Being Unity8, it is not even GTK.
...and also perhaps not the best way to attract talented staff.
Philosophy is about asking questions, which eventually lead to separate disciplines, once frameworks for answering those questions have been created. Many discrete departments at a modern university have their roots in philosophy.

I'm not arguing with your initial point, articles like this and the subsequent claims about science and philosophy are usually wrong. But I realise, from the responses to you claim that a lot of people are quite ignorant about philosophy and its history in science.

There is a great quote in a Daily Nous article, about this: "many new disciplines have sprung forth from philosophy over the years: physics, psychology, logic, linguistics, economics, and so on. In each case, these fields have sprung forth as tools have been developed to address questions more precisely and more decisively. The key thesis is that when we develop methods for conclusively answering philosophical questions, those methods come to constitute a new field and the questions are no longer deemed philosophical."

[0] http://dailynous.com/2017/08/23/intellectual-achievement-cre...
> But hey, a piece of paper with signatures looks sooooooo much better in a court of law :)

It does. But the parent post suggested that if there is no signed lease, tenant laws should not apply, and I tried to point out that it does not work that way.
Huh? You don't pay taxes on the estimated value of your assets. You would only pay taxes on your annualized profits. In your example, you would show your cases as assets, but you wouldn't book any revenue or profit until you started selling them.

And if next year, you only sell $1m worth of cases and you don't think you will be able to sell any more of the cases, then you write the rest off as a loss and would pay no taxes since you didn't make a profit.
In a world where pointing out that pure facts such as that Chicago has already had 200 gun homicides this year with its strict gun control laws will get you labelled as a white supremacist, I'd definitely like people to chill out, but alas, no.
So, think of it this way.

If UBI was 40k/yr, and your current job gives you 80k/yr, suddenly you're... still making 80k/yr.

Only 40k of that is from your job and 40k is from just existing. Do you still want do your job with that much of a paycut? No? You're probably not alone there.

Tons of people would rather not do their job for such little money.

Suddenly, it falls on society to create meaningful jobs without coercing people with bankruptcy or starvation.
I've been doing Linux for two decades so I know that was the perception at the time. It was almost all marketing though, with just a bit of lucky time window alignment, i.e. the releases happened to be at slightly better cutoff points and therefore had better upstream kernel/xorg/mesa/cups/whatever in the most critical days of 6.04 and 8.04.
How does a strong co-op program work, and why do you think it's the best? Am from SEA university programs and I don't believe we have any of those. Would be awesome to understand more about the process.
Yup, things were different 10 years ago and Ubuntu really made a lot of things easier. Back then getting 3D acceleration to work was a real nightmare (for a linux newbie like me) at the time. Or WiFi drivers. Or getting your system to play videos, because you didn't have the correct gstreamer-* packages.

10 years later and pretty much every distro works out of the box on pretty much all hardware, but back then Ubuntu was definitely ahead of the pack in these regards.
New account with apropos username, smells like performance art aka trolling.
Wasn't Canonical going to drop Unity?

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/ubunt...
I would definitely limit it to the official dialect of Mandarin. Consider that French and Italian are both supported by Google Assistant and they have a lexical similarity of .89, which is high enough to be considered dialects of each other [0]. Meanwhile a high estimate of Cantonese and Mandarin lexical similarity pegs it at .62 [1]. I think it's fair to treat support for Chinese "dialects" as different languages.

I suspect the only reason Chinese is categorized as a single language is ignorance and Eurocentrism. German and English have roughly the same lexical similarity as Cantonese and Mandarin, for example. Considering Chinese one monolithic language is like considering all European languages dialects of "European."

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/11b0fg/til_f...
[1]: http://dx.doi.org/10.5353/th_b3178970
>The resources would have been better spent working directly with and on Debian

Debian is a slow bureaucratic political organization and works very hard to punish those who want too use it for business. Even if Cannonical had spent double the money, they'd probably get 1% of what they were able to do with Ubuntu.

>and offering support/consulting/employment to do so and it made Mark's intentions seem seriously dubious to me

Why should they not offer support to those who want too purchase it?

>although aside from the ad spying thing he hasn't really done anything egregious as I feared initially

The "spying" you are referring to is what Google Chrome and all the browsers do with what you type in your search bar. All Cannonical did was send your search queries to an HTTP endpoint. What are you searching in your app drawyer anyway that you don't want sent anywhere. It's not going to be anything other than the list of apps you have installed and all Linux repos can detect what apps you have downloaded from them.
I think this is missing the main point of Project Based Learning: you choose what you want to learn. You cannot treat motivation as a constant when comparing educational methods. Students get much more from their learning when it is intrinsic and specific to their interests, as is the case when doing a project.
> assuming nothing goes wrong

Yeah, hopefully they didn't make that assumption... Can't imagine debugging a whole assembly line (even a virtual one in a game like factorio is hell at the beginning)
sadly, the people who either can't or won't leave vancouver don't have a lot to choose from. I'm from there and it's really hilarious when people say something like Hootsuite is a "world class" place to work in some IT-related field.

Meanwhile Seattle has things like SpaceX in Redmond developing satellites, Boeing jobs, Blue Origin, a number of tech companies that are not amazon, XKL (run by one of the founders of Cisco, over in the east side making cutting edge networking hardware), significant datacenter and telecom infrastructure that doesn't exist in BC, etc.
Both translate to 'this'. Isso is a coloquial form of isto.
Aquilo translate to 'that'.
Well, you get good healthcare and pension in most european countries. You can live a lot cheaper than in the big cities in the us and there is no gangs and not as many drug addicts
I thought Unity was abandoned? Isn't the default Gnome 3 now?
Ask HN: Inventory folder for software products
Dear #opensource friends,

It's time to have a folder for listing the info about components (icons, snippets, libraries) used inside software projects (FOSS, proprietary).

How about:

./inventory/items/acme.txt

./inventory/license_terms/license_xyz.txt

./inventory/inventory-list.txt

These folders would be automatically generated with human-readable info.

Maybe we can have some votes on the poll? https://twitter.com/nn81/status/967340709119479810

Or just let me know your thoughts on the matter.

Thank you!
Well, all information transfer involves indirection by name, so what you’re getting at is that this lies on a spectrum where the words use are “heavy” and involve lookups where the definitions aren’t in the reader’s cache already? I’m pointing to a parallel here for similar “lookups” in the interpretation of a program by computer ... so maybe the issue is the programs analogous to the way this page is written involve like far network fetches.
I’m not so sure, SF is nice but it’s not particularly special if you take away the high salaries and great tech connections.
How long before I can say "Alexa ask Google to..." :P
This and physical risks is a common problem. You feel great and keep pushing yourself harder. Without experience it's a pitfall one should be aware of.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_United_States

I'm not sure if obesity will prevent them from visiting though.
Can you please confirm what the average salary is in Copenhagen for a senior developer ? Thanks
A joke I heard as a child had a salesman explaining that a jacket was made of wool from a rare breed of mountain sheep, hand spun by artisans in their homes, and then woven into this cloth. "It is a beautiful yarn." he finished.

"Yes," said the customer, "and you tell it so well too."
It depends on what you'd like to do with your life.

I'm originally from a small European island and I'm making a reasonable amount working in a city. I'm really missing the significantly lower stress, fewer and more friendly people, lack of traffic, different kinds of (political or otherwise) discussions, etcetera. I have friends who have sacrificed a large percentage of their salary to return to a "happier" life in that aspect.

You can choose which type of "unit" you want to have more value in your life.
Well no, I think in many cases someone acted in bad faith once and then that propagates forwards via the credulous.

Some of the points read like old Usenet posts. I've seen permutations of "often functional constructs make code unreadable despite readability being one of the main reasons for its existence" since my old days as an admin for Ward's Wiki and it's always been the sane smear.
That would be a feature in Nautilus, Gnome's file explorer. Unity uses/used it as well, so I would expect it to behave in the same way unless patched or reconfigured (if that is at all possible).
The video description links to this repo: https://github.com/ubports/unity8-desktop-install-tools

which basically does "apt install unity8-desktop-session". So the default desktop environment is GNOME, and this is just showing off Unity 8 as an alternative.
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One example is that your parents pass the family business or farm on to you when they die, the tax man comes knocking and wants his 40%.

And the tax man says that family business is worth $10 million. You know you could never get that much money in a sale, but the IRS doesn't care. Have a fire sale and pay them the millions you owe in taxes.

It turns out you were only able to sell it for about how much you owe in taxes. So, they adjust the appraised value and lower your tax burden right? Nope. Pay up and you may need to kick in a bit of your own money to make up the difference. Your welcome, says the IRS.
I personally find the use of single word "This." in reply to a comment on forums (such as e.g. HN) really annoying. (But then again, I've reached an age where you tend to find everything new awful.) I guess the reason why it pisses me off is that it doesn't do anything that "Yes.", "Exactly.", "I agree" couldn't already do, but at the same time it has this overly sweet smell of kool-aid that just makes you sick.
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> "isso aí"

> 'itsso, eh'

Trivia: notice 'isso aí' has an acute accent on í which indicates the syllable is stressed. Doesn't sound much like 'eh' https://translate.google.com/#pt/en/a%C3%AD similar to 'itsso ah-E'.
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