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Where are your former startup colleagues these days? If they are still working close to the startup field, it'd be good to talk with them, even if you you aren't looking for a direct referral. If you can get candid feedback from them it may help. Their gap analysis might be quite scary at first, but they can likely suggest ways for you close the gaps. And the gaps might only be at an appearance level. You've done the startup thing, I'm sure you can do it again if you persist.
Total Canadian population in the bay area is 19,500.

LA county has more by itself at 29,200 Canadians.
California as a whole has only 132,000 Canadians.

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/us-...
That's exactly how it works, we also gather more data about each company such as Alexa Rank, traffic data, and data from LinkedIn as well.

Basically you save a lot of time by using LeadQ because it takes so much time to manually copy the URI from an excel file and putting it into the browser and waiting for the webpage to load and then taking a decision.
How do you even remember that? Regardless, my stuff is in perfect condition, I could only say what emails I got yesterday or what apps I have installed, I guess...
We've got a lot of holes that need to be dug anyway. The state of infrastructure in the US is pretty deplorable in some places. You could keep a few million people busy rebuilding roads and bridges that are crumbling away - more if you leaned on manpower instead of machinery.

I'd like to see something like a reincarnation of the CCC. There's so much relatively unskilled labor out there that goes undone.
What industries pay better in Canada? What industry is Canada a good place for? At least, better than tech. Or is it just that tech workers have so much opportunity and mobility that there's too much incentive for them to leave their domestic labor markets.
AT&T Unveils a Fake 5G Network Hoping You'll Ignore T-Mobile Is Kicking Its Ass
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Those cities are at different margins away from fundamental constraints. Because of geography, SF and SV were sort of locked into smaller footprints vs commute distances. Seattle/LA is just behind that with a bigger sprawl/commute margin but they're close to some limit at which property values spike up. Those other cities you name are wider flatter areas, with similarly wider margins, but they might hit other constraints soon... water for some of them. After they hit the constraint, their property values will spike too.
> However, digging a hole in the ground and then filling it up is horribly, soul crushingly demotivating.

Further, being forced to spend time doing that makes it much harder to gain skills for, or search for, another job.

Make-work non-training jobs (though ideally real beneficial work that just has market value less than what is paid by government for it rather than obvious waste of effort) may be a same policy solution to short-term private sector dislocation where demand for work with basically-similar skill profile has dropped but is expected to rebound, but beyond that it is fairly obvious counterproductive and a trap that impedes the ability of a labor force to adapt to new needs compared to conventional means-tested welfare, which itself is not very good at that (which is one of the motivations for UBI.)
To be picky, the linker script lays out a sequence of calls to the global constructors so that the C runtime startup knows where to find and execute them.
Thanks. Missed 'individual'... Mind I'd stick with the K&R approach and refer to compound statements as blocks in a beginner's primer. What I wouldn't do is "explain" in a way that will probably have a beginner rescanning multiple times - I had to do a double take:

"Other lines that are not starting a function, ending it or defining control end every statement in C with a ; character"
I also want a screen for the audio/video conference to show where the sound is coming from, so we can mute that one guy who doesn't turn his mike off and is heavy breathing on the call.
Humans can be pretty good if they're trained like jet fighter pilots. I'm sure automated cars will outperform them (or at least be as good as them) if they're built and maintained like jet fighters. If we can't make average human a jet fighter pilot, can we make them maintain their cars at that level? And expect to pay for them accordingly.

On the second point, I'm more talking about hacking scene and maintenance. I'm pretty sure today's jackasses will find a way to hack auto-piloted cars to act like jackasses. And drunktards will drive unmaintained cars with not working and counterfeit sensors too.
We used it for Steamworks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIRST_Steamworks), where speed was a priority for our light robot. Unfortunately, defense was utilized to our detriment.
- Canada is already pursuing non-American engineers, even advertising along the 101 [1], and it's working [2].

- Canada does offer some tax breaks [3] and grants to startups, but more is also welcome.

- Agreed that there should be a bigger focus on startups. I wonder if having provinces create VC funds (like Investissment Quebec [4]) tailored specifically to startups would help here.

[1] http://mgalligan.com/post/52327738889/canada-h1b

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-04-20/h-1b-work...

[3] https://www.investinontario.com/incentive-programs-and-servi...

[4] http://www.investquebec.com/international/en
I thought that too. However last Black Friday I found the best deal on an iPhone X was to pay £450 up front and then pay £29 per month for 2 years (totalling £1147 or £6.13 per month above the phone’s list price). The data and minutes I get would cost me at least £15 per month, making my deal absurdly good value!
Probably because health insurance is only one of many costs of living that you have to account for? Housing, transpo, food, utilities, etc - all account for far more than my healthcare costs for any given month/year.
It's clearly not the proper use of "patent troll".

This is just the Tesla Branch Elonians extending their "the world is against our religion" into bizarre heights of delusion.

Nikola got patents granted. They are a real truck manufacturer, with real customers (including Budweiser's parent who just signed on. Big.), and don't remotely fit into the "patent troll" category.

After a while you just get tired of the All-Tesla-All-the-Time crowd complaining that other people are coming to the market-- probably with better management and more focus.
Say no to early liquidity
And you're in Victoria? that's not a cheap place to live, especially if you're considering buying a home.

That companies think you're paid highly for your area is kind of this entire problem in a nutshell.
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Andymark (http://www.andymark.com/Mecanum-s/53.htm) sells mecanum wheels durable and large enough for some robots.
I bet that this isonly possible because someone got the drivers for display, touch, camera, radios, etc, ...in binary form from the last oem image and put in the new one. sometimes they will backport the last kernel from android 5.1 into a 6.0 image so the binary drivers still work
yeah, just a hash table would suffice
There simply are no large native top-tier tech companies like Amazon or Google in Canada that need large amounts of top-tier talent. The local players are much smaller and are competing for local talent with banks and insurance companies. Less competition means lower wages. Because of permissive immigration laws, there has also been a lot of immigration of software developers from Asia and eastern Europe, which is great for the employers, but exacerbates the problem for local talent.
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Keep an eye out for people guiding traffic in Tokyo. It's much more than in Europe
Without a comparison of how good the other decisions were, this means nothing :)
Instead of doing that, I am just going to try and get the laws changed.

There are lots of people who care about affordable housing, and we are growing in political power.

The rich people who only care about protecting their property values and increasing their rent prices, are slowing being outnumbered by renters who will vote to increase supply.

We no longer live in a time where you have to be a property owner to vote. New people in an area have just as many political rights as property owners.

So no, I am not going to just shut up and do nothing. I am going to play to win. And that means voting and trying to change the law.

It will take time, but we are gaining in strength, because there are just so many people who are getting screwed by the establishment political interests. So I am confident that the supply problem will be solved eventually.

I am sorry that people participating in a democracy offends you. And a democracy means that everyone has the same political rights, regardless of whether they have just moved to a city or if they have been there for 30 years.
Hence the "hour of code" and "everyone should code" movements.
What's some good non-tech Discord channels that you subscribe?
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Did the Pixel 2 get rid of the headphone jack?
I don't think there is one area specifically. I've actually lived all over the Bay Area. It's more of a sense that you'll be given a lot of opportunities and it's up to you to make the most of it.
I'm on the board of my condo building's HOA which has a number of things that would be helpful.

* We pay $200/mo for a basic website with forum, some billing things, some file storage and other stuff I never use. It looks like it was written 20 years ago. (If someone can recommend something already out there that would be helpful)

* Doorman accepts dozens of package deliveries each day which get sent email and tracked in above system when picked up. Needs to write apt number on box and have its own tracking system

* I have to approve lots of expenses not knowing what fixing the hvac unit should cost

* we're getting screwed by insurance company - I have no idea if our policy is good or not

* Insurance claims for damage is a huge s* show

* Energy management is horrible, we dont know where our electricity is going or how we can cut down

* Contractors are unreliable - I want to know who is blacklisted from neighbouring buildings because they suck

* How do our expenses compare to others? I have no idea.
Yeah, try to get the Branch Elonians to admit that TSLA has to retire $1.9 Billion of debt in the next 12 months.
They do. Oops.

Meanwhile the CEO is insulting the financial community that keeps him afloat. I keep hearing how smart he is, but... sometimes...
Agree here. I've been both, and what I find is most lacking in early, mid-stage companies is "process" and "ability to think of execution strategically".
As with most people from ivy league schools, they're certainly the best at believing they're the best based exclusively on where they come from.
Reading this has made me find words i've been looking for for months now, and maybe you will at least see these, hopefully even think about them:

As an idealistic goal your policies are great. In practice however i find they sorely underestimate the differential in effort required between:

- someone who has to censor their earnest thoughts preemptively to not be censured by you

and

- a troll gleefully dressing up words they know will hurt in dressing nice enough to fly under your radar

You're asking the former to spend a lot more time and work, than it takes the latter, for whom it's a form of playing, a game they enjoy. I don't have a solution, but i think it's true that your policies have a chilling influences on earnest voices and are creating a community where trolls are very loud.
ctrl+f "construction" = 0 results.

https://angel.co/construction

small construction companies are still in the stone age. plangrid and submittal exchange exist but not much else is popular.

textura is owned by oracle, and everything else is owned by trimble and autodesk.

theres a plethera of attempts at field document management, and timecards, but 0 great medium-large business size erps. procore is like half an erp without an accounting system.

there is a huge untapped thirst for something that "just works" regarding labor productivity tracking and document management.

construction is one of the places where I think an enterprise blockchain could actually apply better than a traditional database. imagine a construction project with one blockchain, and every general contractor, sub, and vendor participating. shares, payments, todo, gantt charts, drawings, the model itself. they can all access the database from whatever supported client their firm uses (think email clients all working with each other) but on the backend working on one shared distributed database. I think you could turn down the bad actor security a bit, similar to https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-microsoft-...
I guess I rarely see the case for an AVR when you're not prototyping on an Arduino. You can get chips that are an order of magnitude more powerful per $/watt/and any other metric you'd want to use.
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Is there any relationship between this kind of lossless vibration, and other lossless processes like superconductivity or superfluidity?
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The default google approach to open source is unidirectional source dumps after all the work is done. On some products you do a bit better, but still keep your cards incredibly close to the vest, and maintain very tight control. Even when you're trying not to, you can't break from that mold.

I've got this comment saved on my reddit account because it was so funny:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/53gb56/why_lea...
It's a bit much to say design is goonish and an arms race. I'd argue the reason that Apple is the most valuable company in the world is mostly due to their design expertise.

You can make the same argument about software between companies being an arms race that competitors adapt to to or get left behind (see cloud, mobile, voice, etc.).
Exactly. Google has become the demon for the right suspect partially because the Clinton's are gone.

In the US you rarely even know who the gal in the cube next to you voted for.
Initially VC, then advertisers. It's more of the same shit but ridiculous given FB's size to think the market can only have one player. The way to accelerate network growth is base on an open source standard and encourage competitors using it.
I changed a few things as a result:

* I am far more diligent about opening a window at my home and office. In winter I may open one a crack.

* I leave my bedroom door open at night

* I noticed I was getting extremely high AQI index readings when cooking. I was frying things in a pan after previously cooking something else in the same meal (meat, then sweet potatoes). I now wash in between, use coconut oil (less AQI readings) and am more diligent about opening the kitchen door if the AQU gets high

It's kind of like measuring weight. Once you have it stable, you don't really need to do anything. But, keeping the readings alerts you if something ever goes off track.

Also very useful to see that even openings in windows could make large and immediate differences.
And this pisses me off every time a schema change needs to be made in mobile apps I develop.
Ask HN: Is there a reason there isn't just one bank?
Step back and think about how there are 100+ banks, how 3rd party gets to profit whenever you buy something using debit card/ credit card. How so much is wasted in advertising gimmicks by banks to get people to open account with them... and then think about what is primary purpose of bank.

A place where you can safely store money and retrieve it later.

Have you played any mmorpg game. You store currency in bank, you get it later, you give it to others, you trade. There is no 3rd person in middle.

IMHO, it seems having ability to trade currency digitally and keep currency safe is just as important as providing water to each home, at least for any remotely functioning country in this century. As such shouldn't governments provide this functionality, I don't understand rationale behind O(n) banks. There can be separate private loaning system.

So WHY can't there be one bank, whose sole purpose is to store money and transfer money?

Maybe govt ran independently controlled non-profit entity??

I feel any country that can pull this will have instantly more productive economy.

There should be zero fees if I buy something.

There should be zero delay if I transfer any amount.

There shouldn't be banks!

Whole reason Stripe is successful because of stupidness that is electronic payment system. Yet you still pay ~$4 per $100 to no face organizations for no good reason at all. Seems like severe bottleneck to economy, and failed system. Clearly free market has failed here.

Again just imagine: 1 bank that nothing to sell to you, no fees, instant actions.

I feel whole loan money industry is riding on top of neutral and crucial service of being able to store and transfer money.

Institutional problems shouldn't be solved with complicated technologies until last resort, so no blockchains.
I cited my scientific qualifications to demonstrate that I am uniquely positioned to assess the quality and scope of the scientific research we are discussing and - crucially - the interpretations thereof.

Most on HN lack the background knowledge and training to usefully interpret a review article like this, let alone a journalistic simplification. Yes, I cite "thoughts from my own mind", a mind which has spent years researching this theme.

You're wondering why I don't cite any articles contradicting the claims of the review article? That's because this paper already cites many published peer-reviewed works, only to dismiss their findings. You'd know this if you actually read the paper and had the background and training to properly interpret it!

It's an interesting review. The main idea of the paper is that we shouldn't jump to conclusions so quickly when thinking that strenuous exercise can increase risk of short-term illness. The authors point out some logical and mechanistic fallacies of past studies.

I take issue with the interpretation that most people will have after reading - that strenuous exercise will not increase risk of getting sick. I know firsthand that this is not the case in truly elite athletes. But, for many people this may be true. It's important to be specific however, when discussing scientific matters, which is why I contributed my thoughts
...does this person not realize that seiri means menstruation in Japanese?
I am Canadian and I would definitely choose a Canadian company over an established American company if the salary was competitive. But it ain't.
> Are you sure you want that job?

Yes, I want to have more impact and be able to use my experience to give more value to the companies I work for. It's hard to do that in a lower level position where all you can do is offer feedback rather than make decisions.

Increasingly, it seems like the Senior Software Engineer role has less value, with requirements like "5+ years' experience".
I think your talking about SQL abstraction and I'm talking about persistence abstraction. I would never consider sharing SQL across vendors.
https://www.economist.com/content/big-mac-index

Man, you are right, at home 1CAD buys 13% less than 1USD does at home, if I am reading that correctly.
Better weather, definitely. But is anyone claiming San Franciso or Seattle are more 'world city' than Toronto or Montreal? By almost any definition of world city, they would be very wrong.
What type of roles are you specifically looking for? Engineering, sales, marketing, business, etc

Also what type (industry) and what stage startup are you applying to?

For example, "startups" like space-x I'm assuming value having a ton of enterprise experience versus something more consumer facing like Snapchat two years ago.

Different stages as well as industries will be looking for different potential + proof of experience and you should highly tailor your resume + interview to those expectations!

If it's more on the business side, happy to chat further if helpful :).
They do help reduce economic inequality, nothing like a good war to flatten wealth.
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16993715
If goods and services skyrocketed, then those on UBI would start offering goods and services (aka working). I don't think it would degenerate at all.

Why would you lose direction and meaning? That's such a cultural thing to say, to think your job is your direction and meaning.
The system for granting patents could well let some weak ones through-- but litigation will figure it out.

It's how the game is played. so, I don't understand the anti-Nikola guys. Let's face it, if it works out their approach has some huge advantages over the 4 megawatt-hour packs the Tesla Semi is going to require.

it's all good.

and, no, Nikola is not a "patent troll" in any understanding of the words. The Branch Elonians are only slowly coming to the realization that Tesla has no sustainable advantages-- other than brand. which does have cachet. not sure that helps in Class 8 trucks, though.
>$12 million USD were stolen, only $8 million were recovered

>only $8 million

isn't a 75% recovery rate pretty good for cases like this?

edit: 67%
Yeah I don't really know either. Something like if you name a number by saying BB(10000), but it's not computable, then have you actually named a number? But really that's just a boring question of how you referee the game.
This is about China, but even in the US a free iPhone is not a common carrier incentive. You can see a summary of deals here.* Promotions apparently range from $200-500 in value. Android phones and tablets are the ones routinely given away for free (e.g. T-Mobile currently offers a free Android tablet just for switching an existing prepaid account to post-paid), though again, not for the premium brands like Pixel.

It may be tiresome to hear that iPhones cost more and are popular at the same time, but it’s still true.

* https://www.tomsguide.com/us/iphone-x-iphone-8-best-deals,ne...
you're missing the main difference.

I dont trust anyone working with debian or google.

but debian I can be sure if someone saw a bug/malware happening or in the source, I'd benefit from that. with closed systems the source option is gone. also nobody can report a ISP MitM the binary packages because no one knows the actual build output.

so, trust noone, but acept that open source gives you an edge. always.
I mean sure, I had a studio at Post and Leavenworth to myself, newly renovated for $1200 in 2010. That same place went for $1900 in 2012. Now it's $2649 -- I just looked. I think it's fair to say the cost living has changed from the late 2000s.
Given it's about organization, the word 整理 makes more sense than 生理. Both are read "seiri" but context makes it obvious that it isn't 生理. The definition of the word is included in the article and the logo of the application.

Reading the article: I don't think this will replace beets.io for library management, personally.
For an average male, that should be obtainable in about 6 months to a year.
My point is that you don't need an ops team or lots of ops to being with. A single server can do miracles for a good period of time.
Don't want to pay any taxes, and maybe hire 1 person within 5 years? Try NewYork: https://esd.ny.gov/startup-ny-program
We could really use this capability set for modernizing heterogenous, legacy enterprise data systems into a consolidated, common data fabric. Great job, SnappyData!