skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have had my eye on Portugal for a number of years, but there are a few things that seem less than ideal.

* Cost of living for a good quality of life still being relatively high or rising, especially in Lisbon and other tourist/expat areas. And a second tier city in Portugal is much less of a clear choice since that is comparable to a lot more places.

* The tax system being very complicated. One can always argue about how much tax to pay, but few people want a complicated tax system, especially not as a foreigner. (And is usually an indication that other systems are complicated as well).

* The tech scene not really happening. Despite the usual "next Silicon Valley" it doesn't really stand out from anywhere else as far as I can tell.

There might certainly be things I don't see, but at least initially it doesn't seem like Portugal rise above the competition to the extent that you wouldn't have to consider quite a few other options.
I think the quote goes recognition and praise trumps sex and money.

Guys join the army for what? Loose their lives for what?
GP is right. The point spread function will spread the flux of a point source (eg. a star) across multiple pixels. You can identify the location of the actual star with sub pixel accuracy if you have a good PSF model.
For the over the decade I've been a software engineer I've always strived to work in products with a value proposition for the end user that I can understand.

I can't understand how anyone could work without this understanding and not get their soul crushed. Maybe I'm just sensitive or underpaid.
It does not have to be China behind the hardware devices, if they are real, just because they were planted in China. It could be Russia, Iran or any other agency with enough money to pay off the supply chain. Heck, even Escobar would have done this if he was alive. Didn't he buy military Submarines at one point?
Yeah way to escalate a smash and grab into a homicide! Getting a new phone is always cheaper than dealing with the dead guy pooling blood next to your car.

I’m a South African and out of all my friends and family only one carries a gun and never in his lap.
I find it hard to read, because I find myself mentally pausing and stressing those words in my head and there are a lot of them! Also the square brackets and the quotes around words that don't seem to warrant them - I'm not sure what you mean by them and so I'm not certain whether I'm getting the same message that you're intending to convey.

If I can just ignore them it seems to read better but it's hard work to do so, but maybe that's just me :)
> [...] no language barrier because so many people here speak English.

I wonder how you came up with that one. From my experience (I am German myself), Germans are not good at English. It is not so bad within the large cities but in the countryside, good luck. Just take any of the Scandinavian countries and you will find that they have a higher percentage of people speaking English.

Living in Germany without learning German is a hard challenge. However, speaking German with an American accent is sometimes considered cool ;-)
https://apnews.com/f29a23df19214466b226e2cbdec78cbd - AP (As neutral as it gets) - White House press conferences grow rare

https://apnews.com/0a029f0bf678452aa89facb6dfba5f25 - AP - WH restricts AP, Reuters, Bloomberg for KJU summit

http://time.com/5270968/donald-trump-reporters-credentials-m... - TIME, Donald Trump threatens taking away reporter credentials

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/09/donald-trump... - The Guardian - White House won't rule out banning press for 'negative' coverage

Just a couple of examples of what white house press feels like under the Trump era. Talk to me more about "his predecessor".

Edit: Today's bonus article on freedom of speech, press, and assembly: https://outline.com/3TKY5M - CNN - DOJ demands Facebook information from 'anti-administration activists'.

There's like one of these every day at least. So, you know, I don't believe you.
I live near Brighton and am moving away soon: house prices in Sussex pretty much anywhere with decent transport links are insane (the house I'm buying in the West Country would be more than double the price over here, around £1m!!), pollution is bad, there is drugs and crime, loads of the shops are just overpriced crap for idiot hipsters, and it's always crowded with tourists. It's such a shame because Sussex is lovely.
> no Amazon

Really? I live in a developing country middle of the Pacific Ocean and I regularly buy from Amazon with no issues. How come Portugal doesn't have Amazon?
Cool project. But that download graphic just screams spam, unfortunately. (I had to hover over it to make sure it wouldn't take me off the site.)
Seems to be a technical distinction without a difference though. Same amount of money, announced at the same time, awarded at the same ceremony, and just as prestigious. Sure, it’s an expansion of the original prize, but that shouldn’t take away from the fact that for anyone in the world, the awardee is for all practical purposes a Nobel prize winner.
Where are you doing an MS in CompA?
I disagree with the narrow meaning you give to the term "political". Political is anything related to how we organize our government. From my understanding what you mean is "partisan". You're implying that Wikipedia is partisan to "left-leaning" news sources. And you mention CNN.

Are you saying that if Wikipedia bans Breitbart, they should ban CNN too? And on what basis? What would be the standard they should use?

I agree that the polarization observed in US politics is a dangerous trend. But I think that Wikipedia is navigating this well.
I left my Facebook account idle for about 6 years now, and didn't miss it at all.

Now I'm trying to delete it and I can't find the link to "Your Facebook Information" no matter where I look. This is where the delete option is according to Facebook's help section.

Anyone having the same problem or is Facebook deliberately burying that link?
I lived for a few months in Istanbul and can confirm this. I was surprised by the quality of engineering talent in Istanbul though they are getting hit by brain drain hard these days.
Sure. Completely unthinkable that journalists saw a "market moving" story [0] that passed the plausibility test in details, found some anonymous sources and went for it.

[0] "Bloomberg News Pays Reporters More If Their Stories Move Markets" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18162440
"Maybe you manage to work with only people who can write down their thoughts coherently."

This is exactly what I mean with something becoming a dogma when you call it 'xyz driven' programming. You are painting a picture where taking notes while programming is a requirement of being a good programming. I am saying that it doesn't have to be.

Peter Buwalda is a Dutch writer who takes multiple showers a day. He says it helps him overcome his writers block. There is also some science behind this; it turns out your senses will be so busy with the steady flow of sound, the feeling of the water and the fact that there is no visual distraction that you can focus on your thoughts better. He isn't the first to realise this, hence the term 'shower-thoughts'.

So, one could argue, 'shower driven programming' is something we should all do. Installing showers in offices for this purpose or expecting people who work at home to take multiple showers a day in order to focus would be nonsense, but then I could also counter by saying "Well maybe you manage to work with people who can focus without taking constant showers, but that is not the norm."

Ridiculous right? So why isn't it ridiculous to demand that people take notes when programming?

Some of the replies on my comment have been along the lines of 'will someone please think of the children!' with reference to junior programmers. What junior programmers don't need is yet another dogma by which they should 'drive' their development.

It would have been completely different if the 'post' would have been 'Taking notes while programming can be helpful'. That strikes a completely different chord, namely, a helpful one. The word 'driven' does what you demonstrate: it makes people feel inferior when they don't do whatever the given driver is.
Mentorship Has Huge Advantages for Younger Generations in the Workplace
Root learning – simple yet nice virtual machine written in Python
> It has been ranked the most liveable city in the world for some years in a row.

Melbourne would beg to differ; there were headlines when we lost the first place position a few months ago after quite a few years at the top.

Not proposing Melbourne as an alternative though, while it's a nice place to live it's far from cheap.
How do you know it's an actual thing?

E: Not the "sitting with legs relatively wide, for comfort", but rather the version that gets complained about online, the one where people are deliberately blocking seats from other people.
It's really not far from Turkey. I agree it's not "as bad", but the US isn't done rotting. Populism, attacking and discrediting the press, running state media (FOX), control over all branches of government, a blind, rabid and xenophobic fanbase...

Like, yeah, Turkey is worse. I think. I'm not even sure, given that Turkey has less power. So no, it's not at that level. Yet.
Isn't English compulsory almost everywhere throughout the EU? I live in Madrid and it definitely is here in Spain.

It's true, however, that the fact that every TV show is completely dubbed makes it harder for us to develop our speaking (our listening doesn't seem to be so affected for some reason).

When you finish college you're only supposed to have a B2 English level. I don't know about it, but I wouldn't be surprised to know it's a fairly low standard for a European country.
I agree with you regarding the cost of living but the tax system is similar to a lot of other countries within the EU.
I know right ! :D I can't believe mind maps are still not so mainstream but they are great tools when used properly
Here's another discussion of the same Wikipedia problem of calling Bitcoin a ponzi scheme from 2012: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=123760.0

As you can see, people were arguing with some editor who kept sitting on the page. It was an on-going problem that lasted a long time.

I wish I didn't have to keep repeatedly backing this claim up. OK, I mixed up pyramid and ponzi scheme, but the original point is sound (and "economists agree" isn't a valid argument given that plenty of economists also disagree, and being an economist doesn't automatically make someone right anyway). Sigh.

Nothing I said referred to any personal quality of you or anyone else

I'm not sure how to interpret "gaslighting the evidence". From what I understand "gaslighting" is an insulting verb that means an activity someone is engaged in, to deliberately confuse other people. That's not at all my intent.

As for your last paragraph, that's what this entire thread is about. Look at how media outlets consistently get certain subjects factually wrong, again and again and as Greenwald puts it "always wrong in the same direction". These aren't random mistakes caused by simple carelessness. They keep happening because journalists want them to happen - if they didn't the mistakes wouldn't be so correlated, or so consistent, or so frequently replicated across so many outlets, and they'd put in place more robust systems to stop them.
Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breitbart_News#False_report_of...
No, you can get sub-pixel accuracy with a static image. The point is the star takes up multiple pixels, and when it moves by less than a pixel, some pixels get brighter while others get dimmer.

This is a common fallacy in computer vision. Often people get to a within a pixel and stop because they assume they can't get better. Most times you can get substantially better. I worked on a qr-code like system where the scanner could reconstruct the code from an image with (slightly) less pixels than 'pixels' in the code.
The Apple App Store will collect sales tax on your behalf, I believe. Not sure about the Play store. Income taxes are almost certainly an issue. I’d suggest finding a few tax accountants and asking for free 20-min consultations to a) quickly assess whether you’re likely to owe income taxes at all; and b) decide which you’d like to work with.
Fundamentals of storing data in the browser with IndexedDB
I moved to Saigon, Vietnam two years ago. English is definitely a challenge, but it isn't impossible and a lot of people in the growing tech scene speak english. Cost of living is minuscule and it is very easy to live here in general. Easy to get a year long multiple entry visa, place to live and the food is excellent. Relatively safe too, it is mostly just petty theft, so watch your surroundings and you'll be fine.
alternatives to google apps
Interesting. I don't think Apple world make a sworn statement to Congress if they weren't absolutely sure it was true.

Look like I may have been wrong--perhaps this was a false story planted by certain US officials to slander China. Did Bloomberg get played?
great feedback, thanks a lot !
the hardest part is predict which batch of motherboards will be assembled and delivered to which customer.

According to Bloomberg, Supermicro has 4 contract factories for motherboards production in China. But Supermicro itself assemble in US/Taiwan only.
Ha! No they aren't!

I lived in Sweden for seven years, and this is so far from the truth it's hilarious.

Relative quality of life is garbage in Sweden for a tech worker. Your life will be not that much better than if you work in Carlings selling plaid shirts to hard-rock hipsters.

My Swedish friends have decent jobs and still live unglamorous, frugal lives. As soon as I left Sweden, my quality of life completely transformed for the better.
Depends what you mean by a 'good intellectual atmosphere', I suppose. I would recommend Edinburgh, Berlin, Glasgow, Manchester, and Cambridge (from personal experience).
> the natural ability for the CPU to sit at idle (not executing `NOP` instructions, actually idle) when no work is available.

That just makes so much sense. Just think about how much power could be saved with all the computing devices that are idle pretty much of the time.
Don't get me wrong, everyone is susceptible. I don't mean to talk down about people. Everyone wants to confirm their own worldview.

But I do think a lot of people come to forums like this because they like having their mind expanded and care about how we know what we know.
Yeah, mankind is in overall in the best shape it's ever been, and the numbers reflect that across many metrics.

But what about climat change? We've improved so much across so many areas, surely that'll offset a few more degrees across the globe? It's just one metric among so many where we're doing great.

What if it doesn't? How will we cope in 50 years with hundreds of millions of landless refugees? Right now we can't. Are we doing so great that in 50 years we will?
Im sure they extrapolated for ritual or religious reasons.
Why would they do this though? Why wouldn't a gene for 'cheating' (e.g. not slowing down when you reach the front) to avoid danger be favoured by natural selection? Animals with complex social structures (like us) avoid this by evolving to identify and punish cheaters, but there must be some other mechanism in these fish?
"Well, you could say that the United States is run by a similar person."

No, you really couldn't. While the US democratic system is augmented by a very strong executive position, he still is only the executive of the system with fairly robust checks and balances in place (which seems to be working despite intense tire kicking).

US is not run by the president.

This quora answer seems a pretty good 101 on the issue:

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-US-not-a-parliamentary-syst...

Just because a person tweets like an ex-wrestler turned autocrat does not make him so.
We helped a cook (refugee) become an Android Developer now working for a Startup
Hi HN,
I just wanted to share an amazing story with you. A year ago we had an applicant applying for a scholarship (we enable people to learn how to code and find a job).

He was a refugee from Afghanistan getting away from all the crazy shit that is going on there. When entering Germany he was deprived of everything familiar to him: language, education, friends and family. In Afghanistan, he worked as a cook. He had no prior technical education.

The one thing he had was his willingness and commitment. He wanted to learn, progress and start a new life.

He heard about us and applied to learn how to code. It was tough for him at the beginning, since his English was not so good he basically had to learn coding and English at the same time.

Today I heard that he has been hired by a Swiss Startup to work as an Android Developer. You can imagine how good he must be if a Swiss Startup hires a former refugee currently living in Germany. I couldn't be prouder of the student and wanted to share his story with you.
mandoc is great! It could replace legacy man almost everywhere
I ask for monthly or quarterly check-ins with my manager. That way we can make sure to discuss issues while they’re fresh and address them before they get out of hand. Plus, come annual review time, there are no surprises.
I've read just about every non-fiction account I can get my hands on about business in the ~1850-1930 era. The drive for profit during the industrial revolution, was radically stronger than it is today. The giants of industry back then openly lusted after success, it was culturally acceptable to behave that way (right up to the point where you were dominant, then the people turned against you). They made no apologies for the all-out pursuit of profit back then. Rockefeller dressed it up slightly, by proclaiming that god wanted him to be rich, that to be wealthy was glorious. The so called robber barons lived in openly ostentatious ways that today's rich in the US would mostly never dream of; today most of them go out of their way to pretend they're not so rich and to hide it. Open shows of wealth today are considered closer to vulgarity, crude, disgusting, etc. Back then, it was far less widely believed that wealth was stolen from 'the people'; today, it's widely believed that the rich are all thieves in some considerable manner. There was no welfare state at all, income taxes were extremely low or non-existent, so the accumulation of wealth happened far faster. Companies often paid extremely high dividends 10 to 20 times higher than is normal today.

Tactics, when it came to dealing with competition, were far beyond anything you see today. There were few regulations in the US, so companies were free to devise all manners of schemes to best their competitors. The treatment of labor in the pursuit of profit, was similarly far more brutal (there's really no comparison, Amazon's warehouse workers are treated like kings compared to sweatshop workers back then).
Warning: Stream-of-consciousness rambling ahead.

FB and media sites are especially egregious offenders, but are symptomatic of the modern internet as a whole. I'm not really sure how we change this - the web is based around user interaction and sharing, and people will always prioritize that which they care about, which encourages more extreme views in any discussions among more general groups.

Dividing into sub-communities can reduce discord and increase legitimate discussion and less-extreme views, as moderate community members will not be suborned by unrelated topics they care about, but why join the sub-communities? Also, as seen on some Subreddits, this can instead lead to an echo-chamber, with dissident views discouraged.

Perhaps forums with a ranking system unlike current like/upvote, share, freshness, and number-of-response based systems could assist - Having longer-lasting, even permanent, threads for each topic might encourage novel discussion over rehashing the same arguments repeatedly, while prioritizing long-form replies could at least provide more grounds for debating views, but none of that fixes the essential problem of moderate apathy.

I wonder if moving to a more mercenary web could help - while it feels as though it would be losing something essential, if there were a cost to responding and payment for valuable contributions, moderate feedback could be encouraged financially, rather than by passion alone. You would still need an essentially different ranking system, especially to prevent response repetition, else I suspect you would see the opposite of the desired result - people posting extreme views to get a quick buck.

Additional elements would likely be necessary to create a network entirely successful in encouraging discussion from a full spectrum of views (while repetition may be deadly to discussion, stagnation is also fearsome), but it's a starting point for consideration. I'll have to think on this more later - I might give building a prototype a try.

This digressed fairly significantly from the original topic, but I'd be interested in thoughts regarding diversification of views on the internet.
I can't answer your question but here's a an open source async synthesis system with a simulator: http://apt.cs.manchester.ac.uk/projects/tools/balsa/

Last update is from 2010 so I guess it could use some research :)
From my experience, Java's killer feature was and always has been that you can throw significanty less capable programmers into the pool and not have such obviously catastrophic outcomes with doing this as with C or C++. This mostly comes down to taking memory management off the table, although the smaller set of features in Java (compared to C++) is surely also a factor. I suspect that platform portability is a bit like database portability - it sounds nice but in practice most projects will have committed to a platform up front.

Technical people understand that a technology that can drastically reduce LOC is a game-changer:
you can hire far fewer programmers - these need to be better than your bucket-brigade Java folks of course, but that's OK because you're saving money on the quantity of them; you need fewer managers to coordinate everyone; the product itself will be better because it's had fewer fingers in the pie, and internal comms during development will have been better because the team was so much smaller. No, the big problem with this is that management in big corps simply do not believe that these sorts of savings are possible - it just seems too good to be true, and they are too risk-averse to rejig their organisations to the required extent; they also fear being beholden to a small priesthood of very clever technical people from which there is no way back - eg we can't ship our Clojure codebase back offshore to some commodity programmers because they won't be able to make head or tail of it.
That's a silly statement. Yes, they can be ignored, but perhaps for many people they're less likely to be. That's my experience, anyways.

I could train myself to regularly grep for TODO comments, and perhaps I will, but so far adding them to my actual 'todo app' is much more effective.
Have you ever wondered what you would bring to the community you plan to move to?
that depends on how you define "lying".

Is telling partial truth lying?

By combining multiple truth as one fabricated piece, is it lying?
The tech behind a decentralized energy market
How would it be insane?

This is a very common pattern. American media publishes outlandish stories and the only evidence is "anonymous sources" and highly partisan agents. Iraqi soldiers killed babies in incubators. Iraq has 10_000 aluminum tubes. Iran is arresting all its Jews. China has camps with millions of people imprisoned.

The only thing insane about the whole affair is that no matter how many times it happens, virtually every time, Americans are quick to believe these reports and display virtually no skepticism. The problem isn't Bloomberg by any stretch of the imagination.