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Love this demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9X0q5VVnEY
Dunno. Salary in Silicon Valley - $300k. Salary in Vancouver - $80k. Rent almost the same. Weather in Silicon Valley - year-round sunny. Weather in Vancouver - 2 months of sun, rest gloomy. Are you sure you want to move to Canada?

It used to be that MS/AMZN had a back up base in Vancouver for anyone who didn't make the cut with H1B/O-1.
This is one of the things I find fascinating about far east Asian internet versus western internet UX design. I remember looking at Taobao a few years prior and was taken aback by the page density. I would love to read a book covering the differences in UX design due to having a more informational dense scripting system.
>"Though it is nowhere near as bad as some people online seem to claim."

The practice is most certainly pervasive in NYC. I would call that as bad as people claim. Most of the online documentation of the phenomenon is more behavior shaming though and not anything approaching "vitriolic", this ridiculous bit of theater being an exception of course.
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I wouldn’t care that much either, it’s more the collateral damage you can create as OP outlined. My father would suffer a lot if I didn’t see him on that day for example
This post was partially inspired by Tidelift. You could think of it as a proposal for a leaner, meaner subset of their approach, offering nothing more than market-making or brokerage, without mediating the ongoing service or payment relationship.
There has been a massive increase in RFE's. Premium processing has mostly gone away, leading to massive delays. And renewals are being denied, even for people who have gone through the PERM process for a green card.

It is fair to call this increased scrutiny.
Why? Fork-on-write seems very descriptive and nice, persistent seems less illuminating than immutable. Functional... eh, as someone who already knows the functional programming paradigm, I know what it means, but it would otherwise be an unhelpful descriptor.
There are a number of assumptions missing in this.

Emergency approaches are by their very nature often well below glide slope.

Perhaps more statistically relevant is that not everyone's altimeters always function correctly, are set to the correct airfield's most recent numbers, that in the potentially 50+ minutes since the last ATIS update the ambient pressure hasn't changed significantly, and lastly that all pilots–drone pilots included–are doing what they're supposed to and leaving sufficient margins.

Shoot enough approaches and you will likely realize that small, potentially dangerous objects piloted by untrained, unregulated, unmonitored, non-communicating pilots at 400' could quickly become a problem for you more readily than it appears from the ground.

Take off on a high-density-altitude day in an underpowered aircraft and you'll also appreciate the additional headroom.

To say nothing of the fact that I've owned drones that under LoS conditions just continue the last input received, which with inexperienced or irresponsible operators would be an input to climb.
I've been involved in the invision enterprise purchase process.

1) They're very high touch. Rep-with-a-name, etc. So they definitely employ staff for this.

2) The markup compared to regular invision is huge.

Their tiers go from "we're very small" (5 people on a team) to "pay us for enterprise" way too soon IMO. There exists a design team size (<25-50?) where the cost:workflow tradeoff makes continuing to share logins for a non-enterprise account the smart thing to do.

The teams that tire of, or never play, the shared accounts game bring in a lot of revenue. Big seat costs for very nearly the same thing.
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Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Denver, even Chicago - are any of them that overheated? No one wants to live in those places? That seems a bit unrealistic.

Seattle, San Francisco/San Jose, NYC, maybe Los Angeles and San Diego are that overheated. But that's not even the majority of the population of large metro areas.

I mean, I get it if someone doesn't want to live in Boise or Omaha. But what's so bad about Denver?
I think in predominantly white neighborhoods like Bridgeport, you'll see fewer issues especially with its large police presence on duty and off duty.

I take it you've never been a victim of a "wilding" in River North like I've had. Nothing like getting targeted and getting swarmed while eating at an outdoor patio at State and Ontario or later that exact same night waiting at the Grand red line stop.
I wonder how much of this is just the political winds. Under the George Bush days there were similar sentiments and attitudes, but it never went anywhere and SV still remained dominant. Canada has long tried to capitalize on the US political situation with mixed results.

Salaries are low, most of Canada has poor weather and unaffordable housing prices in the major cities. I guess if you're willing to stick it out you get citizenship, but a far less valuable citizenship compared to other western countries.

I'm also curious as to if and when the immigration situation is going to hit Canadian politics as it did in the US. The facade of being pro immigration is exactly that, there are just as many racists in Canada as there are in the US.
Niklaus Wirth is one of the luminary people in computing. Definitely take a look at his books, they are extremely concise and to the point. Also interesting (but less so than Wirth's actual writing) is the book "The School of Niklaus Wirth: The Art of Simplicity".

Interestingly he was the Martin Oderskey's (Scala etc) PhD advisor.
Do you really want Donald Trump deciding what is hate speech and prosecuting violators?
I think that gives little reassurance.
Other studies were not as scary, that's why it's the only one releasing images.
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Then you must love Uber, since you only care about revenue and not costs.
Toronto is a few hours north of NYC and Vancouver a few hours north of Seattle, both don't differ in weather from their counterparts too much.
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Well, a lot of places are using Java, Python or C++. I know one guy that uses C#. Python is used a lot as there are a lot of libraries available, lots of built in functionality for parsing large datasets, files, lots of math functions, etc.

I prefer c++ but I am bias since I have been using it for 25 years. I am now doing a prototype in Python but then re-writing in C++ for production. This helps gain speed and also ensures my ideas are solid as re-writing usually flushes out problems or things I didn't think of originally.
> Optional 1b: Make it dominant.

I'm sorry. What did you mean by this?
I would say: good luck setting up an email server anywhere

Really not sure what Kubernetes has to do with this argument though.
I can't, but here's the kicker...neither can you. In this business, you're not allowed to presume safety. Unless you've been trained to understand the ramifications on airspace, you really don't know. That's not how a safety first culture works. You don't make a change to a business critical production system without going through change control...why is it so absurd to consider registering your activity in airspace before you do it? The only reason I can think of is that it's inconvenient for you, which sucks but that's not good enough.
Yeah, thanks for sharing! Forgot to add it in my comment, but it's also on the Kickstarter page!
As someone who just bought their first drone, registered under section 336 and has been following the rules (including calling the hospital heliport since their five-mile radius covers my house and every public park nearby) I really can't say I'm shocked that this has happened.

My county has even gone so far as to pass an extremely onerous ordinance requiring drone operators get a sign off from every person whose property you may film from a UAS because irresponsible people have made it an issue. I could argue how childish this rule is in the first place, since I can take a picture of somebody's back yard with a high power zoom lens from a hill and be in the clear - but it's the perfect example of the tragedy of the commons that has come from not only lax rules, but people rampantly violating what rules there are without a care.

I just hope the FAA finds a sensible middle ground between the ill-fated section 336 regs and section 107. I'm more than willing to pass a knowledge test, and if I need to buy a $X (where X is $200 or less, hopefully) transponder to affix to my UAS then fine - but can we at least make it easy to do online?
OTOH it might be a deal breaker for others that there is no local skiing in the bay area, no legal mountain biking, etc.

Therefore I would consider weather and environment also a bit of a personal preference thing.
Computers are war machines.

They have other uses but their primary use has always been war. (Specifically code-cracking and modeling nuclear physics for weapon design.)

As a thought experiment, try to imagine an alternate reality where WWII never happened and Alan Turing is just an obscure British queer mathematician. Would he have spawned the systems we have today? Or perhaps Konrad Zuse?

War drives the information revolution. We're in the middle of WWIII now.

If you don't want to contribute to the war machine you have to leave computer industry and take up gardening, specifically applied ecology such as "Permaculture".
Ryzen CPUs are 65W and 95W; Threadrippers are over 100W.
It's also nearly impossible to permanently migrate to
>Any statement that "these are complex men who did things that led to our current world order, some good others bad" is met as an attack.

Except that's not how the statement is put forth. Instead we get something along the lines of "so and so was a murderous scumbag racist who blah blah blah, oh by the way you're a racist for not accepting that at face value". That doesn't exactly promote civil discourse about changing the status quo as to how so and so is viewed.

This isn't something of great importance to the overwhelming majority of the population and it doesn't play much of any role in most people's identity which explains to some extent why the discourse is dominated by a bunch of extremists on both sides (aka the few people who care) yelling at each other but that doesn't make those extremists right.
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Not feeding, clothing, or changing your baby's diaper is objectively bad for their health; not sharing their pictures on Facebook is not anywhere close to that. I don't see how it's bizarre to want to keep your baby healthy but otherwise let them decide things for themselves once they're old enough.
As a software engineer who wanted to leave my country I read how H-1B worked and removed US from my list of wanted countries.

I am a PR in Canada and got it after have worked here for 1 year.

I have friends who worked with me at previous company in the US division living in fear of getting their lives taken away from them if the company fires them and they are in a huge waiting list for green card (mostly Indian and Chinese) and don't want to change jobs because of fear.
I am not so sure this matters. At least in my experience if they put the milk in the front of the store I would run through it and be confused.
As an Amazon employee, I really hope this factors in highly in the HQ2 decision.

Toronto isn't perfect and the city sure isn't offering much in terms of tax breaks, but if Amazon wants to hire 50,000 more tech workers then they'd better be doing so in a country that will let those 50,000 people work.
> I think provocative theses are necessary, in line with the Socratic method, and even though my original comment wasn't directly aimed at the arguments in the article, the entire point of a provocative viewpoint is to question the entire narrative of something on a fundamental level.

I agree, especially since the original article was making a similar type of claim. When you go that for down a line politically, it's useful to look at things from the opposite perspective. People don't have to agree, but I don't think we should be flagging or banning comments like yours on topics like this.
Ask HN: What is happening in the food-delivery-as-a-service industry?
I am curious what is happening here: I’ve noticed specialized tablets for food delivery services at restaurants I frequent. There is a tablet for DoorDash, Amazon, UberEats, etc. I can see how a restaurant would use such services, but when I hear that a restaurant just uses it for “advertising” their existence; or the service takes a large cut therefore restaurants have to raise prices in response to participate in the delivery-food "game"; or that staff are overwhelmed by the plethora of services, it makes me think this space is starting to have a negative affect.
Why would you move to second world country that is sliding the wrong way? Why not move a first world country that is safe and cares about its citizens?
My favorite is Excel converting UPCs into scientific notation. On multiple occasions someone doing a CSV upload of product data into our PIM/ERP has caused warehouse operations to break down because Excel converted all the 12-digit UPCs into scientific notation, saved that as text in the CSV output, and now the barcode scanners don't recognize the product barcodes because all the UPCs look like 8.64+E11 or some nonsense like that.
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I tried i3wm for a while - are you able to compare that to StumpWM? I really like the idea of a tiling wm, but haven't gotten around to customizing it exactly the way I would want it.
You can rephrase his example to e.g. wolves and chihuahua as one of the more absurd, but accurate, examples to confirm his point and challenge yours. And the interesting thing is is that was a crazy fast speciation by artificial selection. Not only does the "ancient population" still exist, but it'd be quite bizarre to suggest that wolves were not extinct, if they did go extinct, because chihuahuas exist. Speciation, even from a direct ancestor, is very much a thing.
Anybody have tabs on the original non-dupe thread? It doesn't appear to be anywhere near the front page, despite the fact that this is arguably the day's biggest tech story, and the news is around 2 hours old.
That's exactly what I thought of as well, and that seems to be something that founders sometimes struggle with as their companies grow: learning to work through people when at one point in time, you did everything yourself.
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Ask HN: Is there any evidence in favor of or against ketogenic diet?
21, male, exercise regularly, healthy. I live in a friends circle with a lot of bodybuilders, eating 0 carb, high pro, high fat diet. I tried reducing my carb intake. I felt generally good, but nothing significant. I was skeptical to continue this any longer than a month or so because when I did some research on keto it seemed like there is almost no long-term study supporting keto for healthy humans. I found some evidence for unhealthy people: [1], [2], [7].

When I searched about people who support this diet I found two interesting things. For one, these people (as seen in this [3] reddit thread) are convinced that modern society likes the taste of carbs and feel "safe" eating plants, so people don't want to spend money on researching keto diet (as seen in that thread). I'm skeptical of this since research institutes do research on things public is not generally interested in.

Second, proponents of this diet seem to think this diet is practiced by ancient humans before agriculture. Recall the contents of Iceman Otzi's stomach before he was murdered [4]: fatty goat meat and pure fat (lard). We, HN, recently discussed the lifespan and general health of our ancestors. [5]

There is also this [6] research paper:

> A low-carbohydrate diet based on animal sources was associated with higher all-cause mortality in both men and women, whereas a vegetable-based low-carbohydrate diet was associated with lower all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality rates.

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27060389

[2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24386671

[3]: https://www.reddit.com/r/ketoscience/comments/7o54yh/longterm_keto_study/

[4]: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/06/110623-iceman-mummy-otzi-meal-goat-stomach-science/

[5]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18132096

[6]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2989112/

[7]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2716748/
Not really, I've also been active in C#, at one point more Java, and a few other communities (Ruby on Railes) along the way. I'm not really tied to it so much as choose it.

I've never had the vitriol towards JS that other devs have had in the past, I've always recognized DOM issues vs. language issues, and many of the "good parts" long before the book.

In the end it comes down to the massive ecosystem. Which has some drawbacks, but in the end allows for unparalleled productivity gains.
Homo sapiens evolved within African, from several apparently separate and only occasionally intermixing populations.

My intuition is that something extremely similar happened for Neanderthals in Europe and Denisovans in Asia.

After speciating, Denisovans and Neanderthals migrated at least within Eurasia, and those populations intermixed.

At least as early as that was happening, Homo sapiens started migrating out of Africa, and intermixed with the Homo genus populations they encountered. At some later point, distinctly Neanderthal, Denisovan, and Neanderthal/Denisovan populations apparently died off.
From my limited experience, I know in India you can get a lot of SMS spam. I wonder if people migrated to whatsapp for that reason?
Gotta give some context or a source for a claim like that. Is the revocation related to people found guilty of terrorism/treason, or is it a lower bar? Or is it if they found you lied in order to get citizenship, as was the case historically with Nazis?
>"For a parent, making choices on your child’s behalf is kinda part of the deal"

And this person has made the decision for their child that whatever social media company is not going to own their child's image. What is is "bizarre" about that.

I hardly think caring for a child and letting a corporation own their image are even remotely the same thing.
If that drone falls, it will hit the ground at ~55 mph (ignoring wind resistance etc.). I would rather not have a 4 pound object smack into my head at 55 mph just because some parent thought their child could handle it
This is seriously ridiculous. What you're suggesting is not only useless, but actively harmful. Your hubris and incapability to reason are astounding. I insistently suggest to you to think this through and issue a public retraction and apology of this craziness to help those less capable of critical thinking to understand that ideas like that are not a valid path towards a better future before they are accidentally implemented in naive good faith but to horrific results.

Here's what will happen:

- You and your buddies convince a bunch of speculators, corrupt politicians, and central bankers to convert public assets (namely confidence in an economic system with guns and logistics oil to back it up) into this massive zero-coupon bond, liquidating a huge fraction of that faith into runaway inflation as people realize whoever has the ability to start such a scheme is not someone you would trust for long-term survival.

- Upon publication of the intent of this worldwide government entity (which doesn't actually exist as cohesive collective) to back such a plan, mineral rights holders are starstruck seeing dollar signs everywhere. You just started the next landgrab speculative bubble where everyone and their mother now begin a furious mania of transacting mineral deeds which skyrocket those prices across the board worldwide.

- Next begins the phase of holdouts and regulatory capture of a world "war" in legislative, judicial, and executive battles where governments of all sizes and obscure claims to jurisdiction invent new laws, ruling precedents, and directives by force in their own self-interests to jam or lubricate the cogs of eminent domain while deed holders refuse to sell their reserves to prevent it from making it into the atmosphere, hoping for even greater payoff down the road.

- Assuming your organization which (mis)manages this whole shitshow as the recipient of the bond funds is somehow able to buy up all fossil fuel reserves (which it won't), including deep currently unexplored and _currently_ unprofitable reserves of oil, natural gas, tar sands, shale, coal, you name it across a world of sovereign states that have no incentive to cooperate, then the next stage begins when prospectors edge further out into international waters for deep offshore drilling with essentially unlimited reserves that have never been surveyed due to the abundance of lower-hanging fruit.

- So now you've paid off the people that caused the problem in the first place, gave an explicit promise of future bail outs to exacerbate the risk-seeking incentives of purveyors of hydrocarbon fuel, and set off a chain reaction of unlocking even more unlimited reserves of emissions, you pat yourself on the back that "wow, money sure is the answer to all the world's problem!" while unknownst to you an environmental "terrorist" group rightfully targets you for elimination.
When I was at google, the one thing I took away was that most of the terrible decisions such as described above were very widely panned before being released inside the company. Everyone one of them. That doesn't mean the group of engineers was always right, but they were very good at pointing out bad, controversial ideas.
I am curious which small town (at least the province) are you from.

Currently in the US, but contemplating moving to Munich to be close to family in Trento. Would never live in a small town in the Alps again. :)

Would love to return to Italy, but the tech sector is dismal from what I see. No connections though, all hearsay.
It will be interesting to see if this is true, or whether they will go down and the local workforce will be negatively impacted as a result. Conversely, it will be interesting to see whether salaries for US techies will go up, or older people will have more opportunities. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
> Reading some opinions you feel like for low-latency a GC language is a no-go. Maybe you care to comment on that.

This is false as far as my experience goes. I've personally worked at two exchanges (big ones) and they do use java. Also have interviewed with many trading firms that use java for trading platform.
Of those 3, YouTube might actually be a very expensive hobby. It is purported to still be unprofitable.
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I'm a non-native speaker and sunsetting is not clear to me. I guessed what it means because I know Google and how popular Google+ is (in relative terms, I'm sure there's still hundreds of thousands of people who will lose contacts over this), but if someone had said Cloudflare is sunsetting, I'd just not have known what it meant.

And even knowing what it means, as I do now, I wouldn't say that sunsetting is any clearer in communicating that it's "going to" end than "shutting down" or "stopping" Google+. It's not as if the proposal said "ended" or "shut down" Google+, the "are" in something like "We're shutting down Google+" signals continuation to me.
If uptime is critical, what on Earth are you doing with desktop Windows? There are even server variants now, if you need to have the Windows flavor.

And worse: I'm all for auto updates...unless they break the system! (See article.) No wonder people are holding off upgrades. (Not Windows-specific, for sure - but Win10 seems to be the worst offender)