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No, poverty is not decreasing everywhere. The graph shows absolute poverty decreasing.*

Meanwhile in most developed countries, inequality is grotesque and the consequent poverty is on the rise.

*Absolute poverty would decrease much faster if we exploited and expropriated from developing countries a little less.
Have a lawyer draft an NDA and make them sign it before the demo.
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I'm a full-time freelancer/remote worker. In late 2016, I made the decision to move to Pittsburgh, partly persuaded Paul Graham's talk about how Pittsburgh could become a startup hub. (PG grew up in Monroeville, 10 miles east of Pittsburgh.)

Transcript: http://www.paulgraham.com/pgh.html
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpfdtgW6_oI

I feel really good about the decision, CMU feels like a peer of Stanford and MIT but living here is substantially cheaper than living in Cambridge or Palo Alto. (I pay ~$750 for a 1-bedroom apartment that's ~1.5 mile from CMU campus.) The legacy of Randy Pausch's Building Virtual Worlds was also a draw for me personally, as I work in game development and was coming of age when Randy Pausch's delivered his famous Last Lecture (if you had asked me in 2008 who my personal heroes were, Randy Pausch would be the first name out of my mouth). Going to gamedev meetups has kind of allowed me to insert myself into the CMU alumni network post hoc. Very green (lots of beautiful neighborhoods), hip enough for my tastes, and the intellectual climate is everything I had hoped it would be.

If you want to live in a city where companies like Google, Uber, Amazon, and Apple have offices, Pittsburgh may be your cheapest option.

Some discussion of Pittsburgh's (tech) climate on this article from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14832249
Talking about living in other places:

What is a good way to find an apartment for a few weeks?

Just use AirBnB and see if the apartments offer a discount for a longer stay?

Or are there better ways?

I play with the idea to live in Lisbon and/or somewhere in Asia a few weeks during the coming months.
Meh, the iPhone X is still very new. As more are stolen and stripped for parts the prices should come down. Great for the consumer!
However, there aren't any non-overwhelming "real" coding platforms out there. Python comes very close, but is far from simple (pip, IDE, maybe mypy, because it turns out types are helpful when learning to program).

What you're looking for is Racket. It has a set of options for starting from a barebones language and gradually adding features as you progress through the course. Here's a description of the different student language levels you can use in Racket:

https://docs.racket-lang.org/drracket/htdp-langs.html
Thanks. I'd like to consider this seriously - what's a good place to browse places to rent in Portugal?
Yes, the "manspreading" is certainly real, if you mean some people (mostly men) sitting in demonstrably relaxed or "macho" ways.

That is not what I questioned. Though it is nowhere near as bad as some people online seem to claim.

The extreme online vitriol about it certainly seems to be at least partially made up.
Isn't that what everyone has been doing?

Have you considered making a private search engine that filters out media sites and click bait generators as well as grabbing celeb adblocks.
It's curious that the argument presented by Broston is not "it's likely that we're living in a simulation"; it's an either/or:

Either we're living in a simulation,
OR an advanced civilization wouldn't be interested in running one.
(OR we won't become an advanced post-human civilization ourselves;
though that wouldn't prevent other species from running one).

Apparently too many people dismiss the second possibility and forget reporting about it when discussing the topic.

Also, the paper both assumes that galactic-wide computing power is physically possible, and that computing power is all it takes to generate civilization-deep simulations. I can think of several limits of physics and complexity that could make either hypothesis less than plausible, or at the very least, make option two (the post-humans not being interested in running such simulations) as likely as the "we're in a simulation" one.
Yes, ARM has this small amount of SRAM. Having a bit of memory available was such a trivial concept that I did not even think of that the much more complicated x86 processor could just lack it.

But I guess this might not be the only fundamental difference.

(I have thought to utilize the SRAM for some optimization later at system runtime because it should be incredibly fast. At least if you don't have to care about power consumption that should be possible or does the specification require to turn it off?)
if you keep yourself aware from day one about the issues in your codebase/service and what doesn't scale it is not that hard to switch from monolith to microserviced is the point of this article i think. there's a difference between a conscious decision to ship a monolith and code quick "ship it now" monolith
most companies won't reach FAANG,they'll be lucky to even reach preferred local service
KitchenAid and Miele spring to mind also.
I would expect the intelligence services to be present on the dark web, as undercover agents, to gather information or dismantle criminal organizations. It must feel strange when they discover they are tracking someone of their own services.
The article gives no measure of how many tech workers have adopted this mindset. It seems to largely be a narrative driven by journalists and a relatively small number of activists in some of the more high-profile tech companies (who are simultaneously pushing a number of unrelated issues like unionization, diversity, deplatforming conservatives, #resisting, and introducing identity politics into hiring and promotion decisions).
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Yes, but Mo is more technically correct where "byte = 8 bits" is merely "de facto" correct. There were (likely still are) designs with bytes of 6, 7, 9 and other numbers of bits, where octet an is always 8 bits.

Then again if we cared for "technically correct" as much as we claim to when correcting other people, we'd use KiB/MiB/... instead of MB/KB/... when working in 1024s not 1000s!

My understanding of byte is that it is defined as "the smallest unit other than a single bit that a processing unit naturally deals with".
Similarly "word" is the largest value the instruction set natively deals with (i.e. the architecture's register size).

Obviously these definitions are only general and are "broken" by many exceptions: for instance many CISC designs with 8-bit bytes have some instructions that work on data in 4-bit chunks (nibbles/nybbles), multiply instructions need to output twice the input size to be efficiently useful, and so on. Also "word" has in some places become synonymous with 32-bits rather than its more general definition, in much the same way "byte" became so with 8-bits.
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Read above. No where I mentioned about Ads.
The title is somewhat misleading and the reality is much more serious.

As the article mentions this was not just a "police officer" this was an agent of DGSI, something perhaps like the intelligence branch of the FBI in the US if such thing exists.
How about:

"We split the tasks among ourselves keeping in mind our strengths, but unfortunately the co-founder failed to deliver on his share of the tasks, according to him he was affected by x,y,z. (His reasons)

Then we failed to move from there and ended up shutting down the business."

Let the employer judge whether it's his incompetence or real problems. Why pass a judgement needlessly? Deliver facts.
It's surprising how much objectionable you find in what to me is simply an experienced programmer sharing a detail of his personal workflow. Naming doesn't turn something into a "dogmatic principle".
Sorry but $200/month for 1000sqft? Thats not in Bangalore, or just a shitty place. Any place in bangalore thats not upscale but good amenities nearby, its easily $400 with Maintenance for a decent 2BHK in an apartment.

$700 is just not gonna happen for an couple with rent, and you are talking about an American with a different food habit. More like $1000.

Horrible traffic, non-existent public transport, water scarcity, pollution and dust are just cherry on top.
I won't be alive in 50 years.
Isn't that the method of every mature branch of engineering? Few projects involve inventing new tools, materials or processes in civil or automative engineering, for example.
I would say that from an European POV, USA's democracy has been compromised way earlier than Turkey's. While Erdogan is somehow a new element in Turkey's democracy, systemic corruption in the USA has been prevalent for almost a century, while Turkey had a somehow solid democracy in place.

Trump is just an error in the system, a person that is incapable of following the rituals and gain advantage of a low-profile attitude.
The extra movement that increases the resting metabolic rate would cost about 500 kcal combined with the load. Estimating for an hour of cycling daily.

This means about one extra meal to match which would actually cut into waste if it is done smart. Or perhaps you do not even have to adjust anything. (obesity is a thing)
From what I heard from Portuguese people, it's 500k investment and you can get the visa.
That literally defies the very definition of the word business.
Canggu, Bali, Indonesia. Tons of intelligent expats from all walks of life running around. Great temporary base as cost of living is cheap, the expat community is strong and you're never more than 10 minutes away from the beach.
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No local amazon. You can buy electronics from Amazon Spain and books from Amazon UK. They'll arrive in about a week. No idea what will be the new solution for books in english after brexit, though, since customs here are horrible.
Weird historical fact: they shared a king for a little while a few hundred years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_Union
I wrote a simple app for myself for this: it's basically a text editor with included checklist UI, optimized for a keyboard based workflow. I find it very useful to have a "conversation" with my notes while I'm developing to avoid going down too many rabbit-holes, and to keep focus on the primary task.
It surprised me how many believed on the "don't be evil" motto, keeping customers and board members happy is all that counts.
I did the math for Toronto(which is more expensive than Montreal).

For a typical software engineer, taxes take away 25% of gross pay in Ontario while it's over 30% in California and New York. Cost of living is much less(by 30-40% if you rent) in Toronto compared to Cali/New York. Of course, you will also earn 40% less in USD. So it about evens out
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The right thing to do would be to launch a bunch of new ones.

(NASA estimated the marginal cost of launching a shuttle to be $450 million, which is going to be most of the cost of assembling a big telescope. Note that I said "assembling" and not "developing".)
In similar vein to others asking "how does this compare with ..."; I'm reading a book on Prolog at the moment and would be interested if anyone has experience in both MiniZinc and Prolog and can compare them for constraint solving ?
Previous discussion from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13199977 (35 comments)
>Few people seem to know how to use it safely, or when to use something else.

I was taught printf should only be used for quick n dirty debugging.
Anyone with experience of tech work in SE Asia? I am currently studying in Beijing, and I am really surprised how nice the life-style is here. But from what I've read, software engineering is not the best profession here opportunity-wise.
Apple is trying to position itself as the only major tech company that keeps your data private, and this story threatens to undermine that story. So no surprise the PR department is full at work.

What else would you expect them to do ?
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Portugal has a complicated tax system? I always thought it was fairly simple compared to how certain foreigners describe theirs.
That's interesting, as the USD is cheaper than a EUR and generally speaking life is more expensive in Europe than in the US. Would be curious if there are stats on how much a remote worker gets in USD in Portugal.
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This is true but orthogonal to my point. You talk about facts, my point was normative.

More precisely my speech act was performative: I'm leading by example, because I hope that others will copy my behaviour and speak up whenever somebody falsely calls winners of the Bank of the Swedish Empire a Nobel price winner. The best case outcome is that eventually the false prestige will be eroded away. (Compare with the Nobel Price for Literature and Peace, they are both widely regarded as jokes and nobody cares -- or worse in case of the Peace price.)

Anyway, sorry for this tangent, I don't want to derail the thread, the main subject of which is of great interest to me.
The US is not generally considered in a worse state than Turkey, saying this as a non-American who refuses to visit America.
Hi, I made a site to do just this called https://nomadlist.com. Click OPEN FILTERS and click cheap living cost (<$2,000). I also have filters to find cities with universities and English speaking people.

I have collected 1,000+ of the biggest cities and am adding another 1,500 now. Let me know what you think!

- Pieter
BMTF is a tiny separate arm of the Bloomberg group that is incidental to its main line of business. Bloomberg is primarily a data/analytics/news company.
I get to see that "rhetoric" live when I travel around the world.
There will be no repair missions because the US has not retained manned access to space for that sort of activity.
The tech scene in Lisbon and Porto IS happening - just take a look at companies like Farfetch, Outsystems, Talkdesk, Feedzai, Unbabel and many other smaller startups w/their HQ based in Portugal. I myself work at a Porto based startup (Bottlebooks) w/American and Slovak founders. Portugal has everything going for it to be the California of Europe - highly educated (and english speaking) youth and a will to conquer the world. We welcome any foreigner willing to work hard and contribute to a creating a great place to live :)
Suppose it is a sweet yogurt and has 300 kcal in a package (1 kcal/ml) and we use bioethanol in a car, it is a match 1:1. Ignoring conversion losses and metabolism, a car taking 6l/100km and a trained human on foot would go some 12 km on this. (human on a bicycle is comparable to a specially designed ecocar)

A fully manned car (5 persons) or a loaded truck wins by a good margin even over a tandem or cargo bike. A bus or truck even more so.

The main difference is in initial material costs, refining metals is expensive.
The problem remains how to cleanly burn and source bioethanol.
Ah, amateurs. He should have printed a notice saying "by entering the premises you agree to my privacy policy". Then it would be ok to sell the data.
English(Portugal) > English(Spain − Barcelona)
Clearly, they're really efficient, especially Poland.
they don't have yens in China
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“We expect energy-related CO2 emissions will increase once again in 2018”
As far as I understood Wikipedia's decision the court documents could still be linked in an article. Breitbart is not the original source of the documents.

I think that Wikipedia trusts Breitbart enough not to falsify court documents.
That is what NGOs are for.
What's important though is to compare the whole system and not just individuals. The US has very robust democratic institutions, checks and balances and rule of law.

Trump's inclination to reduce everything to ass kissing ("has said nice things about me") and personal vendettas would be an absolute disaster in many countries. But the US is healthy enough to survive him - I think.
I don't understand the comment about the tax system. Which taxes are you talking about?

As I've said in another comment, IRS is literally filling out an online app for 5 minutes - and all relevant entries are already pre-filled. It's very easy and simple.

As for companies, my girlfriend works at a company run by two Germans and they basically hire an accountant to do the paperwork every year. It's pretty cheap. For a larger company, you'd have to hire a local to do the accounting, though.

Maybe I'm missing something because I don't run my own company, bear in mind that hiring freelancers is cheap here.
If no house, what is your solar panel currently attached to? That sounds like an interesting setup.
In the past one could escape "evil" environment in private life; now with overreaching/intrusive tech on a global scale and companies losing their initial (even if only public) philosophies under the pressure of making more profit after reaching market saturation that possibility is going to be vastly reduced, and only then we will see what they are really capable of (with warning signs already popping up).
I know the shuttle is long gone but are we at the point where robotic repair could be an option. The Hubble might be out of date but that would be a great exercise in developing repair tech.
Hey!

Thanks, hopefully you find it useful.

I have a list of items and features I want to add on a trello board, I will add them as issues onto the Github repo with a roadmap this week.

If you're interested in helping out that would be great if you start/follow the project that might help with any updates.
Any recommendations on companies that do exciting things and treat people well in Montreal?
Please just use a decent logging library and debugger... it will up you productivity, you will learn important skills and you will write cleaner code and you will prevent issues like this one.
Right now I am using MSI afterburner with its detached hardware monitor, which gives you some nice graphs of several aspects of the GPU.
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> “for money” is no longer good enough

It is still plenty good enough but employee want to be paid in the currency their employers uses.

If you trust your employer to do things for the greater good, you can accept less money, or even no money at all like with the charities. If your employer is simply pursuing the highest profit, employee want the biggest amount of money.

Banking never could claim a "Moral High Ground", so they compensated with cold hard cash. SV is loosing its and needs to align its salaries accordingly.
Single precision floats loose precision as coordinates get larger, hence "floating" point precision. Point cloud data often consists of outdoor/aerial scans covering multiple kilometers and floats cannot accurately represent large coordinate values like that. Translating to origin and/or rescaling only works to a limited extent and isn't a very robust solution.

Integers on the other hand can be used to represent coordinates in a fixed precision. E.g. if you want to store coordinates in milimeter precision, you multiply your double precision meter coordinates by 1000, and then cast the resulting coordinate to 32 bit integers.

> If it's precision you're worried about,you're going to lose the precision as soon as you convert it from an int to a float to use.

Yes, that is why you convert ints to doubles for processing and only use floats for tasks where limited accuracy is okay, e.g. rendering.
I understand your point. Decentralized in the sense that we don't own your data or identity. It is owned and controlled by the user. Identities are verified by blockchain and all your data is stored in the cloud storage of your choice. As far as more information is concerned we have listed all the important points in the landing page which we felt was necessary. If you have any specific questions you can ask and we'll try best to answer that.
I am living in Urbana/Champaign Illinois for a few years for a job. The university here is one of the best engineering schools in the world and the whole area has a lot to do: meetups, entrepreneurship centers, culture, and is an easy drive to Chicago and St Louis. I will miss this place when my wife and I return to Sedona Arizona next year.
As an aside: Bloomberg employees are not permitted to short sell, and must hold most kinds of securities for 30 days or longer.
A very good toy problem in general : it is visual, simple to get something up and working while leaving ample space for optimisation and added complexity.
One thing I learned from this Bloomberg story is, that the human mind seems hardwired to prefer conspiracy theories over facts and is very bad at taking probabilities in account.
Shouldn't company pay adequately instead of giving out "free" food? This is something I can't understand.
Ah, DGSI. https://www.france24.com/en/20160929-sarkozy-scandal-spy-squ...
Its not just taking notes. Its a common pattern while fixing bug, you encounter a code path that with a 3 minute time you can make it so much better, but should you continue on your original plan or take 3 minutes to make the code better is the question. The blog says don't spend time on diverging the original plan instead mark it for later. Another good name would be "breath first traversal development"
>a lot of (about 1 million) refugees and emigrants from Ukraine

Please don't mix labor migrants (99.99+% of the number you indicated) with refugees.

According to the fresh official Foreigners Office report[0], there were 7.5k applications and around 400(sic!) positive decisions for the "refugee" or "protection" status from the Ukrainian citizens in the last 15(!) years.

[0] https://udsc.gov.pl/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/UKRAINA-01.09...
of course, but still - most people I know really doesn't care..
I used Microtik routers for a few years, I felt nerdy and in control and all that. Until one day one of them bricked itself completely while updating itself. I replaced it with a off-the-shelf consumer one and realised immediately that it was a LOT faster than the fancy Microtik.
Experience of One of course, but well, I never bought another.
I am not yet convinced we will see tons of FPGAs. They are less power efficient than ASICs.

Yes ASICs cost a lot more up front. But as the companies get bigger and bigger they can afford that up front cost.

The cost of making an ASIC has already dropped and would expect that to continue to happen.

Plus we have the issue of needing to integrate memory with computation to lower power use of moving around data and that is a even harder to do on a FPGA then an ASIC.
I still find the idea of carbon offsets hard to justify morally : you could probably avoid flying in the first place. You could even buy the carbon offsets without flying.
Melbourne Australia. Tech meetups, but expensive. Top city to live in the world, almost every year.
As I was familiarising myself with Go recently I was surprised to see the word "panic" so often. Panic disorder is a real and debilitating disease. I wonder when that terminology will change. But at least it's not as bad as other languages where you need to spawn and then kill child processes. "Abort" is another word we shouldn't use since it reminds some people of the killing of unborn babies. Don't even get me started on the fact that most web pages are predominantly white.
The Nobel Prize awards outstanding contributions to humanity. The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences awards people pushing neoliberalism. Read up on the Mont Pelerin Society to learn more about it.
Rules of ware are very different from laws in peaceful country. Don't mix them, please.

For example, Russia bombs and shells cities in Europe and Africa, uses chemical weapons, bombs hospitals, torture and kills civilians in their own and even in other countries, supports terrorists, spread fake news, and so on. But you can find lot of intellectuals in Moscow.