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Ask HN: If you had a chance to do a RTW trip, what places would you visit?
I work remotely and have just finished a 2-month trip exploring the Western US. I had a blast and now I want to try a bigger trip in 2019.

I am feeling a call to go to NYC for the first time, Iceland to see Northern Lights, then EU (start from either London or Barcelona), then Egypt, then India/Nepal/Tibet, SEA, then HK, Beijing, Seoul, Japan (spend a lot of time here), Hawaii (most likely land in Honolulu to save money. Already been to Maui), San Diego, back home.

I know I can't 'see it all'. I'm okay with saving the rest of the Americas, Australia/NZ, Arctic, Antarctic for later life (I'm only 28). I also know that I'll return to EU and Asia again, so I only feel the need to see places that I feel connected to or inspired by.

I'm asking here because I'm sure many of you travel a lot or work remotely. Where better to ask than here. Reddit is hit or miss these days.
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I wonder what the effect on the human border agents will be if this system is popularized - will it be something like "self-driving" cars where people start falling asleep at the wheel even though the tech isn't there yet (I suppose in this scenario it means that people who are lying are seen as telling the truth and they just get waved by by border control)
I have umateix installed and set to block 3rd party scripts. Almost all websites work fine or even better like this but sometimes I have to enable a CDN to get the website to work.
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Not defending the bit depths in parent comment, but the tape a professional recording is made on and a cassette tape (which I assume parent meant by "tape") are a lot different, right?

In any case, I've heard some great sound from Type II and Type IV cassette tapes in the past. The worst part was that tapes I made myself from CD sounded way better than a store-bought cassette of the same album. That's when I learned they really cheaped out on those cassettes (brown-colored Type I tapes)
Soon they'll just have to hack your Tesla or autonomous car. Hello tree!
Maybe it's marked as a kind of modifier that only appears in combination with another letter, since that seems to have been its primary (though not the only) use case according to wl.
Nooo, google wants you to think you are in private browsing mode so you share more secrets with them. They will just collect it all no matter what you do.
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Your text is unreadable on mobile. Can you remove the code tag?
Google is quickly becoming the login form for every website. And even if the website has its own login it will always have recaptca
related: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/mapping-chinas-re-educatio...
With compensation like that, I have to reconsider my drive to be an entrepreneur. If you can make a million bucks working for someone else, why work for yourself?
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That would create an easy denial of service attack: if I wanted to deny you access to your account I'd spam it with bad login attempts.
Do you believe that self-reported salary data will be biased either high or low? Do you attempt to measure bias? How do you account for the difference between the salaries reported on your site and the averages/medians published by salary.com and glassdoor.com? Is it that your site only focuses on outlier (top) companies?

Any plans to add "Project Manager" role?
FAANG companies have had huge stock increases in the last few years. A hiring bonus stockgrant 4 years ago for 50k is now delivering close to an extra 100k per year as it vests. It's not clear if folks are counting their stockgrant at the original value or the current value which could differ significantly.
Google audiophile headphones. Then go to sweetwater and search for studio headphones.

If the price of source gear is a quarter of the price of gear attempting to reproduce source, something is broken.
"The Tolkien of Chinese literature" is a marketing phrase produced by the English publisher, and while I totally understand the impetus, I don't think it's quite accurate. Tolkien melded multiple cultural traditions (the Icelandic Eddas, Anglo-Saxon literature, and rural English life) to create an original world that was at once strange and familiar to his readers. Jin Yong wrote stories based in Chinese history, with an extra layer of magic, spirituality, and kick-ass martial arts.

By analogy, it would be like he'd produced a really, really good retelling of the Arthurian legends. It's an impressive achievement, but not quite on the same creative level as Tolkien.

Full disclosure: I agented the English translation to a US publisher (from the UK publisher).
"the controversy all boils down to a misunderstanding about LIGO's methods for analyzing its data." This plus the mentioned secrecy is the modus operandi in the physics community.

No open data, no open calculation how you reached a certain theoretical result and no open code with which the simulation/analysis is done.

There is also the case to be made for a reproducibility crisis in the hard sciences.
Yellow IKEA pencils - in what country? I've only seen unpainted ones (in the UK, and also the US from what I remember, circa 2004-5), with IKEA printed in black on the side.
This is a rare paper published on the topic.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-07536-...
> This is only truly necessary as a mechanism to prevent automated signups.

Only if there isn't some shared knowledge between the website and prospect.

For example some niche websites that I use have locally-based challenges such as 'how many engines can be fitted to a Boeing 747-400'* or a short mathematical algebra to solve.

Both approaches work without Javascript and without external support, just with a two-column table and a trusted group of challenge-creators.

* it's more than four
> One could write the same code in python/javascript with using lists and strings and recursion in a similar way, no?

Then you're implementing a Lisp (just one with square instead of round brackets, and commas between list elements) within Python/JS.

Edit: to explain, you also need to either translate the result of the derivation back into Python/JS code (via stringification and eval or perhaps AST manipulation--i.e. a compiler of the list structures (Lisp) to Python/JS), or write an interpreter for the list structures (i.e. Lisp interpreter).
I wonder how much of the telepresence thing has to deal with adjusting for lag. Accounting for lag and high pings was definitely something a lot of early gamers grew up with (and is still an issue).
What's "Blind"?
I think code agnostic in this case means they don’t hire based on a language, but they still work with a limited set.

It makes sense if you think about it. A small startup with 5 Python engineers can’t afford to hire one with heavy experience in Ruby and who knows a thing or two about Python.

First, it may be the case that this person can actually transfer their knowledge and do a good job with Python, but there’s also a chance they can’t and that will disturb the entire operation for a team that small, that’s a big risk.

Also, this person is not going to be paid as a Jr. Python because they have the options to be paid as a Sr. Ruby somewhere else, so the startup need to step up their pay game, now that’s a big and expensive risk.

A big company like Google, on the other hand, can afford to have that risk. If everything goes right, they end up with a great Ruby and Python engineer, if things goes wrong, Google is so big they probably have some other projects somewhere that can use a good Rubyst, and in the worst case scenario, if the person really can’t fit anywhere, a company like Google can still afford to let them go and eat the costs of a wrong hire.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16062460
Of course they are. Any sufficiently large corporation in the US, hardware or software, exists and operates at the mercy of the US military, and should be expected to perform such tasks upon request whenever they have access to data the US military wants.

This applies to AWS (all regions—Amazon is a US company), Google/Gmail/GCP (worldwide), Apple, Rackspace, Cisco, ATT/Verizon/Comcast, Visa, AmEx, Mastercard, Wells/BOA/Chase, PayPal, Facebook, Twitter, et c.

Don’t expect these execs to spend money and time and risk imprisonment to impede one of the most powerful and unscrupulous military organizations on the planet. Joseph Nacchio was a rare exception.

If you need an example, look what they did to Wikileaks even in the absence of an unsealed indictment. These people don’t care about laws or rights or STELLARWIND and MAINWAY and the like would never have been built.

See also (2010): https://www.wired.com/2010/12/realtime/
It’s not that different. Usually 1/2” or 1” wide and run at a faster speed but the chemistry is the same.
Not true in modern architectures, that situation only applies to more traditional file & api server combo's. If you statically serve your site with a service like s3 and have a backend running on lambda or ec2 - the attacker cannot modify the static assets and the client side hashing will prevent them from seeing the plaintext password.
If any of this thread is remotely true, hacking a Tesla would be child’s play for a state level actor. https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1032939617404645376?...
So you are saying we are just one notebook away from warping? Interesting. Its time to pack the bags!
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>First, you need to factor a cost of living adjustment. Oregon seems a bit more expensive than the Netherlands. Bay Area is a lot more expensive than Oregon.

This doesn't gel with my experience at all and the numbers don't bear that out either[1]. Cost of living in Portland is significantly cheaper than the Amsterdam, granted that San Francisco is quite a bit more expensive than Amsterdam.

From my experience it's still no comparison, you get paid much more in the US than anywhere in Europe, so much so in fact that sometimes I balk when I hear salaries from Europe. Huge perk you guys get is vacation time, you get much more guaranteed time off than even most highly compensated people in the US. Some better benefits too, e.g. maternity/paternity leave, but you have significantly lower salaries even before taking into account taxes.

[1]https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
And once again, no matter the subject, HN has a genuine expert with insight just waiting round the corner :-)

Thank you

(volume 1 is still on my xmas list)

Our thoughts go to his family.
As a native Chinese speaker, I don't quite identify the genre of his work as "martial arts", it just should be "Wu Xia", which can not be translated flawlessly into English, like "Zen" or "Tao".
It's on the second line. The title is the name of the fragment.
Fayed was born in Alexandria, Egypt and was the eldest son of the Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed, former owner of Harrods department store. His father was also the former owner of Fulham Football Club and the Hôtel Ritz Paris. Fayed's mother was the Saudi Arabian author Samira Khashoggi; her father was Dr Muhammad Khashoggi, who was of Turkish descent, and brother to the billionaire arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi.

Not really a conspiracy:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1033626/jamal-khashoggi...

Trump is involved with these people as well:

http://anewdomain.net/jamal-khashoggi-adman-khashoggi-trump-...
or a separate channel like another server - which is the standard in every large web application I've ever seen.
> bonuses which are part of your total comp get taxed slightly higher than base pay

This is incorrect. The taxes withheld when the bonus is paid may be different, but for annual tax calculation all that matters is the total income (bonus or not).

https://blog.turbotax.intuit.com/income-and-investments/bonu...

"Remember, taxes may be withheld from your bonus at a higher tax rate at payout, but when you file your taxes at tax time your actual tax rate is based on your total taxable income and overall actual tax rate (...) you may get some of the money withheld back in the form of a tax refund."

> After CA income tax, etc etc effective tax rate is easily 40%+.

For a sufficiently high income, sure. In 2018, a single person living in California with no deductions, no contribution to retirement accounts (401k, IRA) or HSA and earning $364k would pay $145,602 in federal+state+FICA taxes, which is 40% effective rate up to 4 significant digits:

https://smartasset.com/taxes/income-taxes#XFuV4Aoe9F

This is the worst case (high state income tax, no deductions, no pre-tax retirement contributions, single) - change any of those factors and you're paying less than 40% effective rate.

If I had to guess, very few people around the world will be shocked to learn that someone earning $364k in California will net only $220k after paying taxes. In most of Western Europe they'd be surprised your effective tax rate is so low while earning 20x the minimum wage.
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Yes I am also highly skeptical of what the CPE cost will be. Starlink has been over hyped in the non-satellite-industry technology press as if it will be a panacea for residential, rural internet access and for small business. But I'm thinking the rooftop terminal cost might be more like $3000-5000 of hardware, not totally outside the realm of possibility to recoup the cost for on 36 month contracts, but not something that's going to allow for $90/month residential broadband. More like a small-medium business product. Or $250-300/month.

If they can't do it economically and with enough gain, SNR and low noise factor using phased array (questionable), the rooftop CPE is going to have to look like an identical pair of motorized, two axis tracking 50cm compact cassegrain dishes, each with its own BUC+SSPA and Rx RF chain. Basically miniaturized o3b. Again not cheap.
I did skim that file through but missed it, sorry. It's worth pointing out in the comments here in case others miss it.

The comparison is interesting since your rectangle version has superior image quality compared to Alsings. If I squint my eyes it is hard to tell a difference to the original picture. It looks blurred the "right way" somehow.
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And will we abandon China's next Davos in the X conference as fast as we did Saudi?
Note that 'not requiring a parser' is only true iff you limit the expression language you transform to one that has no syntactical constructs (i.e. can't introduce new bindings). If you want to allow those then you need a "parser" on top of s-expressions which maintains a bindings context (usually called a code walker in the context of Lisp).

So not requiring a 'parser' in that sense is not really a feature of full (modern) Lisp. (Early Lisps didn't use lexical scoping, and used f-expressions or similar i.e. less of a compile- vs. run-time separation, so it may have worked better back then for what seems to have been the original purpose of Lisp, but they may also have squinted and limited themselves via convention, not sure.)

This doesn't mean that there's no usefulness for the 'first-level parsing step' that gives you s-expressions: in some cases you might be handling a context insensitive language like yours. Also, it makes extending the language much more painless (macros easily compose, or more to the point, you can easily invent ad-hoc new languages on top of s-expressions used as inputs for macros, and won't (ever, I think) have problems with their boundaries becoming ambiguous).
Eh, I think I disagree. If a story is good for HN, it doesn't matter where it came from or who posted it, or whether it was a bot. That fact is true independently of any other consideration.
Invaluable insight: banning something you don't like reinforces its status as "something we can't handle except by censorship" which lends political weight to the ideas exposed. Without the opposition(actual debate/counter-arguments) to the idea, the idea becomes more like a "forbidden truth" to its supporters. They are in effect creating an echo chamber where the idea isn't opposed or ridiculed, but accepted as background truth and banned due being "politically incorrect".
Cool, thank you for the response, Ill try to at least add to the other thread to help out.
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Reasonable question!

(1) OCB has long had a patent grant for GPLed software (https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/blob/master/ocb-license...), so the Rogaway patents were a non-issue even in 2011. (Of course there are other patents on authenticated encryption, e.g. IBM's Jutla patents. I understand why OCB gets singled out because of the Rogaway patents, but my understanding is that all AE modes, and perhaps most computer programs in general, likely implicate some patent.)

(2) The crypto experts told us that OCB was the best AEAD mode and that if we are going to put all our eggs in one basket, we should pick OCB. I am pretty happy with the choice and with the lack of traditional cipher negotiation in Mosh.

(3) Implementation quality strongly favored OCB. At the time, OpenSSL had no AE modes at all, so we probably would have had to vendor and ship an implementation of something not-OCB, or use a non-AE construction. I understand OpenSSL had a lot of pain implementing GCM in a robust way over the subsequent years -- if we had depended on OpenSSL or tried to use its AE modes, we would have inherited that pain.

Given our position of wanting to pick one mode and lock it in (which seems to have paid off), I don't think we could have made a better choice in 2011 than AES-OCB. I might make the same choice today, but would look harder at the other available AE modes in OpenSSL.
>Why bother colonizing Mars at all? The place is worse than a dump.

Well, to play devil's advocate, if you know that there's likely to be a WWIII (or other catastrophe) that wipes out all life, establishing a sustaining base on Mars is the best way to ensure the return of human civilization.[1]

[1] The whole talk is worth a listen, but he talks specifically about this starting at 7:20:
https://youtu.be/B-Osn1gMNtw
This drives me a bit nutty tbh. I dont feel like getting into it at the moment, because the entire subject deserves a proper gothrough.
How did you make the switch to working remotely for a big company in combination with a salary increase?

Somehow it seems that remote jobs offer less compensation here in Europe.
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Untrue.

Again, there are people in general elections who did exactly what I put here.

There are mutiple ways of politicking out there.
https://www.teamblind.com. An anonymous cross industry social network with per company discussion boards. People share interview advice, salary information, (TC or GTFO is a blind meme...), "dissenting" political thoughts and bad dating advice mostly. It can be good and terrible like most anonymous platforms. It's pretty shallow compared to HN (almost no technical discussion, business discussion, shallow poltical discussion).
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That's an... interesting point, and maybe decentralizing law a bit would help create better societies (if people were free to move to where the law matches their beliefs), but we're talking infrastructure projects here. The kind that can require resources of whole cities to be completed, and that serve even more people. You can't avoid having to deal with many people somehow - either getting them all to agree, or overruling them by fiat.

> But apparently the nonexistence of a monopoly in the dispute-resolution market - such a monopoly being the definition of "government" - is sacrilegious to most.

It's not sacrilegious. It's just smart. A "monopoly in the dispute-resolution market", i.e. a government, is both a) something that groups of humans naturally gravitate towards as they grow, and b) an efficient solution to whole lot of problems of coordination between people.
> Doesn't anyone looking to debunk the LIGO results need to first explain what is producing correlated signals at interferometers thousands of miles apart?

> Also, are the incidents we're receiving in the US producing similar data at VIRGO in Italy?

Yes and yes (also there was the optical/GRB confirmation for one of the events)

That's why I'm siding on the LIGO side of this

The whole article sounds like some "skeptics gone wild" trying to start a car with a banana then saying cars are fake because of it (and that's my behaved way of phrasing it)
It's even worse on Android. The only supported browsers are Chrome and the native Android browser.

I wouldn't be surprised if they get another fine from the EU over this.
Try translating 江湖! That's what really stumps us.
I assumed GP asked about the network itself.

Sure, IoT devices are created today. But they follow defaults (which are insecure), because IoT vendors are cheap.
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I wouldn't be surprised if users have inadvertently trained the AI behind reCAPTCHA to think all taxis are yellow.
Is there any traffic coming from your IP that would make the Google fingerprinting bot angry at you?
> Optane (née 3DXpoint)

Optane is the brand name for Intel products that use 3D XPoint memory. Micron products that use 3D XPoint memory will be sold under Micron's QuantX trademark, if they ever ship. There's also a possibility that Micron could eventually start selling 3D XPoint memory to other SSD manufacturers, and the resulting products wouldn't bear either Optane or QuantX branding.

The more relevant comparison for endurance may be the enterprise Optane SSD DC P4800X, which was initially released with a 30 DWPD rating but has since been increased to 60 DWPD. Intel hasn't described what kind of error correction that drive is doing under the hood, but it's probably more robust than what the entry-level consumer Optane drives do, and possibly more robust than what the DIMMs can do within their latency budget.
Doesn't running faster and having that extra width have the effect of giving more physical space on the tape to the changes in magnetization? And therefore wider frequency range or more stable differences in amplitude?

Sort of like how SP (2 hour) on a VHS tape looks much better than LP (4 hour) or ELP (6 hour).
"I am plagued by visions of starving people seeking to escape from grey wastes, being beaten back by armed police."

Excellent. But where are they escaping to?

All countries north of 40th parallel are living far beyond their sustenance level. For example Sweden can maintain population of one million and then the food must as simple as possible, mostly potatoes.
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This actually makes me want to read them more. Didn't know about him before, but on my list now.
This still feels vulnerable to XSS. Better would be to have browsers provide an API to do this so that $site is trusted.

The downside is not a tiny bit of computation time. It's also increased latency for the customer.
If Nixon shook hands with Mao during the Cultural Revolution, u think Trump would give a hoot about Muslims being detained in Xinjiang?
Anyone have access to the full text? What's the quality of the analysis look like?
How'd that approach of firing the people who said it wasn't going to happen that fast work out at Tesla?
> not quite on the same creative level as Tolkien.

There's no reason to throw shade at a dead guy.

According to this list, Tolkien sold 250 million and Jin Yong sold 300 million:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_fiction_a...

They are definitely in the same league.

If you're chinese, Jin Yong's influence on culture and storytelling is way larger than Tolkien ever will be.

(But if you're not chinese, then you're forgiven because there's no way to translate stuff like 降龍十八掌 without it sounding super corny)