skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Engineers in europe are underpaid everywhere. You cant have a social democracy without squeezing everyone around you out of every penny.
Still Got Your Crypto: In Response to Wallet.fail’s Presentation
On the other hand you have quite different mindset for work and parenthood. Everyone expects you to take at least half a year off work as a father. You still get payed during this time.

Tax is calculated for you, all you need to do is sign (with your mobile ID).

If you get sick you get payed after the first day. Hospital visit is about $8 per night. Doctor $20 per visit.

It all depends on what is worth for you.
>But if you're trying to actually power your house, you probably want all the power you can get in the winter months.

Even so, if you can't have a south-facing module, the fact that you don't lose as much in many circumstances (roof slopes etc) is good to know.

Even when one wants to power their house, there's no need to go in an "all or nothing" approach.
A better tagline than "strong and steady" at least
Underpaid in relation to what? The bay area?
> Working in Canada where my degree was not certified

If they have an engineering conference in Canada, and a notable engineering expert comes from abroad to speak but isn't from a Canadian certified school (perhaps they're from a British one instead) do they get uptight about that as well?

At some point they must accept that non-Canadian-certified people can be engineers as well?
BlackRock and Microsoft to Reimagine Retirement
London road oddly captured by Streetview at night
In racket I would probably use a wheel for a more general solution:

(define wheel '(#f #f "fizz" #f "buzz" "fizz" #f #f "fizz" "buzz" #f "fizz" #f #f "fizzbuzz"))

(for ((fb? (in-cycle wheel)) (i (in-range 1 101)))
(displayln (or fb? i)))

It would be more elegant in a lazy language, but it is probably quite fast since it doesn't need any division (?? My assumption here might be wrong). I typed this out on my phone, so it might not work, and racket isn't my daily driver.

Edit: My initial assumption was correct, but the in-cycle sequence creator has a very large overhead. The final solution for racket (Ugly, because mlist doesn't have any nice things included): https://pastebin.com/aB2BLY1U

The mutable list solution (as one would write it in scheme) is more than twice as fast as the remainder one, and I expect it to be for other languages as well.
It’s an interesting story, but it’s rather sad. I really hope he gets the help he needs in prison and avoids falling back into his old lifestyle.
Your analogy has cause and effect reversed. The correct analogy is that if I know there is a reward for telling people their car doors are open, I will go around town specifically looking for open car doors. With no reward, I'm just going to go about my life not even looking at car doors.

Your service may be too small for this, but a company like Amazon typically saves money overall by running a bug bounty program because uncaught bugs can be extremely expensive.
In relation to the rest of the world.
Yes, that's my bank, they're brilliant. So much better than the account I have with Santander in the UK. But even DNB (former Postbanken) is better than banks in other countries and has been for a very long time. I had online banking with the Postbank even before I had Internet.
Everyone likes it, it makes subscriptions easier - that's why Apple is actively blocking it.

I'm not sure where exactly the line is though, I remember some stories where apps were rejected because they said something in terms of "You can't subscribe in this app as that would mean Apple gets 30% of your subscription, but you can go to our website and register there".
> 2019 won't be the year Rust's IDE story gets good. But maybe 2020? People are laying the groundwork. I'm hopeful.

I'm very hopeful 2019 will see some major improvements in that domain. Some IDEs such as Qt Creator just added support for the language server protocol [1] which already supports Rust. Thus the critical groundwork is already being deployed, albeit some work still needs to be done.

[1] https://langserver.org/
Least risky to who, exactly?
I found the use of oral evidence from fishermen and dredger crews to narrow possible search areas interesting.
Thanks, kaybe.

After discussions with my SO she suggested to checkout wikipedia, and guess what we found:

Privatier ([pʀiˈvaˈtjeː], also spelled Privatus, with the feminine forms
Privata or Privatière, meaning "private person") is a French word that
was used from the 19th century in Germany and some other countries as
a title by members of bourgeois families of substantial financial means
in lieu of another professional title. Much like rentier, it denoted
someone who did not have to work to make a living, and who lived off
their assets of some size, e.g. interest, profits from investments, real
estate and current assets.

sources:
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatier
[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rentier
Make more money. Do more for my parents and siblings. Move on with my life and end shitty relationship once and for all.
Or maybe even more tantalising, how did the previous sentient species deal with it. Or to reverse that question, is there something a hypothetical species, akin to our own, could have constructed that could have withstood Snowball Earth ? :)

It sounds easy enough, objects in space, large structures, unnatural concentrations of radioactive materials, sure, but over millions of years with kilometers of the top crust simply shaved off and recycled through the core of the planet?

It's amusing our notion of "glacial" loses meaning over such time-spans. How can it do anything, since glaciers just lie there. But over millions of years, it's a high-speed efficient grinding machine the size of a planet.

Conversely, as to how we might deal with the situation, ludicrous though it might seem with our advances and technology, maybe we simply can't. Even a passive beacon on the moon which wouldn't have suffered from Snowball Moon; it seems plausible enough, but it has to withstand at least 250 million years of the moon's night/day cycles. Is there something we could build right now that could withstand that?

Maybe? Probably? But for now I'm content the Snowball Earth hypothesis spices up a lot of Lovecraft stories. "And with strange aeons even death may die” indeed.
There is ZERO chance Zuckerberg is going to resign.

Plus the stock would take a huge hit if he did.

Kind of silly.
Don't forget to hire me without interview. I will pray for you.
It is not cool to be at the mercy of the government and their ability to run the state. They already failed with housing and healthcare. While the healthcare is free and accessible it is slow, bureacratic and costs you more at the end of the day than you would be willing to pay with your own money.
If you have a reasonable hang of the mechanics, I think most (sober, attentive, able-bodied) people could be coached into a survivable landing, given an airworthy plane and few passes at an airstrip. Un-aided, most, I agree, will fail.

I held a private pilot certification for a short while, and landed my 2nd ever time on the controls, albeit in a tiny single-engine cessna. While larger planes are slower to react to inputs, the basics still apply. But a crash off the coast suggests a landing attempt was not his penultimate manuver.
Ah right, I misunderstood. I was thinking of China being gobbled up by an even larger entity, which seems implausible.
Ah yes, only two choices. The economic desolation of small towns, or the over zoned asset inflated city. This surely end well.
> Instead they are concentrating that risk into a small subset of residential streets in some poor neighborhoods.

These cars already safer than human drivers and they are common on the streets around Google. So unless you mean "risk" as "risk of being slightly inconvenienced", neither of your points is accurate.

> But because they are low income they don’t expect to be able to afford self driving cars in the next 10+ years.

It is pretty clear that Waymo primarily intends to sell a taxi service, not cars directly. This taxi service would be cheaper and safer than any currently available so people of all incomes would benefit both directly and indirectly (fewer DUI drivers).
Regarding Switzerland, IIRC, since 2007, reserve/militia soldiers can keep their guns at home, but not ammunition.
> textbook

I recommend Kevin Murphy's ML a probabilistic approach and Ian Goodfellow's Deep Learning.

Those are the books used in most of the ML courses I took in grad school.

There is also Chris Bishop's Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, but I think it is less popular now, than it was before.
The objective function currently in effect has kept us going through an extremely wide variety of environmental and cultural conditions.

Will the new one? Suppose the current civilization doesn’t last forever?

We have a responsibility to people a thousand years from now, not just the people of tomorrow.
Denmark is very similar as well, but I despise the tax on cars...
This path of discussion is always fun to watch when it comes up.

Does it work better in America with the lazy people, are they working better just because they make less money? Most people in Sweden can actually live on one job even if it is as a cleaner.

The people that you call lazy is a very small percentage of the population. And just about all of them has some physical or psycical problem preventing them from getting a job. It is not a choice they have to either go work or starve. Noone chooses to starve just because it's fun. This mentality is very upsetting for us that has seen reality and does not live in a glass house.
> Sweden’s too egalitarian society

Any examples of societies that are unequal[1] enough for you?

[1] Not sure about a proper antonym here.
It makes a lot of apps simply impossible to exist. (Indie dev made an app for themselves catering to a niche, also wanting to put up their app for free.)

This trade off is typically okay for iFolk though.
What color is the woman?
It does, and it turns out that poor people suffering is morally acceptable to those with the means to ease it.
How about machine-learning the Prolog version, using Inductive Logic Programming and Metagol [1]?

Here's one way to do it:

% e.g. place in metagol/examples/
:-['../metagol'].

% Second-order inductive bias.
metarule([P,Q],([P,A,A]:-[[Q,A]])).
metarule([P,Q,B,C],([P,A,B]:-[[Q,A,C]])).

% Learning primitives.
prim(positive_integer/1).
prim(exact_division/2).

% Primitives' definitions.
positive_integer(N):-
between(1,inf,N).

exact_division(X,Y):-
positive_integer(X)
,divisor(Y)
,0 is X mod Y.

divisor(3).
divisor(5).
divisor(15).

% Training setup.
learn_fizzbuzz:-
% Positive examples
Pos = [fizzbuzz(1,1)
,fizzbuzz(2,2)
,fizzbuzz(3,fizz)
,fizzbuzz(5,buzz)
,fizzbuzz(15,fizzbuzz)
]
% Negative examples
,Neg = [fizzbuzz(1,fizz)
,fizzbuzz(1,buzz)
,fizzbuzz(3,fizzbuzz)
,fizzbuzz(5,fizzbuzz)
]
% Train with metagol
,learn(Pos,Neg).

We can put that in a file, consult it and call learn_fizzbuzz at the Prolog repl:

?- learn_fizzbuzz.
% learning fizzbuzz/2
% clauses: 1
% clauses: 2
% clauses: 3
% clauses: 4
fizzbuzz(A,fizzbuzz):-exact_division(A,15).
fizzbuzz(A,buzz):-exact_division(A,5).
fizzbuzz(A,fizz):-exact_division(A,3).
fizzbuzz(A,A):-positive_integer(A).
true .

This will give us the fizzbuzz/2 function, mapping each integer N to {fizz,buzz,fizzbuzz,N}. Then we can simply loop over it:

print_fizzbuzz(N):-
forall(between(1,N,I)
,(fizzbuzz(I,FBN)
,writeln(FBN)
)
).

Note we learned a general version of fizzbuzz from only 5 positive and 4 negative examples. Just don't tell Joel Grus [2].

_______

[1] https://github.com/metagol/metagol

[2] http://joelgrus.com/2016/05/23/fizz-buzz-in-tensorflow/
Hell, the place I was at made 'immoral' bus stops. They were tired of homeless sheltering in them, so they barely have any protection from sun and rain. Too bad it gets 110F in the summer.
> Starting a video in most browsers is pretty expensive (it usually loads up various GPU features for hardware video decoding).

OTOH it might be cheaper (relatively) on phones as they can offload the work to hardware components and ramp CPU down (or avoid ramping it up).
I can't recall the details, but it were things like lack of appetite, lack of sleep, unfocused or lack of attention.

I recall the that the questions made sense given the goal of the quiz, but the questions were probably too broad and, which was kinda my point, they lacked control questions to rule out other causes for those effects.
see especially:

Open Technology and the
Early Airplane Industry
Peter B. Meyer

http://eh.net/eha/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Meyer.pdf
Sweden is worst place work imho.
Even the janitor thinks he is on the same level as you and your half of your money goes for the education of his kids.

Would you subscribe to a Goverment which averages out your genetic gains due to high IQ for average life?
> Even bad economies reach equilibrium

Venezuela is not there yet.
A PEng is waay more work and implies way more experience and knowledge that someone who's just done a Bachelor. I can understand their annoyance.
In some places (mostly Nordic countries I think) fines for driving offences are set at a proportion of your income. If that were done for driverless cars and treating the whole corporation as the driver it might make them pay a bit more attention.

I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for it though.
Perhaps some poor grammar on my part. I was responding to the post with a hypothesis as to why some people experience the "call of the void": to make us more aware of the danger of doing an action that would kill us. My opinion is, this makes no sense. You can imagine what would happen quite easily without having the urge to do it. This is the "call of the void" explanation which I do not buy.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)
Happy New Year!
Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.

Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per month, please. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.

Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.

Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.

I'll kick it off: 1upHealth | Boston, MA | Full Time | ONSITE | $125k + equity (1-4%)

1upHealth is a healthcare API platform for developers who want to connect to electronic health records. We are a VC funded startup supporting 250+ health systems with hundreds of companies already using our APIs. Our goal (like the 1up Mario mushroom) is to extend life.

Roles: head of growth, director of engineering, developer / community evangelist, and plenty of software engineers (mostly back-end but some FE also). Stack: Node, AWS, serverless architecture, python, SQL, NoSQL. Please email hello@1up.health
literally in the first sentence
'(assuming you are in the northern hemisphere)'
If cities are rich because of high concentrations of capital and talent, then it really is a choice between living in a poor area and living in a rich one. You can’t make the poor areas rich without giving them qualities of the rich areas, at which point they simply switch over and become “big cities”.
Asset inflation is busy destroying society.
The state-provided services are similar in Poland - most notably: free healthcare, free education up to university, state pension, disability insurance, some help in case the of financial hardship. Meanwhile, the total income tax burden is around 35% or 20% if you’re self-employed. There’s also plenty of other options, like the UK.
Common mistakes are made by many when cleaning teeth
Remembering Riccardo Giacconi, a Titan of the Heroic Age of Astronomy
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)
Happy New Year! Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.

Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per month, please. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.

Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.

Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
> kills your chance of living a comfortable life

You have not been in Sweden.
I think you should consider that some people need money more than a goofy clandestine comradery with other “information seekers” on the internet and also that bug bounties frequently exceed “paltry.”
Indeed both of those look so much like ML which predates them by a few decades.
Nordic countries are maybe the best place on earth if you’re not gifted in any way (academically, dexterity for manual labor etc.) and thus you work as a cleaner or other unskilled labor. For software engineers, on the other hand, there are better options.
1upHealth | Boston, MA | Full Time | ONSITE | $125k + equity (1-4%)

1upHealth is a healthcare API platform for developers who want to connect to electronic health records. We are a VC funded startup supporting 250+ health systems with hundreds of companies already using our APIs. Our goal (like the 1up Mario mushroom) is to extend life. In addition to our client base and funding, we've won multiple awards and grants from the US government. We are looking for people who are interested in building the foundation for apps in consumer health, provider tools, insurance, genetics, and life sciences.

Roles: head of growth, director of engineering, developer / community evangelist, and plenty of software engineers (mostly back-end but some FE also).

Stack: Node, AWS, serverless architecture, python, SQL, NoSQL.

Please email hello@1up.health
'Engineer of mathematics' and the like make sense given that academia has been fairly effective in making society believe 'science' means scientific research, rather than all of the scientific pursuits including engineering and manufacturing.

(Talking about language here, not state regulation of professions).

There are employees at the company I work with great job titles like 'mathematician' and 'physicist'. But if the physicist is applying known principles (obscure ones about photon behaviour, but well-understood principles) to product development rather than blue-sky R&D, what is their actual job? - Given many people would think a physicist is a researcher. There's an argument that the job in question is actually 'physics engineer'.
Out of curiosity, where was this?
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We are not fine with it.

It's a bit off topic, but all I can see online about Sweden always sounds so perfect. But in reality it's not. There's a lot of us Swedes that are long from fine paying these taxes and then see our friends/relatives waiting for half a year waiting for treatment for cancer.

And if you'd like private healthcare, Sweden taxes you extra for that.

New car? Triple tax first 3 years.
I can believe this. Realtors, on a %-based fee, have to show their clients how much they’re making (for other clients). If a realtor turns up in a Mercedes, they’re basically saying: “I’m a good salesman/woman”.

Devs in SF display status in other ways. HN karma? Exits? Economists call those “hard to fake” status displays.
Setting up WebPack 4 with TypeScript – Part 3.2 – The novice programmer
F-35A in Actions
smapiot | SW Architects and SW Engineers | ONSITE | Full-time | Munich, Germany

smapiot (https://smapiot.com) is a young startup focusing on premium IT consulting and on engineering software services in the IoT and development tooling space. For smapiot the bread and butter business is the development of cloud native applications featuring reliability, scalability and security. Our consulting projects touch a broad functional spectrum including identity management systems and smart home platforms.

Our technology stack includes C#, TypeScript, Node.js, ReactJS, Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, MongoDB and many more interesting and leading-edge technologies. Essential to us is a friendly and collaborative working environment which fosters a constructive and open discussion culture, while working in an agile and flexible way tailored to our needs. Within smapiot everyone has a tech background and we are proud of our experienced architecture team. Regularly we meet up in joint retreats, general tech discussion sessions, or other team activities.

We are looking for skilled full stack web and backend developers who are keen on building amazing tools and state-of-the-art solutions. If you are attracted by the vision of contributing to the growth of a young, innovative company, then don't hesitate to contact us by writing a mail to recruiting@smapiot.com.
Pushing Database Versioning to Its Limits by Means of a Novel Snapshot Algorithm
Blowjob for the manager.
> It all comes down to insurance. If your building collapses, the insurance company will want to know if you did every reasonable thing possible to prevent it before they pay out on your policy. One of those things is making sure that the person who designed the building knew what they were doing, i.e. were they a licensed engineer.

That has nothing to do with the law, though. Ie. any insurance company ought to be able to decide for itself what qualifies as "engineer". There's no need for the state to define this and sue people -- the insurance company can simply refuse to sell an insurance unless the work was done by people considered, by the insurance company, as "engineers".
How is it just a choice of living in a poor area vs a rich one? What if the people living in the poor areas don’t even have a high school degree? Can they suddenly decide they want to work and live in the rich area?
> (I honestly don't expect to be able to cite any sources regarding Apple's decisions based on their level of transparency into their business.

If that's the case, wouldn't it be better to not, you know, not speculate? Anyone can come up with a plausible sounding reason for x once there is some evidence of y, but it doesn't change the underlying fact that it is all a conjecture -- drawing conclusion(s) from incomplete information.

I pointed you to information refuting your central claim but since you are not privy to salient information, saying nothing is much better than expanding on your conjecture.
Continuous Delivery for your profile picture
I basically agree with you, but if you stop buying more house or car than you actually need, then you aren't saving thousands a year from credit card use.

It's like any optimization problem, at different stages of it there is different low hanging fruit. Yes, if you have the big expenses figured out, you are in a pretty good place. But at that point, it is reasonable to consider whether you have some small bad habits that you might be better off without.
What if, by unbalancing the worlds ecology, said civilisation triggered that ice-age?
Better Go Syntax (igo project)
Saarland University seems to be putting out great research in the last few years.
The author is advised by S. Hack (http://compilers.cs.uni-saarland.de/people/hack/publications...).
Saarland also has Andreas Zeller (
https://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/zeller/) who wrote 'Why Programs Fail' which I gift to junior developers.
There's also the great Fuzzing Book (https://www.fuzzingbook.org) in progress.
Probably a great place to do CS research right now.
If such a system existed, we would basically have no technology. Engineers, like all humans, are fallible. Those mistakes can cost lives. If an engineer made an error in designing a part for a piloted car that caused the car to fail and kill people, should he go to jail too? Mistakes like this happen all the time. Ever had your car recalled?

Engineers can and should go to jail for negligence but that is an entirely different standard than criminalizing mistakes.