skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think one of the solutions that these countries can work is to promote high skill immigration to their countries. Something similar to what Australia and Canada are doing. Give the potential immigrants a chance to become full EU nationals in 4-5 years. I am pretty sure lot of skilled ppl from developing nations will be ready to move for that to these countries which offer a great quality of life. It might also help them overcome the problems of aging population in these countries as well. But the only caveat is that immigration process is tightly controlled to allow the most suitable applicants only.
I think you will find that the tax system (and permits etc) are worse. Tax rates are higher in de/nl but the system is somewhat simpler. Spain, just to pick a random example, just removed a six month process to get a permit to open a retail location. And it is not like you can apply online or anything. I am in the UK where most stuff is even easier (was looking at setting up a company in different European countries, which you can do in the UK for £4.99, but is much more complex elsewhere, and requires a lot of capital).
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I care. If I didn't I wouldn't post here.

But there is so much a single person can do.

And I am very involved with portuguese tech companies at the moment.

I just can't afford to live in Portugal any more.
I have seen this in the UK. When I first moved to the UK, about 8 years ago, their were loads of Aussies around, lots of people coming into work anywhere in the UK. The Aussie dollar was about $3=£1.

Last year I came back to the UK, the dollar is $1.5=£1, there are hardly any aussies around, and lots of people are trying to get work in Australia.

This is party because of the Aussie dollar being so strong, and Australia withstanding the GFC thanks to China and the Banks.
It creates just one jQuery object to wrap the entire array of DOM nodes. Afterwards, .html() is essentially innerHTML [1], provided jQuery can use it directly (otherwise it has to create DOM nodes by itself).

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Change comes from the people of the country, not the people who run away. You should fight for change, not take the way of least resistance. Look beyond your personal gains and to the remaking of a whole country. If all brains leave, your country will be dead soon. And yes, of course you don't work for big consultancy companies :) That I have notices a lot; people in Portugal, especially students, seem to be overly occupied with career and such and want to go to 'the big companies'. They are not fun; Logica, Cap gemini or even Outsystems (who are 'small' but SHOULD be PT pride!); these are stable companies but they have a lot of experience how to manipulate and exploit people. The cultural thing (apparently?) that all students want to have for-life jobs (never occurred to me during or after university) and careers is a problem, as this won't happen in the north either. You'll get a contract 'for life' here because it doesn't really matter for the employer to give you that or temporary; you are protected mostly, so it's easier to just give you an eternal contract and use the court to force you out if need be.
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This may have a lot to do with getting funding. London has just started to become interested in funding startups, and EIS and the new SEIS are helping, but it is nothing compared to the US. Even the smallest city in the US has more funding opportunities than London. It takes a while for people to change their habits.
The article says hadza walk many miles per day but burn the same calories as sedentary westerners. How is this possible? Well you go look at the table in the study and the hadza are all 30kg lighter than westerners. The men are all apparently 5'4 and 115lb, if you look at the BMI. That's probably 115lb at sub 5% bodyfat, too.

The study claims to control for body size. I didn't read it. But I still suspect we're looking at an apples to oranges situation here. A little dude of pure muscle who has been walking 10 miles a day his whole life is essentially incomparable to a fat sedentary Westerner.

I don't think the data presented predicts that if you had 6' fat sedentary people walk three miles a day they wouldn't lose weight, but that's almost claimed in the article.
There will not be any state pensions in any of those countries by the time you retire, make your own provision. This debt crisis is about unpayable liabilities, among other things.
(All the apple bashing on HN is from the google distortion field, it isn't reality.)

Wat?

The world isn't divided into Apple users and Google users. I'm sure I'm not the only person who avoids both, and there's plenty out there who love both.
I read it this morning and have had a thought:

He talks about determining the

sole

user of a computer.

He also says that a Boeing 747 and a Car are both examples of computers.

So, the thought I had was, when you have 1000 passengers in a automated train, it would be impossible to determine the

sole

user of the train.

It may also not be wise to allow

any

user of the train to control the software.

?

Therefore, there will be no civil war and users will be doomed to not have control over devices they are using.

The "debate" is akin to asking "What happens when slave owners finally wrest control of their slaves from the government? When someone is being served by a slave, that slave, is really, acting for their owner's interest. The slave could be eavesdropping on conversations, poisoning food on behalf of the owner, not acting to the user's interests to the exclusion of everyone else's."

What about computers that are not controlled by any entity, period. ?

I'm not saying that computers ARE slaves, just that the current debate resembles one ABOUT slaves. I'm not talking about "Strong A.I." either, just software that can provide a service and earn enough money to pay for the CPU time they use.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_agent

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_agent

[1] This is probably the wrong answer, but just a thought.
And he was friendly :)
Hmm, an awful lot of <br>s in the generated code. Never mind that I'm not a big fan of explicit <p>'s, either, as s-expression like formatting isn't that helpful once your actual content pushes the starting tag beyond the screen. SGML is actually not a bad idea if your markup content is pretty low (< 5%).

It's still a bit line-noisy compared against markdown and, well, I've yet to see a forum using bbcode properly.
> The younger generation is fat and spoiled and angry. Why? The news probably? Hearing every day your country is going under is not stimulating while the older generation lived with Franco / Salazar and know that this is the best they every had.

Way to keep it classy..

The younger generation is not fat, nor spoiled, maybe angry. You just see the most blatant cases, and decide that's the general rule.

If the average bar you were in was like a 'tourist attraction' it was that you just fell in all the tourist traps available. There are plenty of nice places to spend the day (and the night) in Spain.

About the Salazar/Franco line, I do not understand exactly if you are implying the older generation lived through a dictatorship, and now is the best they ever had (since there's no dictator), or you mean things were better during these times.
Why have you opened in PT (and will be opening a second office soon) and not in France or the UK?
Well I have companies in NL/DE/ES/PT and I don't see much difference. There are differences, but frustration wise, they are just all at the same level. In Spain I go with the flow which basically just means stuff takes forever, but everyone seems fine with that.
I had the opportunity to work with Yongfook once, at a client. He's a smart cookie.

The feeling is 100% mutual, good sir!
To be quite frank I wonder what is better for the country: staying there, working your ass off and getting just enough to survive, or being outside, opening your horizons, maybe being exposed to new ways of thinking, technologies or ideas, and one day come back and strive to offer to the country what you learned outside.

These people that are leaving, they still love they country, and I'm sure most of them still think about returning to it sooner or later.
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But what does that mean? Portugal is very cheap (compared to mostly everything) unless you live in Lisbon. So don't live in Lisbon. What do you mean?
Change comes when a paradigm no longer can support the evidence of its failure and a new paradigm can replace it. All these countries (Portugal, Italy, Greece Spain... PIGS!) are now discovering that the "quality of life" was sustained in a false growing paradigm based on subsides and abuse. The new paradigm will be brought by all the people living outside that will bring back a different work culture and have probably broken links with the establishment in their countries.

Or at least that's my hope. Maybe all this is really a healing mechanism.
You can try it out a bit.

Shoot various size coins at each other and watch how they interact, then try a coin against a wall.

If you have a very slippery surface try making a line of 3 coins (or more if it's super slippery) to bounce against each other.
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Patents definitely foster progress by the looks of it.
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(A bit off-topic question to physics expert on HN)

I've read that supermassive black hole accretion is the most energy-effective process of mass to energy conversion in the Universe (50% efficiency or so).

I'm just curious: Where does all that energy go? Extremely powerful jets of radiation are emitted into the intergalaxy space and then what? Does it just disappear? Isn't this energy responsible for Universe expansion? It must push galaxies away from each other, right?
If google adopted this, it would save so much time and trouble. Very good idea.
Little development time vs perfect code?
I am sure I am not the only one to have this "issue".

I have created some small libraries for my side projects (mainly C++ lately) but I keep spending an awful lot amount of time trying to make it look good and take into account all corner cases while I should probably just be hacking away to get something working (i.e some kind of prototype).

How do you guys deal that ?
If you are in Portugal and want to work for a fun innovative start up. Come and work for us. So far we have grown from 2 person to over 12 person in a year been here. http://webnographer.theresumator.com/ for a bit more background here on why we did it http://blog.webnographer.com/2010/10/an-rd-office-in-lisbon/
Wouldn't it be easier if this were XML instead of plain text? I assume the goal is that software can easily interpret the data.
The real question is why companies are still not able to compete even with these lower costs. Other inefficiencies and being in the wrong markets?
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Well, I'm from Germany but working in Spain - regularly getting job offers from UK, Ireland, Germany, even San Francisco, with 2, 3, 4 times bigger salaries. But still: weather, food, people and yes, "quality of life" - those things are keeping me here. Recently visited Porto, and damn, that place is so fantastic that I started to think about moving in there. Because, pardon being a bit cheesy here, life is more than having a good salary, a house and drink a pint of Guinness in a local bar on a Friday night. At least for me, that is.
Where do you live? I live in the montes de Malaga and I travel a lot to the Alpujarra, Cordoba and Ronda. The youth is 'a few kilos' too heavy. If you walk on the beach here the Spanish youth IS fat. It's a HUGE difference from 20 years ago. And their parents buy EVERYTHING for them; a lot of my Spanish friends with kids waste their own life to pay for their +20 year old kids because 'they cannot find a job'. So no, i'm not a tourist and I don't live in or go to tourist traps. Maybe you live in the north of Spain, I have no idea how it is there, nor did I ever pretend to know, I use the word "SOUTH" quite a lot if you didn't notice.

And it was worse during the dictators; old people remember and they tell me.

Edit; Oh and i'm not trying to insult anyone; you can ask my local bar guy; he'll tell you he is a angry sod; he's proud of it. He likes to piss off tourists. He just cannot explain why. Others as well; most are kind of proud of not being nice to tourists. While they know it's their bread.
Same place sunlight goes.
This would never replace bbcode.

The best thing to replace that is markdown.

People don't really grok tags very well at all.

BBCode only works because of WYSIWYG editors that do the work for the user. That and the wide acceptance meaning that sites like Flickr produce BBCode embed statements.

Markdown works well for people just typing in plain text but still getting something formatted without trying to tag things.

If you have a WYSIWYG editor then who cares whether this is used... and as the embed stuff isn't compatible why pick this over BBCode?

If you don't have a WYSIWYG editor, and assuming you're in a web page and a textfield, then markdown works superbly well (ignoring the ugly image syntax).

I struggle to see, given the title and mention of BBCode, how the linked article overcomes any of the issues of the existing methods or offers any benefit.

Not to say that there isn't a place for this... but BBCode isn't it.
I think this usecase is already covered very well by microformats and the various metadata standards that already exist and are supported by Google, Facebook et al.

I'm not sure the argument that these are too complicated for non-developers really works here, after all uploading a file to the root of a web directory is likely also too complicated...
How about this for a novel idea. Stop inventing new mechanisms for autentication, and let ME choose how I authenticate myself to your service (to gain access to MY data). http://ragmondocom.appspot.com/2012/03/My-Stuff-My-Lock
If everything follows the format (name: value) I can't see a reason why machine parsing would be difficult, I would guess the problem with XML (or any structure beyond plain text) is that it can be very daunting for technology inexperienced people.
We want to be a human friendly file. If we had a JSON or XML file, it would be too complicated for a non-developer to write or read it. On this way, I think it doesn't matter if the website is done in wordpress, drupla, static files, flash, etc. It's just a simple file.

Also, we are following the same pattern as the robots.txt file.
I'm a grad student, I've been a university student for the better part of the last decade, and let me tell you this: the most universally disliked piece of software on campus is always whatever dreck they make us use for Web services. Admittedly, Google+ is at least modern and attractively engineered, but that misses the point. The point is that students rarely use the social network their university gives them unless their grade depends on it - the university administration seems to be thinking "hmm, kids these days are on the Web a lot, let's give them a Web site", while the students roll their eyes and use Facebook/Twitter/BBM/whatever to get together and get their work done, rather than logging into some extra site to do things they can already do in their existing Web flow.
>> We think that the Hadzas’ bodies have adjusted to the higher activity levels required for hunting and gathering by spending less energy elsewhere.

When I commute by bike, my brain is less flexible at work, than if I tube it in and eat chocolate. I will happily agree that my body shifts from using the brain at 100% CPU to 50% CPU and 50% body.

That big lump of grey matter does not run 100% all the time.
thanks! Let's see what the big ones think about it.
But I don't think that's true. Portugal (and the other southern countries) have a lot of talent; why let that talent be bought up by outside countries (like mine)? The world is very ripe for near shoring and actually good programmers are incredibly hard to find. For anyone. People are getting tired with Asian 'factories' with people who, usually, derive no pleasure from their work. Simply; if you open a company NOW in PT and you train 10 Outsystems guys, you and those guys will be able to live a GREAT life. You can sell them in NL/DE/FR for E100/hour and they don't expect you do 'work nights'. It's just the business sense which seems to be lacking. You need to USE the fact that it's a crisis, PT is going under; it means you don't cost E200, you 'only' cost E100 or E75 an hour. How much do you think the US army is paying per hour to Outsystems for the engineers sitting in Lisbon?
How long has your C++ or iOS or Android taken to develop?
I have been trying to develop iOS/C++ apps for the past year and I have not finished any single one yet.

How long do you usually take to make a beta version of your app ?
You did it basically because it's cheaper than other countries, right?

“I needed a European base with low operational costs, talented people and a high quality of life."
They have open source specs and drivers, so they are the best you can get under Linux! Most display managers use compositing now so need some sort of GPU.
But the fact that everyone 'hates Endesa'. That wouldn't fly in NL, why does it fly in ES?
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I am able to pick up pieces of relevant discussions using the search. A useful addition would be 'trending searches' ;
Just because you can read the stack trace does not mean it isn't a chore.
Whatever others say, I suggest you take your talent overseas for a while. Portugal will exist and in 10 or 20 years you and the rest of your generation will return - and demand change.

Look at India's vast middle class / consultancy fodder. They are returning home and not simply demanding, but expecting things to be different.
Apart from the really complicated thing for non-developers, another thing I don't like from schema is that it seems to targeted to websites like Yelp or Foursquare; but not too the original local business website.

The owner of the local business is the one who knows which is the correct address, phone, opening hours, menu, etc. All the other websites (yelp, foursquare, google places) can be wrong. We just need the local business to tell the rest of the world which is the correct data.
Portuguese actually.
Not all exceptions are caught, and not all caught exceptions can have useful error messages. Try to figure out the cause of an SQLException in code and you will quickly realize it is an exercise in futility. To top it off, you are at the mercy of the implementer, who often seems to choose the most cryptic message possible.

Sometimes, all you have is a stack trace.
Tried visiting http://www.touristeye.com/business.txt ,was throwing a 404 error. Is it just me or?
Curiously my answer (I don't know if it's THE answer) is that Spanish people do not like conflict. We don't have class actions as in other countries and people are not used to claim for their rights against big companies. I think we still need a bit of this crazy david-vs-goliath mindset I've seen in other countries where people fight big injustices to the death.

The Spaniard is too preoccupied about what the other will think of him if he makes something... abnormal, which here means anything that will distinguish you from your neighbors . Spanish society is very very alienating and this is why so many foreigners find it so close and unfriendly to people from other cultures.
Or run it natively on iOS... it sounds incompetent to me.
George W. Bush wasn't a one dimensional idiot either. He had a lot of charisma and people skills and is probably one of the highest Presidents of all time on the 'would like to have a beer with him' barometer, even now.

I always thought of JFK as more like Obama (or rather, I thought of Obama as like JFK). As in, a genius. It is pretty clear from this application that a genius he was not.
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All the students I know drink PBR, does that mean everyone's going to switch to PBR sometime soon?
98% of Portuguese IT industry are consultancy and solution development. We have very few product and services development. The game industry is almost zero, applications made here are very rare and services are just copycats. We have a lot of public institutions IT back office projects executed by the same big companies. For a programmer who loves programming: what is the motivation in doing back-offices?

Well there are some efforts in entrepreneurship but most of "startup" ideas falls into the same bin like social networks for cakes or events, project tracking systems or business cards mobile apps. There is much buzz around the startup concept and the idea of having your own business but not on ideas for products that offer real value to people.

In an environment like this it is difficult for a programmer to evolve
1. we are not a local business ;)
2. this is just a proposal for now. If many websites support it, we will implement it!
No, he's right. There needs to be valid facts on WHY. He's listed a few features, but that doesn't mean it'll get traction at all. Or it doesn't mean that the students will use it in their personal lives too.
Just to comment on myself: I may have misunderstood the meaning of the word "fake" in this context. A "fake cafe" could still serve coffee, just not to the public at large.
I thought the interaction with the Higgs is supposed to create mass?
I'm currently in this position and for me the article (though I read it a while ago) has been bumped at a time that makes it a nice reminder.

I suspect in my case that the purchaser has three motives:

1) The acquisition of a stable and profitable media business, with continued growth in an area that they are not present.

2) The acquisition of modifications and code that enabled my forum to grow as it has, and would give the potential for their existing forums to grow similarly.

3) As #1 and #2 aren't worth the kind of offer in consideration, that they wish to acquire me.

I'd love to see the article updated with reference to the third point... the acqui-hire.

The offer being discussed is attractive, but I'm very wary of the acqui-hire as what matters to me most isn't this particular website but the technology piece I'm building separately. That's the real startup, and that's why I care deeply about.

From my point of view, the offer I have is being reduced to: If I accept it, it may prove to be a distraction of such size that I end up killing the project I care about the most, my technology startup (rather than the forum which is more lifestyle business).

Anyhow... Jacques, if you were considering an update or 2nd article, considering whether to sell in the face of what appears to be an acqui-hire offer would be something I would love to see.
Why don't browsers support TeX anyway? Maybe it could even be embedded in a HTML page, like SVG.

<!doctype html>
<tex>
Hello, World
\bye
</tex>
my point is that the poster harms the site by posting this title. whats your question this is str8forward. next thread i post "free candy" but u must pay for candy -> fail. i actually like the site
Problem is not depriving users of control, problem is transfer owner's control to third party.

So (in your example) it's not about giving train control to passengers, it's about train being controlled by transport company who bought it, not by manufacturer or some other third party.
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