skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's 26.8% that either weren't born in the country _or have at least one foreign-born parent_. That's a pretty significant difference.

I was born in Sweden and can trace my direct Swedish ancestry back at least 400 years and I still fall into that 26.8%.
Also typical in the first world: ignoring and belittling mental problems like they are inferior to physical ones. Both suck but just in different ways.
Go to Georgia (Europe) - tax haven (0%) for software companies

http://www.upsoni.com/blog/?preload=virtual_trade_zone.txt
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Even if you will not answer me, I want to state, that I think your points a highly subjective and I find all of them questionable. The inherent optimism to rise up by your own does not make a society classless.

I can not think of a western country that is as extremely divided as America. No limit at the top, no limit at the bottom.

People do not talk about the class of people they meet, because the mostly meet people of their own class in the first place. You go to similar schools, attend similar colleges and live in similar neighbourhoods.

Europe has its nouveau rich, that do not really belong to the 1%, too, the same way, that America has its aristocrats, too. I mean, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama and now Bush vs. Clinton again?!?
> using technology to truly help make the world a better place

This from someone whose accomplishments include mobile advertising and an app that recapitulates hotlinked YouTube annotations? If you're going to make the argument personal, you'll do well to ensure first that doing so won't undermine the moral high ground you're attempting to take.
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The amount of misinformation on the internet is staggering.

-Abraham Lincoln
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I'll give them a shot.
"...I have never used any of the new client side frameworks like AngularJS..."

You have just saved a considerable amount of time and nerves. Not only will they fundamentally change it in version 2.0, they are going to use a different language - TypeScript flavour.
People who like this might like the very similar PC game "DEFCON" http://www.introversion.co.uk/defcon/
Yeah, there are a couple of homonyms :) Didn't know that CERN project, though. We try to spell Paw (capitalized P) as it isn't an acronym.
Nope, that's a willful misreading:

"Statistik från årsredovisningen som släpps i dag visar att endast tio procent initialt har godkända id-handlingar som godkänds av verket."

Only 10% had ID which were approved on the first go around. It's not clear what portion of the 90% had "no ID" and what portion merely had insufficient ID on their first attempt. Your reading would make it seem like ALL of these immigrants are shady characters out of a cartoon, trying to fake their way into the country.
I work in a Teradata shop in a major financial institution and the hours are reasonable and the work is borderline relaxing. There is a nice middle ground between 20h/wk and the startup meatgrinder if you seek it.
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Good lord, 53% tax plus 23% VAT plus utilities tax plus monthly healthcare premiums plus...?

The OP's overstating their case a bit, see the tax calculator here: http://services.deloitte.ie/tc/ (you'll get close to 60k in your pocket from 100k.)

The wikipedia article's pretty comprehensive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_the_Republic_of_Ire...
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"Really? If I share a link to a CNN or HN article, you're less likely to view that? I don't think you're remotely correct. It depends on the kinds of content, I guess. I'm just saying there are cases where web wins huge."

I didn't say I would be less likely to view the link if t was a website, nor would most people avoid it. The web architecture (linking) is alive and well.

I'm saying that many websites have an app link at the top of their content once I click it and if I found myself visiting that site often i would click "Get" and grab it.

Then future links would not open my browser, they'd open the app.

"I'm sitting here typing to you on ycombinator.com. After spending time on reddit.com. facebook.com. plus.google.com. cnn.com."

Right - my habit for many years as well. But IME most people use app versions of those sites on a mobile device (except HN - and the UX suffers for it)

"Yup, there are apps versions of those, but I sit at my desk for 8-10 hours a day, and my desktop experience is WAY better than my mobile experience..."

Here we fundamentally disagree. The mobile experience FAR exceeds the desktop experience for most casual computing tasks. I use my phone and iPad way more than my laptop for reading and replying; I use my laptop more for coding and system administration.
Another Swede, I agree with a lot of the points, especially how the current government can't help but make themselves look foolish.

But, free health care, free education, almost no religious zealots what so ever, zero religious impact on lawmaking, a relatively inclusive society, etc, makes Sweden one of the better places to live in the world, imho. Obviously, I'm biased.

I too find it rather weird that someone who yearns for more socialism would move from Sweden to the US. :)
I had in fact started a learning project with AngularJS and the very next day they announced that they would change everything in version 2. Naturally I didn't feel like investing more time into version 1.
It's only 40% in California at $120k. And 25% at the $35k level OP mentioned.
Of course a full-time job sucks. Most people need one anyway in order to pay the rent. If you have the luxury of getting away without it, of course why wouldn't you?

I have the luxury of working a 4/5ths time (four days a week job). I'm still a programmer. At a university. That also allows me to work reasonable hours on that 4/5th time job, take personal days for personal business, etc. And most of what I write is open source, which is very nice. It's definitely still a trade-off, it's a very frustrating place to work sometimes, I don't always get to work on interesting problems (but sometimes do, in some periods often), I don't have enough colleagues to work on the _really_ cool stuff that would take more IT resources than my employer is willing to devote to what I think would be the really cool stuff. Etc.

My impression is that trying to start your own business will end up taking _more_ of your time than a 'full time job', not less. But if you end up finding that time more rewarding to spend, then, great.
God this spoke to me.

I'm in the midst of cleaning out our basement filled with old cassettes, VHS' and CDs. My siblings who moved out years ago, asked me to donate them or throw them away. So now I've got to spend hours sifting through piles of media to figure out what to do with them.

It's such a hassle. (Yes, First World Problem)

My parents as Costco users have this belief where having physical things, especially in bulk, is a key strategy in savings. They hate subscription models especially for digital formats. But what they fail to acknowledge is space is valuable too. The space lost around the house because of their buying habits and unwillingness to let things go (items that were bought on sale but never used, old clothes, magazines, books, media, etc.) is pretty sad.
>If it were actually fun, people would be doing it for free.

How much fun? Whatever you think is fun, I'm pretty sure I can think of something more fun. That's not me saying I know what is fun, just saying it is a subjective term. Also, what is fun today may not be in 2 weeks time.
That new git server is so fast, it finished before you started it!

More seriously, the performance improvement here is really significant
James Delingpole in the Telegraph is probably the leading UK denier. But there are quite a lot of "silent" denialists who won't make a big noise about climate itself but will attack environmental, energy or "green" projects on spurious grounds.
>> You could grind up all the current radioactive waste into particles and pump it into the atmosphere on purpose, and nuclear would still likely cause less harm than most of the alternatives.

Maybe we should just do that then? It would be a hell of a lot cheaper than disposing of it safely. Because the problem is that safety is so massively expensive. And that is a huge factor in deciding if new stations can be built.
>Allow one small carry-on, but charge for the second.

I also think checked bags should be free and the carry-on bags should pay the fees.

However, allowing only 1 free carry-on is a disadvantage to women who want to carry a purse (that's 1 bag) and also a laptop briefcase (that's now 2 bags) to do work. I suppose women could stuff the bare minimum of toiletries into the pockets of a laptop bag but I think a lot of them will want everything that they carry in the purse.

The airlines could make an exception for purses, but then the men could claim they should also be able to bring on messenger bags[1]. Therefore, we're right back to 2 bags again.

Or we allow 2 small carry-ons for free and they can't be rollerbags and suitcases. If mothers with infants require a 3rd bag for a supply of diapers, toys, etc, they have to pay. We have to draw the line somewhere :-)

[1]https://www.google.com/search?q=messenger+bag&source=lnms&tb...
Poo. Nice analysis, btw.
This post reminded me of another I-quit-the-industry blog post from a while back:
http://mashable.com/2014/04/30/programming-sucks/
With people in the past living a much more seasonal life, ones in which a diversity of nutrition can only be provided for babies at different times of the year, there is a scientific basis that has been explored. Along with food, babies of the past may have been granted more or less contact with parents depending on seasonal work loads and so on.

Interesting stuff to think about. Seems to be what this article is getting at. Imagine how magnified it was when agriculture played a bigger role.
Having moved from New Zealand to England a couple of years ago, I've found that the English are less direct and more polite than people in NZ. I initially found it more difficult judging whether someone liked me because of the additional layer of politeness. I found it somewhat disingenuous, but I've become accustomed to it.

Similarly, I spent a few hundred hours in a social context with some people from North America recently and initially found it quite hard to judge whether they were being sincere or not. It's interesting that we perceive other (even relatively similar, as UK/NZ/USA are) cultures to be difficult to understand but can become quite used to them. I wonder if I might find New Zealanders to be quite direct now.
Or not really Shengen. But as EU citizen I don't really care. Bulgaria has 10% flat rate. Cheap cost of living also.
Are you busy, or are you just making yourself busy? Look at the bigger picture
We're not meant to do jobs, this is just some modern made up concept to keep people busy so they don't see they are actually analogous to cattle.

So that you don't care about the virtual problems you solve for virtual company X, is perfectly normal and healthy. They are not your problems, they are not even remotely life-threatening, and so they are not relevant for survival.

Jobs are just created to keep us busy, as I said before.
If we imagine a world without money (realistic or not), about 90% (educated guess) of jobs would not even exist anymore, as those are just jobs that do some money-related thing: Banking, insurance, financial advice, most lawyers, any administration department at any organisation.
Indirectly even more jobs would disappear, because there is no need to compete financially, which means for example all R&D in a specific field can be brought together, as no one has to invent their (still unpatented) version of their wheel anymore.

We would be in a world where only work is done that is needed, that is directly involved with our survival, curiosity or entertainment, and no 'need' is created by some virtual dependencies. We would live in a world where everybody has the time and freedom to pursue their own dreams, without having to be afraid they will get in trouble later (because no pension built up etc).

We would also able to always pursue the most efficient and sustainable way to do something, as money is out of the equation. No more fraud, no more oil leaking in the oceans, no more rainforests cut down, and with all the empty offices due to disappeared redundant jobs, the demand for resources will be down and we wouldn't have to build any new houses or shelter for many years to come.

So yes, wake up and stop working and go exploring. Travel the world, find a skill that is directly useful to people, as helping out people will make you happy and you will get food/shelter in return even without asking for that. See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7SVLaDdvDY and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCFe2KnBuJ0

Anyway, don't worry about financials. I went travelling in 2013, through Europe and Canary Islands, and spent about 5000 euro's in 18 months. With what I've learned now, I could spend twice the amount of time travelling with the same money.

At the moment I'm (unfortunately) working in IT again, because I haven't found the way yet to earn bread on the road. When I started travelling I knew nothing, now I know what to do and so this will be the last time I will spend many hours a day in an office, as my salary will buy me all the gear I need to make a(n easier) transition.

Anyway, whatever you do, don't lock yourself up in a stone prison for the rest of your life. Become your own boss. Don't spend your life realizing other people's dreams and wealth, because you WILL regret it when you are a pensioner, as then you find out you forgot to live your own life and there's no energy left for it now.
Write code to be as clear and expressive as possible, then optimize for performance when you know performance is a problem. This is why I don't mind the performance cost of new language features like this. 90% of the time it won't matter, and you can optimize the other 10.
120k is in the top 20% of wage earners in the U.S. That's quite a bit different than $35k which is in the bottom ~30% (in the U.S.)
This is from January. Octopress 3.0 is on the street:

https://github.com/octopress/octopress

Be sure to have a look at the issues page. Nothing major, but there is some good info in there for those migrating from 2.x.
I don't see any clarity on size requirements, and since my idea of a "carry-on" is a backpack with my laptop and a change of clothes, I'm really concerned about this.
Some of the fall-off was the natural turn of immigrants' children to the English they heard all around them, and likely as not marrying spouses whose family spoke only English, or English and something other than German. My father's father spoke German (well, Plattdeutsch) in the house growing up, but my father had to learn it at school.

But the hysteria played some role. My father's mother, whose mother's family was from the Palatinate, only got to take three years of German in high school; somebody who imagined himself patriotic broke into the high school in 1917 and burned all the German textbooks. I believe Nebraska outright banned the teaching of German during those years.
The recommendation is metric http://www.iata.org/pressroom/pr/Pages/2015-06-09-02.aspx

It's 55 x 35 x 20 cm which is rounded down quite a lot to 21.5 x 13.5 x 7.5 inches. That is only 92% of the volume of the metric size. Be sure to get a European bag :-)
There are no plans to change the corporate tax rate and the EU have no jurisdiction in these matters.

What is happening, rightly so, is the dismantling of some mechanisms which allowed large corporations to avoid paying the corporation tax at all. I think, though not sure, that this includes dismantling the double-irish arrangement where companies declared the majority of their income as expenses for licensing the product/brand etc from a parent company.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
how come it's so cheap to live in poland?

Off the top of my head:

- The state's still transitioning from a post-communist economy.

- Wages are very low.

- Relatively high emigration rate "brain drain" (although people are starting to return).

- More supply, less demand.

You can buy a brand new apartment close to the centre for somewhere around $2000 per square metre / $200 per square foot. Depending on how your housing market work, that's either scandalously high, or shockingly low.

It is however, very very affordable as soon as you start earning a reasonable wage.
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> I have never heard a guy talk about the economic class a women fits into--Never! They find that special person and will do anything to win them over. In other words, they find that person they find Perfect, and want a relationship--period.

Being German I think differently about this topic. For finding prospective partners you also don't talk about money (that is hardly ever done in Germany - kind of a social taboo), but you talk a lot about education (indirectly you get from which class the other person is and/or how much money they will probably make in the future). You increase your chances very much if you have some kind of academic education that the other one respects (what kind of this is, is a really complicated game, but tendencies are: medicine - great, mathematics - good (at least if you are still sociable; great if you have a PhD), humanities - it's complicated ;-( , female engineer or computer scientist - great). Nearly all of the male PhD students in mathematics at the same floor as me that are married, are married to a female medicine student. I don't consider this as a coincidence. The same holds for other "educational" topics, say preferred taste of music (if you want to move up, it's surely not bad to like classical music) or whether you play(ed) a musical instrument (good sign if both did) (which is also considered as a kind of education in Germany).

So, yes, in Germany you don't talk about class, but by talking about education you get lots of cues.
Yes, that's how you do it. If he was burned out and asking how to do it, the answers would be variations on this.

He did it.
"Wow, they are so extremely nice, so polite and generous"
This is true. Spent 6 weeks driving from the Turkish border to Pakistani border a few years ago with the wife and then 2.5 yr old daughter

Countless times we were invited into peoples homes, fed, all but force to stay the night and left with foods / sweets. Aware of the taroof system we refused as didn't want to burden them but even going passed the customary 3 refusals they still insisted.

A few occasions we were offered money to help us on the way when they heard about our journey (around the world).

This happened in cities / villages from the upper classes to just normal people.

One particular instance comes to mind of camped on the outskirts of a small dirt road village near the Persian gulf. About 7.30 we were woken up by a banging on the van. On looking out the window, a small woman dressed head to toes in a chador (black cloak covering everything but the face) insisted we come to breakfast and shower. The wife was still sleeping so we politely declined. 30 minutes later she came back, more banging and insisted, confused why we hadn't come yet, we need to eat and have to shower. She all but grabbed the wife by the hand and dragged her to her house. She put on a mighty fine spread for breakfast. Took our daughter to show her to the neighbour, then took her to the shop to buy food for the lunch she would cook for us. She called her husband, got him to come back from work (he spoke a little English). Put the cable tv and got out a secret stash of homemade red wine and some whiskey. Am not really a big drinker and 8.30am is a bit early for wine and whiskey, but I think I only refused once.

Our experience was repeated by all other overlanders we met who had passed through Iran.
> And if you're Google, you built a large office and hired thousands of people, you're not going to leave anytime soon.

You think? I don't think big business tends to fall into the sunk cost fallacy like we do. It may take a year to move out, but if they save no money in Ireland over the US, why stay?
Furthermore some tech like Facebook and Twitter can be "weaponized" to ruin entire previously stable economies.
Seriously, Sweden is an amazing country, so beautiful. People are so welcoming there, it's incredibly safe and easy to go around.

Everybody speaks English and is willing to help.

Some swedes that were mingling with some of this horrible immigrants the blogger was talking about where kind enough, to invite me to their place to sleep.

Don't guide yourself by anything on this article, I'm surprised it got so far.

Go to Sweden and enjoy that amazing country.
I've actually done not 3D, but 2D animation in Powerpoint (as a kid, with access to an office suite, but not the internet and thereby more appropriate software). Each slide contains a frame of animation (drawn in Paint, of course), and slides advance automatically in milliseconds. You can attach an mp3 to play in the background for the soundtrack. Save it as a .pps and you have a cartoon that you can share with your friends.
I'm really surprised that it isn't a zero cost abstraction, doesn't the Java JIT inline?
Oh I'm sure there's plenty of studies that were used to design Material and that's probably exactly why it feels like it was designed by an algorithm. Like the article says that it's very comprehensive guide/framework to get a cohesive result but that doesn't mean it has the magical "it" what makes design truly remarkable. One reason I think that might be factor is that Google has never been innovator when it comes to user experience. They're more about iteration and testing. The problem is that it leads to local maxima and rarely something unique and something that takes the whole industry forward.

But also keep in mind that designing a framework that works for small screens and big screens is truly a hard task. Microsoft tried and failed with "Metro" and now Google is trying to pull it off. In my opinion Apple has been a bit smarter about this and kept iOS and OSX mainly separate while integrating some elements here and there.
I read the closing remarks:

Natural Selection: Languages and systems that are of
sound design will persist, to be supplanted only by
better ones.

and thought of Bob Martin's What Killed Smalltalk Could Kill Ruby[1]. The technical merits of Smalltalk are such that few claims "to do objects better" are taken seriously. But the lesson of Smalltalk is that "better" isn't just in the technical details. It lives in the model of community that it's speakers adopt. People speak C and JavaScript because they rode along free with Unix and the browser. Even in it's darkest days, Lisp tagged along in AutoCad and Emacs. These languages had practical purposes that let them compete outside of the "what language should I build my next project in" marketplace and outside the segment of professional software developers.

Smalltalk was killed by its business models. Without runtime licensing, providing a REPL meant that every application would come with a free copy. Not providing a REPL meant knee-capping the application.

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX3iRjKj7C0
Let's see if these fare any better than the projections used by the IPCC ...

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5297

"The most recent climate model simulations used in the AR5 indicate that the warming stagnation since 1998 is no longer consistent with model projections even at the 2% confidence level."

Kudos to them for publishing these, though. If they are rotten, it ought to be easy to tell.