skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Full-time work can be worth it. Financial stability goes a long way towards contributing to happiness. You ultimately have to ask yourself what your goals are, and why you're working. A job should be a tool to help you get what you really want out of life.
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But these people can't really afford these clothes.

Note that buying $2500 clothes does not necessarily mean that one has $2500 in the bank: they can be bought using credit or as part of a set of large expenditures thanks to a paycheck. The system of credit in the US does allow people to live above their means -- for a while.

In communities where status symbols like this are really important, people often put themselves in significant financial jeopardy to buy such items, even when they cannot really afford them.
.Net apps don't usually bundle the runtime with them. Qt apps have to.
Don't blockbuster movies make dozens of millions on a regular basis?!
Generally speaking, if you have to pay people to do it, there is something nasty about the work. It's strenuous or dangerous or dirty or degrading or stressful or boring. If it were actually fun, people would be doing it for free.

(Exceptions, anyone?)

We programmers are quite lucky. At its worst our work is only frustrating. And we are well compensated, usually.

Don't get me wrong; programming itself can be lots of fun. But what you get paid for isn't the fun stuff. I doubt there is anyone who gets excited about upgrading and debugging aging Java applications.
If this is successful, you'll collect a lot of private data, including business secrets of investors.

Do you plan to monetize on that? (For example, by performing data mining and selling statistics. Or, by contacting the investors and making interesting offers to them.)

If not, can you guarantee that you won't monetize on that dataset in the future? Is it even possible to guarantee such a statement?
The difficulty is guaranteeing a steady stream of short-term contracts. If you can get them and line them up I am sure it is great but I would not like the "unknown" factor of that.

I would do it once you have a steady foundation and some savings to fall back on should these contracts not materialise for a while.

Working fulltime is alright (it means you can be stable for a while) but not all of us are paid huge sums :-(
Many points are exaggerated, but the immigration issue in Sweden is very real. It has gone completely off track. The thing is, you are not allowed to talk about it. People have lost their jobs doubting the official policy of unlimited immigration, which simply should not happen in a free country. Sweden currently spends half their health care budget on immigration costs.

Of course the right wing will gain popularity, and while I'm not sympathetic, its very understandable.
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Yeah... that is a pretty huge pain though. Also there are more licensing issue with static linking - you have to distribute the .o files etc.
Rooftop solar. Not sure that the problem is the photovoltaics and not the rooftops.

Even crowded Germany manages to set up fields full of solar panels, so I guess the US can do just as well.

Leave rooftop solar installation to those who build new homes or repair the roof, so there's no additional risk from climbing around in high places.
Sweden is the best example of what happens when you have a completely liberal society. And, of course, it's bleeding to lots of places. And if you call them out, you are called racist.
This is very true - we are fortunate and should not forget that. It could be worse (like it is for others).
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton

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I quit the tech industry over a year ago and I'm not itching back.

Maybe if I did something part time that could work, because I don't want to spend more than 20 hours a week working.
> in communities that will be assumed to be poor, more obvious shows of wealth are more common.

Your sentence made me think of a saying that we have in France :

Knowledge is like jam, the less you have, the more you spread it. (La culture c'est comme la confiture, au moins on en a, au plus on l'etale)
Actually, after some google-ing, I'm not sure any version of IE support socks5?
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Yeah, as obvious as it is, one always tends to forget what are the ultimate goals one is working for? As long as there is motivation, maybe it wouldn't be so bad.
Reddit discussion since this one didn't pick up: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/39656q/dont_sta...
Try this calculator, in the last few years taxes have increased a lot. Also keep in mind if you are a director of a company (Startup etc) you lose a good chunk of your tax credits

Anyways to answer your question, play around with calculator
http://download.pwc.com/ie/budget-2015/index.html

A single 30 year old (average age of HNers?) earning €100K
will receive €58,869 after all the income taxes

From this money he/she will have to then pay water tax, local property tax (if renting the landlord will pass it on), VAT of 23% on almost everything and so on, and god help you if you buy a car!

---

41% is the highest tax band
BUT
there is also USC and PRSI tax which needs to be paid
which brings up the highest rate to above 50%

basically there are a lot of hidden taxes and it is a very complex tax system which allows the government to make the figures appear palatable
"You move and look like a very strong horse".

I think he meant mare not horse here but I can't really be sure because here in Egypt we have these same "terms of endearment" for attractive women like (Farasa: mare, Gazal: Gazelle) although they're falling out of favor esp among younger generations and to my knowledge they are not really effective on women and I don't recall a situation where they worked except the one you cited here :)
list is inductive type for sure, not coinductive. But it could be used for modelling infinite(but countable) sequences in the sense that following property being hold:

forall (m:nat), exists (l: list nat), length l > m.
I went through this. Not sure what toxic culture entails, but fucked up deadlines burned me out. Why do all software companies rush so hard.
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Remote: No

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Email: marc.egea.sala@gmail.com

I'm looking for a relocation to London. I'm currently a full-stack developer in a startup. The project (and the team!) means more to me than the technology. Work with things new to me is a big bonus.
Very nice explainer video. Can you share who did it for you and whether or not they were pretty costly? I'm going to need one done soon and The average quote is very obscene (>$30k).
Believing that it's poor people's fault that they're poor - speaking of things no one ever backs up with data - is uniquely naive (and an extremely simplistic attempt at an explanation).

Also, note that having the quality of being "feel-good" does not invalidate an argument.

When discussing this subject, I find that people mostly tend to really be arguing from how they make sense of the world (anecdotes, philosophy, political ideology, etc.) rather than saying anything useful about the world itself.

For some reason, it also seems that this sort of thinking is especially prevalent (or at least visible) in the U.S., even though it compares poorly to other developed countries.
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I think many of us end up working fulltime because we are trained throughout schooling that fulltime employment is the norm. Also, we start working fulltime on low income (we are young, after all) so need to work fulltime to afford to live / buy the things we want etc.

When we reach a threshold of income and financial stability, some of us forget to evaluate why we're working.

As it turns out, I haven't reached this threshold yet so have to carry on working, but it is probably a good idea to look around and ask "why am I working?" if there's no real need for fulltime work.
" Sweden currently spends half their health care budget on immigration costs."

[citation needed]

For example: http://economics.handels.gu.se/digitalAssets/1455/1455743_fr... directly contradicts your claim.

I don't know enough to claim you're wrong. But the claim is rather extraordinary and sounds very much like common right-wing propaganda from other countries. So a good study would help.
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"I had stock options, and I cashed them all in last week. I net enough to pay off the mortgage, so I’m doing that, which will leave the entire household debt-free and cut our expenses drastically."

I'm happy for you. Even a tiny bit jealous. But it does in the end make the whole post sound like a humblebrag to me.
Thanks, the word 'facade' is what came to mind reading your reply. Here in Europe I've met several Iranians, though all happenned to have lived in Western countries for many years. I am sure in those cases they are genuinely nice people, so no facades involved.

>> There is no room for criticism, so things are not talked about and never sorted out

This resonates with traditional Catholic families too, where "elephants in the room" are not really addressed/dealt with many times. E.g. a daughter/granddaugter having a kid out of marriage etc.
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> if you have to pay people to do it, there is something nasty about the work

a) Even if it's a job I would do for free, you need to pay me because I need money in order to live.

b) Even if it's a job I do because I love it, you need to pay me to ensure that I do it at the pace and with the guarantees you need.

I wouldn't call either of these "nasty", although the first is arguable at a global scale.
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It looks like Verizon's lobbyists earn their pay in PA:

"Telecom analyst Bruce Kushnick, who has been tracking telco company
promises for years, wrote [...] that Verizon has gotten away with not
deploying fiber throughout the state because officials have relaxed the
requirements over the years, giving up on the "45 megabits per second"
minimum and allowing Verizon to meet the obligation with wireless instead of
fiber or other wireline technology."
That isn't all that hard to do, CMake routinely supports this for e.g. Swig or Qt's moc/uic/rcc tools. The code generator creates a bunch of files and those can be either built as a library or added to your normal list of sources.
FYI, There are only a handful of nuclear submarines that have sunk,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sunken_nuclear_submari...

and I don't believe any aircraft carriers have. (Russia didn't have any, and the US hasn't lost an aircraft carrier since WW2.)
Set up a trust or a separate management company that cannot be easily sued (only one client: your other business). If for some reason Irish tax law doesn't work for this case, you can probably set up a foreign owned management company or quality assurance company. Another option is to buy business insurance for lawsuits, though really do you research and record the call you have with the rep because he will promise you things that are not true. If you don't have one party consent for phone calls in Ireland do it from a country that does.
Drop me an email: laurence (at) mypropertytracker (dot) com

I'll happily discuss it in more detail with you. It was significantly cheaper than what you've listed.
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$35K monthly or yearly?
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Yes – it's a product of the way Windows was actually two operating systems, the Windows 3/95/98/ME lineage and the newer OS/2 / NT lineage.

The NT side had the advantage of being designed at all rather than growing organically by overworked developers hacking in whatever they needed right now, and had a number of assumptions (e.g. not starting with the 16-bit API real-mode model) which avoided some gnarly hacks.

The problem was compatibility: most of the apps had been developed on 16-bit Windows 3 or, later, Win95 and at the time Microsoft's dominance was far from a given so they were pathologically afraid of breaking compatibility, which meant that the Windows “platform” included a lot of weird semi-or-undocumented corners designed to avoid breaking specific apps and the NT side had to reimplement bugwards-compatible versions of most of them to avoid breaking shipped apps.

(This might seem excessive – and I would generally agree – but it's important to remember that much of the damage was done in the pre-internet era when shipping updates to software meant putting a box in the main with a pile of floppies or, for the really rich people, CDs. Getting someone to upgrade to a version of an app which didn't rely on an implementation quirk could take many years.)

Raymond Chen has written about this extensively at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/ and one of my favorite examples is the Shell Folders registry key:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/11/03/55532...

The closest you come to this on another mainstream OS is OS X, where they maintained Carbon (i.e. the supported subset of the classic Mac OS APIs) on top of the modern core but that was both more limited and was rapidly deprecated because Apple is far less concerned with breaking backwards compatibility than Microsoft used to be.
He would be talking about yearly.
You're missing the point here Abruzzi. These customs are mainly put in place or evolved to govern the interactions between strangers not between friends and family although they apply nevertheless.

So, when it's customary around the world to be nice with your friends and show them that you care about them, in other cultures esp. high-context ones this friendly behavior extends to strangers as well.
It is (was) great for Ireland, though. That's how they attracted tons of (large) tech companies to Ireland. It's the perfect match: low corporate tax, no incentive for people to go away and do their own startups, which means you can get paid less as there as less alternatives for you. Very smart play by Ireland.

Then, the EU went back to them and told them they couldn't keep doing this, and very soon (is it 2016?) they will rack up corporate tax and make a fortune. And if you're Google, you built a large office and hired thousands of people, you're not going to leave anytime soon.
> the poster tries to disguise his views with a belief in socialist politics

I thought he was stating the opposite, he comes across as very right wing, hates Obama (that bizarre ending), blames the leftist govt of the 60s onward for depleting abundant resources and blames liberals for overspending.
Between that and the cost of property in Dublin (rental prices are insane at the minute, and I haven't looked at buying but I figure it's the same) that's why everyone graduating in ireland is leaving
If you can't live well €100K in Ireland you are doing something wrong. Do you realise that you are in the top ~12% of household income with that sort of money?

I do sometimes wonder what kind of self-awareness people have of their status.
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And? I would still consider it pretty reasonable tax for Europe. My relatives are paying 60% taxes from ~€15,000 salary.
See here:

http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/it/leaflets/it1.html#section3

Under: "Tax Rates and Tax Bands"

VAT:

http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/vat/guide/vat-rates.html#sectio...

http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/vat/rates/current-historic-rate...
I use HyperDock for this: http://hyperdock.bahoom.com/

It's mainly focused on modifications for the OS X dock which I don't use, but it also does alt drag window movement, and alt + num pad for tiling windows. It costs a a bit of money after a trial period, but it's the most reliable replacement for alt drag I've found so far.
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Completely liberal?? Drinking is extremely expensive and regulated, drugs are strictly forbidden.

It's full of subsidies and welfare in many aspects of life and society, not sure what you're talking about.

It's very liberal in some senses, but calling it a completely liberal society is silly.
Generally speaking, if you have to pay people to do it, there is something nasty about the work.

It's also a question of time management. I can only do N things in a week/month/year. If you want one of those things to be your thing, you're going to have to convince me to priorities it over other things. Money is a quick and convenient way to do that.
so he did not quit the tech industry at all but decided to create his own business :-)
Ugh. Can we just stop feeling like Gods of Statistics because we've read "Correlation doesn't proof causation" once?
Just because piracy was at its peak didn't mean you had to join in... :-)

I have hundreds of CDs that I bought. I think I single-handedly kept the music industry alive.

It's a pity when your tastes change though (and you find you can't sell any of them, other than obscure guitar music which I still like)
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The EU asylum system [0] is currently debated and fairness will be improved. It is not an easy task, considering the UK threatening to leave, but Sweden and Italy are treated unfairly by their partners here.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Regulation
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Care to explain what that somewhat cryptic comment actually means?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting

> According to Lucasfilm, Return of the Jedi, despite having earned $475 million at the box office against a budget of $32.5 million, "has never gone into profit".
I think this applies to any business. Especially large companies like Xero and Stripe come to mind. They have huge data (more than we will ever have).

We have a privacy policy [1] that covers what we can/wont do with your data. We are an Australian based company, and we have fairly tight restrictions on privacy. We have to comply with National Privacy Principles (NPPs) and the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) in Australia.

[1]https://mypropertytracker.com/privacy
To be fair, I think that the transition is still ongoing.
On Android side, the support lib fell really short last year with Lollipop. You could implement a lot of material goodness, but had to do 90% of the work yourself.
Something like a collapsing ActionBar is clearly doable but needs some time that won't be devoted to polishing other parts of the app.
Another consequence is that since there was no common implementation, there were small design differences on many elements among Google apps.

With the new support lib (22.2), Google has released a design lib which implements some material elements.
With this common base, I hope to see the design of the different first party apps harmonize a little bit more in the coming months.
I agree with the sentiment, but I don't think it would help in this case as he says he was already working remotely.
A 40 hour a week job works out to ~1/3 of your time while awake which is fine. ~(40 * 48)/(16 * 365)

The problem is it's easy to get worse than that add a 1h each way commute and 10 hour days, and skip vacations that's half your waking life. ~(60 * 50)/(16 * 365) And of course you need a few hours a day just for prep time and meals etc so quickly you only get free time to relax on the weekends.
What industry are you now in, that you can work 20h/week? Just curious, you are living my dream.
People here in Scandinavia are very worried because their cozy little village of a region is being infused with massively different cultures.

Can't really blame them, and to be sure crime and social costs are higher as a result of immigration. That said, there is every reason to believe that these effects will diminish over time as immigrants start to integrate, even some beneficial effects are already showing.

The problem is that 'integration' takes generations, and a very large influx jeopardizes this process. So the adverse effects remain very visible and most people are too short-sighted to take the long view. At the same time Europeans are so hypersensitive about 'racism' that the topic can't even be discussed in polite company (which leaves it to actual racists to even talk about the issues).
Doesn't Ireland have a graduated tax system?
Lucky he got them confused! In the UK at least, calling someone a horse doesn't really make sense, but calling someone a mare is fairly insulting.
I've actually got a bunch of sort algorithms written as async javascript:

http://stestagg.github.io/sort/
"I’ve worked remotely my whole career"

I wonder how much of a role does this play in (not) caring about your employer's problems...

As much as I can understand the benefits of working remotely on occasion, doing it all the time will cause a kind of disconnect all by itself. You see the problems as your employer's problems, instead of your team's problems. Your are fixing your employer instead of helping your teammates.
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> I don't know the author, but this sounds like it belongs in a Pegida handbook.

Indeed, it's alsmost the same that we hear from nationalists in Germany, France, etc.
>According to Mayumi Yoshida, a TEPCO communications officer

that's where I have issues. TEPCO doesn't have the best record regarding honesty.[0][1]

I fully expect that group to cook the books in any possible way that will make this look like less severe an issue.

[0]: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-10/it-s-time-f...

[1]: http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201506...
I think some personality types are just prone to the attitude that everything's turning to shit. The same people that feel that the world is less safe today while statistics show the opposite. That doesn't mean he doesn't have some good points. Personally I'm particularly worried about the schooling system. The strain of immigration may be real, I don't know if it will be a net positive or negative in the end. To be safe I would prefer a more modest immigration policy.

I think Sweden is following a larger trend in the west of a more polarizing society with higher income inequality and the slashing of the social safety net. I think globalization and new technology is to blame for this, not naive politicians.
I guess its a matter of degree. The dance has three rounds in some countries.
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Yeah, this sounds like the average European xenophobic tirade against a leftist government. Except they just got back in power after 8 years of right-wing government, but who cares about the past, right? It's all the socialists' fault!

Sweden is not a paradise, we know that, but it's not kicking out the "blackies" that you will solve the long-term problem of keeping a social-democratic country running. Full-on fascism and full-on "freemarketism" are easier to run, of course, but they come with greater drawbacks.
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