skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Historically you are right, but as far as things like food, music, business attitudes, etc. there's a lot more common ground. Spain has also lost a lot of its cultural cache in recent years; many South American countries are better places to live at this point (well, unless you have enough money that you don't need a job, in which case Spain is one of the best places on earth).

If I had to pick one thing though, it's the outspoken gregariousness. Europeans are generally pretty reserved; you would never approach someone you didn't know and try to strike up a conversation. A European might tiptoe around a sensitive subject, while people from the USA or South America would be very opinionated and launch into an argument -- even if they don't know you very well.

Also, it doesn't hurt that everyone in South America basically shops at Wal-Mart (seriously, they are freaking everywhere; even more so than in the US).

And not so long ago, corruption was inextricable from business in the US and Europe as well. Trust-busting in the US in the early 1900s broke down the networks here, and WW2 smashed them across Europe, but similar rule-of-law revolutions haven't happened yet in other parts of the world. But they are starting to as the education level rises and the middle-class expands and demands a clean-up.
> No, we did not use the vxWorks shell to change the software (although the shell is usable on the spacecraft)

That adds new meaning to the phrase "remote shell". Can you imagine how irritating the latency would be trying to use a shell on Mars?
I like the idea of giving candidates a choice. For me personally, I would almost always take the "homework" if it meant no (or very short) in person interview. I like to code, not interview. Still, 6-7 hours is pushing it, it should be a few hours (3 or 4 at max, if you're not going to do a face to face), and a genuinely interesting problem (the kind of problem can tell you a lot about the company itself!).

When I interviewed at Apple years ago, they gave me a take home program to solve. It was interesting and I enjoyed it a lot. It required some good algo knowledge and had to be written in C. I was told in my face to face that few people ever solve it, and I enjoyed discussing it.

But the rest of the interview was unpleasant - your typical SV brain teaser riddled, algo whiteboard sessions for 4 hours, 2 days in a row. I wasn't really expecting it and wasn't prepared (my fault), so failed miserably. I think I suffered PTSD after that for a while :).

Now I feel preparing for that sort of interview is a huge waste of my own time. It has so little relevance to reality. I'd much rather put that time into building a product or learning some new PL or whatever. At least with a coding test I'm honing skills that I'll use day to day.
In most of the work at home projects I've been given there was a ton of available code online, they've primarily been for front-end positions so it's usually "Make a small app using your favorite library"

I can't imagine there are that many 3-4 hour projects that won't already have available code. The most important part of an at home project in my opinion is the walk through.

The best interview I had asked me to go through the project and explain the what and why I did things and asked for high level understanding of what the framework I chose or the browser/node was doing based on what I wrote.

It was an app in React and they went through why I decided to make a component for x, y but not z and then asked if I understood the virtual DOM as a concept.

To me that's the best you can do, you need to understand how the programmer thinks about problems, works through them and that they are engaged in the ecosystem at large.
As an American who immigrated to The Netherlands I would like to know of this mythical country in the world with a working immigration system. AFAICT they're all rather broken.

US immigration might be broken in different ways than some other countries, but from the many stories I've heard of friends moving all over the world, they all pretty much suck.
"The paradox of work is that many people hate their jobs, but they are considerably more miserable doing nothing."

This is true in *today's culture of work. Unemployment, even if a person was laid off due to their employer going bankrupt, is still seen as a personal failing. And unemployment for most people means a race against the clock before savings dwindle (if they are lucky enough to have been able to save for such an emergency). And prolonged unemployment and the uncertainty and drop in status that comes with it can be demoralizing and depressing, especially for people who have little prospect of finding a satisfying or at least decent paying job. The people that sleep and watch TV are likely doing so because they are under psychological stress. Our culture fetishes work to a degree that would make a Marxist blush and unemployment and not working is punished by society on many levels.

But if the culture of work changes over time and not working in the traditional sense no longer means destitution, stigma and loss of status, well, who can say for sure not working at an unsatisfying job will result in misery and lazing around doing nothing.
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This.

Basic income would pay for basic needs, and let people devote "free time" to more personally-satisfacting-activities: open-source programming, studiyng new interesting fields, etc...

The mere fact that in today's professional career there is little oportunity for a 40-50years to work on a completely-new-unexperienced-field is an clear example.
There is a point in time after which a job converts from ilusion-and-motivation into delusion-and-economic-compromise. And that's blocking people from growing and fully apply their capabilities to reach higher achivements
> Well, I think the OP's point is that it would be easier to bring Emacs/VIM up to acceptable GUI editor standards

I've been waiting for this for literally a decade with emacs. It hasn't happened and I don't have the expertise to do it, so nowadays I exclusively use IntelliJ for the languages I can. I'm probably going to start using CLion with it as well.

There are lots of aspects of Emacs that I miss but I hope that IntelliJ can take them over with future iterations of the vestigial "IDE scripting console". They just need to put a lispy language in there like Clojure and bindings into the editor like Emacs Lisp has.
The last couple of upgrades have surfaced some problematic behaviours around TRIMs, to the point it's recommended you disable TRIM on Linux.
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Your admission of being a transhumanist and social darwininst should dissipate any fears I have after reading your comment. The good thing you are not one of those Gaia nutjobs still better than nothing.
The Canadian immigration system is one of the most generous around.

It's easy to be "generous" when you have fewer people trying to immigrate to your country. I can remember maybe a decade ago Canada had an immigration target of 1% of population (~250K) and that many people didn't even apply.

Compare that to the US where there are 20 year waiting lists for some visa categories. The US has lower, but not that lower, immigration targets compared to Canada.
Lack of insight into false negatives is (I think) the major flaw in most studies of hiring engineers. For the analysis in this blog post, we just passed everyone thorough the screening, to avoid the issue. Going forward, we'll be passing 10% of those who fail the screening, to be able to track our false negative rate. My dream is to reach a scale where can do the same thing with the final hiring decisions (well, less than 10%, clearly). Someone needs to do this.
You're welcome. By the way, I like your username.
The founder did an AMA on Reddit a while ago if anyone's interested: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2qq95l/i_am_the_found...
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You can rent a 128gb machine at Hetzner for $130 a month.

I think we can all agree to draw a line in the sand and say if a kid doing a paper run could afford your servers, you don't get to call it big data.

(not to take away from the linked project, which looks technically awesome)
> Could we stop talking about the fucking layout and talk about the article?

Can you link to a readable version of the article?
If you're so keen in finding references, pubmed it

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26052042

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26060544
Ten things everyone should know about lock picking [pdf]
A Journey from My Tent in Afghanistan to Silicon Valley
Which one might expect would lead to more page views which jedberg said didn't happen. They didn't use the site more, they just became more engaged.
"the NYSE will never go away"

It went away years ago, after a merger with Euronext and a few more mergers. The parent company, ICE, is in Atlanta and owns 23 exchanges. The NYSE trading floor is a stage set now. There are still some people there, but they're using computers. The webcam feed is no longer available.

Here's a picture of the NYSE trading floor from June 2015:[1] It's now a quiet co-working space for traders. One guy on a tablet, a few on desktops, two people talking, one walking, many empty seats. That's the NYSE today.

All the real action happens inside several data centers in New Jersey.

[1] https://usatmarkets.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/wall_street-...
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It's nice to bash SarbOx, but really that's not the problem.

The thing that is causing these absurd valuations is that Yagoopplezonsoft are choking out the pipeline too early for the big plays.

Most startups cash at less than $50 million, and LOTS of companies are sitting on huge cash reserves that can buy them there now. To the big companies, that's a big win if they pick up 10+ engineers and something possibly worth money. To the startup, that's also a huge win if you kept your headcount down. So, who's going to oppose the cashout?

After Yagoopplezonsoft vacuums up anything even remotely competitive in their space at the Series A point combined with the fact that VC's hate doing Series A funding because "Waaaaaaah. It's riiiisky."--the problems of getting your $5-10 million funding are well documented here--what's left?

So, the problem is that then number of companies that are willing to rack up a huge valuation is small. Once those companies actually get to the huge valuation, sure, there are a ton of people waiting for them throwing money at them.

The question you have to ask as a founder or employee single digit is, do I want to take the risk to go there?

If your founding bunch are remotely rational, the answer is "Not on your life, take the cash."

So, the only companies that would be willing to go to high valuations are high headcount, resource intensive companies that build real products--like Atheros. And VC's LOATHE those kinds of companies--so Atheros needed to get bought anyway.

The problem is of the VC's own making. Since they won't fund at Series A levels, they have so little to flog at Series C levels that the valuations go astronomical when one appears.
The key to a happy and successful life is to find meaningful ways to spend your time. Meaningful to you, of course. Because of the monetary system we live in, usually a large chunk of our time needs to be devoted towards earning money, or at least finding a way to eat, live comfortably, and reproduce (too scientific sounding?). Buddhist monks will be able to show you other ways to enjoy life outside that system, however. That's always an option.

Work is not misery as long as you believe in, and are constantly engaged with, your work. It becomes misery when it doesn't align with your needs and expectations.

The biggest question is, what would you rather do? What would you do with your free time if money wasn't an issue?

If you are happy with your product, then what is it about the work environment? Does simply managing people stress you out? Or, is it the expectation that "I should" enjoy what I do because it is successful?
I agree that the offline playback is clunky. I don't want to have to remember to pin stuff, or try to build up a cache. I just want to allocate some local storage and have most-recently-played cache of songs. If I allocate a couple of GB of storage that would be plenty of music for a road trip.
How about the third, conveniently ignored issue: that there is a considerable number of immigrants that bring with them an ideology (also referred to as "religion" because it's founded on supernatural believes) that is hellbent on destroying the very fabric of the society they immigrate to?
Wrong. You can enter Switzerland with a Schengen visa as a tourist. Finding work in Switzerland is difficult (employer has to prove it can't hire Swiss citizen for this position).
I understand the sentiment but I think your conclusion is misguided. You're not trading your life/focus/attention/time for money, you're trading it for what you can do with that money. Money is just a temporary store of value. It's worthless unless you use it for something. That something is what you're working for. Whether that's worth trading your time for is the real question you need to answer.
Only read very small part but author talks about Youngtown and says that when the local steel industry went bust suicide and assumingly criminal behavior increased.

To me this is because of loss of income not so much the loss of having to report to work. Does the article talk about why loss of income was not pointed to as the reason for the problems?
>If there does end up being some sort of HUGE central energy storage happening, I doubt it would be in batteries. Talk about being difficult/expensive to scale...

Why would it be difficult/expensive to scale? As long as battery costs go down, there's absolutely no issue scaling. You just put as many of them as you want together.
I don't know what "need" means in this context. That is what they do - sell your data. Perhaps a different company that didn't do that could exist, and in a different sense, CK doesn't "need" to do anything, even exist. But they do exist, and do sell your data.
> I was saying that it does not appear that there is any provision of the TPP that will change US laws.

Aren't there SOPA like provisions in TPP? SOPA was rejected in US. Now if TPP is passed, its supporters can backport SOPA in US law claiming it's an "international obligation" and the law "has to be harmonized". Why is it unlikely? That's exactly what happened with DMCA in the past. It was imported after being initially rejected, under pretense that it's an "international obligation".
Do Binaural Beats Really Affect Brainwaves?
Of course not. You can maintain configuration files if you like, but anything beyond a relatively small network is going to be a pain to maintain. It's also not going to react very quickly to node failures or topology changes.
It's impossible to read, though.
Stop blaming work, which for thousands of years has been endurable and honorable for humans. Study philosophy seriously, and avoid philosophical paths that manifestly cause depression.
It rains in the American Southwest, and collects in rivers and lakes; for example, Lake Mead, which supplies Las Vegas with 90% of its water.

The American Southwest is also protected by the Earth's magnetic fields, which shield the planet from 99.9% of the radiation in space.

So it's a little more complicated than that.
You may be a niche though. Some people did want kids as part of the family tradition, but not too much so they could play the career game. In a world without work, people wouldn't have that dream so how would they fill the void. Maybe a little bit more children (goes against my previous argument), or art, social bonding, travel.
Don't Futures do pretty much the same thing?
How, eg, would you test this for prime-age adults at a time when income is tied to work and there is a cultural expectation that everybody work?

How about interviewing early retirees? Those who have reached early financial independence and decided it was time to just not work any longer.
I'm always impressed how successful re-branding from "German" to "Nazi" was.

First shift the historical responsibility to some rather abstract "Nazis" and ignore the fact that most of the Jews were Polish citizens, then start encouraging usage of misleading terms (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Polish_death_camp%22_contro...). Give it one century and people will think the victims were aggressors, and vice versa.
Docker containers, Bamboo, and winning at continuous delivery
> I'm trading in the best years of my life, my focus, my attention, my time, my life for money. That's the nature of this transaction. I'm trading in this short life I get for cash. I feel like a prostitute.

Money is unavoidable, so if you're going to be unhappy about earning it, you're going to have an unhappy life no matter what.

I kind of doubt money is the issue...you might just be looking for inspiration.

Maybe look into the nonprofit world. These are organizations that stand for something, and most are in desperate need of technical talent. You won't make as much money but if you can work for a cause you believe in, you might feel your work is more worthwhile.
Imgur uses the free/extremely cheap CDN Cloudflare. Same with 4chan. The vast majority of Imgur's content gets served at the CDN layer so Imgur doesn't have to pay for that bandwidth.

moot (of 4chan) said a while back that Cloudflare is one of the main reasons 4chan is still around these days.
The problem with beacons to date is the lack of a happy medium between controlled network and openness for 3rd party developers.

Most developers are not Facebook and won't be able to ship thousands and thousands of beacons to businesses for their apps.

Also, this is a super haphazard deployment by FB. Their installation instructions are "take it out of the box, set it up somewhere in a central area and you're good to go." Well not really - these beacons are going to end up in weird places, giving people "Place Tips" when they're walking down an alley, or live upstairs from a restaurant with a FB beacon.
>Kakoune is a code editor heavily inspired by Vim [...]

Well, I stopped right there. I'm old enough to know better.
Even in C I would point out that the compiler will likely make such a trivial optimization for you. That was clearly a company full of morons.
Maybe. I've always thought it would be interesting to make applicants pay an application fee. This would cut down on people "spraying and praying" with their application, and would lessen the workload for companies. It would also justify spending more time and effort in reading applications, since the company isn't just wasting resources reading bad applications.

Even under the current system, at least the waste is symmetric. I give up a few hours of my time, and the company gives up a few hours of its time. There's equity. The mutual work that the company and applicant do offset each other.

A take-home test model skews that balance in favor of the company. An applicant can spend 10 or more hours working the project. The company can run it through an automated testing suite and have a recruiter spend five minutes looking it over. The system is designed to waste more of the applicant's time and less of the company's.
There is nothing bad or irresponsible about using some credit responsibility.
Switzerland is not in EU.
Thanks for the comments, fixxer. For the comment on memory allocation, I would love to know more details about where you saw problems as we are always trying to make Linux run better on Azure (and Hyper-V). For DNS, I would be surprised if this was the virtualization stack although it can be tricky to set-up DNS in the cloud.

For our partnership with Docker, it has already been very valuable to MS. With Azure, we want to offer customers and partners the ability and flexibility to deploy applications from any ecosystem and find many of our customers want to deploy both Windows and Linux as part of their application. For us, Docker offers an amazing API that spans the underlying container technology, for both Windows Server and Linux, to enable deployment, management and orchestration with the exact same tools and solutions. For example, the same Docker Client works against a Windows Server host and a Linux host.

We are excited to continue to partner with the Docker community, as our customers really do want this consistent experience, on Azure, on-premises and even in other clouds across Windows and Linux.
The biggest shame on Google here is that they won't give it back to the guy. Maybe the 'I' in AI stands for ignorance!
It seems like the mass amount of money dumped into alternative advertising models is increasingly pushing the 'Attention Economy'[1]. Video games designed by behavioral psychologists to be addicting, compulsive, and time consuming [2].

Advertising IS attention economics, but now it's being said we're reaching peak advertising and that the attention of the masses is saturated.

Amazon recently begin experimenting with paying writers based upon feedback of single pages being viewed long enough. [4]

I could only hope for the money previously allocated to garner everyone's attention for brand recognition may now be channeled into further product development and research, as it's becoming harder to rely solely on brand name identity with easier access to information on alternative products and review websites like anandtech or thewirecutter. Although I have a hunch much of that development will be into building more invasive advertising and attention economy games - [5]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_Economy

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/21/candy-crus...

[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/magazine/angry-birds-farmv...

[4] https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=A156OS90J7RDN

[5] https://vimeo.com/14533403

[6] http://pastebin.com/jJZVxfRm
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Green Card needs to be filed by employer and cannot be independently by the immigrant himself. The author is not disputing the point that there is a way to get in. The challenge is that at all points you have to completely rely on your employer to file and pay for all the visas and green cards. As anyone who has gone through the green card process can attest, it is a very complicated and lengthy process. It requires you to convince your company to spend 10s of thousands on dollars to file for your green card which doesn't potentially benefit the company itself. It requires putting out ads on newspapers, interviewing some candidates and then explaining why they can't be a fit. This is unlike some other countries (such as Australia or UK) where you can file your own immigration application if you check off certain things (such as level of education, no. of years employed etc.)

Also, the visa itself is not a guarantee considering it is a lottery. So even if you have a masters degree, it won't help you a lot in terms of getting you through the H1 lottery.
Is there a physicist here that can provide a better description of what's going on? How can you have shape "dynamics" without time evolution?
Disclaimer: I am a Canadian permanent resident.

> I like it here.

This is the real problem, you have a severe case of non-reciprocal love. In that case the answer is obvious: move over, find another love, come to Canada or go to Northern Europe.

U.S. immigration is an American problem,since they are the ones loosing talent and entrepreneurial people. It is not an immigrant's problem, since they don't have the powers to fix it.

Here in Canada we have a much more open immigration policy and, IMHO, better quality of life. I strongly suggest you considering coming to Canada.
I assume it's in the same category as having to pay back an actual signing bonus, or moving expenses, if you don't stay with the company for z years.
It's not a long speech XD
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Exported unemployment? Created the third world? The world wasn't kumbaya before colonialism.