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Man I wish Android had LINQ, and the Java language support it relies on in C#. This is at or very near the top of the list of Things That Would Have Made Android Better especially since non-game Android coding is so database-centric.
Let me introduce to Swedish progressive income taxation and VAT percent. Folkshemmet certainly isn't paid by landed gentry.
1. For someone that installed Linux From Scratch, I can say that it's really nice that most of softwares use that. It's maybe not standardized like POSIX or other systems, but it's some kind of standardized by default.

3. It does not download the dependencies but it can verify that your system has all it needs to build the project.

I don't have much experience with make and autotools so feel free to disagree with what I said and say why.
Ah yes, the American (pipe) dream...
Ambiguity of legal language doesn't mean you cannot figure out if a certain phenomenon is legal or not.

For example, how would one write insurance contracts? Is it possible to write out every single eventuality? No, so the solution is generic language.

There are of course badly worded laws, but it does not mean that everything has to be concretely written out.
Once they fix the inserted/deliberate bugs? Arstechnica... I stopped reading that a long time ago.
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On the contrary, IMHO, it is totally fair.

The roots of their respective prosperity and poverty come from the long-term effects of their respective ideologies. The US choses to let corporations evade taxes, and the US choses to project military might to pursue private corporate aims.

Just because a behaviour and culture is endemic and has occurred for generations now, that doesn't make it written in stone.
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People were doing this 15 years ago, before all the hipster web designers picked up javascript, opened terminal and called themselves programmers.

I"m sure the old JS programmers moved on to a real programming language, but they put you new guys to complete shame, and they didn't need 18 dependencies and a dependency manager to get it done.

jQuery was a great invention for web development, but everything since then has been total crap. Angular, React, Node, all of it's crap. The only people who like it are those who aren't smart enough to be real programmers.
> And they all are known as tax havens except for Norway which has half a million dollars of oil reserves per citizen :).

> But I do think the article is right in pointing out a lack of options in the U.S. if you want to live a lifestyle that doesn't center around work.

This is the "option" of being both a very small and very rich state, which is simply not feasible.

To put this into perspective, Norway is just over half the population of New York City. If New York City had half a million dollars of oil reserves per citizen (as you point out) and started to mint its own currency, and established immigration and trade barriers[0], yes, we would see a massive quality-of-life improvement compared to the status quo.

But that's simply not an option, because (a) we can't produce massive oil riches out of thin air, and (b) NYC is not a sovereign state.

[0] Norway is not part of the EU, but even if it were, EU member states are able to restrict trade and immigration within themselves to a far greater degree than a city or even state in the US can.
You don't think that's true of the US with its few unicorns?
Nah, you've got the reason wrong. I've been making the joke for a while, as you say, and the reaction used to be exactly what jrockway said: a bunch of people being consumed with righteous rage that I could slander such an upstanding institution.

These days, they just awkwardly shuffle their feet and don't say anything, because it turns out we were totally right about the wisdom of trusting your money to the Magic: The Gathering Online Exchange.
Fuzziness is a feature when you benefit and a bug when you get burned. I'd like an option with no ambiguity.
thanks for the highlights, I don't have time to dig through this properly at the moment and I haven't been following the story all that closely.
The term "standard of living" is a pretty fuzzy one. The only way it makes sense is to talk about the minimum standard of living, e.g. say what the standard is for the bottom 20% of income. In this case it's probably not a good indicator for the US. The US is so diverse that "average" standard of living doesn't really mean anything. For a single (rich) state it might, as it does for a small nordic state.
Just launched the 1st version of Voola. Currently you can live stream from Android (use blur optionally) and they are available as ~20 sec hyperlapsed replays.

We are adding option to stream any video on your phone. We think this feature would be an added advantage

If you like it and know someone with Apple Mac at home & IOS dev skills, who might want to help build the IOS version, do let us know

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And what do you expect I should learn from this?
> Unfortunately for Lyft, it's a winner-takes-all market

That does not seem to work out worldwide. GetTaxi and Yandex.Taxi are still leading apps in Moscow, Cabify and Hailo dominate Madrid and Didi Kuaidi enjoys its first-mover advantage in China despite Uber expanding in all those markets.
I'm under the impression that MtGox had some actual real life impact, how many important systems are twisted beasts like this.
>As disingenuous as comparing a small country to the US as a whole.

Why? Countries seem to scale pretty well. A social structure that works well in one city can work well in 200 cities.
How? Oil is largely the reason Norway is better off than Denmark and Sweden. Norway seems to manage it's oil very well with an eye towards the long term.
You have made better life choices than I have.
The thing I don't get is why anyone would use their own 'code storage'. This isn't laziness, it would take much less time to setup git.
Not the retiring type: people still working in their 70s, 80s and 90s
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> Everything else is the direct result of this.

Pray tell the details.
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I am specifically asking about non-NIST but highly regarded crypto like Salsa20 or c25519. Will a "nobody ever got fired or sued for..." effect shut products that use it out of enterprise markets?
Did parent edit? Because all I see is work-life balance.
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Wow, how inspiring! Thanks for the post.
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Basically every country in Europe will give you longer vacations, standard health care, shorter working hours, ...

In some countries you might even get worker's rights like workers councils, unions on the board, ... If you work for example for Volkswagen, every factory in the world will have strong unions, only the US factory won't.
Thanks for a detailed recap!
Peasantry wasn't slavery, but they were serfs, and in the end serfdom didn't end up being very different to slavery.
Not only that but they[1] didn't bother to copy and paste the author's name. It's seems extra obnoxious to copy the entire article but not the author's name and two sentence bio.

[1] https://ukiahcommunityblog.wordpress.com/2015/07/23/living-i...

(I'm mentioning the original link--so this comment makes sense--in case the HN moderators later change the link to the real article on Vox.)
"Around the same time, we learned that Mark only had one bank account, shared with Mt.Gox's customer deposits."
While you jest, I can appreciate your interest in the topic and ongoing saga.
The oil doesnt' really make that much difference in Norway. They tend to keep most of the money in a state reserve to not create too much inflation.

Subsitute Norway for non-oil Sweden, a country with huge immigration. Sure it's a small and "rich" country, but the cultural things like good work/life balance applies anyway.

Edit: as was pointed out to me in another comment: this is using a loose definition of "life" which includes 23 hour nights at freezing temperatures. Not for everyone.
The title of the book put me off, but it worthwhile to read. Some of the stuff seems basic, but we all (speaking as a developer) had to learn the basics of computer programming, too.
False.

Sweden, Norway and Finland all had monarchies, a landed gentry, and a peasant class. If you'd like to make a subtle (and perhaps useful) distinction between "peasant" and "serf" then I suppose that's worth talking about, but my generalizations about Europe include the nordic countries.

"The peasant proprietors, who, under the name of the "Lantmanna" party, formed a compact majority in the Second Chamber, pursued a consistent policy of class interests in the matter of the taxes and burdens that had, as they urged, so long oppressed the Swedish peasantry;"[1]

"Outside the political sphere, however, the peasants were considered at the bottom of the social order—just above vagabonds. The upper classes looked down on them as excessively prone to drunkenness and laziness, as clannish and untrustworthy, and especially as lacking honor and a sense of national spirit."[2]

"The difference from serfs elsewhere was that the farmer did not directly own the life and property of the homesteader (Husmann), but in most cases, he practically did."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_during_the_late_19th_ce...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Finland#Peasants

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_serfdom
Imagine what an SQL injection could do to that...
> Switzerland is one of... three maybe (Luxemburg, Norway) countries with higher standard of living than the US.

You have to be kidding me. The average standard of living in the US is not the fourth best in the world. The US only got universal heathcare this century, it has a ludicrous work-life balance, the minimum wage in some states is very low (and sometimes includes tipping!), the infant mortality rate is lower than some third world countries, and maternity and paternity leave almost doesn't exist.
Switzerland has considerably lower taxes than the u.s. (I'm an american living in switzerland)
The US also has a skewed GDP per capita. Large financial industry, various economic bubbles (housing, stock market, ...), printing money, huge debt financed consumption, huge military expenses. The trillion dollar Iraq war costs are increasing the GDP.
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The world is not a dichotomy. There's a whole load of people between rich and poor who's standard of living can be poor, despite their relative wealth.
I guess we all have different definitions of "quality of life". IMHO, the salary may be very high in the nordic countries, but with the weather the have, I wouldn't consider that a high quality of life.
"Nonviolent Communication" by Marshall Rosenberg was very helpful for me. A great resource about choice of words and the internal assumptions we make when we communicate in certain ways. http://www.amazon.com/Nonviolent-Communication-A-Language-Li...
From the perspective of swedes, we just notice the higher prices in norway. We don't consider Norway and the norwegians "rich" when we visit. The per-capita gdp doesn't translate to purchasning power.
Serious question, since I'm decades out of date with corporate IT:

Are these considered problems or solutions? AD solved problems for the last company I was at, but only for the minority of machines running Windows.
A bit surprising but I'm guessing it's the multi-architecture fat binary problem they don't want to solve? Until recently debugging native plus Java was very difficult, and most of the UI stuff is in Java not native.

As far as I'm aware Dropbox uses c++ between iOS and android shared for all the model/network bits so other biggies do it.
Interesting note - switzerland has workers councils too.
Silicon Valley is perhaps the most productive and innovative place in the world
If you knew that git existed, yes. Quite often people who are incompetent do not know how easily their problems could be fixed.
Out of habit, maybe?
Edit: and ignorance
Pretty much the whole damn coast has come to a screeching halt as the oil price drops. This because Everything is tied directly or indirectly to the continued extraction of oil and gas.

Anything else is a minority industry that can barely keep going because the oil export is driving the exchange rate through the roof.

This to the point that the government is fearful of doing anything major or else the exchange rate will really go out of whack.

Here is the thing, public buildings are disintegrating around us while the continued line out of the politicians is that we need to save "for future generations".

If you want to care for future generations you build, and you maintain what you build. But no, we must "save it for the future".

Damn it, we have basically turned Poland into a factory for "Norwegian" products. If you glance at a "Norwegian" chocolate bar these days it is likely to read "made in Poland".
The top esports earnings, broken down by player, game and country: http://www.esportsearnings.com/players

Interestingly, Sumail is 50th, w/ $300k. The next highest pakistani is $500.

It's also worth pointing out that Dota is somewhat skewed in terms of earnings. Most of a Dota player's income comes from tournament prizes, as opposed to say, corporate sponsorships, which are more popular in Starcraft. This has lead people to claim that SC2 earnings are probably understated, because their sponsorship revenues aren't public.

The top 5 players on this list are from the Dota team that won The International (TI4) last year, so it's a good bet that the winners of TI5 next weekend will be the highest paid players in esports.
Renounce your citizenship and leave the country? Vote? Get active in public advocacy campaigns to inform people that their country is being used by criminals? I honestly do not know but one thing is for sure - we can't just give up and let this happen.
Exactly. The reason Switzerland can live like this is because of the political environment in Europe that allows specialized, regional industries to keep their wealth instead of transferring it to poorer regions through cross-continental benefit programs. Vox, where this was originally posted, posted multiple times about how this is one of the causes of the Greek crisis, but never mentioned Switzerland or the other Nordic countries, just Germany and France. Switzerland's situation is similar to if New York were its own country, and didn't have to pay any federal taxes. Instead, New Yorkers would pay high taxes from their high salaries, mainly from Wall Street, to lift the living standards of only New Yorkers, which costs significantly less than paying for an entire country.
The Swiss attitude is that many countries, including the u.s., are corrupt with corrupt governments and it is your responsibility to put your money someplace safe and out of hands of that corruption.
It's expensive.

$20 for a chicken expensive. $50-70 for a mid-week not-so-fancy dinner for two w/o wine expensive. Basically, you go grocery shopping and you'll pay about 40-60% more than you'd pay for the same across the border in France.

English is not commonly spoken at all, not in the French part at least. In fact, if you ask if they speak English, you'd get a surprised Non. Just as if you asked if they spoke Mongolian. In retail there'll be always someone who speaks English though, but he'll be there because people like you exist between customers and not because he is a natural occurence.

Residence permits are a bitch if you are not a EU citizen. It's twice the pain if you are trying to run your own company there as you'd be expected to hire locals in droves, who (as you have just read) tend to cost an arm and a leg and come with very high expectations.

Otherwise it's a superb country. High quality food, excellent roads, tons of places to visit and very close to everything in Europe (3 hours by TGV train to Paris).
And so now's the time when you are going to reveal to me the special case U.S. meaning of these words? I'll make it simple for you: U.S. society is nothing to be proud of and should not be looked up to as a model.

Oh and by the way. What part of "compared to" do you not understand?
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I think it's a phase most programmers go through - I jokingly call it “code graphomania”. You make up some sort of overengineered project, then keep implementing it even though there might exist better alternatives. You'd experiment with various language features, try to cram in some wild design decisions that have no basis in real life patterns, etc. It's hard to explain concisely, but I do observe this in other hackers a lot.

And I think Karpeles was going through that phase at this time. I vividly remember seeing his blogposts on reimplementing an SSH server in PHP, just to show that it's doable. I wouldn't be surprised to see that code and other similar terribad ideas running in production.
The frustrating part about living in America is that the solutions to problems are not only known, they're achievable. Yet because of a combination of stupidity amongst regular people and corruption amongst officials, people continue to suffer needlessly. There isn't a single thing in this article that wouldn't work if adopted in America, especially taxing the rich and having mandated time off. Yet it's not just the people that run the oligopoly that are understandably against such changes for the better, but also the average poor American who votes for the representative that is guaranteed to make life worse, not better for regular people.
I know you are attached with it since it's your creation but I was just looking for what problem it could possibly solve and I failed to see any use cases where javascript + xpath couldn't solve. If you want to skip to the next element, you can absolutely do this with the nextSibling or any iterative function that returns the next DOM element. With xpath you can drill down into the exact element by using the indice like `//a[50]` to select the 50th element directly.

To support older browsers you could use something like xpaths.js but safari, chrome, firefox all support document.evaluate() and manipulating the element is a no brainer just do addClass().

https://github.com/andrejpavlovic/xpathjs

Despite being a jQuery fan (I've used it to build 4k line jquery chrome extension) I find it much easier to just look up the javascript equivalent, more than often, it's worth knowing since it frees you from using library.

But keep at it, I think maybe if you could build something that does a very good job of highlighting dom elements on mouseover/mouseout with some intelligent highlighting (simply attaching event handlers to all elements on the dom page produces a jerky) I could see that being quite useful.

All in all, take my view with a grain of salt, just because I failed to see a use case and think it's more cost effective to know the DOM manipulations with javascript directly, does not mean that somebody out there might justify it's use.

Good stuff!
Indeed:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3fe92x/im_ashley_b...

> Someone brute forced Jed's account (as told to me by Mark).

> I was there about 3 days before it happened, and I received 3 emails about an SQL injection vulnerability (which Mark ignored/thought unworthy).
Sweden seems to be replicating it pretty well, without any oil.
That is true. I specifically meant work/life balance. Where life is considered life even with 1h daylight and -20C outside (and I agree that might be stretching it).
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What was the company culture like? We hear about a lot of bad but obviously there had to be some good things going on to work there.
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Groan. If you want that sort of thing, go to C++. C macros are deliberately restricted to prevent them from being used too much.
That logic applies to anybody who has somebody below them who's poorer (so, everybody).

The richer guy simply dominates the poorer guy. This logic applies on any scale - person, city, country, continent, social class... People like Jesus were against this system (and personally, I'd abolish this system in a heartbeat if I could).
> The 2yo will be asleep when you come home anyway.

This implies only one of the parents goes to work?
Does -std=gnu++11? not still support the gnu version?
You missed his point:

> As a Pakistani myself, I don't find it charming, because back in home it means nothing, playing games with such devotion only would lead one jobless or burden on the family

For most individuals, this is not a valid or even possible career path. Attempting such would create such a burdne.
In America you can choose your job based on how you want to live. You can pursue your life and goals based on what you want out of it. Is that not true in Switzerland?

I think you've bought into little more than propaganda. Americans take off weekends. And how do you judge 330 million people when it comes to burn-out, given the vast differences among them all?
ClojureScript isn't particularly different to how most other languages work. You have a parser (analyzer) that turns text into an AST, then a compiler that turns the AST into the target code. In this case it's Javascript, but the same principle applies if the target is assembly or bytecode.

ClojureScript is now self-hosting, which means that you can eval any valid ClojureScript, so yes, eval in ClojureScript is now equivalent to the eval in languages like Clojure, Racket or any other Lisp.

Usually when a language is bootstrapped, that becomes the new norm. For instance, Go was originally mostly written in C, but since 1.5 Go has been written in Go. However, the Java version of the ClojureScript compiler can leverage Google's Closure Tools, which include a rather useful Javascript optimizer. This means that we'll still want to use the Java version of ClojureScript in most cases.
A social structure that works well in a city of 100000 people will not be able to work the same way as a city with a population of close to 4000000.
How would a distributed "digital nation" (which is, rather conveniently, very poorly defined) exercise force to enforce its "rules" on the physical world?
To elaborate a bit on this, the term economists like to use for this is "alternative choices". The minimum price of the assistant is somewhere around how much it would cost to hire and train someone to replace her - that is, her minimum price is set by the price of the alternative choices that the employer has. After all, it is irrational to hire an assistant at $2X who will produce Y output when you could hire an assistant at $X who will produce Y output.

On the other end of the scale, the maximum price is value of her productive output to the company - it is irrational to pay her more than she can generate.

Negotiation is the skill of convincing your employer that you're harder (ie, more expensive) to replace, thus propelling your pay closer to that maximum.
This is the guy who wrote his own SSH server in PHP: https://web.archive.org/web/20140226001727/http://blog.magic...

We don't know that server was used in production, but it's consistent with the complete anarchy we hear prevailed at Mt. Gox, yet again.
It's easy to be better than cpp, but without the ability to inspect the AST rather than raw text, you can't do the really cool things that macros in languages from Scheme to Rust can. (I've also heard bad things about m4's usability, though I haven't learned to use it myself.) If anyone wants to try to retrofit such functionality into C programs and is willing to add an extra command to the build (as m4 would require), I'd suggest implementing the macros in Python and using pycparser - or using some language's clang bindings or other compiler interfaces, but that has the disadvantage of more dependencies.
Having built some of these, I agree with you.

I was looking for a real world example to give people a reality check.