skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have been building mobile apps for a living for a few years - which I suppose makes me a vet in a relatively new field, so maybe I can shed some light:

Demand for mobile developers in general is off the charts, and still climbing. It's kind of absurd, really - the going rate for mobile devs has increased 200-300% over the past 3 years amongst colleagues I know, which I think is almost entirely attributable to the demand growth in this sector and the relatively slow growth of the talent pool.

Looking at Android vs. iOS devs, both are in high demand but Android especially so. Overall demand for Android doesn't feel particularly pronounced, but the talent pool of experienced, competent Android devs is dramatically smaller than the counterpart in iOS-land.

The key here is experienced, competent devs. We've interviewed a lot of Java people with minimal Android experience trying to make the leap over - it rarely goes well. Mobile development is substantially more complex than "knows Java and can work Android Studio".

There are a few posts replying to yours that I want to respond to, but I'll just do it in one shot instead of littering a bunch of replies everywhere:

RE: simply hiring experienced Java devs. This doesn't usually work - good mobile devs are also at least partially UX people - we spend a lot of time knee-deep in UI, and consumer expectations for the fit and finish of apps are high. Someone who has completed the "Hello World" equivalent of Android learning has done exactly that - finished "Hello World". It in no way implies the ability to build apps that aren't an embarrassment to the Play Store. There is a vast amount of domain knowledge here, and the gap between an app built by someone who merely knows the API vs. someone who knows mobile apps is pretty darned wide.

RE: iOS gaining a larger share of revenue. This is true, but relatively inconsequential to most mobile devs. Outside of gaming the number of businesses directly monetizing apps is dropping. The bulk of attention for non-game apps go towards service-oriented apps (see: Uber, AirBnb, Facebook) for whom "app store revenue" is a nonsensical concept. There is lots, and lots* of work for companies that don't rely on direct monetization (i.e., app sales and in-app purchases) to live (and increasingly so).

RE: the market balancing itself according to supply/demand. Yes, this is happening, but it's happening more slowly than the demand is rising, so overall wages are still rising. Much of this is because it's non-trivial to learn the domain knowledge necessary to really do this well, and consumer expectations on app quality is high enough that (to be charitable) the value of beginner-level devs vs. experienced devs is non-linear.
Not useful for me at this moment but I wish you luck.
Well you know the track record of the lab and the area of research going in, so it's definitely not purely a matter of chance.
Actual paper here:

http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/454/4/3480.abstract
I've been compiling chromium for a while now, even back when I had only 8 GB of RAM :/
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Changing Windows to work with legacy software is easy to do when you are the unchallenged market leader. That wasn't the case when Lotus running on DOS was something Microsoft (and Lotus) would care about. In that era, Microsoft faced competition from multiple directions. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a decision to sabotage Lotus 123 on some version of DOS, specially if that sabotage could drive the move to Windows and Excel.

In all fairness, that Microsoft (they seem to have somewhat improved, as their power diminished) was known for not playing fair (something later demonstrated in court):

http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/11/05/how_ms_played_the_in...

So, forgive me if I take this piece of history with a grain of salt. I started in this business at a time Microsoft made a BASIC interpreter and little more and I have observed a lot myself.
> In a steady state, forests neither sequester nor release carbon.

In a steady state, forests are carbon stores, same as coal veins, oil reservoirs or methane clathrate.
I had a couple professors in college that created their own textbooks for teaching and didn't charge students for them.

Some of them were good, but some were obviously poorly edited and explanations were identical to lectures.
I hate this sort of regressive thinking. We can just come up with more reliable ways of producing food.

I expect food production to see a huge revolution in 10-20 years - think something like genetically modified simple organisms that are designed to produce specific nutrients - like specific protein or sugar or fat.

If you can design them to be energy efficient and work in low amount of space in a controlled environment (say a shallow pool of water + UV lamps or something like that) you can have huge factories that stack these "ponds" on top of each other working 24/7 pumping out nutrients.

Then it's just a matter of combining them in to food.
Thanks for the shortened URLs. Question: I always obtain those by hitting "Share" and then copying the link. Is there a better way?
I'd love to have an anatomy lesson on Almonds.
Andrew from Waffle.io here -

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In the future we'll have paid add-ons to solve pain points for larger teams. But, for today, we believe making Waffle's core feature set free is the right path to helping more people on GitHub.com.
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Sliiightly misleading headline, although not incorrect in some ways.

For about a quarter of the year there are virtually no fires, another quarter (we're there now), there are a lot. Further, in most years the fires are much fewer than they are now, and we're now in a record year.

So the headline is true, but only for the worst part of a record breaking year. You can't extrapolate it. In general, say per year or per decade, the headline is false, and CO2 emissions are a topic that is spoken about in the context of such timeframes, not 'who emitted the most in a 30 day period in one particular year'.

Further, the comparison itself is misleading as the CO2 figures for the US (and all other countries, for that matter), only count burning fossil fuel (and producing cement). Not capturing emissions when fracking? Not counted. Millions of cows farting all over the place? Not counted. Agriculture? Not counted etc. That's why if you compare Indonesia to the US, Indonesians emit about 6 times less CO2 per capita. That's why it's a bit of a weird comparison. You're comparing one country's emissions within limited parameters, to another country's emissions from phenomena that fall outside of those parameters.

Anyway obviously it's a big concern nonetheless and a better comparison would probably be that this single industry approximately doubles Indonesia's fossil fuel burning CO2 output on average every year. That's quite excessive for just one industry (last I checked ~8% of exports, with exports at $200b on a GDP of $870b) and it doesn't have to be that way, palm oil can be grown (slightly more expensively) by simply clearing a forest rather than burning it and all the peat underneath. (the peat is really the issue, forest burning itself is often in large part compensated by regrowth)
Where can I find futures studies PhD's? They sound like fun people to talk to.
Do you understand how small Singapore is? (Not trying to be snarky)

But yeah, they are not invading anyone anytime soon.
Looking at Street Area Percentages and Surface Parking (2011)
Maybe all the work gets put off till tomorrow?
Interestingly, I think that is actually how it works for most elite/successful programmers.

They hack around on computers in high school and get to being pretty good at programming, then go to college and pick up the theory side.

Fundamentally, I think trying to get people to be developers who are only interested in money is a losing proposition.
If by burning the trees you are also permanently changing the use of that land from forest to agricultural then you are changing how much carbon is held by that area. This leaves aside the problems with burning peat.

This does change both the short term and long term atmospheric balance. If the land were left to eventually recover then the long term balance would be restored. That isn't going to happen.
I am by no means a mod or a anything, but what exactly do you think you were contributing to this conversation with this comment?

I am genuinely curious.

Was it an attempt at humor? Did you think it would be well received in a forum where conversation tends to be more serious and informative?

Are you aware of the rules and just don't care? Or did you think this comment was especially funny and warranted an exception?

Not trying to troll, and I know I'm putting you on the spot so to speak, but figured if it would be worth it if you answered the question seriously.

And yes, I am aware of the irony that my post isn't especially contributing either.
Nobody gets paid based on how we value the work they do. It's supply vs. demand.

You can have relatively unskilled labor paid a lot if there aren't many people and very skilled labor paid little if there are a lot of them. It shouldn't be surprising.
UEFI brings with it all kinds of other lovelies though.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIyOTg

Kinda reminds me of the issues Linux has run into with ACPI, and here are some lovely emails from Torvalds regarding that:

http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/acpi.html
> I don't blame them for not building out other boot loader detection and integration.

It's not that they even try. Not even a little. Last time I installed Windows on real metal, it didn't even warn the other operating system would no longer boot. Microsoft probably has an internal policy to consider installing Windows is an upgrade.
So one tree burnt is the same as one tree sure, but when you're killing year old trees that usually live for 30 years then it seems you would be adding more carbon than you would have otherwise. 30 1 year trees or 1 30 year tree. Is it still equivalent?
It's an insidious problem. Those two million people are not doing any particular thing on any particular day, but en masse, they are taxing the social safety net in ways it is not meant for. Services become limited as resources dry up, healthcare costs go through the roof as the industry soaks up every dollar the government is willing to spend, quality of education plummets as people determine there is no sense in striving for the American dream, prison system costs skyrocket as crime increases, and the list goes on.

So it's not newsworthy when taken as a statistic, but you can find that the problem and its societal and human costs definitely are. If your bubble is big enough to keep you insulated from all this, then good for you.
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Parent's argument reminds me of a No True Scotsman fallacy.

Person A: "No Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge."

Person B: "But my uncle Angus likes sugar with his porridge."

Person A: "Ah yes, but no true Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge."

I feel the much of the negativity towards bootcamps is partially due to people feeling threatened by new entrants. Kind of like black cars in London claiming that to be a cab driver you'd have to know the streets by memory, while in most cases GPS would be good enough. To me, it seems like a lot of bootcamps get you to good enough. That doesn't take away from all the years of investment and learning that other developers might have gone through to get where they are. There's room for both.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
I'm most surprised about the all the retired 16-20 year olds.
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and after these advances have been outpaced by population growth what happens then?
Is it cheaper than rapeseed or soy? I know corn oil in the US is cheap, but it's also heavily subsidized.
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Also, methane. It's worse than CO2 for 2 reasons: (1) It contributes far more to global warming, pound for pound. (2) Once you emit it, you can't take it back by planting trees, etc.
You're reading an American-centricity into my comment that wasn't there. The fact remains that palm oil consumption is growing world-wide, in no small part as a replacement for trans-fats.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v448/n7157/full/448993a...

http://news.mongabay.com/2015/06/fda-bans-artificial-trans-f...
Great reminder of the thousands forced to do this (and without a Google-level salary or the many amenities). We normally call people who live out of cars homeless.
Wow, thanks for the heads-up. It means owl in French and is pronounced ēbu. Owls being wise and all.

Thanks for trying it out. Hope you like it.
This term means that your pre-seed-stage startup has a valuation of 138 000€. If the real number is lower than that, you should take the deal provided there are no further strings attached (voting rights, etc.).

If the real number is higher than that, then you should just stay elsewhere.

Every investor is different but I would be more likely to invest in a startup where the founder parted with some small amount of equity to conserve cash.

You can structure the deal as a cash investment where you then turn around and pay the cash as rent; later investors don't even need to know the reason for the investment. It sounds like a great way to build momentum (having an investor vs. no investors as yet).
As the article notes Indonesia exceeded US greenhouse productions for 26 days. Out of 300. Don't worry love, the US are still solid #2 emitters of grenhouse gases (China being #1)
Wood construction (e.g. 2x4 or other dimension lumber houses) does this to some extent, although there is carbon emission inherent in the harvesting, sawmilling process, transportation to the worksite and actual house construction.
I'm surprised there isn't more general public awareness of using wood in engineering processes to offset the carbon costs and provide long-term carbon sequestering
Here's the W3C spec on SRI -- http://www.w3.org/TR/SRI/ -- if you still prefer not to use it, you can opt to remove the 'integrity' attribute, it's being provided as a convenience.

link(href='//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap.min.css', rel='stylesheet' crossorigin='anonymous')

script(src='//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/js/bootstrap.min.js' crossorigin='anonymous')
Me too. It does take a long time, though, even with ccache on.
Great link, I didn't even know such a salary cap existed. I guess that explains a lot of it.

For reference, PhD plus 7 years experience is a total of 12-14 years experience, depending on how long the PhD took.
I wouldn't say that. Our defenders are pretty damned good. Between Per, Kos, Gabriel, Bellerin, and Monreal, I think we're in a pretty good position there.
I'm happy that BSM-SG replaced QM for me :) They are looking at huge, huge objects and think they are fundamental particles and wonder why it behaves strangely... apart from fundamental errors they have.
Yeah, the haphazard/inconsistent nature of HTML/CSS/Javascript is the flip side of the "open standard" coin. I always tell students "a perfectly architected system would mean it's controlled by one company, and you'd need their permission and/or have to pay money to build those apps/sites" (then I talk about the negatives of the app store review process to demonstrate the point).

Which of course doesn't mean we shouldn't be trying to improve them... just something I remind myself whenever I start to get angry about all the annoying things that need to be thought about when writing HTML/CSS/JS.
What list is that? I'm looking at it and I'm pretty sure I personally whitelisted all of those domains. The only ones that seem to have come from NoScript are the about:... ones
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Yeah but think of the cost of living difference. I'd much rather make 40k doing a post-doc at Carnegie Mellon in cheap-ass Pittsburgh than make 50k in the Bay Area. The rent difference alone is going to be way more than 10k.
Verizon wireless are hopeless at customer service. I called about the 4 or 5 "Rachel from Cardholder Services" calls per day I was getting last summer. The Customer "Service" Rep claimed never to have heard of such a thing, and clutched his pearls, as if spoofing your Caller ID information was unheard of! He suggested blocking the telephone number, which is no help, as they usually call at most twice with the same spoofed number.

If I had a choice, I'd dump VZW in a hearbeat.
No, this ruling is in line with how the US does it. Before, it was unclear whether the EU would charge sales tax (VAT) when you buy bitcoins on an exchange. Now it's clear that they won't. The US has never charged sales tax on bitcoin exchanges.

Tax-free is an exaggeration, as bitcoin is still subject to capital gains tax, and of course you'll have to pay sales tax/VAT if you use bitcoin to buy things, just as if you bought the same things with euros or dollars.
Tell HN: Facebook Secretly Liked a Page for Me
My Facebook account has been disabled for a few months because of their name policy, but I finally was able to clear that up a few days ago. One of the things I did when re-accessing my account was to review what very few pages I "like" and "follow".

Today, I just noticed that one of my "likes" is for CBSN. I checked the Activity Log and it reads that I "liked" that page last night a minute before I made a comment on a friend's picture.

I was not inebriated from anything at that time. I don't see how I could have possibly, accidentally clicked on like for that page.

I always view my Timeline in "most recent" mode, and I checked back to see if there were any CBSN posts on my Timeline near that time, there were not.

I've found "likes" in the past on my profile for companies I do not like, but this is the first time I've caught such a discrepancy so quickly.

It shows that I "liked" it, but that I am not "following" it. When you like something, you automatically follow it. My guess is it when Facebook set my profile to "like" it, they made sure that I wasn't "following" it so that I would be less likely to notice.
Despite minimal browser support, it's still nice to start seeing projects like this that make it very easy to implement SRI (for Wordpress users, in this case):

https://id.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-sri/
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So I guess I just have to wait until we have good enough 3D scanners to build a model of the non-cellular structures in the leg, then we need good enough 3D printers to print edible non-cellular structures at small enough sizes for the re-cellularization to work, and then I can eat a lab grown leg of lamb!
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But what is home?
Then again methane naturally reacts with hydroxyl radicals into CO2 and water. The normal lifecycle of atmospheric methane is ~10 years.
To put it in perspective: there are more people who want a job but aren't looking for a job than there are people in the entire US prison system (2.6 million vs 2.4 million).
I wonder if it's as simple as ensuring diet includes adequate & consistent sulpher intake optimizes glutathione? It's likely a lot more complicated than that though.
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What he is saying is that it doesn't grow. It is a constant relationship. Cows sequester GHGs from the atmosphere (via the food they eat, mostly) and then release it.

I don't have enough data to know if I agree with his point (especially since the GHG changes form), but his "long-term" refers to the life cycle of a single cow.
It's a real contribution. The parent poster is (humorously) making the point that if we really wanted to, we could switch to e.g. goat's milk because farming cows is particularly damaging to the environment.

I understand where the pearl-clutching is coming from but I think you've overreacted to the word "nipple."
I think what MS did to take on Lotus was to outdo them by being able to read the file formats perfectly.

I seem to recall that after the MS Office file formats was documented as part of a MS-EU settlment, Joel pointed out how the Excel format carried at least two ways to do dates. One of them a replica of how Lotus 123 did it.
Lattice cryptography - although I wouldn't want to rely on it in 2015 - is quite flexible and does support such advanced systems. Also, homomorphic encryption and zero-knowledge proofs are almost entirely unused (and, due to the enormous overhead of FHE in particular, unusable) in practice. We'll deal.
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A purely local description is generally understood to be field-mediated interaction, where field can be at the same place as the particle it acts on, without being the same thing.
>'disabled' is a code word for long-term un-employable.

Correct. This is the legacy of the Clinton era 'welfare to work' program: we moved people from welfare to disability.

This will grow as automation takes hold of ever more industries. "Disability" is the U.S.'s first step toward guaranteed minimum income or a negative income tax. We will never have enough jobs for everyone in America, so we need to figure out what we're going to do to keep the economy going.
"Key almost fits on a hard drive" :-)
Or "peasant."
There is not a shortage of tech people. There is only a shortage of good tech people willing to work for peanuts.
That's a feature. My initial installations don't include much. Tools are installed the first time I need to use them.
Yes, but these are the marquee hires.
Oh! Of course you're right; I mixed up my popes. Thank you for the correction!

It would have been surprising if the papacy were able to hold back Kepler and Newton, since they both lived in Protestant lands. That might be a coincidence. But maybe there were potential Keplers and Newtons living in Rome, or Madrid, or Tuscany, or even Paris¹, who were simply intimidated out of doing research.

¹ Even if they were Huguenots, who were still experiencing religious assassinations at the time, despite Henry IV; but especially if they were Catholics whose friends and family might suspect them of Huguenot sympathies.