skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, EU domain fee for Eurid is 4 Euros (~4.33 USD) [1]. And it is non profit organisation. So Verisign margin should be ~3.5 USD? It is good to have monopoly...

P.S. I pay 5 Euros per domain in total, my domain provider takes 1 Euro, would say fair price.

[1] https://www.eurid.eu/en/registrars/become-eu-registrar/prepa...
You may be right. But it's 2 levels of comments and I am still waiting for some examples of use case. Any use case I can think of can be better served with Java or C++ or C.

In fact, as I understand it, you can actually call multi-threaded applications from Python. You can only execute Python code (in the same interpreter) single-threaded.

Although, an embedded scripting language (say, in a game) could in theory benefit. But isn't Python already too big for that kind of applications?
My personal observations (at a bigco) suggest that it's not super unusual to have 200k-250k total comp at a bigco after a few years.
Developer salaries are very dependent on local market conditions. The numbers quoted are from the Bay Area. Your market may be different.
> I've spend the last decade working with HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP and a suite of other tools.

I think this is all we need to know. You have 10 years experience in web development. That makes you a Senior Software Developer at pretty much every company I've ever worked. I don't think you have anything to worry about skills-wise. PHP is still in high-demand. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript aren't going anywhere anytime soon.

Relax. You are in a fantastic position. You will hopefully even get a salary increase with your next job. The local paper couldn't have been paying much. : )

The only concern might be your location. "Local newspaper" makes me think "rural" or "suburban." If you don't live in a city, that might not be a problem (teleworking jobs abound), but where I live (Northern Virginia) I can quit my job today and have recruiters begging me to start somewhere else tomorrow. So just keep that in mind.

Otherwise, I hope you will find yourself very happy this time next year in a new career and all this worry will just be a fading memory.
For us old timers this is the third AI boom (including two "A.I. winters" in between). In the 1980s the boom was experts systems and logic inference supercomputers. Many computer science departments were decimated then.
What is none*? A minimal riddle game
I'm pretty sure you know who "we" is and are just trying to make some point, but it would be nicer if you could just come out and make that point directly.
Why "I am now a provider"? You get better odds with 2 people working together towards a common goal http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dink

Plus being in California, you are in the best place on the planet for your skill set.
Fascinating. Thanks for posting.
Hmm, what does flexible working hours, personal development opportunities and workforce diversity mean in practice? The faults are hard measurable things, but the solutions are more fuzzy and not as easy to measure. When you measure flexible hours, what is your metric for saying that someone has that? When you say dev opportunities, how do I know if I have given my employees enough of them and of what quality? What does workforce diversity mean in terms of age, gender, sex, race, and religion and what targets should I shoot for? Should my workforce match the community I am in or the nation? I think a hard goal for these would be nice to have so I know what to shoot for and be 'good' (again, a fuzzy thing itself)
It is high time for all of the tech companies of Silicon Valley and San Francisco to come together and lobby the hell out of municipal and county governments to push for more housing and better transit.

It is absolutely insane that there is so much wealth being generated by these companies, yet they seemingly have no political will to influence the very localities they are based in, never mind their federal adventures into H1-B skullduggery and patent power-plays.

And the local communities themselves need to accept that tech is a huge tax base and the reason for their affluence, and stop their rampant NIMBYism and obstruction to urban progress.

Note: I'm referring more to past actions by wealthy communities in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties who did things such as impede the growth of BART. Or when rich liberals in San Francisco decry housing construction by citing a fear of "losing the character of the city." Gentrification of indigent areas such as East Palo Alto, the Mission, and so on is another story.
I've never heard of anyone from Apple getting perks to move closer. Seriously I do hope they work to improve mass transit instead - even if it's just for employees, that's less people on the roads.
it's terrifically fun?
> What I am saying is that (if you're American) you are reaping the benefits of a society that exists as it does because it dominated a continent, destroying much of the existing landscape and natural inhabitants.

Every society on Earth exists as it does because it destroyed much of the previously existing landscape and natural inhabitants, most definitely including the Native American societies. If you read Over the Edge of the World, a fascinating book about Magellan's voyage around the globe, you'll find that as he traveled the straits at the southern tip of South America -- the most miserable, cold, dreary, and awful environment that could be imagined -- he met a miserable and starving aboriginal tribe: a tribe that, it turns out, had been pushed all the way to the tip of Tierra del Fuego by succeeding waves of "native" migration across the land bridge from Siberia to Alaska. The sin of the United States is not original with the United States: it is the sin of every society.

> But some level of responsibility nonetheless (and when adding up the small responsibility of each current member the responsibility to do something as a group to rectify past wrongs may become quite large indeed).

You could smuggle an elephant inside that parenthetical clause. For starters, how specifically is one to "rectify past wrongs" that were committed against people who have been dead for hundreds of years? And are the remnants of those societies that still exist today also obliged to "rectify past wrongs" against the people they aggressed on even farther in the past?
Indeed. If a legitimate cryptosystem had been used, with the keys held in escrow in a secure facility, the matter of authenticity could at least be resolved, even if we decided not to cheat and use the stored keys to determine the location of the treasure.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10753087
What does that responsibility mean? Let's say I accept my responsibility for benefitting from killing all this wildlife and murdering the inhabitants. Now what? Does this change something? Is there some action I should take?
> If so, this world is doomed, and within a generation will be ruled by hordes of ignorant retards. I can only hope you're exaggerating (well, I know you're exaggerating, the universities that matter still do vet their intake relatively rigorously).

By very definition most people go to universities or institutions that "don't matter" in your eyes. You can't rule out the majority of the population in a discussion about the nature of higher education just because it doesn't fit your narrative about what college should be.

Moreover, to assume that everyone at top tier institutions is there or is trying hard because they are deeply passionate about learning is absolutely ridiculous. I am at a lab at MIT currently and interact with undergrads here all the time. The community has a HUGE problem with self-imposed stress over grades and course load to the point where individuals are committing suicide because they falsely believe that if they are not successful in college it will prevent them from being successful in the work place. Why do many people put themselves through this pressure? Because they know having the words MIT on their resume will get them a great job.

> Incorrect. For 9 out of 10 professions it is not true at all.

I don't know how they do things in the UK, but in the US employers want to see proof that you can do what you say you can do or that you are a serious worker when applying for a job. For a lot of industries, it's really hard to demonstrate this when applying for a first job because you have no relevant work experience. A relevant college degree (rightly or wrongly) serves as validation for employers. They feel safer taking a chance on employing you. Even having ANY college degree shows that someone has (theoretically) validated that you can work intelligently.

The problem with not having a degree is that it's very difficult to gain demonstrable domain expertise in most fields without being employed (as you lack access to resources), and most people won't employ you until you can demonstrate some competence, leading to a situation where it's very difficult to get your foot in the door. That's why it's important to have a degree; it gets your foot in the door so you can gain experience. Most people in the US who do not have college degrees or technical certifications are working poorly paid jobs. Most people go to college so that they do not have to do that, not so that they can seek enlightenment.

> It is a filter. Doctors must conform to quite harsh endurance and resourcefulness requirements, and the more such filters applied - the better. This is not a profession for everyone (just like most other professions, really)

Putting someone through a 4 year arbitrary filter is a ridiculous practice which should stop. Unqualified students would wash out during the first year of medical school anyway; that should serve as the filter. Making someone rack up 80-120K in additional student debt just to go through a filtering process is absurd. A friend of mine is currently a resident and has 320K dollars of student loan debt. How is that justifiable?
FAA Approves Terrafugia's Flying Car for Test Flights
Yikes, anyone coming from a non-FP background to Elm is very much going to learn new ways of programming.

Elm is quite different than most front-end UI and I think your last sentence does it a great disservice.
I was in the same boat not too long ago. I was 38 with 15 years at a school district job as a systems analyst and programmer. I wasn't laid off or let go but I couldn't do it any more. I couldn't do one more Exchange or VMWare upgrade.

My advice: go hard! Send out your resume. Leaving my cushy job for the unknown has reinvigorated every part of my life: financial, spiritual, marital, parental. It has been easy but it's been very rewarding.
For learning functional programming I find Racket to be the best for teaching functional programming. I think I took 4 tries at teaching myself Haskell and then learning Racket really helped me to get over the learning curve of Haskell though i still consider myself a beginner.
My first exposure to the Beale Ciphers was thanks to this animation short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKMxtfMSPTM

An aside about the short:

> The film contains 16 hidden messages that hold clues to the characters' secrets. Eight are fairly easy requiring only a close eye. Six are moderately difficult using various encryption methods. Two are extremely difficult requiring a genius mind to decrypt.

To be honest, I still haven't found all of them.
I think it really depends on the kind of person you are. If you're seeking fast pace and get bored easily, a startup is the right place to be. Otherwise, if you're like me, you can lead a pretty satisfying career in a large company. For some reason I was conditioned in college into believing that the startup mentality was the only respectable way to go, and any time spent at a big company should be a temporary.
A few reasons we don't just use submodules

- The Go community supports Git, Svn, Bzr, and Hg. We keep that up. According to the Eclipse community survey, 2014 was the year Git usage passed Svn usage. Svn usage is still quite high.
- A lot of developers struggle with and even have strong negative opinions of submodules. So much so that we now have subtrees. I've find a lot of developers would prefer not to use them.
- The way Glide works is in line with the package managers from the other major/popular languages. This way it's familiar to many people coming to Go by solving the same problem in the same way they're already used to.
Show HN: Automagic docs for Ruby APIs
1 => one
10 => ten
100 => one hundred
1,000 => one thousand
10,000 => ten thousand
1,00,000 => one lakh
10,00,000 => ten lakh (one million)
UBeam Crowdfunds $2.6M: Losing Investment Power?
Agreed. My other issue is that people (this author included) tend to misread Sheryl Sandberg's message as prescriptive; I read "Lean In" as a set of interesting insights and observations from a woman who has succeeded in spite of challenging gender dynamics, but who makes clear that her path need not be the norm for everyone. (In fact, it cannot be the norm for everyone owing to several privileged circumstances in her life.) I know that the bombastic pitch of this article is intentional and possibly necessary in order to generate attention, but it was a major turn off for me.
Nothing wrong with being rich.

I'm referring to what you focus on, though. If you focus on being rich and are not, then by your own value system, you're a failure. If you focus on being kind - or well-rounded, or athletic, or outdoorsy, or eco-friendly - and are not rich, then who cares? By the standards that you've chosen to live your life, you're a success.

I think you might find that people have a surprising variation in values if you don't judge them - or yourself - by the same yardstick. Dating is all about finding the person whose values align with yours, not who is most successful on some arbitrary metric. Think in terms of direction, not magnitude.
It's worth nothing that the mean and median salaries of graduating Carnegie Mellon University CS majors, one of the top CS schools, is only $103k/105k:

http://www.cmu.edu/career/salaries-and-destinations/2015-sur... [pdf]

Having $130k as a baseline salary for the analysis is silly. (However, a total compensation of $130k is not silly)
I am surprised, and it my own mistake not to look into. Thanks for pointing me to his resume.
Oh yes they do. In Milwaukee, WI at the end of the month, you'll get a ticket for either going with the flow of traffic or driving below the flow of traffic (the speed limit).

The highway will be lined with cars being pulled over.
The Strange Paradise of Paul Scheerbart
I was referring to the pendulum of centralized-decentralized computing, not a general pendulum of people wanting totalitarianism/freedom.

FWIW I'm more worried about what becomes societally normal than what the government prescribes. In that sense, we need freedom-preserving software more to show people what is possible and give them alternatives, rather than to simply hide ourselves from abusive brother.
DHH – The day I became a millionaire
250k a year in 5 years at a big corporation, really? Yea if you're lucky to work on a project/team higher-ups care about and are also willing to bust your ass working long hours to meet insane deadlines. Also, you better be someone who is excellent at communication and charismatic if you want to get invited to the table of interesting work.

There are a lot of brilliant hyper-competitive people who work at these big companies and you will be a small fish. So I think this article is spreading a myth that there is guaranteed piles of money to be made by working at Google, Facebook, Apple, etc.
For a bit of background:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10739875

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10741827

I've been a Product Hunt user from their initial HN launch and am still a big fan. They've made a very important impact in the tech scene. Open Hunt is an honest attempt at a community run alternative, tailored to giving / getting feedback, and finding very early stage stuff.

Would love your feedback!
Does it requires a login, and/or my Gmail/Yahoo/etc. emails have to pass thru a third party server (yours)?

Edit:

Answered on help: "Every connection between Missive clients and our servers is encrypted using the Transport Layer Security standard (TLS). This also applies to connections between our servers and Gmail when we fetch your emails."

Thanks, but I pass.
It's often less that there's no political will and more that the people in the cities have more votes to block that political will.

Why stop being a NIMBY when it's great for you?
Because it is very difficult as an unknown individual to invest in any "real" startup vs the latest Uber/AirBnB clone on AngelList.
I disagree. Most men if approached by an awkward unattractive woman at a bar will at least be polite and have a normal conversation even if they're not interested. Whereas women will often outright ignore or even act hostile towards an awkward unattractive man trying to strike a conversation.

Men are expected to treat women courteously, whereas women aren't held to the same standard. A woman can treat a man like a disposable garbage bag and it doesn't have the same stigma as a man doing the same to a woman.
Why? I've seen this before but it always mystified me.

Oh, and totally tangentially but: how do human beings actually live in Vancouver? The rents and real estate prices are almost as bad as the Bay Area but minus the high paying jobs.
I think the reason the overall picture painted of women in tech is bleak because the typical experience of being a woman in the tech industry is bleak. Women are scared away from tech by their experience in tech, not by tech's reputation, so I'm not surprised there aren't more Lea's out there.

Women who quit the tech industry (56%) do so at a significantly higher rate than they do in science (47%) and engineering (39%) ("HBR Research Report: The Athena Factor:Reversing the Brain Drain in Science, Engineering, and Technology" -- and I'll add that the report is good about addressing why childcare and the heavy workloads don't entirely account for the quit rate.)

Quit rates in the industry shouldn't be higher than other STEM industries. Even if you grant a pipeline problem, in which case sharing positive stories about women in tech improves the situation, once women are involved, positive stories can't impact how they are treated. The quit rate suggests it's a worse situation for women than in similar industries.

One commenter here suggests Lea's case shows nothing needs to change, which is odd, since Lea doesn't say that. It's also odd that this commenter suggests rule changes addressing inadequacies ought to be characterized as "special rules" -- special changes to fundamentally sound policy -- instead of "better policy" -- fundamental changes to flawed policies, policies demonstrated to be flawed by their unfair and differential impact on women.

Nonetheless, it is great Lea has had a positive experience. I am glad she shared it.
I think the reason the overall picture painted of women in tech is bleak because the typical experience of being a woman in the tech industry is bleak. Women are scared away from tech by their experience in tech, not by tech's reputation, so I'm not surprised there aren't more Lea's out there.

Women who quit the tech industry (56%) do so at a significantly higher rate than they do in science (47%) and engineering (39%) ("HBR Research Report: The Athena Factor:Reversing the Brain Drain in Science, Engineering, and Technology" -- and I'll add that the report is good about addressing why childcare and the heavy workloads don't entirely account for the quit rate.)

Quit rates in the industry shouldn't be higher than other STEM industries. Even if you grant a pipeline problem, in which case sharing positive stories about women in tech improves the situation, once women are involved, positive stories can't impact how they are treated. The quit rate suggests it's a worse situation for women than in similar industries.

One commenter here suggests Lea's case shows nothing needs to change, which is odd, since Lea doesn't say that. It's also odd that this commenter suggests rule changes addressing inadequacies ought to be characterized as "special rules" -- special changes to fundamentally sound policy -- instead of "better policy" -- fundamental changes to flawed policies. Policies demonstrated to be flawed by their unfair and differential impact on women.

Nonetheless, it is great Lea has had a positive experience. I am glad she shared it.
Any book recommendations for someone without a background in finance who wants to understand more about derivatives and related concepts?
The cost of living in SV/SF is extremely high.
Every RCE that could have been sold on the black market for a million dollars is worth almost the same reward (modulo the advantage of being legal).
Getting a job at Google as an engineer is ridiculously hard. The guy that wrote Homebrew couldn't even get hired even though 90% of their engineers use his software.

https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768

If you can get a job at Google, it's very different than getting a job "at a big company" and has historically actually increased your odds of success later on (via the propensity of investors to fund Xooglers). So I would definitely agree - taking a job at Google when you haven't had one before vs. starting a startup is a very legitimate choice to make. Taking a job at Microsoft vs. starting a startup, I would argue (and the X-Microsofters in my life) a very different one.
To provide a counterpoint, I don't think that's suspect at all. I just thought of ten individual people with that salary at that age (or younger).

Just sharing anecdote for anecdote.
I was actually about to make this comment when you did.

This is a matter of responsibility and perception. When you are help up in traffic you don't think of Facebook's and Google's responsibility for it, you think of the government.

The solution for this is not hard, it's just something that no one seems to have the guts for making the decision.

Sometimes I wonder, this 15,000$ incentive to employees make me think that no one is even thinking about it over there at Facebook.
I was using ps to try to find it real quick: At first tried the DOI:

(Today's)

DOI (Today)
89 "by"
263 "such"
201 "all"
500 "of"
337 "to"
480 "has"

DOI (from Then) from earlier link:

89 / e
263 / o
201 / a
500 / p
337 / s
480 / p

Didn't see anything, so then I tried the article text itself. There was an "and/or" combination that I didn't know how to space so I took word X-1, X, and X+1:

89 of / two / years
263 tantalizing mystery of
201 remained / stubbornly / undechipherd
500 "American" / Dollars / I
337 locked / them /inside
480 punctuation / added, / the

89 o/t/y
263 t/m/o
201 r/s/u
500 a/d/i
337 l/t/i
480 p/a/t

Maybe that X+1 column is support to say "you d it?" Not sure. Having to divert attention now. Fun title though.
I really like their humor - the share buttons on the results page are a wonderful piece of satirical reality.
> Like it or not, but there are no guaranteed outcomes in pretty much anything.

Yes, but there's such a thing as better odds and worse odds. These students aren't paying for a guaranteed education, but they are paying for an honest effort.

> But instead you did everything by the book, did your assignments, read your textbooks, attended your lectures

Wow! I didn't know I did that! Some of my professors would be truly surprised to hear that.
> What Keynes missed is that free markets generate new desires

I've been curious if, as a result of the attitude toward aggregate demand that grew as a response to the Great Depression and Keynes work, we have deliberately designed our society to try to generate more and more desires.
Planned Obsolescence: Why Your iPhone Only Lasts Two Years, Max
Yeah I saw that and thought, ok maybe if you are on of the known or maintain a popular open source package, a conference speaker. But 250k in year 5 is not a number that rings true.

Or, maybe I am doing something wrong here and am underpaid...