skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can we stop the whole "engineers make a lot of money" spiel? Most engineers make between 120 - 160k in SF, where the median household income is 104k. They don't make more than product managers, project managers or even many BART operators. See http://www.mercurynews.com/salaries/bay-area if you don't believe me. Sure, they make a bit more than average, but if that's the standard of "a lot of money", you have a totally skewed view of how capitalism works and the wealth gap in the US. Very few engineers are members of the capitalist class, commonly referred to as the 1% that own 40% of the country's assets. Making 50% more than the median is not a lot. Making 500% more is a lot.
Sweeping and evidently spot on as well. Carry on!
Nobody's selling shovels. Everyone is selling month-to-month shovel subscriptions.
When you're comparing it to 10,000 fundraises, it is..

24/10000 = 0.0024 -> two tenth's of 1%.... ie... statistically zero..
You are correct that there is no push currently (we are exploring some ways to make it possible) and no admin panel (we are also exploring a lite admin panel), and no analytics (you should just use something like Mixpanel).

For cloud code, it's not true that parse-server doesn't support it - you can write cloud code directly in the node server.

For a full rundown on what's compatible, check out the migration guide: https://parse.com/docs/server/guide#migrating

The core functionality is there, and I highly recommend trying out the official Parse open source solution first, as it will be the easiest for most apps that want to migrate.
See, whether a startup is silly or not is an opinion. I happen to have an opinion that adtech is evil. Whether it has a side benefit like allowing "content" to exist is tangential.

I usually keep that opinion to myself because it's not a popular one, but in this particular subthread we are not discussing the article, we are discussing the author who volunteered his "I am very hypocritical" comment.

Elsewhere in this comment thread I discuss the article.
I think it doesn't have a market wage requirement though. I'm not sure.
Kudos to these anti-militarist software developers. The world needs more of your kind!
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Thanks. Good to know. And cheers for your product , very good idea.
It's worth remembering that at the time it wasn't "blogging 140 characters at a time" it was "SMS blogging" which is a much easier idea to pitch in that the use case is more obvious (being on the go) and the character limit isn't arbitrary.
Thanks for posting a link to a project of mine :) Too bad it didn't gain any traction here.
I've heard that Portland COL prices are climbing sharply due to people moving in. Is that true?
> Britain tried being "open" but it backfired in a big way.

Care to elaborate?

> the united states continues to be culturally very open and meritocratic.

Hmm... tell that to Trump, the frontrunner for one of your two parties.
I thought it was somehow tied into the hipster-foodie thing, like you'd get charged $15 for a 50 cent banana if it was delivered to you by some precariously employed scooter driver swaddled up like the baby Jesus.

Perhaps it's my unadventurous lifestyle, but I have never found myself in a situation where I so urgently needed a posing pouch that 'Uberising' the industry would have helped me out.
I think the problem is that many of the business models of these startups is basically taking VC money and shuffling it around.

I've been to many startup competitions in the last couple of years and most of the winners have no business model.

For instance, last year, the winner was a startup that was "Twitter with 255 character limit". It think it was awarded $20,000
> Tangent but: I doubt the rate raise will stick. They'll probably have to cut it again. I see a "planet Japan" scenario in which global central banks are zero-bound for decades, if not "forever". Rapid growth is over.

Agreed nominal interest rates will likely drop down again to zero to restimulate the economy, but I doubt that will stick for the next decade, as inflation should creep back in forcing the Fed's hand. However, if you believe that "real interest rates" (ie subtracting inflation) will be zero for a long time, I can concur -- currently they are negative.
Surface Pro 3 lapability test https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvNSVjI02wI

Looks fine.
> I really think this is the future of computing. I mean why bother having a desktop or laptop if you can use your personal device, plug it into different things and get the full experience as if you had a laptop or desktop?

And when you need to make or receive a call? Pull out the bluetooth earpiece (yet another fiddly thing to carry around)? I'd rather just have a tablet and a phone and I think most people would agree.
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That kind of caching is actually extremely rare in my experience. It's difficult to set up for all but the most simple static sites, and since it isn't available by default the vast majority of sites don't bother.

The times I've implemented full-page caching (generally using Varnish) I've set it up so nginx runs in front of Varnish handling SSL termination, which means that I still have SSL support even though I'm serving through a cache.
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This paper shows how there's negative affects from free trade with China, and your conclusion is "oh it was negative with China, but all those other free trade deals were positive"? Sorry, but NAFTA was a massive job killer. Just ask anyone in Detroit.

Also, the idea that China has no regulation on business is ridiculous. Obviously you've never worked there!
According to the about page, the author is an engineer at a startup and is on sabbatical. That feels weird given the criticisms leveled in the piece.

FWIW I live in New York and prefer it massively to SV, but I mean....
I mean, if I am developing an app for millions of users - I would hope there is at least 1 engineer on the team that understands O(n) vs O(n^2).

If the app is for 10 users or for the other 75% of employees, may be less important...
The author complains about that behavior, labeling it a sign of how 'spoiled' engineers are. The author also engages in this behavior. Pointing this out, and labelling it hypocrisy, does not constitute an ad hominem attack. Because what the author has done is the definition of hypocrisy.
Toronado has $5 pints of Pliny. So no, the author's totally off mark.
Today the Q4 2015 GDP number came in at 0.69% only, so for the short term this may actually be coming true!
Help me understand how what you're doing allows me to spot which Bishop Fox testers are "actually good"?

I'm not talking about "big security giants" like IBM and Deloitte. I'm talking about boutique application security firms that do little other than test software. They're already specialized.
Yes, but again you're talking about 3-4% nominal GDP growth not real growth (which will be less due to inflation).

If you want to pay for something using nominal growth you have to also accept the nominal growth in the cost. So in 20 years you will be able to fund 15,930 per year but that won't be enough anymore because that number will have risen.
No, it's not the same as a distributed system with master/slave nodes. The child nodes can function entirely in isolation from the parent. If you wanted to, you could treat another coworker's node as your master and download/upload to that. It's usually easier to have a tree structure where the root is your master repo, its children are your build servers or whatever, and the leaves are development machines. But that's entirely reconfigurable.

It's not surprising at all that if you make a master repo at the root of the tree, and it goes down, then you can't communicate it. But it doesn't prohibit any communication between other nodes, or re-wiring the tree, and it definitely doesn't inherently block development work on any of the other nodes.

It just so happens, though, that people's build scripts and package managers like to refresh packages from the root and don't handle failures modes of that operation very well. That's the only place problems emerge - besides the obvious fact that if your public releases of software go through the root, and the root is down, then you can't release until it's up. But you could easily make a new root if you wanted to.
The investor who is more concerned with the public good than solely her own ROI.
I recently moved from Windows Phone to Android because of the Windows 10 Mobile OS. It was pushed to my phone for some reason and it completely broke wifi calling. Aside from that, the OS itself is now clunky and I think even calling it "half-baked" is being extremely generous.

It's unfortunate, because I thought WP8 was awesome. Definitely my favorite experience of any mobile OS.
As an experienced Canadian developer who is seeking a work visa to work in the US, it is actually extremely difficult to get one.

It seems as though the US prioritizes shit-developers/wannabe-engineers over experienced Canadian developers. Which kind of makes sense, in that you feed your own before feeding your neighbour.

So I really doubt that H1B flooding is a thing. Open to debate though.
... And the Royal Navy don't forget.
I believe the market is inefficient, but what I don't understand is how something like this is likely to make it more efficient.

This is, for what it's worth, my field; I co-founded Matasano and helped run it until we sold to NCC.
Im thinkning of moving to München, this might be another reason too. A Heiniken 33cl beer in Stockholm costs around 12 USD if you are at a nightclub, otherwise around 10 USD.
>Every food item has to be locally sourced and organic, which seems more important than taste and quality.

Ummm... that's the point?
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Years ago, I met a French woman who had decided to take up residence in Berlin. She told me that the city's unofficial motto was "poor but sexy".
Funny, there's other products like cars throughout the years that were manufactured entirely in America and amazingly most people could afford to buy them - not just the 1%.

The idea that without free trade with China only the 1% would be able to afford smartphones is total nonsense.
It could be an awful way of saying he prefers maintenance to new development.
One has to keep in mind that there is no cloud. It's just someone else's computer.
No, that only applies to green card applications through work. General work visas don't usually have this restriction.
It would be interesting to see a breakdown by all races and country of origin, I will grant you that.

That would be in addition to this article, not in opposition to it, however. The lack of success of black people and women in tech is PROOF that there isn't diversity, at least not for those groups; it isn't just some narrative. Even if, say, Southeast Asians are doing well, that doesn't change the fact that the groups that the article is talking about aren't.

0.12% for a group that you would expect to have about 6.50% in based on overall population is indicative of a problem.
Ugh, don't feed the troll.
Why use AWS, GCE or any other virtualization provider? I suspect for some subset of companies the answer is the same.

Relying on Github is not the problem, relying on Github to be available 24/7 is. Github provides a free master node for your eventually consistent database needs, where the database is git. The eventual portion is key here.
I don't see any reason to assume the free market will solve those problems- the local markets are doing just fine with the rich (spoiled?) part of the population, and have little to no incentive to change; dumb startups are doing just fine as VC fodder; bad engineers are doing fantastic at making CRUD apps for startups that don't need anything fancier.
Seems like this should have triggered the dupe warning?
OP probably should have said _purchaser_.
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Many jurisdictions in the US have protected titles such as "professional engineer" or "licensed engineer." IEEE's position is that "engineer" is an available title for people who have graduated with a degree from an ABET or EAC accredited engineering program and the legally protected titles should remain protected.
Haha nice catch. I missed it originally thinking it would just be more marketing crap. So, they probably just moved it before detonating. Not sadistic bastards after all.
> People are spoiled

I recall when I was in SF in 1999, limo after limo pulling up to what was a pretty ordinary club. I didn't really care how people pissed their money away, but it seemed so bizarre and so detached from reality. I was glad to get out of there.
It still shocks me that Europe hasn't yet built a response to SF. Sure, London's a tech hub, but not anywhere close to SF.

Eastern europe has a lot of talented engineers, but lacks capital and know-how on building an international business, places are cheap to live in and so on.
$sql = "select * from user where username='".$_COOKIE['username']."'";

Came across this last year... have seen variations of it over the last 15+ years, but saw it in 'new' code last summer. :/
I'm confused. At least in this subthread we are discussing just the sabbatical part here, not the general economic inequality. Are you saying that someone who has enough money to take a sabbatical is doing it on the backs of uber drivers and grocery deliverers?
I did, but unless the whole video was a fake it doesn't really matter does it? And if it is then that does not reflect well on HP either...
If 99% of the contractors on the planet were using screwdrivers as hammers, the 1% are the ones using the proper tool for their job.

Consensus =/= Fact in every scenario.
There are lots of things that every cancer must do. Read one of Bob Weinberg's "hallmarks of cancer" papers for an overview. Telomeres are just one thing. They must also activate growth signalling, evade the immune system, promote vascularization, repress tumor suppression mechanisms or otherwise avoid apoptosis or senescence, etc. All of these are valid targets for therapy, and most of them have been tried.
Because a Californian individual and a California based company pays federal taxes which leads directly to a more stable financial situation for the country you live in, not to mention a higher likelihood of tax cuts etc.

Also, what evidence do you have that trade with Chinese will improve the welfare of those around you?
I think calling it a common pitfall might be the most descriptive. I've certainly made the mistakes the article mentions, but I'd never have considered it a pattern. To me a pattern in this context is a repeated practice, workflow or solution.
Glancing through the comments, it looks like the troll has succeeded. SF bashing has begun.

You don't have to move here, so chill out, people.
Check out the DX racer chairs

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Price is not very low, but you get what you pay for!

I really like the lower back support on some of the chairs.
The reason free markets are great isn't their speed (though they are often faster than your average politician); it's the self-regulating nature of it.
You don't have to tell people to stop buying overly-expensive food, nor do you have to tell the food stores to cut their prices. Over time, they each realize that the higher price isn't working; the customer buys elsewhere (either across the street or aceoss the state), and the grocery store lowers its prices until people decide that it's worth it again.

Companies don't have to be told to improve, either, not when their competitors are improving and eating market space. At least, that's how it works in theory. A lot of industries have turned into demilitarized zones, both sides opposed but neither making a move. Telecom is the best example of how bad this gets.
I think this is impressive but it will see even larger growth when businesses start adopting them in lieu of the standard Dell laptops.
This isn't a money issue. Nathan Myhrvold commissioned the machine to live in his house. After loaning it to the Computer History Museum for longer than originally planned, he's taking it for private display (as originally intended).

He's worth $650m plus, so there's likely no amount of money that would convince him to leave the machine in the museum.
Thanks for the tip -- yea, I have go-plus installed. It is helpful, but still isn't ideal to have to save the file in the middle of trying to initialize a slice.
>Hmm... tell that to Trump, the frontrunner for one of your two parties.

Trump's politics are reactionary, and play on a fear that the demographics and culture of the US are becoming too open and "meritocratic." His success is actually a sign that this phenomenon exists, and that people are terrified of it.
The free market is great if you're wealthy... yes
Agreed that it definitely depends on where you live. I don't, but could, take an Uber/Lyft for my commute everyday and it would cost about $5-$7, whereas a ride on SF public transit would take $2.25 and + 10-20 extra minutes.
The navy tried to pull out of the program at one point, Robert Gates yanked the leash hard to keep them in line.
I'm the same way, the only app I use is a poker app. I'd probably go back to a windows phone especially if it saved me money.
Not sure how a simple statement of, "I was a full-time employee of company XYZ until I was laid off, with severance, after training my H1B contractor replacement," is at all disparaging. It is simply a statement of fact.
"It just so happens, though, that people's build scripts and package managers like to refresh packages from the root and don't handle failures modes of that operation very well. "

That's the critical part. So, countering this risk is apparently a manual thing if one uses off-the-shelf tooling for Git. I'll just have to remember to look at that if I do a deployment. Put it on a checklist or something.
Watch 'The Prestige'.
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Rust's package manager doesn't source packages from GitHub (though it will pull packages from a git repo if you ask it to), the source for its index of packages is a git repository on GitHub. https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index
I'm not in the "plug my ears and yell FREE MARKETS" camp, but markets do tend to be a pretty robust solution to many problems even in the face of some imperfections. That's the key point: you never deal with a perfect world, with either markets, or some kind of government intervention.
Both the post's title and the linked article's thesis aren't supported by the evidence. The article first proclaims the unanimous agreement among economists about the benefits of free trade. It then dives into the details of one study who seems to contradict this consensus, and then proclaims that no real consensus exists, and even if it did exist, it's wrong.

2 things:

First, a couple of economists disagreeing with the mainstream, among the thousands of economic researchers, does not break a consensus. If we were to wait for unanimous agreement before embarking on any policy, we would never get anywhere. As the author himself admitted, there is a very strong and prevelent belief among economists that free trade is good for America and for the world in general. That should be good enough, despite a few dissenters believing differently.

Second, the study linked does not disagree with the consensus at all! All the study claims, is that a small portion of the population has not benefited from free trade. With any substantive public policy, this will always be the case. Imagine if California declared tomorrow that only people who've lived in CA for 5 years can work as programmers. Such a policy would be horrendously bad for Americans and Californians in general. But it sure would make life great for a small number of unemployed programmers who are currently living in California.

And so it is with free trade as well. It may benefit some and not benefit others, but the overall economic benefits far outweigh the costs, both for Americans and for the world in general. Even when considering those not benefiting from globalization, we can and should help them better by using the increased economic rewards that come from free trade, to build a better social safety net and education/training program for the unemployed. That would the positive step forward, not walking down the destructive path of protectionism.
So its a bubble. What do you do about it? Move?
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Microsoft is (finally) winning with Windows 10 and the cloud
I would rather have too many startups then not enough - I am from Detroit and we would love a more entrepreneurial environment and more investment capital.
All sorts of other dependencies go down though. Packages you need for your build aren't there. CI or testing integrations don't happen. Code review is probably not happening. If you track issues in GH you can't see what's next to work on or look up requirements.

You're right in that you're (probably) not totally deadlocked. But I can't start to estimate the lost $$ in productivity that comes with a global GH outage because of all that.
> This is why the free market is so great.

I don't disagree with the points you made. But there is nothing free market about the housing market in San Francisco.
To stay with wacky imagery, using Word to do high-quality publishing work is like carving wood with a spoon. It's kinda possible, but takes unnecessarily long, you'll break your tool a few times and the end result doesn't look all that great.

(It's actually used in many publishing workflows, but for the early stages, where all you want is a rich text editor with the ability to do diffs. Typography and layout is done later with different tools)
Many proponents of free trade argue that we should be pro free trade because it benefits the poor people in places like China. The OP is referring to that argument.

As for why this study didn't focus on the benefits - maybe because there weren't any? Or maybe it's because the benefits mostly went to the executives of large multinational corporations who are lobbying for these deals?
No cats and traps remember? The only plane HMS White Elephant can carry is the F35, unless we re-open the Harrier factory...
I bit the bullet and got an Aeron with attachable head rest. My wife thought I was nuts for spending that much on a chair, but it's completely worth it since I work from home.
What an extreme simplification and absurd push-under-the-rug statements.

I'm glad we could stand by free-market narratives while we waste untold amounts of capital on nothing.
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Yes, but it seems that everyone thinks that this is the "Parse Server" being released. It's not, it's just an open source compatible API.

It's important because a lot of the powerful features of Parse aren't included in the new open source server (analytics, config, push). Saying that Parse is open-source seems to imply that these powerful features are available.
>something called transcription, which involves 200,000 rRNA (ribosomal DNA) molecules. Then this rDNA is involved in making 10 million proteins through 10,000 different pathways.

I'm curious how this elementary error crept in here (he means mRNA, not rRNA, and rDNA is not a thing). Poor editing? A gap in the education of the good doctor?
It should be absolutely illegal to place any kind of condition on severance pay.
I wonder if a desktop CNC mill like the Othermill (claimed precision 0.001 in) would be a better fit than a 3D printer.
I know you're half joking, but if you really don't have a feeling (or actual understanding) of the units of the metric system you should spend some time acquiring that knowledge. There are reasons that 95% of the world and the entire scientific community uses it.