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> After more than 20 years as an electronics engineer, Pete Edwards reached the low six-figure pay level.

Where is it that late-career engineers are barely pulling in six figures? Don't get me wrong, it's a lot of money (3x mean personal income in the US, and ~1.75x mean HHI, give or take), but I'd expect most senior folks in any engineering field to be in the mid 100k range if not pushing 185ish.

> Time and again, he says, employers seem to lose interest after he answers a question that they ask early on: “What was your last salary?”

Your last salary has absolutely no bearing on what you are worth or what the market rate is for the position for which you're applying. You have absolutely nothing to gain by sharing a previous salary.

> A survey by AARP last year found that of job seekers between 45 and 70 years old who found work after a spell of unemployment, nearly half earned less than before.

I don't think this is that surprising, is it? If I make $100k and lose my job, often with little notice, I will take $80k. If I make $100k and leave of my own volition, it's unlikely I'll entertain anything below $110 or $115.
How long was ST2 in beta? I discovered ST when ST3 was in beta, but very stable and that was years ago now.
If you want more mainstream, CNN says the FBI staged 30 attacks since 2001. [0]

[0] http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/03/opinions/terrorists-confidants...
They might think it costs less, but I argue that's misleading. You need to factor in the mistakes, the longer training, slower adaptation, inefficiency, and a client's growing dissatisfaction with the product because of it all.
You can usually take 96kSps from a sound card, much more than 20kSps, but still around a thousand of times less than a normal oscilloscope. And you can measure signals with less than 20Hz too. You can't generate them, but can measure.

There are also restrictive voltage limits, variable latency, and lost of readings due to the non-realtime nature of the OS to deal with.

But where sound cards shine is on precision. If you can even find it, an oscilloscope with 24 bits resolution costs tens of thousands of dollars. A 32 bits sound card is a couple hundred. Although, for showing it at the screen, 8 bits are often good enough.
Type 2 doesn't need new biotech. Simple fasting works so well that you have to wonder at the vast numbers of people suffering unnecessarily because they don't just try this. Not becoming obese in the first place works even better, of course.

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-13887909
That reminds me of 'Truman Sleeps' from the Truman Show played, again, very slowly. It's a bit creepy... but I like to listen to it when I'm studying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH2i-Qxxpec
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That's probably wise, I really should do the same. My important stuff is in git with a remote repository, but losing all my configuration and setup would still not be great.
This is Github open-sourcing an internal tool, which is something they have a long history of doing (Jekyll, Resque, Hubot).

Most dev shops have a whole bunch of things like this -- assorted libraries and internal tools that are 80-90% of the way to being somewhat useful to the public. It's fantastic that Github provides the time/space/expectation for employees to finish them.
Bad attempt at humor. Very low hanging.
To add to your comment, he took an enormous amount of data. It was sweeping and pretty indiscriminate. And he gave it to the media.

Some of what he took and shared could be legitimately argued as whistle blowing but there's lots of other classified data about legitimate programs that was taken as well.
> Where is it that late-career engineers are barely pulling in six figures?

Almost everywhere in the Midwest, except Chicago perhaps.

Unless your remote working, low cost of living doesn't come without a big catch.
Moving from engineer in financial industry to engineer in "regular" industry (same city) I just accepted and told potential employers I expected a pay cut. Sooo much money in finance, everyone is "over" paid.
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1 Gbps is copper speeds from 10+ years ago though. Current fast last mile fiber would be 40g ethernet. Here's a NIC to go with that:http://www.hpcwire.com/2015/07/27/new-enhancements-boost-che...
I know next to nothing about this sort of stuff, but when I was in Nepal even the best stuff was incredibly low quality compared to Californian stuff. I think in California, we spend a lot of time cultivating and perfecting cannabis.
Not a single mention of "Demon Seed"? Shameful.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075931/

http://www.aycyas.com/liz_ds.htm
Just sent you one. Have a nice weekend,.
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Palemoon

I've been a happy user of it more many years.

Once you use it, you'll wish you'd found it sooner ;)
I have a lot of seething anger for Autodesk. They have managed to achieve mindshare lockin for so many people when doing certain tasks (primarily AutoCAD variations), but their pricing is horrible on budgets. $210 monthly cost for a single Autocad license?!

Thankfully, avoidance of their ecosystem has pushed me further into Blender which I am loving more and more, but on the business side I still quietly mumble curses at them.
This explains the motivation of the US intelligence community in calling the police, yes. But It doesn't explain the willingness of the people of the nation to abet his prosecution.

To take your analogy and apply it more accurately:

Can you imagine one of your customers permitting a developer to walk away with the entire code repository that demonstrates massive violations of US law and internal strategy docs about how they intend to violate those laws without shutting him up permanently?
I like how the Panopticon concept is complemented by the Synopticon one, as in "many watches few". It's close to the "sousveillance" concept.

What may save us from a dystopic totalitarism is the freedom and agency we get through our devices and networks. Certainly software freedom, use of cryptography and uncensored, inclusive basic communications infrastructures are needed.
I find recruiters hurt this more than help it too. If you tell them your last salary, they'll just try to get enough % more to make it worth the transition.
I always assumed it was just best practice to not drive up anyone's rear end due to the issue of stopping distance. I never thought about it as regulating traffic flow.
I think you're right there is a tipping point. I do feel that there is a flex point where drivers change recreational driving but they will still need to get to work and the grocery store. They won't go on fun trips though.
Yes, that's my understanding of the implementation as well. I was commenting on the fact that you might have two totally unrelated p1 and p2, where (hash(p1) % SIZE_OF_POOL) == (hash(p2) % SIZE_OF_POOL), that will end up sharing the same mutex.
What?! Team America: World Police isn't anti-American or pro-American. It is a satirical caricature of the U.S. It's grossly exaggerated, maybe, but it isn't false.

As an American, I'd say it does a great job at lampooning the way America sees itself and how America sees other countries.

Those guys chanting "U-S-A! U-S-A!" at international sporting events? In their hearts, they're singing "America: F--- Yeah!"... or at least some Lee Greenwood.
You could ban the things he's done, and throw him in jail if he does them again. You can't throw him in jail based on new laws for things he's already done (post-hoc law), or based merely on who he is (bill of attainder).
In addition to the efficiency concerns, France should be thinking about the conflict minerals that are likely in these solar panels. I am supportive of efforts to reduce energy consumption and alternative more environmentally friendly energy sources. And it's exciting to hear about new solutions for energy that appear affordable. But I am hesitant to use technologies that use conflict minerals. Before we make decisions about buying innovative products like solar cells, we need greater awareness about the materials they use and where they are coming from.
I like the idea of this service and I remember when another one launched on HN a few months ago.

I do wonder however how sustainable these services are given that others have shutdown.

Also your 2nd image on the site is a low resolution image that has been stretched out.
I'm not sure I get what you mean by arbitrary 3d environment, but I know BT's album "This Binary Universe" is composed for 5.1, and the first track "All That Makes Us Human Continues" is written entirely in CSound.
No, it's Chicago too, unless you're working on low-latency finance stuff.
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Calling the iot a robot is a bit clumsy. This label will do the opposite of the intent, the prudent exposition of the iot as the largest unobtrusive surreptitious surveillance system of all. total information awareness come true.

Labeling it as a robot will rather make people discount the idea. "A robot? That man's crazy. Little things interconnected do not make a godzilla-like world stomping and destroying robot! Nuts!"

To be sure, putting all your industrial scada equipment on the public net could result in consequences similar to having a Godzilla running amok.
If vim is different from sublime, then sublime must, by definition, be different from vim.

Parent is saying that vim is a 70's paradigm and people not stuck in the past enjoy the modern paradigm that sublime follows.
Companies that hire like this will typically be the first to layoff employees when shareholders are not happy. They often struggle to meet customer expectations over time. This is particularly true if they have never ending layers of management going up the chain. That's why startup culture is so appealing to many.
"I think you've touched on something key: people's acceptance of bugs is often outweighed by the new features they get. In other words, if the "new functionality" is perceived to outweigh the costs of the lack of reliability, the product will be deemed "less buggy" because people "understand" why there are issues."

Right - which is why we have all of the snow leopard nostalgia: because none of the newer releases have given us anything substantive that we really needed to justify the hassle and the bugs.

I am trying to think of something - anything - that compels me to upgrade SL on my mac pro, and all I can think of is that nifty take-a-picture-of-your-signature in the Preview app that you can then insert into PDF documents.

Ok, and maybe USB3 ?

That's all I can think of.
Could be in the uk. Tech jobs get sparse once you go over £60k outside London.
Physically the same model batteries have been used on several generations of the ThinkPads. The actual change was from the 55+/55++ battery generation to the 70+/70++ battery generation with the 2012 laptops.

Per a Lenovo staff member in their forums [1],
"The machine will boot (with a warning message displayed by BIOS and by Power Manager), and it will even discharge the unauthenticated battery. The issue is that the machine will not charge the unauthenticated battery. With many of the new systems supporting RapidCharge where you can get to 80% charge in 30 minutes, it is just too dangerous to try to charge someone's aftermarket ebay battery."

[1] https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-P-and-W-Series-Mobile/...
That's weird, worked for me.
This one? http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
The tendency to talk about salary upfront is a good one for both sides - it avoids wasting everyone's time when the expectations simply don't align.

It does need to be mutual though. I expect employers to include some salary guidance in a job ad. And if they claim to offer market rates, I expect them to live up to that.
I think you could make an argument that many of the people who are loud advocates for gun rights don't understand the nuances of what Snowden did. Many gun advocates are an odd mix of "f the government" and "US is the best!"

I just started subsistence hunting this year, so I own a gun and I want to keep the ability to hunt. I have zero concerns that the US government will "take away" my hunting rifle. But I'd love to see handguns and assault weapons under much tighter control. I think there's a middle ground between "no guns" and "you can own any gun you want". But not many people look for the middle ground right now, and most of our prominent politicians couldn't even give an accurate description of the what the term "middle ground" really means.
Is RCU better suited for this ?
Yes, I'll make a followup blog post on this, but basically all your other config files are generated from configuration.nix as well. They try to have sane defaults, so that's why the default configuration file is so small. Near the bottom of the blog post I define systemd units. Those are turned into SystemD configuration files which are put in the right location so systemd sees them, NixOS does that for everything. For example my IRC client (irssi) is configured using a Nix configuration file as well.
Then you failed unless you're talking about defending against people that aren't hackers or have no resources. Going against nation-states, your foundation and security at each layer are probed for weaknesses. Any complex, mainstream platform or application they usually have 0-days for already. So, you have to avoid all that by default. Here's a list of methods of knocking out risk and where to apply them:

http://pastebin.com/y3PufJ0V

You gotta go back to the drawing board. Also, best to leverage components you know they can't beat or have trouble with. GPG and Tor are only two I remember them mentioning by name in leaks as stopping them from reading and tracing respectively. Build a user-friendly tool around that or use its key code in your app to get leverage. Avoid anything they hack easily.
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Malware back then was usually pranks. Today it's mostly run by organized crime. Money changes everything.

I wrote DOS viruses when I was fifteen or sixteen. Most of them didn't do anything or did silly little pranks, but it's how I learned X86 ASM.
I was trying to find the source of where I got that bash script from, but couldn't, and then forgot about it within the editing window.

I'll try to find it and provide that feedback. Thanks!
Exactly. Most of them are analysts with no sense of the tech or big picture.
How's the reliability story going, nowadays? Especially around layed filesystems.
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I think he did try the "appropriate channels" but nothing happened.
For the longest time I had this tickle in my memory when I crossed Armitage in Chicago and it finally dawned on me...
That's a great counterpoint to their methods. I'll add that to my list of stuff to use if I get to face off with a FBI or NSA director on TV. Long shot there but gotta be ready anyway. ;)
But it goes the other way, too.

I've been contacted by many many recruiters offering interesting jobs but won't discuss the salary range targeted for that position. So how much time are you willing to spend on resume polishing, phone screens, on-site interviews, getting to an offer...just to find out that they can't even come close to your current salary?

So now I just flat out say what my jump-number is. Any answer other than "yeah, we can work with that" is a reason to end the conversation and save everybody's time.
The DOJ cannot in fact lawfully fly into other countries to capture escaping fugitives! If Snowden is in Denmark, they need the cooperation of the government of Denmark to take custody of him.
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I think people who come to Alaska tend to be the type who prefer the quiet serenity and privacy that comes with a house in the middle of a large lot in the woods. It offers a level of autonomy you would be hard pressed to find elsewhere in the world.

Thanks for hearing me out. Ultimately Alaska will have to change and move off of oil exports. I hope it is done gradually. The consequence of this will likely be a smaller population. We can export fish, natural gas etc and grow more things locally to improve our trade deficit.
Good that you two were wise enough to mention the only two that slowed and stopped NSA in the leaks. Keep it up at every opportunity. ;)
Absolutely. To quote a fictional Charles Manson quoting 1990s UPN, "If I haven't seen it, it's new to me!" I'm probably going to replace our existing drag/drop solution at work with Dragula since it is much superior, but if this wasn't posted today I would not have even thought to even look for it.
I don't believe it is the case that US law enforcement agents can go into Mexico and arrest people. Can anyone clarify this?
As someone who's regularly on the other side of the hiring (i.e. negotiating with candidates), I often prefer to have some insight into a candidate's rough salary requirements early in the process -- especially if it's someone that might demand more than I could offer. The hiring process is a huge time commitment for both me and the candidate -- I don't want all that time to be wasted if we could identify early on that it's not going to be a good fit.

I wouldn't necessarily walk away from a candidate who wouldn't share approximate salary requirements early on in the process but it would probably be an added red flag if it was someone where I already had this concern.
What? No, this is 2016. You're looking for 1986. Your time machine is miscalibrated. But when you get there, they're gonna love your Polish and Aggie jokes too.
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WebOS had the AWESOME phone: Palm Pre

I really wanted this phone, but I was skeptical as to whether it could make a big enough dent given Apple and Android.

The card system that Google now uses IIRC was because one of the designers left WebOS and joined Google.
Piracy on HN. wags finger
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Because of Facebook Work I think.

https://work.fb.com/
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Giving away 50-million books to poor kids (forgive me for generally speaking for Los Angeles) is a fantastic contribution! It will promote English language reading and better prepared children.
Someone should fly to Notch's fancy offices in Stockholm and convince him distribution channels are way more interesting than his next demo.
Good tips but GPG gives a nice default. We know laypeople following basic advice successfully stopped NSA collection from reading their messages per Snowden leaks. So, the pitfalls are far lower than the benefits. Sure, they might get hit with a 0-day, be profiled or whatever. Sure they can improve.

You're post just came off as unnecessary negative on what was one of only two recommendations that worked consistently per the leaks. Anyone reading it wouldn't have known about its successes and would've assumed people just got busted all the time with it.
> When are we going to start demanding devices that are untethered from a mothership and run from home computers?

When "we" understand the value of Free and Open Source Software.

Some do, some don't, some don't yet, some never will.
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Original: http://www.digikey.com/en/articles/techzone/2015/oct/wireles...
I'll take one! Email's in my profile. Thanks!
Gmail, why is Slack eating your lunch?
All the hard work's done by Keybase ;) - I just used their API to resolve usernames on other services; scraped users' directory for .txt and.md files (nothing in API, yet at least), and then just loaded the text from response body of the file's URL.
> It does need to be mutual though.

No it doesn't. The hiring company needs to be upfront, but the candidate doesn't. The company has a budget range set for the position whereas the candidate is asking the question 'Am I willing to do this job for the money they are offering me.'
Depending on what "electronics engineer" means it is perfectly viable that he was at a low six figure number. The electrical engineering field generally in the US has been dramatically outsourced to Asia which has caused obvious downward price pressure.
From the article:

"In Nevada, according to Politico, barbers need more than two years of training to qualify for a license; that’s a high bar to anyone looking to break into the business."

Is it possible that 2 years is a bit more than what's needed to achieve your desires? If so, if big enough, that additional requirement is "too much" rent seeking.
> This is key for iteration.

This is key for everything in life. If you can't or won't change your opinion, you are necessarily stuck with the sometimes poor initial choices you make. Over-investment in the process over the result is problem in many places.
They teach the transformation is at the "substance" level, instead of the "accident" level.

From one of the Wikipedia cited sources[1]

> the "substance" of the bread and wine is changed by the power of the Holy Spirit into the "substance" of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. At the same time, the "accidents" or appearances of bread and wine remain. "Substance" and "accident" are here used as philosophical terms that have been adapted by great medieval theologians such as St. Thomas Aquinas in their efforts to understand and explain the faith. Such terms are used to convey the fact that what appears to be bread and wine in every way (at the level of "accidents" or physical attributes - that is, what can be seen, touched, tasted, or measured) in fact is now the Body and Blood of Christ (at the level of "substance" or deepest reality). This change at the level of substance from bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ is called "transubstantiation."

[1]http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/the-mass/order-of-ma...
Sounds like the bubble is bursting.

The established companies whose valuation was based on multiples of future growth are taking the hit, getting in line with more traditional multiples of current revenue.
Why value tangible benefits over intangible ones?

Calling it an illusion implies that air travel is not safe, when in fact it is very safe. However, people did not feel safe, so the government constructed an agency (perhaps deliberately, perhaps not) to provide security theater and help people feel safe.

In general, American citizens today are safe from terrorism. If anything, the greatest danger comes not from terrorists themselves but from the American peoples' unjustified fear of terrorism. We could use some more security theater.
I work in the engineering department of a large electrical utility company. Although no one here really talks about salary, based on what I am paid and our corporate promotion schedule I assume that most late career engineers are in the very low $100k range. The only people exceeding that would be the managers of the engineering department.
The bitter irony is that Chicago already tries very hard to ban guns.
Well, there's Homan Square in Chicago for one...

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-polic...
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Recruiter here. I think: "The moral of the story: never, never, NEVER answer questions about your salary to a recruiter." is pretty simplistic and naive. You simply have to figure out how to get what you want. If you want 180 and currently make 140 and a recruiter asks what you make, just say something like "my expectation for my next role is around 180". You say that and you both probably get what you want and save a lot of back and forth.
Everyone is taking a hit right now, but especially companies priced on growth that have been unable to meet their numbers (LinkedIn just had a bad quarter and released lower guidance). It's a really bad time to not meet your numbers.
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