skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you think you discover 30 albums per year worth buying and adding to your collection? I listen to a lot of music, and I certainly don't.

How do you discover albums/songs?

I simply don't have the time I used to to spend "discovering" music. I used spend a lot of time combing through DJ record pools (a habit I got from DJing many years ago when I subscribed to some) and using that to find stuff I'd like, in addition to terrestrial radio, going to clubs/bars, finding stuff on YouTube, and just randomly hearing music "in the wild".

I've been doing streaming services for the past few years now (one at time, but I've done several). Most of the streaming services make it easy to customize playlists, or turn a playlist into a "radio" station that plays similar songs (but that's still customizable), and I've found this is an awesome way for me to discover music. I've found a ton of stuff that I otherwise wouldn't have known about (and I think I spend less time per new song/album/artist I find and like vs what I used to spend listening to record pools).

I started using some of the free (versions of) services, then switched to paid to get unlimited skips and offline support for my phone.

I also used to spend a lot of time copying music around and keeping it refreshed: SD card for my car, MP3s on my laptop/iPod to bring to work or travelling, and main collection on my server for the living room HTPC or my personal PC. All of that is obsolete, I just stream everything and with zero effort, have the same playlists everywhere. I use my phone + bluetooth in my car. I do have some stuff downloaded (and auto-refreshing) on my phone for travelling, but I stopped worrying about it because I'm generally way under my data cap while streaming (no doubt thanks to caching).

For the past year and a half, I've been using Google Play Music. Killer feature there is I can 'upload' any song/album I already own and it's seamlessly integrated into the service -- which means I can listen on any device, and some songs even show up on other radio stations I've created.

I'm not totally okay with not 'owning' the stuff, but I feel I am getting decent value for what I pay, and that includes my ability to just listen to music. If the service I use shuts down or changes significantly, I'll reconsider my relationship with the music industry at that point.
I really agree with this. As a business owner, I definitely find if I'm talking to someone good and they confidently state a number that's above my intended range (but not completely nuts) I'll start thinking along the lines of how I could make that work, or at least make an offer that wouldn't be completely out of their expected range. It only works if you're someone they really want to hire though, and if you know what's a good amount to ask for. If I'm at all on the fence about someone and they quote a crazy high number, there isn't much point in continuing. (Whereas if they'd held off, perhaps they could have convinced me they were worth hiring, and then negotiate a bit.) But if you're a great candidate, anchoring high can definitely be a good move.
>Got the ability to think up new ideas, sell them within an organisation, and get them executed (hello 'doer') in a way that provides value to that organisation?

No one can "have" this ability because it's transient. Unless you control the entire corporation (in which case you don't need to influence anyone else anyway), there is always someone who can come in and break your previously-perfect ability to "sell" your ideas inside the org. You're claiming that artful politicians (or, more blatantly, "good bullshit artists") are more valuable than skilled engineers. I don't believe that.
That's because he's talking to you. He's not gonna tell you he despises you to your face.

But secretly he wonders: "why does he get more than me, im smarter than him!!".

This is then bottled up under 10 psi of pressure until the perfect moment when the slightest thing sets it off and creates a scene in the office.
Reddit hasn't been too successful as a company? I'd imagine their estimated value is at least 100 million.
I honestly don't know why I'm so worried to post from my main account since I don't work there any more, but I am, but here was my salary. I only worked there for 12 months as an SDEII, part of my package involved being relocated from a different continent.

My compensation was as follows:
Year 1: 122,000 + 28,000 bonus + Relocation + a lot of other benefits.
After that, the base assumably would have went up, but the bonuses I was given were 250 AMZN rsu's 5% after one year anniversary, 15% on the second anniversary, 20% each 6 months after.

Amazon does an amazing job of woo-ing people and making attractive offers, unfortunately they don't put the same effort into retaining their staff.
Racism at Squarespace
Another reason to use Unix tools like sed and awk (and grep and sort and...) is that, if you just need to iterate over all your data and don't need a random-access index, they are really really fast.
Google
San Francisco
Test Engineer III (level 4)
~130k base, 15% annual bonus target, w/ stock around ~200k annual total compensation
*non-native speaker

I do have a decade of industry experience. Also my 1 bedroom apartment rent is going to be 2900/month this year (annual lease was 2600/month last year, they raised it by 300 because fuck you where are you going to live, it's 2800/month across the street and do you really want to get roommates in your 30s?)
I actually don't really agree. From all the medium-large sized business I've been on the inside of, as both a consultant and employee, it seems that a lot of people have a lot of pretty OK ideas about how to fix things within the org and where to take the products. In general, excluding a few noobs and whack-jobs, these ideas seem to be about as viable and plausible as the ideas that actually do get pushed down.

The valuable thing in a big company isn't the idea; it's the way the idea is executed. You'd be amazed what kind of nonsensical ideas will work if your team gets it just right.
Most of the research on the introversion / extraversion workplace effects very strongly focuses on the spectrum aspect, and decidedly eschews the binarism that has held us back from correctly accommodating human beings at work.
This was near landing, so I assume flaps were deployed. That changes things a bit.
It can stagnate to the point of bugs not having much of an issue staying on the wing during flight. I remember a case when I was flight training where we had a little spider as a passenger on the top of the starboard wing for the duration of the flight. The little guy didn't fall off until the wing stalled out when we were landing.
Internal level. 59 and 60 are SDE I, SDET I and PM I.
You're getting jacked around, interview at Facebook/Google and walk away with piles more cash and guess what no bullshit pagers to carry around either!
He is not working at entry level engineering positions.He mentioned 4 years experience.
I don't think they want the world to see some source code, should it get into the wrong hands, though the repercussions of this work are bound to hit us sometime. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBkT19uH2RQ
Did you read the linked post? The abuse by its peacekeepers is what he cites as his main recent issue with the organization, and he indicates it was foreseeable and directly caused by the cynical and bureaucratic incentives in the UN.
This is impressive.
It is interesting that on this AMA you say both "ideas are worth so little" and "a really compelling idea is more important to us than traction or revenue." Can you elaborate?
Non-metric units... sigh...
':' isn't valid as a command in the fish shell (unless you make an executable named ':' and put it in your path)

user@host ~> :
fish: Unknown command ':'

edit: format
"Quality of life"

But Reno though!!
If you have to perform an out-of-disk sort, buy another hard disk and now it's not out-of-disk anymore. This will suffice for nearly any data set you would ever need to sort.

A 4 TB drive costs about $120, and you'll spend way more than that on software development and extra computers if you do distributed computing when you don't need to.
I'm from the East Island of New Zealand (Australia), we don't tip here and I don't believe tipping in NZ is a thing either. NZ has a minimum wage of $15.25[1], so the delivery bot should be able to feed it's family and pay the rent without tips.

1. http://employment.govt.nz/er/pay/minimumwage/
Is the word "medieval" commonly used to refer to some African time period? My understanding is that the term refers specifically to the Middle Ages, which is a time period in European history, so it wouldn't make any sense to talk about a "medieval capital" in Africa (especially far away from the Mediterranean). The British only annexed Benin in 1897, long after the Middle Ages.
It wasn't just about earnings. $55 million was for economic injuries and $60 million for emotional distress.
Actually, I have a friend who is a SDR enthusiast. Let me ask him.
I've seen Jason critique a lot of pitches. I have to say, it's hard for me to believe your description of the situation is giving the full story.

Yes, Jason probably had some brutally honest feedback about the presentation and how to make it better. But in my experience, his feedback is always spot on.

I've personally been on the receiving end of such feedback, and it can feel harsh at times. But this is one of Jason's greatest strengths: he has the ability to listen to a pitch once and then make it way stronger by improving a few key things. This is why almost all of the pitches at Launch are exceptional.
There are plenty of job markets that support getting a new job without moving.
A few more of this and realistic or not and the FAA will ban any drones in a significant radius of any aerodome effectively ending most drone activity.

The Canadians already did. https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/3h2e8t/for_all_o... you want to fly a drone here in Vancouver, you better get a permit. The fines start at $1000 and they are finding people.
I take the opposite approach. The last time I moved, I made a secure web page that had my current comp package, in detail, and the minimums on my required comp package, in detail. This I sent to every recruiter that had contacted me in the previous 18 months. Scores of them.

Before I would speak to any of them on the phone, I'd get a soft confirmation via e-mail that they had a position that could meet my requirements.

The web page also had information about what areas I was willing to commute to.

I've used variants of this approach for more than 20 years, and it's working exceedingly well.
If you're being super pedantic, sure, but... as far as the typical developer/employee is concerned, it's not relevant.
The Astonishing Simplicity of Everything [video]
I still use J because I think array, or matrix-based languages are a nice fit for the multi-core CPUs and GPUs available for such computations. Wes McKinney of Pandas was/is studying q and J for his current work. There's a reason these languages have been used actuaries and quants to analyze time series, and columnar data. And they're concise which some criticize for readability, but like Math symbols once you know them, they are very powerful.

[1] http://conceptualorigami.blogspot.co.id/2010/12/vector-processing-languages-future-of.html?m=1

[2] https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/category/tools/j/
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Just curious, anyone know what kind of package I could get at Google or equiv? Or am I too old?

I'm a 36 year old associate professor in Statistics at a top 20 international university and I also have extensive coding experience (10+ years professional experience).

I currently make around $100K salary + $80-100K consulting on side. I also bring in more than $100K a year in grant money that I use to pay RAs, etc.

Are there people with similar backgrounds that have made the leap? I'm keen to hear from them.
The gold standard for this is Douglas Adams' readings of the HHGTG books. He was actually a really good narrator. I suppose his BBC Radio experience helped.
When I was hired by Merrill Lynch, in Dublin, they asked for my bank statements for the last ten years in order to verify that I was indeed making what I said. (The only annoying thing was that I had to scan 75 pages... boooring.)
Probably this post: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/

The blog is known for interesting posts on startups and software development from outside the Bay Area filter bubble.
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We need all of them. Keep going until you reach the end.
Does that mean the rest of the digits of pi are not "real," at least according to a realist rather than a Platonic philosophical position on the meaning and nature of mathematics? Seems like you could argue that digits beyond what are needed to render measurement to within one Planck length are meaningless and therefore a kind of fiction... at least if you take that philosophical position.
My original comment is that the 50% of point #2, which is based on this report, is a meaningless number.

Suppose each company had 10 co-founders, and 1 of every co-founder was foreign born. Then by the definition from this report, 100% of all companies would be founded by an immigrant.

Wow! Those immigrants are ambitious to have started every single one of the companies!

Now comes a new report, based on the same data, that says "Immigrants are 10% of founders but 15% of the population". Something's wrong - immigrants are underrepresented as founders. Are they lazy? Discriminated against? Do they face too much adversity?

So, two reports, one which says "foreigners started 100% of all companies" and the other "foreigners are underrepresented as founders", both base on the same data, but giving very different interpretations of the data.

I believe this report was deliberately structured to present the sound bite that "50% of $1B+ companies are founded by immigrants" so that people like you would think it's meaningful. Without knowing the overall founder population, you cannot make a strong conclusion one way or the other. This report does not give those numbers, nor does it make it easy to figure them out myself.

Hence why I say it's a propaganda piece meant to influence people who don't have the time to dig into policy wonk details. Like you.

The rest of your comment unfortunately continues the ill-informed anti-poor and anti-minority viewpoint that I pointed out earlier by adding racist stereotypes.
Ernani Involami (opera singer)
An interactive song lyric visualization app
Candidates don't know this about you and have no a priori reason to trust you or believe it. Since most other corporate negotiators are far more predatory than you, it means candidates are better off adopting a unilateral strategy in which they just believe all negotiators are behaving badly.
Here is an article how precision of Pi could affect trigonometry
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/intel-underesti...
Google just proved how unpredictable artificial intelligence can be
On my phone interview with an US company in 1999, they asked me what salary I wanted. I told them "in my previous remote job, I was making $3.25 an hour; I would like $4". They replied "we'll give you $6". (Romania, Eastern Europe - this was about 8 times the average salary.)

This was the only time someone offered me more than I was asking :)
Yeah, you could see that one coming a mile away...
It is not against the law for employers to reveal salary information. Some people's salaries (government employees for example) are public information by definition. Non profits have to file paperwork which discloses salaries. We talk about actors and athletes salaries all the time. There is also third party employment verification services that salary information is disclosed to by employers. Your employer can use such third party verification services to see if you are lying about your salary or not.
At my old company, I was a "Jr Sysadmin" in title, but really a mid level Syadmin. I started at $42k/yr, then moved up to around $49k/yr. I should be making $55-65k/yr given my certs, experience: 8 years as generalist IT, mostly Windows Sysadmin, some Linux. Familiar with ShoreTel, comfortable with security -- really REALLY want to make a lateral move to it.

I'm also an SME & do reviews for a certain book publisher to see if I think it is worthwhile, accomplishes the goals set out by the author & is technically correct. I'm unfortunately currently unemployed, so things suck, but I have no qualms about sharing my salary, where I think I should be & why.

Yes, I may not be using crazy automation stuff & yes, I need to learn something as ubiquitous as VMWare, but it's not hard. A monkey can do those things. What I want to get into is SCCM & serious Windows automation. It's just, the positions are few & far between :-(
Agreed. I had two different recruiters offer to increase my contract rate when I told them I had accepted another offer. That suggests to me that they're paid amount $X and were offering me $Y < $X, with their commission being the difference.
it's just grammar, not anything horrible
Really? Because people are so honest? Everyone on your team tells lies every single day, I guarantee it.

What you're saying contradicts the common advice to oversell yourself (AKA "fake it til you make it").
Remember the speed differentials involved here. Landing speed for large passenger jets is fast.

Picture a 5-pound drone hitting a stationary plane at 250 miles per hour and ask if the damage would be "negligible".
"ideas are worth so little" .. that's a very broad and dangerous statement for you to make given that people might want to tell you things in confidence.

Obviously, if you have IP, dont apply at YC because they don't think it's worth anything.
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I don't want to be rude, but at that salary is it easy to survive, or hard? Do you rent, or own a home? That salary can buy you a castle out in Texas, Florida, or anywhere else. Looking for anything beyond that (IT Director in Santa Monica makes $180k, maybe more depending on where it is) -- at that amount of pay, not only are you close to being a dreaded top 1% person, you're getting paid out the butt for what everyone else already does. :|
> Something that comes to my mind is the use of this for dubbing movies and TV series

One of the references towards the end of the video mentions using this for translation, so that's definitely one of the intended applications.
that was neat
Have you checked out Nextdoor.com? They're squarely in the same space and they've raised nearly $211m.
There was a little bit of unfair comparison. I didn't have to load the data over a busy network connection, and I didn't have to decrypt the data once it was loaded (I had the benefit of a firewall and the raw data on a USB3 hard drive). I think there was a conversion from CSV to parquet on the cluster as well. And the engineer who set up the cluster was multitasking so I'm sure there was some latency issues just from that. But my analysis still only took a few hours (5? Maybe 6?).

There are a handful of things that make a difference. First of all, don't use inserts, use the .import command. This alone is enough to saturate all the available write bandwidth on a 7200rpm drive. It is not transactional, so you don't have to worry about that...it bypasses the query engine entirely, really is more like a shell command that marshals data directly into the table's on disk representation. You can also disable journaling and increase page sizes for a tiny boost.

Once imported into SQLite you get the benefit of binary representation which (for my use case) really cut down on the dataset size for the read queries. I only had a single join and it was against a dimensional table that fit in memory, so indexes were small and took insignificant time to build. One single table scan with some aggregation, and that was it.
So flying drones in flight paths is fine, gotcha.
Early engineer at a San Francisco unicorn

16 years of experience overall; 5 years with this firm

Male, H-1B from India

Title - Started out as Principal Engineer, now Sr. Engineering Manager

Current comp: 220K base, 150K/yr of (illiquid) stock

Some portion of the stock is in the form of options, some are RSUs. I took the price per share from the last funding round, deducted the strike price of the options and arrived at the dollar value.
Shellcheck is great when you integrate it with your editor.

I use it all the time when I have to write shell scripts.
Fyi standard temp and pressure at is 14 psi, so 10 is actually a slight vacuum. Or 10 over current is still not very much. Usually not enough to even explode. people can blow up to about 20psi, eg 6 psi over stp (otherwise we couldn't breathe). So it'd be more like a birthday baloon that flubbered around for 4 seconds and then went flat.
Level: SDE II (5)

Location: Van, BC

Base: 99k (CAD currency)

Stock vest in 2016: 60 RSU

Tenure: 2 year
Not sure what you mean by recursive, but OllyDbg [1] is an awesome free debugger on Windows.

[1] http://www.ollydbg.de/
It has always been this way for humans for the past 10,000 years since we invented society. In small groups you can actually care about people, in large hierarchical groups you can't possibly care about anyone other than your small tribe. The solution to this is to break countries into much smaller units of representation while at the same time reducing the population significantly, we don't need more than a few hundred million people on this planet, ever. Essentially making a war on hierarchy and massive conglomeration of people.

Without these two moves, things will continue to get worse or perhaps better depending on perspective. It's evident to anyone with a mind that civilization as it exists now is completely and utterly a mad experiment which has at least as much chance in total failure as it does in success... and success might not be something which is positive, i.e. everyone hooked into the Matrix or something akin to that. Robots doing everything and reducing people to something akin to wild animals with no economic purpose.
You just taught me that Twitter has sms support. I always thought the character limit was odd. Is there a particular market they're trying to reach with that feature, because I've never seen anyone use it.
> Nasdaq Private Market surveyed 126 attendees, of which 32 percent were founders or chief executives

You ask 126 people at SXSW and then make that story out of it? I think that's a little bit to much.
The accounts actually don't look fake. I'm not really sure what's so obvious.
And it's an organization that provides services to companies that don't go public.
And also any unique educational background or special talents, like if they're working in a niche of machine learning or something like that.
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I've heard the same advice, and frankly I think it depends on how strong you feel your position is as well, and so I think it's really important to have a realistic model of your prospects.

If you feel your job prospects are generally weak, you might not be comfortable standing firm on things like keeping salary history hidden. That seems reasonable to me, as long as you're not selling yourself short. "Impostor syndrome" is a thing.

I would actually reveal salary history if it's a "favorable" history -- if I would be happy taking a similar amount, because I value something about this new job more than my previous employment.
I would think that in a case like Weiner's if Weiner says the writer is lying, send him an offical warning that the publication will release the audiovisual proof if he insists. Hilarity ensues.