skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Considering Russia and China are casually annexing territories, its pretty obvious this framework no longer exists

> A pretty big overstatement. The only cross-border war between nations I can think of is Russia and Ukraine.

Russia is not at war with Ukraine. Russia is just running a covert action in Ukraine in an attempt to destabilize it's democratically elected government.

Russia has never like the fact Ukraine decided to leave the Soviet Union.

I suspect the reference to China refers to how China is unilaterally taking ownership of the South China Sea using it military strength, with total disregard to international law.

It might also be in reference to how China handles Tibet, or how they are trying to kill democracy in Hong Kong, or maybe how they have their eyes on Taiwan where they claim it is rightfully theirs.

> The golden age you imagine never existed. It's always been this way. This is the way the UN, and politics in general, works. I wish it were otherwise and we should work to improve it, but it does work

I suspect drzaiusapelord disagrees with you when you say it is working and I would say I tend to agree with him.

The modern day UN is nothing more than a very expensive bureaucracy that in reality achieves very little.

Maybe it has never worked?
I've always been a fan of daylight on salaries. People get uncomfortable thinking about their worth in relation to others, but having it exposed means two things: 1) you can easily figure out who you should be more like and 2) it prevents bullshit from being the cause of someone receiving high pay. If I'm going in for a salary negotiation and I ask my boss why so-and-so makes $50k more a year than I do, he or she better have a damn good explanation for it.

The problem at this point is societal. It's been taboo for so long that people still harbor deep discomfort with it. Maybe they believe they don't deserve the pay they're getting so they wish for it to be quieted. If that's the case, then fuck those people.
> how does America compete with $1.50/hr wages for skilled workers?

Simple, figure out a way to approximate how much more it would cost if they paid the overseas workers US level wages, then tax it to make it actually cost that much more to US consumers.
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How is Waterloo not an elite school for people who actually know the field?
Hey, Googlers. I'm interested in working at Google and I'd like to talk to someone who left Amazon/AWS to there. I put an e-mail alias in my profile for anyone interested.
Wasn't Anthony Weiner cover in the pictures the media published [i.e. boxers]?

The line should be drawn at pornography/actual nudity being published without people's consent. Good writing is sufficient to convey the message.
For those of us in the midwest... This compensation package is about 210k$ in Austin. Obviously, outside of expensive cities like Austin/Dallas/Chicago, the equivalent number is lower.
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The fix is to make student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy. The market will rapidly correct to accommodate.
It depends a lot on what you're doing, but 2 TB in general seems a lot. If you have to perform an out-of-disk sort, you probably need a distributed setup. The funny thing is that most setups that use EMR defeat the data locality principle and I think that's the speedup people experience when they run it on a single laptop for example. Reading the original Google paper helped me a lot in understanding this.
Perhaps what I meant to say is that "control" of EC2 went to Seattle, from what I understood.
Oh wow. I wish they said that the bar was so low. I would like to apply as well if that's the case.

Edit: I still think the idea of Dropbox is pretty stupid and I wouldn't have given Drew Houston a penny if I was an investor. But I never thought the average application would be so far worse if Dropbox got funded and succeeded.
thanks hahla, to your proposed question what do you reckon is better?
Embedded software at Medical device company here. Would love to talk to you.
In the Wiener case he was sending the pictures of his crotch via SMS. There's no expectation of privacy from content that you've shared willingly, no matter how perverted the content.
Oops, boss coudn't explain it. Now you, too, make $50K more due to some bullshit cause. :)
"The church also housed a fragment of the True Cross, upon which Jesus was crucified."

What is this, grammatically? It's hard to believe the person who wrote it believed it was literally true, so is it a metaphor?
That's fascinating, thanks for sharing.

Where would one go to try out TMS? I would be quite interested in finding out what my brain is like so long as it was done in a safe manner.
Their tagline:

> Mineserver™ -- A $99 Home Minecraft Server by Mineserver LLC

They also used the most iconic symbol from from the game (the creeper face) as a logo. Yes, I'd say the risk that their trademark would be confused with the official product is quite obvious.
> What changed at Pivotal labs?

The bread and butter of Labs is teaching people pair programming and TDD. So I was taught those things, and I'm still learning.

It takes a few passes through the whole cycle of story->feature test->integration test->unit test for things to begin to click, for that way of thinking to become habitual. It is uncomfortable and frustrating for some time, as Ian Sommerville found. In fact, because most code is not written test-first, it is difficult to test. So all that keeps you to TDD is habit and, to some degree, help from another engineer.

> And what do you get with regards to specs? It seems to me the methodology fits how requirements are derived.

The most popular story-writing style I have seen so far is the As A/I Want/So I; Given/When/Then. Usually some acceptance criteria are supplied. To varying degrees of fidelity that the feature tests will typically follow Given/When/Then.

In our weekly Iteration Planning Meetings engineers are expected to pipe up if there are useful ways to decompose stories into smaller stories, which makes the overall situation more manageable.
Did he say it became a US state?
This happens all the time. See e.g. http://www.post-gazette.com/business/businessnews/2006/10/31...
>Like when a person crosses their arms, they generally disagree with what you are saying, etc.

That is pseudoscientific BS
Living in Mountain View and driving with Google's self driving cars every day, I have to say I think they are quite a bit further than you give them credit and those conditions appear to be less limited than you are letting on here.
"Commie" was a strong enough hint, which make me read the whole thing again in a different light.
What habit or habits in your life have most contributed to your success?
Why is it that "What are you making are your current job, we will verify it." is acceptable but "What was this companies net revenue last quarter" is not. The game is so clearly rigged.
Hopefully this sets a precedent that eventually shuts down the revenge porn sites.
What habit or habits have most contributed to your success in life and/or business?
That's on my bookshelf next to "Polygraph Interpretation for Dummies"
Waterloo is considered top tier by people in tech, which is the industry that YC is in.
They say that they'll happily host 3TB databases, but the cost is too high for databases larger than a few GB.

1TB (with only 100GB of RAM) will set you back $150k a year!

For comparison we pay our generic service provider about 20% of that to manage 2 redundant dedicated servers with 24/7 monitoring and support.
They're the ones who inspired me to start these projects and seek funding, actually. Half of that inspiration comes from a huge amount of annoyance in the ineffectiveness of most of their work, though. It's all very feel-good in the same spirit as building useless schools in Brown Country is. That's not to say all of their work is bad.

For example, their speaker this week was an "Opposition Contractor" whose whole dig was that he sells himself out to the highest bidder to use data in ensuring the other candidate doesn't get elected - no matter the party affiliation. All discussed in the frame of "civics".

Pardon the cynicism. :)

Thanks for the help and motivation to get me searching again, though! Hopefully there's something out there..
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You can't just dismiss their experience based on your experience. I, for one, have also found it to be very true, and I think most people would agree (insofar as it seems to be a bit of a meme).
YC is so big and has so many (1) existing portfolio companies and (2) applicants to go through that they simply don't have the time to even care about this. We graduated YC in S12 and, outside of fundraising, talk with partners on average once a year. I don't think we've reached out to YC or YC partners have reached out to us in any meaningful way for the past year or two.

Perhaps counterintuitively, this is even moreso the case the more successful a YC company becomes. There's little to nothing that YC can do to help Dropbox, but there's way more that YC can do to help a struggling 5 person company get off the ground.

Working at a successful YC startup can only help your chances.
Public companies publish quarter results..
I think HN tries to avoid being too modern...
You're making the mistake of judging the idea too much and forgetting that Drew Houston went to MIT, and had worked as a tech lead at a company. That already puts him in the top 10% of applicants, regardless of his idea.
If they don't answer just watch a few seasons of Shark Tank or Dragon's Den (any country). I highly doubt there's much different in business nut-bar factors. Some people just have no grasp (yet) of what it takes to get good.
Bad things happen to bad people too :^)
Pretty much my experience too. My dad worked at one job for nearly 25 years of his life and I learned a couple years ago that I already make over twice what he did by the time he retired.

My dad was a little like Al Bundy though, he never really sought to improve himself like I do constantly and I'm sure almost everyone here does too.

I think the industry still has a lot of managers who think in terms of running a shoe store with employees that are improving themselves at a rapid pace.
I'm somewhat surprised by D. Hipp's response. I understand that the UB in SQLite is "OK" since it is very well tested, but I figured he would still have a strong opinion about avoiding almost all UB.

Regehr is right though, I'm working on porting SQLite to iOS (and a CMake build system along the way) for as part of testing a custom compiler for correctness. I already got the SQLite TCL test suite running on a jailbroken device and the number of failures was less than 20, out of many tens of thousands of tests. That is definitely tractable!!

Edit:
Mr. Hipp is a doctor, not a professor. Thank you, FrankBooth.
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I'm interested in working at the Fremont office. Do you know any ex-Amazonians that are at Google now that I can talk to? I've put an e-mail alias in my profile.
Why don't you just tell the candidate your offer range and let them decide if they are interested?

Because you aren't honest at all, to system is trying to get rmpoyees for less.
That's even better. You have a lawyer write a letter that it's because of your alcohol/sexual orientation/etc, and you'll end up with a settlement 6/10 times.
reminds me this sci fi story:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_for_Algernon

``The operation is a success, and within the next three months Charlie's IQ reaches 185. However, as his intelligence, education, and understanding of the world increase, his relationships with people deteriorate''
They can fire you for health reasons, they just have to be very careful when doing so. Been there, done that. Pretty hard to sue when you have no proof except common sense.
This is a recruitment ad... which is confusing since they've been closing locations left and right in Japan.
Elon Musk has divorced twice. Not making a value judgment, just pointing out that he has clearly chosen entrepreneurial success over marital success.
Automatic documentation is nice, annotation powered validation is also very nice, but this website is awful.
Yikes. Anybody who gives both their salary and LinkedIn information to any company is either insane or stupid.
Boo hoo. You try to manipulate someone and invade their privacy and then act offended when they lie. Pseufo-moral behavior like that earns zero respect.
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> I'm not aware of any Amazon policy which prohibits sharing one's own compensation, but I still made a throwaway.

IANAL but I'm pretty sure it's illegal as fsck for them to retaliate against you for discussing your compensation.

According to the National Labor Relations Act, enacted in 1935, private-sector employees have the right to engage in "concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection."

Again, I am not a lawyer. Just a bunch of pixels on the screen, really.
I used to work somewhere that did a lot of ETL and we used MS databases - mainly, ahem, Access. At the time I had no idea about *nix. I've often thought since how much easier and quicker it would be to solve lots of the processing jobs with this sort of thing, but never thought about implementation details. This is a great reminder that new is not always best and reminds me that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing!
So obviously the next step is to form a shell company, put a sucker with no money in charge of it, incorporate that off shore, and host anything shady with them, not cooperate or collaborate with them wink wink (just like political candidates do not coordinate with superpacs wink wink).

Everyone on the Internet from ACLU and EFF will rightly defend the right to link. Well, the sleazy tabloids will continue doing what they do.

This is no win for privacy because it only protects those who are willing to go to court over this. Gawker is scum (particularly for doxxing people) but Hulk Hogan is no saint either.

Edit: grammar and spelling
What happened to startup school?!
What happened with startup school?
In the 'Frontiers in Astrophysics' course on Open Yale, professor Bailyn says that, for the purpose of the course, pi = 3, and pi^2 = 10.

Pi = 3, coincidentally, is the Hebrew Bible's approximation too.
Non Amazonian(final interview with Amazon) but had to chime in:

Based in AZ
Base Pay: $80,000
Bonus: 12-15% holiday bonus
My Experience: 2 years front end dev, self taught.
Company: Won't name. But ~200 people in the company. 40ish engineers.

Interviewed with Amazon for Web Dev I . Each time salary was discussed, base range was for 85-115k, sign on of $10-25k and I can't recall stock. Confirmed with friends who work there, all are SDEs making 6 figures.

Throwaway account as well, just want those in my area anyways to be aware that earning potential is good.
Outside of the actual software industry, sure. But rule #1 of getting paid well as a developer is to work for a software company.

It's not just the big few who pay really well. There are whole constellations of medium to small software companies you've never heard of that pay very well. The differentiator is that they see software as a strategic asset, not just a cost of doing business.
I find it, and other non-western news outlets, good for finding the stories that western media won't cover or are trying to bury.
Gawker said it best,

http://jezebel.com/5985635/an-idiots-guide-to-free-speech
Haven't we already had court cases against people running those sites? The wiki page for the topic already lists three or four US cases where the people running said sites have been prosecuted or sent to prison.

We didn't need this court case to get a precedent for that.
Putting aside the matter of case itself, I'm getting a lot of schadenfreude out of watching Gawker fail to hold itself to the same standards it keeps for everyone else.

As of now, two plus hours after TechCrunch [1], BBC [2], Recode [3], CNN [4], Buzzfeed [5], HN [6], Ars Technica [7], Wired [8], Slate [9] and countless other sites have all published articles about the verdict, Gawker's site is silent on the topic. And this comes after they've done daily articles throughout the trial, but now the pill is apparently too bitter to swallow.

I don't think that being first is always best, but Gawker sure seemed to think so up until now. Apparently reveling in public about their own misfortune is finally the bridge too far.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/18/jury-awards-hulk-hogan-115m...

[2] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35849140

[3] http://recode.net/2016/03/18/florida-jury-hands-hulk-hogan-a...

[4] http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/18/media/hulk-hogan-gawker-jury...

[5] http://www.buzzfeed.com/maryanngeorgantopoulos/hulk-hogan-ga...

[6] right here!

[7] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/115-million-verdi...

[8] http://www.wired.com/2016/03/jury-awards-hulk-hogan-115-mill...

[9] http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/03/18/jury_award...
I guess so. I, on the other hand went to a state school and my work experience is working on fairly straightforward line of business applications. I am not so much criticizing Dropbox as much as I'm making fun of my own lack of vision.
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I really liked this article and liz seems like she is on the right side of progress. I recently helped a freind at berkly with her work, this led me to find out that she had never learned java, and was expected to make a mini text editor. She explained this was berkly and not everyone was meant to pass. Liz presents things that really touched my heart, tinkering rather than jumping through hoops.

However, from working at a bootcamp and speaking to students who went to others. They are expensive, Unorganized and built in a way that makes students "feel satisfied" rather than prepared and hungry. GA in particular apparently hand holds immensely rather than have students sweat it out a bit. At 5 am, no one is there to help you or tell you what tp search. Additionally, those involved in this space usually are working with big investor money and paying big in order squeak out dollars from college students or people who font have the money to pay. The only person who worked with us above fourty quit because he didnt want to be a tax collector. Hack Reactor seems to be the best one out there but they are more interested in seeing who will survive than in seeing how to make sure everyone can swim

Bootcamps are imperfect but certainly in demand. I Do believe they are a good mutation in the education field. Cutting out fat and creating cultures. But there is still a lot of work to be done before I can say they can accept my praise
Yup, Bagratunis were among the longest reigning dynasties in the region (in all of Europe & Middle East, AFAIK). The last name still pops up even today, in various dialectal forms. Like this Lebanese-Armenian politician: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karim_Pakradouni

Oh, and this dude: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prince-ioane-bagrationi-mukhrane...
The PIP is paperwork to establish that you aren't being canned for a non-discriminatory reason. Period.

There is no self-improvement.
Couldn't agree more. I can't believe how little support there is for ideas like free trade, where academics of every political stripe agree it's good, but the candidates don't.

As a SF tech person, I feel pretty homeless in today's political climate. Tech indeed does need to run a candidate, and not just in the national election, but locally as well, so we can get some housing built and no-nonsense public school reform.
Right. If you are underpaid, make noise. If you are overpaid, you deserve a target on your back for profiting off your coworkers.
> Conscription and the draft have been abolished in
> most places in the developed world

But not America, the topic under discussion, so what's your point?

> contempt of court may get you jailed but will not -
> and can not - be used to force you to create something

That is factually incorrect. There are plenty of counter-examples. One I can remember getting plenty of news coverage is:

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/17598441/ns/us_news-weird_news/t/m...

> eminent domain can only be used to take something away
> from you

... it was given as an example of coercive power of governments.

> it would mean that ordinary citizens that have broken no
> laws can be forced to create something that does not
> currently exist against their express desire

Only if you ignore conscription, which is alive and well in the US (Selective Service), and the counter-examples where contempt of court is used to compel people to "create" something.
The Security Council is nothing more than the principle members of the Allies at the conclusion of World War 2. Communist China didn't replace the Nationalists on the Security Council until 22 years after Chiang Kai-shek was driven off the mainland onto Taiwan. Since Mao and his old guard were doing their damndest to replicate the starvation and political purging of the Soviet Union in the 20s, it probably didn't matter that much...
they threw $100k extra a year on the table to keep me but I still left anyway

That was a smart move, especially if your skill-set was unique in your company. I've given this advice more times than I can think and I've been ignored at least half of the time. I can think of only one case where it worked out well, but that friend was a CEO at a multi-national and the board of directors was the salary decider. The others were gone within a year.

Be very suspicious if it's a huge increase in salary (or dwarfs your current offer), but generally any "counter offer" is not a good idea to take.

When you get a large counter offer, you have to think one thing: Why?

At first you may be inclined to think "It took me having a foot out the door before they finally valued me!" Unfortunately, what they've valued is the risk you represent. Within a few days, after your manager has discussed "contingency plans" for all of the things you did. You'll be spending the next few months making "the documentation a little more clear" and "cross-training" your colleagues. They may finally fill that position they've been promising to hire for to "give you some help". A few months of this will go on and someone in management will ask how your salary is justified (this will likely not be asked directly to you). Unfortunately, all you've been doing is documenting and training others, the real work that contributes to the bottom line has been ignored and you're now behind! How can they justify paying you so much if you're getting nothing done![1]

I even had a colleague who thought the answer was to turn down the job, take the increase and find another. It might have worked were it not for 2008. He went 6 months unemployed and took a job for a lot less than he was making prior to the increase (specifics were not offered or asked).

[1] It doesn't always (hopefully not even often) happen with such calculation or disregard, but a variation of this almost always plays out.
I pity the company who has a CTO who puts wishful thinking over the reality of law.
It seems like you just listed off the segments of the population that tend to be considered the "hip young influencers". Did you not? College and high school students. My guess was the parent probably was speaking in generalities a bit, students were the vast majority of users.
> Saddam Hussein was a big Sci-fi fan.

That sounds so weird. Could you post a reference?
Was there actually a good reason for this?

The limitation seems completely arbitrary or stems for a misunderstanding about the difference between a state and a territory. For better or for worse, Puerto Rico is virtually a state (with residents who can't vote for the president with some minor other caveats), but legally there shouldn't be any difference.