skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People don't buy smartphones to use them as a phone. Think of that as a secondary function to a global internet device and the price makes a bit more sense if you value internet everywhere and want power/battery/screen size etc. If you don't, stick with a normal phone.
> It's insane to believe someone not eating/not eating a particular food has anything to do with workplace performance.

True, I meant it as a metaphor for the kinds of new experiences/ideas one encounters day to day in the workplace.
Consistency issues aside, I wonder if the translog work in recent versions has improved anything with regard to durability/crash-proofness.
OP didn't say that the SE doesn't appeal to him/her, just that they prefer to wait to see what the 7 brings.
Good comment. What are your thoughts on including:

- "jump ship literally tomorrow salary requirement" (base, equity, signing bonus)

regardless of whether you're looking, and an anonymized means of contact. It literally can't hurt. I don't think it even gives off any signal.

I mean if you saw "$130K/undisclosed options/Bay Area/ Jump ship literally tomorrow: $180K + $15k signing bonus" it's next to no information. The only thing that can happen is you get a $180K offer in the mail, so that you can start somewhere else tomorrow. Nor does it price you out of any market, because presumably you would work for between $130K and $180K - maybe just not starting tomorrow, it would just take a LITTLE more interviewing. Nor does it show any level of dissatisfaction whatsoever to your current employer, should they put two and two together based on your skills or job title or anything else.

thoughts?
Stalin was by all accounts a dictator, but he operated differently. When the NKVD secret police would arrest someone who had made a political joke that somebody heard and reported, they weren't sent to freeze to death in a gulag in Siberia for the joke. No, they were forced to confess under torture to all sorts of laundry lists of ridiculous accusations of sabotaging production and acting as a spy for foreign governments and being the ringleaders of vast insurgent organizations, etc. Meanwhile, in the constitution of the Soviet Union there are all kinds of rights and legal protections and such. Kind of funny statistic, but the U.S has more people incarcerated as a percentage of the population than the Soviet Union ever did.

North Korea is a Stalinist state. They have elections and refer to themselves as a democratic people's republic. China does not have elections or refer to themselves as democratic.

Also, China is much more straightforward in prosecuting descent. They just say that someone belongs to an illegal non-harmonious organization like Falun-Gong or whatever and that's illegal. Send them to prison. No fancy trumped up charges or subterfuge needed.
Maybe he's still in the baffled stage
Well if you are gender fluid then select what you identify as at the moment of filling the spreadsheet.

Or better yet select what your employer sees you as, if you are a 6'3" male with a neckbeared your employer thinks you are a man regardless if you identify yourself as male, female, neither or a walrus.
Thats the same thing people said 10 years ago.
I honestly like that its paywalled. If it were important it wouldn't be. Saves time.
....And burger king exists since 1953 and "only" makes $1.06B of revenue per year, so what?

3 billion dollars is more than many small countries make in an entire year (nominal GDP)
Interesting data, added my own to the list.

Not sure why I imagined there wouldn't be any blatant trolls/ads on an anonymous Google Doc survey, but most of this info is still incredibly insightful!

As a sidenote: results may be incredibly skewed as there is no currency indicator, I'd imagine lots of fellow Canadians would be putting down CAD which is currently down 24 cents...
Quantity vs. Quality
I think this post has less about passion than about youth and naievity.

If you truly enjoy what you do, the value you receive from that shouldn't just be measured in dollar terms.

I'm passionate about what I do and I do it during work, after hours and on the weekend.
But during work, I get paid a sensible salary to support my family.
At home, I get to explore my interests.

Passion is fuel, wisdom is direction. Don't confuse the two.
No no --

they're going to put gray text in 4 point font at the bottom of the page saying they're gonna email your ceo. Cool? Cool...
Apache PDFBox 2.0 is released
Probably because it's a remarkably uninteresting observation, combined with weariness towards the topic of gender politics (see the mess downthread).

I could have told you that HN readership skews male. Throwing the "observation" out there feels like an invitation to argue.

Apparently meta-observations aren't taken well either :)
Given that sonic booms are one of the main reasons the Concorde didn't work, is calling your company "Boom" the best idea? Half-kidding.

Having said that, I'm a huge Concorde fanboy, and I really hope you guys can make affordable supersonic travel a reality!
How instrumental was YC in the development of Boom (money/advice wise)?
What's normal, in your experience, around the area? Thinking about moving out there and would love to talk more, email's in my profile.
Yeah I'm surprised too. As a new graduate, Its kinda scary when you're making more than people with 10yrs of experience. Hope its not writing on the wall :(
So, they have issues already with implementing Promises and handle the older less complicated technology wise seen engine 24 - and they are seriously thinking about forking a much later code base and try to keep their old ui, remove Australis, DRM and so on?

Sounds totally unrealistic. This product will be dead on arrival.
The authors claim that the progressive tax system provides a disincentive to work. So what they are saying is, on the one hand, things are just great, and on the other hand, things are just terrible because people are voluntarily not working.

Also, if the wealthy are not working, how come they keep getting wealthier? And furthermore, why is it that studies show that Americans work more hours than people in other industrialized countries?

The nice thing is that these sorts of propaganda attempts are failing because people know from their own experience that income is stagnating.
Wallet author here, thanks @vessenes for the comment.

Yes, as with all HD wallets, an attacker with a single private key and the the extended public key can derive all child private keys. You can read more about that aspect of HD wallets in this blog post here (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/deterministic-wallets-a...).

What's important to keep in mind, is that the child keys never leave your computer. In fact, they aren't even stored in the file system. Transactions are signed locally, and only the signature (which by definition doesn't reveal the private key) is broadcast. If you dump your private keys using the wallet (option 0 for advanced users only after booting the wallet), you will see a big warning to this effect. The app won't let you dump your private keys before confirming you understand the risks.

This only matters of course if you're going into the wallet internals. If you're just using the wallet, you never have to think about this attack.

Do keep in mind from a privacy perspective though that because you're revealing your extended public key to BlockCypher, BlockCypher is able to calculate all your public bitcoin addresses.

You can read more in the FAQs here:
https://github.com/blockcypher/bcwallet#faqs

Feel free to ask more questions anytime!

Edits: minor grammar tweaks.
Startup Tips from Casper's Philip Krim, the Mattress King of Brooklyn
What happens when you write 11,000 blog posts?
I have nothing against people that choose to identify as whatever niche sexuality they fancy. But I do have a problem with them demanding special treatment to the nth degree, and claiming "discrimination" if their particular demands aren't met.
Android – The dark side of Jack and Jil
> Takeaway: “More WordPress. If you want to lose an election…” –Paul “This is the most important pattern we’ve found. All of the losers are on WordPress.”—Rich
Sonic booms are continuous while going faster than the speed of sound. It isn't just something that happens when you cross the barrier.
We use FOP for document-shaped stuff, and it's worked out pretty well for us. But I could see using SVG when you want a single page with complex layout (esp. rotated text, etc.)

For an invoice with a couple of fields filled in, you could also consider using a PDF form. (And use a library like iText or pdfbox to fill it in.)
SeaWorld is ending its orca breeding programme immediately
This makes me wonder how many people are okay with being underpaid. Like my title is officially VP of Engineering. But because of the circumstances of my position and what I was hired to do, I am probably making less than what someone in my position gets in sign on bonuses. $30,000/yr

This is because I am not only the first employee but the only employee (if you don't count CEO) and only technical person. I was hired to build a SaaS/Company by the owner of a company and to make that company it's first official customer of the SaaS. I'm being paid out of his pocket and the profits of his company. The pay isn't even close to what a software engineer with my experience should make, let alone the VP of Engineering. But it's above average salary in my state/area and is enough for me to live on.
How dare you! My gender requires an infinite dimensional Hilbert space ... and no it is not a Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space either!
That was really interesting, If I was to vote on based on their webpage qualities, I think Hillary would get my vote there.

Cleanness and text oriented navigation was nice. donation page flow was great. SSL all the way and direct to the point on links. great job.

I really liked Trump's header though. Color choice and font was great, but the page load and mixed http and https between links was confusing to me. Whole page except navigation contains only "Make America great again" nothing else (made me smile).

Rest of them was not interesting to me.
Why? Do you honestly think you won't be able to get that "passion" getting a market salary?

You're definitely not getting the better end of the deal.
Having no money means you don't get to do anything, and you have to take their shit, too. Having money means you get to choose what you do.
"Here it is: you learned something about yourself in this process and you were adequately compensated. You were compensated by your passion."

Cool. Let me pay my landlord with passion. Let me pay that car repair bill with passion. Let me buy food with passion.
This doesn't work for me...Cache link: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-tEQXR...
What about socializing? How will your kids socialize with other people? School is just not about math and reading.
Eh, I think in cases of ambiguity you might be better off just sticking the state into the name of the city. Like "USA - New York City" vs "USA - Springfield (IL)".
Because it's very easy for them to control the narrative and spin their actions to their benefit, minimizing the negative associations with their actions. That they aren't probably means they want it seen this way, and I agree that's interesting.
The data is going to get really stale. What my jump ship tomorrow number is today will probably be vastly different in a year, two years, etc. Not to mention how does it help someone who just wants to see how their salary compares to others?
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The "don't matter" is the key part. They might not matter to you, but they do to the people doing the punishing.
Interested in your opinion on what the range should be, currently struggling with knowing my true value in this market.
Well yes, just not an App Engine SDK :(
Ford Focus seems pretty maintainable as far as I can tell. And there seems to be plenty of competition there...
The issue is not so much that schools invest in hedge funds (the endowment managers are just trying to maximize returns), but that the endowments pay out such a small percentage of their funds each year to support research, financial aid, and everything else. Harvard pays out only 4-6% of the endowment yearly. On their huge endowment, if they increased the payout by .5%, they would have a whole lot more to spend on worthy activities instead of saving for the year 3000.
Looks like two potentially breaking changes at source level:

https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposa...

https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposa...
You can also disable it in settings if you accidentally activate it regularly like I did.
There aren't really that many journalism jobs out there. Especially compared to the massive number of J-School grads that come on the the market each year.

Journalists look at Gawker writers and naturally think "There but for the grace of God, go I". So they have a lot of sympathy.
Because I can fill out a 1040-EZ in less than an hour by hand.
As it is there is a huge financial incentive for the criminals to get people hooked on drugs. Hard drugs should be freely provided by the government to take that incentive away. This also gives it the opportunity to help addicts who want to kick their addiction. It also dismantles the criminal organisations behind it, reducing crime that way, and it means that drug addicts can somewhat participate in normal society instead of having to steal to pay for their addiction.
You may be right, but yes you're wrong to assume it. People assume all kinds of things about HN, and there's a huge amount of bias involved.

But my point is that it's in bad taste to diss a community you belong to, while participating in it, as a rhetorical status move. People do this all the time, but we've noticed that it's reliably a marker of low-quality comments, so we're going to start asking them not to.
The problem with decriminalization without legalization is that it addresses demand but not supply. Black market supply is where a lot of the harm from prohibition materializes.
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.
But if you report that you ordered service from Comcast and what you got was not what you ordered, do they send you another internet? :-)
Meanwhile, did anyone else find it hilarious that folders were pointed out as one of the great new feature upgrades for Apple TV?
Your solution is still vulnerable in cases where someone's able to control postmasterfoobar@example.com. Admittedly, that's a bit far-fetched, but the correct solution would be to have an enumeration of allowed emails and only accept those (or, more generally: whitelist things).

It's amazing that their web component is even allowed to dictate what verification addresses are permittable. That should be the concern of a completely separate component of their infrastructure. Says a lot of about their security architecture, I guess.
After 500+ submissions there are ~10 female-identified entries (~2%).
I have heard many more stories close to this one than I ever have about a successful product launch utilizing GAE. I've never used GAE and have mostly been scared off by my experience with Google support throughout other applications and services being close to non-existent. I know by this point Google is large enough that this may not seem like a concern, but I am somewhat surprised that there isn't a larger user outcry against Google's support structure.
Using 20GB on an android phone without any music.
The most patient man in Silicon Valley [2015]
Virginia used to have a super easy online form you could use to fill out taxes. H&R Block bought out one of our down state representatives and had her kill it off. It still makes me angry every year around tax time.

There is absolutely no reason the IRS couldn't run their own online tax filing system that gets prepopulated with all of the information companies and banks report to the IRS except that it would drive thousands of otherwise useless middlemen out of business. There would still be accountants of course, but only for people who have actual complicated tax returns.
Love! We need this.
For many of our reports, we've been using FOP (Apache's XSL-FO implementation). It's an XML format, similar to HTML, with stuff like page masters to help with layout. We generate the XML with a velocity template, feed it into FOP, and which generates the PDF.
It's trivial to game geolocation, e.g.: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lexa.fakeg...
Start using the keyboard trackpad for moving the cursor, selecting and deleting words, paragraphs or the whole text input. It's the killer app.
My anecdata having worked in Seattle and Chicago now:

Chicago's 'tech scene' is mostly either trading or tech applied in an incremental way to an existing business model, eg Groupon. The trading firms do pay quite well, but you'll be in an extreme niche and likely have limited insight into how you could ever leave, given you've not been building products/programming so much as coding performance improvements. The few "hard tech" companies I've seen come from Chicago are either a generation old at this point (eg Motorola) or have gone under (eg TempoIQ).

The other fact of Chicago is, most of the tech talent here is here for reasons beyond having the best job ever. When I moved back, just about no one could believe that I didn't have a family/significant other/etc reason to move back beyond the job itself. When you have a market like that, employers have some buying power with the talent that does need to stay here. There's simply so few alternatives to the situation, given there's also little appetite for significantly striking out on your own, compared to the coast.

Edit: I'll also say the appetite for go big or go home company growth is limited here. Can't tell you the last time I saw a "shoot for the moon" idea originate in Chicago. There are pros/cons to that, admittedly.
If you're a startup, and you (the founders) have any sense at all, you will screen out candidates from "top 10" schools. As a startup, you have absolutely no business competing with Google / Facebook / et al engineering talent. This isn't even approaching anything like moneyball, it's just common sense. The idea that where someone went to school makes two shits of a difference in job performance is ridiculous. Job performance in technology is mostly about a collection of other soft skills in addition to grades and technical ability (communication, willingness / ability to learn new technologies, ability to work in quickly adapting work environments, etc).
Looking to jump ship?
The value of shares in most private companies can't be assigned a dollar value (since you can't sell it easily), so that column is meaningless for a lot of rows, including most startups. Also it's important to remember cash salary is often discounted in favor of higher equity at startups.

I think a more relevant column to add would be percentage equity for startups/private companies (subject to vesting). And if you're at a private company and you don't know the percentage, you should ask.
This has been on my mind for awhile. My current theory is that Chicago companies don't need top talent and there are plenty of non-top talent engineers. simple supply and demand.
... Sonic booms happen anytime you're going supersonic speeds, it's not limited to when you cross the boundary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_boom
Why Markdown sucks
All I can offer you is it only matters if you define yourself by your salary, which in my experience will only leave you feeling pretty hollow.

I have worked for companies where I was underpaid but the work was great and the co-workers were amazing and now I work for a company where the work is boring but the pay is excellent (like you, for where I live) which makes more sense for my family right now. I'm okay with it, but I miss the old work environment.
Guessing people with high salaries are probably hesitant to put them there for the fear of somehow being identified or tracked. People with lower or average salaries probably have no reservations sharing their salary.
It’s one thing to think there’s a gender bias; it’s another to actually demonstrate it.
Wow, thank you for that bit of data. I was totally unaware of that.
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo. lololololololololol
At least line 518 was honest...
I sure hope you're getting a big chunk of equity as the technical co-founder.
Easier to hire here, supposedly. Fewer tech firms by comparison to SF/NY -> less competition for applicants.

I'm in Chicago making ~95k and these threads the last couple days have been ever so mildly depressing, with people graduating same year as me and making $323k.
CoreOS Fest Berlin schedule, leaked :)
Titles at startups (especially early-early stage) are somewhat negligible. Since you don't manage any engineers and not dealing with the responsibilities of a VP of Engineering of say, a 200-500 FTE startup, you shouldn't hinge too much on your title.