skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a major factor, but it has still happened to me even when interviewing for boutique jobs via a friend's reference or happening to know someone who already worked there.

A fair amount of the interviews I accept come from unsolicited head hunters seeking me out, and even then the reveal-your-salary thing is a huge sticking point. And even when it hasn't been, I've still been let down by the ultimate salary offers.

I heard once that you should budget 1 month of job searching for every $10,000 of compensation you seek, and maybe more once you are seeking high-level bonuses. That's easily been true in my case. You also have to put up with horrid HR people who are quite simply just rude to you, and lots of degrading "dance monkey dance" whiteboard and coding puzzles and hazing, and demoralizing cross country interview trips that you have to muster the ability to put your whole self into but which you cynically know in your heart of hearts that it's a waste of time.
This overlooks the issue that for repeated calculations, such as numerical integration, the trouble comes from accumulated roundoff errors. Even 16 digits of precision can become 0 digits pretty quickly if you're not very careful.
Seriously, when will these companies learn?
I don't buy this; I think starting off in the right market is a huge determinant of success.

The reason there's no market is because it takes an idea and a person who can execute -- knowledge, skills, connections, experience, etc. Ideas aren't separable from people in a way that would make a market possible.
Tesla Discontinues 10 KWh Powerwall Home Battery
I've found Jason to be an extremely supportive, honest and loyal investor. He is very supportive of early stage founders and excels at leveling you up to the next stage.

The first time I saw Jason in person was at a Founder Institute session. He told is own story of struggle/success/failure/success. It was one of the most moving things I've ever witnessed. This guy has heart and has been in the trenches doing the work.
One of the reasons I refuse to self identify as a 'skeptic' is because the supposed reverence for science and empiricism is largely just deference to academia. There's also a feigned distaste for personal experience (and really who can or should dismiss their own life experience). Ultimately this isn't about libertarianism, it's about allowing individuals to choose their own standards for evidence, trusted authorities, and process for making their own decisions. The "educated elite" really truly believe that their standards are superior and that it's their duty to help others by making the decisions for them. This is ultimately a religion attempting to impose itself on others, but because it doesn't call itself one people don't recognize it as doing such.
EDIT: i should emphasize this is only my experience as a startup hiring manager. maybe YC attracts nothing but geniuses, i dunno. i'm just a guy on the internet.

since yc is obviously not going to talk shit on their own applicants, i'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that it's just like every other job application process when six figures (or more) of money is on the line. big paychecks attract plenty of, shall we say, 'aspirational' applicants.

1. apps where spelling and grammar is clearly not a priority (sure, i'll give you 5 figures a month to spell shit wrong)
2. the wrong kind of company will apply, i.e. a restaurant
3. bullshit artists gonna bullshit, even when they stink
4. people simply not smart enough to do the job. just plain dumb is a real thing, folks.
5. people with too little real world experience
6. really stupid ideas (who's to judge? well, the people with the money get to judge, that's sort of how applications work)

the fact that you can use the term 'anonymized data' in a sentence that actually makes sense is going to put you in the top 10% automatically - yes, the bar is that low when you're dealing with the general public. the trick is getting into the top 1% though. it's a power law distribution of difficulty.

every job advertisement attracts applications like these, and yc is basically just a really, really fancy and structured super-duper college/job application process combined, but for crazed entrepreneurs (like me). you are going to get a lot, maybe even mostly people on the left hand side of the normal distribution of iq, talent, and work ethic/experience. the easy thing is the dipshits and fakers are easy to spot-and-drop almost immediately. i can basically glance at a resume and disqualify it in 10-15 seconds if it's not good enough. you just can't bullshit someone far smarter, more experienced, and better at bullshitting than you. CAVEAT: there are extremely smart and experienced bullshitters out there though -- that's the real danger area. that's what you're really worried about.

basically the only thing you can count on is that they want your money!!
So when did the Philippines become a U.S. state?
I don't get it either. But I guess they are are concerned about Mr. Disgusted, Cheltenham complaining: "I don't see why I have to pay my license fee AND suffer these interminable commercials".

Come to think of it, it may be in the BBC's Charter that their content be free from commercials (to license payers). If so, they are contractually bound to hide the commercials or, keeping it simple, just not provide content with commercials to license-payers.

Of course, most of the BBC's internet accessible content has always been geo-restricted in the opposite direction. So they have form there.
> Nonconsensual porn

Can't you find a better term? This makes it sound like a rape video.
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This would be a good place to start:

http://digital.cityofchicago.org/index.php/developer-resourc...
Absolutely, but it's a good general default. I don't want set -e on my backup aggregator script (if one sync fails, keep doing the others), but for most other scripts it's good to have.\

I've had mixed luck with set -e combining with trap ERR though - they seem to conflict with each other and I don't have the shell knowledge to sort it out.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11288885
If you are good, just leave AMZN. I was underpaid there as SDE 2 and when I resigned, they threw $100k extra a year on the table to keep me but I still left anyway because I did not know what they would do to me if I stay. That $100k extra would put me close to $300k total a year.
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> Before anyone goes on a "Gawker is a terrible site, they deserve it" tangent, keep in mind that this does set precedent for other individuals to sue other media companies for massive amounts of money, which could be another problem for an already-struggling ecosystem.

In the case of this particular ecosystem, I'm still not seeing the downside.
In the article your father only talks about the sensing other peoples emotions part of autism. Is TMS something that interacts with autism on some lowest level (neuroplasticity perhaps) or does it specifically target empathy?

I ask because many other aspects of autism can be much more inhibitive such as hypersensitivity (sensitivity to loud sounds, bright lights, crowded places) and learning disabilities (sometimes seemingly taken by other parts of the brain in the savant cases).

I get that an article about emotions does well in the NYT, but I think that if TMS would 'cure' autism on a lower level, that could really be world changing.
Evernote’s Founding CTO Dave Engberg Is Leaving in May
For those unfamiliar with his work, here's his lead vocal with Was (not Was) on "Wedding Vows in Vegas";

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9FwhpZyzTc
You do this and they catch you, you will be fired. I am a manager who believes in pay people more. Pay them what they want, not what they were making. That said, if you lie to me, I don't take it well.
The Most Important Thing After Bitcoin Itself
Yup, I'm pretty well-traveled, and this is arguably the most beautiful place I've been, especially by bicycle, and certainly among the least touristed of anyone's short list.
https://www.rt.com/news/321121-lesin-dies-heart-attack/

Now I'm not saying nothin' bout RT in general, but this particular story isn't exactly non-problematic...
APPLY ONLINE. Seriously. If you don't have a referral, don't wait around trying to find one. Apply online.

If you get an interview, practice algorithms/data structures interview problems like crazy.
I agree that they are both horrendous!
Both sides in this case were utterly contemptible. I would have found that Gawker invaded Hogan's privacy and awarded Hogan one dollar in damages, leaving everyone unhappy but the lawyers.

Invasion of privacy, despite its questionable origins, is now generally recognized as a valid tort and outside of the protections of the First Amendment. No new precedent is being set here.
90k$ is low, I have seen several get 140k$ (Base + Signing bonus) for SDE roles out of college.
Jason is one of the greatest investor. Without him, we would not have moved to the Bay Area, would not have made great progress in product and strategy over 3 months. He is honest and helpful.
Suggestions?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge_porn

> The term is also often misused to describe non 'revenge' scenarios, including nonconsensual pornography distributed by hackers or by individuals seeking profit or notoriety

I'm not the only one that uses it that way :/
Kinda expected. Any organization that requires no accountability (meaning occasional layoff sometimes) from members will breed people that do nothing.
I don't think Bollea is a particularly good person, but I'm not clear on how his conduct in this controversy was "contemptible".

For the 1A concern here, consider the Anthony Weiner case, in which indisputably private photos of Weiner were also published. I don't like that they were (I think he could have been just as effectively ejected from public life with good writing) but it's concerning to think that he'd have a tort hammer to swing to keep the story from coming out at all.
Google does not care about this for entry level engineering positions.
No! Honestly, I think it is the exact opposite. You need more than 16 years of education for the jobs of the future. Vocational teaching cannot teach you statistics and linear algebra required for machine learning, which itself again, cannot be taught in vocational training. For each of these you need all the math prerequisites up to and including freshman undergrad!
The stock is initially granted in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). RSUs vest according to a schedule. It looks roughly like this:

5% the first year

15% the second year

20% every six months thereafter

Compensation at Amazon typically is a combination of a base salary, a signing bonus (distributed over time), and a stock grant. The package is structured in such a way that the employee's total pay stays consistent over time, even though the pay comes in different forms. New hires will have their signing bonus structured over the first two years, and then it ends. At that point, the more significant stock vests begin to occur at six month intervals, so the total pay amount stays relatively the same after the bonus ends.
Just a note that I'll happily provide visual design assistance for any Basic Income projects — http://hypertexthero.com/work/basic-income-11-arguments/

Thanks for doing the [Request For Research on Basic Income](https://blog.ycombinator.com/basic-income). It's good to see awareness of it increasing.
Totally understand. No offense taken! Cheers!
Yes "needless to say." I was paid a little bit more than the annual equivalent of 90k when I was an intern in SV at both a large tech company (that you've heard of), and a well-funded startup.
Jury awards Hulk Hogan $115M as Gawker looks to appeal
That's certainly true, and for most of us in the US, it's also true that as an at-will employee at a company, you're only protected by what the law covers. The list of things it doesn't cover is long enough that it's not terribly difficult to find a reason that is legal to cover-up the real reason.

There's the bigger problem with sharing your salary openly: raises.

My dad told me when I started working "Don't talk about your salary unless you don't want to see a raise again." It's not that absolute in practice. For many, raises are doled out yearly and are an average percentage with discretion to give some more and some less than the target. Even when well deserved, it's not easy to squeeze into the higher percentage but one way to make it a whole lot more difficult is to be revealed as someone who'll tell all the coworkers what they received. That'll almost certainly be on your bosses mind when it comes time for that decision and you might find yourself fighting to get an average raise since giving you the lower raise has the added benefit of making everyone else think they did better.

Share it on the Internet, openly, and now everyone in the company can know what you make. If you're paid over-average, your boss might even get a phone call asking "why?". That's just not a good place to be.
I don't know what a steeple is.
The thing is, I kinda identify with Charlie. I rather enjoy getting it done and it's the kind of thing that keeps the ship sailing smoothly. Sometimes you can derive a strange appreciation from thwacking rats in the basement, so to speak.
I've long stopped reading Gawker for serious news or even entertainment...but I'm going to miss it as it is possibly the only independent online media outlet that actually made a profit. BuzzFeed might make a profit but NBC(Comcast) owns $200M of it [1]. Vox, too, got $200M from NBC [2]. Vice, as far as anyone can tell, is not near profitability (it just started its own TV channel), and has $400M from Disney [3]...and everyone else that is not a traditional news organization is not really on the radar for long-term viability.

What's sad is that this was pretty much an unforced error. They already got plenty of page views from the post that described seeing the tape. The editor who made the decision is no longer even there and failed at his own online media startup. What shouldn't be overlooked is how much Gawker invested in its own content-management system, Kinja...the estimates are as high as $20 million for what is literally a glorified, multi-site commenting system [4].

Very few online organizations could survive that kind of sunk investment...Gawker's editorial bent was such that it would post the Hogan tape just for the hell of it rather than to make pageview profit...but Gawker pretty much lost all of its great writers and reporters over the past two years, including Adrian Chen (who now seems to regularly turn huge features at the NYT and the New Yorker) and Nitasha Tiku.

I'm going to miss Deadspin especially. Sports news and entertainment was already monopolized by ESPN/Disney...we don't even have Grantland anymore.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/18/buzzfeed-nbcuniversal/

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/13/business/media/nbcuniversa...

[3] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-08/disney-sai...

[4] http://digiday.com/publishers/gawkers-kinja-retreat-shows-fa...
This may be one of the few times a "First They Came" reference on the internet wasn't completely inane.
Hi Sam!
Would you consider to add preserving wild life and animals to YC https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/? After all, animals also live here with us, humans. And we need them too. Maybe startups and innovation can help?
Those recommending a VPN: what should I get? Preferable something within an order of magnitude $1/mo, obviously featuring end-to-end encryption, perhaps even something I could torrent through? ;)
I agree that people probably stay within the same class of sociability throughout their entire life-- but I think that as one gets older the disparity between the loners and socialites gets much closer.

With that being said, I still don't think you can take any kind of result from this age-group seriously. Even if we assume that these people will stay within the same sociability class, your twenties might just be a busy time in your life where hard work at your career and education make you happier. That might not hold true when you're 60.
Yes, it's something like 5% at 1st anniversary, 15% at 2nd anniversary, then 20% every 6 months over the next two years.
Unfortunately, no. However, we are excited to move into all of the places that can't afford Park Chicago.
Under a very limited set of conditions. Anyone who believes that this translates into door-to-door general driving without a human even present anytime remotely soon is... optimistic.
Clair 1.0 Brings Advances in Container Security
In this particular case, they’re just using a standard double precision IEEE 754 floating point number. So I assume they do all of their arithmetic (“for JPL's highest accuracy calculations”) using double precision floats.
I think the OP means they can't legally access this information other than by getting you or your previous employer to disclose it.

Most large companies won't give out your past salary information, so if they don't force you to provide proof, it's not very likely they will be able to verify it.

>via background checks

Background checks are normally done via a 3rd party background check company, and they don't have access to this kind of data.
To be honest, the build time required for this (and usually GHC as well) get really annoying. Especially for simple updates.
I agree that we live in a country With a constitution that gives us free speech, but while we have the right to say something, that doesn't relieve us of the responsibility of what we say.

Gawker had every right to post this video, they also now have the full responsibility for the consequences. This case has established that you can still post sex tapes, but you now run the very real risk of loosing a lot in doing that.

This court case doesn't say you can't, it just says that doing it could be prohibitively expensive to do it.
You should apply to Facebook, when I was there special accommodations were made for people who required an office.
Position: Developer Evangelist

Tenure: 1.2 years

Job Level: 5

Base Pay: $130,000

Signing Bonus: $25k Year 1, ~5k year 2

20XX Stock Vest: 10 shares

LY Review Score: Exceeds

LY Pay Increase: 1.1%

Gender: M

I really enjoyed my job and would go back. No counter offer when I left but that was at my request. Was up for L6 when I left.
Ask HN: How much do you make as a developer in Toronto?
Seeing some recent posts of salaries for people at Google etc in what seems to be mostly California the numbers seem very high to me. I know cost of living can have a large effect on salary and I'm curious what developers are making up here in Canada, specifically the Toronto area. I am I suppose what you would call a senior developer (still only my 1st real job out of school, but have been promoted since I started about 2 years ago). I'm currently making $75k base and with bonuses and pension/stock matching it comes out to around $90k.
With April 15 coming, it wouldn't be hard to convince me that there's no reason to fund THAT broken organization either.
I interview techies, and I always make a point to ask them to give me their expected salary range. The purpose behind this isn't to one-up them and pay them as little as possible. It's just in both parties' best interest to avoid wasting time if the expected pay is too high. Neither we nor the candidate want to go through several rounds of interviews for something that ultimately won't work out.

And at the opposite end of the spectrum, if a candidate gives a number that's too low, we ignore that and offer them what we think they are worth (which is a higher number). Our reasoning is simple: if we treat people fairly, they will be more loyal and less likely to jump ship at the earliest opportunity that pays more.
Actually, not really. I was disappointed with the recent controversy over the Cecil Rhodes statue at Oxford. I thought it was incredibly narrowminded and a poor reflection of the entire purpose of academic freedom. Quite glad when they kept the statue.

History always has multiple points of view, our most recent struggles reflect only one.
I just put in my promo packet from L5 to L6. This better be happening.
I don't think a union is the way to go. More like a professional association like the American Bar Association, American Medical Association, AICPA, etc.
The real income inequality has nothing to do with skills, the inequality is between those who work and those who own. Top few percent vs everyone else.

If you think skilled jobs are automation / off-shoring proof, I'll see you in the bread lines in 10-20yrs.
haha! history has been made today :D
Depends who you are. I've always been ranked in the top tier of employees wherever I've worked, and worked my ass off to make myself indispensable. I've gotten multiple 15-20% raises, and even 30% bonuses without having to jump ship. Make sure you work on visible projects (front office, not back office), and that your managers are fearful of losing you because you're crucial.
Have you fund any startup who is trying to better education in third world countries. Something like TeachForIndia or may be a school itself ?
Sweden recently created a new law to explicit punish those who distribute sexual videos and images of a person without their consent. They don't distinguish if the images was stolen, created without the victims knowledge, or even created with consent. The law makers recognize the damage that non-consenting distribution cause.
Programming a hangman game in C++
Probably with more words, less anonymity, and the direct attention of other participants.
Free FPGA: Reimplement the primitives models
I was considering deploying Postgres (as a container) into a Kubernetes cluster. Kubernetes takes care of service discovery, networking, persistent disk mounting, moving the container if a server goes down, etc.

Wouldn't you have similar problems with Postgres without the container?
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I've been at Amazon for a bit over 5 years with 12 years total. Joined with about 7 years of prior experience. From the other post I see I did a very poor job of negotiating when I first joined with my experience. I've always saved the stock and considered it more retirement savings than spending cash.

Hired: 2011

- Level: SDE I (4)

- Location: San Francisco

- Salary: $96k base, $20k bonus, relocation, ~160 stock over 4 years.

- Average yearly total comp: ~ $150k

Promoted: 2013

- Level: SDE II (5)

- Location: San Francisco

- Salary: $110k base, 168 stock

- Average yearly total comp: ~ $170k

Relocated: 2015

- Level: SDE II (5)

- Location: Seattle

- Salary: $125 base, ~160 stock, relocation

- Average yearly total comp: ~ $190k
Lufthansa jet and drone nearly collide near LAX
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Trying to define “life” in terms of physics
I've been thinking about this a lot recently.

I think the answer is to become a serial founder. Elon Musk's career is a good model for this. He started with some kind of media/software company and then took on harder and harder challenges as he gained credibility.
It would be interesting if people also posted how many hours they work a week, to get a sense of the work/life balance.