skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, thanks for sharing your story.

Yes, you are correct that it is different for children. As adults we can learn to cope and compensate for our weaknesses, but for a child whose mind is very different from the norm it could be nearly impossible to do so without outside intervention. So it's good that you persisted and found him the help that he needed!

I am very critical of the DSM, but that criticism is more due to my tendency towards mathematical purity, and I do agree that there are people helped immensely by it that wouldn't have been otherwise.

However, I also think that if we had better models of the mind, then perhaps we could even help more people. In your case your son was showing some clear signals that allowed several independent specialists to reach the same conclusion. I wonder how many children with less visible signs of autism that nevertheless would have benefited from some form of intervention and assistance in their youth. Perhaps, even, most people have some form of blind spots, be it in social interaction or mathematical aptitude, and a more individualised approach to education would allow all children to grow up maximizing their potential in every area. But I understand that that kind of thinking is utopic.

I suspect that the recurring phenomenon where adults self-identify with autistic traits is due to such a problem - they perhaps struggled with social interaction as children, but were not given the adequate tools to understand that at the time, and have only come to realize it as they grew older.
good point! Title should have been "Why smart 20-somethings.."
Personally, I never read an applicant's HN comments, nor do I note the names associated with comments with I read HN.
So why do any of the things mentioned in an article need any form of network connection? All the monitoring could be done at a standard mechanic like how cars are already checked over, the unlock system doesn't need to work over more than a few metres (what's the chance anyone is going to want to legitimately unlock a car from miles away?) and stuff like the entertainment system could be kept self contained.

Then it wouldn't be an issue how 'insecure' the OS is, since a thief would have to be physically near the vehicle to do anything.

But hey, thanks to the obsession with 'smart' devices and the internet of things and all that stuff, everything seems to have an internet connection chucked in for no real reason.
There's always that one person...

I've done that, and my most personally profitable years were doing that, billing $125/hour the last year I did it (this was eleven years ago), and working slightly more often than I wanted to be. There was a lot of travel, as my particular specialty was something that was needed by companies with very large websites, but not by many others, which I suspect is gonna be true of most of the "which people pay good money for skills in" projects. Being a contractor has most of the same disadvantages of having a real job; maybe pays a little better, and maybe you work a little less because of it. But, it has some additional negatives that I found made me unhappy.

I haven't gone back to contracting not because it isn't profitable, but because it isn't what I want to do. I want to build things, not merely install and configure software (even being really good at installing and configuring complicated software leaves something to be desired in the "job satisfaction" category).

Anyway, I've been making my living on Open Source software for approaching 20 years, through two different companies, and a half dozen pivots and business models. I'm not making statements out of lack of knowledge of the topic.
Equivalent to $90k? Do you live in the US? The cost of living for most lifestyles is nowhere near $60k different between Seattle and anywhere in the US.
Since most of the lines have references to footnotes it would be cool to supply those as well. Or remove them.
The highest age was about the same, but they were more likely to die at every age than we are today. A 40 year old still could expect a shorter average life than a 40 year old today.
> primitive cultures live[d] as long as we do

BTW, an extremely minor point: I intentionally used present-tense because primitive cultures still exist.
Doesn't that allow to execute evil code if one of the StackOverflow answers is edited?
To be fair, the common vs. preferred share distinction depends on the company.

It could be that in your case they were valued the same. You actually mention that you sold at above the company's last fundraising valuation - it could be the case that the preferred stock was valued even higher.
Yep, if it's technical work that requires a large amount of learning and investment in employees, the company will typically move mountains to keep you if you are good.
Honestly, it doesn't seem to be super different yet, except for the late stage which has gotten much harder.

It still could change a lot--I'm not sure.
Sam and Jason, this is something that should be done and resolved 1-on-1. The entire ecosystem collectively gets distracted when these happen. Imagine the cost of this (gazillion followers spending gazillion man-decades of brain cycles). Also this gets you and him to be distracted as well and compound it by NOT tweeting/snap chatting stuff that is net +ive.
So how good do the trigram indexes scale? Both on index build time and query speed.
Hmm, yes, I understand where you're coming from. If I can pick your brain a little bit more, I do find what you say about body language to be quite interesting - particularly because I am largely unconscious of mine most of the time.

In a broad sense, what sort of changes did you make to the way you present your body language, and what sort of cues do you look for in other people?
So I go down the thread from above, asking you what you would do, and your response is "nothing, don't bother trying to bring me into the fold, I'm just going to complain"?

I'd appreciate it if next time just you would just say "I'm just complaining" so I know not to waste my time.
Depends on the problem. If the general human consensus believes the sun revolves around the earth, you're going to have a hard time working with multiple minds. Problems which require radical shifts in ideology are more than likely going to be tackled alone. It would come down to the maximum power principle. You would waste a significant amount of energy pulling someone psychologically one step in your direction, whereas independently, you could be three steps closer to proving your thesis. Not to mention, social cohesion, or whatever you want to call it, encourages group think and naturally ostracises outsiders as a primitive form of bonding or fitting in with one another.

Really hard problems fight monocultures of 'obvious truth' in the bonds of multiple minds.
Hi Sam,

PG in some of his older articles was really big on Lisp being the most powerful programming language and instrumental to his success. His writing actually inspired me to learn Clojure.

In your experience, does the power of a programming language, in a software business, matter as much?

Thanks for doing this!
If the idea seems good, and the DAU number is growing fast, we'd be excited to consider it.
UnRAID to require internet connectivity to mount array in next version
I also practice mindfulness. In my case, I have had and still have intense emotions. But you know, letting things arise and pass. I can tell you that just because I can naturally feel a lot doesn't mean that I was socially adept.

I've had a lot of experience with consciousness shifts and exploring different states. If there is one thing I learned, it would be there is no such thing as "normal". Social norms are largely an illusion, and what lurks in the psyche can wildly vary.

Some people don't have intense emotions. Others do. Some have greater empathy than others, in some case edging into parapsychology.

This was something my wife and I were talking about today too. For me, the idea of being "socially well-adjusted" is founded on deep flaws. We have this bias that somehow conflates the inability to speak well with being unintelligent.

We all have different communication channels in which we can connect to people. An emotional connection is one part of it. The emotions lead to some important things related to the human and spiritual experiences, but just because you can feel emotions doesn't mean you got a handle on them, or yourself.
Not that important. I didn't finish college.
Less than $100,000
Around $125,000
Around $150,000
Around $175,000
Around $200,000
Around $225,000
Around $250,000
Around $275,000
Around or greater than $300,000
None of this is responsive to what I just wrote.
No. One thing we like to do is help founders figure out that path.
When you make as much as you do, it's a huge waste of everyone's time for you to interview for roles that just can't go there. By stating your compensation up front, you effectively make the recruiter your negotiator before you ever interview. You're getting them to get the company to agree to possibly paying you that much, assuming you meet some bar in their head that's worth it.
More specifically to your next move, your base salary just won't have a lot of room to grow. So you have some options.
-become a consultant. Many are referencing Patrick's blog (kalzumeus.com), which is a great way to bump up your dollars.
-transform a recently funded startup that goes public. They'll throw money at you to build their team, then hopefully the stock makes you rich.
-Even outside the big 6 (Uber? Really?), at your level in your job most larger companies should be rewarding heavily in stock and performance bonuses. Take the time with the recruiter to truly understand what the total compensation strategy is. What is the vesting schedule for the initial reward? What about stock given as bonuses or for promotions? What % of possible bonus does the average employee actually receive?
-create the next big tech and run with it. AUTOMATE ALL THE THINGS. I hear there's money in that.
Amazon offered me 104k/year + 18k signing bonus for year 1 and a 14k signing bonus for year 2. Software Developer position.

35k in stock options that would vest over 4 years.

That was March 10th, 2011.
I'm hearing a lot of gold plating that shouldn't have been in 1.0. Wifi? Mobile app? A slick server that is incompatible with their admin panel? Dynamic DNS? Skip those for Mineserver 2.
Thanks for this!

https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck

and `brew install shellcheck`
I would suggest that the growing gap you describe is a symptom of continued application of neoliberal policies. It is not that there was a status quo for the last 40 years, it is that the last 40 years has seen accelerating erosion of the conditions/social contract established in western countries in the post depression/WW2 era.

Placing the rights of capital above all others, particularly giving capital a level of mobility that is not afforded labour, combined with an unquestioning embrace of trade liberalisation results in a race to the bottom for labour.

It is only due to the stranglehold of neoliberal thinking on modern economic thought that globalisation is considered inevitable.
I just randomly picked two of the most painful protocols I could think of :) It doesn't surprise me though, I feel like I can't go a workday without hearing the phrase "Oh, actually, I can do that in R"
Description of the LCS35 Time Capsule Crypto-Puzzle (1999)
Good luck with that, I really like your motives behind it.
As is too common in WaPo articles, a headline that starts with "why", but is actually making a novel claim, is usually a crap article.

"Why" articles go for things that we already know to to be true. When you make a novel or controversial claim, and slap a "why" on the front, you are intellectually dishonestly trying to trick the reader into believing the claim is already a known truth.
Unless you say otherwise, Morgan Stanley will deduct it for you, and IIRC, the don't take your exemptions into account - just 30% off the top. You get to decide if you want to take the tax liability or get the refund (assuming you're effective tax rate is not actually 30%).
In other words division of labor does not work quite so well for a data science department as for a pin factory. The proposed solution (letting data scientists code more) is not radical enough in my opinion. Why not muddle the roles even further? Let everybody feel the pains that people in the other roles experience. Foster empathy and personal connections. Let developers talk to the users and vice versa.

I worked at a company where distinction between the roles was emphasized by physical separation, presumably so that they won't interfere with each others day-to-day duties. The downside is that each group starts caring about their particular thing only, feeling that they are the ones who really keep the place running and other groups are bozos doing their job incredibly poorly.
Both contempt and disgust are natural emotions that are displayed by most people.
So sad for those that virtualise firewalls.. Although they also seem to ignore many requests to include 8021q in the kernel, and bridging just mashes all the interfaces together (groan).

Alternative - https://www.linuxserver.io/index.php/2016/02/06/snapraid-mer...
You don't need the trusted third party. You could share the hash of the numbers so they couldn't be changed during the process, then do the millionaires problem [1] to find out which number was bigger, and finally and only if the right one is bigger, share the figures (setting the salary at the midpoint is the same as sharing the figures in terms of information transfer) and calculate it that way. The only way to not reveal the offers after a successful round would be to introduce some randomness, maybe choose a number at random from some agreed portion of the range between the numbers. I don't know if there is a zero knowledge protocol for selecting a number at random from a range where the extremes are set by two different people.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yao%27s_Millionaires%27_Proble...
Good. Gawker, frankly, needs to be destroyed at this point.

I'm all for free speech but you don't need to post non-consensual porn to the internet to accomplish that.
> The highest age was about the same

That's not what I took away from the article, but I could be wrong. That wouldn't be anything interesting to discuss or write about.
When Android overtook Symbian, Symbian was a more capable OS than Android, this had nothing to do with capability. Android was able to copy iOS faster.
Microsoft employee, not Amazon, but these sort of discussions absolutely need to happen and I'd like to do my part.

Salary: $115k base, no regular bonus or stock, $50k offer in stock over 4 years if I remember correctly although I don't know offhand how many units that came out to.

Level: SWE1 (60 internally)

Tenure: 2 years internally, 7 in industry

Yearly pay increase: Averaged ~6k/y thus far.

Internal candidates have NO leverage. The only way to get a promo is to be in the right place at the right time, and have both high visibility and a manager who has proper political influence and will fight for you. If you want a salary boost, leave and come back a year or so later. "Performance" reviews, accomplishments, hours put in, is all moot unless you have the above, in which case it's a nice bit of ammo if your skip level has a lot of competition for his promo budget, but proper political clout can likely force through a promo without. (To add another tidbit that I've always wanted to clear up anonymously: Stack ranking absolutely still exists, if not in a formal process but as a necessity from how budgets are assigned and promos divvied up.)
Thanks for the invite
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. (Although in fairness, this incident is particularly egregious, especially as they disobeyed a judge's order to take down the video)
Yes, it's called the public college+university system, and it worked well for at least half a century and propelled the baby boomers who now run the USA
>Finally, let's not forget Cuba immediately before Communism was an even worse disaster.

This is just completely false. Cuba was by no means a democratic or rich country, but there was a growing middle class and plenty of economic success. It was one of the most advanced and successful countries in Latin America. Here's a good article from PBS: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/castro/peopleevents/e_precastro...

>Some aspects of Cuba are a success, like its approach to universal & free health care and education.

This is another myth that's been debunked. http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/cuba/health-myth.htm . It's a National Review article, so they obviously have their own biases, but most of the pro-Cuban pieces rely almost exclusively on Cuba's self-reported WHO statistics, which are obviously unreliable.
I wish I had time myself, but it would be really helpful if someone tabulated the results from this thread.
MS employee here, with a bit of anonymization

Location: Seattle area

Gender: Male

Category [1]: White

English native: no

Age: 35-40

Years in MS: 5

Title [2]: Senior SDE

Level [2]: 63

Hiring bonus: 0

Base salary: ~$140k

Annual bonus: ~16k

Annual stocks: ~17k (over 5 years)

Annual benefits: ~$25k

[1] http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/interactives/multiracial-time...

[2] http://geekologist.co/decoding-microsofts-sde-titles-and-lev...
by handing out degrees to people who take on debt.
Ask HN: As a Ops/DevOps engineer, what is your salary?
I tried creating a poll but it immediately got flagged. Feel free to put your employer if you are comfortable doing so.

< $100,000
~ $100,000
~ $125,000
~ $150,000
~ $175,000
~ $200,000
~ $225,000
~ $250,000
~ $275,000
~ || > $300,000
Yes but we need to meet them first.
Ask HN: What is the best part of your job?
What makes you get up every day, and be excited for your job? If not, what would you change? Why?
I think you're talking about this:
http://aadrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-tha...

I quite enjoyed it as well.
Ask HN: How much $ you make as a HW/SW/FW engineer in Intel/AMD/Apple/ARM?
In light of the recent thread on Amazon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11312984 I am starting an equivalent one mainly focused on HW engineers. I also know from a source who has access to industry standard salary rates for engineers that are used for PERM filings. If you are an apple/google HW engineer, feel free to add your rates here.

Me:

Company: AMD

Salary: 105K/year

Location: Austin

Job Level: 3

Prior Experience: 0 years (fresh grad)

Signing Bonus: 8-10K

Yearly Bonus: 500$
An enterprise software company (Microsoft) made the most popular video game console. A search company made the worlds most popular navigation and email tools. A consumer e-commerce company is the the biggest supplier of enterprise cloud services.

There are more people working on 'x' outside of big companies then there are people working on 'x' inside of big companies. So really, it's surprising that big companies break in to new verticals as often as they do. Anything could happen.
and i'll give a counterexample - Jason yelling down and belittling an entrepreneur and his team during prep for a conference presentation, for a totally unrelated reason and then cancelling their appearance because he was mad at something else. I have never seen anything like it.

Assholes are manipulative, it's how they get away with it.

The problem is silicon valley is self-reinforcing with positive feedback, nobody rocks the boat and speaks ill (the subject of Jason's abuse above would never come out and say it) of others.

It is 100x harder to give a negative public view of someone than it is to give a positive.

Investors have more power than most of your employees and they will freely speak about you, associate with you in good times, many will run away in bad.

You should run extensive due diligence across all of them, and with people who worked with them - not the type of Silicon Valley 'good friends' that involve spending 5 minutes in a conference hallway with someone 3 times a year, or having dinner twice a year.
Hourly/on-demand motor :)

Helps enable people in the UK to borrow their friends' cars (which is often illegal here).

There are a few more complexities in motor insurance which don't exist in other verticals also.
> You are also forgetting that it isn't just your sacrifice in terms of the time you are giving up with your wife and children for three months, but also that you are forcibly restricting them from being able to see you too. They didn't choose that.

“He who would accomplish little need sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much. He who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.”
> The vast majority of software engineers (let-alone 'entry level' SEs) in the US aren't making six figures.

While I'm sure this is true in the total sense (there are a LOT of bad software engineers), decent and good ones should be making over $100k easily.
That sounds an awful lot like a cryptographic protocol to me. And CNN told me that cryptography helps terrorists. ... You're a witch!
An Indie, Off-The-Grid, Blockchain-Traded Solar Power Market Comes to Brooklyn
Can anybody name a few successful high-growth startups that were started by people with these kinds of family obligations?

If it has happened before, that's evidence that it can happen again, but if it's never happened before, that's evidence that it may be harder or impossible to form a high-growth startup under obligations like those.

(Disclaimer: high-growth startups are not the only kind of business worth forming. The director of engineering of a slow-growth enterprise software company may have a higher quality of life than a co-founder at an unprofitable unicorn.)
I'm a TPM III, 10 year experience in consulting before coming to Amazon, former developer and dev lead. Been at Amazon 18 months.

Base is $145k. Signing bonus $50k year 1, $40k year 2. Stock 350 shares over 4 years. 5%/15%/40%/40% No promotions or reviews yet.

In summary: about $200k total comp first two years, from then on variable based on stock. I expect about $225 to $250k in 2016.
You just have to count up how much time the UN spends focusing on Israel as opposed to every other country in the world to realize that it not merely broken, but genuinely in the hands of the bad guys.
There's plenty of money to be had in Portland. Drop Airbnb, Nike, or any of the myriad of startups in town a line.
> Really? I went through the co-op program at my university and the pay range for everybody going into software was basically $15-25/hr, although I didn't hear of a single person getting over $20.

By competitive, I mean microsoft, facebook, and google. This could be naïve of me, but that's how they position themselves.
Because funding a diverse set of companies and founders is how you tap into really new ideas.
Discerning fake video from real just got a lot harder. Video is one of the last bastions of honest evidence.
This article started badly and went worse. Needs a LOT of intellectual rigor.

Evolution hypothesis wasn't tested, study wasn't very useful at disproving anything or solidly claiming anything. A life well lived I believe has been solidly shown vt philosophers to have little to do with happiness, and "priests and novelists" is just silly IMO. They have no say whatsoever.

So its safe to ignore literally every claim of evidence in this post. That said, it is an interesting hypothesis. I can imagine being a loner and being intelligent could have many bits of positive feedback between them.