skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People value transparency, and it might be that they would prefer a lower salary at a more transparent workplace.

I specifically said above, "Where the cost analysis may not be the same for each side.". This obviously includes non-salary benefits (stock, vacation, flex time, home life balance, etc).

You are also only addressing the workers with below-average wages (who may be qualified for higher pay) when you say that secrecy helps employers.

I specifically said above, "The worst case scenario for the employee is to find out they are making significantly more money than their coworkers, in which case they have no further bargaining power.". As an employee, your bargaining power is not reduced if you have knowledge of that you are paid above the median. In other words, from the employees perspective, there is no situation where you are in a worse negotiating position due to having more salary information.

so I would assume that transparency could be used to bargain them down, as the below-median workers were helped in bargaining-up;

Note that when negotiating, the only party that is going to negotiate for lower wage is the employer (since it is generally unlikely that an existing employee is going to ask for a lower wage voluntarily). And from that position, the employer already knows all current salaries. If you are making substantially more than the other people, then the employer can (and likely would) reveal that information in order to help secure a lower raise (or also likely, no raise, and unlikely, a lower wage). That's the power of information asymmetry. The employer can use the information when it benefits them (reducing the size of a raise for an already high compensated employee), but withhold that information when it does not benefit them (when a low compensated employee is up for a raise).

don't know why we should assume it goes one way or the other.

We don't have to assume anything. This is basic economic and negotiating tactics.

I am not an advocate for wage transparency or opaqueness, because I don't know which way the effects go for anyone.

It's perfectly reasonable to have an opinion on wage transparency, but it seems a little odd to say "I don't know which way the effect go for anyone". We have negotiating models and frameworks specifically for this type of activity. And the general rule is, "The more information asymmetry that you have in your favor, the better your bargaining position". Specifically because it allows the party with the additional information to use that information when it benefits them, and withhold that information when it does not benefit them.
After how much time can an organization's past actions cease to be attributable to its current members? Why not also just blame the current human race for everything bad done by humans >100 years ago?
I don't know how reproducible the approach is, but i'm working my way in from being a php developer previously. The company i work for is building a big data / machine learning platform from the ground up, and they bootstrapped the project from existing employees, including myself.
Thank-you.

For others' info: the above link points to a UK accessible version of this article.
Now there's an interesting thought experiment: what does a country with high internal labor mobility look like?
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The resulting product is fast, easy to tune (for my particular application) and handles every edge case and language I've thrown at it.

Do you have any specific concern you'd like to share or are you just generally dismissive of other people's hard work?
You missed the point. Your anecdote is about the returns gained when you choose to personally sacrifice one thing to gain another.

My point was that in this scenario, you are forcing sacrifices on other people whether they like it or not through your actions.
Agreed, that's way under market. At Intuit's San Diego office in 2013, we were hiring college graduate software engineers for $75k base. Add another 15-20% for total comp (bonus, RSU, ESPP).
The news stories weren't very clear on the stolen or not issue - sesutton's comment suggests that it was, but if it wasn't, that indeed would make Hulk's case worse. But only in the "legal" sense (Hulk's video wasn't pirated), not in the moral sense (both his and the girls' privacy was invaded eithout their consent), which is how Gawker et al. campaigned against Fappening... As I said, I was mostly criticising their hypocrisy.
Honest question + comment + disclaimer

question:

why not add your info on glassdoor.com? (is there some evil behind glassdoor I don't know about?)

comment:

Probably worth noting general location of employment, like the metro region you're in.

disclaimer:

I've been researching salary myself in the bay area based on glassdoor data:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BoMvtY_mICEYygy0jXVG...
A Universal Basic Income is not necessarily paid to everyone, at least not directly. A UBI means a certain income level is guaranteed, if you are earning more than the guaranteed level, you may not be given anything in addition. This is most clearly demonstrated by one proposed implementation of UBI, namely, a negative income tax. A negative income tax would entail those earning below the guaranteed level being paid enough to raise their income to the guaranteed level. Those earning more than the guaranteed level are taxed.

Negative Income Tax is pretty much the only implementation of UBI I personally could get behind. I just wouldn't be able to support an implementation of a UBI that pays Bill Gates the same amount as a person born with a severe disability (which obviously they had no choice about being born with).
I loved this game, it and games like Painkiller feel like the last of the super face paced crazy FPS that defined the genre for me.

Would like to see more older engines released.. technically they can't be that important now and with engines like Unreal being developed in the open the tech is no longer really any secret to anyone.
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I wish you'd blog or do an AMA or something; your responses in this thread are fascinating.

(I discovered a couple years ago that I really like audiobooks.)
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It is certainly freedom of the press, and freedom of speech; but ultimately serves no public purpose. It's just also mean and ridiculous.

Freedoms of this nature must be protected regardless of the context. Gawker's unethical behaviour accross the network, from outing comfortably closeted gay people to failing to disclose obvious bias, is awful; but should not be forbidden. The cure is worse than the illness. My apologies to Matt Drudge if it seems like I'm making light of the action as intellectual pornography.
I like to think it's because the article mentions the Georgian empire, which in the UK means something very different, so could be confusing.
i.e. Georgians being the British immediately prior to the Victorian era, or (for obscurity points) the alien race inhabiting Uranus.
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When you say that "we" (you?) don't need most of the people living today, or their offspring, ever, isn't it the perfect example of inability to care about people?
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I would suggest that the growing gap comes because government steals from the poor and gives to the rich through inflation.

One ought to have seen a dividend for the working guy due to lowered prices from increased efficiency brought about by technology, but instead the Fed has chosen to favor "stable prices" which is done by lowering interest rates (I.e. making it easier for rich people to access capital)
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While I respect that conclusion in general, I think that Gawker in particular has done a lot of sadistic and mean "reporting" which serves no public good. Them being sunk seems almost a public good in my opinion.
I'm dismissive of pointless hard work.
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I must say... 50-90k seems like a huge range. The top part of the range is almost 2x as much as the bottom part.

Considering these people are supposed to have all the same experience level, I'm surprised why there's such variation.
Employees and regular investors never get a chance to invest when companies don't go public, it is unfortunate. However, it is very difficult and it can destroy a company going public.

This situation has become another middle class driving down force going private/acquisition over public IPO. The public markets have a key role in our economy and wealth growth across the board, private equity and acquisitions not as much.
already posted, 29 comments:

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That does not necessarily mean that no one should have any kids. It means that people should be forced to have at most one child, by probably compulsory sterilization after the first child's birth. Puerto Rico is an example of a place where this policy worked just fine. And it should apply to everyone, not certain groups and classes of people which is where such a policy errors. So no it has nothing to do with caring for people. In fact the geometric population reduction would have the exact impact of reducing the population and therefore creating more appreciation for people.
Depends, my base is higher than that range, and there are other benefits to working in the UK - stronger employment laws, free health service, excellent public transport that sees real investment ... and of course the holidays.

Just looking at salary is comparing apples to oranges.
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Being maligned by whom? "Journalists" get to control the narrative on literally any topic they choose. They had to fuck up really hard to get the rest of the press to report against them, and even then this case isn't receiving anywhere near the coverage it deserves.
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Currently you can see everywhere ATMs are asking you to visually check that keypad and card-input looks exactly like on picture. With this technology, you don't need to make a fake keypad to "hear" PIN sequence, you could just "listen" to it from somewhere else, some place not seen well.
What is your actual argument in terms of how this is a threat to freedom of speech? Apologies if I am misreading your meaning.
The engine was absolutely breathtaking back in the day. And SS games are aging very well. Sadly they were one of the last pure FPS games.
Definitely not true, i have doubled my salary at my current employer through a combination of negotiation and normal pay raises. I never explicitly threatened to walk out, but i did point out when i was substantially below market rate, and that was enough.

I do think that overall switching employers makes it easier to get a raise, because a current employer is more likely to know your true market rate making it harder to convince them to pay you above that, or even at that rate (with them figuring you won't leave for a small difference).

You do have to be careful not to become a 'job hopper'. When i see a resume where somebody never stayed somewhere more than 18 months i'll figure we won't be any different and am less inclined to give a thumbs up to HR if that person needs a sizeable training investment from my part.
ETL is just a small part of it, and engineers should probably have more of a role than they do. My last project was a data warehouse one, where the thing was obviously slapped together by PowerCenter users. They thought it was all about the ETL, They forgot the other 95%, how to engineer large scale, complex, maintainable software solutions.

Sure, let the powecenter users "write the ETL", but then they need to get the heck out of the way and let the big boys actually build the warehouse.
This is very very true. While I don't share his sentiments about GMO, the principle applies to immigration and asylum seekers - where politicans living in their own walled world tell us mere mortals how letting random people into the country is the right thing to do and also beneficial to the economy.
I'm not sure what in the article gave you the impression that Richard Hipp doesn't have a strong, positive opinion about fixing undefined behavior in SQLite. He has patiently fixed all the issues that were straightforward to fix. That's commendable.

Some of the design choices in SQLite go back to the early 2000, and looked like good ideas at the time. Some of the problems detected by tis-interpreter had no sanitizer to detect them until the latter appeared. That's a long time to use seemingly okay, in-practice-harmless idioms such as 1-indexed arrays everywhere in a large software project. And there is the question of how many real bugs would be introduced by trying too hard to fix these (though hopefully the excellent test suite would prevent that).
I rarely agreed with your opinions but I never expected you to succumb to this level of doublethink.
There's absolutely nothing to back up the claim that programmer wages rose when more men took on that job.

The basic reasoning in the article is to produce the appearance of a conspiracy so structural and so vast that it doesn't matter if each individual claim is provably false or contextually misleading, the broader narrative remains somehow irrefutable.
Here are some actual examples:

Something to add to your list of examples: During the first Gulf war, 28 US soldiers died due to accumulated rounding errors in the Patriot Missile battery computers: https://www.ima.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/patriot.html

(This was in fact a known issue, and operators had been instructed to reboot the computers every 8 hours. Unfortunately this instruction ignored the fact that, in the field, nobody wanted to be responsible for turning off their defensive systems for a minute.)
I'm not just looking at salary, I'm saying that the perks that phillc73 was asking for (4-5 weeks annual leave, sick leave, parental leave) do not come cheap.
"I eventually decided to learn how to read body language. I did some training to recognize expressions, focussed on one skill at a time, and viewed every conversation as practice. I improved to the point that people comment that I'm surprisingly good at reading them."

Wow! I thought I was the only one who did this. As a kid, I too felt like I was missing out on something everybody else understood. Similarly to you, I just kind of naturally viewed it as something I could learn and get better at. Over the years, I did, and now I'd consider myself better than average at it.

Unlike you said, though, I do feel others' emotions. Sometimes too strongly, I think.

"I read descriptions of Aspergers and it sounded much like me. Now when I read them it sounds not very much like me, because a significant component of those symptom descriptions involve poor social skills."

Poor social skills are a common symptom, but I do strongly believe that for somebody with high intelligence these skills can be learned to an extent, like you and I feel we did. In my by-no-means-professional opinion I would not say that "learned" social skills rule out the presence of autistic symptoms.

That said, the lack of ability to share and care about others' feelings does not sound like the mild end of the autism spectrum as I know it. Anecdotally a lot of people with these diagnoses feel others' emotions strongly, they just struggle to understand others' emotions more than the average person does, ie: "Colleen is really sad today, and it's making me sad, and everybody else seems to intuitively understand why she's sad but I don't. And this kind of thing happens a lot."
I worked at a place that shall remain anonymous. An engineer later terminated for cause spent almost 2 months setting up a hadoop cluster with all the stuff that goes along with it to analyze some log data. When a senior engineer manager finally got incredibly tired of waiting for the results, said senior engineer manager wrote the desired analysis in an afternoon in ruby, and it ran in a couple hours mostly limited by the spindle speed on his laptop drive.

The productivity factor of ruby or python in a single memory space vs hadoop is at least 10x.
Hi Sam, qq from my side. If you are not programmer, but want to become one, what would be area, programming language and industry that you would suggest to focus on that will allow you to grow fast as a product and company? Thanks!
Yes. It is freedom of the press. Leaking the tape to the public should be punishable, but just broadcasting information obtained should not be. Gawker did not produced said sex tape.

On a personal level I would love to see Gawker the company fold - but punishing media for publishing true facts is troubling. After all Eliot Spitzer and Anthony Wiener also had their privacy invaded. The idea of a media outlet being sued (although with good chance of winning the case) could hurt coverage of worthier targets.
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In Europe, a month is typical for junior, professional jobs, with this increasing to three months for senior positions.

You can, of course, not turn up to work. But that might well make you "unreliable" if you ask for a reference later. But it's not a problem, since a new employer giving a three month notice period will expect you to be on one at present.

(The notice period during the first 6 or 12 months is often less, eg 2-4 weeks.)
A more cynical question: why do these companies exist at all? From the wikipedia definition of business: "The goal is for sales to be more than expenditures resulting in a profit."

Wasting other people's money until the end of time is not a sound business model. If they are not designed for profit the design has to change at some point in time, even if it this means morale hits and keeping people up at night.
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Randall Munroe of xkcd had a (humorous) look at when the number of dead people on Facebook surpasses the number of living people a few years ago: https://what-if.xkcd.com/69/
They are not being punished for broadcasting the tape.

They are being made responsible for harm that results.

These are different things.
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A substantial proportion of jobs never even makes it onto job boards. And yes, higher paying jobs are often amongst them. I've been approached for jobs that have never been listed publicly several times. It's one of the reasons why it can pay to be on good terms with (the right type of) recruiters and (more importantly) have a good network of industry contacts.
Your selective and inaccurate editing of the host comment is dishonest,and the emotionally charged adjectives you use make it sound like you're more interested in virtue signaling than having a discussion.

The mistake you're making is that you think one anecdote cancels out another and makes it invalid. Both anecdotal experiences are probably true. Anyone urging us to reject one recounted experience as "gross" and "problematic" is in favor of shutting out information that might be accurate but doesn't fit a preconceived agenda.

In other words, not just a liar, but someone actively pressuring others to deny their own experiences. I can't think of a worse person than that, no matter what worthy cause they think it's in the service of.
If he just used something like Haskell this would not be a problem instead of something dynamic like Python where types are taped on.
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It sounds to me like you and the parent poster are actually in complete agreement. They wrote:

"It's only when those "autistic" traits interfere with
your life and preclude you from reaching your potential
that they're considered abnormal and a diagnosis is apt."

Isn't this exactly what happened with your son? Your son reached a situation (school) where his traits began to interfere with his life and his ability to reach his potential. And at that point, the need for diagnosis and treatment became clear. (Or at least as clear as these things ever are. They're certainly never simple, eh?)

Regardless, much respect to you for recognizing the problem and working with your son to get the help he needs. Not an easy thing to do, but you're doing it, and in an ideal world parents would get medals for this sort of thing. Good luck!
So... are you saying that if a celebrity talks openly, even boastfully, about their sex life, then it is free speech to publish a sex tape that was recorded without their consent?
My guess is that he/she is describing a range across countries in Europe, which vary considerably in income for developers. If that's the case, it sounds reasonable to me.

Also, they described 5+ years experience, not the same experience level.
Honestly, I still don't see a problem with stating a high number.

In my experience, refusing to agree on a range will inevitably lead to some lowball offers.

The strategy I've been using is to give out a range that is 1.5-2x what I'd be happy with. This anchors the conversation and quickly sifts out the employers who are not serious about attracting top talent.

Realistically, I never expect to get that 2x number and am certainly not leaving money on the table.
Are there actual subsidies or just lower taxes on electric cars in Norway?

EDIT
We are being pedantic apparently. Are there any cash or cash like payments or is the subsidy purely in the form of a tax reduction?
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You're right, I mispoke.
You are trolling [1] here [2], right?

[1] http://racerelations.about.com/od/historyofracerelations/a/T...

[2] http://stanford.edu/group/womenscourage/cgi-bin/blogs/family...
No, it doesn't. If you make an M/R job work 1000 times more efficiently you save money for the company. It doesn't matter if you are a profit center or a cost center.
For example, the Unreal Engine 1.x and 2.x would be great. The original Unreal Tournament have actually problems to run on modern hardware.
What contract with which devil?

Cuba already has a fiber optic cable to Venezuela, so they can get all the Internet they want and need into the country.

Cuba already has a national backbone, so they can get the bits distributed to every city.

Cuba already provides Internet access to government and educational institutions and some businesses, so they already have the capability to provide intenter access, even if so far it's been in limited quantities.

There are plans to provide ADSL service and Internet access can also be provided via existing wireless networks. There are also informal wireless networks that could be used to,get Internet out there to the people.

The Chinese will sell them as much network equipment as they want. They already provide the most of it anyway.

There are very few technical issues. All the Cuban powers that be need to do is unrestrict access and allow the use of existing infrastructure.

EDIT: all of Cuba could have some level of Internet access right now if they just allowed satellite usage.