skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not true at all. You just need to find a company that values you and your work.

Our company intentionally hires juniors so that we can groom them as they grow. I was one of those juniors < 5 years ago and I've increased my salary > 100%.
> Theres something odd about the reasoning in the article thay I cant quite put my finger on

Yes, it is all over the place:

1) "Why smart people are better off with fewer friends"

2) "The higher the population density of the immediate environment, the less happy" - for everyone that is.

3) "[...] one big exception. For more intelligent people, these correlations were diminished or even reversed."

4) "The effect of population density on life satisfaction was [...] twice as large for low-IQ individuals than for high-IQ individuals,"

COMMENT - So, trusting the writing, presumably low-IQ individuals are more happy in a small town where fewer people are around to socialize with and more unhappy in a big city where more people are around to socialize with.

5) "more intelligent individuals were actually less satisfied with life if they socialized with their friends more frequently."

COMMENT - So they have that in common with low-IQ people? This claim contrast oddly with 4) and also the graph pointing out that this is a population wide trend..

6) "If you're smarter and more able to adapt to things, you may have an easier time reconciling your evolutionary predispositions with the modern world. So living in a high-population area may have a smaller effect on your overall well-being"

COMMENT - Then the whole article could be summon up into something a bit shorter basically, smarter people have a relatively easier time than less smart people, no matter whether they are in a small town or a big city. I feel the reason for the sense of oddness stems primarily from point 4 which remains unexplored/explained and stands out against some but not all of the other claims made.
And he never got a penny for the theft, just a lifetime of enjoying the violin. I'm not excusing him, just commenting.
> Kids were 30 to 100 times more likely to die.

This means that life expectancy was short. It directly conflicts with

> short life expectancy is a myth, and that primitive cultures live[d] as long as we do
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11315443 and marked it off-topic.
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Sde I with 5 years experience?
Stuck at work? Go home already, you'll find that bug next week
What year was this offer given to you? Also, was your 7 years of experience before you got the Google offer? Was all of the experience in US?
they should have just used a true open-source minecraft: https://opensource.com/life/15/9/open-source-alternatives-mi...
Hi, Sam,

Many of the HW people I see on YC focus on consumer applications.

How does YC feel about more 'b2b' applications, like nuclear seals for the IAEA, or industrial things?
The actual happiness of hunter-gatherers is seriously in dispute. It's by no means a settled anthropological question.

For a useful perspective from the other side, you might want to read Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature.
Is Hacker News comment history "private/free speech", or does YC use Hacker News comment history in judging founders, employees, business partners etc.? I'm not talking about the judgements anybody could make by googling, I'm talking about using your positions as insiders, is Hacker News a source of intel?

I am not a partner or potential partner, I ask because sometimes I see people write well meaning things that make me wince for them if they are being judged.
Wholeheartedly agree, and IMHO the lack of Mac compatibility completes the vibe!
The F35 can also evolve, an F16 block 16/25 is quite a different beast from a modern Block 52/52+ one.

Heck if the F15 gets it's SE variant you could potentially extend it's life for 3 or more decades, and even without it it's probably good for another 20 years or so as it doesn't look like anyone is building a strike fighter with similar payload delivery capabilities and speed.

Heck if the US can find use for it's B52 fleet till ~2050 (which will make it the first aircraft to serve for a whole century) they could probably find a use for an F35.

Heck convert them all to drone and use them as expandable weapon delivery platforms you are unlikely to see much dog fighting in 2030.
Hi Sam, what is your personal mission?
True, if you're working alone. But 5, 50, 500, 5000 artists trying to paint on the same canvas? Then the game is significantly changed.
This is super interesting. A lot of responses make me feel underpaid, but I'm not really sure because it's dirt cheap to live in Reno: You can get a 1 bedroom apartment for $500-$1000 a month. My wife and I bought an 1800 sq ft house on 9000 sq ft of property for $230k.

I've been a software engineer at a small software company ~20 employees for 3 years now, but I've only been out of school for a year and I make $75k.
While traveling the world, I feel in love with Cape Town so much, that I decided to apply for a job at Amazon since their recruiters were constantly emailing me anyways. EC2 was started in Cape Town and that office does mainly AWS support tools, but not as much EC2 work any more.

I do not remember the details too much, but it was something like $84K for my first year, after stock and all that nonsense. The salary is not much compared to the US, but very good for South Africa. However, the offer was in Rands, which has since collapsed. I would have lost about 30% of my salary when converting to dollars.

I did not take the job for various reasons, with very few having to do with Amazon. The team itself was excellent and I regret not joining, but I am glad I did not partly because of collapse of the Rand.

I still miss Cape Town. One day I will return for another visit.

EDIT: I can provide more detailed numbers if people are interested. Would need to dig up the offer letter. Very few Americans must have applied like I did, so Amazon could very easily figure out who I am. Hey, I loved your team, it just was not meant to be!
This is super interesting. A lot of responses make me feel underpaid, but I'm not really sure because it's dirt cheap to live in Reno: You can get a 1 bedroom apartment for $500-$1000 a month. For reference, my wife and I bought an 1800 sq ft house on 9000 sq ft of property for $230k.

I've been a software engineer at a small software company ~20 employees for 3 years now, but I've only been out of school for a year and I make $75k.
"The second is to give them a microcosm in which they can walk around in suits, look important, use buzzwords, and basically find some, however contrived, meaning."

So that's the explanation for the UN's infamous 'internet violence' report, where instead of actually trying to look at any sort of real issue, they spent hundreds of pages talking about internet trolling on behalf of a few rich kids who were having issues with Twitter. While making every possible sourcing failure in the book at the same time.
> This means that life expectancy was short.

Surely you know what I meant. If you made it to middle-age you lived just as long.
"us" certainly could be referring to just those students. My reaction was based on the interpretation of "us" as "those with autism".

There is a trend of the high functioning population (see 'neurodiverse' or ND) debating those that advocate for the low functioning as to whether or not we should try and help the low functioning to "change". It's more complicated than that, but those that advocate for the lowest functioning get frustrated by the debate. It usually comes down to "if you have the ability to say you 'like' your autism, you can keep it, but don't try and prevent others from trying to help those who can't advocate for themselves."

If orik was only referring to a handful of fellow students, he/she wasn't speaking for all of the spectrum and I misinterpreted who was meant by "us".
I'd love to hear what you find so objectionable about the tweets to linked to. It seems radical but not offensive.
As a weapon, this is of limited utility. Germany tried it during WWII.[1] The gun site was bombed to rubble.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-3_cannon
That's a good question actually. In Canada you can withdraw from your RRSP early if you want, but you get hit with something like a 25% "don't do that" fee. What's the reason for this lock-in? I can't see one other than to try to encourage you to keep your money in the plan for the long run.
How is the funding environment for start-ups right now compared to 12 or 6 months ago? How will it be in 6 to 12 months? Why?
Amazon, and any other major company, has created a salary range for any role. As someone who has hired for many of these companies, I can tell you:
Sharing your compensation is taboo, but do it anyway. So long as you do it honestly and completely. Talking about only salary in a company that rewards heavily in stock is not useful.

There is negotiation room. However, playing the game of show me your hand first is just plain annoying. Why should a company pay you more than is standard in your role? Are you leaving bonus/stock money on the table to come there? Relocating? Losing money on a lease? Tuition? Costs covered by your current employer or another offer (ie housing, transportation, childcare, etc)?

It's a myth that all companies are out to lowball you. The more successful a company is, the more likely it is that they've realized internal equity is at least as (if not more so) important than being competitive in the market.

Go see twitter #talkpay. A lot of great data points were shared there.
Jury awards Hulk Hogan $115M in Gawker suit
Do you own a McLaren?
Speaking as someone who just finished a 2-year rotation through Cape Town as an SDE - massive, core parts of EC2 are still there and aren't going anywhere. "not as much EC2 work" is definitely not accurate.
Wow that's stock heavy.

How does that vesting work? 60some shares per quarter or each half year?

I'm really not a fan of having so much comp be stock. It's a way to go I guess.
What trademark? The word 'mine'?
Medicine is not the Wild West, in my opinion, the best most common example would be that most "medical" grade medicines require the approval of a doctor. To me, the idea that someone that's already well adjusted should literally be allowed to put there life at risk potentially is the very definition of malpractice. Lastly, age was not the factor, but the percentage of the fellows life already lived as "well" adjusted. To me, what's evil is the desire to make everyone the same for the sake of being the same.
... Did you mention where you live?
> The amount of the drug and concentration of the drug and the salt or ester of the drug can impact the pharmacokinetics of the drug.

Can, but in the case of crack cocaine vs. powder cocaine, they demonstrably do not[0][1].

> Crack is severely more punished over cocaine because it severely impacts user behavior - much more so than cocaine

It really does not. It can be (but is not always) more habit-forming to smoke a drug than to insufflate it, but this is true of all substances. And intravenous or subcutaneous use of crack cocaine and powder cocaine are literally, 100% identical.

> The campaign to punish crack possession was also largely due to blacks demanding it to be made as so.

No. There was support from within the black community, but to say it is "largely" due to this is overstating the case.

And getting back to the original point, that doesn't actually contradict the original statement, because the reason that black communities felt the impact of violent drug crime and white communities didn't is itself a direct effect of the racial power structures involved.

[0] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8926741

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8918856
I'm not entirely sure what comment.ws does from the website. Its a bunch of vaguely familiar faces and logo. A page that gives a 1 sentence explanation of the site will be cool. Hope that's helpful
7500 can get some good (although limited) development done around here (Portugal). Dunno how much time it would take whatever they needed though
Part of the problem is that there are not that many TDD codebases or TDD'ers around. Also, this is probably not something you can pick up while doing toy projects or school assignments. The benefits start to show in the 100 kloc and above magnitudes, and as there are so many ways to paint yourself into a corner with bad overall design, coupling, unmaintainable (or slow!) tests, chances are, you don't figure out all the necessary things yourself. On top of that, there is no time to learn this much in most dev jobs, so you are left to learn with hobby projects (which do not usually grow big enough).
My mind also fired me a lot of "bullshit science warning" while reading this article.

And, event though the argument "smart people have a bigger project and they spend time realizing it rather than socializing" makes also sense for me, I don't really believe in it. Smart people may also spend time with friend to elaborate their plan and socializing in order to gather a group to execute that plan.

Another explanation would be that they have more problem finding like minded people so they'd rather spend time alone than being with uninteresting people.

Conclusion : if it is true that smart people need less time socializing to be happy than other people (psychology studies tend to always contradict each other, I don't rely on them too much), I don't have a serious explanation why.
"Cuberite is licensed under the Apache License V2"
I thought about that quite a bit as well while writing the comment.

Since HN is US- and tech-centric, I added the company name for non-tech or non-US companies. Walton was an exception because everyone knows Walton/Walmart, Bloomberg was an exception because the company's named after himself (and it is technically in technology), and Dre was an exception because (a) most people know him for his music, not Beats and (b) it's more of a fashion company than a technology company. I was on the fence with Ellison/Oracle, given how old the company is.
A natural language home automation interface to control all the electronics in my home.
Lithium batteries: To the limits of lithium
Media diet is important. IMHO staying aware of local, regional national and global "stuff" is kind of nice, it makes it much easier to be social. Occasionally I encounter stuff I want to know more about. But it takes a light touch. 15 to 30 minutes a day is more than enough.
140 chars is great.. shouldn't change - but urls, images, and
hashtags and @users shouldn't count (hashtags may have a limit of 5-10 per tweet but all of those should be consider meta-data about the tweet and who it's geared towards and who it personally addresses. The msg itself should remain 140 chars.
It's absolutely not at all illegal to check and is a very standard part of background checks.
Do you have any evidence that the hit rate would be close to zero if you invested in founders with just a concept?
Looks like they ran into some issues. But an amazing experience for the young boys. I'm not sure many would have that sort of life experience before their first job, let alone before college. Well done to the parents for helping their children to do this.
This is just my speculation but I bet it depended on wild animal populations, rainfalls vs droughts, peacefulness of neighboring tribes, etc. I don't think you can generalize on the happiness of all hunter gatherers.
Minecraft certified hardware sounds like a win-win to me. Making that offer is not petulant self-entitlement. You're being ridiculous.
If it is regional, it is not an empire...

China was an empire, and was forgotten. Today I could go to the book store and buy "Historic Atlas of the world" that completely ignore China.

I have lived in China and of course the Chinese propaganda does the opposite: They consider Confucius the best philosopher of the world(because is the only one they have with Universal status), and what Europe only did was copying China innovations, and so on.

I used to like the bbc in the past.
Seems risky!
Yep, BBC future is the same. Utter bullshit - it may not be paid for by the TV license but that's no reason to (try to) block access.
Copyright of what, specifically?
So world government? Some of the most powerful people on the planet have been openly advocating for such a system for quite some time. If such a system is created, I certainly wouldn't expect it to be in the interest of "the people". Any time you consolidate such power, it is naturally co-opted by those who already have power. Perhaps advanced ledger technology can help keep things relatively democratic but this all sounds very dangerous.
Before this thread gets too stale, I did find a legal paper from Duke, 2006, talking about how certain kinds of blogging are likely protected by NLRA, "When is employee blogging protected by section 7 of the NLRA?" By Katherine Scott, < http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=... >.

It looks like one of the main criteria is that it has to be a part of a "concerted action" to benefit a collection of employees, and this had historically been broadly interpreted in support of employees with a very liberal understanding of what a concerted action is.

This whole HN thread about it, for example, would almost surely qualify (I am not a lawyer, of course, so that's not a professional opinion and not a form of advice for anyone here), since it is explicitly focused on the whole class of Amazon employees and encourages employees to share for themselves.

I wish I could find the older case about the leaflets. IIRC it was from the late 1970s.
My first job was $15.50 an hour for a software dev internship at Ericsson. Then I went through two junior web dev jobs, both part-time, each paying $20/hr then $25/hr. They considered me a bargain. Now I'm making twice as much.
UCB CS294: Virtual Machines and Managed Runtimes
Is that 189K RSU?
Cuberite is to Minecraft what Apache Harmony is to Java or ReactOS is to Windows.
I feel like trying to solve social/economic problems by adding complexity to the tax code is almost never a net benefit. That's the whole reason the IRS is as bloated as it is, and why there's an entire private industry dedicated to income tax filing. It is insane.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11315985
No one was there at that time, no one will truly know if this is true. I don't even think that we can compare the happiness between two people (I am happy doing things other find horrible like programming), so two people from different time ? Impossible in my opinion.
I will keep boycotting and stick with Facebook Notes. RIP!
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.
To be fair, SF is significantly more expensive to live in than Seattle. MSFT gives something like a blanket ~10% higher offer to SV-area employees for this reason.
The accompanying paper[1] claims the phone lasts four hours running the current version of fingerIO, but also that improvements could be made to preserve power (such as reducing the sampling rate).

[1] http://fingerio.cs.washington.edu/fingerio.pdf
Some of the most important startups start out looking incredibly ambitious. Others start out looking incredibly trivial, but with users that are in love with their product.

We like funding both.
Also had the same exact bump in salary while working for a media company after my managers manager realized my pay grade. However I do agree this is the exception to the rule.
That's one of the more likely theories yeah. While the defining ASD characteristic is impaired social processing, which seems like it would be specific, scans show it has relatively wide effects throughout the brain. There's a host of differences. Some are possibly connectivity-based. Localized processing seems hyperactive, and longer-distance processing is hypoactive.

But, there are other issues as well. In developing ASD brains, there have been shown to be areas of excess cortical thickening, areas of cortical thinning, underactivation, etc.

Connectivity certainly plays a role, but given that structure and function are so deeply interrelated, it doesn't make much sense to try and separate them.

We think there's a strong genetic component, but nobody's been able to figure it out yet. It appears to be more developmental/structural, but there could also be a neurotransmitter component, given that a large fraction of ASD people have elevated serotonin levels, and report intestinal issues (intestines have huge numbers of ST receptors).

In short, pretend you're debugging an intermittent parallel error in a network 50x greater than the total number of computers on earth, every computer had to coordinate its protocols on the fly, and your only tools are telnet and email. I respect what my former colleagues do, but reality was way too murky.
3 years working at a small startup which eventually folded. I am in my late 20s.
Sure there are: It shall be unlawful to conduct a restaurant or other place for the serving of food in the city, at which white and colored people are served in the same room...

Colored includes Asians.

http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/links/misclink/examples/homepa...

So apparently all paperclips are unique, some move by themselves, some don't? Then how can rayiner so confidently assert that the state of the black paperclip is entirely caused by what happened 50 years ago?
People should choose the best of all available options and still feel guilty about it?

Not really sure what you are advocating for here.
Amazon's compensation model leans heavily on stock and tops out in the mid 100Ks for all job levels. It's not uncommon for senior roles to get more compensation from stock than salary, and at higher levels the majority of the compensation is in stock. For the majority of employees, once compensation RSUs kick in, vesting occurs on May 15th and November 15th. For L7 (IIRC) and higher, vesting occurs quarterly.

The annual and midyear review process takes this into account and attempts equalize total compensation depending on the value of the stock (basically, you want the stock to be down when the price is used to calculate your total comp at the end of January).

When I was there, it was somewhat difficult to recruit some higher level roles because they might only be offered $120-$150K salary and then 200 or so RSUs over the course of the first year. That doesn't always look as enticing to someone as $250K salary.
Would people who understand deep learning enough to apply it properly every use Excel?

Every time I've used Excel for a complex problem I've regretted it. Even simple things like joins using VLOOKUPs are incredibly clunky and error prone.
I'm in Montreal, full-stack developer at a small/medium-size company, four years experience, ~$80k. Feel like I messed up a bit and they would have gone for 90 or 100. But they give great benefits and a 35/hr work week.
Its complete refusal to accept any responsibility whatsoever for causing the largest Cholera outbreak in the world in Haiti?
http://www.ijdh.org/2015/05/topics/health/principal-appellat...
Okay, you're talking in circles.

What would you like them to do differently in their approach? What could they do differently that would engage you better?