skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been a few years since I've reviewed applications, but yes, you should apply. Put it this way: if you simply (a) answer all the questions (b) coherently, you're well ahead.
I created a throwaway just to pretend my salary isn't public record.

Location : Eugene, OR.

Position: Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Tenure: 3 years
Base pay (9 month) $72,000 in 2013, increased to about $75,000 in 2016. (minus union dues). Will increase to $82,000 when I make tenure.

Signing bonus: $0

Stock: $0

Pension : keeping my fingers crossed.

Experience when hire. Ph.D plus 5 years post-doc (at Princeton.)

Gender : M
Native speaker: Yes.
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Well yes, of course. High-density housing provides a lot more good with a lot less bad than chemical refineries. Besides which, it's both factually wrong and in severely bad taste to imply that working-class people are a form of chemical pollution. Also, violent crime is at an all-time low, in dense cities as much as in rural suburbs right now.

The whole view that dense housing somehow equals violent crime is decades out of date and largely only ever applied to deliberately-created black ghettoes in the first place.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11315112 and marked it off-topic.
yep. job hopping is the best way to increase pay. though top 10% can usually negotiate with current employer. everyone else should job hop.
Hipp is not a professor.
I heard light source has been a way to determine whether something is likely to be fake or not.
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I am sure Gawker didn't help their case with jurors when they said they would only draw a line at posting a sex tape of a four year old [1]. If they did have a chance of winning this case, they totally shot themselves in the foot with their testimony.

[1] http://nypost.com/2016/03/09/gawker-editors-line-a-sex-tape-...
I've always heard the number is around 50, but do you have any references to show that as being correct?
There is literally no way for the employer to find out... What are they going to do? Call up my old workplace and ask exactly how much I am making? It is against the law for employers to reveal salary numbers. I could sue them, lol.

Employers play games way worse than this.
Would have been so much better if that answer was 42.
Cancer reversed in frogs by hacking cells’ electricity with light
Did the astronauts use slide rules? I know the E6B is pretty common for pilots still.
Many online commenters the article is beside the point
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My college was far from bad, and covered lots of theoretical[1] ideas. I'd be surprised if 10% of graduate students understood them. Unless you are very abstract and passionated, 5 years aren't enough to connect all the dots I believe.

[1] surprisingly we didn't have a complexity course per se. We had optimizing compilation, type theory/interpretation, abs.alg/cryptography, all forms of relational algebras/calculus[2] etc, formal systems/symbolic processing. more than 50% of students failed, 25% struggled to get points, 25% kept their head above the water.

[2] which is funny, some concepts like transitive closure of relations and db normalization seemed hard and ideal toys, but much later I found that the first is similar to an abstract recursive fold (and folds are nice to have), and normalization gives you a better 'object' modeling theory better than most floating OO principles you read in books.
Disclaimer: Aviation hobbyist but not an expert.

It depends on the size of the drone and where it hits.

I am not sure how large these drones are, but if they have the mass of a flock of large seagulls, say, it could disable an engine (like the US Airways jet).

A collision with a wing could cause substantial damage to the wing which would change the aerodynamics, and that could be potentially dangerous at low altitudes because of the neighborhoods underneath. Debris could fall from the sky and injure or kill someone. I doubt it would come close to tearing off a wing.

A collision with the fuselage could breach the cabin which is dangerous in itself, but would not cause a decompression at that altitude.

A collision with the windscreen of the flight deck would be dangerous for obvious reasons. In the minor case, it can blind the pilots temporarily. In the worst case, debris from the drone would incapacitate the pilot during the most dangerous phase of flight: landing or departure.

What is really dangerous is the speed at which the aircraft hits the mass of the drone. It may seem like the aircraft would just kill the drone, and that is probably the case with most drones, but if it has large mass, it wouldn't.

The most dangerous scenario is if a drone hits the control surface like the flaps (very important for landing), or the horizontal stabilizer in the tail, it could be disastrous.
It's pretty weird.
I would imagine hitting the engine is probably the safest thing that could happen. The engines are made of titanium alloys and designed to not fail catastrophically. The rest of the aircraft is made of soft materials by comparison.
Same in Portugal
Do they blame the professors or the administration?

If it's the professors all hope is lost, since future professors will be taught by the people who are currently dropping the ball.
SWE II at Twitter. Not in SF.

Salary: $118.5k

Bonus: $10k

RSUs: 4500 over 4 years
Read only database. It is a hand optimized/compressed database engine that is used for big "once a day" data sets.
I think this assumes the order of magnitude of the size of the observable universe.

Clearly if the diameter of the universe is smaller than a proton then you don't need 43 digits of pi to calculate its circumference to smaller than the diameter of a proton. So if the diameter of the universe is 10^1000000^100000000 proton wide the precision you need for pi would be way higher than 43?
No it's not. Just appropriate the houses from the landlords, justice served, job well-done. Landlording is the world's second-oldest form of straight-up exploitation, right after pimping.
Gawker made"...In 2009 $60 million in advertising revenues and more than $30 million in operating profit. ..." Wikipedia

When it goes to appeal I am sure the number will be negotiated downward or nobody wins and Gawker closes.
> I know the E6B is pretty common for pilots still.

I've used that before. It is not a standard logarithm stick but a vector addition tool. Does one thing very quickly.
Hilarious and scary at the same time. The admissibility of videos in courts is becoming more and more questionable.
Heh I didn't say that. Automation just means available jobs will get increasingly higher skilled.
when in doubt, ask for what you want. that's what all the unqualified people are doing, so you might as well do it too.

the most uncommon and valuable skill in the world is for a smart person to willingly put themselves in a position where they could easily fail, or be ridiculed. dumb people do this all the time. this is an advantage to being dumb. you have no ego to lose. nor much of anything else.

that is the cross-section of intelligence and success. just look in the mirror for an example.

and for what it's worth, if you think dropbox is a tepid idea, just consider slack. enterprise irc with history and attachments. worth billions. there's more to it than just a cool idea. the example i always use is: i've got a great idea. let's build a time machine. it'll be great!
I work at Amazon too. Last year I wanted to collect compensation information about tech industry professionals (software engineering or PM) in Seattle. I created an anonymous Google Form and sent it out among my circle of friends.

Here are the results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/133LBigv7pOkgpTkA6bHH...
Most younger people can't afford to own, often because housing has been made artificially scarce and artificially expensive to artificially enrich the class of older people who bought when it was cheap.
People should really check out the new Thinkpad T460s - actual upgradability, looks spectacular, carbon fiber , brilliant Linux compatibility. Takes the new Samsung 960 Pro NVME and works brilliantly.
I'm a recent graduate of Fullstack Academy, and I also happen to have a bachelor's in Computer Science. While at Fullstack we didn't spend weeks on end going over object oriented design or learning algorithm design, we did have lessons on it. And I found it to be delivered in a better format than any of my computer science classes.
I'm sure not all CS classes are created the same, but they are usually the same length and only a few days a week. The difference being that at a boot camp, you're there 10 hours a day, 5 days a week.
Long term, driverless cars are going to happen so they might as well get in early.

If you can't beat them, join them.
Your first paragraph is totally right, but that doesn't contradict anything I said. Batista was an evil man, and many older Cuban-Americans today will admit that they originally supported the revolution because of that. But you're totally wrong to say that things were worse under Batista than under Castro. There's a great movie, The Lost City, that captures this whole tragedy: the evil of Batista's regime, the competing revolutionary movements, Castro's promises that he wasn't a communist, his victory and ensuing mass executions, lifelong exile in America for some--most of whom left Cuba with nothing but the clothes on their backs--and a life robbed of freedom and opportunity for the rest.

As far as dictatorships go, they're all terrible scourges on mankind. But if I had to choose to live under a dictator like Pinochet or Batista, vs a dictator like Stalin or Castro, I'd choose Pinochet and Batista every time. Communism is uniquely destructive of a nation's culture and productivity. For example, in communist Cuba, you don't choose a job because it pays more. You choose a job based on what opportunities to steal it gives you. Cheating and stealing is the main way to get ahead, or even to meet your needs, in such a society. Few things could be as destructive to a people.
Well, the Gawker empire already answered that question: they were highly critical of Reddit for hosting /r/fappening (rightly so, in my opinion), so it's more than a little rank to do an about face on this.

I certainly agree that it's difficult to see anything resembling a meaningful public interest in publishing the tapes - I'm surprised but pleased to see that the US courts didn't do their normal "you're a public figure so you have no rights" as tends to be the case with defamation or privacy cases.
I have a rice cooker from Amazon that was less than $100 and works perfectly. I don't know if it uses fuzzy logic or not. Is there an easy way to tell?
holy cow- and people still leave to do startups? They must be really crazy.
The smallest possible distance is the Plank lenght, 1,610^-35 (110^-15 is the diameter of a proton). And for that you only need around 60 digits of pi to calculate the circumference of the universe.

Of course, that is just for the simple operation of calculate the circumference given the diameter, more complex operations with pi may require more precision.
It does depend on the size of the observable universe, which we do know because, well, it's observable.
Shoot thats a good one I need to add to my list! Fake counteroffer from own employer. (Fake competing offer from a different company probably wouldn't work, because they would ask for an "offer letter". A counteroffer from current company isn't going to require proof)
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Would this include companies that play offense, selling to government? If so, does it matter if they sell to many governments (as did Hacking Team and VUPEN, selling to places like Egypt and Sudan) or if they only sell in the USA to the NSA, CIA, DoD, etc.?
This [1] puts it at 44.

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=observable+universe+dia...
Using a random cost of living calculator (like this: http://www.bankrate.com/calculators/savings/moving-cost-of-l...), it looks like many places aren't $60k different. But Atlanta, Dallas, Indianapolis, and lots of other cities are ~$50k different. Rural places are ~$60-70k different.
Thanks! That's a very nice thing to say.
As YC's portfolio of established companies gets bigger (and more valuable), do you think YC's focus will eventually shift from "facilitating innovation" to simply "maintaining the status quo" (particularly if the latter becomes more lucrative)?

What measures do you have in place to make sure that YC's financial interests remain geared towards innovation?
"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." - Yogi Berra
Just because you say that you believe in paying people more, the person on the other side of the transaction has no way of knowing this. Unless you want to believe that all hiring managers are completely moral and ethical, and would never attempt to underpay someone, then you have to accept that the transaction is adversarial despite you not wanting it to be so.
No exactly what you want, but some advise.

Sit and use the product. Feel the pain. Detect the more painful bugs and fix them. (Loosing all the data is very painful. Being annoyed to repeat some task is painful.)

Somewhat related: "What is the Work of Dogs in this Country?" http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000012.html
The Apple Fight Is About All of Us (EFF)(BinaryFreedom)
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And this ? https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%91%84%E5%8A%A8%E7%90%86%E8...
(pt https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teoria_de_perturba%C3%A7%C3%B5...) (fr https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9orie_des_perturbations)
The way those artifacts gradually start to blend with the greenery is fascinating. It'd be fun to play there as a kid I'll bet
Good wage, yes. But remember the median price of a home in Seattle is well over $500k. You're looking at something at least $600-700k+ to be in an area without a crazy commute or other problems. Most people I know that are just starting a family have homes over $1M. $130k doesn't go super far when housing is that expensive.
Physics? Numerical analysis is Mathematics. It's still active and very important, e.g., in solving PDEs using the finite element method.
Correct, it's just the modem. I then connected a router for WiFi and hardwired connections.
Maybe for astronomy a few could be enough, but for computing all are needed for the perfect filesystem https://github.com/philipl/pifs
Wow, you got a bump in 2015 and went somewhere with lower cost of living (plus no state income tax). That's definitely a win-win.
Actually, contrary to popular belief the party that makes the first offer could have the upper hand. This advantage is due to what psychologists call "the anchoring principle" [1], which is one of many cognitive biases.

[1] Thinking, Fast and Slow - by Daniel Kahneman

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-negotiate-make-first-o...
Interesting. I brought up a similar issue about what browser dot org and while they took months to get it working with HTTPS, I consider it a win.

Still interesting though. I'd just use a separate certificate for this.
> www.zynamics.com uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for the following names: .google.com, .android.com, .appengine.google.com, .cloud.google.com, .google-analytics.com, .google.ca, .google.cl, .google.co.in, .google.co.jp, .google.co.uk, .google.com.ar, .google.com.au, .google.com.br, .google.com.co, .google.com.mx, .google.com.tr, .google.com.vn, .google.de, .google.es, .google.fr, .google.hu, .google.it, .google.nl, .google.pl, .google.pt, .googleadapis.com, .googleapis.cn, .googlecommerce.com, .googlevideo.com, .gstatic.cn, .gstatic.com, .gvt1.com, .gvt2.com, .metric.gstatic.com, .urchin.com, .url.google.com, .youtube-nocookie.com, .youtube.com, .youtubeeducation.com, .ytimg.com, android.clients.google.com, android.com, g.co, goo.gl, google-analytics.com, google.com, googlecommerce.com, urchin.com, youtu.be, youtube.com, youtubeeducation.com Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN
275M Android phones imperiled by new code-execution exploit
Actually I've moved every year for the last 9 years. Definitely can get tiring. The last 2 were cross-country!
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> Hahaha. Someone's upset, downvoting every post of mine here.

OT: I didn't downvote this comment, but I do tend to downvote any comment that mentions downvotes out of the belief that it mentioning it completely detracts from the conversation. Frankly, you should edit your comments to remove the downvote remarks.
Exactly, thanks for clarifying this for me.

In the US, this is a legal minefield and when a potential employer calls a past employer for references, that past employer will very often not reveal anything more than "We can confirm that this person was employed by us from date1 to date2" and that's it.

They will not disclose your salary, what you did, your organization, who you reported to and who reported to you, your performance reviews and anything else of that nature because all of this extra information is grounds for you to sue them later if you don't get the job you're currently applying to.
Terrifying, amazing but terrifying.
This is insanely awesome. Something that comes to my mind is the use of this for dubbing movies and TV series; I'm very sensitive about correctly syncing what's being said to what we see, to the point where I only watch movies in their native tongue - even if I don't know the language and need subtitles. This could be a game-changer.
btw Pi = 4 (in taxicab geometry aka L1)
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/96835/are-there-any-...

Euclidean geometry is not the only one and some physical problems are solved using spaces in which pi is NOT 3.1459

;)
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That's an awesome retort, never thought of that!
And even in the event of an engine failure, they could still probably land safely.
SF wants Airbnb(YC) hosts to pay taxes on beds, stoves and cutlery
Well, if you'd prefer Pinochet there's little left to say on my part. Pinochet was a monster, a torturer and a traitor to his country, and along with many murderous dictatorships in South America (like in my country, Argentina) enacted the infamous "Plan Condor" for the assassination of dissenters, as well as the illegal detention and forced disappearance of students and political opponents. It's really hard to come up with a more brutal and despicable dictatorship in South America than his.

We share no common ground on which to continue this discussion.
"Loss-making Uber would make drastic savings on its biggest cost -- drivers -- if it were able to incorporate self-driving cars into its fleet."

Umm, don't they get the cars for free now? How many rides will the cars need drive to break even compared to cheap drivers and no capital cost now?
Maybe the new decimals are information from beyond this realm. Thanks, Sagan.
Right, so the salaries are probably biased towards the low end.
Some things are more important than political positioning. Even an incorrect belief that leaders are corrupt will influence culture, making corruption more acceptable to society. Laws can be changed back and forth, and walls can be torn down, but corruption is mighty hard to fix once it has solidly taken root in society.
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Complaints about downvotes are offtopic and pointless. I doubt it's "someone's upset", it's just general downvoting of offtopic posts.
Tangential - I asked my manager where I am on the stack rank once. He said it's confidential information.

I have access to VCS, bugbases, all the documents. We're a very metrics-oriented organization. And the one thing that defines where I stand with the company, I can't be trusted with.

I think if I didn't get a check every two weeks with the number on it, they wouldn't tell me how much I'm paid.
Same with Amazon for the most part.
Returning internships are only allowed 2 weeks.
Full time offers after internships are given 2 weeks, but you can ask for an extension which does last a couple months. However, you're given a questionnaire on the type of team you want to be on and the longer you wait to accept your offer, the lower on the queue you will be for getting the team you want.
Very. Long. Wait.
We're not talking about AC frequencies here. Electromagnetic waves are different. The only 0-frequency EM wave is literally "no wave". Nothing happening.
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On the employee side, I think the alternative is Two week's notice. Not exactly "slaves," but with some structure for how to resign.
It is a job of the government to counteract destabilizing influences such as the wealth concentrating effects of technology and under-competition. As a foreigner living in the US, the US government honestly sucks eggs at it. Healthcare, banks, cable, broadband, cell phone service, Google, Apple, Microsoft... all classic antitrust cases across the board, waiting for an un-captured regulator.

If world governments continue to fail also at corporate tax, the current dystopic situation of regressive effective corporate tax rates through profit export will persist, and risks everything we have gained through capitalism and democracy.

I encourage you to read the definition of UBI. Universal means you give to everyone, from the homeless guy on the street, to Bill Gates. Not just laid off people. Also, your top-of-head speculations are not the best evidence available for its effects.
The airflow would be trying to prevent a collision with the front of the wing, and a drone would simply go where the wind blows. Which is to say if a drone flew straight for an airplane wing, it would fly around the wing and suddenly explode in the massive turbulence behind the wing. This would look very surprising because to the naked eye there is nothing behind the wing.

Hitting the fuselage, or entering an engine is probably more realistic. Both would be expensive, but won't be a threat to the passengers. Maybe hitting the wingtips would be doable ... not sure.
(I'm a Cuban entrepreneur) Everything-Cuba has been always media-hype. I believe, in part, due to the poor understanding and information out there about the country. All in all, if you compare, the Cuban government has been actually opening up and allowing much more economic freedom now than it did for many years, and I believe they will continue doing so, as it's in their best interest as well as that of the cuban people. If by "greater" you mean neo-liberalism or alike, I don't think we would do that, but who knows, shit happens.

Stripe's move is clever but not because of the "media play" only ... they are doing the best thing an US business can do regarding an opening Cuba right now, they will see tons of cuban businesses applying right away, and I bet a very high cash-flow, what's not to like?

Also, I can vouch for Merchise Startups (the guys Stripe are partnering with), and they know their ground, that's something you can say about (sadly) too few people in Cuba, regarding business, entrepreneurship and startups anyway. So the move gets clever by the minute...
Your response here is intellectually dishonest. Of course Pinochet was bad, and I was very clear about that. My point is that Allende was and would have been worse. Allende was so bad that the Chilean Supreme Court and Congress called for his forcible removal from power by the military. He was ignoring court orders and ruling by diktat. He was turning Chile into Cuba and was close allies with Castro. Today, one country is extremely wealthy and stable, and had a peaceful transition to democracy. The other is still a totalitarian hell hole. You might come to a different conclusion, but moral indignation is unwarranted.