skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Houses, kilns, pottery, turquoise carvings, tools made from stone and bone, and bone flutes China [1]

I'll take living as a potter in 8000 BC China over being homeless in NYC today, thanks. I don't have to be the King.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8th_millennium_BC
Fair enough :/ it just feels like 'misusing' words is disrespectful to their source, as though a lack of effort was taken to use it 'properly' (air quotes since those are highly subjective terms). In a detached sense, I suppose seeing semantic change [1] in action is neat, but it is still just the tiniest bit depressing.

edit: Ah! Also cool is dental cement [2] which is, as the name would imply, used in dentistry (but without any aggregate equivalent!).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_change

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_cement
I'm saying that understanding things thought up and formulated by others is orders of magnitude easier than doing them from scratch. This simple property gets most of us through the schools and to the workplaces.

It is certainly possible to fully understand a car down to minute detail. It's even easier if you get briefed on design decisions.
Cabs are Teslas? That's interesting, I wonder what drives that? Lack of gas costs?
Even in the most skunkworks of situations, losing the executive in charge of a product still doesn't really strike me as "losing the core dev team".
I doubt their premises.

For example, I've recently moved to another city which made me happier and the effect did not wear off after four months and I don't think it will.

As another example, having a significant other versus being alone makes for such a huge difference that it's not ever up to discussion.

Maybe if we're restricting our talk to meaningless status symbols (like the mentioned Lexus), then it starts to make sense.
Are we looking at the same data?

SDE3 is a quite senior role at Amazon. I don't know very many of them, and almost all of the ones I know are extremely bright. Seems like they're getting ripped off.
Awesome stuff, guys.
The best part is the WH Auden quote, which provokes more thought in 10 words than the rest of the essay put together:

"Poets love their handwriting, it’s like smelling your own farts."

Don't I love to read my own Hacker News comments?

And I bet Stephen Fry loves to read his own essays.
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Ask HN: People making $150k+ / yr, what was your career path?
I have been contemplating jumping ship from Python / C at a small company to Enterprisy Java at medium to large corp.

This comes after the realization of having no visible career path despite being good and working hard and most friends (Java / C#) jumping to $150k+ jobs.

Thank you, responses would really give some helpful insights.
This should probably more prominently explain at the beginning of the README that it's for Linux. Nothing wrong with that, but being bound to Linux is an important detail.
I recently got a Nokia 130 because I lost my old phone. Dunno if it goes above your "piece of crap" line but it serves very well my needs.
I would like to see one of these analysis break down base salary versus total compensation. I have never received less than 95% of my total compensation in base salary. Neither has my non-technical wife. I have no idea what is "normal" in that respect.

I'd also like to see a breakdown by market, as I have been led to believe that my salary is only slightly below market for Dallas, but the median compensation numbers posted in this article for my experience level are three times what I make now, and it's depressing.
I'm reading the Mars trilogy right now. It's also really good.
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The rest of us who were not old enough to work & buy a home before it became unattainable are very envious.
Would like to see a discussion of possible systematic bias. The "hacker" group generally prides itself on a) creatively messing systems up, and b) anticipating (and preventing) creative system mess-ups, I have to wonder how accurate this data is. Sure, there's little incentive to lie - but there is a small incentive, which is simply to mess with people. (And there might even be another, which is to exaggerate income to encourage others to ask for more money, which might eventually positively affect you.) I wonder if there is any way to measure this effect, or eliminate it.
Generally, people want to abolish IP and copyright (or any law, for that matter) except when it's in their own interest. Human nature.

Not much talk of the fact that I, as a consumer, can now get an identical product for cheaper. Not identical? Then what is the concern?
This is my #1 fear as someone who just recently moved to Europe from North America to travel and see the world while working.

Europe is NOT dealing well with multiculturalism and immigration. And while the American/Canadian progressive left goes more radical, at least it keeps the extreme right wing in check. The European left is too scared and complacent to either set boundaries or speak up for the benefits of liberalism due to complacency after decades of being in charge. As a result, the conservative/nationalist/fascist wings are DOMINATING the conversation, and are winning hearts and minds.

And yeah, I'm fully expecting at least one Eastern European country to start openly locking up muslims within a decade.
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My business strategy would probably change to proving the market for my product before selling my business to the people operating the platform for slightly less than it would cost for them to set up a competitor product.

That would likely be profitable, but only as long as you can keep picking winners with your rolled-over cash.
Microsoft already faced an antitrust suit about this issue several years ago. It resulted in the mandatory browser choice ballot when first starting a new Windows system.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrowserChoice.eu
> You aren't entitled to their content.

I am entitled to whatever their server sends my browser when I make a request. I am also entitled to alter that content in the browser in any way I see fit, including blocking their advertising. They may want to be compensated for their content and server costs through advertising, but unfortunately for them the web has been designed in such a way as to allow the rest of the world not to care about what they want.

The advertising model on the web is just fundamentally flawed and doomed to failure. It's essentially an honor system, but as long as people can block ads and still get content, they will. Trying to detect that is an understandable reaction on the part of businesses, but the ad blockers will only be redesigned to compensate, and people would probably much rather go elsewhere than even be slightly annoyed by advertising.

Companies need to accept that the ability to block ads is an intrinsic part of the web, just as the ability to turn the channel is an intrinsic part of a television. They just can't make us look at their ads if we don't want to.
Now you can load your website as slowly as you want, even before deploying it
Duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11520407
Needs a bit of definition for levels, I take Level 1 is straight out of college, L2 is some (3-5 years) experience, kind of default, L3 "senior" (internal promotion, really good experienced candidates) and L4 super-senior?
The sad reality is if your employed, you have good health insurance, and if your not, your visa isn't there either and your back to europe/canada with social services anyway :/

American also has Social Security & 401k (pensions) and health care for the old (medicare) / poor (mediCAL, medicaid), and some social services (public school, various state programs in california)
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As someone who uses the internet in a healthy way and healthy dose, i think this article is like when an (former?) alcoholic suggests to all the people to not even drink one beer occasionally.
Seriously why should I not use email to communicate with people far away from me on interesting topics? Why would I not look up things in Wikipedia? Why would I not look at Fecebook once a day for 2 minutes to see whether there is something extra with my IRL friends and relatives?
Conversely, I always hear the claim that Jesus was born on 1 AD, but on what evidence do we know that? Some random monks in the dark ages tried to guess so they could make a calendar, and that's the guess they came up with.

While the modern estimate certainly has uncertainty too (how could we ever _know_ such a thing with complete certainty?), there's no way it's _less_ accurate than the original estimate made by some random monk in the middle ages, working with much less data. It does not make sense to privilege that random monk's guesses over today's guesses.

According to Wikipedia, there's two different methods -- written Roman records of Herod as mcphage mentions, or using written Roman records of Pilate's crucifixion and subtracting the claimed age of Jesus at that time. Both methods give years that are in the same ballpark, roughly 4 to 6 BC, which should give confidence that they are close. No method gives an answer of around 1 AD. (Actually, it's pretty impressive that some monks working hundreds of years later in the dark ages are no more than a few years off from today's best estimates)
"Denaturing" means to make the protein take on a different shape, which is all that is necessary (since a prion is the correct amino acids arranged in a pathological arrangement). You can denature proteins with heat or very high or low pH, depending on which protein that it is.
Reminds me of why I also don't copy paste text from websites directly into my terminal.

https://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste
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The same situation played out a 100 years or so back with Standard Oil.

Good example. In 1904, Standard Oil controlled 85%-90% of the market. By the time the lawsuit was filed, mere two years later, they had already lost 15% of that, and by the time it was concluded, they only controlled 64%, due the the 147 competitors that were eating their business. Also, there no evidence that they actually raised prices to the consumer.
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Every single thing you said is complete hogwash and you have provided zero evidence to backup any of your poorly formed opinions.

To begin with, Intel didn't lose an opportunity to get a lead in mobile because of their views on Linux/UNIX. None of the players today have a "lead" in mobile because of Unix. They have a lead because of the touch-based front-end. It wouldn't have mattered what that was running on.

Furthermore, Windows is responsible for creating numerous multi-billion dollar industries and Windows obviously holds a ton of value for businesses that Linux can't even compete with. That's why just about every business runs Windows and not Linux.

The willfully obliviousness of nix fanboys like you is boring.
>Almost nothing sold in US is made in US.

Almost nothing, huh?

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-manufacturing-dead-outpu...
I thought about it when creating the account, but decided to go with it. Since everything I post represents ASIMUV as well its kind of a weird PR kind of thing too... I do appreciate you making the check. HN is a very important community for me and following its rules is crucial.

The post does sound like a PR exercise for Lexus, but do a quick web search and you will be impressed with how good the Lexus was back then. They still are great cars. I have never nor do I have any future projects or connections with Toyota/Lexus or any of its affiliates. I just think they build good stuff. :)
This was literally the EU case against Microsoft over IE bundling.
Dude, give yourself permission to have stupid ideas.
> As long as there aren't any patents it should be ok? What am I missing ?

There are patents.
While the Fire Phone may not have done well, all the Amazon Fire products are Android based. This includes the Fire Phone, Fire Tablets, and Fire TV.
Excellent points, both of them. I guess my thought process is Trudeau could be the most capable leader in the history of Canada, he can only do so much in charge of 30 million people of a 10th most powerful economy in the world. Canada can and is setting a good example, and I'm supremely happy to have my citizenship, but it won't be what makes or breaks the success of the rest of the world. Least of all our nearest neighbor who'll listen to China before us.
I'm not sure I follow but you may be misunderstanding me. I'm definitely not advocating for an omnipotent group of software developers making decisions for the industry as a whole. I can only assume you've seen that advocated for somewhere else and are equivocating it with my post?

At it's simplest level I think something like the SAG or profession sports players associations. Kept out of the way, stars can rise, and there if you need them. It'd be useful to be able to have an organization that I can say "Hey, I'm interviewing at Github, based on your verified compensation data that you keep, what can I expect?"

The fact is, our employers share and buy each others compensation data similarly for use in negotiations and when setting compensation. It only makes sense that the parties on the other side of the table do the same thing.
Why not? Assuming access to books (library, bookstores) and journals via a library (should be present in most schools or within a school district, decent libraries in my rather small town), a student would be in the same situation as most pre-2000 students, many of whom succeeded just fine.
If you're going to self-promote, maybe have a README.md with useful info? Or have the repo link to a website that isn't down?
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It would be interesting, it could probably be done with browser fingerprinting. I would wager that some of the larger companies have done this.

Personally, it's a question of what the content is. If it's a summary of objective facts, I'm not disabling my blocker. I can probably find the same facts elsewhere that doesn't require me to disable my blocker. If it's an intriguing analysis by someone respected, it's higher value content to me and I likely won't be able to find the same content elsewhere unless it's been stolen.
Neither do I. I would not be surprised at all if some company is behind this.
I wonder what happens when people give low ratings to Amazon basics items.
I thought that the spooky thing about prion-based diseases like CJD is that symptoms can take a long time to appear after exposure. (Although, on reflection, I can't justify this, and quick googling does not turn anything up.) The onset of death after first symptoms is relatively quick (a few months to a year).

The point being, that we may not be able to measure risk at this time, because the prions may be latent in people. (Cue spooky music.)
The difference is the monopoly that Google has obtained in Europe with more than 80% market share. Similar to how Microsoft was fined for making the internet explorer the default on their platform and thereby dominating the market (windows) a decade ago, Google is likely going to be fined and forced to open their monopolistic platform to fairer competition.

The thinking behind this is that you can't have terms that prohibit competition when you are the monopoly. If you do, you need to accept competition. In a way it's because Google has been too successful in Europe. It'll be interesting to see how the EU thinks a fairer market can be obtained..
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This needs apple to round out the comparisons. I've found their offers tend to be lower than the others in general unless you have specialized skills.
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Maybe now, though the article's from 2008 and it's only comparatively recently in history that the drug war began. I mean, fair point, but it seems we're just quibbling about a background sentence. Even if it did oversell the problem/motivation, that's not unheard of in academic papers...
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The primary( and really, only ) recommendation against central authentication is that the provider becomes an extremely juicy attack target.

We live in a world of asymmetric warfare in which attackers can screw up thousands of times, but defenders only need to screw up once. Dramatically increase the payoff of compromise, and the risk increases accordingly.

I know this smacks of security by obscurity, but in the real world, incentives for attackers are absolutely part of the risk calculation.
Baudrillard would have had fun with that comment!
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The real problem with debt is not the interest. It's that it keeps you comfortable when you shouldn't be, so you don't make lifestyle adjustments when you should.

These lifestyle adjustments aren't easy, and the way to be good at them is the same as for anything else: practice.

But people don't practice when they are young because they have easy credit. By the time the problems can't be brushed away any more (even with borrowing), they have children, making the decision that much harder. And without practice, they don't even know how to downsize.

There are so many perfectly reasonable things people can do to save money that aren't even considered. What about moving into a small apartment, eating beans and rice, and riding the bus for a few years while you get back on your feet? Sounds bad to a lot of "middle class" people, but I bet it's more pleasant than a downward spiral. And if you do it soon enough, you can get back to a good place quickly.

And I don't buy in to the "whatever college you want" guilt. I'll tell my children they have a guarantee of state school (assuming they get in), or education I Germany (where it's free). Anything else they need to get creative or lucky.
If zombies catch you and eat you, you're gone. If zombies catch you, bite you and you escape, you become a zombie. Generally it's not both at once.
There are plenty of options beyond C/C++ and JavaScript.
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I cannot read with animation & distracting colours next to text - so, for me, adverts are equivalent to blocking a site.

Non distracting ads are fine, reddit ads for instance.

Bad ads are not acceptable.

Executives who punish fans seem shortsighted.
half of those go to tax.
Most people seem perfectly happy to use AWS.
Insurance in the us is also cheaper in paying 2300 a year for private insurance (AXA) so I won't have to deal with the NHS on every silly issue.
Luck, basically. Working at Google was both a gateway to more opportunities, and a gateway to a much higher salary.

I had been working remotely for a long time for a small company, and making what I considered to be good money, considering that I lived in a fly-over state. When I was hired at Google, it more than doubled my salary after a while, when stock grants began to vest.

I now work for Netflix, and I am making even more than I was at Google. To this day, I cannot believe I am paid so much.
RVM has added secure install instructions to their site: https://rvm.io/rvm/security
I am from the ostbloc som my taxes are are being spent on bribing, corruption etc.
We might not be paying that huge taxes but it's still a lot.

I am less compassionate than the other folks in Europe and would really prefer a more capitalistic system at least in my country. But we Europeans are....ehhhh.
More like microbial zombie bites.
Anyone who writes these needs to have themselves, not the changes, committed.
I've had Williams/Ceci 2014 quoted at me before and it was hugely over-generalised then too. There's simply no rational basis for claiming (like you implied) that it shows wide-spread discrimination against men. It's a study of tenure-track hiring for four STEM subjects, one of which showed zero bias.

> The drop out rates for males are (much) higher.

Seems off-topic, can you explain the relevence of this? There are serious problems with boys education but they don't seem to have a problem with discrimination in the workplace, see [0][1][2][3][4].

> ... simply because of an attribute that should not significantly factor into the decision.

That's an opinion I think there's reasonable evidence to discard, or at least add some nuance to.

Diverse workplaces are more pleasant to work in, and in the case of universities it seems reasonable to believe (based on the work of Carol Dweck & others) that having relevant female role models would improve outcomes for female students in STEM subjects.

Additionally there's a growing body of evidence that documents how diverse workplaces have higher productivity; and gender gaps in entrepreneurship negatively affect GDP (Cuberes & Teignier for a 2015 example http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21661804-gender-equal...)

[0] Female students seen as less competent than identical male students with identical application materials, offered lower starting salaries (Moss-Racusin et al, 2012)

[1] People in gender-incongruent roles penalised more heavily for mistakes (Brescoll, Dawson, & Uhlmann, 2010).

[2] Voluble women perceived as less competent and less suitable leaders, inverse true for men (Brescoll, 2011).

[3] Women who succeed in male-dominated fields percieved as not likeable (Heilman et al, 2004).

[4] Students question the competence of female teachers who evaluate them negatively, less so than male teachers (Sinclair & Kunda 2000).
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Thanks. I agree that the complaints are much more clearly specified (and most of the comments in this thread are orthogonal to those complaints).
Your first link is paywalled, but the second study hardly seems to "cast doubt" as you say.

While we're taught to think about science in terms of "one experiment can disprove a whole theory!", the actual probability of getting an experiment wrong is much higher than the probability of a very established theory predicting an opposing effect to what's actually the case.
> The taxes you pay are buying healthcare for people who cannot afford it.

Which makes it worth it, imho.
> The problem with that is that it is a self perpetuating cycle and that the current situation is only better for consumers in the short run

The "short run" is typically the scope relevant to laws and regulations, for good or for bad.
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Having worked my way a little up the engineer management chain, I have seen how easily one can lose the "pulse" of an engineering project if you are not day to day immersed in it. I would get a good sense of what the team was doing was on the right track or not but lose a lot of the details and context since I don't deal with it day by day. I had to rely on trusted reports to feed me the right data. I think if you move just one or two level up the management chain you lose all context of what is going on and are just parroting things back and forth. Kind of why I decided to step down a little.
The phone market is still rapidly evolving. For instance, I have a Nexus 5X right now. The fingerprint scanner on it alone is worth it. It was an afterthought to me when I got the phone, but now it's the single most important feature on the phone to me. The camera is also better than anything phone camera I've had before.

Also, I play some games on my phone, and having better hardware helps a lot with that.
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disturbing.
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