skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without salary negotiation, the company gets to choose the price. Unfortunately, Silicon Valley has shown that it is willing to collude to keep that price down. Therefore, when companies argue that they're banning salary negotiation to "promote equality", you should assume that this equality is merely a gimmick to hide the true purpose: lower wages.

If there really is a difference in negotiating ability between women and men, it would seem far more beneficial to teach women how to negotiate for a fair wage rather than abolish the entire thing altogether. In fact, teach all employees to quantify their abilities and how much value they will provide to their employer. Demonstrate that if companies are unwilling to pay them a fair wage, that they should not devalue their employment.

But the most recent steps toward banning negotiation will ultimately hurt all employees. When companies like Apple, Google, and other Silicon Valley companies agree not to hire employees from each other, and threaten to replace tech workers in the US with less-expensive H1B visas, we should question their true motives. This newest idea of "banning negotiation" is nothing more than another tactic used by a profit-maximizing entity to reduce costs.
Yep. Still useful for things like fluorescence microscopy or astrophotography though. There you're usually interested in just the specific wave length, like the (Green) Fluorescent Protein emissions for microscopes, or the Hydrogen Alpha emissions in astrophotography. Rather than working with filter sliders, you'd essentially need to use a different lens for each wave length though …
I think the years there are the most up-to-date available for those particular axes - certainly the unemployment data is sourced from the census which is only carried out once a decade.
Yeah it is surprisingly excellent - it was a big inspiration for doing this side project!
Well, that's on a VC blog so it's a sales pitch do get people to pitch them. All businesses will tell you "we love you".

Of course the entrepreneurs (founders or not) are not the customers, the LPs are.
According to standard economic theory though, the fact that someone says "I'm worth $X to them" is completely irrelevant and, because the transaction never happened, never becomes data. That's how market rate is determined and generally why D/S curves only have 1 intersection point - the point at which the transaction occurs.

The only data point that matters is the one where you got hired and started receiving paychecks, all others are not factors at all.
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Ah, this is wonderful! As someone who often browses music on youtube, I've always wanted this feature. Thank you!
I like to have a liberal amount of asserts in my code, especially when I'm interfacing with some external component, just to make sure I've got my assumptions correctly. The Python assert errors are pretty useless, so I made a small library to make them (slightly) better. Hopefully other people can use it too.
Maybe raise an issue on https://github.com/alexander-brett/alexander-brett.github.io and I can look into your exact issue? Thanks for the feedback.
Charity vs. for-profit is a false dichotomy. A charity is a specific form of non-profit. In addition, there is the (relatively new) benefit corporation which, while technically for-profit, has explicit non-financial goals.

That said, nothing about being motivated by money means you can't have a purpose as well. That's why I was careful to draw a distinction between "solely" and "primarily". Making money while also improving the world is just enlightened self-interest.
King's On Writing is a wonderful book, but the part I most remember is his answer to the question, "Who is talented?" He said: "If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented." His blue-collar approach to the job of writing is a great perspective.
Same here. As soon as I say what I make recruiters usually congratulate me on making what I make and won't call me back. So recruiters are only good for run of the mill, entry level folks, not really for highly skilled or specialized developers.
> You may hate it but... you clicked on it. We're giving you what you want. If you like looking at stupid cat pictures (or worse), someone will give you stupid cat pictures. We're not paid to provide moral or intellectual censorship...

That's true to an extent, but go to your Facebook feed (if you have one), find a clickbait article and (without clicking on it) read the comments below.

Almost invariably, there will be someone complaining that they clicked the link out of curiosity then quickly left after discovering how abysmally horrible the user experience is.

Some of the sites literally (as in literally) make you go to a new page of ads for each sentence you read. Their whole business model is to trick you into loading the ads in your browser and showing you as many as possible before you give up.

So it's a bit of an oversimplification to say people are clicking on these links because they want to. People buy snake oil because they want to.
He doesn't even have to hang out with peers, one simple search across some popular job site nowadays (e.g. glassdoor) will immediately land you with a decent salary amount for your desired position. We've already entered the brave new world where the concept "salary is private information" is dead, and, if one is a developer active on Github (or other OSS platform), then the concept "my work portfolio is private" is also dead.

So you're absolutely right, the worst thing for a hiring manager and a potential employee to do is set themselves up into adversarial positions of who can best manipulate and "break" the other person first. Because a company built with employees and management who can't trust each other, and are in constant underground wars to gouge the most out of each other, is bound to get trounced by competitor companies in the open market
What is bad about climate change? There might be more land with warm and mild climates. What is inherently bad about this? There were much bigger climate changes in the past, such as snowball earth era, when the entire earth was covered with ice and snow.
1. If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good "Show HN". Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

2. An email to the contact address, can get the moderators to change the title.

3. My impression is that asking for help non-development tasks like writing documents (or design) man be seen as off-putting by some writers and designers. In those fields, there's little return from working for free, i.e. an ORM isn't a tool that makes a technical writer's job easier.

4. For a developer, if the author isn't willing to forgo the joy of coding for documentation and test writing, there's less of a case as to why someone else should make that sacrifice.

5. Successful open source projects often tend to be as much about the community as the code. If the project has users, that's where the request for help is most likely to be answered and if it isn't, community is where work is needed.

Good luck.
1) I'm discussing the narrative, the poster only cites over-regulation as a problem, which I haven't seen bail-outs called before. The language implies government rules are the problem.

2) Many notable economists actually blame deregulation, such as Alan Greenspan & the SEC [0]. I think the man who oversaw much of the deregulation while it was happening calling it a problem in hindsight is a pretty darn good indication.

Of course your right though in the sense it's many things happening together, and the finger can never be pointed at one person let alone one group of policies. Still many people see the increased volatility caused by that regulation as a pretty big part of the cause.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/27/business/27sec.html
The creator of the data does not have the same level of control over it as I might have over a book or music recording that I produce myself.

How do you figure? If you take a music recording and want to put it out there on iTunes or Spotify, you have to license it to the company so they can do the thing you're asking them to do!

If you want to sell 3d models, textures, and code, you can do that on your own website right now. If you want to put that content up on Second Life (or literally any other third party), you're going to have to give them the rights to do so.

I'm also curious about the source on that 5K/$10 number. I'm a mediocre scripter, and made about $100 there on a small gadget that translates text based on a popular webcomic series.
you still have a strong incentive to lie, do you not? Since the final salary is the average of the two numbers, employers want to go as low as they can and prospects want to go as high as they can.

in fact, this system punishes honesty even more than the current one -- if I am honest and the other person is dishonest, the dishonest person wins because they will pull the average in the direction they want and I get a worse deal than if we were both honest.
That's a very good point. Based on my personal experience ,I noticed especially in the last year or 2. When I tried to block the new Facebook ads that they were putting in different parts of the page and they were becoming more cluttertish to the main news feed. Also.Forbes (who caught this early on) doesnt let you proceed to go on their site unless you turn off ad blocking
News stories are different from editorial, opinion, informational, entertainment, etc. articles. For example, the top article on Google News for me right now is a NYT editorial: "The Jobs Report Is Not Quite as Terrible as It Looks." If I saw that on old-fashioned newsprint while skimming down the page, I would definitely stop and read it. I also clicked the article to read the story on GN.

Is it clickbait? How would you retitle this article? http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/04/upshot/the-jobs-report-is-...
I don't think I could camp anywhere that had bears!
This is the wrong idea. Of course a machine can recreate Aphex Twin with perfect fidelity, just like, unfortunately, a monkey can recreate a Jackson Pollock.

But a machine does not yet have the capacity to lay its finger on the cultural pulse and create something new and slightly different that strikes a resonating cord, pulls people in a new direction, makes them grow, because in addition to having a certain algorithmic description, the music they are making also betrays a certain darkness, a blend of fear, grotesque and dissonance that is there, somewhere down inside us, and that we love despite its ugliness. Until a machine can discover this part of humanity and translate this roiling mass into music, it hasn't managed the same feat as Aphex Twin.

This is what makes music great, that it is born from a place that requires loving observation of humanity. Real creativity requires having insights about humans, representing them in art, and exposing your insight through a particular medium. The image itself, the sound, means nothing. It's the reception, the speaker, the meaning, that matters.

A machine has no place in society. It isn't "straight out of Compton". It CANNOT make music.
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Let me share my horror story -- I fell for a company that offered me the same salary (no raise despite big promotion.) Then, he (Division CTO of Fortune 500 medical company) started subtracting salary from this baseline for all my "benefits" like free shuttles, 401k matching, etc. I was supposed to take the lower wage in exchange for amazing work, 3 fully paid conferences a year, yada yadda.

Two months into joining, the shuttle went from free to paid. Ouch. Then, the manager expected me to stay late 3x a week, which meant i could not even take the shuttle 3x a week, and instead have to take a taxi. Still not enough salary to buy a car + insurance + parking. Then policy changed and 401k match disappeared. Finally, policy changed and all conference reimbursements ended. Final blow -- my PDP is tied to 3 conference posters a year, so i pay out of pocket for travel/registration/hotel.

By the way, the work is great, but i'm paying so much out of pocket that i'm getting the hell out of there. Sucks for me. Sucks for the manager too -- I spend half the day now doing eLance projects.
What about using Apple's Generic Versioning System? They even provide you with avgtool.
There's also fastlane with some commands that use avgtool to bump your build and version numbers.
When asked how he manages to be so prolific, he once said (and pardon me if I got the exact words wrong, but it's close)...

"I have the heart of a young boy. In a jar on my desk."
Ahhhh yes, the wonderful false dichotomy of "accept the ruling class' protectionist regulations" or "no regulations whatsoever"

Didn't expect to see that come up on a thread about neoliberalism...
‘Poverty is often looked at in isolation, but it is an American problem’
> we have a number of new parents who have commented that GrantTree has been a very supportive culture for them in the first 6-12 months

"I was 20 minutes late because I had to take my newborn to the hospital and they only gave me a written warning!"

>And we have remote work

"On the fifth wednesday of every month I can work from home!"

>flexible working hours

"I worked from 9am to 10pm yesterday so I get to come in at 10am to 10pm today!"

GrantTree might be one of the few outliers here and if so I congratulate you, but this is typically what employers mean when they say those sort of things.
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I also don't understand the point you are trying to make. It was a pull out quote from a post about a guy that was using Lyft to get 20-something minute-long captive audiences with women he thought were attractive.

The driver said he'd done it about 25 times in his car. Regardless of the false premise and manufactured spontaneity being somewhat sleazy, some of the interactions may have been mutually pleasant. But, we also know that at least one of them was not at all.

It shouldn't take so much imagination to remember how unpleasant it has been to be trapped in conversations you did not want to be in. It sounds like she was just being a nice person who was not interested in scoring points against someone by rejecting him. Expressing a lack of interest through neutral responses isn't a lack of compassion. It sounds like her "mixed signals" were an unwillingness to be openly mean to someone who was overly insistent. If he had been more compassionate he would have recognized that he was putting her in an uncomfortable position.
Plumbers actually make pretty good money, don't they?
This article[1] though on a biased (in that they have a point of view) site, has links to some state data, so it's convenient to link to it. It's also specific to medicaid benefits.

> Of the 50 companies with the most employees on Medicaid in Massachusetts, almost half are retail and restaurant chains. The list includes CVS, Home Depot, May Department Stores, Sears, Kohl’s, Walgreen, Lowe’s, and Best Buy.

> Similar data was recently released by Wisconsin, Missouri, and New Jersey. Topping all three states’ lists are many of the same retailers, including Walmart, Target, Dollar General, and Home Depot, as well as restaurant chains such as Olive Garden and Red Lobster.

It doesn't seem exactly fair to do it based on total number of employees though. What about percentage of employees? Looking at the Missouri (state health care) data, Walmart is at about double the rate as Target, it has:

Walmart work force: 43,281
Walmart MHN Enrolled employees (E): 2403
Walmart MHN Enrolled family members (N): 3633
Walmart total employees (E+N): 6036
Walmart Percentage of Missouri Workforce Enrolled(E) or Responsible for Enrollee (N) 13.95%

Target work force: 7,580
Target MHN Enrolled employees (E): 282
Target MHN Enrolled family members (N): 317
Target total employees (E+N): 599
Target Percentage of Missouri Workforce Enrolled(E) or Responsible for Enrollee (N) 7.9%

Actually the rest of the data[2] is interesting (kind of old; 2011), and too much to summarize here, but there are a lot of worse companies than both of those, percentage-wise. For example, Dollar General is at 42.24%.

[1] https://ilsr.org/chains-walmart-foods-free-ride-taxpayers-ex...
[2] https://dss.mo.gov/mhd/general/pdf/2011-employer-match-repor...
> Compare sitting at the bus stop alone or with a friend. Which one is more enjoyable?

The latter. But there's a big gap between "If you prefer to have some kind of personal connection with another human" and "are you really going to ask every single one of [your 20 friends] what they're up to each day?".
> You say I'm worth $X. I go get a job offer for $Y. If $Y > $X, you were mistaken.

Not at all. Company A may value you at $X, and company B may value you at $Y, and they may both be right.
>free-content internet is a pathetically weak house of cards.

>we are due for a correction in the sector of ad-supported content.

In my opinion, the problem is with the ad tech companies themselves more than the free-content internet.

I don't think the free-content is the problem as much as the incentive of ad tech companies and ad agencies to ignore or perpetuate fraud, arbitrage and gaming the system, and the branding advertisers who are too dumb to demand real accountability.

Essentially, all these VC backed ad-tech companies need to show growth, so they want the fraud, bots and low quality ad impressions.

Big brand advertisers fool themselves into thinking the quality of the placement is less important than reaching the right people, so they keep on paying for garbage impressions, feeding these unsustainable ad tech companies, without demanding bottom line accountability for measurable results.

and... Ad agencies are compensated with an archaic model from back in the day when they earned commission from the publishers, so they want as much ad spend as possible. Plus, they like be treating like kings by the VC-backed ad tech companies.

It's all one big party, where the consumers suffer and the legit, performance advertisers suffer.

There is still, despite over 3000 marketing tech startups, no one really serving the ad buyers needs in a significant way.

we don't need another bid algorithm or vanity metric system... we need ad tech that systematically roots out bots, fraud, and is accountable to bottom line results for advertisers instead of acting as a broker that makes money regardless.

Build that tech and you will have a billion dollar company.
It seems like you have an issue with government-level intervention in general. Is that the case?
That poor person just trying to pass the time and start a conversation that felt awkward just standing there in silence. I'm a talker and sometimes I start conversations with people just because. I've generally stopped talking to women because 9 times out of 10 they assume I'm hitting on them. And they're generally rude about it.

-- didn't see that part about him asking for her number. I agree that's not cool.
As a linux dev I find the opposite. Everything I use works out of the box on Linux and everything on Windows needs config and fiddling -- and that config seems to always end up involving a GUI that I can never remember my way around.

I guess what I am trying to say is that our experience with different systems impacts how productive we are with them.
I believe you, but from the outside, from the public's perspective it looks like the same thing. You've said as much yourself with your comparison.

As a general heuristic, your interests are aligned with those of your community. Whether this is bad or good depends on context, usually depending on whether you've thought about the issue yourself from first principals and come to your own conclusion. Every field probably has wrongheaded ideas about something.

In engineering this alignment may be mostly pragmatic e.g. what works, what doesn't, but in some industries e.g. Hollywood, the Media, anything social, there's a different sort of pragmatism where you're expected to believe in some general themes about the world that need have no basis in reality. Being up to date with these 'stories' e.g. what beliefs about transgender bathrooms a proper person should have, is basically a peacocks tail feathers. It's pointless but shows you're a member of the tribe. You're talking of informed opinion, but again, from the perspective of an outsider, this all looks like the same thing. The tribe can hang together either because it makes sense or because they punish those who are outliers.
What's scary to consider is the era of strong wage increases and financial regulation from the 50's to 80's only started by a cataclysmic event, the Great Depression

The wealth of that period had a lot to do with the British mortgaging their global empire to the US in order to pay off their war debt from WWI and for the US bailing them out again in WWII. In exchange, the US received approximate hegemony over "the free world" and the disguised blessing of a scary enemy to unite their side.

Given climate change is only going to get worse, I guess a pretty big catastrophe coming our way and causing similar change soon-ish isn't that far fetched.

Most human conflict is based on resource scarcity, fear of future resource scarcity, and/or fear of what others will do when faced with resource scarcity. This certainly applied to WWII. Even ideological/sectarian conflicts have fear of resource scarcity underpinning them.
Soon we will see Chrono attached to every form of medicine
Agreed, if you're going to list Basic and Pascal because they are easy to implement, then Scheme seems like a no-brainer for inclusion. It probably is the most common language for Baby's First Interpreter.
The grocery stores I grew up going to in CO had delivery too, I think it was just primarily targeted at the elderly and disabled.
This is cool too http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html.
Have you no standard for right and wrong other than "whatever is in one's own interest"?
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Massive increases in droughts which are already happening? Not to mention sure with the changes farming areas could get worse elsewhere and better other places like Greenland but we already have farms in those locations which were good 50 or 100 years ago, it takes time to adapt and there's no law saying things even out.

Not to mention when will the change stop? There isn't any indication it will stabilize in the near future meaning semi-unpredictable changes will continue to occur.

Also, living through the snowball earth era would have probably been awful for the human species. Sure life survived many apocalyptic events, no reason to think our species would survive when 99% of others couldn't.
They also can't be enabled with >32GiB heaps.
The main thing that I liked about using Hired.com during a previous job search was that they made the salary offers very transparent during the bidding phase and it completely avoided sticking me, the candidate, with the salary question. By the time I started interviewing at companies their initial salary offer was more than what I would have been able to negotiate myself, mostly because I didn't even know to ask for that much.
Is it like a virtual, self modifying, FPGA for compression?
Smart kid. Shame on the parents for leaving him like that. At least he knew which way it was to find the military base while being lost in a forest.