skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The wages for a programmer in Indiana aren't bad in context, either. I still chose to move to New York for a better paying job there.

Why? Well, firstly, it's a real kick in the pants to get paid half what you could elsewhere, even if you're paying rent and eating out for half the price. Secondly, computers, student loans, automobiles, and AWS services cost the same whether I'm in New York or Indiana, so I'd rather get paid twice as much, thank you very much.

It's amazing how often "structural unemployment" is just "we don't want to pay what people want to be paid".
Citation needed? Others have already provided citations against your claim and the naive reasoning makes it seem obviously untrue: industrial livestock are fed industrial crops and so are worse than eating industrial crops oneself, and probably by a factor of at least 2.
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It's actually rather common, at least in certain areas:

https://ciberduvidas.iscte-iul.pt/consultorio/perguntas/a-ca...

http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/1994/7/09/brasil/21.html
And I'm sure there are people who bill more. The difference is, jobs at these rates are orders of magnitude more common in the US.
I found a neat hack for making sure that employees don't leave me like yesterday's lunch: pay above market rate.
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You sincerely believe Apple doesn't collect every single message, every single site you ever visit and doesn't sell that information to advertisers? You are cute.

Apple's push for "privacy" has only one purpose - to cash in on government from the information. Now government gets it for free, so when there will be "privacy" they will need to pay money to Apple to read it. If there wouldn't be profit, Apple wouldn't push for any "privacy".
Cost of employee is always higher than salary. Bear in mind that employee have to pay (feed) himself, government, management, company revenue etc. It's simply not possible to create business value 10 000 € and get all of them into own pocket. At least not as standard employee.
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Ask HN: What are you reading? (July 2016)
Just like the monthly "Who's hiring" post, it would be interesting (at least to me) to have a "What are you reading" post.

- What book are you currently reading

- Why is it interesting

- Would you recommend it
The politicians knew a shared currency without sharing other aspects was a bad idea, but they gambled that as the problems became manifest, they would be solved by greater unity.

Maybe that was stupid, but it's a different kind of stupid than not listening to the economists.
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Seems to me the solution to that problem would be to make the salary bands for engineers wider, so you can keep growing salary wise even if you pretty much cap out in terms of technical ability.
When you are willing to hire women, older people and provide adequate salaries (dare I say work conditions), suddenly there isn't so much tech shortage.
It is possible, but that's a very niche market. When you need people who can deal with multiple layers, including senior execs, and run tech teams, you are usually not looking for developers anyway. I don't find it very strange there is a shortage of those; I think you'll find that in most countries. It depends on the exact job description as this is all a bit vague though.
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> drive under signalling

How would that help if signalling failed?
In the end it seems that all complexity stems from trying to enforce access privileges on a system that do not gives a rats ass about anything beyond 0s and 1s.

IF we want to avoid said complexity we basically have to go back to running only one process at a time, loaded directly from dedicated, removable, storage when needed.
The major issue is just that arXiv maybe be able to gather a critical mass in a way that third parties like SciRate can't. Also, if a third party did get a foothold, it's possible they could go bad (in a way that's less likely for the arXiv), and the community would be stuck.

Still, all things considered I agree that I'd rather arXiv not take this on.
I was taught to use masculine collective pronouns as well, but 'mankind' is perhaps not the best example. It dates to Old English, when 'man' was a gender-neutral term meaning 'human'.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=man&allowed_in_fram...
10X technical developers are not that rare, because 10X really just means someone who is significantly more competent and experienced than average.

10X business value developers are incredibly rare.

10X managers are rarer still.

You could probably fit all the world's 10X executives into a small lift without worrying about getting the doors closed.
In what way is the Sunway Alpha-based? Dongarra says the ISA isn't.

This hardly looks "completely new" compared with Sunway, for instance, especially given work with it in Europe.

Fujitsu have their own compiler -- amongst their own essentially everything for K -- but GCC is "well-established" in HPC and you can see the Fortran-based HPC-type software in Fedora and Debian aarch64. (Yes, there's a lot more to it than that.)
The basic problem there is the mixing of feature changes and security changes in a single stream.

So you can't just say you want security fixes only, no new or changed features.
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I've done low level network programming for most of my career, and I've done a bit in the Linux network stack, as well as writing two partial userspace TCP stacks for different applications, but both were for middlebox type appliances where the goal was primarily to replicate enough of what the TCP state machines would look like on both ends of the transaction to do make some decision (in one case for firewalling, and the other was doing analysis to try to make inferences about user behavior on one end of the connection when they could be pivoting through multiple devices in the network.

It feels like networking isn't really a special case at all, just like most things the OS networking stacks are well understood, mature, and probably not worth trying to replace if you need a flexible general purpose networking stack that balances latency, throughput, correctness, security, memory and cpu efficiency, etc. But because they are trying to balance a lot of difference concerns across a wide swath of use-cases it's not hard to implement a better version if you have a very specific need.
In my company (pharma, not tech), the bonus structure is based on salary and some multiplier. The multiplier is the same across the entire company and is based on key performance factors from several departments. For 2 employees with the same base salary, their bonuses will be the same regardless of job title.
The problem isn't locking so much, it's that you have to dispatch to a kernel thread when you're requesting and sending data, paying the cost of that context switch every time. In userspace you can spin a polling thread on its own core and DMA data up and down to the hardware all day long without yielding your thread to another one.
Does anyome know where to find real user experience reports from hackers that used an ultrawide montitor? The prospect of tiling three windows next to each other on a single monitor is appealing to me.
Some time ago at my workplace new top management proclaimed that "there was too much politics". In retrospect, what they really meant is they were uncomfortable with middle management holding too much decision-making power. So they took steps to ensure a more top-down structure and middle management was basically left with a task of overseeing their reports so they don't slack off.
I had the chance to interview (and get offered) by a company in the area. For context, I'm from the area but have been living abroad for some time now.

The internal recruiter was honest with their problems finding talent abroad: People have families and, even though there are cheap flights inside Europe, if you have a partner and maybe kids things change. Life there is great with a good salary, but chances are your partner also has a professional career. If it's outside IT, your partner is pretty much screwed: Little jobs, terrible salaries, no English-speaking outside IT and a disdain for foreigners in more traditional industries. "Why hire a foreigner when I can hire someone local?" seems to be an acceptable attitude for a majority of the population, even though we're talking about people with the right to work, so there's no extra effort, paperwork or burden to the employer.

On the other hand, you have beach, culture, food, night life, mountains (even the Pyrenees), a cosmopolitan city in such a tiny radius that you can enjoy each of those every so often. Plus an international airport that can get you in a few hours anywhere in Europe and North Africa. And it's cheap to live there.

If someone is wondering now why I didn't go back, these were my concerns: Career development (none was offered) and stability. I'm up for well paid risks, but if that position disappears (it was newly created) I have to move country again. Such a pain in the ass.
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EU citizens probably won't event need a visa, just a passport. Especially from rich western EU countries, like it was already the case before Schengen.
I'm familiar with that theory, but from my personal experience I'd put the number of good-vendor software packages around 1%. And in retrospect, I'm not sure those cases were so much "good vendor" as "vendor over whom we had significant financial leverage".
> Will a woman using a modulated voice to sound male come off as a woman disguising her voice, or will she come off as an effeminate gay man?

The sample sounded more like an Englishman to me, not effeminate per se. I've noticed a lot of Americans feel western european accents like Danish/French/English to be 'gay-ish' if they haven't heard them before. Not sure what is going on there.
Do electronic bathroom scales use tricks to appear more accurate?
I'd characterize it as their fitness function is "amount of profit generated" and they attempt to maximize that. Or are you saying financial firms would voluntarily leave profit on the table in order to help mitigate systemic risk?
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Bertilda Lovejoy made a name for himself by writing outrageous YouTube comments. I don't know if this is the same person, but it's not coincidental that they chose that name here.
Kubernetes 1.3 released
> I know a team of developers south of Valencia who make way more than that. They work out of a mansion with an infinity pool. Doing simple websites.

Sounds like a great setup to raise a family... not.

Just saying, what sounds amazing for young and single white guys might not be great for the rest of the population. Wouldn't it be better if each of them could have their own flat and privacy for the same price?
No, that's not it at all. Itanium had huge problems straight out of the gate - it ran hot, slow and very expensively. I think ultimately it boils down to compile time optimisations not being enough and Intel having to throw everything at it to make the shortfall.
Hi, I actually made some changes on the login screens and I have updated the screenshots at the google play store, but haven't submitted them to the app store yet, just because I'm fixing some bugs on the iOS and will submit all together.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sjs.karpag...

Tnx for your feedback.
54k is still less than what I make working remotely for American companies...
And that present day computing is damn hard to reason about, because oh so much happens silently in the background.
> If you're a good developer, 99% of the time it's better to work remotely from Europe for a US company

Again, how do people get those jobs? I have a lot of friends in the underpaid situation and they applied for stuff on HN; most of them don't hear anything back or have problems with the interviews. They are very good devs though. Loyal too; don't think they would ever leave once on board.
I also applied, spent time for a programming challenge. Never received a response whether it was good or bad. It was back in December.
Even though the human performance was much worse, because they are the last stage in the pipeline, it has a lower effect.

Minor mathematical nit: it's not because of which stage of the pipeline you are in. Multiplication is commutative.
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America's top earners are Asian men
This may well be changing though, as more and more "desktop-isms" claw their way deeper into the stack.
This is great! Thanks.
The underclass is already created due to the nationalism of citizens in your country (and mine). The only question is whether you see them or not.

I guess as long as desperate poverty is out of sight, it's also out of mind, right?

...companies that operate within the country should be mandated to address it.

I'll be sure not to operate within Spain. Why bother with that kind of a hassle when India, China and Singapore are open for business?
I find it hard to find it hard to find remote jobs in the EU for Python anyway. There are a lot of shops depending on it (Django for instance) in the northern countries but they basically want you to sit in an office there. For Java (PHP, ... ) jobs are far easier to get remotely.
The bose based suspensions ? I wonder how many got sold.
Well you could become a mentor to them and pay them something so they don't have to go out and pick strawberries during the summer vacation.
Income inequality today may be higher today than in any other era
This is why "leave" won, not racism or xenophobia.
My favourite is "The Coochmann", under Servants.
I think part of the blame for this impression lays on a lack of communication on the main website. The last news update to the website, prior to the 14.2 release, was nearly three years ago.

I feel that it gives the impression that nothing is happening; at least to those not inclined to seek out Slackware related forums or mailing lists.
Why do people buy MacBook Pro retinas, given their relatively high price?
Yep, I noticed that. A completely biased view to a very important matter. Completely overlooking the dangers of weak crypto, government invasion of privacy and safe control of access to information.
Office politics becomes toxic because it's about using political structures for personal gain.

Political status becomes the primary product at work. Actual work performance of individuals and teams becomes secondary.

Decisions become increasingly irrational because the interests of low-status individuals - including customers, suppliers, and other employees - start being seen as an annoying distractions from personal profit/status.

If that's reversed and performance becomes more important than status, you're already in a healthier place.

Empires can be very profitable. But they're also miserable places to work, and they rarely have much customer good will.
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You can never view a historical document with modern eyes the same way someone at the time it was written did. I bet we couldn't write/agree on such a document today at all either.
Pied Piper = name of the startup in Silicon Valley TV series

"... The team rushes to produce a feature-rich cloud storage platform based on their compression technology.."

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley_(TV_series)
Thank you for the links. Elements of Software Construction courses on edX

https://www.edx.org/course/software-construction-java-mitx-6...

https://www.edx.org/course/advanced-software-construction-ja...
What if the lines never existed in the first place?

At the end of the day, it is still a human that "paints" the line on the road.

So, how would it handle this, under snow?

http://media.nbcwashington.com/images/1232*675/restriping+wi...
He who has some battery left can hail an uber.
I blame this mostly on the monolithic kernel design of gnu/Linux. I wish someone would make an effort at a hybrid or pure microkernel gnu/linux. I'm keeping an eye on minix which looks interesting as well, but the only other interesting network stack I'm aware of is dragonfly bsd.
TL;DR: we use it because then you don't have to write your own. The real question is why it's slow. The answer to that, according to someone they quoted, is that if you write your own TCP stack, it's inside your application and less stuff has to be copied and switched around (no overhead from receiving in the kernel and then having to pass it on). So it's not that the kernel's implementation is shitty, it's that you'd have to write your own for every application if you wanted to improve it substantially.
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That's a really nice hierarchy. I'd argue a 10x business value developer is a 10x technical developer AND a 10x product designer. Also that a 10x manager is a 10x business value developer AND a 10x leader/coordinator. The rarity compounds with the number of passions that must converge on a single individual. I'd bet you get a bit of a bump with a partial set. So a 10x technical developer may be able to operate as a 2x business value developer without significant product design skill. A 6x manager may get by with average technical ability.

I'm not sure how much the 10x thing generalizes. I still think it's a terrible name. I sort of gave an argument for why programming ability may have a bimodal distribution. With one half growing and eventually eating the other. I don't necessarily see that same phenomenon in leadership or product design. That is assuming you're looking at people who are actually trying and not just random technical developers.
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I moved from SF to Manhattan and found the prices and the process of finding an apartment easier. Most of my San Francisco friends dare not move or move to Oakland. People move here in NYC all the time, paying roughly the same in rent accounting for yearly inflation related increases.
You are right when you say the signal is BOLD and not flow directly. Flow regulation is a key component though. However, I don't think this negates my point. Oxygenation is being equated with brain activity. The approach is sensitive to BOLD signal changes that correlate with the input. I'm not a neuroscientist but I know many that would argue the brain is more complex than this and response are more complicated (what about areas of the brain that are on through out the experiment?)
I'm with Vacri; I'm very reluctant to do that. Small problems can be harbingers of big ones. Even when they aren't, small problems often confound the ability to solve big ones.

Most concerning for me, though, is what safety experts call "normalization of deviance". It's the process by which people become accustomed to small failures, which creates opportunities for big failures to happen. A big example is the Challenger disaster. [1]

I see shops with low bug rates, where people think a lot about quality. And I see shops that, thanks to high bug rates, are too busy fighting fires to ever spend much time on quality. I never see any place in between. And I think normalization of deviance is why.

[1] http://mikemullane.com/stopping-normalization-of-deviance/
Another fine example of the role of federal military funding in high tech research. Makes me chuckle whenever I hear a person employed in Silicon Valley refer to themselves as a "limited-government Libertarian". We're all sucking on the government's teat, buddy.
IOT for industrial applications is where it's at. Currently only a handful of competitors in the field. Give me something fanless that can stand -40 to 80 degrees please.
My story about this;

I made the mistake (in my personal opinion), based on the advise of a friend, to buy one recently. Insanely expensive and I really don't like it as much as the much cheaper Air; it has worse battery life (I had Apple check it twice and there is nothing wrong, just 'my usage pattern'; I use the same software on the Air and on my old X220 and get better battery life on both; on the X220 far better), the screen has staingate[0] which my local Apple store said they wouldn't replace for free (going to try different ones now). And it feels slower; it's objectively (tests) faster, but for my subjective performance perception it's slower. It often pops the beachball which I never see on the Air and it runs hot doing nothing but web browsing. Again, Apple checked it twice.

[0] http://www.staingate.org/
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Brokers fee is one month, not two, and the outer boroughs are much cheaper.