skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The passage from Chomsky explicitly argues that institutions in the USA have been, over the last half century, restructured to indebt and disenfranchise young people while maximizing short-term material gains for the people in charge of those institutions.

The point is that "authority" has sought to produce a populace that is not capable of mustering a nuanced response to authority.
CIA+head+John+Brennan+warns+Trump+to+watch+his+tongue+•+THE+WORLD+INFO
Do you have a breakdown of % VPN IPs vs. not of your visitors?
I've been there, there is not such things for an individual contributor unless you're an old employee (10 years at the same company).

I'm talking about +200K/y base salary, no stocks, bonuses etc.
(For those who don't follow BPL: LC did indeed win)
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I think it's people talking about dumping their MacBook Pro more so than iMac.
Have you considered that Obama's regulating the distribution before Trump comes in and the main issue is that the FBI is both an intelligence and law enforcement agency?

I mean, if the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration and Department of Homeland Security weren't in this group of 16, wouldn't the discussion be completely different?

Lastly, who says the minimization that the NSA had been doing itself so far didn't just consist of removing noise? The requests have been and will continue to be confidential after all.

Obama is a proponent of very strong intelligence agencies which certainly must be criticized, but the hysteria and fear-mongering that's happening right now completely misses the issues that have to be solved first, imho.
Open a PR?
> how do you prevent one thread from seeing another thread's transaction in progress?

In Realm this is done by each thread having its own immutable snapshot of the data which is only advanced to the latest state at very specific "safe" points in the code. The result of this is that data never changes underneath you (i.e. You never see changes from transactions in progress. You only see after they have been atomically applied).
This has been supported for a long while now but it never really caught on much. It's still an option if your favourite name is taken, though.
We used to joke among ourselves that actually it was done using vinyl records. Have you seen how many vinyl records you can fit into a single rack?

Added bonus, 9 out of 10 customers actually preferred the feel of their data when it is restored.
One of the realest sites ever made. Cheers Ian for your fantastic example of how the internet should work.
Rarely, if you join as a senior engineer at AmaGooFaceSoftApple you won't make 200k base salary. This will be mostly stocks.
This is the US counterpart to the UK's Investigatory Powers Act 2017. The barriers between the hugely invasive but relatively passive intelligence agencies and the more "executive" parts of government are being dismantled. This is an extremely not-good thing. "Turnkey totalitarianism" is now basically one or two crises away.
> ...similar defunding is under way nationwide. “In most states,” The New York Times reports, “it is now tuition payments, not state appropriations, that cover most of the budget,” so that “the era of affordable four-year public universities, heavily subsidized by the state, may be over.”

Some people here on HN already know (I think?) of my 30 seconds of fame that came from being targeted by SUNY for retaliation for my successful run for Student Body President (chronicled in a video project called Campus Coup[0], made by a bunch of us who were there).

But what you might not know is that during that time, I had the pleasure of meeting and receiving the support from many of the brightest faculty (and other) reformers of higher education. Their counsel helped me understand and formulate the following conclusion:

A great move right now is to let the state continue to withdraw funding and at the same time supplant its control over Student Union Buildings, Offices of Residence Life, Offices of Academic Affairs, Academic Deans, and many other areas where it exerts undue control and coercion.

The reality is that, at many of the most politically prominent campuses in the USA - UConn, UMD, Cornell, and my alma mater, New Paltz, among many others - all the best campus functions are being run by faculty or students already, with relatively little management from state officials.

In my estimation, it's possible at each of these schools (and many others) to eliminate or nearly eliminate 3-5 top Student and Academic affairs officials, and their support staff, without anyone noticing for days or even weeks and without any long-term negative impact. It is also likely possible to eliminate their counterparts at the state level, ie SUNY SysAdmin.

This amounts to a savings of thousands of dollars per student per year in SUNY - in fact, it makes it easy to imagine completely eliminating state involvement at these schools. I'm not familiar with the numbers in the other state systems.

It's a very exciting time to be an education activist; there are some incredible students leaders on these campuses, and their level of understanding and sophistication is far beyond what we demonstrated in 2005-2008.

The internet has fomented a culture of knowing every detail of budgeting and recent history, and this has rendered a lot of what "administrators" used to do irrelevant.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lhBceaH_G4&list=PL11F04BB46...
It slyly does match if you read the whole thing.
Management Consulting focused in technology.
"larger house and nicer car and poof it's gone."

I guess you could spend your money that way. $200k is considered affluent, at least around Texas. I imagine it's not really a lot if you live out on the west coast.
Skype does that already I think
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You got this from (at the time of me hitting "reply") 8 comments?
I agree, though, are you really booked 44 weeks in a row as a freelancer? Seems pretty rare.
Google Staff Software Engineers make $200k+/year in base salary for a total compensation of $350k+ according to Glassdoor: https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Staff-Software-Engin...

This is three promotions for a new grad software engineer to reach this level, but if you are good, it is reasonable to get 3 promotions in 9 years. I assume other companies pay comparably at this level of seniority.
Sure, can I can show you my data and make you believe otherwise, I really want to get to the bottom of this since others also believe it to be an issue.
Sorry new HN and didnt see your response but yep lived in Troitsk until the early 90s.
I also was able to do this for my startup https://github.com/commando from GitHub. @commando was being squatted, but after they researched and I proved I was the owner, they transferred the organization name to me. +1 for GitHub.
Not only are you completely correct, I'm having a slightly difficult time understanding the purpose of the piece, exactly. Because it's not really only about education (some of it is about the finance sector, and relates only tangentially). It's about how Chomsky thinks profit motives lead to bad outcomes sometimes. Which is true, except a pareto-optimal social policy is _really hard_ and most law-makers at least attempt it already. So the criticism seems kind of hollow. "Capitalism As Practiced In America: Not Yielding Exclusively Positive Outcomes In All Aspects Of Life" is not something I would find particularly controversial, interesting, helpful, or insightful.
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So, I obviously underestimated inflation.

My first bike (the Chromoly Huffy I mentioned a couple of posts back) cost a little less than $100 in about 1983. That same $100 is $242 today. $242 will actually buy an all Chromoly BMX bike today ( http://a.co/5vAYzBc ). So, I guess we're keeping pace with inflation, and I need to tie an onion to my belt, as was the fashion at the time. We just need to re-arrange our expectations to match current reality.
Finding 36 * 44 hours of work a year at that rate is non-trivial, not to mention the difference between 1099 taxes vs w2 taxes you pay as a salaried employee.
Established education providers v new contenders
Is this the @a/b namespacing that requires paying monthly for names (that are longer)? That’s not going to fly for most people.
It's a worthwhile question and one worth comparing to the US today. Why is a sizable percentage of the US today afraid of immigrants despite no significant increase in immigration at all (unlike Europe)? In this case, assimilation is irrelevant yet this fear of immigration has been enough to put Trump in office.

It's speculation, but I think rural populations worldwide are experiencing poor economic conditions while the urban areas have enjoyed growth and prosperity. The primary reason for this is most likely that young and educated people move to the cities draining rural areas of talent. Further, rural industries in first world countries are no longer competitive enough to sustain rural economies. There's more than can be said here I'm sure.
I guess that you could think of Realm as an immutable data structure (as it is immutable outside of very specific conditions like inside write transactions and a state refreshes at "safe" points in the code. But the experience is totally different. It basically feels like you have plain old (mutable) objects, but they can be safely shared between threads without any of the overhead (mentally and performace wise) of locks.
It's been mentioned elsewhere, but machine learning combined with big data is here in a big way. If you are not at least aware of the value of these skills, you are way behind the curve.
> Some time ago I had the idea that, maybe, the website layout could be controlled by the user, and only data are controlled by the website's owner. The web would become boring, I know,

(disclaimer: my web developer days were a lifetime ago)

wasn't this basically the idea with CSS (and user CSS), "semantic" HTML and JS as progressive enhancement? those were pretty exciting ideas (IMHO), and with modern CSS there's no reason they shouldn't look good either... what ever happened with that?
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It hinges on the interpretation of "indoctrination." I think we colloquially use "indoctrination" to mean teaching people to consciously hear and repeat rote beliefs, aware of them but trained not to question.

But Chomsky's use of the term "indoctrination" in this passage is subtler. He's talking about instilling beliefs through confusion, omission, and financial obligation, not inculcation.
It's also possible if you're headhunted, or if you're part of an aquihire. 200k base means closer to 500k in total compensation (because all big tech companies offer bonuses and stock), so I don't really understand your focus on base salary. Why not compare offers by total compensation instead?

For every person earning 200k base there are many people earning 150k base. And with 150k base + bonus + stock you still end up with 250k in total compensation. We engineers got a good thing going here.
Other companies, you mean FB or Microsoft? The rest, they don't.

Also, Staff engineer at google = at least 8 years working at google as an engineer (while being a rock star over there). What if you join google now with 10 years of exp? Would you make $200k base salary? Not sure...
Only one I can think of that's useful is the q promise library. `npm install q`
> It does for me.

No, I really don't think so even in your case. You must have a limit where if a law was passed saying it was okay to .... something, that you'd object. Even if only such that you'd recognize it in a movie and say "Not in my America."

It really is the people who define justice. The state codifies and enforces that.

We try people (Nazis, Saddam Hussein, etc) for crimes that were legal by the laws of their state. The Italians try American CIA agents with kidnapping for extraordinary rendition. This is a widely held, almost universal view, that justice transcends law.

> It does in America.

We (my government and likely yours) recognize North Korea as a country, but we don't recognize it's actions as legitimate.

So pure minimalistic statehood - the ability to have and hold land - isn't enough for legitimacy.

What, beyond statehood, does America have that makes it legitimate. Can you put your finger on what parts matter to you?

> You need to use the same definitions of words that everyone else is using

You're the steelman. I don't think that's compatible with definitional nitpicking.

> > So the government is not made of normal people? Is the USA run by lizards or something?

> you seem utterly incapable of understanding basic, well-known positions, and you imagine I am delusional when your comprehension fails you.

The Lizard comment was valid sarcasm. You're not only not steelmanning, you're playing the victim.

You're rightly being called on your use of the word 'normal' because you're hand-waving so much away with it, and being so dismissive with the article.
SDR strikes me as good in theory, but breaks down for anything practical.

My core 2 duo was 100% cpu utilization simply from decoding 56kbps 2-BPSK, even with SIMD extension enabled (within GR).
When that day comes, move to Pale Moon
Satire?
I make that much: Senior Software Engineer at a startup (joined among the first 3 hires), Bay Area. About 6 years of experience.

200k$ base salary

50k$ performance bonus

1% ISOs (after considering dilutions. Company is ~1y post Series B)
My base salary was about 200k before I left Google a couple years ago. I was a Senior SWE, and have about 20 years of work experience.
Try Pale Moon.
"When the kids turned 16, we bought each a car. The first one learned what that meant. As the tow truck pulled a once “new” car into the driveway, my oldest proclaimed: “Dad, it is a wreck!” I said, “Yes, but a 1965 Mustang fastback wreck. Here are the repair manuals. Tools are in the garage. "

Amazing! Will use this one day. The model described in the article seems pretty solid to me. Particularly the focus on teaching problem solving and discipline using self motivation.
It is, people just don't know about it (it seems?). In Firefox, just press '/'. You can also toggle 'Search for text when I start typing' in about:preferences#advanced.
> Individual Contributor?

Would you mind explaining what this is? You've mentioned that twice in this thread and it's something I've never heard before.
Interesting, I had no idea. Thanks!
You're referring to a link buried within 'Legal Stuff' at the bottom of the page, away from all other actionable sections linked to a package.

I don't think that's even close to being a satisfactory call-to-action.

Whenever I've picked a name for a project, I've always generated them by combining words together with hyphens. If I realised that I could take over package names that were being squatted, there are many times I would have done so.
That is pretty impressive I have to say...
Well, I am sure Amazon, Dropbox, and many of the other large companies would too.

Also, I don't think it is unreasonable for someone with the equivalent experience of 8 or 9 years at Google to get hired as a Staff Software Engineer. Of course, this is ultimately dependent on how well you perform in your interviews and the hiring committee.

Anyway, if you only care about cash compensation rather than bonuses or stock, Netflix is where you want to go: https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Netflix-Senior-Software-Eng.... Their compensation package is basically all cash, no stocks, no bonus or anything like that. Note that Netflix hires all software engineers as "Senior Software Engineers": https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs
I'm looking at the top graph (EU 28 countries) and not seeing anything alarming relative to prior years. I'm not sure why Europe should be disintegrating now and not a decade ago if the claim is solely that Europe's problems are due to migration.
I agree that students of all grades are indoctrinated to obey and comply. And that this is rooted in the establishments explicit desire to create ideal assembly line workers.

But this analysis seems really muddled, confused, and all over the place. He liberally attacks conservative politics, yet fails to make a case which supports his assertions as to who is to blame.

I'd also disagree with his assessment of California as having had the best educational system in the world. Wow. Really? Or his assessments that the problem is enrollment freezes or reduced funding. Many other countries do education cheaper, and more effectively.

I'd also argue that public education has, for nearly a century indoctrinated students to be compliant and obedient. This isn't a new thing.

But this is the reason my wife and I will be homeschooling our kids. Not out of a desire to indoctrinate them or whatever, but to save them from being indoctrinated to be docile and subservient. I want our children to be free thinkers, confident in themselves and capable of living outside the box effectively.
It's based on .Net Core, so anything not in core PS has to be available there.
I had no idea. I never heard of npm doing this and missed it as a spot on the site. Thanks!
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Make $140k/yr, be happy, and make a side project that brings in passive income. Build it up over 5 years until it makes $200k/yr reliably..now you're doing better than anyone who has to have a real job.
Empirically, it doesn't just shuffle the problem around, it dramatically reduces it. On Google Code, every time you tried to create a project, the name would always be taken. On Github, every time you try to create a project, you can go ahead and use the name, and I haven't heard of anyone having trouble finding something acceptable to use for their account name.
Throwaway account; work at a fruit stand in Cupertino. Base $200k, not including RSUs and bonuses.

$200k RSUs on signing, with the expectation of yearly top-ups. Not sure what the cash bonus will be, haven't been here long enough to find out.
Have you lived in an area with high rates of theft before? I have (parts of New Zealand) and IME the police really don't care.

I 100% do not rely on police or courts to protect my property - because they don't.
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The OSU Coursera course you recommended isn't bad, but the UPenn course I feel is higher quality.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKc2XOQp0dMwj9zAXD5Ll...
[2]https://www.coursera.org/learn/single-variable-calculus
[3]https://www.math.upenn.edu/~ghrist/
I think you hype up the federal space a bit. I know many people in this space making 150-200k+ and it really isn't that competitive (Have a clearance, do good work, maneuver around politics)
Looking at the code (commented lines at the top), I thought parent was using Chocolatey as a OneGet provider? See https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolatey-oneget
The 35 to 1 odds spot has a $1 minimum bet in Craps, but the payout is way worse than the true odds. My understanding is that OOTM options are usually similar in that they don't reflect the true odds.
I wanted to try Vimperator multiple multiple times but every single time I installed it, it didn't work for some reason. Either Firefox introduced some breaking change that made Vimperator unusable or I received error messages that through a session of Googling I couldn't fix.
Belts and chains both break.

Ordering a replacement belt will take several days, if not weeks.

Removing the broken link from a chain takes a few minutes with a portable tool that I carry with me. I can still get to the office on time.

Failure-mode operation is more important to me than keeping my hands clean. Sure, my bike's noisy and dirty, but it's a whole lot faster than walking.
It roughly means 'not a manager'
Of course... total comp is standard at 200k/year (at least here in the bay area). Same for a startups, you can own %2 of a startup with a 40 million valuation. The bank will ask for your monthly paychecks at the end of the day.
I got one of these at a local bike shop for $450, which I think is a lot more bike for the money than the IKEA bike. Sure, no belt drive, but the internal 8-speed hub is really nice. I've been riding it for 3 years, rain and shine every day, and it's holding up great.
http://www.breezerbikes.com/bikes/details/downtown-8
Well, I hope for all our sakes that a historically expansionist, authoritarian regime exercises as much restraint as you ascribe to them. I'm personally more skeptical. In an era where the US seems to be rapidly cozying up to Russia, denigrating NATO, and withdrawing public support for former allies, things are impossible until they are not.
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$200k is far from affluent in Texas, unless you're in a small town in BFE. $200k is solidly middle class in Dallas.
an individual Contributor is an employee who doesn't have any direct reports.
As a further data point, some people in my personal network of comparable experience and age are pulling 500-700k a year from Google/fb. That of course includes RSUs, but that's literally the total compensation they are able to translate into hard cash every single year.
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Techniques from Japan that changed my life:

T-shirt folding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5AWQ5aBjgE

Gift wrapping. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qi8ZXUH_wY
> inculcation

This is the third time in a week I've seen this word, or a tense of it. The first time I had to look it up, as I'd never heard it before. Perhaps that's irony since I grew up in the US school system, or perhaps the term is merely gaining favor as of late?
I knew the top rated comment would be something like this.

You completely skip past the family's achievements, ascribe some agenda that was not stated anywhere in the piece, and immediately start ragging on about privilege and focus on the most unfortunate people in society (cause they're the only ones that should be talked about, right?).

It's just creepy how some people's minds work.
Anyone here using Rust on mobile? That's the potential usecase that interests me the most, but given that the tooling still has a lot to be desired, and a lot of mobile code is vendor-specific anyways, I'm not sure it makes that much more sense than just duplicating those shared parts between Swift and Java.

I could see it for small modular parts that are better suited for native code and when one doesn't want to use C, perhaps, or, of course, for infrastructure-level projects like Servo.

I just wonder if I'm barking up the wrong tree because much of the Rust interest I see seems more heavily weighted in infrastructure and backend, not in user-facing code.
I have personally hired ICs at $200k base plus 10% bonus target plus RSUs.

Typically 10+ years experience and a some specific experience we felt was relevant to the team.
The over-arching principle of Chomsky's political work is that systems of authority must always be required to justify themselves, and should be abandoned if they can't.
Any other prefiltering / post-processing? This processing should be pretty trivial on its own. This should be fairly easy load - definitely not pegging the CPU at 100%.
An individual contributor is just someone who doesn't directly manage other people.

I think you're supposed to use it to refer to people who are evaluated by their own work output as opposed to measuring the output of a team (even though I think for senior engineers it's totally valid to evaluate whether they're boosting the team and nudging them towards better solutions).
This is due to the ad fraud bubble. We have covered it extensively on Software Engineering Daily: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/?s=ad+fraud
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13405043 and marked it off-topic.
You make this sound easy and guaranteed. Perhaps give a few examples of side projects that will generate $200k in ARR within 5 years?
Great, another size comparison thread.
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