skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, okay. Sounds like they were trying to focus on people with a specific type of experience and not blacklisting people based on a specific employer or anything.
I've seen people getting Software engineering offers from Microsoft/Amazon in the recent years, salaries were less than $117,000, but it came with a stock award vesting over 3.5 years that increased the total compensation significantly.

By people here, I mean H1B applicants but also Ivy league and top schools U.S. citizens. As soon as a H1-B employee starts, the company would start sponsoring a green card and cover all the legal fees associated with it.

The problem with H1-B at Apple/Amazon/Fb/Google/Microsoft isn't the base salary, it's the long path to green card for Indians and Chinese citizens, reducing their job mobility and career opportunities.
Why should I use this over just creating a new file?

Why use this over a build system to build my files automatically?
Gosh, thanks Mahatma.
Nvidia  Reports Q4 2017 and Fiscal 2017 Results: Record Revenue
I recently got laid off from dayjob and had been doing a little frelancing on the side...I'm re-empployed again. But I've been thinking really hard about going freelance full-blown (even if only to feel like I'm in more control of my "employment fate")...so I definitely agree with your "...hesitated a long time..." note. I have not yet taken the plunge...so very much appreciate this site that you have built! Kudos!
So what happens when someone finds a flaw in the contract and empties you out?
Mindtribe is hiring hardware engineers
Really mature to downvote for noticing my town (Not even sure what the points are for anyway?)
I agree Tesla is a small automotive company, but it isn't a startup. There are plenty of small companies that aren't startups.
Sounds like the green-i would be the better overall indicator to look at then? How reliable do you think it would be as an alternative?
Mantis shrimp can see light polarization as well. They have amazing vision range.
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Who is to say if Jobs were alive we wouldn't be feeling the same way?

What new high-tech consumer products with wide enough appeal are there left to design around? iToothBrush? iBathroomMirror? iBathroomscale, looks great! but everyone just slides it under their bathroom counter and forgets about it anyway.

Should Apple start making IoT knockoff gadgets just to peddle more kit? Is that what Jobs would have done?

Apple is most successful when it peddles a small pool of top-notch tech products that fit with the current lifestyle of tech users of varying skills. Most recently was productivity on the go; the best laptops and mobile gadgets.

What new lifestyle trends are emerging that they can design a truly valuable tech tool for?

Maybe above all, we're just seeing Apple for what they really are: commodity PC vendor with a higher standards for fit and finish than the rest.
I built https://github.com/llambda/agilegps on RethinkDB. The atomic changefeeds made it easy to have real-time updates of tracked vehicle's locations. Though it might be possible to do that with listen/notify in PostgreSQL too.
Its not that surprising when you account for the fact that utilities are government granted monopolies. In California, at least, the deal is that investors get to be the only game in town and in return they guarantee that the infrastructure will not fail. Depending on the size of the market, a power outage might cost the utility tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in fines, all but wiping out any profit for the year. AFAIK there are also some pretty hefty fines when the company fails to repair infrastructure fast enough, like after a car accident damages the power lines.

With such crippling fines, its cheaper for utilities to build a huge natural gas peaker plant every year than to get penalized for failing to provide service.
Yup. Sending a print-job to an open printing port isn't special and IMHO doesn't rise to be anything remotely close to "Hacking" or "Hacked". Everything is essentially working as designed, but just poorly implemented. It's similar to how DDoS isn't "Hacking".
Would be fascinating to see how many people from TCS, Wipro and Infosys ended up moving to Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft after a few years in the US.
Congratulations! Your competitor just validated your idea for you. Now you know the idea is worth pursuing.

And if USCo has 10,000 paying customers, you know the market is big. Big enough that you can make a nice living there even if you aren't the dominant player.

The question is, can you become a significant player in Europe before USCo gets there? Local knowledge is a big edge for you; sometimes US companies find it difficult crossing cultures. That gives you time to get established, at least in your own country, and maybe in all of Europe.

To me, it sounds like you need outside money to scale quickly. If you can get it, definitely double down. If you can't, though... sooner or later USCo is going to show up in force. If you haven't grown by then, it's going to be difficult to get any more customers, and you'll probably slowly lose the customers you have, and your company will die. So if you can't get the funding to scale (or can't do it self-funded), then I'd consider refocusing.
Same way we decide everything, a sitting judge or a jury of your peers.
Or the "Adding a new employee to your payroll is as easy as creating a recurring payment" scenario. Good luck having the Spanish Social Security Institute accept the mandatory monthly payments (cotizaciones) in ETH...
Gregory Brown has fairly recently picked up the torch publicly reminding developers that the actual development is the smallest part of their job:

https://twitter.com/practicingdev (on haitus)

"the thing that motivates me is inspiring developers to think holistically about software dev"

"The value you bring to your work is not measured in how much code you produce, but in helping other people solve real problems."

etc.

Semi-obligatory book plug: https://amzn.com/dp/B01LYRCGA8

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Specific to this discussion, a big part of success as a developer is effectively communicating that one is doing a good job... if anyone has to ask this question, said developer has already lost!

The OP's question is definitely relevant to managers, and I appreciate the practicality of the discussion for both perspectives - what to do and/or what to look for.
That's why initiatives such as https://openzeppelin.org are needed.

We build on top of them and all our contracts will be throughly audited before going into production
Conceptually I like the idea of running our company on this. But do you have any sort of insurance in case something goes horribly wrong?

I'd probably be willing to use this for a side project, but I feel like the prospect of saving even a substantial amount of legal fees isn't enough to risk everything on a new technology that would be a full-time job to actually understand.

That's not to say it's not a good idea, because it is a good idea, but there's a really big lift in terms of getting mainstream adoption.
Even if most companies don't explicitly adjust for location, nearly all do. There was a post on here a while back about traditionally NYC-based banks opening offices in Jacksonville, where they can pay people substantially lower salaries than New York.
Flash crashes have no effect on buy and hold investors. You're holding, there's a crash, you're holding, bounces back, you're still holding.
More to the point, it is usually the government that funds, builds and operates the subway.
I know this is old news, but I still have to say this:

So if someone installs malware on your laptop, they get to own your shares forever? Living dangerously, man!
The logical exit for these smaller tools companies as growth slows is to get acqui-hired by the Twitters, Facebooks, and LinkedIns of the world.

However when your entire team is remote, that makes these companies steer clear of acquiring you since you won't fit into their culture. So they will go for your competitors with a crappier product, but a local team that they can quickly bring in onsite within a few months.
I agree that it's not acceptable. Doesn't mean it's not futile to ask for it to stop.
The true alt-right is tiny. Well, since alt-right has been defined to include white supremacy, anyway.

The left is huge.
When you talk of playing around with themes, my personal favorite for a while was Tumblr (at least until Yahoo bought them)
That also implies that if the market is very close to efficient, you need absolutely massive amounts of computational power to bring it even closer (i.e. to make money). So even if it is inefficient, that doesn't mean anyone can reasonably expect to find exploitable patterns.
The 'withering' of semantic markup is one of the greatest tragedies of the modern web.
You are still not arguing that he's wrong. You're merely arguing that if he were wrong, he might be wrong at other times for similar reasons.
It's amusing how "cost of living" is somehow seen as a reasonable consideration for determining salary but not what rates a customer is charged for the products.
What language are the contracts written in? Do you have a specification of that language?

EDIT: Nevermind, I see in an another comment that you're using Solidity. Thanks for the answer!

Now I have a new question. What do you think about the claim that, "Solidity, while being an interesting proof of concept, is dangerously under-contained and very difficult to analyze statically." (http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/smart_contracts.html)
I'm a gitlab fanboy but I honestly can't come up with a complaint about them. The recent incident was handled well I thought in that they were completely open about what happened and how they plan to prevent it in the future
The exhausting reality is that in the age of widely distributed services, everything is always broken enough that someone's use case is going to choke and die. When the best case involves total failure for a small percentage of people, what does green even mean? Author had their own monitoring, that's the only workable approach.
Ferroelectric, pyroelectric, and piezoelectric properties of a photovoltaic oxide
I think your explanation is actually addressed, just not directly: the article touches on the "Government is inefficient" hypothesis (which might be fuelled either by taxes or debt; it's the incentive structure that matters, not the source of the money), but that hypothesis makes a number of predictions that are falsified:

- If the increased cost is due to government inefficiency, there is opportunity for for-profit businesses to provide the same service at lower cost, and either capture the difference as profit or compete on cost for more business. However, in practice, for-profit hospitals and schools operate at similar cost.

- If the increased cost is due to government inefficiency, then countries where the government enforces a monopoly over the service should have higher costs than countries where there is significant for-profit activity in the same sector. However, US costs are much higher and have increased much faster than in other developed countries, despite the US system being the most privatised by far.
Here's an analogous situation - let's suppose you are a buyer in an auction for a car. You're competing with all other interested buyers to get the car, and after a bunch of back and forth, you win the auction.

Later, you find out that one of the most aggressive bidders in the auction was actually just a buddy of the seller, trying to increase the price in his/her favor but avoid at all costs actually winning the auction.

You'd probably rightfully think this was unfair, and this is exactly what spoofers are doing in an electronic market. They are generating the illusion of interest to buy or sell, without the intention to actually do so, in order to move the market in their favor.
Yet another thing I'd rather not have.
Definitely you should talk to a lawyer. If your employer is going to take it, why bother? If not, go for it!
Bad assumption there, Aragon companies will be able to handle tokenized fiat (USD, EUR, etc). Santander is working on a stable coin project to tokenize EUR and USD http://www.coindesk.com/santander-vies-become-first-bank-iss...
Old guy here. I am sure many like me find the whole premise of the company a bit repulsive.

If you are going to throw all of your professional energy into creating and growing a company can't you find something more meaningful than just building a social media spam engine?
How so? The south is extremely hostile (in general; exceptions exist in pockets) to non-whites.
Here's something from a heavy Twitter user that could save Twitter:

1) Offer ad freedom. Twitter has IIRC 300M users - if only 10% of these pay 1€ a month, that's 30M a month or 360M a year. Way more than enough to keep the lights on, and maybe even enough to replace lost ad revenue.

2) Open up the app ecosystem again - allow third party clients features like DM pictures and polls. Many people are fed up with the official mobile client.

3) Donald J. Trump. About 25M people follow him, and ad slots on his account should fetch a boatload of money. Not to mention that people sign up for Twitter just to read his latest brain f.rts... these could all be "upconverted" to full-on engaging Twitter users.
If you are interested work in Shanghai, you may checkout the company I'm currently working for https://github.com/elemefe .
Solidity http://solidity.readthedocs.io
In addition to all the good points made here (designs are static, different devices, etc) it's also because WYSIWYG editors just are plain inefficient. It's faster and easier to work with text. The best tools and technology work on text (copy/paste, git, sass, etc). Most people use HTML/CSS IDEs the provide the same level of power as programming language IDEs.
HFT doesn't really do anything for markets since they take very little risk, and that is the purpose of a market... the magic coil will kill your business anyway

I thought true HFT (not short-term momo, etc. where the intention is to actually take risk) had essentially died already, Virtu aside
Do you have any tips/advice related to Dostoevsky? Editions? Annotations? I'll take anything.
> No ASLR or other hardening flags because FreeBSD

OPNSense (fork of pfSense) is built on top of HardenedBSD, so there's ASLR, PIE, SEGVGUARD, all the things :)
Major League Baseball testing a rule to start extra innings with a runner on 2nd
I used pfSense for a long time and ultimately the conclusion was it was a 75% solution. It made those 75% things pretty easy to set up and configure. But once you needed something from the 25% you had to dig into the BSD configuration and now had to deal with how that interoperated with the pfSense stuff. Better to just bite the bullet and configure BSD (or linux for some things it does even better) from scratch and get exactly what you want and need.
I'd be really interested to know what features you think are most needed and are going to "crash" them. What I most commonly see is "neglecting pros by not offering 32 gigs of ram" which targets a pretty specific demographic. Honest question, not trying to be flippant in anyway.

I switched recently because whether it be sony, hcp, or lenovo every laptop me and my girlfriend went through broke down in someway and we had to deal with the horrible process of going through those companies support system. Apple laptops may get defects or break down, but at least they the best product support, and in general their quality is superior to others in terms of failure rates[1].

[1] http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/laptops/LaptopReliability
I think this post is fundamentally wrong. I left a comment there explaining, but I'll also paste it here.

Note that my critique is an attempt at Feynmaning this theory.

Stylized fact 1: Income has remained flat after adjusting for chained CPI.

Stylized fact 2: costs have gone way up adjusting for chained CPI.

Conclusion: Consumption must have gone down, since consumption = Income/Cost.

The problem is that this simply hasn’t happened. People live in bigger homes. They visit the doctor more, and have all sorts of medical procedures that didn’t exist in the past. More people are attending college and receiving degrees than ever before. People just have more of everything.

If you want to argue with this point, I challenge you: find a major category of consumption that has gone down in material terms over a long period of time. The most I can think of is obsolete goods like land lines, or inferior goods like homed cooked meals (relative to restaurant meals).

That’s exactly the opposite of what this theory predicts! Therefore, although I can’t identify exactly where things go wrong, they must go wrong somewhere.
I could imagine Steve Jobs becoming such an icon.
I haven't tried Go in a while but I see a lack of error handling in the code examples. Is that just to keep the code simple? I'd rather see examples with best practice handling of errors. Maybe show both versions so readers can see the difference?
As did the True Facts episode about the mantis shrimp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5FEj9U-CJM
Be careful or you'll end up with neither :)
The software industry largely decided to use HTML for the front end, it also largely gave up the 20 years of R&D on GUI design tools for existing semantically rich front-end frameworks. If Motif were FOSS or if CMU hadn't handed license rights to Andrew WM to IBM, we'd have probably avoided this whole mess that is HTML.
And it disproves OP's other point (the one he even highlighted in italics):

> None of those salaries listed are competitive with what a non-H1B (read citizen or permanent resident) would earn.
So these contracting companies themselves send out resume to job post a companies makes? For example, received 20 CV for a job posted and all of them could have been sent from the same contracting company?
As long as you consider smoking a joint "malicious" too (cause, you know, technically, it's illegal).
So what you're really saying here is, the article took the PR bait.
Fair enough. You are correct, WebAssembly is a bytecode for the underlying machinery of current ECMAScript/JavaScript engines. I think you raise a very good question, why did the WebAssembly committee decide to implement their own stack machine bytecode instead of re-using an existing bytecode like JVM or CLI (which, interestingly, is an ECMA standard)? It's troubling. The closest explanation I could find is:

"Why not a fully-general stack machine?

The WebAssembly stack machine is restricted to structured control flow and structured use of the stack. This greatly simplifies one-pass verification, avoiding a fixpoint computation like that of other stack machines such as the Java Virtual Machine (prior to stack maps). This also simplifies compilation and manipulation of WebAssembly code by other tools. Further generalization of the WebAssembly stack machine is planned post-MVP, such as the addition of multiple return values from control flow constructs and function calls." [1]

[1] http://webassembly.org/docs/rationale/
You're likely being downvoted simply because the comment adds nothing to the discussion. Up/down votes (points) help the most relevant and useful comments rise to the top of the page so users down't need to scroll through to find useful content.
Evidently, you hard fork the chain.

Ethereum proved that automated systems that serve human needs will eventually incur human intervention.
Ask HN: What's your go-to stack for prototyping web applications and MVPs?
Hi all,

My current go-to stack is Rails + Ember.js. I understand it's a bit dated so I'm considering learning something new.

Thus, I'm wondering what you guys use, or what you'd recommend learning.

Thanks!
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply they were blacklisting specific companies.
It's less this and the fact that their radical transparency is something that resonates with certain folks who will buy the product because of it, regardless of whether it checks every box on their feature list.

For some companies, they buy software because they like the sales guy who took them out for a steak dinner.

For other companies, they buy software because they like the culture and philosophy of people making it. This is why companies like Basecamp, Buffer, etc. can keep operating the way that they do.
Sad to see this king of comments on top.

> Many of these issues he addresses - healthcare, housing, infrastructure, and education, are enabled by federally assumed debt.
> The core problem, I believe, is that federal debt is like a blank check that nobody is personally accountable to repay.

This statement is more about ideology than facts: « free money, inflation, federal government doing shit» is like the constant refrain of conservatives for everything …

It's not even relevant in the context of this article :

- housing debts are individual debts, and they are indeed being repaid. Same goes for college tuition debts.

- this attempt to mimic a monetary economist reasoning is wobbly since those figures are expressed in constant dollar: those are cost increase in addition to inflation.
I let the newspeople follow him, and reserve my winces for when the tweets are bad enough to make headlines.
Ex-TCS employee here:
Seen this every year during my tenure at TCS. Every year in February / January project teams are requested by HR to send "list of eligible candidates" to apply for H1-B visa. The eligibility is weirdly composed, like they keep out graduates who have CS background and senior associates out of it. This is to ensure the associates stick longer with the company once they move to US.

Finally the list comprises of 1000's of applicants for whom the Job Position is either falsely certified by Labour Department (LCA). (Dont understand why the Labour department never carries out an investigation).
I have worked in professional software engineering environments where people acted professionally, and plan to create one in my new company. The mentality that "nerds will be nerds" enables and perpetuates this counterproductive behavior.
simply because it is a shortcut. This gives you a way that you don't have to write a lot of code.
This is true, although you can tell a lot about someone's character by whether they have to be dragged kicking and screaming to take the low road, vs. going straight to it and being proud of themselves for doing so.

No idea which bucket Washington fell into though, just a tangential observation.
Twitter has to be awesome... Trump says so and nobody knows more about technology than Trump.
My passion for programming varies.

Not quite as passionate Monday morning as I am Wednesday morning.

Decidedly less passionate after forced marches on crappy projects or putting up with BS.

Pretty passionate when things are just interesting enough but not frustrating, and most especially when I feel value in what is being done.

But really I've always felt passion for tools was a bit misplaced. Passion for results is where it's at.
sigh

After today reading theRealTrump for the first time and in general realising how much twitter is his tool of communication with his underlings, since the traditional medias belong to a different group, my first thoughts were actually, that this might be a powerplot against trump ...

I think I need to stop reading political news for a while and get out of the door again ...
would this allow something like - https://ckluis.com/js-template-concept-e6de6912fd35 - to be feasible?
Cash No Longer King: Europe Accelerates Move to Begin Elimination of Paper Money
HN folks, does every post about Twitter need to be made about the president? The unwarranted injection of politics into every single discussion is getting very, very tiring.

The article didn't mention him. He's not even in the top 25 most followed or active people on the site. Obama had more influence as #3! And yet, as I write this, every single comment in this damn thread mentions him. [1] Enough already! This is the first time I've wanted to flag an article for its comment section rather than the article itself.

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/cHEV2ww.png