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Ask HN: 1994 Caribbean Cup – What are modern day examples in technology?
You know how soccer is played - two teams trying to score a goal while defending their net.

The last 3 minutes of this particular game in 1994 looked very different, if not bizarre: Team Grenada was trying to score a goal in any net including its own, while Barbados players defended both nets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbados_4%E2%80%932_Grenada_(1994_Caribbean_Cup_qualification)

Are there recent examples in technology (features, products, policies) where rules produced completely unintended consequences?
Looking at the chart of largest reserve nations, you really have to commend Canada for being as free and fair as their society is.
Did you read my message? I'm actually talking about $200k/year base salary. A bonus is by definition not part of the base salary...
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I disagree. I have worked in software teams that employed people with non-CompSi degrees, such as maths, physics and mechanical engineering.
I had interns last year that received offers in that range at graduation that we couldn't match.
When you think about it, "real" advertising is the same - think how many people drive past a billboard vs how many of them actually buy whatever is on the billboard.

Google/Facebook really shoot themselves in the foot by claiming that they only target your ads at people who are already interested in what you're selling. That makes their ad services sound like some sort of marketing panacea and sets the expectation that you'll get a lot more interest than you actually will. What they don't want to acknowledge is that people are just as desensitised to, and disinterested in online ads as they are in "real" ads.
No they are not lying. A senior software engineer at Google easily makes >200K in cash compensation (salary + bonus), not counting RSU. And around half the Google engineering workforce is at that level or higher.

I won't be surprised to see similar or even higher numbers at FB / Linkedin / Netflix.

source: been a googler for >8 years
Minor correction: it technically is connected to NIPR ("the internet") via cross-domain guards. Most information would go one-way, low to high, but very specific applications do warrant information going from Secret to unclassified in a very controlled manner, especially when it is time sensitive.

It is actually an incredibly interesting topic, but it is hard to get much information on the specifics online (I assume many details are classified or at least SBU).
that is true, but running a martingale-ish strategy will often just set a new high water mark every year... until it doesn't.

hedge funds often make a lot more from the 2% than from the 20%. if you grow your AUM into the billions, charging 2% of that in yearly fees is incredibly lucrative. if you have a few years of above-market returns and good salesmanship, you can grow your AUM quickly.

when the streak ends, the clients lose way more than the managers, who mostly just lose reputation.

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personally, i'd only invest in low-fee passive funds like vanguard etfs, and active funds where the managers have a high fraction of their own personal capital in the fund.
Probably a few lying, mostly just massive selection bias. People who come here are already a very non-representative sample - heavily weighted toward specific geography, specific age range, specific specialties, and more. Even within that set, the subset of those willing to post salary info will consist mostly of those not only above median but so far above median that they're confident of not being outdone by the next commenter. So you're seeing a fraction of a fraction of reality. For all its faults, a site like GlassDoor is likely to be closer to reality than a site like Hacker News.

P.S. Whatever someone who has only ever worked at Google has to say about salaries in the industry at large is guaranteed to be wrong. Those comments aren't worth the power cost of transmitting and displaying them.
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How many times do you think bubble sort was independently invented?
Just a couple of points from the UK perspective:

In the UK it is normal to quote salaries gross, pre-tax, but you're going to pay 40% on anything over £43k - and that's about right for a mid-level dev in London - and 45% on anything over £150k which is mid-size CTO territory. However, advertised rates are always pre-tax.

As to how to get a better idea of rates, genuinely, self-reporting is BS. Looking at advertised rates is the best way to get a sense of trends. http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk is used by everybody I know. Note that salaries in the North/Scotland are much lower than in London. A mid-level dev salary in London is potentially high-end startup CTO/Head of Engineering in Manchester or Leeds.

Not discussing/disclosing salaries is common in the UK, and when people do, they often low-ball it, IME.

I have always considered people's reports of earning $200k as being a little… optimistic.
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How about people without degrees?
Depends on your bisection bandwidth requirement and software cost. If you want to do MPI it is going to be cheaper to buy some InfiniBand cards. But if you have a small cluster and tightly coupled code, or large I/O requirements, then a PCIe switch might be the go. These get used on some video on demand systems and signal processing architectures:

https://www.microsemi.com/products/drivers-interfaces-and-pc...

The Dolphin systems are tuned better for computation:
http://www.dolphinics.com/products/IXS600.html

I expect small PCIe NVMe external storage systems to become quite common in the near future, because enterprise systems need multipath storage for reliability; 8GB/s FC is too slow for SSDs, let alone NVMe, same with SAS bus expanders.

https://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides...
Yes, a lot of people do. I often discuss salaries with my co workers and friends and eventually when they show me their pay stubs there is a mismatch. It's always a pissing contest.
Someone, somewhere, somehow, took it. They were trying to do too much too soon. Most likly it was the Intergalactic Police. But it's a good thing it disappeared because the power companies would have had to increase rates three fold. Why, you ask? Because, even though it would be cheaper to produce and transmit power for the power companies, the consumer would have to shoulder the cost of this new material. Big Biz 101
3310 (the original) was my first mobile phone. It was OK. Flip phones were much nicer though, even the ones with the antenna sticking out - which, in fact, made them even cooler looking. I loved my Motorola-made one (not the RAZR; VA76R, was it?). It was perfect.
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I suspect this is only in the bay (or maybe other "high value" areas) ? I never heard such figures in the UK for example in those companies (well, for FB/Google anyway, never heard of Linkedin/netflix).
Human ingenuity + industriousness > Raw materials, even the most valuable one

Even princes born with black gold will sooner or later be surpassed by organizations run by inventors, scientists, and engineers. The values and abundance generated by hi-tech services are increasing while traditional energy sources are being supplanted by renewables.

“The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.” -- Sheikh Zaki Yamani, a former Saudi oil minister.
Every thread I have seen here on HN that presents another bloated Electron app seems to be filled with criticism, and I must admit that this restores my faith in humanity. If the consensus was that Electron apps is a good thing and we need more of them, it would be very depressing.

I do think the criticism is productive, because it's usually not targeted against the developer or the app idea, but that it's built on the Electron framework. Maybe many developers using Electron do not have much experience and it seems like a good idea in their heads. In this case criticism is helpful because the developer will learn that Electron is bad and should be avoided.

A crude analogy: If I was driving on an divided highway in the wrong lane without knowing, I would be very grateful if the first car I met in the opposite lane would use the horn and blink the lights to get my attention so I could immediately stop and turn around.
The base salary is your true buying power. Financial institutes look at your gross base salary in order to calculate the income/debt ration. Stocks and bonuses are not included unless they ask for you W2 instead of your paychecks. Also, it's your minimum guaranteed income every month that you can use to pay your monthly bills.
I'm currently reading John Cleese's autobiography (So Anyway...), which talks a lot about how he and Graham Chapman - two of the members of Monty Python - got their start in comedy in the Footlights at Cambridge. (Cleese was preparing for a career in law and Chapman was going into medicine.)
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I noticed for me discord's site and laravel was also duplicated
If you a natural entrepreneur this is pretty common. You also don't tend to care if it's official or not, as long as the product goals are met and you are compensated for making them happen.
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Indeed, it's a neat "hack" to force yourself to write better commit messages. I think this style of commit messages originated from the zeromq community: https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/commits/master https://github.com/zeromq/zproto/commits/master
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> but it's still vastly ahead of a degree in law, which seem to be the most common preparation for political careers in North America.

Those are kind of fundamentally different things, aren't they? A PPE degree is an undergraduate degree while a US Law degree is a graduate one. Law school doesn't require any specific undergraduate degree (it's well documented that the highest STEM and philosophy majors are some of the highest scoring on the LSAT). It'd be more applicable to compare what undergraduate degrees North American politicians have to the Oxford PPE curriculum.

As an anecdote, at my (US) undergrad school, people who were interested in politics majored in political science, international relations , or PPE (I don't know how the curriculum of this PPE degree compares with the Oxford one). Plenty of those people got law degrees and plenty didn't. PPE also attracted people who wanted to do something vaguely liberal arts but didn't want to specialize / commit too much.
Most salaries I see look accurate. E.g. at Google your stock vests over 4 years but at the same time you get refreshers every year. So after starting and getting each successive year refreshers you start having all the amounts of 4 years vest in one year every year.

Also very often if you switch these days companies offer you to buy your stocks out so you don't even loose the value when you switch companies.
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That seems about in line with the Bay Area. Around 5 years back it was ~ $90k. A lot of people include their signing bonuses and RSUs in their salary "number". RSUs have also become more significant recently versus pure salary increases.

Today I'd say the total comp for an undergrad SE (with experience beyond classes, top 10 school) in the Bay Area would be around to $180k, perhaps more depending on skill level. This is at Google/Netflix/Facebook with the latter two probably paying more.
Oh did Uber lie to deny responsibility for something? Who would have expected that?
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> Housing prices track inflation.

The problem is they don't. Especially in urban areas, housing prices have historically risen faster than inflation, leading to the absurd prices and rents we now see in many cities.

This has created a bit of a crisis now, because many people have bought housing expecting it to continue to beat inflation, but the prices are already absurdly high and further significant increases are unsustainable.

The result is that housing was an investment, and might continue to be for a few more years as long as the vested interests can continue to inflate the bubble, but at some point there is a pop coming.
Just that all languages and CAD environments I have used define log(x) as natural logarithm, and log10(x) and base 10 logarithm. Again, this is common knowledge in engineering programming, but maybe not so in general programming.
To me, an MBA is more about business strategy. Knowing the relevance of data to the operations of a business is vital to being an effective data scientist. Knowing when to make the call to lay off 500 people is the job of somebody with an MBA. Data scientists prepare and present the evidence in the language of business. There is crossover, of course.

What many data scientists (myself included) find is that they often are excluded from meetings and conversations that provide the context for the analysis they are doing. I always tell my supervisors that it is very helpful for me to sit in on as many business strategy meetings as possible, just to listen, because it builds context around the work that I do and helps keep me properly focused.

On the flip side, many involved in business strategy do not understand the nuances of analysis performed to support their business questions. There can be many reasons for that, from not being directly involved in the analysis to being excluded from data science meetings. Effective business analysis and data science requires trust between the players and that trust is built through showing an ability to deliver focused, relevant, and accurate results that support decision making.

As somebody who likes to write code and dislikes sitting in tons of meetings, I tend to avoid climbing the career ladder to management positions. I'm happy in a Senior Data Scientist position. At my last job, I was being groomed for management and I never got to do any actual data science work. It was boring as hell. I made a lateral move to a different company so that I could be more hands on and work in an industry that is more fun. Now, I get to write code and build and run models every day. I also get to present the results and have a trusting relationship with the managers.

As your daughter finishes school and gets some job experience, don't be too quick to suggest routes leading to business strategy and management. While it's the "top of the career ladder" at many companies, so to speak, it's not for everybody.
There is no reason these apps could not run without javascript with proper universal webapp support and declarative offline support.

My point is that they are not very progressive when they fail to run without javascript, independent of what name Google marketing team put on this bad practice.
Would be interesting to see an extension with browser history access to search through your history for actual leaked data.
I think it's clear now, that the time for intervention has long since passed, and given our track record we're unlikely to improve the situation. The problem isn't increased interventionism, it's that we've already intervened by arming and funding people.

Far more importantly though, we're the prime architects of how life in the Middle East has proceeded for decades now. We shouldn't make the mistake of intervening in their civil war, but we should take a long hard look at ourselves and plan for the blowback.
HN is infamous for posters who claim to be making half a mil easily 5 years out of school. I don't know what universe they live in, it's not the reality anywhere in the Bay Area. I know of people who come close to that but they're an absolute anomaly, they're the 1% of the already rather selective % of people who make it into a SV unicorn out of the general population.

It feels like the Facebook / Instagram effect where you start thinking that all of your friends are constantly living on yachts bathing in Dom Perignon, and you're the one loser out of your entire social circle who sits in an office all day.
As another poster mentioned, it makes more sense to measure "annual money in the bank", regardless of how it gets there.
Yes. It makes them feel good about themselves showing they have a higher salary than others. Even anonymously, would you want to report your under average salary? I mean you could, but would you take the effort to create a throwaway account just to do that? Probably not.
There's upside and downsides.

A good place to look at a non-political example of this phenomenon is submarine captains. A US submarine captain is by training a nuclear engineer first and foremost. It dominates the training and career path. In the Royal Navy, captains are more rounded and while they have plenty of training in that area, they have a more liberal education. That impacts leadership style and other things. Both courses are effective, just different.

Politics are similar. Your typical US politician is an attorney with a feeder degree in political science, history, etc. More MBAs too. Staffers usually have politically focused degrees as well.
Down payment.

You need 500k post tax which is almost 1 million in pre tax saved income to get a nice home in a decent neighborhood in the Bay Area. That is a huge chunk of change.
You don't really need aircon in Europe. It's still extremely uncommon to have in private quarters.
> An investment is an asset which is expected to go up in value faster than inflation.

An investment isn't defined away because it is likely to fail. It can be a bad investment if that is the probability.

An investment isn't in general defined by wisdom.

Stocks have been invested in when inflation was high enough to make them bad investments in the short term, but in some such cases they worked out in the long term.
I have a question. The post states:

>"This is because "level triggered" (aka: normal) epoll inherits the "thundering herd" semantics from select(). Without special flags, in level-triggered mode, all the workers will be woken up on each and every new connection."

Isn't this behavior similar to disk I/O where the kernel wakes up(via wake_up()?) all tasks that are sleeping on a wait queue for disk I/O? I believe all processes sleeping on a disk I/O wait queue will be woken up regardless of whether their disk I/O is complete or not and will be put back to sleep in the whre it is not.
I've noticed that Facebook sometimes refuses to let me in the first time even though the password is correct. I try the same password again and viola!
I spent a fair bit of time in finance and it was not uncommon there to have a bonus that was a multiple of your salary.

If you quoted just the salary numbers than finance would look like it underpaid where as the opposite is true.

In many places bonus isn't even the correct term as a substantial portion of it was guaranteed.
But std::set doesn't use operator< for comparing values, but !(a<b) && !(b<a).

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/set/set:

"Compare

A binary predicate that takes two arguments of the same type as the elements and returns a bool. The expression comp(a,b), where comp is an object of this type and a and b are key values, shall return true if a is considered to go before b in the strict weak ordering the function defines.
The set object uses this expression to determine both the order the elements follow in the container and whether two element keys are equivalent (by comparing them reflexively: they are equivalent if !comp(a,b) && !comp(b,a)). No two elements in a set container can be equivalent.
This can be a function pointer or a function object (see constructor for an example). This defaults to less<T>, which returns the same as applying the less-than operator (a<b)."

I think that guarantees that std::set works for IEEE floating point values, and that NaNs are at the end of the set.
Amen. Wish more people understood this.
Likewise, would the Saudi government ever let Saudi Aramco fail, or even lose a lot of its 'value'?
I've dealt with variable-length headers on (binary) things before, and it creates annoyances. It screws up the memory alignment, for instance.
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Interesting. Are you using a password manager? How are you confirming that you've entered the password correctly the first time?
>We're roughly a year out, with multiple platforms, and almost every game is still a tech demo.

Making a game with a really solid experience, to my knowledge, usually takes a few years to make. And that's true even when you're not trying to build entirely novel modes of interaction from the ground up.

> Where are the news reports of people breaking their TV with their Vive-mote?

Wii's were way, way cheaper, and not nearly so niche, leading to sales of 600,000 units in the very first week, you probably would have heard this about the Vive if it had that kind of market penetration that fast, because it definitely does happen to people.

> Where are the Wii-game clones? Where are the DDR-clones and, like, retro arcades?

I'd say multiple examples of all three are on Steam.

> Where are the games that have co-op in the same space?

Like local co-op? Probably waiting for the release of hardware that has more robust tracking because with multiple individuals in the same tracking space, the problem of occlusion crops up a lot more. Those improvements are planned, at least for the Vive, but they're not available yet to my knowledge.

> Why can't you invite your friends into your Google Earth, to look at the same scenes?

I'd guess licensing the imagery and data, although there are a handful of things like this for singleplayer (Including Google Earth VR), so it might have to do with the complexity of building a networked experience over a purely singleplayer one.
Yes this is the Bay Area only. Plus UK is known to have far lower salaries than the U.S. in any industry basically.
True, but considering with that high income no education assistance, medical insurance, or job-loss insurance, you can easily half the average income and then see actual disposable income.