skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It took me a while to understand that most people don't realize you can lie on this with almost zero downside. Very few employers are checking, and very few times is that information legally available to them.

The most they can typically get is the "typical" salary for a given position at a large company. There are exceptions of course, and the good ole' boys network can sometimes run deep.

But in the end, if you are let go or not hired because you lied about a salary they were otherwise willing to pay you? You dodged a bullet. Who would want to work in such an environment to begin with?

The correct answer is to say with what you think the current position is worth and what you want to get paid. There is no upside to being truthful here.

This is legitimately hard for a lot of folks to understand, the same type of folks who equate violating corporate policy as being "illegal".

I'd even go so far to say it's close to immoral not to lie on this question given the power imbalance when it comes to hiring.
It looks like there's a business opportunity here for someone to make a really slick browser based LEGO editor that does cost estimates and orders all the correct components for you when you're finished. I'm curious how large the market for such a thing would be.
Python 2.7 only is a no-go for me.
Coming soon to an insurance broker near you: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/@health--science/2017/04/04/17972...

Of course, this article is about New Zealand, but I will not be surprised to see similar things in the States. Thankfully ACA provides protection for health insurance, but we're already seeing things like https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1313.
It should also ban potential employee disclosing the pay of previous employment. Otherwise it would become a norm soon that the companies specifically won't ask about it, but will hire only the candidates who disclose it by themselves, which makes the candidate to disclose the previous income by themselves for having a better shot at getting hired.
Most never do realize, it seems.
That's the big long-term question. The nice thing of this is really just having Google backing.

Keras, though, still really incredible for usability.
I was unaware that the CIA is the malware division of the US federal government. They are a spy division.

At least we have this timely information again from wikileaks that provides a narrative that the US is framing Russia for hacking.

It's almost the only thing they are releasing nowadays.
A bill to legitimize lying would help people who know about it. But the people who most need the help are those who have never heard about this controversy or don't think they have the power in the negotiation to consider lying. The way NYC did it, the law protects the most vulnerable.
Amazon finds there's nothing foolish in fuel-cells
Why not post it on your blog and share on facebook/twitter etc?
All this talk about basic income is so vague. It's almost some sort of a political maneuver.

Let's talk numbers: to give every adult in the us a BI of $25k/yr , would require $5T. Current tax base of the US is $1T.
Can one unprovable and arguably imaginary idea save us from another unproveable and arguably imaginary idea?
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Retribution for discussing salaraies is a violation of federal labor relations guidelines. Companies can write that in their handbook but not enforce it. If they do, contact a lawyer and the national labor relations board.
I'm not drawing a comparison to harassment of Muslims.

I've had similar experiences and I'm not a Muslim and CBP would have no reason to believe I was.

And I resent you trying to use claims of racism to derail a discussion about reasonable precautions.
Please document some of this case law!
> "nothing is more important to democracy than an educated electorate"

You would do a great service to the privacy scene by not using Google Docs for sign up forms! (Or in general..)
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You have some leeway. If you say "My compensation was $70K" and your salary was $50K, you may well be telling the truth.
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LEGO itself had such a service, but shut it down in 2012: http://ldd.lego.com/en-us/subpages/designbyme
> Freedom of speech pertains to legislation from congress preventing political speech.

Freedom of speech is broader than that. Freedom of speech not only extends beyond congress (which the Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed), it also goes beyond political speech. You have the right to espouse openly racist beliefs. You have the right to espouse religious beliefs, and beliefs on the best way to grow corn, and what the best auto maker is. These are not political opinions except to the extent that they are protected from suppression by politicians. (Alternatively you can argue that basically all speech is in some fashion political, in which case the "political" distinction is meaningless.)
Right, but then you have to have cash.
but legally there's no reason why a phone or laptop should be immune to search

If the pretext is border security, there is a small difference, the documents stored on an electronic device won't explode or start firing bullets or be used in a stabbing (the contents of a case might).

We should absolutely fix the lack of foundational privacy laws in the US though.
Also to add, if you work for a public institution, your salary for the past three years is in public records.
Do you have a source? This is what I'm going off of.

"How do I know what's legal and what's not when it comes to copying music/movies?

Here's the bottom line: If you distribute copyrighted music/movies without authorization from the copyright owner, you are breaking the law. (Distribution can mean anything from "sharing" files on the Internet to burning copies of copyrighted material onto blank CDs, DVDs, or Flash drives, and selling or giving them to others.)"

http://dmca.ucr.edu/faqs.html
In Geemany you are allowed to lie to any question the employer doesn't have the right to ask (e.g. Are you pregnant?)
Yeah it's sort of like religion all over again just in a different context. It seems that imagination for humans is more or less inescapable and in the end even if we get really nerdy about it, we end up in the same place we started. Undetermined and all about what you want to believe to be true.
That sort of concept of freedom of speech is so broad that if actually enforced, it would effectively prevent any laws that regulate businesses.

While it's true that businesses can assert First Amendment rights, as with this recent Supreme Court case https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/business/supreme-court-cr..., that doesn't mean that laws that make it illegal to inquire about or take into account past salary history, marital status, pregnancy status, etc. are all unconstitutional simply because spoken communication might take place during the process of flouting the law.

Or to put it another way, it's not the words, "So, are you pregnant?" themselves that are the problem. The problem is the implicit idea that an interviewee's answer to this question will affect the employer's hiring decision, and the law says it should not.
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I think you might resent the story, which is about "claims of racism", and not so much this comment thread.
Lol my comment started with "I'm still a bit confused about libertarianism" and went on to ask for clarification on libertarianism, a subject I know little about. The reply was essentially "You looked deeper than my comment really went into libertarianism" - how did you arrive at your current conclusion? Who here is looking for a team? The person asking to understand a point of view? The person clarifying their original message? I don't think anyone hear is looking to team up based on labels
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I never understood this one. I have always told recruiters straight up that I'm not going to disclose that information. Nobody involved with making the hiring decision is going to be asking you how much you made at your last job.
My guess is that political ideology demands it.
> ...legally there's no reason why a phone or laptop should be immune to search while suitcases and briefcases aren't.

Of course there is. My suitcase has my clothes, toiletries, and maybe a book to read when I get to my destination.

My electronic device has a list of everyone I correspond with, what we type to each other, all the websites I visit both at home and on the go (Firefox Sync), everywhere I've traveled with that device since I got it, every destination I've searched for since I got it, my home WiFi SSID and password, the SSID/password of any place I've been allowed to connect including work, access to every file in every cloud storage service I use, username/password to all the VPS and dedicated servers I manage for myself and for all my clients, remote access to my home network and my work network, and so on.

The scope of my suitcase is limited to what I'm wearing and what I'm reading on my trip. The scope of my mobile device is a huge chunk of my entire life. Do you get the difference now?
That's a funny hypothesis to think about. I wish there was a good data set we could analyze on this matter. I'd really like to be able to answer the question: "Have smartphones reduced human interaction. Especially with strangers."
That'll actually be one of the key use-cases for Root I think.

E.g. We've had people who want a card for their spouse, and then whenever one of them spends money, it alerts the other one so that they can sync budgets.
That's why you just say "around" and add 20% to your current salary.

And even if a company does find out, who cares? What I made at a prior job has zero bearing on my next job. If the new company thinks I bring in enough value to be paid X, then they paying X should be fine.
The analogy is not perfect, but all the time people like to know how much a house or car sold for in the past, or how much a stock traded for the in past, etc. Seems like useful data.

Now, I'm not advocating for or against this particular question, but I sure do hope there is data collected and studied on the effect this has in NY before anyone jumps to conclusions. I feel it's too easy to have a knee-jerk reaction on this one.

There is no way to know whether this helps/hurts/is neutral for any particular class of people without studying its effects.
This is exactly the type of developer I try to be.

I've been in this industry about ten years now, and I've learned that while I am capable of a very high level of productivity I am not capable of maintaining it consistently. I can do short bursts on command and I can occasionally maintain it for a couple of months at a time, but I inevitably crash and start to drift.

I don't think I'll ever be the "rockstar" that puts repeatedly puts out amazing stuff, day in and day out for months and years. I know those people. What I can do is ensure that I deliver value during my "drift" periods by helping coworkers, implementing iterative improvements in existing processes, and doing systems-level design work.

At my current job, we work in two-week sprints. Right now, I've been working on a feature for six weeks that should have taken me no more than three. I completed it this sprint it a burst of productivity; last sprint I made little progress on it, but was able to complete a slew of smaller side tasks that helped the whole dev team.

I also spent a lot of time reading and "tinkering" with other parts of the codebase and the libraries we use which resulted in my becoming a domain expert in a couple of new areas. Because of that, at least twice another dev came to me with a complex problem in that area and I was able to point them to a simple solution in only a few minutes - in other words, my yak shaving had resulted in an immediate time savings for them and a longer-term time savings by drastically reducing the amount of code that we'll have to maintain going forward.

Now, if my value to the team were measured only in how quickly I completed the task that was assigned to me, I'd be barely meeting expectations. If you consider my overall impact it's an entirely different story. This is exactly what my employer does, and is a large part of why I joined them. I have the freedom to focus on tasks that are not on a tight timeline, and to reallocate myself if I need to or if I'm able to provide more value elsewhere.

I wouldn't last six months at Ballmer's Mircosoft, though.
I'm not a recruiter, nor a hiring manager, but personally, I'd be more concerned about the competence of someone who answered truthfully. Yes, engineers probably aren't hired for being good at salary negotiation, but still.. it isn't hard to figure out that telling the truth isn't beneficial.
> I really dislike tipping and would prefer that the product be priced correctly to begin with.

I disagree with this in part -- I will agree with you that most of these people deserve to be paid more regardless, but I disagree in the sense that they all be paid uniformly. Better service should get a better tip. If that's priced in, I have no choice in the matter, I am paying the same price for subpar or lackluster service. This would make me change services as a whole rather than just chalk it up to I had a bad driver. Allowing me to tip based on the level of service I receive is a form of recourse for the customer in the event of a terrible experience. It's also an incentive to the driver to perform better.
But the contents of a phone might be a recipe for homemade explosives or drugs, or a blueprint for a 3D printed gun, or the schedule for an attack.
Glass Door is great. I especially love some of the more recent updates they've made - ie https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/CarVal-Investors-Reviews-E...
True. I edited my response to say "also" thinking about your point. I like my proposal less and less, honestly. I'm personally not a very good liar, so it wouldn't help much.

Also, there's just something that feels wrong about normalizing lying instead of fixing the root problem.
What's the law that says they can't do that?
Correct: a service called The Work Number by Equifax.
http://www.theworknumber.com
jesus christ hacker news has a fucking erection for anything anti-uber, get over yourselves, they provide a taxi service that actually helps people
The problem is the one way communication. I would personally have no problem giving out my past salary, in return for the current salaries if all comparable current employees at the company.
It's strange that their website is so bad (lots and lots of ads, basically unusable without an ad-blocker) while their apps (in particular, Espresso) are a joy to use.
I'm the author of that post. I could have certainly used promises all the way through, and in some cases that might be the better option.

My example is contrived, but in the larger project that I was working in, almost all of the existing code used callbacks. Refactoring all that code to use promises, just to accommodate the two or three places that actually needed them, probably would not have been worth it.
Newton was not an isolated occurrence
Clickable: https://medium.com/@mohammedrafy/list-of-109-interesting-com...
"Closing the gender pay gay is important" Come on NYT....
I've worked with 100's of people in the offer stage with companies and the only companies I've had check in the past are financial companies.
>I was unaware that the CIA is the malware division of the US federal government. They are a spy division.

Is a little like saying "the FBI is the firearms division" because FBI agents are armed.
So people on HN are pro employers posting their employee salaries publicly but against previous companies asking what their salaries are. WTF. I must be missing something here.

I personally believe your salary is your business. Period. Getting salary information bad, forcing employees to divulge salaries from a position of power is disgusting.

Here is me being publicly quartered on HN for pushing back on forcing employees publicly posting salaries:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12805814
In 1973, your suitcase might have contained a list of all your contacts, love letters from your mistress, maps, business papers, a diary.

Were any of those ever forbidden from searches?
yes, I agree! thats exactly why I wrote it: I hate that they try to lock users in. That résumé data is mine, and I should be able to export in any format I want. Instead every service tries to lock their users in, and for every other website I use, I need to reenter the same stuff...
If you are going to lie, just pick the number that's best for you. No need to have any relation with any true number.
> how do you figure out what "average" is? Lines of code? Bugs fixed?

Whatever you choose, it stops being an effective metric the moment you begin to use it to gauge performance.
I understand, but I can't remember that anybody - esp. outside the very small Apple bubble - cared about the product itself or extensibility in particular. I would completely dispute that extensibility was a common concern.

At the time PowerMacs came with 40 GB of storage so 5 GB was a lot. Absolute size wasn't a hot topic. And practically nobody else had an Mp3-player so swapping with friends wasn't a thing either.
It is increasing, a lot. There was a recent study that had OTA using households increase from 9% in 2013 to 15% in 2016. Or as one headline put it "almost double".

Added: Here are some numbers not from memory:

* http://www.ooyala.com/videomind/blog/ota-usage-growing-more-...

Added2: OK I found my numbers, which were slightly off. Fixed...

* http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20170127/tv-antenna-ri...
Sorry, I assumed you were libertarian based on your comment, and went from there. You definitely didn't say or imply anything about "private entities filling in gaps without restrictions" I just assumed you felt that way because I assumed you were libertarian based on your stance.

I definitely agree that it's not black and white, especially as you delve into the corner cases.
You can refuse to answer their question. You can also ask them how much others are making at your position (and they can refuse to answer that, too). I don't see where the asymmetry is.
You won't lose any negotiating power. Just because they can't ask doesn't mean you can't counter an offer and ask for a higher salary. If they want you and think you're worth it, you'll get it. Just don't see them not being able to ask really shifting the negotiating power much if any for you.
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The piece seems rather "tailored" to deliver a message, and I suspect there is much more to the story than is being reported.

Perhaps the guest actually didn't pre-arrange the extra friends, and then got pushy when the host wanted to charge for them.

I'm guessing the "One word says it all. Asian" comment was being used to stereotype the guest's actions/attitudes, rather than as a statement of "You're not welcome, because you're Asian". Which in itself is of course deplorable, but not quite what is being reported.

The host posssibly deserve a ban just for the racist comment, and if things are as reported, they most certainly deserve the ban, but the reporting seems very "framed".
You see where this is going, right? This is exactly why terrorism "works": because the kinds of people who will frisk children "because terrorists have been known to use children" can be goaded into doing just about anything in that fashion. That's the real threat from terrorism: not to our overall physical security, which even at their worst no terrorist group has ever threatened existentially, but to our psychological security --- which they demonstrably have threatened to that degree.
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What part of a "persistence method" are not using vulnerabilities? If you infect the boot loader, bios, firmware, or some other methods to create persistence then those are vulnerabilities. That a system can get infected in such way is not by any intended design.

Could give an example of a persistence techniques that is using a intended feature of a computer system in order to hide the malware in unintended places in such a way that the system can't remove it (which itself is a unintended functionality).
Heh, usually when I get a stupid enough idea, it turns out that someone had that before :)
At this point I think Wikileaks is largely trash. Their agenda is blatantly anti-us motivated.

This leak and the previous one are examples. The CIA is a spy organization. Their job is to spy on foreign influencers. As such, they have spy tools... Just like Russia, China, the UK, etc. etc. If the headline here mattered, it would be, "Spy Agency has Spy Tool". There is no evidence at all that this stuff has been used domestically. But wikileaks buries that headline.

Wikileaks continues to push the agenda that these leaks correlate with the legitimate PRISM leaks that we saw earlier. They push the narrative that these tools are being used on americans, should be ashamed, don't trust your intelligence agencies etc. Fueling the populist anti-intellectual bs we have going on in the world right now.

Don't get me wrong. The US government should be ashamed of PRISM and the actions of the NSA, but Wikileaks should be ashamed of these leaks and the way they're representing this information..
I had a Mac Plus with an Apple HD 20 hard drive.

It wasn't internal but it was made for the Plus.

It was an odd beast that connected to the external floppy connector.
This is not a calm and reasoned debate about who is the right CEO for Uber. This is the press being angry that their reporting of several scandals at Uber hasn't resulted in a scalp.

First paragraph of the article: As the calamities amass at Uber, many people — including me — have called for new leadership. Usually, the job of hiring and firing a CEO falls to a company’s board of directors. Yet in a March 21 phone call with the press, board member Arianna Huffington said that Uber’s board had not even discussed the matter.

An honest reporter would have stopped there. Uber's CEO has not been fired because Uber's board does not seem to want to fire him. The rest of the article is conjecture. Surely the only reason the board hasn't fired him (as "many people — including me — have called for") must be that they can't because he has conned them into accepting his own supermajority. Their inability is so total that they can't even discuss the matter -- which, despite the writer's failure to secure even a single quote to support it, simply must be their foremost concern. After all, how could they possibly disagree with "many people — including me"? Inconceivable.

Snark aside, the board has plenty of leverage against Kalanick - they could definitely debate the issues, most likely take a vote of censure. If they have deep differences of opinion with him, and he resorts to overriding them with this supermajority, they can resign their seats, and mark down the value of their holdings in the company. His supermajority would not prevent Kalanick from finding himself CEO of a $20B company with no board.
In tech, the wage gender gap worsens over time, and it’s worst for black women
That sentence doesn't mean that public opinion doesn't have weight.

It means that public opinion is complicated because people can hold more than one idea in their head at once.
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Totally avoid this question Being asked by setting the salary you seek in stone before going to the interview.
Especially if your working with a recruiter!

If they suddenly ask this question then they are trying to renege on their promise and for me it's time to go.
Unions are part of the solution, but so is the state. Unfortunately, the state has been destroying union power for years with things like "right to work" laws.

I happen to think that all workers should have protections, not just those in unions.