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Most of the harmful chemicals aren't additives, they're combustion products that would be there no matter how the tobacco is cured and processed.
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1. These salaries are for Bootcamp graduates, which means they'll be lower than someone with 5 years experience in programming.

2. These salaries are likely for the Bay Area, where a 1br apartment can cost you $3k+, and your tax rate will be 35% (state + federal). It's not comparable to places with lower tax rates and lower cost of living.
>The fact remains, folks using e-cigarettes are still inhaling dangerous chemicals

except it's not a "fact". The fact that it is not "a fact" is precisely why you see studies coming out time and time again which attempt to figure out exactly which byproducts of the VG, PG, and Nicotine are created and how they affect the body.
> That's becoming less true today and I'd expect that trend to continue.

How so? I can't think of anything I know about IT and my profession that I couldn't learn from open free sources or experience. I don't say time spent acquiring degree was wasted on me, no, there are other advantages and I am not sure I could manage to gain that knowledge without the structure of the degree and peer support and so on. But it is possible to do it, at least all the means are around.

> that in the UK people found it much easier to admit the ways in which being wealthy was to their benefit.

Maybe in UK there's no consistent narrative that wealthy (and in general any well-to-do, societally adjusted) people are somehow all evil and at fault about anything wrong with the world, constantly scheming to oppress everybody else, and need to be constantly attacked, derided and shamed? No idea, I am not familiar with UK narratives, but I certainly know in some parts of the US such narrative is pretty much the default.
It's not identical. The p values change from 4 to 2.
OK, sorry for misreading your intent. We've unbanned you.

It would be a good idea to include an elaboration like this one when you originally post on an inflammatory topic—otherwise it tends to produce flames whether you meant to or not.
I think more of this levels the playing field for all.
UK plus every other EU country, no matter the education/experience you have there are limits that never reach even the lowest of those listed in linked spreadsheets.

People say it's the balance between the cost of living and work,work hours, job security etc etc I say it's bs I couldn't care less if it were to work 65h/week and my savings grew. I don't even want to mention the impression that working for X company makes in someone's resume that will guarantee an nice paying position somewhere.

My personal opinion is that every company in Europe/UK is total shit when it comes to money, they won't care about the passion that new developers bring with them.

I want to say the investors are not here but in America but I don't want to lie to myself anymore.
The worst part about the GOPHER protocol is that actual Gophers couldn't even use it, because they don't have opposable thumbs!

Yet another instance of the programmer establishment thinking they know what's best for everyone...
The Bay Area
What is non-crappy about it compared to the YubiKey?
Way too much of a hard salary cap on $150k in this industry.

It'd be interesting to see a graph of how much additional compensation every additional year of experience gets you.

Also, how do I sort this dataset by column (eg. salary)?
Its a classic case of paradox of choice; having too much options makes it more difficult to pick any single one of them. The problem is not that I have hard time finding good books. I have hard time selecting which of the thousands of good books I want to read.
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Is it only me or aren't these wages crazy high for people with only 0-2 years of experience?

I started as a fresh software engineer in Tokyo this year, and I'm making around $37k a year. I think that newbies earn about that much in Helsinki, Finland, too, where I'm originally from.
Yes, though they didn't make controlled landings, they used parachutes.
Seems like this is a reimplementation of Reflexbox (Brent Jackson did both of them).

The source uses styled-components vs the previous css-in-js implentation (I think it used cxs). https://github.com/jxnblk/grid-styled/blob/master/src/Flex.j...
Pardon my ignorance of the google ecosystem but... how can I download this spreadsheet?
As an engineer who moved to US from India, I feel I am at loss while negotiating salary as I don't have a clear idea on how much people really make. I wish there could be a way to determine how much salary you should negotiate.
I would add a 'company is public' column to this spreadsheet. Even if you don't disclose the company, you can at least say if you can sell your equity easily ;)
Given that top body builders are vegans, I'd guess - not much
I think the point is that using "male/female" as a noun is clinical and dehumanizing, but there aren't any issues with using the words as an adjective.
Why are AI predictions so terrible?
Right. Increase price and introduce pricing/cost uncertainty, and you have fewer buyers. Sounds about right to me. Sounds like Econ 101 to me as well. When someone dresses up info from a 101 level college course as a headline, it says to me either, "slow news day" or "hit piece."
I struggle to think of a reason why they (or anyone else for that matter) even need a CBO or CMO.
"The aim of our study was to compare the effects of a vegetarian and a conventional diet on thigh adipose tissue distribution in subjects with type 2 diabetes (T2D)."

The broader conclusion seems plausible to me, since a healthy vegetarian diet can have lots of high-fiber foods that give high satiation with relatively low calories. But: The study focused only on diabetic patients.
is that after conversion?

e.g.: 200k USD would equal (200 * 0.79 USD/GBP * 0.8) = 126k GBP?

I wonder if it is because salaries were set before the pound plummetted due to brexit.

For most companies, you at least get more vacation days in London, but i think facebook US already provides 21 business days, I would imagine facebook UK is the standard 5 weeks?
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Was it worth it with the huge increase in cost of living?
Gonna need a source on that.
Yes, even in the embedded space. I have a local friend who runs his own company doing contract embedded development and he is remote. Again though, you need a really good track record as a regular, on-site employee first, someone who ships software and can communicate really well.
I guess I should have added I am married and have kids, one college bound. My wife earns enough to fully support the family. Which means, within limits, I have complete freedom to do as I wish.

I can earn a good salary under normal circumstances. This was a case of what I call a "lock-in-key" contract where my skill set matched the problem so well that I was able to negotiate triple normal rates to get things done (electrical, mechanical and software dev). This was one of those opportunities that rarely present themselves and I don't expect to see this happen again.

I've been looking at Vanguard as an idea. I need to do more research. It seems like a good option.

One of the things this highlighted was the need for more security. There was a recent thread on HN about hackers hijacking phone numbers to gain access to bank accounts, etc.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14533116

That's terrifying when you have money that could very well ensure a comfortable retirement.

I noticed you didn't mention real estate. Any thoughts on that?
My understanding is that Japanese salaries are extremely low compared to just about everywhere else, except southern Europe (Portugal, Spain).

Is this correct?
I'm not sure I understand this question, but these things come in gradations, so it's often a bit arbitrary where to prune the thread. In this case I left the original comment intact because it was at least about the specific product, and there were substantive replies about the voices of other personal assistant products. On the other hand, any comment that begins "How many times have you complained about 99% of soldiers being male?" is just going straight into flamewar boilerplate of the most tedious sort.
https://sc4.us/hsm

It's fully open-source, but the only standard application currently supported is U2F.

Disclosure: this is my product.
The actual study (linked above) examined subcutaneous and subfascial fat distribution, not weight loss or muscle mass.
I know fresh grads in the NYC area who have been offered $130k/year in total compensation from Google and Facebook. I've also known several engineers at Google making in the range of $300k-$500k/year.

There's going to be self-reporting bias here, but these salaries look right to me for bootcamp grads getting offers from the big tech companies.
getting 15% on 100K is way different than getting 15% on 100M. your volume will attract HFT sharks and they'll bankrupt you.

you're all idiots.
California is financial fairy tale land in every way. Wages, taxes, real estate, and cost of living are all crazy high.
It's just the Bay Area. Coming from the Bay Area these numbers match experience, maybe even a little low.
Re policy, it's used e.g. in environmental resource management (regional level), anti-terrorism (networks, opinion dynamics), urban planning, disease control.
Policy isn't based alone on it, of course. But it's used as an ingredient. Often the models aren't good enough (lack of data and quantifiable causal relationships) to gain an exact image of the modeled system, but they provide a general system understanding (system behavior under different [intervention] scenarios) that is often educational and gives insights that then need to be empirically validated.

A barrier to increase its use in policy-making is the "science-policy gap" between researchers and decision-makers. Either they don't understand the utility of model results and dismiss them or they trust them too much--both is not good. So researchers had to come up with ways to communicate results, often include decision-makers (and other stakeholders) in the modeling process.
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I would really recommend watching this talk[1] TK gave at Failcon back in 2011. It's a great insight into Travis's background and the mindset that he imbued into Uber in the early days.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QrX5jsiico
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Are you guys still scraping ice off your windshields? Usually that stops around June, am I right? :-)
That's what those little computers with integrated displays are for, you know, the ones that have a phone built in.

I have more reading material in my N9 than I have time to read. Beats me how anyone could need fake content when real content is so cheap and easy.
I worked in the office originally, but needed to move to a different city for a few reasons. We already have some satellite offices and remote workers, so I asked if I could continue my role remote and they accepted. Been working remote for about a year now, and it's been great.
IMO, I really don't see this as "shameless advertisement". As far as I know, there are really only three worthwhile static analysis tools available right now, Radare2(free), Binary Ninja($99-$300), and IDA pro($500-$5000+). Using Radare2 at the beginning can be very daunting if you are new to RE. IDA is so expensive you can really only obtain it legally through your workplace or college/university, or if you're willing to spend a very large sum of money. That really only leaves Binary Ninja.

With that said there is nothing stopping people from starting with radare2 if they wish to, there is a lot of great tutorials for it available online. But in this case the recommendation of using Binary Ninja was one which the author (Nitrax) made because "due to its low cost .. compared to the functionalities provided", the author even further added "A demo version is available for free and should be enough for beginners."

I can understand the insistence on free and open-source software, but a lot of OSS tools in many fields have simply not caught up to their paid counterparts in all aspects. And to me, it feels much like calling someone a shill for saying "Make sure you use a good drill for this" instead of supplying references to a free & open 3D printable drill schematic.
>you should stop your normal career and just become a investment advisor/broker as for you'll make WAY more money in life.

I don't think you can just walk into a respectable brokerage firm and just apply to be an investment adviser or broker based on how well your personal portfolio does. It's probably gated by a 4 year math/science/finance degree and other extra-academic examinations.

If you can, I'd like to know how. I'd much prefer finance over healthcare.
Background and location are listed. Not all are SF, not all are Bootcamp.
“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
Well. As a former Google female employee, I've learned that with 4 years Google experience and 10 years industry experience, I was making as much total comp as a person with about 1.5 years industry experience.
Shameless plug but I made a website to search through almost 7 millions salaries from 2000 to 2015(I'm currently working on getting more recent data).

http://www.jobsintech.io/visas

Unfortunately its only salaries of foreigners.
I’ll thank them ... by promising never to bring this up in their Slack channel again.

That reads to me like "It was a shit show, I got the crap kicked out of me. I am trying to be PC." The patience part comes in where they attempted to answer his questions at all instead of merely dogpiling him with a mountain of hatred.

If they were genuinely that patient and kind, why is it described as "touching the third rail"? Genuinely patient and kind people don't make you feel like you are going to be electrocuted for broaching a topic.
There is also a network affect where talking up people you perceive to be like yourself, i.e. software developers, entrepreneurs, silicon valley in general, makes oneself feel more important and respected.

Like I would never admit that when I first came to the Bay Area I took an internship at a start-up paying $500 a month. That would just insinuate that I'm a poor engineer.
as a starter offer? They have a wide range in the spreadsheet, but still overall high.
A contribution defined by its payload's self-contained substance and value-add to a core mission of the effort, e.g. a block of code for a requested feature, documentation to accompany a feature, an insightful on-topic post, or a stimulating exchange.

It's an artifact whose value is derived from its content, and not from its provenance.
It's actually pretty damn hot here this week, 90 and humid as hell right now. But yes, long winters, but noticeably milder the last few years. Fall is the bomb though.
It's irrelevant whether you have the money.

If you can consistently guarantee above average market returns to your clients, you'll be swimming in their money (and the fees/percentage they pay you to manage it)
The more remote the location, the higher the cost of non-housing things are. Shipping in groceries to Yellow Knife costs more than shipping groceries to Toronto, even though Toronto's housing prices are significantly more.
All except one of these has an associated location, and that 1 lists "Facebook" as the company, so a location can be assumed. Not sure what you meant by this comment.
I struggle to comprehend the arguments against Apple's way of doing things, it clearly works very well for the people in the ecosystem. If it's not your style then perhaps some other platform is?
I was a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) before I became a software developer, and I would just like to emphasize that the benefits mentioned can be realized from some pretty simple exercise routines. The keys are to perform them consistently and to progressively increase the training load so that you are constantly providing a stimulus that your body must adapt to.
A one bedroom is not $3000+ either.
This doesn't really answer the main question that is being asked of you by a variety of people: What, in general terms, are you looking to define or accomplish when you're talking about an "Alternative to work/life balance?" Are you talking about altruism through the office, or is it more about time-spent between the work and the rest of life? What goal, are you looking to accomplish with this, or any, alternative?

The general premise of work-life balance is finding a level of deference between the thing that makes you money and the things you get to do with that money when not attempting the goal of making the money. This interest in a different motivating factor, "good works at work," while noble is NOT an alternative to work-life balance, but a supplement. Investment in your "higher calling" may be with your church group, volunteering, donations, etc; and some offices do community outreach as parts of their team processes, but I'm not seeing it as a direct alternative to work-life balance.

If YOU are wanting to motivate YOUR work through a higher purpose or need, then by all means go ahead. You're given the station to do so through the income that you are afforded through your work. But I'm very much NOT motivated to donate my time to some corporate goal of altruism, because a corporation doesn't do anything for free.
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And the old company could still sue you anyway.

Even though non-competes are illegal in California, a company can be a jerk about it and force you to court to get it thrown out--which will take a long time and be expensive.
No, even valley engs are ridiculously underpaid compared to the value they generate. Software, and IP work in general, are greatly scalable. It's sad how capitalists can convince workers that 37k is a reasonable salary lol.
Hmm, interesting.

I know software engineers with 10-20 years of experience in Seattle making roughly the same amounts at the same companies.

Is it a selection bias, or are California comp packages really that much higher than Seattle? (for entry level)
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Make over 100k, spent most of it on housing.
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Keep in mind that most of these are Bay Area positions. These people may be making $100k+ and still in a living situation with 6 roommates to make ends meet.
I know you guys often see ideological bias in these things, but there's a strong if not irresistible tendency to see that whether it's happening or not [1,2], and people of opposite ideological persuasions accuse us of the same thing. So I dunno. I can't judge my own bias, obviously. What I can tell you is that after dealing with thousands of these, the only thing I consciously care about is what makes the threads tedious and predictable vs. not. That's pretty much the only thing that HN is ultimately about, and I probably have a more fine-tuned sense of it (i.e. of what's predictable) than most people do, just because of the effects of brute quantity on the brain.

1. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=...

2. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=...
They parsed an English dictionary. You mean the dictionary didn't contain badass? gasp :)
> I fucking love smoking. It gives me a way to chill out and unwind for 10-15 minutes.

Me too. I haven't had a cigarette in over a decade, but I remain hopeful that modern science will find a cure for cancer and other smoking-related diseases during my lifetime, so I can resume smoking again. This probably sounds nuts to non-smokers and I won't bother explaining it any further.

As an aside, I am one of many who tried e-cigarettes when they came out because they were very convenient, and ended up quitting. They were new and not banned anywhere yet, so I could 'smoke' even more. I never liked smoking indoors and do not like the stale tobacco smell so they were great. For reasons I don't really understand my tobacco habit gradually tapered off and I no longer smoke anything, but I do miss it.
That's not the exact opposite experience, that's just stupid. You have to work up to the weight. If I walk into the gym and try lifting my PR while cold, I will almost certainly fuck up my back. That's why coaches make so much emphasis on warm up, gradual weight progression, and leaving your ego out of it. And of course you have to know where your limits are. I'm never going to be a pro, so I set my training limit for deadlifts at 2.5x my body weight and for squats at 2x for 1 rep. I do go beyond that every now and then, but only when I'm feeling up to it. With proper nutrition and training those are realistic goals for an able bodied male to achieve over the course of 1.5-2 years starting from the untrained state.
I somehow doubt you'll get one. A quick Google search suggests they exist, but they're hardly a large portion of the overall bodybuilding community.
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> Software Developer | Salary: $62,757.0 | Total comp: $80,000

Found the Canadian. I wonder if these are all in USD or local currency?
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> The first thing that surprised me was him saying it is a myth that machine exercises are less effective than barbell ones.

I found the guide useful, particularly the commentary about sleep and nutrition, but disagree with the author on that quote and relatedly on his exercise programming. The program is hypertrophy focused and the machine exercises are useful for targeting secondary muscles for hypertrophy work, but they're certainly not as good of an overall exercise as the compound movements one does with a barbell. Barbell exercises are more effective both for gaining strength and muscle mass.
The FMLA should allow any qualifying employee (has worked there for a year, 50 or more employees at the company) to take job-protected 12 weeks of leave per year to care for a terminally ill nuclear-family relative.
"they" do not need to know when you work.
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Don't long walks qualify as "real exercise"? The op's weight loss seems to indicate so. Even without the results, you can't discount the fact that they might get far more enjoyment out of long walks than being crammed in a smelly Gym each day. It's not always about being efficient with your time. Often the most enjoyable things in life are the least time efficient.
> it's normal for a Software Engineer to make this much

Yeah I wouldn't say "normal" (how should we quantify that?), but they do exist. Most engineers at Google, Facebook, etc. don't pass the senior level, and that's the last engineering rung everyone is expected to at least achieve.

But if you do know staff or senior staff engineers at Google and Facebook working in NYC or SF, it is disproportionately likely that they are earning in excess of $300k/year between salary, bonus and stock grants. I know people like that directly, and I also know undergrads who are receiving between $120-$150k/year in coastal cities in total compensation offers amortized over four years.

People probably aren't lying on Hacker News, the medium just lends itself to reporting bias. Large forums like this have enough participants that I'm not really surprised when 10 or so people come into a thread and claim to earn something like half a million per year. It looks outlandish but there is a vast swath of engineers who are just not speaking up; for the distribution, it's probably about right. It's not as if people are claiming these salaries as base compensation before bonus and stock.
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