skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those numbers are wrong and outdated. Every mid level engineer at Google is pulling near 250k at least in total compensation and up to $450k depending on experience and expertise. By total compensation I mean Base + Stock + Yearly Bonus + Signing Bonus. And that's not even factoring in the stock growth. Keep in mind the stock is as good as cash since it's very liquid.

Yes people make this much money. Yes they make it a couple years out of school. No I'm not lying or making this up. Yes this only represents a tiny tiny portion of engineers globally that have the privilege of working somewhere like Google and in a place like the Bay Area.

I swear, this conversation happens every single time on HN when people bring up comp numbers.

I know the salary ranges at nearly all major valley companies, have friends that work at all of these companies, and have gotten offers myself.
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Actually, the Arm server space is solving this problem through standardization. These are the SBSA and SBBR specs. All systems from different vendors will look the same way to the OS and boot thr same way as x86 servers. You will be able to run the same binary OS distribution on any system. Gone are the days of a BSP for every SoC. And these server specs will drive how non-server systems will look, since there will be an inherent cost to do something different (both in hw, sw and firmware).
Exactly what I was going to say. It's apparently part of an MIT Press series of books on "Software Studies", a kindof humanities approach to software.

> The Software Studies book series, published by the MIT Press, aims to publish the best new work in a critical and experimental field that is at once culturally and technically literate, reflecting the reality of today’s software culture.

The entire 324 page book can be downloaded as a pdf at the above link.
As someone who ran x86 software (primarily Windows at the time) via software emulation (virtualpc) on production PowerPC hardware (Apple PowerMac) I have to disagree.

If you don't need x86 compatibility, PPC is fine, and for open source stuff it's probably reasonably well supported in major distros.

But pretending you can have anywhere close to reasonable performance of x86 binaries on even the newest PPC chips is hopeful at best and realistically a fanciful notion.
I agree. If you want user-level threading, just use a stack swapping library like libpth.
> Looking at their scatter plots the correlations they present look weak

TU;DR (too uncorrelated, didn't read). When I scrolled down and saw those poor regressions, I immediately decided to close the page.
Yes, which is why you see words like 'toxic' bandied about.
What do you think the mechanism is on the connection between ads and pageviews? Or the mechanism for the autocorrelation of pageviews? Have you been able connect the dots on something like sharing to sites like HN?
I'm glad you commented on that. As soon as I saw that image, something felt off about it - I just couldn't put my finger on what.
Difference is that China has ten times the population of Japan.
That's true. The concern should be Trump's sense of priorities. He's so easily distracted. He's seemingly more focused on Twitter than the NSA.

He, similar to Obama, is the wrong "leader" at the wrong time. We're off course and getting more and more so with each day.
I am. If there’s a form of governance you’d like to experiment with which you can’t legally do in, say, Montana, I would be very interested to hear about it. I would be happy to be proven wrong on this subject.
Yes, if you're in the Bay Area and work for Google as a mid level engineer your total compensation is at least $250k a year. Closer to 200k a year for new grads fresh out of School who have 0 experience.

Look at my other reply. This is incredibly common at the top companies in the Bay Area or any other major city (Seattle, NYC, etc).
Also to pile on - running that way is a clear violation of that government's policies, and they have blatantly lied about other security issues to other (customer) government agencies that are trying to do the right thing. It's not just a matter of choosing cost savings over security, it's also about breaking the law.
> the USA is merely a player whose ability to interfere in the outcome is being carefully managed. (And the same is true about Russia, incidentally.)

Agreed. The world rests on China's and soon also India's shoulders. They already rule the world economically and diplomatically, the next domino to fall will be cultural influence. Russia is a good demonstration of the impotence of military power alone, and hard power is looking like the US' only advantage over China.
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https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Firefox57

On nightly the extensions.legacy.enabled can be set to allow instalation of legacy extensions.
What part of Asia? I’ve spent months in China and the more time I spend, the less optimistic I am for their future.
I wonder if it's just a coincidence with the fact that germany is one of the countries where tax authority can use (and pay for) stolen banking data.

https://www.thelocal.de/20170705/german-investigators-pay-5-...
Well in #1 you missed the section talking about the various coins, a 'd' represents 'penny' or 'pence' (even today a 4d nail is a 4 penny nail). For #2 it gets to the heart of an important economic concept which is that 'money' is really just an indicator of labor and capital, generally unique to each economy. One of the ways to look at it and try to get a comparison is to look at jobs and wages. So how much did a gardner make per year, a farm worker, a craftsman, a judge, etc. It will never give you prices in inflation adjusted dollars for today, but it will give an insight into how the wealth worked in the economy.
I wonder how true that still is. 10 years ago Wintel was the dominant software platform, now it's Chrome.

(Which in my view kinda sucks, I prefer native apps to web apps for many purposes, but the market has spoken.)
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I would guess that their cyber offensive operation computers, which if I were to design from a systems level their IT department probably is distinct from other parts of their network, is different than their intelligence gathering and storing methods because sources and methods are the most tightly held secrets of any intelligence agency.

Plus you probably don't want your computers that you're using for offensive operations to look any different than a normal computer on the internet.. so my guess is that is that there was an exploit of an offensive computer somehow through that back to a secured network where those tools were developed and deployed... probably through the method of remote command and control.

I'm surprised they haven't found the method of infiltration yet. But my guess is they should seriously look into unknown vulnerabilities. But it's also true (if Wikipedia is to believe believed) that agencies work together in joint operations. In that case it would only take one rouge agent to get physical access to leaking materials that would effect both agencies if they were part of the joint operations.
I think the people are underestimating the power of what RPOW does. The tech/math behind the blockchain.

If interested, I have a shameless plug for an article that might give added context to this crypto world, but I'm willing to pay you (in BCH) for it. If you have a twitter account mention me and ask for it.

https://twitter.com/SureReno/status/929773694645239808
Seems Japan did not lose only one decade, but 2 decades so far

And by the way things go, it seems they froze in time. Nobody moves the country forward

Japan’s tech cannibalism saps Abenomics -
https://www.ft.com/content/238c993c-427d-11e6-9b66-0712b3873... might need to Google it

Some other day I saw people complaining that in Japan they still use a mechanical mouse (not an optical one, the older ones)
This article is the first of a series of articles about the subject. The next article will be about solving more difficult problems with these methods. Stay tuned-
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All of this happened during the Obama administration. Has nothing to do with Trump.
It acts like the British were innocent in the civil war. They weren't. They were actively arming and financing the south because they stood to benefit from internal strife in the US, even using their scottish rite southern jurisdiction freemasonic web to help support the KKK (bet you didn't know that one). Palmerston actively engaged in oligarchical subterfuge against the US, and besides the US angle was one of the primary actors behind the 1850 onwards expansion of the British empire worldwide (which they later, for pr purposes, changed in name only to the commonwealth). As part of this was consolidation and removal of what Palmerston called the "arbitrary powers", such as Austria and Russia into that empire, largely through false "national liberation" policy (sound familiar?).

To act as if it was simply the Trent affair that was a main potential instigator of war between the US and Britain is to be extremely myopic about the bigger picture at play. A key forgotten piece of history in this saga is that the Russian tsar was also under threat by the British because they came to him to join them against the US and he refused and then sent two fleets of ships, one to NY and one to SF with sealed orders to attack anyone who attacked the US (in 1863), because the British were prepping for the post civil war collapse invasion, and they even had proxy-troops amassed on the Mexican/Canadian borders! For do not forget under Palmerston, England supports all revolutions, except her own. I also theorize this is why they financed the bolsheviks and post-Bakunin anarchists and assassinated the Tsars sons family later, in revenge for foiling their plans, besides the added step of consolidation/removal of another rival monarchy, as they were doing across Europe.

There is also evidence the the assassination of Lincoln wasn't just a lone nut, but had British backing. (Funnily enough, many US presidential assassinations match this pattern).

The death throes of these losses by the British are the setup for the following world wars, which were engineered largely by Edward the 7th.

If the British had attacked the US during this time using the Trent affair as the excuse, they likely would have created a US-Russia-Prussia coalition that probably would have won, essentially having WW1 in the 1860s instead.

This style of British subterfuge continues to this day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50_iRIcxsz0
>The article doesn't explain anything.

Now you at least know why the New Yorker didn't.

Joking aside: Probably because they did a good job with the Panama Papers. So it's a mix of strategic investment in investigate journalism and a bit of luck.
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I'm just saying the NYT has clearly demonstrated that it has taken sides as a publication, and this bias doesn't make for good journalism, whether you agree with the bias or not.
Why are they only talking about income tax? Property tax is also a major factor.

If you had two job offers 10 years ago: either CA (good area) or TX (Austin) and got a mortgage. 10 years later Prop 13 would have severely limited the property tax growth of your house while property taxes on a house in TX would have ballooned.

Your taxes in TX would have gone up (and can go down) regardless of how much you make. You can max out your 401K to further reduce your taxes in CA while you really have no remedy in TX. CA encourages savers. TX often has to give tax breaks (property and sales) to large companies to locate there. Small businesses (grads starting tech startups that hire more grads) are left to pay the very regressive taxes that hurt them in regressive states like TX.

I would also argue that research clusters (both universities and companies who hire their grads) matter far more for grad job seekers than tax.

I really question if this article has any real value.
Their respective per capita GDP is a small fraction of the Western world. If that’s what economic dominance looks like I’ll pass.
RISC-V may do that tomorrow, but Arm servers are doing that today. You how a wide range of solutions with different CPUs in a variety of formats and compute power, from uCPE and IOT gw boxes all the way to high-density OCP designs with terabytes of RAM and a hundred cores...all compatible at the software and firmware level.
Actually, towards the end the Romans were hiring mercenaries, many of them foreign.
Because existing cities are poorly designed and expensive to refurbish.
Yet he's mentioned four times in the article, which should tell you something.
2 and 3 are relevant and generally applicable, and basically boil down to:

2. HR had arbitrary unreasonable box-ticking requirements rather than assessing the candidate intelligently

3. HR was hopelessly disorganised

The first one however seems subjective. Maybe the candidate wasn't suitable for the role - the recruiter thinks he was the best frontender he'd found that year, the tech lead disagreed with his assessment. It does seem like the company HR handled things badly afterwards (incompetent HR is a bit of a theme here) but the original reason for rejection might have been valid.
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In my experience that kissmetrics blog is a load of nonsense in practice.

We massively reduced load time on the all the key pages from 4 secs to roughly <400 ms avg. No 25% bump in sales for us. At the time the client sold about 50-80 things a day on thousands of daily visits. A month later, they sold about 50-80 things a day. This was a fairly standard website similar to booking.com or any search/book site, basically location aware searches with a landing page for each venue and a "book" CTA.

I did a similar thing with their mobile site a year or two later, massively reducing the page-weight and reducing loading times on the devices I tested from seconds to again sub-second load times. Again no discernible bump.
This needs a massive up-voting.

In my experience an abusive boss-employee relationship is made of two halves;

a) An abusive boss

b) A subject who accepts the abuse

So what are your options if you don't accept the abuse. Most people say "Quit". In my experience it's far more effective to deal with the abuse directly so that the abuser knows that you're not willing to accept their behaviour.

Of course there's a fear of being fired, but IMO that tends to be over-estimated. Getting you fired in many companies is not an easy process. Your typical tyrant doesn't want to make work for themselves and like most bullies if you show resistance, they'll leave you alone.

How you show resistance really varies - YMMV. For example if they make fun of you in public, making fun of them back _immediately_ is pretty effective - even if you're not funny showing you're willing to be loud in a group is the point. Calm one-on-one feedback is probably the best approach e.g. "I understand you might be under a lot of pressure at the moment but I don't like how you spoke to me this morning. I found it rude / aggressive / etc. and it makes me think about what my next steps are if this should continue". Local legal situations might mean you want to do that together with HR although the moment you involve HR, you've already escalated...

And of course you need to have the courage to act, but once you make the first step, it all gets easier. Life's too short.
And the US' per capita GDP is a fraction of Luxembourg's.
Right, but there's no confirmation of any remote access or spying going on.
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I'm interested in this, I'd like you to write a bit about your impressions if you want.
Thank you for the nice explanation, despite my somewhat rude and uninformed posts! I had some trouble accepting it, but the heat/work example made it "click" for me, once my brain got past its initial stubborn reaction of "but of course heat and work are both energy, whereas mass is clearly not!"

So any time two physical quantities are related by a constant factor -- even if said constant factor has what we currently think of as "units" (and even particularly weird units like squared speed) -- they are fundamentally equivalent. I'm still mulling this over, but it's a pretty fascinating mental revelation for me.
I like the idea of a federal government that creates avenues for voters in multiple states to work together to pass measures that affect all affected states.

We see a gross form of state's forming supra-state policy in the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, but with NPVIC each state is working on it's own to pass the compact, each state it's own independent stakeholder, whereas if you want to get DC, MD, and VA and other local regionals voting to fix WMATA, I believe there needs to be some supra-democratic structure the states can form.
I just wanted to say that it’s actually nice not to be the only one who is harassed by forex trading ads around the web. Them and Mobile Strike are pretty much all of the ads I see. (I do have Adblock but can’t block for YouTube mobile etc.)
Where can I learn more?
"Help them use their fresh-out-of-school knowledge to solve real problems in sustainable ways."

I always wonder why waste the best and most creative years of young people at school teaching them things that they will not use in real world work environment. Is it not much better if the novice programmer enters the work environment without going to school first and learns the job by doing?

I especially object to the academic way of teaching a subject which requires the student to learn the whole field before issuing him a license to practice. This is like teaching someone who wants to tend to his small garden the entire science of botanics and require him to know all the plants in the world before allowing to play in his backyard garden.

Sorry for off-topic comment.
That's an interesting set of experiences to draw from. Thanks for sharing!
> "until the subjects guesses were no better than random"

Crucially, no: They analyzed performance at 60% and made their argument based on the photons delivered at that light intensity. If your objection is about that statistical argument (" ... the photons would have been spread over about 350 rods"), such an indirect method was necessary because the experimenters didn't have an apparatus that could emit single photons in 1942. The 2016 article mentioned upthread [1] improves on this by providing the simple and direct experiment: emit single photons and check if the subjects can beat a coin-toss over large numbers of trials.

1. https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12172
As a user,I am most offended by ads that target me. I would rather see a completely unrelatable ad. It feels like learning new information that way,as opposed to being stalked and preyed upon.
Agreed. These couple of sentences deflate the click-baity title a bit:

"The report echoes my earlier observations: lots of new countries are become scientific powers in terms of publication output, with China leading the charge. The major claim made by the report is that developed countries continue to dominate in terms of highly cited publications."

The trend the article is talking about is China is catching up in terms of publication output. I've heard elsewhere that in Chinese universities things like tenure, promotions etc. are heavily weighted by publication output - perhaps without much respect for the research quality. I could see some fields/journals becoming echo chambers where researchers spam publications without actually making meaningful technical accomplishments. That's probably what we're seeing.
As long as nothing you want to do requires any financial transactions or otherwise has legal ramifications, sure.

But hiring someone you’ve never met in person to deal with money or legally binding documents is a recipe for getting your assets stolen or worse.
This has me reflecting on how I learned to program, compared to how people learn to program today.

I learned to program using BASIC when I was between 5 and 10 years old. My dad was a software engineer at DEC, and he had a kit computer in our basement that he let us play with once in a while. My first program was a number-guessing game, and it went something like this:

10 NUMBER = 23
20 PRINT "I'm thinking of a number."
30 INPUT "Make a guess: " $GUESS
40 IF GUESS < NUMBER THEN
50 PRINT "Too low!"
60 GOTO 30
70 ELSEIF GUESS > NUMBER THEN
80 PRINT "Too high!"
90 GOTO 30
100 PRINT "You got it!"

That was pretty straightforward, because everything about it was linear except for the GOTOs. You can think about each step with very little planning, and when you need a break in program flow you can use a GOTO. It also means when teaching, you can introduce each new concept as the need arises: store a value, print a statement, prompt for input, check a condition, and go back to a previous statement.

Let's see the same program in Python:

number = 23
print("I'm thinking of a number.")

guess = 0
while guess != number:
guess = input("Make a guess: ")
guess = int(guess)
if guess < number:
print("Too low!")
elif guess > number:
print("Too high!")
else:
print("You got it!")

The overall program logic isn't much different when you read the code. But to write this code, you need to know a number of things in advance. You need to know how you're going to approach the problem. You need to know what a loop is, and specifically what a while loop is. Conceptually, especially for a young person, a while loop is much more abstract than a GOTO statement.

I am happy that people get to learn a language like Python as their first language today. They can do much more interesting things, in a shorter amount of time, than they could in basic 40 years ago. But the very first programs people write seem fundamentally different, and that's not a bad thing.
I think the larger problem is that most anyone talking about cryptocurrencies has a financial interest in them, and indeed, people without a financial interest are considered biased against them and not worth listening to.
I think you're misinterpreting his comment. I'm fairly sure he's raising issue with "quantity" of research as a useful metric for scientific strength. China produces massive amounts of research, but is positively inundated with fraud, to a much higher degree than the West, and makes the West's publish or perish mindset look positively relaxed.
3. Forgotten

Huh? Where was the follow-up from the applicant?

Always follow up.
> That said, after the fork I thought things would cool down but I was wrong

The issue is that both chains compete directly for hash power, since their hash mechanism is identical. If every miner is "rational" (for a simplified definition of "rational"), they would all mine on the most profitable chain, and the least profitable chain would instantly stop working. That is, the continued existence of BTC is an existential threat to BCH, and the continued existence of BCH is an existential threat to BTC. Therefore, those who have a stake on either of those chains feel threatened by the other chain.
Sorry but NSA has no one to blame but themselves.
Techie here. Paid well. If I have the choice to pay $15 for a pizza with a credit card and $20 for a pizza with BTC I will choose the credit card every time.