skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel the same way. As a society, we are constantly hammered on concepts like "everyone rates themselves as a B+ driver even if they aren't." What about when you really are an A+ driver though?

Same goes with any form of exceptionalism. Everyone thinks they are smart, everyone thinks they are above average, etc. If you truly are exceptional, and everyone around truly is not as smart as you are, how would you know?

According to all studies, we all think that, and we are all full of shit.
Yes, it was a truly chilling effect on the free speech when a website was held responsible for distributing private sex videos to garner clicks.

If that suit didn't happen, would reddit been as fast to stop the "fappening" exchange on their website?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICloud_leaks_of_celebrity_phot...

At least if you are a celebrity with deep pockets you have a good chance of getting your leaked photos wiped.

You're out of luck however if you are just an ordinary person, and partner uploaded your pictures to some "amateur" website as "revenge porn".
To be fair very few labs in the world have the ability to do that. Possibly only the NIF has powerful enough lasers
There's a difference between being an Oracle expert and being a database expert. If all you know is Oracle, yes you have a problem. If you understand database theory and implementation and can apply it to RDBMSs and NoSQL databases of various kinds, you are set for life.
I would think it's pretty good. I get recruiters calling me all the time, a lot of them are quoting £150-200k total comp. That's for a guy with over a decade's experience in financial coding. By contrast on StackOverflow the salaries that you can see tend to be much lower for the non-finance things.
>Depending on an area of focus, you can be just as involved with key decisions in the spacecraft design as a software person.

This is really interesting to me and I'd love to hear more. While it seems obvious that spacecraft rely heavily on software I've been under the impression that much of that work is done by aerospace/avionics engineers and is more driven by the hardware teams and hardware requirements (which is all fascinating to me but I am stumped on how I would transition into a career focusing on that). What sort of areas of focus are you thinking of?

I think I'll drop you a line to chat, thank you for offering!
It's not about maintaining control -- downloading any one of those files is as easy as running `touch` on them. It's about only checking out which pieces you actually need to build the component you care about. That way I don't need to download the whole IE source to build the NT kernel.
(I just checked code into windows yesterday)
It's not surprising that it's higher than the average job on stackoverlfow. That's about what I would expect. I'm not saying it's horrible, but it's not exactly higher than top paying tech companies.
I get where you are coming from completely. I left in 8 months. Never looked back. That city is terrible. Much happier now.
Triage people there are behaving like bots, lately.
Piper: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...

Unfortunately, it's not available externally.

Even working at Google, my jaw still dropped at this:

Google's codebase is shared by more than 25,000 Google software
developers from dozens of offices in countries around the world.
On a typical workday, they commit 16,000 changes to the codebase,
and another 24,000 changes are committed by automated systems.
Each day the repository serves billions of file read requests,
with approximately 800,000 queries per second during peak traffic
and an average of approximately 500,000 queries per second each
workday. Most of this traffic originates from Google's
distributed build-and-test systems.

Mostly I felt terribly unproductive — my changelist generation rate is way below average.
What I find interesting is that it is in the 'professions'.

I would have thought it was massively wealthy equity owners/holders, hedge fund managers etc..

But yes - if we are paying doctors $1M/year then this will happen.

At a nearby hospital in Canada, technology improvements have allowed doctors to diagnose using x-rays a lot faster ... but the Unions have kept pay scale the same. The doctor at the Orangevill hospital earns over a million dollars a year, and he works from home. Swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe - done.

Faster tech = more money for the doctor. Savings not passed on to taxpayers.

Innovators thought they were improving healthcare, but they really were throwing more surpluses onto the value chain, to be captured by those with the most power: doctors, possibly drug companies.

One would think a private system would be more efficient ... but it's probably just as bad in the US.
> the human race should have

It hasn't. Therefore we can either shrug our shoulders and let people get on with their subjugations and violations or we can accept that we're not an enlightened race of ubermensch ripped from a Star Trek episode and utilise our "brutish tribe mentality" to protect those who need it.
I think this is wrong. There should be a divide between what you do online, and what you do offline, because that power to judge a person and deprive them of something is too easily abused
SMOKE SCREEN Big Vape Is Copying Big Tobacco’s Playbook
Says someone that insinuates javascript is applicable to all forms of software engineering...

This is what's really wrong with software engineering: we have young, cocky and mostly ignorant people doing the hiring. From CEO's riding daddy's coat-tails while trying to pretend to run a company, all the way to college grads that think their training as a flaming-hoop jumper is the pinnacle of engineering.

You do this to yourselves.
For a split second I thought, "well, can we even do the reverse?" Then I realized yeah, pretty much all light comes from matter. And a less useless question came to mind: Can light emerge from any source other than matter?

I don't know. I'm no physicist, and it's not an area where I could even be mistaken for a knowledgeable amateur, and it seems like I'm asking "can a photon give rise to another photon". But it did lead me to a very interesting treatment of a similar question concerning the de novo creation of photons [0]

[0] http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/about-us/137-physics/genera...
In the screenshot of the content creator dashboard, it looks like there is a dropdown menu (BAT to [dropdown]). Can't the creator choose "BAT" in the dropdown and receive BAT (or fiat, or whatever else they like that Uphold supports)?
A lot of people are predicting an "ebay guitar apocalypse" as the mass effect of guitar owners start passing away. Because "nobody plays them anymore", the inheritors of dad's property will just put the guitar collection on ebay or donate them.

Your dad's fancy Paul Reed Smith guitar that cost $3000 will only be worth a fraction of that when a million other used PRS guitars flood the market.

It's an interesting prediction.
the op made a claim so I am assuming the op knows how to answer this question. The claim is that many more engineers make 7 figures in tech than in finance. My question, specifically, is, what fraction of engineers in tech make 7 figures, let's say what fraction of engineers with 10 years experience and what are the types of positions at those google tier companies that pay this much. I think this is pretty specific
Link is down on CNBC site.
It's my go-to site for looking at what the mempool state is!

Most of the time if you just use the estimation from your wallet software you should be fine, but if you like to craft crazy transactions to clean up a bunch of dust or like to save money, it's a great resource.
The article above was actually wrong and has been updated to show that Microsoft has 3,000 active developers instead of the original 20,000 that is quoted here. So it's only a difference of 50%, not a full order of magnitude.
I think he's hated because he's a formidable challenge against an entrenched belief system. People don't like their beliefs challenged, especially when it's the overwhelming majority, IMO. Thiel does that, without worry or shame, and that upsets some folks...
Why are hard drugs, automatic machine guns and explosive chemicals outlawed? Can't people make their own decisions?

The role of the state in a democracy is to manifest the will of the people - in this case there is a general desire for privacy, which precludes selling covert listening devices.
Meet some people getting rich from Bitcoin
As a life-long guitarist, and skeptic of capitalism, I have an anecdote: I own a few high-quality guitars. They have served me well for many a decade, and they are still in perfect condition. Why buy any more guitars?

Perhaps the total number of guitars in circulation is enough? Businesses seem to think that there should be infinite growth forever, but that seems ridiculous to me. I don't think capitalism has a good answer to this problem. Obviously the manufacturers wish for people to buy more and more guitars every year or they go out of business. How can we reward them for a job well done now that more aren't needed?
Absolutely. I'd love to live in a less populated area. The requirements would be:

Gas and grocery within 30 minutes (should be easy).
Doctor within 30 minutes.
Usable internet (stream SD videos).
The analogy was to establish shark liver as a decadent treat that also happens to have important nutrients, much like a deep fried mars bar with added vitamins might be.
My first thought is any SSMS specific plugins such as RedGate SQL Search and version control.
Reverb.com was #18 on the Inc. 5000 this year, so there is definitely still potential in selling musical instruments. Guitar is more niche than it used to be, though. The rock stars these days are rappers and DJs and they don't play guitar. You have to diversify your offerings (which I think the success of Reverb.com shows)
Particularly in the era of self driving cars, wouldn't vehicle parts qualify for that?
+1 for the research and the distinction between sanity and purity.
greek.

oh no don't do that! that's like british teenage slang. even their parents cannot understand tem!
Wait what... Oh. You mean the country.
Microsoft is used to implementing its own filesystems, so it probably feels more natural for them to do that than it does for Facebook.
I think this is one of the things where it very much depends on what team you're on.

My experience at Google has been completely the opposite of what you describe. I work with lots of people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s and a fair number of people in their 50s; I'm 35 and I don't feel out of place here at all. I can count on one hand the number of times I've stayed at work past 6 PM; as a parent of multiple school-age kids, there's been lots of flexibility. My team actually has a dedicated video-conference unit specifically to make it possible for those working from home / working remotely to take part in ad-hoc conversations.

The main thing is that you have to be good at what you do. You can't expect to just skate by. I've spent a lot of time mentoring new-grads and those in earlier stages of their career, and this has been recognized and rewarded. I've also written a ton of code and shipped things that worked the first time.
I agree. There is a contradiction here. And I am nearly as uncomfortable with centralized publishing platforms as I am with mass scale behavior design for profit.

And yet.

I originally published on my own site and it didn’t get much traction.

But when I edited it substantially and published as a direct response to Nir’s post, it reached 30,000 people, 6000 of whom finished the whole thing...in less than 24 hours.

Since the goal for me is spreading the message and fueling the converstion, I gotta go where distribution follows.
Don't worry, under Pai's new standards, ISPs will add extra fees for the ability of your internet connection to process credit cards. No extra guarantee of reliability of course, just extra fees. And no your city can't help because the same political party regular accepts bribes from said ISP to prevent local votes from mattering.

Fox News spun this into an anti-tax spiel, of course.
I hate Gawker too, but you need to see the bigger picture.

It was defending the suit, whether right or wrong, that killed them. The judgement was just the death blow.

Would you feel the same way if the suit had been against a more reputable organization like the New York Times?
> Housing price data is publicly-available and pretty easy to verify at no cost. Anyone considering investing in real estate presumably has access to this info already.

That doesn't answer the question of how I know I can trust the computer that feeds housing price data into the contract. What if it cuts the prices by 10% before feeding them into the contract?

> That's a risk with any type of transaction, but easy to verify with a good lawyer

You have no way to ensure that what the lawyer verifies is what the contract will release upon default.

> Token holders would only receive an ownership stake if the buyer defaults

That doesn't answer the question of how the ownership stake is enforced. If the default occurs, the token holders will have to go to court to figure it all out which eliminates the usefulness of the contract.

> There already is precedent for homes to have multiple owners. Depending upon the desired number of lenders/investors, a shell company may need to be created, but again that is relatively straightforward.

If my ownership stake is codified through the existing legal system what use is the smart contract? It doesn't matter what the smart contract does if I've already established myself as a partial owner via a shell corporation.
Naming things is among the hardest things for programmers... what would you title it?
Because of the plain english meaning of the word verified. They should have chosen a different word or phrase if they were seeking for it to mean something else.
My comment was specifically about the "I mean what sort of position do you need to have to get there?" part of your question.

> My question, specifically, is, what fraction of engineers in tech make 7 figures

I doubt that OP meant that they literally have data showing that it's 1-5%. That's a wide enough range that it's meaningless. I suspect the meaning was more "way above average, but reasonably possible".
With software engineering salaries paying as much as they do right now (in the U.S. at least) it should be feasible for many of us to retire in our 40s. Or if not retire outright, at least build up enough financial security to transition into freelancing, fund your own startup, go work at starbucks... or whatever else interests you.

Plan for the future, live modestly, and invest diligently. If there ever comes a time when the work is no longer enjoyable or you are unable to get a job - go do something else!

Edit: I realized this is insensitive to people who are facing ageism and might not be in a position where they can retire or change careers. Not everyone will be able to retire early - everyone has different circumstances and luck plays a big role in life. But for anyone who happens to be in your early 20s and pulling in a 6 figure salary: if early retirement is something that interests you - now is the time to start saving.
HHVM 3.23 is released
Ask HN: Does your Alexa or Google Home make you more productive?
It seems like one of the main reasons to get a voice assistant is to increase productivity. Is it worth the cost?
The "Connection Tracking" portion of http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-net... provides some insight here and describes a method to avoid connection tracking in EC2's firewall.
Yes. I understood his use in that fashion and responded to it. You'll note that the bulk of my point was clearly about how his choice was a luxury, not about the language used itself.

If every white dude who "stays out of politics" understands that a) they can do that because previous political activity of white dudes has given them that option, and that b) they are supporting that system if they participate in that system while not talking about politics, then I have no beef with them.

My issue is with the erasure of that, the pretense that "staying out of politics" really is staying out of politics. An erasure performed in many places on this page, including by the politics-is-sports dude. Or by xupybd, who suggests the separation of work and politics.

If you think Jake Basile gets that and was not participating in that erasure, great. I'd say that at best it wasn't clear. But given his follow-up edit about "not being politically active", I'd still disagree.
> The rock stars these days are rappers and DJs and they don't play guitar.

And nearly every kid can afford a shitty chinese USB->MIDI controller and a cracked version of Live/Logic/FL Studio. The DAW and a controller is the weapon of choice for today's pop music industry. The fact that guitar is dying as "mainstream" shouldn't come as much of a surprise.
Just to put a cap on this, if tptacek wants to avoid "a really long, pointless political argument," then he should close his browser and take a walk. We're not running out of bits on the internet. There's room for all of it. If these conversations bore or otherwise bother you, then don't participate.

It's the suggestion that you know what's best for me, too, that bristles.
Y Combinator Quietly Ends Relationship with Peter Thiel
Probably because "Hey! All you people ! Change your mind, you're wrong" doesn't seem to work when the group is sufficiently large.
You seem to not be using the word “intended” with it's plain English meaning, using it instead to mean what on more common use of the language might be described as “externally perceived”.

Which is ironic, given the subject of your criticism.
That meme of "I don't understand [basic concept from wikipedia, googleable phrase, dictionary word] can you explain it?"

Has infected the hell out of our company Slack. It's considered very rude to not answer.

I feel like when I was coming up, where IRC or mailing lists were a thing, having done all possible research before asking humans was an absolute cultural requirement.

It sucked at first, but I definitely miss that and long for the old days. It was so much more respectful and efficient.
That would be my question, too. People were puzzled when tablet sales came to a crawl, until they started to consider whether people stopped buying them because they were good enough and still worked.

I mean realistically, how many guitars does one need? I'm an amateur bass player. I have a cheap-ass practice bass and, if I get some pocket change, I may buy a $1500 professional bass. I would think that should last me for the next ten years or so. If I become a professional musician, I might buy more, but for your average slob, that's really not tenable.
I’ve lived in Seattle for 30 years and have founded three companies here. Due to the expense of labor and housing, politics, bad traffic and the loss of the city’s sense of community I will be moving my business to Bellingham in the next year.

The bad parts of Amazon work culture have permeated almost every company here. It used to be very common in tech companies for people to leave the office at 3:00pm to go hiking after work in the summer or come in late after skiing powder in the morning. Now so many are working 60 hour weeks they don’t have the time to really enjoy the outside or engaging in making our city better. In short, Seattle residents are in general much less friendly and more stressed than ten years ago.

Since my company builds outdoor products, our employees are happy to move to a new town with access to fanastic mountain biking, skiing and hiking with little traffic and somewhat more affordable home prices. It’s too bad Seattle grew without plans in place to help preserve its livability and attractiveness to small businesses.
> People are overpaying for housing (cash offers 20% over asking)

All the rentals I looked at had fixed prices and they weren't interested in extra cash. That's also assuming you're renting from an individual and not a company. The massive apartments that are being built have fixed, though rising yearly, costs.

> property taxes have risen 35%

That increase isn't automatic and certainly isn't locked in step to the number of people moving in. Its a decision by the county.

My point is that to blame people trying to find a place to stay is ridiculous. The increase in pricing is a choice made by landlords, and is influenced by a choice made by the county.
I take it as a choline supplement, nootropic, and companion to racetams (especially oxiracetam.)
Of course.

1: Imperative - C, Fortran, Pascal, ...

2: Object-oriented - C++, Java, Python, Ruby, (maybe Delphi's Object-Pascal), ...

3: Functional - OCaml, Erlang, Haskell, F#, ...

4: Declarative - Makefiles, QML, SQL, ....

To be perfectly honest, I don't know which bucket I should use for Prolog. It's supposedly logical, declarative and functional at the same time. I've never managed to understand it, despite trying.

And for the record: perl in basic form is imperative. With the introduction of "bless" keyword it crosses over to object-oriented domain but following the syntax is not necessarily straightforward. [I've spent a non-insignificant number of days auditing OO-perl. It's not a pleasant experience.]
I've been playing the same bass guitar and mandolin for several years but I could think of multiple reasons to buy a new instrument:

1) Getting interested in a new style of music or a new technique

2) GAS (gear acquisition syndrome, something many musicians suffer from)

3) Wear out/damage
I am a woman, and I work for a software company. We essentially hire by resume only, and we pay a service to scrub resumes and cover letters of anything that might reveal gender, race, or ethnicity. The outside firm does all of our interviews, whiteboards, etc. and only at the very end does the hiring manager get to meet the prospective employee, and say yes or no. To my knowledge, we've rarely said no, and we let the qualifications speak for themselves. This has lead to an office of about 45% women, and 40% minority. I think this is very good diversity.
Capitalism and the unrealistic idea of infinite sales growth is what gives rise to "services" and "subscriptions", no?
Hmmm... it seems to me to be identical to how home owners have a mortgage and home value as two separate debt vs value measures.

But what your describing doesn't happen in they way you're describing for home owners why should it for someone leasing a property?
Mega Game and Watch: True Multiplayer Game
I appreciate the insights but you are not in any way answering my very specific question
That's little comfort if an attacker can access the camera without the LED turning on. You can never be sure which is why integrated cameras and microphones get ripped out of devices used in sensitive areas.
>Almost all of the growth in top American earners has come from just three economic sectors: professional services, finance and insurance, and health care, groups that tend to benefit from regulatory barriers that shelter them from competition.

>The groups that have contributed the most people to the 1 percent since 1980 are: physicians; executives, managers, sales supervisors, and analysts working in the financial sectors; and professional and legal service industry executives, managers, lawyers, consultants and sales representatives.

Not a surprising result at all when you consider that the bottom of the top 1% has an income of high 6 figures to somewhat above $1M. That number is something very achievable for the most successful "professionals" -- doctors, lawyers, bankers (not HF managers), traders, and there are a lot of these people out there!

It's a natural consequence that if you look for a large number of people earning $1M, you'll end up with highly successful "professionals" rather than outlier level wealth from business ownership, which is much more rare.
Despite claims about the future, doesn't SpaceX also refurbish their SRBs between flights?