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Ask HN: Those making over $300k/year, how did you achieve it?
Recently there was a thread about someone making ~$500k/year at a FAANG company and seeing that there's people who hang out here and make ~$300k/year I always have questions for high income earners. Since I don't know any personally (or at least I think I don't) I'm hoping some are lurking and willing to answer some questions. I've set it to $300k because I think at this range the salary is exceptional even in LA/SF/NYC.

These are my questions and I'm adding my own answers though my income is not really in this range; some are slightly fudged to prevent de-anonymizing.

* What do you do?

* What is your job title?

* What is your total comp?

* Who do you work for?

* Where do you live (assuming you don't work from home)?

* How long did it take you to get here?

* How did you get here (networking/raw technical skill/job board/dumb luck, etc.)?

* What do you do?

- I do frontend development for financial applications; think trader dashboards, openfin, etc. I have done backend work previously and actually prefer it to frontend work

* What is your job title?

- Associate; a generic corporate title in banking

* What is your total comp?

- Last year I made $118k including my yearly bonus and 401k matching

* Who do you work for?

- JPMorgan

* Where do you live (assuming you don't work from home)?

- A large Texas city; one of Dallas/Houston/San Antonio

* How long did it take you to get here?

- 5 years from my first job as a developer

* How did you get here (networking/raw technical skill/job board/dumb luck, etc.)?

- It's been a gradual climb; whenever I feel there's no more to learn at my current job I look for another, each move included a pay bump. This job I managed through an acquaintance who offered to put my resume in although I was not looking for a job at the time
PHP was built for the web and has been successful at that job. It is easy to use because the core developers have made some good design choices for the task at hand. For example no threads, stateless requests, core functionality focused on outputting HTML, etc.

MySql and PHP are good. They do the job they were designed for in a cost effective way and of course that means there will be trade offs.
I would be happy if Apple could at least implement time restrictions like the Parental Controls on MacOS. That's been available for what, almost a decade now?

The closest thing that's available is something that blocks traffic at the router level, like Circle. But even that isn't perfect, since kids can still use local apps that don't need full network access.

I've also tried some of the MDM programs like OurPact, but the UI is awful and they do a lousy job of implementing it on the client side, probably in part because of what Apple allows to be turned off and what they do not.
Google got good enough at divining the content and meaning of a page without needing magical XML pixie dust to annotate the facts on it.
https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/voss11.pdf

> For the purposes of this Directive, it is necessary to define the concept of press publication in a way that embraces only journalistic publications, published by a service provider, periodically or regularly updated in any media, for the purpose of informing or entertaining. Such publications would include, for instance, daily newspapers, weekly or monthly magazines of general or special interest and news websites. Periodical publications which are published for scientific or academic purposes, such as scientific journals, should not be covered by the protection granted to press publications under this Directive. This protection does not extend to acts of hyperlinking which do not constitute communication to the public according to the judgements of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), notably hyperlinking to content which is available in the internet to the public with the consent of the rightholder, and hyperlinking to content which is available on
another website without the consent of the rightholder for non commercial purposes by a person who did not know or could not reasonably have known the illegal nature of the publication of those works on that other website (CJEU Judgement of September 8, 2016 in Case C-160/15).
Your postings reminded me of illumOS's existence, so I went looking for an arm build to no avail. You wouldn't happen to know if that is something that is available would you?
What about thin clients in the house? I know this is an old concept but with a thin-client the PC can be used only for homework, it's low power for gaming, and kids can not install anything on it, and they can use safe-browser with google...I am facing similar challenges at home.

or maybe just chromeOS on chromebooks? schools are using that, maybe that's a good fit for kids surfing at home (for homework etc)
Um... git kind of does with remote tracking branches. You can also make it very obvious by your workflow? If you use local feature branches (which you should for juggling between development tasks, etc.), what you are working on vs what's upstreamed should be pretty clear. Sounds like you are not using local branches.

Not using local branch is another confusion caused by the perspective of historical/traditional SCMs (people thinking branches are the domain of a centralized server and are outside of their control.)
So far a couple entries are showing locations other than US, but with salary in US$.

Just wanted to note you can change the currency by clicking the currency icon (not sure if that's obvious to anyone)?
Are you looking to make this open source or keep it under wraps and try again?
I don't think having a higher limit makes anything more advanced. I'm fine with having a lower limit for cards, and then switching to Apple/Samsung/Google Pay for higher priced transactions.
I dont know how to think of the EU.

I think the US government is sick, but the EU is new and needs to be a benefit for it to survive.

My assumption is that they are entirely incentivized by niche groups in each country that are pushing for reform to help their own goals. I dont see how many of their policies are beneficial to the masses.
Only at the very beginning of the series. Trantor is basically Rome. It is densely populated to an unsustainable extent. It needs a huge empire to supply it. Once the empire collapses, Trantor collapses too. When it is visited later in the series its population is only a tiny fraction of what it once was.
Not that it's easy to make money in mobile but there are apps that sell for a low number of dollars and they don't even necessarily have in-app purchases. I think it's more akin to micropayments albeit on a different scale. Personally, I'm very resistant to subscriptions. I don't want to be managing 50 $0.50/month subscriptions for this that and the other thing. Just too much mental energy to deal with.
I live in Oklahoma. People vote against her here because she's on the other team and 2+ decades of Republicans smearing her. 46% against concerns you more than 48% against? Lmfao.

Oklahoma is a subsidized state full of ignorant people for the most part. I live in an "educated" town and its abysmal here just the same.

So when propaganda/marketing to people that don't even understand the basics, Hillary gonna take UR guns and murder them babbies, sells quite well. All the while everything is reverting to the ownership class.

I'm well off so it will all be fine for me, but for the working middle-class and poor. It's only going to get worse, and voting for Republicans for the past 4 decades has clearly shown that to be the case.
As mentioned above, the main benefit could be for the family members. When my grandmother was diagnosed it took our family completely by surpise. She lived in another state and my elderly grandfather was the only one around to take care of her.

Eventually, she had to be moved to a nursing center where the health care costs are astronomical.

Of course no one wants to hear this news early, but in terms of preparations that can be made by family members, the earlier the knowledge the better.

When a family member is struck with an illness it does not just affect the individual, but rather the whole family.
I think the most important thing a parent can do for a child is develop a strong bond of trust. Be consistent in what you say and do and be honest about any questions they ask. If you're going to make a rule, stick to it, but also show them at an early age that you think they can be trusted. If they trust you and you tell them that going to x site is bad, they will be much more likely to believe you and avoid the site. If they do go to x site and discover that it's bad, they'll tell you about it as long as you don't have a track record of punishing your kid for telling the truth, and you have the opportunity to talk it out and make sure your kid is okay.

If your kid just doesn't want to listen, then maybe install a monitoring/blocking program. Also, especially do that when they are very young. You don't really need to do it above age 8 or so, as hopefully by then they will have developed a rhythm with the Internet that suits them.
In general, it is better if the value of your money that you want to use to buy things does not fluctuate every minute like in the case of Bitcoin.

People are working on Dapps for insurance, lending, prediction markets. It is not practical to take out a loan that is denominated in a volatile currency. Also, If you want to bet on the next president in 2020 for example, it is not practical to make the bet using a volatile currency such as Bitcoin.
Right. Smart people can teach other children, help other children and so on. There is absolutely no necessity to procreate to let stupid people win. And might be even stupider and very inefficient to waste time selfishly on your children, if you really don't want stupid people to win.
Agreed. In the past, media companies that tried to enforce a "link tax" (IIRC in Spain and Germany) were just unlisted from the news feed---and lost a lot of traffic, rendering the whole endeavor moot.

I guess they think that if everyone has to enforce the tax, they are protected from the threat of being unlisted.
So how do you suggest we solve the problem without collective actions? What "changes on an individual level" do you think need to occur, and how do you expect them to come about?

Because to me, it seems like the individualist's prescription is just to judge people for making bad choices and hope they make better ones in future.
This is the latest outcrop of news publishers fighting Google News in Europe. Previous results have been for example the creation of additional rights for news outlets in Germany where quoting even headlines of news stories in links might now require a (paid) license from the publisher. Of course, that law has been boldly worked around by Google (they dropped news sites from the index that didn't offer free licenses) and is now entirely useless.
Facebook Bans for Anti-Putin Poetry on Your Wall
After the ban they also enabled forced pre-moderation on all my wall posts (everything I post to my wall gets marked with ""We removed this post because it looks like spam and doesn't follow our"), so now I cant post anything at all. Do we need more proofs that Zuckerberg is a Putin's friend? Hello, Facebook! I'm a citizen of Russia who is just being critical of Russia and Putin. How much Russia pays Zuckerberg to censor dissent opinion and promote Russian puppets, like Donald Trump?
You'd still need separate commands, though. Commit vs. commit --amend. Add vs. add -p. Diff-against-grandparent vs. diff --cached. You just want different separate commands to achieve your goal, which is isomorphic to the index.

So sure: if you want a not-index which works like the index and has a bunch of 1:1 operations that map to the existing ones, then... great. I still don't see how that's much of an argument for getting rid of the index.
Facebook's success factors were 1) seeded with Ivy League students 2) access to capital 3) no contrition.
Amounts received by each Congress person from Facebook since 2014 as they speak
Facebook Bans for Anti-Putin Poetry on Your Wall

After the ban they also enabled forced pre-moderation on all my wall posts (everything I post to my wall gets marked with ""We removed this post because it looks like spam and doesn't follow our"), so now I cant post anything at all. Do we need more proofs that Zuckerberg is a Putin's friend? Hello, Facebook! I'm a citizen of Russia who is just being critical of Russia and Putin. How much Russia pays Zuckerberg to censor dissent opinion and promote Russian puppets, like Donald Trump?
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Gerrymandering has nothing to do with the electoral college.

I'll say it again: Gerrymandering has nothing to do with the electoral college.

Unless you think that state lines were drawn (all at the latest in 1866, when the last gray area between Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada was cleared up) with modern political considerations in mind, gerrymandering (the manipulation of electoral boundaries for some political purpose) has nothing to do with the electoral college.
He is talking about short selling bitcoin, not selling swap contracts. You don't have to borrow bitcoin to sell swap contracts 100x leveraged. However, to short sell bitcoin 100x leveraged, you would need to borrow 100 times more bitcoins
Uber now offers car rentals inside its app
You're right about how iOS restrictions work. My statement about an in-between is that there is no way for me to say "allow this app from time X to Y, for at most Z minutes" - it's all or nothing. You can have this app, or not have this app.

Additionally, there is no way for me to remotely manage it. If a child refuses to turn the phone off, I cannot hit a management tool and lock it down (at least, not without using an MDM profile, as Qustodio and other solutions can be trivially defeated by deleting their management profile which requires no permissions). If I want to monitor where they go and how much time they spend on each app, there is no way to do it.

So, I can do super-basic things, but nothing fine-grained or interesting from my parenting perspective.

So, it all gets turned off and is basically a Find-my-Friends, phone/FaceTime and iMessage tool for $700. Not exactly a good value and not something I will be sending any more money to Apple for.
That's funny when Tim Cook immediately addressed concerns about FBI backdoors and there's a wealth of information on Apple's website about how they use local data protection with the secure enclave, and iOS 11 gives you information on protecting your personal information when you install it.
Side note, but the majority of mobile and fixed terminals offer the option for gratuity when paying via chip and pin or contactless.
might want to look at the advantages of other states, Nevada for instance. You can start you LLC in any state. doesn't have to be where your business is located
I'll have to read up on that before forming and opinion, but I wonder if this hinges on a person being overweight, or regularly consuming a calorie surplus.
Lies, Damn Lies, and the State of Testing in Rails
Many early video terminals and microcomputers had similar layouts, because they were easy to implement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit-paired_keyboard
>How can a "legacy" project be using noSQL?

A project doesn't need to be 10+ years old to be legacy.

This API is 3y old, and was the first iteration, the v1, of the company's digital asset management API, it's only maintained for a few teams around the world, whereas the v2 is well crafted and has a way more logical datamodel

Legacy != old
Me, I just take x264 video I downloaded off the back of a truck and re-encode it to x265 with default settings on FFmpeg. It looks the same visually to me on my TV but the file size (including audio) is typically 25%. I realize this is the opposite of a carefully controlled codec experiment. Just saying in practice it works pretty well.

If you're curious about x265 in practice, the pirate scene group PSA-Rips is doing a good job recoding stuff to x265. http://psarips.com/
Many members of Congress owe their jobs to the deliberate cultivation of obfuscation, while running for office and in the development of laws, so I'm not sure if their ire at Z comes from genuine concern for their constituents or if they are just protecting their turf.
I'm envisioning the breast exam from "Office Space". "Hey Peter, check it out, channel 9!"
Google. If for some reason you don't trust yourself to filter out the bad or mediocre folks, find a professional association in the area and ask them for a referral.
Ask HN: Organizing company knowledge?
In the world of collaborative systems and wikis, what are some good resources for learning how to organize and structure knowledge at a company level?
Can we even agree on such a proposal among ourselves?

I would like to see all copyright completely abolished, or at least reduced to max 2 years or so. I imagine a lot of people will disagree with me.
Personally, I am not too worried about porn. What worries me is disturbing news and sometimes gory details along with them. These things bother me for days as an adult. I cannot imagine what would happen to a young developing brain if a child read such things.
I feel like this is the best answer. People have to work with what they have. Much in the same way that SNES games look the way that do, even though the designers back then were just as smart and talented as the ones today. That’s simply what they could do with the medium at the time.

The limitations define the style. And then dogma perpetuates it, as the new generation continues to live with the results of once-great but now outdated thinking.
This is called "whataboutism", and is an (often deliberate) attempt to create an inflammatory side conversation that, while compelling and likely rooted in truth, distracts from the actual (and more important) topic at hand.

I'm personally reluctant to downvote because this is semi-relevant and intelligently written, but HN is fairly defenseless against such techniques.
pyenv is your friend. It manages the installation of multiple versions, and you can choose on a per-pipenv basis which one you want to use. A certain codebase requires 2.7.10, not 2.7.11? Pin it to 2.7.10 and it'll stay there forever, even if you upgrade the system or homebrew python.
EAV pattern has trade-offs you need to compensate for (performance). Production systems that use EAV have flat tables, and heavy caching to have be flexible with acceptable performance.
BunsenLabs linux – Please help us test the Helium beta ISO
I think the offer would be cooler if they were just open to maybe daily meetings via slack, there's no reason that people need to go to an office anymore, and it'd open the whole country to them. I'd totally be interested in something like this, if I lived in SF, but I can't afford the cost of living there, and I like living in Provo, UT.
> Trust. But verify.

Give it as a gift. But sell it.

AKA, you are contradicting yourself.

> We started monitoring his internet after we caught him looking at inappropriate videos on youtube.

Yeah, that's a great move. You are uncomfortable with something, so you limit his freedom to perceive it. That's going to lead to a great relationship where he will trust you with real problems in the future.

> Neither of us like it but until he has earned our trust back, the situation will not change.

The thing is, you won't earn his trust back unless you stop that bullshit.

> My job isn't to make him like me, it's to raise him with proper values and protect him from the dangers he doesn't yet know exist or may not yet understand.

You being uncomfortable is not a danger to him, it's a danger to you, and you are abusing him to help yourself.

> If I do it right, he will thank me later.

Problem is, you aren't doing it right, and he certainly won't thank you later, at least not for that. He will keep a distance to you and avoid you for advice because you make him solve your problems, so you are not a reliable source of advice in his interest.
The server requirements seems quite easy to install (a server, a database, the ruby/gem stuff, and git).

Not sure how well the package manager works with the long list of gems - https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/blob/develop/Gemfile
The Brazen Fraud Case That May Help Determine the Future of ICOs
If your business is headquartered in another state I'm not sure why you'd need a California bank account unless you want to use a bank that only exists in California.
I might be able to satisfy your curiosity. People indulge in whataboutism for the fairly straightforward reason that they dislike hypocrisy and have a sense of fairness and would like everyone to be held to the same standards.
DataCamp has many useful courses, including an
Introduction to Data Visualization with Python:

https://www.datacamp.com/courses/introduction-to-data-visual...
Thanks. You are correct. I should have said video coding format.
I think most eight- or ten-year-olds of my acquaintance (present or former) would, if simply told, "Don't do X," be strongly inclined to immediately go out and do X.

If, however, they were told, "It's not a good idea to do X, because Y," they'd be much more likely to think twice about it.
yeah and 90% of business code is also written in COBOL and another 90% in MUMPS, but somehow the world continues to work despite the fact that they've been pining for the fjords for decades.
My understanding is that a good number of the exchanges currently operating require payment to list new coins, often in the form of a significant stake in the coin itself. At any point has any exchange ever stated that their company and officers do not hold stakes in the coins that are traded? I haven't seen it.
I guess it depends on content and your infrastructure. Whenever I put anywhere near similar encoding time and bitrate into a VP9 stream and an H.265 stream, I tend to get very similar results with both.
> “I don’t believe like people should be experiencing hardship while the CEO is like off on vacation.”

People will respect a leader who is in the trenches with them.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/whataboutism-o...
I'm also on the skeptic side of things though this intrigues me because it perhaps provides an alternate model to online ads which we're finally discovering the negative side effects of.
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Totally appropriate self promotion, I approve.
I found it interesting that they actually published the list of accounts: https://www.reddit.com/wiki/suspiciousaccounts
so the new AI Zuckerberg keeps going on about doesn't seem to work so well?
Well, until creators of commercially viable content get offered a better deal, they'll remain allied to the establishment copyright middlemen and will continue trying to make life difficult for the upstarts. Better to be exploited than to be decimated.

I hope for a future where the innovators in this space do find ways to reward creators. (Patreon is a good start, and maybe there's hope in the blockchain.) That might actually win powerful allies as commercially viable content authors migrate, and the long-hoped-for disempowerment of the current copyright middlemen comes within reach.

I don't see that happening when content creators are treated as acceptable collateral damage in the war to found an "information wants to be free" utopia, though. It will have to be a different faction that successfully negotiates the alliance.
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