skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the 1950's, American CEO's earned about 11 times as much as the median employee at their firm. Today it's about 200x. Are you claiming that the gap in value contributed between CEOs and employees has increased by a factor of 20 in that time? Do you have any evidence for this?

Absent any, I think it is much more reasonable to conclude that there's little to no justification for current CEO compensation and that they draw their current compensations mostly "because they can".
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Sorry, you are right about price controls. I think it's still a problem that they incentivize unnecessary care.

I don't think we're actually that far apart on what we think the problems are. I wasn't trying to say that requiring large amounts of school in order to test for strep and antibiotics are the only cause of our high costs of healthcare, but they obviously contribute.

I agree (and I think any thinking person would agree) that you should have training to perform more specialized procedures.

Expensive end of life care is partly the fault of clinicians who get paid to authorize expensive procedures and who don't want to tell their patients and their families that there is very little they can do to prolong their life, so they should just surround themselves with loved ones and prepare to die.

And we can both agree that there is wasteful spending without arguing that people should kill themselves sooner. Just looking at our healthcare expenses relative to other countries shows we pay somewhere between 1.5-2x more for roughly the same level of care. That's obviously a market failure.
Sorry, but that argument is without merit. In order to make $37 an hour, you're going to have to be a skilled employee with years of experience in most places or live in an area where $37 an hour is chump change. It's impossible to acquire those skills AND raise a family at the same time without either having money or having some other form of financial support.

The vast majority of people on welfare aren't actively avoiding employment. That's a white myth people tell each other to comfort themselves regarding their own mediocrity.
More like a russian troll
America is fine with people immigrating legally - always has been. The perception that America doesn't have any talent is rather recent. The reason companies are started here is due to a number of factors, most importantly the lack of corruption (say compared to Italy), the legal system, and how the class system works. You can actually move up. It doesn't help that you can earn more on the higher end, too. Compare Swedes in US vs Swedes in Sweden. FB UK to FB USA.
Yes Attlassian have pretty disappointing UX standards IMO, JIRA has similar issues since the redesign.
Our attempts to raise funding essentially investors want us to grow to 10k users.

With our limited budget we have seen pretty good customer acquisition cost. I can't share exact numbers but lower than $10 for targeted ads.

We spent our money already on development and it looks like it could be $80,000 or more to reach the goals to get investors interested.

We are trying WeFunfer currently as well.

We have no competitors right now. Everyone else is doing screen time management with rigid controls etc. Our innovation is the integration with learning sites and rewarding the child/student with Internet access after they meet goals.

Thanks for giving me a quick marketing 101 we are not good at this part of things.
I think I would really enjoy working with GitLab, but a while ago I tried to set up an instance on my own server and it was a real pain... Then, once I finally got it running, it turned out to hog incredible amounts of resources even when doing absolutely nothing. So I gave it the kick.

If I were the sysadmin for a large-ish organization and had a dedicated server for nothing but code hosting, I would definitely go with them. But for my own private purposes it wasn't the right choice.
Oh? Is that why nativists oppose the H1B visa without supporting alternative means of high-skill immigration?

As a brown person it's become abundantly clear that the Stephen Miller, Steve Bannon view on immigration is certainly mad about something - and it's not skill.
Can confirm...wife started a franchise with a brick and mortar presence. I hold down the stable income. Also have the help of parents to look after our baby, as sometimes I need to help her on nights/weekends.

The same is true for other franchisee's we've met (1 remains the breadwinner). If you bought into an existing one that already generates revenue, then sometimes both spouses work there full time. But that means you need to have had $$$ in the first place.

We know of one franchisee who's wife is a stay at home mom. He quit his job to start one...less than a year with slow growth, he closed the center and went back to a traditional salaried job. He didn't pick a good location for exponential growth, but IMHO he had enough steady growth and would have been profitable if he could stick around for another few months.
> And spending how many hours a month maintaining it and applying updates and security patches

Looks like GitLab puts out one release a month. Not a big deal. One day a month you can roll out the latest and greatest if you really want to. I probably wouldn't even do it that often, depending on what's included.

As far as all the underlying stuff, depending on what Linux distro you pick it should be pretty self maintaining nowadays for everything that's required to self host GitLab. nginx, PHP, etc. will all self update with your package manager of choice.

> setting up monitoring and dealing with downtime?

If you're buying a VPS you shouldn't need to worry about these. Any decent host will make sure your VM is up and have a high enough uptime to be solid for any use case short of enterprise. If you're an enterprise you might want to spend more than $5/mo.

> We're running our own private GitLab server but we thought long and hard before doing it.

Well that's up to you but it's really not hard.
If someone works for me 18 hours instead of 8 consistently I will fire him immediately.

We do not want overworked and burn out slaves, thank you very much.

Making more than 6 hours of real deep work every day is extremely challenging. Someone who tells me he is working 18...

We have some Indians that work for us, on similar terms than Europeans or Americans, living in Europe. Good workers and have earned their place, like the rest.
Even if the data does not stretch to 2015, the data start way back in the 70' which is enough to see a trend.
If you've identified the "best" candidate for a position and want to hire or retain that person, you're now competing with the other offers available to that candidate (which include CoL-adjusted offers), not with the salaries you're paying other employees.
They're probably quite useful in obtaining probable cause, much like drug search dogs.
It's not a politically acceptable solution, but it's certainly a solution. And it's not acceptable for purely nationalistic and self serving reasons of the politicians.

There is absolutely no technical reason the EU bureaucracy cannot function in a single language. Now that UK leaves, there's not even the problem of a unfair language advantage except maybe to some degree for Malta. It would massively simplify and reduce the cost of the EU. It will also never happen, precisely for that reason.
> Pay should represent the value you offer to the company, period.

Sure, but value works both ways.

"Your salary should represent the value working remotely offers to you"

If it's reasonable for you to think that way, why wouldn't it be reasonable for companies too?
Pseudoephedrine is a scheduled drug, prescription only or available over the counter with various restrictions (such as e.g. showing ID) most places because it's sought after as a precursor to methamphetamine. Particularly be careful if you intend to take it over a border.
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It would be nice to have some copy/pasteable snippets to integrate this with my stuff. It is unclear what I should do once I register an application and am presented with a list of keys.
I don't think they check people's bank accounts when they hold mass trials for them at the border.
There's an awesome list at https://github.com/ianchanning/awesome-github-alternatives
I think it would be a real shame if the module system design made it impossible to statically enumerate all the module's reachable from a program entry-point without executing the program ...
It's not voluntary if you can't eat if you stop working.
Until your app gets on HN/Slashdot/Reddit etc and experiences the hug of death.

Jokes aside, I do agree that from a developer's standpoint, the optimal way to act (optimising for business success) is as you say, ignore performance at first. But from an engineering/craftsmanship standpoint, it should really bother you to have an inefficient system.

Just think of all that extra CPU load, and all the CO2, all the coal burnt to sustain it ...
How did their security team identify that?
Just curious, commit for how long? I have been in situations before, where I have accepted an offer, started a job and was informed 3 months later that the company mis-calculated the budgets/revenues and have to let go a bunch of people. Guess who gets let go first? The people who started the latest.

Doesn't this go both ways? In this day and age in America, there's no loyalty going in either direction, employer or employee.
Database performance depends on so many variables - thread pools, queue sizes, RAM allocations to different purposes, disk layout - the list goes on. There are whole consulting fields that are essentially doing a random walk through database configuration files looking for better performance - ascending the performance gradient if you will.

So in this world, its sensible to say "benchmarks are uninformative and misleading - your mileage will almost certainly vary"
Question: What do the wealthy people do with their fortunes?

Hint: They’re not letting it sit idle in their savings account.
1) There are lots of people that are really bad at saving.

2) $100k could be liquid savings in cash, with the rest in GSUs or diversified investments.
35L is about 40k GBP - the average cost of a JS developer in many parts of the UK. Are you saying that's a starting salary for a developer in India - because in that case, why outsource?!
Are you one of those people who think that's a fresh insight that The Atlantic or New Yorker or Piketty came up with recently?

Or are you aware of Marx's concept of dialectical contradictions in capitalism eventually leading to its downfall?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immiseration_thesis
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Could somebody else provide the same amount of value (as your CEO) for a much lower salary? In principle at least, employees (including CEOs) shouldn't be compensated according to the "value" they provide, but instead only paid the minimum necessary to prevent them from quitting, or at least from quitting too frequently.
Take a look at figures 5 and 6 - it's a bit hard to parse but you'll get a lot out of them.

There are four different scenarios presented, and each has its own optimal strategy.

In general, their optimal model uses less caffeine overall, and seems to use it in proportion to expected sleep restriction as opposed to using it widely. They cite research on the difficult in recovering from large caffeine loads as their motivation for reducing overall caffeine intake.
Is this similar to guerilla marketing? How do I find such channels - although asking that may be stupid because they are "undisclosed"? I am BAD at marketing!!
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The level of stockholm syndrome of the American worker is astounding and depressing
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Build all above-surface structures out of inflatables. During heavy weather deflate and retract (5-10m). Use simple solid-state generators, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaneless_ion_wind_generator
Coming at this from the data science/healthcare research field, I see a number of factors reducing the number of startups. First, healthcare has a number of barriers to entry for technological innovation, including very large bureaucracies in the VA, medicare, medicaid, insurance companies, and many other large, slow-moving entities. It's possible to entrench yourself in one of these bureaucracies and do great changes, but there is a maddeningly slow pace of uptake of changes. Second, you have a vast amount of talent and capability being locked up in guild-like systems, where MD students with brilliant minds are being closeted to study the highly specific anatomical structures they will probably never use, for a massive bill to boot. What if we reduced all of our training programs by 50% in time (and cost to the student), in favor of a leaner, more practical approach to clinical work? Again, the massive bureaucracy of healthcare is slowing down innovation.

So, where DO we see innovation for healthcare? Primarily, it's coming from the labs of academic researchers or its coming from big biotech companies like Pharma, biomedical device firms, etc. Yet, these academics or biotech companies are fundamentally linked with the massive bureaucracies of healthcare, their clients and customer-base.

On top of all of that, keep in mind in healthcare, we have very tight restrictions on use of protected healthcare information. It's hard to study anything, you need very detailed analysis plans and IRB approval before you can even begin to gather/pull the data.

What's the way out for healthcare start-ups/innovators? It's a tricky question, I think we need more open-source work, we need streamlining of bureaucracy, and much more of the talent in this sphere needs to be put to work on the issues that matter. If universal healthcare is ever passed, we will need massive levels of talent reallocation to innovate and drive costs down.

What a time to be in healthcare. We have the best science we've ever had, we have the best diagnostics and treatments and tests we've ever had, and yet we also have arguably the greatest challenges and the most potential for improvement we've ever seen in healthcare. Anyone reading this who is interested in tech, I'd encourage you to join this 1/6th of the economy which is ever-present and only set to increase in prominence with the aging of our western societies.
In other words, if you encapsulate the sun into a sphere, said sphere receives an equal amount of photons per hour regardless of its size, they are just spread over more surface area, hence the square term.
This sounds like a personal preference for dynamic vs strongly typed.

I could rewrite your entire comment in reverse about how I find C# highly expressive and readable while dynamic languages or Kotlin (blech) are a mess of inconsistent whack-a-doodle experimentation.

But my opinion is useless.

The value in any platform is productivity and if any given team can be productive, it doesn't matter if it's COBOL, RPG-3, Pascal, BASIC, or a functional language like F# or plain old JavaScript.
It's not a scam, you just have to know what you are buying.

For internal Enterprise apps, for testing, for some other things - you need just basic developers who can understand problems and solve them.

Also - there's a lot of basic IT work and basic dev-ops-ish stuff that can be done.

So yes, if you try to build a hot new thing, for your hot new startup using Infosys, you're going to fail.

But if you have large company, and need some well-defined system for reviewing customer service inquiries ... well, if you manage the project correctly, Infosys might be a good choice. In fact, it may be your only choice because hiring devs in North America is very expensive.
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You're right - I stand corrected. I wasn't aware they'd gotten quite that far in actually deploying their product and (supposedly) testing people.
My privacy-related concern is that historically, surveillance data tends to be kept for long periods of time and used for purposes other than what it was collected for. My other concern is that I don't really welcome immigration officials having any more tools, giving how they're abusing the tools they already have.
And don't forget the macro preprocessor, it's made life a lot easier for me in so many ways. Syntax sugar, automatic asset inclusion, compiling tasks, and much more.
Next to every key there is a button with a question mark "how to use", which presents a pop-up with a copy/pasteable snippet.
Any major sites running python?

YouTube is quite a popular one.
This is an underreported and unfortunately minimized part of the story of most successes.

For example, Bill Gates had a solid financial backing when he left Harvard: http://philip.greenspun.com/bg/

> [Bill Gates' Great-Grandfather] Maxwell founded Seattle's National City Bank in 1906. His son, James Willard Maxwell was also a banker and established a million-dollar trust fund for William (Bill) Henry Gates III.

Bezos' parents kicked money into what would become Amazon:

> The first initial start-up capital for Amazon.com came primarily from my parents, and they invested a large fraction of their life savings in what became Amazon.com
Were they in India? That's specifically what osrec said. Nothing about Indians.
I still mourn the passing of Bazaar (Canonical's CVS, developed in tandem with Git but abandoned some years back). It was a lot easier to learn and use than Git and had a beautifully clean Python codebase. Unfortunately, it was also slower than Git and not as powerful, and eventually just lost out in the survival of the fittest...

Though having said that, it's still alive in the Ubuntu universe, and there's a community effort underway to keep up maintenance and port it to Python3, under the new name of Breezy.
I think the US is middle of the pack in terms of entrepreneurialism [1], but it's a hard thing to define and measure and there are a lot of confounding factors and other such around these measures. I suspect it's impossible to get a meaningful comparison unless the countries being compared are very similar.

[1] https://blog.approvedindex.co.uk/2015/06/25/map-entrepreneur...
If you're introducing a new term solely for the sake of explaining something, then your fundamentals are wrong.

Bits are fundamental to understanding why we can encode simple numbers in a GNN. If you don't understand that, then surprise-surprise - you need to create another, possibly misleading further down the line, framework.
Why do you say that you can only run lambdas in the environment? A Lambda function just calls a function with an event and a context parameter.

I run and test my Lambda methods locally just like I do my Controller classes - create "unit tests" (not real unit tests just a method that calls the Lambda handler with the event body I want to use). Your Lambda handler should be skinny and just translate the message to your business methods just like a controller.
Designing the nteract Data Explorer
But do they rewrite ? Twitter did. Facebook didn't.
I'm not sure what the general objection is to facial recognition technology. What's the difference between this and hiring a team of autistic savants who can remember a ton of faces? They use their eyes (cameras) to look at faces, and their brains (algorithms) to classify the image. One just costs a lot less to create.
Readers may be interested in checking out this blog post:
http://colah.github.io/posts/2015-09-Visual-Information/
Isn't Django huge? And there's Flask as well.
Why not work on starting a company instead of working for people you consider unfair?
UK does not have 1.2 billion human population which is not particularly skilled, educated, wealthy.

Concentrating on only one aspect can give answers which we like. Different societies e.g. America, Japan, Russia, UK or China have developed in different ways. I think of 3 basic factors: sophisticated population, lot of land, powerful political system. At least one or combination of more than one is required for rapid development.

India has none of these so it will be painful, long and slow path to development.
Gogs is also available for some NASes as a package. I have an instance installed on my Asustor NAS for my personal stuff, and it works great.
Yep, good point. Club Mate contains sugar as well.

The espresso I drink never contains sugar or milk.

The coca cola zero I drink doesn't contain sugar either.

I cannot stand the highs and lows of sugar. I notice it especially at birthday parties. I mean, its already boring... and them comes up of the sugar rush followed by a low where I start yawning and feeling sleepy. I so not wanna be there anymore at that point.

The general trick though, is dosages. You want to keep it stable when it matters, and at the end of the day wind down. Which means you do not want to drink caffeine drinks anymore in the evening.

For the rest, I can highly recommend mindfulness to help increase focus (but before I started it, I found it super annoying when someone suggested it and then I tried it myself and it didn't work out; so I am following a course on it, for people with autism). Meds can help out as well.
Competing with free is challenging, but maybe there are other examples to choose from. Snapchat doesn't cost money for consumers to use it, same as Facebook. That's not due to competition with Facebook, and arguably it's not competing with a Facebook offshoot either. There are a number of analytics platforms depending on what you're looking for (eg Mixpanel and New Relic) that come to mind readily. eBay faces competition from a little company called Amazon.
I don't think it's all hype, but there certainly is a lot of hype there, and most of the benefits will only come if you have a B-vitamin deficiency. Lots of people do, though, so there may be some benefit for quite a lot of people.

But on top of that, B-vitamin complex pills benefit from a lot of side-effects of high intake, including e.g. Niacin flushes and tingling effects, which I thin probably boost the perceived effect well beyond any actual effect.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u1zbz0yhuytfcqi/kimchi.pdf?dl=0
It's not to make sure they are authorized to leave. It's for matching exits to earlier entrances, so they can tell if people who came on time-limited visas left when they were supposed to.
Instagram uses Python/Django a lot
Ive wanted to start a company for years on various projects but have failed to find the sales network to help me put any of them forth into motion. That in combination with the fact that bigger players are more well funded and I dont have the realistic means or support to bootstrap my idea. Maybe everyone else feels the same way.
A must read for anyone interested https://statecharts.github.io/ Also I highly recommend to check out `xstate` TypeScript library. It's a breeze to work with it.
Most likely, yes. The CEO is the public face of the company. (S)He attracts both investors & customers either through direct hands-on interactions or by providing stability and confidence.

Put it this way:

- Would you feel comfortable investing your money with a company run by 200 engineers?

- Would you feel comfortable entering into a contract or purchasing agreement with a company run by 200 engineers?
I also had the same thought about Apple's recent WWDC, but at the same time, there are complex techs being implemented behind those fancy graphics too. I don't know what to make of it. But, what is it ? Are people going out of innovative ideas that can actually do something meaningful for the society ?
An H1B is a temporary worker visa. So even if someone did start a company while on that visa, it’s not an immigration visa.