skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As several mentionned, "spilling the beans" about the ins and outs about a current employer, and getting paid for it, is really frowned upon in some industries.

At least in Europe, in the industries I worked in, I always had a clause in my contract about releasing company information that was ground for termination without pay and/or damages. Being paid to reveal intel would be ground for termination.

I get it, we all do spill the beans at industry gatherings for instance, even sometimes publicly on hn!
I also try and help young graduates get good jobs at great companies but I do it as a former student...or as a side help when I part-time teach classes at universities. (and I pay attention to who I mentor and where I suggest them to apply to)

While I don't agree with this state of mind, I know quite a few companies where a prospective employee is considered a potential asset but still an outside. The interview process is gamed to bring the brightest at the smallest pay possible. Be paid to counter these tactics...not good.

Being paid to essentially deliver intel to an outsider will not go well at some companies.

The interview process is confidential/privileged information. Revealing specifics would/could be in breach of employment contract. Being paid by TheLobby would be actual proof/reasonable doubt that you breach the contract.

(Despite this comment, I like your idea and your personal story and I'm glad someone was there to help you/mentor you when you needed it, I just wanted to expose what was, to me, a potential pitfall )
Apologies in advance for the negativity, BUT....

I wonder how many people honestly believe that they are doing good "social proof" work for their career when they publish pieces like this.

However, many of these read as insecure, pedantic, and a decent lack of self-awareness on the authors part.
Tone deaf. Pretentious SV "influencer word salad". When reviewing resumes, I always do a ton of Googling. This would have given me a bunch of soft data points that would potentially outrank his/her resume

"Full-Stack Engineering" as defined by Robin Rendle - would have been a more honest title, but no one would have clicked.
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It looks like you might be thinking of this:

https://www.wired.com/2016/06/clever-attack-uses-sound-compu...

https://www.wired.com/story/air-gap-researcher-mordechai-gur...
"This is a standard administrative fee across the wireless industry, which helps cover costs we incur for items like cell site maintenance and interconnection between carriers"

I'd hate to have corporate communication job for telecom, healthcare, finance, and pharma industry.
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Amen! The reference check takes work for both you and the reference. Never give it out early because there is prep time for everyone.
Taxes are fine, but thinking that you can replace regulation with a tax -- pigouvian or no -- is fantasy
Again no.

Science is only saying what the outcomes will most likely be. That's not the same thing as saying the tradeoffs are worth it.

That said, many things are like useing seatbelts in that the downside risk is vastly more than the upside. Thus, ignorance simply results in worse outcomes.
Which doesn't contradict the article. Your comment is a non sequitur.
Is the code for this open? Curious to have a peek and a poke...
I tried not giving a word document. recruiters didn't submit me to clients then. Being desperate for a job after college you don't have any leverage. They just wanted to delete my contact details and put their own. No one has modified my lines so far but I can see that it does happen.
This. A thousand times, this. I have the 4000 at home and at work. If I could only have it with mechanical switches, insta-buy. I've talked to a few others at work who agree.
whats broken? Also this site is the very few that load no problem with poor/slow connection.
This is brilliant in its simplicity and implementation, your awesome!
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Thank you for the kind words and feedback! I'm copy pasting some stuff from the thread below.

"Definitely agree that this could be a problem. Practically speaking - we keep identities anonymous and so employees are protected.

Ethically speaking - if you have a buddy inside the company, they'll tell you how to prep with information the company wouldn't want you to know anyways.

It all comes back to our main point - if you don't have an inside connection, you don't get the juicy insights someone with that advantage does. So your odds of landing the job, let alone knowing what it takes to land it, are always lower. We bridge that gap - everything else in our view is a solvable problem because this engages current/former employees in the recruiting process + helps companies discover more talent.

The summary is that we're fine with keeping it anonymous now and here we have to take a bit more of a disruptive approach. Airbnb and Uber were both illegal (As in literally breaking laws) and still scaled and ultimately succeeded because they believed in the fundamental benefit of their service to the world.

The Lobby is completely legal, just maybe against some company policies, but we feel the benefits far outweigh the cons of some random company policy, even for the company itself as described above."
It wasn't an analogy. This literally happens every day. All towns have a process in place for selecting which local hazards to demolish.

Of course for more involved requirements it may be good to break the process into more than one step. It's possible that no one knows what's wrong with the public power utility. If you have to hire McKinsey because corruption, negotiate a simple fee for them to run an actual RFP process for an actual management consulting engagement for you. One of the requirements for that RFP will be that theirs cannot be the only viable bid. If they can't get a bid from another firm that has consulted for publicly-owned utilities, they don't get their RFP fee either.
When I worked for a travel company I saw a lot of fares that had lots of taxes and fees on them. Some flights brought fewer dollars to the airline than everyone else. You pay for both airports, the cities/states/provinces/countries they are in and places you go thru airspace to and anyone else who can put in a claim. The most I ever saw was around 12 on a single segment. The final cost of an airline ticket supports a village.
They don’t exist anymore, they didn’t have what it takes :O
A bit comical/ironic to say they'd be targeted for obstructionism given that the other side of the aisle did just that for the last vacated seat.
In the old old days there were some flights you could board and then pay the fare on the plane, in cash.

The original Eastern shuttle service on the east coast did that in the 1960s, for example.
Higher status has a multiplier on what you earn.

https://www.united.com/ual/en/us/fly/mileageplus/premier/bon...
I'd like to add. At this point, when possibe buy food in glass. For example, apple sauce.
An app can't listen to the mic unless you grant mic permission, unless the app has been bestowed with magic entitlements by Apple. For example, Apple Clips is an app in the app store with magic entitlements that bypass cam&mic permission prompts. I have no idea why they brought out the big guns for that. Also, Uber was running with a magic screen scraping entitlement for a while, apparently to support Apple Watch in the early days.
To add one more point, though this is not from personal experience, I'd guess that references get asked more detailed questions than "are they great?" which will reveal how sincere their recommendation is, and what strengths the person has.
> and big corporations file tons of patents just to have them.

and more often than not the patents are extracted from either something that's already working in production or from a proof-of-concept. I realize most corporations are printing money but patent applications are definitely not cheap. Nobody puts money behind an application without having something palpable.
I’d second this. A jack of all trades that can finish a “multi” stack project is worth a lot at most companies.
You may want to reach out to the founders of HackerRank (S11) via bookface or whatever if you haven't already. They started with what sounds like a similar business model (and got turned down by YC) before pivoting to their current model. I'm not affiliated with them in any way - I just happened to listen to a YC podcast featuring one of the founders last week (and Baader-Meinhof has been hitting me hard since then).
Money and kompromat trickles-up; indentured servitude and grotesque inequality trickles-down. If we had any spare guillotines, those tend to trickle-up at some point too. US.mil could do the world a solid and leave some proverbial “grenade pins on the officer’s [eg POTUS] pillow” to show how the people disapprove of their dangerous “leadership” and convince them to make better decisions. Usually, the mil shouldn’t get involved in civilian leadership matters, but having a used-car salesman run a country was clearly a bad hire in need of addressing.
One of the reasons, may be how the work reciprocation laws work with UK & Australia
I have to disagree. The only similarity is that it is also an ergo-design. The inward bowl is hard for me to use. A guy at my work has one and due to the way I hold my hands, I can't accurately press any keys in the lower left qwerty layout (shift, z, x, c, ctl, alt, etc). Not to mention, it is absolutely huge with so much space it the middle that feels wasted. I would pay good money for an identical layout to the microsoft ergo 4000. If I had the know-how, I would consider building my own.
So this is what Bezos means when he talks about a "regret minimization framework" \s.
Making Kubernetes Approachable – Our Experience with Kops and Rancher
Really depends on the city and recruiter, I've dealt with 3 great tech recruiters in Aus, 2 of them were Irish.

Pushed their hardest to place me and get the salary range I requested and pdf resume and LinkedIn was fine.
IMO FB is AOL's direct descendant. There's always a niche for packaged social internet, and it seems that niche is always going to be dominated by a single company.

FB will be superseded when a competitor for that niche appears, updated with significantly upgraded tech.
If you can build a web site with React + Firebase + Google Cloud Function + CDN, you are a full-stack engineer.
This exact same thing happens to my MBP, and it's 2018. In fact, it happened today then I unplugged it from an external display and it froze and didn't respond to closing the lid.
There's http://downdetector.com, but it's just based on user generated reports so I'm not sure if I'd count it as a status page. I'm surprised I couldn't quickly find something more objective for the status of major web applications though.

Your aggregator looks really useful, bookmarking it.
Just for a second give thought to those who purchased bitcoin when it was at 18k.
People with no real cs background/coding knowledge or experience becoming managers and making top dollars and engineers struggling with pay.
If both being a janitor and a software engineer paid the same amount of money, I'd still rather be a software engineer.

Obviously in a capitalist society it makes perfect sense to pay your staff the minimum possible while still retaining them. But it doesn't make it a fair system. Just because I had the privilege of being born into a good family with a good head on my shoulders doesn't mean that I deserve to get paid between 5 and 8 times more than the janitor (the income disparity between a janitor on $15 and a software engineer making 6 figures).

In Australia I make roughly double what the cleaners make. I think that's a much more equitable number.
For the sake of argument, let’s say federated social platforms will not solve "digital privacy, digital harassment, and digital overpopulation,” what is your proposal to solve these “problems?” Are you suggesting everybody stay on FB/TWTR/IG/SNAP? Are you saying nobody should use the internet to socialize? I seriously do not comprehend the point(s) you are trying to make.

Just because not all problems can be solved with Mastodon, and the like, does not mean they are not worth pursuing.
You already know the answer to that based on your cocky response. It still would help those of us less enlightened than you to understand how something as specialized as HFT can be commoditized. The simplest CRUD apps that any Bootcamp graduate can produce are not commoditized even though hundreds of thousands or even millions of people can build them.
That was impressive work, but they do require a camera that can record at 2000-6000 fps.
And yet it did when I had food cooled by dry ice. So what counts more, what actually happened, or the theory?

The reason is that if the item is cold (especially right above freezing) you don't need much pressure to get CO2 to dissolve.

The food was weird it was all tingly and fizzy on the tongue. Kind of like the flavor of flat seltzer.
> it's a very effective mechanism for ensuring they don't get commercialized.

False. Patents can be licensed and anyone with money can use it. Also, the patents are more like legal ammo which is used only when needed. So it's actually a mechanism for ensuring that:

- nobody who bothers the large company commercializes it.

- nobody but the wealthy members of a 'cartel' commercialize it.
My understanding was that references are explicitly always available upon request and there's nothing more to it. If the prospective employer wants them, I'll give them to them if I'm interested enough. I don't put anything about my references on my resume and I believe this is the common wisdom.
It's no different than Apple's integration with iCloud, but I agree with you. OneDrive is one of the first things I uninstall.
Several reasons:

* Airplanes travel about twice as fast as top-speed HSR. By 5 hours, even assuming generous airplane penalties, there's no speed advantage to HSR.

* For business travel, you've already lost the entire working day at that timepoint, so downtown-to-downtown isn't as much of an advantage anymore.

* You start to have to have nasty scheduling times for intermediate stops. Having to disembark at 3:00 AM is not going to be conducive to ridership.

* Sleeping cars and full-service dining start to become necessary around that point in time, and that's really going to eat into your operating costs.

I drove the number of 5 hours largely on the meal concern, but it does seem that most planning exercises tend to profitability wall closer to the 3 hour mark.
I've been told this is illegal as the recruiter is harming your prospects at your current job...
Cardboard is one of the most valuable recyclables.

Additionally, landfills are expensive to build and run so some municipalities are pushing recycling, composting, etc as a cost saving measure. Less trash into landfill, the longer until we have to build a new one.
> I see people talking about Macs not supporting pro use. But hey, tell me, how am I going to power my 6 external displays on a Surface product of any kind?

I have many friends, most of whom are professionals, but none of whom are software devs. A bunch of them do devops and SRE work, a bunch of them are creative professionals, and a bunch of them are in other professional services, like finance and law. Personally, I work for an "IT services" company, essentially doing outsourced devops and ops for numerous other professional services companies.

What I'm getting at is that I know literally hundreds of professionals, across my personal and work life. The sum total of those in my life who need or use 6 displays: Zero.

You are not, in any way shape or form, a typical professional. If you need 6 displays (which you might, but I'd bet a dollar you don't) you're basically so far out of the ballpark of standard professional that you're on the moon.

Let's not pretend that the Surface Pro — or the Macbook Pro, for that matter — are in any way not suitable for the vast majority of professionals.
I would have to disagree with that, because it's too broad. I would say it is true that you can't have a society with no feedbacks- in other words, consequences. Carrots and sticks. In capitalism, the most important feedback is profit. But profit as the main feedback path has obvious problems- it ignores human suffering and environmental damage and so forth. That's why pure capitalism can only exist as an abstraction. You have to put it within a very carefully designed legal system. Communism is the same way. A society where every product of industry is free, and nobody has to work, is obviously silly. However a communist society with appropriate consequences in place is completely plausible.
The whole point of the concept of environmental externalities and the tragedy of the commons is that the bill comes due for all of us, or our future generations, because a select few consumers got to exploit the environment, courtesy of the manufacturers. The point of the discussion is that this is fundamentally unfair, and consumers should pay that bill.

Furthermore, the cost of the bill is often exaggerated. Yes, retooling the manufacturers' plants to avoid externalizing environmental costs is a large one-time investment that will be passed on to the consumers. But that must be done to stop destroying our environment, and after that initial investment is paid off, the running cost of producing the goods will in almost all cases come back down to what it currently is, so the consumer price will come back down too.
Hmm. Maybe full-stack engineering doesn't need you to believe in it?

Though to be fair it probably does, because having your entire professional community believe you don't exist creates ridiculous amounts of frustration, anxiety and imposter syndrome.

I do (with skill levels ranging from competent to highly regarded):

* UI design

* Data architecture

* API design

* HTML/CSS/JS/React/GraphQL/etc

* Front-end accessibility (not the best, but I don't just do div/span soup and call it a day)

* Front-end performance (i'll spend weeks optimising the hell out of everything I see in browser devtools if given the chance)

* API performance (see previous).

I tend to draw the line at devops and sysadmin stuff, mainly because I don't find it interesting. But for everything listed, I do it because I enjoy it. And there plenty of aspects of engineering professionalism i'm not great at, which offsets the fact that I apparently have an impossible unicorn set of skills.

Honestly, I wish I didn't and was happy doing just a subset. But if I'm spending my time doing just design, I get frustrated that i'm not coding, and if I'm just coding i'll be dreaming of design. Also, the context-switching is hell. I wish my interests would let me specialise, but they don't.
> the system itself is not a thing you can blame, as it's orchestrated by people who wanted it to work that way

Strongly disagree with that assessment; viewing systems as solely the product of individual decisions is like viewing your brain solely as the product of the movement of individual atoms. You lose all predictive capability. If you do something immoral, is there some group of cells or atoms that I can directly 'assign blame' to?

A more nuanced and honest view would be to observe that certain structures predictably result in the some consequences, often regardless of the initial beliefs, desires, or moral righteousness of the individuals caught within them.

Sometimes the only way to change the outcome is to change the large-scale structure and incentives within the system. We can do that by changing laws, regulations, and also sometimes by naming and shaming certain individuals; but first we have to admit that systems do have 'a mind of their own'.
I've seen a prototype IoT thing (let's say a lightbulb) that paired with its peers by transmitting a public key through a flashing LED. Never became a product, but made me realize how easy such a thing is.
Yes, there are a number of compliance issues, and a level bureaucracy to deal with. But that's not germane to this discussion. We've got those in play no matter what. The real game here is setting up an entity to develop the code. Maybe even at similar cost. The savings is in the ownership of the code over long periods of time, and that other municipalities could then use the code.

Not to mention the numerous opportunities to take what that energy is learned in built and apply it all over the place Consulting, handling special cases and what not.
> All societies including feudal ones and modern socialist societies

Who says those weren’t/aren’t capitalist? By my definition they are, to the extent that they meet the criteria.
I know, right? :)

To fully prove my point, here is a quote... also written by me. Huh?

Is that supposed to be convincing? Odd assumptions here.
Like that guy on FB that always likes his own links.
Job role: Full-business engineering [ie no equity founder]. You will do and be responsible everything, along with everyone else. Specialization is toxic, so we need cross-functional, cross-trained teams whom can cover for anyone, all the time. After all, accounting is just like marketing and engineering. You’re competent enough to do all of these, right? -PHB
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As the article states, the issues isn't that customers don't see the fares when searching for prices, but that loyalty programs and some corporate discounts exclude fees. So this practice gouges them.
imo, the design of HN emphasizes the text, anything fancier and it would take away from this. You can look at reddits new redesign as an example. I have a lot of trouble navigating the new reddit due to a few reasons, a big one I'm sure is that I'm just not used to it, but I'd say overall the new redesign de-emphasizes, and that's a damn shame.
In the beginning, the universe was simulated. This has made a lot of people very unhappy and is widely regarded as a bad move.
I wonder how bad are the economics of going back to glass for product packaging, eg, like milk bottles. We still do it for beer so it mustn't be atrocious. Could we make inroads that way? I'm envisioning there'd be order 1-2 dozen standard bottle sizes to make recycling easy (cheap) to automate.
Even in a team of specialists, some of the work they do can be off-loaded to a full-stack developer to free them up for tasks that require more of their expertise.

For example, a front-end specialist would be better off optimising the slow page response times of the product's news feed or implementing a new application page altogether than, say, adjusting css that break on a few view ports. In a big team, you can push the CSS fixing job to a junior; but in a lean team, it's better if this goes to a generalist in your team.

If your backend dev is busy on implementing OAuth, he can off-load fixing a bug that has a small fix but is hard to test like a minor refactor. You compound this "minor" jobs and you will need a lot of junior staff to help on the load, or you could hire a full-stack developer to help with the whole team.

Eventually this generalist gains a good understanding of the full stack, as his title implies, and can contribute good ideas that affect all parts of the system. They also make good tech leads because they can interact and empathise with all members, and can call out decisions that may seem good on one part of the stack but could have horrible implications on the other end. Some progress to Architects simply because they have the bird's eye-view of the whole system.

Lastly, if you are a fledgling web startup, it would work against your business interests to hire an expensive specialist right away.