skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very much this.

A couple of more points to add:

1. There was a time when the pay distinction between working for big companies and small/mid was clear and present. But these days, the line is blurring.

BigCos have realized that startups are eating their lunch and hence they are investing heavily in new ideas and doing better engineering on the old ones to develop those markets even further, faster.

Smaller companies too have realized that they need to compete with the BigCos and hence have started to offer similar comps/perks. More and more of the VC funded fast-growing companies are offering packages competing with BigCos.

2. Hence, for a software engineer, the main reason to join/not-join a company today is less about pay. It's more about the type of work you will get to do, and the people that you want to work with.

3. There is something to be said about having a brand, but given how tech is percolating everything we do, it is also getting very differentiated. There are hence brands in every "flavor" of tech. e.g. if you want to work on self-driving cars, Waymo is a great brand. But if you want to work on healthcare tech, there are others.

I train software engineers to do better at challenging interviews and I do that for a living. The way I see it, the landscape has been shifting in this direction for at least past 5 years, if not more. At least in the large tech hubs of the US.
They also fell behind Russia in tank manufacturing technologies like submerged arc welding (which allowed making large, deep, quality welds) and casting large pieces of steel for armor.
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Also, perhaps they were adept at playing on the misconceptions or weird beliefs of those in powerful positions.
I concur with your sentiments here. For instance, there are so many things brewing inside Amazon that I know I'll always have a new area to explore whenever I want. For e.g., the world is talking about building serverless architectures, but I can actually work on the platform that will power that move. I can work in any of the cloud databases, build workflows or the platforms that power other to do so, build low latency services etc.

So, I can easily get breadth. I can also get depth if I want - embedded systems, etc.

In short, there are opportunities. It's up to you how you utilize them.
Let's discuss how we can fix this. I'm actually considering leaving my job of 8 years for a probably to be doomed privacy startup. Either way, I'm interested in solutions and more importantly working towards them, even for free.
This is a non-profit, so hopefully it's ran well and everyone is happy. However, as an Australian with friends who've traveled to Scotland, apparently it's quite common for businesses to provide accommodation in exchange for work, and at times this can be really exploitative.

A friend of mine stayed and worked at a remote bed and breakfast in Scotland for a couple of weeks. However, despite the manager claiming otherwise, my friend was often left on their own with no idea how to run the place. My friend was given no training and the manager would tell them he'll be in for the weekend, then simply not turn up.

As a result my friend was stuck looking after the place and missed out on the weekend (and many other days) when they were supposed be out enjoying their travels. It's just worth keeping this in mind, before signing up to something like this - there are unfortunately plenty of dishonest people out there.
I'm sort of barely related to Alex, (if you count girlfriend / boyfriend relationship as related!) so have been on a couple of family vacations with him. I'm not much of a climber -- managed to lead 5.12 sport single pitch a few times but these days I struggle with 11s. I will never forget when Alex talked me up a V2 I was spooked on! Super patient, nice guy.
You might be interested to learn that average rents in Brisbane/Sydney/Melbourne are about AUD$2600/month (~USD$1900) for a small 2 bedroom apartment.

Plus expensive power, fuel, telecommunications, food, etc due to oligopolies in each of those spaces.

What I'm getting at, is that $1000/month doesn't go very far in any of our capital cities (and most people here live in or directly around our capital cities).
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There are un-intrusive bots for that
Anyone who questions foobarbecue should read Alex's book 'Alone on the Wall'. It gives you a different perspective on him than this article.
So how long before carefully crafted images, text, etc are 'encoded' into the DNA of a highly lethal virus?
I live near Fairfax and Wilshire (near The Grove) and they’ve just started cropping up on the sidewalks up and down Fairfax. I moved there from SaMo and it’s definitely not nearly as bad yet, but I can see the wave coming.

I’m not a huge fan at this point, but I’m trying to not be too closed minded about them. They seem to serve a purpose, but I’m getting annoyed with people scootering on the sidewalks and it added to our already dirty / littered streets.

On a health note, I’m amazed at how many people use them without helmets (basically 100% of people I observe). Given what we know about brain injury and trauma in 2018, I’m shocked people put their brains at such risk to just get from point A to point B slightly faster. Walking in LA feels dangerous enough to me at times with inattentive drivers, let alone adding some additional speed to any potential impact.
Chronic underfunding probably didn't help.
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Need better lawyers.
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It's definitely not a universal scenario that the agency can produce 100% of the content for the client. Sure the content should be part of the planning and budgeting up front, and the agency should do as much of it as they can. But a common example of where you may need content from the client is a hotel that wants to do a new photoshoot for their new website. They know that photos are incredibly important to their marketing, they often have a preferred photographer they want to work with directly, even if you're local and offer to conduct the photoshoot for them, they can probably do a better job producing those assets than you can because they know their property inside and out.

That's a classic case where you have to depend on the client for content and a tool like Content Snare might be useful.
The other thing I want to point out here which I wish I understood in my early 20s is that cash you invest when you are young grows. long-term long-bets of the type your mom would recommend (whole market index funds, real-estate, etc...) really require time to work, so socking money away when you are young makes a big difference.

I've got friends who earn about what I do who are about my age who, many years, earn as much at this point from income on their capital as they do from their regular job. I would be in that position too, if I had spent my money working for a big company and socking cash away, rather than spending my '20s running a business.

I'd make more money working for other people, too. Having a company with a good brand on your resume means a hell of a lot more than running a lifestyle company, even if that company succeeded as a lifestyle company.
With mean Average Weekly Earnings (for salary earners) approaching AUD$85k/year[1] before tax (not sure what average household income is), I'd say $1k is basically impossible to live on.

And for some context, I currently can't hire any mid-to-senior software developers in Sydney for less than $150k/year package.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com.au/average-australian-weekly...
Are you saying that, if you take 100 random startups and look say 5 years later at how many survived AND are valued over 50 millions, you have more than 3?

I would like to know which distribution you sample from :-)
Or perhaps a rope, dangling 20ft too short, would trigger him. I think you’re right. His “mental armor” technique is noteworthy, though. People often overlook the very significant training he undertook.
A few years ago I attempted to make the writings of Richard Garlikov a little more approachable, as his website is very basic.
I never finished it as the process of converting each article into HTML was very tedious.

I've uploaded an example to Imgur [0] and I’d be happy to share all resources if anyone is interested.

0. https://imgur.com/a/EiqxrrK
Hm, what if it was "anything goes" but buttons to hid things you personally find offensive? If you analysed enough hide-clicks you could perhaps start to softly predict what to hide automatically for that person. By softly I mean blurring it, and not hiding it outright. I actually kind of like the Fb filter allowing quite disturbing material, but blurring it and in effect telling you that, "Hey, you might not want to see this, but it's here if you change your mind." Oftentimes I just scroll past those, because - wow - I really don't need stuff like that in my life, and I'm grown up enough to make that decision for myself. On so select occasions I still look at them, for reasons. But then I at least had a reason! So it's beyond complaining, and I can really only thank myself for looking at it, if I didn't like it after all.
Legislation. We need legal repercussions for people who wantonly mishandle our personal information. Sorry, but the market can’t help us. This kind of shit needs to be illegal yesterday. It’s just impossible because we have a Congress that is so remarkably out of touch that they won’t do anything about it.
This seems a bit optimistic. Transfers do often happen inside Google, but the laws of supply and demand haven't been repealed. Teams in hot areas with limited headcount get to be choosy, and those positions will be harder to get.
So, this seems a little opposite of what I meant. Naive me always assumed I pay with a card, the store gets my cc info to charge and we part ways. I'm getting in the mail ads from Meijer, for items I buy frequently. This tells me they were able to extract my home address and name from my credit card. Is that accurate?
I think Trump has taken almost every conceivable position on every issue, so the claims in the article were presumably true for some particular moment of time.
I have heard great things about DRF, and often it is good to resist coloring outside the lines.

That being said, your comment assumes that DRF has indeed thought of everything. All abstractions leak, some more than others. Clean escape hatches are very valuable.
Is this data available to mortals? I don't even have digital itemized receipts for credit card purchases, and it's my purchase!
It seems that Amazon wants to become not only where you buy your stuff but also your Grocery and get Prescription drugs. I guess the play is that they are seeking out more places where to expand in a large way. Pharmacies are a big cash cow and entering in this space is not going to be trivial.

On the other hand imagine what you could do with the data . Lets say you have clinical depression. Maybe it would recommend you a medical food such as Deplin or even the l-methylfoliate.
Nope, my advice is for all drivers, as is taught to motorcyclists. Checking three places every thirty seconds is appalling advice.

Sadly, sites like this are full of ignorant, unskilled, overconfident motorists who don't like correct advice.
Congress grilled Equifax and nothing. Average person saw Equifax commercial on “hey be smart we will keep your info safe with alerts” and thought “wow this company cares about my data” when its precisely opposite.

If the congress is unable or doesnt want to draft a bill to stop predators from milking money off of your data, then that money probably ends up in their pocket some way. Or at least some of it.

Please dont quit your job for the sake of your security - food, shelter, etc. Move these assholes out with next election. Vote in young people that are probably as angry about this shit as you are, in hope they won’t sell out their soul.
Figure out a way to make the data collected useless. You can't hide and block every attempt to track, collect and generally have your privacy invaded. But it may be possible to throw a wrench in the gears by making so much noise the data is low quality.
Previously people just turned off stuff like that, or went lalalalalalalalalal!
Erm, not opening up this fucking Elasticsearch instance to the entire internet would be a pretty easy way to get like 90% of the way there. I do operations. I can tell you exactly how not to make rookie mistakes like this. But security isn’t sexy, and it isn’t profitable, so it falls by the wayside.
Perhaps, but no particular web implementation of email really stands out. (You might say Gmail, Gmail is really comparatively recent.) So a web interface on email push adoption further.
What an absurd strawman.
Off topic: considering you've left BitKeeper and you were one of the most active developers in user forum, what's the status of BitKeeper? Is it still developed* or it's in maintenance mode for existing commercial clients?

* yes, it's open source, but being open source and "you can add any feature yourself" doesn't imply there is a momentum behind and a kind of "directed" force to move it forward
I never said you should drive without mental filters, I said that your eyes should be scanning at all times. Lots of strawmen today.
It's a coin toss with a loaded coin where both faces are the same.
I somewhat disagree with the idea that a Big Corp reduces your learning opportunity. I work for one of the big companies, and one benefit I don't see highlighted frequently is changing specialties. I have worked in 4 different job families over 6 years. If you do work for a Big Corp and you're an effective employee, you can pretty easily work on jobs at the border between the job you have and the job you want. This may be specific to my employer, but I've been able to find ways to demonstrate my (on the job learned) knowledge in a field and get a job I find interesting.
Correlation doesn't imply causation, of course.

He may have picked up driving quickly not because of Counter Strike, but for the same reason he was capable of becoming a skilled Counter Strike player- some genetic or psychological advantage that is independent of anything else. He may just be better than the rest of us at filtering and focusing!

In contrast, I played a bit of counter strike in high school but I never got even remotely good at it. I just didn't have any knack for it. And while I am now a fairly skilled driver (no accidents in 16 years on the road!) I suspect those early years it was a matter of very good luck that I didn't get myself killed behind the wheel.
Sounds similar to Smeed's prediction:

> Smeed also predicted that the average speed of traffic in central London would always be nine miles per hour, because that is the minimum speed that people tolerate. He predicted that any intervention intended to speed traffic would only lead to more people driving at this "tolerable" speed unless there were any other disincentives against doing so.
Just because it’s legal doesn’t make it right. No, there is no law against this. That’s a problem, and it will continue to be a problem until it either affects enough CEOs or some Congressman’s kid gets screwed over by it. Until then we’re all going to be forced to clean up the messes ourselves.
You can't ignore the reason the trucks exist in the first place. The trucks exist because towns and commercial spaces are spread out, and they're so spread out because of cars.

It's sort of like saying that cars don't emit CO2, burning gasoline does. The gasoline is burnt to operate the cars. Trucks deliver products to our car-centric landscape. If everybody lived in cities we'd only need a fraction of the trucks.
> If I give a company my data, and they lose it, oh well. I wish all personal data was treated like HIPAA, at a minimum.

And yet, when GDPR tries to address the issue, HN is full of "blocking the damned EU users completely" and "stop stifling honest companies".
Great, now everyone knows.
In my ideal mind, I'd keep my job, it's pretty lax as long as I deliver. But I want to fix privacy. I'm working with a guy I respect, who is also all about privacy, but I just don't think his model works. Ideally I'll donate some dev time for free, but if I saw even a glimmer of hope, I'd go all in. We can't trust congress, we need a private sector movement. I'm offering my services for free to anyone in the space, generally speaking.
Yes, it should come as no surprise that someone who has dedicated themselves to managing their fear is good at managing their fear. He is not immune to panic, but he is very good at pulling himself together and carrying on.
It's almost as if the issue is more complicated than the solution represented by the GDPR.

I mean, I'm a "tin hat" privacy nut in the USA, but that doesn't mean that I'm a fan of 100% of the GDPR. It has plusses and minuses. It'd be nice to have a conversation about them.
I just signed a rental agreement for an apartment in the US and in the fine print it says that they can share your data with whoever they want. You can't even opt out. Pretty fucked up.
Until government taxes it :)
I'm pretty sure that's been relaxed to $35m. ;-)

Although the other onerous requirement for a bank is that it can't have any one owner with more than 5% shareholding (although there's a lender here that's trying to get the government to change that).
hah! You'd definitely get a reaction with that image... but I suspect it would be laughter.
I guess I meant weird in the moral sense. It's certainly not unusual given their past behavior as a corp.

Sort of depressing, really.
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Why not both? Sacrifice a little from each so that you can do both, and they will give a bit of context to each other.

If you only go tools-first you risk treating the tools like "black magic" without really understanding what's happening.

With only fundamentals-first you lose relevance for biologists.

Give them enough on fundamentals (i.e. variables, functions, loops, conditions, scope, basic data structures) so that they can appreciate how the tools do what they do.

Beware false dichotomies.
Do you have any data to support your claim about what the average person thought about Equifax and Congress? I have a lot of strong opinions about privacy, but I'm also resigned to the fact that most people don't care about it as much as I do. So I don't guess what they're thinking.
Hm a single currency, seems to me, more and more to be a bad thing, only tailored for expansionist world corporations, since they are the only ones who benefit from it, really. A single currency has been sold as this good, because it does away with local money changers. However it also does away with local sovereignty, and in actual fact it does away with business diversity. When you put two and two together, you quickly see who the EU is actually working for, and it's not the small guy or the local store. All that stuff is a sham in order to cater to large multinational corporations to make it easier for them to collect and take over. The only things left over are then niche stores, while everything else turns Corporate Gray – in a way that is just all too reminiscent of Communist Gray.
For most working persons globally, getting fired isn't something that involves a "difficult conversation". Working stiffs do not get that degree of attention to their feelings. Suggesting that this phenomenon is common to (or even characteristic of) the high-income and acutely socially-aware circles of Silicon Valley should not be construed to exclude its observation elsewhere, but SV is one of the few places where the behavior is common, and hopefully the only place that feels the need for a polite euphemism.
I don't believe this is about hiring or ghosting or millennials or any of that at all. I think it's a symptom of our society slowly becoming some kind of victimhood culture. Right now the easiest and fastest way to get publicity is to be an underdog, be wounded by the big guy, and complain about it on the Internet. This has actually created social good in many cases. We are starting to see businesspeople, organizations, and companies adopt this shame-on-you kind of post where they hilight the actions of their transgressors publicly because they realize being the victim gains sympathy. Its so strange to me that both the original LinkedIn article and the OP use the same condescending, hurt tone to talk about the actions of one another as if this was a social issue that needed to be brought to justice!
Maybe libel?
This is a great idea.

Having said that, school groups do spend money, bands, clubs and etc.... how are the others doing it successfully?

"The only person who had access to the bank account was the principal, but nobody knew where he was. 24 hours later, Jake and I were on the phone with the vice principal who was also left in the dark. A week later, the principal showed up in Tokyo and the money was still completely restricted. They missed the deadline for purchasing the flights and the trip was cancelled. What the hell happened?"

What did happen? They never really explain that.
I can't read that article because I have booked all cookies from slate.com, and it's using a cookie to store that I have consented to being tracked with cookies...

I do not consent to being tracked, but I do want to read the article.
GDPR is totalitarian control in disguise.

Allow me to make the case...

Thr beautiful thing about the internet before was about not having to ask for permission to create, to connect and to run a business.

We now have to ask the government inspectors for permission, we have the threat of being hauled off to court or prison for "not keeping good records" in the name of 'safeguarding people's privacy"

And this from a government thst is doing wholesome, Orwellian style wire tapping of Everything.

Notice how the government is EXCEMPT from having to fulfill GDPR requirements?

Why does this law apply to private individuals and businesses, but completely exempts countries and the EU itself from complying?

If you trade a bit of security for freedom, you will get neither.

The government tske over of the internet is almost complete, in the name of 'safety' anf 'privacy'.

Since when did the government give a fuck about our right to:

- not be spied on incessantly

- not be stolen from at gunpoint via oppressive taxation

- not be harassed by corrupt politicians ask for more "donations"

If they so care about protecting us from evil, then why do they not make these laws apply to the state as well?

We know from history that the greatest abuses of personal information is at the hands of the state.... rounding up dissendents from the dossiers they have built up.

There is nothing wrong with Facebook or any company selling your data, when they said they would, in the contract you signed in exchange for a free product.

Who is the government to tell me that I cannot give my personal information to a comoany in exchange for a product?

The government takes my info and I'm fine with that... they do far more nefarious things eith my info than any private company can:

- steal money via corrupt tax code

- confiscate my property

- confiscate my children

- threaten violence and prison time

The private corporation does none of this. It is the state that is the biggest abuser of personal information and they are conveniently exempt.

Mark my words. There will be more laws written cuz "muh privacy protections"

Watch.
How does this work with Apple Pay, which doesn't tell the retailer who the consumer is? Does the retailer sell the info, or the credit card company?
The question though is what's the alternative? The IT industry has failed spectacularly in protecting citizens' personal data. I'm not a fan of EU bureaucracy, but it looks as if they are on the right side of history on this one.