skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After doing a lot of calculations? This is a big problem.

The firm I worked at used built in Java libraries and always deferred rounding until the very last possible moment.
I remember hearing this as well around the time. Books about globalization coming out left and right.
How exactly are these score cards tallied?
That seems perfectly reasonable to me and a good place to end up in one's mid-30s. He'd already been a Lead before then. It sounds like he was hired almost directly into the position given the mention of discussion with the VP of engineering before hiring. That was probably critical so would count as "networking", but it sounds like the guy had a speaking and consulting business before then.

Technical merit is very hard to assess, and it gets harder at the senior level, but having a public speaking profile makes it much easier for people to see someone's talent.
I don't know because I haven't bought one, but I do know they run their own distro called Pop_OS[0] which is improved ubuntu (with likely impeccable support for their hardware).

That in-and-of-itself is a pretty impressive investment to me, but I would probably take it off and put arch on it. Honestly I am not too worried, it seems like I can actually call them for support/file bugs/ask for technical help if I actually came across an issue -- surely someone over there knows something if they want to maintain their own distro.

[0]: https://system76.com/pop
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I watch a lot of youtube videos from China from people interested in electronics. They're always out and about, shopping, having a great time. It's not the greatest source but it shows me it's really not this total crumbling s&+thole western media makes it out to be.

The internet makes China out to be this place where everyone is just always working, have almost no rights anymore, constantly surveiled so they can't have fun or enjoyment, just NPC's making womens underwear for 2 cents an hour.

I think it's just projection from the failures of their own country to be honest.
I share that sentiment. HA and automated failover seems to be either simple because the application supports it, or really really hard.

Stateless applications are simple. Systems built with this in mind, like cassandra, elasticsearch, redis+sentinel just do it right after two or three settings like minimum quorum sizes.

But if you have systems without this builtin, like NFS, Mysql, Postgres? I guess we don't hear about the successful automated failures, but we surely hear about really messy automated failover attempts.
I find Facebook on the browser (Safari or Firefox on macOS) quite slow in many interactions. Even looking at the list of notifications takes a long time on a high speed connection. I’ve concluded that Facebook doesn’t do much performance and responsiveness testing on browsers...which is not logical since this is the same company that tries to get people on 2G connections and slow 3G connections to use its platform.

Another guess is that the development and testing targets mainly (or only) Google Chrome, which I don’t use. I’m not sure if long running browser sessions (without restarts) cause more issues. But the Facebook pages are heavy, and rendering is a lot slower than it used to be a few years ago.
The "senior" title is not about the length of your tenure. It's about your ability to independently solve difficult problems and provide leadership to those around you.
Thanks for this perspective, I think it's a shame you were down-voted for providing it.
Giraffe is awesome.

It is _quite_ different than the ASPX web forms or XML web services I cut my teeth on; to use this framework for a side project, I'm needing to teach myself both ASP.NET Core and MVC-style development at the same time as continuing to get comfortable with F# & Giraffe's own syntax.

I may or may not have bitten off more than I can chew, but between the existing ASP.NET Core docs and the nice documentation in Giraffe (one big file at the Github repo), I'm not defeated yet.
> I think you might be missing the point on what is meant by discovery here. This is not about random strangers talking to you, but about the issue that you have signal, your friend has signal, but even though you're already in each others phone books you can't talk to each other because you haven't exchanged pseudonymous pointers.

On the contrary, this is precisely the discovery many users do not want. 1. Someone you know can discover you’re using this channel. 2. You can’t use the same channel both overtly and with deniability. I should be able to have as many faces for speech as I choose.
I develop software for mobile systems (with some backend work too). Why is it hard to imagine? I have bash on all three. I have VSCode on all three. I have vim on all three. I have chrome on all three. I have IntelliJ suite on all three.

Most of the developer stuff is pretty much cross platform these days. What's the big deal if you're typing into bash on Linux, macOS or Windows?
> they are extremely distrustful of foreigners. Not just westerners but even in africa they've been caught acting with malicious intentions(the last example I read was how they backdoored the African Union's IT systems). Very hard to trust someone who trusts no one.

You should checkout what the DHS, TSA and NSA have been up to...
My history in Denmark, pre-tax converted to € per year. Titles are not really saying much. Most companies I've been at threw titles around.

2009 - Developer - 40 000€
2010 - IT-Consultant - 56 000€
2014 - Developer - 61 000€
2015 - Senior Tech Lead - 67 500€
2017 - Senior Engineer - 72 300€
2018 - Lead Developer - 80 400€
eh, to my knowledge the US gov't hasn't been kidnapping many booksellers in the past decade. And despite a bunch of nasty undemocratic stuff happening in the US, there were a lot of underhanded things going on in recent political events in HK.

If Snowden was in HK with Chinese state intelligence (or more likely, details about party leadership scandals), he would not have been able to leave the country unscathed.
> more evidence Hacker News is becoming more like Ars: upvotes are votes of agreement as opposed to votes that you providing insight

At the time I'm reading this comment, the parent is not downvoted. The guidelines ask you not to obsess about downvoting in comments, because it's boring/repetitive, and often turns about to be moot, when the comment ends up being voted back into the black, which is often the case.
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Probably also needs some kind of purchasing power parity adjustment - divide by the cost of a specified size of house within a reasonable commuting distance, for example.
well, I don't think so. Not everything you do is interactive. Data exploration and basic model selection is, but complex models and more complicated data-pipelines/preprocessing isn't, I think.
Tensorflow is the opposite of interactive, even in a notebook.

putting models (in a sense of more complicated models, not just a SVM), data-pipelines, shared visualization-code in a src folders and experimenting in the notebook divides stuff that's interactive by nature from "real" coding. I don't context-switch that much to be honest.

I don't really copy code into cells, because I only experiment there.

Also, what happens if you need to share code between notebooks?

I think notebooks should be simple and explain the experiments and the reasoning behind them to your coworkers. Otherise it's hard to coordinate and learn from each others insights into the data.
Visualization of airport flights data
At a bank, the salespeople and analysts are called Vice Presidents. It's just a name.
"Public cloud workloads have largely avoided RHEL."

I wonder how accurate that statement really is, and likely even less so if you include CentOS.

As far as container workloads, well those seem to be more and more avoiding RHEL/CentOS, but also Ubuntu as well, whilst moving to very minimal images based upon the likes of Alpine, etc.
Throwaway account. I'm based out of a smaller town with a low cost of living in the north east.

2004 - first job at non tech company - $37.5k

2005 - switched to web design company - $40k

2006 - same company, minor raise - $42k

2007 - same company, minor raise - $44k

2008 - switch company, "senior" dev - $70k

2009 - same company, performance raise - $75k

2010 - switch companies - same pay - $75k

2011 - major performance bonus - $90k

2012 - same company - raise - $95k

2013 - company acquihired by BigCo - raise + bonus = $115k

2014 - promo/performance bonus/stock/retention = $170k

2015 - promo/performance bonus/stock/retention = $195k

2016 - move to new job with old friends = $140k salary + bonus

2017 - same job, salary bump and bonus = $140k

2018 - same job, more salary but less bonus. Way less stress = $130k
The Bridge is a political statement, nothing more. Few will use it, not least due to the complexity and political approval required for permits from 3 different authorities.

The Hong Kong subway was designed and built during Hong Kong's time under British administration, and built as a public programme under the HK Council. It would have been far larger but for the oil crisis, but expanded a dozen times between then and now, even after privatisation in 2000. Broadly in line with HK's development, and in a way that would have been difficult to replicate back in the UK.

The governance that makes HK such a success was nothing to do with Beijing. That was the whole point of the initial emphasis on two systems during handover. Since the 1997 handover Beijing has progressively weakened and interfered with HK, to barely a peep from the West, not even Britain. Only this week there's been reports of the last truly free bookshop (where one might find anything critical of Beijing), once a vibrant aspect of HK, has closed thanks to Beijing pressure. You might have heard the recent reports of the kidnappings of booksellers and publishers.

Hong Kong was a special, free, window into China until the early 2010's. Please don't give Beijing any credit for it.
what one does in their own time is indeed nothing to do with the company.

Suggesting that one can get a job with one's employer if you just do x, is either fraud or gross misconduct.

If he had not mentioned the job then he'd just be an arsehole who discusses their sexual proclivities in an professional setting.
Does it matter? At least here we don't sweep it under a rug even if reforms are hard to do.
The main difference which influences how things get done and what is acceptable to China vs the West is ideologicsl philosophy. We differ quite a lot. People gloss over this, but it’s important. Chinese have no anchoring in Greek philosophy. The west doesn’t care much to understand Confucian derived philosophies. They lead to different kinds of calculus.

In the end, in hand to hand combat in the trenches, Confucianism will win. It’s practical, it doesn’t care about “the Other”.
German unemployment benefits are conditional on showing evidence that you're seeking jobs. So it's still founded on the assumption that everyone able should be working.
If you have a specific question or something which doesn't make immediate sense then open an issue and you'll normally receive fairly quickly help!
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Are those senior folks less skilled in relevant areas, or does something makes them unable to renegotiate or change jobs?
What fraction of convicted people do you think are innocent in the US? Although US prisons are not ethnically balanced, neither is the crime rate for various reasons including poverty. The subtext of the Chinese camp thing is that we don't think those people deserve to be there. If they were all serial killers then we'd be saying, "let China decide how to punish their own criminals," but from the start we don't agree with what gets you put in a camp in China.
> Why Democracies Are Turning Against Chinese Influence

"Democracies"? I get that foreign affairs is a propaganda think tank, but I wish they'd be more honest. People aren't uneducated saps anymore.

"why some in the west and others are working to contain china"? would be a better title. Has nothing to do with "democracies".

It's not a recent phenomenon. It's not just democracies. Some autocrats also are against chinese influence.

But this also applies to every nation. Many democracies and non-democracies are turning against european "influence". Many democracies and non-democracies are turning against american "influence". The same for russia and their former sphere of influence nations. No country wants to be under the thumb of another country.

The only difference between china and the US/EU/Russia is that china doesn't bomb and invade democracies or non-democracies to "bring them freedom". At least not yet.

Nothing this article stated is new. Essentially, water is wet but propagandized to make it seem our water is better or their is worse.
I still buy vinyl by the boatload and they come with MP3 or uncompressed audio cards, usually, so I’ve actually got a large collection of good quality MP3’s. I understand I am the outlier here.
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Just wanted to thank all of you for posting your salaries. My biggest take away is that it takes time to develop your career. It's so easy to become jaded after reading /r/cscareerquestions where it's regular to see someone making 6 figures right out of college.
You could reveal a sample of CS professor salaries :)
But the nice interactivity of it is only in RStudio iirc, which is a major selling point.
I found that the core of Bitdefender’s antivirus is its powerful engine for scanning files.
I’m also usually concerned about my privacy when I browse the web, so I was happy to find Bitdefender’s privacy tools that used to be exclusive to major names such as Kaspersky.

https://www.safetydetective.com/best-antivirus/bitdefender/
Why is pay in rupees great? Dollars can be changed to rupees at a bank, yes?
The majority of "new content" is being created with mobile OS apps today. Family photos, social media, etc. The fact that it's mostly all low quality junk is orthogonal to that reality.
That's more or less clear, but the big question is: do the people higher up don't realize what is going on? Especially Gmail is losing its competitive advantage - it's still usable, but slow enough that the competition looks blazing fast. If anything, they should focus on things that make it more difficult for other startups to compete with Gmail - but by the recent update they just made it easier!

There must be some business people at Google knowing this, I can't believe they're all patting each other backs saying the new Gmail works better than ever, there must be some folks with some common sense in the upper management.
Well, air is also compound of rare gases of which Helium is one.
agreed with this sentiment in Prague, city center now it's tourist ghetto locals avoid unless they work there or few young hipsters who wanna show off their presence, but all in all full of Russian owned shops/restaurants, everything with jacked up prices to milk tourists

personally I don't go there at all because tourists also dunno basic manners in public transport about letting elders and small children to sit or don't block space for prams, similar with sidewalks, them you have noise everywhere, especially in evening from drunk people and when I dared as local to visit park popular among tourists i was pushed by tourist who want to cut the queue to be with friends in front of me, while i was holding small child

when i see tourist outside city center heading wrong direction in tram i usually help them, but i can't really visit city center with my family anymore because they ruined the city center and am more and more disgusted by them

also companies dodging taxes while renting airbnb apartments don't help, if it would be up to me I would ban airbnb completely and hike accommodation tax to push away groups of young boys usually from UK/DE who come for cheap beer on their sausage parties
Mine for shits and giggles (USD)

2009 - 0 (moved and was living off savings, almost broke)

2010 - 150k (affiliate marketing, self, from home, 3 hours per day worked)

2011 - 24k (just a sliver of affiliate marketing, self, from home, not sure how many hours I worked)

2012 - 42k (SEO contract work, tiny company - part remote, 40 hours a week)

2013 - 42k (SEO contract work, tiny company - part remote, 40 hours a week)

2014 - 55k (marketing at small company - remote, 40 hours a week)

2015 - 75k + fully paid top tier health plan (marketing - large ecommerce company - remote, 40 hours a week)

2016 - 50k (freelance - from home, 20 hours a week)

2017 - 60k (freelance - from home, 20 hours a week)

2018 - Looks to be on track to 100k (consulting - from home, 5-8 hours a week)

For context, 2009 - 2015 I was living in a high cost of living location. Today I live in a very low cost of living location.
> Way less stress

Biggest bonus of the whole lot right there. You've done very well.
When you are in an echo chamber created by social media, the dehumanization required to make you a killer is mich more subtle, more easy and more covert.

All the methods you have mentioned, are, to some extent in the public eye. Imagine the uproar if anti-semitic articles occured in any of the daily news papers. It is a matter of public record, even if some of the methods come out later. Now imagine how many such articles are published and propagandized in online media, away from the gaze of critics, away from serious action by concerned authorities. The power is in the hands of big data companies and they are driven by greed and stock market performance.

Once the papers die, people will start dying too.
I'm somewhat surprised that home router manufacturers haven't started shipping models with a built-in IoT guest network that has its own VLAN.

Incidentally it's concerns such as those raised in the article that drove my decision to use zigbee or z-wave devices for my HA setup where possible.
Oracle ended up breaking Applets many times anyway. As someone who worked on a very complex applet during this period, the amount of times they changed security settings was crazy. Even some of those changes that had to be made in the manifests, broke security in the previous jvm version.
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The alternate argument is that anyone in the US is "subject to the jurisdiction" of the US unless somehow immune, eg, a diplomat. I don't see it as very likely that federal courts today would agree with your argument. Nevertheless, this is the argument I've heard offered in support of the constitutionality of denying citizenship for US-born children of undocumented immigrants. Presumably there is some caselaw to support this? Please feel free to educate me with a citation here.
There is an exhibition of her work on at the Victoria Miro gallery in Islington, London at the moment. It's currently sold out but apparently they'll be releasing some more tickets:

"THE MOVING MOMENT WHEN I WENT TO THE UNIVERSE"
https://www.victoria-miro.com/exhibitions/528/
So... I am curious. I used Anki a lot for learning languges, but I never used it for programming.

Can anyone recommend it for learning syntax?

I am going to give it a try

Edit: Googling on hackernews actually gives some previous discussions. One of those: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10247471
This smells like an "art of the deal" maneuver. It feels more about political than status quo, or even old medicine.
That goes only so far. Macbooks cost the same, and you ain't getting your car cheaper than in the States.
Well, if FB is not interested in doing any actual verification, they should not have introduced a "Paid for by" feature.

These tests made it clear that the whole thing was just paying lip service to appease the public without any real intent to do the actual work.
And there's starving/malnourished kids in the US too. That doesn't mean the US is on par with some parts of Africa in that regard.

Generally speaking anti free speech laws in the US get struck down as soon as they start getting used to prosecute people.
Also FaunaDB which is the NoSQL version
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Yahoo was paying engineers half or less compared to FAANG. It illustrates that by that time (2011), Yahoo was on hospice.
Net vs gross
> They are "totally liquid" after 6 months which isn't totally liquid.

That is simply untrue. In FAANGs I'm familiar with, vesting can be monthly, very much like cash compensation.

Your other claims are untrue as well.

I'm very much against presenting misleading information, such as comparing total comp at Netflix to base salary alone at other FAANGs. Especially when this misrepresentation is then used to make the blatantly false claim that Netflix comp is substantially higher than other FAANGs.

The number repeatedly quoted in this thread shows the opposite: Netflix total comp appears to be lower than other FAANGs.

I have no agenda here. My initial response to the article was based on what I read in the article. Holding meetings to explain how terminated employees were under-performing - is very toxic in my opinion, and fertile ground for abuse and misrepresentation. Several Netflix employees in this thread seemed to agree with this assessment.
And we built the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel in 1964 and expanded it in 1999. What of it?
> Looks like Github could be OK after the Microsoft acquisition.

Meh, I'm not against the Microsoft acquisition but I think it's still too soon to be making judgment calls like this. I can't imagine they've had much influence over internal processes just yet.
That's true. And the question - IMO worth investigating - is, is there a way to structure the system so that "steamrolling opposition and quarreling" over $good_thing is easier, while doing the same over $bad_thin is difficult? Maybe there isn't, but did we look at it hard enough? Especially that the inability of the western world to create and maintain infrastructure is starting to turn into a huge risk.
I don't see how. Could you explain?
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In my opinion a large percentage of web developers really are unskilled. I blame the prevalence of those three week development bootcamps, you have a lot more of those for web development than backend/application stuff
Not everyone is a digital packrat and compulsive organizer.
The new Apple SSDs in the Mac Mini 2018 are unknown so far but bets on being the latest Samsung and Toshiba NVMe SSDs for consumer class wear levels.

There’s a lot of small gotchas and caveats with Thunderbolt 3 and SSDs now but they are getting better slowly https://www.macworld.com/article/3276325/storage/nvme-over-t...

And let’s not forget that this is a 1st run product of a new generation and the Mac Mini 2019 may be significantly better in this area (or worse...)
Not everyone needs a Macbook (or a car) :)
Huh? A modern infrastructure setup should have PKI in place to issue certificates to nodes. You are making it sound like SSL has no place in the modern world.
Printing press:
http://theconversation.com/five-of-the-most-violent-moments-...

Radio:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_propaganda
True. Not only that, pretty much every stretch of land and ocean is owned/claimed/patrolled/etc now. So you can't escape it. Everyone is governed to some degree.

Perhaps in the future when we are a truly space faring peoples, there will be room for freedom for those who chooes to be free.
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I tried to kill the ones on the sides and/or that moved around more first, which did seem to lead after ~10 generations to lots of static/slow opponents coming down in an easily-dispatched cluster that could be easily mopped up at the end of each round. Conversely I'd imagine prioritizing the slow ones would lead to enemies that tend to move around a lot.