skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Italian here too, 1978.
Salary is after taxes:

1999 - 12000 €/year - Junior sysadm @ ISP (startup)

2002 - 19000 €/year - Sysadmin @ large ISP

Then I had issues paying my bills and mortgage, so I moved to Ireland

2007 - 42000 €/year - Senior Sysadmin @ small R&D company

2008 - 45000 €/year - Network Engineer @ large multinational

2009 - 52000 €/year - Senior Sysadmin @ fintech company

2010 - 65000 €/year - Senior Sysadm @ US startup based in IE

2012 - 70000 €/year - Devops Engineer @ US startup based in IE

2015 - 80000 €/year - Technical Lead @ remote job

Now - 90000 €/year as TechOps Lead for another remote position.

If I where you I'd try at least ranking up your salary moving out of Italy, then with the connections you make you can easily double or triple your salary. JM2EC.
I’m a bit sad about seeing some of the numbers here, and happy about seeing some others to add some perspective.

For me:

- 2010 Company A €37000 - Netherlands

- 2011 Freelance €21000 - Netherlands

- 2012 Company B €34000 - Netherlands

- 2013 Company C ¥2.5M (€19000) - Japan

- 2014 Company C ¥3.6M (€27000) - Japan

- 2016 Company D ¥5.0M (€38000) - Japan

- 2017 Company D ¥5.5M (€42000) - Japan

- 2018 Startup E ¥6.0M (€46000) - Japan

- 2018 Company F ¥8.0M (€61000) - Japan

All have been some form of engineering position. I’d love to break into the ridiculous compensations I see around here, but it seems the only way to get any form of raise is to move around a lot.

I’m fairly convinced this is because companies are unable to properly assess skill in an interview, so they use previous salary as a proxy to determine if a candidate might be worth it.

I’m getting to the age/place in life where I’d prefer to stay at the same place, so I’m hoping company F is willing to see the light in that regard.
Wasn't a helium mixture also not used for deep sea diving and (afterwards) decompression chambers?
Please use commas or even quote numbers in thousands. Otherwise it is unreadable.

Edit: Here's an edited version for easy readability:

2003 - 0 YOE - 200,000( 3,000 USD) - Software Engineer - One of the very popular Indian IT firms
2005 - 2 YOE - 300,000 ( 4,000 USD) - Senior Engineer - Same as above
2007 - 4 YOE - 1,000,000 INR ( 14,000 USD) - Software Engineer - A small American company with their office in India
2009 - 6 YOE - 1,500,000 INR ( 20,000 USD) - Senior Engineer - Another small American company with their office in India
2011 - 8 YOE - 2,000,000 INR ( 28,000 USD) - Principal Engineer - Same as above
2013 - 10 YOE - 3,500,000 INR ( 47,000 USD) - Principal Engineer - A big American company with their office in India
2015 - 12 YOE - 7,000,000 INR ( 95,000 USD) - Principal Engineer - A big American company with their office in India
2017 - 14 YOE - 9,500,000 INR (128,000 USD) - Principal Engineer - Same as above
To be fair, they are using NVMe, not SATA
I think I will try doing this. It's a bit embarrassing to admit but I really struggle to go to bed at a regular hour. It's really bad when I'm "in the zone" and working hard on a project. I'm based overseas and all of my clients and customers are in the US, so I already stay up very late (usually at least 2am so that I have enough overlap with PST/EDT.) But then 2am turns into 3am, 4am, and eventually the sun comes up.

Maybe this will help. I think I'll schedule an event on my calendar to visit jobs-done.now.sh and go through the checklist. Then it would be good to relax for an hour or two and read/watch something before sleeping. The problem with my weird schedule is that I usually go to sleep immediately after finishing work, so I don't think that's very good.
> but if the India IT industry is seeing that sort of inflation it must be a weird ride.

It depends, the IT out sourcing companies like Infosys and TCS wont pay such huge salaries, the American product based companies will be happy to pay them for the right candidate.
Monzo is awesome; they deserve all their success. They have single handedly forced banks to compete on UX, though Monzo still wins by a significant margin.

Huge stat from the article;

> And in terms of customer growth, extrapolating stats from a recent Nationwide annual report (PDF link), the challenger bank says it now accounts for 15 percent of all new bank accounts opened each month in the U.K

Is this accurate? 15% of bank accounts opened in the UK each month are for Monzo? That's an insane stat.

No affiliation, just a happy Monzo Beta user.
The man who bakes for the dead
Hah, sorry, I assumed you meant the Atlantic and your username confirmed it in my head. Should have read your link more carefully.

Interestingly, Dublin ranked 19th in the Economist's 2018 Worldwide cost of living report, whereas London came 30th.
It goes without saying, but still worth pointing out that the official line from google is now:

Inappropriate = Grossly unprofessional behavior where "even one person experiences Google the way the New York Times article described."

Appropriate = Collaborating with a communist country to manipulate their populace with censorship and surveillance.
(SIBO) El responsable de muchos problemas de salud
For individuals, vaccines aren’t 100% effective at preventing infection. Primarily, they are useful to increase the herd immunity of large groups, and limit the scope of outbreaks— this only works if enough of the community has been inoculated.
Depends of course where you are, but it sounds like you are getting underpaid.

In London a senior engineer will get at least £60k (depending on what 'senior' means and how many currently hot languages you list on your CV). I know people in obscure parts of the country, with next to no tech scene, who aren't far off that.

The real money in the UK is in contracting though, or go to the dark side and work in finance.
Err, that is what they offer, banking via an app. If that is a problem for you, maybe you aren't their ideal customer.
Part of the problem is that they are developed and tested on top of the line laptops on internal networks. Even if they are also performance tested on other devices, the developers rarely feel the pain
One example is the Ludum Dare site (ldjam.com). They migrated from Wordpress to a custom blog which I would call a SPA. It loads posts from JSON and won't render anything without Javascript.
Online Survey Jobs: Work from Home – With Payment Proof – 2
I agree that the image is wrong, but I find your suggestion a little bit too plain: _what_ kind of neural networks? How do I choose the training strategy, the learning rate, the architecture, etc.

This opens up a can of worms that can be overwhelming for beginners.

The list is not too bad actually, but the phrasing can be improved. For example, Naive Bayes should rather be introduced before LDA, as this will make LDA much more understandable.

Also, LVQ seems a little bit odd---I would rather discuss better strategies for neighbourhood enumeration (approximate kd-trees or something like that).
Why not have the test when people choose their specialty?
Great What If question: what are the odds of taking a picture of a Shakerpeare play and get that play's text in the resulting JPG?.
Social media technology is a great enabler. Arguments and positions contrary to the norm are down-voted or moderated out. The filter bubble is nearly impenetrable. This was accomplished through architecture and design.
Can you describe you position, I am assuming an architect?
Online Survey Jobs: Work from Home – With Payment Proof – 1
In other words, AI domestication. Interesting concept! (Allowing it to live longer being the equivalent of breeding.)
Typing from most recent iPad Pro.. no, glass stops and edge is metal, you can catch a nail or pencil nib in the groove before the edge.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18341995
Get on Upwork, you will make more after ~2 years of developing your reputation.
This is the problem 90% of the time. I hate the resume driven development nature that is almost encouraged in our industry.

The last few maintenance programming jobs I have worked on seem to have been written by people who have used a framework at peak hype cycle, without actually having a good knowledge of the framework.

Job ads never say "writes elegant code with a simple yet effective design". No they want "experience with React, Vue, Rails, Docker, etc".....
‘Ghost kanji’ lurk in the Japanese lexicon
Why not support an interface on something that's not a phone too? It doesn't sound like supporting a web SPA would be stretching their core competence.
"[..] western democracies turned a blind eye to the infrastructure development and poverty reduction [..]"

In my opinion you are a little too generous here. In many historical cases, and for many countries, a less active involvement of western democracies would mean more development and more poverty reduction. Just think of the interference in internal politics, the support to dictatorial regimens and the imposition of "free trade".
Of course, that doesn't mean that the Chinese are going to be better.

This part of the article strike me as specially disconnected of reality:

"Unlike Western lenders, China does not require its partners to meet stringent conditions related to corruption, human rights [..]"

It's specially ironic because, who are the main partners of China if not those Westerns?
Localroast: mock a HTTP server using JSON file with paths and stub responses
Is that necessarily wrong though? Propaganda by word of mouth is less effective than propaganda by handing out pamphlets is less effective than propaganda by obscure internet forums is less effective than propaganda by mainstream internet forums.

And at some point, it becomes more effective than our ability to combat it.
Hmm, I think your view on the situation is a little flawed. As you’ll notice, I chose to unfriend these people in the real world as well, so it wasn’t just on Facebook. I genuinely don’t want to spend my time with people who don’t think the holocaust was real.

I don’t think that puts me inside a bubble though. It’s not like I avoided the philosophical origin works on fascism when I was studying history at the university some decades ago. I know what these people stand for, and I know their opinions, hell I probably have a good deal of insight in their plights thanks to my job, I just don’t want to associate myself with them.

I mean, I don’t hang out with a lot of drug dealers either, but I have a general idea of what it is they do in society and I won’t avoid reading their opinions of things.

I think you support my point more than you’d like though, because social media already put me in that bubble thanks to algorithms. I’m left-wing, so I see left-wing things on social media, but that’s exactly why I consider it such a terrible place for information.

I read a print newspaper for news, it’s a fairly conservative newspaper, and because that falls out of my left-wing profile, I’ve not once seen an internet add for it, though I’ve been a happy subscriber to it for a decade.

Unfriending someone you dislike on Facebook does absolutely nothing other than make your life a little better.
There was an interesting article in The Guardian recently about several exhibitions specifically of fake Kusama works in China: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/29/yayoi-kusama-r...
A couple of concrete examples:

* Classes in Lua are a hack, and consequently the syntax for them is terrible.

* Using "end" instead of "}". That decreases readability.

* no "+=" or "++" operators.
I did not. This is just a response to the parent comment not to the post itself.

(Although if they do something with this file and you still are able to do this trick that would seem even more .. interesting on their side than leaving images below certain size untouched)
Small correction, if you're going via the Wikipedia page Clydesdale has £38B not M in assets :) Interestingly Clydesdale is one of the major old scottish banks and one of three that have the rights to print their own bank notes. Whilst they're not as popular these days as once they were, they're a pretty major operation in Scotland and Glasgow's largest bank.

Global banking is extremely complex due to regulatory concerns. Whilst you may be able to re-use an underlying technology platform, which would have benefits, most of the hard work is in complying with regulations and fitting in with the local market place

I wouldn't disagree at all that the banking industry is in need of disruption (I worked in banks in the UK for ~10 years so have had some exposure to how their system do or do not operate)

what I'm not so sure of is that the kind of returns that can be generated without getting into other areas of banking (e.g. investment) will give the kind of returns VCs expect.
I just checked the stats for seatbelt use in the United States. Interesting, in most states it’s over 90% to 97%, but in New Hampshire it’s only 70%. New Hampshire (I always liked its Live Free or Die motto) has no law requiring seat belt use. See https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/Publication/8124...
> Even the guy from India in this thread earns 2-3x more than usual senior salary

To be fair that guy is like the 1% of IT in India, majority of Indians working in IT (most of them in IT outsourcing companies) dont make high salaries.
As evident from oodles of press, it can be anything. From a damore memo, to search in China. From a deal with the Pentagon, to Trump's election. Anything and everything is outrage worthy for the average Googler, if you believe the press.

And the CEO keeps reacting. At some point, he needs to ask those who aren't aligned with business deliverables, and wallow in externalities to walk away - they aren't just unproductive themselves, but drag the whole company into the mud in the press
A good SPA uses `pushState` and URL routing to have individual URLs for views.
As always: it's not that Black and White.

Many people in my country, and NW Europe in general, opt for pay in another currency: time.

Dutch people work _on average_ 350 hours less per year than their US counterparts; or about 7 weeks worth when working 40 hours a week.

It's not unheard of in my company to have between 30 and 50 paid days off per year on top of the national holidays. These days are negotiated during salary discussions and a trade off between pay and time.

https://data.oecd.org/emp/hours-worked.htm

Germany, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, Sweden etc... We all basically opt for more time off than more pay.

And this is possible in part due to the high taxes; we have no medical bills, no education bills, pension is taken care of, etc..

I for one, would gladly opt for a 4 day work week with 60k pay a year in stead of a 5 day workweek with 90k pay.
Luddites from the New York Times. They are part of the problem, not the solution. The problem is unfiltered and biased information/opinion that is passed as facts and the resulting information bubbles that are dividing society. E.g. the NYT played no small part in the information bubble that caused Trump to emerge and win an election.
No one is saying that we should tax corporations based on how much their pay roll is. What we're saying is that the scale of those two numbers shows how ridiculously inadequate the current corporation tax laws are. Do you really think that a tax which brings in less revenue from one of the largest retailers in the country than an average employee of that company pays in income tax is a functional tax?
To simplify it a bit.

The point is to keep partial pressure of oxygen below that of maximum safe limit of 1.2 to 1.6. For example, 100% oxygen at surface is 1.0 and thus safe but will very fast reach maximum when you increase the pressure just by a few meters. Regular air with 21% oxygen will start to be a problem at 50 meters, so divers that need to go deeper need to use mixes that has less than 21% oxygen. When a mix is less than 18% oxygen they become hypoxic and cannot safely be used at shallow depth.

So the point is not to get "the same as oxygen in normal atmosphere". It is to keep the partial pressure of oxygen within safe limits, usually between 0.18 pp02 and 1.4 pp02 depending on a multitude of factors and safety margins.
You can tell they are starting to optimise for revenue rather than user satisfaction, though. They recently prevented you from loading your Monzo card via another debit card.
Most of my team at a major financial switching from Surface to iPad Pro as daily driver.

Killer app is (a) ultra portability with genuinely all day battery and LTE for meetings and commute with (b) every tool an office user uses.

Some if us also code (servers and infra not desktop or mobile apps), works great for ‘Git Ops’ workflows.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so yes, in other words completely subjective.
I don’t think the general population is as bad as the internet makes them out to be.

Ever go to a townhall, join an interest group for hobbies or exercise or done some vulanteer work? You’ll meet all sorts of people at those, and most of them treat each other well.

I’ve seen my share of assholeness on the internet, I’m old enough to have been on it before usenet has its eternal September after all, and I think it’s different today. Much more political than its ever been.
Why though? Why insist that their offering only works on the most insecure class of device that people own?
In another thread, HN is discussing Trump's attempt at setting up a trade war. Although I honestly don't think the Kissinger school cares one bit about other people's genocides, or about dictatorships in other countries, (you've heard the quotes about how some US politicians wish our government would be more like China's, there's not a lot of moral outrage), if you want a belligerent US that gets in China's way then we probably have the ideal president for that.
From one of the other comments it sounds like the UK is much worse.
I am on Android, and for me it used to be slow, but recently has become very fast again. I just opened the app and it took <=1 second to get to see my balance. I am on a very new phone though (oneplus6), and I don't know enough about how different hardware affects speed.

That said, since I changed some settings to reduce battery/data usage, the notifications for spending often don't turn up for several minutes, where they used to be instant (before being able to put my card back into my wallet).
A lot of that complexity belongs on the back end.

Every front end page is likely to have a separate number of REST endpoints, so the code is effectively duplicated.

In my experience keeping as much of the code on the back end eliminates a lot of complexity, though I am far more competent with backend technologies, but I have yet to see a SPA app that reduced complexity.
If you're looking for customer support, I really recommend First Direct, their phone support is completely unreal, 1 ring and you're through to someone that can service any banking need you might have with them, no transfers, no waiting, no fiddly security it works really well!

Their app has come a long way recently too.
What do you mean? I find the numbers readable, what format would you prefer?
AI Winter – Update
So do relatively experienced developers chasing trends.
I get what you're saying,I would even say that China is acheiving this without wars, unlike the west.

But, they are not very good to their own people and 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.

The primary fear should be wars and global instability instead of who gets to wear the #1 badge. It has not even been a century since WW2,the current chinese regime is operating as a response to WW2 and "running a marathon,not a sprint" to beat the west and russia. China dominating the west would usher in Cold War 2.0(or has it already,pentagon papers and all) except with higher stakes,in the end military dominance matters as much as economic.
Seems like it's more important to change titles than company according to your history. To be honest I'm a bit offended you consider yourself senior with 2 years of experience.
I would have thought that mobile devices are likely to be rather more secure (free from malware) than most Windows PCs.
Here's the details: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/diagnostics-report...
Holy smokes I just had flashbacks to working at a place that tested things in production and ended up with a couple of these production-db IDs in the code. Shudders
Ah, well they can always borrow their less disadvantaged coworkers computer until they get the sysadmins to install and configure a shortcut on their desktops via active directory I guess.
At some point the CEO needs to put his foot down and call bluff on those threatening to quit. There are plenty of talented, ambitious individuals who'd love to code and get rich, without all the externalities of holding the company hostage over __insert__trendy__issue__here.
check out laravel. It's a modern PHP MVC framework and it's very easy to use.
> AirBnB is the good thing and its great to see these brave startups going up against government sponsored monopoly on artificially limiting taxi and hotel ownerships only to small group of rich people.

But that's exactly what's happening in Barcelona. 48% of all AirBnB places are managed by 374 people (4500 places, 374 people have more than 5 places to manage). These aren't the little people getting pocket money to lend homes the week-end they are out of town.

> I wouldn't be surprised at all if these articles are sponsored by the hotel lobby.

Rumour says that hotels are behind the concentration of airbnb places into fewer hands.

In Barcelona, they basically created licences to operate an airbnb place. Now they are too many so they stopped issueing licences. Now these are worth more because it's rare.
LOL, whilst I won't necessarily include all Android devices in this, I'd argue that iPhones and better Android setups are likely the Most secure device that most people own.

Traditional PC security is way too complex for non-technical people to manage effectively, so the approach of walled gardens and vendor managed security is the way to go.

Not to say that a technical person can't achieve a better level of security with a PC/Mac, but for non-technical users, it's going to be mobile all the way.
I may sound like a broken record, but I'm hoping for a laptop with NXP's iMX8M. The same SoC that will be in Purism Libre 5. Mainline kernel with open source GPU drivers. Etnaviv may need more work, but with more hardware available it will be easier, as more work could be shared.
10 European space technology startups to watch in 2018
Along these same lines, some of you may be interested in the two-part series on PBS by Frontline.

The Facebook Dilemma

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/facebook-dilemma/
India, for all its issues, is a multiparty democracy that holds regular free and fair elections. Most Westerners have no problem with the idea of India as a global leader.

It's disingenuous to equate concerns over malign Chinese influence with some kind of neocolonial fear of the Global South.
This kind of growth is starting to make me be concerned as a customer - app performance and latency have deteriated over time, and most importantly customer service has also changed. Scaling good customer service for an effectively free product whose revenue currently derives only from overdrafts and very minimal fees from over-use is going to be very challenging for a bank not yet profitable.
Interesting article. Just found it surprising that there were so many typos in it.
Why are you offended? The market considers them senior...
> I really dislike pandering, dismissive statements like this.

And I (as a scientist) really dislike having to frame everything I do as being relevant to human medicine for laymen to appreciate it.

Some things are extremely valuable even if they can't be used to treat cancer and congenital disease.