skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, has MyPinPad actually tried raising their salary offering to £100k? I find it very hard to believe they have, because that would be well-above the average for the area. In relation to standard Web Developer roles, it'd be over double what I could expect in Cardiff for a mid-to-senior level role.

Their website currently says "up to £60k", and in my experience companies that say "up to" will rarely go to that number unless the candidate is very/over qualified, in which case that candidate has zero potential for growth and will have a hard time getting an annual raise unless things go brilliantly.

MyPinPad look like a reasonably large company, so their salary offering right now is probably average or above, but the article itself is absolute crap. If MyPinPad were to offer £100k for their Services Developer role I'd beat their door down for an interview. It's double what I'm getting in Bristol right now, I have C# and non-CLR expeirence, and the commute would be worth it. Hell, for that money I could drive in, pay an obscene amount for parking and still be ahead!

I don't buy for a second that they have failed to get devs in when offering £100k. Either they're full of shit, or they are terrible at advertising roles.
Only one of those (the first link) would have had enough votes to reach the front page. In sequential order, those links presently have (118, 2, 5, 7, 3, 2 [dead]) upvotes.

This submission was the first I've seen of the story.
Where did the money come from for the people who will never have it run out?
Reinforcement Learning with Prediction-Based Rewards
I want to think that most of the cheap mass market paperbacks I used to buy were in the vicinity of 4" x 6", and about 300 pages long, which is not far off from these, and most importantly, were convenient to stuff in a coat pocket or the back pocket of a pair of jeans. At that kind of size and weight, they weren't at all painful to read for an extended time. And they were so cheap that it wasn't a tragedy if I happened to drop one in the mud coming back from my deerstand or it fell overboard fishing.

I don't really buy fiction on paper anymore, but all the paperbacks I see in the stores or airports are much bigger. Part of it is ballooning length, but there's a lot more printed at something like halfway between a trade paperback and the old mass-markets. Or those really awful awkward tall narrow paperbacks that remind me of the aspect ratio of the original Microsoft Surfaces.
While I agree that spending your free time sitting around, smoking weed and watching Netflix is a poor use of your time, I'd be wary of defining for yourself what the 'fullest potential' of another person is.
> who would give up Cardiff to go to London to get the same Salary but pay twice as much for rent?

Clearly nobody... which is what they are talking about in the article.
> The new model should be coming soon.

Do you mean ones with Zen 2 / Navi? It might take a while, CPUs and GPUs aren't even out yet.
>hating Muslims is the ordre du jour like it is 1099.

I hate my Muslims with a W2!
Well, that sort of already happens, but some schools are admittedly better at this form of "career counseling" than others, and usually well after they have matriculated. At my own school we were required to have such an interview before we started clerkships and faculty members would try to develop this sort of self-insight about where one's skills and aptitudes are best, but years later the students who rotate with me now tell me this is optional, which seems like a step backwards.
He seems a bit sour. Not sure why this statement is necessary to begin with
I've built some pretty large apps with Elixir (FP and also has a pipe operator like Clojure). I guess it's the lisp syntax, the deeply nested parenthesis, the prefix notation, etc.
So.... pay more then. Does the city say "we'll pay 100k but can't get quants"? Or do they pay market rate?

If they can't pay more, perhaps other people have found ways to make more profitable use of their engineers' time, in which case their business is not viable.
The point here of course isn’t that it’s bad to make a profit with OSS; it’s that maintainers can learn from how this was done and participate in it themselves to sustain their work.
I grew up in Moscow, Russia; but have lived my entire adult life in NYC. I'm a US citizen. No education.

2002-2005: As a teenager, I've done odd jobs here and there, never adding up to more than a few thousand per year. Built some websites, set up some networks. Nothing serious.

2005: My first real job at a startup that sold whitelabel music stores to radio stations paid me $40k/year. No benefits, no bonuses, no equity.

2006: My second real job at the technology arm of a major sports league paid me $60k/year + benefits + a nominal annual bonus. There was a good pension plan too.

2009: After becoming a father, I begged for a pay increase to account for the costs of raising a kid in NYC. Got raised from $60k to $90k. Management called it a "salary correction".

2010: I left the sports league at $112k and joined a fintech startup where my salary went up to $120k.

2014: The fintech startup was amounting to nothing. My "very generous" option grants were turning out to be worth zero. There were occasional end-of-year cash bonuses that after taxes paid single-digit thousands. I left the company at a base salary of $140k and took three months off.

2014: Joined a major financial/media firm owned by a certain former NYC mayor. They paid me $150k in base salary, full benefits, and a promised annual bonus of $35k. I joined in September, so I got a teeny tiny prorated bonus for that year, but the following year I was forced to leave in December and wasn't paid the annual bonus.

2016: Joined a boring Canadian investment bank here in NYC at a base salary of $160k. No bonus, no equity. Terrible benefits. Stayed there for 4 months and didn't write a line of code for work because they didn't know what they wanted me to work on.

2016: Joined a startup that sold home security cameras. I ran a team of a dozen people there, and got paid $170k in base salary. Lots of equity was promised, but they never wrote my equity grant. Great benefits though. After a year at this company I had been forced to lay off some people from my team and had to help some others to find new jobs because they were worried about job security. The company was doing very poorly, so I left too because I have bills to pay.

2017: Joined a $20B hedge fund at base salary of $200k, promised annual bonus of $100k. After two months, the fund began a scary nosedive, and laid off myself and my boss and two other engineers.

2017: After a frantic job search I joined the adtech firm where I currently work. I get paid $180k in base salary, okay benefits, and an annual bonus of about $20k before taxes. I work mostly from home and really like it. I've been here for a year and don't plan to leave.
>They just don't come and post about it to hackernews and make PLC projects in github

Same logic applies to clojure. I think that's the point he's making. Everyone and their 12 year old nephew rockstar developer has questions about java. I also find that clojure questions nowadays are mainly asked in the clojurians slack organization. Immediate feedback is more attractive than waiting around hoping for an answer in stackoverflow.
Trying Not to Try: Modern science and Chinese philosophy tell similar stories
Sleep, dreams, and mental recuperation are underrated. How many coders wake up with the solution to a bug or problem they couldn't resolve.
True. On the other hand, there are hard limits to what companies can afford to pay their employees. Related to the same supply and demand laws.
Since that's what the article says ... I'm gonna say you're right
How I lost my faith in Lisp (2002)
> London is huge compared to Cardiff

Yes, so many more rats running the same race on the same overcrowded facilities? Cardiff is a nice city and the same London money is worth two times more there.
>I'm pretty sure it was in the early days but I might be wrong there. mIRC did have some crazy defaults initially but those were quickly changed

I had a mircv37 installer laying around, autoaccept was not the default back then. I’m pretty certain it never was.

>I beg to differ. You haven't given a single piece of accurate evidence to prove that any other client suffered from the same issues as mIRC.

We haven’t really established what issues mIRC suffered from, besides the DCC issue that still exists in irssi today.
There's nothing in cannabis that stops you from engaging in these activities, and for some the consumption of cannabis can enhance these activities that are otherwise difficult to enter for them to enter on their own. You seem to be unaware of just how many great pieces of pop culture were developed or punched up while high. There's nothing preclusive about getting high, it's time to stop blaming the drug that has widely different effects in people and start looking at the people themselves and the environment they're apart of. I'm willing to concede the clinic trials that show cannabis has a negative effect on word list memorization and digital symbol substitution tests, but it's not forcing you to do anything you were incapable of doing before, and if it you let it can open so many windows.

We really need to look at society and ask why people are looking for a way out instead of a way in, but I guess it's easier to blame weed.
Changing how people fundamentally think and reason about things is a big deal. Probably the biggest deal out of your suggestions from a societal perspective. Such transformative things will be met with pushback, and if such a program is deemed beneficial by the powers-that-be it will be pushed upon the populace through means anywhere from marketing campaigns to outright genocide.

To suggest otherwise is to ignore history.

And since you suggested it and are actively defending it in this thread, yes it is yours in the context of this thread. Own it.
I'm pretty excited about system76 and purism, hoping for a linux based alternative to the macbook pro
Which are both control issues not security issues.

There's no actual security reason for iOS to be locked to Apple's webkit exclusively and there's no actual security reason for iOS to not allow JIT'd code. Those are both control issues, not security ones. JIT in particular is purely a control issue - the process itself is already sandboxed which is the one and only actual security boundary here. Preventing a JIT doesn't prevent arbitrary code execution, after all, especially if there's an interpreter in play which Apple sort of allows.
There does seem to be suspicion around leaving your desk to do “nothing”.

I once worked at a place where a lot of my colleagues would take smoke breaks and thought it was unfair. I loudly started taking gum breaks where I would go outside and smack peppermint gum for 5-10 minutes before throwing it in the trash and going back inside. Sometimes I would head out at the same time as the smokers so that I got to participate in the chitchat (which was unreasonably valuable from a professional perspective), and I would complain about how it wasn’t socially acceptable to chew gum at your desk like in the eighties when everyone did it. It was softly mocking, but no one objected.
They were redirecting IP ranges that did not belong to them, or their customers.
The investigator reported that they couldn't find any Android with the error.

>>There were also a lot of Android phones in the facility at the time, none of which were impacted.

Somehow, all these commodity vendors all used designs that were resilient against helium.
Math describes how bubbles pop
Speaking in general, not about me in particular...

I'm going to give up 15 years of my life -- the time that most people spend getting married, having 2.5 kids, etc. to live in SV -- when I could spend those fifteen years living in the burbs in a big house with the white picket fence in almost any other major city in the US?

Especially if you are a two parent household, the general MO is that the second smaller income can go straight to savings. It's quite easy for a dual income earning household to make 200K if one is software developer and the other just makes an average income for a college grad of $60K-$70K,
I mean the keyboard isn’t amazing: the key travel is still tiny. But, it doesn’t have that top row replaced with a touch screen, which I would never look at (let alone touch) anyway.

EDIT: ahh, you were wondering about the size. I have small hands and type on it with ease. No complaints :)
I don't think so. They can demand and there is debate of giving them right to force it. Most big companies just went along with PRISM willingly, but Twitter refused.

If NSA has someone special in mind (specific group people) they can do MITM attack if they have the certificates. They can make their own version of the software and sign it. People who download signal app from the app store don't have a clue that it's not coming from app store.
If there's a junior in the job title, it means they train developers.
Emotional cost of being a founder
A therapist friend recently attended a conference where a big group of doctors and health professionals focused around adolescents presented on the link between pot and the development of psychosis and even schizophrenia in users under age 32 or something like that.

I've definitely heard about this colloquially with people reacting very differently to the same strain ("we were all fine but she was just freaking out"), and the new science coming out of places like Colorado seems to be showing a strong correlation in that direction. I guess you could say (colloquially again, since I'm not at all in the medical field) that pot can open a bad door in some people that may have stayed shut otherwise. Is that gene expression? Brain plasticity? Dunno.

I think prohibition does way more harm than good and I'm glad to see legalization coming to the states, but I don't think we can treat pot as totally harmless for people under 30 and teens in particular because it seems like it's very harmful for some.

One paper on the subject: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2931552/
Should You Start Independent Consulting and Contracting?
statement translated:

I have a similar business to sell, show me your 10 figures offer and let's talk.
Most of the American companies with head count < 3000 usually seem to offer good packages. My skill set is C++ based (professionally) but I have knowledge of full stack dev and devops (never worked professionally). Having Tier-1 college stamp has helped quite a bit (though lack of CS degree keeps me from applying to Tier-1 companies)

I can answer your questions here.
Have a Helping of 8-bit Halloween Horrors (vintage scenedemos)
This is the same tired argument that's dragged out anytime people raise concerns about using Chinese hardware.

>I don't care if the Chinese government has my data, I'm not a Chinese citizen

>The US spies as well

>The US did something wrong in the last 100 years, therefore you shouldn't complain that China did it last week
Job offers aren't a liquid market. Publicity is still needed or people won't find out about the job. It can be hard to tell whether the problem is with the job offer or word not getting out.

Getting a story in the BBC and on Hacker News might help, though.
And now confirmed.
VSCode already provides that in the debug view
Ah, to be honest I love mountains and in the long term have considered ways to live closer to them. In Ireland we only have tall hills at best, but people are offended if you call them that...

However Ireland was where I got a visa, and now that I'm here it's not bad.
Ask HN: We design, you build it [Looking for a founder]
Hi HN, we're looking for a developer partner to build a _simple_ app idea together.

It's called Bed time email (Code name)
Basically its a monochromatic email client designed to use at night, at the movies, in bed or in any circumstance where you don't want to use a bright screen.

We're looking for an iOS developer that want to build it with us.

Take a look at the design here: www.dribbble.com/tinymvp
https://dribbble.com/shots/5479756-Bed-time-email
Show HN: Magic Cube – Abstract Mind Game (iOS)
I took pot when I was 22 and it had disastrous effects on my life for over a year after. Had to seek psychiatric help because of it. Had intense depersonalization and panic effects triggered from the one bad pot experience. It's unfortunate that pot is perceived as being so benign. The psychiatrist told me that cases like me are actually not that rare unfortunately.
What well-known startups have Chief Growth Officers?
I see articles like this and they always seem to overlook the solution: hire remotely. Oh sure, it isn't what they want and yes it introduces complexity they might not want, but it is the answer. People want to live where they want to live. Some might be lured by more money. Some will recognize that there are clusters of jobs in certain urban areas and be unwilling to move to other locations as a result. Not in one of those prime tech clusters? Just accept that you need to hire where the people are, not where you want them to be. Furthermore, there's an irony of tech firms making money over the internet, but believing all their staff must be physically located together.
certificate transparency only does anything for participating CAs, there are dozens/hundreds of CAs that do not participate in certificate transparency, including several either controlled by the Chinese government, or at less than arms length from its influence.

They can freely sign anything that isn't either certificate pinned, or has a CAA record. And both those things are client dependent, pretty much any ssl client besides chrome or firefox will not have the capability to do either.
You have a point. However, my point is that the people behind this persecution and censorship campaign did not thought their plan through or at all, and this sort of persecution will obviously backfire by legitimizing the perception that Trump supporters are actually and inequivocally being targetted just for the crime of supporting a different candidate.
Embrace, extend, extinguish going well for them with open source.
Reads like an assurance to customers and investors that Ubuntu is able to compete with IBM.
>It took a few decades to get there, but it worked.

Yeah let's not take a few decades this time around? You're basically talking about an entire person's life at some scale.
That's not what the XKCD says - it literally says yelled at, boycotted or banned
Exciting Trips and Travels in Melbourne – Yarra Tours
As someone who's done quite a bit of heroin...All of these comments are sort of correct in their own way. On its own turf, no, nothing will ever feel as good as heroin. Normal life experiences can't compete with that, not directly. But there is a one-dimensionality to its goodness that allows you to have experiences that, though i'm not sure they feel "better" than heroin, feel good in different ways that can be more satisfying, while also being sustainable.

It's sort of like the fact that nothing tastes better than cheesecake (or insert your favorite dessert here), but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy life or even other food without it.
They are in that they both require abstract thinking, working in rigid systems.
ASP is rising in the last couple of years, but it's only recently crossed the level it was at a decade ago.
one of his coworkers helped him and was tortured and did not give him up which is unlike anything popular media/the United States government tells us about torture

I don’t think even the most enthusiastic proponents would argue that it always works, and surely popular media is full of protagonists on whom it was ineffective.
What Our Diversions Reveal about Us (1670)
Yes, not sure what he wanted to achieve with it.

A press release may be required but could have just been a more celebratory one, congratulating Red Hat. Sure, point out what similarities and differences Canonical offers with Ubuntu but no need for putting Red Hat down. Just seemed like pointless sour grapes.
I get the feeling that Amoore is making some good & important points very very badly.
They did assemble a standard from off the shelf parts. Few things are built from first principles since the scientific revolution.
==I think the prevalent assumption on HN is that every regulation can be traced back to some accident or mistake.==

My experience on HN is quite the opposite, but that is besides the point.

==why do I have to keep those people alive with my tax payments or even be annoyed from the sight of a rail in the middle of nature.==

This is libertarian ideology in the real-world. Your argument is that your annoyance is as valuable or more valuable than someone else's potential death. In a civilized/democratic society, we have created a governmental system to make these decisions for us and to the betterment of the country at large, not just you. Stop lights are a regulation and annoyance to my car driving, if I stopped heeding them, do you think that makes society better or worse off?

==I also think that most accidents happen from overtrusting a safety gear==

Based on what? Do you have any evidence or just your personal observation/assumption?

It seems like you've lost the forest from the trees here. Specifically on safety belts, they save many more lives than they could ever cost as evidenced by empirical research:

==Seat belts dramatically reduce risk of death and serious injury. Among drivers and front-seat passengers, seat belts reduce the risk of death by 45%, and cut the risk of serious injury by 50%.==

https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/seatbeltbrief/index.h...
It is baffling how people agreed to be captivated in Facebook eco system.
Now they'll start sniffing what's going out people's rectum and customise the ads.

Using Facebook/Whatsapp is like asking for dictatorship.
An easy way to explain JavaScript Generators
I think (and this isn't just personal experience) most of the appeal of Jupyter is the fractioned persistent state that allows you to write incrementally but not re-run increasingly long scripts. Inline plots are just gravy.

(Yes yes write documents export LaTeX. Not sure people care about this at all)

I've been developing a style where development "cells" are cached with joblib.Memory so re-running a script from command line doesn't take idiotic amounts of time. Further, I have litte context managers such that

with Figure('filename.png'): plotting_logic()

exports a file that immediately shows in the folder navigation bar of Atom. It's overall a better experience.

What I would really like is being able to use joblib.Memory not as a decorator (which requires bunching up your "cells" in functions and calling them separately) but as a context manager.

---

To the tune of the "Portlandia" song: the dream of MUMPS state is alive in joblib...
Evidence you'd accept, probably not, although you can simply observe the kinds of stories they choose to promote and arrive at a reasonable conclusion.
Among the insightful humorous essays of C. Northcote Parkinson (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law ) there's one about wording job ads that says:

"Only a little thought is needed to convince us that the perfect advertisement would attract only one reply and that from the right person."
Only true if you assume there are no advantages to being white.
In general, it is a package manager which supports different environments. It is similar to pipenv, but existed before. I believe there are still some differences, for instance conda is language agnostic, and it particularly was useful for data science where you would want the compiled version of certain dependencies (eg. MKL) for performance reasons. This SO answer seems like a good overview: https://stackoverflow.com/q/20994716/1060781