skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never seen a Microsoft tag in the wild either. I've seen QR codes in almost a dozen places. Most of those were a Google Places link, but a local history museum uses them for links to an audio tour at each exhibit.
3k + food + "benefits"(included) + social

Car? If you are in the city you cab or mass.

$100,000.000

Classic what you own ends up owning you.
Bartender classic, makin decent doe, anyone can get stuck.
All of a sudden its a big risk to leave, with all your obligations you've acquired by making a bit, doesn't matter how much it's at every pay rate.

REF: I live outside nyc in Bergen County NJ, 30min car ride, $500 a room in a 2 bedroom. I can't grab a nyc pay? Train or bus in even with no car.
$150/hr for a few weeks/months of work

Good consultants can get this rate year round and book a quarter million net. The trick is adapting your offering to what the company you're working for actually needs and then telling management about those needs.
ah the benefits of humility. Well said.
In the Bay Area and a few other places, you're absolutely right -- but there are other places where $100k for a software engineer is pretty generous pay. Of course, the cost of living in those places is typically a lot less than in the Bay Area.
The restaurant is doing fine....need to launch this network, I met Michael Dell, he's willing to design amazing hard once it comes to that phase. Who is this? I need help to assemble my team....can we speak sometime?
Apple Gives This Consumer the Business
Apple business model: 36+ hrs to (not) respond to support request, 2 hrs to censor complaint on disc board.
...and then i wanted to email the passwords back to my users in regular intervals and went back to step one.
And for an even more surreal take... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1quwIFj-RvM#t=1m50s
How are you? I need help to assemble my team. Are you interested in talking?
How much code should you write?
I forgot about mailchimp. yep that one is an animal :)
I've worked with professionals located in SF, LA, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Omaha, Atlanta, St. Louis, Ann Arbor, Boston, New York, DC, Miami, and Charleston.

$100k is still the minimum professional salary for someone who has a highly skilled, technical job like sr. engineer, architect, investment banker, CPA, attorney, etc.
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Got burnt like that with another Big IT Co in MA.

When I worked for a small tech firm, I routinely received an advance for any large travel expenses. Yet working for a multi-billion dollar revenue firm, I had to put everything on CC, make a expenses claim and typically the bill came due before finance (outsourced) had made the reimbursement. Eventually left in disgust over than and other management foibles.
Marry someone making $$ in a different field. I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned more :) I'm married to a dentist but I know plenty of hacker types married to professionals (doctors, lawyers, etc).

side note: it is very easy to get to a point where you have no time to spend your money - and you won't know it until all of a sudden you have no time anymore for the fun stuff.
Maybe true for the people you hang out with. In the rest of the world, there's plenty of people who prefer doing meaningful or engaging work over earning the highest possible salary.
It depends where you live. In San Francisco or New York, 100K isn't going to go very far. In Houston or a rural area, it will.

According to a cost of living adjustment calculator I found online, 100K in Houston is equivalent to 186K in San Francisco.

http://swz.salary.com/costoflivingwizard/layoutscripts/coll_...
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I'm in NYC until Monday... I want to go see Silicon Alley. Where should I go?
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$100k isn't anywhere near the highest salary possible. What in the world are you talking about?
Ask HN: What are you favorite hacking mantras?
I was looking at some Facebook pics of some friends who work there (i.e. I was Facebook stalking Facebookers), and I noticed a handful of awesome, hacker-spirited mantras on posters in the background. Among them were:

- Move fast and break things

- Done is better than perfect

- Real artists ship

What are some other great ones?
Just want to chime in real quick re:

all that's required to earn that much is show up on time and be good at your job.

I liked the "all thats required" bit, because as it were, I am fully employed remotely, and while I don't make $100k, I seriously wake up at noon, code at 3am when I damned well feel like it, and overwhelmingly love managing myself. (oh yeah, zero commute).

So I guess you'd be right, "all you have to do is show up", ehhhh I'd much rather not show up!

I'd imagine a lot of people's idea of success involves a whole lot of Freedom so I'd hesitate to be so overly critical of people not making your "baseline" figure of $100k and then assuming it has to be because they suck.
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can you open a support ticket with dropbox? Seems like the best way to start the conversation. Just say you are looking to get in contact with Graham, i'll see if we can take care of the rest.
No problem. Good luck. :)
I think spend-thrift means tight with your money, or parsimonious if you prefer.
Smells like a shameless plug!
lol, very funny pete :)
Yeah, of course. On the other hand, you can live quite comfortably in Berlin for US$20k gross salary. Rent and price of groceries are huge factors in what your income actually means.

Define specific quality of life factors, instead of talking about a number.
This is old advice, users now know how to use the internet to get laid. The next trick: How can they make their crazy exes stop finding them when the internet is forever?
Look at a Hollywood contract sometime, with such lovely concepts as "triple breakeven" and "rolling breakeven". The creativity in LA isn't just behind the camera!
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Clearly it's subjective. Working a schedule that fits your preferences has a huge value associated with it. Others prefer cash, and lots of it.
I will withhold being impressed until I see actual benchmarks. At this point it's all marketing.
I think that if a startup made encryption and data security a priority and had the amount of funding it takes to break the enterprise market, they'd start to slowly (as usual in the enterprise space) make more headway and gain acceptance in this area. IT actually likes to offload things when they have a reasonable assurance of control.

Tarsnap is a good starting point, but it's CLI, doesn't work on Windows, and isn't really geared to big businesses.
Correlation is not a causation.
To be thrifty, is to be careful with your money. Oddly though, a spendthrift is the opposite. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/spendthrift
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Sure, but the point of smartphones is that you can use them any time, anywhere.
Don't Flash Based SSDs offer ~6Gbps write bandwidth?
I have to agree with you. This showed up on my twitter feed from @Hunch a few hours ago (data porn title was theirs, not mine) and I posted it to HN. I didn't have a chance to dig further into the "reports" until a few minutes ago. Nothing to write home about! :-(
A far superior article on SEL, and it's not just because I submitted it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2260840

Hasn't it basically been the Hacker News calling card that Techcrunch is terrible now? Yet it's still getting rewarded for sub-standard writing w/ lots of HN pageviews. Hopefully this works itself out in the next couple hours.
Depending where actually. Most companies will adjust based on the cost of living. So 100k in NY might be on the entry level but in Kansas it is a top salary.
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There's an old advertising maxim that a potential customer needs to see an ad 7 times (or 3 times) before acting on it, but it seems to be only weakly supported by statistics. Maybe it's just something they say to get you to buy more advertising, but it does seem to make sense that repetition would increase the effectiveness of your advertising (remember the Head-On commercials? apply directly to the forehead!).
UT, A&M, TTU (Good for Business, Math and Enginnering), Rice, Baylor.... OK, five. Actually, U of H is picking up the ball in a lot of areas, too.
I just visited your site, but it isn't compelling to me. Please don't take this the wrong way - I'm not trying to be harsh:

1. It looks cheap - and I don't know how to explain that.
2. What's the story with the buildings? Is that the best image you can come up with?
3. The page is very sparse, but yet I have to scroll to see everything.
4. I don't understand the name.
5. What is the "best of local?" Exactly what are you bringing to me?
6. Why do I want to sign up? Tell me why! What am I going to get out of it? Be very specific, because right now, I don't have a clue.
7. Tease me a little. Make me WANT to sign up.
One problem this (partially) solves is the performance gap between internal PCIe-based peripherals and external devices. USB3 and ExpressCard both top out at half the bandwidth of even a single lane PCIe 3.0 slot.

If you look at the list of companies contributing blurbs to Intel's Thunderbolt page, about half of them are companies producing high-end A/V peripherals where this makes a real difference in terms of what kind of product they can offer.
IMHO the largest salary jumps happen when you switch companies. Once you start with a company, you're pretty much locked into their payscale and salary increases happen in much smaller increments. Ideally, you would stay at a company long enough to get the requisite experience for the next career level and then switch to a new company and negotiate a healthy salary bump. With that said, my highest paid friends are typically the most dissatisfied with their jobs - something to consider.
Hopefully this means no more "Big resource gettin' bigger" in my search results ...
Ah, damn. I should have known that. My wallet was stolen in Barcelona. (The police was super nice, everyone in the German consulate was extremely grumpy. Since only 50€ and my ID card were stolen I didn’t care one bit and continued traveling all around Europe as planned even though – as the woman in the German consulate grumpily told me – that is most definitely verboten. Open borders are nice.)
What you're looking at is probably all of the TIGER city blocks bounced against various zip code or county lists that the telecom companies provide. That's why if, for instance, AT&T has ANY U-verse coverage in your area, you will likely be flagged as receiving U-verse, even without being able to subscribe to it.

So I can say with pretty high certainty that the reason this sucks is because of the telecom lobby. There is an enormous amount of pressure on regulators to not require the telecom companies to disclose detailed information about where they provide what levels of service. Even information that's retrievable by going to their site and checking for coverage and/or service availability at an address. They most certainly have this information, but it's considered one of their most closely guarded trade secrets.

Those at the NTIA (and FCC to a degree) seem to be mostly interested in figuring out the minimum amount of disclosure they can give to meet the law-mandated requirements. This is the same old problem in Washington where the people who end up regulating are those that were plucked right out of highly-networked positions in the industry they regulate.
Brilliant use of crowd-sourcing to gather a test set via the chrome plug-in. Makes absolute sense, otherwise you can overfit. Great turn-around time also.
Our lawyer (we're based in LA) says that on many smaller Hollywood deals you're lucky to even have a written contract...
FYI been posted already:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1060176
Wouldn't be surprised if they tweak their thresholds for comping rooms to fill rooms that would otherwise go vacant.
That would be very clever of RIM and they have enough Java roots to feel right at home with Android. How well it integrates with the system is another story though.

If Android becomes a mobile app standard that J2ME could only dream of - that would be a really good achievement.
Source Code is at Github: https://github.com/michael/substance

This first release (0.1.0) is considered a Developer Preview. However given a webkit-based browser you should already be able to use it seriously.
Link to source: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/finding-more-high-qua...
Release early, release often. (even though I don't adhere to this as well as I should)

Given enough eyes, all bugs are shallow.

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Sometimes, when confronted with a problem, a programmer thinks "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now, he has two problems.
I wasn't aware that Ubuntu One was integrated into Banshee. Thanks for informing me of that.

I guess I just don't see the moral conundrum you're talking about. Isn't it better to ship with Amazon, replace the affiliate code, and promise at least some proceeds from the sale to GF rather than just leaving it out altogether? It seems to serve the needs of everyone that way -- Banshee still gets some cash, users get access to Amazon's store right off the bat, and Canonical isn't concerned about all their profit from affiliate sales disappearing. Why is this bad?

I understand that some people preferred Banshee to Rhythmbox (I do too, for the record), but I also don't see how that changes things. Ubuntu is not taking from anyone, and any person is free to download a copy of Banshee with the affiliate code intact.

This may be a good PR opportunity for someone who wants to support OSS -- maybe Google or Amazon could announce that they'll match the affiliate bonuses going to Canonical and send them to the EFF or GF or other foundation. Also, it may be nice if Ubuntu would offer a non-default package with the original code intact.

However, I don't see a problem or anything wrong with what's happening here. I just don't see it. Ubuntu is increasing the exposure of Banshee and its potential affiliate revenues, persons are free to revert to the old affiliate code if they choose to do so, Canonical doesn't have to worry about the lost affiliate bonuses, and users are getting an all-around better music player in a way that works out for everyone.

The Banshee developers chose to give their Amazon plugin away and should not have expected to make any substantial amount of money off of it under those circumstances. Anyone is and always has been free to change all of the code, including the affiliate, and the Banshee developers released the Amazon plugin with full knowledge that that was OK and allowed. Some even saw this coming, as the commenter on gburt.blogspot.com predicted such a controversy back in December.

I'm just hard pressed to see any ethical conundrum here. Banshee is giving away the store plugin and its code; if Novell wanted to make money off of Banshee, they should have left the store under a restrictive license. Banshee's developers have always understood that anyone is free to replace the affiliate code. Canonical wants to distribute Banshee by default, but doesn't want to take a potentially serious loss of income in order to do so. Users want programs that come with full functionality, regardless of politics or developer infighting. The solution announced here seems like a great way to keep all of these people happy; Canonical will be forwarding a substantial portion of the substantially increased affiliate revenues to the beneficiary in the standalone Banshee distribution, they are playing well within the rules established by Banshee/Novell and the copyright licenses of the code, and users will have the options they want without having to jump through needless hoops. Where's the downside?
Thunderbolt has two 10Gbps channels. It's still capable of driving two 2560x1600 displays just like the DisplayPort it replaces could.
fwiw, just read your updates. I think your post came off as confrontational so naturally people get defensive. Since rereading it, I think you mean well; people should know their worth and work toward maximizing that worth. So recognizing that there are farther stars out there to shoot for is a good thing! And for those engineers that get offended by the OP's comment, actually its quite good news! You are worth way more than you have settled for.

I don't have an opinion one way or the other, just my two cents.
PayPal gets away with a lot of ridiculous behavior because it gets to act like a bank, without being constrained by any of the regulations normally applied to banks.

I don't know anyone who has a positive word to say about them. They're unfortunately the only game in town for certain services/transactions.
1) live in San Francisco and code for a few years.
2) there is no step 2.

2a) on St Patrick's day, despair that you've already paid more in rent this year than your father in Montana will pay all year.
Time and experience. A kid out of school isn't going to crack that figure because a) they have no real-world experience and b) if any of the more experienced people find out they'll have a brain drain on their hands. Yes, you'll hear stories about this and that, but always ask for a pay stub as proof when someone opens their mouth.

I've been making over $100K for several years now and even though I recently joined a startup, I held the rate up over other offers. The key is to work somewhere that requires specialized skills and understands the value of hiring someone experienced who can self-manage their work on various aspects of a project and produce results that will win more business. Make your contributions a positive part of the bottom line and you will receive no hassles.

I tend to work with technology-first firms, avoiding business-first firms as they tend to view developers as resources, not assets. Also, in this day and age, if you don't write code or have an intimate IP unique to the product, you don't get a seat at the table and you should steel yourself for a sales job or worse.

Also, keep your skills fresh (edge, not bleeding edge) and avoid dreamers, MBA types and serial wantrepreneurs.
I can easily imagine how to invest anywhere up to tens of billions of dollars. Spending a $100k salary for personal enjoyment is another question.
We're from the government and we're here to help!

No results in Chrome at all for my area, which is served by Comcast. I wonder how much taxpayer money was dumped down this particular rat hole.
Is it just me who is getting an error when attempting to view the video on the front page of https://www.cloudflare.com/ ???
One-fifth of the federal govt earns six figures or more.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-12-10-federal-p...
I'm not convinced that brute force is such a bad approach, as long as a) you start with the greedy approximation, and b) stop once you know you're doing worse than the greedy approximation. My python brute-force solution runs in .035 s.
It'll be interesting to see where this goes in the next 24 hours: http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=DMD. And by "where this goes", I mean how much it tanks.
For me, it's too little too late. I know a lot of people who have already moved to different search engines. Google lost a ton of money in the process. They didn't help themselves any when it was revealed JC Penny had successfully gamed Google for almost an entire year - and Google had no idea until the NY Times broke the story.
If you take the top several dozen or so most-blocked domains from the Chrome extension, then this algorithmic change addresses 84% of them

I wonder what those domains are.
You're arguing a point that's a given; a professional that's highly skilled. I believe the intent of the question posted on Reddit was what it took to get there.
It will be interesting to see if this negatively affects the traffic to some of the 'newspapers' (Daily Mail, Telegraph) who just recycle PR in the guise of journalistic endeavour. cf. http://churnalism.com

Does the algorithm update also apply to Google News?
I always get big laughs when I tell people about this. It's great first week on the job joke material.
What if Star Wars was Real?
So a question came up tonight - "How to use an oscilliscope" - googled it and no ehow. Wonderful.
stevenp....Im in San Jose...when can we meet for drinks and bullshit the 12 steps to 12 zeros??
Interesting, I totally missed that somehow. Probably because I don't really watch TV much. Oh well... you win some, you lose some.
http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ may be helpful to you. KDE works great.
>In fact, I wrote my comment before reading anyone else's.

Really? Because your first comment says:

>All the people commenting on this thread implicitly approve of its presence on HN
There's a good reason: I would argue that Dropbox has questionable security practices (by that I mean look around their site and try to find an in-depth description of how then insure individual account security... it leaves me with many questions :-). Dropbox stores and manages the encryption keys on their servers and they don't let users specify their own encryption keys. If someone manages to break into their server farm and gets access to those keys (or the method by which they are algorithmically generated), then lookout!

At the same time, a lot of people email sensitive documents into and out of enterprises without any sort of encryption. I'm not sure which is worse.

(no, I'm not a enterprise IT guy :-)
The secret -- the difficulty -- isn't one of having a $100k+ income so much as it is not spending it all. Live like you have a $60k salary, and not only will you still be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle, but you'll also be able to put away tons of cash.

As for actually finding those jobs? If you're willing to do consulting/contracting, ask your friends who are doing consulting/contracting for large companies. They're the ones who are most likely to be in the know about opportunities.
Only while the housing bubble lasts...
This is absolutely fantastic. I just googled a few programming topics and the difference is very noticeable. Kudos to Google.
From the article:

> It’s worth noting that this update does not rely on the feedback we’ve received from the Personal Blocklist Chrome extension
Even if you take into account that you've heard it before.
Is the change live yet?

I remember an example provided here was "nstoolbar bottom bar". Let's take a look:
http://www.google.com/search?q=nstoolbar+bottom+bar

Granted, it was probably linked from HN somwhere which will have made matters worse.
I will be watching my AdWords spend, since it is dominated by farmed content with no conceivable source of traffic other than Big Daddy G.

Edit to add:

Let me quantify "dominated" for you. Here's the top ten sites BCC ads show on -- all stats 2/1/11 ~ 2/25/11:

http://images1.bingocardcreator.com/blog-images/hn/adsense-f...

Of the ones not marked as content farms or outright spam, 2 (maybe 2.5) are sites I'd be happy to have my mother visit, and the other ones are ad-filled monstrosities whose sole saving grace is that they are not MFA spam or content farms.

Sadly, all of these are quite profitable for me. cries