skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Salaries never stay secrets forever. Hiding them only delays the inevitable.

Last year we were having a discussion at lunch. Coworker was building a new house, and when it came to the numbers it was let loose that it was going to cost about $700K. This didn't seem like much, except to a young guy that joined the previous year and had done nothing but kick ass and take names. The new guy was arguably the most talented guy in the company by a considerable margin, so he thought someone building a $700K home might've been overextending themselves. The person buying the home retorted that it was reasonable and asked the new guy why he wouldn't buy the Porsche Boxster he considered his dream car. The new guy responded that would never be prudent. That didn't seem right, as several of us at the table could've nearly swung a Boxster with just our bonus.

The conversation ended up in numbers. Coworker building the house pulled about $140K base (median for a programmer was probably $125K), and his bonus nearly matched the new guy's salary, which was an insulting $60K -- and got cut out of the bonus and raise in January for not being there a full year, only 11 months.

Turns out he was a doormat in negotiating, though his salary history was cringeworthy. It pained everyone to hear it, considering how nice of a guy he was. In all honestly, $60K was a big step up for him. Worst of all, this wasn't a cheap market (Boston). The guy probably shortchanged himself well over a half-million dollars in the past decade. This was someone who voluntarily put in long hours and went out of his way to teach others, and did everything he could to help other departments like operations and other teams. On top, he was beyond frugal. Supposedly he saved something around 40% of his take home pay, despite living alone in Boston. He grew up in a trailer park.

He spent the next day in non-stop meetings with HR, his manager and the CTO. That Friday he simply handed in his badge without a word, walked out and never came back.

Until 3 months later. As a consultant. At $175/hour.
I'm afraid I don't really see the connection.
WebKit ships with the OS, just like IE's MSHTML/Trident engine. Does being open source make it less "native" somehow?
It's not in the platform preview 1.
Neither are css transitions or 3d transforms, but their messaging indicates they are coming in a subsequent PP release.
The score doesn't have to be perfect to be helpful.
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This brings to mind Arthur C. Clarke's first law[1].

There's a difference between making the case that someone can do something because you have experience in doing it and making the case that someone can't because you haven't. There are presumably quite a few people who've tried an approach similar to yours, but there aren't that many who have tried Dan's approach... yet.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws
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Excellent, thanks for the suggestions.
According to a tweet from Postagram is because the in-app billing is for in-app stuff, and can't be used for physical stuff.

"apple won't let us sell physical products with their billing system" http://twitter.com/postagram/status/57912193940852737
seriously, people will stand at their desks all day?
I tried it but frankly I am not a fan of this. Experience-wise it reminds me of those "Enter to Win a Prius" box in the mall where you fill out your information in hope of winning something which even you realize will not happen. In the meantime your personal information got sold to various mailing list...

I know you are not like that but that's my first impression. Your site is too showsman-esque (even the logo, and your NAME) and in this age of privacy (or lack thereof) I think many would be turned off. Try to think of some other ways to come across as less slick-oily.

For example, you may want to do this in a way that participants always win (instead of entering for a chance to win). Give smaller prize that doesn't cost your advertiser much. Hammer the fact that participants not giving away any personal information -- I think you said it in the website but the message was not strong enough.
Do you feel the same way about any profitable company that runs Apache or FreeBSD? I don't understand your sentiment, which seems quite common. These unpaid bloggers on HuffPo have in aggregate contributed almost nothing of durable value to civilization (and I think I'm being generous, as someone whose politics are not incompatible with your typical HuffPo reader or contributor, in assuming the net contribution has been positive) while the contributions of these developers have been enormous and transformative to our society.

Unpaid bloggers of the world, stop writing! You have nothing to lose but the time you've wasted adding noise to a vapid cacophony.
So given all the negative reviews of this so far- why isnt there a good C++ repl? Surely there is a huge demand.
Step one: hire a good developer

Step two: give 'em a "Teach Yourself Rails" book

Step three: wait two months
It's rare simply because it's (nearly) identical with being good at starting a startup, and in this domain as in any other, being good is rare.
Well, there is a pretty large difference between enjoying something and dedicating a giant chunk of your life to it. But in any case, I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm saying why it's unlikely.
Does the market really matter if I'm happy with what I'm being paid?

That's ultimately the motivation for my argument - in which system are the greatest number of actors likely to be content?
Anyone else find the INES scale: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INES_en.svg

Uncomfortably reminiscent of this: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hsas-chart_with_heade... ?

I find the lack of metric troubling.

For example, the best descriptions I can find list the INES level 6 as a "significant" release and level 7 as "major" release plus long term countermeasures. But, it's not clear if (1) the long term effects are part of the upgrade to "major" release, or (2) does "major" mean higher levels of radioactivity in a given time and that on top of that, there are long term effects?

Would love if anyone has a more specific set of criteria.
Pretty much any gui / 'wysiwyg' / dwim tool for developing markup for the web was a trainwreck when it came to production / deployment - the tools created the impression of publishing online being approximately like publishing for print, that layouts can be pixel-perfect, and that the publisher can define every aesthetic and aspect of behaviour. Since then we've come to understand that user agents can render things differently, behave differently, and should often be allowed to. Frameworks that make use of active scripting to bypass platform differences are generally heavy, and end up punishing users with their weight to save some lifting by developers.

Nowadays, although more browsers fall behind the support curve and the 'newer' browsers approach greater consistency (at least, while comparing the older features), greater variance is beginning to creep into the field in other ways - tablets, netbooks, mobile broadband. It's a constantly evolving arena. An arena which requires agility, skill and grace to succeed in mastering - slow moving toolchains will find it hard to hit the moving targets. Philosophically, wysiwy(m)g tools annoy me, as they're intoxicating to the general market - drunk with new found 'expertise', actual knowledge is maligned, and art is lost. All of a sudden, every guy with a 3d printer thinks he's a sculptor.

Sadly, this has happened before, and will again - and despite my resentment, I have to admit it's just nature - these things will find their own niche. Wysiwyg is not web development. Word is not a DTP tool. They have their place.
What about average time spent on site?
Looks like most HBO shows are available on the German iTunes store. My guess, though, is that they don't post their video there until the DVD's are available. Can anyone confirm how that's worked for HBO in the past?
In Finland, tax data is public -- you can go look up what your coworkers are making without the consent of either them or their employers. I don't think it has caused a race to the top in any meaningful way.
It's far more reasonable to change this to a challenge to become a scratch golfer or something similar. I don't think Gladwell meant that anyone could become one of the best in the world at anything with 10,000 hours of work. Such a statement is somewhat insulting to those that have devoted their life to their craft. Instead, that with 10,000 hours you could become very good at anything. Enough so that you could be considered very skilled/knowledgable in that craft/field.
Linking may be ok. I suspect it is the explicit request for upvotes that ends up setting off the voting ring detector.
I work at Myspace (but I do not speak for the company). I'm not really privy to all the information in the world here just being an engineer, but I do know that it was really expensive to lay off everyone in January, and they've definitely reduced expenses A LOT. In the past year, we've gone through multiple reductions in size. It might not add up to the figures they're mentioning in the article (I guess more layoffs coming?), but I do think they've probably cut more than 60% off of the $250mm already.

EDIT: I can also sympathize with the idea that you can run myspace with just a couple people. It would definitely require a holistic, new vision for the site though, as the current site is quite complex and has a lot of moving parts, where the knowledge of how those work is contained within separate units of the company.
I'm not sure it changes the general point, but Harvard in particular is much cheaper for most people. Students from families making under $60k/yr are not charged any tuition, and those under $180k/yr are charged 10% of their family income. So, for example, a student whose family makes $150k/yr would pay $15k/yr, or $60k over 4 years. Only students from quite well off families would pay anything near $250k. (And those reductions are outright tuition reductions, not loans.)
I'm not sure it will work. I expect golf rewards basic aptitudes like co-ordination, strength and stamina, etc., and that pros' endowments on these are four or five standard deviations from the population norm. They were likely selected for those endowments prior to most of their practice. Where is Dan on that curve? But I suppose how much these endowments matter, or whether work can enhance them, is a rough part of this experiment.

I am sure that I like his approach a damn sight better than yours. The guy is _working_. He'll have to beat all sorts of inner demons to get to 10,000 hours. He'll end up knowing a lot about learning, and himself, when he's done. That's my kind of guy.

Meanhwile, you are lobbing poorly thought-out downerisms. "get great at playing the course"? Gee, do you think maybe he'll budget some of his 10k for that? or that the ability to hit his shot straight _every_single_time_ might help? or that all those hours will do something for his mental chops? Coding "has structured guidelines for success"? None of this is intelligent, never mind constructive.

You're only 25, you were clearly a good athlete, you made YC, congratulations. No doubt worked your ass off up to this point. Well, some people have to grind it out even harder than you've had to. If you can't spare the time to think through helpful commentary, respect their dedication and keep your mouth shut.
@angrycoder - your shitting me right? Because I don't have time to read EVERY comment I shouldn't be here?
As mentioned in the article, this is not uncommon. The same is true for Sweden.
While I agree that you probably miss out on finding a lot of great candidates, there is a significant advantage in finding someone that already knows your chosen platform.

Already knowing the OS and Tools allows a new hire to focus on understanding the business domain quickly. For some companies, that's far more important than raw technical ability.
Yes, HBO's general strategy is to encourage subscription, not DVDs or a la carte downloads.
Hi ignifero,

Glad you liked the post :) Also glad you were finding it a bit better than we were, at least initially anyway!

We're not doing any more facebook apps for the foreseeable future either...

Cheers, Paul.
I had a similar thought with regards to high stakes gambling (pool, poker, golf, backgammon and prop trading). When you learn to do any of these one has to learn how to deal with making decisions under time and money pressure. Everybody that has ever played a sport competitively has made mistakes under duress that are difficult to explain later because your mind shuts off during that period. This is probably a limbic response to stress - your first instinct under danger is to switch to flight/fight and may not be using the framework that 10k hours (or however much time spent) built. Everyone can get better at moderating their response to this but I suspect that some people are naturally better suited at shrugging off the blaze of autonomic responses and still be able to focus on the task at hand properly. The people who attempt to put in 10k and fail because they can't handle pressure aren't accounted for. It makes for a nice book but saying 10k hours is all it took Michael Jordan or Gretzky or Mozart to hit their "master level" ignores this survivorship bias.

I think Jason has a good point that hitting a golf ball and being able to function under pressure are two very very different abilities and professional golf is most likely selecting for both abilities.
Actually there are a number of sports in which are age and genetics are far less important than golf, e.g. the Olympic sports of curling, bob sled racing, archery, equestrian, target shooting and sailing.

Anyone's reflexes will decline with age, so Dan's choice is of golf is a good one with respect to his slower reflexes as a potential golf pro in his late 30s, as compared to the reflexes of 20 year old potential golf pros, are not such a big deal.
That made me think of a show that was on the golf channel where they tried to make Charles Barkley into a respectable golfer.

Despite a highly competent coach and many hours of practice, it ended badly IIRC.
It's more like Three Mile Island, in that its scale and the damage it caused is likely to be overstated for many years to come.
The claim of the mainstream scholarly development of expertise literature

http://www.psy.fsu.edu/faculty/ericsson/ericsson.exp.perf.ht...

and especially the most classic paper in the literature

http://projects.ict.usc.edu/itw/gel/EricssonDeliberatePracti...

is not that 10,000 hours is enough, but rather that deliberate practice is strictly necessary for expertise, and that 10,000 hours (in round figures) is also necessary to achieve what can properly be called expertise in any adult domain of performance. K. Anders Ericsson, the leading researcher in this field, distinguishes "playful engagement" from "deliberate practice" and distinguishes being at the journeyman level of performance from the rarer case of being at the expert level of performance.

What needs more testing is whether 10,000 hours of deliberate practice is not only necessary but also sufficient. Many critiques of Ericsson's findings evoke an ill-defined latent quality labeled "talent" to make the claim that many members of the general public would fail to achieve expertise even if they engaged in 10,000 hours of deliberate practice. But such a showing would not be a direct refutation of Ericsson's claim. Rather, it would be necessary to show that someone who is properly called an expert lacked opportunity to engage in lengthy deliberate practice. Mozart didn't write any music composition that musicologists call a "masterpiece" until he had had ten years (and at least 10,000 hours) of intensive study of music guided by his father, who was an author of innovative books on music instruction and a continual guide to young Wolfgang's musical development.
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who just implement fully spec'd code

Fully spec'd code? I hope the PMs are getting a raise, as I've yet to see such a thing!
thanks for trying it out. The biggest barrier is perception of a scam. This is why we show what your probability to win is as well as the current leaders and your current # of entries. After the triviatisement closes an email goes out to all winners and losers with the winners listed.

We feel like the target audience is stay at home moms and college students

Finally to keep people coming back we are working on 1) a metagame 2) trivia that is fun that helps you stay engaged, get status and get more entries to win via levels.

The idea is that people might check once a day to see if anything they want has come up.
There must be a case study in there somewhere.
As far as I know it is. As a forum for hackers, it's a forum for a superset of the subset of entrepreneurs YC cares about.

There are several reasons it's better to aim for the superset. One is that this type of founder is more omnivorous by nature, and even when in the throes of starting a startup, gets bored reading about nothing but startups. The other is that hackers are more likely to become founders unintentionally. Many don't realize till only a few months beforehand that they are about to start companies. So if you look at the set of people who will eventually start startups, what they're interested in reading about now is not "entrepreneurship" but e.g. programming languages.
What other comparison makes sense at all?

I don't endorse it, but comparable worth is popular.

http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/iie/v3n2/comparable.h...
You should check her previous works and posts before blaming her for "not a lot of reasoning".

Basically her approach is that 1) secure by design is too hard to achieve 2) isolation is what matters since each component, "secure" or not, in an OS can break. 3) SELinux and other similar systems are too fine grained for a normal user, thus VM per security domain is one solution.

It's a really pratical approach to security, but probably highly effective for the end user.
Both. Often times in places like the military merit is only achievable as a function of seniority. So after x number of years after getting a grade you qualify to be promoted to the next. Whether or not the promotion happens at that point in time is a function of merit (and social skills).
I'm personally happy if I don't feel like I'm getting screwed for my time/output. I can't really judge that very well other than gut feeling if I don't know how much other individuals around me are making.

In order to find out if I'm getting boned I've had to go out and interview with other companies to pull offers to gauge the market, this is probably a net negative for all sides.
Even if it causes a "race to the top", is that such a bad thing? Shouldn't most of the fruits of labor go to the people doing the work?
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> SE is unabashedly about software and the process of developing it. It's about design patterns, how to manage software projects, testing and verification, etc.

True, but is an academic setting (especially a university) the right place for such a curriculum? What languages, platforms, testing methodologies, coding practices, etc. do they choose to teach? Do they try to teach things that will get their graduates jobs at Fortune 500 enterprises, or cater more toward the local/regional offerings? What about the start-up world, where you're almost guaranteed to be using a large number of cutting edge technologies that you probably won't have used before you got the job?

The thing with CS, at least as it's taught at my university and the several others I looked into, is largely concerned with making sure the students understand theory. It doesn't matter a whole lot what programming languages or textbooks they choose to use, because the assumption is made that when you get a job, you're going to have to learn the ins and outs of that particular job no matter how much you learned about specific software engineering practices in class.

This is why I wouldn't even want to study "software engineering" over "computer science," unless I knew exactly where I wanted to live and who I wanted to work for and thought the particular SE program would prepare me directly for that specific job.
http://code.google.com/p/ccons/
Good idea! Although for the most part if you don't work with people you consider friends this subject would never come up.
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Cutting MySpace back to the core and starting from scratch would be awesome. Few people have that much money and such big balls though. And the teams (tech) that could pull it off have better opportunities.

I do think it could work. Not everyone loves Facebook.
Supporting your forearms in a neutral position using your musculoskeletal should be much, much better for you than by using external pressure on your forearms or (worse) wrists. It's really very, very little weight, and certainly no strain on the elbows.

Keep in mind that you aren't typing or mousing all the time. In a standing position, I find that I'm much more likely to drop my hands by my sides, or cross my arms when thinking, than I am when sitting at a desk.
Not all hours are equal, it's pretty close to impossible to be as productive while you're tired as when you're well rested. Not to mention that the person you're quoting is not a professional golfer. Tiger is probably closer to 100,000 hours than he is to 10,000...
It's an interesting free-form (ie, no true paths) tower-defense game. Pretty large tech tree, pretty long game, pretty hard, and it under-went a major gameplay-overhaul not too long ago. I'm not convinced it's better, but it did noticeably simplify a few things which were over-complicated. And large changes / updates are generally indicative of developers who listen. As is the overall level of polish, which I'd call abnormally high.

Definitely worth a try, unless you dislike tower defense games.
The snake oil perception is a huge barrier. But we also think it will become a barrier to competition once we become legit. (people probably thought groupon was a scam at some point).

The triviatisements can be embedded in advertisers websites so that is how we will get our initial traffic. The branding and the trust will come from the advertisers. We have 4 advertisers lined up (and did 5 at SXSW) with a total mailing list size of about 200K users.

We are trying to avoid the snake oil perception by having transparency in the process. At all times you can go to the site to see what your probability is to win. You can also see which of your referred friends took the triviatisement so you know exactly how your entries are calculated. finally at the end all entrants are notified of the winners (and advertisers have the option to give coupons for the product)

The theory is that it will increase conversions
> Then don't upvote then, it's simple!

Downvoting obviously wrong comments is very simple too. And useful. Like I said though, in the past I've tended to do so because it's incorrect, not to "punish" as I might with a mean-spirited comment, so I would never go past -1.
"The Flock team joined Zynga in January, 2011 and is now working to assist Zynga in achieving their goal of building the most fun, social games available to anyone, anytime -- on any platform."
$100k +/- $20k in a major US city at a minimum.
Well what I suspect will happen is that the Comcast pipe will become less important. LTE bandwidth is pretty incredible (at least with little congestion). The Verizon pipe becomes a lot more important. Comcast and Verizon join forces and stifle net neutrality to keep any such revolution from happening. :-)
Block scoping is part of ES5 using let

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Statem...
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