skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised that so many of the comments/replies to this post accept the premise that programmers are underpaid and don't get respect.

Everyone I know who writes code is making a hell of a lot more than people who aren't. The people I know at Google aren't making $150k. They are making a lot more and would be making a lot less as a management consultant or a politician or whatever else.

In fact, to say that top management consultants clear $500k is true, but top engineers clear a lot more, both of those industries strike me as massively paid industries.

Then there's banking. Engineers at banks make ridiculous amounts of money just like non-engineers working at investment banks.

Sure, there are engineers working for $60k just like there are management consultants working for $60k.

But I know a lot of unemployed management consultants, and I don't know a single unemployed engineer.

So I think people have raised very interesting thoughts about why doctors make more or less, but I couldn't get past the premise of the article. I think engineers are making a ton of money, and they deserve a ton of money. I think they get a ton of respect, and they deserve it.

Maybe that's just what I'm seeing. But particularly when you then say that teachers are paid more than the average American, I start to wonder who this mythical "average American" is, particularly knowing that my sister is a high school teacher and has to buy her own chalk. She would probably disagree with the article based on all the corvettes and teslas sitting in the Google parking lot.

:-)
Also "any economy" may be arguable. If everyone had a bazillion $ to spend, would they go to the McDonald down the corner or the 1st-class restaurant? Would they hire a top chief to prep their meals at home instead? Sure, McDonald would adjust their offerings accordingly, but that just proves that their (current) strategy would not work (and "win") in "any" economic landscape
Capnography is actually required for all intubated patients in many areas (and intubation is a standard step in the management of pre-hospital cardiac arrest patients). This is because (properly interpreted) capnography is one of the most definite ways to verify that the ET tube is headed for the lungs, not the stomach.

Given the increasing prevalence of capnography use in the field, I expect the next few years will see several studies into how it could be used to improve patient outcomes.
Discuss: What do you think of push notifications?
I hate push notifications.

Notifications bring us no peace.

Notifications drain batteries. (80% drain overnight while left on 3G)

Notifications interrupt our train of thought.

The only reason why I see notifications can be useful is if you were eagerly waiting for an email.

What do you think?
Your average hedge-fund manager also pays a 15% income tax on the pretext that he is risking his own money. When programmers get to systematically win asymmetric zero-sum games against the lower 99.9% of the income earning population, they will be accorded all due respect.
Bloomberg sued for 29,000 pages of Fed loan documents to crunch data
I also cannot eat the same food for more than 2 days in a row.

I'm a carnivore

You "cannot" eat the same food for more than 2 days in a row? Sorry to say it, but there's your problem. Treat meat like a side dish instead of the main course, make legumes in big batches, and you can do most of your cooking on the weekend. I can feed myself for less than $100 a month.
Rice + any meat + whatever sauce you want. Can't go wrong there. Very cheap, too...
There are clues there:

1) they wanted everyone to be in once place
2) they're hiring a lot of people, especially customer service.

Customer service in NYC or SF would be prohibitively expensive, so if they want to be all in one place, they would have to move anyway. This is no different than Zappos being in Las Vegas or Groupon being in Chicago (I think Zappos relocated). Personnel costs when you have 50 employees per hacker become a big deal.

Portland has a ton of skilled, educated people and high unemployment, so they're going to get a lot of bank for their buck.
India’s Next Outsourcing Wave Is IPhone Apps
An absolute abundance of ever growing ideas. I have no idea where they come from, how to manage them

Notebook. Write. down. everything (And I do mean everything. What I mean by that is everything).

Your peers have some wise advice, if you find your head in the clouds with ideas and you know you have the competency to pull it off, then yes: farm out your skills, network, begin your personal brand.

People like to say "It's not what you know, it's who you know". I respectfully disagree. It's now who you know, it's who knows you. So if these contracts you've taken have resulted in positive feedback and responses from you clients, continue to build on that (hopefully it's paying you enough to survive) and establish yourself as a knowledgeable asset in their field.

Then, once you've launched a product these people will (ideally) recognize this as the fruit of your labors and will be more willing to give it a try.

Good luck young man :)
Indeed. Conrad Wolfram has a great Ted talk on this very subject: http://www.ted.com/talks/conrad_wolfram_teaching_kids_real_m...
It's interesting comparing the text of this report from CNN with the text of the BBC report submitted here earlier:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2921195

According to the BBC the spacecraft was lost, according to CNN it crashed. It reminds me of the different titling of some TV shows. The UK program "Scrapheap Challenge" was renamed to "Junkyard Wars." No longer a challenge, the media decided that the US audience reacts better to a war.

The language also sometimes reflects the expected audience knowledge, just as the "Philosopher's Stone" becoming the "Sorcerer's Stone" in the US version of the first Harry Potter book.

In these times of increasingly international business, we are perhaps reminded that our web sites and advertising material might need to take these sorts of differences into account. I've frequently found some US web sites to be overly brash, or strident, but perhaps they're just catering for different demographics.

Any other observations?
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They have their uses. Some are important to see, others are not. It really depends on what the notification is for.
Are you referring to being a salary worker? I think that's what he LEFT to start making money on his own. Not having a boss is worth 5x his salary IMO :)
Windows Phone 7 has proven that it is very possible to innovate on interface. I really don't think the physical similarity really matters -- they're mostly just black slabs with screens. Doesn't seem like copying to me. The interface, on the other hand, looks almost exactly like the iPhone.
Hey HN, I'm a longtime reader and this is my first Show HN (exciting!) It's a collaboration between me and two friends, and we're building this upon another app we made called EmailYak, an API to receive email. We're trying something new and releasing the documentation to an app while we're still building it.
We'd love feedback. Do you belong to any of these categories?

1) You've built an app with two distinct groups of users (say, people with cars and those looking for a ride) and they were able to communicate with each other. Did you expose personal email addresses? Did you send notification emails that people could reply to directly in their inbox? Or were they only able to read and reply to messages on your site?

2) You built an app where you wished users could message each other but didn't add that feature. What stopped you? Did you try to parse incoming email? What tools or APIs did you try out?

If you note which group(s) above you belong to in your comment that'd be great :)

Thanks so much for the help!
There are differences among the laws and norms of local and national jurisdictions, and among pre-hospital and hospital providers.

Depending on local laws, US emergency services field providers usually don't officially declare legal death, though there are protocols for either not commencing or for ceasing resuscitation efforts.

These don't involve electroencephalography.

Factors input in this decision and these protocols vary, but can include evidence of insufficient structures for maintaining life (eg: decapitation), absence of vitals, rigor, lividity (blood pooling), absent electrocardiogram, rescuer exhaustion, and (for cases involving cardiac) failure of defibrillation and advanced cardiac life support where applicable. These factors are usually used in combinations; you need more than one of these, and no vitals.

Contraventions can include hypothermia, which may have been a factor in the cited case, and cold-water drowning.

Many of these cases can and do involve a consultation with the patient's physician, or with the emergency physician

Emergency transport of patients that are presumed dead is not without risks to members of the community and to the EMS crew; these can include vehicular collisions with emergency vehicles, as well as simply not the crew unavailable for another call. Funding also applies, as survival to discharge is (in various studies) not expected in cases where pre-hospital advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) has been administered, and has failed. (If ACLS didn't work in the field, it's equally unlikely to work after a five or fifteen or half-hour transport to an emergency facility.)

I'm not aware of any US emergency services field providers that are using electroencephalography for this nor any field equipment for this, nor even any discussions of its applicability in the field.

On the other hand, capnography has been a subject of various discussions for some years now among emergency physicians and hospitals and field providers, including its use for assessing correct placement of breathing tubes, and waveforms for differentiating various respiratory dysfunctions.
Prior to IBM Clones, pretty much every system was the same across the board. Just like Android's situation.

But even now, iP(hone/ad) isn't the same across the board. There are several generations with different hardware, plus a tablet or 2 to deal with. (And if we're lucky, the iPad 3 will have retina display.)
money is fungible. It goes to the federal government.
International law is something I'm trying to improve my knowledge of. Can someone explain why it is that a judge in the Netherlands can block the sales of the Samsung Galaxy throughout Europe?
I just can't imagine prioritizing many commands over the <leader> key, which gets a load of use from me. Try space then, I guess.
I actually haven't seen anyone else online using reverse/dutch auctions before, and combining it with Twitter/FB likes seems a pretty cool idea too - double the effect for each bid.
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I hardly use ruby anymore and if I use it I run 1.8.

Are encodings in 1.9 really still that bad -- several years after its initial release.
Is depriving people of social networking features truly evil? It's "Don't be evil," not "Don't do things that people don't like." Now, there may be other cases in which you may be able to correctly accuse Google of being "evil," but I don't think this is one of those.
The content of the orignal post may be questionable, but I feel it was written in a way that would trigger a heated debate. For that, mission accomplished. There has been many wise comments, but they all choose to take a branch of the post to dig into. Not to blame them, as the question raised here is basically:

The software industry has huge impact on human lives
but such impact has not been materialized in terms of
both cash and social status for its practicioners.
True or false?

And it boils down to too many things to talk about all at once. Maybe it would help to break them into sub-topics to make it easier to link the seemingly disconnected but insightful points posted here:

1. Are lawyers and investment bankers overpaid? If they are overpaid, one can't say software engineers are underpaid by comparing to them.

2. So the software industry impacts lives, but is it all positive? Maybe society isn't that much better off with all this digitalization. There is a chance that the total value of the industry is being inflated.

3. Are we concerned that the median and average salaries of software engineers are too low (a), or are we concerned that the elite programmers are not being paid as high as top attorneys (b)? We can solve (a) by raising barriers to entry, much like in other elite fields, but is that a good thing to do? As for (b), elite programmers are now called startup founders. If entrepreneurship is made easier in the software industry, then things seem fair.

4. Now speaking of social status, I think programmers aren't cool because nerds aren't cool, not because they are paid less. Pick a programmer and an accountant with the same salary, and the accountant is more likely to shine in social outings. But if the whole industry raises its average salary, then yes, the social status of being a coder will increase. We are back to the question raised in (3a).

5. About political power, I think this is more of a problem with motivation. To be motivated enough to run for office, you have to be hungry for fame and power. However, it's a good point that the government could benefit from having more top engineers. See a related post: http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2011/08/22/linux-and-the-fina...

6. Is China really on the right track?
We used to have 3 variants of on the record: yes, no, and ok to list as part of roundups (but not to describe in detail). The third category was prone to misunderstanding and abuse so we got rid of it.
I find it quite easy, but my requirements are vastly different than yours. I don't eat meat, so that takes out a huge array of easy meals (burgers, kielbasa, beef stew, etc. [for tips on this stuff, I suggest on-line recipe sites. search for a dish you know you like {"beef stew" or "chili"} and pick the highest rated one. the comments are almost always useful in improving the dish])

Things that I can prepare and then forget about free me up for other tasks. Stews, chili and baked goods are great options here.

Things that take <30min (cooking pasta, chopping vegetables, stir-frying meat in your case) are also awesome when you're strapped for time. My TexMex dishes are also generally quick and take this form: fill tortilla with stuff, include some sort of sauce from a can or home-made, bake; fry; or broil tortilla, eat.

For lunch, I just cut up this week's random assortment of vegetables (cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, sprouts, etc.), layer some hummus on some sort of bread (pita, sliced, bagel, tortilla, etc.), and place vegetable mix on bread.

Breakfast is oatmeal, preferably with blueberries.

I'd say my daily home made meals are pretty average tasting, but, having never really frequented fast food, my stereotype of delicious food is a 20$ or more plate in the North End. Imagining that cost makes my pasta with sauce and cheese acceptable.
Thanks for this; I've often looked around for resources like this that articulate the core Python team's thoughts and near-term goals. This is the best synopsis I've seen.

Unrelatedly, whatever "mobile" Blogger theme that gets served to iPhones on this site makes it really hard to use -- while scrolling down, it's very easy to have a slightly off-center scroll misinterpreted as a left/right swipe gesture (which sends me to the next or previous article and loses my place).
Perhaps because it compiles programs and not expressions? Try wrapping it in a Main method and see.
Ask HN: Should I drop my CS major to pursue being a self-taught web dev?
Hi everyone, and thanks for clicking. I'm currently enrolled as a music/CS double major at a liberal arts university. I've just finished a summer of doing freelance web development, and I enjoy it a lot, though it can be frustrating at times. But as the beginning of my fall semester looms, I'm realizing that what I'm learning in my CS education is far less relevant to what I actually want to do than what I learn from just starting a new project and googling my way through it.

I took two intro classes, one on Python and one on Java and data structures, and I found those to be great. My class on computer structure, and that was fascinating. But moving forward, I feel like I'm heading towards the wrong niche—when I look at course titles like "Automata theory" or "Design of programming languages," they're things that I would love to learn, but I just picture myself working my ass off on some proof wondering why I let myself get so off track from something that I enjoy and can already make money doing.

Am I being naïve, or am I just starting to figure out why so many people say that college is unnecessary? I'd appreciate hearing anything about your real-world experiences that can give me some insight on which direction I should head.

Thanks!

EDIT: I had to shorten my title and I left out an important detail: I'm NOT thinking of dropping out of my university, merely doing a Music major instead of a Music/CS double major. I would likely still take CS classes—there's one on databases that seems very interesting.
> A few of which will serve as an example for the rest.

Africa has always had a few well run countries. Why will their example help more in the future than it has in the past?
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Apple can't compete with Android? That's your conclusion? Maybe you should revisit that thought, I mean considering the mountain of evidence (money) to the contrary?
Yes - We're running a "dutch" auction fueled by sharing out on Twitter and Facebook. It worked really well last week. Trying it again. What do you guys think about the strategy?
IE versus Chrome/Firefox
Yup. You could make a decent argument that a graphing calculator has been marginalized into a $70+ aid for high school exams and standardized tests. That's the one thing that computers/phones can't encroach on.
AFAIK they've never been profitable in my country, though it might be an accounting trick...
It's not just the app icon layout. It should be obvious to any casual observer just how many things Samsung copied: the highlighting on the bottom row of icons, the dots that represent different pages of apps, the overall aesthetics of the handset itself, etc.

Pointing out one of these things and saying "Should Apple have a monopoly on X?" is, once again, missing the point. It's the combination of X, Y, and Z that makes the product look like an iPhone instead of a differentiated product.

Defending this practice with "There aren't many ways to do X" doesn't seem like a very persuasive argument. Before the iPhone was introduced, companies seemed to find a myriad of ways to do these same things. Once the iPhone became overwhelmingly popular, however, companies like Samsung stopped trying to raise the bar and just made their products as Apple-like as possible.

So to reiterate my original point, I think Samsung should differentiate their design functions and aesthetics instead of mimicking Apple. Samsung isn't going to hit the ball out of the park if they keep making conservative bets -- they should take some chances.

But as I said from the very beginning, the common good is better served without all this software patent litigation crap. As much as I think Samsung does itself a disservice by mimicking Apple so closely, it probably should be regulated to a moral question rather than a legal one.
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It could be a consequence of actually building a third of the iphone. (I know the above statement isn't exact.)
If you want a micro-cloud with Perl (and Python), check out Stackato at http://www.activestate.com/cloud. It is based on CloudFoundry, but enhanced with the additional languages and the ability to port existing apps ('run' and 'dbshell' functionality). Stackato has also been available in the micro-cloud format for months, with docs on how you might set up your own internal private cloud.
Economist is not exactly an etalon of unbiased reporting. They have very Anglo-Saxon centred optics.

It does not change the fact, that yes, China is very hostile to Western businesses.
This is precisely why large companies selling big-ticket products/services to the enterprise seem to have clueless hacks as salespeople.

IMHO, this is a big reason why technical people struggle in sales: they're likely to be more honest/open about the limitations of the product when asked.

The less the saleschap knows about the product/service in question, the more he can confidently claim. Also, it helps when the sales function is separated out from delivery and support, as they can ensure that the next pitch is not coloured by those sausage factories.
'Floding@home'

I remember reading plans for something like this (users rent out space cpu, storage, bandwidth) with the name bithive (maybe? this was years ago), but I don't remember it every becoming a reality.
I'd suggest moving forward with your degree. A degree looks good on any resume, and pushing forward with your degree will give you more flexibility in choosing jobs in the future. And, who knows? You may actually find you really like some of those niche topics.
> This looks both real and a pretty serious issue (I wonder how it went by almost a month without getting picked up by the security community).

Followed by:

> Not many people in the security community use Mac servers in such a way that they need LDAP, and of those people, very few are running Lion on their servers.

Therefore, we see that Mr. Ptacek thinks "it went by almost a month without getting picked up by the security community" because "Not many people in the security community use Mac servers".
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For me, it's just an economic opportunity, and entirely separate from the idealogical 'made in the USA' notion.

General purpose, trivially priced computing devices based on open source software and hardware... There is no reason to rely exclusively on established logistical chains at this point, and I think it would be beneficial to establish new (regional) ones.
Thx for the feedback.

Re - Notebook

How do you manage that weeks, months, or years later? Tagging stuff, categorizing, dates?
The Bay Area had many large defense contractors employing a lot of engineers. I don't think that should be underestimated.
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We're are about to start building a internal commenting system for our web app, so I wish we had access to your beta. Looks good from what I see. May be a little too late (for me) depending on when you let people have access.

Side note: as much as I understand the vitality of launch rock, as a pre-launched co-founder, I'm not about to start spamming what little audience I have to get access to something I want to test drive around the block. Good luck to you. I want to try your product out, but I'm not going to mess around with launch rock.
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The market still doesn't care. The requirements just create an artificial shortage of workers, hence driving their earnings towards the value ceiling.

It is said there is a real shortage of programmers, so programmer wages will also be moving towards the value ceiling; which appears to be $150,000 (though I think there is room for debate there).
Your use of the word "only" here is misplaced. This is a very serious security issue that affects clients connecting to OpenLDAP.
It's likely they have been working on a fix "just in case" even before the ruling was delivered.
I would not want to do business with you or any business associated with your line of thinking.
All I would change about my graphing calculator is speed and perhaps a brighter, higher-resolution screen.
Sounds like Europe not falling for Apple’s patent nonsense
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