skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bet that the correlation is much stronger for teacher starting salaries than for the 15 year in salaries that the study mentioned. What really matters is attracting the best people to be teachers, and when people look at jobs they mostly look at starting salaries.

But for some reason in the US we tend to have a very steep seniority based pay scale, with a far greater inequality between old and young teachers than you see in pretty much any other industry. You could argue that more experienced teachers are better, but studies show that experience stops mattering after 5 years, and it was also my subjective experience in school that older teachers didn't seem to be any better at teaching.
The alamo ritz (the one downtown) has showings and events closer to the old alamo. The south lamar one has the larger events (film festivals, etc.) and the same feel. I only go there for movies now, especially since dinner+movie ends up about the same as dinner elsewhere and then a movie for a better atmosphere. They also care about film and use appropriate brightness and sound, unlike most other theaters.
Ask HN: Hiring abroad?
Hi HN,

A graduating CSE-guy here. I've been lately looking into for my first long-term jobs/master's thesis opportunities and been mostly looking outside my recent places of residence;

Long story short, countries tend to have differing practices in immigration, educational systems and recruitment practices. Let's hear yours.

Do you search and hire professionals from abroad? Why/why not? How it usually happens and how often? What are the main obstacles in your process and how do you overcome them? (e.g. visa proceedings, language-issues, interviewing, relocation costs, weird credentials, salaries?..)
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You must be new here. Check out edw519's profile and comment history. It should provide you with a little more context.
On the plus side. I dig the name. Any animal that can chow down a poisonous snake, pass out, then shake it off like it was just a hangover is just fine by me - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c81bcjyfn6U [skip to 2:50]
In a way, isn't this sort of a no-brainer? The service costs little to provide, but it causes more traffic to your machines. The question is, does the increase in traffic and purchases justify the expense? It's still a no-brainer, since these numbers are easy to come by. Run an experiment for a month or two. If it works out, then phase it in for the rest of the inventory.
Congrats on the milestone to those involved - it's great to have something like this available to everyone for free.

On a side note, and not to take anything away from the H-team, I'm pretty curious on how it compares to Google's GFS and the rest of their distributed computing stack (MR, Chubby, etc.). It would be sweet if Google released some or all of these some day.
Start-ups need staff to get investors' cash
I think starting freelancing before you quit is very wise. One of the things about switching from full-time employment to freelancing is that it often takes much longer to get paid, and cash flow is much less steady. It also takes a while to build up enough of a pipeline of work that you stay busy all the time. This all boils down to it being nice to have a paycheck while you're ramping up.
Create an app which can recognize objects as I do and when done it will speak about it more.
Symbian Finishes As 2011’s Top Mobile OS
Yep, no welfare state in Finland or the Netherlands. I hear over there if you break a leg they just shoot you.
What is voxel printing?
Also, there are a handful of VIP theatres. And when I've utilized them, they've always been packed. I'd welcome the price increase if it didn't feel like I was just trading a problem for another.
Maybe this is why Congress is trying to kill the internet?
You can thank Microsoft for making them slightly more expensive than they should've been, though, with their "patent licenses".
Here's the thing, everyone I speaks to agrees that modern movies are mostly crap. But...why, with their big focus group budgets and such, are the movie studios not listening to this? Or is their output really the best they are being pitched?
Augmented reality for the web
Could you explain why please?
Ticket prices are too high.

Yes. When movie prices were at around $6/ticket when I was younger, I went to watch a movie about once a week or two. Now, at $14.67 per general admission ticket (after tax, at Scotiabank Theater in Toronto) and $21.46 per IMAX 3D, it's almost impossible to justify going to a theater, rather than downloading a movie.

I don't know any other industry that raises prices in a seemingly elastic market, while competition increases and gets cheaper.
Yeah - you can get a nice size 2 bedroom in Brooklyn for $2500 a month and be 20 minutes from work by train.
I don't know how many others get this benefit, but I live across the street from a library. It's awesome. Dvds are free for a week, they have tons of old and artsy stuff, they have a great collection of educational stuff (especially the Great Courses -- http://www.thegreatcourses.com), and things you put on hold they deliver to the library of your choice.

On top of that, I most of the time I get out a book or dvd at the same time, also free. Right now I'm borrowing a Richard Feynman book and 4-Hour Body, just because I saw them lying there at the library ... and they're free. If I don't get around to reading them, no big deal.

I have to wait for movies to arrive at the library, but that turns out to help me. Without the opening hype, you choose more based on quality and other people's reviews.

I should be careful talking this way, though. The movie and book people might shut the libraries down.

Anyway, there are reasons the cost of living in Manhattan is worth it. Culture is more convenient than cars here.
Still, MG clearly overreacted, which makes him look rather foolish right now. It just shows how biased he is against Android and Google, that he will make a big problem out of nothing, which is actually very much like he's doing his reviews. Downplays Android advantages, and makes a big deal of some of the disadvantages.
I don't think he's saying that you need to stop using MMX to use AVX. I think he's saying that MMX is old and SSE is much better, especially on x86-64 where you're guaranteed to have at least SSE2.
Most of my work was basic LAMP stack (perl and php). I developed a set of long term clients that relied on me to run the web infrastructure for their small online business, whatever that happened to entail. Usually a mixture of system administration, new development, and maintenance programming.

One of the things I loved about freelancing was that it was really easy to find an excuse to learn a new piece of technology - I just used it on the next project I worked on.
January? I suspect these will be like hens' teeth until about October.
Was just about to mention them! I have been there twice when visiting my sister in Bend and loved the experience and the campus-like layout (thanks to its history). If I wasn't planning to move out west already I would be considering opening up something like that in one of the counties north of NYC.
The funny part is I actually got a good one out of it, Ebay for Resume's. In thinking about it, a site where you could upload your resume and prospective employers could ask questions that you could answer as feedback available to all prospective employers, then they could bid up salary and perks would be cool. It could work, I would not pursue it because I have too many irons in the fire, but it could work and done correctly could be a great idea. It works with market principals because people are going to bid to their relative worth. Companies would hate it, but with unemployment at 2.7% in tech it would be a way to expose them to talent that is generally not available if they are willing to bid for it.

I also got Facebook for Adults, which I took as sad commentary on the state of the world.
I've collected what I think are the most important files. They compress very well because they seem to be very inefficiently stored (lots of repetition). The compressed collection is now on github.
10 Things You Can Avoid by Using Peopledock.

Box.net, Basecamp, Bugzilla, Yammer, MSN Messenger, Outlook Calendar, Plaxo, Flickr, Server Crashes, and best of all, Missing Deadlines.
Accidentally acquired their seed? He grew his own crops, collected his own seeds, and re-planted that seed the next year, like pretty much every farmer in history has.

Monsanto's product contaminated his seeds, through no fault of his own. An apology, not a lawsuit, was in order.
Most recent reason might be this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3322957
Beta beat mostly reports on the NY startup scene. From casual observations .net doesn't seem to be that popular in up and coming technology shops these days. Just a thought, totally inconclusive.
Great blog. This is highly required as since the removal of just in section.
Why is there nothing like like this in the SF Bay Area? It seems to me a theater that served beer and decent pub food would do well in SF and I'd pay a premium both for the movie tix and the food, but at the same time similar quirky places like the Red Vic shutdown.
The problem is that the studios are going to read this and try to come up with even more ways to screw up streaming.
If you don't read his blog, why do you feel qualified to comment on the content of his blog?
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You're drawing weird lines that I wouldn't agree with. It's a false dichotomy to say "Either these people have met this guy and know him intimately or they want to interact with a brand." I didn't know any of my friends very well before I became friends with them, but they still interested me enough with what I did know of them that I wanted to know more. That's not called "interacting with a brand", it's called "interacting with people." I'll probably never be good friends with Paul Graham, but I theoretically could. Nobody will ever be friends with a brand.

People follow Paul Graham because they are interested in his ideas and influence on the industry, not because they "want to interact with a brand."
I'm not incredibly familiar with their setup, but as a consumer i can say with confidence that is not a service that i would pay a cent more than 0.99/mo
agree on Sendgrid. Easy to use, and have great API documentation.
Doh. Thanks!
In my opinion the problem you're describing (people leaving after getting up to speed) has more to do with the HR department controlling salaries. If you get a bit of experience under your belt, and get good at what you do, you've got to switch companies to get a raise that reflects your new level of expertise.

There are some companies that will raise your compensation to reflect your experience, but most won't. And that's the problem.

On the other hand, not training your team costs a whole lot more! Shipping junk products can tank your company outright.
- Designing a game that is fun and intuitive to play with a wide variety of input controllers (touch, mouse, keyboard, joystick).

It was actually a platformer. SDL has great support for Joysticks/Keyboard so that was no trouble. The same goes for JS. As for touch screens, I found a good alternative control scheme that takes advantage of the touch screen. You are still right, but the game was designed to be straightforward enough to handle different control schemes.

- Handling the entire spectrum of screen resolutions, from older iPhones to high-end desktop computers. The game would also probably need to work in both portrait and landscape modes.

Impressive, this was actually major issue. The game requires no specific aspect ratio, so that wasn't a problem. Still, we don't want it to look tiny on HD monitor while looking normal on an iPhone, so the resolution of the images in the game can scale up and down at different sizes (1x, 2x, 3x) depending on what's ideal.

- The QA effort alone could be huge. Testing on quirky desktop browsers or buggy Android devices alone could be a dealbreaker.

No problems with modern browsers, if they supported Canvas, they supported the Javascript that was needed. I admit Android might've been a problem, I can't test on everything.

- I'd argue that the time spent trying to figure out a game design or technical workaround for a particular platform would be better spent focusing on one platform and making the game more fun. In my experience, trying to make a fun game involves a lot of trial and error and iteration, and I personally don't think I could do it if I also had to keep in mind multiple distinct target platforms.

That was actually the original plan. I ended up porting it to some new area whenever I would get stuck on some other problem and got caught up in that part of the project instead because I found it fun. Since the requirements were so intentionally minimal it wasn't very hard. I didn't know anything about iOS or Android development going in for example, they each took about 2 weeks.
Had similar experiences with DreamHost, the server load avg was 13!!! nearly all the time. For 20$/mo, I got a linode and have never looked back.
I'm not seeing why this is rated so highly, its just some android blogger making snarky comments about an iOS blogger and reposting a bunch of hyperbole from a google+ comment.
This is about total subscribers, so I'm not surprised that Symbian is still leading the way. Android surpassed Symbian in new sales since late 2010 and now has about 50% market share for new sales, but it still has a little more to go before it surpasses Symbian's total user base. It's just now starting to surpass the iOS (iPhone/iPod touch/iPad) total user base, too.
Many big sport live PPV events (the closest currently to a movie on day of release) are in the $45-60 range, which is also what it costs for a small group of friends to go see a movie at the cinema. So I imagine that would be a more reasonable price point. Would you be willing to pay that much?
You make a good point about the way a code test can change the "atmosphere" of an interview.

Showing what you've built and explaining how you did it is also probably much closer to how you would collaborate if you were hired. Some might say that it would be too easy for someone to discuss code they haven't actually written, but it's also easy (as demonstrated recently on HN) to just practice common coding tests and pass.

I haven't done many interviews for development jobs, so I don't know how common (if at all) it is to get "please bring with you something you've built to discuss it".
At $15 for a .com, they're almost double what I'd pay at either Namecheap or Name.com.

I couldn't find it easily, but are there better prices for transfers?
Verizon Wireless to charge $2 for one-time payment
Gandi will also do it until Jan 15th:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3404854
Stephen Hawking is seeking an assistant
There used to be one in Oakland.
Ask HN: How many domains will Godaddy lose today 12/29/2011?
Put your guesstimate in comments.
When I hit submit and saw the length of my post I realized the irony :)
Then hes trying to make his point confusingly and over-verbosely.
Android was released September 20, 2008. The first iPhone, thus iOS, was released June 27, 2007. I fail to see how Android predates iOS by years.

*Edit for folks who are voting this down:

I am not making any kind of argument in favor of one platform or another. I am simply commenting on what was said in the parent comment.

The release dates are simple fact. Go to Wikipedia like I did and find it for yourself. Apple got to the market over a year before Google released its first product based on Android.

The first version of iOS was in development for a long time, as was the first version of Android, before the world ever really got to see them. Thus, saying that Android was in development years before iOS implies that iOS was some last minute project Apple threw together. It's simply not true in either case.
Actually I don't mind prequels, sequels, or remakes as long as they are well made. The problem is that they are often a cop out and use the original as the only draw to see a new not so good movie.
Wait, what? Didn't we fix this in Perl forever (8 years) ago? Didn't everyone else fix it at the same time?

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~scrosby/hash/CrosbyWallach_UsenixSec...

How is any modern programming language still vulnerable to this?!
Is responsive web design default breakpoints dead?
I didn't quote anything about TV -- I was pointing out that getting deeper into music, especially of the indie/college radio variety, is an even bigger step into the mire of trying to discern quality/buzz/popularity/etc.
That might be the argument elsewhere in the email thread, but it's not apparent from the actual page linked to. Without any other explanation, I'd go with the assumption that the poster thought that this particular email contained an interesting idea, and submitted it.
My favorite so far is Shakr for Dental Work :D
This is awesome. I use WebRank SEO for this for a lot of stats but the funding info I find myself looking up all the time.
I think this is a reasonable question, insofar as the interviewer probably just wanted to hear that you knew how the "arguments" object works. The base2 library, for example, uses arguments in its format function: http://www.google.com/codesearch#O7TxUbFbPP4/lib/src/base2.j...

Quizzing people on language features seems a tiny bit silly, but I respect it as a method of ensuring expertise in a given language.

edit- I actually don't think it ensures expertise, but it can be a signal of a lack of expertise, so it is a useful method to avoid a false positive on a hire.
The Kabuki theatre in japantown does a decent approximation for this. Seeing a movie there is a quite enjoyable experience.
They are experimenting with that and pricing it more as a PPV event, $30-$50. Not a bad price if you consider a family of 4 or if you have a good spot to gather some friends together.
Is my post or the parent somehow committing this fallacy? I explicitly used the same verb for genetic modification on behalf of both subjects: man and nature. The distinction between the subjects is because bacteria and insects ('nature') will devour all of humankind's nutritional resources if people don't continually labor to prevent it. It's a speciesist distinction, but not a fallacious one.

I don't think it is reasonable to assume anything but heat death will win the resource battle in this universe.
One bullet point missing I think that is important is the democratization of education I think started in earnest this year. Khan Academy has entered the zeitgeist and Stanford and MIT are now opening up classes to the public. If this continues we could see a much more educated and informed public, which obviously is healthy for democracy in the same way these movements are.
I think the biggest thing Google brought to table isn't necessarily the code for the OS, but a platform with momentum that others could easily tap into. I'm sure Huawei could have developed their own mobile OS platform, but convincing a ton of developers to develop for it would have been hard.
I don't know about transfers but new domains get one year free one domain SSL certificates too. I have most of my domains with Gandi and their management website is a breeze.
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Kindle Fire Review, looking through an iOS magnifying glass...
Transferring may be less painful than you think. I'm doing it with zero downtime because my DNS is at Linode, not godaddy. If namecheap turns out not to be the place I want to permanently keep my domains, transfer out will be painless too.

Do it and I promise a high five at the next Salem build guild.

If your DNS is at godaddy see http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/...
No matter which dropdown I choose, I still get the same text: "John...John...John.,Okay.,John.,John.,Look: The Glengarry Highland's leads, you're sending Roma out.,Fine.,He's a good man.,We know what he is.,He's fine.,All I'm saying, you look at the board, he's throwing...wait, wait, wait, he's throwing them away, he's throwing the leads away.,All that I'm saying, that you're wasting leads."

I'll stick with http://lipsum.org - or ~/Documents/lipsum.txt
Kabuki theater At Geary and...Fillmore (japantown)? in SF has assigned seating (pick when you purchase), a bar/lounge, nice captains chairs, and beer/wine in some of the theaters in the evenings. They also have a good mix of movies.
Thanks very much for all the replies. So 3 bedrooms basically doesn't even exist, but 1 and 2 is available. No answers on the school issues.

Is it uncommon then for developers living in New York City to have children? If you have kids, they all go in a single bedroom it seems and there's no room for a home office since there's no third bedroom.

If one is single I can see how it all works, but for those of us with kids I am not so clear. Some have mentioned elsewhere in the discussion that the listed salaries were around $20,000 less than realistic. Even with that, it is still substantially less than I make now, and we have a 4 bedroom with enough land for my wife to grow some vegetables and have a couple fruit trees. I've been contacted from recruiters a few times seeking to attract me to Manhattan. They say it is the new tech mecca. I haven't followed up though or priced property in the area. Looking here though, it sounds like talent would take a significant, perhaps monumental salary and lifestyle hit moving to the area. Just trying to understand how people make it work. Clearly it has a strong draw for many people.
One of the major reasons I don't see many movies in the theater is that the movie companies have made much cheaper alternatives available.

I won't pay twelve dollars a ticket to watch a movie in the theater when it probably will be just as enjoyable at home. That goes for a lot of comedies and movies that lack the cinematography to justify seeing on the big screen. I'll still see the ppv movies and pay to do so, but not at the cost of going to the theater.

The blockbusters mentioned in the article - Batman and Avatar, were blockbusters largely because they were worth seeing on the giant screen and even worth dealing with the cost and hassle of 3D. I'll keep going to films with big visuals, but not the rest.
I know everyone seems to want to pay teachers a higher salary, but in most school systems, they are already guaranteed a pay raise every year through the unions. Even if they did nothing to deserve it.

Most jobs tech jobs start out high, but plateau at a certain salary range (you also don't automatically get a raise every year). If you are a teacher long enough (10+ years), you will get up to the $70-80K range (I know a couple of older teachers that get paid this much). With summers and many more vacation days, it evens out in the end.

If you want better performance, we need better teachers. Because the unions will not allow us to put a measure on performance, the result is bad teachers getting into the system with the inability to fire them.

I'm also finally glad they are putting an end to "rubber rooms". If you don't know what they are, take a look here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/education/29rubber.html

Another waste of our tax dollars that has been going on for years....
I think Hollywood could care less about movie theaters. That said, they can't get people to pay them $10/person to watch a movie at home, so the theater model allows them to take advantage of customers, price-wise.

I think there's just way too much inefficiency in Hollywood -- the video game industry provides much better entertainment value-per-dollar (in terms of hours of entertainment, at least). That's partly due to the medium, of course, but I can't help but imagine that if someone could develop hollywood-like films without actually being part of the hollywood apparatus, they'd be poised to really disrupt that market.
A JavaScript plugin that makes long select boxes much more user-friendly
Thank you for cutting through the bullshit. Especially in developing (not fully industrialized) economies, the power of the web on everyone's phone will change our world.