skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The simple answer to your question is that those things are hard. While most of the stuff I see posted on HN is cute, it's rare to see something that has solved a truy hard problem. In reality, must people are content reimplementing the same things in the latest flavor of the month instead of trying to solve truly hard problems.
Less can be made a bit easier to read, too.

export LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\e[32m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\e[0m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\e[1;31m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\e[0m'
export LESS=-R

Results in: http://i.imgur.com/MRKEm.png
The Guidelines[1] say it better than I can.

“If your account is less than a year old, please don’t submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It’s a common semi-noob illusion.)”

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Gah, I thought I'd fixed all those odd locations. I'm using Nomanatim for geocoding, which seems to pick up a lot of the 'new world' locations rather than the originals - I'll go through them all again later and fix the wrong ones!
I've seen crap programmers get paid insane amounts of money and incredibly good ones get paid peanuts...

If only there was a strong correlation between programmers self-assessment with respect to their value and what they're actually being paid. That would help everybody and would make salary negotiations a lot easier.
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I don't know about Austria, here it's a case of "well, this is the industry standard, why do you deserve more? - oh you're a foreigner? Just be grateful we even give you a job" (even if you speak Finnish).

So, most employers don't go with it ;-)

I'm quite happy with foreign clients as they pay better and the work tends to be more interesting - the only killer is the different timezones.
I think this is a consequence of the corporate mentality that prevails in Europe. We're still (or at least many of the big players) at the stage at which developers are seen as easily replaceable, as "mere code writers". People do not value our contribution as they should, it's like we're doing something that in a couple of years will be done by robots.
While it's still true that it's easier to find a job in IT than somewhere else, the pay is quite limited in some countries, and unless you are willing to sell your soul to the devil, your career aspirations too.
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You should have seen the inverse ;)

I'm constantly playing with the design and I've also found it can be a bit bright; I'll be looking to refine it soon.
In France the situation is the same. Starting salaries go from 35k€ to 50k€ gross a year. No wonder a lot of students from college start as investment bankers or quant.
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A friend of mine teaches gardening to children and they tried it. After 4 months the bag was a bit thinner and worn but not drastically different. They figured that in a large communal compost it might only take 14 weeks to biodegrade as communal composts are considerably hotter then anything you could have at home.
Re: basic skills. I think we have a big problem with schools. Why don't they teach how to test? Why don't they teach how to debug? Really, what are they teaching that is more important than these basic skills?
I stuck "Nottingham" in the "Location" field, and "Castle" in the "Keywords" field. It didn't mention the castle in the middle of Nottingham :(
Sorry RIM you have to do better than that...
I would hope that he does, but that likely didn't have anything to do with this sell. He has far more unvested shares waiting in the wings.
Thanks. I am looking at something that is very light and small.
Do you know which organisation runs it? I have a feeling that I'm missing a number of English Heritage properties, which I'm working on.
box: rectangle select, alt+e s s

circle: circle select, alt+e s s

I guess it's not intuitive if you haven't done a gimp 101 tutorial for 30 minutes. Here it is in pictures: https://pbs01.wordpress.com/2007/09/30/145/
Uh... what about this one? https://github.com/Kronuz/pyScss
It seems to support compass. Could you report whether it's good, because I would like to get into SASS as well and I'm a python-guy.

edit: in the readme there is even a django example.
This is fully implemented now. Woohoo :)
I think the anger was from Greeks "paying themselves" more than they can afford, and getting into astonishing amounts of debt.

If you can afford to pay 14 months a year it's simply equivalent to an increase in your monthly salary with 12 months, which no one would have a problem with.
Finally – GIMP 2.8 has been released
2200EUR a month is around £21.5k a year, which while in London is not enough to live on where i live (Edinburgh) is on the lower end of a normal wage range (£20k-£25k) for a PHP Developer here.

This is specifically the reason I work in London for 4-6 months of the year as a contractor and do my own thing the rest of the time.
one way to think of it: with your average salary you are propping up all the people not as good as you who still get the same salary. if you cannot feel good about this you then move away from your socialist country. I did.
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I bet he's just trying to troll the troller :)
You might like to pull data from Nerdy Day Trips: http://www.nerdydaytrips.com/ as well.

Also, if you'd like lat/long information for all the UK places in my book, The Geek Atlas, I'd be happy to supply.
I don't think I follow. What is the question?

(To get inverse password you simply reverse the case on all letters.)
Quite; allowing for inflation, developer salaries have been flat since 2001. There is not a shortage of developers, and that is provable.
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Yes, copyright law is complicated. You need to make sure the script used to create a deobfuscated binary isn't a derived work from the original binary, whatever that means (that's where consulting with a lawyer can help).
I seriously doubt that. It's not like most programmers live in a bubble and never have contact with other people.

As a programmer you usually accumulate detailed domain knowledge in a variety of industries. You often end up knowing more about the core business of a company than their individual stakeholders and employees. Programming requires specifications, and often, an IT project forces companies to identify and formulate business processes for the first time. Often this leads to the realization that existing processes are simply broken.

On top of that, you get a feel for how companies work. As an example: internal politics, warring departments battling each other. You see good and bad examples of leadership and management.

In meetings with clients I often feel more like a management consultant than a programmer.
Oh. I guess Google does not monitor if people are bidding for keywords relevant to their business.
You might want to rephrase this as "In Paris".
Yeah, web apps mostly get to ignore stuff like this until they're really big. But then sometimes you're a startup like Akiban Technologies and this is what you do.
Nice suggestion. I made some modifications so this is the new behavior. Child elements are targeted, and content is never overwritten.

```
<div class="fixie">
<p></p>
<p>Hello <a></a></p>
</div>
```
The above will cause only the first `<p>` tag to be filled, and the `<a>` tag.

In addition, you can now use `fixie.init(["CSS-selector"]);` to target arbitrary tag names, class names, and ids. If the tag in question contains text content, it will not auto-fill it (though it will auto-fill children, if need be).
Yes, there is also a strong bias against employing non-natives (or at least non-Germanics) in Austria, orthogonal to the other issues, which was quite shocking after living the previous years of my adult life in the UK, which has a much more liberal culture. This bigotry is much less of an issue (I'd almost say a non-issue) in actual technology companies though. It's telling that the proportion of immigrants among the self employed is much higher than the total proportion of immigrants (though that effect is seen in many countries, and I don't know if it's much higher in Austria).
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Actually, now I think of it, what I would really like is a site a bit like Geograph but for "places of interest" rather than just for photos.

NB Geograph is awesome: http://www.geograph.org.uk/
can can only sensibly offer a salary of 75% of the market rate

I'd happily consider working for 75% of market rate, if I could work a 60% week. Add to that the ability to work remotely and things can start to look really enticing. If on the other hand you expect someone to work 100%, plus unpaid over time, plus be in the office every morning by 8 am, plus being on call, plus an absolute minimum of vacation days, and still only want to pay them 75%, then hiring will be almost impossible.

If you really can only afford 75% of market rate, you can probably still get good people if you're willing to be flexible on all the other non-salary aspects of the job.
As mentioned elsewhere, this is now implemented as `fixie.init(["CSS-selectors"]);`
I don't think they store three hashes though. Just the original one and they check against that. Only if that fails they proceed to verify other variants. There are only two - first letter uppercase (presumably for stupid phones) and inverse password (for caps lock on PCs). Both of these variants are reversible (i.e. you can revert the change to get original the password).
Yes, there is no separate tool specifically for drawing shapes, but, you can stroke any selection or path.
This has been replaced by `fixie.init(["CSS-selector"]);`
Thanks! It's actually kind of funny how small the dictionary is...
Well this looks like the story of nearly developer community no matter which part of the world you are in. Lets face it 'monthly salaries' suck.

Programmers are a unique lot, Well last few weeks I've been pulled up for work on weekends. Almost 18 hour schedules a day. And what do I get in return? Not even a thank you. Its presumed to be a part of my job. Any other profession and unions would be up in arms about bonuses and pay for extra time. But not here, not in our profession. We don't have any work hours, we don't have holidays and vacation, we don't have a concept of over time pay. What we get in return are stupid certificates, mementos and some bravos(as though somebody cares about them).

Compensations in the software world are a huge rip off. There is no co relation between the work and pay that we get.

And please don't tell me about start up's. If you are lucky by any means to end up with good amount of stock, and an another round of luck if the start up is successful then you are OK. But most of us fail ingloriously, spend best years of lives burning through crazy hours, without vacations for peanuts in return. The Start up lottery is what it is, its a lottery.

Over the years my net learning's are:

1. Corporate/Company loyalty is JackCrap.

2. Work only as much as your paid, use rest of your time for personal projects and other ways of making money.

3. Save money, and invest for your early retirement. Never having to depend on employment to make a living post 40's.

4. Make people pay, never do anything for free. Cash counts.

5. Your biggest asset is time. Use your time well to make money, and invest it over large periods of time to make more of it.
I wish there was a completely different word for self-taught people without a formal computer science background.

If there was, the people with computer science backgrounds could stop grousing and moaning, and the self-taught people could get on with using their skills as best they can to improve their lives without being subjected to all the hostility and snark.
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The technique I like to do is read the foreign language Wikipedia. I try to pick articles that exist in both languages. It helps to know the subject a bit so you aren't constantly flipping back and forth.
I knew someone would bring that up. Drawing boxes and circles is easy, first make selection, then fill it. That's hardly a blocker for designer productivity.

Sure there's an extra selection and a tool change but this way it's a lot more versatile than having a simple single purpose draw-me-a-box tool. Learn the keyboard shortcuts and get over it.

Need a pattern filled box? Do the selection and use pattern fill.

Need a box with a circular hole in the middle, with fill and outline stroke. Select a box, then select a circle with difference selection. Then fill with outline color, shrink selection by few pixels and fill with pattern. Or first fill with pattern fill and do an outset/inset selection.

I'm sure Photoshop has a super versatile tool for doing boxes and circles. A real swiss army knife that rounds your corners and does drop shadows. And that's fine. But it's a different design choice than GIMP did.

In my opinion, GIMP is nice because it has simple tools that are composable, repeatable and scriptable. Kinda like the unix philosophy gone GUI.

If you don't grok it, it may be difficult. If you do and don't like it, that's your choice. But don't be impolite about it then.
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Didn't Apple do the same thing themselves with Siri, albeit it was free?
I'm not sure he is contradicting them. #1 is buying more experiences. The more time, the more [potential] experiences you have time for. Take a cab vs the bus. House cleaning, etc.

As for #2, I started backing more projects on Kickstarter. It does feel great to see people doing all sorts of cool projects. For example, I wish I had time [and skills] to make a movie with Blender, but since I can't I'll enjoy it through the work of others.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1331941187/the-tube-open...

Oh, and I'm helping to build a 10" rocket engine!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hermesspace/hermes-space...
Useful, I'd definitely use it. Can you change the background color to something less gloomy? :)
That's ok for a starting salary.
As I see it, it's obviously the former
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Why do you cringe? Do you know what the average price of a house is in MV/Palo Alto/Sunnyvale? Cheapest housing I could find that was decent (not fancy but descent by my personal definition) was just over 2K/month in rent. 6 figures in Silicon Valley isn't the same as it is in most parts of the world.

That said, what I find strange is that experience in software doesn't seem to be rewarded. I keep hearing about fresh grads getting offered nearly a 100K right out of school. How much does a veteran developer make? Almost the same as far as I know.
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That's interesting. Ever since we started our company, we had to go looking for potential clients exactly zero times. We are always working on something or other. All from our existing network. My guess is that there was some repressed demand. Currently, the paycheck is lower than what we could get working with a reasonable company, but it's under our control and (potentially) unbounded.

Not sure if we'd have the same luck working by ourselves (there are three of us) instead of opening a business. My guess is that it brings extra credibility to the table, but I have no data to back it up.

It could be worth a try, if no other reason than to be able to ping your network again, now with the news that you've got a business. I realize that there are some extra costs, but keep it to the minimum. And, if you have little to no income at first, they are not likely to be that high.

Context: we are based in Brazil.
It's gross, not net salary, in the end, it equals to a minimum wage salary =)
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Sorry - missed that. I saw his reference to 5+ years.
Reminds me of http://thisadvertisinglife.tumblr.com/
On the one hand, it's dumb. On the other hand, it's REALLY well observed.
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Interesting - did someone just put this together today? I only just saw http://thisadvertisinglife.tumblr.com/ today which seems to be along the same lines. I'm not sure if it's like a "meme" or which one came fast but themed, curated gifs could well be one of this season's favourite things.
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> No frameworks or libraries are needed, just being strict with how you write your code.

No framework or library is needed, but they help. And at ~5k both Backbone and Spine's DOM-management object (resp. View and Controller) provide exactly the behavior (and shortcuts) you talk about.
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Starting Clojure (mk. 2)
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Good points. At the very least, there are some processes in place such that if you directly bring in more revenue to the company, you generally share in it as a salesperson. Usually not so as anyone else in a company, unless you've got profit sharing of some sort.

It's somewhat worse as a non-salesperson, in that, if you make a sale, you get a commission, and it's yours. The rest of the incoming money/profits go in to the company, but you as employee X generally have no say how the company operates. The profits that should be being funnelled in to XYZ, instead go to ABC, which everyone else can see is a dumb decision, but ... you can't influence it. The salesperson can't either, but they've gotten a direct benefit for their part already (higher/more commission).
...you could even argue that technology has introduced a whole range of problems.

My view is that technology is power and power itself is neither good nor bad, it’s neutral. Power just increases the stakes, how the cards get dealt is the important point. As a society we spend a lot of time thinking about who has what power because we know what happens when you get it wrong. But, strangely, we don’t afford technology the same consideration. What happens instead is that whichever technology is just the right mix of popular and profitable proliferates while all others die. The implication of this belief is twofold:

* there are a whole load of great technologies with no means of generating profit that we will never benefit from

* there are a whole load of awful technologies that are profitable that have a negative effect on society that stick around.
I always forget how much there is in Bristol; this (and any other city tourist sites people recommend) will go in my queue to pull data from!
It is unfortunately not competitive with trading desks which ask for the same kind of skills. It is a vicious circle : software companies pay less, good programmers go to banks, software companies get bad programmers and so feel they don't have to pay well. It is a shame.
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FYI, I have published an equivalent video here:

http://cemerick.com/2012/05/02/starting-clojure/
It's actually $40,000+ because they get paid 14 salaries. Given the other benefits of living in Europe, this is competitive with the US in general (not Silicon Valley) for entry level programmers.
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Handy site, I have noticed the pagination doesn't seem to work though :(
I don't know Pixelmator but I think there's an option for that. In Preferences->window management you can change it from regular window to utility window, then it's just a question of whether your WM cares.
Older languages as widespread as C did survive and will haunt us forever and ever.
I would have killed to make 60k at my first dev job. I made 35k.
I know, the point is just showing that the abstractions themselves are quite simple. I've used Backbone on several projects myself. Maybe I'll add a note at the end.

Edit: Added! Thanks. I should absolutely have added that before posting it.
Ooh, I've not seen Nerdy Day Trips before; I'll have to get in touch and see if they have an API (probably a better chance than the others I've been working on).

Location data like that would be very useful (and I'd be very grateful for it), as it would help resolve a number of issues with geocoding some of these places. There's probably a castle or two that are registered as being in a terraced street, for example :D
Good on them. A little backstory would be great though.
Same thing in Germany and Portugal, too markets I know very well.

The sad thing is then watching the outsourcing taking place, and how the money "saved" in outsourcing, is then spent repairing the work from bad deliveries.

So development cost actually increases, but since now two cost centers are being used, the business costs look nicer on the spreadsheets.
I'm guessing this is not complete? I'll review it like it is complete though, since it doesn't say anywhere if it is or not.

I hope no one uses this in production. Handling SMTP well is all about the edge cases, and this doesn't seem to handle any of them.

This is just a thin wrapper on python stdlib smtpd.SMTPServer, which is itself not production ready. It also doesn't really make it easier. The original API is better. Why are magic decorators better than inheritance again?

Also, monkey patching? Hidden side effects make sad pandas cry. Let me throw up a little in my mouth.

There are zero unit tests for this, and no functional tests.

The original API has better documentation. What are the to, sender, and body arguments?

Below seems a simpler API, and gives you the subject too. I thought humans would be interested in the subject... but I guess not.

import inbox
for m in inbox:
toprint = m.to, m.from, m.subject, m.body
print ("to:{} from:{} subject:{} body:{}".format(toprint))
Does it not work anywhere or in one specific area? I'll take a look into it straight away :)
I think companies can get away with both those things if they have a good engineering culture. That is to say, if they respect the engineers enough to let them have a higher problem solving role than simply implementing what some non-technical manager passes down.
The Press wrongly just focus on one issue at a time. Other problems become side-notes or explicitly ignored.

Any solution to the current focus problem is paraded as a global solution.

But when the long ignored problems finally burst, the Press simply say 'the problem resurfaced' as if it had gone away somehow.

Relating to Austria, their banks were all wiped out lending to Hungary (more than 80% of loans to Hungary were Austrian)

There will be no mention of these zombie Austrian banks until one goes under. (Like Dexia)

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from 2008:

http://www.economist.com/node/12564042?story_id=12564042

http://www.moneyweek.com/investments/stock-markets/the-plagu...

http://www.moneyweek.com/personal-finance/credit-default-swa...
I think the Reddit comment was aimed at the content of the linked website. If only ruining a startup was that easy.
It seems to vary wildly depending on monitors; on my Mac it's bright grass-green, on my desktop it seems to be more of a muted snot. It's on my list of things to fix!