skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a bit of backstory, I had already decided to leave Memphis for reasons that had nothing to do with job or pay, and was literally in the market to go anywhere. Shortly after casting my resume to far broader nets than I ever had (I had interest from companies in London, Australia, Boulder, CO, Bay Area, etc.) we took a vacation to visit some friends in the Annapolis area and I fell in love with the place.

With that, I decided to refocus my job search and someone I'd known years prior hired me on for a security-clearance required position in the federal government at a job I'd never done (but which he thought I was qualified for). Because of the customer, my contacts, and the cost of livings increases, I was paid a salary well above the "2012 average base salary" for a Google engineer per the linked article. Before that, I had made something like $60k.

Except for some very specialized positions (SAP, EMC, etc.) in Memphis, I don't know of any engineers making much above $100,000 (though indeed $100,000 in Memphis is a very respectable salary.)

Since leaving, I've had a number of Memphis-based employers trying to buy me back into the area, but the discussion generally dies when we get into money as, at least from my anecdotal experience, wages just aren't that high around there, and the only large paying employers are those who have successfully commoditized the market (FedEx, International Paper, etc.) and aren't hiring 'rockstars'.

In summation, while I'm sure there are people making what I make or above in my field in Memphis, it is by no means as common as a six figure salary in the valley, or bay area, or in places where there are large IT-based firms that are competing for talent. Even if there were, I wouldn't really have been qualified at the time - at least mentally, having taken a job I didn't feel qualified for and making absolutely damn certain I performed well at it made for interesting times, but ultimately boosted my overall confidence a million-fold.

Edit: I would also be remiss to add that at least amongst my peers, colleagues and family, I was doing fairly well. A lot of that had to do with the TN cost of living.
Awesome work guys, the presentation and design are excellent, top of the line. Some much attention to detail, pixel perfect, I'm really blown away! I'm not into sports at all, but this is inspiring at many levels.
Huh? It makes more sense to use redirects for tracking than to fight it. Why would anyone use anonym.to instead of just turning off referer in the browser?
I suspect that the thoughts people have in space will be of the same order as those they have on the ground. Thus space tourism is unlikely to have much mind-expanding effect. We have profound quotes from astronauts because we don't send idiots into space. Yet.
I don't really like these tools. Developers should be forced to make these options available in default settings.
Are you limited to offering this service to users in the country that Stripe is currently available (US & Canada I believe) or anyone in any country?
I'm not really sold on these kind of self-help articles that tell you how to live, as if there is one way of being happy and fulfilled. Yes, a sense of fulfillment comes from those listed categories but it kind of cheapens the idea when you can point to a bunch of thin pop books on Amazon as the answer to life.
Having the right of way and being in the right doesn't help you if you are dead right.

I don't listen to music while I walk/jog, pretty much for just that reason.
I don't see the threat. This is an only an issue for web users who trust the government more than an arbitrary stranger.
I have explored all these options but a dedicated Linux client would be awesome.
My city makes millions of dollars in easy revenue from installing red light cameras downtown, and they're installing more of them every time I turn around. If you roll over the line, even if you've previously come to a complete stop at the intersection, you'll get ticketed. They're making money hand over fist, along with the operators. Big government fascists love this stuff.
Someone obsessed with details that only support one point of view.

The previous line was important I thought. You have to understand a bit about everything. No point knowing a lot of technical details about something in a business but not understanding where you fit in that business.
Twitter Blocks Neo-Nazi Group's Messages in Germany
I'm putting together a personal budget app based on some spreadsheets I've been using for years. Its not going to be your usual budget app.
humorous as it may be, there is not a lot of substance to this, and therefore hacker news is not the best of fits for it. Really appreciate trying to contribute to the community, but in the future try and focus on things with a bit more depth.
In my opinion Everpad is better Evernote client.
Not to forget that it is 1 token per Twitter account. Many people have more than 1 user account.
Radically transparent research / because knowledge wants to be free
That's unfortunately true - Google seems pretty snobbish with regards to education, just one of their ways of focusing on not getting any false positives in hiring.

That certainly means they miss out on a lot of awesome programmers though - I work with absolutely stellar people who are college drop-outs, and have fired people with good degrees who did not perform.

At least Google's policy gives start-ups more room to find amazing people.
Too, too sexy.
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This seems like the opposite of performance-based compensation. No wonder Hollywood sucks- no one cares how much their movie makes!
How do I control my cache type?
Great to see a fellow Wash U student on here - nice work. One thing - is there any way to export it as a pdf?

I know this kind of defeats the purpose, but some people/companies may still want to print these things out, or at least have them on file where they have a static copy (as in it won't change automatically), so having control over what that pdf looks like might be useful.

Just a minor point though, love the design.
Thunderbolt is in actuality PCI Express and has ample (20 Gbit/s) bandwidth. As far as I know it will be almost like directly attaching a GPU with some minimal latency because of the greater distance.

If not, the next gen optical version will have more then enough headroom.
The little screenshot of someone trying to debunk it with error level analysis amused me. ELA is truly the dowsing rod of digital forensics. Yes, in some circumstances, an expert can probably spot certain kinds of fakes. If they do so according to rigorous and scientifically backed methods, you should even listen to them.

But what most people do is to look at the images, notice some bright graininess somewhere and then say "Aha! look at that area over where it's all bright and grainy... this is a fake!" In short, roughly 100% of the time, if tries to use ELA to support a hoax claim, they are full of shit.
First off, I am fifty years old, so I'm fond of traditional phrases like Curriculum Vitae. That being said... I suspect many people may find it a bit stuffy. Also, I don't think that you can have it both ways: If you use old-fashioned words, you should present it on high-quality paper, lovingly typeset. It strikes me as a little out of place on an interactive web site. JM2C, I'm not sure how you could meaningfully A/B test it.

Second, if you are seeking a programming job, a program is obviously a portfolio piece. Am I correct in assuming that were I to hire you for a project, your preferred approach would be to mix HTML with PHP code that in turn embedded HTML in strings?

If that's what you want to suggest, this is the right approach. If you want to present different options, I would put them to work in your résumé even if they might be a little overkill for your needs.
Right. Correction to my comment above: I meant to separate the tiling wm's out of "trad desktop" distinctions: I don't think the tiling wm is what most users think of when considering desktop UIs. Still, I from what I've seen wm's like awesome or xmonad do a good job of maximising screen real estate and make everything keyboard-centric, which saves a lot of time for developers.
30 minutes for a half charge, or less than 5 for a full tank(with 4X the range)? The time is going to need to be cut drastically(though I'm not sure how without violating the laws of physics) before this business model will be able to gain any significant traction.
At "only" 6x reduction in capacity, you're still looking at $10,000 of battery if you get a Li-Ion battery. I'm not sure of the costs of a lead-acid, but expect 2x the weight of an equivalent Li-Ion, up to 10x the volume, and much less flexibility in shape.

Sure, if you only travel a handful of miles and you don't mind dropping $20k+ on a car with that kind of range, it works. But it isn't a panacea.
Props for using CloudFlare.

Negative for the JavaScript error on the page. You need to load jquery before you load bootstrap.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing

Please don't make a habit of it. I think it is awesome that you are young and programming! I wrote my first kernel module around your age and never regretted learning programming very early. You should stick with it and you will go places.

PS: I'm sure you would have made the front page without the deception.
Thank you everyone who invested so much time and energy creating this tempest in a teapot all over the Internet instead of waiting five minutes for the responsible parties to sort out the right thing to do in a novel situation.
Fair enough, agree to disagree on this one. It's not as if you had just heard from the next Nigerian prince or been offered cheap meds at a low price :)

I personally think a Tell HN with an accusatory tone is extreme - could have checked headers, could have talked in private, could have ignored it, could have edited your bio to flame me specifically, could have reported spam on your email client, any number of things - but whatever floats your boat works for me. I did reach out after all so you're free to do what you like in return.

But as I've said earlier, sorry I inconvenienced you so much w/ my little email. Have a great weekend!
All the hate for these cameras is pretty much justified, but all that said, there's still a 100% foolproof way to avoid getting a ticket from a speed camera.

It rhymes with "Won't Screed"
That is a bug in the lights, not the drivers.
There is no shame to kid games
But is it enforced?
Judges don't have any patience for technicalities in matters of fact.
They want to confirm your identity.
This is why I feel you need to be really precise when talking about science. As you said, "mass" refers to "rest-mass". So I can't help but feel that your original statement is really just a play on words to try and trick people.
Excellent! We try to empower local businesses with good software and we like what we do - Local is super-challenging and very broken which in turn makes it fun to try to build stuff for. Plus customers pay on Day One, which is always nice.
The cameras themselves have blinding flashes in some municipalities.
Probably correct. And probably a bad idea to blind it with laser pointers too. But as a person concerned with the continuing erosion of civil liberties I get a bit frustrated.
Hey, Shazam there's an almost "free" prize waiting for you.
Just make an app that hooks into you calls on demand and records & forwards suspected robocall's to match them against validated malicous ones.
Someone else might figure out the telco backtrace part with timestamps and so on.
Speaking of radiotherapy overdoses, gnosis above provided an article about some more recent cases: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/29/health/29radiation.html?_r...;
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Wait till you see these new video-type cameras coming out.
Cool to see somebody else who was @ startup weekend CoMo. I thought your idea was one of the better ones in terms of actually having a revenue plan. Are you still pursing it?
As opposed to racing to the bottom?
Ask HN: Any speech segmentation API's out there?
I've been working on an idea for an MVP that leverages speech recognition, for which there are a few viable API's. However, I'm interested in not only speech to text, but also determining the timing of each spoken word relative to the input audio. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find any good resources on how to accomplish this.

Any ideas on where to start?
So, as someone who's never been involved or close to the sale of a heavily funded startup, this sounds on the face of it similar to taking equity in a startup that then raised more money and diluted that equity and then was sold in a deal where that equity ended up turning into nothing—I've read a fair number of stories on here that toss around terms like "preferred stock" or whatnot, but still don't really know how the sausage is made. It sounds an awful lot like this, though: the people who put in the most money also have tricks of making sure they get paid, while most of the people doing the work don't have the clout to get in on it.
Not necessarily: If an advertizing slot was unsold and filled with self-advertizing, then the opportunity cost was zero.
As I've said in the rather giant tome above I've done 100+ of these so forgive me if it's not on the tip of my tongue. I went back and looked at your submissions and it must have been the fact that you have a lot of Ask_HNs, a couple about RoR but mostly about lots of interesting technology stuff. It's hard to gauge anything after multiple conversations, much less from a submission feed but I generally get along well w/ folks that ask a lot of questions, are very curious and ask for help freely into various communities.

In this case, I was rather wrong :) well hell, can't win 'em all.
Group-by considered harmful
I'm sure Google's PNaCl ARM solution took this long only because they were waiting to have an easier technical time of it with A15 cores and hardware virtualization. My bet is that they've saved themselves a lot of hassle and gone with implementing a lightweight hypervisor for untrusted native code.
dunno, I try to point out that irony every time I'm in line there..
Has the Rise in American Inequality Been Exaggerated? [pdf][2009]
Unready is one thing. Unwilling is something else - and seriously underdiscussed.
Thanks! Which team did you compete with? The project is on the backburner at the moment as I'm wrapping up midterms and interviewing for a job. One of the GPs in my VC firm put me in contact with some great tools for getting better margins, so we have the resources to continue pursuing it. It is just not a priority at the moment.

Also, did you see the article I wrote for the business journal about the event? http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/blog/BizNext/2012/10/comm...
Whoops, corrected. Thanks.

Also, I'm a huge Cloudflare proponent.
I, for one, would love to get one of these on my corner. We get a lot of people speeding past the elementary school, blowing through the stop sign, and occasionally plowing into my fence, because they're trying to save twelve seconds by avoiding the traffic light a couple blocks up.
"Give me 5% of gross"

"No. We'll look for another director, there are thousands"

"Okay, I'll take 5% of net"
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I totally agree. That was the main original thing I saw and I'll be looking through the code to see how those are generated or if they're just static.
I love the concept and the design. My suggestion to Drew is to post screenshots of forms or – better yet– actual dummy forms on spacebox.io's home page.

If I hadn't read the post, the actual website wouldn't have indicated how great this is.
I love this. It sets a realistic expectation for the vast majority of entrepreneurs. Odds are, you're not getting VC funding. If you want to be an entrepreneur, which should mean you are inherently risk adverse, get to revenue/profitability/CF positive as quickly as possible. Again, with the odds of landing VC funding so low, if landing VC funding is the foundation of your business plan, odds are you are fucked and so is your business.

I own a B2B SaaS company that only took $20K from an accelerator, and we have just recently hit $1M ARR. Outside of the $20K, we did it through blood, sweat and tears. No angel money, no VC money. Not that I'm opposed to outside money, but I liked the challenge of CF financing a company (wasn't always easy), but our initial product fills a niche and doesn't ramp up to the $100M in 5 years that gets the VCs' investment weenies going. Instead of spending the potential enormous amount of time that it could take to raise money, we decided to just build a business. And we are doing that shit...
I like the way you outlined your skill levels using progress bars. I've always found it tough to describe how good you are with a certain programming language. Saying "proficient with Java, PHP, etc... doesn't really attest well to your skills.
Time Bending Lets You Get Everything Done And More
A Brief Guide To Bravery
Not sure what you mean by "enforced".

Do cops currently do thermal scans of random citizen's homes? Probably.

Can they go to a judge and say "the thermal scan says this house has a marijuana grow-op in it, give me a warrant"? No.
Microsoft keeps blowing it
> Your point has gone missing.
I get that, but I thought that CAN-SPAM required one-click unsubscribes.
In this case, enforcement doesn't matter quite so much -- if a heat scan counts as an illegal search, the evidence is inadmissable. Illegal searches happen all the time, and for most people there isn't much recourse. The fact that evidence gathered through illegal searches is generally not valid is usually enough to discourage illegal searches to the extent that the cops are more interested in building a case than they are in harassing you.
I'm unique by virtue of exhibiting extremely improbable input/output relation, but I don't think my biology is unique - I've probably just gotten it stuck into an uncommon state.

My ex was an MD. At some point she told me "well, I'm going to eat what you eat for a few weeks to show you that you must be eating more than you think" (She was studying for exams, and we actually ate almost every meal together for a few months). She started having blackouts after a few days, continuously feeling starved, and stopped the experiment after less than two weeks.

What did she do afterwards? put a big SEP field over the experiment (and my food input). What did other nutritionists and doctors I consulted say? One called me a lier (about a few things; all of which -- except my food intake -- I was able to prove him wrong). Another said I should start eating meat (I'm vegetarian) - not because I'm missing anything, but because he couldn't find enough relevant statistics to compare me to.

My BMR _was_ reduced, but I didn't have enough money at the time to spend on getting it tested. But my body temperature in those years was ranging between 35.2 and 36.2 celsius (normal is 36.7) -- obviously I generated much less heat.

Just about _everything_ you know about medicine and nutrition is statistics that works for 90% of the population 99% of the time. I'm (un?)lucky to be stuck in the 1% of the time and 10% of the population in many respects.

I'm not sure if I should be annoyed or amused of how religiously people tend to assume nutrition and medicine are hard sciences like math and physics. (See my long reply to jacques_chester above for deconstructing his popular argument)
I opt out, too.

>"So wait, 3oz of fluid in a 3oz container is okay.. but 3oz in a 5oz container is not? Is it more dangerous for some reason?"

As much as I dislike the current set of rules, I feel that if you going to have rules, then you need to make rules which are enforceable. "Containers 3 oz or less" is an enforceable rule[1]. Is it dumb? Yes, because a 3.1 oz container is no more dangerous (certainly not more than around 3% more dangerous) than a 3.0 oz container. "Containers with less than 3 oz of liquid" is not not an enforceable rule. How can the TSA person quickly assess the volume of liquid in the container? He or she can't, which is the problem. You could, of course, give the TSA agent the discretionary authority to allow larger containers with "about 3 oz of liquid," but that's just begging for an equal-protection lawsuit.

[1] Actually, it's not, because, as far as I can tell, the TSA determines the volume of a container by the declared volume on the label. If you really want to bring 5 oz of shampoo, you could probably just make a funny-shaped bottle with a label that says "Shampoo, 2.9 fl oz". Though it would be pretty easy to measure the volume of the entire container via water displacement ("Mr. President, we cannot allow... a thick-walled-container gap!")
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Cool article! I wrote some Javascript/iOS code for the FundRunners project. We only had six people, ;-)
Btw if you're interested in a complementing piece of code, I have a small library [1] would give you the country for a given phone number (e164), so it could be used to prefill a default country value. It's not returning ISO code but I was planning on adding such feature.

[1]: https://github.com/pdeschen/e164.js
In the U.S. "curriculum vitae" has a specific meaning, which is to convey the research interests, history, and publications of an academic researcher. They are typically several pages long.

This is not a curriculum vitae, and should be called a resume. Particularly since the guy is still in academia where they tend to take their bureaucratic nomenclature very seriously.
TRIM/UNMAP. A common problem with SSDs is that a host file system could erase free data but didn't have a way of telling the storage device it no longer needed that data. The TRIM/UNMAP interface lets the SSD clear the LBA (logical block addressing) entries in the FTL, giving it more free space to use in garbage collection and reducing write amplification. OS/X, Microsoft Windows, and Linux have implemented TRIM.

FreeBSD has TRIM support, too.
Not a big fan of the article either, but I think there is some benefit to at least trying to develop some skills outside of your core skill set. This is not necessarily to get good at those skills, but to develop empathy for others who've decided to specialize in those skills.

For example, I've personally realized that management is not really my thing, but having done it for a while I understand better now where my ex-managers were coming from and feel that I'm now a better employee because of that. Same for design work, etc.

And frankly I wish other people did that too. Wouldn't it be great if your manager understood your explanation of why that "tiny" feature will actually take weeks, or the designer keeps potential code complexity in mind when designing something? I think this advice applies to everyone, not just programmers.
Did you get to the "gradual seriousness" and "corn syrup" connection the author somehow made?