skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stanford Computer Science '11-'12 Salary Survey Results
CS/EE Undergrads (135 responses; 380 job offers)

95% of the job offers were primarily located in the Bay Area, 5% were from the Midwest and East Coast. 10% of the job offers were from start-ups.

Offers ranged from $65,500 to $92,000. AVG: $79,360. MEDIAN: $ 78,750.

~70% of students were offered stock options. ~80% of students were offered signing bonuses. ~60% were offered relocation assistance and there were others who did not report the statistics since relocating did not apply. Relocation assistance ranged from $3,000 to $10,000 with an average of $3,500. Bonuses ranged from $5,000 to $25,000 with an average of $5,700.

CS/EE Masters (150 responses; 345 job offers)

94% of the job offers were primarily located in the Bay Area, 6% were in the Midwest and East Coast. 15% of the job offers were from start-ups.

Offers ranged from $70,000 to $105,300. AVG: $98,246. MEDIAN: $87,650.

~78% of students were offered stock options. ~66% of students were offered signing bonuses. ~43% were offered relocation assistance and there others who did not report the statistics since relocating did not apply. Relocation assistance ranged from $3,000 to $8,000 with an average of $2,500. Bonuses ranged from $5,000 to $35,000 with an average of $6,325.

CS/EE PhDs (30 responses; 75 job offers)

80% of the job offers were primarily located in the Bay Area, 20% were in the Midwest and East Coast. 30% of the job offers were from start-ups. 5% of the job offers were from a university.

Offers ranged from $133,250 to $146,980. AVG: $143,083. MEDIAN: $140,115.

~50% of students were offered stock options. ~50% of students were offered signing bonuses. Bonuses ranged from $5,000 to $19,500 with an average of $7,200. Relocation assistance ranged from $5,000 to $10,000 with an average of $6,500. However, they may not have reported on all the benefits they received.

Compare with the previous year's survey: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3141716
Only partially.
The real reality is legal documents reuse stuff that the partner liked.
I do believe that Mountain Lion dropped 32-bit kernel support. But Apple hasn't produced a 32-bit machine in years, and every new major version of the OS does tend to drop support for old hardware. The fact that the motivating factor here was dropping the 32-bit kernel is fairly irrelevant.
No matter how long you are on the wrong path, go back
> Same reason as everyone else. People want devices with low power consumption.

People want cars with good fuel economy and tasty, nutritious lunches, too, so why don't we see Microsoft Motors or The Microsoft Café?

I'm not focusing specifically on the ARM architecture, but merely pointing out that using ARM is just another quality of this product that fails to make use of any of Microsoft's existing advantages; the broader question is why MS decided to release any tablet at all in the first place
More precisely:

* Running 32-bit kernel in 32-bit legacy mode

* Running 32-bit kernel (mostly; enough that kexts are 32-bit) in 64-bit long mode

* Running 64-bit kernel in 64-bit long mode

I wrote this blog article because I often see these modes being confused.
spot on.

And leave the deniers be happy in their mindless happy existence.

They may look as good or even better (richer) but it ain't the true thing.
I have emailed you! Thanks for the follow-up.
"Duane Taylor was studying the humanities in community college and living in his own place when he lost his job in a round of layoffs"

Read - this guy was not only studying something with a very questionable market value, but paying through the nose and going in debt for that, when the actual objective truth reminded everyone that indeed was the truth and that there was no way around it.

I'm sad for the suffering he incurred, but it was logical and likely.
Wow, I had no idea Mathew Martoma frequented HN.
I'm assuming these are jobs offered straight after graduating.

I wonder what the trend looks like 5 - 10 years post graduation and whether experience in the field will ever close the gap between an undergraduate and a postgraduate. An extra $60K a year is a huge incentive to undertake a PhD.

I wonder what the level of employment is between different groups.
Perhaps a more important point that I should have mentioned: I can still play Sim City 2000 (published in 1994). Games like this that depend on online servers for basic functionality? I doubt they'll work in 18 years.
A Volt is not a Prius.
This is crap.

> I’m not sure what your assumption was all along when you started using this free service. My assumption was that when I posted the information to Instagram’s servers that I was trading utility

> for control (because I pay nothing for this service, I expect that it could go away at any moment.)

Yeah, we did trade utility for control - but now the control part of the bargain has changed, and that is why people are angry. It was predictable, but that doesn't make people's sense of betrayal any less real.
I think it's very simple: If they truly believed they would never stoop to those "downright villainous things", they would not need to allow for them in the TOS.

Putting the promise in the actual TOS is much more believable than putting it in a blog post.
I tithe 10%. It's $800 every six months.

A cowardly person gives to 3rd world food funds.

A less cowardly gives to American poor charities.

Can give to churches.

I gave to audobon. Bible says God punishes with famine and pestilance -- don't always have to give to poor.

Church buildings might be the only way anybody loves God, not neighbor.

I wanna give to a zoo. I like being an rebel. God wants praise. What brings more praise than a zoo. I like to imagine a tickled God's shining face watching zoos.

----

God says...

of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not among their
brethren.

41:9 Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the
men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, was it which Asa the king
had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: and Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah filled it with them that were slain.

41:10 Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people
that were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the people
that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had
committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the
Ammonites.

----

God gives oil to the poor.

God says...
for released whither suggestions England entering rewards
stay uman love far-distant email don't_count_on_it Difficulty
Sudden experiments important I'm_the_boss retreat recallest
dawned yeah save lends bye cleared wilderness

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"save lands buy cleared wilderness."

What's Yer favorite country in Africa, God?

God says...

48:20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel
bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set
Ephraim before Manasseh.

48:21 And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be
with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.

48:22 Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren,
which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my
bow.

49:1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves
together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last
days.

49:2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and
hearken unto Israel your father.
I sincerely wish you the best, in both your personal life and your career, but "when you have a large skill set and are willing to do anything" you DO find work.

And when you are damn good at what you do and productive - more productive than the "average" mediocre default - you DO get rewarded.

That being said, however being in a weak position is a self reinforcing spiral where you get fewer and fewer opportunities and become less productive. And small hits take a tremendous toll - one who has not experienced what you have should at least read Scalzi's "On being poor" - http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/

Yet for some reason you found the strength to get back on your feet. Once again, I sincerely wish you the best, and hope you can give a hand to other people. We all need help at one time or the other, and it's better when you are on the giving end :-)
a different amount of ephemeral storage, from 160 GB to 3.3 TB

Except for t1 and m3, which have zero ephemeral storage.
Your friend needs a better lawyer.
U.S. Is Expected to Extend Google Antitrust Inquiry
Units foulup. I'd used 0.10ms, not 10ms.
EcoWatch Partners with RebelMouse to Amplify Its Reach, Impact and Engagement
Breaking table-model-controller symmetry
The proof is in the pudding. Let's see the new TOS.
Our first iOS app Any and all constructive criticism is much appreciated :)
My partner and I have completed our first iOS app, GameCall. GameCall makes it simple to notify your friends with your game plans, and keep up with theirs.

There's lots of room for improvement, smoothing things out, added features, and bug fixes but also we'd like to hear what would make this an app you'd use on a daily basis.

You can download the app, for iOS 5+ (US and Canada), at https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/gamecall-social-sports/id521579630?mt=8&uo=4

Thank you in advance for your suggestions!
Dell Buying Security Firm Credant Technologies
I wasn't taking you as sarcastic, nor was I attempting snark in my reply: there are real costs either way, and it's our current judgement that learning how to do a virtualized, distributed stack would be more expensive than getting AWS to do it for us. (But, if I'm being honest, we haven't done any math)

And the < 10ms latency I'm talking about is between zones within us-east; latency to the west coast is a lot worse, but we only have emergency failover capacity in west.
Archive.org often archives internet harassment. What a pain it is for the victims. The people at Archive.org know this happens but don't say anything about it. So, let's add harassment to the copyright theft.

It's an interesting service and it should be done by a responsible and legal commercial entity.

Feel free to down vote me, but, every dollar you spend on Archive.org could've gone to a worthy cause and helped someone. What a shame.
At 100k, take-home pay is $65,278. Closer to 35% "total taxes"
So all it needs it a really good cup of tea.
Well; you say that guns are good because if a revolution is needed is better if the citizens have guns; the problem is that in revolutions the civilians who doesn't want it also have guns; so it gets really violent without affecting any "tyrant".
Well, you could do simple bill tracking. You make a little program that ranks bills you have to pay in order of importance, based on an algorithm you make.

If you wanted to expand it you could do that with fixed monthly bills and an auto-entry feature, but that's totally unnecessary.

That shouldn't take more than a few days. Doesn't have to be clean, just work for you.
Trusting Intuition versus Analysis
Is there a Chrome extension that blocks flash/html5 video on certain websites? That would certainly solve the annoyance.

If browsing facebook is critical to you you can always use perl. http://qscripts.blogspot.co.nz/2011/02/post-to-your-own-face...
I invariably end up reading the library/framework/whatever sources as well, if only to clarify a particular point of documentation or something.

But, when bughunting, there's often the dilemma of whether to fix the bug at the source (and hopefully, submit a patch to upstream), or to work around it (which can lead to horrific hacks) in your app code.

With the former, you're stuck having to deploy custom packages with your fix in until/if it gets accepted into upstream and a new release is rolled, so all too often I've found myself doing both. I don't know what the solution is; even a perfect patch to a superhumanly responsive maintainer is going to take some time to merge and deploy.

On an entirely unrelated note, a superb way to drive yourself insane is to edit the currently installed system version of the package in question, and then forget that you did some time later.
I'm torn whenever I hear stuff like this about my high-functioning (non-mentally handicapped) peers struggling out there.

Half of me thinks: How weak.

Don't they get it? It's not about "money" or "jobs". Those are abstractions. You have to create value. What do YOU do that's valuable? Why should someone hire you? Why should someone pay you?

Can't they see? Quit blaming the economy. Quit waiting to be hired. Bring the locus of control inside. Put in on you. Go to the public library and start learning. Make yourself valuable. With enough determination and will, you will find a way. Or you will make one. Less fortunate people than you have done it. Dumber people than you have done it.

That half of me recognizes that the hard work, the learning, the hours I've put in to get traction on a strong path of entrepreneurship wasn't handed to me. It wasn't intuitive. I make sacrifices, I toil, I struggle, but I make it work. Why can't they?

The other half of me wonders: Why do I realize all that? It's a rather meta though. But... I can't tell you honestly why my life fell into place so that I would be so driven. Why my life fell just so, so I would be curious enough to seek out the books, essays, podcasts, and blog posts that have shaped my entrepreneurial character.

Why was I drawn towards the heroes and role models that I was - business and technology leaders, instead of rock-stars or athletes - who inspired me towards a particular path?

Sure, it has taken talent, drive, hard work, and sacrifice to capitalize on the opportunity presented to me. But perhaps it was the greatest luck of all - the lottery of birth - that gave me those gifts in the first place.
My initial reaction was similar, but, upon further reading, it appears that his only family, his mother, was in similarly dire straits, and thus the option of commuting from home to save money was not available.
While humanities majors are on the lower end of salary scales, there are plenty of assumptions that you made there. For one, "paying through the nose" is unlikely -- one term at Seattle area community college is about $1,300.
Ask HN: Unusual Recruiting Practice?
Hello Hacker News!

I have a question about a most unusual recruiting practice I just encountered that is completely different from what I have experienced in the past two years.

So basically, the recruiter contacts me on LinkedIn with an offer and there was nothing unusual about that.

The unusual part was that it is a long-term contract job where I work as a consultant, with the recruiter helping me find clients. I was offerred to either incorporate my own corporation or I could get a W2 as an employee of their company and they would take out a flat fee from what sounded like a very good up-front amount of cash (but the recruiter was clear that this was because I had to pay for my own benefits and such).

I haven't seen official documents yet and will obviously pour over them and talk to people I know who have ran their own businesses, but in everybody's experience, is there some sort of tricky catch I'm missing here?

Thank you!
Clickable link https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/gamecall-social-sports/id521...
Toosell blog | How to Hold a Wonderful Christmas Party
education. send me a check and I'll teach ya...lol...
I loved this post for its simplicity and practicality and also for its willingness to provoke thought.

It led me to begin thinking about a simple question: can one have unconditional love and still believe that an act is wrong or that the beloved can or should improve?

Since the concept of unconditional love is difficult (and important) to define, I will try to use the term as it was used in Paul's essay. In this essay, Paul first learned about unconditional love when contemplating his small, helpless child. She was doing nothing to earn love, but he loved her.

Now things are getting more difficult. What aspect of his daughter did he love? Certainly it wasn't her afflictions. That is, he never would have even considered that because he loved her in her helpless state she should be kept in that helpless state. Because he loved her, he wanted to do everything that he could to help her heal, grow, and thrive. Paul's unconditional love was for a being that could grow and change and overcome sickness. And because he loved that being he wanted to help her grow and change and live. Paul had a model of what was good (health) and he wanted with all his heart to see his daughter move toward what was good. That is what love is.

We can be sick mentally or spiritually. We can also grow mentally and spiritually. When someone has unconditional love for us they will want to see us heal and grow and thrive not only physically but also spiritually and mentally. That's what love is.

If that's what love is, then if remove from the lover any sense of what is sick or healthy, good or bad, then you cripple the lover and make them incapable of seeking the interests of the beloved. You cripple their ability to love.

So the answer to my question seems to be that not only is it possible to have unconditional love and still have a moral map that distinguishes between spiritual health and sickness, but that having such a map is the only way to love effectively.
Don't forget cut, sort and uniq.

If you have a big csv file, you could strip out all duplicate values in the fourth fields:

cut -d , -f 4 [file] | sort | uniq > values.txt

You could then grep out the records with the particular values of interest.

If a file is too big for an editor, you can still see the record structure with head.
I know how you feel. I count my lucky stars that I consider Elon Musk a role model and Kim Kardashian a fat-assed clown.
UK sets out social media prosecution guidelines
It really depends on the jurisdiction. If very similar clauses have already been tested and thrown out in the appropriate court, then sure, you don't need to worry about them.

If a lawyer is advising you that something is unenforceable, they're probably right.
I think you'd be better off aiming a bit lower. Raising $50k for something as prosaic as a board game seems too optimistic. Would it be possible to make cheaper game pieces? $0.25 for a small chunk of plastic seems excessive when you're manufacturing 40,000 of them. Although the pieces are beautiful: much better than tokens stamped out of a flat sheet and then printed. The $35/box paper costs seem high as well. You could actually just sell the pieces in a plastic bag and tell people to use their own chessboards. If you made a cheaper version to start you could always come out with a premium version later (and possibly make two sales to your really enthusiastic customers).

But good on you for not skimping. If you reach your funding goal I don't see any reason you couldn't ship this product.
Your messaging isn't clear to me. I have read both:

"Notify friends with your game plans and keep up with theirs."

and

"GameCall makes it simple to notify your friends with your game plans, and keep up with theirs."

Neither of those make it clear to me what your app does exactly. When you talk about games, are you talking about sport? Game is pretty generic. I would try to simplify the messaging and make it as clear as possible.

The actual app looks nice from the screenshots.
You are right that threads are not the only way to do it, but there are some advantages to some Ruby applications. The process model is expensive in terms of memory usage. Take a look at the Sidekiq testimonials for specific examples of this: https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/wiki/Testimonials

If you can replace 10 servers with 1 server that is not just a cost-save in terms of hosting, it also makes your deployments so much simpler that you may find yourself doing changes more frequently, as just one example.

The process model also really falls down when those threads interact. That isn't the most common model we see in for example Rails applications - more often we are thinking of either request/response or batch process, in either case its essentially a single thread that only coordinates with others through a database and maybe memcached or redis. When you have large real-time processes the communication overhead can be very detrimental to the process model.

You are right though that eventually you have to take that hit in some form or fashion to scale to another box but I don't agree you should agree to take it up-front for every process you ever develop. That said, I think Erlang is closer to this model (though isn't always serializing on a network) and that has proven to be pretty successful and efficient when viewed at a macro-scale.
If you are in this situation, you can make it out, it won't be easy, but it isn't impossible.

That is an important message for people who in this kind of situation and need to keep persevering to get out. Thanks.

But I would want to caution others looking from the outside not to take the statement as "nothing to worry about, the good people will be OK, move along...".

If we think of the condition of young-adult homeless as stochastic process, it shouldn't surprise us that people get out of it. But the question and the potential problem is if more people are getting into it than get out it. Society as a system, has to consider this.
I doubt the commission will study the 4th amendment constitutionality of the scanners.
I really wish there was a way to: (a) have the autonomy and interesting work of a startup tech founder (while a full-time technologist, not a manager) but (b) without the extreme income variance. If your job requires you to take personal loans, there's something wrong. I also think there are a lot of people who have the talent but not the ability to afford the risk.

The extreme income variance is a bug, not a feature, in my opinion. I'd be willing to sell all upside past $100 million (which would have median value of zero, but reasonable expectancy given the autonomy I'd have) in exchange for downside insurance, because I can't possibly imagine why I'd even want $10 billion.
> We've opted to go with unmetered ports on a cluster of bare metal boxes with 1000TB.com.

FYI http://www.1000tb.com/ is the website for a landscaping company, not about bandwidth...
Midwest tech where are you?
I live in the Midwest (SW Ohio...) and I need to meet some like-minded folks. Where are some people to connect with? I live in the center of the country. You can't imagine how desperate I am to connect like minded folks.
The Immediate Future of Jekyll
Had a chat today with Tom Preston-Werner about the future of Jekyll. Here's what is in the works.
This isn't big data at all. This is stuff you'd use AFTER you've processed your big data & obtained a reduced dataset result that was small data, of the order of a few hundred MB. To process said big data in the first place, of the order of a few PB, typically you are going to use hdfs & at a programmatic level, an api like cascading or better yet, scalding, so you end up needing only that last item D3.js , with everything else existing as scalding source.
A scheme similar to this is why I was reading medical and science journals in the late 90s for background knowledge, then scouring the pink sheets for applicable companies.

In the end, the hits I had were more or less luck, though. And on microscopic levels of investment, so I didn't get rich.
And that's excluding the possibility of 401k, or IRA, or SEP-IRA, out of which you've got to be eligible for at least one.
Photo Flash Maker vs Photo Recovery
Sounds like "mortgage code"... code that is intentionally so complex that noone in the company other than yourself can maintain it, hence you end up with a job for life that pays your mortgage.
It was about time someone proposed the Enterprise Allowance Scheme (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_Allowance_Scheme) again.

RFC 1925: Every old idea will be proposed again with a different name and a different presentation, regardless of whether it works.