skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would seem to be the case à la Fisher. But the evidence from Japan, a slowly, albeit steadily, deflating advanced economy is compelling.

From January 1995 to January 2010, Japan's CPI (2005=100) has fallen from 100.8797 to 99.5851, or or -0.08% per year. In that time, real wages grew 0.23% [1]. Real GDP/capita at 0.61%. Hell, from 2010 to 2013 their CPI has fallen at 0.27% annually, but the hit has been mixed. Note that the Japanese monetary base (M2) has expanded at 2.5% annually from 1995 to 2010, so this is a demand-driven deflation, consistent with Morana. But the deflation we base our analysis on, the Great Depression, was similarly spurred by demand.

Similarly, Germany, through the Hartz reforms, engineered a wage deflation at the beginning of this century. Helping power the American recovery is wage deflation. The hope is austerity, structural re-alignment through deflation, will similarly fix peripheral Europe's bloated labour costs.

Yes, it appears people will take falling wages if forced. All this said, I do not believe a deflating national currency is the right model for Bitcoin. Instead, look to arguments levied as the world switched off gold, an international deflationary currency, to inflationary fiat ones.

[1] Own calculations from St. Louis Federal Reserve Economic Database
Pay for the "Economy Plus" seats. They're like $20 more on Delta, and you get 2-3" more legroom. Totally worth it.

But in general, airlines like tighter seat pitch as it lets them (perhaps) get another row into the cabin, and that's another 4-9 passengers per flight.

Seatguru has a sortable grid of seat layout. I won't be on airberlin anytime soon (29" seat pitch, no way!)

http://www.seatguru.com/charts/longhaul_economy.php
And this kind of comment is what happens when people lack respect for those whose experience of life is different from their own. Do you believe that their experience is less valid? What are your objective criteria for deciding this? Differences are just that - they confer advantages and disadvantages against the population average. The weight of balance may fall either way, who are you to declare that without experiencing it?

I find the point about autism especially rich, given that it must be understood at a spectrum, and in a forum such as this, most of us likely sit waaay closer to the end you deride that the population average.
Windows Phone has had a lot of these features for a while now, is it just chopped liver?
More generally the issue seems to be that if two different loop counter values j1 and j2 write the same thing to shared memory, then all the writes made by values between j1 and j2 are masked from this kind of testing. This seems like a potentially common case, especially with long loops and / or few possible values to write (e.g. booleans).
Then I'd take a look at Azure.

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial/?WT.mc_...

If you want more info drop me an email.
Wow, off topic I know but this is the kind of question and responses that give me faith in HN (and online communities in general) being a useful resource for people to participate in. This is a real world problem of someone who has had the courage to ask for help and they're receiving some decent responses and encouragement. My only words are yes I would say you are underpaid and I'm sure there's a better job out there for you so good luck with the job hunting.
Yes! There's a single build environment (RosBe) to download (for both Windows and *NIX), then you just need to do an svn checkout (svn is included in the environment), and then make a patch and submit it for some bug.
In the UK at least, I had to be VERY careful about why I said we weren't considering an applicant, because it's a legal minefield. Which kind of precludes giving detailed feedback.
Is there any indication that FB plans to buy Opera in the (near) future?
I read the article, and disagreed with half the message. The first (Specificity is important) was very good, well defended, and made me think about how I use language in my life. The second (O'Reilly is a shill for Rand) was soapboxing about a topic the writer didn't appear to understand.
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Here is the one sentence summary of your argument: "Aereo is free to use their technology, just as long as it is not in any of the ways that would be useful!"
From what I've seen, the middle-aged men like yourself tend to end up as managers rather than "code monkeys". The pay is often higher and the demands of keeping up to date with technology is less critical. But that just my personal anecdotal evidence from the companies I've worked in.

I think as long as you can code (you said you're not a natural, but I trust you're still at least average at it) and you have a desire to push yourself (which does come across), then there's no reason to stop coding. After all, who wants to conform to trends ;)

My main bit of advice (and something which I'm sure doesn't need to be said), is make sure you have a back up plan in case your passion doesn't translate into a profession
So what happened to the dare? It seems there are more rabbit holes than would allow one to push out a full PacMan clone in a single day.
You're getting screwed at £15k, I've never been paid that little for developing web.

For reference, my salary history over my 6+ year career is as follows:

£20k->£26k->£45k->£450-£600/day

Note that I am a totally average developer, nowhere near as smart or knowledgable as a lot of the guys here on HN. I have a CS degree, barely (I got a 3rd), so that helped at the beginning, but most of my luck has been thanks to an extremely welcoming market.

If you have three years experience, you should be clearing £42k, if not £45k. I don't know much about speech impediments and how easy/hard they are to fix, but in this market, trust me, you can achieve £42k+ for fizzbuzz and a pulse.

EDIT: Modified figures in last paragraph on account of OP having three years of experience.
It would have been discriminatory if there was no reason to charge them for being obese other than the fact that they are obese. This is different - it literally costs the airline more to fly if you weight 50-60kg over the average. Your car uses more fuel as well, that's why he gave this example - roughly 0.5L/100km for every additional 50kg inside the car. It's not a discrimination thing, it's just technical fact that the airplane uses more fuel the more you put in it.
Drop me a mail if you're interested in working on visionary products.
Thanks, but I don't see how Azure solves the problem. What is Azure goes down just like CloudSigma, how would that keep our site alive?
> is there a job market for a middle-aged developer

Yes, it's called entrepreneurship.

You are a programmer. You can make value by wiggling your fingers.

The solution: Build a micro product, turn it into a freedom business, and fire your boss.

http://fourhourworkweek.com

http://lifestylebusinesspodcast.com

http://startupbook.net
Well said. Matching a candidate to a company isn't just about checking off a list of technologies and skills.
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If that were true, then it should be possible to have a wealthy country without letting people become rich. It's not.

Yeah, 'cause every beggar or migrant worker (that make up most of the population) in the petro-sheikhdoms, is secretly a millionaire.
> So you've traded one big company for a bunch of other big companies?

That's neither fair nor accurate. Tom's running his own email server, which is a huge chunk of privacy right there.

Distributing your identity across multiple companies means, at the very least, they've got to do more work to create a unified profile of you. One of my major beefs against Google, and a reason why I separate my own use of the company's products among different (or no) identities and browsers is that its usage profile is drawn across such a wide range of products. Google knows my search, my social, my video viewing, my maps usage, my email reading habits, and more. That's ... fine until the regime changes ... or gets pissed off at me.

I've started thinking of ways in which the FreedomBox (plug-based cheap computers running Debian and largely self-configuring software tools) could take the place of most of the present generation of cloud computing. The compute power and raw storage are effectively trivial requirements to meet. Distributed storage for redundancy slightly harder, but still very doable. The real key is bringing down the configuration and management elements to the level that Joe and Jane Average Internet User can just plug and play. And I suspect it's not too far off. A few years, but not much more.

Whether or not people will buy into it is another matter, but as with Linux, if enough do, it won't matter, and even if this means that small hosted services exist, the idea of separating out and federalizing people's data would be an advantage over the present regime.
Goodbye Livemocha. So RS have decided to try and remove some competition. Who's next in line?
Autorunning tests is cool, and great for TDD. I usually just use Guard for that, but I can understand why they would build their own thing to suit their needs better.
Morozov didn't disappoint, the last 8,000 words were devoted to ridiculing Libertarians.
When you have high expectations and they are not met (or sometimes even just have the appearance of not being met) that feels a lot worse than when you have low expectations which are met.

Hence if Google does something even close to being interpreted as being evil if you squint hard enough, they are ditched in favour of Facebook. If workers on iPhone production lines have tough working conditions, even if they're better than the working conditions on the Samsung lines and are better paid, you still get people swearing to buy a Galaxy next instead.

It's just human nature.
Yes, underpaid (massivly).

Firstly are you sure the companies are not employing you because of your stammer? Just checking your not going to interviews and putting your feet upon the table etc (thats not going to get you a job).

To be honest many companies I have worked in have had a range of people and abilities but at the end of the day what got you the job was your ability to turn out code.

The best thing to do is apply for positions and arrange the interview, at this point let the interviewer know about your stammer.

More importantly if they know in advanced then they will be prepared. Let them know what can be done to make the situation easier for you and for them (i can guarentee they too will be feeling very awkward).

What will also help during the interview is to tell them how best to help you manage your stammer.

A friend of mine can speak a lot better down the phone than face to face so at his work place his boss uses the interval phone system or instant chat to work with him.
Just want to emphasize my point on money not being a factor in your decision. Consider you could be getting paid $8500 by working for <big company x>. That's $9000 over your summer, peanuts compared to your life earnings. Don't sweat it, you'll have the awesome experience of working for a small startup (something I never did), and probably make some really good friends. Enjoy life, you're getting paid many multiples what people with college degrees are making :).
You've got to be kidding.
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> Sounds dodgy from a Google perspective republishing other peoples content

Actually, it is just publishing compiled facts. It might violate the ToS, but it probably doesn't violate copyright.
> The carrots were tasty but small, and we didn't get any squash, peas or Brussels sprouts.

Not surprising, those are amongst the hardest to get right in my experience.

Peas are a pain - you do need good trellis work for them, and to spend time securing the shoots. I still struggle with carrots, if you figure out any tricks let me know! :D

I suggest trying courgettes; they are a little easier than squash to get good results.

> One of the highlights of our summer was the period when everything aligned

I keep meaning to find time to build an app to track that sort of thing. It's my one pain point because I am a useless planner :P and so it is often more luck that judgement when thins come together.
Believe it or not, Airbus is working on it. Regular people will get smaller seats than they do now, while fat people get wider seats.

“Airbus recently said in a press release it will offer extra-wide seats on its A320 planes, "providing adequate space for those who need it, while giving airline operators a new method to generate additional revenue." Instead of having three 18-inch seats in a row, the new arrangement will have one 20-inch and two 17-inch seats.”
Thanks for the link, I will take a look
I'd second this. I've never been a fan of this sort of gardening - but in an apartment it works, and is a hell of a lot easier than pots full of soil :)
I find Here.com to be better than Google Maps FWIW. Outlook.com to be better than Gmail.

It's weird because product-for-product, Google has great web services but their issue is that so much of the UI is dedicated to advertising that it makes the overall experience worse. Here.com is owned by Nokia but there is no indication of that apart from a tiny copyright notice in the bottom left of the page.
The BRAIN initiative
"there have been protections against copying creative works pretty much as long as it's been possible to copy creative works"

Funny how in ancient times, there were cities that required that any books brought into the city be copied and stored in the library. It was because of the copying activities of monks and scholars that we have man ancient works, and nobody complained about them copying things.

Restrictions on copying entered the picture because of censorship. You talk about the pre-Statute of Anne copying restrictions as though they had anything to do with the creators of written works; those restrictions existed solely for the purpose of censoring authors. The side of effect of those approaches in English law was the creation of a large, powerful publishing monopoly, which is how the Statute of Anne was created in the first place (the lobbying effort was led by and almost entirely consisted of the businesses that had benefited from the previous system).
Will you be interning in Seattle? If so, you're likely getting an equivalent deal to $8.5k in the Valley. Washington has no income tax and a way lower cost of living.

Even if not in Seattle, the difference between $6k and $8.5k is negligible for a 3 month internship relative to your life earnings.
Genetically transmitted brain chemistry may well be involved, but sleep is necessary for all kinds of brain chemistry, too.

You can't have one without the other, perhaps .. perhaps, the reason we have the genetic scenario now, is precisely because lack-of-sleep, or at least sleep-culture-effecting-brains, has been an environmental factor over the period of our evolution where such things mattered.

I think the entire point is, if sleep helps you focus, then for goodness sake: get the proper amount of sleep.
Yes, this non-transparent pricing, and weird discounts you can maybe ask for if you know how to ask (and if you figure out who to ask) drives me nuts. Sometimes you are better off being billed via your insurance; other times you're better off not using your insurance (even if you have one) and negotiating a cash price. And it's often hard to tell which one up front.

Supposedly one of the downsides of more socialized systems are that they're bureaucratic, but I think the U.S. system, whatever you want to call it (it's not really either a functioning market or a properly socialized system) is somewhere near Peak Bureaucracy (certainly more than Denmark's, where I now live). It doesn't help that everyone bills separately: if you ever have to visit a hospital, you will get something like 15 different bills, because everyone from the anesthesiologist to the surgeon are apparently independent contractors, or at least bill that way. And you have to go through the same opaque negotiation process with each of them. And many of them are sloppy and contain errors, e.g. billing you for things that insurance actually should have covered.

I'd be fine conceptually with a model where catastrophic care is insured and smaller expenses are paid for out of pocket. But then I'd like: 1) the catastrophic care to actually, 100%, guaranteed be covered, without loopholes, lifetime maxima, excluded conditions, etc.; and 2) the smaller expenses to be priced transparently up front.
Perhaps, though he states "In this area, it’s unfortunately hard to dispute that general-purpose scripting languages like Perl, Ruby, and Python, have much better language and library support in this area than any of the data-specific languages."

It's also highly likely that most analysts reading this article know lots about Python (and Ruby), some about R, and little to nothing about Matlab, Octave, or Julia, unless they have an engineering background. (Yes, some analysts do have backgrounds other than CS/Eng/Physics!)

So, I don't think it's glazing as much as it's trying to focus on the new and not the "yet again, someone telling me how to use Python for data, when I want to know if there's something even better...".
If the host running the VM fails (or is failing), it will move the VM to another host. You can also create a copy of the VM, store it in another Azure data centre region. Spin up only if the other one goes down. You could even script it as there is a REST API.
Thanks for your help. I hadn't thought about applying for bigger companies and disclosing, that should help and put me more at ease.

I have a personal website and github account which should show what I can do too.
Did the nailbiting thing work?
Why do tech neologisms make people angry?
Okay, I'll write that review:

No.

It's unstable, it lacks support for any filesystem but FAT32, it lacks meaningful driver compatibility with Windows, it doesn't support multiple users, it doesn't support major APIs like thread pools/WMI/WDDM, its TCP stack is nascent, there is no SMB support...

I want this project to succeed, but it needs a lot of love to get there.
In fact, they're all available apart (currently) from episode 3 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rglcy/episodes/guide
Great post. It's a trap I tend fall into myself far to often. And it's the same direction as DHH's famous rant about winning in Vegas.

It's a virtue too rarely seen, that you should try to solve a problem with the minimal set of code possible.

Everything should be as simple as possible., but not simpler. (Sometimes attributed to Albert Einstein, even if he probably never uttered the exact words)
Totally agree. There has been so many helpful and encouraging responses!
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One option would be to partner with an experienced freelance developer that has work they are looking to sub out to someone else. They can then be the client facing side of your development skills.
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He didn't ask "where do I donate 60% of my money". You answered a different question.
That's a great talk. Meritocracy doesn't really exist, but it's good to strive for it.
Funny. Replace the word "Python" with "R" and you get the same thoughts I had.

In some ways, I wonder if Julia is creating more silos instead of having these smart folks work to integrate the wonder of Python with the vastness of the R library... Dream the impossible dream.
The good old "it's over diagnosed so it must be made up" argument.
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Every so often a site hits the homepage and gets taken offline. Anyone got tips on how to test a site for load before it goes viral?
Isnt rosetta stone a paid service ? LM was free if i remember. what alternative is there as free service for learning languages ?
You are right. I was being a bit glib about my age.

I would be interested to see a breakdown of cost of tuition, total student loan debt, interest rates, etc. for college graduates broken down by career. I'm sure that in order to be doctor and a lawyer, the college degree is necessary. But I would wager that for most other fields it isn't. Or at least not a premium price.
Do you have any proofs of correctness for this at all? You claim to be able to detect almost all data race conditions, but I don't see much evidence for that in the blog post.

Is all of the necessary work being offloaded to Valgrind?
To me this smell like paranoia for paranoia's sake. No real valid reason for it. So Google track you. Everybody tracks you. Its the nature of the web. If you don't get tracked you will still see ads. They'll just be random. At least you have a chance of seeing something you might actually be interested in. And really the bottom line is that all of this internet-scale costs money. And since we are a bit touchy about paying for stuff we take for granted these days, like 'search' and 'social' or 'maps', we might as well accept the ads and get on with it. Why would I want to use an OK service for maps or translation when I can use a Great one from another provider even if they track me.
(by the way, should we tell him that Facebook, Yahoo and in future most likely DuckDuckGo too, tracks him in the same way or let him figure it out by himself over time?)
One thing I get a lot of is that working at Google is somehow a mark of complacency, and that as a smart young person I ought to be out founding companies. Chris Dixon has a post entitled "Every Time An Engineer Joins Google, A Startup Dies" in which he argues that Google and the like stifle innovation by ensnaring people in cushy, comfortable positions.

I definitely get that, and I do sometime think that the safety of working at a place like Google is addictive, but on the other hand, I'm basically a child in this market. I've almost never worked on anything for more than the two weeks it takes to complete a school project. If I were to go out and work at a startup and get saturated with the "disregard quality, acquire technical debt" mentality, I'd never become a respectable engineer.

I don't want to be mocked because I value technical experience over adventure.
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“Pay for the "Economy Plus" seats. They're like $20 more on Delta, and you get 2-3" more legroom.”

I wanted to try that last December, traveling with Delta from AMS to TPA. Turns out, it was $120 more for each leg of the trip. So no, I chose not to, even though I'm 6'1". Instead, I got a seat at one of the emergency exits.
As it happens I also used to run a developer recruitment startup (CoderStack) in London, so I'm intimately familiar with the market.

While there are certainly companies trying to hire iOS developers at 40k, there are also companies trying to hire iOS developers on 80k+ and iOS contractors on day rates of £500/day.

What you're probably seeing is selection bias. That is the crappy jobs (i.e. low pay) stay on the market far longer than good jobs. Hence you end up thinking that crappy jobs represent a large proportion of the job market than they actually do simply because they stay around longer.
Right, but most cloud providers do these kinds of things. I know that Azure had some downtime recently as well due to an expired certificate. I'd like to know how to build a 100% reliable application.
There were rumors last year that never materialized, I assume that's what the parent is referring to.
Does not explain anything technical. Pointless.