skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot more to a total comp package than just straight salary. I'm probably an outlier on HN as a .Net dev in finance in NYC. I was making ~250k as a freelancer but went perm. I now make ~200-220k after bonus but I now have a gold-plated health plan, 5 weeks vacation, a retirement plan and a training budget. It isn't always about straight up cash.
See, this logic makes no sense to me, unless you bought way more bitcoin than you could afford. Every bitcoin I sell now (without topping back up, as I would normally do for my spending bitcoins) represents a potentially massive amount of future wealth. The downside is limited to the amount I put in to begin with.

If bitcoin crashes to nearly nothing, I will be sad that such a brilliant experiment has failed. I'll also be bummed that my money is gone, but I won't be destitute and it won't make my life worse off.
Where do you get the momotoros?

You can get the stuff he mentioned from Love Apple Farms. They're in Ben Lomond (down 17 I think)
Simple experiment. Make a website with 3 buttons, and invite 10K people to visit. Make strong assurances of anonymity: and independent 3rd party will select the participants, logs will be destroyed, etc:

* Bill my credit card $20, donate to a pool to send to http://www.againstmalaria.com or somesuch.
* Spend $20 of the researchers' money on fresh vegetables, and throw them in the trash.
* Do nothing.
Naturally, there is no such objective principle for me to articulate. Everyone speaks according to the language center of their own brain. Some ways of speech are more different than others; some are so different that communication is hard without speaking slowly, and some still are so different that communication is impossible and you must resort to pointing (and even pointing is not universally meaningful). At some point along the line we call it a different language, but it's not representative of any sharp distinction that exists in reality.

Asking a linguist "are these the same language" is as useful as asking a biologist "are these the same species"; it all depends on what you want to use them for.

(Although I don't particularly see the relevance of that to whether or not leet has a substantially distinct grammar from English, of which I remain unconvinced.)
The pricing doesn't make sense to me – 4 person teams are penalized vs. 3 person teams. The jump goes from $0/month to $40/month, so the incremental cost for going from 3 to 4 people is steep (at least compared to all the other incremental moves).

It's a minor detail, but it seems odd to me.
He's the link to the app store from OP:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/timebar/id617829225?mt=12
That was reason #2. Going from a 60gb cap (which I'd often go over by about 20gb) to a 300gb cap actually saved me a lot of money because of overage charges.
The standard recommendation is to type Sholes 5-10 minutes a day to maintain your ability to hurt your wrists. I haven't bothered to do that and it's a good thing I leave my keycaps alone for the few times I run a VM that is stuck in US layout. I've lost the rolls and fingerings as I've gained them with Colemak.

It's really sad when I have to use someone else's computer, but then I remember that my emails were never longer than a tweet when I first started with Colemak.
Great work. Thanks for all of this. I can't be the only one who has on more than one occasion waded through the technical descriptions of this topic and read code examples and still feels a bit lost, giving up and just using an existing library and crossing my fingers. I haven't read your entire doc yet but what I have is very nicely explained.

I think if more people understood it better we would all have a better shot at consistency in this regard. To that end you've made a great start. Cheers.
Some might even call it "electric!"
The Pixel's screen is a reason why some people want it.
Are they wise to do that? I recently replaced a broken microwave with as similar a model as I could find, from the same company. But I would have paid more to avoid continuously stubbing my fingers on their design regressions.
It looks like based on the code and reference to 'bulletins' this is a product from PerfTech ... http://www.perftech.com/bulletin_system.html
Thanks for the ideas. To run through 'em:

* Timebar actually compensates for sleep, so if you set an 8 hour timer at 12 PM, it will finish at 8 PM even if your computer was asleep for some of the time in between.
* Definitely going to re-label this; there are a few little UI tweaks in the pipeline. Keep the suggestions coming; they're very welcome.
* So, the very first drafts of this were built around the idea of a natural language text field for setting the time. I ended up abandoning it because a) I have no experience with NLP and b) since it's a menu bar app, your hand is already on your mouse/trackpad — not your keyboard. I think the Alfred workflows will go a long way towards letting power users work at warp speed. :)
I think Apple is a much smaller company than they look, by profile or even employee count. I think their core OSX/iOS developer staff is small, and rather mobile in terms of what they're working on. Those core devs have been shifted around before, delaying an OSX release to help out on iOS.

I think that the constraints are not cash, so much as bandwidth and team size.
This is the real question. We can laugh all we want to a out their crappy code, but what I want to know is where this code is actually in the wild. If I see this coming down my Comcast connection, I'm likely to cancel my service that day.
Thank you! I'd love to hear how it ends up working out. Drop me a line sometime — m@rkchristian.ca or @shinypb.
And then someone would complain that they were ambushed for an extra $99 fee right when they just wanted to order groceries...
"There's no reason it can't be that and a desire to become wealthy, ya know..."

I take the (apparently quaint) view that you should make money because your product/service provides real value to others. And that if you do provide real value then there's a monetization pathway (by charging those people that you do provide value to).
Yep, it was pretty helpful for learning.
This is a pretty neat idea and I can definitely appreciate the time you've put into it! The only reason I didn't pull the trigger to buy it is because I'm a heavy full screen user, so I hardly ever see my menu bar while working. I suppose I'm not your target user, but feedback nonetheless.
I live in Houston, so those numbers are all a little ridiculous here. But, outside of the city center, $200k gets here you a pretty nice house in a nice neighborhood. Hell, you can find decent ones for under $150k too if you look around.

Edit: Just did a home search (I just live in an apartment downtown right now) and actually it seems you can get a decent house for <=$100k here outside the city center.
I agree. But don't expect any magic.

Europe has much higher costs of gasoline than the USA. They still don't have roads full of electric cars.
From my experience hiring at large corporations, the degree you get is counted as "experience". So someone who completed a 2 year master's degree right after their bachelor's is considered to be equivalent to someone who has a few years of work experience.

In short, no it doesn't matter. Someone without a degree can earn as much as those with advanced ones.
I used to think about startups in bovine terms.

Some startups are beef type. These are made to grow as fast as possible, increase the user base by whatever means, without care about long-term health. They hunt for investments, especially big ones. Then, the sooner the better, such a company is sold to a large company and butchered, either to be digested and feed the corporate muscle, or just to remove competition with the big company's product line.

Other startups are milk type. These are grown steadily and sustainably, if slowly, with great care about long-term health. They are usually become profitable early on, at least ramen-profitable. Owners usually reject several acquisition proposals, and are careful with 3rd-party investments so as not to lose control of the company.

I think that a milk-type company has a far better chance to be a long-term success and transform the industry. It may grow huge, like Google, or stay small, like Github or Craiglist.

In rare cases beef-type companies do not die within a large corporation but become an important organ (e.g. Android inside Google), or enjoy a benign neglect (e.g. Instagram inside Facebook). But usually they just die, the way the post explains, or even worse.
$1850 (or even $2K) is a pretty tough task in Chelsea nowadays, and Chelsea is still one of the cheaper neighborhoods. The UES is also fairly inexpensive by Manhattan standards, but a studio under $2K is still pretty unrealistic.

They exist, but they are few and far between. If you offered me a $1850 studio in Chelsea my first thought would be "what's under the floorboards". If you told me it's a $1850 1BR I'd check your temperature. The only places you'd reliably find studios < $2K would be Chinatown and the LES in general - and there are many reasons why those places are inexpensive.

I'm not sure if Manhattan is as cheap as you remember...

Hell, even Brooklyn is ridiculous now. Williamsburg is more expensive than most of Manhattan, Park Slope slightly cheaper but not by much. DUMBO, get outta here, DUMBO is giving TriBeCa a run for its money. $1850 for a studio is unrealistic in all of the above places, though if you're looking in the winter and have luck on your side, possibly doable in not-Park-Slope-but-lets-pretend areas.
Or public transport. $15,000 per individual pays for a lot of public transport.
Super thoughtful, very analytical comment.
Indeed the UI is quite nice; liked the snooze button too.
Do you know if iOS supports anything similar? I know that it allows for app specific colours for the status bar, but perhaps this sort of control is impossible...because I'd like this on an iPad too :).

Off topic: Does DragonDrop (your/your company's other app) still under dev/support? It stopped working for me after Mountain Lion hit and I miss it.
couple of thoughts:
- Could be to reduce reliance on fossil fuels
- Its more of a way to create jobs in America (ie car would worth less profit otherwise)
- a manufacturing base is important for certain things (ie can be used for military in times of war)
- lowers unemployment (looks good on stats)

Not that your point isnt valid as well, I imagine that they see it as a welfare solution on the bottom end.
Not sure how you can accept Bitcoins as a payment form, unless you tie it expressly to another currency. With this much fluctuation, the only other option would be an auction.

I think this makes it likely speculation is the only driving force for the value of a bitcoin at the moment, which doesn't bode well for something that wants to be a currency.

Edit: To be clear, what I mean is that normally we sell things for say, $2 and rarely adjust the price (a few times a year is unusual, usually it isn't even that quickly). You would need to constantly adjust your selling price in Bitcoins, making it very hard to use as an actual currency when the perceived value goes up this quickly.

Gasoline is one of the few things we buy that fluctuates pretty rapidly, and when it fluctuates people that own gas stations are often squeezed, sure they have a tank of gas they bought for say $3/gallon, but they need to schedule the next tank at $3.25/gallon, so all the profit from the current tank of gas is going to the next fill up. And when the price of gas drops, if they can't sell their $3.25/gallon gas quickly enough, they take a loss. For small stations operating on thin margins, this can wreck a month of profits.
The Content Marketing Approach to Branding
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Is the government going to see a return on those? Or is it an investment because you think they are going to be a net improvement for society? To be honest if I had a choice I would give most tax dollars to the EFF and ACLU, but if Tesla can improve battery technology and adoption of electric cars I would consider it a win.
" Every bitcoin I sell now (without topping back up, as I would normally do for my spending bitcoins) represents a potentially massive amount of future wealth. The downside is limited to the amount I put in to begin with."

Lets say you purchased 10 BTC at 40 bucks. Losing 400 won't break the bank. Now it crossed 120. If you sold 4 BTC you'd still have 6 BTC and make 80 bucks in the process. The $80 isn't as important as the fact that you've already effectively reduced the cost basis of the 6 BTC to zero, in which case you literally could just sit there and wait. If the price did crash to zero, you would still be net ahead.
"but will also apparently make rich-texture-loving designers sad."
Thank God!

As an iOS designer and developer. I love using non-textured design as it's easier to do code wise instead of having manage multiple versions of assets.

What is commonly refereed to a flat UI is really better to do as it's mostly possible to do with code instead of images.

Go Ive!

Think using css3 instead of images on the web.
A video would be useful. I skim read too much to actually get how the animation is supposed to look like.
I'm depressed looking at those figures now. I'm not in the US, but still... As a developer who works both on backend and frontend, let alone sysadmin work, I'm not making 1/3 of that.

I should look into working with US contractors.
I use a command line program bugzyrb for personal projects.
https://github.com/rkumar/bugzyrb

You could also try taskwarrior.
Myths about India's patent rules
Why? Just give it back equally, and finance amelioration out of general revenue. (Not saying that's a good idea. You could finance amelioration out of a specific percentage of that tax.)
Also check this one out then, similar but with no mobile client SDK (other than a javascript): http://deployd.com
Ask HN: When will Bootstrap v3 be released
So I really have to redo the design of a project, and know that Twitter Bootstrap v3 is around the corner... but how soon will it be released. I would hate to redesign a site just to redesign it again in two weeks.
A lot of startup give great stock options to their employees as well.. Salary is not only thing you look at, if you want salary go work for Google and waste your life doing one thing over and over again.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with getting into business to make money. Nothing.

There is nothing wrong with discovering a problem you don't have or care about that people are willing to pay to have fixed, slugging through building something to solve that problem, and trying to maximise your profit and minimize your time. There is nothing wrong with working hard in a field you are not passionate about to make money.

How passionate do you think the guy soldering your alarm clock battery to the circuit board in Guangdong China is about his job? He does it to make money for himself and/or his family. Is there something wrong with choosing entrepreneurship with the hope of making a fuck ton more money than that, or are you required to take the job you can get unless you want to build a billion dollar business for shareholders?

Only working on something you are fully passionate about and getting paid well is a luxury not everyone can afford.

There is also nothing wrong with creating a non-profit to help limbless children in Cambodia, taking no salary, and spending all your time in service of others.

In fact, the former can allow you to do the latter, still support your family, and live well yourself.

I agree with mindcrime. And I wonder why so many PandoDaily writers are so full of pomp. And fuck that guy.
It's not about cash, but you sure do make a lot of it. I don't think this is necessarily an outlier. It's just that other developers don't know it's possible.

The problem with the US work culture vs somewhere like Europe is that talking about your salary is so taboo. And it shouldn't be. What's wrong with compensating people who are comparable in skills and execution fairly?
The app handles full screen mode (3rd of 4 screenshots on the app store).
Matching the resale characteristics of a new Mercedes isn't really something to brag about.

The right side of that trade is to be the -buyer- of a 3-4 y/o MBZ. If you appreciate great cars but don't care about the vanity of having the very newest model to show off, that age is a sweet spot where the first owner has already paid for about 2/3 of the car yet used only about 1/4 of its lifetime utility.
Two simple tips for using email effectively
Yes, definitely still under development and support! It supports Mountain Lion. Can you email me so we can troubleshoot it? m@rkchristian.ca

First pass at support: do you have any other mouse-related software installed? Some Microsoft Intellimouse support software has been particularly troublesome.
It is not clear from the site if the data I give to AeroFS is encrypted at rest. There is a section called "End-to-end Security" that states:

AeroFS uses AES-256 with 2048-bit RSA to create secure
connections directly from one device to another. Because
encryption is end-to-end, even we can't see your data or
even file names.

But this does not actually tell me in plain terms if you encrypt my data when it's sitting on your servers or not and that's actually a more important question to answer. Everyone expects data to be encrypted in transit. You don't get extra points for that. Would you mind clarifying if the data is ever on your servers in an unencrypted form?
You have an unnecessary lambda^W anonymous function expression in 'mapWith':

function mapWith (fn) {
return function (list) {
return map(list, function (something) {
return fn(something)
});
};
};

could be simplified to:

function mapWith (fn) {
return function (list) {
return map(list, fn);
};
};
It looks like it works in full screen mode:
http://a1859.phobos.apple.com/us/r1000/100/Purple/v4/f9/29/a...
Yes sir, the full screen support was actually the longest part of my development! :) I ended up open sourcing a little bit of code from Timebar — code to detect when the user is switching to/from a full screen app. https://github.com/shinypb/FullScreenDetector
What one thing is that?
Writecodeeatgourmetfoodsellstock?
I rarely refactor across entire projects, but I'm fairly certain vim has plugins that can do that.

As for finding what calling methods there are, as other have stated, you can use ctags, or go full throttle with Cscope - http://cscope.sourceforge.net/ it will do textual searches along with displaying all callers for a method across all the files you tell it to search (in setup).

With the vim gui and a cscope backend, I'm pretty sure vim is just as much an IDE as any of the other editors. It just happens to work fine in a terminal, too.
Fair enough. I've been trying to think of a good way to do present it — you really need to see the full screen to get how subtle and delightful the effect can be. I am still iterating; thanks for the vote towards a video.
Forget Yahoo for Spam. I'm pretty well sold on Mailinator for disposable email.
This post echos so much of what I believe could be fixed in the web design community today. Obsession over perfection cannot save your soul, but obsession over message and clarity makes the largest impact for the time invested.
No, there's no way to pause it right now. I will add this to the feature request list. Thank you!
Mark, The link to the developer website on itunes is misspelt.

Nice App BTW.
Tableau files for IPO
In what did you specialize on?
It makes sense if you don't actually believe there is a sound reason for bitcoins to be worth $122 right now. If you think this crazy price curve actually makes sense, then, by all means, hang onto your bitcoins because they're just going to go up, up, up. One does have to wonder what exactly you think has fundamentally changed about bitcoins in the past two months to make their value skyrocket, but maybe you have some insight I don't (honestly -- I don't mean to snark. I'm not a believer, but if this is real, more power to you). On the other hand, if you notice anything distinctly bubble-like about the sudden hype and soaring price, it is pretty obvious that at the top of a bubble, things are overvalued, and that if you are holding onto something you know is overvalued, you should sell the hell out of it and buy it back when it is under- or right-valued.
The art of pitching from Richard Branson
Mozilla hires remote developers from all over the world. Working remotely is "business as usual", not the exception, for most teams. Plus, Mozilla has offices in about a dozen cities in (I think) 9 countries.

http://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/
Hold on. Let's not forget where this started. They did try to tell their customers - via email. Your objection is that the form of notice they used was inadequate.

That's a fair objection, but choosing an inadequate form of notice, by itself, isn't dishonesty. Knowingly choosing inadequate notice would be the problem. To me it seems equally (if not more) plausible that someone, mistakenly, didn't realize that email notice wasn't good enough.

I'll also add that it isn't clear that email notice was inadequate. Are there cases of people outside the 71 who were unhappy learning about the change from another channel (like this one)?
What do you find missing in the subjective experience of using Qt-based tools under OSX?
I take the (apparently quaint) view that you should make money because your product/service provides real value to others. And that if you do provide real value then there's a monetization pathway (by charging those people that you do provide value to).

I have to admit, I don't see the connection between that and the blurb you quoted above. I certainly don't disagree with the idea of providing real value, nor with the idea of charging people that you provide value to. In fact, I very recently wrote a rant[1] expressing very much that opinion. So I'm not sure what exactly it is you think we disagree about, if anything.

I'm just saying that launching a startup can be based in both a desire to "do something you enjoy" AND a desire to become wealthy. Exactly which "monetization strategy" you employ is, IMO, up to the founder(s) based on: their goals, market conditions, business circumstances, life circumstances, and probably a bazillion other things.

[1]: http://fogbeam.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-point-of-startup-is-...
What kind of wanker call himself an innovator?
Easier to code is not necessarily better for the user.

What do you mean by manage multiple versions of assets? If you use the @2x naming scheme for double resolution images, there is nothing to manage.
One does not simply change the conditions of a contract.
Now that's interesting, the specialization gave you a salary boost then? I always thought that after some point (team leaders / project leaders) a CS generalist would be more valuable.

Edit: Wow, very insightful responses, thanks yekko, svachalek, josh
The also on HN Instacart post by a user says:

"Did not receive an email about this change of policy. Not only did I not receive this email, neither did my wife nor a colleague, who also is a Instacart Express user."

+ in this thread "A few days ago, my gf started complaining about some sort of $3 extra charges she noticed."

This makes the 71 user remark looking suspicious, except the 71 were based on some geographical selection error.