skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"all of you looking for higher salaries"

I would add also that a higher salary which is not sustainable for some reason and results in a lifestyle that you can't support (once you lose that salary) can be quite a problem. Not to mention the psychological impact of thinking you are a 250k a year person and having to drop to being an 80k a year person.
I signed up for me, not for a kid. I've had an itch to play with Legos again, but have been resisting the urge to go spend a bunch of money on one of the larger sets for two reasons: price and I don't think I'd get much repeat use out of it.

So, this could be perfect. Unfortunately, they're currently Backordered on every huge set, and all but one of the middle tier. Hopefully that isn't a permanent situation, otherwise the higher tiered plans are a waste of money.

Similar problem Netflix has with New Releases, I'm sure.
This article is fairly sloppy journalism. It equates what Silicon Valley wants (programmers with strong math/CS backgrounds) with Information Scientists (whose degrees prepared them for academic/archival roles).

From the actual report:
"People who make technology are still better off than people who use technology. Unemployment rates for recent graduates in information systems, concentrated in clerical functions, is high (14.7%) compared with mathematics (5.9%) and computer science (8.7%)."
Apparently it is about average for London http://www.london24.com/news/business/london_has_uk_s_highes... - London salaries are much higher than UK average.
99.9%+ won't even make you a millionaire. Be a founder or VC instead.
Indian government launches its own "eGov App Store"
Moneyball & Growth Hacking
Is there a workflow that would allow you to import the images via "Camera Upload" functionality to allow for additional free space?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5258143
Part of the problem is that there's a mismatch between the education being provided and what employers need and want. A brand new Computer Science graduate isn't usually terribly qualified to do what most employers, who hire CS graduates, want them to do, which is to write code and build programs / systems.

Why is this? Well, part of it is because, as always, a liberal arts degree isn't meant to be job training in the first place. This gap is especially pronounced with software people though, since a CS degree can be very theoretical and: A. might teach a lot of "stuff" that most programmer's don't use (or don't use very often), B. doesn't always include enough of the "stuff" that programmer's do need, and C. can be overly general, when "practice" in this field is highly specialized and includes lots of niches.

Another part is because employers don't do enough to fill in the gaps and help train younger employees. Ideally, employers would hire new CS graduates and spend a year or more grooming them, teaching then the specialized skills they need in that specific domain, and helping them ramp up. But American employers are so averse to providing training, taking a long-term view, and "playing the long game" that it's ridiculous.

One thing that might help, would be if more schools started offering a Software Engineering degree in addition to Computer Science degrees, and if more students started choosing the SE degree. But even then, again, a liberal arts degree isn't supposed to be "job training" and the SE degree would still probably turn into more theory and not enough "how to actually build something" than what employers would want.

Net-net, I think employers are going to have to bite the bullet at some point, and accept that you have to hire and groom "green" people if you want to compete. And maybe universities should start offering a few more classes on the "nuts and bolts" aspects of building systems. Perhaps some partnerships between universities and local community colleges could be involved.

No matter what, though, I don't think you're going to be able to look for fresh graduates who, for example, walk in the door knowing Hibernate, Spring, PostgreSQL, Camel, JMS, Lucene, Maven, Ant, JUnit, SAX, JDOM, STaX, JSON, Hadoop, etc. But, unfortunately, employers are largely looking for folks to walk in the door ready to contribute with highly specialized skills from day one.
What about cost of living in general in UK/USA (or perhaps more relevant, LDN vs SV)?
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Perhaps you could find the microcode key ;) I've had hex-cores for nearly 2 years for 500 bucks each. It varies. You have to know who has a tray of stuff they want to get rid of. That's what makes you the kind of weirdo who risks a couple grand on random ebay xeons.
I actually agree with the libertarians there. It should be pointed out that every major party in the USA, including the Democrats, are basically neoliberals. At the very left extreme-edge of the Democratic Party they have one or two social democrats.
Except he is exactly right. If the salaries are competitive enough, all the smart people who are currently attracted to sitting around in wall street making millions doing nothing truly productive might think twice and consider CS or SE.

It isn't an instantaneous turnaround - new talent doesn't come out of the woodwork overnight - but give it 5 - 6 years and if average salary went up another 30k you'd have a % more college students entering the field due to the market demands for it.

That is how it always works with worker shortages.
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In the last year or two, salary levels have gone up significantly, 160k is easily achievable now, with 180k/190k being a glass ceiling for devs, although that also seem to be breaking.
We all know that person that takes his counter-culture shtick too seriously. Hell, maybe many of us were that person at some point. I know I did although I never reached RMS-level. The difference is that regarding RMS this is consequence of his substantial and well warranted philosophy on free software and freedom in general and he has his life's work to prove it. In short, he is not doing out of self-righteousness or to be perceived "cool".
I live in Central Europe (Poland) and fortunately, there are cities where IT jobs are very well paid. I work for 10 years in IT and can easily make equivalent of £25K per year - which is more than decent salary here.

UK recruiters are very active here (most my fellow developers are regularly contacted), but even though I was considering moving to London or SF, it has to be something really exciting - majority of well paid s/w engineering here is boring "typical" business stuff.

I wouldn't expect any significant financial boost, but possibility to work for LinkedIn, eBay (Google maybe :) is an advantage.
A higher salary cannot result in a lifestyle you can't support. That requires two things: more money, and the decision to spend more money just because you have it.

The psychological impact is quite real; I've ridden that yo-yo a couple times already.
If someone asked me that, my answer would be, "when you let it."
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Okay, with so many making 300K, I'm calling shenanigans.
Did the SEO agency you hired get you those backlinks ?
Freelancer here: the prestige of university is certainly very useful for getting more work and commanding higher pay - some people use it as a simple marker for quality.
How is this an improvement upon a regular filesystem and scp/sftp

scp/sftp is great, but if you've ever had to deal with large numbers of users trying to properly manage ssh key pairs you will know it's not an approach that will work at scale.
And yet, I can do a bootstrap startup and my girl is unemployed (just finished her PhD and now looking for an academic position) and we do alright on a combined salary around ~£1.1k per month take home.

If you're fine living in Zone 2 or 3 ( the grey concentric circles on this map: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/oyster-rail-services-... ).

Then rent in London: Shared house/apt = ~£650 per month, private apt = ~£1.2k per month. Deals are to be had if you can wait for them and do the legwork... those are the averages my friends pay.

Now... on a £40k salary, the PAYE tax calculator here: http://www.listentotaxman.com/ shows that you'll be taking home £2.5k per month.

You can definitely afford London rent on £40k.
The claims are not really falsifiable, because when you're dealing with a literal deus†, any premise of the scientific method - such as, floods affect the ecosystems and leave evidence - is invalidated.

†As in deus ex machina.
This has been going around on twitter:

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Probably won't help with filtering attempts, but should help somewhat if you go dark.
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Agreed - I still have a Nehalem 875k and was thinking about an upgrade, but while this stuff is significantly better than mine, I don't think it's Significant Enough to go build a new computer right now.

The power savings might get me to upgrade my laptop though.
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Moose and Class::MOP predate 6Model. As far as I remember and can verify, Moose 1.0 was out (spring 2010) before 6Model even existed or had a name (late 2010).

Moose did take inspiration from the object model designed for Perl 6, but it grew out of attempts to implement that object model in Pugs, not Rakudo. You might even say that it was the first full implementation of the Perl 6 object model.
Bertrand Russell does a good job picking apart why we use innovation to make ourselves work harder rather than life easier. http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
Got to admit, I only upvoted this posting for the awesome commenting guidelines.
Google won't approve Glass apps with facial recognition
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Hey, I'm a CS grad who can write / has written a lot of C, C++, Java, C#, Python, and Javascript all pretty well (though I've been mostly using C++ / Python / JS so I'm rusty on the others) but I'm still job hunting after a year out of my BS mainly because I went to a small private school and I'm not the A talent this article talks about.

If people needed bodies that can just write (or test, or comment, document) mainstream languages, I shouldn't have this much resistance to job hunting in Philly and NY (I live in the middle of nowhere PA, which doesn't help) even when I offer to come visit in person.

I do think it is a maligned pipe dream amongst hiring departments of getting one of two things - 1. A 5+ year veteran a couple pay grades below what they are worth or 2. A rockstar supergenius savant that gradated college at 16 and knows every language from Cobol to Clojure. Going with someone like me (and I like to think of myself as an average SE) seems like settling to them, and they don't really need the work right now, they just want to exploit the productivity of a rockstar below their pay grade.
Outside of finance most profitable businesses do not have a culture of paying out those profits to the workforce, they pay management a lot and everyone else as little as they can. And don't forget that most businesses are not very profitable anyway. Europe has very few large profitable internet businesses, and not many small ones either. Bootstrapped businesses like to invest in growth not salaries. Many non startup businesses have low productivity.

London also has a large supply of people coming from other countries as the job market is much better here, and these people will often accept fairly low pay as it is higher than what they would have got at home.
Given reports that AT&T are offering discounts and other enticements for customers not to pursue further attempts at cancelling the contract with this; I would think they are aware it is definitely a price increase.
This looks like about 500 lines of coding that was done about a month ago. Shouldn't we set the bar a little higher on HN?
That's very true. The "highly skilled part" in particular stands out to me. Companies want people to start out, who have the equivalent knowledge of someone with 7 years of experience. And few companies seem to want to invest in training / grooming younger folks "on the job".
Microsoft Glass
In San Francisco at BitTorrent Inc. we're hiring a number of developer positions, most heavily web front end engineers. https://angel.co/bittorrent
I am from Europe but have friends in Ukraine among other places. In Ukraine, programmers are paid very well compared to the national average. So well paid that the 20-something programmers gets rockstar status with girls, and rockstar habits with vodka and drugs. This isn't very good for Ukraine startups.
I think that all that's wrong with alternatives to this kind of projects is that they are not written by the author. It's ok actually, many people and many great technologies started as pet projects; it just means that asking questions like this makes no sense :)
> I feel badly for his coworkers and family

Reposting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2_d6Hwvh5I&t=36s
no it won't. According to my understanding this is what happens

a) if you have applied for 485 and it has been 6 months since you applied you invoke AC21 and you are done.

b) if you have not applied for 485, your new company will have to reapply for 1-140 and labor for the new position but you do not lose your place in the queue as your PD is ported from your previous application.
I guess it depends on how much oomph you really need, but the e3-1230 v2 xeon is a tremendous processor (9k passmark) and can be had for the low $200s.
Stepping is a big deal if you're in the NFR (not for resale) market because it often hugely changes the power envelope. However, I don't generally pay attention to the exact instruction level changes because I'm not recompiling for it. I'm not given a manual, and often the seller is e.g. a "textile manufacturer" in China. Lol.
> I don't say you shouldn't read these books. That I leave to the author. I only urge you not to pay for them.

Quite the upstanding citizen.

What's your issue with it? Is it wrong to read without paying for it, now? Personally, I like libraries.
This is entirely anecdotal so take it for what its worth. In Canada I've noticed that graduates of Computer Science programs can barely operate a computer by the end of things. They can write and explain some pretty cool advanced algorithms and explain it in Big O notation - yet the business value of this knowledge is almost nil.

On the other hand, skills schools and engineering programs churn out better programmers by far. They are trained to know how to dive into other peoples code, work with a project team and generally apply methodologies to improving code wherever they encounter it. From day 1.

And yet some how managers still cling to the dated notion that a university degree guarantees return on investment.
"Brief. incomplete, and mostly wrong," could also describe the state of knowledge in huge swathes of the programming industry concerning huge areas of knowledge in their own field.

EDIT: For example, the widespread misunderstanding of what ASM.js is and the inability of many to predict the speed it has achieved. Another example: the (pleasant) surprise at the speed of V8 and other Javascript VMs. In both these cases, people who have been paying attention to history knew what was going to happen well in advance of most of the industry.
I don't know why, but I regularly see drivers who are clearly, obviously plastered, weaving about between the Ashby BART and the Shattuck/Adeline split.
Right. I'd wager few fall into that category, and many fall into the 40+ a week category.
500,000 gold doubloons per annum, with a performance related bonus of up to 10 bags of pixie dust!
do junior front end dev's count as software engineers?
Maybe the real problem, is the quality of the recruiters and HR and business people? Sure, technical people find it very easy to dismiss non-technical folks (_especially recruiters_) out of egoism, but maybe there's some truth to it?

I keep hearing about "rockstar" this and that, but aren't actual rockstars (rather than professional musicians) known for being unrealistic assholes?
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Poll: Full-time software engineers in India, what's your annual salary?
Inspired by other such polls for SF bay, London etc.

The Salaries here are in USD.

Base annual salary only, pre-tax. No options, shares, bonuses, adjustments for inflation, or benefits.
Less than 1k
1k-9k
10k-19k
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Knewton's mission is to personalize the world's education.
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The adaptive group working on recommendation, analytics, and adaptive instruction is now at 30 people, with at least 30 more rounding out platform, systems, and full stack. The company now tops 110 people. We'll exceed 2 million full-time students on the platform by the fall, with multiples of that waiting in the wings.

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Weird.

We have couple hundred seed stage companies on DevAuc, including many YC Alumns. Typical offers are $90-$110K. I've never seen a $60K offer.

Series A and B companies are typically able to start paying more "market" rates of $120K-$160K. We're going to run the numbers on this at some point and put out a proper report.
My bad. It's too late to edit now. Yes, GBP is what I meant :) the original one didn't specify Dollars though, and I think anybody who is answering would probably expect to answer in GBP anyway.
Didn't this make the rounds like, 2 weeks back?
Don't worry. The comment that surprised you is not really true. The 81k figure is for "overtime-exempt" employees (often just shortened to "exempt"). I.e., if you make less than that, you are considered "overtime-eligible" (opposite of exempt), and in that case, if you work more than 40 hours per week, you have to be paid overtime. Also, the 81k figure pertains only to software people. There is a figure for other occupations, but it is much lower.

There are also differences in how business travel is treated. Overtime eligible employees have to be paid for all time spent in transit, but exempt do not get extra pay. (Of course, in both cases, travel expenses will be paid by the company, I am speaking of pay for travel time.)

In fact, the 81k figure is a marker and not a bright line. The actual separator between overtime eligible ("OTE") and exempt employees considers several factors, including job responsibility and experience.

The OTE/exempt distinction has become more rigid in recent years because of lawsuits by attorneys representing low-paid (e.g 60k/year range) employees who had been considered "salaried", and asked to do extra work for free (e.g., the travel time mentioned above) because they were salaried. These suits resulted in the distinction between OTE and exempt shifting.

If you ask me, it has in general hurt very early career engineers making 70k per year, because they have to account more strictly for their time than before. For instance, they cannot redistribute their hours between work days the way salaried employees can.

(Only speaking of California here.)
I get very few doubloons because I am playing the Corn Strategy. I Wharf like a bat out of hell though.
This article and your comment are both great examples of how easy it is to tell the story you want to hear with data.

Your point about households vs individuals is clever, because it ignores how the distribution of individual income growth across any other demographic factors.
It's got a NodeJS (Coffescript) backend and uses socket.io for real time communication with a Coffeescript frontend.
Projects/Users are stored in MongoDB.
I'd happily go into more detail if anyone is interested
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Intel Xeon X5650 ES 2.66 GHz 12MB 6.4GT/s 95W Hex Core

(x as many as I could afford). That does look like a good chip, but dodgy engineering sample trays in 2013 you can prolly get twice as many cores. That means NO WARRANTY and like, not for work.
Did you actually read the article?

Computer Science graduates are doing OK. It is Information Science graduates who are in pain here.
He doesn't say that owning a cellphone is wrong; he says he doesn't want to be tracked by using one. Using someone else's doesn't help track that person (they're being tracked regardless), so why would it be contradictory?
Silicon Valley may be different, but for most of today's software development, you just need someone who can write managed code that's maintainable.

I'm willing to tackle any sort of technology project, but do we really need to reinvent the system bus? (A friend tells me about 6 months of meetings with the team arguing over piddling details in a simple system bus implementation that will probably get scrapped when the next team comes in.)
I earned between 35-50k when I was there ('08-'11). Salaries are crazy low. The secret is actually contract work. Friends of mine were doing bog standard java dev work, and taking home between 80-100 £/hr. It was big company work so it was full time, 40 hours a week type of work.

As others have said, finance is the way in London. Better salaries, better perks.