skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's a very serious issue. Clearly the population will balance itself at some point, whether by education/moderation or mass-starvation. However, I believe we have a finite window of opportunity to make a number of critical scientific and social advancements in order to continue our species' progress in the next few centuries and beyond. This window is defined primarily by the availability of materials and energy which are necessary to support technological development at our current scientific frontiers. Increasing population, especially in the developed world, consumes resources faster and thus shortens the span before many critical materials become scarce. Better extraction and synthesis will likely become available in the future, but first we need to get there.

I am not arguing that we shouldn't have children at all, but responsibly limiting our population seems like a critical supporting factor in any qualitative advancement we want to make as a species. This is especially true since much of the world doesn't seem likely to do the same any time soon.
Stockholm, Sweden. Unfortunately we're not able to provide much in the way of relocation assistance :(

Looking for a Javascript developer with some Haskell understanding and an interest in doing growth related work with me at a ~10 people startup.

You'll be helping me with Scrive's growth, which involves doing some A/B testing, some Haskell, some support and a lot of JS. You don't need to know Swedish.

In return you'll be working at Sveavägen in a sweet office with very nice people. You can work a day or so a week from home, and we practice "flextid".
You'll also get to disrupt some seriously wasteful practices related to printing papers and scanning signatures.
And you'll interact with Poland and Swedens finest Haskell programmers.

Also Haskell. Haskell Haskell Haskell.

I'm available at johan at scrive dot com.
He said it was the least of their problems, not that it was the least important.
I guess people would pay for a service that could identify 90% of all security issues with an online service by going through source code and available routes. Anything that is available today?
Thinkpad x60, I have yet to find a laptop that can live up to how these series feels.
And I think many in the valley are sick of your false egalitarianism.

Some people smarter than other people. And those people, on average will get paid more.

I don't see a whole lot of rage when people talk about how it takes good people skills to get a lot of jobs. But the moment intelligence becomes a requirement, everyone suddenly thinks that's unfair, or there is no such thing as intelligence.

I don't deny that there are many factors leading to higher SV salaries, but intelligence is also a factor.

For example I came from a very ordinary middle class background. To the extent that I have more education and a higher salary than people with the same background, I attribute it to my intelligence. I don't think that makes me better than other people, even though I'm constantly told that having better social skills makes you better than other people. And I don't think that there is a level playing field either, but conditional on my background I still earn a relatively high salary.

The counterpart to the smugness you complain about is your moral smugness. And there is plenty of that on HN too.
17" Macbook Pro (2010) that I've spent way too much having upgraded because I don't want a 15" screen. Dear Tim Cook. Please bring back the 17" MBP.

27" iMac (2012) - standard top end specs.
With equity packages, base and bonus, many Google/Facebook employees crack the 200k figure.
Notebook: MacBook Air 2011 13" i7 4/256GB.

Desk: MacBook Pro 2010 17" 8/512/750/3tb, with a 24" LCD

Desk: i7-970 24/512/2x2tb with 3x24" LCD. (Win 7 and Ubuntu)

iPad and iPhone.
Some of them work for doomed large companies :-)
3D Printing: Still A Long Way To Go? ¶ Dispatches
I find your setup intriguing. Clearly, you've got some spare cash for a beefy virtualization server. Why did you stick it out with the Compaq for so long?

Is the plan to have multiple VMs for other users in the household? Do you like the idea to be able to create/destroy machines if they start behaving oddly?

Is the plan to just play around with administering a VDI deployment (however small)? If so, did you consider any other hypervisors?

Sorry to probe... I just think it's interesting :)
I can't speak for the T430S but the T430 has 2 levels of backlighting and then if I click function space 1 more time the backlighting goes off and the little lamp at the top of the screen turns on.
Thinkpad W530, 16Gb, i7-3820QM, 1920x1080 res.

Nvidia graphics, easily supports 4 external 1920x1080 monitors via docking station. Pretty awesome.
Custom PC with triple monitor setup. Ivy Bridge i7 with a Vertex4 512GB SSD and plenty of RAM.
I love to build systems, and need a big workstation, fullsized mechanical keyboard, large screen etc.
All three screens are on articulated wall mounts, so I can arrange in any configuration.
Windows8 for games, linux VMs or my VPS for development.
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I run a small web consulting agency that specializes in e-commerce. We mostly work with Magento and from time to time are just too swamped so we are looking for a skilled freelancer that knows the platform and would be willing to take some work of our hands. We are looking for a long-term partnership with varying workload. The tasks are strictly development related, no design skill necessary. The only requirements are long-term availability, understanding of GIT and clear communication.

Please email magento-dev@mobweb.ch and also include your Skype ID so we can chat directly. Also reference HN somehow so I can see that your email isn't recruiter spam. :)
The left side of the laptop gets noticeably hot if you don't vacuum the CPU cooling exhaust regularly. It would've not been a problem, but you end up resting left wrist on a very warm spot. Also the left pinky lingers exactly over the CPU and gets dry and itchy if you try and run a poorly written WebGL demo. The keyboard itself is fine, though I've been using laptops as a primary machine for 10+ years, so YMMV.
JavaScript version: https://github.com/search?q=extension%3Ajs+html+%2B&type...
I believe pypy also has a regex jit.
Establish a feedback loop early. For example, I frequently show progress to developer friends. Their comments and encouragement fuel motivation.
It was probably abstracted from a project that used Redis so it's Redis for the sake of meeting the requirements.
Mountain View, CA.

CirroScope (Security for cloud: Monitor your data as-a-Service)

1) Ruby/Python Web dev: Server-side, you work with Ruby, Python, or PHP using various frameworks and tool-sets. Client-side, you are skilled with JavaScript (jQuery in particular), HTML and CSS. Your Specialties: Top to bottom application design and development.

We are an Ex-Symantec team of 3. We are Angel funded and part of an accelerator. A huge market is emerging, demanding lower cost, easier to use security products. We need you to help us execute quickly. If you are interested in meeting up over bubble tea to learn more, get at me:

ryan@cirroscope.com
I use a Thinkpad T430, which I love. I especially love the extra battery I can put in. I get about 8-12 hours of battery life out of it so I can jet around cafes and not worry about having to sit near an outlet. Also, on the days I go into the office I don't have to worry if I forget my cord. It seems really sturdy so far too.
Learning how to create, add, or magnify value is the single most important any contractor or employee needs in any industry.

Sadly, very few get it.
This felt like an advertisement. The extra link @ the bottom (after you've already posted said link in the story) only cements this feeling.
I've seen quite a few things that are germane, google "static analysis for security",pentesting etc

http://pentestlab.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/automated-source-...

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Static_Code_Analysis

http://code.google.com/p/yara-project/

http://ulsrl.org/

http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/
(the 3rd post

(these aren't the services, these are what you shd read to decide if some service's operatives are appropriately expensive, and up on current research
You can do that at a place like Microsoft:

1) Get hired in at a 62 or 63

2) Steady promotions (you are good technically, work well with people, and pick good projects, and -- hardest of all -- your management chain doesn't suck) for a few years, until you hit L65 (Principal level)

3) Stock awards over the next 5 years take care of the rest
The same bot could notify those people via email using the email address found in commits.
Mac mini 2011, base model (the $599 one).
Plant hybridization (or whatever the ancient method is called) is significantly different than modifying the genome of a plant to embed a pesticide. The former is much more in tune with natural evolution.
Lipitor is one of those drugs that is marketed to people who want to continue their diet of sugar and junk food and not have to worry about cholesterol. Lipitor itself has some really alarming side effects and it's definitely NOT something you want to be taking if you can deal with your cholesterol by making some simple behavioral changes.
ThinkPad T420, 8GB of memory, 500GB Disk and 256GB SSD (mSATA)

(Actually the SSD just died, waiting for RMA.)
The higher numbers will never come from LinkedIn spamming you to say you can make $x - the best jobs aren't and have never been on the market; they're the result of connections and referrals, because that's the only way you build enough trust.
I'm on about £42k + a 12% bonus, not sure if I'm going to get one this year though.

My colleagues who are mainly contractors keep saying I should leave and become a contractor but I'm not sure about the uncertainty.
Steve Jobs, that noted "good apple" who took advantage of the Woz...

Our Jobs who art in Heaven hallowed be thy name
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Getting close to 200K working full-time as a software engineer is achievable. You need to work hard and I don't mean number of hours but show that your work has an impact in your team and your company. My advice to you is to look for companies in the rise, the ones that are either profitable or are funded and in the tech/internet industry. I am in Austin, TX and this salary is not far from what some companies pay here to their software engineers (HomeAway, RetailMeNot, Tableau, etc...)
Yes.

I live in Zone 4 in a 1 bedroom flat for £910 a month and I only earn £42k.
Can someone make one of these for New York City?
Or remain in their third world country and its attendant corruption and infrastructure.
Does this remind anyone else of Noctis (http://anynowhere.com/bb/layout/html/frameset.html)? Man, I want a modern version of that so much.
That particular case was where HN really shifted, but that doesn't make the parent comment incorrect.
Startups, Growth and the Rule of 72
H1b distribution is public record.
I agree with you; it is my experience too, and I don't think my comment is incompatible with your reply. I was merely saying that the LinkedIn spam is roughly where the peaks are. (Large emphasis on "roughly".)

Edit: it occurred to me that I left the definition of "peak" unspecified. By peak I mean amounts with the largest amount of respondents, not the highest dollar amount.
Just recall that less than ten years ago, nobody even knew of this material and it was only the subject of strange theoretical research at ivory tower universities.

Please continue to fund science. =)
Don't believe this article. You do not focus on the glass cuboid and I doubt you even can. Just hold your finger up close and try to focus on it. You probably can't at this distance.
Vancouver, BC, Canada - UX designer and server engineer (contract and full time)

Hey everyone, first post on HN!

We're RocketChicken Interactive, a start-up mobile game company in Vancouver, BC (well, technically our office is just across the road in Burnaby...) and we're working at lightspeed to develop a prototype for a follow up to CodeRunner, an alternate reality iOS game that we built in our spare time and released late in 2011. It got us noticed and got us some funding, so now the chips are down and we have to prove we can do it again!

Our biggest need in the short term is a UX designer with strong graphic design skills to help us shape the look and feel of CodeRunner:2. You will have an amazing amount of influence over the visual style and user experience. We really need someone who can take a project from vision to reality in a short amount of time, and who has a proven track record of working closely with a team in a highly collaborative environment. In the early stages we will need someone who can be on site most of the time. This role will start as a contract with the potential to work into a full-time position. You can find the original job posting here:

http://www.rocketchicken.com/2013/05/23/mobile-game-ui-desig...

In the more medium term, we need to find a server engineer who has a lot of experience with web services and scalable database systems. Ideally you'll be well-versed in both SQL and NoSQL solutions and can help us assess our requirements to identify the best solution. This game is going to rely heavily on a pretty sophisticated server back-end, so you'll be right in the middle of building what we think is going to be the coolest mobile game ever. ;) This is a full-time position:

http://www.rocketchicken.com/2013/04/02/experienced-server-e...

And if you're not interested in these positions, but want to see what CodeRunner is all about, check out the web site here:

http://www.coderunnergame.com

Thanks!

Ryan
How to optimize MySQL insert statement
Apple Bug Reporter updated for the first time since 1875
you don't know what you're talking about. you are naive, and uninformed. worse than that, you depress earnings for an entire industry of people because you are willing to work for shit money.

an oracle DBA/engineer with 10 years of experience can easily clear a quarter million a year.

same with SAP or anyone who has done large Microsoft installations / integrations.

your ego is not allowing you to believe that people make this much money because it means you have somehow been unable to achieve that level of financial success despise your (probably pretty good) tech skills. it pins the blame on you, and your ego can't accept that. it just can't. it would rather deny reality than hurt itself.

just because you don't believe it doesn't mean it's not true.

the main difference between people like that, and people like you, is they know what they're worth, and have the balls to tell someone insulting them with low paying work to fuck off in exactly as many words.
Thanks for waking up the whole family with that blip :(
Honestly they might as well change the name of HN to Digital Pravda or something. There is practically no story that can hit the HN frontpage now that doesn't turn into bikeshedding about how the U.S. is literally worse than Hitler and how everything is literally perfect in the EU.

I'm not saying that the U.S. is perfect, or that the EU isn't, but does anyone else remember when HN was for NEWS and not just an outgrowth of /r/politics?

I mean, obviously my comment won't change any of that, it's easy enough to see that the interest is there just by comparing comment count. But I do think it's unfortunate how much we have let politics poison the well here.
I don't believe parent is referring to parents leaving the workforce, but single parents supporting children. That is, either a solo mother or father raising one or more children.
> Notice all of these benefits are centered around developer experience. User experience is the biggest gap right now.

From all the benefits of web technologies, "developer experience" is the worst one.

Developing (good) UIs using web technologies is an exercise in masochism. It's forever piling hacks and finding new frameworks to bend a browser to do what you need (a broken model). Then, worry about cross-compatibility.

Someone proficient in XCode is likely ten times more efficient and produces a more polished result with much less pain.
Thats low for argentinas standards. Web is not huge here, but you can make well over that, even for local companies as MercadoLibre.

I think it makes no sense to compare salaries on Startups to salaries on typical engineer work in argentina. 99% of the work here is third-hand, cost-effective contractor outsourcing.
>This is probably the most "echo chamber" friendly statement of any I've seen here.

And what does the fact that all the replies disagree, and the post was down-voted, tell you about the existence of an "echo chamber"? (Remember to avoid confirmation bias here!)

Also the poster didn't claim a causal relationship. The claim was the reading HN was correlated to success, not that it caused it.

> An assertion with no evidence, seemingly rooted in a self satisfying sense of superiority
The evidence was in the survey, but if you don't believe in a particular causal relationship (in this case, better engineer -> higher salary) then any correlation can always be dismissed as "not evidence".

The assumption of "a self satisfying sense of superiority" was all yours. To many people it's simply obvious that there is a correlation between how good you are at your job and how much you get paid.
People seem to forget that "electrical" effects predate digital computers. Cathode rays (before and after television) create "high-tech" animated vector-drawn images using analog systems to move the tube. Laser light shows are another example.

The original digital raster graphics were worse in some sense than the analog vector graphics that predated them.
Regarding biting "the Enterprise Application Architecture Bullet," if all I wanted was money I think I'd feel less dirty and immoral at the end of the day running a porn site than purposefully selling people extremely complex solutions to simple problems.

I realize that's a controversial thing to say, and I might get downvoted, but screw it. Porn (the well-regulated with paid actors kind) is quite often more honest.

Edits:

Sorry, I have no idea how I thought 'traditional' should be used as a modifier for the word "porn."
The most interesting point is that there is a concentration in the 30-70k range and then you have a significant number in the >200k.
Google describes it as equivalent of a 25" screen at 8 feet distance. I haven't made any exact measurements, but I wouldn't be surprised if the focal plane is in fact 8 feet.

You certainly don't focus at the glass cuboid right in front of your eyes.
That's an example of hazardously bad programming practices. You're one mistake away from complete disaster. You should be sure that it takes more than one mistake to expose you to that sort of risk.

Casting to int is not a general purpose escaping system, and further, if you miss even one of these your entire application can be trashed.

Using mysql_query at all is a sign there's something severely wrong with your application.
Looking around I found a simple CMS sold to small online stores. Through their links you can find a listing of their customers (people who use their CMS). Problem is the CMS is open to SQL injection everywhere. If a script kiddie found this info they could take down a lot of online stores. Not good.
Macbook Air 13" 2011, i7, 256GB SSD - perfect for programming, good enough for playing Bastion.
Why losing over £13,500 on a startup was one of the best things I've done
Statins are quite safe and have decades of postmarketing data demonstrating this. This is not the class of drugs that deserves scary language.

If you have a particular concern about statins, you should state it precisely.
Using either of them correctly will.

It is very easy to verify that a mysqli or PDO call is correct by looking at it. The same cannot be said for mysql_query.
Direct contract rates are even higher, somtimes > 100% higher. The pimps (contracting agencies) really screw over contactors on London. My personal experience: went from £30/hr to £100/hr by bypassing the former pimp and contracting directly to a London oil company.
And perhaps more importantly, clang is the only project with a full implementation of the C++11 standard library. GCC supports the language but libstdc++ is not all the way there yet.
For an application with no exposure, arguably it is.

When you upgrade to PHP 5.6 and your application grinds to a halt because mysql_query isn't available, you'll be wishing you'd fixed it sooner.
I was you! In 2008 I left, first for a startup in Florida (a random place to end up, but compared to Ohio where I was, Florida was a booming tech hub). That brought me a 25-30% raise. There for a few years, then to SF, which brought literally a 120% increase.

Yes, housing is expensive here. Yes, everything else is expensive, too. But it's still easily worth it. Because a lot of the things we buy -- cars, computers, cell phone plans, a european vacation -- cost the same whether you make $60k in Ohio or 2-3x that in California.

Also, while moving is never cheap, and I've never had a 100% all expenses paid including housing relo package, I have gotten the basics paid for, meaning full-service pack-and-move and other travel costs.

Remember you can always move back. When I first left Ohio, I started thinking about it in June, sent my resume to a few places in July and August. Got a call back mid august, onsite interview early september, offer a week later, a start date 5 weeks forward from that.
!!! Be careful a similar version of this is patent pending. I know the guy that came up with this 3 years ago when he showed us a demo. http://www.eletronic-badge.com

I'm not sure if it's the exact same process though.
There are tools that will find these and do all kinds of keep-you-up-at-night terrifying things with your application.

You don't even have to be a script kiddie. You just have to be able to click a button.
Sounds hard :)
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Arrived and found a job for £45K

Raised in one year up to £55K

Next job in another year £63K

Raised in one more year to £70K

Plus bonus (financial industry)

C#, Java, Matlab, real-time trading

Now quit the whole thing and doing my startup
On the other hand, building a variety of sets taught me different options and novel or useful ways to build different structures. For example, it was kits that introduced me to the idea of interlocking pieces to increase strength. I immediately saw the value, and it enabled me to do a bunch of other cool stuff. It sounds trivial now, but it was not as obvious to 10-year-old me.

I'd say having bins of more generic pieces to sift through, and also having a stream of new sets available to construct but not keep, would be the best of both worlds. 'Cause let's face it, new lego sets aren't cheap!
Certainly possible, she said Gezi park which I had heard come up so I just assumed.