skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is mostly microeconomics stuff, but for a national economy. Macro is when the scale of a market causes it to obey different rules, sort of how quantum mechanics is fundamentally different from classical but quantum particles still obey classical laws in some situations.

Micro is a lot easier to work with because you can study it empirically, since experiments and data can be assumed to scale up; it's subject to the "rigorous analysis" you talk about.
If you live in London and do software for a salary, you better LOVE what you are doing and where you are doing it, 'cos you aint doing it for the money.

You might want to also ask daily rates for contractors... most of the salary rates I've seen are around 60-75% of what contractors go for, and London has a crazy number of contractors (I'd guess 75% contract, 25% full time?)
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How many different cities on the front page at once before this becomes absurd?

It's been pointed out that this self-reported data is mostly worthless, and is likely just to make you feel bad.

I for one have definitely submitted false data to these sorts of polls.
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Is that 130 on top of 80? Are you doing trading systems / algo trading?
Reading through this book[1] was a really mind-expanding experience for me. It is an overview of the kernel and doesn't dive into any one part in depth, but it was extremely valuable for me in learning how to structure a large c project as the same techniques and ideas are useful for many large projects.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Kernel-Development-Developers-Library-...
Truly world-class engineers can be brought to the US on O visas. H1Bs are trying to fill a need for good or even great, but not amazing, engineers. Which is why it's a tragedy that so many of the spots go to shitty outsourcing firms for mediocre wages.
But competitively is the word. They can attract software engineers at those low wages, therefore they are competitive.

This seems strange to me, as it takes a few years for someone to get good at software (the supply is constricted), and where I've been involved in recruitment, finding good people is difficult.

It's also interesting to see that people get paid so much more in finance, or at American companies. That is, a finance house could probably hire any good 5+ year C++ developer at the 'normal C++ developer' rate of 30k, and get good results. But they choose to pay 50K for a 'finance C++ developer', whether he was earning 30K last week or not.

That says to me that pay is not set by supply by labor supply and demand but something else. That is, you don't get rich by having rare skills that make people money, you get them by knowing which industries pay over the odds for labor. I think that's a good thing to realize if you want to be comfortable.
I agree and also prefer false negatives when I do interviews - the cost of having someone terrible join your team is much worse than the cost of missing out on the occasional good person.

Of course there is a balance and if you're routinely turning away great candidates there's probably a problem with your interview process that should be checked out.

I used 'flawed' in the sense that interviewing is a hard problem in general.

Edit: Fixed
I look forward to not interacting with you in the future.
No kidding. The effective PPI (number of dots that make up the display / size of the image being projected onto your retinas) of a large TV viewed at a distance is pretty high, though, so both "retina displays" and large, low-resolution TVs viewed from a typical distance require large fonts etc. to be legible.
Potatoss.com all of the games, you can find them in the AppStore. I made it with a friend a couple of months ago, it did like 250k downloads but anyway we couldn't fight against huge companies like disney or rovio, there is too many bad things happening under the hood of the AppStore. Specially what some companies call a burst... did you know that some Chinese companies who will download your games millions of time for money?
The apps were made with cocos2d and Chipmunk for the physics engine.
I know a guy who might be interested in this. email me.
I'm calling BS on this, being a contractor. I spend around 10 mins a week invoicing. Nearly no time "marketing myself".

I DO spending a bit of time saying "no, I have a contract" to recruiters tho.
That is probably one of the most difficult things for the 'average engineer' to understand.

Solve a person's problem and you'll profit, doesn't matter if it is the worse hack ever invented, if it's reasonably easy to use and/or fulfills a need it gets the money.
I have individual teachers paying $100 a year for software I have created. You should definitely charge for that main account, or limit the functionality of the main account (ie, they can only create five private accounts) unless they upgrade. You have put a huge amount of effort into your software - and it looks really professional. You've got to charge. Or at least give people the option of being charged.
> I think LIKE can use indexes where the left is anchored with enough text for an index to be useful. LIKE 'this is fun%' will be more likely than LIKE 'a%' LIKE '%fun vacation' won't but if you have an index on reverse(mycolumn) and you have where reverse(mycolumn) like reverse('%fun vacation'), it might.

That's the case for the C locale, but (as I understand it) not for other locales.
I take exception that argument because, well, I'd like to think of myself as an exception. I arrived in the US as an H1B and while it's difficult to talk about my skills objectively, I am certainly not paid below-average wages.

I don't doubt that the majority of H1B visa holders are as you say. But the system can work correctly- I and many others I know are hopefully proof of that. So, "totally" debunked? No.
>People hire to get stuff done. They have zero interest in your qualifications.

This seems to be a massive oversimplification. For a recent example, note how Yahoo is changing their recruiting to favour applicants that have a degree from a "prestigious" university.
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Don't know the cause, but the first text in page is "Back" and it's placed just before a <h1> head. Perhaps that is confusing some heuristic.

From the html file:

...
<a href="../">&lt; &lt; Back</a>
<h1>Aurebesh</h1><br>
...
It's the legacy of the old class system rearing its ugly head. No matter how well educated, and from what prestigious colleges, (software) engineering is blue-collar work and will never be as well paid as the "graduate management fast-track" type with a sociology degree from a "red brick".

Finance isn't highly paid for software work, it's fairly paid, by world standards, only because they contrary to popular belief, don't have any class hangups there and are comfortable with the notion of playing in a free market.
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> The average hours worked in France is 1500, UK 1600 and USA 1800[1]. Therefore if you factor in hours worked, a developer in France should be paid 83% of average salary in America and 94% of average salary in the United Kingdom. This of course assumes that everything else is equal (which is untrue).

Notably, the longer hours worked in the US compared to Europe comes at the expense of less per-hour productivity in most studies I've seen, though not enough to result in less per-worker productivity. If that's true within Europe as well, the value of the time worked would be closer than the number of hours would suggest.
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Source?

I'm questioning it simply because I remember from browsing US News stats during my grad school applications that pretty much every graduate department in STEM fields was 20-50% foreign students. I only looked at the top 20-30 schools, but that's a pretty substantial cohort. Maybe there are sweatshops out there that hire middling-low candidates at below market wages, but it's hard to dismiss the presence of a large pool that certainly ARE the best in the field.
Why would you submit false data?
Bollocks. My gf and I are currently living off of my 40k since she's unemployed. In zone 2. It's totally doable and you'll have money to spare if you're alone with that kind of salary.
Getting "Error 503 Service Unavailable from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" when I try to visit the website.
Anandtech's Haswell review
It does. http://www.ice.gov/doclib/sevis/pdf/stem-list.pdf 11.0401
The only things I'd be willing to part with (cheap) are:
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Well, speaking for myself, I think the article is extremely interesting, but I don't think I have much to add to the conversation. Maybe Clojure just attracts lurkers.

(It should be pointed out that I have plenty of strong opinions I'm more than happy to tell to anyone who will listen, but when it comes to Clojure, I want to hear from Nathan Marz, James Reeves, Stuart Sierra &c, and seriously doubt I have much to add.)
Is there a point when moving around too much is starting to look bad on your resume?
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Guessing but he probably bought it
Well, you're right about human labor being a luxury in a world of increasing automation. It seems like people are willing to pay for that, though. Until something really crazy happens, like mind uploading becoming a reality, automation will result in more people being employed for luxury purposes. Many of these will be low-wage jobs, but that won't be so bad if technological progress continues to make things more affordable. But human labor as a luxury does not necessarily mean low-wage work. For example, mechanical watches have essentially been toys for rich people for the past few decades, yet they continue to be produced in significant numbers, and the higher-end watches generally have a significant amount of human labor involved.
Seems like a good program. Thanks for sharing.
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Sorry, this is a pet peeve of mine. While I do think many game developers on the App Store resort to shady tactics, I think it's a poor excuse to not succeed.

Looking at your game on iTunes, it strikes me that you have a lot of bad reviews, so perhaps there are things to work on in your gameplay, before you start worrying if your competitors are cheating.

Also, looks to me like your game was downloaded by a lot of South Americans. Maybe if your game was more fun, or marketed better, in Europe and the US, there would have been more in-app-purchases. 250K downloads is worth different amounts in different places.

Not to say making an indie game isn't a hard journey, but to say you failed because everyone else cheats is self-defeating. You probably fail because you perceive no way to succeed.
There are a few locks in this space, all somewhat different.

I got more interested in them back when I first learned of Airbnb (2008 or 2009), and thought about how much of a pain handling keys would be; a reprogrammable lock would be ideal. Unfortunately, until BT 4.0LE on the iPhone 4S, there wasn't really a good way to do this other than conventional NFC (giving people tags in advance, and then remote-acl modifications to let them into units), which required wifi or other data on every lock.

So there's August (BT 4.0 LE, no local network). Probably the nicest industrial design. Fits over the inside part of a single cylinder deadbolt. Lack of network in the lock makes it harder to do a networked audit log.

Lockitron (a YC company) -- I kind of hated the first generation of their product, but the second generation, shipping soon, is close to the August, plus has built-in Wifi. I'm not sure if it can work in entirely-local mode, which IMO is a key feature.

Neither of these replaces the actual lock. This is both a plus and a minus.

Schlage, ilco, etc. have a combination of consumer and commercial locks with NFC, touchscreen, or bluetooth. Some have monthly service charges.

Sadly, no one makes a really good cryptographic lock (i.e. something which does challenge response authentication, rather than just passing a string), as far as I can tell. I haven't looked at the August or Lockitron 2.0 protocols, though, but all the big commercial lock company products are a bit mediocre for security. This doesn't matter so much for doors as it does for safes or other security containers. I had really high hopes for the smartcard/iButton based locks, but those just send a serial number, too, and are thus easily intercepted or spoofed.

Kaba-Mas makes probably the best electromechanical lock, the X09 (and new X10 coming); they're about $1k. Unfortunately even those only work as locks and are deficient as seals.

The gold standard seems to be the integrated building system where everything is networked and centrally managed (HID or whatever), but I think there's a great opportunity beyond the single-door residential that all of these seem to be going after, but below the integrated facility system. Something designed for <200 users, 2-5 doors, cloud managed for changes, and local config pushed to the locks for instant access.

Maybe could make it work using Lockitron or August hardware, or some commodity hardware from one of the lock companies.
I'm also from Europe and in our country it's the contrary, one of the companies was few years ago advertising that they give developers salaries that are at least two country average. And that wasn't even in the capital (but a 2nd largest city). Here I think we are one of the best paid non-management people (apart from doctors/lawyers)

Edit: Forgot to mention the country - Poland
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Couldn't someone snap my qr code whilst I wasn't looking and have access to my account on their phone? I think there's some interesting uses of qr codes for authentication, but I'm not sure this is one of them.
Or just cross the border to Portugal and have them for even less. The difference between even similar countries is huge.
It was approximately £20 a week.

In the summer I used to walk which took around 40 minutes so I spent a little less.
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The worthlessness of these polls is increased by the awful choices.
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This poll isn't set up properly. For the sake of the example, if someone makes 60k, which one should they choose? The 50-60k option or the 60-70k option. To fix this, the poll should be organized like so:

Less than 50k

50k - 59k

60k - 69k

70k - 79k

80k - 89k

90k - 99k

100k - 199k

200k+
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I think watts per unit of performance is most important, as long as the more energy-efficient CPU isn't exhorbitantly more expensive, since we only pay for the hardware itself once but pay for energy continually.
I've worked at investment banks. People are committed, but they're not there after 7 on the whole.

There are smart people, they're the seniors. The juniors are just like everywhere else. There are the actively clueless.

The only good thing about investment banks is that they're more agile than consumer banks. That's probably country dependent though.

Don't think it's like this special place or some crap. It's really not.

On the whole, if you have strong programming skills you're going to be better compensated in the financial sector than at google or facebook. You just have to work with a non software oriented business that doesn't give a shit, and put up with things.
Regarding "What achievement can Perl 6 claim?"

At least one is 6Model itself -- a generic object semantics and API which has been back ported to Perl 5, has been ported to the JVM (with a lot of optimization still pending) and as we see here is a reasonable design for part of a VM API.

As far as I know 6Model is the only candidate around for a low level object model that is flexible enough to implement the object semantics in most languages, low level enough to be be efficiently implemented in most VMs, etc.
It's a good site and with the popularity of Ruby/Rails, I think it could be very popular.

The biggest problem right now is that there's little incentive to actually pay you, so it's essentially a directory. You're already telling me these developers are pre-approved, so I can assume they're pretty good. As they have personal websites and Github profiles links on most users, what's to prevent me from just going through and finding some I like, then reaching out to them to discuss?

If you want to make money, you may need to change the method a bit. Charge of access or make it hard to contact users on your own or have an explicit policy against this like Elance. $100 isn't much to people looking for Rails devs but there has to be at least $100 of perceived value in your service.
Yeah. I am in zone 3 (15 minute walk from the office which is awesome) at £1200 a month for a very nice (large) one bed room flat. I could get a two bedroom with a little more space for the same price but this flat is gorgeous and I love the lay out plus location to work is perfect. Close enough but not too close ;)

I would say you could get by on 35k but you wouldn't have much left over. Could do it for a year or two in a grind if you really had to though. Anything less and you will probably get pissed off with yourself as you will most likely feel under valued quite quickly. Especially if you have to pay anything at all for travel.
Found this: https://github.com/RobinKrom/Mtgox/blob/master/src/Mtgox/Htt...

receiveResponse con (\_ i -> parseFromStream json i))

This seems to work but without the benefit of being marshalled into my type.
Nice! What's your tech stack?