skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing yet, last time I posted I had a few people asking me to co tact them for ROR and JS work. They said their contact details were in their profile, so I can only guess that they had a twisted sense of humor?
No one is claiming there is a shortage of programmers. The shortage is of really good programmers. These tend to be people who have an innate love of and aptitude for programming. It's orthogonal whether they happen to major in CS in college. (I didn't.)

If the people with the greatest innate love of and aptitude for programming are evenly distributed among the world's population, 95% of them are born outside the US.
They pay just fine in Australia.

Of course the cost of living is alsop very high.
you still cannot get access to the raw data or data in real time.
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UK degrees are classified into four classes: 1st, upper and lower 2nd, and 3rd. A first corresponds to about an average of 70%, 2.1 60%, etc.
Yes, I can highly recommend Seattle. This poll more or less confirmed for me that I'm living well above where I (likely) would be in SV by staying there.
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Still haven't decided about REMOTE? I mean, you're looking for those `one or two engineers` for a couple of years now.
Anyone know why the author chose .lsp for the extension? I've not seen that on any system that allows longer extensions.
Could you help point a stranger towards these contracts? Cheers.
So, for anyone with a Bachelor's or higher, leisure time has plummeted. For everyone else, the increase in "leisure time" is likely because of underemployment, so they would actually prefer to be working more to earn more money.
"foreign born" is such a sneaky word, too. They could just as well be American citizens.
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Birmingham dev here. This is so frustrating because I see your logo everywhere, have often read about your movements and I've often imagined you're a cool company to work for. But, I have no Java or Ruby experience... doh.
I'm not recommending this approach. I'm merely saying that it isn't as trivially broken as one would think.
jonstewart, you're hellbanned. Nobody can see your comments.
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One lurker here - I, for one, am EXTREMELY interested in CoA, and Clojure in general. I have only worked on a couple of Android apps thus far, but it is already enough for me to want to look into Clojure for Android development. I don't know if my Android chops are good enough for me to get away from the Eclipse/Java environment just yet, though.
Tell me about it.

I moved overseas to Australia from London a few years ago. Same job, same company, 60% pay rise.

Now I'm back in the UK the permanent salaries on offer seem like an insult. I have to go contracting to match it.
There was a large thread about this yesterday, speculating about what it is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5796880

I think a "launch loop" is consistent with all of Musk's statements (and nothing else is):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5797212
> Except that this isn't the truth. H1B imported engineers aren't the best in their field, working for top wages. They're middling-low, working for below-average wages.

That's a blanket statement. There's a difference between the H1B mill contracting firms and H1Bs that are directly recruited by top companies, and paid on par with their American employees. The H1B mills give genuinely talented workers who fully deserve their positions a bad name, and that's a real shame.
That is a minority of programmers, even for London.
This is the only moral I've found in this story so far. It all seems so tragic and arbitrary.

I used to drive through the intersection Andrew Scott Reisse was hit almost every day (until major road construction re-routed me). It's part of what strikes me as so random about this event. Unless he lived in one of the homes in that area, it puzzles me why he was walking through that intersection at that particular time of day. Unless, that is, he just really liked to walk and covered a lot of ground. In which case, this reminder is especially poignant.

My partner and I have a short commute so whenever we're crossing a street (often its one of the same cross-streets Andrew was hit in), I remind her: crossing this street is probably the most dangerous thing you're going to do this week. Put away the smart phone and pay attention like your life depends on it.
The awesomeness is in your video...explains your idea so beautifully. Did you do entire the video yourself, or outsourced a part of it?
8.7% for computer science is still rather high.
Improbable worlds is a privately funded London based start up working on a transformative new underlying technology for online games.

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I don't know as much about how the USA works as a union but, no, it sure doesn't look like a union either. :) But they are not threatening to kick California out of the US if it doesn't pay its debts, right?

As for tourism, yes, it's going to be slightly reduced in July, but do you think it's nice to wait for 3-4 months to work?

Also, they are going to vote for an austerity measure to give seasonal workers an unemployment aid not every year but every two years. At the same time a former minister of defence, who is jailed for corruption scandals, is receiving two pensions every month.
Technically? Yes, that's probably their best option. Politically? Very, very difficult.
Thanks for the info. I take it the private loans are made against the estate.
Our dining room table has been fully dedicated to Lego projects for years. This to the point of having built a regulation FLL arena on top of it:

http://firstlegoleague.org/sites/default/files/Challenge/Foo...

The fun and learning in Legos & Mindstorms is multiplied many fold once the kids understand that taking apart their kits or inventions opens the door to more fun.

Just a few days ago we tore apart all assembled contraptions and organized a backyard rubber-powered Lego boat race. We even came up with a makeshift 8 foot long race track by making a frame out of 2 x 4's, draping it with a tarp and filling it with water. The kids are still having fun with the setup and having a blast coming up with new boat designs.

I truly can't think of one scenario that would compel us to want to rent a Lego kit.
In Tokyo wouldn't they just be stuck in a traffic jam?
I just created a chart based on this data

http://jsbin.com/idifos/1
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Amazing that so many phenomena that were expected to turn up at colliders, (if they were to turn up at all) eg Majorana fermions, magnetic monopoles, are being discovered in condensed matter systems.

Which makes some sense, I suppose. After all, spontaneous symmetry breaking, sometimes called the Higgs mechanism, was first observed in superconductors, and described by BCS.
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Programmers get paid poorly in Japan because Japanese culture doesn't respect software. It has nothing to do with the way they are trained.
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Nice attempt, but how do you correct for bias here? What type of people visit HN? What type of people visit HN that come from the UK? At what point of the day? Which people are happy to fill in a questionnaire that shows how little they earn? It is probably skewed in the direction of high wages. To know that I would recommend at least the same poll for another European city and for several American cities.
Oh, I didn't mean to imply there was anything wrong or obvious about it, or for that matter, with homework.
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Guess I just need to find some contacts in Seattle then! Sorted :)
It's hard to get overseas by train.
Any ideas why 110k-119k is underrepresented, compared to the brackets above and below?
"Having five children..."

Somehow overpopulation didn't make his list of existential risks? Seems like a glaring hypocrisy for someone who claims to have an interest in saving the species.
> If I want a $1,000,000,000 unicorn, and can't find it, is it because I'm not paying enough?

To be fair with the analogy, that should rather read...

> If I want a $1,000,000,000 unicorn, one out of the 100 that are in existence, and I can't find someone to sell it, is it because I'm not paying enough?

The answer then becomes - Yes.

Top engineers in the US are not mythical creatures, they do exists. Hence why the original analogy is disingenuous.
Yes, the transition will be an upset, like all transitions are. But what I quoted doesn't talk about the transition to the utopia, it talks about the utopia having been reached and people still needing an income. If people's needs are not being provided for they will need income, presumably by trading their time/effort for a means of exchange (money), but if that is the case, then the utopia has not been achieved.

Nothing happens overnight, and confusing the challenges of the transition with the endgame, or that the challenges that existed during the transition will still exist after the endgame is achieved, presents a position that the endgame isn't worth it because the transition disturbs the status quo.
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This is why things like internships or personal projects are so important for those pursuing a CS degree. Companies actively recruit from my campus, but lose interest quickly if the only thing you can talk to is your class or homework experience. What I find interesting is that, at least in my area (Utah), internships are readily available.
I'm reminded of startup in Europe that bought junk from you, sent you a box, and sold it. I met the founder at an event. Forgot the name though. It's a hard one to scale and not that easy to make money with...

Also reminds me of https://www.getyardsale.com/
That is seriously good reading
Go does not have constant time string comparisons by default. The crypto/subtle package supplies constant time comparisons.
Did he say it was a cell-phone he borrowed?
American Wealth is not half what is was before the crash
My old HTC Sensation drew 3.7V.

http://www.amazon.com/Anker%C2%AE-1900mAh-Li-ion-Battery-Sen...
I'm trying to grok what this is. You're selling a business model canvas template PDF file for $20 Is that right?

Some more explanation on the page would help a lot.
Also see Tron. Many of scenes that look like CGI are not. Pretty much any CG looking scene with a person visible has no CGI and several of the scenes that look 100% cgi are not as well

For example no part of this clip is CGI.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiw2FbHBd14

No CGI in any of this either. Zero Zilch Nada.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PFd9SPuuDM#t=1m10s

no idea how long this will stay up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrCdMHUNznc
there are still reasonable metrics that could be applied:

http://www.starling-software.com/employment/programmer-compe...
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Appeals to authority are always deductively fallacious; even a legitimate authority speaking on his area of expertise may affirm a falsehood, so no testimony of any authority is guaranteed to be true.

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Get the plate, note the direction they're heading in, and call the police. That's what they're there for, and you may just save a life (or lives).
The whole point of the article was that there are tons of IS grads to hire, so Silicon Valley's problem is that they are too selective about which stem graduates to hire, and not that there is a shortage of talent. Replying, as you did, about the problems with computer science degree is talking about at most a tangentially related subject. Hence my response.

On how CS grads are doing, new grads have an unemployment rate below the general public, in an age range where unemployment is much higher than the general public. And if you go out a few years, unemployment drops in half. This sucks if you are one of the unemployed, but overall I consider this doing fine.
A physicist comments: http://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/1fev5e/artificial_m...
-march=native at least. Something like re-tuning ATLAS at best.

Not really griping that much; eventually people do do those kinds of benchmarks, but they do take time, and they're not really the target audience for someplace like Tom's. Understandable they would focus on gaming & general-use benchmarks.
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Somewhat related is S. G. Collins' interesting video explaining why they couldn't have faked going to the moon; it was easier and cheaper to actually go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGXTF6bs1IU
I don't make $400k. Someone made a different account with a similar name (lefthander2) and responded with his own salary.
Who is hiring Java devs in London, UK?
I do believe you just called your mom 'ignorant'. In which case I'm sure she would not be happy.

Lego's were marketed as build a "fill in the blank with random thing" and that's it. Not a buy 15 bricks for construction of what ever. So it's 100% understandable that she did not truly understand at first.
There is a real shortage of people willing to work for peanuts.
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Unless the devs in question are building trading algos or other front-line work the bonus isn't often much more than other industries. The idea you're going to get a 100%+ base salary bonus when you work building order resolutions for a T2 investment bank in the City is laughable.
Sold is handling the pricing, listing, and dealing with customers. I sold a few things through Amazon FBA, and while it was pretty easy, I still had to list the items, and change the price a few times.

This takes it a step further, and deals with all of the headaches associated with selling. You just take a picture, place it in a box, and you're done. I can definitely see a market for this.
If you look at why they aren't working, 80% is because they don't have money to advertise them or time to carry on, not that they are not necessarily good
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"Practically guaranteed" nowadays means about 70% probability in finance :). There are almost no hard guarantees anymore.
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At this point, with the amount of people here, I dont think we can trust the community self-reporting as reliable data

Aside from thr poll you would factor in bonuses and stock options to reach that level.

And then theres the computer programmers who are actually in management
If you compile the code on said absolutely-latest-CPU, -mtune=native for GCC and Clang, -xHost for ICC.

I don't use MSVC, but /arch:AVX will get you the AVX instructions found on Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge. AFAIK, there is no generic "tune generated code for host" flag for MSVC, and AVX2 is not supported at all yet.

You'll probably need to pass optimization-level and vectorization flags to see more of an effect, but for the most part, the biggest gains will come when optimized libraries come out with new ASM- or intrinsic-based variants for the new ISA extension.
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