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The irony of James' point – that engineers are in such high demand because of how cheap it is to start a startup – is that engineering salaries are actually being prevented from going up as a result.

There's too little supply of qualified engineers, but startups can't afford to compete in salary with the big guys (basically Facebook, Google, Amazon and the financial sector). So we compete on cheaper things like nice offices, gym memberships, etc. Basically, feel good stuff that doesn't cost much.

Facebook's budget for engineers is a good 20-50% higher than the salary a startup can pay.

Thus, it's not actually crazy that a law school student can become an engineer worth $80,000/year in only eight months. It's the startup's only option.

And that's a good thing: Companies like ours (http://www.thinkful.com/) are finding a way to build products in a way that doesn't break our budget. We're also providing great opportunities to people who want to become engineers. The only caveat is for companies greater than 50 or so people – they're struggling most of all: Too small to attract great talent that wants stability, too large to attract hungry new talent or accept junior talent that needs to learn on the job.

There's an upper limit, but our research indicates that there's a durable demand for engineering. This demand will look decidedly less sexy once startups become less cool, but software engineering will be an in-demand skill well beyond the current hype cycle.
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> I think it is a best practise.

I agree that it would make things more secure if it were a best practise. However, it is currently not. Nobody actually does it, and I think you'd be fighting an unwinnable uphill battle to change this.

If you're going to fight this, you might as well deprecate the CA system as best practice while you're at it. Does this sound unlikely? The same problem applies to asking websites to publish a suitable warning.

And how would you securely broadcast such a warning, anyway?
Could not figure out how to add request headers.
Are there also any business related alternatives?
I think the point about code being cool is rather shortsighted: Code has only been cool to anything like mainstream youth for maybe five or ten years. In US high school as an exchange student in 1999, the computer science class/team/whatever most certainly wasn't "cool" - and this was on the tail of the .com boom. In high school in Denmark 99-02, I saw the first general recognition that while "being able to make websites" was probably a useful skill, it certainly wasn't cool. Of course, the view changed at university, but then we're pretty far down the selection-bias rabbit-hole.

Given those 15 years of experience, I am not very surprised that I am in short supply. But now that coding is beginning to be cool, I'd also not be surprised if not too many years from now, basic computer literacy at the end of secondary education (or even earlier) includes the ability to crank out basic RoR-style apps.
Wait...you can change the script the extension runs, at any time, without user notification? Yeah...no....
I stopped reading /r/programming and came to HN about 2 years ago. There was more programming here and more industry gossip there.

It drove me so completely batty that I founded a related subreddit in anger.
So, in order to get around this DNS-based filtering, all a teenager has to do is change the DNS servers on their computer or device to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4? This seems like a move designed to placate rather than provide any real protection - like all such schemes.

There's no alternative to supervising young people's internet use. Teenagers will look up porn - it's best to be adult and intelligent about it, and protect them from its worst effects, rather than trying to filter the content itself.
Are you calling drug dealers political prisoners? If not who are these political prisoners?
Has anyone come up with a solution? From my POV I see three things happen in what seems to be a never ending cycle:

10 OMG why did you not know about these terrorists, how could you have missed this?!
20 OMG now you are profiling _____! That is unfair just because they are ____
30 OMG you are invading the privacy of everyone!
GOTO 10

The goal being: only criminals/terrorists have their privacy invaded and everyone else is left alone. How does can happen?

I have no solution myself, just complaining about the complainers since no matter what anyone does someone complains about it not being right.
> Simply posting with the "Show HN: " prefix puts you on a couple of twitter feeds/meta-sites.

Very true. I announced a new javascript storefront the other month with Show HN. It got four upvotes and 1400 unique visitors in the first few hours, almost all from automatic Show HN aggregators.
alternate DNS can be blocked, I guess. But something like this will work: http://dnscrypt.org/
Wow. Calling me a liar and a troll. This from someone that wrote:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5824190

and

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5826888

Both demonstrably false too.
I tether all the time and have never gotten any flak (monthly4g plan). Also, have never seen an ad on a 404. Odd.
I think people did care but we see these stories so regularly now, even though I know it's a bad thing, I find it hard to care.
Why? The more scandalous the fact, the higher the chance someone from inside decides to blow the whistle.
If these filters are opt-in, as the article suggests, what's the problem? They might not be particularly effective, but if they're not active by default, and no-one's forcing them on anyone, this hardly seems like news.
What wonderful writing.

This is a great reminder that the "just world" fallacy [successful people deserve their success because they worked hard and that the less fortunate/unemployed somehow deserve their failure] is just that, a fallacy.
Thanks. If you still have an invite to share, my email is in my profile. Much appreciated.
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You do not affect the extension. That will be against policy. It is client-side code and all it does it to send raw HTTP requests from the page of the app. It cannot run in the background. It works the same way in Firefox too.

Also, there are no notifications when updating extensions anyway - not that you can prevent those updates or even bother reading the code. Nothing changes really from the perspective of the browser security model.
A socially regressive policy is something like making abortions illegal.

Libertarians aren't socially regressive, it's the conservative part that is
At what point did I call you a liar?
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I thought this post to be quite ironic.
Most of the subreddits dedicated to a specific language or technology are nice, although it usually takes at least 1,000 subscribers to reach a critical mass, with the sweet spot between 10,000 and 100,000 subscribers. If you are doing front-end web development, for example, /r/webdev, /r/javascript, and /r/html5 are pretty good places to keep on top of interesting projects and exchange ideas.
Indeed, and had the permission been on the extension itself rather than a dependency and there been explanation of why it requires the permission when other rest clients dont, I'd probably have given it a go.

I'd be really interested to hear more about why the dependency is there and what the interplay between the two extensions and the cloud bit of the service is?
> This is a great reminder that the "just world" fallacy is just that, a fallacy.

Where do you see that? He specifically concludes that he's making the right (ie "just") amount of money for writing and coding, and that it's "just" that the CFO makes more money than the coal-miner because his skills are more specialised and in higher demand.
This is also informative: http://pypy.org/tmdonate.html

There haven't been any recent blog posts on that topic (and they aren't tagged consistently), this is the latest, which may explain the choice to go with C:
http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2012/08/multicore-programming-i...
Because the foreseeable next step is "hey, these filters are already in place we should at least block out cp". They are building up the infrastructure up to the stage where a transition to the next step is going to be with no cost to providers and immediately doable. It just needs the political opportune climate to push it through. A sort of being ready for the "happy accident".
What utter trash. Who says that Google Reader was about news, anyway? I use RSS to follow websites so that I don't miss content from them, and don't have to keep checking them manually. The updates aren't all 'news' and don't have to be instant or even timely. It just lets me gather everything in one place so that I can read it when I want to.
> and should be hackproof

I always chuckle when I read something like this because if something has been made by men it can be cracked by men. It's simple as that.
As long as its opt-in then I am all for giving parents the choice to filter their networks, but as soon as it becomes opt-out I will be very angry about it.
I'd appreciate one if you've still got any: nickwentboom at gmail dot com
I've been put behind opt-out filters (Three mobile). Only found out I had this filter randomly browsing and facing their wall page (it wasn't even porn or anything remotely questionable, just a suspect URL name).
It's not certain that they are opt-in and if they were opt-out for new customers I wouldn't be surprised. TalkTalk already has parental content filters which you have to opt-out of when you are first setting up an account with them. They inform you about the filters during the call but you have to make the decision that you don't want parental content filtered or they will leave it on.
The problem is that it's hard to show your real skill level (especially on back-end work) so getting access to these better jobs is 90% how you market yourself and where you are (New York and Silicon Valley rents are horrid, but worth every penny in comparison to 95% of places) and only 10% based on your skill level (much less unrealized potential).

You don't have to be a celebrity, but you have to be some combination of accessible and validated.

The good news is that marketing yourself is actually a lot easier than programming. You don't need a natural social acumen to do it. I know this because I'm pretty good at it and certainly do not have natural social talents.

If you want to experience "reverse interviews", you have to be in a technology hub.

That said, the dynamic is not as engineer-favorable as people make it out to be. Sure, a good engineer can get 5 in-bound contacts from recruiters per week-- again, that has more to do with self-marketing than skill level-- but most of those don't mean anything. Most often, it's just an invitation to send a resume into the normal process.
In Experts-Exchange you pay for membership, not pay-per-answer. Actually their business model is quite awkward imo. If you answer enough questions, you don't need to pay which is a weird incentive for supporters imo.
It's also useful to try and downsize, or even completely sacrifice the time spent on twitter, reddit, HN, ...
As far as I'm concerned, these tend to represent a big chunk of my free time.
Had you written gestapo it would have been a godwin. See germany has extensive multifaceted experience with police states.
Virtue is not value.

Value is not virtue.

What you consider virtuous may produce no economic value. Or maybe it does. There's no rigid formula that connects them and the Just World Hypothesis is an illusion that traps fools and wisemen alike.

Attempts to browbeat the world out of "is" and into "ought" have been universal failures and I retain every confidence that it will be ever thus.

James Somers might find Hayek's writing to be a bit repetitive and languid; but he will find the ideas illuminating. It seems like his father tried, but failed, to make the insight really stick.

There has never been a Just World where Virtue = Value. No matter how badly we want it, there can't be. And trying to forcefully make one generally just makes it much worse.
Teenagers are not kids.

Any law or measure that lumps teenagers and kids together is a sabotage.

Limiting kids' discovery of porn is a worthy feat, but trying to limit teenagers is poinless and stupid.
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Hmm that's very interesting.

What kind of charity organizations you had in mind? OSI or others which are not related to coding?
Forgive me for being glib, but at least one good thing out of this is that a lot more teenagers will be inspired to become hackers.

"So when did you first get into hacking Mr. Famous Hacker X?"

"Well, I remember that, like a lot of the lads in my generation at the time, I was trying to get round my ISPs porn-filters."
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It took me a few episodes to warm up to it, but now I just can't get enough of their banter. I particularly recommend the episode on foot binding in China.
Hey parents, instead of trying to filter your internet connection to 'protect' your child, why not... Er... Parent? Teach him/her what not to do online, why, and how to stay safe. Filters will always be on step behind.
I wonder what the hell is voting for... this system is corrupted/failed already, politicians put millions and billions in marketing to get elected, sometimes with corruption money even(ruling party in Brazil admitted to it with a "everybody does it, it's normal" argument, also fucking lobbyists up there) and after they're there they don't have to answer to anyone anymore, it doesn't matter that the actions took by the government doesn't match the persona they marketed themselves to get there(As an outsider who rooted for Obama for his apparent reasoning and humanity, I'm severely disappointed with what I see), not to mention that probably in most countries the 'game' is already a two-party only play, with "you wouldn't want that other guy so pick me" as one of the prevalent voting reasonings, with parties getting more and more alike by the day, making the whole voting process look more like lucha-libre than a competition to me

I don't disagree with what you said but I'm seriously in doubt if I really trust "voting", I'm in Brazil and over here seems like it's a lost case(uneducated population, obligatory voting <= marketing + corrupts power circle)
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pg: can we just blacklist medium.
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That's true, there is definitely environmental feedback involved.

However people can grow up in the same environment, with the same access to learning, and have very different outcomes.
And, above all, end-to-end cryptography doesn't protect you against traffic analysis, which is what the NSA is doing with this metadata (which allows them to choose targets subject to a full blown surveillance).
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"A magnetic, passive attitude control system is in place which will keep the TARDIS's camera pointing toward the planet"

Can anyone explain this bit? The project doesn't bother to. As far as I can see, it's just a box with no control systems or means of adjusting its position or orientation.

And why the on-board camera? Is it just filming stuff for some future alien race to collect, because there's no means for the data to get sent back down...
Your comments are all dead from the next comment onwards (since yesterday basically). Looks like you've been hellbanned.
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While it's just basic technically, I've learned a lot about A/B testing & driving traffic.

Have taken the first few orders which is proof of concept! Currently working on the next version, integrating more product images & branding too.

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> its worst effects

Of which there are none. Nudity and sex are normal, not damaging.
One more reason why moving to NYC or SV is in my future. I wouldn't feel weird at all.
I disagree with the advice to "focus on the positive feedback". You will already have an unrealistically optimistic view of your app, because it's your baby. Your purpose in showing it to HN (or any other audience) is to get a more accurate picture of both their positive aspects and their shortcomings. If you focus only on positive feedback, you get validation, but you don't find out how to improve.

Research has found that novices disproportionately seek positive feedback, whereas experts seek negative feedback[0]. Would you rather be more like a novice, or more like an expert?

Doyen of entrepreneurs, Elon Musk, also advices entrepreneurial wannabes to seek negative feedback[1]:

"Always seek negative feedback, even though it can be mentally painful. They won't always be right, but I find the single biggest error people make is to ignore constructive, negative feedback."

[0] http://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/sf2559/files/2011/08/FF_JCR_F...

[1] http://news.investors.com/management-leaders-in-success/0821...
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Children shouldn't be using the internet unsupervised, full stop.
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Yes it is impossible to completely block the distribution of such content, and yes maybe this is a particularly weak solution. But that doesn't mean that this or simialr efforts should not be made: they will reduce the ease of availability which will cut down exposure to this type of material.

I actually believe that all pornography should be behind a paywall, and any which is not is blocked (somehow). And no I am not abdicating responsibily of my children to the state - they still need to be taught responsible online behaviour - as I agree above such material will always be available for those who make the effort to circumvent restrictions.

We don't not lock our houses because someone can still break in - but it dramatically cuts down on such attempts (and we still educate our children on why breaking into other peoples homes is a bad thing to do).
Well if you speak Spanish, there's http://www.noticiashacker.com/ but it looks kind of dead.
Along those lines, in Italian there is antirez' http://hackingitalia.com/
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Awesome. If I needed access to feeds again I'd definitely use superfeedr.
It's particular to the New York startup scene. There is a lot of money sloshing around and startups have a different hiring strategy than in Silicon Valley. It's quick to hire, quick to fire. I've had six figure offers without even going through a real interview. This leads to a lot of churn. One place I worked at ran through three almost entirely different engineering teams in 18 months. It will be interesting to read if the author of this article still has the same job in the fall.

Silicon Valley is a bit different. There is usually a gauntlet of multi-day interviews even for the lowliest position at a startup nobody has heard of. It's even more of a gauntlet at the large, established companies. I've heard of someone doing 10 days of interviews at amazon.com, and they are a company most want to avoid. Companies are very afraid of hiring the wrong person.

As you have noted, most everywhere else the developer is made to feel lucky to work at a folding table in an unheated area next to the men's room.
Sounds like you live somewhere where there isn't much development going on.
I'm finding I have to check HN around 10-15 times a day, lest I miss some of the more interesting submissions.

I really enjoying a lot of the ShowHN, Startup news, and discussions around programming languages/libraries.

I primarily come to HN to learn. This seems to be the place that many clever people congregate to share opinions and ideas. I really just like to listen to what they have to say to each other.

However, it seems that a lot of the good submissions drop off the front page after just a few hours. The ones that tend to stick around seem to be more "political" than anything else. I guess it's easier to voice an opinion on an outrage-article as you don't need any real expertise.

I do wish we could just get back to talking mostly about development/tech stuff. There is so much to learn in this industry and HN is one of the few places where it all comes together.
People with lots of money have been disappointed by the performance of traditional investment vehicles for the past 5 years; meanwhile a lot of extra money has been put into the financial sector.

If you're a fund with $100 billion under management, dropping $2 billion into various venture funds is a reasonable part of the mix. Multiply that by the fact that several hundred funds, banks, trusts and companies collectively control trillions of dollars and these little 1 or 2 percent investments pump billions of dollars into tens of thousands of companies with collectively perhaps a few hundred thousand employees.

When every buyer is cashed up, prices for sellers rise.
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Yes, but that's almost impossible, e.g. do you insist that your child can't use their mobile phone unsupervised then?
What is "unsupervised"?
Children today are given a tablet at the age of three and they tap on it happily.

Do you seriously suggest all people with kids to have a full-time job of watching their kids tap on their tablets over the shoulder?
Who's going pay the wage?
Because the people that are in their late 20-s early 30-s turned out so bad.

Actually the internet is much tamer now than in the 90-s. And we survived somehow.
As far as I can tell, conservatives are pro-anything-with-guns (Homeland Security, big military...), but against welfare and taxes for the rich. Democrats are pro-welfare and taxes for the rich, but just as happy to invade your privacy or bomb the crap out of your family if you are a bearded guy with a turban.
This video
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p019ng2n
is perhaps better
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