skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Conditions have to be bad enough so that a large segment of the rock-bottom citizens don't commit crime just to get some hope.

The blatantly obvious alternative to this is for the government to provide adequate food assistance and homeless shelters such that you can get the free meals and roof without committing a crime first, in which case there would be no incentive to do this whatsoever.
Interesting how you discredit advice from "relative nobodies." The world is mostly full of relative nobodies. You must have a hard time opening your mind to learn from anybody.
that data is employment, not the lack of.
> but the poll choices are in fact surprising. 2/3rds of the options are devoted to salaries between $150k - $300k.

You've discovered my secret plot! I even included words to that effect in the description. The other polls literally top out at 150k. I didn't want that.
> Shively is planning to lay out his plans, along with his vision for a future in which marijuana will be legally imported from Mexico, at a Thursday news conference in downtown Seattle.

If a brand is seeking to be a mark of quality, then he is looking to import from the wrong country.

I have never been to these places but I'm guessing the typical shops where medical marijuana is dispensed in California don't sell the sorts of "schwag" that you see come from Mexico.

However, I suppose growers in Mexico could produce better quality Marijuana if the market were to shift against their product.
The percentages on that page are labeled "Youth Employment Rate" (not unemployment), which would explain why they are higher in the "No Disability" column than in the "Disability" column.
Spain's government finances were not unsustainable prior to the recession. In fact, they were in pretty good shape. Spain did, however, face a crippling housing bubble due to the surge of outside investment.
Adding source maps support to wisp is my no 1st priority for wisp.
> In a vacuum, this number is meaningless.

Lucky for us, we're not in a vacuum. We're in a market.
Details will vary depending on the filesystem. Bad old filesystems are O(n^2) in the # of files in a directory. ext3fs is fine. Also tools like find and and rm often do more work on a file than strictly nececssary. I'm curious why rsync would be better myself; on first blush that'd be the worst choice!

I've salvaged an unwieldy directory by using Python to directly call unlink(2). Details: http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/bad/giant-directories.ht...
That says the youth employment rate, otherwise numbers like:

April 2013
~~~~~~~~~~
Disability: 28.9
No Disability: 62.3

would mean that ~91.2% of 20-24 year olds are not working.
The 60% figure is the employment rate, so unemployment would be less than 40%. That 40% might include full-time students and others who might not be unemployed.
This is scary, yes. But there's more to any unemployment story than just the stats.

What are the prospects of an unemployed young person getting a job at any point in the future, even when the economy recovers? Is there a strong bias towards new grads, that would lead to a "lost generation" that permanently suffers in the job market? How does society look on the unemployed? Do they look at them with sympathy or scorn?

Lastly, how do the young unemployed feel? Are they angry? Are they carefree? Or are they filled with despair and hopelessness?
It seems like it should be possible to run some economic analysis, at least at a high level, based on this type of data and the actions of the countries involved.

I also wonder if Europe has higher unemployment due to a lower frequency of "at will" employment. Hiring someone seems to be a much greater consideration in countries where it's difficult to let someone go. Poor performers are likely to stick around longer and impact the team much more.

Would employment be lower if at-will employment were more commonplace and lawful in Europe?
But since most startups fail, won't the equity be worth little to nothing in the median case? Kind of like playing the lottery.
The issue with Spain lies is the (private) banks, not government finances. Unlike Greece, where the government needs to get bailed out, in Spain it is the banks that are in trouble.
How are they making a living and otherwise providing for themselves? (Serious question.)

Is homelessness also skyrocketing, or do the unemployed receive benefits of some kind?
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2013)
AngularJS Developer Statistics from LinkedIn Group
Beginner’s Guide to Bitcoin: Entrepreneurs and Enthusiasts Edition
Downvoting on opinions you disagree with diminishes the value of HN, because then there will be ideas which may have merit, or lead to thoughtful insights, which no one will speak for fear of downvotes.

> I applaud you for uttering what is clearly a minority opinion here

Me too! I think HN can be too much of an echo chamber sometimes, especially when it comes to politics. (Whether articles like this one are HN-relevant material is questionable, but I've found the comments here to be much more well-reasoned than most of the political discourse I've seen on the Internet.)

In fact, I personally do my part to help this by occasionally playing devil's advocate -- saying things I don't necessarily believe, which I know will be controversial, risking downvotes solely for the sake of stimulating a good discussion.

People sometimes find it very difficult to agree to disagree, especially about highly controversial subjects like politics. This has a chilling effect even on me: I try very hard to keep this account separate from my real identity, so people whose opinion I care about won't take one of my devil's advocate comments out of context. (For that matter, I tend not to advertise my actual political views to people unless I know them well and think they will either agree with me, or are intellectually mature enough to accept that sometimes people acting in good faith can have different opinions than they do. And I think that I am so constituted that I would act in this way in the current US political environment no matter what my views actually were.)

I also upvote comments I disagree with, if they're sufficiently well-written and thought-provoking, especially if they seem to have been downvoted solely because people disagree with the opinion.
The problem is real for me too. What is really crazy is that I may actually be too lazy to snap a picture and email it.

When I had more time and less money I would buy camera equipment from people on CL, and resell it for huge mark ups. Most people just wanted it gone and were willing to get a little cash.

I bet they do a lot more volume than people are giving them credit for. I also think a smart phone app that allows you to take a photo and immediately send it to the company would increase their potential merchandise.
> Radiologists and pathologists seem to love retina iPad displays...

Does the FDA allow them to be used for diagnosis, or do they have to 'technically' make the diagnosis after looking at one of those monitors you linked (or similar from another company)?
Ignoring for the moment how totally insane our legal system is, I think it's very debatable it's the right tool to deal with side effects.

The thing is, we know there are going to be side effects, some severe, some fatal. The government licenses these vaccines knowing, statistically, that X number of people will get sick, Y crippled, Z killed. But it does this because the alternative is far worse. So as long as it's not stingy, it makes sense for it to run a system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine_court) to pay out to those families affected, rather than the capricious legal system that won't compensate a lot of people.

As I've noted elsewhere, expose manufacturers to unlimited liability and we eventually won't have any left. We were in fact almost there when the compensation system was changed.

Also, you may not be talking about "crazy autism stuff", but lawyers certainly were and would be if set loose again.
Neither. Just inside a bubble.
It seems silly to ignore stock and bonuses. My base salary is only ~$150k, but with stock and bonuses I'll make over $260k this year (Google). Would this compare with a job that also gives a $150k salary but nothing else?
I actually was thinking of Space Invaders. True DK was enjoyable but it was still a game with basically one screen with a few different variations.

One can find at least a dozen games one would like to play on almost every generation but when it gets to pre NES there are but a few.
As always, voluntary response data are worthless.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5538059

Good luck to all of you looking for higher salaries. I hope you gain the salary you desire, and more knowledge of statistics along the way.
Agreed. I would actually bring that one level more abstract as follows:

If you live in the future, conventional information technology related skillsets will have become largely obsolete through automation resulting from advances in human computer interfaces (derived from computational linguistics and the merged fruits of ontology-oriented and iterative-generative-gist programming).

In its stead, a degree of social concern for the creation and consumption of human art and philosophy of all eras will become the primary occupation of many during their waking hours, to levels previously considered to be an impossible, utopian myth.
They live with their parents.
I do. Maybe one slot for something outrageous like 500k+ would be interesting, but I like that it's so granular personally.
The government does through an excise tax on covered vaccines and a no-fault court system to cover claims: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine_court

And you should at least admit there are two minorities in the balance, children who's parents refuse to get them vaccinated, and children who are not immunized because they can't take them or don't develop a sufficient response. Too many of the former and the "herd affect" stops protecting the latter.
What about those that go into risk management at a big Wall Street firm because they view this as the best use of their background? Would you rather have someone who didn't understand the mathematical intricacies of fixed income managing the risk of an entity capable of bringing an economy to a halt, or would you prefer that job to be taken by someone who knew what they were doing?
In clojurescript strings are just sequences of characters where characters are expressed as \a and strings as "foo". In JS single char string is an equivalent of a character, as a side effect \a and "a" compiles to a same thing, which BTW matches behavior of clojurescript as well. Main reason for \a like character types existence is clojure(script) compatibility and nothing more.

As of :a keyword it's a different story. As a matter of fact actual (quoted) keyword ':a does not compiles to "a" string, but general references do. That is because in JS constant string literals like "load", "DOMContentLoaded" are used in cases where idiomatic Clojure(script) would have used :load :DOMContentLoaded keywords, there for it made sense to just compile those keywords to semantical analogues in JS, same as `foo-bar` lisp naming convention compiles to adequate `fooBar` naming in JS.
At least there's free soda. For now...
Agreed. Consider: those who don't read HN are probably worse engineers that earn lower salaries, on average.
It would be great if the US government provided an expedited Visa program for college-educated foreign nationals who have received a job offer from a company in the US. There is H1B, but that applies to specialty occupations. (I'm not an immigration expert - perhaps this already exists and I don't know about it?)

How many people from those countries immigrate to the US or wish to? If they're willing to work, and a company here has offered them a job, I say bring them over!

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free;
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless,
Tempest-tossed to me
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

(I do get the impression that Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc. can hire the candidates they want, but is that true for smaller companies as well?)

The article mentioned that about 30% are college educated. It would be interesting to look at a breakdown of degrees. For example, many Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics graduates are highly sought after in industry. Additionally, are the degrees reputable from an international perspective and in fields suitable by commerce and industry?
I was trying to avoid people voting based on "fun bucks" from startups eager to promise you the world. Maybe in future polls it could say "liquid" compensation only, instead of base? Liquid assets would mean cash, or even shares traded on the open market.

Thing is, other polls included non-base compensation, and the opposite argument gets brought up. But yeah, let's try liquid next time.

Also: this is exactly the class of anecdote I was hoping to hear today. Thanks. Maybe I should go respond to that Google recruiter that keeps emailing me..
They have being added recently and more clojure compatibility is planned for the future.
| the infamous disk on the Intellivision

There was an add-on where you could snap a joystick onto the controller (which looked more like a remote) and it would ride above the disk.
No, I like these options. You can extract the logarithm from these, but you can't go the other way around.

To someone making 125k, it's more useful to know the distribution of the 25k above than to see them all in a single bucket.
Unfortunately Amazon won't ship this book outside of the United States.
Mind sharing some basic background info? Years of experience / education would help add context.
Nonsense.

That is pointless dismissal of someone's efforts. I personally think this is awesome. It's using css in a non-traditional way, and one that surely took a lot of thought.

How is this any different than any other technical post that have no "functional merit" (of sorts)? Remember the very popular post about programming pokemon from inside of the game? That's equally pointless as these css logos, and yet loved by all for it's clever way of using something in a non-traditional manner. What about the link to the guy talking about his foray into nes programming? Not relevant by any stretch, but it's damn interesting.

I swear it's like half of the people on hacker news don't remember how to have fun while programming. Remember doing something just for the sake of doing it? Just an "I wonder if I could.." exercise that gets out of hand?

What bugs me more than anything is this arbitrary cutoff of "worth" on hacker news. Let's check out the current front page: (another) post mortem of a failed start up, taking polls on each other salary, and another weekly article on which type of person makes the best founder (of which we'll surely see the inverse post of tomorrow (No, X is the best type of founder!)). You're right, guy who built a fun technical demo? Only impressive 10 years ago.

Fuck that guy for having the audacity to crowd the front page with his worthless tech demo.

The negativity in this thread.. it's getting to me.
The banks were in trouble in Ireland, and Ireland stood behind them (which destroyed them). The banks in Iceland were in trouble and Iceland walked away from them. Much less pain in Iceland compared to what Ireland is going through.

When in doubt and able, default.
I don't want to share too much. A few years out of undergrad.
I remember Burger Time being fun. As well as Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, and a game called Utopia, but I was a kid at the time. I may have to try and play them now to re-evaluate.
What's with all the knee-jerk reactionary responses (and with all of them repeating roughly the same thing)? Under our legal system, it really shouldn't come as a shock to see how things turned out.
Why do they have to be college-educated?
If you live in the future, large scale agricultural monocultures will be quaint tangents of history. All children will accept as self-evident that producing greater varieties of food in heterogeneous environments more closely resembling natural ecosystems, in a decentralized fashion with proximity to places of habitation (and therefore consumption) is not only simpler and cheaper, but also healthier due to reduced requirements for artificial components (fertilizers and pesticides), eliminates the majority of transportation and storage overheads, and largely resolves related concerns around pollution and reduced nutritive capacity.
If you live in the future, most humans will be hopelessly outcompeted and economically redundant, due to technologies like intelligence amplification, mind uploading and artificial intelligence. So... I don't have any good suggestions, it looks like doom from any angle, maybe you should spend some time thinking about it? Or just enjoy life while you can?
> Of course this means that some of Clojure's features (protocols and lazy sequences, atoms, etc.) are not available. On the other hand there are not so many opaque layers between your code and the target code.

As a matter of fact I plan to provide protocols lazy sequences etc.. in form of (optional) libraries that can be included or omitted based on user use cases. I personally thing that most of these features are drawbacks when interacting with JS code, although I'd definitely used them in cases where interaction with JS is not a concern.
some of the best engineers i know don't read HN and they definitely make more money than me. They did read a lot of newsgroups in their twenties.
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Yes, because the vaccines are the same year to year except for the precise seed strains used (and those are developed by specialists who provide some degree of regularity), which provide the precise sequences of amino acids that make up the two relevant viral proteins.

Otherwise they're as identical as possible, the least reasonable amount of chicken "stuff" left in, the preservatives used, etc. And I'm pretty sure there is some testing done before new batches are tried out on the whole population.

As for "how do you know which ones are causing adverse reactions", why do we care? I would assume if they're bad enough the child isn't given any more, so which causes what is irrelevant (remember, we know this is going to happen, these vaccines are licensed with that understanding). If less severe, I'm sure there are protocols to address this so the child can get further vaccinations with reasonable safety (e.g. you can test with a very small amount to see if one causes a reactions ... and, hmmm, that should do for the severe reactions as well).
A flask/angularJs app to help you find project names
Comments like yours are exactly what is wrong this place as of late. Instead of being supportive, you chastise the OP for thinking outside of the box. Take your negativity somewhere else if you're not going to give credit where credit is due.
I found a gut GUI was good for me as a beginner, it was a stepping stone to using it on the command line. I was so stuck in a Subversion mindset that I needed something visual to work with first.

But now I use it on the command line all the time.
As someone who'd like to drive down the value of my labor down to poverty levels, this is a fantastic idea.
Also, unlike the Mona Lisa in css[1], it seems to be hand-crafted.

[1] http://codepen.io/jaysalvat/pen/HaqBf
Crummy sonnets do not set public policy. It's tiresome and mystifying that people think they do.

Also, why are you complaining about Microsoft, et al? They are dead-set on reducing tech workers' wages through immigration. You should applaud them.
SoundCloud SDK
Why does it have to be US? The whole world is shrinking, a centuries-old, artificial line shouldn't be a barrier.
> If?!?! Your expectations have no relation to reality.

Whose reality? Seeing people taking newborns to malls makes me feel very uncomfortable. I know cultures where people keep their babies at home for the first few months.

> 2) If you are knowingly making the decision to be a greater risk, then you are being reckless and should be considered liable for the outcome.

Sorry, but that's just nonsense. Deciding to not get vaccinated is not deciding to be a greater risk, but in the first place a decision against a specific treatment for the personal body. Especially if this treatment has its own risks. Calling someone reckless for deciding against a specific medical treatment is simply impertinent.
The sonnet doesn't set public policy. But I think it's worthwhile to remember the US's historical views towards immigration - that it made the country stronger. On the other hand, since then protectionism, especially the desire to protect American jobs, has grown over time.

> Paul Auster wrote that "Bartholdi's gigantic effigy was originally intended as a monument to the principles of international republicanism, but 'The New Colossus' reinvented the statue's purpose, turning Liberty into a welcoming mother, a symbol of hope to the outcasts and downtrodden of the world".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Colossus

> The statue is an icon of freedom and of the United States: a welcoming signal to immigrants arriving from abroad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty

I'm not complaining about the companies that can get Visas. I work for one of them. I'm just pointing out a fact that seems to be true.
Assuming you are using only "reads HN" as your a priori, all of us with below average pay should expect higher salaries. If you were to argue that those who read HN and also have high salaries are the only ones reporting however, then it would be fair to rap our knuckles with the stats 101 textbook.
If you live in the future... be born rich.
"I won't invest in a "ask for permission" deal," he writes. "They don't work."
Where Vert.x delivers over Node (2012)
This article only exists because HN exists. It was frontpaged because it was written by a YC member and the YC network (probably) propelled it straight to the top judging by the 100% submitted-by-a-YC-friend-and-frontpaged rate the author's blog enjoys.

It didn't suffer the inconvenience of competing on merit and the substance is lacking. The best founders stayed on top of an emerging market they helped create? That's why they're successful not how and not useful, but thanks for the advertisement.

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=jo...
Another quite scary graph: http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/im...

I hope it's getting clear to everyone that this is not a "union" anymore..
Thanks for the laugh, I love your rendition of a person trying to use a voice interface. I totally agree. Personally, I'm hoping for something a little finer-grained as a filesystem replacement, bound up with undo and live remote collaboration, with everything embeddable in everything else... an experience generally centered around data, with apps as a wrapper. It's been discussed for years, but I can't recall how it's usually refered to.
These results are odd. The three startups (two YC alums) I interviewed with in the Bay offered me ~60K each time, and wouldn't go any higher.
Ask Matt Cutts why so many hacked page can rank well and stay long time in google.
look the result:
https://www.google.com/#newwindow=1&output=search&sc...

so many small business website owener use hacked website then building a new page, ranking keywords and get traffic from google. why they are not hit by google new update.
and another question, if this tech working, they are many junk result show in google.