skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having read all comments, I'm somewhat lost. I was hired in London in 2008 on £37K, it was my first programming job after uni, I had clean resume. Today a competent beginner with a few web projects under his belt easily gets around £45K.

I'm hiring developers for my startup – http://www.makersacademy.com – and I wish I had more applicants. I'm happy to pay £350-450/day for a decent Ruby dev and or around £60K permanent for the same position and I don't get nearly as many candidates as I'd like to. I was hiring devs at Forward Labs (http://www.forwardlabs.co.uk), arguably one of the coolest places in London, and I had the same problems: small number of applicants, qualified candidates asking for £400-£450 or equivalent.

At SiliconmilkRoundabout, the biggest startup job fair in London, dozens of startups are fighting to find a developer, many of them happy to pay more than £40K or £50K. From what I can tell based on my experience and what other entrepreneurs/recruiters are telling me, hiring devs is incredibly hard not because the companies are unwilling to pay but simply because there are not enough devs looking for work.

Occasionally I interview candidates that don't know the basics of software development, e.g. what mocking is or how to use TDD but they are asking for £400+/day because someone is going to pay that.

The data by Adzuna (http://blog.makersacademy.com/what-is-the-demand-for-ruby-de...) shows that the average Ruby salary is over £50K, and top 30% make over £60K. How is that compatible with the results of this poll?

How is it possible that there are so many complaints about low salaries in the comments, while at the same time my experience hiring Ruby devs suggests the low salary isn't a problem at all?

If you're one of those devs who voted £30-39K or £40-49K above and know how to use Ruby/JS at a decent level, drop me a line, I'll have a much better offer for you: evgeny@makersacademy.com.
No, getting a sufficient quantity of highly enriched uranium is 99.9% of the job. It's pretty easy to fashion a crude nuclear weapon once you have sufficiently high quantity of fissile material.
I know, SEO folks always ask me to include authorship. My question is, do we actually know how effective it is or are we all using it because it's a feature that Google provides and therefore it's automatically assumed to be useful.
How do I quit my job when I'm the only developer?
I have been working for a company building a product from the ground up for the past year. I've created something pretty awesome but the huge bureaucratic force keeps pushing changes down my throat I don't agree with or care about, so my product is left as a kind of "meh". There are still loads of features in the pipeline that could keep me busy for months and they indeed want to keep me for at least another year, but I'm not really interested anymore.

While I've learned a lot, I've also realized that I did this whole thing by myself. I want to build apps outside of this stuffy company environment, but as the only developer, if I leave I'd be leaving the company with no one to continue development.

What is the etiquette? Do I give a month's notice? 2 months notice? How do I approach the situation without burning any bridges?
Politically and culturally Ukraine is in Europe. I'm polish, visited Ukraine several times, love the people (we're very similar nations) and I think that it has a great potential. I hope it joins EU some day in the future.
I am so sorry, OMG, I apologize profusely. Please, forgive me for offending your delicate sensibilities. I knew not what I did.
> you cannot fight your day-to-day work — long-term — by working on your own stuff, when you get home after already spending 6-7 hours working and thinking in a particular way. The author tagged it "sad" for a reason.

That's precisely why this post resonated with me. Even short of literally switching mind sets, I find it tricky to get motivated to code after spending ~8 hours at work (coding). As it stands, I even find myself stressing out over weekends due to not being "productive" enough on side projects.

Of slightly more relevance to the author, having done the 2-hour commute in SV (granted, from SF to Menlo because socially I couldn't stand the latter), I strongly recommend against it. Housing accommodations can be found in SF for a developer's wage, and I would strongly urge anyone and everyone to avoid spending 4 hours of their life each day in transit. It makes a difference.
And all this to cure hunger, cure diseases, cure patients, etc. Great going! Very motivated to go through the entire process to write a web application.
I'm of the mind that platform-independent code should be written in either C++ or C, then compiled into the platform application as a static library.

This is how it's often done with desktop applications.
Another excellent resource is serverfault question http://serverfault.com/questions/183821/rm-on-a-directory-wi...
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Poll: Full-time software engineers in Berlin, what's your annual salary?
Inspired by the poll of SF & the Bay Area, this poll is targeting current full-time software engineers and software developers in Berlin, DE.
Base salary only, pre-tax, in EUR. No options, shares, bonuses, adjustments for inflation, or benefits.
(Don't forget to up-vote the poll to get more data.)

I don't have enough points (200) to create a pool, can someone create it and paste the link here? thnks
Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon (2012). Lightweight (rivals the MBA), best-in-class keyboard, with an understated yet beautiful design
A few years back there was a pizza and Mediterranean restaurant run by a bunch of Egyptian immigrants in my town.

They continuously ran middle eastern TV on a few sets, and I'd be watching music video programs that gave phone numbers that people in Iraq, Kuwait, and other Arabic zone countries could send text messages to to vote for music videos.

My wife and I concluded that anybody who's been suckered into voting for their favorite music videos wasn't going to be a Jihadist, in fact, such a person would be harmless to anyone.

After Boston, however, I am not so sure.
Many early employees are truly better called founders, just ones that didn't officially work at the company until after it's founding.

He could have been moonlighting for them, he may have helped come up with the original idea, or work with the company to solve some of the core design challenges.

Just because his title wasn't co-founder doesn't mean he wasn't as important as any other founder or early employee.
Thanks for posting this. Yoga if done correctly should not make you tired. It should leave you in euphoric and blissful state devoid of almost all negative emotions. This then puts in the right state to do meditation. It took me years to get this right. And you can't commercialize something that takes that long and is slow and gradual.

Plain and simple: If X makes you tired or judgmental or angry ..., X is not yoga.

I am not making this up. Google Scholar this.

Also, yoga teachers are not supposed to do it for money. Read up on how Gurukuls worked.

Yoga removed from its spiritual context is just a kitschy low grade thing that may hurt you while taking your money.
90% of example code for PDO uses prepared statements. 90% of example code for the mysql_* functions is ancient and full of security holes.
While a nice sound bite, do you have a better suggestion?
Most of the search results show exploitable code. Regardless, this is a search for SQL injection vulnerability, even if not every search result falls under that category.
Graph:

Less than 80k.: ============================= - 90 points
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At least 300k.: ============================= - 92 points
Probably are a few out there in private hands.

:-/
I suspect if the authority figure says "Our motto is don't be evil, so do as I say and it's not evil since we do no evil", compliance would be even better.
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I'm being forced to look at ads that I don't want to see which contain products that I neither want nor need. And this is being perpetuated as "the business model of the internet" by Google, creating an excuse to pervasively (often perversely) invade privacy, you know, "so the ads are more relevant."

How do we classify that? Is it not evil? Given the basic premise, I can't imagine anyone classifying it anything but.
No mate, unless you are getting a significant cofounder-level stake in the project these guys are exploiting you.
I just blogged about my chat with them - http://writing.amanjeev.com/2013/06/my-chat-with-private-int...
The Father of the Web: Tim Berners-Lee (1997)
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yeah and swimming correctly doesn't make you tired either. but until you actually reach that point, you have to go through many many hours of painful practice.

Thinks don't magically happen. You have to work for them.

EDIT: That said, my girlfriend who was indian, disliked bikram yoga a lot, because of some of the aforementioned issues
I'll play the part of the economist and say that this world would primarily be hungry and cold.
Why is that not realistic? An airline pilot can only fly one plane at a time. No matter how much he/she trains there are severe physical limitations on the value they can create. Software engineers can easily write code that generates millions of dollars of ongoing value and scales infinitely.
> better retention of photo electrons, rather than enhanced efficiency

Same thing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_efficiency
Heh. I sure romanticized a semi-mundane thing that already exists. ;-)
I hope you're not expecting me to disagree with that. :)
I guess if you've put your whole life into a company, a question like

Why do you want to work at Treehouse?

makes perfect sense to you. An applicant, however, didn't know your company 15 minutes ago, and his main motivation is either money or finding a job that fulfills his desires.
it looks like you're doing something similar to the folks at Ayasdi. Care to elaborate how how your spin on computational topology is similar or different?
Thanks, I started using the tools you had mentioned and it made things a little better for my paranoid self. I always needed something like Little Snitch.
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Python, PostgreSQL, Django, Flask, Bottle, SQLAlchemy, geoindexing, TDD, JS/Coffee, Jquery, CSS frameworks, mobile/responsive sites, Linux, and more.

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I pay ~120$ post tax for Internet + TV in Bay Area.
13inch Mac book pro, using it for past 1yr and its awesome.
> Yours isn't comparable either since you pay that much because you're highly paid.

And yet, it's cheap compared to plans in the USA, given that there is no such thing as a "deductible". And the premium doesn't rise with age, or any existing conditions.
Ribbon: Rails, iOS, Front-end (JS and Designers), Data Scientist, No Biz-Dev

Full-Time in San Francisco only. No Remote, No H1B.

San Francisco, CA

Ribbon is a payments company that is built on a simple premise: let's keep the buyer where they already are and make the transaction occur inside of whatever platform they're on.
Going off of that, we have built integrated in-stream payments inside of Facebook (http://f.cl.ly/items/3X080L3U1e2I2Q2O3d2u/screeny-for-fb.png), Twitter, YouTube, and an embedded option to bring it back to your own website (https://www.ribbon.co/button).
You can think of us as an eCommerce multi-platform version of Square. We must be well-designed on every front, from the UI/UX to the backend payments infrastructure. Well-funded and at the beginning of a very big & fun problem.
https://www.ribbon.co

Relevant press: techcrunch.com/2013/02/05/payments-startup-ribbon-raises-1-6m-from-tim-draper-others-launches-new-way-to-take-payments-directly-in-the-facebook-news-feed/

Email me directly & mention you're from HN: hany@ribbon.co
Only if you want to be slowly edged out. Academia actively kills off people too interested in taking classes and insufficiently interested in doing work for whatever preset research effort can pay their rent.
I think the GP's point was to call that claim into question. I'm sceptical about the 1000x improvement claim as well. CCD sensors manufactured for astrophotography achieve 60+% quantum efficiency.
All I know is what I read in Tom Clancy's Sum of All Fears, which has a hell of a lot of detail about building a nuclear bomb. The thing that struck me was all the very high precision machining required, and how hard that was to achieve.

As you suggest, design principle, easy, actually engineering it is the tricky bit.
First:

> I’ve filtered through resumes and listened to coworkers...

and then...

> ... which is why we don’t ask for resumes.

I am confused.
Most people see large income increases once they are past their late 30s/early 40s

I think dvanduzer's point is that this may not necessarily be so when looking at low-wage earners.
FWIW, I had a few interactions with roland over a github pull request for a project I maintain, he seems to really grok open source and to be a straight to the point and professional guy.
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I. I think you have missed the point antr was trying to make by stating the nationalities (ie, the US does not have a stranglehold on pharmaceutical innovation and development)

ii. Lets for a second do a fermi equation on those us and European revenue figures.

We have roughly the same revenue figures
We have roughly the same population (give or take 20-30 million) between Europe and the is

Now if there is no profit to be made in Europe either the Europeans consume vastly more pharmaceuticals (possible but unlikely) OR there is profit to be made in the European market
I'm not particularly familiar with most of those cities, but the transportation system in SF is a joke compared to London's.
One problem is that it's a slippery slope. Effectively, the ethic would appear to be that anything and everything can be done/implemented as long as nobody involved calls it evil.
Given the extent to which large multinationals can and do fiddle the accounting to end up recording profits in the most advantageous tax jurisdictions, it strikes me as somewhat significant that they don't do the same over privacy issues.

Would it be technically or legally impossible to partition data between different privacy regimes? I realise there isn't a pressing consumer awareness of the need, and hence cost, but it does bother me a little that "my" cloud data is controlled by the nationality of the service, rather than my own.

The matter is hugely complicated with CDNs, multinational infrastructure, etc, but there's some unease about ceding control to a legal system in which I have very no or little power to effect change. Especially one which has a taste of the power which modern data-vacuuming can provide, and seems unlikely to give it up.
It seems that the moon does rotate: http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=142

At least to an observer sitting in a fixed point in outer space.

Edit: better explanation: http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/moon_spin.html
My hours are pretty heavy: 55ish hours is an easy week, bad weeks can get a lot worse. It really varies team to team and I think a lot of people in my firm do 9-6 consistently, so if it's a dealbreaker then just ask about it explicitly during the interview. I'd definitely give it a shot (or a few shots, since the recuitment process is indeed a lottery)
In many other markets (Australia for example) it is illegal to advertise drugs to consumers.

Doctors find out through journal articles etc- there is no need to market to us
If you think the software engineer employment market in the bay area is dominated by VC funded startups you've spent far too much time on Hacker News.
Things have to be difficult only if you want them to be difficult. I had the bliss from yoga classes since probably second or this class. Physically tired, mentally relaxed.
33, cloud computing (IaaS) industry, Austin TX. $215 OTE plus stock awards.

I realized earlier in my career that my success up to that point had far more to do with my ability to communicate well and connect with people than my technical abilities. I stumbled into the accidental profession known as sales/solution/presales engineering and never looked back.

Its great to operate "in the revenue stream". I encourage engineers who enjoy presenting about and helping others understand technology as much or more than creating or operating technology to consider this path. There is far more demand than supply for these roles right now.
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If you're intrigued, send me an email at rajat@getlocbox.com with some info about yourself, a resume and your Github (if you have one).