skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lynn, FYI - these numbers reported to the DoL are not necessarily accurate and thus should only be used as a ballpark estimate. They are likely to be overestimates of actual numbers.

Having seen H1B document submitted to the DoL, I know that firms misrepresent these numbers. An H1B is granted to immigrants for positions that ostensibly couldn't be filled by US citizens, this is rarely the case. Firms have to show that a job application was life for a certain amount of time and they were unable to fill it.

Finally they need to claim that because the position is so hard to fill, they are willing to pay above prevailing wage. See H1B LCA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa#Labor_Condition_Appli...

They however do not need to prove that the claimed wage is what is actually being paid. These numbers are thus overestimates and I would guess >10% off the mark.

That said, it is obviously illegal to misrepresent these numbers and some firms are more scrupulous than others.
Even better :-) GPS is nominally a pain on metal roofed train cars but it probably is doable.
Google is teaming with UCSB to develop processors for quantum computing
I was on high doses like that for at least a couple years, but I don't remember what the exact doses I was on when. It's hard to say what was a side effect of the Ritalin and what wasn't, but I suspect the following:

* Stunted height - I'm several inches shorter than my father, grandfathers and uncles (all in the 6'2" to 6'4" range).

* Very short temper and aggressive tendencies (went away entirely in my teens when I was on significantly lower doses)

I also remember having serious withdrawal symptoms if I missed doses.
There is a cool company in New York called Shipster, I think in some ways they are better than Shyp. Check them out. This looks like the new Uber vs. Lyft rivalry to me
I just spent a few days down in the area, where I grew up and used to live, and came back to my home. And I can tell you all with certainty- the only reason people are paying this is that they're all in a shared hallucination/brainwashing.

I'll keep my home city a secret for now- it's easy enough to find- but let's see- I make a Valley-sized salary, live in a house with a yard less than 5 miles from downtown that costs about 25% of the equivalent in the Bay Area, my office is about 10% of what Google pays, I never sit in traffic, I work on challenging problems, I can indeed barbecue 12 months out of the year (with the best beer, wine, and meat in the world) and I know a thousand other engineers all doing the same.

Any engineer or entrepreneur staying in the Valley or even SF right now should lose credibility immediately for poor business and lifestyle choice.

And what's happening to SF right now is interesting. It's becoming a suburb- but the poets are still there. Always.
Google-Calico Advancing Market Therapies for Neurodegeneration and Cancer in SF
Hey, we are working on it. Small quantities are a pain.

But, in general, you are right. 100 bucks is not a sustainable price point and we certainly don't like it. Not a bit.

Which should give you an idea what we are trying to do.
Why are people still surprised that the Bay Area is expensive? This is the standard now. It's only going to get worse.
Test Time – Make Your Tests Fast
Zookeeper's documentation is so exceptionally disorganized they really should be given an award of some sort.
Blackbox: Safely store secrets in Git
"all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen." - John le Carre
Their CEO was on "This Week in Startups", there's a bunch of interesting details around their model, if you don't mind the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mr3YnULZs8
The unexploitable is a sad, basic fact--our system is set up to move heaven and earth to facilitate the transfer of wealth out of people who've accumulated it.

If you have little or no wealth, hardcore free-market civilizations have little to offer you.
Developer: I welcome the challenge. I would rather do a timed code quiz than the "how many tennis balls can fit in a school bus" type questions.

Interviewer: I wish we did more of this in our hiring process. A written code sample is a great jumping off point for discussing how and why the applicant makes decisions while coding.
Photogrammar: Organizing 170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945
Good ideas which we have also thought about. I not 100% convinced about the USB alone (requiring a computer does not fit well with our philosophy) but keep watching. I think you'll be positively surprised.
The numbers match everything I've gathered from talking to employees, my own paystubs, and job offers I got this year.

I also know foreign co-workers who always report their current pay when job hunting because they have looked themselves up on similar sites.
nice. Shows why forcing GC frequently can be counter productive, esp with the copy collector
Windows is like living in the ghetto with bolted doors and windows. OSX is like living in the country side with doors open. Both are not that safe in somewhat different ways.
13 ways to beat writer's block
I have a landline for my home alarm system and for having a common phone available for my family. I get approximately 15 telemarketing calls per day on it, all of which are using spoofed caller id and all of which are offering scam services like pretending to be a credit card company calling to lower the interest rate on my credit card.

The blocks work for about a week or two before they move onto new spoofed caller ID numbers, usually local phone numbers that match the area code and prefix of my own phone number. Now that I've run out of the 100 slots on my phone system to block various phone numbers, I'm considering just turning off the ringer.

Beyond systems using caller ID as a "password" of sorts, caller ID spoofing has made landlines all but useless due to marketing abuse.
love it, how you can just tail all the logs across cluster with a single command!!!
You may be in a trap of selection bias here. True, sometimes !g reveals much better results, but one uses it only when not satisfied with DDG. However try to Google some queries that DDG does fine and you will see Google's results can be worse for some queries.
Same here on halfsies, I use YubiKey Static + 2FA http://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-hardware/lastpass-yub... plus a Password card
https://www.passwordcard.org/en both for 1Password and LastPass

I like 2FA on LastPass but the UX is better on 1Password

For files like my Tiddlywiki http://tiddlywiki.com/, I like Minilock https://minilock.io/ with BTsync https://github.com/tuxpoldo/btsync-deb

i admit i'm lazy and have less secure login creds in my Tiddlywiki but at least it has some crypto https://crypto.stanford.edu/sjcl/
I often look for baby items on eBay. They use stuff for such a short period that used is a great way to go, but with shipping costs it's rarely any cheaper than Amazon for new items. Hopefully this, or a convenient way to exchange local used items solves that.
TO loop this back around to the posted article, Seattle has a long and proud history of holdouts. Search for images of 'denny regrade' - long ago Seattle removed an entire hill, leaving quite a few of those "nail houses" (well, temporarily).
Google Now: Get answers from your phone with under-the-radar feature
As it gains popularity, that countryside is rapidly acquiring its fair share of problems. Certainly enough to consider closing the doors.
The Hacker News effect! Thanks for the link.
Open source projects / contributions seems like a better way to probe the candidate on their decisions made while coding.
Location: Philadelphia

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email: alex.banks0@gmail.com
"The coolest—and also biggest—tech in the place is a machine that takes raw cardboard and cuts custom-sized boxes that eliminate all the empty space that Amazon so often fills with those plastic air-filled bags. And smaller boxes can mean lower shipping prices."

Lower shipping costs? Apparently not for Amazon. Impossible to believe that they haven't correctly factored in box cost, size and filler material in terms of the rates that they pay vs. everyone else. Plus packing multiple items (for one shipment) is different than packing a single item as well.
In this notation: P(A|B,C) what does the comma mean?
I may sound like a broken record, but we don't like the price point, either. Working on it...
Apple Wallet Will Not Kill Bitcoin
Sure they do.

Erlang spreads processes across OS threads, like most other green-threading impls, and its not always great at it. (I don't know what you mean by "across OS processes." Processes on different Erlang VMs can communicate but the scheduler isn't going to move processes between them)

Calling into native code isn't an easy problem in Erlang either. NIF calls will block a scheduler thread, but the scheduler knows nothing about how long a NIF call is expected to take and will happily queue up processes to be run on a thread that is blocked inside a NIF call.

"Regular" erlang I/O is done by queueing up requests to be fulfilled by .. you guessed it, a pool of threads that spend most of their time sleeping in blocking i/o calls.
Imperfect data is still useful in a negotiation. Present it with minimal comment as a negotiating point and let the counterparty poke holes in it if they so choose. Don't undermine yourself!

Sure the large tech employers are going to have better salary databases than an individual, but that doesn't mean there's no point in trying to arm yourself with relevant info.
Did anyone see the bloomberg coverage of the event? Completely whacky, it's all about how Samsung is fake launching stuff to get ahead of apple without talking about VR at all. Sooo weird, it just goes to show how far the media has its ass stuck up its head sometimes.
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Title is not accurate. This site is actually a great server-error generator, but no sign of any salary data.
Very cool, it would be nice if the animations looped though!
Well, fairy tales exist (as a work of fiction). Fairies on the other hand...

And unfortunately, Gödel believing in ghosts was the least of his problems.
I know you wrote your comment just to evoke emotions from people and be controversial but do you really feel like you're in the position to judge someone based on the lifestyle they chose?

Not everyone is after the money or the barbecue.
Building the "vanilla post and search rental platform" first reminds me of a strategy I've read elsewhere: spend time working in the industry you hope to disrupt. There is no substitute for real world experience when researching/understanding an industry!
Huffington Post Doubles Down on Blatant Falsehoods About Creation of Email
A Love Story About Money – Giving and Getting
The interface doesn't.

However for posterity it's clear that the NSA is not about terrorism:

* The Inspector General Report on the Boston Bombings and the US's failure to discover them do not talk about the NSA (except to mention it in passing just two times). "We focused our review on the entities that were the most likely to have had information about Tamerlan Tsarnaev prior to the bombings – the FBI, the CIA, DHS, and NCTC, which maintains the U.S. government’s database of classified identifying and substantive derogatory information on known or suspected terrorists."

* The NSA's mission statement itself is "The National Security Agency/Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) leads the U.S. Government in cryptology that encompasses both Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) and Information Assurance (IA) products and services, and enables Computer Network Operations (CNO) in order to gain a decision advantage for the Nation and our allies under all circumstances."

* The NSA's actions regarding the Natanz nuclear processing facility, capturing data from German officials during the Eurozone crisis, of off shore oil drilling bids from Brazilian PETROBOL, programs such as HACIENTA that specifically target countries, blatant references to political and financial targets, etc

* Programs such as QUEEN, ORCHESTRA, MINERVA, BIRDSONG/BADGER/GATEWAY/SLIPSTREAM, JTRIG, literature and research on social contagions and PsyOps (related to recent recent USAID Cuban Twitter project and Lincoln Group)

Together these tell us that the NSA is an arm of us finance, espionage, sabotage and influence/propoganda targeting political upheaval in target nations.
Sure, I meant that I believe in the past you would like purchase or lease a server with a long term contract and they would build it for you and put it in their racks. Now, that pretty much goes away and you just rent on an hourly basis. That is a pretty big shift from signing contracts and ordering machines that used to be much more common.
Google's project to 'cure death', Calico, announces $1.5B research center
And yet, I'm virtually certain that this would not apply to me personally.

Let's say that my neighbor has a window that I don't like, so I go smash it with a hammer. When questioned, I say, oops, sorry, I meant to smash my window with a hammer! Just an honest mistake, officer! I was going to replace that window, but you know, got pointed the wrong way.

I'm certain that I would still get hauled off to jail at this point.

So, why the difference?
Phone Firewall Identifies Rogue Cell Towers Trying to Intercept Your Calls
I realize that a lot of growth channels tend to become saturated over time and they no longer make financial sense to invest in. What channels have managed to sustain themselves as profitable growth channels over longer periods of time?
I've done this a lot in my career. My strategy is simple: start by finding a trivial bug, and fix it. Then find a slightly less trivial bug. Do this four or five times. Don't ask anybody about anything unless I'm really lost, just chase the thread and let the bugs lead me through the active code paths.

After doing a few of these I've got a fair understanding of the structure of the code and can figure out where to go next.
Migrations are something almost every app is going to need, and the same can't be said for a distributed task queue. So it wouldn't make sense to add Celery to the Django core.
New deep sea mushroom-shaped organisms discovered
This site is getting CRUSHED...
I didn't see this as being a business service at all, it seems completely aimed at a consumer and maybe hobbyist market. The comparison to Amazon is just about bringing the convenience, not the scale.

I've had to ship a few things here and there, and it's always been annoying. Even when Seagate sent me all the necessary packaging when I needed to RMA a hard drive, I still ended up having to drive over to the UPS location to drop it off. Finding an appropriately sized box and getting a hold of just enough packaging to fill the gaps is not something I want to waste time on when shipping something, especially if the item itself is <$100 to begin with.

Whether regular people will start shipping enough stuff to make this company profitable is another matter, but I would certainly love to have this option around next time I need to ship something.
Overestimates seems to be a wrong label, having gone through several H1B visa and transfer applications myself. I would say that most lawyers simply fill in the actual amount.
Civilize – Manage Your Debt
If your requirements are high quality graphics VR will be crap for the foreseeable future. Very few people have the graphics power for good VR in their home PCs, the market is basically non existent.

Sony has the first party advantage in terms of getting their stuff to look beautiful and artistic at low graphics quality. Games like Journey and tearaway have demonstrated Sony's mastery in this regard. Their gaming ecosystem is first class, a huge advantage over FB and Samsung.

My money is on Sony until the PS5, which is when the 2x4k and 120hz era of VR will begin.
Lesser-Known Features of Go Test
Yeah...Mesa/Cedar are excellent examples of how to extend Pascal to create a really first rate systems programming language. Similar with the PERQ extended Pascal used to write POS. And of course the Modula->Ada line are are pretty decent to outstanding systems programming languages.

> Pascal dialects

This is, of course, the important point. The 1974 Wirth defined version of Pascal was pretty crappy, or at least limited, as a systems language and even the 83 ISO standard didn't much change that. However, the variations and extensions that emerged fixed those shortcomings pretty fast, to the extent that Kernigans paper was almost out of date wrt "contemporary" Pascal when it was published.
small sample size
There's a lot of innovation to be done in the shipping industry. Here in Canada, shipping is very expensive. I've seen a few companies sprout up now that take your packages, drive down to the US and ship from within the border. This allows Canadians to ship packages as if they're US domestic packages.

I can ship something to Hawaii for less than it would cost to ship from Toronto to Vancouver. It's insane.
I've used modules like this before (including the SIM908, which is like the SIM900, but with GPS too). The biggest pain is that they only support AT commands as a protocol. It's very difficult to work with reliably, especially in a memory-constrained device. Whenever you issue a command, you need to check the next line to see whether it succeeded or failed, but the next line might be the response, or it might be an entirely unrelated unsolicited response (an asynchronous notification). You end up with either a complicated state machine or having to treat every command specially.

Even synchronizing the commands and responses is tricky, because you have to send an 'AT' and wait for an 'OK', or if you didn't get one, send an 'AT' again. Then when you get an 'OK', is it from the first AT or the second one? So you have to spend a second eating all the data comes in before you can start sending commands for real. It's all so... ugh.

I'd love for someone to implement a well-thought-out binary protocol as an alternative.

I see the example code give here just cheats and waits 100ms for each command to happen, then assumes it was successful and moves on to the next.
As an H1B employee, I can assure you that the amount on my LCA was the same as I was paid. That said, it is important that people understand what these figures are - they are not actual technically salaries.
Yup, it's just a propagation delay:

https://twitter.com/railstutorial/status/507228319062818816
Oh boy... 32 minutes of revenue. That'll teach em.
Last time I posted this, we got so much traffic the site went down and no one got to see it. A bunch of people were interested so I am trying it again
> Programmer auditions -- Actors do it, so why shouldn't developers?

Programmer auditions that are analogous to what actors do would involve doing actual development work on the actual code based used by the hiring firm (potentially working with one or more other developers, who may either be on staff, hired specifically for the audition process, or also auditioning), the same way that actor auditions involve performing actual scenes from the actual work for which the actor is auditioning.

But, of course, under terms which prevent the hiring firm from making any use of the work product without hiring the auditioning programmer.

But auditions are a fairly expensive tool for evaluating applicants and is generally used for performers when the act of performance is itself the output and is highly specific to the particular work and for which there is no real substitute screening tool (some key points of which -- particularly the high specificity to the particular work and the absence of a suitable substitute -- may well be true of developers, making real auditions as I discuss above potentially useful for them, if quite expensive), but this article isn't about auditions at all, its about selling a platform for automating standard programming interview exercises, but its using the strained metaphor of "auditons" as an attention getter (but nothing in the article even addresses any substance to the comparison to auditions, fairly immediately switching to discussing what this is really about -- making interviewees take a test rather than perform an audition -- and its clear that "developer auditions" is just a a new weird brand name for programming tests with automated scoring that Code Qualified is trying to sell as a service.
"We have the barrier of a warehouse in every city"

I'm assuming when you do you are going to be locating your warehouse near Fedex/UPS depots then?
Ask HN: What is love?
Well are you going to sell your land at a price poor people can afford or only the wealthy? You're going to sell it for the "best" (measured by maximizing dollar amount) price you can.

So, read my comment carefully, you're not ruling by security/fear, you're squeezing the poor by playing along with market rules, you big squeezing squeezer.
It's probably just a DNS propagation issue:

https://twitter.com/railstutorial/status/507228319062818816
A Wild Anomaly Appears!
Swift Default Protocol Implementations
#Twiticism: Broken Websites Being Called Out on Twitter
One of my friends asked me if I wanted in. I wasn't really involved in finding the space.
Given the ecosystem can give you a tremendous upside, it would take truly ridiculous prices to make people stop coming.

But I think it is obvious to everyone that the exploding prices for very, very basic things you need to run a business are unhealthy and slowly suffocating the ecosystem. It's a lot of money going to all the wrong people.
I know this isn't a very satisfying answer, but the truth is it is highly dependent on the specifics of the product and market situation. All nineteen channels we examine in the book have been sustainable growth channels for companies, and one of our core theses is that the underutilized channels for a particular market space can often have the best returns. Unfortunately that means you need to test and that's what our Bullseye framework is all about -- how to approach finding the right traction channel for your particular situation.
We feel that the pain is not in finding the job posting but applying to the jobs and tracking those applications.
Did I miss the Mac version or is that not available? Show-stopper for just about everyone I know.
Location: Singapore

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Javacript, iOS, Android, Java, C, C++, HTML5/CSS, PHP, nodejs, Angular, jQuery, MongoDB, MySQL

Resume: http://sg.linkedin.com/in/shubham94

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Attack of the killer Windows laptops: Say goodbye to Chromebooks