skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say you're being underpaid; what is the right strategy to take?

I don't want to poison the working relationship with people above me.
I was so hoping for auto completion!
> I'm pretty sure my next phone in a couple years will probably be another Note.

That's an interesting contrast to my Note 3 experience, in combination with the Gear Fit. Fantastic hardware, abysmal software that's so bad I went back to an iPhone 4S until the iPhone 6 comes out.

A few examples so you know I'm not just talking from my nether regions. S Note: great until it loses data. I think they've fixed it since, but not something I'm inspired to use for serious note taking. I mean, c'mon, your premier differentiating feature (take notes with a stylus) loses my data? Image Gallery: it has never worked. Take some pictures, there's no way to view them without a 3rd party app because Image Gallery pretends they don't exist. It did this straight out of the box. Reset the phone once (for reason other than Image Gallery), and it still didn't work. Those are just two examples, I'll not bore anyone with the rest.

I bought the Gear Fit. Again, nice hardware and a steaming pile of shit for firmware/software. Advertised features just plain didn't work (confirmed by others). At this point it looks like those advertised features are never going to work because Samsung has moved on to the next big idea.

Until Samsung can somehow convince me that the software running on their hardware is something more than just an afterthought written by summer high school interns (with apologies to high school interns that don't suck), it's the last piece of Samsung kit I will ever buy.

Samsung strikes me as a company that comes out with some great hardware ideas, and then doesn't know what to do with them. Alternatively, they might think cool hardware is enough, and software isn't an important part of the user experience. But I don't care what the root reason is, there's no more Samsung at our house.
Down in Poland as well.
developer site is down also.
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra.
Ask HN: Can I run a Tor exit node using my Google Fiber connection?
If so, any reason no to?

Related post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8212668
Yes US, East Coast is down.
Bots following bots...
Launching on Gear VR
In this case the "intervention" was at the behest of the actors within the market itself. But somehow it magically doesn't count as an act of the market?
> We live in a world where teenagers have successfully built nuclear reactors; no matter how legally controlled it is, someone is going to figure out how to do it anyway. If it's a matter of cost, some billionaire would figure out how to build it even without government approval.

How many people build nuclear bombs? Or supercolliders? Nuclear reactors are an altogether different thing, particularly if you're not concerned about producing surplus energy. Despite the fact that the principles behind nuclear weaponry are known, even few governments have (independently) built them and they are very strictly controlled. I can easily imagine the engineering required for time machines is even more complex, the materials as hard to acquire, the energy expenditures prohibitive, etc. And if time travelers could change history, then they would surely be regarded as incredibly dangerous superweapons, not something Elon Musk-types can just build and hop into on a lark. Indeed one could even imagine a future in which time machines are feasible but there's a "MAD" principle at work keeping anyone from building one - so if any were built, they would be kept top secret and time travelers would act with as much secrecy and delicacy as possible.

To me the idea "we have not seen time travelers; ergo this class of time machine cannot exist" is a failure of imagination. Other reasons I can imagine: human civilizations never devote the necessary resources to engineering a time machine; some social collapse or stagnation prevents technology from progressing beyond some given point; humans or human civilization is wiped out before the invention of time machines by any number of social or natural disasters; it is more difficult to travel further back in time, so nobody goes this far back, though they can go before the creation of the time machine; the singularity happens and post-singularity transhumans don't care about traveling to pre-singularity times; etc.

> And Titor's predictions, even the really short-term ones, were so off the mark that there's no reason to think it's anything other than a prank. Note that even the many-worlds hypothesis would have the short-term predictions coming true and only the longer-term predictions becoming more and more inaccurate (more importantly, any differences should be due to his presence, and his presence did not e.g. cause CERN to fail to discover the basis for time travel in 2001).

I don't believe Titor was a time traveler either, but you can make reasonable arguments about why his predictions were incorrect: his presence changed the future in unanticipated ways, the MWI model of time travel doesn't actually send you to a world that branches off from your arrival time, CERN actually did discover time travel, etc. I don't find any of these plausible but I am also not willing to categorically assert we have no evidence of time travelers or that an analysis of Twitter is even weak evidence that time travel is not possible.
According to previous thread, paid positions in the board of the contractor company.
Very interesting, I'm waiting that it comes up again.. in the meanwhile, don't you think that every input fields in the "Find salaries" page should be a dropdown menu?
Thanks James,
Appreciate the feedback.
As Matej says we're looking to keep it simple but powerful. Lots of useful feedback like yours today to help us improve the product.
~S
It's an estimate.
They are moving too fast
The #1 Reason Startups Fail
You folks would be my absolute heroes if you could partner(?) with another company so that I could take a picture of something in my house/garage that I want to get rid of, and then frictionlessly have it picked up/photographed/sold/shipped!!! I would kill for this service, and I'm guessing a lot of other people would too. I've got so much stuff that is not really needed anymore, but is too valuable to just throw/give away because I'd like to recover some money from it, but I'm too busy to sell it on eBay with all the time that it takes...
Reason for outage?

Internal issues? DOS? Hack?
> Watching a coworker unwilling to take the time to the read the RFC try to write a parser for this… is a very special hell.

I had to do this once (some fifteen years ago, when finding a bulletproof library wasn't necessarily an easier task) and after reading the RFC very carefully, it still wasn't exactly a cakewalk.
"The government is preventing people from hurting people" is not a binary assertion, but a spectrum. An agency can have a success rate of 20% at preventing violence (in which case they are lousy at it) or they can have a 70% or 80% rate or higher and so on. So sure, the government is preventing people from hurting people at some particular rate. Your question is, how can we make sure people don't hurt other people if there's no government. Well, let's say we all live in this city. Do we want a police force? If we do, we can fund one and have it. Then it will protect us. Same as current taxes for police forces, only at local level. It's no different than having tinier countries. Switzerland is tiny and peaceful and they have a police force but they also have everyone armed and so everyone can help protect others that may be being harmed. And in general you will see less people being harmed if everyone is able to help.

Now on to your example. You're the only employer in town. Maybe you even own the land where people live, just to make it more challenging. Now you can "exploit" people all you want by choosing not to employ someone you think is ugly or annoying, let's say. Well, let's say I'm ugly and you don't employ me. I'm ugly but I have friends. People know me and because I'm a nice guy they like me and are willing to help me. Several things can come from this. If everyone likes me then now we're all the more empowered as a town to go on strike and advocate that the company change their hiring policy. But let's say the town hates me, I'm a terrible person. I can try to redeem myself in the eyes of my town by providing services to my townsfolk, slowly building up enough savings to perhaps move out of town.

I've tried my best to honestly answer your questions. If I haven't addressed your core concerns I invite you to rephrase and we can try again. :)
You'll need a lot of writing for dynamic dialog trees. Holler when ready.

Might never happen, but if it does? It'll be a blast.
It's starts at about 1:15:00 in Episode 88.
Down in Denmark as well
Tried from NA region / UK / India... Web page not available..
Yeah looks like they broke something
10 points to gryffindor!
Edit: Back online for me now

Down for me as well (UK)

A lot of people complain, but I like these X is down posts, as it confirms the issue isn't just mine.
Facebook Is Down on Web and Mobile in Several Parts of the World
I'm not sure if I'd want to work on the same code at the exact same time as someone else. I like pair programming but only with at most 1 writer.
Will do.

I'm currently trying to get a project started to convert between various file formats typically used for writing/word processing (https://github.com/uxproductivity/DocFormats). Markdown is one of the languages I hope to add, and I've been planning to use the Multimarkdown grammar. But if I can make a convincing argument on the list for using something like this, it will make things a lot easier for everyone hopefully.
Down in France!
Awesome. Really helping people. How did you choose this idea?
One thing you can do is get a microcontroller that does USB host, get a cheapie android phone online, and wire it up that way using ADB.

I wrote a library to let a Parallax Propeller do this (it will be more power hungry than, say, an IOIO board, but it can give your phone 8 serial ports rather than just one). http://obex.parallax.com/object/116

Economies of scale mean that a low end android phone costs about as much as this shield.
What time is the Superbowl?
Let me look in the calendar; is it Wednesday, aka facebook code dump day? Yeah, surprise.

Move fast and break things!
I wonder if Adderall, Vyvanse, and other ADD medications are chemically similar enough to Methylphenidate that they would exhibit a similar effect.
I got a something went wrong page right before the outage...
Also this
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.facebook.com
Re-posting a response to that article:
Auditioning actors are a terrible analogy. You seriously want to compare your hiring protocol to the film industry which has a surplus of good looking qualified actors ready to work for sex? You do understand that there is a shortage of decent programmers in technology. So what your process ends up doing is alienating the best ones and attracting the mediocre/inexperienced/desperate ones who'll do anything for a job. Great. Exactly the kind of screening tool I want (I'm the product officer and hiring lead for my startup).

Imagine how ridiculous it sounds to "audition" a marketing executive: "Ok, so we have a problem with expansion in South America. This is what we've been doing in the last 18 months. Please read this 5 page summary and spend the next 48 hours to come up with your best answer, prepared on our cloud hosted marketing platform."

I understand your reasoning (as an employer, can empathize), but this whole auditioning process as you've described is completely stacked against the interests of the developer. Auditioning is fine if you can address the following issues:

Protect the candidates: be their advocate and share their problem solving tasks (open source their solution? make it available to all employer members on your internal Git?) so that other employers can benefit from the "audition". Just like a recorded audition can be shared with prospective movie producers and directors to demonstrate an actor's range, the same should be allowed in your audition. This solves the biggest fear of developers: you are not exploiting them; by sharing the "auditions" that a candidate has completed over the course of five interviews, the candidate now has a strong portfolio that future employers can review without having to ask much more of the candidate. You have an "us versus them" mentality; employers do not want to have a confrontational relationship from day one where I have to justify and convince the candidate (who has three other offers on the table, because he's awesome) to go through this time consuming process.

Remember, your value as a tool to employers (like me) comes about because there are thousands of programmers signed up to "audition" their skills on your platform; so the golden egg is not me (the employer) but the programmers themselves. Focus on the programmers, they will love that you help solve their problem, and employers will see the value because candidates love flowing through you. LinkedIn is precious because there are millions of active candidates posting their information; use this analogy, not the audition/film industry.
@cornewut not exactly. I created a fan account for GalatasaraySK, and i followed their last 500k followers.
Now my fan account has 40k followers ( gaining 2-3 every sec ) and getting really interactions.
Facebook is down
In Paris at least. Where else ?
Tesla chooses Nevada for battery factory
Down in the Netherlands.
And then, productivity went up.
Why you should stop answering your team's questions
Would you say it's more or less impossible to write your own patent claim? I.e. is there some book or some resources that could teach you to do it or is the knowledge required too big?
Next step W3C standard?
yeah, What happened?
Getting hammered from Portugal

http://map.ipviking.com/
Looks to be a world-wide outage. It's Down in Kiev, New Jersey and London according to my location and various VPSs.
When the DB is up, you'll see recommendations while typing.
Because VCs won't fund you unless you're nearby: http://www.forbes.com/sites/maureenfarrell/2010/10/28/ventur...

Seems like maybe there's an opportunity for a VC firm that only invested in far-flung companies.
I suppose you can also use the GPS?

I always forget these kind of solutions made possible by cheap phones. The other day someone suggested that a cheap phone is a great alternative to GPS car tracking systems.
Schedule a meeting with supervisor.

At the meeting, bring up how well the company is doing and how well you are doing. Ask for a raise.

You don't need to say where you got your number, or complain that you were underpaid before. Go in knowing your market salary -- which they probably know anyway.

EDIT This isn't a surefire plan; as the sibling comment says, sometimes you have to leave to get paid your market.
Make a mailing list or something!
"That said, it is important that people understand what these figures are - they are not actual technically salaries."

Can you explain?
In Vienna as well.
I agree. I enjoy football strategy and like seeing different coaching styles in action, but this is hard to pay attention to during a standard broadcast. So I really love the trend toward offering multiple ways to view games. If you haven't seen it already, the "BCS Film Room" edition of last year's National Championship game was one of the best broadcasts I've ever seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-Js6gMlc-U
Needs (2009) tag. Rather funny one of my favorites.
Front page through no effort of my own. Thanks, friends!
Definitely down in Hungary. I think it's kinda worldwide.
Still 32-bit? Wasn't this supposed to be a 64-bit model? Not buying. Not going to update again in 2 years, when apps start to require 64-bit for whatever reason.

Korean (?) version is Cortex-A53, but international version is 32-bit.
Its down in Connecticut, US
Wait, the spec doesn't even address things like tables.
Mainly because manual is sometimes confused with the masculine, but I also like that simply the direction of the most-commonly dominant hand is linked in our language with skilfulness.

My basic proposition is that our devices make no use whatsoever of the incredible natural skill we have in our hands, therefore arguments along the lines that we can't use something because it's not a featureless slate, have a good chance of being wrong.

That said, your original complaints about the device in question aren't necessarily wrong. After all, the edge controls could perhaps be a usability nightmare in their own right.

The hand is a fascinating device - extremely limited in strength and above all capacity for repetitive work, but absolutely incredible for fine control and versatility. It's an interesting case: claims that hands naturally do this or that quite often don't take any account of just how versatile a tool it can be. But on the other hand (oops!) it is absolutely vital that any object intended for use in the hand has the utmost attention paid to the design: anything that causes discomfort becomes in an instant completely unusable.
What would you do if it was like this forever?
Want to know how you're really doing at work? How to do a self-review that works
And then you realise that global productivity doesn't go up... it is just replaced by a bunch of people hitting Refresh like crazy.
Your Discuss button seems to be overflowing: http://i.imgur.com/8s9O3DA.png
Menlo Park, CA as well.
The question is how to find them. ;)

I think this is one the best thing (not the money or talent) in the valley. It's basically a heap of early adopters. People who try new things daily and are keen to give feedback. It's not as easy in other cities.
In other news, workforce productivity is up
If I didn't have hacker news to check I wouldn't know what to do...
...the whole point of a free market is that you can't force anyone to do anything ... That's called cutting out the middle man.

But not forcing out the middle man, no, never that.

Sure, some people have more leverage than others, that is always the case. But that doesn't matter.

Why would a rational adherent to free-market principles lift a finger to obtain the leverage in the first place, if it "doesn't matter?"

Do you think GM would have negotiated such a bad deal with the dealers...

Not sure what deal you're talking about. The dealership franchise laws were not a "deal" that was "negotiated." They were, ahem, something the dealers forced on the auto makers.
I would casually watch games in this format last season just because it's super fascinating -

However, I absolutely fell in love with it rewatching the Super Bowl (Hawks fan) and just following Kam Chancellor - The guy got completely snubbed for MVP

Here's another person's 22 man camera view talking about The Touchdown Canceller's (quite literally perfect) performance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE4ng4U3utc
Can you elaborate on the latency while writing with the stylus? I've tried all generations of the Note up to 3 and I've found the very-small-but-still-perceptible lag to be incredibly off putting. I also assume they have still not been able to imbue the screen with any kind of friction feedback. For these two reasons I find paper a superior input technology.
Down in Sweden
From the #facebook @ freenode:

<StephenS> We're working hard to fix all the issues, we're going to be up in a second.
down in India too.
tried the full site, mobile and zero.
> There's also the Edge variant of the Note 4, with an independent curved display on the right side

How the hell does Samsung find it sustainable, let alone profitable, to support all these variations and iterations?

Am I missing something here?
So much for "Move fast with stable infrastructure"

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/zuckerberg-f8-interview/
I wanted to buy the audio book but castify doesn't want to sell it, they want me to sign up.. why?
Down in India too!
The appeal is twofold: a lot of engines now understand it and it is (relatively) easy to write by hand. (Except for the bloody links, writing the HTML for them is much easier than the equivalent markdown, I do it infrequently enough that I always mix up the brackets or the order (or both...).)
It's not just the main website.

beta.facebook.com
graph.facebook.com
developers.facebook.com

Mostly dead on port 80/443 or returning error codes.

Not really pointing to a faulty code push. Must be something more sinister going on.
Sergey Aleynikov Loses in Goldman Fight Over Fees
still down :D
Down in Mars too
Thanks Jonny, we're sorting out the pricing so that it's clearer. Right now first app is free. As we're in Beta you can get some more by adding your cc details though would not be charged until you decide to manually top up.
So, do we not like things anymore?

Can we be friends?
Sharing passwords or private keys is inherently risky, but simple necessity always prevails in the end. Acknowledging the risks, developing protocols taking it into account intelligently, is all you can do.
"I use Ctrl+F5 to make a new request Every time." ~In the voice of Ralph Wiggam.
I'm going to fly you to Istanbul for $50
(this is assuming a large company)

Raise an issue with them that you feel you're being underpaid. I've done this in 1-on-1 meetings with managers in the past. If they think you're worth keeping, they will do what they can to give you a raise when the time comes. But keep in mind that other people on their team maybe be underpaid more than you, so they might try to correct those people's salaries first.

At least from what I've seen, managers at some level (your direct manager, or their manager) are given some numbers of dollars to increase the salary of the employees. They have to choose how to distribute that between their people.

Depending on the company, it may take you moving to a different company to get what you're worth. Most companies know that transitioning jobs is difficult and a lot of people won't go through the effort. Because of this they will underpay people that they don't think are going to leave. If you want to try, apply around, interview, and get a job offer at another company. Present it to your manager and see what they say. Some companies will counter-offer, while others have policies where they will not counter-offer.

Story: a friend was offered a contracting position with the same company he already worked for (from the contracting firm, the company didn't know yet), that would be paying far more than he was making. He didn't take it and his manager didn't do anything to correct his salary. But it was pretty funny to see.
Some info gleaned from these site:

At Apple, one VP of SW has a salary of approx $400K.
Down in Mexico
How to re-wire your brain to be more productive
this time beta.facebook.com is also down, from India
Put some pants on, probably.
From #facebook @ freenode:

<StephenS> We're working hard to fix all the issues, we're going to be up in a second.
It has but not working at the moment.
I can't see why this was downvoted. I felt exactly the same.
True, but it seems like this is not much a disincentive compared to the revenue potential in that data. Having worked at a number of companies that have acquired data (legally) from a fraction of this many people, one should easily be able to turn those around for a comparable amount of money. I'm not saying there's $100M of revenue here (for 2 million folks). But It seems like the penalty must be much worse than the upside to make the risk adjusted expected value work out in favor of following laws and regulations.

I might agree with you if I thought the bad press Verizon is getting was actually quite costly. But I don't.
From the podcast linked below, my rough summary of his position: Essentially, that while a spec that cleared up some ambiguity might be useful and is a task he might undertake someday, calling one thing "true markdown" and other flavors not wouldn't be useful. If Github wants to have a version of markdown that supports code better than a blog engine needs, good for them.
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