skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're comparing cities to cities (e.g. Chicago vs. SF, Minneapolis vs. Seattle) then I'd say that it's closer to 65k than 30k to get an equivalent lifestyle to $90k on the West Coast. There are (contrary to coastal stereotype) great places to live in the Midwest, and they are cheaper than SF, but they aren't super-cheap either. The 2500 SF houses for $300k aren't in downtown Chicago. They're in suburbs where most 25-year-olds would be pretty bored because walking or biking to work is very rare and you can't go out without a designated driver (i.e. cab service and public transportation aren't options).

If you're comparing suburbs (Silicon Valley) to suburbs, the discrepancy is much greater and I'd say that $90k/CA ~= $40k/Midwest. That's because Silicon Valley has so much less in the way of urban amenity, but still charges an urban premium that you wouldn't see 20 miles out of Minneapolis. When you adjust for commute, suburban California ("the Valley") looks even worse.
Unfortunately, this post discusses the expenses and difficulty of hiring, but doesn't provide any information about the compensation offered, nor do I have any real sense of what the position requires. Are they offering 200k for an entry level crud developer? Are they offering 100k for someone with a PhD in Math, an extensive 10+ background in high scale software development at a large silicon valley company, and intricate knowledge of cutting edge data science algorithms?

I understand that this information is difficult to release for all kinds of reasons. But without it, it's essentially impossible to evaluate why this company is having trouble filling the position, or whether the added costs for dealing with the visa process are considerably less than the higher salary it might cost to hire someone already authorized to work in the US.
Startups already lose a lot of bidding wars to bigger companies for domestic employees. This wouldn't be any different. Big companies pay more money in salary & bonus, generally have better benefits, more stability, and these days many of the side perks that startups have.

Almost all of the money 'startups' are raising is destined for employee compensation. This would just be another form of it.
Same here mate (I'm in England though). On the plus side I live figuratively in my mother's basement so my costs are practically nothing. And I'm not exactly hot talent material either, but I have been in the same job for 6 years (my initial salary was about 1/3rd of these, excluding the housing allowances).
I wonder what pg thinks of this?
Right, so there's no shortage.

I get that there's plenty of demand for highly skilled engineers that want to work for $80k and a tiny handful of lottery tickets. It doesn't mean we need to further help the valley avoid the consequences of a lack of investment in domestic education, or their wild irresponsibility with respect to housing and transport issues in the bay.
No. I develop software libraries and command-line tools. My unit test, functional tests, and integration tests are nearly all based on Python's unittest framework.
I won't say it's trivially easy, but with determination it can be done.
You are factually incorrect.

In North American usage a "public school" is a school open to the public and run on public funds (tax monies) instead of funded by charging students for access.

A charter school is just an independently run public school. Some are run by parent companies that are for-profit corporations running multiple schools. Some are not. I have a daughter enrolled in a charter school started and run by teachers and parents. No parent corporation is involved and it shares facilities amicably with a traditional public school.
Any position paying more than minimum wage is a position with an economic shortage.

I'm for easy immigration, but let's not pretend that this isn't going to reduce tech worker wages in the area. (In the long run though, it could help, since you tend to get more specialization and scale when large numbers of a certain type of profession are congregated around a certain area).
You just gave the exact definition of web components!

https://www.polymer-project.org/platform/custom-elements.htm...
True, but lawyers have the American bar associations, unlike programmers, that keep competition low. Doctors have the similar American Medical Association.
Who the heck wants to type <html: before every single command? Waste of programmer's time, hard drive storage and bandwidth.
Thanks for the kind words.

We currently support Stripe and Braintree, with Recurly support going live in the next few days. Chargify will be next. We'll likely be adding other billing partners in the future, for now we're focussed on being the best tool available for these four.

I'm not sure about open sourcing but we certainly thought about having an integration framework/api which would allow anyone to build an integration into ChartMogul.
The power to do data analysis and then inform their users of potential trouble is, in my mind, the entire point of their service.

It doesn't have to be provided as 'advice' but rather a general statement such as '...other members have genetic markers that indicate a propensity toward heard disease; you share these same genetic markers and should be aware of potential issues in this regard.
Apollo(http://aws.amazon.com/codedeploy) is nice, but Pipelines are easily my favorite internal tool, glad they are releasing it.

http://aws.amazon.com/codepipeline/
Also check out Gin which is very lightweight and performant with a great API.

https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin
The Amazon email marketing experience
Also, if possible, restrict using characters like ----- just by themselves in a line to unnecessary add underlines etc for formatting. they don't add anything to the content anyway.
http://jsfiddle.net/rL0qmee9/
This is a false dichotomy, because cost and talent are related - either this is about minimizing the cost of talent at a fixed level of talent, maximizing the talent at a fixed level of cost, or something in between.

It's completely implausible that for a small company, the amount of talent they need cannot be had at any cost without immigration.

I'm extremely sympathetic to the economic argument that there is no such thing as shortage and companies simply need to pay up to get the talent they need.

What does exist, on the other hand, is the cost of labor gap between other countries and the US, which can in the long term make American companies less competitive and cause companies to move projects overseas at the margin, whether by outsourcing or through foreign subsidiaries. What's in the the best interests of the US is a careful balancing act that ensures neither the flooding of the labor market with cheaper labor, nor erosion of American competitiveness through extreme cost differences.
Increasing the size of the economy isn't the best choice, though. We have too many people in the US as it is. More people, more money, more stuff isn't always better. (Using a throwaway since it seems most people think more people and skyscrapers and traffic and higher taxes to compensate for the dwindling resources is wonderful.)

No, we don't have unlimited room, unless you're planning to not feed or provide water to these people long term.
Exactly. When I lived in the suburbs I had a 3 bedroom condo, and my wife and I owned two cars. I moved to the city and we now have a 1 bedroom apartment and no cars. Total cost of living is roughly the same. My happiness in my living arrangements is about the same. A cost of living calculator would make it look like we are getting absolutely hosed.

Our take home $ into bank accounts tells an entirely different story. The raise more than made up for any increased cost of living.

It kind of makes sense too, if it didn't make sense, people wouldn't be doing it, there wouldn't be so much demand, and prices would fall.
Thanks! And great questions.

We are currently two but we will be three starting next year. That will definitely help!

We want the backend to be very transparent for the user. This means that if there is any downtime on the server, you will still be able to use the app, scan documents, create PDFs, export them etc.

However, it has always been our philosophy to take our time to reduce the operational load as much as possible since our time is so precious. We have quite some experience with that having run the business as a side-project for a while before going full time on it. Running a boostrapped, profitable company also helps in that you don't have any external pressure.
Have you looked at Bay Area rent lately?
this looks quite familiar: https://github.com/likexian/simplejson-go

if anyone is interested i did some slight modifications to the project above which are keep in my personal fork: https://github.com/W4RH4WK/simplejson
I hav a better TL;DR: Nature is a gatekeeper that is not provably fair.

So basically, if the knowledge you discovered is TOO revolutionary, Nature can pass on it, and it will get short shrift even if it's true.

I am SO glad that the programming field is not like this. My code stands on its own merits. So would science... since it's, you know, science... independently verifiable... One would think! What if all code had to go through GitHub admins before it was published on GitHub?
Have Some (Referential) Integrity with Foreign Keys
Why change is hard for any open source community
I came to say the same thing. We have a lot of videos in one of our projects and therefore we can't host it on github due to the size limits.
I hate to say this, but in your position I'd suggest you collude with your employer to fake a degree.
I did a similar project last year.

Heroku - https://git-projects.herokuapp.com/
Code - https://github.com/mjhea0/find-project
Emacs org-mode with babel is definitely the bee's knees.

I can intersperse org-mode markup (much richer than markdown) with syntax-highlighted and executable code snippets. I can export all of this to my wordpress blog or to great-looking LaTeX documents, or even to presentations using org-reveal.

Here's an example of an exported org-mode file with math and graphics: http://vxlabs.com/2014/06/16/level-sets-the-practical-10-min...

Here's a simpler example with just Python snippets embedded: http://vxlabs.com/2014/11/12/getting-django-rest-framework-t...
>I've worked at multiple companies (managed their websites) -- where we would temporarily post a job description to >appear that it was a fair playing field for local workers -- when in reality that position was definitely, absolutely >going to be filled by a cheaper, exploitable H1B visa position.

I worked as a contract developer for over 10 years and this was absolutely the norm for the companies I worked at. It was so egregious at some places that HR would go as far as to get the exact list of skills from the H1B they wanted to hire and then tailor a job posting to that exact list of skills in order to disqualify local applicants.

The H1B system is broken. It is easily gamed and the burden of proof of wrongdoing so high that it is impossible to prevent companies from doing this.

Edit: I want to add that I'm sure that there are companies whose management doesn't abuse the H1B system. My position that the H1B system is broken remains unchanged as it is the bad actors that are causing the problems yet there is no remedy short of congressional action that can properly address the issue.
That's just it - there is no privacy. You've got a client which stores plaintext messages server side, just waiting to be broken into by (hackers/government agents/kiddies). The messages are being sent unencrypted unless you enable the "secure" (it really isn't) mode anyways, so we can also add "people who can sniff your traffic" to the list of adversaries.

That's pretty much the polar opposite of "private".
Lighter Capital – Entrepreneur-friendly funding
The modal design is purely subjective. I think they did a fine job. It's great for the purpose, because it's uncluttered, has clear prompts, and has useful placeholders. IMHO, anything else would just be fluff that gets in the way of the UX.
Definition of shortage on Google: a state or situation in which something needed cannot be obtained in sufficient amounts.

Doesn't mention anything about not paying the market price.

Those not willing to pay the market price can't buy a loaf of bread.

It is prices that incentivize people to provide what we need.

And when the bubble pops, prices will tell people the opposite.

Either way, its just a market condition that entrepreneurs have to deal with, just as they deal with all of the other things that change all the time.

It is unlikely a robot will ever be able to do the job of entrepreneur.
I don't necessary disagree with you on this: if there is a will, there is a way. Regardless of how the immigration law is, even if you make it "No immigration at all", someone will find a way to get in.

But that's far and far away from "standard and normalized", which implies something is accessible to standard and more average people. The top .5 or 1% (as in aptitude and willpower) will always find ways to get things done, but do you want to get the next 9% too?

The Nobel winner, the Elon Musk won't ever have to care much about those laws, but the discussion has never been about them either.
Just put skyscrapers everywhere! Cut down those national forests. Dam all the rivers. Build baby build!
Saddest Day: Macbook Pro Stolen While in San Francisco
Sunday was the saddest day of my life. I'm a college student in Boston who went to the Bay Area during Thanksgiving to check it out. Everything was amazing until I went to Union Square and my rental car was broken into and the thief stole my backpack that contains my new 16GB Macbook Pro, iPad 2, various passports and etc. It's really sad because I lost around $3k worth of stuff with no hopes of getting it back.

My advice to future tourists: Never leave valuables in the car or trunk.
Grammatical sidenote: It should be "you or me." An easy way to know whether to use "I" or "me" is to remove the other subject and see if it's correct. Like so:

"... but that hasn't stopped I from using it."

"... but that hasn't stopped me from using it."

This way it's easy to see which one is right.
"cheaper, exploitable H1B visa " this man concluded the discussion.
Google Cloud Platform adds PCI Compliance
As a hiring manager, I can promise you that your generalizations are sweeping and full of misplaced emotional verbiage. Since it is my job to hire the best candidate and even though my company gives me access to a world of engineers, I will still try to find the best with the least amount of friction. That means, someone who already lives here and can start as soon as possible with the least amount of demands.

Talent may be plentiful in the Bay Area, but just like dating, both parties have to actually want to work together and believe in each other. Plus, no engineer I've interviewed was desperate for a job. Nor would I want to hire someone who was desperate.

That being said, regardless of someone's H1B status, we would pay exactly the same base salary to them. Additionally, the H1B person even comes out ahead since we also pay the crazy high government fees for the application or transfer.
>> "She won a green card"

I'm guessing this was through the DV Lottery program? If so I agree that the goal of immigration should be to attract the best and the brightest but there are plenty of ways to do that. The DV program is the only avenue for people who haven't had a chance in life to become the best and brightest yet - it's their only way in. Your friend could presumably get in on a work visa which, considering her qualifications, shouldn't be difficult. The DV program is a lottery and the only way for people who don't meet the strict requirements of the other visas to get in. Even when you win your chance at acceptance is 50/50 as they issue 2x the number of winning entries as they have visas available to account for people who win and change their mind or get in via a spouse.
As much as i admire Levison, at least part of that problem was his own making, namely by being a dick to the agents and charging rates for the work that is way too high.

It is possible to disagree with police without being outright antagonistic to them.
> As far as I can tell, insurance companies have surprisingly little interest in my health, past my age and sex.

Until you file a big claim.
A little more gedanken, if a monopole is massless, it might behave a bit like a photon and be very difficult to "find" in any particular location.
Launch. A Startup Documentary. (Rob Walling - story of Drip)
The problem with telling your kids they’re ‘special’
Like XML, you can just define a default namespace at the beginning, and then you don't have to repeat it in every tag.
What smart phone chat apps are considered safe? moxie mentioned TextSecure. Any other notable examples?
>but let's not pretend that this isn't going to reduce tech worker wages in the area

Right, I don't dispute this.

But whether this is good or bad depends on whether you are buying or selling the labour.
Ok, agreed. However, I'd guess that engines like Stockfish and Shredder beat most of the chess playing population even when running on an iPhone. Advanced players may not be impressed as they are familiar with methods specifically developed to beat engines but that's not relevant for the majority of players. These people want engines that play at their level without making ridiculous artificial mistakes. Playing against current engines is completely pointless for beginning and intermediate players. Much progress could be made there.
Current "World" Populatation

ftfy
That seems a little extreme; perhaps what he did was in poor taste, but to use karma and account age as an barometer for your business decisions seems crazy (or an arbiter in an internet catfight).
Not to be a negative Nelly or anything, but with the speed at which Amazon is releasing this stuff, they are going to have to be a Google eventually and pull the rug out from under our feet, discontinuing several products.
Pardon me...

You did not lump us in the same category with the average Facebook stalker, did you?
That is an incredibly stupid idea.
This is fraud. Do not do this.
It absolutely, positively hurts local labor - naturalized citizens - etc. Without a doubt.

I disagree with this statement. I am on an H1 and know several other people who are on H1s and can testify that this is a generalization. There are many ways to end up on an H1, overseas body shops is one avenue and American grad schools are another. Most H1s I know, myself included, graduated from good schools, have worked hard within the framework of their visas, have absorbed local culture and have invested almost 100% of what they made back into the local economy, not to mention the out-of-state fees they paid their institutions. From what I see and understand, they are pretty well paid, in some cases better than the local populace and have succeeded solely because they are talented. The hardships that their spouses on H4s go through is an entirely different matter!

That said, I can understand where you are coming from and know that there is abuse within the system. Truly, fake resumes are rampant among H1 consultancies. And although the visa itself is severely constrained, these people thrive due to lack of enforcement. That should change.

Edit: For people who say H1 is indentured servitude.

H1 is not quite indentured servitude, and you can switch employers. Although there is quite a bit of uncertainity associated with it, its still not the worst part. What bothers me, is the DOLs PERM process which is the first step to obtain a green card. This one step in itself is what can be said to make H1s bonded laborers. First, the company makes you sign a statment saying you can't leave until after 2 years upon getting your Green Card - else you'll be billed for it (approx 25K). Second, the DOL takes its own sweet time adjudicating these applications - currently 6 months (or 1.5-2 years if your application is audited, which 30-40% chance). And while you are free to switch employers, this process takes a hard reset and you've to go back to the end of the line. Unless, you stick with the shitty job, and wait out the approval and file your I-140. At this point, the H1 can be renewed indefinitely in terms of 3 years as long as each new company goes through the above process or you get your Green Card. Hopefully, the recent executive order will make this better, but only time can tell. Personally, the reset button has been hit twice for me.
strikes me that human immune systems are working collaboratively in the case of HIV
I assume "Make this a monthly donation" can be cancelled via a link that you send to the donator's email? Maybe that should be mentioned to assure the user they can easily cancel monthly payments.
Just an FYI from a thread a few months ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7513455

It seems that the Black Death was pneumonic as well as bubonic.
It will be interesting when all of a future political candidate's past phone calls, emails and chats can be pulled up and searched for anything and everything.
Git-fat uses smudge/clean filters. We used git-media which employs the same technique, and it didn't work well for us. See the section about git-media in the readme.
Yes but it's very difficult to win. There are two 'rounds'. You have about a 1% chance of winning round one and then a 50% chance of an interview (which you must pass). It's a route I've tried 6 times now with no luck (and it's an annual event).
It is interesting that one mainly hears this loud whining for more imported skilled labor from the web publishing industry. The mining, drilling, and rail industries don't make any noise that I've heard. They have high wage earners. They are higher "tech" than 95% of IT and web publishing outfits. Why is all this visa agitation coming from Silicon Valley and not from Houston?
I absolutely have no idea what are you talking about. I believe that the article has just discussed and rejected all possible ways.

Edit: unless you are talking about fake marriages and other ways to game the system. Which I believe smart people are not interested in.
Cylance discovers Iranian attacks on global critical infrastructure
Writing the FoundationDB SQL Layer Adapter
You can already use whatever HTML element you want for CSS and JS hooks. I too have dreamed of a way to use whatever element you want way back in 2009 http://www.russellheimlich.com/blog/death-to-the-div/
This was written by Ev Williams of Bloggers / Twitter / Medium fame. Not sure visionary is the right word but it's close enough.

I don't think he has much reason to back date his posts but you would think he'd at least put it on Medium versus Blogger.
One of the non-profits I work with receives a significant portion of donations via ACH so something like this would not be considered regardless of how simple it is to use or how elegant the design may be.

Are there any plans to accept donations via ACH in the future?
Yes, but the quotas are too low.

We literally have 5 million Mexicans living in the US as second class people without access to worker protections and other institutional things. It's a situation that shouldn't exist.

My grandparents came here in the 1930's and 1940's. In those days, entry was pretty trivial. No reason why it shouldn't be that way again.
Click here if you get an 404: http://danielcompton.net/2014/12/02/modular-integrated-docke...
Author changed the post title I think, the link is now dead. http://danielcompton.net still shows the article in first position on his blog.
Vas Rajlich could write a program that solved chess. He would simply have to find an existing program that solved chess and copy it.
In an absolutely trivial sense, the earth, and everything on it, is part of the Milky Way. All that light pollution is light from the [0]Milky Way reflecting off the [1]Milky Way and thereby obscuring the [2]Milky Way from the [3]Milky Way.

[0] cities on a planet of the

[1] atmosphere of a planet of the

[2] majority of the stars of the

[3] only known inhabitants of the