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This is why we all need to start talking about how much we make! Otherwise companies have hundreds of data points on average salaries, and engineers only have a handful. I talk about how much I make with people I am close to, and we get a better idea of our market worths.
I just wanted to say that this sounds totally awesome, and if I didn't have criminal baggage and was willing to relocate to DC, I'd be all over this.

Thanks for doing work :)
While dealing with recruiters can be a hassle their goals align much more closely with ours if we are maintaining the fallacy that only the money counts. Recruiters are typically paid a percentage of your salary so they want you to receive the highest salary possible since that is the best payout for them as well.

My experience with recruiters is they want to know how little it will take for you to accept the job, but this is because they need to know which jobs they should do the legwork on.

If I'm looking for a job I call up several recruiters I trust and I tell them the specifics I'd what I'm looking for and the price I'm willing to accept. I then continue working my network and looking on my own, but now I have 4 times as many jobs and a better chance if finding the perfect fit.
Note to dang: add a new feature to permanently block comments from a list of HN accounts that I specify in my profile.
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If that is the real reason, there is nothing keeping them from disclosing the salary range for the position. That way they don't waste anyone's time...
> Every day, millions of people are taking medications that will not help them. The top ten highest-grossing drugs in the United States help between 1 in 25 and 1 in 4 of the people who take them (see 'Imprecision medicine'). For some drugs, such as statins — routinely used to lower cholesterol — as few as 1 in 50 may benefit. There are even drugs that are harmful to certain ethnic groups because of the bias towards white Western participants in classical clinical trials.

Those are stunningly small proportions. What is the explanation? People try out lots of drugs and stop taking those that seem not to be working?

The graphic in the article says the proportions are related to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_needed_to_treat but I think I'll have to read that article several times to understand. :) Not clear what reference in the article (the Nature one) provides the proportions or NNT data, but the nearest footnote is paywalled anyway.
"I guess don't hate the player hate the game"

This saying completely ignores the fact that the "players" are adults, fully capable of taking responsibility for their own actions.
Wow, thanks! It looks very interesting. I had never heard of it :)
As mentioned in the article, I think it's accurate at the very low end (i.e. the salary and bonus for fresh undergrads at Google).
You're being compensated for your work. If you don't want the money, donate it to help organizations that help other people. Leverage your work to help others people who could really use help, not just your business.
1) recently, I had very good success with a professional social networking site in this matter. Recruiter asked what my current salary details are. I told me, "If I give you this information, what information will you give me". Initially he asked me to look in glassdoor but when I said he can also do the same thing, he relented and disclosed that salary for senior software engineer is minimum of $150k going to a maximum of $190k. I was happy with that information.

Also, I discovered recently that companies cannot talk to one another about salaries, but they can all participate in a "survey" where the surveyor aggregates all this information, in a very detailed way. So, every company knows exactly what the other company is paying, even in a different industry. I guess that is another way of fixing price.
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But none of that was written by Microsoft employees, so I'm a bit confused about what exactly this blog post is announcing. It feels a bit like they're taking credit for the work done by the clang community.
I agree with you. Anyway developing this skill also means that you allocate a considerable brain processing power into this activity; far more than some devs want/can allocate. This skill probably will make (or force) them into management.
Game Theory is a good excuse for troubled people to act inhumane and claim their behavior is the result of calculated rational.
No, I really don't think I am. Apple essentially created the modern smartphone market. Android was Google saying "We've got to get in on that." You're going to accuse me of fanboying now, but I've never owned an iOS device; I think Android is better and I wouldn't use anything else. But without the iPhone, Android as we know it would not exist.

You don't like Apple or Apple products, and that's fine and fair, but you are confusing your personal opinion with the actual state of the market. Quality and influence aren't always related, much as we might wish it were otherwise.
> it compiles very fast

You must have lower standards than the Servo team, because pcwalton is rather irate at the current build time. :) Rust will be prioritizing massive advances on compilation speed for 1.1 and beyond.
You should try AssureSign [1]. I know they have "programmers somewhere inside, who care about the product enough to read and respond to bug reports" because I'm one of them :) Support tickets go to everyone so the person most qualified to answer can do so directly without navigating support tiers first. This can sometimes be a drag on my personal productivity but I know customers (especially technically minded API integrators) appreciate it.

1. https://www.assuresign.com/
I don't know about US, but in India, its standard practive to ask for previous paychecks.
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broken link i think :/
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Ok.... But what are those features that you got used to and that pip lacks? I actually dont know here. Like specifics.
Right. Because "vast majority" = "way less than half". Words actually do have meanings.
But the economic consequences of, say, commercial fusion would be enormous. Whoever mastered it would stand to become the wealthiest nation/corporation/person on the planet. Can't say the same for a Jack-in-a-box on the Sea of Tranquility.
As I mentioned in another thread, standard practice in India is to show previous pay check.
I've tried it a few times and it's been super slow for me as well. Maybe it's just slow on Linux.
https://deans.caltech.edu/documents/55-hch2012.pdf

Just to emphasize how pervasive this is among the community: I have had several locked bikes stolen from Pasadena City College which is just blocks away, while at Caltech I left my bike unlocked every day for six months without a single incident.

Regarding the exams, the professors (and I believe TAs as well) are straight up forbidden from being near the students during any exams and the result is one of the lowest rates of cheating across all surveys.

The vast majority (if not all) of the classes I sat in on very much encouraged collaboration between students (even on exams in some aerospace classes) and the only request from professors was that each student write the names of their collaborators on each problem set.

Absolutely incredible culture that shows how treating someone as a responsible adult can reinforce mature and honest behavior.
Getting your data out of a system isn't a "feature", it's one of the basic functions of a computer.
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I really like 'Citizen Kane', but to be honest, when it comes to films involving Orson Welles, by far my favourite is 'The Third Man'.

Though many of Orson's scenes he isn't actually in as he refused to leave the hotel until they tempted him out with a magician, so he is often represented by shadow.
Have you ever been involved in hiring people? As an interviewer, or resume filterer, or whatever. Was there an unusually large supply of qualified old people? If systematic, career-limiting age discrimination is putting people out of work in tech, I'd expect a bunch of good older candidates on the job market -- but I didn't see that, at a startup in the bay area and a big company in Boston. Certainly some companies would be nauseating to anybody that isn't a gross manchild, believe me, I feel it! But the articles you link have anecdotes and fallacies, like citing the average age of employees as evidence -- any rapidly growing company will soak up employees that have recently relocated to the area, and they'll be younger.
"I'll make your kid VP/Engineering if you agree to make your employer buy as at $2B" does not sound like something that has ever happened. Has it?
This sounds like reasoning from some parallel universe to me. First, Apple hasn't dropped any ball with Yosemite.

It's it's as good as it ever was. People have been complaining for every major release since 10.2 how the OS gotten more buggier, etc. Then a couple of point updates come and fix any major new bugs and the stop. Then, sometime around 10.x.6-8 a new version is relased and then they complain for the next release and remember the old one fodly. I have articles and blog posts with similar complaints from 10.5 and 10.7 and 10.8 and 10.9 with the same pattern. Even for 10.6, which was mostly a no-new-features release.

Second, even if they had, there's not much value in "offering to port Cocoa apps". Major apps are already cross platform (from Adobe stuff and Eclipse/Idea, to Cubase, Sublime Text and Mathematica, including Office, which MS itselfs makes anyway), and smaller Mac-Only apps don't have much to offer to Windows users, and wouldn't be much outside of the Mac ecosystem anyway.

You'd get what, Pixelmator and BBEdit? There are 4-5 established alternatives in Windows for each piece of Mac software.
The plan is to use gaol [1] for sandboxing. For IPC, we want to send Rust objects serialized via serde [2] over native OS IPC pipes (AF_UNIX sockets on Unix).

[1]: https://github.com/pcwalton/gaol

[2]: https://github.com/serde-rs/serde
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We’re looking for people who are smart, self managing, and fully proficient in HMTL, CSS3 and Javascript - so you can hit the road running. Experience with AngularJS is a bonus. There will be opportunities to do full stack work if interested. We use: GAE, python, S3, AngularJS, Firebase, Git, and Grunt.

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This is incredible. I love Python and I tried to learn JavaScript, but I had a tremendous amount of trouble with it. Moreover, I really can't stand JavaScript. CoffeeScript alleviated a lot of my concerns, but this tool is perfect considering that it lets me use a language with which I am already way more comfortable. I think that this will make an excellent learning tool for a lot of people. Thanks a lot for creating and sharing this.
Yes we are :)
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This is not about Android or iPhone. Or Google or whoever. I'll happily acknowledge that Apple sells well thought out products.

I stand by what I said earlier. There's too much of a cult of personality associated with Apple.
Why do we shrink our worldview to gossipy discussions of a corporation. Tell me something interesting, something edifying that came up in this discussion?
> This reminds me that there have been many attempts to duplicate Lockheed's "Skunkworks". They've all failed. I suspect they failed because they always tried to create a skunkworks by fixing perceived "shortcomings" of the original, not realizing that those shortcomings were what made it work.

> It takes a lot of guts to create a skunkworks, because it defies all conventional notions of how to do things. Lockheed is very commendable for having those guts, but they remain the only one.

Except for Boeing's Phantom Works, NASA EagleWorks, various "advanced concepts" or "preliminary design" groups across other aerospace companies, and various small aerospace firms operating with minimal overhead and extremely talented engineers (Karem Aircraft's head actually specifically cited Kelly Johnson's original rules for a SW-type organization, plus there's Joby Aviation, Makani/Google, Zee.Aero). Sure, none of them have produced anything like an SR-71 yet, but neither has the original Skunkworks since then. The SW legacy of a tightly knit group of elite engineers operating with minimal overhead and freedom to try radical concepts is alive and well in aerospace though.
Nope! :) That's the point of the "locally conserved" clarification I made in a sibling comment: these conservation laws hold at every individual point in space, regardless of whether the point is part of a curved manifold or a flat one. (Curvature can definitely interfere with attempts to define a global conservation law, like "total momentum in the universe is constant". But the essential feature of a manifold is that near any given point it is locally equivalent to simple flat space.)
Here's an analysis of crowd dynamics when exits were blocked off at the outdoor 2010 Love Parade festival in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y73-7lFBNE
I'm a bootstrapped entrepreneur CEO with ~30 employees in my company now, growing quickly, expect to have ~60 in next 12 months.

I am not so interested in previous salary. Rather, I always directly ask "what is your salary requirement". I think it is good business sense to not underpay what people think they require, though sometimes this means we must pass on what could otherwise be good employees, so requesting moonshot salaries is definitely a filter for us.

Furthermore, when I ask applicants their requirement, if they just deliver a number to me using logic that does not include salary levels at previous jobs to justify, then I evaluate how close it is to my budget target for the position, and if feasible, I make an offer at that requested level.

However, if the applicant uses a previous salary to justify their current salary requirement, and it's a lot higher than I expected or had targeted for the position, I have on a few occasions offered jobs with compensation to match previous salaries, so long as applicant proves to my HR they are not lying about the salary.

So far, all offers I’ve made predicated on proving their salary claims, my HR has proven the applicants were lying to significant degree, except for one person. Those that were caught lying had job offers rescinded. The one person that wasn't lying only lasted 90 days because he clearly couldn’t add value to justify.

From my point of view, the best strategy for negotiating a higher salary is to get in front of a person that cares if you can help them make them more money than it costs to pay you, regardless of your previous salary (an HR manager is usually not the person that cares about this). Then present a clear vision to them for how you will deliver that added value.
India is many things. Depending on where you are, stunningly beautiful, dangerously dirty, or both. My first trip to Mumbai, when all I knew was the US and bits of Europe, was the first truly culturally significant and mind opening experience of my life.

Modernity had brought with it trash and pollution of an unprecedented degree, and poverty, culture, corruption, and overpopulation do nothing to improve the situation. Open sewers line city streets that wind directly through ancient relics because the city had been continuously occupied and built up and upon since that time.

I mention this mostly because of the cultural significance of India, and the danger it faces in losing those cultural artifacts if they are not given the respect and care they deserve. Much of the culture, while incredibly peaceful and inviting (witnessing festivals in the slums of Mumbai, paid for by people scraping together their pennies, caring more about their community than their personal situation was... I still don't have the right words for the emotional experience), knows nothing of preservation and conservation.

I don't know the answer to any of this is... It's just something I think about whenever I read about ancient India.
Disclosure: I work for a microbiome biotech company. I have no connection to ubiome.

I'm sure this commenter means well but this person is severely misinformed. Any person with even a minimal understanding of our gut microbiome would never argue for a relatively sterile gut. We rely on out gut bacteria to digest foods and there is a healthy, normal exchange of metabolites between the microbes and our bodies. Microbes digest foods such as fiber and starches into (for example) short-chain fatty acids that have been shown to have beneficial effects on our bodies. They also prime our immune system so that we are better prepared to combat invasion of potential pathogens. LPS is a necessary component of all gram negative bacteria. Many of our commensal bacteria are gram negatives. The problem with LPS is when it gets to places where it shouldn't be (e.g. crossing our gut epithelial barrier).

Some labs utilize germ-free mice to investigate the causative role of the microbiome on the host. While these animal models can serve as great systems in which to investigate certain hypotheses, every germ-free model researcher would no doubt agree that the immune system of germ-free animals is completely different and severely compromised compared to a normal, conventional animal. They, in fact, do NOT live longer and are NOT stronger/healthier.

I felt that the above comment needed to be rectified before people starting actually believing it.
I was wondering when I'd see the first thing like this.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5953508/ns/world_news/t/china-grap...

Men don't care about money so much as the things it buys---which is a problem for a corporation, because all you can really pay them with is money. Now that the price of marriage in China is so high, it makes sense that a company might serve as a platform for group buying of a substitute good.
Wasn't the original PATRIOT act written before Sept. 11, 2001? The frequency with which laws are named grossly inappropriately suggests something a bit more sinister than incompetence, even if it's not 100% malice.
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I had never heard of that phrase before either - and I'm a consultant. ;-)
This statement is extremely dishonest and inaccurate.

The folks at the OPERA experiment stated that they found something that needed further testing. They even said that they doubted faster than light particles. They wanted their experiment audited and repeated and stated that they wanted help from the scientific community.

The media is who turned it into a circus.
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Some interesting quotes:

> Currently, around 500,000 people live in the various apartment buildings owned and administered by the city. The 220,000 units within these buildings make up about 24 percent of all of the available housing in Vienna.

> In the years leading up to World War I, Vienna experienced a significant housing shortage, with many residents living in poor conditions as subtenants or “bed-renters” — up to half of the members of most workers’ families did not have a bed to themselves, while roughly a quarter of the Viennese population was known to be relying on a homeless shelter system in 1912.

> The Wohnbausteuer or housing-building tax was placed on all rental properties, but structured so that top-tier properties funded the vast majority of proceeds — all dedicated to the construction of new communal housing. In 1925, the tax yielded 22.6 million schillings; in 1927, roughly 65 million. By the end of 1926, the city had already constructed 25,000 units of new housing.

> The building program was a massive effort, involving around four hundred different architectural offices. The early buildings in particular show a wide variety of styles, although most are fairly modest. They tend to stay in keeping with existing building patterns, street profiles, and decorative flourishes. There were mandates to ensure that each unit would be well lit, have its own bathroom, water, gas, and electricity, and have easy access to the street or to a courtyard.
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Conservation of momentum can be derived as a necessary result in any theory whose basic laws are translation invariant (that is, if the defining equations are unchanged if you move everything in the universe 6.2 cubits to the left). This is true in classical physics, relativistic dynamics, quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, or even string theory). You can prove it in various ways depending on which formalism you're working in, but the most elegant proofs I know are based on Noether's Theorem (http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/noether.html). It's beautifully general, and it applies equally strongly to classical or quantum systems.
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I wouldn't call Patrick a 'tech celebrity', I would call him a 'marketing celebrity' in tech. His writings on how to market yourself are without doubt the best essays I've ever read on the subject.
Forgot to add the following: JayData [0], engen [1], and Astarisx [2]?

[0] http://jaydata.org/

[1] https://github.com/storehouse/engen

[2] https://entrendipity.github.io/astarisx/