skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a guy, and I was underpaid for many years at $LARGE_CO. I finally found this out when the CEO gave "normalizing" raises to narrow the spread of salaries at the same position, and I got a nice raise. That left a bitter taste in my mouth, and I left shortly after.

Some of us (men and women) are just not cut out to play this salary game. :-(
It's true that your best shot for a 15% raise is switching jobs, but there's no way that's sustainable (for a comparable position).

I think each year people should evaluate how they're expertise and duties differ from the previous year.

Many people I know inadvertently become team leads, head up projects, mentor others, or change roles entirely and wait for their old position's performance review to address it.

That's a mistake.

As a manager, I've had the best success with getting better comp for my team when giving a new title + bump around 4 months before review.

That way, the discussion with execs is closer to "what eould we pay for a new hire for this position?" and the upcoming review allows for minor comp tweaking.
Don't even both with all of that.. Just make a reproduction from scratch.

Make it look more or less like the original. As long as nobody sees the original next to the mock-up, who's ever going to notice that one or two digits changed?
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Payment in bitcoin to attack live sites without their permission (you mention twitter.com) sounds like a horrifically inappropriate idea. why would you do this?
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Normalized Compression Distance (Wikipedia)
Yes that's true, but I think that was mostly from a minority who were Muslim. Catholics not, but Baptists yes, I guess.
The current system of down-voting and flagging is (evidently) insufficient to discourage comments like these. michaelochurch's comment is tantamount to trolling - it is spawned a acrimonious chain of vile and meta-vile. Nobody comes to HN for this. Nothing has been gained by engaging him. I'd go so far as to say nothing would be lost if the entire thread starting with OP's comment were removed. Perhaps HN could implement this feature?
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"What is your current salary?"

I would think that at this point they _are_ interested in bringing you on. Then you could go in different directions:

"I'll be glad to discuss my salary requirements at the appropriate time, would you please tell me first how badly do you need me? more about ... say work-life balance, employee rotation, non-monetary perks, whatever...

"Let me tell you about how much more value I bring to my work, many times over salary, which I am ready to do for you, because your great company really prizes the beneficial effect I'll bring to the bottom line."

So you're answering, things they want to hear, not exactly what they asked, but better, for you and for them.

I should listen to myself now. (Edited formatting, structure)
I was saying you're an asshole for conflating the two.

Did I misspeak?
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Amazon keeps recommending Realm of Racket (No Starch press).
I'm checking your link and finding it useful, thank you!
Wow! Microsoft! Wow! You should've had Satya Nadella as CEO ages ago! Congrats!
> your final tax slip from your previous employer showing how much tax you have paid in the current year.

Do you mean in Japan or the US? Because you certainly don't have to do that in the US.

> From there it's trivial to calculate your previous salary.

And even if you did do it in the US it would be impossible to calculate your salary from it because it depends on how many exemptions you claimed in your W4 (which you can change at any time - it doesn't have to be how many children you have, it's basically a number to fine tune how much tax you pay so you don't overpay and need a refund).
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I almost typed "acceptable" in both the first and second usages, which is why I avoided it as equally ambiguous.

It's also worth noting that ~99.9% of the English speaking world doesn't have a copy of Merrian-Webster and, frankly, wouldn't care what it said even if they did. I'm no doubt biased, but the OED is a much better dictionary anyway, though I wish they'd reduce the prices on their personnal subscription: they'd get 100 times the number if they'd reduce the price by 1/10th!
Synchronistically, I just read a brief discussion of the same pair of quotes in Simon Leys's anthology _The Hall of Uselessness_:

'Talking of Orson Welles, I wonder if many people still remember how, soon after the Second World War, his artistic reputation in Europe was nearly wrecked for a while by a blistering attack which Sartre launched against _Citizen Kane_. The profound silliness of this diatribe is startling half a century later:

... [same quote as in op]

The impact of this condemnation was devastating. _The Magnificent Ambersons_ was shown soon afterwards in Paris but failed miserably. The cultivated public always follows the directives of a few propaganda commissars: there is much more conformity among intellectuals than among plumbers or car mechanics.
A few years earlier, Jorge Luis Borges (who wrote superb film reviews) had also expressed a critical opinion of _Citizen Kane_, but whereas Sartre’s censure now appears odious and ridiculous in its self-importance and dogmatism (it was actually dictated by a “politically correct” anti-American prejudice), Borges made a point that should retain its validity—even for the admirers of _Citizen Kane_:

"We all know that a feast, a palace, a huge enterprise, a lunch of writers or of journalists, a cordial atmosphere of frank and spontaneous comradeship are all particularly hideous. Citizen Kane is the first film that made conscious use of this reality ... It is not an intelligent film, but it is the work of a genius—in the most nocturnal and Germanic sense of this ugly word."

Sartre had an unquestionable genius (and we just learned what this means)—which may not be enough to reach posterity; in this respect, Borges was perhaps better equipped: he had a sense of humour—which is also the other side of a genuine humility.'
Interesting.

The last numbers I've seen were from around 2012, when no Android tablet had made any dents yet, and that version of a Surface was a failure.
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I compiled and tried servo+servo-shell just now:

- it compiles very fast, that's cool

- it doesn't render my static pages properly, albeit its not too bad

- its slow as hell (i did use --release for build and run)

:)
Personal note - HelloSign and HelloFax are sweet. We use HelloFax alot more than Hello Sign, but both made my startup's daily operations a lot easier.

Highly recommended, and we've been with them for 2+ years!

Disclaimer - Never used the API, just like the service and its Box integration
I just skip straight to /r/HFY. Might as well go to the source.
You seem to have confused "I dislike this" with "nothing substantive".
how do you handle component sandboxing in Servo compared to firefox e10s? (firefox being child process sandbox, ipc to parent, and things being a little "unperfect" in the separation)
Getting fluent at the language of iconography
It's not easy to mix two different versions of code compiled with different microsoft compilers, or even with the same compiler but different settings.
Why Anonymous Apps Are Dying
Secret was the tech darling of last year. Unfortunately the once superstar app has announced it will close shop. To be honest I am not surprised, but I am a little shocked.

I believe that everything on the internet and especially in social media is based on two principles, vanity and and relationships.

The biggest problem with Anonymous apps, apart from the trolling, bashing, and sexual innuendos is the fact that no commitment is made. Naturally as humans when no commitment is made to something, we lack the motivation to return. With Secret, the post quickly became boring once the shock value wore off. This was compounded with the fact that virtually no relationship was made, and we had no commitment that drove us back to the app.

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Awesome. We are destroying their habitats but also are providing a filter to select the most intelligent an courageous ones from the population and yet we complain.

You cant blame the bears at all.

It was an interesting read.
This clever technique has all sorts of applications. Say you have 3 strings, NCD allows you to determine which two of the three are most closely related.

I have used this professionally for:
- Detecting plagiarism in submitted works
- Detecting languages of strings to catch translation issues
The system does take advantage of nice people that are bad negotiators.

I guess don't hate the player hate the game as it is all game theory in the end and the complainers or negotiators will always tip in their favor. You can be a team player and get your worth but you have to speak up and be aware.

I think it is better to be fair at salaries even though you could pay the great developer you have lower than the good one that knows the market and is a negotiator. If you don't and they find out they are gone as happened in this instance. Open salaries might even be a good idea with bonuses for performance.
I don't think they are interested in OS X APIs at all. It's not as if Windows doesn't have tons of native apps in the first place.

What they want is to offer a way to get the million of iOS apps into Windows Phone.
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"Rake Rate" is a pretty standard term in consulting.
That's nice, I wasn't aware that they were working on this specifically.
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No, it doesn't. You could easily compile Python into C (basically, "just" inline the core interpreter loop), but it will still be slow, because the Python semantics still require a lot of dictionary resolutions on every operation. Getting efficient C still requires you to think about getting efficient code. You can not get it "for free" just by waving a C compiler over your language. Otherwise, everyone would just do that and there would be no languages slower than C.

Before you reply to disagree, make sure to very, very carefully think through the implications of the last sentence there. It is not as if compiling to C is particularly hard; it is literally "homework assignment for a normal college senior in a compilers course"-difficult. Many languages have gone through a phase where they compile to C. Usually they deliberately leave C at some point, another thing to carefully ponder the implications of before replying in disagreement.
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There was a Stack Exchange question answering exactly this question:

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/49906/why-is-freebsd...

Another contributing factor may be momentum. Clang is easier to work with than GCC, and doesn't have the baggage of GCC, so more and more people and companies are starting to use it, fund it, and commit code to it. It's been improving in leaps and bounds, and still rapidly improving. It's only a matter of time before it's all around better than GCC.
They don't sell them in an explicit jobs-for-cash trade, so much as they use them to curry favor with counter parties. It's about information and favorable future action (e.g. I'll make your kid VP/Eng if you agree to make your employer buy us at $2B no matter what.)
I just looked at the StackExchange salary matrix that you mentioned (from 2011)... Under "skills" they include "modem-whistling":

> Able to emulate a 1200 baud modem using just your mouth (with error correction protocol) well enough to upload a GIF picture to Compuserv

:D
A programmer’s mind explained (to project managers)
The home charger cable is capable of 240V/80A (20 kWh) connections.

Superchargers are around 363V/225A (90 kWh) but supposedly capable of 120 kWh.

http://www.autoblog.com/2013/02/01/hands-on-with-the-tesla-s...

So you're looking at 3 hours at home vs 45 minutes at a supercharger for a full charge. With the 10 kWh wall charger you might be able to cut 45 min off a home charge.
Agreed, his writing is beautifully dense and surprising.
A huge amount of scientific computing, modeling, and image processing work is based in open source tools and primarily developed in Unix environments. Many of your roles emphasize a desire for candidates with prior C# and VS experience. Can you elaborate on whether it's possible to work from Linux on your team, or is out-of-the-box Windows experience also required?
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Thanks.

Does Nim compile to C99 ?

If someone were to ask what's wrong with Nim, what would you say are the things that need to be fixed?
nope, "don't hate the player, hate the game" is a massive cop-out, and excuses people who perpetrate broken systems because they benefit from them. there is no abstract "the game" written into the fundamental nature of human psychology; there is only the collective behaviour of all the players, some of whom end up influencing the game more than others.
Ok, but why is your service so necessary that your bishop should pay you to do this instead of serving in a parish? There are a million social networks and online communities where mothers can go looking for other mothers. Frankly, you could do this with a Facebook group and YouTube, in your free time between more important duties.
Totally missed it - thanks!
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For this reason I'm also selfishly for not publishing salaries within a company.

I'm all for talking about salary to everyone except co-workers. Knowing what you can make elsewhere gives you power to negotiate or move. I know what my engineering friends make, I know what they are getting bumped to after reviews, I know what offers they are getting and the same goes both ways. Knowing what everyone makes internally would just cause trouble I think.. At the least I would imagine it would limit my options to only companies that can afford to pay everyone top dollar..
Maybe he got it wong?
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Can you point to any of those smart people who argue for a sterile gut? I have honestly never heard that, and I've been following news / research (on a surface level) for a couple years.
None of that actually works. I'm not sure why you think it does but the HR "drone" that acts as a Gatekeeper requires a dollar figure to put into the box or they punt you, like the comment you are replying to says.

It doesn't happen often [at least for me] but it does happen. I have similar issues when I decline to put an "Education" section on my resume. Both are groups I'd prefer to avoid, personally, but you do need to recognize there is a certain percentage of people that won't work with due to their process.
I worked for a company like this. It irritated my VP who had her hands tied when it came to negotiation (like you mention). I ended up switching companies for an 80% bump.

These companies work really well for the median employee for all of the reasons you mention - especially the air of transparency. But I think it makes it nearly impossible to properly compensate top talent.
I keep raising my rates 30% every time someone asks, mainly because I don't want to take on more work, but apparently people don't mind, so I keep getting more work... Oh, the humanity.
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