skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This appeals to me, but I think at this point we are preaching to ourselves.

Re: realism. Some outrage is a nice way to temper realism with civility. If we temper it instead with only a pragmatic calculus or some Randian or Social Darwinism there's a chance we can delude ourselves into a fascism, jingoism or militarism. I prefer to play tit-for-tat - lead with the pillow, reply to sticks with hammers. But if in pursuit of the pragmatic we abandon the ideals, we're going to optimize the 'wrong' objective. In other words - the outrage is a way to call for the US to recognize inalienable rights (which mean that no nationality, nor any government, gives them to you), to pursue fair trails, and to be accountable for mistakes, and to perform justice through a court system where it can be seen for the good thing it is. It is not outrage for outrage's sake.
Yes, one might think so, but this was the CEO in question[1]. Edit, and so far as bluffing, could an employer legally ask for W2's to verify?

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/05/business/stinging-office-m...
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the 500B-USD$ question is "When will it pop?"
Research? I don't think they've published a single paper have they?
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I don't think that represents well what was said:

* "Of the 61 non-replicated studies, scientists classed 24 as producing findings at least “moderately similar” to those of the original experiments, even though they did not meet pre-established criteria"

* "Daniele Fanelli, who studies bias and scientific misconduct at Stanford University in California, says ... psychology does not necessarily lag behind ... other sciences. ... earlier studies have suggested that reproducibility rates in cancer biology and drug discovery could be even lower"
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The neutrino phenomenon was caused by a calculation error regarding GR and was miniscule magnitudes of error. I'm genuinely curious how a measurable force is a calculation error. Notwithstanding that whether or not it can be explained it works. The measured forces are so substantial that even a high school student with high school apparatus would notice them, it's hardly caused by a wobbly cable in precision equipment.
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Tesla vs Edison, Round 2.

Interesting twist that this time around, Tesla is pushing for DC, while Edison is behind AC.
I agree with everything you say. Personally I work on mobile apps for a living, but our family does not own a tablet and we seldom allow our 2 daughters - ages 1 and 5 - to use our phones.

But! As a parent, there are times when you need to distract the kids for a few minutes. My main goal during those distraction times would be that they are distracted sufficiently, and enjoy themselves. If they happen to also "learn Algebra", well I don't really have a problem with that. So I see this as something that is probably worth having on a tablet instead of the completely made-up-off-the-top-of-my-head Disney Princess Tea Party App.
Interesting. I know Lewis' book about the industry I work in was, uh, an incomplete picture of things, so I'm not shocked if Flash Boys was a bit shaded too. Is there a shorter version of the objections to Flash Boys I can skim through to see if I curious enough to go further with this?
Probably because it is a required field in whatever software or process they are using, and they are incompetent.
At the firm that I work at everything is in the open, even between groups, and it works very well. It is a formula-based compensation given your department (basically consultants and back-office) and stated level. With that, I know or can calculate exactly how much my manager makes, how much an entry level HR employee makes, and how much the CEO makes.

I love it because it removes any problem with politics or shadowy discussions, and I know what I can expect when a promotion comes. The only downside is that it leaves the firm with little leverage when it comes to compensation: I can't simply get a bump without a promotion, nor are there extra bonuses that can be given out either for hiring or retaining. (This has its benefits as well however.)
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I'm quite impressed about the small amount of code required for a NES emulator. I thought they'd have to do all kinds of special casing for cartridge-specific stuff…
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You phrased education and voting as an alternative to participating in this campaign. They are not mutually exclusive, and I suspect that people who participate are likely to also educate themselves and vote.
> Somebody's doing something fishy.

Definitely nothing fishy in this case. The original whoishiring has been distracted lately, and _whoishiring stepped in to help. It actually made a big difference today.

It also, however, made us realize that it's about time (after what, 6 years maybe) that we wrote the small amount of code to just automate this so people don't have to wonder where the threads are.
> I would really like to be "a little of everything guy" but "a little of everything" could not get you a nice paycheck, even if you know a lot. (am I wrong?)

Depends on how good you are at your bit of everything and how well they tie in to one another. Also where you work.

> How did you choose your field of specialization? Are you happy with your choice now?

I'm 31 now, went to College for 1.5 years for Web Development and then became a Flash Developer working at a big tech company for 10 years. I'm now working on my own startup. I'd consider myself full stack developer now and I'd say I'm good at design. I just did what I was interested in. I mean 10 years in Flash and now the technology is dead but whatever. I learned a lot and much of it was transferable into web development today.

The key thing is to just keep learning. You can never go wrong if you keep learning.
Rust isn't a domain-specific language. I don't see why it wouldn't be a good language to implement a JS engine in, from my experience.
It seems from the quote that Sartre simply finds flashbacks uncinematic.
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Gonna need a whole lot more people to move there before any change occurs.
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Even if you don’t fit into any of these roles, please get in touch. We are actively searching for general talent to build out our team.

Shoot me a line to discuss at david@nanomagnetics.com and mention you saw this on HN.

REMOTE would be considered for the right candidates with an office drop in schedule.
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Regarding bluffing: I've seen it happen where the company has asked for a pay stub as part of the final paperwork to confirm that the stated current salary was legit. So yeah that could be a downside to bluffing if you want the job.
It could be for intelligence purposes; they want to know what other firms pay their employees.
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I'm nowadays entirely concerned with Clojure and ClojureScript (cljs + node.js for systems software) I'm using a lisp with things like Datomic, generative testing and typed clojure and I can't go back to other stuff (maybe Haskell). My background is JavaScript with its MVCs and a bit of C#.

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One year ago we launched our pay-per-article startup Blendle in the Netherlands.
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We're playing with Go, Elixir and Spark amongst others.

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I don't think level of HR bureaucracy is very well correlated with anything relating to job satisfaction, and it is easy to over-index on during the hiring process. I don't think your willingness to bear the risk of false negatives is unreasonable at all, but it's worth being aware that you're judging one department based on interactions with a completely different one.
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I'm a little surprised by GE's CEO at the time having such a low tolerance for experimental lines of business. The GE-225 computer only came into existence because the team building it hid it from him, and despite being a runaway success by early '60s computing standards, he not only fired its creator, he stayed adamant about getting out of the business and sold it all off to Honeywell -- including Multics, the mainframe OS that greatly influenced Unix's design.

Granted, it's not like GE faded into obscurity based on this decision, but it seems to reflect a different corporate culture from even what we'd consider "conservative" today.
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I originally wasn't really very against these kinds of questions, until someone pointed out that they're basically asking how much a different company values different work you're doing for different ends, to help them determine how desperate you are for doing their totally unrelated work. I got much more resistant after that.
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I'm all for transparency, but it is easy to get weird results from the current range of "small startup bootstrapping" to "valley darling throwing money" to "high salary with no equity" to "<insert odd thing here>".

I'd love to have a notion of what the real work rates and long-term rewards our for our industry, but it's so hard.

Also, I note that nobody here is sticking their username next to their salary and equity stakes. :P
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no link, but there was a good article or documentary about 10 years ago about how you can improve throughput of an automatic-opening double door by putting a bollard in the centre. iirc it was over 2x increase.

basically people aim for the centre and people cluster up waiting for them to pass instead of having 2 way travel all the time.
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> (Most important takeaway about salary negotiation, by the way: disclosing a previous salary is almost always against your interests because it pegs your new salary to that plus 5% rather than your value to the new firm minus a discount, which is a brutal mistake, particularly in the years of your career where natural growth in capabilities/experience/the market/etc causes you to bring vastly more to the table with each new job.)

This is terrible advice. If a prospective employer asks how much you are making, respond with your desired salary at minimum. If they are serious, the negotiation point will be that plus whatever raise you claim to be looking for. If they want paystubs, you seriously don't want to work for them, because no professional should suffer that indignity and they're probably turning away great people as it is. I've only had one company ever ask for paystubs in my career and I got a weird vibe from them early on anyway.
I wrote a small application a while back to allow a team to figure out what their average salary was without exposing individual salaries. Seems relevant.

https://are-we-being-underpaid.herokuapp.com/

It generates unique URLS for each participant and stores almost nothing on the server. Only a party that was actively monitoring web traffic has enough information to divine someone's salary. No tracking of emails, salaries, etc.

Source code here https://github.com/pipermerriam/am-i-underpaid
If you're looking for jobs in SF, why not grab lunch with them? We just launched Lunchcruit a few months ago, give it a try:

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BlueLabs | Washington, DC | Software Engineer

Who We Are

BlueLabs is a data, analytics, and technology firm formed by leadership from the Obama for America re-election campaign's analytics team. Join our team of analysts, data scientists, and software engineers as we leverage our groundbreaking technology to help identify prospective voters, donors and targets for a variety of sectors including political campaigns, nonprofits and human services providers.

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* Know your way around a SQL database

* Be proficient in a few languages - and excited to dive into new ones (expect to see at least Ruby, Python, Scala and Java around here)

* Love to learn about new technologies (Spark, Mesos, Rails, and React are all part of our tech stack)

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Thank you for the pointer, I have a bad habit of not noticing usernames anyway. That said I still think my argument is valid, if you are seeing an incorrect result in a simple experiment it's still worth lab time figuring out which of your instruments or equipment is introducing it, even if you have 0.00% confidence that it's anything special or interesting.
As an immigrant they will need you last few pay checks as part of the visa process. So they will get it sooner or later.

I've just learned to say that I want to find out what you guys think is a fair offer and left it there.

After a certain point salary moves little and stock moves a lot.
"Just put $250,000 in that blank."
Mostly true if you trade short-term individual stocks. If you invest long term in indexes, it's still risky but much less than casino-style risky and losing all of it, short of total economy collapse in which case it wouldn't matter where you invested, pretty much never happens.
I hope that happens - I really do. We need kids not to be afraid of just playing with stuff, including abstract stuff like manipulating and rearranging equations. I see too many kids paralysed when faced with a problem, unwilling or unable to do anything because they are scared that what they do will be wrong. They don't know the right thing to do, so they don't do anything. There's a chance that games like DragonBox will help fix that. I'm just aware that there are other ways that it will play out for some kids, because not all kids are the same.
IANAL, but I don't see why that would be illegal. There are very few things that it's actually illegal for an employer to ask about. (Though it would obviously be a bad idea to ask a candidate about their status in a protected class, it's not technically illegal to ask.)

That said, this is a bad idea because it would scare off plenty of people who aren't bluffing about their salary (like me). And there are already employers who will terminate you immediately if they discover you lied in your job application.
Most of the time (in my experience) the recruiters know how much the companies are willing to pay and will tell you a range. Or you can tell them what range you're targeting. There really isn't any real upside to giving your salary away.
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Why? to find out if people with a higher salary have a higher networth?

I don't think it would be very useful, because you'd get people on low(er) salaries who are great at saving/investing and have a high networth, and visa versa
The other way to understand the present is to be read up on current events.

The current DoD involvement in Silicon Valley is not a callback to the ARPANET so explicitly - the analogies are rough. But it's true that now, like then, the DoD sees the US in extreme danger of collapsing as a superpower like its old soviet rivals due to the huge changes and the challenges of the 21st century.

Today it is China, the Eastern tip of Eurasia and the Asia-Pacific arena that concerns the United States. Having been overtaken as the largest economy by China, and having grown only 0.2% this quarter compared to China's 7+%, and facing existential threats by China's ambitions to build the Chinese Dream of a New Silk Road and to become a great nation, the US is doing everything it can muster to arrange economic and security conditions in the world to maintain its order and its position at the top.

The Defense Department investment in cyber and the partnership with Silicon Valley is just one of many of these investments.
I have experienced the same problems during my life.

I found that even though I intellectual understood the process vs. event based life I could not quite let go of celebrating events and being grumpy about past unfair events.

Then I read Simon Sineks "Start with why" and finally figured out my why (happiness) and integrated it into my way of making decisions.

Since then I have really found that my self worth has grown and become more balanced - because the decisions I make is right for me and since the ring true to my why I do not care (as much) what others think.
Can you offer any insight into how many gigs per year you booked? I know utilization rates for consultants can vary greatly and I'm curious to find our more about the relationship between number of gigs and your increasing rates.