skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you think there's really an answer to your question that would make you reflect on the issue?

If so, what might the answer look like?

If not, why did you ask the question?
> I would highly encourage anyone feeling depressed to seek counseling, and for the most part school mental health services are a safe and welcoming place to find help.

In this day and age, I would be very, very careful about who you talk to about any kind of mental health issues. Get a reference from somebody you know and trust who has received direct care from the professional in question. Preferably more than one and never from a school. Make sure it's someone you pay directly, NOT a school counsellor. I appreciate you wanting depressed people to seek help, but sometimes dealing with it yourself is better than dealing with the system.
It sorta makes sense in that context given variable sales comp plans. "I really am that good. Here are the audited numbers to prove it."
you will almost surely not be found out.

... unless, like patio11, you decide to blog about your salary history at some point.

The problem with lies is that you need to remember what they were so that you don't contradict yourself later.
You're correct, only the vast majority are millionaires.

Also you don't get a million in debt by being poor.
Betfair Bots and the Opportunity Out There (2010)
Yes, I had to quickly add the ... single layer...in front of the glance encryption.

Argot. nice word btw. How to make this better? Any ideas?
The Five Monkeys Experiment
Here is a the original research paper: http://www.scribd.com/doc/73492989/Stephenson-1966-Cultural-Acquisition-of-a-Specific-Learned-Response-Among-Rhesus-Monkeys#scribd
Here is a the original research paper: http://www.scribd.com/doc/73492989/Stephenson-1966-Cultural-...
What is broken about the C ecosystem that Go and Rust were developed?
I'm glad there's another example of this. At Caltech, it was institute policy that exams were not proctored. If they were in class (a rarity) the professor was required to leave the room for the duration.

Another unusual Caltechism is that all classes could be placed out of by taking an exam - and if you passed the exam, you even got credit for it.

Professors were not allowed to take attendance nor have attendance be any part of the grade (except for PE). This had the nice effect of the only people in the lecture hall were people who wanted to be there. Cut ups and disruptive students simply didn't attend.
The part about the paying upon exit is well-known in Brazil among Brazilians. The Portuguese version of the Wikipedia article you cited says the following:

"Dezoito profissionais que atuavam na Kiss, quando ouvidos pela Polícia Civil, disseram que não receberam treinamento para uso de extintores nem para evacuação em casos de tumultos ou incêndios, além do que os seguranças não tinham equipamentos de comunicação."

The translation of that being: "Eighteen professionals that worked at Kiss, when heard by the Civil Police, said they received no training for the use of fire extinguishers nor for evacuation in cases of stampedes or fires, in addition to the security guards not having communication equipment."

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The two owners were taken into custody, as they were ultimately responsible for those they employed and the policies/upkeep of the club. The security team was just doing their job, according to club operating norms in Brazil, as they (initially) thought people were trying to leave w/o paying. In no time at all, though, there was a stampede and the situation became uncontrollable.
Not really. For internal use as algorithm fodder, they've got millions of photos to harvest from Bing. And for external use, they can't confirm that the submitter actually had the rights to the image in the first place, so they aren't safe using them.
Women, here is the deal: unless you are at the C-level, in which case I cannot offer help one way or another and have no data, ASSUME YOU ARE BEING UNDERPAID.

The bias is too powerful. It's like people saying "they are not racist." Almost everybody is! Same thing with salaries.

Always come up with something more aggressive than your original "feeling." Also, make friend with us guys. We can help you. Don't simply ask your girlfriends how much they are making or how much you should ask for. It's a vicious cycle! Ask the guys!

It amazes me when I have hired females how little they ask for, and the surprise when I tell them the range I am hiring them for.
...and if you did, then you'd be on shaky ground.

Extracting energy from the zero-point energy all around us no more violates conservation of energy than extracting energy from E=mc^2 does. And we can no more figure out how to do so than Einstein could figure out how to do so a century ago.

Heck, simply finding an efficient way to store lots of energy that way would be a nice trick as well! We know of no reason why you can't beat any existing battery technology by many orders of magnitude!

The trick is that we cannot think of any plausible way to do these things. And once you open up the window of, "This would be amazing if we could, and we can't prove you can't," then you've got something of great interest to cranks who convince themselves that they have done so. So you'd be on safe grounds promptly excusing yourself from any conversation where someone is trying to convince you that it has been done.

But dismissing them with a general wave of the hand and appeal to conservation laws makes you as wrong as they are.
I've had the same thing happen. I went as a (relatively inexperienced) freelancer to heise (a large and old conservative company in germany) to a job interview and they asked me what i used to take (20$/hour remote internet work) and then told me they wouldn't even consider any freelancer below 60$ per hour.
So you refuse the offer! I've been in the position where I was underpaid to the point where the next job almost doubled my salary. When asked, I told them what I had been making and what I expected to make.

They hired me. I would have refused any offer less than I was asking for. Lesson learned: if they want you they will pay at least market rate.

I also "negotiated" (negotiated, hell. I just asked for it) a raise well above what they offered a year later at my first review.
There are two sides to this coin - if you are getting valuable experience or you really love your job, then you need to factor in the fact that you may get more elsewhere, but the working conditions or culture may not suit you.

It never hurts to keep tabs on the market by doing interviews outside. In fact, I'm pretty sure I know many folks that got promotions/raises simply because they bothered to look elsewhere.

Keeping in mind, of course, that monetary compensation is only one aspect of a rewarding job.
Gemini also had ullage rockets. Pic related, my authentic Gemini program "Direct Ullage" indicator buttons (took me a day to find them). http://imgur.com/AeSObj9
My girlfriend was in a similar position. Her company knew it and knew that she knew it and eventually came through with a 55% promotion. Too little, too late.

She then took that confidence boost and changed companies with a further 30% salary boost!

Unfortunately you don't get what you don't ask for.
This is so common, I helped my sister negotiate from 55 to 90 as well in one of her jobs. They also didn't blink, and that she's been able to keep her salary around that range even when moving companies.

It had me wonder if there was a gap for having professionals negotiate on your behalf as a service come these one to one reviews.
> I recently sold my first SaaS business, Bingo Card Creator.

Patrick, was that already well known? Do you have any plans to discuss that experience?
Are there any decent online fax services for less than $10/month. I send so few faxes that pricing doesn't make sense.
"HN threads as pasting walls for ideological boilerplate."

To be fair, one of HN's functions is pretty much the repetition of ideological boilerplate to help encourage entrepreneurship and startup stuff.
At the state level, legislatures are often part time. But state legislatures are worse and more corrupt.
> 1. A second income earner can be brought in if something happens to the employed spouse. Two-income families are already tapped out.

That's a very specious statement. The second income earner would have to begin a job search at a point when their secondary social network is weakest for that task.

In addition, the primary income rarely goes down due to accident. It is more likely that the primary income goes down due to a area effect: big employer goes under, depression in the general economy, etc. These will make it even harder for the second income to come online.
Kind of related: Ellen Pao has said she has ended salary negotiations at Reddit to try to prevent gender bias.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/reddit-ceo-ellen-pao-ban...
That's not correct. Apple needed technical things from a compiler that gcc could not feasibly do, and started moving things to LLVM before GPLv3 was released. Even if gcc had been relicensed under a permissive license such as BSD, Apple would have moved to LLVM and Clang.

A couple examples. Core Image needs an optimizing JIT compiler that can take a chain of image filters and turn it into a single efficient filter for execution on the GPU or CPU (whichever will be faster on the particular system for the particular effects). XCode needs to parse C/C++/Objective-C code in the editor and in the debugger.

What Apple needed for these things was a modular compiler system, designed to work as a compiler toolkit from which you can pick and choose the parts that you need for your particular needs. A compiler toolkit that is designed to be easy to interface with outside tools.

Gcc was explicitly designed to not be that. It was only competition from LLVM/Clang that forced some liberalization onto gcc.
Ewwww... magic numbers.

I would hope that I would encounter source code that at least took me to the code that derived these magic numbers. Why 0.7 for bookPressure or 0.2 for alpha23signal?
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hmmm, NO.

The initial number defines your trajectory. Then everything else is a fight for the "qualitative" process of yearly increases based on "qualitative" (read: arbitrary) opinions of performance.

Unless you are in Sales (in which the amount of revenue you have been able to bring speaks for itself), everything is arbitrary and it's up to you to identify the potential biases in the process.

Also, people think this is a women thing. It is not. I will venture to say that ordinary (i.e. NOT STEVE BALLMER) short guys or bald guys make less money, or "ugly" guys (i.e. not "attractive tall and handsome").

People, you need to fight for yourselves because it's only you in that room. Also, as somebody else said, KNOW YOUR WORTH and DONT DISCOUNT YOURSELF (i.e. immigrants, women, "stereotypical" gays, short folks, people with no degree but tons of experience, blacks, people with bad teeth, extra weight around the waist, etc. etc.).

Fact is, it's a discriminating world. Sorry, it's what it is.
Yeah, just lie, who cares? ...

If you want $200k but are making $150, just say you are looking for a salary around $200k. If they ask again how much you make presently, you can say "I negotiated my present salary years ago, it's not relevant to the value I provide now, I'm sure you understand".

I'm not going to be pushed into lying and making things up out of expediency. YMMV.
When you start something with "I question how genuinely accurate that is" then it's not unreasonable to think that the question concerns historical accuracy, rather than people's perceptions.

I had never heard about the Pilgrims and beer thing.

What we learned about was how Coca Cola used to contain cocaine. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola#Coca_.E2.80.93_cocain... . "Coca-Cola once contained an estimated nine milligrams of cocaine per glass". It still imports coca leaves for flavoring.

I believe that is as well known as Pilgrims and their beer. While inaccurate, Google estimates 530,000 results for '"coca cola" cocaine' and 550,000 for 'pilgrims beer'.

On a purely timing note, the phrase "Drug use _started_ as illegal" is difficult to justify. Why was the non-medicinal use of certain compounds banned before there were users of the drug? How did the legislature know to ban them before there were any observed social consequences?

Only relatively recently has that been possible, as some proposed bans include "the sale of any chemical that might be used recreationally" and "any compound with any binding to any cannabinoid receptor" (quoted from http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jour... ). I believe the UK also has laws regarding molecules which are "similar to" prohibited drugs.

However, those are less than a generation old, and not part of people's perceptions.
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Then show us all these age-discriminated people that are out of work.

For an imaginary problem it sure has a lot of press:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/27/us-valley-ageism-i...

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/01/05/silicon-v...

http://anewdomain.net/2014/12/11/dont-hire-anyone-30-ageism-...

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117088/silicons-valleys-b...
> ... it is all game theory in the end and the complainers or negotiators will always tip in their favor.

But what is "in their favor"?

Hypothetically, I'm new to a field, interviewing with a company in another city. If I'm completely honest with them, then I might say, "You can make me a lousy offer if you want; I'd probably accept it. I don't know the job market, and I don't know your city. But soon, I will. And when I do, unless you offer me enough now to encourage me to stay, I'll be gone. And all your effort in finding me and interviewing me and moving me there and training me and bringing me up to speed on your business will be wasted. So why not just make me a decent offer now?"

Of course, no one ever says that.

But, viewed through that lens, I think it's clear that many businesses are awfully poor players of "the game", as well.
This is a document that shows salary ranges for lots of IT positions and has geographical adjustment as well : http://s3.amazonaws.com/DBM/M3/2011/Downloads/RHT_2015_salar...

(anyone with other documentation that could easily be referenced in a salary negotiation?)

Another thing: I have an easy copy-paste response to recruiter cold contacts on linkedin where I say basically: I'm committed to my current company, but I'm always interested in real salary information, if you have something you can share I'd be happy to keep you in mind in the future. ... sometimes that gets me a number.

Having accurate information that you trust is half the battle IMO.
This is true.

This is also a reason unions exist, such that a fairer negotiation can happen where both sides come from a more even footing.

In other industries not experiencing our current boom, desperation and a deep applicant pool can make things more difficult.

Always know where you stand in negotiations, you are the only advocate your worth has.
This doesn't surprise me. People tend to self-segregate. All else being equal, people will tend to live near other people of similar backgrounds.

Now let's say you're a purple person (fictional race chosen to avoid invoking any unintended implications) moving into a town that's 50% purple and 50% green. There are lots of places to live near other purple people. Some of those places will probably be places you like and can afford. So you'll naturally join your co-purpleists.

Now let's say you move to a different city that's 5% purple and 95% green. There's probably only a couple of places where you can live among other purples. Odds are pretty good that those places don't suit you. You'll be much more likely to choose to live among the greens.
The reason you're a co-founder is because you take risks and are willing to push the limits of what's socially acceptable, and have face-to-face discussions about personally-difficult topics.

Most engineers want to "stay within the rules", which is why they get walked on.

(I'm not for one second saying you do that, personally)
If that was the case, why couldn't they say "This position tops out at $80K, will that be a problem?"
Thanks for the additional/corrected information, I'll try to remember that distinction!
US futures exchange has "lock limit" circuit breakers in both directions. It's not uncommon. Remember, a large share of market participants is playing from the short side. Up is down, down is up, it's all the same.
One of the things that has made Patrick a "tech. celebrity" is that he has written extensively and openly about this very topic. In particular his brand of uniqueness was to take a lot of things that engineers don't like and then turn it into an engineering problem. He didn't guess, he tested.

Here is the amazing thing, he also did all of us a huge service and wrote it up and put it on the internet for everyone to find!

If you haven't yet, spend as much time as you can diving in his blog. Every post he's written is worth the price of admission, but you could definitely limit your search to the ones that focus on the SaaS sales and marketing aspects.
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i totally agree with you, let s engage the imagination of kids, let s create situations where kids want to learn by necessity and own interest and drive! deeper learning!
that said, once you are motivated to learn, you still need tools to get fluency and learn conceptual stuff rapidly. Although i love that you make me think about what i m doing, i m still convinced we need specific tools. We need both approaches i think!
I'm at a telco, this is precisely how it works.
What exactly is the difference between "blame" and analyzing a past problem with the idea of avoiding similar problems in the future, and what makes you put this particular statement on the "blame" side of it?
I was talking about the intra-national/regional competition.
"The airbnb team is strong in this thread."

Yeah, right. I have no affiliation with AirBnB, I've used it twice and have a neutral opinion of it, I'd never dream of renting my house with their service, and if you are going to baselessly accuse me of being a paid shill for expressing my natural, homegrown opinion then we have nothing to discuss.
I was a professional musician for 15 years. After having kids, the amount of time that I would've had to spend on the road playing and selling t shirts would've far outweighed the time I would've had to be home raising them, so I started teaching myself development in the tour bus. That was 7 years ago.

My old band is still out there, selling out Red Rocks, and any of their merch that you can buy at the show has the highest margin of anything. This is true for every band from John Mayer to the Avett Brothers to your local Dead cover band.

So help me God, buy a shirt at the show or on their website.
I would not even go so far. Assuming this isn't a mirage, we don't know what it's doing. It could be conserving momentum but in some weird non-obvious way, or even doing something weirder. First question is whether it "works" at all, then how... and I would look for ways it might work while conserving momentum before challenging a conservation law.

It's important to note that these are separate questions. The inventors of these devices seem to have their own theories, but these may be wrong even if the devices do work.

At this point this is interesting but I won't get excited unless there are more replications. I would say that it seems to not be an "e-cat" situation. There are a minimum of two independent replications. So it would likely be error rather than fraud if it is mistaken.
I don't think conservatives believe diversity is "bad", just that it's not worth stacking the deck in otherwise merit-based processes to produce.
HelloFax has a no-subscription tier that lets you send individual faxes at $0.99 each. If you're like me and send only a few a year, this is a great option.

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There is this study:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140929181156.ht...

Although it is looking into obesity, they did find that apples restored abnormal microbiota.

I suffer from mild IBS myself, and find that eating an apple a day seems to help (although it's impossible to know for sure without doing a double-blind trial on myself).
We're a pretty small software consulting agency, so we're looking for engineers that are capable of learning new technologies and adopting to best-practices in those technologies.

Ideally, we're looking for people that:

* bring expertise in at least one framework that we're likely to use[1], and

* love to start projects in a software stack that they haven't used before.

[1] Rails, django, iOS, Android, Xamarin, WPF, visual design skills
That's what CS engineers and test engineers are for!
I mostly work for large banks. Not sure if you could get a standing desk, but I've definitely seen people with scoliosis or an otherwise bad back get an upgraded chair.
The great thing about academic research is that the author isn't the sole judge of what is a valid interpretation of his work. In this case, Putman asserts, for reasons other than his research, that diversity is still a good thing. But taken on its own, his research certainly is evidence that diversity is bad.