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I don't follow, Raadhuisstraat is known for having no parking separated cycle paths/lanes, which you seem to view as the source of various problem like pedestrians overflowing on the cycle lane (as I understand it). For me the Raadhuisstraat is an example of poor cycling infrastructure because nothing is being done and mix cyclists with motorised vehicles, rather than the badly engineered new lanes that mix cyclists with pedestrians that you talked about. I don't know the rest from memory but I'll try to cycle it sometime soon, I've got a buddy who lives near Mercator.

I agree the corner on Aletta and Johan could be better but it's not terrible if you ask me. For Dutch standards you don't get much bigger intersections and it's relatively well done. I guess a roundabout might be better (like Vlaardingenlaan / Overschiestraat, statistics show they do really well. I'm curious what you suggest to do to improve it?
maybe the could make the very first slig!
Thermonuclear War!!
I stand corrected. No local history + cookies then.
Aerospace is ageist towards the older people? That's interesting, I'd think that experience would be the most important factor in that space.
Is the "Well Known Microsoft Blogger" maybe Raymond Chen (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing)? I can't seem to get to the archives on that site, so I don't know how long it's been around, but he published a compilation in 2007, so might already have been blogging in 2005.
So is oxygen, but I'm not going to carry a scuba tank with me everywhere. Just when I'm diving or doing something where it is equally important.

Same reason you don't use TOR on a virtual machine over a drone mesh network to starbucks for the majority of your internet browsing.
Founders probably aren't able to hire because they can't get enough money from investors to pay market salaries or because their company just plain sucks. Maybe they think that because they've convinced investors that they're onto something that it means prospective hires won't know better?

Put yourself in these people's shoes. Even if your company has a chance to be worth a billion dollars, you're going to have to do better than a quarter point. After several rounds of dilutions, a seed-stage employee with a quarter point of even a $1B company would end up with ~$1.5M. You've got to be offering people a 10-100X opportunity of what they'd get working at BigCos to get good talent, not 50% more.

Corollary: if you are giving engineers at your pre-series-A company less than a point and 50% of market salary, you are probably not hiring great talent.
Fair enough. I certainly didn't mean to suggest that the risks are the same, just that the difference isn't as great as commonly presumed. People still get stars in their eyes about joining NextBigThingCo as an employee. They're aware of the risk that the startup will fail, of course, but they often don't think about the risk that it will succeed and they'll still get squat or that they'll suddenly end up chained to AlreadyBigCo for a few years. Those should be factored in as well.
Unless you're a founder, joining a startup is a terrible deal. There's no two ways about it.
Some of those more interesting greenhouse gasses, eg methane, can be hundreds of times worse than carbon dioxide. So the net impact is not zero.
This article is saying that was not the case. The company was failing already and so understandably the top talent went elsewhere, such as Apple.
I work at a big company, and I also consider most C-level executives here to be glorified secretaries. All they ever do is write emails, stare at some charts, and yell at engineers to write code faster. What's most annoying is that sometimes they pretend to understand engineering challenges -- they learn some jargon and start throwing it around. That makes things worse; a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

We engineers are nothing but servants to these people.
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In the recent Square IPO, it showed that Jack Dorsey has an ownership stake worth $1.5 billion, while the (estimated) 1000 employees have an average stake of roughly $300K.

Think about what you can do with one and a half BILLION dollars. Now think how far $300K will get you in the bay area.

This is completely typical and representative of the disparity between founder and employee equity.
Norway police may charge Uber taxi driver
Wow. Pretty hostile.

Where did I generalize?

I was just giving an example that you can consider.
No, the hotword component has been removed.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/6wIqlx...
hey, i never said i could prove he was right. :) you make a great point.

edit: i assume his point could be better articulated as "open standards have only produced dreck".

which leads back to my original post: "to counter, you'd need to find an example of a perfectly architected system developed as an open standard by multiple companies".
Can you add pricing information anywhere on the site?
That's only true if the OS has a solid, secure and open package manager. Linux users have had that since the mid-90s but it still doesn't exist for Windows or OS X users unless you count their respective app stores or are talking about a few niches (Flash, drivers) where Microsoft is willing to distribute things through Windows Update.
Or click on the little party horn.
The FCC has voted to end exorbitant phone fees for prison inmates
These were my exact thoughts. So weird that this absurdity in a sci-fi novel might be a reality.

I'm not sure if maybe Atwood already knew this to be the case, but it seems like quite the coincidence.
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Extensions for Edge Delayed Until 2016
I'm currently teaching out of Stewart because that's what the general curriculum for our department is. Stewart died an insanely rich man, and I'm sure will keep making slight modification of his calculus textbook from the grave.

However, I tell my students in the syllabus, which I post online well before the class starts, that calculus is centuries old and that they are not required to pay through the nose for this textbook. I regularly go out of my way to facilitate using older textbooks.
Nine billion company names
<input type="number"> is just completely awful. To handle it properly in our React application, we have a <NumberInput> component which is roughly 200 lines (and shrinking, thankfully), involving more than a few browser-specific validity checks and keydown handlers.

The only way to keep non-numbers out of your number input is to cancel keydown events selectively, but it's still a crapshoot. And I've been bitten a few times by that bizarre change issue you mentioned.

If there's not already a good MIT-licensed project that encapsulates inputs and gets the weird out, I think it would be worth doing, whether in React or Web Components or both.
I'm of the opinion that this is how open standards evolve and have immense respect for people who got us to where we are today. Rants like this not so much.
Me, too. I just turned 40, and got carded for alcohol two days later. I've always looked far below my age, but I have no guarantees about how long that will last.

I'm only getting better as a developer.
I think you're vastly overestimating the value of those early days. Valuable startups are built over ~10 years, and people who join early are every bit as important to that success as the founders.

Consider what returns seed investors get. Someone who puts $250k on a $5m "valuation" gets 5% of the company. Most founders aren't giving up _that_ much money before hiring employees. Over the 5-10 years it takes a startup to make options valuable, pretty much every early hire (founders included) loses at least $250k in salary differential. Employees are lucky to make that back for middle of the road successes.
> if he can do all these activities, he can damn well work

Yeah, screw him for living life to the fullest while he still can, instead of continuing heavy physical labor every day until he's in a wheelchair.

In all seriousness, it's not like disease is completely black & white and there's always an obvious day up until which you can easily work. Just the mental & emotional drain of coping with something like this must make it incredibly difficult to get up every day and get excited about working.

If our economy can't provide a safety net for people in tough in-between situations like this, then let's make our systems more efficient rather than force a bunch of people to do something they don't feel up for just because it's a job.
It should be noted that many developers with CS degrees write spaghetti code and make poor architectural decisions.
Or said differently, what do you bring to the table as a founder that I (as a highly talented employee) cannot immediately replicate on my own?

This gap has been getting very narrow lately.

- Money? Not really; if we assume I'm coder #1, the cash cost of launching a product/service is <$100,000, well within the range of many mid-career folks with savings.
- Relationships? eh, Linkedin and Google can connect me with many people - most of whom would like an alternative source.
- Business model idea? Oh please, it's most likely been done before in an adjacent segment and well documented; actually, I'm not interested in a model that hasn't been.
- Technical / Process knowledge? um, that's why we're talking...

So yeah, if your goal is to take my contribution, give me 1% equity and keep 20%, it gonna be a difficult conversation...
Even though I am not keen of the arrogant tone this article carries I have to agree with its message.

I find the space rocket analogy useful:
If a rocket goes into the wrong orbit it will never reach its goal.

Most people can't reach what they aspire to no matter what. By the time you are 18, probably even earlier, your potential is fixed. I am not saying you can't start programming in your 30s and become really good at it or that you can't pick up Chinese when you've retired and become fluent in it even though you haven't learnt a foreign language before. But whether or not you can do that is determined way earlier. Be it genes, the social surroundings of your childhood or the quality of the elementary school you went to.

The only way to avoid disappointment on a tremendous scale is figuring out as early as possible what you're good at and then spend most of your time honing your talent.

The funny thing is: people who are talented in a certain way succeed even when they do everything "wrong" according to the "experts" who are revered by all the people who will always suck at what they aspire to. For example, I know an established electronic music producer who constantly bought new gear that he didn't know how to operate. So he sold those items as they (surprise) didn't give him the "pro-sound" and bought some more. Now most experts probably said: "The instrument isn't the important factor. Don't buy any more gear until you've mastered what you've already got." Now, people who don't make it probably would have taken this advice to their heart and 5 years later they'd still not put out a record that somebody would buy. Instead they became some sort of experts themselves who have ridiculous discussion on minor technical details and flame wars in web forums.

People who archive something great possess the right tacit knowledge that others lack in their "ROM", i.e. the stuff you got during the time before your birth and before you leave school.
So now who do you trust? This guy (whom I know nothing about) or the several media articles (whose writers and sources I know nothing about)?
This is the problem with how news is delivered in our age. Back in the day, you primarily just knew the news of your town, and to verify the claims you could walk over to the subjects and ask them.
Google got it wrong: The internet won't be global by 2020
What are you on about?

How does social security reduce population? Citation very needed. I think you mean to say first world countries empirically grow slower.

And why does population control need to be brutal? You don't need to kill living people, just don't birth unborn people. Have tax paid contraceptives, tax paid abortion for those that mess up, and tax/fine/jail people that have 3+ babies (having 2 babies per couple is sustainable). Maybe also have a baby making approval process. My home remodel needs to be approved, but I can make a new person without any approval whatsoever? That does't make sense.

If you ignore the law, you go to jail. Your child will be adopted or raised in a foster home. Not killed.
I've been a user of this client for quite some time, and I've always had to use it with a light touch. Click one thing, wait until done, click another thing. Basically serializing things myself, because even though the UI allowed the input, the state of things would get really screwed up if you did things concurrently.

If concurrency control in a multi-threaded, multi-process, app is a premature optimization, well, wow.

At the end of the article the author states: "Before these changes, GitHub Desktop suffered from race conditions as units of work would become interleaved in error.

Since implementing the concurrent/exclusive locks we have seen an improvement in stability and performance. "

Sounds like they used to just let the client spin up multiple concurrent operations fairly willy-nilly.
What is the nature and quality of the jobs these post 55 people have taken. Do the jobs they land in compare favorably with the jobs they were displaced from? Did they go from professional jobs to service sector jobs? This distinction is important. As a forced-into-early-retirement, former aerospace engineer, I am curious, and I will check your links later.

As for my future, I am trying to create my own asset/company and I don't see myself reentering the workforce as an hourly wage earner again.
It's because that industry uses a lot of old (software) technology and older folks tend to know it best.
Magic Leap close to raising $1B
Hey Brian,

We're working on finalizing pricing and packaging right now. If you have specific questions, I can send over a quote for your business -> team@staffjoy.com
> $200k in SV is comparable to $70k in most other cities.

What's the basis for that estimation? Given California's income tax and higher rent, I'd say that the difference in cost of living is $20-30k, not $130k.
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That's the origin, the simile is that orthogonal lines represent completely disjoint sets and are uncorrelated, so one can be changed without impacting the other. It's kinda weird, but there you are.
Just got given a "evil eye" bracelet today. Never heard about it before. Don't know why this is on hacker news and I am sufficiently wierded out!
"The common swift spends almost its entire life in the air, essentially never touching the ground once it learns to fly."

"One of the ways in which swifts are able to fly for such long distances without landing is that they have the ability to sleep while in flight. In order to be able to sleep while flying, swifts can enter a state called unihemispheric slow-wave sleep.

During unihemispheric slow-wave sleep, one half of the brain sleeps while the other half of the brain remains alert."

And from another article[1], "It has no global positioning satellite, no air traffic controls and no pilots, but the swift is capable of flying at the same altitudes as aeroplanes with more sophisticated navigational skill, new research has found.

The birds routinely fly to 10,000ft at night-time, around 4,000ft higher than previously thought. Swifts are also able to navigate through different wind speeds while sleeping, automatically adjusting their flight to stay on a specific course."

Navigation while sleeping... Fascinating!

[1] How Sleeping Swifts Keep To Their Course At 10,000 Ft
http://rense.com/general50/course.htm
Can confirm. I work at a company in the Google ballpark, am a former mathematician, and would probably make a good CS'ist, but my old website was copy-pasted HTML from another professor's.
It's not shown here, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics does further break down workers into full-time, voluntarily part-time, and involuntarily part-time [1]. Numbers for part-time workers below are for September 2015.

Part-time for economic reasons (6 million)
Slack work or business conditions (3.6 million)
Could only find part-time work (2.1 million)
Other (0.3 million)
Part-time for noneconomic reasons (20 million)

[1] http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t08.htm
The math that you did in the Square IPO thread was completely and totally wrong. Any conclusions you drew from your results are based on a false understanding of reality.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10389397
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There are certainly non-monetary benefits to working at startups, as well as costs. It certainly makes sense to include those as part of the calculation, but money is not a small part of that, either.
Apple doesn't always compete the same way other businesses do in other markets. I know plenty of people who would never even look at Apple computers because they're Windows users, but Windows users have hundreds of options that Microsoft doesn't even make. Apple has much more control over its brand than its competitors do (in some categories.)

Nobody goes out to buy an Asus router. They just go out to buy a router, and Asus can't stop them from being flooded with options. By some stroke of fate, Apple can.
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I think it depends a lot on the market you're in, how you've funded your company, and where you live.

A founder of a bootstrapped, remote company in Iowa has far more risk than almost any engineer in NYC or SF. Relatively speaking, if you are a not-terrible engineer in SF/NYC you can have multiple jobs competing for you within a day of your company going out of business.

A non-well-off or not-well-connected founder has comparatively little opportunities to "fail up" when their company goes out of business. I'm a founder of a bootstrapped, remote company, in a non tier-1 tech city. I'm the lowest paid person in our company (of all engineers). If we go out of business, our folks will have jobs in days. I won't. Does that mean I have more risk? In a certain dimension, yes. In others, definitely not.

Of course, nothing in my post suggests that early engineers shouldn't be paid reasonable salaries or have reasonable options. They should. But I don't think risk has anything to do with it - common decency does.
Is usenet still going for that sort of thing? I found it started drying up massively about a year ago, have switched to torrents ever since...
Yeah, I'm having a blast with p5js, which is basically JavaScript and a lot of built-in functions to make it easy to work with a canvas.

Writing actual website though? No thanks.

http://p5js.org/
Ok, please post the correct math, then we can compare and see who got closer. Jack's percentage is spelled out in the S-1, along with the top execs, directors, and investors.

If you have any better data, including median equity and other percentiles for non-founders, that'd be very useful. Thanks.
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The impact of this is going to become so obvious when interest rates start going up.

Let me explain. Ultimately, how much money the workforce is making matters to consumer spending. People may be ok not having a job, because they have some way to stay at their standard of living. But unless a bunch of them are sitting on family trusts, it also means they don't have a growing amount of money to spend.

Yet consumer spending has been growing steadily for the last 5 years. How can that be? The likely scenario is really cheap debt. The kind that disappears when interet rates aren't basically zero anymore.

We've shoved a lot of stuff under the "free money" carpet. When the Fed bumps up the interest rates, all those spiders are going to come out to play.
>It really has nothing to do with "keeping the economy going".

Not sure what you mean. When we give poor people money, they spend it. That's good for the economy. Welfare and disability are definitely good things.
The problem is this: The person who wrote that article for Reuters didn't know anything about Mission Motors. The reporter had to hit her quota by mostly packaging up and rewording Apple press releases because she has to pump out n articles per day. Otherwise Reuters starts to lose money on her and she gets fired.

Expertise and research take time, and therefore are expensive. Reuters can't afford to pay someone to have deep expertise. So she gets pitched on something and pushes it out without much thought, it gets some clicks, and no one cares.

Almost every time I read a piece in the mainstream media about something I understand really well I'm baffled at how badly the press machine we've set up (and inexplicably trust) can butcher it. Then I think about that experience the next time I read about something I don't know much about.

In the age of the Internet (with the monetization of the Internet) the structure of traditional news is fundamentally flawed.
Also that humans are terrible statisticians and tend to only record notable events, not all events. The guy could easily spend 80+% of his life unable to do those things, and you'd still say "pull his disability" based on the few good days he had.
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It's bitcoin, so of course not.

Just looking at their terms confirms this. Even if they did multi-sig, how would they validate that the file isn't a lemon?
Paul Graham essay (Oct 2015): Default alive or default dead.
Interesting but moot, when you don't get past the phone screen.

Funny story, one hiring "kid" the other day asked me if I like to wear ties... ha! I thought, I'm roughly ten years older than him, and wasn't working in the sixties, or whenever ties were popular.
Thanks, I'll take a look at it
I think the whole point of the article was that we need to know more about that percentage of the population that "doesn't look, but still wants a job", because dismissive explanations are insufficient.

Does anyone on HN have suggestions of possible explanations for some of that percentage? I don't understand it. Is it people who wanted a job, but gave up looking? Other situations that would fall into this category other than simply "lazy"?
Once you top out the salary range, and are close to 55 (the earliest age for reduced retirement benefits) they look for ways to shed you. It happened to me, and many other colleagues. I have worked on a lot of great projects such as B2 Bomber, Space Shuttle, UAV Global Hawk and many satellite programs. That does not matter; once you hit the age/wage criteria, you better have great connections or you could easily see yourself filing for unemployment.
The grandparent (no pun intended) said he was forced into early retirement though. Shouldn't he be more valuable as he grows older?
Just as a quick aside of the prestige thing. It is a lot easier to get "prestige" by being a founder of a barely successful startup than it would be to be an early employee of an extremely successful one. The whole startup ecosystem is very friendly to founders in this respect.

And when it comes to recruiting, you are much better off getting a job at a large prestigious company like Google, Facebook, Amazon than you would be at a random startup. The quality of engineering at a random startup, even YC startups, is extremely low when compared to large prestigious companies. This is due to the fact that the engineering talent at startups is generally below that of employees at (Google|Facebok|Amazon|etc), and startups are incentivized to ship stuff quickly and not necessarily work on engineering quality software. If your goal is to found a startup, then maybe you are better off working at another startup to pick up a more diverse set of skills. But if your goal is to get hired as an engineer, a big prestigious company is way way better than a random startup to have on your resume.