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> I'd love to know how much he pays his employees.

I guess the answer is "not too much", from the article:

> We work long hours, we are not paid much, and even after raising over $10-million within our first year of operations, we still have a mountain to climb in our efforts to expand this company.

> Team members having a piece of the pie [equity] is the surest way to align everyone’s interests around the long-term objectives and vision of the business.

The problem with equity is that if the startup fail it's worthless, and there are many horror stories were the business use some technical trick "steal" the employees equity.
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ChucK is probably one of the easiest ways to get started programming synths, and still one of the best ways to play live, layered audio. It comes with some nice tools (miniaudicle) to mix/arrange live music.

Supercollider (or less programming-focused tools) are more stable and can even more configurable, though there's a bit more of a curve. They're also not as explicitly focused on live performers.
As much as I like the direction the new MS is heading, I can't think of literally any person wanting to use a browser which does not support adblockers.
I find it really hard to believe that anyone can actually "work" for 80 hours a week. Especially in mentally taxing work like designing and implementing software. That is something close to 9am-9pm 7 days a week. You pretty much have to be heavily medicated to even make it out to the other side if that. Maybe it's possible if you simply spend several hours a day in meetings or wasting time, but that is another issue altogether.

I have a sneaking suspicion that these 80 hour work weeks people brag about actually boil down to an anecdote about a terrible week they once had when they needed to get the job done quickly or lose their company. People that don't really understand what this kind of work entails just perpetuate these ideas because of some perverse idea of work ethic they get from reading about irrational people like Elon Musk.

I've got some breaking news for this "CEO" if he is for real and actually thinks an 80 hour work week is in any way a decent idea; the thing you are creating is not that important. You might think it is, but you are wrong. That is the hard but certain truth, and I truly hope you learn that in the least painful way possible.

If the Earth was suddenly going to be destroyed by an asteroid in just a few weeks, you'd be right to sacrifice the physical and mental well being of your brilliant team in ways like this to stop it. Even at that point you'd be better off with rotating fresh minds to figure it out.

Long story short, you are lying or just kidding yourself. Either way, you are doing a bad thing for the world.
Its worse than that. I remember being surprised when I got older and found out that Bourbon is the same thing as Whiskey.

The common conception was that they were distinct drinks, and that Whiskey was too expensive.
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It seems that people are still posting publicly accessible statuses/tweets about hating their bosses, being hung over, smoking weed or even putting up their new phone numbers! People are NOT learning, they're still doing it! Do not understand why.
Is it fair to say that there isn't (or may not be) a such thing as first principles at all, outside of acculturation, if education is so context dependent?
Obviously it sucks, but the Europeans have to justify it because they can't admit its much better in the US when it comes to housing.
| Noam doesn't make a data-based argument. He uses an anecdote.

And that argument is then countered with another anecdote. The only way to really win this argument is by releasing all the data. Not thinking that's likely to happen.
As much as this headline is kind-of horrible, there are a couple of worthwhile points in there. It is true that believing in the company mission makes more hours tolerable. This is the main reason its easier to work long hours for yourself or your own startup than it is to work long hours for a company you don't own, and why the larger a company gets, the more demoralizing severe overtime can be.

But - people throw around numbers like 80 and 100+ easily, I'm not always convinced real-world numbers are as high as people claim they are. Having done some extended 80 hour crunches, I know first-hand that all life outside of work stops above 65-70 hours/week. At 80, you can still get 8 hours of sleep per day and have one meal away from work, maybe watch a single 30 or 45 minute TV show to relax, but almost nothing else. While it happens, it is not particularly sustainable. 100+ hours means you're eating into your sleep schedule.

I know first-hand that many people exaggerate their long hours in crunch times, and most crunches where people claimed 80, they were pulling more like 65-70. And I don't believe they are lying intentionally, its just that extra hours can be harder than you think, and the perception is you work more than you think you do. A studio I worked at measured work hours during crunch time and found most people work 10-20 hours less than they thought they did. I discovered that I wasn't working as many hours as I thought I was.
Worked in news media for 9 months and can unequivocally say it made me pessimistic and completely depressed. Staring at 6 newschannels for 8 hours a day can be tough.
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Can you explain how the author is not living decently?
on the time issue: https://medium.com/@thusmedia/netflix-for-news-84b462a2dd50
Hmmm. It's almost as though they tailored the headline, pic, and article to piss off the working class Joe.
Coming from the UK it amazes me that the vast majority of family houses have a small footprint but are high. Our house has 3 stories + a small loft.

The new houses being built have 4 stories. Footprints are around 13x6.

In the UK in a similar town the footprint is easily twice that but the actual livable space is often less.
Apple is committed to destroy Google, not to protect user privacy.
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“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.” --Mark Twain
> Believing spending well under one engineer's annual salary made a bad outcome more or less likely is nothing other than dumb.

Now you're being obtuse. It is the cumulative effects of leadership having out-of-whack priorities that can lead a company to the deadpool. Get it?

In any case, I'll take being Common Sense Dumb and having a successful, profitable business over being Silicon Valley Smart and handing out pink slips any day of the week.
> Why would you want to live in a city center

Well, one reason would be:

> long, shitty commutes

another is that some people prefer urban life.

I bet you'd be surprised to hear that in some countries people actually prefer to live in apartments to houses.When I ask why, they often state the fact that it is much less work to upkeep an apartment, so I guess that would be another reason. I personally understand why would some kid from the midwestern suburbs want to live in nyc, even if it means a much lower standard of living.

But in reality I think it really is purely cultural, people prefer what people like them around them prefer. People in the US were living in the cities as well before the "white flight", so at some point, urban middle class families were also the norm.
The student who used profanities and obscenities should be immediately expelled and charged with disorderly conduct. Indeed, conduct unbecoming of a college student, at an Ivy League university no less.
It's our duty as citizens of democracies to stay informed. If we don't stay informed then it is only the special interests that stand to make money that influence policies. Also it is important to stay on top of your industry trends to make sure you don't miss some opportunity. I agree that most crime and tragedy stories are useless information.
what does it actually say? it's all entirely generic, and they're using a boatload of buzzwords to make it sound like there's more there than there actually is. the sad thing is there probably is more there, but that quote (which they've featured prominently on their webpage!) doesn't say it.
How does his company fare in Glassdoor.com?
Instead of using going to Facebook first when I'm bored these days I'll check out the top stories from r/all on reddit, check out Google News, or Hacker News top stories. I used to take a lot of pride in being current with world news or my industry news. This all started about 5-6 years ago when news aggregators started getting better. The first one for me was http://newsmap.jp/.

In reality I think it made me feel worse and sadly I'm just within the past few months realizing this. I feel like there's so much content masquerading as "news" and it's hard for me to tell what is legitimately good content until I'm a little bit through it. I am leaning to really cutting back but I need to rely on a few news sources from now on.
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It is absolutely not where the most opportunities are. It is the place where the most startups are, which means the top of the opportunity pile eclipses other locations in terms of earning potential and networking. But quantitatively, the most programming jobs per capita are in Washington, Colorado, and Utah.
One temporary deviation does not a policy change make. We can't control what users do!

(Submitted title was "Tiffany Co. CEO on environmental impact of jewelry". Since the original title isn't misleading or linkbait, the guideline would say not to change it, so we changed it back.)
Any answer to this is question besides "if they don't, they're fired" is being fundamentally dishonest about the nature of employment.
> special characters that I can't write using my EN_US keyboard

I set the "menu" key on my en_gb_dvorak keyboard to be compose. I use it most days, whether to type the Ö in a colleague's name, € on a budget, ² in m², → anywhere, or • (or even ①) in a plain text document.

The file /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose contains many definitions, but they don't all work, and it lacks π. I'm not sure where mine are read from.

Whoever wrote it had a sense of humour.

<Multi_key> <L> <L> <A> <P> : "" U1F596 # RAISED HAND WITH PART BETWEEN MIDDLE AND RING FINGERS

Edit: It seems HN won't display the character: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f596/index.htm
Comcast should not even have an opinion about what your browser is and is not configured to do. As a human being, your tools are your own responsibility.
Kimchi is also an awesome and inexpensive snack. I always have a big jar of it (from the grocery store) in the fridge to snack on when I'm too lazy to cook.
On Monday I got the worst phone call of my life. My sister, who is in her 40s has been diagnosed with Leukemia. The variant she has is Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) which has a 5 year survival rate of only about 30%. She seemed healthy just a few days before diagnosis, she was just a bit tired and had low appetite. Then she noticed some abnormality in her vision and that's when she did a blood test and found extremely low hemoglobin count.

Shows how quickly your world can come crashing. Cancer is awful. Cancer and global warming are where most of the worlds research dollars should be going. This story brings hope for the future.
> As a technology, Facebook isn’t neutral. It’s actually changing the way we interact with names. Before Facebook how many of your friends’ surnames did you actually know?

It's hard for me to get over the strangeness of this question. Of course I knew all of my friends' surnames. There's a strong implication in the piece that I should be different?
Once transport goes electric we'll be trying explain to our grand kids how we tolerated people blowing carcinogens right at us. Were so used to gasoline cars having exhaust pipes that blow out on the pedestrian sidewalk that, I think well grow to appreciate how stupid that is when we don't.
I understand the larger context for the point Norton was trying to make, but the example she used is not a good one.
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Definitely agree. This reminds me of Nick Ciubotariu's attempt at a "data"-driven rebuttal to the NY Times article on Amazon working conditions: "The NY Times said so-and-so happened at Amazon, but I have never seen it with my own eyes!"
If you have anyone working 80 hours a week, let alone people with families, you're a disgusting human being and I hope your startup fails.
That's irrelevant to most of my points, but if for some reason the UBI or remaining welfare system does depend on income in any way, that also deals very badly with changes during the year. "I'm sorry, our records show that 10 months ago you had a solid income so sod off with your fear of starving in the streets this week". If it doesn't, then coupling tax returns to UBI is unnecessary.
Ditto. Just decided to start using it, decided a browser baseline (IE9 in my case) and used it. Have stopped writing prefixes and never had a problem with Autoprefixer, I've pretty much forgotten it's there.
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And in a bad company, you wake up and wonder if anyone would notice if you took the day off.
You can probably find IRR figures. But there's a wise saying in private equity, "You can't eat IRR."
Before reading the article, one should see this (quite convincing) claim that the author has plagiarized many of the ideas in it:
http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/dobelli.htm
Not really. Based on a vague recollection of working with previous model eye trackers, the margin for error is enough to make precise selection annoying. Attempts at using eye-tracking in normal GUIs generally require some form of compensation for the inaccuracy, or redesigning the UI to require less precise selection.
I'm glad we have organizations like the NY Times to tell us when Morality requires we keep a people impoverished because they have the bad luck to live on a landscape their readership finds aesthetically pleasing.
Upvoted for contrarianism. Lost a point for focusing on personalities though.
This is from several months ago, since then Facebook has announced changes to the name policy - might be more valuable to get a more recent discussion?
> Sometimes to the extent of redefining the playing field so that the obstacle is no longer in the way.

And sometimes, as Marcus Aurelius said : The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
When I was testing last summer, users' browsers would crash while allocating even 512 MB for the emscripten heap.
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“People” = mining companies building open-pit mines in the Alaska wilderness?

Pretty sure those people weren’t ever “impoverished”.
I'm going to cite this the next time I'm asked to work weekends.
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I have it month to month
we were a german startup, we weren't vc funded, everything came from our own pockets.
No jokes, but at first I was thinking it was a sarcastic blog post. I can't believe this is happening.

I won't really delve to talk about the employer, the company, the mentality and that other stuff. I'll keep it simple:

If you are working hard (like 80hours+) and doing anything to succeed (like assembling Ikea furniture), then maybe you should start your own business or a one-man consulting.

It pays off much better on the long run.
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There are still people who haven't moved on from electric car fallacy #1?
The only fact I'd point to is that if A16Z were to raise a new fund, it would be wildly oversubscribed as with most other top VC firms. If I'm Andreesen, that's the only thing I'd point to.
I'm not sure why this even needs a rebuttal. If venture capital wasn't profitable, Sandhill Road wouldn't exist.
You know the names they've given you.

You have no idea if those names are real enough for Facebook - plenty of people don't use the name on their birth certificate or marriage certificate or passport. (And this is legal and correct in many countries.)
See also: Programing as Performance using SonicPi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK1mBqKvIyU
Because people largely see those people getting what they deserve. Drinking is fine but being hung over is bad. Drugs are bad. Badmouthing people is bad. Some "innocent" person with high visibility needs to suffer from their own ignorance of their privacy.

The fappening should have been an example but because it was a hack of "private" data it was largely ignored in this context. Perhaps the story about that girl who "quit" social media will develop into good.
Your organization/setup page is a bit buried.
This is an incredible medical advance, the old idea from at least the 70s actually working. It will take a long time until we can apply this to most diseases or conditions. There are so many different causes and interactions behind medical problems, even those that can be attacked by genetics + specially designed org like this. I'm sad my mom's cancer couldn't be treated by something like this.

Live long enough, and we'll keep seeing amazing things!
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Because many browsers are still 32 bit even in 64 bit systems. That means they get 2GB of virtual space in total. And frequently they don't have 256 MB of aligned and continuous virtual memory (and I suffered the pain of trying to develop a web application that uses 128 MB for months, in the end we ditched the C++ part).
New startup idea: Personal security for sociopathic CEOs like this when they inevitably cash out and burn all of their employees on their equity. They will be rich, but will have a huge list of people who they conned into destroying their lives that want them dead.
as I understand you, you think learning a programming language will do more good for 90% of students than being exposed to chemistry, physics, algebra, history, literature, and whatever other nonesense, which I take you to mean other things commonly studied in high school like art, psychology, a foreign language, economics, etc.

where, may I ask, did you ever hear about Hooke's law, chemical bonds, quadratics or Kakfa? You're reference to these things, in the hopes they'd support your rather silly claim, shows that a multi-faceted education is a good thing. If you weren't the recipient of such an education, you couldn't prove your point.

problem solving, logic, etc can be taught outside of programming. I was taught first order logic through a philosophy course. it seems like you think programming can teach you all the important forms of reasoning.
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This. Be very careful here. Unless you know how the company's shares are structured AND have a say in all the different discussions about future splits and multi-class offerings don't put your head in the sand.
I've never seen a 60+ programmer workweek schedule that didn't start generating negative productivity through reduced quality, technical debt and poor design choices. In part, this is because high workloads are symptomatic of poor project planning, but it's also because overworked programmers make poor choices. Conversely, I've worked with companies that produced amazing, very high profile work under ridiculous deadlines and still got everyone out of the office by six. Obviously, limited crunch periods are unavoidable, but if your project plan assumes more than six to seven hours of productivity a day you're probably creating an unsustainable workload.
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If neither of them worked, they could get a three bedroom apartment at Taxpayer expense!

http://www.section8facts.com/2014/10/23/section-8-guidelines...
I hope for more electric companies and vehicle's.

I'm from germany and I hope that our automotive's starts to waking up. especially after the vw scandal. fuel filled motors aren't the future.
please american companies. create electric vehicles, lower the prices and start attacking our foolish overpriced german car manufacterers.
You should really talk to the local population in places around former Washington lumber forests or West Virginia coal mines, and ask them whether in their opinion environmentalism was good for their interests.

Maybe this particular mine was even a bad idea; Wikipedia at least indicates most Alaskans were against it. But of course in the NYT the opinion of the actual people affected is not considered, just the moral preening over Untouched Landscapes.
A follow-up article by Madeleine Bunting that I posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10526108
Well, it's profitable for the general partners. Whether it's a good deal for the LPs is another issue entirely.
That's not strictly true. As long as interest rates are kept so low, there will be vast amounts of capital looking for any kind of return possible. The guys running the VC firms always make money as they get their 2/20 cut and people too rich to care will always invest in new funds. The sector as a whole is almost certainly not more profitable than a simple index tracker for the FTSE100 or similar.
The first fund's were around 50% if I recall (as they included Skype and Nicira which were both _great_ returns).
> Multi-billion dollar companies happen when non-obvious ideas and huge market needs meet perfect execution. We've seen it before our eyes — Uber, Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, Instacart...

It's kind of funny to see some of these companies uses as examples of "perfect execution." Two of Dropbox's latest late-stage investors have already reportedly written down their investments by ~20%[1], and Uber and Instacart are facing class action lawsuits that, in worst-case outcomes that are not entirely improbable, could upend their business models.

> ...it's not about avoiding loss or minimizing downside.

This is silly. Good fund managers are always concerned about downside. That doesn't mean they don't take on risk, but they try to understand and mitigate risk as approprite for the kind of fund they're managing. In the world of VC, there's a reason liquidation preferences, ratchets, etc. exist.

Just because FOMO in this market has made it difficult for VCs to get terms they'd normally like doesn't mean they aren't exposed to downside risk. As Warren Buffett once said, "Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked." When the cycle turns, we'll learn which VCs didn't have their speedos on.

[1] https://www.theinformation.com/mutual-funds-mark-down-dropbo...
The logical conclusion is, in my opinion, that childcare is inherently costly because we need a high teacher/child ratio.

I don't really have a problem with intervention, but I'd rather it be in the form of simple payments to the parents. Otherwise, we are paying Jill to take care of Jack's kid so Jack can go out and work making spoons. Why shouldn't Jack look after his own kid and Jill can make the spoons.