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I'm not so sure that "Once two capable independent adults decide to part ways, nothing could be easier." Particularly when children are involved, it can be very messy, very ugly, and ruinous for one or both parties, mentally and financially. Even in an ideal DINK relationship, depending on the state you live in, it can be difficult to come to a clean, amicable break, without ongoing obligations.

It certainly is easier to live one's life on one's own terms. Indeed, that might be the only way to live one's life, in the long term. Therefore, it is of the utmost importance when choosing a partner to make sure that both parties have compatible terms.
Sweeden has many "peculiarities", the one that tremendously impresses me is that voting is effectively not secret.

From what was described to me, when you vote you ask for a sheet of paper. You can ask for several but you'll get weird looks from people. The end result is that anyone that votes in fringe options is effectively identified because no one else asks for those options.

The person that told me this was competely oblivious to any problem with it. When I mentioned that this makes voting "de facto" not secret he mentioned that next time he would ask for all options.

I just don't get it.
Looks nuts.
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What a dumb article. Seriously, it's simply trolling the late 20-something females who feel a pang of guilt of choosing a career path over kids. And it trolls the late 20-something females who believe they can "have it all" and don't have enough guilt for compromising child-rearing for career-rearing. They're fucking with our heads people.
That 'quote' sounds bogus to my ear—so much that I'd be shocked if it were real.

Like any 18th century thinker, Hume had views that we would now regard as racist, but let's not pin things on the fellow that he didn't say.
I am from the UK and have been prescribed a few benzos over the years for different things. They are prescribed although not as often as in America by the sounds of things. I think Valium is the most prescribed but only for short term use in the cases of anxiety and related issues.
Same answer as @patio11 here. Usually you can plan on about 150-160% of base per employee to cover taxes and a standard set of benefits (i.e. health insurance, 401k). These numbers typically do not decrease at scale. Although with health benefits you may be able to negotiate a slightly better rate per employee at scale. But employment taxes, etc.. are always the same with one employee or 10,000.

If you start getting into exotic benefits (i.e. free meals, transportation, dry cleaning, etc...) the costs could be higher. However, these type of benefits will usually decrease with more employees as you may be able to get a better rate with more employees on the plan.
Any books you'd recommend from him/her?
Wouldn't this be illegal in most countries? Most countries wont let you work on a tourist visa, and it is more difficult to get a working visa.
This sort of thing might turn you off:

> We only select the best travellers to offer start-ups some great help. To quickly show us that you are one of the best, we kindly ask you to sign in with LinkedIn.
It's hard to tell if we're eating better or just being duped in a new way. "Fat free" is bullshit, "Organic" is bullshit, "Gluten Free" is bullshit (unless you actually have celica's).
I think the more important question is how many college grads actually benefit from their education (modified words italicized). A degree in, say, forestry should still be useful for someone working in sales because of the experience dealing with diverse opinions, processing new information, and studying a range of subjects.
Pretty disgusting, yet typical. Little guy gets jail time, while the big boys get Secretary level appointments.
If I understood this correctly Naive Bayes uses "reasoning on the average".
I'm assuming this is good for fast rough estimates at best.
Please stop turning this HN thread into a flamewar.
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"In return for volunteering help, companies offer the opportunity to add relevant work experience to your CV while you travel, plus free accommodation"

Couldn't you just do low-end work via Upwork, Freelancer, or the like?

What happens if the startup isn't pleased with your work mid-way through your time there? Seems this could be easily abused.
As someone who has backpacked while coding, this is terrifying:

> Backpack Consulting connects skilled travellers who want to discover the world with companies who are looking for specialized help. In return for volunteering help, companies offer the opportunity to add relevant work experience to your CV while you travel, plus free accommodation.

Travelers who can code can still make a killing working remotely. There are tons of resources today to connect you with companies that are willing to do remote, and it's not hard to pick up $40-60/hr work on Freelancer or Elance if you are an English speaking Westerner (reverse discrimination is big on those sites).
So who is the target audience, if you don't mind my asking? Because from my perspective, I am someone who likes the idea of Linux and is not afraid to get his hands dirty, but at the same time is generally disappointed with most Linux distros insofar as their GUIs usually feel like an afterthought. So something with a nice frontend but the ability to nonetheless tinker and throw up a terminal when I need to sounds ideal. That is the attractive element of ElementaryOS, to me: an attractive frontend and a Linux backend. I could always go for Cinnamon Mint, I guess, but eOS certainly did seem to buck the trend as far as distros go.

The idea of the easy-to-use "just works" setup for the non-tinkerers, on the other hand, starts to resemble Apple; unfortunately, I don't think you can out-Apple Apple. That's their thing. The "stunning," almost condescendingly simple GUI that people "not good with computers" flock to. It's almost as though your target audience is my mother, or the people on whose behalf I will install this OS onto their aging desktop/laptop because they found re-learning Windows 8.1/10 too confusing.
I love my kids and I think they each have unique things about them that make them great. I also think they can be amazingly compassionate and caring little people. But let's be real: By and large kids are at least a little bit sociopathic assholes. It's that behavior that you spend the better part of their early lives trying to excise from them.

Does anyone remember being a kid? Regardless of whether you were the victim, perpetrator, instigator or bystander just think back on how cruel bullies could be both verbally and physically.
That alone was enough to make me close the page. No option to send a CV or anything, just a "Sign in with LinkedIn" button.
I'll tell you where to stick it... to your phone.
Plus a linkedin profile only really shows if someone is skilled or not at presenting himself in a good light. It's not necessarily a useful skill for the startups in question.
> The depth of your ignorance is new to me

Please don't be personally rude, even when someone else is ignorant.
Why are so many sites lately adding big annoying modal "Subscribe to my newsletter" boxes? Do people really sign up for that crap?

It's silly. Add an RSS feed and get out of my face.
Not necessarily, because it's work under the table (i.e you're not getting paid) meaning you're doing it for a friend/gift type of way
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How is organic bullshit?
It takes a lot less brainpower when costs are actually included in prices. Instead of everyone deciding on their own which products contribute the most to global warming (and being misled by advertising and getting it wrong most of the time), a carbon tax automatically adjusts the price of each product based on its impact. Then you can make decisions by comparing prices.
Like a tranche?
I like the idea very much. I have been traveling myself for 3 years now and have been envied by a lot of like-minded travelers who are not in the comfortable position to be able to work remotely for the same client all the time (zero acquisition, secure position).

While it is really easy to find something, finding something in ones area of expertise is much harder - and "waited tables in Cambodia" really does not add much value to a UI-designer's CV.

So yes, thumbs up and all the best to the project!
My initial impression is that it would be best for those who would be doing internships anyways, like students early in their career. Perhaps the idea is top-notch developers who want to travel and do a little consulting while they travel, but I suspect it'd turn into something that looks closer to a full engagement. If so, there's quite a disconnect between that kind of situation and working for free room-and-board, at least for a well qualified consultant.
Well this is not advertising spam
You say "illegal", they say "disruptive"!
That's probably the worst possible way to select for good programmers. In fact, I'm guessing any kind of correlation they can find will be negative.
Yeah, that's roughly how it works in the US. Pre-WW1, though, there was much more of "buy land and materials, build a house yourself" going on. Like, sometimes you'd basically clear the trees from a plot and use the lumber from that to build the house.

That's what I meant by labor specialization - on the home-buying side, much fewer people can build a home or participate meaningfully in construction and remodeling.
> So, yeah. I hope I don't ever have to go to court. It's like a mashup of Franz Kafka, Lewis Carroll, and Stephen Colbert.

I highly recommend going to a courtroom and just observe a trial.

The level of dishonesty, stupidity and incompetence is tremendous.

At the jurisdiction where I did that trials have all audio recorded. I saw the judge asking to stop the recording, basically saying out loud that the defendant was guilty because he felt it (basically he was creepy), resume the recording and then make some bullshit excuse to validate what he already had decided on a hunch.

I never had much respect for people involved with the law. I lost whatever little respect I had left that day.

I was actually recording audio (probably illegal and criminal) so at home I confirmed it just in case I was under some kind of delusion.
Here comes the PC downvote brigade, dont expect rational counter arguments, they dont have them.
It's a tidy little end-around on the Establishment Clause.
"under the table" work doesn't mean you're not getting paid, it means your pay isn't reported to the relevant tax authorities. That doesn't make it less illegal.
Regarding jobs. Yes in fact it did make a dent and it has been since WW2. Decade after decade.

https://plot.ly/~BethS/8/job-growth-by-decade-in-the-united-...
> There are tons of resources today to connect you with companies that are willing to do remote

Could you please enumerate some of these resources?
No, if you're being compensated, that's pay. Otherwise it smacks of escorts' "You're paying me for time, anything that happens between two consenting adults ..." wink wink nudge nudge
I've heard of people who have tranched funding and it seems like the worst of both worlds. Pricing is locked in up front, so founder upside is limited. Plus, getting tranches is conditional on continued investor approval, so the risk hasn't really gone away.

Honestly, I've never heard of investors saying, "Hey, slow down on the spending." I'm sure it must happen, but the stories I hear are all the other way, encouraging investors to spend faster and get bigger to establish market dominance. Founders are in some ways naturally more conservative, in that they have exactly one company to gamble with, while investors are just hoping for a couple big hits in their portfolios.
I agree that the college angle adds unnecessary assumptions to the argument. It would probably be easier to agree on "young adults ready to enter the work force". Especially given the tremendous value many drop outs are adding.
I guess, but are tranches handed out in monthly chunks normally?
There's a fine line, but it's considered acceptable to show off your startup here.
He did.

Freelancer and Elance
I don't think anyone would like to work while traveling to see the world. For people who do, I think the only legal way would be for backpackconsulting to employ the traveler in their home country and have them do remote work. Even then I think most countries would require a business visa if the traveler is in direct contact with the client. I would be interested to know how the company plans to deal with it.
Their assessment is based on direct evidence and statistics.
One would hope that most of these examples are unenforceable, as "unconscionable" [0] "adhesion" [1] contracts.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscionability

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_form_contract
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Agreed, this is scaremongering: I spent 7 years outside of the western workforce and don't feel it impacted my career in the slightest. Meanwhile, I spent four years working remotely all over the world making good money. This post really is a scam.
Wow, that's a little too good. I'm think going to save watching Silicon Valley until I'm retired so that I can experience it as comedy rather than horror.
I think you're doing yourself a disservice by saying organic is bullshit. Food isn't always about what you put in your body, but is also about how it affects the environment we live in, and in that sense, organic is definitely not "bullshit". However, I will say that the label of "all-natural" posted forefront and proud on products is misleading. All-natural does not equate to healthy, yet it seems many consumers believe this. Anecdotal of course.
There's a whole structured career ladder between those two roles. I guess it takes most people at least a decade after they finish their last post-doc before they become a professor. During that time you have fellowships, lecturerships, readerships, with increasing pay and responsibilities.
> And, in addition, arbitrators side with companies what appears to be far to often.

Of course the arbitrators have to side with the companies often, otherwise the company will change the arbitrator.
Yes, for us coders it is simpler. But think about marketing, design, customer relations, project management... There are a lot of jobs that are much harder to do remotely, especially when a lot of consulting is necessary. And for people who just got their degree, this might indeed be a great way to get their hands dirty on some real projects while seeing the world.

Of course, nobody should, IMHO, agree to work 40h/week for accommodation only (my rule of thumb for choosing accommodations is: 1h of work should pay for the night).

Last but not least: People who do this will have much easier access to locals (after all you share an office) and therefore a much more intense travel experience.
I know it's asking a lot, but I wish people's eating habits were driven more by environmental and humanitarian factors, than what they like or even what's healthy (though I believe none of these are mutually exclusive). I find the current state of things horrifying.
> Being a consumer takes so much brainpower...

Exactly, and this is why I'm a strong supporter of regulation.

I'm not even saying that regulation should be obligatory, or all-encompassing; simply that there should be clear and simple ways of branding foods and/or their contents (e.g. "organic" or "free-range" should have a legally-defined meaning, GMOs should be listed in the contents, ...), and consumers should be getting what they expect (e.g. toilet paper of a certain size/height, and common drugs are not harmful) - but of course, if you want something different (e.g. experimental drugs) you should be able to get it, it might just be a little harder (like hedge funds that can only market/sell to "sophisticated" investors).
If {YC,CEOs} are like unions, then the corollary to OP is interesting

"{YC,CEOs} have potential energy that could be released by startups."
Sometimes the political divide between Europe and the US becomes glaring on Hacker News. I feel this tweet is one of those moments. Our differences makes us more interesting but this tweet was a bit hard to digest.
Well "USDA Certified Organic" doesn't really mean what you would think it means. You'd think it means no pesticides, no herbicides, no fungicides, and no fertilizer. That's precisely what nearly everyone thinks it means.

http://lifehacker.com/5941881/what-does-organic-really-mean-...

The reality is that "Organic" doesn't mean anywhere near what people think it does, sadly. It's fairly watered down. It's a bummer.
Any random baby, maybe. Also there's the issue of malleability.
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Depends on if the bull eats grass from a pesticide-free pasture ;)
And let's not forget "development professionals," i.e., fundraisers.
I couldn't quite follow. Are you disagreeing with anything OP said?
It's only bullshit because the definitions aren't enforced by law. If "organic" meant what people expect it to mean (grown without artificial fertilizers/chemicals), it wouldn't be bullshit.
There is no standard dictating what organic means. Many 'organic' products use processes and methods that most people would not recognize as organic. A consumer buying an organic product has little to no knowledge of whether the producer is being faithful to the concept. Add a huge price markup for organic products and many producers are incentivized to mark products organic even if they really aren't - and many are doing so.

There are attempts to standardize, but none have the recognizability needed by the majority of the populace to make them effective.
In Kevin Murphy's book "Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective" he cites the following paper [1] which shows that the simple Bayesian classifier "performs surprisingly well in many domains containing clear attribute dependencies" and contains numerous experimental trials (in different domains).

I haven't fully read the paper myself (glanced through it) but KM's makes the same point as OPs which leads me to believe it may have the answer to your question.

[1] http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~vemuri/classes/ecs271/Bayesian.pd...
I've become accustomed to online anonymity, it's pleasant to hear some vulnerability for once. Thanks for sharing.
elance.com, freelancer.com, upwork.com for highly competitive "off-shoring" style (but not all work there is terrible)

WeWorkRemotely.com

Quick pairing-style gigs: HackHands.com, AirPair.com, CodeMentor.com

Email lists that aggregate freelance and remote work opportunities like LetsWorkshop.com
Thank you so much for demonstrating.
Why don't you, you know, inform me?
For those curious, the process is described here [1]. As a voter, you go to a table and pick a ballot that represents your choice. You can pick a pre-printed ballot with your party's name on it, or you can take a blank ballot and write it manually. If you want to keep your choice secret, you can pick a bunch of random ballots, but submit just one of them.

For comparison, in Sweden's neighbouring country of Norway, the voting booth where you pick and fill out the ballot is covered with a curtain. You fill out the ballot (they're all printed on the same type of paper), which you fill out and fold so that it hides the contents. You then go over to an election worker, who confirms your identity and gives you an envelope to put the ballot in, which you then seal and put in the drop box.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Sweden#Voting
Is a college loan that is exempt from bankruptcy protections really the same as an "investment?"
Thanks! We’re sure excited about this one.

There are only two of us, and we’re bootstrapped, so we don’t need a whole lot of money. This is good, as it allows us some freedom to just build the service and concentrate on making it good.

That said, we think there are a few ways to make monkey from it.

The very first is to start selling job postings. These can be segmented by category. Plus, the same recruiters can use Officehours to do preliminary interviews, or talk about the opportunity, with prospective candidates.

After that, we’ll start to build out a batch of other added features that will be sold as premium services.

But, for now, I think we just need to concentrate on making sure that sessions are as successful as possible.
>I've heard of people who have tranched funding and it seems like the worst of both worlds. Pricing is locked in up front, so founder upside is limited. Plus, getting tranches is conditional on continued investor approval, so the risk hasn't really gone away.

Couldn't the valuation issue be solved with SAFE? Also if the funding was locked in and handed to some third party to administer then the founders could stop worrying about investor approval changing?

Maybe I think too much like an founder, but the last thing I would want to do as an investor is give some 22 year olds a couple of million dollars and let them go crazy. Having personally been through a similar situation it is all to easy as a founder to convince yourself that getting more money in the future is going to be easy.
Yes, this is an effective way to get yourself deported
Historically, unions have been very antagonistic to capital. Paul Graham is basically the definition of capital; he uses his wealth to generate more wealth. And what he is suggesting is that startups could fix the inefficiencies in the market that unions have created. The problem is that fixing these inefficiencies would primarily benefit people like PG, who make their money from the ownership of enterprises rather than labor.

Generally speaking, the inefficiencies of unions exist to protect the interests of the workers, who generate wealth for the company but more often than not do not have an equity stake in the business. Unions exist to maintain the balance between capital and labor, and to make sure that people like PG don't deprive the laborers of fair remuneration for their work.

While we can almost always find someone who will do a job for less money, as a society we have an interest in providing an equitable share to labor, as there are far more workers driving this global economy than there are venture capitalists (or even just plain old capitalists) contributing to the economy in the form of seed round funding and the like.
No, it's much much worse than that. If you cat a log file, and the log file contains untrusted binary data (such as raw logging of an invalid request to a webserver or something), this can potentially exploit the vulnerability.