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Oh QQ the Box and now Instacart employee made $350k before taxes. How is this a surprise to anyone? All you have to do is ask other employees of startup IPO's to see how much they made and the answer is obvious:

Founders and investors make MOST of the money. It has and always will be that way. If you want to change this dynamic, become a founder or a VC. It's pretty straightforward.

This nonsense about "getting screwed" as a startup employee is delusional ignorance.

If you work for someone else at a startup, of course you're not going to make as much as someone at a more established company.

I only know this because I have relatives who work for a public company that IPO'd that everyone uses to search for restaurants so this surprises me not one iota.

Last comment on employees who make millions from IPO's - how often does that occur? As often as Uber, Google, Facebook and the like are created. Which I'd say is once every 6-8 years. The odds are terribly stacked against you if you think you'll pick the right company in the beginning.

I mean I remember when Dropbox was super popular and then Uber just absolutely blew it out of the water. Who would've thought a taxi dispatch company would be the next Google/Facebook?

It's certainly not impossible to make money, but temper your expectations and don't believe everything your founders & investors tell you until you see the real numbers. The devil is in the details.
That's funny, one of my gripes with Google was their insistence for many many years on making w3schools the first result for html-related queries. I haven't ever noticed that with DDG, but to be fair I also don't do html-related queries very often anymore (because the Dash app has supplanted any sort of technical documentation search; if I want to know what an html tag does, I just ask Dash to show me (developer.mozilla.org) docs).
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These numbers that are being thrown around are mind-boggling. I still haven't shifted my thinking out of blue-collar, northern Appalachia mode, where $20/hour for back-breaking skilled labor is considered a really good career.

Cost of living must be completely astronomical, or people have really expensive tastes. That kind of salary would be enough, after taxes, for me to work five years, buy a home, cash on the barrelhead, invest the rest, and retire to live off the dividends the rest of my life.
Same way they do, you ask for the full tape, which you can get. Or you know just go around the wrong way. Anecdotally red light covered cameras seem to be much better maintained as othewise they lose revenue.

Also this is why you have a dash cam.
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A block cipher doesn't make errors all that big. Look at the two layer error correction on a CD. That would play extremely well with a block cipher if you wanted to.
Perhaps you would do well to dwell on why it is so shockingly strong.
I believe your figure. But being prolific is not the only measure, there is such a thing as quality and it is more often than not the 500 lines of code that took you 3 months that will make the difference. And 500 lines of code require an about equally large chunk of documentation and most people that 'just code' and don't want to think about anything else skimp on the parts that they don't enjoy.

As for people with wealth, yes, there are those that trade but there are also those that create wealth by adding value. All of those goods traded by others have to come from somewhere.
You're confusing two different moving violations here: exceeding posted speed limit and failure to keep right. (AKA impeding traffic; the exact term varies from state to state. Also, I'm assuming American traffic law here.)

If the speed limit is 65, the flow of traffic is at 80, and you drive 65 in the left lane - you are failing to keep as far right as practicable, because you're moving slower than the flow of traffic in other than the rightmost lane.

If you're going 80, you are still speeding, but you're not failing to keep right. Yes, it's unlikely you'll be pulled over, but you are committing a moving violation nonetheless.

If you're going 65 and you're in the rightmost lane, there is no violation even though you're travelling slower than the flow of traffic. Posted speed limits are still do-not-exceed values; the requirement to keep as far right as practicable is a completely separate issue.
If you google 'duck' it should be in the top 5. For me it was the 3rd one, the 1st and 2nd being wiki-type articles.
It can be extremely biased, and the results can depend on the sort algorithm, because what you're randomizing is the comparison results, not the order. Consider insertion sort: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insertion_sort

As the list is sorted, elements are inserted from the back by finding the first element that the new element is smaller than. The last element to be inserted is the one at the end of the unsorted array, and, with a random comparator, it has a 50% chance of being "larger" than the biggest of the rest of the elements, and thus remaining at the end of the list.

Microsoft used this technique to "randomize" a list of browsers back in 2010, but, when viewing the page in IE, it ended up putting IE in the last position (out of a set of five browsers) 50% of the time: http://www.robweir.com/blog/2010/02/microsoft-random-browser...
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What power does Sam Altman actually have to make this happen?

What he says should happen is not law, nor is it necessarily an accurate description of what even YC companies might do once they've accepted more than YC's initial funds and therefore left some of YC's influence behind.
"Teachers don't teach because of how much they'll get paid."

Teachers certainly don't do their work for money, but then again if their school has a couple of really good years their school superintendent doesn't walk away with half a billion dollars while the teacher still gets shitty pay and maybe a $500 Christmas bonus.

If you really want to change the world for the better volunteer, do charity work, if you want a big say in direction of a project then work with friends on side projects or contribute to important open source projects.

But working for people who stand to get (even more) wealthy from your well-below-market-rate work while you're unlikely to recoup basic opportunity costs is just being a sucker. There's nothing noble in that.
If memory serves Linux is just getting around to proper private/dynamic namespacing as of some recent version, or so I was told by a friend contributing to the kernel. Linux has been slow, but steady at adopting features out of Plan9 as listed in the paste you provided. Most of the features are incomplete once ported, however. All features and the depth of things like /proc aren't fully transferable to *nix due to architecture, kernel design, or other oddities. Plan9's kernel, while small, deviates from most commonly found kernels in that things such as networking are built-in and expected from the moment booting takes place.
It's all in where you choose to live, I guess. Where I'm from, nurses are the next tier down of earners from the doctor/lawyer strata, and most of the ones I know have reasonable debt loads from state schools.
More specifically Spring programmers.

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It is interesting to see how this post slowly climbed up to 12 points in the first 2 hours and then got downvoted afterwards to currently 0 points. It seems to be a controversial topic.
The answer is still yes.

Well that's a fine assertion, but how do you justify it?

Your "thinking out loud" is privileging an already refuted hypothesis.

WTH does that even mean? There is no hypothesis, there's a vague notion of an area to consider, which - if considered thoroughly - might or might not yield a hypothesis.
I guess you could also argue that a lot of this stuff is a stepping stone towards a Star Trek future. We'll never get robots preparing our food if we don't start with e-frying pans, right?
Pixels are mapped to memory locations, but they don't have to be, if you can access the map directly. I don't exactly know what I'm talking about here, just a thought.
I think what articles like this accurately capture is that stock options are a crapshoot. What they don't accurately capture is that if your only goal is to maximize expected earnings over the next 4 years, then startups are unlikely to be the best strategy. I think an analogous mistake would be interviewing someone at Google who says they hoped to advance their career and learn a lot about common software frameworks and programming languages, and instead they only got promoted once or twice and mostly learned things that are unavailable and unheard of outside of Google. That doesn't mean Google is a bad place to work, but it does mean that it wasn't the right place for the person given their initial goals.

Some of the things startups are good for:

1) Higher potential earnings. EV might be higher or lower depending on the startup. At Google, you get a $175k salary and a $300k stock grant over 4 years. The stock might double or triple but won't 10x or 30x. If you joined a company like Pinterest or Uber 3-4 years ago, you might've gotten $100k salary and a S300k stock grant over 4 years, but that stock has gone up 10x or 30x and is now worth $3m or $10m (at least on paper).

2) Better shot of quickly shooting up the career ladder, having a lot of responsibility, and so on.

3) Great opportunity to learn things outside of your current comfort zone.

Startups are not good for: maximizing steady salary + predictable equity, blending into the crowd and having more free time outside of work, going really deep on one area instead of working on a lot of different areas, and so on.

Finally, I think using Box in the article is potentially misleading. By the end of 2011, according to https://equityzen.com/blog/box-path-to-ipo/, Box was already valued at $600m. The current valuation is only 3x that, despite the company having 20x more employees. There are other startups with a similar trajectory, like Etsy. However, there are also companies like LendingClub or Lyft or Uber, where joining 4 years ago would've provided a 10x or even 50x for an employee. 10x or 50x on a $200k or $300k initial grant is huge.
As an Indian I often wonder, the real question is not why India is so corrupt(esp. at the lower levels of bureaucracy), rather how come certain countries have zero corruption at those levels? Perhaps I'm too pessimistic about human nature.
Furthermore Go resembles Plan9's C libraries in many ways. Channels as chan, the concurrency support, and the focus on read/write are very much Plan9-isms.

http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/2/
"Inventing AI" is a very different proposition than "Inventing AI and enabling it to control everything". After all, we certainly don't hand control to the smartest humans. Why would we hand control the the smartest computers?
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Love the book and the 'gem suite'. A must read.
A lot of young men coming to work in SV for $150k got there because they neglected other parts of their life in favor of gaining technical skills. I know I spent pretty much my entire adolescence parked in front of a computer screen. Same in university where the gender ratio was 8:1 and the workload was several times that of Arts students.

In other parts of the world, you eventually get a return on that investment by standing out from the other 23-year-old men who might be more attractive or confident but are less skilled/intelligent, work menial low-paying jobs, and have no future. In SV, there are so many 23-year-old guys all around you who are more successful in their studies and careers than you are that you now have to find additional time on top of your 60h work weeks to differentiate yourself in some other way.

It's not impossible, of course, but it's very much playing the game on 'hard mode' compared to other cities I've lived and dated in.
Ex-Box employee here. I was at Box a little longer than Sutton.

I have worked with him for all his 4 years there. He is a good, competent, typical startup guy who fits better at an early stage. But I think that the way he is (and many others in the valley are) measuring payout is flawed. I hope this audience doesn't generalize and extrapolate Jeff's observations. Especially in the context of Box.

For those who have never worked at Box, it's very hard to describe how special that place is. The culture is (or at least was) hands down one of the best I've experienced. The bar to entry is high, both culturally and technically. Everyone has a drive to do the right thing for the customer, and has had a meaningful opportunity to contribute. All of us there have built amazing relationships and grown (tremendously) professionally over the years. Many of us have even gone on to build successful businesses, on the strength of those relationships (e.g. http://interviewkickstart.com).

THAT is the payout.

The fact that Sutton can now hop from one good startup to another in the valley is the payout.

The fact that companies look at his resume and trust him to help their IT infra grow from 40 to 1000, is the payout.

The fact that he can proudly recount to his friends, that he worked at Box early, is the payout.

The fact that he can call upon any relationship from those years and they pickup his phone, is the payout.

The fact that he is not worried about his next startup job in the valley anymore, is the payout (that wouldn't have happened had he stayed at IBM).

The fact that he can put down payment to a house and raise a family in a decent part of Bay Area, is the payout.

And btw, the fact that his IT management helped 1000 of us serve a million+ customers to organize and secure their data, is also the payout.

In a startup, you value people and an opportunity to do meaningful things, above everything else. You want to be a part of that small group, that moves the needle in this massively morbid and unpredictable world. Anything else, is bonus.
One of the major issues in keeping a start-up on the rails is that not everybody is in the same phase of their lives and not everybody has the same financial stability. By making the situation of more people crucial to the continued well-being of the company in sync some of these discrepancies cease to be a problem. The more you do this the bigger your chances of success because it translates into a much stronger feeling of solidarity.
Tip for travellers to Sydney: after I complained about a trip costing $35 from the airport to Botany (could have been more, but I realised he was going the long ways early enough), one of my UberX drivers pointed out that the trick is to order the UberX right outside the airport (the bridge works), then phone the driver and arrange for pickup inside.
I'm having trouble understanding your post because you go from "How is this a surprise" to "I only know this because [I have inside knowledge from either yelp or opentable]".
So at what point does a private business become a 'common carrier'? Because pretty much everyone agrees a business can chuck someone off the premises for just about any reason, and most internet forums and communities end up being more about 'what the owner wants to allow' rather than anything else.

Do you suddenly lose the right to tell people what they're allowed to say or do if your community becomes popular? How about if it's the leading resource in a field of study, or half the population end up using it?

Because this is what's bugging me about these arguments. Why can a community like a forum, mailing list, Usenet group, Slack group or subreddit choose what people can say and block comments for any reason, but say, Facebook gets criticised for the same thing? They're all communities, they're all privately owned...
400k a year comp is impressive indeed. Besides Google / FB / Microsoft, i only know of HFT funds possibly offering that kind of pay to Software Engineers. Care to share what other places can pay this much, and what is the nature of engineering involved?
Here is what's happening right now:

FB: He's an experienced bug bounty hunter and should know where reasonable borders are.

All the experienced security guys itt: He's an experienced bug bounty hunter and should know where reasonable borders are or at least not pivot/escalate without asking. Also never dump and hold data.

Everyone else: What he did isn't technically against the rules FB wrote, so they are screwing him, despite it also being written that they have sole discretion.
180k per year for new grads? That seems extremely high. What is your source?
He kept it for a month. That is different than looking at it.
The article actually hints that Firefox (not Chrome) and Edge used the same RNG. The article says "LCG imported from Java decades ago", but actually Java(OpenJDK)'s java.util.Random still uses the same RNG today, and it's not that surprising Edge also used it.

The generator (LCG with multiplier 0x5DEECE66D) is not bad. Its main problem is that it has only 48 bits of state.
Why wouldn't the rates have gone down with growth? A smaller piece of a much bigger pie tends to be more over all.
TypeScript is very close to normal JavaScript. It's basically just JavaScript + type annotations which a compiler can check.

Compilation phase removes the annotations, after that point it is pure JavaScript.

How are Swift and Haskell relevant for client side web development?

Edit: Removed Elm
The box gig proved that he could do this, but he already could do this beforehand so that's their gain, not his.

And a down payment so you can raise a family is the pay-off? That's a little thin, in most other locations the downpayment on a house would not cost you several years of your life, for that kind of money you could buy the house free of debt. It becomes a pretty hollow proof when you look at it like that.
The goal is to prevent "echo chambers" where prone to be influenced people build violent or extreme views that will have a real and very detrimental impact on society. It denies the premisse that "speech is just speech and does not harm anyone". It sure is debatable and it raises many issues, but it is not about just making the net look prettier.
The outrage here isn't "We demand to be paid more!"

Rather, it's "Hey everybody! Stop taking below market pay!"
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> But, if we make the encrypted pieces small enough, say each packet body, then that could probably work

So in other words you can use what's basically the default mode of encryption, CBC. Each encrypted byte only depends on the adjacent 32 bytes, so you can allow errors through and they affect a couple pixels instead of a single pixel.
So, do you speed in Canada?
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Perhaps it was an advanced defense measure against searches, since it was funded by a defence agency. \s

It will probably never get as popular as the generic term blog, so it will be difficult to search "how to do X in blog?", so it will probably never get as popular...

Perhaps they consider renaming it as bayelog or something.
I hate to say it but I'd cancel. Seriously not worth the money. A guy I talked to at a Melbourne VR meetup said he tried it when they were in alpha and again recently and was shocked to see basically no improvement. This is only anecdotal evidence, so take it with a grain of salt, but I'd say reconsider.
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No, it's simpler than that—just a function of account age.
Using duckduckgo i found out that google blocks booksee.org domain. I spend some time trying to find ebook using google, implying its the best search engine in the world.
To support a family of 5, you're looking at $4000/month in housing (PITI on 750k townhouse, 3Bed 2.5Bath, 1500 sqft, 40 minutes from the city). For that to make sense, your take home should ideally over $150k, and that's a bare minimum.
this blocks a lot of economic growth because many people consider buying into a government job an investment...
Because selling takes effort.
HN Search isn't yielding results for me
Like HTML5 is better at any of those? I'm pretty sure Flash crashed an order of magnitude less often than WebGL does.
It's not surprising, but if they really want to become mainstream, they'll have to get people caring more about privacy than they already do. I mean okay, the Snowden leaks and stuff about PRISM got a lot of people using it, but those people were still most tech savvy types who value their privacy over the quality of the search results.

DDG is getting better, but it'll have to beat Google and the likes on a quality level if it's going to get the interest of people who don't seem to give a damn about their privacy.
Can someone explain how the code is able to decrypt VPN traffic? I'm no expert on VPNs but I thought they provide end-to-end security and the protocols could detect tampering?
I once had to do a project in LabView, where you either can go down the visual path or the C/C++ path.
So you had to draw a switch statement or a while loop and attach a cable for the `while` condition. To get a feeling how this looks like: http://etchingpathways.blogspot.de/2012/06/labview-event-str...

This was way too visual for me, once you got accustomed to writing code, checking it into your VCS.
Because corruption is a thing that enters from the top down. If the cadre is corrupt then corruption will be seen as 'ok'. If the cadre is incorruptible then they can make a demand of those below them to act in a similar way or be booted out. The change from a corrupt state to one that isn't takes multiple decades, it is not something you can do overnight and at any point in time the arrow can reverse. The same goes for states that have low corruption today, that is not a guarantee for low corruption in the future.

China is interesting in this respect, on the one hand corruption is rife, on the other it is nominally totally out of bounds and the punishments are severe. I don't understand how those can both be true at the same time without a huge amount of selective enforcement.

My experience with India to date has one of utter amazement at the brashness and the degree to which corruption has infused society there. I suspect that for India a part of it is that it has social classes that are very disjoint. This creates a very fertile growth medium for corruption because it puts a lot of small people in positions of relatively large amounts of power over the lives of others.
An attempt at a diff: https://gist.github.com/hdm/107614ea292e856faa81
You weren't thinking of Dogpile were you? That was a pre Google meta search engine that sent your query to multiple search engines.
I live in Switzerland and I used to code for a living. As an external, I hire engineers for different startups in Zurich.

As I got deeper into IT-recruiting, I realised that candidate filtering at the top of the funnel is fundamentally broken.

The market for software engineers is different from the market for - let's say - actors. Especially for senior developers there is way more demand than there is supply.

This has the very important implication that as a company you can not annoy candidates too much. Asking for tedious homework, too many coding challenges or references might be already overkill. Good people do not really need to work for you; they can also work for Google Zürich (biggest engineering office outside the US), or other cool tech-companies / ETH-spinoffs.

If you look for a tech-job in the most liveable city in the world, check out my story "8 reasons why I moved to Switzerland to work in IT" on https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t... or send me a mail to the mail-address in my HN-profile.
If the receiver miss a chunk of data, the stream cipher is not able to re-synchronize (as opposed to a video-stream which synchronizes on I-frames)