skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As is noted, this was from 2013. I've worked at MS on and off over the years. I only have my perspective, but it is a little different than the posting. While there are certainly things I wish were better, I'm actively doing my part to try and improve things. Microsoft seems no worse than other places I've worked, and in many ways it is significantly better. I came back to Microsoft after several successful startups because it is a company of doers.
I know. :-)

You should check out the practice in Tsultrim Allione's book, "Demon Feeding: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict" some time.
To save anyone else the lookup: Bezos was born in '64 and Amazon was founded in '94.
Under what circumstances would you consider a company with:
- Solo founder
- No revenue yet
- 13-15k monthly active users and 1200-1500 daily active users
- Launched 6 months ago

Or is it not even worth trying yet?
"What we are seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking "clerks" and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think...and 5) who to vote for."

That's Taleb describing himself.
This sounds exactly like me (I'm the OP). I have a very contented baseline. Momentary divergences to transient emotions, and then I easily return to the baseline.
Under what circumstances would you consider a consumer marketplace company with:
1) Solo founder,
2) No revenue yet,
3) 13-15k monthly active users and 1200-1500 daily active users,
4) Launched 6 months ago.

Or is it not even worth trying yet?
I've experienced the same, but it doesn't mean the general rule is untrue. More specifically, if you are making market salary then the greatest raise will come from switching companies. If that's not true and your current employer will give you a substantial increase, then by definition you are not making market salary; the raise simply corrects your salary to the level they would have paid for a person of your experience.
I've reread it 3-4 times, and I'm having a hard time understanding what the argument is. Typically, you'd expect something like

> if p, then q

> if q, then z

but this article reads as

> if p, then q

> if z, then m

Except that it's all wrapped in language - the ideas look like they should flow together, but they don't. There are probably missing steps in the analysis. Might be a case of over-summarization by the journalist.
Aren't you afraid that something like that can be easily gamed? Or maybe voting can be limited to accounts that are 2-3+ years old and/or Karma greater than n.
How do you know? They might be paying more than the jobs you go for.
I don't mean to toot my own cranium horn but my social life is pretty terrible if I say so myself... which I just did.
Version 2 of Hopper had a Windows version available, but with later versions it has been discontinued:
https://twitter.com/bSr43/status/672185178236825601
Jason's an investor in my company, http://dailydrip.com. we started out doing something entirely different. He told us from the beginning that he invests in founders. I got the chance to test that when a huge incumbent in our prior space released essentially our product at a better price, and we decided to pivot to dailydrip.

I was a bit worried about discussing it with him, honestly. I didn't need to be. He was extremely supportive, and our current business is doing fantastically; we're even more passionate about it. In addition, everyone I've met that ever had him as an investor seems to have the same experience: once he's in your court, he's ridiculously helpful.

Long story short, I maintain that getting into the launch incubator or getting Jason on your side as an investor is one of the best things an early stage startup can do. Have never met someone who had him as an investor who had a negative word to say.
Applying for government grants?
Healthy products for healthy people
SoundCloud Signs Licensing Deal with Sony
This is not our experience. Actually, Jason is the most founder-friendly investor that I have ever worked with. He really cares about founders.

He was the very first investor that invested in us, and has become our biggest champion since our very early days.

Most investors look for traction and only decide to invest when you have traction. Jason sees the fire and the determination in us (first time founders), and decides to support us, and helps us grow as a person and as a company.

Some other investors just put in money and disappears. But Jason truly cares and whenever we need help, he's always there. He gives us frank feedback that we really need, he challenges us and pushes us to be better. He helps us with intros. He sends product feedback and recommendations without being asked.

I know dozens of other founders that Jason had invested in and I know that they all feel the same way I do about Jason.
Wow, how long have you been there and what was your experience going in?
* Area: Austin, TX

* Position: Systems Engineer

* Level: 5

* Base Pay: $98k

* Signing Bonus: $18k immediately, 15k over months 12-24

* Stock Units: ~$120k, 5% first year, 15% second, 20% every 6 mo after. Additional (smaller) grants starting year 2.
>>You get stock annually?

At my annual review last year I received more stock along with a pay increase. So, thus far, yes.

>>But—adding X market value for equity vesting over Y years with 40% capital gains tax for the first 12 months of holding it leads to a 2016 pay of.... just your salary.

Can you elaborate on this? I'm not following.

>>Oh, and you get equity every else in addition to that nice pay, and they don't strap your pager to your face.

What do you suggest I do?
Google lays out its autonomous car proposal to the Feds
> ...aversion to checking her personal email on a desktop...

Your point depends on Clinton having an understand of the way an NSA-berry works, how the traffic is routed, and what the auditing policies are; then, using that the same level of understanding for the office computer to weigh the privacy of one over the other. That seems pretty unlikely, and I can easily imagine that she'd feel more in control of a phone in her pocket than a PC under her desk.

> ...so she could comply with security requirements.

One does not setup a private mail server, containing classified material, if one is interested in complying with security requirements.

> ...ambiguous and incomplete security policies...

There is nothing ambiguous about classified material, and the rules for handling are extremely simple: whatever contains the material must be rated greater than or equal to the classification level of the material. The policy is so comprehensive that it spans tactical radio key loaders to shielded government facilities.
Continuations: Machine Creativity: Possibly Sooner Than
Good for him.

I think Jerry "Tycho" Holkins expresses best how I feel about Gawker in this whole affair.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2016/03/14/the-didact...
Ideas are cheap, it's the execution and the team that matter.
Since it's a correlational study, I'm pretty sure all you can say is that "smart people who spend more time with their friends tend to be less happy". This could be due to any number of reasons. Either spending more time with their friends makes them less happy, or, more likely, they spend more time with their friends because they are unhappy and are trying to make up for it.
> Or was your comment meant to be snark that I didn't get?

Nope, just reporting what I read. It was on the interwebs ...
your pay is probably fairly unique since you listed it down to the stocks allocated and per year performance. I have to imagine that the list that includes all the attributes that you have is a fairly short list(probably just you).

just a word of caution if you do fear retaliation at all. might want to fuzz the numbers a touch.
That's a very good point. However, I think even an english/history/math/whatever teacher could make a decent computer science teacher with the proper training. "Learn Java in 4 Weeks" is emphatically not the proper training. You're absolutely right, and it's a shame that no one is willing to invest in computer science education.
Missing infrastructure for education due to hundreds of years of colonial exploitation and wars fought would be the obvious answer here.

But hey, Hakuna matata! Disney told me so. /s
Uber Has Apparently Ordered $10B Worth of Mercedes S-Class Sedans
For all the people with negative things to say, tell me, does your business ideas run without a hitch?
Vertical Studio – App for DJI Phantom and Inspire
Perhaps they do for SF, given how high cost of living is there. I was told that cost of living increases are not offered, but maybe they were only referring to Seattle?
That's not completely true. Amazon's offers/pay isn't tied to the cost of living of an area, but to the cost of labor in that area. When I had an engineer transfer from Seattle to San Francisco there was an adjustment.
For one thing you can move for the three months program without visa :o
Hi. I agree! Parking is a hassle everywhere, even in the US. Meter Feeder is working to challenge the pain points of parking and create a new and better way.

One of the goals of our system has always been to augment existing systems instead of replacing them.

- Dan, Meter Feeder CTO
My first hard drive was only 2MB larger than the caches on my CPU.
They do propagate to subshells.
The only exception is that bash (unlike other shells) clears -e in command substitutions.
Can't I praise one thing without necessarily agreeing with another?

I'm not saying Google is this shining company without a single flaw, but I'm definitely impressed with the way they seem to take their employees as adults that have strong opinions that need to be addressed.

Far from trying to apologize for anyone related to that lawsuit, but in my opinion what happened was a set of people thought they could get away with certain stuff because "everyone in the industry is doing it". Kind of the same with making people sign NDAs which are, for all practical purposes, unenforceable in California. They tried it, got tested in court, failed miserably. Good for us, bad for them.
> In the real world (outside FaceGoogAmaWallstreet), the story for developers is quite different.

This package would be underpaid for pretty much any pure tech company on a coast.
suprising observation from an intro anthropology course i took in college: when you add up all the time it takes you to feed yourself now (including time spent working to earn money etc) vs then, most people spent much less time per week back then. granted, this might not be true for the typical software engineer. but maybe if you somehow account for the years that it took to acquire the skills, it might be close...?
Hulk Hogan awarded $115M in Gawker sex tape case
Are you sure about that? I have at least three anecdotes that seem to directly contradict that claim, and while I realize the plural of anecdote isn't data, but it's still enough to make me skeptical of your claim.
Amazon offers RSUs, not stock options. Once they vest, they are yours without having had to purchase them.
Ask HN: If Apple loses, can a defense compel disclosure of code/keys at trial?
Well you know how that goes. It's not like that has stopped companies from firing people in the past. This is an "at will" employment state, so if they really wanted to fire people they could've made any excuse up and fire them. Actually, they wouldn't even need to make anything up.
Stuff like this really hurts me. Hopefully we will be able to operationalize this into units of happiness one time, exactly what is it about socializing with more of their friends and whether we can cut that out.

Let's hope there's something like this.
I was raised by a single mother, in part because my father didn't want the overhead of raising kids. I know many other people like that (or other similar situations like parents voluntarily enlisting in the military). Obviously an anecdote with sample size n=1, but different people make the choice of prioritizing different areas of life based on what makes them happy.

But I think for you it is clear that family comes before business. Which is a fine personal choice for you, but is it the kind of choice people putting their money in your business want to see you making?

(And yes I don't have kids or a wife.)
No questions, just a huge amount of respect and admiration. Best wishes for all of your projects.
I would hope so. Someone making Microsoft money actually made a decision, "yes, let's get girls in short skirts and bras dancing at our event -- that is surely a good idea that won't cause us any trouble." WTF? How oblivious can someone who actually wakes up in the morning and go to a real job possibly be? Jesus christ...
First Steps – Room Monitoring with SCANSE Sweep [video]
> In this case, the pharmacokinetics of the two drugs are the same once they hit the bloodstream.

Highly incorrect.

The amount of the drug and concentration of the drug and the salt or ester of the drug can impact the pharmacokinetics of the drug.

It was used to be thought that morphine and heroin was the same exact thing because the H was converted to morphine quickly. Except H ends up having different metabolites and ratios - not the mention the effects are not the same / even when accounted for the dose and ROA.

Also, to the main point, if one produces 10x the effect of the other, the point is the same...

Crack is severely more punished over cocaine because it severely impacts user behavior - much more so than cocaine. The campaign to punish crack possession was also largely due to blacks demanding it to be made as so.
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[Seeking Work]
I'm a multi-talented Senior Web Developer with experience of working at 4 dynamic, fast-paced start-ups; available for hire. Linux command line addict. Algorithms. Database. Back-end. Front-end.

Call my phone: 415-757-7623 --Greg

Me:
LAMP, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5
Substantial experience with PHP5.5, MySQL and Ajax UI
C++/OpenGL (made numerous video game demos, one published)
Some Java programming (made a chat server); but not my primary language.
Published author of 3 JavaScript programming books
GIT, Perforce, Jira.
Development environment setup.
IntelliJ IDEA. YouTrack, PHPStorm.
scripting, scraping, data&file parsing, joined mysql table look-ups, subscription forms, user account forms, dashboard programming, responsive layout programming, json, html layout.

When:
I am available to hire for professional software work during next three months, with a possibility of future arrangements. I dedicate my full attention to work exclusively with your start-up. I do not outsource my services to other developers during this time.

You:
You have an awesome app that will change the Internet. You just need to outsource the difficult development parts to the right candidate; an experienced and competent software engineer. I think there may be a match.

This is for an entrepreneur with an idea or CEO of a start-up company that needs a reliable developer to complete work at a lofty progress rate. Get things done. No spaghetti code. The code is the comment. If you know what I mean.

Serious start-ups with existing funding and already specced out mobile/web application ideas only.

Please be funded and able to make bi-weekly or per hour arrangements TBD.

If interested, respond to this message with your phone number to get in touch.
If I were going to expound from imagination about how remotely ancient peoples lived, I would prefer to really exercise the imagination and give them magical powers. Might as well have fun with it.
Note: the article seems to conflate the U.S. trade deficit with the U.S. federal debt.

Not crucial to its argument, though.
Hey Sam, we have attempted to apply a couple times showing steady progression. Does it hurt to re-apply with same idea. To be fair, I know if I have seen a resume for the third time, I am conflicted with the applicants passion and my initial decision. How would say this can differ with your team or is it the same?
When you first told us you were hired as YC President, I remember you mentioning about making HN more mobile friendly would be a priority close to the top of your list.

Is this still going to happen in the near future?
Nope.

In the UK truth is still a defense, but the difference is that the burden of proving truth is on the defendant rather than the plaintiff (like in the USA).
Hi Sam,

I am planning on applying this batch, however; I have a friend who just finished his Ph.d in Computer Vision. I want to work with him on a different idea than the one I applying for at YC(robotics). It's in the "other interests" category, he is not a co-founder for my current application. If chosen, can a founder be added iff you don't like the initial idea?
"Another problem with full text search is that words are broken up according to the rules defined by the language of the text"

You can use to_tsvector('simple', column_name) if you don't want a language-specific parse, or you can make your own.

"This means that searching for “yorick” or “peterse” will match the data, but searching for “yor” will not"

You can use prefix searching:

select to_tsvector('simple', 'Yorick Peterse') @@ to_tsquery('simple', 'yor:*') --true

Heck you can even do suffix searching:

select to_tsvector('simple', reverse('Yorick Peterse')) @@ to_tsquery('simple', reverse('rick') || ':*')

The real problem with PostgreSQL's text search is that it doesn't support BM 25 or TFIDF out of the box
Yeah, it was a pleasant surprise to me on my first day.
JWT implementation in PHP
Or to put it another way:

"You don't really own anything that you couldn't carry at a dead sprint while firing an AK-47 over your shoulder."
Because I've found that the companies that are offering the type of compensation I'm looking for are willing to discuss it. They know what the type of talent they're looking to attract makes, and that they aren't going to be interested in wasting their time.

Might there be some out there that would be willing to pay me what I'm looking for, but unwilling to discuss it up front? Possibly. But after wasting several dozen hours of my life with offers that weren't even in the same ballpark of what I was making or what I was after, I made the decision to not bother if the recruiter wouldn't be candid up front.
Yeah, and even though you're fighting for your life every day then, it seems so much simpler and not so bad once you've developed a community that can share the chores. I watched this documentary on David Beckham's trip to the native tribes in Brazil. They're all very happy with their life. Everyone is very close and it's nice because all your time is spent with family. They get to be with nature all day, have fun and joke while collecting and preparing meals for the tribe, and afterwards they all sing and dance.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b046prs6
The 5-Day Fast Mimicking Diet Experiment
Google: $100,000 Says You Can’t Hack a Chromebook Remotely
It's pretty interesting that so much of your compensation is in stock. After 2 years at MSFT and becoming a PM II, I was making ~$145k annually but $115k of that was in salary and $30k in stock. I think that's why everyone is surprised when they see the $70k.

Do they give you the stock as a bonus at the end of the year, or are you promised it at the beginning and it gets doled out during the year? If it's the former, be careful that they don't decide retroactively that you had a bad year and decide to cut your total compensation almost in half!
> At my annual review last year I received more stock along with a pay increase. So, thus far, yes.

Unless you do spectacularly poorly, you can expect that to continue
> And wouldn't, given the FBI had a warrant for a code-locked safe, be able to solicit Acme Safe Inc for either the blueprints of the safe, or help in cracking it?

Blueprints, maybe, but conscripting company employees would certainly fall under the prohibition that it can't be "unreasonably burdensome".

Suppose you assemble/configure/sell gaming PCs, one of your customers is arrested, and the local police department is understaffed and technologically illiterate... Can the local deputy show up at your front door and force you to teach them how to find the recycle bin?
Portfolio link?
Jason's been a great supporter of our company/vision, and we couldn't be happier to have him as an investor. This tweet really summarizes the kind of person Jason is:
https://twitter.com/Dan_Fennessy/status/705889049987325952
> 140 RSU (granted at signing, almost none vested)

Is it still the ridiculous 5-10% year 1, 5-10% year 2, and then the rest spread out over years 3-4?
In the US, the biggest advantage is the tax shelter built into both 401(k)s and IRAs. You contribute pre-tax dollars to a "Traditional" account, and pay ordinary income-tax on qualifying withdrawals. You contribute post-tax dollars to a "Roth" account but your investments grow tax-free (much like an ISA in the UK). The tax benefits of each account are equivalant, all else being equal.

For example: if you contribute $8k/year pre-tax (or $6k post-tax), to an account with 8% annual returns over 30 years, and are a 25% federal tax payer, a tax-sheltered account would leave you $167k better off, than a non-tax sheltered account.

These tax shelters can be an incentive to save for retirement, and hopefully avoid missing out on compounded growth.
Who is "dismantling" unions? How are they doing so?
If Twitter wants to be more welcoming to new users, they would count each @-tag as a fixed number of characters. As it is now, it's much easier to tweet at early adopters, who have very short handles. New users end up with much longer ones, and it can be difficult to have a conversation—especially if several folks are tagged.

I don't think that tagging people should count as 0, as this would encourage spamming, but I do think that all tags should count as the same number of chars, or perhaps have a ceiling on the number of chars. So it could be up to 5 chars to tag someone, and if you're tagging someone with a shorter handle then you get it for less.

This would make the platform more egalitarian—and more welcoming to newcomers.
> Can you elaborate on this? I'm not following.

Well, if you do get more stock it complicates things—but you have to distribute out the pay out over the vesting period. In other words, collecting the entire value of the equity into one pay period implies you'll get the same amount of money the next pay period—which is only true if you get that amount of equity annually. It sounds like this may be a possibility

Furthermore, it assumes you'll be at the company for the entire vesting period. Which you might not want to do.

Additionally, you can't cash out the equity you DO get in 2016 unless you want the government to take a sweet 40% off the top.

> What do you suggest I do?

Don't wait for the equity to vest fully, work hard for some good recommendations, and get out of that sweat shop. Amazon rewards ambitious workaholics. Everyone I've talked to who USED to work there (key point being these people left) has issues balancing work, pay, and a life.

To be clear—I'm not arguing anything but that other companies will use you a little more compassionately, and you might make a little more cash in the meantime. You're still doing very well for yourself, Amazon is far from the worst place to work, and you might be very happy there.