skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an alternate view is like you to consider.

My wife and I had major conflict. My son (at 2) was showing very unusual behaviour. He lacked empathy and my wife felt it was normal. When we got to school, his behaviour exploded into destructiveness. My wife stuck to her guns until someone had the courage to say "he's almost certainly autistic". Then, a few good specialists confirmed it. My wife relented and we helped our son learn to adjust (I focussed heavily on empathy, networking, etc).
Now, if we waited until it mattered, he would not be anywhere as capable as he is today. The specialists are amazed at how far he's come.
The difference is that people were aware and proactive. They looked for the cues (of which there are many and I see them often - eg. Flapping fingers like a birds wings to release energy/stress).

The DSM isn't perfect, but the industry (well, maybe 1 in 5) does a good job of recognising and managing proactively, not retrospectively.

Much of what we become is hard wired by the time we are 8. The sooner problems are diagnosed and managed, the better.

TL;DR - if you find out when you're going for a job, it's almost certainly too late to influence things.
My reply to the 'our company is doing so well, you will ALSO do very well once you bed in' is to remind them that most notable pay rises you ever get during your career is when you switch job. So negotiate your pay NOW because for all you know, you'll be stuck to that sort of level for X years to come if you are unlucky.

As for 'shares' I flatly refuse to even consider that as part of a package. if they want to /add/ them it's wonderful, but I've been so many time multi-millionaire in 'options' that it's not even funny.

As for 'yes but the work/team is so rewarding' point I counter that it's a lot better if there isn't a sour note about being underpaid mixed in. Pay me well, and I'll be the one pulling the team to be all shinny and dynamic.

However, ultimately, you STILL get underpaid unless you go to the usual suspects like GG and such. That's why I gave up 'career' and went off contracting. Turns out being a mercenary is rewarding in many ways, including monetary !
What I don't like about that is most of the entries will be old. I'd love if it had a way to show me only information from the past year.
1. Some partners may read the earlier version of your application. The advantage to submitting earlier is not so big, it just means you might get more reads. I'd for sure wait to submit until you have your demo.

2. We have an internal DB for this, but I'm not aware of a good publicly available one :(
People leaving and rejoining Amazon is supercommon. That includes Principals. It feels like most people who have been at the company for 8+ years have been out of the company for some of the period. And you can even get the colored badge for tenure from non-consecutive employment.
And there goes the continuation of offshoring.

Next even the companies themselves will leave.

Do people really not realize the consequences of these types of actions?
I bet we have things that sound equally silly in American English when interpreted literally. Sadly, they're so invisible to me right now that I can't think of one easily...
Thanks for the additions. Don't know much about RethinkDB, but as for the others:

Reddit is a great example of founders without pedigree. Although it hasn't been too successful as a company, it's created phenomenal value for its users. I definitely spend more time on Reddit than Facebook/Instagram/Snapchat/Twitter combined.

I'd say Waterloo is elite in the tech sense, and Apoorva worked at Amazon in fulfillment, so it made a lot of sense in the specific case of Instacart.

Mixpanel was being advised by Max Levchin from before they applied to YC. He became their first big customer and helped them with every funding round, and probably put in a good word with YC when they applied[0]. Another YC alum, Amplitude, which is founded by MIT grads, is now giving Mixpanel a run for their money[1,2]. I don't know Suhail or Tim, but I can't imagine the average ASU dropout's experience would be anything like theirs.

0: http://www.businessinsider.com/mixpanel-ceo-suhail-doshi-and...

1: https://amplitude.com/blog/2016/01/07/mixpanel-power-user-am...

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10869419
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I've recently had a business idea that would allow money to exchange hands between individuals, frequently.

After getting in touch with Stripe - they mentioned it would fall under a Money Transmitters / Money Service Business (MSB) - which is one of their prohibited businesses.

Is anyone dealing with processing payment as transfers? Anyone used PayPal (or others) as a provider for MSB?
How do we know this isn't all fake? That the FBI doesn't already have access to iPhones, and just wants people to feel safe (from them)?
Heh. I remember when my dentist asked me to schedule an appointment to remove my wisdom teeth. She said they were coming in straight. I asked her why they should be removed. She said something like "because they're at the back of your mouth, and are therefore harder to clean and will decay sooner." I asked why this didn't apply to my next molars as well. She stopped bothering me, and I still have healthy, straight wisdom teeth a decade and more later.
Jason is the only investor I've worked with that treated me simply as a founder, not a "female founder." This alone is a reason that new YC entrepreneurs should have access to working with him. He sets an example of how entrepreneurs should be treated.

Jason has seen me at my worst, when I was ready to throw in the towel and battling with my board and generally having a tough, tough time, and I left the meeting with hom feeling like a rockstar, that I COULD handle it, and could go on to succeed (which I am doing today).

He is such a founder advocate I would take $25k from Jason over $250k from a bigger VC, because when the going gets tough (and it will) Jason will ALWAYS have your back.
Does the UK have any jurisdictional capacity over YC?
I was shocked!

If you don't have a VPN, you can view it with Tor Browser (so long as you don't get assigned a Tor exit node in the UK).
Can you elaborate on what makes a company "not very good"?

Would you ever consider releasing anonymized data on companies that apply and are accepted along with those who apply but aren't accepted into a batch? That'd give future applicants much more insight into the process.
Google Kirkland office, L4 (SWE III), 7 years of experience.

$150k base salary
$25k bonus this year
$90k/year in stock at current share price, vesting monthly
"When smart people spend more time with their friends, it makes them less happy." Maybe it's time for new friends.
I think YC helps your startup. I've never been through Techstars, though maybe they do too.
Ah I remember after I read that in high school I would overanalyze social interactions. Overtime they started becoming more subconscious and automatic so it doesn't get in the way. Today I can point out the reason why I find someone standoffish or sad based on body language, where my extraverted friends who never formalized their knowledge can know what they're feeling but not necessarily formulate why it is.
Thanks, Norman. We've recently rolled out to a few more areas around Pittsburgh. Looks like there are another five, in Southwester PA, switching to us over the next few months.
Yeah, I'm not sure I buy the reasoning. I can sort of relate with the premise of the article itself, but, like you said... there's something off with the reasoning.
Isn't this the same basic idea as Google Updater's Courgette algorithm (https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/softwar...)? Both seem to disassemble and then untangle the static call graph into something that can be effectively diffed.
As Uncle Bob describes in his book, you never even make abstractions until you have proven duplication. You make your abstractions based off of evidence, not hypothetically planned out.

Kent Beck in his book doesn't recommend top-down, or bottom-up, but rather from known-to-unknown. Start with what you know, and work toward what you don't know.

Edit: The books I refer to are Test Driven Development: By Example - Kent Beck, and Clean Code - Robert Martin
Behind any fallen empire are systemic failures.

Having lived through the systemic failures, were countless bit players who looked around then basically said, "Apres moi, le deluge!"

Behind every mass atrocity and war are resource scarcity situations brought about by systemic failure and/or natural disaster.
We don't. We think it's much better if cofounders have some sort of shared history together.
Nothing but positives from me as well. I've been involved in 2 incubator classes now (1st and 3rd) and you always know where you stand with Jason. He is a relentless champion of the companies he's involved with, and will always give feedback. He's an amazing investor, mentor and someone whom I've learned a lot from.
Well, as a H1B visa holder paying same taxes as citizens, I either need the country to provide me a path to citizenship or stop taxing me like citizens. I can go either ways. Your ancestors fought for taxation without representation. I come from a democracy too and yes my country is not as conducive as United States for starting businesses but I just won't be made feel inferior to citizens because I was born elsewhere. That is against the promise of the constitution especially when I live in continental United States. Also, seriously, if I can work indefinitely on a visa without citizenship, I am 100% happy to do that. There is a 6 year cap unless you express willingness to migrate or stay in home country for a year before getting another six years. So your government is disrupting my life in many ways that they don't to the citizens. It seems unfair.
I was criticizing your beliefs that moving to the bay area for 3 months is "taking risks".

Taking risks is building a COMPANY while having obligations such as a family, and mortgage.

I could be building the next most profitable company in the world for all you know. The bay area isn't the be all end all for internet based companies. It's foolish to require that they be there. That's like requiring your staff to be in-house when you run a software company.

I will tell you this right now, my obligations mean I can't leave my small town in Iowa. I don't care if you write a check for $10M on the spot for me to move to the bay area. My family is worth more than anybody can ever offer me.
Not at google but MSFT.

SDEII. 7 Years of coding experience full time.
Base: 110k
Signing bonus: $0k cash, $6k in stocks.

On H1B visa so can't quit, but as soon as I get green card, I should definitely look around. Geez, you folks are making me feel really bad.
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How about that it's transparently self-serving?

I think we should be really careful about ideas like this which tell us what we want to hear about a thing that "sounds negative on the surface but is actually good!"
Validation at last.
I'm not familiar with the US, but in the UK, generally pension contributions seem like a total scam to me.

As an individual, there is no possible reason why I would want my money to sit in a retirement fund over just having it now.

I am perfectly capable of investing it as I please, in housing, in stocks, in gold, in starting a business, without having it artificially withheld from me.

There seems to be this idea that I'd just be spending it on booze and fags or something. Individuals generally don't waste all of their money unless they feel saving is hopeless.

Pension funds are an arbitrary restriction on that.

I can much more readily leverage my intellectual and social capital if I have cash in hand and that will almost certainly result in a better outcome at retirement.
First of all, the methodology is indeed wonky,I am not really a happy person but if I were asked whether I am satisfied with my life I would say Yes.

Second, the logic seems to be, smart people have bigger goals so they don't bother wasting time socializing. Which is true but not all smart people are well-accomplished. So although this might apply to researchers it might not to the "average" smart person.

Edit: I forgot to mention that the fact smart people feel less happy interacting with many friends can be simply due to introversion and not necessarily their IQ.
I also worked directly for Jason for nearly 3 years and have nearly an identical story as Adam. The entire Launch organization was built around Jason giving back to founders. All of his actions during my time working for him reflected this mission.
Another interesting project post-mortem from Robert Cringely was his ambitious attempt to design, build and fly an airplane in 30 days as part of a PBS documentary Plane Crazy.

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/1998/pulpit_19980724_0005...
First, I'd question the use of the word 'dumb'. That said, I think the question is worth some thought. My thought on the matter is that there are plenty of vital roles that don't depend on college, e.g. plumbers, fire fighters, and many kinds of heath care and service sector roles. College might be best suited for those who deal in abstractions... but there are plenty of necessary concrete jobs as well.
Me too friend! Actually, we no friendz coz we smart!
Being that this is true of getting anything done in the real world I was hoping to frame the question without needing to preface it with that, or listing any qualifications of my own or my team on a pseudonymous account, but needless to say we get things done.

Thanks for replying nonetheless :)
That's correct --- the standard doesn't say anything about raw memory. Only pointers to objects defined by C are defined to work; everything else is an implementation-specific extension (and so, covered under 'undefined behaviour').

I believe that C99 added the ability to losslessly cast from a pointer to a uintptr_t and back again, but, IIRC, the compiler didn't have to support this in C89.
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That's not free though. You still have to have people working in order to pay for it.

Point being, lets call a spade a spade. They're tax-funded education, tax-funded healthcare. This is what we should be calling it. Because that is what it is.

Thats not to say I'm opposed to those things.
If you cant splurge on IDA try radare2 before Hopper:

http://www.radare.org/r/cmp.html

Then in a couple weeks donate $89 saved to the radare2 efforts.
Considering it should only take a matter of minutes to bring it back up with https using Let's Encrypt, yes. The longer its available without security, the larger the window for trouble.

There is no excuse these days for not protecting your users' data. It should be taken down and secured ASAP.
The applicable tort would be libel, not tortious interference. No reasonable person, however, would believe that this correspondence is libelous.

Tortious interference requires:

- Prior knowledge of a specific business relationship

- Intent to damage that specific business relationship

- Actual damage of the known, specific business relationship
Hi Sam, do you have any general advice on selling software to government organizations?
To get the surgery or the dental appliance?

For the appliance, there are dentists that specialize in "dental sleep medicine." If you have good insurance, this is the way to go. Otherwise, you're looking at a $4,000 bill. It is the best option. If you're in Pittsburgh, I recommend Dr. Rob Rogers, DDS.

DIY can get you almost the same thing though for an order of magnitude less (and is worth a shot depending on your insurance):

http://doctorstevenpark.com/an-in-depth-look-at-diy-snoring-...

After my employer downgraded their insurance post-Obamacare to only an HMO, and I needed a new dental appliance, I ordered the ProSnore, which was also laboratory molded. I had to send molds to their lab, and then they sent back the dental appliance that they fabricated.

The end result was more or less equivalent to what I had before from Dr. Rogers.

There's an opportunity here for a 3D printing startup to disrupt sleep apnea/snoring treatment... ;)

For the surgery, you really need to make sure you see a high quality surgeon. In Palo Alto, there is Dr. Kasey Li, possible the world's foremost expert in treating sleep apnea through jaw surgery:

http://www.sleepapneasurgery.com/

To answer your question, he is an MD, ENT, dentist, plastic surgeon, and researcher all-in-one.

It is a hefty penny though. You're looking at the cost of a Tesla Model S to get the procedure, and it is out-of-network for PPO insurance plans (he specifically mentioned to me that Apple and Google employees had a lot of trouble getting it covered, but NVIDIA did not, I know that Stanford student insurance also covers it).

I would research this procedure first. There's a lot of blog posts on patient outcomes. It really is effective, but so is CPAP, and you can still drive your Elon Musk mobile afterwards with the money you saved lol!

Also, "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" certainly applies here, especially when the hammer stands to make $100k. :)
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FYI, it is illegal in the USA to restrict employees discussing their salary amongst themselves. Unfortunately it is common for companies to declare this information confidential and covered under employee confidentiality agreements.

http://www.npr.org/2014/04/13/301989789/pay-secrecy-policies...
> "The thing is though, janitors aren't any less important or in demand than they were a 50 years ago, or retail workers, burger flippers, waiters."

I think you might be underestimating the shift towards automation that is occurring in many services industries, and will only accelerate as robotics and other technologies improve [1].

As soon as companies can automate a robot (or outsource remote control of a non-autonomous one to a cheaper country), they will unless they position themselves on the quality of their human-based customer care, which is an increasingly rare thing.

[1] http://www.salon.com/2015/05/10/robots_are_coming_for_your_j...
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"His e-mail address is right on the case and if something doesn’t work he can ssh, telnet, or VNC into the box to fix it."

Hopefully the telnet mention is just a stylistic phrase, rather than really meaning they have a telnet daemon enabled by default.
Why not just check here: http://data.jobsintech.io/ real data from H-1Bs
Let's see how the next 10 years go before we call it an awesome job.
I don't know if this makes sense, but I read recently that contrary to many people's images, hunter-gatherers actually had much better lives than we do now. Less work-stress, more family-time, etc.
Which shows the other downside mentioned in the article; if you can't move it and the other side has bombers, it won't last long.
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In general I'd agree with you, but a ~$70k salary really is not that high for a decent developer with two years of experience, even with a signing bonus and stock options. I'm not in a major tech hub.

Keep in mind also that Amazon is not some tiny startup strapped for cash. It's a big player in the industry and their hiring standards are rigorous.
I'm with you. I've encountered the thinking in GP and thought that way for a while, and ultimately reached the same conclusion as you. It's too easy to use it as a way of dismissing the pain and complexity of the world.
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Yeah I'm with you. My argument was regarding the reasons behind why immigration policies might exist, and why I think it's ok for countries to say "sorry you can't just come in whenever" if they want.

The concept that immigration policies are usually very flawed is real, and also has been a source of frustration for me personally. I however do not expect things to change quickly at least in the US.

Worth noting that very conservative immigration policy seems to be the most "safe", the strict policy of "nobody can enter, ever" is very easy to understand, predict and monitor over time. I can imagine a situation where immigration policy is too lax, and yield unforeseen badness.

PS: thanks for being equally civil, and for a very relevant comment.
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You're missing alternative opportunities created by 1, 2, and 3. For example, wage insurance, a negative income tax, or state-funded retraining.

You're also missing other big upside to UBI. For example, if people can be more sure that they won't be reduced to destitution if the quit there 9-5 to work on a passion project, they will be more likely to do that. More people taking more bets on passion projects means more opportunities for explosively successful companies.
I find in my line of work, which I think the average person would rate as very intellectually demanding, I find my lack of social connections to be my greatest weakness!

Hard problems might need solitude, but really hard problems seem to need multiple minds and perpectives to solve.

I of course need alone time, but only on focused portions of what adds up to a far broader and more cooperative strategy.

I've also found the smarter you are, the more likely you are to look down on larger portions of humanity, and it multiplies in higher density regions. This is a pathway to unhappiness that seems to be rooted in my own ego though more than an objective reality.
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Consider, yes. Seriously consider? No.

In comparison to the Duke, Harvard, CMU (or similar level) grads the number of state school grads working there is minimal, especially with respect to who is hired out of school. Which is a shame, really - I'd be really interested in working in fintech/trading someday.
not personally familiar with the YC process in the least here, but in our short tenure with him so far he has been a tremendous coach and evangelist for us. he's certainly tough, but also balanced. we are lucky to have him onboard.
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Get a view into the workings of the United States government at some point and let us know which is better or worse
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The concept of ideas being worth near to nothing is new to me, can you explain that thinking? Without monetary arguments this seems not right.
> When smart people spend more time with their friends, it makes them less happy.

This is obviously a correlational study (and not a randomized controlled trial) so inferring causality is just wrong.

Let me instead suggest an alternative explanation for the same correlation: smart people have more time to spend with friends when things are going badly for them (crashed startup, lack of grants for research, out of work, etc) than when things are going well (startup just got funded, just received a major grant, etc).
But not for divulging confidential information to the world, which is what the OP has done.
I just tell them "I need to be making at least X". It's a good screen for me. Most of them aren't anywhere near my number.
That was at MLB Advanced Media. Looking back I think MLBAM was the most solid employer I'd ever worked for.
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I meant my comment's TLDR. Sorry for confusion
That notice is very uninformative. Not that I would expect anything more from this site.

The comment is a cricism to his (and pretty much everyone else's who uses this site) very materialistic world view.
I meant a spreadsheet about Amazon salaries in Google Docs...otherwise someone has to comb through this thread to pull out the data. And it allows people to build and share pretty charts.

(as mentioned above, this has already happened at Google)