skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to throw out another potential concern with a 50/50 or similar split right now - what if your co-founder never decides to join full-time. What will you do then? Will you fire him before he vests in anything significant? If not, then he's potential deadweight on the cap table, particularly from the point of view of potential investors.

There are multiple considerations here. tylercubell is correct that you are taking a risk here that you co-founder isn't. You may never land your first sale. in that case, your co-founder has been earning money at a full-time job and you haven't. Should your equity percentage reflect that?

But let's say you are comfortable with an equal or nearly-equal split, some options to make things more fair, incentivize your co-founder, and make your company attractive to potential investors:

1) Slower vesting for your co-founder or having at least a tranche of his shares only begin to vest when he joins full time;
2) Offering your co-founder a small vesting equity stake now and an option to purchase more that only begins to vest if he joins full time;
3) If you are going to grant your co-founder a large equity stake now, with significant vesting before he joins full-time, the co-founder could grant the company the option to repurchase a certain percentage of shares at cost if the company has its Series A before he joins full time. This would avoid the deadweight on the cap table problem.

On #1 and #2, one core idea is to make the grant of shares now (not down the road) to ensure your co-founder can purchase the shares cheaply, before your common gets priced.
They can move to small towns with cheap property. High prices are mostly a city phenomenon which is not as important when you don't work anymore.
As a person on H1B I can say that the lock-in is the most frustrating part. I can easily change jobs but I cannot create apps for mobile devices or monetize my website.
Not a very informative article, unfortunately. No discussion of what caused the issue, what is being done to help these folks, or if anything can be done. A few of these folks are profiled, but one of them was diagnosed with a disease in his 40s and would have issues whether or not he lived with his parents.

The bigger issue is the tremendous waste of human capital at a time when Japan needs employees more and more. (Of course, it is the right of these individuals to live their lives as they see fit, but society would benefit if they were more productive.)

Maybe the employers need to change? Maybe the social net needs to be modified to encourage work? Not sure how to change incentives, but it certainly seems a large subset of that generation isn't headed anywhere good.
As an ex-H1B MSFT employee, there are a few data points I can share.

First, to the best of my knowledge, my salary was not lower than that of my colleagues with citizenship at any point. Nor did I get fewer perks, formally or informally (ability to take days off as and when needed etc).

Second, my H1B status was never used as leverage when talking about raises, amount of time spent at work, and so on. I was never pressured to work more "or else".

Third, Microsoft fully sponsored my green card application, including all direct and indirect filing and legal fees. They were clearly interested in getting me off H1B status as soon as possible.

This is an anecdote. However, all people I know in MS who are or were on H1B have similar experiences. All either have green cards by now, or are in the process of obtaining them, with very few willing exceptions (as in, people who voluntarily decided to not apply, despite all the prodding to do so).
Is Google actually using that? That's IA-32 only. It won't run on ARM. What are they running on Chromebooks?
Angular 1.x was never meant to be an MVC initially. It was mainly for templating then they started adding stuff to it (services, directives, digest cycle, dependency injection...) leading to API bloat

By the time Angular 2 was released, Ember, Vue and React have devoured the market
I was thinking the same. These look better than the sad buildings across NYC from the same era.
I don't see the "illusions". It isn't as if these people are daily choosing their life. There aren't huge numbers of well-paid jobs out there for them or anyone else. Just because someone isn't successful doesn't mean they are under some sort of illusion. The word "parasite" also implies that these people should somehow stop living, that they are such a drain that the parasite should just let got and die rather than continue the only life available to them.

They may have made some mistakes, but in previous generations a few mistakes now and again was not a life sentence. A few years off the books wasn't a big deal in the 80s or 90s. Now any gap in your linkedin profile is interrogated. In Japan and elsewhere, anyone with a blot on their employment record is doomed. And heaven help those with any criminal convictions. Our societies today deliberately push away so many people. It is improper of us to then say that it is entirely their fault or that they suffer illusions. The illusion is ours, that by shunning and dispossessing people for slight imperfections we only amplify them.

Once upon a time there was a net of reasonable jobs that didn't pay well but allowed people a life, low-level government jobs that took anyone willing to work hard. But has anyone here looked at how hard it is to become a postal worker or to join the army? Ability and willingness is no longer enough. (I have relatives in the Canadian Armed Forces. The application process takes at least one and sometimes many years.)
Even for small projects libraries such as Vue or React are very useful.

Of course it feels easier to stick with what you know, but managing the DOM with data is so much easier than using jQuery + Handlebars.

Seriously, spend some time learning Vue. You won't regret it.

It has to be said that you don't need any building process (Webpack, gulp, etc) to use Vue. You can simply write your templates in your index.html and import using <script>.
It's curious to me because Thais tend to be very nationalistic and proud of their country/culture/heritage.

That seems to conflict with the whole Thailand is the sex-tourism capital of the world look. _Especially_ given that 99% of sex tourists to Thailand are westerners. Call it what you want, but there is definitely some degree of exploitation at play, just given the exchange rate alone.

If you've ever spent any time in these areas, it's a pretty disgusting sight. 10x different from the scene in other red-light districts (which as a whole, tend to be more "professional" and less sleazy/exploitative).
I don't know of any, but if you don't mind doing some manual work, Wikipedia has

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IBA_official_cocktails

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cocktails

Or did you want something more comprehensive, not just the most famous cocktails?
I never ever need this. Usually process a bit different. Wercker runs your building container, that you described in box section. So there're no limitation of commands or steps (how it called in wercker language)
What's the difference between tragically getting a disease and tragically failing to get a stable job? They are both conditions that lead to being a "parasite". Your comment sounds like you're blaming the victims of poverty for being poor. Not everyone is equipped to make the best personal choices for their lives. There will always be people who lack motivation and make mistakes just as there will be people who get diseases.
It's not like it's never been obvious, but it's pretty clear to me at this point:

Facebook and Google are evil, and we must stop them.
Experience vs. Knowledge
Maybe we're all just in a simulation and are reaching the holes in the programming?
As far as affecting retirement, I am less worried about rising property prices and more concerned about how easy it is to access home equity. That ease makes it very tempting to dip into your nest egg when you should be paying down your mortgage. And there's always some reason to borrow.

Of course, that is only an issue for folks who've been able to buy property, but as another comment mentions, if you leave certain metro areas property becomes very affordable very quick.
False. As an engineer you have the option of joining SPEEA, but it is not a requirement.

Joining the union offers some benefits, and some people do so for personal/political reasons.

One useful benefit was publication on anonymous salary information around raise time. You see exactly where you stand without violating the privacy of your peers.

Source: I'm a former Boeing employee (DS9 - Real-time systems simulation engineer)
Recently I heard senator Warren speak of what she essentially described as the selling out of the middle class starting with Reagan and with the tacit support of democrats.

When you see the effects of the maturation of an economy plus globalization, it's apparent it's not as simple as saying that beginning in the '80s the establishment sold out the middle class in favor of the elite. There is more at play. Japan has been suffering from the same issues, but somewhat differently due to some structural rigidity.

Japan is, as they say, complicated. Work culture (at the extreme death from over work, but commonly getting home very late due to social obligations at work), gender roles (still difficult for women to achieve success on par with men), cost of living, hiring practices (must be hired before graduation) hyperactive brand awareness (the new cool thing minted by thirteen year olds must be had by virtually 50% of the pop) and to some degree idealization of a bohemian way of life and repudiation of their previous generations' attitudes toward work. All these things come together and result in a ~30year intractable malaise.

If they could just get themselves to address the biggest issue, make it easier for women to work and succeed (opportunities, responsibilities, salaries, time off for family and bigly social expectations) they just might have a chance at improving things, but I'm not holding my breath.
maybe it should be nothing like the YC name in case it decides to take on a life of its own.
https://inbound.org/channels/content
They can move to small towns with cheap property.

Of which Japan has many, filled mostly with retirees. Also, since public services are funded nationally, the civic infrastructure (roads, schools, hospitals) is kept up even when the population drops.
> utterly beautiful with long list of people that would want to date them.

You're arguing out of both sides of your mouth. You're saying that media constructs what "attractive" means for women, and now you're saying that "attractive" is something that is inherent to a woman irrespective of media pressure.

Also, having a long list of people who want to date you does NOT means you'd be a good model. Models exist to make the product look good, not to look good themselves. A lot of fashion models are very skinny and tall because it makes the clothes they wear look good.

> Even worse, them faking the difficulty and reward ratio on many people who might have never heard of such scams on social media might lead them to waste money on a van or loose real opportunities.

You've basically just described all of advertising and marketing. It's not fraud or a scam - it just takes much more hard work than they show. They're not deliberately lying, they're just leaving out parts of it. Just like programming is a good job with high pay except you have to spend a lot of time learning it and working hard to get the good job with high pay.
You can always adjust salaries for cost of living in the area to have a more apples to apples comparison.
AOSP for cars: Baidu will release its self-driving platform known as “Apollo”
We are just advocating reform and change. The loophole has been leaking for such a long time. Obama knew the problem a long time ago and did NOT fix it. The middle-class wages have been stagnating for many years. The middle-class families are shrinking. A recent research paper found that H-1B visas have kept down wages by up to 5.1% and employment of US workers by 10.8% between 1994 and 2001. Here is the paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w23153
> when I give out my email address, the receiver can give my address to a third party

Use sub-addressing [1]

So, if you signup on example.com, and your email is "foo@bar.com" you give them "foo+example-com@bar.com" or whatever format works for your mailbox provider/software.

If you wanted to go one step further, a filter could be configured to look at the sub-address component, and compare it with the sender's domain and mark it as spam if there isn't a match.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Sub-addressing
I think you are seriously misreading my comment; give it another glance.

The journalists's use of the pejorative "parasite" is not appropriate for someone who fell under serious misfortune as living with Parkinson's. "Parasite" implies a willful decision to live off another's resources. The first example was that: the woman decided to pursue emotionally fulfilling work without saving or contributing to a pension.

I'm criticizing the journalist, who in the attempt to document a "weird Japan" trend, just dug up a sad story which could have happened anywhere in the world.
Depends. I have 11 bathrooms in my house, so I might need 3 to get the job done properly. Also, I bet one of those plumbers could fix the leak in my pool.
"While much of the technology required to develop a self-driving car will be made freely available, certain features, which Lu says will include some mapping and machine-learning services, will be accessible through an application programming interface that Baidu will control."

Open-source core, but key parts would be closed sourced -- just like AOSP and Android. Still, should be lots of interesting code.
I switched to Void Linux to get back into the systemd free world. So far I'm pretty happy with it.
Whistleblower uncovers London police hacking of journalists and protestors
It is not a miracle. Indians immigrating to US are more educated than the general US population [1] (40.6% have graduate degree, 32.3% have bachelor's).

Have you also thought about why Indian American kids win spelling bee's or Jews win Nobel Prize disproportionately when compared to their population?

Comparing Indians or Asians to blacks is not fair. They are mostly recent immigrants (except few brought in as labourers) and did not have to suffer through the horrors of slavery which left blacks with broken family structure and other things (It is complex, like housing seggregation where the black neighbourhoods did not increase in wealth when compared to white neighbourhoods, criminal justice system)

[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/09/30/5-facts-abou...
Probably cause the admission committee thought all those students are equally talented as you are. India has a huge population with 50% of its population below the age of 25. India and China together are close to 1/3rd of the worlds population. You should be happy the you are getting to interact with the cream of smart students from these countries :) Key part of education is learning and working with your smart peers.
About to hit 25 here, should I be worried or should I just start playing roulette more often?
Hey, fancy meeting you here. :) Thanks for sharing that, I'll have to give it a try.
To be fair, it's difficult for women to achieve the same station as men even in most forward thinking countries. Japan is far behind this for a variety of reasons, and I think the parent comment undersells how much of a problem this is for Japanese women.
When trying out a new language, one of the first things I look for is a Getting Started/Quick Start guide that'll get me up and running with executing some code on my computer.

Is there something like that on the Nim website? There's a code example on the home page but after doing a `brew install nim` I don't actually know how to run it. In the Documentation section there are guides about the standard library and so on but I can't find a 'quick start' that'll get my hands just a little dirty without feeling overwhelmed with too much information.
> Compared to these countries, Thailand's sex tourism scene seems far more seedy and exploitive.

Compared to first world countries, commercial relationships (especially between first-world tourists and locals) in third-world countries often seem more seedy and exploitive. I think that's more about the inherent nature of relations across giant wealth and cultural gulfs than anything else.

So, while it's not a good thing, I don't think it's anything special that that's true about the sex trade.
I dunno if there have been studies which account for where all that wealth is going from the increased housing prices. My guess would be the banks and the 1%.
Sorry, I wasn't pointing it out to correct it, just an amusing-to-me typo. :)
Take it from a lawyer: Do not argue with them. Pilots and ship captains are special. Their word is law.

A lot of those rules kick in only after the door is closed, or when the aircraft pulls back from the gate.
Yeah - there's tons of jobs. I think you're looking in the wrong place. I just looked at Indeed and put in "front end" and there are 22,886 results :)

I think they are broken down more systematically when titled. You might find something advertising "rails or MEAN stack" or whatever you are working with.

Front end is complexed because it has backend baked into it, so it safe to say that front end is not "just as complexed" or "if not more". That's a stretch.

Rather than invent the wheel, I will just copy a quota comment....because it has good language...

https://www.quora.com/Is-It-true-that-backend-developers-do-...

Yes. Simply because the environment is wider. On the front end it's all about the browser, and occasionally REST API calls.

On the back end it's database and the languages around that, server-side platform and the languages around that, often lots of 3rd party integration (to produce clean and useful REST services for the front end) and the languages and APIs around that, and more. It is a more complex set of abstract concepts that must be integrated into a seamless system.

It's not that front-end isn't difficult or important. It is. And it's absolutely critical to the success of the project. It is just lower in complexity than back-end because it's a smaller environment space.

Hope that's helpful.
Front and back end have re-diverged. Years ago we had event driven UI and OS provided widget toolkits. It was less artistic but more efficient than the web for the longest time. Front end development wasn't a position. Instead, companies had designers for advertisements.

Until recently you needed a decent amount of artistic skills to style a website and make it look nice. This is where front end work was important. Now we have many standard toolkit UI libraries to choose from like bootstrap, foundation, electron etc...

It's taken a lot of the artistic side out of making websites, but websites are more like programs now and economics dictate that function is more important than looking cool.

However, since the web also replaced advertising, companies have totally split their sites between WebApp and advertising site now. The frontend dev is still in demand for the advertising side where a unique look is important. These jobs are mostly WordPress.

The front and back end dev jobs will continue to merge as the frameworks get better and the chasm between WebApp and website grows. Front end has become a designer job for advertising platform sites, that's why more and more jobs are "full stack". I doubt your assertion that front end devs are more productive, especially because the technologies being used there now are so similar to back end work. For anyone using Node they're the same.
Exactly, we don't know when other companies' executives leave, because it's not reported. The most important metric, which is never mentioned, is the base rate: how often other companies' executives leave. Until this is included, the narrative is compelling but doesn't hold water.
>Is hitting your kids any less morally despicable than hitting your spouse?

The only time I have ever (and will ever) hit my children is when they are around the toddler age and try to do something very dangerous that I've repeatedly tried to get them not to do.

For example: trying to pry the safety cover off of an electrical outlet in order to insert a fork, running towards traffic, pushing their siblings near the top of the stairs etc.

A two year old doesn't have the mental ability to fully understand why such things are bad and so in the past I've given them exactly two quick spanks to the bottom so they understand the severity of what they were doing. It's extremely rare that this happens but I'd prefer to do that than risk missing an attempt that could end in disaster.

Beating is, of course, always out of line.

The difference between this and a spouse is that the spouse is obviously able to make their own decisions.
Japan is a preview of what's coming to many developed western economies.

I found this paragraph from the article disturbingly similar to the situation here in the states:

"The rise in those shunning marriage, experts say, is due not only to more diverse life-styles but to an increase in low-paying, unstable jobs. Part-timers, temps or contract workers now account for nearly 40 percent of the workforce compared to about 20 percent in the 1980s."

I imagine this will only be accelerated with the rise of AI and increasing job automation. Already, we're seeing the average age when people get married and have kids rise with each generation. I think alot of this is due to job instability, depressed wages, rise of the 1099 worker with no benefits, etc. Reminds me of the situation in China, where unless you have a house and a car, you're basically persona-non-grata.

So if you're a young person in the US, you're doubly screwed. All your friends and potential dating partners are concentrated in the big cities, but those are also the places with the highest costs of living, highest costs to own a home, to raise a kid, etc.

If you're mid 20s / early 30s person in San Fran and you're not working for GOOG/FB/APPL etc. you're basically screwed.
Actually the opposite at many public universities. "Out of state" and international students subsidize in state students because they pay far greater tuition.
The memory limits will definitely completely prevent you from running some real-world programs. Programs that don't fold well into a single threaded event loop are also a problem at the moment (including Unreal/Unity games that use background threads).

Also, unless you definition of "can run a game" includes "can run a game at 3fps" I'm pretty skeptical that the entire repitoire of games for those engines can make the jump to WebAssembly today.
This is almost scary if you think about it, because this is in its infancy. In 5, 10, 15 years, will any photo be able to be authenticated? Will this be doable in real-time at high resolution, on live video feeds? Will we be able to believe anything but our own eyes?
I live in Wellington and bike to work every morning (8km). Sure Wellington is not well set up for cycling - the streets are narrow, bike lanes are few (although my route is OK). However if you're not an arsehole on the road and keep an eye out for hazards, it's not too bad. NZ drivers in general have a very low opinion/respect/tolerance for cyclists, although Wellington drivers seem to be a lot more polite than elsewhere.
I agree this seems overly complicated, however I am for anything that helps get away from systemd.

> Expect your nodes to go down all the time. Got it.

When I deploy containers, our system (marathon on DCOS) does rolling updates where it scheduled new nodes and then gets rid of the old ones in a rolling/rotating fashion. That's how high availability works. If your nodes go down in a controlled fashion for updates, it shouldn't be a problem.