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You have 650+ responses already, so I accept mine will be in the `/dev/null` of history.

As somebody who has worked at startups, including a Y-Combinator startup.

The I have experienced three primary hiring issues that are so common they are worth noting.

1. People presume startups are inherently less stable than larger corporations. Risk aversion and the presumption that larger organizations are more stable in all cases, causes the candidate pool to drop. Helping people understand that competency is always in demand, would certainly help open up the talent pool.

2. Intentionally conflated salary figures have led to disillusionment with expected income. As many people already mentioned prior; how much are people really making? I have encountered several people who believe they absolutely deserve $250-350k, despite not having any requisite skills. Why? Often because recruiters have told them that is what they deserve... or because companies offering (often intentionally over-evaluated) shares, lie.

3. An unrealistic expectation of the number of hours they must work. Sure, there are some poor companies which believe hours-worked = value-added... but how many good ones? My experience has been that candidates expect they will have 60+ hr/week of work. Really? That's just not the case at companies with non-trivial intellectual property.

Want to convince more skilled developers to join the startup world? Dis-spell these myths.
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This may well get buried, but I think it's worth pointing out that all the big employers consistently mentioned in this thread once started out as, well, startups. Yes, getting there is a near improbability, and most companies never get there, but the ones that did got there by virtue of people believing in the mission (whatever and however you want that to mean) being important enough to make tradeoffs for.
One-name is lame. Long live 3 initials!
My guess is you have me in the category of someone protecting a fragile ego. I assure you I am not. The choice is yours. If you want to see the light I recommend that you look into Haskell and spend a non trivial amount of time learning that language. Otherwise I could care less.
A few sightings in silicon valley is an incredible leap to mass adoption.

And looking at cruise, their website is low grade marketing. Mostly concerned about hiring and not about pushing their actual technology. it's amateur hour honestly.
I’m using Safari on an iPhone X running the latest OS:

* The main page search bar is really choppy.
I typed in “lisp” and, when holding down backspace, the cursor skipped around.
* The website is unwelcoming.
If this is supposed to be a wiki, then maybe the landing would be better off if it just contained a logo, short description, search bar, and a random-article button.

The idea of a “modern wiki” caught my attention, and I’d be interested to see how this fleshes out.
The 10-year exercise is such a no-brainer. Just ask yourself, startup founders & investors: when you issue stock options to your employees, do you want them to exercise them or not?

If not, then what you're really doing is offering something you hope doesn't cost you anything and is therefore worth nothing. Good luck to you.

If so, then do everything you can to help them do it. Holding an employee hostage because in order to leave they have to write a check for a significant part of their life savings won't be productive. They're taking up a salary from someone who will actually be engaged and motivated.

In my experience, this definitely plays into individuals' job offer decisionmaking. At least the most sophisticated ones, which are usually the ones you're most interested in recruiting.
I...have you read those books?
No TypeScript on basic search currently, but book is not finished, can’t speak for the author.
IMO - the mindset should be: social sciences are dealing with things orders of magnitude more complex than anything seen in hard sciences (except biology). Therefore, social scientists need to be much more reserved in their claims, and not much should be taken for a fact unless it's replicated in great many studies and has proven predictive power.

Whether this is the mindset social scientists have, I can't tell - but social sciences in popular media seem to be the exact opposite of that.
The food industry needs a lot more regulation IMHO. It often misleads the consumer with its marketing, but a cereal or juice drink is not healthy when it's rammed full of sugar.
Thats a very nifty project. I always wanted to do an incremental compilation like that.
I do the same when I feel disillusioned with superficial beauty. Really pretentious, I know. Either way, it feels good to reduce people to blobs every once and a while. I sometimes get too distracted by looks, so being able to turn that off is nice.
How do you suggest the author replaces the sentiment to make prolog great again in text to cater to your sensibilities?
I work as a remote SRE from a town in Northern Greece. I would advise you to take a look at Crete (Greece).

Preferred place is Chania, but if you're going to cheap you can find cheaper right outside the old city center, especially if you're going to rent for a year.

The good things:

- Half a year is summertime
- The food is superb
- The canyons are amazing
- Many seashores are amazing
- You're close to the sea everywhere, very strong boost for your your family's immune system
- You can live easily with less than ~40k/year
- Ppl are accustomed to foreigners and very easy to befriend

You can find specific info about ppl working remotes all over the world here: https://nomadlist.com/?ref=remoteok (no affiliation)
In 2018, this is kind of sad, judicious combinations of generator expressions and list comprehensions is so much more interesting (use lazy and eager evaluation where it matters)!

Anyway, I did that search in 20 tabs and didn't get anything.
It's cool that you can say that, as a woman. I've tried to express similar thoughts once, but I got shut down before you could say "socially constructed".

Congrats on not letting your self-worth be determined by others.
I'm starting to understand what you mean.

You are right - GraphQL, even though it has the word "graph" in it, is pretty weak at complex graph traversal. Actually, I don't think it was made for complex graph traversal in mind.

https://docs.dgraph.io/master/query-language/ uses graphql, but they really modified the language to make it work for complex graph traversal, to a point where the simplicity of it is gone.
I think you meant to write "shouldn't kill it" up there, and by the way, your thoughts up there makes a lot of sense but it still has that air of non-exactness that I've always felt around the subject of karma.
There's also increasing evidence that the kind of particulates that the newer diesel engines emit are actually worse for humans that the older ones.

The particles are smaller size and seem to cross the blood-brain barrier as well as penetrating further into the lungs.

I would say that it just simply isn't clear which one is actually better right now, but there are some concerning signs around diesel engines right now.
This attitude is how we shift to more self-sustainability and voluntary governance. Thank you.
I've learned to read the HN comments to any posted article first - and then decide whether or not I want to catch up with the article itself.
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> Early-stage companies should offer sufficient equity such that their employees should in expectation earn at least the same as they would at a public company.

That's the joke! Nobody comes remotely close to offering enough equity that their total comp is equivalent!

Imagine a company that just raised a $1M seed round on convertibles at a $6M valuation cap. Now say they offer an "extremely generous" 2% equity package to their first employee. What is that 2% worth?

Well, the investors think that preferred shares in that quantity would be worth $120k. Of course, equity vests over four years. So your equity comp is... $30k/year. If it were preferred shares. But it's not, it's common shares. So it's worth even less.

You'd need to offer more like 10% to claim you are matching the RSUs people are getting at Google or Facebook. But at that point, you might as well call the person a co-founder. And maybe that's in fact the answer: add co-founders, not employees.

But this isn't what people are doing today. Instead they're convincing employees to take sub-market pay and sub-market equity to take a stressful job with almost no benefits.
Not sure how you're viewing getting paid less as safer and less risky. Also, the parent is saying the issue is when an early employee is not considered a founder and isn't getting paid market rate. That's the downside of each of those points - no/little equity and no/little pay
On the other hand, Shopify is a Canadian company with most of its business outside of Canada...
Do you think (a) White applicants are more likely to get into YC? (b) Founding teams with no white people that get to demo day are less likely to get funded than those who do?

I know YC is a relatively small part of the VC ecosystem but it’s pretty influential. If the VC ecosystem is as racist as you say there should be plenty of opportunity to make better returns out there for some enterprising VC.
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Maybe it is a dumb question, but why couldn't the engine then always run like that?
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Yes, I meant shouldn't. Corrected. Thank you.
Your "'wrong' is wrong" is wrong. Yo can verify transaction history with an SPV wallet.

A full node won't help you against an eclipse attack. And also not against a sustained 51% attack since miners can mine empty blocks on the minority chain, halting it.

A full node is good for increasing your privacy, disguising what addresses you're watching, but that's all.
Yes.. and who actually cares what their work email address is? It doesn't indicate any real power or other valuable prowess.

Max nerd street cred comes with getting something sleek like <yourname>.com, or <firstname>@<lastname>.com. Even getting that doesn't seem like a significant social status signal.

I feel like I must be missing something.. :)
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It is not possible to pre-heat the diesel to a certain temperature, allowing better evaporation?
> The reality is that startups need people to work harder, sacrifice more of their lives

There's probably two areas where we might disagree here.

One is that "sacrificing more of their lives" leads to better outcomes. Reasonable people can disagree on whether, or under what circumstances, 80-hour weeks and weekends at the office actually do help the company.

When you are a founder, it is hard not to work all day every day, and you have to actually force yourself to take time off or you're likely to become less effective without even realizing it. Often this same intensity and drive filters down, but in a distorted way, by the "nobody wants to leave the office first" effect. Hard work "theater" is just as common in startups as it is anywhere else, but the hours are longer and it is even more destructive in the long run. Where the correct balance should be between "real artists ship" and professionalism and having a life outside of work--that's a big issue.

Setting that aside, the other area where we might disagree is that if you decide long hours are where it's at (and I'm not going to disagree with how you run a company if it's yours) then how do you motivate people to do that?

> When the founders were asking the whole team to regularly work entire weekends before launch, nobody said it was "a job".

Is that because nobody would do that for just "a job"? Or is that because nobody would rationally do that unless they were being fairly compensated? Finance and petroleum are very different industries but in both of them people put in long hours, risk their health, and are (sometimes) well compensated.

Leaving aside pep talks, let's say you can motivate people to work long hours by giving them either equity or cash. Even if the expected value of the equity is higher, the higher variance makes the cash a far better choice for most employees. The question is, if employees were compensated wholly in cash at whatever rate the market would set, but had the option to buy the equity they are getting for the salary they are giving up, as a totally unrelated and optional transaction, how many of them would take it?

> This formula worked well in SV for decades

How do you avoid survivorship bias here?

Regardless, we can agree that the situation has gotten worse, in the sense of people taking compensation packages that you need a finance degree to understand, but I wouldn't say it was rational for most employees taking early equity even before it got worse.
Thanks for your reply, I have sadly never heard of the six degrees of separation theory, but I will give it a look up, but then what happens if certain people (or a lot of people, consider ing the fact we are talking about humans here) in your kindness path "graph" do not pay it forward I.e their P rate is 0?
It's actually not that expensive to commute by air to SF. There are 261 working days in a year, and say $200 air fair per day, that's $55,200 in air fair. It'll cost more than that with to/from the airport, so say a hundred grand. This becomes doable at far less than $1m. I've made many day trips to SF from Seattle, and the plane was usually full of such day trippers.

Of course, if your employer is flexible, it can cost far less.
No you literally aren't. You are you. The conversation is the conversation. Those are two distinct things. Nobody can ask you to be mindful of the quality of other people. It's trivial to just avoid interminable discussions about voting.

The most telling thing about this is that nobody ever demands explanations for upvotes so it's obviously not because there's some real belief these explanations would make the conversation better. It's just that being downvoted feels bad. But really, at worst, you'd eat -4 points here or there. Best is to just put on your wizard hat and Epictetain stoic robe and move on. And this isn't merely a good idea - it's the law.
> I'd say we're both right

I'd say the parent comment is factually wrong:

> the article is based around a flawed study

The article is based around at least 6 studies and a long list of interviews with experts. And the article's subtitle says, studies show (note the plural). So it's false to say the article is based on one study.

> a flawed study that hilariously contradicts the title

The title is, Lasik's Risks Are Coming Into Sharper Focus. Which study contradicts those words? Certainly not the one discussed in the GGP, which supports the claim that there is growing information about the amount of risk from Lasik. Again, the line quoted above is false.

> circumstantial evidence

I'm not sure what the parent refers to with that term, but as I pointed out, there is a large amount of evidence and experts analysis in the article. Circumstantial evidence is not a bad thing; it's evidence and is admissible in court, for example (AFAIK). It's just generally not considered sufficient by itself; in this article, it certainly has plenty of company.

> disqualify it from being a quality objective piece

They quote people and research on all sides of the issue, extensively.

> hilariously ... instantly

For me, hyperbole disqualifies comments from being taken seriously. It conveys a desire to rant and be dramatic, not a desire to reason about the facts. In fact, the former is often used as a substitute when the latter is lacking.
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SPE is a great experiment. I am certainly an outcast from most psychologists to believe that SPE should be allowed. But that’s my belief. The darknest part of a human nature can only be revealed by an experiment like SPE. If you watch the documentary on SPE, you will see the changes. I am fascinated with the minds of humans in the most direct way possible.
When it became the only choice
I live in the Portland area. Love the city, but it's expensive too. (albeit not California expensive!)
Oh it was all fine, just the work wasn’t hard or interesting and there wasn’t that much of it (except for crazy spikes for 2-3 weeks sometimes) I dont feel like I passed on anything significant. I was just really under utilized. I got poached by a startup and they offered to match but I declined. If your great goal is leadership at a DoD shop I would recommend a better goal. Even if you make it up the ladder over 15-35 years the top of that ladder just isn’t that great, or at least it wasn’t for me. I keep in touch with some other people from the program, all have since moved on. I would say this indicates the program didn’t know how to utilize and retain the “talent” it selected for. And sure you can argue we all weren’t that talented, I don’t particularly care, I am very happy with that particular career choice.
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> 18 percent of Bitcoin investors used a credit card to fund the purchases

Nothing wrong with that.

> Of those, 22 percent couldn’t pay off their balance after buying the digital coin

Ohhhh no.
I get it. But what you are describing is quite optimistic/idealistic.

Most companies will say "no thanks" and move on to the next candidate in their list.

There are much smaller things that companies treat as deal breakers, let alone asking for a private office. The dynamics of it just doesn't work if there is a open office plan with 20 people working in it, then there's one lone snowflake demanding their own office. Even if they agreed to that you wouldn't want that nightmare.

Your practical options would be limiting your choice to companies that have private offices baked into their culture or remote jobs.

Most people can't realistically afford to exclude that many job opportunities from their pool.
I meant that products like Esper, StreamBase, InfoSphere have been around for a long time, which have a _very_ rich set of features [1], and are mostly designed around single process usage. Lot of the type of queries they support are not possible to implement in a performant way in a distributed system. Though nowadays Esper claim to have horizontal scalability - it was originally designed as a single threaded system. They do also have a passive/active type solution as you mentioned.

Stream processing frameworks originally evolved to offer "big scale" through data partitioning compared to the traditional CEP systems. But CEP engines have been able to deal with windowing and similar concepts since many years ago - the main difference of the stream processing frameworks _is_ the distribution and scalability aspect.

My point was that the systems linked in the original article seem to match closely to the limitations of what distributed stream processing frameworks are able to do, but only run on a single node.

[1] http://www.espertech.com/esper/
If you don't mind missing a flight now and then, you can shave down the time waiting in the terminal quite a bit. Flights run constantly, so you can just take the next one. Uber is a big timesaver too, as you can walk out the terminal and get picked up / dropped off and no futzing with parking/renting.
In addition, global modes lead to hairy things like

if ...
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Where I come from, Tinder is primarily used for casual sex.
Most of the homeless are couch surfing, living out of cars, etc. In one sharehouse I lived in, we had one guy on the couch and another in a tent in the back yard, both of whom were acquaintances going through a rough time. As far as worst cases go, while it would suck to have to sleep on someone's couch, it's honestly not that bad.
>> Break down a big idea into small bits.

I'm not getting this. Of course you would start by breaking down the task. This is what you do with every task. You don't just gulp down an entire task without planning ahead or thinking about steps. So this is no different than saying "now start doing the task". It is silly self-encouragement, trying to trick your brain into thinking that you did something to alleviate the problem. You did not. You just started the dreaded task and made yourself focus.

I am tired of seeing these kinds of "advices from experts" online and in self development books.
You seem to be assuming the mindset that nothing matters after an individual dies.

I'm sure you are not surprised to hear that many disagree with this.
If it goes on my taxes, it's part of comp.
It isn't $40 for content you don't use; it's $40 for the content you do use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC_Computer_Games

That's the book I learned to program from, a compilation of games in BASIC published in 1973. I don't know the truth of the GP's claim but reportedly that book was very influential so there might be something to it.
There are costs to "dedication to a job". These costs must be balanced with benefits, or choosing them is irrational.

Notice you're talking about "dedication", which is different than "I'm working on rewarding problems in a fun team". That's the opposite of dedication. Dedication is what keeps you committed to a team when it's no longer fun, working on problems that are no longer rewarding.

I've seen plenty of people give their heart and soul to startups, that ended up exiting in ways that made the founders and VCs rich, while these people walked away with nothing, often not even a job (since their old job was effectively gone in the exit). Is it rational to choose such fate?
We are adding something called a "rolling aggregation", where you receive a record, accumulate it and then emit the current accumulated value. I'm not sure if this matches what you want.
The Pill came about in 1960, and probably had a large effect in reducing teen pregnancies. Legalizing abortion a large effect as well.
I've worked at a couple of the top tech companies and have been co-founder of a startup with a successful exit.

Pros:

* Low stress. I find the most stressful thing at work is trying to figure out what my boss wants. (Small) Startups are easy -- just stay alive and find product market fit.

* Power/control. Things are small, so it's easy to know a large part of the codebase/product. This allows one to quickly make changes to support the business.

Cons:

* Pay. This has been well documented in this thread.
No mention here of SMILE which seems to be gaining ground in much of the world, but pretty rare in the US.

https://www.allaboutvision.com/visionsurgery/smile.htm

Seems interesting, no flap like with LASIK and it may result in fewer cases of dry eyes. Has anyone here had it?
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It would be better if there's a software that can convert stl files to cardboard patterns to cut out. Would be exciting for complex shapes (ex: formed keyboards like The Dactyl/Manuform).
Now you’ve gone and ruined the placebo for the rest of us.
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Could be possible if a 4 light year wide telescope is sent via a worm hole to one of the galaxies in the Virgo cluster (65m light years away) and live imagery of Earth (not via worm hole) is sent back via the worm hole to Earth.
Agree but I think you need to make the distinction between 1.5 and 1.3. 1.5 was such a radical change that really paved the way to 2.0+ with the component syntax. At that point it was losing it's 1.x identity.
One thing I think most startups can do well to remember is that engineers are not the only hires a company needs to make and that modern tech companies very rarely fail due to technology factors. I'm curious why there isn't a greater emphasis placed on non-technical roles? My only conjecture is inherent bias, but I could well be biased myself in throwing that out there.