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>As the oxidize projects continue to land this email will become more and more obsolete. There's simply no way for C++ to compete with Rust,

Not everything is fixable with rust. JS, for one, is JIT compiled, so Rust wouldn't help much there (it's one of the reasons it's not being oxidized).

"Also, Rust’s memory safety only applies to code written in Rust, but a JIT compiler also generates machine code and then jumps to it. That generated code does not benefit from rustc’s static analysis."[1]

[1]. https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/8ptnfr/servo_to_upgra...
I like how the author vacillates between "securing the web", "securing all traffic" and "encrypting the web". Because those things are totally the same thing.

I actually had a whole rant ready to go about how people pushing HTTPS like it's Web Contraception is actually harmful to end users and organizations alike, but it appears there are genuine whackos out there now who have picked up on all the flaws in HTTPS and are making up things as they go now. Interesting.
Not in all cases; republicans are much more frequently bad from my POV and I assume yours. However they do both act frequently in favor of corporate interests. A recent example being this: https://nyti.ms/2x6c1xI
I can specifically recommend doom-emacs.
Yea totally, Sawyer filters fit them nicely too. They're VERY durable, as in I've got one bottle I've carried probably hundreds of miles by now over several trips and it's been dropped and squeezed thousands of times. Looks like a bear chewed it up, but it still does not leak.

Pro tip: you can replace the O-ring that comes with the filter for a durable rubber one used for garden hoses for a real nice fit on the smartwater bottles, and have some extras because the worst is if you lose that seal (or it is damaged) and you are out in the wilderness.
Con: Aggressive copy+pasting of giant tech companies. I get the sense that start ups are now just market-fit validators who assume all the risk without the ability to reap all of the benefits.

Snapchat + Spotify comes to mind. Unless your company has to make heavy investments in operations infrastructure (think Airbnb/Uber) go in with the mindset that you will definitely be competing against FAA(N)G (not so much Netflix), as soon as your product gets some market-fit.
This reminds me of the great book "The Situation Is Hopeless But Not Serious" [0] by the Austrian-American psychologist Paul Watzlawick. Excellent use of reverse psychology, let's you realize how many of those approaches you tend to use in your daily life.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Situation-Hopeless-Serious-Pursuit-Un...
Ok, so Texas is technically in the South... you got me.

I suppose I should have clarified: major southeastern cities (Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh, D.C., Nashville, Miami)
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> Not sure what part of the HN hivemind I upset with that

Intentionally or not, you implied that people working at big companies (which is a lot of the people here) are not doing anything meaningful.

Second, there's an immune response to this idea because it is part of the startup mythology that leads to a lot of people making economically suboptimal decisions about where to work, which is basically the whole topic we are discussing here.
You don't need to compile vim for clipboard support these days. On Mac, `brew install vim`, on Ubuntu `apt-get install vim-gtk`. The latter I think comes with the gui version of vim but you don't have to use it, it also includes a `vim` binary with clipboard support.
I'm under the impression that the Milgram experiments are also not quite what people have generally been lead to believe. I've not read the book yet (I just got a copy though)

>"Over 700 people took part in the experiments. When the news of the experiment was first reported, and the shocking statistic that 65 percent of people went to maximum voltage on the shock machine was reported, very few people, I think, realized then and even realize today that that statistic applied to 26 of 40 people. Of those other 700-odd people, obedience rates varied enormously. In fact, there were variations of the experiment where no one obeyed."

-Gina Perry, author of Behind the Shock Machine: The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments. https://www.npr.org/2013/08/28/209559002/taking-a-closer-loo...
(I've not read the book yet, but I just got a copy.)
I have no expertise in this area, but I came across this NASA resource which seems to fit with your goals:

Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) at NASA

https://gcmd.nasa.gov/

The GCMD holds more than 35,000 Earth science data set and service descriptions, which cover subject areas within the Earth and environmental sciences. The project mission is to assist researchers, policy makers, and the public in the discovery of and access to data, related services, and ancillary information (which includes descriptions of instruments and platforms) relevant to global change and Earth science research. Within this mission, the directory also offers online authoring tools to providers of data and services, facilitating the capability to make their products available to the Earth science community. In addition, citation information to properly credit data set contributions is offered, along with direct links to data and services. As an integral part of the project, keyword vocabularies have been developed and are constantly being refined and expanded.
It seems like your criteria for understanding is essentially impossible to test for. What's the point of it?
The linked demo is by far the most impressive thing I've seen all week. I wish a certain Microsoft chart editor was as easy and unfinicky to use as this demo from 1966 (52 years ago), and that's still one of the better editors out there.
Apparently neither have browsers.

I get the same support requests all the time. "How do I know if my internet's broken???" Proceed to walk someone through 50 technical steps, when a button on a browser that the user could push would tell me everything I needed to know in one shot to fix their problem.
Not sure why you're being downvoted... if we accept as true the assumption that the majority of crypto purchases are speculative investments, and not purchases with the intent to use the crypto to directly buy goods, then yes, buying crypto is indeed a sign of risky behavior, since holding crypto as an investment likely gives you a similar risk profile to holding junk bonds or investing in penny stocks.
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> I hear this charge a fair amount, but it seems really unlikely that Apple moved to USB-C solely to "sell stupid dongles," for the fairly obvious reason that you don't need to buy your dongles from Apple.

This is classic techy naivety.

When Apple marketing looks at what percentage of their customers almost certainly going to buy dongles exclusively from them, what number do you think they come up with? If you're under 50% you are WAY off.

Tens of millions of dog-loyal Apple customers don't even suspect that using another company's dongle is even an option. And how insane is the markup on Apples dongles? Use your head, man.
while the submissiveness angle is interesting, the most intriguing/important conclusion of the article is how impelled we are to see ourselves as the "good guys/girls", and how that's rationalized. time and again, the author comes back to this specific rationalization, including in reference to his bank-robbing cousin and zimbardo himself.

when you're trying to understand someone else's "bad" actions, it's important to realize that they don't see themselves as a bad person, that their rational brains will wrap memories around an inherent belief in their own "goodness". that comes from a regular failing in how we narrate our lives into simple categories of "good" and "bad".

people make mistakes constantly, and are constantly making up for them. social life is an endless chain of conflict resolution with ourselves as the protagonist.
>Be afraid, be very afraid, of economic loss.

I've always made a mental connection between permabears/zerohedge readers as likely miserable and unhappy people. The wild conspiracy theories and general hatred of certain groups in comment sections doesn't help, but noticed online and in person that people who are always predicting/worrying about the next catastrophe (financial or otherwise) generally lead unhappy lives.
IF that was true, then perhaps more effort should be directed towards making Gecko a drop in engine?

The big "benefit" of webkit is that it is a engine without the whole "browser" thing tagging along.

But the last time i poked at getting gecko to stand on its own, albeit some time ago, it involved grabbing Firefox and giving it some configure (or whatever that python thing that is masking as configure that Mozilla is using these days) options to have it barf out only Gecko.
Presumably the difference between this and a "body shop" is that YC, having significant investment in the success of a business, would be less interested in "supplying bodies" than ensuring the business' success.

Whereas a outsourcing company would benefit by providing as many staff members as possible, if YC or the like were to do it, they'd likely want to zero out the "profit" on supplying employees: To keep it affordable for a startup, and to not break the incentive for YC: To push companies to success via whatever resources they can offer.

Particularly if YC's "cut" was solely in the form of share of the business, they'd have no benefit to over-pushing poor quality labor on their own companies: It'd just doom them.
Is it supposed to do something when I enter an address?
Are these engineers at Facebook/Google/etc. working the typical 40 hour work week or more like 60-80?
Surely five minutes spent learning a debugger isn't really in the spirit of the rest of the post. It should be more like "read the entire man page of the debugger and try some of it out." Five minutes is only enough to learn how to shove the work-flow you already know into a new tool, not to learn the work flow that is actually suited to that tool.
As I understand it, aviation autopilot is generally used in open air where there are typically not frequent stationary objects the software is not designed to detect. Also usually sold in a different way to a different market.
Currently it's not hard for a software developer to find a job, especially those that YC startups would want to hire.

So I don't think stability is much of an issue in the current economy, developers are not afraid to lose their job because they know they'll have dozen of opportunities just by activating their network.
I have no way to prove this, but the standard explanation is that other companies are stupid and just want to ape Apple, thinking they'll somehow capture Apple's loyal customers. Cargo-cult mentality.

Of course, there's also the fact that extra ports take up more space, and it's easier to just eliminate features that not enough customers care about. But enough people seem to be complaining that it looks like it really is just cargo-cult behavior, just like these companies have needlessly aped Apple on other design decisions instead of trying to pursue other market niches.
Excuse me?

I love Firefox. I don't want it to retire and why would you want to limit choices for other people?

Also how do you make the case that Chromium can survive without Google continuous investment in Chrome?

Mozilla got money to continue Firefox to give competition. People can say whatever they want but Firefox is a good browser and the company have made many good moves to make the internet a good and open place where as others have attacked it. To tell a company to retire it main product that bring it money is beyond reason. Especially a company that aren't doing any harm to anybody.
Maybe a devil's deal, but not with the goal of under-paying employees.

I know very few founders who have the highest salary at their own company, which is as it should be. Founders of VC-backed companies are making an explicity equity-vs-salary trade-off.

And every founder I know would love to pay employees more.

The challenge is that taking VC money is a commitment to try to figure out how to grow relatively quickly. There are never enough resources to try all the things you wish you could, on the way to product-market fit.

It's perfectly reasonable to criticize this model, but it's not a model that is intended to negatively impact early stage employees. Hence the discussion in this thread, much of which is about how the economic context in the SF Bay Area employee market has changed, and how to adapt.

Look at this another way: employees at early stage boot-strapping tech startups generally make less money than employees of early stage VC-backed startups.
Google has an office in Chicago, but from what I hear it's almost entirely sales jobs.

I live in Chicago and periodically have Google recruiters contacting me, and it's never been for a position in Chicago, it's only ever been for Mountain View.
I see. I arrived at the $18 through trial and error. It's very new though. It used to be $14, which was way too low. Following common startup advice, I raised to $28. Sales halved so there was no advantage. So now I'm trying $18.
Lots of hiring in FPGAs right now, especially in vehicle sector. Bitmain is rocking custom ASICs. Micron processors in memory are still maturing.

I'd look into applying at a national lab in their team that looks into new/custom chips. The supremacy of TSMC has evened out the market and even Intel is no longer a sure bet long term.
> 12. Glorify or vilify the past.

Do not do this. Do not live in the past. Do not think about what might, what could, what should have happened. Learn from it and move onwards. Nothing good comes from constantly dwelling on things that can't be changed.
Yep, and that's my point: startup compensation is below market even for average, not well known companies.
Financials/execution/governance are surprisingly similar to programming. You have to have a solid overall design, and a bug-free implementation.

A great architect creates frameworks and structures that enable less-experienced people to be productive as well, while simultaneously making many of the typical errors impossible.

In a typical startup, the "business guy" is responsible for both the business insights, and the actual running of the corporation. On the other side of the fence, the technical finder is responsible for the product ownership and implementation. Both parties would benefit from reflecting on the similarities.

One of the big ones for me was realizing a "business visionary" who can't create a cash flow forecast is about as useful as an enterprise architect who can't code fizz buzz. It's not exactly in the job description, but being useless at the implementation almost always makes you useless at the design too.
This sounds very American. No bank I've ever been in contact with have mentioned anything about a "credit line". Whenever I take up a loan the bank will use some third party company to make a credit rating of me, but I don't think it would matter to the credit rating whether I had a line of credit or not.

In most of Scandinavia (Europe?), we don't use credit cards day to day. Most have access to a credit card which can be used in a pinch (not recommended ofc) or when buying expensive things or travelling abroad or whatever, but day to day payments is with a debit card for most people.
>But if I had to do it all over again, I still might do the startup route. It's just more fun. There's more to life than money.

Easy to say because you have gotten the money. :-D
At the end of the day, when your company gets sold, and your founder worked on the company for 1-2 years before you did, but they walk away with millions and you walk away with the equivalent of a Camry - I question whether equity is not the solution.

In terms of market rate salary, the startup will never match FAANG. Seriously. I'm talking about Sign-on bonus, annual bonus, re-ups, benefits (like a heart-transplant $100k operation for your kids), gym membership, rent subsidies, etc...

So it has to be equity since that's all the startup can offer. It's income inequality 101, what we're living in.

Anyways, at some point, I'm complaining, because the system is the way it is and we have to live with reality. And I understand that if founders didn't make it out big enough, they wouldn't start one in the first place. But I have a feeling that if enough people were educated on how much a bad deal being an early employee was, we could tip the scale a bit.
You can just use pages, that big corps are using for that. E.g. I use msftconnect.com/redirect
I suppose it depends on how it ends up being implemented. I was envisioning something fairly automated, which could presumably spit out PACKAGE VERIFIED information that could be used in systems not requiring users to be technical.
A burst bubble will kill pretty much every startup that can't get to profit with what they have in the bank right now. Raising will be next to impossible. You do not want to be at a startup if that happens.

I'm old enough to have seen the dot-com bubble and it's aftermath, and it wasn't pretty.
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The last experience I have with unlimited PTO is it being unlimited PTO until people actually try to take PTO. Then that all goes to shit.
You’re right, I had my facts wrong. However, although not necessarily the case here, voting against certain guaranteed to pass measures is just talking the talk, not really walking the walk. Democrats don’t really push for anti-corporation policy in general.
400K is average L5-L6 total comp including salary, bonus, and RSUs. (A lot of folks in this thread seem to be confusing base salary with total comp.)
Frankly the idea of consumers making informed choice is hogwash from end to end. Either we do so on whims, or we pick whatever is in front of us because we can't go another day without. Neither allows for "informed" decisions in the sense the economics textbooks present.
Here's more fun facts from a non-swede who's lived in Sweden for a long time. I am currently in Berlin.
I travelled by subway (paid by mobile phone) to get to the airport train in Stockholm (paid again by app on phone). I bought a can of soda - again with my phone (samsung pay with NFC, works almost everywhere now).
I then boarded the plane by phone (never showed ID - some airlines dont ask for it for flights to Schengan countries).

Note, i never used my credit card once. Only my phone!

Then i landed in Germany...... (cash is king here!)

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I haven't been a merchant in a while, but I all I remember was a set transaction fee with an additional percentage of the purchase tacked on. The fees were dependent on the type of card, Visa, MC, Amex, & Discover, and had nothing to do with the card issuer.

Do they really deduct the issuer's point scheme from the merchant account now? That seems like it would be difficult to manage, what with rolling point schemes and whatnot. Not to mention it would be near impossible for the merchant to keep balanced books if they don't know their costs per purchase until after they've been paid.
To be more particular, though:

- W^X defends against a subset of attacks that privsep defends against.

- Privsep is a bigger architectural impact than W^X. The entire app, almost everything, is impacted by privsep. Only the JIT is impacted by W^X.

So while it is nice that Firefox has been doing W^X, it doesn't mean they're closer to huge steps like Chrome-level privsep of processes. I hope they are, though.
Cool! But the model of earth appears to experience gimbal lock - use quaternions for rotations.
There is no average startup. Everything depends on the competence of the founders, and whether the project sincerely excites you. There is a world of difference between a badly run startup focused on a boring market, versus a well run startup focused on an exciting possibility that might honestly make the world a better place.

Sturgeon's Law says that 90% of everything is crud, and that applies to startups. The good ones are rare. If you get a chance to work at one of the good ones, you should go for it. But can you be sure? Sometimes the founders are talented at selling a false image of what the project will entail.

Startups are a chance to build something entirely original with brilliant and ambitious people. But startups are also dangerous. Limited money means there is little room for mistakes. One bad decision can mean bankruptcy. The potential payoff attracts capital, which in turn attracts scam artists. The unscrupulous often lack the skills needed to succeed, but sometimes they are smart enough to trick investors. Even entrepreneurs who start with a strong moral compass can find that the threat of failure unmoors their ethics from their ambition. Emotions matter. We might hope that those in leadership positions possess strength and resilience, but vanity and fragile egos have sabotaged many of the businesses that I’ve worked with. Defeat is always a possibility, and not everyone finds healthy ways to deal with the stress.

As an example of what can go wrong, see here:

https://www.amazon.com/Destroy-Tech-Startup-Easy-Steps/dp/09...
“One eye”, in humans, has about 125 million sensors (120 million rods, 6 million cones) Calling that “one sensor” is cheating slightly.

But yes, you only need that second eye for stereo vision if you only have data from a single moment in time.

In theory, you can see perfect 3D with a single photoreceptor by scanning with it (giving up temporal resolution, a bit like a electron gun that can write a million pixels per second writes only 50 or 60 images a second on a tv)
>It emerged last year that the UK is the world’s largest producer and exporter of cannabis for medical and scientific use. It provides the majority of the world’s medicinal cannabis exports, 67.6%, mainly to countries with more liberal usage laws.

So the country has no problem exporting it what won't allow someone who has shown provable medical benefits to posess a small quantity of something that drastically improves their quality of life?
I was just writing a comment on here the other day about whether there should be a “Paul Graham test” based mostly on the essays “Great Hackers” and “Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule.”

The unequivocal importance of private offices is mentioned in both (in the latter, it’s focused on how meetings swiss-cheesify the day, but the point is obviously the same as that of private offices vs. open plan interruptions.)

So it remains a mystery why Y Combinator and YC-backed companies, so informed by many of Graham’s viewpoints, aren’t more proactive about this.
Sainsbury's to sell vegan 'fake meats' next to real thing in trial
Sadly, whatever "digital hub" they come up with as an alternative to G Suite is going to suck. Let's face it, it's a school board not a product development team.

Perhaps there's some kind of clever business model to be worked out here by the right entrepreneur.
First world problem but south/east-bound El Camino Real from Page Mill until San Antonio Rd has some rough edges.

- Pothole so deep, it would swallow a bicycle, skateboard, motorcycle or Ferrari
near Military Way, Palo Alto, CA 94306
https://goo.gl/maps/rJjpmYL9Nnk

Another: Unnamed Road, Palo Alto, CA 94306
https://goo.gl/maps/MQ5sCZ5p6Vz

Worse, there are several left-turn prox sensors permanently false positive such that if you miss the timing, you’ll be stuck waiting for the Godot ghostrider. And in CA, it’s illegal to run a malfunctioning red traffic signal, because cities need fund$ from “guilty, next” traffic kangaroo court.
Not if <inserted item>'s state stops changing. :)
I think this is a real advantage that startups can have in hiring over big companies. At most big companies, the first screen is from a non-technical recruiter, and they won't be able to do this.
I think we may have had the same first job out of college.
You fundamentally misunderstand what marriage is.
Well it all depends if you are in a winner-take-most market.