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This.

I'm also Swedish, and I even used to work in cash processing (at Loomis) 10 years ago. Now, after they've changed the way coins and banknotes look - I'm just as clueless as everyone else.

Usually you don't need cash, even when visiting small events.

For example, while visiting a neighboring city's historical event:
- Paying for tickets: wireless debit card reader, outside on a temporary setup table under a tree.
- Paying for a horse and cart ride: Mobile payment (Swish)
- Paying for toilets at a restaurant (free for customers, but we didn't order food): SMS payment.

In many cases you are asked to pay by debit card or mobile, as nobody wants to carry around or handle a lot of cash. But at the same time, you usually can pay using cash - you just have to carry a lot of different notes and coins, as the vendor might not have any change.
I recently started skateboarding again after many years. I've been going to the local skatepark at least twice a week at a time when most people don't go (early mornings). There, I've met a bunch of other dads reconnecting with skating (and probably their youth).

Before, I used to live in DC and was obsessed with golf. I'd go down to a nearby public golf course at first light. Often I'd join a foursome of total strangers, I've met all sorts, lawyers, a local news presenter and even someone relatively high up at NASA.

I realized that the theme for me was to simply pursue what you love, commit some time to it. This leads naturally to meeting people with a common interest.
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damn i was about to buy a phone compatible with it...
NoScript, uBlock or uMatrix offer this (largely). Fingerprinting relies heavily on Javascript. Many sites work just fine without it or with first-party JS only (fingerprinting is mostly done by third-party trackers).
I found the anecdotes from John Carmack about working with Jobs really interesting in this regard. Apart from being probably very smart Jobs did care a lot about the things they were building, and willing to throw everything overboard if you could convince him that an existing approach was not the right thing to do. It is something many managers or leaders lack IMHO, not willing to do the "right thing" because of politics, market studies or something else.
> You can grant equity out of the option pool, which you defined in collaboration with your investors.

Obviously I'm simplifying here, but overall yes, it's far easier for a startup to give equity than cash, for the reasons I mentioned.

Especially if I'm an early stage startup, maybe after a small seed round, I will surely have enough options in the pool, or investors lenient enough to let me issue these extra stock in the unlikely case I'll need them.

> I have raised money from VCs.

So you know how unrealistic it is to raise VC rounds just to support salaries for a handful of new engineering hires.
Banks are in the business of risk management. They apply that to money, but ultimately, they are all about that risk.
That division of assets is cheaper if you married someone who earns as much as you.
>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.

I think it's just not a very human mindset. I've talked to natural scientists and social scientists alike. All of them want their research to succeed, they all want to get their PhDs, get good results for their postdocs, get publications going etc.

The incentive is just there to publish somewhat inflated results. If you could get a PhD for systematcally dismantling studies (which would be much more useful than most PhD studies), we'd have a replication crisis in every field.
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I have a first.last gmail address. I have gotten a few dozen emails intended for others, notably including legal papers for a divorce.

One thing I learned from getting other people's emails is that some websites let you pay for things without email confirmation, but require you to receive the email to access it. Nexon game points or something? I tried to report the screwup, but the site wouldn't let you contact them without a login.
It's only a lonely road because of decisions they made themselves.

Maybe if they stopped treating themselves like some anointed class and shared the equity with their employees instead of viewing them like lower-class citizens it wouldn't be so hard to find comrades.
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Well, you'd have to convince not me but the moderators of the site of that. They're quite explicitly off-topic in the written guidelines. Have been for many years along with 'neither downvotes nor upvotes come with an explanation obligation'.

And more generally, it's social interaction, not a compiler. Like most social interactions and for most people, it's not that hard for a newcomer, with a bit of participation, to sort out the context and written and unwritten norms, without constant and explicit error messages.
So much good input here, and as a person outside of SV I am sad for those that chase the brass ring without realizing it is on someone else's finger. I agree that if you are hiring early employees at below market rate because you cant pay market rate then you shouldn't be hiring employees. But that's worthless input because there will always be a person willing to take the low paying job thinking it will pay off. For shame and oh well.
Enumerations in Turbo Pascal

type Colours = (Red, White, Blue);

Enumerations in Go

type Colours int

const (
Red Colours = iota
White
Blue
)

FFI in Turbo Pascal

function Sin(const num: Integer): Double; external 'ext name';

FFI in Go (requires external help from a C compiler)

// #include <stdio.h>
// #include <errno.h>
import "C"

func Sin (num uint) float32 {
return C.sin
}

Reference parameters in Turbo Pascal with null safety thanks type system

procedure Swap(var a,b:Integer);
var
temp: Integer;
begin
temp:=a;
a:=b;
b:=temp
end;

Swap(x, y)
Swap(nil, y) { compiler error: Got "Pointer" expected "SmallInt" }

Reference parameters in Go (no type safety via type system, manual testing for nil required)

func Swap (a *int, b*int) {
var temp = *a
*a = *b
*b = temp
}

Swap(&x, &y)
Swap(nil, &y) { runtime error: Invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference }

I was also tempted to move the time scale from 1992 to 2009, but then I wouldn't be able to reproduce the generics from Object Pascal in Go.

Ah, and Turbo Pascal 5.5 was compiling around 34 000 lines/minute in computers whose CPUs were maxed at about 30 MHZ, http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/20803
Not only is the replication crisis not solely about psychology, the numbers are far worse than half for fields like chemistry, biology, and physics[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis#Overall
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> Which voltage, and how much current? Put 20V down the wire and you'd blow up a device expecting 5V. Pull 100W through a cable rated for 5W and you'd burn your house down.

Those aren't really cable issues. All USB-C cables support 20 volts and 60 watts. The only cable permutation is whether it's 3 or 5 amps, which isn't a fire-hazard-level distinction, just a small annoyance.
I sometimes do that as a joke, kind of a revenge not being the first one to get the email address.
On a related note, I'm repeatedly surprised by how much the packaging design in foods/edible products seems to be explicitly designed to convey a sense of "health-conscious" awareness/ things like cute leaf designs and appealing white/off-white packaging when really if you look at the ingredients, itll be full of refined sugars - seems like the related industries might need some kind of regulations as well

But I guess this would just roll up into "food industry regulation" anyways
I was a lawyer for a big SV law firm for 2.5 years doing company options, VC funding rounds and M&A. Then I was an early employee and engineer for a startup 5 years. I've seen this from multiple angles and the folks with a lot of startup experience will tell you that it's not worth the money - you're doing it mostly for non-monetary rewards. Engineers deciding between FAANG or a startup should not kid themselves with founder hype.

What can YC do to help?
- Provide transparency in the form of data, particularly into outcomes. For a typical YC graduating startup, what % of them have an exit within 4 or 6 years? What is the distribution of outcomes for a 1% common stock holder? Only then can engineers properly value their options. Founders will typically multiply the equity by the last funding valuation or $1 billion and claim that is how the employee's options should be valued. Only someone like YC has the access to do this type of analysis.
- There's a lot of incompetence and bad behavior by founders that investors and outside board members don't see. If you really want to understand what is going on, always have an inside channel. You should also provide these inside channels to all interested board members and investors. Not everyone is willing to do talk but someone usually is and ex-employees are usually willing to. You don't have to always do something about it but failing to talk to employees and only relying on founders to tell you what's going on is just sticking your heads in the sand.
- Options are broken. No employee should be required to fork out $50k to buy something that (1) they already worked very hard for, (2) potentially has no value, (3) will completely forfeit if they can't come up with the cash in a month, and (4) may even have to pay additional taxes to acquire. There are a few ways YC can help:
(a) Establish a standard among new YC companies docs, stating that employees should have up to 12 months after termination to purchase the shares. Better yet, establish a standard such that employees should be allowed to keep vested options and not exercise until a liquidity event, no matter when that might be. If you guys set that standard, then maybe other companies may follow suit.
(b) Advocate a change to tax laws so that exercising options does not have such negative AMT tax consequences, except when there is a liquidity event.
It reads as if you equate the term "remote" with "remote (US)". The term "remote team" most obviously implies your pool of developers includes the entire earth (bar some language/timezone difficulties).
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"You dont get something just because you need it"

Huge applause.

"You need to raise more money"

Crowd falls silent.

How about trying to sell something and generate revenue. I long ago stopped subscribing to Startup Porn but I remain baffled as to how seemingly smart people are so intoxicated by it that the notion of building an actual business is an afterthought.
For early engineers, dealing with the beginnings of software and corporate systems and seeing how they can shape them up, the temptation to work long hours is at least as bad.

Don't act like founders are unique in this affliction.
If its worth 100 million it isnt a startup.
I'm living in California and I have this idea for a zoning law: if a residential plot of land sells for more than $X million per acre, it is automatically up zoned to higher density. That way if the market says a location is really valuable more people get to live there.

I've theory-crafted other potential policies like "require any increase in office build density to be matched by increased residential density". That seems more potentially game-able than simply increasing density of properties the market had determined are valuable.
lastname@gmail.com here. I really don't understand people. Especially when I get invoices and/or important-looking reminders.
And that remaining 25% would help you pay for rent in retirement... How?

Not everyone wants to move to Ohio to retire.
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I once contracted at a company that gave out random three letter initials to people. Prized ones were initials such as SQL, TCP and the like.
A few years ago, "my" bank had a really good year and sent non reloadable VISA cards to all of their customers, sharing the profit. I don't remember exactly how much I got at that time, bit it was probably somewhere between 100-200 SEK.

Edit: I live in Sweden.
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Anyone from the GraphQL camp care to weigh in against this argument?
Anyone can start a business, and anyone should. The things you mentioned - "pivoting" "overcoming powerful rivals" - goodness. How about simply starting a business that earns more money then it spends. Do that and you will learn most any lesson you need to know about being a "founder."
I guess I might phrase it something like, if you're going to make L5 it is probably the result of excessive competence. If that is you, you will get their faster cutting your teeth in at least a few different startups. Develop judgement and a variety of experiences.
Spending your day commuting and living in a car dependent hell hole is smarter, just because you can retire a bit sooner? What alternative universe has HN transformed into?
FB seems getting in hot soup from all sides - not surprisingly. Their whole outfit is not worth 10 p.
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Aren't there bad actors in every space, especially with new technology that stands out or is new to a community?

I'm yet to see them where I live, though we do have Ofo shared bikes here which have often fallen over which looks a bit crap. But I'm keen to see the scooters arrive. Seems like a great option which requires limited storage/parking space.
RPI gave out usernames using the first five letters of the last name and the first initial. The result was, I, a lowly undergrad, got hughes@rpi.edu and a professor named Greg Hughes, who was around long before me, had hugheg@rpi.edu. That was funny. All I got out of it were a few emails from students in his classes.
Don't give up on Python! The eco-system is young, but it is there. Saturday just gone, I gave a presentation at PyLondinium [1] on "GraphQL in Python" (Slides: [2], video to follow). For the purpose of the presentation, I put together a simple server example [3].

[1]: https://pylondinium.org/
[2]: https://alexchamberlain.github.io/presentation-pylondinium-g...
[3]: https://github.com/alexchamberlain/city-api/
Don’t forget people who:
- don’t have parents
- are estranged from their parents
- would never accept anything from their parents, even after death
- whose parents never escaped poverty for long enough to buy property
I didn't get that impression from the Carmack stories at all. If you haven't had a chance before, dig into the early Mac development history at folkore.org. A number of the stories involve the team engaged in some (in hindsight) hilarious and ridiculous effort to humor, misdirect or otherwise manage Jobs in situations that arose primarily from him being profoundly, stubbornly, catastrophically wrong. The eventual resolution never involves Jobs saying 'ok, ok, you lot were right, let's do it your way'.
Hm? Plenty of startups have current valuation over $100m.

However, I just chose this number because it is nice and round so the math is obvious.
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Are you spending on marketing currently? If yes, how much are you spending and what's your ROI? Do you outsource or you DIY? If you outsource, are you happy with your existing marketing agency/partner? By marketing I mean spending on UI/UX, copy, social media, google ads, landing pages etc. Edit: How much time do you invest in marketing on a daily/weekly/monthly basis?
Start closing them pretty fast and this will pop up.

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First, having a "one name email" is a needlessly complication and a narcissism certificate. No, you're not the only Peter/Steve/Michael/John/Anne/Carol in this company. Even if you just started. Deal with it.

If your name is rare enough that's fine, but it's better to keep to a pattern. Also use aliases (billing@, legal@, etc).
754 has won, as has little endian. Even PowerPC has switched. There are IBM mainframes still being made but even they are now bi-endian because they know they've lost the war.
Or maybe therapists just don't work and have no evidence of working for this kind of disorder. The argument that "maybe you wind up with an ineffective therapist" is a pure No True Scotsman. How do you know which therapist is effective and when, or whether they are better than talking to friends or perhaps just time?

Actual scientists are having problems formulating good effectiveness studies there. Much less a person with problems who is geographically limited and cannot shop around.

While in some cases there is clear evidence, trying to fix personal issues with work like this is not one of them.
Ask HN: News you can hear?
Is there a service where you can listen to the latest news? Something like an audio newspaper?

For example today there is a lot of stuff written about the meeting between Trump and Kim Jong Un that took place a few hours ago. And instead of reading what happened I would like to listen to it.

It should be in plain mp3 format that I can download.

Any tips?
I have reject@gmail.com crazy, crazy amount of spam from dummy accounts and/or developer emails.
It sounds like it could be burnout. There have been many discussions of burnout on HN - some of them might be useful:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=burnout&sort=byPopularity&date...
> He couldn’t get the email at Science, the tech incubator, because it was already taken by another Peter, who had co-founded the firm, Peter Pham. Mr. Pham had previously tried to get colleagues at the incubator to call Mr. Szabo by his last name to secure his status as The Peter of Peter@science-inc.com.

I puked in my mouth a bit when I read this.
When an authority figure says something, listeners are more likely to accept it, even if it is wrong. That's just human nature. So authority figures have an extra duty to think about the effects of what they're saying.

They owe their success to these people and so the way that they can pay it back is by using their voice as a tool for improving things.
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What a dramatic article over something so silly. WSJ has really gone downhill.
I'm talking about this. A GitHub specific feature that helps people out.

https://blog.github.com/2017-04-11-private-emails-now-more-p...
It's ironic how the author comes across as utterly condescending and miserable herself. I don't see how this article may be helpful to anyone struggling with mental health issues, nor to their loved ones or therapists. Completely uninspired in its tone, exaggerated in its content, and unintelligible in its objectives.
I experienced a PayPal screwup like this once. Although I never clicked the confirmation email, the account was apparently still activated and I got purchase notifications for a little while.
Odd that you can see a correlation but claim no causation and then list nearly half a dozen reasons why birth rates a falling. Is it possible that you could add rising house costs to your list and that, as with list things, a number of factors fees into falling birth rates?
Hot take: assign everyone the address that's the SHA256 of the first and last names. That's the only way that's fair, right?
In my household sugary drinks were only allowed occasionally, otherwise the children just drank water. Now that they are grown up they continue to drink mostly water. It helps that we live in a small town in Norway that has very good water. If we had to drink water from some of the places I have visited in the US the story might have been different as the water tasted so bad. I suppose we would have bought bottled water.
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I often see questions asked in this manner on HN and they usually go without answers. I think the reason is that asking without telling us about yourself first feels kinda strange / egoistic. I'm pretty sure if you answer these questions yourself first and provide some background on what you do, people will fee much more inclined to join your discussion.
I spent all night focused on the talks about nuclear disarmament of North Korea and CNN's coverage thereof. This is exactly what I needed now. /s
For NYC it can be an easy 30-45 minute train ride where you are free to occupy your time with something productive.
I spent my teens in Hollywood and surrounding areas in the `70s. I sat in on many discussions about "Karma" there. Here's a summation of what I heard...

If your goal is to gather more wealth, or celebrity, or political power, then it is true that "justfull actions, and upright deeds [might] weigh and slow you down".

But you miss the entire point of Karma if you think those are worthy goals. Those are selfish goals and silly distractions in the work towards obtaining enlightenment, which is the intended goal (why we are here).

Aside from that, Karma is the law of cause and effect. But it's not a reward system that tallies up your good deeds and pays them at the end of every month.

Good Karma is what allows one to break down in their car in South Chicago and a stranger appears with the help you need to get back up and running and safely on your way.

You obtain good Karma via selflessness and a true sense of caring for others and doing what is right.

To trust in Karma means you must not seek revenge because it's a waste of time when you're seeking enlightenment. You leave the work to teach those who screw you up to Karma.

Now, if you screw up, screw others, cause pain and suffering, you will also cause a visit from Karma intended to provide you with the lessons you need. This will continue until you learn those lessons. The real lesson is you must seek enlightenment.

Ultimately, to believe in Karma you must also believe in everlasting life. If you don't, well then, Karma will make no sense at all to you.

Now, what you asked is "Is Karma real?"

All I can tell you is that I am poor but I live much better than most of those I met while living in LA, and everyone that's ever screwed me has had bad things happen to them that I had nothing to do with. And that I've been smacked down a few times too, and needed it. And that my work over the years has touched and made life better for a lot of people, and I feel good about that. My grandkids are visiting with my wife and I now. When they grow up the stories they hear about us will be of good times that were had with us. And even if I don't live on those will for quite some time.

So it's worked for me.
Yea and the majority of people don’t make anywhere near 400k. You still need a huge low paid workforce to get things running. Firemen, police, teacher, retail and grocery workers, cleaners, bus drivers, plumbers and the like.