skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep: for companies at their first financing stage, "companies with stable but unspectacular growth are somehow less risky than shoot-the-moon startups".

When small community banks disappeared (as nikanj points out), who would have financed these "sensible old-school companies with 10% per year growth and 15% profit/revenue ratios", that didn't make them riskier.

Meanwhile your subtext is that you just don't want to raise money. You spent a lot of words pinning it on how it's bad for VC's but all I asked you is what term sheet you'd write for yourself if you closed an hour later. None: you don't want investment. That's fine!
Setting aside that part of the article's point is that it's unclear what (if anything) the experiment shows at all, that's not really a rebuttal. You're agreeing that systems create behavior, and adding on that therefore those in the system need to be restrained with the threat of accountability.

But you see how even if you believe the experiment argues that systems need to be held accountable, that still lets individuals off the hook? "It's not my fault, I was only following orders. Someone should have been holding me accountable." In fact, the article has a direct account of Zimbardo's experiment being used to defend a criminal. It turns out later that the defense was largely a lie.
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Nigerian Scam took $110K from Kansas man; 10 years later, he's getting it back
Thanks for the response. Sometimes I get the impression that engineers are killing themselves doing nothing but work with occasional sleep, so it's good to hear you're around 45 hours.
I do not believe that a significant portion of the population on HN makes their money online. I believe remote work is an extremely small percentage of workers, regardless of gender.

The HN forums are mostly for discussion of the tech industry and emerging tech/trends. Job hunting is very secondary here.

Women in America most definitely can support themselves easily. We are a top country for gender equality. Even with a small pay gap, women can still support themselves here. BLS has a lot of informative data on women in the workforce for those interested.

So to summarize, yes - women can support themselves without a man in the USA today. Which I think was the poster's point.
It correlates with how much a business will be ultimately willing to pay a developer, if they have to.

If I'm making a $1M profit on you, I'll be willing to pay you up to a high fraction of this amount if I have to. Financially, even if I pay you $950K, I'm still making money. Assuming my business scales, I'd hire as many engineers like you as possible, and pay them the same. Why not? I'm making a profit for each one. Great deal for me.

Of course, if you're willing to work for $100k, I'd rather pay you that instead. Hell, I'd rather you worked for me for free!
American coins are not very user friendly.

The big 25¢ coin isn't worth much, the tiny 10¢ is tiny, the 5¢ far too large, the 1¢ close to worthless. It's rare that you could make a purchase with only a few coins.

Most other wealthy countries with coins have a reasonable relation between the size (and often colour) of the coin and the value, and the coins have useful value. These are the Euro coins [1], one of each is €3.88 — already we can buy something! The €1 and €2 are thicker than the others, although of similar diameter to your quarter.

I much prefer this to the fairly dirty $1 bills in the US.

Euro coins: https://df2sm3urulav.cloudfront.net/tenants/ca/uploads/image... — some countries don't use the 1 and 2¢ coins.
Why would you use a loyalty card with card payment and not cash payment?

Paying with contactless in Europe:

- Cashier rings up items

- Tap your card on the screen

- Approved

- "No receipt please" (or some stores can automatically email your receipt)
I used to think banks hated us people who paid off our balance every month, but they still make money on us too...

The fees the vendor pays outweigh the cashback too. He says he paid $5 in fees, but that doesn't include the vendor's fees, which were probably baked into a lousy exchange rate.

I don't think there's any card that offers more than 1.5% cash back on everything (some offer above 1.5% on certain things). And most fees are at least 2%, so just on the transaction fee alone they cover the cost of points/cashback.
The idea behind the study was to try to understand how an entire nation - Germany - could go berserk with hatred and sadism. Scientific or not, the burden of proof lies with those who dispute Zimbardo’s (and Milgram’s) findings, because they have been borne out so many times in so many different contexts. Their work has never been more relevant than it is now, as we witness the rise of Trumpism.

What alternative explanations would you propose?
GitPub (or whatever it'll be named then) does not intend to replace git or any other VCS. Its stated goal is to enable federation between services such as GitHub, GitLab, Gogs, Gitea, Pagure… which happen to use git.

In other words, it means that if GitPub was adopted by these services, you could submit a merge request from Pagure to Gitlab, or star a GitHub project from your own Gitea instance, among many other things.
Zabbix is hard to configure. Need something easier.
The stock could have gone down also.
Total comp cannot take the upside of the stock.

You could have invested in the same stock and receive the same upside also. This is part of the luck in being in the right company or pick the right stock. That's why Total comp should be the number you got with the information you got at the time of the offer
I couldn't find this on your product page, but does Hazelcast Jet support "global windows"? I've found 90% of stream processing systems I've come across only work within a window, but if I need to perform a computation "for all time," I'm SOL.
DISCLAIMER: I've contributed a few times to the Serverless framework.

I like some things about Architect, but there are things that just don't make sense:

- Integrations with Slack but no way to define custom CFN resources

- No authentication support

- Custom file format (3)

- Not being able to set CORS in this custom file format (4)

- Magical vendor folders (5)

I am sorry for the negativity, but brianleroux has posted in this thread several times claiming his framework saves 700-line CloudFormation templates. What I don't see is him comparing snippets with say, the Serverless framework(1), or AWS SAM(2). He seems to portray the choices as either his pet-framework-of-the-month or plain old CloudFormation, and that's just not true. That's not to say Serverless or AWS SAM are perfect (they most certainly have their warts), but they are both arguably more mature and have larger communities behind them.

(1) https://serverless.com

(2) https://github.com/awslabs/serverless-application-model

(3) https://arc.codes/quickstart/arc-project-layout

(4) https://arc.codes/guides/cors

(5) https://arc.codes/guides/sharing-common-code
I have seen this too. Particularly when the first round of early employees don't have a lot of experience, but have a significant amount of influence and sway simply by nature of being an early employee. It can be very frustrating being someone with experience that has to sit back and watch big mistakes be made despite warnings from people who have done it before.

There's an attitude I've noticed also of, "we're not Xyz." Hate to break it, but most problems aren't really that unique. If you resist learning the lessons from other companies, you will repeat their mistakes.
FAANGMUA. The acronyms just keep getting better.
Would "dearest" be close to "kjæreste"?
Is this an opportunity for an entrepreneur?

Just asking, because, you know, what site is this?
OT: why does this website "need" javascript just to display _any_ article text?
Good luck telling Wisconsin cheese heads they can't call cheese what they've been calling it for decades.
That, and Chrome tends to make some hardline, opinionated changes that aren't reciprocated by other browsers. "It works in Edge and Firefox, but it's broken in Chrome" is a a fairly common thing to hear where I work.

This includes things like weird rendering bugs, and extra "Chrome-only" features.

Amusingly, as of last week, Chrome Experiments worked fine in Edge and Firefox, but was broken in Chrome. Because of Chrome's opinionated, built in whitelisting for media content forgot to include the Chrome Experiments domain name.

Yikes. It's starting to sound a lot like old IE.
Show HN: A simple Timer in bash.
I know those fees exist, but you don't pay "less" if you pay by cash.
So it fills my selfish definition of leaving money on the table.

It is not a global optimum though.
One thing I wish would change in hiring is that you are never allowed to be honest about your values if you happen to be a "work to live" type. For some people, a job is just a job. Sure, they might care about the company, the colleagues, and all else equal they want work to be meaningful. But they aren't actively emphasizing what they are passionate about as a factor in any job search.

Nonetheless, I can't tell you how often HR screeners or job ads go on about how only passionate people should apply.

I think we need to be more honest, and to allow candidates to be more honest during interviews, instead of trying to make everyone do an insincere song and dance about why they are passionate.
Getting a job is pretty straightforward.

1 - You need to be able to actually do the job

2 - You need to communicate well that you're able to do the job

I'd print out your CV and read it carefully 5 or 10 times, then I'd rewrite it eliminating unnecessary words paying attention to easy mistakes like.

> my career lifetime as a software engineer, I worked for five different companies in my career lifetime

I'd then move to your personal website and be critical about it, is it really showcasing the best work I've done?

Then I'd pick 5 of the best places you'd like to work for, find the exact position you'd like and follow the people that currently hold that position on twitter and also follow their managers who will be interviewing you.

I'd then make a list of all side projects this people are working on and analyse it carefully, is there anything there that you can't do? If yes, then I'd learn it and post on your site.

If no, then I'd create a side project to impress them all, ship it and post on your site.

When you get the phone call, I'd answer all questions precisely and without hesitation, and I'd try to correlate with something you have worked/done before.

I'd ask if that answers well or if I should keep going, and I'd definitely have a set of relevant questions to ask the interview.

More importantly, I'd think hard about the reasons I'm not getting a second interview. Only you know that and you can fix that.

> What things can I do for them that would help out the situation?

You can grab a coffee with them but you can't come across as desperate.

You can email them telling you're looking for new opportunities and ask if they know of any openings.

Then analyse carefully their responses and take it from there.

Don't be hard on yourself, get to work on a side project, create something that works and showcase your skills.
This is super good, thank you very much for having shared it.
I worked at startups back in the day and am now at a MediumCo and pretty happy with the situation, though missing out on the SV gold rush. I do think sometimes about returning to that world but I would need at a minimum:

* At least equal total compensation and benefits beyond the stock options.

* Reasonable compensation for the loss of job security.

* Support for my work-life balance, i.e. for my nonstandard schedule and geography requirements.

Given those things, what would motivate me to go to a startup?

* Solving a problem I care about, i.e. not selling ads or throwing elections or increasing device addiction.

* Serious, grown-up founders and leaders: no Boy Wonders, no Tech Bros, etc.

* Using technologies I respect.

I don't know how helpful that is to your overall goal, but it might be interesting as an "older" guy's perspective (mid-40's). I sort of doubt I'll get involved in startups again but if I do, I strongly suspect it'll be either as a technical founder or as the technical founder's VP of E.

For people like me, the "YC Consulting" model proposed in another comment could be pretty attractive. I guess it might already exist at e.g. Google (Ventures).
Nice hack. Doing this with an upper class British accent could help defuse the situation further.
I work at Google, used to work at Amazon, and had an offer from Microsoft.

From my experience, Google/FB pay much more than Amazon and Microsoft if we're talking about total compensation so I think it's a little more rare than what you're saying.

I don't think it's that easy to hit L5 either. My teammate is amazing and had like 8+ years at Microsoft before joining Google but was hired as an L4.

For most SWEs, L5 would be the last level they ever reach in their entire career..
That's the thing, right now, I don't really have the "right experiences" that's why startups do seem appealing.

I have the skills people are looking for but not the resume validation with internships, the right degree, or school. I got an internship at the start of my intensive where I got to work on some fun problems and used my marketing skills too.

I think the only other track would be through open source contributions. If we circled back in December or January, I wouldn't be surprised if I ended up at a non-tech SMB, small consultancy, or startup because of my prior experiences in marketing paired with my new SWE skills.

Something I was wondering, in your experience or anyone reading, do I have to always focus all the technology stacks for each role and project or can I focus more on the problem I solved?

For example, in my internship, for one problem that made a big difference was setting up all their email automation and tieing it into their website. That project wasn't a ton of programming but my work; but by the end got them about $150k in revenue with my other work on their Black Friday sale, as an intern. Most of the SWE projects I got started but wasn't able to finish in the 3 months (priorities kept changing) like a tool that converted audio from videos into searchable indexes for their youtube videos (granular text searchable video basically). I'm hoping to redo that project on my own. I did get their website to speed up though (an older WordPress website).
(Throwaway)

I work in human memory neuroscience / linguistics.

1. The 7-plus-or-minus-two study is entirely bunk. Welsh words are longer and yield < 7. This WM capacity is about verbal rehearsal.

2. Here's background reading on the complexity and debates over oscillation functions:
https://neurophysics.ucsd.edu/courses/physics_171/Buzsaki%20...
I'd be much more apt to do that if prices for things were easier to pay for without handling many different sized coins or bills. It isn't hard to do the math, but it is difficult to hunt for the CORRECT coins.

Also, in the US, why aren't all businesses required by law to just post the prices including all taxes and fees (but not discounts that might apply)?
To me, the cons of working at a startup in SV are these:

- lower salary than bigger cos

- mostly smaller/less challenging projects

- low chances of ever liquidating RSUs and if you do, the value will more likely be low with some very rare exceptions

- it's harder (or impossible) to achieve a decent lifestyle living in SF/Bay area with a startup salary

- lack of diversity in most small startup teams
I should not be expected to not plug a cable that matches the port.

If it fits, it sits. If I should only be using one cable for one port then they should be the only ones matching. And, if that one cable happens to lead to a plug in the wall somewhere then having MagSafe or comparable solutions is a lifesaver.

Removing these is beyond comprehension.

It may “just work” for Apple but it certainly does not for me.
No because European law does not allow them to do that. If you zero rate YouTube you have to zero rate all video streaming sites, for example.
How can an email service work without "reading" your email? Emails need to be indexed to be searcheable etc.
> leap tall buildings

what ?

ps: oh, comics
I've been unsuccessfully trying for a couple of minutes to identify the movie where I first heard the joke of the title.
That's a good point. This has been discussed as well for the renaming of Microsoft's GVFS.

GitPub is still very young, and it might end up supporting (D)VCS other than git, so absolutely nothing in it is definitive right now, not even the name.
I'm not sure about the specifics, but it would drop cars in the station on the route. It was from Amsterdam to Prague via Berlin. This was back in 2013, so I'm not sure if things have changed.
Yea it would seem like it, and worse you may drive users to adopt a 'less secure' passphrase because the first 5 characters of the hash of their super complex/long passphrase might collide with the first 5 characters of the hash of 'password1', so they may pick a weaker passphrase just to get the system to accept it?
Google's Skia team* is in Chapel Hill, Microsoft has a team in Raleigh working on VSTS. I know a few folks that have interned there.
Difficult to control for variables if you were going to try and conduct a proper scientific study.

The main proof we have is the results of people that have implemented the techniques described. But there are also other places where it's possible to take a closer look with a fairly large number of samples. Competitive multiplayer gaming is a good example, there are certainly competitors in that field who practice on a 'raw hours' basis and those that focus on individual skills in an ordered fashion. All that's needed is to go out and match that against their respective results.
Maybe I'm in a bubble but everyone around me is making at least 400k total comp. Doesn't seem that uncommon in California.
And buy gradually too for that matter. There's no way to time a peak/dip so this obviously spreads out your cost basis in case you're buying at the peak. You can also look at it as dollar cost averaging and continue to buy it as it goes down, again reducing your average cost.
Welp, the Senate did what they could to overturn this. Thanks House of Reps https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/16/611598361...
That is not true anymore. They have engineers now, and they're rapidly expanding.

They do have a low base though, $98.5k vs. like $110k or something in MTV (and of course most people negotiate that way, way up).
OpenWrt Forum is down for more than 25 days
Have you listened to the 'sibling' podcast on Eastern Philosophy? I've been meaning to check it out but haven't gotten to it yet. I did quite like History of Philosophy Without and Gaps, as far as I got anyways!
Yes, it seemed a bit random and confusing to me. I didn't think drugs or gambling obviously made people miserable - aren't they purpose made for pleasure? They don't really annoy other people either which turned out to be what the list was actually about - it should be called "Behaviors I don't like in other people because I don't know how to handle them".
I forget my PIN every 8-12 months and have to wait for a letter from my bank before I can withdraw cash from an ATM
It would also be tricky because you'd have to get everyone transferred in time. Those stretches would have to be pretty long.
There's also http://pid.codes
I think this might be true if your lucky I was up for a FANG position in London but I have an atypical education I I suspect my lack of a degree counted against me.

With the best will in the world some low level recruiter working out of Spain is not going to be able to read between the lines and work out that actually working for a world leading RnD org on campus at one of the elite UK universities might actually mean I was a good candidate.
A bit more? You vastly underestimate the effort involved.

And who's guaranteeing all these fallback jobs? Other founders just hire failed entrepreneurs so they can stick together? That's a great way to lose money. You must be reading about the 0.01% of founders who get all the attention and the fluffy feel-good startup posts because this is definitely not how it works.

And yes, more risk deserves more reward, why is that even controversial?
important point, I very often get angry because I interpret some usual sign as the usual paranoid cause ..
RSU's in a company that hasn't gone public are not very liquid... not paper money, but definitely not worth face value. Take that value and cut it in half or 1/4.
Great to see this initiative, at GitLab we're actively following this, thanks for keeping us posted https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4013#note_799...
Doesnt it use vision on camera feed? should be enough.
In America, they generally don't. It's a mild adjustment at worst. Chicago is the biggest I've seen - $98.5k base vs. $110k base for L3 SWE - but FB doesn't change their comp, Amazon and Microsoft only increase it in the SFBA and NYC (IIRC).

In fact, for new grads Amazon pays the exact same TC in Seattle and in Detroit.
People also deliberately disable the DPF between annual checks here in the UK. The DPF equals lower emissions but also worse mpg.
for many of the examples you gave, I think that could be solved through an autocomplete style correction that sure, it's not perfect, but it seems good enough for smartphone users: xample is not a word, so it's probably a typo, so it's probably example...

you could also keep multiple interpretation of a word pending (and a text search for all of them would take you there) and eventually ask the user to disambiguate if the user wants to. I assume this would be an acceptable solution for non dictionary words too...
it's slightly faster to start up, is a big one
> You need to avoid things like winner take all markets.

Another thing that might work is looking at industries with a lot of software needs that are not traditionally considered "tech companies."

A long time ago I worked in Biotech. There's tons of money there, and an awful lot of software made both in-house and by consultancies. (And I bet it's a hotbed of machine learning right now.)

I'm sure there are lots of other industries where their core business makes a lot of money but there's no way for startups to just "disrupt" them out of existence; however if you can move the needle 0.01% that's more than enough to support a very profitable smallish company.
>It's been a while since I studied this, but the most interesting part of the Milgram experiments are not that this behavior can be induced but the follow up studies which studied exactly which elements are most important to this inducement.

Well, to many people that hear about it for the first time, the mere fact that this behavior can be induced is shocking. It goes against the narrative that there are "good" and "bad" people.
I saw this documentary on cnbc about modern day slavery on fishing boats[1]. Ppl are promised jobs, entrapped and sold to shipping vessels as slaves where there are worked to death. When someone falls sick or dies from overwork they simply throw the body out in the ocean. I am still traumatized by this documentary, I can't imagine anything worse that could happen to a human being.

I can shop at whole foods that does the homework for me but what about Chinese masses that don't give a shit. Why do humans have to reproduce so much and at all costs. fucking sick!

1. https://www.cnbc.com/oceans-of-crime/
That came out in 1985...
But if you work at Uber/Airbnb/Whatever out of that 400k total comp 250k is just paper money.
>Why would you use a loyalty card with card payment and not cash payment?

Because a big reason some people pay with cash is so that they can't be tabulated.
> One of the interesting things that struck me was how much advisement/mentor/training/etc investment went into the founders/C-team

Can you give a sense of how much that might be?