skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Charge cards offer great cash back but are not "secured."

You can absolutely spend money you do not have, but only for one month, and then your account is closed and probably hit with massive fees.
fyi, the red juice that comes out of meat isn't blood, it's mostly myoglobin/water
> "In terms of market rate salary, the startup will never match FAANG."

> "if enough people were educated on how much a bad deal being an early employee was, we could tip the scale a bit."

Yes. The reason why startup compensation is much lower are because of perception (people aren't rational) and only a shift in perception will shift the balance.

The reason why equity is not the solution is that the default outcome is not the Camry, it's giving up some multiple of your salary in exchange for nothing. People overvalue lottery tickets. We're not rational.

If a funded company (series A, say) is offering you equity as a large part of comp, you have to ask yourself why the VCs don't buy back that equity for the cost of paying market rates for talent. If it makes sense for you, it should make even more sense for them. Unless you think you have a higher appetite for risk than early-stage investors, something doesn't add up.
I'm in the heart of San Francisco, and I get 40Mbps at $90/mo USD (Comcast). Kind of pathetic that that's my only option in the tech capital of the world.
It was an interesting read and John sounds like an interesting guy however, Norwich is my home city and I found the whole article a weird reading as couldn't help but think of every reference to Norwich being the place and not the person.
> I see a lot of people working at startups who got tired of doing things at big companies that just weren't that interesting to them. Those folks have often made enough money that they can afford to work at a startup for a few years because the work itself is more fun, the company has a mission they like, or they appreciate having a bigger day-to-day impact.

Those folks went through FAANG first (not startup first) though :). I don't know if they decided to move to startups for the experience/thrill/fun or they're just there so they can go back to FAANG and get the full 4-years RSU + sign-on.
There are multiple potential explanations. I think disallowing commerce without an agreeable substitute, like immediately transferring or escrowing money from other accounts, is an unacceptable inconvenience. Often times, a person wants the protection of a credit card, while having sufficient assets to purchase in cash or repay the card corp. If anything, that a debit card lacks similar protections of a credit card is absurd and inconvenient per skimming and missing fringe benefits like travel insurance.
An article by the author on the language:

http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10500710
With "b" also it's a vertical flip.
I've tried all of them as well. gvim is the most performant non-terminal based vim.

I've had better luck with IDEs that have vim like features than projects that try to make vim into an IDE.
It's a question of keeping track of which is the map and which is the territory. The point, I believe, is to be continually and relentlessly introspective, asking yourself how you can do better today than yesterday (and having a realistic view of what 'better' is).

Deliberate practice can be helpful in forcing such introspection, if you let it. If you just go through the motions, it won't help much, certainly not sustained. You end up with cargo-culting.

The classic example is the GoF Design Patterns book - it was a very good book, at least at it's time, you could expand your horizons a lot by reading it, and get a lot of tricks up your sleeve to deal with certain tricky, but relatively common, situations. But if you start actively to impose design patterns on code that doesn't need it so you can tell yourself (or your peers or whoever might listen) that you're a design patterns kind of guy, you end up with overly complex and hard to read (ie: bad) code.
As a counterpoint, I find breaking code up into separate classes and functions to help greatly with minimizing what I need to keep in my working memory.

I don't often need to know what every single line does exactly all at once, nor can I actually keep that much information in my head anyway. I'd rather be able to say "that's the function that frobbles the subductor, it's 5 lines long and right now I don't care how it does it.",

Sure, the bug might be in that function - but if it's only 5 lines long and does one simple thing, I can write a bunch of tests for that one thing and work it out. When the code is broken up like this, I can keep an even larger system in working memory all at once.
Phone number isn't necessary, we've updated the survey so now you don't need to report it.

And thanks for your feedback, I've made a note of it!
15. Click on any of the links in the Trending Now section at the bottom of the article.
GP said "I kind of feel that to a first approximation, recommending against being an employee at a start up is the right advice."

Are you saying you think startups are better for people with dependents? That's surprising to me, could you elaborate?
حكم زكاة الفطر
Philip Roth, the Art of Fiction No. 84 (1984)
The milgram experiments are far more interesting, and much better science that the SPE, but the popular understanding (and teaching) of them misses some of the most interesting conclusions that can be drawn from them.

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.
Startups offer pretty good compensation for folks who lack the ability to pass a FAANG interview. Folks lacking traditional CS backgrounds but with an actually high level of skill for writing software, specifically web software, tend to be over-represented in this group.

A lot of the downsides of startups people mentioned here are 100% true. If you didn't study CS in college though, consider the hours of reading Cracking the Coding Interview you'd have to do and divide those hours by your FAANG comp, and you might come out with an equal or slightly higher hourly rate going the startup route. And your interview process might be a lot less stressful.
Sorry for not being more clear. The argument is that even though it's easy for me to tell what's milk, I realize that it actually requires quite a bit of nutritional and cultural context, and that we should therefore consider not doing it.

I also realize that it seems silly to put "may contain traces of milk" on a carton of milk, but we should still consider doing it for the same reason. Reserving "milk" for dairy products is not in itself sufficient because many dairy products don't use it ("cream", "kefir", "half&half").

The end goal is that Timmy should be able to look for a specific phrase on the nutritional info, rather than spending all day on the toilet because a bunch of nutritionally savvy and well educated native English speaking felt that it should be obvious.

As a bonus, it makes NLP easier.
Www.netflix.com is currently unable to handle this request
How often is Netflix down?
Chase lets you configure the payments to pay in full every month. I was very surprised to see this, as the bank ideally wants you to pay the minimum and interest.
https://help.netflix.com/en/is-netflix-down
Also who you are in life.

When I was younger I didn't have chances. It's incredibly privileged to be able to take a position somewhere you might not have a job in 2 months because you have enough stashed away or enough family wealth that if you fail, you can pick yourself back up easily.
CGP Grey made a great video [0] pretty similar to this, it has a bunch of points about physical things (changing sleep schedule, staying indoors) and keeps the same sarcastic tone.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO1mTELoj6o
The point of marriage is to pool money to provide for each other and your potential children. Once you get married it's not "your" money any more, it belongs to both of you.

That's from the States PoV, and since they make the laws that govern marriage it's a reasonable position to take.

All the other stuff (eg religious baggage) that comes along are optional extras.
Depends whether you count the half of their workday that is spent on a bus.
Keep looking, most jobs at BigCorp are designed to make sure everyone is easily replaceable, which means positions can't have too much responsibility, else the person couldn't be easily replaced. It's like the very definition of ITIL.
Trials are starting on Oxitec's "friendly" mosquitos that genetically prevent adults from reaching maturity:

https://www.oxitec.com/friendly-mosquitoes/

http://wlrn.org/post/want-say-gmo-mosquito-trial-you-just-go...

The debate now concerns the release of genetically modified creatures into the general ecosystem.

Perhaps you can campaign for a trial in the UK.
I'm exaggerating by saying "retire". I don't mean getting rid of it - major open source projects always live on. If things are as dire as this article, my experience trying to switch back to Firefox, and the "Through the Looking Glass" adware extension debacle suggest, a solid independent open source alternative could allow it to keep going where it unfortunately seems to be headed.
Startup only as a contractor otherwise you'll get squeezed dry.
Literate Theorem Proving with Org (and Proof General)
yes. smart startups use small test projects to test workers out quickly without over-committing
The "booking fee" has been removed.

I confirmed by taking a booking from London-ish to Frankfurt-but-not-really for £6.99 through to the payment screen, and trying a Visa Debit card number vs. a MasterCard credit card number. The price didn't change.

https://www.ryanair.com/gb/en/useful-info/help-centre/fees
I thought everyone knew.

It's beyond belief that Toyota's research division hasn't both tried to build clean-and-efficient small diesels, and taken apart the european ones. They just didn't put them into production.

For politicians, this was a very convenient non-tarif barrier. Since Toyota wasn't making such engines, you can help VW without attracting WTO fines. And you look good on TV talking about euro technology. And, of course, striking a strong pose about CO2 also looks great on TV.
The traditional definition is that marriage is a covenant by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and which is ordered by its nature to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring.

The more cynical modernist take is that it's a mix between a tax break and privatized welfare that should be abandoned as soon as it stops feeling good.
Project Wonderful is shutting down
Also Halifax, Metro Bank, Nationwide if you prefer an older bank.
This couldn't have been posted at a better time for me. I just started learning Rust last week and was interested in finding an actor library.
Thanks for the interesting discussion. The only reason why I'm still advocating more equity for early employees is because founders get so much of it. So if an exit were to happen, which could make the founders very rich, the early employee gets nothing. In your case of the default outcome, both get nothing, and that is OK. But if something were to happen, the early employee still gets nothing.
> how much revenue they earn per engineer

That does not necessarily correlate with salary. At least it doesn't outside of SV.
> It should be noted that this plan still allows for usage of the “http” URI scheme in legacy content.

Mozilla aren't deprecating access to HTTP, but rather new features for pages accessed over HTTP, features that can allow new attacks to surface for HTTP pages.

You should also note no date has been set, since that document was written three years ago.
Link to readme:
https://github.com/Web-Prolog/swi-web-prolog/blob/master/REA...

And download/raw link to pdf:
https://github.com/Web-Prolog/swi-web-prolog/raw/master/web-...
Well, you may as well have changed the laws of physics. Care to share how you managed this?
If a current employee is willing to vouch for it, that carries some weight. It's a useful data point.
The brilliance of the GIPS is that firms cannot be partially compliant and it is 100% optional.

The reason a 10 year excersize window is meaningless on its own is that you cannnot control or know how your share class will be treated after you leave.

You need a set of standards which clearly allows employees to capture value. Otherwise it is all marketing. Smart people will see through that. As they already are.
I advise fresh grads or new entrants in the tech job market to avoid startups as their first gig. Instead, starting at a mature company with a strong team team is much more suitable. Learn from the industry experts in your field in a real world setting, develop your chops, and establish yourself as a professional. After that go do whatever feels exciting, which startups certainly are.
Comp is a big one, discussed elsewhere.

The other professional problem that well-run startups have is that it's easy for early employees to feel like they're held to a different set of standards than the founders for professional growth. Essentially, founders are given chances to succeed in roles they never could otherwise, and early employees miss all the coaching and context that might help them succeed in similar roles.

Let's imagine I was a 26-year-old developer interested in startups. I have two paths:

- I found a company. I have the chops to hack something together with my cofounder, and maybe we make something of it raise a seed. We hire another couple engineers, and with a couple big logos in a good market, we raise an A. At this point, I've learned a ton about what makes a business work from other founders and I see (far too clearly) the gaps in my own knowledge. I hire some marketers / salespeople to work for me, and we keep making things work. At some point, maybe I choose to hire a professional CEO, and I stay on as CTO. I still have a lot of leverage in the company. I still go to board meetings.

- I join a company as the first employee, after they've raised a seed. I have good conversations with the other 26-year old founders over beer after work. I jump on the occasional phone call with customers and crank out features that they like based on that insight. We raise our A, though I'm still a software engineer since we only have 10 employees that all report to one of the founders. I quit seeing customers, because we hired a sales rep. We decide to hire management, and I'm considered for a line manager job, but we ended up hiring somebody externally. (She was awesome, glad we hired her, but I'm bummed I'm not reporting to the CEO anymore.) By the time we're 40 people, I don't talk to the founders much anymore, and I don't really understand what our bigger customers want. I don't have the influence I once did, and the codebase is too big for me to brute force that leverage through productivity. I start to look for another job.

There's nothing wrong with either story, but in the founder case, I was given a ton of chances and support. As an employee, I was given, at best, the support of a single manager while the company grew around me. This is fair, in some sense, but compared to the opportunities offered to the founders, it's far behind.
Yeah, I feel like every headline is missing a ", Sharon!" at the end.
"Thousands and thousands" is an exaggeration, particularly considering the portion that is churn between them. There are over 3.87 million software developers in the US[1]. I would be shocked if even 10% of them are employed by the companies you mention Nationwide, let alone just in SV and Seattle. Of that, a minority pull down the massive TC you cite. I think that certainly qualifies as an outlier.

Furthermore, the headcounts of the really big companies, particularly Amazon and Microsoft, are inflated by non-engineers. Citing them doesn't really say much.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_demogra...
This is perspicaciously cynical. I love it.
But it requires reversing back and front.
Importance of 1:1’s in Product Management
Wow. Middle school is already a zoo; to deliberately open the cage doors and let the animals out was a crazy idea.
I think the idea behind the exercise, from a Stoicism standpoint, is to mentally expose yourself to the fear of being homeless (or whatever about the exercise creates anxiety for you). Eventually you desensitize yourself to that feeling and begin to realize it wouldn't be as bad as you think.

This is also an aspect of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
In other words local government is no longer fit for purpose.
I agree.

FWIW, my university had a required co-op program, so I already had some internship experience under my belt, and even so, I was getting rejected from entry-level "Software Engineer" startup positions simply on the basis that the companies wanted a minimum # of years of experience.
>> Isn't that what on-street parking for cars is, except each car takes up 20× as much space?

No. Because cars, like bikes, are placed in designated spots. When they are not, they are towed and their ownsers fined. Some of these scooters are just left anywhere. Drop a bicycle in the middle of a baseball field and you'll be ticketed for littering. Park a car on a park bench and it will be towed. But these scooters appear in such placed regularly without consequence.
Schedule?
I really like this idea, and I think something similar is done with high-level managers in the private equity world. You build your career across the portfolio of companies, and your interests are aligned to the portfolio itself, not the specific company.

That obviously creates a risk of perverse incentives, but from the PE folks' perspective it seems to work.

IIRC that's also how Berkshire Hathaway does it: builds managers for Berkshire Hathaway companies, and whether they're managing at GEICO[0] or Fruit of the Loom[1] depends on where they're needed and not whom they work for.

I don't know anything about how technical employees benefit (or not) from that setup but I suspect there is some amount of informal sharing of tech talent across portfolios.

It'd be really great to see something like that for tech people. Maybe YC can start and everyone else will follow. :-)

[0]: https://www.geico.com/about/corporate/at-a-glance/

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_Loom
The company I work for (zinc.io) has this: https://zincapi.com/

We brand it as an ordering API, but we also offer retrieving the product data (item details/pricing.) We put a LOT of engineering resources into data quality and maintenance, as the API is core to our flagship product, PriceYak. If you have questions or want a token, email adam@zinc.io and mention this post.
RISC-V: State of the Union
I think the incentive structure for first 10 employees is completely broken right now. Adjusted for risk and dilution, the risk reward ratio for top 10 needs to be closer to the founders since they are taking almost identical levels of risk. I wish companies would value the stock part of their offer with respect to the valuation that investors have put money in. I never understand the huge disparity between the valuation of companies as understood by investors (in terms of their investing decisions) and as explained to prospective employees. From my point of view it would be good if the Startup clarified what they intend to pay me, put a hard cap on how much of that they can pay me in cash, and then allow me to use the remaining to "buy" stock grants at a valuation that closely resembles what investors have recently invested at.
Ask HN: Has Netflix been hacked?
Netflix services appear to be down, and their Twitter account appears to have been hacked.
The Expanse's high-political scene is best described by the balance of powerful sovereigns, and how that changes over time. Companies have a lot of power, but that power is primarily expressed by influence in governments. A company gets mining rights from a U.N. charter by influence. Then the company expects the U.N. military to defend those mining rights. Sometimes the company influences the goverment and sometimes the goverment influences the company. The big exception to this is the O.P.A. which always tends centralize power around Tycho.

Altered Carbon also uses goverment as the primary seat of power. United Nations Envoy Corps are primarily a reskinning of Dune's Sardaukar, the powerful super soldiers that enforce the rule of law out of fear. There are very powerful corporations, especially those discussed in the first book, but their power is again through the influence of government, and goverment has the authority to act independently.

This is in comparison to a true mega-corp like Final Fantasy 7's Shinra Corporation, where all power exists within the company. Shinra can destroy 1/8th of the capitol city with no repercussions, and there is no significant economic activity outside of the company.
400k is reasonable for total comp after a few years of experience. Note that total comp includes a bunch of stuff that's technically discretionary, like your annual bonus, and a bunch of stuff that's paid out but not really cashable, like meals and health insurance. Your pre-tax cash, sans benefits, is probably closer to $200k.
A problem with that is that people will remain tainted by the urban legend type persistence of the conclusions. So if one could void this study that’d be a better outcome.
and they seem to get through life without debilitating food poisoning, so maybe worrying about food poisoning via a child's powdered lemonade stand is a bit excessive.
I think tone of the article is disgusting.
The primary author of this system is Torbjörn Lager, the inventor of Pengines:

https://www.gu.se/english/research/publication/?publicationI...

This functionality is the basis of many current web-based Prolog applications.

Web Prolog is a natural successor of Pengines. The book also includes a comparison of the two approaches.

Portability between implementations is a major goal and attraction of Web Prolog. Here is a quote from the book:

An application written
in Web Prolog is portable between different node implementations. Indeed, an application
written in pure Web Prolog will not only be portable in the normal sense, but we will likely
also be able to run it on a node that we do not own nor manage.

The language is described as "based on Prolog, with a pinch of Erlang sprinkled in".

A tutorial-style introduction to Web Prolog is also included in the repository:

https://github.com/Web-Prolog/swi-web-prolog/blob/master/web...
You have a very narrow view of startups if you think that's how they all operate. Many many companies never raise money. Many founders are unpaid, or just paid the bare minimum legally allowed. And numbers alone do not tell of the significant social and psychological pressures while employees can always quit and go work somewhere elsewhere. Even successful acquisitions don't guarantee riches to founders and that's completely overlooking the fact that many don't find success and are left with nothing.
This could be because lint built up in your charging port. It happened to me a few times. The techs at an Apple store can clean it out for free.
In some Chinese cities it's common for beggars to carry a Zhifubao/Alipay or Wechat pay QR-code