skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think YC is pretty unrepresentative of the VC industry in this regard, simply because the VC industry is as racist as I say and YC is hoping to be that enterprising VC that seizes this opportunity for better returns. The YC partners have been pretty open about this - racism creates a market opportunity, and so they've put in a significant amount of working in retraining their own unconscious biases so that they don't miss the market openings that are left behind by other firms. (I should probably also say that they're not doing this just for better returns - it's also the right thing to do, but it has the side-effect of being economically rational.)

There are a few other VC firms that similarly work hard to avoid missing promising founders of minority backgrounds, but they are still the exception rather than the rule. Over time, the "rich, dumb, and prejudiced" folks will get flushed out of the market, but that's over a lot of time. Besides, they'll probably just get replaced by a different set of prejudices - nobody can be 100% unbiased, you can only hope to replace biases that are useless and arbitrary with ones that are somewhat more useful.
Actually I'm reading all the replies :).

I agree with you very much that a real issue is myths that simply aren't true, or aren't universally true - working hours in particular.
"...close to family..."

"Are you from China?"

Probably.
> Sometimes they need employees before they can pay market rate,

But you don't get to have something just because you need it. That's not how it works. You need to raise more money, so that you can afford to pay the employees. It's not fair to make the employees act as unofficial investors in your company, and then give them a deal that the real investors wouldn't accept.

> giving out 0.01% even to earliest employees

I hope that's an exaggeration and no one actually goes that low. (EDIT: Re-reading I think you actually meant 1%, not 0.01%?)

But if you go based on the valuation paid by the investors, then even 1% is a laughably low offer during the seed stage.
The problem is not with sitting in high chairs ever, at any age. The problem is with being carted from one stationary place to another and never getting to move about, even up through age 3 or 4.

My kid eats at least half his meals standing on his feet, starting when he was 14 or 15 months old, either on the kitchen floor with a low table, or on chairs at restaurants. Another quarter of meals he is sitting in a high chair. The last quarter he is sitting on someone’s lap or a booster seat or some other arrangement.

But someone could certainly sit in a constrained chair for every meal up through age 2 and still manage to get plenty of time to move independently. From age 2.5 or 3 kids could be sitting on a Tripp Trapp chair or the like, something that lets them sit at the table without being stuck.

Eating soft and pre-processed food is similar: kids who don’t have any molars yet can’t chew much, but I see 3-year-olds eating nothing but mushed up food. Biting and chewing hard foods is what the jaws and teeth were evolved to do, and if they don’t get a chance they don’t develop properly. I had friends whose parents cut the crust off their bread, shelled nuts for them, peeled shrimps, only ever gave them boneless pieces of meat, etc. even as teenagers; we shouldn’t be infantilizing people who aren’t infants.
Yes, but they need to spend the money of course.
Being without a home sucks and is logistically annoying and aggravating to a significant degree. But a lot of the misery of most homeless people is due to the intractable personal problems that landed them there to begin with.

It does get compounded by social stigma. For me, the social stigma and the very real problems that caused was the worst part of being homeless for 5.7 years.

A lot of homeless people sleep in a tent. That's what I did. Some people do that for fun and call it camping.
I worked here during the years when the stock was in the toilet and managed to get some retention grants that have turned into a tidy sum.

Plus I joined as a SWE1 so there are two promos in there.
Apparently it started being used to denote a place of interest in Finland in the 1950's. Funny enough I have always thought that sign was universal, understood by all culture to mean you can park your car here and see something interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looped_square
Steem, decentralized Reddit
Here's some problems YC might be able to fix.

Equity Liquidity -- I can't wait 10 years to get liquidity on options. YC could offer to purchase some employee equity when the company raises additional rounds.

Employee Branding -- FANG on a resume looks better than working at a startup. That really helps when it is time to look for a new job.
Yes. It works great. It doesn't have all those complications, it's much cheaper, and it's trivially reversible — just stop wearing the contacts.

Most people here would probably be better off with ortho-k than with LASIK, so long as their myopia isn't severe.
Yeah... It's all quite odd.
I know that pid.codes checks that you have actual, published open source code before he'll allocate you one. There's no reason to have one before that point anyway: you can always use a test code. It's only once the general public will be using it that you need a real, unique code.
Your Menstrual App Is Probably Selling Data About Your Body
If you're really lucky, your name contains an A and your surname matches a ccTLD - can't get much shorter than firstl@stna.me
Tesla Roadster with rocket propeller is not a joke
Principles ARE important (& useful)
> Give them a realistic estimate of the risk they're taking, and the value they can get.

Herein lies the problem. Founders are uniquely well-placed to evaluate the risk, and uniquely psychologically motivated to evaluate optimistically.

Because of that, founders sell equity dear.

If the generous equity offer is reasonable, then would be reasonable to make two offers, one with only cash and one with generous equity, in an "I cut, you choose" scenario. If a company has taken funding and isn't willing to do this, then employees are being asked to take risks that the financial backers are not willing to take themselves.

[Edit: removed something about a typo]
An apple is not mentioned there ;)
Better donate that $100k/year to scientology, or spend it in Las Vegas, it will have a more positive effect on your life than commuting to work by plane every day.
If they don’t trust people to decide what to spend their credit on, they should not get credit cards in the first place imho.
Some 10 years ago I bought a huge book about Ruby on Rails for $50. It had at least 400 pages.

This last week I ordered "App Architecture", also for some $50, and I was amazed by what I got - a tiny book that fit in a small envelope...

And now $89 for a PDF?? I love books, but no thank you.
I have https://jake.tl but can’t think of a good email at that domain to put in my From: line. I think me@jake.tl is lame, jake@jake.tl is repetitive, and root@jake.tl is too faux-oldschool.
That is very obviously not how I begin a large, dreaded task when I am forcing myself to just start. Sounds to me like our brains work differently.
> I don't see why generational GC is inevitably necessary

But remind that almost everybody having to implement a GC (but the Go team) thinks otherwise. Do you believe you know more than langage runtime engineers ? Because that's Go folks seams to believe, and that's anoyingly arrogant…
Fair point. I haven’t been lucky enough to raise a $750k seed round because I went to Stanford and play tennis with a Sequoia partner. So my perspective is based on my experience of actually suffering to build something while, you are correct, many decently funded startups could do a better job of sharing the reward with early employees — especially when founders are essentially spending other people’s money.
Yes, it's like some horrible IAP concept for books.

Normally a technical book costs around 40-60 EUR and one gets all the chapters. Updates are called "editions" and are published when there's demand and the information has become outdated.
Nice work on karmabot.
And consider this: in psychology we actually have the possibility of running and repeating controlled experiments. Think how bad things must be in other fields where that’s not the case.
How do you explain these numbers?

http://www.h1bdata.info/index.php?em=&job=Senior+Software+En...
At best, this thread seems to reveal a disconnect between consumer expectations and the mindset of banks issuing credit cards. That is, I am reading that some consumers of credit cards feel entitled to spend however they so wish on their cards so long as they can pay it back, whereas the reality is banks view credit cards as a product with which they may attach terms of service like any other product. Without aligning these two factors, people that are actually spending someone else's money will feel wronged when they are not allowed to, without also keeping in mind that banks these days being huge integrated conglomerates DO offer credit for investing in the form of other credit products.
That's supposed to say "There are usually specific loan types...". Too late to edit.
Spokane, WA is a lovely place to live if you can tolerate snow. You could own a very, very nice home on that salary, have access to a lot of amenities, and a place than increasingly feels like Seattle and Portland used to. I lived in and miss LA, but the soul can only handle so much souplantation.
I work there and I'm surprised by the numbers you propose, they seem too high to me.
Joining a startup in 2018 is probably one of the most stupid things one can do. The market is certainly oversatisfied at this point, so the risks increase, as well as the average bullshit from founders and investors one has to bear with (e.g. see Theranos). Sure, YC will continue as long as you can. I understand, you also just want to make money. But for an engineer it is much smarter now to join the biggest possible company, take all the benefits, build a small nest egg, and be active about switiching jobs every 2-5 years.
Apparently they don’t have a mechanism to permit their own addresses because the probes come from dynamic addresses. It sounded like they were adding this as a predefined label in the future.
Sure, central banks can create money. I was addressing the idea that private banks “lend out more money than they have” thus “creating money out of nothing”.
O Language: Web Site Update
So basically people make weird assumptions or take wild guesses about an email address and havoc ensues.
There exist counterexamples in the broader world. Historically in the Sinosphere it was commonish that two people might share a command of written Classical Chinese but not really be able to speak to each other. For a modern example, consider the paper below:
https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED515291
It's more like "I don't like when people with mental health problems start identifying themselves with that problem." I don't like it either :)
Even firstname@TLD addresses aren't that rare, though their usefulness is hindered by overly restrictive validation.
> It's not fair to make the employees act as unofficial investors in your company, and then give them a deal that the real investors wouldn't accept.

Which is why I'm saying they should be offered a deal that investors would accept.

Demanding everyone pay market rate is just unrealistic. Never going to happen. I'm proposing a realistic, possible change.

> I hope that's an exaggeration and no one actually goes that low.

First ad I clicked on from Angel List front page:

https://angel.co/everlane/jobs

$130k salary and 0.01% equity. But that's OK, I'm sure their CEO will be happy to tell you about their surefire $Xbn exit.

Last I checked Angel List, 0.01% equity was quite common, even for early engineers at very early stage startups. It almost always goes hand in hand with blatant lies about the certain $Xbn exit.
"fruit juice"

Wait, is there a "non-fruit" juice?
All the people who believe in overpopulation are becoming rare because they are less fertile than those who do not. Evolution is already optimising overpopulation believers out of the gene pool. Governments are also punishing overpopulation believers by increasing migration in response to low birth rates. This is a world wide phenomenon.

Have a great day.
Good article, I like this.
The problem with this kind of site and all those Awesome-XYZ lists is that it could take years to review each item.

I'm not saying building these kind of lists is a bad thing, but I haven't found an efficient way to make use of lists like this and void diverting my focus.
Seems like the 'trend' is hi or hello @x.com

For personal domains I just wildcard so I can use whatever fits the situation best. support@ contact@ name@ etc.
Parents: If you want to help your kids acquire prestigious email addresses, don't give them a relatively common name like "Peter"!

On the other hand, I have (first initial)(surname)@gmail.com and you wouldn't believe how many misdirected messages I get for people with the same initial and surname as me...
Here's some real advice: find out what is blocking you and slowly move to remove it from your path. First; It is not a "mental block". It is a tangible, existing stopper, you are just not focused enough to figure out what it is. It may be an academic topic you need to study, allocation of time, reading a guide, getting a permission or something as simple as getting feedback. If feedback is not available, try to find existing precedents to inspire you.
Denmark is actually having a baby boom right now. It's still a low absolute birth rate, but it's been higher for the last couple years.
10 Years of Building and Strengthening the Brand – Tavisca Solutions…
I don't think most people have a problem with having a smaller population in general, they have a problem with the shift in the age distribution. Having less people is fine, having few young people who have to care for a general aging population is not.
In the US, its 100% juice that is protected, where they are only allowed to use juice if they claim that (not sure about fortification though).

The main loophole is White Grape Juice, which is very high in sugar and has very little taste. Its pretty common to include it in juices here in the US to bring the sugar content up.
> Mr. Pham had fired off the email to a first-name-only address at Snap, assuming it was the company’s No. 2 executive.

So some people try to guess email-addresses of other people and sometimes the emails end up in the wrong place?

And this is news?
Those are not Google and not Silicon Valley.

Try:

http://www.h1bdata.info/index.php?em=Google&job=Staff+Softwa...

And keep in mind that base salary (what's reported on that page) is usually about half of total compensation. (Bonus and stock being the other half.)

Also this appears to be the H1B database. I'm not sure how H1B salaries compare to the overall average.
> startups need harder, more dedicated workers than the average company in the market.

I agree. So hire harder and more dedicated people. This is not impossible.

The idea that people will work harder for equity than they would for EV-equivalent cash is where we disagree.

If you have 5% of the company, and your direct contribution makes 5% of the difference in whether the company meets its objectives, setting aside whatever external market factors that are totally beyond your control--how motivating is this really? How motivating would it be to a more economically rational actor? Maybe this is the real reason why startup employees tend to skew younger...
The transformation of Microsoft into an opensource champion almost makes me feel old when I remember those days :) way to go, Microsoft and respects to Satya Nadella who managed this transformation.
Try juicing mandarins, that’s an awesome juice.
In calligraphy there is the notion of 'ductus', or how and in which order the strokes are written. It has a significant effect on the end result, and for each script, there is arguably only one "correct" ductus. A similar concept can be applied to normal handwriting.
to me, the fact that you're earnestly enumerating individuals is itself noteworthy. if things were so simple and so obvious, i feel like the idea of naming people would be absurd, because the examples would be legion.
How parents kill progress
Getting married in a traditional way is cheap, but most people blow off tradition to get some fancy pinterest barn, with fancy pinterest lights, with some fancy pinterest minister, some fancy pinterest vows, and fancy pinterest invitations. We paid $80 for a marriage license. The church was free. The ceremony was free. The celebrant was free. The wedding was free. We also got married in the most beautiful church in San Francisco (in my opinion at least)

We were going to use the church hall for the reception, but my parents wanted us to get another reception venue. That would have been free. A traditional cake and punch reception with some music would have set us back maybe $300, but even that could have been foregone. My wife's parents didn't do any of that. Just got married the old-fashioned way.
ULMFiT gets most of this performance in ~5 hours on my GTX1070.
What if you only use the HTTPS VPN when necessary, e.g. for streaming Netflix (seeing that they've been a target before), but for regular browsing, email, DNS, etc. you don't?
One of the problems I've noticed while using GraphQL (late last year) was that although there are 'officially supported' libraries in a number of languages, there isn't really feature parity between them.
In particular, I remember that the Ruby implementation we were using required manually parsing the AST to do fairly basic operations described in the spec. I wonder if this situation has improved in the last few months.
In the US, not in the rest of the world, the majority being 3rd world countries.
How to Leverage AI to Improve Information Discovery in Your Enterprise
Comments like this make me realize there's an entire universe of people who don't have the problems I have, and I wonder what it's like to be like them, and have learned the things that are so obvious to you.

For example: Is it obvious to you that faced with a task you're dreading and procrastinating on, it helps to replace it in your mind with something smaller? It was not obvious to me, and was learned after years of misery, and even now I have to consciously remember to do it, and whenever I do do it, I find it helps immensely. (For example, when there's an email I'm dreading replying to, and have been procrastinating for weeks—it hanging on my mind every day of course—it helps when I replace “reply to Ram's email” with “just write a reply to Ram's email” or (if that doesn't work) even “write a garbage outline of a reply…” or even “reread Ram's email”. For another example, I had to apply for a travel visa and was procrastinating for months, and what finally helped was mentally replacing “finish the rest of application process” with “create a travel history document” with (when that didn't work) “collect all travel history”… along with the “talk to people” trick.)

And yes, the idea is indeed to “trick your brain“ into doing the dreaded thing. At least, I have found it to help.

The matter-of-fact way in which you say “You don't just gulp down an entire task without planning ahead or thinking about steps” is really inspirational, because that's not my mental model of doing things, and I have to consciously practice it. I wish I learned these things in school, instead of just coasting by and now struggling with getting anything done at all.
Is Apollo the be all end all GraphQL client these days? I tried it roughly 1.5 years ago and was turned off by all the component wrapping.

Is it bad form to just fetch data via GraphQL and put it in Redux (or other store)?

I'd like to buy in, but I'd like to keep my data fetching separate from my view layer if possible.
Also notable this week is https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02847 from Google where they got an 11% improvement on Winograd schema performance using a similar idea.
Fruits are the sweets of nature. Don't eat too much of them.
H1b data doesn't include rsu or bonus. Many are getting 16-17% bonus and ~50-150k/year in rsu.
Would definitely recommend GraphQL over GRPC!

We'll go over how to generate types or add them manually, but the rest of the book is in ecmascript.
No, it was a response to OP writing he had no dependents so doesn't value job/income stability so much. He seems quite lucid about the fact that this might change the moment he'll have a dependents. I was merely confirming it will. :-)
Pretty remarkable, and seems very genuine which is quite astonishing given their history
I have firstname@gmail.com. I could tell you all about how easy you get off.

Interesting fact: most emails I incorrectly receive is because whoever creates the accounts/makes the orders/etc knowingly provides websites with my email instead of their own.

All in all it’s pretty crazy.
I remember Angular 4 being a thing, so they skipped 3 and 5?
lite wallets are NOT 'trustful' wallets.
Facebook Hit with Patent Suit Over Data Compression Tech
Again, you make it seem very cut and dry. It's not.

Suppose my startup is current worth $100m. According to you, I should be able to sell 0.5% of it for $500k and give that to the employee, or offer them that 0.5% directly, right?

Well, no. I can definitely offer them that 0.5% since I control the equity, but I can't just go to a VC and tell them "hey, here's 0.5% of my shares, now give me their fair value worth of $500k".

Ever been close to a startup raising money from VCs? It simply doesn't work that way. VC investment is a big, complex package deal. They're not just going to accept whatever shares you give them, and pay you. They have their own idea of how much equity they want, how much they're willing to pay for it, how much besides equity they want (control of the company, seats at the board, various forms of preferred stock and other guarantees, etc).

Also, fixed the typo, thanks.
Unsugared tea! My kid drinks fruit or herbal tea with no additives once or twice a day and otherwise only water.
Along those lines, let's not forget the well-intentioned disaster that is "monkey jesus" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecce_Homo_%28Mart%C3%ADnez_and...
"Peter" is fine, as long as there's also an elaborate middle name. Mr. P. Harpsichord Smith will never have trouble getting a distinctive email address.
> I'm not sure how H1B salaries compare to the overall average.

H1B salaries are typically lower than average. Why do you think companies spend millions lobbying for more H1Bs? To pay them more than average? :-)

Also, keep in mind Google only has to disclose base salaries for these H1Bs. For a staff engineer, most of the total comp would be in bonus pay and especially RSUs. They can easily be making $400k or more through those means.
Wow, looks like I could fly to Lithuania and have Lasik done, while spending less money than getting Lasik done at home. How does that work with follow up appointments? Did you just stick around for a few weeks?
What a shame. I used to hang out on Rust IRC when Daniel was still engaged with the project. He always seemed so knowledgeable and he fought for what he thought was best for the language.