skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside from the probability distribution issues with investment banker income, it's actually a much harder thing to simply "go do".

Going straight into investment banking right out of undergrad is a privilege largely reserved for students of "elite" schools [1]. The other way in is post-MBA, but an MBA is quite expensive.

The hourly rate also looks very bad [2]; junior/entry-level research analysts routinely put in 80+ hour weeks, regardless of the reforms that were put in to attempt to curb that sort of abuse after multiple deaths.

[1] https://news.efinancialcareers.com/uk-en/199099/top-50-unive...

[2] https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/careers/comp...

(Edited to add a couple of pertinent links.)
> Startups could out-compete larger companies here by providing both shared working space and private space, but they don't.

i agree that they should do that. OTOH space isn't cheap. i recall a scrappy startup where 20 people were packed inside a live-work loft. the CEO's office was the master bathroom.
From mrmr1993's link:

> The USPTO initially rejected our application as confusingly similar to
the existing trademark on GitHub, which was filed in 2008. While one
might imagine where the "Git" in GitHub comes from, by the time we
applied to the USPTO, both marks had been widely used in parallel for
years. So we worked out an agreement with GitHub which basically says
"we are mutually OK with the other trademark existing".

> (There was another delay caused by a competing application from a
proprietary version control company that wanted to re-brand portions of
their system as "GitFocused" (not the real name, but similar in spirit).
We argued our right to the name and refused to settle; they eventually
withdrew their application).

> So GitHub is essentially outside the scope of the trademark policy, due
to the history. We also decided to explicitly grandfather some major
projects that were using similar portmanteaus, but which had generally
been good citizens of the Git ecosystem (building on Git in a useful
way, not breaking compatibility). Those include GitLab, JGit, libgit2,
and some others. The reasoning was generally that it would be a big pain
for those projects, which have established their own brands, to have to
switch names. It's hard to hold them responsible for picking a name that
violated a policy that didn't yet exist.
Oh yeah, there are some useful functions over there
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Survivor bias...I wonder if all the people who died hitchhiking or cliff diving feel the same way. We won't know because they're dead.
You picked .5 or .25 as the multiplier. If it's still 2-5 years until a public offering, it's also quite possible for the multiplier to be closer to 1.5 or 2.

Everybody has a different assessment of how likely each outcome is, so everybody has a different expected value.
A couple people I showed this to immediately got upset by #3.

I get that it comes off as another "Just stop being depressed/anxious" argument, which is undoubtedly tone-deaf, but there's still a point to be made here.

Depression and Anxiety are real issues, and you can't just "get over it". However, being in control of oneself and refusing to define yourself by things like depression and anxiety are important to besting things like depression and anxiety.

Just because it is an affliction doesn't mean you should allow yourself to be defeated by it. It doesn't mean that you are doing any good using these problems as an excuse, because no matter how unfair it seems, depression and anxiety isn't an excuse for willful misery.
My guess 6 to 10 years
But no one is talking about that kind of problem. We have the information. You're using an extremely contrived example just to make a point. One might even call it a straw man. I just prefer the term dishonest based on current online discourse.

This was already pointed out by another extremely patient commenter.
You keep referring to the Android developer site as if they're some type of smoking gun when they have absolutely nothing to do with the point you seem incapable of proving other than to illustrate the obvious in that the Java language is used to make Android apps. Once the Java byte code is translated to DEX byte code, so that it can be AOT compiled on an Android device, that is the end of Java's involvement.

>Given how hard you support Google's fragmentation actions against the Java eco-system, your OS also uses C without libc.

Since Android doesn't run Java apps or use the JVM there is no fragmentation.
That's essentially a historical accident. From the same email[1]:

> The USPTO initially rejected our application as confusingly similar to the existing trademark on GitHub, which was filed in 2008. While one might imagine where the "Git" in GitHub comes from, by the time we applied to the USPTO, both marks had been widely used in parallel for years. So we worked out an agreement with GitHub which basically says "we are mutually OK with the other trademark existing".

> GitHub is essentially outside the scope of the trademark policy, due to the history. We also decided to explicitly grandfather some major projects that were using similar portmanteaus, but which had generally been good citizens of the Git ecosystem (building on Git in a useful way, not breaking compatibility). Those include GitLab, JGit, libgit2, and some others. The reasoning was generally that it would be a big pain for those projects, which have established their own brands, to have to switch names. It's hard to hold them responsible for picking a name that violated a policy that didn't yet exist.

There's also some further discussion about how it probably gives them an unfair advantage, but that's the policy they've chosen to persue regardless.

[1]: https://public-inbox.org/git/20170202022655.2jwvudhvo4hmueaw...
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not necessarily - he could just be invoking the "do not attribute to malice what can easily be explained by stupidity" rule

It's not always so easy to tell apart the things you have control over vs. the things you don't, but I think that all these rules can be summarized in one line, which is basically: If you're feeling sorry for yourself, you'd better find something more productive to do.
As the startup gets traction and more money from VCs, wouldn't it be wise to give raises in cash to early employees?
That's a handy LPT that is lost on people "consumed by a problem" already.

To borrow from Upton Sinclair: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

I take writings like this as rather tongue-in-cheek. I feel they dismiss reality: we easily define others as X because we lack information.

We'll label a person miserable or outcast, rather than be interested in their take, regardless. Because the way they approach discourse doesn't abide the popular meme.
Yes, and congress could pass a law banning net neutrality. But under current law, the FCC is not able to issue a directive doing the same thing.

A law banning NN will never get passed due to gridlock (thankfully), so barring some huge change in public opinion I don't see states being prohibited from enforcing NN.
Hello. Thanks for the book recommendation. I'll look into that book.

I was also recommended Charles Bargue's "Drawing Course" and Harold Speed's "The Practice & Science of Drawing". Do you have any particular thoughts on those?

Are there anyways to optimize that methodical, technical process? I would ideally like to practice in a "structured" way in regards to building up skills as opposed to the more organic way of practicing everything until it looks nicer.

Are there any particular recommendations as well regarding equipment? There's a lot of stuff out there, and I'm willing to invest in better quality products.

Also, if I want to take advantage of my iPad and Apple Pencil, with an app like Procreate or something similar, do I focus on digital drawing, or is pen and paper still far better to build fundamentals from?

Thanks.
Your inclusion of Gradle in point (3) is in tension with point (2) in that Gradle runs at snail's pace. I do wonder whether running Gradle atop Graal will help with that problem, though I guess to get the benefits Gradle would have to be both built with and running build scripts written in statically-typed languages only, i.e. Kotlin instead of Groovy. It might even stop the developer exodus from Gradle to Bazel.
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Health insurance and housing instability is a huge risk. Not to mention the weaker pay and corporate structure.

If company explodes within 4 years (like most startups), I'm off interviewing again, and my family relies on my health insurance for substantial coverage, as well as paying housing costs. Obamacare is getting gutted as we speak, so it might as well not exist.

if you want to change the game, set up a standard small company health insurance group and offer entrance to all employees and their families, regardless of pre-ex condition or whattever. So long as you find work for a company signed up with that group within, say 12 months from company collapse/being fired/whatever, you keep coverage. Effectively decouple employment from health insurance. Give me the ability to lose employment for whatever reason (remember, Fire Fast is a popular creed) without putting my family at risk of bankruptcy or losing our house, and I'll be far more interested in working for a startup.

Similarly, YC needs to contemplate pushing remote work hard on its companies. The amount of money I would have to ask for to live in the SFBA with, again, hedging the risk of company collapse or being fired is absolutely absurd.

There's extremely little upside for me to take the enormous risk of being poorly managed, company doing wrong decisions, market not being there, etc. The liklihood is that I lose money, my bosses are very inexperienced, and the business doesn't fly. Maybe I am a reasonably early stage employee and walk out with a $0.5m check (this is a reasonable ballpark for an IC). That's cute... RSUs from major employers equal that for reasonably senior ICs. Without the risk.

For comp, you will need to jack up equity substantially - probably some kind of preferred share not subject to clawbacks (I remember well how Skype took advantage of ICs) - as well as meeting the cash salary of the big players. This hedges the risk of the company exploding.

These days, I generally only talk to startups who are past their A round, have paying customers, and reasonably experienced engineering management. And I expect market comp as well as a well seasoned benefits plan.
A startup is a good place to accelerate yourself to an L5 somewhere else.

If you are on a team of n<10 responsible for keeping a company/product alive you tend to learn a lot more than if you're on a team of n>1000.
Most homeless people are suffering from a cocktail of problems with abuse, mental illness and drugs. If you woke one one morning to find yourself on the street with ragged clothes and empty pockets in a foreign city, but you still had your wits about you, you likely wouldn't be there for long.
Or Sonarr.
If you are in a dense coin/jewelry district of a medium-sized city, you can get darn close to the posted spot prices for mainstream coins. They will charge a bit extra but probably closer to a 5-10% rake than 20%.

Source: I once negotiated a cash price for a jewelry piece in downtown Portland, Oregon and the jeweler accepted bullion I wanted to liquidate at quoted spot bid in lieu of cash for part of the price.

If you are talking about getting "SAR levels" of USD folding green, though, you're going to need to make an appointment in advance. Plus, heavy. So the "walk 1600 oz of silver down the street" strategy has a number of practical impediments beyond the spread.
No, he’s correct. MSFT pays a lot more in the Bay Area than Seattle because the cost of living is so much lower in Seattle (no state income tax, housing, etc) that they can get away with paying a lot less.

My total compensation went up by ~80% going from MSFT to FB (but my housing costs 3x in the Bay Area vs what I had in Boston so it’s not as large an increase as it sounds).
wow... reading the git trademark policy now, it's... surprising:

> While the original idea was to prevent people from forking the software, breaking compatibility, and still calling it Git, the policy covers several other cases.

> One is that you can't imply successorship. So you also can't fork the software, call it "Git++", and then tell everybody your implementation is the next big thing.

This seems like a massive violation of the spirit of GPL... explicitly disallowing official endorsement is one thing (since that would be lying), but you shouldn't be able to stop someone going and doing their own thing and calling it git-something.
The U.S. Can Still Catch Up in Manufacturing
I just ran across BitBar trying to find a competent utility to simply display my currently-played iTunes track in the menu bar (this turns out to be shockingly hard to find).

It turned out to be trivial to modify one of the existing BitBar plugins to do exactly what I wanted, and very nice to have that functionality tailored. This is a really nice app.
I'm sorry you think that.

Marriage was never about "single earner families." In pre-Modern times, both spouses worked/farmed/whatever to support the family.

The point of legally recognizing marriage is to give the partnerships a simplified method of recognizing their rights to/in/with each other. You can recreate most of these rights separately if you wish--all of them except the one related to spousal testimony.

As for finances...if you're willing to go through the hassle of drafting a prenup, the spouses can maintain separate finances as well, though in the event of a divorce, the judge will critically examine the agreement to make sure that both spouses were independently capable of supporting their pre-marital and marital standards of living, which generally limits the usage of this arrangement to independently wealthy couples.
This is kind of interesting. I had a through about how to approach the handwriting recognition problem a few years back and surprisingly I though of this curvature based approach also. I never implemented it (too lazy to try...) but its cool to see how well something like that might work.
I think you misread my post and argued the same point. So, uh, thanks?
They want people to get in debt and then make payments, not get in debt and then default.

> Hmmm... What is the real reason banks don't want people making certain investments??

If you're suggesting some kind of conspiracy against cryptocurrencies by banks, you should provide some evidence to counter the entirely reasonable justification about the high default rate the article has given.
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This is the modern "Modest Proposal".
I did not think these things were so simple, but... yes, I used to know someone that could have served as a model for the article as well. Every single point seems to apply to this person.

This list can hurt some feelings, but it sure could help some people if it was more widely known.
Same thing happens with iPhones and iPads, but the socket shape means you can clear it out with a toothpick or compressed air.
The contention is not whether it can be called whisky/whiskey but whether it can be marketed under a name containing "Glen" as that word evokes Scotland.

It seems like a cheap attempt to cash in by the Germans. If their stuff is good, let it stand on its own merits.
The best one I've seen yet is GAANDU (Google, Amazon, AirBnb, Netflix, Dropbox and Uber). Apparently it means asshole in Hindi.

https://www.teamblind.com/article/Breakdown-of-compensation-...
I seem to recall someone getting in trouble for doing that but that could be a bogus memory.

Certainly not everyone has to pay the taxes, so that may be one reason why they don’t most places.
Respectfully, if you don’t like the split, the clear answer is to be a founder.

The option is available to all, but very few take it. For really good reasons.
Maybe Twitter should be shut down, to atone?
>You're agreeing that systems create behavior

i don't think systems create behavior. They do though unleash and amplify. They also can force. I don't think any doctor, with their deeply ingrained "do no harm", would administer a shock in the Milgram for example.

> "It's not my fault, I was only following orders.

I think following an order backed by a credible punishing force is separate subject.

>Someone should have been holding me accountable."

That comes as an attempt at defense when you're already being held accountable, and which is basically equivalent to an admission that you've made a error calculating your chances of being held accountable, and it is puzzling to see why/how some reasonable people would still fall for it and accept such admission as a defense whether in legal or in moral/ethical space.
If only there were a way for normal people to call the number on the back of their Amex and report it to the fraud division!
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It all depends on the vocabulary used. The Mastodon vocabulary is well defined already, but no vocabulary has been defined for GitPub for the time being.

Hopefully, GitPub will be the thinnest possible addition to ActivityPub, so that concepts (and vocabulary) are shared between GitPub and Mastodon, enabling comments between them.
As an experienced engineer it’s too late for me. I’m being paid 500k/yr working for a small successful hedge fund with flexible hours and remote work. There is no way I can gamble this away for an expected maximum upside of $10m with a 10year horizon...
I definitely echo the feelings about compensation at startups. They massively over-value their equity because there is no risk adjustment, they just assume that the face value price of the shares is how you should be valuing the equity, which is obviously total nonsense.

One surprising thing I encountered when leaving a startup was that non-startup companies would value my startup equity at zero when presenting offers, making that deal even worse.

I definitely felt like the founders were being completely disproportionately rewarded to everyone else, which drove some amount of resentment on my part.

One of the pet ideas I have is that founder/employee shares should have some sub-linear returns with the value of the company, with the gap being redistributed to people down the value chain. E.g. once the founders have gotten a few million from their shares, part of the returns should start going to early employees, and once they have some amount of money it starts going to later people, etc.

Another idea could be for employees to be paid with options for an entire YC batch, rather than a single startup to reduce the risk associated with being paid in equity for a single startup. This is tricky for various reasons, but tries to reduce the risk without meaningfully changing how much capital is needed.

When I lived in the Bay Area I was pretty surprised by the amount of startups in the South Bay, living in SF and then Oakland, I basically refused to commute down there because of the shitty transit situation.

There are "pros" for startups, but most of them depend a lot on what the alternative is, if your alternative is a high performing team at a well paying company, there aren't a lot of things in the pros column, but if your corporate job doesn't pay great or is sucking the life out of you, then startups could be great in comparison. So maybe the right way to frame this is more of an "is this right for you" question, than is it objectively good.

[EDIT]: Providing ways for employees to cash out their equity would do a lot to de-risk things too. Particularly for employees who have are leaving and there is little reason to keep them aligned and are willing to make space in the cap table.
Future of Earth
KISS. Keep It Simple Stupid.

remember you or others of our Ilk will have to touch or replace that code some day. Getting fancy or sneaky is fun with competitions or bragging rights but in practical coding simple is ALWAYS best.
I use Namecheap, but it's not the cheapest. A couple months ago on a thread here in HN a bunch of people were recommending Porkbun, which seems quite cheap (~$9/year with free private domain), but I've never used them.
Tmux solves that problem and most power vim users use tmux
Oh yes.

Jawbone $2.7 billion valuation -> 0

Beepi $560 million -> 0

Better Place $2.5 billion -> 0

Quixey $600 million -> 0

YikYak $400 million -> $3 million

Fab.com $1.5 billion -> $15 million

Rdio $500 million -> $75 million

Here's 133 of them, most pretty big: https://www.cbinsights.com/research/biggest-startup-failures...

Also got some details from:
http://www.businessinsider.com/startups-that-raised-148-bill...
So thirsty to find a link between net neutrality and problems.
Any alternatives for Inbox? it's one of the biggest reasons im stuck in the google ecosystem.
Quillette is absolute gold. One of the few outlets left doing journalism and rational commentary.
The only reason that makes sense is to break into an industry without experience, or to move up the career ladder faster. Startups are hungry and will take folks who couldn’t even get interviews at big tech. And if you make your bones, boom, you’re in.
Though Google Earth uses aerial photography, I believe Vricon uses satellite imagery to get 0.5m resolution.

It is rumored this is what Apple is using in their 3d maps.

I believe low-earth satellites will increase resolution and availability while decreasing the cost of satellite imagery in the coming years.
Wait, we’re on 6 now??
Any alternatives to Inbox? It's one of the biggest reasons why i am stuck in the google ecosystem. I can't go back to a normal email interface anymore.
Birth Rates Dropped Most in U.S. Counties Where Home Prices Grew Most
Just to bring some perspective...when I was starting out, I was a teacher. I put in 12-16 hour days, got paid the inflation adjusted equivalent of 23k/yr, and put school supplies on my CC while facing the significant opportunity cost of spending my most energetic years empowering others.

I finally burned out and “retired” to 10x the salary at half the time and energy cost.

My point is that people will do things that are not in their financial interests because they are believers. Early employees are believers. I think you are underestimating the amount that early employees are putting on the line, including things like out of pocket costs for services for those businesses. People ARE doing it wrong, if rationally self-interested is your metric.
Some good mind hacks here, but I have to say that changing wording from "do my taxes" to "organize my finances" is not a way to reduce dread.

I have done my taxes about 18 times in my life. I have yet to organize my finances.
I suspect this is less about the credit risk of the cardholders than the risk of unrecoverable fraud, although there's also the theoretical risk of some kind of fraudulent conveyance by the card holder.

Fraud: I steal someone's credit card and use it to buy crypto, then move that currency somewhere unrecoverable. The card company is unable to recover anything. (This can be mitigated by recovering from the exchange in some cases.)

Fraudulent conveyance: Holder maxes out all their credit cards buying crypto, hides it, then claims bankruptcy. Card companies can't recover anything. (Yes, you could do this with something like gold, but it would be a lot harder to hide and sell later on.)
True in some regards, but it’s also incredibly easy to learn how to do things the wrong way, if you have no one to learn from.