skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pro: how much you learn.

My first engineering job was at a startup. I learned an enormous amount in a year because there were never more than 3 engineers in that period.

I had to learn the basics - git etiquette, how changes are managed, how work is planned. But I also had to learn almost every technical layer. One day you're setting up DNS records for a new subdomain, the next you're choosing a JavaScript test framework, the next you're working with the CTO on designing an offline job-processor. It's a great breadth of experience that's hard to get at big companies, where projects typically have much longer timelines. People stay on one team, on one project, for years.

At a startup, you do it all in a mad dash, probably absorbing technical debt, which is also important. "Shit, the database migration didn't work, I just took down the site, shit shit shit" is a really important lesson that you can be hard to get at a big company.

I've worked at companies ranging from 3 employees up to 50,000+. Definitely learned the most at the smallest scales.

I see this when hiring, too. It seems from my experience that an engineer with 1 year of experience at a startup is typically much better-prepared than an engineer with 1 year of experience at Google (sample size < 10, I am likely biased by my experience and expectations, many exceptions possible of course).
Ha, most startups use crap tech because the founders might not be highly technical and hire the first tech person they come across or they outsource and can't vet whatever cheap contractor they found.
My family dumped Wells Fargo after being with them for 5 decades. They can go straight to hell to tell me or anyone what they can and can’t buy when you have a trackrecord of paying on-time and sufficient liquidity to back up a transaction. I can understand the appearance of hedging without a capitalized margin account. Perhaps an alternative, the bank could communicate “we need to reserve X% of funds now to cover this transaction or we’ll have to cancel it.”
There seem to be two sides in this thread - "Fix it for early stage employees" from the OP, feels like a long term map towards less reward for capital
and more for labour.

The grassroots side seems to be "give us more comp or we go work for Google" - which is roughly the same map as above but from a different direction.

However I suspect the chances of landing a gig like that are similar to landing early employee at a 50Mil exit. Or
perhaps I need to go work in SF, or charge more in London...

What seems to be missing here is not a path to a new socialism (not a bad thing TBH) but that the risk / reward ratio has shifted - usually to justify large rewards there needs to be concomitant risk. But it seems to me that product market fit is being found earlier with less capital cost. And then the sheer scale of the market when you do find a fit is returning a reward out of all proportion to the investment at risk. From Whatsapp to Trello, a small team can find product market fit and go global.

In which case the reward for capital should come down in a sane market. The risk is not as big as it used to be, so the price must come down.

That seems a good thing ?
https://www.cnet.com/news/telco-agrees-to-stop-blocking-voip...

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=a679f360-9890... (article from '08)

https://www.wired.com/2009/10/iphone-att-skype/

http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/06/technology/verizon_blocks_go...

https://www.wired.com/2011/06/verizon-tethering-fcc/

http://money.cnn.com/2012/08/23/technology/att-facetime/inde...

https://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2013/09/18/verizons-pla...

Bonus:

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21376597/ns/technology_and_science...

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/186576-verizon-caught-...

Credit to https://www.reddit.com/user/IncredibleTeacherMan
The latter. The entire area of vaguely PC peripheral chips died in 2014 when MegaChips took over ST's DP chips.

Consider how much a 10 GbE card still costs -- this is the same speed! Apparently, it's not cheap making chips working with 10-20-40 gigabit/s line speeds but the market demands low cost. USB C wouldn't get far if a plain USB C to DP adapter would cost a hundred bucks.
That's what I'm thinking, yes.
Repost from 10 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17208419
Now I’m curious as to what you think marriage is.
Historically, the market has been great across the board for as long as most people have been alive (do you know anyone who was alive during the Great Depression and is alive today?). But doom-and-gloom negativity about the economy is a great marketing approach. It hits some button people have, gets them to buy gold or whatever other paranoid nonsense will save them from the Coming Economic Collapse.
Show HN: Pyrunner, light python script runner
More people in the field of mental health should have a sense of humor like this.
The number of shares. One can argue that early startup shares are less diluted and thus comprise a bigger piece of the company, but the risk is disproportional to dilution.

When evaluating an offer, you just multiply this number to the projected IPO price given the comparable (same industry, company size, etc) IPOs recently.
It feels weird to have a regulation that does nothing.

If you're going to regulate do it well, but also proportionately.

If you're not going to regulate don't regulate, but provide some education.

There's no point in providing toy registrations.
And unlike with tv in the old days having only a few channels, the limitation of internet access is almost entirely non-technical and artificial. Aside from a little caching efficiency, it's pure market manipulation.
Great. Suggestion-

1. Can you add the number of years ago (eg. 100,000, 1M, 20M, 200M) next to the periods in the dropdown for those not familiar with it.

2. Can you simulate the changes automatically so it evolves?
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I’m more interested in the unquestioning belief that people seem to have with information provided by an authority, especially during the earliest exposure to a subject.

As the article states, the SPE is often introduced uncritically in introductory lectures. Uncritically to avoid muddying the waters (presumably) and in an introductory lecture because it is fascinating and likely to capture the imagination of a student (presumably).

I’ve encountered unquestioning belief in various degrees of bullshit taught this way, from the tainted views of history taught in elementary school, through to stuff like this in undergraduate education.

I think that students are particularly vulnerable to this at an early phase of exposure to a subject because they don’t have enough background to be critical, by the time they get that background this information is ingrained.
Ask HN: Registrar with highly technical staff
I have been with one of the oldest registrars for a couple decades that is now basically just a help desk. I have tried a few US registrars and I am finding the same pattern. Fancy UI, limited DNS functionality and maybe one or two semi technical people buried deep under call centers. I just use registrars to point to my name servers. If there was a way I could edit the root servers directly, I would. Thus far I have tried name.com, network solutions (now web.com), namecheap, godaddy. I heard mixed reviews of Gandhi but have not tried them yet.

I am looking for a few registrars that are "engineers for engineers", if such a thing exists. Are there perhaps any EU based registrars that maybe I have not heard of that have a highly technical staff?
Nostalgia isn't all bad...in fact it's believed to improve your mood.
This is awesome, nice job!
Googling for numbers, many sources quote these EU tests which everyone's cheating on. Out in the real world it sounds like switching Petrol -> Diesel saves maybe 20-30% CO2, and emits 10-20x the NOx.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896971...
Obviously the situation being discussed here is corruption specifically because of the database software. If a comet destroys the entire datacenter and the data is lost, nobody is going to blame Postgres for it.
> 4. Buy from several various mom-and-pop shops that also only for some reason have card machines that support Swedish cards.

That seems unusual to me, Swedish debit cards are AFAIK just VISA/Mastercard cards so I'd think those should be accepted. I've never had any problems with my VISA debit/credit cards in Sweden but I guess I could've been lucky.

Do you have any more information about this? Or do you have a non-VISA/MC card?
This is a good point, and I think we'd have to take it up with Chris Scotese, the geologist who produced the rasters I wrap around the globe[1]. There are some details in the PDF included in the download, which explains some coloration choices based on elevation (search for "paleocoastline")[2].

That said, I think there is artistic license taken, and the wet Mediterranean might be an oversight or even a statement by the artist (I've gotten emails from angry geologists because the globe does not advance one theory or another). Part of Scotese's work also predates some of the research on this topic.

It would certainly be more accurate to show a simple plate diagram rather than an artistic version of the Earth, and it would make my life easier too because then I could show continuous plate movement for each year. But there is a certain thrill in seeing ancient earth all globe-like, so I stand by my choice to use these rasters :)

[1] https://www.earthbyte.org/paleomap-paleoatlas-for-gplates/

[2] https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-q0WIa7ofISFHyBe4UxvN8DIPs...
You'll just go back to snail mail or satellite internet with 500ms+ latency, eh?
Except we do have evidence that the specific claims made by Zimbardo were fraudulent and we also have experimental evidence that shows that these results are not accurate if you actually implement his claimed methodology.

SPE now needs to be taken as a cautionary tale about ethics and science, nothing more.
Perhaps, then, you could explain where the commenter you are responding to's misunderstanding lies, for the benefit of him/her and the rest of us?
I'm curious what data the parents think Google will be able to mine out of 100,000 badly written docs/slideshows about the life of George Washington.
It seems like many people in this thread missed the sarcastic tone of the article...
Reminds me of the end of John Cleese’s talk on creativity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5oIIPO62g
This may just be a personal viewpoint but I no longer see the distinction between a startup and another company, not when I'm the senior developer coming in to head up the team. In London in particular it feels more like a marketing term to attract more naïve talent, which isn't necessarily a bad thing (corporate/enterprise still has a pretty uncharitable perception, for better or worse). You can find yourself working for a startup that has existed for four or five years, hasn't properly launched their product or found their place in the market, and on some level has stagnated.

I've no experience with the tech world in the US (or SF really), neither YC, so maybe the conditions there are different, but my vague thoughts are this (and these are usually the things I assess when I'm interviewing with any company, it's rare that everything is checked so it becomes a matter of trade-offs):

- I'm more passionate about building out a nascent product that really touches me than I am about working for a startup. There is vision, it aligns with my values, I'm confident I can help make it happen and I want to be part of it. That it happens to be the idea of a startup isn't relevant because I'm looking for fulfilment, not a cash-out. Appealing to making my day-to-day comfortable and productive, while also respecting my worth, is a good way to get me on board with that.

- With that in mind, coming in with the pitch that I have to sacrifice a fair bit in order to make this dream come true - low salary, higher equity, 10+ hour workdays/no sustainable pace - isn't going to work unless it's an intensely special idea. That means respecting boundaries about when work happens and when work doesn't, with the reasonable expectation that sometimes there might be a bit of flexibility.

- Speaking of boundaries. Fucking stop it with the mandatory fun. I love a beer with the crew as much as anyone but turning every single potential social gathering into a bacchanalian fuck-fest or making alcohol as available as possible inside the office just isn't motivating. Give me a reason to leave the place and enjoy the outside world and socialise naturally, and think of more exciting things than straight up parties if you want to do company get-togethers.

- If not fully remote, then at least temporarily remote. This is mutually beneficial if the startup is mature about it, because it means you can enjoy a change of scenery without going totally off the grid.

- Respecting experience. If I pass muster as the senior/experienced programmer you need then I expect that you're paying me because you're interested in my input, not to micromanage me. Let me bring something to the table.

I actually think you're far more likely to fulfil these wishes at many startups, and massive corporate outfits may be slower to respond to that kind of thing. But then it raises the important question: if you're moving the needle in favour of employees, how do you allow them to influence these cultural concerns?
Is not about that, but how persistent some idea can be, because honestly, how fact-check everything?
The victim sues and gets a pay out for their losses from the food vendor's public liability insurance that is a requirement of the licence.
I think people are just different. To some, thinking through the worst case scenario is a way to face and overcome their fears. To others, it's a way of instilling fears.
Using the same tool for different effects.
This is strange, oft-repeated, mostly incorrect argument. Almost every modern router, if it handles IPv6, handles IPv6 without NAT but with a firewall. Most consumer routers just have ALLOW ALL outbound, ALLOW EXISTING inbound, default firewall rules that would be just fine for IPv6.
> Many early startup employees work intense 12-14 hour days. Are you saying founders work 1,200-1,400 hour days

Hours and days don’t capture the value. I have risked my house, every minute of spare time, I have put Heroku bills on my personal credit card, paid contractors out of my pocket and had to create something out of nothing within a difficult market vertical. Comparing that to a “long day at the office” doesn’t even compute.

Early employees also get paid. In my little company, I am the last person to get paid. My employees are the first even when it’s coming out of my own pocket.

It’s asinine to equate an early employee with a founder. As far as 12-16 hour days for employees — if that’s the case then you are doing it wrong. Nothing good comes from those sorts of hours — it isn’t sustainable even for a little bit.
I'm not sure "plenty". More like "few".
Within one currency. Presumably, the trick would be to take Australian $5, bleach, cut a few mm off one edge, and reprint to £5 notes.

£2.16 profit!
Why do I get the feeling that whoever wrote this just came out of a bad relationship?
When I was in middle school in the late 80s, our social studies teachers coordinated a mock segregation experiment. 1 out of every 8 students was identified as an "Other". We were told that the "Others" were less deserving of respect and that it would be okay to make fun of them. The "Others" would always be last in line, would be required to use "Others"-only restrooms, etc. Teachers were told to favor the regular students and not the "Others." There were no prisoners and guards. The distinction was those with privilege and those without.

The experiment was planned to last three days. It was stopped after less than a day and a half. I remember the principal coming on over the PA and announcing that the experiment was ending immediately and that treating any "Others" any differently from then on would result in a suspension. There were students showing up in the office crying about it. Not just complaining. Literally in tears.

The problem, primarily, was that it was a middle school. There's already a group of students that all the other students mistreat or pick on or don't respect as well. There's already a social pecking order. When some of those low social rank students were assigned to the "Others" group, they really got bullied by people. What I remember being the most shocking was how several teachers were bullying and treating students badly. Yelling at them or punishing them for no reason at all. Just because they had a paper sign that said "Other" on their shirt.

The thing that this drilled into me is how vile people can be to each other when they think they deserve it or otherwise aren't deserving of basic respect or equality. The older I get the more I look back on this little experiment and am shocked by what happened. Xenophobia and sectarian divisiveness is a remarkably easy way to dehumanize and strip other people of basic human rights. It's really quite terrifying how easy it was and how quickly it happened. How all the students and staff just readily accepted the new social order because that's what the authority said was true. How people abused that social order for no good reason. How people who were ostensibly pretending were actually acting in horrific ways. It's difficult to know in the moment what's acting and what isn't when it's a stranger doing it.
To anyone as confused as I was: the parent comment refers to the Texas Instruments TPS65982/TPS65983, not the graphing calculators.
would probably need to look into that theory further. That map at 20Mya is consistent with the fact that Florida was under water during that time. The Gulf Trough, another waterway, was running above the Florida platform around that time up to ~40Mya.
I'm a passable Havannah player, and a passble Go player, and I've read Freeling's writing before, but I confess that I don't really know what organicity is.
I'd like to hear this as well. To me marriage is an ancient construct that really was designed to provide structure to single earner families and to align them with the popular religious beliefs of the time. It does't make much sense to me in today's world (in particular in places like the USA) outside of religious constructs.

Sure, figure out a ceremony so people can celebrate their love and proclaim their loyalty to each-other. But why should the law and finances get so tightly involved?
I agree with all you've said here, first of all.

> Many startups want Senior Engineers with several years of experience

This is often advertised. It's sometimes listed as a requirement. Those requirements are more flexible than new grads ever realize.

I think, coming from school, it's easy to take those lists of requirements literally. It's quite common, though, to hire people who don't match the requirements exactly.

Something is probably improvable, there - job listings are written in a kind of code that's not obvious at all to new grads. You kind of need a few years of experience hiring people to understand what they even mean.
They're doing both.

>There are two ways to enter: (1) If your child received a fine for operating a lemonade stand without a permit during the 2017 or 2018 calendar year, take a photo of the fine and a write brief description of what your child's lemonade stand means to him or her, in his or her own words. (2) If you are seeking reimbursement for a permit, follow the instructions to upload the image of the permit for 2018 and a brief description of what your child's lemonade stand means to him or her, in his or her own words.

https://www.countrytimelegalade.com/public/fulfillment/rules...
I know a few guys who have taught English now for 10+ years. They've got families and houses and are able to get by alright. They are able to supplement their income with side jobs (teaching private lessons, freelance graphic design, translation work, etc), which is a form of career progression. It's true you probably won't get rich teaching English, but it seems like it's possible to enjoy a pretty decent standard of living in Japan on a modest salary. And the fact that you were able to save 50k is proof of that. That's more than lots of people are able to manage - probably enough for a down payment on a house here, in fact.

I saw in a previous comment that you said you are ashamed of being an English teacher. Don't be. You're performing a useful service that people are willing to pay for with their time and money. That's something to be proud of and I would even go so far as to argue that the benefits to society of teaching English are a lot more tangible than a LOT of programming jobs.

Not really trying to steer you in any direction. As I mentioned above, teaching English was not for me - I really hated work environment at the company I was working for. And your concerns about career progression, salary, and status are definitely valid. But on the other hand, I have seen that it's a viable option if you choose to go down that route.
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One major con, as far as I'm concerned, is the increasing ageism that exists in the industry in general, but especially at startups. My father-in-law is 68 and can barely get an interview, much less an offer. He is very technically competent. Any company of any size would be lucky to have him. Now, you might argue that he's too expensive, especially for a startup, but the fact is he just wants to work and is willing to take less money to do what he loves to do.

You could also argue that they won't hire him because he might retire at any point. Sure, buy why would he? He wants to work. Some at his age and experience even need to work still. And besides all that, even if he retires in two years, the startup would get a tremendous mount of value from someone with his experience over that two year period.

Given how badly companies need technical talent these days, its a shame that they leave that segment of the working population out.
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I am not sure, but serverless requires more config and tweaking as compared to arhitect.
In contrast, serverless is a more mature and flexible platform.
In China it's quite common to handle very grimy and nearly destroyed notes that are 10 RMB and under.
This is correct. De-escalation is a major part of most CCW courses, and additionally many states have duty to retreat laws on the books. But it's much easier to hyperbolically mislabel a predominantly law abiding group of citizens than to address one's own ignorance.
The difference is in how you imagine it.
Do you imagine it to confirm the horror, or do you imagine it to come to terms with it.
There's only a narrow window in your life where many of the cons of working for a startup don't ruin you. That window happens to overlap with the beginning of your career. If you have the skill to make it into a big corp at the beginning of your career, you can do it again later in your career -- they'll still be there later.

I'm of the opinion that the generalist skill set you typically get from a startup is far more valuable than the specialist (and typically exclusive to the corp) skill set you get from the corp, and I'll even argue that the entry level skill set of the corp is pretty damn useless, but that's only from anecdotal evidence.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, startups dance at the edge of survival.
Well, I just about stopped reading at

> Let’s exclude some obvious ways, like doing drugs ...

Not entirely, though. But I did get disgusted not long after, by the smug tone.

Maybe it's all sarcastic ranting about self-help literature. But even if so, I didn't find it very funny.
Exactly right. When I enabled IPv6 on my home LAN, I made very sure that only those hosts (and ports!) I wanted open were available to the outside world. Otherwise, incoming IPv6 is DROP by default.