skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Startups require crazy hours and solid dedication. If you put that into a career at a big software company, even with average talent, you will reach the level which yields that kind of money.
Forgive my ignorance, but doesn't your story demonstrate that the law was not necessary in that case? Since the problem was corrected without it? Or am I missing the point?
There were some US companies that did this as well before the dot bomb. One of the selling points would be you get "bench time," which meant paid in-between assignments. I think large companies that make a lot with consulting fees use this model as well, but I'm not sure which ones.
Well, my point being, we have an incredible degree of trust that these companies will operate in a continuous way, that their values will be unchanging. I too work at a large ecommerce tech company, and I can't see it suddenly changing. if you look at Yahoo, who knows in 10 years wether Verizon doesn't sell it off and the eventual owners decide that an ad-enabled 'look at everyone's emails' site wouldn't be worth the cost of buying Yahoo Mail's data.
The lack of engineering skill among teammates is a huge con in general to working in the Silicon Valley, not just among startup. The money is too good and the bar too unrelated to actually maintaining code. Personally, I've found startups are one of the few ways to not spend a career mucking out a mess dozens of others left behind with few tests and even less design.
In those cases the big 20 make sense.

Stsrtups are great but you are always held hostage waiting to cashin
> If I were building an engineering org today I'd either go remote-only

There's a reason why so few startups go the remote-only route. How many remote-only startups ended up a success? I can't recall a single remote-only unicorn, for example.

> For recruiting, warm up a pipeline of talented engineering managers outside the tiny handful of overheated areas in the US.

Finding good engineering talent anywhere is hard. You're supposing you can find them in various foreign, remote countries you don't know. It's not that simple.
Villagecoin.com takes AMEX and they sell all manner of very liquid investment type stuff, like silver and gold ounces (they are even claiming to be an "Authorized U.S. Mint Gold and Silver Dealer" by golly). So there's your out. I guess AMEX didn't think of that. Hmmm.
I've worked at two companies with "unlimited PTO" and it also worked as stated.
In this case, if interest paid < yield. If someone wanted to give an SPV I controlled a loan tomorrow for a few million dollars to invest in crypto, at 20% a year, I would happily take it. But miracles sadly don't happen.
Maybe i don't get it, but this feels like not zero. It requires more things to be present so they could pick less as a concept, not specifically none as a concept
I was an early employee.

Lots and lots is said about compensation, I won't repeat it here. (Just treat equity like a tip.)

One pro is that I got to set a lot of architectural direction. Because we were small, I didn't need to put up with a lot of groupthink or bad habits when fixing some very bad problems in the codebase.

Another pro is that I had some of the best working relationships in my life while we were small.

A con is that startups are crawling with bozo managers and people who just can't handle the responsibility that their role entails. I used to spend a lot of time pushing back on people throwing unreasonable amounts of their work onto me.

(QA who wouldn't follow process and wrote incomprehensible tickets; and support people who just wrote "it doesn't work" instead of diagnosing the customer's problem.)

Ultimately, as the company matured, the above problems worked themselves out. I helped define the processes for QA and support. Defining these processes is a big pro, IMO, of working for a startup.

Also: Incompetent people manifest themselves in startups just like in large corporations; it's just that large corporations tend to absorb them better. Startups die quickly if they can't push the incompetent people out.
«Why choses to owe more in interest when they can afford to pay the debt?»

Easy: they could expect to make more profits than the cost of interest.

«I think in the absence of actual numbers...»

In the absence of actual numbers, the journalist is simply jumping to conclusions by assuming everyone is unable to pay the debt.
Firefox is an OSS product, and has been around longer than Chromium. Why not "treat it like open source" too and contribute?
I guess as long as you don't care about the $ might be fun
And both monasteries and universities have clearly distinct ranks (and other titles) and hierarchies. These are quite clearly tied to status.
I'm sure Woz has a better idea of how to secure stuff on computers than 99.9% of people. If you need to be a cyber security expert to not run a significant risk of being defrauded, then it's obviously something credit card companies shouldn't be considering acceptable risk
I worked as an engineer at a startup early in my career (looong time ago). Company went under, stock => $0.

However, I am extremely grateful for that time. It taught me a wide range of non-technical skills that have proved invaluable throughout my career.

Most of those non-technical skills revolved around leadership opportunities, being given huge responsibilities vs. my skill/age (and having to figure it all out on my own), and getting to participate in many aspects of the business.

It ingrained in me ownership; and I've never been able to shake bringing that startup mentality to everything I do at a larger company.

Just my experience. Much of this perhaps is achievable while at larger companies, depending on the situation.
That's good to know, thanks for that tip. I've been using secrets with Kubernetes for sharing things currently, but only in small cases.
>I disagree with gun registries being a precursor to confiscation and prosecution.

So gun owners shouldn't fear gun registries as a precursor to prosecution?

Yet in the very next sentence you advocate for prosecuting gun owners under a strict liability that holds them responsible for anything that happens using their gun.

>But you know what they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

I'd say you've already gone too far when you criminalize someone getting their property stolen.
Firefox is more usable and performs better than Chrome? You can’t be serious…
Yeah, I look at Silicon Valley, and all I see are a bunch of webdev businesses. Sure, they dress themselves up as all kinds of different services, but ultimately most of the sweng jobs are webdev jobs. It makes me want to run the other direction, because the idea of doing webdev for a living makes me want to smash my fingers with a hammer.

On the other hand, where I live, in North Texas, the bulk of the tech industry here is telecom. Telecom work is far more interesting to me than webdev, and honestly if I ever move out of town, I'm going to be very sad that there won't be as many telecom jobs. And I sure as hell wouldn't ever move to SV.

On top of the work itself, I also find that I prefer the corporate cultures of enterprise B2B telecoms to webdev-centric startups. Going back to a B2B telecom after spending a few years working at other companies (first an abusive startup, then an academia-centric defense contractor) felt like coming home, and now that I'm home I don't ever want to leave the industry again.
Those are two great concrete suggestions. I agree with both of them - a standard of transparency and 10 year exercise periods.
Agree with the points around increasing equity and comp. One thing about option plans is that the devil is in the details. How things play out in a liquidity event or the tax ramifications can be large based upon how the plan was set up years prior. My guess is founders probably don't spend a lot of time sweating these details and the lawyers are concerned about protecting the company. YC could help by pushing for plans that are employee friendly. Publish articles about how to set up plans in a good way. Publish articles about what employees should look for when comparing offers. Possibly publish legal docs that companies can start from similar to other sets of documents you've published.
Yes, paying extra to get unlimited traffic to certain services is good. It’s good there’s choice.
If there is a bubble + a burst, I'd rather be at a big company flush with cash. (Note: I'm currently at a startup!)
The 3D buildings are generated using photogrammetry, which needs aerial photos taken from multiple angles. Satellite imagery doesn't work for the sort of approach they're using. This is why it's mostly cities and important landmarks: it's very expensive to fly the planes to capture that imagery.
Thank you. One of my personal goals with regard to this analysis was to learn Python on-the-go (I feel more comfortable in R) so I will definitely check pymc3.
Really happy to see this! Just out of curiosity, was this project inspired by any feedback your team received at locate?
I think this is a big part of it.

Even on cards without any rewards, credit cards already have a way to get money from your credit card: cash advances, and they carry a higher interest rate and lower limit generally.
Xiaomi redmi 5 plus with brave browser as well works fine though..
But the Big5 have tons of locations. Amazon in particular has tech centers in places like Phoenix and Detroit, while Google is in Chicago. Microsoft is even in Fargo!

Unless you want to be a digital nomad I guess. Then it’s probably not ideal, but I do know some fully remote positions exist at the L6 level at Amazon.
As a child I was fascinated by the idea that the cliffs of Moher (https://www.cliffsofmoher.ie/about-the-cliffs/geology/) stood at the mouth of a massive ancient river but I've never found a picture of the earth in the geological past which showed such a river.

Nor does this model. Anyone know enough about geology to explain why? Is it because rivers are not represented at all?
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If you are in FAANG, and in bay area, then your numbers look too low. I know mid-level engineers in bay area, can make ~300k. All this assuming a good engineer who has been performing consistently, and is among the top 10% in his/her team.
> How do you know that?

You label the damn thing.

The idea behind Type-C is that you don't need a million different cables because everything uses a different physical port. Now you can have fewer cables, and even fewer ports, because the physical ports are consistent. That doesn't mean anything else is consistent! It doesn't need to be!

Users only need to know what ends are what. That isn't hard at all.
Because I agree with Theo de Raadt.
Not yet but it's kind of my goal: I have implemented this module because I need it for creating better, slightly customizable GitHub profile pages.
Interesting comments about a similarly famous study with a similar gist, the Milgram experiment:

"Many other studies, such as Soloman Asch’s famous experiment[1] demonstrating that people will ignore the evidence of their own eyes in conforming to group judgments about line lengths, illustrate the profound effect our environments can have on us. The far more methodologically sound — but still controversial[2] — Milgram experiment demonstrates how prone we are to obedience in certain settings. "

[1] https://www.simplypsychology.org/asch-conformity.html
[2] https://psmag.com/social-justice/electric-schlock-65377
It can be very expensive. I priced out two scenarios recently for an IoT solution. Using Lambda the cost would be $27,000k a month. Using a LB/EC2 solution with reserved instances the price was $60/month. (We also priced out IoT core, and it was $3,000k a month).
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Most people who think of 400K (or even 200K in some previous discussions) as "outlier pay" are probably just not familiar with big tech pay and how much revenue they earn per engineer.
This is untrue. The FCC's mandate to oversee broadband is clear. The 2015 rules on the solid legal foundation of Title II were upheld in court twice. The FCC has repeatedly acted to ensure net neutrality, including a 2005 action against blocking (again under Title II). Then there were net neutrality conditions applied to mergers (AT&T, then Comcast/NBCUniversal), to broadband grants under the stimulus act and to portions of the 4G spectrum.

The 2010 rules were overturned in court because the FCC has very little power if it classifies ISPs under Title I, but lots of authority under Title II.

Now some of the questions before a federal court are about the 2017 repeal, including 1) was the FCC's reversal of the Title II classification justified and 2) was the proceeding handled fairly under the Administrative Procedures Act.
I've heard this from multiple Fortune 500 hiring managers, too. And of course it's doubly true for founders and hiring managers at startup and growth-stage tech companies! Just about every experienced person I know in startup-land thinks that resumés that show only big company experience are a negative hiring filter.
How do I view the data Google has collected on me if I do not have a Google account?
Photogrammetry is not rocket science and recent smart phones scan photos into 3D. Provide some Exabytes server space and start a movement with people taking city selfies ;)
One idea to reduce volatility in financial outcomes: offer equity in the YC fund itself in addition to the equity in individual companies. That would also give employees an incentive to support other employees in the cohort.
Just wanted to add that same could be said of Tesla, who go even further with their marketing on coast to coast autonomous drives, cross country summons, and driverless taxis.
Nice work! I feel like it can provide some perspective about things like nationalism, etc. Like a minor version of the 'overview effect'.
I certainly did not mean to suggest that they were some magic bullet, or that anyone should take them daily for extended periods of time. Your doctor should work with you to determine the correct dose and duration. Or if you self-medicate, you should thoroughly research anything you're thinking about taking before doing so. Benzos can be taken daily for something like a month.[0]

[0]: https://www.jpshealthnet.org/sites/default/files/prescribing...
I didn't have to clock in I just needed to enter my billable hours.
Those are great suggestions - thanks!
Nothing in particular, but I like the idea of keeping my private information to myself.
Ajit Pai has redefined "competitors" to include wireless. Poof! There's now more competitors.
hey nice project.
I had my Show HN recently. I've built a tool to also use it in a serverless fashion. Check it out at https://triggerfs.io

It has been a month since then and the feedback was awesome.

I would love to hear your opinion and how you could possibly use it (use case), since you can do a lot with serverless/FaaS etc.

cheers
You of course know most people don't pay the balance off like you did, in which case the typical consumer would pay WAY more than the $20 in cash back.
The one time I worked at a startup, the lack of healthcare made me borderline suicidal.

I was beginning my gender transition when I worked there, and my doctor bills were bankrupting me.

Never again. Never ever ever ever again. I'm not touching a company with fewer than 500 employees again.
It’s a broad mix. My unscientific (small) sample has been that the best advice came from the most famous VCs from the largest firms. (It surprised me, but I guess their fame and fortune were well earned)

I’ve also seen extremely helpful late stage strategic investors who brought great customer introductions.

My view is that things deteriorate when the CEO ceases to be honest with the investors, or when the investor is out of their natural element.
What also comes into the picture here is the extremely high cost of living in the Bay Area. Even startups have to offer $200k in non-"maybe" compensation to make sure people can afford living here. Even a relatively small size startup with 50 people now already has $10 million in salary costs per year (not even counting taxes, benefits, etc.).

So overall the balance is tilted very much in favor of the big companies that can afford paying people that much. I'm wondering how that changes where startups get started. Is the Bay Area still the dominant place for this?
They're on the Beltline every day. I nearly got mowed down by a flock of teenage girls on bird scooters the other day. They were riding side by side and didn't seem to care about pedestrians.

I wish the app would turn the Beltline into a deadzone and shut the scooters down.
I think the kid question is easy. Yes, you give them things you did not have but you also have to foster a sense of respect of the privileges they may have now that others do not. You can also have them earn things as well with whatever that might be. Your childhood is different then theirs qualitatively, temporally and situationally. And I think what kids really want and need is quality time with their parents regardless.
Open plan offices are one such misstep. We could adjust our working habits to be more privacy focused, preferring to err on the side of assuming that most hours of the day need to be quiet, private hours in a private setting spent on contemplative work, especially for collaborative work.

It should be seen as rare and exceptional to need hours spent in meetings or group settings where dynamic real-time audio is required. That is a form of collaboration needed much less frequently than asynchronous collaboration built out of individuals taking a more contemplative and personally customizable, adjustable approach to organizing thoughtful work habits that don't disrupt others.

(Note: I'm not saying I support this particular study on working memory, just that open plan offices are a problem in this area of productivity, whether or not this particular study turned out to be mostly click bait or not.)
How do you know you can trust the "USB Condom"?
Fail fast, avoid mutability, write tests
This is worth a top level story
I'm a proponent for JSON but agree that the lack of comments are one of the more annoying things I frequently run into.

edit--Especially when it comes to users editing config files. Imagine a new user trying to edit a web server/db/.bashrc file that didn't have comments to help out?
Competing with Wipro and other body shops? Good luck with that.
Are there any guarantees for seats, or is it just whatever is available? Are there compensations for delays?

Considering that one-way flights at its cheapest are $49 + a negligible price for TSA-pre, is the value proposition the convenience of a subscription model + prices that aren't affected by seasonal trends (being able to book whenever with a consistent price)? Are there any hidden ones that I'm missing?
That's absolutely true. The assumption "that you will always get more autonomy at startups" is fanciful.

In reality, many if not most startups are run by inexperienced and often immature managers and engineers who are substantially less qualified and skilled at running a team than their equivalents in more mature tech companies.
Ignoring the fact this is a stunt...

Profit matters, not revenue. The ingredients in pancakes cost virtually nothing. Meat is expensive.
I think Microsoft's experience with FPGAs for inference would agree with you.

Currently, they are only allowing external customers use ResNet-50 with their FPGA-enabled Azure ML.
Word aversion
Really like it! Especially the short explanation of the age is quite educating
Most likely, low IQ people reproduce at around 2x the rate of the high IQ individuals who subsidize their existence through taxes.
From reading some of the comments here, it's a bit sad that a 40 hour workweek is considered a job perk...
Filtering LinkedIn Connections While Inviting to Your LinkedIn Group in Bulk
There's an art project where USB sticks stick out of walls. [1] I wouldn't touch them with a 10 pole feet.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/shortcuts/2015/mar/...
These positions do exist. The VC maintains an engineering team that gets lent out to the businesses they're invested in.
This might be the one and only competitive advantage startups can offer over the big (and even mid sized) tech companies now. As previously mentioned, the compensation is so large at the established tech companies, and the (mostly) false promises of startup wealth are largely debunked, that allowing all workers the ability to move to lower cost areas or back home but still work in a dynamic industry is very appealing.

One of the risks of remote work is the next opportunity. What happens if you land a great remote job, move your family across the country, and then realize the new job/boss/company is not a great fit? Right now, it can be a challenge to find a comparable position offering full time remote flexibility. But if all startups offered full time remote, then the network effect occurs, leading more candidates to want this option and opening up a larger pool of qualified applicants for startup companies to work with.

If YC could facilitate this industry trend, you could be helping startups with talent acquisition, helping workers establish better lives in lower cost locales, helping to spread tech talent and opportunities around the country, and helping the Bay Area (and other highly impacted tech hubs) ease some of the housing and transportation issues. If this is a successful startup trend, I guarantee the big tech companies will follow.
We usually let them drive, too :-(.
Hah, no, this has been in the works for a while, the release timing is coincidental.
Of course, now that start ups are starting out side the bay area, that is the biggest appeal. There's a lot of people who want to get out of the Bay area. From the perspective of someone with a family: With the astronomical housing costs on the penninsula, working anywhere outside the bay area/penninsula is like getting a 1 to 2 million dollar signing bonus. Even with less than half the pay, you'd be much better off (assuming someplace reasonable: Albequerkee NM, Austin, Dallas, Chicago, Nashville, etc).

Nearly 50% of bay areans want to leave:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/04/bay-area-exodus-nearly-...
Right, but the OP said both parties were responsible, which isn't true, since the FCC board voted repeal on party lines. GOP seats voted repeal net neutrality, Dem seats voted to keep.

I'm a firm believer that both parties have their hands dirty in one way or the other, but in this instance, it doesn't seem to be so in this case.
Thats you, does every single payer receive the benefit? And does the benefit outstrip the cost?

If the latter is true, there is no need for a tax: the government can sell it optionally and every single payer would subscribe to it. The tax is only necessary to collect the money from people that would not pay for it.
> and I thought the article yesterday
Link?
Disagree. You get 400k at FAANG when your base is 150k plus 20% bonus. Sure that bonus will go down to 10% but the rest of the 100k+ stock grant per year is not going to become 0. You would still end up with 225k which is still more than startups.
I was going to call this the dumbest marketing stunt I've ever seen, but then I saw the Domino's one.
When they're done with their publicity grab they can continue as IHOB -- International Hall Of Bullshit.
> crypto purchases are starting to be placed in the same risk category as porn

> crypto is being put in a HIGHER risk category than porn

Most banks won't let you open up a merchant account for your porn site, but they typically won't block purchases from said sites.
how does one begin to even delineate a “thing”?
Why did you click on it?
scott_s you're totally right on both points.

FWIW I really mean the "take the numbers with a grain of salt" advice, i.e. "Your mileage may vary". What I'm sharing in this article is not a bunch of hard, strong, exact numbers ; It's a journey and an invitation to apply similar reasoning process to your own use case and hardware.