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Ask HN: Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018?
I’m Jared, one of the partners at YC. When I joined YC, one of the things
that I most wanted to do was to help make hiring and getting hired
suck less. I have a business reason and a personal reason for this.
The business reason is that YC's job is to help the startups we fund,
and helping with hiring is one of the biggest things we can do. The
personal reason is that before I joined YC, I did a lot of hiring for
my startup, Scribd, and for me it was the most rewarding part of
starting a company. Some of the people who joined us had life-changing
experiences - they moved across the world, jump-started a new career,
grew with the company and became leaders, or used their experience
to start their own successful companies. I wanted to help more people
have those experiences and not feel stuck in jobs where they don't
have much impact.

So, a few of us at YC have been building Work at a Startup
(https://www.workatastartup.com/), with the goal of making it easier for startups
to hire, and engineers to get hired, at a YC company. We started with
the same insight that everyone else has: the hiring process is broken
and inefficient, and decided to look for ways we could make it
better for everyone, at least within the YC ecosystem. For example,
we could get rid of the burden for applicants of having to send a
resume and cover letter to every company by creating a simple way to
apply to all YC companies at once.

While working on this, though, and talking to engineers and HN users
about it, I realized that there's a more fundamental question: why
should people want to work (or not!) at a startup in the first place?
This question has a history and has gone through several phases. In
the early heyday of YC and HN and pg essays there was a ton of
enthusiasm about startups, the freedom and creativity and opportunity
they offer. In more recent years, when I read HN threads (like
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15916350, to pick one close to
home), it's common to see people arguing that, for early employees,
joining a startup isn't such a good idea. And frankly, some of their
points are good ones. There are issues that need to be fixed. One of
the big things that YC did in the early days was move the needle in
favor of founders. That was an adjustment that badly needed to happen,
and it did happen. I think the next phase is to move the needle in
favor of early employees. Just how to do this is one question I'm
hoping we can discuss in this thread.

So, HN: what are the pros and cons of joining a startup in 2018,
particularly as an early employee? And where there are cons, what
would fix them? If there are concrete ways we can find to shift the
balance, YC is interested in doing that.
Off topic, I only recently found out about this book and it might be my favorite read in recent memory. Love seeing it mentioned in the wild.
Yes, it can work but it isn't a configuration supported by the standard. The original question was about when home 10GBASE-T network equipment is going to be generally available for the home market. Manufacturers are not going to market consumer equipment they know will likely not work on a large percentage of home networks. They will instead more likely market 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T which based upon the standards should work in most people's home networks.

You can certainly buy 10GBASE-T equipment meant for small business and give it a go on your network. If you are lucky you may have success.
That's the GIF rather than the game. It runs at 15 fps, but the GIF is only at 5 FPS. I could make the game run at 60 fps, but I'm not sure it needs it!
Does it? In either case the code is already written. Your payment doesn't mean there will be new features.
Unfortunately, that format will print 0.2 as "0.20000000000000001". What we want is the shortest-length string that will parse back to the same original value, which is "0.2".
A Short History of Fast Normal Lenses
Agreed. This is oddly political and dare I say passive-aggressive. Are they trying to cash in on a popular movement for infrastructure?
I just dump it in the tip jar.

No tip jar? No problem. I've got one at home. Every six months or so I take it to the Coinstar and trade it for $100 in neat little bills.
Earn some money from your savings, say £100, and you get taxed nearly £300. That's more than 100% tax.

You've also got the state where you have 7 kids (say you had 4 from a previous marriage and your partner had 3), and earn in the £50k-£60k range, where you attract a "High Income Child Benefit Tax Charge" which, combined with income and NI, works out to be 102% marginal rate, over a range of £10k.

As the OP said: "A wise colleague told me that until effective income tax rates reach 100 percent, a dollar of income is worth more than a dollar of deduction"

There are cases in the UK where that's demonstratably false. A dollar of income is actually worse than nothing. At the marriage threshold a pound of income is worth £-230. A pound of deduction is worth 33p.
This paper [0] (from 2013) linked from this article [1] was also executed on chain, see date here [2] and the actual script via API here [3].

[0]: https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/784

[1]: https://curiosity-driven.org/bitcoin-contracts

[2]: https://blockexplorer.com/tx/7ae5760af2105a5ba54a914f188686e...

[3]: https://blockexplorer.com/api/tx/7ae5760af2105a5ba54a914f188...
> The competition in the 80s and 90s were operating systems that didn't even have memory protection or the concept of user accounts. Unix was never going to lose over security.

Really? Apparently we lived in different planets.

VAX/VMS, OS/360, Burroughs, AS/400, ....

UNIX was available with source code for a symbolic price to universities, that was the difference.
Exactly.

This very ambiguity makes it easy for both sides to just shift the blame to the other side in case this whole collusion gets discovered – which you can now nicely see in the wild. In the best case scenario for both companies, both just get away with it this way.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plausible_deniability

Obviously, no parts supplier would integrate these functions in the first place if nobody asked for it...
Are there any other historical instances of banks banning a specific type of purchase from CCs?
Do you have a source/cites for this list? I'd to give it to my congressman.
I think once for those in the best school, especially in England, banking was very much a club where certain people could count on guaranteed money and success.

I don't think it works that way any more but the idea could still be there in people's minds.
Does Rogers still throttle bit torrent and VPN connections?
That's not really true, unless the only things you buy with your credit card are services and perishable goods.

The credit card companies' business model is similar in some ways to insurance. They skim a bit off the top of each transaction, and in exchange they bear various kinds of risk. One kind of risk is default/bankruptcy, as another commenter has mentioned. There's also the problem of fraud: since cryptocurrencies make it relatively easy to launder money, a Bitcoin purchase is disproportionately more likely to be fraudulent, even if the account is otherwise "in good standing".

(Note that it may also make sense to discourage or disallow gambling on credit for public policy reasons. For example, a number of states already prohibit the sale of lottery tickets using credit cards, even though those tickets have a non-zero expected value.)
? Biggest Failure in Life Turning into Most Successful Persons Story?
Because this kind of thing turns off countless young men to what is entirely reasonable and worthwhile mainstream feminism, and to accomplish social change you need a lot of people on board.

Because there's a high personal cost to carrying around hatred.
If utilitarianism wasn't practically difficult enough, human perception is adaptable. We don't perceive stimuli in absolute terms, but rather relative to whatever we've normalized. Thus the experience of suffering actually lets us experience pleasure more readily (the reverse is also true).

Additionally, due to the quirks of memory, adding some pain to a pleasurable experience at the right time will paradoxically cause people to remember it as being more pleasurable. This is completely at odds with a simple moral calculus.

It would be interesting to set a science fiction story in a world where an accurate moral calculus had been developed.
Wouldn't any serverless framework assume something like lambda and SNS?
You should probably substantiate such a bold claim with a few comparative examples. I have yet to encounter a situation where vim doesn't "just work".
Actually, these are two different risks. nomocrypto is worried about the risk that the exchange will misuse his payment information to make bogus bank transfers; Wells Fargo is worried about the risk that nomocrypto will fail to pay back the card. The credit card issuers are not particularly worried about fraudulent "merchant" charges.
Most suburban campuses could have plenty of parking, but they avoid building enough so that supply is constrained, so that they can reward professors by handing out designated parking spaces.

The number of different levels of parking preference at Stanford boggles the mind.
Wow, I have a Seat with the same 1.2 engine and is really really hard for me to surpass the 8L/100.
Maybe driving very fast can get you over these numbers but driving in the legal limit of most countries won't make you burn that much fuel!
That's an angle I'd hadn't considered. So if we give the gun nuts their guns and the criminals guns and I just stay inside for a few years this gun problem could just work itself out.
You say this like they are trying to trick me out of my money. If something like this boosted the price of pizza significantly, then perhaps I might care, but it's likely that this came from their marketing budget, and if I have a choice between Domino's and an equivalent chain, I'll probably get Domino's because it will encourage them to put more money into their marketing budget, and thus into things that benefit me as well. Plus, if other business see this as being successful for Domino's it will encourage them to invest in similar projects.
For me neovim brought true color themes support in the terminal, which was a breath of fresh air, or rather a major relief for my eyes. I switched to it for that reason, and using it ever since.
Re: your clipboard issues, which platform are you running on? I am using vim+iTerm2 on OSX and vim+st on OpenBSD and the clipboard integration works flawlessly.
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OP's comment is indicative of the exact demographic that is being targeted with this ad.

Not only does the comment depict a complete lack of understanding of infrastructure in the US and the upkeep challenges, but it helps to magnify Domino's marketing by providing an effectively useless contribution to the discussion.
Hi HN, I built this by adapting GPlates (https://www.gplates.org), an academic project providing desktop software for geologists to investigate plate tectonic data. I'm amazed that geologists collected enough data to actually plot my home 750M years ago, so I thought you all would enjoy it too.

Even though plate tectonic models return precise results, you should consider the plots approximate (obviously we will never be able to prove correctness). In my tests I found that model results can vary significantly. I chose this particular model because it is widely cited and covers the greatest length of time.

The visualization itself is open source, though I have not yet cleaned up and pushed the plate tectonics integration (working on that right now): https://github.com/typpo/ancient-earth
No, they are fear mongering ("horrifying") because one is able to find cities that will accept handouts. Never mind the fact that these cities have no reputation to lose for accepting handouts. What is horrifying about this?
Several relevant books here: https://rootsofprogress.org/bibliography

More history than overview of current state though.
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I live in the richest county in America. We don't need help filling potholes, but a whollleee lot of underprivileged, cash strapped rural and low income communities DO. I say forget nominations. Go forth and fill the holes in the most needy communities ASAP!
Because when you are buying "everything else", you expect its EFV to be around $0, so most of the people budget it accordingly. But if you are buying an asset hoping that the 100% annual return will pay your credit card interest and help you catch up with your rent, and that growth doesn't happen, it's 2008 all over again.

All this really means is that the banks' analysts are substantially more skeptical about cryptocurrencies than their average customers and they are trying to reduce their own risks.
The righteousness of the decision notwithstanding, this doesn't really seem like the time for Wells Fargo to exercise large-bank leverage by instituting new rules. I'd let the rest of the industry go first here (granted some have).
We were just talking about this same thing on /r/seo today. The search results are getting poorer and poorer and pbn’s are eating relevant search results.
A working workaround for me was to alias vi to `gvim -v` instead. It launches gvim without the GUI (so... vim), but still keep clipboard support.
>Bigger ISPs (like Verizon) also claim that this regulation hurts innovation

I don't really want innovation from my ISP aside from investing in infrastructure. Their version of "innovation" is, in reality, "how to bilk our customers for more $$$ by delivering shit they neither want nor need."

I realize they've also claimed that they need more money to re-invest in infrastructure, but that claim appears to be a lie given their recent investments and prior statements.
I don't whose ire you've drawn, but you're right. This is absolutely PR wank (albiet cheeky and well-executed). It's not like Dominos has a pile of cash big enough to make a serious dent in municipal infrastructure, but they do have a big enough pile of cash to make it to the front page of HN with a clever stunt.
It's not just a 4-pin USB connector. It's a 24-pin connector with pins for USB, DisplayPort, Thunderbolt, Ethernet, and JTAG. Some of which may work.

Do those 24 tiny pins hold up in use?
Yeah, I really liked those strips :)
Made myself a transmogrifier when I was younger too
Most important question: Does it auto-steer you into a stationary highway barrier at 70 MPH?
The main benefit of Neovim for me is support for async jobs.

So, for example, if you have autosave enabled, it won’t block the UI while it’s writing to disk.
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How (and why) to build a static blog with React
I do like this, but wouldn't gyroscopic stabilizers to hold the pizza be cheaper?

Apparently they've tried them in the past: https://www.adweek.com/creativity/dominos-wants-roll-out-gyr...
Yeah that's the way you buy&sell stocks if you are investing. Not just gambling
Why would you be buying chain pizza instead of putting money into your local mom n pop pizza shops? The best thing you can do to fix your infrastructure is invest in your own community.
For those hitting the JS-disabled/blank-page syndrome, the referenced Github resource:

https://github.com/newman8r/us-newspapers-opml/blob/master/u...
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Ask HN: What smartphone should I get if I'm concerned about privacy?
I refuse to buy an Amazon Echo or Google Home because I don't want anything listening to me constantly. I would also like to be able to carry my smartphone around without worrying about it listening to me either.

I know this sounds a bit paranoid and may be irrational, but I like being paranoid and irrational.

Which phone will best suit my paranoia and irrationality? Are Android and iOS devices immediately disqualified?
Back about 55 years ago, it was a big deal when somebody on the block got a refrigerator. Lay the box flat, open out the ends, three or four kids crawl in, face perpendicular to the ends and start doing an all-fours crawl forward: instant caterpillar.
Almost everything uses IEEE-754. For those that don't, converting IEEE-754 to the local native format is almost certainly much easier than parsing text. Dealing with NaN-related issues is also only a couple instructions; much easier than parsing text. (Ideally, use a serialization library that already does these things.)
Whatever is happening in America these days is tipped in balance towards whoever owns the gun. If the gun owners say "no net neutrality" what the other 99% say doesn't matter. A confidence by way of vote in the next election might reverse this but it is no mystery that the weight of a bullet is still much higher than that of a vote. Basically, choosing between death vs. a shepherd.

I wouldn't be surprised if a flip of tyranny has already occurred earlier this year. After all the reporter in her natural discourse did mention about the two dictators meeting in Singapore.

It was an honest mistake from her, but the thought has crossed our minds. It probably happened sometime ago.

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Hmm, the Prius is ~20yrs old, I suppose you could claim it wasn't innovative, just an incremental improvement, but you could say that about adding turbo- and superchargers to normal IC engines, and all of them increase efficiency. All-electric cars seem innovative to me? They offer a simpler, cleaner, lower-maintenance vehicle which is adequate for day-to-day uses.
Direct funding is good- but ultimately the road is a (very expensive) public good, and Domino's can't fund full maintenance all by itself nor does it reap all the benefit.

Public funding has always made sense for road repair because (generally) everyone benefits, and roads are expensive, so everyone pays.

To be clear- direct action is laudable, and it's a neat project, but big picture, we need many orders of magnitude more money on the problem than Domino's can ever provide.
I know it's polular to predict a dystopia future that resembles 1984; but I'm much more inclined to believe we are more heading into a Cyberpunk future where corporations hold the real power and nation states are more puppets for their will.
We typically do rename before open sourcing and intend to avoid namespace collisions. E.g. Litho was not the original name of that framework either.

I am familiar with most of the other tools mentioned here (e.g. SonarJava) from my time doing Java development outside of Facebook and never had a collision in my head because this project is not actually a library or tool for Java. It's a standalone Electron app that works on iOS and Android for debugging purposes, the only Java part is incidental in the Android app (and could be Kotlin or C++ or whatever you want).
If you liked Snow Crash, give The Diamond Age a go.
Bondage, domination, sadism, and masochism is what that stands for. You've correctly identified one facet of domination, for some folks.

There's a lot left there which your "BDSM is about social hierarchy" doesn't even begin to address.
It doesn't apply to me, but I love it simply because it irritates members of the American left.
What's the point? After reading a few paragraphs, the guy talks about promoting new research... About what? The article is so meta I stopped reading because I had no idea what he was talking about.
Because its still cheaper and easier to get a pizza from Domino's at 3am than it is from a mom n pop.
but the scooters function in large part as as a replacement for cars. so it's replacing something with lots of problems with something with fewer problems. it's a net win.

i do agree having regs to dissuade people from blocking & riding on the sidewalk with scooters seems very reasonable.

once you have that i think scooters are basically problem free (except for maybe aesthetic concerns).

even w/o that, i still don't see how anyone reasonable could think scooters were anywhere near the top of the list of hazards of sf streets.

(perhaps they are a major inconvenience for wheelchair users?; i'd be interested in any first-hand accounts.)
Indeed. I've also known people who had legally owned antique weapons they'd been grandfathered by deceased parents illegally seized and had to fight through the courts to get them back. They got them back eventually, but not everyone is that lucky.
That's probably because the astrophysicist spends 99% of his time thinking about astrophysics, and only 1% of his time about personal finance. Normal people, however ...
>For the target market, getting into a gunfight is the desired outcome. Blasting the brains out of a “thug” without having to go to jail for it is the aspiration.

It sounds like you likely have no firearm experience or friends/family who carry concealed. No one I know with a concealed carry permit hopes to have to use their firearm for self defense. Just like with other groups that carry firearms (police/military) there will be outliers who, as you say, aspire to shoot someone and make the rest look bad. However, the majority of people who carry concealed are certainly not running around trying to find someone to shoot. My grandfather has carried a concealed firearm his entire life and never has never drawn or fired in a self defense situation
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When establishing Comcast service a few years back, I was told the package on offer included Streampix.

"What's that?" I asked.

"It's like Netflix, but better" was the rep's response. Her tone indicated she was pretty unconvinced herself. I repeated it and laughed, then she laughed. Neither of us said anything else, but it was clear that was her given line to parrot and that we both realized how ridiculous it was.

But it is awful that they can literally make this so now...not with content, but by degrading reliability of competitors.

And, at the end of the day, what are you going to do? If they're willing to weather a little bad PR, in many markets you would have no other choice.
The well-kept secret behind great UX: Usability Testing
Maybe not cash-strapped. In my experience (I worked for local government for several years), road funding is always at the bottom of the political campaign list because it's one of those problems that is very easy to just kick down the road (no pun intended). In my jurisdiction, we wasted hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars repaving the roads every 3 years or so with the cheap stuff instead of tearing up the road entirely and rebuilding it properly to last 20 years for only double the price of the 3 year repavement. So I see this from the perspective of allowing lazy politics to continue in these towns.
Mosquito traps are pretty effective. Since mosquitoes don't tend to migrate very quickly, you won't get many new ones moving in as the nearby ones are trapped.

If it's feasible, you should reduce the amount of standing water around you. Also there are effective poisons (specifically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_thuringiensis_israele...) that you can add to puddles or ponds. Mosquitoes only live about a month so if you can keep them from spawning for that time the population will just die off.

Even an oscillating fan will mess with their navigation enough to discourage them in a small area.
Hopefully services can charge differential pricing. I imagine a list like the below would be pretty effective in ISP subscriptions, at least where people actually have a choice.

- Comcast $20
- ATT $15
- Other $10
It was part of the original contract. A credit card isn't a completely unrestricted line of credit. You either need to use it in transactions with merchants that they have a payment processing arrangement with or use it for a cash advance that comes with extra fees to offset their increased risk.