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Ask HN: How much salary to draw as a founder?
Wanted to ask the HN community how to think about founder salaries after raising money.

Let's say that a company has 2 founders. What's a reasonable salary after raising:

- $500k?

- $1m?

- $2m?

Or do most founders do the reverse, a "bottoms up" take on the minimum amount that they can pay themselves in order to sustain basic life expenses?

A related question is how to handle differences in founder situations (ie, one founder has enough of a savings that they don't need a salary, or one founder doesn't have work authorization in the US and can't take a salary). Do you give the non-salary founder more equity?
Also, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xFfOhasiOE is a pretty good conference talk that offers a high-level overview of CRDTs.
Thus far, Autopilot has only killed individual drivers.
It appears the author works on Chrome.
Just tried this and it works great. Much better solution than rebooting. Thanks!
Good for them. And by "them" I mean the founders and investors. Employees may make some money if the company exits, but not much relative to time/sweat investment, certainly several orders of magnitude lower than the guys up top, and probably comparable to or worse than FANG compensation (even disregarding RSUs).

This isn't unique to DoorDash, but it's what comes to mind when a pre-exit company's valuation is being marketed in public. It's meant in part to entice eager recruits, but they don't realize that money is never meant for them.
I despise religions as the next man, but they are as popular as they are for a reason: they usually include collections of practical strategies to achieve your goals in life, which actually work very well for a lot of people. The most skilful ones have accumulated millennia of empirical testing and refinements.

There is a lot of top-notch “self-help” advice buried in religious teachings, if you can ignore the superstitious and moralistic aspects. It took me decades to understand it, because I grew up hating secular bureaucracies spawned by religion (which are, more often than not, primarily interested in their own survival and as useful as the next bureaucracy - i.e. not at all).

I wish I could find a book doing with the practices of organised religion what Joseph Campbell did with myth and storytelling.
FTA: "I work on Chrome, on Windows, focused on performance. Investigating this hang was actually my job."
Visa hell is the only reason why I don't travel more, and when I do, I only travel to countries where I can get a visa on arrival (mostly other third world countries).

I wonder whether the risk of illegal immigration outweighs the benefits of having more tourists enter your country. I would love to fly out to Europe for a couple of weeks (I can work from anywhere) but the visa process isn't worth it.
IIRC Google's implementation is more of a "DNS as JSON over HTTPS" while the RFC standardizes "DNS wire format over HTTPS".

I believe Google implement theirs first but I also think using the RFC format is easier (as evidenced by the OP tunnel)
7 Awesome Solar System Destinations That Will Kill You – Facts So Romantic
I actually took an Akkadian course during my undergraduate years. It doesn't help directly with most careers, of course. But that and the other humanities courses I took there and in high school make me a better-rounded member of society.

Especially grateful for the Islamic Civilization course giving me an informed attitude toward Muslim friends and colleagues, and for my Latin and French studies helping my SAT scores and enabling me to immigrate to Quebec.

My degree was in computer science overall. Though aspects of student life and paid employment at my university helped my career and skillset way more than even the CS classes.

In my particular case, my parents paid for my education, but they could only afford that because US science education funding policies when they were students let them gain cheap entry to well-paying professions. Both of their undergraduate degrees were in the humanities.

Before that, my one grandfather who went to college got a good education at what was then a free city university, and I'm sure it helped his attitudes toward my dad's education. Many of my great-grandparents were poor Jewish immigrants at a time when the US immigration policies were extremely open for healthy light-skinned immigrants from Europe (even their low-class type).

I've had several high-paying tech jobs and paid plenty of taxes to society, but clearly these elements of my family history are factors in enabling that, not just anything about my career-related classes.

All of which is to say, we all benefit from affordable education, in surprisingly broad ways that rebound down generations and across spheres of activity. We shouldn't take a narrow vocational approach to this.
If they didn’t have hype, they wouldn’t be funded and they wouldn’t get off the ground. Hype is now an unfortunate requirement of any successful company.
Heck, I had issues in getting a US visitor visa even though I've been there earlier on a student visa (F-1). The way the visa officers treat you like a criminal is even worse.
Yeah, sound cards were always that bit too expensive and incompatible with each other. In the end I got my first SoundBlaster because it was also an interface card for a CD drive and they were doing good bundles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Blaster_16#CD-ROM_Suppor...
> In that situation most of the formal power was held by men. The members of parliament, the generals, the treasurer, the postmaster, the judges -- all were men.

The time when the queens power were supreme the parliament did not hold power over the monarch, nor did the generals, treasurer, postmasters or judges. Supreme power is supreme. The UK parliament was created on the idea to limit the power of the monarch, same with the treasurer which reported only to the parliament, but those rules took ages to be put in place.

> Having power doesn't mean they don't have to take into account the informal power around them.

There is a very strong issue of definition here. A supreme judge have to take into account the facts of a case but they still hold exclusive power to make a judgement. That is the question here: do the chiefs hold the exclusive power to decide the case or are they not allowed to do so when it cross over to the domain that women decide on.

> When a society is labeled patriarchal it is not, in practice, a statement about all the power in that society.

That is why the term patriarchal and matriarchy is about which group holds primary power. Not all, but most power.

> that women would be the presidents and generals and judges and men would basically chill at home and smoke the fish and do the knitting and not (overtly) control public policy. No one has ever found a society like this.

This is just a different way of defining formal power to be more meaningful than informal. We could role reversal a society where women held power in all trading, war and negotiation with foreign tribes and men held power over all other domains. Both men and women would do cooking, fishing and knitting, but men would control domestic policy while women controlled diplomatic policy.

Is that a matriarchy? In my view no. The primary power in society is not about who control the generals and who is allowed to go and fight wars with neighboring tribes. There is more to tribal society than war.
Many people shorted TSLA at $380 because, you know, easy money
perf has a nice UI nowadays, hotspot : https://github.com/KDAB/hotspot
Brexit is about to make the UK index much much much lower.
Good luck training more than 2% of your population in math without significantly degrading the difficulty, I studied math and probably half of the people dropped out after the first semester.
There is a U2F and TOTP Plugin for Nextcloud, yes.
> But when I see the hate and vitriol heaped on him, I'm compelled to wonder just what alternative universe people are hoping for.

> Do we actually want Tesla and SpaceX to fail?

This is an issue for anyone trying to change things, haters hate anyone successful and do just want them to fail.

Elon does also though have a ton of fans (of which I'm one) so he does get the benefits too.

But the haters don't seem to bother him, it's just the short sellers who could bankrupt Tesla. But that's their job.

Also though this stress seems to be more about Tesla than SpaceX which is still private and plus it seems that Gwen Shotwell is able to take a lot of the decisions there.
James Mickens' keynote at Usenix 2018
Obviously Javascript, Ruby, Golang, Python.

Javascript has become a nice language. You can't avoid it in webdev. Rich ecosystem. Languages like Typescript, Elm, Purescript, etc. are close.

Ruby is very practical, has everything, very consistent and clean. PHP is not consistent and not clean.

Golang is fast and the simplest language that is actually used in the industry. It is dramatically simpler than C. It is the fastest.

Python is like Ruby, but even more practical because it has ML and math, whereas Ruby does not.

PHP has no place in this world.
Histography – A timeline of History
It’s funny watching Leo Laporte’s podcasts on twit.tv. He surrounds himself with those assistants. And despite having a crystal clear, radio voice all the devices either are triggered by mistake or ask him to repeat half of the time.

Now if you are doing a tech radio show, this has a high entertainment value. If you are busy, in the middle of something and need a task done, these repeated failed interactions are a complete non starter. Imagine a smartphone where the screen wouldn’t register a tap half of the time, it would end up in a bin very quickly.

Plus I am not sold on non self-discoverable UIs. Like I don’t remember the name of all the operas I have on my phone. It takes seconds to browse with a screen. Same things for the commands. If forcing users to learn by heart dozens of commands was commercially viable, we would still be using MS DOS! But GUIs are way more powerfull.
Straight up implement the release process in TIM.
I have ditched Inbox by Google and went back to Gmail by Google.
From the image it doesn't look like it'll be easily hand solderable. I love that about the U2F zero (though I'm still torn on if I should build it or buy it).
I hope you have noticed that in GMail you can swtich between different "density" modes. In your Inbox, click on the cogwheel on the right-hand top corner and select the second option "Display density". The "Compact" setting is actually rather dense. Although, it mostly affects the density of rows (conversations) in your inbox and does not scale e.g. the search box input field above.
Those types of comments (yours and the general back-and-forth with ProtonMail) make the VPN industry look like it's full of sharks. It's hurting all of you. It makes you look unprofessional. Before seeing this I had a favourable impression of PIA, but not anymore.

EDIT: I'm sure the competition is intense and I'm not sure I would be able to rise above it myself but I think you need to be aware of what it looks like.
This a fantastic UX idea.
Python 2 is EOL in just over a year. Why would anyone write for a piece of software that will be completely unsupported in 18 months?
>> Always replace "free" with "I'm paying for you".

Your thinking is flawed in this regard. Sure you are paying "my" tuition fees. But in an either indirect or direct way, you (you as the society, not necessarily you as the single person) are also profiting from my services. And as you are more than a being measured by money, but a human with a cultural background, even studying Akkadian on taxpayer's money might be ok (as long as not everyone does it).

I am a semi-libertarian myself so I get your argument somehow. Then again I am for equal opportunity (not equal outcomes) and providing education for free is a great equalizer and a great way that people can actually live up to their potential (or not, in which case they still need well educated doctors, car mechanics, whatever...). Good education also does not have to be really expensive by itself, it is a matter of organizing. When I hear the big US universities hording billions, I know that there is too much money in the system.
Taken from the comments (a Guardian pick):

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" Parliament should refuse to expand its use until the government can demonstrate it won’t be used to violate human rights or turn us all into criminal suspects."

Which obviously they will not and cannot do. The problem with these types of laws and systems- is that even if you 'trust' the government that installs them (you shouldn't)- you may not be able to trust the next government. They call it 'turn key' tyranny. The idea being that their is a system in place- and all it will take is for a fascist authoritarian government to come to power and 'turn the key'- using this mass surveillance to control, intimidate, police, terrorise, imprison, or kill their enemies.

In this context the technology can be likened to Pandoras Box. Once it has been opened it cannot be closed. Also- it is potentially so powerful that it will prove irresistible to an entire class of Authoritarians and Corporate interests.

As AI evolves, linked with these mass surveillance technologies- we face a future worse than Gattaca- a place where the machines can see if you are depressed, antisocial, lying, or just conscientiously objecting to an immoral government. You can be denied a job- merely because of your facial expression- and you will never know or be told what happened. Once this type of power gets into the hands of corporations they could deny you insurance based on your 'personality profile' or 'disease markers' they read off your face... and you will never know it's happened.

And NONE of this is new: in the 1960's ASIO routinely vetted applicants for jobs at the ABC and denied them- on the basis of their political affiliations or activism- and the applicants were never told- and had no right of reply. These types of powers have been abused in the past- and they will be abused in the future.

As we saw in the USA- many many people in Government were happy to approve such mass surveillance- and denounce Snowden for revealing the extent of such programs- right up until the point they found out that they themselves had been targeted. Suddenly they developed a belief int he right to privacy.

With systems like this in place- the machines and databases themselves will make resistance useless- as we will all potentially be blackmailed by our own data. All will fear that the power can be turned on them- and all will be silenced. Self-policing: the Pa-Opticon dystopian dream made reality.

And any fool who says only those with something to hide have something to fear: recall that ASIO has been given the power in Australia to go into someone computer and implant documents and data covertly- and that any journalists who reports on such an action faces years in prison. That's right: In Australia ASIO has the power to plant evidence!

They will say- it is only to be used against the 'terrorists and pedophiles' so we mustn't worry our little heads... which brings me back to Turn key Tyranny...

The only question left is: has the Key already been Turned?
So? The two bugs uncovered were Windows bugs.
Superb article. Call all your colleagues and make a book with all your stories :)
> But the haters don't seem to bother him

uh... yeah, sure.

> it's just the short sellers who could bankrupt Tesla. But that's their job.

that's not how this works.
But you're in indentured servitude either way, except it's debt servitude, and there's no accountability on the part of the college for teaching you anything that's actually useful. Under the proposed setup, the college is directly incentivized for maximizing your earning potential. I like that a lot. Think of it as a tax that you'd pay in e.g. Germany anyway in order to get "free" education, except the amount you pay directly depends on the quality of education and people who chose to get vocational degrees don't have to pay for you. The whole thing entirely bypasses the government, so that's at least 30% savings right there.
There are like a dozen or so top companies that pay the top TC. This list is roughly accurate, though I question some of those being tier 1 (Jet, Splunk, Oracle, and Quora at the least seem to be off): https://www.teamblind.com/article/Compensation-Tiers-of-Comp...

It's certainly true though that you can't get the kinds of top compensation numbers you see on Blind if you aren't good enough at Leetcode questions (and systems design questions) to get offers from multiple top companies.
Gwynne Shotwell seems to be doing that just fine. Surely she's not unique in the world - though I do agree that COOs that meet Elon's bar are probably extremely rare.
So why are we in this mess? Because there are still buffer overflows.

Address space randomization is done because buffer overflows allow exploits. But rather than fixing the underlying problem, we now have complex schemes to spread programs over the entire 64 bit address space to make such exploits unreliable.

Then, apparently Microsoft's Javascript JIT engine has enough problems with buffer overflows that each compiled program is in a different random part of the address space to try to prevent Javascript exploits.
How to logout after inactivity or idle – AngularJS
You're the one quoting “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations."
You would assume that big guys like RedHat would already have done this for you.
Could Data Centers Heat Homes of the Future?
Serverless concept is the key of scalability
You, my fellow German (Frankfurter? I know too many people at the federal reserve...), are making the same mistake as most: beancounting and measuring everything in money. Degrees in Ancient Greek and Latin mean that besides being rich in money, society is also rich in culture. We might need more STEM probably, but we would miss the people knowledgeable in cultural things a lot.
150k doesnt seem easy
The Math Required for Machine Learning
Maybe more developers would make use of it if it was open source, existed for other platforms, and available for languages people actually use on those other platforms.
HUNTRESS Singer JILL JANUS Dies by Suicide
gods, it sounds like Trump talk...
The OP was not receiving any stock, ergo his total compensation of $100k was far below the market rate.
i think you’ve interpreted it a bit too literally
There's also the 'favourite' link under the post title. That's good for keeping a list of stuff you want to revisit later.
This is a bit late reply but I will post just in case you read it.

The systemic bias is an term for the result of gender stereotyping. It is lazy thinking by people who ignore individual attributes and reduces people down to a single bit of information. Does this happen? Yes. It is a probabilistic aspect that can have beneficial or negative effect on a person. As a force multiplier, both negative and positive, it is a sign of fault in society.

I agree it is a often profoundly under-recognized, but I will add that it is also profoundly misrepresented. Gender stereotyping is harmful to individuality in a such strong way that only seeing the benefits for one gender is to ignore the harm that it does to both genders.
It also eats battery ridiculously fast
The Density Paradox
To provide some better perspective, this link has a picture of the incident, and described in greater detail that the mechanism of action wasn’t simply some newspaper rallying for a boycott.

https://medium.com/@shanghaiist/taiwan-coffee-chain-85-c-dis...

Apparently, the parent company Gourmet Master Co. runs a chain of cafes, which used apps to facilitate orders via smart phone, leading to a drop in impulse buys?

I dunno, something tells me regular people just aren’t that rabid about territorial disputes regarding places they’ll never visit, or might only visit once or twice during a vacation.

If America were to entertain the option of trading Hawaii for Puerto Rico, as state #50, would people go nuts? I probably wouldn’t, but then again, I’m not most people.
No offence, but googling your name yields some very questionable search results about events in Woodstock, IL. If it's true, then perhaps the true cause of cultural discrepancy comes from assumptions based on a Google search?

Perhaps I am the odd one out, but whenever a potential new hire is presented to the team, I do a quick Google search and investigation about whom that person might be and whether I'd like working with that person, regardless of his/her skills and knowledge. Every day interactions make up for a very large portion of work agenda.
I think one of the reasons why people like me use Linux is to avoid big tech companies.

I will avoid Fuschia specifically because it was made by Google.
Everyday when I turn off my PC?
1. They didn't care about command line tools, in many ways (usability) they're a huge regression. After all, it was in the name of the product: Windows.

2. Who says that in-band communication like Unix is doing is necessarily better? See pastejacking and other shenanigans.
I think qubes os could be a good fit for that workflow
Twitter is bad for you.

Repeat that a hundred times.
The first thing my son asked the Google Home was "Hey Google, are you friends with Siri?".

(It actually has a few answers for this)
The move from CRT to LCD adds a few milliseconds depending on the screen. We're so used do it by now, that typing on old hardware is almost jarring. It feels almost TOO responsive.
It's a stupid quote and you know it.
Turns out the ink is really important for your experience with fountain pens. I used to use noodlers ink but that'd dry in the nib if you left it alone for half a second. These days I switched to lamy brand ink and I can leave my pen lying around for weeks without it drying up.
I think it's bit of a nitpick, but the iPad was under physical security.

I do agree with you though. Privacy is having your information to yourself. You don't need security for that, just that everyone else keep their nose to them self. But if you want to guarantee your privacy, you need some form of security.
Also, he is the boss so it is likely just 120 hours of delegating tasks.
When Your Organizational Structure Does Not Work…
I've gone from Windows -> macOS -> Fedora running i3wm.

Totally agree that Windows is the worst of the bunch and its still a huge problem on macOS.

On Fedora+i3wm, when my desktop opens from the login it is "immediately" ready for input. I've tried to ask some people to compare between macOS and my laptop and they say they don't notice a difference, so I think people are conditioned to waiting with these little unconscious pauses they don't notice.

I wonder is there a way to do accurate and meaningful timings for responsiveness in these situations.
That's a fundamentally different problem. "Scaling" it requires figuring out how to solve a different concrete problem every time. Scaling e.g. battery production requires figuring out how to solve the same real-world problem very efficiently.
I concede that experiences you share with partners or close family are near-equivalents of having those experiences yourself, even when you're just the "passenger" on their journey.
I was thinking the airports in question would be large ones for connecting flights.

I would be very surprised if one were ever stuck at such a small one for 12 hours. Presumably one would just return to town and be stuck there, instead.
Ask HN: Good investment lawyer in SF
I hope this is not against the rules. I am looking for recommendations for a preferably small firm lawyer in SF that specializes in startup investing. Nothing wild, just going over contracts and advice.
This never happens with Thunderbird or K9 Mail.