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Agreed. People are madly in love with working at companies like Stripe and Airbnb right now, but I'm not convinced the risk is worth it. They're giving out equity as if it's liquid, but it's not. So if I can get $200k per year in equity from Stripe or $200k per year in equity from Google, why exactly would I choose Stripe or Airbnb? Just in the hopes that the $200k will end up worth $400k or $800k? I mean, maybe it will, but that feels pretty speculative. Put another way, if you already worked at Google and had the opportunity to invest cash into those companies, would you put all your equity comp in Stripe or Airbnb?
Yeah but that does nothing to leverage the talents of real thought leaders who think outside the box, can take it to the next level, and take deep dives into paradigm shifts. How do you expect any real game-changers to decruit and not boil the ocean? After all, bleeding-edge pushing of the envelope is not an ideation that promotes disruptive thinking in any organization.
> I feel a lot of the folks here are focusing on the wrong parts here. The $200M loss was a cheap way of getting user attention, but hey it worked!

It "worked" in that that it got people's attention but distracted from the post's main message.
My point was actually that you can do an Uber for X without necessarily breaking the laws, the fact that Uber breaks the laws isn't invalidating the business model.
> I'm sure in 1982, the Johnson & Johnson CEO was also "being fed a diet of wrong and horrible information from lower executives keen on deflecting blame so that they could keep their jobs".

This is not necessarily a given. In the Tylenol case an external saboteur was to blame, so little or no internal CYA was necessary. Easy and correct for everyone to just blame it on the saboteur and then do the right thing to fix the problem.

In the Boeing case the culprit was internal, which likely resulted in a tangled web of CYA, leading to a diet of wrong and horrible information.

Not excusing Boeing, they acted wrongly. But it’s clear how and why the odds of bad corporate behavior were much higher in Boeing’s case than in J&J’s case.
Core.async supports Go-style channels so you are trading off speed (it has a runtime) for concurrency-correctness. It's a good fit for network requests since the bottleneck is elsewhere.
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What do you mean by bigger? The A320 has a cabin width of 395cm vs 380cm for the 737, so it is more spacious.
> competitors ... all been somewhat disappointing.

Often that's bad news, though. If your competitors cannot sell their product, that's a sign of a small/poor market.
What I got out of the post is that the value you bring to a company, doesn't at all align with what you're actually paid, which is typical of our society.
I started learning about startups only after I started reading Hacker News in 2006. I was an engineer for most of my career up until then. Reading Paul Graham's essays changed my life, and it changed the life of thousands of people I've met now known for over 10 years, as an alum, a partner at Y Combinator and now an investor.

Guilty, it is self-serving. It's my business. But I also know from direct experience people who can make software are capable of building billions of dollars worth of value.

I funded more than 200 companies worth over $36B now.

And I started just like you, here, reading Hacker News.
Can you give two or three examples of the comedians + authoritarian regimes? I can't think of any.
Nix isn't great as a build system, because it throws a lot out and rebuilds everything when something changes. It's intended to get a correct, isolated package installed, not to maximize sharing.

Bazel goes through great pains to only rebuild the minimum necessary for correctness. It's able to do that because bazel build files get a lot more information about the source level dependencies than a Nix file does
Not for system dialog boxes, like signing into the App Store. I know exactly what he's talking about.
Speaking of competition, it would be interesting if the major political parties competed on improving results instead of sabotaging results or preventing the other side from getting a win.

Both parties have symbiotic relationships with profiteers that stifle progress and innovation.
Do you mean McDonnell Douglas?

Muilenberg became CEO 18 years after the merger. I wouldn't expect him to exemplify Boeing's old culture. It was also only 6 months before the first 737 MAX flight.
That should be a hint that the government he makes fun of does not feel threatened by his comedy, which probably means that the government's position of power is so strong that being mocked and even derided for its negative qualities does not constitute a threat. Whether that's a good thing is, I suppose, a matter of perspective.
Could it simply be because of exercising providing much needed break from focusing on worries in one's life? If so, any activity that one can enter into a state of flow can be beneficial.
> But for many, it's about having a (tiny) shot at changing the world. It can be a thrill.

Honestly this seems like Silicon Valley bait for getting people for work in an abusive mismanaged environment. And I hope most people stopped drinking the Kool Aid.

> You are also a bigger fish in a small pond - more responsibility, no bureaucracy

This I can understand, I mean if you are talented enough that you don't want to jump through corporate hoops, then it makes sense. But I would only do it for a company that has competitors. Atleast that way if you do well and get mistreated (because some founder assumes that employees are sheep), then you can always take your talent to a competitor. Better if you have the ability to take others with you.
Just trying to get better. Not too harsh at all. Thanks again.
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Supply and demand. Do you know how rare it is to find such psychopaths? Those are valuable humans.
Once a while a celebrity showcasing their true intellectual capability, and everyone found that they owe their success mostly to luck more than anything else...
Video games do exercise the mind...

>In particular, playing Super Mario 64 for 30 minutes a day over two months increased adult volunteers’ brain volume in their right hippocampus, the right prefrontal cortex, and the cerebellum. These regions in the brain are responsible for memory formation, strategic planning, muscle control, and spatial navigation.

https://lifehacker.com/study-shows-playing-video-games-reall...
but everybody at a startup gets offered equity and almost all of it ends up being garbage, so maybe you made a poor assessment of the startup & founder but it seems a silly thing to thinking about and a dangerous one from which to draw lessons or advice.

I think it's great to learn from your previous decisions but this one seems (1) emotionally dangerous, (2) logically faulty and (3) largely selected for the headline.
> Anything frozen & prepared seems to be taboo -- like a frozen pizza

> I've seen premade refrigerated pizza fly off the shelf.

To be fair most frozen pizza is terrible - pre-baked bread that you're reheating, little better than frozen cheese toast. Whereas premade pizzas tend to be freshly made and you're baking the dough. So they taste a lot better.
A few alternatives to building a phone have been put forth in this thread, but I haven't seen anyone suggest building a website with animation and sound. Then your players phones become the phone.

Having a physical phone is certainly cooler, but a website is much easier to build and distribute en masse.
But then, there's the tiny, toxic fraction that starts with the assumption that the western canon is the only thing worth reading and understanding.

The two fractions are almost indistinguishable from the outside.
Are insurance companies' take of the pie still defined as a percentage of total spending? If so, they have little reason not to look the other way, especially if fighting the problem in a systemic fashion (rather than just every now and then, or when someone notices and says something) would be tough and expensive and wouldn't be likely to capture its benefits for them in particular (rather than spreading out the benefits over "defector" insurers who don't bother to work on enforcement, too).
I'm unsure of if the American government is just extremely discreet in their development of cyber warfare technology or America just isn't investing in technology as much as other countries. But it seems like even Russia is beating us...

Just look at our voting count machines. You think something like that would be treated with extreme priority and would have a lot more security around it than it does.
>I read the article, and then beyond, and I still don't know what in tarnation distinguishes an FSM from a simple state.

Well, FSM is a basic CS concept.

>Every program has a set of states and transitions. Is the difference simply that in an FSM the programmer has modeled both sets explicitly? And if so, what is the model -- a map from states to available transitions?

Yes, and actions on each transition.
I’m trying to figure out the contours of what OP considers “real food.” Because there is no scientific basis for the term.
Yes, sometimes you get a cool team, half the times i would dare to day, but even if your peers are cool your superior could be an ass, or some day the board could decide that you ain't growing fast enough and fire half of you and bring some asshole that scares away all the team. Even less often you get to do something interesting or something that really matters. And almost always, unless you are a coop worker, you work till exhaustion to make someone else rich while you live month to month. But maybe i'm just pessimistic.
Every Tesla stock price increase story is always followed by the mandatory story of Tesla short sellers getting crushed.
Yes it does?

These are known engineering problems with known engineering solutions. The explanation from Boeing was that a timer was set incorrectly. This sounds like a trivial error to me (though I'm not a "rocket scientist" just a "kerbal scientist", I guess, but we've been using timers for a long time afaik to properly manage burns to orbit).
Tall person here. Flights longer than 90 minutes really, really suck unless I've saved up enough miles to upgrade my seat something with more leg room.
It’s not worse in totality, as in we are summit up your sins to see who goes to heaven.

It’s worse in brutality for a specific case.

The argument that you are trying to have doesn’t exist here.
Can you imagine if Amazon never let you choose how they deliver your orders and purposely decided to charter a commercial jet to route your package though Antarctica? Because thats basically what happened here.
I see what you mean and yes we should probably change the title (edit: done now). But that doesn't excuse breaking the site guidelines by adding more provocation of one's own. The intended spirit of HN is the opposite: to respond to provocation by getting more thoughtful, not less.

When people respond to provocation or negativity with provocation and negativity of their own, we get a Tacoma Narrows Bridge situation. Most of the internet is doing that every day, so there are many places to enjoy that energy. Here we're trying for something different, and each user who comments is responsible for that. Not that that's easy!

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
When I worked for Cisco, they added an optional self-directed brokerage account to their 401(k) offering. You weren't allowed to buy CSCO in it. Maybe it was to avoid trading window issues, maybe it was fallout from Enron, but I like to think they were doing the right thing.
Your first link is from 2011 and is about cost of devices, and your second is about data plans, not mobile call rates.

I doubt your intention was to prove my point very loudly, but here we are.
Well couldn't the signs be any clearer?

$100M + Mr Bloomberg + "secretive tech firm" + "Your Data" * 1 billion = Palantir 9.0
Precisely, "happiness" is a pretty squishy term and I'm sure many a debate could be had on exactly what it means. The main principle I adhere to is focusing on what is in my control, which is really what's in my head, and since one can't always control even your own feelings, how I react to those feelings.
I started here on Hacker News as a software engineer. I learned that I could build software for others, ship it and release it. I did end up taking the venture path, and now help others on that path.

The key here is that magic can be created by people, and I'm not that different than a lot of people on this site. I also got very lucky, and I'm thankful for that.

Startups are hard, and most fail, and most startup stock is worthless. But if you read my post, I'm trying to point people to the fact that the deeper lesson is to be able to learn to ship to real customers quickly.

Anyway, I appreciate the feedback. It's shockingly hard to get something that is both nuanced and clickable in video format, but I will keep trying to get better.
I think the truth is more complicated than that. The synergistic existence of the company itself is what allows each person to be able to create millions of dollars in value. And there was a risky bet made with capital to create that company in the first place, and those investors / owners / etc. making a solid risk-adjusted return on their investment hardly seems like a travesty to me.

I wish we did have more employee-owned cooperatives though. I think that's a better way to fix the inherent tension of owners vs employees.
> Not buying Apple Stock in 1999 cost me $200M too.

When I was the TA for my high school physics teacher back in 1994, he couldn't ever stop talking about how terrible Apple stock was and how he wished he never bought it. He kept trying to sell it to me; I didn't have a brokerage account or I probably would have just to get him to shut up about it.

Back then it was less than $1 per share.
Damnit. They're going to make me patch during Xmas.

Bah.
I remember when the company decided to do all 401k matching in Boeing stock in 2009.

I thought that was the norm? I've only worked at one public company and they did matching in company stock as well - I'd periodically sell it and reinvest so only about 20% of my holdings was in company stock. I wish I'd kept more in their stock since they've done quite well.
As I said, I'm pretty darn sure it has always popped up a dialog. Certainly, the dialog has existed for a very long time, I recall seeing it on my first gen iPad, when I was in High School. (I graduated college three years ago.)
Albuquerque isn't a major destination though. Flying to provincial cities is always expensive.

A better comparison with about the same distance in the US is New York to Miami, which can be done nonstop for under $200 on Delta, or $135 on whatever "Frontier" is.

EDIT: In fact you can go from New York to Las Vegas for under $200, round-trip, which is considerably farther.
Oops. Yes.

His lineage is in the Boeing culture, not the McDonnell Douglas culture.
> The government is elected by the people, it doesn't fit that definition.

Is it though? First rebuttal that comes to mind is that, in the US, one can legally be elected without the having the majority of the counter, valid, votes.

Another one would be that one can be elected without the approval of the majority of the people who could vote.
The same way you dont hang a hammock in a tree with a feeble trunk or dont sleep below a tree infested with poisonous insects.
Agreed, it's insane. I don't know about most countries, but in France, some brands (Japanese iirc?) would have you go to their branded car dealership to charge. How crazy does that sound? (I couldn't believe it when he told me that, sorry I can't recall which brand it was)

The whole thing sounded mind-boggling, really. Anecdotally, my partner is seeking to buy a new car for a 1h commute so I wanted to get her a small EV — but the charging options make it totally impossible (short of getting a Tesla but that's way above our budget for this 2nd, smaller car). Consider that we live in France 30 km away from Luxembourg, a major financial/tech/political hub in the EU. What gives? I honestly don't get it.

If Tesla ever makes a sub-20K €/$ small EV suited for hourly commutes, they can just take my money.
The inconsistency of business class does make it unappealing though. Sometimes, it's almost first class (Singapore Airlines). Many times, it's barely a step up from economy though, and just feels like a rip off.
And depending on when you got your match you would still be way ahead of the S&P 500.
As a programmer who got an MBA, I can tell you that in my cohort there were absolutely extremely smart super stars who put the time into everything they do and have the talent to make good decisions and have the empathy to be good managers. There were also people who tried their best but their judgement was clearly lacking.

My cohort has Civil Engineers, Materials engineers, Physicians, Finance, Accountants.. and also art students and communication students.

All this to say you can't generalize a whole degree.
I bet neither will go down, but the human race will improve! Seriously, things are getting better - it's just that paying attention to what needs fixing is how engineers contribute to the progress.
I'm 6'2" and my knees used to be painfully squeezed into seats and everything was incredibly uncomfortable on flights. At the time I weighed 275lb. I've since lost weight and I was surprised how much more comfortable flying is.

You wouldn't think being obese would impact knees not having enough space, but my ass shrank in multiple directions and I have about four to five inches of free space now between the seat in front of me and my knees. Unless you're much taller than I am, it's likely that losing weight will not just help with your health, but make flying more comfortable.

If you are taller, well, life sucks for us tall people in many ways and we can't expect airlines to build comfortable seats for people two or three standard deviations beyond the normal height.
>I've come to believe that humans are only really responsible for their behavior when present.

True. Being present means you observe the heart feeling, the mind thinking and the body acting. It means you bring yourself into focus, becoming aware of your own existence, watching the motives and the results of your actions, and Studying the person you have built around yourself, inadvertence. I became less judgmental, and calmer since i began learning to 'query' and question my motives. These days I don't do it as often as I used to, but i am much less on auto-pilot.
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For more on this, check out “ Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain” by Dr. John Ratey.
You could add expansions, like a Dr. Strangelove adviser that gives wildly bad advice and hidden Soviet spies.
Hi HN, 12 years later, my game that teaches the power of modularity and programming is online!

I used concepts from Braitenberg/Reactive robotics to simplify the programming down to wiring up a dataflow graph. My game has no text in it, and logic requires embodied components, thus complex programs lead to bloated space ships. And big space ships are slow, so complexity is penalised. You are encouraged to distill behavior into its essence, often reusing naturally occurring non-linearities where possible.

The main aim of the game is asynchronous 1-on-1 multiplayer space ship battles. There is no realtime interaction! You can play while bumping around during commuting. You can save designing a new space ship until the weekend when you have more time.

I think mobiles are an awesome platform, so why are the games so shallow? This game rewards smartness over grind. I want a game you are happy if your children get into.

Currently there is no monetisation ATM. I intend to play adverts at some point, with an option of upgrading to an ad free version. Its all built using serverless technology, my monthly hosting is around $10 a month! I blog about some of the tech here https://corepox.net/devlog (RSS available!)

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"One other thing"? :)
RSUs are the solution to this problem. With a double trigger a pre-public company can offer them without employees suffering a tax liability on illiquid equity.
> How could a country with the largest prison population in the world not fall into at least some definition of authoritarian?

Because authoritarianism has nothing to do with prison population.
This is a good reminder and I agree with this.

By the end of the video my point is: Try to make stuff for other people, and a smaller place generally lets you do that.

That is the true reward.
The routes and dates really matter. I can fly from MSP to TPA (about 2.1k, about the same) for $28 USD. Now I wont argue Frontier airline is the same quality as Delta or some of the other majors... but airfare prices are really fungible.
> So while San Francisco recently banned facial recognition technologies, the Party has given China’s top four facial recognition firms access to its database of over 1.4 billion citizen photos. One well-informed venture capitalist in this arena estimates that Chinese facial recognition firms have one million times more images than their U.S. counterparts.
The top people in our field say we are partisin hacks, and give ardourous notes and exmples how that is the case. We disagree. -NYT

I was expecting spin, but damn NYT, how the mighty have fallen.
I don't think pointing out that the article only applies to a very tiny minority of readers is a shallow dismissal.

I seriously doubt the overwhelming majority of people reading this article lost $200m from any single decision in their lives. Hell, most of us haven't lost $1 million from any single decision in our lives.

If anything, what this article most effectively points out is the fact the value of being born with or building connections is greater than ever in history. Maybe if the author had spoken about that it would have been an interesting piece. As it stands, it's more or less meaningless.

Keep in mind, the author has a huge vested interest in developers like us working at startups for equity stakes.
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> My point is more to do with the fact that BigCache does not handle collisions at all

This property makes BigCache what is known as a "Direct-mapped cache"[0]. A direct mapped cache does lead to a worse cache hit rate, but it does make determining whether there is a cache hit or miss a lot faster. I would need to see benchmarks to tell which is better in practice.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_placement_policies#Direc...
Sorry, I made this post for YouTube originally, and didn't expect it to show up on HN. :-)
A cynical reading is this: he missed out by not buying a $200M lottery ticket, so the next generation of engineers and designers should buy lottery tickets.

Conveniently, the author is now in the business of selling lottery tickets.

(Then again, if he’d stayed at Microsoft he probably wouldn’t be in a position to sell lottery tickets).
Thanks, enabling strict mode (requires observable change through an @action only) helps imo.
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So prisoners in prison for breaking laws passed and continuously supported by a democratically elected government are now "political prisoners"? That makes every prisoner a political prisoner.
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Agreed .. bait and switch technique i guess. But since we've invested time looking into the content, might as well talk about the core / useful content rather than focusing on the bait :)
I, for one, thought it was an excellent title. It's always fascinating to read about the eccentric Peter Thiel, and this gave me some inspiration for how to structure my own future writing. Thanks :)