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Cash compensation, yes. Total compensation -- I am arguing otherwise. SV engineers are asked to take more risk, and perhaps to sacrifice quality of life more. Thus higher expected compensation. That $175k in NY is probably $200k after bonus, so it makes sense that SV would be more.

Another way to look at it is that new grad is now close to $100k. The experienced guy is easily 10 times more productive. But only gets 1.5 in salary. So, he also gets 5-10 times as much equity, and that's valued because historically it made good money.
Some of my computers have sound, my main one does.

I have not seen a general statistic, however.

Perhaps you could derive the number you need, or a lower bound on it, from the number of Skype users, or the number of WinAMP installs ?

If you need a much more specific statistic, such as the number of users of your web site that have sound installed and set up to play through the browser, perhaps there is a way to measure that directly. For example, you could pick a sacrificial group of users, and expose them to the most awful sound you can come with -- chalk screeches and cats through band saws and "Hey everybody I'm jacking to child porn!" and animal yelps and human moaning and stuff like that. Then you could compare how many of them never come back, to a control group that was not assaulted.
Just to disrupt your calculations, in Canada the largest ISP has a 95 gb/month cap. Its coming...
This is why I would never be an employee with a measly .5% unless: a. I wasn't ready to do my own startup or 2. I _really_ thought the company could be the next Google.

I do think this part is a bit wrong: "If you’re getting paid market value, then… Well, there’s no risk– and you shouldn’t be expecting much reward."

I don't think that's the right way to look at it. Working for a startup at your market rate is not the equivalent risk to working at an established company at your market rate. The floor can fall out at any point for almost any reason.

Also, a really great hacker doesn't have to settle for market rate salary alone. He could be at some other startup that's very early stage or simply values him highly enough to pay a market salary and give him a generous equity allotment.
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Time is part of the investment.
I suggest that for every user of HN, there is at least one post that makes it to #1 that the user feels should not be part of HN.

I know it is true for me, there are lots of popular posts that suprise me. That being said, I have no problem whatsoever with adding your suggested rule to the HN rules.

It would be much easier to understand than the curent "piques your intellectual curiosity and is not limited to hacking and startups."
...plenty of 'established' companies have developers working 10-12 hour workdays.
I would recommend against it.

I had it done and although technically I have better than 20/20 it took me nearly 8 months to adjust to the difference.

To me it's a different way of seeing and my mind had to come to terms that it wasn't the same (if you switch from glasses to contacts you have an idea of what I'm talking about).

The problem is that I'm not really sure it's better than with my glasses. Definitely better than with my contacts.

I find it hard to distinguish objects as quickly as before in dusk and dawn situations.

Bottom-line, as this is for cosmetic/convenience reasons stay away. You need to be prepared for changes.

BTW - Although I can pass an eye exam for 20/10 or so, I feel that I'm guessing more than I was with glasses, even though I could only do 20/15 with glasses. I can't describe any better than it's a different way of seeing.
As long as the library is solid, the docs are complete and the tutorials and demos are great, it doesn't really matter what the site looks like.
Where can one get any % risk free?
On the last point, the same applies for cars. The market for used 1 or 2 year old BMWs is very strong. Rich people buy new ones, and dump slightly used ones.
Somehow angelsoft has slipped under my radar. This is seriously cool, I am soo applying.

Basically, this is one place where a lot of angels congregate, attracted by convenient deal-tracking software and a social network. Entreprenuers can discover angles and apply in a centralized fashion. This aligns with PG's vision of turning demo day into an auction, it's not quite there yet but it's on the right track - creating a global market place for the statups and capital.

Thank you waleedka for posting this.
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That maxes don't reflect what they could tolerate if every customer used them. Presumably Universities have a different customer base, and a lot more would go over 30GB if they could.
Not necessarily true. If the only muscle groups that get worked out are your pecs and triceps, you're probably not doing them right. Being able to do 100 proper pushups consecutively is no easy task and requires a lot of work from supporting muscle groups (back, abs, deltoids, quads and hamstrings to a lesser extent). Your core has to be strong in order to maintain the rigidity necessary to control the motion. Granted, if you plan on playing soccer, you'd still want to work your legs directly, but don't think that the rest of your body didn't benefit from doing all those pushups / benchpresses. However, those other muscles won't necessarily get as "bulky", as tension-type exercises don't generate that kind of result (think pilates).
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If it's not very poor vision

It's actually best suited for people with mild problems.
I can get the results now, sure, but there is no guarantee the operation will be a success, and your vision is the last thing you want to be messing with
Everyone's throwing out anecdotes, so here's mine:

I knew a guy who got it done, and several days layer his retinas became detached. (Luckily, a surgeon corrected them, and the lasik was otherwise okay.) Here's the thing: The surgeon insisted that the lasik was not responsible.

So...I'm wondering what percentage of foul-ups are covered-up by the medical establishment.
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is anyone interested in coworking tomorrow? the mission seemed great.
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If you remove the Google's of the world, most folks that will make FU money from a startup are the investors, founders, a handful of early employees (maybe), and some senior VP level folks.
You started off on the wrong foot:

1. There is no link to your site from your profile, so I have to copy-paste. That loses a great deal of hacker right there.

2. The site (I copy-pasted the link) keeps talking about anything except about what it actually does. I don't know what streetread is. I'm confused and about to drop out.

3. So I clicked through to the home page and now I know what it does. You really need to explain how this is any better/different than google finance. There is no FAQ linked from home page. At this point I lose interest and drop out.

FWIW.
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The typical "online store" has such a long and boring history on the web.

I think it's amazing how little we can see past our metaphors - that our web pages are so much like our paper pages and web sites like magazines. I wonder how big a part of it is language... how long was it before horseless carriages became cars?
The layout of sandals within groups makes no sense. It's likely random, but I can't help but look for a pattern - are they arranged by color, price? Nope.

The idea is insiprational though. Keep digging.
Because 640kb ought to be enough to anybody, right?

On a less snarky note, FiOS is fat enough to give instant HD movie playback. That's a big advantage right there.
This is statement has one of the highest value:word rations about programmers that I've seen in a while.

I'd adjust it only slightly to be:

Real Programmers Release.

Because, we don't really "ship" software anymore like we used to. We just put it out there. But regardless, well said.
I don't know much about Lasik, but I do know about contact lenses.

If you're not aware of them you might want to look at getting the new-style night-and-day contact lenses. Unlike the older ones which had to be taken out every night, some of the new types can be left in all night. Not only does this save effort, it also reduces the chances of eye infections.

I my lenses all the time, and only have to take them out once a month, when I put in a fresh pair. It's pretty much the next best thing to having perfect vision. I can't imagine Lasik being much easier.
I got chills reading your comment - there's a relatively new "100 pushups" meme on Reddit that was precipitated by a comment very similar to yours:

http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/6nz1k/got_six_weeks...
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I disagree on one point: I don't think startups are that much more risky than more "established" companies these days.

Established companies seem to fail or downsize reasonably frequently these days. The real question is if/when this happens, is it easier/harder to find the next opportunity if you've been a career "big enterprise" kind of person or have been working for startups?
My problem with this argument is that nobody does 10000s of emails and nothing but...all movies and nothing else...et cetera. You don't have to watch 250gb of sixty DVD-copy-quality movies - all you need is a small and active household doing everything from movies to ordinary streaming video, regular surfing and other miscellaneous downloads, and hitting 250gb may not seem so unrealistic then.

250gb is also sort of generous now, but consider that bandwidth usage can only go up from here as doing things like renting HD movies from iTunes becomes more popular. Also that a lot of people don't have a choice over who they can get service with.

Right now on my 10/1 cable (thankfully not comcast) connection, my router tells me I've used up about 195gb down and 40gb up for a total of 235gb since August 1st. I don't think we've even come close to 60 DVDs..
I would be surprised if they turned profit - iPhone app store is only 7 weeks old.
I'm a huge fan of CrossFit. Short high intensity workouts, if you do them right they will kick your ass and get you in shape, and they dont take much time.
No. kidding.

In my area, I get to choose between: AT&T DSL at less than 1500/256 (although that is what I would be "paying" for) more realistically 1000/200 or so...Time Warner cable at cheaper than the AT&T price at 10/1 (megabits). That's not a choice. And I live in Los Angeles proper, not even some neighboring suburb or anything.

That's..it. Excluding dialup, excluding wireless services, excluding ridiculously expensive alternatives (e.g. speakeasy).

If I had 10 potential ISPs to choose from that all charged a reasonable price for fast speeds, it would be amazing.
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Until they don't have a choice about their decision. Then all that happens is extreme resentment, especially if Comcast continues to go backwards.

Yes, it's an improvement from the nonsensical stealth limits. It's more realistic than what, say, the Canadians generally have to deal with. But it sucks if you are willing to pay for better but you don't have a choice and you're stuck with this awful ISP.
I still remember having to figure this out for a takehome exam in number theory.
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It is actually much worst than that. If you exercise your options while your company is still privately held, then you have no way to sell the shares which means that any gain is only a paper gain and should not be considered a taxable event. This is true until you recalculate your tax return using AMT which you are required to do by law. Currently AMT considers paper gain from options a TAXABLE event!!!! So if you are an employee and you decided to leave the company or if you are fired. You are between a rock and a hard place. You either walk away from the options. Or you have to come up with both the money to exercise the options and the money to pay the tax. And if the company tanks after you are gone, then tough cookie. You can only write off the loss $3K per year, one year at a time. On the other hand, if you are a Founder or co-Founder, you get to own shares and not options. Then not only do you not have to worry about exercising, but the clock starts right away for capital gain. And if you sell the company in five years, since these are 1244 stock, only half of the gain is subject to federal tax. The last part of the article is actually the most important. Think about the founders of Youtube. They were employees of Paypal and did not make a lot of money when it was acquired by eBay. But they gained experience, credibility, friendship, connection and just enough money to bootstrap their own idea. It worked out well for them in spite of the inherent pitfalls of owning options.
Please feel free to explain to my senile parents and their equally if not more senile friends as to why their internet connection (which will usually be the best residential connection they can get without paying fortunes) sucks for downloading HD and regular movie rentals from iTunes.

I try, but it's hard to get across that it's a monopolized and generally awful situation where apathetic people aren't helping just because they don't perceive a need for better bandwidth anytime soon.

At the least, what an increase of bandwidth will do for those really apathetic people is to lower the prices of what they have now. So you should consider FIOS to be "sweet" because it means you can pay less for whatever speeds you have now, not just because it's way faster.
That's not always true. It depends on the maturity of the startup's product but I don't believe (and RescueTime supports this) you can really expect to see long term productivity gains from employees when you require them to work well over 40 hour weeks.
Ya, I would agree with your comment about financing purchases, and I read that slightly incorrectly. My point, even for bill gates, is that if your rate of return on capital, or expected rate of return, is higher than the rate at which you can borrow capital, than you should borrow. That differential is what's important, with the tax break being icing on the cake.

And on the handbag question, haha, I think you're likely correct.

I am less sure about cars, since if you are going to buy and dump a car, it seems like you should lease it, no? I don't know...

I think the other important thing to realize is that the rich aren't, like any large group, unified in their behavior, which is something that article like this always avoid. There is no one way to become a millionaire and there certainly isn't one set of behaviors they exhibit.
Well, there are very few risk free returns, obviously. I guess the standard would be US treasury bonds, which don't pay more than mortgages, obviously. But the S&P has an annual rate of return of almost 10% over the last forty years, so if you're risk averse (aren't we all) a good index fund will likely beat your mortgage rate.
Unethical but I don't think fraudulent.

This is an example people gaming the system, and IMHO through legal channels. If search engines and social bookmarks integrate this content the burden is on them to filter it.

Please don't take my comments to imply that I condone spamming, but in this case I think a different resolution to the problem is in order.

jer

PS: I don't know what that resolution is. :)
I am really looking forward to that book! Fortunately I know a few people who are active in the Merb community and I am learning a little bit on their coattails :)
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Yeah, I'm just plugging awk. :)

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Random observation: It's only extra-geeky links like these that lead to pages with a set of links:

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There are html, dvi, pdf and Postscript versions of the paper.

...

Umm, yeah. I think I'll choose "html". Thanks for giving me the option, though.
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Is this really serious? I googled it and didn't turn much up. I think this may be more paranoia than reality at this point.

Please prove me wrong, as this is interesting.

Jer
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Thats true. I think newer (last 15 years) tech company's have been able to not offer dividends and still attract investors (even low capex, software co's that don't necessarily need to reinvest), but the types of investors (venture investors) they attract are naturally then interested in capital gains, and thats only achieved by trading that equity. I could be wrong, but traders tend not to think past the point of their expected holding, and since their only return is on sale of the equity, prefer for that to happen earlier rather than later.
Why couldn't a http://www.donorschoose.org/ be put together for startups? Since the costs are so small, why couldn't a website be created that says, I want to sell a 1000 shares of my company for 10% of the equity, and the shares are $20 each, and this is my business plan?

Actually, thinking about it there are two big problems. First is that I'm suggesting a community made of anyone, not just accredited investors.

Secondly, I understand that being new, small and unknown in a marketplace is important. As Matt Maroon put it:

"There was a section in the application that asked founders something like “why would your project be hard for one of your competitors to clone.” Our answer was that technologically it wouldn’t. And unless you’re building something like Zenter or maybe Loopt, that’s going to be largely true for you too. There isn’t much Yahoo or Google programmers couldn’t pump out in a relatively short period of time, and anyone who says otherwise is either lying or delusional.

"And that’s fine, because we can all name ten times they’ve made a technologically equal (or even superior) clone of some popular website only to watch it flounder. So explain why, even if they did clone you, you really wouldn’t be hurt by it."

So obviously Google could scour the site and find ideas.

Having said all that why isn't there community based, micro finance type (think kiva) of website for web startups? Would that work?
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"... HN provided some great feedback and advice on the initial launch of Streetread over 2 months ago ... I'm looking forward to any feedback you might have. ...."

5m test, here's what I found:

- I tried to enter googles stock quote but couldn't find it. How do I find a stock quote of a company I don't know? Maybe this is a useless edge case but it was a problem for me.

- lots of words "Click here to login", "Click here to register (free)" so they can be simplified

- sampled text news article headlines from http://www.streetread.com/m/feed/site_Yahoo and got 203, 148, 168, 178, 193 without the headings .. bit wordy. Maybe the suggestion is keep the length but decrease the item count?

- monkey test for input & doesn't barf when unicode entered

- tried getting news from WSJ, the page responded "PAGE UNAVAILABLE" from WSJ side. This exposed a problem that I can't get back home. Is there a back button on the devices? Should a home logo always be there?

Works. Is there any chance of a Video demo on the site?
I've had laser surgery and it did NOT end up how I expected. I happen to be a special case -- I had only one eye done at a time. After the first eye was done, I had bad vision and it was really bad at night. I remember looking at a turn signal on a traffic light and seeing three copies of the image. My eye doctor told me I had 20/20 vision. Hah. I could easily see that the eye I didn't have surgery with had significantly better vision and more immediate focus with a contact lens that the surgery eye did.

I went back to contact lenses and have never been happier.
I have to take them out and put them in, but I'm way happier with them. (barring that the one eye will never be as good as the eye without surgery)

Look, they're your eyes. Lucky I have some redundancy.
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"And the stress involved in working for myself is so much less that that of working for a PHB... I could never go back."

I found this to be exactly the reverse in my case. Even when the company I work for has problems with payroll, the stress is trivial compared to the stress of running my own business. I'm working an 8-5 job right now after years of startup/small-business life, and ~45 hours a week feels like a constant vacation.
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Gym machines don't exercise your stabilization muscles, and they only work one muscle at a time.

When you do pushups (if you do them right), you exercise your triceps, shoulders, biceps, back muscles, and your pectorals all in one go.

Calisthenics are amazing and completely underutilized in today's gym-heavy environment. Did you notice that the military doesn't use gym equipment at all? Ever wonder why?
"Programmer's block", like "writer's block" is an absence of creativity -- you can't figure out what to write next, not because you don't know how to implement X, but because you can't come up with any ideas for what X should be.

There are two solutions to this. First, cultivate a good source of ideas. Beta testers are wonderful for this purpose. Second, don't start coding as soon as you have an idea -- write them down, and when you don't know what to do next, go back to your list of ideas. I aim to have 1-2 months of ideas for tarsnap planned out at any given point, so that if I'm feeling uncreative I can just pull up my coding to-do list and start implementing things.
You are right on the perception of risk, it doesn't matter if it's a startup or a bigco. The difference is you are working 60+ hours at a starup whereas you are working 20 hours of actual work if you are lucky at a bigco.