skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some string / wildcard Google searches comes up with at least one email.
At no salary, 7.5 is small.

What you should do is come up with fair salaries and rate each person's work accordingly. What I mean is this. Let's say that you're 30 and fairly senior with a moderate amount of team lead experience-- $150,000 / year-- and have been working for 18 months. Your junior co-founder, who's just out of college-- $80,000 / year-- has been working for 12 months. So your investment (opportunity cost) is $225,000 and his is $80,000. The market valuation of the company may or may not be $305,000... it could be effectively zero, or it could be an order of magnitude higher, but this gives you a sense of what the proportions should be. The younger person should have 80/225 of what you have. If he stays longer, that number should evolve in his favor, which is one of the things vesting is for.

Of course, it's not clear what these time-of-stay amounts will be from the outset, which is why you need vesting and other provisions.

In your situation, rate yourself around $120,000/year (intermediate seniority with a promising product) and a promising, out-of-college programmer around $90,000/year. You're not going to actually pay these amounts to anyone, but these numbers should be the basis for equity amounts. Also scale for above-board effort, giving a 1.5 multiplier on people who really give their all (set aside some equity for this).
Same here. I would have to study up for the interview and that seems pretty silly considering I spend every day writing code and have for years. There's a lot of irony in that too considering that when I need a b-tree, I Google it.

It would be funny to bring an Android phone to a Google interview and then proceed to Google answers for questions they ask like this to point out how outdated the question is.

If it's anything like interviews at my company, we just aren't really trained on how to interview, so these questions come up because the interviewer may not know what to ask aside from things like this, and their last interview experience may have been when looking for a job straight out of college when this was all they really knew about, so this is what interviewers asked them about. In a way those questions may just be "what you're supposed to ask someone in a CS related interview".
Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

- Arianna Huffington (@ariannahuff)

http://startupquote.com/post/5594363469
You really ought to check out Linq. C# generics and lambdas are really nice too.
Yeah, just got it the other day. Haven't gotten to play with it much yet. The one thing I have noticed is that it still doesn't play nice with Spaces. It does not respect that I disabled the option for "When switching to an application, switch to a space with an open window for the application." Drives me nuts.
The brand in this case has been Android lately. Even so, HTC was successful well before the new wave of smartphone competition because people actually tried phones in stores. I rarely hear about someone picking a phone out in store vs. hearing about phones on the web.
7.5% sounds reasonable, may be even too little if he is truly valuable candidate.

Equity numbers are weird. Some times, 10% equity means the other founder has 90% and any dilution is going to hit that... meaning that a 20% grant to someone else moves the split to 72/8/20 not 70/10/20. So it's important to know what events can trigger general dilution. If the option pool is not set aside, that will trigger dilution too.

Sometimes, 10% means "I'm giving you 10 but I'm only giving myself 25 and the other 65 is for new talent, option pools, and to offset investor dilution". Other times, it means, "you're subject to all dilution, the only constant being that I have 9 times as much as you do". Two entirely different things.
I have never had or heard of a contract situation where I could go off and build a competing product after being acquired by a competitor. Stuff gets locked up. This practice is one of the reasons behind some open source movements - the protection of inventions from getting annihilated in the event of takeover. These articles do not include the detail that Facebook (or whoever) released the source code of the acquired product into the public domain. They include the detail that the products were killed.
Amazon Buys The A.Co, Z.Co, K.Co And Cloud.Co Domains
I tried Office 365 a few weeks ago. It's a disaster. I encountered:

1) Print Preview cleared the contents of my document

2) Sometimes input would randomly stop being accepted.

3) Loading the app took forever.

4) Numerous tab crashes.

5) The signup experience was a many-step cluster fuck. I was emailed a password and it said "Your new or updated account information." Seriously? You can't even get the words "Welcome" in your email subject?

6) Hilariously sparse UI. They forced the Ribbon UI on it, but they don't support all the features, so you spend a bunch of time trying to find things that you new were on a particular tab simply moved/resized to fill more space and not look so sparse.

To be fair, they don't officially support Chrome, but they do support both FireFox and Safari, so Chrome shouldn't be that broken.
Purchasers of the Z1 probably wouldn't be worrying about the problems of added moving parts requiring more (or more expensive) maintanance.

But this (from the wiki page) was interesting:

"The windows may be operated independently of the doors, although they do retract automatically if the door is lowered. Both the window and door are driven by electric motors through toothed rubber belts and may be moved manually in an emergency.[6]"

That could apply to any installation of this kind of door, actually -- if your battery is dead, you have to use a keyhole to unlock the door, then you could manually push down the window & then door structure. If they are well counter-balanced with weights or springs, etc. (as they should be to avoid wasting energy in normal use) and the motor doesn't cause much drag, that would be a bit awkward-looking, but not too hard.
If you want to buy a reader and RFID tags:

http://www.parallax.com/tabid/768/txtSearch/rfid/List/0/Sort...
One other thing to consider, besides the rational aspects to equity assignment, is fairness. People will talk about their equity allocation sooner or later and if there is a major differential between people who perceive themselves as similar (e.g., similar skills, similar job, came on board around the same time), it could hurt productivity and morale. People know the world isn't fair but they still get angry/demotivated when they are on the wrong end of the perceived unfairness.
Yep, I think that the prospect of trying to achieve real cell phone like qualities out of mesh networks is a no hoper. The real question however is what the end consumer will accept. Often times products are over-engineered / overpriced (whether deliberately or accidentally) beyond what consumers really demand and it's not until a low quality competitor shows up that everyone realizes it. Think how the vast majority of consumers turned out to be happy with low bit rate mp3s after recording studios spent years pushing CDs, and how very few people really care about HD vs SD very much (at least, not on smaller screens). So perhaps there's room for a network that just doesn't work while travelling at 75mph (or even 30mph). So what? Maybe consumers just don't care that much if they are getting it for free.
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The universal connectors were inevitable. I love it. I really hope I can override that dropdown based code editor though. What's the point if They need to insert {'s and }'s anyway?
Thanks...I figured someone has to do it right? :)
They're both implementations of the MVC pattern, but short of that there seem to be very few similarities between them. Admittedly, I've only built one project in RoR, but the framework itself required much less configuration and Ruby is a huge departure from the Java/C# coding style.

The MVC design pattern has been in use since 1979; it's nothing new. It's also worth noting that Java devs and Microsoft devs were building MVP (a modified version of MVC) based apps in the 90's.

I'm not trying to dis RoR, because it seems like a pretty solid framework and nobody can deny that the 37signals guys were the motivating force behind the current wave of MVC development. However, what they created was a better web implementation of an existing pattern and I honestly think Django and CakePHP are much more obvious imitations.

Finally, it's worth noting that the ASP.NET MVC framework is open source and has similar license to RoR.
This is a waste of resources on the part of the city. Both NYU and Columbia are top notch institutions and it would make far greater sense to expand their programs.

Beyond that, the formula of what makes for a thriving tech community isn't entirely clear anyhow. The Valley has Stanford and VC's (and great weather), but there is also little else in the area competing for talent beyond great tech companies. So throwing in a new college/university into Manhattan isn't going to be enough to change things.

Rockefeller University is in the city, and it has fantastic researchers and great educational programs in the biomedical sciences - but you don't see biomedical companies popping up all over Manhattan because of it.
The author is selling people on living his lifestyle, a lifestyle he gained by telling people how to live his lifestyle.

These sorts of bloggers constantly talk about 'changing the world' but ultimately they aren't promoting people to build useful products and services, but to step up and join the blogging wealthy.

Are there people making good money blogging? Of course. The problem is in the 'token' people who sell marketing and blogging, but show little promotional ability outside of marketing and blogging.

These types of posts attract those who are susceptible to 'magical thinking', that somehow if you motivate yourself hard enough, that you will achieve whatever you want. While some level of motivation is necessary to kick start action, too much motivation is a crippling addiction that turns individuals into self-help cult members who follow every move of their marketing guru.
Learning on Cores, Clusters and Clouds
The messaging only happens on wolfpacktales...and we don't spam anyone. Basically you create a group, invite your friends to join, the get a notification and following the link takes them to the group you created, where u can begin interacting and sharing.
Nice. This goes a long way towards making the platform accessible to real non-coders, or kids even. I'm reposting this on CrunchGear, thanks for putting it up.
Embrace. Extend. Extinguish. I'm loving the new (old) Microsoft.

Can't wait for the articles about how MS is integrating Skype into Exchange & WP7, and providing enterprises with subsidized Nokia kit.
Top 50 Israeli Startups for 2011
Great story, nice site. I have one small suggestion: replace FaceBook with Facebook. It looks weird with the capital B.
Yes, do stuff like that. Show enthusiasm. Show willingness to dive in.

Research their tech, and ask questions about it during the interview.

Be proactive. Research. Write code that's relevant to them, if you can think of something. Use their product. Make sure you've signed up and used all their features extensively. Do usability testing (ask your friends) on their product. Etc.
It forces you to back up your opinions with data, though.

As long as the decision is made by humans, you will never get a completely unbiased result, because humans have biases. It's the same in every field - people pretend science is objective because it relies on data, but if you read Kuhn, you'll see that a lot of science is personality cults and subjective opinions and schools of thought. People pretend Google's search algorithms are objective because they rely strictly on numbers and data, but they're written by humans, and humans choose which data is important.

But that doesn't make the data useless. The act of being forced to support your opinions with data makes you dig much deeper into them, and surfaces relevant information that'd otherwise be ignored immediately because it doesn't fit your preconceptions.

Think about science vs. polemics. If you're actually doing original research in a scientific field, you'll realize that there's a lot of uncertainty hidden behind "the scientific consensus", and a lot of other ways of interpreting that same data. But that doesn't mean that the scientific consensus is wrong. It may be wrong, but it's probably less wrong than whatever vitriol Ann Coulter or Glenn Beck or Michael Moore is spouting at the moment.
Related question, how easy/hard is it to move around internally once you are "in"?
<i>"ome Silicon Valley veterans fear that companies are overpaying for talent and that some of the acquired employees will defect as soon as they can, perhaps because they will get restless in a corporate environment. And venture capitalists, who hope for windfalls in the tens or hundreds of millions if not more, will only grudgingly settle for less"</i>

I think this is the biggest problem if a company buys another company simply for its engineers. I will hazard a guess and say that probably half of the team will leave simply cause they "made it". More than likely these guys are comfortable working in a startup environment then a "corporate setting".

I wonder what most of the HN community here will do if your product or company gets bought out simply for your talent. I'll certainly leave if I pocket at least $1m~$2m and do something on my on.
If you look at the language: "I was a strong proponent at the board level for the deal being done"

What was he at other levels?

The presence of "at the board level" is distancing language. If he was personally fully behind the deal, he would be likely not to include that phrase and to add that information in a different structure.

My take is he's uncomfortable with the deal and was likely not fully behind it.
Really bad title, were you trying to optimize it for twitter?

On the first read it sounded (to me) like nothing had changed, it wasn't until I actually clicked through and read the full headline that it made sense.
Good point, but Microsoft has Nokia.
What is your current revenue?
You could always get a "back door" hire -- build a product that Google acquires and simply become part of the staff that way. Oddly, that kind of hiring selects for people who see the entire product and can build something that works and is successful vs. somebody who keeps flash cards with complexity stats for oddball algorithms in their back pocket.
I think LightSquared could be a big part of the move, being built by Nokia too. Tying it with Nokia Windows phones would play current carriers out of the game.
No,

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Learn something new every day, I've added it to my 'about' section.
Damn. I'll put a stop to my patent application.

I guess they'll just have to put a lock on the hood that unlocks with your key.
Justin.tv is hiring software engineers to build the ESPN of pro-gaming
IMO, "works with your favorite calendar application" is the clearest way to express that concept.
Google's counter to that is that since they tend to target only people from top companies and top schools (by their particular perception of what is "top"), so they'll tend to sweep up talented people anyway.
I admire this guy's tenacity and character, but his advice seems to be "become a highly-paid consultant," which necessitates a certain amount of expertise and smarts which he clearly has but which many of his readers lack, however they may excel in other ways.

"Want to be rich? It's simple, just win the lottery," says the guy who won the lottery. "I did it, so can you."

Pursuing what you love and working hard at it is always great advice, but not everyone can make money doing what they love, no matter how hard they work at it.
Sony’s CEO Calls Hacker Attack ‘Hiccup’ in Company’s Online Strategy
Transistor Aging - Measuring the degradation of microprocessors
I think you'll find that the article is saying: decide on your goals, be determined and work hard to obtain them, and quitcher bitchin'. I didn't discover any mention of magic.
The Worst Startup in the World [video]
Don't forget that his advice also suggests to buy his products "on moneymaking" and "guest blogging" with the not-at-all scammy headline "Is This the “Secret” to Building a Popular Blog?"
I'm starting a genomic software company in Berkeley - I'd be happy to chat sometime.

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I think you missed the context of my comment.

This article is a double edged sword. Sure it contains a 'pick yourself up by your bootstraps' call to action but the other edge is that they are marketing the exact solution to the problem that they created in the post (that you aren't happy).
Why I Became an Entrepreneur
Would Google Docs Spreadsheet PLEASE match and create the same shortcuts that are used is MS excel? It would be interesting to see if the engineers working on Google Docs Spreadsheet were ever MS Excel power users.
> The author is selling people on living his lifestyle, a lifestyle he gained by telling people how to live his lifestyle.

I have referred elsewhere to this phenomenon as "Happy Clappy Capitalism"[1].

Maybe we need a new site -- clappitalism.com -- to keep an eye on them.

[1] http://clubtroppo.com.au/2007/04/20/happy-clapping-capitalis...
They asked me how to rm a file named -f. Seriously. I thought to myself what a silly question. That's like 20 year old Unix trivia. I was dumb-founded. This was the second phone interview. I knew then I did not want to work for them and I told the recruiter I was not interested. They called me and they initiated the contact.
I'm an NYU grad student and I think putting city money into my school would be a greater waste. NYU is a distracted and sprawling bureaucracy. Getting two weeks of summer funding required a long series of confusing email exchanges which finally resulted in having to sign 5 identical forms (each given to a different administrator). The elevators in my building break on a regular basis, and attracting the attention of maintenance workers requires forms and requests from "higher up". They've started closing the math building at night (a night guard is too costly) but find enough money/resources to expand into Abu Dhabi and Poly. It's a mess!
"I think it's a great, great deal for Skype. I think it's a great deal for Microsoft," he added.

Great,great for Skype but just great for Microsoft.
Ask HN: Daily updated learning portal - would this work?
Rails was my first programming endeavor. With a non-cs background, learning it was an impossibly difficult task. Every resource I found either assumed the reader had some prior programming knowledge, was incomplete, or was outdated, which led to frustration. I tried to struggle through countless tutorials, videos and ebooks, but nothing made sense and I always gave up. Railscasts were helpful for specific concepts, but not so much for general ideas and clueless newbies. After months of spinning wheels, I found a decent ebook and I realized that programming was not all that difficult as long as it was properly explained and dissected.

Since then, I've thrown around the idea of starting dedicated a blog to teaching Ruby on Rails to non-programmers. I know for a fact that there are people out there that would find this valuable - constant email inquiries enforce this. The only problem is I'm terrible at blogging since there is nobody to hold me accountable if I slack off (it happens).

Lightbulb - if I launch a platform with strong intentions to update every single day (think Woot.com for learning), I may be inclined to do just that. This would solve a number of issues:

- first post would assume absolutely no previous programming experience

- each new post would build on the last (building increasingly complex sample applications, etc)

- with daily updates, content would never become stale or dated

- would not require a huge commitment (maybe an hour a day)

- at the end of every month, the previous 30 posts could be packaged into an ebook

But why stop with Rails? The same platform could host a number of programming languages, community driven or maintained by a number of select contributers. It could be like Wikipedia + Woot + Railscasts. And it doesn't just have to be for beginner programmers. Eventually it could turn into a daily dose of programming tidbits - little tips and tricks that even experienced programmers could find useful.

So who wants to collaborate?
Seeing a Facebook photo without permission is like 'stealing a TV': Police
Inspector Clouseau to aid Dominique Strauss-Kahn
When I read the headline, I thought it was for a public high school but was disappointed to find out it was for a university. Seriously, who cares about that when the public school system is in need of such major reform?

There are plenty of options for those looking for a good college. What NYC and the rest of this country needs is a better K-8 and high school system.
Health Insurance Company to Introduce S.H.I.T. Plan
Why You Won't Succeed
I agree in principle that claiming the path to A is by doing B is generally a pyramid scheme situation. However, this author came across differently because of his specific situation. I read it more along the lines of the Randy Pausch quotation about brick walls keeping us from achieving what we want.

'The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!'
Fingerprints Go the Distance
So why connect to social networks at all? Not to knock your idea, but it seems like this is just a modernized private chatroom with built in social network spamming.
"Libraries and what the business world is doing to kill them, dead."
One thing I've noticed (in the WP7 app store at least) as a result of this feature being missing is some devs responding to reviews by reviewing the app themselves (and rating it 5 stars of course) and replying to other reviewers in the text.
US carriers were and still are screwing Americans over. European carriers were much open and until I read about the US mobile industry, I had no idea that a carrier can block you to do anything you want with your phone.
Come on... Simply holding together such a big country is really a daily miracle. I live there and I can tell you Chinese people are not what you think, they are VERY HARD to govern. They never stop inventing ways to break the rules, they have a tendency to suddenly and unexpectedly jump all together on the same side of the boat. A daily miracle, I tell you, and most of this miracle is based on the rock-solid traditional education given in the country-side.

I'll tell you, the Chinese hard even harder to govern than the French. (I'm French, I know both.)
This is awesome! A simple idea, wonderfully executed.
Couple of features I'd like to see:
* An RSS/Atom/whatever feed of the articles, so they show up in my feed reader/Calibre
* The exact same thing in reverse; Often, I'd just like to boil the text off a web page and read it on my phone on the morning/evening train commute. This possibly changes the scope of your weekend hack to something a lot more complex..