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I imagine it's the same that caused Yahoo to move it's developer day away from London, London is horrendously expensive if you want to hold a large tech event. We're talking in the million dollar range (to get conference facilities, get internet line, insurance, get food & drink), not to mention it's expensive for attendees to travel and stay there.

I stayed in a 4 star hotel in Berlin last year for €30/night, for a similar hotel in London you'd be paying 5-10x that price.

If you're living in London traveling to Berlin isn't a big deal, travelling to London from anywhere else is a much bigger deal.
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I'm not a lawyer but I don't think you are either. You seem to think that if you hear of a crime being committed you are obligated to report it. I do not believe you are right, it is legal to not be a snitch, if nothing else there is the 5th amendment right to keep your mouth shut. There's also the right to free assembly.

On a side note let me ask you a question. What do you think about the fact that the WikiLeaks website has been attacked constantly for a couple years now including with many DDOS attacks, but the FBI has not opened an investigation into it, in fact it doesn't seem to be on anyone's radar? On the other hand this short-lived attack on paypal has been investigated aggressively with several raids and arrests, why would that be? Anonymous isn't attacking wikileaks, who in the US has an incentive to take down WikiLeaks?
Rumor points to Daniel Domscheit-Berg, the OpenLeaks guy. http://pastebin.com/SBq9Xpsr
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I know, the point is this happens with 6 digits minimum on each side of ..
...and party A didn't encourage them to do so (or give them enough information to do so). That's the part I dislike about all the ads for early hires. 'Meaningful equity' is rarely put into context.
The “designers should code” bullshit and a not so new idea
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Someone making a normal salary at a normal job will probably keep making roughly this amount.

An early employee making a low salary plus options at a startup will learn the skills to create a bigger piece of wealth on their own. Why do I believe this to be true? Several of the people who worked for my startups previously have. Also, the ride is rather fun especially for someone shielded from most of the downsides and this has value.

Why the disparity between founders and early employees you ask? There is a huge (order of magnitude+) difference in risk and, frankly, a differential in skills which we don't talk about for reasons of politeness.
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It is indeed based on Perspectives. But the implementation provided with Perspectives does not have privacy. If you contact a notary with Perspectives then that notary has your browsing history. See 36:50 on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Wl2FW2TcA
The boring, mundane stuff should absolutely be released... invaluable stuff for the historical record.
Chrome Nanny link seems to be correct (Google Search suggests the same), but it actually doesn't work. Has it been removed from the Chrome Store just recently?
Something to further emphasize here: time to exit.

Many would-be startup employees seem to underestimate the length of the road from founding to funding to payout. Even if an exit happens (which, as we've established, is rare), it's likely going to happen a lot later than you'd think. And the exit itself is more likely to be a drawn-out process than an instantaneous event.
It's like Comodo and RSA are the security equivalent of 'too big to fail.'
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While I agree with the author on many parts, I do think he misses the ball on some issues.

For example, there seems to be an argument being made that a lot of the structure in big companies, as compared to start-ups, is to keep "lesser" people from making mistakes. But, I think that is far from reality.

If you're a startup, you have no employees, no sales and no users. No users means no support to give, no need to check if your latest changes fail on some obscure configurations, no infrastructure to handle the load, no critical bug-fixing of now outdated versions, etc, no fear to make significant changes and break things. No employees means no human resource handling, simpler paycheck administration, less managerial overhead. No sales means less administration, less regulatory burden, no internationalization issues, less need for documentation, and so on.

There's a different kind of company needed to innovate compared to the kind of company needed to sell a product worldwide in a competitive market with low margins.

There's only a few companies that handle can both at the same time. (Bigger ones buying up small ones don't count)

That being said, a small company where the product is in flux generally requires the engineers to have broader skillsets and tends to allow them to make more wide-ranging design choices. That just doesn't happen at bigger companies or with established products. You spend most of your time maintaining things.
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Think that's a long time? Check out how many bugs Eclipse has, that were first reported over 10 years ago:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?type0-1-0=equals;o...
or tmux, which is does the same thing as screen.
It'd be very interesting to look at real data from real companies and see how early employees made out. And naturally you'd want to include a wide spectrum of companies, both successful and unsuccessful. You could look at what rates people were actually paid, how much stock/options they got, how much it turned out to be worth and so on.
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Or he can be a freelancer with his own company, investing from company's funds (no tax) and after the exit pulling the money from the company as dividends and getting to have only one (low) tax event.
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> "... the average employee, for whom there are replacements lining up"

The article is talking about the first employee. If a tech startup is happy to accept 'average' employees at that stage it's probably doing it wrong. Also, if there are really that many people lining up, then why offer equity at all?
Hmm, not so sure about that - power outages can affect several city blocks and then you're introducing latency?
The seed round _is_ the 'probable return' calculation.

Seed numbers should tell you what other (professional) investors consider to be a 'good deal'.

If you are willing to get in and worse conditions, you are either brilliant or..
Depending on how hidden and cryptic it is.
$100k is not the salary of a super star team member. Based on that salary, I assume this person is a solid B+ team member.
There's a mistake in the math: one year of a salary cut is given as the amount invested. Why one year?
Spiegel Online has a good overview (in English): http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,783778,00.h...
Can someone explain why/how the cables allegedly kicked off Arab Spring? I get how they pertain to Egypt's former information minister specifically, but wasn't the greater amount of unrest in the region preexisting?
As skeletonjelly points out, this question is basically a total furphy.
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A mod on irc is not a mere bypasser. It is, to some extent, someone who maintains the network.

If we assume that the network's sole purpose is to help anonymous, she is, technically, supporting anonymous.

I won't assume these (the problem is a bit more complex,of course). But that's the line of thought the FBI is following, and I can understand it. The woman in the article doesn't strike me as an obvious innocent.
Ask Marla Wood, the "administrative assistant and bookkeeper" of Microsoft, who reputably got screamed at by Bill Gates when she had the gall to file an overtime pay dispute. I don't think she had any options.
There's a difference between the iframe version of Facebook's like button and the XFBML version. The XFBML version, for various reasons, is preferable to the iframe version (e.g. say you want to subscribe to the edge.create event to determine if someone clicked on the like button).

Now, if you want to add the XFBML version of the like button, you'd have to embed Facebook's JavaScript SDK script (https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js) to your site. If connect.facebook.net ever gets compromised via a fake SSL certificate, your site will also be compromised.

Instead of letting third-party scripts run on your main site, it may be safer to let them run within an iframe based off of a different domain so that a compromised third-party script doesn't compromise your main site.
Nope, but the point of my comment was really the bits in italics - because they're in italics - and not the fact my company makes stuff.

stock production refers to the point that most Apple employees will not be using prototypes out of the office

the jackbooted bit refers to this happening before and Apple would have been thought to have been using a lot more care this time around

The italicised bit was not 'my company makes stuff'. I find it weird that I have to point this out.
Interesting to see this 24 hours after	"RIP Higgs Boson (with 95% confidence)" was posted here (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2943950) yesterday.

Even more interesting to see that this article was posted on the 13th, and the RIP article was posted on the 23rd.

The current submission states:

> From reliable sources I am expecting CERN to issue a press release about the status of the search for the Higgs Boson next week in advance of the LP2011 conference. If the official Higgs combination is similar to my version (the leak shows that it is) then they have the right to claim an observation (but not a discovery) of a strong signal consistent with a Higgs boson at 144 GeV (or soewhere else nearby). They cannot excluded other BSM signals including MSSM. I don’t know exactly how they will spin it but they will want the media to take notice.

The RIP article was posted after CERN issued the statement, and reads:

> And yesterday, August 22, at the Biennial International Symposium on Lepton-Photon Interactions at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India, the bombshell was dropped: CERN scientists declared that over the entire range of energy the Collider had explored—from 145 to 466 billion electron volts—the Higgs boson is excluded as a possibility with a 95% probability.

Is the 145 GeV number intentional, and CERN is now looking at the region just under the excluded power level to firm up their evidence? Is the author of this article confused? I'm not enough of a physicist to answer, but I'm inclined to trust CERN over a blog post based on preliminary, leaked data.
Very interesting, thank you. It looks like it solves very significant problems in a very good way (I'm amazed the Perspectives guy missed them, especially sending the certificate to Perspectives like Convergence does).

I really, really hope this catches on and gets built into browsers...
Well, good news then, here's a paragraph from the article:

"The numbers are not encouraging. About 14 percent of those who graduated from college between 2006 and 2010 are looking for full-time jobs, either because they are unemployed or have only part-time jobs, according to a survey of 571 recent college graduates released in May by the Heldrich Center at Rutgers."
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It's about publishing, but a lot of the advice makes sense to me. That industry too, is made up of a lot of big hits and a long tail.
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Never is a long time, no?
You can invest company funds, but you will still need to pay Corporate tax on your profits.

Not relevant for freelancers without company, b/c they will need to pay taxes+VAT on income.
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Works the same way for contractors. Take a lower rate, delay payment, accept warrants instead of grants...its all investment, and should be on the same terms as any other early investor.
We're comparing the value of an early employee to that of an investor. The article does it by comparing investment dollars and salaries. I tried to keep it in that framework. But since you brought it up, do you know what my investors do when I call them after hours with an emergency? They get to work, tirelessly. They don't file pay disputes.

I'm not arguing against employee rights. I'm letting you point out the difference between an early employee who complains about overtime and a good investor. It's about more than money.
Unqualified like this your statement is wrong.

Please, for the sake of the global nature of the internet, state something like

"based on the assumption that we're talking about this specific country/region and based on my experience with..."

$100.000 seems to be the current salary of the friend in question for that blog post. If you don't know where he's based and what his costs and standard of living are, how can you judge the person as being 'B' level?

Also - what the hell is a 'super star team member'?

Edit: Just for fun I put the author's name into Google. According to LinkedIn/Twitter he's from Israel. If we assume that the startup was local as well (why not? And why should it be in the most expensive areas of the States?) $100.000 is really good salary. High tech (i.e. programmers) employees are already overpayed here compared to the everyone else and 100.000 USD / 30.000 NIS per month is a good salary even in that field.
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Interested to hear what the consensus is here at HN.

http://cl.ly/062W1G1t331N190C3h3T
>It's about scarcity: apparently the founders think that finding an investor with 500k is harder than finding the tech guy

Sure, and this article looks like an attempt to educate the tech guy, thus making "tech guys who don't properly valuate their contribution" more scarce.
Use them all the time, have for all my career.

They organize complex code, dissect complex set-flag-here-and-test-there spaghetti into a matrix of states and events that can be exhaustively examined and debugged.

Yes you have to organize your code to feed the machine (Vol is hungry! We must feed Vol!) But you have to organize your code somehow, and feeding a state machine can actually be easier to understand that flag-setting. In fact, it makes it absolutely clear what an event is associated with - the machine it feeds.
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Immigration laws could be a reason. There are plenty of expat developers spread around Europe, for whom, it's much easier to travel to any city in Germany than apply for a UK visa. Arguably, this process is about as complicated as obtaining a US visa.
He mentioned assuming the optimistic scenario that after one year they can pay him a full salary.
This man has never heard of video game A.I. programming :)
> since when did associating with types considered unflattering or considered dangerous make YOU guilty of the supposed crime they committed?

RICO was passed in 1970.
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I think there's another issue. At a small company, everyone (usually) has a stake. Everyone wants to make the company succeed, because having the company succeed gives each individual a huge payout.

Beyond a certain size, however, new individuals will not receive huge payouts if the company succeeds. The strategies by which they maximize their individual return now involve politics, power and control. Short of killing the company, their reward is maximized by behavior which may hurt the company (and in my view always hurts the company but I'm bitter). An example of such behavior are putting forward tech ideas which may not fit the company but which the individual has had experience, and therefor has seniority and status. Another would be eliminating competition with bad reviews, or failing to acknowledge good work.

Beyond a certain size (perhaps its beyond a certain time) a company will be managed by "players" using the company for their own purposes. Non-players are identified and eliminated. These players don't really care if you can get the job done, they just want large departments to manage. In fact hiring idiots whose job depends on the player's good graces is a great way to balance intelligent people with legitimate complaints.

No. Wont be working at a large company again.
That's partly true, but there are some subtleties not conveyed by such:

If a VC is investing in a seed round, it's effectively just an option on a later investment. It's the ante, not a bet. If you're investing from a $1 billion fund, it's not really worth making sure you're getting a good price on a $100k investment that's 0.01% of your capital. I have more than 0.01% of my liquid assets in my back pocket right now. The employee, on the other hand, might be investing 10% of their life.

And for angels, compared to an employee, there's very little opportunity cost. An employee needs to clear a lot more to break even since they're leaving tens of thousands per year on the table in terms of salary. Most angels, who participate in syndicates and write checks in the range of $15k, aren't really limited in the number of investments they can do by the amount of cash they have. So the opportunity cost is the spread between their startup returns versus more traditional investment vehicles (say at about 6% per year). An employee taking a 30-50% salary cut is risking a lot more (not to mention that they probably aren't rich at the outset).

Now, the worse conditions bit is also not quite true. The comment below on the market pricing employee scarcity versus investor scarcity is apt -- and actually it can go both ways. If the market is particularly frothy, investor equity may be overpriced relative to employee stock, or in the more common case where a startup scrapes together a seed round, it may be underpriced.
Are Schengen visas really easier to obtain?
Given the number of changes coming in every release, and since some people rebase, a hash change might not be detected...
The details are confusing but apparently it wasn't the insurance file, it was the full cables archive which for some unexplained reason was being served over bittorrent by someone.
Yes, but for people already working in any Schengen country, they don't need another visa to travel to Germany.
Congratulations. Good luck! Hmm.
Guess they don't want you to search for credit card numbers
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Ask HN: Why is there so much mess around SSL certs?
...and I do NOT mean just in context of Comodo and DigiNotar issues.

* They are at times pretty costly, even when most of the tasks can be automated

* The stupidity of wildcard certs -www.domain.tld versus domain.tld

* The vendors often have several categories of certs, as if I'm buying Windows Vista

* The prices among vendors varies significantly

Doesn't all of this, inclusive of the fake certs fiasco, render the whole technology useless. I do realise my exaggeration but heck, I'm frustrated.
Kindergarten? Aren't you the one waving your arms in outrage?

DDB has stolen their data; Assange has been dealt some serious allegations; and the Guardian has made an understandable technical mistake.

It's quite irrational to conflate that with the Wikileaks brand. Most of this was out of their control.
The guy spends a lot of time comparing populations. The US has five times the population the UK does of English-speaking monoglots - perhaps they want stronger ties with polyglot developers?
I suppose I ignored the italicization because it seemed entirely irrelevant, akin to useless scare quotes. You didn't think there'd be a focus on the fact that you compared your company to Apple?

In any case, cell phones require real-world field testing. There's only so much care you can put into it without crippling the tests.

Most companies lose mobile consumer electronics prototypes constantly and don't think twice about it. The fact that it happens so rarely for Apple is ample evidence that they're being far more careful than most companies, and it only gets attention because they're incredibly secretive and react to leaks as you describe.
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The comparison math forgot the impact of taxes. The employee's $50K "investment" is pretax money, whereas the investors are putting in after-tax dollars. The marginal combined state, federal, and payroll tax rate on that second $50,000 in earnings is probably over 40%, so maybe the actual take-home salary given up for the deal is $29,000. Plus the equity earned is taxed at much lower capital gains rates (15%).
I wish this were true. But it isn't.
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Adblock? Please. POP / IMAP - valid points. But this is slightly different - it's a product they designed from scratch, control the UX etc. Still - no business model.
Upon reading this, I realized I had never really looked into state machines much. In my searching, I found a Coffeescript state machine that has a nice chess-based example:

https://github.com/stephenb/coffee-machine
Now that would be an interesting study that would be quite oft-quoted.
You can mitigate the problem by installing Lazarus (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lazarus-form-...).

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Sorry, I did jump to conclusions. What I saw was this: Someone who usually makes $100k is being offered $50k and 1% of the company. They were excited.

If you're in Kenya and $50k implies you're a C-level executive, then you're not excited and boasting to your friends about 1%. The two figures combined, plus the excitement, implies that the person is being compensated at half a reasonable rate, and being offered a stock % on par with a less than VP (and maybe even Director) role. If it's not, then they're excited about an noncompetitive pay package and the article should have mentioned that as well.