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Ask HN: Salary for Engineering Director at a well-funded startup?
I have been offered the position of Director of Engineering, a newly-created role at the growing and well-funded startup where I have been lead developer for the last four years. Like many developers, I am not a skilled negotiator, and do not have a good handle on what a fair salary would be in this market and at this company. I am hoping that the awesome people of Hacker News can help.

Context: I was a very early hire and have substantial equity (less than a typical founder but much more than nearly every other employee). We are adding some structure and hierarchy to the organization to accommodate our growing team; the company's ten engineers would report to me (with that number likely to double by the end of the year). Over the last several months, out of necessity, I have been taking on many of my new duties already in an informal way (recruiting, on-boarding new developers, building and leading teams, etc.) and feel like (and have gotten feedback that) I have done well. By all measures, the company is successful and has a bright future.

We're located in a large city with a high cost of living. (Sorry that I can't be more specific.)

What kind of salary would you expect for this position?
Jesus, the horror, the horror!
I suspect what he meant was that Google would have to store your SSID to remember you opted out :) which is partially defeating the object.

The more I think about it, the more this (i.e. Google's solution) does seem the most sensible solution to the "problem"
The incomplete logic of the American marketplace today
"""how many of the great companies were formed developing for a particular platform (unless it's their own)? Almost none."""

Tons. But depends what you mean by great. I hear that that Angry Birds company is doing ok. And I know there are thousands of companies making Windows only products that make quite well.

"""In 10 years, do you want to be the old and busted equivalent of the MFC expert whose software was hot in year 2000?"""

Neither I want to be the old and busted failed startup founder.

"""You don't make the Googles, Facebooks, Twitters, of the world by developing just for iOS."""

More like: you don't make the Google's, Facebooks, Twitters, period. Those kinds of companies are so few, you are almost as likely to win the lottery than create one.

It's just the protestant ethic of "hard work = success" and the retroactive worshiping of their founders that makes it seem not so.

There's nothing wrong about building a smaller business, either a lifestyle mom+pop shop, or a 100 employee company. Not only there's nothing wrong about it, but you are far more likely to succeed.
Because it's not applicable--body scanners are far in excess of the "low level" radiation mentioned in your article.
Well I like england for the tea, the weather and the pretty good nature. However friend i dont recommend coming here, the UK takes alot of the US stuff spins it a little and introduces it here. The problem is the UK has no great start-up industry and very few people who have the technical understanding in political jobs to really evulate anything effectivly.

tl:dr, the UK is going the same way. and the core EU (once they kick out the dead weight will be forced to do the same me thinks) every country running their own internet with great big blacklists, that in turn will turn in to whitelists, and soon it will be "you can only view these pages"
That is what RV does.
Or you could just wait for the blackjack deck to be favourable and not play roulette....
Well, the idea is that depending on how much we raise we'll be able to do different numbers of episodes - but yeah, we're pretty stoked. We're also focusing on different startup stories in the fundraising period itself...
Of course it's art inside, it's just that people don't buy it for the elegance.
Listening to Google right now at the hearing. They do a pretty good job educating the room with the problems with this bill.
"Google just said that content owners are responsible for rogue websites. That can't be the truth."

Yes, truly, in a free market, seller policies cannot possibly influence the creation of market alternatives.
The fact that certain people think they're entitled to privacy while broadcasting an access point name over a shared wireless frequency is a joke.
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we'd like it to be substantive as well as cool. not sure if you noticed, but we had all sorts of inside jokes in the pitch itself - you should read some of the post its!
Clickable http://exquisitejobs.com

Hey guys, exquisitejobs is my most recent weekend project. It's my solution the the crappy situation that is freelance job boards on the Internet.

To preempt all the "why another job board" comments, let me explain how I think exquisitejobs is better.

Most freelance job boards have super low signal to noise ratios. Job posts are mostly "build a Facebook plus groupon clone for $500" and most of the applications are "we are super A++++++ firm. We have reviewed your project and are ready to start immediately".

Recently https://tinyproj.com/ launched, and solved half that problem. Tinyproj hand approved projects, then sent them out by email. The result was quality projects being delivered to my email. This was great. However, I applied to several projects, and all the responses were along the lines of "so many people applied, please jump through hoop x,y and z to show interest." Without filtering both jobs and applicants, the jobs quality increased, but the application quality didn't, and overwhelmed employers.

By hand selecting jobs, and allowing freelancers in by invite only, we can carefully balance the two, making sure employers aren't overwhelmed by low quality applications, and that there are always interesting jobs for hackers.

We are in closed beta for a bit so that we can build up enough jobs and freelancers to make sure we can have a productive launch for everyone. If you are interested in hiring the best freelancers, or being presented with quality hand selected jobs, sign up, mention your HN name, etc. as long as your quality is decent, you'll probably be admitted.

Thanks.
It's a great day to be a new HN account.
The parser we're using now is not based on that JavaScript codebase at all. It's excellent to it being used in so many ways now, though.

We're all about making reading better on the web.
If anybody's looking for an alternative to backupify, i run a comparison website for other services: http://skeptu.com

(feedback very welcome)
I can't watch this! lol Most of the things being said just annoys the crap outta me because of how ill-informed the people talking actually are.
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Yes. Sometimes I think a good way to organize an enterprise system would be to make a trivial CRUD "layer" (no validations there) and then write a bunch of Prolog-clause-like rules. The rules would be the big and interesting part of the system, of course. The system would have to be intelligent enough so that, for performance reasons, after input, only the rules that could possibly affect the input would be run. But then in my modest experience these systems are so complex that sometimes for a simple new input you have to validate a whole bunch of things.

I currently develop health care related software here in Brazil. Total chaos. Once I was talking to a doctor, and he said engineers think mostly about the patterns but doctors think mostly about the exceptions. I think the same applies to business. The doctor in question of course liked our system but had a huge list of feature requests (to treat exceptions).
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What I was pointing out was bad defaults and a lack of polish. The very first introduction should not start with a warning or an error case. When I'm learning "yet another server technology and IDE", I don't expect to walk through a bunch of exceptions just to get started. It's a big turn-off.

Check out any of the recent string of popular technologies and see how much effort people put into making smooth first impressions.
> You are out there or you live in a forest

What he said. At some point, if people want to eat, they need to belly up to the big table called society. The Enlightenment came with great discussion of the social contract for good reason. Opting out of the social contract is a hard problem. Even the guy in the forest was born to a mother. Even the orphan depends on someone to survive the first years of life. Anyone who can formulate solid arguments got an education that someone provided and paid for.

You're router is a flashlight shining in the GHz range. If it was in the visible range, your neighbors would get an injunction because it would keep them up at night.
He is an okay writer. Has highly biased opinions which dictate his analysis. I seldom write things that are non critical of Apple.
150-200k
"If we could get Google to index those sites [iTunes over the Pirate Bay] in a way that favored legitimacy..."

Hey, duck duck go might get some real legs if they work this one out =)
Put down that book citizen, there are copyrighted words in there that you haven't paid for yet. Dont make me taze you.

It's coming, sooner or later, the only thing we can do is fight it like alcohol drinkers did with prohibition.
It was written in Smalltalk.
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I suspect it is the same reason that "auto repair theater" or "computer repair theater" or even "movies-that-are-garbage-but-pass-as-entertainment theater" still exist. It is nearly impossible to be well-educated in every facet of one's life, and people need to pick and choose what they become knowledgeable about. Security is both a new enough topic that most people don't realize its importance and a complex enough topic that it isn't easy to really understand.

Most people want to be safe; they don't want to understand security.
We had to delay the launch of our streaming service in Turkey because our CDN was inexplicably censored by the government without recourse—and having nothing to do with us! So I can point to at least one case of significant material loss for Turkish consumers due to Internet shenanigans.
I just built an internal payroll system for my company. It's been a huge pain because it involves both parts of the business I generally try to avoid - legal, and dealing directly with money.

Oh, a big item missing from the list is dealing internationally. If you think navigating all the state and local laws are hard wait till you look at another country :)
Interesting point about reordering search results to favor known-legit content distribution channels...roughly: "Can we get Google to put Netflix above TPB in search results?"

If this is still a terrible idea, it's not an obviously terrible one.
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Yeah - my wife and a couple of her friends got a bit overzealous - I had to ask them to delete a couple of comments.
I remember seeing this project on kickstarter a while back. Does anyone know if it's the same group of people?
There are also iOS developers whose apps will be directly installed by large companies, rather than going through an app store.
As I said a bit ago on another story, sometimes shit sucks. We can't always be positive when there's so much stupidity in our field, and trying to paper over it with positive thinking isn't necessarily constructive; sometimes it's actually damaging to progress. When somebody says that something fuckin' sucks, they're probably full of bullshit, but maybe they're onto something.
...and has been destroying the country for over a decade.
Healthcare software has the same kinds of problems. New regulations, rules, and ways that each party in the system attempts to skirt the rules bleed into the code bases of every system.

Thats why a lot of the technology in healthcare is so far behind. One place I worked at still makes $38 mil/year on a system written in C++ and ASP. Replacing it with a modern stack has been on going process for more than 3 years with no end in site. In the mean time, new installations are being brought up with a whole new set of business rules being added that will just have to get ported later.
Maybe it would be better to have people who don't mind it opt-in rather than expecting people to opt-out of something they might not even know they're in.

"...anger about privacy violations should be directed at worse offenders."

No, it should be directed at every offender.
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A rock and roll musician in the late sixties? Looking back at the music of the 70s, I'm not sure that bodes well.
Is Stack Overflow making you dumber?
Exactly. I'd take a negative salary (I'd pay them) for that job.
Yes, it is. My old pitch video was me talking into a webcam - which wasn't really awesome. People liked the idea, but they advised that I demonstrate more ability to pull a team together and actually produce something. So I canceled it and relaunched it.
I've downvoted you for providing a worthless answer.

The poster asked for similar resources on scaling Rails up; maybe something like https://github.com/blog/117-scaling-lesson-23742 or http://axonflux.com/building-and-scaling-a-startup would have been useful.

I sincerely doubt that the top-poster has Twitter-level problems or resources. He may have a Rails site that's crapping out under load, and needs resources for optimizing both application performance and database access.

"Just move everything to Java" is a meaningless answer. It doesn't help him at all, not unless he's got a year and change to retrain/rehire his engineers and completely rebuild his application.
Ok, that's reasonable, but is it better on iOS? I ask out of curiosity.
Yes — as always :)
> the music industry is hemorrhaging money

[citation required]
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Unlike SpiderOak, CrashPlan lets me backup data between my own machines without charging me for the storage. I wish it would do sync too...
Is that a "no"? Because (if it wasn't obvious) that's what I suspect to be the case about these SOPA stories: that they tend to contain little if any new information about SOPA.
Transparency of Chevrolet Spark Mini
Los Angeles -The 2013 Chevrolet Spark Mini would be displayed for the first time on 16 of November 2011 at international automobile show, basic aim of demonstration is to give the idea of the product which is going to launch by the mid of 2012 in America and Canada.
It's terrible in that a lot of the times smaller organic sites are much more relevant than big-box "trusted" sites.
That's why organic search algorithms are good.

Furthermore, there's a terrible burden for startups moving into certain spaces if suddenly you can't get ranked because you're not a Trusted source.

Plus, controlling search engine neutrality or listing position is not the business of the government or rightsholder. Remember, Google is a private entity.
If this post was meant satirically, well played.

If it was meant seriously, wouldn't it be better just to use the right tool for the right job?
"The debators of the rules are more interested in satisfying the group than in definition or algorithmic simplicity or purity of concept."

This sentence is incredibly useful for understanding why modelling a process hammered out by more than three people will always be more complicated than you think it is.
Why would the opt-in version of the exact same solution not work? You add '_domap' to your SSID to opt-in. If you don't add that, Google agrees to remove your SSID from their records (this does require that they periodically re-scan APs, of course). Am I honestly missing something?
I'm not convinced government should be concerned about the effectiveness of different business models.
epenn, thanks for reading and it was definitely meant satirically.
There's been many articles on HN over the last few months saying there is. I'll try find some, but the basic gist was, there may be more users but there are a lot less checkins per user.
That sort of intentional favoritism could lead to legal action for search engines. It's happened before.
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> Which will likely pass.

Pass the House of Representatives. Then a similar bill has to pass in the Senate, which, because of filibuster rules, now effectively requires 60 votes to pass anything significant rather than a simple majority of 51 votes. Once it's passed in both the House and the Senate, the two sides have to reconcile the differences into one bill that both houses then have to pass again. That final bill then has to be signed by the President to become law.

All of this has to happen in an election year, which always makes it harder to pass significant legislation.

There are still lots of places for the bill to die, or at least be weakened significantly, and there's still plenty of time for voters to take action to make their voices heard.
The "people don't scroll" / above the fold thing has been discredited for a while: http://uxmyths.com/post/654047943/myth-people-dont-scroll
Twitter’s Activity Stream: A Brand’s Dream, A Neurotic’s Nightmare
It's scary hearing some of this. I don't think some of these people use the internet, except to find reasons to censor the internet.
"Stealin' is stealin' and thieves are people we oughtta deal with!"

"If I had my way I'd lock all three of ya in a room and don't come out until you agree."

"As a consumer I can't tell who's a thief and who's not a thief. What can Google offer this bill that would allow Google to sign on to this bill?"

How is "Google signing on" the key issue here? Is Google the gatekeeper to basic constitutionality in legislation now?

"Google would publicly support a "follow the money" approach."
Thankfully, with Liquibase [1] and others like it, developers are starting to think about database change management.

I absolutely despise writing liquibase changesets, but I know how important they are.

[1] http://www.liquibase.org/
Why That Great Post Didn't Go Viral
You have way too much experience to consider an internship. Maybe you want to look at just a junior level position if you really feel that way about your web dev skills.

But an internship is definitely out. I think many employers would feel the same way, which might explain why you're still looking?
Google search on iPad is bad design
The TSA employees appear to buy into the "need." I wrote about some of my recent airport experiences here: http://jseliger.com/2011/08/02/lessons-in-language-from-the-... .

I've gotten lucky on more recent flights: Tucson and La Guardia still appear to be using basic metal detectors.
Have a source?

It seems to me that phrases like "from a usability standpoint", are becoming a generic stick to beat things with, and that there's a rush of the Hipsters to be the first to claim that that widely used service X is unusable for some user experience reason.

here's another example

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3226223
That's horrible logic. To carry it to absurdity: the flight gets you from A to B rather quickly - why all the delays while they, you know, put fuel and peanuts into the plane? They should just do away with that, it's not the flight, all you need is the flight.

Similarly: buy 1 get 1 free? Why not just give out the free one?

As absurd as the security theater is, it's part of the packaged deal that includes "the flight". The radiation from the machines may not be part of the physical act of moving you from A to B, but that doesn't mean they can just be removed.
Doesn't that just mean YouTube v. Viacom redux?
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What are your thoughts on using StackMob with Node.js through Heroku versus using Mongo? I like StackMob because it gives you nice interface, a RESTful API and stats.

~ Jason
"No contract exists between yourself and Livedrive and we are not able to assist further in any dispute you may have with BACKIFY.COM."

This is extremely unprofessional. Just because there is no legal relationship, that doesn't mean you should just cut everybody off.
10:45am mountain time: Ted Poe (R-TX): "This panel or this committee is made up of former prosecutors, defense lawyers and there are even two former judges here."

Consider the conflict of interest that exists when lawyers are making our laws. In this case if this bill passes there will be more laws and legal complexity and consequently more work to go around for everyone on the panel and all their previous and current firms and law school mates.

It's like asking a team of developers to get together and vote on whether a problem is best solved by writing more code or doing nothing.
Plus, he kept ignoring the part where she said Google would agree to it if it goes through a strong judicial process, which SOPA doesn't currently.
What I find interesting about this is the Wireless display technology that is going to be on this platform. I think they will push that concept hard. The idea that I can take my phone, sit down at my desk and have it running on the monitor, keyboard and mouse wirelessly ()and hopefully seemlessly) has been a big feature that I have wanted for a while.
Sure thing. If you put everyone in prison the streets will be safe.
How is that better than a test centered Q and A format - i.e. a Stack Exchange clone?
Seriously, I have the sickest feeling in the pit of my stomach. These congresspeople don't understand what's going on AT ALL, and the deck is already stacked against anti-SOPA activists. They don't seem to be even discussing the constitutionality of what they're suggesting.
The solution, of course, is to stifle our nation's genius so that nobody can steal it.

Nice Highlander metaphor, btw.
Is there really any confusion? It has constructed the typical strawmen to make for easy competitors.
> This sentence is incredibly useful for understanding why modelling a process hammered out by more than three people

Three? I'd go with one. Hell, I'd go with zero, if the one person is a banker or a lawmaker.
Indeed you can :) Anecdotally, I didn't notice that capacity until you mentioned it here, though.
Great post, reads like Steven Colbert's 'The Word'
Rare well-turned to Mr. Deutch: "Follow the money" leads to Google!

Google's response: "We spent a ton of time and money to create tools to allow rights holders to identify infringing content."
Hormesis is valid for exposures of less than 100 mSv.

The airport scanners are in the uSv range.

How is my comment not applicable?

"The Health Physics Society (HPS) reports that a person undergoing a backscatter scan receives approximately 0.05 μSv (or 0.005 mrems) of radiation; American Science and Engineering Inc. reports 0.09 μSv (0.009 mrems)."
> several of my IL reps

Is that a Chicago politics thing?
Subtraction by Distraction
Yes. Also incorrect in the article is

> Last week, Intel announced that it had added x86 optimizations to Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, but the text of the announcement and included quotes were vague and a bit contradictory given the open nature of Android development.

Android is open source (and Google deserves a lot of credit for that), but its development is not open at all. The article seems oddly unaware of that.
C3 was indeed, but payroll systems have been written in pretty much every language under the sun, I'm guessing chollida1 was talking generalities (and the mess described in the article is the kind of stuff you find in every payroll system)
Very few people would actually do that, destroying the usefulness of the data they are collecting.
Well unless something has recently changed, or will in the future, it usually means more power used, more heat produced, which aren't great things for a handheld device. Kind of like the Windows 8 tablet with a fan...