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I'll believe it when I see it. There is an uproar because the cash portion of bonuses are being capped at "just" $125,000 a year. Presumably, that is in addition to the regular salary, and excluding stock bonuses, which now make up about 75% of bonuses. So a $500,000 a year combined cash and stock bonus will not be unheard of. That's a total compensation package of $600,000 - $700,000 a year.

YC founders probably have the highest chances of success as startup founders, given YCs connections and alumni network. What percentage of founders make over $600,000 a year in total compensation, once exits are added back in, and averaged over the years the founder works on the company? What percentage makes under $125,000 a year? What percentage of engineers that aren't founders or within the first five employees make over $300,000 a year? The money is in Silicon Valley, Google's 2011 net income was $299,874/employee [1], but the vast majority of engineers aren't going to be the ones to get it.

How many finance people are actually going to give up the higher pay, lower cost of living, shorter hours, and structure of Wall St for Silicon Valley? Have a bad year on Wall St, make a Silicon Valley engineering salary, have a bad year as a start-up founder, make nothing and go bankrupt.

[1] Goldman Sachs 2011 net income was $162,913 per employee. Average pay was $367,057. It's harder to get data on Google, but it looks like the mid-career median salary is $141,000.
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"And as the world becomes deleveraged, money has been pouring out.
In October 2011 alone, hedge funds saw $9 billion go out the door."

"Over 1,000 funds have closed in the past year and a half."

I guess that means the "VC bubble" is only going to grow over the next few years, huh?
i believe that might be the piggyback SSL add-on for heroku. with an improper SSL certificate implementation, that's bound to happen in 50%-75% of browsers
Believe it or not, but you told her about the funding yourself.
Actually, the article has plenty of context for its intended audience. It specifies that it's state funding, lists the programs being cut, and notes the primary concern of advocates: equal access.

The publication is called "Library Journal". It's not intended for the general public, it's intended for librarians and others concerned with the operation of libraries. That audience will have no trouble understanding the article.
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This is a flat-out rip off. All three of those tools can plug into any Rails app pretty easily ...

It's true that these are all relatively easy to integrate, but why hate on fellow hackers for packaging and selling their solution?

If you really want to make the point that it's a ripoff, do the work to replicate it as a boilerplate project and release it for free.
I also don't believe in psychics, but I do think that someone skilled in this kind of intuitive stuff can really help you think about your situation from the outside. I mean, that's what psychotherapists do, and many are very good at it. I think it would be fair to be critical of the style of astrologers as compared to a good therapist, but like you, I think that sometimes the kind of serendipitous input from such a source can be very interesting.
I have every page of Surely You're Joking memorized.

Bazinga.
The government wants to raise taxes.
(We are already the highest taxed state.)
To soften up the voters they will threaten to cut things that are popular.
Beaches, Parks, libraries, police, fire.. release the prisoners etc etc..
I say good go ahead... its scare tactics. Even if they do cut these things then maybe enough people will notice and throw them out.
They recently announced cutting funding to animal shelters, so strays will be killed in a 72 hours.

In other news... it was recently revealed that parking lot attendants at the Dept Of Water earn $74,000 per year.
LA city has a $1M yacht (they kept hidden). They used $500K in obama 'stimulus money' to install new engines.

Starve the beast. No more money. Wake-up voters - dont be fooled.
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You're right, and I was not intending to criticize the article as such, but rather the submission. It is relevant, important news to librarians, and contained all the context it needed.

But I doubt one person in 100 who saw it on Hacker News had that context. And in particular, I suspect the people commenting on the article in apocalyptic terms do not have that context. But it was a perfectly fine article. :)
Not really. There is a very very big grey area in which images are "up for interpretation".

You're thinking in black/white terms; unfortunately it is not so simple.
I think that its concerning that you've spent this much effort into thinking about shares. The fact that you're second-guessing his contribution or value means something very bad will happen between the two of you. It also means you think you don't need him - if so, then don't partner up. If you truly wanted him as a co-founder, how could you dismiss him over 10-15% of a currently valueless startup?

Cofounding a team shouldn't be a dissection of options. It should be obvious that you haven't found the right person.
Pretty cool, and I think you're getting in on a quickly growing field -- Open data. IMO, the key to success for your site would be a great API and some interesting tools that use it (e.g. Visualization tools)
The more interdependent the world gets, the harder it will be for any one nation to go rogue. That is a good thing. However, if, instead of a cyclical graph, we wind up with a tree, things could get very ugly (but don't have to).

The US likes to think of itself as the root of the tree, and maybe it even was for part of the 20th century (the US was central to a lot of manufacturing and design), but those days seem to be over now. As a citizen of the US, I find that scary, but only because I think many people in the US will fight tooth and nail to try to keep being the root.
I recommend you check out Faust, if you haven't already.

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It's an applicative language created especially for audio DSP. It seems to bridge the gap you describe by providing dataflow combinators and a graphical representation for programs.
Doesn't ycombinator still store passwords in plain text?

Or has that been fixed now?
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First, it's quite simple to replace Django's templating engine with Jinja. And second, Django's ORM isn't quite the equivalent of SQLAlchemy; the latter is supposed to be a true universal ORM, while the former is more limited, but focusing on the most important parts for a Web app.
it really is. I only hope that eventually these credits will be recognized by employers.
would they be be willing to hire someone who completes an entire curriculum successfully through MITx over someone who took a similar education at Big State U?
Yes, but as noted in the post mvzink linked, you can't cut it to the point that an exhaustive search is feasible.
This way you can use the exact same keywords in every browser. It can be confusing if you use someone else's computer or several browsers on your own machine.
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Demand mixed with a librarian's sense of worth/taste is one approach. There are many others. And libraries do have to choose due to shelf space and publisher agreements.

My hackles rise whenever I hear someone tell me what's worthwhile and what's not. But I do recognize practical necessity. I don't believe there's anything magical about the book/text format over electronic/other formats, other than "that's how it's been" up until recently.

I would be pleased to see "Fart Proudly" in any library's holdings, regardless of format.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fart_Proudly
The only reason for me to use the DuckDuckGo is the privacy. I am a little fed up of feeding my search patterns to google. And until they will do the same thing, I will use them as 95% of the searches are ok even with Bing, who's behind them.
Actually this is the only reason.
Is this one-on-one or are more connections possible?
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You should look into http://www.freshbooks.com/ I use this for my invoicing needs, and they do offer to send paper invoice as you describe. They have awesome customer service and the people behind the company are great too, I think they send a cake to a randomly selected new subscriber every month.
I would try seeing if you can wrap one into an independent study.

At my local university a few grad students are trying this model: Everyone in a small group is taking either nlp-class,ml-class,or pgm-class. We give the others in the group an overview of what we're learning. To make this worthy of grad credits we're also reading and presenting papers during the semester, and each coming up with a project based on the material which should aim to yield publishable results.

It's a little unfortunate that coursera is taking their time right now, but so far it looks to be promising, and hopefully we'll get a few paper out of it in the end.
It is not just violating privacy. It is unauthorized access to a computer system, aka malware, aka hacking/cracking.
If you did that to Path it would be a felony and you would go to jail. Why is it not a felony in the other direction?
Can startups solve this problem somehow? After all, there is a market need for libraries, it just might not be obvious since it's somewhat hidden by the taxation model.

What would a free-market public library look like? And I'm not thinking McDonald's capitalism here, I'm thinking more like Google capitalism. What would the Gmail of public libraries be like?

The way I see it public libraries offer three things: physical books, physical locations, curators of content. So how could this be done in a different, startup-y way?

Physical books: maybe something involving print-on-demand technologies?

Physical locations: maybe something that piggybacks on existing physical locations?

Curators of content: I dunno, crowdsourced mobile/local/social librarians?

I am only half-kidding with this comment...
We actually pay taxes comparable to other states (California is 23rd in tax revenue per capita), but have our taxes distributed much differently. Things we pay higher taxes on: 14th in revenue per capita deriving from property taxes, 12th in income taxes per capita, 21st in sales tax per capita, 5th in corporate tax revenue per capita, 4th in estate taxes per capita. Things we bring in less revenue from: 35th in lottery revenue per capita, 32nd in cigarette tax rate, 41st in excise taxes per capita.
I know it sounds silly, and I joked about it for a while before trying it. I put HN, reddit, and news.google.com in my hosts file pointing to localhost. The extra few seconds it would take me to modify that file, and the knowledge that I was breaking something I explicitly put up for my own good, keeps me from visiting these sites.

On the other hand, I've learned a lot of new distracting sites this way :(
The act of sharing also requires you to evaluate what you know . It is through the act of teaching that we can be more certain that we have truly learnt. I myself often think that I know something, but when I try to explain it to someone I often find nuances that I hadn't considered yet.

I don't think Leo is talking about giving the keynote adress at some GCC symposium but rather sharing with the intent of gathering feedback as to gain further insight into the subject.

It's not so much about training someone as it is about growing knowledge together.
From what I got, Wall St./NYC has a similar or higher cost of living and very insane hours even at large finance firms for at least for the first 5 years. 14 hour days are very common.
> First, it's quite simple to replace Django's templating engine with Jinja.

Yes, it is. But most of the applications are tightly coupled with Django's ORM(auth, for eg, which I use very frequently), and in the end, I end up maintaining two types of templates which I don't like.

> And second, Django's ORM isn't quite the equivalent of SQLAlchemy;

No, it isn't. But SQLAlchemy does what django's orm does, and then some.

I would prefer a compartmentalized model, where a web framework doesn't implement templating or ORM, provided a robust solution exists. The templating engine and ORM should be independent libs, and the web framework should glue them together, possibly adding a declarative layer above them(render_to_response, declarative ORM etc).
In general, yes you are right, but NYT headlines are not Standard Headline English. They are bizarro convoluted long-winded show-off try-to-look-clever-by-overcomplicating English.
I am looking forward to the labs. How are they going to give us remote students the much needed hands on experience? Anant Agarwal is an exceptionally good teacher as can be seen from the 6.002 ocw videos. Lots of energy and enthusiasm! This is wonderful!
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That's true, but for 15%-20% of the population, libraries are more or less the only place where they can access the internet. Considering how many transactions are now carried out online, providing cheap/free internet access is actually a pretty good idea (and saves money overall when the paperwork savings from their interactions with government agencies are taken into account).
Good question. Here in India this is exactly how it is done. (I'm told a few public libraries do exist, but I've never seen one.)

Given that the private sector does seem fully capable of providing libraries to those who want them, why do we subsidize them?
Because this access is authorized? I would argue that the presence of an API (whose purpose is to provide access to the data they consumed) constitutes "authorized" access. The app doesn't intrude or circumvent the privacy protections of iOS.

On the other hand, if an app was able to forcibly allow itself access to Location Services and ignore the iOS setting, I would argue that is unauthorized.

Granted, I have absolutely no idea what the context of unauthorized is from a purely legal standpoint.
It's still pretty bad for mailing list archives. Archiveorange, ugh. Markmail, nabble (the one that is actually decent), the fact that I can name these sites from memory proves how truly badly deeply Google has let these duplicate content sites infect results.
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You know you can turn that off, right?
I just looked it up, and you are correct about the cost of living. Manhattan seems to be about 38% higher than San Francisco.
Am I the only person who considers use of the word "smart" as a leading indicator of the absence of intelligence? The term is so vague as to be utterly meaningless, and is usually a signal that we're really talking about someone's insecurities, their feelings of inadequacy, or their passive-aggressive megalomania. /psychobabble
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What would a free-market public library look like?

In India, it's a physical library just like the ones in the US.

You sign up as a member and pay a deposit. You also pay a per-book reading fee, as well as late fees if you don't bring the book back. If you fail to return the book you lose your deposit.
I'm really excited for this -- I think MITx will continue where Stanford left off. Is this the disruption that will finally open a high-quality, reputable, higher education for the masses? It's going to be awesome to be a part of history with this course. :)
How does instapaper strip down articles?
How does instapaper and apple reader strip down articles? I mean any other tool I use like it produces no where near as beautiful results as instapaper.
The idea is cool, actually I had one like this about 10 years ago but didn't have the guts to launch it :)

I got some criticism towards the GUI (although you took the good direction to keep it simple). I hate the endless scroll. Endless scrolls are cool for fooling around browsing pics, etc. not for browsing organized data - it just doesn't make sense in this context. Boxes desperately need padding, everything is too cluttered. Try sharpening the color scheme and use a cool sans-serif font from google webfonts, it'll make it visually more appealing.

The name is great.

What's the tech behind it? Some schemaless db I suppose? Data sources - Wiki lists or you entered the 'fake it till you make it' batch by hand?

It needs an API, without a dead-simple API it won't bring enough additional value to f.ex. browsing wikipedia lists (the data is already there), IMO.

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The QR should be a link to the app in whatever store. One click to the app's install page is quicker than every other app store interface out there.

If there is a QR everywhere where someone is going "hey, i tried this and it was pretty good for X and Y," there could be a lot more synergy between magazines and billboards and the internet than it is now where everybody thinks it's just some weird Korean thing. Even Microsoft detects this and creates their own home-grown remake in case having an American, IP-encumbered icon was the barrier to adoption, which it apparently wasn't. It's a bummer, man.
This reminds me of the recent book review on the Economist.

http://www.economist.com/node/21545983

To quote one passage:
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The version of news.arc last shipped from arclanguage.org hashes the passwords (I'm not sure what exactly it uses), and that's very old. pg and rtm might've changed it since. I highly doubt that HN ever stored passwords plain text, especially considering who rtm is.
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I would keep doing what I already do. I care deeply for the organization I work for, and I have many friends there. But I would engage only in what seems fun and meaningful, and avoid all things that I don't care about. Hey, I seems so fun I would do it for free :)
A lot of people "would rather pay a few cents than...", but who "would rather create an account, verify their email address, get out their credit card, enter their payment information, and confirm a $0.05 payment than..."?

Maybe the best form of protest would be to come up with a one-click way to pay a few cents for something. As far as I know, Flattr is about the only thing in that space.
Key part: "to any web app". You'll need some kind of OAuth provider on top so people can just plug it in right next to their Google, Twitter or Facebook providers.
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I'm certainly no expert, but the free *Tube sites I've seen are pretty ghetto. Maybe it's better once you start paying, but for instance I'm always seeing stuff I'd rather not in the listings for whatever category. It might be like dating sites, though, where the business model is to keep you on the site irrespective of why you're there, so there's no incentive to make things easy to find.
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