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I had a great experience of going through Counsyl's early-stage recruitment/interview process. They actually found me through a single post I made here on HN! The problems they gave me were very interesting and I got to Skype with the key engineering team members for a full day. I wish I could've moved to CA to take up on their offer but due to personal circumstances, I could only do remote. I don't get to say this often enough - I have the utmost respect for their founders, their vision, and the brilliant team they have gathered. If you are reading this and qualify for one of their job openings, I highly recommend you apply.
I don't think it is worth taking a below market wage offer from a startup just because you'll be "working on interesting/tough problems with very smart people, taking on huge amounts of responsibility, getting in way over your head every day, and generally beefing up your resume." You can do all that stuff at a bigger and more stable company.

I'm not saying one should never work at a startup. I'm just saying that startup offers shouldn't be judged any differently from any other job offer. There might be smart people at startup X, but there are plenty of smart people at Google or Facebook or what have you as well. Take the expected value of your options and your salary and compare it to any other offer. No special rules should ever be made for startups except in extremely rare circumstances. Investor connections that one might get from being an employee at a startup are often vastly overstated as well. If you want to be a founder yourself, you need to just go found something--working for another founder just isn't the optimal way to get there, especially with the extra time commitment that many startups involve, meaning you won't have time for your own side projects.

One of those rare exceptions I mentioned might be if you are asked to come on in a CTO or VP Engineering role for a new and emerging startup. This sort of experience can help you get executive positions later on at larger and more stable companies if that's the career path you want.

Edit: I want to clarify my final point a bit more. Titles matter a lot in early-stage startups. Almost by definition, VC-backed startups are going to undergo rapid expansion--and that means lots of hiring. And that means that unless you have a senior title from the beginning you face the real risk of simply having people hired over you rather than being promoted yourself. This is especially true if you are hired into a junior role in the beginning. All of this means you may not get your desired leadership role in the end at all if you're not careful.
The best way to fight fire is with water...
There's an ancient memory of secretaries getting rich from the Microsoft IPO and the legend of the Google chef. But unless the company gets to that size, a small slice of employee equity won't make you rich.

Here's my Fuck You Money Calculator:

http://fumoney.kludgecode.com/default.aspx
Not the point of the use-case. And obviously Tor could be added to the mix.
Indeed, as is the old trick of surreptitiously taking upskirt photos with a cameraphone. There are an infinite number of ways by which a bad actor can use Glass for nefarious ends - as is the case with almost any technology.

And that's the point I'm making - not that Glass is an infallible technology with no social downsides, but rather that its success isn't hinged on it. If it offers something valuable to its users and their friends, society as a whole will work around it - either by evolving the technology or evolving our notion of propriety. More likely, a bit of both.

We worked around security cameras (part of which involved new legislation regarding privacy effects thereof), we worked around Google Street View, and we'll work around this.
That's interesting. What causes the bus error?

Would

uint8_t foo[4]; *(uint32_t*)(&foo[0]) = 0;

also result in a bus error? Why?
> I don't think the OP meant to achieve this goal with law.

Read the quote: "The goal of getting women into tech should be to equalize the gender ratio of the people who actually _are_ in tech to that of the people who _want_ to be in tech."

How would that be achieved without a law? If a law weren't required, it would already have happened, since, logically and without obstacles, those who want to be in tech would be in tech.

The goal is really to remove obstacles that unfairly exclude some people from the field. I don't think that will happen all by itself. If if could, it would.
Here's a 1 liner port in ruby :

(l = ->(n,s=',o=0,c=0){
puts s and return if s.length == n || l.call(n,s+')',o,c+1) || o<n/2 && l.call(n,s+'(',o+1,c) if o>=c
}).call(6)
I have to agree with the grandparent. AMD's graphics drivers for Linux are a complete disaster. NVidia's are only a partial disaster. And sometimes that's the best you get.
I'd assume the sort of organization that would write in a chargeback=cancel policy would also work strenuously to avoid an actual test of that policy in the courts...
Absolutely this. The first thing that came to mind on seeing this was a site for a NGO I want to migrate away from Wordpress.

(although I wonder how well they'd monetize those; 100 emails is an enormous amount for really low traffic sites)
I've faced the same dilemma ever since I started working at Google (and hence, all my side projects have long since died - well, that and the rather draconian IP agreement restrictions). I think it's a natural outcome of working at a place with real users vs. a side project with no real users.

But I worry that this is just another form of putting all your eggs in one basket. Taken to its logical conclusion, this works great until the market shifts around you and suddenly your company's product doesn't have users either. And meanwhile, you haven't been keeping your skills sharp so you're at a severe disadvantage when you do have to switch projects.
Instead of a bunch of comments just saying "this is cool", it has some upvotes. When people leave specific feedback it's usually criticism.
Meetup is a really solid service. I've used it for many years now, and increasingly so. The activities/in-person focus makes it a much stronger and stickier social network than most.

Also, there's a critical-mass issue that explains why it's built up gradually. Lots of Meetup groups are purely "hookups" or "networking," but the really good ones tend to exist as long tail niches.
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this is an optimistic, above-average outcome

10% chance of the company selling for $10 million

This isn't just optimistic, this is a wild fever dream in a summer heat.
> Then I ran out of space... over 100GB of photos, where next?

Uhm... how about the 200 GB plan? Or the 400 GB plan. Or 1 TB for $49.99/month? Or you could contact sales about Google Cloud Storage: https://cloud.google.com/pricing/cloud-storage Or you could just buy S3 storage.

Actually, there are literally dozens (to maybe even hundreds) of alternatives for hosting static content for less money for more bandwidth.
The primary complaint is that, for the first time since the <embed> tag, W3C is creating an API that by design won't work on some systems.

If that isn't automatically bad to you on the face of it (it is to me, I want to be able to use random-OS-of-the-month as long as it has a good browser), you create a scenario where those on top stay on top by the grace of already being on top.
I think this article is quite narrow minded. If all you care about is base salary, sure you can go to Cisco and sit in there. But:

* You will have a specialized job at a big company.

* You will not be able to try new things and expand your skill set at a big company.

* You will never build anything big that defines you at a big company.

* There are very few "big" companies that work on exciting things. You will likely working on something boring. Yes, Conde Nast is boring.

Thus:

* No one is going to make you a VP. You've never proven yourself or taken any risks.

* There are many startups that have 'made it' and those risk takers who came on early, made a lot of cash.

* You will wonder for the rest of your life if that could have been you.

So if you feel that base salary and low risk is you, Cisco, Juniper, eBay, etc, all have your name on it. Please go there.
So founders don't pay themselves a salary?
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I encountered a similar issue awhile back with a Chrome-based terminal emulator, which this would also solve. Every time it outputs a line, it scrolls to the bottom, which forces a reflow; and if the scrollback is long, the reflows get slow, and performance ended up being really pathetic. The solution ended up being a hack to prevent the per-line reflows (Javascript scrolling and bottom-relative positioning), but this would be a better fix.
Not necessarily browser plugins. Could be browser or OS or hardware.. Each website has control over what DRM it accepts, which leads to a world where hardware eventually becomes the requirement.
Nothing says "We are out of ideas" quite as powerfully as a company that announces a big share repurchase program.

Do you believe there are untold, unimagined technologies waiting to be invented? Do you believe that the future will be radically different than the present? Then you should be investing, heavily, in the future.

Do you want to be ambushed by the new kid on the block? Do you want to be the overly-confident behemoth who is cut down by the upstart, just as IBM was cut down by Microsoft? Well, then don't invest in the future, just buy lots of your own shares.
Mediorce is a disease we can conquer...with robots...
> Should people just not be allowed to meet each other face to face?

In some cases, when making some kinds of selections, this is entirely reasonable. For example, in auditions for certain orchestras:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audition#Instrumentalists_2

> In many major orchestras, a cloth screen may be used at some stages of the audition process, to protect the audition panel from allegations of favouritism or sexism.

So they don't see the musician. They hear the music. Which is what the orchestra is about, right?
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Just to nitpick, the post you linked to by Ian Hickson does illustrate how DRM has been used to limit functionality, but both your post and his doesn't explain why "copyright protection" is a straw-man? I don't believe it is a fair argument to say that copyright protection and whatever functionality they enforce or prevent by use of DRM are mutually exclusive.

Although, I do see the point that some parties could hide behind the "We need DRM to protect our copyright\prevent piracy" flag and instead use it to lock-in consumers and build a walled-garden.
The 'Outside Investment' number here in the 'Optional' section actually only matters if (A) the equity is participating preferred [1] or (B) the company sells for less than the preference would normally receive on a pro-rata basis.

In 99.9% of the situations where a non-founder gets 'FU Money' (B) will not be the case, and (A) is increasingly rare.

[1] http://www.startupcompanylawyer.com/2007/06/15/what-is-the-d...
>But most importantly, I neither have a source of guilt in being white. And that was kind of what I was trying to convey.... That neither should he.

oh, well, sure. Guilt is... usually not very productive even when it was your fault, and collective guilt is out of fashion for good reason.

But there's a big difference between saying "I'm not responsible for the racism of others" (which, I think, is fine, even healthy for you.) and saying "I take pride in my race"

>But when someone is telling you that white people are the reason for all the wrongs in this world (and they need to make things right), or that you should be ashamed of your white-privilege, I provide another perspective.

Eh, I am not really getting this feeling that you seem to have that people blame me for the world's problems 'cause I'm white, or even that they begrudge me the advantages that could have had something to do with my race. (It's never 100% clear-cut) I mean, I didn't go to school, and I haven't worked for the government since I was sixteen or seventeen, so maybe that's where you see it, but I'm just not seeing a lot of this white-hate, you know?

To me? the important part of being aware of racism is making more rational choices; we've all got nasty little brain bugs that, if left unexamined, will cause our "gut" to make sub-optimal decisions. And it's not only about race; that's what the article was about, for most of us now, there are in-groups that resonate far more strongly than ethnicity.
This might have been true in the past, but companies like Google and Facebook are now run like a conglomeration of small startups--in part to retain talent. Google's 20 percent time is a good example.
I think Google has a checklist of Chromebook deficiencies and they are just checking Netflix off by doing this. That it will ultimately make it a little easier to do things like you suggest is just an added bonus.
If the theory is in-group favoritism, then the disparity is self-perpetuating: if one group has more income it presumably has more favor to give disproportionately within the group, and vice versa.

I'm guessing it's mostly a black-white thing though, for most other US minorities I would be surprised if the effects weren't dominated by the differences on quantity and wealth of immigrants.
I'm curious what people think the market is for this type of programming book, the "how-to guide". Is there any place for it post-google?
This is such a classic HN reply to a failed launch, I feel like it needs to be an option on the menu bar to save us all time.

link | parent | flag | you-suck-but-good-luck
I know it's very un-hacker news like to make such a comment, but...inb4 michaelochurch comment :)
Usually they do. The founder that forgoes a salary is a myth.
Neat idea. I think reliability is an important feature to call out on the landing page. If I'm a business owner that depends on this service as a funnel for new clients, for instance, I would want guarantees regarding uptime and reliability.
Huh, that's interesting. Did you ever write up and share what you found? I'd like to read it.
> It's a valid operation regardless of whether a standards body says it's not.

All the world's a VAX, sure. Don't mind the next generation of hardware coming down the pike and the next wave of compiler optimizations.

http://catb.org/jargon/html/V/vaxocentrism.html
Most news items, real or fake, that suggest social instability, provoke sell-offs because commerce and the value of businesses decline in uncertain times.

Also there's the fact that some market players spend their time trying to anticipate what other people are thinking. And if the consensus is that the average investor is going to panic and sell, then those market monitors will try to exploit mass psychology by selling in advance.

> ... when the news was only that Obama got hurt ...

The fake story (and it was totally fake) was that there had been an attack on the White House and the the president was injured. Frankly, I can't think of a more alarming news story.
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Allow me to respectfully disagree.

Everyone's experience is different, and I don't know what yours is, but I have had several jobs at BIG companies that defy your rules.

I have designed and developed several big multi-million dollar systems at enterprise scale. I am always able to try new things and expand my skills. Almost every company works on "exciting things" (although maybe you define exciting as a web-based project management system and I define exciting as highly-configurable e-commerce platform).

This comment is quite narrow minded, actually. Lots of companies, of various sizes, offer exciting and interesting projects with lots of freedom and control to the individual. If yours doesn't, keep looking.
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I would guess you've been through it many times or are lucky enough to have a great intuition with this. I've personally not been so lucky.

I can say that in my experience reading Four Steps or The Lean Startup and actually doing a startup are completely different things. I thought I had the whole lean startup thing down, but I've messed up so many times. And it's not a case of "now I've learned my lesson" either. I've had great experiences with sticking to lean, and then afterwards I've slipped up again. For me it seems to be a case of waves of being good, and not so good. Over time I'm definitely getting better.
I suppose that is the crux of the issue. If the orchestra is just about the music, why not listen to a recording instead? The people performing the music are just as much a part of the performance as the music itself.
Exactly. And the example given (cron) was designed with the Unix-mentality of writing a program that does one thing really well and does it without breaking. Yeah, sure, some may argue that cron is fairly complicated, but it doesn't suffer from the maintainability needs of a very complex piece of software like some enterprise systems.
Goes against the psychological motivations of people and how they respond to rewards. Why not pay people for more effort? When you don't (say with a union) you end up with the postal system.

I don't have a problem with tying compensation to performance, but I do question the alignment of interests. When every salesperson has this "it's me or them, every man for himself" mentality, I doubt that's best for everyone in the long-run. A commission heavy structure also seems like it will encourage short-term thinking - that is, the classic "get the sale at any cost, no matter what downstream damage ti does" mentality. Now maybe the commission based structure can be tweaked to account for that... I'm just saying that I think there may be room for some new models here.

Anyway, if you do multiple levels of bonuses, tied to the performance of the company as a whole, you are still hooking compensation to performance, albeit with a bit of indirection.

Also, there has been plenty of psychology research that suggest that not all people are motivated mainly by extrinsic rewards (ie, money). Maybe compensating sales-people differently just means hiring a different kind of sales-person? Just food for thought...
"I think we should relax about the idea that most people post inaccurate facts when they're cheering science.
What they're doing is cheering for the idea of science."

This is how What the Bleep, Dr. Oz, and all manner of pseudoscience subverts actual science.

Fairweather friends like that make it more difficult because they're repeating a meme or sort of cargo cult understanding of how reality works.
However, being an employee in an early stage startup is a great way to jumpstart your career, whether you have entrepreneurial aspirations or not. In an early stage startup you are going to be rubbing noses with investors, working on interesting/tough problems with very smart people, taking on huge amounts of responsibility, getting in way over your head every day, and generally beefing up your resume.

Early stage engineers do not usually work on interesting problems at a startup. You are hired to do the uninteresting stuff. A startup may or may not beef up your resume. It's still easier to get hired if you have Apple or Google or Facebook on your resume than a failed startup. You generally do not rub noses with investors, but you might be invited to an informal lunch if the company is still very small. You do take on a lot of responsibility and get in over your head. It's a good jumpstart to a career if you can't get a job at Google or Facebook or Palantir or Apple or Goldman Sachs.
I applied and went through a very enjoyable three interviews with the CEO and two others. They seemed really interested in me and yet they never got back to me.
You're right they do, but the concept of "market value" salary is laughable until after Series A at least.
systemd is the way to go. Don't waste time debugging someone's half-baked pile of {shell,Perl,Python} scripts
It's a sad day for education. I'm a Cooper alum and have been following this fiasco for quite some time. Feel free to ask me any questions you may have and I'll do my best to answer them.
And there's no benefit to whining (and I do characterize it thus) about what other people find interesting on HN. If you think it sucks, flag it. Obviously not many people thought it sucked.
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I just downloaded the app today and it has already been of use to me. I invited a couple of friends to download it since they owed me money and they paid me back without even having to ask!

You should charge for this app, I think people would pay for it if they knew what it really does.
It'd be a good idea to have a 'cancel' button on the pop-up.
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Apple intentionally set up a management bottleneck where the CEO tracks all product development pretty closely to ensure everything is "insanely great". The downside is that they can only develop a few products at a time. At least they're now admitting that they'll never have time to spend the money so they might as well pay it out.
Hadn't ever heard it called "controlled crying" before. It looks like this is also called "self-soothing".

From reading the first few articles on a google search of the topic, this looks very similar in nature to the Baby-wise technique of establishing a routine which will cause the child to settle into a nighttime routine and let them sleep through the night.

Why wait until the child is 6 months old? I didn't see any reasons given on the (admittedly few) articles I read. Children crave routine, and ISTM that the best time to establish one is as soon as the parents are ready for it.
People don't know any better.

Even today I have people asking me 'how to install OpenOffice on Fedora'. They complain how the yum commands they found on a 5 year old guide do not work anymore. Then they go and search for an OpenOffice RPM, which they do find, and then complain how bad Linux system is.

Granted that office suites are generally end-user whereas databases are developers, I can't see my college's system admin installing MariaDB the same way I can't see my college teaching MongoDB.
"Atheistic religiosity is still religiosity"

A lack of belief in God is not a belief in a God. Your example is ignorant.
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Sure, but a lot of projects LIKE this have an open source project for those people NOT in the enterprise, and who probably won't be running more than 8-24 cores or so.

On a related note, changing the amount of RAM seems to only change the amount of RAM, not any of the other numbers. I guess that's their point, but I would rather they just SAY that than make me try a bunch of options to show that RAM doesn't matter. :|
No "employee" is ever ever ever going to get 10% of the company in options. If you are employee #10, you probably get 0.01% of your $10MM example, which works out to $1,000 if it ever cashes out assuming no dilution through investor rounds.