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It is all about negotiation, but there are 2 rules of thumb:
1. Don't break 6 digits, stay below $100k. Anything more is a "good" salary where you might not be hungry enough -- or at least this is the perception.
2. Make sure you pay yourself enough that you can live frugally and not worry about money -- the last thing a VC wants to see is a founder waiting tables at night

Every investment is case-by-case, and the less you can pay yourself, the better. My understanding (and I only have a few datapoints) is that somewhere between $60-90k annually is a fine salary for a founder. There are caveats of course, but I think these are numbers that most VCs would not balk at.

In my experience with VC, though, if you are not the hypothetical scammer we have been talking about here and you have the right investors, it should be a conversation you can have. "You: I think I need $75k a year to be effective, is that ridiculous? VC: No. Sounds good to me. You: Okay!"

Note: this is for founders. It is totally different for employees.
I see what you mean but I doubt a dog would be able to realize any of that.
I wouldn't recommend it if I haven't used it.

Sure, the UI is ugly and it blocks on DB ops, but it works. Crashes I haven't had much of tbh
I took 5 months off to get used to this country, travel and finish some personal projects I had in my mind since long ago.

In hindsight, I hope you see how this was a terrible idea. For years, there have been article after article about how the only people able to find work are the people that are currently working.

You appear to have chosen to create a 5 month gap in your work history. Can you imagine how this looks to an employer? I instantly think of someone who is lazy and is only willing to put the work in to find a job when they absolutely have to. It makes me think you'll wait until the last minute for everything.

My advice is to find a way to explain what you were doing during those 5 months that doesn't come across so negatively. If you were working on side projects, tell them you were working for "[YourName] Consulting" and thought you'd try your hand at freelance consulting. Then you decided that it wasn't for you.

Best of luck.
can't navigate with arrow keys, spacebar, pageup/down. have to roll mouse? or click the little arrows on edge of page. umm, wtf? no thx? bad website.
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Came here to say the exact same thing; thanks for saying it better than I ever could.

I don't get the basic income thing - pay people to not work? What?

Where's the money come from? How to you prevent massive inflation and a massive decrease in economic output as people quit their jobs? Who decides who gets this basic income?

This all reminds me of a south park episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO5sxLapAts
Angels and psychics.

God says...

Virtual-Notary.Org hereby notes that on
Date: Monday September 09, 2013 13:44.28 EDT (UTC-0400)

a random drawing in the range [1, 100000], inclusive, based on
a hardware source of true randomness, yielded the following decision.

Random Value: 63059

-----

14:15 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that
prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and
famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those
prophets be consumed.

14:16 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the
streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they
shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor
their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.

14:17 Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run
down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin
daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very
grievous blow.

14:18 If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the
sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick
with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a
land that they know not.

14:19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why
hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for
peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold
trouble! 14:20 We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the
iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.

----

Dud.

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how can one tell that it is not deflected

We can't easily detect small amounts of deflection in distant parts of the universe because, as you say, we usually have nothing to compare our observations to. (In the case of light being deflected by the Sun's gravity, we can compare how a certain part of the sky looks--i.e., a certain particular grouping of stars--when the Sun is in that part of the sky, vs. when it isn't, and measure the deflection that way. But for light deflection in distant parts of the universe, there's no easy way to do that.)

However, the presence of large amounts of deflection would show up easily: we would frequently see multiple images of the same objects. In fact we only see such multiple images rarely, which indicates that there aren't any regions of large light deflection in our universe.

if for instance the heliosphere had some unknown refractive properties, how could we discover it

The same way we discovered that the Sun's gravity bends light. See above.
Seems like you don't see as many blog posts or thought pieces about it as opposed to other cultural issues in the industry, like gender imbalances or "startup culture" minutiae.
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Are there any fonts designed specifically for Retina displays yet? Or does that just imply 'no font smoothing and large sizes'?
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Yeah, somebody needs to lock this criminal Joshua Stewart up. Maybe he can share a cell with weev.
Does anyone know if they'll be keeping the name or re-branding it as the parent product?
Science Shows How Reddit Users Are Like Sheep
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt is an amazing book, and there's a free PDF available: http://mises.org/books/economics_in_one_lesson_hazlitt.pdf
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While I agree with your original comments, not sure I agree with this. It's the #2 story on HN because HN readers upvoted it that way, no "fault" of this guy. And being on HN, I think it is the perfect forum for feedback, the guy even states criticism is welcome, it's as much a learning process for him too.
Taxes? There doesn't seem to be a very high correlation between how many of these social programs a country implements and how heavily the state involves itself in businesses.

I'm not even arguing that these projects are good ideas, just that they're fundamentally from an entirely different political and economic philosophy than the actual system that existed in the Soviet Union.
we can measure the relative position of spectral features

That will only tell us about redshift/blueshift; it won't tell us anything about what path the light took to get to us.
Quite often use Monaco myself, it has a very similar look to Ubuntu Mono but less seems less 'rigid'

Anonymous Pro is another excellent choice, very crisp.
It's very 'square', it just doesn't look right to me. Not sure if if it's the spacing or if it's just too 'wide'.
A considerable amount of macroeconomics is constructing airtight justifications for what you would like to be true, without any fear that your theories will ever be subjected to rigorous testing. Hence the situation you describe.
Yeah. I'm really surprised he thinks cheap labor is more important than keeping the government from spying on his deals and all of his companies' deals.
Even still, that's not a lesson being shared. That's just a "hey, a setback happened, but at least I'll be fine." It's a compelling situation left somewhat unexamined.

I'm sure Ernie will be fine; he's talented and hardworking. But this particular scenario was a strange one, and I'd have loved to get more insight into what he felt about it all. I understand if he doesn't feel comfortable disclosing some of the particulars -- but I'd have loved to have seen some deeper/lengthier mining for wisdom.

You don't hear everyday about a guy who gets hired into a new job, then the company closes down 6 weeks into it. That's a fascinating opportunity for insight. I just wish it were explored a bit further before leaping into the "here's what I want from my next job" section. For example: how will what he's learned here apply to what he finds next? What if he gets all of his desired characteristics in the next job, but something similar happens? Etc.
As someone who manage people in the software world, who created his business from zero coding himself alone for years, I disagree.

I had to fight a lot indifference when I started, now it is the opposite problem, when I say something to people in my team, some of them smarter than me they believe it too much, like I was God or something. The same happens with your product, people trust your reputation.

"Jerk" is such a victim mentality word, in my opinion, when you want to create something that is new, people can't see it like you do. It is as simple as that. Now when you make it and success everybody says that from the first day they believed in you(not true) and after you make some repeated successes they continue not seeing it but they trust you.

The fact is that talking is cheap, and some new developer has no reputation at all, so you will have to prove with code that you can walk your talk.
I believe the key to this issue is to have more middle-class to increase the needs for a certain quality service. We all know good service is more than just fulfilled the basic needs. To make it more clear, there has to be more people with middle class consuming capability. We are hitting a bottleneck. If it cannot be raised in a certain period, bad things could happen. Human society has its own way to force the rebalance. However, it's quite ugly. And I wish we can avoid this.
"... considers us meaningless sheep to be herded at will."

For a minute I thought Arrington was referring to his previous employer, one of the players in the domain name racket, specifically the people who run Pool.com. If ever there was a "service" who viewed users as "zombies", they are it.

Then there's all the herding that TC does, funnelling its readers toward "preferred" money raisers. TC has taken the conflicts of interest inherent in the typical tech media "puff piece" to a new level altogether. If anything needs to be disrupted, it is TC's manipulation of "news".

It's really difficult to take this guy seriously if you know anything about his background. But I guess that excludes most of us "zombies". TC is a pillar of herdlike "thinking".
Operations like TC/UC and the ones Arrington criticizes in the "article" share more in common than he may want to admit. Both rely on brainless, herdlike behavior in order to carry out their business plan. If anyone is going to effect a change upon the status quo, it must be users. But the SV that Arrington feeds on has no incentive to educate users to become independent thinkers. Herds are easier to manipulate and, you guessed it, easier to monitor. And Arrington himself is the furthest from an independent thinker I can imagine. He is a parrot.
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Storify is a pretty great tool but lots of other 'pretty great tools' exist in the same space - we just started using http://vip.wordpress.com/2013/08/28/building-media-explorer/ on our sites, which is awesome and very extensible.
Being a cook isn't (necessarily) unskilled labor. Neither is being a hairdresser, a personal shopper, a sommelier, or a yoga instructor.

You can make a very respectable income today in the U.S. at any of those jobs if you're sufficiently skilled. Certainly there are many more people doing those jobs today than there were a hundred years ago. And frankly, many of them would probably much rather be doing such a "personal service" job over their career options of decades ago.

And that's not counting plumbers, electricians, carpenters... Many of whom find it much easier to develop recurring revenue streams than your typical YC startup!

Automation is great. It helps most of those people. Just think about how much your local yoga studio or coffee shop relies on modern PoS systems for payment processing and customer tracking, the web and social media for marketing, Amazon-class logistics for supplies...

I just don't see things in such negative terms. I also don't think that today's rates of unemployment were somehow inevitable. We automated like mad in the '90's too (arguably even more dramatically than we are doing so today), and yet unemployment dropped, incomes rose and labor markets were tight from top to bottom. What's different today?
What about weighted by population density?
No idea, what does it have to do with the question at hand here?

Maybe car turnover (switching to safer cars) acts stronger than flawed government policy.
I tend to agree with the article... while people can be mean anywhere, seems like there's a certain confluence of characteristics and circumstances that allows "jerks" to have an outsize place in the tech industry.

But I suppose to look on the bright side, I'd rather have somebody be a jerk to my face, even if it is subtle and insidious, than have them pretend to be my buddy and then stab me in the back.

I'll take being surrounded by jerks over trying to navigate some of the intricately constructed, intensely political environments that are common in the business world.
Backbone is not enough
is this like phantomjs fully headless?
The key part is "30 years"....
I've been using gohufont for most of this year, and it looks better on my system than it does on that website.
Wonderful write up. I was literally thinking about this very topic when I clicked on hacker news today. I had been reading that article where Google claims to be beefing up encryption to fight the NSA. It could just be a PR move on Google's part and they are totally compliant behind the scenes or they could be openly battling against the U.S. govt. like they are a hacker group. Either way, it is unsettling. Kudos to this author, I believe he is seeing things clearly.
Truth, but they did a good job convincing people of the present value of their current assets (users) and future revenue. In B2C, users are value, even if they are not revenue. It is still a challenge to monetize, but it is easier to think about monetizing users when you have them than when you don't.

Instagram is a bit of a special case, I think. Facebook was about to IPO and had no real mobile presence. The risk that they faced that they might not be able to capture mobile market share was in their S-1 and every 10-K and 10-Q since they went public. Mobile was a big deal, and Mark knew it. If you look at how it went down, it was largely that Mark just went in and bought them, because he knew he needed to. This is not a repeatable business model.
Warby Parker's value proposition isn't in a custom product, it's in having a product free of massive markup. Not sure where you are see the relationship between the two.
I think the document manager [1] covers this use-case rather well. Any app can register with the OS as being able to open a certain type of file. Then it's just a couple lines to show the user an "Open in..." prompt for a file. This is what Dropbox, Mail, and GDrive do and I think we're going to see a lot more of it in the future.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/FileMa...
No, but it saves a lot of time in court if the law is what you want in the first place.
>>>> Would it then not make sense for people working poor jobs to quit and just get the guaranteed basic income along with all their free time?

In some states, this is evidence this is already happening:
http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/08/10/shocking-fox-news-repor...

Some facts to support your question:

"As of the latest data released on September 6, 2013, the total is 47.76 million, which is more than the entire populations of many large nations."
source: http://www.trivisonno.com/food-stamps-charts

Compared to when Clinton was in office:
“Caseloads declined by 54 percent. Sixty percent of mothers who left welfare found work, far surpassing predictions of experts,” President Clinton wrote in a 2006 op-ed in the New York Times. “Child poverty dropped to 16.2 percent in 2000, the lowest rate since 1979, and in 2000, the percentage of Americans on welfare reached its lowest level in four decades.”
source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/18/w...
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Actually OC's sentence is a quote from this paper http://www.che.ksu.edu/~vberry/papers/Berry-NanoLetters-grap...
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I feel extremely lucky that I've never had to deal with developers like that. Of course, I just assume everyone is smarter than I am [a pretty safe assumption usually!]. I try not to get to attached "my way" and I genuinely care about and consider my colleagues viewpoints. Call it "ego-less programming" if you will. I generally work in situations where my teammates have complementary skill sets so perhaps that lack of overlap helps reduce potential conflicts.

I did have a bad boss once at my first programming job - back in 1987...
I'm a Ricty user, but Hermit looks really good, nice job!
Also, loved that jellybean colorscheme.
I'm not sure I'd care to code with this: http://i.imgur.com/Pu4FHi4.png

I like to code with about a 9 point font, in order to maximize the amount of code per screen without going too far into the illegible. At that size, the proportions of even a single pixel are large enough to make any anti-aliasing annoying. You lose the sharp contrast that every good font needs to have along its edges.

Bitmap fonts are my favorites.
Ooh, very nice. I like bitmap fonts too, but I use Terminus and GNU Unifont (fallback for glyphs not in Terminus) myself.
Then they are definitely not the answer to what we need. Sadly, fear drives elections and tech doesn't scare anyone.
The upper-case S looks like it is about to topple forwards.
way to GO.
Damn it, I thought it was freeware. That throws a monkey wrench in there...
But these tests still require large blood samples, and they have to go back to the lab to be tested, right? So you can't just walk into the drugstore, get tested, and walk out with the results.
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You are probably right but i was just trying to give a ballpark estimate of how good is a 5K USD income in pakistan.The conversion rate is a fair if not a perfect gauge.I can sustain a full family of 5 with an excellent lifestyle in about 2K here in Pakistan so its a very decent amount.
not sure if you saw that you could click for a graph or double click to see a new treemap of any department. This visualization is built for people to explore what's in each of the departments, not really to compare departments with each other.

For example, you can see that in 2012 that 2.89% of the budget went to education, but if you double click, you can see that only 13.73% of that went to elementary and secondary education.

You can also single click anywhere and see a graph of how things have changed over time. So you can see that in 2009 there was a huge spike in elementary and secondary education, and you can go to 2009 to further investigate, and find there was a "State Fiscal Stabilization Fund" in 2009 that sent $14 billion to education, and then went away.

I think another visualization comparing departments would be pretty cool, and might build that one next.
Apples = Oranges now? Syria news has been going on for years, Miley Cyrus' tongue dance just happened recently.

NYMag has no concept of time?
It's Roboto.
well… the problem is, that it can, indeed
More accurately, the MUNI doesn't climb. In the nicer areas there is no light rail service, only a few filthy buses.
> This is a capital crime, and while prosecutors stated they would not "recommend" the death penalty, they do not determine sentencing and the military judge could have ignored their recommendation were Manning found guilty

Go read the Manual for Court-Martial yourself. Specifically Rule 1004. Death penalty determinations must be made at the beginning of the trial (specifically, on both referral of charges and on arraignment). The judge doesn't get to enter a death penalty plea on behalf of a wary prosecution.

And, even in cases where the death penalty is on the table, the jury (not the judge) must unanimously agree with the sentence. There's a reason the military hasn't managed to execute anyone since the middle of the Cold War when the civilian system has been busy sending people to the executioner's chair.

What I can't figure out is how you're so convinced you're right based only on what seems to be an "educated layman's knowledge" (at best) of military law. I'd understand being confused by someone else, but I'm telling you the source material you need to go read and you're arguing instead of reading...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_economics
"Economics in One Lesson" by Henry Hazlitt
http://mises.org/books/economics_in_one_lesson_hazlitt.pdf

This book is an outstanding place to start. It addresses a myriad of economic concepts in simple language. It's available for free through the Mises Institute.

"How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes" by Peter Schiff
http://www.amazon.com/How-Economy-Grows-Why-Crashes/dp/04705...

This book gives a simple overview of macro issues and is an interesting and well-presented tale about how economies grow from the basic "man on an island" scenario to a complex market. It also covers Austrian business cycle theory which explains the boom-bust cycle in economies.

Both of these books are from the "Austrian School" of economics, which is named for its Austrian founder, Carl Menger. I find these arguments compelling as they are firmly grounded in logic and are based on the principle that the human individual and her actions form the basis of all economic activity.

The giants of the Austrian school are Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard (highly readable) if you want to seek out more advanced theory.
What's the best way to contact you? I'd like to go on a similar trip in 2014 and I'd like to get your suggestions.
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It sounds like you're creatively fulfilled (writing, learning SICP, side projects), so that's great! And most people's idea of creative fulfillment doesn't include doing a startup, and that's fine -- but obviously the Hacker News crowd is different. I think the article was more to address people who work at jobs they find boring, and want to create a startup to fulfill themselves, but don't.
NYT has a 2013 budget proposal visualization in d3, made I believe by Mike Bostock himself: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/02/13/us/politics/20...
Ideally you'd wait until the next downturn then. All the infrastructure remains in place - developing it was a sunk cost, and then they'd have fewer customers to generate a return on that investment and so they'd likely offer discounts to drum up business - and yet the competition is swept away by the general macro climate and sentiment against risk-taking.
Given adammil's comment, they cannot currently do effective election lobbying.
I think that there's more to it than what's mentioned in the article: Todays mobile OSes (and iOS prominently) have been designed as consumer OSes. Now it is becoming apparent that mobile devices are eventually becoming a platform for work (well, "work" might be a bit exaggerated here) and targeted task-fullfilment too.

Time to rethink the mobile OS as a whole.
The post:

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/09/on-nsa.html