skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here are some ways to think about this:
The equity is for risk already taken plus the value of the IP- the two years at minimal salary (or none at all) plus opportunity cost of not having a highly paid position (many founders could be execs at larger companies), not being able to save, worrying about payroll, etc. Why else risk your financial future? On top of that, most of the value creation comes in the initial stages (ie. where the work is less commoditized). This implies a larger value capture.

The compensation is market rate for the actual position currently held- eg. a CTO at a scaling startup makes $130K-150K, founder or not. This aligns incentives. A founder no longer working at their company does not/should not make any salary.

Re taking money out of rounds: This is for incentive alignment b/w the founders and investors. Mark Suster discusses this in much more detail than I can,
http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2009/09/02/should-founder...

These situations are more complicated than they appear at first glance. You really don't know why things are structured the way they are until you get into them.
Actually, the "algorithms" are usually fairly straight-forward and well documented integrators for Newtonian dynamics, usually some form of Verlet Integration. The most popular and efficient Molecular Dynamics packages are open source, some GPL (e.g., NAMD, Gromacs). The technology is nowhere near in silico drug design, but we're converging on useful tools to measure important quantities like free energies of binding. Pharmaceutical companies have some interest in this technology, but at this point, don't direct too much effort into atomistic simulations.
This is like saying that people who are born into abject poverty are too stupid to do advanced mathematics or science when they never make it to college.

You've made a pretty extraordinary claim here; have you any evidence to back it up?
Cheaply.

I get that question a lot, but it's possible so long as you're not spending on... well, anything. I've spent a lot of the last 2 years adjusting to not needing to buy things and disposing of luxuries (I wouldn't have called them luxuries at the time, but it's surprising how much isn't needed). What I do buy I find ways to acquire things very cheaply.

There are food blogs like this: http://www.theskintfoodie.com/ (Tip: Waste nothing, buy precisely what you need and plan how to use every bit)

You can get clothing from places like this: http://www.barone.co.uk/ (Tip: There's a huge supply chain from which you can purchase long before things hit shops)

I've turned off broadcast TV, cancelled the TV licence, and just watch on catch-up via iPlayer, etc.

Cycling cuts travel costs, though I keep a PAYG Oyster for when I'm with others and will make a journey with them.

And so on.
This review [1] on newegg is really discouraging.

[1] http://www.newegg.com/Product/SingleProductReview.aspx?revie...
Did you change the language, or did the language/libraries stay the same? Just curious.
"Dropbox is not diversified"

How diversified was Google in its first ten years? Ads and desktop search overwhelmingly ruled. How diversified is Facebook? How diversified is Twitter? How diversified is Apple? (with the iPhone generating 75% of their profit)

This tends to apply to almost any big company in its formative years. They get big because they put all their wood behind a killer arrow that made all the rest possible. That's not to say Dropbox will have that future, but rather that criticizing them for not diversifying at this point is a low quality criticism.
I'd be surprised if Mantle did not have a way to issue compute shaders.
If that were true then they probably wouldn't have turned down Facebook's $3 Billion.
I've given a handful of talks at miscellaneous user groups ranging from 5 minute lightning demos to one way-too-long-but-there-is-too-much-to-cover-in-45-minutes talk about Erlang types (I felt bad it was so long).

While I'm the last guy to walk up to a stranger and strike up a conversation, and I break out in cold sweats preparing to cold-call prospects for my business, I've always had this thing about public performing, whether it be speaking, playing and instrument, or even (gasp) singing.

I'm not sure of the psychology of it all, but it feels like the pressure of presenting, combined with a strong fear of being viewed a failure gives way to a certain comfort zone in presenting. And once up there for a minute or two, I notice that I quickly find myself firing on all cylinders (probably from the adrenaline), and then everything from then on becomes quite natural for me (even if my natural presentation style comes across a little neurotic).

Anyway, that's my anecdotal contribution to the public speaking discussion.
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What does that even mean? You can't stop at a single file or stream as that would most likely still break things. If you allow tabs that play sound to continue to play sound you could just run a small, short, silent sound file on page load and then do whatever you want for the life of the tab.
Java security update: 36 vulnerabilities, 34 remotely exploitable
Is this for founders whose statup is their full time gig? Or for founders who also are still maintaining a full time job?

A salary of $0 is quite easy if your still making $150k from another job. If the startup is your only source of income...not so much
I used Charles a while back, really liked it http://www.charlesproxy.com/
Ditto. I'm in Central London, USD wouldn't go very far here.
I really enjoyed the writing style. I found I got a lot of information from the review*. Are Techspot reviews always this good? If so, I'll keep an eye on them.

With respect to 4K monitors it seems that given my income bracket (working class, ahem) it'll be a few years away before I will be able to afford one. But I don't feel too bad as they don't seem quite "there" yet. I'm noticing that even scaling Ubuntu to suit my laptop's 1080p panel results in yukkiness sometimes. Also, I haven't adjusted my wed dev workflow to accommodate hidpi yet - I just threw Bootstrap at my site and crossed my fingers.

edit: and I learnt about the world's most disgusting liquor which I have now gotta try - Malört
Google clearly has an unprecedented (well, maybe except for sun..) set of technologies on the horizon. Between network infastructure, mapping, energy, robots, and now home automation, their dominance in the future is easy to forsee.

However, there was no mention about Google's rise to power being centered around a focused set of high-quality web services. And now they are starting their "3rd business model leg" of consumer devices before they have truly mastered their second, the SaaS market. I find it funny how the OP quickly glances over Apples unprecedented focus, althewhile highlighting and admiring Google's unwarranted diversification.

The obvious question is: can Google get away with it all, or will they fail without focus? They have managed to stay cohesive so far, but as the author rightly points out, Google's true diversification has only just begun.
It matters a lot whether they founded a rapid growth startup or a lifestyle business. The two should be completely separate polls.
lol @ "profitable"

What rock have you been living under? The SV game hasn't been about having a normal profitable business model for the god-knows-how-long.

You gotta get "value" and traffic and buzz and hype! Then maybe Google of whatever will buy you.

It's basically a sort of bubble. And while you operate in a bubble you can make a lot of money!

The only guys in town making money are ad companies, enterprise software companies, and hardware companies
I got a FSM-270YG for under $400 delivered off of eBay. Controls are in Korean, but it's a monitor so it only has 4 buttons and it's pretty easy to figure out. I love it.
~30 hours? You deserve the funding you can get :)
Meet new people over coffee
This is my first app - we are making it because we wanted to meet new people outside of our network, particularly those whose professional work interests us. I have no design experience though, so could use some feedback from those who have it. Our goal is to help people quickly be matched up with others in their city whose professional backgrounds are likely to be interesting to them, and make it super easy to strike up conversation and meet offline. Kind of like a dating site, but with the professional context of LinkedIn.
I'm neither, but while roaming I forked to our profile and saw you are doing this: http://krit.com/

What is that pricing in US dollars? That is a great idea you should bring it to the US.
Is it different outside science?

Yes--people who have practical experience writing and maintaining code that has to be maintained tend to write maintainable code.

Scientists (and, in my experience, especially bioinformaticians) tend to make horrible, awful messes no matter how maintainable you think a language is. (You can hand them Inform 7 and it'll still end up looking like Fortran ate the csh manual and vomited all over an APL keyboard.)
The wheel of reincarnation [1] keeps spinning. I hardly see anything revolutionary behind the barrage of hype produced by AMD's marketing department.

[1] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/W/wheel-of-reincarnation.htm...
They'd fall afoul of some laws in the UK (probably EU too). In the UK, you can't have permanent "discount" prices without a certain period of time in between each so-called sale. This was mainly targeted at furniture sales companies who seemed to always be advertising a 50% off sale of some sort. But I imagine it could catch something like Uber if they never actually offered their real price for a significant amount of time (I think it was 3 months or so?)
Profitability/revenue are not the only metrics that matter to investors. Remember that in order to take out $1M in cash you have to find investors who are willing to pay you $1M for your shares. To investors, metrics like user growth, retention, and engagement also matter (see: Snapchat).

I'm not making any claims as to whether those investors are being smart or foolish.
I'm a so-so to "good" public speaker. I used to be a terrible public speaker. I'll probably never be a great orator or Steve Jobs, but I'm pretty happy with my presentation skills. In group settings, I'm often the one chosen to give the public presentation.

Some things that improved me:

1) My university undergrad CS program required a semester of public speaking. Everybody hated it. It's probably one of the top 3 most important classes I took. If you're in a school that doesn't require it, take it as an elective.

2) I had a teaching job for a few years. Getting points across day in and day out, and trying to drag a class along of people at very different learning speeds teaches you very quickly how to project and enunciate so people can hear you well. Watching the faces of, and talking to, the people in the back rows becomes a very important speaking tool.

3) To deal with stage fright, I learned to mentally "not care" about giving the talk. It's hard to explain, it doesn't mean "not caring about doing a good job", it just means to adopt a viewpoint of detached apathy. Before I learned how to do this, even small stumbles would send me into a panic state which only made it worse ending with an avalanche of stutters and tied tongues. Detached apathy turns those little stumbles into such unimportant things that I don't even know they happened until I listen to a recording of my talk or see myself in a presentation.

4) Practice your speech. Because it's important to look up every once in a while in order to project. Practicing your speech helps you do that, instead of looking down into your note cards or your script. I don't practice it relentlessly like Steve Jobs or President Obama. 2 or 3 runs through is usually good enough for most of my purposes. But it helps you keep your focus on not caring.

5) Practice giving speeches. I haven't done it, but I've heard lots of good things about Oration societies like Toastmasters. In my case I got plenty of practice while teaching. But for those people who don't have that option, this is a great option. Nothing gets you used to the routine of giving speeches like giving speeches.
> Maybe one day I will actually learn this shit.

I'd strongly discourage it. ASM.js is the most horrible hacky thing. It gets the job done, but there are no good things to learn about how it works. Low level and compiler backend optimization are the most hurtful programming problems. It's optimization for a tons of bad reasons. That's like send a car into space. There are no way it's a technology you can reuse later for other purposes.

I'm sure ASM.js must be quite cool to just use, but to understand how it works, I fear that it could get hairy very quickly.

That's why I have my doubts about it. If you run into a problem with ASM.js and there are not enough guidelines, you might run into 10 walls, solve it through, and still run into walls that noone else will have solved before you.
I would assume many startup founders have other jobs (even full time jobs) that still pay. Or they have sizable savings. Lots of startups don't raise money, which means the founders are often putting their own cash into the business -- essentially a negative salary!
Patent troll is to (blank) as ...
Patent Troll is to blood sucking leach that produces nothing of value & survives only through extortion as BMI (http://bmi.com) is to... oh wait they are the same thing.
This article shed credibility in the 1st paragraph, calling the Motorola purchase a patent and panic-driven deal. Au contraire, it was a heck of good deal for Google. It's not clear that Google panics about anything.

Forbes put it like this: http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/10/22/motorola-...
> I remember several people explaining that they cast an incorrect vote on the last "how old are you" poll.

Is this really a common phenomenon? What reason would you have for randomizing a poll vote? I can't think of a reason offhand to intentionally obfuscate meaningless poll results.
An extremely vast, outdated, and oppressive regulatory regime applicable to common carriers.
if you could contact me via email I'd be interested in trying.
LinkedIn says freelance
Could this be booking.com?
I agree. It also ignores the high switching cost with Dropbox. These companies just get more critique because of how prominent they are. Companies f* up all the time. You don't lose all your customers after one f* up.
Language stayed the same (java) and libraries stayed mostly the same because I was actually afraid of infreastructure changes.
I just assumed that "fixed" was in contrast to "mobile". Anyway it seems a bit too generous to the actual "fixed" providers to compare their performance with a WISP.
They're gambling on getting an even larger userbase and having Facebook offer $5B
I'd say it almost does this. But there are enough fit and finish issues (like, a few orders of magnitude beyond Siri's supposedly showstopping "occasional internet timeouts when in spotty network coverage") to make it functionally useless.

Just initiating the voice commands is a pretty telling comparison.

iPhone: hold down ergonomically placed home button until it beeps, say what you want (eg "directions home"). Siri waits a well-timed beat and launches maps.

Android: press unlock button (semi-awkwardly placed on upper right corner), do weird home button motion only used to launch Google now (drag the soft "home" button up). Say "OK Google" to initiate voice detection, say what you want. Then there's a poorly calibrated lag to make sure Now is doing what you want, a hair over 5 seconds maybe.

Then there are weird fit/finish issues. Android seems to do weird things when headphones w/ a mic are connected, so it takes several seconds longer to be able to say "OK Google" after launching. If you use headphones a lot, it's basically a dealbreaker. And I find a lot of fit and finish issues when Google actually performs the action.

I'd be curious to try the Moto X to see if its "always listening" mode mitigates some of these issues.

tl;dr Now is great as a morning homepage, but an abysmal failure as a Siri-like assistant
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The level of risk is significantly different. An employee bears the risk of losing their job. That's a bad thing, but you can go get another one.

The founder has likely foregone salary altogether for some time and run up personal debts while doing so. They've probably tipped a lot (relative to their net worth) of initial capital into the company to get it off the ground. If everything goes wrong, they need to go find a job _and_ deal with the mountain of debt they're now in.

If the company is at a stage where it has paid employees, a significant part of the risk of failure has already passed. There's plenty more risk to come, but you cleared the first few hurdles; and they're big ones.

Source: Founder that did all that stuff.
Ideally, the 50-inch display would be concave OLED. (Earlier I made a jab at the industry about televisions becoming concave when their use-case hardly warrants it; meanwhile monitors really should become concave at larger sizes and show no signs of doing so.)

But I currently use multiple monitors and it's acceptable. Perhaps some very trim bezels will eventually arrive on desktop monitors in the near future?
I don't pay myself anything because I'm currently the only one funding the company. As it's a C-corp, that would result in double-taxation of my own dollars in theory (and in an LLC it'd make no effing sense).

I earned enough selling my last two companies to afford to live off of savings for a couple of years, fund retirement account, and fund two projects I'm currently working on. I also occasionally do consulting which pays very well by the hour, when need be.

Single-income family with no kids and minimal debt, small house in a working-class neighborhood, standard cars.

No funny tax stuff, because it doesn't really exist. That is to say, outside of re-investing capital gains offsetting when taxes are due (1202), and current deals on off-setting future capital gains (1045), there's nothing that the average employed person couldn't exercise regarding write-offs.
Option 2 is unworkable because you just end up with company A providing access with no extras but preferential service for company B as a "valued partner" and excluding all of company B's competitors.
Are you sure it's a much smaller team? Do you have any data on how many people are working on PNaCl or have been?

Opera had fewer than 5 people working on their JIT, I believe. I don't think Apple has had a particularly huge JIT team either...
The way you did it seems to be the most logical (and obvious) approach, which the article completely neglects to mention
This is absolutely fantastic. I would pay real money for something similar tailored to product sales model (vs recurring SaaS).
Minor point, but I don't like the citation of Netscape as a failed rewrite.

It's worth remembering that the Mozilla project ended up being a success in that it dealt the blow that finally dislodged IE from dominance. The original Netscape codebase could not do this because at the time IE4 was already way ahead in terms of CSS support and Netscape was hitting an architectural dead-end. Maybe they could have piled on some more hacks to get NS5 out quicker, but even if it had feature parity to IE5 they had to contend with Microsoft's bundling which was Netscape's real undoing.
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here's the guys I bought from

http://www.ebay.ca/sch/green-sum/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=...
Should have option for <$0
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Perhaps it's the Turkish readers?
> I've always heard that a founder's salary should be the amount that allows the founder to focus on the business

From whose perspective? For you as a founder, certainly that makes sense (how else would you do it?), but requiring a higher salary is definitely a real disadvantage and your investors and cofounders are right to see it that way. It should surprise you not at all that having a high cost base limits your options and decreases your chances of success. For certain neutral-connotation definitions of "discrimination", that's a fine way to describe it, but it's hard to see why an investor would change their views there.

You can certainly argue that the extra experience you have from previous work makes up for that relative to a replacement candidate who can work for a ramen salary. I'm not completely convinced that's true in the general case; like you said, there are people your age (and presumably experience level) with war chests or breadwinning spouses. But it might be fine for you: "I'd like to make this deal worse for you (and, EV-wise, me) because I need to extract cash from the company, but I still think it's a good deal for you." There's nothing wrong with that, but be aware that's the argument you're making.
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I even created a non profit to make sure that I can reinject everything in the business itself, without having to pay a lot of taxes.
Be careful. Just because you're a business owner doesn't magically make everything you touch a business expense. Claiming the apartment where you live as a business expense sounds like a great way to get audited. But what do I know? I'd strongly suggest talking to a good accountant -- they are worth the money.
when i was talking about free speech,
i was talking about "free" as in "speech",
not "free" as in "beer".

although, to be honest, i also know of no free beer.

-bowerbird
You could live on a boat - I know a few people doing that.
Salary w/o cost of living data is just a number.
> 80k in NYC doesn't get you very far

wow
Does grain finishing get grass-fed-tasting compounds out of the meat?
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Impressive! Are you going to develop this further for the community? I'd love to use it and be able to save, print, export, etc...
Why don't you think Haskell will help with this? If Java can't prevent a NullPointerException I don't see how static analysis can take the tooling where you want it to go.
padenot at mozilla dot com, or #media on irc.mozilla.org (French timezone, I'm padenot, there).
From what I remember folks either did it "just for laughs" or because they had a problem with the idea of a poll gathering information about people on the internet. I can imagine both reasons applying for a poll about income.

At the time I found this frustrating because I'm honestly interested in the age distribution of HN readers. It seems like cool data to have.
Keep in mind that there are lots of people voting from developing nations. This poll doesn't have a good breakdown on the lower end.

That is, a founder making $4,000-8,000 a year can easily survive in Asia, but that's quite far off $25,000 a year. So they might as well vote for 0.
Is this train of thought meant to be specific to server-side apps? An example of a large rewrite was the classic Netscape browser engine (to Gecko), and I'm having trouble picturing how a browser engine could use a SOA.
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Article with details here:

http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article.psp.html/joe/Old_School_Color_Cycling_with_HTML5
Very misleading post. It's obviously not that expensive to start slowly replacing pieces and have some people work on new features isolated from the main code base.

But I understand Ovid's frustration with so many people successfully switching from Perl to things like Go and being happy about it in their blogs ;)
version control would help with that
This article is completely overstated. People have been measuring this for decades. Look up the work of Mountcastle or Bensmaia on somatosensation and vibrotaction. Most of what we perceive down at the nm scale is differences in frequency with which our skin vibrates when we run our finger across a surface, we even have the spikes from peripheral nerves that show the differences in textures.