skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, can I opt out of that fee? There's a link to a new axe design trending on HN at the moment; how about I buy one of those and bring it with me to guarantee my own safety and opt out of that dollar fee?

Line-iteming a fee feels like it opens it up to negotiation.
I'd say that if you can realistically do (at least) all the things on this list then yes: http://www.laurencegellert.com/2012/08/what-is-a-full-stack-...
Honest question - wouldn't a large stack of IOUs (say, 200k) tend to cause problems in the next investment deal? Wouldn't most investors demand to wipe that out before they are putting money in?
>Could this have any implications when it comes to learning new programming languages?

I doubt it. Even programming languages with very large 'vocabularies' are tiny compared to natural languages and the grammatical rules of any natural language are much more complex than the syntax of any programming language.

Realistically, when you learn a new PL, how much time goes into learning syntax versus other things?
That's not a simplification of the problem statement, it's reductionism.
We solve that through careful hiring, and not being afraid to part ways with folks who can't get the job done satisfactorily.

Interestingly we decouple the two precisely because of what you're describing. When you start singling out specific people, other folks who are also doing very good work pretty quickly become disinterested in their job. That's bad.

Even worse, measuring ACTUAL value to the company is really really difficult (I'd suggest that it is impossible). So now you are in real danger of driving your most valuable people, the ones your system failed to recognize, out the door. That's bad news.
I have read that the USDA's recommendations are influenced by the huge grain farming lobby in the US. It's well known that a carbohydrate heavy diet works to fatten up a wide range of farm animals, though the impact this has on people is under some debate.
Haskell also has only one namespace. I propose that Clojure took it from there, including persistent data structures, lazy data structures, ...

> But loop/recur sure looks to be ultimately inspired by Scheme style use of TCO;

To me it looks more like ancient Lisp with prog and goto.

(defun foo ()
(prog ((a 1))
start
(print a)
(when (< a 10)
(incf a)
(go start))))

Old Lisp code is full of that. It's basically what LOOP/RECUR provides.
Why not just add it to the base price of the Uber ride? Still seems a little gimmicky to me.

I take uberX a very short distance on almost a daily basis. $1 more represents a 12% or 15% price increase in each of my rides. I thought the cheap short rides, was one of the best features of UberX. This will make me consider continuing to use them for these short daily trips.
Ok, I'll change it.

We have no way of knowing which of these posts are particularly significant. Many people seem to upvote anything with SpaceX in the title, and I'm skeptical that it should be on the front page so often. Since you say this one is unusual, I believe you.

But really, please send questions like this to hn@ycombinator.com rather than posting them in the threads.

p.s. Downvoting that comment is fine; it's an efficient way for users to communicate that I made a mistake there. That's better than posting a low signal-noise reply.
A 22 old college dropout who lives with roommates in a shared apartment can live in $50,000 a year or less, even in the Valley.

As a sibling comment mentioned, working at startups, especially early stage startups, isn't for everyone. If a person has major financial obligations a more steady job with less uncertainty (and less potential for upside) is probably the best fit.
Thanks for the objection.

I have never heard of Reactive, React, or Ripple.

I don't understand how this is better than Knockout, which has been around since 2006?

To summarize your objection, this library hardwires events to the UI. I don't understand how that allows for composition, and even then, the composition is happening at the view level, rather than the model level, which seems like a mistake???

Sorry if I am naive or coming off as rude. I just don't get it.
Interesting bit about diluting shares when new investment comes in. Joel's answer is very simple and seems extremely fair.

How common is this straightforward approach, where everyone is diluted in the same ratio of existing shares to new shares? I'd be interested in hearing about experience/knowledge other people may have had here.
I'm in my mid 40's married, two kids, one in college. I am working a day job and a doing my own startup. I try to stay fit and stay away from sick people. Wife works but makes 1/3 what I make so it's going to be a hard transition if I decide to go full time startup, but its there. Don't worry about it, just do it.
Jumping in on this without knowing anything about the business model, but why not just ask all of the drivers to pay $35 (for example) one time to do a bg check / insurance check?
Yes he did, and no video was forthcoming. I would have loved to skip the incredibly smooth and nominal Dragon launch for some good coverage of the first stage test.
You've identified one of the reasons I hesitate to put myself in the "startup labor market" for any startup that isn't well-funded.

Even well-funded startups give me pause. I'm not interested in putting in founder-like work for entry-level employee-like compensation plus a lottery ticket. Unless the equity is meaningful and imbues the recipient with an actual, real voice in the direction of the company it's just a way to sidestep offering real compensation.
This would be a trenchant criticism if Spolsky hadn't addressed it directly: 75-5-5-5-5-5-5 or 77-3-1-4-1-5-9, it doesn't matter as long as everyone agrees that it makes sense.
Don't have an answer - just a thought - try reposting this question on growthhackers.com - you may get more (or additional) insights there.
It doesn't look like you can.
"Now that we have a fair system set out,"
I had to laugh at that line.
Our IT startup model is the poster child for the inequality that defines our age. Founders own 50%, everyone else should be happy on the crumbs....
There's got to be a better way.
Hang on, there is. It's called the partnership model, from the Law Industry. If you work really hard, you can become a joint owner (no matter when you start), and share in the profits. When you leave, you get nothing. That model is fair!
"You don't have to follow this exact formula but the basic idea is that you set up "stripes" of seniority"

He makes it pretty clear that that's an example and might not work for everyone (for example, if your hiring doesn't accelerate like that you might end up giving stripe 1 and stripe 2 hires the same number of shares with the suggested distribution, in which case you'd obviously want to move towards something more like your suggested 40-30-20-10).
It's somewhat interesting to me that articles like this make no mention of services such as AdBlock.

...then again, cnet does get by on advertising dollars.
Stacks – make it rain on your friends via Venmo
You could run your start up as a co-op.
'Paleo' diets have little to do with how primitive man actually ate. Most noticeably due to a wildly different bacterial profile.

Our lifestyle is vary different as is our longevity. Not to mention actual palio diets involved a huge variety of local foods that where generally regionally specific.
Light Exposure: The next frontier for weight loss?
You're equating bread and pasta that the food industry puts on supermarket shelves, with the bread and pasta people used to make themselves from flour they got directly from the local mill for grains they got from a local farmer. Not the same thing at all.
Isn't tokenadult a biological implementation of an autoFPR system? ;). His posts are long, well-thought, full of references and appear so quickly that I'm damn sure he's copy-pasting things from his personal Wiki or research notes.
One man’s journey to restore Star Trek’s bridge
Around the ~20 minute mark below, video is a few years old but its upbeat and you can listen in the background. Relevant and a good laugh.
http://www.g4tv.com/videos/44277/dice-2010-design-outside-th...
A Million Little Facebook Pieces
Or, when you get a driver that makes you fear for your life because they are spending more time paying attention to their three GPS devices instead of traffic, do you get a $1 refund for the un"safe" ride?
> "Harmless pot? New marijuana study shows brain damage in those 18-25"

I downvoted you for endorsing this stain on the reputation of science journalism. Tiny sample size, writer exaggerates findings to craft a clickbait article title, it's awful. We deserve something better than tabloid reporting in our science articles.
Relevant Bugzilla bug for Gecko:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664147#c30

An interesting spec, certainly, but no traction so far. A bit unfortunate. It sounds like on desktops the ARB_compute_shader GL extension provides a lot of the functionality you'd get through OpenCL with less new feature surface (it can piggy-back on WebGL), while on mobile there is currently not common access to OpenCL. Interested to see whether either of those situations change.
std::random_device rd;
std::mt19937 rng(rd()); //Construct with random seed.
uint32_t random_number = dist(rng);

Since only the seed value comes from `rd` you should be fine if you suspected the results from the article would affect you. What was most likely happening in the article was constant use of `rd` without a prng.
Systems Engineer at Sirono
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It used to be that hospitals collected income primarily from insurance companies, but with the recent shift to high-deductible plans, a lot of income now is from patients directly. Sadly, however, all of the infrastructure is still optimized to collect from insurance companies rather than patients. Sirono lays out infrastructure to help hospitals change this focus. Our interface will help patients better understand their bills, and they'll get financing options and more convenient ways to pay. In the end, this will greatly reduce the costs of healthcare for everyone by better enabling those willing and able to pay to actually do so.

To learn more and to apply, go to: http://www.thesourcery.com/jobs/672
How Apple dodged the Heartbleed bullet
I've heard advice that giving up salary like this should be considered equivalent to investing seed money. If you get $50k for your first year with the company and I get no money, treat that as if I gave the company $50k and work things out like that.

This is probably a bit more complicated in practice, but seems fair on the face.

Curious what other folks think.
> "It's not worth it to be an employee of a startup. You need to be a founder."

Yup. If you can get a job at a tech company that offers high compensation, you will likely make more there (and gain lots of great experience) than you will at a startup.

Look at the value over 4 years:
- Startup salary (~$100k-ish) vs. Tech co (~$140k-ish+)
- Startup equity could be worth $1,000,000 if you get 1% and the company sells for 100 million (obviously there can be other factors here, but lets just use that number)
- Large co. Stock grant could be 150k-200k+(or more!) over 4 years, and you'll likely get refresher grants on top of that each year. And the stock price will likely go up over those 4 years. So after year 4 you are making quite a bit off of your vesting stocks.

There's also a pretty good chance the startup will fail, which would net you nothing but a sub-market salary for the last few years, so it will be harder for you to negotiate a higher salary at your next gig. Or if you are acqui-hired, you'll get some small hiring bonus and then have to wait 4 more years for your new stock to vest.

To me, the only time joining a startup and taking below-market compensation is if you are just starting out and want to gain some experience you might not get at a more established company, or perhaps your skills aren't up to par so you can't get past the interviews[1].

Or maybe you just like the "startup culture", and that's cool, but why not start your own thing instead?

[1] Note that if your startup gets acqui-hired, you'll probably have to interview anyway, which could result in not getting an offer!
Right? I guess there would need to be some mechanism for updating them however. You don't want someone to get 'certified' and then get a record, but it be invisible.

I guess an ongoing rate is necessary for ongoing updating.
Probably because this isn't really about that.
A Big Mac weighs 215g but has only 25g of protein. Add the french fries and coke and you basically have a whole bunch of carbs and fat.

Even their ice creams don't contain much protein. A large McFlurry with Oreo's is 381g but has only 15g of protein (and 85g of sugar).

source: http://nutrition.mcdonalds.com/getnutrition/nutritionfacts.p...
Thanks for the suggestion.
I think 1500 price point is too high, it shall come down to around 900-1000 once it is commercially launched.

Just too curious to know how it feels. Have you tried it.
The writer is talking about articles, as he notes in his first sentence. The problem he points out is part of a larger problem: that web content clearly intended to be read, is often presented a context that makes reading inconvenient or difficult.

If someone posts an article on the web, I don't think it's too much to ask that the article be presented in a way that enables it to be read conveniently. Good print formatting is part of that.
They already are, to one extent or another. Browsers are rivaling monolithic kernels and entire operating systems with userspace applications in size.
What other ideas did you have in mind?

The "do challenges to improve" concept is pretty widely applicable. So far social anxiety is our focus as the whole team that made metamorfus suffers from it.

We do have visions of making sister sites based on the metamorfus codebase for professional development, the honey badger movement, no more mr. nice guy movement, etc. That would be a long ways off (if ever), as metamorfus itself is at MVP quality at best right now and is just a side project for us.
Huh, I could've sworn I read somewhere that he and Talulah had divorced a while back.
Maybe (I've had friends who tried to negotiated deferred salary into A-rounds). But there's also no rule saying that the IOU has to be paid back at the A-around.
Interesting points, thanks for your comment.

a) It's actually about $15-20 an hour less going off of my last job. I do consider it extra compensation that they are remote friendly, because I got to do some world traveling while working and they were fine with it. But now I'm back home in the Bay (...but also considering traveling again to make it worth my while).

b) Nope, just web stuff I'm already used to doing. The CTO at least is talented so I have learned from him.

c) Potentially. So far no specialized insights into opportunities for new players in the space. Those insights may or may not come.
How to win friends who influence people
Something that I always found a problem was getting "stuck" in the middle of a huge comment chain of irrelevant content, so I made a chrome extension to fix it:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reddit-comment-col...
> It turns out that kids are only amazing language learners when they have no choice. Kids will master the languages used on the playground and in school. But they don't always learn their home language to an especially high level.

Two additional factors: 1) Language aptitude is a continuous range, not discrete and 2) unused/unpracticed skills can atrophy. This is particularly evident in very young immigrants who exhibit "receptive" skill in their mother tongue even though they may have had fluency in earlier years. Immerse them in the native language, and they'll often pick up much much faster.
All noted. Email is not always as easy as replying or commenting here, but I'll keep that in mind and try to do so.

Edit for clarity.
Correct. I say that to prove the point that this raises more questions than it answers. Does this mean that Uber black car service isn't safe until this fee is applied there? What about Uber Taxi? Were my rides before this fee safe? Its bizarre.
Well 7 hours later and my imported bookmarks are still not done being processed. I bookmark often but I only have less that 1000 bookmarks total, I understand that they might be getting slammed with traffic ATM but I seeing how this could have been done all in JS I am a little annoyed that I can't try this out due to the delay.
The stdlib rand() function on unix has a global lock around it provided by many versions of Linux. As such, if rand() is called in performance critical parallel code, performance will tank as each thread or process attempts to acquire this lock. Even if this lock is not acquired, you will still have a race condition on the state of the random number generator and may produce bad (non-random) randomness.

Use rand_r(unsigned int *state) instead in parallel and concurrent applications.

Sources: man 3 rand [unix command] http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?rand+3
Yea, it seems that people have this historical fantasy that people used to just exercise all day, and voila... were thinner. I've lived in Boston, NYC, and SF... all of which have had transit systems for a century, and people presumably lived extremely similar lives as far as passive exercise is concerned (though air conditioning is an obvious change). Still, many people in these cities are incredibly obese. The biggest difference is the automobile (for which i'm assuming these cities would be good control groups), after that, the clearest difference is food. More of it, yes, but why are people eating so much more... cost doesn't fit. It's not as though my stomach says, well these are cheap calories, better get my money's worth. No, it just doesn't make much sense if the food itself isn't causing the increased consumption.
Kudos for a post focusing on startup employees and not founders!
Honest question, what happens to IOU's when the company fails? E.g. in the described scenario, one founder takes a salary and the other takes IOU's (+ 5% interest). The founder with the salary took less risk but still received 50% of the shares (even though they are worth zero when the company failed).
The higher fee to drivers is not about Uber's underlying fixed costs; a simple fee or holdback on the first commission check would suffice. The purpose of the higher fee is to make more money of off the driver's to make Uber's balance sheet look better.

Basically, it's an indication that Uber's finances are a lot weaker than their lofty valuation would suggest.
As a potential future founder what strategy will you employ in regards to compensation?
>Yes, it's not so much a "languistic aptitude test" as it is a test of general intelligence.

More a test of associative memory than intelligence.
I agree, when I was younger, it was much easier for me to buy cannabis than alcohol. Alcohol required knowing someone older than 21, cannabis required knowing a dealer, which was much easier.
It'd be really nice if you offered more detailed stats, especially a CSV of all loans with all relevant info. (Maybe you do have this and I just didn't see it on the site). I'm sure there's a lot of data scientists who could pull a lot of useful information.

Kiva has both an API and a graphical search of all loans. I did some simple analysis on Kiva's loans and that influenced some preliminary investing. I don't intend to make any money, but applying stats is part of the "fun" for me.
In the Battle for Best Smartphone, Apple Still Beats Samsung
Under-tolerance is an ages-old issue for principal administrators. Kids often get kicked out of educational institutions for wearing or generating imagery of banned items.
Given that the black car and taxi services go through other, well, black car and taxi companies, I'd assume that they do this kind of thing themselves.
Indeed, this sort of gimmick "fee" seems antithetical to Uber. The whole point of Uber is to avoid the BS associated with taxis, of which unclear pricing is one example. If they continue in this direction, why use Uber over a regular taxi?
For Hobby short-movie makers like me:
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2. Indy Mogul(now defunct): https://www.youtube.com/user/indymogul
Yet another cannabis article that completely ignores Seattle. Where's the reporting about Winterlife?
"Startup-bucks are even worse than a lottery ticket...."

Also because if they are worth something, it's a motivation for the company to fire you before you can cash out. E.g. while the discrimination case against Google was settled out of court for undisclosed terms, whatever the motivation, the timing of the firing of Brian Reid 9 days before the company's IPO was clearly not an accident. (119,000 options, $10 million on the day of the IPO, lots more later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Reid_(computer_scientist... )

Given that we're living in a mostly post-IPO world, you could well be better off never getting options....
'Just "cutting your carbs" is probably a reasonable piece of advice on an individual scale, and probably a reasonable thing for a person who is worried about their weight/health to attempt.'

I've been sympathetic to the low-carb explanation, especially because of its hormonal explanations, but, irreducibly, if one goes to cut out a large portion of carbohydrates that implies a number of other significant changes in diet, and there's no particular reason why "what you intended" and "what actually happened" have to line up. While I'm not immediately switching to a protein view as in this article, I'd observe there's no contradiction between "I cut out a lot of carbs and lost weight" and "I lost weight because I increased my protein intake"... one would have to approach the problem with literally clinical precision to precisely balance carb removal with fat increase, with no change in protein intake.

There's also nothing stopping a bit of both from being the case; a protein-deficient diet of over-processed foods starts a process of excessive refined carbohydrate intake, which then causes metabolic syndrome, which results in great apparent improvement if you switch to a low-card diet specifically because of the metabolic syndrome even though it may, technically, be a secondary problem. I'm not advocating for that, but I can't disprove that; it fits a great deal of what we see, it seems to me, it just isn't unique in that way yet.

(My only strong position in this debate is that the current conventional wisdom is wrong, and the Puritan-inspired attitudes about how it's "just calories" and therefore the only acceptable explanations are a shocking degeneracy in the modern human, and also tutt tutt and shame on them, are double-wrong. The real science is interesting, and still surprisingly unsettled.)
I had similar experience with startups. With current conventions in startup labor market, only being a founder or or being at Facebook as number <10 employee pays off.

Both are off my list because I'm not lucky enough to join the next Facebook and I'm not capable of founding a company myself at the moment.

Getting sweet $170k salary with some bonus, massage, free food and shuttle is good enough for me.