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> If you are someone smart enough to be an entrepreneur in your late 30s, you should have a corporate job paying 150k+ and can save all 4 years worth in a matter of months with a bit of determination.

It takes 10 months to save $40,000 if you're putting away $4,000 a month (which is half of take-home pay at $150k). If you are someone smart enough to be an entrepreneur in your late 30s with a corporate job paying 150k+, your children are probably smart enough to want to go to an expensive college.
Ok, you can walk away, but that's not the point. The point is that if I want to get a better offer, and I seek that at another company, it's not fair to ask my current employer if they're willing to let me take that offer, because they may also not be willing to improve your compensation, so you end up stuck where you are just because your company wants you and you are skilled enough for other companies to want you too.

All you are saying is that you are free from reprisal in that situation, OK, great, but that doesn't improve your compensation situation.
HN is a fascinating place to read where I can get my daily share of IT wisdom. IT development is shaping a big part of the world we live and it is important to see how everything evolves.

I have a small translation/localization company in the middle on Japan and I use as much free software as I can and try to promote them the most I can in the translation community. I learned a bit of basic, pascal, assembly in the 80's and when programming your calculator was the coolest thing you could do in High School.
Show HN: Shrthnd – Convert CSS into shorthand syntax
Are There Internet Dialects? [video]
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It's not disruption. It's how the design industry works. Professional designers have long competed against free, whether it's printers who throw in a logo with letterhead printing or the boss' nephew who knows a bit of Photoshop.

The market is big enough for all of this. A smallish company that just wants something to put on a business card is not going to be up for a full branding and identity exercise (though they probably should be) and will be happy with a stock logo. A startup or company with more ambition would look stupid with the same.

It's the job of a designer or agency to educate the client as to why they are worth the fees they charge.
oh so yeah I'm not missing anything...
I shared this on Facebook, and my friend who's a perinatologist (a sub-specialist who takes care of moms delivering preterm, moms w severe medical conditions (lupus, kidney failure, heart failure) and fetuses with problems (birth defects, fetuses who need transfusions for anemia) commented, saying, "The fetus is the most successful parasite known to man. Many people even want one!"
I actually advocated using the vendor specific ones with the BMC being if you use shitty hardware. It works ok, but is absolutely suboptimal.
Yes, I was not aware of this difference between primates and other mammals. I had always wondered why pregnancy was so much more of an ordeal for humans. I had previously heard the explanation that our giant brain-filled heads can barely fit through the birth canal, which leading to lots of deaths during delivery, and also explains why we are born with overlapping unfused bone plates in our skulls. But obviously that doesn't account for everything else that can go wrong during pregnancy, so it was always a partial explanation at best. Interestingly, though, both explanations trace back to our species' evolution toward having bigger brains.
Besides, Comprehensive health records as well as yearly physicals are meaningless for healthy people.

I also found that people don't trust paid services either, when it comes to their health (at least when provided by companies other than their health provider)

I like the idea behind Zenobase.
Aurametrix explored relationships between many different sources of data that could be related to health. It is not public now, but would be happy to share the insights.
As a recruiter, I would be very interested to hear what engineers have to say here.

One thing I believe that makes a good recruiter is not only the ability to find good talent, connecting w/ people who have the right experience but also to remember this is a human experience.

I transitioned from QA engineering into recruiting because a) I was tired of QA and couldn't code to save my life and b) because a lot of the recruiters who reached out to me where just horrible and just treated me as a number - not even know what I did - and not even caring.

What I discovered upon transitioning is how frantic it can be. I'm going to use a 3 round process for this example - To get 1 engineering hire, recruiters could need to have 2-4 candidates make it to final round, which means realistically there should be 6-12 onsite interviews, which means 18-35+ phone screens, which means a recruiter would have to have to 50-100+ engineers willing to talk to them w/ regards to the role. Meaning they'd have to reach out to 150-300+ engineers. Obviously I'm picking an arbitrary 3x multiplier as some recruiters are better than others and may not need to reach out to that many, or some might even need more.

If a recruiter has multiple positions they're trying to fill (which happens all the time) that means they really don't have a lot of time to put onto each position and less time if they need to spend time working w/ candidates currently in process and Hiring managers.

Creating software that might help a recruiter make more accurate assessments of candidates skill sets really only work if engineers are forthcoming and totally accurate w/ their skill sets. However even then the best algorithms can be fooled. Sites like Linkedin, Bright or Whitetruffle (just pulling from the top of my head) can have poor matching because of how a descriptions/requirements on both the candidates and the company's side are misrepresented. The other thing to remember; software can never properly replace "high touch" human interaction - which, at it's core is what recruiting is often about. Thoughts?
True but it seems hard to argue that the amount can reasonably be more than all of the cash on hand, since the companies wouldn't have been able to pay the employees anything like that amount, so it can't reflect the market value of the lost salaries.
I'm with you on balance: state is better than no state. However, I don't think the matter is as clear cut as you think. A few examples (I'll try to match them to yours):

Public infrastructure projects often involve bribery and cronyism. Public school system may be used for ideological indoctrination. National safety nets foster risk aversion and allow young people to throw off the burden of care for their elderly. Police may be overly brutal when protecting your wealth from banditry. The means of protection of your land from outside invaders can become the means to invade outsiders and to conduct mass surveillance of the locals.

It's a superhard design challenge to create a set of checks and balances which prevent abuse of power.
Just saying what? If you fine Apple $160B, then you have to fine Google a similar amount, since they are co-conspirators.
I've managed to compile it on Windows using Visual Studio. It's in my TODO list to write a tutorial on the site on how to do so. Hopefully I'll do that on the next few days.
Related but incidental, but what's the deal with Aeon? They don't seem to have a revenue model, but I read and enjoy virtually everything they produce. Is there a gotcha coming?
Elixir v0.15.0 released
No I'm not talking about targeting banks directly. What about targeting consumers or ecomm sites? A consumer need to give card information, websites should make vpos operations.

These can be target vectors too.
In my endless fight with Microsoft’s worse than useless spam filters (my how I hate hotmail and her ugly sisters), how does using a common template like this affect the false positive junk mail rate?

On this topic does anyone have any trick suggestion beyond the obvious (spf, dkim, etc) to keep emails away from Microsoft’s junk mail filter?
The fact that this settlement was rejected by the judge should be an embarrassment for the plaintiffs' lawyers, and IMO is a great example of the problems with the incentives in class action settlements. Basically, the judge is saying there is substantial evidence that the plaintiffs would win considerably more if the case went to trial. From the lawyers' perspective though, if they settle they get a sure thing, and, importantly, they don't have to do any more work.

So in other words, if this settlement had been approved, the employees would have gotten a raw deal, while their attorneys would have gotten tens of millions for poor work on a pretty clear cut case.
Most essential oils are poisonous except in very limited quantities. The effects might be different, but this isn't specially surprising.
This is a serious question: why isn't this illegal?
Hash functions impose practical mappings between unlike domains. When volatile (~1-to-1) identifying (crypto), when correlated (~n-to-n) perceiving (AI).

(Tweet summary of the article. I'm becoming increasingly fascinated by hash functions. I'm finding all important this tension between abstraction/correlation/perception & groundedness/volatility/identification.)

https://twitter.com/elzr/status/497893639000190976
what is your idea?
To those downvoting, what use cases make GIFs better than HTML 5
"SpaceX is predominantly about getting government contracts"

Doesn't sound like they're very successful, then, per Wikipedia, "As of December 2013, SpaceX has a total of 50 future launches under contract, two-thirds of them are for commercial customers."

Now, the article goes on to talk about their efforts to get validated for military launches, and in the relevant article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved_Expendable_Launch_Vehi...) it says "On July 11, 2014, the DoD certified the Falcon 9 rocket as an EELV launch vehicle.", so we can expect as of late 2016 for them to have more government launches.

While NASA et. al. get most of the publicity, the numbers show a significant market for commercial launches. Especially, I would imagine, if SpaceX ends up being both cheaper and more reliable, as they have promise to be.
There is no doubt that https adds a positive value, and not having it would put you at a disadvantage. But that is not what is being discussed here, the question is whether having BOTH https and http is a negative.
> Designers think they need to charge for those things. They are wrong. Lots of customers are quite happy taking what they're given if the price is low enough.

In my experience this is not the case. The projects I've done which have dragged on for longest and been the most trouble are the ones I've done for free or less than the usual amount.

Charge a low price and the client will assume your time and skills are worthless.
SemVer makes sense as a system for versioning exposed interfaces, and for versioning products where the product is just an implementation of single, coherent interface.

When a product is not principally an implementation of a single interface, including notably the case where it exposes multiple interfaces that are somewhat orthogonal (as might be the case, e.g., with an RDBMS where the SQL language support, the TCP/IP interface, etc., are all interfaces which might sensibly be versioned), it probably makes sense to use separate semver-like versions for the individual interfaces and something else for the product.

Language implementations naively seem like really good SemVer candidates by that criteria, but the sibling comment [1] addressing binary vs. source compatibility, etc., reveals how such implementations can present multiple different perspectives that are problematic.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8155501
Kind of agree. The author arbitrarily took 1 year as "startup" and any business longer than 1 year as "establishment". It was probably possible to start and sustain a small business in 1 year earlier, perhaps. But now the world is integrated, and the probability of survival by serving people of your neighborhood or city, is much less. IOW, a business has to grow big and hence it takes longer than 1 year to succeed. So by author's definition, Blockbuster being disrupted by Netflix doesn't count any more because it's establishment displacing establishment.
But I actually want to know what I'm missing-- what's interesting about this "closed source but available for academic purposes" application which appears to simply be a re-implementation of existing work?

I'm trying to give benefit of the doubt here actually.
Bus-only shoulders move you past congestion
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Edit: I wonder if the downvoters who have not bothered to comment realize that every state in the US except Montana has some form of at will employment. The person I was replying to couldn't be more wrong.

You're being downvoted because you're wrong. At-will employment doesn't mean you can stiff your employees on backwages. It also doesn't mean you don't need to comply with Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) laws, which exist in many (most?) states.

At-will employment doesn't mean the employer gets to do whatever they please.
This is the last minor branch before Elixir v1.0.0. I'm quite excited about Elixir, Erlang is a good candidate to compete with NodeJS for web persistent connections (WebSockets, ServerSideEvents...)
I'm an economics professor. I have to program for my research, my hobby is studying programming languages, and entrepreneurship is pretty important for the economy.
Please be sure to post on the HN Hiring page when you do start hiring.

Your startup sounds like the kind that won't have trouble attracting people, myself included.
How Far Do Your Cats Roam?
It's not just that, though.

There is a really profound, fundamental mismatch in power between employers and employees: an employee depends upon the employer for the means of basic existence, while the employer does not have the same dependence on any given single employee.

That disparity in power means that there must be very strong legal and social constraints on employers to make the labor market reasonably fair and equitable. Since essentially the only means the employee has at their disposal to better their situation is leaving or seeking better offers elsewhere, this fundamental right must be strongly protected.

Employers can't have it both ways: laws that allow them to fire for any reason or no reason, set any level of compensation they choose (including cutting pay at any time for any reason) all in the name of the free labor market, but at the same time making secret backroom deals to limit compensation or employee attrition. It's either a free labor market or it isn't.
And your VPN's ISP
Yeah. I love Earl Gray and sometimes will brew 64 ounces using 1 tea bag and a packet of stevia for my daily fluid intake. I hope 1 tea bag diluted should be okay.
There's no practical difference. If I hire Ben away from you, then protest "he came to us! we didn't poach him!" it matters not one bit to our now shattered relationship.
These are meh. GitHub does email right.
I don't follow your comment, but I should have been more explicit:

gif is a waste of bandwidth compared to a soundless webm
Yes, you miss events. But if you try to make build the kitchen sink into your low-level logging system then it ceases to be low level. If your logging system allocates memory then how can you log events from your VM subsystem? If your logging system logs to the disk, then how do you log ATA events? It becomes recursive and intractable.

The solution is to make your main interface a very simple pre-allocated ring buffer and have userspace take that and do what they please with it (as fast as it can so things don't overflow).

There is always a point at which your logging system can't keep up. At the kernel level you decide which side of the ring buffer to drop (new data or old) and at the userspace level you decide whether to drop things at all or whether to grind the system to a halt with memory, disk, or network usage.
I'm a pharmacist, but since my boss knows I'm good with computers, she put me to manage the IT systems used by the pharmacy department. This role is well-defined and there is at least one full-time staff in each public hospital here doing this, but no software development knowledge is required because there is a layer of IT consultants that supports us on very technical things (e.g. server provisioning, network configuration, integration). What I do is mainly defining requirements and provide content (both clinical and non-clinical).

I see HN as a way to keep up with IT in general - especially that all my other colleagues talk about totally different kinds of news. I find discussions well-balanced most of the time, and sometimes wonder "what do HN commenters say?" when I get to a news using other routes.

Yes I am a wantrepreneur, if there is such a word. It's pretty cool to (have the perception of) knowing two industries and try to piece them up together.
Hm. Well, I want to hash the pattern of bits in the text file, like a cryptographic hash does (suppose md5 or sha-1 for simplicity's sake).

I'll provide some examples of input and output. These examples happen to contain no linefeeds.

Suppose:

Hello, World! --> 65a8e27d8879283831b664bd8b7f0ad4

Then I want something like:

Hello, Worlds! --> 65a8e27d8879283831b664bd8b7f4ad4

...Rather than what md5 currently provides:

Hello, Worlds! --> d0478649ad1c15f0e623846c3e26ebeb

Basically, I love hashes and I use them all the time, but for many purposes I am only accidentally using the cryptographic features and in fact I would sometimes find it nice if similar inputs had similar outputs.

Said differently: I'd like a hashing algorithm where the Levenshtein distance between any given two outputs correlates with the Levenshtein distance between the corresponding inputs.

I can imagine lots of uses for such a tool. ...But I can't imagine how it could be possible to make one: files (or strings) vary in length, for one thing, but a good hash does not! Of course, I couldn't imagine md5 before I saw it in action, either.
> I write software(originally PC based and now web based) to make my life easier.

That sounds cool can you expand?
Biz dev / creative marketing guy here. Startup co-founder and consultant. Absolutely love this place...skip the super technical threads because marketing.
Do many YC companies still fail to ship early?
Once you start 10 man raiding with skype, the social aspect really kicks in. It becomes much more like a LAN party even if it is with people you don't know very well.
Especially when San Fransico has some of the nicest tap water in the country, delivered by an empressivly engineered system:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetch_Hetchy

I was walking around lake Elisabeth in Fremont just this afternoon marveling at the massive water pipes. There are two continuous strips of undeveloped land that go through Fremont and the South Bay that mark the travel of San Franscico's water supply.
'Asteroid harvesting' is an unsolved problem, and a pipe dream. Mining is very expensive and requires megawatts; asteroid mineral yields are not likely to be better than on Earth; the distances involved are vast.
Ask HN: How is Karma calculated?
I thought it was an average of points on comments divided by the number of comments (excluding most highly-rated or worst-rated comments). But I have 2 accounts and one of them suddenly got an average of 1.05 or something very small, while another accounts with less points per comment has a higher average.
I enjoyed reading this article, with a nicely brewed cup of Earl Grey.

The alternative Lady Grey tea [0] has lower concentrations of oil of bergamot.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Grey_(tea)
Exactly what I was thinking. Seriously, the overall vibe I get from many of these emails is either "email from some service I subscribed to, sending a generic greeting/reminder", or "outright spam". Definitely nothing that would strike me as important.
Stellar, Uber, and the Rise of Computational Trust
Against happiness: Why we need a philosophy of failure
You missed the point. Detecting the protein or whatever that is deregulated in disease early is the hard part, not the fluorophore or nanoparticle to which it conjugates.
Nuclear engineer by formal education, mostly self-taught in the realm of computing. Enough to get an internship at Cisco during college. Here for all the same reasons OP is, with the addition that the community is by far one of the most enriching and rewarding to be a part of, even if I wind up lurking most of the time.
Also a consulting actuary, here for the same reason as you. The number of actuaries replying here is pretty remarkable given the extremely small size of the profession.

As far as I know there is exactly one credentialed actuary working in any capacity in SV, but that number can only go up in the future.
I'm sure this is a dumb question but why is it preferable to have a pilot in the cockpit if you could keep them on the ground?
Nice art piece, and somewhat close to how I imagined Gibson's cyberspace, but the interaction is hopelessly broken. I felt like I was drifting around randomly and the HUD doesn't seem particularly responsive to what I'm doing. despite trying for 10 minutes (including a reload to check the instructions again) I couldn't navigate towards any feature of interest or control my flight in any way.
When lawyers start coming up to us and saying "I see what you did there!", let's ask them what they call it. :) Meanwhile...

Actually, the closest term I've come across personally is "systems thinking". (A phrase with its own splendid, storied history, by the way!)
Criterion 1.0
What if the book doesn't sell? Who absorbs the loss on the upfront costs?
Station Spacewalk Game
Might not add that much value over statistical sampling.