skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"you know, we would need to exit for a billion dollars for me to receive a million?"

It's worse than that. By the time you factor in preferred shares and other investment dilution, your 0.1% will be more like 0.00001%[+]. Few people think about that, and unless someone is actively looking out for your interests (e.g. someone giving retention grants -- or you demanding them), it's difficult to make a lot of money as an early startup employee. You can easily find yourself in a situation where you vest your grant, leave the company, and later find out that a new hire is making an order of magnitude more money than you in an exit. That's startup life.

The game here is predicting the expected value of an extremely improbable future event, and sacrificing present day money in favor of that event. There's no "fair" way to do it, so if a founder is asking that kind of commitment of you, they should be looking out for your interests over the long term as well.

[+] edit: I overstated my case here. You can probably expect 1-2 orders of magnitude dilution, but it doesn't really change the argument.
Good point! You're probably right.
True, but the bigger problem arises when you need that footage to prosecute a LEO.
SalesWise - Atlanta [Midtown] - Fulltime, but interns OK.

Space: Sales is the singularly most important function of any Company. Many new products and platforms have been created to help sales organizations with these changes but sales reps and sales managers lack a compelling, easy to use, interface to organize, visualize, and share data about their prospects and sales performance.

Solution: We are building a sales platform that automatically interfaces and integrates with all backend sales systems and tools (CRM, Email, Calendar, Social, etc). Our initial product radically simplifies how sales reps organize and interact with the prospect/buyers It’s an elegantly-designed product adapted to let them efficiently sell to their prospects without the headaches of CRM entry or spreadsheets.

We’re an Atlanta startup looking for passionate hackers that love building amazing, technically-difficult products that make huge impact on people’s lives. We’re a small team with a strong background: a wildly successful serial entrepreneur that can’t stop and a passionate ex-Googler that lives on the forefront of tech.

You:

- Love the full stack. It’s OK if you don’t have chops in every technology that we’re using, but you should genuinely be eager about learning. Here’s what comprises our stack: AngularJS, Meteor/Node.js, Javascript, Sass, Go (aka Golang), IPython (data science).

- Look forward to building and owning huge parts of the product. You’ll be one of the first technical hires and there are a lot of exciting pieces to work on, lets chat and we can find the right fit for you.

- Love to get going -- have the mentality of a hacker and the quality of a pro.

- Yearn for the high rewards of an early stage startup. Lucky for you, not so much risk as we have a great comp plan lined up for you.

- Want to influence and grow the culture of a young company. The way we see it: We’re building something of immense value, let’s have fun doing it.

- Live in Atlanta, or can make the move.

- Are full-time, part-time or looking for an internship. If you’re a rockstar, we don’t care what your deal is, let’s get you on board!
It's the first time I heard of this rule, thanks.

As far as I understand, it only limits professional diagnostics, shouldn't it be OK if it's not done as a practicing psychatrist (i.e. call it an analysis or interpretation and not a diagnostic)?
> I believe, MD has proliferated this far, not because it is an ambiguous, open to interpretation spec but in-spite of that.

Gruber apparently directly disagrees with this:

https://twitter.com/gruber/status/507364924340060160
That's a reasonable response. I've got another vote for android, but I'll hold onto it and be jealous of my iphone friends. They seem to be enjoying it.
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Ask HN: Startup says secured funding at 100M valuation, what does this mean?
The founder says he's received a private equity investment at a ~$100 million USD valuation, but isn't willing to share the details beyond that they have runway for 2-3 years.

Does this mean that an investor has given X million dollars to the company for X% of ownership? Is there some discount factor at play? ...As it seems incredibly high from watching Shark Tank.

There's also 10-15 other people working for him for the past year for an unknown (to me) amount of compensation.

He'd like me to join their growing engineering team (I'd be #6) and while the team itself seems young and smart, without having a clearer picture of the business and finances, I'm not so sure I'd be comfortable joining them.

What do you think is going on? I've never worked for a startup. Is it the norm to be secretive and not tell potential employees of your investments and finances?
Perhaps relevant: http://www.thebaffler.com/blog/mouthbreathing-machiavellis/
I think this is the first time I've heard his voice. Wow. The guy who played "Peter Gregory" in HBO's Silicon Valley nailed his voice. lol.
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And the replies there show that Gruber is wrong. I know I don't like the guy, but is he really this full of himself?
"I'd love to use that with my girlfriend (shit, is it sexist to say that?)"

It's not sexist at all to say "I'd love to use that with my girlfriend." It might be a bit sexist to say "I wish my girlfriend would use that", maybe. It's at least a little jerky, and possibly a little sexist, to say "shit, is it sexist to say that?"
"TeX" is literally a substring of "LaTeX", just like "Markdown" is a substring of "Standard Markdown".

Further, I don't really want to write TeX. I want to write LaTeX, and only care about a PDF output, which isn't what the original TeX program specializes in at all.

Standard Markdown is a breath of fresh air that ensures the continued success of Markdown, just like LaTeX did for TeX. Of course, only a few websites have adopted it for now, but I would not be flabbergasted if I started seeing more websites adopt it.

TeX is dead. So is Markdown. We have a new king.
stuff I’ve done with Wordpress lately…

- made a paid membership system for a major trade organization, including renewable credit card payments and integration with a third-party CRM

- built an event tracking calendar, including import from Eventbrite

- a password-protected “garden” for designers to exchange wireframes and portfolio pieces with clients

It all works extremely well. Wordpress is open, well-supported and well-documented. I don't like the templating language (at all), but otherwise Wordpress works extremely well and is somehow improving with age.
UBER is far from a commodity.

The ride sharing business(especially if we talk about 2 or more people sharing a ride with the same driver) has strong network effects - the more passengers you have ,you can offer cheaper prices and share rides optimally.

In business that enjoys a network effects we usually see one winner controlling the market, and i suspect that's what we'll see here, and that's why UBER got such a huge valuation.
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You know that the simplicity Jobs rallyed for so hard early on is probably why computers are so successful in the mainstream, right?
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I wonder, is there a good open source Go-based blogging platform out there, too?
Yes, but the author's statement was made in direct response to Gruber's; the author was aware of, and responding to that statement.
Hackers build things to scratch itches, and then they share them. The fact that it's a particular other person's itch that got the ball rolling is interesting and potentially inspirational.
Did you not read the next sentence? "Implementations MAY accept longer keys.".
It should say "of at least 2048 bits", I'll update the docs.
That it is seemingly chaotic doesn't make it chaotic, and I'm interested in the mathematical proof that behavior can't be predicted. Don't confuse limited ability to predict with impossibility. We can make many confident statements about the likelihood of certain behaviors/reactions/response, in the aggregate, under given real-world circumstances.

You are correct in that much research, especially research older than 10 years ago, tended to ignore culture. I know my field of study (I/O Psychology) references cultural frequently, either through overt study when possible (desirable given the publication potential) or at least remarking on the limitations of any findings. I don't read much outside I/O research though, so maybe it hasn't progressed much on the whole and the global nature of I/O work for businesses rewards more recognition of culture. It's hard though - accessing globally-relevant datasets for studies of human behavior is often impossible. That doesn't make all studies meaningless, or unscientific.

And yes, you're correct about value-laden framing of results. That doesn't invalidate the science of the results, it just makes it more necessary to think critically when interpreting them rather than relying on abstracts and headlines alone.
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I was wondering that too, but I could not find this quote cited anywhere. Did I miss it?
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> Deresiewicz says essentially the same thing, urging students to flee the Ivy League in favor of smaller colleges like Wesleyan, Reed and Grinnell, where the students are more passionate and receptive...

This is terrible advice and simply not true. I went to a small, solidly ranked liberal arts school. Most of the students also drank incredibly hard; they had little regard for academics; and while it was true that you could always get in contact with a professor, the faculty was of a far lower quality than you would find at an ivy league university. Research opportunities were also non-existent.

> where the students are ... less prone to unseemly résumé-padding

It's certainly true that my school did not emphasize résumé-padding, and the end result was that none of my friends who majored in STEM related fields got into top graduate programs, and none of my friends / anyone else I knew outside of such fields achieved meaningful employment following graduation.
I think a game changer cash position for most people is 2.5MM liquid -- not tied up in real estate.

5MM means you're flying business/first with your family anytime/anywhere. You may have a pied a terre somewhere.

10MM means you're angel investing, vacationing, and not generally "working" anymore.

15M++ means you bank with The Private Bank of Wells Fargo, have a ridiculous line of credit // no checking account, multiple properties, trust, etc.
They are bound by the fact that it's about the name 'Markdown', the code/spec is irrelevant, hence the words 'Neither the name "Markdown"...". Discussions about code/spec/philosopy are irrelevant and would be deemed as such in court.

It's too bad because I actually really like this, but I think it's not going to take off because of all the courtroom drama.
The comparison has nothing to do with agreement.
The issue I have is that my day job is fairly demanding, and by the time I get home my brain is so fried that the last thing I want is to do even more work. And even if I find it in myself to do it, the quality I put out tends to be... meh.

The reason I want to quit is to force myself to abandon the safety net of a stable day job. I have enough saved up where I can go jobless for a year or so, which should be sufficient time to devote my full energy to ideas. In the end, even if things don't work out, I suspect that my batteries will be recharged and I'll be ready to go back to a steady day job.

Maybe I'm just horribly wrong, though. One way to find out, right? :)
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Namuan is mobile service company.
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We are preparing new service.
In Arizona you could also do something for solar panels. Solar panel companies are always trying to sell panels, but they can't tell you right away (a) what size/shape panels you can fit on your roof and (b) how much energy you're likely to generate, and what that's worth. I bet if they could give us that info (and it came from an impartial 3rd party like your startup) specifically customized for my house, they'd have a much better chance of selling me solar panels.
"Space is not a big playing field." - had me fooled.
Yeah, the disputing of possession bugs me. Certainly it's true that I do not possess my wife, but I also don't possess my brother and he's still my brother and there's nothing weird about that phrasing.

Though it is worth noting that not many do get annoyed at that phrasing, and overgeneralizing to paint others with it and thinking that has any bearing on their concerns is poor reasoning.
Holy shit. ~30 transistors make a game? Woz was a genius.
Spent 5 years at one of NASA's prime subcontractors, positions ranging from mechanical CAD jockey to assistant program director.

This "guide" was written by a gentleman in the last years of his 37 year career. I saw many similar guides/reviews of programs that were way behind sched and over budget. All written by retiring/recently retired upper management, they'd come in under a budget provided by some government oversight company or consulting group. They'd poke sticks into every group, come up with their assessment, then drop it on the active program director's desk. The program director would assign actions, the gov't oversight group could check off the box that it participated in "program saving" guidance, and 3 months later everyone forgets/ignores the input.

I think this guide paints a clear picture of how inefficient and misguided gov't run programs are for those that can stand to see it. The irony is so strong in the title, it's verging on sad. It is hard to believe anything ground breaking or efficient was ever created by following a "100 Rules" guide.
tex, unlike gruber's markdown, is both maintained and has a turing complete language inside it. I don't think gruber's markdown is a good core for anything. Rather, people really like the idea, and have been filling in missing features along the way.
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It's crazy that this is even an issue. Investors fighting over YC companies to the extent that YC has to play politics to make sure everyone is getting a fair shot; that's pretty insane.

The accelerator I participated in had relatively open doors and investors who came to everything from office hours to pitch practice. We ended up taking money from one of the most involved investors first, (and left some who really wanted to participate out) but the group of investors who didn't get in on the deal said, "Well it's fair if they want to put that much time and effort into it; we're not willing to do that."

It is, however, a major signal; if the guys who know you intimately well don't want to invest, could cause other investors to be cautious/skeptical, which isn't fair to the companies that don't get an investment from the YC partners.
There's an idea. I'll look into that, thanks.
I think you'd be surprised at how many people in the UK and Germany are (quite seriously) looking over to Lisboa as a place to go and work. The startup bubble that appears to be happening over there combined with the food, weather and culture is very attractive.

I visit Lisboa 2-3 times a year and every time I go back, it seems more vibrant, more buzzing with energy.
That's not an uncommon condition. It's happened in humans before, for example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfZWyUXn3So#t=37

Tom Lehrer's recent(-ish) song "Sociology" seems very relevant here.
Agree that it's shortsightedness.

But I think the problem goes much deeper: We keep building one-offs. Twitter - a one-off messaging service. Instagram - a one-off photo sharing app.

This is one of the reasons I started Buddycloud. We'd already built a nice location and social app but eschewed the VC cash to, dare I use the word, pivot, and build a different way of building apps.

Instead of building another one-off social-location-system like Foursquare, we decided it better to build a federated platform that others can then start building on. The federation and run-it-yourself mentality means that our users don't end up in the Twitpic scenario and that there are always other suppliers that will host your pictures in a compatible way. In a way that fosters competition between providers without needing to resort to switching friction cost to keep users.

In the Twitpic case, the buddycloud media server is designed to be a plug-in federated media hosting provider for each domain. Don't like how one provider is dealing with you data? Just switch.

It's not been easy to get this far, but we're starting to see traction from ex-app.net devs who are looking for something a bit more open that they can also run themselves (as a Docker container). And I still believe that the real solutions will be based on federated open systems that form a foundation so that developers can innovate further up the stack.
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Exactly, I don't understand people making the argument that a project is abandonned because it doesn't evolve, I think that Gruber thinks it's a feature. I also understand why another group of people would want to make evolve and extend this work I think it's fair. But what I don't get is this offensive naming Standard Markdown it is somewhat made to make look Markdown deprecated, old, instead of simply communicating on the idea that it is a different project originally based on Markdown but oriented in a different direction. Worst of all I think this naming was choosen on purpose.
Thanks. That fits my general idea of FreeBSD. I've mostly wondered about how they technically compare though. Facebook seems to think Linux is generally faster for example[1]. I'd love to follow this more closely but I haven't found a LWN equivalent for the BSDs.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/608954/
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I'm curious how these things would have mated. You'd think with a size that large they would have a difficult time getting into position.
This reads like the only reasons why jitneys were regulated was to protect entrenched interests of railways. That seems to not be a particularly good thing then or now.
> It's a shame they don't try something similar these days - private minibuses that you can flag down.

NYC still has dollar vans

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/interactive-new-y...
I asked Gruber specifically whether he approved, and he was VERY clear, he did not. It's therefore a dick move, period end. Voting me down doesn't change the fact that it's a dick move. The reason the team wants to use the Markdown name is because of the currency behind it. It's Gruber's currency.
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> When insects feed on caffeine-spiked nectar, they get a beneficial buzz: they become much more likely to remember the scent of the flower.

This sound very interesting. But has it been reproduced experimentally? I would be very interested in seeing the results of such an experiment, as I'm not sure this would happen (at least not if the animals live in the wild).
For those looking for a Wordpress alternative. I recently launched http://www.webhook.com . It acts like a static site generator like Jekyll and deploys static websites, but it allows for a pretty CMS on the backend that your clients can still edit. There's a UI focused form-builder that removes the normal model layer.

We've been open sourcing the entire thing under an MIT license. The server layer is the last bit and will be available next week.

Specifically anyone coming from a Django / Twig background will probably love our template layer.
I see that many people handle many responsibilities while the rest of the team is completely oblivious of the extent of their contribution.

But I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about risk. That's being picked up by only me and is _the_ determinating variable in the end game from my moral viewpoint. Risk can be in form of financial risk, time, legal... But I'm here taking all that while they're being paid market rate to, what, do regular JavaScript, Photoshop and ability to pack their suitcase and leave with no consequences at any point they feel like?

Nah, I don't think so.

My personal work experience has led me to believe that world is filled with self-entitled people without much to support it in either responsibility/risk handling/actual productive value. Mind you, we're from different cultures (Balkan).
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That's true, but I find it difficult to understand where it's coming from purely descriptively as well. I think Peter Thiel is a well-known venture capitalist who is associated by the general public with Silicon Valley, but I would be very surprised if a significant fraction of the public thinks of him as a "public intellectual". If anything, I think he is often thought of (mistakenly) as mainly a technologist. I've frequently seen him referred to with the assumption that he has an Andreessen or Graham or Musk type background: a programmer/dev who got rich in the first dot-com boom, and then invested his tech winnings. It seems to be less well known that Thiel made his fortune in finance, before entering tech investment, and isn't a techie at all.

If you were to ask people who they think of as America's leading public intellectual, some people who I think would come out ahead (on the basis of quite different audiences): Noam Chomsky, Daniel Dennett, Richard Posner, Paul Krugman, Jared Diamond, Clay Shirky, David Graeber, Francis Fukuyama, Neil deGrasse Tyson, etc.
We're integrating Datastax Enterprise at GoGuardian. So far things have been great! I think the biggest win for us is their solr integration. Data written to Cassandra nodes automatically becomes available to search from solr nodes - No indexing pipeline needed. They also have an interesting hadoop layer which I haven't looked into.

Really looking forward to more from Datastax!
Is anyone actually arguing that that no one should ever write a specification? Everything I've seen has been about the co-opting of the name. That seems to be Gruber's issue:

Marco: What if they just make their own thing,
give it their own name, and see if it catches on?

[Gruber]: Exactly!

https://twitter.com/gruber/status/507590561172176897
You may have nothing to hide, but if what you do have is shown in a misleading context, it can be quite damaging.
When it comes to blog posts on Markdown standardization, I think that Gruber's stance that Markdown succeeded because of its lack of specification is assumed background information. I don't think that tweet is the first time Gruber has expressed the sentiment.
Those cards are more for the purpose of giving the company your contact info in case they need to notify you of a product recall. Still, the idea makes sense.
>How is forcing that indie developer in live in Alaska, much different from the Soviets shipping someone off to Siberia because they didn't get with the plan?

Because one of them involves the choice between the gulag and death and the other involves the choice between being a poverty-stricken artist and anything else you might decide to do once you get over your art and quit.
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> Knuth's TeX can be called "TeX".

Not true, actually, I believe he's made allowances for other implementations to be called that IFF they implement it correctly. I still believe it's controlled by him, but it's not a completely frozen name.
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What do you use today?