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It's not strictly value to society. It's not a measure of personal worth, either.

It's how much profit your work generates for the company.
I had to stare at this for few minutes before I figured out how the ICE part
drove the planetary gears. They're mounted on a disc, so that the system in
profile is:

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You're right that the official unemployment rate reported by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (U3) excludes "discouraged workers" who have given up looking for work.

However, the BLS also publishes a rate that includes discouraged workers (U4), as well as a rate that includes "marginally attached workers" who would like to work, but for whatever reason have not looked for work recently (U5). All 3 of these have returned to normal levels [1].

There's also the U6 rate, which includes workers who are part-time, but would like to work full-time. [2]

[1] http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=10Uy

[2] http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=10UE
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i never miss out on dates anymore!
Lead generation feels much more viable, imho (and likely far more lucrative). You are venturing into a very crowded space, but I would suggest taking a long, hard look at Thumbtack.com - they have done an outstanding job.
I think a large part of the reason that men are more likely to end up "on the bottom" of society is that men have smaller support systems/friend networks than women. Some of the reasons for this are stigma against men expressing vulnerability, stigma against men seeking help, homophobia around close male friendships, gender expectations that women should do more "emotional work" than men, and stereotypes that women are social and men are not. Feminism seeks to dismantle all of the above, so in that sense, it would make it possible for men to have much stronger support networks.

Additionally, many (most?) feminists believe in "intersectionality", the belief that sexism, racism, classism, ableism, and heterosexism act in intersecting ways, and that all need to be dismantled together (for instance, this is why most feminists support reform of the US prison system, even though this is something that primarily effects men). Dismantling these oppressive systems would very much help those on the bottom.

The exclusive-focus-on-more-white-woman-as-CEOs brand of feminism is actually a minority of feminists (although they seem to get the most coverage in the popular press) and is widely critiqued within feminism.
This is so true. I've been interviewing for summer internships with various startups in NYC/SF. I'm not a fresh graduate. I have over three years of quite relevant work-experience. The consistent opinion of all the start-ups are that they treat their interns as full-time employees in terms of responsibility, ownership, etc. It's only during compensation that they start talking about risk, start-up status, etc. If you really want to treat us like full-time employees, you should consider paying the interns like full-time employees as well.
The culture here is higher risk and geared towards building the next unicorn companies. That is why equity plays such a significant role.

> Their ownership is purely symbolic, in a relative sense

You're downplaying the significance of a 0.5-1% stake. 1% of the next Facebook would definitely not be purely symbolic. Late stage VC investments are lucky to get a few percentage points in a company; this is the only opportunity in the company's life where a non-c-level employee could get that kind of a stake.

It is a lot less than what founders get, but if you don't like that you can always try your hand at being a founder yourself.

There are of course countless anecdotes that can be told about how someone's equity stake didn't amount to much. Because the majority don't. But we are geared towards trying to be a part of something that is truly very big and world changing, and that is riskier.
Science on science, it's a thing. Also named Theory of Science, it studies Science from a philosophical view and brings up questions like "If we have measured something to be the same 10000 times, can we be sure it will be same the 10001st time?"

What happens when you do that? Well, for me what happens is the realization of the value of being pragmatic. Truth is, like Descartes said, we can't really know anything but our own existence, and depending on your definition of existence, even that can be questioned. But what is the value in that? Now when I know I know nothing, is it a good basis to live my life upon?

My answer to that is no, it's not a good basis to stand on. Instead I choose to approach it pragmatically, or as an engineer if you prefer, "I accept my perception of reality* as real" and "a useful fact is information that can somehow be used to predict the future"

But then, I tend to like answers more than questions, I guess it comes included with my engineering degree.

* Not meaning that everything I perceive in a given moment has to be real, rather that my understanding of the world is my best guess of how things are.
That's an interesting view. My English is not so good. What I meant was that getting a wife is the result of being successful for the Chinese guys I know. If you have a stable job, an apartment and a car you are quite likely to get a wife. But there are many people applying for the jobs, and cars/apartments are more expensive than in the west.

Or was your comment linked to that in some way?
Given that 125k is apparently "low", and barely liveable in Silicon Valley, can someone please break down the costs for me? Even at a rent of $2-3k, you'd have ridiculous amounts of money left.
With your submission history, I'd be hesitant to give you an invite.

I notice the same few article sources pop up again and again and again (techrunch, superbcrew, smashingmagazine).

Keep the wantrepreneur stuff here at HN where it belongs.
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The fact that they led off with being a "Libra of Libras" immediately made me dismissive. Had to overcome a lot of bias right from the get-go.
At one time around DC, for mostly US
DoD and NASA work, there was a shortage
of people good in math and software.
So, once in two weeks I went on seven
interviews and got five offers.

At one point I was making in
annual salary six times
what a high end new Camaro cost.
Now that would be ballpark $240,000,
and jobs were plentiful.

That's something like the situation
when companies really want good employees.

Net, so far Silicon Valley doesn't really
want good employees. Neither do NYC or
Boston. Not yet.
but its not going to be 1% at that stage, its going to have far far more dilution as you raise more money.
They're very similar, yes. Here's a detailed article comparing and contrasting the two:

http://www.motortrend.com/features/editorial/1010_unbolting_...
The author initially sets up this piece to be a criticism of quantum mysticism. However, as the post goes on, it seems to become a dismissal of quantum mechanics all together -- based on an obvious bias for determinacy.
serious question: how is this better than a reminder / reminder app?
> perhaps the fact that you describe yourself as 'gloomy' is the reason americans do not find it easy to befriend you even after a few drinks.

Funnily, Europeans have started labeling me as too cheery, smiley, and direct. Too American.

And yes, it could well be the sense of common cultural heritage at play here. But Europeans in general don't have as much of a common heritage as Americans do, and we all grew up on American culture anyway. Particularly for everyone growing up in the 90's when American stuff was extremely popular here as we were trying to be less like The Old System (tm) and embrace The Capitalism (tm).

Although there are a lot of differences in observing a culture and actually living it. I'll grant you that.

At the end of the day, this is anecdata. Your mileage may vary.
I will never succumb to forced indifference!
F*ck the boring lists of banking services. Millennials need engaging Card UI
"1% of the next Facebook would definitely not be purely symbolic."

But what percentage of companies are going to be the next Google or Facebook or Apple? Companies that make their founders billionaires and their employees millionaires are very, very rare. If you were an early employee of any of these companies, you probably couldn't have predicted how big these companies would be today.
It honestly blows my mind that there is backlash against ES6. The new features solve so many pain points I've experienced in MVC and library development:

- ridiculously verbose syntax for anonymous functions

- lack of a module system

- no string interpolation (seriously!)

- no block scoping - super annoying

- lack of language level support for immutability

- clumsy 'this' management

- clumsy variadic functions

- competing promise implementations

- competing and poorly interoperating class implementations

... And so on. This is a huge step forward and it should help redefine Javascript coding style in a much better way. My only complaint is that they didn't deprecate poorly designed features of the past.
It's interesting to think why it feels like written by a woman, I had the same assumption the whole time.

Maybe it's as simple as the opening sentence, "I'm a Libra", which has a grammatically feminine noun. I wonder if the feeling depends on the native language of the reader.
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Something not in the original http://amasci.com/holo/ site is the discovery that if you scratch complete circles rather than arcs, then rotate the whole plate under the light, the hologram rotates around an axis normal to the plate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtmGgmhWBAc
Laser cutters are still a bit pricey, but 3D printers can be had in kit form for $500 now ( https://reprappro.com/shop/reprap-kits/huxley-duo-kit/ ), and the filament is dirt cheap.

I think the biggest block these days on 3d printing becoming more mainstream is the complexity of the design tools, rather than the equipment costs.
I see this argument all the time.The point is that you cold achieve blockhain consensus without all that wasted energy and polluting the planet.
Have you considered it is a negotiating tactic on the part of the company? If they listed starting salaries at $140k that puts a floor on any salary negotiation with a prospective candidate. Where as if they open ridiculously low then come up 20% above the job add number in the initial offer the candidate might think "wow they really want me" count themselves lucky and accept that thinking they got a good deal. It could also be meant to target candidates outside the Bay area where 60-110k might be a decent salary.
Give it a few years, you wont have to force anything!
One thing I have found interesting is that as you go more north in the US, a culture of explicit niceness becomes palpable. I have always though weather may have some relationship, as Canada by reputation would fit this view.
How to make the decision? How to execute it?

And for what reason (what did you like about it?)
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The phrase "just another rhythm method" is potentially quite misleading or indicative of misunderstanding – I don't presume to know your motives for employing the phrase.

Now, there is a true sense in which all NFP methods can be described as "rhythm" methods, i.e. human female fertility displays cyclic characteristics (generally speaking) between puberty and menopause, so methods which employ observation of a woman's fertility signs are tuning into the "rhythm" of her cycle.

But, "rhythm method" has become synonymous with Calendar Rhythm Method, the early-modern forms of which date back to the 1920s. The failure rate for typical use of historical rhythm method is higher than, say, the pill or condoms, and since the middle of the last century it has been dismissed as an effective form of birth control.

Several NFP methods developed since that time (mid 20th Century) involve more than marking days on a calendar. The woman, or the couple together, track one or more well-researched signs of fertility: basal body temperature, cervical mucus, changes in the cervix. Current and past observations are correlated according to straightforward rules to determine the start and end of a fertile period (i.e. "abstinence days" from vaginal intercourse, for those hoping to avoid pregnancy). So while days do get marked on a calendar, these methods are different enough in practice, and with respect to their effectiveness, that it's incorrect to lump them together with the older rhythm method. To avoid misperception, researchers themselves refer to these methods as FA, FAB, or FAM – "fertility awareness [based] [method/s]" – and not as "rhythm methods".

There is a true successor to the old calendar rhythm method. It was developed in the late 1990s and is called the Standard Days Method. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar-based_contraceptive_me...

http://www.cyclebeads.com/research

As to the NYT's chart: as I said previously, I am a little dubious that it accurately reflects the worldwide data collected for the effectiveness of modern NFP. Which is not to say that I think the chart's creator is intentionally trying to mislead the Times' readership.

I have no comment on the effectiveness of modern IUDs, though I refer you to the German study I linked in a later comment above for additional info on NFP's effectiveness.

The larger point, sometimes missed by people who have a knee-jerk reaction to mention of NFP, is that its modern methods offer viable, drug-free, surgery-free, inexpensive approaches to birth control, which can be used effectively by rich and poor alike.
I don't know how we are in relation to Czechs, but one of things I hear as an American is that we are often too quick to talk about politics. Whereas, in many cultures, politics is considered almost taboo to talk about with all but the closest friends and family.
There is a lot of value in working for a bit with one of the big players, and seeing first-hand what a well-established code-base looks like, the big day-to-day problems of maintenance, and have people checking your work in ways that you might not get at a small startup where the quantity/quality tradeoff is at a different place.

Many of the old-school Caribbean pirates were in the navy first, after all...
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Depends on which bit fails, but increases in packet loss are a common early symptom of small components no longer acting within their specs.

Network cards are subject to lots of signal phenomena that are rare inside the chassis. Long cables are pretty good antennas for certain types of RF signals, so there are all kinds of electrical noises, induced power spikes and other miscellaneous garbage that the network card has to tolerate. Well-shielded cables can help protect the card, but it's definitely one interface that's subject to a bit more electrical abuse than the rest.

Components that have been stressed beyond their tolerances a few times can result in things like signal filters having a lower noise threshold, which makes it harder for the card to pick out the signal from the noise, which leads to more packet loss. After enough abuse, the threshold drops below the usable level and communications halt.

There are lots of factors involved, such as shielding, proximity to nearby radiators, bend radius in cables, cable length, temperature, etc, etc. Whenever I delve into this world, I'm often amazed that anything works at all.
> unless the extension is forever, which is impossible given our current understanding of physics

If our problem moves from "how do we live longer than ~120 years or so" to "how do we outlive the heat death of the universe", that's a rather impressive improvement, and it gives us a lot more time to solve the admittedly harder problem.
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Wife acquisition will continue to be a measure of success so long as China's sex ratio at birth is 1.1 men to every woman.

No wife means not only a lonely existence, but also no children to care for you in your old age. If that isn't failure, I don't know what is.
Given that the median home price is over $1 million if you want to own a home you're going to be paying closer to $4k/month for a mortgage. After taxes that 125k is closer to 90k take home and once you put away more of that for retirement/savings you're looking at only $2k/month to pay all the bills and pay for food. For a single 22 year old it's no problem, but for someone trying to raise a family and support others it will be scraping by.
To me it just sounds like a car or motorbike driving by.
Not just fun, I don't always enjoy switching desktop environments. I've never used LXDE (I'm sure it's great) but I'd imagine switching to it is just like every other migration: it takes time before you're as productive with the new as you were with the old. And when I used it I really, really liked Openbox. You just have so much control over your environemnt.

That said I'm using XFCE at the moment because it "just works" and it's doubtful it will ever require any amount of time or energy. I chose it over Openbox/Crunchbang specifically because I wanted something I didn't have to think about.
How much energy do ATMs, banking mainframes, security trucks, HFT, chip & pin machines, accounting PCs, minting etc. consume?

Let's compare like to like.
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However, if they advertise a ridiculously low salary, they risk being ignored by most competent developers.
If you keep working hard and are good at your work employers and clients will hopefully see past your demeanour.

Some of the most competent people I know come across as grumpy and aloof. They get respect because they know their stuff and care about their work, and that shines through.
"Excoin is still under DDOS attack which makes it very difficult to investigate the causes of these issues."

This makes little sense to me.
True but my point still stands even if there is dilution. 0.5% of Facebook would still be worth a billion dollars. Even at a company that's 1/100th as successful as Facebook that's a $10M stake.
Every time I've been offered options / equity in lieu of higher salary, I've taken the higher salary instead and ended up better off.

Some people don't want to play the odds game and would rather just have the money to use now.
Obviously, the market value of such a result is in the order of billions, if not trillions.
It's not the same economy scale though.
I'm tired this is another article that address nothing as stake argument. Nothing at Stake - Nothing to Fear : http://bytemaster.bitshares.org/article/2015/01/08/Nothing-a...
"[T]here are mostly men at the top [and] at the bottom"

That's consistent with analysis by Howard Wainer[1] on gender differences:

"[I]t has been well established that there is an overabundance of boys at the high end of test score distributions. [S]ome observers have used such results to make inferences about differences in intelligence between the sexes. [H]owever, most enlightened investigators have seen that it is not necessarily a difference in level but a difference in variance that separates the sexes. Thus, while there are more boys at the high end, there are also more at the low end."

[1] The Most Dangerous Equation http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s8863.pdf
> RAID controllers fail left and right. we keep tons of spares around.

Kind of scary. I would guess the replacement should be perfectly identical, to the last firmware bit (... and giving
thanks that no subtle circuit timing factors are involved).
> Of course, their numbers are also inflated with the cost of living in the Bay, so scale accordingly if you don't live there.

Only if your job offer is in the Bay Area. Some of these companies have branches in smaller cities where the cost of living (and consequently pay) is lower.
I thought Silicon Valley was phasing out old people, not 'curing ageing'
Huh, I guess maybe it only applies to British, Canadians and Kiwis?

I have a friend who consciously does not want to talk about taboo topics because then she could find out her friends are assholes...
I have fond memories of m0n0wall. Thanks for the great work.
Lots of third parties have sprung up offering services for situations where official support is too expensive or not available on a legacy product. Probably more visible and known to most of us are the people who carry out repairs on mobile devices such as replacing screens and usb ports.

I like that this fellow publicized his experience this way because it's spread around virally. For me, it seems like robbery when I have to pay for something I could otherwise DIY because I don't possess some small knowledge like a procedure or drawing.
Thanks, that's really useful to know — I'll be looking for a new job very soon, and I'm massively out of touch with what's normal.

I've 6 years experience at a scientific charity, but I only get paid £35k. It's interesting work, but since December I've been in a "team" of one — not fun. Pay is very inflexible — £70k is more than my manager's manager is paid.
>Super grateful that they took a chance on me. Really happy that I got a chance to earn my stripes and was trusted enough to dig into and shape the infrastructure, but I've been thinking about jumping ship mostly for money. I feel like I should bring it up, but I have the distinct feeling there isn't any more money (they share the financial info from time to time).

I think this is one of the more useful comments here; companies offering $60K/yr are looking for the untested, the brand new and the long-term unemployed. People that need a chance.

I mean, no judgement; those people need jobs, too. And sometimes, sometimes you can find someone really good in one of those categories. There's a huge difference between a not so good and a really good developer, so you can sometimes do well as a company hiring from that pool, but you are shutting yourself off from all the good people that are proven, so it's a lot more work to find good people.

fullstacknyc:

My advice to you? Ask for more money, in a non-confrontational way. Leave out the "or I leave" bit.

Regardless of the answer, spend some time interviewing around. If you can get a 30%+ raise, and you almost certainly can, well, I'd switch jobs, personally. If nothing else, it feels good to know you can.
sunday morning.

wake up, take a shower, wash yourself, your head, take a good shave, use cologne, aftershave, and surprise your girl at bed smelling really good and give her some good sex.

most of the time, I wash myself for my girlfriend, I use cologne for her, and I try to look and smell good for her.
There are several sites doing SSD stress tests. This one claims to have written 2 Petabytes to a drive without failing:

http://techreport.com/review/27436/the-ssd-endurance-experim...
A $125K floor-rate in the SF-bay area sounds about right. The competition for developers hasn't let up, and many startups ($10M+ in funding) are using cash as a weapon.

This IMO represents the biggest threat to early-stage startups out of YC or other incubators. Anything less than $100K is not a liveable salary in San Francisco.