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Sure, and Harvard is supported by ads, you just don't realize it.

(sell an education->create wealthy people->ask them to contribute->get endowment whose returns account for the largest source of its operating revenue[1])

but I find your semantics frankly ridiculous. yes hacker news belongs to ycombinator. but you can't just use the word ad however you want. No, not everything's an ad, and in particular you can't 'buy' a job ad on HN. It's not a good description of the situation.

[1] http://www.harvard.edu/about-harvard/harvard-glance/endowmen... "The endowment remains the largest source of revenue supporting the University budget."
What do you think about my summer internship application? (open for comments)
Not in the last 24h, but I pushed to production on Friday. We use Haskell at IMVU to power some of our web services and persistent stateful servers like the matchmaker.

http://engineering.imvu.com/2014/03/24/what-its-like-to-use-...
Hi! I'd love to get feedback on my CV, I'm looking for a summer internship abroad in 2015. How do you think I could improve it? Do you like it? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Best regards,
Marcus from Sweden
It matters less what you think is reasonable and more what competing companies are willing to pay me.

Right, and apparently it's $60-110K, which is my point.
A pre-publication version http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/BestSmalltalkPract... is in Stéphane Ducasse's free collection of old Smalltak books http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/ , though not linked from that page for some reason.
I play doom almost every day...

Every year, amazing new wads are released. New ports pop up and old ports get improved. Doom is still very much alive.

Right now I'm playing through Valiant (RC).
Getting Process Invocations: The Hard Way
I wrote about how to research labor statistics on salary here: http://www.greenwave-solutions.com/getting-labor-data-about-...

SV median salary for software development jobs (loosely defined) was about $122k in 2014. SF was about $110.
Engineers are not liable for not preventing sabotage (like a a bomb for example) however.
> If the company is truly successful, you're looking to make over $1 million. Even if you're underpaid by $50k, that's 20-years worth of difference, which you'll see in under 5 years.

You can't evaluate the "equity" part of compensation like that. The chances of that happening are very low, and you're most likely to get diluted further. E.g. the chances of >$100M exit are 10% (which is a huge overestimate), it takes 5 years, and you get diluted 50% (so you end up with 0.5% of the company): you get $1M, which is $200K per year, with a probability of 10%, so the expected value is $20K. Sure, the exit might be an order (or two) of magnitude higher, but the chances of that happening drop even more rapidly.

Of course, you might be risk-loving, accept the equity not for the expected value, but for the variance, but then again, I don't think it's (usually) worth it.
> How does this make it not low cost? Transferring that $10 still only costs $.02

Assuming max TPS rate of 3tps, a 10-minute block will contain 3 * 60 * 10 = 1800 transactions. Each block generates 25btc, which is equivalent $6125 at the current $245 price.

Each transaction therefore costs $6125 / 1800 = $3.40.

Of this only a small amount is paid for the by the person who creates the transaction, the rest of paid for by those who hold Bitcoin.
Check out Morozov's amazing work on the philosophical underpinnings of one of the web's most powerful figures: http://www.thebaffler.com/salvos/the-meme-hustler
Something like :

- http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/7/21/stackoverflow-upda...

- https://github.com/blog/530-how-we-made-github-fast
You might be able to get by with 90k, assuming you're frugal, though given the rents today, it would be wise to live outside the city. 60k would be a pretty crappy existence in SF these days.
Like OP said, AngelList gives ranges for salary and equity.
A lot of it just feels like cleaner versions of patterns people have been using for a long time. There's a few things I'm worried about:

* Tagged template strings might have some potential to be abused in interesting ways, since it looks like the tag function doesn't actually have to return a string.

* The Object destructuring/enhanced literals (and the Object rest/spread proposal in ES7) still take a lot of mental energy for me to parse. I'm worried they could be a maintenance liability in large projects, but that remains to be seen.

* Async functions/generators in ES7 will probably take a while to get used to, as well, but I felt the same way about Promises when they were first introduced, and they didn't turn out to be too bad. I don't have an issue with normal Promises/generators, so this might just be a matter of me needing to see the async stuff as a whole instead of the sum of its parts.
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One could argue that this way the lessons from the break-in do not stay in-house as the people who got fired get replaced by presumably less experienced ones. I get that they want to incentivize people to do their best, but just getting outsmarted doesn't always signal incompetence and the next person on the job isn't likely to be better.
Not sure how Google will feel about it so I'm going to lay low and commit some code for them before I stir up any trouble.
Biased by my own experience and I can't speak to the average, but there are certainly plenty of small companies with pool tables, dart boards, and stocked refrigerators in NYC. Having seasons is preferable for many people. For the people who don't like the seasons, they are usually comforted by the infinite cultural novelty that is crammed within these streets. Both are nice places, but I'm pretty skeptical that anyone is paying less there "because it's nicer".
I think "technology" has become synonymous with mobile technology and their screens. Too much attention is being drawn to phones, while changing our ability to communicate with each other, our ability to physically manipulate the world has not moved forward.

On top of that, 3D printers and laser cutting machines are still pretty expensive. It will take about a decade before they are within reach to everybody.
same here, I visit this site so much that only typing 'N' does the job.
I didn't say that there was no difference in performance between uBlock and ABP. I was explaining that the performance problems with ABP are a result of it being misused. uBlock tolerates the abuse much better, but URL based blocking should still be the first line of defense.
Great point about the psychology of rejecting people and companies feeling the need to reject good candidates to "have a high bar." There is also something to be said for these companies demanding a vague passion for their product (or for you to fake it) rather than understanding it is a job and presumably the candidate is a professional.
> I'm pretty sure if you are a qualified heart surgeon, most places looking for heart surgeons will hire you, but if you are a qualified engineer you go through an insane interview process and no matter how good you are, 70% of the time you get rejected for some bullshit false negative reason.

Well, the obvious difference is that someone who is a heart surgeon has had about 16 years of general education and about 12 years of specialised education and has a certificate that proves that other doctors and heart surgeons believe that s/he can do the job EDIT: and can be sued for any mistake s/he makes... someone who is an engineer has a laptop (there's no such thing as a "qualified" engineer, IMO).
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Anyone know what the equivalent standards are for the UK?

Perspective: the average gross salary here is between £25-30k or around $46k max. $125k or £80k is senior staff pay in most organisations.

Even among general engineering positions (not necessarily coding), a 'good' salary here is £35-40k. From what Google tells me it looks like wages top out at around £50k for experienced devs.
The reason YC companies are offering salaries like that is because people accept them.

If people didn't accept them, they would offer higher salaries. They'd have to.

And if people are accepting those salaries, then that's fundamentally what the position is worth.

Why would they offer more money? There's no such thing as a salary floor for a position. There's a salary floor for a specific developer. It's based entirely on what that developer is willing to accept.
That's what startups are willing to pay. It's not competitive when considering non-startup work opportunities, which is OP's point.
The prince can as easily be attributed to the modern banking system as it can be to anarchy. Banks used to offer simple bailment, where people could deposit money for safeguard and convenience. The money or gold was still the property of the bailor, and the whole deal was a private arrangement between the bank and their customers.

Today, if I go to the bank and request a large withdraw from my savings account, I am required to provide a explanation for the withdraw and the teller can deny the withdraw at their discretion. They can at any point close accounts and hold money indefinite. They collect private and highly sensitive information about customers lives in secret for purposes of data mining and sharing it with private organizations and governments.

The price of the modern banking system is to me very high, higher than the waste from e-currencies. If it was an option, I would use the banks of old.
I don't understand why PFSense and OPNsense use FreeBSD and not OpenBSD which comes with a more advanced version of PF.

Is there any reasonable explanation for their choice? I'm using FreeBSD myself but not as a router. If I should choose an OS for router, I'd probably go with OpenWRT or OpenBSD.
Same for Chrome on Windows 10
no, they wont.
In NY, at least for a developer Google and Facebook have to compete against banks and hedge funds for talent. In my experience, Google can pretty well go toe-to-toe with them if they desire. So that finance offers higher compensation, means Google also has to offer higher compensation.

Now some speculation, if Google is offering higher compensation than they otherwise would, so will other companies competing for the same talent.

Even if you only think they are fiercely competing at the high-end of the market, I would believe there is some trickle down to the mid-range, which when then also go down to the lower end.
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Exactly. A setuid `delort-container` utility would be a good start.
It's not exactly that. More energy-effective systems allow you to mine the same bitcoins with lower electricity expenses. When bitcoin mining will hit the wall of physical restrictions, they will start to optimize energy efficiency.
> I would love to understand the logic here

I actually don't think this is unreasonable. Even if you are employee #5, you probably didn't work on the product for a couple years without paying yourself, pay 30k+ out of pocket for a patent, designers, and other initial expenses, raise the money to hire employees, etc.

At most startups, even if they are successful, there still isn't enough money to make everyone super wealthy. So I think it's reasonable that the bulk of the equity goes to the folks who took the most risk, and everyone else gets a decent salary, a reasonable work week, enough equity to be worth a nice bonus if the company is sold, and ownership over whatever side projects they create. Now if the company really was started two weeks ago and you're getting paid dramatically under market then that's a completely different story, but a lot of times even the earliest employees are only seeing the tip of the iceberg.
I think DOOM in particular may do well for modding because of its simple graphical engine. I think this is a case where "less is more".
Agreed. Anecdotal example one year out of school (not me but a friend): 120k base plus 15% bonus plus 300 RSUs over 4 years means total comp is in the 170k range.
In New York, people have given up on equity. I hear this time and again in the NYC tech scene - building a company is hard in NYC because people don't believe equity is worth anything because of the bullshit that happened in the first bubble. In New York especially, there were a lot of shenanigans with equity in 99/00 bubble/crash era where companies got sold and employees got nothing because of liquidation preferences and other things. The eco-system has not regained its trust and the mythos of worthless equity persists.

Your point about "what is that compared to the person next to you" reflects this: you're thinking about equity relative to others as important, vs. the odds that 1% turns into various amounts of money. YC companies get soft landings/acquihires at a high rate and also often become worth a lot. 1% equity in a YC company you believe in is equity worth having. (key words: you believe in).
> A lot of it just feels like cleaner versions of patterns people have been using for a long time.

This was a pretty explicit goal, what they called 'paving the cow path'
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available in the ports as mail/bogofilter

Might be a bit more work than SpamAssassin for MTA use as it seems to concentrate on single user use.
This was addressed in the article:

For Branden, the violent people Baumeister wrote about might have appeared confident, but underneath all that bluster they actually had low self-esteem.“One does not need to be a trained psychologist to know that some people with low self-esteem strive to compensate for their deficit by boasting, arrogance, and conceited behavior,” he wrote.

It's all a game of he said/she said. The bottom line is that the human mind is opaque. There's nothing easier than theorizing about something that can't be measured, or even directly observed.
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What Self-Esteem Is and Is Not
"Apple’s design team, software, and global distribution would actually LEVEL Tesla up."

"Software"... lately? No. Sorry. Don't agree on design either.

Thing is I'm not sure Elon wants to let go of Tesla. Tesla is on a roll right now and Elon strikes me as the kind of individual who would personally see that out, at least for the foreseeable future. He has visions of changing the world (and access to other worlds). He may take investments, but I don't think he's ready to see it sold outright.
Lots of the things on this list could be accomplished with a partnership rather than an acquisition. Can anyone elaborate as to why Apple might choose to acquire over simply buying in?
I'd argue the opposite. Cost of living is higher because it's nicer, aka the "sun tax". Startups therefore have to pay more because it's nicer.
Doesn't that actually increase the amount of trust required? What if the other party »convinces« you using a gun to hand over the money without giving the Bitcoins to you?
why is that a bad thing?
What is the advantage compared to TreeSet from standard library?
Doesn't work on Chrome / Linux, too.
It is not $50x20. It is $50 x 20 x percent-chance-of-amazing-exit. The 20 is a variable too. For the 20 multiplier, you are seeking the billion dollar valuation. This takes, usually, around 7 years and happens to the top 1% of start ups.

$50x2 compared to $50x20x0.01 is more realistic. An employee's chance at equity is offset by the opportunity to gain experience.
IMHO the publicly listed salaries are usually BS. For one reason or another, they feel compelled to list something regarding salary, but they also don't want to "show their hand", so they list a humble level of comp.

But in reality, when you're in a salary-negotiation with any of those companies, the comp-level listed in their hiring ad goes right out the window.
Considering I got offers of $65K, $83K and $95K fresh out of college this year, I would say they aren't looking for experienced developers.
I don't think Elon would want to sell Tesla since he can benefit in longterm as a supplier for batteries/EV tech?
Because Apple has a habit of buying companies to ensure that no one else can use the same technology. That's the reason the Nexus 6 doesn't have a fingerprint reader. Apple didn't invent that technology, they bought the company that did so no one else could use it.
A million dollars doesn't seem like much of a prize considering the result. For that kind of money, we should be X-Prize Kickstarter projects.
I still ping the IP address of my college's DNS server, all these years later. Muscle memory dies hard.
I'm not a lawyer but the last time I looked into this, alter ego liability relied on you intertwining the finances of the LLC with your personal finances; paying the rent from the LLC's business bank account, for instance.
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It does. The rate of transactions is growing faster than the Bitcoin price.
Ask HN: What makes a programmer a rockstar?
Curious what attributes people feel represents such a person. Also, do rockstars equal 10x'ers?
I was thinking more about this: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dunbar_armored_car.JP...
Founders shouldn't take on personal credit risk in order to do a startup. Even pg says not to do it.
Whether that value directly pays for servers or intangibly-or-directly increases their own startups' value doesn't seem like an important distinction.
Software culture
FTA:

"In 1996 Baumeister, now teaching at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, co-authored a review of the literature that concluded that it was, in fact, 'threatened egotism' that lead to aggression. Evil, he suggested, was often accompanied by high self-esteem. 'Dangerous people, from playground bullies to warmongering dictators, consist mostly of those who have highly favorable views of themselves,' he wrote.

It was an astonishing theory..."

I can imagine a group of people who might not be astonished; anyone who has been bullied, and then told they should feel sorry for the bullies because the bullies had "low self-esteem". At least, when it happened to me, my first thought was "Low? More like way too high."
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Apple buying tesla, makes increasingly more sense, if Apple really wants to get into cars. Electric cars is a whole different ballgame, and Tesla has shown that its possible to get apple like margins... Getting my popcorn ready and getting back into the Tesla stock..
I think you might be making the classic mistake of thinking the market is equal to what people advertise on the Internet. As I've heard a million times on Pawn Stars, "Anyone can ask for anything on the Internet. What are they selling for?"

I work in Delaware and $110k per year salary for software engineers would be an average salary for someone with some experience. According to a cost of living calculator, someone making $110k per year in Wilmington, DE would need to make $170k per year in San Francisco for the same standard of living.
Been working on this small project for awhile. It is a meta-site for discovering, listening and downloading music.

Purely a meta-site, the app merges multiple services into one simple interface.

Commments / feedback always welcome!

Unfortunately, this is optimized for desktop use at the moment.

Thanks :)
websockify can be run on Node.js as well as python. Both versions seem to be highly reliable (I'm using them on multiple production servers with paying customers for web conferencing). The python version doesn't seem to work on Windows servers, but the Node version works fine.
Having the imgur URL will really blow up your karma on reddit. People there consider imgur to be fast and reliable in delivering pictures, and posts imgur are expected to be focused on images with perhaps short explanatory texts.

Most blogs are focused on text with some images.
Trello (like FogCreek and StackOverflow) has a very regimented salary process that Joel Spolsky has talked about publicly here: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090401/how-hard-could-it-be-em...

There are a few elements of it:

1. There is a set salary table based on objective factors (e.g. years of full-time, professional programming experience). Your salary is 100% determined by that table and isn't negotiable.

2. The table gets updated every year for market factors. Everyone gets a raise if the market moves. You get raises by progressing through the table's objective criteria.

disclaimer: I am an engineer at Trello and we're hiring: https://trello.com/jobs

I have had a lot of visibility of developer salaries in previous positions (ran development and hired devs at 3 startups) and I spent a year as a developer evangelist (in recruiting). I found the Trello offer in line with my expectations of salary.
I do not know exactly, how the mining difficulty is set up, but to my understanding, more and more transactions are possible with not so fast growing energy effort. And the number that is really interesting is the number of transactions per energy unit.

The second argument is something that is independent from the energy problem. The danger always exists, that some entity is taking over the blockchain.
Absolutely wrong. You don't need a ton of math to wire up a house, so should electrical engineers stop taking math clases? Of course not, you'd be an idiot to hire an electrical engineer for that job. Likewise, if you're just cranking out CSS and javascript, you probably want somebody with a tech degree or a code camp certificate, not a CS degree.

Aside from that, what the heck would you teach in a course on NoSQL? The theoretical underpinnings of key/value mapping? Proper denormalization of data? I'm honestly curious here.
Yeah you really do need both, the right skills and the right location, to gain upward mobility. That's not to say tech's like every other job even if you don't have upward mobility. You still don't have to fear getting let go, we had a IT help desk type guy get fired, took him all of a week to find another gig. His earning potential is capped, but it's still pretty nice compared to non-tech jobs.
What is the average exit for a YC company, and how many years will that early employee need to work to keep their payout? Saying it's worth having is pretty vague.
So no phones can ever have fingerprint recognition? There is no other way around? Or Do they have to pay royalty to Apple?
Uhh, I have a computer science degree with departmental honor, from a top 20 US school, I've been hired by companies with difficult interviews, I have a side project with users that I shared the source code with employers with, an active Stack Overflow with a lot of good answers, strong references, etc. I'm not a dude with a laptop. And I was asking for 125k.
It's not competitive when considering non-startup work opportunities

You seem to think these are different markets - it's the same. If people are choosing them then apparently it is competitive. It may just not be what people think they should be making.

Developers should actually expect lower wages because there are more market entrants. The whole push for everyone to learn to code, almost 100% pushed for by developers, would have exactly that effect. This is why I think it's silly when the dev community pushes back on organizing as though it's going to stay a sellers market forever - especially as they push the idea (rightfully so) that being a developer/engineer is a great job and drive people into the market.
Outside startup in the UK, experienced developers outside London get 40-60K, with very talented ones getting more. However, plenty of decent experienced developers also get less than that. Salaries are pretty random when it comes down to it.

In my network, I also see fresh graduates getting hired on anything from 18K to 35K, and I'm thinking of one who just settled for 18K after a 6 month job hunt and one interview who I'd rate among the better ones.
Are you the same switz from #r/GlobalOffensive?
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