skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I would anticipate a floor on pay of $125k. I don't care if that's a designer or a developer or a marketer or what"

We surveyed 250 vc-backed startups who raised more than $2,319,116,164 and found that it's much, much more complex than $125K for everyone.

If you are interested, you can get the report at http://ventureassembly.huddlemetrics.com/get

Again, disclaimer: I'm part of the founding team.
* Should you create an LLC? It's a pass through tax entity, and as an individual developer, you are not abstracting much liability here.

* Should you incorporate? Maybe, see the next point.

* You should consider an SCorp, your overall payroll tax liability can potentially be reduced. You should talk to your tax lady more.

* LLC does not affect your taxes much. You will have an additional ScheduleK to file each year.

* Should you be a W2 employee of the LLC? If you're an owner and employee, you need to not be w2. If you form an SCorp you should make yourself w2 and pay yourself a minimum reasonable market salary (i.e. 100k instead of 200k) year. You can then dividend yourself the other 100k, which will save 15% (payroll tax) and potentially move your income into capital gains instead of payroll tax.)

Other advice, make sure that you look into all deductions you may be able to receive (especially if you don't have benefits through another employer). This includes health insurance, retirement, benefits, use of car (it's a meeting not a daily commute if you travel onsite), use of house / office, domain names, server costs, business equipment (new laptop / mobile devices), and business services (part of your cell bill, part of your internet).
No, $20K is the expected value. Best case is $500K or $100K/year (for a $100M exit).
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It looks good, but they have to get rid of the out of focus photo. Photos that are entirely out of focus are really annoying and give a lot of people headaches.

Usually out of focus areas should be used to bring the eye to an object in the photo that is in focus. But if such an object does not exist, then the eye wanders and tries to adjust itself to focus (the eye has its own focusing mechanism). But of course it cannot do so, so what you get as a result is strain on the eye and a headache.

Out of focus photos have no business in what hopes to be a mainstream website.
The proposed rules seem prudent and well-considered. I'm an amateur radio operator, and there are similar licensure, testing, and regulatory requirements in order to ensure the best use of a shared and finite resource. Where radios have restrictions on frequency, aircraft have restrictions on location, where transmitters are prohibited from causing interference, aircraft are controled for safety. Where radio power is limited (to the the minimum necessary for communication), aircraft use is limited to line-of-sight. Most of the populace is unlikely to be an operator (of radio, or aircraft) so it is important that those who are are respectful of everyone else such that their use does not endanger or interfere with ordinary activity.

Just as no one wants an unlicensed transmitter blocking the ability for a cell phone to call 911, no one wants a quad copter falling on his or her head.
Thanks for the reply. Next question: do you recommend a place to learn? There are a number of places out there. I could ask my team but they are busy coding :-).
I totally agree with you on this, and with Corenomical's idea that perhaps the need for the Crunchbang distro had run its course. I understand how people like the differnt GUI tweaks provided by certain distros and why people wanted to continue Crunchbang.

Continuing with Crunchbang just seems like a lot of wasted effort to me. The effort could be better spent working within the Debian project itself.
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It's not even a question of risk tolerance.

If you're willing to lose $100k, that's your risk tolerance. Some of the bets you can make with that $100k are much stupider than others, based on expected value. If you just want the thrill of high variance, buy lottery tickets.

To put it another way: VCs take risks too, but they spend all their professional efforts trying to figure out which risks are worth it. If you can get the same terms that they get, then you at least have some validation that the terms aren't deliberately screwing you. Forgone salary is just dollars, same as the money the VCs put in, and just as useful to the company. If you're going to forgo $250k in salary over five years, you should expect to end up with equity equivalent to somebody who put that in as cash over the same time period. If you end up with less equity, or less senior equity, you're probably getting screwed.
http://upstart.bizjournals.com/companies/hatched/2013/12/16/...

"The tally of 42 companies means about 6.7 percent of all Y Combinator-funded companies have hit the $40 million figure so far"

A sub-10M exit might be rare, but sub-10M exit + failures together migth not be rare at all.
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If you're talented with a strong, provable track record you can negotiate 150-180k easily. With that, though, expect equity < 1% which is normal.
Efficiencies take care of themselves - setting intent is pointless in that regard. Human based consensus already takes tons of power and is excessively wasteful when it breaks. Credit card theft is wasteful for example. And besides, money has always been about storing work.
Agreed, I'm not saying these bank CIOs should do nothing, just trying to point out the break even point between security and other factors can come sooner than we as technical people might assume.
Yes, it's very good and the title is topically accurate. What's the problem?
From a novel I read recently:
"Bob was American and called himself a former American, although such a thing would never happen. He had the fist-line friendliness typical of this culture, or lack thereof, and the particular and very irritating sense of specialness that had been infused in several generations of American children. You had to be special indeed if you were to play into the American Dream, the very only thing holding this mass of people together. Be somebody rather than do something. Not that this would not be in the back of the head of any parent anywhere else in the world, but anywhere else there was an unconscious sense of healthy resignation. Being was still a tad more important than becoming. Anywhere else, the condensate of thousands of dead generations, the wisdom of finitude had not been washed down to homeopathic levels by the tidal terror and guilt of having left and lost Mother. A borderline Nation, whose sense of abandonment, emptiness and void identity had brought about destruction, oral compensation and the art of fake relationships. But also a knack for pottering stuff."
The unpopular answer? Get a job at an established company that isn't a startup.

That'll give you the best idea of your market value. You don't need to take the position, and if the bureaucracy of an enterprise gig isn't your thing, then maybe you shouldn't, but that'll give you the best float test for what it is that you're actually worth, with which you can parlay into knowledge for salary negotiations elsewhere.

Knowing that Oracle would pay you is great for evaluating whether or not it's worth a $30k difference in salary to not have to worry about a business casual dress code, corporate politics and a rigid command structure.

Not knowing the difference in pay, it's harder to evaluate whether or not it's worthwhile.
I'm sure there will be a lot of back and forth on the rule specifics, but seems like a reasonable first pass given the state of the technology.

The only thing that really strikes me as a bit problematic is "casual" commercial use in which someone like a real estate agent uses a hobbyist-type drone to do a little aerial photography. These rules seem a bit stringent for something like that although the reality may be the rules for commercial use just get ignored at these kind of margins.

- An FAA UAS operator certificate will be required for commercial use. I don't think the details of what this will entail have been worked out yet but it explicitly will not have the same level of rigor as a pilot's license.

- Requires the operator to maintain line of sight to the drone.

- Can't fly over people not involved in the flight.

- Certification isn't required for hobbyist use.

- Considering a more flexible framework for drones under 4.4 pounds.
I don't think you understand that you can't control what information and processes are dynamically influenced and what components are static and unchanging. The methodology of science can be subject to the same level of analytical inspection and rigor that the scientific methodology itself upholds.

You hold science as a constant and shape the world around that lens. What happens when science starts to take itself apart, when it starts to redefine itself, analyze itself, study itself?

Keep down-voting me if you like. All I really know is that I have more questions than I have answers, and I don't think that is a bad thing.
Perhaps they are good enough for the stage the company is in. Not all startups need highly-skilled developers when all they're doing is build CRUD apps.
San Francisco has the "sun tax" which means that salaries don't keep up with the cost of living. Its climate is much more pleasant than Delaware so people are willing to sacrifice financially to live there. That results in a lower ratio of average salary to cost of living.
This is very cool, but the article failed to bring the implications back to the macro level. My question is, what predictions does this new understanding allow that would be testable by a blacksmith. (If any) Note: this is entirely a personal criteria for interestingness and not a judgement on basic science, which is assuredly valuable.
> How can anyone claim with a straight face that America is a nation were inter-racial violence is understood in terms of its historical roots too much...

Who did?
If the engineer does an excellent job, proves his value to the company, etc., he should be able to push for more shares as the shares get diluted, right?
That's a good point you are making. There seems to be a congnitive disconnect when employer says that they are looking for 10x engineers, but then not willing to pay them even 10K extra. In my opinion, and experience with hiring engineers, the 10x'ers are definitely worth the extra salary and a lot more!
I do agree that a product that functions on bad code is better than no product at all. If there where very terrible design decisions made in the beginning. This could have a very negative impact as the business starts to add customers.

A terrible codebase will _eventually_ fail to serve customers for a few different reasons. Scalability is huge and may be very difficult to find performance problems and fix. maintenance time, and time to add new features are places where a terrible codebase will eventually impact a customer.
Interesting. I seen to remember that at one point the reverse lookup for one of the 4.2.2.x addresses was "dont-steal-service-etc.somebody". I just send an ICMP ping when I need an IP to check a connection. I also seem to recall reading that the 4.2.2.x resolvers were multi-homed, but in both cases my memory could be faulty.
I was annoyed this article is so long, but having read it all I can't say there's much fluff in it.
I hope someone from AngelList read this comment: I live in NYC and was job hunting about a year ago because I wanted to move on after four years at my previous company. I am currently employed at a new startup and very satisfied with my current compensation.

I spent a lot of time on AngelList jobs page looking for companies aligned with my interests and I finally interviewed at two of them. When we got to the salary negotiation stage, their pay scale were nothing close to what was advertised on their AngelList jobs page. I also have to say, that I don't care about equity (I've had some disappointments before regarding equity). I ended up at a different company that I found on Stack Overflow Careers. (I don't have any affiliation with SO)

I don't know if someone else has had the same experience with AngelList companies, but I think they advertise high salaries only to get more visibility and a better ranking on search results. I don't know if there is a way for AngelList to control this, maybe allowing candidates and employees to add reviews about the interview process could be an idea.
Unless I am a severe outlier I'd take that with a giant bit of skepticism. I've never had an options agreement that didn't require company approval to sell & I've never seen that given except for specific restructuring reasons.
I think that's a reflection that the origin isn't, though I'm not sure of that.

Still -- seeding the cache should help ensure that it does eventually show up. Which was the point of posting the link.

That said: CC does seem to have been spotty over the past year or so.
A particularly beautiful example Mr. McFerrin does with various audiences.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Irii5pt2qE
Depending on the specific position and language in use, $110k might be reasonable for an SV job. $60k is non-top tier college grad salary. There is definitely competition for great software engineers, but what most people assume is you throw a rock and you'll hit a great software engineer in SV. That's just not the case. There are lots of very good engineers, but a much smaller pool of great engineers.

We all hear the stories about companies paying ridiculous salaries in Silicon Valley but bear in mind Glassdoor pegs the average engineering salary around $110k for SV. The guy from Google who was in the news a year or so ago because he was earning ~$3 million a year had done something special to get there.

The guys earning the big bucks have proven track records and expertise that commands a high salary. I agree with other people here that you shouldn't take a pay cut for equity, but don't be surprised when you see lots of job postings around $100k.

Also consider that there are a lot of startups that raise 6 figure seed rounds and under $10 mil Series A that you don't hear about, compared to the (mostly over) hyped startups that raise millions in seed and tens of millions in Series A. They literally can't afford to pay people enormous salaries.
Would love to know what its like to use this cluster with distcc .. for example what impact it would have on compiling the Linux kernel?

Also, I'm a Lua fan. Anyone know of something similar that can be done in Lua instead of Clojure/Python?
Man, this brings back memories. My first job - started out as a summer intern at an MVNO. We needed access via RDP to the host carrier's billing platform, so we needed to establish an IPSec VPN to their network. Of course, our little WRT54G wasn't gonna do the job...

Spoke with a network engineer at the host carrier, who recommended we try out m0n0wall. Played with it for a little bit, but then was led to pfSense, which we ended up using.

That was 2006. Time does fly...
For small but multi-user sites, a standard system for incorporating per-user or all-user filtering preferences would be useful....

I'm not aware of such a setup. The article here is useful in that it does at least suggest one mailstream flow. Though yes, it's complex as hell.
But how could anyone think that punishing in itself is helpful in any way whatsoever?
This is an honest question, I really don't get how the American system could have been designed the way it is.
No, one internal employee did state that as the reason. I have very strong references from every direct manager I've ever had. I am not difficult to work with unless you can't deal with having your opinions challenged. Unless Google retracts my offer based on this post I plan to work there for a long time so your advice is irrelevant. Its just disingenuous for startups to say they can't find talent when they mean they can't find cheap, meek, timid talent.
For those of us who aren't familiar with the project, what is Crunchbang++?
> if you are complaining about earning $80,000 to sit behind a computer screen and type all day, you are one entitled SOB.

What does that make the LP's, and VC's, and angels, and accelerators, who do no work, and sit on their yachts whining how much money that the workers who do all the work are making?

I do all the work and I create all the wealth. If I am being paid $80k, then on average I am creating $100k, or $120k etc. for the company. It's a joke that the parasites who live on my sweat, and their toadies like yourself would use the word entitled. Yes, I am entitled to the wealth I create, in fact I am entitled to more than that.

If the wealth I create does not go to me who worked to create it, who is it going to? To the lazy heir LP. You advocate more going to these parasites which just reflects how you think - like a parasite.
I don't know about the bay area, but fire fighters can make over $80,000 a year in Portland, OR[1], which isn't so bad

I agree with the point that we don't pay people based on the risk though, as I worked at arguably one of the most dangerous jobs in the U.S. (pizza delivery in a top-5 violent crime rate cities) for years, making far less than a fire fighter.

[1]http://www.portlandoregon.gov/bhr/article/462925
Most of the time spent is in debugging/maintaining.

Terrible code base says that the value per customers is decresaing while customers increases because your costs (of software QA) are eating your margins.

Ugly codebase that does not scale with increasing efficiency for instance.

Remember low OPEXes always beat KPEX (investment)

People focus on features in software as the only value, I think it is the recuring costs per feature that should be the value.

For instance storing digitalized book is plain stupid. The first book printed is still there because paper/ink are cost efficient in terms of recurring costs for their value of keeping information whereas servers/software ... will doom data to an end because of reccuring costs that don't scale.
Maybe it'll be renamed "Nimix", that's a great name!
There is obviously still enough ego in America to claim that C. Rogers was the first to argue that men are fundamentally good. Frenchman Jean-Jacques Rousseau formulated that already in the 18th century in his "Second Discours" - Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_on_Inequality)
From your link:

The average salary of a registered nurse working in San Francisco is $127,670

Average is often very different than median, but your point is taken. Regardless, my point stands that developers across the board provide more value than basically any other profession is shaky.
> Category: philosophy

Undoubtedly.
The real Twitter homepage:

https://twitter.com/search-home

(For those missing the point: present a homepage that's useful to those landing on it. A concertina-wire-topped wall is not that. "Sign in / register" landing pages are fucking idiotic in 2015.)
It got bought long ago by the people in power?
> Above all, their pricing is rip-off for high end cars esp.

This is where you lost me, there is much more than styling with higher end cars.

> Apple can bring down the price of 'high-end' to near affordable

So many questions, but one stands out - what do you think a software company is going to do that Ford, Audi, BMW, Chrysler, GM, etc. haven't already looked into or are already doing? Ford Sync sucks, does that mean a car from Apple will be better cause it has better 'apps'?
Amen to that. I try to write mostly functional Python, but I use a lot of temporary variables to make such things as f(g(args) more readable where each arg is in itself a non-trivial computation that must be passed along to another function.

The problem with your let strategy is this can also impair readability if you use too many as the code becomes too far indented to the right (lets inside of lets inside of lets).

But I guess in these situations you can just use transients that are first defined to nil. Some people will probably yell at you for this.

http://clojure.org/transients
To be fair, I've talked to people in some companies that try this that quite simply do not understand how options work. It is ignorance, not malice, that causes their odd behaviors (not that the end result is any better).

My usual bargaining gambit is to ask how much salary they will give me over the vesting period to buy back the options. If nothing else this puts a price floor on how much the options are worth to the company.
>The main difference between an RSU and a stock option is that the former may result in a direct cash outlay, whereas, in the latter case, you get shares. Of course, if you have a stock option you can choose to turn the stock into cash when you receive the option. If you have an RSU, depending on the agreement, you may not be able to receive stock, as the company may restrict you to receiving cash.

via: http://finance.zacks.com/stock-options-vs-rsus-3356.html
SF cost of living crossed over to being higher than NYC five or six years ago. I'm from NYC and remember going to SF in 2007 and things were noticeably more expensive then. That's part of the reason that salaries in SF are a fair bit higher.
A debian-based linux distro that recently announced EOL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9008776

Edit: It seems #!++ is a successor to #!, likely by a different maintainer. The OP mentions differences include a new theme and being based on debian jessie, whereas the last #! was based on wheezy.
Normatively, it may or may not be a good definition. Empirically, it is a redefinition; it is not the traditional use of the word. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation#Related_definitions
NYC is tough. You're competing against a lot of finance companies for talent. Developers are used to a higher base salary than $125k and a yearly cash bonus. People value stock a lot less because it's not part of the typical comp package and they haven't seen the rewards it can generate like they've seen in the Valley.

Personally, I doubt companies in the Valley are getting very good developers for $60-$110k salary and 0.5%-1% equity. Why would any smart developer do that when they can go to a later stage VC company that has a lot larger chance of success and get market salary + 0.1% equity.
In one of my sidelines, I'm a freelance musician. Over the years I've learned how to keep a smile on my face, under pretty much any circumstances. This has proven to be a valuable skill in my day job as well.

The smile is more subtle in the workplace -- just a cheerful disposition -- but it's still there. And it helps that I am in fact a generally cheerful person.

As for knowing how to show an appropriate level of passion, I would expect this of a senior level person as well, because they will be interacting with colleagues, customers, etc.