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Ask HN: Are large stock grants (~100k) common for large tech companies?
A friend of mine at a large tech company received RSUs that come out to about 100k per year.

Looking at some #talkpay tweets, it seems some other people also get a large amount of compensation in stock grants (comparable to annual salary):

https://twitter.com/aimeeble/status/594222187101298689
https://twitter.com/aimeeble/status/594221976375300096
https://twitter.com/aimeeble/status/594222085838245888

How rare or common is this kind of compensation for engineers at large tech companies?

I feel like everybody always talks about salary, but stock grants like this make a huge difference when trying to compare my current compensation with the job market.
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What's the situation with SEH these days in Clang?
It is absolutely not that simple on the server, but we hope do to a lot of the heavy lifting for you via our open source release of code and spec in terms of lexing, parsing, and executing a query.
In-house recruiter or independent recruiter? An in-house recruiter likely has their hands tied by company policy; if the company wants candidates who won't negotiate, the recruiters will not be permitted to negotiate, and will need to report back certain information like past salary. If it was an independent recruiter, that's a little weird, since presumably they have multiple clients. Maybe they need it for whatever matching software they use to search their available positions?
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I'm a bit confused about how this will work exactly. If I have Clang and VC++ compiled code trying to interop with each other, what happens if Clang decided to use a different memory layout for std::string (or any other type really) than VC++? What compiler is doing which task in the pipeline here exactly?

I mean, the reason everyone does interop strictly in C is that there are zero standards for how a compiler implements the C++ features exactly down-low.
I dunno—I was introduced to the short stories first, and none of the novels compare for me (not even Hopscotch, much as I enjoy it). Cronopios and Famas, We Love Glenda So Much, House Taken Over—he has hilarious, chilling, and beautiful short stories.
This title covers the essence of hacker news pretty well.
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Well, there you go. "I'm under an NDA that prevents me from disclosing my salary."
Not to mention you don't have a high-powered beam of photons cooking everything behind you.
I can't give any details, but the largest bill I've seen was $1M for ~2 person-weeks worth of work; it was clearly demonstrated ahead of time that it would save the customer about 10x that, and the customer had tried twice already to do it in-house and failed (it was way outside their core expertise).
The problem I have with this #talkpay thing is that it assumes everyone I connect with is in our lucrative echo chamber. I'd feel like a asshole talking about my income as a contract developer knowing I have followers who are really struggling to find work / decent pay outside of technology.

Conferences, tech meetups etc I'm usually the first to be championing developer solidarity and pushing the message that we can and should all be demanding more money, everywhere else I try and keep it low profile to not rub peoples noses in it.
I a have had similar experience for a well known uk agency - I effectively fired them and of course If I should ever need to interview any of their candidates the cv's are going in the bin unread
Nope, in the blog post I was referring to the author went to some event (in France, I believe) where some of core contributors helped him, if my memory serves well.

Still this is a good post, thanks for linking it!
I'm pretty sure you parsed that wrong :)
I've been recruiting engineers for almost 20 years, and I have probably had a dozen cases where a client asked for a pay stub around the time an offer is presented. It's obviously rare, and most of the time it was for high-ticket talent that seemed to be paid noticeably above market rate.
I have found from hard experience that when I lowball my asking pay, I am treated with profound disrespect.

That doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me as the usual reason I do so is not to get an offer, but to help out my potential employer, for example by enabling them to hire other people as well.

The actual result is that I get kicked in the teeth. Because of that I ask for what others of my expertise can command, despite that amount of money being far more than what I really require to be happy.
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One thing I have noticed is that while "wage information" (including equity grants) are taboo and "net worth" is also taboo, "wealth management strategies" (and at times philosophies) are not nearly as taboo amongst the wealthier folks, perhaps because the conversation revolves around relative, rather than absolute, numbers.
This is interesting to watch unfold. Dang's trying to build a case history against michaelochurch.

That'll be an amusing bit of drama. If you ask me, dang, you picked a poor fight this time; too many people are chiming in in defense of Michael.

When you try to ban him (what, do you think he's going to respect this gratuitous use of authority?) there's going to be a fuss, and while all the important figures will back you almost by default, the uproar will be fed by instances like this one.

Though I can see why you thought this was a good situation to make an example of him. I don't get Church's obsession with Spiegel; retire that particular dead horse maybe, Michael? ;)
If you are interested in this stuff you should read http://www.elsevier.com/books/stochastic-transport-in-comple...

Also:
http://www.thp.uni-koeln.de/~as/
https://www.uni-due.de/zlv/portrait/schreckenberg.php
I look forward to the future where this is done in a way that 'normal' people can actually use in a day-to-day setting :)
It would help if you specified your OS of preference (OS X, Linux, or Windows).
I'm not so hot on local solutions. With 3000 counties in the US that leads to an awful lot of reinvented wheels and administrative waste, and local corruption is arguably harder to deal with because it's hard to get a big enough constituency together to force the issue in many jurisdictions.

River fires may have been an impetus for the clean water act, but observing that they were no longer a primary issue, while true, is beside the point. An emblematic issue (or instance of a general issue)is not necessarily representative of any statistical truth.

For example, I don't think most fracking activities trigger earthquakes, but it's not surprising that anti-fracking activists make a point of citing the incidents where it apparently has as a proxy for a larger number of environmental problems they worry about. Or consider how the protests over police brutality in Ferguson last year were not so much because Michael Brown best exemplified innocent victimhood, but because leaving his dead body lying in the street for hours on end was perceived as exemplary of callous indifference to local people's sensibilities (at best) or calculated intimidation of that community (at worst). One could think the shooting itself to have been justified but still be outraged about the aftermath of the event. Much of the sound and fury of the debate focused on the shooting incident but if you go back and look at contemporary news reports the initial reaction was to the way the body was left lying there in the open.
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Exactly right. Who would ever tell a prospective employer what they are really making? I'd agree you should tell them a number close to what you expect to make if you switch companies. You'll possibly get an offer that exceeds you original goals. It's important to go into these things prepared and well researched.
> if you really want to hire good people

Well now there's the rub innit?

I get the impression that a lot of companies out there either don't have that mentality (thinking cheap is enough) or don't know how to actually do good hiring.

The good thing about this kind of reaction is that it helps you filter out that kind of company you wouldn't want to work for.
There is a huge number of go package management tools being developed at the moment. It seems like there's a new one each day!
I'm hoping the Golang developers can pay attention to what's going on in the community and propose a more official solution? I realise they recently proposed 'vendoring' but the Golang community seems to have mostly ignored that suggestion.
If people knew everyone's salaries there would always be discontent. There will be people making less thinking that are better/more experience/worth more than person B making $X more than them.
Thanks! I hope that it can find a balance between instant feedback and useful information and statistics over time.

I'll look at adding the title now; would it be useful to have the option to see the entire passage after completion?

Thanks for the feedback!
I don't think job placement is a primary motivator for a VC. Instead, it's a prestigious, well-paid, low-risk (for the VC) position, and on top of that you own a lot of high-volatility, and therefore valuable, options in the form of carried interest, for free.
I had a recruiter tell me I was legally obligated to tell him my current salary. I said no thanks, not interested and he proceeded to attempt to keep me on the phone for another 10 minutes (after which I hung up).

Needless to say, I don't waste my time any longer when a recruiter asks. I just say "here's what I expect".
> Apple is one of the most important and influential tech companies in the world right now.

No. You are confusing admired with influential.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9468476
If I am using a file manager, I'm using ranger. It also supports image previews.
if you want a linux buy a dell xps 13 its perfect laptop.
Actually, as an employee, you're actually risking more, as your total wealth is (most likely) significantly less than an investor's, so according to the economic theory of diminishing marginal utility of income, $10k/year is a significantly greater loss for an employee.
There are a limited number of great, breakout startups, and they can only really utilize so much capital. Reallocating your pension fund doesn't magically create more amazing startups.
I've seen it be remarkably accurate, but that was for a "Mostly cash, limited bonus" environment. I think one of their sources is H1B filings, which can be very accurate for those types of jobs. It misses equity and outsize bonuses.
For anyone curious about the real roots of #talkpay, software developer Lauren Voswinkel kicked it off on Model View Culture: https://modelviewculture.com/news/lets-talk-about-pay (Background: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/01/talkpay-hasht...)

So basically, a software dev announced a Twitter campaign on a Silicon Valley startup's website. Naturally, it only hits Hacker "News" when some white man placates fellow uninformed ideologues with "I’m honestly troubled by joining a Marxist movement on May Day".

(Translating #talkpay into market theology — is this analogous to how Soviet commissars made bold ideas safe for consumption?)

BTW: May 1st commemorates the Chicago Haymarket affair, where workers went on strike for the 8-hour day. And four anarchists were martyred by the state via hanging.
That's a great list, but the question was about stuff that's not in Haskell (among others) so a few nitpicks:

* Haskell can run regular code at compile-time (But it is slow, using ghci/TH)

* Haskell can add optimizations (rewrite rules and plugins). I think Haskell innovated rewrite rules and Nim probably was inspired by that?

* Binding to C easily is also a Haskell feature

* Type safe sets and arrays of enums: Is this not just a library? Haskell sets and arrays of enums are type-safe by default?

* Unified call syntax is true of Haskell too

* Compile to Javascript -- Haskell can do that too
If you're going to put gmp etc in the same spot as gcc just let gcc download and configure the prereqs:

tar xf gcc...
cd gcc...
contrib/download_prerequisites
./configure ...
make
make install
Ctrl + A is currently disabled to try to encourage normal typing practices (I'm not sure how many places you enter one word at a time!) Perhaps it could be an optional setting?
What still seems to be getting missed is that despite some superficial similarities, Unix pipelines and PowerShell pipelines serve different purposes, operate on different levels, function totally differently, and are not interchangeable within the system.

Unix pipelines are an operating system feature that coordinates data streams between processes. PowerShell's object pipeline is function chaining feature of PowerShell, a runtime that runs on an operating system as a process, the kind of process whose communication with other processes is coordinated on Unix systems using Unix pipelines.

Python, PowerShell, and Ruby object handling and function/method chaining are not a features at the operating system level, they are features within the Python, PowerShell, and Ruby runtimes and processes. Unix pipelines are a feature at the operating system level that coordinate communication between these kinds of processes.

Unix pipelines are not a feature of Unix shells, they are an operating system feature for which shells provide an interface. PowerShell's object pipelines are features of PowerShell and its runtime, not the host operating system.

This is not a minor distinction. A feature for working with objects and chained functions within particular language or framework's runtime is not the same thing as a feature for coordinating process communication in an operating system.
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[1] http://www.vimperator.org/
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I personally will not buy anything from Apple, but I think it's relevant to the discussion that every vote is cast. It's not a poll for me, it's a discussion for everyone!
The department store app that outpaced Uber, Tinder and Nike
I think it's reasonable to believe that the employer should have a good answer to the question "why is s/he making more than me, what does s/he do better?"
> 1-the game was never conceived as a headstart product!

True that may be, but the blurb on the "DragonBox Algebra 5+" product on the linked page says:

"It’s perfect for giving your child a head start in mathematics and algebra. "
>Its a shame that practical and real advances are often "boring" to the typical sci-fi obsessed INTJ males who dominate science on the internet.

eh-hem implying the Myers-Briggs Personality Type is based on rigorous science /sardony /irony.
Error-level analysis of the Jpeg. As you say, if it comes out later that could have bad legal consequences - the term is 'detrimental reliance' and the dishonest person could conceivably face fraud charges. Even if not, it could easily become a a career-damaging topic of gossip.
I am writing from one right now! It's definitely speedy, but I find the build quality to be rather low and the 13" screen simply cannot accomodate a Full HD resolution. Everything is rather minuscule...
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I disagree. If engineers are notoriously bad at negotiating (which we probably are), the solution is to improve that skill, not to seek to avoid negotiating in any form or fashion. The idea that you can willfully eschew any responsibility for asking for what you want (which is really what a negotiation is) and still get it, is both self-defeating and naive.

The reason lawyers/agents/salespeople are good at negotiating is not merely that their job requires it, it's because they have developed that skill.
Breakthroughs don't always result in research papers. They sometimes end up in products instead. :)
> a few firms consolidate most of the profits of the entire industry.

The problem is you don't know which ones beforehand.
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Reminds me of a line from "Inherent Vice".

"People like you lose all claim to respect the first time they pay anybody rent"
Has anyone told them how gaudy their banner looks?