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pay adjustments have already been known for over a year, its not some secret. its to -15% to places like hawaii, -10% to miami, -5% to seattle/LA, or 0% to nyc

its based on cost of acquisition of labor in the region, not cost of living as you can see from hawaii


They have some of the worst offers for a company of their size.

They rely on your "passion" for crypto to underpay and hire naive engineers.


Oh, that explains it. They should also offer subsidized housing then, because their employees will quickly figure that the non-negotiation policy doesn't work on the housing market.


Where are you getting this? If you joined Coinbase in January, your equity was granted at an $8bn valuation. Today it’s at $56bn for a quick 7x in 5 months.


How are you getting the $8bn number[1]?

In any case, that's moot. Because if you join now (after they are making this change), your equity is being valued at ~$60bnm so the upside is significantly lower.

[1] If that's from the valuation at last funding round, then that's being disingenuous since no one thought that they are worth 8b then, and I would be surprised if they were offering equity at the valuation.


From a friend who joined Coinbase.

Also, see comments in https://us.teamblind.com/s/rh0DJajS


This would explain the network lag.


You should take a look at https://www.levels.fyi/ to recalibrate your pay bands


This is great and super informational, thanks for sharing!

Basics like this should be part of every introductory CS course.


Instagram hasn't copied from Snapchat in a very long time. Have you used Snapchat recently? The UX is completely different and awful now.

Instagram is innovating with new features like Video Calling and Live Video that Snapchat lacks.


Instagram Stories felt like a very obvious copy of Snapchat, and it wasn't that long ago.


They may have initially copied Snapchat, but they've built on the feature and made it much more engaging to use than the original.


Video calling and live video is innovation now?


I can't say that I or anyone I know has ever thought "I wish I could do video calling" on IG


Maybe they’ll add a p2p payments system too!


Snapchat had video calling for a long time and live video is straight from Music.ly and Twitter.


Snapchat has had video calling for a lot longer than IG.


TRON is a dpos blockchain with a port of the ethereum virtual machine. Not sure where you get the IPFS part from.


Facebook's guidelines were 25% confidence they could pass an onsite and they would be given one.

I'd personally rather give the candidate AND the company a chance at hiring a potential candidate than missing out on one. The longterm impact on your company is huge.


This fails to consider the fact that with 25% confidence, 3 out of 4 candidates have no chance, and you're just wasting time, theirs and yours.

There are two kinds of hiring managers- those who think the system works and they're skillfully picking the best talent, though at the last minute, without formal education on the subject, without metrics, without reproducibility, without accountability, and with minimal prep time; and those who recognize the system is deeply flawed and go along to get along.


That is only wasted time if there was next best opportunity. People are looking for work so going for on-site interview is not waste of time.

What would you do, go to the beach, hang out in a bar? So your time would be spent better. Maybe you would go to other interview where you would be hired but you cannot know this in advance.

The same with company they don't know if other candidates would be better until they actually do on-site.

If you can predict future then yes. But most don't.


> That is only wasted time if there was next best opportunity. People are looking for work so going for on-site interview is not waste of time.

What's the unemployment rate for top-end talent in Silicon Valley? 2%? 1%? This foolish strategy of candidates-time-is-free is designed to turn off people who already have jobs and want an upgrade. Not only are you _not_ hiring the best, you're limiting your applicant pool to the worst.

<sarcasm>Why, sure, I'll blow 7 hours including 2 hours' roundtrip commute to audition for a 20% chance of a $10k raise.</sarcasm>


Tron VM has a beta release out, but it's not a priority currently.

They're working on building and stabilizing the blockchain first. Dapp partnerships are coming but you cant have people commit to building on a nonexistant blockchain ;)


dapps are a dud. just look at all the dapps eth has


Seriously, do take a look at it: https://dappradar.com/

The most used dapp had just over 4000 users in the last 24 hours, while CryptoKitties, arguably the most famous dapp, didn't even have 400.


All the most used dapps are games and distributed exchanges for coins. Distributed exchanges do not justify the existence of these coins (which are meant to power distributed apps not just be tokens for speculation). The games don't need to be dapps they are just novelties.

Find me a dapp that isn't one of those two things with appreciable usage and I'll be impressed.


You can start looking into Dai which serves as a stable coin using collateral or more generally into Security Tokens (here an explanation on STO https://medium.com/crypto-oracle/prepare-yourself-the-securi...) Those are going to be big very soon!


I'm well informed already about these things. Note that neither of them have significant adoption.

Security tokens are a Bad idea.

Dai is basically only useful for speculating on cryptocurrencies and so I dismiss it like I dismiss exchange dapps. This whole industry can't be built on speculating on the value of nonces.


Could you elaborate on why you believe security tokens to be a bad idea?


To quote some random other person here:

> It's awesome until your private key gets stolen and suddenly a hacker in Russia owns your house.

I like the legal system. The transactions I'm involved with are already cheap and the non-cheap transactions aren't made cheaper with the blockchain.


Why could not you have both ? No one said that you need Securities transactions to be irreversible. STO can bring more liquidity to property assets and simplify dramatically otherwise complex financial operation (title emission, splitting of subsidiaries and so on). I do hate the point that talks about adoption when we are talking of a technology that has less than 5 years of age (Ethereum for that matter). I hear it a lot and I cannot stop myself to think that this is the same kind of reasoning could have been use again Amazon in 1996 (Bookstore are a small business and Internet has no adoption)


bitcoin is closer to 10 years old really


Stable coins are a terrible idea that one day people will realize as such. The economics of a stable coin make no sense. All it takes for it to be totally useless is just enough people to refuse to accept it or the market crashing to the point where trade volume is so low you can never cash out. Just because there is 1 for 1 fiat backing, doesn’t mean you can actually claim your money.


I’ve been at BEF the last couple of days and http://www.dapp.com is exhibiting. They are launching a service to help promote these kinds of decentralized apps.

Might be a bit too early. Don’t know if the market is even close to ready.


yeah the issue isn't promotion. there's just no compelling services


I havent tried using them, but what makes them stink?

Expensive/Slow?


Ensuring the integrity of your distributed application by running the same code on every node in the network is a fundamentally bad idea. It only makes sense in zero trust, monetary applications like Bitcoin and Ethereum itself - or speculative tokens built on top of them.


> It only makes sense in zero trust, monetary applications like Bitcoin and Ethereum itself - or speculative tokens built on top of them.

Which only make sense in a very narrow "technically correct" kind of way. From a larger perspective they still don't make sense. Pissing away small countries worth of electricity to validate an incredibly small number of transactions is a horrible idea.

...And that is just one of the deep, fundamental flaws in blockchain-based currency.


The duplicated code can be as simple as a few cryptographic operations for each broadcasted transaction. This can easily scale to tens of thousands of nodes and transactions per hour without requiring significant computing resources over the baseline of running a high bandwidth internet node.

When the consistency algorithm is proof of work chains, or when the proof of work is used to control the scarcity and disbursement of the valuable token, only then you have the whole "world turning into fucking Mordor" problem.


No connection to the actual world outside of the blockchain.

So mostly they are gambling apps (with source of randomness the blockchain itself), exchanges, or artificially scarce "collectibles" (like cryptokitties).


turn that dapp into a dab


Looks like op submitted GDPR data requests to recruiting agencies that were sending him job request.

He previously signed up for some job listing sites like Jobsite/Dice/Monster/Indeed or any of the trash job listing sites.

There was a term in their TOS that allowed them to sell his CV as part of a batch to recruiting firms to contact him which he didn't see.

Hence the outrage.


Congrats to OpenSea! https://opensea.io/

They're one of the best crypto asset exchanges around.

Crypto Racing League is excited to finish integration with them soon! http://cryptoracingleague.io/


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