15:[[9568510,{"by":"blooberr","descendants":4,"id":9568510,"kids":[9575062,9575471,9568664,9568625],"score":3,"text":"I look up the USD/yen exchange rate almost every day. Right now it's 119.96.

How about everyone? What do you track? Doesn't have to be work related!","time":1432019986,"title":"Ask HN: What numbers do you pay attention to daily?","type":"story","url":""}],[9496813,{"by":"section16","descendants":7,"id":9496813,"kids":[9496837,9496908,9497091,9496897,9496904,9502829],"score":6,"text":"I'll be graduating soon and I've been having second thoughts of working for a company I've accepted an offer from. (I interned there, enjoyed working there and their product)

After reading this however (Any Stories of Employees w/Equity Successfully Taking Home Over 1M? 500K?): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9225960

It has pushed me to reconsider. The number 1 company I want to work for instead is Uber mostly because of it's astounding growth -> I'm more likely to get rich.

HN, what are your thoughts?","time":1430892062,"title":"Ask HN: Rescinding a Job Offer for Another","type":"story"}],[9365613,{"by":"_RPM","descendants":6,"id":9365613,"kids":[9365873,9365681,9365699,9365882,9365659],"score":1,"text":"","time":1428891270,"title":"I Just lost my first hackathon. Should I stop programming?","type":"story","url":""}],[9262030,{"by":"bsbechtel","descendants":1,"id":9262030,"kids":[9262124],"score":1,"text":"Amazon, which I would assume is one of the most capital intensive tech companies in the last 20 years, raised $54 million in its IPO. I am sure they have acquired other forms of financing since, but private start ups (Uber, Pinterest, Spotify) today are raising $1B+ in private equity rounds. Why do these start ups today require so much additional capital (in equity) compared to those of the mid 90s? What are these companies doing that is so capital intensive?","time":1427278923,"title":"Ask HN: Why are start ups today raising so much money?","type":"story","url":""}],[9216960,{"by":"Zombieball","descendants":2,"id":9216960,"kids":[9217117],"score":1,"text":"Hi HN,

I am new to the world of iOS dev and throwing together a small app as a side project. I have found a few articles about launching apps that are mostly geared around gaining hype, PR, etc.

I am looking for advice about "must do" tasks, from a technical standpoint, before releasing an app. Examples may be "include library XYZ to collect metrics", "incorporate analytics XYZ".

What are items you would regret forgetting to do before submiting your app for approval?","time":1426584581,"title":"Ask HN: List of “must do's” before launching iOS app","type":"story","url":""}],[9189388,{"by":"wrench604","descendants":3,"id":9189388,"kids":[9189488],"score":1,"text":"I am negotiating equity at a seed funded startup in NY (raised a large seed round of 3 million) for a lead engineering type role. They have a cto, 2 full time remote engineers, and about 5-10 contract engineers. What is an appropriate range of equity assuming I am taking a lesser salary (~120K)","time":1426140544,"title":"Equity for seed funded companies","type":"story","url":""}],[8872699,{"by":"supervillain","descendants":7,"id":8872699,"kids":[8872730,8872749,8875934,8874093,8872748,8872740],"score":9,"text":"I have an agreement that states that when a working product is available, I'm entitled of shares as a co-founder, depending of how much investment we have.

However, due to my hopes of being compensated in the future upon creation of the product, my co-founder expects me to create the product for free for several months. Currently I have a good full-time job, a father and have a family to feed.

Can someone help me clear things out on my side and also that I can communicate to my co-founder.","time":1421042734,"title":"Ask HN: As a co-founder, should development of minimum viable product be free?","type":"story","url":""}],[4968452,{"by":"diminium","descendants":87,"id":4968452,"kids":[4969034,4968621,4968804,4968552,4968583,4968489,4968492,4968502,4968613,4968570,4968714,4968602,4968988,4968705,4968530,4969741,4970563,4969812,4969052,4969228,4969727,4968540,4970110,4968633,4969360,4968488,4969265,4968629,4969961,4969116,5029828,4968515,4969205,4969957,4969505,4969839,4969044,4971930],"score":171,"text":"You know the drill. When you left college, you wanted to work for the big guys - Intel, Google, Apple, NASA - doing things which can change the world. You wanted to do stuff like create a compiler or figure out an algorithm.

Unfortunately, reality hit back hard and you got stuck at a typical company doing CRUD operations. Make reports here, manage documents here, upgrade calendar software here. It pays pretty good but it's not the dream you wanted. Irony then rings and the deeper you move in your career, the more CRUD experience you get and the less \"let's design the next generation algorithm\" experience you have. Thus causing those companies to pigeonhole your resume to pass you on for someone else.

How do you escape from this trap?","time":1356504710,"title":"Ask HN: How do you escape CRUD jobs?","type":"story"}],[4951295,{"by":"MyticMoon","descendants":15,"id":4951295,"kids":[4952858,4951330,4952661,4954243,4954559,4951301,4951310,4952973,4952048,4953396,4952395,4951520,4952088],"score":8,"text":"21/12/2012 11:00 AM - doomday report, nothing strange has happened so far in Singapore. What about other places on earth? Keep us up-to-date.","time":1356058845,"title":"21/12/2012 Doomday report","type":"story","url":""}],[4946924,{"by":"init0","descendants":20,"id":4946924,"kids":[4947681,4947267,4947114,4947367,4947056,4947045,4946989],"score":9,"text":"The job gets bored, i quit find a new, same from past 3 years! Help me.","time":1355997103,"title":"Ask HN: Can't stay at a company for more than an year.","type":"story","url":""}],[4941170,{"by":"npguy","descendants":4,"id":4941170,"kids":[4941859,4941186,4941278,4941205,4941509],"score":2,"text":"With so many options available - Reading Programming Books / Watch Tutorial Videos / Read Other's Code - what is the most effective way to learn a programming language?","time":1355891995,"title":"Ask HN: What Is The Best Approach To Learn A Programming Language?","type":"story","url":""}],[4482723,{"by":"npguy","descendants":13,"id":4482723,"kids":[4484814,4484639,4483301,4492660,4494153,4482919,4482748,4482764,4485395,4482850,4483095,4482725,4482871],"score":8,"text":"","time":1346902236,"title":"Ask HN: What Do You Do In The First Hour of The Day?","type":"story","url":""}],[4482212,{"by":"adetayo","descendants":7,"id":4482212,"kids":[4483155,4508865,4483083,4482290,4484008,4482423],"score":4,"text":"Hello HN. What would be your ideal way of making international money transfer really simple? What do you dislike about the way it works now?

I'm working on something in this area and wanted to get different perspectives.

Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts.","time":1346890626,"title":"Ask HN: How would you simplify international money transfer?","type":"story","url":""}],[4453289,{"by":"zeet2020","descendants":3,"id":4453289,"kids":[4453328,4453930,4453377],"score":1,"text":"","time":1346307660,"title":"Ask HN: how much of your programming skills depends on Google","type":"story","url":""}]]

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