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Sorry for missing this, I don't check HN every day! Both medical systems that we had children with (in SF) do not do in-home followups, at least not for us. We had to go back the d…

I hear it. For our first child, for the first 24 hours or so postpartum, my wife and child both needed something checked every couple hours. Our overnight nurse said something like…

Thanks! I didn't check them out because I wasn't interested in leaving the city (and only included FB because I'd heard theirs was good).

What do you mean by "extra" on "extra CA PFL"? Companies I am familiar with continue vesting through the full length of their paid parental leave.

90% of moms not coming back is an exaggeration for the bay area. Part of what we're not talking about here (in this whole thread) is the cost of child care. Child care in SF is ove…

What they should do is say "These are our parental leave policies" (which will be at least legal minimum) and go from there. (Ideally, these should be reasonable leave time governm…

I just switched jobs in San Francisco, and part of my search was parental leave. I did not see any companies in the 6-12 month paid parental leave range. 6-20 weeks is the range I …

A good argument for parental leave not being tied to employer, and instead being tied paid by the state. I've heard of moms before who would rather tell the truth that they're not …

I'm glad CA's PFL program exists, and by American standards, it's very good. But it only pays 60% of income, for 6 weeks, and up to a level under the salary of most in product-engi…

Howdy, author here! When someone is getting ready to come onsite, we give the more detailed information about what the onsite will look like, as this varies team by team. Our iOS a…

Palantir has allowed for current employees to cash out options during some rounds of funding in the past, if I remember correctly.

Bunch of reasons: * Making hedge funds richer didn't actually feel like changing the world. * I never really clicked on the codebase, didn't understand what was going on in the cod…

I quit Palantir after 6 months in 2011; I am a CMU CS grad and I worked at Google for 5 years before Palantir. Their pitches of "We only hire the best and brightest" and "Our work …

Your final paragraph is interesting, given the author's point here: > Finally, this list is written for those who, like me, try to err on the side of being maximally-inclusive. Man…

I'm the person whose tweet is at the top of the linked article. My original curiosity was from that of someone who wants to promote "cooperation, equality and respect" - and, to me…

More discussion in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8813138

Thanks for updating it. Wasn't sure if TC had changed it, or if the poster was editorializing.

The actual headline is "Curated Food Delivery Startup Caviar In Talks To Be Acquired By Square For $100 Million" - this isn't a done deal.

"What I would love to see is: Given two points on the map - what is the most common path between them based on multi-path tracks of others..." Check out strava.com/routes, as other…

Except in California it's nominally medicinal, and in Colorado it's recreational.

The audience is heterogenous though. The poster wasn't hand-wringing and complaining "There shouldn't be Bitcoin articles on HN", but instead took initiative and created his or her…

As a cyclist, I'm sure you already know this. Properly geared, bikes aren't hard to get up hills - they're just slow.

Put on some fenders, rain pants, a rain coat, and ride! Or take transit. Living closer together is great, but cycling infrastructure matters too to get people onto bikes.

So the AP follows sentence case for titles, but this one follows title case for titles. And in title case, which is another rule, would endorse capitalizing "Go" here.

Which grammar guidelines suggest not capitalizing a verb in a title?