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I think Sam is saying that without YC, there are some companies that may not end up succeeding or being able to raise and continue on (without YC's network, advice, speed, focus etc. to help them)

The distinction is that they want to fund companies who would continue working on it even if they didn't get into YC. They are so passionate about the problem that they will try to make it succeed no matter what.
If you think there's an 85% chance that Zu was somehow connected to the AM hack then you didn't read the article.
Haha, it looks eerily similar to Myra, the cross platform assistant I launched last week [1]. Including the name. Interesting times.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10060074.
I should have been clearer. Their definition of "sophistication" is arbitrary and effectively amounts to "obvious in retrospect". Safety pins and catseyes aren't more "sophisticated". The inventor of the safety pin made a working version in a few minutes. Differentiating an intentional slide gesture is actually much more sophisticated than bending a wire or mounting a reflector on a piece of rubber.
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> Emacsophobia may be irrational

I used emacs for about 10 years. Then I switched to vim, and I have no intention of switching back. It's not a phobia, it's a rational realization that modal editing fits well with how I do editing.
Not my area of expertise, but in principle any set of instructions can be encoded into a prefix-free code (e.g. a binary argument just expands the set of instructions by a factor of 2). If both arguments have equal probabilities this simplifies to simply appending the argument as a prefix. If the probabilities are unequal, you can save bits (entropy) by bundling frequently occurring arguments together in the Huffman scheme, at the cost of increased decoding complexity. I heard bandwidth/cache sizes is a much greater problem than circuit area though.

You are right that you need to parse all previous instructions to get an offset. Again, this is far from my area of expertise (first time I read about CPU design), but it seems this problem could easily be alleviated by slight modifications to Huffman codes, for example by setting "blocks" of instructions of certain sizes and assigning a prefix to each block containing the number of instructions in each -- you then can get offsets very quickly.
Why does it have to come from taxes?

Here's the thing: we generally seem to work on the assumption that paying for college is an investment sufficiently worthwhile that people should be willing to consider borrowing money, against their future income potential, to pay for it. Right now, we expect individuals to take on that debt themselves, personally.

That has pretty terrible consequences for the individuals for whom the investment doesn't pay off.

But if, in general it's a good bet that paying to get someone educated will increase the value of their aggregate lifetime economic output, why shouldn't the state be putting some money towards it? The government could borrow money at bond rates and use that to pay for a whole bunch of people to get degrees, and assume that the overall future increase in GDP (and consequent tax take) will be enough to pay back the additional borrowing. An the bonus? Even if there are some people who don't realize the potential economic advantage of their education, on aggregate the bet wins (if you frame it right and make sure the funding went to real degrees with real value, of course).

This is the problem with most rhetoric around government debt. Not all government spending is a write-off - some of it (infrastructure spending, spending on education, R&D funding, international development funding) is an investment in future potential. If an investment is worth making, it's even more worthwhile making it with borrowed money. If the government is borrowing money to pay for medical care for seniors, maybe we have a problem. But to fund educating 20 year olds? That seems likely to be something that could pay off.
I meant fixed per person, regardless of medical services rendered. But as others have pointed out, Amazon most likely self-insures, so they take on the risk and stand to gain much by dropping an unhealthy person.
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This widely varies. In Livermore (technically Bay Area) I asked a simple question of whether they sold a compass. The man in the orange apron had no idea what a compass was, and I had to correct his spelling of 'compass' as he searched for it on homedepot.com . It was very bizzare.
With a few reservations, yeah I believe in them, and the product. The potential client list (people interested in the beta) is quite impressive, and the product is unique/powerful.

Why do you say that startups shouldn't be LLCs?

The investors have 50% voting each, not equity; the total equity split would be 7.5% each to CTO & CEO, then the remainder split between the investors; all dilutable if outside investors get involved.
Ask HN: I am underpaid and overworked – how much equity do I deserve?
<this is a throwaway account>

Background: For the past 2 years, I have been part of a custom software development company run by myself and two relatives, one of which owns 100% of the company. I've been quite severely underpaid for the past 2 years, but I had agreed to it because I knew the company couldn't afford it yet and I ultimately wanted to have equity in the company. I was under the impression that I was going to be part of a hustling team that would work together to build something great. In reality, the owner has effectively checked out and expects me and my other relative to run the company for him. I need to have a talk with him for how much equity myself and the other relative deserve, in addition to salary increase. The company has sustained positive YOY growth, but the actual finances and how the money gets spent is more of a shady subject.

How do you think I should approach this? How much equity does someone in my position deserve? I realize I haven't provided all the details, but any advice would help.
If properly handled maternity cover is a pretty painless process. It's not like a boss quitting: there are handover periods and keep-in-touch mechanisms. The new manager should be explicitly hired for maternity cover, and have their expectations set. It happens in most of Europe, almost without comment it's so routine.

If it's a massive career-impacting hassle for employees of people on leave at Amazon, where they "suffer significantly" that's yet more evidence for Amazon being a terrible place to work.
This is pretty poor journalism. Reminds me of the reddit Boston bombing witchhunt. Note that in the comments, Krebs had to be "reminded" to reach out to Thadeus Zu for comment.
OT: where's the source code for the AM website? Is it inside one of the dumps?

Edit: found it in "Ashley Madison 2nd dump 20 GB"
You're strongly misinterpreting what I said. Of course she should be back in the same position after maternity leave.

But when there's a team of people that report to you, they need to report to someone else while you're away for five months. Of course when you go back they'll be reporting to someone else until you're back up to speed on what's gone on for nearly half a year.

Whether getting back up to speed takes 15 minutes or two weeks will of course very with respect to the position and the project.

See also the edit I added to my original comment.

Edit: and yes, in my experience and from what I've seen, women have a clear advantage in hiring. Note that I specifically said "hiring" advantage.
edit: Deleted my response because this is a bikeshed. You prefer placeholders, I prefer interpolations, it's totally subjective and there's little point debating it!
Need to take into account dilution in subsequent fundings. So much less than 7%. #s are still out of this world though
They've had a bit of capability difference before. From the version 5, they've changed their model so aside from mandatory Personal Edition splash screen, the engine is identical but they do offer support and external feature for their paid version. (And they have $100000 revenue/funding limit to license Personal Edition.[1])

[1] http://unity3d.com/legal/eula
Have you seen Tcl's dictionary construct? Its built in and extremely flexible in creating data structures, as you can define them from the ground up.
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But we're not talking about the Ellen Pao's of the world, we're talking about average workers. I've seen firsthand that some employers won't want to touch someone who sued a former employer - for any reason.
As I replied elsewhere, that is not at all what I meant. See my edit.
Yup it certainly could be, although it loses value in the form of maintenance costs and can only earn value in the form of bread. So if you can find good bread-trading partners or can sell your bread for non-devaluing currency then that can work out.
You will see many coming back stronger for YC W16 application: 2015 is big time in a lot of fields. The YC ecosystem (alumni and network) is so diverse and lively nowadays that it could even generate self-sustaining innovation, more than universities and corporations.
So, I guess Hacker News is focused more on the tech than the political, but, still, I'm kinda taken aback by the comments here. The Uber "endgame" is a super-small fish in the bigger ocean called "neoliberalism". It's not just a tech issue, but technology does accelerate the issue.

It's a very deep concept, and fairly complex. It includes related disciplines such as Neoliberal Jurisprudence. Before anyone goes all "you don't know what you're talking about" on me, I concede I'm no expert. It's a very deep concept, after all. My exposure to the issue is largely via my wife and others in her cohort, studying at one of the US's top political theory grad programs. They are heavily studying/working on neoliberalism, taking it very seriously.

It's worth educating one's self about it. Both in general, and as an IT/Tech professional. It's already a thing, most people just aren't aware of it yet.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2011....
http://inthesetimes.com/article/17533/how_to_sell_off_a_city
http://www.popmatters.com/column/194010-neoliberalism-is-cha...
I would like to see what advanced facilities perl has for text parsing that TCL doesn't!
Or [noun classes][0] generally.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_class
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I've found out the rate that at least a couple of the clients would pay to get my time, and I find it expensive. I don't find it surprising that one person I talked to, said that they have specifically requested that no one based in the UK for forwarded to them, because they would be, almost by definition cost more than they would be willing to pay.

And yes, I have been told by several clients that I would be an expensive hire. And then I don't get hired, in spite of what is usually a highly productive conversation/interview.
Anything is possible. But consider: Intel length-encoded opcodes for the 8086. Decades later, turns out they made bad choices. The shortest instructions (xchg r1, r2) are NEVER used. Compilers have changed; nobody codes much ASM any more. Its a crap-shoot.
Despite 'clearly' reading the entire article and having it pointed out, you missed/ignored the second part.

"Her team was reassigned" (during her extended absence) - reasonable. Disappointing, for her, perhaps, but reasonable.

"and she was placed on a PIP" - she comes back from maternity and is told, formally, 'your performance is unacceptable and is going to have to improve to stay at the company'. This just screams vindictiveness. "Your pregnancy inconvenienced the company / team, so here's a formal black mark for you, often used as an excuse to be able to fire you at any time in the future".
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Which of Haskell and OCaml is more practical?
that would be a right to encrypt, not a right to privacy. the 'right to privacy', as established in the US, constitutes a 'reasonable expectation of privacy' that is - if you passively (e.g hiding behind a wall) or procatively (enclosing a letter in an envelope) take measures to hide what you are doing then you have the legal right to go after someone who tries to breach this privacy.

In the context of encryption, A right to encrypt says that no one can stop you from encrypting your work. A right to privacy says no one is allowed to try to break your encryption.
BoomBeach is the same genre as CoC but it's not a clone - it has quite a few changes in it (maybe an appropriate analogy would be C&C compared to Dune2, or Quake compared to Doom).
> So California is 75 times richer than Vermont?

California is also, like, 75 times bigger than Vermont in pretty much every metric, so I'm not sure why you seem so surprised by such an implication.
There are only effectively 2 ways in which startup equity becomes cash:

- IPO (least likely)
- a top-10 unicorn which access to the secondary market

Unfortunately during a buy-out, your options are not actually equity and you are not likely to participate in the M&A cash. Most companies do the right thing and issue you a competitive offer and maybe a bonus, but honestly it's hardly much more than that you could have gotten if you worked at Google/whatever all along.
To what end? There's clearly a social benefit to people not always minding their business. Do you really prefer that people stick their head in the sand instead of looking at social problems and discussing them, even on an individual level?
He was being reminded to post about reaching out.
So in your mind the only reason one should use accurate language would be to avoid the risk of civil or criminal litigation? Fascinating.
Probably the money should simply be destroyed. There's too much conflict of interest when law enforcement can become a profit centre.
Isn't this what EFF does ?
Thanks, though this clearly does not support the claim that was made.

If this is the source of the claim---and it appears that it probably was---the claim is a serious mis-statement.
WoW is a good example of this. It was huge, but so many of us got tired of the expansions and having to do the normal gameplay to get a new character up to a good level. I think they finally redesigned the starting areas, but i think it was a little to late.
It exposes what is already human nature. Okay, it was a potential enabler... you have a fair point. But it having a large male populous turns out to be a popular gay hub. The people on this site were going to cheat anyway.

I don't disagree with it being run by sleazy people with sleazy business practices. From everything I've read, I'd concur with this statement.

An epidemic of cheating over the internet is no more a concern than the "epidemic" of cheating. The internet was just a means to an end... just like party lines, dating services, the bar, the office and everywhere else people of our species comingle without their partners. Cheating is no more an epidemic now than it ever was. People just changed media. Perhaps if it's truly the epidemic you suggest, then instead of that being a concern to people who intend to get married, we as a species need to re-evaluate if monogamy is actually human nature or if it's just wishful thinking impressed upon us by the dogma of our upbringing.
Windows 10 has just under 6% of Windows market share.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/24/windows_10_market_sh...

Hopefully that number triples in the next year. We all want Windws users on 10, right?

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/07/29/why-everyone-should-...
In both those cases you have to read it backwards to see what it does.
Relevant and fun: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2007/08/07/42687...

(Also no accusation to the original author intended. It's just relevant and fun to the parent message.)
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The inclusion of a salt only protects against precomputed hashes. It makes almost no difference to how many millions of hashes one can perform per second.
> Where am I going wrong?

I don't think the goal of the site is to solve the problem of, or even serve as a textbook for, "Quantitative Economic Modeling."

Each chapter presents a popular model that most academic economists are already familiar with and shows, in a practical way, how to implement the models in Python and Julia. I see it more as a resource for economists to learn to program than an an economic theory text.
I don't imply that women game the system, that would be a ridiculous thing to say. Of course parental leave should be standard in society, and I wish the USA in particular were better about it as a whole.

What I'm saying is that it isn't clear from the article whether there were explicit efforts to catch her up on the surely significant changes that had happened over six months and whether that was the purpose of the PIP program, which it also doesn't explain.

If they had taken away her responsibilities and diminished her role as a result of this leave, then that would be incredibly shitty and she would very justifiable have reason to sue.

But it's not clear that that's what happened. The company could very well have been trying to re-onboard her. We have half the story.
Are you saying that when early employees (e.g. Engineer #1 or CTO) are offered equity, that it is usually awarded as options and not true ownership shares in the company?
I can't read through the pages and pages of grandstanding in this PDF, does this at all have some sort of escape of a security boundary, or is it just "I found a weird way to hack myself"?
They've also made lots of other games (many of which canceled before release) - it's just that none were close to as successful as angry birds.
> Facebook already has two top-50 apps

I count 4: Facebook, Messenger, Whatsapp, Instagram.
Myra looks similar Magic to which was launched earlier this year. Also has a name beginning with m. http://www.wired.com/2015/03/stump-magic/
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This is phenominal. I wish I got moving as early as this kid. Watch him for big things.
I think you mean deprecating, not depreciating. :-)
She should explain that then. Another commented on this post said (s)he knows multiple people that have gone on PIP, gotten out of it, and are working normally now.
My view is hardly "peculiar". It's actually quite common, and the divide I speak of is an old and bitter philosophical debate among people who care about this sort of thing. As for the UN, no, I don't think I'll be changing my position just because "they're big". Imagine the world we'd live in if everybody adhered to that kind of thinking.
Many posts of this, including https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10121168 and the threads I linked to from there.

We added the qualifier "potentially" from the article's first paragraph.
A couple of years ago Contiki had a lot of rough parts that were in dire need of a bit of love - something we've worked hard to fix in the past few versions. Version 3.0 is by far the most solid Contiki thus far. Maybe you got stuck in the middle of this

Not sure about Coffee in particular though, simply because file systems isn't really the focus of Contiki. Unlike server and desktop OSes, where the file system really is a core item, embedded OSes like Contiki don't depend on them and they are only used by a small subset of applications.
Hammonton, NJ is one of these, I believe. Along with some other towns along the White Horse Pike in the middle of South Jersey. You cruise along the pike at 55, because the limit is 50, and then you hit Hammonton, where the speed limit drops to 35 with no visible cues, just one speed limit sign that is often obscured by foliage. And there are always police patrolling this tiny stretch of road, or parked alongside with speed guns. And of course, they are happy to allow you to use the NJ statute that lets you plea to a no points charge of 'unsafe driving' instead of speeding, with a much higher fine.
I'd love to see a financial report on this town, and ones like it in NJ. Likewise, I expect Atlantic City and a couple of towns around it have a similar relationship with minor drug charges.
So you're going to let my intent argument stand?

We build the firewall around prosocial behavior. I think that if the names of all of the coke dealers selling their wares through TSR came out today I would not be upset either, because it's a scummy, exploitative industry. If you're breaking a social contract, my expectation of other people upholding their social contracts with you, in that area, are very slim.
Look at it this way - the guys making this decision probably end up with more money than they could possibly hope to spend either way (just stash away a couple dozen $MM).

Might as well take the risk of trying to build an empire?
Even the old one isn't a proper mobius strip. In the transparent version[1] you can see that the strip twists behind the crossing making it a normal loop.

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Just tried it in Chrome and it has the exact same behavior as FireFox.
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I prefer Techno Mage in that instance
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I can verify. "Seamless" in this case means "I often don't even notice". If I'm directly watching I can sometimes see it and correlate it to a small dropout but it's nothing that doesn't happen all the time on cell phones anyhow; it's below the noise threshold.
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Former FA employee here: They're a great company. Grew about 45x while I was with them. They use BlackRock funds, so BR saw the growth. A pretty good ending for 5 years work. The Financial Times is reporting they sold for $150M-$200M.
The parent misquotes the original article (or the article has been edited since the quotation without a note indicating as such). I quoted the actual article and pointed out that it specifies honorary doctorate.

I agree that the parent comment is trying to say that RBG has a degree from Cornell already, but that's not really relevant to the article and it doesn't seem unreasonable to point out exactly why her degree from Cornell wasn't mentioned. It's not a categorical list of every degree she has, and doesn't pretend to be.
This is an advertising gold mine. It's hard to monetize a news feed because users are looking at pictures of their friends and don't want ads. Now you have a way for users to ask about buying stuff, and now you have a very easy way to match up those intents with ad supply.
Ease of technical implementations does not a natural right make.
You left out a bigger factor, in my opinion: tracking compensation to inflation or the success of the business, not market rates.

If the market rate for an engineer is (making up numbers) 35% higher than it was in 2010, each engineer better be making at least 1.35 times what they were five years ago. Probably more, considering they're likely better at what they do than they were five years ago.
As another Googler, agreed, that experience is not standard at all. A large number of my coworkers have children, are having children, etc all who are fully supported by the team and the org.

Nothing is perfect for sure, but the full intent of the entire org is to support googlers 2.0. There are of course naughty parts and peopleops exists to help with that.
You don't leave that one hanging. What's the story? Care to share?