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> What's wrong with ad blocking?

It gives Google a monopoly in selling users' private data. Nobody can ad-block Google. (And Google Analytics.)

> Maybe it would have created a market for micropayments which maybe it's far superior to ads?

Believe me, if micropayments were a viable thing, then ad networks would be the first to jump ship. The current intrusive advertising model doesn't make anyone happy, ad networks included. (Ad networks don't profit from intrusive malware advertising. This is a 'tragedy of the commons' scenario, too much advertising hurts ultimately hurts the ad network bottom line.)
Apple's new NSPersonNameComponentsFormatter in iOS 9 is an interesting API in this space.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Miscel...
Our left-wing presidents look like our right-wing presidents from 20 years ago in fact. If Reagan or Eisenhower were running they today would be considered extremist left wing communists far too liberal to ever be elected.
This goes beyond just frequency and power conformance. There's power negotiation, interference avoidance, instantaneous occupied bandwidth, instantaneous vs average power limits, spread spectrum/freq hopping performance, radar avoidance algorithms - it took a lot of effort to carve up the 5GHz bands, each part of the world has done it differently, and so there's a lot more strings attached.
Sam Altman talked about this in his Employee Equity post: http://blog.samaltman.com/employee-equity.
"The idea is to grant options that are exercisable for 10 years from the grant date, which should cover nearly all cases (i.e. the company will probably either go public, get acquired, or die in that time frame, and so either the employee will have the liquidity to exercise or it won’t matter.)"

Of course, that isn't advice specific to your situation, but at least it shows you a general direction you can use to guide your thinking. There are also plenty of resources online that talk about the potential tax consequences of various exit scenarios.
Same sex couple rights and and women's rights are, while not world-leading, ahead of many countries.
"I don't get it. Firefox and Chrome had ability to install ad blockers for ages..."

The point is, while introducing ad-blocking for iOS Safari, Apple are simultaneously promoting a separate platform that is immune to ad-blocking.

Apple would call it "business" and that would be valid. But when the "business" involves shifty one-two deals with publishers like Wired, whereby the website becomes nothing more than a jump-point to the app, suddenly we have a situation where not just particular technologies like Flash are in the cross-hairs, but the web itself.

We like the web, remember? When it works well it's the most accessible, light-weight, least technical-debt means to online content there is, both for users and developers/publishers.

Note that Apple are not allowing developers to write any old add-on for iOS Safari. Imagine if they opened up add-ons for Safari? That would be worth applauding. We could then fix many of iOS Safari's shortcomings, and give it some much needed extra functionality.

"One more thing about accessibility: iOS is head and sholders above"

The web has more accessible characteristics built-in because of the way the data is openly available to different clients. Native apps controlled by one vendor like Apple are the complete opposite. Regardless of some advances in accessibility options within apps, accessibility isn't among the "out of the box" strengths of the technology you get for free like you do for web.
<Firefox> New API coming. You'll have to rewrite your add-ons for sandboxing, etc.
<Add-on Dev> Oh, okay. -_-
<Firefox> By the way, the APIs aren't all there yet, so what do you need?
<Add-on Dev> Yeah, forget it. I've other things to do.

Both sides are reasonable. Firefox needs this to move forward, but there's only so much effort that people are willing to put into it.

I do hope that Web Extensions will become powerful enough to make the great add-ons we have now, but I'm afraid it's not going to be a nice ride.
>Nobody can ad-block Google. (And Google Analytics.)

What do you mean by this? (I've had google-analytics.com in my /etc/hosts file for many years.)
Many seem to leave out that he was against the Iraq war over a year after it started.. It didn't take a dove to figure out that it was a bad idea in the summer of 2004.. Hillary was on the record criticizing the handling of the war long before that.. One such example 6 months before the Donald ever said anything publicly;

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/21/iraq.hillary/

Biden was on a similar timeline (that was still faster than Trump) from May of 2004;

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/4992558/ns/meet_the_press/t/transc...
The gun on the F-35 is basically pointless. They didn't even include it on the B and C versions. CAS from an F-35 is all about SDB.
Recently I made Instmap (https://instmap.com) and I would like to ask you for your opinion.

Instmap allows you to see Instagram photos nearby or just explore photos around the world.

It's a (geek way to find Instagram accounts of neighbour girls?) tool for journalists trying to cover very specific activities in an area.
As an Atmel customer, what does it mean to me?

Will nothing change? Will Atmel's (or is it Dialog's ?) micro-controllers will become even more power efficient?
Who does the money go to? Your friend? What does your friend do to deserve money for you not accomplishing a particular goal?

I've just had another read and "If you don’t make the deadline, Gofuckingdoit.com collects the money, but the site is considering building a charity payout"

What the fuck? Gofuckingdoit collects the money and is "considering" building a charity payout?
Ugh this is the bane of my life. We use basecamp, hipchat, Skype, Skype for business, email and google hangouts all at once. My kids use hangouts, WhatsApp, Facebook messenger.

None of them work properly. None of them has everyone on it. None of them add any value to communication. All of them throw ten minutes to the wind finding everyone to start with. I've missed 20 minutes of many meetings dealing with audio problems, network problems and firewall problems when we could have used a simple dial in conference system that has been around for over 10 years.

And I'm treated like a Luddite because you have to call me, SMS me or email me?!?

I don't want this any more. After a rant yesterday about WiFi and how it sucks and I've switched back to wired ethernet. I have to suggest that there was a technological singularity around 2005 which was 'peak utility' before the proliferation of sharecropped communications, technology with false utility, high cost and pay-per-everything.

To add other things to this problem set is going to cost me more money and time of which both are finite and at least one runs out uncontrollably.
He's also assuming that Trump will hire "good" people.. Is there evidence whatsoever that he possesses that skill? How would he evaluate what's "good" in areas that he literally knows nothing about?
With Skype down what is your alternative?
I'm using a number of different IM clients... but none is close to Skype in terms of reach, hangout probably being the closest one.
Do you have a preferred one?
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“Now, there's one thing you might have noticed I don't complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens.

This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here... like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks. F#ck Hope.”

-- George Carlin
Have you tried Viber?
You can't generally rely on GPS signal being available.
One of the things I was hoping would take off was SIP: URIs - in theory you could "dial" my email address and the call would be routed to wherever I was at that moment. Texting is built in too. Goddamn standards strike again.
Unity3D has also been backdoored by XCodeGhost author
One of the example of startup that is huge success in Europe, but in USA similar models aren't that successful (Zimride pivoted to Lyft, Ridejoy closed).
Hell, what happens to Arduino?
Contrary to the common interpretation, I've yet to see where in the new rules it is required that manufacturers implementing the new 5GHz U-NII device software security requirements is required to forbid 3rd-party firmware. Yes, there is an administrative document that asks questions about how such updates are prevented, but if you read the full document in context it also asks a lot of other redundant questions, and the FCC have since responded to Ars questions stating that it was not their intention to ban alt firmwares - just that the administrative processes starting up at the moment probably assumed that it would be necessary for the host device to do this to meet the new requirements. And since when does answering a regulatory compliance question in the negative mean that your application will automatically be rejected? All of the responses are used to help an FCC assessor arrive at a proper conclusion, potentially with further clarification sought on each point - it is not a hard script that you must always answer every requirement in the positive (in fact in many cases this would be impossible).

The new regs themselves do not state this requirement. It lists several possibilities for manufacturers to guarantee conformant emissions from their device, several which will continue to allow 3rd-party OS firmware.

Admittedly, the brave new world looks like region-locked devices and cheaper routers that truly are locked down in the exact ways we don't want, but that is not a hard FCC requirement, just a side-effect of the new regs on APs that have poor separation between OS and radio module.

There are plenty of uses for radio software that don't involve going outside approved frequencies.

Except unlike ISM bands, U-NII 5GHz spectrum has been carved up with consultation of the 5GHz primary (licensed) users in each country and granted exclusively for U-NII conformant devices.

Unlike 2.4GHz ISM, nothing gives you the right to transmit on 5GHz U-NII bands (well, there's a bit that overlaps with secondary amateur spectrum) than otherwise permitted through the same FCC approvals process every device manufacturer must undergo.

That was the case before the new rules. Now the new rules are imposing sucky requirements for U-NII device software security.

However, that's been largely misinterpreted in every discussion I've seen recently.

For some context, check out https://wirednot.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/what-else-is-in-th...

You really don't want U-NII devices configured for Japan to be stomping on licensed spectrum in the US; you also need all that power negotiation, radar/interference avoidance algorithms in your radio so we don't get the same 2.4GHz mess happening in 5GHz.
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Are all your options vested? Did the company retain the right to repurchase?* Why exercise the options now? Can you afford to lose that cash if you the shares become worthless post-exercise? Can you sell or transfer your options or pledge as collateral to a loan?

IMHO you should seek advice from a lawyer specializing in this area (who is also familiar with the tax implications).

* Lawyers often tell founders something like: "Typically, the Company retains a right to repurchase unvested shares at cost upon termination of employment. During the period that the shareholder continues to be employed or otherwise provide services, the repurchase right expires according to a vesting schedule."
I thought Telegram had security issues beyond that as in non validated crypto?
Well I have finally come to realize that this is indeed the reality.

"Innovations in hardware are to give programmers freedom to build shitty software and get away with it."
Hey - founder of http://offerletter.io here - some thoughts, in no particular order.

My first thought is, get a lawyer and accountant, immediately.

My second thought is, yes, you kind of screwed up. Generally if you have the opportunity to early-exercise + 83(b), you should take it if you can afford it - it's far, far cheaper in virtually every case, especially for the really early stage.

In terms of forward action, you have a few options:

1) Do a full (or partial) exercise with your own money, pay AMT on the spread

2) Take a loan from someone to help finance the full or partial exercise, let them offset your risk in the short term.

3) See if someone (probably an investor, or your former co-founder) is willing to buy your stock back (probably at a discount)

4) Do nothing and see what happens over the next few months/years, and only take (a potentially much more expensive, but also much more certain) once the company is reaching some liquidity event (or lack thereof).

Here's a more comprehensive blog post on startup equity: http://www.offerletter.io/blog/201412-understanding-and-nego...

Also, even though they're not "your" lawyers, per se (they are the company's) you should still reach out to the company's legal team to understand your options. And if you have a good, open relationship with the cofounder and/or board, then you have a lot more latitude in terms of next-steps as well - if they're doing well they can nicely ask an investor in a subsequent round to give you some liquidity should you desire it.

If you really believe in the company, it may make sense to exercise now and pay the taxes, but if doing so requires a meaningful portion of your net worth, you'll have to make sure you understand you're putting a lot of eggs in one basket. You would basically be going in on an asset that is opaque, and statistically failure-prone. But if you believe in it, it may be worth it. Maybe.

Drop me a line [ mallyvai at offerletter dot io ] if I can be helpful here more specifically too.

No easy solutions - all have tradeoffs - but it's definitely a manageable situation. Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer or accountant, this is not intended to be formal legal or tax advice, etc etc.
Most likely, nothing. This seems to be a channel-driven acquisition. Dialog wants to put Atmel products in its sales channels and its own products in Atmel's sales channels. And it looks like the product lines don't overlap much, so there shouldn't be significant anticompetitive effects.
Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.en.html. They copyright over the code, not "intellectual property."
And three more strange ones: http://articles.latimes.com/2009/aug/27/science/sci-planet27

http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/kepler...

http://astronomynow.com/2015/05/24/hubble-observes-one-of-a-...

Edit: to include the third link for Nasty1
How many are from bots?
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Incredible well known, I'd say. Pretty much all of my friends, techies and non-techies, have used it repeatedly. I'm not too surprised about this valuation.
SAMs may be fine for shooting down airliners, but they're not very effective against fighters. You realize the US lost only one F-16 in the 2003 attack on Iraq, and that was to "fuel starvation"?

And no, the rear of the F-35 isn't much less stealth than the front. You're probably thinking of IR.
Absolutley fascinating. Great reporting - I don't want to say an "enjoyable" read, but certainly very engaging and interesting.
Then we have almost no chance to detect it anyway unless we almost spot on between sender and receiver. But this is a similar constraint to detecting exoplanets with the transit method. Star, planet and Earth have to be in one line for this method to work.

We are detecting lots of potential planets with this method, so if technical alien civilizations were as abundant as planet we should have detected a few already. ;-)

BTW, we ourselves stopped to do the "blasting a signal in every direction" like we used to 50 years ago. With fiber optics, satellites, and other modern technology, we are leaking much less electromagnetic radiation. The chance of another civilization picking up us is shrinking.
That is a bad comparison. It makes no sense to have competition for water. Network effects matter.

Pharma research does not have network effects
Here's why Dialog is buying Atmel for $4.6 billion http://fortune.com/2015/09/21/dialog-buying-atmel/?xid=soc_s...
I wonder what would happen if we started taking smart ideas that didn't gain traction in the U.S. due to cultural and regional differences and then trying them overseas (e.g. the reverse Samovar brother)

I guess the really hard part would be isolating a startups failure or lack of popularity to culture or density. At least enough to spend time and effort to get a similar thing going in another country only to face not that much better odds of failure.
> Did I screw up by not exercising the options earlier this year?

Not really. At the time it was obviously more of a gamble, so it may have been a smart move to keep your money in the bank.

> my understanding is that I'd be taxed on the current value

Correct. So assuming that the FMV of the company for your common stock is about 1/3 of the 40M, and you acquired 3% of that, the government now thinks you just made (40M*0.03/3) = $400k, and they will expect you to pay tax on that as income or AMT in your 2015 return.

So unless you have a few hundred thousand dollars lying around, it's too late, don't worry about it. You still have another 9 years to wait around and see whether the company makes it big time, at which point paying tax will be the least of your worries.
According to user qq66, probably nothing.

Though if Dialog is power management IC company, maybe Atmel's microcontrollers or Atmel based boards will have better power management features and/or be more power efficient?
There are other examples of intentionally silly candidates abroad, including the UK's famous "Monster Raving Loony Party", Icelands's "Best Party" (several seats in parliament) or Germany's "Die Partei" (1 seat in EU parliament).

But you really need someone who's supposedly in it for real for things to look really, really weird. A case of the Uncanny Valley effect?
Thanks for the link! Reading now
> he’s exposing all its phoniness and corruption in ways as serious as he is not

Trump will definitely make a full run at the Presidency if he believes he has a chance - and it appears he does. This guy wants to be the President. This is not a publicity stunt, if it ever was.

Continuing to pretend he's a cartoon character will just make the hangover worse.

Disclaimer: I am not a Trump supporter.
Here in Europe jackfruit is sold as a vegetarian alternative to pulled pork in all food trucks. I haven't tried it but I've heard it's very similar.
Sample of not very many? I'm based in the UK and I've never heard of it before. Perhaps all my friends are using it and never mentioning it to me, though!

(I checked to see if it does operate in the UK, and it seems to.)
Sorry, perhaps I should have been more clear - I'm not saying these cars are unreliable or will fall apart, I'm saying they're ugly and made of horrible materials. Unpleasant fabric, plastic that is textured to "look" like leather, fake leather and just awful, awful designs (e.g. The Toyota Yaris or the Nissan Juke - just dreadful). I'm sure these cars are very reliable, but from a design perspective they're ghastly.
This is a popular thing to say but it really isn't true. Right wing parties in Europe are far more right-wing than the American right. The Democratic Party is comparable to any other social democratic party in Europe: the UK Labour Party, the German SDP, the Swedish SAP, etc. What America lacks that most European countries have is a true centrist Liberal party. This tends to be obfuscated in American politics due its unfortunate misuse of the word Liberal.
I guess the intention is that they need doers, not thinkers.

And would also like to cut some expenses.

What they don't know is that it won't work.
When you corrupt society and industry with social sciences and arts you eventually come to egg girls (https://www.google.com/search?q=egg+girls&prmd=visn&source=l...), tamagotchi, and hikikomori (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori ), and lots of bad comics.
Good point... I guess it's either lose $20k 9 months ago for possibly no money, or makes slightly less millions later with no risk.
Actually I do purchase it. I don't purchase the right to redistribute it. But I totally own the right to modify my car however I see fit as long as it is road legal. Part of it being mine.
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Quite the contrary, what you list seems to me a result of lack of serious culture, certainly not of cultural boom.

Can't fight with lack of culture by destroying culture.
Chinese security engineers from Alibaba and Baidu have discovered backdoored Unity3D (v4.6.4 to 5.1.1) in the wild. The infected SDKs share the same behaviors as the infamous XCodeGhost trojan. Four types of malicious attacks have been uncovered and PoC'ed:

* Targeted phishing by prompting an alert box.

* Downloading apps with enterprise certificates.

* Opening a phishing web site in the browser.

* Launching App Store to promote specific apps.

(The last two attacks are exploiting the same vector.)
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>Despite what media wants people to believe, may are sick and tired of political correctness and bending down to everyone's demands for anything.

If you are an average straight white man, yeah, it sure looks like things aren't getting better. Your wages haven't increased much at all (adjusted for inflation) since the '70s.

And yeah, women and the gays and men who aren't white (though, I think it's mostly women; there are just so many more of them) are making gains every day... if trends continue, it won't be much longer before those people make as much as we do! and now they want to be treated with respect, too? Christ, when will it end!

I mean, sure, I laugh at those who have this 'white rage' for complaining that we, as white men, are now expected to treat other people with a base level of respect (as that, at root, is the intent of political correctness.) - At least where I live, this expectation is phrased more like "Please consider that women are humans too, you know, if it's not too much trouble" than anything really threatening to the status quo.

But there are a lot of people who feel genuine rage. And I don't know... My own opinion is informed by the fact that I make really good money and work in an industry where I get a really obvious (and fairly large) bonus for being a white male. Would I feel that rage if I had to struggle to make ends meet? If I had to seriously compete with women in the workplace? I like to think I wouldn't, but who knows?
All options are vested. Not entirely sure. I could have afforded if I had purchased them earlier this year, but the tax consequence of buying them now is impossible it seems (everyone is saying that without an 83b and purchasing them earlier this year, I basically would have to pay the tax on the full value now). I will reach out to a lawyer soon. Figured HN would have plenty of people who had been there before and willing to give some brief advice/info.