skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, and the invention of the washing machine put so many people out of work, and only the rich have them...right. He's a physicist, not an economist or philosopher, with the exception that his fame gives him a platform to express his opinions, but his fame buys him credit to speak across disciplines and for people to lend false credibility to his opinions.
Is it possible to have ISOs that convert to NQs if held past the 90-day expiration period, but don't actually expire until several years in the future? Or must they be NQs from the beginning if they have an expiration period more than 90 days past date of termination?
NASA has been pretty vocally against since 2010 or so, here's an example:

http://www.spacepolitics.com/2014/03/28/bolden-and-house-com...

You have to understand that NASA is a big place and they have a public communications aspect with people who's job it is to spread word about what they are doing no matter if it's what they want to be doing or not, so rthat's why you see so much in support.

The best way to tell if it is fluff or real is to look for vague ideas instead of hard timelines.
Well, the fact that Bell Labs is/was an actual real thing, whereas YCR currently consists of good intentions and an amount of money which, while very generous on Sam's part, would fund a Bell Labs size organisation for a couple of days.
> The closest you can get to Antarctica on regular commercial flights is Punta Arenas

Not quite true. You can get to Ushuaia, which is a little closer.
There is an official, open-source lastpass CLI client: https://github.com/lastpass/lastpass-cli
Quick summary guide to what you want your option equity grant to be like:

1. Must have an 83(b) election process, and give a bonus to cover pre-exercise cost OR:

2. No expiry after leaving the company, instead should just convert to NSOs AND

3. If possible, options should expire after 15-20 years with the longer time horizons to IPO today compared to 7 years ago. Facebook for example took 8 years from founding to IPO. Even if you stay employed at facebook for the entire time, you could have lost all of your stock for example.

4. Vesting cliffs should be no longer than 1 year.

If you are unwilling or incapable to pre-exercise your startup stock, then equivalent RSU grants are superior to stock option grants. Even most $1bb startup employees have a very hard time finding people to buy their stock outside of company secondaries when the company is private.

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What you give up at a startup as a sr. engineer vs bigco:

1. Saleable within 1 year +$100k/yr equity grants. These equity grants can then be used in other investments, such as a house down payment or otherwise. Give them a bonus of %7 annual compounded interest.

2. Higher salaries

3. Bonuses

4. Some benefits which may have high amount of financial benefits for your situation, such as paid parental leave.

5. Hours worked.

Make sure that the startup offer can beat a big co offer if a +$100mm sale event happens by a good margin. If your startup offer cannot beat that, then working at that startup will have a near certain chance of having a big financial downside compared to working at bigco. Working at bigco is the index fund of tech work, make sure your startup 'investment' at least has a chance of beating the index fund.
You think this stuff is just anti-terrorism? The whole reason I even MENTIONED the idea of a warrant is specifically for normal policework. It's the same as searching someone's house after a murder's taken place- just now, instead of reading their files, it's all in a secure place in their computer.

Having a reasonable way to read that stuff(WITHOUT USING A BACKDOOR. I don't want weaker crypto just for this- but businesses hosting this stuff always have their proprietary ways of handling things) is just a continuation of previous law.
There are upsides to big companies, and if they can keep the downsides (beuracracy, etc) under control... Once upon a time HP was supposedly a phenomenal place to work.
You can still have pro rata rights on common shares.
@sama We were interviewed last year but we were not selected. We then followed all your advices and we invested all our time developing and finalizing the product.

We'll launch our first beta version within a month and we are receiving a tremendous amount of interest. However we can't really yet prove a traction. What should we prove (or what should we have done) in order to try to apply again?
Blind Programmers and Computer Language [video]
This is a brilliant research tool, because it can give you fast, unbiased answers about how English is spoken by real people instead of what's prescriptively correct. Any English dictionary will tell you that coup de grâce is pronounced with an /s/ sound at the end, but searching on YouPronounceIt it's actually very hard to find an English speaker who says it this way.
It depends on what you use to create the .zip file. The zip command uses the insecure PKZIP algorithm. 7z supports AES-256 encryption.
Codified Likeness Utility was the first thing that came to my mind :) but I discarded the thought as soon as I saw 1979 ( Tron came out in 1982).
LinkedIn agrees to pay $13M in 'spam' settlement
I think everyone agrees that a fix at the root cause (local governance) is better but YC can only do so much, so what Sam said about increasing the funding for their startups is really what's directly under their control. I suppose they could join up with other VCs and do some lobbying to propose better solutions though.

Startups aren't going to move, like you suggest, although the bigger companies are willing to open offices elsewhere.
But wiretaps over SSL are worthless unless you want to spend a year letting the computer run, which isn't possible thanks to that provision in the law requiring a speedy trial.
Copenhagen 1905, hard times
This is my major rub with ISO's. Their sentence sums up the problem perfectly: "You’ll still be able to buy it for $1 (and then sell it immediately for a profit of $19)."

How am I supposed to sell a stock immediately if I have no market to sell it on because the company is private?

In my opinion, ISO's drastically favor the employer. If I am unhappy and wish to leave, but have vested two years of options, I am forced to either a) throw them away after 30 days or b) purchase them and take on a potentially enormous tax burden unless I do actually have the ability to sell them immediately.

Additionally, by waiting to exercise at a later date I further push back the amount of time it takes to qualify for long term capital gains when selling the remaining portion of the stock.

I was in the exact situation I describe about three years ago when I was very unhappy and wished to look for something new. I had vested an extremely generous ISO grant that, should I have exercised it, would have bankrupted me from the tax bill. My stock was worth 100x what my strike price was, so in essence, I was the "victim" of the company being extremely successful. My way out of this problem was simply luck: we got bought four months after this personal crisis started.

I also found myself feeling like a second class citizen as time wore on. I had been a first employee and helped build the company into what it was, and I felt involved and informed with most everything going on. As time wore on, we became successful and grew substantially and I found myself in a situation where I was becoming simply a senior member of the engineering team. I was certainly not an owner, despite what my time, acceptance of risk, and vested options would imply after four years of hard work.

If companies really believed in the value of an ISO they would put their money where their mouth is and have a stock purchase program that helps alleviate the tax burden over time. It's that, or allow option holders to keep their options for many years after employment terminates. As an owner, what do you want -- option holders that happily stick around even when they could leave or employees who feel they are forced to stay regardless of what happens?
This is typically where the 83b elections come in, right?

Also, has anyone ever had trouble with the "speculatively execute one option buy a share to get access to the books for a sanity check" thing? That's normal practice, right?
At the designated time, there's a tiny amount of discussion under "#BlockParty" on Twitter, interspersed with big ads for hip-hop block parties. Mozilla isn't the only one using that tag.

On Facebook, it's not an item on the Firefox Facebook page, so you can't comment there.

Vine and Instagram have #BlockParty hits, none of which have anything to do with Mozilla.

Nothing on the Mozilla Governance mailing list.

"news.mozilla.org", Mozilla's USENET server, seems to be broken.

As a way to discuss the subject, this was a total fail.
API First Design the way of the future
They mean that you own a specific fraction of the company (at least until the stock gets diluted). If the company is worth $X, and you own Y% of it, then your stock is worth $XY/100.
I don't think anyone's offended. But I think it's acceptable to say "people in first world countries" when one actually just means "the overwhelming majority of people in first world countries".
(I work at USDS@VA)

I wouldn't say it's a philosophical difference. We're definitely tackling the problem in two different ways, but that's not because either group thinks the other is wrong, it's because this is a big problem that requires attacking it from many angles.
My (admittedly limited) understanding of why contractors are used instead of government employees is because it's notoriously hard for the government to fire people who aren't good. The premium cost of contractors is worth it when you're able to fire them if they don't meet expectations.
>the observer affecting the universe in an unknown way.

there is no pure "observation" in QM like the one we can imagine in classical case. Any observation in QM is actually an interaction. While i'm not a fan of Copenhagen, there is nothing un-materialistic that an interaction with the system affects its state, like a coin balancing on its edge finally would finally fall on one side upon you touching it.
Once Apple Mail added swiping to archive, I switched off of Mailbox. I figure Google having access to all my mail is bad enough, no reason to make an additional company privy to it, too, unless absolutely necessary. I didn't use the swiping features to remind me of mail later, I really just used the swipe-to-archive.
Proof? Citations? Because wind is already cheaper than nuclear (and solar will be in the next 2-3 years), and no one will invest in nuclear plants if they won't be profitable in 10 years (which they won't be).
That's because what tantalor left out is that anglophones started misspelling that word in the 17th century, when it was actually spelled "key" from old French "kay".

So it's not so much a word that you go "ah I'm so clever I can pronounce it right", but more one that you go "some people along the way started misspelling this too often and the people who knew better didn't do a good job in correcting them".

And why should I know how to pronounce a word that current anglophones don't know how to spell? It's a tongue-in-cheek question, people.
I'm not arguing to break encryption. And neither is the white house. They want ways around this stuff- ways that don't break encryption, but if the information is available, then the ability to get to it if necessary.

Backdoors don't work because yeah, it breaks the whole system. But not everything is encrypted with these companies, that's just plain.
You think the Volkswagen CEO resignation was a result of blame shifting?
Why did you choose the name?
Isn't academia even more risky than YCR? ~90% of grad students, at some point in their career path, will be unable to find a tenured job and be forced to leave. What could possibly be more risky than that? YCR has some chance of failure, sure, but it has to be less than 90%.
The IEA indicates that world demand for power will rise, but at a much slower pace than historically due to the level of efficiencies we're realizing due to technology:

http://www.iea.org/textbase/npsum/weo2014sum.pdf
It mentions benzedrine use, but it didn't come off as omnipresent (to my naive self).
This is fun way to discover random videos. I searched "invincible", and you get array of videos on topics from technology, cancer, health care to solar panels.
KeepassDroid (for Android) and MiniKeePass (for iOS) both work well.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OfvOGcYUY6g
>Solar and wind power sources will never replace base-load coal/gas plants until we can solve that problem. Battery technology doesn't solve this problem yet.

It's already being done in Hawaii:

http://www.utilitydive.com/news/hawaii-co-op-solarcity-ink-d...
Media begets presidents ...
Because the drug legalizers first disobeyed, then circumvented, and finally ignored the law, and the LGBT groups cheerfully use personal intimidation and group shaming rather than wasting their time putting their faith in politicians?

The status quo can be improved but it's a process of beating the system and the people in it until they stop resisting, not choosing better ones or convincing them you're in the right.
It's hard to force a lawyer to do anything. Thankfully the property manager had a personal relationship with him, and could just say, "Look, don't turn this into a big deal - just caulk the bathtub and stop the leaking already." But for that single phone call, I would be at least $15-$20K poorer.
It would have a tomb underneath it, but that tomb would be an empty one.
I would absolutely do this if I find myself in a position where I am accepting ISOs again. Not doing so left me completely out of the loop in regards to company direction, how much the owners were paying themselves in dividends, or potential buyout options.
I'm also not pleased by this news, given the track record of Logmein and how they butchered Hamachi (mind you, that was years ago), the price gouging and increases to the Pro and Central customers, etc...

I could grumble for awhile, but I do see one positive change I think will be made quite soon - Lastpass Enterprise did struggle to pass passwords through remote sessions (to a client server, for example). We played with using Thycotic Secret Server, but Lastpass Enterprise is better in so many other ways that we dealt with copy/pasting passwords into the remote session. If Logmein can bring Lastpass integration through their remote tools I'll be really happy, and I think it will drive people back to Logmein who left over the past few years price gouging.

That all said... Logmein was really really terrible about grabbing the clipboard of any user who had recently connected and hanging onto it. 'Pasting' into a session often splooged some other guys clipboard contents (funny jokes, personal password, embarassing URL)...
Nice.

I have some colleagues adventuring in entrepreneurship, but right now I'm a typical 9 to 5 enterprise employee (at http://aec.com.br).
It's super strange looking up your hometown and realizing you know half of the people posting. Almost creepy.
If you don't know what you'd do with seed capital, then I'm not convinced you know where your company is going.

You don't want a top-notch dev team? You don't have dreams to reach more enterprise customers? You don't want a world-class marketing campaign? You don't want a research team dedicated to the "next big thing"? There are tons of ways you can improve your offering.

Stubbornness is a desire to remain the same, persistence is the willingness to constantly change.
No. Looks like only people who do feel like commenting here. I guess people who don't, like me, might just not care about it. Kinda like asking people who don't believe in God why they don't.

Yes, I might not think I'd make a difference, I don't have anybody to vote for, I don't think parliament members make much of a difference, I'm not crazy about democracy etc etc. But in the end I guess I just don't care.

If there was a special party or person that I'd really believe to be a game changer, I might. If I was American I would perhaps vote next year depending on who gets the Republican nomination.
Sorry. I claim zero knowledge of epidemiological obesity studies or theories. In retrospect, it was not my place to conjecture at all --- I really don't know anything about this.

Although for a thoughtful and thorough analysis:

An introductory wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_obesity

Google scholar search: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=epidemiological+obesity
vesting over 4 years in monthly increments with a year cliff is standard, so I did not make a point about that. Founders normally pre exercise their stock at low cost so they are not subject to expiration of vested stock. Employee stock options are often too expensive for that, and combined with the 30 to 90 day expiration this makes the employee terms undesirable versus the founder terms.
Test it first with wireless. Then check with a temporary Ethernet cable if the subjective speed difference matters.

If yes, then you have to get a Cat5 cable to your computer or move your computer to the router :D
Tanenbaum – Torvalds Debate
I work from my home outside of Chapel Hill, NC so my commute is from my bedroom to my home office. I'm in a t-shirt and yoga pants right now.

It's the best job I've had - I have autonomy, flexibility, and the ability to make an impact on a daily basis. It's really nice to think about how many people you reach on a daily basis. The problems you get to work on are challenging and complex - I'm learning new things every day.

I came from the journalism world, not a startup - so I can't speak to whether it's similar. I will say this: We have a "Yes, how can I help you do that?" philosophy, which I find refreshing and really delightful.

For example, right now I'm working on an onboarding Slack bot (code: https://github.com/18F/dolores-landingham-bot) that will help acclimate new employees to 18F. Got the idea. Threw it around. Everyone liked it. We're building it. And then we plan to write up how we did it, so others can use it too.

That's the best feeling - sharing what you learn, and not being afraid to go public with every bit. Happy to say more.

Mel (@mkramer on Twitter)
The conversation I quoted occurs in part 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxnTFpConD4#t=4m42s
> If you want to do this with employee options, you have to set up early exercise rights. I think early exercise is done via 83(b) for employees, but I'm not 100% on that.

Yes, if you early exercise ISOs, you would want to file an 83(b) to pay the $0 ordinary income tax burden up front (and get long term capital gains later). I'm not sure if you can file an 83(b) on an NSO.
I did not say breaking in. That would be equivalent to hacking. If i'm home and I let my friend use my coffee-maker, that is analogous to youtube giving you a license to watch a video.
Yep. All my keep notes just disappeared off my company phone as well.
Very fun to play with. Will you be open sourcing it or anything? Would be fun to integrate it with other social media too.
Handful of google products are down. http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status

10/9/15, 4:10 PM
Our team is continuing to investigate this issue. We will
provide an update by 10/9/15, 5:10 PM with more information
about this problem. Thank you for your patience.
Alright Einstein! make you'r own bump/skeleton key, break into people's home and take stuff.
Yep documents and sheets from the last few days are inaccesible. Previous documents are fine.
If we check the politics at the door and just talk about history, the facts don't change.

The Mediterranean possessed few unique trade goods that were practical for long-distance trade. There are copper and tin mines in China and India. You can as easily get ivory from Indian elephants as North African ones. Tyrian purple appears to not have been very popular in areas that produced indigo. Shipping Egyptian wheat doesn't make a great deal of sense when you are already producing surpluses in the Indus, Yangtze and Yellow river valleys. Chinese porcelain was comparable, if not superior to Attic pottery. It would be insanely extravagant to import Italian or Greek marble when you have to transship it across the Sinai peninsula. Garum was a massively important Roman luxury good, but you can make fermented fish sauce elsewhere, or use soy-sauce to get your MSG. In an era of astronomically high transport costs, only the rarest, highest-value goods made any sense at all to transport long distances.

So there were raw goods that the Roman elites desired that could not be locally sourced, because they were, by geographical accident, only produced in other places. Elites in other places happened to have these goods locally, and there was very little that was uniquely produced in the Mediterranean that could be exchanged for those goods. So they used hard-currency, because everybody likes shiny metal.

The Chinese opium trade was a huge deal, because at the time, the American precious metal mines were just about played out, and revolution throughout the old Spanish colonies were further disrupting supply. Although the heydey of importing opium into China didn't last very long - within a couple of decades, China was producing more locally grown opium poppies than were ever imported.
As a primarily Windows/Android/iOS user, I bought it and find it much better than LastPass, which I also paid for. I do have it on my Macs, but I use those about 10% of the time, I'm mostly Win/Android/iOS. It works great across all the platforms I use.
[Author of the 18F blog post here]

Accessibility and L10N are app-level concerns, not something that cloud.gov is going to be able to help with. However, 18F works on other efforts aimed at helping people do those things better, eg https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/09/28/web-design-standards/

As for security and other devops concerns, which is what cloud.gov is about: This is why we're in a scaling/pilot phase now. A successful PaaS should reduce the depth of expertise needed to do those things right. That said, there are things like awareness of 12factor.net app design principles which are very unevenly distributed in government once you get outside of 18F. We will be concentrating on generating materials and documentation to make learning about those things in the context of cloud.gov as self-service as possible, and expand the pilot outward to those who need help even approaching the concept of a PaaS once we have more of those materials.
Google Drive is down right now
Thanks, didn't know about this and just installed it to report some issues. Pretty cool.
You're right that ion thruster research is not necessary to enable trips to Mars, but it would make sense to try to reduce time in transit and requirements for launch mass, as well as enable more frequent trips to Mars. Ion (or EM drive) propulsion research could (reasonably) be regarded as tangential, but I would see it as forward progress which will help us to reach and explore Mars.

Failure to perfect high-efficiency propulsion should not be a barrier to Mars travel, but use of these systems would definitely be helpful.
As far as security is concerned a unikernel with lower attack surface will beat out a general kernel. A unikernel for AppX will have a completely different attack surface from AppY so most generalized attacks just won't work. Shell attacks like heartbleed won't work because there is no shell. Given that there's a single process, even if you did compromise the system there's not a whole lot you can do with it.
Pitch AND vowels is more complex than just vowels, no?
Any chance you guys are going to run a promotion?