skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there's a repurchase agreement that allows the company to buy back the stock for less than market value (and presumably accompanying transfer limitations) I wonder if the IRS would take the position that it is income only after the repurchase agreement expires at the FMV at that point in time.
Lack of privacy makes part of social media genetics, but normally the 'voyeur' (in lack of a better word) has to dig to explore it. Here he doesn't need to: everything is exposed. It's scary..
How isn't that a zero sum mentality? Unlike in your housing example, nobody lost any true value, just perceived value.

No doubt it can be hard to process, but that doesn't mean it's not a case of zero sum mentality.
Wow, there's a ton of condescension and prejudice in your reply.

First of all, if anything needs to be fixed about the diet you described, it's eating less. I am not young and all my life the only vegetable (including fruit) that I ate was french fries, and to this day if I lift my arm you can see my rib-cage; so it's not the food that is making the people you described "fat", and they don't need to start eating "rabbit food" to "fix it".

And whether you eat "rabbit food" does not make you more or less "normal" than other people. Humans are omnivores, we each choose what we want to eat and bear the consequences. I have a close friend who is a personal trainer who also does not eat a single vegetable (nor fruit) and eats what you listed. He is very much in shape and his blood-work is "normal".

I don't know what to tell you, but you're almost demonizing the food they're eating; if not, you certainly think there's something wrong with their choice of food. It could be that the specific choice is wrong (the quality of the meat and bread, for instance) but the general choice (meat and white bread) is not something that remotely has any correlation with the symptoms you wish to "fix". The fact you so hastily wish to fix something you don't fully understand is probably what is leading people to call you a "librul".
Until the 20th century, most people believed that human varieties were like animal and plant varieties, which can reasonably be expected to display heritable, variety-specific physical and psychological traits.

This expectation is a prior, or null hypothesis; evidence is required to refute it. For instance, if you claimed that Great Danes are just as good as border collies at herding sheep, you'd have to present evidence to support this claim, which otherwise seems implausible.

Military and political events in the 20th century reversed this burden of proof. The null hypothesis is now that all dogs are equal, at least behaviorally. If you want to claim that Great Danes aren't likely to be good sheepdogs, you have to present evidence showing their inferior performance on herding tasks, and your evidence has to rule out all non-genetic factors. For instance, obviously if your border collies grew up in the sheep pen and your Great Danes didn't, that's a valid non-genetic explanation. It's not especially difficult to raise the bar indefinitely on this test.

Well, okay, we haven't changed our minds about collies, Great Danes and sheep-herding. But we have changed our minds about Ashkenazi Jews, Australian aboriginals, and chess.

The "out of Africa" narrative suggested considerable genetic homogeneity that supported this politically desirable narrative of universal behavioral equality as a null hypothesis. Recent discoveries in the complex history of human DNA have not been favorable to this narrative.

One of the most interesting discoveries is haplogroup A00, a Y chromosome with a divergence time which could be almost 600,000 years ago [1]. This precedes our current use of the species name "Homo sapiens." 23andme now reports estimated Neanderthal ancestry, but to my knowledge they're not telling anyone they have "the erectus chromosome."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_A_(Y-DNA)#A00_.28Pe...
On iOS, the status bar turns red whenever an app uses the microphone. Unless you think they are jailbreaking the phone.
Local news is effectively dead. Not completely, but it's limping even in large markets. (Semi-entertainment, including sports, doesn't count.)

Of course, local news has always been hit and miss in secondary markets and even a lot of big city newspapers weren't great but the situation has gotten worse given that local news has to effectively carry its own freight now given unbundling.
That sucks.

[I am not a lawyer]

The company hasn't been granted an injunction. Anyone can take anyone to court.

You're in position to know if your former company can make a plausible [not a correct] case before a judge, since the most relevant forms of evidence would be documents of which you are aware and knowledge about what work you are doing now and what work you did for the former company. You're also in a position to know if your former company has the resources and the will to fully pursue a lawsuit.

In addition, you're in position to judge how likely your chances for success are in regard to your current company and to judge the chances of success of alternatives to developing that particular product.

Finally, you're in position to judge whether this action is motivated by personal bad will or by legitimate business concerns and whether the lawsuit is a distraction from your former company's core mission or a fundamental part of its execution strategy.

To put it another way, your in position to know who is in the right here.

Good luck.
It's public, but I myself have not gone through the records searching for people.

This dude is hella salty. If we wanted to make change he should try to change legislation.
https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status
I'm one of the people running passopolis. We think that Mitro was already pretty good but we've fixed several bugs, packaged it for the Chrome store, made sure the server runs reliably etc. As the FAQ explains we changed the name to avoid confusion when Googling.

We're also not building a company around it, we've absorbed the work of keeping it running as our agency (wearewizards.io).

If we start charging it's going to be for some actually new feature, not for the current product.
Monsanto patents are more complicated than that though, as you can see by searching the USPTO. The enzyme is patented, the genes that produce it are patented, the introduction of those genes into a specific cultivar are patented, and crossings between their varieties and any other variety are patented. So, even if one of the patents was invalidated, the rest would still make it pretty difficult to commercialize anything.

Say you get the DNA sequence that will provide enzymes to protect from glyphosphate, and the patent is invalidated. You still have to introduce that sequence to a bacteria, introduce it into a plant in a way that expresses the gene, and then do enough crossings to make sure it doesn't interfere with the rest of the plant's functions.

So, even from the Monsanto patent, it's probably 8 years of work before you can sell anything. And by then, the market has moved forward.
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it's called "discovery" ...
So it turns out the real way to prevent riots is to make sure everyone is running in the rat race. Or in other words, jobs that only meet ~99% of their needs.
Thanks for reply. I shall indeed try an install and see what I can get from pkg_add. OpenBSD works fine with suspend functionality on the X61s.
Minor nitpick, in the 1995-1996, Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov spent 437 consecutive days in space.
The skit it's from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G0Q7ygC2CU
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Confirmation bias? How many times was the author shown ads for exterminators before this incident but paid them no attention?
This reminds of what Peter Higgs (of Higgs Boson fame) said "I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system"
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-b...
What is the reason for an expiration so short (30 days) after you leave (or are terminated involuntarily)?

It would be so highly unfair that after joining as an early employee and getting somewhere around 1-2%, if you leave after 4-5 yrs, that all your options expire 30 days after. I understand you can execute them but circumstances or policies may be such that it may not be favorable to do so.

I'm starting to think equity is essentially a sucker's game and you'd be stupid to play it and hope to win the lottery. A good salary and profit-sharing is just way better any day than the hope of overnight striking it rich one fine day.
Thanks. Sometimes photo can me misplaced for thousands of kilometers, for example when user posts photo from his recent travel being at home, but most of the photos are pretty accurate :)
> This is a little bit of a roundabout way to give you ownership of Clef, but the reason we give options instead of straight stock is that it keeps you from being taxed on the stock until you actually use it. If we gave you $10,000 worth of Clef stock today, you would have to pay thousands of dollars in taxes this year.

Maybe I misunderstand, but this seems somewhat dishonest to me. Giving out options instead of shares does not help the employee or or "keep you from being taxed." Instead, it's a punishment for the company not growing. If the value of the company does not increase in value before the vest date, the options will be worth nothing, but shares would still have value.
5. You find a co-founder CEO to run Tarsnap, Inc. from Silicon Valley. The CTO remains in Canada. Lawyers handle the messy details.

This is kind of what Oculus does. John Carmack is in Texas with a small team, while most others are in California.

You retain absolute control over the core technology, but help your co-founder turn it into something more marketable and user friendly. Some of the Tarsnap GUIs authors might be interested in helping.
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A few weeks ago I submitted this article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10213547 about one of Peter Thiel's biotech investments and the top comment asked "How does someone very intelligent like Peter Thiel make investment decisions in an area where he lacks a huge amount of background knowledge?". I'm curious how you personally and Y Combinator as a whole goes about making investments in areas where you don't have great expertise. For example, how do you evaluate biotech markets and the YC biotech companies? How did you evaluate your energy investments?
Same thoughts there. For early employers, it is almost always beneficial to exercise early at a reasonable low strike price. (oh sure, please always consult tax experts).
I take it you don't use login manager on mobile devices.

LastPass costs (or used to cost) $12/year while 1Password is $29, so if you intent to use a password manage for more than two years it's cheaper to buy 1Password than keep paying for LastPass.

And just a side note, I bought my 1Password for Windows, currently I'm using it on Windows, Linux, Mac and iOS and they all work fine. My OS X says that it's trial has expired, but it still works just fine, I can create new passwords and encrypt the old ones just fine. Maybe there are some pro features I'm not getting, but it's doing what I need it to do.
This was not a small society. Look up the Ummayad Caliphate[0] to see how large it reached.

And yes, with more people there is a higher likelyhood that not everyone will do their duties. However, all that is needed is a critical mass (whether in the number of people, or the total wealth produced) that does. As I pointed out, if the ultra wealthy were forced to "pay up" in order to help out the poor and oppressed, we would be in a very different place. Not to mention all the tax money wasted on the military and invading other countries.

The other point I brought up is that of dealing with interest, and other exploitative transactions, which are forbidden Islamically. These aid the wealthy, and hurt the poor. All these factors go hand in hand to raise the quality of life for society.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umayyad_Caliphate
No. I just bought 1Pass and it is perfectly usable without Pro features on mobile. The major one is just ability to use multiple vaults.
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This. Is. Amazing. Thanks for the link! I am digging this so far.
No, I'm very aggressively marketing that information via phones, social media targeted ads, maybe fliers for small towns, etc.

It's different being a name on a list of millions of names and being aggressively singled out. The latter is effective, the former is not.
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He doesn't. Just wants the publicity and to hurt people he feels have "wronged" him.
In the book it describes how the difficulty with the calculation came from the fact that they were continuously firing the spacecraft thrusters (it was some form of drive that used a constant small acceleration). Thus far most all of our probes use short-term bursts to change their velocities. I'm not sure how many ion-engine equipped probes we have that have needed to calculate multiple slingshot manoeuvres.

In his interview with Adam Savage the author described how he wound up writing his own custom code to calculate the trajectories of their spacecraft. One could imagine that NASA would need to consider a lot more "real-world" variables than a sci-fi author, so it is somewhat reasonable to think time on a supercomputer could have come in handy.
Yes, I usually vote and I've even run for public office before ( Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina, 2008, as the Libertarian candidate. I wasn't elected).

That said, I am somewhat ambivalent about voting and democracy. I think democracy is basically just a euphemism for "mob rule" and find that whatever systems you put in to try and prevent the "tyranny of the majority" never really work. And if you're on the losing end in a "democratic" system, are you really "represented"? I argue that the answer is "no". I don't hold Richard Burr, David Price, or Thom Tillis as representing me in any way. I certainly didn't vote for any of them, and would't if you paid me to.

Basically I'm a voluntaryist / anarcho-capitalist / market anarchist / whatever-term-you-prefer, who wants to eliminate most of "government" as we know it today. Note that does not mean I'm in favor of chaos or opposed to communal action (this is something critics of libertarian thought often get wrong.. seemingly intentionally at times). I just want voluntary exchange and self-government to be the fundamental basis for society, with use of force/violence reserved for self-defense.
I'm not sure, but maybe this is something title insurance is supposed to cover?
I hope my family loves me enough to see that if I'm losing money they prevent me and why does it matter if there are even more sever cases of the disease if even this one lead to a suicide?
Taxes are the reason.
Even if it is a hair slower, UUIDs (or similar schemes) are advantageous for reasons beyond being able to merge tables.

Another big advantage is being able to use the UUID as a key, without worrying about exploits from guessing serial numbers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictable_serial_number_atta...
Indeed, that's why I mentioned I was not going to speculate. It was just surprising, as I never watch TV, or Netflix.
The guy I'm paying to write the Tarsnap GUI is in Romania.
Beware, KeePass uses a weird custom key derivation function. LastPass uses PBKDF2 with a configurable number of iterations, a pretty widely accepted standard.

Maybe this has changed since I last checked but this and many other things seemed highly questionable on KeePass.
Isn't it sale date 2 years from grant, not exercise date 2 years from grant, that matters for ISO vs NSO treatment?
"Instead, if the employee holds the shares for two years after grant and one year after exercise, the employee only pays capital gains tax on the ultimate difference between the exercise and sale price. If these conditions are not met, then the options are taxed like a non-qualified option" from https://www.nceo.org/articles/stock-options-alternative-mini...
Legislation has done a real shitty job ensuring liberty. Where did CFAA reform go? Did Aaron Swartz killing himself change anything? That was the best effort legislation was going to get, because Aaron was rich and well-connected and the bill had a bunch of lobbyists and PACs he worked with or were friends of his family pushing for it.

It went nowhere.

Legislation will not work. Only violence will.
Definitely a poor culture fit. Sort of like the story Airbnb CEO Chesky has told about not buying the Samwer bros copycat site in Europe. If Apple is going to compete, they have to take their best and brightest offsite and let them dig in deep. Should be able to do it for $2b. But a HUGE upside if they get it right.
Ask HN: Why can't I disclose how many options my last start up paid me?
The company I just left raised $71 million at $500 million valuation. This is public data on crunchbase.

But the company lawyer says the amount of options I received and their worth is proprietary information and cannot be shared. I don't understand how this can harm the company. Can someone please enlighten me?

I should be able to share how much or how little I got paid.
83(b) election still applies to any early exercise of stock options subject to vesting. An important detail that is often overlooked.
Hi,

The solution really depends on the details of your use case and the acceptable delay it would require. You can go for a P2P mesh topology, or you can just use streaming media servers in the backend ; in that case you will use WebRTC from your web app to the server, then the server route/transcode/optimize the distribution of the stream to the clients.

A few resources:
- https://tokbox.com/platform/beta-programs/
- http://www.streamroot.io
- https://www.peer5.com
- https://webtorrent.io
- http://www.dialogic.com/en/landing/webrtc.aspx
- https://jitsi.org/Projects/JitsiVideobridgePerformance
So you are saying that no one cared about the guy in the article? Then why was the article even written?
With some training, motion sensors can detect what's being typed on a keyboard sharing the same surface.
Would you consider angular to not be a google project either then?
That's a whole lot to infer from that. Holding a significant portion of the sale in escrow pending retention, legal requirements, and other issues is pretty standard practice.
I'm confused. Dark pools (ie, private exchanges) are devices used primarily by giant investment banks and hedge funds to try to load or unload large amounts of stock without moving the market.

What point are you trying to make about them? That if we didn't have HFT, we wouldn't need them? That's an argument for HFT, not against.
And for how it played out! I'm sure that this wasn't what happened but it does occur to me that this pattern makes for a pretty good HN-hack by leveraging HN negativity/cynicism and then swooping in with an "oops - it's actually exactly what everyone thought it should be!". Definitely more net attention this way than would have been if it had just read this way originally.
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Note: That kind of leak is extremely rare, so if that turns out to be the biggest weakness in this system then I think it has achieved my goal of showing that the only options are not completely secure and wide open.

If we are using the secret sharing variant, then it means that during the time between the leak and the time the device manufacturers push out an update to replace that key and re-encrypt the appropriate shares with the new key someone who seizes a phone and wants to decrypt it only needs the approval of one major police agency and two civil rights organizations instead of two major police agencies and two civil rights organizations.

If we are not using that variation, then it means that until a new key goes out in an update anyone who seizes your phone (and who has the leaked key) can decrypt it. One way to protect against this would be for the device to have a command that erases the saved encrypted symmetric keys. This command would require that you show it that you have a copy of the corresponding private key before it erases the encrypted keys.
Omniture hasn't existed for years. I'm sure an Adobe exec starts twitching every time he sees that.
The way it works for founders is that you get actual stock, and vesting is implemented with a repurchase right. The IRS considers the stock to be an "asset at risk", meaning that you don't actually realize the value as income until the repurchase right goes away. Because this happens over time, it practically means founder stock is, by default, treated as being earned every month. This is no big deal in the beginning, but if you change the valuation of the company, suddenly each monthly stock grant has a discrepancy between what you paid for it and what it's worth. Therefore, it's income, therefore, you owe taxes on it.

The way to fix this is an 83(b) election, which lets you say, "No, I'm taking the risk of this all up front. I want to pay taxes on it, even though the asset is at risk." In this specific case, it's a no-brainer: there are no taxes today, so of course I'll pay that $0.

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. My company isn't big enough that we've had to cross that bridge :)
Many people decide to drop out of the academic system. Working for YC, Intel, or the DoD has similar long term limitations and is hardly a foolish risk.
What makes you trust LastPass to spread your database to your devices more? And what makes Dropbox so bad?
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This seems small, but on one Gigabit Ethernet connection, that could be as many as 15 packets per second.

Only if your network is corrupting every packet!

Data corruption is a serious problem, but it doesn't help the discussion if you wildly over-estimate its occurrence.
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It's worth adding that although the OP's company went through YC S14, the company was shut down in August: https://medium.com/@tmzier/zen99-is-closing-its-doors-8-25-1...

While that doesn't invalidate the advice, it does give perspective that Y Combinator is not a guaranteed ticket to success. Startups are hard.
What separates YCR from a thing like Bell Labs?

Bell Labs has produced a lot of great research and many researchers have had fruitful careers there and after.

Why can't YCR be the same?
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So you have a very vested interest in being the first to cancel and move your order to the newest price level.

ISTM this would only work in one direction? That is, if you're moving closer to the other side, you can just put in a new order. Cancelling the old one isn't such a priority because no one would pass up the more enticing new price to get to the old price. If they did, free money for you!

If this phenomenon isn't clear from the data, that would argue against the hypothesis that maker-taker accounts for the cancellations.

IANAHFTrader.
Interstates generally have a decent width shoulder to pull over on.

Also, it's not safe to drive during a massive hailstorm. You should be pulled over anyway.
How could the economic effect be the same? In its real-world legal sense, front-running is an agent-principal problem. HFTs are not agents brokering for clients; in fact, they're usually proprietary traders.
Very cool. It would be interesting to rework the slider as an RGB channel mixer that slides different observational wavelengths across the monitor's color channels, instead of just blending between images.
And, for scale, the number of deaths caused by obesity in the same period is over 3,000,000.