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Despite all the jokes here about your equity being worth very little, most of them are probably right.

Of course it depends on the specific company, but if we are talking about a late stage startup in SV then they are most likely overcapitalized, and might end up IPOing at a price lower than their current valuation. This would make your common stock worth proportionally much less.

The valuation = 2x strike price thing is standard. Common stock valuation is always worth much less than preferred stock, because of the liquidation preferences (usually it's closer to 1/3 of the value). Often recruiters will use this to make it sound like you are getting an awesome deal.

To answer your question (should you give up more salary in return for more options/stock), the main question you have to ask yourself is "Do I think this company will IPO or be bought for _higher_ than the current headline valuation". If the company raises more money before their exit, then do you think they will go on to exit for an even higher valuation than their next round? If the company ends up exiting for a valuation that is lower than their current valuation, then you would have been much better off taking cash in the first place. Even if they exit at a higher valuation than they are today, but in the meantime they had raised some more money (and the final exit is lower than their last valuation), then it will affect the value of your common stock for the worse. If you are being offered ISOs rather than RSUs, you also have to understand the fact that you may end up in a position where you can't leave the company without purchasing your overvalued common stock (see: golden handcuffs).

If you don't understand the differences between common stock, preferred stock, liquidation preferences etc, I would highly recommend the book Venture Deals by Brad Feld[1]. It's written for startup founders, but equally useful for understanding employee stock options.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AO2PWOI/
I found the same. It's about how you market yourself to prospective employers. Any sufficiently technical staff member knows the title is BS...HR does not. You just have to back it up with the knowledge.
Similar project that just launched on Kickstarter: http://www.trivoly.com/
The issue is, it depends on the country. It might be regulated in Canada (and in my country, France, a developer can't call himself engineer unless he has the diploma) , but in some countries engineer is not a title, it's related to the task the worker needs to do. In most western countries, the title of doctor is regulated, that's just not always the case for the engineer title. The "technician" title is also a regulated in France. Is that the case in Canada? maybe, maybe not. My point is it may piss you off but your degree might be "meaningless" abroad since a self taught developer can call himself and apply for an engineering job.
For anyone who's interested in the rise in divorce rates, I highly recommend the book "The Two Income Trap". It basically tries to prove that the transition to dual income households damaged the financial security of many families. Pair this with the fact that the number one cause of fighting and divorce is money, and you have a better explanation than what this article provides.
We'd see how much upvotes this history gets --although the fact that we're talking about that in here could bias the results?
>> operational definition lacking

It's seems like the dictionary pretty much covers it:

"conservative
adjective con·ser·va·tive \kən-ˈsər-və-tiv\

: believing in the value of established and traditional practices in politics and society : relating to or supporting political conservatism

Conservative : of or relating to the conservative party in countries like the United Kingdom and Canada

: not liking or accepting changes or new ideas"

In other words, the operational definition might be something like: Conservatism is a decision process that seeks to minimize changes to our societel rules and models of natural processes.

E.g.: "good" and "evil" are old and well understood models for human behavior, and social psychology is new and less tested, so let's not change models too hastily.

Well, this thread will be hilarious if it sticks around for more then 5 minutes. I guess I'll go make some popcorn...
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Your statement is a performative contradiction. Your proposition is that a two-year old is akin to a terrorist who cannot be negotiated with, but your suggesting boundaries be drawn as a resolution presupposes that in fact they can be negotiated with (negotiation necessarily implying the setting of boundaries), hence negating your point.
It's kind of the opposite. Scroll down to the chart showing 2004 vs 2014. The middle class is actually growing very rapidly - far more rapidly than the growth of the middle class during industrial revolution Europe, and in contrast to the shrinking middle class of USA today.

Anybody complaining it is 'too slow' is living in a dream world without realizing that moving classes takes generations of effort and enormous culture shifts. Something as simple from using a hole in the ground as a toilet to the huge infrastructure of piped plumbing from dams is an enormous change in culture. Take the monthly costs of such infrastructure which must be paid and enforced across a population that previously did not have those kinds of burdens for a quick spot check on culture.
If you have to ask that question you're probably in the 96% (my estimate) that are grossly misinformed about this case, due to international media being idiotic and easily manipulated by Assange's pawns.
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3 days? TFA said 36 hours which is a day and a half.
Not to mention rock stars.
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"Hi! I'm a Senior Software Astronaut here at X inc."

I'll see how it goes.
Yeah, technically it was completed in 1880 but it was significantly damaged in WW2[0] and the stone used to construct it doesn't deal well with environmental factors (e.g. acidic rain and pigeon poop) so the cathedral has been undergoing year-round maintenance ever since (if not even before WW2).

There's even a dedicated stone mason workshop beside the cathedral itself (the "Dombauhütte", which according to its website currently employs about 60 people). They have replaced a lot of the weathered parts with more resilient replicas. I'm not sure what they do when they have to replace entire statues but I've heard about smaller parts being presented as a special honour to individuals (similar to fragments of the Berlin Wall).

[0]: Aerial photographs after WW2 gave rise to the urban legend that bomber pilots were instructed not to damage it and that it survived unscathed. Not only was there no such order, it would have been impossible to follow given the accuracies of bombing runs at the time. Until a decade ago there was a large piece of brick wall covering up some of the damage from WW2. In total, the Cathedral was hit by at least 70 bombs -- that its exterior didn't collapse should be attributed to its skilled architects rather than well-meaning Allied admirals or divine protection.
Writer: Stop calling yourself a journalist.
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True and India is a good example of why relying on foreign mercenary's to fight your wars has its downside.
Related article: https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...

The United States is essentially an oligarchy. Why is this surprising? Are we stuck with the nationalistic sentiment that America is the Best TM and are blind to the issues that affect all of us?
Hate to be that person, but it is true that most babies will turn into all 22 year olds.
Well, if you spammed any other forum or social network, what do you think would happen? You'd probably get banned, and potentially get blacklisted. Same thing happened to Tsu. It's not surprising.

As far as the concept of the site... I strongly doubt it's going to succeed in the long run. Tsu's revenue sharing was already tried a bunch of times in the past, there were actually add ons for that sort of thing for many different forum scripts. Sometimes it was based on who made the original post/whose profile it was, sometimes it was based on some sort of percentage system where X percent of the site ads would go to a user based on how active they were.

It usually failed. People treated the site like a source of free money, and the inevitable result was a huge gold rush that ended up bringing in hordes of morons looking to get rich quick by putting in the minimum amount of effort. Fake users, thousands of spammy or low quality posts... it eventually made the world of Idiocracy look like something out of Shakespeare. Digitalpoint was a good example of one of the sites who tried and gave up this idea.

Either way, I'm not surprised they're blocked, and while I wish them the best of luck, I suspect they really won't like the results of this 'revenue sharing' gimmick.
I still don't understand. What you call derived tables seem like views to me. They always need to be composed of primitive tables. So there will be a primitive `name` table and the person view will be `name * (male + female)`... Admittedly everything will be in 6NF but it still seems doable. Is there a limitation that I'm missing?
In terms of a 'purely economic argument', you have none. You're referring to a sunk cost:

"are most valuable to society, since we just finished investing a ton of money into them"

"In traditional microeconomic theory, only prospective (future) costs are relevant to an investment decision. Traditional economics proposes that economic actors should not let sunk costs influence their decisions. Doing so would not be rationally assessing a decision exclusively on its own merits."
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_costs
I would also like if scientists which no understanding of logic apart of mathematical one and no understanding of philosophy of science would stop to call them self scientists (both are required to define truth value). Its not going to happen...
Yes, it can under certain circumstances.
It's the same "logic" that values a startup without a product more highly than one with a product because if the product hasn't been developed yet, it could be amazing, but if it has, then we already know its not.
How long do you expect the lockup to be? Depending on the company, there's a pretty good chance that you won't be able to cash in the options until after at least 1 quarter worth of earnings, and those have not been friendly, in the last few years. And of course you probably have the 1 year cliff to deal with, so maybe that's longer than the IPO plus earnings, and by then, are you confident that the company will continue with growth targets?

Remember, IPO has a lot of growth built in, so the IPO price expects that the company continues to grow super quickly, and with no more capital. If the company doesn't do that, the stock options are worth nothing. And remember that you have to buy the options before you can sell them, so unless you do that as part of the sale, you risk being out the money plus the taxes. It's risky.

My opinion, take the cash. Cash is king, and you're "guaranteed" that money regardless of stock performance. Invest it hoe you want, the other stock being lottery tickets. If the company IPOs you'll get stock as bonuses most likely anyways.

This is all my opinion of course. I am negative on most companies' ability to stand up under Wall Street scrutiny.
Not most. Only ~22% of people finish college.
An article about american parenting and a picture of new born babies in munich, germany?
When you say full stack, what exactly is your stack?

I know a lot of full stack engineers that are IIS > ASP > HTML and cant find anything, while other friends that are Linux > PHP > > JS >HTML/CSS are drowning in proposals right now.

Finding a steady stream of consulting work is never easy. Some consultants rely strictly on referrals, while others take the paid route and drive leads via PPC or email marketing. There are obviously other routes such as forums and job boards.

One router I see a lot of consultants taking right now is blogging. Blog about the projects you are working on and turn them into a live portfolio. Market your github profile.

With 5 years of experience if you truly are a full stack programmer (with decent communication skills) you should have no problem at all finding work. Good luck!
The linked article says "No such safe method is available for Java serialization, so your best bet in Java is not to use Java serialization unless you absolutely trust whoever is producing the data".

This is wrong. It is trivial to mitigate this issue and it only takes a couple of lines of code. For a step-by-step guide from 2013 see http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/se-lookahead/
Isn't the option a call that starts at the money? Then 4x the valuation implies much more return than 4x the current option value, namely 3x the strike price. Or am I wrong with this assumption / calculation.
I wish I could get a fitness band that doesn't rely on a smartphone. I don't take my smartphone on runs with me. I don't have it on me when I'm working out... Pretty much any time I'd like to know my heartrate, I'd like to not have my smartphone on me.

I want one with a tiny LCD on it to show me my footsteps and heartrate, and I want to plug it into my computer and get a CSV. That's it. For the 99% of normal people who don't want to play with their data in python, you can give them a simple OTG cable and have your app do everything there.

I don't need a smartwatch to read me my text messages or buzz for notifications.
This is both a great article and a mediocre article. I agree with others that the marriage aspect is the weakest part.

As a parent, I constantly think back to the 70s as a benchmark for open mindedness and freedom with my children. In my honest opinion, we've lost a lot of perspective and become much less tolerant. In Australia, someone called the police because children walked a short distance to the local park by themselves. Taking a photo at a swimming carnival is taboo. None of these attitudes were around in the 70s.

I felt the relationship aspects between adults missed the mark. Not only the relationship breakdown aspects, but the women and sex. That reminds me of the woman who runs she++ (a sexist business name that no one calls out) who said in a Forbes interview that sex was bad and a man thing. There is a social stigma in admitting that women can like sex. Even Sam Mechkovich from Ars commented about bond women not falling for bond in his Spectre review, because that's not a woman thing to like sex. My response to these people is "what's wrong with it?" Most of the women I know and respect are open about sex. That doesn't mean free sex, it means being open minded and confident in yourself to be free to speak your mind. My sort of people...

Ultimately, I lump all these social and parental problems down to Political Correctness. For the nay sayers, you can treat people with respect and not be PC. PC is a set of perverted rules that bully people into what to think.
"Gloss over colonization"

Don't whitewash history, the wars where generally smaller scale, but pre colonization there was plenty of war, famine, and poverty.
I highly recommend the book "The Two Income Trap". It basically tries to prove that the transition to dual income households damaged the financial security of many families

A great book. It can also be read profitably in conjunction with Matt Yglesias's The Rent is Too Damn High. School districts are weirdly tied to real estate in the U.S.; many places with good districts also have severe land-use control laws that prevent the creation of new housing units on a given parcel land; and, consequently, people will pay a lot of money for scarce housing that comes bundled with good school districts. Two-earner households make paying for the housing easier, but two-earner households are often also more economically fragile (especially considering the prevalence of divorce).
I'm not a fan of working in a open plan office - but I think they are a great idea for the companies I compete against. ;-)

A tiny team (2-4 developers) with some sort of walls (so you aren't looking over your monitor at someone else) is probably a good compromise between getting things done (concentration) and "collaboration" i.e. keeping others from concentrating.

I concentrate really well but it's still hard for my brain not to react to hearing my boss asking another engineer in the next cubicle say "What's the kind of matrix where the inverse is also its transpose?" That actually happened to me once and I blurted out the answer. When he then asked me directly, "Hey, you know about matrix math?" I smiled and told him "Not as far as you know." :-)
This interests me. I originally wanted to get a Apple Watch but I am not a fan of their overall look. I like traditional watches.
Original press release with big infographic https://medium.com/@cornell/candy-soda-and-fast-food-are-not...
I share the sentiment of many of the responses, that this article doesn't really say anything.

However, I've heard bits or pieces about this ISDS mechanism during previous articles about the TPP. Does anyone have reference to a good (balanced) analysis of the TPP in references to the international disputes, and what it actually might imply?

Does it actually make it easier for corporations to challenge laws that might be put in place by countries?
Which is also not on HTTPS.

I read this "old" piece about PuTTY the other day and it still seems just as absurd:

https://noncombatant.org/2014/03/03/downloading-software-saf...
So it's not a Java bug, it's an Apache Commons-Collection bug. Granted, it's an extremely popular library, but it's not a "Java" bug.
Follow the line of thought further.

Most fresh graduates also become retired seniors. All retired seniors eventually become corpses. Can you maybe see potential declining over time now?

A baby could become anyone.
>> Ultimately, I lump all these social and parental problems down to Political Correctness. For the nay sayers, you can treat people with respect and not be PC. PC is a set of perverted rules that bully people into what to think.

I have been told, "You can't say that, we have to be open minded here" when expressing the belief that political correctness does more to damage discourse than almost any other idea in western society. Way to provide a demonstration of my point!
> child-centric lives can lose touch with one another to the point where they have nothing left to say to one another when the kids leave home.

there are couples like this because the way they made kids + 2 careers work on middle class salaries is by dividing the day in half and each parent spends one half the day with the children and the other works. after ten years of this, you don't actually know your spouse any more - they've been living some life, but not one that you've had time to be a part of between your own career and your children.

this seems like an equally plausible explanation for this phenomenon, because when you sacrifice that much it must be for something and when someone else insinuates that maybe the sacrifice wasn't worth it, well, that would really piss you off...
Ask HN: How much do benefits cost for a small software team in NYC?
I am trying to find accurate information on this - and having some trouble.

If I want to hire (w2) a single senior engineer for 150K/year base salary, how much would standard benefits cost (healthcare,401K,ect) on top of this salary

If I increased the number of engineers from 1->3, Does the cost drop at all? (if it does, how much)

Are there any references you could provide?
You don't need to pay taxes on the thing that doesn't exist.
Sure, just like there was plenty of war, famine and poverty around the world but lets not "whitewash" history by suggesting what we see in Africa and other countries aren't a direct effect of European colonization.
I always thought this was an approach that would be well suited to ray tracing or similar. Both ray tracing and rasterisation are proportional to scene complexity and pixel count, but the balance is different. Ray tracing handles scene complexity better and rasterization covers pixels quicker.

The excellent http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2015/11/02/gta-v-graphic... shows how many pixels are written to to construct a scene using rasterization. Many many intermediate render targets are involved. Any intermediate layers that are not directly in screen-space would not benefit from foveation.

Raytracing/ray marching etc. working on a pixel by pixel basis would be far more suited to larger fuzzy pixels where you are not looking.
> Also, society is conditioned to believe there is something objectionable about the poor being made to drink a tasteless subsidized potion because they cannot afford the other kind of good food.

Others might object to a mandated government subsidy for a product without relevant prior analysis of the existing market for minimum-cost diets (e.g., determining the cost of the Stigler Diet for the region).
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Why does a smart watch have to have a screen?
Thanks, I might have missed that.
Ireland's pretty bad, recently as MEPs we've had legalize-weed-druid, Ireland's Michelle Bachman, and far to many Sinn Feiners lately.
World scale inequality seems like a bit of a canard.

If inequality between nations drops, a measure of inequality on a world scale could drop while inequality within each particular nation increases. China or Africa's development means the average very poor person is closer to the average Westerner, dropping total inequality. But that doesn't stop recent models of development from involving considerable inequality and indeed a model of inequality (just as inequality has increased within the US). Moreover, it's the inequality within each area that one would expect to have the harmful or beneficial effects on democracy, civil society and so-forth.

Edit: Of course it is hard to reply to a link to a tweet of a bit map of a graph with resolution too poor to read the references of, hence my general comment.
I'm a Software Engineer. It's printed on my undergraduate degree, it's on my business card, and it's recognised by the engineering association in my country. So no, I won't.

"Traditional engineers are regulated, certified, and subject to apprenticeship and continuing education. Engineering claims an explicit responsibility to public safety and reliability, even if it doesn’t always deliver."

I DO have an explicit responsibility to public safety and reliability (it comes with the degree). I have to consider the implications of my work and could be held criminally liable for errors resulting in injury or death. If one was designing and building - or even updating - the software for a radiation therapy machine, for example, wouldn't you want it to be that way? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
Myself, I don't use my watch when I sleep, so I don't mind charging it then.
Being a parent today seems so awful, especially if you are expected to make the household income on top of doing 50% of the parenting.
As one of the machine designers, it is gratifying to see continued interest. My favorite feature which I miss daily is the WHO line, with run bars and mouse documentation lines. And, of course, the correct placement of rubout along with the missing meta, hyper, super modifiers.
It's not a commons-collections bug. There is nothing wrong with the existence of the classes being used from the commons-collections on their own. In fact, I'm sure they serve a purpose.

But, in an application that deserializes objects from an untrusted source, the fact that they happen to be on the class path leads to them being available to use in an undesirable manner.