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Is there some spambot that randomly picks an article from Wikipedia and posts it to YC?

(The subject is one of the older bad ideas from British railroad practice, along with brake vans, buffer and chain couplers, and two-axle boxcars. In the US, Congress passed the Railroad Safety Appliance Act in 1893, and by 1900, all railroad cars and engines had to have air brakes and automatic couplers. Because of this forced standardization, boxcars could become much bigger and heavier. The UK and much of the EU still don't have fully standardized automatic couplers for freight trains.)
I've got mixed feelings about the TFSA as well. I think they are easier to understand than RRSPs and thus easier for people to use. But I have this nagging suspicion that the $10k/year would forgo too much revenue down the line. Though maybe I'm too optimistic about how much use TFSAs would get and what kind of growth they would see (assuming no "IRA-stuffing" equivalent).
> Since increasing the ESOP causes dilution, it would be hard to argue for an increase just to hire a single employee

A reason why it is important to choose your investors carefully. A smart diligent investor, should be ok with sacrificing some equity to hire a very good employee who can add immense value to the company.
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Came here to say "Thank You!". My interest in math got rekindled due no small measure to your site. Now as I try to learn more math, I try very hard to look for an "intuitive" meaning.
I can't deny that that's true.

It's inconvenient too, as nothing in this house runs Windows right now, and extracting custom fancy EXEs* can get annoying.

(*: Most archivers can reopen the EXEs they create as par the course, and there are lots of extractors and unpackers out there, but I vaguely remember a few incidents where I wanted to extract an executable archive/installer of some kind and couldn't. In some cases pushing the EXE through Wine worked.)
A bank has to be self sustaining, its deposits must cover portions of its debts. It can't work if it is based on the changeable altruism of an individual. As actually even happened in this case, hewasn't prepared to endlessly indemnify the loans, which is something he could do as a private lender.
1) Reverse engineer how/why news sites search the twitter stream

2) Craft tweets that are likely to be picked up

3) Sit back and enjoy (for extra credit, mail predictions about the news to someone in a sealed envelope)
This post would carry much more weight if Altman had made it before strings were pulled by Sequoia partners to get his failing startup, Loopt, acquihired, and if he'd actually practiced there with his own employees what he's preaching now here.

Further, considering the only major accomplishment of Altman to date was a too-big-(for wealthy, well-connected VCs)-to-fail startup that in its last years served primarily as a gay hookup app(1), I don't see why everyone is so impressed with him, nor why they take these regular, grandiose pronouncements of his so seriously.

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=385178
To be fair it's actually 2*30 min nowdays, I just say 50 min because that's what how long the commute was with the car and also how long it took me to bike when I started.
Am a vim user, who forced myself to learn/use Emacs just for Org-mode recently. It really is life changing.
Not sure if you're just getting a lot of 'love' from HN at the moment but I found both games I tried (tank battle and space race) unplayable, don't think I was being presented with the right set of menus.

Tank battle just didn't start (and I was stuck there until I crashed the app and rescanned the qr code)

Space race did start and work but then I couldn't move on after the race finished.
looks like a copy cat of airconsole.com to me :/
I've observed NixOS from a distance with a modicum of curiosity and promptly filed it away as an awesome server OS (due to the networking infrastructure, coming with a remote management system OOB, the perfect reproducibility, etc), but it looks like I'll need to take a proper look at it as a desktop OS too.
I don't mean to sound disparaging, but I assumed that the modern funding landscape would have changed all that - with the right level of investment one should not have those horrors. Additionally what market signals does "barely covers payroll" say to prospective employees?

There are (say) two Startup profiles - grow steady and go for the moon. I would assume Inwoukd not go for the moon unless outside investors had covered my ass. Otherwise all this bad things would be a huge risk for me.

I am not a risk taker it is obvious, but if you have the right idea, a good team, then all that is needed is time ? Is this not actually true?
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Very good point; there's always Debian, and it's existed forever... ;P
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A guild.
Early stage shares are illiquid paper money that you have to pay taxes on (or the cash-poor startup does). The higher the valuation, the more you / the startup forks over up front. Options skip that: you only pay if and when things go well, in which case you don't mind. If things fail, you only pay in lost time. They're way more employee friendly.
Sounds neat, but: I'd prefer not to send all this video into the cloud, and I don't want the expensive brick this will become if the manufacturer goes out of business or decides to add a monthly fee.

We really need a clean way to self-host or distribute hosting of the cloud part of the IoT. Maybe Sandstorm will serve this purpose some day.
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> They refused to tell me what percentage my equity represented when I applied.

Did they tell you how much the equity was worth? You could take the latest round they raised and divide by that.
ha! yes. The IT Crowd one is so good I was fooled.

Good catch!
The idea behind many of those actions may have been to make people feel safe. Part of leadership is addressing peoples' concerns and to maintaining regular order. I don't think the goal is 100% safety and security. I think it was more along the lines of "We see and understand that you're worried about terrorism. Look at all the things we're doing to deal with that problem". And if it makes people feel better...it worked.

Now sure, some people will look at pages of facts and figures about death statistics. But a lot of people will think "I had to wait in line for a long time at the airport while they did security stuff, so I must be safe." And that's the job of government, to deal with problems that are on the minds of citizens.
> - Loses accepted transactions!!! (blockchain forks, orphan blocks, etc) From a distributed database perspective the Bitcoin blockchain is broken and loses data: like a decentralized MongoDB, but slower by several orders of magnitude.

When a block is orphaned or when there is a fork, transactions are not lost, they'll always be present in the main chain. Or said another way, all miners are trying to mine the unconfirmed transactions in their mempool. If one miner ends up finding the winning block, transactions they didn't include that were included in an orphaned block are going to be mined in the next block.

What you may be referencing, though, is not "lost transactions", but rather double spends? What I said above holds true assuming no one else is trying to spend the same outputs. However, if you wait 6 confirmations (the recommended amount before you should consider a transaction "accepted"), you won't see double spends, either.
> When "doing something" is worse than "doing nothing", then yes we should do nothing. Off the top of my head, the things we've done because of 9/11:

Your comment presents a false dichotomy between the particular responses they took and doing nothing.

It ignores the possibilities of other courses of action, by implying that if the particular responses they took were poor then the best option therefore must be to do nothing.
I haven't noticed any difference, although I don't buy them frequently enough to make good comparisons.

I've considered switching to frozen concentrate for a lower-cost approach. I think it's likely to be promptly frozen after harvest, and may have lower pesticide levels due to smaller-scale production: http://www.inspection.gc.ca/food/chemical-residues-microbiol...
I am trying e generous here. It is reasonable to ask (if true) why Altman did not practise as he preaches. The interesting answer would be what changed his mind in the intervening years

As for the second paragraph, I cannot find enough generosity to see it as anything other than ad hominem trolling, and I would suggest an edit. Especially as you have a troll throw away name.
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It would be great if someone could post some info about this
Taxes.

At least in the US, if a company with a non-zero valuation grants actual stock to an employee, income tax is due at the time of grant on the difference between what the employee paid and what the stock is "worth" (I'm assuming the employee files an "83(b) election" -- if not then it's even worse).

There are only two ways out: either charge the employee the current "fair market value" of the stock (which can be very expensive on day 1) or the employee has to pay taxes on grant (which can also be very expensive on day 1).

By contrast, if you grant ISO options, $0 is due in taxes at grant. $0 is due when it vests. Taxes only become relevant when an employee decides whether or not to exercise. As Altman discusses, there's an argument to be made that it should be 10 years after quitting rather than 90 days after quitting, but either way it gives the employee a lot more information about whether this is a good company or not.
Related read:
https://www.packet.net/blog/how-we-failed-at-openstack/
Actually GitHub have ssl on their username.github.io domain so you can have full ssl from cloudflair back to GitHub.
TITSUP means Total Inability To Support Usual Performance. It's a legit technical term.
>And, many companies do allow you to negotiate the salary vs options trade-off.

That's definitely true in principle. But in practice, it might not be a great idea.

I actually tried to negotiate the salary vs options tradeoff recently, and I feel it didn't end well because even though I tried to be as objective as possible, the fact that I didn't want equity might have given the impression that I didn't really believe in the startup (which was true, since I really didn't believe they had any chance of becoming a billion dollar company, but it's not the kind of impression you'd want to leave if you want the job).
But that seems a failure of the tax system (tax on a asset worth less than the tax is silly). And illiquid should not be the issue surely. We don't want the employees selling the shares - but we do want them as part owners.

These days Inwoukd assume my right to an option could be tradeable, even securitisable.
Microsoft, Google and others have described SDN systems that peer with routers over BGP to control traffic flow. This adapts this concept to OSPF, which is a bit trickier, since OSPF keeps more information about the layout of the network.

Podcast by Ivan Pepelnjak with creator here: http://blog.ipspace.net/2015/11/fibbing-ospf-based-traffic-e...
Actually Cloudflare supports SSL on the backend (as a paid feature) so the only place it could be MITMed is in their network. I'd still like to see it a bit stricter in that I can specify my own self-signed CA that they validate against.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-strict-ssl-protectin...
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The average Romanian IT expert/programmer speaks better English than most Americans. You'd be surprised about the quality of a conversation. And I'm not talking about tech...
I did not start from scratch, Payum library has 3 years history. It also supports many gateways: http://payum.org/doc/1.0/Core/supported-gateways

It is already used in many projects, in production, well tested. The 1.0.0 version was released not long ago.
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The ESP2866 is perhaps something to consider. Something like it really should have come built in though. (IMHO)
Why is securing the web a hassle? Is it just that the certificate trust chain is so fluxored? (Crockford has an interesting perspective here in recent talks)
I'm from Cluj, but this kind of sponsored corporate PR is not helping us at all.

There are amazing devs here and they don't work for companies like the ones in the article. Most of them are freelancers or working for startups.

Outsourcing companies are screwing people over considering the low overhead of operating. They charge around $80/h or more and pay devs maybe %20 that. The percentage is even worse in the rest of Romania, probably except Bucharest.

Endava and Fortech are both these types of companies, with Fortech offering something like the lowest dev salaries in Cluj. They still have guts to brag about their revenues though.

Spherik Accelerator, mentioned in the article, offer mentorship and aws accounts. That's why they're with their second batch now, and there isn't a single good MVP coming out. Nobody serious would ever apply.
The "mentors" there are the same ones involved in every other IT "initiative" (Calin Vaduva, Philipp Kandal, etc.). It's the same people with new outfits and nothing good.

The only good thing in the article is mentioning Moqups, which are doing a great job.

There are other nitpicks with the article like

> We've seen some interesting JavaScript professionals with knowledge of CoffeeScript or AngularJS.

Finding good JavaScript developers here is close to impossible, that's why at some point a company was offering a $2K referral bonus.

> Romanian headquarters of UK IT services company

This is how all Cluj corporates operate. There's no "UK IT services company", it's just a UK PO box or an empty rented space.

Again, there are great devs here, they just don't work with the local companies.
What does the pos parameter in image URL specify? Looks like some kind of a filter or historical juxtaposition: http://alice-logbook.cern.ch/aliceOnline/get_image.php?conta...
On present records, the statement is a truism but totally irrelevant when it comes to determining measures we should take to protect ourselves from a group like ISIS given their apocalyptic ambitions and relative wealth. We might also factor in the very shocking, and to most of us unintelligible, fact of its attraction for thousands of young people across the world.
>Tyrants are servants of the people

[citation needed]
I'm saying that adding a few dollars worth of wifi would make it go from something that I can't think of many uses for to something excellent.
What do you mean exactly? The site doesn't look the same and it's not like there's only room for one company using this technology.
The biggest hurdle I've had with NixOS in practice, on real iron, on a real machine (not just in a VM) is that there's just no way to "cheat".

NixOS is different, everything is based on the Nix language, and if you discover that something you need isn't in the package-store, the only way to get it onto your system is by leveraging Nix to build the package for you.

Basically the only way to get software to work on NixOS is by learning the Nix language and becoming a NixOS packager.

That is: With NixOS you cannot just wget a tarball, ./configure and make if something you need is missing.

This is probably a very intended "viral" design to boost the package-store, but it's also a hindrance for those who cannot put in the time and investment required to fully learn Nix.

For me, it meant getting my laptop on NixOS was something I wouldn't be able to accomplish over a full weekend, and because of that it became a non-option.

If those constraints don't apply to you, more power to you :)
Yeah, that's basically all I could think of as well. I'd gladly swap the HDMI port for a wifi chip.
Natural selection very much is a guided process. It is obviously not guided by anything, but it very much is not random or aimless or any of those things.

On the mirco level, sure, it is all of those things, but not when looking at the macro level. I think you might just not understand evolution?
So the big issue is determining worth of the stock. Which suggests that while the investment points are interesting, a genuine market in startup shares would be a better way to value them. What are the legal hurdles to either direct trading in shares in next-Facebook or in trading instruments that represent the options an employee receives?

I am a fan of open markets and exchanges so this seems a good idea at solving price discovery (is squares recent IPO should not have been such a surprise if there was a market pricing its employees options)
> The interesting answer would be what changed his mind in the intervening years

Maybe employees are starting to wise up and reject the below-market salaries VC-backed startups offer in exchange for worthless options (that will be diluted considerably before acquisition, or are of some class of stock that won't be acquired with the rest of the firm, or that can't be affordably exercised if you leave the company)?

> As for the second paragraph, I cannot find enough generosity to see it as anything other than ad hominem trolling, and I would suggest an edit. Especially as you have a troll throw away name.

The second paragraph just expresses my honest confusion over why so many people think Altman is brilliant and near everything he says is worthy of serious consideration and discussion. As I see things, Sam has one failed startup under his belt and not much else.
What do privacy-conscious people use for video conferencing these days?
Emacs assimilates everything to Borg mode as does org-mode. This just isn't the vim way of doing things. What are you trying to achieve and what is missing. There are a few org-mode like plugins, personal wikis, task managment tools around for vim.
Ok , Its really great.
Initial VC and follow-ons, statistically, are not as easy as headlines make it seem.

Likewise, for "organic", key is to remember that growth is crucial to a startup ("grow or die") vs. small business, and at early stages, the step function around big salaries sucks.

Ex 1: SaaS where growth seems on nice trajectory so you hire up on sales (~3mo warmup to effectiveness), yet maybe Google switches algorithms and your marketing funnel dies.

Ex 2: Enterprise where you hire up for a big customer who then flakes out.

You could choose not to grow, but that's arguably riskier.
We provide both SNI based SSL (starting at $9 including the cert) and full SSL ($49) with CDN based hosting at https://www.netlify.com

As many other has noted, even when once in the future you'll be able to rely on free certificates from Let's Encrypt, serving millions of sites with different certificates (that needs to be replaced every 90 days) adds lots of complexity to any CDN based infrastructure and cost real money.

Apart from that, if you do just SNI based SSL you have to add support costs for explaining to people that don't know the implications, why things like some automation tools, old Android browsers, IE on Windows XP, etc, breaks.

And if you do full SSL you need to allocate lots of IP addresses at each CDN PoP which is expensive.

The certificate is just a small part of the equation when you're offering CDN based SSL.
Even if you don't take what he says seriously, I think what he wrote in this particular post makes sense. When I negotiated with startups I demanded the 10 year exercise provision. I can't believe that isn't standard. I don't want to be, in effect, forced to forfeit vested equity. It is almost like leaving a company and being asked to return your wages or face a huge tax penalty!
This is really nice. It's very easy to set up, and it just works!

(BTW I'm not sure why the Android app requires access to see who is in my circles.)
But that's what most people want. If they didn't want it, they wouldn't keep voting for the same two parties or not bothering to vote. Why not just accept that the majority likes it that way, even if you feel it gives bad results?

I guess I'm making the assumption that democracy has the goal of giving people what they want. Whereas perhaps a more noble goal would be giving people what will benefit them. People are notoriously irrational at deciding what will benefit them though, so who could possibly make those decisions?
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Which unfortunately doesn't work with CloudFlare on a different domain because it sends the custom domain Host header.
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If it's a top-5 YC company, I assume it's relatively older. This post is probably based on thinking and lessons learned over the last few years - why would he have needed to write it if older YC companies didn't have the bad structures?
yes, but it's static public pages. it's a pretty big stretch. it's not like users are POSTing confidential data up to your site.
China is bringing up new cities in an organized fashion. First the infrastructure, roads, plumbing and power goes in. Then the buildings go up. Then the stores are stocked and staffed and the transportation system started up. Then people move in and businesses are moved in.

This costs much less and is less disruptive than doing it one building at a time in a busy city. Building is really cheap when you can do it in bulk with nothing to get in the way.

Shanghai has a population of 14 million. Beijing is at 11 million. The government is trying to spread things out a bit.
Don't call it that. The idea is to avoid words like "union" or "guild" that arouse suspicion. Professional associations like the AMA and ADA fly under the anti-union radar.
Not necessarily. In U.S. politics the most important persons are always figure heads. Their prominence hides democratic and not so democratic mechanisms behind decision making or electing these figure heads.

The more troubling thing about the U.S. is, that the public demands qualities from their leaders which bear no meaningful predictive power on their leadership skills. At best, these politicians are a "costly signal" for the competency and reliability of the party behind that leader, whose members or employees are duing the actual work of governance.
Without reducing the bitrate to compensate? That seems unlikely. Or is it using infrared?
Not necessarily. Example: Lawyers are not a union, but I can hire one for my divorce. Developers are not a union, but I can hire one to build my application. Accountants are not a union, but I can hire one to do my taxes.
And Chelsea isn't related to Bill at all.. ;)

Webster Hubbell is apparently her real father, apparently it's a fairly open secret.
So, the process worked. The company finds people who have the most interest in the company's success, within the set of hirable candidates
There is no point in using Docker if you're going to think about it in the way you're thinking about it, as just another way of subdividing boxes.

What we're excited about is using it as a building block in an internal PaaS so that individual application teams have a Heroku-like interface for deployment. Hosts are cattle (and managed by a traditional CM tool), containers are immutable and do not even have shells installed, etc. We don't have mature tools for orchestration, scheduling, networking, service discovery, etc. yet but this approach is what all the hype is about and much of the software popping up to fill that niche, i.e. Mesosphere and Kubernetes, is really interesting.

Machines having roles, engineer SSH keys being on machines, containers being logged into, etc. - in attacking these things you are attacking a strawman.
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