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>Option pools are complete fiction; boards can increase them whenever they want. It should never be used as a reason for not making a grant.

Is this true? I had one startup say they couldn't increase the equity portion of an offer because they'd have to go to the board and the amount of equity they had available was already set. Didn't heard a word about dilution there. Haven't heard what the other stories were/are yet.
As for more equity: founders have a qualitatively different risk profile than employees. I've been running my startup for over two years, and I am the lowest paid person on our team. I have to defer having a family and can't enjoy the things that my employees enjoy. I also can't ask my employees to work harder than me, which means I have to work harder than everyone else. A couple of times I had to cover payroll with my credit card and would have been bankrupt if we didn't pull through. If things get tough an employee can jump ship at anytime, while I will be going down with the ship. And at the end, if I'm lucky I end up with 5-15% of the company. I'm not complaining, this is what I signed up for, but employees can be very well compensated in today's market prior to equity upside.
JS: Try to guess the output
There was an Adams or a Jefferson serving as either President or Vice President of the country, as well, for the first twenty years of our nationhood. And then after an eight year break, the son of the first President Adams became Secretary of State. And then President himself. An Adams or Jefferson was President, VP, or Secretary of State for the first 36 out of 44 years the US existed!

I'm not sure what the above proves. Neither then nor now is what's going on anything like a hereditary monarchy. For one thing, Hillary Clinton is not the heir of Bill Clinton. And in both cases other people have been in the mix holding power. Washington during Adam's Vice Presidency. Obama during Hillary Clinton's Secretaryship of State. Which kind of kills the "mono" part of a "monarchy" -- if there are a bunch of different people from a bunch of different families running around with power. (Is "polyarchy" a word?)

So don't get too freaked.

(Also, plenty of first world democracies have hereditary monarchs. The United Kingdom, Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain, Australia, Canada, Japan, etc. The existence of a hereditary monarchy isn't necessarily anti-democratic.)
Right, it's like saying, not many people die from salmonella, people die from so many other things, let's stop worrying about salmonella.
You can as well deploy on OpenShift. They provide 3 small gears for free and allow SSL for bronze accounts (require credit card info, but no payments until you go over free limit).

https://www.openshift.com/
I would argue that the big problem that the California proposition system caused was property taxes. Prop 13; and that is pure self-interest; homeowners voting themselves a tax cut. Because homeowners vote in state elections dramatically more often than people who don't own property, this law will remain on the books until we can get people who don't own to vote at a higher rate than people who do own. (Which will be difficult, considering that the majority of people live in a home owned by themselves or their family, and homeowners vote much more often than non-owners.)
At this point anyone using Opera 12.xx must have pretty low expectations of the web though, right? Even if it is really _only_ CloudFlare, they must be used to seeing that?
One of pains is that the mobile-org doesn't work. I cannot even view my org file on iPhone.
Tutorial to create your own web font with SVG images
> I do agree that the US should break away from the two party system, as either choice seems to yield only bad or worse results for the citizens.

Worse than what? I mean, sure, nobody is 100% happy with the outcome, but some people say that's how you tell that a negotiation had a fair outcome.
It's pretty cool, but why didn't they just do it on Twitch? A little chat window would be wonderful - not just for memes, but for discussion and understanding.
The “Conquest of the Sun” and Ideas about Energy Circa 1878
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Both are true. (Generally) The percentage of equity dedicated to ESOP is fixed unless the board has a good reason to change it. Since increasing the ESOP causes dilution, it would be hard to argue for an increase just to hire a single employee.

However, some dilution can be good for everyone. Wealthfront and others have described such a plan:

https://blog.wealthfront.com/the-right-way-to-grant-equity-t...
Thank you for the informative reply. Have an upvote!
> Who else would know Hadley lived across from the local school?

Pretty much anyone on the planet who knows the address and can use Google Streetview.
I meant via bypassing gun laws and or import restrictions.
Thank you for pointing it out: the "j" in the city's name is pronounced much closer to the "j" in Clojure and not like "zh" as the article mentioned. Also, in Transylvania there is a slight tendency to overstretch some vowels so: "kloooo-j" (pour les connaisseurs)
And that is the exact problem with term limits.

Legislators transitioning in and out regularly would just move the power from their hands into their staffers' hands.. aka people who are hired and fired without any public recognition or even knowing who they are.
Exactly. Passenger rail (as much as I love it) is about to be outdated. Expensive rail projects that amortize costs over >20 years are at risk of never paying off, because in that timeframe self-driving cars will take over as the preferred method of transport, because they:

* utilize existing infrastructure (roads)

* get you 100% of the way from point A to B vs having to travel additional distance from stations

* can be gradually introduced with purchasers being those who directly benefit vs big projects dealing with nimbys, budgets, and right-of-way issues where costs-benefits aren't as aligned

* are a drop-in replacement that offer significant improvements in both safety and driver time

* open new business models of cars as service vs as product

* allow commuting from farther away, reducing housing shortages

* offer lower labor costs than buses, so cities may control their own fleets or subsidize private fleets for low income riders

... among many more benefits. Dense urban cores will still find value in subways that do not take up outdoor space, but for the most part, mid-century cities are going to be doing a lot of ripping up excess roads/lanes and parking lots, and making things both denser and greener.
Withholding the information sure doesn't seem very "scientific" to me. It seems like the opposite of what science is about.
Makes it super easy to filter out and delete though...
For me, it's mainly about eating healthy and lots of bike riding. I had a heart attack last year, so I've been really focused on this stuff for the past year. I've recently decided to adopt a ketogenic diet (although I did break it earlier today). I started back doing a lot of bike riding again earlier this year, mostly mountain biking up until I fell and tore my rotator cuff. After that, I switched to mostly road biking until I have the surgery to get my shoulder fixed.

The big breakthrough for me was when I decided to start biking to work a couple of days a week. It's a 12 mile ride (one way) so the days I ride I get a pretty good workout in. My goal is to eventually reach a point where I'm doing that 3 days a week pretty consistently. That'll put me right around 75 miles a week, plus any other random riding I do.

Next year, after my shoulder is healed, I'll start backing with mountain biking and MTB racing again. I did one 6 hour MTB endurance race this year, but missed the rest of the season due to the shoulder injury.
The best respone to a terrorist attack is to treat it as normal crime: take basic precautions beforehand, leave the police to investigate and arrest afterwards, and everyone else get on with their lives.

The UK's response to terrorism in Northern Ireland was very much more localised and stiff-upper-lip than it seems to be in response to Islamist terrorism. Similarly in the US nobody gets in a panic about the numerous white supremacist terrorists. Even spree killings have become normalised with "there's nothing we can do", due to reluctance to question the 2nd amendment. Not to mention that if the US wants to get involved with fighting murderous extremists that threaten stability, the Mexican cartels are much closer and just as dangerous.

Getting involved in the Syrian civil war is instead just going to turn into a proxy war against the Russians, like 70s Afghanstan.
FYI, when Let's Encrypt goes public in a week, you'll be able to get free certs without having to install anything by using https://gethttpsforfree.com

Fun fact, the website is just a reverse proxied github static page: https://diafygi.github.io/gethttpsforfree
The OP's work shows it clearly is possible to manipulate lists in C++, in a simple and concise way.
Good points there, will bear in mind in the future.
I think in general working with large IT firms is always going to be a CF regardless of where they are from. This is especially true if you are a product dev shop as against enterprise IT. I think a better comparison would be small sized companies in India with the ones in Romania. I am not defending Indian outfits. I tend to agree that it is hard to find great tech companies to work with in India. But I suspect some of that has to do with just the sheer volume of tech outfits in India. As with anything its hard to keep average quality high with scale. Infosys used to be a top company on top tech campuses like IITs in mid 90s. I can tell you some of the guys who joined where absolute top notch tech guys back then. Those days are long gone. The issues that you point often are an outcome of working with incompetent or unmotivated folks. The best talent in India now works for companies that are catering to the local market (Snapdeal, Flipkart, Ola Cabs). So you may be better off looking at countries where top talent still is in the outsourcing business because local market doesn't offer enough returns for their talent.
Same with another democracy - India. The "Gandhi"s have been ruling for over half a century.
Looks like the DC part of the adapter is very tightly wound. It's not even visible coming out of the adapter itself. This looks like a good way to fray the cable.
>Both make an heavy use of templates, so that they cannot be compiled separately but instead literally copied into each of my source file by the C++ preprocessor (the details are not exact, but this should provide a fair representation of what’s really happening)

it really doesn't. Template resolution and preprocessing step are separate, both performed by different binaries in your toolchain.
This is an enjoyable read! I've been coming across mentions of Forth much more often lately, so it feels satisfying being able to get a sense of it.

One thing that caught my attention is that Forth's boolean value for "false" is 0, and for "true" is -1. This makes sense if you look at their binary values, being 00000000 and 11111111, respectively. Does anyone know if there was an underlying design decision for this? Fast hardware checking? Bit masking tricks?
Yeah, but I still love org-mode. I keep my org files backed up to Dropbox so I can view them if I have to when I'm away from my computer.
Isn't Github Pages hosted on S3? That would explain the lack of TLS on custom domains.

Anyway, this is a very major security flaw. Lots of software uses Github pages for the project website. If you put a download link on an unsecure page, you are putting all your customers st risk.
Do you have or did you follow a write up for this? I know I would be interested in reading how you set that up!
The last startup I worked at had a small flock of employees that hit the 4 year mark this year. Unfortunately, most of them didn't do any sort of early exercise so they paid taxes on the difference after they exercised.

The only thing that saved a few of them is that the company offered a buyback program so they were able to flip some (all, in some cases) of their shares to cover the exercise and the taxes.
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Well, that explains some things.

Being brazilian, I find US "orange juice" to be TERRIBLE. So yeah, we do have different tastes in juice.

Nothing beats freshly squeezed juice, as in just squeezed. Try to drink it one hour later and it will have changed the taste already.
Great job Kalid. I try to do this with kids. Simple ideas like why anything to power zero is 1 ? why do we need complex numbers ? Why is limit of something tending to zero/infinity even an interesting and useful concept ?
Allow me to disagree slightly with this, in the cast of early (number less than, say, 10) employees. My (hard-earned) experience here is as the first engineering hire, functioning as engineering lead.

We have the same (maybe even worse!) risk profile: we are being paid below market rates (because small startup), we probably don't have healthcare or benefits (because small startup), we have the majority of the burden in terms of actual leadership (because we probably have been hired with the explicit intent of having us grow the team, tech, or sales). We don't get the glory or good press that the founders do (because we're just employees, lol). We don't get the same access or transparency to the business decisions (because we're not founders).

If the business folds for the founders, they shut it down, walk away, and maybe have to file some bankruptcy. In exchange, they get to join The Magical Founders Club, wherein they can parlay their experience into speaking engagements, recruiting for new gigs, senior-level business and tech positions (regardless of skill), and funding from investors.

When the startup folds for early employees (or exits in such a way only the founders are taken care of), the result is whatever personal harm comes of stress and health issues (if not taken care of b/c of bad benefits), the net loss of however much time spent working at below market prices, potentially no portfolio work (because a lot of companies are shitty about NDAs and proprietary software), and so on.

For third or forth wave employees, sure, it's just another round of job hunting. For the first folks who actually had to build the business, well, it can really suck.

EDIT:

A minor elaboration...Micheal O'Church in an essay made an interesting claim that the founders and employees are no longer considered in the same class, compared with the 90s.

My observation has been that founders will merrily maintain three orders of magnitude of equity while doing very little more than their first few hires. In fact, they may be doing less work, because they are inexperienced and spend time doing the wrong things because they don't know any better and are senior enough they feel they can ignore advice.
> only I found super-thick solder points and don't have a strong enough gun to de-solder them.

What often helps, is add a bit of solder to it. This makes the heat transfer much more efficient, and you'll be able to desolder it.
Thats another thing to configure and worry about though, especially if its just for open source side projects which can be hard to justify spending $ on.

Thats another service you have to monitor to see if its continuing, another service to be hacked, another account user/pass to have.
Yeah but someone can still get between cloudflare and github pages since the traffic between the two end points would still be unencrypted and thus open to MITM..
I'm a guy who worked for one of these outsourcing behemots based in Cluj-Napoca named SoftVision. While on the surface everything looks great, you should know that life inside this company is pretty miserable. And this will affect you as a client because just as we are being constantly lied to destroying our motivation, you as a client will be also lied to: starting with being offered fabricated resumes and all the way through false information about the number of people allocated to a certain project (there are people who work with their name only on a several projects) and the number of hours worked.

If you're curious about more hit up SoftVision on Glassdoor but change to a date based sorting, because their default sorting seems to favour glowing reviews written by the PR department.

I'm not saying all outsourcing companies are like this and I'm most definitely not saying that you can't find skilled devs in Cluj-Napoca. Just try to avoid SoftVision and their web of lies.
There's the app Orgzly for Android.
Funny enough, we found a practical application for this during my time at BreakingPoint. The BPS-1000 appliance would mix a huge number of concurrent streams through a device under test; we added a feature to flag the exploit traffic as evil by setting the RFC 3514 bit: https://strikecenter.ixiacom.com/articles/permalink?month=06...

This made it easier for manufacturers of IDS/IPS/UTM/NGFW equipment to quickly isolate false negatives during fully loaded tests.
Tyrants are servants of the people, and enemies of the oligarchs.

That's why republican democrats hate them so intensely, and have been murdering tyrants by sword and word for so many centuries.
More people should see computers as thinking machines, as machines that allow us to extend the reach and complexity of our own thoughts.

This is already a well established instructional strategy called Blended Learning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blended_learning). Blackboard even has a product page devoted to using technology to supplement face-to-face training (http://www.blackboard.com/k12/blended-learning.aspx).

Concepts are very difficult to understand from a book, so blackboards were invented.

This is not really the reason blackboards were invented: http://education.cu-portland.edu/blog/reference-material/the.... Many classrooms could still benefit hugely from low-tech solutions like leveled readers.

Computers offer us a chance to go one step further than the blackboard, without much additional effort from the instructor.

I disagree – creating effective blended learning is incredibly time consuming. It nearly doubles the effort of teaching a lecture-based class because teachers must also prepare digital content.

Introducing computers is also a huge logistical hassle (e.g. getting every student logged in, getting them all doing the same exercise/simulation, etc).

I have friends who are teachers at schools with well-equipped computer labs, and they claim that they regularly have to spend 20-40 minutes of their instructional time doing IT to get students up and running. This also echoes what I've found in my professional experience: most blended learnings require an additional instructor to help troubleshoot IT problems.

I agree, it's a matter of content. However, it's not that the content isn't entertaining enough, it's that it isn't participatory enough.

Agree to disagree, but the way I see it, if content is not entertaining (maybe intellectually stimulating is a better phrase), students will not participate in a productive way.
I work for a top-5 YC investment (by current valuation) and none of the things Sam discusses are true of our company:

-Employee equity is much lower than his recommendations.

-We have 90 days to exercise options.

-They refused to tell me what percentage my equity represented when I applied.

-They refused to tell me information about burn rate/money in the bank when I applied.

I still took the job, because money was not a primary motivating factor, but it is disappointing to see one of the most successful YC investments fit none of his criteria. He goes so far as to warn readers to "be very suspect of any startup" that doesn't provide this information. I understand that Sam does not personally control what decisions YC portfolio companies make on these topics, but I certainly hope that he guides them strongly towards the recommendations he has made here.
The movie theatres in Vancouver aren't as busy in the off-hours too. I've known a few coworkers that have have had little-to-no competition for winning free tickets at company-sponsored movie days.
Worth noting: https works on yourname.neocities.org.
Alternatively, they think that their is a chance that it is an important notification and are willing to take the chance that it is not, rather than risk missing an important one.
What's missing is, why? It's a static site, so you won't get any real privacy about what you're reading. If you have binaries to distribute, you have other features for releasing them that let you use TLS.
It would seem like this law will only be useful if it's also very specific about how juveniles are charged. Most of the offenders are likely to be underage.
Githug Pages is their own infrastructure for hosting files and static sites: http://githubengineering.com/rearchitecting-github-pages/

Also the download files themselves can be hosted on Github repos as releases which supports TLS.
As a Vim user, I wish I could have something like what I have heard of Org-Mode for Vim / Neovim.

At the moment I just have a folder of Markdown files that I compile with gitit, it doesn't seem as nice though.
Eh, ACME isn't that complex. I wrote a fully automated client in less than 200 lines of python.

https://github.com/diafygi/acme-tiny
While convertible notes and SAFE documents have made seed stage financing much more streamlined and straightforward, employee equity is still a hot mess in terms of the legal, financial and tax difficulties that only present themselves after it's too late.

The biggest issue IMO are those scenarios when private, completely illiquid stock gets taxed as ordinary income. There should be a way to pay the tax with the same shares, though counting on the IRS becoming "flexible" is probably a longshot.

While I agree with the other points mentioned, that is one the largest and most painful when it presents itself. I do think there's also an opportunity for companies to be creative about exercising mechanics as well.
Sounds like they'll be writing that AWS is a disaster 2 years down the road.
So HN; what's wrong with it? ;)
You have to ask yourself, why are you privileging this particular information over everything else that could be on the label? They can't reasonably print everything that's in the food, especially if any part of it contains pieces of plants or animals - the living stuff has so much chemistry in it that you'd have to attach a book to each product to just list them. So producers already have to be picky.

Also, I'm not against labeling that the product is GMO-based. I want to point out at the dynamics around GMO labeling; their most vocal proponents create "damned if you do, damned if you don't" kind of situation.
just likes it does on yourname.github.io. (Since that just requires a wildcard cert)
> Companies charge about $100/h and pay about $10-$15/h back to the developer.

Hurts to see this, but it's the sad truth unfortunately.
It's a valid point as the content of the site itself can still be manipulated if not served securely. However that being said, it does seem like a very low risk situation and if needed there are tons of other options.

Most of the Pages sites are just about projects themselves so the readme.md and wiki in the github repo can already serve over https and do the job just fine.
I mean it doesn't spike your blood glucose as much.
"even though the trait isn't necessarily evolutionary beneficial for the organism."

If the trait is negative, it will be selected out of the population. It's only if it's beneficial, or neutral, that that it will spread. What's particularly special about gene drive, is that it drives itself onto 100% of progeny, rather than the 50% expected by traditional mendellian genetics.
distilled water is pretty bad tasting, IMO. You can get it from pretty much any grocery store. I think you'll prefer good mineralized water. Moreover, I find the local tap water (Vancouver BC) to be above and beyond any bottled water I've ever had.