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Hi John,

I remember listening to your talk at dotGo 2014 :-)

I tried CloudFlare in November 2012 (3 years ago, and not 1 year ago as I wrote in my previous comment). At that time, the origin server was hosted by Typhon in France. I remember that after having enabled CloudFlare, the latency was significantly increased. I haven't kept the specific timings, but to give you an idea, the response time was like 100 ms without CloudFlare and 500 ms through CloudFlare.

That said, it was a long time ago and I can guess things have changed a lot since. So I did a new test today. The origin server is hosted by DigitalOcean in Amsterdam. The median response time from my machine is around 100 ms. After enabling CloudFlare, I cannot see a significant difference in response time. The median response time, and the distribution of response time, looks very similar.

I guess that during the last few years you have expanded your network and your connections with the major hosting providers (Amazon, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean, Linode, etc.). Maybe it explains the difference between today's test and 3 years ago?

In general, is it useful and/or recommended to use CloudFlare in front a fully dynamic service, for example a HTTP-JSON API, with no static content (no images, no stylesheets, no scripts), and thus no need for the CDN feature?
Lua avoids this issue because it does not allow an statement to be just an expression.
The "deal makers" didn't drive down the value of the company. Good did it themselves. They were hemorrhaging money. They did not have the stronger position at the negotiation table.
There is no actual "revolt" because both Apple and Amazon make sure it doesn't happen by using CBR. You're right in that consumers don't care about it all that much.

But let's say Amazon decides to go with VBR to save space and download speed, now there's an easy way for Apple to attack Amazon. "We never dip below a certain quality. Amazon does. We care. Amazon doesn't"

Maybe that ad/slogan works, or maybe it doesn't. But if you're Amazon would you be willing to risk some weird consumer backlash over it? And if you're Apple it is an easy point to attack, and if it doesn't work, no harm no foul (and then secretly also switch to VBR and announce it at the next Apple conference!)
I've had similar problems. I think it's an anxiety thing. Ever tried mindfulness meditation? Basically you just sit for 20 to 40 minutes and focus on your breathing. It's been working well for me. I would also look into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy if I were you.
I remember clearly when I was in a similar situation with the sale of a company I helped start in 1999. All this gain on paper which required (because of the Alternative Minimum Tax rule) that I pay taxes on gains I had not realized. And then later realizing an actual loss. And the decade afterwards of getting $3,000/year that I could claim against my taxes.

The only reason I'm not still claiming my $3,000 a year is that we had some gains that could be offset by those losses in 2007 and 2008. Of course there are the much higher fees to have your taxes prepared.

I agree with the Times that it is the non-executive employees who get the worst of it, both because it may be the only investment they have (other than their 401k) and they may not have any experience in managing risk.

For example, the article mentions, and my own experience mimics, that the executives are in a bind when it comes to discussing company performance and prospects. Legal risks abound if they mislead and existential risks abound if they demoralize the company. It would be especially problematic when the company has started the IPO process as Good had.

Then there is the greed factor that comes in on everyone's part. The board turns down an $825M offer because they feel it is their duty, given they expect the company is worth more than that. Employees don't cash out some of their holding at $3/share expecting a bigger IPO lift. Both angry because nobody came from the future to tell them, hey this is the best offer you are ever going to get for this stock, take it. And so they "ride" the value down and get angrier and angrier but its hard to know at whom.

When this happened to me, I was holding 10,000 shares of Sun stock that had been $60 a share in 2000, that was going down and down and down. It later reverse split 3:1 (so down to 3,333 shares) and sold for $9.50 a share to Oracle or about $32,000. I was really angry at myself for "losing" so much money. Of course it wasn't that I had "lost" the money, I never had it, it was all on paper, I just hadn't converted at the time because I was hoping to convert when it was even "more". Or put another way, my greed kept me from selling something which could have paid off my mortgage at the time.
Our dependence on technology enables new vectors of control and I am not as optimistic about the ability of laws to guarantee these will not be abused. Trust in government as an agent of freedom is a very recent (not to mention regional) development. I say we err on the side of freedom and don't tempt government too much with opportunities for technology-assisted totalitarianism.
I'm still puzzled how he can be extradited if he is not US citizen and did not commit any crime on US soil.
The opposite has happened. Steve Jobs introduced H.264 as providing significantly higher quality at the same or lower bitrate. He shows an still from an existing MPEG-4 video and then a much higher resolution still from an H.264 encoded MPEG-4 video and claims that they require the same bitrate. He brings out Frank Casanova who goes on for 5 minutes or so about quality at lower bitrates. [0]

IIRC, Apple also sold AAC as requiring lower bandwidth for the same quality, but I don't recall when that was.

0 - https://youtu.be/dPCNUExWR6I?t=3271
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Optional being an attribute of the key rather than the value is pretty bizarre to me, I've seen that patten a couple times. Feels like the wrong way to go about it
Please don't make that argument about gun-free zones. In what world can we expect a person bent on mass homicide to respect municipal ordinance? Shooter: "Oh this sign says no guns? Darn, guess I'll abandon my murder spree then."

You're not serious right? Or maybe you just haven't yet explained what you really meant?
It's true, the media loves the story of the regular folks who struck gold when their company went public and that resonates with typical employees who don't understand the financial constructs that make up many VC deals.
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It's interesting to compare this article with the coverage of the acquisition at the time.

"When Good Technology announced Friday that it had sold itself to its long-standing rival BlackBerry for $425 million in cash, it was a moment of triumph for Good CEO Christy Wyatt." -
http://uk.businessinsider.com/how-christy-wyatt-sold-good-to...
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Can anyone provide any info on what actually happened here? The article says that the preferred was "worth" more, which is a pretty vague statement. I interpret this as meaning that they didn't convert because their liquidation preferences guaranteed a higher payout. What seems relevant to me, and anyone else who works at a pre-IPO startup, is what were the things to look for ahead of time.

According to Crunchbase, Good raised $291M in 4 rounds. Assuming those investors owned 40% of the business, then at $1.1B, common was splitting $660M (preferred would convert). At $425M, assuming 1x liquidation preference, common is splitting $134M, an 80% decrease. I think you could get to the numbers in the article assuming 1x participating or something similar.

This should have been pretty predictable to employees. You will not get rich if your company sells for only 1.4x the total amount invested.
Modern browsers are removing SHA-1 support. The MITM would not be able to downgrade them to something they've removed.
Aha I get that way with the end of most books. I just power through the last 20 percent of it in one sitting. Must... have... closure...
In addition to applying Hanlon's Razor more liberally I'd encourage you to let go of the nationalist worldview if only for the sake of not feeding the trolls.

Thank you,

a fellow European (specifically, from Austria as well)
Mostly correct, with one correction:

You can apply carried forward capital losses against 100% of your capital gains PLUS an additional $3000 in each future year.
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>> The CDC says Chipotle has been very cooperative in the E. coli investigation, but that the company is having trouble telling the agency which batches of ingredients went to which stores at which times. “The system they have is not able to solve the problem we have at hand. It’s not granular enough,” says Ian Williams, chief of the CDC’s outbreak response and prevention branch. He notes that “traceability from the farm to the point of service” should be improved throughout the food industry. In recent years, the agency has been able to find the contaminated ingredients in fewer than half of all multistate outbreaks.

To me this suggests a very simple solution. Legislate that each ingredient parcel must come with an audit trail. Assign to each parcel a reference number - a UUID or hash - that can be used to trace back its entire life and history. The solution seems so obvious that there are probably significant obstacles against doing so that I am not aware of. If such a system is implemented, then the next time a contamination breaks out, the source can be quickly identified and eliminated, then apologies can be made, and business can resume as normal.

>> The spread of norovirus in Simi Valley and Boston was caused by breaches of protocol, Ells says

Eliminating contamination entirely is a highly desirable goal, but outbreaks will likely continue occur regardless of anti-contamination measures. As a result, it makes sense to make it as easy as possible to shut down outbreaks before they become crises.
Ask HN: What side project do you want to start on these Christmas Holidays?
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Thinking about making this into a multi-player gaming app...
For those of us more dictionary oriented, there is https://pypi.python.org/pypi/voluptuous (which is OK for the most part, as long as you are only trying to do validation, and nothing too crazy)
I would learn to connect more closely with my family and friends. Do some maintenance on your relationships. You may find down the line that the longer you wait to invest the kind of time you have right now, the less effect it might have.
An example of crime which can be punished twice: Use of prostitution in a foreign country is illegal for an Australian. However, the law was created with international compatibility in mind.
Given the choice between lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and offering huge economic opportunity to a stagnant global economy and some arbitrary (and disputed) danger to wildlife, development is the only choice.

The snarky answer is probably something about how lions would not be setting up Human Preserves if the situations were reversed.
C has basically the same preprocessor, and ctags works mostly fine.
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There is extremely good advice in the parent post. For those new to the game, please read it closely.

I've been with 5 startups over the last 15 years. Each had developed good, commercially-viable, revenue-generating tech. But, in all cases, instead of going IPO, each was acquired. And, usually they were acquired by other investors' or board members' companies (sometimes at a loss). I would love to know the actual statistics for how many 'ground floor' developers get rich on options, but I'm guessing that it's very few.

Startup culture is cool - I love it. They give me piles of money to experiment and develop new stuff and build new products. If you have an 'inventor mindset', like a casual work culture, and like to see shit get done, it's a great way to go. But, unless you're a founder or very early employee, make sure you negotiate for market-rate compensation with reasonable working hours.

Of course, this all depends on the specific company and its board, but generally the options game is a scam. I've made a decent amount of money over the last 15 years - enough to retire on. But, very, very little of that was from a big startup cash-out. Instead, I just negotiated my salary and benefits effectively, saved a ton, and invested as much as I could.

Compound interest is your friend; your employer's stock options? not so much.
I don't think 6502 is a particularly good arch for someone wanting to learn x86 assembly to start with. Its simply to restrictive, the lack of registers, mul, div, the lack of a decent accumulator, all the zero page tricks, etc all are pointless "tricks" for learning a more modern architecture. If you want something simple, but more modern, ARMv4 (AKA arm7tdmi) is probably a good bet. Its only got a handful of instructions (unlike v8 which does away with the predication). Plus, its 32-bit, and the predication might be a little confusing but probably wont damage a beginner like the 6502. I say this as someone who learned 6502 assembly with an apple ][ and then moved to to a 286, and it felt like learning assembly all over again without all the restrictions.
You pay the strike price in cash and you get the shares. Your "basis" in the shares is the strike price (what you invested).

You base your AMT tax calculation on the difference between the fair market value and the strike price (that's the "phantom income").

When you sell the shares, your realized capital gains is based on the original basis and you may have AMT basis that's different.

If you exercise and immediately sell, AMT doesn't factor in.

Concretely (and picking semi-random numbers): If your strike price is $10/sh, the FMV is $25/share, and you have options on 1000 shares, you'd pay $10K to exercise, get 1000 shares, and have $15K in AMT income to consider.

If those shares later soared to $40 and you sold, you'd have a capital gains of ~$30K ($40K proceeds minus $10K basis minus commissions and fees).

If those shares instead crashed to $0, you'd have possibly paid AMT on the phantom income and you definitely lost the $10K in cash.
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Aren't they also saying that 5800kb/s is not enough for some bits of some movies?

I've definitely noticed this - on 1080 full bluray files the bitrate swings enormously - from 2mbit/sec up to 50mbit/sec (so much so my Chromecast wifi can't keep up in high action scenes).

So I definitely think they will be able to make improvements to their 1080p content (and definitely 4k content - I don't think 25mbit/sec CBR is enough IMO).
Not only this but most single member LLCs will require personal liability or co-signer [usually from the single member] for any loans or debt. So if the LLC doesn't pay, the single member will have be liable.
It's a working class Caribbean neighborhood right now but was originally built as housing for middle-class Victorian clerics, so there's a lot of beautiful but run down buildings & great transport links (ie. ripe for gentrification).

In the 90s it was extremely rough (race riots), now it's fairly safe and the artisanal coffee shops and trendy restaurants are creeping southwards as the city's population continues to grow & get priced out of other areas.

Guessing a flop house packed with affluent young tech bros is going to throw some gasoline on the Crown Heights hyper-gentrification fire, for better or worse.
Unsure about NZ, but at least in the US, "structuring" your payments in a way that would avoid AML checks is a crime by itself, regardless of whether you obtained the money legally.
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>There's absolutely no indication that an industrialized people are happier than a people living as hunter-gatherers, for example. Just let Africa be.

I think it's for Africans to decide how happy they are watching their children die from diarrhea so that zebras have more space. They will make their choice, but for the overwhelming majority of Africans the choice is not between being a hunter-gather society once again and destroying wildlife. That's a fantasy.

There are much more important (and realistic) choices to make, such as how many children to have, how to beat corruption, how to skip some of the more polluting sorts of development models, how to finance modern infrastructure that enables a modern economy, not just one based purely and digging up commodities until boom turns to bust.

The way to avoid destruction of wildlife is to have to have good policies, good education, good infrastructure and modern industries like IT, telecoms, finance, pharma or entertainment.

In order to go back to hunter-gatherer societies, the first thing you'd have to do is kill 95% of the population. Doesn't sound like a happy solution to me, but if you are so fond of it, please start doing it in your own country and just let Africa be.
The article you're thinking of is called "The Tyranny of Structurelessness".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessne...
I haven't used Python in a while, but I shall once more look into it. Python was always fun. Guess I'll do that over christmas, see where it takes me.

I might even get around to learning Python 3 after only ... what? seven-or-so years?
Thank you for that suggestion. :-)
Btw, I’ll suggest the movie "Das Leben der Anderen".

Even today in German schools the GDR and the Nazi time are some of the most important topics in history class, including us visiting the places, talking to eye witnesses, etc.

That leaves quite an impression.
Apple has a very weak service portfolio (edit: for a company of their stature. When compared to e.g. Yahoo they are doing great!). Their strength is in client UX. Of course they will defend encryption, it's in their financial interest do so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessne...

From a feminist perspective some complaints are that lack of structure creates a vacuum in which sociopaths and bullies can run free. Also it doesn't have the capacity to enact top-down diagnostic and corrective action to combat institutional or otherwise widespread behavior deficits (for example discrminatory or sexist attitudes.)
> And, usually they were acquired by other investors' or board members' companies (at a loss).

Holy shit is that even legal? It seems like a giant conflict of interest.
I don't see why they just cant keep subverting encryption through all the usual suspects (vulns, social engineering, etc…). The whole encryption debate just seems like silly posturing on the part of company/ngo's officials and governments… especially since all of the aforementioned still want to use their shiny new tech products.
They rediscovered what Nietzsche wrote about 100+ years ago. High-ranking individuals in any society cooperate with each other more readily than with lower ranked individuals (The Gay Science, Book 1 Aphorism 13 - and many others)
I'm in a similar boat as you and my list this year is is Docker, gitlab-ci documentation and getting started on a personal project I want to do.

Mostly docker and gitlab-ci is on the list because I want to use them in development.
A more apt comparison is this: A single SpaceX F9 rocket can lift three Blue Origin New Shepards into orbit at 200km altitude (vs merely touching space at 100km) and then come back to land.
Information asymetry is the way people get screwed over in financial transactions. Most potential startup employees have no idea what common or preferred shares are. Let alone all of the other details like dilution, liquidation preference, tax implications of employee stock options and lack of liquidity in private securities. Potential startup employees should learn about these things and understand how to protect themselves. I'm sure the startups prefer to hire sheeple.
Related: https://eng.lyft.com/automated-style-review-with-linty-fresh...
"Along with concerns about public safety..."

This was the most amusing part of the article--to think that prison can actually make someone "safer" to their community such that releasing them a few days before the end of their sentence actually constitutes a risk.
For those interested in this topic, I suggest reading 'Venture Deals' by Brad Feld. While it's broader than this topic, it does cover some of the legal/technical elements of vc funding and exits, which help when trying to understand outcomes such as this (i.e., preferred vs common shares, etc).
http://www.amazon.com/Venture-Deals-Smarter-Lawyer-Capitalis...
Apparently forgot to pay his service provider.
I had never heard of this show, after looking at the reviews, it might be my christmas binge watch. Hope to see a Feynman cameo at some point!
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"Development and Validation of a Biomarker for Diarrhea-Predominant Irritable Bowel Syndrome in Human Subjects"

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

Large cohort study done determining what the biological mechanism are of IBS (irritable bowel syndrome).

Defines a new test, IBSChek which can be used to determine if a patient has a subtype of IBS. Anyone can get this test done now.
Opening up space to new markets must be an essential component of their strategy. If they charged say 90% of the cost for non-reusable launches but their rockets were reusable, they would only need to manufacture a dozen or so vehicles, plus a few a year as replacements. To maintain economies if scale in their factory, they need to have a sustained production line and that means at even a steady pace, with high re usability they will soon be awash with rockets. They will have to bring prices down just to keep their fleet operating.
Really sad to see media trying to make UAV's look bad. Instead of investigating why it happened they just want to ban them.

Governments can use real drones to kill people and still allowed to continue the death and destruction.

People need to get some perceptive here. I've been flying over 11 years and not one issue ever!
Yes - unfortunately I have and I failed miserably.
These days I'm trying to see if there's a docker build that can build a great numpy (with all optimizations). Interestingly there are even docker images to call cuda APIs from python.
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I see what you mean, but it's the key that's optional, not the value.
Throwaway account, reporting on the secondary market!

Companies will often do everything in their power, including running roughshod over their contractural and legal obligations, to prevent employees from selling stock on the secondary market. If they're not total jerks, they will encourage you to participate in "internal buybacks". Unfortunately, these buybacks are run as a service for investors, presenting them massively undervalued in exchange for loyalty.

Regulators have just begun to take interest in the abuse of transfer agency by privately-held companies distributing shares in lieu of compensation. Similar attention should be paid to the information provided to prospective employees at the time of hire, when the decision to accept stock in lieu of cash is made.
Most of this seems like a reasonable comment, but are you actually angry that people are learning to code?
I haven't done a survey, but at a previous startup it was 24 months, though you could get a new one after 12 months with approval from a manager that would basically always be approved if you asked.

At my current company there's no policy, but every new hire is given a new MacBook Pro.

Given the normal costs of employing someone, a new laptop every year is a tiny fraction of the overall compensation so in general, it should be a non issue.