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> Had "Dang" simply left the post alone, it's very likely that some people here could have touched base with Ian and prevented this suicide from happening.

That is something you don't have a shred of evidence for and which indirectly lays blame for Ian's suicide with Dan and I really don't think you should be writing stuff like that here or elsewhere, it is in complete contradiction with the facts.

If you think that you have the right of way here then by extension HN should from now on be renamed suicide watch and each and every twitter post about someone who writes they want to commit suicide should get top billing and be sticky until the person is tied to a stretcher somewhere.

Try not to be a dick around here, it really does not help, for one it ruins the atmosphere and for another you are causing a thing that hurts to cause even more pain.

And if you can't keep the bile out of your comments then simply don't comment at all.
What protects the stock from being diluted since presumably it has no or insufficient voting rights?
That's the point: set people an unpassable test if they don't want to hire them.
What's mind boggling is the amount of money FB is spending on advertisements & lobbying so that they can be allowed to be "charitable". What's funny is that Mark's getting upset that people don't want "disingenuous charity".

There are a thousand effective ways in which you can help the underprivileged. Partnering with ISPs to decide what's "basic" internet is not one of them.

P.S. Many professors from India's top tech institutes, startups, entrepreneurs & other eminent people have spoken against "Free Basics".

https://github.com/net-neutrality/no-free-basics - Feel free to add more with a Pull Request.
If they could not share the numbers when giving an offer, I would be surprised and suspicious. Did you ask the founders?

At least they should be able to tell you the common strike price and ideally the fair market value of preferred shares. This would let you benchmark things fairly well.

What does late stage mean? How many employees? How much funding raised?
It's not that simple if there are multiple classes of shares, particularly if some have liquidation preferences attached.
" $1B stolen from it. Not from a company, but from the country!"

You exhibit a severe case of reading comprehension disability. For these money to be stolen "from the country" it would have required the disappearance of funds from the Treasury or the bank accounts belonging to the central administration.

That was not the case: the money had been syphoned off from 2/two commercial banks, namely Banca de Economii (Savings Bank), Banca Sociala (Social Bank), and Unibank.

Except for the names, all this info in in the CNN linked to.

And to pre-empt a silly reply, no, the National Bank bailing out these banks doesn't mean the theft extended to the government. That's the government being either stupid or having no choice. The theft itself was from companies.
Some much worse organizations do that too on territories they control, which makes the analogy even better. Does Zuckerberg want to preach good news or does he need a cheap source of cannon fodder?
It definitely seems like a bug that it's so difficult to realize any benefit until the company goes public, and when that happens -- if it happens at all -- is under the sole discretion of management. I guess there is a reason they're called golden handcuffs.

This problem was described well here:

http://blog.samaltman.com/employee-equity

and there are some interesting solutions. I wonder if any companies have taken this advice in the 20 months since it was given.
I'm assuming this "Pricetopher" is the same guy?
http://pricetopher.com/
That's a bit disturbing.
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Nothing. Stock will get diluted. Typically every 'Series' fundraise will add 10-20% option pool and dilute the company by another 10-20% of preferred shares. The 'idea' is you have a smaller piece of a larger pie.

Very incredible companies will raise at better terms and valuations and dilute more. This is very rare.
You don't have to hold the stock until IPO. If the company is doing good, finding a private buyer through a stock broker shouldn't be that hard. Sure, you won't get the best deal, but it lets you cash out.

Also, if a private company grants you options and never gives you any options for liquidity (like buying the stock back when taking new investment etc) you should be really careful about overvaluing the options. Clearly the company wants to chain you down, not reward you.
To my knowledge, Neo4j has been working on performances a lot. Neo4j v2.2+ does a much better job with large-scale graphs.

The use-case you describe (a couple million nodes + edges) sounds like a fairly reasonable task for Neo4j.

If Neo4j has been a bad experience for you, I also recommend looking into TitanDB v1+, which scales horizontally (backed by Cassandra), although the query language (Gremlin) is not as easy to learn as Cypher.
Regex's in perl5 are what introduced me to test automation. Hard.
BBC online services are down
Seems unlikely to actually happen.. Sometimes we don't even notice when our own services are down.
If Jewish people are disproportionately some races rather than others (and they are), wouldn't that also qualify as racial discrimination under the "disparate impact" reasoning?
While this is a cool idea, it wouldn't balance because the Government knows which license plate is kept by which person, and your putative ANPR network doesn't.
Same issue here: "Reported Web Forgery!"

It doesn't seem valid, I already took a quick look on my phone and did not see anything phishy.
Technical details: it's a java 8 webapp built with spring boot, pdf manipulated via Apache PDFBox, upload to the cloud via jclouds, packaged via docker.
FYI I just got redirect spammed to a phishing/virus site when loading the link on Android.
The real question: why don't browsers support all of that through a new web standard? None of that is rocket science.
Your experience is not normal, and you did the right thing. If someone offers you stock options as part of a compensation package, they ought to give you enough information to ascertain the current and potential value of these options. The fact that they're secretive about this makes the deal feel sketchy.
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I have cut back my heroin use which has in turn rekindled my passion for mathematics, programming and electronics. Unfortunately quitting heroin will never be complete until I am dead

I quit smoking cannabis.

I learned and am writing more clojure code.

I have developed a system for myself that helps me be more honest and self-aware.

I want to have one day clean (no heroin/suboxone/opiates) for one day prior to Jan 1 2016.

I quit eating as much garbage food.

I quit working at Facebook which was the best thing I have ever done professionally.

I stopped masturbating.

I built a home security system based on arduino and raspberry pi with full HD video and a dropbox/s3 backend for archiving video captures.

Ionicabizau - Thanks for sharing your faith. That takes guts. I am not a believer but I think that is awesome that you celebrate part of your life in that way.
>More like corporate welfare. The machinery of low fines and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is a kind of subsidization

On the contrary, the government is artificially lowering the supply of labor to protect people who make a living selling their labor.

Fines and deportation (and generally any restrictions on immigration) are disincentives to use foreign labor, which is often cheaper and of higher quality compared to domestic labor, the producers that are enjoying a subsidy in this case are laborers, not corporations.
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A dog's tail can not be unbent.
IANAL, (nor am I the OP,) but my understanding is:

You can do X for no reason != You can do X for any reason

i.e. they can fire you when they wish to, but if you can demonstrate that the reason for firing was illegal, then it the firing is not for "no reason", but for an "illegal reason."
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In northern Europe gigabit to the home isn't uncommon. As long as you start to wire up new developments with off the shelf ethernet equipment, the rest pretty much follows. I'd wager ethernet is probably less expensive than cable TV-cable, and ethernet carries everything.

The big difference with faster speeds is that you don't have to muck about with QoS. Just throw bandwidth at the problem. This means you can actually sell a product that would depend on it, since support becomes manageable.

1 Mbps is adequate for VoIP. But at 10 Mbps I can use it without thinking. I can get an account with any provider, start simultaneous calls, and there are no dropouts even when torrenting.

100 Mbps is adequate for IPTV, in broadcast HD quality, when the streams are over a controlled network. But with 1Gbps it becomes just another service, even if my kids stream too.

The big difference, as someone else pointed out here, is when upload speeds catch up. Assymetric broadband is quickly ACK limited, which disturbs real time streaming in the other direction. Latency is key here, and just getting rid of that cable modem and hit the wire directly really helps.

Regarding piracy, I think it is obvious that it goes down when real time streaming gets practical. It's more convenient, really. So more broadband really does transform markets. The problem for the past ten years has been that it's not really deployed globally, and many of the rich western countries are stuck with cable modems because of lock in effects. This should be an obvious opportunity for an entrepreneurial spirit, just wire up a suitable area and you can be first to sell IP services to them. Cable TV and phone service are moving to IP, it's just a matter of time.
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Having reported many bugs this way - I don't think I've ever had a response, let alone seen anything fixed.

Looking at Android (OS) issues - https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list?can=2&q=&sort=... - it's clear that the majority of bugs are ignored. Even when they're well described and affect multiple users / devices.
In theory, the company has a legal fiduciary duty to act in the best interest of the shareholders. If they try to rob the shareholders by unreasonably diluting, you could sue for breach of that responsibility.

In practice, nothing really prevents it completely. However, the founders will generally be getting diluted the same amount as you so their interests are somewhat aligned with yours to negotiate a reasonable dilution amount. If they make some deal in which other shareholders get diluted much worse than themselves, it's often strong grounds for a legal suit.
> It's kind of insane that all the various parties just haven't decided to open source everything

It's not at all clear how to resolve the copyright issues around that. Hyperion has the rights to continue to develop and release AmigaOS 4, but it's never been resolved whether they actually own the rights they'd need in order to open source everything even if they wanted to.

> It's just a niche hobbyist thing and charging for the software and rom images isn't ever going to make any money back for the people who put the effort in.

You say that, but surprisingly several people are making a living of sorts where the Amiga market makes up a substantial proportion. Mostly hardware sales for various replacement/expansion boards.

It's certainly not making anyone rich, though.
Localhost is obviously not a fully qualified domain name which would be expected in any internet setting.
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Drivers and support for platforms should be separate from the kernel and work via a stable and well-designed API & ABI. The lack of this has been Linux's single biggest design flaw from the beginning.
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If the business owner paid immigrants the same living or otherwise higher wage then they would still be taking (or the business would be giving if you prefer) the jobs from the locals. This would also create an incentive to hire locals because they know the language and culture.

However, there is no way for the wage to stay high while the you increase the supply of labour from a handful of locals to the entire poor population of the world.

Illegal immigrants are entirely complicit here. They want to make a few bucks just like the business owners want to save a few bucks.

This is a classic tragedy of the commons (the commons here being a nice western country). The only party that can fix things is the government. Or an owner of the country if there was one.
Hmm, I don't know about anyone else, but personally I can't stand Fabric! It gets in my way far more than it helps, with the weird utility app they force you to keep installed, and a single dashboard which does lots of things, but none of them really well.
I can almost guess the company from the number of stock options offered. I was in a similar situation, but I accepted the offer and these articles a bit too late :(

I like the experience of working here, but now I totally realize I have lost a significant amount just by not negotiating anything.
That's flawed reasoning. The uncertainty should cause you to save before you spend and to own rather than rent on a contract that you can't get out of. After all, even if you have a stranded investment it will not cost you more for the next x months. But a rental agreement will usually have termination conditions that need to be met and if you can't get out of it then you're much worse off than if you owned the item outright.

The biggest money maker for such subscription type purchases are impulse purchases. Buy now on cheap credit, pay a premium for a long time on top of the value of the item. And for those type of purchases if you were to do them with money saved over time you probably wouldn't buy them at all. (And your life would be better, not worse, all this stuff is really owning us.)
It's probably accurate to say that the blame lies more with administrators than with teachers, and more with the American public than with either of those parties. The term "hollowing out" is really just another sort of demonization. It doesn't matter though. Taken as a whole, USA public education consumes more resources per student than it did a generation ago, with steadily declining outcomes. There is no law of nature ensuring that children can only learn in such dismal conditions. "In another decade or two", students will get their educations in some other fashion. Hey, it happened to travel agents!
I think that startups becoming trendy made HN trendy, and trendy anything is bad. I've been here for a long time too (I ditch my accounts) and it really does seem there's been a gradual increase of nasty children and a corresponding departure of nice adults. Whenever I go away and come back it seems worse. The worsening also seems to be marked by big events like the Reddit fiasco, that women-in-tech stuff, Steve Jobs dying, Snowden, etc. I think when pg left that was it. I just want to have conversations with intelligent people but that doesn't seem to be the point anymore.
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> but why would anyone run Amiga OS any more other than for the novelty?

Because it feels very, very different to the mainstream options, and if you stuck with it long enough to get invested in the PPC versions, why not? At that point you got hardware that if not competitive is at least fast enough to be reasonable. It's an extremely lightweight OS, with a culture of minimalism, so while things will be slow if you try to do stuff that's actually CPU heavy, most Amiga software is responsive on very slow hardware.

I doubt there are many Amiga users today that use it as their only system, though there might be some diehard people doing even that, but for many of the remaining users AmigaOS is the OS they enjoy using, and they'll "resort" to Windows or OS X or Linux as a fallback when they have to.
If they told you that the number of outstanding shares was privileged and confidential they are crooks in nice suits.

Also at this point in time there is so much shady stuff going on with options that you should always always value options at zero. Frankly if all you are offering is your labor in return for options you don't have the pull to get a particularly good deal. (Example: Friend worked three years at a startup. Friend is smart. Friend got ~$50,000... whoop dee doo dah day)

Only other advice I have is, if you are considering exercising any stock options you need to talk with a tax accountant before you pull the trigger. No exceptions.
Subject of a long running thread with another HN'er. You probably are on to something with major events catalyzing the slide downward.
The public/private thing is a red herring. Ownership isn't really central here. Nobody would object if Zuckerberg wanted to give these people Internet access.

The question, if we can agree the open network is something desirable, is will this initiative help the population get Internet access sooner or later? My bet would be later, but I am happy to be proven wrong.
We do not routinely release information about what happens to bugs, so you should not expect a response. I've certainly seen bugs reported on these channels be fixed. I cannot release any statistics.

> Looking at Android (OS) issues - https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list?can=2&q=&sort=.... - it's clear that the majority of bugs are ignored.

A quick glance at that page appears to disprove this claim. If you flip it to display "all issues", there are 206689 bugs in that tracker at the moment, of which 44583 are open. That tells you that 79% of all bugs filed have been closed - so, at least 79% of bugs were not ignored.

Note that this tracker is for the operating system only, and does not include any of the Google apps that the feedback system covers.
Wait, that was it? I was waiting for the legendary tale of expense account derring-do, and then the article was over. All that fuss for "my date spent way too much on dinner but I spotted my boss across the restaurant with his mistress and he picked up the tab out of embarrassment"?
Low latency gaming, I hope.

That could even open the door to P2P multiplayer paradigms, which might make MMOs support more player in a same world.
Yep, quick example -- company valued at $300M, 150M shares outstanding, options should be worth $2/share, right?

Except if that company raised $100M to get that valuation, the preferred shares will certainly have at least a 1x preference. If they are fully-participating, the new math world make the shares worth ($300-$100) / 150M or $1.33/share.

In round numbers, I worked for a similar company but they had to take a terrible down round post-GFC with 3x participating preferred. In that case the common options would literally be worth $0.
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You've got the causality reversed. The Apple Lisa introduced the command-Z/X/C/V keyboard equivalents for undo/cut/copy/paste, and they were kept with the Macintosh and Apple IIgs.

IBM CUA and Microsoft Windows adopted them afterwards, adapted to the PC keyboard; I think Windows only adopted them with Windows 95 and NT4.
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Same here. Perhaps the fact that I'm blocking almost all third party requests is breaking the anti-ad-blocker feature.
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Python is in turn built on C, and likely a bunch of GNU stuff...
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> I exported the contacts and looked at the raw Google CSV data. One of the 2 problematic contacts had a whitespace character at the end of its phone number. I removed it. Bingo, Dialer can now find it!

This is kind of horrifying. Google being tripped up by trailing whitespace?
While avoiding eye contact can be because of many things, it might we worth looking into this autism test: http://psychcentral.com/quizzes/autism-quiz.htm, and if you score sufficiently high and if it's available to you, to make an appointment with a psychologist.

It's not so much that a potential diagnosis solves your problems, but it can provide valuable insights (and some help as well).
This is are talking about h2 which is unskilled field workers not h1b visas
Great article, it expresses my own thoughts and attitude very well.

I understand why companies aim for this lock-in, but I believe that the question to ask is: why are such companies successful with such lock-in based products? I believe that they are successful with such strategies because of the lack of matching alternatives that offer the same usability for the majority of users. And when talking about usability I explicitly include the aspect of operation management. With cloud-based solutions, operation management is effectively zero from a user perspective.

During the past 10-20 years, the web has evolved significantly w.r.t. content rendering, content authoring, and content transport solutions. Today people can very easily watch movies, read articles, listen to music, or write articles, upload movies, and share music themselves. At the same time, the web did not (or only slightly) evolve in its underlying architecture. It does not provide the primitives required to bring content producers and consumers directly together. If you are a content producer, you either need to use a centralized service operated by a third party, or you need to have the technical skills to setup and operate your own IT-infrastructure.

The effect of this gap is even more significant if you look at todays users. Since they have multiple devices, the become content producers on one device, and their own content consumer on the next device. While technically skilled people could easily implement own alternatives (that run on their desktop) in the past to get away from online services and protect their privacy, they are faced with the challenge that such an application needs to feature smart synchronization among multiple devices in order to provide the same level of usability.
I'm having trouble wrapping my head around why the H-2 program exists at all.

The H-1B program I can understand: You need talent now, and can't just wait four years for someone to complete the relevant degree.

But for unskilled labor? You're telling me that you can't find the workers you need anywhere in the country? As long as there are people collecting unemployment in the US, you have no business bringing more people in.

(Also, three months' experience required, seriously? What is so urgent that it can't wait three months and so esoteric that it requires exactly three months' training to do? You can damn well hire someone now, and magically, three months from now, they will have three months' experience!)
The Lando system?
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It seems like the same old mentality of someone from outside a particular society trying to impose rather imperious ideals in a manner that leaves them open for criticism of their motives.

Zuckerberg might spend a lot of money on this, but an entire continent's opinion is turning against him.

This is not going to go well for him.
I am unclear how "We shall [..] ignore what is in the sky" translates to a religious ideology. It sounds to me like Plato is arguing against the Greek tradition of trying to explain a natural phenomenon by tying its existence to a god, and arguing for (what we now call) scientific rigour.

Can you clarify what you mean with "this kind of thinking"?
Obviously in the ideal world for passengers, they'd get prompt pickups at any time for low prices. But given that that's not realistic, our experience is that they prefer moderate surge pricing plus prompt reliable pickups to "your cab is on its way oh wait no it's not," or just "we can't get you a ride right now."

Turning off during peak is bad. Again, your service will only be used if you can remotely get people rides during peak times. They're peak times because that's when passengers want rides.