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Summary of comments here seem to suggest that those with more extensive experience with them agree and see issues with websockets.

Those still in favor / find themselves disagreeing, while not necessarily always saying explicitly, seem to be those just starting out on their websocket journey.

At least, that's how it seems to me.
It's super interesting and in my opinion the last gasp the von Neumann architecture will go through is going to be a combination of graphene and photonics. Of course not in the next 10 years, but let's hope for the next 30.
While it sounds like fantasy, there is a strong movement at many levels to get rid of cash entirely in the name of safety and security. I'm not sure about burying cash in the desert versus harder assets but when they start charging the consumer to keep cash in an account, people will find other stores of value.

http://willembuiter.com/ELB.pdf
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Unless you're an irreplaceable employee, you won't get that. In particular, it's unreasonable to take the initial percentage and demand the same percentage of preferred shares (or venture debt convertible into shares at the lender option).

Many of these "horrors" are a reality of the angels and VCs protections that enable and are essential to the company financing. IOW, attempting to tunnel under those protections for employee benefit runs counter to the investor interests, sometimes to a degree that it would preclude investments entirely.

Even the liquidity provision is problematic. Suppose investor A wants to sell their stake to investor N in a private negotiated deal. Maybe fund A is collapsing. Are they obligated to tell you the terms of their negotiations? Obligated to also purchase some of your shares at your sole discretion? How would they even know that you have such a provision?
Can we get a (2021) tag on this? I mean, sure, it was written a couple weeks ago, but it's written from the viewpoint of a hypothetical future, and it's confusing if you miss the date at the top.
That's browser dependent, and only a few let you do that. Try that on a mobile browser...
Would you mind sharing details of your preferred stack(s)?
In fact, some historians and people think that what Britain did in Ireland in the famine amounts to genocide.
> 1% would mean there would be increase in revenue to the government.

For all governments? UK corporation tax receipts were £40B in 2013-2014, to be matched there would have to be over 4 trillion pounds in revenue to tax. GDP seems to be less than half of that. While you're providing a source, does this extend to other countries? What other impacts are there? Does everyone need to switch over to this approach at the same time?

Are small businesses selling in a chain hurt because there are multiple sales, therefore promoting huge single companies where there's only one sale?

> The VAT is OK as long as it is fixed and low (10-12% without discounts etc.)

Well, that's not what happens now (UK is between 0 and 20%), so again you're glibly making huge changes to large tax setups without looking at the consequences. Increases to basic staples would hit the poorest harder, for example.
The actual paper is: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v528/n7583/pdf/nature16...
Are they offering options for stock, or stock? Make sure it's real equity.

If it was me, I would start at 5-6% and negotiate from there.

Assuming that this opportunity could turn into something huge, I highly recommend taking some negotiating training, if you have the time. Back when I was an executive, I was given a week-long negotiating training session. It was seriously the best, most useful training that I'd ever had in my career.
The app dev undead: 5 technologies limping along
Is this part two of "How Completely Messed Up Practices Become Normal"? (Answer: Salon)
"The researchers had the deep learning machine and 200 human subjects at Amazon’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing facility answer the same verbal questions. The result: their system performed better than the average human."

Mechanical Turk represents the average human?

And did they just ask the Turk subjects whether they had a bachelor's or master's degree or not as proof that they had bachelor's or master's degrees? Could you count on that being accurate?
The reverse argument doesn't really work, because there are occasional terrorist attacks against airliners that get through security.
I vaguely recall reading an article summarising research that found that one of the overlooked methods of reducing crime in densely populated cities was better sound insulation.

The problem is that it rarely is a direct cause, except in rare crime passionnel situations. However, there's a measurable indirect effect when you add up the extra irritation, lack of sleep, etc. which affects all inhabitants of an apartment block. The consequences are measurable when you look at the "average".
I have an extraordinarily limited understanding of these things, but I always thought it was because if you were gifted equity you had to pay taxes on it immediately, based on the current valuation, which is a major bummer.
And CRISPR/cas9
I agree with most of the points in this essay. I wrote http://firehose.io/ a few years ago for Poll Everywhere and we've successfully scaled WebSockets in a production environment. We don't use it for 2-way communications though; it's HTTP requests in and WebSocket pushes out with long-polling as a backup for non-WS clients. Check out the sourcecode if you want to see an implementation of all the "hard lesions won" in this essay.

I also gave a talk about it at RailsConf (http://www.bradgessler.com/talks/streaming-rest/) and learned that RabbitMQ as a backend isn't a great idea. Feel free to ask questions if you want me to dive into more specific points.
Assuming all of those immigrants integrate successfully into German culture and there is no widespread right-wing backlash...
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I was HOPING for that. Its part of IBM CUA. Unfortunately it doesn't work everywhere.. Especially the terminal (unless you remap keybindings)
I guess embarrassment might be the wrong term but it's still an interesting question why quantum mechanics is like it is. And my personal feeling is it's something like people in the past wondering why the sun shines or how life got here - it wasn't that it was a mental trap to ask but just that they hadn't figured out fusion and evolution yet.
I've never seen the ability to customize these kind of things because they generally are, in my experience, part of the core options agreement for the entire company and would require BoD approval. Thus, you're asking a lot - works if your a key employee but probably not for the average employee. Would love to hear if people have been able to get these terms.
Does this imply that it will be possible to increase the clock-speed 5/1.3=3.8 times and still be able to cool the CPU with basic air-cooling?
people holding options are not shareholders until they exercise those options.
> The only part of the British Isles with legitimate grievance against England is Ireland.

Ireland is not in the British Isles.

The term "British Isles" is controversial, and many people and places in Ireland and the UK do not use it, and do not use it to include Ireland. Even the Queen doesn't include Ireland in "British Isles"[1].

It's quite common for UK organisations to use "British" to mean English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish. Most recent example was a UK award for "Best British Actor", with 2 of the 3 nominees being Irish.

[1] Read Q9 of her FAQ http://www.royal.gov.uk/FrequentlyAskedQuestions/20%20most%2...
who creates the jobs in this country? Think about it, if you start taxing capital, what does that mean?
British Library to put George III's map collection online
Ignoring all the blockade runners the Scottish shipbuilders built for the confederacy ;-)
Show HN: Angular Starter Kit – Typescript, WebPack, Karma
Hey, I'm a bigot if I don't accept abortion & same-sex marriage.
Nothing - and it leads you to an even more difficult place. Imagine a late stage startup that has raised, say, $40m. You leave and execute your shares. Now they do another raise, but the company situation has changed and the next round is a down round, or maybe it's an up round, but the money has a 2 or 3x liquidation preference on it. Ugly.
Public schools in India also have teachers with excellent credentials (i.e. Kendriya Vidyalaya) but some of them just don't care to teach better. I've done my whole schooling from various KVs across Rajasthan, most of the teachers were actually quite good, but they weren't motivated to innovate and experiment. We were rarely informed about Olympiads, competitions, scholarships etc. Also, management was definitely terrible most of the time.
Well, pedophilia is a sexual orientation just like homosexuality. It may be messed up to have that orientation but it's not the person's fault as sexual orientation is impossible to change.
regex bugs are bad, I have been bitten by one before. Its pure technical debt
It doesn't have to be either-or, and I'm saddened that so many people still think that government solutions are always superior to private ones, or the other way around. In fact both have their strengths and weaknesses, and we should learn to evaluate which one fits a given problem better - or even structure a combination of both. For instance, mobile phones are a great success story of market economy, but mobile networks universally start to suck as they grow, and have to be heavily regulated.
Slack’s $2.8B Dollar Secret Sauce
Just curious, how difficult was it for you to find a qualified attorney, and how much did you spend? (I tried this approach once, but the legal advice was low quality and very basic.)
Hopefully you are right, certainly previously the incentive was to add new features to drive upgrades, often to the detriment of the product as a whole.
"Compared to Perl’s straight-jacketed scripting, Python was a lopsided affair."

"Perl's straight-jacketed scripting" are four words I could have never imagined in that sequence (even with "straight" replaced by "strait").
Great thread here and the original article has some excellent points.

I recently left a company and explored executing my options via a vehicle called ESO Fund (www.esofund.com). In the end I did not use them for different reasons, but their offer was reasonable.

Two general comments on stock options:
- Remember that bad things happen in companies in raising money. Your company could raise another round after you've executed your shares, and in addition to the dilution, you could also have an onerous term in that round - like a 2 or 3x liquidation preference - that will mean you are very, very unlikely to see any money.

- Remember that companies don't have to have a liquidation event. I executed shares in a company I worked for in 2006. That tied up money in the company - and then nothing happened with the company for the last 9 years until this year I got a buy out offer on my shares at about 50% higher than I paid. Sounds great, except if you consider time. 50% return over a period of 9 years is certainly not a fail, but it also isn't a big win over putting that money into the general stock market.
What's are the pros and cons of setting the strike price as $1? Is it intentional to inhibit employees from exercising their options?
So many submissions, so little discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10816381

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10811902

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10810564

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10807381
It's just a cheap attempt at using Ian's death to become fodder in your private feud with Dan, very low and very much deplorable.

Trying to make it seem as if I somehow mis-understood you is even lower.
Search iTunes for interesting keywords.

Recommendations from friends.

Podcasting guests in the podcast i listen to.

Speakers from conferences who has podcasts
Whether or not it is "their fault" that they were born a monster is of no consequence.

The question of fault is completely irrelevant. A red herring.
You could probably do Wikipedia a massive favour by updating their article, or at least adding a controversy section?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles
Because building random crap and building models from instructions are both fun. Even cooler when your random crap/custom creations can be enjoyed by others.
You cannot mention the ban on Highland dress without mentioning Bonnie Prince Charlie and his attempt to overthrow the legitimate government specifically (which ended at Culloden, with several Scottish regiments fighting on the side of the government), and the vast divide between the Lowlands and the Highlands in culture, language, religion, economy and industry, and attitudes to Union with England in general. Scottish history is very complex.
It depends on whats left behind, if you spend all your time on trying to make your organisation safe from every calamity that might befall it then you probably aren't going to be that competitive.
This is _the_ resource on giving up - I just re-read it like a month ago because I had some doubt about giving up on my current project or keeping on.

(I keep on)
You're basing this on what? Not saying your wrong but what is the basis of this opinion
?

Employees usually get restricted stock until there is a liquidity event.
Interesting perspective. I've always thought of pedophilia as being just another orientation, not necessarily tied to sexual abuse. That'd be like assuming a straight male has perverted tendencies towards all women. Homosexuality was perhaps also treated with these kinds of unfair assumptions before becoming accepted by mainstream society. People have a narrow range of perceived normalcy, anything beyond which is seen as deviant, but that range is evolving constantly.
Obligatory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3900224
Except they often don't. Being horrible and abusing people is very profitable. Democratic governments can also be voted "out of business", and the result is more-less the same as with companies: good and evil thrive, what disappears is people and organizations too stupid or too inhibited to game the system.
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Enclosure was pretty nasty for poor Englishmen as well. It's probably just as accurate to label enclosure as an instance of class warfare as ethno-cultural warfare.

In the case of Scotland, it's complicated, since there's so much Franco-Norman-English mixture in the Scottish aristocracy through the waves of invasion both ways.
No, I don't think so. I don't think that light can be used to replace all (metal) conductors on a silicon chip, at least in the near term.

However, this technology has the potential of bringing performance gains to on-chip memories such as L1 and L2 caches as well as software configurable scratch pad memory. Other possibilities that spring to mind are faster core-to-core communications as well as bundling more cores on a same die as the faster communication makes physically larger dies possible.

disclaimer: I work in the semiconductor industry but this is not my area of expertise, my speculation is as good as anyone else's.
Very cool! I like it a lot. Seems more useful than SM2 for cram sessions.
There were signs on the walls in a bunch of places at CCC with the URL on the internal network. I think they appeared on day 2.
Do hordes of people look at Time and model their lives after it? I haven't seen it in a while, but surely most of the art it discusses is out of the price range of most of us.
I believe that a lot of developers aren't very good at talking to customers. I've often seen developers advertise something like "Typo3 development services", but their prospective customers have no idea that this is what they are looking for. So the agency translates between customers and developers. It's common that devs think that the agency isn't necessary, but only devs that are really good at talking to customers actually succeed in cutting out the middle men. (And I presume that these people end up startimg their own agencies sooner or later)

The other important point that you mention is customer acquisition and trust. How should prospective customers find you? How should they evaluate you? From hiring designers, I know that portfolios are only part of the picture... hiring an agency at least gives you peace of mind that someone will answer your mails instead of ignoring you.
Ask HN: Single Letter Last Name or First Name
Hi all,
Question is : Can i request for Web RFC to ensure nameing first and last to have minimum as 1 letter than 2?

Reaso : See below.
I am from southern part of India where we use to give names in School like "V F Myself" which is basically V for Village , F for Father and followed by my Name. So name like P N Giri was the name written in school certificate and with absemse of birth certificate school certificate forms as basic validation artifact of name and birth date. Now until about Year 2000 we did not have any issue as most websites either not used validation in names or it hand written forms and registers. Now after coming in contact with west we had to that name to Giri N otherwise US people will call me Hello N (huh!!) which was also ok. But the issue most of the websites now dont accept my last name as single letter which N so my face Giri Ns (S for space) i have option of expanding the name but 1. i dont like it blooks like alien name to be 2. all proofs including my bank passbook , school certificate and other have N.Giri as name. (I heard from a friend in thailand who had issue it name X and he change to Xe or something)
There's no lesson. I'm just pointing out that many founders are more focused on tech or product than they are in options and cap tables. And many startups employ staff who are also unfamiliar with such things.

Given my experience of advising early stage startup founders on equity investment, dilution, cap tables, etc., I believe that ignorance is at least as likely as malice in situations where they seem unwilling to disclose all the information the potential employee needs to fully evaluate the potential value of any equity options being offered.
This looks like an excellent place to whine about having to cancel a holiday to Tehran because it would mean losing my visa-free travel to 'merica. Hold exclusively a British passport.
I don't have nearly that much trouble with Arch anymore. You know when you get 3GB of updates to watch out, but the general trend in recent years has been positive - more issues have been fixed than made. My most recent one being that Dolphin can't properly save edited desktop files anymore.

There is a testing repo for a reason. If Arch had more adoption, the model can and would work, because you would eventually get enough powerusers in testing to live that life of worry the next update kills your desktop. More people would mean more packages are held for testing, and more people would mean more of the AUR packages would be pulled into community. The only potentially defective design is releasing known regressively bugged software to release channels just because the bugs don't completely break the system.

ChromeOS can sound impressive until you wonder when the last time OpenRC + the kernel broke, especially when you have Google engineers auditing and patching the Gentoo kernel to insure compatibility on their devices. By comparison the last issue I had with systemd was.... never, really. I even made it through the switch with a fully working system, I just had a lot of missing services I had to reenable.

When Arch breaks, its always either A. the graphics stack, B. Xorg and its ilk, or C. bootloader. Its super rare for a kernel to be pushed upstream that regresses wifi (unless your broadcom out of tree driver breaks), or audio, or peripheral connectivity (usb, bluetooth). Its super common that major upgrades to X or Mesa or libGL can either kill acceleration or your entire desktop period. And having switched to directly efistub loading my kernel, I haven't had bootloader problems ever. And systemd has built in gummiboot now.
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You are perfectly right. And there's also a second use-case: In some embedded applications things run directly from ROM/flash and things put in the .rodata-section will stay there and not get copied to RAM (which you obviously have to do for modifyable data).
A major contributing factor to the famine was the dependence on potatoes as staple, combined with vast monocultures, the Irish Lumper potato variety in particular. Blight wasn't just an issue in Ireland, but also in the rest of Europe, but it only hit Ireland so hard because there was very little genetic variation. The outcome was grossly mismanaged, but most definitely does not amount to genocide, as the root cause for the potato famine was very much a home-grown problem.

Ironically, some farmers in Northern Ireland started growing Irish Lumpers again, and with modern farming techniques and more variation on the fields, it grows just fine.
He (and his group) oppose these practices, their agenda seems to be that (some?) paedophiles are capable of self-control and refrain from following their urges, which are wrong. Not that these urges should be acceptable.
I had a professor with this problem, his solution? Duplicate it: "P N Giri" becomes "Giri Giri"
If you just want to try it out, I recommend the online demo[1], plus the official user documentation[2]. If you want to develop modules on top of it, there's technical documentation[3], which also explains how to install it locally.

A tip: visit the Settings menu, and then on the Implementation widget, you have a few step-by-step wizards for setting up the database.

There also two PacktPub books, one for functional learning[4], and another for development[5], but although the latter was written by a colleague, I've never read either, as they came too late :)

[1] https://demo.odoo.com/

[2] https://www.odoo.com/documentation/user/9.0/

[3] https://www.odoo.com/documentation/9.0/index.html

[4] https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/...

[5] https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/...
It may be easier to 'repackage' that encouragement in the form of a 'new' LEGO set in many cases.
Only possible if you are able to sell your private shares without a liquidation event (IPO, acquisition) which is often not the case.
You could also follow this guy's prolific custom LEGO building and use some of his instructions:

http://jkbrickworks.com/category/models/
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I have sold stock (exercised options) to a private buyer. I found them via sharespost. The experience was good. I paid 5% of the proceeds to sharespost.
My niece is called "Ireland".

Continents too: I met a girl called "Africa", and "Asia" is certainly used as a name.

However I don't ever expect to meet someone called "Democratic People's Republic of Korea"
Even with a digital record of air ticket purchases, I find it basically impossible to fill these things out to the detail that's requested. They want a record of the exact dates you've entered and exited every country, but I've crossed uncontrolled Schengen borders probably hundreds of times, usually with just a local transit ticket, nothing that shows up in my email with a receipt like airfare would. If they counted "the Schengen zone" as de-facto a country (for visa purposes), I might have a chance of filling the application out accurately, but at least formally I'm supposed to state the exact date for every time I exited Denmark and entered Sweden, which there is no way I can do.