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Apologies if I misunderstood your comment, but are you implying the price per share can be different for common and preferred stock, and therefore the spread used to calculate AMT for employees can be negligible even post investment?

I assume you're referring to the "AMT" alternative minimum tax, which is calculated based on the spread between exercise price and current valuation according to most recent 409(a) filing. My impression was that this valuation, calculated post-series A/B/C, reflects the most recent per-share price paid by investors. Since investors typically receive preferred stock, the per-share price in the 409(a) filing will reflect the price investors paid for preferred stock.

In most cases, common stock will not have a real "per share" price until a liquidity event. So how is the price-per-share valuation calculated for common stock?

I was under the impression that the spread used to calculate AMT is the difference between the most recent preferred stock price per share, and the exercise price of the options, regardless of whether they bought common or preferred stock.
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Not really true, see: http://www.emerges.com/assets/images/docs/Restricted-State-V...
Obviously I don't know about this crew but lots of slave ships were crewed by press ganged seamen who were themselves kidnapped from English ports and forced to serve for three years. It was the desperate rise of press ganging that was behind the anti-slave trade movement in England.
Your phrasing is a little odd. Personally, I don't think users should necessarily turn those features off, but if they don't want to use the feature, I don't think they should be forced to keep it on, either. I don't see why it can't be opt-in.

> If your threat model is that the OS provider is hostile, no amount of changing of settings will protect you from their actions...

IMO, it has less to do with the OS provider being hostile and more to do with eating up resources and increasing available malware attack vectors.
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And so when intelligent aliens come to the earth, they can use similar justifications to eat us. (Or more realistically, enslave or take our stuff.)
> OEM's follow what sells...

To a degree, yes. But lately it seems OEMs have been using the "I can make mine thinner than yours because we have more engineering fu than u." to one up one another despite what consumers are saying they want (battery life).
> People who say that the system is broken need to first reconcile their claim with my statement of fact.

No they don't. The system can be broken without conflicting with your statement of fact that we lead in software innovation. You think those things are conflicting, they are not.

> Totally agree. Good thing I did none of that.

It's all you've done, and you just did it again by claiming they need to reconcile with your fact; no they don't, another fallacy the false choice.
And yet the research keeps pointing in a single direction. Low carb diets improve cholesterol and triglycerides, and reduce weight. No one thinks that when you eat 4K calories of bacon, butter covered vegetables, and more bacon, that your body is actually making use of all that energy. But if you eat cereals, sugar, and potatoes, there's quite a bit of evidence that your body does make use of it all.

I'm sure your advice is well intentioned, but I'll go with what the research keeps alluding to.

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/carbohydrates/lo...
I'm sure there's a secret court somewhere that can make a decision. Of course we would never know.
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Norway had a terrible terror attack a few years ago. They didn't opt for more surveillance.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/27/norway-terror-a...
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I would agree that they've made some great moves to stay relevant. I was one of those sold on the promise of the Surface Book hardware, my daughter opted for a Surface Pro 4. Mostly around the drawing experience but also the continued ability to carry around your own media rather than having to be tethered to the Internet for everything. It would be an interesting exercise if Microsoft opened up everything you needed to know to put Linux on the hardware. Not sure they are comfortable doing that yet.

Operating systems and "phoning home" and the whole privacy thing is an interesting battlefield. I could never imagine Microsoft standing up to the Department of Justice like Tim Cook has. I also can't imagine Apple making iOS available on anyone's hardware but their own. So that leaves making the hardware available for someone else's OS.

I suspect there is a small market for a phone tether solution which suppresses all of the privacy leaking information from the network stream. Perhaps the Silent Circle folks will consider that a feature in a future release. But for now its really hard to plug that leak. So many apps on iOS, Windows, or Android leak stuff left and right. Whether its maps, or Waze, or location based games, or the Uber client to tell Uber where you are to get picked up. No to mention IMSI catchers and just general phone company douchebaggery like injecting an ID on every http request. I don't think that battle is lost, only that the depth of it is immense and any one player is probably not going to swing it one way or another.

From a company perspective though I think Microsoft has made some very positive steps and I hope the market rewards them for that.
These are slides from this talk:

https://srlabs.de/pos-vulns/

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/Fahrplan/events/7368.htm...

Video:

https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7368-shopshifting#video
http://i.imgur.com/Vf0An8J.png :)
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Seems like? No, it is hoarding. :)
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I feel like your comment goes so far and then stops short of the key takeaway from this.

From below
>>The NSA reported using 3 hops for data dumps from their bulk surveillance store.
No, not at all. Freedom does not occur in isolation.

Commemorating the end of WW2, German president Joachim Gauck said, "On May 8, 1945, we were liberated — by the people of the Soviet Union." The crew on the slave ship were not "free men," even if they were well-meaning.
Got to say, I haven't seen it, mostly because I know I would hate it. But one of my friends told me that they are destroying a death star. Again. For the 3rd time. Seriously? How many times are they gonna try?

"One can envision Hollywood eventually turning out only two products: "Star Wars" movies and James Bond movies, each periodically "rebooted" for a new generation of customers."

Absolutely love the conclusion. This is exactly what is happening right now. It's like every single new movie is a reboot. Mad Max, Ghostbusters, Robocop, Point Break, The neverending story...
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Strong premium hardware makers would be nice, but not if they're Microsoft, because their hardware is necessarily tied to their crappy keylogger-infested OS.

And how exactly would other manufacturers compete with MS hardware anyway, while still offering MS's software on them? They'd be doomed to failure since MS can just jack up the price of Windows for them, so you'd be stuck with a single HW/SW maker, and back to a PC monopoly or something pretty close to it (since so much business software still requires Windows).

If you want healthy competition for PC hardware, it's never going to happen if MS takes over that space. Of course, it seems to be going downhill anyway, so I'm not sure what the solution is, but between the hardware makers throwing in the towel or crappifying their products, Windows becoming worse than ever with Metro and spyware and reported incompatibility with existing software, and lack of inroads for Linux into the OS space to provide some real competition (partly because of application compatibility, and partly because of too much fragmentation esp. for desktop environments; thanks a lot Gnome team), things are not looking good.
It seems they evolved their way of communicating to manipulate us:

'Cats may be exploiting “innate tendencies in humans to respond to cry-like sounds in the context of nurturing offspring" ' ( https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17455-hungry-cats-tri... )

Anyway, whoever thinks that animals, specially mammals, don't think or have feelings need to interact with them more.
The disturbingly common "this is a solution, so it must the right solution" crap would be more convincing if we actually had a problem in the first place.
Some of this has been fixed. For example there is a @GwtIncompatible annotation for putting server code in a shared class.

http://www.gwtproject.org/javadoc/latest/com/google/gwt/core...
I wouldn't call that a bug. If you search on the title, it's obvious that the story had a huge discussion:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=When%20a%20Unicorn%20Startup%2...

Leaving the dead ones out highlights the important one.
Hi! What are your thoughts as to the development of responsive or mobile-optimised visualisations?
Thanks for that!

Mods / admins can we get a more representative title here?
Do you want to blame modern Assyrians for the excesses of the Assyrian empire? Do you expect the people of Botswana to be held responsible for the actions of Mauritanians? When you define your 'communities' purely in terms of race without regard to distance or time or nationality or even individuality, it's those kinds of absurdities that you end up with.
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You've identified a trend. Why do you expect this trend will halt or reverse, rather than continue as GP expects?
Is the idea to have the next version of d3 be completely modular? So that if we use a tool like webpack, we'll he able to pull in the parts that we need?
I haven't noticed their prices are significantly better than Amazon to warrant the switching costs, which include giving up one click purchasing and free two day shipping (Jet offers two-day shipping on some products, and shipping is only free if you spend $35 or more).

Maybe they're better for household goods than electronics, but every time I browse Jet, it feels like I'm going through the bargain bin. Odd prices and odd sorting don't make for a great experience. For example, a search for "iPhone" returns one result for something that looks like a fishing pole. There's no product description and I can't tell if it's so you can play fishing games on your phone or if it's to attach your phone to a pole. Either way, to see iPhone accessories, you need to click the tiny "Electronics (10,000+)" link at the top of the page.

Once you actually click into a product page, they seem really bare. Amazon offers some great tools to help make a purchase decision (ratings/reviews, category rankings, recommendations), which Jet doesn't (and can't) offer.

They're really pushing Jet Anywhere, but I can't see how that does anything other than lose them more money. Along with a $50 off first purchase coupon and $100 in Jet Cash I racked up, I gave Jet $150 to buy me a $300 PlayStation 4 from Newegg. I know I'm an extreme case, but $150 customer acquisition cost for someone who didn't particularly enjoy the experience and probably won't shop there again seems to fit with the narrative that they're burning through cash.
Your example about blue laws says nothing about rights. Blue laws regulate commerce but they don't prohibit anything outright. You can still drink on Sunday. If that restriction were to become too burdensome, a constitutional care could be made against it.
I really like the design.

To be honest, a pleasant UI (by _my_ tastes) is what has kept me away from a Linux desktop. I'll have to give it a shot sometime this week.

Though, one thought, maybe someone will use: I do wish people would do more of these sorts projects based on a BSD variant than Linux.
Please don't post uncivil and unsubstantive comments to Hacker News, no matter how stupid another comment seems.
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The use of a semicolon in the preceding sentence is what I thought might be the joke. Read the sentence again, Dennis's use of a semicolon is a rather strange way to punctuate the sentence.
It was supposed to point out the ridiculousness of the situation. It's obvious that I'm not "making" them do it, it's a consequence of the absurd situation we find ourselves in. Someone, somewhere, decided high school flunkies should be paid to molest travelers. The "whee" was obvious sarcasm, meant to apply to the whole statement.
I am doing something like this (aimed to QA/contract laboratories), it is in pivot phase with first customer, replacing pen and paper system (for laboratory doing 500 samples a day).

Let me know if you want to check it out.
“So I won’t even pretend to know that struggle.”

Let’s try some ideas about what that million can buy one (particularly in dog-eat-dog, every-man-for-himself America), beyond even just the basics like food (though depending on the environment you were raised in, one’s definition of “basics” may differ). Some come from my own experience or those I’ve known:

- The ability to stay in the place you were born without getting priced out, or the ability to move out of your crime-ridden neighborhood or dilapidated apartment that happens to be very cheap.

- The ability to attend university without worrying about debt or having to drop out due to living expenses. It also means you can focus on your studies — achieve immersion — rather than thinking about whether you’re going to be able to pay that electric bill this month.

- The ability to say “no” to bad jobs when you otherwise might not be able to. We call it “FU” money, but it could also be called “Ability to say no to a bad deal” money.

- The ability to stop working for an extended period of time so you can re-skill or upskill, rather than spending all your after-work time doing so, which slows down the process and may not always be possible if you’re working long hours. Web development boring? Drop out for a few months and learn Machine Learning. Hate working at Starbucks? Stop for a year and learn to code, learn marketing, or learn about whatever more lucrative thing you want to do.

- The ability to stop working and focus on what you really like to do full-time. Write open source software, make art, work at that risky startup that you believe in, or work at that low-pay animal shelter that means so much to you.

- The ability to stop worrying about aging out of your profession. You can re-skill or change careers altogether.

The most important, and perhaps unappreciated benefit is the ability to stop constantly worrying about money. To stop having to think about it all the time. To stop waking up in the middle of the night worrying about getting laid off, about your company shutting down, whether you’re getting too old for your profession, or about whether it’s a “good idea” to leave that miserable relationship where the other person happens to be helping by paying half the rent and bills.

The thing that million can buy you is something that’s worth more than the million itself, and it has nothing to do with any buzz, but it’s something only the money can get you: the simultaneous feelings of freedom and safety.

As he states, he never had to worry about the basics being taken care of, so that might reflect his equanimity about his wealth now. The article also shows what a country willing to truly support its poor can do right out of the gate; Denmark's #1 on OECD's social mobility index (as per the Economist, in Denmark, a poor child has twice as much chance of making it to the top quintile as in America.)
nothing substative to add to HN other than saying thanks Mike! D3 is one of the most amazing things on the web! Mind blown, eternally grateful.
I know this has been done a dozen times and shown on the Internet, this particular inception seems particularly cool. Maybe it's because the pictures are so clear, or that I recently got a Pi2 to play around with, but it makes me really want to do this project. :)
A tragedy, but a fair outcome. The officer had no idea if the 12 year old had a fake gun or a real gun (the orange tip was ripped off the end of the gun).

In an article here: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/23/cleveland-pol...

"The boy did not make any verbal threats but grabbed the replica handgun after being told to raise his hands"

The officer's life could have potentially been in danger and he acted accordingly. If it would have been a real gun and the officer waited a second too late, he would have been killed or wounded and we wouldn't even be having this conversation.
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No one outside of IT should have access to crypto keys for any reason. Dinosaur government institutions need to get with it or go away.

Now that I'm done with that this is a critical issue. Mass surveillance is one of the many issues of our time. Time to get to work and time to throw some money at this.
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A valid point, but the post were replying to is making the mistake of simply lumping together groups of people due to their race (and across times, which makes it worse) which is a particular form of hatred known as racism. This is the same hatred Blacks face which is arguably the ultimate cause of the injustice they faced in the 1700s and today. More racism isn't going to help alleviate this issue.

EDIT: I want to emphasize that I really think that persistent racial injustices is a worthy topic, even though I just said it's a "valid point". Also, eevilspock is, I think, making a good point about the current injustices against blacks in America in a comment further down in the thread. He also distinguishing in that comment that it isn't whites as a race but that it is their culture and their place of power over blacks in history...and that in some alternate history, it's possible roles can be reversed. A first reading of his post seems like he is lumping all whites into a bin which is racism in my view, but after reading his second comment, I can see he might have not meant to come across in that way.
I'd love for d3 to have great integration with React - whats your suggested approach?

https://github.com/FormidableLabs/victory seems most promising, but isn't really d3, more "d3-like".
Ignorance is a defense against aiding and abetting. You can't abet something if you don't know about it. You can unknowingly aid it, but any legal system that prosecutes people for their role crimes they had no knowledge of is not a just system.

Some non-enslaved/kidnapped people of the ship may have had no knowledge of the cargo, or if they did, may not yet have had an opportunity to notify authorities at a port after learning. Calling them slave traders before they've had an opportunity to show their side one way or another is no different than calling the kidnapped people slaves before they've been actually put into slavery.

To be clear, I believe most the people on the ship probably would not raise any alarm over the situation, at least not enough to cause legal trouble, but if you are going to be pedantic about terminology in this way, it only makes sense to do the same in all cases brought forth, unless you are using terminology to manipulate the perspective (this is not an accusation).

Note: Edited slightly for clarity and typos.
> What a bunch of BS you talk.

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> Most people don't have all their critical financial or business information on their phones

Hi, it's 2015 calling, how are things in 2010?
Yes. I also find the independent nature of cats striking. They very clearly understand we could kill them, and that we don't gives them license to be who they are unabashedly. A relationship with a cat is entirely optional as far as the cat is concerned.

They coexist here with us, often treating us as peer beings in this world. It is remarkably like how I would imagine a human handling a similar scenario.

There is more to cats cognition than we often give them credit for. I suspect this is true of many animals. I just have an affinity and what I consider deep understanding of cats. This runs deep enough for me to see the persona in them, not just personify behavior they demonstrate.
"This rule accords with the actual work need of fighting terrorism and is basically the same as what other major countries in the world do."

"When changes in technology hinder law enforcement’s ability to exercise investigative tools and follow critical leads, we may not be able to identify and stop terrorists who are using social media to recruit, plan, and execute an attack in our country."

One of the above is from Li Shouwei, the deputy head of the Chinese parliament's criminal law division. The other is from the US FBI director.
Yes, this would be fantastic!
Ti believe the context is running a CDN as opposed to using.
Thank you for sharing, mathematician writing here: all topics and content looks really great
While you might appear to be overly cautious, I'm going to agree with you. Better to not be wrapped up in the witch hunt especially once we know authorities are investigating
I disagree. In college (1995-99) I had to subscribe to WSJ for my business courses, and I hated it. I would have much rather had a digital subscription; I'd read it when I could, I could easily share it. Instead, I got a disdain for paper subscriptions.
Hey Mike,

I'm a huge fan of D3. As I work on multiple platforms not just those involving web tech and javascript, I've often wondered if it would be better to put a lot of work into taking a more cross language, cross rendering system approach to building libraries. I'm wondering if you've ever thought about how you could design something like or extend d3 to create an ecosystem where assets are shared across platforms/runtimes/mediums much more easily?

I'm often left frustrated with how much of the visualizations we make are simple in terms of graphical components yet because we mix their implementations unnecessarily in with the development environment (the DOM in d3's case). I think you are in the great position to be able to get consensus on something like that. I was thinking some more like a clean file format, runtime, and tooling for building reactive visualizations that can be reused, composed, and embedded into any environment by virtue of having a clean reference runtime that could be ported to many platforms: web, mobile, desktop, vr, and rich publishing/printing needs as well.

ps. I love how you've pulled out a smaller clean part here.
I think I agree with you.

The inability to think of a word , I think, is evidence that not all thought requires words.

But maybe that isn't entirely conclusive.
Trying to put history in the terms of today is a futile effort.

The tales of piracy aside, In 1761 the kidnapped Africans would be universally regarded as slaves, and the sailors manning the vessel as free men.
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