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Founders are committed and in for the long haul, and either make a lot of money or none.

Startup employees make less money on a nice exit, but aren't as committed and can work for a few companies (maybe 2 years each) to improve their odds.

So having 10 years to exercise makes a lot of sense for the second group.

Forcing the employees to stay until liquidation makes zero sense for the second group. So you need to give the people that do commit at that level a package that more closely resembles a founder.

Otherwise it just distorts the market in all kinds of ways. Nobody would want to work for you until it looks like liquidation is around the corner, which means startups would constantly need to be positioning themselves on the auction block rather than focusing on lasting growth.

In addition, it creates the normal kinds of distortions associated with illiquid assets and immobile people.
Yes indeed. Chose my apartment because it's a five minute drive from work and in Houston that is damn near impossible to find. I'd let the apartment owner kick me in the face every time I walked in my room if that's what it took not to return to my old commute.
Washington D.C. is a bad example, the actual population of the city is tiny compared to the surrounding suburbs.
I don't want to be too negative since it's an admirable goal, but I can't help but feel like Gall's Law applies here. I suspect it's not really possible to design a great city.

Consider Brasília for instance, it was designed from the top down, and it certainly some interesting properties. Being able to walk in a mostly straight line from arbitrary point A to point B is something I enjoyed about living there. And the traffic flow control is pretty interesting and worked pretty well for a long time. However today the congestion is bad, and the design of the major landmarks is pedestrian hostile.

Obviously we can improve on all the shortcomings of a city designed 60 years ago, but in designing a city today I suspect we would just create an entirely new rash of problems that were difficult to solve. Also consider that Brasília had a raison d'etre that can't be matched without political buy-in at the highest level. Again, I don't mean to entirely dismiss the idea, but I suspect that solving problems of existing cities will probably lead to better long-term results than trying to go off to a literal green field.
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It's because you tried "COMMAND" instead of "efounders COMMAND" (e.g "efounders welcome").
Then why don't landlords raise the price until there are? Seems inefficient.
I wrote https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11989138 while you were writing that, and addressed your point there.

Performance and scalability are very different things. Stored procedures are great for performance, but bad for scalability.
And that's why it can take 40 minutes to travel 4 miles.
Got to admire Sarah Kaplan's patience here. Whenever someone demands of me to explain why there are "still monkeys", I just observe that even monkeys have to sleep sometime.
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Well if that is the case then the price they could charge would be infinite and they would simply keep raising it.

Even in a competitive market, specifically the ones you have mentioned, the rent charged is based on supply and demand and the competition. If not what prevents them from doubling the rent?
> I live in an apartment. Chances are good that you do, too: Tens of millions of Americans live in apartment buildings, and in medium-to-large cities these structures account for between a quarter and a half of all housing units.

No, if less than half of Americans live in apartments then chances aren't good that that a random reader does.

> More people are renting these days than ever before.

Not true, according to http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2016/article/the-life-of-america... (which was posted just today): 'If you were alive in 1915, chances are you rented your house or apartment; the ratio of renters to homeowners was about 4 to 1 in 1920. In contrast, by 2004, 69 percent of American families owned rather than rented their residence, although that proportion slipped to 64 percent by the fourth quarter of 2015.'

So far fewer Americans are renting than ever before.

I don't disagree that it's poor behaviour for landlords to grant monopolies to ISPs. But folks do have a choice in where they live, and it seems to me that monopoly-free units are likely to rent for more.
I got 6/6

I didn't even read that far. It was obvious by here:

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The dirty rusty wooden dresser drawer.
A couple million people wearing drawers,
Or looking through a lonely oven door,
Flowers covered under marble floors.

This is exactly how a computer algorithm would conflate drawer with drawers. There is no obvious theme to this verse, no high level construct.

Every human poem in this example has a high level theme, which is non-obvious to a computer. None of the computer ones do.
I know of at least one author (Roald Dahl?) who swears that he lost several novel-quality ideas to this pattern. The sort of thing where you're lying awake at night and go "that would be a great idea for a book, I should write it down in the morning!" He also recounts saving one published story he came up with in the car: he pulled over and scribbled it in the dust on the rear windshield.

Among authors alone, I would imagine we've lost a great many brilliant books because brainstorming is tricky and variable. Some days you get nothing, some days you get a dozen ideas and only one makes it out to the rest of the world.

I can't think of a good answer. Meditation and memory training might help, but are not silver bullets. Typing tends to be flow breaking (though I'm sure smartphones have improved matters) and vocalization is slow and awkward. It's hard to imagine anything short of EEG-translation removing the I/O limits on the mind.
Slightly higher trade tariffs are the best case scenario though.

There's a lot riding on the London real estate market at the moment, the financial centre of Europe might be about to shift, and a whole lot of people who live on the wrong side of the border may or may not be incentivised to cross back (both EU migrants and British pensioners).

I really do hope you're right, but it's not hard to see why people (and indeed the markets) are nervous. At this point there's no timeline, and it's not even clear who's going to be doing the negotiation to begin with.

And then there is a long list of European parties with non-negligible support who are quite keen to follow the same route.

Looping back into the OP, the potential for even mild trampling is sizeable.
Yes, it seems that phrase is more common than I originally assumed. That said, movies use derogatory terms, even Oscar winning movies.

People need to get over the word "PC". It's a nearly meaningless term because it comes with the pejorative assumption that the reasoning behind it is always excessive.

Do you have any word for "politically correct but not excessively so, so I think I'll change my language"? Or is every such suggestion inherently based on offense and therefore easily dismissed?

Because my statement above was to show pictures of Puebloans in Santa Fe from now and from 100 years ago, and argue that "feather" makes about as much sense as calling a 6th generation true son of Georgia a Yankee.

Are you going to go to the South and start calling everyone Yankees? Or would that not be politically correct?
It's not HDMI and DRM increasing the costs. HDMI is a far higher bandwidth signal than composite/SVideo, as is USB3. So you have to design a more complex chip and PCB.

These are slightly more niche products too, so you don't get the economy of scale you would with something like an ARM SoC.

Also these UVC grabber deal in uncompressed video, so they are more expensive but produce a far higher quality capture.

The £45 Cat5 grabber is performing some pretty heavy compression to fit the HD video signal down a 100 Mbit Ethernet connection.
First, let's not go the Brasilia route and construct without human scale in mind. Second, learn from the Chinese megacity projects.

My unproven and likely bad idea would be to promote medium sized cities of medium density which are interconnected but have enough wilderness/farmland to feel separate (in many countries the city and country have abrupt demarcations).

Within each satellite you'd have self sustaining public transit to connect all areas within and a great majority of the built up area is within half mile as the crow flies from a metro station. Encourage mixed use, with the exception of heavy industry which should be segregated. Build with a pedestrian first, assisted mobility second and automobiles last --not that cars would be penalized, just make it easy for walking and transit to be people's first consideration. Build high speed links between the satellites (rail and car).

Don't build these things in flood zones or desert areas which require more costs.
AFL can fuzz ruby by running ruby on arbitrary inputs. This tests that paths through the ruby interpreter are being stressed.

AFL cannot fuzz ruby code using the same mechanism, because it does not have the right level of insight. AFL can't detect if a branch in my ruby code was tested, only that the code for `if` in the core ruby interpreter has been tested both ways. For this reason, in order to properly test interpreted code, you need to add the AFL instrumentation at the ruby layer, not the native layer.

I don't think AFL currently supports this, and I don't think this project actually enables it. But I would be happy to be corrected!
Satellite is terrible and doesn't really count. I've never heard of someone using satellite unless they literally have no wired ISPs available. IMO it belongs in the same category as cellular internet.

According to this report, in 2013 only 28% of US households had three or more providers capable of giving 10Mbps service, and 24% only had one:

http://esa.doc.gov/sites/default/files/competition-among-us-...

If you raise the bar to 25Mbps, then only 9% had three or more, and nearly half only had one choice. That's 2.5 years old, but I don't think it has changed all that much.

Maybe they offer even worse services in these buildings, but I bet that in areas where they have a monopoly simply because of no competition, I bet it's pretty bad too. It certainly was for me when I lived in such an area.
From their perspective, a cosmopolitan USSR or China would be more libertarian than a national USSR or China, if only because their leaders, no matter how authoritarian they might be, would have a harder time utilizing the local-level knowledge that makes repression effective. They would have to deal with a wider variety of interests whose support they would need to stay in power, which further dilutes their power. In addition, citizens would have more options to play different levels of government against each other; if the state-level government is becoming too oppressive, one can always appear to the supranational government, as Europeans do to the ECHR or ICJ, or as southerners did to the Eisenhower administration in the 1950s.

In short, no dictator can oppress me like my family and neighbors can, which is why any dictatorship with a drop of wisdom would try to co-opt them.
That's only true if there aren't resources taken up by your in-flight transactions, and if those resources don't exceed the cost of just running the logic in-place. Otherwise, you're not sacrificing latency for throughput, you're just sacrificing latency and throughput. Unless you have a very heavy application-level thing to do that doesn't require periodic new access to data, that's usually not the case, especially if you're trying to process requests at line rate (NIC queues will get exhausted just trying to hold all the pending requests in memory, and you'll start to suffer from lock manager contention, page buffer swapping, etc.).
This comment is so off base, I can only imagine it might be a sleazy competitor with a throwaway account, or the single most unlucky Stripe customer in the history of Stripe.
I remember that a long time ago, .NET threading was implemented in such a way that it should, in theory, support Win32 fibers. It's why all the low-level .NET APIs don't use the OS thread IDs, but instead have their own IDs, and require explicit mapping.

I believe that it was abandoned as a supported scenario a while ago, though. But you can still see artifacts of that in the docs, e.g.:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.threading.th...

"The value of the ManagedThreadId property does not vary over time, even if unmanaged code that hosts the common language runtime implements the thread as a fiber."
> The landlord signed a 10-year deal stating "10mb/s" per unit. Meanwhile your neighbor in a non-exclusive building gets 75mb/s easily for the same price or even less than you're paying under the exclusive agreement.

Units with no better than 10Mb/s service should let for significantly less than otherwise-equivalent units with 75Mb/s, significantly less given modern Internet usage.

There may be folks who are willing to give up some about of bandwidth in order to save on rent; it would be unfortunate if that choice were taken away from them.
Keep in mind I'm not speaking of everyone when I say this, but I do have a subset of the population in mind.

Regarding the detatched engineer, here is just one example, although there are many:
http://uptownalmanac.com/2013/08/tech-founder-complains-abou...

In terms of the empathy and lack of spirit to the community, a cursory search through HN archives for the word "deserve" can summon a mountain of comments by people demanding to know why someone who grew up in neighborhoods like the Mission and has been priced out deserves to live there.

There are also examples like Google executive Jack Halprin kicking people out of their homes: http://valleywag.gawker.com/protestors-target-home-of-google...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but that last link seems like something Robert Moses would have done (and did, many times).

Regarding the Gordon Gecko comment: there seems to be a growing sentiment that greed is good, and making profit at the expense of all else is paramount. I'm speaking of the attitude that lead Mark Pincus to threaten his employees with firing at the expense of their own stock options: http://www.cnet.com/news/zynga-to-employees-give-back-our-st...

Or the fact that Zuckerberg seems to think giving a controlled version of what the rest of the world calls the Internet to developing countries, maintaining control of what they see, while parading around as if he's the savior of the little guy.

On the note about "anonymity": it seems Facebook did not learn anything from the Google nymwars, a topic I could give you hours worth of evidence on. In terms of "real humans", I have no doubt that the people I am criticizing are human and not gods, but I wonder if they remember that. They certainly don't act as if all the people they are displacing are.

I'm not about "slamming the Man" or righteousness, whatever that is. But I do believe the social balance has shifted too far in one direction, and needs brutal, honest, discussion about why that is and whether it can be returned.

If you do not believe this is the correct forum for such a discussion, I'm happy to re-engage with you elsewhere, the more public the better :)
I am interested in hosting a .NET web app on linux, so I read the docs: https://docs.asp.net/en/latest/publishing/linuxproduction.ht...

Is there any advantage to running a reverse proxy (nginx) if you already have Cloudfront in front of your cluster, doing the https & gzip work? And, if your web app serves literally 0 static content?
You answered your own question. I didn't say macOS was more or less hackable than other OSes. Also, I like many of the convenience features.

Linux is many (good) things, but up until this point in time, "convenience" is not a word I would associate with it. macOS and Windows own that world.
Rent one of their units under such an agreement

Rent in some other area

Buy a place

I can't tell if the original article is legitimate journalism, a submarine piece for Webpass, or a bit of both.
You and I are on the same page. What concerns me is that really the best work on securing core internals of the OS from long standing problems, such as strengthing LSASS and SAM against pass-the-hash with virtualized, isolated processing shielding and HW age I will be forced to it already. All the talk of Corona scares me, and not even CIS and the big players have guidance since MS has the new attitude of "just trust us already." Their announcing, even with Enterprise SKU, you cannot disable Windows Store, worries me. In my personal life, Windows is something I hardly ever use. But work and Windows 10, being shoved down into the deskop market, is scary. The Cred Guard stuff and improvements are wonderful, but their increasingly we're the cloud and you're the peon attitude also terrifies me.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/ash/archive/2016/03/02/windows-10...
I think there is fundamental difference of opinion here, exposed by Adam's and A16Z's posts.

A fairly typical early stage employee will forgo hundreds of thousands of dollars in salary over a vesting period, in exchange for options.

The philosophical difference is here: At the end of that period, do you think of the shares as the employees, earned in exchange for both the work done in those years, and the hundreds of thousands the company saved on salary? Or do you think of the options as an ongoing incentive to keep the employee with you (perhaps still below market rates), in exchange for the chance of a big payout later?

Technical employees often feel the former, and will point to the fact that they've "given" the company much more in salary reduction than many early round investors paid per share they own outright. Corporations often state the latter point, or some variation, particularly pointing out that later employees don't have the same leverage on the option pool. Option agreements often encode the latter.
I just searched for that and used it for the first time to look to prior searches to use in another comment, and found the interface to be pretty bad. But in writing this comment, I found that it has a "go to date" option at the top and a search box that searches your history. It's actually far better than I thought on first use (but I'm not sure it qualifies as good).
Please see my response there. It's not as simple as you're implying; often your throughput suffers if you can't handle requests fast enough. MICA, for instance, injects packets directly into L3 to avoid cache misses; it's important that MICA handle these requests as fast as possible because otherwise the L3 cache will fill up, the queues will start to back up, and ultimately they'll put backpressure on incoming packets and slow down the whole system (greatly decreasing throughput). The fact that it has tail latencies measured in microseconds is good on its own, but its real benefit is its effect on throughput!
It's not low-level, but you could send faxes from some Apple Laserwriters from postscript (although that may not have been a generic faxing ability, according to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stump_the_Experts#Sample_Que...)
It's still about $150 more than just swallowing your pride and using Hauppauge's Windows drivers.
> Java is confusing too

> Do I need the Java runtime environment, the SDK or the browser extensions to run this code?

It's not really confusing.

The Runtime is required to run code. The Source Development Kit (SDK) is for development, and the Browser Extension is for running browser extensions.
Well, a bit. You control the playback with your phone, but the Chromecast gets the video from YouTube or Hulu etc. directly. Maybe a $50 Roku stick is a more direct comparison.
Forcing employees to stay until liquidation isn't in the founders interest either.

You retain employees who might have been great from the zero to 50 stage but not as well suited in the 50 - 5000 stage. But their incentive is to stick around or give up potentially millions in equity that they busted their asses to earn.

Checked out employees aren't doing anyone any favors. You might say you can fire the person or put them on a performance improvement plan but this is easier said than done - especially if it was a key early hire.

I've seen this in many SF-based companies.
Plenty of Roman cities were laid out in a grid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_plan#Ancient_Roman_civili...

But in terms of the US, I'm talking more about stuff from around 100 years ago.
MIT and Apache, apparently.
I just bought that device 2 weeks ago... and tried it, but so far haven't gotten any video out of it under Linux or Windows.
Is there a primer somewhere that explains simply what the difference and dependence is between .NET (core, foundation), ASP.NET (core, foundation), Xamarin, Visual Studio (in all it's different flavors including VS.NET etc.) and Visual Studio Code?

I tried Wikipedia, and Microsoft's own homepages for each, and am even more confused.

I'm a hierarchical thinker, and a hierarchical tree explaining the above would be very very helpful.

Disclaimer: I haven't downloaded any of these yet. I usually don't until I've understood something.

Bonus question: If I want to develop websites and electron apps using: HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP, what's the minimum set of technologies (or whatever it is that Microsoft is calling them these days) I will need?
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They're not going to be saving anything. If these agreements cut the rent the landlords could charge, they'd never sign them. All this does is trap people who failed to investigate beforehand.
Founders are committed, but usually have better cash out options than employees do in the middle of the process. There are founders get millions of dollars during later funding rounds to incentivize them to not take early buy out options by investors.

They also have no AMT worries, get long term capital gains taxation, have less restrictions on their stock and better access to investors who would like to buy a portion of their stock.

The reason why it's not as well known is they tend not to tell anyone, including their own employees, that they cashed out a little bit.
Forget students even, I'm an adult with a compulsive information-seeking habit, as I suspect a lot of other HN readers are. I know who Harriet Tubman is, but I don't know all there is to know about her, so on the date that her $20 bill debut was announced I Googled her and read parts of her Wikipedia article, the same way I am constantly doing for all sorts of current event topics.

How can wanting to learn more possibly be demonized? Would we rather have a situation where a big influential vote affecting the future of an entire nation comes up and no one does any research about it?
The tax burden is the primary problem, that is what all this discussion is really about.
"whether it is possible to always get heads, an infinite number of times" No if we actually make the experiment, for we cannot toss coin infinitely many times. Yes, if we are just considering and measuring all possible infinite sequences. Measure of such mathematically possible sequence is zero, like measure of a point somewhere in a circle is zero. The point exists and is a possible result of choosing a point, but its probability is zero. Thus zero probability does not mean thing is impossible; it is only very unlikely.
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Interesting, I didn't know that was a thing.
Not true, in Los Angeles at least, outside of rush hour.

You moved the goal post also. In the thread above we are talking about a 10-minute walk.
Looks like it got hugged to death :(
But I can fix problems with a '92 Corolla. If Microsoft were to open source XP or Windows 7, perhaps the community would relieve Microsoft of the maintenance burden.
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