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> Common.js isn't even a part of npm (the correct capitalization) or node.

I never said it was, it's not part of it per se, but it's the 'blessed' module/package system on Node.js (the correct capitalization). Which is really sad, because CommonJS is retarded (a file has to actually
be executed in order to get it's require & export characteristics and they might arbitrarily change in runtime). It's sad that Node.js as well as the JS ecosystem in general is fairly hostile towards ES6 modules - basically any current support of ES6 modules is just translating then / dumbing them down back to CJS.
Hopefully this'll change in the future as ES6 gets more adopted and CommonJS will be left to rot (a fate it deserves and should've already met ages ago).
Offtopic, shouldn't this be the #1 post, it's probably blacklisted currently: http://imgur.com/XdEShU0
That is not what happened to myspace.
Unless the tax credits are extended (and the likelihood of that was essentially zero already), Tesla is set to hit the phaseout point next year regardless, and will have them go to zero one year later. It's likely that if you reserve a Model 3 today, you won't get a tax credit when you take delivery. So that wouldn't change a whole lot. And assuming the subsidy is eliminated for everyone and not just Tesla, it'll make them more competitive.

I'd say the big danger for his stuff is SpaceX and NASA, and I don't think there's much risk there.
You can see monopolistic behavior in some cities where the water franchise is in commercial hands (California American Water Co.). They seem to just raise rates with impunity.
Beautiful clean coal!
I do not wish my statement to be taken as a partisan one (although I do admit to being conservative), but rather as a general observation about the dangers of executive decree.
I agree that the dynamics you describe account for some of the reason Trump's base is primed to latch onto him.

But as far as Trump himself goes, he's not really a Republican. He is solely concerned with receiving praise and feeling tough. There is no master plan; that is really all there is to it.
Google's apparent quest is to make it so that the web only really works with Chrome anyways. I doubt they honestly see Firefox as a threat enough not to take this blatantly obvious next course of action.

Chrome was, and has always been about giving Google full control over content from their servers to the users. They've spent the past decade relentlessly removing middle-men out of their way (most obviously Adobe, but also other advertisers, and now the search engine is even extracting information from sites so you don't even need to click on links anymore, see AMP and their various "search enhancements") - they aren't about to stop at removing "misbehaving" apps. You already can't get AdBlock on Android without rooting - it's an easy equivalence for them to make and base their rules around, however false it may be.
Will surgery sap your brain power?
The amount of pollution / trash this company produces seems pretty counter to their mission statement.
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It's a stack-based concatenative scripting language implemented in Go. There are also Go implementations of LISP (zygomys) and Lua that may well be worth looking into, if you'd like to see how one builds a language in Go.

Otherwise, the standard library is always a good way to find out about things that you didn't know existed, or forgot after reading the standard.
It's easy to point all the details that matter in valuing your stock options -- liquidity preferences, strike price, options vs RSUs. The genius stroke here is to focus on the two big details that matter (% ownership and exit value) and focused on that.

Caveat: this doesn't work in a "down exit" less than the previous round's value.

As @bethcodes says, this is not a calculator, because while these two numbers will get you within a factor of 2, knowing the details will help you get even closer.

(Disclosure: I built a calculator to help you do that: http://www.optionvalue.io/calculator/)
maybe it falls under "Easier to obtain" but you're not going to collect uninsurance in the US today if you quit your job.
You're comparing JavaScript apps, where the runtime is built-in to the browser, against WebAssembly apps written in other languages with large runtimes. That's nothing more than stacking the comparison to get the conclusion you want.

Not everyone writes their apps in JavaScript. That's a given, we have no choice but to accept this. Some apps or libraries are already written in another language, and it would be nice to run them in the web browser, so people do that. Some people make web games using Unity. Lots of reasons that this happens.

So you end up with emscripten + asm.js, delivering a minified JavaScript blob multiple megabytes in size, which must be parsed, compiled, and executed. WebAssembly reduces the size of the blob you have to deliver and makes the parsing + compiling steps much faster.

You may not like that, but you don't have to write apps that way. You can still write JavaScript if that's what you like. WebAssembly delivers improvements for people who weren't writing JavaScript in the first place, or for people who wish they weren't writing JavaScript.
If being alive is so great, then how do you explain murder?
The CFC problem was a narrow one, and the Montreal protocol was implemented a decade after development started on CFC alternatives. At the time Montreal was implemented, there was a clear picture of how to get from point A to point B. Climate change is in comparison a moon shot. We don't know what will work and how it'll work. There's not some single thing we can ban and fix the problem. It calls for structural change and changes in peoples' way of life and the political system can't achieve that.
Is this an endorsement of treaties with actual teeth then? Or are you saying that there needs to be rules that directly change peoples' lifestyles because they won't do it themselves?

I'm trying to understand where you're coming from, usually when people say, "I don't like X because it's ineffectual", they follow it up with a recommendation that they do think will be effective.
"When you pay for content, you are the customer. When someone else pays for the content, you are the inventory."

Subscribers to the NYT: are they the customer or the inventory (or product)?

Subscribers to Netflix: are they the customer or the inventory (or product)?

I really don't see why companies wouldn't treat them as both. So many businesses are operating on a subscription model, and still treat their "customers" as databanks ripe for mining and selling to their "real customers": advertisers and other purchasers of user data.

The 21st Century has really become the century of spyware, and I don't see paying for content as a reliable way for consumers to avoid being a target.
It is generally opposite.

For example USA does not have government mandated paternity leave and hence a lot of people value that 3 month salary over staying at home without pay. This means the McDonald on corner is able to have necessary staff and the Comcast technician is able to come to your house on a Saturday.

People leaving jerk boss is not always a good thing because Jerk is a value between 0 to 1. UBI simply tilts it in employees favor which is exactly same as against society's benefit.
That's hardly the same as a guarantee that highly skilled immigrants and their families don't face difficulties and risks in coming to the UK.

For example, last time I looked at the UK papers they were full of cases of EU citizens, who should have indefinite leave to reside in the UK, being harrassed by the Home Office and threatened with deportation.
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That seems unrelated.
That lady wielded a very sharp pen.
Sometimes referred to as "rule by law" as opposed to "rule of law."
CLI11 released, a parser for pure C++11 with great syntax, easy install
The Paris Agreement was signed under the authorization of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change which was ratified by the senate.
There would still be war. Neither sex nor gender can guarantee someone's position on war.
#Elon4POTUS and #ImpeachTrump ?
Totally agree. We hope this will be an on-ramp to more sophisticated tools and analysis for beginners.
We canceled after a week precisely for this reason. I couldn't believe how much trash a single shipment generated.
Evan seems to be everywhere and doing everything all at the same time. He is very impressive.
I have applied here recently and never received a response.
What is the point of giving advice to someone who will not take it? At some point, anyone in Trump's orbit becomes complicit rather than just being in an advisory role. If Trump is not going to listen to people like Musk on the largest of issues (Paris) then why would Musk stay on the (low) chance that Trump listens to him on other, minor issues?
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It's not identification or elegance; they're mounted that way so that you can see all of the wings. The live butterfly position has overlapping wings, and you can't see all of the detail.
Don't forget the massive indirect subsidies of being allowed to pollute without having to pay for the damage this causes to other people's health and property.
> You can easily wipe Windows off them and put Linux on it.

None of the modems are going to be supported in Linux because they all use blob drivers and are wholly proprietary.

ARM has no bios or standard boot procedure. Google requires coreboot on Chromebooks, for example, which allows Linux to run on the ARM targets. It is unlikely ARM laptops without Google's strong arm are going to support coreboot.

Qualcomm specifically leaves significant portions of the support code for their SoCs in binary blobs, unable to be used in generic kernels. There is no Linux kernel level support for almost any Qualcomm SoC, and even then they are often some of the better ones. The other "real" options are third parties with ARM's own CPUs on them, which would have ARM's GPUs which have no real device support in Linux (Lima is dead) compared to Qualcomm parts (Freedreno sees updates). Nvidias chips are probably the closest to usable, and Samsung's Exynos are completely unusable and mega-proprietary (you will have a hard time finding even custom Android ROMs for Samsung SoCs).

The ARM ecosystem as a whole is really, really toxic. It is all NIH'd out the butt, there are no standards, everything is proprietary, and nobody contributes upstream. By comparison, x86 is an angelic fantasy.
Are these numbers accurate for "% of companies will never exit"?

Seed 74%

Series A 65%

Series B 68%

Series C+ 71%

If so I'm a little surprised that seed and series C+ companies have approximately the same chances never exiting.
There is a lot of hate for this company on HN. They are trying to help people cook healthy food, they are doing a good thing, and have an actual product. Good for them! And I hope the engineers / common workers get some money too :)
Just out of curiosity, is there anything Gates/Buffet could do that you wouldn't approach cynically, i.e. that you would assume they're really doing it for other peoples' benefits rather than their own?
From what I recall when we had it, it was a lot less trash than going to the store and getting everything packaged individually. And I'm sure the shipping is less polluting than having all the customers drive around too.
I appreciate the point of view, but in this conversation specifically, and the Economist article specifically, the discussion is around evaded taxes of the wealthiest individuals. By definition an 'evaded' tax is one that is legally owed, but has been not paid illegally[1]. So without a tax increase, simply increasing compliance, you increase the actual tax revenue collected.

[1] Not to be confused with 'sheltered' where the tax was not paid but through a legal loophole.
class Bprime(object):

def __init__(self, a):

for var in dir(a):

setattr(self, var, getattr(a, var))

Has anyone ever done such a thing? Why?
Trump is the antithesis of unified political will. He's a symptom of a deeply divided society.

The focus on finding consensus and political will on climate change is putting the cart before the horse. There's no consensus or deal making to be had with this degree of division and anger.
> Something like $10k of his retirement fund gone because he had been laid-off and his insurance wouldn't cover this sort of thing.

This sounds like the sort of thing that one should sue over to recover the funds. This entire incident happened because:

> His doctor forgot about the potential interaction with another drug

it was the doctor's mistake that cost your father that $10k. That said, if your father gets all his prescriptions from the same pharmacy, I'm surprised that they didn't say something about it either.
> But as far as Trump himself goes, he's not really a Republican.

Yes, he is. He may not have a particular devotion to an ideology you'd like to pretend defines the Republican Party, but the US electoral system structurally produces duopoly between parties too broad to have coherent ideology.
EDIT: you updated your comment considerably since my reply! The below was a reply to a simpler version of the parent comment. I don't disagree with what you've just written.

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Before edit:

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So why don't the ruling rich make it so that up to $100,000 everyone pays under the current tax regime, but any income over $100k is taxed at 0% (since you've already fully paid your share to the country, i.e. on the first $100K), meaning earning $500K or $5M per year gives the same tax burden?

Nobody would vote for such a tax regime. That's why we don't have it.

Your idea idea that there is a ruling class ("dynasty like Rothschild etc") that can do whatever they want is simply not true. The country is much more democratic than that. I might as well suggest that there is a secret absolute dictator who can do whatever they want. (Also not true.)

I'm not saying it's perfect, but it's pretty obvious there isn't a ruling class even close to being able to set tax rates for themselves - or they would do so. Why do you think they don't? They can't.
Yes! A B2-A is exactly what it evokes for me too. There's something not aerodynamic, and thus "inefficient" about the dead butterfly shape that makes it pretty and sophisticated.
A fellow HackerNews reader had a great quote, I don't remember the source.

You're basically complaining that China has too many people and would presumably want that some of them wouldn't exist.

His quote was: "If you think a certain group of people shouldn't exist, how do you select that group of people? And how do you know that you, yourself, shouldn't he a part of that group?".

China's population is a fact. In the end, you can't argue against facts. And in their current circumstances, China, a much poorer per capita country than the US, is willing to sacrifice a bit of their profits for long term stability.

The US is basically eating its own seed corn.
maybe the European Union.

The DOJ has clearly given up the ghost of even attempting to regulate US companies, and the current political news is just more evidence in that direction.

Google can draw out these lawsuits for decades while continuing their practices with impunity. They already have two incredibly well studied playbooks to draw from: Microsoft v DOJ and SCO v IBM.
It's a bit of tough comparison. When I used AOL, it was literally my "portal" to the internet. I may have even used a browser embedded in AOL? Facebook is not that for most of it's users.

But that being said, if we are just concerned with statistics, obviously Facebook's user numbers are much larger than AOL ever saw but I wonder what percentage of people using the internet use Facebook today vs. AOL "back in the day"?
what's a single shipment typically composed of? Curious since I was thinking of trying it.

Do you mean like cardboard/plastic packaging? I was thinking materials would come in re-usable container. Not fancy, but even somewhat "cheapy" re-usable material.
You're exactly correct. It was lazy.

This is hacker news and we have something special here. One-liners like that are deserving of your response.

That was the feeling evoked by the comment. I was taking a break from work and didn't spend time explaining.

There are so many reasons I find that comment bothersome. But mostly it's probably my upbringing in the deep south where any intellectual pursuit would put you into the category of "odd nut" whose time spent on a subject was worthy of dismissal because of "common sense" is more important.
Complaining about people at Starbucks sipping on lattes is conservative virtue signaling.
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Note that I think mostly Republicans seem to be on board with NATO, Trump is outside the mainstream of all the parties there.
For anyone taking this comment seriously: verify the numbers for yourself. The poster has given the lower bound of the confidence interval in positing that we will see 0.3C warming by 2100. The latest assessment puts warming at 3.7C (6.67F!) under the "Business as Usual" RCP8.5 scenario.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_Concentration_P...

Edit -- not to mention that climate models are quite good at reproducing the observed changes:

https://www.skepticalscience.com/Climate-Models-Show-Remarka...
"In a few years nobody will use perl5 anymore, everybody will use cperl instead."

That seems like an awfully bold claim.

cperl is great, don't get me wrong, but if I'm going to move away from Perl 5 to a different Perl I'd rather just move to Perl 6 (and, in fact, I already have for some of my latest pet projects; so far, I've been very impressed).
I don't agree with his business model. Instead of paying to block ads, Brave could hook into a P2P CDN like greta.io or peerweb.net to offset the bandwidth costs of sites you visit (or maybe just the sites you favorite/bookmark).

If I'm ever going to pay to block ads, I'm not going to share the payment with my browser vendor, especially vendors with CEOs that support homophobic causes.
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The thing that always concerns me about UBI is that the government controls your salary. This is sort of true already on that they have the power to raise our lower taxes, but lowering UBI would affect far more people
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> Content that isn’t indexable by search engines is not part of the open web.

I'm not really sure what this means, but my knee-jerk reaction is that the 'open web' exists without search engines.
Allow people to tag their posts, and have friends who tag their posts. Then have an option to not see posts of type X (link, photo, text, video, audio) tagged with Y by contact Z. Have further options to display little icons with some info for hidden posts to easily expand them inline. And so on.

Yes, you'd have to manually curate some things, but otherwise I think it's mostly just a matter of not hiring any marketing people, and creating the features first and looking how to make them easily usable second. Especially if the goal isn't to "kill FB", but simply offer an alternative to those who want the good bits and actually like, uhh, reading manuals and being proficient with the tools they use.

They can't come if there is nowhere for them to come to, and then it's easy to pretend they don't exist. But they do, even among the old and young and not so technical.
> Other countries don't care about post-facto rationalizations by partisans to demonize the other side in domestic policies.

Which is a key reason why international cooperation is so dangerous. It's insensitive to domestic politics and law.
Would that be the 'Nobel prize winner' Dr Mann, who massaged the so-called hockey stick data leading to all this climate change/global warming hysteria in the first place? Hardly a credible source of anything IMHO.
Britain fought numerous wars under Queen Victoria, the Falklands War under Thatcher. Indira Gandhi was in charge during the 1971 war between India and Pakistan.

So basically...no.
The net worth of the US is around $124 trillion. That is after subtracting all debts and other liabilities (which are significantly larger than $18T).
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They recovered be the US saw that supporting these countries and creating strong democracies would be of direct benefit to the US. You know, America First.

I can imagine what would have happened if Trump was around after WW2 - "What - spend all that money on those countries. Forget it. Let take all that capital and reduce corporate taxes".
Maybe add a field for salary difference vs 'expected market rate' and compute the amount of money you'd be looking at over six years investing the difference in something like a vanguard fund.

As an example - say you traded around 60k a year in cash in return for higher equity. In six years you're looking at around half a mil which means with, say .2 in a Series A, you're looking at a pretty big exit (i.e 700M) before you even have a chance of breaking even. This is obviously a terrible choice (i.e care for 20 dollars or a chance at 20 dollars)

To make it 'worth it', from an 'expected value' POV you'd need to make 2-3 million on around a 3.5B exit which are, of course, exceedingly rare.

You also have to be careful about things like options windows on exit, tricky term sheets with liquidation preferences for preferred shares, etc.

I'm going through this process now and it's shocking how most people really have no idea how this stuff works. Even with recruiters/HR/CTOs/etc who deal with this stuff day to day.
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It could be that post-series-B companies are less attractive acquisition targets. I don't have any data on this.