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> Options are a complex topic, this article gets a lot wrong.

...so what did this article get wrong?

> The base offer.

For high level engineers the disparity between what Facebook/Google will pay you and what you'd make at startups can get pretty high. In my personal experience the salaries aren't actually competitive unless you start personally valuing the equity at a significant level. It seems Dan has the same experience.

> The value of the options depends on your ability to pick the right startup

I think his article does a better job of answering the question "how do you value the options provided by the startup assuming X level of success" than you do here. "I have a friend who picked the right startup 4 times in a row" doesn't really help people figure out if they've picked the right startup. "It's possible! People have made money on the stock market!" << This is not reason to play the stock market.

> Stock options are typically priced at 25% of the last round.

I'm assuming you're talking about the section where he calls valuations bogus. Your statement here doesn't invalidate the writing: "First, the valuation is updated relatively infrequently" << this remains true. And the round valuation is still a complex number that's mostly investor speculation and not representative of what your shares will net you -- which is the argument here -- that you might be better off offering cash than some hard to quantify thing.

> So in a nutshell, starting companies, joining early stage companies. It really depends on your ability to pick the right company and perhaps more importantly your ability to make a difference.

Thanks for the inactionable advice.
why the down votes ? i can confirm he is right
This "geo.enabled" flag should be false by default on desktop Firefox! <<PRIVACY HARUMPH>>
The overwhelming majority of people who need psychotherapy cannot get access to adequate treatment. Access totally dwarfs every other issue in psychotherapy.

Here in the UK, most people with moderately severe depression or anxiety have to wait several months to get access to CBT. That will usually comprise of six one-hour sessions, often with a mental health care practitioner rather than a clinical psychologist. Patients with less severe symptoms will be triaged to a telephone-based service, an online service or self-help books.

That's a perfectly typical story for a high-income country with an excellent healthcare system. Access to psychotherapy is routinely and severely rationed because of cost. In lower-income countries, the picture is far worse. For most people, the choice is not between nuanced treatment and convenient treatment, but between cheap treatment and no treatment.

In all honesty, I'm struggling to contain my anger at your comment - it's quite clear that you're from an extremely privileged background. $150 for a weekly session with a psychotherapist is an unimaginable luxury for the vast majority of people in the world.

I'd love for everyone to be able to access a clinical psychotherapist on demand, but it simply isn't going to happen. There isn't the money or the political will to make it happen. I welcome innovative approaches to psychotherapy, provided they're evidence-based and rigorously evaluated. We have a real opportunity to improve the wellbeing of hundreds of millions of people. I think that rejecting these possibilities because of a hypothetical risk is utterly churlish.
By the way, whatever happened to real web doc formats being established, like something that could one day make obsolete Ms word addin and PDF.
"Yes, because we've totally just been nuking or threatening to nuke anyone who looked at us cross-eyed for the last few decades... /s Your nomenclature is a bit hyperbolic."

Is quite clearly a strawman.

> You're using present tense with incredibly broad terminology

> you really think we're currently, actively holding a nuclear gun to everyone's head over every little thing.

Nope. Though perhaps I haven't made myself clear. Here it is more clearly: The US judiciously uses the threat of nuclear attacks on civilian population centers to achieve what it wants. This is one lever of power which the US pulls to achieve coercion and it uses its other levers much more frequently. It is the only nation that uses first-strike nuclear threats for coercive leverage in this way.

Is that more clear?

> Do you have any historical examples of the US actively strong-armining an opponent with the threat of a first strike over a political existential threat?

Soviet Union (before they developed their own nuclear weapons, for instance), China (over Taiwan), DPRK (over the peninsula in proxy war aftermath), Iraq (in the lead up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq). Off the top of my head. But of course it has used the leverage in many other cases, and for its extended nuclear deterrence.

> How about an economic existential threat?

Hasn't happened, though NatSec considers economic competitiveness a core principle of National Security. The Cold War in fact was economic competition as well as political. So maybe we could use that.

> How about cross-domain warfare with the threat of a nuclear first strike?

We've got a nice list going on now don't we?

> But to my knowledge they have never even come close to mplementation outside of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Did you miss the entire nuclear umbrella concept - a key US policy for the last 70 years? Wouldn't you have to admit that the deployment of a nuclear threat in the face of non-nuclear challenge (above) is cross-domain. So I think we've satisfied this one.

I don't really know how to reply to the rambling at the end of the post. It wasn't really a question.
Keep Safari active. You can use other apps in split screen while the file downloads.
If people had just built on Doug Engelbart's NLS then we could have had this decades ago :P
> Even if it did do quite well in terms of accuracy, probabilistic models aren't 100% correct so you still have to check for primality deterministically.

Deterministic primality tests are rarely used in practice -- they're too slow, and the probabilistic tests have such a high accuracy that it doesn't matter.
Nah. I'm not too concerned about what close minded people with preconceived notions have about me or my employability. I don't think any Uber employee will have problems finding jobs, regardless of what you think.
I have loved using Divvy for ages - http://mizage.com/divvy/
The Django documentation model is explained here: https://www.divio.com/en/blog/documentation/

Better than just an example in that explains why docs are good. But Django docs are good example.
Do other astronomers agree that this explanation is correct?
Be careful, that sounds like a critique of nuclear energy, which tends to attract a strong reaction.

Typical argument is that more people died installing solar cells than in that type of incident.
NBA Finals 2017: Warriors could lose more than $22M by sweeping Cavaliers
There are already congestion charging schemes. I doubt it will ever get to a ban (and you can wouldn't want that) but I think it will be expensive. You could actually just charge a flat fee for road space, so a bus carrying 70 people is 3 times as long as a car, so only pays 3 times more. And maybe a separate charge of minimum standard to discourage nitrogen or particulate air pollution.
Horror show
If that's true that just makes me angrier because a far better solution would be to improve the currency, like Canada and many other countries did long ago.
That's pretty ingenious. I've always thought the best way to communicate something like insider trading info would be on a stock board. Or if Trump wanted to communicate with Russians, it woudl be much less traceable than email. Email is one to one, a message board is many to many, hard to track down, and most messages are incomprehensible gibberish anyway, like this instagram message.
ServiceStack v4.5.10 released
Yes, the casualties in WW2 were much higher than those in subsequent conflicts. However, thus turn of events would have been completely unpredictable to the first nuclear scientists. If you look back to the writings and newspaper clippings of the day, society took it for granted that there would be a WW3.

In fact, in the years that followed WW2, even the idea of launching a pre-emptive nuclear strike was not beyond the pale. One of my favorite quotes from John von Neumann: "If you say why not bomb [the Soviets] tomorrow, I say, why not today? If you say today at five o'clock, I say why not one o'clock?"
> I would say that we are very lucky there hasn't been a WW3. It likely would have casualties in the hundreds of millions.

Why so many casualties, if atomic bombs were not invented?
I'm disappointed they haven't even tried to respond to any of this, and the poster appears to be "Tom" who's apparently the CoFounder.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-fairfield-b950a53b/
This has existed for years:

http://www.geodna.org/

Demo here:
http://www.geodna.org/docs/google-maps.html

GeoHash is cool - but the hashes don't lend themselves well to stemming for use in text-based searching. This improves on that.

Full disclosure, I am responsible for GeoDNA.org
Tesla Unveils Model 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4VGQPk2Dl8
Could you do something like adjust the bids by the average percentage overrun the contractor has on prior projects?
Note that if the lithium price rises, we'll have more reserves -- reserves only count if they're economically-extractable at the current price.
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That isn't really a great analysis. It is only counting at the known deposits. When demand increases, price will rise and it will kick off more discovery. (It will also make us use the lithium more efficiently, but that is tangential.)

Take a look at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth...

Lithium is #33, estimated at 20 ppm of the crust. We presently mine 64000 tons per year. It is more common that lead, which is #37 and only 14 ppm. Yet we mine 4.8 million tons of lead per year. Now examine boron. #41, 10 ppm and 9.4 million tons per year. Are these unsustainable? Are we on the verge of peak boron and peak lead? Probably not. We have twice as much lithium so we probably aren't going to run out of lithium even if demand increases by a hundred-fold.

I am not a geologist, so maybe much of this lithium is more inaccessible than I'm assuming. But thinking that the known deposits are the entire world supply is silly.
As I understand you can do QoS based on service type but not for a specific entity. You can prioritize all VoIP to get consistent latency but not prioritize Skype over other providers, for example.

If your pipes are not full QoS doesn't do anything anyway, so it is better to just have enough bandwidth that you don't need QoS.
On the other hand car commuting is much more common in the US, which is where EVs excel. If you're driving 50 miles a day into and out of work, an EV is perfect as a second car, which you can charge up in a suburban garage. That scenario must match a large proportion of US demand.
Well, it depends on where the 1000 people are drawn from as well. Your assumptions only hold if for both the original survey and the repeat, the pool of people being surveyed are an accurate sample of all of the United States.
New title seems fair. (Also, welcome to the dark side of the editing force, etc etc)
What you're talking about is a common mental pattern of attributing bad intent where there is none. Sometimes called "siege mentality". It's a definite problem, and many communication manuals talk about practicing adopting perspectives that avoid it.

You're right about how one's desire to see something a specific way has a huge influence on what they actually think. However, that tends to be counter-productive both ways.

You might choose to ignore the problems because you have to succeed despite them. That's generally how immigrant Chinese people look at the bigotry directed towards them. As a side effect, the Chinese community has issues talking about what that bigotry actually is.

Alternately, you might choose to try to root out the subtle effects that make up the bulk of bigotry, like the feminist movement. So there's a lot of academic language around defining the nature of misogyny, but you get accused of seeing bigotry where there is none because it's heavily contextual.

We want to latch on to egregious moments as catalysts of change, but the real problem is the low level background noise where you have situation after situation where it's unclear how to interpret a specific event. Case in point, I've seen female friends dealing with situations where their mentor probably just hit on them, but it's deniable enough that you can't necessarily call it out. Depending on which glasses you're wearing, you can choose to see it however you want, but the problem is that every female colleague or friend I've talked to can recall instances of ambiguous unwelcome advances mixed into their professional interactions. There's a problem, and it's not just a matter of which glasses they're wearing.
> If they were a company, it could serve as a recruitment tool or as an example of why clients should do business with you. Either way, remaining anonymous is odd.

You're assuming that someone, or some group, with the ability to pull this off needs this as a portfolio piece.

I don't imagine this is their first rodeo, and I would assume whomever it is already has a solid resume. Why blacken it with something so dark?

Sure it could be a state sponsor, or, much more likely, its just someone having some fun.
Current Gatech online student here. This is a very very successful course not because of Udacity, but because of the army of TAs and professors who work diligently to make the courses execute smoothly. Udacity just gives the platform for online video access, discussions happen on Georgia Techs internal portal which uses Piazza forum and TAs hold face to face Office Hours on Google Hangouts, assignments, quizzes and resources are all provided on the internal board. Udacity provides no such feature to support the whole gamut of needs that running a massively online course such as this requires. In fact Udacity had the clunkiest UI of all the MOOC providers and have just recently upgraded to a better looking Coursera clone.

Further Georgia Tech allows residential students to watch lectures online in lieu of attending classes and its still the cheapest MS available for just 6000 bucks tops. Its a pathbreaking achievement in online learning.
I was accepted to the 2017 class, so I can at least provide one data point. My background is in astronomy where I did lots of computational work, but no ML. After I got my PhD I went into industry working on applying NNs to EEG and EKG interpretation. I had a little over a year of industry experience in ML at the time I applied. I'm maybe not quite a beginner anymore, but I'm much closer to that end of the spectrum than being at the world-renowned expert end!

I haven't met the other residents yet (the program doesn't start until mid-July), but based on a few online interactions and meeting some of them at the interviews it seems that a fair number are undergraduates or grad students with some research experience in ML or computer vision. Others seem to have backgrounds more similar to mine, i.e., they were researchers in physics or neuroscience or something and are transitioning to ML.
Moom can/could do this on OS X.
There's a newsgroup, alt.anonymous.messages, which was created for this purpose. However, using it makes clear that one is intentionally sending a secret message (and in some environments, maybe reading would also show that one expects to receive one).
I think it is too much. I pay my hydrobill and I still have no idea how to visualize a hwh. However saying 12000 homes for 3 seconds makes sense for me. It is roughly the same power that a large neighbourhood would use.

Also, what does the ambiguity matter in this situation? This isn't a technical paper.
Seen Divvy, never tried it. I'll have to look into it.

This might be what I'm looking for
http://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.grid.html
This is a great idea. But it seems like a job for C, since it'll be running in the background all the time and will bind to Xlib. Shouldn't be more than 200 lines of code, right? Someone should attempt this!
I dunno. I mean, if that's your plan, why bother with VC funding at all? Why not get a small business loan, and operate that way?
> Sincerely, what's confusing about it? There is a massive monetary incentive toward native.

No there's not. I'm a web developer so I'm pretty invested in the web platform, but even I can see how incredibly naive this assertion is. Native will always win due to just having more power and capabilities. Web will always be a step behind.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by apathy or lack of resources.
This is a growing concern even here in Chicago honestly. The problem isn't rent avg, it's rent avg in neighborhoods you would actually want to live in are growing to unpayable levels.
If it was actually part of the curriculum I sure hope that it was in some design centered elective class. IMO if your CS degree spent time teaching that as part of the core curriculum, they missed an opportunity to put more Math, PL theory, and interesting algorithms in there, because there's more than can be sanely covered in any one curriculum.

Since it's accessibility based, it's more laudable than teaching CS students how to center a div, but it's not like it really requires a mentor of some sort to express the nuances of, right? Or even if it does, it's still design.
Stockholm.
Thanks. We added 2014 above.
Tomorrow on HN: How not to ship a build
Some folks are commenting, cash.

I would personally prefer Bitcoin or ETH as I suspect the value of either will be exponential in the future.

And for the company, if you buy a load of whichever say at beginning of your company that you keep only to give out bonuses to their equivalent in cash every time a new hire comes, you could actually give out the same amount of cash for less tokens in the future.
Yeah, its a moral thing, and also to a degree an economic diversification policy. Saudi is actually doing a similar thing, trying to encourage non-oil industry.
This is mentioned in the post, in case you missed it:

> Further, normally such testing is best done with a tool like BenchmarkDotNet; I’ve not done so for this post simply to make it easy for you to copy-and-paste the samples out into a console app and try them.

We love BenchmarkDotNet and use it (and other perf tools) quite a lot internally.
My co-founders and I really enjoyed the 10 week startup school. We're full time founders and have been working for the last three years on building MyAppConverter. The course gave us time to really get some actionable advice on how to grow our business. The greatest thing is that our time committment for the OH call and weekly reporting on our business metrics made us really focus on what matters i.e. making and selling as part of daily work. Wether or not one applies to YC programme, I would highly recommend any founders to join the MOOC course.
What about trash collectors, construction workers, miners, loggers, Alaskan fishers, fire fighters, and other dangerous jobs?

Are people seeking equality with them?

I heard medicine became much safer when women entered it in greater numbers. Might these other fields become safer with more women in them?
I don't think he's being intentionally sexist. In fact, I don't think he realises what he's doing at all!

I was actually making a general comment. In fact, I'm actually pretty interested in what Mika has to say, and frankly it's very rare she gets a word in edgeways...

It appears I've offended others with my observation. That's a pity, because I actually really like Joe Scarborough, one of the few pro-Republican commentators on air who makes reasonable sense and is able to put forward conservative stances in ways I can grapple with. Just my 2c
Let me count how many people that I have worked with who are using mongo... ZERO...

How many are planing on using mongo... Zero (and one "why the fuck would you even ask this)

How many have used mongo 2 out of 20.

Why would you today pick mongo when there are so many better choices out there?
> which is obviously too little

To fill in the detail: Carbon-14 has an abundance of about 1 part in 10^12, and one gram of carbon contain about 10^23 carbon atoms, so about 10^11 C-14 atoms. Every single C-14 atom will have decayed in about 200k years.
Hammock Driven Development – Rich Hickey [video]
Hey there. Thanks for the feedback. I appreciate it!
My go-to number is 1,234 J it's equivalent to a major league baseball player hitting a ball as hard as he can.
A big problem is the concurrency of development and production. I'm unaware of programs that have gone right, but the more substantial boondoggles have had that issue.
It's going that way. The only problem is double decker buses have only just been released as electric. TfL have trialled then as they've become available, I think they're doing what they can.
I suspect that the move to EV will eventually create a revenue hole from reduced fuel taxes necessitating the move to road pricing. Politically unpalatable but I think a necessary step.
It's like taking gasoline off the car and using horses to drive. Well, sometimes it works.
The short answer is that it would depend on the value of any precision loss that occurred and whether or not the shift would disrupt any other systems, be they social or technical, within the company. But with that in mind, there's also the issue of whether or not the money saved would be worth it. It's very possible that S&P simply has enough money to play with that any savings from swapping to an automated solution for media monitoring aren't worth the potential disruption to the company workflow.
I don't think that's correct, except the being engaged bit.
Pick something your going to use and pitch them.

UI, Make sure after you get the changes green lighted you stay and implement them as well.
Cheap catalysts turn sunlight and carbon dioxide into fuel
Physicists have finally created a 2D magnet
I paid for my Volt with some oil rights I inherited. Sure, I'm way net carbon polluting on that deal. But the Volt is sweet.
I learned it in both my computer graphics course and my user-interaction design course as part of my CS degree (German university). None of these courses are required, but they are popular enough that the most important lessons were pretty universal knowledge among students.
Server GPUs come with the exact same connector in the same place and often use the exact same PCB if it's a reference design card.
In the EU ebikes are quite limited. If you're going to hurt yourself at 17mph on an ebike a normal bike isn't going to safe either, as soon as you go down a hill. American ebikes seem to be crazy powerful.
Xcode, macports, Docker, PyCharm/IntelliJ/CLion/DataGrip, Wireshark, Serial, Royal TSX, Parallels, Franz ...
Only for this week! Last week's New Scientist contained an article that had hom. sap. being of eastern european origin rather than african. There was quite a lot of controversy and conjecture though.

(IANAA) The archaeological record is sketchy at best for our prehistory and huge amounts of conjecture is based on very fragmentary evidence. Entire (sub) species are known only from a single bone or a few teeth.

Anyway - cheers to Morocco - cradle of humanity, for now 8)
Output 9876543210 without using numbers
The extra level of multi nested grids etc is cool, but honestly I get by just fine with Spectacle.
Yes, it really is an op-ed that is being read by many here as objective reportage.
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It's more like a linear motor, as used with maglev trains. Coils are turned on in sequence.

This is a real U.S. Navy railgun.[1] One big energy burst energizes the rails, and the projectile comes out at Mach 7.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i737rM6FxqE
So this is pretty much like Windows Win+Number shortcut, when you have apps pinned to taskbar.