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> Sometimes when I'm working late or working on the weekend, which is often, I wonder: Is this really worth it?

The key problem in your (all too common) story is that you're only waking up to reality now.

I'm guessing that like most startup employees, you were swayed by initial aggressive courtship by the founders / chief-execs, with lots of vague handwaving and hyperboles telling you that you'll definitely become a zillionaire with your "generous" equity.

After 5 years (!) of hard work you finally crunched the hard numbers, and realized your best-case exit might cover a bit of what you lose in one year of overworking yourself for a below-market salary. Your founders and managers forgot to tell you this, and probably stuck to hyperboles without divulging much real info about your equity. Far from making it easy for you to understand your equity value, they probably made it hard or impossible.

I wish your story was some dysfunctional exception, but unfortunately it seems to be the rule nowadays. In fact, I know all too many engineers who faced this sad music only after the exit, for which they got shockingly modest returns.

I can also tell you to forget about your equity being 1.8%. It's incredibly unlikely you'll actually get 1.8% of whatever monetary value your startup exits for - if any. Like most startups, certainly in your position, you are looking at more funding rounds. The investors will get additional shares, you will get diluted. Of course, the founders will tell you nothing about this, you'll just see it in your bottom line - if there ever is any.

In fact, in your place I wouldn't be so sure you actually have that 1.8% right now.

You should do one of two things:

1. Ask for a lot more equity, with transparency into the amount and valuation.
2. Start quietly looking for an employer that will pay you better, and work you less.

From your perspective, you are already fully vested. There's no reward for you taking additional risk. No sense in staying to be underpaid and overworked. Even you want to stay in startup-land, find a new startup to diversify your equity portfolio, which currently consists of one tiny slice of a risky startup.

Your current startup likely won't collapse if you leave, so you're not risking your existing equity. If your departure would be so devastating, they should give you a lot more equity.

Either way, do a clear cost-benefit analysis, and do what is right for you. Your founders are doing what's right for them, and so are the investors. Follow suite.
Market volume in the low billions is probably not enough for a government to do much serious money laundering. Maybe organized crime, but not a major national government.
Why people are probably going to keep using today's Unixes
One experience, I'll still buy klean kanteen aluminum water bottles because they were a local business and the competition are all worse in some distinct way. Leaks, dents, whatever. Hydro Flask is somewhat close. I'm not sure why the cheap nock offs target the trash level of cheap instead of the actually okay level.
These Century-Old Photos Inspired Some of the West's First Bird Refuges
If you have two you have one, if you have one you have none.
It is the long game. The US is paying more, but we are also looking elsewhere for steel. Thus it hurts China as well. This puts pressure on China to change. It is a long game played by those willing to take short term hurt for a long term wins.

I don't agree with this strategy, but it does have some sense in its own way.
What about giving a sort of sex-voucher to those who need it and they can spend them on legalized sex workers?

Socialized healthcare doesn't mean someone comes and takes my marrow, my blood or one of my kidneys when they need them, it just means that my taxes fund healthcare. So why can't it work the same way for sex, if needed?
It's not even a relevant comparison. "Corporations" don't spend profits on luxuries for themselves. Their human owners do. Owners pay capital gains tax (which you can argue is too high or low or too easily avoided.)
What makes you think that it got flagged because sex is a taboo topic?

I followed the link because I think sex is an important topic, and should be anti-taboo. I flagged it because I think it's a bad article. I mean, I'm not riled up about it, but I don't think it's contributing in a positive way (though I do think the author is trying).

On the bright side, I followed some suggested links at the bottom of the page, and read a few short pieces that I thought were better-written, so there's that.
I will as soon as I get some wages for my work, but unfortunately that's unlikely, per the OP article.
Yes regarding the available speed, but on a consumer connection with Comcast at least if you push 30MBit for 3 days straight you may get a call or at least may start seeing popups in your browser on any http (not https) traffic.

From Comcast: The Terabyte Internet Data Usage Plan is a new data usage plan for XFINITY Internet service that provides you with a terabyte (1 TB or 1024 GB) of Internet data usage each month as part of your monthly service. If you choose to use more than 1 TB in a month, we will automatically add blocks of 50 GB to your account for an additional fee of $10 each. Your charges, however, will not exceed $200 each month, no matter how much you use. And, we're offering you two courtesy months, so you will not be billed the first two times you exceed a terabyte.

Also, All customers in locations with an Internet Data Usage Plan receive a terabyte per month, regardless of their Internet tier of service. and The data usage plan does not currently apply to XFINITY Internet customers on our Gigabit Pro tier of service. The plan also does not apply to Business Internet customers, customers on Bulk Internet agreements, and customers with Prepaid Internet.
One can engrave QR codes with a lasercutter. I've used them to provide a link to where to download the source files, for making more or to integrated the design with other objects based on the CAD sources.
This was primarily to be read by humans, but one can imagine the same structure readable by machines.
I don't know much about OS X except that they use the Mach-O executable format (unlike PE in the article), but I know that the ELF format as used on Linux and many other unixes is similar in that it also has a section where the code resides, so they can encrypt only that part. And inserting checks into the code is also portable of course.

It would have been interesting if they had talked about different platforms, but alas, it's quite a superficial article...
So is it actually faster than file(1)? How much? It's weird that the speed is being advertised as the primary feature, but there's no benchmark.

BTW, file(1) has the -e/--exclude option, which can speed it up a bit.
Once I filed for travel insurance after my travel plans to Patagonia were delayed by a blizzard.

Getting there required 3 separate flights and 2-hr cab ride in the middle of nowhere Chile, which cost like $200.

After Kafkaesque paperwork my claim was initially denied. They said I didn't have my boarding pass from the 3rd flight (first 2 legs were Air Canada, easy to reproduce, but the third was some small, domestic Chilean airline with a barely-there website and a Spanish-only hotline).

Who saves a boarding pass at the start of a 2-week hiking trip through the Patagonian wilderness? Why is that third flight stub necessary, since I'm asking to be reimbursed for the cab ride when I got there (which I have documented proof for)?

I had to arrange for a conference call with a Spanish translator and the insurer (srsly), and eventually they paid up. But how many people go that far? It felt like the plot of "The Rainmaker".

The only other time I had to use travel insurance was when I lost my brand new iPod while changing planes in Seoul, South Korea. Even though the insurance covered "lost or stolen" they claimed they couldn't reimburse me because I hadn't filed a police report with the South Korean airport police (it was the middle of the night, I don't speak Korean and I didn't realize it was gone until later). And why do I need to have a police report if it was lost?

So I can definitely sympathize with how unscrupulous these travel insurance rackets are. That being said, I don't think asking him to fly home was that unreasonable. How are they supposed to validate the care he's getting there? He just going to dictate his care and hand over a massive bill from Singapore?

But usually this involves taking them to court and getting a settlement.
The only issue I see is money laundering. Under the First Amendment I could care less if Warren Buffett slaps a few billion down on a campaign. What I do care about is quid pro quo using donations to launder money into the coffers of purported campaign contractors.
Depends what you are modeling. The probabilities of random disk failures, are probably independent.

However, there are risks that are not necessarily independent such as the US Government ordering these two services to delete your data, or, as the article mentions, an armed conflict destroying data centers.
> Its suspected P lies entirely within BQP.

It's actually known that BQP contains P[1]. It also contains BPP. What's not known is the relationship between BQP and NP (most experts suspect there's no containment in either direction).

[1] See this for an easy proof: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~vazirani/f04quantum/notes/...
The attackers are literally already able to run arbitrary code on the same machine, which is normally game over from a security perspective. Your secure webdev libraries also break under the same constraints.
Videogame cheat developer here (although, not for the game mentioned in the article) -- The mentality of game companies is if the 'evidence' of the anti-cheat flag is made accessible to users, cheat devs will use the same evidence to overcome the existing detections in place.

The oft-used 'arms race' analogy for this would be like sending blueprints of your newly-fabricated weapons to the adversary.
Saying that 6502 is useless is a bit harsh- I wouldn't call it an employable skill, but it's great for hobbyists who are into retrocomputing (like me).

You could deep dive into x86_64 or ARM, but in the general case you would never actually code in those (i.e., most folks trust the compiler) unless you were writing a driver or writing something with crazy performance like MenuetOS.
Please don't toss around stereotyping caricatures.
I really want to believe all this effort better be spent into fixing cheating. Either by tweaking game mechanics so cheating provides no meaningful gain (and just gets boring) or by tweaking other participating nodes (servers or other clients) into not accepting situations that should be impossible.

I don't know anything about LoL, though.
This. Even if everyone started their new projects with Vue today, there will be legacy React codebases out in the wild for a long time to come.

> PHP + jQuery applications.

As much as people like to detract, Wordpress and friends power a significant portion of the web. The PHP market is pretty big.
Yes, the article is being a little vague with quantifiers. Let L be a language. L is in BPP if there exist a probabilistic, polynomial time TM such that:

For every input x in L, M on x outputs YES with probability close to one.

For every input x not in L, M outputs NO with probability close to one.

Notice that the input is quantified by "for every" x. The probability in BPP (and thus the error) is only over the random coin tosses that the algorithm uses, not the inputs. This gives our intuition for BPP = P: we can completely eliminate the error using a sufficiently high-quality pseudorandom generator (PRG).

We believe that P = BPP because we believe high-quality PRGs exist. More precisely, we can construct such PRGs if there are problems in exponential time that require exponential time even "with advice".

Advice is arbitrary information associated with each input length of a problem -- it could even be uncomputable. That is, on all inputs of length n, I get access to a specific string of length poly(n), for instance. That's one string per input length mind, not per input -- if it was per input I could just give you the answer.

So such a lower bound is like saying that a certain problem in exponential time is really exponential; there is no strange "compression scheme" that could give us some weird information about all inputs of length n and admit a sub-exponential time solution to the problem.

Intuitively, it would be super weird if advice let us cut down on computation time so dramatically. Formally, there are strange consequences if advice is powerful. For instance, if NP is contained in P with polynomial-length advice, PH collapses to the second level (the Karp-Lipton Theorem).

On Heuristics:

A heuristic is a different notion of complexity: we would instead say for most inputs x, or for any efficiently sample-able distribution over inputs x, the algorithm is correct with high probability. This notion makes perfect sense when combined with deterministic algorithms or with randomized algorithms. In the deterministic setting, the probability is only over the inputs. In the randomized setting, we have a joint probability over inputs and tossed coins.
>There's a lot of myth out there about upstream DNS resolvers not honoring low TTLs, but we find that it's very reliable

I've done a few unplanned DNS failovers, and I agree with this. What can be real trouble though is if you're running a B2B app, and your customers corporate networks can be configured in any strange way. I've met real network admins who think they need to have high TTLs everywhere in order to protect themselves from root DNS DDoSes.
As far as I can tell Stripe is very much aware that they are a one product company, and all this is just part of their larger content marketing and "become popular in the industry" strategy.
Dynamic Kubernetes Client for Ansible
The problems with crypto-currencies being widely adopted are the same as the benefits. While people who understand the benefits like it, the same could be said for cash, which is widely going away and had far better adoption.

1. Loss aversion - You lose your bitcoin wallet you lose everything. You can't have that with large amounts of money or you'll bankrupt people.

2. Anonymity - Thieves can steal money, and to get it back you have to expose yourself and claim the money, if you're lucky enough to get it back at all. Governments can also very easily track users.

3. Decentralized - You have no one single person to punish when things go wrong, or seek help from. You're alone just like everyone else.
> It's a trade off since Doctors have a habit of using their prescription power to force you to schedule unnecessary visits to boost profits and they are not immune from marketing pressure.

Citation needed. I'm sure are a few doctors out there who do that, but I have a hard time believing that's so widespread that it's a "habit" of "doctors." For instance, my doctor will reissue my long-term prescription if I call him, the next I hear of it is when the pharmacy sends me a notification saying it's ready.

That said, I'm sure there are prescriptions that actually do require regular long term medical monitoring by a professional, even if a lot of people are annoyed by that and therefore think it's unnecessary.
Yes, why hasn't this arisen naturally? Are the potential profits too low to collect the meager income of many low-wage Americans and then redistribute the gains over time?
To be charitable, the Fed runs the money supply, but they don't control who gets the money. It's the job of Congress to regulate corporations and unions and minimum-wage and all that jazz.
What you describe is very similar to "Warden", Blizzard's anti-cheat system. I'm not sure how up to date this article is but it talks about how it works and approaches to working around it https://hackmag.com/uncategorized/deceiving-blizzard-warden/
Did this end up going anywhere interesting? As written up, it sounds like an attempt to simplify programming that would just turn into a "turtles all the way down" problem.
Massive multi-hour data outage on AT&T LTE
It's the opposite.
Me too...started reading some stock investing/trading books. What lingo and complexities.
Monogamy solved this problem and at the same time allowed for pairbonding and family formation.

The discussions in the article sound like type of commodification and alienation that would have Marx spinning in his grave.
Does this count? https://github.com/nixpulvis/parser-combinator
Huge fan of the framework and been using it for an year now. My biggest complaint though is the speed at which things move. See for example this PR[1] : it has been reviewed and approved since early January of this year. That's 7 months without it being merged.

1:https://github.com/vuejs/vuex/pull/1121
> It’s so strange, the people who would most benefit from universal healthcare (and those that currently do, like Medicare beneficiaries) tend to be the strongest objectors to it, citing hard-to-understand ideological reasons.

It's not so strange if you allow yourself to question the assumption that they'd benefit from it in the first place.

Medicare is a great example. Patients can opt to receive their Medicare inpatient and outpatient coverage through a private plan instead of through the government-managed plan. Since this program was introduced, it's gained popularity rapidly, over a third of Medicare beneficiaries receive their benefits from private plans. Many private plans are the same price as Medicare or cheaper.

From the data, the private plans beat government-managed plans on the three major metrics: medical outcomes, cost, and patient satisfaction. On the last one, the difference isn't even close: the worst of the major private plans (by patient satisfaction scores) still manages higher scores than Original Medicare does.

People who haven't ever dealt with Medicare themselves directly (which includes most HN commenters) find this hard to understand, but it really isn't: dealing with Medicare is awful. I could give you my personal anecdotes, but they'd overfill the comment length on HN, and again, at the end of the day, the numbers speak for themselves. Medicare beneficiaries themselves are turning to private plans to replace their government-managed plans, so it's really not surprising if they're not the biggest advocates of expanding government-managed plans.
Who says you can't have both? I spend a lot of my day in a console/terminal window, but I'm not about to use Lynx for the bulk of my web browsing.

As for TFA, this is astoundingly overdue. This most recent gig involves using Windows for the first time in years. No worries, I'll load that new WSL I've been hearing about. Hey, look! A bash shell! On Windows! What will they think of next?

Except it's wrapped in a Windows console, which blows goats just as much as it ever did, the evidence list for which I need not repeat. MSFT can make some damned nice GUIs for simplifying complicated tasks. I guess the fallout is that their text-based UIs don't get as much love.
cool , thank you!
Seconding this.

Back in the 50's and 60's, the top Tour de France contenders would tell people not to eat or drink anything before or during a race, for fear that their stomach would start digestion and rob them of power. Several of them died on the tour essentially of exertion and dehydration.

Your body will not tell you when you are dehydrated until it is too late. Your mind can get clouded, you can get delusional, and then lost. You might try to wander around and an accident will happen. Or you might get really tired and decide to sit down and wait for someone to come by you. It's just stupid to go out for multi-hour hikes or runs in the wilderness without the essentials (such as water).
The average American has no particular reason to stick with a "savings account". They could buy equities and ETFs that are as simple as savings accounts.
A company called Grammofy tried to do this, it was good, but then they ran out of money. They’re back in some capacity but now tied to Spotify.
to lose a file, we have to have four drives fail before we had a chance to rebuild the first one.

I wonder how many times they've had 2 or 3 drives fail before they've rebuilt and if that matches their predictions.
You could also have a bad batch of drives, causing a bunch of failures to happen over the period of a couple of months. Sources of failure don't take a number. Like in your example, they can and will overlap, which is why when we try to design bullet proof systems we aren't satisfied until every bad even requires a number of separate things to go wrong all at once.

But if you have faulty power or bad hardware chipping away at your equipment, your depth of resiliency is degraded until the issue is corrected.
I learned to do the exact same thing and use it in the exact same way, except that I'm on 15mg XR. (The perils of being a programmer AND a gamer...)

20mg XR caused me to have long term memory loss due to REM sleep disturbance, which caused both work issues AND personal relationship issues, so I had to downgrade. Sadly those 30lbs I lost while on 20, came right back...
So basically if you're literally money laundering for cartels like HSBC, it's cool you've got plenty of time, but if you're a bit player for charity you should be blocked? Doesn't sound legit to me.
Test REST APIs Requiring Authentication in VS Code Using REST Client
Please no, leave that to js.

Why can't they just let devs embed their own garbage collector? Isn't he role of an assembly language to let the developer do stuff at a low level?
it might be more... but its still clearly not much. How many people with macbooks do you ever see pop open the terminal? I've seen even developers who've never had more than the most minimal interaction with command line interfaces. The normal person has likely not had even that much, and isn't going to switch unless absolutely forced to.

It might be the right thing, but relatively few actually recognize it as such, even if developers often do.
The link to the .pdf seems to be broken though.
I even have friends who are accountants / actively participate and I get nothing but mixed messages.
Reason for downvote: you seem to have no clue about blockchain or cheater.dll whatsoever.
What you care about, and what the public has a right to know, don't have to be the same.
Bringing a small pocket-sized solar water distiller with you could make a difference in that case.
I have yet to attempt it in Cycles or Non-Commercial RenderMan for Blender yet. It's on my to do list. If I do it or find someone else that has.. I will make a new post.
Prime is cheap because Amazon is still trying to acquire their market in India and can afford to lose money for a while. Contrary to what OP said, cable TV with HD, and most of the channels that a family would need is definitely more expensive than Netflix.
Note that this is an official Windows feature and it is the OS that executes the firmware-provided crapware in the first place. It should provide an option to turn it off.

Of course, malicious firmware doesn't really depend on the OS's cooperation. It would just be harder to implement and the result a lot more flaky.
I’m guess I am assuming that it would be freed at the end of the scope. As I said upthread, it’s entirely possible that I’m incorrect here.

This kind of thing happens in Ruby a lot; the VM will allocate stuff through malloc that never actually hits the GC; see Aaron Patterson's work.
I think what you are getting at is that it's impossible to 100% fully prevent cheating. This is true, but I don't think that's the goal; the goal is to make it difficult enough that it's not worth the effort. The value gained from cheating in a video game is low enough that the vast majority of people would not be willing to go through such lengths to do so.
The best way to prevent cheating is by streaming games. Game streaming services are the future of multiplayer games. Edit: I mean cloud gaming like OnLive, not Twitch.