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That's why people say look at them like lottery tickets.
There's many factors that go into whether or not they are worth anything - dilution and whether or not the startup is successful. The successful startup part needs good management, good demand for product, competitive against competitors.

> I was asked to take roughly 40% pay cut now and expect 10X increase

Of course you were.
They are selling you on the dream, the best case scenario, etc.
The hard part is that no-one is intentionally or literally defrauding, but it is up to every person what terms they agree to.
You mean they can see local history? Sure, but that’s true in most browsers. That’s nothing to do with your signed in state, right?
Thanks for that! That actually looks quite promising for my goals. Just gotta figure out student aid or loans for random expenses haha :)
* by this metric
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I also find this sort of thing very telling, about a residential estate many considered to be some of the finest the movement had to offer -

"The campaign to save Robin Hood Gardens drew very little support from those who actually had to live in the building, with more than 75% of residents supporting its demolition when consulted by the local authority."
The situation is bad for Shapefiles because people forget to export the prj file and it can get lost in the process of transformation. I feel your frustration - it's just a very old format which encodes data into 4 different files.

This however, has nothing to do with PostGIS. PostGIS will ingest any geo data you give it. and if you don't know the SRID you can use -1. As for the problem of Shapefiles there are better alternative formats now like geojson and spatialite based geodatabases that encode SRID in a single file.
venture capital deals and startup financing to give both first-time and experienced entrepreneurs a guide to secure funding.
So let's say I am hired by a startup and I am getting half the industry salary rate for my role. What kind of "stock/share/esop/options" I should ask for that changes like a founder's would?

Of course it will be a lot less than the founder's (and it will be fulfilled in stages) but iff, let's assume, I want to get that "kind" of "share" of that startup what it would be? Is there a specific term for it? Or it varies from company to company? Unless it it's public where's it's the "share", right?

edit: any recommended reading on this?
The reason why static linking has been all but banned is security and bug fixes: with static linking, the bugs and performance issues are fused into the resulting binary; fixes to libc will require a complete re-build. If you're delivering static binaries for embedded firmware images, this will quickly turn into a security maintenance nightmare, especially for end users of the final product.

Linking dynamically with libc will never be an issue on illumos- or any real UNIX-based operating system because libc includes all previous interface versions and can therefore guarantee that it is backward compatible.

Long story short: develop and build your software on an illumos-based operating system like OmniOS or SmartOS and dynamically link only with libc and you won't have to worry about static linking for convenience delivery: link on the oldest version of SmartOS and sleep well at night knowing your application will work on the latest nightly build. As an added bonus, your binary will be smaller and the runtime linker will only mmap(2) the required code pages out of libc into memory.

http://garrett.damore.org/2015/09/on-go-portability-and-syst...
FastMail IMO are one of the best email providers, by far.
Their web GUI is fantastic and support teams are responsive and well versed.
It seems to me that one big problem with US zoning is the unwillingness to mix industrial, residential, and commercial properties in the same area. In many places in Europe it is possible to live without a car simply because one can walk to work and to the supermarket.
> Still searching for a good Android mail app...

K-9 Mail has served me very well over the years!

https://k9mail.github.io/about.html

Edit: Highlights for me:

- IMAP Idle support: e-mails appear instantly, configurable on a by-folder basis.

- Mature and stable: it's been around forever, updates are infrequent, it just works.

- Free software: apache license

- No fanciness: it is very traditional-email oriented. The only "fancy" feature is a unified inbox (showing mails from all your folders), and it can be turned off.

If your e-mail is "complicated" you'll have to spend a bit of time setting everything up. For instance, my server classifies e-mail as it arrives, and I setup different synchronization schedules and notification preferences for different folders. Best time investment of my life.
There is a huge problem with the way our economy and legal system views technology.

Software is made up of code, it's bits of information; in its simplest forms, code can be like math formulae; an elegant algorithm or architecture is more like something you know than something you have. Many algorithms are in the public domain but the majority of the world's most important code is not in the public domain.

Unfortunately the law doesn't regard computer code as knowledge, it regards it as an asset that can be protected as private property - That's why today we have insane monopolies that are seemingly impossible to take down. The world's most important code should be in the public domain and belong to anyone who cares to learn it.
BlueMail is a pretty decent Android email client. :)
Sorry, can you go into more detail? I don't understand your concern.
In what ways does society insist that to be feminine is to be a failure, to be oppressed and to not live up to your potential?

TBH I'm not sure exactly what point you are trying to make. If it is that society is against femininity as a concept, then I disagree.
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I use Mail-in-a-Box on my own server. It's free, open source, and well maintained.

[1]: https://mailinabox.email
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I really have only one question... why did you kept doing more startups as employee? I totally understand people doing this as a founder but just don't get it otherwise.
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I wonder whether anyone tried to build it with open-source versions of the ninja and other tools, not blobs?
Normalization layer?

This opens up possibility of using something else than softmax in there.
> Budgies love their cages. They clean them, they rearrange them, they make them into a perfect environment in any way they can.

Not to be insensitive, but this is a fallacious conclusion. The lab I worked at did fatal experiments on rodents who were also kept in cages. Some of them were known to personalize their cages after they were rearranged by humans. Human prisoners are known to do the same thing to their cells. Many inmates fill their cells with personal belongings and arrange things until they are satisfied. We can't really conclude that rats, inmates or budgies love their cages.

Eventually a limiting environment can start to feel like home. It's possible that the animal would choose to stay in a limiting environment as opposed to being released in the wild, because they are literally unfit for the wild.
The ‘code’ to Facebook and google, if one can say there is such a thing, is not particularly important. Their control of their networks and IP is important. Reading various code to Facebook would not enable me to create a competitor to Facebook in any way.
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Own server with https://mailinabox.email/. I don't use it but some friends use it successfully for years
Zoho Mail is a strong option. Comes with mobile apps, supports all standard protocols (IMAP/POP/ActiveSync), includes Calendar and many other modules. Zero tracking. Zero ads.

Beyond Mail, Zoho offers several apps that can replace most of what Google offers. From Docs to office suite, note-taking to chat and many more.

(Disclosure: I am with Zoho)
AFAIK Google doesn't do that anymore.

Source: https://www.blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-tractio...
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I binged "Sundiver" and "Startide Rising" over the last two weeks, and currently I'm well into "The Uplift War", and planning to continue on with the remaining three books. I love the universe so far.

Fun fact, in "The Uplift War" (1987!) I found what looks like a reference to cryptocurrencies:

"The money inside was GalCoin, untraceable and unquestionable throughout war and turmoil, for it was backed by the contents of the Great Library itself."
Good point. But that would be me taking over the work of the OOM killer. It's possible for the app to hit 80% memory usage without causing OOM, when there's no other expensive process starting or demanding more memory. That's why I defer to the OOM killer. Also if the app hits 80% memory usage it's probably at its peak activity. Restart and it will quickly climb to >= 80% again. It will be restart games at peak activity, which won't be good at all.
They hired some homeless people, it worked well, so they started a charity? I don't understand the point of the charity, I can't find their financial records on the IRS website or their own.
Those can be stripped out, and the email sold or whatever.
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From your experience.
I think you misunderstood my comment. I don't want to collect that information. All I need is anonymous crash stacks and possibly some general statistics (number of users on various app versions and Android versions). Google was collecting extra information without me even being aware of it, until they removed my apps for the store. I want to collect as minimum information as possible for me to effectively maintain the apps. I have no use for personal information or any identifiers. But Google probably wants it and that's why Firebase collects it by default.
I have terrible results with mobile safari suggesting items from my bookmarks. I constantly try to go to reddit and get auto completion of a different website that starts with ‘re’, repeatedly. I’ve tried to combat this to no avail.
“If you have a parrot and you don’t teach it to say, ‘Help, they’ve turned me into a parrot’, you are wasting everybody’s time.”

— Julia Segal (@juliasegal)

https://twitter.com/juliasegal/statuses/25763973055
“Don’t forget not to be evil”

I don’t believe the founders have had personality transplant, so why has google become evil?
And mine runs a 2018 build of LineageOS but the bank apps don't trust it because it is rooted.

We're approaching a point of lockdown where Google and Apple win the war against general-purpose computing. I don't know what I'll do then, perhaps just keep a vanilla Android device in a drawer purely for running apps that I need? But I'd better keep it updated or else the apps may refuse to run. And with an app-only bank that's a scary scenario.
There is some value in learning how to make a convincing lie. This is what you do if you are sane. You write up a paper about how communism is better, or about how white males are the cause of all badness, or whatever it is that the instructor desires. You don't have to believe a word of it.

Practicing this skill isn't worth giving up 2.5% of your life and the cost of a 3-bedroom house. It has absolutely nothing to do with the STEM education that one needs for many jobs in the modern workplace.
Thanks for the detailed explanation!
You might be interested in https://thorny.io - an interactive notebook for decision-making.

It's purpose is to capture design-rationale and bring it to life so that as you refine your reasoning, the changes ripple through your decisions. It can help communicating complicated design decisions that can be awkward to capture in prose.

It's intended to be very low-friction so more like markdown than old requirements management or decision support systems. My dream is that it can help us tackle decisions so complicated we usually give-up e.g. when multiple decisions impact each other.

I am currently in beta and I'd love to talk to anyone interested in the topic. Please drop me a line at duncan at thorny.io.
Not on Android, and not when you install some other piece of software that surreptitiously bundles Chrome and sets it to default: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1053973
I’ve been using Fastmail for my personal email for the past four years, and love it. Really reliable, fast, and allows me to keep a personal email without all of the Google Apps stuff.
I'm very surprised about the title (or the content, really).

I expected the tiny section Mental Health to make up the whole repo, since that is what I feel "survival" is all about. The rest of the links seem to be about how to write, present, etc. which are all about further success.
The biggest argument in favor of systemd that I heard was "it's installed everywhere." To me that's not a good enough argument. I mean, after I've said this people respond with another argument non-argument: it's the newest and looks like the future. I sincerely think that there's significant benefits to choosing and using systemd but good arguments for them haven't been made to me yet. Secondly, I've been using Monit for a while now, and like some of the comments below, it does exactly what I need. I use it to monitor other things apart from processes too and it meets my expectations over there too. I thought I should leverage my expertise when it came to Monit-oring a process.
The answer I heard (and believe) is that new quasi-life would get eaten immediately by some of the far more vigorous and robust life-forms that have already evolved.
This was the inspiration for "Extreme Programming":

You make a minimal cost mockup ASAP, for the client to try out, to see if it's what they wanted. Clients can't appreciate requirements, so (like, actual) architects make a scale model first.

The alternative, of doing requirements as a separate phase, was ridiculed as the "waterfall model". In reality, there's interactions between the so-called phases of req, spec, design, code, test, maintain etc.

The truth is that understanding the problem is most of the work - not just for the programming problem, but for the business problem. It's just difficult. And when the world changes, you just have to change with it. If you try to anticipate what's next, you'll invariably get it wrong.

Because the world is changing faster, software develoment has gone from beautifully engineered software that just keeps working, to slapped together solutions, and a fulltime team that runs alongside, slapping patches on patches, continuously.

What's the point of spending the time and money on beautiful engineering, if it's going to be scrapped tomorrow anyway (or even before it's finished)?

The only hope is for tools, libraries, frameworks and languages, that address lower levels of abstraction, that change less frequently. This isn't all good, but the JVM is one example.
You are right, I am very uneducated on this topic and only recently started reading.

Thank you for the link.
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Equity? No such thing over here.
App reviewers don't earn six figure salaries.

From accounts it is a low-level, call centre type role. Actually not far off a McDonalds cashier.
I've been with Zoho Mail for a few months now and have had a great experience with them so far! Great security features, calendar support, as well as DNS management. I've also heard good things about FastMail and Proton mail.

Compare and find out which service best suites your needs/budget.

https://www.zoho.com/mail/?zmc=zoho-fa
True, Apple's stated reasons are even simpler and more sensible: you can't advertise compatibility to a pre-GM application or device. That's part of the rules, and explicitly stated in the original rejection message.
I like the idea. I feel a lot better to pay monthly fee of something like $5 to not worry someone else is keeping me a diary I cannot look.
> Google developers claim this will not actually start synchronizing your data to Google — yet. See further below

The Julius Malema of tech. "We are not calling for the syncing of user data to our servers. At least not yet".
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I’m a heavy RSS consumer, but I’m absolutely in a minority. RSS features according to Mozilla’s own telemetry are used by an extreme minority of users (I can’t find the exact figures but certainly less than 0.5% of people), and are a fairly large and unmaintained part of a codebase that’s undergoing extensive modification. I’d far rather Mozilla expose some APIs and let people make RSS-based extensions than have it built in and getting in the way of performance work.
> if a certain book isn't working for you, try something else on the same topic

I spent a year with Baby Rudin in college, what would you recommend as a replacement fit for self study?
You just described the bank I want. Why oh why we can't have this?

For instance, right now I'm figuring out how to simply query my account balance in a non-interactive way, just to have it displayed on my machine. I basically have two options - try to drive a headless browser through full login process and scrap the main site, or reverse engineer whatever mechanism they have that lets their mobile app show my balance without logging in. Either way, I'm worried the bank will sack my account for breach of TOS, or "attempt at hacking", or some other bullshit.

Really, why can't I just get a token and query some API?
Glad they mention misinformation! When AirBnb was spamming craiglist with non existing rentals just to capture your email and send you to their website back then it wasnt illegal per se, but was obviously highly immoral despite Y investment (i get that PG and corp doesnt care about morals when the buck is to be made; why wouldnt they invest in for example Uber for abortions if down the road such unicorn can be passed on for a cool billion bucks). Today for such misinformation Airbnb would be booted out of craiglist and probably fined by Fcc. In Europe this is covered by GDPR now, as the law strictly forbids saying one thing, and doing something totally different with captured information.
That's worrying and also really surprising. If you have the time, would you mind giving more details either here or by email? (my email is in my profile)

Disclaimer: I work for a cybersecurity startup. Also a Monzo customer.
Alcohol and pot, yes, though use of the two are common because of addiction and self-medication. The other two, no.
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Those days I just sketch wireframes in a Google Slides presentation.

Bonus point for the interactivity: I can share the URL for remote work sessions, and the stakeholders on the other end of the line can see me create/adapt wireframes and notes in real time, while I'm explaining everything on the phone (using anonymous access for those not logged into 'The Google').

Google Docs has version management since this year (I think), so I can pinpoint the evolution of specifications over the time. When I'm done I'll just export a PDF and attach to a "Spec done!" mail to everyone.
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OP here. You're right. The processed outputs and the recorded tracks are expected to be available <= 2s after the stream ends. That forces our hand to not be able to use memory conservatively. For example, one way to avoid massive memory usage will be to record concurrently (this has small memory footprint since we flush to disk after the write buffer hits 512KB so for about 50 concurrent recordings we need ~25MB), but process and upload sequentially. The recorded audio tracks are big, and have to be loaded to memory since the other tools we use for processing can't work with file on disk yet. The <= 2s requirement is impossible to meet when things are done sequentially.
This is way big of a project. There are so many promising approches, to put that much money into one very long very expensive mega project.

An international competition with a wider array of technology and more iterative could have achived more.

If you look how far some organisations get with tiny amounts of funding.
Same here! I moved my company email from google apps to Zoho a couple of months ago, and I'm not coming back. Reasonable pricing, plenty of features, quick (and human!) responses to support tickets.

Will do the same with personal email soon.
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A couple years ago I asked HN for shopping suggestions for my next trip to Japan[1]. This is a shorter trip (one week) and I will be in Tokyo.
Is there anything (electronic or not) that is really difficult or expensive to buy outside of Japan, and does not require fluency in the language to use/enjoy?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11213143
Hang in. You could ask people “do you want to pay taxes?” And get a similar result. Doesn’t mean we should get rid of taxes.
This is a very underrated comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18055053

I've came to this conclusion on my own years ago.

I wholeheartedly agree that there are books whose authors don't understand the subject.

There is no other explanation for writing books so badly.

I keep thinking that if you know a subject well enough, you'll surely be able to write a comprehensible book on it, be it maths or anything else. They say that Feynman said something similar: "If you can't explain this to kids, you don't understand it well enough".
Not sure if I agree completely with that cause advanced math. subjects typically require prior knowledge (just the way it is, no way around it), but the concepts.. perhaps you can explain them to a certain degree.
Some times, at least in maths, older literature is written in such a better way, it's unbelievable. Modern literature is terse and dry. This is the skeleton:
-definitions
-some axioms that we take for granted
-theorems based on the previous two
-and (usually) the simplest examples the authors can find

And then a list of exercises. Some of them extremely simple, some of them postdoc. research (say, Engelking's topology exercises - if you can solve them all, you can probably publish double digit amount of papers)

There's usually no explanation, no historic importance of certain results, no motivation for what truly moved the mathematician to discover/invent that, and so on.

It's like we don't get to the bottom of things, only to the surface..
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The great thing about Singapore (and Kuala Lumpur) is that you can travel to other countries easily and cheaply.

That said, Singapore has some of the best cocktail bars in the world (they can keep up with New York & London), lively museum scene, incredible amount of parks and outdoor areas, etc.

When I lived in Singapore, we BBQ'd in a different park by the water every weekend and if we weren't eating, we were trekking around the different parks and nature reserves.

Stay away from CBD - like most Singaporeans do - and you'll find lots to do. That said, yes, its not as wild as Jakarta or Bangkok.
Honestly, I think most of society has a big blind spot on child education.

I would wager most of society reckons child education - whether a book writer, media creator or a school teacher - is a pretty basic and run of the mill sort of job/thing to do.

But more and more I'm seeing that it's a profession and an area that really requires a lot more thought and need for well trained professionals being given space to do their thing just like any other professions.

Unfortunately, I really don't think people give them much respect, and/or funding for that matter.