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> Let's say an investor wants to invest $1 million. If you sell your shares, it will be a taxable event. You'll pay ~$350k in taxes to the government and keep $650k. On the other hand, if you dilute everybody, that $350k can be used by the company to pay salaries for 2 more programmers for another year.

I'm a solo founder who owns 100% of the company, and I forgot how Stripe Atlas set it up for me. My company has a total of 10 million shares, and I purchased 8 million shares at the beginning, and left 2 million shares in the option pool for employees. So if I wanted to raise money, I'd need to issue more shares, instead of selling some of my own (which would be personal income.)

I'm not 100% sure how it works, but I still own those 2 million shares, even if I didn't purchase them. So I don't really know why I purchased 8 million shares, instead of 1 million, or even just 100 shares.

Then if someone wanted to invest $1M, the company could just give them some of the ~unissued~ authorized shares. So I wouldn't need to sell any of my own shares or issue new ones.

Is there any reason why that wouldn't work?

EDIT: Ohhhhhhhh that's exactly how it works already. I got confused between authorized and issued shares. This quora answer helped me understand it: https://qr.ae/TUfj33

Also this Stripe Atlas guide: https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/equity#why-dont-companies-im...

I think it's still a bit annoying that Stripe Atlas only authorized 10 million shares for me, and I already issued 8 million to myself. It sounds like I will have to do some legal work to authorize additional shares for investors in the future.
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This should be the best course of action before diving into technical aspect. Look for any updated business documentations. If there aren't any, ask the users of systems to find use cases and replicate them in dev system. Try to document the business flow and emulate any hidden behaviors. Last, open the codebase and matching business process with code, and comment everything possible.

Then you can begin fixing or refactoring with use cases / test cases in hand. If time isn't possible for that, try to shift the responsibility to the one giving you task (pm).
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Not only electrolytes but the lack of fibre is also a big problem when you fast more than a few days.

Body needs fibre to maintain a healthy gut flora. So when the body lose the flora, it will struggle to digest the food, take the vitamins and nutritions from it etc. at the end of the fasting period.

This is not only something I read from articles but also something I have experienced for a long time by the way. So please bear that in mind, keep your gut flora healthy and your life will be easier.
Well, it kinda is. AFAIK, that’s exactly what this was made for, and Intel/McAfee was going to create a DPI device using this tech. That never happened, and now Snort uses/will use hyperscan for its pattern matcher
Then you should take a look at Flattr <https://flattr.com/>. They are older than Patreon (although they never got the same level of widespread use as Patreon) and they operate in exactly the manner you describe.
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Going for a long period of time without water is intuitively a bad idea for your health. I think this is the reason for this study being water-only.

It also makes sense from religious perspective, since a religion will prepare you for another life which is only attainable by dying, with no apparent intention to give you a good and healthy life on Earth.
Now there's spam as well. Progress!
Companies need to leave the policing to the police. Also, hate speech is not illegal in USA, nor should it be. It is a complicated issue - everything that is wrong should not be illegal or banned.
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Yikes, you are totally right. Fixed
"Only 14% of drugs that are tested on humans succeed in demonstrating effectiveness[1], and all of these are drugs that have been found efficacious in animals, so successful animal studies are very far from a guarantee by themselves."

Regardless of the reason, this seems fine/workable. Animal studies are a step in the funnel. I assume the step from petri dish to mouse is similar.

I wonder how many false negatives get produced. Drugs which would have worked on humans, but don't on mice, for similar reasons.
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I've lived in places where you sort them, you have a larger container then put bottles etc in bags in that.
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In most ares of the US, it is illegal to charge to use the restroom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_to_End_Pay_Toilets_i...
It's how wild animals that are wounded or sick heal. How is this "folkloric nonsense"?
There are other solutions besides crazy expensive vandal-proof high-tech toilets. Just look at what they do in Europe.

* Large Public restrooms in busy city centers and transit hubs where you have attendants constantly cleaning the place and charge people to use the facilities.

* Outdoor public urinals that are little more than a drain and a shield. This is an 80% solution that solves the problem of stinking alleys. Much of the time men just need a place to leak during a night of drinking. Women are way better about finding and getting permission to use private restrooms at shops/restaurants.
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Better yet, if you’re trying to be employee #1, have the founders frontload some of your year 1 salary as a cash bonus to cover early-exercise.
I think you have a very fundamental misunderstanding here.

When you ask for a pure Python loop, for example, you are directly saying you want something like the iterator protocol of Python, inclusive of its overhead, because your use case needs the dynanic behaviors, overloading via custom iterators, whatever. You’re directly saying the performance trade-off is worth it for you personally because a low overhead C-style loop won’t give you the extra features of e.g. the iterator protocol that matters more to you.

When you say, but my use case doesn’t need the iterator protocol, then you just write that piece of code in Cython or use a nopython numba jit call, etc., because you want to make your trade-off differently in that single case.

You’re essentially saying, “how do I make a triangle with 5 sides,” by requesting a pure Python section of code to not be pure Python.

On a side note though, you can take pure Python code and compile it directly with Cython, with no modifications, and in many cases it will still be quite faster because it can compile away some types of attribute accesses, overhead of boolean logical checks as function calls, and also reduce function call overhead for many standard library functions or data structures that are already implemented as C extension modules (by bypassing some of the method lookup logic to avoid checks on PyFunction objects in CPython).

Usually this is a recommended first step before ever adding a type annotation or doing anything more difficult.

Finally, just to be clear, numba (and tools using llvmlite more generally) don’t worry about this, since they perform static type inference and have other rules about enforcing static types when jitting a Python code segment.
Sorry if I read something into your post that you didn’t intend to say. Lack of profit is often used as an argument against public transport in discussions, especially from people who grew up in places where cars ar the norm, petrol is cheap and there is no real public transport (e.g. the US).

Sorry if I misrepresented your post.
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I've found that flexbox is even more flexible (no pun intended) for making grids.
Go anywhere in Europe or in the US, people eat basically the same things. Globalisation took care of it, there might be some local variants, especially in rural areas, but in big cities there is close to no differences between NY, SF, London, Paris, Athens and Berlin.

At the end of the day >50% of people in Europe and in the US are overweight or obese. Every country adopting our diets are following the trend, have a look at Latin america and Maghreb.

We can argue all day long about the details but it doesn't change the facts that we're fucking up in major ways.

I'm not talking about traditional dishes that take 24 hours to prepare and that you eat once a month when you visit your grandma, I'm talking about what people actually put in their mouth days in days out, and it's frozen junk, fast food, over processed meat, excessive amount of carbs, etc ...

Damn, my colleagues can't stop asking me why I eat "so healthy" but I just eat fresh food / things I cook myself. There are 300-400 people in my office, we're literally ~20 to do that.

- http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/noncommunicable-dis...

- http://www.ipsnews.net/2018/11/alert-hunger-obesity-rise-lat...
I'm not aware of an official policy - I think it's down to the local organisers. I sometimes went to the London one and they had fairly mainstream tech talks similar to other tech meetups.
The website says "Featured on YCombinator" which might lead people to believe this was a YC funded project. Is it? If not, I believe there are rules against using their branding in that way.

That said, this is a nice tool. I was going to ask how it differentiated from WebFlow, but it is open source. It is nice to see more tools in this area.
Anecdotally, I follow a big con each year-DragonCon-and the warm fuzzy feeling during and after seems real to me. Part of it is the planning and build up the months leading to it, and seeing old friends and stuff, and part is being part of a cool, time boxed community.

I would love to see a study of this effect.
Not quite right, in other languages you (a) can't, and (b) don't have to (thankfully).

The compiler doing my offsetting for me using type information is much safer and more reliable.
I'll be interested to hear. I'm going to start a 14 day water fast in about two weeks, and plan to do some light workouts while doing it.
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If you donate the money, that changes the dynamic of the experiment.

How would you differentiate between cash grab and social experiment?
It's all well and good saying he was wrong but the principles he outlines have been largely vindicated by the market.

Many things worked fine 30 years ago and yet have been immeasurably improved since - it's a tempting argument to not fix that which isn't broken, but ultimately a weak one. Also, there is little point in comparing computers, phones and car interiors. Incorporating physical buttons on phones involves a significant trade-off that is not an issue with computers. Car interiors are a different matter entirely. A more appropriate comparison might be conventional TV remotes vs the Apple TV remote. I've found the latter to be much more user friendly and intuitive.
These text boxes are not great...even on my 4k monitor I have to click the scroller at the bottom to see 1/2 of your longest bullet points; must be even worse on mobile. Better to just write it in plain text instead of a box.
That is actually a more recent (~20 years?) development. You cannot say anything about the quality of restrooms, but it is basically one company (Sanifair) for all of Germany that established a monopoly. People working there are often sub-contractors with bad working conditions. You get a coupon for the price you paid to exchange against wares at the local gas stop.

The coupon was created to get acceptance for paying, which wasn't common a few years back, but most of them never get redeemed. It is a business worth billions.

Unfortunately people tend to fall for coupons of any kind because they suggest you could save money.
This. The most refreshing thing I felt when Chrome came out in 2008 was that it let me treat a webpage as an application _per se_, instead of a document being opened by an application (i.e. the browser).
Seems super niche. eg only works for things which are primarily a website or video
They said protein because that would also include such things as tofu, fish, and eggs; none of which are commonly called "meat". You're being overly restrictive by trying to move to the term meat.
So basically a dollar auction except the richest person always wins?
If you're going to abuse the definition of public vs. private that much, receiving a child tax credit makes me a publicly owned entity, which means I can't tell my kids not to be rude to their mother.

TARP wound up making a small profit in the end, incidentally.
I've used Liberapay to donate to the Matrix.org project[1] for the past few years. It's a bit of a shame that the new Stripe integration is actually a direct bank transfer of your entire donation amount (in other words, recurring donations are actually lump sum donations).

This doesn't make a difference for most projects, but it is something to consider -- though Liberapay has always required a lump sum deposit into their accounts for recurring payments so I guess this is a safer setup.

[1]: https://en.liberapay.com/matrixdotorg/
An alternative implementation is to put the link structure at the beginning of the data structure. Then converting between one and the other is just a cast between the two types. This is a fairly standard technique in C to get some version of inheritance of structs, and how I have implement LLs in the past.

I don't see what this extra complexity of sizeof() offset calculations gains you.
This is a study of a new application of a drug that has already had very extensive trials in both humans and several species of animals that have demonstrated it to be safe (it's FDA approved for human use). I think you will find people dramatically less willing to test brand new drugs on their pets.
It's their choice to not compete with Patreon. See FAQ: https://en.liberapay.com/about/faq

"What are the differences between Liberapay and other recurrent crowdfunding platforms like Patreon?

1. Liberapay is only for donations, meaning that transactions must not be linked to a contract nor a promise of recompense."
There's an increasing amount of companies that are unfortunately using credit cards to track consumers. The only reliable option to 'opt-out' of tracking these days seems to be paying with cash.

I'm interested in hearing more about the point of sale tracking and facial recognition though. Was face recognition just being used to track customers around the store through to checkout? Or are you suggesting that 'face id' data was captured and shared alongside purchasing activity, tied to the individual to a 3rd party??
Or more people will discover they actually hate touchscreen keyboards, but they had no other option. Not everyone is like you.

It's not about bulk. I gladly traded display size for physical keyboard, on my BB KeyOne. This very comment is written on it, with pleasure.
Thameslink is a private franchise run for the government by a contractor to government specs.

Northern's timetable problems seem to stem from overrunning engineering work by the nationalised provider, coupled with stock shortages, and an insistence by the government on getting rid of guards

Admittably they don't help themselves by refusing to employ enough staff to run all the trains without requiring overtime, a hangover from the BR days.
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That's true, but it can be a lot of work to set up a new employee with benefits, stock options. Also maybe there's a signing bonus, a new laptop and other office equipment, relocation, visa sponsorship, etc.

I think it's better to start as an independent contractor (and work remotely.) Then there is the expectation that this is a short-term contract, unless everyone is happy and wants to continue working together.
Apple has a "monopoly" over the app store as much as Disney has a monopoly on Disney movies.
as safe/unsafe as everything else you have/lack enough experience. is lifting safe? depends on you, your experience and your knowledge about the topic at hand.
Different cultures different rules. Lynch all nggers may be protected by free speech but show a little skin and you're blacklisted.
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Walgreens probably still does those late night stickers for price changes, if anything needs to be digitized it would be that. For the benefit of the employees that have to do that painful mess of a price change constantly. Next time you visit a Walgreens or similar store and see tags everywhere just consider how much waste there is to do that every week, sometimes with the same prices just a new colored sticker.
Sure, let me know how that works out.
Its more than that, banking is a legally granted monopoly license (ie. Federal Reserve).

So they are enjoying all the perks of being government backed (protected monopoly + full bailout privileges), yet must endure none of the restrictions of a government agency. Best of both worlds.
Yes-- we need price information. A family member (US citizen) lives in Europe and has free government health care there, but you often have to wait several months to get treated. Instead of waiting, she thought she might just do needed cataract surgery in the US to get it done if it didn't cost too much. I called several medical centers that do cataract surgery for an estimate. Can't provide it. Can you give a ballpark range? No. Can you say if it's closer to $1k, $10k or $100k? No.
"In cases like this it's code for "grifting""

Are you accusing the pay per letter scheme of being grifting?

How? They aren't misleading anybody.
"The policy document attained by TechCrunch shows Facebook plans to take up to a 30 percent cut of subscription revenue minus fees, compared to 5 percent by Patreon, 30 percent by YouTube, which covers fees and 50 percent by Twitch."

Looks on par with other providers.
Not even. Only "charity" are tax deductible in France and not every Loi 1901 association are considered to be "charity". The state control the status that allow to be tax deductible and they strict rule about what your association need to be about to apply for it but also how it is organized.

Now, if you use Librapay to give to an association or an NGO that has the status, nothing prevent them from giving you the tax deduction proof that you are going to need to show the tax office.
Or a pleasant non-drug such as chamomile tea.
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Ok, who at the what?

Character can't conjure a peanut butter sandwich or rent for an apartment, what do you mean?
We discard aborted fetuses because they are "clump of cells" and Planned Parenthood already sells off their body parts, why not take the next logical leap and test in utero of a woman that doesn't want their baby?

(It's a serious question, regardless of the fact that society has reached the point where we do not apply intristic value to a baby inside the womb, only outside the womb and "wanted", biologically speaking, that is still a human life)
I love this but the main page should clearly state the thing that makes everyone here so interested:

> Liberapay takes 0%.

> We are a European non-profit and open source.

> We are funded by donations.

Now it's "just a recurrent donations platform".
>Weekly income is no more than 100€, that's what like an hourly rate of top end freelance developer (which really a lot of these guys are).

You do realize that's per donor and a recurring payment.
I think it would be better to put them on a separate retreat. Otherwise they could piggyback on the group dynamics of the people who took the psilocybin.
I'm not sure of all the valid use cases for macros, but I think they are useful when you need to do something simple. For example, a debug flag to run some code like verbose logging but you don't want to include that in the release binary. C# has preprocessor directives but I wish that java had something similar. I guess this is different than complex micros though.
> Body needs fibre to maintain a healthy gut flora.

Do you have a good link that explains that further?
Good luck in study section, especially with mouse specialists. I hope you have a mighty compelling argument for why a random sample of (say) house mice is going to be free of unmeasured confounding effects...
HN has a dislike of one-word answers without any hard data to back them up.

If fasting can be undertaken safely by an individual not in a health care setting, how? What is the mechanism for safety? What are some signs that fasting is veering towards unsafe- for that matter, what's unsafe fasting, anyway?
HN? How to manage collisions using gpu.js for html5 game?
Just saw http://gpu.rocks for access GPU computation from JS and I wonder how to delegate collisions computation between circles and squares from the JS CPU main thread to gpu processes.

I've eard a lot about gpu computation and some game dev told me they would be happy this to be done with GPU instead of CPU.

Would it be more efficient?

Note that GPU has already a lot of work because PIXI.js is running the game.

I guess it depends of how ressources are available on the machine and a wise distribution?
It is, thankfully, illegal in France, and as such Liberapay does have to police it. Again, if you want to spread hate speech, you'll have to use another platform.
Instead of waiting, she thought she might just do needed cataract surgery in the US

Just about every country in Europe has private hospitals that will do non-emergency surgeries without wait if you pay. They'll also have no problem quoting you a fairly exact cost if you call them up.
Posted about this project little over a year ago. Nice to see it getting some attention again. I noticed that the author also created a hosted service based off the project similar to Wix which is awesome so he doesn't have to depend on donations.

Worth mentioning that this project has a HUGE test suite: https://github.com/artf/grapesjs/tree/dev/test/specs

Also worth mentioning... his github avatar is hilarious:
https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/11614725?s=400&v=4
Obviously there are limits. If you fast for too long you die, regardless of the setting.
Animals fast on purpose to facilitate healing? Do you have a source for this? I suspect some are forced to fast because they are too injured/ill to obtain food.

A positive impact from entering a massive caloric deficit when the body is actively burning calories is counter-intuitive.
I'm on Mac OS. It bogs down all the time. I have very little in the way of add-ons. Don't know why I've been downvoted, because this is just my experience. I've been and remain a user since Firefox 2.
Cultural evolution suggests that, regardless of intention, these practices which have become mainstays of popular religions around the world, cover some type of benefit to survival, reproduction, or intellectual spread.