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Well, I've been playing them for about 35 years now, so pretty sure.

Of course, obvious side-effects of advanced fogeydom include having less free time, being harder to impress with novelty, and losing the reflexes needed for some genres.
Ask HN: Upon startup acquisition, can exercised equity be re-vested?
Hi

For people who have gone through a successful startup acquisition, has it ever happened that the acquirer company made you re-vest the equity that you already vested and exercised? And, if they did that, how did it work with employees who exercised their equity and then left the startup before the acquisition happened, bringing the equity with them? Were they subject to a new vesting schedule even if they were outside the company? Because that doesn't make a lot of sense.

Intuitively I would say that all the vested and exercised equity should be paid immediately shortly after the acquisition (regardless of whether one is inside or outside the company), and the unvested portion might get a new vesting schedule?

For this example I am assuming that the startup is selling at a price significantly above the last valuation, so all preferred shares convert to common and the terms were clean: 1X liquidation preferences, non-participating, and there was never emission of debt.

To be more specific, I happen to be an ex very early startup employee who left with a significant amount of equity. I was able to offload some of my equity to investors who contacted me privately, but I held on to the majority, and it looks like the startup might soon get acquired, and from the rumors I heard the rest of my pot might be worth a significant amount (low-mid 7 figures).

I will of course look for legal advice, but some tips one can get from experienced HN folks are invaluable as well.

Thanks
All they have to do now is figure out how to actually build one.
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This is such an important point! A relatively tiny charge had a massive impact on consumer behavior. This is real-world efficient market theory. If you put 5 cents on the counter and say "take it if you want it" then people will take it. What we have learned is that 90% of bags were essentially not needed, and so only the lightest touch was required.

Punitive measures ("we should charge $1-2 for a bag") are counter-productive because the harm to society actually exceeds the benefit to society. We are not trying to eliminate every plastic bag at any cost. This is not a plastic bag crusade. The goal cannot be absolutism, it must be based on efficient market economics where the new regulation actually benefits society.
Healthcare Chatbots to Improve Patient Experience
Amusing, but we all know that's just lip service to show that they are trying to defend there trademark. Google had the same thing a few years back.
All this makes the assumption that S400 is a sitting duck with no countermeasures. Which is far from reality. The entire point of a decentralized and mobile/distributed system like s400 is to make it difficult to target. It is ground based, therefore has much better detection capability than anything in the air. Its long range missiles have a greater flight envelope than any surface to air missile.

You don't think the s400 has any jamming capability and protection of its own? You don't think the system can detect when it's being targeted and locked on?

It can definitely be defeated but not without suffering heavy casualties. That's _why_ it's called anti-access/area denial technology.
"Liking video games" is like "liking books". Typically people prefer certain kinds of games or books, and may find any particular example enjoyable or not.

Nobody questions whether I "like books" when I say The Lost World was a lackluster sequel to Jurassic Park, right? Because there is no expectation that somebody who enjoyed one particular book should like every book, even within the same genre or franchise.
This is wild.
It's perfectly logical what they're doing but I'm used to seeing this kinda thing after the trademark has lapsed (Kleenex, Xerox, etc). But to see a company release a pretty funny youtube video begging you to say their name less, well, it's just a weird thing to see.
Attack the message, not the messenger.
My approach:

When reading what you've written, find the core of what you're really trying to say. Find the sentence or couple of sentences that conveys this core. Then see if the other sentences are really needed, removing those that aren't, tweaking the core as you go along.

Repeat until you feel it can no longer be distilled further.
I guess I shouldn't use terms that could also have a precise chemical meaning. My understanding is that they cause similar effects to LSD, but analogue is probably not the right word for it.
Installation in buildings. Try pulling a bundle of CAT6 cables from a comms closet with huge plastic blocks from zipties jutting out every other foot through 10-50 feet of drywall and/or drop ceiling. Loom doesn't even warrant a sarcastic comment in that context. The biggest advantage is of course the string takes the brunt of the stretch stress.

I'm not gonna go lace up a DC but it's still useful enough that every hardware store around carries rolls of twine right next to the cable spools and zip ties.
I see the difference, I just don't believe it's a reasonable argument. You don't make a difference if you quit over performance issues, your personal position has no weight in the decision-making process, you have no say in the matter.

Yes, you can make the argument that "well nobody actually has the power to decide, they are all being forced by something", but it gets very weird quite quickly when you're looking at the people making the decisions. Whenever it gets into "but is there actually such a thing as free will" territory, I feel like the usefulness of the definitions used isn't there.
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The CO2 is the pollution in the air. The effect it has on health is warming the planet. Even the US Government will tell you this!

https://climate.nasa.gov/causes/

> Humans have increased atmospheric CO2 concentration by more than a third since the Industrial Revolution began. This is the most important long-lived "forcing" of climate change.
$15 Minimum Wage Could Spark the Rise of the Machines
I remember installing Nox and finishing it in one go
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NRO Key Talking Points: NGA Sentient (2016; approved for release 2-19-2019) [pdf]
That’s beside the point of my post, which was to counter the claim that essentially stated, “you are only opted in to credit bureau tracking because you made the choice to take advantage of a product that is not essential in life”
Yeah, this is a pain. I'm glad we have the OTA library, though. Saves so much time.
American health care is an absolute travesty and embarrassment to western civilization.

Just shameful.
No, they offer the credit to incentivize you to make the purchase right now, don't think about how to pay it now, because ... you can just pay it over a year.

And it's perfectly okay for example if you just bought a new flat and you're broke as fuck, because you spent all your cash on must-repair stuff, like getting the plumbing in order, but you also fancy a new bed, because you have none, so interest free bed it is!

Of course if you barely make enough to live month-to-month, then it's unlikely you'll be able to pay the monthly installments of the loan. (And usually you'll be declined even the in store zero-interest loan too.)
I sure hope it's just your company (any, it's not the case at mine). As someone who has difficulty communicating with people, I do anything important face-to-face if at all possible. I have enough trouble reading people as it is. I need all of the extra social cues I can get.
Isn't this contributing to climate change? The economy everyone uses as an example to replace the current system in the US...
Excellent discussion: https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/31/20746926/sentient-nationa...
> My threat model is less concerned about intentional violence, and more about accidental injury. If I can reduce my chance of accidental death by 1%...

We don't live in a world where loaded small arms are distributed about your everyday environment as in video games where they're just laying about on crates which mysteriously clutter offices, and also spontaneously discharge frequently [1]. Under that hypothetical threat model, I will grant that jeans and dress shirts which are casually bullet resistant would be a reasonable response.

Instead, a realistic threat model has a huge number of things you could spend your time and money on which would be more effective at keeping you safe. For example, upgrading to a newer car with better safety ratings, and taking extra time to drive slower and more carefully, could be effective in reducing the 0.012% chance you have each year of dying in a motor vehicle accident. That baseline is almost 100 times larger than your (in the US) 0.00015% chance of dying due to a firearm accident. To reduce that already miniscule chance, not keeping a gun in your house, avoiding firing ranges, and avoiding hunting areas would be more effective than everyday Kevlar.

[1] Relatively frequent accidental discharge would be an interesting mod for a first-person shooter. It could help teach good muzzle control if you handicap yourself or your teammate before the match even starts.
It's on by default because it has a very important function for Apple. If it was opt-in, Siri would be a much weaker service.
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Get that janky jank out of my jank.
Send me an email or PM and I can look into this.
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the abilityo reverse most spells was fun. my favorite was teleporting an enemy to my teleport marker instead of myself. o courses my marker was in a lava lake...
Is Climate Change an “Existential Threat” or Just a Catastrophic One?
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Still vividly remember the first time I met this bloodthirsty bugger!
I have to disagree here -- emails are extremely useful for two reasons:

1. It leaves a paper trail (good for accountability),

2. In the case of forgetting a detail or ambiguity, you can look back into the email.

I myself struggle with parsing and retaining spoken language, so I make sure to send email confirmations for specific tasks.
Biodegrading is a bad thing. It releases carbon back into atmosphere. Basically it's the opposite of carbon sequestration. Converting carbon into stable, non-degrading plastic instead of making it burn/degrade is actually good for the environment.
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Device profiles are the superset. It allows a wide range of features and functions.

Mobile device management uses a subset of what device profiles allow for, along with additional external tooling.

They're similar, but the thread you linked to is about MDM, not device profiles in general.

Deploying a device profile is akin to accepting a self signed certificate. When it's of your own generation, it's probably fine, if someone else has done it, you should question what's happening and whether or not it's right for you to accept it or not.
> You just grow them

Is it really that simple?
If it weren't for Gilead's legal efforts to extend the patent on Truvada, it'd be a dirt cheap generic by now; it already is in many countries.

You might think it's improper, but the evidence says otherwise - PrEP is safe, well-tolerated, marginally cost-effective at proprietary prices and clearly cost-effective at generic prices.

One of the fundamental principles of modern medicine is informed consent. Patients have the right to make their own decisions about their treatment based on their own assessment of the risks and benefits. PrEP is an incredibly compelling proposition for a lot of patients.

https://www.who.int/hiv/topics/prep/en/
I think any of the major frameworks (React, Angular, Vue) would be a safe bet. They are and will be well maintained and documented.

Of course it also depends on what you’re building: if it’s simple you could go for old school technologies like jQuery and <script> tags. All those things will still work in 10-15 years time. (generally functionalities are only added to the web, not removed, which means websites from the 90’s should still work on modern day browsers)

I’m personally a React developer and I like that over the last couple of years there have been only a few (and very minor) breaking changes. Upgrading React on any project has not caused me any troubles, which is great.
I know it’s not your main point, but python wasn’t a thing until the nineties (released in 1991 if I trust Wikipedia) and would have been almost always not efficient and a waste of time and resources at that point in time given the state of hardware (also considering that python wouldn’t have been the optimized version that it is now)
Not sure why they don't advertise the RSS Feed:

https://orbitalindex.com/feed.xml
You can buy the game on mobile/tablet these days.

Highly recommended!
If you can't afford a newer car, that's understandable. If you have the means, though, cars that old are downright dangerous in a crash, and if you spend much time in your car it makes sense to upgrade to something newer that won't get you killed. People walk away from crashes in newer cars now that would have killed or severely maimed them in cars made 20 years ago.
This is great advice. Thanks for posting
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Thanks, ipoopatwork.

I'm using MicroPython and this is what I want to stick with. But I'll research how RTOS is doing things and make an equivalent.
I don't think I'd care much about the tech.

What the web will look like in 10 years is completely unknown. What I would concentrate on is making sure the requirements, APIs and schemas are as solid as possible. In 10 years time if you decide modern web dev is better than what you built a decade ago then moving the app to a new platform will be much simpler if you KNOW what the app does, what shape the data has to be, what the product owner actually needed, and how to make things backwards compatible.
Install a good book-reader app and buy/download epubs on the internet. Always good to a have the content of fresh reading material.
I find the idea that email could be overkill compared to any length of meeting to be hilariously backwards. Maybe it's just the particular dysfunction of my organization, but any meeting between more than two people requires multiple emails to set up.
Why would you ever want to ignore the error parameter?

I really hate when a system tells me "Unknown error occured" or "Either this or that happened" because the software doesn't care to be specific with the errors.

You should at least log the error message, not ignore it.
Also in The Guardian, "UK hemp farmers 'devastated' after being forced to destroy crop". It seems there was confusion over the licensing, so the farmers had to destroy their huge crop.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jul/30/oxfordshire-...
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I was wrong, it was 43 times.

https://www2.mst.dk/Udgiv/publications/2018/02/978-87-93614-... page 93
Seriously, people need to stop with this negative side effects bullshit.

Yes there are side effects, there are fucking side effects to almost anything medical.

The side effects are minimal at worst considering you have to go into the doctor every 3 months for testing (both for the side effects and a full STD panel). If they notice an issue they take you off of it.

Condoms are not 100% though, neither is prep. Its just another option and if the US was not being gouged in the price of prep, the cost would not be much different than the cost of condoms depending on how frequently you are having sex.

I am showing personal responsibility by both myself and my husband using Prep and getting tested regularly.
My first exposure to Perl pattern-matching was a magic regex for parsing CGI input handed down to me by a more experienced coder. "Don't ask how this works."
LF is part of a return to focus: global scale network coordination and decentralization. Making a hardware box was the big defocusing project and took more time (with less results) than this. Lesson learned: avoid hardware if you are not a hardware company in your DNA, and hardware will always take 10-20X longer to ship than to prototype.

So yeah, defocus is a legit criticism but not because of this project.

This was also a two birds with one stone project in that it is also useful on networks with arbitrary connectivity graphs and unreliable connectivity. An enterprise customer of ours funded some of this R&D for that purpose and we combined their objectives with our root server decentralization and network robustness improvement goals. I wish I could talk about the enterprise customer's project. It's quite cool but we're under NDA. All I can say is that it's industrial and involves mobile ad-hoc networks.

There is admittedly quite a lot behind this that is not apparent from the README, and from the comments here its clear that people have trouble understanding this because it is not yet another cryptocurrency and isn't solving exactly the same problems. (There is some overlap but this is different.) We built this to solve a problem nothing else solves, but I figure it will take the appearance of use cases for people to get what that problem is. The people bringing up etcd and consul are closer than the people bringing up coins.
We usually just set all our cards on autopay-in-full and forget about it. Is there a way to have them autopay before the statement date, or do you need to proactively check every month and make a payment right before the statement date?
Which, negative implications aside, is objectively a legitimate evolution of language, right?
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They were already buying bin liners to use at home. When bags were seen as disposable they were often put in public litter bins (where they do not always stay, in busy areas with full bins) or simply discarded in the open environment. Anecdotally there seems to be much less of this going on now and the relatively common sight of Tesco carrier bags (other supermarkets are also available, but these seemed to be the worst offender) blowing down the street or caught in trees seems to have largely disappeared from what I have seen since this policy was introduced. There is still litter of course, but the most noticeable litter is now food wrappers rather than plastic bags.
And the air defense assets are often portable. Like the BUK, Tor, or newer Pantsir which pair nicely with an S-300 / S-400.
> I really think names without a fairly obvious way of saying them out-loud should just be avoided/deprecated. I can't pronounce this as "ring" (because then you'd think I was referring to a ring, not a rng).

But 'nearring' doesn't bother you? If I'm at a talk on rngs where the distinction from rings is important, then I'll know that's the kind of talk that I'm attending, and hear accordingly; or else the speaker will make a huge deal of it (and then probably not use the word).
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The FDA hasn't approved condoms for anal sex, and the failure rate for latex condoms is high in that usage. And lambskin condoms, while stronger, are explicitly labeled as not being suitable for disease prevention.
Living in Philly, I've always heard "sprinkles" except from people from New England; I'm not sure the writer put that one in the right geographic bucket.
“The Real Dark Web” or Why Most Web Developers Use Boring Technology Stacks
The configuration to allow listening at all (to start Siri by code phrase) is opt-in during device setup. While I would like to see a checkbox for allowing human review of Siri messages also, at least there is a way to _opt out_ - something most mobile devices simply do not have.
A Brief Introduction to Semantic Dictionary Encoding
At the end of the article, it talks about "bag" being pronounced like "byaeg" or "beg", and "backpack" like "beckpeck". I'm surprised they didn't use the common example of "bagel", which is normally pronounced the same as "bay gull", but in Philly the first syllable is "beg".
We stopped using waste bags a while ago for all residues except food waste (for which the council required potato starch bags). We have containers at home where we place the plastic waste, which we rinse if it's too dirty, and clean the container with a hose if it's smelly after dumping it in the council bin we have in the driveway.

It usually requires a bit of thought to stop using 90% of single-use plastic, but my family has found it possible.
As I said, the zero-calorie stuff uses artificial sweeteners, which is just as unhealthy and likely to cause diabetes as the stuff loaded with sugar.

There's no option to just have less-sweet soda. It does not exist. (Unless perhaps you're counting the fact that artificially-sweetened drinks simply don't taste sweet to some people, but that's a different argument.)

Whether you want to believe it or not, it is very easy to control how much sugar you pour into your cup of coffee at work (and you don't have to put artificial sweetener in it either as the only alternative; you can simply not put anything in it). There's no such option with soda, because it's premade. I don't know why you're arguing about this, because it's a simple fact.
PrEP is now available on the NHS in Scotland and on a pilot basis in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

https://www.iwantprepnow.co.uk/prep-on-the-nhs/
If you think that's clever, you'll be blown away when you see actual thin client and zero client hardware. PCoIP zero client tech is pretty seamless with the right backend & network configuration.
> Clinton also went on Epstein's private jet 27 times

Wonder how many of those flights were to the infamous island...

I thought it was interesting to see if the reporter is somehow connected to the Clintons. It seems she was at least viewed as being favorable towards them:

(from https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/33810)

> - Reuters (Sarah McBride) is writing what should be a positive story on
our campaign's efforts to attract the backing of young tech entrepreneurs.

I guess the lesson for Brin, and others, is to "cultivate" a better relationship with the journalists so they can insert lines like these in their articles "there was this one time when Brin saw Epstein, but Sergey quickly crossed the street and didn't even say hello".
Which tech companies are driven by a strong ethical mission? (Mozilla,EFF,etc.)
I wish the "human time" ethical cost was factored in elsewhere besides just software. Things like: redundant forms at the doctor's office; useless fences that prevent you walking the shortest distance; time-consuming preambles when you call any customer service number. Imagine if the amount of time wasted was instead converted to a single number, divided by the average lifespan, and the corresponding number of people struck dead.
...and the sign of the second derivative flips at an inflection point.
> I would pay for the search and to watch videos

We are sadly a tiny minority. I keep seeing people talking against Youtube Premium.

> There should at least be an option to pay for ad-free, tracking-free, service.

Agree completely, but the existence of ads isn't what stops that sadly.
Unfortunately the factory floor has a no camera policy, so I'm not able to share. I'd be hoarding the karma in /r/cableporn otherwise.