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So let's answer option 3 first. The acquisition price can vary a lot. There's no telling what the end value is because there are too many unknown variables here not being listed aside from the fact that you guys raised a $5M series A. Even with that, we don't know what the terms of the Series A were and if there were any liquidation preference. We don't even know if the acquisition is purely upfront, is it cash only or stocks or both, any earn outs, etc...

Chances are, if this is mostly a talent acquisition and you guys don't have much traction of any kind, I would probably assume the acquisition total isn't going to be extremely high (although I could be completely wrong). That said, at 1.5%, not sure if it'd be worth it (personal opinion). Obviously worth is relative to the individual and may differ greatly for different people. Keep in mind if there is no acceleration for early hires, your 1 year cliff is only going to 25% of that (assuming standard vesting).

As for how long you need to vest, it depends on the acceleration set to trigger at the time of acquisition. You might just end up not getting accelerated and you would vest as you normally would had the acquisition not occur. You might want to find out more info from the founders before making a decision and hope they will disclose at least something to you. I would just be honest about the fact that you're on the fence. They may need to disclose that you're thinking of leaving to the potential acquirer (or at least they should).

Without knowing much else, I am very hesitant to give any real advice here but if it was me, money aside, I would do what I enjoy more. In this case, option 1 makes the most sense regardless of financial outcome, especially if you like the product/company, the people, and the culture more (I'm assuming since you never said anything about the current startup you're in). Hope that helps somewhat
Ask HN: Is iCloud a sustainable offering?
I can understand how Google and Facebook offer their products for "free". They aren't free: users' online habits are sold to 'relevant' advertisers. One of sJobs selling points about the iCloud services was that it was going to be ad-free. Specifically, he talked about Mail being ad-free but his disdain for ads can easily be extended to the other parts of the iCloud suite.

On the surface, it seems like this is a way to attract users to the iOS/MacOS platform. In addition, once users have an Apple ID, they could easily access iTunes, iBooks, i$Consumable, thus generating more revenue. Is this a sustainable model though?

Part of the business equation here is to ask how much more revenue would be generated from offering iCloud. For the person that would use iCloud purely as Dropbox+ (i.e. myself) it seems like this would result in a loss for Apple. From a business perspective, you can't really justify iCloud if people who were going to buy books, music, etc. would have bought them regardless of iCloud. While iCloud is compelling for the user, it doesn't seem as compelling from the business side. Further, can Apple really deliver on this promise of 'free for everyone'? How would you evaluate/critique iCloud?
Yeah, that's why our current recession, chock full of unemployed men, has caused a crime wave.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/01/07/us-usa-crime-idUST...
Just out of curiosity. How did this url fragment #.TfMwNJgETxs;hackernews end up in the URL? How did ReadWriteWeb know that this URL would be posted on Hacker News?

Edit: Oh, I found out by myself. There's a link on the page to post the story on Hacker News. So it seems like the url fragment was added by http://www.addthis.com
I would have thought that adobe would have either invented or bought patents relating to context aware fill in order to prevent other graphics software from implementing it. I am very pleased to see it in Pixelmator.
I have always been uneasy about the fact that Urchin/Google Analytics 'campaign tags', when copied and distributed via other services, do not continue to represent the original campaign. For example, for the following campaign URL includes three additional pieces of information:

http://example.com/?utm_source=June%2B2011%2BNewsletter&...

Source: June 2011 Newsletter

Medium: Email

Campaign Name: Free Summer Tickets

The moment that you store that URL in other service, a number of those tags become incorrect anyway (it is not an email anymore), and the stats you will get from it will be tainted. Campaign tags are useful, but this approach by pinboard may end up in tracking being more accurate (certainly from in terms of tracking campaign media/terms/content), at the cost of removing the campaign name.

There is also little difference between this and a URL such as http://example.com/Free-Summer-Tickets/June-2011-Newsletter?... being set up to serve the original content other than at least with the campaign tags you've got a single canonical URL using the more correct query parameter mechanism.
Powers of Ten is a good way of visualising how large our universe is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0
Sounds like a potential startup. :) If you could build a better one (which shouldn't be that hard if they're so bad, right?) you could dominate!

I like it when they have both, since sometimes I want a checker and bagger, especially if I have a bunch of stuff. Other times I just want to get in and out and the machine is consistently faster than checker + line.

Of course, the real issue is that lines are good for businesses. They keep the customer in the store longer, with more opportunity to spontaneously buy all that shiny stuff near or at the checkout stands... WalMart has like 10 self-checkout machines but every time I've been there they've had most or all of them turned off. I don't think it's because all of them had errors.
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There's prior art: specifically, GIMP did it first.
This is obviously purely speculation but...

1. A lot of the newer Mac users are more or less probably like me. I use to be a hardcore non-Mac type of guy (I didn't want to use the term PC; too broad). I started with the iPod. Then the iPhone. Through the experience, it made me want to try the Mac, especially since for the first time ever, I had friends that were Mac users. Eventually in 2007, I became a Mac guy all of a sudden. The point of that story is others took the same path. A great offering by Apple to enhance the experience does indirectly translate to more revenue for them if the experience is going to convert them to other Apple products and services.

2. iCloud does charge for iTunes Match and while Jobs never said there was any other premium charge for the service, we can't assume everything is free. One thing he mentioned was the storage would be capped at 5GB. There's no telling if there would be a premium cost for people who want more storage (think Dropbox model).

3. This is only a sample of what iCloud is currently offering. More Apps in the future, probably both by Apple and 3rd party developers will probably integrate with the Cloud and its hard to say whether or not Apple will charge a premium for certain services whether directly to consumers or to the developers.

Only time will tell but I don't think they'd do this at a loss without thinking through a strategy. Things don't always work out as planned, not even for Apple, but one thing Apples does do well is plan ahead.
Well I can give you some insight into the difficulty of 4 - in my particular circumstance...

Assuming I can convince my boss that the task requires a professional... she then has to take it to the admin leaders committee and pitch it to the head of school. The head of school might make an executive decision on it, but more likely he will take it to the PR committee to discuss if hard to come by funds are worth spending on it. Questions will be asked as to why this can't be delegated to the university tech folk. Arguments have to be made. Our finance guy then has to find the funds. More discussions...

As to your other point. I agree entirely that deference to existing solutions is always preferable - IF those solutions meet your desires. But I would stress the following two points:

1) I see people engaged in manual administrative tasks on daily basis that they could work to automate to a large degree. There are no existing solutions to them. These processes are often idiosyncratic - and there is no wider market for an automated solution. However, such a solution would do wonders for those having to carry out those processes.

2) I said that existing solutions that meet your desires are always preferable... but what if your desires are constrained by the interfaces with which you have been bequeathed? We have this Cartesian understanding of self wherein everything about US is thought to spring forth from an irreducible, internal essence. But desires are contextually determined to a very large degree. My larger point is that an ability to create your own interfaces might just liberate your desires in ways that are difficult to imagine for people who don't have such skills.

The latter point is at least an interesting empirical hypothesis that deserves some thought...
I don't know why this was greyed out so I am lending my support for it here.

Patent trolling is a massive issue and stifles innovation as we can clearly see.
I think the Pixelmator guys have already won: they've made a native-feeling app that doesn't feel like an OS booting to launch. It's the TextMate to Adobe's Eclipse.
could you link me to that article with the 1cm/30km thought experiment?
A paper detailing the technique was presented in SIGGRAPH a good year, year and a half, before Adobe added it to CS5.
I'd add to this even if it wasn't 1%. Even if you're willing to give 50% or more and actually are looking for a real cofounder, make sure you provide REAL value proposition beyond just the idea. Someone posted a pretty offensive but highly accurate post recently about something like this. Might be something to look into: http://throwawayhn.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/business-cofound...

That said, I have no clue where you're from but the best places to meet a potential cofounder is usually through your own friends first, friends of friends, and then everything else. Meetup.com is a good resource, eventbrite.com is another. If you're in the bay area, there are also specific events for cofounder meetups/dating. As a disclaimer, I've never done any of the cofounder meetups/dating events or anything but its worth a shot.
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Technically someone wrote a plugin for GIMP. I don't think GIMP ever shipped with it. But otherwise yea, the plugin was first released in 2007 I think, years before Adobe first announced the feature.
The main algorithm (PatterMatch) was developed by Connelly Barnes, a Princeton grad student, who as interned at Adobe multiple times.

Read his original PhD thesis on "PatchMatch: A Randomized Correspondence Algorithm for Structural Image Editing" http://gfx.cs.princeton.edu/pubs/Barnes_2009_PAR/index.php

As well as the follow up paper with collaboration from Adobe: "Video Tapestries with Continuous Temporal Zoom" (published at SIGGRAPH) http://gfx.cs.princeton.edu/pubs/Barnes_2010_VTW/index.php
It's the Charlie Stross The High Frontier, Redux essay currently being discussed on HN in the Why we are unlikely to ever leave the solar system. thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2639456
Brings a whole new visual (for me) to "As above, so below". Cool find, thanks.
Last time I used Pixelmator when I selected a rectangle I couldn't see the coordinate/dimensions (w/o using the rulers). Is this still true?It's such a simple addition but at the time they refused to add it.
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Holy shit that's the worst reasoning I've seen here in a while. How about no, because, as the OP said, it does nothing meaningful, likewise with "proving I'm not afraid of cold water to a random dude on HN".

Can you think of a true story of someone saving a person from icy water (something meaningful) and saying as the defining point "Yeah, I totally bitch-slapped that cold water since I'M A MAN."? Hollywood likes to use it as a cheap 'challenge to overcome' (again though with the meaningful goal of advancing the plot), but that's not how it works in real life.

Edit: you argued elsewhere that it could be a 'tree in a forest'. Maybe in general. But not in this specific case. Cold water for a few minutes in the morning is not even a sprout.
I have one simple question to people who are commenting that freshers should join Infy, TCS, Wipro. Why?

You guys are simply giving only philosophy like someone can join Infosys and likes to change the system, improve culture n engineering practices, service work is also important with product work etc. (Who is talking of service vs. product here? This is engineering vs. non engineering)

Freshers are not interested in philosophy. They want to use their knowledge and learn how to do work properly along with earning money at the same time.

Why will a fresher join a company to change the system and improve the culture of the company. Are they social reformers? Are they the managers of Infosys/TCS/Wipro? Should the freshers decide the culture of Infosys/TCS/Wipro or it is the responsibility of the CEOs, HRs and managements to decide the culture of Infosys/TCS/Wipro?

In short you guys tell me why a fresher should join a company to do all these philosophical and cultural improvements instead of trying to join a company where the fresher can do proper engineering work and learn good coding and engineering practices from his seniors?
> "Microsoft Azure. Hell, wasn't there a story on the frontpage of HN a day or so ago that iCloud uses it?"

The moment someone like Apple starts running a MS-based stack... well, I'd stay inside for fear of airborne pigs.

Let's see - a company that is solidly 'nix (to the point where their own desktop OS is POSIX), who has zero track record of building anything using a MS stack, is suddenly going to use MS's cloud offering, despite there being as-good (more likely, better) 'nix based solutions?

Mmm. I'm willing to put money on that one :)
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This is purely a matter of taste. You only need the parens to tell JavaScript that it is a function expression and not a function declaration (a statement). The outer parens make an IIFE look even more block-like to me, which is why I use it. Any other prefix that tells JS that the IIFE is an expression is OK, too. For example:

+function() { console.log("bla") }();

But: this one converts the result to a number, which you don’t want if you need the result of the IIFE. On the other hand, in places where you need that, there is usually no ambiguity with statements, anyway, and you don’t need any kind of prefix.

var abc = function() { return "abc" }();
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I have a four year old Dell Inspiron and the latest Ubuntu. No problems. It just works.
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The U.S. has a social safety net that buffers these tendencies. It's not hard to find countries that don't.
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No, because you would reasonably requests with different parameters to return different pages.
I have better things to do than manage an email server.

The arguments around privacy and jurisdiction don't hold up, we cannot assume the government doesn't have wire access to whatever it wants.
> What about trusted hardware?

Anonymously buy commodity hardware from randomly selected source.

For added security, you could buy second set from other vendors and compare results from the two.

This way you should be safe, unless whole world conspires against you.
I pay via Readability and ( while I'm no expert) I think that is a good balance between the content producers need to feed their kids and my aversion to irrelevant ads.
Sure, and everyone should learn to cook too. You don't have to want to be a professional chef in order to use the skill. That's all he's saying.
Why not park the files in the cloud, but have discovery be local? Or have discovery be GPS based so you find shared content from people in your vicinity regardless of device capabilities. no actual device to device connectivity is needed to achieve this.

Public dropbox sharing could be the storage part of the backend.
Yes, but most distros do not re-do the desktop experience to make that work like the Ubuntu distro and there is the aspect of Gnome resisting changes/suggestions from Ubuntu.
Does anyone have enough experience to comment on how Pixelmator compares to Acorn? I use Acorn for the occasional times when I need an image editor and have no issues with it, just curious how the two compare. A quick google search only turned up comparisons from several years ago, and I know Acorn has had a lot of changes/improvements since then, and I'm sure the same is true for Pixelmator.
It's disappointing to see they still have no support for layer styles, which is critical to the workflow of most designers, despite the fact that the most popular threads on their forums are full of people requesting just that.

Myself and plenty of other people would love to get away from Photoshop, but without this feature, it's simply not an option.
I will use Iubenda in my startup :)
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hmm. My plan was to get the t420s and run fedora 15 on it, but if suspend/resume still doesn't work properly there I will be quite upset.
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Then again my main issue with Google search is that it forces me into a search specific to my country (Germany). I know, I know, if I would just accept their cookie, I would be able top change that. Without the cookie, not much luck.
The latest Ubuntu version works so well with multiple monitors I almost can't imagine going back to standard Gnome. The interface has actually helped me become more productive.

I run NVIDIA graphics and have no problems .. I realise the latest and greatest takes a while to become fully supported on my platform of choice, and often solutions to problems require research and time - but I'd rather accept this compromise than use Windows.

Windows feels like Fisher Price, Linux feels more like Mechano - in the sense that it presents opportunities rather than fully packaged solutions
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Chronology of a reaction to Android's notification system.

First (http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/06/08/kincaid) :
"I don’t think Apple sees any areas where they need to make iOS more Android-like at all"

Then (http://5by5.tv/talkshow/45) :
"I don’t think Android’s [notifications] are good. I don’t like it. I really don’t."

Now (http://5by5.tv/talkshow/46) :
the new iOS notification UI, which is very much structurally... fundamentally, in terms of where it is, it’s pretty much exactly Android’s UI...

"I love it."

"Cupertino, start your copiers"
Great post, I'll just add that besides the "technical" hassle, the linux desktop experience has been poor at providing a nice, beautiful and clean workspace. I just switched to OS X from years of using Linux as my primary desktop environment. So please if you have any time you can spend on open source software, don't create a new Linux distro, try to build a new clean Desktop, come on, you geeks, don't tell me you can't do it. And I'll be more than happy to switch back, and of course contribute, eventually. We don't need new Linux distros as much as we need a new Desktop environment. I guess Ubuntu got that, but they're still stuck with GTK..argh
I got my macbook pro last november with the new connector. The MagSafe connector is already broken. I attach/detach it maybe 3 times a day.

Seeing everyone I know that has a macbook have his/her adapter fail, not getting a replacement and then having to buy a new one for 80 EUR I took extra care. Still the cable broke inside the connector!

I've never had this problem with any other device or notebook. Seriously, power adapters should be simple and just work - except they don't for macbooks.
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Also, I think this was on HN last year, but it's very cool: http://research.swtch.com/2010/03/zip-files-all-way-down.htm...
I think the postscript is quite rude. Disregarding possible criticism because he's a Linux sysadmin and has contributed to the kernel. To be fair, he's doing something wrong even if he doesn't want to admit it: choosing the wrong hardware. His most direct and important complaints come down to that.

I bought a new computer past summer and all its hardware worked properly from day zero, ethernet, wifi, 3D acceleration, suspending, hibernating and dual-monitors included. I chose the right hardware. Flash support? The 64-bit flash plugin is not crashing here. I use flashblock to avoid possible security problems, but I use it in Windows too, to avoid annoying ads with sound. The quality of OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice is good enough for desktop users, in my humble opinion.

And the rest of the post is debatable at least. Linux and its software ecosystem are not to blame for poor Skype support, for example.
I wonder how long will it take before you come back to Linux screaming :)
Ask HN: Tips for an Argeninian 24year-old dev arriving to the valley in 2 weeks?
Title says all pretty much. My employer's office is in Mountain View, relatively close to the Caltrain station. I won't have a car (will have to get license and insurance first anyways), but I will be staying in a hotel close to the office during the first month. During that time I'll have to find a place to rent/share (so if anyone's looking for a roommate, you can ping me :)).

So far I understand that my best bet in order to have something close to a social life is to live in Palo Alto or SF. That means Caltrain commute, which from what I could find out, it (usually?) works fine and should be ~1h of commute.

Apartment: I've been looking at Craiglist for both room shares and renting apt. Any other good sources?
Credit score: I understand the best thing I can do to build my credit score is to get a mobile on my name and a secured credit card. Does that work? Any other tips?

Also, I found this to be a good resource of information: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=128872 - Not sure how accurate it is now though. I think rent/food/utilities are more or less clear, but any estimates in costs for going out a couple of days a week/weekend would help too :)

Tks!
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Isn't this how most polls work?

At least, AFAIK, they work this way in the UK.
I tried and gave up on Linux half a dozen times over the years, and would have agreed with everything this article says. Then I tried Ubuntu, and never looked back. My house has been Microsoft-free since before Vista was released. Ubuntu does, indeed, Just Work. Despite the author's PS, I have to say: he's doing it wrong, and he should try Ubuntu.
Your analogy doesn't work because the author was not advocating experiencing death, just experiencing short-term discomfort that is supposedly better in the long run because humans could/should experience it. To use your words the author was indeed advocating "cherry-picking." Compare dying of smallpox to freezing to death in the Arctic Ocean. Compare taking cold showers to building up disease resistance by living in non-sterile environments.