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Wait, what?

Individual traders who are value-oriented or technical traders, as well as mutual funds etc, gain money on "buy low, sell high". Of course mutual funds and the like do so on a very long term basis. In any case, they pay the spread. So if the spread is narrower then they make more money in average.

Example: if the Apple's quote is 95/105 (buy/sell) today and 105/115 tomorrow, an invidual trader buying and selling would just break even (buy at 105 and sell at 105) even though Apple's notional fair value has risen. But if there are more market makers, the quotes would be 99/101 and 109/111. Then our individual trader would make 109 - 99 = 10 in the same market conditions.

You're right that a wider spread wouldn't matter much to an individual trader, but that's mainly because their main cost is trading fees (paid to the broker) anyway. For mutual funds, though, a 1 basis-point change in the spread means a lot of money.
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Every developer at my company owns 2%+. That's just me though, I don't know what inDinero offers but I'm sure it's not too far off.
I'll answer this from the perspective of an engineer SeatGeek where possible:

I cannot speak for hiring outside of engineering positions, but we created a developer "challenge" as described here: http://seatgeek.com/blog/hiring/henceforth-all-job-applicant...

We posted the results here: http://seatgeek.com/blog/seatgeek-news/open-the-beers-and-wa...

As far as handling the applications, I believe we handled most of the initial contact through email, and then gradually to an actual interview/job offer.

GitHub/BitBucket etc. accounts are good indicators of developer quality, but certainly not the only one and shouldn't be the deciding factor. If this were true, I'd easily be one of the best developers in all of NYC - by sheer number of repositories, forks/contributions, repo collaborators and watchers - yet I graciously bow down before the other engineers at SeatGeek - and sometimes even the cofounders!

Social coding accounts are a great way to find out if programming is just a day job for a developer, to see if they have an interest/knowledge of the area in which you'll work, or to perhaps verify things on their resumes.
ChromeOS should be added to your list too. When Chromebooks get VPN...will be seriously tempting for a lot of businesses.

Also: this is a dumb thought, perhaps, but was just thinking about why browser sandboxing is so important.

Obviously (on a non-Chromebook at least) people can download and run any app locally, with the download itself often occurring through a web browser.

So why is sandboxing important?

I guess the issue is that you are downloading and running a full app with each page request, and often this download/execute cycle can occur on a script tag that is never explicitly approved by the user, so the frequency and invisibility of executing foreign code is much greater.

This is doubly true if you're talking about a Chromebook, whose administration and security features rest upon the fact that someone can't install stuff locally.

Also, the model of "trust every NaCl executable before you run it" breaks down in this environment...because Google depends on the fact that people must be able to trust clicking links they've never seen before [i.e. that they just searched for].

So it's really extremely important to their bottom line that they nail any security issues with NaCl. This may be different from MS's perception of ActiveX security as a priority.

Just some musings.
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When you've first started out, you haven't generated a lot of value, even if you've got a plan, a great team, and an MVP. Your company just isn't worth very much at this point, which is why early-stage (angel) investors get large amounts of equity for very small amounts of money.

By raising a large amount of money at a low valuation, you limit your options for future financing, as you can only offer a smaller slice of the pie to future investors, and have to do it at a higher valuation in order to keep your initial investment team happy.
Thanks for the overview! Exactly the kind of research stuff I need to know about before diving in. I see now that this is one of those things that comes down to superb quality - which might be difficult to guarantee if using cheap servers.

Also, thanks for the tip on having a dedicated database server. Makes complete sense yet I had no clue CMS sites could be so demanding. I'll need to learn CDNs next.

There's always a catch. =) Thanks for your time.
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I'd be more interested if you held on to them indefinitely in digital form (with reliable backups, etc.)
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Meh, very few apps are cpu constrained. For vast majority targeting html5/javascript and it's mindboggingly huge installed base is a bigger win.
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I think your statement is pretty outlandish. How many people make over 100k in general regardless of your location. I live in Manhattan (probably the worst bang for your buck possible cities) and started as staff making 62K and that was pretty good.

The national average is well below 60k for entire families.

No one deserves anything. You need to work for what you want and equity is earned through sacrifice. You're not sacrificing anything if you're getting paid fairly by market wages. So please don't act so high and mighty.

I have nothing against paying people high salaries for great talent, but I don't appreciate anyone thinking that they're earned the right to everything by simply being present at the moment.

If you want equity then you should be sacrificing like founders do.
It is a bit unfortunate to see divergence only because it would mean the reversion of platform-independent development that browsers currently allow.

At the same time though, sacrificing progress for standardization's sake is most unwanted. It is inevitable that some companies will make some superior innovation, and other companies might not want to adapt that right away, or perhaps they'd like to build something even better. But that's okay.

This kind of leapfrog might be hard for developers because they will have to have different branches of their product, but it is a net win for users because the ones on the "superior" platforms get access to the best technology around and it therefore places pressure on the competition to adopt this new superior technology or move ahead with something better of their own.
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Native Client apps aren't "web apps" any more than Silverlight, Flash, and Java apps are "web apps".
Shouldn't both trades be broken, though?

Under current market rules, no. Besides, this would quickly become a combinatorial disaster. Think of your counterparty who bought at $35 and sold at $36 - now one leg of his trade gets broken, and he has a short position. Or maybe we break both of his trades? Where does the chain end?

And of course, this still hurts people doing stat arb. If you want to go long accenture, short IBM, and your accenture trade is broken, you find yourself with an unhedged IBM short.

Breaking just one sounds like the kind of behaviour that would be a strong disincentive to trade at all in the first place.

This is why HFT's pull out of the market under circumstances where broken trades become likely. Most of the HFT's that stayed in the market during the flash crash made huge money - volatility rocks.
Yes, in the sense that NaCl allows JS to call C while the NDK allows Java to call C.
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Many people consider anything that appears in a browser window to be "the web"; if you want to convince us otherwise, at least give a reason.
> I don't really see how anyone could object to a government monitoring it

Because of small thing called 4th amendment which in part reads "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated"

While a USA constitutional amendment is based in British law. And in case you question; yes, I consider my electronic communications/records to be "papers, and effects". And if you question the wisdom of that particular right, I don't have time to explain, reference history for the supporting evidence.
> fairy farts and equity dreams.

If your attitude towards the startup is that cynical, then you shouldn't be working for a startup. Go to bigco where they will pay you lots for doing nothing.

Startups are difficult and need people who want to work hard and sacrifice in exchange for greenfield technical development, high responsibility, and high upside. By all means ask for more equity. But a startup is about the future, not about huge comfy salaries in the present day.

This is especially true given that the economy is now headed back into the toilet. Tide is going out and many startups will die. Those that survive will be those in which neither founders nor employees are unduly greedy.
Is there really a divergence though? Or is this just another way to run a program?

Relatedly, I think others in this thread are forgetting why exactly ActiveX was not a good thing.

To me, this is more analogous to XUL: an open-specced, open-source way to do something new in a browser that no other browser vendor ever implements. XUL didn't hurt the web (though it certainly still gives Firefox addons a competitive advantage), and -- at least as long as native client isn't adopted by other vendors -- I don't really see this hurting the web either.

Meanwhile, I'm going to keep writing javascript.
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To be fair, it is a free event.
How much capital do you wish to raise?
I've seen a couple of cases locally where founders took a bunch of money in the A round (specifically I'm thinking of Kik.) I guess I don't have much more than anecdotal evidence though.
His graph with heart disease, etc. is misleading; if we have made all those reductions in those areas and cancer deaths have remained the same, we have obviously made progress in cancer as well: since less people are dying of the other stuff, they have a greater chance of eventually contracting cancer.
We need to use a specific version of NaCl SDK for each Chrome version. See http://http://code.google.com/chrome/nativeclient/docs/runni...
Knowing how quickly the Chrome version changes and automatically most of the times, it will be very difficult to keep up.
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I'm curious to know what people have sold their startups for. We all are not as lucky as the many well-known startups that get acquired for millions, but I know many people on HN have sold their startups for 5 or even 6 figures.

Lets keep the format simple:

Business Name/URL (if you want to put it)

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Amonut you were looking to sell for

Amount you actually sold for
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I think the issues are the same as they always have been. No matter what your platform, you can't trust user input. Your OS has to be as secure as it is reasonable to make it. Obscurity is not security. Security is an onion. Don't store unencrypted passwords. I could go on for days with apparently trite security aphorisms, but we ignore them at our peril. The issues that are raised in the articles linked in other comments here are not new.

People have been showing scary insecurity demonstrations for decades, and they will for decades more. In any given instance it may or may not mean a thing. People have been picking on one or another popular language or platform or database forever as well, and still companies manage to build successful products and businesses on those very tools.

If you are building something people might actually use, you do have a responsibility to weigh the security issues carefully. Don't let that stop you from building something that people will use, in a way and in a time frame that it is viable for to build it.
The danger here is that we'll see Google lessen its focus on the speed and efficiency of V8 and instead start falling back on NaCl in their own apps. We seem to be at a particularly dangerous juncture right now where all the major desktop OSes are running on x86 processors. Thus a scheme like NaCl can easily take off and then, once we are dependent on it, it can lock us in to specific processors and platforms instead of the dream of the web - running anything anywhere.
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When I worked for the Exploratorium as an exhibit developer a few years ago, I wrote some software that operated a real life "game of telephone". A voice modem randomly called phone numbers. If somebody answered the system told them they where playing a real life game of telephone, and that they were about the hear the previous callers message and to repeat it after the beep. Messages were posted to a website. I looooved that project. Never really worked, though. Most people just hung up. I think if you tweaked on it, you could get it to work- perhaps by soliciting numbers from the site, so you were aware that such a system might call you, etc. Anyway, phone mayhem = fun!
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Early-stage employees are often compensated with huge amounts of equity. I'm a fairly senior-level guy, and would happily trade a bigger salary for a large equity chunk at a startup, but we're talking a large chunk, bigger than a lot of companies are willing to give to non-founders.

Let's say that I usually make $160k/year, and I'm willing to work for half that at a startup for four years, which means that I'm giving up $320k in income.

I'm not going to do that for a chance at earning $320k, but I'll definitely do so for a 10% chance at earning $3.2M.
Which means that if the company exits four years later at $50MM, I'd need a 6.4% equity stake to make my target. If the company exits for any less than $5M, I've lost money.

Naturally, this is a simplified analysis of the situation, but it illustrates an important point. I know of a lot of startups that want to pay their employees peanuts, while at the same time giving them a tiny slice of the pie.

None of these companies have been massively successful either, in part due to the best talent having zero interest in committing to a company where they aren't valued.
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The mere suggestion of this is proof of how impotent the government really is. How do they really think it would help? Shutting down this channel or that channel is meaningless in the age of easy communication. Unless they shut off the internet and cell phone networks entirely it will have little effect. Pathetic really.
You might have "Load external resources from trusted senders" turned on in your mail settings.

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A projector? I have some LED sign displays as another commentor suggests, although they are a bit big, power hungry and bright to leave on 24/7 for reminders.

How about some photochromic paint, and a scanning laser?
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Sorry for the "me too", but absolutely agree.

I feel like the two functionalities (twitter-like asymmetry, and facebook-like keeping track of your friends) are at odds. Either an option for all but "following" in the stream or else making the stream selection on the left as checkboxes instead of a radio group could really improve things.
Thanks, thats interesting. It seems unfair to use the HFT to create stability, and then penalize it for that. I suppose that can't be fixed easily, though.
I don't believe that they can "stop people communicating via these websites" in any sensible manner. They could use other websites, phones, or in-person meetings, not to mention countless other alternatives. The headline may be a bit off, but the suggestion is still absurd.

This is just a politician trying to be seen "Doing Something" when he has no real solutions to offer. Embarrassing, really.
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> It implies that whether we should allow totalitarian measures merely depends on a judgement of case by case merit

To some extent, all effective government is necessarily conducted based on case by case merit. Even what we think of as fundamental human rights can never truly be sacrosanct, for the simple reason that sometimes they conflict. One obvious recurring example in recent years has been the tension between security (right to life etc.) and secrecy (right to private life).

Should we protect some values more than others? Sure. Should some principles be considered too important for the administration of the day to legislate them away without going to the people explicitly first? Absolutely. Can you ever codify that in a reasonable way without allowing some degree of case-by-case judgement? I doubt it.

> So what if the authorities decide one day there is no good side?

Then you move onto the next of the four boxes of liberty. If lots of people agree with you, then one way or another, either the authorities will back down or they will be removed from power.

The more I think about these issues, the more I conclude that the law can only ever be an instrument of a civil society. If you reach the point where one significant group is not behaving in a civilised fashion and the rest cannot persuade them to do so through reason, then ultimately it rarely matters what the law says until that disagreement has been settled by force. On a small scale, that is called policing. On a large scale, it is called civil war.

If you accept that premise, then it only ever makes sense to balance the law favourably for the civil case, on the presumption that the legal system is operated in the interests of justice. If it is not in a few isolated cases, you treat the deviants as criminals themselves and you provide an appeals mechanism for those who have been treated unfairly. If it is not on a larger scale, then the law doesn't really matter anyway, because your only recourse is to bring down the system and build a new one. You can do that by voting out the government, through civil disobedience that puts unbearable pressure on the system, or on a more fundamental level as we've seen in several former dictatorships over the past year.
Heh, I did the same thing after Startup School 2005. I was in DC but Startup School got me to apply to Stanford for the master's program in CS. Six years later and I've got my masters and I'm having a great time at a Bay Area startup!
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Without PNaCl, this feels nothing but regressive, for at least three reasons:

1) JS is awesome precisely because of the common denominator. But because Chrome said so, devs should go back to triple-testing everything and dusting off their assembly debugger toolchains?

2) With more and more happening on cloud servers, JS engines being mature, and clients just getting faster, the need for that ultimate level of performance feels ever more irrelevant.

3) ActiveX long ago taught us several reasons for why auto-downloading and running native code is a bad idea. And even if Google manages to keep their implementation airtight and standards-conforming, what happens when NaCl takes off and Microsoft takes a crack at it?
I agree that people consider anything that appears in a web browser is a "web app", but that doesn't make it right. ActiveX, Java Applets, Silverlight, Flash, and NaCL are not "web apps." People also think "Internet" is analogous to "World Wide Web."

A "web app" is something that is built using open standards that has oversight by a standards committee that is either the W3C or WHATWG.
If your attitude towards the startup is that cynical, then you shouldn't be working for a startup. Go to bigco where they will pay you lots for doing nothing.

This is just reality. Why make 60-65k at a given startup when you can make market wages at another startup?
The Aurora channel, which is the code that will soon become Firefox 7, has some pretty big memory improvements.

Nicholas Nethercote is leading Firefox's memshrink effort and shared the results so far: http://blog.mozilla.com/nnethercote/2011/08/09/firefox-7-is-...
No, ActiveX's downfall was that it wasn't part of the open-web. If ActiveX had bullet-proof security, it still would have failed because you'd still only have IE supporting it. In NaCl's case, Chrome will be the only browser to ever support it, which means it is just a nicer flavor of ActiveX, and likewise, I hope it lands flat on its face.
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Ah, yes - I see where you're coming from. Some day I hope to finish my blog, written in C :D Good luck for your haskell blog :)
I agree with this as well.
> Many people consider anything that appears in a browser window to be "the web"; if you want to convince us otherwise, at least give a reason.

Surely you're more informed than the "many people" you refer to?
You have no idea what you are talking about. VCs wanted a larger % cut, team didn't want the dilution. Founders still drive the same crappy cars.

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