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The members in an LLC can take W-2 compensation just as owners of any other entity can be employed by that entity and take salary, etc. There are no special restrictions on this, at least that I am aware of.

If early-stage LLCs want to adopt equity incentives, they can mimic what a corporation does with a little custom drafting to the operating agreement. Instead of defining ownership in terms of percentage ownership as set forth in a schedule (the typical LLC pattern), LLC owners who want to issue equity to employees can define the ownership in terms of "units" of ownership. They define a number of authorized units in an operating agreement (e.g., 10M units) and then reserve a grouping of them for an equity incentive pool. These can then be used to support unit option grants (like stock options, albeit always NQO and never ISO) or restricted unit grants (akin to restricted stock grants in a corporation). If this is all done in the early stage, the units can be priced at nominal pricing so as to avoid adverse tax consequences to the employees. There is still the problem of option holders being taxed on the spread on the date of exercise (as with NQO options in a corporation) but, otherwise, such grants may be made very much as they would be in a corporation (made subject to vesting, etc.).

The key to an effective plan is to do this early in the LLC's existence and, if done in that way, this is pretty comparable to what happens with a corporation (except for the absence of ISO-like options). As long as this is all done right, there are no special restrictions on issuing equity incentives to employees in an LLC.

LLCs are state-specific and it might be that there are special restrictions in Illinois or other states that don't exist in California where I practice. But the above sums up the essence of how it is done here.
i've been using my cs 229 notes for class and work, easily the best overview of a lot of concepts that i've been able to find!
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Yeah, strike two for patent reform. Billions being spent on patent portfolios + a glut of law school graduates = not good for legislation that could bring sanity to patents.
The most effective combat tactic is not to struggle, but to make things in your life _interesting_.

One of the tactics is to simplify exercises, the other involves rationalization. When I feel in control - I do not need to force myself to do something, I just do it because fills the structure of my life and because I understand how consequences of my actions build this structure by relying upon each other.

So I do not respect the success in combating laziness only through sheer will, I prefer to divide big tasks and find meaning in small ones.
Anyone know if there are any prerequisites for the class? Would someone with programming knowledge but no database knowledge be able to take this class?
This is awesome, thanks a bunch for sharing this. I just passed it on to my dev team.
No, you're misinterpreting my original post.

jackpirate is correct.
Sad can be fascinating. It is sad to seem so much cash thrown at failing/failed companies, where it does little to create jobs or encourage innovation.

I do expect Google to use these patents more as a defensive neutralizer than as a means of attack - that's just consistent with their track record.

I hope (but doubt) that our Congress will see the amount of economic value being wasted on IP chess, and reform the system. All it takes is leadership and intelligence, both of which seem to be sorely lacking in government. Thankfully, these companies don't have formal veto power over legislation.
i believe the intent is to make the title as informative as possible for the audience - not just to C&P the one given ie, the guidelines state something like "don't post 'top-10 ways to do foo', better to change title to something like "10 ways to do foo (2 of which are smart)" or similar.

<personal>C&P'ing some-else's linkbait is just as unethical and disrespectful to the community as writing your own...
Amazon says "This title will be auto-delivered to your Kindle on November 21, 2011." for me
So here are the two versions:

http://marketbrief.com/goog/10q/quarterly-report/2011/5/10/7...

http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/00011931251113442...

They look pretty identical to me. Plus sec.gov has the June 30th report that MarketBrief simply doesn't have.

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/0001193125111...

Look: http://marketbrief.com/goog/financials

The last one is from May 10th.

And this is Google we're talking about, a major player. Imagine what kind of things they may have missing for smaller companies.
This looks very good.

How can packages be added? How can it be reconfigured?
How is one supposed to add management tools (think libvirt, openstack) to it?

I took it for a spin and noticed it had kvm, a whole lot of regular Illumos binaries and that it had a BSD-ish userland.

I couldn't find anything like libvirtd, I didn't get to check if it has it, though.
I have the guruplug server (2 network interfaces) version. Yes. they do have fans.
Thanks for that info. Now I think I will not formally enroll in the intro to AI and focus more on ML class. Since I can only truly focus on one such class at a time it would be best to enroll in something I can apply directly.
You are correct; members of an LLC are considered self-employed, and since the entity is disregarded at the federal level for tax purposes, it's not really possible to pay them[selves] W-2 wages. You don't issue equity to employees in an LLC; you can issue shares of some sort of bonus pool like Jason describes, or you can make them members, but in that case, they have to pay SEP taxes and cannot be considered W-2 employees.

Generally speaking, LLCs are not appropriate entities for a highly fluid, ever-changing shareholder picture. If you want to be able to easily add or drop employees--and for that matter, institutional investors--as partners, don't choose a pass-through entity. Choose something that is structured as an appropriate vehicle for that kind of thing, i.e. a C-corp with a share pool.

There are ways to get around this, of course. The simplest idea I can think of if you are an LLC is to create a separate C-corp as a holding company, and have it own some (presumably non-trivial) percentage of the LLC. You can then issue shares in the Inc. holding company to your senior employees. The Inc. would of course be entitled to the highest liquidation preference, be dilution-proof to whatever extent desired, etc.

Edit: You can also do what grellas said above and make some sort of accommodation for an equity pool in an operating agreement. But if you want to actually write any employees in as partners, you'll have to amend your articles of organisation every time you do it. So, it's still by far not the most flexible entity type for that.
I don't have a problem necessarily with what the article is trying to paint - Motorola acquisition, like many other complex decisions involving lot of factors, can go either way for Google. But that's not the interesting part.

To get at the likelihood of best case and worst case you can't put out the unknowns and assume each unknown is likely to have a bad outcome and then conclude with fear uncertainty and doubt.

One such unknown is credibility of Motorola's patents. Scratch Florian Mueller and MG doesn't know squat about this. No one but Google's lawyers do. In so far as Google's lawyers are not idiots in spending $12.5B on the patents without having some plan on utilizing/monetizing them AND Motorola has actually not lost a patent lawsuit against Microsoft or Apple _yet_ and/or they aren't paying royalties to them yet, it is premature to conclude that Motorola's patents won't go far enough. That's exactly what MG says is likely to be the case.

Then there is the bias, that makes MG again rely on something insubstantial and unverifiable - How the PR notes of various Android OEMs were worded. MG claims that makes the Android OEMs look disingenuous. Less professional, may be - but disingenuous? I don't think so. Patent royalties are a threat to the OEMs and they know it well. If Google could put a patent pool up that they start with 25000 patents and growing and it convinces other manufacturers to contribute to it under the OHA - it benefits the OEM immensely and they know it. What is the other alternative for the OEMs? Go Windows Phone 7? Nice idea but it hasn't made a dent yet and if it does they can be sure to pay what Microsoft damn well demands - including choking their own throats with exclusive licensing agreements. For the OEMs it is clearly in their best interest to go where Google wants them to go. And Motorola for them was always a competitor - that hasn't changed with the acquisition.

Here is another nonsensical thing - MG says Google will be forced to make Motorola design better phones/tablets and that will mean they play partial to Motorola. He ignores the fact that Google is all about more handsets running Android. And Motorola isn't even remotely capable of addressing even 1/3rd of the potential smartphone market worldwide - Google needs HTC/ZTE/Samsung to fill in. Badly. There is just no way Google will want to even try to screw over them. And the OEMs can always up their game and compete well with Motorola on hardware, software update frequency, price and features. That doesn't change. Bottom line? Little incentive for Google to screw over the OEMs and little to no new adverse impact of Motorola to the OEMs.

I wasn't expecting MG to write anything insightful but he asserted at the start of the article that he wasn't going to go all Dan Lyons and start opening his mouth to talk without understanding - so here.
one of the big problems with excel as a tool in these sorts of situations is that it is almost impossible to audit. yes, a non-programmer can hack something up that kinda does what they want but have they stress tested it? there's some statistical evidence (don't have time to google) evidence that virtually all spreadsheets contain errors, add in that these spreadsheets are running large $$ decisions and you have a recipe for... well, pretty much what you see all the time lately ;-)
Really? The "++" operator is too crazy?
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I would like to see whitelist as well. Looks nice. Good luck.
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That's not what he's saying on taxes (he's saying that people who make their money from dividends and capital gains should be taxed at a higher rate), and he's given his money to the Gates Foundation (which will no doubt use it better than the US government), it's not like he's giving it to his heirs to form a dynasty, and voluntary taxes are never going to work so that's a strawman...
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I do not pretend for a moment to be the attorney here, but it is my understanding that members of LLC, unless that LLC has made an 8832 election, are mandatorily considered self-employed and must make quarterly SEP payments, and that they cannot be employed as W-2 because, as a creature of state statute, the LLC is not held at the federal level (for tax purposes) to be a distinct entity apart from its members.
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Motorola held out for a full acquisition at a premium far above the company’s actual value, and threatened to go after its sibling Android partners if Google didn’t acquiesce.

Say what you will about Gruber and his Apple fanboyism, this rings true to me. By and large, the article seems very astute.
I've updated the title to be the title of the target page now, rather than the "headline" (I guess that's what you'd call it).
There is no reasonable argument for going out of ones was to cater for non-js users. It's on by default in every browser. If a user turned it off for whatever reason they they'll know to turn it on again if they need to.
Article illustrates numerous manner of ways of doing things incorrectly.

The premise of the article is a bad precedent for stable environments: let's bend the OS so that it plays nicely with what's clearly misuse and misunderstanding of filesystems.

The only way eight million files should ever end up in a single directory level is by accident, and that's not the case in the scenario outlined here.
(disclaimer: I worked on Win 7 and Win 8. Don't work at MS now.)

The Windows 7 engineering blog led by Sinofsky was really well received. I worked on a few posts and internally there was an extremely high bar for clarity, accuracy, and usefulness of the content. And there was serious attention paid to feedback.

This post doesn't really say anything other than that the engineering blogs are starting up again - that's what people seem to be excited for.
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The one potential problem with going down this road is that even fewer people will have a broad understanding of what is going on in complicated experiments as labs are increasingly encouraged to specialize in a technique.

Without some incentive for such people to exist, it seems likely that "obvious" connections between different fields may be missed for extended periods of time as people focus on executing incremental experiments.
This was one of my favorite CS classes I took at Stanford. It will do a great job teaching you the theory behind dbs then bridge that theory with real-world examples. If you want to get an idea about how databases operate behind the scenes AND how they should be properly used, this is a great class for you.

The relational algebra sections of the course are intriguing because it forces you to solve problems using a set of constraints that aren't present in other programming languages—really interesting stuff.

More information is at the class website http://infolab.stanford.edu/~widom/cs145/index.html
"I secretly chuckle at how I've never once met a Chinese citizen who has felt oppressed, in China"

When John Howard was re-elected in 2004 I spoke to everyone I could and didn't find one person who voted Liberal (probably because I lived in the Inner West of Sydney).

The point being you can't necessarily take your personal experience as being representative of any sizable population.
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Doubt it. The dumbest would have been sitting there and do nothing.
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Why is this on the front page again, it was here yesterday.
Ask HN: Is it possible to create independent wireless hardware startup & grow?
Considering current trends around patents (over-valued bidding, defensive take-overs and cross-suing), Are there any space for independent wireless hardware startups?.
Really surprised by all the high-fiving and positive excitement going on about this article.

Putting eight million files in one directory level aside, the whole basis for this event - using the filesystem as a storage layer for a k/v 'database' - is just twisted.

Happy not to be working with devs like this.
MemSQL will be hosting office hours during the Winter for the class. If you'd like to attend, send an email to db-class@memsql.com.
It seems interesting to me, but I would like to read more about why you think putting people who don't work in customer service do customer service rather than let professionals handle it and then update the rest of the business.
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another vote for London! there are a lot of people in the world with the desire and energy to build great things that cannot get visas and up and move to San Francisco, in my opinion London is the second best place to be to create a startup.
As long as they don't get corrupted by their new hoard along the way...
I've been meaning to follow along with the online collection of lectures from this course at some point, so I guess now's the time to actually dive in. I'm interested to see how a very rigorous course will be adapted to something that looks very similar to the Khan Academy model.
A quick look through the syllabus shows that the last video is "NoSQL Systems". Nothing specific in the Course Materials though. Maybe an Intro to Databases class should talk a little more about other approaches such as document-oriented databases. I know they (academia) are sticking to classical CS, but maybe some parts of relational databases could be covered in a second class on databases, to make room for more exploration on other DB approaches in an intro class.
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Typically there are on the order of 2000 files in a directory. It was a mistake.
I have been using SECWatch for awhile, and noticed that the email notifications I've been getting have been pointing to MarketBrief for the last few weeks. Didn't realize it was a YC company until now.

This is a product I have a personal need for, but I have to say that I'm disappointed with MarketBrief so far. The auto-generated "human readable" articles don't seem to provide much value. In fact, when I started to see them, I assumed it was some kind of SEO strategy, not something that was actually intended to be useful to me. I mean, why would I want to see a bunch of numbers embedded in long-form prose template instead of a more easily digestible table?

Even more seriously, a lot of the SEC filings on MarketBrief don't seem complete. For example, I received an email notification today about this SEC filing:

http://marketbrief.com/pmic/8k/events-or-changes-between-qua...

The filing basically says that the company issued a press release, which is supposed to be attached. But the attached press release is nowhere to be found. If I go to the main SEC EDGAR website, the press release is easily accessible:

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1453820/0000950123110...

I'm excited about the problem being tackled here, so I'll look forward to future improvements.
Does Gruber ever add any real information in an information theoretic sense? He seems to be on Apple's side 100% of the time. (I guess he suggested that the App Store approval process was broken at some point...)

He mostly just appears to be a pro-Apple pundit who has a popular blog that gets a lot of revenue in advertising. But I never see Cringely or Dvorak posts upvoted. What gives?

This does not seem to be very reasoned analysis. He calls the CEO childish and Android (the largest smartphone OS in the US?) desperate. This feels like a hyperbolic opinion piece. What should I be getting out of this article?
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The more I've learned and studied various areas, the more I've come to realize that true mastery is to really, really understand the 'basics' of a given field. If you can really understand those foundational aspects of a field, all else can be derived almost through intuition. Unfortunately it takes a few years to realize that you don't in fact know the basics, and many more years to really 'get' them ;)
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All I can think about is that Microsoft/Apple blew billions on patents which forced Google to blow billions more to block their move.

Think how much real innovation $20 billion could have created if it weren't for the shitty patent system.
He's joining as a "Software Engineer". Given that this isn't Google, where such generic terms can mean anything and responsibility is flat, my guess is that he is just being employed as a warm body for the Samsung Android engineering team having demonstrated some ability to work on Android core code.

Therefore don't expect a monumental change in Samsung's Android software product or direction out of this.

Sad.
You're not mistaken about the commits, but you're mistaken about what it means. That command will clone the 2.3 branch, aka Gingerbread. Honeycomb has been shipping on devices for months now, and Ice Cream is the current development branch.

Even if you want to claim that I shouldn't be able to see the current work in progress in an "open" project, which is debatable, I should at least be able to get the code for the currently released version, which would be Honeycomb.

I can't get access to those unless I'm in Google's Super Best Friends club.

GPL issues notwithstanding, Google is completely within their rights to keep their code away from me. However, it makes their trite definitions of "open" look pretty hollow.
I feel compelled to point out that perl can do this rather easily. But I really did like a little more low level on how a directory is listed.

http://blogs.perl.org/users/randal_l_schwartz/2011/03/perl-t...
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The primary issue that I have with Gruber's argument is that it seems to reverse some of his more recent assertions about the Google Patent Wars(TM). Haven't we been hearing from Gruber for months on end how patents were going to somehow destroy Android (or cripple it, which is basically the same thing)? Now we're supposed to simply ignore that Google bought 3x the Nortel patents at 3x the price[1] (Gruber's math, not mine), a move that greatly diminishes (if not negates) their loss in the Nortel auction? Now we're supposed to focus on Motorola's problems as a handset manufacturer?

I get that Gruber's mainly going after the over-the-top Lyons piece (a piece which strikes me as poorly thought out and terribly argued). But it does seem like this is Gruber's first move toward a pivot away from the importance of patents in Android vs. Everyone.

You know, those patents that Gruber has been trumpeting for weeks now as the death knell of Android.

Just ignore those.

[1]: Or cheaper?: See recoiledsnake's comment below: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2890038
Obviously a distribution would be best, but for a single number, the mean is better. For example, if groupon says they have 100,000 customers and they will have 200,000 customers next year, and the mean # of groupons per customer is 2.5, then I can compute that they sell 250,000 groupons per year, and if they get 200,000 groupons, they will sell 500,000 groupons per year. The median tells us none of that.
I see this: Google was a happy accident because of the web.

Given the trajectory of Apple, where would the web be in 10 years if Google wasn't throwing everything, and clearly they are doing so, at keeping their platform alive.

Android is about keeping the web a dominant platform as we shift to the next generation of computing.

Google is right to bet the farm on keeping that endeavor alive.

It appears as though they got backed into the corner, but we've never seen Google make a purchase like this.

It's more expensive than usual. And it's not an obvious up-and-comer.

I imagine the #1 thing they could do would be to start picking off staff from both companies to form a super-group to push the hardware into yet unknown territory.

(As a person whose career interests align with Google's I hope the knock it out of the fucking park.)