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Good question. To clarify: I cashed out 1/3 because I'm inherently conservative financially and had no idea whether the stock would go up or down. Not because of tax purposes.

My colleagues who ran into problems with Uncle Sugar are the ones who bought and held their stock for less than a year (but long enough for it to tank in value), didn't make estimated tax payments and were fined by the IRS, or otherwise made decisions based on irrational exuberance, like borrowing against their options to buy jet-skis and crap.

Hope this answers your question.
Good! Glad you can move onward and upward. I just hate to see people keep limiting themselves :)
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Could you elaborate on this? How does it "make checking efficient"? And what is an "efficient check" anyway?
I mentioned this to Marco and it's why I built NewsBlur, http://www.newsblur.com, specifically for folks like me who follow a few dozen (even a hundred or more) blogs written by a single author. You want to engage with that author on their terms, which means their site. Not stripped away in an RSS feed reader with no context.

I built an Original view to solve this very issue. It's solving the crux of the RSS problem for people like this. You want to follow dozens of writers but you also want to go to their site. But since they may be infrequent, RSS is the only decent answer. NewsBlur's Original view couples the benefit of RSS with the writer's artistic intention in site design and flow.

I also added a trainable intelligence filter to hide stories from those constant-stream multiple-author blogs.

I use the intelligence filters to read the Hacker News firehose and only see stories with [`python`, `javascript`, `ask hn`, `poll`] in their titles.
This seems like a great way to do things. Currently I have topical folders, and it isn't very optimized. I have things that I want to read (a few people's blogs, tech, security news, etc), and things that I might like to read (e.g. book reviews), and things that might be funny or a pleasant distraction (e.g. cat pictures) all mixed in together.

Moving to a priority model where folders are listed in order of general importance to me, sounds like a real improvement -- the ability to nuke lower priority folders without concern.

Thanks for the idea.
This is very similar to what I tell people asking me about weight loss: "You can't have an emotional attachment to food." I can't remember where I first heard that, but I think it states the idea perfectly.
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a family member of mine did a lot of freelance work for Huthwaite during the .com boom. they had a huge, luxurious "office park" that was a thousand acres of farmland and old buildings in western loudoun. they basically imploded after .com and I honestly thought they had been pushed out of business (they had to, in fact, sell the farm).

everything my family member described about their consulting and business process sounded very BS-full. they would charge tons of money to provide reports of little value to companies that were working with VC money. sound familiar?
Firstly, thank you for taking the time to read and providing such an wonderful answer. I re-read it a number of times - and it just makes me feel a lot lighter. Funny how we try to extrapolate from non-correlated events and project an absolute image ... it went very deep man! Thanks :D
typo in link. http://www.newsblur.com/ FTFY
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> Declaring (inaccurately) that they're "not true Christians" doesn't help

So would it be accurate to say that your argument is that the brother harassing the divorced brother from this linked article and the "god hates fags" people are not true Christians because they do not take their beliefs from the same body of understanding as a group of theologians. However Christians who call themselves sheep and who would deny reason to uphold their own "unreasonable" nonmatching interpretation are still true Christians because they didn't do any of the things the group considers wrong even though embracing non-reason is one of the things that group detests. I guess I just think that the differences between the denominations are a lot larger then you do. Where the former is excluded for believing crazy unreasonable things, it seems like the latter should also be excluded on that same criteria.

Anyway, if one of the things that the true Christian crowd believe is that everyone is deserving of death then I'm not sure it matters. How can that be justified? Original sin?

>"falsifiability" is a statement about theory, not about data.

I guess I should have said that their explanation of their experience is not falsifiable. I can't tell if that sound you heard was a ghost or white noise/pareidolia and you can't either.

>Also recall that a lot of types of data cannot be reproduced

Why should we need to rely on past data? What role does God take in the world today and how can we test for it? God giving GPS directions? Oh yes, I remember. He wants to prove that he exists, but not in a way that we will actually know right? "That would take away free will." It has to be a way that can also be explained by causes outside of God.

>Most of the seemingly huge disagreements between churches or denominations are actually small disagreements about how to balance multiple important factors

Like how many snakes to wield around at the next meetup or how to best cannibalise the blood and flesh of Jesus? I would think that the person who authored the mathematical laws of the universe would be the one most qualified to write how to perform an exorcism or a laying on of hands in a way that is understandable. That is the important stuff right? It made it in over stuff like germ theory. Now if you want rank and file, the Islam religion seems to have things going. I don't know anything about them though..
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My question has always been - will Khan Academy lose relevance outside Sal Khan? He can't be an expert in everything. In order to scale, I'd expect that he'd have to be able to pick people who are great teachers and also domain experts.
I think its just a case of user organization/finding good sources ... I was subscribed to techcrunch/engadget etc but I found that because of the high volume of stuff they pump out that I didn't read them at all ... so I got rid of all of them and started using the HN top 20/50 RSS feed that someone made a few weeks ago.

I also have my feeds organized into folders, so that the more frequently updating but news worthy stuff is in one folder and the others are other places ... depending on the time I have I go through them in a particular order and it works very well.

But yes, the truth is that sites that create RSS feeds need to be a bit more picky about what they publish ... especialy since they practice that same self restraint in publishing things to facebook, if they have a presence there
Given that the charter of given agency is certainly not to produce FLOSS, and most certainly not for the pleasure of a foundation which has its worst adversaries as founders (hint: Ben Laurie).

It would be most plausible to have direct access to the build infrastructure, which in turn would give access to ... without the hoops of going through Oracle and IBM or whatever corporate projects.

And if you read the spiegel article (which has to do) with Ben's past-present, it is clear, that the USA is on the "offensive". The surest way to discredit any anonymity provider for whistle-blowers is to discredit the providers. Which has just happened in the last few days (note, that the contents of the 7z itself was already past 0-day, and therefore valueless, as a USA Official noted in the article).
For the daily meeting with developers in multiple locations? What are all these other "lots of tools"? If you mean Skype, iChat, etc., wouldn't those just be variations on a theme?
The people that ask this Tribune reporter for help are people that can't get a problem solved by another means because the company is uncooperative or in denial about the problem.

So when someone calls the business and says "Hi, I'm calling from the Chicago Tribune, where I'm going to write a story about you that will be read by half a million readers", do you think that will get a better outcome to the problem than the individual calling again for the 25th time?
Sounds like a simple solution which gets the job done. Using whiskey_disk would reduce your typing by a bit (repeatability is nice for things done all the time), but if you don't have any post-commit tasks you have to run on each deploy, stick with what you have.

Where you'd really see benefit would be when you have multiple config files (with database credentials and addresses, for instance) that vary per server and environment involved. In addition, if you need to run post-deploy actions such as building assets, or run database migrations, a tool would help you.

However, until you feel the pain of your current setup, no need to change what works :)
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Not sure if this is the case here, but in this business it's common that compensation is structured as: base salary + guaranteed year-end bonus + performance-based year-end bonus. The offer would include only the first two items. The base salary should be similar to an average salary as a software engineer that you could get elsewhere. The guaranteed part of the bonus can vary anywhere from 10% to 100% of your salary; it really depends on the company and your position (in your case, you should expect a lower number). The non-guaranteed part of the bonus is where the real money can be found, though, and that cannot be negotiated. It will be based on your personal performance and on the performance of the company each year. So bargain carefully for the first two components of the compensation, but remember that the third component is where the real upside is. In other words, especially with your almost non-existent experience (no disrespect), you should take whatever you can get from them. Assuming that you want to work in that business, of course. I hope this helps.
You might want to put a comment somewhere that bids will only be accepted if it is actually possible to fly JetBlue to get to the bidder's home/business.
A little late, but I'm adding this since there's not a ton of comments on here on relatively-late employees.

The first time as an employee, I would've received mid-five-figures, if only I'd been able to afford the $10K to exercise my options when I left. (Whoops.) I was employee #150 or so.

The second time as an employee, low-five-figures from the options, and close to $100K from a year's worth of retention bonus. Would've been more if I'd stayed for three years instead of one. Here I was around employee #100.

In both cases the startups were already mature when I arrived - not guaranteed to exit, but a stone rolling downhill. Whatever I made was gravy; I was paid at or close to market rate at both places.

In my opinion, employees do best at startups that've already had some success. Being the first employee is too close in risk to being a founder, but with just a fraction of the rewards.
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Been there, done that. People think it's awesome to create a bunch of long, nested directory names, until the fully qualified file name becomes too long for max path and automation starts breaking.
Businesses aren't made of people any more than they are made of bricks or telephones. Businesses employ people, and are owned by people. Assuming that businesses will be nice because they are largely composed of humans isn't any more reasonable than assuming that they will stink because they are composed of garbage cans.
> 128-bit floating point? Why exactly? What hardware out there supports this, what problems does it solve that 64-bit floats or bignums don't? Why add more intrinsic types to the type system that will need vm and library changes when you could implement them in java?

Not to mention his example of inaccurate floating point was "2.0 + 2.0 = 3.999999999999999979"

When 2.0 and 4.0 are exactly representable in both IEEE 754 float and double.
Wait until someone links up all our friends' and coworkers' credit card purchases, netflix views, google searches, downloads, travel history, etc- or even just a few pieces of that- then you can start to come up with a recommendation engine (AKA social search) that doesn't require people to actively create content for.
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Though it would appear easier most "everywhere else" to voice dissent regarding "the rules". That and the prospect of redressing such grievances seem to be important distinctions.
Your second paragraph is the kind of wording that gives me, as a developer, the heebie-jeebies. If a development group is improving their workflow and structure with the addition of a few thoughtfully chosen changes to what they had before (a morning standup meeting, shorter iterations, tracking burndown), then that to me sounds like a very pragmatic approach. Implementing even more changes, merely for the sake of having a capital-A "Agile" designation, just sounds like cargo cultism.
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Feed Demon on Windows is doing a good job at it, Reeder on OS X is very nice too, but its not as good for consuming data quickly as Feed Demon
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I would put the odds of that being used in cities in the foreseeable future pretty low. Much more likely to get approved for low-density, straight-line highway travel imo, like what the current talks in Nevada are contemplating.

Alternatives also have political problems, but overall I'd probably bet on the miracle of cities actually building decent subway systems, unlikely as it is, before betting on the miracle of cities approving fully automated cars in urban traffic. I think both are basically political problems, as well, contrary to his claim that mass transit is inherently difficult due to the size of investment. It's not super-cheap, but a city in a wealthy Western country can build a subway network without that much trouble, and some American cities have done so much more recently than NYC, but have been stymied mainly by politics. For example, DC's system has been built out pretty well, and Atlanta's started, but expansion was killed in the 80s for political reasons (some of them race-tinged).
Sorry for being negative. I would say its bad design.

Why does a daily dairy site has to be like twitter? Yours is a original concept. Pour some thoughts into it and come up with original design. :)
Doesn't the fitter remove serendipity from the feed reading process. Machine learning algos can't ever replace human editing. The messiness of feeds if managed correctly will often surprise you with things you wouldn't have otherwise read.
You're the one accusing them of immoral behavior.

I'm only relaying what I've heard an employee tell and I assume good faith: they changed their product such that it would be suitable for a new market and a nice side effect is that the product becomes available at all (which is nice because it improves matters). I have no stake in this and will readily revise my ideas, but not based on an unsupported accusation.
This really sounds to me exactly what sub-reddits already accomplish... am I missing something?

In fact, I do use sub-reddits as a kind of rss alternative and for my less frequented ones will sort by Top for last week/month/etc. It works pretty well, but sub-reddits can only get specific to a certain extent, which is where a feed excels in. Say I want to keep up not just philosophy, and not just epistemology but phenomenological epistemology (doesn't matter what it actually is, just that it's highly specialized). No sub-reddit exists for such a thing (or anything like it that is so specialized). And I can rely on /r/philosophy or even /r/epistemology to feed me that content.

What I really need is to get it all straight from the horses' mouths. Since posts are apt to be spread out, it doesn't make sense for me to continually check whatever blog or website for updated content: I want to be alerted when it's updated.

Say I have 50 to 100 such websites of similarly specialized content. The situation will be the same for each, so it seems like it would make sense to get the alerts all in the same place, hence RSS. But the problem is that now there's just too much being pushed, even though each content provider is only pushing a little bit every week, it adds up fast (and this isn't even taking into account more general, entertainment-like content that invariably works its way into the feed).

On the other hand, this is starting to sound less like a problem with technology and more of a problem with my personal information-junkie habits (that are unfortunately self-defeating).
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The main one is the prohibition of lighting or extinguishing fire. The vast majority of electricity is generated by burning fuel and using electricity (or turning it off) changes the amount of fuel used.

There are other considerations as well that apply to battery devices, but the main thing is fire.
> Id rather consume news via sites like HN

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. ... If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
According to the OP (Pinker's book review) "He enrolled students in regimens that required them to keep track of their eating, exercise regularly, use a mouse with their weaker hand or (one that really gave them a workout) speak in complete sentences and without swearing. After several weeks, the students were more resistant to ego depletion in the lab and showed greater self-control in their lives. They smoked, drank and snacked less, watched less television, studied more and washed more dishes."
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While it doesn't invalidate your general point, Twitter has 600+ employees: http://blog.twitter.com/2011/08/your-world-more-connected.ht...
Hopefully someone actually does this.
I really enjoy figuring out the social dynamic stuff (which often comes across as "gossipy" and gets me in lots of hot water) and I'm an excessively emotive person and just want to give the world a hug and buy the world a coke. I've worked really hard at learning to tone that crap down. I have also learned (the hard way) that getting two people like me together in a public forum is just a train wreck waiting with baited breathe to happen. I go out of my way to minimize the whole "love explosion" insanity that can blow up in your face when you get two idiots like me together in public. In other words, I agree with your concern about emotionalism and will add my own observation that even when it's "positive" stuff, excessive public emotionalism tends to turn problematic.

The human brain can follow the complex social interactions of roughly 150 people in a community setting. On the internet, where roughly 20% of members tend to be "active" members, this means that forums above about 700 members start having issues with the sense of community dying and so on. I suspect that the solution for this is to do what many older IRL cultures have done and introduce more social formality -- in other words, consciously and formally introduce practices which explicitly show respect for people in situations where you don't know them all that well and never will. HN is basically the population size of a small city. Given that the degree of interaction with others is higher in a forum than it would be for a similar population size grouping IRL, I think it is the social equivalent of a city much larger than the numbers here seem to suggest to the minds of most people. By that I mean I think of it as being more like New York city rather than a city of 80K or 100k size.

I sometimes end postings with "peace" as my closure. I have a friend who says that sounds passive-aggressive and wants me to stop that. It's something I began doing on smaller lists to reduce ugliness since I tend to be really controversial. In that setting, it did have at least some success in terms of getting people to be less reactive and hostile over disagreeing with my often unconventional views. I do think it's not having quite the same degree of success here. If I can come up with something better, I will happily move on. For now, it's the best I've got. I don't have any ready-made answers for these issues. American English dominates the internet and lacks some of the formal 'respectful' language options found in other languages like Japanese. I don't speak Japanese, but my understanding is that it has a rich variety of ways to say "you" or "me" which express subtleties of formality and the character of the social relationship for which English has no equivalent. I suspect that these types of problems in online forums are compounded by the fact that the internet is dominated by English and it's mostly American English to boot. So the linguistic means to show cultural formality simply aren't there.
logging in from a different browser made it work - the 'undefined' was there right after I'd created an account.
> A hungry stomach just doesn't bother me anymore, so I have to proactively think about food.

I know what you mean. I drive people crazy when they realize that I can work through lunch and simply not miss it.
Depends if you live in the US or the UK, when it comes to libel.
But the implication in the article is that the negative review is a fake review put up by a competing dog trainer...
I dunno, once you hit 6 figures calling it prostitution seems...like it violates the connotations built into that word. Much less seven figures, enough to retire on.
I would rather just pay them a small subscription fee to download their advertisement-free content via torrents after watching streaming advertisement-laced versions for free on their website and choosing which shows I'd actually want to buy and enjoy.
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both iOS and android. I use some contractors but do most of the programming myself. My apps are listed in my profile, mostly sports related.
I left my job to do freelance web development full time in February this year. In June I started traveling. I can do it for $50-75 a day, including food, transportation, and lodging. Hostels, cooking my own food, and public transit. This is in the US too, it's even cheaper in southeast Asia and other parts of the world.
There's definitely a parallel in the data demands of, say, LHC and LSST.

Besides automation, another key thing is the element of time. It means there's scientific value in re-surveying the sky. Ever since gamma ray bursts, the time scale has been shrinking.
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