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Seems liked it worked in this instance.

Of course there are lots of examples where rules or regulations weren't followed and bad things happened: BP oil spill, Enron and many other accounting fiascos, endless number of stories on HN about software being developed with basic security flaws, numerous stories regarding lost laptops with unencrypted private information and so on.

Each time this happens you can't count to ten before the Google bot indexes another GB of punditry arguing for more regulations.

If it were easy to know when bureaucratic controls or official regulations were appropriate and when they were superfluous the world would be a simpler place.

I'm not sure what general princple applies here other than KISS. Reducing complexity is probably a good rule of thumb for any endeavor. Complex rules and meta-rules create their own second, third, or n-th order problems.
They're just being honest.

If a company sells for $150mm, and you have 1%, and there has been $20-40mm in financing (i.e. certainly not a great outcome for later investors, but ok for early), it's possible your equity will be worth $0 (due to preference), or maybe $200-300k. The odds of the company going from early to this are maybe 20%. Getting 1% isn't all that common either; 0.1% is a lot more likely unless you're pre-A.

$200-300k is nice, but if you figure there's a 20% or less chance of it happening, and you have to wait 4 plus maybe 1-4 more years for it. So, the net present value is about $10k/yr in extra salary.

Now, if you're Google, Facebook, or Microsoft, it's totally different; or if you are early at a company which takes very little financing and has a good ($50-150mm+) early exit.

As an employee, what I'd want from a prospective employer is full visibility into the financials/cap table, and help running through various assumptions about the future. Misleading people about the value of compensation, up or down, isn't reasonable.

As an employer I wouldn't want to be hiring someone who was too stupid to understand the accounting when given the numbers, or too meek to ask for the numbers, either. But an employee would be a lot better if he were motivated by wanting to solve this problem, use this tech, expand skills, be in this industry, or learn to do his own startup, vs. banking on the options lottery.
Ask HN: As a startup CEO, if your HR is screwing up, do you want to know?
After reading the Oct hiring post and having gone through the process myself, there are some egregious offenders of the golden rule in HR. I'm not even talking about the "I applied and never heard anything!" (which isn't good). I'm talking about interviewer no call no show for phone screen, rescheduled to do the same thing 2 more times, then the job was filled by the time the phone screen actually took place (that was with a direct referral).

For some positions, it's a employers market. But, HR is the first point of contact for potential employees, many of whom won't get the job, which is the nature of the beast. But, when the process is abnormally disrespectful to the applicant, because HR doesn't think it's important enough to do the non-fun part of their job, your brand suffers. That candidate will tell everyone who will listen about their terrible experience and that'll hurt your future recruitment efforts.

Many thought leaders believe that a critical part of a startup CEO's job is to recruit. If this is happening at your startup, do you want to know?

If you have had a terrible experience (above and beyond submitting a resume and not hearing anything back), tell me about it below. If you are feeling bold, name the company so others know who to be weary of.
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> If you implemented that completely, I think you'd see a pretty massive correction and living in the suburbs would become much more expensive.

Go for it.
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> Certainly no disagreement that suburbanites commute.

I'll disagree, because the truth is that SOME suburbanites commute. In most places, most don't.

And then there's SF, where a significant number of city-dwellers commute to the suburbs....
You can always file a USPTO TTAB opposition to any of that company's registered trademarks. Or several. It's when you do several that they tend to get our their checkbook--each opposition can cost mid-five-figures for a big firm to defend, or in some cases even six.
Motivation is not the same as delivering results.

I might have the same high motivation to be an awesome games programmer, but that still doesn't mean I will be as good as Carmack.

I don't fault LoveLinux for his viewpoints, as they are based on his observation; and he is trying to make the best decision for his kids... I think if what he/she had said, was said by Bill Cosby or George Lopez, we would be applauding their honesty...
Key phrase: "next financing round". So the current financing goes through with "no changes" (ie, no employee participation). There's no mention of the dividend or control which didn't strike me as much of an issue anyway.
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And no child born of a wealthy suburb with exceptional education ever lied.

As others have noted: there's a fundamental inequity here, often based on years of discriminatory practices and uneven funding. In my book, flouting the law to highlight a social inequity that hurts humanity at large is a good thing.
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underground history of american education and an econ 101 textbook. These are the bare minimum of material you should be familiar with before spouting policy prescriptions on this subject.
Yep, been waiting since then too. Lot's of talk and promise - really hope they deliver.
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You want the Federal government to fix the school system?
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Does the back button + Home combo (works for Galaxy S) not work for S2 ?
Doesn't work that way; property taxes in the geographic region of the school district go to fund the schools in that district and nowhere else (if you ignore the effects of equalization lawsuits). If someone living in a low-tax district puts their child in a school in a high-tax district, they are free-riding. The case in Connecticut involves a mother from Bridgeport, which is a poor area, putting her daughter in school in Norwalk, which is much wealthier.
Firefox does this by default, but its built-in update mechanism is disabled in Ubuntu-shipped versions in favour of Ubuntu's package management.
I am well aware of his flaws. I actually placed a higher weight on the accessibility of Gladwell's work. He might not be an economist/sociologist who studied the problem, but the fact that he is able to introduce difficult concepts to a larger audience with his writing is a plus to him and not a minus.
I was so enthused by Vico that I wrote a fairly wordy review about it in August. Added some corrections and notes recently. Feel free to add/contribute/fork. I think it's a great editor, with just a few minor shortcomings which I hope will be addressed soon.

https://github.com/scelerat/vico_review/blob/master/vico_rev...
It works best for people with lots of followers- my (famous) friends do livestreams all the time ("watch me bake some cookies!") and have hundreds of people attend.

I see this as a transitional stepping stone towards a more videochat-enabled world. Color, or a similar app, adds video layer onto the tweet/FB status-style of broadcasting and sharing; it is the mass-social counterpart to what FaceTime is doing for phone calls.

Color:Facetime::Status update:Phonecall
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Since you are purporting that falsehood is never wrong...

exodus 1:15-20 (NRSV)

The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, ‘When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, she shall live.’ But the midwives feared God; they did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but they let the boys live. So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, ‘Why have you done this, and allowed the boys to live?’ The midwives said to Pharaoh, ‘Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.’ So God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and became very strong.

tl;dr : The king told midwives to kill baby boys. The midwives did not. When asked by the king why the boys still lived, they lied.
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> Actually, levels of American taxation are amongst the lowest in the developed world.

Not even close.

http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2010/03/taxes-per-person.html

Never confused tax rates with revenues. (And yes, tax revenue per capita is the correct thing to compare with benefits received.)

You may have been confused by the fact that the US tax system is far more progressive than European systems.

See http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=4626 for some additional discussion.

> Yes, and the ideological forebears of American conservatives today had a penchant for lynching people with a different skin colour.

Actually, they didn't - conservatives were driven out of the South after reconstruction by an alliance of southern democrats (who were populists) and progressives.

Jim Crow was instituted by Democrats and the progressives at the time applauded. Wilson thought that it was such a good idea that he segregated the US military....

Most of the votes for the civil rights acts came from Northern Repubs. The vast majority of the opposition came from Southern Dems. And, no, the Democrat party didn't repudiate them - they retired in good standing during the 70s.

That's why MLK was a Republican....

Yes, today's conservatives oppose affirmative action. Feel free to explain why poor white and asian kids should give up slots to middle class blacks.
What country would force food to be priced proportionally to its calories - N. Korea, Cuba, or maybe that's the next step for Denmark?

Do you really want to see that experiment?
>Also, money is fungible. What if AirBnb has earnings from elsewhere that could pay the dividend, meeting the early shareholders' desire for a interim diversifying return? But, that would then leave less capital for expansion. However, new investors are happy investing money that replaces (and then some) the cost of the dividend to support expansion costs.

>There'd then be no essential violation of the way you think things are 'supposed to be': just think of earnings paying dividends, and then new investment adding all required expansion capital.

Even if they had other sources able to completely cover the "dividends", there seems to be the causality link between the investment and the "dividends". In Tom DeLay's case the causality between "donors to RNC" and "RNC to candidates" allowed the jury to recognize shortcut-ed "donors to candidates". It seems to me that it was an obvious bonus (i.e. ordinary income) to founders which for the purposes of lower tax rates (i.e. basically for the reason of greed) was shaped as dividend, and as result they seems to step into the Madoff territory.

>Everybody who's a party to the transaction is happy, in a tax/legally-efficient manner, and no one's rights are trampled.

people were fighting to get a piece of Madoff action.
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No, "freedom of association" means exactly that, in both the positive and negative forms. You are free to associate with someone, and free to not associate with someone.
Yeah, the undo is a bit strange -- in stock Emacs you have to make a change to the buffer to start undoing in the opposite direction. You can use "undo-only" for a simpler model, or check out some extensions that modify undo mode: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryUndo.

The cool thing about Emacs undo is that it can undo in a region. So, say you've made a bunch of changes, and then realized that one of your earlier changes to a particular line were incorrect: just highlight the line and then undo within that.
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Why is that? I use it. I admit it's not "full featured" but it does get the job done.
I am not sure how Dylan16807 did his/her search, but when I do, I get a nice grouped response with 7 items from the ubuntu.com site. Searching for "ubuntu" doesn't take me to a specific oneiric feature-list, but, I imagine, it's not that hard to get it. Apart from that, every 6 months Ubuntu launches a new release and hasn't failed even once to provide newer versions of more or less the same packages present in its last incarnation.
I hope he kicks their butt.
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Nothing more depressing than an in-class reading of "Romeo and Juliet" during my freshman year of H.S. The obvious illiteracy of most of these students floored me; nearly everyone was sounding-out and guessing at any words over 2 syllables. "Apothecary"? Dream on. I think it took us something like a week to read through that play, which could be performed in an hour or two.
Are you interested in building cutting edge technology or building a business?

If you're interested in building a business, then there's a huge amount of opportunity the online communications space!

I could probably think of 5 cushy niches that will print $20k-60k per month with a very small team. Just look around you and identify occupations that involve communication and build a communication product around that occupation's process.

It's a relatively simple and straight-forward process to building a business that lots of technical folks overlook because it's not sexy. I'll take profitable over sexy any day.
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Talk about a sensational headline.... goodbye? Give me a break. There will always be organized crime in every country no matter what.
Good luck to him!
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I think these parents are trying to get their kids out of schools that can't even enforce basic discipline in the classroom. There's a big difference between an environment where teachers don't know anything worth much serious study or effort and an environment where teachers spend almost all of their time trying prevent a riot from breaking out in the classroom and thus spend almost no time actually instructing students.

Also, it can be very hard to support real learning at home if you are a single parent working two or three jobs to make ends meet.
They bought some other brewery's beer at the store for way too much money, slapped a Google label on it, and now it tastes worse?
I spent over an hour playing with Noir this afternoon and blogged about it. Not Noir specific, but I like the way stack traces are handled: any error generating a web page shows a tidy and useful stack trace. The linked article of running on Heroku with Noir and MongoDB was also fun to work through. Nice stuff.
Part of the reason why half of America is morbidly obese is not because the food is cheap, but because the food triggers endocannabinoids and you literally become addicted and suffer withdrawal symptoms from food that is quite literally killing you .01% per meal.

Tax it all you want, if you want to solve the problem you gotta put a surgeon's general's warning on 95% of food America eats as "This food will cause you to die if you eat more than x grams per day".

What I want is a little indicator on every food item at the store, a number as the percentage decrease in overall health when this food is fed every meal to various animals. A score of how long this food will cause a monkey to die if he eats X grams per day. It might be a shocker to see the healthfood isle filled full of foods that will cause you to die if you eat it every day.
As a freshman studying calculus and physics, it's tempting to think that the world is a stunningly mathematically beautiful place: motion and speed and acceleration described so elegantly by functions and derivatives! But in the real world, things aren't quite so pure. We don't really have frictionless surfaces or massless objects. We have to complicate those beautiful functions. The beauty is still there, but it's not as obvious.

I think likewise, we can take a big-picture look at a software project, and in our minds we see the unadulterated beautiful design. We see the elegant solution to the problem. But when we actually go to code it, try as we might, we can't stay entirely elegant. There are edge cases that the elegance doesn't handle. There are obstacles that we didn't account for, and now must work around. There are requirements changes that come mid-stream and we don't have time to start over. There are deficiencies in our own understanding of our languages and libraries and compilers, and we don't do everything in the most optimal way.

The result has a well-designed interior, but just like real-world physics, there's a bunch of other stuff bolted on. And when an outsider looks at the code, it's hard to see the beautiful inner design amidst all of hacks.
> It costs a society to have sick members, by taxing products that cause sickness the government can use the money raised to offset the cost of the sickness.

Except that things aren't that straight forward.

BTW - would you support a tax on child-bearing by folks who are likely to have "at risk" children? (It's pretty easy to identify those people.)
If you give it longer than 7 minutes, Ubuntu will prompt you to update - not just firefox, but a whole range of things. Firefox is just another part of the system, and doesn't really have any reason to update RIGHT NOW! as opposed to once a day when the usual updates come through.

In any case, if you're the kind of person that knows what actual features you will gain from FF7 over FF4 (other than just "sweet, a higher numbah"), you're a power user and should know better than to make the complaint he did - you should be able to do the extremely mild googling required on your new, unfamiliar OS to make it happen.

On another tangent, this kind of comment in the article is one of the big problems with FF deciding to do away with minor numbers and make every release a major number. "But FF 4.0 is so old, we're up to 7.0 now!! Bad!!" when it was the current release a mere 103 days ago.
My suggestion is using a modified version of sortition. Grade the students, then add some white noise to their final grading. You deliberately make the process less precise, hoping that this will discourage students from gaming the system too hard (which will more accurately get the intrinsically motivated ones in).

Even better, if you keep track of the random noise you added, you can do all sorts of interesting statistical experiments. Introduce a few kids who didn't get top scores into an MBA program, and see what factors later predict success.
The only mistake he made was asking Reddit instead of a lawyer who specializes in dealing with boneheaded corporate maneuvers.

Otherwise, I wish him luck.
No, I'm not purporting that "falsehood is never wrong" (you meant "never right", I suppose). In context, I was talking about falsification of records with an intention to obtain educational benefits otherwise disallowed.
My immediate reaction to this is, 'what could possibly go wrong?'

> “The new laws will make the price of paying off the yakuza, in loss of face and in penalties, much more expensive than the actual cash payments to the yakuza."

So what happens when the yakuza raise the stakes and make it even more costly to not pay them off? (e.g. we'll kill you, your family, etc.)
More like goodbye to standing a chance as a business owner. So you can't pay for safety, and instead get your windows broken and your kneecaps busted.

If you do pay, you become a criminal.

Talk about a backwards way of fighting the problem.
Wealth and political power are intimately related even within the best institutions, and that is a zero-sum game. If the distribution of wealth is heavily skewed towards the top it will wipe out the political power of the poor and solidify the social and economic hierarchies. It will subvert democracy. That sucks.
At Stanford in the mid-seventies, one could smell the beginning microcomputer revolution, ignited by the early microprocessors introduced by the nearby Intel Corporation. After soldering together my own IMSAI computer from a kit and advancing from binary programming by flipping switches to assembly language, I became an avid visitor of the weekly meetings of the Stanford Hombrew Computer Club, where Bill Gates sold rolls of punched paper tape with 4k and 8k versions of ALTAIR BASIC. Steve Jobs, the later founder of Apple Computer came to my undergraduate classes on electricity and magnetism. In 1976, Art Schawlow and I bought one of the first Apple I Computers, a bare printed circuit board, at the Mountain View Byte Shop. Both Art and I succumbed to the microcomputer fever, spending a forbidding amount of personal money on a growing collection of computers and peripherals, so that our offices started to look like space mission control centers. Art sometimes joked about our role as early adopters: "The pioneers are the ones with the arrows in their backs." Around 1980, Art and I even started a small mail-order software business, selling a little graphics program Autoplot written in BASIC for the Radio Shack TRS80 computer. Sales were brisk until the hardware became obsolete.
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>It is bad form for this sort of thing to be aired publicly.

the financial dealings start to stink in Silicon Valley and in hi-tech in general and some people seem to care enough and are in position to at least voice their concerns.
This is a novel concept. There's an emotional satisfaction that you get out of this. If you ran the ROI numbers on the advertising it probably wouldn't play out, but if you wanted to brag at a cocktail party that you had your company advertised on a Times Square Billboard, then yeah it's worth $10.

I don't think this is a cheap form of marketing for anyone because the ROI doesn't probably make sense. However, it might make sense as a novelty ad/gift or something to that effect.
> "It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked." Warren Buffett

You do realize that that doesn't make sense, right? (The tide going out doesn't change the exposure for people who are swimming.)

When the tide goes out, you do find out which boats are anchored in water that is too shallow, but that doesn't let Buffett be "naughty".
Anti-organized crime laws are not exactly new to Japan. Go to any bar, restaurant, or laundry mat, odds are they have a "We don't do business with violent groups" (which means the yakuza) sign up.

Anecdotally, their influence has been waning in recent decades, or at least moving from retail level criminality into Chicago-style corruption regarding public works projects. (That aside, I had a bit of a run-in with two of them a few years back while they were painting "Pay us our money or we'll kill you" on a neighbor's house, and I was not left with massive new respect for my local police department as a result of that encounter. Long story short, but you could practically hear "If she hadn't borrowed money and not paid it back then she wouldn't have a yakuza problem now would she" during the middle of my 911 call.)
That actually is noir specific. I wrote a bunch of stuff to display them like that and make them useable. :)