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Ask HN: Have YC alumns seen adverse effects from pricing common stock early?
It is my understanding that it can be advantageous for both the investor and entrepreneur to use preferred stock in early financing deals. From the entrepreneur's perspective the common stock value will remain low.

Has anyone seen effects in practice, perhaps surrounding recruitment, of pricing common stock early for a YC (or other) deal?

Part two:
Right now our company has 10M common shares, with a par value of .00001. Is there a "trick" that incubators use to keep the common stock value low when dealing with such small investment amounts?

Edit: formatting.
Yep. Nothing but software, except for dual-core, faster CPU, much faster GPU, 8MP camera, 1080P video, and combined CDMA-GSM radios that can roam internationally no matter your carrier.

But other than that, what have the Romans ever done for us?

edit: Not double the RAM.
That's not quite accurate. Depending on how one measures somewhere between 40% and 70% of health care costs are used to treat lifestyle diseases (too much stress, too much food, not enough exercise) like high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, tobacco, alcohol, avoidable accidents, etc. Those problems are not genetic. They're behavioral.

Of course one can suffer these things without having the risk factors. I presume the experts who calculated those numbers corrected for that.

So in about half the cases (half the cost to be precise), sickness really is your fault.

One of the reasons high deductible plans have such low premiums despite not screwing people over with small print is that they attract a more healthy segment of the population, because a high deductible creates some incentive to avoid those [preventable] diseases.

As it is, people are only hit on their regular expensive plans if they smoke. Imagine if they were also hit with higher premiums if they were overweight (BMI>25, 2/3s of Americans are overweight), drank too much, smoked too much, didn't engage in regular physical activity, etc. Then the premiums for those who have a lifestyle which wasn't likely to cause chronic diseases would only pay half of what they're currently paying. Those who engage in risky lifestyles would see their premiums increase by 50%.
That proverb at the beginning is great ("A man grows most tired while standing still."). It reminds me of the quote, "If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it."
This is avoided by rendering each star/half star/empty star as an li or a div, defining common styles like width, height and positioning and then background images for each.
As someone who uses PGP on a daily basis: I have zero confidence that e.g. my mom could make any sense of it.

It doesn't help that Gmail, a web app, has no secure was of implementing PGP with people's "real" public keys.

Apple bakes encrypted email into Mail.app. It has an almost transparent UX. Nobody uses it.

Demand is what's holding back encrypted email. Nobody cares about it.
These are great points. Regarding #2: most of the banks we've all heard of are huge companies with hundreds of apps. A breach in any of them, even a brochureware app, is reported as if it was a full-blown bank heist. Serious incidents do happen at banks, but when you hear about them, odds are it isn't the retail account management system that broke
I actually use Assembla's free git repos for client projects and throwaway projects.
It was still insightful for me. I always wondered how it was that Amazon managed to beat Google at coming up with services like EC2 and S3.
it seems (highly) unlikely to me that it will ever be successfully ported, as apple can surely white-list the service by IMEI or serial number.
Disagree on caching as the last thing you do.

If you're building an app that will hopefully be bigger than you expect, build cache into your data layer, it's not complex and will pay off sooner than later.
$18,500 burn rate is their monthly negative cash flow, not necessarily total monthly expenditures.
After breakfast? I would include breakfast as well. My energy levels after a breakfast of bacon and eggs is far steadier than after any breakfast cereals, toast, muffins, pastries, etc. Avoiding any large carb intake (post workout _possibly_ excepted) is key to steady energy levels.

For a more rational book, try Robb Wolf's "The Paleo Solution", which also has an extensive chapter on sleep and cortisol management.
Interesting. Haven't seen Lynda but I've seen other sites that offer iOS tutorials as well.

Ours is 'Learn iPhone/iPad development in less than an hour'. It's targeted at the people who can't concentrate for long, and those who find the learning curve too steep.
Long-time lurker who just had to jump into the fray about this nonsense and non-story.

Reading tech-dirt I came across quite a few comments equating copyright with censorship. You folks need to take a deep breath and then ask yourself if your support for your 'civil right' to consume something trumps the right of the person who produced the work in question to decided for themselves how the work should enter and survive in the marketplace. Because all I hear these days is that your desire to consume without renumeration is all that matters. Any deviation from that tucks into some part of the copyright conspiracy boogeyman.

The most important right is that an individual should get to decide how their own works are treated - want to give it away for free? Want to set up your own torrent? Want to charge for it? It should be an individual's choice what they do with their work; you have no right to make that choice for them and it is a painfully shameful that capitalism's consumerist end has come to long polemics on why stealing something isn't - and now watching torrents of The Office is a civil right.

There is an important statue being dedicated tomorrow in Washington DC - some of you folks should turn off Pirate Bay and pay attention to things that are actually worth caring about.

By the way, I lost my single karma point to bring up the issue of individual control. The issue of piracy affects developers deeply - it's important to discuss it, not down-vote it.
Obviously this varies person by person. In my own personal experience, I have found that eating carbs in the morning (a reasonable amount) allows me to have a much stronger workout. When I eat NO carbs, it makes it too difficult to maintain a moderate to intense workout schedule. I liked Paleo as well, but I liked Ferris' attempt to look at the "whole body".
Designing your Windows Phone App. Some very useful UX Resources
The Shadowy World of iPhone Cases
How Steve Jobs Changed (James Surowiecki)
The kindle's browser suck. i would be very interested in an opera version for the kindle.
The thesis of this piece is that Steve Jobs was less controlling after he returned to Apple than before, and that the iPhone "is far more open than the Mac ever was..."

I am guessing that James Surowiecki does not read Hacker News. Would anyone here care to make the case that iOS is more "open" than the Mac, in any sense?
The 5% fee does seem to be the main point of criticism. My argument is how else in the US can you make a payment of say $30 at a cost of $1.50?

It looks like it will all boil down to the execution.

With it getting so close to launch I'm just ridiculously nervous. It's all I can think about, I just want one night where it's not on my mind. The fear of failing that is and letting people down.

I mean the other option would have been to enter YC in which case I'd be months away from release and probably still waiting on PG to tell me to pivot.
You're misunderstanding the purpose of patents. They're not a reward to be granted for every useful invention. Patents exist only to be an incentive for innovation. In almost every case where several inventors are competing to get the invention ready to patent, there is enough natural incentive that the patent is not necessary. In those cases, granting a patent can just as easily slow down the pace of technological progress, by forcing every inventor that didn't get the patent to either stop working in that area or negotiate a patent license before they can continue working to improve the invention.
"an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model"

I've read that some dozens of times from Blank.

Sounds like a guy opening a pizza shop knows better what he's doing than the IT startups Blank is talking about!

Not all IT startups have to be less well directed than a pizza shop! Bluntly, for a well planned startup, I conclude that Blank is nearly always wrong.

I helped start a company, now world famous. In my offer letter I was promised stock. Later the COB said that the amount would be $500,000. I never got the stock. That stock would be worth about $500 million now. Yup, I missed out. But I did get some startup experience. Got'a tell you, what Blank said didn't describe what we were doing at all. We always knew JUST what our business model was, and we were correct from the beginning to the present. It wasn't tough to know. Sometimes Blank is seriously wrong.

"You've bootstrapped your company." From what PG wrote, sounds like I don't have much choice: No matter what "more" it takes, I have to have it done before a VC will write a check. But, then, as you said, I will already have "bootstrapped" my company.

"I imagine you'll find that you need a lot more than a static IP address and 15 Mbps upload bandwidth to get there though." Sure. The point about the static IP address and the 15 Mbps upload bandwidth was just to illustrate that by the time I've got the "more" done and am ready to go live, we're not talking bucks big enough to eat up an average Series A. Instead we're talking much less cash that it would take to keep a new pizza shop going for the first week.

My point isn't how much an entrepreneur needs to do. My point is that by the time the entrepreneur has gone live, gotten significant traction, and has the traction going, and, thus, qualified for VC funding, if he can half fill 15 Mbps upload bandwidth, then he won't want to take VC money.

Put more simply, PG is saying that the VCs want to get on the plane after it has already left the ground. Okay by me. I'm just trying to understand the rules of the game.

I didn't mention it, but my guess is that the severe rules PG is describing have been 'suggested' by the LPs.
But anything coming from the "collective unconscious" would have been discovered, by definition, anyway, and should not be monopolized by any individual.
Reminds me of "Nobody knows how to make a pencil":

http://alexbarnett.net/blog/archive/2006/11/18/Nobody-knows-...

It's the same thing at every human technology. And this in turn reminds me of Mostly Harmless, by Douglas Adams, where the protagonist finds himself in a simple rustic village. He is unable to reproduce any of the technology from his civilization and settles as a sandwich maker.
Did you mean libev?
In C++11 you can split the declaration and implementation with the new external template feature.
I absolutely appreciate your input. We have some major work to get done, and your advice provides some great directions. Personalization and delivering a user only the news that matters to them is our goal. This is great feedback, please keep it coming.
Brian
Scheme was (partially) designed to be not so useful
The News Industry Rewritten
It is a nice thing to do. But even if she didn't, nature would have found some use for the components in her body.
> and imply that any company that does business with Monsanto is in the wrong, is wildly inappropriate and unfair.

First, if this applies to any company partnering with Monsanto, they are receiving equal treatment.

Secondly, your value judgment of it being "wildly inappropriate" rings hollow. Who determines what's "appropriate"? Usually that terminology is employed when referring to social convention, and social convention is determined by majority opinion.

Quoting PG:

But the best thing of all is when people call what you're doing inappropriate. I've been hearing this word all my life and I only recently realized that it is, in fact, the sound of the homing beacon. "Inappropriate" is the null criticism. It's merely the adjective form of "I don't like it."

http://www.paulgraham.com/marginal.html

Ironically, majority opinion here is clearly on the opposing side from where you stand, which seems to inform your "wildly" modifier, being revealing of being upset that your view isn't the prevailing one.

As for "unfair", if you read Monsanto's Wikipedia page you'll find out that what it has done to the planet and people fits that description better by ORDERS of magnitude than people deciding not to use some web service or other.

Perspective, please.
Dennis Ritchie: the other man inside your iPhone
Lots of people have died from drinking sea water. It's still a Very Bad Idea. Your argument is along the lines of "They got technical details wrong; salt water is sometimes important; therefore the whole thing is wrong." But that is like saying the advice to "Do not handle rattlesnakes" doesn't apply because some folks get a great deal out of handling rattlesnakes. The fact is, people who don't know what they're doing shouldn't handle rattlesnakes… or drink sea water.

Now let's talk about oral rehydration salts -- the non-fancy name for the salt water and "glucose transporters" you described.

The salinity of Oral Rehydration Salts/Solution is nowhere near as high as sea water -- and without the sugar, saltwater doesn't rehydrate. The formula for making it yourself is about 1/2 tsp salt in a liter of water, plus 6 tsp of sugar. That's a lot of sugar to balance out just a little salt: 1:12 ratio.

A quick Google suggests that 35g of salt is what one would expect in a liter of sea water (on average). A tsp of salt weighs 5.7 g. Therefore, the concentration of salt in sea water is 6 teaspoons vs 1/2 tsp in ORS, or 12x the concentration of salt.

And no sugar.

I drink ORS on a regular basis to deal with one of the side effects of chronic fatigue syndrome: an imbalance of hormones in the body which leads to insufficient electrolytes which leads to POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome), dizziness, muscle cramps & twitches, brain fog/inability to think straight, and inability to drink adequate water.

ORS has been a total life changer for me -- before, doctors just said I was "too out of shape" when sitting up/standing led to a doubled heart rate, dizziness, the feeling that "the bottom dropped out of my head", near fainting, etc. Because that's a valid explanation when a 27-year-old nearly passes out from standing up. (Not.)

Drinking a little salty-sugary solution solves my symptoms in 20 minutes.

But I sure as hell wouldn't drink sea water.
Interested enough to do it yourself?

... I rest my case.
In my opinion, though, a computer engineer is better served working in the other direction :) Or, perhaps, from both ends at once--that's how we did it at school, and it worked out OK.
Business is personal
It wouldn't work because of inflation.

Is that a good argument for artificially maintaining poverty and enacting policy which specifically advantages the ultra-rich to the detriment of people who are having trouble getting by?
Yes to the first question... this is pretty common. But do yourself a favor and hire a decent attorney to help you. Financing missteps can kill your company and/or make future financing much more challenging.
Would someone care to explain the downvote?
a cool project, but I use github because I don't want to self-host my git repos
Samsung Facing Possible Ban In US For Galaxy Tab 10.1
Health Care Labor - more expensive and less productive
Oh, so we can expect nothing is going to change at Google, but he won't be fired. How inspiring.
Some people here are acting as if they were just told that Santa Clause isn't real.
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How does exponential growth differ from logarithmic growth? An exponent is a logarithm, no...?
"I'm coming to Paros."
nah, he means libuv - because that's the layer on top of libev and libeio used by node.js to also include win32 support...
At least here in Norway, most banks provide multiple ways of easily transferring with a phone: SMS, Android and/or iPhone apps and mobile web pages. My bank has all of these options. All four options in addition offer transferring between ones own account, retrieving balance, etc. The Android and iPhone apps and the mobile web pages offer more advanced stuff like paying bills, etc. as well. They even offer purchasing stocks and maintaining ones stock portfolio.
FWIW: I seem to recall something said at the keynote (or many a discussion afterward) that the greater power of the 4s' A5 was "needed". [ correct me if I just dreamt that ]

Not that that should stop anybody from processing it with an A4-powered iPhone.
no edit button....
Cereals seem to do near nothing (Even those 'healthy' ones or heavier ones like muesli with honey) for me aside from satisfying the 'I'm hungry' feeling which quickly dissipates anyway. The times when I've had a good breakfast (Bacon and eggs, yoghurt and fruit, etc) is when I've felt the best.
Aside from doomlaser's answer, have you seriously seen a single demo in HTML5? As I've not seen one yet that doesn't stutter or crash. Even in Chrome with v8.

HTML5 is like 5 years behind Flash in terms of performance.

Also writing in HTML5 at the moment is like being given the total basics. Canvas, as an API, sucks. It'll get better, more libraries will come out, but god-damn it feels like moving backwards to take a step forwards.
Protip: up the maxage var a bit and then click, then immediately mouse over and start clicking new colors. :)
Occupy Wall Street Hackathons Want to Build a Better Protest
How Glass is Made - Part Two
Before the glass is cut a special powder is dropped on the surface of the glass providing a separation medium between each piece of glass. Then the glass is cut by scoring it with carbide cutting wheels and then snapping it over a roller which acts like a fulcrum. Mainline scoring equipment consists of slit cutters which score the ribbon of glass in the direction of the flow and cross-cutters score it across the flow. After scoring the glass, a continuous ribbon of glass comes to the mainline snap-rolls where cross-cutter scores are open.
Which reminds me of the quote, "If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy man, for he will find an easier way to do it"
The more interesting point he doesn't mention is the swithch over from PowerPC architecture to Intel x86. Has anyone done a good analysis of the impact?
The legal regulation is what built up the bulk of the cost.

It basically comes from people suggesting they can't see why anyone would use the service, or enough to make it worthwhile.
It is not his Trademark but it is his trademark.

I don't think it is really an issue of it being illegal, it just gives the appearance that this person is trying to sell his wares on top of Mark's reputation.
If I were a professor and the question was "why we can't drink sea water", I'd give the article a higher score than yours.

Your comment is about the best method to hydrate oneself. His article is about "why we can't drink seawater".
Among other things, "how to make a semiconductor" is like that joke about how to make a million dollars: "First, you take a million dollars..."

You're going to spend years just bootstrapping your metal refinery to the point where you can bootstrap your machine shop to the point where you can bootstrap your chemical industry to the point where you can produce undoped silicon of sufficient purity to make a decent integrated circuit. Sure, maybe you can slap together a handful of cheesy transistors to rival the first-ever transistor (Google up the picture of the first transistor; it's hilarious; you can practically smell the hot glue wafting from that picture) but it takes a bunch of transistors to make a computer, and you'd probably like your computer to get through three whole clock cycles before melting.

You might actually be better off just recapitulating history by starting with vacuum tubes. You'll need to master glassblowing and vacuum pumps to build semiconductors anyway, and tubes have lots of handy uses. (You could build an oscilloscope, which you will also need.) But you'll need to bootstrap your metal wire industry (generators aren't that hard to make if you can get hundreds of continuous feet of insulated wire...) and note that you'd better be very careful until you've had time to bootstrap your plastics industry; there are scary stories from the early days of TV when they had high-voltage circuits but nothing to insulate the wires with but varnish and paper...
Ah, good old Trumpet Winsock. :)
They give an incentive for innovation by granting the original inventor time to bring his invention to market before an established entity uses its existing resources to block him out. This model isn't very useful to software, but it works perfectly fine with cars and tractors and other things that take five years from concept to product.

One trivial improvement might be to split patents the same way that major research recognitions are split. If two people come up with something simultaneously and independently, why not give it to both of them?
The first time I'd been to a gym was about 8 years back, and I'd been led to believe that progress (weight loss & a certain muscular definition, from my pov) couldn't be had without working one's butt off, for about 2 hours a day.

Through a bunch of experiments over the past couple of years (after a 3-year-long hiatus), I believe I've nailed down the 20% that'd result in 80% of the effects most sought-after.
I've cut down my workout duration from 1.5 hours to about 20-25 minutes, and have been doing better -- on strength, gains and energy -- than my self-selected control group of sorts. Most of them workout closer to 2 hours, 6 times a week.

It isn't always easy figuring out the exact elements that'd make the perfect 20%. Experience certainly helps narrow things down. I believe the amount of experience & time required, could be hacked massively by studying the mistakes others have made (mentors, books, interviews), and the stuff the've learned the hard way.
lets hope it scales well!
We live extremely cheaply, even for Tennessee standards. We all share a house and play limbo with the poverty line... A couple of our developers are part-time guys that have helped when needed, we currently have a full-time staff of five.
Be mindful of criticism, but also don't let it mess with your head. Any time you release something to the public, there will always be people who love it and those that hate it. If all you listen to are the haters, then you'll never succeed at anything.

The bottom line is whether or not people are willing to pay for your service. So I would go over the negative feedback and take a cold hard look at whether or not they have a point, and if so, then make a change.

But don't stop your release, you should definitely go live at this point. Don't let your ego get in the way, someone has invested $35,000 with you, so you owe it to them to at least release and then figure out if what you have is going to work, and if not, then change it.
Caching in which aspect? Browser cache, server cache, server SSL cache, etc?
This isn't about copyright so much as giving not just any private party, but one with a demonstrated history of reckless abuse of the legal system, the power to exile you from our civilization without so much as an impartial judge seeing probable cause. And for this system to function, it will obviously require tight control over anyone allowed to sell connectivity to the Internet, and zero tolerance for anonymous access. Sorry, a chance to pat ourselves on the back about MLK's victory two generations ago rings a little hollow now, especially when the same struggle today would probably end with him being disappeared.
You're right that it's a major update, but unfortunately the RAM didn't double.