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First - there's no harm in bargaining. If you like the team and believe in the company, but you think the offer is a little low, then tell them that. If you have some number in your head then ask for a little more and bargain to something closer to what you want.

3% + salary is a better offer than I've seen for a first employee. I've seen 3% with no salary and salary with a lower stake, but not both together. It means they are serious about bringing you on board and consider you more than just a first employee.

It's often possible to bargain away salary for equity or vice-versa. Given your place in the company, you could ask to be a cofounder with a higher equity stake. But be prepared for the sacrifices involved. It could mean a pay cut and you will be making a lower salary than your employees for a long time.

Older engineers tend to care more about the salary than the equity. If this applies to you, you could also bargain away some of your equity for salary. Maybe $80k a year with a 2% stake in a good company sounds better to you then $40k and a 3% stake.
Ask HN: Are there creative rejection pages for IE6 users?
I am looking for examples of cool-designed pages that users see when they visit your site from IE6 but you just don't want to support it because of any reasons. I mean it should be something like a 404 page. So it's a rejection page that says something like "You are too lazy to update your browser so why should I care about you?" When the user visits the site, he just can't use it and sees that page instead.

There are a lot of creative 404 pages but I didn't yet see something like what I described. These can be pages not specially for IE6, may be for other legacy browsers that are just pain in the ass for developers and designers.

Please list some links if you saw anything like that.
Aha.. but does Wikileaks affect your life if they hide that information from the you?

Indeed, this is a strawman argument. Governments shouldn't hide information from people. That's the point.
Adrew, really curious here, how would you go about if you were in his shoes?
I disagree with you 100%. For our company to succeed we need people who want to be with us, no matter what shiny new offer comes their way. That's the point.
So you are arguing that there's nobody who produces a value of $1 - $105 per week?

I would expect the correlation between wages and production to be much stronger at the low-income levels and for hourly positions. Regardless, it's what the employer thinks the employee is worth (or will be worth). If the employer doesn't expect at least $106+X dollars of productivity, they won't hire at $106.

This is pretty basic microeconomics; supply and demand. Even if you're right that the first employee nets more than $106, that might not be true for the tenth one. The demand curve for employees is downward-sloping, right?
Robert Murphy is an austrian economist who was trained by keynsians. He talks about the the difference in approach in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDYsRDah3I
One of the beauties of the human experience is that we can overcome our genetic "switches" to derive a more positive experience.

You're not a slave to your instincts unless you want to be.
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Where's the outrage at these drivers?

Is there a contingent of bikers somewhere angry at drivers doing 65 in a 60? If not, what does it have to do with anything? The violations that people get upset about are those that actively endanger or inconvenience them or people like them.
Password mgmt app for startups. thoughts?
Having not used them yet, I'm eager to hear about your experience with 99designs!

I know it's meant to be a "cheap" alternative to working with a designer, but it's still a bit disappointing when the highest-rated logo of 25 averages a 3.3/5 rating (with four of the five rating options being positive).

If possible when you write the post up, could you talk about your options for a custom fit to your app? I see a lot of variance between these "best" options, so I wonder how much guidance you were allowed to provide (that is: whether the random assortment of styles, themes, and colors is on purpose or due to restrictions on the process).
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"Quality counts" is a nice meme, but without specifics it lacks usefulness and can even be misguiding. There are many forms of quality. Some are vital when launching an app, others should be pared back if doing so allows you to launch earlier or provide better core features.

The real trade off with Quality is not profit but iteration speed. Every feature you include has a quality scale from 1-10. A '1' is going to be barely usable and will frustrate users, a '10' can take months to achieve and your feature or app may be irrelevant by the time it's done.

Picking the right value to hit will depend on your market, your users, and your resources.
O(L/M) times as many trips, where L is the <average cache line size> divided by <average field size>. With 64 byte cache lines and 8 byte fields, this is at most 8, even if you have 200 fields in your object. In my experience, when I was still doubting this myself, I was unable to ever measure more than 20% slowdown on the least favorable (for columnar storage) workload, and I was able to measure about 200% speedup on a favorable workload.

Note that even if they do pass around a list of indices, accesses are often (in practice) batched - because records that arrived together tend to be needed together. And the indices are often sorted (because of how they were generated, or because they are easy to sort) which then produces a very predictable access pattern for memory and disk.

We can theorize about probable and improbable access patterns until tomorrow. My experience, and everyone that used column-major order that I'm aware of, is that in practice it almost always wins against row-major ("common") ordering, whether on disk or in memory.

The fastest databases around (kdb+, vertica) use column major order. That should tell you something (about disk, but also about memory)
There are still plenty of cheap LCDs in the world, they just don't show up in high quality products. I bought a cheap Android tablet (a Viewsonic gTablet) a while back to try out, and it had terrible viewing angles.

The banking example on the site actually implies designing an ATM specifically to take advantage of this feature. There are often people around you when you use an ATM.

Other products where security is an issue (special more-secure laptops?) could be designed this way as well. You wouldn't do banking with people watching, but if you needed the ability to do company work while, for example, spending a lot of time flying, it might be a net benefit.
I think you're mistaken in dividing it up into a cars vs. bikes/pedestrians binary.

There are motorists who act completely inappropriately towards bikers, and there are bikers who act in a manner that is equally unbefitting. Both are a big problem, and the one doesn't justify the other.

Personally, as a non-car-owning biker, it really upsets me when I see fellow cyclists acting like dicks. It makes it that much harder for us to be taken seriously.
Sorry, here is the design brief: https://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/logo-startup-drea...

I'm surprised they didn't link to it automatically.
That's not what the OP said. Linkedin presents a form on the front page after you're logged in that specifically asks you to enter your password so that you can search your e-mail contacts.

But many people might interpret that as a LinkedIn log-in form (not realizing that they are already logged in). If LinkedIn just had an ad there asking people to click a button to then fill out their e-mail address/password, they would likely have much fewer people let LinkedIn look at their e-mail account.

This is much more legit than just trying the Linkedin account username/password to access the e-mail account, but it is still a form of phishing.
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>> The term is really just a placeholder for the fact that something is providing a long-scale repulsive force

> How is that not contrived?

All the phrase "dark energy" means is that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. There must be something which provides this repulsive force (maybe some new particle, maybe some unknown property of the vacuum, maybe some new theory of gravity on cosmological distance scales). Dark energy is simply the generic name to describe this something, whatever it is. It makes no claim as to what is causing the repulsion. It's just a name for an unknown. Calling dark energy contrived is like seeing an equation 6x + 4 = 7 and calling "x" contrived.

> Well aesthetics do invoke subjective qualities. Relativity, modifying Newtonian physics, could have be seen as ugly by some. E = mc^2 is so elegant as to seem improbable.

The virtue of relativity is that despite overturning a very elegant theory, it creates new, elegant equations of its own. Any theory of gravity that could explain the varying dark matter fractions would necessarily have to do so in some basically arbitrary way (since dark matter fractions vary in an apparently random manner). So any such new theory of gravity would have to be ugly; there could be no redeeming features.
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And you have heavily slanted analysis from Groklaw but even raising the question of who the person who actually runs/ran that site is "an attack on Freedom(as defined by RMS) and the person who asked it must be condemned and tainted as the enemy on all forums as being on the payroll of M$".

Forget about even raising the question of if there's similar funding involved from any company, even if just for costs of funding. Even hazmat suits won't save you from the erupting flames and moderation for just doubting the one that commenters are on the side of.
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I can't give you a definitive answer since that's yours to make. I can tell from my experience of being in 2 startups that the team should be your most important consideration. Your product and market can and will change more often than the entire team would. You shouldn't go in feeling uncertain about the people you're working with, because its not like you can A/B Test your way out to a better situation like you can with a product/market. Sometimes, however, the opportunity can be such that you just have to play the cards you get and take a chance.

If you're main issue is compensation, then negotiate back a number that will make you comfortable without being unreasonable; it seems like you're pretty valuable to them.

Youth and startup experience shouldn't be a concern if you think their smart, dedicated and have some gusto.
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When they turn 13 you'll miss the "baby days". You'll look on those days fondly, forgetting the stress, lack of sleep, etc. etc.

And when your son turns 18 and joins the Army. You'll wonder "where'd it all go".

It all goes by in a blink. Enjoy the moments you have now. You'll miss then soon enough.
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They gave HTC some patents that HTC used to launch a countersuit against Apple. I think they were recently struck down though.
This is good. As someone who's watched this process many times, I can tell you he learned pretty much everything there is to learn about raising VC the first time through.

The only thing that could make his advice inaccurate is that he was raising money for such a good startup. And in particular, one with traction. As he points out, traction trumps everything. So this is essentially a report on what it was like to travel through VC land in the express lane. The scary thing is, even then it took 4 months. It might have gone faster if he'd been on the west coast, but it still would have been a big time suck.
The key difference of course is that they are not a government. If you knew the slightest about Assange you would realize that he has always been a campion of individual privacy, while he at the same Itime attacks the privacy of nations and nation sized organizations.

It takes some seriously warped logic to see hypocrisy in this, but hell, americas seem to think corporations are people, so I guess I shouldn't be that suprised.
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"But the minimum wage can cut into a business's profits."

Sure, part of the burden of minimum wage falls on the employer, and part on the potential employees that aren't hired.

While what you say sounds plausible -- a hotel running a 20% profit every year might bear the entire burden of the higher wages and may still hire the same number of people. But there are many businesses (in the hotel industry or elsewhere) that will end up scaling back rather than pay higher wages.

While minimum wage may encourage the building of machines, workers versus machines is a false dichotomy. Sure, those are alternatives, but there's another alternative as well: no machine and no worker, just a smaller business (or less service).

To say that the same number of people will be hired at the higher wage is to say that the demand curve for employees is perfectly flat near the lower wages. I would have to see some evidence of that.
I used to work at a place where our work product was kept in safes. They had these funky electronic locks, and instead of having notches on the dial there was a little LCD window on the top (facing the ceiling). Whereas most LCD manufactures try to get a wider viewing angle, the manufacturer had gone the other way, so you had to hold your head in exactly the right place or you couldn't see the numbers as you dialed the combination.

There was no way you could shoulder surf the combination. Even if you planted a camera the head of the person opening the safe would be in the way of the camera's sight line.
I vote for the "Divemaster Edition"
My perspective - I live in San Francisco and have neither a car nor a bike, so I don't think I'm biased.

I think part of the problem is that most urban pedestrians have fully internalized the threat model of bad drivers. Look both ways before crossing the street, don't assume that the driver sees you, cars are generally found on the roads, etc. On the other hand, we haven't fully internalized the threat model of bad bikers. Sometimes they're on the sidewalk, sometimes they're blowing through stop signs alongside a stopped car (so the average pedestrian thinks it's safe because the only thing that could hit him is stopped at the intersection). So bad bikers are more noticeable (to me at least) because I've never had a close call with a bad driver while walking. But both the biker things I described were near-collisions that have happened to me.
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This still doesn't capture what is IMHO the most easy, accurate way to think about symbols:

Symbols are not variables or objects, they are values. They work almost exactly like a string, except that they're interned so they're much more efficient (particularly for comparisons, which is what makes them great for hash keys).

In fact, you can use strings interchangeably with symbols in many libraries (including most places in Rails).
You could also call it, "opinion," instead of, "bias."
Wikileaks preaches transparancy in the ruling oligarchical class: governments, corporations, other organizations, and people who have acted and/or ruled with impunity.

While it's a slightly slippery argument, Wikileaks has argued that:

1: It is not of the ruling oligarchy.
2: Its own organizational requirements require a certain lack of transparency.

I can sympathize with both arguments, though a pledge, say, to release information at a time when it is no longer harmful to Wikileaks' operations, might be a class act.

As with other movements, I suspect Wikileaks is rather smaller at its core than many people realize. Assange and a few close lieutenants (some no longer quite so close).
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There's that and there is the fact that his personal background allows the spotlighting of the fact that his demographic is under-represented in the tissue banks, a fact which I did not know about.
Are they inspired by Ubuntu's names or what?
Banks and nations, like other entities, are usually required to pay their debts or they go bankrupt (note the word itself, http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-ban1.htm ) . Of course they're leveraged.

The questions are "What does Dalio tell us that we don't already know?" "Of what use are his explanations?" and most importantly, "Why is this man appearing on Charlie Rose saying things we already know?"
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Agreed. The first thing you need to understand is that this is targeted at Michigan people, not Bay Area folks.

He's basically saying "Look guys, we're outside the TechCrunch universe of big VC money flowing to tech startups, but that doesn't mean we're not on the right track to creating a robust entrepreneurial ecosystem. Keep doing what you're doing - building cool shit."
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can you explain why they shouldn't be? i can't think of any reason why a government should expect a right to privacy from their own citizens.

the government should work for the people, and they should have a responsibility to provide full disclosure to their citizens. the only reason the government should want to keep things secret from their own people is if they aren't working in our best interests.
I am a biker that is angry at drivers doing 65 in a 60. It's bad for gas mileage (and thus hurts me indirectly through climate change and trade deficits), it's bad for safety (and thus hurts me indirectly through costs of government service personnel and road repairs), and it promotes an attitude of automobile entitlement that hinders my safe cycling.
Why is it that a subsidy (which pays farmers to grow one thing, then collects money from taxes progressively) is bad, but an investment (which pays farmers to grow one thing, then sells it at a high price once someone gets hungry enough to buy it, and pocketing the cash) is good?
> By your own statements, you don't look at resumes, and you apparently don't ask any particular questions about work history or education during your interview process.

This thread is already a bit too long, and I haven't read through tptacek's link about his hiring process, but:

1. you don't look at resumes,

If I am hiring for a ruby on rails position specifically, the only thing I need to check is if you know ruby on rails. I know RoR, I know my requirements, I can evaluate if you are suited to this current role.

If I am hiring for RoR, but I am looking for a generalist - someone who might not know RoR but can pick it up on the run, then looking up at the resume for RoR isn't required. I will just talk general algorithms, design problems, code snippets.

2. and you apparently don't ask any particular questions about work history or education during your interview

Me: Let's say we need to have a threaded discussion forum. You know, like HN. Where replies can have replies.

Joe: Yes, I got that.

Me: Let's see how you go about deciding upon the models for that. I need upvote/downvote/recall vote on all posts. Here, take this piece of blank paper, and run me through how are you storing posts, and comments. And when loading a particular post, how are you going to load the posts and comments associated with them.

Joe: works through it

Me: That looks great, but I am concerned about the number of db hits.

Joe: suggests some kv store suitable for it, talks about storing graphs

Me: I think that's good enough. How about implementing upvote/downvote/recall vote.

Joe: Need to change the db models. I skipped them in the first iteration.

Me: Let's skip it. You know about closures? Care to quote me a particular example of closures?

Joe:
function translator(el) {
return function(text) { $(el).text(text); }
}

// Translate all i18n elements
$('.i18n').each(function() {
// Text and callback
AJAX_API.translate($(this).text(), translator(this));
}

And so on and on.

I don't see why I need to specifically ask about your education. I might ask about your work experience, but not necessarily.
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Most insightful comment on the thread.

This is exactly the same rationale for why the U.S. government doesn't want their secret diplomatic cables published.
This is usual in the .Net culture. People use "Not Invented Here" rather than leverage existing stuff because it makes them look all clever plus Microsoft give people no guidance at all that is worthless.

In both the .Net and Java arenas which I've been heavily involved in since they both hit the market, I've never had to piddle around with hacks like this and I've chucked out very public stuff that handles 10 million requests an hour.

Stackoverflow is an engineering misnomer.
>somewhat justified given Google's history of using other people's content to sell advertising (e.g. displaying copyrighted material without license as part of image search) or their opt-out approach to copyright protection of books

How are either of those related to patent/IP law?
"And you suggest he should be transparent with his sources. "

Reread the grandparent's comment. He's not saying Wikileaks should reveal it's sources but that it should release its source material. As opposed to editorialize. As opposed to becoming yet another dishonest filter of information.
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Yes, it enters you into the National Marrow Donor Registry. Posting individual stories works better than statistics because it motivates people much more (yet another quirk of our psychology).
I'll second this. My "Hello World" is Pong. Whenever I want to test how well I know a new language, I make pong in it. It's relatively simple but will allow you to play with several fun things like animation and button mapping. Plus, you can show it to almost anyone and they'll look beyond its simplicity and think about the potential it represents - that you can make almost anything else if you wanted to.
Pretty sure Linux 2.6 pre-dates Ubuntu (2003 vs. 2004)... so it could well be that Ubuntu is mocking Linux.

Or... who knows :)
Retaining great people is something you earn. You don't earn it by daring you hope others attempt to poach your employees to test their devotion. You're a startup, not a religion.
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Why is it that the independent creation of one company (ChromeOS), somewhat based on ideas expressed in the mid to late 90s by Netscape (the web and browser should replace the desktop) and earlier by Sun (the network is the computer), can be found to infringe the patents of a copycat company (Microsoft, who integrated IE into the desktop while/after killing Netscape)? Or in other words, how is it ethically acceptable for one company or individual to claim ownership of the independent creation of another?

OT: The constantly-updating stream of new user signups in the "IT World Live" section on the right of the page was incredibly distracting. I had to resize my browser window to hide it in order to read the article.
Let's not forget the Stoned Beaver (2.6.0-test10).