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Bingo. It sounds like what they did is just hand out stock options way too liberally in the early days in order to attract talent (probably when they planned to flip the company on a timeframe before those shares could vest), and now that those shares turn out to be worth something, they want that talent, the product that talent has created, plus the compensation that they promised to pay returned to them.

If you can't stomach the idea of a hire getting a big payday out of an IPO if your company goes big, you shouldn't be giving them equity. Using it as hiring bait and then switching it out from underneath them is deplorable.
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Yes, but it probably will backfire now, with all the publicity. One Pinkus fail: acknowledging the bad press. He should take a page from politicians: deny, no comment, and deny.

Most of "the guys" will listen to the moderate voices, and will probably only join a suit if it's class-action.
The cartel is largely run by highly trained elite ex-military. One unexplored option is to acknowledge that drugs are a medical and social problem and not something for the police, or God forbid, the military to solve. Legalize drugs and allow them to be distributed through reasonable channels with medical supervision if necessary. It's worked wherever it's been tried.
Yeah, I like it too, but I don't think most people will think of typing "border$" to get just the "border" property :)
We're working on something that allows merchants to build customised coupon pages for their business imagine coupons.walmart.com.

We've mostly used Bootstrap, however it'll be interesting when businesses ask the pages to look like their current stylesheet.

Example: http://istockphoto.couponzor.com/
The description given is kind of weak in this particular article, but the other papers linked in this comment thread are pretty good. Apparently they're working on finding physiological mechanisms for this stuff, I was reading about it recently. Like, literally what chemicals in brains cause this sort of behavior. If I can find the link I'll post it...
Ok. I'm not totally convinced we're not talking past each other, but I can grok your way of describing the problem: closed loop.
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Lummoxine plunging headlong into their troughs and wrassling is of interest to whom exactly, and tarnishes whom?
Fair enough. Do you have any reference to indicate that as the intended reading?
On my recent bootstrap-based hacking, adding a 'static' class for the topbar has consistently been customization number one.

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I completely agree. These people were violating the personal space of everyone within earshot. I would have liked to see them get arrested for disturbing the peace.
This. And yet, every week here we're regaled with pitiful cries from founders that "we can't recruit and hire enough talent!"

Once faith in the offering of early shares against under-market salaries erodes, good luck in hiring those "rock star" engineers you'll need to put your company over the hump for less than market rates.
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I might be wrong, but I think the only place that suggestion would be considered "non-PC" is North America.

Assuming the majority of your website's users come from a few countries, the simple solution is to have those countries on the top of the list, followed by the rest of the country in alphabetical order.

If Afghanistan is on the top of your list, you'll probably doing something wrong (unless you're UN or something agency like that).
A bug report: if someone already added “.com” to their results because of no result, don’t offer to add it again if there are still no results.

Example: http://www.privacyparrot.com/search?search=http://www.noSuch...

Also, I suggest when you suggest adding “.com”, you strip spaces from the search as well. For instance, I searched for “Less Wrong” and found nothing, and you suggested “Less Wrong.com”. That doesn’t exist, but “LessWrong.com” does.
I'm about to complete my second week in Berlin. I'm doing some Ruby programming with some friends. It's been an exciting experience so far, I'll be around for a couple of months.

Anyone up for some meetups or beers? I'd like to get to know the hacker or gamedev scene here, it would be great.

I haven't had any problems with my half baked English yet. The guys at the döner that don't speak English, can understand half baked sign language pretty well.
If you had answered, declined verbally (explaining why), written a blog post on the topic, and then submitted it to HN, then you would likely have the top post on HN right now.
You're constructing a strawman. No one is trying to pin a medal on anybody here.

Some people are trying to publicly crucify Boyle (the irony is delicious, by the way) for exposing to ridicule those who deserve nothing else.

You don't need to construe his actions as particularly meritorious in order to not find him ethically deficient.

Ethics, by the way, are what the blog post linked to brought up. Ethics are also not the determinate factor in the conduct of a friendship, so you're doubly off in the woods.
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a little link won't harm here: http://berlinstartupjobs.com/ also – I'm moving to Berlin in two weeks :-)
I used Bootstrap to apply a new UI to a relatively simple internal webapp we use. It was ridiculously easy to get a really clean UI thrown together in an afternoon.

I'm sure it would be a lot more work to use Bootstrap for a public front-end interface and avoid looking generic, but for the back-end, it's fantastic.
I may be wrong, but I think that was wound back as part of WorkChoices being repealed.
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Do you realize that UPS and FedEx often use USPS for some of the less profitable "last mile" destinations?

I posit that without the USPS, near-universal delivery (at rather uniform prices) from private providers would likely not exist.
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Thanks for weighing in on this in such detail. Valuable insight.
Not to quibble, but:
1) real estate is cheaper, but the cooler market works both ways - there's a surplus of RE that makes selling a slow and painful process
2) that ferry's not cheap either! :)

I have friends that make a motorcycle+ferry commute work for them. Coming from Southworth, they manage to get into the city faster than I can if I take the floating bridges from the Eastside.
It's called "Yellow Journalism" and its the lowest form of journalism there is. Sensationalizing something low and mean, for the purpose of aggrandizing yourself.
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Since it's doing a regex search, for now you can type "^color" to match just "color"--I agree it's not optimal!
Reminds me of what PG wrote in his 2004 essay: (snippet)

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FROM: http://www.paulgraham.com/bubble.html

"What makes the nerds rich, usually, is stock options. Now there are moves afoot to make it harder for companies to grant options. To the extent there's some genuine accounting abuse going on, by all means correct it. But don't kill the golden goose. Equity is the fuel that drives technical innovation.

Options are a good idea because (a) they're fair, and (b) they work. Someone who goes to work for a company is (one hopes) adding to its value, and it's only fair to give them a share of it. And as a purely practical measure, people work a lot harder when they have options. I've seen that first hand."

The rest of the section is fantastic, go read it.

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Awesome! So Real Berlin is:

- Blasting techno while barking English at the locals
- Making fun of big-boned folks enjoying their dinner
- Dancing drunk in broad daylight in oncoming traffic

Kreuzberg has been my second home for the past year, but it's stuff like this that makes me wish my fellow Americans would leave these kind of antics back home.
> But usually those experiences are shared voluntarily

Arguing in public is voluntary sharing.

> with a decreasing respect for boundaries, has changed the equation. You no longer get to decide when to share.

The couple decided to share, in fact the people they subjected to their "sharing" are the ones who lost ability to decide. The public arguing couple was the one without respect for boundaries. Don't project your personal life onto others in a restaurant. It's fucking rude and selfish.

> a nude picture was stolen

Not even semi-related. Author's dishonest attempt at trying to compare/equate a violation of privacy with couples public outbursts is highly disingenuous. It is clearly not worth my time to read any more of author's spurious drivel.
Hmm, thanks. We'll have to work on the front page copy.

Do her students never reply to the text messages she sends out? That's the core of the value-add -- whether inside or outside of class, students can reply to ClassPager and we show it to the teacher on the web site.

If she doesn't want students to be able to reply at all (i.e. she wants it to be totally 1-way communication) then I'm actually inclined to agree -- Remind101 is definitely the best and most cost-effective choice there.
Allow me to commit the obvious faux paus: there's more to beer than weizen or weiss. The only reason i'd regret living in Germany is how hard it is to find a good IPA :(
Given how many people use the internet, I think it is a miracle it survived mostly unregulated for so long. I personally do not doubt it will slowly be assimilated by society and progressively get locked down, but it is in my opinion a testament to the first real users of the internet, and to 'geeks' worldwide that they fostered a culture that made it possible to call the internet a modern-day Wild West for a time.
Here you aren't choosing to leave though. The company is paying you less and offering stock options, and then firing you solely so they can take those back as a deliberate policy.

With Sun and Oracle, at least the case could be made that the VP's would have been redundant during the reorganization process. But it's different from saying "Hey, give up the stock options or you are fired."

I think it's that point where you have arguable contract claims.
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I grew up on Bainbridge Island and it would be amazing to base a startup there, the quality of life is awesome. There is a startup there called Avalara with over 100 employees
Reminds me of the "Guerrilla Marketing" in Jennifer Government [http://www.amazon.com/Jennifer-Government-Novel-Max-Barry/dp...]
It is incredibly sad, and often repeated. Greed makes people do really short-sighted, horrible things. You can't take all that cash with you when you die, but you can leave a legacy. Do you really want to be known as the guy who wasn't happy with his lazy $1.8B and needed to squeeze the little guy to find a couple million dollars. People take a risk on startups, and we should be celebrating the "google chef" phenomenon. If the chef is walking away with 8 figures then things are going very well indeed.
I think it is another example of quality versus quantity. Often people use quantity of time rather than quality of time towards a particular task as a metric of effort and that is unfortunately wrong. Another big point in favor of telecommuting.
Seriously... get me a crap job in Berlin and i'll move there in 2 weeks
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Precisely, I can't think of any situation where a user would search for a substring of a single word in the country name. If there is some edge-case where the first letter or so can be omitted that should be handled with the alternate-spellings feature.
The one thing I was thinking about while looking at these was how badly one needed to be the alert view "pop" from iOS. Such an aesthetically pleasing effect that gets the UX metaphor across extremely well.
Whether or not you think this is ethical or legal (I'm not sure it's either), the most amazing thing about this is the timing. I mean, with all the anti-corporate sentiment in the wind, how on earth did they think this would fly? I can see them getting crushed, not in the legal sense, but in the PR sense.

Can people possibly dislike Zynga, as a company, more then they already do? Between this and Groupon, I'm getting fat from plowing popcorn.
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Have the submissions died down? Would be interested to hear if it still maintained life after it's launch here weeks back.
>while the employees ... come off as being motivated purely by greed, spite, and short-term considerations.

man, how joining an early stage startup many years ago at the comparably lower salary, yet with comparably large option grant makes the person to come off as "being motivated by short-term considerations"?
Wait.. Did I read this correctly? They're saying that the men who commited the act just wanted to play the game early, not try to sell the stolen copies for cash?
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Except there is a huge legally and socially understood difference between "your apartment" and "Burger King".

It would be totally different if dude had overheard this coming from open window of home and taken pictures through window. I would expect (no idea if so) that to be a criminal and/or civil invasion of privacy.

Privacy is not inherent/automatic. You have to take steps to establish privacy (move to private space being most common) before your privacy can be violated.
As much as I appreciate the fact that the original paper was linked in the article, I can't get over the nagging feeling that it may be a slight overreach to take three groups of ten people studying in the same academy, ask them to record their activities for a week, and then generalize the results to recommend certain behaviors to the entire human population.
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I don't really care if my CC details appear in some IRC channel on EFNet, as I'm not liable for fraudulent use... a simple phone call to my card provider and they'll issue a chargeback...
My suggestion would be to add a brief description of what i should be using as an input on your form, I first tried the url of a CSS file, then a selector, then when i started typing the selector i started seeing the actual properties display thats when i knew i had to input a css property, maybe It's just me.
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Really? All you have to do is add the class "nice" to the form element and it becomes very pretty.

http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/forms.php ...scroll down to "Nice Forms"
I never thought I'd see a dumber set of PR moves than the ones that Netflix made a month ago.

I was wrong.
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Good feedback -- thanks.

For #2, do you have any suggestions of other things that would work well on the home page?

And for #3, I went into detail on use cases/specific problems that we solve here: https://www.classpager.com/more -- Are you suggesting some of that be moved to the front page, or are you saying that the hook there is still unclear/not compelling?
> what happened to the good old "every dirty trick in the book" days?

he's got to the end of the book, and this is him writing new chapters to the book :)
PBKDF2 will be in Django 1.4:

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Let me also add... this is for auth/password hashing, not data encryption. To any people reading this: if you don't understand the difference, and you are responsible for writing web applications, then please read up on it.

The data that Valve was storing (CC info) needs to be encrypted and I'm assuming that data then needs to be unencryptable. They have to store the key because they have to be able to recover the plain text. With password hashing, you will never need to be able to recover the password.
There's a huge difference between a one-time random tweeting event and constant monitoring. I'm not worried about random recording by strangers - but I am worried at the trend by many (most?) governments in their increasing capacity to record our conversations and control the means of communication.
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Huh? This memo doesn't seem to have much substance in it. Is he just brushing it all off basically saying "WSJ is lying, now forget about it all and go back to work" or am I missing something?
I agree it is not extortion. Extortion typically requires the threat of unlawful force. If I way "Pay me $100 not to picket your company" and I start lawfully picketing that's not extortion. Otherwise workers strikes would all be illegal.

The larger issue though here is that of a contract. The company has in essence said "we want you to stick around and so we are giving you an incentive of stock options which vest on such and such a schedule."

Later they are saying "give up what we gave you or leave so we can take them back." It's this choice here which says clearly "we are going back on our contracts with you."

A close example might be this "We are giving you a raise and will pay you retro pay next month when this goes through but you have to work fewer hours at your hourly wage" and then the next month saying "sorry, no retro pay for you."

I think this would be a fun case. And now that class action cases have taken a few serious setbacks in the courts, it seems to me that Zynga really should be getting sued by lots and lots of employees in individual lawsuits..... One piranha may be good for dinner, but don't wade into a swarm of them.
Well, yes. But the possibility of this excess was part of equity compensation in the first place, and came with the possibility (probability!) of compensation less than their contribution.

IANAL, but if the termination is motivated by the success of the equity gamble the employee took up front, that looks more like breach of contract. Don't want to keep them? That's fine, but pay what you promised you'd pay.
The problem is Pincus wants to pretend that options-based compensation is in any way related to performance. If they wanted a performance-based comp structure, they should have set one up in the beginning. Options are pure seniority-based compensation and everyone in the industry knows (or should know) that, whether or not they want to admit it.
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Only if the Internet-voting based system is very carefully designed. It's rather difficult to verify that your vote was counting in a way that doesn't also prove who you voted for.

There are some papers describing systems to do this that seems like they could work. But they're pretty complex.
Love the idea, would be great to have a 'quick' link at the top that could jump me down the page to the correct section. For example. When I search for border, I get all of the possible permutations of that style. It'd be nice to have 'border, border-left, border-right' etc. listed at the top. When I click on one, I get taken to it's section on the page.
>I've read it. Did you?

Yes.

>It's interesting that you think that the fed isn't part of
>govt and that repealing Glass-Steagall isn't either. Also,
>the ratings monopoly is also a govt creation. (Yes, folks
>could consider other things, but their ratings determine
>what counts for "assets" for regulated entities.)

When did I ever say that the Fed isn't part of the government or that repealing G-S doesn't matter? And the rating agencies were definitely part of the problem. But here's the problem - your basic argument is that the government promoted subprime mortgages. For evidence, you cite a document which purports to say that banks and mortgage companies were forced to lend, thus causing the subprime bubble.

This idea, of course, isn't backed up by the data (as I've shown). Now if you want to move the goal posts and talk about G-S, or the Fed, I'm all ears - they definitely contributed to the subprime bubble. But the idea that the government forced banks and mortgage companies to make loans is just crap.

In fact, it is the lack of government regulation that really caused the bubble. If the Fed had just required confirmation of income, then the bubble would have been stopped in its tracks - but Greenspan refused to make the modifications. When Obama came in, it was among the first regulations put into place.

>Most items in the list in that article have govt's
>fingerprints all over it, and it's hardly complete. For
>example, it ignores fannie and freddie, the various
>efforts to encourage home ownership, and the like.

Again, you have not presented evidence that Fannie and Freddie caused the subprime bubble. They were, in fact, losing marketshare during the bubble, while Wall Street took over the function of securitization. Are Fannie and Freddie messed up? Yes, but they didn't cause the subprime bubble.

>Are you really arguing that regulated entities don't
>follow the rules?
>If so, you don't get to argue that different rules would
>have made a difference.

Of course I can - it's called enforcement. Some laws are enforced, other are effectively ignored. So it's a combination of both rules + enforcement. Witness the SEC not enforcing rules on Wall Street banks. Just today, a judge rejected the settlement offer from the SEC to Citibank, while pointing out that Citibank has repeatedly broken the law, and yet the SEC had not done anything about it - even though they knew Citibank had broken the law. Under Bush, the SEC become a toothless entity - it's gotten somewhat better under Obama, but it is still a captured agency in my mind.