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These aren't options. They're RSUs (restricted stock units).

An option has a strike price (typically breakeven with the stock price on the date it was issued, sometimes not). After it vests, you can keep it around for a while, and decide when it's best to exercise (possibly pre-IPO, possibly after). A restricted stock unit is essentially a share of stock that they give you free as soon as it vests.

RSUs have some advantages and disadvantages. One advantage is that short of bankruptcy, they never really go "underwater". One disadvantage: you deal with tax implications immediately.

It's difficult to take either those away once they've vested, but it's unvested RSUs I believe we're talking about here.
Anarchy is only a state of political confusion or disorder if you believe that a central authority is a requirement for a political system. Anarchists believe and participate in non-hierarchical social structures, which does not inherently lead to chaos, confusion, or disorder.

People do colloquially use anarchy to mean confusion and disorder, but that has a lot to do with societal acceptance and condition in regards to central authority and power structures. In a piece directly about government, to use the word anarchy is this fashion is dishonest and in poor taste.
"People should be upvoting articles based on quality"

Yeah, but by what measure of "quality"?

I don't hang around here with the intention of curating non-participating readers news feeds, I keep coming back for the interestingness of the discussions that result from submitted links. The true or falseness of the linked article is way less important (to me) than the opportunity for interesting comments.

('course, maybe _I'm_ doing it wrong...)
I have done it on small contracts as well, granted we are talking about a sizable start-up in this thread, but never the less many first employees are in a position to renegotiate the options; most start-ups are much smaller at the time these contracts are written, even the company we are talking about in this thread was probably much smaller when most of these "big award to get them in the door" contracts where written. Many of those contracts may have been written when their where less than 20 people at the company. In those situations, contracts are very much negotiable. The second start-up I did I walked into a functional and profitable but small company, and I negotiated my options give the experience I had before. I was not at that time negotiating from the perspective of being the CTO but first technical employee.
The "expectation of privacy" is a legal concept, not a lay concept.

We could argue about whether or not the couple should have had an expectation to privacy till the cows come home. It doesn't change the fact that Boyle is still, legally, in the clear. So "lawyer up" indeed.
Everyone should just have a profile they could update with their candidates ranked in order of preference. Representatives could know how they're doing in real-time. No more polling. On voting day, your list is locked in.
You can do it online. Just Google delaware+company and you will find plenty of shop that do this.
Ask HN: How would you proxy for sales conversion rates?
I'm a software developer working on a (non-software/non-technology) line of consumable products that will require significant capital costs to even do a sample production run. Given that, I'd like to test the waters to try and estimate metrics like customer acquisition costs and whether a given product will actually sell before investing the capital. Based on what I've learned here, it seems to me it would be a good idea to put up a landing page of some sorts and maybe drive traffic to it with an Adwords campaign but what sort of conversion would you guys use to proxy for a sale given that I can't actually sell the product without having produced it (or even having invested in the branding yet)? I supposed I could have people sign-up for a newsletter or something but I would really have no clue how that conversion rate might convert to a sales conversion rate. I'm just getting up-to-speed on digital marketing so any pointers to key background reading material on running exploration tests like this to test business ideas before investing in them would be greatly appreciated as well.

Thanks.
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Morality and legality are somewhat intertwined in business law. Every contract contains an implied duty of "good faith and fair dealing." Violations of that duty can result in contract damages.

It's not at all clear-cut. See sections 5-6 of this article: http://www.bernabeipllc.com/pdfs/stockoptions.pdf
Can you explain why you're wasting a lot of bandwidth/CPU time in pub/sub?
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Another typo on the homepage ("today" should be "today's"):

"Weekend Hacker is an excellent tool for bridging the gap between two of the most useful professions in today economy, developers and designers."
Would you say speaking German is a requirement for a Hamburg based startup?
Your point is nothing but spinning a figure of speech out of context and exaggerating it ad absurdum

WELCOME TO THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT
I have now lived in Berlin for a couple of months - I like it, even when it is winter :)

I'm self-employed one-man-business, and at first I thought about applying for "real work" so that I would better integrate to the new city. Since then I have changed my mind. There are lots of different technology events, and it is very easy to meet new people. There are numerous co-working spaces, if you don't want to work from home. Freelancing, startups and self-employment are seen as normal career choice (not like in Finland, where I come from).

I have tried to pick up a little german, and I can understand it now a little bit - but it seems that almost everybody speaks fluent english, so it doesn't seem to be necessary.
I thought that myself. "Wait, shouldn't they know they've been giving out more stock then they should have??!"
It's only a moral dilemma if you believe pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars is a moral imperative.

If not, you have exactly two choices. One is moral, one is not. The dilemma is between your greed and your morality, not between seemingly contradictory moral imperatives.
I don't care about the user-base numbers. All I care about is engagement. Facebook had crazy engagement even when they had 1000 members. When they had 10M, over 50% of the users were logging in daily. Google now has 40M users and yet they refuse to release engagement numbers.
Ja - viele Deutsche sprechen kein English.

Und yes, meine German sind wirklich broken.
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Internet voting is untenable from a security perspective. An election is orders of magnitude more complicated than most online transactions, because your vote is just as important to me as my vote.

Whereas filing your taxes online is a one way transaction between you and the government, voting is one big symmetrical transaction between every member of the electorate. This makes it really tricky from a security perspective.

The reason that internet voting is worse than postal voting is the slowness of messing around with paper, the same reason which people tout as a positive. You cant change a million postal votes in a under millisecond from thousands of miles away. Think of the postal service as hash iteration.

For (lots) more info, see the following Google tech talk, "Electronic and Internet Voting (The Threat of Internet Voting in Public Elections)" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GjmRwfkRXY
We're not nearly as organized as either, though - that would need to change first.
"Episode 1": That guy has been around every successful industry since the beginning of time. Don't hold it against Tech.

Episode 3-4: Yeah.
How interesting. I worked on something very similar back in 2005 (but never launched): RocketMenu

http://www.yarone.com/2011/02/rocketmenu-unobtrusive-search-...
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This is the single greatest aspect of the EU. I love the fact that I can travel and work in so many countries without any visa troubles. Just get a ticket and go.
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Same here. When I was working out of the house, I would frequently say to my SO: "Pretend I'm at work."

I wish it was something I addressed better up front.

For others, keep in mind that it's a two-way street. If you want your SO to give you space to be 'at work', then it is important for you to stay in work mode on a predictable schedule.
The editorial protections granted to videography and photography come from necessity.

If everyone has the right to all recordings of them, even in public, the media would cease to exist overnight, and we'd all be considerably worse off for it.

As a contemporary example, take the famous Big Picture blog: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/

This is a rich source of powerful images that tell us about the world and the important things that are happening in it. How many of these people do you think have signed model releases? How many of these people do you think could have realistically signed one? Clearly the mother clutching her daughter in the floodwaters of Thailand has a retained lawyer nearby advising of her rights!

So what would our media become? Well, even more talking heads than today - since you won't be able to realistically record/broadcast any images of what's actually going on. The only people you can realistically, explicitly get permission from are armchair analysts.

We didn't just magically decide "oh yeah, you don't have full rights to your likeness in public" because we hate freedom. This whole issue has been heavily debated (and continues to be). It's foolish to say that we should just toss this whole thing without understanding all the angles.

The real issue here is that with the proliferation of recording and broadcast technology, there is now a lot of recording happening in public done by people without training or education in where to draw the line. Not only that, there are of course no professional associations or industry forces keeping people in check and censuring those who behave unethically. In fact, there isn't a code of conduct, written or unwritten, among the mass population about what is and isn't ok to record/broadcast. In other words, we've given everyone the power of reportage, but none of the sensibilities, responsibilities and obligations that have traditionally accompanied it.

IMO there really isn't a need for legal reform for this. What we as a society need to do is start setting new expectations for social behavior that account for these new technologies and their pervasiveness.
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My experience with LMS providers is that they are 10 years behind the times. I submitted a bug report to the one my college uses. The system would change custom javascript code and I couldn't use embed tags. Now they have a workaround for this.
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"This means that the use of obscenity is directed at someone or something, intending offense thereto."

Without significant substantiating evidence, I am forced to object to this premise.

You are going to need to back that up before the rest of your argument can be coherent.
Well it really looks more like extortion (the opportunistic timing combined with position of power) than a cost-cutting measure.
A reason for not doing that is that it looks ugly to show multiple options for the same country.

Another is that that can be confusing. Suppose I want to enter a country whose spelling/native name I am not sure of, and after a few characters, four options remain, three of which are correct, but I do not know that. That can cause a needless google to find out, say, the difference between Liberia, Libya, and Libië.
my previous company was based in seattle, so i've taken several trips there, in general it's a decent area, but i definitely prefer the bay area.

though i can understand for companies and employees of the state, the lack of income tax and talent pool to be quite amazing.
An old "friend" but still amusing. Check out http://www.delphion.com/galleryarch which has a wide range of silly patents. I have always liked US06025810 (Hyper-light-speed antenna) which appears on the same page as the cat exerciser patent.
I agree. A lot of these technologies will lead to improved outcomes at lower costs (for certain sets of basic problems).

Guild professions (like doctors) are inclined to keep doing even the basic simple-minded aspects of their job because they get paid "economic rents" for doing so thanks to the regulations that insist even basic tasks must be done by someone with 10+ years of education.

Insurance companies on the other hand ultimately have to respond to employer demands for lower premiums (unfortunately this process is slow and HR departments are usually horrible at keeping costs under control). Insurers and to an extent employers are going to be the impetus for a lot of improvements in effectiveness and affordability.

Read Clayton Christensen "The Innovators Prescription" for more on how this might play out.
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Good question. I'm a Berliner but am currently "stuck" (long story) in Munich. It's got everything: stuff just works, everything's clean, safe and pretty, lots of money around, and one of the best technical universities in Germany to boot. And yet, and yet, something is missing.

From what little I know, it appears that the more "dynamic" people move to Berlin to entreprendre something, and the less adventurous (dare I say "corporate"-type) ones stay or come here to work for BMW et al. This is regardless of their talent or capability, btw, it's just my subjective impression of personality types.

As for me, I'm torn between my old hometown and Zurich so Munich might be a good compromise even if I get unstuck but we'll see ;-)
If your central point is about context switching, you probably should've picked a different title for the post :)
I've found Berlin to be a bit of a cluterfuck. I stay in Kruezburg near the Kotti so this probably skews my perceptions. Everyday there is a battle between pedestrians, bicyclists, and cars. Each group fighting each other.

I agree that almost every traditional German speaks English but a lot of the Turkish decent Germans don't.
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It doesn't change the fact that Boyle is still, legally, in the clear.

Just to clarify, is that a legal opinion? I fully understand it's a legal question. But a civil suit for intentionally disseminating embarrassing information is very different from a Fourth Amendment case. This is a case where someone intentionally broadcast to the Internet a couple's marital issues (otherwise known only to a handful of people in a restaurant) with the apparent intent to ridicule them. You still haven't convinced me Boyle is 'in the clear'.
Should Yelp, a soon to be public company, be making political jokes?
This is a ridiculous law. I'm a photographer and this would effectively kill the ability to document things as the are.

IIRC, in France, you have to be careful of taking photos of buildings, as their images are copyrighted by the architect. That seems, in one way, more justifiable as it is the work of the architect. But in other ways, less justifiable because a building is a longstanding fixture in the landscape that people have to live with being there. Either way, I think America's law works well enough.
One of the reasons i posted this is because i think it's worth shining the Streisand Effect on it. It's ridiculous that HHS is running scared because of a single doctor over the interests of everyone else.

And it'll come out if Dr. Tenny's malpractice is out of the norm or not. You fight facts with facts, fighting facts with secrecy only makes us all poorer.
(sry posting from a different account, but same person)

I think your views of Chinese culture is being colored by a skin deep look at China's past hundred years. I think as a a whole Chinese history would disagree with you. During times of dynastic change Taoism was the prevailing cultural trope. Because dynastic change isn't the majority of historical time it can give the impression that Confucianism is the dominant "religion", but these moments of turmoil are critical and their effects are long lasting. Taoism (or at least their way of looking at things) is always in the background.

Just as an example, look at the literati culture after the take over of the Yuan Dynasty. Southern Song loyalists persisted for about two generations and really revitalized Taoist-inspired world views. They were the driving engine of Chinese culture during that time. Things like romanticizing the farmer, living of the land, the life of recluses etc.

A very similar thing happened after the take over of the Qing dynasty. Ming loyalists revitalized many of the same ideas.

During more tumultuous times Chinese turn to the more individualistic, less paternalistic side of their Culture as the central authority (and everything it represents - a father figure, the cultural vanguard etc.) erodes.

Right now, with the influx of Western ideas/culture and lifestyle the authority of the Communist regime is eroding to an extent. People view it as corrupt, inept and it doesn't command the respect it once had.

I think there is a cultural "swing" that is going to happen. And my argument was that neither system is conducive to entrepreneurship

"Assigning the idea of e.g. fatalism to "mostly Taoism" is also inaccurate."
it's obviously an over simplification on my part. It's a complicated multifaceted world view of course, but fatalism plays an important part from what I understand.
It's a little unfortunate that you didn't elaborate because I'd love to know your view of Taoism. I'm by no means an expert (haven't read any Taoist literature for instance), but from what I know it isn't the belief system of the capitalist-entrepreneur.

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Example of Taoist influence:
I've mostly approached Chinese culture from the artistic perspective, but look at for example Bada Shanren (Ming Loyalist), vs. like

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0oGdVGUT7...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shen_Zhou

Even without knowing a lot of abotu Chinese art, you can see that Shen Zhou has a more traditional Confusian take on art (he's imitating the masters. That's why his work looks more "generic") while Bada is a lot more experimental and lets his individuality come through his art (Shen does too, but in more subtler ways that aren't very easy to explain).
I just leave that here (street campaign from Berlin-Kreuzberg): http://streetfiles.org/photos/detail/998929/
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Sue for what? What damages could they claim?
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Our current method uses the content-type multipart/x-mixed-replace. (Remember http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.03/ff_push.html? Good times...) When the request starts you specify a boundary string; then every time the browser sees that boundary string it knows to replace the existing image.
There was a great article in the New York Times last year that partly attributed Italy's stagnation to its unusually insular, family-oriented culture.

"The suspicion of Italians when it comes to extra-familial institutions explains why many here care more about protecting what they have than enhancing their wealth. Most Italians live less than a mile or two from their parents and stay there, often for financial benefits like cash and in-kind services like day care. It’s an insularity that runs all the way up to the corporate suites. The first goal of many entrepreneurs here isn’t growth, so much as keeping the business in the family."

See: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/business/global/01italy.ht...
I've gone through that from the opposite perspective. My SO works from home and sometimes when I'd have a sick day, or a public holiday or whatever I'd wander into the study and have a chat, or pop my head in to offer a cup of tea or something. To me she would seem kind of standoffish or dismissive. It took me quite a long time to wrap my head around the fact that she wasn't being rude or ignoring me, she was working.

Funny how the brain works. I obviously knew it, intellectually, but I would still get a bit bummed out or wonder if she was mad at me or whatever when she'd sit in the house "just being on the computer" for 7 hours and not talk to me. Especially when I wouldn't normally be home, I'd be looking forward to spending a bit more time together. Sometimes I'd give her a hug or something and it took a while for her to mention "look, it's not that I don't like you, it's just like how you would feel if I turned up in your office and gave you a cuddle while you were in the middle of doing something - my brain is in full work mode, it can't instantly switch to affection mode". This reversal of opinion - imagining having my SO around my office wanting to hang out and chat and have coffee and how distracting and kind of irritating it would be - is when it finally clicked for me.

Of course now I feel foolish for ever thinking that way, and all's well. But I sympathise with your wife!
I lived and worked in Frankfurt for awhile (I'm American). My experience was different. Though I was fluent in German and worked for a company where German was the language of day to day work, I found very few Germans that didnt speak English (Those that had grown up in the former East Germany were the exception - this was 15 years ago when the fall of the Wall was more recent). I met Americans that had lived there for four or five years working at some of the international companies there that had never learned German. It did not seem to be an impediment.
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Well, it has for me. And you helped.
Wanna see real Berlin? Here is a party I threw in a subway station a few months ago. This happened about 2-3x per week.

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I'm the sexy man doing the thrusting motion halfway through the vid.
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http://dudmail.com - a disposable email/mail forwarding site.

I mentioned it on HN a few months back: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3026892
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How about just OCaml? It's much closer to Ruby than Haskell is, but it still gets the null-free H/M type safety.
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> they all go "Oh, Berlin?" No, actually, we have several nice cities. Hamburg probably has the highest quality of life

your comment reminded about scene from movie I.Q (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110099/) where very "proper" man, James Moreland is doing the experiment with the mouse. There are two switches the mouse can press: one that gives him food and one that gives him orgazm. The mouse hasn't eaten in three days. Moreland is genuily perplexed how this could possibly be the case ...
Not the OP, but a pathologist in training. Yes, quality is essential because depending on how the sample is prepared the image can be very difficult to interpret. Biopsy scoring of prostate tumors is difficult because a lot of the scoring takes into account features that may not appear on the biopsy because of insufficient sampling.