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That is exactly what unvested means, it means "maybe you will get this at a later date, maybe you will be fired, who can say."

Zynga could just fire all of these people if they didn't want to give them the stock, and that wouldn't be "taking back stock", that would just be "you never had the stock". The only reason why it's evil is because they think the employees are actually valuable enough that they want to keep them around but not valuable enough to keep good on their stock units. They could easily fire the employees and let them re-interview for their old jobs if they wanted and it would be perfectly legal (companies do this on a regular basis to rehire employees as contractors without benefits).

RSUs and stock options like this are pretty interesting to me because it provides a huge incentive for employees to stay at the company, but it also provides a huge incentive for employers to fire their employees after (N-1) time periods where N is when their units vest.
I'm not sure if you should really be demoralized by it - this is one of those textbook actions where how person A treats person B tells you all you need to know about them. I don't think this incident has revealed some ugly aspect of our culture, but it has revealed a ton about the people that run Zynga and the "others in the Valley" that think this way.

I'd stay away from these folks at all costs.
There was very smart advice being given somewhere else under this topic. Something like "Never do anything with people you wouldn't work with without a contract".

I'd never, ever, under no circumstances, do anything with Zynga without one. That pretty much says I'd never, ever, under no circumstances, deal with them.
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"Loose-yet-intelligble" is exactly the kind of grammar you have used in this comment, though.

You should have put a comma after "this" in your first sentence, and you've got a comma splice in the second sentence.

The point they were making is that violations of formal grammar can be useful in some contexts and for some purposes.

What I just wrote is an apt example, actually. I used "they" as a gender-neutral third-person pronoun because, though it's not standard grammar, it suits the tone I want to convey here.
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I noticed on indeed.com trends that the job postings that mentioned Ruby or JavaScript had somewhat leveled off this year.

I still sense that the market for web developers is strong, but has it slowed a bit? What have others observed?

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=ruby&l=

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=javascript&l=

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=%22web+developer%22&l=

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=startup&l=
You're sort of touching on two of the important metrics; product views per session, and page views per product view. You want to maximize the former, and minimize the latter. Why would you want to maximize the former? Stickiness. Your customer will be more likely to stay around and purchase, whether it's now, or later, if they see a lot of different products-- even if they aren't finding what they're looking for (which, btw, is impossible to divine from this metric).

"What if because the consumer had to click around more you actually had less sales?"

That's very difficult to measure-- you can't assume that a customer at the browse portion of the funnel is able to find what they're looking for or not, just by looking at the number. You might want to look at the number of add-to-cart actions per product view for a better answer to that question.
Clickable links:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=ruby&l=

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=javascript&l=

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=%22web+developer%22&l=

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=startup&l=
Thanks for the comment, and I appreciate your honesty. When we say "1% of Nothing", it means (and generally has been assumed by most) that it refers to when the company starts. Clearly once the company has traction, it's not worth "nothing".

But the thing is - the name is to provoke an emotion. First it's to make you realize that you still keep 99% of your company, or even just 99% of the shares that you've been granted. Second it's to point out that at the early stages, it really is worth basically nothing on paper. Obviously there's far more value in it than that, but we're trying to stir up a reaction - good or bad - that can prompt a thought.
If I didn't know that, my original post would have said that all the Apple pages would be invulnerable if they prevented CSRF. I think the expresslane page is one where data could go in the database and others could see it.

CSRF is not a prereq in general, but it is a prereq for the attacks tripzilch listed.
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What the what is this? Guys, we're not Lifehacker and this isn't even tangentially related to technology, coding, or tech entrepreneurship.

I've flagged this because I like to arrive on the HN homepage and see tech articles every once in a while. You should flag too.
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I am not a clinician (yet), but the result of a study of 11 people is hardly "actual evidence". Even if it actually does all these things, you never know what bad things will happen when you take resveratol more than 30 days. "Over 400 genes with altered expression" sounds like a lot of side effects to me.
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The question is, is this recession-based consolidation, or is it part of an inevitable decline of the music industry as the idea of "major labels" goes away?
Wonder why the story for decades was that Apple stole it from Xerox then Microsoft stole it from Apple while developing for the Mac? For most of my life, that's the story people would say to me.
I'm curious how many businesses have developed devoted to getting people through the bureaucracy.
This is an idea, not a startup. It's about giving, which is universal. We would have launched it the day of the economic meltdown a few years ago and the message would have remained the same.
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As a data point: I used to have an RFID based business and reading any sort of passive RFID tag took a pretty good antenna and close proximity (almost touching) or lots of power.
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The fact that our current systems for giving semantic classifications to web content are insufficient does not mean that giving web content semantic meaning is a pointless idea.

It's like going back to the early 1980s and blogging about how computer graphics suck so you shouldn't be wasting your time looking into them.
Some of these used to be lumped into "HTML5" but then moved out into their own spec so they wouldn't hold up HTML5. Geolocation, Web Workers, Web Sockets, XHR2, Selectors API are all in a HTML5 book I have.
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That is what author is saying - "Use the new elements to make your mark-up readable, not for any inherent semantic advantage."
Neither; it's capitalism as usual.
I'd love to take credit for that "brilliant move", but it was totally accidental. Michael Birch came up with the name back in April!

As an aside, there's nothing missing in the funding rounds. In the current iteration, this is a pledge given by the founders, which means they don't actually give up their 1% until the very end (an acquisition).
I think you are misunderstanding the nature of the problem. There is no easy way to assess how good some mythical algorithm will be at interpreting pathology slides. Therefore, you are in essence asking doctors and patients to accept another non-human opinion about what is going on. So why should I accept your algorithm's opinion? I would rather have a human who has enough insight to say they are not sure and can discuss the case with me, and also understands that life changing decisions are being made on the basis of what they say.

Anyway, pathologists are most useful in unusual or difficult cases, which by definition have little available data. You want me to trust an algorithm trained using some kind of statistical mechanic on a dataset to interpret an edge case?
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Back in my phreaking days, I was grounded so often that out of sheer boredom I learned to whistle DTMF tones. I could dial a number simply by whistling it.
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Not sure what point you are trying to make. Do you disagree with what I said, or do you think this text (or the Apple logo) is any proof that I'm wrong?
We use Asana and are happy with it. It's free so I didn't include it (but maybe I should have).
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> You and the OP are in agreement with Pincus implicitly

No they aren't. They're arguing independently of that. In fact, the OP explicitly mentions that he's not commenting on that. What the OP was arguing was that _if_ you were to give compensation to people based on their contribution to the company, it would be absolutely absurd, and insulting, to claim that the original Google Chef did not contribute substantially to the company.
I thought the key word in "DTMF" was "Dual"? How do you whistle two frequencies at once? Or was the receiving end just very forgiving?
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I'm not sure about comparisons to Munin or nagios (since I haven't used them -- was coming from MRTG), but it is easy to deploy. There is a package (agent) that runs on startup and then every few minutes.
until they can point you to a shipping user-agent that will make use of it

Chicken and egg can be a problem. Someone could very well be saying "there's no point in developing a browser which can understand semantically structured data since almost no website implements it".
_For example, look at crypto algorithms like DES that, ten years ago, people thought would take thousands of years to crack given Moore's law growing computational resources._

Whitfield Diffie proposed triple DES in 1975 (even before the FIPS was published), because it was obvious even then that a 56 bit key would not be sufficient for long term security against attackers with serious financial/technological resources. EFF's Deep Crack broke a DES key in less than a day 13 years ago. The AES selection process started in 1998, and a winner finalized in 2001. I'm not sure where you're getting your history from here.
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As for workouts- you really don't need much- don't waste hours on an elliptical, it is far more beneficial to do an intense 20 minute sprint session (10 x 100m sprints with 1 min of rest in between each round) or a 10 minute circuit involving pushups, pullups, squats, etc. 3 quick, intense 30 min workouts, combined with a decent diet will keep you going.
tldr: They have to fly a flag, and follow the laws of whatever country's flag they are flying.

Under The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, they would be in a US Exclusive Economic Zone - between 12 and 200 nautical miles of the coast, so no fishing or mining without US permission. As it's not Territorial waters (up to 12 nautical miles), US law will not apply, but there are international laws against Piracy in the High Seas which do. Of course, that only protects you from people who come from another boat.

As for what happens on the boat, it's governed by the laws of the country that they choose to be registered under. Let's say Panama. But they still have to follow some legal system. Panama law is based on Spanish traditions, and is probably acceptable.
I sort of expect that we'll also switch over to some material with higher electron mobility at some point if we can't keep shrinking features fast enough for silicon to maintain its lead. That'll just be another spurt of performance improvement after a N year interregnum, though.
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I'm not sure about the automation of creating servers in the web interface (it gives you a key that you have to put in the configuration file) - installing the service is easy though through a package manager.

The two things I think are great about ServerDensity over Munin (haven't used nagios) are the snapshots (you click on a point in the graph and it shows you the processes running, server load, network etc at that time) and the alerting (email, Android, iPhone push) which is great. Even custom plugins are easy to write/install and stick alerts on.
Yes, the search query string is one where CSRF prevention would be out of place. Most of them, though, are intermediate results in a user-specific interaction where CSRF prevention wouldn't break anything. There are a lot of web frameworks out there; some of them likely do CSRF prevention by default. From this article we can definitely conclude that Apple web sites are sloppy in 11 places, but there's not enough information to say there are 11 vulnerabilities.
2 billion doesn't sound like a lot of money to me.

Apple could use, say, a third of its cash and own the entire music industry outright? not that the labels would ever sell, but still. amazing how tiny that industry is given how much noise it makes.
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Everywhere else doesn't even make you file and a bill has already been introduced to take away these exemptions (they offensively claim they can "save" money by removing these exemptions).
I tried to find a friend to train with me so we could do DTMF, or rather CCITT #5.

I could whistle the 2400hz and 2600hz reasonably well (not at the same time) which allowed me to hang up on international calls if I wanted to.

Oh, I was also pretty adept at war-dialing manually in the dark. Dialing numbers in sequence, but then switched the light on and wrote down the details if I found a modem or a controllable voice mail or pbx system.
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With a decent web framework, creating a template which generates RDF from the same data source should be reasonably easy, if you know what ontologies you're targeting.

But yeah, having RDFa, there's no much point in that; clients should be able to parse the triples from it too.
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This is true, I accept that its very hard to comment without knowing a little more. It seems as thought there is a very quick judgement passed before we really know exactly how its being played out.
Thing is, it's impossible to have native scrolling and a static header/footer on most mobile browser. So we end up resorting to these horrible hacks. I can't wait until position:fixed is implemented natively.
I'd be more worried in the idea that there is no competition in label's market at the largest scale. Supposedly label contracts aren't exactly very artist friendly already, and I can't imagine as an upcoming artist it's going to get any better.

On the otherhand, there are now a million indie labels, and lots of success stories from people using the internet.
'Stole' is just standard fanboy/zealot terminology. As we all know, technology is all about sharing, borrowing, and building on top of other innovations.
Nice Concept. We're just starting the school process (4yr old), and I'm amazed to see all the use of tech in schools these days. When I was in school, we were lucky to have an Apple ][ in the library!

*Question: On your business model, are you hedging that paid classes ($9.99 / month) will just stay under 1,000 texts (Based on twilio .01/per rate) in aggregate and thus leave a little profit for you, or is there more to it?

If there is not more to it, it seems like the 'unlimited' could be risky (unless your unlimited is really like AT&T's 'unlimited' data plan :-) ).

A class of 25 students might encompass 35-40 devices (including parents). @ 40 devices 1 broadcast per school day is $8.20 cost to you. This does not include for responses, multiple sends per day, etc..

I know you've thought through all this, and probably have great answers, I'm just always interested to hear how others think about their price models. Thanks for sharing.
> 2 billion

A bit above $4bn total, according to the article: "recorded music unit" goes to Universal for $1.9bn (£1.2bn), "music publishing unit" goes to a consortium led by Sony for above $2bn.

EMI had been bought by its (now insolvent) owner in 2007 for $4.2bn, although it was apparently widely overpriced.

> Apple could use, say, a third of its cash and own the entire music industry outright?

Maybe less than that, a third of their cash reserves would be what these days, $26bn? The regulatory agencies would also have to agree, of course.
"If phase x emits some non-EMP but detectable signal, say an X-Ray burst and phase y emits the EMP"

No, "X-Rays" travel at the same speed as the "EMP" - both travel at the speed of light. They're both part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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File Hosting: AWS

Video Hosting: Wistia

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Our favorite products are probably Outright (dead simple), Twilio (enables tons of phone system magic), and AdWords (flexible, powerful, profitable). The two products we're actively working to replace are Backpack (with Workflowy or something similar) and Shoeboxed (we have yet to find an alternative). And we've outgrown Wufoo, but owe them much more than we've ever paid them in monthly charges.
The rest of the world likes to keep things simple so we have this term HTML5 which means next generation web technology to most people, which is all they really have time for. They're running the world after all.

Geeks being who they are like to be pendantic and discuss the details ad nauseam. Gotta quit running into the weeds on the little things.

The terminology we're going to use is HTML5, and we understand it's a catch-all term. End of story. Next problem.
Again, best wishes for your family.

I think that C-Path is interesting, but it is not well validated at present. It is also not clear how to use the results to plan treatment.

HER2 status is your ideal marker of risk because it gives information about prognosis AND how to treat (give herceptin). A bad stroma score or whatever you want to call it on C-Path doesn't necessarily tell you what to do about it. I would say that C-Path would add little to your wife's care if the cancer is HER2 positive, as treatment in this case is usually indicated.
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Strange: neither http://www.open64.net/ nor the main page of wiki.open64.net mentions anywhere that it's a C compiler (at least, that's what I infer; it's not mentioned explicitly as far as I see)
I second this. "The Power of Full Engagement" is a rather good book on how to manage your energy. I like Cal Newport's blog, but what I think often goes unmentioned is the energy required to sustain this regime. It's not going to happen over night.

Schwartz and Loehr worked with some of the best tennis players of all time. From there they built a system of how to build up your energy (energy is the term they use.) Some might find their work to be a bit hokey, but I got the book used for $.01 (+ s&H) on Amazon so it's worth a shot.

The deliberative practice literature is pretty consistent on what people do to become better performers. What much of the literature (or at least what I have read) lacks is the recognition that getting to the point of being able to practice deliberately in a consistent manner takes building up endurance over time.
Exactly, patents are public. BN can examine all patents held by MS. At any point MS can threaten BN with any patent in their portfolio. MS has no legal obligation to disclose to them ahead of time which patent they are violating in our current legal system.

If this goes to court then it will be public, but until then companies have a legal right to conduct business in private.
In my world, concert festivals & blogs have replace the need for major labels marketing role, and itunes / amazon / cdbaby have replaced their manufacturing / distribution role.

That said, I've seen friends of friends at iTunes start micro-labels that seem to focus more on online & concert only efforts.

I'd be more concerned about consolidation if it was the 90's again.

Update: Yes, you guys are right. I'm spoiled - I live in Austin "live music capital of the world" and have mostly non-pop taste in music.
That and RFID is really easy to fake.
personnally i find it quite amazing, and incredibly short-sighted, how developpers are willing to give up the freedom of the web in favor of the golden chains of the apple platform. because, make no mistake, this is where its going: in a few years nobody will want to try your stuff unless its an app, and the web will be a ghetto for porn and 4chan.

haven't we seen this movie before when microsoft controlled basically all of personal computing? at least on windows the user could install anything he wanted. now, not only developpers are at the mercy of apple's policies, but apple has decided to prevent any theoritical disruption from within by forbidding apps that host code (other than its own browser).
Yep. I did that too.

I was younger and my voice hadn't changed so it wasn't so much of a scream, more of a loud "Eeeeeeeeee...". Though I doubt it was any less annoying to the adults around.