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Thanks for this comment, as not yet having got into Scala myself, I had to read between the lines to figure out what the problem was here. I thought "Ok, you don't have binary compatibility, so recompile your dependencies. Sure, it may extend your build time somewhat, but it shouldn't make it impossible to use dependencies or test pre-release builds..."

Oh, you don't _have_ the source? Well, there's your problem.

A good reminder of what some of us take for granted in our development environments, I guess.
Wait. Why would you do this? Can't you hold your options as, well, options until you want to exercise and sell them? I don't get why you would convert options to stock unless you wanted to sell them right away. I'm sure I'm missing something. Thanks.
Credit cards provide several advantages over debit cards. In the case of fraud or simple mistakes, money isn't directly removed from your account. You also effectively get a ~30 day revolving interest-free loan if you pay the card in full every month. You can make unusually large purchases without waiting for money to transfer around, since the card can be paid off later.

As for multiple cards, some of it is playing games with different rewards programs (card X gives more points for groceries, but card Y is better for gas, etc.) and some of it is that not every place takes American Express, which is generally my preferred card.
That actually sounds like a useful browser-wide extension (rather than just building it into a code-review tool).
> You can 'always say no', sure, but that comes under completely ignoring the AI which means the AI can be of no benefit to humanity.

Not necessarily. We can use the AI to solve hard problems whose solutions can be verified automatically by a dumb verifier - NP-complete problems are an example of such class. The whole output of the AI would be filtered through such a verifier. In this scenario the hypothetical AI would either have to find a bug in the verifier or maybe find a way to smuggle its messages in the solutions.
The problem is those bias' can only be revealed through action.

No matter what you assert somebody's preference is, the preference is only revealed through action.

You can say me going to football games is not in my best interest, but the fact that I act by going to a football game demonstrates that it is.
Sorry for the late reply. I personally like having gem wrappers as it makes installation, upgrading, checking for upgrades, and removal easier. These are all just little things, but they add up over many plugins.
Adobe does not pretent to give you an open source project like VLC player and bundle malware/adware into the installer as if VLC team did it. They even make the .exe signature identical to that of the original to fool people. Its wrong. and puts blame on the original makers. Its like if google wrapped every app submitted with ads that give only google money. The ads are annoying, and apps get bad reviews, but the app makers had no say in it.
I've gotten some value out of targeted ads.
Facebok, eh? :D
My hope is that, while he's carrying the torch, Scott Guthrie (and team!) can blaze a trail for others to follow.
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Perhaps its an ad-hominem, but I used it as an example of things that Kevin has misrepresented.

In my time at digg, there was no retraining, nor really any feedback from management at all. As far as I could tell the leadership team spent most of their time working on Revision3.
This requires asserting as an axiom that people never make mistakes or get tricked, though, are always aware of all relevant information, and are in possession of an accurate mental model of how their actions are likely to affect themselves and the world. I mean, you can't really infer that someone's preference was to fall off a cliff by the mere fact that they did fall off it; they might not have realized that the cliff was there, among other possibilities.
It is very different.

Physical objects do not have free will. They don't act towards goals. They conform to unchanging mathematical patterns.

Humans do not. What I do today cannot be accurately used to determine what I will do tomorrow.
I had a similar experience, a VC bought "preferred stock" (I can't remember the exact jargon), when the company was sold, the payout went entirely to the VC, and no standard stock holders received anything.
Well iOS used to have a much larger user base, but Android has almost caught up, and will even surpass it. But depending so much on iOS so far is exactly the reason why Google needed Android.
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I respect that, but maybe people wouldn't get away with this kind of thing if it was made more public.
Oh wow, not sure how I missed that bug. Thanks for pointing it out, I'll get that fixed.

update: fixed.
What makes you say they are "tier 2" solutions? The VCS integration is right into the file system. I personally like this much more than just IDE integration, but YMMV. CodeAnalyst is a state of the art profiler, even better than the one in paid VS versions. The only thing that's more advanced is Intel's vTune. The x64 compiler is definitely not "tier 2", since it is from the standard SDK and the same as you get with paid VS versions.

You said that you needed those tools, so I tried to help. But this comment and your other comments make it clear that you don't really need them, you just want to prove a point.
Fun! Especially like the chart showing who of my friends are the earliest adopters - that's a really interesting metric, it wasn't who I thought it would be either.

Nice work.

Edit: How about hitting Google's Usenet archives to find out who the real early adopters are? (search via e-mail address)
The purpose of school and college isn't training. It's education. People that confuse the two will be very disappointed with the results.
I regularly have to recompile a couple of Ubuntu packages after excising undocumented junk. I really should submit a patch with a c̶o̶n̶f̶i̶g̶ ̶f̶i̶l̶e̶ g̶c̶o̶n̶f̶ dconf option that does the same. But for now I haven't found the time and tell myself that at least I can comment out the junk code and recompile on Ubuntu.

Incidentally, to disable all chatter at login (as documented in man login, and it actually still works in Ubuntu 11.10):

touch ~/.hushlogin
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Ubuntu/Debian have a very nasty habit of breaking the "principle of least astonishment".

Things like why isn't my '/etc/cron.daily/blah.sh' script not running? I'll give you a hint its the period. Good luck realizing that if you come from any other Unix out there.

There is a need for progress but breaking everything just to try something new (pulseaudio, unity, and so on) is not progress just frustration.
They could have done Lake Sakakawea but it's still hard to get an interesting scene there. Really dramatic badlands imagery would have to come from somewhere like Teddy Roosevelt national park, which is 2 hours away. Arguably, that sort of footage is just as cliche as bison. I think the bison are more representative of the state as a whole. (NDSU seems to agree with me)

The reason they didn't show the town is probably because it is totally ugly. Do you have a link to the episode online? I can't find it.
Lots of companies have claw-back clauses where they buy the options back from you if you leave before they've vested. Or, in my case, the company was sold and the common stock (I bought the shares not options) was worthless.
Haskell is incompatible with OOP precisely because in Haskell everything is solved at compile-time. It's a different way of thinking that has both advantages and disadvantages, however you cannot move these concepts around easily (i.e. not many features in Haskell are compatible with Java or viceversa - for instance Microsoft tried implementing Haskell on top of .NET and simply gave up).

ad-hoc polymorphism

Yes it is - however, the difference between multi-methods and the polymorphism you get in Java (and Python) is that Java does runtime single-dispatch on the implicit parameter only, whereas a multimethod can do runtime dispatch on all parameters.

Plus, because it is at runtime, you can also give it conditions that aren't necessarily related to the types involved (depending on implementation of course).

Overall, I think features like this make more sense
in a statically typed language

You've got it backwards - a lot of the features in statically typed languages like Haskell or Java (e.g. overloading, since you mentioned it) are there to be a replacement for multi-methods. But the feature is so powerful that it hardly has any substitute (just like macros).
It's really just very very early for the smartphone market, and Android is the fastest growing mobile OS. Its potential is more like 20x bigger user base than it has now. They will be able to make a lot more money than they do now from Android.
Doesn't sound like a bad outcome to me, I'll take GitHub over Codeplex any day (my own .NET code is on GH too)
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Any idea where their gift suggestions were coming from?
Like the hyperrationality of sociopaths?
> Saying we should discount the effect of weight on health because my weight doesn't predict my susceptibility to car accidents strikes me as misguided.

It's not my intention to make such a statement. BMI does have a usage, but it's more nuanced that most people realize and I wished to point that out.

> But, for most people, BMI correlates quite well with the "big-three" medical ailments: heart disease, stroke, cancer.

Do you have any more information or citations for this? It was my understanding that BMI alone was not enough of a predictor for certain ailments and conditions and that usually medical professionals also look at additional risk factors in conjunction with BMI, such as family history or habits like smoking.
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Exactly. I am so pissed off that my car has a bent cup-holder that I will go and get another car.
That's an incorrect overgeneralization. Not all startups are alike, as I'm sure you know.

If the employees get screwed over, then it doesn't sound like they are valued. I see many startups where the employees are super valued assets, get a decent salary AND they do what they love.
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Can't say I love it but it pays the bills; you'd be surprised at the number of companies that still use it to a degree. Thankfully, CF these days is much improved compared to when I first heard about it many, many moons ago.
Dude, he's 19. Let him have off-days.
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No, James is doing the right thing taking a more noble path and not publicy defaming the company. There is a time and place for that and these sort of discussions will not be conducive for the HN community. Talking about his experience will be what most of us be interested in.

Having said that, all you need is 2 minutes, google and you can easily deduce yourself what company he is referring to.
Where are you based? What territory? In the EU, the distance selling directive means that customers of online orders are entitled to a full refund with 7 days of purchase even if they have just changed their mind.

I've never invoked that law, but presume it would apply to software.
There are a couple reason you might exercise you options.

First is that options come in two flavors ISO and NSO (or Non-Qualified). If you are issues ISO options then you could exercise and hold to qualify for long-term capital gains.

http://www.startupcompanylawyer.com/2008/03/05/whats-the-dif...

2. Your options are going to expire and you need to convert them to shares.

3. You are leaving and want to hold on to your shares. Typically you need to convert them within 3 months.
From what I saw, Xcode would be between professional and premium. I suspect the Unix roots of OSX somewhat reduce the need for IDE extensions.

But then I am an Emacs guy who doesn't really use IDEs. My opinions should be taken with a grain of salt.
Probably something like 95%/4%/1%

That's not percentage of the company - that's percentage of the equity held by employees. In some cases it might actually turn out a bit better, like 90/5/5 or something like that.

Regardless, the outcome seen by founders is orders of magnitude better than even early employees.

This can be exacerbated by a bunch of games that can be played at an exit to make the disparity larger. For example, you can cancel all unvested options. Founders have likely been around longer than the employees, so they have more stock vested, plus they typically get some acceleration upon change of control.

For example, imagine that a founder has 25%, and employee number 1 (who was hired 6 months after the company started) has 2%. That they sell to Google after the company has been around for 2 years, and that all unvested shares are cancelled. Employee 1 gets .75%, and the founder, who has 1 year acceleration on change of control, has 18.75%. On top of that, the founder probably gets long-term capital gains treatment because he exercised his shares immediately, where the employee didn't exercise any of his shares and treats the gain as income (if he had a 1-year cliff, he probably couldn't exercise for a year, at which point it didn't matter, because he had only held the shares for 6 months when the company was sold). So the employee ends up with 0.5% after taxes, and the founder ends up with 15.63%.

Which means that he ends up doing about 30x as well as the first employee.
When one exercises options that starts holding period for capital gains...
Were you fully vested?
Their Americanness has little to do with their build quality. The climate in California likely does. Been to places in the USA where it actually gets cold? The houses are way more sturdy there because they need to be.
I thought the same thing, too. I had to look at the date to make sure this wasn't a really old article. I haven't seen anyone using Coldfusion "in public" in years and years.

Kind of bizarre yet fascinating. I wonder if anyone still uses classic ASP on anything? :)
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Do any startups still do reverse vesting with an 83b filing?
Etsy has one:
http://www.etsy.com/gifts
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but starting all over again is the fun part
By similar logic scala is useless since it just targets the JVM as does Java. Hell, why use Java at all when you could just write JVM bytecode by hand?

Coffeescript, haml, and sass are useful because they reduce the complexity of coding html, css, and js. They allow you to get much more bang for your developer-hour buck. Why use jQuery when you can just talk to the DOM directly?
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Am I the only one that fails to see what is so special about a donut shaped 4 storey building in a park like setting?
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Exactly my point. It's inconsistent from browser to browser. It's not tied to the OS in any way.
> I don't understand why I keep hearing this mantra so often

When Android got #1 market share the Apple fanboys decided that direct profit is the only number that matters.
Bullshit. There are no "some people" who "like that" when Ubuntu does not update documentation to reflect the changes they have made to core functionality. That doesn't make any sense.
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I will admit that my certainty in my conclusion was premature, but it's still my best theory. The mythbusters are professionals. The choice of location was supported by government designation. And the mythbusters were supervised in the experiment. Negligence is still possible, but I feel it's much less likely than a freak accident.

Either way, what I was really trying to address was the attitude in this post ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3324444 ), among others, that accidents like this should never happen. I was trying to say that not every accident is caused by negligence. Even if this one was, the main point stands.

I also realize that sounds like a cop out, which is not my intent. You are absolutely right. My conclusion is really just a theory right now, and I should have presented it as such.
North Dakota, South Dakota, eastern Montana and northern Minnesota are the coldest places in the continental US and the houses mostly tend to be cheap and flimsy. Houses in California seemed to be much more robust, actually. Build quality probably has a lot more to do with local building codes.
Effectively so.
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While your final sentiment is overly strong, there could be good TV news, and this particular bit didn't come out as overly critical or judgmental to me, phrases like "before spiraling back toward Dublin like a cruise missile" and "and bounced around like a pinball" don't help to convey the story accurately.
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Christmas and New Year's always fall on the same day of the week....
The company was Scoopler. Please keep in mind that all you have here is one persons account of what happened--still, let's not beat around the bush.
What benefit is there from changing functionality that's worked for decades and not documenting it? This is core Ubuntu functionality that they changed, and they did not document it.

It's not disruptive. It's just idiotic.
This article is about "Graphene oxide, the impure, nowhere-near-as-miraculous bastard son of graphene"
I don't know what your trip is with "northern countries." I never brought up specific countries or mentioned Spain or Portugal.

I was simply pointing out a fact that the ECB pools sovereign debt, and because of that will suffer from the tragedy of the commons - perverted incentives.
The man page is outdated. "Fuck you Ubuntu, I am switching my OS and bitching to the whole world about."

Then when they are in BSD, or Arch, it will be "Fuck you Arch" you don't have this man page right, I am switching OS again and bitching to the whole world about it.

Yeah I don't hear a lot of people complain about Arch and BSD and other "canonical" *nix systems. But it not because they are flawless, but because few people are using them compared to RHEL,CentOS and Ubuntu flavors.

Another way to look at it, if motd man page is what people are now mainly complaining about when it comes to Ubuntu, Ubuntu is doing great.
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Aside from the inspiration via how quickly knocked together some of these look, it's interesting to see early directions that have since been abandoned, eg: YouTube's dating site style "I am a $gender looking for $gender" drop-down.
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I am having to get ramped up on this right now as my company is filing. I'm not 100% positive, but, I believe if you exercise and sell in a single transaction, you're going to get hit with ~40% short term capital gains tax. Holding the exercised stock for a year will reduce the tax hit at sell time to ~22% long term gains.
One situation where you would do this is if you are leaving the company.

eg. spent 4 years there, fully vested, decide to leave for another opportunity. In most cases there is a very short (30 days is common, sometimes up to 90 days depending upon the options contract) window for you to exercise your options or you will lose them.
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I'm more than ok with it as well.
That's true, but the part of the reason that it's a big problem that various news sources are so slap dash is the way the human brain works. Once a person has read a news story, it's more difficult to displace those "facts". People generally believe the first story they read, even if they read a correction later. Even if you are aware of this type of cognitive bias it still occurs. Obviously it can be overcome but it's much better to try and get the most accurate version first.

When combined with other biases, this is why polls routinely show many people still believe some story that was reported even after it has been widely discredited.
I work at an early stage startup, and I absolutely love what I do, who I work for/with, and I make a lot of money. I have stock options, but it's just icing on the cake.
"God doesn't play dice". And several decades later Mandelbrot discovered that God plays fractals.
Looks nice. Comment/suggestion: if there is no reason to have more than one instance of Shred (and it appears not), then require('shred') should just return a new instance.
Why does the score change?
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neat. etsy is on a shortlist of places to add new items from, need to explore their API.
In this scenario it's equivalent to all of the founders quitting, shutting the company down, and going to work for Google, right? Ie. Google didn't buy / shouldn't own any of the company's assets?
You have the source, but the Maven model used by the whole Java ecosystem for distribution/management of packages doesn't work like that. And replacing it with something else isn't a small feat.
Fortunately, no.
Scala Fresh is alive (continuous compilation of libraries against latest Scala)
Just because someone is smarter than someone doesn't mean complete power. Alot of people are smarter than their bosses, but you know what the bosses have on their favour? The power to terminate the employee. If I have the power to terminate the AI at any time, as long as I don't give that power up, I will have power over it.
Hat tip to Science Blogs

http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2011/12/test_taking_takes...

for publicizing that the name of the Florida school board member who had trouble taking a tenth-grade state assessment test is now known. "Roach, the father of five children and grandfather of two, was a teacher, counselor and coach in Orange County for 14 years. He was first elected to the board in 1998 and has been reelected three times. A resident of Orange County for three decades, he has a bachelor of science degree in education and two masters degrees: in education and educational psychology. He has trained over 18,000 educators in classroom management and course delivery skills in six eastern states over the last 25 years." Hacker News participant blasdel posted the underlying Washington Post story

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/reveal...

I am submitting here as a reply to the original thread about two hours ago.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3325557

One day ago Hacker News participant kahirsch posted

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3317821

a link to the actual test,

http://fcat.fldoe.org/fcatrelease.asp

but unfortunately that posting never made it to the main page here on Hacker News. Thanks to the bloggers, journalists, and Hacker News participants who followed up on the original story.
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Do you mean do startups allow employees to forward exercise options and file for 83b? If yes, I'm interested in knowing that too.
Maybe it needs an interactive mode?
>No, it operates under the very correct assumption that paid services are MUCH LESS common to shut down.

Yep. Not to mention that, in paying for the service, you become the service's customer. The relationship with a free service is much murkier; instead, you are often its product, and the company has an incentive to manipulate you and breach your trust.
After the fact, everybody is an expert.
Upvoted for being honest!

I try to write a lot knowing that some of what I write will be obvious to some people. It's tough to know what is obvious to others or not until you release it.

Derek Sivers puts it nicely: http://sivers.org/obvious

I do know that each of my posts results in a lot of positive emails and tweets. But, I respect your opinion and do agree that building stuff is almost always better than reading my blog posts!

(though hopefully reading my blog posts will help people do that, and anecdotally it has)