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The real damage will come from environmentally aware people. And this news has already taken center stage. Its a bad publicity for Apple specially now that the message is clear - "Go to hell with environment and recycling, we care only about our margin and our product."
OP (parent's parent) suggested that there are more startups now and therefore more startup finance stories as a result.

Parent suggested that despite this there are only ever thirty articles on the front page at a time, so we shouldn't see more finance ones.

I pointed out that this just means that the ratio of finance stories within that thirty is likely to be higher.
Thank you for the feedback. We also love Asana. It works good but not quite well for us especially on software project management field. I agree the layout looks like Asana but we do a lot UX work instead of just riping off the Asana. Keep up with Pragmatic.ly to let us show you we're not a ripoff. :)
It sounds like you can spend it, or save it, however you like, but you have to use the vacation days
Semaphore definitively saves time and release a developer from a burden of setting up stuff manually. I would recommend this to everyone. Keep on the good work!
That's a fair assessment. However, there's one other thing to consider: his making the decision for you also shifts the responsibility to him. If the money was just part of my salary, I would probably have second thoughts about taking an interesting but expensive vacation: I would consider being "responsible" and saving the money or something.

Even if a good vacation is worth doing--and, I believe, it really is--there is still some guilt with "wasting" money on something that isn't obviously "productive". I rationally know that enjoying myself is not a waste of money, but that doesn't help deal with my inner biases! Now, I don't want to say you have to spend a lot of money to get a good vacation--you don't. But it does create more options, and some of the things I really love (like travelling to Europe) have fairly high barriers to entry.

So having somebody allocate the funds for me makes it much more likely that I'll spend them on something exciting and enjoy myself with it. I suspect the sort of people working at a company willing to pay you $7500 for a vacation don't need to worry about paying the bills too much, but there is still an incessant nagging to be economical.

I was actually originally thinking about this idea in a completely different context. There is a nice parallel between this and the sorts of prizes you get at hackathons (usually electronic gadgets): in a certain sense, that prize is worth more than its price because I would not have spent my own money to buy it. It's slightly weird logic, but I think it's accurate: there's a big psychological difference between opportunity cost and actual cost. Sure, I could have $500 instead of a tablet, but if I'm just going to win something, I'd rather it be the tablet.

In short: I think this scheme is a good way to overcome my innate resistance to spending money on things that seem to be a "waste", even if I would enjoy spending it that way and probably get higher utility than just by saving it.
I understand that (though my understanding of this particular situation is less deep than that of the US banking crisis). It's also my understanding that LIBOR is used to determine rates for municipal bonds, consumer loan rates (including loans insured by government), and other types of debt that do impact taxpayers and consumers. The LIBOR is a baseline...manipulating it manipulates the entire lending market in the UK. That's illegal and unethical and screws a bunch of people over and compromises the integrity of every bank that participates. (At least, that is my understanding of it, but I'd never heard the word LIBOR until two days ago.)
> In order for it to resolve the vtable statically, which it CAN do, it would have to know what kind of vtable the NULL cowPointer has.

Yeah. In retrospect my point doesn't really make any sense at all. Not sure what I was thinking there.
This "green" stuff seems extremely shortsighted to me.

No point in sacrificing economic efficiency (read: better lives for actual humans) when just putting all the stuff in a gigantic landfill is a perfectly viable option.
Under this model yes, but no one said this was the only possible model. It's an idea, not a fully fleshed out proposal.

First, people can give directed donations if they like.

There would be multiple funds, so presumably the funds would differentiate based on genre. And people would sign up for the funds that have the type of entertainment and art (or even lectures) they prefer.

Everything here is completely voluntary. The funds would act as agents, and advertisers.

A fund would attract a performer based on how good a job the fund does on getting that performer an audience. A performer would attract a fund based on how happy people are with the performer. People would sign up with a fund based on the quality of the performers.

So if a performer is not happy with his cut of the donations they would find a different fund. If a fund is not happy with how many people are donating they would try to find better performers. And if the donors are not happy with the types of shows they would find a different fund.

So the incentives are all aligned properly. (As long as people are actually willing to donate.)

It would probably require some fine tuning to get it right. In particular there is a strong network effect, and positive feedback (the larger you are the larger you get), so this will have to be toned down somehow.

This is sort of like a subscription model, but for live events. This could of course be done while maintaining copyright, but the whole idea is to find an alternative to that.
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Sorry boss, even OUYA won't succeed.
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That'd be awesome
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we want you to disconnect from work. if you want to hang out with friends, that's cool. just don't work (which, surprisingly, lots of people have trouble doing, especially in startups)
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Belgium has something like that, I'm not sure it's by law (it might just be working agreements), basically you get a "holiday bonus" once or twice a year, which amounts to about 70% of your (net) salary each time.

France has a slightly different concept (which is not universal by a long shot, but it's almost universal in some work domains) of 13th and (rarely) 14th months. Which are exactly what it says on the tin: you get 1 or 2 extra months of salary per year.
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Yes, I agree with you. But we tried to only have the fun.
On the other hand, assuming this supplements rather than replaces a normal vacation, it could just be a fun and relaxed way of brainstorming. After all, at an interesting company, chances are work talk will pop up because people genuinely enjoy it. Just talking about work a bit does not ruin a vacation!

This reminds me of what one of my professors talked about recently: a skiing trip is great because you can enjoy yourself and talk about research on the ski lift. So taking your entire research group on a skiing trip would be a nice compromise between taking a break and having time to talk and think about what you're working on.

I actually think it sounds great. Partly because I love skiing and partly because I also love talking about CS.
I worked for a startup that was

A) cobbled together with completely shit code, was constantly breaking on releases, and was glued together by ???.

and

B) a ridiculously over-engineered monstrosity with independent services

It was bought by a large web company for over $100 million

I am ashamed to say that this appears to fit the pattern.
Disclaimer - I work for Mila.

The conference attendees really liked those as they were pretty different :)
I think that this style of salary is getting less common in Germany. My work in Germany also doesn't offer the 13th or 14th salaries. Someone else mentioned that these extra payments just means that you annual salary gets divided by 13 or 14 rather than 12, so the total annual payment is the same.
I think those companies need to add a "minimum time off", for example, unlimited days off, but you must take at least 30 days off per year (20 vacation days + 10 public holidays).
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One of Paul Graham's frighteningly ambitious startup ideas (http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html) is "Replacing Email". He visualizes his inbox as a disastrously bad todo list and email as the way things get into it. He shared his thoughts on what may be a better solution that can eventually replace email. Here are some points from that :

1. Email has to be replaced with a new protocol. This new protocol should be a todo list protocol, not a messaging protocol.

2. The new protocol should give more power to the recipient than email like

a)more restrictions on what someone can put on my todo list.

b)Information about what action I need to take on a to-do list item. Like, do I need to read something or take any further action on it like replying, forwarding, viewing attachment, paying attached bill, watching video etc. ?

c)How important it is? There obviously has to be some mechanism to prevent people from saying everything is important.

d)When does it have to be done? Is it urgent? Do I need to do it before a given time?

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I would like to ask some questions about it from both PG and HN community :

1. In an email there are only few actions one is supposed to take, like "Read", "Read & Reply", "Read & Forward", "View attachments". What other actions you think that should be incorporated in new to-do list based system?If not all, what are the important ones for you?

2. How would you like to prioritize to-do items by importance? What are the rules? Like, giving importance to to-do items from specific "circle" of peoples you know - Colleagues, family, etc.? or by type/content of to-do item? or anything else?

3. What kind of things one can put on your to-do list? What kind of things one shouldn't be allowed to put in your to-do list?

4. Do we really need a new protocol? Can't it be done by making a distributed client/server system where anyone can setup an open source to-do list server(if they need to own and control their information for privacy reasons) and clients can communicate through HTTP protocol (REST API)?

5. Is there any YC company or other startup that is working on this idea?

Please share your thoughts.
Had some fun messing with the variables for number of particles, acceleration and other things. There are some interesting patterns (kinda like interference patterns) if you make the acceleration large (change the denominator from 2000 to around 10). The code itself isn't that interesting, except to the extent that modern JS engines can keep up with a brute force update of 200x200 particles at almost 60fps.
I asked the driver if they worked at InstantCab and it sounded like a part time thing for him. It might not have been a Toyota.

Anyway, I wouldn't have minded if I had expected it. My girlfriend was skeptical, and I wouldn't expect her to get in some random car if I wasn't with her.

I'd suggest asking riders if they're ok with a backup driver picking them up first (assuming this is even legal...)

I'll give it another try. I hope you guys succeed. TaxiMagic and Cabulous never work for me precisely because drivers will cancel your pickup at the drop of a hat if they find a closer pickup, and there's no feedback mechanism to discourage this.
As I see it, the eureka moments become less frequent because when you're starting out, the low hanging fruit become eureka moments. As you get better, what was once a eureka moment is just a I-fixed-it moment, which is much less satisfying, though no less useful.
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It seems that in most of Europe, blue-collar trade unions have traditionally been very strong so have been able to negotiate all kinds of niceties. White-collar, not so much.
Sounds like a terrible idea: your decision on how much time off will be taken as how much you are committed to the company. Better everyone to have X weeks off with flextime.
"if they can keep this pace" being the qualifying phrase, of course. This project has gone super-viral -- $2mil within its first day. Because word is spreading so quickly, its entire target market will have learned about it in, what, 4 days, tops? It's not like the insane growth will continue after that happens.
yep. we're totally fine with whatever. as long as you disconnect from work.
I didn't realise that. Maybe they apply "beta" in the same way as Google. It has been around for years and is very stable from my experience. I wrote up how I use it to handle my backups last year: https://grepular.com/Secure_Free_Incremental_and_Instant_Bac...
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Sure, and if it's nicely sandboxed away and running in a bubble then it's perfect, if however it requires hooks into the system, which is the current paradigm, then they can't cover all cases. What if you have a custom bash profile and it kills it? Or some mix of packages throws a curve ball? At the end of the day you should know your system and requirements more than a faraway team, which reduces the risk.
While I like this idea, a concept that I would love to see make a comeback is the sabbatical. Don't get me wrong, disconnecting and getting away from it all is valuable, but it also seems like the opposite end of the pendulum swing from always working. Personally, I would like something in between. Give me 6 weeks to work, but work on what I want: no deadlines, no clients, not even necessarily any deliverables. Just 6 weeks to explore...ultimately, I think that would be even more productive in the long run.
It seems to me that even when you are not at work you are still having an input which suggests that it might be more than work for you? If that is the case, then take holiday as and when you need it, I'm sure if it starts becoming excessive and there isn't an acceptable reason for it (meeting family in another country or a life changing experience vs. sitting at home watching tv) they will pull you up on it.

Possibly slightly off topic..

I work at a UK startup-going-on-teenager. A few months I had an amazing opportunity to transport a 50m ex-minesweeper from Holland to Turkey, I booked off 3 weeks and came back 2 months later not expecting a job anymore. When I finally did get back, they were actually really forgiving and keen to get me back in to the office; I'm not sure if they need me in order to help support their planned growth, or because they are genuinely very laid back, other factors suggest the first.

First 2 weeks being back were great, but once the novelty and the story telling had worn off and the day to day grind set back in I have experienced a great deal of resentment to the structure of the company; I think that being exposed to a great deal of personal freedom will break down any barriers that have been built and cause issues when you do finally go back.
You assume people are doing this for "bad reasons". Or to make money.

It's not so. Medicine just doesn't know any better.

Each year they get better and better, but overall they barely know anything.

The body is VERY complicated, and people just don't understand it very well.

You think someone "cured" cancer but did not sell it to make extra money. Not so - there are so many people with cancer that they would make a HUGE amount of money by curing them all. And there are new cases all the time.

Remember that even the most profitable drug it's only for 20 years, then is not protected anymore.

20 years is plenty of time to make lots of money.
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Your site looks nice.

I think you should define SEM on the front page - acronymns are fine if there is a clear definition available (unless you are aiming only for people who will know that term well).

You Pro price seems quite steep for a SAAS product. $15 per campaign per month is a high marginal cost when all you are offering over the free version is email support. If I was using your product and liked it I would be tempted to create multiple free accounts rather than upgrade to premium.
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Be careful it doesn't get you arrested, that model was used as evidence against some of these folk:

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The AppleTV? I don't have one, and so far it's not getting app store access. It's a shame it might need a jailbreak but I'd do it.
My only intent was to present "the other side" of what people see in this, never to prove that you were "wrong" or "irrational" just for disagreeing with others. You're absolutely free to not like this. Pretty much all the concerns you raise about OUYA itself are spot on, and they'll need to have answers to those if they want a good shot at success.

I spent a good hour just reading your two original comments (not counting time spent writing the reply) to really understand your points as much as possible, so I could write a reply that would make you go "ah, I see what people see in this now". I gave you as much the benefit of the doubt as I could, so it really shakes me up that after all that effort, you take my points, twist them to make me look like a fool and use them to reinforce the one core point which I agree with you on: that there are a lot of practical issues that need to be addressed before this has a good shot at success.

I tried to give a reply you'd really appreciate and you punched me in the gut with it. I'm sorry for responding. :(

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EDIT: I just read your newest reply properly (I couldn't do that before because of how upsetting it was to me); I just realized you're coming from a this-is-how-it-should-be-marketed viewpoint, while I'm coming strictly from a how-much-would-I-want-this viewpoint. My comments were just points on why people like the idea and want it to succeed, not on their marketing and relations; I'm no expert on either field and as such I have no desire to critique them. Looks like we were just talking on two different wavelengths; a simple misunderstanding.

I'm the sort of guy who automatically assumes marketing and advertising makes claims that are too good to be true, so I'm not fussed when they don't all pan out as 'promised'.
It seems to me that you have introduced an unnecessary third party to the problem (the agent) that holds the same power and position as the current problem party in the copyright arena (the publisher/label). The interesting development in recent years has been the removal of this party from the equation (self-pub ebooks, kickstarter etc.) so it would be a shame to bring it back.
Can we nominate? I put 5 points on 'Brian.' It's kid-friendly, and after people laugh at it they'll remember it because it's an unusual name for a company. It's very personal.

I think about names a lot. I'm too tired now to dig up my old posts about it, but what your existing pool all have in common is that they're trying to describe what sort of company you are. This is not what a name is for - a few companies do have such names, but they tend to be first-in-market ones like Electronic Arts. What you want from a name is stickiness. It doesn't have to explain anything: it has to provoke people's curiosity.

I was one of the few nerdy people to get the pun in 'Google.' But that didn't matter - the first time people heard the word, there was no way they could forget it. From your short list of aspirational names, I feel like your company should be called Brian.

'What's the name of your company?'
'Brian.'

Nobody, but nobody, is going to let the conversation end there. They will ask you more questions, and the will tell people about a funny little company called - get this - 'Brian.'
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Is it "extra", as in on top of the agreed yearly salary?

Norway has a similar thing, in that 10%+ of your salary gets paid out in a lump sum before the summer holidays, and the tax deducted in December is half what it is in the other months. But it's all just an adjustment in how salaries are paid out and when the tax is paid, so you end up with exactly the same total amount.

Of course either way, employers factor it in.
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I think the whole publishing middlemen part was discussed, at length, by Charles Stross on his blog and shined a light on what's essentially a hidden part of the industry. I can't find it but some Google-Fu might get you there.

What I disagree with is where he says: "almost all the profits go directly to the author. I'm not optimistic this will happen any time soon.", which is interesting. Technically there's a few authors who've been self-made, self-published successes through the Kindle store. You lose a percentage to Amazon so can we class them as a publisher? You could chose to sell an ebook directly to your audience as a few people have tried (and have been successful, there's been a few posted on here I've ended up buying very happily).

Publishers at the moment are a necessary evil. Traditionally they publish your work, handle the distribution and all the stuff that's basically not the writer sitting their ass down and writing. Digitally they seem to have filled a similar role of providing a digital shelf space, dealing with payments, hosting and so on. Until it becomes completely trivially to write it, host it, charge it and deliver it they'll be needed.
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The system still has the complete filesystem implementation, and despite it not being visible to end users I imagine life would be much harder for developers without it, at least without replacing it with something likely to actually be even more complex (in code, not in UI). I mean, it isn't like VM or DTrace is "user-visible"; if anything, it is less user-visible/intrusive than its predecessors.
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