skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being against the one-year cliff means you either (a) believe you will never make a hiring mistake or (b) believe that it doesn't matter who holds equity in your company. Both are dangerous assumptions.

Not having a cliff doesn't even help employees. It creates a culture where new hires need to be on the defensive from the moment they're hired, because management is strongly incentivized to release new hires as soon as they can to contain the damage of bad hires. In cliff vesting companies, management has a full year to figure out whether someone's going to work out, which is good, because most equity-compensated jobs have ramp-up periods.
32 here and I learned the two space rule. Still haven't broken the habit. Thankfully on iOS if you hit space twice quickly it inserts a period and one space.
Presenting the alternatives as much worse than they really are just so you can promote your own service is pretty patronising of your reader. It reminds me of infomercials and the over-acted non-problems they claim to solve. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08xQLGWTSag to see what I mean).

Saying that, this seems like quite an interesting concept. If you could get the reliability and per-unit cost low enough then it could possibly gain traction. My only concern is that actually 3D printing is a fairly niche market - most of my friends and family have no desire to 3D print anything, and can't even conceive of wanting to. Given that the technology's not going to compete with mass production on cost any time in the next decade, the only people who I could see being interested in 3D printing are technical or artistic types - the kind of people who already like to make things. They're actually quite rare.
It was an Expedia vacation package (Flight + Hotel + Car) and the confirmation email said "24-hour counter." I had that conversation with the agents, that's what they said they'd refund the rental. They wouldn't bother to verify that the counter closed at midnight, I was the one who had to do all the legwork and prove it. I'm sure they were legally required to refund me regardless. They were betting that it wouldn't be worth my time to keep calling and pestering them, and they were right.
The 500-shareholder limit is not a problem for employee options. You just use RSUs, or similarly place restrictions on common stock from being traded until it is registered. (IANAL)
Heard about it, totally forgot about it, but will have to check it out. Thanks for the reminder.
Great ideas!

I've posted with titles/descriptions such as these on other forums, and have seen virtually no response, but it could be that I didn't write a decent article.

My next post will have a few of the technical details about what we're up to, and will definitely have a more positive/fitting title.
+1 to this book. It's worth it just for the crushing realisation of what income category the actual rich consider you to belong to.
> I do know that I want to encourage him to think about relationships between things, rather than just learning a list of names. (For example; "That tree is evergreen, which means it keeps its leaves all year round. It does that because [...]" rather than "That's a Leylandii".

I don't suppose there's any harm in loading your children up with trivial knowledge, but I would certainly put more effort into teaching them thinking skills than specific knowledge.

These days, if you have the necessary thinking skills, the sum of human knowledge is within reaching distance. If you know how to research a subject, how to corroborate and verify the veracity of positive claims and theories presented to you, you can find out pretty much everything about anything in a matter of minutes.

I suppose it's the old "give a man a fish" adage applied to knowledge.
do any of the wacom alternatives work with linux?
The Dark Night Rises and Skyfall are the two standout movies of the year. I haven't seen The Hobbit yet, but I presume that this would also make the year's short list.
A company is unlikely to want the overhead of option/equity paperwork (and cap-table complications) for some restless joker who leaves after a few months. Nor are they likely to want an official policy of offering discriminatory vesting-schedules by candidate age.
Looper proved that you could successfully harvest the story/character beats, and cool moments from other films and shows without creating any of your own.

It's a bad sign when all of the "original" films in hollywood are just mediocre remakes of other sci-fi and anime. Same goes for Inception.
So you know, your website redirects to the home page on mobile.
I just heard about Searching for Sugar Man after watching the 60 Minutes profile on the musician. I must say, it is a fascinating story and the reviews about the documentary have been nothing but positive. Note that I haven't seen the documentary myself.
Funny, I just posted this: http://willsllc.github.com/blog/books-2012/

Most Thought-Provoking Books of 2012

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
by Jon Gertner published March 15, 2012
Over the span of a few decades, a single research lab invented the transistor, the microprocessor, radar, the communication satellite, the CD, and more.

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
by Charles Duhigg published February 28, 2012
Why toothpaste tingles, how Febreeze was a flop, and hundreds of other tidbits that are perfect for cocktail parties and future Jeopardy episodes.

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
by Nate Silver published September 27, 2012
Weaves together baseball, earthquakes, the weather, poker, and terrorism. Chapter 7 is the best description of Bayes theoreom I've ever read.

The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone---Especially Ourselves
by Dan Ariely published June 5, 2012
The third Ariely book, and just as fun. Would be ranked #1 except it's essential the same formula as his prior two gems.

Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World
by Christopher Steiner published August 30, 2012
Surprisingly good read from a first-time author (and YC alum). Expands on Andreessen's quip to cover trading, couter-terrorism, the Arab Spring and more.
You are right! Hence, during the process in edbc.el, it would wrap the string with quote('), and replace every quote in the string to two quotes('', not double quotes).
Depending on meaning of "wrong". If it means that there will be facts that are not accounted for by current version of certain theory - then it's probably true for most of them. If it means that our current interpretation of certain facts is completely incorrect - such as we think X is caused by Y, but in fact X is caused by Z which has zero correlation and no causal links with Y - I would be very surprised if it turned out like this for half of the established theories. Though for those that are just being developed probably much more than half of them will be wrong in this sense. I guess it also depends on the field - I'd say it's unlikely we'd have some overwhelming change in classical mechanics, but if you talk about something like biology or neurophysiology - there are a lot of things that are not clear, so it is entirely possible that our understanding, for example, of how addiction works - would be radically different in 20 years.
This year seems to be the year of really really brilliant cinematography.

Skyfall was breathtakingly beautiful in terms of cinematography. It had a solid story too, unlike Prometheus, which while beautiful, falls short on story.

The Dark Knight Rises concludes the series very well. It was well shot, and barring a few continuity issues, it was by all means a very good movie.

Argo was fine as a story, also very well made and I liked it.

One surprise this year which I absolutely loved was Pitch Perfect. My partner had dragged me into an early viewing of the movie, and I didn't know much about it. So yeah, good surprise.

As for the rest, meh. I mean Spiderman and Avengers were fun, but it is not as memorable as the ones I mentioned above. So was Looper
GNU Emacs supports sentence skip only if there are two spaces after the period. Its not surprising that another GNU product would reinforce this behavior. Ya, its also an old publishing practice, but at least LaTex will ignore it.
Seven Psychopaths was fun.
It's more comfortable that way. The HOME position causes my wrists to be running parallel to each other unless I stretch my pointer finger. With the position I use all my fingers are comfortably curved. But to answer your question I was not formally taught to type -- I assume most people aren't formally taught to type. You just do it more and more and more until you have no need to get any faster.
Odd, doesn't do that for me - what mobile device are you on?
I'm a motorcycle enthusiast, and I remember this getting some attention in the motorcycle industry.

Ducati is involved in a lawsuit because the plastic that they use for the gas tank, some believe that the ethanol that is being mixed in eats away at the material.

http://www.ducatinewstoday.com/2010/11/ducati-sued-over-faul...

It's ended up mobilizing some motorcycle enthusiasts, with some advocacy groups submitting a petition to the EPA.

http://www.clutchandchrome.com/news/news/ethanol-too-much-fo...

The AMA (American Motorcycle Association) has come out against proposed ethanol standards:

>“The AMA supports the use of cleaner-burning fuels, but we are concerned that gasoline containing more than 10 percent ethanol could result in premature engine damage or failure while a motorcycle is being ridden,” Imre Szauter, AMA government affairs manager said last year, “We’re also concerned about any degradation in performance, fuel economy and rideability that may result from the long-term use of blended fuels with greater than 10 percent ethanol.”
The link redirected to a mobile site that didn't seem to have the content.

That being said, I wanted to read the about hating 3d printers because I bought one for my family - and less than an hour in, with a collection of pre-rendered freshly printed objects in front of us, my wife (an artist and science geek) says "I'm going to make so many things..." (She's excited by the possibilties)
App Rights are linked to an Apple ID. An Apple ID could be:

* .Mac

* MobileMe

* iCloud

* AOL

* Other email provided from a service other then the above.
Are there any engineers here with actual firsthand knowledge? Or are we just going through the usual repetitions of viral online propaganda?

The "energy to mass ratio" is a straw man. It's a wholly meaningless and propagandist-type figure that people like to repeat. What we really ought to do is load cars with plutonium so their energy to mass ratio is just absolutely stellar, right? I've been running E85 in my 2006 Subaru -- a setup I designed specifically to work at compression and intake temperatures only ethanol is capable of dealing with. If my car ran gasoline in these conditions it would quickly explode.

If the problem with ethanol is economics, let's discuss that. When people mince economics and engineering this way it reminds me of christian scientists or something mincing god and empirical facts. It's just offensive.
I wouldn't recommend Merchant Princes too much. They're fun, but they're long, and don't really finish. At some point, the plot sort of gets lost, and the series ends with way more questions than answers. It's a cool universe, and really interesting, but IMO not used so well.
no, you're misunderstanding me (i think?). what you describe escapes strings - it sounds correct, but it is not what i am asking about.

for example, when using postgres you might want (for some crazy reason) to have a table called "select". you can do that with:

select * from "select";

where the "select" is not a string, but a quoted name. without the quotes it would be a syntax error (as select is a reserved word). how would that work in edbc?
Honestly, I read the article because of the title, and you had seemingly valid points about why the current world of 3D printing sucks. So I see it as added value that you provide a solution at the end. And it's great that you're actually working on it.

It would be cool to see this "Vending Machine" be side-by-side with Bufferbox. A one-stop-shop for one day delivery/printing would be incredible, as long as it's easily accessible, and secure! Privacy might also be an issue; it might be good marketing to show the parts being printed, but customers might want their stuff printed privately.
Yeah, that guy who planned the Normandy invasion was a complete nutball.
Apples is a clear easily distinguished subset of fruits wish is useful to predict its taste, expiration date, gastric tolerance, etc.

There is many widely different definitions of what a mass-shooting is (about apples we don't); the article is using a definition from the motherjones website; their definition is strict but randomly chosen; like somebody claiming that only red apples are real apples and the other ones are not; with no data to support that this definition creates any useful subset that can or should be statistically analysed; the statistical sample is already biased by absolutist and arbitrary boolean conditionals which render null any conclusion extracted from its statistical analysis (e.g shooter killed 3 people instead of 4 and therefore is not a mass-shooter)
It's happening to me too on an iPhone 5.
A couple nits to pick:

(1) Mutex performance isn't constant by OS. My own measurements tell me FreeBSD and Linux are around 20x slower than Linux locking and unlocking a mutex in the uncontended case.

(2) Contention makes mutexes a lot slower. If a mutex is already locked, you have to wait until it unlocks before you can proceed. It doesn't matter how fast mutexes are if there's a thread locking the one you're waiting on for seconds at a time. And even if other threads aren't holding the mutex long, putting the waiting thread to sleep involves a syscall, which is relatively expensive.
Rare? Remember we are Homo Faber. I can't imagine a kid not enjoying Lego. Adults may dismiss it as unproductive loss of time (compared to Facebook strolling?) but it could be a mistake.

What is true is that one probably need to reactivate the Homo Faber in us, and the collection of pink or green uglies I have seen so far is not going to.
I think it's better to conceive of mathematical axioms as being part of mathematical system X or not, rather than as true or false. That is, they're not self-evident or universal or true according to some external standard, they're merely postulated as properties of a given mathematical structure.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom#Non-logical_axioms
Are any of his claims about the current state of 3D printing actually false? Or even just slightly exaggerated? I'd like to hear how any of this isn't correct.
Because there's always a server at Christmas
I fully believe in what I wrote - the current options really are quite bad.

I can't imagine spending $80+ on a candy bar sized print, nor do I want to buy a machine and spend the time to learn to use it.

I don't believe that the vending machine is the end-all solution, but it does seem to be one of them.

What would you propose as another solution?
It looks like it depends on the context. If your web page is actually making a statement about Victoria's Secret (e.g., "our products are as good as theirs, but cheaper"), then it looks like putting their trademark into your meta tag would be allowed as fair use. But just adding their trademark to your meta tag to get a hit when someone searches for them could be considered infringement, since you're using the trademark to confuse the consumer into believing that your site is somehow associated with their trademark.
How do you know it's wrong? The argument is that ethanol degrades an engine more quickly than gasoline; presumably testing this would require studying a whole fleet of engines for a long span of time--probably longer than 4 years.
I'm not contesting that it's innaccurate. You have no basis to assert that it's for propaganda purposes.
My favorite review of Primer:

"Anybody who claims they fully understand what’s going on in ‘Primer’ after seeing it just once is either a savant or a liar."
Looking into it now - thanks!
Moonrise Kingdom is incredible. Most everything else was a waste of time.
As somebody who is a member of Techshop and a student of 3D printing and metal CNC, I feel the blog post title and content were dead-on accurate.

Like one of my friends says, "3D printing is great ... for bathtub toys," where you don't need structural strength or fit and finish.

The more I learn about 3D printing with plastics, the less wonderful it is to me. I really don't understand what the above posts are griping about.

Mentally, I've made a note to only use 3D printing for molds at this point.
This was a pleasant surprise, but the second half was pretty lame and uninspired. It should have ended as a pitch-perfect exercise in horror movie lampshading, with a shadowy, unresolved conspiracy. With the first hour, then walk away.

Then again, I really liked Cloverfield for not getting too hung up on explanations.
Heroku uptime is almost a replica of AWS uptime. If AWS is down, heroku is the first service to go down.

But status emailing system is really good :)
I think the main use case both sites are trying to prevent is presenting content in frames/iframes on unauthorised web sites.
For me, there are some reasons:
* I like use org-mode to write my Blog, it's very cool if there is a Blog system powered by Emacs-Lisp.
* For now, use PHP, JSP or any other tech to build web app, you need works with HTML, CSS, PHP... However, in Lisp, everything can describe in List (like SQL in EDBC). You can refer https://github.com/redraiment/emacs-cgi to see embedded HTML in elisp.
* There are many function for text edit in Emacs ready. Hence, I think it will suitable for build server apps.
I don't invest in companies, but if I did, having nonstandard vesting schemes would be a no-deal red flag, at least for any team that didn't have a mile-long pedigree starting and successfully building companies. Vesting is one of the most important protections the operating team has against hiring (and foundational) mistakes, and anybody who has ever started a company knows those mistakes happen routinely.

Some things to keep in mind when you feel the urge to twiddle the nods on how vesting works:

* It can take 2-4 months, maybe even more for senior hires, to discover whether a new hire is going to fit with the team.

* Your rational incentive for allocating ownership of the company to someone who doesn't belong on your team is zero or worse. You are helped not-at-all by the warm fuzzies a fired employee gets when they contemplate their options, but you are harmed immensely by the share of the long-term upside that those employees take from everyone who comes after them and executes well.

* Equity grants are not just a proxy for future money. They're legal contracts that can drastically complicate later bizdev events. You don't want a large pool of former employees wandering around with executed options. Think of every such person as a P>0.10 risk of a lawsuit threat.

* It is very hard (often virtually impossible) to claw ownership stakes back from former employees. You will, P>0.90, discover candidates later in the life of the company that you'd love to entice with an ownership stake. You will, P>0.90, have a cofounder or employee<4 that doesn't work out. At the same time, a cofounder or employee #1 that's still with the company 3-4 years later almost certainly earned their stake. Vesting balances these needs out.

Don't fuck around with vesting. Do what your lawyer says, or get one to sign off on the standard four-year+1-year-cliff scheme for your state. If you want to incentivize people to stay with your company for a year, pull other levers to make that happen. Don't pull the vesting lever for something as simple as "students just out of school have shorter time horizons".
In this case, challenging the industry means going up against the public's image of what an engagement ring should look like.

It's an image reinforced by years of successful marketing and backed by an enormous monopoly. Some may see that as an unsurmountable challenge, others may see opportunity.

This article posted on HN a few months ago was brilliantly informative:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4535611

That said, I'd be interested in hearing about the experience as well.
While this is n executive decision, the EPA is still subject to legislative influence by those that hold the power of the purse.
There are currently 18 members of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works.

Barbara Boxer - California

Max Baucus - Montana

Tom Carper - Delaware

Frank Lautenberg - New Jersey

Ben Cardin - Maryland

Bernie Sanders - Vermont

Sheldon Whitehouse - Rhode Island

Tom Udall - New Mexico

Jeff Merkley - Oregon

Kirsten Gillibrand - New York

James Inhofe - Oklahoma

David Vitter - Louisiana

John Barrasso - Wyoming

Jeff Sessions - Alabama

Mike Crapo - Idaho

Lamar Alexander - Tennessee

Mike Johanns - Nebraska

John Boozman - Arkansas

According to http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Members.Ho...
Oh, I got it... It will be problem currently. I'll put it in TODO list. Thanks! ^_^
Got it! Old redirect, which has now been removed. Thanks!
I've had people straight-up tell me during interviews that they're leaving their current position because they've reached either their one-year cliff or their four-year package and want a new opportunity with potentially higher gains.

The person who told you "I'm looking because I just hit my first-year cliff" actually told you "DO NOT HIRE ME". Listen harder.

People do leave when they hit four years. Four years is a long time! Some teams are O.K. with this, but if you're not, there's no reason to mess with vesting to solve the problem; just grant them more of the employee pool to stay.

Everyone is always looking for better opportunities. That's fine. Be the best opportunity for everyone on your team, or get better at recruiting. Vesting can't help you with this problem, but it sure can hurt you.
Back up on mobile - had to remove an old redirect.
It has Tom Waits in it, main reason for me to pay for the cinema ticket.
Best use of 3D I've ever seen.
As a native Spanish speaker: DuoLingo es muy bueno para principiantes! ... some parts of Spanish are simple (acute accents rules are not hard) but verbs are terrible (compared to how simple they are in English) but there's plenty of material to study. Best of luck!
Yeah, I've got that one, but haven't gotten to it yet. The only other Stross I've read was, Halting State. But I have Accelerando, The Jennifer Morgue, Singularity Sky, and a couple of others, in the queue waiting to be read.
This is wildly inefficient and over kill for most people. Imaging my hard drives would require terabytes of storage when in reality my unrecoverable data is small enough to back up to Amazon for less than a dollar a month.
You really can't blame apple for you just being dumb.

Apple did the right thing, they signed in with your username and password and apple sync'd to the new device.

The only missing family feature is multiple accounts on an iPad, but the problem you're having is that you shouldn't have given your children your apple id to set up their devices with...

Like everyone else is telling you, setup your children's devices with their own iCloud accounts.
Moonrise Kingdom, The Artist and Iron Lady (which I really wasn't expecting to like). Honourable mention for Ruby Sparks, for its originality.
The oil province of Canada :|
The device should just natively support multiple profiles with a login system like newer versions of Android do and link everything to the profile and not the device. It would solve this issue as well as the many issues that arise when a family attempts to share an iPad.

There are lots of reasons Apple may not want to do this (it is difficult to get right if not baked in from the start, it may result is less iPad sales, etc), but I think it is clearly the right thing to do for proper UX.