skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that investors are diversified and you're not is not a reason to value your equity stake differently than their equity stake.

Actually, it is. For some theoretical literature on this, look into the Kelly Criterion, which argues that the best financial strategy is to optimize for log(W), where W is your total wealth (including future income, properly discounted, less costs of living, if one wants to get technical). The assumption is that, since it's (approximately) as hard to go from $50 to $100 as from $100 to $200, the proper utility function is the logarithm.

If you're a person of average means, you'd rather have $4.5 million than a 50-50 shot at $10 million. If you're a billionaire, you'd rather have the latter because of its superior EV.

Correlations also play a role. Assets with negative beta (correlation to equity market performance) can actually trade above expected value because of their risk-reducing benefit: they go up when the world goes down, which makes them desirable as hedges. All in all, you'd rather not have a basket of assets that all dive at the same time.

As a startup employee, you're typically poor enough to be risk-averse, and the one asset that you hold (equity) is correlated to your job and your reputation. Taking equity in lieu of cash makes you very exposed. You should expect a lot of equity to account for this. If you're giving up $20,000 per year in salary, you expect about $100,000 per year in equity at-valuation. Why? Because in addition to the concerns above, not only are you giving up some salary at the time, but you're also giving up future salary because startups tend not to give raises. (When things go well, the equity appreciation is the raise; when things go to shit, it's not a time to ask for much of anything.)

As an investor, you're rich and diversified enough that you can value assets at EV. As an employee dependent on stable income and reputation, you should be a lot more cautious about taking on that high-risk asset. Your life can go to shit in all sorts of ways: business failure isn't even the worst of them. The investor just sees the loss as a cost of doing business.

If nothing else, Zynga established what can go wrong when the bulk of your financial wealth is tied up by your employer. I mean, talk about a gigantic abuse of power: one's financial portfolio controlled by someone with firing authority.

VC-istan is built on the backs of young engineers who don't understand this stuff.
I'm so numb to this kind of pain...
With all the time and frustration needed to learn Ember just do it with Backbone
It probably wouldn't be a big deal in a more equitable society, but an innocent remark can easily be taken the wrong way when it comes after the chain of sexism women deal with in any given day.

Someone wrote an article (that I can't find) about how she felt bad about all those times she overreacted to an innocent remark, and how it was probably counterproductive. It's hard to filter the harmless dongle jokes from the sheer volume of real sexism that surrounds us.

Meeting her halfway with empathy and communication was the right thing to do.
He was sarcastic but that's hardly being uncivil. Thing is, his complaint is probably very representative of many beginners so giving the impression that you're ignoring it can have a very negative impact on a project like Ember.js.
> at which point, why not just get a job?

Considering the pot could be somewhere in the several 100Ks per month (according to the article) range, which 'job' would that be?
Tomcat? hmm..
That is incorrect. It does not require an exchange for me to move money in and out of Bitcoins. All I have to do is find another human who is willing to trade Bitcoins for another currency, and vice-versa. For example, I could do this on eBay or a forum.

The large "exchanges" merely make this process more expedient. At the core of this concept is that people are willing to trade one good for another good, and in this case, it's Bitcoins for another currency.
The big mistake was thinking that the occupation was going to be easy.
Well, programming is not always easy.

I felt that kind of frustation when I tried for the first time almost every library/programming language that I'd worked with, either with java, backbone, coldfusion, rails...

Trying and researching things is always part of the process, we can't run away from that.
I suspect he just copied and pasted the text from the homepage.
You're attempting the No True Scotsman argument. You say any alt med that works is part of std med.
It doesn't have an issue date, so I presume it's not granted and it's too early to lament how broken USPTO is.

The claims require service to have concept of explicit following of other users and receiving messages not explicitly addressed to them, so it's not like CC: in e-mail or Jabber chats.
... says the one with the all caps user name.

It's not quite the same, I know. I saw your comment and had to respond.
I tried to get an impression of how (American) women think about this, so I went ahead and posted this article in a wedding-related forum. The forum's population is about 99% female (including me). Usually the tone there is very civil and opinions are well-balanced. Members treat each other with resepct.

But his time it's completely different: the reactions are crushing!
I was bashed and put down like never before on the web, although I never even suggested that I agree with the author's opinion. They even went so far as to scan my older threads. They found one from half a year ago, where I pointed out another article with a similar topic, and then began to bach me in this dead topic, too.

Meanwhile it seams that the mods have closed the old thread, and I have deleted the new one myself since the bashing was getting me down.

What is it that makes american women so aggressive, when it comes to criticizing diamonds? I don't get it.

Living in Germany, I never quite understood how you can restrict a whole culture to believe so fiercely that a piece of compressed carbon is so very meaningful.

Link to the closed thread:
http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/mens-view-on-engagement-r...
Agree with this - I was planning to use Ember on a new project but quickly fell through holes in the documentation and had to give up and return to plain Backbone.
Nice personal attack for someone who's writing is barely comprehensible.
Laconic does [1], this library does not [2]. Laconic uses createTextNode, this uses innerHTML.

[1]: https://github.com/joestelmach/laconic/blob/master/laconic.j...

[2]: https://github.com/markgandolfo/el.js/blob/master/el.js#L48

By the way, HTML encoding is fairly simple, you just have to be sure you get it right. This is a function for it that I include in most projects where I don't already have something like jQuery or laconic: https://gist.github.com/jrajav/5204669
My point is more that there seems to be little proof that 'full Paleo' is better than eating lots of veggies and cutting processed carbs from your diet alone.
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Well the "it's easy" is the selling point, no? I suppose the "ease" of using it depends on one's aptitude. 8-)
HTML5 arena fighting game
Game prototype for two players of a fighting game writen in javascript, nodejs. Inspired by Dark Souls game.
I just tried clicking your "Paypal" link in Chrome 25, Firefox 19, and IE9. All of them allowed the href to change and went to what could have been the phishing site. Then I went back and tried right-clicking the "Paypal" link and open in a new tab. All 3 browsers went to Paypal.

I like your suggestion to have behavior changed so the browsers don't allow the href to be changed to another domain without warning the user. Until that happens, maybe opening links in a new tab (or window) is a good practice.

Enjoy!
I'm sorry, what? You want front end designers (a major use-case for JavScript) to be disgusted enough to stay away?
Looks like an overall outstanding blog. Added to RSS reader.
Microsoft should claim "We don't have Something like bugZilla".
OR
We are unable to reproduce the bugs you have claim.
A lot of grave mistakes were made before the question of occupation even arose.
All the boring but stable and decently successful men that get laid like crazy.. oh, wait..
Culture is not created in silos. Culture is created by free exchange (which is not to be confused with "no things should be paid for"). DRM is just a speedbump on the road.
Could a Kickstarter for Gadgets Attract Big Brands?
Same as the secondary market for used laptops or whatever. There are people who buy used diamonds. Check out pricescope.com.
Honestly, how would spending $79 on this improve my life?
As an addendum, I tried Ember out and found it to be fairly easy. Is it plug and play, so to speak? No. Will it work in about 5 minutes, assuming you're well-versed in client- and server-side Javascript? It should.

"Easy" in this case means for the intended audience. Turning on a computer is "easy," but not if you tasked someone who'd just traveled from 1800 to do it.
Trying and researching things is always part of the process, we can't run away from that.

You're right: there will always be a learning curve, whatever is being learnt.

I think the problem with Ember is that it makes the opposite claims, and fails to deliver, only because the documentation is lacking.
Trek is making a huge mistake IMHO.

As a developer I can think of nothing more helpful than to get a "steam-of-consciousness" excerpt from our users. This is something no analytics package can tell you, if you want to make your "product" easy to use then this is the exact feedback you need. Delverworld was outlining the various pitfalls of getting started with ember.js and a core contributor shrugs it off because he didn't like the guys attitude?

No one likes having their shortcomings pointed out but it would have made much more sense for Trek to admit that getting started could be made easier and that the Ember.js team would look into ways to make it easier. Ignoring the issue like he is "above it" is pretty fucking pretentious if you ask me.
I agree, though if the top post in this thread is correct, it doesn't look like they really need top talent.
Just because it's always been that way doesn't mean it has to be. If I'm running Ember, today I'm seeing this post and my takeaway is "we need to create a fool-proof quickstart hello world tutorial and make it readily visible to first-timers ASAP", not "this guy is a dick, let's ignore him".
apparently not. according to kahnemann (thinking fast and slow) pain and loud noises are the two things we can't adjust to. i don't know what reference he gives (just remember reading it), but since he's pretty reliable elsewhere i assume he's correct (you can imagine evolutionary reasons why it doesn't make sense to acclimatize to these, i guess). also, the "loud noise" is consistent with the american torture techniques you see reported in the news.

as for the article title. it's not really true, is it? i have mild chronic pain (i have ms, which means nerve damage, somewhat similar to the article). you can learn to live with it. and you can cope. but i'm certainly not happier than i would be without it...
There is one very important step that the author missed: ensure you have customer buy-in. This is also the hardest step to do, but I feel like a lot of scrum-talk glosses over this.

A medium bug appears in your production environment. Will your customer really wait till the next sprint to get it prioritized, then fixed?

Or, your customers expect functionality, time, and dollar estimates in a proposal before they start a project. Sure, some teams think they can do scrum under the covers, and give them what they really want, but in the end do you have the right language in your contract to address changes made during the project? Will the customer really care that feature X didn't make it because it wasn't prioritized high enough at the last grooming?

Until you get this buy-in from the people paying you, there is a huge conflict about how you want to do things vs. what the customer expects. And generally, they'll win until you convince them. But why should they change? They're happy with how things are going the way it is.
Did you find a suitable alternative to Ember?
Not quite, no. You can't downvote stories (only comments, when you reach an appropriate karma level) and the algorithms for story/comment decay seem to be wildly different.
Hmm. I wonder what this emberjs is? I'll just click the home page link and find out. Oh. That just gives me the discussion board, which i'm already on. A bit more looking, a bit more hovering, and.... there isn't one. Close tab.
I'm always put off by the "look what can be done in just several lines!" code examples on frameworks front pages, they don't represent anything about the framework and usually the simpler the example, the more complex the framework is because everything is "magic" - try to do something differently and you end up hacking the framework internals.
I think you make a really great point here. And although I don't think buying diamonds and burning fossil fuels are equivalent evils, I do strongly believe that you always have a choice. I don't personally make a lot of money--and I have been financially supporting my boyfriend who's been working on a start-up for past last year--but leading a "green" urban lifestyle is extremely important to us. Yes, living in the city tends to be more expensive, but when you account for all the fuel you're not burning by not driving, it makes the lifestyle much more financially viable. We bike or walk absolutely everywhere we go, and although we don't have the ability to eat out all the time, we've managed to put a good amount of money into savings. My point is, if you're committed enough, there is ALWAYS a choice not to drive, not to buy diamonds, and to live a life that doesn't support things that hurt the environment and other people.
The Internet of Things with trillions of sensors will change our future
Depends on if you're an artist, or hacker. It greatly simplifies the process of making high-powered LEDs that respond to music. Also, if you buy ~10 you'll be helping a student somewhere because when these are made, a portion are being given away to schools.
The great thing about IE is that is backwards compatible. A website can automatically trigger IE to render in a specific version using metadata tags. I believe it can even go so far as to force it into compatibility mode by default for the website.

For websites that don't do this you can create a special list which can even be managed by group policy.

I'm always very frustrated when organizations choose not to upgrade for "compatibility" reasons. That's baloney. They're just too lazy to properly configure their systems.
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> Now everyone is gonna "watch out" when they meet a woman,

no, only creepy nerds will have to.
I don't get it?

Part of the appeal of HN is I get interesting stuff from all over (#) not just my niche.

TO do an HN, but have it on one niche seems missing the point.

(#) less of it now, these kids today, back when I were a lad ... shoebox .. motorway.
> Well, programming is not always easy.

Nobody is saying that it is. OP's title was directly in response to the ember.js homepage (where it says "GETTING STARTED WITH EMBER.JS IS EASY."). S/he encountered some (pretty understandable) frustration and pointed out a few major shortfalls in ember's documentation, before asking for assistance; that's not at all running away from "the process".

Waving away legitimate (non-trolling) complaints in a dismissive way is pretty condescending, and not at all helpful to the main issue.
There is nothing wrong with admitting you were wrong or admitting someone else was right. It shows maturity.
Hopefully, Microsoft will get around to pushing IE10 to consumers soon. IE10's market shares stands at 2.35%.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-daily-20130218...

I look forward to it hitting double digits this year.
I don't know, but you can buy men-made Moissanite (silicon carbide), which is superior to diamond in every category except for hardness: it's only the second hardest rock in the known universe!
No one likes having their shortcomings pointed out but it would have made much more sense for Trek to admit that getting started could be made easier and that the Ember.js team would look into ways to make it easier

Agreed. I recently had a new user point out in quite spectacularly a direct fashion how unfriendly the "Getting Started" section of one of my apps is. It made painful reading, but I would happily pay for users to get in touch like that.
Cross-Pollinate
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Too big a font and too much whitespace imo. Good you did not copy the 1. 2. 3. ... etc to the left of post titles tho :)
You're not trying to be constructive. You're blindly trying to force your points through without shouldering your responsibility to provide proof for your claims.

The only credible evidence I can find about Agile's supposed benefits is the Voke report, which warns against using agile. With only 28% of participant reporting success with an Agile approach. That's bad. Plain old fashioned bad.

It's like I'm debating a creationist. Your logic is circular. You want me to believe the Agile works, and you're more than happy to tell me how wrong I am, but you shoulder none of the responsibility to prove your claims. At best, you're suffering from confirmation bias, but I think that's being too generous.

And stop talking about waterfall. It's a false dichotomy. You're the only one making that comparison.

Your argument, as far as I can tell is two fold.

Some process is better than no process: Well I think every sane person would agree with you there.

Agile is process, everything else is no process: Wait... what? How do you keep on arriving at that conclusion over and over again? And don't even think about saying "waterfall" because I swear to god, I'll punch my computer so hard it'll knock Google off the internet.

Find me evidence as compelling and credible as the Voke report, supporting agile, and we'll talk sensibly. But I'll go out on a limb and say you can't, and you won't. Because if I were to draw on my anecdotes and present them as evidence, Agile is universally bad and dooms everything it touches to failure or 'third-rateness'. That's all the experience I have to draw on.

And I suppose that's my biggest bug bear about Agile. Teams always finish things wether some fool is ramming agile down their throats or not. There's no other alternative. But Agile takes great ideas, shatters them into a million pieces and churns third rate approximations of that good idea out the other end. Without Agile, I've seen projects that were horribly mis-managed but the output was still great and once all the screaming was over, I was proud of my work. There's something about Agile that makes for crap products, and I feel so ashamed of the output that I wont even put my name to it.
A prospective employee has no better chance than a VC at picking winners.

Bingo. In fact, the employee is less informed. If the VC asks to see the cap table, it happens. If the employee asks to see the cap table, the offer goes away because it was a "rude question". A VC can get lunch with investors and co-workers at the founders' previous companies. The employee has to decide, based on an hour where both parties are posturing, whether he "basically likes the guy". VCs can assess the engineer compensation structure and get a basic sense of what kind of coding chops the company will be able to get. The engineer knows his offer and nothing else.

If anything, we're talking about a market where employees trade time (often of unconsidered value, because they're too young to know what they're worth) for illiquid stock their parents would (for their own protection, although it's debatable whether such laws are good) not be legally allowed to buy. The VCs, with webs of social connections that de-risk the whole process for them, are hard-core insider traders.
I believe this is a possible threat and we need ideas how to prevent it. May it be done by malware or marketing assholes.
I realize that we all have strong opinions about the topic of software patents, but in an effort to radiate more light and less heat, I think it is important to understand the official Twitter position on this topic as well.

Introducing the Innovator's Patent Agreement

Note: Emphasis is mine.

"We will implement the IPA later this year, and it will apply to all patents issued to our engineers, both past and present." [1]

"The Innovators Patent Agreement (IPA) is a new way to do patent assignment that keeps control in the hands of engineers and designers. It is a commitment from a company to its employees that patents can only be used for defensive purposes. The company will not use the patents in offensive litigation without the permission of the inventors. This control flows with the patents, so if the company sells the patents to others, the assignee can only use the patents as the inventor intended." [2]

[1] http://engineering.twitter.com/2012/04/introducing-innovator...

[2] https://github.com/twitter/innovators-patent-agreement
H1B salary data is public so it's probably provides the most reliable source of data for larger companies.
You're also attempting to Strawman me by presenting arguments as mine that I never stated.

"Your argument though is that those dozen possible treatments justify the entire alt.med industry?"
Did you find a suitable alternative to Ember?

I went with Amber in the end. I can't remember if it was more or less painful initially, but at that point I had spite in my fingers.

Not sure if there's also a lesson in that for startups: will you get lucky with some users just because they've had a bad experience immediately prior to checking you out?
Um... If it wasn't for all the heat & violence, that factory could make a great startup incubator :-)
I've seen a couple mentions about that (Gmail being another site it breaks). What seems to be going on, and I don't have a Win7 machine to test on myself, is that something's causing IE10 on Win7 to incorrectly switch to compatibility mode on the affected sites. If you use the dev tools to switch back to IE10 standards mode, those sites work normally.

I think they should be able to fix that soon via Windows Update. I remember Windows Update made a change a few years ago that was switching all localhost:// addresses to compatibility mode, so there's probably an easily updatable list of sites that this happens automatically on.

IE10 on Windows 8 is not affected.
The independent claims all explicitly codify the follower/following mechanic. So if you want to show prior art, you'll have to find something where a user was subscribing to receive broadcast messages from other explicitly-defined users, as opposed to subscribing to a channel, group, mailing list, etc.

The heaps of similar methods that don't include follower/following is a good reminder of how easy it is to avoid infringing on this patent: just skip the follower/following mechanic.
It's a bit unclear whether there's other players or not, a lobby where you can start a two-player game is kinda mandatory.

Other than that, pretty cool :)
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You gotto love the answer "I definitely feel your frustration. The tone of this topic is not in line with the civil level of discourse I'd like to maintain here, so I cannot respond."

User is (rightly) pissed. Less piss him some more.
Recognizing that it is not politically correct in these parts to pose this question, I sometimes wonder if the Samsung team (which seems like a highly-skilled, competent team) regrets building on Android...
Trek must have been a perl monk, back in the day.
Hey mycroftiv, https://twitter.com/JPBarlow/status/313356240237506561