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Ask HN: Are stock options as bonus worth anything?
(throwaway account, of course!)

I work for a startup where employees are paid performance-based bonuses at year end. Apparently I've killed it last year (yay me!) so management offered me a significant amount of cash as a bonus.

Icing on the cake is that they allow me to convert this cash to stock options. The options are struck about 20% below value of stock.

My question is this: do I take any options or not? I can definitely use the cash. Working like I have these past few years, I have no money in the bank and live paycheck to paycheck. The bonus, though not huge, would give me at least a few months of rent & basic expenses in case I lose my job or the company goes belly up.

A safety net is important to me because I have a wife and daughter to feed. If something were to happen to my ability to make money, they'd end up on the street.

Thanks a bunch folks.
"Lol, oops."

I'm sure there are a lot of other "oops" and "fuck" moments in many bitcoin watchers' moments. If you can laugh about it, then more power to you. From what I've read, when they first came out, they were very hard to obtain and people were actually excluded from it (is this true?), so someone must have seen the value. I first came across it on github in late 2009 when searching for project ideas but skipped over it as some type of scam. Others only saw value in building bitcoin apps, rather than simply holding the coins.

What are you looking at now?
You're welcome! I tried coding this up at https://gist.github.com/darius/5287542 (untested). I see you have your own version now, which is longer but has a loop where I fell back to the tail call. (I also cut out a line in notify(), though you might prefer the old behavior of passing undefined for the results array on error, vs. the new one of an empty array. I guess I would prefer the old behavior on reflection.)

Some doc suggestions from my draft and I'll finally shut up:

// Can you call things after the first .await or .awaitAll?
// Whatever the answer, it should be documented.
// Maybe document the assumption that callbacks get invoked exactly once?
// (It'd be possible to ensure it's at most once.)
// Document assumption: the notified awaitAll function won't mess with its array argument
// (this matters if we're called again after).
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DevelopMentor built LearningLine. LearningLine is a general purpose online learning system, sort of like Udemy. DevelopMentor produces content for developer training. We have a bunch of partners developing additional training material. LearningLine is actually free for others to add their content into it. Our focus is on getting high completion rates. In fact our instructors are paid when students complete a task, not when students sign-up.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Units

BTC can be sent in any amount, all the way down to Satoshis at 0.00000001 BTC.
I often send a friend a subset of my bookmarks. Having an online service with good share-able urls is important to me.
>Investment won't ever stop, it just behaves more like a there is a minimum interest rate. No matter what the deflation is, I can still loan out $100 and expect $110 back within a year and make a bigger profit than holding on to it.

But is that $10 profit going to be worth the risk of default when an investor could get a satisfactory return by just sitting on the money in the first place? What incentive does an investor have to take bets and possibly lose thousands or millions of dollars when his money appreciates considerably without doing anything?

To use a case from the bitcoin economy, we all know the story of the pizza that someone bought when the x-rate was something like 3 cents per coin. Today, the 10k btc spent on that pizza would have been worth $100k! This story is often told to try to incent people to get into btc, with the implication that "if you forgo the cost of one pizza, in a little while that will be worth thousands of dollars", without realizing that this exactly is the problem with a btc-based economy; if everyone is forgoing their metaphorical pizza in the hope of exponential growth in currency value, the market will be unusable.
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I'll toss in that when price discrimination (which is what selectively subsidized education essentially is) has a time component, the lowest-income potential students are least likely to be able to take advantage of it, being short on both time and money. Higher income families have access to both more free time (especially in our leisure-consumption society) and better access to knowledge (including buying it, e.g. test-prep or better school councilors).
Currently bitcoin can be divided down to eight decimal places.
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Every C++ developer should read this. I've done research on integer arithmetic, which includes some of the pointer arithmetic issues discussed here. This is one of the best article I've seen on the subject so far. Thanks for sharing.

This is a small detail, but in C99 you can use the "zu" format specifier for size_t typed arguments of the printf/scanf functions; is this also true for C++? Another tip is to use the PRI* and SCN* macros defined in the C header <inttypes.h> (<cinttypes> for C++):

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009604599/basedefs/intt...
http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/header/cinttypes
That's awfully convoluted. You're asserting that this Glenn-Beck's-whiteboard-esque arrangement holds more sway on banker's behavior than the effects of inflation on bankers' own personal wealth holdings.

Do banks want to be bailed out? Sure. Who doesn't. Do rich bankers benefit more than the working class from higher inflation? Certainly not.
Heroku is special, they host a huge number of Postgres setups that are publicly accessible and somewhat easily discovered. It's not a matter of equality, though, it's one of trust/privacy. Heroku is an easy company for the Postgres guys to trust since they have a pre-existing, healthy relationship.
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I've signed up for Aereo when it comes to Tampa. We currently have Netflix, HuluPlus, and often buy movies on Amazon Instant. $8 Aereo + $8 Netflix + $8 Hulu = $24. Add in $4/movie on Amazon for one/two movies a weekend and you can spend less than $50/mo and have access to near infinite amount of good content and live content when you want.

Cable companies didn't have to offer à la carte packages because the market, despite tremendous barriers, made that possible. Instead of picking channels, we pick the medium - Aereo (live local), Netflix (vast archived library and hopefully premium new content like House of Cards), Hulu (latest TV shows), and Amazon Instant (relatively new movies). This is very different from deciding if you want Discovery, HGTV, or HBO. Instead of picking genres, we're joining libraries. And I'm perfectly happy with that. In fact, I think this is a much better outcome than relying on cable companies to provide a good selection of TV channels.

My Roku and AppleTV can stream from many different libraries and I can turn the subscriptions on and off easily.
This philosophy assumes easy access to a doctor, and ignores the possibility of any illness.

Furthermore, some people are curious about their body, and wish to understand better activities which consume about a third of their lifetime. I'm one of those people, and even if I get literally no useful information out of reading an article such as this, I am still happy to have read it and to have thought about it, simply because it satiates my desire to learn more about myself.
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This is a great resource, I wish I had this when I was interning. A couple tips from someone who's done this a bit (3 times, 2 years full/part time intern at Apple, 1 summer at FB):

- Yeah, you get paid a large sum of money, but it really doesn't matter. The $7k/month salary may sound like a ton as a college student, but it isn't. It will pale in terms of your life earnings. Focus on trying out new areas / technologies that you think you might be interested in, but aren't sure. An internship is a chance to try something new out. If you don't like it, you just don't accept their return offer, there's no expectation that you'll continue to work at the company beyond 3 months.

- Do NOT intern at the same place more than once. They will try to lure you back by giving you a deadline of 2 weeks after your internship ends. This is BS. If they were willing to give you a return offer, they will almost certainly wait for you to get your other offers back. Competition is too stiff for them not to do this. Interning at the same place twice yields diminishing returns: you'll be working with the same tech, not meeting new people and learning new tricks. Plus, you won't get to experience more company cultures, finding out where you fit.

- Don't even consider interning part time during the school year. The pay will seem appealing, but it will take away from your college experience. You only go to college once, you should enjoy it to its fullest, you have your whole life to work. Again, money is insignificant compared to your life earnings.

- Interning in the Valley is a rite of passage, but after you've done one internship there, consider other places. NYC is great, I live there and highly recommend it (shameless plug, you can read about why at my blog post: [1]). Boston is great too, lots of biotech startups. Overseas is also a good choice, since you'll get the experience of living in another culture, in addition to doing cool work.

I'll end with another shameless plug. I work for Palantir, a really great company that's growing extremely rapidly and working on some pretty cool projects across a variety of spaces: government, healthcare, local law enforcement, finance to name a few. We've also done some kickass philanthropy efforts, such as our work with Hurricane Sandy: [2]. I've only worked at Palantir full-time, but several of my friends have interned here, and said it's the best place they've interned. If you're interested in interviewing with us (for either fulltime or internship), please email me at <firstname>.g.<lastname> [at] gmail.

[1] http://michael-g-miller.tumblr.com/post/20168723440/why-i-ch...

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPqtQ9DbeQY
The regular T map (http://www.mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/subway/) is also abstract, just not as usefully. It doesn't show where stations are or what's near them.
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No, he won't "still show up as Windows 8 in the market share statistics". Or at least, not these statistics.

Netmarketshare numbers are based on website traffic, and imperfectly reflect sales and the actual installed base.

Still, you should get your client to read this page, and watch the YouTube video: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Windows8ProductivityWhoMovedMy...
>YouFM is a simple music streaming site that searches Spotify for the data and then plays the music video from Youtube.

No wonder it couldn't find anything for most of the artists I tried, then, despite a whole lot of their stuff being on YouTube... And for the one it did, the song matching seemed incredibly spotty (try searching for Huoratron and playing the song A699F, for example).

Some other feedback: You should probably add some tooltips (I assume the circling arrow on the far right of the bottom bar is for "repeat" but it'd be nice to have a tooltip confirm the assumption), and for some reason the volume slider seems pretty unresponsive - you need to hit it in a rather exact spot to set the volume automatically to a specific level.
Good point. Even adding a caching layer would turn the storage into largely write-only devices. Would adding that caching make it illegal?
I think she's misinterpreting Game of Thrones by describing it as an attractive, escapist fantasy world. I think that Martin's point is that we should feel ambivalent about this world because it is, in many ways, a brutal, horrible place. Martin is pretty clear that, in this system, the people who actually take the principles of honor and chivalry seriously are exploited by people who view those principles cynically. One way to look at the explicit sex (particularly with prostitutes) in Game of Thrones is that it shows that our conception about the men in this setting as chivalrous and protective of women is just a self-serving lie. What they say in their codes of honor is counterbalanced by what they do in Peter Baelish's brothels. This isn't just a society that sees women as "there for the taking", it's a society where everyone can be exploited and the honorability of your actions has very little connection to your fate. The fact that, in this environment, there are so many women who are powerful is an important statement and not one that we find in, say, Tolkien.
I recommend "Python for Kids" from O'reilly
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Scraping NBA player stats, any good NCAA player sites i can get my hands on?
This [1] article stated that there are 350,000 Canadians currently living in SV. That's around 1% of our entire population. Considering most of these are members of a small minority of skilled software people (no idea what the exact percentage might be) it's likely to be pretty a huge chunk of the total.

It's a little surprising me how bad it is considering how much the Canadian government offers to tech startups (IRAP, SRED, etc.). However, the wages I see most established software companies paying let alone the startups probably has a lot to do with it. The lack of good software companies likely has more to do with the brain drain than anything else does.

[1]: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-magazi...
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As a rather short (9 pages) introduction to Bayesian inference, I remember greatly appreciating an extract from the book "Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms" by David MacKay.

The relevant part is on PDF pages 469 to 477 here: <http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn/book.pdf>;

It explains how Bayesian inference works (which is intuitive and not strange at all) and gives examples of absurdities that comes upon you when you don't do it this way.

Highlights:

• "Let me through, I’m a Bayesian" (When analysing the effectivness of a vaccine)

• "I have no problem with the idea that there is only one answer to a well-posed problem" (In response to sampling theorists wide selection of ad hoc procedures)
Thanks for this counterpoint to the glib dismissals around here. The message of the article is hard to hear if you already have ideological commitments to the transformative potential of entrepreneurial activity and to the power of Web 2.0.

It's a long, difficult article. So, pick something you didn't like, and dismiss it all wholesale? Too easy.
>>>>> large amount of work into scraping those sites.

C'mon man! It's 2103. Not only are scrappers ridiculously easy to build, it doesn't take a ton of work to build a bot in Perl and have it scan the internet for recipe's.

This guy is a total d-bag. Not sure what his deal is, or was, but everything I've read makes me not like him at all. Did he get screwed out of a ton of cash with the acquisition or what?
Well, you buy staples now because you need them now to survive.
One problem here is that you're considering the currency as an asset that should appreciate. The argument of most economists today is that currency should not appreciate because it encourages hoarding what is essentially a useless non-good, it's just a token for convenience of value transfer. If real goods appreciate, it's because the value offered by that good to the marketplace has increased, so the market pays a commensurately larger price. If currency appreciates on its own, people will want to hoard it, and will only spend it on things they deem highly valuable. Perhaps you can argue that this is better in the long run and would stop rampant consumerism, but it's pretty obvious that without rampant consumerism, many people would be making less money.

People aren't really spending bitcoins in a meaningful way. They're using it as a passthrough for the dollar, basically. I have a Bioshock Infinite key that I want to sell. Will let it go for 1.5 btc. Why won't this offer be taken up now, when just a couple of weeks ago it would've been considered a fair deal, and just a couple of months ago it would have been considered a GREAT deal?
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Contract law doesn't require adequate consideration.
I'm a tech person who rents out a furnished spare room (including to interns in the past) for $1000 in Mountain View, after looking at the going rates; from my experience, your advice isn't too far off. It's just a case of supply and demand, there aren't many people like me in the local area. (Note: We rent via Airbnb rather than their "sublets" specific program, which you call out explicitly.)

If interns team up they can maybe get a short term lease at one of the many south bay housing complexes (Archstone, Avalon, Prometheus, Irvine Company). Most are horrible landlords and several charge ridiculous, but understandable, rent increases if you are shorter term - however, if you're prepared to share and lay out on furniture, it could be a saving over the course of a summer. Plus, could get lucky and find a relocating person or off-season intern to hand off to at the end of summer.
Would be very cool to see this for NYC. Obviously, there's no "center" like Boston has, but if you just considered the center to be the square of 'midtown' from 14th to 57th st, and 8th ave to Lexington, and only drew the lines emanating from outside that, it would work the same.

And have a separate version where everything emanates from the Financial District.

Would be AWESOME for comparing commute times when looking at job/apartment locations. You could even add half the interval between trains, to make it even more realistic for planning.
The geographical limitation is inextricable from the copyright limitation. Just because I intended to let you watch my TV show for free in NYC (by broadcasting it over the air) doesn't mean I wanted to let you watch it anywhere in the country.
Hamtramck and Highland Park (together) are completely surrounded by Detroit. Or used to be, anyway.
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In fact, if the seller paid more than $1 for the house, he can take a nice deduction for the “loss.”

In this example, in the US, it will be obvious to the IRS that the transaction is not arms-length, and they might levy gift tax on the fair market value of the house. They already thought of this loophole.

There are, in fact, situations where the law is written to look more at intent than technicalities, for example in many areas of US immigration law, or generally in tax law when determining where a person’s residence is. That’s not always a good idea either because it leaves a lot of discretion for government officials and creates uncertainty about what the law is.

An uncynical observer of the political system would say that the legislature has already thought of this: they’ve made the law very technical in areas where they want it to be, and less so in other areas.