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> but can't you mitigate this with larger or better equity grants to those employees

In a perfect world, yes, however, most companies are reticent to offer additional equity to existing employees. Not that it doesn't happen, but it usually requires the employee to ask for it.

One of the big issues, which I presume they expect this plan to help resolve, is how do you pre-judge a prospective employee's value? The employee wants a maximal initial grant, and the employer typically wants a minimal grant. The more they favor the grant desire of the employee, the longer the vesting period becomes - such that the employer is able to cut their losses if the employee doesn't pan out.

Simply knowing that if you leave, some other guy that comes after you is going to get your 1% entices you to stay around long after your usefulness has ended. Either way, the company is already out of their 1%, but now they have an additional payroll drag. Much better to accept the 1% if you're going to give it, and be done with it.

I'm also unaware of what the sourcing is by the article's author, wherein lies this huge problem that non-employees hold a bunch of stock in a company is making it difficult for companies to grow into their full potential. To be fair, if a company takes outside investment, it typically gives more stock to non-employees than employees, additionally giving them preferred upside and rights the employees as common stock option holders do not have. Again, if they feel the outside investors have much better aligned interests with the company than the current employees, they have a different problem than option grants.
Another good opportunity to re-post this critique of "A New Kind of Science" by Cosma Shalizi. It's not kind.

http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/wolfra...
Argues its impossible to find the needle in the haystack, so VCs use other founders to sift the chaff.

But a VC was quoted that they funded zero cold contacts. That doesn't sound like its hard; it sounds they're incapable of evaluating cold contacts at all. I'm guessing they use contacts for their expertise, because VCs lack any.
Actually, that's exactly the problem that I have.

I don't have a habit of checking in on my Pocket account, so I often end up Pocketing things that I want to read later, forgetting about them altogether, and then finding them weeks after they're no longer relevant or useful.
The reason for your parent comment (and my initial misunderstanding) was because this post title was submitted as "HTTP 2.0 to be HTTPS only". By the time I refreshed the title was changed, but this is why we need to stop modifying original article titles in order to bait more views.
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>What are your experiences with Phonegap?

I started very early in PhoneGap. Keeping up with the changes as the product has matured has been a pain, but expected. You'll be glad it's pretty mature at this point.

That said, starting with v3.0 the move to NPM has taken development reliability back a few steps in my opinion. I like the new command line interface, I just wish it worked more consistently. I'm sure it will get better.

>Is it generally permissibe for making enterprise mobile applications?

That's what I use it for. It works well for this purpose. I wouldn't use it for B2C apps though, especially for Android because the browser on Android performs poorly, especially for scrolling - very laggy and spastic.

>What features could be missing?

There are a lot of plugins that fill in the gaps. I don't recall not being able to do something a native app could do. I've used, the GPS, photo gallery, camera, enabled "Open In", FileTransfer, media recording, and probably a few other plugins.

>Why doesn't everyone use Phonegap if it can deploy to multiple platforms?

Because there are other platforms that could be used. If C# is your thing, you could check out http://xamarin.com With that you could write apps in a MVVM style and reuse your ViewModels in a PCL that could be reused across Windows Phone, Android, and iOS.

The thing is, mobile apps are now typically an extension of a web app, so if you already have web developers then PhoneGap gets you there faster. The end result will be a good product, but will never be a truly great product.
How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $6.5m for My Startup (2011)
Not a secure connection either.
Like what happened with Nokia? It is very possible
Right. The doing science thing is a red herring. Its not claiming to generate reliable conclusions because it is scientific. Its claiming to generate insightful analysis because it is systematic.
Btw did "a new kind of science" had any kind of application so far ?
The size of the market in monetary measures depends upon how you define the market itself. If your definition are companies that provide Web-based editors or specifically IDEs with functionality specifically around edit / build / run / deploy, the market is very small today. But if you look at the broader cloud development market that includes code hosting, test, and some other functions that can sometimes be associated with IDEs, then that market is $465M and it's growing rather fast.
27 HTML errors in such a small page: pretty high error/code ratio, even if you take out the trivial "missing alt" errors. My feedback: get someone who knows HTML.
As someone on the East Coast, I feel this is the main reason everyone wants to immediately leave our town to go to the West. We have plenty of VC's around our area, but the network hasn't been built so only the very high up know anyone.
[video] Seattle cops can monitor your every move
Really like the idea - I thought of something similar a while back, kind of like that someone else thought it was a good idea
Non-mobile link: http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/13/5099086/playstation-4-fir...
Would you trust snapchat?
Just read your comment after posting mine. I guess yours answers mine in a way :))))
It works for the IPCC it can work for this guy too. If your model doesn't predict anything just make a new model predicting even worse things and go get more funding.
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Supports both kinds of typing and most functional features. Let's just see what happens when Roslyn finally gets done (something that keeps them busy from keeping innovating on language side)!
I wonder how much Motorola makes per handset at that price point, which could be slightly concerning for the business overall. Google can get away with tiny margins on their physical devices as they're about pushing traffic back to their services, making more money residually, but Motorola makes money by selling hardware for a profit.

It's great for consumers when price comes down, but that could leave businesses fighting to try get prices down and reduce overall profit, meaning they're unable to throw as much into R&D, or cut back on customer support or a dozen other areas. It's certainly an interesting marketplace at the moment, most manufacturers seem to be slashing prices reasonably heavily.
Such as France ;)
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Fire. Everyone.
Except one is a bookmarking service that allows you to tag, it and the other is a reminder service... rereadit.co talks about this on the front page. Bookmarks you have to remember to go back and read it. This notifies you even if you forget to go to the bookmark.
Amazon WorkSpaces
I agree with you. I balked at the Nexus 5 even because I would hate myself if I dropped $350 on the train. $179 is much more bearable.
Maybe there are better examples, but removing parentheses and renaming a field are so trivial that I would not refer to them as refactoring.
Speculation here:

I wonder if Microsoft sees the fleeting profitability in owning the desktop environment (more competition, shrinking market, higher expectations). So they're trying to apply the same concepts that really helped propel windows as a popular platform (easy to develop for) to their cloud platform (azure) in an attempt to coax their existing user base to start adopting it over other cloud platforms (like google apps)

As a windows developer myself, I see this as a great strategy. I've been questioning staying with C# and windows for a few years now... it started with buying a Mac (while running Parallels) and learning several new languages. But I still LIKE C#. So it might be a great transition plan.
I was talking to representatives from Lyft at a festival here in Baltimore, and I asked them if they had any plans to support non-smartphones like mine, or any other way to use their service. "No" was the answer.

I realized, this was genius! They could ensure only wealthy customers used their service, creating a vacuum in which the upper class could use transportation in style and comfort, without having to interface with "those kinds" of people. Also ensuring their customer base was (relatively) well-behaved and polite.

Hopefully cheaper phones like this can fuck with these digital social classes.
"The difference between good at math and bad at math is hard work. It’s trying. It’s trying hard. It’s trying harder than you’ve ever tried before."

-while that's certainly true, when people say they are "bad at maths" they usually mean exactly that they have to put in a lot more effort (=trying harder) to reach the same level of math skills as the "gifted" guys.
Yes. Thank you. See also the nearby quotes by JackFr, http://goo.gl/jjYR54. That about sums my point succintly.
Its not who you know, but who they know.
It seems capable, but calling it "high end" is quite... generous. No LTE, 1.2 GHz CPU, 1GB RAM, 8GB storage - they made some obvious compromises to hit this price point.

I think it's probably a smart play for Moto/Goog to target this space, but "high end" it ain't.
>> so strong that governments will become incapable...

Sounds like you expect governments to be ashamed of what they do once the plans become public.

It's not about shame. It's about the power to persist until the goal is reached.

The plebes have neither the goals nor the persistence - this is what makes them plebes, and they will stay this way with or without Wikileaks.

As long as there is quasifood in the supermarkets and quasientertainment on the TV, the masses will not give a damn about what or how the government is doing. Human nature has not changed for thousands of years.

Here's a simple manual for running a country that has been working like a charm ever since the emperor Septimius Severus: "Enrich the soldiers and damn the rest".
Use Mathematica.. eliminate algebraic mistakes.
You might want to factory reset - after all those incremental upgrades it can be worthwhile. My wife's GNex is on 4.3 stock and it had some lag before I reset it via a fresh burn of 4.3 factory image. Chrome runs better than acceptably on it. (Or are you on < 4.3 - in that case root and download/run LagFix free app to force TRIM. Pre 4.3 it makes a difference.)
37.8M to build new data science environments
The use case is something like this: http://ludo.cubicphuse.nl/jquery-treetable/

It would be nice if something like that existed, but with much richer features like the libraries above.
there's no indication that your normal grant would not be made in light of the additional 1% grant on the table if you stay thru IPO. The article even says that "the majority of Opsmatic’s employee stock — 15 percent of the company — is allocated to the DSP" so there's not particularly much employee stock outside of the DSP available for your "normal grant"
I won't purchase this phone because it comes with an operating system by the name of "JellyBean" and later on "KitKat". Stupid ass name. I am a Microsoft developer and I say f' windows phone, f' android, iOS is the best.
I credit Nat and Miguel for making Linux on the desktop a possibility. (I believe it was Ximian desktop on RedHat that made people finally stop and think, "Hey, there might be something to this after all.") That being said, I wish they had continued down that vein, instead of switching gears to try to make a Microsoft technology "cross platform," and basically failing at the ideal. I tried several times to run a Windows program under Mono, and never could get one to work. For all the talk about how C# is an "open standard," there was always some library that wasn't open-source and hadn't been compiled for Linux which would prevent the program from working.
What may seem easy and intuitive to you may not be so obvious to your potential user. Their feedback could help you build a better product as well.

Could you imagine profs using Top Hat without someone showing them first? haha
cool post.
I've got a "Other Bookmarks" folder on my Chrome Bookmarks bar that backs up what you're saying.

I always add things there to read later, and then I forget, and then I spend my time cleaning it out of crap that's no longer useful or relevant.
I was surprised that the letter did not go into these types of details. Cars (electric or not) catch on fire. There are statistics on this. The truth about the Model S's safety has not changed. Tesla seems like a more 'sticking to their guns' kind of company rather than a adjusting tactics to handle this situation.
The question is: why did they ever decide to buy batoota.com?
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With such a low unlocked price, I wouldn't be surprised if this hits a subsidized price of $0.
Right, there are several people arguing here against the entire project of naive modeling. The author's response is that you can criticise, but only in the form of providing a competing naive model.

From the post:

> If you disagree with these numbers or this distribution, there is no need for you to stop reading. Just download the code and change the numbers. Your change in these assumptions might completely invalidate my conclusions, or they might not matter at all. The best way to find out is to actually run the model.

Varying parameters and producing different predictions would not invalidate the model. What validates or invalidates a model is whether or not it actually predicts the behavior you're trying to model. Without a validity test, modeling is pure sophistry.

So instead of suggesting another naive model, let me suggest a way to augment the whole project: construct a model that successfully predicts actual, ongoing, real world behavior. Test your model against actual, real world policy changes. If it has verified predictive power, then you have some base to claim that it can predict novel policy changes.

Any given person's opinion may condense decades of personal experience. I disagree with the author's claim that (even naive) mathematical modeling is better than personal opinion. Given any rigorous definition of better, that is frankly an empirical claim that the author has left unsupported.
It actually pays them to do whatever they are doing. Living != Nothing.

There's no reason to imply that whatever the government tells them to do for their basic job produces more value than whatever they decide to do. It's pretty well established that the more government tells people what to do for work, the less an economy produces.

Lets make people pick trash instead of helping educate their kids, surely picking trash is of much more societal value...
All of them are OK except for this one: http://blog.clipboard-plus.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/8....
First thing I thought was a Chrome extension that you can click and it'll take the current tab url, and either popup a little window asking you when to remind, or you can set a default reminder time in the options.
Why?!

The entire reason people think TLS should have "unauthenticated encryption" (which is in the literature kind of an oxymoron) is that they don't like the SSL CAs.

I don't like them either.

But the SSL CAs are a UI issue. Instead of dinking around with the browser UI to make worthless "unauthenticated encryption" sessions appear different, why not just build a UI for TACK, let people sign their own certificates if they want, but then pin them in browsers so those sites can rely on key continuity instead of nothing.

Five years from now, if TACK pinning becomes the norm, I think it's a safe prediction that basic TLS certificates will be free from multiple vendors. Moreover, the corruption of the CA system will matter less, because unauthorized certificates will violate pins and be detected; the CAs that issue them can be evicted.

While we're at it, why don't we just fix the UI for managing CA roots? It hasn't changed since the mid-1990s.

I am baffled by why anyone would actively promote an insecure cryptosystem as a cure for UI problems, or even as an alternative for some entirely new cryptosystem like MinimaLT.
I have attended a talk by Götz Werner, who advocates for a basic income. In this talk he was basically describing basic income as a reform of the tax system. Basically G.W. argues for most taxes to be abolished in favour of a significant increase in VAT (Value added tax).

He had several arguments for this. One is, that at the moment in Germany, labor is taxed, so there is an incentive to move production to overseas. A VAT is applied to goods from abroad and from the same country fairly.

The basic income would then be a negative tax refund to compensate for the social problems that a high VAT causes (since poor people suffer under high VAT more than rich people).

So let us say a person spends 1000 EUR on VAT-relevant purchases (food, clothes, phone, etc.). Now a VAT is introduced, so the products now cost 2000 EUR. Then a basic income of 1000 EUR would annihilate the additional burden. Another person spending 2000 EUR a month at the moment would soon have to spend 4000 EUR, 1000 EUR being provided by the basic income, therefore this person would have to spend 3000 EUR (1000 EUR increase) to buy the same goods as before. Because other taxes would be abolished, the income would be higher. Furthermore, with VAT there would be less tax loopholes and tax collection would be a lot easier.

As a _second_ idea, this basic income could be chosen to be above the level necessary to compensate for the VAT. This is the idea which is in generally associated with the basic income and outlined in the model.

I will take a look at the model more closely. I find this approach really interesting.
They have open sourced a bunch of their dev products including ASP.NET MVC, the Entity Framework, Web API, Web Pages, the Razor view engine, and SignalR.

And instead of reinventing libraries like they used to they started to embrace some open source libraries like modernizr, jQuery, Bootstrap, and Json.NET.

And to promote their Windows Azure initiative they released a platform installer that allows you to install open source products like PHP, MySQL, and Wordpress on your Windows box with just a few clicks.

Microsoft is a big company with many different clashing cultures. As a result some divisions shower you with software goodness and others with patents and lawyers.
Neat! I was just thinking of building something like this!! I'm eagerly awaiting the chrome extension. When I was thinking of doing this, I thought the extension should have tagging as a form of organizing things to read later. I was really thinking of it as bookmarking + reminders. Let me know if you need some help!
Here is the MSFT announcement: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2013/11/13/pcl-and-ne...
> Deploy Ruby, Sass and associated dependencies to every workstation, build agent, test machine etc. Deploy tooling and build integration to the above so that any changes to .sass files in the IDE and build process get reflected on disk in the VCS

This should be easy. If it is hard that means your deployment/ops infrastructure is inadequate, and you should fix that now rather than after your build machine suffers a hard disk failure.

> Educate every developer who touches the project on what they are, how to manage them effectively, the rules around merging etc.

You don't edit files that aren't in VCS; if some files are ignored you assume there's a good reason for it; you edit the source version, and you merge the normal way you merge source. These are all standard rules of development that every developer should know.

I guess using sass means every developer needs to learn sass, sure. But in terms of how quickly you can learn, and how much time it saves you over editing raw css, that pays for itself in like an hour.
I've compromised by rolled my own Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn buttons on my own site: http://minimaxir.com

Although there is still data collection when the article is shared, there is no tracking while the user is simply visiting the page, so it's a compromise in user-friendliness and user-privacy.

I use jQuery to retrieve the counts, since those 3 services have unofficial endpoints for retrieving Share count when given a URL. (Google+ does not. No big loss.)
Compulsive gamblers and tarot card readers are also systematic. Thinking that systematic implies insightful is deeply flawed.

(Disappointed by the downvotes... I'm not trying to be pithy.)
More so than a random website not associated with it. They're going after an IPO at some stage so they need to be as legitimate as possible.
Game Consoles and their Bet on Software
Very cool.

I'd really love it if someone made a distributed systems project in a box. i.e. make a raspberry pi that can be added to like a lego brick, so you could put like 10 together, and make it trivial to rapidly deploy like 4 copies of an app to each one and have all the networking set up automatically so it simulates having 40 machines on the internet.

This would be a really cool way for prototyping out distributed applications, and possibly even making a common framework for developing actors that are cooperative but greedy, with lots of strategies for balancing the needs of an individual actor with that of the group. Torrent swarms and bitcoin are two examples of such distributed systems and making an easy way to prototype more would help us replace more and more centralized systems with distributed ones.
Or perhaps maybe they realised that most people, especially those that might use their app, are likely to have a smartphone or get one soon. That investing on making a service targeting other platforms is a waste of time and money?

That sounds much more likely than some digital class nonsense.

Edit: Also the assumption that people with smartphones are going to be better behaved than normal is... not based in reality. It's not like taxis are stopping for e.g. homeless people that camp out inside the taxi all day.
Why is HTTP enveloping SSL? Shouldn't the transport layer be separate from the Application layer?
> Regeneration is a problem when you have lots of developer workstations, build agents and test machines to deploy the Sass stack to.

If you can't make something like sass work with your version control, it's a problem with your workforce or workflow, not the technology. It is trivial to set up a ruby command line on any OS and then have a .gemfile in your version control to ensure that everyone is using the same version of sass. Then all that is required to generate the css files from the sass sources is opening up a command prompt with ruby and typing `compass watch`. It's worth it for the time saved writing css.

> Nope but it's a real problem. Some of our guys don't do the web.

Is it not also a problem that you have people writing your css who "don't do the web"? That seems like the bigger issue here to me.
>it came through as someone that had a breakthrough and just wants to talk about it.

Yeah, it did. It also reminded me of one of my own "Moments of Absolute Clarity" that tend to unravel considerably when met with the hard test of execution in the real world.

There's something about the vagueness of the promise that makes it so reminiscent. Sometimes you can get the sense of being on the verge of something big--but the gnarly difficulty lies in bringing it down from the abstraction.
> C# is a pretty weak language[1]

I like how you give a citation then cite yourself