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That's probably about as true as saying "not having any financial debt means you overpayed up-front" -- which is to say, yes, it's possible there's an opportunity cost which means you don't make an economic profit. But it seems to me this isn't always legible, and beyond that it's difficult to think of any situation in which it's more expensive to pay up front if you have the option.

A lot of times you don't have the option because your resources at hand are scarce compared to what you need/want to buy, so debt is part of the calculus of allocating your current and (hopefully) future resources. And that's fine. It seems to me that's different from saying "no debt means you overpaid up front."

Plus, that sounds like the kind of thing non-technical management might deploy to neutralize discussion without having to engage with the issues at hand.
Here's a less reusable version that I hope is more understandable. First create an otherwise empty type with an overloaded function call operator that just calls free() on its argument

struct freer { void operator()(void *p) { free(p); }; };

and can be used like so.

freer f;
f(malloc(1)); // This will malloc() and then call free()

With this type you can now declare your pointer like this.

std::unique_ptr<void, freer> still_small_ptr(malloc(1));

Of course both kinds of unique_ptrs, fat and skinny, can useful. Simulated virtual objects for example might need custom destructors per pointer. However most uses I've seen want the skinny one while they implement the fat one because it's simpler to declare.
had the same thought at this line. The use of 'to live on' while not paying rent or groceries is very strange. These are the EXACT two bills I think of when I think of the base costs 'to live'.
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The easiest would be if the IRS would agree to not tax illiquid private stock until it gets sold, and then tax the gain from the basis as long-term capital gains and the original value as ordinary income.

I think employees would be more than happy to treat all of this as ordinary income, if that would make it more appealing to the IRS.
That really makes no sense.

"Here are options to buy 10,000 shares"

"Umm. Thanks. Is that a lot ? Is it peanuts ?"

Without knowing the second number you might as well not be having that discussion.
I think 180 - 365 days seems far more reasonable. It's ridiculous to have the company shares tied up with the inability to give them back to other employees.
The real answer is usually Game Maker or Unity.
This 'new valuation debunking' can also be overdone. There's never one single "valuation" - everything is dynamic, contingent on assumptions, and subject to surprising discontinuities.

The naive extrapolated "post-money valuation" number is still significant under many scenarios, and perhaps even the 'modal' (most-likely) or median scenario envisioned by the business insiders who are selling the shares.

After all, it's the exact price that, assuming a 1X liquidation preference, the venture would have to appreciate beyond for the VC to make any positive return – which is after all the whole point. It's the exit value at which the insiders take exactly the negotiated dilution, not extra dilution to protect the investors. (If the insiders' own reserve value was less, they'd likely be selling larger stakes, or the whole company.)

Generally, also, minority stakes like this have a discount to the full-company value because they're at the mercy of the majority/control stakes. (Though, preferences affecting governance also affect this.)

At such a large valuation, and such a small (5%) stake, I wonder what preferences were really offered. It looks like a raise from strength, like Facebook's pre-IPO raises – another time when armchair skeptics scoffed at the implied valuations (which in hindsight were bargains). Maybe the preferences aren't that big in such a case.
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From their webpage it seems that they just use presto's SQL parser.
Yeah, clearly a city with all housing rented out on Airbnb is a crappy city, and a city that bans it outright is an inefficient city. The golden mean is still probably big enough (worldwide) to make Airbnb an immensely valuable company.
What distinguishes your site from a site like AngelList.co?
but yahoo is overseas stock for them. so?
We don't all live in crowded cities or sprawling suburbs. My neighbor has a 1/4 mile drive from his house to the road. On my street, there are only 5 houses. And this is only 10 miles outside town! A couple minutes south and the density trends towards one house per mile.
No, they address that in their FAQ. They found no difference in use for right or left-handed people.
Hooray from a fellow leftie!
I didn't say these were good ideas. But I definitely look at my life differently now that I'm on the other side of the line.
Is it really more difficult to keep track of than regular shares? It's easy to decide if the stock might be purchased: if the IPO/acquisition is priced above strike price, then they obviously will be bought, and otherwise will not.

It is indeed not useful to the company, and a great upside for the employee. Out of all suggestions in the article, this is probably the most employee-friendly. But that's not a bad thing if it helps recruit good employees, or otherwise seems like a fair thing to do.

The usual 90-day limit makes employee vesting almost meaningless. They either wait for an acquisition (and get all their options accelerated), or leave before that (and lose all of them). Few employees have enough spare cash to buy out their shares.
I'm wondering if it is possible to "GPL" open-source seeds to nullify the Monsanto round-up ready canola seed issues. i.e. Imagine a thought experiment whereby GPLed seeds somehow make it into Monsanto's seed stock and over many generations ends up in a significant percentage of Monsanto seed.
I remember back at UC Berkeley I went to a little informational session about a company called Prosper...looks like they're still around :-):
http://www.prosper.com/

If I remember correctly, the lady presenting was with eBay while Meg Whitman was there and at the time (back in 2006) this was a new venture she had become involved with. Seemed pretty neat back then.
There's another option that people never seem to talk about. Treat people well, give them a good working environment, and give them a fair salary based on the fact that they don't have any equity.

Most engineers I know with stock options and a discounted salary would have been much better with a higher annual salary and no stock options at all.
and it is expensive as hell, complicated and may result in taxes in several countries. thats why almost nobody does
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CSS3 has support for footnotes in the page module.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-gcpm-20111129/#footnotes

It adds a float: footnote; property. From reading that page, I believe this might work, once browser support catches up.

a::after {
float: footnote;
content: attr(href) ' "' attr(title) '"';
}

There are some other interesting additions:

title {
display: none;
string-set: title content();
}

@page { @top-left { content: string(title) }}

This will put the page title in the top left corner of the page margins.
I started this last week, set up some stuff, and then promptly forgot about it :(
This is right, but isamuel is also right in that there is the separate effect of the price of control, such that in reality it's harder to say what would happen in the AirBnB case because of the interaction effects.

It would be interesting to probe into further, but the most directly applicable data is probably fairly hard to get ahold of, given that it's investment/acquisition offers not taken in lieu of the other.
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I guess I don't really get the point here. This video walks a line between comedy and fact where I'm not really satisfied in either.

I can't always tell what's a joke, does he actually believe people would write software to compile to ASM instead of javascript because there are a few WTFs on js's "hashmaps." Much likely a newer version will come out before 2035? Or was that a joke?

I also feel like poking fun at "yavascript" at a python conference is cheap and plays to an audience's basest desires.

Really I see a mixture of the following:
- Predictions about the future, some of which are just cleary jokes (e.g. 5 year war)
- Insulting javascript preferring clojure
- Talking about weird shit you could, but never would do with ASM js
- Talking about a library that allegedly runs native code 4% faster in some benchmarks, with a simplistic explanation about overhead from ring0 to ring3 overhead.
So why would SQL not have been a good enough solution to this?

Not trolling, I'm genuinely asking.

I've been trying to gather objective information from people who have actually been successful with mongo about exactly why mongo was the best tool for that job.

http://daemon.co.za/2014/04/when-is-mongodb-the-right-tool
I just recommend instead using a custom data- attribute to identify your elements so you don't rely either on text, HTML structure, or CSS classes since all of those can change but may not affect functionality therefore should not break your test.
The article mentions a 0.8% decline in protein concentration. That seems negligibly low. Does such a small variance really matter to foods?

The interesting part seems to be the increase in carbs/fats at 8% over the same 35 years.
This is a fantastic article.

Sam is dead-on that the current situation isn't fair and often offers employees little to no information about how the options work.

The 90 days to exercise thing is a real bummer -- for lots of reasons. As Sam says, not every employee is in a position to relinquish that kind of money for the options and taxes. I would say that if you are looking to go someplace else, depending on the size of the company and the situation, it's not out-of-line to try to value the options you won't get to exercise (or even the exercise price) into your new salary. Most companies aren't going to be willing to give you what you need to vest-out upfront, but it is a good way to negotiate either a one-time bonus or higher salary.
They're useless to the company, the only upside is for the employee.

Don't agree: the company already got the benefit.
Wasn't the feature created so that it would be compatible with UDP as well?
Too bad there is no "complex" example at hand, for instance: how it would batch updates for data pushed by the server, while allowing for +fav and +subscriptions without leaving the door open for an absurd amount of open connections where responsiveness to direct user input is always the highest priority which must stay true if animations/transitions are happening.

related comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7610465

edit: typofix + animation/transition handling
You know what really annoys me? People are now so used to gas starters or starter logs, that they don't split their wood at all. Just pile up the whole pieces and try to start a fire. Then fight it for three hours and end up with smoke a bunch of half burnt wood.
Have you figured out how to have headers and footers with HTML in it? I am currently trying to figure out a solution to this.
So why is there a lock for reads from urandom? I suppose if there weren't a lock concurrent reads would all get the same random values?
Why? That seems like the opposite of the direction the company would want to go in.
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I'll be forwarding this to our lawyer when we implement the legal paperwork on our stock option plan. We already do 1) and 4) as much as we can.

If anyone here has any ideas of how else we can be more friendly to employees with regard to equity I'm all ears.
Great point. In dollar terms within the respective vesting years, 10%/20%/30%/40% might look something like 5k/100k/200k/500k, which is extremely back loaded (and could help explain the Zynga 'scandal').
I think the Wealthfront Equity Plan is pretty interesting: http://firstround.com/article/The-Right-Way-to-Grant-Equity-...
Please do this! It's not just valley startups that are confused by this -- other cities are too. And as you say, there are usually 5 templates that cover the vast majority of cases.
Good points.

First off, thanks for checking out the site. You are absolutely correct that full-stack engineers are _not_ needed at organizations of every size and structure. They are, in my experience, in the highest demand in any organization that has a small to medium size technical team. The reality is that many teams of this size exist--there are far more small teams than their are large ones in the workforce. I come from a background in news media, specifically newspapers. Let me tell you that EVERY news organization, even at the local level, needs full stack developers. Almost none of them need, for example, an Angular.js specialist.

Larger organizations, especially proper software companies, can afford to diversify their workforce into highly focused and manageable skillets. But, that does not mean there is no place for the full stack engineer in these companies. Positions like Operations Managers, Data Architects, Heads of Technology, Directors of Application Development and even some Project Managers are filled very well by candidates with full stack engineering backgrounds.

So its important to note that these positions do exist in organizations of all sizes and in many cases, they are a fast moving career path into management. I do recommend this path post grad--I've been working as a full stack developer for nearly a decade, and the biggest struggle I've had is having to turn down work. That's exactly why I started this project, because I have more jobs coming across my desk than I can apply for.

In my personal experience recently as Head of Technology for a startup company, conveyance of skills really was a big challenge for us. We needed highly capable engineers, and headhunters were throwing us lots of unqualified talent. That's a tough pill to swallow when you are paying many thousands of dollars just to _search_ for talent on a startup's budget. I felt that had I been given some very quality insight into the skills of the talent pool, I could have done a much better job of vetting the candidates myself for our specific needs--another concept that pushed me to start this project!

-Casey
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Can you elaborate on this? Having split a lot of wood it's not clear this design is affected by handedness.
We do not charge any fee for withdrawals - we cover that cost ourselves so that lenders may withdraw their full balance at any time.

We did request free payment processing for Zidisha, and have also asked Kiva to request the same deal for Zidisha. Two years ago we even had an online petition for PayPal to waive fees for Zidisha loans - https://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/paypal-stop-charging-....

Thus far, our applications for free or heavily discounted payment processing have been turned down, and we continue to seek more cost-effective options.
Do you have a source on the Netflix number? Not doubting, just curious...

Also, to nitpick, these are not transactions; these are "operations" or some other word that doesn't imply what the word "transactions" implies.
I already know my language aptitude and it's very low, it's near impossible for me to learn another language.

Could the language part of my brain be utilized for something else? Perhaps code? If so, I'd rather not know another language, English works fine for me.

Anyone have an fMRI I can borrow? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-parnin/scientists-begin-...
We have not benchmarked Drone.io, I will do one over the weekend and let you know. In the meantime I would love to hear your experience with Shippable.

We have been running on Docker since Oct 2013 and we have fine tuned our based on that experience which helps to make it fast.

Yup, we do save containers into our local Docker repo which gives you added speed as a result of caching. Since we maintain state of all your containers for every change set, we can go back to any version and hence it allows to remove layers and reset minions (containers)

We will be announcing some key updates soon that will make it completely YML driven. Please stay tuned..Hope this helps
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Well crap. After reading the intro I hoped to find and take it (in order to, of course, confirm my own rather egotistical beliefs about my language aptitude), only to further read that it "will eventually be available for civilians." Oh well.
Oh, that's good to hear! A quick CTRL+F for "left-handed" did not give any results, but I should have just looked for "left"
just so we're clear. I did read the article, but not the linked paper.

> I spent a fair amount of time visiting engineering teams that have built internet auctions, most of which were transactional systems where taking a position on an item involved starting a transaction, running an auction round and committing the changes.

That sounds pretty straight forward, where are the pain points?

>In contrast, we chose to deliver a simpler, eventually consistent system on top of MongoDB, in which all data is immutable and where some level of serialization occurs within a single background process.

why was that simpler? what was stopping you from just inserting records instead of updating them? and why did it matter that serialization occurs in a single background process?
Prosper was one of many inspirations for Zidisha. The attorney that led Prosper's legalization deal with the SEC advises Zidisha pro bono.
this is what has been on my mind the whole time this Airbnb thing has been making the rounds. I really don't think this is a good idea - and is doomed to fail. That's so much money too...
VLC/mplayer live stream

pip install livestreamer

apt-get install rtmpdump

pip install python-librtmp

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Internet Explorer has by far the best print preview and printing engine. It hasn't changed since v4, nevertheless it is still better than any other browser.

One can zoom the page content, print only selected content, disable background pictures and color, print only main content (no menu bar), etc.

Interestingly enough, I tried out NCSA/Spyglass Mosaic v3 32-bit on Win7 and it already had almost the same print-preview features that are still available in IE (IE 1 emerged from Mosaic code base, IE up to v6 had "Mosaic" it in the copyright text in the about dialog).

Please browser vendors improve your print preview engine!
Good question. The only reference to it that I could find was here http://lkml.iu.edu//hypermail/linux/kernel/0412.1/0181.html but he doesn't explain why it's necessary.
Screw it, going to try to preempt the standard responses to dietary posts on HN.

a) Yes, obviously fundamentally it all comes down in conservation of energy. But that's also a ridiculously reductionist view that neglects the layers and layers of complexity that overlays that. For example, if you were able to create a situation where a person's diet and exercise levels could be exactly controlled, then yes, we can control a person's weight from first principles, relying only on conservation of energy. But that's not a realistic situation.

b) Just "cutting your carbs" is probably a reasonable piece of advice on an individual scale, and probably a reasonable thing for a person who is worried about their weight/health to attempt. But as the article points out, the carb increase is systemic, and while its certainly possible to address systemic problems from a purely ground-up, individual basis, it's certainly easier to tackle the issue from as many perspectives as possible.

c) Just "cutting out the processed foods" is exactly the same as above

d) Just "try <insert name> diet" is once again probably the same as above, with the added bonus that nearly any diet is probably going to work and generate short-medium term results just by shocking the body, and forcing some level of structured discipline on an individual, especially discipline laced with all the extra goodies of being from "experts" and all the other fun social stuff we work in.

e) Natural obviously does not mean 'better'. However, it's clear that we have adapted for a certain environment, and while we certainly don't need to replicate that environment in it's totality, that does not imply that our current environment is any good at all from any number of perspectives.

f) This does mean that 'paleo', especially the way the that the paleo-diet/lifestyle is marketed is the way to go. Really all we got to go on is that our macronutrient ratio is out of whack. That does not mean that if you're doing paleo, or are considering paleo that you're doing shit wrong. If it's work, its working, but that don't mean it gonna work for everyone.
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When I read the announcement, I got the feeling that what he's doing isn't so much leveraging other people's routers as providing the owners of those routers with plausible deniability.

Legal and IMO worthy of much praise.
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My favorite YouTube channel is that of Matthias Wandel:

https://www.youtube.com/user/Matthiaswandel

A software engineer by training, Matthias was one of the first 10 employees at RIM, and after he "retired" a few years ago he began making woodworking videos. His videos are great because of his background (he grew up working on his father's sawmill) and he brings an engineer's approach to woodworking. I've never done any woodworking, but I enjoy his videos because of the way he approaches and solves design problems.

Some of the marble machines he's made are incredible.
I don't follow many channels, but I'm always impressed by this guy: https://www.youtube.com/user/Fredzislaw100

He has lots of videos with circuits that seems impossible, but that are just full of hacks. He goes as far as putting circuits inside his components (leds, switches...).
Why does he need so much pseudorandomness. And why use /dev/urandom directly. Maybe using the random library from the programming environment would make more sense.
Assume Nest has 10 million users, which is ballpark-ish. 100TB is 10megs per user per day. That sounds high unless my Nest is sending audio clips to Google.

I'm sure there are some IoT apps sending 1PB/day, but there are plenty that don't.
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Funding a lending account should migrate over time to bank transfers. PayPal offers such a method with just a $0.50 fee.
This is, at least, an appealing simple explanation for obesity. Much simpler than "Impurities in high-fructose corn syrup disrupt a particular metabolic pathway in the liver causing ... increased fat storage". Simply: humans crave protein and will eat things that taste like protein until they have enough.

I hereby suggest Occam's diet: avoid things that taste like protein but aren't.
I am a fan of giving options every year with a performance multiplier. That way the high performers are rewarded with more options and your available options are more accurately divided amongst the employees who have made the most impact.

When you are not yet cash flow positive as a startup you can give 'bonuses' in options rather than in cash.

I don't know if we could figure out a portion that employees could contribute to additional investment rounds if they wanted to take some money off the table.
also, drone does not support matrix builds or parallel builds. So if you have a build matrix that kicks off multiple builds for each commit, we can run them in parallel if you have a plan with multiple minions, and get the results to you faster.
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