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Of couse we dont want to become "one of those guys".But lets say I start learning Node.js and then other framework for like Express,Angular.js,Backbone.js,etc comes in.
If I start learning all those I may not be able to focus well in PHP and as I said earlier "jack of everything and King of nothing"
Wasn't there a significant disparity in capital investment between Clark and Andreessen at NetScape?
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I believe the point is the actions above "smell like" attacks on a certain group of people's right to speech and assembly ... even though it wasn't the government doing these things, and even though these things were legal at the time (I assume).

It may be legal for me to harass, intimidate or silence my opponents, since I am not the government ... but it's certainly not in the spirit of promoting free discourse on ideas, which free-speech-loving Americans are all generally in favor of. (or think they are)
This is a weird bit of advice. From my experience I have to assume you're saying "HR isn't the decision maker when hiring in elite tech companies" but the fact of the matter is HR/Recruiting is going to present the offer to most people, and it takes a career worth of preparation to move the conversation beyond that offer.
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We know. It's just an expression.
You know, the French tried to make a reform with the French Revolutionary Calendar. Having managed to kill off the monarchy and completely reshape the face of Western civilization, not even the French revolutionaries could change the calendar. (And if you want to talk about an "enlightened" age for science and rationality, the era that we refer to today as "The Enlightenment" is a much better candidate than this sorry era!)
Glad to hear they're continuing to work on the 2D editor and 2D physics. Unless I'm missing something, getting 2D platformer floor and wall collisions working properly is still a pain right now. (Sudden, discrete changes in velocity + physics colliders + tiles = wonky behavior.)
I work at a small-ish company, and while, no, I don't have a "real voice in the direction of the company", I do have a voice in my corner of things: technical decisions. That makes me significantly happier than showing up and just being told what to use and do.
Tax pros care about speed even more than consumers, but I'm not sure there's a problem with that. It's just a different mindset.
Use asterisks for emphasis, like this: New Yorker
Apple iOS or Google Android: Which Is More Secure?
After some googling, I agree with you. RSU's are much better than options. So... The solution to the problem of better compensating employees could simply be giving RSU's in place of options.
Along with some lesser known links found here[0], I'd also mention being able to filter for items with large numbers of points:

https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=150

It's not unlocked by karma, but it's a relatively unknown feature.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
You were granted shares, similar to founder's stock. I'm talking about options, which have a strike price. In my scenario, you in effect exercise (buy) the shares before they vest, which is on its face kind of impossible. One way I've heard it done is you sign a letter authorizing the company to buy back the unvested shares if you leave -- in effect, you buy the shares, simultaneously giving the company an option to purchase them back, and that option vests backwards over time -- the longer you stay, the less shares they can buy back. Under this rubrick, you owe no taxes at all, since money flows from you to the company, therefore there is no taxable compensation. For the company, I assume it's like any investment round, they sold stock for working capital.

Damn complex but worth it to avoid IRS woes.
I know nothing about that type of wood, but I have found that leaving wood for too long makes it way harder to split - I try and do it within the year. However native New Zealand wood and pine is likely different to your situation.
Hopeless Altruism
I don't know. I doubt you could get a pistol without a severe background check in any of them except maybe Canada but you can definitely do hunting or rifle shooting as a sport in all of them.

Also, the Nordic countries and Switzerland all have very, very high rates of gun ownership/possession and they don't treat tgeir heads of government like god-kings.
"The origin of the seven-day week is the religious significance that was placed on the seventh day by ancient cultures, including the Babylonian and Jewish civilisations."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven-day_week

"Some Jewish, Christian, and Islamic groups have been historically opposed to the calendar because their tradition of worshiping every seventh day would result in either the day of the week of worship changing from year to year or eight days passing when Year Day or Leap Day occurs.[11] Others have contended that Year Day and Leap Day could be counted as additional days of worship."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar

"Thus, once or twice a year there would be eight days rather than seven between consecutive Saturdays. Thus the Jewish Sabbath, which must occur every seventh day, would be on a different weekday each year. The same applies to the Christian Sabbath. Hertz realised that this would cause problems for Jews and Christians alike in observing their Sabbaths, and mobilised worldwide religious opposition to defeat the proposal."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hertz#Calendar_reform
Kendo UI HTML5 Framework Now Open Sourced
I agree with the logic that gives very early employees 3-5% equity stakes. Any more than that I think is unfair to founders and angels -- there is real value in getting even a reduced salary. Most founders have worked for a year or two without any cash comp, at something that may look absolutely ridiculous on a resume. That is a humongous risk. Those coming in after that risk, plus the risk of failing to raise the seed money, are IMSHO taking about an order of magnitude less risk, therefore the 3-5-ish percent number makes sense.

Don't even get me started on this idiotic "we put 15% aside for employees" crap. Fogedaboudit. $80 to DE and you've got 10 million more shares to play with. Not my fault you failed to get the arithmetic right the first time around.
Periodic Table Of Videos

http://www.periodicvideos.com/

All the people posting Brady's [1] various channels (numberphile, sixtysymbols, etc) left out the best one: periodic videos. Not only is it interesting chemistry in the same format as numberphile/sixtysymbols, it also features the best mad-scientist HAIR on the planet [2].

[1] http://www.bradyharan.com/

[2] https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=Martyn+Poliakoff

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Extra Credits

http://www.youtube.com/user/ExtraCreditz/videos

Incredibly detailed and insightful discussion of games from a what you might call a sociological perspective. They speak both as a game designer and as a player. A special emphasis is given to showing how "games" are a type of art, enabling certain new kinds of expression.

I'll caution that I don't mean "game theory" (Nash Equilibrium, etc) - Extra Credits discusses things like "interactive experience" vs "passive reading/watching", how mechanics can be used as a storytelling medium,
industry issues, abusive (or just plain annoying) design choices, and theories such as the Uncanny Valley and the illusion of choice.

All packed into short ~5-6min, almost-animated, fun little videos.
If your Human Resources people don't play a significant role in purchasing your human resources, something has gone wrong.
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These "errors" are just to check community reaction.
Not Sure If Serious, but this doesn't work at all in any browser I've tried it in. I don't think archive.org especially knows how to mirror a giant weird experimental single page app.
They did change the calendar - Napoleon only restored the old one to appease the Catholic Church.
> Your effective cash+stock compensation for year 2/3/4 goes way way up

Not if the company flails or fails. If it does well, your increased comp makes up for the even more probable counterfactual, where your equity was worth bupkiss but you plugged away like a true belieber until the lights went out and the last pizza box was empty.
Greed and the Wright Brothers
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Give me a break. In most companies, "human resources" exists primarily to cut people's health insurance benefits.
Yes! The 00 or similar is key. I add a bit of semolina flour too - it's quite yellow and seems to help make the dough extra stretchy. In other regards I follow the Jamie Oliver recipe too. The bases cost about 5x as much to make compared to when I used normal high grade flour, but they are so much better.
Gamification, as I've encountered it, isn't really tied to a particular interface style or paradigm. It's more about using social status, rewards, positioning, perception of progress, rank, etc to motivate individuals to accomplish goals. The wikipedia page isn't too bad on that front [1]. I usually simplify it and say it's all just banana stickers. My wife teaches ballet for a living and has a few classes with little kids. She has the classic end-of-class stickers of good listeners, and a progress sticker board. At work, we have patches you can get from members of management for doing something exemplary and pins for obtaining certain certifications or mile stones. Efficacy of either implementation aside, they're both just gamification. Same thing with a lot of medals and such in the military. Of course, some things come with monetary rewards, which is motivating in it's own right. Then there are online badges, karma, etc. etc.

I think you could use elements of gamification individually, but I think a lot of the strongest motivation comes from the social context, competition, etc. That said, you can definitely use psychological tricks that are basically gamification for the individual, as was mentioned in another comment, like building streaks, or publicizing your progress, etc.

Anyhow, two things:
1. I'm no expert in formal gamification, in so far as that exists. I just brought it up because my bosses get super hung up on the idea of an interface that looks like a game, instead of the idea that you're shaping behavior by creating rewards and social context. Just adding my experience here
2. I could be totally misreading what you mean by an interface paradigm
3. I really don't like the word gamification, even though I ended up using it all the time when I was developing training/progress plans and materials :)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamification
Well, I'm happy to have moved you a "career's worth" of wisdom forward in a single comment. You aren't negotiating with HR. HR does not know what you do, and HR's best idea of what you're worth comes from those ridiculous salary survey sites.
> "In my 25 years of practice, all of my patients who came to me seeking help with their addictions, they all had one thing in common - they all started with marijuana."

This might well be true though I doubt it. I strongly suspect almost all of them started with alcohol.

Be that as it may, that's really not the probability we're interested in. It's not "percentage of addicts who tried Cannabis" but "percentage of Cannabis users who go on to become addicts". Given the wide usage, the first number is meaningless, the second likely very low.

Your friend's quote might as well be: "they had one thing in common: they all had a driver's license".
Well that's definitly an oxymoron, use your own mail server, or paid mail server, use imap for google, ose AdBlock, or just don't use free service if you don't want ads...
Except when you have some graphics card on dual monitors. Or you want your laptop to sleep and wake up. Or when you have some funky WLAN card.
> The 5th year discontinuity is an unresolved problem, though.

By the end of year 3, you should be having "that talk" with whomever is running the show at that point. If you are a valued, productive member of the team, you'll negotiate another package that is at market. If not, it's probably time to move on to the next town 'cuz you're a rolling stone, always looking for the next adventure....
I've been attempting to pick up Japanese for about 15 years now. I've found a general pattern that I can go at it intently for 6-12 months, with about 4-6 hours a day of study. With that, I ultimately get to a point where for each new character or word I learn, I seem to forget a different one. Testing myself with flashcard-like custom software appears to confirm that. Eventually I burn out and cease studying for a year or so, which of course decimates a lot of knowledge and is really horrible to do.

It frustrates me to no end that this is the one thing I've really wanted to try and learn and do and failed at completely. Which is evidenced by why I still haven't given up. I refuse to be beaten, and I'm most certainly going to die trying.

Realizing it's not going to happen, I think it's time to start trying something new. So I'm currently looking into SRS algorithms and nootropics (piracetam et al.) I'll be curious to see if it helps or not.

In my case, the 2000+ characters aren't such a burden. It's the words that can have 500 different meanings (like the verb "kakeru") and the particles that can have 20 different purposes each that really ruin me. I find myself just guessing through all the different meanings and picking the least terrible sounding one, and I learn nothing from that exercise. I know it's all context, but I feel like I can't learn enough to clue into the contexts.

I can 'somewhat' handle the types of multiple-meaning words that are really just one underlying concept that we don't have a single one-to-one translation for. But some of these words just have so many of these that it's impossible to get a 'feel' for their underlying intent. And practically no language learning material out there tries to teach you these underlying meanings at all. They just give you the possible valid translations and leave you to it.
Criminals Are Using Heat-Seeking Drones to Sniff Out Weed–And Steal It
Hacker News with a points threshold
"Es la misma vaina."
I suggest that much of Australia's good performance will turn out to have been a bit illusory. We were extremely lucky to experience a significant terms of trade increase from ~2003 onwards, as world iron ore and coal prices increased.

Unfortunately for us, we pissed all that windfall up against a wall. I don't think we posted a current account surplus at all throughout the resources boom years. Instead, Australian banks borrowed money from overseas to lend to Australians so they could sell houses to each other for ever increasing amounts every year. The Australian economy grew because we borrowed from overseas. Existing property owners got to feel richer. As soon as we start to pay back all the debt in a significant way, our economy will shrink. Just as the dependent to worker ratio has peaked. We will have nothing to show for it. Certainly not fast internets.
kdragon's post seemed to indicate that he's aware of problems on the professional side and has ideas on how to fix them. I was curious about that.

I find it odd that there are no free online tax filers in the US? TurboTax has a free version in Canada, and some competitors do as well. I like the idea though. Tax filing can always be made easier.(nevermind, a quick search shows that both TT and H&R have free filers.)
The F9R would be the first sub-orbital booster to return to Earth and land vertically under its own engine thrust.
Your New Social App Diet
"One way I've heard it done is you sign a letter authorizing the company to buy back the unvested shares if you leave"

That is the only way I have heard of early exercise working.

"Under this rubrick, you owe no taxes at all, since money flows from you to the company, therefore there is no taxable compensation."

To be clear, the way this works is that the time of exercise you have income (AMT only for ISOs, regular income for other options) equal to the difference between the fair market value and your exercise price. So you owe no taxes if your exercise price is the fair market value, which is usually the case if you exercise soon enough after the options were granted. It's not about which way cash is flowing, it's about whether what you get back in exchange for the cash is worth more than the cash you are paying.

"I assume it's like any investment round, they sold stock for working capital."

I'm more hazy on this, but I don't think it would normally be similar to an investment round, because in an investment round typically new shares are issued; in this case you are buying shares that were previously issued for the employee stock pool.
The threat model for the UK PM is not the same as that for the POTUS (regardless of the individuals involved).
> You can’t stop Google from scanning your inbox

You can encrypt your email which would stop Google scanning it. I guess even ROT13 would work.

But if a service is showing you too many ads the answer is to find another service or pay for the service.

(If Googlers are reading this there is a problem with some ads when using Chrome to browse the web. Some ads open the ap store. This takes me out of Chrome. This is bad. Almost as bad as IE's "content type=crash" bug.)
I'm Italian: every given day most of my fellow nationals are supposed to celebrate this or that saint... the Catholic Church is always more than happy to extend its cultural hegemony by attaching itself to celebrations of any sort, I'd be surprised if other confessions were very different on that front - there's always a scripture or an event that you can use to celebrate a specific day of the year. Even Christmas has not always fallen on the 25th day of the 12th month of the year, after all.

Any calendar reform unfortunately has to deal with this backward-compatibility nightmare with religious tradition, which doomed most previous attempts; hence my parent comment.
As someone who has implemented an semi-extensive set of interactive demos in the new 2D editor and toolkit, I have to say that it arrived half-baked. I'm really looking forward to the upcoming updates, but doing anything like a real game in the toolkit is next to impossible currently. Pathfinding is a specific weak point I ran into on another 2D project. The main A* implementation for Unity handled the native 2D toolkit very poorly when I last used it, and the built-in Unity toolkit didn't work with it at all.
The Censorship Dispute That Toppled the Technology Subreddit
But don't apologize too much, because now you have "a thing": efficient js. You can make a lot of well-deserved money with a thing like that, so long as you cultivate your mastery of it over time.
I'm not a religious scholar by any means (and certainly less versed in Islamic tradition than any Muslim), so you're probably correct.
That NSA stuff has been happening for many many years across different US governments and politicians.

Silicon Valley was happily violating user privacy at the same time. Government surveillance is wrong but I have never had a problem caused by it. I (me personally) have had problems from US companies grabbing too much of my personal data and then leaking it or misusing it, and I am not an unusual example.

The attitudes of some people around use of personal meta data and content data is baffling.
So essentially "Here is an arbitrary selection of evil in the pre-CRA'64 south." With such a long list of shameful events I guess I was expecting "This event is particularly relevant to the discussion because..."
I think for most codebases, this is far too granular and would take far too much time to read and write to be of any practical benefit.
Supposedly this is developing into a theme. Uber doesn't want to take a cut in revenue, and higher prices drive away customers- so the drivers usually get the shaft.
I don't think there's any real difference between issuing new shares and selling shares from a pool. Shares can be issued but if they're not actually sold to anyone, I believe they have no effect on the capital structure of the company. Perhaps the issued shares have some effect on valuation metrics, but that's subjective voodoo anyways...
I use Workflowy everyday to take notes, organize thoughts etc. But I doubt it's a good enough contender for maintaining a to-do list.
SpaceX suggested that the boosters account for upwards of 75% if the rocket's cost so reuse is a huge economic benefit. SpaceX estimated that it could reduce a launch from $60m to under $10m.

The space shuttle did have recoverable boosters but the refurbishing process offered much less cost savings.

I believe no other rockets provide for booster recovery.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_reusable_launch_system_d...
Back-weighting seems backwards to me, especially for early employees. They receive less options for the risky, earlier stage and more options for once things are stable and proven. Most startups won't even make 4 years, and therefore early employees who take that risk can end up with almost nothing if a sale or IPO occurs in, say, 18 months after starting employment.
30±3 degrees... With what confidence?
You Don't Read Code, You Debug It.
Correct link: http://habitrpg.wikia.com/wiki/App_and_Extension_Integration...
You don't need ARMv8 to address 4GB. That is a red herring.

ARMv8 redid the instruction set and registers with significant performance benefits.
While no 'true free market' has existed in real life, it nevertheless exists as a fairly clearly specified theoretical construct against which actual markets can be compared. Those countries in the top 20 economic freedom list all have markets closer in various ways to this theoretical 'true free market' than other countries.

They also generally have higher levels of economic development, hence the suggestion of a correlation between market freedom and economic development.
I knew it the whole time.
If you are looking at Unity Pro ($1500), and want to publish on iOS ($1500), and Android ($1500) it will cost $4500. You'd need to gross more than $90,000 on your app for the 5% royalty to be more than $4500, and I'd bet a vast majority Unity make much less than that.
You've also got https://news.ycombinator.com/best
Show HN: Videos from React Conf 2014 [London]
Videos from this year's React conference in London, discussing functional programming languages and their application in the design and implementation of reactive architectures, with talks from Jonas Bonér, Joe Armstrong, Erik Meijer, Ben Christensen (Netflix) and many other familiar faces.
What's a SSL VPN good for?
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We are going to be running a test using this website over a couple of days to see if we can measure an increase in player retention when they are offered rewards for playing, just go to the link and play the game for as long as you like
Is /best sorted strictly by score?
Ask HN: Ultra high resolution map projections
Where can one find really high quality map projections (images or even better high quality vector files)

I'm especially interested in the Dymaxion, but if there is a collections of most of the map projects out there, that would be even better.

I want to get a file with enough resolution to print a huge map about 3 feet high and 6 feet wide.

Also, if anyone from the Google Maps team is reading this. Can you please make Google Maps available in other projections?
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