skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm hung up on the fact that you are exercising your options. Why? If the options are set to expire that quickly then something else is amiss as well. Generally you exercise options only when you intend to sell or leave the company and would lose those options. From what you described, you gave no reason for exercising the options.

I'd speak with the founders and enquire why they never executed the agreement, that is the raise that was conditional on getting funded. From a contract point of you, you should be eligible to receive that money.

From a trust point of view you can no longer trust these individuals. Without trust in a small organization I don't see the point in sticking around.
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2012/11/google-sets-still-a...

It's part of their spreadhseet now. You type things out and drag the items, like you would numbers to count.

I too missed sets a lot and was very happy to have found that:)
Remember this before you rely too much on a Google product. Google isn't Microsoft and that's okay, but one of Microsoft's strong points is that they keep things around forever. Google still has the start-up culture where you can throw things away that aren't working. The difference is, in most start-ups, you don't have millions of people using the product you just threw away.
I totally agree with this, and when Facebook launched it was clear to me that the restrictions it placed on customization of profile pages, and providing smart defaults for layout, don't, and color would make social more functional and valuable for most users.

But I still appreciate Ze Frank's defense of ugly wrt MySpace democratizing design tools, and his observations that the fact that so many people were cutting, modifying, and pasting css was at the time weird and kind of wonderful.

http://interconnected.org/home/2012/05/22/ze_frank_on_ugly

> As people start learning and experimenting with these languages authorship, they don't necessarily follow the rules of good taste. This scares the shit out of designers.
>
> In Myspace, millions of people have opted out of pre-made templates that "work" in exchange for ugly. Ugly when compared to pre-existing notions of taste is a bummer. But ugly as a representation of mass experimentation and learning is pretty damn cool.
Tumblr now fills this void, and in a much more free and customizable way than MySpace did.
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I would also prefer to have this option.
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Naming servers. Doesn't matter if you use colors, or star trek characters, or nautical terms: plug the existing servers into a set and get a couple new name suggestions.
Actually, according to the Act they can do those searches (without a warrant) if they have reasonable suspicion. These aren't random searches -- they do them if they have a suspicion that the person is doing something illegal after talking to them.

I agree with your other points.
Google pitched it as a replacement for email (another reason for people being confused about it's purpose) but the reality was that it was absolutely nothing like email. A wave was a document that you could edit with other people.

The 'about' page: https://web.archive.org/web/20100427183005/http://wave.googl...

Actually, looking at the screenshot on that page, I can see why s_dev sees it as something like Slack. It has a much more 'chat'-based interface than I remember. Sorry s_dev.
Google Wave was a collaborative editor and communication tool that didn't let you collaborate with the people you wanted (invite needed); IMHO that's what killed it.
Google Desktop Search - even from a cursory glance at the comments in this thread and the absence of its mention - is by far the most under-appreciated Google product ever.

That sucker was good. Great even.

It would find things across browsers, through documents and files and even collate
results from web searches that most browsers - sometimes even Chrome to this day - missed or never registered in the history, in the first place.

I would have gladly paid some $50-$75 a year to have it work across all of my devices.

And I don't typically pay for most offerings. It was that good.

I miss that one badly.
It's kinda necessary you enforce your licensing terms, but man, I wish people would realize that GPL is an extremely nasty thing.
I went from grunt to gulp because of streams, then I went from gulp to make because of Unix. Takes some getting used to, but I'm very happy with it. Got livereload (hot reload) working and everything, and you can always write a Bash/Node/whatever script and run it from make if you need to.

Example Makefile with Babel, nodemon, mocha, webpack, React, and React Hot Loader: https://github.com/acdlite/flummox-isomorphic-demo/blob/mast...
Damnit, why do we have to deal with this PayPal bullshit in this day and age? American banks need to get with the times and let people wire money straight to an IBAN number. Also, why the hell do they need my address?
Well it is pretty much copyright judo. As such, most copyright lawyers can't just apply boilerplate to it and call it a day. So for them it is easier to recommend to not touch it than try to get to grips with what it is actually trying to accomplish.
You're right, I meant "gone" in the sense of deprecated more than vanished. The data is safe but the disruption to my workflow would be annoying enough that I'd rather not get too used to it.
+1 If you want your code to be used you need to use a less restrictive license and trust organisations and their developers to do the right thing. Open sourcing everything is not always the best solution and if you force them to open source their changes the chances are you're going to get some internal branch open sourced hidden on some corporate site somewhere, that's not going to give anything back to the community because somebody is going to have to pull those changes back and support them. If you want to build quality OSS then you need to engage the development community, not put a gun to their head and force them to open source.

Lots of companies open source their products under the AGPL with a commercial license they sell. This allows them to say their products are 'open source' and look good, but in reality it hampers their own product. If I wanted to commercialise that product and make changes, I can open source the changes, but I won't sign the original companies CLA which means they can't take my code and use it in their commercial version.

This lawsuit will be interesting though, as it will probably set a precedent on how you can use GPL software in commercial software.
@OP:

What is your long term vision for the project?

Reason I ask is due to how django keeps (IMO) gaining territory on the corporate and/or business stack. I get requests for support and new development consistently from companies in different markets/regions.
So you've been exercising options and therefore own stock - don't companies have a legal requirement to inform existing stockholders when an investment happens?
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The software you're talking about is in the Public Domain.
How New Autoworkers Became Second-Class Employees
I'm going to be a cynic and say that Adria took a gamble to raise her profile and it backfired big time.

This wasn't the first incident of questionable behaviour in conferences. There had been sexist comments, talks and general lude behaviour prior to this.

I think she saw the opportunity and forced the situation to fit the narrative (it wasn't even a sexist comment) but it quickly got out of hand and resulted in them both suffering severely.
All they have to do is comply with the terms. They have had many chances to do so. Really, I don't think other companies have to feel threatened.

In fact, I worry that they will feel emboldened when they see how long they can violate the terms without repercussion.
When did Wikipedia starting doing maps?
Since the post linked to my ggplot2 tutorial, I should probably mention that I'm really not a fan of interactive charts/D3 for static content, because a) loading the data can dramatically increase the loading time of the webpage and b) interactive charts will break on mobile devices, so you need to invest time to QA that.

Rstudio now offers HTMLWidgets which allow for interactive chart generation natively, which is interesting: http://blog.rstudio.org/2014/12/18/htmlwidgets-javascript-da...
If a Wiki is ok for your requirements have a look at MoinMoin wiki. It's much easier to set up/mantain than Confluence.
This no longer works, unfortunately.
For the record, I agree with you. I will personally avoid applying the GPL to my code, either by my own decision or because of code I am using, mostly because I want the freedom, both for myself and for those who might use my code, to release on iOS.

That being said, this doesn't seem to be about a company looking at the GPL and avoiding it. This looks like a company looking at the GPL, not complying with its restrictions, but using the code anyway.

I may not like the GPL, but if a fellow developer decides to use it, I will defend that right.

[edited to elaborate on my reasons for not using the GPL. See comments below]
The tax problem is a common one and one of the major downsides to equity compensation in some situations. I've never heard of your particular situation where they didn't keep you informed of the valuation, though. That's fairly awful. I would be livid.
Restricts what freedom? If there indeed is a meaningful restriction, you should be able to articulate it in words.
It's been a few years, so my memory is kind of hazy, but I seem to remember using it for things like:

* I'm trying to remember the acronym of the professional sports league associated with U.S. soccer. I enter: NHL, NBA, NFL.

* I need to think of some consumer brands. I enter: Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson.

* I'm trying to brainstorm female baby names based on Old Testament characters. I enter: Eve, Ruth, Naomi, Esther.
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It is a different target audience. Anyone who seriously wants to mine knows all of what you said and probably has a place with a decent amount of ASICs running.

Immediately my thought wasn't "This is dumb because the hardware sucks at mining" it was "This is to introduce the idea into people's heads." A fraction may go on mining more seriously, or more likely buying and using BTC.
There's only one version, and it has both an app and a an onboard UI based on a knob-button with an embedded dot matrix display. We're very conscious of the tradeoff between onboard and app controls.

The knob lets you have full manual control of temperature, but is not a good way to share recipes or learn how to cook something you don't do every day. So you want to make a quick panini or egg, the knob is great. On the other hand, we don't want to be like your microwave, with tons of features hidden behind scrolling text prompts and a keypad.

On the other hand, an app interface lets you have a different UI for each food type, so you can ask for a medium rare steak or light brown caramelized onions.

Once you've used the app to set things up, you'll be hands-on in the kitchen, so the next few steps can be controlled from the knob or the app.
yeah, the difference being the time...hence my original question. At 135 degrees you need at least 35 minutes of hold time once you have reached the target temperature.

http://sousvide.wikia.com/wiki/Importance_of_temperature_con...
"Either way, it's beneficial to our entire community to find out what the judges think."

Bold and inaccurate statement. There's a 100% chance that it won't be beneficial at all to "the entire community."

Also, the judges in the fancy courthouse aren't any less prone to error than the ones sitting ringside at boxing matches.

Which is why cooler heads have prevailed on these matters for so long.

All sides (copyleft, non-copyleft, and proprietary) have a lot to lose and the unresolved tension was largely keeping things in check. Until the FSF chimes in I'd be hesitant to encourage this with financial support.
How does one go about finding an attorney in these situations?
That doesn't work if you plug them into regular web search?
Hogwash. Corporations use GPL because it saves time and furthers business needs. However, many/most/some corporations ignorate the strictures on the use of this intellectual property and this is wrong. Corporate compliance with the license on the GPL will not impose a burden that obviates the benefit. What it may do is force the individuals or management consultants at a particular corporation to coordinate with internal attorneys when using other people's work. Which they would do with any externally licensed IP. Yes, it may encourage a bit more NIH mentality, but it will be just as wrong.
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I wonder what would happen if MySpace were to suddenly revert back to the old version.

What would they have to lose? It would make the headlines the world over, and people would be getting back the MySpace they signed up for.
You're not going to do Microservices
I just donated $250. If there is nothing to stop large companies completely ignoring the GPL then what good is it?
I don't pretend to understand the subtleties of the license. All I know is the lawyers say "don't use it" and if I see it, I move on. Many others do this as well, and it can't be good for those projects.

It's just not worth a conversation in every case I've run across.
I will save the link for every time someone points out only Microsoft changes its mind.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9155409
There are legitimate reasons to exercise early, if you think the business will be sucessful.

1. You avoid the tax issues the OP faced if you exercise at a lower valuation.

2. It's also more tax efficient if you plan to hold the shares or wait a few years to sell.

It sounds like your bosses are ethically challenged. With 3%, you are an employee and not a cofounder.

Instead of suing them, consider writing it off as a loss and learning experience and move on. As a minority shareholder, they can dilute you out of your shares and you would have no recourse.
It was certainly very like Slack in that it's like a IRC/Forum/IM combo that can integrate with third parties and display almost any content pics, images, vids etc with channels and private messaging for disseminating content by topic. You could describe Slack as a "collaborative" tool as well.

The purpose of Google Wave was basically to be a fancy do all messaging service. Many critics have compared Slack to Google Wave including Hunter Walk an ex YTer and Googler. You can see that Google Wave was probably even more powerful - so powerful that it looked daunting and confusing and people didn't know how to use it.
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He does write, "You meet some people, you talk but the effect is close to none."

He is perhaps right from an immediate agenda perspective...but in my experience some of those relationships translate into much greater long term opportunities.

I have a theory that the strongest relationships we have are people we have interacted with in two separate places. (i.e. summer camp and than college.)

Same goes for conferences, some of the strongest relationships were built by two random people meeting up at two different conferences.
Looks like the algorithm is based on this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoothed-particle_hydrodynamics

The theory behind it is rather more complex than the equations that implement it - which is why it can be done in such a small amount of code.

It's a similar idea to those tiny raytracers and the basis of many demo effects: a relatively simple equation, iterated many times, can produce a complex and even realistic scene.
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Since it seems we're going down this path regardless, I sincerely hope the Conservancy sends a loud, clear message that they attempted to resolve this issue amicably and reasonably. We must create the impression that violating the GPL is punishable, but only as an absolute last resort. We need to come out of this looking rational, fair, and helpful: our first goal is compliance, not litigation.

The Conservancy has good people and provides valuable services to the F/OSS community. I trust they've weighed these considerations before deciding to act.
I agree. Consumers can't lambast companies for not being innovative or daring enough, if they turn around and rip them a new one if they release anything other than something they're fully behind for 20 years, and either keep everything other than that to themselves or kill it before it gets to that stage.

You can't have it both ways, people.
My guess is he's young or this is one of his first early stage startups.

The amount of people I know that were employee #1-3 and exercised all there options cause they were cheap and then found out about capital gains they owed I can count on 3 hands if I had them.
Read this article hoping for more about the Upton / marketing angle. One thing I took note of with this game - has anyone noticed on networks like instagram, all these pretty amateur model girls taking selfies with Game of War playing on a tablet in the picture, talking about the game etc? I have never seen that sort of promotion and I keep wondering if it's natural (maybe followers of the "Upton" aspirations) or if GoW marketing reached out somehow..... never seen that sort of mainstream viral promotion
The custom font is most likely New Transport or a modification of it. It's a variant of the typeface used on British road signs.

https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2014/03/05/new-transport-for-gov-uk/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_%28typeface%29#New_Tr...

They're using it for its aesthetic and for its keeping with the national infrastructure.
Your assumption is incorrect regarding the reasons for exercising options. Early exercise of options often garners positive tax benefits for the optionee.
This article has more details:
http://www.wired.com/2015/03/nasa-probe-finally-arrives-icy-...

The most interesting bit of information to me:
[Dawn] won’t be sending back any pictures or data until late April, when it reemerges from Ceres’s dark side. When it does, it will start to map the surface, analyze the chemical composition, and make the most accurate measurements yet of the planet’s mass.
> Ive explains how the molecules in Apple gold are closer together, making it twice as hard as standard gold.

Wait, what?
FabFriday means Infographics, eh
A JavaScript implementation of social conformity vs. individual distinctiveness
Hello, Michael Drogalis - the author here.

I'm also not a Spark user, but I have used Storm:

- Storm is significantly more mature and performant the moment.

- Storm has a better cross-language story in terms of bolt functions.

- Pretty much everything in Onyx is much more open ended. This applies to deployment, program structure, and workflow creation - and is mostly an artifact of how aggressively Onyx uses data structures.

- Onyx has a far better reach across languages in terms of its information model.

- Onyx will be adopting a tweaked version of Storm's message model next release to get on the same level of performance and reliability. We're dropping the HornetQ dependency.

- Onyx is born out of years of frustration of direct usage of Storm and Hadoop.
>I will personally avoid applying the GPL to my own code, mostly because I want the freedom to release on iOS.
How does putting your code under the GPL prevent you, the copyright holder, from doing anything like releasing on the Apple App Store? The notion of infringing on your own copyright is just absurd.
I confess I've never paid much attention to GPL, and when I think about this I find one particular reason. I don't understand the harm. What bad thing happens when the GPL is not obeyed? I think I understand that the answer is that your generously donated code (Christoph's in the article) may then be taken into private hands and used to benefit a commercial company. Is that the harm? But if so, what's the harm? You donated your code, didn't you? I'm asking in all sincerity: what specific asset or benefit have you lost when someone takes your GPL code and uses it in their commercial product?

The article seems to get upset about this event: "They took Christoph's code from Linux and modified it to work with their own kernel without releasing source code of the resulting complete work." So that's the harm? But how is that harmful? How does that hurt Christoph or anyone else?

Perhaps the answer is: "Christoph worked so hard on it, and gave such expertise and so much time, and now his work is providing benefit to others with no further benefit to himself." I would certainly agree in general that if you work hard on something and someone else steals your work and benefits from it instead of you, then this is a clear and deplorable harm. But if you give your work away so that people benefit from it in general, then you have agreed that your sole benefit is not at issue and that you don't expect compensation for the work. If someone then uses the work for their own financial benefit, or modifies it without giving you the changes back, what has that deprived you of? Surely that's not taking away anything that would have been coming to you had they not done it. Is it?

Where's the harm?
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Football players = modern gladiators.

One can say other competitive sports are like that too. Maybe the military as well. But American Football is especially bad for a popular sport. It very violent. Permanent brain damage is a common side-effects of playing for years.

Americans love it though. One can make a parallel in general on how our society is inherently more violent than other Western countries. American football is just one of the facets of that.

It is also interesting perhaps how this gets played vis-a-vis the "save the children" rhetoric. We've seen article about free range kids' parents getting harassed by police. How everyone is talking about how special the children are how they should be protected. And then, pretty much the same people, turn around and either send their son to play football or watch and cheer as others run around the field butting into each other head first at full speed.
Exercising the options makes it harder for him to get screwed later on. Also it can put you in a better position later on when you sell because you pay capital gains tax on the appreciation of the stock rather than ordinary income tax on the options.

This works because stock is considered an investment where as options are not considered investments (according to the tax code) and by holding the stock for more than a year it's considered "long term" and thus it gets classified as capital gains.

Ultimately I think it's a very smart thing to do especially if the company says that the stock is valued at $0.0001/share meaning that he can exercise 1000 shares per $1. The only time there's ever a downside to exercising early is if your strike price is substantially above $0/share meaning that it might cost a sizable sum. If it's free -- or nearly free -- to exercise, there's really no reason not to.

Unless of course you end up in a situation like this person has.
No new information here. While past success may be an indicator of the quality of a team, it does not guarantee success.
I try to eat as little solder as possible, even RoHS stuff :-) more seriously, getting a whole 10x10 plate to the same temp is trickier than just controlling a single point...
Hi folks! I'm Michael Drogalis - the primary author. I'm happy to answer any questions.
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He was exercising options because it is very cheap and he thought it had no tax impact. This also starts the clock on long term capital gains rules. It makes sense for early stage companies.

You might be thinking of this for more established companies where the exercise might require tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. That's a very different situation.