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Came here to point out just this. This article is a great example of convoluted syntax and flagrant wordiness.

I mean, come on:

>All this had come rushing back because once upon a time, I had lived through it too, in my late, unlamented career as an online news executive in that labyrinth of high-octane managerial passive-aggression known as Yahoo News.

This is about as ugly as English journalese gets. And it is also stupid because the implication is that this person should have been interning as a copywriter instead of wending his way through that high-octane managerial labyrinth of passive-aggressive knowledge that once upon a time was Yahoo News, natch.

My takeaway is that Yahoo News failed because it was run by amateurs.
you can realize things like this with a scrollspy. E.g. that from bootstrap: http://getbootstrap.com/javascript/#scrollspy
Yeah, I have not found the pricing to be too bad at all actually because if you consider what you pay for other email services in addition to everything else it can do, it comes out to be less.
vi with perl cgi here, too.

I played a little with Java Applets. I still remember waiting for them to start up.
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I suppose I wasn't disagreeing with you, save that I disagree that the centrist position is "not as exciting".

My only point is that even the modest, "non-alarmist" positions are pretty alarming to any reasonable individual. That ain't hyperbole. It's just basic statistics.

Unfortunately it's the case that the extreme hyperbole on both ends drowns out the genuine alarm people should be experiencing at the very realistic effects of a warming climate.

Basically, by recalibrating everyone's expectations to "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE", when you tell them "well, not everyone is gonna die, but a lot of people are gonna get screwed", the response is either "oh, you lied before, I don't believe anything you say now", or "well that doesn't so bad... I'm gonna go rollin' coal."
I'm guessing you're in one of these little blue spots? https://ncdc.noaa.gov/news/ncdc-releases-2014-global-climate...

And this isn't mentioning the awful science that was sometimes brought out as evidence of global warming (mixed in with the good, it was hard to pick them apart). It took me two years after seeing Al Gore's TED talk to consider that global warming might be a real thing.
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The median age has been pinned to the '84 - '85 age group since the start.
I'd say there's more to it than that. WarioWare Twisted, Phoenix Wright, FF Tactics, Elite Beat Agents, and many other games could have easily been developed for mobile. The problem is that nobody has the confidence to put a year into making truly standout mobile games.
I think you should take the Ippon job. They want you enough they were willing to revise their offer completely according to your terms, and they already do the type of work you want to do.

Your current company "plans" to maybe start doing the type of work you want to do...within a few months. That's a long time; they could easily change strategy or even drop out of that market entirely by then. Moreover...your current company didn't even accept your counteroffer (which presumably was based on your Ippon offer), and they resorted to pressuring you to accept the counter by time-limiting it. (What was the alternative: they would fire you and you would take the higher paying Ippon job?) Do you really want to work for that kind of management?

However you put it, it sounds like Ippon is your dream job and your current company is a mess that is likely to get worse over time, not better.

Unfortunately, it seems you've chosen to stay with your current company. I hope it works out, but it likely won't.
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LinkedIn seem to migrate between technologies faster than the Canadian geese migrate between continents.
Or change something to something else when the first one doesn't follow actual data!
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I'd think tomjen3 meant "Yeah Theo made a fork of (...)" instead of "Yeah Theo they". Looks like he originally wrote "Yeah they made a fork (...)", then he rephrased and forgot to delete the "they".
The stock that the VC owns and the stock that the employee owns are materially different and thus have different values. The kind of stock the employee has is not for sale.

It is better for employees if the stock they own (or have options for) is initially low-priced (for tax reasons).

This whole "valuation set by auditing" is kind of meaningless -- it's as artificially low as some might think the VC valuation is high. It's based more on regulations about what is valuable than what the market thinks is valuable. For example, cash in the bank, factory equipment, and accounts receivable are worth something -- having a billion free users is not.
I wouldn't assume they had actually considered that.
Certainly it paints a picture of what was considered common knowledge and what was learned in schools at that time.

Another thought is that there are a couple of different types of memorization going on here. For example no one memorizes a list of bordering states/countries; answers to those questions would indicate the strength of photographic memory.
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I think the rising age of founder trend is a good one. Probably means the snapchat/whatsapp/instagram gold mine is nearly dry and some actually difficult-to-implement and domain-knowledge requiring ideas are starting to come into focus again.
> Pretty egregious, and something which one would hope you could sue Google for.

From the facts described, UMG is fraudulently interfering with Google's relationship with a legitimate business partner in order to commit criminal copyright infringement.

Certainly, someone should be prosecuted -- by the DOJ, not just the victim -- but I don't see why Google should be the primary target (if anything, Google should be among the plaintiffs in the civil action.)
It'd be nice to see this data as a distribution. Would tell us a lot more than a median. This might help older founders decide if it's a good fit, or if we'd be outliers there.
Can anyone here comment on the broader societal and economic impacts and whether this is a threat to capitalism? It seems to me to be a bad thing when inside players can rig the game to become immensely wealthy based on companies that are making little or no money.
I've observed (just looked at the log to make sure) devices running Android KitKat sending probe requests for non-hidden networks.
> Source: 2nd year undergrad sitting in MIT lecture now, running on 3 hours of sleep.

Sorry to interrupt you, but if you are reading HN while sitting on your lectures, why not just go home and get some sleep?
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Oh, I learn something new every day. Thanks for the explanation.
EDIT: Nevermind, I mixed up sea levels and temperature.

Are you saying that sea levels in general haven't risen? Or that Florida in particular is somehow immune?

If the former, this[¹] seems to contradict you, are you saying it's wrong, or am I reading it in a different way?

¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_sea_level_rise#/media/F...
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Anyone else surprised at the number of startups in this class? (114) How much individual attention can each startup get?
In a vacuum, they might be the same, although like someone else mentioned, with parens, you eventually get the dreaded ))))))) somewhere.

It's not in a vacuum though: there are tons of tools and tutorials and colleagues and other things dealing with HTML as it is, and tons of people used to how it currently is.
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> I'm resigning from my job today because...

Is the lack of increased compensation/bonus/promotion truly the deciding factor to resign? or were there other issues?

Especially in early-stage companies with ambitious growth plans it's easy to promise these things. But it can be very hard to actually deliver on cash-flow, in spite of achieving managements projected targets. You may for example, negotiate a differed comp/bonus plan if you decide to stay.
Doesn't get much simpler than Richard Nixon's:

http://www.archives.gov/global-pages/larger-image.html?i=/hi...
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It's nice to see GNU Manifesto get some love. I have a hard time seeing the ideals of RMS and Free software get run over in conversation so easily, even on HN, while almost every experience I have reinforces the idea that GPLv3 is the future.

For example, I made a bad purchase and bought a Samsung SmartTV. Now I have a TV with a quad core ARM in it but I can't put my own distro on it because even though they are running Linux and hence GPLv2, Samsung has made recent patches likely to brick the TV with any attempts to install your own OS...

I think too many people have bought into the idea that GPL code makes for complicated legal issues that isn't worth the trouble, but I don't think that's the case at all. Neither is it the case that you can't profit from GPL code. All you have to do is provide source!

Anyway, I'm just saying I think RMS is a man ahead of his time even today, and as corporations and governments extend their tentacles of power into the digital world the last bastion of freedom for hackers is going to be GPLv3+ and not BSD (which enables putting users in prisons, eg Apple).
So, two questions for you (and anyone that cares to answer):

1. Has a founder ever said "Don't worry, we'll take care of you?"

2. Has that founder ever delivered during the exit?
That's not the bad part of PHP. Rather, it's the part of PHP that let it take over the world despite its manifold flaws.
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I thought the interesting bit about the light bulb was that Edison recognized the reality that it was a systems problem (electric lighting), not a product problem (light bulb).

Finding a long-lasting bulb filament was, to Edison, basically an implementation detail. But he knew it wouldn't catch on without a full system to power it that was mechanically and economically sustainable.

It's analogous to Apple's approach to a smartphone. The iPhone succeeded not just because it was a good piece of hardware running a good OS, but because of the systems that supported it. When it launched, iTunes was running on a ton of computers already thanks to the iPod, so that's how Apple synced personal data and updated the OS.

And then when they released the SDK, they again took a systems approach--not just a collection of APIs to build apps, but a whole networked and managed online store for qualifying, distributing, and updating the apps.
No, he's cherrypicking a start date for measuring global temperature rise--selecting 1998, which was an exceptionally strong El Nino year, resulting in an anomalously high yearly average global temperature--and then comparing subsequent yearly average temperatures based on that epoch. In essence he's comparing a trendline to a single outlier, and using that to come to an invalid conclusion.

Using that sort of reasoning, it's pretty trivial to show no "warming". But it's nothing more than statistical trickery. When you look at the overall trend, it's pretty clear that global warming has continued apace, right in line with predictions made decades ago. It's actually pretty impressive how closely reality has hewed to those predictions:

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/mar/27/climate-c...
Stephen Fry (of Top Gear infamy) speaks about his usage of GNU/Linux - https://youtu.be/P_mS4CIXcLY
If a fundamentalist, right-wing Christian can come up with the best justification for legalizing (not decriminalizing, but full-on legalization) of marijuana, I have to believe it's possible.

Genesis 2:15 says "The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it."

Note the KEEP it part.

Numbers 35:33 says "You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it."

Apparently, there's already a fundamental religious case for environmental protections.
Lack of transparency is IMO an even bigger problem than lack of acknowledgement.

It could be argued that there would have been other ways to acknowledge the success in sales than handing out money (though depending on how this has been handled before, that could still have come across as trying to be "cheap" and have the opposite effect).

But if it's not possible to determine whether the increase in sale had any effect on the overall finances of the company or whether the company was all-in-all doing better or worse, that's a huge problem IMO.

I've seen business owners try to shield the actual finances of their company from their employees to siphon more money out of it far too often to see financial intransparency as anything other than a huge warning sign.

Note I'm not talking about the exact numbers. But if the company is doing badly when every metric accessible to the employees indicates otherwise, something is definitely amiss.
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Honestly, I don't understand the hate for GPL. Someone spends time and energy making something, and releases it for free, and for everyone to use. That person has every right to decide how their software will be distributed. The GPL only ensures that anyone who uses and modifies the software has to give back to the community that spawned it in the first place.
I agree recruiters don't want employees to accept counter-offers, but that doesn't mean all the arguments are invalid.

Fundamentally, if you have to quit to get a raise, it's not a great company to work for.
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Don't you mean global warming... or is it cooling now?
> OCaml and Haskell offer very similar functionalities and their compilation times are lightning fast.

It took only one sentence to show that you never used OCaml or Haskell, so I'm not sure how serious the rest of your claims should be taken.
In DTLA alone, we have foreign investment (mostly Chinese and Taiwanese) to thank for the construction of nearly 2,000 new apartment units over the past 3 years (including units still under construction), with an additional 2,000 apartments and 1,000 condos planned over the next 5 years.
Taking measurements will usually prompt questions of "how do I change the results over time?" So, although the difficulty of improving the thing doesn't change; the chance of taking action to improve the thing does change for the better.

Measurements will usually encourage attention and effort to change in a way that non-measured things are unlikely to.

On that basis, I'd argue that even things that are very difficult to measure quantitatively would benefit if a suitable proxy was found that could be measured.

Of course, you do have to be careful that your proxy is suitable!
Good point. We hear "HR's there for the company's sake, not yours" repeated so often (with good cause), that it's easy to forget that individual actors can still act with above average altruism.
That's a good point. Frankly, I'm more of a talker than a listener myself. But that said, I really do find other people's interests to be interesting and valuable to me.

Part of "being interesting yourself" is being aware of when your listeners are and are not interested. That is itself a listening skill. If you can educate and entertain, wonderful! But to do that, you have to be continually aware of your listener's attention. That can be really difficult for the talkative extrovert.

You're really on point, though - the balance of a conversation has to be mutually agreed by the conversationalists. It doesn't have to be equal, and probably shouldn't be. And, since most people aren't really good at conversation, being the one who is good, who is interesting and sensitive, can be a relief to others.
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In Bill Bryson's Short History of Nearly Everything he makes the point that for most of its history the earth has been much colder than at present, including times where the oceans have frozen. We are living in a temporary thaw.

For all we know we are helping to perpetuate this thaw rather than slip back into another ice age. Maybe human generated global warming would have had to be implemented anyway to save the species. There's just so much we don't know.
YC has a sharded structure now. Arguably startups now get more attention than in some of the earlier batches.
Can't speak for all companies, but at the three I know about, the employee valuation is the audit (much lower) one. The stock an employee gets is a different class and it's not unusual for different classes to have different prices (they are actually different -- have different payouts)
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When I use the term Puritanism, it's not an ad hominem. It is a description of a mentality that the United States imported in quantity, and despite what people may like to believe, it is not isolated to one side or another.

This is still not the best summary I know, but one half-decent summary is that Puritanism is the fear that someone, somewhere, is having fun, or perhaps something more like, "I don't like cars and have no use for cars and therefore neither should anybody else."

Objective reasons that car traffic is "bad" is in short supply. It is more a taste issue than anything else. But the proles might be having fun with their cars, and we can't have that....
What does it mean? Is it that the '84-'84 age group has always been the median since the first YC? (Ie. the median is increasing every year?)
I sourced it in the UK as an (IIRC) "International Edition"
Now, will there be any increase in developer program fee? Since reviewing requires resources and will cost more money to Google now onwards.
Every turing-complete typesystem can take an unbounded time to compile. Scala is one of those languages with turing-complete typesystems.
I have listened to as many of his lectures as I can find, and I am very interested in the work he is doing on Minix 3. 10k lines of code in the kernel makes for an easily approachable learning environment in my opinion.
Misleading title. Should have been "Things every child educator should master."

Children should be children, it's the adults that are messing up.
Actually some animal fat is good for us. Cutting out all animal fat leads to a poor diet.

This is why science is so important. Science is about questioning everything. While we used to think animal fat was bad we've since learned otherwise.

Even if we are pretty sure about something it is dangerous to shut out debate. Except that which must not be named. Any questioning of this basic fact of reality is a sure sign you are not a man of science.

Only an idiot would be stupid enough to inquiry and debate. True science lovers accept the messages they heard on a video without question.
Microcode is old.. So 'modern CPUs' --> 'some CPUs'.
Analysts do exactly this. They pick a handful of metrics and produce a range. For an IPO, this information is usually published by varying sell-side firms for the benefit of their clients and to attract new clients (unless they are underwriting the deal then there's a lock up period - 45 days, IIRC).

The company itself will also have a slide deck for its pre-offering road show that has this analysis done by management. You can usually find these slide decks on an investor relations website or on the SEC Edgar system. It also may be in the SEC registration statement under management analysis - or even under risks.
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I'm glad Google got the funding necessary to hire more -people- to review submissions. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I don't deserve a lick of karma for this post, but dang is probably the best moderator I've seen on any site ever. I've been on the interbutts for approximately 20 years now, and have lurked/participated on hundreds of non-notable and notable forums, and never found a moderator like him.

The "please don't do this on HN" replies he makes should be replicated by other mods on other sites such as reddit. I bet those polite replies have done more to change the tone of HN, and delay the Eternal Septembering that's currently underway (hi redditors), than even the HN guidelines for conduct can claim credit for.

EDIT: Damnit people, stop giving me karma for this.
try

sudo tcpdump -l -e -I -i en0 'type mgt subtype probe-req'

Way more efficient to use bpf instead of grep.
Every couple of years I make the same comment here: He's a curious character, but history will treat Stallman kindly.
We should question it; that's what science is all about. But there's a huge difference between questioning something and flat out denying its existence due to politics or ignorance, or both. Those same scientists you linked to aren't throwing their hands up in the air, declaring that climate science is all a lie. Rather, they continue to study, to innovate, to question their own methods so they can improve their models and understand climate change.
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Not quite, I'm in New York and I visited Boston shortly after their record snowfall. But by the time I got there, there was no snow - plus it was downtown. It all looked pretty much like I would expect that part of the world to look like in March.
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In Chiang Mai near Chang Phueak Gate a sizeable paved area in front of a few mini-stores and a Ford dealership every day after 6 PM turns from parking space into busy street food market. Struck me as efficient use of space.
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The biggest benefit of a stable paycheck for a few years at a medium-sized or big corp is building your cash reserves. Even if you learn nothing in that job, having 1-2 years of savings in the bank before quitting and starting your startup will give you leverage when dealing with investors early on. You won't need to take angel or VC money to get started.
Functionality will not be made less of a priority, but we are making design and usability equally as important. Doing so helps cut down on training and support required for equipment, which is where many companies make their real revenue (similar to enterprise software charging support subscriptions). Because this is where so many established companies make their margin, there is little incentive to make their equipment easier to use. They also have built up large support staffs for this purpose.

By removing the need to support large support staffs, and reducing our sales team requirements by aiming at markets outside of large hospital institutions, we are able to keep our overhead low compared to the competition.

I hope that makes thing a bit more clear, but happy to elaborate if you like!
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> The smelly ABS 3D printers

Don't kid yourself. The photopolymer resin used here still has a noticeable odour, which is in many cases worse than ABS.

PLA filament, on the other hand, has very little odour.
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This shouldn't be difficult. At least for Christians they're supposed to consider themselves stewards. What good is a steward that's actively destructive towards their charge? Recycling, green (as in more plants and less concrete) development, reducing air and water pollution are all reasonable things from that perspective.

Somehow, however, few ever seem to agree with me.
I was expecting this to be about simple fuzzy logic getting billed as sophisticated machine learning to drive up valuations and hype, or something like that. The actual value of data science is another discussion, but it sure is popular right now.
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