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How does it feel unfair to sell stock to investors? In the current scheme new shares are issued and everybody gets diluted, so the founders have less economic interest (as does every other employee).

If the founders take some money off of the table, then they're just selling their shares directly--- and there's less dilution. (It's not the case that they're just pocketing some of the proceeds from the investment.)

In that case the employees will be diluted less than they would be if the same investment amount was made and the founders didn't sell any of their shares. So it's better for employees.

Ideally, though, I think all employees including founders, should be able to sell some of their vested shares in each round of funding. Maybe %10?
What I mean about take home test is "build an app that does x y and z, write tests, talk about your choices" -- something that you can't quite google. Take home tests for questions like "explain how to use fn.apply()" wouldn't work :)
Missing pedalling articulations, useful to pipe organ, harp... Also I didn't find any way to include registration change, important in pipe organ, harmonium, harpsichord, electroacoustic instruments and others.
Looks impressive.

I'm on a corporate network (not Microsoft) near Redmond, and I get everything in <400ms with cache disabled. This is similar to HN or 1/10th Facebook.
Well, you've addressed a lot of what I said and done so fairly reasonably. I think I've mostly been complaining that there are a lot of companies who value brain teasers over thinking ability and you say you're not in that camp. Fair enough.

> Honestly I wouldn't particularly want either of them on my team, so I hope there are better candidates.

It'd be nice, but Google is hiring up lots of people and it's getting hard to get everything you want. Better, faster, cheaper. Pick two.
Well, MG Sigler and Kevin Rose are/were there. MG is the vindictive type, and to be honest, I see it as one of the Four Horseman of The Bubblepocaplypse that reports (and terrible ones at that) are becoming VCs.
Apple ships by air. This article is explaining why.
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Am I the only one who can't find Part 2?
Why does this need to be in real-time, if their daily budget is $1000, you can still wait quite a bit and then apply increments in aggregate (e.g. hourly)? More so it sounds the customers aren't inter-connected - it hardly seems like the complex distributed problem.
Come back when you can write excel as an excel macro. The argument that spreadsheets are easy for non programmers to use is not an argument for replacing programmers current tools with structured tools. Nor an argument against.
> I am fed up of the press that takes France in hostage because Israel chooses to systemically violates international laws and at the same time wants to portrays jews as victims and arabs as terrorists.

Well that's the case, the Jews are pretty much victim of the islamic terrorism in France. It's easy to hide your antisemitism under the umbrella of anti zionism. Fact is it's harder to be a jew today than an arab in France.
On the other hand, most consumers buy toys for children based on gender. How difficult does Amazon want to make it to find a toy for your niece or nephew? Not being able to filter for one or the other is an inconvenience. Now, if they have data that suggests nobody used those categories, that's one thing, but removing it for political reasons is another.
>Some other chemical might be a more suited to light from a different star

This is what makes me excited about Titan. If life exists there, then it will be based on processes and chemicals not on Earth.
If your ISP provides only a congested route to say, Netflix or YouTube, then a tunnel through a better connected VPN server can allow you bypass that route entirely, increasing throughput and lowering latency.

In the case where an ISP provides optimal routing, it cannot improve latency. Compression and buffering, among other things, still may offer better throughput.
http://peterjensen.github.io/idf2014-simd/idf2014-simd points to an experimental chromium build that apparently has a SIMD.js implementation as well, written by Intel.

No idea if the source for that is available, or where, and how this relates to OP's link.
Could you elaborate a bit on the reasons for your opposition to front controllers?
#1 sounds like a pretty minority viewpoint. OSes these days are a lot more than just the kernel and things that call into the kernel. If you do a fresh install of the OS then I think what you find on the disk afterwards can all be reasonably referred to as "the OS."

#2 does not apply here. This particular API isn't implemented inline, or with compiler intrinsics, or assembly. They're actual calls.

If you're talking about the general concept of atomics, then I agree that "OS atomics" is a dumb name. But we're not talking about that. We're talking about a specific API that happens to implement that general concept. That specific API is part of the OS.
Yeah I get it. I love programming too.

There certain folks who claim that going to a job everyday is like going to disneyland because they're doing what they love. I find this concept hard to believe. I'm just trying to express: yes people may love programming, but programming at work is still "work" which is very different from "play"; both of which can be done with a programming language.

I should mention lest I get accused saying everyone is like me, that there are outliers. There exists people who love programming so much that they never burn out.
The number glitch that can lead to catastrophe
> rather than shoehorn them into a straightjacket?

Them who? Children don't buy their own toys. Adults buy them. Adults can make their own decisions to ignore the gender filter. By removing the option entirely, you're making it more difficult for your paying customers.
Right arrow will until you see the chipmunk, then down. (I Think.)
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The article does mention the union.

It helps that, despite the work’s fleeting nature, Hollywood is strongly unionized, which keeps wages high.

I wonder how the unions interact with the automation also mentioned in the article, such as robotic cameras. I'd expect some push-back from the grips' union against automation, at least while they still have some leverage with the studios.
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You two are talking past each other. The way it was before, you both could do what you wanted: either use the gender filter or not use the gender filter. Now there's no choice.
(Background: I'm a computer security researcher and lawyer at Stanford.)

When a security researcher gets threatened, there's a tendency to lambast the lawyers. I think that's unfortunate.

It is, very often, the client that demands an aggressive response. A lawyer should counsel against, since nastygrams to researchers tend to summon negative attention. Not being a jerk is also a plus.

That said, if a client insists--and they often do--the lawyers have little choice. Professional ethics generally require following the client's direction, and there isn't sufficient time to withdraw as counsel.

So, for the most part: Don't blame the lawyers, blame the DMCA. It's the law that's broken.
Why? Sounds like a good idea to attract wealthy migrants, albeit temporarily, many of whom after getting EU citizenship will move onto other locations in the EU. What are the downsides?
"The first reason is that you want he founders to be focused on the company, and not struggling to make ends meet."

Pay yourself a higher salary. If you're paying yourself less than 80k, bump it up. When you're selling stock, you're usually talking about tens of thousands of value at the minimum. Founders and especially employees shouldn't seek to take money off the table because it rewards them for hitting the wrong milestones. Fundraising is not the goal -- a sustainable business is. They should get rewarded for the latter and use the former as a source of fuel to achieve it.

"Secondly, every round the founders lose more and more control. They should be compensated for this."

They are compensated for this in the form of their net worth skyrocketing come fundraising event. Really, the question is should they receive liquid compensation. Sure, it would be nice for some risk to be left off the table, but if you signal to people that you're selling your own stock, what does that do to the employees mentalities? The cost is higher than the reward.

"One of the big problems with venture capital these days (and the reason I won't take it anymore) is that it disrespects the founders by demanding liquidation preferences for the VCs."

I agree! If the stock is liquid, I see no reason why VCs should get preference... the only thought that comes to mind is that they wouldn't invest if the preferred treatment didn't exist, or that the funding market would be significantly smaller. Remember... VCs are paid a lot to mostly lose money.
The entire article is about how these people don't even plan on living in Malta. They are buying access to Europe, not Malta.
Stripe is not a licensed MSB per their agreement. They seem to structure everything to avoid being called one.

https://stripe.com/us/terms
How does Mysos handle the spin-up of new slaves? One of the pain points of our current Chef-driven environment is the provisioning of new slaves. We use Chef to install and configure MySQL but to get a slave up and running, we use xtrabackup to dump the master's DBs to disk, then rsync them to the slave, then use xtrabackup to restore the dump. Once that's done, we point the new slave at the master and start it slaving. It's totally manual and takes around 15 minutes each time. How does Mysos automate this?
If anyone is "cheating" by setting their color to the background color, you can set Game.prototype.backgroundColor to something else in the console. Also a way to see yourself if you are the one cheating ;)
And if you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, check out the Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda (http://pacificpinball.org/). Even more machines for a couple bucks more, and as a museum it has machines that go all the way back to the beginning of the game.
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the initial product wasn't important

Hats off to you for trying, but I'm going to file this statement under my "I'm reliving 1999 in 2015" heading...
You've basically made cash.me - which is run by Square (squareup.com). And I have to agree with patio11: pat yourself on the back for being as smart as the bright minds Square, have a beer, then pick a new weekend project :)
haha I look forward to laughing at the MS paint conspiracy story boards that result from these kind of events
That's a fair argument for not blaming the lawyers. But I don't think that line of reasoning deflects blame away from the company demanding they pursue legal action.
As a veteran, I’m sorry to hear about your experience. I’ve a lot of respect for the people I’ve met from the Special Operations community, some incredibly talented people, but it sounds like one found himself leading a team he shouldn’t have been leading.

I agree that programmers should be managed by programmers. You need to learn to fly jets to lead a fighter squadron and you need to be an operator to lead a SEAL platoon, it’s a mistake to think programming is so different.

The article made a great point that even when you do know how to program it’s incredibly difficult to manage other programmers. My current director, who is a programmer, is only concerned with commit counts and bug counts. He doesn’t like to interact with other people, maybe have a one-on-one once a year. Unfortunately, this mentality is driving quality into the ground as senior engineers grab easy bugs, don’t bother testing their work, and just hit the metrics with many working as little as possible. The irony being we’re a hyper growth unicorn.

Creating things and leading people are tough. Doing both is even tougher. Agreed that starting your own thing is the way to go. That’s pretty tough too though.

And drinks with coworkers is definitely prevalent in the military, but I think it is also pretty common everywhere. It’s good to relax outside the work environment, but that’s obviously tough to do with threats of violence. Again, apologies, that is entirely unprofessional behavior and tarnishes the reputation of other former military members so I’m sad to hear it.
It might be interesting if choosing a "background" color was legal, but caused random unexpected penalties.
> it's using tk

I didn't fire it up but all I see is qt4.
I work in a lab with EEG and FMRI primarily writing software for neural feedback which involves a lot dsp and physics, and considering that spike timing is a predominant theory in (comp)neuroscience today (and has been for nearly 40 years, yet no more fundamental understanding… go figure…), I think it would be an understatement to say that the level mathematical and physics rigor/theory applied by most people in the field is considerably lacking… if not a joke compared to what physicists/astrophysicists have had to deal with and have proven by experimentation in much nosier environments in the same time frame. I really see the field bifurcating with people doing more of the same, and those who want to import experience of modern physics…
So is this IIS spitting out a highly optimized version of a standard none optimised ASP project? Or the work of a well versed front-end engineer producing a solid example of optimised web practices? Cause if its the first that would be nice.
The business side in my opinion is much more harsh. If only it were a fun comedy. Many companies are much bigger and don't have comedic actors working there. Somewhere between SV and Breaking Bad is real life. Sometimes though I have felt like Jesse Pinkman chained to a desk when someone robots me. Robotting someone is a term I just made up to describe people that treat you like total shit, twisting every screw, but at the end of the day still robotically desire you to develop a product for them. You walk out of the deal or job and their mind breaks because it doesn't compute that their bad behavior is not liked.
This is "Why is the bike shed missing three walls and half the roof?"ing.
This is a very interesting move. Estonia is doing something similar, by offering E-Residency to foreigners for a price [1]. With some very restrictive governments, this gives wealthy foreigners some leeway to go around the rules.

> “We want to attract individuals who can add value to our country because of their ideas, and their networks and their businesses and their talent”

If this goal can come to fruition, this would be a great boost to Malta. I don't necessarily see it happening, and see more abuse of the citizenship than anything (probably to gain access to the EU's business benefits). However, it could potentially be a game changer. I wonder if other countries will follow suit.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/26/estonia-offers-...
The impressions may be sparse, e.g. say you're retargeting CEOs (demographic information you're getting from a DSP) who have visited your website in the last month (via a pixel you drop) who are in New York City (via a geoIP DB).

So, fine, a probabilistic model might work well. And you might decide to bid on 100% of impressions. And you might decide that you have to bid $200 CPM to win -- which you're OK doing, because they're sparse.

And then say that FooConf happens in NYC and your aggressive $200 CPM bid 100% of the time blows out your budget.

Often you can charge the customer you're acting on behalf of your actual spend + X% up to their campaign threshold. So you really want to ensure that you spend as much as possible, without spending too much. Pacing is hard. Google AdWords, for example, only promise to hit your budget +/- 20% over a 1 month period.
I think most people wouldn't go into farming. They'd use the billion dollars to chase some crazy dream, retire, party hard, spend extravagantly, go on vacation, travel the world, start a new venture... anything but farming or doing something totally plain... but that's just my opinion, I'd actually like to see some hard data on what billionaires do with their time.
What do you mean, what about autism? It's a problem more important than homelessness. Having a home is not a physiological necessity, having a shelter is and only in adverse conditions (note that clothing can often do the job).

Also, 'Most homeless have mental problems' confirms the sentence you quoted. You're either intentionally misunderstanding it because you think I'm a mean person or, as it also seems, you have a poor understanding of English. Having mental problems that result in homelessness have also resulted in an inability or distaste for adapting to society as you, the government and everyone else demand people have residences. (Edited to remove a stray period and add a newline if it lets me. I'm having a formatting problem.)

Edit again: It's unacceptable to go around accusing people who make statements you disagree with trolls. In these instances, you're often wrong and you look like a fool to outside observers(who don't also do it habitually).
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I have to say, this is one of the most exciting technologies I've seen in awhile. It predates docker by a fair bit, and I would have hoped it would have gotten more traction. So I'm very happy to see slides from a user group.

Alas, the brilliance of Erlang has not been sufficiently appreciated, so hopefully Elixir -- aka: Erlang Returns -- might catch on and become a popular hipster language.

With Docker you still have all the overhead of Linux, and personally, I'm finding it a bit overwrought, and then on top of that more and more infrastructure is being built. All well intentioned and I'm not saying it's wrong-- but it's starting to feel like open stack.

One of the earlier demos of Erlang on Xen was a system where a VM was spawned to handle each requests. EG: An HTTP request would come in, an entire VM would be spawned, handle the request and go away. It was very fast.

I find that kinda astounding!

http://erlangonxen.org/zerg

PS- Not intended to start a flame war, the dogmatic sounding parts of this post are all tongue in cheek.
I removed bootstrap at work (in favor of Bourbon and Neat). For context, I disagree with Bootstrap's framework design decisions, our app had a 3000-line CSS override file, and we wanted to make our two-year-old web app responsive, so we decided to gut Bootstrap entirely. The process took a few months, including a whole redesign process.

For an existing app, you can't just remove bootstrap and put in something new. As you probably realize by now, everything will just break.

Instead, you need to update individual pages along the way. This process is preferable to removing bootstrap and re-implementing your pages all in one giant pull request since it allows your team to QA iteratively.

For us, we redesigned our app, made it responsive, and also used another library in addition to removing Bootstrap. There was a lot more nuance involved, but for example, I started first by redoing the header and footer, then I moved onto individual pages. You can probably just start by re-implementing common mixins and modules first. Then you can move onto the actual templates and start removing your .rows and .span divs page-by-page.

I wrote about the process in depth here: https://medium.com/anyperk-product-engineering/anyperks-resp...
Is it generally a lawyer's job to advise a client when a case may attract negative publicity? Do they even care?
You make it sound like it wasn't a standard Business practice before Uber.
Which raises another interesting question - how does brain deal with infinite loops?
New chip architecture may provide foundation for quantum computer
Even if you start off with messy complicated AI, it could modify itself to become a more efficient optimizer. And it would do that because it would be beneficial for whatever set of values it has, no matter how complicated.

Regardless I don't know why you think a messy AI is safe. Having a really complicated utility function doesn't mean it is going to result in anything desirable for humans.
What's to roll yourselves? (Serious question, I might have missed it.) The erlang platform provides a great deal of everything you need. And if it doesn't, there's a library out there to do it.

Elixir is extremely active, growing and moving fast and even if you do have to roll it yourself, it can still be a net win.

For instance, I found it was easier to integrate a mail sending library or interface with mailgun than it was to get an STMP service working on linux.

But then, I'm a developer, not ops.
It crossed their mind quite a bit. Constant topic of conversation - the implication here that it's "easy" to file as an MSB is ridiculous. It's easy to file, harder to "be".
Is this the stag hunt / assurance game? I'm too lazy too lazy to do the math right now.
The trend in blogging had been towards better UI and presentation. But instead the focus should be on engagement to drive the conversation.

Very much that, IMO.
It's about as accurate as Office Space. The inaccuracy is in the exaggeration, which is what makes it funny. The technical details and terminology are nearly flawless. It does notshow the thousands of quiet hours of work required in the real world.
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Sounds scary to a European. But on the other hand, they have money, we just have to tax them.
Preferred/common dual structure allows the preferred shares to rise in price differently than the common shares.

Congrats, you've created a huge tax burden for options holders.
There's not much concern about automation - it's been a fact of life in the industry forever, because every producer wants every movie to have stuff that nobody has seen before. They're more concerned about the safety implications. I've never heard of anyone being told not to use a particular technology because it would reduce labor requirements, although I've heard plenty of stories about general work rules designed to inflate labor requirements from unions or professional guilds.
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For those who are confused:
Hit the down arrow to go thru the slides, when you get to the end of one, hit the right arrow to go to the next section, then rinse and repeat.

Just hitting right will show the you the headers for each section. Right jumps from section to section

Hitting down goes slide to slide.
Were these vulnerabilities disclosed to CyberLock at all before the results were published? If not, I can't blame them for being angry. Not saying they shouldn't be publicly disclosed in addition to private disclosure, but you have to give a company a fair chance to review the vulnerabilities and at least respond to you before you publish.
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