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I created a register-based VM named RCPU, for educational purposes. You can find it at https://github.com/ddfreyne/rcpu. It has most of what you’d expect from a register-based VM, and even has video output (rcpu-assemble samples/video.rcs and then rcpu-emulate the resulting file with --video).

I intend to write up my findings, but haven’t gotten around to it yet. I do have slides for a talk for this project though: https://speakerdeck.com/ddfreyne/simulating-a-cpu-with-ruby
However, that does not compute the cost of having to drive over with a shoveling machine, let alone the cost of building and maintaining a shoveling machine, or the cost of calling workers at 4pm to show up to drive the shoveling machine....

Wow, you actually are posting that as if I hadn't mentioned that issue in the gp post.

"If you are thinking about saving the cost of the equipment and driver, then that's fine."

I can't tell if this is intellectual dishonesty or poor reading comprehension.
It's an arbitrary number, but so will the real estimate; what I think the important exercise is: take the arbitrary "real" estimate and have them back it out to what multiple of their projected sales that's meant to be.

As the other commenter points out: it's very difficult to gauge how valuable a share in a private startup is going to be worth. I think it's a lot less hard to reason about how much revenue the company is going to make.

That doesn't directly solve the valuation question --- the multiple on revenue is going to vary wildly from 3x to 100x --- but at least you get an idea of what they think their business plan is; and, if they're hoping for a 50x valuation, or they think they're going to be doing $1bn top-line in 2 years, then at least you know they're being crazy optimistic.
I think HP should really show a picture of expanding a PC workstation versus the new Mac Pro which would result in a spaghetti junction of external cables, boxes and power adapters.

Also, I actually don't know any developers who are using the new Mac Pro, whereas before they would be excited and talk about the old Mac Pros. Are the new models selling well? Any start-ups using them? After the poorly received release of Final Cut Pro X, I imagine most video production folk went back to their PCs... and since Apple gave up on the server, enterprise and scientific computing markets, who is actually buying and using the new Mac Pros?
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Register based VMs are not more complex than stack based VMs. You can even have a stack and the only difference is that your instructions operate on registers and not directly on the stack. I only consider generating code more complex with a register based VM.

If you are interested here is a toy vm I wrote myself: https://github.com/byo3rn/ire

PS: I suck at documentation.
Well, hence the willingness to pay $300 for Beats.
I thought the key point was this:

Before you close on any round, you should create a waterfall spreadsheet
that shows what you and each other stakeholder would get in a range of exits
– low, medium and high. What you will generally find is that, in high,
everyone is happy. In low, no one is happy, and in medium (which is where
most deals settle) you can either be penniless or "life-changingly"
compensated, depending on how much money you raised and what terms you
agreed to. It is simply foolish to sell part of the company you founded
without understanding this fully.

Given the most likely outcome conditional on that outcome being positive is a modest success, you should negotiate terms to optimize for that and assume that if you build the next dropbox, everyone will be so rich it will all work itself out.

But yeah, if you blow $200mm without building an enormous business how on earth do you justify getting paid?
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Retenone is also carcinogenic in mouse models. If I had to choose exposure to retenone or glyphosate, I guess I'd go with glyphosate, which at least isn't neurotoxic.
Simple fact is that VCs at large had worse returns than S&P 500 in the past 10 years: http://pando.com/2013/07/30/ouch-ten-year-venture-returns-st...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Really sensible comment - you need to understand whether it is an approved options scheme or not (assuming you are in the UK).
> produce...signed integers

Well, except for right logical shifts.
Why not awnings over the bike path? This can be done in ways that look awesome and do not ruin the scenery and the view from the bike path. Thin film collectors in the form of tarps suspended from poles would make the installation cost commensurate with installing light poles. You'd need significant R&D in the aerodynamics, etc. However, you already need significant R&D for collector roadways, and you're starting out with an inherently disadvantaged design.
Nice! It's good to see libraries like these popping up, adding more value to the Rust ecosystem.

Coming from Ruby and Rails, I'm excited to dive into low-level programming with Rust. It is just so refreshing to have control over stuff that is totally abstracted away in Ruby, while being safe enough just to not shoot myself in the foot each time.
A lot of the bad rep about Angular results from the fact that it gives users too much rope to hang themselves with.

I worked at an Angular focused consultancy for a while, and have seen some absolutely horrifying (inherited) Angular codebases precisely due to overuse of controller spaghetti code and scope inheritance. On the other hand, our own greenfield projects have been a pleasure to work with because they focus on implementing most functionality in services rather than in controllers and using services for communication between directives over scope inheritance.

Angular 2 tries to cut back on some of the oft misused features like controllers and scope inheritance, but it's essentially an entirely new framework because of it. There's no clear upgrade path if you've been using these features gratuitously in your project, in which case you'd probably be better off doing some heavy refactoring, if not a rewrite, anyways.

And as far as new frameworks are concerned, React + Om is a much better way to build applications than Angular 2 in my opinion.
If you prefer a more scientific rationale to be cautious of GMOs, check out any of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's books on risk. The short version is, our standards for safety must match the potential dangers.

E.g., you're dying of cancer? No need to worry about minor (or even major) side effects of medication, because you're facing death. There's a 1 in a million chance of producing a GMO with worldwide consequences? You have to be absolutely positive, nearly 100% certain they're harmless. A handful of studies is nowhere near sufficient (without even addressing the inherent conflict of interest in investigating your own GMO for safety). Even if you had a couple dozen studies on one GMO, could you ensure that level of caution for all?
Link to TJ blog post on nodejs.org http://blog.nodejs.org/2015/05/08/next-chapter/
I was amazed until they got to the cat (about 3:00 in). At that point I was blown away. The inside surfaces of the "outside" legs were also accounted for in the mapping, and it was spot on.

This is seriously cool.
I started out with having an idea that I should always show a random image when clicking on the "Show me another one!" button. However, I quickly ran into problems when people would see repeated posts as the MySQL RAND() function might return repeating post ids. Creating a more complicated algorithm to save all the posts in a cache that had already been viewed and also saved in a cookie created some unnecessary complexity. In the end, I ended up just showing the last posted image and the button basically takes you to the previous post every time you click it (or tap if using a touch device).

I used Import.io to write a crawler API to fetch the top posts. Then I wrote some cron jobs to automate calling the API to fetch the latest posts every three hours. The actual job runs via a beanstalkd queue as a Laravel artisan command.

I didn't want to hotlink the images directly from Imgur as I didn't want to leech on their bandwidth, so I used Cloudinary to display the pictures instead. One advantage was that with the Cloudinary API, I could resize the images and/or convert gifs to an MP4 on the fly (MP4 files take a lot less bandwidth to deliver). However, since I am not making any money from the site and wanted to stay on the free plan, I decided to mostly ignore gif files as they take a lot of bandwidth and disk space on Cloudinary. The Laravel queued command also takes care of uploading the images to Cloudinary.
One of the arguments that they made is that since they didn't have a coffee maker at a low enough price point last xmastime, they lost out on not only the sales but also the people who would have bought coffee because of those sales. They had issues bringing the MINI (the lower price point coffee maker) to market because of some manufacturing issues so they really lost out in the holiday season. So that's a good idea (and the DRM stupid thing is expensive relative to the older model) but apparently wouldn't work.

The waste doesn't HAVE to be the issue since with reusable cups it's actually a decent option because it only heats a small amount of water, doesn't have a heating pad, has auto shutoff, etc. However, the insistence that people use the (worse for the environment) cups because it's more profitable is the real waste thing. You could make a coffee maker one-hitter that made better-than-average coffee, but the sorts of people who go in for Keurig convenience are not the people who care (so much) about these things.

[nb: I wrote this https://medium.com/message/keurig-didn-t-learn-a-damned-thin... My take is a little different from TCs]
"reaches thousands"

At its peak, the copy of Living with Schizoaffective Disorder that I have on my own website - there are copies elsewhere - had 8,000 readers per month.

The State of California Mental Health Department placed it on a reading list that they distribute to their county clinics.

I was able to give some closure to a grieving mother whose son low-level formatted his hard drive then killed himself for no apparent reason.
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People are incredulous when they themselves are skeptical. But it can still be incredible "that Obama...". The thing that is incredible is the occurrence or the circumstance. 'Incredible' is actually the correct word in the top-level comment. The author is incredulous because they find it incredible.
28k outside of london is good. If they are getting funding then they are probably also scaling up, you want to get on the leading edge of that if you can. Career wise that might be worth more than equity.

Equity is a double edged sword, sure you get extra value but you are also tied to the company. When things are going great you don't want to leave and when things do sour then you cant because you just lost money and may feel a moral pressure.

28k is also a good figure as it will springboard you into all kinds of other job roles (because recruiters only look at previous salary). my salary jumps were similar in the beginning.
The problem with GMO is that growers want to keep it secret. They are not proud of what they are doing and do not want to label their products as GMO. They believe that we, the consumers, are stupid and need to be protected by big brother (Communist party central planning committee) because we are not capable of making our own decisions.

But we do not want that. We believe in honesty, openness and freedom of choice. And if this means that it takes 10 generations to weed out the good parts of GMO from the bad, then so be it.

Nobody has to guarantee anybody else obscene profits from some clever idea. Most clever ideas are not that beneficial to the market, and therefore they either fade away or they fill some obscure niche which is less lucrative and glamorous than the founders had expected. So be it!

That is actually true capitalism and true market forces. Recently Elon Musk announced a home battery product that could actually cause the end of nuclear and the dominance of solar power generation. It came about, not through some central committee deciding what is good for us, but through pure capitalism and entrepreneurial spirit. And that is good.

So put a prominent label on any products containing GMO, and explain what you have in there and why it is good. The people will decide because that is their right. The right to make informed decisions is more important than any other right, because there is no liberty when your decisions are manipulated or when the rich and powerful keep you in ignorance and confusion.
I agree that nobody should take me too seriously. I often take myself too seriously and it is exhausting and thankless work.

On the other hand, I disagree with your assertion that I made people take a course as part of a hiring process. I simply said that I’d hire someone if they knew some things and 27 of my candidates who didn’t know those things asked if I would teach them for fee. I agreed to offer a three-week course on condition they wanted to learn for its own sake and that they were NOT doing it to get a job because I wasn’t guaranteeing anyone would get hired and, besides, the chance any one person would get hired was perhaps 4%. In the end a bunch of them proved to be superb and I hired two instead of one as I’d originally hoped. And I got a few others jobs elsewhere. I didn’t have to do that, but I did. And they didn’t have to learn what they did, but they did.

You can accuse me of being biased in favor of people who like learning things for its own sake and who know how to do the job I need done. But if you are going to accuse people of forcing time-consuming education on candidates then I’d hope you’ll spend time going after employers who force you to have an irrelevant degree from a costly university before they will even let your resume past some idiotic filter.
I think the intended application is for digital art, which is where I think this shines. If you're a photographer, for example, printing X originals and destroying the negative is already dead simple.

In the past, I think paying for digital work was more about resolution. Here's a preview, now pay me for the full resolution. But I think if there's some consensus among collectors, maybe this will work.

What you're saying about future transactions benefiting the creator, that might be interesting to explore. I thought I heard some galleries have terms that limit who you can sell the art to in the future. Returning some percentage of future transactions back to the artist (or gallery) would be cool, but that could always be added as a feature later, right?

As far as keeping a list, I was never able to do that. I have paintings all over the US and 99% of them I have no idea where they are and who owns them. I lose touch with people. And often the transactions are with complete strangers, do you really want to keep in touch with all these random people? Even if I have somebody's email, I don't want to bug them about my artwork. I gave a couple of paintings to my university and I never had access to the room they were displayed, they could be in a landfill by now, no idea.
How what's the average return for a VC fund investor?
There's a front page post right now talking about how much money the average VC partner makes, which made me curious about the average return the investors (ie not the fund managers or firm, but the pension funds, endowments, etc) actually get from the VC fund.

I've heard it's not that much in relation to other investing options, but couldn't really find good, average, numbers on a quick google search.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9517069
For a responsive design, I used Yahoo's Pure.css framework. It was fairly easy to work with and basically its just two Laravel blade view files that display the site's content (a master template and a view template).
I also added a Twitter account, which can be found at http://www.twitter.com/topcuteanimals as well as a Facebook page. I used a neat service called Zapier to post pictures from my site over to the Facebook and Twitter pages on an hourly basis. However, I didn't want to run out of the free plan for Zapier so now it is limited to just one update a day.
All the scheduled cron jobs are handled via Laravel Forge which has honestly been a joy to work with. I have been using Git flow via Source tree and host my code in a private Git repository on Bitbucket. This helps with the fact that whenever I plan to make a release or a hotfix, each push to the master branch makes an automated deployment to the live site thanks to Laravel Forge's helpful integration. I also use Redis to cache the posts so as not to hammer my tiny server's MySQL database too much. Overall most of the site was done within a day with incremental updates that I have been adding in my free time over the past couple of weeks.
Yes, it's pretty seamless on boundaries.
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Yep. The risk of doing business in a foreign country is that your firm--at least for now--has no direct political recourse (excluding stuff like bribes) if that foreign country does something you don't like.

That should be built into the business model, that risk.
why would the original submission of this article be flagged? Not worth discussing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9516703
RE #2. _Possibly_ loss of milkweed is killing the Monarch, not necessarily Roundup. (Better weed control means less weeds). Weed sprays have been in use for decades. Roundup happens to be one of the safer ones. Claiming that Roundup is killing the Monarch is just.... silly. Farmers need to control weeds. That's the bottom line.

If people are (rightly) concerned about the Monarch they should do the obvious... cultivate some dedicated patches of milkweed rather than expecting farmers to have weeds in their fields. Put your money where your mouth is. Get a campaign together and pay farmers to grow a few acres of milkweed.
Note that this tweet clarifies that P stands for PHP and not Python or Perl: https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/499432194398756864
I see, so seems like your core innovation is this new kind of db along with amazing search integration. Then why become a full platform (seems harder to gain traction)? Why not become a DB/Search company and create a software package that customers use (kinda like MongoDB) rather than having to deploy their code onto your platform (like Heroku)? Just curious, I'm sure you may have had good technical / business reasons.
Sometimes there are cash distributions before the fund closes. I've seen these after big exits, but they usually come later in the fund.
True I studied employment law, you have to prove that they discriminated against you. Record the meeting and find them saying they can't hire you due to a mental illness, or subpoena their email and hope they wrote they won't hire you due to a mental illness. If you don't have this evidence, no lawyer will take your case, and the EEOC won't support you.

They could just write down "overqualified" or "lacking social skills" or "doesn't get along with others" as reasons and not even mention a mental illness.
You don't really disagree with the piece - the author would agree with you that the $200M was wasted. The point the author was making is that the terms of Hooli's "investment" basically forced them to waste the money, since the investment wouldn't have happened had they not spent it on ineffective advertising using Hooli's own platform. It was that investment that gave Pied Piper its $1B valuation, hence "valuation isn't everything".

You're probably thinking "I'd never be so dumb as to take an investment with those terms", and you're right: you wouldn't be. You also don't own a billion-dollar company. I would bet that somewhere in Silicon Valley, there is a unicorn whose valuation is based on a deal with similarly bad terms, and it will blow up in their face in a couple years, and then we'll all marvel at how stupid someone can be who ran a billion dollar company.

I read the article as a cautionary tale for founders who see "billion-dollar company" and get stars in their eyes. You are not the target market for it; you already understand the point it is making (though perhaps not that it is making that point). There are many other dumbasses in Silicon Valley - I can see a couple in this comment thread - who do not.
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> Seed-sellers have survived hundreds of years without repayment each year.

And they still can. Farmers can still use them also - no one is forcing them buy Monsanto.

If paying for them each year did not benefit farmers, they would stop using them.

If you don't want to pay for them, don't use them. Problem solved.

The fact that such a huge amount of farmers chose them shows they must be profitable for farmers and Monsanto alike. Win-win, right?

This make believe fear is not a problem. Besides, the earliest Monsanto seeds come off patent protection very soon, then you can replant all you like.
It annoys me when news stories don't link to their sources. Here it is: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2605.2009....

The study is terrible. All the reported effects include 0 well within the 95% confidence interval (e.g. ranges like -2.3 to +3.2), yet mysteriously the P values end up just the right side of "significant". This reeks of confirmation bias, or worse.
How many employees do they have? The less the more likely you are to negotiate a good stake. I don't think it really makes sense to apply financial calculations at this stage. You might be underestimating the amount of equity you can get.

What I'd do is keep the table open - make them hire/pay you for a month or two, then negotiate. You can probably get way more if you develop a good relationship.

EDIT:sorry, sounds like you already work there

If they're <=5 people don't be afraid to say 5 or even 10%.
How do you know this? I follow economics blogs and the general reaction concerning TPP is that the secrecy hype is overblown and that it's largely just a mundane trade agreement with a few nasty provisions like the copyright stuff, but the good parts outweigh the bad.

I'd be hard-pressed to argue with their opinion without actually reading the agreement, not to mention the years of education and exposure to global geopolitics I'd need to actually understand what the provisions being argued over mean and why they exist.

Geopolitics is nuclear science that everyone seems to think is a bikeshed.
The platform is not only for deploying Haskell apps - it can host any web server written in any language including JS. I think the platform is simply written in Haskell.
I'd really prefer a link to the actual study or paper, because this sounds a little... biased, to say the least. More specifically, it sounds like the whole "Bisphenol A" thing [1] and from even before that, the "soy mimics estrogen" thing [2].

There's nothing new under the sun.

1: http://www.fda.gov/newsevents/publichealthfocus/ucm064437.ht...

2: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/27/ask-well-is-it-safe...