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That's the whole point of the article tho isn't? Terms matter.

Terms similar to those do exist btw. Investors who aren't going to be able to wrangle board control often attempt to control their money using absurd up-front strategic requirements.

You are correct. Taking that money is a massive mistake, but founders often do it to protect from bottom-line dilution. After all you can often negotiate a better valuation by taking worse terms on the deal.

I've seen it up close and personal, the cautionary tale in the post is a good one. Valuation is important, but you really have to understand the terms you're entering into.

A mentor described it to me as "always be steering for an optimal outcome for partial success". In other words if I'm valued at $10M today, then I want to make sure I'm going to do OK if we end up selling for $20M, as opposed to getting the best possible outcome at $100M. Ya I might leave a bunch of money on the table in the end, but in the ~$100M case I'm going to be really happy no matter what.
One caveat not mentioned is that while float is 64 bit floating point number, int is only 53 bit integer, unlike having 64 bit int in most other languages. Yeah, I've got bitten by this before causing a nasty bug.
Facebook used to use Dell C series servers and HP servers, tons of Dell Custom Solutions C1100/C2100/C6100 and DL160 G6 servers showed up off lease years ago (DL160 racks were shown in a time magazine article of a FB datacenter). I'm fairly certain I've seen pictures of Dell C6220 servers at Facebook as well.
I've been on the other side of this and it was absolutely fine.

I asked for fair market value, i.e. I understood I was asking for less than my value to the company. When this elicited a bitchy response along the lines of what you have said, I understood enough about the company to find a better job.

Companies that won't negotiate with you over salary, won't negotiate with you over anything. A toxic place to work.
Thanks! I am thinking of working on putting a scrubber on the site. So you would like to log in and see your feed vs your favorites? Appreciate the feedback!
I think it affected earlier versions of IE - Douglas Crockford detailed an issue here:

http://javascript.crockford.com/memory/leak.html
Can you fill in some of the blanks on why the necessity of GMOs is modest? Apart from things like "supporting the Ugandan cassava crop that would otherwise be devastated by diseases cured by GMO", don't most GMO strategies also drastically reduce other harmful chemical inputs to farming?

I'm not sure I understand the last argument.

Just curious; I know you're just explaining the argument, not making it.
The point I think needs making about GMOs is that they aren't really a category. That is, there aren't any true, important statements one can make about all GMOs, except for the obvious one that they are produced by genetic manipulation. But as far as their benefits and their dangers, they have to be evaluated individually.

So on the one hand I'm very concerned about Roundup Ready crops, not specifically because they're GMOs, but because I'm concerned about long-term glyphosate toxicity. On the other, as far as I can tell from a small amount of reading, Bt corn, "golden rice" (rice that makes its own beta-carotene), the non-browning apple, and now this Bt eggplant are all probably okay.

I think that failure to understand this point, that each GMO is sui generis and has to be approached individually, has two dangers. On the one hand, there is a tendency to oppose all of them indiscriminately, and of course we're already seeing this. But there's also a real possibility that once that blows over and GMOs get more accepted, we might get complacent and not check out new GMOs as carefully. I do think some safety testing is in order, though in many cases the modification certainly sounds safe. Beta-carotene is certainly a valuable nutrient, and AFAIK is hard to overdose on. The non-browning apple gets that way by having one of its enzymes (polyphenol oxidase) turned off -- what could be dangerous about removing an enzyme? The Bt mods deserve a little closer examination, as they are producing a new protein, and there seems to be the potential for allergic reactions in some small fraction of the population; but Bt is considered an acceptable pesticide for organic crops (it is a protein, after all, not some chlorinated petrochemical) so it could well be pretty safe.

(All that said, I do still support GMO labelling laws. People should be able to know what they're eating, even if they overreact to that information.)
Yes, certainly imagination. :-)

The documentation is community created and under the MIT license as is the rest of the code. Our customers like Julia because it is a high quality open source project. Our incentives are fully aligned to make Julia the best open source project it can be, in all aspects.

I did not work on Julia for the last 5 years to see it become cripple-ware. I have worked in a startup before where all the amazing engineering work disappeared. That is why we started Julia in the first place.
Where in the world is taking leftovers home NOT normal?
My spouse worked there, a couple of steps down from Jeff Bezos. At least parts of Amazon are micro-managed misery.
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Dunno for California, but I once had a co-worker that grew beef (as a hobby type thing ) in the Red River valley of Texas and he could pump water but it blew his cost curve. It was only feasible if he used what they call "green water" in the article.
One of the most rage inducing wikipedia articles you will ever read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rice. People who block this stuff are nothing less than murderers in my opinion.
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Your question isn't very clear. Do you mean, what is the average salary of a VC? How much is their profit share?
What you probably want is median - averages are skewed by outliers.
I thought some of the anti-GMO sentiment is because some agri-chemical companies are just evil.
> Getting rid of drug crimes does nothing to solve that, because you see the same pattern in basically every type of crime.

No you don't. There is no epidemic of black men being convicted of insider trading or wire fraud.

> Like, let's legalize speeding because more blacks are pulled over for speeding than whites.

You're saying that like it's a completely ridiculous suggestion, but there is truth in it. Most traffic engineering manuals recommend that speed limits normally be set at the 85th percentile traffic speed but most speed limits in the US are set around 10MPH below that speed, resulting in widespread lawbreaking. Having laws that most people violate but only some people are punished for is not the rule of law and is exactly what facilitates racially biased selective enforcement.

> Also, how do mandatory minimum sentences lead to more bias? Wouldn't that lead to less bias, since it removes biaased human judgement from part of the process?

Mandatory minimum sentences amplify the biases in who is arrested, charged and convicted by increasing the average penalties. They also don't eliminate bias in sentencing because a biased decision maker can still give black defendants more than the mandatory minimum.

The only extent to which they could be said to reduce bias is in reducing the possible range of penalties imposed, but the same range reduction could be achieved by lowering the maximum rather than raising the minimum.
They may say they left the machine on when they wrote the paper, though that would be too funny to be true I hope.

Can't say for sure that all people are not electrosensitive ever. People can be sensitive to the oddest things and react, but for most it has never been an issue.

People have been able to pick up radio signals, was thought impossible or eons and then found out to be true due to fillings. Body does contain iron and other elements which at scale could possible pick up higher frequencies. Bit like wilsons desease in which people have higher than normal iron content.

So can't totaly rule out that some people could be electro sensitive, as to what range and power levels, that would be different.

It is commonly known though that some people get migraines when thunder storms are approaching, though not saying all related to changes in static levels in the air and humidity/pressure equally more relevant.

But yes, clear evidence is needed. Indeed tests with people in faraday cages real and look real but fake ones as a blind test would certainly help as a test for many I feel.
Yes, let me second this. Nathanael Johnson does a great job in this series. I found it very informative.
nspawn inits. journald - fair point. logind inits. systemd-tty-ask-password-agent is a password agent that handles password requests of the system, for example for hard disk encryption passwords or SSL certificate passwords that need to be queried at boot-time or during runtime.
There are some really neat things going on here! If you're interested in this, check out a paper by one of my old mentors: Darwinian evolution can follow only very few mutational paths to fitter proteins. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16601193) In general, the more deleterious a mutation, the more mutational paths we see for escaping a local minima. (The rate of compensatory mutation in the DNA bacteriophage phiX174 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15911582)
I wonder what the stopping distance is on this glass?
Ok, I'll bite. What does systemd itself link to now?
I think I understand what you mean. Certainly i'll look into evaluating my value + wants based off your model.

For me in some small way I want to be working for a company that is even in an almost insignificant way mine... Not dissimilar to the attitude that I guess crowdfunders have.
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> it is safe or not

Most of the major scientific and medical organizations have issued a statement that GMO food is safe (in the sense of being as safe as non-GMO food). This is just an image, but in most cases you can verify the statements back to the organizations' websites by googling.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9gJwulXnO_o/Ue8hgkh4YkI/AAAAAAABCT...

You can of course choose the same road as climate change deniers, and cry for global scientists' conspiracy.
It really is. Nathaniel Johnson also writes the most informed articles about the California Water mess.

http://grist.org/author/nathanael-johnson/
Indeed, 64 bits of accuracy is overkill for a lot of ML algorithms, where there is so much noise that the additional quantization noise due to low precision is negligible. Most deep neural nets are already being trained in single precision because that is what NVIDIA GPUs can do the fastest. There has been quite some research on reducing the bit depth further the last couple of years, see e.g. http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.02551 and http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.7024.

The current generation of GPUs already has limited support for half-precision operations, and the tools for using these operations in neural networks (dot product, convolution implementation) are starting to become available as well, which is awesome (see e.g. https://github.com/NervanaSystems/nervanagpu).

NVIDIA themselves have also noticed and better hardware support for low-precision arithmetic is coming in Pascal: http://techreport.com/news/27978/nvidia-pascal-to-feature-mi...
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I blame monsanto for the G.M.O. hysteria, they gave G.M.Os a bad name and now people who call themselves environmentalists behave irrationally because they can't be bothered to look past the name and actually look at the facts... In a lot of cases G.M.Os are safe and are actually better for the environment because they can reduce the amount of pesticides used (or reduce deficiencies in the target populations).

G.M.Os should be studied on a case by case basis.

It's the same with nuclear power. Banning nuclear power and all research on nuclear power (e.g. Thorium) is short-sighted.
And then you take that better-paying job you were already offered.
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I have a generally very high opinion of the Science Based Medicine blog, and the SBM editors have a very low opinion of glyphosate alarmism:

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/glyphosate-the-new-boge...

The short version of this post: there is a wealth of evidence to analyze from significant human exposure to glyphosate (from farmers, for instance) and none of it supports significant toxicity. Because glyphosate is so precisely targeted to the metabolism of plants and not animals, it is among the least toxic herbicides in use.
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Maybe all this "BTC blockchain as a platform" stuff is too tangential and undermines (no pun intended) the potency of BTC as a cryptocurrency.

Maybe there could be a "Platform Test Coin" to beta test all these far out ideas, then spin off the successful projects to their own independent alt coins?

Even assuming the BTC network can handle a lot of bloat, wouldn't it be cheaper for users of XYZ platform to use a (less expensive) altcoin blockchain? I'm not an expert on inserting data into a blockchain, just thinking out loud here.
I think that's part of the author's point: that valuations are, in a very important sense, largely fictitious, and that other actors in the ecosystem can make your valuation as large or as small as possible to suit their purposes. If you want to build a business, your actions need to actually do that, and you should be aware of and mitigate the implications of any wild valuation swings. Similarly, if you want to get rich (which may or may not be aligned with building a business), your actions should do that, and that also may or may not follow from getting a big valuation.
Looks great, I'll try it out.
If you are doing RAID, especially on a hardware RAID card consumer drives generally don't support TLER. This means a consumer drive will sit and try to read a bad sector again and again for long periods of time. You'll notice this on desktops when a drive is getting bad sectors that it will pause 30 or 40 seconds at a time. In a RAID setup it's better to fail fast and mark the drive bad for replacement, but the consumer drives don't send the hardware/OS the information it needs to do it quickly.
> Getting rid of drug crimes does nothing to solve that, because you see the same pattern in basically every type of crime. Legalizing drugs would reduce the number of crimes, but not the racial bias.

That's true, but since drug crime is used as a tool by the people who discriminate it's still useful to remove that tool of discrimination.
No matter how you choose to negotiate, do the step of asking your employers for a couple scenarios --- not just one --- that will put actual numbers to the value of your options. Not based on the VC valuation, but on what the company might get acquired for, and what sales figures would look like at those acquisitions.

You will find hiring managers that literally have no idea how or why your options could be worth anything, and it's worth knowing when you're dealing with them.
What about systemctl? It talks to systemd-the-PID1 via D-Bus method calls. That the system state is fused with the OS process state remains the case.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9505837
I don't think I can quickly evaluate that. I would say it's less technical than a traditional tech company but still closer to that than say an eCommerce store.

> I think your boss did you a huge favor, taking a risk on you this first year. Now you are no longer an unproved dropout, he owes you a real wage. Keep both of those in mind.

This is exactly the lines I'm thinking of. I've been lucky enough to gain the sort of experience that puts me on the same playing field (at least in the view of employers) as my a grad.
Not a facetious but serious question, but what theoretical part of Black-Scholes is really important for a options trader's everyday trading?

I'm a programmer by trade but I trade options on the side. A long time ago, I read Hull's and Sinclair's derivation of BSM line by line. Nowadays, I totally forget all the math except the intuition as it relates to the greeks and base all my trading on those.

Talking as a non-professional, I found the math of BSM to be helpful for me to understand better the option greeks and the model's limitations (assumption of smoothness, doesn't take into account volatility simile's).

But not sure how the theory can really help me hedge better, come up with better implied volatility as compared to the current open source plug n' chug frameworks that computes Black-Scholes pricing (e.g., QuantLib).

Options trading is a hobby of mine and I'd love to hear a pro's take on these. Thanks!
There is an argument to be made that it is better for a company to make a fair offer and not negotiate. There have been long patterns in many industries that people who negotiate harder get better results, leading to large wage gaps (particularly between genders). A fair, open, honest, and frank discussion about the position of the company is best, but I think a hard negotiation creates a norm that can be toxic.
> There is no epidemic of black men being convicted of insider trading or wire fraud.

I'm willing to bet that the few black men that are caught for this type of crime are more likely to face court and have more severe punishment imposed.
Looking at the comments, the pro-GMOers are just as blindsided as the anti-GMOers. Shame on us all.

One of the anti-GMO arguments is that you don't want to get a knock on your door (and a lawsuit) from Monsanto for accidentally having a field next to your Monsanto-loving neighbour.
Is it due to high operating cost?
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1% is £70K, albeit illiquid that still sounds like a lot of money. If they better your £28K salary it looks like £100K (of course salary is real and ongoing whereas equity is a single NPV). Is there a vesting schedule?

I'd say you need to think about how much you like working there, and your chances of finding something better. The market does seem pretty buoyant, could be well worth it to talk to more people.
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If by pure math you mean not even a CS minor, then no, not out the gate.

But majoring in math is (or should be) a sign you actually enjoy math. That's important for a few domains like computer graphics and data science/machine learning.

I think most CS majors are good at math, but that doesn't mean they enjoy it. Furthermore, there is a huge gap between getting good grades in math and actually understanding it. For most coding jobs, that's OK.

The workaround is simple: get a graduate degree. If you get a CS PhD (maybe an MS) specializing in a math-heavy domain, you'll end up with the fundamentals and domain knowledge you need. For many positions, it could be a requirement.
Though I disagree with you, I upvoted you because your criticism is substantive and well informed.
Materials scientists do fascinating things with glass, but making it competitive with rocks for road surfaces seems like a waste of effort.

Personally I think Elon Musk's solutions for this problem (decentralized clean power generation) are a bit more compelling, especially the part about putting solar panels on our rooftops instead of in our roads.

http://fusion.net/story/129075/elon-musk-reminded-everyone-l...
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> I thought some of the anti-GMO sentiment is because some agri-chemical companies are just evil.

Which is like being anti-software because some software companies are just evil.
Seems everyone wants their 'I told you so' moment. Why can't we just accept that web 2.0 and these high valuations aren't going away?
is it cheating to just put some javascript into the console to check the button timer and automatically click it when you want it to click?
As far as I can tell Monstanto got a bad name because of GMO.
What, I answered your questions and that's all you've got? I mean, you've made a few basic mistakes here, like nothing reaps orphaned processes, only zombie processes. And launchd does actually parse plist files directly.

So much for your devastating rebuttal I guess :-) what's your point with dbus by the way? It's just a form of IPC, and uses a bus daemon to transfer the message. Are you implying that's a problem? If so, how?
> One of the anti-GMO arguments is that you don't want to get a knock on your door from Monsanto for accidentally having a field next to your Monsanto-loving neighbour.

Except that it's never happened, to my knowledge. Monsanto has sued farmers for using their seeds illegally, and in those cases it was shown that the farmers did so knowingly -- accidental cross-contamination has never been sued over. For instance, in one case a farmer claimed accidental cross-contamination while using Roundup on the same crops (which would've killed non-GM crops); in another, the field was found to be nearly 100% GM crops, a virtual impossibility unless seeds were explicitly and knowingly planted.

Monsanto does many things that people can take issue with (e.g. patenting seeds, which isn't reserved for GM crops, mind you), but this is pure, unadulterated bullshit.

Edit: C.f. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/10/18/163034053/top-fi...
But why is this important? Can't computers already do this? Even my 1978 TI pocket calculator can do logs very fast. It's not like this is an important unsolved mathematics puzzle.
Unpaid wages are one of the few ways to pierce the corporate veil. In the US, officers of the corporation can be personally liable for unpaid wages.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that the unary operator and the Number constructor yield equivalent results?
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Verified by whom? The Greek tax authorities?
Would Hooli would wait calmly on the sidelines with their offer still on the table while you did so?
It has a very rational basis - the 'clean nature' fad is a reaction to various food manufacturers deliberately producing cheap but bad food, for a long time.

Now, that doesn't mean it's always the correct reaction. But it's a simpler proposition than 'you must thoughorly research each individual ingredient in everything you eat'.
At least I didn't get a full-screen come-on to buy a subscription to some site I've never heard of, before.
> people who negotiate harder get better results, leading to large wage gaps (particularly between genders).

This can only be true if companies are not making fair offers in the first place, i.e. the wage gaps result from a culture of underpaying employees.

I agree that this should be better addressed, but forbidding employees from negotiating is only harmful.
The debate is ongoing. For example: http://www.nature.com/news/widely-used-herbicide-linked-to-c...

For the time being, I plan to do my best to avoid the stuff.
It was very important for IE <=6. Early AJAX web apps like GMail ~2004 were quite hard to get right - avoid most memory JS leaks or the memory consumption got out of hand too fast. That was in the days of 512 MB memory and WinXP.
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If an employer rescinds an offer after you make a politely-phrased counter-proposal, then that's a very combative attitude and I'd stay away from working there to begin with.

The only kind of employer who would react that way is one who routinely misleads and exploits their employees through sketchy tactics and ultimatums.