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Just to point out that having a "stable" job tends to make me not try harder to push my own ideas.
Just wanted to say that your article is very nicely written. It is easy to follow and keeps the reader interested. Kudos. :)
osx, vim, alfred, git, and vagrant pretty much do it for me. Pretty much all of those things run well on Linux, though, so I'm considering switching.
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>On the other trying to get the upper hand in a trade treaty is not so great

What's wrong with that? Trying to get the best deal for your side is the entire point of a negotiation.
Because you don't have a choice, you faced the related issues right away and found them not a big deal. Most US businesses do have a choice to just ignore these issues completely, because their internal market is big enough to sustain expansion for a long time.

(although when it comes to audio-video, @navait is correct: it's a legal minefield.)
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I figured it out. The caching method cached the error page instead of the legitimate page. ><

Sorry about that.
If you have a mifi device, a shady table in a park is hard to beat.
I'd say that competition prompted that change of attitude. LibreOffice is part of it. We've been raised with Word and Excel, then we discovered that LO and GoogleDocs were enough in the vast majority of cases and Windows was not necessary. Microsoft could be late with going were people moved to. Not too late, but they can count they money they didn't get.
Because they tried more times.
Your position is similar to that of Swedish environmentalist and academic, Bjorn Lomberg who accepts that rising CO2 levels are the cause of warming, and that this is a problem, but argues that the dangers are overstated and resources would be better devoted to mitigation of climate change and addressing other pressing issues such as global poverty.

Despite his relatively orthodox views, he was recently run off campus at the University of Western Australia where he had set up a think tank, The Consensus Centre, to which the Australian government had pledged $4 million.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-08/bjorn-lomborg-uwa-cons...
Why not just disable that keyboard shortcut in your Ubuntu VM?
Would you still object if the tables had the heading 'ANSI C Equivalent', for example, instead of 'C Equivalent'? They are clearly defined relative to C, so is your problem with the lack of explicit version? Or do you object to C as an IR?

Personally, I actually quite like the idea of C as an IR.
There are other solutions:

1) The company could offer to buy back options at market rate.

2) The company's current investors could offer to buy equity from employees. The majority of investors returns come from a small number of portfolio companies, for those companies that are doing well the investors want a bigger stake even if it comes in as secondary.

3) Companies could appoint designated investors who could buy secondary stock from employees. Successful companies typically have over-subscribed rounds, companies could allow those investors who they like but couldn't get into the round to buy employee stock.

The general reason (2) and (3) don't happen is that individual employees don't have that much stock and the overhead involved makes it not worthwhile. But potentially there could be a solution which involves bundling together stock into meaningful amounts.
> This is one step closer towards an effective full Office Suite on Linux

Are you referring to Microsoft Office specifically?

LibreOffice is a full-fledged office suite, is feature-complete for just about 99% of things you can do in MS Office, is free (both, as in beer and freedom), and runs very well under Linux.
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> How do you have a spinning part and a non-spinning part? Because you're going to want your solar cells pointed at the sun.

Isn't that completely wrong? The full station could just be spinning as a rigid-body, while always the same side (with solar cells) can be oriented towards the sun. It is no problem if the solar cells are rotating around an axis, if that axis would be perpendicular to the solar panel and pointing towards the sun, right?

So I am doubtful that he did a lot of research into this. But I am really not an expert, so please correct me if I am wrong...
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There's probably an even simpler model than that. Consider the pay cut you'd take to work at the startup... how much equity did the seed-round investors get for that much money? Multiply that by 1.5-2x (just a guess, perhaps someone has a better idea) to account for their liquidation preferences.

If that's less than your equity stake, then take the corporate job and use the extra cash to invest in startups.
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I kind of see what your point is, but I disagree. A person's right to point out flaws in a system should not be contingent upon having overcome those flaws. I see that it would be easy to feel more sympathy for the author if he had fought tooth and nail against the system and still come out on the losing end, but that is really a completely separate topic from whether his arguments about the system itself are justified or not. The weight of the arguments should not depend on who is making them, they should stand for themselves.

Your reasoning sounds to me a bit like the (common) argument that a bicyclist that is injured by a car and then complains that the roads aren't accommodating bicycles shouldn't be taken seriously because he didn't wear a helmet, and everyone knows that bicycling is dangerous. Whether or not he should wear a helmet as a precaution doesn't change the fact that bicyclists have a basic right to argue that they should not be subject to this risk.
That's true of any hiring system though: how do you gather data on the job performance of the people who don't pass a resume screen? A coffee date? A phone screen? Missing counterfactuals everywhere.

To run a full analysis, you need to hire people randomly - both people who fail and pass your hiring process - and assess their subsequent performance. This never happens in real life.

However, you can still run an informative statistical analysis based on the variability in interview scores and performance scores. For example, the people who scored 5/5 on the interview should perform better than the ones who scored 4/5.
A very interesting read. I was always interested in how popular maps are designed. I think their development is quite similar to that of open source projects.
>> .docx is almost never appropriate.

A few years back I started sending PDF copies of my resume in instead of a .doc/.docx

I had a couple places email me back asking for a copy in Word format because their HRIS system could only import Word documents or text files.
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If a person who doesn't like liver and onions orders liver and onions off the menu, their complaints to the waiter that "I don't like the taste of this liver and onions" is not justified and sending it back to the kitchen for a different plate of liver and onions isn't going to please the diner's pallet. "Should" has nothing to do with it. Don't buy a ThinkPad if it doesn't meet your needs. Instead, buy something that does.
FYI, there's a word for a monopoly on the buyer's side: monopsony.
Another interesting tidbit: You'll find this on both sides of most public discussions I guess.

A whole lot of the people who tries to defend man made global warming in public forums seems to be parroting what they have heard, just like the naysayers.

Getting to the facts instead of gettings served up brochures seems hard and asking questions gets you smacked down by a bunch of zealots.

Which is why I found this piece interesting: at least some numbers and charts that seems understandable.
This. A while ago I was looking for a job. I had offers from large companies at N00k per year with bonus. CEO of start up offered me 50% less of the combined salary and bonus and then explained he was making that up with equity. My counter point was that he was asking me to invest 50% of my total compensation over what could be 5+ years in the company and if that was the case the equity compensation should be higher to reflect that risk premium as well.

We didn't see eye to eye on that and I work at a large company now.
Good on you if you don't have time to read the link, but your point doesn't stand if you took a minute to read the linked article. Remaining blissfully, self-righteously uninformed in your name-calling (shaming) routine has no quarter here.
>Earth might get a flat tire

There is no possible "flat-tire" existential risk scenario which makes moving to Mars cheaper (man hours) than just fixing whatever happened on earth.

IMO that kills the whole thing right off the bat.
Do you typically drive around 8 hours a day?
It's true we don't have enough info. I'm assuming he's a dev but I don't know.
Hey, thanks for your rant, very informative :-)

As a user, I don't care which standard gets implemented, I just want one now.
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It doesn't help that estimates of the climate sensitivity seem to be all over the place.
Yes, but if the 90 day expiration is in the plan, then it is 90 days. It doesn't matter why the lawyers put it in there, though IRS treatment is a reason why it is very common. You aren't going to be able to negotiate changes in the stock option plan with a company you are thinking of joining.

If you are working at a company like Pinterest with a more employee-friendly option plan, then you should value the stock options at a higher value as compared to less employee-friendly plans. I ultra-long expiration periods are awesome, and they are another practical method to deal with the longer period to IPO. These types of options aren't as good as having liquidity for the stock, but with them you can be sure that if you vest the option and the company value goes way up, you'll get the benefit from that.
Uhm, https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/technic... ?
Which is a risk, especially in companies where the strike price is close to $100/share. If it's going to be in the $10k+ range, is it really worth it to potentially reduce your future tax burden? Maybe. But it's also possible that your shares aren't worth that exercise price. Speaking only for myself, in my experience I decided to wait to see if the price was ever justified before buying the shares, and if it means a higher tax, then so be it. Otherwise, if it means walking away from vested, unpurchased shares, so be it.
> you won't see that money for 8-10 years

Amen. Not such a good notion to trade salary for options, when that extra salary could have been invested all that time. $10k in 2005 is equivalent to $17k in 2015, $21k if you consider dividends reinvested.
I don't think that 0.3% is radially out of line. It sounds completely in the ballpark of reasonable to me.
Me to. Way too many people, on both sides, will attack anyone who comes across as unsupportive.

Especially when it happens on HN and other sites that I come to to learn and discuss.
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When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all [0].

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Thank you for the great response, certainly good stuff to think about. But I think I did not make myself clear. The RSS trop data shows there is a 1.2K/century trend. My interest was in "the pause" over the last ~20 years.

So the metaphor becomes, imagine you were told the tide was coming in at a steady rate and that CO2 was causing it. Then for 19.5 years CO2 continued to grow at a steady rate, but the tide didn't come any closer during that period. That is certainly interesting in an of itself; and needs an explanation.
Yes it is a risk, and it's worth careful thought. Mainly I just wanted to make the point that you don't have to wait until they vest. A lot of people don't realize that.
You're right. I couldn't process 6 petabytes in perl.

I'd use C for that amount of data.
Sounds like this is an employee education problem at its root. Naive job candidates are evaluating offers and way overvaluing their equity compensation, sometimes even allowing it to substitute for cash. As discussed in a separate thread, the consensus is that options (vested or not) in a non-liquid company should be valued at or close to $zero. This could be an education job for college Career Services.
> For example, in terms of energy consumption,
> when a North American couple stops at two it’s
> about the same as an average East Indian couple
> stopping at 30, or a Bangaledesh couple stopping
> at 97.

The Americans in this example behave like O(1) and the Bangladeshi as O(48.5^n). No matter the constants the Bangladeshis' resource consumption will eventually outstrip the Americans'.
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The expression "non-C OS that can run Docker containers" reeks of magical thinking through and through, but for what it's worth the purpose of Docker is application containerization, which is more concerned with logical resource partitioning, infrastructure granularity and an escape from the broader state-related issues of the shared library context in the host OS.

Sandboxing is orthogonal. It so happens that some of the techniques of OS-level virtualization overlap with those of sandboxing on Linux, but Docker is nonetheless not a security tool.

Not that Docker's current libcontainer work is even at all portable. It's questionable what the current ruckus about companies backing the Open Container Project will lead to.

I'll let Theo take it from here:

"You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes."
If I'd had anything to do with it, they would have done.
> I prefer Wall Street's model of annual profit sharing.

The difference is that Wall Street has profits to share. A standard company has much less profits than Wall Street, and a startup loses money. Find a way to create a company that creates a positive value for the society while having Wall Street like profits, and I can guarantee you will become rich.
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Jobstart works with job seekers to help them get hired, and gets paid when their recruiting clients hire their candidates. Sometimes Jobstart's candidates get jobs at non-clients, and Jobstart doesn't get paid.

Jobstart can help negotiate offers, for which they charge the candidate 20% of the difference between original and accepted offer.

I'm an independent agency recruiter, and it sounds a lot like what I do. I don't charge candidates for negotiating services though.

I agree that most recruiters aren't very good at what they are supposed to do. Positioning yourselves as coaches is a marketing strategy to differentiate from those recruiters, but what you are doing is basically the same thing as what a good (both skilled and 'benevolent') recruiter might do, no?
Interesting, but it feels like the music is forever stuck in an into of some kind. I never quite get the feeling that it's building towards something.
That's a valid question to ask yourself if you also bootstrapped a profitable newco that (so far) has generated 60mm in revs.
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Yes, I link to a different version of that same file in the article (my link points to the version hosted on kernel.org, rather than Github). It provides a bit of high-level context, but by itself it doesn't provide enough detail to actually reimplement the corresponding Git functions.

Aside from being more terse and (IMHO) more difficult to read than prose with examples and non-ASCII diagrams, that file doesn't explain the context and motivation for packfiles, and it doesn't cover the parsing and application of deltas at all.
I think the bigger problem is that the current VC trend (which means the current startup trend) is to extend extra, long term rounds of private financing, which lead to positive exits pre-IPO, but only for preferred shareholders ... of which most individual contributors at startups are not, rendering "equity" almost completely worthless regardless.
not as nuanced as all that

as an employee, if you are lucky/skilled enough to end up at a successful startup, and you aren't very careful with tax issues, you can find yourself stuck: if you leave, you have to exercise, and immediately owe hundreds of thousands of dollars (or more!) on a completely illiquid asset that you can't sell. Which doesn't even take into account the potential for that asset to become less valuable.

That's not a decent way to treat people. Startups don't write the tax code, but many are willing to take advantage of it to control people this way.

After you put your 4 years in, you should be free to re-up or leave. Not free to leave if you are willing to risk all your liquid assets and/or borrow heavily.
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I read the article. It's interesting, as it does point out situations where Krugman seems to have been somewhat wrong in hindsight - which may be more discrediting than it otherwise would be, despite the difficulty of most predictions, when combined with his constant self-praise. That said, the evidence is fairly subjective: for example, even as someone unfamiliar with economics I can be pretty confident that Murphy is overstating his case when he lambastes Krugman for talking about the zero lower bound, when it turns out that interest rates can go slightly negative - it may be more than "nitpicking", as he says, but the zero lower bound turning out to be less than zero hardly vindicates the idea that the entire concept is a "mentality" Krugman is "locked into". Also, a prediction that 'X will push the economy in the wrong direction' is not directly contradicted by the economy going in the right direction in the presence of X; it's evidence against the relation, but not necessarily strong evidence in a complex system with many other factors - yet Murphy uses words like "revisionism" and "withering and irrefutable criticism".

Meanwhile, Wikipedia has links to articles where Murphy has made absolutely worded claims that have turned out to be completely wrong. That doesn't make Krugman right, but it's hard to take seriously anything about economics written by someone who said

"We can’t know the timing of the impending monetary catastrophe, but it is coming. Smart investors will minimize their dependence on the dollar before it crashes. At this late date, no one should trust the government and media “experts” who assure us that the worst is over." [1]

Maybe two excesses average out somewhere closer to the truth? But I'd like a more neutral source.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/killing-the-...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc4HL_-VT2Y

We (complex life) couldn't recover from something like that. Maybe simple life could hide deep in the earth and emerge when it's safe thousands of years later.
Because the number of convictions is a simple metric and superiors love simple metrics to evaluate their inferiors on.

It is much simpler than admitting that performance in a job is a multi-faceted thing and cannot be dumbed down to a single number...
Someone emailed about it and we fixed it. That's the preferred way to ask us a question. We don't see all the posts that try to ask us something, but we do see all the emails.

For completeness, here's what I told the user who emailed:

Users flagged it. User flags make a post drop in rank and,
when enough users do it, eventually kill the post. When there's an ongoing discussion, we typically unkill the post so that comments can continue. That's what I've done here.
Of course not.

What I question is that the increase in the average land-ocean temperature has a causal and unique relationship with the increase in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.

And I question this based only in the charts and information presented here.

>>> The computer model that generated the results for this graphic is called "ModelE2," and was created by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which has been a leader in climate projections for a generation.

- Is ModelE2 completely foolproof ?

>>> ModelE2 contains something on the order of 500,000 lines of code, and is run on a supercomputer at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation in Greenbelt, Maryland.

- How many bugs could you find in 500.000 lines of code ? The "Excel depression" article came to my mind after seeing this [1]

Again, I am not negating the global warning issue, but I am for critical thinking for these fundamental problems.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/19/opinion/krugman-the-excel-...
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But that's not "getting rich off of salary". That's gambling on the stock market. Sure, there are plenty of people who hit that jackpot too, but let's not lump that together with the idea that 9-5 salary is a way to get rich.
"it's worth $0 until you exit"

Are lottery tickets worth $0 until the drawing happens?

No. They are worth $2, or the price you paid for them. Likewise, pre-exit options do have value (as you note), but it is nonsense to simultaneously say they are worth $0.

Maybe the reason this is harder to grok is options don't have an established market price like lottery tickets do. Their early-stage value is simply a negotiation between employer and recruit (note: it's not the strike price). But it's a mistake to conclude that they have no dollar value, yet are worth something, just because negotiating a dollar value is awkward and hard.
Lomborg has openly stated multiple times that he believes in anthropogenic climate change. How is he a "climate denier"?

This post looks like a cut-and-paste from a political blog.
Anyone know what size stake they had? It says they had refused to take capital earlier, does that mean they still held 100% between them?
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This is a really extreme takeaway.

My point was more "i don't think trusted debian mirror buys you much either" if your goal is to not ship binary blobs not "billion dollar company is great".
I don't think the strike price is really important, it's the exercise amount that matters. But there's certainly an element of risk, and saving money on taxes is nice, but not losing money is nice too.
Thanks for giving it a try. Definitely needs more people posting. :)
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Ask HN: Where should a talented 20 year-old developer go?
All my life I've wanted to work in Silicon Valley and after reading this post -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9764564 -- yesterday it seems like I might not be able to.

I'm in the middle of a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from a well-respected state school on an F-1 visa and was wondering where I should go after graduation.

Europe? Canada? Try to fight it out in America? Thoughts?