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It couldn't be worse than allocating a quarter into one company that goes under at such an early stage. the tremendous return comes when others begin buying into it, at worst case, the founder doesn't generate more money than you put in which in this case is very tiny but the equity is still sizable that the next guy paying 10x what you paid and even ipo would have exponential yield. You don't even need to focus on the startup doing well if enough series of investors are willing to buy your shares out. I reminds me of pump and dump which is why I think the latter is unethical but it's unregulated and private market, not exactly the type of people that would go homeless if the start up did go under like when Enron wiped a lot of working ordinary people's pensions.
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It's a bit like asking whether there is a microscope for color. Color is how we perceive certain wavelengths of light. Sound is how we perceive certain frequencies of waves propagating through air. There are ways to look closely at light, and ways to closely observe vibrations in a medium, but color and sound are in our minds.
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Ahhh Ninja Gaiden ... very cruel to my three day rental. I think I beat one of them.
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QE is monetary policy. The (somewhat simplified) difference between the two: Fiscal policy is taxes and expenditures; monetary policy is what your central bank does.
You could think you're in a meritocracy, that no one is getting an outsized deal over anyone else. The reality is that reviews and promotions will be subjective, gamed, or both. This is human nature. It might work with fewer than 100 employees. The military is proof it doesn't work in large organizations. The point and promotion system was endlessly gamed.
Well that explains it, thanks :(
Use Firefox then.
No, but I'd be happy to pay a subscription fee.
Skype on Windows has ads? Is that a recent thing? The Mac version doesn't, or not yet, anyway.
The answer is no. You do not get performance bonuses. You get little bits of colored ribbon.
Of total gas production, yes. However, LNG is a different story.

Unless I'm doing the math wrong (which is quite possible), this facility alone will produce ~2% global LNG production. (This facility has a capacity of up to 5.3 mmtpa, while global production of LNG in 2014 was 246 mmtpa.)

I'm not saying it's dwarfing global supply, but a single facility producing 2% of the global output is a pretty big deal.

Of course, global LNG output will probably be significantly higher by the time this facility comes on-line, and 5.3 mtpa is its maximum production.

At any rate, it doesn't really detract from what you were saying overall, but this is a very major player in the LNG market.
Ability to swipe anywhere on screen and tap could replicate alot of those mechanics.
>it’s really hard for the newer generation to look past the graphics, sound and gameplay

"Retro" graphics are pretty popular now, though. They're in the mainstream all the time.
The other thing that is lost in all of this is that a lot of Greek debt was originally owned by private banks. Over the past several years though most of that debt was sold off to EU governments transferring all the default risk to EU tax payers.
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> There is something fundamentally, deeply broken with the Greek economy

The current growth rate is a result of austerity, not a bizarre retroactive justification for it.
Why should they be "thankful"? I'm wary of this attitude. Isn't defeat and the brutal horror of war (especially that war) sanction enough? Not trying to be smart here, genuine question.

Did not know the numbers though, thanks. The situations aren't as alike it seems as people (myself included) are making it out to be. But they're not completely unalike and people remember history ...
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In 2012, Greek debt was cut from 350 billion to 250 billion:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Economic_Adjustment_Pro...

Also something was done in 2010, but by just reading the Wikipedia page, I am not able to understand what the involved numbers were:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Economic_Adjustment_Prog...
The point is that is a working app in go.
Cancer of the bile duct? If so, its nearly always fatal. By the time the lump is big enough for someone to go to the doctor to get it checked out, its always stage 4, terminal and inoperable. Only way it turns out differently is when a surgeon is poking around in there for some other reason and stumbles across it. Mostly kills people in their 70s and 80s or older so there's not much research done on it.
This is awesome. Ignoring the fact that it is written in Go, the iOS calculator only goes up to 100,000,000 and it is super annoying. Free ones have obnoxious advertisements.

Now, I want to learn to write iOS apps in Go as well.. Super neat and a great app to start with
I've been through the dotcom bust, where my company went through 6 layoffs in a single year. We went from 1400 to about 600. I survived them, but it was a terrible experience, and after a while, people stopped working and just gossiped about the next layoff.

First off, if you're going to do layoffs, make sure it's one and done. This means, probably cutting more than you have to so that you don't have to keep making layoffs in 6 months, etc. The quicker you can get back to hiring, the better it will be for morale.

Layoff your lowest performers first. If you don't, then your top performers will leave you, and you will get crippled within less than a year. Don't do something like ask everyone to take a paycut, because it means that your top performers suffer just as much as your low performers. You should get rid of your low performers quickly.

Try to give as generous a severance package that you can. And meet with each of them face-to-face if possible, but with several dozen it's probably impossible.

Make it quick and let them leave with dignity. That means let them say bye to their friends, and making sure that every single question they may have answered. COBRA, unvested options, Unemployment benefits, etc. Personally I wouldn't escort them out or lock their accounts unless you think that they are going to cause problems. Hopefully they won't.

Do all the layoffs before lunch. Have a meeting with the rest of the company after the layoffs, after lunch and explain why you had to do it, and explain your plan to ensure that it doesn't happen again.

Never tell the employees how YOU feel. No one cares.
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Because Greece still needs money from the ECB even after they refuse to pay back existing debt. If it were as simple as Greece defaulting, this drama would have been over weeks ago.
Well for one thing the armchair airwar blog...er..."experts" keep pretending that with modern, portable anti-aircraft systems the A-10 is a survivable platform long term. Ignore that minor detail and sure it's the answer to all your CAS needs.
previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9866152
You can listen to collisions at the LHC!

http://lhcsound.hep.ucl.ac.uk/page_sounds_higgs/Higgs.html

Of course these collisions don't actually make sound, these are "sonifications" of data recorded by the ATLAS detector, for some interesting events.

http://lhcsound.hep.ucl.ac.uk/page_sonification/Sonification...
I'm an early stage VC, so I often invest at the same time as angel investors. I think there are shortcuts to getting an investment even if you are approaching a new market. Sometimes that means showing enough promise with an MVP (which often doesn't require much capital). Sometimes it's having an amazing team -- for example, a lot of early PayPal folks could probably raise money with just about any reasonable-sounding idea.

Also, investors typically invest in areas that they're familiar with, but that can be a pretty inclusive criterion. For example, I've personally worked on payment fraud detection before (as an engineer), so that makes me feel comfortable investing in fraud detection, but also credit assessment (similar algorithms), a large number of startups that involve lending or payments, and so on. For another example, my fund invested in Flexport (a recent YC company that handles shipping logistics for companies). My partners and I didn't have any personal logistics experience, BUT one of my partners worked at a company that struggled with imports and shipping, so he appreciated the pain point. Also, Flexport's CEO, Ryan, is a force of nature and had been working in the import/export space for 15 years, so he was very credible. That was enough for us to invest despite not having logistics experiences ourselves.

In the Airbnb example -- and I wasn't an investor 6 years ago so I don't know what their pitch was like -- I'm guessing if the founders had a bunch of lodging-related experience, or if they had previously built great companies, or if they had a few more data points that showed the viability of their model, that could've helped.

Finally, here's the challenge from an investor's point of view: you see 1500 pitches per year. The majority of the pitches mention something like "we're going to be a billion dollar company" or "we're going to create an entire new market." One or two of those 1500 companies will do just that, ten or twenty companies will get kind of close, and the other 99% won't be close at all. In hindsight, it's easy to look at Airbnb or Uber and think that investors were short-sighted. Maybe they were. But a lot of early stage companies look simultaneously promising and risky in their early days, and most of them fail, so investors understandable err on the side of pessimism.
The card game "War" takes skill if you play it competitively. That doesn't mean it's a hard game.

If you play a game competitively, you play against other people. That will always take skill. The conversation going on above is about playing against the game itself, not other people.
Ah, I see -- I'm actually just going to delete my previous comment so because it does not add any value to the discussion here (and to be honest I'm a little embarrassed, heh). Interesting distinction and not one I was making. So much to learn here, thanks!
I think you're conflating two different issues:

a) the Greek economy is currently in debt with no realistic way of repaying it in the short term, and

b) Greek politicians have adopted a socialist-minded Keynesian tinkering-around-the-edges that has somehow been named 'austerity'.

The root cause of a), and then the body politic adopting b), is broken economic culture:

https://mises.org/library/greece%E2%80%99s-biggest-problem-i...

"And so it is with Greece. After already securing debt relief and effectively being allowed to default by restructuring its debts over the next fifty years at subsidized interest rates — and after actually achieving economic growth in 2014 by cutting taxes and slashing the size of its sclerotic, bloated government — this toxic Greek culture prevailed once more and elected a team of socialist die-hards to drag it back into the mire. Of course it doesn’t help that on the other side of the negotiating table is another bunch of central planners in the EU, IMF, and ECB. Nevertheless, Greece sits stuck between two central planning negotiation parties because its people have been too busy demanding goodies instead of freedom."
We tried giving them a bible, like in Shawshank Redemption. If the Lord cannot save them, then how can we?
I've found what Ben Horowitz has written about management to be incredibly helpful. I am lucky to never have had to lay people off, however, if I did, I'd go to this first: http://www.bhorowitz.com/the_right_way_to_lay_people_off
I run 5 days a week. Getting black out drunk is different. It's probably more like electroshock therapy. Think of it as running is de fragging your drive and getting blackout drunk is rebooting.
Language is power.

I say we refrain from adopting any new silly terminology that anyone attempts to foist upon us regarding this issue.

Something is either cryptographically secure, or it isn't.
A "cryptographic" method that allows access to anyone not authorized by the one doing the encryption is not cryptographically secure. And in that case, what's the point in using it or even calling it cryptography?
Let the guy rest in peace. This is not about improving your startup.
We use annotations for some things, but they're either used at runtime for configuration or things like the lovely @Deprecated.
I rarely ever take advice from successful people, only people who've failed. Successful ppl sometimes are blinded by their own success/luck.
Fun trick: turn your phone to landscape mode while in Calculator and you get 26 digits instead of 9.
> whenever in history countries have bowed to the demands of external creditors for reform, it never turned out well for them

It worked very well for Brazil at the 90's. And yes, those were IMF demands. They helped.

Greece situation is different. But you can't generalize it either.
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Also, all kinds of strategy games. Eg Europa Universalis 4, any Civilization game (even though they may look 3d these days, it's not why you play them).
Oh--and also consider that some of us (hi) aren't writing for HotSpot, yeah?
> more conservative and trusting of the government

Don't American conservatives tend to distrust gov in general? Or is it more like nonprofessional + conservative = distrusting of gov?
I could possibly see the point of this if Swift didn't exist (ObjC is my second least-favorite language, right behind C ), but otherwise it seems like little more than an interesting POC.
> it’s really hard for the newer generation to look past the graphics, sound and gameplay and have fun with them compared to what you can play today.

Heh, so basically "look past everything and you'll have fun!"
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200Gbps (if true) seems very high for a non reflection attack.
Prelude is not near East Timor, you may be thinking of Sunrise.

See eg. : http://www.smh.com.au/business/woodside-petroleum-calls-for-...
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Is it fair to compare this to a self-hosted PAAS (ex. Dokku, Openshift Origin, etc)?

(just asking for my own understanding)
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might have had more effect if we'd made sure they could al read first.
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Clever, but will likely result in lawsuits over randomly assigned IP addresses which just happen to spell prominent trademark holder names. So, a "funny once" joke.
Dying vs. merely damaged is a red herring. Interesting fact re: 9 yo => making eggs/sperm - good comment overall. "Effect wouldn't be as strong" why?

Re: 'regardless of age': you can't rule out genes that influence near-starvation thrive/fail differentially at young vs teen ages. Nevertheless I agree that this is suggestive evidence for "it's not just regular genetics". Good analysis if it indeed applies to this case!
I've had to let people go directly, and helped others through this process. It sucks, and it's an immensely valuable lesson as an entrepreneur - when you've done this once, you will work harder to prevent it ever happening again, while at the same time being prepared to do it faster in situations where that is warranted.

A common mistake when winding back a company is only pulling it back to break-even. Eg, 'Our revenue forecasts show we can cover 50 salaries, so let's cut back to 50 people.' There are two problems with this - first, if your forecasts are too optimistic, you will be forced to do another round of cuts and the team / clients will start fearing a death spiral. Second, cutting a business back to break even leaves you with no spare cash flow to invest in future growth - you risk stagnating. Better to add an extra 10% to the layoffs now than risk the remainder of the business.

From there, the decision about who to let go is sometimes obvious (you might be dropping a product line, have an underperforming team, or some stand-out low performers). Do what you can to re-deploy your top performers elsewhere within the company - you'll want them, and their advocacy, moving forward. Where it's not obvious, and you can't get guidance from team leaders etc, accept that it's going to be partly a crapshoot where nobody wins.

How you communicate the decision and the reason why is critical. steven2012 has covered this well elsewhere in the thread. Be honest, take responsibility, and be positive for the future you plan to create. Good luck.
I doubt he would object to people learning about what an awesome programmer he was. Not sure what this has to do with startups...
Great advice. I'm not sure I could add anything more except maybe that the people you are laying off are going to take this personally. If the layoffs were not due to them, assure them that is was not about their individual performance. Also, if its possible, be willing to be a recommendation for them. That will confirm for them that it was not necessarily them and it will assure future employers that you didn't use PE just as a way to let go underperforming staff
Someone apparently disliked this comment, but check out

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Greece had achieved primary surplus, which means surplus before paying interest on debts is accounted for.

http://www.merkfunds.com/currency-asset-class/glossary/prima...
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And another quote I've been meaning to find, which sums it up quite well I think.

http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/wii/mario25th/4/3

> Iwata: That was fun for me, too. At the time, when someone came to me and said, "I'm having trouble because there isn't enough memory," I was—to be honest—really happy. (laughs) Seeing if you could achieve programming for the same functions with a smaller amount of memory was one way for a programmer to show off.

> Miyamoto: We were like, "If we just leave it to Iwata-san, he'll take care of it." (laughs)

> Iwata: I enjoyed that as I worked.
It's actually not only austerity. It's reforming their economy that they haven't delivered on, unlike all other euro countries that needed bailing out. 8% of Greece's population still works for the state. I don't blame other EU states to not take Greece seriously anymore, particularly as everyone seems to forget that 50% debt cancellation that happened in 2011.

All in all a lack of fiscal responsibility and incompetent governments that let down their European partners for the last five years..
This article shows a key problem with not revealing how Amazon thinks it knows this information: when Amazon gets it wrong, there's no recourse.
Cool stuff!

I'm curious why they chose to have expressions evaluated in right-associative order....
Basically why is operator precedence equivalent?

Was it done because it was easier to code? Don't understand why this would be of significant difficulty.

Won't this complete diversion from accepted notation hinder adoption?(not intending to imply they are aiming for widespread adoption)

Could anyone who would use the app for an actual purpose chime in here?

Totally understand this is a pet-project/example btw. Just wondering.

Cool shit googlers :)
Kudos to you for asking this question.

Just make clear to people who are being laid off the reason.

Essentially people will feel a bit happier knowing that it wasn't them who screwed up.
I think the real threat is the investors demanding outsize returns. I have read elsewhere that Pao might have been a sacrificial lamb - make some changes, get fired, changes stay in place. I'm sure that the board has significant changes around monetization in mind.

The mods should move everything to a non-profit org. The site is open-source already, and you could even use their Oauth to port user accounts over directly. My understanding is that they are just breaking even, which sounds bad for a for-profit but sounds great for a not-for-profit, especially if your executive director is getting CEO level pay.

Now, someone else will spend the time implementing my fantastic idea for me, right? /s
Don't do it on a Friday, mid week is best. Friday is the worst, that being said get it over ASAP and give them as much warning as possible to give them time to land on their feet. I agree with Steven cut more than you have to, a second round of layoffs means you loose everybody you would want to keep. I have never seen a company survive if it has went to that well twice.

Chances are they already know it is coming, if work is slow and not coming in or the burn rate is high and you have run long on funds then they will be expecting it. Have a very clear plan to explain to those that stay, as to why the ship is righted now and how you plan to survive. Plan to loose at least a few of your best guys, if you loose one, use his/her salary to give the others a raise or you will lose them too.

Also cut the pessimist over the pragmatist or the optimist. In a layoff environment the pessimist will kill your company moral. If you got a guy that is say 15% better than another guy but he is a pessimist and the other guy is an optimist, keep the optimist. That being said, trim dead weight if they are just not skilled let them go not matter their outlook. As others have said, look to trim, trim more than you need.
Severance severance severance. Everything else is just words. If you can't afford it, than give everyone vesting / option rights for ten years.

If you can't do that, honestly, it's all just empty words and bullsht in my opinion. Someone screwed a lot of people by over hiring and mismanagement. Hope whoever was responsible for that is first to go.
Do we need to address every single possible misunderstanding in every headline? This wasn't a costly errant click and if you did click, the page made itself obvious right away, so this feels like nitpicking.
you could organize a direct relief effort or campaign schauble to play nicer
I knew it would be S.Korea. The company I used to work for, at the time I left, was dealing with some particularly spiteful individuals from S.Korea who have been DDoSing their gaming platform and their separate video host. This was happening off and on for about 12 months. Interestingly enough, each attack was committed by completely different individual and were unrelated. In one attack where the guy was caught (I think they caught all but 2 of the attackers), he claimed he ran the DDoS because he didn't like the fact that there was a Japanese pop music video being hosted on the video site. This wasn't a young kid either, the guy was 33 and had a full time job at some advertising company.
It should never have come to this. They have commendable ideals but Tsipras and Varoufakis, and activist and an academic, were the wrong people at the wrong time. What the Greeks needed was old-school politicians who have played the game for years.

In an ideal world people would all work together for the common good, but in politics it's every person for themselves, and it's naive to think anything else.

Using mainstream media and social media to constantly attack the people on the other side of the negotiating won over their voters, the Greek people, and the left in Europe, but ultimately has only served to anger their creditors (the politicians and those who voted the politicians in).