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The second and fourth are still unknown: > Author makes 3x the juniors That assumes the author accurately knows the salaries and equity positions of the employees, which is unclear and raises more questions if true. > the HR person wa
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> It only becomes a problem if the Fed overpays for the assets. Which is precisely what happened. Many of the toxic assets that are now on the fed balance sheet would have been close to worthless (if not completely worthless)
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I wonder if any of the gain can be attributed to the bundling deals. Had to install adobe acrobat reader recently and noticed they try to install chrome and the google bar for IE
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Can someone explain why the Net Applications numbers are so different from the StatCounter numbers? I would expect some variation in counting "users" versus "page views" but the difference here is stark
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A few notes regarding failures (because I think the linked quora post didn't do justice): - Bill Gates and Paul Allen's first venture was Traf-O-Data, attempting to process traffic data. They built machines as part of this. On t
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Similar questions were raised when discussing InstallMonetizer ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092711 ), a company that makes drive-by installers > I think people will be wondering if this resembles the founders&#x
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> "If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock." While I agree with his sentiment, I wish he took a moment to explain that pursuing environmental sustainability may actually help the top
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Obligatory warning: Github pages can go down and sometimes can't handle a slashdotting. Case in point: https://status.github.com/messages/2013-11-13 (due to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=672
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> Painfully slow (compared to Vim) It's a pretty sad state of affairs when "painfully slow" doesn't matter.
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> Numbers supports only iCloud. FYI Numbers supports both box and dropbox (via "open in another app"). For example, to upload to box: - hit the share button (the box with the up arrow) - "Open in Another App&quo
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This was submitted a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5293960 Numbers is now free on iOS 7 and can read/write XLS and XLSX out of the box. The iOS7 version is definitely a step-up from previous versions.
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The one good thing about coinbase is that they do react to outrage on HN. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6929705
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When this was on the front page last time, I pointed out that they charge fees: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6906374 > They appear to charge TAF and other regulatory fees ( https://brokerage-static.s3.a
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Can you build a fully functional version of Atom just from those repos? To compare, Apple releases source code for some components, but they definitely don't distribute "/System/Library/Extensions/Dont Steal Ma
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HSBC paid 1.9B fine for money laundering related to Mexican drug cartels. To understand this number, lets look at the DOJ claims: > Between 2006 and 2009, according to DOJ, HSBC failed to monitor $670 billion in wire transfers and $9.4 b
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> I believe that there are substantially more effective ways to deter crime and punish offenders than the lengthy prison sentences that his office pushes for in most cases ... like fines? The fines we end up seeing are paltry compared t
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Since all of the computers in question are Intel-based, I suspect it would be possible for people to use bootcamp to run Linux or Windows. Are people switching over? EDIT: apparently I have to spell it out: if people are bothered by the si
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> There is no fucking way 700,000 BTC disappears with nobody noticing. The history of Barings Bank is interesting, primarily because the main trader Nick Leeson was in the position to mask hundreds of millions of pounds of losses. In th
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On the other hand, I'm sure that FB has something in the terms or customer agreement saying that the locations are recommendations and that the ads may be shown anywhere, even if you only request a certain region.
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https://github.com/Diogenesthecynic/FullScreenMario is still there, even after a legal complaint from Nintendo.
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Why not directly test who will pay for your product/service by pre-selling?
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Note that it was only a beat on "Adjusted Revenues". Top-line revenue was actually a miss (615M versus 680M estimates). That being said, I Think the future is rosy for Tesla but TSLA is strained
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That only strengthens my argument: market values at ~225 / active user
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Try this: FB market cap ~170B .75B users (EDIT: originally quoted FB 1.2B users, but that is the total count and WhatsApp quotes active users) --> market cap implies roughly $225 per active user. In that light, 40/AU is cheap. Even
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Don't forget banks that may have tried to get them to IPO after the Twitter success
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> Sure, they got a little lucky because they connected with a domain owner that shared their vision for science. The fact that the domain wasn't sold since 1996, even when there were better offers from domain flippers during the tim
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Ambiguity also leads to inconsistencies, and I'm sure you are aware of the ambiguities of ASI
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I must be out of the loop here: what is Tinder, and is it sufficiently well-known that "Tinder for Jobs" is a good summary?
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The one part of the problem that the author missed is salary. Offering a small amount of equity is fine if you are offering an above-market salary, but it's the combination of below-market salary and minimal equity that causes the per
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The "voucher" seems paltry. How does it compare to the price difference of using a hotel?

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