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sgmanon Equifax CEO hired a music major as the company’s chief security officer

Headlines like these are why companies list relevant college degrees as job requirements.

sgmanon Filing Taxes After Exercising Start Up Options

An option grant where the spread has become large enough that the employee cannot cover the tax burden upon exercise effectively handcuffs said employee to the company until a liquidation event.

sgmanon Investing for Geeks

Gains in Roth IRAs are also tax free in addition to withdrawals. This means that if you have 30 or more years until retirement, you enjoy a 30 year growth at 8% compounded tax free (based on The numbers in the article). This is why if you're young and qualify for a Roth IRA it's almost always the correct choice.

sgmanon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)

August (august.com), San Francisco, Full-time

We are hiring firmware, backend, android and iOS engineers to help us redefine home access control. Connect with us at jobs@august.com.

sgmanon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)

August (august.com), San Francisco, Full-time

We are hiring firmware, backend, iOS and android engineers to help us redefine home access control. Connect with us at jobs@august.com.

sgmanon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)

August (august.com), San Francisco, Full-time

We are hiring firmware, backend, iOS and android engineers to help us redefine home access control. Connect with us at jobs@august.com.

sgmanon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)

August (august.com), San Francisco, Full-time

We are hiring firmware, backend, iOS and android engineers to help us redefine home access control. Connect with us at jobs@august.com.

sgmanon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2014)

August: San Francisco, CA

We are looking for iOS and Android developers to help create the next generation of home automation devices. Work closely with experienced hardware and firmware engineers to build products that allow physical environments to respond seamlessly to people's behavior.

Contact: sid [at] august [dot] com

sgmanon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2014)

August - San Francisco, CA http://www.august.com/jobs.html We are hiring a firmware/embedded systems engineer, a product manager, iOS and android developers, and a UI/UX designer. August builds products that make life simpler by allowing physical environments to respond seamlessly to people’s behavior. We believe in building quality experiences for our customers through elegance and simplicity. We have a lot planned for the future, and are looking to build a team eager to join the ride. Our software is currently built using Objective C, C, Javascript, Java, MongoDB, Node.JS, and Redis. Our hardware uses Bluetooth 4.0 BLE and ARM microprocessors. You can find out more at http://www.august.com/jobs.html. If this sounds interesting to you, email us at jobs@august.com

sgmanon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2014)

August - http://www.august.com/jobs.html - San Francisco, CA. We are hiring a firmware/embedded systems engineer, a product manager, iOS and android developers, and a UI/UX designer.

August builds products that make life simpler by allowing physical environments to respond seamlessly to people’s behavior. We believe in building quality experiences for our customers through elegance and simplicity. We have a lot planned for the future, and are looking to build a team eager to join the ride. Our software is currently built using Objective C, C, Javascript, Java, MongoDB, Node.JS, and Redis. Our hardware uses Bluetooth 4.0 BLE and ARM microprocessors.

You can find out more at http://www.august.com/jobs.html. If this sounds interesting to you, email us at jobs@august.com

sgmanon The UDID leak is a privacy catastrophe

No, you need a push token, which is a combination of device id and app id, and is only generated when the user authorizes the app for remote notifications. Additionally, you need a certificate on the server that is authorized to send messages to that app id.

sgmanon This 28-Year-Old Is Making Sure Credit Cards Won't Exist In The Next Few Years

Look at the bottom of your checks. You give out your account number (and routing number) every time you issue a check.

sgmanon The 99 percent

The number missing from all these articles is how much taxable income is generated from the activities of the top 1% (including business tax, employment tax, sales tax from purchases, etc).

sgmanon Peteris Krumins: How I went to Silicon Valley and raised $55,000 for Browserling

Do you live in the US?

sgmanon How rich kids already won the career game

By definition, there will always be an order of magnitude more people working as employees of successful companies playing the career game than there are founders of successful companies.

sgmanon Amount of profanity in git commit messages per programming language

Your point holds true for all languages in the graph.

sgmanon TestFlight: iOS beta testing on the fly

Apple has given developers this capability in since iOS4 came out.

Tutorial: http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2010/12/apple-best-kept-s...

sgmanon Website pulled on US church that wants to burn Korans [by Rackspace]

http://xkcd.com/750/

sgmanon Ask HN: How concerned should I be about liability when launching a site or spp?

> Is it ok to soft-launch, see how it goes, and only form an LLC (or equivalent) if/when you establish some growth?

Yes.

sgmanon Ask HN: How to be successful online without SEO bullshittery?

First, calm down.

Second, realize that the way people find their content online is through search engines like google. Adopt the attitude that by helping google find, index and highly rank your content, you are helping people who search for relevant content discover you and help themselves. Finally, figure out legitimate ways to do this from sites like seomoz.com and others.

Good luck.

sgmanon Wealth anorexia a.k.a. hating yourself because you're not Larry Ellison

Just as "ridiculously rich" is relative (for some people in 3rd world countries it could be having a few thousand dollars) so is "ridiculously thin" (for someone weighing 350 pounds this could be weighing 250 pounds). And I would argue that achieving this goal, in general, leads to better health. This is not to say that exceptions which lead to poor results don't exist in both cases, which makes the correlation even stronger.

sgmanon Wealth anorexia a.k.a. hating yourself because you're not Larry Ellison

"The most common result of trying extremely hard to be ridiculously rich is becoming modestly successful"

The most common result of trying extremely hard to be ridiculously thin is becoming modestly healthy.

The analogy stands.

sgmanon Daring Fireball: Creep Executive Officer

http://www.paulgraham.com/good.html

"Anyone can adopt "Don't be evil." The catch is that people will hold you to it."

sgmanon Why is proving P!=NP an important result? Most believe it is true anyway.

The implications of P=NP being true are much greater for modern computing. Proving P!=NP would therefore result in many researchers whose life's work is in trying to prove P=NP moving on to something else.

sgmanon Verizon, Google make net neutrality pact, sources say

Let's wait to hear what the details of the deal are before pulling out the pitchforks and torches.

sgmanon Ask HN: Do you have any startup related regrets? Epic failures?

Can you elaborate?

sgmanon Paul Graham’s Checklist, Would You Make The Cut?

It's 8 minutes. Watch the videos. You'll be happy you did.

sgmanon Did Southwest just throw us under the plane? Sneaky fine-print changes explained

Talk about a tempest in a teapot.

sgmanon RIAA paid its lawyers more than $16,000,000 in 2008 to recover only $391,000

Yes, but they did it to "encourage" people to purchase legal music which presumably increased their revenues.

sgmanon Ask HN: Is it worth it to join a great company in a "lowly" position?

Take the job and attempt to grow within the company. Best case: you reach the position you want at a great company. Worst case: you leave in ~ 1 year and you have a great company on your resume.