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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2015
Accounting Policies [Abstract] |
Property and Equipment, Useful Lives | Depreciation and amortization is computed on a straight-line basis over the following estimated useful lives of the assets:
Furniture and fixtures | 3 to 5 years
Computer hardware and software | 3 to 5 years
Leasehold improvements | 2 to 5 years (Lesser of lease term or useful life of improvement)
Schedule of Earnings Per Share, Basic and Diluted | The following table presents the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding used in the calculation of basic and diluted income per share:
|  | 2015 |  | 2014 |  | 2013
Numerator (in thousands): |  |  |  |  |  |
Basic and Diluted |  |  |  |  |  |
Net loss |  | $ | (160,036 | ) |  | $ | (66,029 | ) |  | $ | (56,434 | )
Total dividends declared / paid |  | (25,434 | ) |  | (25,039 | ) |  | (18,633 | )
Dividends attributable to common stockholders |  | 24,740 |  |  | 24,313 |  |  | 18,122 |
Net loss attributable to common stockholders – basic and diluted |  | $ | (160,730 | ) |  | $ | (66,755 | ) |  | $ | (56,945 | )
Weighted-average shares used in computing net loss per share attributable to common stockholders – basic and diluted |  | 49,505,817 |  |  | 48,658,088 |  |  | 48,155,832 |
Basic and diluted net loss per common share |  | $ | (3.25 | ) |  | $ | (1.37 | ) |  | $ | (1.18 | )
Anti-dilutive equity-based incentive awards excluded from the computation of diluted loss per share |  | 71,468 |  |  | 27,760 |  |  | 27,760 |

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