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Employee Benefit Plans and Stock-based Compensation - Retirement Plan (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2015 | Dec. 31, 2014 | Dec. 31, 2013
Weighted average assumptions [Abstract] |  |  |
Expected term | 3 years 10 months 24 days | 4 years 1 month 6 days | 4 years
Volatility (in hundredths) | 51.10% | 63.20% | 59.20%
Risk-free interest rate (in hundredths) | 1.75% | 1.85% | 0.98%
Retirement Savings Plan [Abstract] |  |  |
Period after which all full time employees are eligible to participate in the savings plan | 90 days |  |
Maximum percentage of employer matching contribution if employees contribute at least 6% of base pay (in hundredths) | 4.00% |  |
Minimum percentage of employee contribution to get 4% of employer's contribution (in hundredths) | 6.00% |  |
Contributions to the retirement savings plans | $ 125,000 | $ 115,000 | $ 110,000
2015 Equity Incentive Plan |  |  |
Weighted average assumptions [Abstract] |  |  |
Expected term | 10 years |  |

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- Definition The estimated measure of the percentage by which a share price is expected to fluctuate during a period. Volatility also may be defined as a probability-weighted measure of the dispersion of returns about the mean. The volatility of a share price is the standard deviation of the continuously compounded rates of return on the share over a specified period. That is the same as the standard deviation of the differences in the natural logarithms of the stock prices plus dividends, if any, over the period. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 718 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 2 -Subparagraph (f)(2)(ii) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6415400&loc=d3e5070-113901 + Details
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