skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mostly wrong. You pay taxes as a percentage of something, as of some time, after modifying that something in some way. Sometimes this means you pay more in taxes than you ever got from the thing you had, or sold, or bought, or whatever. Your searchable terms here are "ISO", "NSO", and "AMT". See also the rules for capital losses in general.

Other times, especially if you're the CEO or a major shareholder in a large corporation with a large lobbying budget, it means you can buy something, make money on it, and as a thank-you from Uncle Sam, actually pay less tax on all your profits than you would have otherwise. Your searchable term here is "NOL".

Isn't it great that we live in a country where the tax law is so fucking broken that all these things are common enough to have their own acronyms? I know I feel privileged, anyway.
I've never seen a founder end up with preferred shares. Lots of shares, sure, but not preferred.
> no one's forcing you to be connected

Well, from my experience, that is simply not true.

I held out until December of 2014 before joining Facebook. Before then I found (and still find) the interface horrible (being much more happy in my RSS reader and mail client) and was squeamish regarding the privacy, as Germans like me tend to be.

I noticed, though, that it was becoming harder and harder to contact people outside of the professional realm. Often they would not check their email accounts for weeks or not even give out an email address to anybody.

The moment to give up came when I noticed that even using Doodle to schedule an event did not work as good as it used to since some people seemingly migrated off of email in their private lives.
A business model like Tsu's can kill Facebook.

Facebook keeps 100% of ad revenue; Tsu keeps 10% and pays 45% to it's users.
The sentiment is correct, but even an average member of society who has to choose between two children is better off with the college grad than the incessant consumer whose cortex hasn't folded yet.

The only valid explanation I can think of for our obsession with babies is evolutionary - you need some overkill hormonal persuasion to bond with babies. So every individual who has gone through such a period has some understanding of other individuals' love for babies - they're being empathetic when they hear someone say "I love my baby more than anything".
Ask HN: Anyone else seeing Google Apps. install themselves?
It appears that Google is using the Chrome web browser to install other applications. On OS X El Capitan I've found Google Search is now installed as a seperate application, or at least I now have a random link added in Launchpad.

http://www.cio.com/article/2993065/os-x/os-x-el-capitan-remove-unwanted-google-chrome-apps-from-launchpad.html
https://airtame.com/
Really looking forward to this. Time to get rid of the cables
I don't really know what to say to that. The depth of your ignorance is new to me, regarding the history of African societies.

Can I suggest a few books for you to read?
Should check out XShell5. One of the best SSH clients I've used on Windows.
You are discounting equity, bonus and future raises at bigco that you won't get at a startup. At bigco you can get rsus that are worth $25k all of the time, and 200k some times.
I do the same with the added twist of using another browser for Facebook.

That way, the tracking via the ubiquitous buttons doesn't work and the barrier for "just checking Facebook" is higher.
It's great to know something like this exists. We should have arbitration like this here in Brazil too, instead of arbitrarion subjected to public courts.
I'm not arguing that there is a solution that meets all of the constraints of the problem, just that this particular solution does not seem to meet the constraints described.
> the way they made kids + 2 careers work on middle class salaries is by dividing the day in half and each parent spends one half the day with the children and the other works.

Who sets up their schedules like that in the middle class? Middle class jobs don't (typically) allow that one parent could work from 7-4 and another from 4-1am.
have you tried it via ssl?
"He's not saying it's the sunk cost that provides the value"

Actually, that's exactly what they said and I even quoted them on it.
My main thought as someone who was an early stage employee at some high tech startups in the Silicon Valley in the 1990's, is that to the extent there is some truth in the poster's "three class society" of investors, founders, and mere employee engineers and I think there is, this was often true in the 1990's and is nothing new invented by Y-Combinator or other newer firms.

Often in a successful startup (most failed) in the 1990's, the venture capitalists or other investors seemed to walk away with the lion's share of the money from the acquisition or IPO, the founders and perhaps a few other key insiders would make several millions, and the "run of the mill" engineers would get a few hundred thousand dollars if they actually lasted the four year vesting period of the stock options. Many seemed to leave or be pushed out before the four year vesting period.

I would draw a distinction between a typical successful startup that might be acquired or IPO for about one hundred million dollars and what today would be called a "unicorn," a rare super-successful startup that might sell for a billion or more. In a unicorn, some early stage "run of the mill" engineers or for that matter janitors can sometimes come away with millions, set for life, but this is not typical of successful startups then or now.
Cached version:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GJCV4xo...
"But, if I give up some portion of my salary, I can get more equity."

As many others have pointed out, the equity you get from a private company is difficult to accurately value and not under your control (e.g., vesting periods, etc.). You can take your full salary as cash, and if you want to invest in stock, take the amount you would have paid your company for the extra equity and invest it monthly in a mutual fund. Public companies have much more transparency in financial reporting, and you can diversify across many companies instead of putting all your eggs in one basket. Also, if your company fails (as most startups do), you'll still be left with something of value.
Ah, yes, pithy and powerful quotes! I should be thankful for colonialism for providing pithy and powerful quotes. Take up the white man's burden of speechwriting.

Seriously, there are much better arguments for the position you're espousing. I can come up with half a dozen without trying. If you're really interested in contributing to discourse, try making them.
True. I should have specified that I meant "Tory" in the early 18th C sense.
The native execution bug is in the Apache Commons code but the serialization issue is an attack vector that can be exploited if you are too lazy to implement some form of white listing. Think about class loading. Does your JVM/classloader implement class unloading? How much memory can I use in your JVM in I cause every single class on your CLASSPATH to load into memory?

It would have been nice if ObjectInputStream was abstract and required a subclass that provided a whitelist of classes.
Is there a link to what the original said? I remember reading the 2011 jwz doc in college and it was a huge topic of discussion in our CS community.
I don't understand what it is you're trying to add.

I am talking about an issue of fairness. You're just pointing out the status quo.
College graduate is just as difficult in the early stage. But needs additional 20 years of expensive fermentation.
Trust is relative, of course; one should be extremely wary of data that came from an external user, or a client-side application. None of us would say one should naively deserialize such data.

But then there's data that comes from another team's server calling yours as a service; or from another server internal to your service; or off an internal message bus; or from one's own database.

Each of these has a different degree of trust, and different considerations to weigh.
Take a look here for pointers to formal proofs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10017549

Specifically Verdi, a Coq framework for distributed system verification, which now includes a formally proven Raft implementation.

https://github.com/uwplse/verdi

This appears to be the main theorem, "raft_linearizable":

https://github.com/uwplse/verdi/blob/master/raft-proofs/EndT...
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> fresh college graduates are most valuable to society

This seems to be a popular opinion on here and I really don't understand that. In fact its kinda fucked up. I can only guess there's a lot of fresh college grads on HN.

It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. I certainly don't want a society made up of fresh college grads who think they know it all.
But for a smartwatch you could actually be using it while you sleep. For example, using it sleep tracking, or for waking you via vibration (as not to disturb your partner), or even just allowing your phone to detect that you're asleep so it can turn on do-not-disturb.
>There was a time in the US where people were widely prescribed benzodiazepines for general use but doctors are generally more reluctant to prescribe them now because their long-term affects are now now well known.

I see, so perhaps my notions are just outdated then. Thanks for setting me straight. I still believe it's possible though that the average American may be more familiar and comfortable with the thought of using benzodiazepines than the average Swede.

>I'm sure Sweden uses them in acute medical settings as well because they are very effective in that role.

That's certainly true, I know from personal experience that you are right about that.
People used to think that thinking was all that was needed. So they sat and pontificated, and I'm sure they were right about some things.

But then you get a bunch of people who said things like "hey, what if I actually throw two different cannonballs off a tower? Does the heavier one get to the bottom first?"

(That particular one can actually be figured out by a thought experiment, so maybe not so great an example.)

People did amazing things like measure the value of G in their basements. Flying kites to see WTF electricity is. Making rainbows with prisms. And it just keeps going...
I remember when silicon valley work life balance meant wandering around the cube farms as a little kid and seeing all the old people napping in their sleeping bags under their tables.

You step outside and the particular business park you were in was separated by miles of nothing in between. So after you get up, realize what time it was, you get in a car and drive a solid fifteen minutes without seeing many others.

Then when you get home you try to explain or relate to others about what it is you're doing they just don't care. They're busy with their television sets or radio or magazine. This internet thing you keep talking about won't ever take off.

Now it's still the same. People are still busy with their tvs but it's called youtube, they're busy with their radio but it's called instagram and they're busy with their magazines but its called Facebook.

Worse it takes me 40 minutes to drive two miles through the town and everything old is getting torn down to be rebuilt as high density four story duplex condos.

The cool thing is now is to disconnect. Funny how that reverb goes.
HaaS and the future of TSLA
I used to cycle past Telehouse Docklands (in East London, part of LINX IXP) as part of my daily commute. I was always struck by the lack of physical security; all that was visible was a typical warehouse fence and a couple of cameras. However what was most troubling was the sheer density of unguarded under-pavement communication cabinets surrounding the site (of course I am only speculating that they are associated with Telehouse).
Useless tat
I've heard Naives Bayes described as "nearly good enough" for many uses. Can anyone quantify how much worse it is for various applications?
Except that those are not "operational definitions" as normally used in sciences, esp. in psychology, the subject at hand, but dictionary definitions - and dictionaries being circular, well....

(The point of indicating such definitions were lacking was to illustrate an irony, apparently lost, an irony present even if the suggestion of the article is intriguing.)
> The content you're trying to share includes a link that our security systems detected to be unsafe: tsu.co

Is it just me, or is this Facebook lying to its users about security? If they want to block it for spam reasons, they should say so.
So you... work for them?
The point is that the cost of the college grad is not a basis for economic decision making. Once the cost has been accrued, it's sunk. If we're making a decision based on whether or not we want to sacrifice the baby or the college grad, we can't take into account sunk cost of the college grad (if we're using economics as the basis of our argument).
That's the main buying point for me, a small screen on my wrist that can give visual notifications so I don't have to pull my phone out.
> This shouldn't be down voted,

I at least down voted it because, the comment it was quoting from was supposed to be a "purely economic argument" and it acknowledged that most argument come from an emotional view point.

There are valid points that go a long the lines of the comment and your follow ups starts to add them but:

> Someone has never had a baby.

Does not add that detail or those arguments.
Oh come on -- that's orthogonal to the point being made. However you define "success," it is true that some subgroup will have a higher potential of being successful than the average, i.e. all babies. Babies have the widest potential, but not the greatest potential.
Oh, probably not, and I wouldn't chance it anyway.

After all, I wouldn't take my phone diving, why would I take Chronos?

(I wear my scuba watch everyday, it is during "out of water" activities that Chronos might be of interest.)
That's a good point. I agree, but IMO you can't bank on those. For example, I worked at Google for 3.5 years, got 1 small raise and 2 small refresher grants. At another startup, I never got a raise but got 1 huge refresher grant. Also, OP is talking about a late stage startup, which probably spends more like a BigCo than a seed stage startup.
Yeah, I'm fully in the "humans are causing a global climate problem that is going to make life difficult for humans" camp, and I agree with you here.

We can't on the one hand say, "it's climate, not weather, it's global, not local", and then on the other hand point to local severe weather effects as evidence. They are evidence, but only when looked at on a global scale, and it's confusing to people to try to have it both ways.

It drives me nuts when there's a new report that says, "2015 was the hottest year on record!" and then somebody always has to come along and say "But it was freezing in Boston!"; likewise when a report says, "there will be severe weather effects according to this model!", I shouldn't say, "and look at that one hurricane this year!"
I wonder if this is true in clothing. Upscale Japanese clothing is known to be some of the most well constructed (and expensive) out there. Particularly, Japanese denim is highly regarded. The reasons for this is because these clothes are usually made by hand by experts tailors or at least well trained ones, but the reputation might have something to do with it too.

> Consider luxury goods makers: Investors don't buy their stock because they've got cool labels, but because their brands allow them to charge higher prices and earn better margins.

True. For example, I see some Japanese clothing brands price a button up shirt in the 200s, sometimes more, but they always sell out (to be fair, they usually make few of those shirts). European brands of similar qualities usually don't make it to that price and if they do, they rarely seem sell as much.

There are always exceptions and there are always brands that take advantage of Japan's reputation, just like when "Made in Italy" means "made as poorly as in a cheap sweatshop in China but in Italy". Overall, though, I haven't noticed any complaints in the clothing forums I visit. Perhaps a drop in quality is imminent in middle and upper-middle tier brands, not the upscale ones.

I'd be interested in seeing the margins for upscale luxury clothing, particularly men's.
This is extreme. I read this article when it made the rounds last year, and I hated it just as much this time around. Disclaimer: I'm a parent, and I love it. I also love being in a relationship with someone I trust and with whom I can talk about 'grown-up' shit.

Granted, there are definitely parents who hover, worry, or interfere with their kids', but, at least in the circles I run in, these are the exception more than the rule and most certainly don't represent parents (or marriages) at large.
> Do you think Africans would learn how to read and write if the Europeans didn't alter things?

That seems like a point the arguments for which would not stand well under scrutiny. Can you decompress your thoughts in this regard, because it seems like the obvious answer is "yes" (for starters)...
New title: Meatspace Engineer. Problem solved.
This is absolutely perfect for my needs. I've wanted a smartwatch solely to be able to track exercise and steps, but I have been unimpressed by the aesthetics of the current offerings (square design of the Apple watch, the tacky looking FitBit).

The notifications system (simple vibration & optional LED) seems discreet as well.
Do you have any links for this? That would be interesting reading.
>the average American may be more familiar and comfortable with the thought of using benzodiazepines than the average Swede.

Of course, America went through a culture of benzo use whereas Sweden did not.
Of course it isn't. Too much food is the cause of America's obesity epidemic.
> but two-earner households are often also more economically fragile

Can you elaborate on that? It doesn't make sense to me. When we were on a single income in my family, it felt a lot more fragile than now that we have two incomes.
What's the ELI5 here?
I think you're oversimplifying.

I think I'm summarizing the quoted article. Whether or not said article is oversimplifying is another question altogether.

(There have been a number of HN stories over the last few months re the apparent liberal bias in many fields, esp. psychology and sociology, the article in question suggests an alternative explanation of why this may be so.)
That's the simplest explanation of dilution I've ever seen.
The Growing Ranks of America’s High-Earning Poor
Your all-in cost [+] is generally modeled as about 140%~160% of base, assuming that level of base compensation. You don't have meaningful returns to scale between 1 and 3 -- "headcount" (gah, I hate that word) is a word largely because it has similar marginal costs on your 2nd and 2,000th employees.

[ + ] Health insurance, taxes, 401-k benefits, unemployment insurance / worker's comp, etc.
Forget about statistics. This is how I evaluate a job:

A Find out how much I need to take home per month to pay my bills and live to the standard I want as well as save for retirement.

B Determine if I would like this job. See if it's the kind of work I want to do and if it will take me where I want.

C if the offer in salary is A, great, equity is nice to have above it but it doesn't matter. If you have kids and mortgage like me you go for the maximum now money because you can't spend future money. If you're young and single take a chance, there's a tiny chance you'll get some money out of it (but not much of a chance)

A is most important. Don't go into debt or deprivation for someone else's dream.
The hug of death.

I do wonder if this wouldn't be preventable with a better-designed web. Why fetch static media from the source anyway? You could grab it from your peers.
Bitcoin 'B' Approved by Computer Text Standards Body
I've also seen it used as a variation on "intuition."
What's the difference between Facebook in 2015 and Windows in 1998 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor...)?

Both are software platforms bound by network effects which have reached monopoly situations and then abuse(d) their situation by attempting to use their dominance in one area to reach dominance in another area.
By that logic you should try to get away with 30 or 35 hours a week (behind your manager's back, if necessary) in order to increase your "effective wage," which actually doesn't get you anything.

The vast majority of salaried employees see no change in quality of life if they work 35, 40, or 45 hours one week to the next. In fact, if you work a lot, one would think you're less likely to go out and spend your money in your limited free time.

The times I've worked 60+ hours a week have always been better for my bank account than the times I've worked 35-40.
No offense but, for a man of your stature I think I would like to see some evidence that you're the real Tom Knight before I take it at face value. :P
I strongly agree that we need a healthy mix. However, for fresh college graduates there is more time left to pay off the investment we made in them as a society. In fact I believe they will be at their most productive a little later than that. But they get there as they get older.

Edit: Typos
Doesn't provide chewing or gut muscle activity.
Another way to solve this it is to only call readResolve/readObject(ObjectInputStream) under a different security policy (a different AccessControlContext from the caller). The problem is that both approaches (lookahead or security policy) require you to use a custom ObjectInputStream class.
If securing a $2300/day job through political means is easy why doesn't everybody do it?
And who would teach them? If a society lives in extreme poverty for all of history, with zero economic and technological growth, what would make them become more developed and educated without external influences?

“That one can survey the length and breadth of sub-Sahara Africa and find not even one work of visual or written art worthy of the name” - David Hume, 18th century historian
It's not -- as Plait points out, Antarctica is still losing ice, on the whole. The usual rush-to-write-a-click-worthy-headline effect happened, and the report that everyone's talking about doesn't actually say that there's an increase of ice over all of Antarctica.
Yeah and in the meantime they need a ton of investment, might die before they even get to the age to work or turn it idiots.
Or perhaps you're the ignorant one? Are you saying Africa was having economic growth and technological development before the Europeans came? On the contrary, most of it was in a permanent state of poverty.
Better information on which class (InvokerTransformer) is being exploited http://foxglovesecurity.com/2015/11/06/what-do-weblogic-webs...

The related Apache ticket: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COLLECTIONS-580
Sibelius cheat sheet [pdf]