skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I too like symlink as a useful general purpose reference point that's more specific than pointer. In this case though it's a bit dissonant since there is a direct analog in the domain of DNS (cname). Thanks for the clarification!
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I'd also be curious to know if people who have raised money previously feel like the work to raise today is lower. The limited anecdotal evidence I've heard suggests that, but I've love a broader perspective.
Roughly 34% of Americans go on to complete college. Strictly and mathematically speaking, the fresh college graduates are a much better bet than babies.
Ed25519 and ChaCha20-Poly1305 support are present in Git but not in any released version yet.
Swedish drug policy is also seriously unjust, according to the UN's Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights.

http://www.thelocal.se/20151108/un-swedish-drug-policy-viola...

> Sweden has one of the EU's most restrictive drug policies, with zero tolerance for drug use and possession. At the same time, the rate of drug-induced deaths is among the highest in the union, and they are on the rise.

> [...] Only six out of Sweden's 290 municipalities offer needle exchange [...]

> "We always look at Sweden as a very advanced country with the most progressive policies, and I was surprised to see that it lags behind a number of other countries in terms of its policies on drugs," deputy high commissioner for human rights Flavia Pansieri told SVT.
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I used to think so as well until I realized that some companies pay more for an Engineer than a Programmer.
You could call it a bluetooth enabled pedometer with integrated vibration motor, but that's of course not that marketing friendly.
(I'm guessing it does a bit more than the above?)
At $job-2 I was at a small company, and I was tired of seeing my colleagues with lofty titles, so I changed my email signature's title from "System Administrator" to "Grand Duke of Information Infrastructure" (I had no client contact, and most external contact was with vendors and rare). I intended to have it thus until I was told otherwise or a max of a week or two when I'd grow bored of it, but it was liked so much that the website was altered to match...
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It's an easy equation.

Take your salary. If you can reasonably anticipate any bonuses, lump those in, too.

Now, add zero. That's what you should expect from equity.

My tally from a little over 20 years in Silly Valley:

- Startups: $7K ($11K invested in dud options, $18K in options that were positive a year after the company went public)

- Larger companies (Apple, Microsoft): Sign-on and incentive options that paid off well into six figures [yup, I'm being coy -- I'm making a point, not a financial disclosure].

On average you will do better at a large, established company as you gain seniority and people love your work. There are obvious down-sides to this, like having to deal with bosses you hate or sucky office politics, and maybe the company goes on the skids. But start-ups are a gamble. Maybe the risk is worth it, but for late stage, I doubt it.

Another way to ring the bell: If you are spectacularly good and play your political cards right you can do something like making Partner at Microsoft, which is worth many millions. Two of my friends went that route.

[An informal poll of my cloud of ex-cow-orkers who took pretty much the same mix-up of startups and bigCorps that I did is that they did pretty much as me, or better. A very few did much better and I see photos of their Hawaiian homes on Facebook a lot.]

Startups are fun, but they're still gambling, and you have to watch out for a crooked house (like all of your options being 'extinguished' by some fancy financial footwork. Had that happen, too, and the company's worth over a billion dollars now).
I don't think people realise how easy it is to get this stuff and pull it all together. The thinking of people I talk to is usually 'oh they'll never find MY profile'.
Although there has been more than a little evidence of "Parallel Construction" happening where the aforementioned global passive adversary pushes a treasure map to the local law enforcement agencies with indicators as to where to look...
Congrats! I vaguely contemplated cloth and now am so glad I didn't. It would have crushed my soul to put on a laundered and stuffed cloth diaper only to have my son dirty it while I was changing him.
As they point out in the article, Engineer as a title is often regulated. I'm in Ontario and it's actually written in law that one the Professional Engineers Ontario regulates the use of the word. Microsoft was actually taken to court for the use of Engineer in MCSE (they lost and were fined). So, they dropped the actual words and left it as just the letters. Before them, Novell had the same issue. Individual people have been fined as well, but it all comes down to reporting. So, if someone is calling themselves a "software engineer" and they aren't accredited they'll get away with it as long as nobody reports them. If that happens, they'll be fined. The University of Waterloo (and I assume some other Canadian universities) has a software engineering program that's accredited and graduates can become licensed engineers. At Waterloo, it's jointly taught by the Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering departments.

I actually have an engineering degree so I do take offence at non-engineers calling themselves engineers. I've done the work to become one, I've passed the requirements including the law and ethics exams while non-engineers haven't. My father worked for his whole career as a technician at Ontario Hydro doing work on nuclear and coal reactors and while there were engineers who did the same work, he never was called an engineer.
Fascinating. Currently reading this one: http://szabo.best.vwh.net/securetitle.html "Secure Property Titles with Owner Authority".
But it takes a baby some 20 years just to get to the lowly college graduate stage, so...
Why not take the differential in salary and invest it in growth company ETFs? You get a more diversified bet in that case. You are already incredibly long your companies prospect on account of you working there, if you want to take a high risk high reward bet I would advise taking it in something besides your employer.
Yeah, but a baby hasn't chosen a major, developed any mental illnesses, experienced any crippling trauma, or really done anything at all yet. A fresh college graduate is very often set for life when it comes to their career, brand preferences, political beliefs, religious beliefs, socioeconomic status, etc. but babies have a lot more variability in terms of possible outcome.
Almost every Tsu submission to HN (and Reddit) has a received an incredibly suspicious amount of upvotes, which coincidentally demonstrates why it's a problem.
Hm. 3 years later Lockheed/NASA's "perfect" software led to the Mars Climate Orbiter's failure, right?
Agree, although junior vs senior is mostly bullshit too.
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Tsu.co looks very similar to a pyramid/MLM scheme. When there's a growing tree of users making money from inviting other users, that is encouraging behavior that will end up being very spam-like, as has already been proven by users' activity so far, such as creating fake accounts to boost their own pages. I see no issue with Facebook's actions here. Plus it is their own platform, they can control it however they wish.
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When your kid is still a baby, you can dream that he/she will become a neurosurgeon or an astronaut. By the time the child has actually grown up and graduated with a degree in French poetry, your best hopes for them are dead.
Extensive discussion from a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10513499
In other words: "Children are special, but not particularly important"

http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2015/01/children-ar...
Background: I'm a seed-stage VC and was an early startup employee twice.

I feel like there are some misconceptions in some of the other comments on this page.

- The expected value of stock is not zero. The median value might be zero, but certainly not the expected value. Check out this study of angel investment returns: [1]. Estimating from the chart on slide 5: 35% of investments went to $0, 17% were worth less than the last investment valuation, 33% were were 1x-5x, 7% were worth 5x-10x, 8% were worth 10x+.

- The study mentioned above covers angel investments, which are generally higher variance than late stage investments. For later stage companies with real revenues, your chances of going to zero are lower, but your chances of going to 6x or 30x are also lower.

- It doesn't matter if you own 0.2% while an investor owns 20%. What matters is the exit multiple. If you have $200k worth of options over 4 years, and then the company exits at 10x its current value, your options will be worth approximately $2m. It doesn't matter if $200k represents 0.2% or 20% because 10 times $200k is still $2m.

- If the company does so-so and exits below its current value, there's a chance that your options will be worth less than you expected. This is because investors usually have a right to get paid off first during an exit. Let's say the company is currently worth $200m and investors put in $70m so far and own 50% of the company. If the company exits for $100m, you would think non-investors would split 50% of the $100m, but actually they only split the remainder after the $70m investment is paid off (which is 30% instead of 50%).

- Don't bank on follow-on option grants in the future. You might get these, but you might not.

- If you're getting options, there's a good chance you have to pay the strike price to keep the options if you leave the company. Or you have to stay at the company until it IPOs or gets acquired.

As a rough guide, the main thing you need to know is the % of the company you would own and the last valuation. The expected value might be something like 2x or 3x over time, but with a huge variance.

The salary + equity offer is basically a measure of how risk averse you are. Would you rather have $600k in salary over 4 years, or $450k in salary and a lottery ticket that is worth $0 50% of the time, worth $100k 25% of the time, worth $400k 15% of the time, and worth $2m 10% of the time? The latter offer has a higher expected value, but also comes with a higher chance of walking away with $450k instead of $600k.

[1] - http://www.angelcapitalassociation.org/data/Documents/Resour...
We could call ourselves artists, gardeners, implementors, analysts, system designers.. All facets and analogies to what we do.
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This. Generally strike price for common stock at startups is around 1/3 of the price of preferred stock (the "latest valuation"). Telling you this is anything other than standard practice is just lying to you to get you excited about the "great deal".
That's right. But I wonder if increasing the chances for the average PhD by rationing the degree is actually a desirable goal.

Disclaimer: I'm a PhD, and have spent my career in industry. My dad did likewise, and my grandfather had a consulting business. I was no threat to anybody's professorial aspirations, and I was in grad school because I just wanted to have the education.

Should I have been kicked out, to make way for more worthy students?

Also, limiting the degree could backfire, because it could end up driving away the best students along with the worst, while attracting mediocre students who figure out how to play the game.

I would certainly welcome some reforms to graduate education, but I don't think that the PhD degree can be turned into a guaranteed career path.
As I mentioned in my comment below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10529838 , the category of SQL queries has coproducts and products, but the category of SQL tables does not. Coproduct and product tables are very useful in their own right.
Hehehe, I imagine it bothers the astronauts as well...
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That's pretty much what https://keybase.io does, in a roundabout way. It links your public identity across many social networks to a PGP key, so you could say "let me talk to kstrauser on GitHub" (or on Hacker News!) and it would map that back to my public key.
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MinTTY in Cygwin is based on the terminal emulation code from PuTTY, is it affected by the same CVE-2015-5309 ?
The trade off is fair depending on your level of risk. Without knowing anything about the company or your situation, I would put more weight into your own salary vs. the companies equity.
No watch is "water proof", they are only water-resistant. The test goes like this: put the watch in a chamber full of water, pressurize it to the equivalent depth, bring it back to the surface, does it still work?

What this test overlooks is that that doesn't reflect how watches are used e.g. do the buttons stand up to pushing when at depth? Does moving your wrist cause the case to flex imperceptibly, etc? This is why diving watches have ludicrous depths on them, 300m and 600m, because you need that kind of static strength to stand up to normal use at 30m or 50m.

There is no way that this device will be suitable for scuba. Probably OK for swimming tho' as it has no buttons. But since it's removeable, as another diving watch wearer, I'm interested...
My favorite is Digital Ocean https://www.digitalocean.com. While Google and Microsoft are trying to take AWS head-on, DO is nibbling away on AWS at the edges. AWS has become complex and as long as DO stays on simpler side, they have good chance to build a decent business.
Also by the same author:

Who was Christiaan Huygens?
http://www.universetoday.com/48420/christiaan-huygens/
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You only pay taxes as a percentage of their value, afaik.
I'd add that rich is relative.

I'm South African and I generally agree with this assertion but poor is defined as something that is really non-existant in the U.S.

And minimum wage here, is really the bottom end of what would be considered middle class.

So the title is not very informative to someone not used to the context.

* I'm South African living in Houston, TX.
Most employees end up with common shares, unlike the preferred shares that founders and VC's end up with. This can lead to situations where the VC's and founders make tons of money and employees get nothing.

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-liquidation-preferences-w...
I was poking around that tool yesterday and realized it was ~meaningless. (This comes from the hiring side, where I wanted to ensure the offers we're giving are in the top quartile.)

Basically: X$ at Y% equity doesn't factor in company status and trajectory. Being able to slice on valuation, revenue, funding round, and other basic indicators would be a big deal. Y% of a pre-seed vs seed vs big seed vs a vs b company matters, and even subtler details like at what point the strike price was set.

It'd be a great service to the community -- both founders and employees -- if AngelList added a way to slice on some of this stuff!
Actually, you can align on any byte in x86 and it will still work, the accessing is just slower (And you loose some other guarantees). That said, lots of malloc implementations on 32-bit x86 actually return 8-byte aligned addresses, for the reason that you can have 64-bit ints and such which benefit from 8-byte alignment.
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Sorry, forgot to check this far back.

Yes, though. I am sort of saying that by asking one guy out of a crowd very obvious questions you were attempting to publicly shame him or call him on something. Were you actually asking that question to gain a data point you needed, or was it mainly commentary?

Anyways, like with Uber. I know the taxi's companies have a government granted monopoly. I don't ride with Uber because I'm ignorant of that, I ride with them almost because of that fact (and that they're just so much better of an experience). But as a rider I have nothing to lose.

With AirBnB when people are waving around fairly ludicrous threats of fines and liens on your property, who'd admit to anything when they know the other side is just looking for a scapegoat?
Most income inequality (taken on a worldwide basis) is between country, not within country. Overall global income inequality is dropping considerably, with China playing a large part.

> https://twitter.com/bill_easterly/status/621684418558734337

> https://twitter.com/bill_easterly/status/654709684985688064
Google and Facebook, amongst others, have shown that the quick iteration strategy works, even for complex, critical systems. The key to success in that strategy is in good tooling--something that allows people to move quickly without breaking critical systems.

With that, understanding your goals is important in deriving strategy. Developing software for NASA space shuttles is going to be inevitably slower and more scrutinized than working on Google Music. Therein lies a traditional engineering problem of using the right tools for the job.

Software also does contribute to the public good in that an open-source mindset is built into the subcultures of the profession in general. It's pretty cool that I can get involved in programming using free tooling from day one, where my friends in finance or more traditional engineering careers cannot.

Overall, the author feels like they're arguing from some twisted version of the "golden age fallacy." In fact, this seems like the same type of tired arguments I hear stipulating that video-games are not art: built as an argument from the old guard to bully the new kid on the block.
One way people occasionally goof up is exercising, paying tax then, but waiting to sell, whereupon the stock has lost value in the interim.
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Thought the sample of college graduates vs. all 22 year olds are a little different.

All babies will turn into all 22 year olds. Only some babies will turn into college graduates.

Therefore some of a population, if selected artificially (i.e. college graduates) will always be better than the whole population (i.e. all babies.)
Actual article (PDF):

http://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=68408807100406401...
> You don't appear to understand how the PGP web of trust works. The current release key is signed by the master key, which in turn has been signed by some keys which are indirectly cross-signed by a huge variety of developers many people are likely recognize.

Actually I do. It is just such a niche thing that for the few who will validate the key even fewer will check it on the P2P web of trust (and any person2person trust network is only as good as its members, so there is room for abuse there). Web of trust is a failed concept that the current CA structure destroyed.

Worse still, some people will validate the key only, and if the executable validates they assume it must be by the author. That is a dangerous piece of misinformation that it gives a false sense of security, in particular against state actors.

> I guess it's true to say WOT is useless unless you participate in it, but at this stage, it is of comparable uselessness as the existing CA system.

When you download software on Windows, Mac, and Linux it will first automatically check if the code signing certificate's root CA is in the trusted store, then it will check that the root CA actually signed the client CA, and finally it will check the client CA for validity. It does all of this for you behind the scenes and in a split second, then at least on Windows & OS X it will display a huge warning if it fails (or fail to load the executable entirely by default).

Essentially calling the current CA system "useless" is bizarre when it does all of this checking behind the scenes without any user intervention at all, and then warns the user when it fails. In particular when the web of trust is a convoluted mess of non-integrated software that less than 0.1% of users take advantage of, and even then need to manually remember to use and correctly interpret the result.

The way Putty is signed is non-standard and insecure. Web of trust is a failed concept.
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10527061
We've spared the rod for too long, IMHO. Not saying we should abuse our kids or even reprimand them physically necessarily, however seeing a two year old as anything more than a terrorist whom cannot be negotiated with, can have detrimental consequences in their adulthood. Boundaries must be drawn early on or else....
"On a continent once synonymous with war, famine and poverty,"

I always find it interesting how the west so easily glosses over colonization, which is integral to all three of those other things.

The interesting thing though that they miss completely, is that in the last 10 years the percentage of people living middle class lives have nearly doubled in a lot of African countries, which is a huge achievement.
If there is gold then it has probably come from a number of sources, including raided banks, the jewellery and gold filings of Jewish prisoners who ended up being gassed.

I'm not sure how you'd figure out how to divvy that up fairly. I hope that they find the train and it is just empty out full of weapons, but no good and no art. Exactly for this reason.
Thanks for the thinkpiece, Atlantic.
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It wasn't like he was a stable guy taking it for insomnia. He had long history of personality disorder, including multiple personalities, and drug abuse.

"This, incidentally, is what Bergwall says was his daily intake, with extra top-ups when requested: six 5 mg. Valium, four 1 mg. Xanax, one 10 mg. prefill Valium, 1.5 mg. Halcion, two Rohypnol, six Treo comp, six Panocod."

http://www.gq.com/story/thomas-quick-serial-killer-august-20...
At least the 28-year-old model quoted at the end has enough wisdom to make this a non-story:

> "Very few people even know about Tsu," she said. "I don't believe that Facebook and Instagram want Tsu to go viral. it would cost them a lot of money."

Yeah, no kidding. Facebook isn't a public utility, it's a private company whose interests are best served in squashing all competition and doing whatever it can to maximise profit. If anyone is remotely surprised by this, they need to re-enrol in Capitalism 101.
< 800 pixel width websites. I don't know this as a fact, but it really seems like a lot of older websites had very thin layouts, most likely due to older CRT monitors and non-widescreen monitors.
The current Soylent packaging comes with a one year shelf expiration date. I don't know the testing they have done to back that up. The USCG rations have a 10 year expiration date but other stuff in my earthquake kit is best rotated/replaced on an annual basis so it works for me.
This shouldn't be downvoted, because its part of the argument. eg, still-born babies tend to have lots of emotional reprecussions. But the OP's point is that doesn;t make much sense. eg, the human female is programmed to reproduce every 28 days or whatever... but herein lies the heart of the issue...biology, rationality, and emotion, ane even culture are all (or may be) at cross purposes when it comes to this situation.
This is quite serious; not sure how we didn't all start hearing about this back at the end of January.
This is related to the "obnoxious Little League Dad" phenomenon. Most of us have some disappointments about our lives. The way that some parents deal with those is to imagine that their children will succeed where they have failed. Once parents pay more attention to the image of a child than to the actual child, craziness ensues.