skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every private company I've gotten an offer from includes, at minimum, a right of first refusal on selling shares. Some allow the company to prevent you from selling period. This isn't, afaik, entirely evil -- there are SEC regulations controlling the allowable number of shareholders for a company to stay private. I've also seen it mentioned that Etsy, amongst others, has fucked employees trying to leave by preventing them from selling shares.
I'm sympathetic with their plea, but I don't quite understand this: "There is no such a law in Moldova to permit for a Moldovan court to allow an ex parte suspension of a bank account. But this law was violated in case of Ritlabs, SRL." How can an inexistent law be violated?
I don't understand your point. If there is a loophole I can exploit to pay 0 tax I would and recommend everyone else to do so.
> I find it reasonable to spend between a couple of days to a week researching the suitability of something that I'll use throughout the day, every single day for next three-to-ten years. Perhaps my opinion is atypical.

Aargh, this is precisely the sort of attitude that is causing problems in the first place! Of course some research is necessary prior to any purchase, but the issue here is that clear and correct information doesn't even exist in the first place!!

The expectation of nerds that people have this sort of time to take off simply to get a working computer in this day and age is mind boggling. People shouldn't HAVE to take a week to do research to get basic things like this to work.

It's not reasonable and your opinion is atypical for people who have full time jobs with long hours and families to look after. I really want to use and support Free/Libre Gnu/Linux, whilst still being productive. But many Linux users have better things to do than trawl through lspci, do literature reviews of ancient threads on email lists and bug reports, etc, etc, and then finally somehow manage to design a hardware/software configuration that even mostly kind of works. The very worst thing of all is that the typical Linux nerd thinks that this is normal.
While the interview was confidential, I don't think the offer was. I'm going to chicken out, but it was a top 5 YC startup, and they did that. Either options or RSUs, I can't remember which, but you have no way to value them beyond the value they tell you. I ended up turning them down which was probably stupid of me.
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The Letters of Last Resort are real:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_of_last_resort

One important part of the UK's nuclear strategy is that the UK Trident warheads don't have PALs - the crews have everything they need to launch. The reasoning behind this being that, in the dark days of the Cold War, it was expected that there wouldn't be enough time to transmit an authorization message in the time between a nuclear strike being detected and the weapons detonating so any retaliation would be based purely on the judgement of the crews on the subs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-minute_warning
> Hysteria on social media as BBC websites go offline

This is the title.

I can't imagine there are many people outside the UK (0.88% of world population) who were exactly hysterical.
Always ask for:

1. TRANSFERABILITY. If you are given options to buy privately-held common stock in lieu of compensation, you must demand transferability. Rights of first refusal (ROFRs) are fine. "Board approval" is not. "Board approval" means "you may not sell your shares until we go public, except to us, if and when we feel like it, and at a price we get to unilaterally decide".

2. CASHLESS EXERCISABILITY. Always ask for cashless exercisability. In the public market, if you ask your broker to "cashlessly exercise" in-the-money options, here is what happens. First, your broker lends you the money to exercise the options. Then, the broker sells some of the resulting stock. Finally, the broker pays herself back, plus a pre-disclosed fee, and returns the rest to you.

This also works with private stock. (Unless you forgot Rule No. 1; if your shares aren't transferable you've already been screwed.) But you may not require a broker. Some companies allow for direct cashless exercise. Suppose you hold options for 100 shares struck at $100 per share. You need $10,000 to exercise. The company figures its stock's "fair market value" is $110. You check with outside sources, e.g. a private-stock broker, and conclude this is not much less than what you could sell your stock for in the market. Your stock is worth $11,000 to the company; it is $1,000 in the money. After cashlessly exercising with the company you would get $1,000 of stock, i.e. 9 shares. (Fractions of shares are usually lopped off in these calculations.)

Plus: you got shares without putting up capital. Minus: you lost the upside (and downside) on ninety-one shares. That said, 9 shares is better than 0 because you had no capital to exercise upon termination.
Finding the data belonging to an installed application is not portable across operating systems, so embedding the data will result in much simpler code.

When the application starts, the current working directory can be anywhere, you need to find the absolute paths to the data files, and this works differently on each operating system.

One solution is to find the path of the current executable, and doing this in a portable way is several hundred lines of code already, e.g.: https://github.com/gpakosz/whereami/blob/master/src/whereami...
Walk down a street in a country formally part of the British Empire that still bares it's original name. There is a large chance it is a Scottish name.

The reason for this is a vastly disproportionate number of Scots were educated, and worked as engineers and educators, whereas English were either the working hands with no means, skill nor influence, essentially serfs, or the rulers dictating serfs and employing (not, essentially, conscripting) Scottish engineers.

Google Map Hong Kong Island for an example.
Hysteria (rest of world) == Miffed (UK)
Unfortunately, it appears that many startups have gotten their valuation ahead of their economics, so IPOing isn't an easy option for them because it would be a large down round. IIRC, most of the large tech ipos in the last year went public below their final private valuations. Though to be fair, the last investors often got ratchets.

This is a good read too

http://thomasgr.tumblr.com/post/135710601255/the-pre-ipo-dip...
I'm glad you mention the Scandinavian countries, because they are an example that rejects your argument. 14% of the students in Sweden go to private schools, without "siphoning off" the parent's money, by using a voucher system.

Who funds education can and should be a separate argument from who runs the schools.
Wired, trying to get you to click through their nonsense content (I call it nontent) because clicks on ads equal money, and like all media nowadays they make it attractive to the curious reader by using hyperboles and exaggerations, and by focusing on panic, fear and (commonly but not in this case) conflict. It's the stuff that sells.

But there's more: as a free bonus, without qualms they tell you how hilarious and foolish "the Internet responds" (yeah right) to trivial stuff like the BBC being down. And these people have the audacity to call themselves journalists.

They should be ashamed of themselves and my suggestion is: don't read this stuff when even the title is this obviously clickbaity. They have been spoiled enough, the quality is abhorrent. Best thing you can do in my opinion is adblock, adblock, adblock.
I am not able to open the article.
If they were that dumb they would have just coughed up a number. So let's trade aphorisms:

"A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltaire
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Yeah... I guess you're right.
Please be specific - which externalities do you see as arising from this model?
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The usual explanation is that a quirk of politics and religion led to a more democratic nation with a remarkably high literacy rate, which catapulted Scotland from poverty to wealth.
Does anyone have a link to the actual paper?

Key point which people may get confused on: this is light for inter-chip communication, not light-based computation. The achievement is miniaturizing the transceivers, making them with a standard-ish IC process (Germanium isn't entirely standard, but very useful), and presumably finding some way to connect optical fiber in the same way that gold wires are currently bonded to IC pads.

There are probably a lot of sub-advancements in photonics involved as well.
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"The company can issue new shares at any time leading to dilution."

Yes, but the directors of the company are obligated to act in the best interest of shareholders, so hopefully they would do that iff it increases the value of existing shares. (OK, there are many things wrong with this, including the fact that option holders are not shareholders.)

"If the company does extraordinarily well, you will do well also."

Yes, but if the company does very (but not extraordinarily) well, you might end up with nothing.

"If you are making a significant contribution to that success, a rational company will want to reward you and incent you to stay with more options."

But your contribution may not be constant. An early engineer who took a risk (low salary, high chance of being laid off) and built the prototype may not fit in when the company grows, so there may be little rational incentive to treat her fairly.
The USA now has 10 year tourist visas for people from China, so I don't see it as much of a problem (most passports have 10 year validity).
"I'm not claiming that the standard model is the ultimate mode."
Nice, but I can't help thinking of spreadsheets as something of a crutch.

Also check out:

http://probcomp.csail.mit.edu/bayesdb/

https://github.com/taschini/pyinterval
http://mavrinac.com/index.cgi?page=fuzzpy
> If you know I've reported a bug, why would you deliberately not tell me that it has been fixed?

Sounds like a typical fallacy of end-users looking at software. Assuming that the developer deliberately is denying you a feature, rather than having simply not spent the engineering time to make it possible.

In this case, for instance, it could be that the pipeline to get from external feedback channels to Google's internal bug-trackers very one-way and its hard to go back. Or, there's a disconnect between when the fix ships and when the ticket is closed, and keeping track of the entire chain of data requires some work. Or, there's no easy distinguishing features on bugs that came externally to make them easily identifiable once fixed. Or, there's no process yet for an automated response that says the bug is fixed (should it provide more detail). Etc.
My point is what would happen if everyone had the resources and moral turpitude to exploit every possible loophole.
Frankly the idea of a NATO country not part of the visa waiver is absurd. If the citizens of a country are worthy enough for the USA to be ready to send its youth in their defense, they probably are ok to enter USA without visa.
1% would mean there would be increase in revenue to the government. For example Adam Smith Foundation in Poland have calculated that introducing revenue tax of 1% would increase revenue to the country budget, remove black market and allow country to tax international corporations easily. Also savings from tax collection process would be huge and there would be no place to manipulate with tax credits. At the moment in Poland 0.44% of revenue gets to the budget through corporate taxes which is really low.
Then additional benefit is that business owners will not need to worry about bad decisions by tax office.
The institute found that around 60% of companies in Poland do not pay any kind of corporate tax at all meaning all of them - at least on paper - are loosing money.
Google has not paid any tax in Poland in last years despite owning 80% of ad market.
The research on the new tax was done by the brightest economist and they are hoping it will be introduced at least for foreign corporations.

The VAT is OK as long as it is fixed and low (10-12% without discounts etc.), the issue is with corporate taxes.

Source: http://wyborcza.biz/biznes/1,100896,15540136,Podatek_od_przy...
Cameron isn't actually Scottish, having a distant ancestor doesn't make you so. Tony Blair was not really Scottish either - although at least he was of a Scottish background. He did go to a Scottish school, and was born there, but crucially he didn't self-identify as Scottish and certainly didn't have a Scottish accent - he was mostly raised in Durham and that was how he self-identified.

I've found that people who promote Blair and even Cameron as Scottish without mentioning that actually they think themselves English tend to be nursing a grievance against Scotland for whatever reason.

Otherwise we have Brown who was unequivocally Scottish and was often attacked on that basis during his premiership ("One-eyed Scottish Idiot" etc).

Otherwise in the 20th Century we have James Ramsay MacDonald (1930s for 6 years), Lord Douglas-Home (a year and a half in the 1960s), Henry Campbell-Bannerman (2.5 years), and Arthur James Balfour (3.5 years).

So 13 or 14 years of the 20th century, Britain suffered under Scottish prime ministers, only slightly above what we might expect given Scotland's share of the population of the UK - this could be explained by Scotland then-increased share of MPs.

It doesn't seem that Scotland dominates UK politics more than any other nation. However, it is certainly noticed and commented upon or even resented when Scottish people rise to high office, perhaps that's why it may seem so to some.

In the current political climate with the domination of the SNP, it seems like the possibility of Scottish MPs attaining any kind of high office, membership of the cabinet, or part of the governance of the UK has entirely vanished for generations with who-knows-what consequences for the union in the future.
Web attack knocks BBC websites offline
Nothing to see here. Move on and let Murdock's family and friends grieve without the rubber-necking.
Web attack knocks BBC websites offline
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35204915
Is it common for engineers to be granted these terms if requested, even if they're not already baked into the company's existing documentation?

If the company hadn't done this before, they'd need to think through the implications for their processes, and probably get a legal stamp of approval. They might not be willing to do this, and instead pass on even a potentially great employee.
Must be a slow news day
Top level domains do resolve though, email@bs is completely legal to try to send email to.
You've basically described half of the silicon valley "unicorn" crowd. The next 2 years are going to see the death of many VC backed tech companies as interest rates rise.
Both countries allow for dual citizenship, so it shouldn't be a factor.
And did the same in Indian during that time period. Having turned Britain's agriculture to wool and much of India's agricultural output to cotton, the British exported food from Indian to feed Britain while 15 million Indians starved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_major_famines_in_I...

The British shot Indians caught trying to steal food from the docks.

Mike Davis is the author who called it "Late Victorian Holocausts" referenced in the article.

http://www.versobooks.com/books/150-late-victorian-holocaust...
Are you a British citizen? It is not well known (including by officials and airlines) you have the right that your wife can join you on your travels. As an Armenian citizen she needs a visa but that has to be provided free of charge and under an accelerated procedure (often it takes under 24 hours). You do not need to go through the otherwise required visa agencies and they cannot ask for documents other than passports and the marriage certificates – although they often do if you don't insist. Theoretically it can even be applied for directly at the border but that might be a bit stressful.

Here is a handy guide by the EU commission http://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/faq/freetravel/doc/guide_20...

If you are not an EU citizen, yes it's tough. Although they should give out multi-entry visa after she had one once or twice.
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Facebook and a VC (Mahesh Murthy) Debate Free Basics
We need more experts like Matt Blaze (or Bruce Schneier) that do understand technical side of the problem, but can also communicate with non-technical people without going too deep to win this "crypto war". A very good point:

"MB: It may be true that encryption makes certain investigations of crime more difficult. It can close down certain investigative techniques or make it harder to get access to certain kinds of electronic evidence.

But it also prevents crime by making our computers, our infrastructure, our medical records, our financial records, more robust against criminals. It prevents crime. On balance, the use of encryption, just like the use of good locks on doors, has the net effect of preventing a lot more crime than it might assist."
Is this a sensible approach:

You have offered me X ordinary shares which is y % of total outstanding.

I want a contract that guarantees me the same % of this class of shares, and the same % of any other more privileged class of shares, and I am given an opportunity to participate in every liquidation event pre public offering

Seems to cover many of the horrors people have hit?
Same for ConEd.

Moneygram will freeze payments with the word "moneygram" in the associated email. Which is great for those of us that use catch-all emails and use the email address to discern what to do with an email...
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Jordan, Georgia. I feel like if this were the cause then the bug would be a lot more common.

My guess is the dialler hashes some parts of the contact to get a UUID, but for this contact it happens to be outside the range the dialler can look at - perhaps off-by-one, where the dialler looks for UUIDs of 1 and above and this happens to hash to 0.
Looks like they're pretty unrelated accomplishments; this enables faster interchip communication, while quantum computers enable speedup of a very specific subset of problems if you can get enough qubits within a chip to play nice.
But the question is, if a signup form is asking for your email address, will you type in your name, a pair of angle brackets, and then your email address in between? That's simply not what the web developer wants here.
Goals suck http://blog.crew.co/habits-and-systems-not-goals/
I can see how that could fail horribly when you have arbitrary Unicode data.

For instance, the German sharp s (ß) has an asymmetrical casemapping.

From the Unicode standard[0]:

>The German sharp s character has several complications in case mapping. Not only does its uppercase mapping expand in length, but its default case-pairings are asymmetrical. The default case mapping operations follow standard German orthography, which uses the string “SS” as the regular uppercase mapping for U+00DF ß latin small letter sharp s. In contrast, the alternate, single character uppercase form, U+1E9E latin capital letter sharp s, is intended for typographical representations of signage and uppercase titles, and in other environments where users require the sharp s to be preserved in uppercase. Overall, such usage is uncommon. Thus, when using the default Unicode casing operations, capital sharp s will lowercase to small sharp s, but not vice versa: small sharp s uppercases to “SS”, as shown in Figure 5-16. A tailored casing operation is needed in circumstances requiring small sharp s to uppercase to capital sharp s.

[0] http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode7.0.0/ch05.pdf#G21180
It is so misleading that it calls the whole thing, book and review, into question.

Yes, the pendulum has swung from "yay, Empire!" to "boo, colonialism" and this book is trying to push it back; but that means we need a careful unravelling of the issues involved, probably attributing them more to the good and bad actions of individual people or groups than trying to answer the single question "England: Good or Bad?"

Denying the role of English capitalist politics in worsening the potato famine is almost as bad as denying the holocaust.

(I'd settle for "England: Not As Genocidal As Belgium")
So what were the problems you've encountered?
> The OP is absolutely correct when he says that fines are the cost of doing business

Perhaps is correct is it is the cost of doing business BREAKING the law, but it is wrong when the OP says that it is the cost just for operating in a place without breaking any law
Thats really sad.
Talking with people from "the scene", this is a snapshot from the 90s. It was leaked before, and now resurfaced for some reason in a more public view.

Nothing from the more recent 3.5, 3.9, and 4.x versions are in there. Those were developed by external companies long after the vintage of this leaked snapshot. There's some mention of newer versions, but they're incomplete implementations from the Commodore Amiga team, not the actual developers of the newer versions.

It also doesn't compile, isn't 100% complete, and includes a number of internal business documents, not just code & tech.
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Doesn't this sort of RFC typically summarize and codify real-world usage, rather than coming up with new stuff? If a feature is in there, I'd have thought it's because somebody uses it.
The clue is right in the link - Fort George is at a strategic point on the borders of the Highlands and close to the site of the Battle of Culloden where the last Jacobite rising was defeated by government forces.

I think it's fair to say that trying to equate the Jacobite rebellions with a simple English vs Scottish view is a gross simplification - if anything it was Catholic Highlanders vs Protestant government forces - Scots fought on both sides at Culloden:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Culloden

NB For all the romance about "Bonnie Prince Charlie" I don't think anyone really believes that it would have been better for the UK if the rebellion had actually won - although it would certainly have been better for the Highlands which were oppressed terribly in the aftermath.

Edit:

I can recommend the docudrama "Culloden" made by Peter Watkins (who also made "The War Game"):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KaE2CAkk4Q
Somewhat similarly, I encountered a possible bug in Google Docs many years back. I was reorganizing my documents, and I temporarily changed one of the names to "delete". Poof -- I could not longer find it anywhere (or even search for words that I knew were in it). I forget how I got back to it (maybe via my browser history), but I changed the name a bit, and then the document was "found".

This could have simply been a race case unrelated to the filename, but it's much more amusing to speculate that it was due to hack introduced during development. I now regret not trying to reproduce it, but I was pretty frustrated after I found my document again. I did contact support, but didn't hear anything back.
There are tons of brokers that makes their living doing this. It's not necessarily hard, depending on how good price you want to hold out for, but it can take a lot of time and be unpredictable, because the buyers are not necessarily sitting around waiting and so it can depend on finding a broker that have the right kind of potential buyer on the books that they can contact.

I've sold shares same day in an unlisted company, and then a few weeks later called the broker to sell more and ended up taking several months to find a buyer, but on my end it wasn't "hard" - it was just a matter of waiting it out.