skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VCs get dilution protection, why can't other "investors" who invest time and effort.

If that dilution protection is some other form than stated, well I need to read up on it.

But my general approach is that just because you are an employee not a capital investor does not mean you should just take whatever shit is doled out. Especially not these days.

That whole thread is about finding better terms and protection to take options on.

"They won't let you" is close to "shut up and take it". (Not the same but a bit too close for my ckmfort
one piece of source I was interested in, kickstart ide drivers, are missing and/or in binary blob :(
After even mild police harassment, I have experienced extreme emotional discomfort.

It can be very upsetting to be face-to-face with uncompromising power.

This is intensified when it includes a collision of worldviews (you think you're right, they think you're wrong).

And it must be even worse when it involves physical injury.

I am fascinated that he has dedicated the end of his life to pointing out that police violence hurts white people and black people equally. Ironically, I am upset that he used the slur N____r in his final tweets, because it would have really united people in the cause against police violence. However, I think it just shows how unbelievably emotionally distressed he was. That poor man.

This type of violence is happening to lots of people all over the U.S. The internet is bringing some light to it and we've got to get a grip on it. We have to calm the flip down and remember we're here on Earth to enjoy it as a gift, not win contests and hurt each other.

I imagine Ian felt something like that "egalite, liberte and fraternite" based on his immense gifts to the world, but when he saw that world view get shaken, that despite his contributions, he could still be beaten down by uncompromising, self-righteous power, it might have cast serious doubt in his mind. God damn it.
If it's a small private business, restricted share grants are pretty easy / cheap. Until you have a good basis for a fair market valuation (409a, raising an equity round, etc) employees can just pay the strike price for the shares, file an 83b election, and avoid most of the options calculus.
I think the difference for me is that most societies are built around substantial commons. Shared places, shared resources, shared interests. The Bitcoin community (if that's even the right term) seems to be built mostly of people who are somewhere between skeptical of and averse to that. And their commons is much narrower than, say, a town or a city.

It may still be workable, but I think Bitcoin has challenges other communities mostly don't.
Climate Chaos, Across the Map
Does CO2 really cause global warming?
I don't think people so much prefer mathematically perfect sound quality; people want convenient music. MP3s are less than the "mathematically perfect" quality of CDs, but far more convenient. A few hundred bucks spent on quality speakers and the quality difference between an MP3 file and a CD/WAV/FLAC will start to become apparent. But quality speakers aren't anywhere nearly as convenient as earbuds.

Don't get me wrong, I love the bright sparkling highs and powerful rich lows a CD through a quality set of speakers can bring, which vinyl can't. But I can't take all my CDs and a pair of 3-way drivers and a subwoofer with me in my car, on the bus, on my bike, at work, while grocery shopping, etc. But I can conveniently achieve a reasonably good listening experience in those environments with my phone, a collection of MP3s and an aux cable or a pair of earbuds.
If you have to use Ruby and using Node along with Ruby isn't an option I would be looking at RabbitMQ and Bunny.
I've only discovered Discogs recently but I absolutely love it, strictly for tagging data. I can figure out which copies of songs I have and tag them appropriately, satisfying my slight OCD. From what I've seen over the 2 years or so I've used it, I agree that they have gotten better. I've yet to make any purchases through the site, but knowing that I can is just another reason to use it.
Costco would be a bad place to shop.
I learned there was a place called Nan[1], when my json importer crashed to it while interpreting it as a NaN (not a number)

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan,_Thailand
Yeah, that's an... interesting way to look at it. And I guess it's right - the proof that something is significant (for better or worse) is that it attracts scoundrels. Scammers and frauds and power-hungry thugs don't have time to seek random trinkets; they group around things that can help them earn a lot of money and control.
start with me-too products. just go through the app store. make another todo list.

a lot of it is practice and experience; even if you don't have any ideas you like, you can get the practice and experience in while you're looking for the idea you believe in.

besides, sometimes those me-too products tend to have lives of their own.
The maps are from the 1600's, yet in the article's main photo, it clearly shows both library officials and visitors touching it with their bare (oily, and slightly acidic) hands.

There's a reason historical documents and old paintings are usually handled with gloves on...
Today its nostalgia driven hobby consisting of tens of people collecting accelerator cards in order to run sysinfo :(
That statement was about collective identity. Everyone has a collective identity.

You are free to choose your own collective identity. Do whatever you want. If you say that you are not part of any collective identity, I'm not sure about that...
I think the problem with owning is because prices have been very unstable over the last 15 years. Nominal inflation has been very low, but in certain categories of goods (housing, education, consumer electronics, even cars) prices vary wildly. There's no guarantee that you'll be able to sell a good for anywhere close to what you paid for it.

When I bought my Honda Fit in early 2009, for example, new cars were selling for less than used cars. Many of the new car owners had bought at inflated prices in 2007, sometimes $2000 over MSRP, and with Hondas holding their value well, they were hoping to get something close to what they paid for it. Meanwhile, the economy had cratered, and dealers were trying to move the inventory off their lots ASAP because nobody was buying. I ended up buying my car for under invoice price, about $3-4K off of the inflated prices that buyers a couple years before had paid and a good $500-1000 under what used car sellers were asking. Needless to say, the used cars weren't selling.

Similarly, I have several friends who bought houses a couple years out of college who ended up taking a $50-100K capital loss on them when they went to sell them. The high end of that is close to what I've paid in rent over my entire life, and doesn't take into account interest payments on the mortgage, which themselves were close to my rent.

It only takes a couple incidents like this to turn people off of owning things forever.
Clinicians / their governments decided that gay sex was not wrong / illegal. From this perspective, sexual attraction to the same sex is as much a disorder as attraction to the opposite sex.

Sex with a child is illegal (broadly speaking). Being sexually attracted to a child could be a source of distress for a person or lead to damaging behaviors (e.g. sex with a child).

People could have a good handle on their attraction, like the person in the article purports, but from the perspective of people writing the DSM, sexual attraction to a child may be a disorder when it leads to undue distress or disorderly behavior. When what is seen as disorderly changes, the diagnosis might change, but I see this one as sticking around.
Better yet, use C#/ASP.NET with SignalR. SignalR automagically negotiates the best underlying technology (whether that's long polling, SSE, Web Sockets, or whatever), and provides you with a nice little abstraction layer over the top. And it scales quite nicely.
are you referring to the OP? they stated they paid California taxes
Fire at Downtown Dubai's Highrise Address Hotel
There was a notable incident in the 1960s where a NASA spacesuit technician named Jim LeBlanc survived an accidental (but brief) depressurization. There's a YouTube video describing the accident which includes film of the accident itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO8L9tKR4CY.
This is how to do your equity compensation founders. It would be the recruiting tool you need to hire people who won't work at most startups due to research or being burned in the past.

Thanks for sharing this. Thinking on how to do equity compensation right when you have no real profit to share was one of the barriers for me starting a startup.
The question isn't whether or not Blockstream's work on their technology is good or bad, or the quality of their whitepapers. The issue is that if the Bitcoin block size is increased then there might not be as much demand for solutions like Blockstream is promoting and instead of allowing the market to take its course Blockstream has politicized the core dev team in order to ensure future demand for their technology by keeping Bitcoins block size small. Your comment doesn't address that at all.

It would be like if Microsoft employed 90% of the Linux kernel devs and wouldn't let any changes into the kernel that allowed systems with over 8 gigs of memory or something like that.
Our lawyer put it all together.

It used to be standard practice until a bunch of executives used it in the 80s to cheat the system.

I should note that this plan cannot apply to executives, for that reason.

Also, before a 409a valuation wouldn't you just be better off granting the shares outright and having employees write a check for $20 or whatever?

Yes that's definitely easier, but if you have had a round of financing even before filing a 409a the "valuation" can be determined as far as the IRS in concerned.
It would add respect, status, etc.
Building my own 3d printer for fun and profit.
Ok, we'll go with that for now. Thanks!
My point was that the issue didn't just allow a MITM to capture traffic, but also take over the machine(?). So cancelling the server and installing a new one will be the safer bet (I'm considering moving to a different company at the same time, as the IP block my old server is in seems to be the reason I can't deliver mail to Google, Hotmail and Yahoo (my own IP is all green in blacklists, but my neighbours' IPs aren't)). YMMV.
Cold as the Netherlands, bro. You're fucking up Ian in defense of Dan. Who runs this place?
The problem is that such tricks are not portable. This will not work with ld on OS X or will need something different. Others have suggested xxd.

$(fw_bin_o): $(fw_bin)
@echo "CONVERT $@"
$(SILENT)xxd -i $^ | $(CC) -c -x c - -o $@
'Human Computation' Could Save the World Without the Risks of AI
Launching a B2B App on Product Hunt
Most people don't have a clue how options really work, but are thrilled to get them... until they try to excise them.

Truth is companies give options to low level employees because it's cheaper than paying cash. Most employees don't do their homework to realize that in the vast majority of cases they'd probably be better off demanding cash.
That was my first thought, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Sandra_Bland
Travel site Hidden City beats lawsuit
Should we solar panel the Sahara desert?
> It's apparent, in Ian's drunken stupor, he fundamentally believed he did nothing wrong and everyone was out to "get him". This is indicative of a drunk and/or someone on drugs (inability to see cause and effect, and rationalize about one's own actions).

Seems a little harsh given the few details we have to blame it all on Ian being drunk. Most drunk people don't kill themselves, it's obvious something else happened we don't know about. All I know is that for now, I trust Ian more than I do cops specially after events such as these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Andy_Lopez
If you prefer video tutorials to a book, be sure to check out the Lena151 tutorials:
https://tuts4you.com/download.php?list.17

If you want to practice your reverse engineering skills in a legal manner, check out crackmes.de:
http://crackmes.de/

tuts4you also has a nice crackme/unpackme section.
I hear what you're saying, but in terms of usefulness for business decisions, what leaders at a company would be satisfied with someone providing Vapnik's quote? Certainly machine learning and statistics have applications outside of business, but when it comes to realities in industry settings, very often an explanation of results is necessary, in addition to an explanation of why a particular machine learning approach is best for solving a given problem, how it works to solve the problem, etc.
"Open source software for developing world hospitals " https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10675275

I've been wandering around looking for a project I can contribute to and make a difference. This is small enough where I can make a contribution but big enough so that I'm not "in charge", plus the scaffolding has been already set up. My 2016 resolution is to hone my Javascipt & git skills and contribute to something meaningful. I'm using my break to get up to speed on Ember and get ready to dive in.
I've been a heavy user of discogs since 2004. I've always been obsessed with producers and songwriters, ie the people who actually write the music I love. It's allowed me to discover alias of my favorite producers and to me that is invaluable.
90% of people are not audiophiles. They just don't care that much about sound quality, as long as it's decent. Digital music sounds good, but it's also more convenient than records or cassettes or even CDs (who buys CDs anymore, for that matter?). Digital took over for that reason, mostly.

The people who claim that vinyl sounds better than digital are using systems that cost tens of thousands of dollars. They sound VERY good and even if digital is provably "better" it's not a degree of distinction that many people would care about.

Nobody claims that a $175 "turntable in a briefcase" from Urban Outfitters sounds better than digital music. Or if they do, they are deluded, I agree.
This is an odd post to voice that complaint on, since the site supports HTTPS.
Is the YHWH character allegorical?
As we start to use AI/ML for more tasks, the need for model interpretability rises. We expect doctors to explain their gut feelings, much like we expect computer vision models that detect disease to explain their findings and have a (theoretically sound) estimate of confidence.

SVM's were so popular, pretty much because they had a firm theoretical basis on which they were designed (or "cute math" as deep learners may call it). As Patrick Winston would ask his students (paraphrasing): "Did God really meant it this way, or did humans create it, because it was useful to them?". Except maybe for the LSTM, deep learning models are not God-given. We use them because, in practice, they beat other modeling techniques. Now we need to find the theoretical grounding to explain why they work so well, and allow for better model interpretability, so these models can more readily be deployed in health care and under regulation.
I suppose inherent in the design of many modern 'web applications' is the concept of a single page interface. This encourages user behavior through a single view, rather than how many people interact with a website where they might spawn off dozens of tabs for each piece of content they intend to consume. In the case of the later, you'd wind up with dozens of tabs each conducting some form of communication, whereas with a web application, the design of the app might result in fewer connections since they're being routed through an interface designed to manage the flow of user interaction. Certainly not the case for every website or every web application, but I think that's conceptually why the distinction was being made.
#4 is actually pretty clever. This way the employees are only taxed at the strike price of the grant as income vs. being taxed at the full value of the stock at the liquidity event. And all the profit from the liquidity event is taxed as long term capital gains. By being a loan vs. income, the stock given to the employee is not taxable until they actually sell.

When the liquidity event happens, the tax from a forgiven loan is very miniscule compared the standard situation.
If you're interested in implementing reliable long-polling as described in the article, you might check out Pushpin (http://pushpin.org). It's a proxy server that you put in front of your API backend and it makes this sort of thing really easy.

Pushpin also supports WebSockets, but the long-polling capability is first class and not an afterthought.
What are the prerequisites? Knowledge of computer architecture A to almost Z?
I would argue that reading A Tour of C++ would make you ready to write a modern C++ program, if you are a programmer and are comfortable with pointers.
"But they make little to no effort to help bridge the gap, they usually leave that to everyone else."

OK, but that's also where you're wrong, right there. In general, but also particularly for this exact issue - Microsoft considered attempting to fix the file path limit for the first release of Windows 10. Maybe you don't understand, but it's going to take a herculean effort to fix this. They want to do it and if you need proof of that I can find posts of them talking about what I just said.
I was expecting the worst judging from the comments here, but it's actually an excellent essay (or article, or whatever you want to call it).

I personally agree. University should be more about learning and becoming better thinkers than simply learning a few facts and getting a piece of paper.

Pretty much none of the students I interact with care about 'learning', or any form of critical thinking. They want the profs to teach them a few facts, then base the test on those few facts. They optimize for this so they can get their A, then get the hell out.
>Has this approach held up in court or survived an audit?

Yes, it's actually a very old way to do things that fell out of favor in the 80s in favor of options. This way of doing it is more complex and more risk for the employer, so it makes no sense to do it over options if your goal is to just give tokens to employees.

>Do you actually transfer the money to the employee's account?

No, it's all papered
That's more like a numeric pun than strictly correct, but what the hell.
It's becoming a major issue for us, if it's not resolved by Saturday we are pushing the big red button, we can ride out a couple more days because most of the stuff we write/run for clients is LoB for SME's and everyone is shutdown for the holidays pretty much, after that not so much and it's going to be grim.
How to fix America's financial relationship to healthcare
What prevents a company from issuing vested stock options with an anti-dilution clause to early employees? Has any company set the precedent? Would it scare investors away?

I'm very curious.
Is there a video somewhere? The only one I found required the RealPlayer plugin :). (Shudder.)
Probably difficult to do in a non-event-driven non-asynchronous environment where every i/o blocks like Ruby............
Thanks for sharing that, he's got some interesting stuff to say about this topic.
Scott’s writing about C++ profoundly affected the way I approached C++ and every programming language I’ve approached since.

Thank you, Scott.
Bitcoin community wants to promote the technology so that it - and the community - is respected by good men, even though all the most obvious applications of it range from "quite evil" to "ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in Dante's Inferno". In a way, they have it even harder than proponents of nuclear energy - the latter can literally power the world in a clean way, but it took just two bombs early on and a few relatively minor failures (compared to other industrial accidents) to pretty much shelve the technology for good.
Hmm. I guess it's lowercasified before being hashed.
Successful Projects Part Two: Building the Spec
We re-upped this post (described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705926 and earlier posts linked from there). But https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10817978 was posted in the meantime, so we'll treat this one as a dupe even though it wasn't.
The real impact of Google Fiber--assuming it doesn't get sued to oblivion by one of the other ISPs--is that it sets a new standard. Because Google is now providing better service than, say, AT&T, AT&T must now up their game to keep customers.

Thus, as Fiber rolls out to new areas, expect the pre-existing players to either improve their own services (to everyone's benefit) or try to undercut Google (to their own detriment).
> Now the writing is on the wall, humanities "uselessness" is almost unanimous. That's a shame, but maybe that causes things to change for once.

The wrong perception of humanities being useless is so embedded into today's culture that it would take a cultural change to fix it. And even changing the culture within a university is prettymuch an impossible task for one person.
Mega ships bring benefits and challenges to ports of L.A. and Long Beach
I agree that in terms of sound, digital is superior. But as the article describes there is very much a collectable "object appeal" to old media. Now that even CD's and their annoying jewel cases are becoming obsolete, there remains an attractiveness to vinyl for some folks that is unrelated to any technical characteristics (real or imagined).
Network effects for ridesharing are overstated. Its a commodity that'll race to the bottom. It already occurs in markets where both Uber and Lyft are present.
Of course there's something subjective about tax. That was my whole point. I'm going to assume you meant "objective" so your post makes sense.

There's nothing objective the concept of fairness, particularly when it comes to taxes. Taxes are almost completely arbitrary, depending more on what the government in question thinks it can actually collect than anything else.

It's pretty easy to make the case corporations shouldn't be taxed at all. A corporation is nothing more than a group of people that have pooled their resources to make money, after all, and they're already taxed as individuals when profits are disbursed. How is that fair?
Just because you can't explain your gut feelings doesn't mean they are unexplainable, or that you don't have any obligation to explain them.
These are awesome and appropriate questions. I hope that such an investigation is conducted, and conducted thoroughly.
Im really disturbed by the scientists that tortured dozens of dogs and chimps in vacuums.
Honestly they could never add another page or edit and I'd still be going there for the next decade.
fuck your demand for diversity. probably a fucking jew.
> I am fascinated that he has dedicated the end of his life to pointing out that police violence hurts white people and black people equally.

absolutely not - his point is that police violence hurts black people way more, but nobody pays attention unless a rich white guy tells his story too.
Thanks. URL changed from http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2015/12/29/ma....
This sounds like the end of Earthlight [1] (the novel, not the short story). However, it was the space liner rescuing the crew of the military ship in this case. The ability to evacuate the crew of the military ship without spacesuits is an important plot point, or at least a dramatic one.

Anyway, Clarke was apparently convinced that humans could survive a brief exposure to vacuum at least as early as 1955.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthlight
Unless you've got a way to stop people from having economic power, that is an inevitability.
In what ways is asyncio in python a better solution than eventmachine in ruby? They seem like incredibly similar designs.