skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the thing: it's incredibly difficult to say that. Most investors build themselves a nice legal framework to make sure that they are very likely to get some amount of money back.

Regardless of the company, investors most likely made sure that they get some sort of preference, whether it's in anti-dilution preference, liquidation preference, etc. If the company tanks, or even just doesn't live up to expectations, investors will most likely get some sort of compensation (maybe less than they invested, but it's unlikely that they'll lose 100% of their investment).

Then there's the question of even if things go reasonably well, is it worth it. First, you have to address the time value of money, which basically is a question of what else you could have done with the money in the meantime.

If you get $100k after 5 years at a company, that sounds like a good chunk of money, but is essentially $20k/year before taxes, and the tax implications that will likely be worse if you get $100k in a windfall vs. compensation.

Then consider that even if the company does "well", there's a decent chance that employees won't see nearly as much money as they expect. One question I've wanted to ask for awhile is what happened to employees at Loopt, Sam Altman's company. According to CrunchBase, they raised $39m+, and sold for $43.5m according to Wikipedia. If everything converted to common stock, employees with 0.5% would get $217k (before taxes).

However, depending on investors, there's a good chance that employees got nothing. Outside of dilution, there are a bunch of other things that can really ruin your "investment": the preferences mentioned above, cases where their initial investment is returned before the profits are split, and multipliers (investors are guaranteed a multiple of their investment in return).

So there's no real easy way to say what percent of companies pay back their investors. Colossal failures can still make money for investors (via the multipliers mentioned above), even though employees who exercised their options are screwed (they bought their shares AND paid taxes on them).
Yes, my company is constantly talking about millennials as a group. I feel like way too much is ascribed to my being in the 20-36 year old age group.
Link: https://github.com/ProjectCleverWeb/Semantic-UI-WordPress
I'm kind of surprised that their reaction is to expect Tavis to continue to volunteer his time to audit the security of their product.
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"Military technology"? :).
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If that's your position, then does it matter if they surveil you? There is doubtless already far more than six lines of your script publicly available to any who might desire it, at any time. Logging your activity, then, does not increase your risk.

My point is they already have all they need, publicly available any time they desire it. You write it for them and publish it for them! It's fanciful to imagine privacy protects you, IMO.
IME it is also important for management to officially recognize the need for a Wiki and provide some minimal resources and time to manage it. Otherwise it becomes just another thing for people to add to their ever growing list of things to do.

I'm in a team now with a brilliant but highly overambitious manager, and we've got lots of great knowledge locked in people's heads. So three years ago we created a nice wiki and started adding stuff into it. One year later the company reorganized and the group that owned the company wiki master site said they wouldn't pay for it anymore, and that we had to move to a new system. So we did after a lot of work. And guess what happened a year later after another reorg?

Putting something in a Wiki also requires you to put in a lot of thought so you properly address the audience that will try to make use of it. And that can range from people who are lazy and need to have their hands held through everything, to people who just needed a nudge in the right direction. With meetings you don't have to be so mindful, apart from knowing which people need to just go away.

If there is some recognition from management that a Wiki is required and it officially needs time from people, then there is consistency about what goes in there, the time required, and some escalation process if the Wiki is wrong or outdated. Otherwise it's just another thing you do that gets no recognition that could easily lead to more work.
It's not ideal, but aren't notes accessible via the iCloud website? I agree with everything you said, especially as someone who uses Windows, Windows Phone and iOS side-by-side.
Now if it also turned out that the money actually comes from the Canadian government as some sort of aid funding for development projects abroad, that would be perfect!
> Not to mention the composition or what might be below the snow.

I don't feel like this is particularly harder than any of the other problems self-driving cars face. To achieve performance on par with human drivers simple need to do a couple of things (which are what I do when driving in snowy/icey conditions):

1) Categorize current/recent road appearance into groups.

2) Do tiny periodic break checks on each relevant group to determine the traction available in that group.

3) Trigger a new set break checks when conditions change (e.g. exterior temp changes, precipitation changes, traffic density changes or road-type changes such as exit ramp or bridge)

This road surface analysis combined with a bit of traffic analysis should also allow you to determine 'emergent lanes' in snowy conditions.
It also is the central plot point to the anime Psycho Pass.

(off-topic but the watch in Psycho Pass was what I hoped the Apple Watch would be)
> would you really tell everyone involved in the project that they should go home after 35 hours a week, because they are harming the project if they work longer?

Everyone? Maybe not. Those whose could make irrecuperable errors and doom the project because of fatigue, certainly. For many professions, longer hours don't necessarily lend to more production, but can certainly become hazardous.
Not anymore, in the last release thry switched to iCloud syncing.
Ask HN: How do engineers make time for job interviews/phone screens/preparation?
I work full-time at a mid size tech company as a senior engineer. I'm looking to make a move looking for better opportunities.

As a senior engineer, I have plate full with project deliverables, design for next project, bug fixes, presentation, and other meetings. How do I make time for preparing for interviews, phone screens and full-day on-site interviews?

Around 4 years back I worked at a big-company as a junior engineer and didn't have many responsibilities so it was easy to vanish for couple of hours/call-in sick for phone screens and take off for on-site interviews.

Just curious how other HN folks manage job hunting. Also since I'm on H1B, I need to secure another job before I can quit existing job so quitting job and searching is not an option.
What Adobe Illustrator workflow for apps do you use?
What scripts do people use to export app assets from Adobe Illustrator?
Is it? I wouldn't think so if I got picked up by police on the way home from school, and they arrested my Mom for letting me walk on my own. It would be a gross overreach by the state into the lives of its people.
Ya I suppose my point is that such assignments are inherently subjective, and derived from limited data (except in some limited cases, e.g. disease screening, though not disease testing in general).

Consider the theory that there is an unidentified teapot floating around the moon. What prior would you assign that? 1x10^-20? What if I then told you that a teapot was on board the space shuttle during the first moon landing? Maybe then the exponent rises to -10. What if then I further told you that when it came back, that teapot was unaccounted for? Now all of the sudden what seemed wildly improbable actually seems remotely possible. Not because anything changed in the world, mind you, but because your knowledge of the world became more complete.

Particularly in the case of a scientific theory, it seems almost completely impossible to adequately estimate the probability of its truth prior to testing. For instance, if I were to propose that conservation of energy is incorrect, most people would assign that an extraordinarily low prior. But would they really be justified in so doing? Is there really evidence that conservation of energy is a fundamental property of the universe, or does there just happen to be a lot of stuff that we've observed that comports with it? I suppose i'm essentially making Plato's cave's argument here.
While I'm not a huge fan of the tone, I do agree with a few points. The ES6/ES7 syntax is freaking awful... I still write almost all of my JavaScript code in ES5 because I don't really want to have to deal with all of the magical stuff Babel/Traceur/TypeScript/whatever is doing behind the scenes.

That being said, it's not all bad. System.js/JSPM has improved my front-end workflow quite a bit and the SPAs I've made with the new workflow have been both stable, compatible and fast (very few end user complaints, lots of praise, quick development). So while some things have become convoluted, not everything is dire.
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> I can enjoy music who's rules I am not familiar with. I don't need to know the rules to enjoy tonal and rythmic arrangements.

Most people don't, hence western harmony is what sounds like music to most westerners and anything else sounds weird or like noise.

> That means it's culturally specific, NOT a social construction.

It actually means both. All culturally specific tastes are also social constructs.
This feature applies to other models, but without 3D-Touch it is activated with a two-finger scroll across the keyboard area. Very handy.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/06/11/first-look-ios-9s-...
"The day will come when David Bowie is a star and the crushed remains of his melodies are broadcast from Muzak boxes in every elevator and hotel lobby in town."

- Nancy Erlich, July 11 1971 New York Times (http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1971/07/11/9130...)
He didn't say 'gang' excluded 'white', did he?

He said that a group of black youths that sometimes do shady stuff will be labelled a 'gang', while a group of white youths will not.
Wait until someone else will summon your Tesla from their phone!

How strong will the security be for this?
If political dissent is correlated to violence, why shouldn't it be a parameter in the threat model?

Because we know this will be implemented in a partisan way. "Dissent" implies that there is a single politics from which everything different must be considered suspect. Simply using the word implies totalitarianism.

You can see this in the US where the white people talking about the violent overthrow of the government somehow aren't considered terrorists and are relatively unmolested even if they actually occupy Federal land and buildings, but a nonwhite kid holding a toy gun gets shot in a playground.

Edit: just to drive the point home, does the threat model include a database of gun owners? Do we think gun ownership might be correlated with crime? Or is it illegal to investigate that as it is for the CDC?
I'm talking from a dev perspective, not a business perspective.
We should all demand 3rd-party audits of our security products.
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Parent comment's point is that a group of white kids that hit a mailbox are called "miscreants", while a group of black kids who hit a mailbox are called a "gang".

White gangs exist; it's just easy to call a group of black kids a "gang" because that's our image of a gang.
The point of the quote is that those who claim that you don't need privacy if you have "nothing to hide" are wrong, because the power always can abuse information it gets, as long as it wants to target someone.

> My point is they already have all they need, publicly available any time they desire it

Which doesn't mean you need to be lax and give them even more, or even accept such situation as normal. Don't feed the machine. To put it differently, the argument that "privacy is dead, so ignore the issue" is invalid and actually only facilitates the problem.
I hope I am wrong, but I can't imagine a modern day Hoover, with better surveillance, to not have already placed blackmailed politicians in all key political positions and is effectively ruling the United States.
All right, then: This one is complete (compiles, runs, iterates through the data, accessing only fields "x" and "y"):

#include <fstream>
#include <json.hpp>

int main()
{
std::ifstream input_file("data.json");
nlohmann::json data;
data << input_file;
for (auto obj : data)
std::cout << obj["x"] << ',' << obj["y"] << '\n';
}
While it is a huge PITA, frameworks can still be reverse engineered - though not having headers makes it a lot harder.
"people that claim working nine hours in a day instead of eight gives no (or negative) additional benefit are either being disingenuous or just have terrible work habits"
It depends on so many factors (self interest in the job, capacity, health, age, repetitiveness, nature of the job, stress involved, etc...) that it can be true or false in different cases.

“Hey you, working three jobs to feed your family! Half of the time you are working is actually of negative value so you don’t deserve to be paid for it!”
Negative value might be abusive but those people are for sure less productive in their second job compared to if they wouldn't have to do the first one. But the net production is for sure higher for 2 jobs than 1.

"does that mean the rest of the day that you spend with your family, reading, exercising at the gym ... you would be spending your time on, are all done poorly?"
Assuming every activity is consuming the same resource is a very speculative statement. Being exhausted solving a math problem doesn't necessary means you're exhausted to run.

"When you hit a wall on one task, you could say “that’s it, I’m done for the day” and head home, or you could switch over to something else that has a different rhythm"
That's assuming every job is made of very diverses tasks. As a core of modern economy, division of labour actually lead to the opposite in many cases. And that's sort of true for many jobs in game industry where your day job can turn very repetitive and all the tasks, no matter how much, looks the very same.

"Given two equally talented people, the one that pursues a goal obsessively, for well over 40 hours a week is going to achieve more" You would need a study to back it up, I would be very curious of the result of these two people over a period of 40-50 years of career at 80 hours per week for one and 40 for the other.
I guess, anecdote vs. anecdote, I've just never seen that happen.
Apps on the App Store can't use private API's so I'm assuming none.
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Tackling mega-testing projects: Think collaboration, communication
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I mentioned it in my edit above, but I grew up in an affluent Midwest suburb where parents were threatened with criminal action if they let their kids walk to school. Even high school aged students were threatened with suspensions for walking. Whether this is the "norm" will depend on where you live, but there are certainly entire communities where letting kids walk to school is not the norm.
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P(adult evil | talk to them) < .0001
P(stranger evil | they talk to you) > .0001
While blue light has the most impact, it's all light that has this effect. For anyone interested, I'd recommend reading this concise 4 page study on the subject.[0]

The synopsis is that there's no substitute for shutting off screens 1-2 hours before bedtime. This coming from someone who not only uses f.lux but sometimes when needing to use the computer late, will adorn an old pair of sunglasses to further cut down on light from 3 monitors.

[0]https://www.gwern.net/docs/melatonin/2012-wood.pdf
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Not at all. Rather, it's that your heuristic of "providing value" breaks down spectacularly in the face of even the most casual observations of consumer demand. Whether value is provided by copying bits is arguable, that artists add value to society is not even worth debating. Producing an album is bespoke labor as well, just work that, as such, typically goes uncompensated. And to the extent that these are merely symptoms of a market in flux, as opposed to the stratifications of a class system, it undermines that analysis to make the tired assertion that poverty wages are the price one pays for "following one's passion" (albeit very specific passions).

In any event, I suspect that you don't know many "so-called artists". May you have a long and prosperous career, and retire young before the market value for your passions is reduced to zero.
On the 2 points you raise:

1/ I agree with you on the premise that it is somehow inevitable but it is a lawless arena today.

2/ Also the single person does end up having more capability but also protection from them is also more possible.

But the problem with it is that in its current form surveillance is secret and the decision of action based on the surveillance is done in secret. There is an exclusion of democracy in any country when it comes to surveillance. Laws governing response to surveilled information are non-existent. This means we don't as a people have known effective means of using surveillance nor can we come to know unwanted side effects. Also citizens of a democracy are treated as unqualified individuals to know about surveillance. There used to be a caste system in the past of people who were worthy and those who are not. Kingdoms, dictatorships and communist states are the classical examples. Today the caste system is whether you belong to the surveillance community or not. Yes we need it but we need it to be governed by rules. Surveillance is a product of wanting to have an upper hand on the international landscape however we are discovering that it is slipping into domestic situations like the parallel construction cases exposed by Snowden. So while surveillance is inevitable and necessary it really is the wild wild west of government.
Didn't downvote you - but generally complaining about downvotes is unclassy. I'll venture a guess and say that you might've been downvoted because "loosen the grips on that background services stuff" sounds a bit flippant - the restrictions exist for very good reason.

That said, there is probably a good case for the case of background uploads to be added to the existing backgrounding framework as an additional use case, with its own set of governing rules (another user brought up: Wi-Fi only, while charging, while battery is high, while reception is good, etc).

The solution to inconvenient background syncing IMO isn't opening the floodgates to everyone running their own daemons and sucking down battery power like it's their last day on Earth. It's a valuable use case, but not a good reason to "loosen the grips" so to speak.
No CarPlay support for Waze ಠ_ಠ
From the email thread:

> I happened to notice that the /api/showSB endpoint will spawn an ancient build of Chromium (version 41) with --disable-sandbox. To add insult to injury, they append "(Secure Browser)" to the UserAgent.

> I sent a mail saying "That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen".

This is indeed unbelievably ridiculous.
There are two parts to this. First one is about parsing the speech, and we're getting pretty good at that. The second part is actually understanding the context of the speech and that's obviously harder problem.

We're just starting to explore machine learning in any meaningful sense. I think the progress we've seen already bodes tremendously well for AI assistants.

>The primary bottleneck for intelligent agents is not voice recognition, it's semantic insight.

I absolutely agree. We won't see general purpose assistants in the near future, but that doesn't mean we won't see specialized assistants. Something like the desktop is a fairly constrained environment.

A lot of what you'd need to do is already being done by systems like Google search. You can type in a random term and it will often do an excellent job of finding exactly what you wanted.

Here's an example of just how good this tech is now. I forgot a name of a tv show one time and I typed in "movie with a clock and the key" into Google. Sure enough it found the show as the first result.

While we don't know how to make a general purpose AI right now, but there is a ton of work happening in that domain. I would be very surprised if we don't see a lot of progress there in the next few decades.

The AI doesn't have to be self improving, our brains aren't and we can do all the things that a digital assistant would need to do.
1. I don't want a single purpose device for every connected device I own.

2. I don't want my phone to be the single point of failure for every connected device I own.

Both alternatives get worse as you connect more devices. Somebody will need to think of a high-level solution to this problem (most likely Apple) for more granular access control of connected devices from your phone.
What's the latest feedback on Startup Chile?
Has anybody gone through Startup Chile in the last year? Care to comment on your experience?

esp:
* Are they still making it difficult to get reimbursements?
* Is there a lot of bureaucracy to deal with?
* Was it a safe working atmosphere?

Thanks!
Both are oppressive, both are ostensibly done to protect the oppressed target (from rape and violence), both undercut the decisions of mature adults (women, parents). Seems like it's valid on at least a few dimensions.

The major difference is that children grow up to be adults and are freed from the restrictions. If that is the most salient issue, then it's a bad analogy, but I don't think it's a "ludicrous" comparison.
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Rather, I think your low reading comprehension and desire to be outraged led to you believe that the commenter was suggesting that he thought white groups weren't gangs. You happily seized the opportunity to make your righteous comment. Unfortunately, it made zero sense in the context.
Well, via software. There have certainly been remote-controlled cars in the past.
I need an SPA, but I still agree with you.
Currently I'm unhappy about the SPA, but an SPA could also be built without a Framework and sometimes people built internal apps, there are good use cases for a SPA.
"Summon"

Great word - evokes both magic and privilege in one fell swoop.

They just nail the language in their communications.
I think it depends on the application. FastMail's Notes, for instance, depends on which version of Notes you use.
https://www.fastmail.com/help/notes/usage.html
I can't think of any good parent oversight mechanism except from receiving a copy of every message that is sent or received from that inbox and this doesn't sound like feature.
How did no one within the company catch it? Aren't security products developed by at least somewhat security-minded people? Is it all just a sham?