skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pinterest allows employees to hold onto their options for seven years after leaving (if they stay at the company for two years) to avoid this scenario. I think there are a few other companies that have done similar things.

http://fortune.com/2015/03/23/pinterest-employee-taxes/

Disclosure: I work for Pinterest
For sure, AMT is much worse than regular income tax.
my bandwidth kills things like this. I have so little upload in the US that I can't host anything and still have a usable network connection
I would like to know how well it works with autistic people.
Emacs' built-in text-based web browser

Is it time to update Zawinski's Law to "Every program attempts to expand until it can browse the web."

Not that Emacs isn't already one of the best (if not the number one) examples of "kitchen sink" programs...
I know some cite it as a good smell but they are in the minority. Plus, In my admittedly anecdotal experience, I've found that people who say that mean that they like the smell of sweat from people they're already attracted to, i.e. in their partner or in someone they find attractive versus just anybody, which would include people they dislike.

There is also a difference between those liking smell of sweat from the sex they're attracted to and men citing it as a "manly" thing, influenced in no small part by cultural and pop culture messaging.
You should have a moment of silence for that money, since it's now gone forever.

You bought stocks of a company that has never been profitable and whose stock has plummeted in a bullish market. Even a layman will probably tell you to cut your losses and invest into something else.

Or maybe keep hoping they'll get acquired by another company really soon, which should prop the stock price up and hopefully mitigate most of your losses.
That's foreign policy, that doesn't have much to do with the manufacturing of weapons. Weapons manufacturers just provide weapons to their country and it's the country's (politicians) job to make wise use of it.
Berlin bans Airbnb from renting apartments to protect affordable housing
Actually, it depends. In Uber's case yes it would be the 409A as there is no secondary market. If there were a secondary market, it would be the last sales price from the day you exercised, not 409A value.

The IRS guidelines say the spread between grant price and fair market valuation. If there's a secondary market, that's your fair market, not 409A (which is a joke anyway).

Also, most companies use the last public valuation as a basis for 409A valuation rather than hiring someone to do it in a separate process. The investors buying shares are the experts here. Of course there are considerations for preferred vs common stock and things like warrants, but they start at the top line number from the last round.
Thanks for creating Infinit! I think its great that you have end user usability in mind when building the filesystem.
Hey, everyone! Super excited to make it to the front page of HN =)

I want writingstreak.io to help people to practice their writing skills and develop a habit of writing regularly.

It keeps track of daily word count, gives you writing prompts, has a github-like calendar representing the amount of words you have written each day, and all sorts of cool features to help you focus on writing.

I think it's gonna be pretty great.

It is in the very early stage at this point, and I would really love some feedback.

Does the idea make sense, do you think it's useful? What other features would you like in that kind of tool?
So you don't believe Australia should have any form of maritime defense or offense force?

Air pollution is the least of anyone's concern in Australia. Life expectancy is amongst the highest in the world.
I don't understand the practical difference between your two examlpes. What does a browser do, other than essentially "run curl on the URL and then show the results"
I found that, after learning the basics of the language via K&R or a similar book, the best way to get a good understanding of C and its weird corner cases and eccentricities is just to go through the comp.lang.c FAQ page. http://c-faq.com/index.html

It's pretty comprehensive, and I found the level was pretty good for a "not total newbie, but still not familiar with the subtilties" level that can be kind of hard to find resources for.
The change referred to is Robert Griesemer's change to use a new binary export format [0]

[0] https://github.com/golang/go/commit/7538b1db8ec0d82a623847fe...
Later in the game, sure. Who's going to build the early toolset? Who's going to own it? Will their be a FOSS API, or will we be locked in?

All of that design infrastructure needs to be built by somebody, and that somebody stands to make a forunate. The tasks you listed are a decent summary of the likely eventual outcome.

But:

• Who will do the work to create this beautiful API?
• Who will create this coprocessor architecture?
• Will this theoretical stack be built by Microsoft, Amazon, Google, etcetera, or be FOSS?

These questions are completely unanswered, and will affect my users of whatever quantum. When analyzing data, one cannot usually just gloss over the underlying math. All abstractions, by definition, are incomplete.

But that's the exciting thing about right now. Most inventions occur when science outruns engineering. When engineering and cutting edge science just about to finally converge, that's when market opportunities are most prevalent.
Military Shrinking, Danger Ahead
Wait -- you need an app for this now? Ever since NEXTStep, Mac OS X has had the "Services" entry on the menu which can do things like this. Is that gone now?
> Java isn't something a guy on the street would recognize but if you were writing to a lay audience, would you describe the Oracle v. Google as involving a "little known programming language?

If it barely entered the public consciousness, sure.

In the case of Java though, I think it's actually more recognizable than this committee, which personally I'd never heard of. Between the Oracle vs. Google lawsuit, the browser plugin vulnerabilities, and Java just being such a popular computer language... I'd assume a lot of laypeople have heard of it. Though many might not realize JavaScript is a different language.
Our military is shrinking in a time of incredible danger. Why?
No.

And to make things worse, any phrase containing the word "bespoke" just sounds grammatically incorrect. "Bespoke" is the past tense of the verb "bespeak", but that means the participle should be "bespoken". The phrase ought to be "a bespoken CA card", not "a bespoke CA card", in exactly the same way that one would write "a broken CA card", not "a broke CA card". But unfortunately, people insist on this ungrammatical-sounding word because they think it sounds fancy.
Fabien is hinting at the confusion: sizeof(&array[0]) != sizeof(array)

&array[0] and array decay to the same thing, the pointer to the first element if they are used in an expression. But sizeof gives a different result, because array+0 'decays' to a pointer, and array doesn't.
EFF is an advocacy organization. They're like Sierra Club or PETA.[1] They're not in the business of neutral analysis; they're in the business of pursuasion. Their job is not to provide the most reasonable take; it's to give up no ground to their opponents.

[1] Both of which are organizations I hold in high esteem, so that's not a negative comparison.
Google News on mobile has become an awful experience on mobile. They hijacked the scrolling so it doesn't keep momentum like every other scrolling page in the system, and if you accidentally scroll downward with too much of an angle it swipes to a new section. I'm amazed every day it still exists and has not been fixed!!
Billionaires are funding lots of grandiose plans. Welcome their ambition
> , then people who didn't manage to get one would be out of luck

No

There are two reasons why people can't get a ticket:

- Fans bought all the tickets, limited places so the only way you could get them is if someone gives up. Nothing wrong in reselling a ticket for the price you paid for them or less

- Scalpers bought all the tickets. This is the main reason why today you can't get a ticket. Because they get on the queue and buy all of them before the fans had a chance to even get it.

So the problem of "you can't get a ticket" is not solved by scalpers, it is caused by them
Pure objectivity in news is an impossibility, and pursuit of such pure objectivity is a fool's errand.

As you pointed out, the editorial process in which a selection is made between newsworthy items is highly subjective. Every day only a few news items make it onto the front page, and there cannot possibly be a neutral metric that can determine which ones.

Journalism doesn't just provide the facts, it also has an obligation to educate and inform the readers. Impartiality -- simply printing two opposing viewpoints side-by-side -- doesn't work. After all, giving equal weight to the opinion of a respected biologist and a evolution skeptic will mislead the readership by implying there is a serious debate where there is none.

Even the process of selecting which authors get published in the opinion pages is subject to highly ideological forces. By necessity.

A higher emphasis on data doesn't fix any of these issues. So instead media should be more upfront about their ideological perspective. The pretense of neutral objectivity doesn't serve anybody. To the contrary, delivering an ideological message in a package of neutral data-driven approach is pernicious. Pernicious because it allows the readers to believe they're the reasonable and fact-based party, while those people are ideological fools. In reality we're all highly illogical and ideological creatures and we should be honest about this, to ourselves and to others.
There's no reason they have to find out. You just won the lottery or received an inheritance from a distant relative. How you acquire capital is none of their business.
I first learned C from K&R, but I'm not really that big of a fan. I find the style of inter-mixing new information in the middle of examples kind of hard to follow. I prefer to have the basics set out in front, and than get a bunch of examples demonstrating them. I'm sure people with different learning styles have an easier time with it, though.
Simultaneously a buzzkill and realistic.
Please stop spamming your blog.
Personally, I think that the FISA court is a travesty, and rejecting zero surveillance requests is just rubber stamping.

But how would I refute the "Federal judges warrant rejection rates are very low because the law enforcement doesn't want to present questionable warrants in the first place" argument?

It seems to me that a place to start is to ask where the FISA warrants get reviewed - in regular (non-terrorist) cases there's all kinds of warrant review and challenge and argument before a trial, but I'm not sure that kind of review happens with FISA warrants.
I think its a bit of both. The masses being distracted and sedated in a BNW fashion, with those that step outside being hit with the 1984 treatment.

The big irony being that this is not a willed construct, but a emergent phenomena.
Oh well -- the EFF knows that if they write for themselves, there'll be lower-brow comment-threads full of 'lol wtf bbq' and no one will take them seriously because they won't understand. Write accessibly, and well-read nitpickers of a HN-like brow alignment will pick apart their clickbait headlines. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Most, if not all, products at HB are DRM free.
Tidal: can Prince and Beyonce save the underdog of streaming services?
K&R Second Ed. was published going on two decades after C first emerged. Already many versions of Unix and the applications to run on them were written at the time of K&R Second. You can hardly say that little was known about software design with C at the time it came out.

It won't cover C99, C11, or modern practices to mitigate buffer overflows. But it is still an excellent introduction to the fundamentals of C. It's also aimed at people who already know how to program in, say, Pascal, so is probably best not approached as a rank beginner.
> "I am absolutely determined to return such misappropriated apartments to the people of Berlin and to newcomers"

Eh? I thought the owners had a right to rent their apartments. I wouldn't want to be in owners' place right now.
Ideally, I'd go to one of the top 4 departments: Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, CMU. Graduates of top universities with decent skills don't have a hard time finding jobs. I'll probably add Columbia and Harvard (middling departments, strong lay prestige) as (irony here) "safety schools". A quant fund isn't going to know the difference between a Harvard CS PhD and one from MIT (or might put Harvard higher).

Anything below the top 20 (and it's top 10 in the rest of STEM and top 1-2 in humanities) has to be purely for the education, though. You're right that a #40 PhD, while the educational program is probably fine, won't fix your career.

Also, the academic job market is terrible and that does not change if you have a PhD from an elite department. That's not what I'm aiming for.
It, well, depends. In my business, clients are often given the choice between a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free license to basically do whatever with the final product (which often includes code and graphics but not, for example, source PSD or AI files) or they get everything and pay more for the "buyout".

Surprisingly, this works well enough that many clients opt for the non-exclusive license, and we get to re-use the code.
What is best in life?

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6PQ6335puOc
"The Linux Command Line" is also free to download from here : http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php
> Then, there is the cost-driven decision. This is for foundry customers who may have lower volume products. They may not recoup their investment at 10nm. So, it makes more sense for them to skip 10nm and move to 7nm.

Why is it cheaper to design a 7nm chip for a given performance than to design a 10nm chip? The article mentions the yields on newer processes are lower, so I would've expected them to be the performance option not the cost option.
Yeah, but that's a problem even without an internet connected opener.

For example, my left most garage door opener happened to get onto the same frequency/code cycle as the neighbor across the cul de sac's door opener about a year ago and their opener opens/closes my door EVERY TIME. Mine is an old Craftsman piece of crap but it's the door I never use so I just leave it unplugged rather than trying to actually fix the problem.

If instead of RF with half assed code hopping we could use more secure tokens through a gateway device that introduced very little lag, we'd have way more secure garage doors than what we have now.

Unfortunately those Internet module additions to garage doors are just adding weak Internet security to weak garage door security.
San Francisco's Long Shadow
I've encountered short variable names in many hard to read mathematical papers.
Mozilla Firefox market share hits another new low
You could have residency requirements, not citizenship requirements. Maybe not doable in the US, but perfectly possible in countries where people are required to officially register the main place they live at, e.g. in Germany.

That would make more sense, anyway. Citizenship is just a weird concept, as is much to do with nations and nationalism. Heck, throw in a five year delay (or whatever the voting period is) and you may even be able to placate the eternally xenophobic weird people (nah, not gonna happen …).
You can get a loan to exercise the options. You just can't pledge (use) the shares as collateral for that loan.
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> But how would I refute the "Federal judges warrant rejection rates are very low because the law enforcement doesn't want to present questionable warrants in the first place" argument?

Even if every LEO is trying their best to avoid filing questionable warrants, they will end up being mistaken far more than 0 out of 48,642 times. What's the point of having this oversight apparatus if they provide no apparent oversight whatsoever?
It seems like adding the colour would be the hard part. Once you had that, normalising the colour or smoothing it out across hundreds of similar images could be achieved by a second software algorithm.

Certainly colour correction, hue, contrast, brightness, would be easier to process than adding colour in the first place.
TV networks battle new media threat as Facebook looms over ad war
Yeah, I'm not that enthusiastic about it. But it brings up interesting things like a system showing recipe ideas you can make without going to the store or whatever. Which maybe that is stupid too, but there are lots of possibilities. So in some sense, the 'works great' up there has to include a compelling use case.
But the software does lots of things the users didn't ask for, wouldn't expect, and aren't told about. That's over a line.
Reading about old battleships in WWII with complements of over 2000, I've always wondered what you need that many sailors for. Obviously they're necessary, but it's still a lot of people.
Slowly Mozilla should find a new strategy, and with the most big changes yet to come (XUL removal and Webextensions arriving)which will impact fans of the old powerful Firefox add-on system and theme system very much, it does not look like things would improve in the future.
I read the Pinterest policy last year and ask my CEO about doing something similar during a company meeting. He just laughed. Then he apologized the next meeting for misunderstanding the question and still said no.

I left the company.
I took several classes in Quantum Mechanics around 1980. I am sure it would be far more interesting today. At least we have a more practical understanding of what it can do. I do wonder if we have any understanding of how it will change society?
Really cool! Do you know how it compares to the research project Farsite from Microsoft? http://research.microsoft.com/apps/mobile/showpage.aspx?page...

Sounds really similar (but productized).
Isn't there generally an overlap?
I'm not totally sure that you parsed that sentence correctly.
The book Programming Collective Intelligence has a step-by-step example of how to build a recommendation system. Highly recommended.
Tried with some historical photos and my own BW images. It's missing the global image prior for most of the images except vegetation, it has a hard time even with people. For local features I've seen similar problems, my guess is that they trained it on a not large enough dataset, the spectacular samples are from over-training. While the idea looks promising the current implementation is far from general.
Okay as far as it goes, but the problem with that sort of analysis is that willingness to pay is only a good proxy for how much the ticket is valued for people with similar incomes. If you have enough money, being thrifty is optional. For someone barely breaking even, it's a requirement and there is a much higher threshold for spending money.

Taken too seriously, the result of ignoring this issue is absurdities like rich people caring more about anything they happen to spend money on than poor people care about eating.
While I didn't put it that way, that's not the worst summary. Though I would say whatever induced his narcissistic personality disorder made him weak, and his disorder made him cruel. Lack of empathy and the inability to reflect are not strengths.

Hitler came back from WW1 with the same rank he went in, which was a huge disappointment for him, then he failed as an artist and ended up in homeless shelter where he was disliked because, well, I guess he just wasn't very lovable or interesting. He was driven by resentment and a feeling of inferiority, which is narcissism 101, as is the fact that he put on a great show which he and others fell for.

Generally, even when "just" talking about a sociopath desire for power and less about the self-destruction of someone as sick as Hitler: any leash transforms people on both ends, and the very desire to have power over others betrays a lack of inner strength and integrity. I can't prove that, but I'll claim it. And furthermore I think people pretend to themselves and each other that power is an end in and of itself, because they're so scared of what it covers up. When you walk on a landmine, you can't just go on pretending you still have legs -- not so with abuse, trauma and neglect resulting in a haywire personality development, where routing around things, in ourselves and others, is often our default reaction.

P.S. If you're really interested in the psychology of Hitler as well as the Nazis historically I can recommend the books by Sebastian Haffner, the titles make it kind of obvious which ones apply.
American police state.

Americans police state.

anyone want to argue otherwise?

American police state.

People need to first accept the obvious truth. America is a corrupt nation of corrupt laws rules by a corrupt elite enforced by corrupt officers.
I wonder how much money the IRS looses due to this. So you can't pay the 40%, you end up closing shop. You both loose.
Cost is often driven by #die/wafer, which in turn is driven by die size which in turn is (often) driven by feature size.
The guy who thinks it's OK to slam reporters isn't misinformed. His knowledge of the facts completely matches the journalist's description. Where they differ is in their opinion of what is an appropriate response.

Basically, OP argues that people who disagree with him haven't been preached to enough. This condescending article is more of a reason than an explanation for why people think it's OK to slam reporters.

PolitiFact does the same thing. They take what is clearly an opinion and rate it: http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2015/dec/04/ted-c...

It's not some unsubstantiated claim from politicians that the press is lying. They're simply the closest to the action. Watching Youtube or Liveleak videos of various events posted on social media and then hearing about them on the news is how I have developed a lot of contempt for journalists and journalism.

And it's not a new observation.

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

The Internet just made it easier to learn more about various subjects. You don't have to passively listen to some anointed fact-checkers, and you're not limited to your narrow area of expertise.
Mobile? Context: my daughter (12) wrote her first 5000+ word story on her Android phone without anyone prompting her to do it. But perhaps teenagers and younger are not your target audience?
No, that's incorrect (speaking as a founder who's raised $35mm and sold shares on the private market). Private financings will trigger a new 409a valuation but won't influence it. 409A valuations are typically based on Black Scholes and have no connection to private funding valuations. Secondary sales only affect fair market if there's a functioning secondary market, and AFAIK there are no private startups with a FUNCTIONING secondary market.