skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I early exercised at Twilio when the spread was pretty small.

The key is that you pay taxes on that spread. If you're early enough - I was roughly #25 - and do it early in your tenure, then you only have to come up with the cash to buy the shares and a minor tax bill. If I had waited until I left to execute, the spread would have been 12-15x. I know a few people who stayed 4 years to fully vest and then executed. I don't know detailed numbers but it sounded painful.

If/when Twilio eventually IPOs, then the ROI will be far better than any index fund.

(I don't know anything about the "if/when" as I haven't been inside in over 2 years.)
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No that's just Twitter trying to jam bullshit down your throat.
I am guessing this works well if you bounce or mark as spam anything sent to the main non-prefixed email address i.e. throwawayemail@gmail.com and prefix with guids or something unguessable.
i think 'TCP/IP Illustrated' is good if you want to get into networking.
I see, so your problem is not with corruption, you just want to replace the government with something that sees fit. Very representative of current Brazilian middle-class thinking.
Learn assembly then c will be easy
As someone who is only passing interested in history, I love the Etruscans for their wonderful bronzes.

Here's an example (praying to the art history gods this is an actual Etruscan example and not something else): http://www.royalathena.com/media/Etruscan/Bronze/HFN01.jpg

You can see in their work both the modern world that their culture would help form and the pre-historic tribal past of Europe.
My fave parable about craft is the bell maker's apprentice in Andrei Rublev. Either succeed or die.
On the other hand, no one wants to have to recompile everything all the time, which gives much force to the argument that CPUs should be more CISC, so that the same (complex) instructions will simply run faster due to hardware improvements. REP MOVS on x86 is a great example of this; it was originally the fastest way to do a block copy until around the Pentium when it lost (only slightly) to very large custom unrolled loops, but since ~P6 it has been internally optimised to copy whole cache lines at once and in the very latest microarchitectures it is once again the fastest.
I wasn't talking about you, but your deference to logic makes me wonder... Dr Minnich has helpfully informed us that logic and reason are the tools of the racist patriarchy. Maybe you haven't considered your disposition to reach for colonial phallocentric weapons of aggression.
> although I think this is now possible in 365

It would want to have improved since I used it a couple years ago in Word 2013. The main problem was with citation managers - Word would give a paragraph lock to you whenever you edited a paragraph, and it would only unlock that paragraph after a save (either auto or manual). Of course, when you have a citation manager, they have the habit of changing all the paragraphs when you insert a new citation that changes the numbering (ie. [1] becomes [2], etc.).
I've published code for most of my papers, and rarely, if ever, received support requests. When I have, it's usually been from someone else trying to do work with it, who asks good, intelligent questions (i.e., the requests you want to receive).

Maybe that just means I don't write very interesting papers.
His claim is hyperbolic, but only from the perspective of the way that scientific research has been conducted for the last 10-15 years. Prior to this, many researchers were forced to tell "a story" because the sheer volume of data and complexity in fields like cellular biology was/is so massive. This does not mean that their findings were in any way intentionally deceptive, it's simply that it was impossible to cover all the ground necessary to tell the whole story.

However, as data analysis techniques have become more powerful and data more easy to produce thanks to advances in the scientific methodologies we use to access information about the matter we are studying, the datasets are getting bigger but also easier to manage.
turning the start button into a paddle for a weird desktop-based game of Breakout.

I've done a bit of fun "repurposing" of the Win32 controls too, and that is something I'd definitely love to see --- probably along with quite a few others on HN.
I think it's more like Jay Bybee's appointment to the 9th Circuit: it keeps the weirdos out West from getting too out of hand.
I felt that Manaugh's repeating the some concept in consecutive paragraphs had a nice parallel to Roofman's repeating the same crime in consecutive burglaries.

That said, I was turned off by the low information density and ended up skimming those paragraphs.
Ah, yes. From the source book 'Titan':

"Coming on the eve of the muckraking era, Rockefeller’s alopecia had a devastating effect on his image: It made him look like a hairless ogre, stripped of all youth, warmth, and attractiveness, and this played powerfully on people’s imaginations. For a time, he wore a black skullcap, giving him the impressively gaunt physiognomy of a Renaissance prelate. One French writer wrote that “under his silk skull-cap he seems like an old monk of the inquisition such as one sees in the Spanish picture galleries.” 46"
Scientifically proving a thing to be harmless is a fool's errand.

The main arguments against GMO essentially boil down to that they may be harmful in ways we can't yet test for. Even if we had enumerated all the ways in which things could be harmful, we wouldn't know our list was complete. You might as well ban food that hasn't been scientifically proven not to harm invisible garden gnomes.
You can pretty it up with economic reasoning but that's still an essentially panglossian view of the world - a naive belief that fortunate people probably deserve their good fortune and unfortunate people probably did something wrong.
Ah, a well-informed opinion then.

None of your comments so far have contributed anything to this discussion. Please try to keep to the spirit of HN when commenting.
I think there is a place for both chronological and personalized feeds. Chronological works well if the realtime component is absolutely essential to your app. For apps that have a lot of content or users visiting infrequently you will often want to show the best content, not the latest content. That's where the personalized feeds come in.

I believe Twitter and Instagram are doing this because the chronological feeds don't work well for a large portion of their users. You do wonder why they don't disable it for their most active users. (why try to reorder something if the user sees it all anyway?)

We provide both chronological, ranked and personalized feeds over at getstream.io

Demand for personalized feeds is definitely picking up rapidly, also among smaller apps.
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When you teach philosophy you are, like many fields, effectively teaching the history of philosophy.

If you want to condense 2000+ years of history down to something that fits in an education, you're going to have to cut almost everything. What people generally do is cover people or events that had great influence on what came after.

You're not getting "greatest", "best", or even "most correct"; You're getting people who stood out as having influence.
I think if you're going to make an accusation like that, you should sign your name to it.
This bill should be named as Feinstein's Monster
(1) Okay, let's assume that. It's not exactly an outrageous assumption -- Bitcoin has been operating for 7 years. Ethereum has been around for 1 year, but even if it fails, there will be other smart contract platforms perhaps even on the Bitcoin chain (i.e. Rootstock).

(2) Sorry, not following you. I never said or implied anything of the sort. I don't see how that's a central issue to our discussion, but perhaps you can educate me.
That's why it's so important to add another Feinstein to the Senate from California this fall. Kamala Harris is a classic anti-drug warrior prosecutor with no respect for civil rights to join Feinstein.

Don't even think of choosing a grassroots Democrat like Loretta Sanchez instead. The Washington establishment wouldn't like it.
I think people are really underestimating how poor CPU performance improvement has been recently; it's been totally masked by I/O (SSD) and RAM improvements.

Before SSD it was common to see a CPU wasting >50% of its time waiting for IO. Now you rarely see iowait being a problem.
It's too often this instead:

Senate Committee on Candy: "Gum is a problem. Okay, life sentences for anyone caught chewing that evil stuff in public."

The Public: "Well, the law's the law. If criminals don't want to wind up in prison getting raped then they should have thought of that before they chewed a bunch of gum. This is fine. Everything is fine."
This:

No, you begin to experience immortality the first time
you recognize the transience of experiences you thought
were permanent, and more subtly, the permanence of
experiences you hoped were transient.

As a thought experiment, pretending to be an immortal (ex vampire), how would one avoid the trap of permanence of experiences they hoped were transient?

Being 41, my answer is to engage younger folks in search of naive energy and older folks in search for stories of experiences. I've found optimism in both.
Well, tuition costs for even public universities have been rising a lot faster than inflation. Many universities these days are basically hedge funds with a school front. And a lot of universities get state funding.

We're pushing a generation of kids without rich uncles to bail them out (myself being one of them; I start university in fall) towards massive, crippling debt. The places they're going aren't hurting for money. Is it that unreasonable to ask for open access?
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Here is their comparison with Tahoe: https://infinit.sh/documentation/comparison/tahoe-lafs

If you flip on the "Compare" switch there, the two differences it shows are:

1) Infinit is redundant using replication while Tahoe uses erasure codes

2) Infinit supports heterogenous storage backends, while Tahoe is homogenous
If you work for Oracle, Intel, Northrop Grumman or any of these other companies your employer donated money to Feinstein recently:

https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=20...
1. My employer, the ACLU, filed two comments in the Rule 41 process.

The first, before public comments were even solicited, resulted in DOJ dropping one of their proposed changes to rule 41, which would have permitted the gov to piggyback from a hacked target's computer to a cloud account (such as Dropbox or Google), rather than the gov going to the cloud provider with a warrant.

While our first comment does indeed describe and quote from some alternative language proposed by Orin Kerr, I don't think it is fair to describe that as evidence of ACLU approval of hacking of users whose location cannot be determined. For example, in that comment, we note that:

[U]nder Professor Kerr’s language, the government would still be able to obtain warrants to use malware, zero-day exploits, and other techniques that raise serious constitutional and policy questions.

2. While some public interest groups and tech policy advocates are publicly (or, in some cases, privately) embracing the idea of giving law enforcement formal, regulated hacking powers, in a desperate attempt to push back against legislative pressure for crypto backdoors, I'm thankful that the ACLU has not done so. If the organization does at some point decide to come out in favor of law enforcement hacking, I strongly doubt my name will be on that document.

[I'll note, however, that one of the great perks that come with working for the ACLU is that it's perfectly OK to disagree with some of the organizations' official policy positions. I'm not forced to tow the company line publicly on issues in which I disagree.]

3. Just so all of my cards are on the table. I'm volunteering, unpaid, as an expert for the defense in several of the Playpen FBI watering hole cases. I am strongly opposed to bulk hacking, enough so to volunteer my time to helping to fight the FBI's use of this outrageous surveillance technique.

4. The FBI being able to remotely activate webcams without the light turning on is not an "unsourced anonymous claim".

From the Washington Post story, linked to in my comment above:

The FBI has been able to covertly activate a computer’s camera — without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording — for several years, and has used that technique mainly in terrorism cases or the most serious criminal investigations, said Marcus Thomas, former assistant director of the FBI’s Operational Technology Division in Quantico.
We're actually living at a rare moment in history where many of the people at the forefront of a major technological revolution are still alive.

I don't understand this statement. Aren't the people at the forefront of a technological revolution (or anything else) always alive (otherwise how can they be at the forefront ?).
Apparently London is suffering from similar issue. A lot of new appartments are luxurious and sold to foreign investors. In the end they are just sitting there unoccupied.
Not even close - at least not for consumers. See: @aol, @yahoo, @hotmail, @comcast, @gmail etc....

Enterprises usually own their servers, so I would grant that caveat, but even that is going away with cloud providers.
How do you proof something is 100% safe?
> I think a lot of Congress probably just thinks that passing this kind of legislation (on encryption) will make most of their voters happy.

Nope. There's a faction in the natsec establishment that wants this and so they're getting it. Most people don't care or know enough about encryption to apply that kind of pressure on their congressmen.
> 4. Who really cares about cross-platform code if all I do is on Linux?

Most developers write their code on Windows and MacOS and then deploy on Linux. I'd say this "Write once run anywhere" thing was and still is a pretty big deal.

> 5. Why does this program require 4GB of ram?

Oh no! I need to buy a $5 piece of hardware to run this Java code? What kind of nonsense is that?

> 6. Must I really download and install the JVM all the time, and what is it good for anyway?

Once or twice a year, if you really want to. You update your browser much more often.
Very cool article. Tbh, I think instruction is not nearly as helpful as action. We sll can complain about what other people should do but wjat can we do to show how what we do. Nonetheless, I think its an important articke since databases come and go with few dticking
I feel bad for the person who wanted it on := lines because of sight issues.
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Note: Infinit is not yet OSS. They plan to open-source the code, but have not yet done so: https://github.com/infinit/infinit/issues/1
> At this point, it's probably better to have an efficient instruction encoding, save on memory bandwidth and instruction cache space, and have a comprehensible instruction set. Hence x86.

x86 is full of legacy single-byte instructions and complicated prefixes, hurting space efficiency and making it a huge pain to have high-throughput decoding. You could do a lot better if you took the x86 instruction list and reassigned all the encodings.
I think this is kinda neat, but I think it's interesting because the GitHub contribution graph, which I see a similar graph to here, has been derided by a large group of people: https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/627

I am actually a big fan of this "just do it" method of getting better or more comfortable with something though, and I think this is cool.
SBCL has EVAL-IN-FRAME, which, used in conjunction with FIND-CALLER-NAME-AND-FRAME, can be used to access variables by name at runtime. The variables may or may not actually be there depending on the OPTIMIZE settings. SBCL removes unreferenced variables. Here's how to implement LEXICAL-EVAL, which evaluates its argument in the current lexical scope instead of in the toplevel environment:

(defpackage :lexical-eval
(:use :common-lisp :sb-kernel :sb-di))
(in-package :lexical-eval)

(defmacro second-value (form)
`(multiple-value-bind (a b)
,form
(declare (ignore a))
b))

(defun lexical-eval (form)
(eval-in-frame (second-value (find-caller-name-and-frame))
form))

Then you can do this:

(let ((x 2))
;; Prevent X from getting optimized out:
(setf *some-global-var* x)
(lexical-eval 'x))

In CLISP, there is EVAL-ENV and (THE-ENVIRONMENT), which can be used to accomplish the same thing.
I guess it can be overstated.
>Look at how much respect Thomas Aquinas had for Aristotle. Aquinas was also heavily influenced by Averroes and Maimonides. And surely the list of significant mediaeval philosophers is longer than that – what about nominalists such as Wiliam of Ockham?

There were exceptions to the rule, but the rule was that theology ruled the day. William of Ockham was a theologian himself (and not a "top" philosopher anyway).

Regarding the respect for Aristotle by a large number of medieval philosophers, too much of it was another thing that held philosophy back at the time -- scholasticism didn't move the field as forward as it was moving in ancient Greek centuries.
The two party system is decidedly broken. Primaries force us into accepting evil or awful because we've been convinced that at least it's the lesser evil and that we should be happy for that.

Bring about instant runoff voting or a similar system and you strip parties of their power and we rid ourselves of self-serving incumbents quickly.
I'm confused why would IP-relative addressing be useful. Have you got some interesting examples?
Furthermore, it's demanding proof of a negative. We can't prove that carrots won't attract swarms of malicious homosexual space aliens with a taste for human brains to Earth, and therefore should ban carrots because they can't be proven to be safe. Politicians in support of carrots should be shamed as being pro-gayzombpocalypse. Spread the fear!

The very reason we're creating GMOs for food is to reduce the resources (land, energy, fertilizers, water, etc.) needed for food production. The motivation of course is that lower resource usage means lower production costs.

Requiring unreasonable burdens of proof mean greater waste in our food production, but that side of things isn't a scary and therefore gets less consideration than the limitless possibilities of unknown harms that could come from GMOs.

There's some drop in the price of a hamburger below which I'm not willing to risk a Leprechaun extinction. However, I'm willing to risk extinction of Leprechauns, Yetis, and Loch Ness "monsters" in exchange for less land needed to grow my food, and fewer children being under-nourished. These are real problems that GMOs can help with.
> What kind of nonsense is that?

.. and then someone gets the idea that your application should now run natively on Android phones, since they all run Java anyway, right?
Do they also give discounts to researchers or otherwise show awareness and support of this issue? Might be good to call attention to that fact.
We share our code on github and publish the commit hash for the code that generated the results in the paper. That way we can continue to develop the code after publication but readers can retrieve the exact code described in the paper if they wish. Simple and effective.

But again, the IP rules at my university allow this at my sole discretion, which is unusual.
It's so classic it has a name: an ambit claim.
It appears that AirBnB makes most of their revenue from whole apartment rentals including in markets where whole apartment short term rentals are illegal like NYC.
Or Nagasaki.
That's not quite right. It's not taxable income, per se, but it is figured into calculating the alternative minimum tax (AMT).
Yes, they all run Java.

What's your point?
> There aren't enough white knights rushing in to save us

Huh, I can't recall hearing the phrase "white knights" being used by a woman before. I have heard from women (online and in person) be unhappy about men not being supportive of their concerns and be happy about men being allies, especially when the burden of change is on other men. Can you expand on what you mean by this?
How? If Berlin wants to make it difficult to find affordable short-term housing then obviously some people (like me and OP) would rather go somewhere else.
If you are interested at all in Rome, you are interested in Etruscan.
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Why do you think logic is taught as part of the philosophy department in US universities, not the math or comp sci department?

Personally, I think the means of abstraction and logical reasoning we take for granted today are the direct result of thousands of years of philosophy!
Feinstein promoted a scam artist and put her in charge of her campaign treasury. That lady did the same to Feinstein as Feinstein does to the federal budget and all the money disappeared.

Feinstein just refilled tens of millions of dollars with her husband's personal check. No sweat. Even Google money means nothing to her. She's like Donald Trump, ignorant and totally exempt from consequences, except instead of blundering she's deliberately evil.

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/13/local/la-me-campaign...
Most students who make it past philosophy 101 can form arguments for or against this position. For the rest, maybe all there is are tired 4chan memes circa 2010.
This article claims USA will still supply combat system for submarines.

> Australia may have awarded France a bumper contract to build its next generation of submarines, but its highly secretive combat system will come from close ally the United States.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3567774/France-...
Planning permission is hard to get and greatly enhances land value. It is not supply and demand. Credit bubble with govt underwriting prices.
Email is an open protocol that many providers have implemented. That's an important distinction.

Try sending a tweet to a Weibo user and see how that works out.
The biggest strides are always taken early in the luge of a discipline. The point is that the art of mechanical engineering, mathematics, woodworking, classical mechanics, and many other endeavours had their large early strides taken long ago.
> Provided you don't hit AMT

I think people downplay how easy it is to hit AMT. A single, no dependents, standard deduction filer making $120k will hit AMT after $26k of on paper gain for ISO exercise. Everything after that will be taxable. Filing jointly, 2 people who each earn $120k can absorb $18k in on paper gains from exercising ISOs. Add in a kid and it drops to $15k.

That's a paltry sum, basically breaking any advantage ISOs provide.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but I actually agree with your statement.
I've voted against her (and Boxer) every time she comes up for re-election since I've been able because of her support of anti-technology laws. Unfortunately they're incumbents in California, so it's really difficult to get them out because they're incumbents so getting primaried is hard, and California is very liberal so it's hard to get a republican in unless they're an actor.
As long as they are private, they can put lots of restrictions on what can be done with shares. That's the point of the whole article. Ultimately, people are allowed to exercise their ISO's and turn them into shares, they just can't do anything with those shares -- Uber won't buy them, and won't allow you to sell them to anyone else!

I think the sibling post answered the question -- RSU's don't vest until the company goes public. So, instead of getting illiquid comp, you just get none until Uber is public.