skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Black-Scholes (and the Merton version) are useful as simple estimates of option prices. Of course it's not going to be accurate (it assumes a lognormal distribution for volatility, JFC) - but the model is public and easy to calculate, providing a stable basis for these kinds of prices.

Edit: people buying/selling options are of course performing their own pricing operations. They don't care how the market price is determined, since they believe their model is the best and gives more accurate prices than anyone else.

Edit 2: furthermore, to properly price startup options, you need to account for their 'random-expiration' nature: we have no idea when Uber will IPO. this makes it difficult to use traditional option pricing models which have fixed maturities (you can take integrals over the model's results at each possible maturity). additionally, choosing a discount rate is hard when realizing that most employees are not well-diversified, unlike the investors/funds that the traditional models are written for
I really doubt that's going to happen given that I've been pushing various parties to do it who have skills, EDA tools, and some academic funding. And it's still not done.

My advise is still the same, though: put Gaisler's Leon3 SOC w/ key I/O on fab at 180nm-90nm using shuttleruns like Tekmos. Its been GPL with no action forever. Already has OSS software on it, too. SPARC compatible trademark only costs $99 if you wanted to be official.

So, if there's such a will or demand, where's our open-source SOC that uses Leon3? It's been one MPW, packaging, and PCB run away forever. Still don't have one...
This story is a good hacker litmus test. If you can appreciate why installing Windows 95 on an Apple Watch is awesome, you're probably a hacker; if not, definitely not.
Before the peaceniks start adding anti-bomb comments, note that Hiroshima had torpedo factories, as admitted by the residents there. They were an authentic military target.
Self-driving? Sorry, most Brit drivers insist on taking the wheel
The other thing about the transformation of my Twitter feed is it is now mostly oriented toward images - photos, dancing GIFs, videos, or logos associated with accounts being retweeted.

Sometimes the people I follow append the images, but most of the time Twitter attaches the images to individual tweets or RTs. It's possible to disable most of the images on my phone (via the Twitter app settings), but on the Web the images cannot be stopped. Even if autoplay videos are disabled, the preview image will still show up.

It's irritating and lowers the value of the feed I have created on Twitter. Most of the time I just want to read opinions or retweets of the people I follow without an image or logo getting in my way.
As a recovering CS academic, I have to say - boo-fucking-hoo. Tell me exactly where the funds to do this extra level of support is supposed to come from? Is Mozzila paying for those grad student hours? No? Well then.
I see, interesting that there's so much interest in Etruscan writing & history.
Yosefk, thanks for pitching in and fighting the complete bs that gets flung around regarding chip design costs. Some of these projections are just ludicrous, clearly made by people who are not currently involved in chip design.

For argument's sake, let's pin the tapeout cost at $5M and EDA costs at $1M. Everything else is engineering. The reason these projects are expensive is that the chips are complex (because the have 10B transistors!). It has nothing to do with technology scaling (except for the fact that smaller nodes lets you integrate more transistors). I can design a memory chip (with repeating structures) in any node for almost nothing (..besides the tapeout cost). If they would have costs have escalated from $50K at to $5M at 14nm, that would be reasonable. The $250M number is utter nonsense....

Some more background:

http://www.adapteva.com/andreas-blog/semiconductor-economics...
the "while you were gone" feature is easily dismissed with a refresh
Being more capitalist is how you create the incentives that result in more quality homes being built on the scratchy pieces of land that exist around Berlin.
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5000 homes a year doesn't sound like much. Houston, one of the most affordable metro areas in the United States, built enough housing for 160000 new residents last year. That's probably at least 50000 homes.
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Yes, they played an empty hand, and when their bluff was called they promptly lost.
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Unsolicited touches from strangers is always a very negative interaction for me. Don't do it.

A colleague better not be touching me unless they were performing some sort of life saving measure.
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What happens if someone is fired? Surely they wouldn't have to exercise their options then, but it also seems ridiculous that they would lose them.
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If the cost of chip back-end is increasing exponentially from 65nm to 28nm to 14nm you are doing it wrong. (it's that simple). Since 0.25um, I have heard doom and gloom about how difficult "the next node" will be. So far it hasn't happened. If it does, I do agree that it's game over. So far the EDA companies and foundries have always come through.
Mr Kahale might be an expert, but that doesn't mean he is not biased toward his clients.

After all, the scope definition clause was a futile attempt from the beginning, since any law can be dressed up as environmental or "deemed appropriate" by the State. I don't really trust lawmakers on this, (nor corporations not to abuse these treaties as yet another venue to argue their bullshit or righteous grievance), let's a 3rd party decide this.

Because in case of Germany vs Vattenfall, when Germany was phasing out nuclear power, they should have calculated with the costs of this. You apply for a very costly permit, and boom, that sector has just been banned by the State, because irrational fear.

The same goes for the MFN (most favorable nation) clause. A state shouldn't pick and choose how it treats foreign companies as long as they act according to its laws, so it should place the same economic incentives and burdens on them.

Strange, for Mr Kahale or for the Guardian to not mention in November that the Award was Annuled in October in the Occidental vs Ecuador case.

Again, the concept is sane. Why require a fixed courtroom, when the important point is objectivity, and that parties select judges they trust who then in turn select the chair of the tribunal, so someone both parties' experts trust.

They usually do rely on (that is cite in similar cases, and usually similar cases reach similar outcomes) precedent, but since this is not a "common law" but a "civil law" (codified law) system, precedents are not binding. And there is a process for appeal, as seen in the Ecuador case. And yes, judges judge based on their opinion (interpretation) of the law. News at 11 :|

> The arbitrators can also be severely conflicted, says Kahale, because they may act as a judge one day and as a lawyer for a party the next.

Then don't pick them as your selected champion/judge. Duh. That's how Kahale is making his money, he runs a law firm representing countires. So they are usually on the States' side, maybe even sometimes lending a lawyer as a judge for a country.

> .. nor are they required to act like courts

Umm, they do? The treaty specifies the details, but most arbitration providers have very specific rules of procedure, just like courts.

tl;dr arbitration tribunals ain't saints, but they seem much more sane, egalitarian and fair, than a host country's high court (which are usually ideologically biased either traditionally or after the current regime stuffs it full of its trustees)
You're talking about this:

http://www.adapteva.com/andreas-blog/a-lean-fabless-semicond...

Adapteva is pretty clever. Yet, they don't tell us whether they reached $2 million at the 16-core model with 64 costing much more or if that was both. The write-up also says they used third party I.P.. It implies they outsourced as much stuff as possible. You can bet it was mostly standard cell rather than custom in those. They used the shuttle runs I often advocate which are available on their chosen nodes. Biggest part, they recovered this by selling to niche markets that didn't care much about price. Try that in mass market outside being Apple you will fail.

All quite different than doing a whole SOC by yourself on 28nm. They even admitted complex SOC's can cost big money:

"Complicated SOCs are indeed very expensive to develop and there are few if any examples of complete products that have cost less than $10M from start to finish. "

So, now we've shifted from $2mil to $10mil that quickly. Gotta wonder what in-house development of full SOC a la Snapdragon with bells and whistles at 28nm costs with only packaging or PCB's outsourced. Is it maybe $10-30 million? ;)
Now imagine being a patient reading those studies and knowing that.

Struck a nerve
From what I know a lot is experimental.
Feinstein is an authoritarian, anti-tech disgrace to CA. If she doesn't retire at the next election, she needs to be removed.
No. Sorry. I should have linked to the NASB translation, which was the source of his (literal) quote.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+1...
A point of clarification for anyone skimming the original article:

> Top Tip — Libraries should never vendor their dependencies.

Peter goes on to clarify:

> You can carve out an exception for yourself if your library has hermetically sealed its dependencies, so that none of them escape to the exported (public) API layer. No dependent types referenced in any exported functions, method signatures, structures—anything.

I think this is the way to go if you're writing a library which has its own dependencies. You get a repeatable build and free yourself to change which dependencies you rely on without impacting users of your package.

There are exceptions, such as if your dependency has an init which only makes sense to run once. Loggers come to mind, where the setup should be determined by the main package. The f.Logger point in the article is friendlier to users of your package than just using log.Printf, and frees you from having to vendor logrus, for example, if you want to support structured logging.
You know about "reader mode", right?
http://www.howtogeek.com/228104/how-to-make-the-mobile-web-m...
Put simply "stuff". Take a look at Fred Brooks, mythical man month if you haven't ready it already. The projects that cost $250M will have over 1,000 engineers involved. Running a tightly coupled engineering project of that size is impossible in my opinion, thus the cost. Figure that 50% of the budget goes to communication overhead, 25% to management overhead, and you are left with 25% of true engineering costs.
It depends. If the bug was caught before game of record, you just restart the game. Afterwards, it must qualify as a game deciding bug. If so, the game gets scrapped and the match is redone.
Is Feinstein just plain ignorant, or willfully ignorant?
They also had over 350,000 civilians, and over 80% of the casualties of the bombing were civilians. You're more than welcome to argue that the bombing was justified, but please don't act like the issue isn't open to debate.
There are a lot of bioinformaticians in my office and I also hear that Word is common in that world. One told me that he uses pandoc to convert Word documents from/to something more pleasant, and doesn't even tell his co-authors that he's not using Word.
This is a well known idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O133ppiVnWY&list=WL&index=61
this article commits the same error that much of analytic philosophy does: it asks how something observable could be possible, and when it doesn't find a good answer, it suggests that the thing to be explained actually is impossible.

it's statistically unlikely that plato and aristotle were that good, ay? and they simply picked off low hanging fruit? okay, show me 13 modern day publish-or-perish professors whose thought and work are as sweeping, insightful, or profound as plato or aristotle. show me the last person since wittgenstein or frege or kant about whom we could write something like woodbridge's "aristotle's vision of nature." they certainly write down as much as plato or aristotle. show me the thinker with that much quality work.

the point here is that this is always how philosophy has been, and how it always should be: yes, we need to question our assumptions; yes, we need to listen to any voices that have been historically locked out of our discourse for biased reasons... but if you want to do either of those, you show me the damn proof of it, and you explain it really, really well.

edit: in other words, an explanation of why we just can't appreciate the current 13 platos in athens is worth exactly nothing. show them to me, and prove to me that they're as good as plato. that's how philosophy works. giving an abstract argument trying to explain why you can't give me a good argument just is giving me a shitty argument.
InfoSec folks dont make vulnerability data public usually..
> There is no lower threshold to who the new rules affect.

I never claimed there is a minimum amount, I just said that not anything over the net is automatically subject to the new "customer's host state's VAT applies" rule.

> conflicts between the rules about VAT and other EU consumer protection rules about advertising all-inclusive prices

You can't advertise as "9.99EUR + VAT"? Or guess the VAT rate based on geo-IP location association?

What kind of services do you provide?

I agree that it's still a far cry from a great solution. First of all they have too many damned useless documents and no code at all. (At least I haven't found any.) Nor a proper infographics, or a diagram illustrating the flow.
From reading this discussion, it seems that IP rules are inconsistent, and therefore part of the solution needs to be to perhaps have funding agencies enforce a standard license. With that barrier eliminated, scientists wouldn't expend valuable time negotiating with their school's layers.
worse - most are private
Not really, it's a precursor to many European cultures
But options can end up (near) worthless anyway, for a number of other reasons. The company could go bankrupt. It could a new set of preferred shares that take priority over the current shares. It could get bought for a pittance. Granted, few of these probably apply to Uber, but they are all things that happen to companies in the broader space of start-ups.

The reason we're focusing on the 90-day clock for exercising options (and the attendant bill) is that it's something that happens to a single employee when he or she leaves the company, as opposed to something that affects all the employees all at once. But I'm not sure that changes the aggregate analysis. It feels different, but I'm not sure that it is different. When you an employee joins a start-up, he or she is taking a risk that part of their compensation could end up worthless. The corresponding reward for that risk is the chance for that compensation to be worth beyond their wildest imaginings. If that risk/reward ratio is not to their liking... well, Google is hiring, aren't they?
The future is what was started with the old mainframes: general purpose CPU's plus I/O and algorithm acceleration. Possibly onboard FPGA logic. See Cavium Octeon III's w/ their accelerators, the Zynq line which Intel/Altera will likely do for Xeons, AMD's Semi-Custom business that took off, little GPU's in all the SOC's, and so on.

Good news is many accelerators work well at old 90nm and 45nm nodes based on my reading of academic papers. Even startups or FOSS projects can still get plenty of mileage out of the cheaper nodes. The Core Duo 2 I'm typing this on... still running ever bloated web well... was taped out on 65nm.
pssst... your gender bias is showing, put that shit away.
I'd buy Power-based laptops and desktops, especially if they were free of spyware like Intel boards.

I really think there's a market there, especially if they embrace/partner with a user-friendly linux distro. People are/will slowly come around to the fact that Microsoft is holding desktop computing back.
It is very interesting that the richest* industry in the US cannot make their home senator bend to their will. Money can only buy advertising and campaign staff. It can't buy votes and votes are what keep folks in office.

* Apple has $38 Billion in liquid assets [1]. Facebook has $18 Billion [2]. Amazon has $20 Billion [3]. Alphabet (fka Google) has $73 Billion [4]. Microsoft has $102 Billion [5]. In the last quarter of 2015, the largest companies by market capitalization were Apple, Alphabet, and Microsoft [6].

[1] https://ycharts.com/companies/AAPL/cash_on_hand
[2] https://ycharts.com/companies/FB/cash_on_hand
[3] https://ycharts.com/companies/AMZN/cash_on_hand
[4] https://ycharts.com/companies/GOOG/cash_on_hand
[5] https://ycharts.com/companies/MSFT/cash_on_hand
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_corporations_by...
younger developers are asking you questions? Don't they know everything?
I'm a few chapters into Silence on the Wire and enjoying it. Zalewski is brilliant. It's very theoretical however. I'd only recommend it if your motive for reading it is pure interest rather than a desire to pick up practical skills that are immediately actionable.
What an incredible blend of "isn't feasible" with "terrible idea" and just a dash of "wildly illegal".
I can't believe that it isn't a blend of both.
If that test fails, the dev will just run it locally with a debugger attached. The cost of extra time in the test for the normal passing case isn't worth it.
Most companies have a clause that states options expire on termination for cause.
I think the joke was to say that 'quantum computing being discovered' follows a Poisson distribution which models occurrences of events that arrive in a manner so that each one is independent of the previous one. Such as letters arriving in the mail or winning at roulette. Regardless of how long it's been since your last letter, you still guess that the next one will come on average, say, 5 days from now. Regardless of how long its been since you won at roulette, you should still expect your number to come up on average 38 tries from now.

The exponential part is more like e^(-x) and refers to the exponential distribution [1] that gives the distribution of intervals in between Poisson events. So if its 'distributed exponentially' (whatever that means for a one-off event), the joke is that this would then give rise to the situation where researchers are always correct guessing 10 years off, even if they've been saying that for decades.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_distribution
Recreating ancient music is a fascinating endeavor because notation was either non-existent or difficult to read, like the piece discussed in the article. Another reconstruction, from ancient Egypt this time, is made from gestures left on wall inscriptions (archived webpage):
https://web.archive.org/web/20151012085128/http://www.rakkav...
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The other comment to yosefk is mine citing your Lean Fabless article to contradict the point you just made slightly. Feel free to clarify on that if I'm misinterpreting something. Yet again, your next link supports "ludicrous" prices if it's a complex, full-featured SOC along lines of Apple products. Perhaps they should put qualifiers in these articles to be clear they're talking about high-end stuff with big numbers of parts and engineering required. If they even know what they're talking about.

Yet, two of your articles suggest me doing a Snapdragon or something without buying third-party I.P. or RTL could easily cost the numbers in the article on 28nm. Or the other nm. Intended audience of those big nodes will also mostly be companies making stuff like that where they can afford development costs. Do shuttleruns even exist for 16/14nm?
I like the "whiule you were" gone thing. Useful for when I woke up in the morning and it shows me half a dozen overnight tweets. Usually a couple of these are good.

A few months ago the "gone" time got reduced to just a few hours which was a little annoying but survivable. I don't really want to go 100% algorithmic though. If I just wanted to see the popular stuff I'd follow buzzfeed or something.
> I guess I'm just surprised Uber doesn't do the same (actually, I'm not, given their C-suite's history of being all-around dicks).

I've never heard of this in the valley, it's standard practice to not allow shares to be traded and provide no option for liquidity until IPO. There can be occasional secondary offerings (Facebook and Square had these) but they are usually a one time deal. Definitely not a concept that Uber invented.
Logic has little value in philosophy because the terms have no specific inherent meaning. The solution seems to be to fix specific meaning to terms, but your stuck using meaningless terms to do so. Queue a recursive waste of time.

Though people are used to ambiguity and love extracting meaning from arbitrary stories, so it's not all that obvious of an issue. At its core philosophy is not about extracting meaning through analysis it's about conveying what someone has already desided to be true.
Did you read the link she provided? https://weakdh.org
Filter out the images. They don't fit in 140 characters and thus shouldn't even be there.
And you start your comment with:

Yes, that's what a lay reading gets you - and why I was disappointed with the article.
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I haven't used Rust extensively, more Go for sure. But it seems to me that Go was aiming for simplicity more than being a true innovation. It's basically a compiled Python with type annotations and unfortunately a GC to spoil it all.

Rust was aiming at innovating and advancing the PL space with meaning. I can't say looking back the time I invested with Go was well-spent.

Rust is probably worth the effort if you have the need for what it offers. It just requires more out of you than Go does.
Lol I love the haters.
Yes, that is really a better solution: to write the whole function in assembly. "volatile" is just a poor substitute for that.
Unfortunately, the rusted-on wowsers in her district will never stop voting for her.
The IRS will say that you "owe" quarterly, but there's no penalty for not doing so.
Agree that there will be less designs that need the advancing nodes (the number of apps needing 1B transistors per chip is limited), but there will be plenty of opportunities at the system level that warrant the $10M type investment needed.
Without getting into semantics, Moore's Law roughly assumes that things will get cheaper or you'll get significantly greater bang for your buck. "Nobody said it would be easy" is a casual dismissal of the fact that consumers won't pay for this, unless someone conjures a materials revolution.

And no, we can't just assume the head of Intel will conjure up a materials revolution solely to adhere to an industry observational law.
Which platform for you use for Waze? I use Android and have never seen an ad while moving. Sometimes, the ads show if I am stopped at a stoplight, but they disappear when the car begins moving.
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Her "district" is the entire state of California. What are you talking about?