skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the worst I have ever read from greedy a16z.

Why do investors need to be greedy? Startups went public in 4 years in 90s and 4-year stock option totally made sense. After the company goes public, retail investors are able to
enjoy some post-IPO growth.

Now in 2010s, VCs became greed with money they raised from Wall Street and enjoy the 95% of the growth of startup at the expense of employee's stock options and take it to IPO selling the shares at high-cost to retail investors.

In 90s, First 1-10 engineers used to get upto 20-25% of the company. Now I see college grads are fooled by startup founders for 1-2%. Thanks to greedy investors.

I heard Zenefits is going through a big dilution problem now as they are looking to dilute the company shares and there is zero incentive for employees to stay in Zenefits. a16z controls Zenefits as they may have around 300M in Zenefits and maybe this post is the result of their new dilution event.
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If you watch the BBC live stream they do in fact give information on how the results fair in terms of what was expected. This information appears to be missing from their website however.
Since they're all pretty much the same, the main factor appears to be missing: price.
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Thanks! Does that understanding depend on the person you are talking to, or just the country you are in when you ask?
Interesting take. When I first read this article I admit to buying in to the sensationalism a bit -- but I'll have to agree with you that The Darknet really hasn't changed this situation significantly, rather it's just introduced a more convenient route for would be malicious insiders.

Also, from another perspective (as you explain), it's actually made it easier to catch such insiders, due to the open nature of these markets (regardless of the fact that they're 'Dark' or believed to be anonymous).
>College is a waste of time and money for almost everyone who attends.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics disagrees [0], As do the hiring managers at even lower level positions [1]

[0]http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm
[1]http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/09/09/report-employ...
I'm seeing a ton of (rightfully) down voted comments here with no clear reason from the down voters. Anyone who gets a down vote for their joke might just think it's because the joke is bad, instead if the more accurate reason that HN comments are more serious.

One of the nicer things I've seen on Reddit was when a mod leaves a reason for removing a comment. It serves to inform the commenter and also remind the community of the rules.

In a thread such as this one with potential for interesting discussion, it'd be a shame if the mods ended up killing it because the comments got out of hand.

A top stickied comment reminding people of the rules and replying to people who had their comments down voted into oblivion with a reminder might go a long way to having a civil discussion about something like this.
Netflix plays fine in Chrome (maybe Firefox too) using HTML5, it was opt-in at one point not sure about now. I watch in Linux all the time, no Silverlight there.
Plivo, Nexmo & Bandwidth all list their (much lower) pricing.
Yes I have seen it when it first came out. Very impressive.

However, IMHO, there are a few limitations with these "desktop" type of environments:

1. Limited I/O capability.

2. Limited Network capability.

3. Limited mobility.

Follow the trails outlined by Bret Victor: http://worrydream.com/TheHumaneRepresentationOfThought/note.... , it seems that we are yet to find the "systemland" for the future.
BBC Radio Four is doing a reasonable job of saying what's expected in each area.
EU referendum results live: pound plunges as first results come in
See my comment below. If you are interested in this and want to get some in depth analysis check out either BBC 1 or the BBC live blog. They cover these questions.

It's hard though, there isn't much to compare as there isn't an 'expected way' regions vote. There's a rough idea, but it's seeming like these are not what people expected. My money is on Scotland and Ireland being overwhelmingly remain, Wales swinging unexpectedly to leave (partly because they are disenfranchised with the government), while in England the non urban areas going leave and the urban ones going stay.
> He probably meant Hacker News, just checked and HN is verified by Comodo and LetsEncrypt by IdenTrust.

Gotcha. Yeah, I thought they meant the LetsEncrypt page.
Wow. So much wrong with that. I was already planning to switch from Comodo to LE for one client, but now I'm going make sure none of my other clients are using Comodo certs. Sorry, Comodo, but you're just hastening your demise with this kind of behaviour.
‘Brexit’ Referendum Live Results
Where are you getting the $6k/mo on a $1M mortgage figure from?
Not many people know that the explicit goal of the early founders of the EU was to institute federalisation by stealth. They distrusted democracy (Hitler was voted into power), and chose to disguise massive political reform as economic.

Monnet - one of the original drivers behind the formation of the EU - had this to say:

"Europe's nations should be guided towards the Super-state without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps, each disguised as having an economic purpose, but which will eventually and irreversibly lead to federation."

To be clear, these weren't some sort of evil oligarchs at work: they wanted there to never be another WW2, another Hitler, etc.

But the nature of the EU, from the outset, was much as its critics today contend.

More at http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/679277/History-EU-how....

Correction: that is not a quote from Monnet but a summary by a contemporary of his. He actually said:

"Via money Europe could become political in five years" and "… the current communities should be completed by a Finance Common Market which would lead us to European economic unity. Only then would … the mutual commitments make it fairly easy to produce the political union which is the goal.
>In Boston & Cambridge there are quite a lot of tech people making $200k, even as individual contributors.

Who are these, "quite a lot of people"? What percentage of the total population? How many individuals? Middlesex County (where Camberville is) has a median household income of $82,090. Suffolk, containing Boston proper, has $53,540/year.
I think that sentiment is mostly revisionist nostalgia. Yes it was easier to 'know' what was going on between your code and the OS, but to say that modern UI frameworks are more fragile than the hand-coded win32 code of yore is certainly fallacious.
"If you aren't a total pussy..."

Grew up around Boston and I laughed out loud when I read this. Glad to be reminded every now and again of the reason why I fled to Brooklyn.
I thought the 1/4 - 1/3 rule referred to net (not gross) income?
Wow, I knew that all the non-attached parts of the UK would want to remain, but not by this much. Both the Shetland and Orkney islands voted to stay by a fair margin, about 65% Remain, but Gibraltar was far more heavily Remain. Gibraltar, for example, had 96% vote to stay, with 85% turnout (!).

This is partly because the islands are far more dependent on the EU than the mainland, but in Gibraltar's case it is particularly extreme. Without EU membership Gibraltar may not be able to have a border with Spain due to the territorial conflict. Spain already occasionally closes the border on a whim, for example when a Spanish fishing boat was arrested for illegally fishing in Gibraltar waters.

[edit] I don't want to get into a debate (w/commenter below) but basically both the UK and Spain claim that they own all the waters. International rulings so far seem to be leaning towards giving the UK some and Spain some; a lot of these rulings come from the EU courts which is yet another reason why those in Gibraltar have a very strong interest to stay.

While I'm amending my comment, I think it's interesting that there were any Gibraltar citizens who voted to leave. This shows that there is a solid 8% of the population or so that will vote how they feel is important despite a very strong economic incentive to the contrary. I'm simultaneously surprised at how few people voted to leave (only 4%!) and at how there were still people who voted to leave despite the obvious economic problems leaving would bring to Gibraltar.
> Almost every unit was once luxury and priced accordingly

Which units? There's plenty of old housing stock which most definitely was not built as luxury housing.
Someone might also advise Melih that his web portrait has a serious case of backpfeifengesicht.
Correlation, not causation. Going to college doesn't make someone smarter, harder working, or more ambitious. Employers just use it as a signal for those things.
I resent this treatment. There are many comments on this website that aren't productive from many standpoints and they do no harm.

Look at this whole topic for examples.
Wouldn't this essentially just be the same as being an angel investor. This takes away all the value of getting options.

For example I am an early employee at a startup valued at 1M. If on day one I am given $10,000 worth of options and I buy all of them, how is this different than investing $10,000 worth of money for 1% of the company?

The value of options is that they are options. You get to wait and see if they are worth buying. If you have to buy them on day one, then they are not a compensation for taking a lower salary, they are simply an investment vehicle like a stock or a bond (a much riskier one).

> If the company is truly concerned about this, then they can provide a signing bonus with which to exercise the options

This is the only way it would make sense.

Say you can take a $150,000 salary with zero options.
Or a $120,000 salary with $30,000 worth of stock options.

But if the company needs to give a $30,000 signing bonus to pay for the stock on day one, then they aren't saving any money for runway. Thus the main reason they want to compensate with stock is taken away.
And a $30,000 bonus wouldn't do it, it would need to be $30,000 after taxes. The company would end up paying over $150,000 for this person's total salary.

Right? Or maybe I'm missing something?
Here are the pricing pages for two services that I looked into as possible alternatives to Twilio:

https://www.plivo.com/pricing/

https://www.nexmo.com/products/sms/
> A live fire test of a nuclear torpedo prototype seems ... more than a little unlikely. What you have here is the description of a test just like any of the American tests: a bare warhead is detonated under certain conditions, with perhaps targets nearby to determine the effects. Meaning that the targets were 6.5 miles from the warhead. And no "launching submarine" was involved,

I was just going off what I quoted from wikipedia, which does specifically say that a submarine launched a T-5. Beyond that I can't speak to the accuracy of the wikipedia article.
Snow job? As in.... obfuscating?

I happen to agree with all the recent LRB Hersh pieces on Osama and Syria.
Bostonians. It's got a pretty workaholic city culture and people are somewhat cold and private compared to many other regions.

The cold, windy, rainy, changeable weather definitely discourages going outside and interacting much of the year.
I think that's a nice idea, but it's also exceptionally difficult to do in practice for something like this.

In the case of a general election, we have the previous election on which to base our expectations. The UK broadcasters use the "swingometer" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swingometer) in these elections, which is a useful visualisation of the change of vote share on a per-consitutency basis, indicating the meaning of the result rather than just the number.

The EU referendum has no recent comparable campaign with which it can be compared, making it much harder to do this.
Ideally yes. I'd have to confirm that this extends to Pizza and Koalas. We fixed that issue as much as we could, even going as far as generating our own unicode width tables extracted from unifont, but it wasn't possible to fix in general without support form the terminals. Now that the standard is fixed (hopefully), I don't see a reason why the terminals wouldn't update their tables.
True. In fairness, that's much harder to do at lower levels of money than either of the options I suggested, despite efforts like labcures.com. You need to know a lot more about the field than you'd need to know in order to give to a non-profit in the space.
Don't you see! Innovation! Everyone's heard of 90 day free trials sure, but don't you see, it's a 90 day free trial on a computer thing! Surprised they didn't bother with a patent.
getUserMedia + MediaRecorder

Don't even get me started.
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Same here, doesnt seem to resolve to a page
Because your posts are boring and aren't contributing anything. Nobody cares that your comments got downvoted, so why waste everybody's time talking about it?

I think your initial reply to spb was downvoted because it came off as sarcastic sour grapes that somebody had answered the question better than you.
Hey welcome to like 2006 just another 10 years to go and you'll be discovering new content!
The Pantheon in Rome.
Referendums in the US are based on popular vote as well.

Elections, however, are not based on popular vote.
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You're right, I somehow forgot who the money was going back to. I wonder if you could enforce this legally without the employee just having the ability to walk away with the current value of the options in cash. I also wonder what the tax implications of the purchase are to the company. I agree that this solution makes a lot of sense though.
If we want to invoke scripture liberally, we can say that Satan was a disgruntled employee that was fired for insubordination and founded his own company starting a War for Souls.

I think there's a book where the setting is that Hell is structured like a corporation.
I'm not sure about anyone else but this guy's cocksure tone came off as really arrogant. I applaud him for being able to land a job with little programming experience, but playing that fast and loose isn't a good tactic for anyone in my opinion.
You can use any custom certificate, but you'll need the Business ($200/month) plan.
I was pretty young to play the original Quake but when I got around to play with it and DOom 95 (in the mid 2000s ), I realized what a amazing game it was and was hooked
"Luxury" housing isn't that luxury. It might be a difference of $30k in interior materials, but lets them set a far higher initial price point.

The actual expensive stuff, like the building structure itself, foundation, elevator systems, etc still stay the same even if the apartment is luxury or not.

What will happen if the units stay unsold is the price going down until they start getting buyers.
I donated, not because they provide an awesome service for free... but because they stand to break up something that's really nasty in the crux of our internet.
The University of East Anglia have a live blog as well that updates their predictions based on statistical model [0] by Dr Chris Hanretty. Predictions are based on how results differ from the prior model. The model is explained in more detail here [1].

[0] http://www.ueapolitics.org/2016/06/23/eu-referendum-allnight...

[1] http://www.ueapolitics.org/2016/06/09/the-eu-referendum-what...

Edit: They moved their blog to Medium because of the demand: https://medium.com/@chrishanretty/eu-referendum-rolling-fore...
There's approx 30m votes to declare - only 1m has so far. It is early
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No, it really is that simple[1].

The only reason I can think of for someone not using uBlock Origin is because they've never heard of it.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#performance
Some right-wingers in the UK (e.g. the ones advocating withdrawing from the EU) would like to see it abolished (and the BBC diminished)
Just to piggy-back, these maps often don't show urban density very well. I'm guessing that Kettering (which is reporting "Leave") has a few less people than say, London.

Similarly, here is the 2012 election county map where "blue" had 5MM more votes than "red": http://politicalmaps.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/2012-usa...
"16.8 million votes needed to win referendum" - so there would therefore be ~33.6 million votes in total.
Having a "tie" key for the region map is a cute detail, but how necessary is it really?
This seems pretty nice. It's annoying that so many Android kernels are quite old. Then again, all the cool new features are disabled on Android anyway. :/
What a bummer considering the BBC is one of the greatest.
Personally, I like how it all went downhill very quickly in the last 10s.
>Going to college doesn't make someone smarter, harder working, or more ambitious.

And the BLS didn't measure those qualities, they measured earnings and unemployment. I suppose it's a waste of time if you don't value money or being employed.

Since 3 out of 4 adults reported that money is the primary cause of stress in their lives [0]...it seems that doing the thing that makes it less likely to be unemployed might not be a waste of time after all.

[0]http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-biggest-cause-of-stress-in-a...
Does this make any sense in an open workspace where you're surrounded by a million other laptops and cell phones anyway?
When and where did Monnet say that?
Yep, their world news coverage is pretty good but I especialy love their documentaries. They just blow me away
> When Lets Encrypt copied Comodo's 90 day free ssl business model, we could not protect it. Lets encrypt could have chosen 57 days, 30 days or any other number for the lifetime of their certificates. But they chose to use Comodo's 90 day Free SSL model that we established in the market place for over 9 years!!!

He's being disingenuous and intentionally misleading when he's trying to suggest LetsEncrypt stole their 90 day free SSL Cert business model as some kind of justification for his shady behavior of stealing someone else's trademark.

LetsEncrypt offers free SSL Certs forever, their short 90 days lifetimes is for added security of short duration of SSL certificates and to encourage certificate renewal automation. It has absolutely nothing to do with Comodo's freemium business model as he's trying to imply. I'd imagine he's fully aware of LetsEncrypt "always free" certificates since he's trying to steal the brand and goodwill that they've created. So his justification isn't anything more than a disingenuous PR stunt to cloud the issue behind his attempted brand theft.
Chrome uses widevine (DRM) for Netflix which uses HTML5. Really the more significant difference is that Chrome gets capped to 720p. Edge actually gets the 1080p streams (as does IE11 on Windows 8+ and the Netflix Windows Store app).
There is truth in that, and denying it would be silly. There was a definite idea in the founding of the EU that the goal was a post-nation state, closer integration, fiscal and political union and so on.

That being said, I think there is an increasing feeling within the EU that this is no longer the correct approach.
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That's a good point.

The Guardian do good election maps – this one has regional results scaled by population, so it's much clearer what's happening: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2016/jun/...
Relentlessness and fearlessness are inherently masculine words?
So if I want to find candidates with the qualities of relentlessness and fearlessness, I need gender neutral synonyms for these now... Bloomberg I think this is getting out of hand.
I'm harvesting results from the BBC website, and comparing them with estimates from ACPO (http://apcoworldwide.com/docs/default-source/default-documen...).

You can see a feed of results here: https://gist.github.com/inglesp/0b0ba9efcefe54f965be9b042afd...

Caveat: I'm drinking increasingly heavily.
In case those links continue to have database problems, you can also read Chris Hanretty's updates via twitter: https://twitter.com/chrishanretty
Do you use HTTPS Everywhere? (I don't know why that would apply in this case, but I recall various people having similar issues with it and Stack Exchange's partial HTTPS support.)
The Guardian is currently running an excellent live blog (http://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2016/jun/23/eu-refe...) which includes comparisons between real and expected results, as well as projections by experts. I wish that link were at the top of HN instead of this submission; live results are completely useless for the average observer.
You are missing that the $30K bonus to buy the options would immediately flow back into the company's coffers. Perhaps a better scenario would be $30K of stock via grant and $15K in cash to pay the tax man... the company is out $15K net and the employee owns something putatively worth $30K.
why not just use IPv6?
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The New York Times has done live predictive models as results come in, which is the best election night tool I've ever seen. Here's the New York Democratic primary: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/19/upshot/live-mo...

All of the charts updated in real time based on how precincts actually voted compared to their predictions.
Financial Times: http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/liveblogs/2016-06-22/
This is an absolutely embarrassing argument on the part of A16Z and it should be taken down.

Options have present value prior to exercise. You can compute that value using common financial models. Renouncing vested options by not exercising within a 90-day window is akin to taking that value and donating back to the existing shareholders of your firm, including current and future employees. So yes, it is true that not making a gift to all those people is worse for them, but what in God's name would lead a person to believe that this is the way it should be?

I'm not even going to get into the myriad ways in which founders and investors can conspire to create personal liquidity in a way that dilutes and actively harms the financial prospects of option-holders. But the fact that even the bare-minimum action of asserting a right to keep VESTED option value is being characterized as "additional dilution" and "maybe bad" is completely absurd.

I'm not prone to outrage, but this author, as well as Ben Horowitz, should apologize and retract this.
https://twitter.com/bhorowitz/status/746050999341584384
Shotguns are not banned in Australia.

Only one of the deaths (Tori Johnson) was caused by Monis. The other two (Katrina Dawson and Man Monis) were caused by police.
Both are true. The bankers make more money on this deal the higher it prices, but they can't get the next deal done unless they're on good terms with investors.
Have you tried creating a wild card filter with anything @theirdomain.com
(Disclaimer: I'm maintaining jscodeshift)

Yes, this is great! I'd love to be able to integrate graspjs with jscodeshift somehow. Ideally there would be multiple possible ways to find the nodes you want to change (pattern matching, tree traversal, etc), and multiple ways to specify how to replace them (e.g. a template like in your example vs a function where you can do anything you want).

Simple transforms should definitely be possible with little "code" like in your example and we certainly have to improve jscodeshift in this regard.
I like how RES is one of the first options. I remember when the Windows 10 team did an AMA and a lot of the redditors said they'd try edge as soon as RES was available. Apparently that's now.
Use this:

http://graphics.wsj.com/brexit-uk-referendum-live-results/

OP put the link in wrong
The BBC is consistently attacked by both right- and left-wing activists in the UK, which gives me at least a little confidence that they are trying to be balanced :)