skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I think if you have somebody who is a classic "first engineering hire" and s/he grows into an engineering leader, each major promotion (to manager, director, vp) brings an opportunity for a rich follow-on, as well as a normal yearly grant. Now if somebody is particularly adept at negotiating and somehow take a full point out in their initial grant, you're probably right that incremental grants won't touch that value. But that is 2-4x what I've internalized as the norm.
Exactly this - companies can't have their cake and eat it too. Equity is part of the overall compensation package for employees, which is to say that without equity these companies would have to pay more cash to attract talent.

Which is just a long-winded way of saying: equity is compensation for services performed, just like your cash salary is. In fact this is exactly how it works in BigCos, where equity is treated as compensation for work performed. AmaGooFaceSoft don't try to claw back shares when you leave, even though the employee is now hanging onto equity and "no longer contributing to shareholder value".

They paid for these shares with labor, same as everyone else.

We wouldn't ever imagine getting an employee to repay their salary when leaving a company, but yet we're totally fine with getting them to cough up their equity?
Wouldn't a surprise "lane reduction" due to an accident alone be enough to account for the traffic jam?

Imagine that there's an accident in a single lane. The remaining lanes now have to take in all the other drivers from the accident lane, while these drivers decelerate and attempt to take the remaining lanes at speeds lower than the average speed. Yet single car cutting in line could trigger the deceleration of the entire remaining lane (like in "traffic wave" models). The cars in this lane then try to cut into another lane, and so on, such that the whole traffic is impaired. And this keeps going on for every cohort of cars reaching the accident area, producing the traffic jam.

This is my intuition of it, at least.
But what do "back" and "lay" mean?
The problem with Boston is you can't get around. Commutes average something staggering like a 10 mph average, and even from within the 128 belt to Boston can be 1 hour+[1].

If you are fortunate to own property near the subway, prices are going through the roof. (they've almost hit 900$/sf in my 1940, needs a new roof brick building in cambridge. 700,000$ for 800sf.). Nobody wants the hour+ commute.

Add to that public transit isn't being improved in any serious way. Drive/train doesn't work as the lots are at capacity. The current growth is fueled by improvements in the big dig done years ago. This is an urban vs rural part of the state problem, were populations are decreasing and they don't have transit, so don't want to subsidize at the state level.

I want the region to be great, but its lagging. I see smart people leaving all the time.

At least they are building in the core...

[1]https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/regionals/2015/09/17/zocom...
It is indeed precisely the wrong response.

By reinforcing the idea that Islam is a threat to the pluralism of Western society, we're also reinforcing extremists' narrative about a clash of civilization.

Really, the only winning move is not to play. That is, treat terrorist attacks as normal crimes and let the police handle it.
The forum we're in is the worst echo chamber of all.
> Unfortunately people do not change

We are a long way from the Middle Ages; things do change quite a bit. Look at civil rights in the U.S.: Two generations ago, women needed their husbands permission to get a job, and were only allowed in teaching and nursing for the most part. Look at the spread of democracy.
I think this almost guarantees the break up of the UK (if the result stays with the leave Eu campaign). Scotland is voting overwhelmingly to remain in the EU.

I doubt we'll stand by and stomach a far right dogwhistle government. Most of the politicians advocating leaving the EU also want to abolish the Scottish parliament.
Major disasters are a certainty over long enough time. It's been 71 years—Europe can certainly revert in that time.
I think he's trying to argue that Comodo's radical business idea of "you can get a free certificate for 90 days before having to buy it" has been literally stolen by Let's Encrypt's "You can renew your free certificate every 90 days forever."

Because both approaches are critically centered around the number 90, or something..

It's embarrassing. I hope that CEO is good at other things.
> ...since refreshing the pool means dilution for all those who are still employed by the company, it’s the remaining employees who get diluted in order to allow former employees to keep their optionality...

Doesn't it mean dilution for the former employees, as well?
The chain of reasoning you advocate for is circular - the validity of step 1 is dependent on the conclusion in step 4, but step 4 depends on step 1.

The same is not true of the chain of reasoning I suggested.
> So the order that results come in should not affect the prediction.

This model uses a frequentist prediction interval, which assumes independently drawn samples, meaning reporting order must be random for the assumptions to be valid. If reporting is non-random, e.g. how early or late a district reports is correlated with things like region, demographics, population density, etc., then the prediction interval is probably narrower than it should be, especially early on in the reporting (meaning the model is overconfident in its prediction).

The headline prediction is more robust if you just want to know which outcome is more likely given current results, but the probabilities being badly calibrated due to these kinds of model assumptions is a common issue in quantitative polisci models.
It's actually less clever and useful than this makes it out to be. CG is already prevalent in car ads, so introducing a new physical rig isn't the game changer it is made out to be.
> After all, Apple Maps has 3x more users than Google Maps on the iPhone and Google Maps is definitely better.

That's a pretty bold statement. When Apple Maps first launched this was certainly true. But Apple Maps has improved significantly since then, to the point where whether Apple Maps or Google Maps is better depends on where you are and what data you're trying to find.
I think that hedging would have the opposite effect. The pound is tanking (30-year low right now), so if your salary is paid in pounds, it would have made sense to bet on Leave. I'm not sure who wins economically from leaving. British companies that compete with continental ones?
Oh man, I feel so the opposite (of course, to each his own.) To me the platforming is fantastic, especially in mid-fight. It adds to the thrill because you can do a lot of jumping from platform to platform to evade shots, double-jumping and staying above a lot of the fray. Plus they have those jump-lift force fields you can use to launch through the air.

Watching some of the better play-throughs shows it pretty well: https://youtu.be/P6J352J_RG8?t=10202

Those were some of my favorite parts of Quake 3 too. The maps where you could spring off a jump lift from one end of the map to the other, shooting at people as you soared through the air...
Xen Project 4.7 and 4.6.3 Release
Back means you bet on something happening, lay means you bet against it happening.
I saw 15% before election data started coming out. That's pretty wrong.
There is currently war in Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Ukrainian_cr...
It's not religious discrimination. It's ethnic discrimination couched as religious because it's a little more socially palatable.
I guess it depends on your definition of "solution" and "MSAA moral equivalent". What you're essentially asking is, "Is there a way to approximate the combined contributions of overlapping polygons to a set of pixels without sampling the exact color at multiple points per pixel?"

One approach would be to avoid sampling at all, by using boolean geometric operations to find the exact shapes of visible polygons within a pixel, then using their color and areas to calculate their combined contributions. I expect the calculation involved will be impractical relative to multisampling, though.

Another approach would be sample exactly once per pixel or, equivalently, render the polygons without antialiasing. Naturally, that would eliminate the show-through of hidden geometry at the expense of the accuracy of pixels around polygon edges. You might then be able to approximate the antialiased values by a post-processing filter, maybe guided by the presence of edges, although doing so will introduce its own set of artifacts.

And if you consider "one sample per pixel" to be a budget over the entire image, you could sample the polygons more densely near polygon edges and more sparsely elsewhere, using nearby samples to approximate the values of pixels with no samples.
I think you're misinterpreting this. I think he moved into a unit of a luxury building (that was required to be rented to a low income person) and lived there until the unit was sold.
"Being a person means being paranoid that you might be a puppet, and being an artist means making things that you want to see exist, to defy that paranoia, by communicating past anything you could rationally explain away."
Backing is betting on it to happen, laying is being the bookie for somebody else (i.e. betting against it happening).

So if something is 4/1 and you back it, you'll win £4 for each £1 you wager. If you lay it, you'll win £1 for each £4 wagered.

Betfair exchange is matching up people on both sides of the bet, with a margin of commission in between the back and lay values.
Makes me wonder about the Trump presidential odds: https://electionbettingodds.com/. They're not even as wide as the Brexit odds were earlier today.
First, many countries, with many different prominent religions, have those penalties and do horrible things. It's very dangerous to assign group guilt: Because the government of the Philippines does something bad, does that reflect on each Catholic you meet? Does it give you a way to judge them? Can you judge Chinese individuals based on the government of China's behavior? What about the government of Taiwan's?

It's the same propaganda the Nazis used, with similar results. Read some old Nazi propaganda; it was "based on concrete actions", group guilt, etc.

> Note I'm not saying anything about individual Muslims

I'm not sure what else you could be saying? Could you explain?
Yes but Russia is not a member of the EU and its not really a democracy.
Not necessarily between the UK and the EU. But I fear that Brexit is the first step in the dissolution of the EU. And I can certainly imagine a future conflict between, say, Austria and a Russia-oriented Hungary. Go look at the distribution of minority nationalities in Europe, and you will see an endless potential for conflict. That was the reality from 111 AD to 1945.
Speech recognition is easily trainable outside of the cloud, general purpose recognition is still a bit dicey (all the possible accents that you have to deal with). And even in the cloud its useless.
Well at least Watson will pick players who have complimentary PR firms...
I assumed he was talking about an accident in the opposing lanes. I've seen that a lot in the US. Divided highway with a good 30 ft of grass between opposing lanes and people slow down because of an accident on the other side. Nothing but rubbernecking.
An Angel investor ends up with Series A stock which typically costs more per share and has extended rights. The early-exercising employee buys cheaper Common shares. In an IPO the classes may end up with the same value, meaning the employee got a better financial deal per share for their sweat-equity. In a non-IPO the employee may get a lot less per share often 0. Also, each employee has access to a very limited supply of cheap stock, whereas no founder/board will stop an Angel from buying more shares ... "wanna double your investment? come to the trough. "
There's never been a war between EU countries though.
Do you have some links on the cyclic progression of civilization? Would be super interested to read more on that.
I'd wager there are more people who have snuck into top-tier universities than there are people who are there without paying/accruing massive debt. This is also ignoring the fact that Ivies and other top-tier universities are overwhelming homogenous.

More to the point, the thing everyone in a top-10 school has in common is that they're really good at looking good on paper. It says near nothing about what they'll contribute on a team, how they'll function with other people, or base programming skill. My only point is that if a company seeks diversity, they should seek it in all avenues.
You can't ever downvote articles, although they will drop faster in ranking if they're flagged by (many) users. Also, there's a "flamewar detector" which has something to do with vote to comment ratio.
> By reinforcing the idea that Islam is a threat to the pluralism of Western society, we're also reinforcing extremists' narrative about a clash of civilization.

> the only winning move is not to play. That is, treat terrorist attacks as normal crimes and let the police handle it.

Generally I agree, but I think it needs to be portrayed as peace-loving people of all religions against homicidal maniacs of all religions.
Seems pretty much impossible for remain to win at this point
Well, since we have much more information about presidential elections (which happen regularly) than we have about brexit (which is mostly without precedent), you could argue that election 2016 forecasts are probably more accurate.

I don't think that's the case though. I predict a Trump victory on the basis of a very strong social desirability bias and an immense amount of silent resentment against current social justice orthodoxy, especially as it pertains to speech restrictions on campus and in the workplace.
Well, there are 1,200 Harvard faculty, average effective annual salary $274,005.

600 MIT faculty, average effective annual salary $249,509.

900 Google employees, of which quite a few are at least Staff Software Engineers, which average $200,418 based on Glassdoor's estimates.

Then you also have Microsoft, Akamai, Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon, all of which have pay grades for individual contributor software engineers that go over $200k, and staffs in the hundreds of engineers.

We can thrown in many hundred MD PhDs at the world-class research hospitals: MGH, Brigham and Women's, Tufts Medical, etc.

My point is that the Boston/Camberville economy has many institutions that compete globally. They bring revenue from around the entire world and concentrate it here, and they compete vigorously with each other over the most qualified people.

People from elsewhere don't often appreciate the way that this city punches above its weight. Only New York and San Francisco are really in this league, and they are both much larger cities.

So yes, a few hundred new luxury condos are hardly a blip. The median home price in Cambridge is now $1.6 million. During the 2008 crisis when real estate was falling nearly everywhere, it merely leveled off here. It's not hard to see why, when you consider the value of having neighbors with endowments of $37 billion and $13 billion who form a global skill vortex.
“Companies often sponsor the projects and provide instructors”

welcome to costco, i love you...
The issue with this reasoning is that your "base rate" is sampled from the general population, while the population of Princeton graduates will look nothing like the general population. So the question is how informative is the base rate prior (from gen. pop.) when you have further information of Princeton graduate?

You may then suggest that since we do not have a meaningful prior based on Princeton grads, it makes sense to use the gen. pop. base rate. After all the Asian still has to pass a more rigorous process to attend Princeton. But this ignores the unique barriers that the black candidate also had to pass, for example economic hardships, lack of parental and peer examples of successful college grads, all sorts of cultural issues, etc.

Ultimately the question is how valuable is the gen. pop. prior given that we do know the candidates come from the population of Princeton graduates? At the very least its significantly reduced, while it may also be entirely worthless. Given these caveats and the dramatic social issues that result from using this prior to significantly bias your hiring process against black candidates, it seems like a moral imperative not to use it.
I've often taken a drink or a snack from the office for later in the evening or the next day. Never considered that this might be frowned upon. On the other hand, taking large quantities of items frequently seems like an abuse of a perk.
Unless someone figures out how to use it to buy stuff, I couldn't care less about karma. I do care about your reasoning.

Your point may be clear enough, but not why you think that way. I'm really curious about why a company would do this. It looks to me like a completely boneheaded move. If you explained, maybe that would give some insight.
This has been on the frontpage for the last 12 hours...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11961034 (1229 points, 251 comments)

Also, please submit with original titles: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If anything it is pessimistic. It amounts to 7.2% total annual costs, which would include a jumbo mortgage rate, real estate taxes, and condo fees.
CG images in IKEA catalogues are pretty recent.

http://www.cgsociety.org/index.php/cgsfeatures/cgsfeaturespe...
Nobody believed a dissolved Yugoslavia would be at war either. Ethnic cleansing followed. People don't realize how easy things can snowball, once you let in darkness.

Watch this movie, it's brilliant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Civil_War
Giving out options with the expectation they won't be exercised is a kind of double-selling. It's a risky practice and doesn't always work; those that engage in it deserve what they get.
Apple introduced Apply Pay on the web.  Here is something better
I find it a bit sad that so much tech has been put into advertising, which, as an industry is inefficient and a costly zero sum game.
Inequality within arbitrary borders is important because economic environments, and therefore effects on individuals, are still defined by those arbitrary borders.

AFAIK, it matters very little to my daily life or even to my two decade outlook what happens to wealth inequality within, say, Rwanda. But it matters very much that increasing wealth inequality (and consequent pricing phenomena) in the Bay area is driving away critical infrastructure operators.

People upon whom my community depends: teachers, firefighters, police, sewage treatment operators, water company employees, ambulance drivers, road maintenance workers - the people who provide the necessities that sustain my community - are being driven away by increasing wealth inequality. They're priced out of living within (now) about 2.5 hours from where they work. In my value system, this is not good. Not for them, for me, or for my neighbors (some of whom must leave due to property tax increases).

Global statistics aren't useful in understanding local effects. Each community, whatever the particular definition of community may be, is at the mercy of what happens to it and those communities upon which it depends.

I get that globally, humanity is making real progress in quality of life. And I'm very glad for that.

But like the future, I see that it's not evenly distributed. We should work on that.
Structures are tools, and they are never better than the people that compose them. Even when they are created with the right ideals, they quickly degenerate unless those ideals begin to become real in people consciousness.

The european project has failed in this sense. Europe is not the euro nor the current european institutions.

Hopefully one day Europe will be the people.
As someone born and raised in a communist country (what is now Czech Republic), I can tell you it is precisely because we DID NOT FORGET what it was like, that we're against the direction EU is going [0].

The parallels between our (still recent) past are absolutely striking: EU's propaganda, censorship efforts, ideological idiocy that nobody takes seriously any more (incl. economic).

But most of all, there's the scary disconnect between how real people live their lives vs what the official "party line" dictates. We're re-learning to read between the propaganda lines, again.

IMO we don't need condescending comments about how stupid everyone is (populists!), nor a platform explaining why this "central planning" ideology is appealing but very dangerous. We know very well, and we vote accordingly.

[0] "we" = majority of the country: http://zpravy.idnes.cz/ctenari-idnes-cz-anketa-czexit-de5-/d...
When I said meh it was around 1.45. It's now officially beyond meh levels.
You're correct, it takes a bit for an options market to form around a new security.
That's the only argument I've seen for it that makes any sense. I'll counter by saying only "ON" is needed, not "ON/OFF", as the off part is implicit. Same goes for STANDBY.

This has been standard practice for a long time, I'm not just making things up on the fly. BTW, SBY is a standard abbreviation for STANDBY used by the military, if space is a problem. And SBY is a lot more google-able than an icon.
If APL is your interest and you like Smalltalk, the take a look at F-Script. It is an interesting take on array programming.
Agreed, but consider it an analog of war technology. Much of it finds its way to more civilized uses.

In this case, what we have here is a great tool for vehicular motion capture that can be used in gaming and simulators as well. Ads may have been the motivation to begin with, but other uses can reap the benefits as well.
I have just started working on a serious Phoenix project after watching from the sidelines for a while. It takes a completely different approach to Rails. First of all there's no magic (everything is completely explicit). It's extremely adaptable to different needs (JSON apis, real-time communication, etc).

Also note: Phoenix is not so much a singular framework, it's more of a collection of libraries (Plug, Ecto, etc.)... it's just that Elixir makes cohesive communication between independent libraries so dead simple it "feels" like a Rails-like monolith.

But once you actually look at the structure of the project, there's really not a whole lot that's hidden "behind the scenes" like in Rails. You can just add remove any of these components as you like.

Honestly give it a try. This is the first backend environment I've tried that feels "right" (and man I've been searching); everyone else I know who's tried it agrees. It's just a pleasure to work with.

So far every surprise has been pleasant!
>It is a project conceived by US planners...

Any proof of that? From a US perspective, I can't see how a unified Europe would benefit the US - neither economically nor militarily. The EU is the only state (besides China with 4x the population of the US) that can compare to the US economy. Dealing with smaller countries gives the US an advantage compared with similar deals with the EU itself.

A unified EU military would be the only state both large enough and advanced enough to pose a valid military challenge to US hegemony.
Well, maybe not entirely zero sum--if the advertisement lets you know about something you'd want but previously didn't know about, that's a net plus. Then again, those diet pill ads and other scams are a net minus, so maybe it washes out to 0 net.
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