skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a constant pressure to push down the standard of a high school diploma. It feels so bad for people to see students try and fail, and there is the usual pressure from the parents of special needs kids.

My personal feeling is we should give everyone a diploma, but list some sort of grade level attainment. If nothing else, it would help universities place students into the remedial classes they sometimes need.
The Donald Trump-esque "dear employee, getting to keep the options you've 'earned' is, like, actually bad for you! No really!" is amazing. And referring to vested yet unexercised options as dead money really demonstrates what a rip-off options are as a comp method.

Frankly, I don't think fairness has anything to do with anything. My bet is more that valley employees talk, and more of us know someone who's gotten screwed on options. Or are ourselves in that boat. (Raises hand! Dear former employer, please eventually go public. Pretty please? I'd really like my $15k back eventually.) Add in increasing times to ipo and frothy valuations and going to goog/apple/fb/amazon/LI/et al and getting RSUs which are essentially cash is way more attractive than options. So you see Sam Altman (to his credit, but also to his financial health) pushing 10 year vesting periods and an ISO NSO flip because YC needs engineers for all those startups, and if experienced engineers strongly prefer public companies, that's a big problem.

And the author admits his goals:

with the provision that a departing employee cannot exercise his or her
stock options unless there has been a liquidity event? If you stay, you’re a
serious owner, but if you don’t want to be part of the company for any
reason you won’t be an owner.

(note that this shouldn't be surprising from someone tangentially related to the Silver Lake / Skype option yankaroo)

But hey, good luck selling the idea that if you should leave any time in the 10-ish years before ipo, you get fuck and all from "your" options. But you should choose options over google stock! No really! Why aren't you jumping at this chance? Come back!

Edit: a friend just got $290 combined cash + rsus from a post-ipo company in sf. The total comp numbers eg patio11 talks about are real. You have to be a sucker to turn down that type of cash for options that disappear if you leave anytime before ipo.
What is the afterthought you're talking about?
That's true and it's problematic, but unlike deferring undergrad, it's routine and Not stigmatized to defer law school.
The data appears to be culled from ProgrammableWeb.
First time reading about it. I just iterated until I found a unique and easily rememberable username a long time ago (d-day 1943).
How Twilio Became the Twilio of SMS and Voice
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Avoids some of the issues, creates more particularly limiting upside potential.

Strong recent article https://medium.com/@chamath/spending-money-to-make-money-aka...
Of course not. This time it's different.
This 'college is about networking' argument is one of the weakest rationalizations out there, as if it isn't possible to walk up to someone and show them directly that you can program using something you wrote and an ipad. Anyone can also make a webpage and show off a demo by sending someone a link.

Do you know who students meet at college? Other students trying to get jobs and professors who overwhelmingly don't even have ties to professionals in their industry.

Every interview but one I've gotten by going through a process that anyone could go through and it has been my work that has stood out.
It is hilarious that he has to declare that "Comodo" is the good guys, while they are trying to trademark a term that they have never used! Oh the irony!

And that the CEO compares 90 days TRIAL to a 90 days unlimited renewals and thinks it is the same is just a sign on how big of a defeat they are facing!
That guy is a real piece of work. Is the CA industry generally populated with that kind of personality? He sounds like he runs a payday loan store.
I love Boston, I grew up here, went to school here, work here. The transformation taking place over the last 10 years has been incredible. Disregard people who want things to never change. At least Boston lets people build, unlike in SF. If you aren't a total pussy you can buy in JP or Roxbury and get an affordable place [0]. Everyone wants to live like their rich, and if they can't all they do is bitch. Yes, rich people have money and therefore buy nice things. There is still plenty to go around.

[0] http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Roxbury-Boston-MA/54232...
Clearing the Body's Retired Cells Slows Aging and Extends Life
Which is exactly why I said "or less". Depending where you live in California, Bouldering or sport climbing could be 20 minutes away,plus it's available year round. You can't beat that.
What happens when you divide by zero on mechanical a calculator
that was the first solution i thought of when i saw the article and i believe it to be quite common.
He's either being disingenuous or he's terribly misinformed about how things work. Either one is unacceptable for the CEO of a major certificate provider.

Also, I feel even better about dropping ALL of my Comodo certs and switching to Lets Encrypt. I can't wait to never have to go to the Comodo website again.
I like how the CEO links to Let's Encrypt's post explaining the technical reasons for 90 day certificates [1], yet still thinks Let's Encrypt (a non-profit) "copied" their "business model" of offering free trial certificates.

1. https://letsencrypt.org/2015/11/09/why-90-days.html
Is there a reason Hillary Clinton's logo has hidden notches?
One thing I haven't seen done is blocking attempts to fingerprint keystroke into puts from the keyboard. Easiest solution would be to sandbox field inputs from JS and bulk submit queries. Best solution would be the injection of noise real-time based on near average inputs for the same strings of characters. Make no mistake though this is being done, and very rapidly marks you as you.
Ask the good employees of Facebook, Google, AirBnb, etc. who joined those companies early on. The upside for the employees where the company IPO-ed is just insane.

Another reason might be the product/technology that the startup is working with that might be of interest to a good employee. Money is not everything.
James Earl Jones Confirmed Voice of Darth Vader in Rogue One
For those interested in timelines:

- 0x01: https://hackerone.com/reports/125505

- 0x02: https://hackerone.com/reports/127158

- 0x03: https://hackerone.com/reports/128723

- 0x04: https://hackerone.com/reports/127085

- 0x05: https://hackerone.com/reports/127087
> Page and Plant, who have attended court ...

Aha! This was nothing but a ploy to goad a Zep reunion.
Public companies can be a drag.
Have you tried 0.13? How much disk space is it using? It's supposed to be "better than graphite".

Really curious as I am looking forward to set up InfluxDB (moving from graphite too). I was going to use collectd, but your comment makes me wonder if it's the right choice.
> try and understand the mindset of investors and new founders.

Marc Andresson is Reacher Gilt.
Apply! We love our co-ops.
Based on IPO stock price ($15) and market cap ($1.23Bn) and Twilio's revenue run rate around $150M, so that's x8.2 for Revenue and x20.5 for EBITDA (40% margin seems reasonable in the telcos industry). Pretty strong figures - AT&T trades at 5xEBITDA - but not excessive. They might have chosen the bear/base case for the IPO pricing given i) the IPOs of tech companies that got delayed over the last months ii) their unique situation as a pure API player - they're the only one out there with that positioning
Court Rules the FBI Does Not Need a Warrant to Hack a Computer
> If professors are benefiting, they aren't exactly getting rich.

I didn't say they were rich. I said they were upper middle class. The average salary for a full professor in the U.S. is $135,000: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/04/08/aaup-survey-f.... Median personal income in that age bracket is about $40-50k.

My point is that academic jobs are generally well-paying and secure, and they're paid-for by kids taking out huge debt to keep the whole show going. And the show keeps going because we tell fairy tales about the importance of a college education.

> How much do you want to bet there are 0.01%ers who made their wealth off of higher ed? Because those people almost surely exist, and sure as hell weren't professors...

First, a few people getting rich isn't as big of a concern as tens of thousands of moderately expensive people on payroll. The vast majority of the $500 billion spent on higher education each year isn't going to financiers. It's going to faculty, facilities, etc. Second, the financiers wouldn't be getting rich either if we went back to only sending 10% of the population to college.
Christ, I can't seriously believe this argument. As I understand it, the author believes that employees who have earned their options but can't afford to exercise them are a problem?

Such arrogance, A16Z should really have thought twice about what such a blatantly anti-employee piece would do to their reputation. The gall of them to insinuate that this is a good thing because the true believers get paid for their work is just grating.
How can someone so clueless be CEO of Comodo? Is he not aware how utterly and completely terrible he sounds? Pretending 90 day certs are a "business model" they invented? And that first to trademark is some sort of accomplishment?

If Comodo didn't have such a terrible reputation, I wouldn't believe this to be the actual CEO.
Downtown Austin TX is exploding in high-rises and I ask myself that same question.

I mean if I, a single, mid 20's, tech guy, making 6+ figures isn't willing to spend $3k on a one bedroom apartment or $1.3 million on a condo(like the software dev in the article, wait what?!) then who is?

I have a 2bd, 3 miles from downtown for $1k a month and newly built/refurbished homes in the same area are going for $600K. I just don't know who is buying in the towers. I have heard the vacancies are quite high and most of the buildings look empty from the outside.
Funny coincidence. The most common dorian scale is called "D dorian".
That needs to be cross posted to r/cringe, I can barely read through his embarrassing posts.
Relevant Stairway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pPvNqOb6RA

Relevant Taurus: https://youtu.be/xd8AVbwB_6E?t=44s

If you listen to taurus not having heard stairway recently it might be vaguely reminiscent. If you hear them side by side it is obvious they are different, which the jury could easily hear.
Throw in the cheatin' ex-wife, loyal hound, and Jesus and I think we have a gold record!
Is anyone on here buying shares?
There are some brilliant ideas here (many made me smile), and I don't struggle with insomnia per se. But I have found meditation before sleep really gives a lot back in quality of sleep, and quality of life.
I'm a complete novice at meditation, so I simply follow along with instructions specific for sleeping from apps like Buddhify.

Of course this is nothing revolutionary, but I highly recommend trying it for anyone going to sleep with a lump of stress in their chest or stomach at night. :)
Did they find a way to remove bots from the download statistics? My very obscure image library had over 2 million downloads despite an estimated 10 to 20 users, which would make 30,000 effectively equal zero.
Does that entry point need to be protected in any way from people using it ... maliciously ... somehow? I recall people being upset about open redirects in the past, but I can't actually formulate a coherent security objection to it.

It looks like Slack's https://slack-redir.net/link?url=http://www.example.com/ isn't locked down, for instance.
Within the context of this discussion ... I was meaning that if you don't use C/C++ you could use .NET which "is" supported. So, with Windows you don't have to use the native language since C# is supported by the creators.
There's also making up words, that works too.

You mean, like "blip-blooper"?
s/phased/fazed/
I know some people that listed their AS too. Of course you don't need to.
Musical tastes have gotten simpler in general.

There remain the musicians who push the envelope, but they just aren't as popular. Its fine: the typical audience just doesn't have the ear to appreciate certain riffs. Simplicity breeds familiarity which breeds comfort.

With that said, I still hear great songs on occasion, you just don't really hear it from Top 40s radio stations anymore.

EDIT: I don't mean to say that modern music is bad. Its just simple. The vast vast majority of 2010s Music is I-V-vi-IV turnaround with one additional chord in there to make things a little bit different.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%E2%80%93V%E2%80%93vi%E2%80%9...

In the 80s and 90s, a bit of musical experimentation was done. In the 2000s and 2010, electronica is definitely pushing the envelope but your typical top 40 songs are sticking to the basics.

And yes, I-V-vi-IV is interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY8SwIvxj8o

Its so interesting that everybody is doing it. I mean, its not "brain-dead" simple, but any person trained in music theory can hear the ridiculous amount of similarity between these riffs.

But taking the pattern that literally every other country song has used and throwing just slightly different lyrics on top of it isn't original.
Ask HN: iOS/XCode designing UI layouts tutorials?
I'm having really difficult time learning how to design my App on iOS. I've found some great Pods for my UI but I do not know how to integrate them. Do you know of any tutorials for iOS/XCode design?
If you value health data, set it free
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LetzCode lets you learn scheme programming via text chat
This guy does a great job going through similarities and differences (without commentary on the plagiarism):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCEg9gMJakU
They are very similar to this one from your link: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15995/useful-code-which-u...
This article states that former employees are "lining their pockets" at the expense of current employees who are "build[ing] future shareholder value" (i.e. creating value for VCs). But it ignores the fact that those former employees already built shareholder value when they were working. And by joining early on they took a much larger risk than employees who sign on during the growth stage - often receiving less salary and certainly holding more uncertainty over the future value of their equity.

A longer exercise window is a benefit that accrues to all employees, because it applies to all of them.

The author's proposed solution feels quite absurd to me - to prevent exercise of stock options by any employee who departs for a liquidity event. I wouldn't join a startup that had these provisions.
This article is about website owners. The best thing you can do as a user is enabling the 'Referer' for same-origin requests only. That way, you keep almost all the advantages of the 'Referer' but at the same time fix almost all the privacy issues.

In Firefox, you can do this by setting `network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy` to `1` in `about:config`. Or use a `user.js` file with other helpful privacy settings, e.g. https://github.com/delight-im/Secure-Firefox
You are totally right rahkiin. We will take care of that ASAP.
Fact is Goldman Sachs - and maybe other banks - were allocated shares with a priviledged price during the FB's IPO as they were working on the IPO while buying stocks for their own clients. I know this was a special IPO, but my guess is that it is likely to happen for others
I was hoping for something a little more sinister.
Show HN: Node Package for Apple Push Notification Service via HTTP/2
Comodo: Creating Distrust Online

I think we should all begin using this on social media. It's a play on their official "Creating Trust Online" tagline.

Maybe #CreatingDistrustOnline or #DistrustComodo
...and the females seem to be "a lake of Asians" no?
You do realize that my comment was in a reply to someone asking what games a person would like to see developed, and in particular, what games are actually missing from the app store, right? Nothing to do with being able to find them. The idea is that they don't exist at all. So yes. You're completely right.
Most of the markets you name are not winner-take-all! Add to your list enterprise/consumer cloud services (Office 365, Outlook, etc) and also the Azure platform (I don't know how competitive their Azure offerings are).

Just by being a significant "also ran" in those markets Microsoft ensures its survival in the medium term. They are diversified enough that the rug cannot suddenly be pulled out from under them and they are in a position to pump money and pivot into any of those markets where they see traction.

While Apple's situation is better today, their ability to respond to rapid changes in the business is under question.
I completely agree. I think the following quote really captures the argument of the article:

"There is a more fundamental issue at the heart of this seemingly good solution: A 10-year exercise window is really a direct wealth transfer from the employees who choose to remain at the company and build future shareholder value, to former employees who are no longer contributing to building the business/ its ultimate value."

In short, Kupor believes that even if you chose a lower-salary, higher-options/equity package, you should be stripped of your options if you leave. To him, it's only fair if only investors and employees who remain get to keep equity. Instead, you, who have been directly responsible for making the stock price rise so much that your options are costly to exercise, deserve nothing.
Github repo: https://github.com/AndrewBarba/apns2
> College debt is annoying, but I'd be surprised to hear it's a top 5 concern for any of them.

Yes, all those people having to live incognito to avoid collection agencies or even fleeing abroad (http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/23/pf/college/student_loan_fugi...) certainly do not figure it as a concern.
correct.

I had my outsourcer do it. not sure if they scraped it or used LinkKlipper.
Weren't we talking about Davey Graham?
>>You're not going to learn anything or convince anybody of anything this way.

The tone of the original article is light mockery as well. That's why I am imitating it. I think the author is wrong, it's quite condescending for you to say "you are not going to learn". What about pointing the non-obvious step in the simple reasoning I gave?

>>The point of using the ring with the sqrt in it is to conveniently demonstrate that the FTA is non-obvious.

This is not a correct way to point something is non-obvious. I illustrated why already. It's just not a correct way of arguing.

>>Since it is only being used for demonstration, and not as part of a proof, faking ignorance of sqrts and imaginary numbers is not helpful to you.

It is. It points out why the argument made in the blog post is not correct way to argue something is non-obvious.

>>There are many things in mathematics where the subtleties only came out later; heck, that's basically the entire history of set theory. Sets are also trivial if you come at them with an attitude of artificial ignorance like that.

Some things in set theory are trivial, some aren't. I don't understand your point here. I am claiming FTA is obvious when it comes to natural numbers not that something similar to FTA on some other objects is obvious.
The 3.5mm jack is great for me. It works with every device I own that uses audio. If it doesn't, there's a converter readily available. I agree fully with this article: if you can't create something better, don't try to replace it.

But I'd go one further: If you can't create something better and make it completely open and easy to adopt and modify, don't create it. Audio jacks are not something where total vendor lock-in is appropriate. This isn't the Thunderbolt cable for iPhones; this is USB 2.0/3.0, only ten times more primitive and ten times more ubiquitous.

Here is a short list of things my 3.5mm headphones work with: My car, and everyone else's. My home AV system, and everyone else's. My computers, all of them, and everyone else's. Systems from the 70s and 80s up to now. And on and on. I have a very nice expensive pair of headphones, and many other pairs of earbuds, etc. I have zero incentive to replace them.

In fact, if I had to choose between buying a new pair of headphones and not having the next generation of iPhone, I'd keep my headphones. I have brand loyalty and lock-in to the 3.5mm jack like nothing else I can think of. For me, that's what Apple is facing if they do this.

I don't think I'm alone, either.
> The workloads Microsoft simulated were held constant for every platform and instrumented via a common command-and-control testing library. It is very much apples-to-apples.

I'm not doubting this part at all.

> The additional telemetry they released is even more confirmation.

The additional telemetry doesn't really tell much of a story either way, given that it's presented as a single chart and little context is provided. Unfortunately there's no link to the data analysis to understand what factors were considered when looking at the data sets involved.

Personally I've found that it's hard to come to these high-level conclusions about performance from large data sets, because users and their devices are so incredibly diverse. It's really hard to draw definitive conclusions given all the data.

It's dangerous to take your data, aggregate it at a high level and look at the results from that point of view - you lose the context under which it was gathered and can come to the wrong answer (for example, browser X is popular in a country with great internet, so page loads are faster, and browser Y is popular in a country with terrible internet, so page loads are slower).
I think my comment was not rude but merely common sense. If I see a commercial for laundry detergent on TV and they compare their product with another laundry detergent, the company doing the advertising will surely have a description of the exact method of testing they used. I am not sure why microsoft should be held to a lower standard.

Anyways, to perform my own little test, I re-wrote my post in an overwhelmingly nice way, and still got downvoted. So, no, it does not seem that the comment was downvoted for being rude.
I remember seeing Watson on Jeopardy years ago. He is not quite in the same league as Mr. Butlertron from Clone High, but he's pretty good all the same.
In all fairness I'm not sure it's so much 20 something tech guys, even well-paid ones, who are the primary audience for these. I suspect it's far more empty nesters who don't need or want to deal with a house any longer. Or execs etc. for whom this is their in-city residence.

That said, I'm not in real estate and don't have a good feel for how speculative all this is. The Seaport area in particular is apparently very hot right now in terms of real estate prices even though it's still something of a work in progress.
During the trial, they did bring in a pianist (defense) and guitarist (plaintiff) to compare and contrast the two songs. With a test like that, if you copied lyrics, melody, and chord progressions from another song, it'd become obvious.
What is "openGPL"? There is no such license. Cygwin is now under the GNU LGPL.
exactly. if you want people to stay at your company and add value, try not fucking them over. people who know that you have and will treat them fairly are more likely to add value to your business. people who know that they have 90 days to access the benefit of working for you will look for shortcuts to make sure that their interests are maximized.
what does that do for the unauthorized access laws?
It does sound like they kept most of their engineers, and shed mostly CS staff - which shows a remarkable disdain for those positions. I would be very nervous about working for this company in one of those positions in the future.