skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. It's probably worth having as something like "UK Referendum on the EU"
Unesco lists Exeter Book among 'world's principal cultural artefacts'
Agreed and based on what I've read the funding package that the UK government gives them plus the TV tax (that each UK citizen has to pay with the purchase of a TV) sure helps them stay afloat
Reminds me a lot of Elixir actually. I'd really prefer a purely functional language with LISP syntax. Does anyone know of any? I find it easier to understand than Haskell..
Very good point, trademarks are established by using them. The Comodo CEO should know this aspect of law.

I bet his general council is screaming at him right now. This could be used as evidence of malfeasance or general character issues.
I went to a SUNY school. It wasn't a top X CS school, but in the 90s it was cheap enough that my parents could pay for tuition and I was able to take care of the rest.

Whatever I lost by not being a candidate to work at Google, etc I gained in flexibility. I was able to buy a home at 23, wasn't burdened by loan payments and have done pretty well.

My cousins went to Ivy League schools and did the medicine and investment banking route. They did everything "right", but are buried in debt and sound pretty miserable. To each his own.
Pure number of votes. THough the regions will declare separately, it's the net remain vs leave votes overall that matter.
Pure number of votes. This is a referendum, not an election.
Good summary.

Unfortunately, I'm not aware of anybody these days that actually is deliberately treating early employees well in this regard.

On the one hand, there's the wink-and-nudge that joining early will make you a millionaire--but then you've got folks like this who are undermining the entire mythos.

I think we are all interested in how this will play out.
We pay a TV license annually, not a one-off tax. The BBC receives no government funding, which helps ensure its impartiality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_Un...
Traveling to Mars? Just Add Water
End of the Diablo Canyon era
We could also use "OHM" instead of Ω and "EUR" instead of €, but symbols provide more concise representations of meaning, especially in the case of a combined ON/OFF button. Much easier to fit the universal circle with 1 in it than "ON/OFF". The broken circle with 1 in it is way smaller than "ON/STANDBY". The other two symbols are then necessary to keep the proportions consistent across all four related glyphs.
IMHO, Rust. Rust is very developer-friendly, great doc, user-friendly error messages, system level, cross-compilation friendly (\o/), you can experiment in the browser, etc…
Rent seekers tend to be like this in my experience. This is how you stay alive if you lack the ability to innovate.
The only major difference is that it's compiled with msvc, instead of mingw.
I'd suggest retitling this "Brexit referendum results", since I think "brexit" is a term everybody understands.

dang?
Why are the numbers so microscopic compared to the population of the UK? Is it not a direct vote?
Same, I stopped reading after that. I got it, they got more battery life by reducing performance, not something I'm interested in.
New buildings aren't new forever. You're living in a cheaper, older building. In 20 years the new "luxury" buildings will be cheaper.
Nope! Everything wasn't supposed to catch fire. And yes, it's amazing the camera survived.
Who was the old "ssl jesus"?
Despite some painful implications of his argument, one aspect of his solution is ok: more options with a longer vesting period. This helps keep the best people around for longer, as they continue to accrue benefits of the career and comp risk they took by joining an early stage company. There would be a lot less incentive for people to leave at 4 years. (In most companies, the equity per employee handed out later on is tiny compared to what you can give early employees)
Numbers only get reported when an electoral district has finished counting. Right now only 5 of 382 districts have reported (and they're mostly small districts, which is why they finished counting so quickly).
They don't want the underlying layer to show its true color ...
So are we expecting tens of millions to vote by the end?

Edit: I did some math and figured it out. Thanks for the help, hehehe
Each polling area counts it's results and reports in seperately. So far the results are only in for a few areas.
Self-Driving Cars Are Coming, but Self-Driving Tractors Are Already Here
I had to look up the Reacher Gilt reference (Terry Pratchett novel) but I know a handful of people who had to scrape together cash to buy their Gilt Groupe options and subsequently lost a lot of money in the sale.
Alternatively we can imagine a world in which Series A investors always get wiped out in a re-cap by Series B investors, who always get wiped out in a re-cap by Series C investors.

“Are there any other management practices where one would optimize for former investors at the expense of new investors?”
When an employee leaves, you should also claw back all of the pay you've ever given them. I mean, they're no longer helping the company grow. That's just lost money, flying out the door.
> Founders don't have to do that (surprise)

Founders do, but the taxable amount is zero. You can do this too as an employee, by early-exercising your entire grant on the day you join (assuming your company allows it). However, it's probably not advantageous to do this unless you're an early employee, because you're exposed to all the risk, and that money is now completely illiquid.

> and neither do VC

Correct, but VCs aren't getting their shares at a below market price (which is the whole point of options - you generally exercise them when they're "in the money", ie, cheaper than the market price).
The thing you linked shows $12,816 tuition. It is not cheap but it alone is not going to put you in six figure debt. Additionally, there are other forms of financial aid, you can work, and as I mentioned previously, you don't have to go to a UC school for the full four years get a degree from one - this is a path many take to both gain admission and make the financial burden more manageable.

Is it ideal? Far from it. But it's also not an insurmountable obstacle for most who are qualified to attend. The public education systems fails lower-income students long, long before they get to university level.
Somewhere around 25-30 million, I think.
Because PC Master Race. We only want 300FPS+ and 4k graphics, we don't care about $5 extra to our electricity bill, so why would software developers even bother with this and spend extra time and money for improving power drain?
Employers need to get an independent valuation prior to issuing options. If you're hiring employees at a later stage, your hands are tied.
So I have coded everything from dumb web servers (tm), to high performance trading engines (tm). I have toyed with doing the list in parallel thing... and used it in a toy GUI tool or two I wrote... but never really found it that useful in the real world. If you actually want high performance, doing a parallel map is not going to be fast enough. If you are a dumb web server, it's a waste of overhead 99% of the time.

But hey, if you want to use map when you actually need to do a parallel map, cool. But seems very very uncommon. ~ 1 in 10,000 maps I write.
Not a bug, just a bad algorithm.
>You can also file for "intent to use".

Yes, and then after the mark is approved you have to provide evidence of use, which can be nothing more than a screenshot of a webpage (plus a $250 filing fee). Filing evidence of use can be delayed up to 5 times I believe, meaning you have plenty of time to file. If you fail to file, you will lose your mark though.
I seem to remember first seeing threads used to run Novell and OS/2 on the 80286. (they must of been invented long before that, but that was my initial "OMG!" exposure to them)

But threads aren't just complicated, they are dangerous. E.g. - if somebody forgets and updates something in an instance variable in a Java servlet, rather than local variables, hilarity/calamity ensues.

By the time you are using thread pools, vs "spawn at will", how much better off are you than using a pool of processes safely separated by explicit interprocess communication?
If this was reddit, I'd answer with the relevant XKCD where you have awoken the Sheeple from their eternal slumber.
> the funding package that the UK government

What funding package is that? Did you mean EU grants?

> that each UK citizen has to pay with the purchase of a TV)

The licence fee is payable if you are in the UK and watch live TV as it's broadcast. "live", "TV", and "broadcast" are defined in statute and statutory instruments.
This is absolutely crazy. What is earned is earned. And it is, in fact, distinctly possible that early employees at t(0), now gone, have done more to contribute to shareholder value than the subset employed at t(1).
> That doesn’t seem very fair at all. Are there any other management practices where one would optimize for former employees at the expense of current employees? I can’t think of any.

Options with vesting seem little different from pensions in this respect.
Hah. No pun :)
I'm building a end to end encrypted chat platform in JS (I'm aware of the risks here it's a toy project) and I might have to use an open redirect to prevent urls from leaking out of messages before they are clicked. I was thinking of doing something like external-link.domain.io/redirect?url=https://www.google.com to make it obvious.
MMS Providers seem to be few and far between. Looking for an Australian offering at the moment - having some trouble. Any advice welcomed.
You can see similar problems even without anti-aliasing. If you have three collinear points A B C, drawing a line from A to B and then B to C may hit slightly different pixels compared to just drawing a single line from A to C. If you try to draw a polygonal mesh which has T-junctions (overlapping edges whose endpoints are not identical) you can end up with slight gaps between adjacent polygons.

In 3 dimensions, a similar phenomenon causes "Z-fighting". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-fighting
I think many other countries have a TV 'tax' as well. I had to pay one living in Germany just for owning a computer.

Makes for great public media in many cases.
Note that this is only a problem in some algorithms.
> and x20.5 for EBITDA (40% margin seems reasonable in the telcos industry)

There EBITDA appears to be negative. 40% margin is "Gross margin" and is certainly not a valid EBITDA figure.
10 Year Exercise Periods Make Sense
What could be more sinister than aliasing issues?!?
Here's some more information about how the votes are counted: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36044026
Lack of bounds check on the input was my first thought, too. Need to deal with NaN sanely, too, but usually that takes care of itself as it propagates through any operations.
This is the title for the BBC page, aimed at a UK market
Wow, this comment was just utterly buried. Why is it so terrible? I was being glib.
Email Dan at hn@ycombinator.com [it's the |contact| link at the bottom of the page].
It's kinda ironic that on one hand the financial press decries public companies for not offering dividends anymore, and on the other hand the financial press decries them for offering buybacks.

A buyback is a tax-advantaged dividend. Period. Instead of distributing profits to shareholders as dividends, which are taxed as ordinary income at 33+%, the additional money flows out as capital gains, which are taxed at 20%. The shareholders who sell into the buyback receive cash directly for their shares, taxed at long-term capital gains rates. The shareholders who don't sell receive capital appreciation, as the intrinsic value of the corporation is divided among fewer shares.

Now, if you are an ordinary not-stock-holding laborer, you may have a legit complaint that buybacks fleece the U.S. government of money that rich people would otherwise pay in taxes. But if you're a rich person and not an idiot, you should be glad to see public companies offer buybacks.
> After a computer-simulated house tour, he recently paid $1.13 million for a 24th-floor one-bedroom at Pierce Boston, a 30-story geometric glass tower now rising near Fenway Park that will open in 2018.

> As a condo owner, he will have access to a private sky deck with an outdoor kitchen and fireplace, and a glass-floored dining room. For an additional $300,000 or so, he can buy one of the building’s 12 private rooftop cabanas.

I'm not sure who this article is catering to. In the 10 years of working in the tech field I've only met a handful of people who could drop $1.13 million on a condo, not even a house (assuming this guy paid cash). How is this even affordable?
The BBC has consistently been at the cutting edge of broadcasting since the 1930s. They have a substantial R&D department that does some very impressive work.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/search?Type=Projects
Yes, it's a simple majority.
Follow the conversation live here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-36570120

Also, the chances are the BBC world service radio is covering it in your area.
I thought from the title this article would be about the myriad of ways that startup employees can get screwed. Remarkably, all he does is propose another way to screw them.

Silicon Valley with its sky-high cost of living is nothing more than a lottery. Those who have won the lottery mistake their luck for "smarts" and become "venture capitalists" who exist simply to grease up their fellow winners.
And then you call something that, unbeknownst to you, updated some shared state like a singleton.

I like your rule #1.

(But I do Java server programming so I can put the kids through school, so, "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!")
From what I've read (I'm not an expert either) nginx is completely optional. Cowboy (used by Phoenix) supports https termination and I understand that it's the router for Heroku so it sees plenty of traffic.
The income-sensitive repayment plans come with a lot of caveats. My wife took that route before we married and it was mostly just a huge debt trap with interest piling up and she still struggled to make payments. I have not done the math with median debt/income/compound interest over X years but it seems to me that a lot of people who go that route will wind up with debt they will never be able to repay in their lifetimes. After we married it turns out the income part is based on household; my income is much larger than hers, and while hers has gone up since she still has trouble paying the new monthly rates based on our joint income from her salary alone.
Quake multiplayer was a really big thing!

I remember playing it on some 486 PCs, now unimaginable, but then it was really great!

There was even a ~700KB (!) version, stripped down to the most necesary: TCP/IP multiplayer with only 1 level, but man, you could bring it to the classroom on a 1,44MB floppy!
Probably DigiCert since that's what GitHub uses. Until GitHub made openly anti-white male comments and lost their mind share to GitLab. I barely follow this tabloid at this point.

Here's something fun: GitLab uses Comodo. What a tangled web we weave.
See also: betting odds (https://electionbettingodds.com/brexit.html). Was at 85%+ for Remain earlier today, now down to 65%.
It also matters if you want to use emojis in irssi or equivalent :)
Just one addition to all the other critiques in this thread.

"The challenge in broadly adopting the 10-year exercise rule for all employees at the outset of the company as a solution is that it disadvantages employees who choose to make a long-term commitment to the company relative to those who leave."

Employees who stay longer get more options than employees who leave early. I don't see the problem.
Apple officially discontinues Thunderbolt Display
Looking at the reports, the UUID's are xxxxxxxx-xxxx-4xxx-yxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx, so V4 UUID's, which should be pretty hard to guess (barring bad PRNG, but that's a whole different problem)
Well, it's not a referendum on Brexit or a Britain remain, it's a referendum on EU membership with two options: Remain and Leave.

This is unlike the Scottish independence referendum which was a Yes/No vote on if Scotland should to be independent. It's not specifically about either option this time.

All that said, “Brexit referendum” is a name that's been used. (And if the result goes a certain way, well…)
A sane voting scheme...unlike what we have in the USA. IMAO of course, but I'm so A about it I don't care.
Not a total pussy because these areas are sketchy or because you'd be paying a high price?
Apple Thunderbolt Display is being discontinued
Something makes me feel like HN readers are aware enough to put together that a front-page HN post on some referendum happening today that has something to do with the EU is the Brexit one.

If in doubt, a simple click will solve any ambiguity which could arise with the Elderberry Unicorn referendum happening in Patagonia also today.
Don't do options, just give the employees the stock and you eat the tax bill.

If that tax bill becomes too large to be worth it, then it's time to give your employees RSUs.

But you say, how about vesting and such? It's a waste to pay those taxes if the guy leaves after 2 years. You just paid 2 years of taxes for no reason!

That means in practice you'll be giving RSUs around the series A or B funding point.

Another option is you give the employees a non-recourse loan to 83b purchase their options on hiring. The loan is due on a liquidity event when it's higher than the price of the options. This makes it a tax optimal and zero-cost way to give stock to your employees. I don't know if that is legal although.

Another option is to make your options just expire after 100 years.
Countdown until this guy is arrested for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 for deconstructing that SVG image.
>Brexit or a Britain remain

Bremain! Get the hip abbreviations right :)
Results are appearing a bit sooner at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mI2o0smlVC_TyzhsnweL... and https://twitter.com/britainelects
Except that this has an interesting failure mode: unless you're visiting the sites by hand you're presumably using some browser automation framework, with different implementations for different browsers. And _those_ can have nontrivial power usage, depending on how they work. I know for a fact some of them do power-hungry continuous polling...
none of these companies will list their prices publicly... twilio will b/c they're probably slightly over priced.

Always negotiate lower prices and shop around.
The advantage of the Seaport area is it was parking lots and industrial, so nobody cares if you rebuild. There's a ton of opposition to change in other parts of the city, but not there.
EU referendum: Live updates and results
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Great. I keep checking from time to time - someone who understands reality is bound to talk to the CEO soon. https://www.comodo.com/about/leadership.php is at the moment a list of people who all have a good reason to tell Melih to STFU.

If the post is not taken down soon, Comodo is beyond any help...
Sketchy. That house for $125k in the Zillow list is a pretty good deal though.
New features in GraphQL: Batch, defer, stream, live, and subscribe
Isn't Win32 basically in the same maintenance mode as WinForms? WinForms is mostly just a thin wrapper around Win32 anyway.
Your old college diploma isn’t good enough for the 21st century economy
I think No for both cases. Default monopolies can go out of favor very quickly, and new technologies can ramp up very quickly.

On Facebook: Remember that Google got the whole world to sign up for Google Plus with their circles. They didn't do anything with it, but it was a clear sign that you can sign up a good portion of the internet.

On Google owning search, if Apple goes downmarket in the phone market, they could crowd Google out of search on the phone. Or there may be some other new paradigm - searching out of apps, with a non-Google choice winning. And if the search algorithm is MUCH better, it could win. Bing doesn't need to be 5% better - it would need to be 500% better.
Processing Stripe Payments with a Background Worker in Rails 5
The best people will stay around because they are doing their best work. Longer vesting periods will just keep the best from working at that company.
Ask HN: Getting started with AI today?
I have a growing interest in AI. There are lots of videos to watch. I can do this.

But what libraries are available to learn from? I'm on OS X. OpenAI.com seems to be more in planning than implementation, currently.

Companies like Apple, Facebook, etc are using AI more and more, what are they using?

Self-driving cars (and even tractors) are using AI this must be in house developed. GeoHot developed a slef driving car, literally in his garage.

There must be libraries to help get started for those wanting to learn and not write from scratch.
Note to be sure to set to 1 (base domains match) and not to 2 (domains match). Otherwise you'll be blocked from many CDNs used by large domains (for example... example.com serves its images and static js from cdn.example.com). Many CDNs are configured to check the referrer to prevent hot-linking of images, javascript, etc.

Also note that setting it to 1 will still block you from loading CDN-served images and javascript for smaller sites that are not using their own custom subdomain for their 3rd party CDN service. So, a site using MaxCDN to serve their images and javascript from the default CDN-issued domain of zonename.companyname.netdna-cdn.com with "HTTP Referrer Whitelist" enabled for their example.com domain that you are visiting will block you from downloading images and static javascript hosted on the CDN.
Dunno. Simple majority votes that change the legislative process (London vs Brussels writing laws) seems less than sane to me.
I wanted to post a rebuttal to the CEO's statements, however Comodo seems to not be approving new forum registrations today.

So, not only is Comodo living in a warped sense of reality, but they are not allowing any discussion to take place on their forums regarding this issue.

The CEO of Comodo likely knows the statements are highly delusional. I speculate they are driven by the intense fear of Let's Encrypt taking off in storm, driving a mass exodus of Comodo's paying customers.

Whether or not that's how reality will play out, I suppose we shall see. Instead of trying to adapt, Comodo's response is to try to squash it before it has a chance.

> We are the good guys

Sure you are...
If you're in the UK, or have a proxy here, visit https://www.tvplayer.com and watch BBC 1.

It's not looking good for remain, but it's really early.
Some vandalism in UK's Wikipedia page due UE referendum
EU live poll
Don't worry, in all of our normal elections it is insane.
Be who you are. Love who you love. #prideforeveryone
It's a dent made by Kennedy's car.
It's for DRM purposes
Live in Boston, work in Boston, went to school in Boston, prices are already so high and its a cold climate city for the most part, I am thinking of moving to Oakland, the weather is nicer and I can take the train or uber pool to a higher paying tech job in SF
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Buried again for asking why I was buried! Can I get a single response?
I had one just about to expire, and this was my motivation to switch over to Let's Encrypt.
> Christ, I can't seriously believe this argument.

Capitalism!
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Isn't this just trickle-down for housing?
Wow. Everything I'd heard today pointed to them staying in the EU. As of now the leave votes are winning. This will probably be one of the big political experiments in my lifetime.
Show HN: Great tool for creating loading 'spinners'
I really want to see these reefs in the ocean. There are plenty of waves that just crash into cliffs or rocks that could be harnessed for fun.
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