skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually there's a big movement to making options exercisable well after employees leave. So, no.

Startups don't have enough cash to compete in terms of pure salary with the leverage that the Googles of the world have. And stock can turn out very well for employees, I've seen it happen at a fairly good rate. You just need to make sure you're getting what you're worth, risk adjusted.
Can you go into a bit more detail on what counts as liquidity? Can I sell on a secondary market? Can a bank let me guarantee a loan based on my current units? Can non-liquid units be transferred to my next of kin tax free?
> 25 percent of people on the sex offender registry are under the age of 18.

This is the money quote. These people's lives are ruined forever and they haven't even begun.
It is trivial for any malware to do though, without even needing a kernel driver. I can see ransomware trying for example.
Agreed, should offer like program for employees to participate. But I want to say this is different than those forced laughters or exercises the article tries to put them together, the latter, especially the laughing part feels pretty creepy to me, much more than this one.
Of course not, the IRS takes cash. It's far simpler that way, and probably will remain that way for quite awhile.
Thanks for adding this comment. I do think the facts you presented temper the "doom and gloom" sentiment of the article, though the new advancement in bacterial growth has not yet yielded new antibiotic candidates.
More importantly, it's before Rust 1.0; it was during the time of beta.
I haven't put much thought into it, I guess it could be daily but hourly is overkill I think.

Actually, this is an interesting startup idea - warrant canary as a service, with an API.
Why does it make sense to have permanent DST instead of a permanent change in office timing? Why permanently change the meaning of what it means to be a midnight w.r.t. the sun when one can elegantly achieve the same effect by permanently changing the office hours?
Loopconf, the Developer Conference, speaker list released
Languages contain pseudo-knowledge consisting of a set of conventions that people made up. They have no external value.

I'm not comfortable with the idea that something which pops into my head today represents a burden for future generations to preserve, who will have perfectly good heads of their own into which similar stuff can pop just as well.

Linguists require specimens of languages to study so that we can understand language. But we have more than enough non-dying languages to keep linguists busy.
Or the seller can keep the funds, which can never be taken away, and not actually provide the user with any products or service. Chargebacks protect the buyer, at the expense of the seller (in case of buyer fraud). Lack of chargebacks protect the seller at the expense of the buyer (in case of seller fraud).

For most online marketplaces protecting the buyers at the expense of the sellers may be necessary. There are usually a lot of buyers, they are reluctant about buying things they cannot see or touch from people they don't know, and most are not in a position to absorb the fraud. Meanwhile the sellers are usually companies that can absorb some reasonable amount of fraud because they can spread the cost of the fraud over the much larger number of transactions.

That's not always the case, such as in situations where individuals are trying to occasionally sell items of value and they are not in a position to absorb the fraud. For those situations it may make sense to use an escrow mechanism, because non-reversible payment methods like Bitcoin may spook the buyers (and insufficient buyers may lower the overall prices, potentially beyond the cost of escrow).

None of this requires anonymous payments.
I think you mean lower expected value, no? The way you put it cash is strictly better in every way than options - both higher expectation and lower risk. According to you there's no upside to options relative to cash.
Main discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12038100
This. And things are not really comparable to big finance jobs as the bonus is more or less expected to some degree or people leave to places where they will get the bonus.

Startups are a lottery to a large degree, and for employees without significant equity, the odds don't seem great.
Cite an example of someone actually being put on the sex offender registry for benign public urination?

I've read that this was a myth perpetuated by people masturbating who claim to have been "just peeing"

EDIT: Less 500 people in a population of 150,000 could even possibly be on the registry for peeing
http://www.familywatchdog.us/BlogView.asp?ID=1
Who gets to say if not the people themselves?

Assuming you know better than the people might be the boot stamping you don't see.

(I'm not part of the culture and have no opinion of it. I just disagree that being east asian is irrelevant to something happening involving east asian cultures and religious practices.)
Is anyone able to explain what this view is being down voted? I'm picking that the second paragraph is the problem - there must be hard data on that thought somewhere?
Having a significant portion of your portfolio in options on one company, which also happens to be the company you work for, is overconcentrated. The usual (good) advice is that people should diversify their portfolio, and believing in your company is not a good reason to not do that. Maybe it'd help to think about it in reverse: if you had all your money in cash, would you then buy all those options in your company to get the same portfolio? (Note: perhaps you would, but it's generally considered to be a bad idea.)
You're conflating a well-secured email server administered in conjunction with State's infosec team - which I agree would be perfectly reasonable from a security perspective - and what actually obtained in the case at hand.

You're also conflating the responsibilities of State Department personnel with regard to information classified by the government they've sworn to serve, and the responsibilities of other nations' diplomatic personnel with regard to information originating in the government of a state foreign to them.

Neither seems especially conducive to a useful discussion of the matter at hand.
Is that a US thing?

I'm up in Canada, and the RSU structure for my employer is an initial grant of $3x, with $x vesting every year for three years. Only when I exercise the vested RSUs (flat exchange at fair market value - typically the average stock price over the past week) do I declare them as income, at which point it's taxed as per usual for employment income.
Are you talking about options being the entirety of one's financial compensation? Because I wonder how people who work without a salary manage to pay the bills every month.

> the tax on W2 income is simply the worst

As opposed to getting taxed on what you eventually make from your options?
Imports in Java from 2013 to 2016: Winners and losers
Neat to see the Rust source for something straight-forward like this as I've been teaching myself the language recently.

Also, seeing as I just made a PR to the simplenote.vim plugin, I feel the need to make a shoutout to it: https://github.com/mrtazz/simplenote.vim

The extra benefit here is that you additionally get external syncing to simplenote, so you can then edit or use the notes on a phone app, another computer, etc.
This is like someone winning the lottery then telling you to liquidate your retirement fund and buy powerball tickets.

Yeah, if you worked for Google back in the day, you could actually do this. Now? With the crowded landscape of tech companies competing to provide services, except for the few services who have one or MAYBE two companies that completely own the field? You'd be insane to take options.
>I think your state may be unique, or at least in a minority.

Fair enough. Ranking sex offenders in such a way should certainly be the norm.
> AWS Premium Support is mandatory

This is simply not true. We only pay 49/mo for support. Sure, you can pay for the top-level which starts at 15k/month but it is not mandatory.

The biggest item I'd mention to you is learn to use spot instances. I doubt Google can beat my 2 cents an hour for m3.large servers.
This is from a linked memo from the California Sex Offender Management Board:

> One recent large study found a recidivism rate
of 5.3%. The re-offense rate is the lowest of any crime category (except murder) and research
shows that the rate and the risk continue to decrease every month and year that the offender
remains offense-free in the community. [0]

This memo didn't name other crimes and rates. So I checked Wikipedia. Wikipedia cites some study by the US's Department of Justice:

> Released prisoners with the highest re-arrest rates were robbers (70.2%), burglars (74.0%), larcenists (74.6%), motor vehicle thieves (78.8%), those in prison for possessing or selling stolen property (77.4%) and those in prison for possessing, using or selling illegal weapons (70.2%).
Within 3 years, 2.5% of released rapists were arrested for another rape, and 1.2% of those who had served time for homicide were arrested for homicide. These are the lowest rates of re-arrest for the same category of crime. [1]

As mentioned in the vox article, this is evidence against, "once a criminal, always a criminal," with respect to sex offenders.

[0] http://www.casomb.org/docs/Challenge_of_Locating_Programs_3-...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recidivism#Recidivism_rates
And it probably should - the IRS is in the business of collecting money from citizens and corporations. It should not be in the business of managing investments and RSUs in thousands of private entities.
No, having your options be worth a lot is a very rare event. That's why they hand them out instead of giving you more money.
Unfortunately this is not yet supported in any version of IE, including Edge.
The barrier to entry of this stock option tweak: it requires an informed populace, ie, us.

If you are a founder with reasonable engineer cred and announce differentiated stock option terms, ie, Adam D' Angelo at Quora, there's a reasonable chance that engineers considering joining your company will be encouraged by your effort on this.

If you're someone else, and your company offers this, many experienced engineers, not unreasonably, will value their equity packages at zero regardless of what you do. Many others, such as new grads, will not know enough about stock options to understand the distinction you're drawing.

If you do decide to offer RSUs for the reasons the authors cited, you may want to follow the example of Henry Ward at eShares and put together some good presentation materials to explain the benefits of this course. Otherwise, you're making an expensive choice for little benefit.
You mean, like Swatch Internet Time from the 90s?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
The company I work for does this. The non-fanfare way it was described to me implies this is not rare across the industry.

Edit: I think the parent poster was talking about RSUs (pre-IPO) that cannot be sold to pay off the required tax. My friends at companies in this pre-IPO stage hold the RSUs in the employees' names until the IPO permits the employees to sell RSUs to pay the tax. The companies also let employees recieve the RSUs and pay the tax themselves if they want to, but nobody I know has done this.
This is an important calculation that too many employees ignore. They get lured in by the stories of early Facebook and Google employees walking away with tens or in some cases hundreds of millions from their options, when in reality most start-ups fail and of those that succeed a sub-$100m exit is more likely than a blockbuster exit.

As an early employee you can probably negotiate 1-2%, which after dilution, tax and all the other fun things that come with options doesn't generate the returns to justify giving up the better part of a decade while arguably taking on just as much risk (if not more) than a founder. I've worked at several start-ups - including one where the founder plundered the employee option pool to offset his own dilution - and won't work at another unless it pays an above market salary or I am in a founder role.
I wonder what the legal limits on the granularity are, probably up for a lot of interpretation in a court.
The usual action for lawyers, bankers or other professionals who were "careless", is to ban them from performing their jobs for a few years.

So perhaps she should be banned from holding a government job for a few years?
Who pays for this?

Is the following answer somehow too obvious to be true?

When you eventually sell the equity, the stock exchange will hook you up with counterparties who buy the stock. Those counterparties are who pays you.
There is 1 problem with this: roll-over of the day, during the day. This could be slightly annoying, but also fun: will you go out tomorrow ? Meaning this evening.
Data is tainted by the fact that robbery is nearly always reported, whereas sex crimes (especially against children) often never are.

EDIT for source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/us/rate-of-child-sexual-ab...

And CSA has fallen dramatically since the 90s, when the registry laws were passed.
i really think Profit Interest Units are the best form of equity for both employees and employers

https://www.nceo.org/articles/equity-incentives-limited-liab...
> I have watched many close friends cash out options from companies including Google, Yelp, Apple and Pandora and buy houses (some with cash)

I have watched friends get paid a smaller salary, hoping for a great exit only to find their options diluated or the company just simply failing.

Now you probably only have lucky and successful friends or that friends who didn't get enough cash to buy a house are probably not in the back of your mind, as nobody wants to advertise either their failure or failure of their friends.

It just get chucked to "oh well, startups are risky". But then the winner get famous and everyone talks about them, making it seem like joining a startup and accepting options instead of a good salary is a sure way to succeed.

Notice, this is the same process the lottery system uses. We make fun of those people, but it is the same idea. Lottery always havily publicizes their winners, that is not just random marketing but a very useful tactic -- make everyone believe they can win took -- "Look at him, they got a huge giant check, so can you". If they televised ever single lottery loser, nobody would buy the tickets.
Yeah, most of my work in this series is ever-better interactions with the game itself via code. If Calculords had a comprehensive API, I'd be able to build a smarter AI than what I currently have instead of working through things like `adb` and image detection (coming in part 3!). I'd love to dig further into strategy and ML but this side project has already occupied WAY too much of my time. I may revisit it in the future after completing part 3 but I've already got too many other ideas to make.

Unfortunately I don't recall exactly how Mutate Stargod works, from your response it seems like I've misremembered how it works, mind posting the card text here? (I thought it absorbed already-deployed mutates).
I don't get how something like this gets published:

> The myth that those who commit sex crimes are more likely to reoffend is pure fiction; numerous studies, including those cited the California Sex Offender Management Board's recent report, noted that sex offender re-offense rate is actually lower than any crime other than murder. Indeed, research shows that only about 5 percent of new sex offenses were committed by previous sex offenders.

It's obviously true that "those who commit sex crimes are more likely to reoffend" than the average citizen. The author tries to support his false debunking with two completely distinct statistics that do not speak one way or the other to the issue. Why doesn't Vox's fact checker flag this?
No, not yet, but I will.
> "American towns and cities aren’t really built for lots of free time: Public spaces tend to be small islands in seas of private property, and there aren’t many places without entry fees where adults can meet new people or come up with ways to entertain one another."

Unsubstatiated bull. I've hundreds destinations near me with no entrance fees, beaches, trails, clubs, churches, libraries, parks, etc.

> The primary purpose of the educational system is to teach people to work.

And that's why the curriculum includes civics, american history, geography, literature? K-12 does not perpare students to become workers aside from providing a struture of authority and some discipline.
He says well-meaning welfare programs aren't working, and then suggests another well-meaning welfare program.
Google's reply on AdSense account closure mails
Its not "options" vs "RSUs"

There are a wide range of financial products used around the world that would better fix the tech sectors compensation incentives and nobody is talking about them.

Think different didn't mean argue about false dichotomies.

It is a total charade for the venture firms to propel the notion that they are doing employees a favor by even offering stock. "How gracious of us to dilute our investment at all!"

Dilute the preferred shares with 8% dividend and liquidity preferences!

Offer convertible bonds or other hybrid products!

You can incentivize people in 101 ways, and you guys are debating about two of them under the assumption that the crowd is right
Probably because it is assuming that the problem is not enough money. How would giving people $1000/mo get treat addiction or mental illness? I'm not saying that there is hard data that it won't help but there isn't any to show either way.
I haven't had reason to use nftables yet (beyond the default config in a distro), but if it's in any way closer to PF, then it's vastly superior to iptables in my eyes. I spent a while configuring OpenBSD firewall/VPN gateway boxes about a decade ago, and the all around superiority of PF was astounding.
Letter from U.S. House of Representatives to Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos CEO [pdf]
I think you can’t accept that there are many concepts that
can’t be expressed in any language other than English.

I cannot accept such an absurdity, because it is false. I am also a scientist trained in theoretical physics and I have received my education in French, a colleague had his in Portuguese, another in Mandarin, yet another in French/Arabic and our professors and PIs had theirs in German, English, French, Spanish and Romanian (that I know of, could be more).

You are right that at conferences people speak English, and we speak English in group meetings for the simple reason that it's the common denominator. There is no other reason. We have scientific discussions in French and English, some have them in German or Arabic, it doesn't matter because they're all equally capable of describing scientific thought.

I think the point you're trying to make is that the scientific vocabulary in some languages, in some scientific fields, sometimes doesn't keep up with that of English. This I would concede to you. But usually, just like English does, the other languages simply borrow the new words (or craft the usually obvious equivalents using greek/latin or whatever). This has nothing to do with a language's inherent capacity of describing concepts, as you maintain. This argument is a much weaker form than that which you propose.
That's a great way to end up in prison. That said, civil disobedience has been used in the past to great effect.
Cool. Now Lenovo admits they have no idea whose this code is and what it is supposed to do. It sounds like a shitty excuse of junior programmer: "Hey man, not my fault! I have just copy-pasted that snippet from StackOverflow!"
I suppose for that you would need to say "We have not received a letter as of $date" and then stop updating that date. The current notion, adding a line you'd remove if you did receive one, may be still an action, if it's part of your default reporting.

But I don't believe warrant canaries "actually work" in practice.
I'm not sure why the actual jQuery library matters here. Chances are if you're using jQuery for an accordion you're also using it for a lot of other things.
In this case one group of people with similar political views is creating a safe space by silencing their opponents and preventing an inconvenient discussion. It is hard to see it any other way.
I don't know what the author is going on about.

Yes you do. She was referring to the average case labeling of sex offenders -- not the outlier policies of your particular state.

Uh... so her sympathetic example is a serial child molester?... You can bet that the "boy" was probably under 7 and Mario was a 19-year-old

Your unnecessary hyperbolization of what happened -- going so far as to blatantly invent extremified details of the case, just to make it sound as nasty as possible -- is exactly the kind of unfair and vindictive response the author is addressing in the article.
Answers to his issues with tariffs:

> First, such tariffs are probably barred under trade agreements that are in place. To impose them, we would have to abrogate those agreements.

So what? Those trade agreements were made under the assumption that they'd be good for America. Now that we know they're bad for America, the assumptions under which they were made are invalid.

> We have to wonder about retaliatory actions – wouldn’t other countries impose offsetting tariffs on U.S. exports that would further harm our manufacturing base?

We're a net importer. Tariffs in other countries would only really hurt if we did a ton of exports.

> What would happen to our ability to refinance our perpetually growing national debt if China, our biggest creditor, decided one day it wasn’t quite as eager to participate in new Treasury financings?

Lower taxes and cut the size of government. Stop printing money and allow interest rates to rise.

> What would rising barriers do to one of the main motivations behind the broadening of U.S. trade agreements since World War II: preventing conflict?

A tariff is not a wall. Trade would still take place and there'd still be interdependence.

> Finally, but most simply, what American wants to pay 50% more for a cellphone than he does today?

An American who used to be unemployed or paid minimum wage, but has gotten a much better job with an greatly increased salary because he no longer has to compete with desperately poor people who will accept pay far below the US minimum wage.
Interested to hear what from your perspective is the root cause and how these programs enable it.
Picking up a phone book is one option for finding local manufacturing firms; one benefit of dealing with someone local is that you can pick up a phone and speak to them in your own language. Another is that it significantly reduces the iteration time during the prototyping stage, since you can drive over to inspect things yourself.

Another is by web search: "contract manufacturing <city name>", "injection molding <city name>", or "machine shop <city name>".
I think we need Basic Housing in addition to Basic Income.
"This drove the running time of the solver algorithm from an upper bound of 90 seconds to an average time of Out of Memory."

This, I almost peed I laughed so hard. And I had to pretend that my python code was hilarious to convince my coworkers I was actually working (not hard, it is hilarious).
I believe joonhocho was speaking more about youth unemployment than overall unemployment. From the same web site, that rate appears to bounce around in the double digits:

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/south-korea/youth-unemployme...
Seems to me like some smart person/persons would be able to build a cryptocurrency-based competitor to AdSense.
I think people downvoted her because there is no causality link whatsoever between her observation and her conclusion.

Also, from an european's point of view, calling SF policies "left-leaning" is quite amusing.
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