skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the ISO spread with the AMT is bullshit that basically keeps the plebes in their place by not actually letting them get any windfall. However it seems like the real problem is exercising post-IPO. In the post-IPO world, you're dealing with say a 5x to 10x spread, possibly even more. In the pre-IPO world, your spread is probably 2x at most, which is much more manageable.

One clarification with what you said, is that with the AMT ISO exercise is that you're not actually taxed on both the exercise and the sell. What's actually going on is that you're prepaying your taxes when you sell the stock. When you sell the shares, you'll only have to pay the taxes (either regular income or capital gains) based on the difference of the fair market value of the stock when exercised and when sold. If it went up, and you sold in less than year from exercise or less than 2 years from ISO grant, then it's regular income, otherwise it's capital gains. So you could actually get a tax refund when you sell. (Same is true if the market price actually declined between exercise and sell.)

The argument is that when you exercise, you received something of value for less than market and so you made money, but in reality you actually haven't realized any gains, and actually are at cash loss. I understand the argument, but I don't agree with it, because you did not actually realize any gain.

FWIW, San Jose's congresswoman Zoe Lofgren has repeatedly tried to fix the AMT and ISO taxation, but hasn't had much success.[0]

Where I disagree with you is thinking that private companies are going to "figure out a way to make this work" in a way that's beneficial for workers. I'm sorry, but I've never seen high finance work out for workers. It's basically a play for the financially desperate. It's no better than selling you shares on sharespost or something. If it's illiquid market, you're never going to get full value, and you know damn well those that are buying are going to expect a few multiples in gain. They can just wait a bit longer. Workers on the other hand, are busy trying to scrape together a down payment on a $2,000,000 shack in the valley.

[0] https://lofgren.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentI...
Thanks for the correction. Apparently this changed with Windows 10: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/window...
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Is that because your friends keep resharing posts from those publishers or because you're following the publishers themselves?

Facebook already has tools to hide posts from certain friends or shares of links to certain publishers (click the disclosure arrow in the top right).

I think the basis for all these "post selection algorithms" that people are continually outraged about is the fact that people are completely unwilling to prune their feeds. Then they get overwhelmed with crap posts and complain about how there's nothing interesting. Then Facebook/Twitter try to figure out what people want to see, and people complain they don't get to see everything.
> Contracts are a central feature of a free market.

So, you don't think that it's a hurdle that your rent has to be split 20% to the previous tenant, 10% to the tenant before that, 15% to the tenant before that, 8% to the tenant before that, 33% to the tenant before that, and 20% to the tenant before that? Who is doing the legwork in tracking these tenants down? What happens when the combined 'equity' goes over 100%? When does the landlord bug out? Who wants to keep tabs on their 8% equity of a rental home that they occupied for a year five years ago, along with paying 8% of the upkeep for any repairs or administrative work? Who wants to chase up all the previous tenants and get them to cough up the money? How much time does that person waste if even one previous tenant won't pay (or can't)? If the original owner wants to sell the property, what happens to the tenants with equity? What if they have more equity than the original owner, can they force the owner not to sell? Can they force the owner to a reserve price? Does a new tenant have to make a contract with the owner and all previous tenants? Is there a new kind of corporate body to handle this new form of renting? Are the contracts around this new way of renting going to be easy enough for the general public to understand, or are they going to provide plenty of loopholes for sharks to operate?

I think that's enough to classify as 'a hurdle', and people need to be in the system long-term and at scale to figure out how it's going to work well. Hand-waving that problem away with "meh, contracts" doesn't solve the long-term issues.
It's only existential in sci-fi books. Textiles were one of the first industries to be automated with the punched cards\power loom 150 years ago. We still have millions of human weavers all around the world.

The problem with automation is you cant ask the robot why X, Y or Z is going wrong and how to fix it. A master weaver on the other hand will do it over a 15 minute conversation.
Why? Those kids are just as dumb as anyone from anywhere else.
I guess they need to do something to increase engagement because - anecdotally, yes - the amount of sharing and engagement in my feed has dropped dramatically in recent years. A rough guess would be ~3/4 of the content I see now are just likes/reactions and comments my friends made on other content (usually articles or memes). I'm sure most of my friends have no idea I'm seeing this, and if they did they would probably interact with FB even less. I'm very hesitant to interact with FB at all now, and just do a quick scroll through every other day.
He gives a pretty decent explanation of what he is seeing in the Catalyst transcript. It's fascinating, as from his description it's a low resolution (due to the longer wavelength) of what you or I would see. Presumably he also sees things such as colours, but based on audio reflectivity rather than optical reflectivity?

Your point about only him appreciating his own experience is interesting, as the same question can be asked of all of us [1]. In audio, maybe apples and oranges are the same colour and strawberries are different? It would be an interesting application of a sonic camera, to render the image so that equivalent audio colours are consistently mapped to the same light colours.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Visual-Perception-Is-everyones-experie...
That's it. I use it purely for answering invitations to events and a handy address book. Otherwise my social media time is away from FB, though, I still spend time on FB in the form of Instagram.
A Dutch startup called Sorama has been selling this commercially for a while. It's very cool actually, they sell mostly to companies who want to make their hardware less noisy.

It turns out that noisy machines are often mostly noisy because a relatively small number of parts are too flexible, not screwed on tightly enough, and so on. Track that down and you know where your low-hanging fruit is. A daredevil cam is exactly what you need for tracking that down.

Their site is a tad unimpressive sadly, but their tech is very cool: http://www.sorama.eu
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Why is it considered a dangerous practice?
> 2. If you're not using an ORM, then you ultimately end up writing one.

Why? That presumes that you are using objects, doesn't it?
Selection bias will skew your results here, even within the HN audience: people posting in this thread will have a different score distribution (likely biased towards higher scores).

You'll probably get somewhat better results with a poll, since that allows anonymous responses. You'll still have selection bias, but perhaps a bit less.
That seems at odds with what I assume is hundreds or thousands of companies in the digital space that could absorb a few million.

If you are limiting yourself to picking ten companies, it seems no one has learnt the lessons of YC - or is this something I would know if I was cleverer?
And actually, for biometric data, 99% is fairly crappy.

After, a person's birthday identifies them with a greater than 364/365 accuracy.
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If you see the biker then I think the lights did a good job. I suppose you could make an argument that it could blind people and they hit someone/something but I never heard of that happing - I only hear bikers getting hit because they were not seen.
Lock down the growth first, then charge when it's too painful to give up the attention. If they charge too early, then the little to moderate traffic from FB is easier to give up.
Curious what your estimate of a 50th and a 99th percentile developer salary is for a new grad? And do you mean a 50th percentile CMU grad, or a 50th percentile CMU grad developer, or just overall?
This is just a small part of a wider shift in the structure of our society. We are moving toward a future where a small minority of highly educated, highly skilled people will live in complete luxury and have their every need fulfilled at the push of a button on their smart phone, while the vast majority of less specialized average people will serve them through various menial services until even those jobs are automated.
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The odds of gold being completely worthless 5 years from now are rather lower than the odds of BTC being completely worthless 5 years from now.
What's your response to the GP that you seem to have missed the part where false positive/negative rates in the notebook? In your blog post, you said this:

> Finally, the article includes a table of false positive probabilities (FPP) and false negative probabilities (FNP). This may or may not be evidence of bias - the authors would need to run a statistical test to determine that, which they don't. In fact, I can't even find the place in their R notebook where they did that calculation. Is this the result of bad statistics? Is it merely random chance? Who knows!

Looking at PP's Jupyter Notebook, the calculations seem to be performed at lines 50 onwards (if you're referring to the table that I think you're referring to).

FWIW, those "weasel words" you allege are in the writeup of the methodology, where the audience is expected to follow along and see how the 0.057 is calculated. I'm not sure how you're interpreting that calculation...My read is that it's not the bedrock from which all of the other analyses are based from. Where in the story do you see that particular calculation being used as the main (or even ancillary) thrust of the piece?
But your friends are going to discuss current events, because that is what people do.
Good call. I'm adding a poll - http://goo.gl/forms/w67armMFB5peUYGJ2
At some point we need to face up to the reality that most women in the US are just not interested in working in technology.

Let's assume for a moment that this is true. I'm not sure it is, but we'll go with it.

Software companies don't hire women who aren't interested in technology because those women don't apply for the job. The aim of ideas like the one in the article is to make the hiring process fairer by removing a gender bias from the pool of candidates who do apply. That's all. It doesn't imply that the candidate pool will change.

The point is that every equally qualified candidate in that pool should have the same chance of getting the job. Better candidate should have higher chances. Biases skew that probability downwards, so we should aim to remove them. Otherwise we aren't hiring the best people.
I have a bigger issue with fluorescent lights: They have a discontinuous spectrum[0] that can mess with your perception of colour as well as a noticable flicker that gets worse as the tubes age.

Some of the newer "warm tone" CFL bulbs appears to do better better on these aspects.
[0]: http://minerva.union.edu/newmanj/Physics100/Light%20Producti...
I still have a Commodore 128 that has a second Z80 CPU just for running CP/M. Really weird in retrospect.
Don't mind him, he's just been bullying people on this thread.
Facebook did the same with buy more like and promote posts features.

I have written a blog post about it two years ago.

That's why I don't get into their bandwagon as customer anymore.

http://fatihdonmez.me/facebook-marketing-black-hole/
See my other response.
It was focused on that until they introduced all the features people hate
Never knew there was a movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVJrJk3q3MA

(Now that's the thing that no one could predict in 1970. That one day you would be able to summon up a movie with a few keystrokes.)
> a soul-crushing job is better than no job

Really?

Do you mean: "Being paid to do soul-crushing work is better than not being paid" ?

Or: "Doing soul-crushing work is better than having nothing to do" ?

The first is an issue of income and the distribution of product (in the GDP sense of product). There is no axiomatic rule that says "you have to have a job to get paid", it's just how our current economy operates.

If I owned a farm that produced a variety of food in excess of the needs of my whole family, but was totally operated by self-maintaining robots, would I need to have a job? The robots would produce all the food I need, and I could sell the excess in order to obtain other goods.

I guess I could say my job was "farmer" or "grocery salesman" or "robot supervisor", but I wouldn't actually being doing work.

If I am a truck driver, and I own my own truck and I make an income by transporting goods, and then I convert my truck to be self-driving so that I no longer need to be the driver, then (if we temporarily ignore external price pressures) I still make the same income as I used to. But I'm just reaping the benefits of my self driving truck, I don't actually "work" anymore (or at least to nowhere near the extent I used to).

But if I am a truck driver, and someone else owns the truck and I make an income by being contracted to transport goods, and then they convert my truck to be self-driving so that I no longer need to be the driver, then I no longer make any income, and I'm screwed. The owner of the truck reaps incredible benefits, and I don't actually "work" anymore, but I also don't have an income.

That's how things work in our society, but it doesn't have to be that way. There's no universal moral law that says that the first ex-truck-driver should continue to be paid for doing nothing much, but the second ex-truck-driver needs to get off his butt and go find a new soul-crushing job so that he can earn an income.

As our economies change to produce more output with fewer workers, there becomes less useful work for the citizens to do, even though GDP is increasing. That ought to be a good thing (economically) - more "stuff we want", less effort to produce it. But it won't actually being a good thing for the general population unless we move to a different model for the distribution of income, so that there's a way for the populace to share in the increased productivity even though their manual labour is no longer needed.

That where ideas like "Universal Basic Income" (UBI) come in.
None of those are barriers that the free market or the government throws in your path. For an unusual business plan, expect to have to put in the work to figure out the details.
I'd wondered how Kiva's old customers were doing. Now we know. There really isn't a direct replacement for Kiva robots from another vendor.

The great thing about Kiva robots is that they're quite simple and robust mechanically. They're a battery, motors, wheels, and a lift mechanism. They're completely interchangeable, and having one fail isn't a big deal. Maintenance is replacing batteries, motors, wheels, and maybe the electronics module as necessary. The infrastructure they require is modest. The competing systems all seem to require more elaborate robots, special totes, and special shelf construction.

Amazon says that Kiva robots cut their order picking time from 90 minutes to 15. Other retailers, seeing that number, must be terrified. It's a technological improvement like that which makes same-day delivery from a large inventory possible.
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I can't wait until the web becomes decentralized so there is no Slashdot/Hacker News effect anymore. The more popular a site, the more people mirroring is a much more sane setup than the current silos.
Well yeah, I'm certainly only doing high-level stuff, if I wanted to do low level systems programming, OS/language design or anything with hardware at a lower level than whatever APIs existing drivers provide then a CS degree would certainly come in handy.

I was more getting at the fact that for probably the majority of people who go to university, they're pretty much wasting their time and money because unless they're looking to do something that can't be self-taught or learned on-the-job, they could be gaining the same skills (and maybe even getting paid for it) without putting themselves in debt that they'll spend a decade or more paying off.

For example, all the lessons capote claims to have learned doing CS at uni, I learned on the job while getting paid for it.

I have no doubt that a uni education would benefit anyone, I'm just saying that I think for the vast majority of people going to uni, the costs they're ultimately paying don't outweigh the benefits they gain, unless they're going to uni to enter a high paying field which requires a degree to enter the industry at all such as law or medicine. Unless the career you want absolutely requires a degree, you probably don't need one.
Tell me what should "the industry" be using to be modernized? And, more importantly, why?
All of them? Or one in particular?
What kind of operation and system is this meant to be used in? Are you doing some kind of DSP?

If you are, you may want to consider using an FPGA and doing this all "in hardware" if you need extreme performance.
Oh, that's fairly easy to answer: the field changed to be more like other engineering fields, and lo-and-behold, the percentage of women in the field gradually approached what it had always been in engineering.

The graph[1] that is usually shown is highly misleading, because it compares CS with "physical sciences", and law, but does not include engineering. If you add engineering, it all makes a bit more sense[2].

Also, you seem to be approaching this from the angle of "can we prove that it isn't sexism" (which is the common approach). It seems that the correct approach is for those who claim that it is sexism to make the case, which after looking at the evidence I think they absolutely have not. (I used to think it was, but that was because I bought the narrative without looking at the evidence).

And the narrative is strong. For example, the link to the percentage of women decreasing with the discipline becoming more engineering like is known. However, the explanation then shifts to "the men in CS got together and decided to make the discipline more engineering-like expressly in order to keep the women out". Seriously??

[1] https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2014/10/21/womencoding_wide...

[2] https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/p/7/005/06b/02d/33fe648.jpg
I know, people should use IPs instead of fancy domain names, DNS is just electricity wasting.
At posting, I didn't have time to provide more references. You'll see I've given three more references below. Sources include Acta Physiologica, SPIE, and Neuroscience Letters. They discuss different effects of illumination color temperature in human systems.

I posted the initial reference as an entry point to follow literature on potential effects of illumination color temperature on human sleep, or perhaps circadian rhythms, through action on a hormone known to be critically involved in sleep. I didn't suggest it was the end of the story. My post was on topic and it contributed to the discussion.

Would be glad to review data you think interesting.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/apha.12552/abstra...

http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceeding.aspx?ar...

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304394008...
Interesting. I don't think I've ever used Facebook for anything productive (like RSVPing to something). My newsfeed is a complete and utter wasteland, but there's something interesting and addicting about it. It's like watching a car wreck. It's awful, but you can't look away.
That's fine until 4chan starts distributing images telling people to run this cool command to speed up their computer or something stupid. Ala delete system 32. They will have to lock this down like they did with system 32. Users do need to be protected from their own stupidity.
Not to diminish your study, but a simple "blue light circadian sleep" search in google scholar suggests a pretty mature understanding of the phenomenon, both at biochemical and phisiological level. My little study shows that after covering with black electrical tape each and every blue and white status led around the house everyone involved sleeps better.
As someone who runs a niche news site, it's hard to see the point focusing on running a Facebook page anymore. We kind of go through the motions to keep up with appearances, but Facebook is less than 5% of our total overall traffic, and 95% of that portion is all from individuals sharing our content, not from our page directly.

It's just impossible to "bid" on traffic via Facebook and win out over companies that have far bigger budgets, and most importantly feel that eyeballs are far more valuable. A visitor landing on one of our news stories likely is worth less than a few cents. A visitor to a consumer retail site could easily be worth hundreds of dollars. Guess who has the budget to bid big on traffic acquisition here.

There isn't that much real estate for advertisers on FB, and with that it has become incredibly expensive for a media company to grow a legit audience through FB anymore as well.

As a regular FB user though, I think this is an interesting move. I stopped using it to see what my friends are up to long ago as everyone moved to Instagram and Snapchat for their daily happenings. Facebook became a news aggregation service for me, much like Twitter. Might just be my friends, but only a handful are active on the service much anymore with daily updates.
Except the way lease-to-buy is usually structured is in favor of the landlord where the landlord usually still gets to keep the payments when the tenant moves out instead of opting for the purchase option. The vast majority of the time, the tenant will usually move out due to life circumstances anyway.

From what I've researched about Lease-to-buy, it is a strategy of charging higher rent.
I asked here after first checking at Namecheap. They have the release date as "TBA".

Thanks, Gandi does have it.
Very interesting.
In the same vein, I once stumbled upon the following optimizer behaviour:
'''
int array[8];

// later
array[i]

'''
The optimizer deduces from the access "array[i]" that "i >= 0 && i < 8".
(leading it to optimizing away conditions like "i > 10").

Of course, if optimization leads to semantic differences, this means the program being compiled was wrong/ambiguous in the first place. However, now, to debug your programs, you must know how optimizers work.