skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comment isn't very productive.

Some high-level valley participants are definitely bad actors but the bulk of them are just normal people in positions of power.
Equity is one area where I would encourage YC to get more involved. We need someone to step in and lobby the government for tax treatment of options that reflects their economic reality to early stage employees. We also need to encourage companies to use a 'standard' stock option agreement which is well known by everyone so that equity offers can be compared across companies.

If you take equity from an early stage company that has also raised a ton of money with a liquidation preference, what are your chances of getting paid out, even on a big exit? That question is basically impossible for most people out here to answer.
There was classified email in Powell's personal, non-classified email account [1] [2] [3].

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/05/us/politics/state-dept-cla...

[2] http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/03/07/state-dept-concludes...

[3] http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/mar/...
If you follow the link now you'll see they pinned a response about 30 minutes ago that links to https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/adsense/hy0cC...

It basically says WAI :S
i would only ever join a startup as a co-founder. i would never own less % than anyone else, i.e. at least one other founder should have the same equity as i do. that's my personal heuristic, ymmv.

if i'm going to work for someone else it's going to be the most stable situation possible, i.e. an established company with market or better salary and benefits and a reasonable workload.
The title of this article should be Hacking Calculors, part 2: Who needs fingers?

The emotional roller coaster I just went on of:

"Did I miss the release of Calculords 2?"

"No... I am not that out of it."

<click>

"Awww... Punctuation got me again."
I have started multiple startups, and joined others at various times. I've also professionally traded options. I have a huge appetite for risk, but the risk/reward isn't there for most early employees who are getting paid less cash in exchange for options. You just can't take them at face value. I would say many early stage employees aren't taking appreciably less risk than the founders themselves, but at a fraction of the upside.
> And yet, it flew!

Yes, it did. And it even mostly worked. And even when it didn't work it let us demonstrate in-situ debugging and repair, which had also never been done before (and AFAIK has not been done since).

> That's far worse than having no budget for archival.

Indeed. :-(
>Why would they stabilise after triggering article 50?

Introduces certainty. No one knows when exactly they'll invoke it or if they will currently just that it seems very likely.

Additional knowledge/information changes probabilities. More information means less risk. Less risk, less volatility.
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yeah, sad.
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Serious question about point #1: I've thought about contacting local manufacturers, but I don't know where to find people such as yourself.

Do you also get discovered through Alibaba or is there some U.S. equivalent version of the site?

I'd love to try someone local for some prototypes I'm building.
I think you were there during the Win8 period when UEFI secure boot and ACPI BGRT was introduced for example, right?
Great article.

I'm in the process of making a physical product: a new quick-release plate for DSLRs; I did find a manufacturer in China for CNC machining and had a couple of prototypes sent to me (in France), which were of very good quality.

The problem is however, the final product will be made of several parts from different manufacturers: the plate, a rubber pad, screws, washers, a box for "clean" packaging, etc.

Are there factories that specialize in assembling/boxing a product, and what would the proper keywords be in order to look for them?
Yes, clever as a fox for running a wildly insecure server that foreign nations could spy on her from, in order to dodge FOIA.
I went through the exact same process :-(
yeah that looks like the right idea but that site looks 20 years old. is it even still working?
What is the state of Skype on Chrome OS?
Sure, but there's not exactly a shortage of privilege-escalation exploits around. It doesn't seem like this is exactly a drive-by "oh please look at this resume.rtf.doc" type of attack, but it could become one with time if it goes on too long. Somebody would just need to stack things up in the right way, to get privileges in the OS and then from there inject the EFI code. That'd be a heck of a rootkit.
Phages are not universal in nature like Antibiotics which limits their value.
10M thick Ethernet also had vampire taps and cable (about 1/2 inch diameter) with marks on it.
Discounting the value of options doesn't mean objecting to them completely, or not having an appetite for risk. But an option has to have a sufficiently large potential upside to take that risk. When you work for a startup, you take the risk that it'll fail, and that you get nothing except what you've already received. To compensate for that, the options need to provide a potentially huge upside, of the "never have to work again if I don't want to" size, not just "if this succeeds, the options might be worth what I could have easily made in a year or two at a non-startup".
You should read some of the stuff Eric Meyer (the CSS guy) wrote about watching his daughter succumb to cancer: http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/category/personal/rebecca/ THAT will change the way you look at the world.
In that situation, the military may sometimes be stricter than a civilian agency would be for the same infraction. Anything dealing with nuclear tech has a higher chance of turning into a much bigger deal. The other thing is that he tried to destroy evidence, which usually makes matter worse.

Be that as it may, cases like Saucier's are fairly rare. It happens, but it's the exception rather than the rule.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time
I'm pretty sure Koreans work more than what's recorded, but still.
Are you uncomfortable with asm.js because webasm is heavily based on being a compact evolution of whats already there.
They've done a pretty good job of closing offshore havens.
> First is the FCC vs WIFI channel selection in firmware. They want the choice to interfere be removed from the user in this occasion.

Fuck 'em.

> Second is cell carriers are not wild about unknown basebands conversing with their networks.

Fuck 'em.

> In theory the network should defend against bad phones but they'd rather not test that.

... hard.
Pullum is also responsible for http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/loopsnoop.html, and IIRC he once taught a course on UNIX in the Linguistics department at UCSC.

I had the immense pleasure of meeting him once. My favorite quote from the interaction: "With a shell you have all the expressibility of a language. With pointy-clicky you're reduced to pointing at things and grunting."
Well, physical access ranks higher than administrative. If an attacker has physical access, no system is secure, if only because the interface to the system is no longer.
I don't know. That kind of architecture can still be useful and I personally use it when running some graphical apps inside of a docker container
Are the false positive rates comparable between the older slow tests and the new fast ones?
reminded how 10 years ago upper class was trying to initiate grass roots and steer protests against options expensing. They failed and as a result we have RSU pretty much everywhere instead of options. The startups are the last bastion, and i think with the modern "who needs an IPO with such great C round (and related caching out for chosen ones)" approach, people will start to get the picture and the RSU will come there too.
I have also experienced this, and I’m pretty sure it’s not an after-image. It’s not “visual”, but “mental”, so to say. It happens to me not only with code, but also some games; for example after a lot of time playing Tetris, I’ll sort of imagine blocks whenever I’m not more focused on something else.

I suppose it has to do with repetitive patterns. Perhaps some sort of loop takes root in the brain and these patterns are re-experienced in the way you mention; or maybe the brain was so absorbed with the task that it keeps working on it at a subconscious level, with occasional incursions into conscious experience.

I’m wildly speculating, though. It would be great to know of a scientific explanation for this.
Considering the US is a powerhouse of software engineering, and this was a state project, why did they pay CGI a Canadian company to do this?
And, it's shameful...
Whoa. I learn something new everyday...
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It's as impressive as someone building a dune buggy by welding axles onto steel tubes and making their own engine and transmission mounts. Quite a feat of engineering, but not really pushing the bounds of known science. And with limited utility.
Well, Ganymede was a guy, and the relationship between him and Zeus is a matter of some debate (inasmuch as mythical stories like this could be debated). Xenophon maintained that the relationship between Zeus and Ganymede was platonic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganymede_(mythology)
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From my experience this isn't true. I make a lot more money now freelancing than I did working much longer hours at startups. Sure, there are promises of my options being worth millions, but the reality is that they're sitting in my desk gathering dust. I'd actually take a pay cut to go back into a startup setting once this contract is over, mainly because I often miss the level of intensity, creativity, and the feeling of ownership that comes with a startup. I prefer being the dumbest person in the room.

Driving young programmers through 12 hour days is just a recipe for burn out and technical debt that you'll have to pay back later. I've definitely been there.

I guess it all comes down to what you consider a good work-life balance. For me being able to work from wherever an Internet connection exists and the ability to make my own hours is it, and yeah sometimes that'll mean a few weeks of 10-12 hour days here and there. For some it means a strict 9-5 with an hour lunch at an office park off a highway, which I don't judge, but for me sounds like a nightmare.

Again, as long as you're keeping up with contemporary development practices and are pushing your knowledge I think you'll be able to choose whatever definition of work-life balance is for you and be fine.
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>>When a military deployment will happen

>>Where it will be to

>>Who will be going

Having all three aggregated is not classified, but it is critical information (AR530-1, para 1-5, section b(2) [1]). An entire deploying unit is given those 3 bits on information, but the entire unit rarely is 100% on security clearances.
EXAMPLE: when 2BCT,25ID deployed in 2004 the entire unit was told when they were deploying and for how long, where they were going, and who units/personnel were going; everyone including that fresh 18y/o 11B PVT that graduated BCT 1 week prior were told.

But yes I agree with you on the first statement about information aggregation.

[1]https://fas.org/irp/doddir/army/ar530-1.pdf
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ACPI BGRT seems to be poorly designed for example. It probably should have been a UEFI boot service call not an ACPI table.
One of the first large-scale uses of POZIT proximity fuses by US forces in WW-II was at Elsenborn Ridge[1] in late 1944. Prior to this, the commanders restricted their use for the fear that the Germans would find a dud and reverse-engineer it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Elsenborn_Ridge#Arti...
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Framing it as an appetite for risk is too simplistic. Risk adjusted returns matter.

For example, I've got a friend who's been working at a startup for about eight years. They have a looming exit. If it goes through, he'll probably walk away with $1.5m. Had he gone the salaryman route, that'd be money in the bank.
My only point was that the rebuttal is a quote from someone who will make a quick $100k if her account is taken at face value. And even with a less pessimistic view of human nature, she's very closely emotionally involved, so even if her daughter just fell she might believe she was tackled.
Definitely HN news worthy regardless of political leaning. These being constantly flagged chips away at the trust I have in HN
>>If it involves jQuery then it is not 3 lines. The original claim was 3 lines of Javascript.

jQuery is JavaScript, so...
Title of HN post and actual blog post fixed. Thanks! Good catch, didn't think of that as I was writing it. I'm awaiting the release of Calculords 2 as much as you.
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it appears to me that the current tax system is actually getting better at getting hands on offshore profits.

I.e. the success of the OECD "grey list" thing, the amendment of banking secrecy laws in Switzerland and the closing of at least some tax loopholes like the one Apple used to use in Eire.
You're welcome. As you're familiar with C#, I'd recommend SpecFlow.

http://www.specflow.org/

As you're also using JS I'm guessing you're creating web apps, so I can recommend Selenium if you want to automate front end tests. You can code Selenium tests with C# too, and you can also abstract away the details of the Selenium implementation to use SpecFlow to write the tests. If you have access to Pluralsight (if you have an MSDN licence check to see if it's bundled with your MSDN licence, I think I got a 45 course Pluralsight trial with my MSDN Enterprise licence), there's some good courses on Selenium and SpecFlow, including one that takes you through combining the two.

http://www.seleniumhq.org/

https://www.pluralsight.com/
What we need is a government agency in charge of making sure everyone takes small enough bites and is properly hydrated.
Call it "privatebits" or something more suggestive that personal informational boundaries and privacy can be healthy for everyone, rather than the highest criminal offense. I understand that there's some irony or sarcasm there, but trust me, those are not timeless, even for people who "get it". Bitter humor is not sustainable in the long run, so relying on that kind of energy probably won't help the cause.
I worked at a startup for 2 years (left without exercising my options). I objected to options right from the start and during negotiations with the CEO said they should max out my salary in lieu of options. Options are funny money to trick potential employees into thinking their lower salary will pay-out in the end. But the reality is most start-ups do not have exits where rank and file employees get anything for their stock. Investors get paid first, then founders, followed by employees if anything is left - and usually there isn't unless the company has an IPO or was bought out because of superior growth.

That said, I am now co-founding a company and we plan to give future employees a long time period to decide whether they wish to exercise their options or not. If employees are willing to take lower salaries for equity for the sake of the company, companies should reward that sacrifice by letting the employee keep their equity options.
here's a bit more insight from Mustafa Suleyman- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E121gukglE
Apparently as an Office 365 user my experience is already "richer". I can't imagine how awful this could possibly be that my experience should be better.

I mostly resort to using Google Hangouts internally which is more reliable, easier and actually works in Linux. And is free.
I thought that Chromebooks, at least, run coreboot rather than UEFI, and so should be immune from this.
Wouldn't RSUs open employees to a different and more punitive tax regime (income tax) than options (which would fall under capital gains if you exercised early enough)?
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This is where having a lobbying group would be helpful -- this really needs to be fixed through policy.

We need to get the tax law changed so that RSUs are taxed on liquidity instead of vesting. Then you'll still avoid the corruption the tax is supposed to protect against (paying an executives millions in what was previously untaxed compensation through RSUs in the 80s) but still allowing them to be given as startup equity compensation.
> Any IPO ultimately results in people earning money who don't "work" for that money - that means the actual workers lose out everytime.

It is wrong to believe that people would invest large amounts of money randomly without spending significant amounts of their time to make sure the investment will create them some returns.

Also they have the risk to actually loose 100% of their investment, which some guy employed at Google with a 6 figure income doesn't have.

Of course they'll need more profit to cover for the risk.

Think about it this way: If there were no investors there wouldn't be a Google or Facebook as we know it today as these companies didn't make a dime for the first 5 or 6 years of their existence.

You can be critical of these two companies (I am) but there are thousands of other companies in the IT sector that just wouldn't exists if they had to make profit right from the start and grow organically.
This article is 10+ years old.
In my experience most people tend to at least have it installed. But yeah, Hangouts has much better quality (especially screen sharing is night and day) and a much lower barrier to entry (no business email requirement, no client to install if your browser supports WebRTC, no region restriction, higher client limit).
From the attached article:

«The free Windows 10 upgrade offer ends on July 29, after which you'll be charged £99/€135/$119 for Windows 10 Home or £190 for Windows 10 Pro.»

The upgrade costs are in line with historic upgrade costs for Windows.
I dislike the arms race against laptop theft. It is not as much talked about as encryption backdoors, but...
There was a HN discussion ten days ago [1], where several people including myself were suggesting 83b rule RSUs as a possible solution. Nice to see this method quantified.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11963551
> horribly broken JIRA installation

That's the first thing I'd scrap. Software to control the process doesn't help unless the team understands and wants the process, otherwise it's just an annoyance.

My path towards Scrum started after a pointless and long meeting. I found some coloured memo squares and some drawing pins, and cleared everything from an old noticeboard. (This is nicer than using post-it notes on a whiteboard.)

I copied out the tasks, making a rough go at splitting them into reasonably-sized things, and making my own estimates in days. I made "backlog", "this week" and "completed" columns.

The resulting mess showed that the project wasn't under control, which itself was valuable. The PM and the 'customer' were then able to ditch half the requirements, and the developers could concentrate on the highest priority tasks.

This wasn't Scrum, but it worked well, and led to buy-in from almost everyone that we should try Scrum.

(The most important things I missed on the first go: acceptance criteria and team estimation.)
How successful have you been in negotiating your options? Have you negotiated significantly more options/money or different terms?
Gabe Newell (director of Valve, Steam) on piracy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLC_zZ5fqFk
Right, which is why in my other comment I explained why the memory management strategies make them different, and make that difference important :)

type system wise they are pretty comparable otherwise; As a Rustacean who is used to nice type systems, Swift's type system is a pleasure to work with.
Don't panic.

While there is a definite meme around exasperation at this (and apparently some dictionaries are on board), I think they have it wrong.

In every example I've seen, including those proffered by those promulgating the meme, the difference intended by addition of "literally" is emphasis. Omission would not have lead to the listener/reader being more likely to conclude that the utterance was literal. It's simply hyperbole. "It was figuratively X so much that it was almost literally X, but obviously you understand that it was still only figurative."

This doesn't mean it's completely harmless - overuse of the word in that role does make it marginally harder to convey that something was actually, literally the case when it's expected that it would be figuratively the case. But it's not a reversal of sense.

When someone says, "I've walked miles around the store looking for you", we don't conclude that there is a new use of the word "miles" to mean "hundreds of feet". We say they were exaggerating for emphasis.
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Have you asked your current suppliers if they could perform the assembly or find someone who can ? That's what my company does and it has worked well.
Well, the nice thing is that you can mix and match. Don't care about the configuration of a package, use pkg. Want to use a set op custom compilation options? Use ports with 'make config'.
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Wow - that thing is beautiful. I hope he finds a good home for it.
Fair, it was a bad example, just the one that popped into my head. I couldn't remember exactly how it changed when you aggregated those details, but it seemed like a relatively easy example to relate.
$434 million / $18.5 trillion = 0.000027

0.0027% of the GDP :)
Sorry, I thought it was common knowledge that people associated with her campaign were engaging in this type of activity: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/21/hillary-pac... .

I'd look hard at the logs, it certainly feels suspicious to me, although admittedly I haven't seen any commentator action suggesting anything other than a flagging campaign.
I have much less of a problem with databases of eye scans as i do with fingerprints add you can't inadvertantly leave your eye scan at a crime scene.
Is architecture best represented in code? It's all about patterns.

Why do we have CAD tools at all when architects and engineers could just be writing code for buildings?
Firing people to avoid paying them can get you into serious legal trouble. Good discussion on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3962292.
That's what I thought too - the people causing the problem and benefiting from it, trying oh-so-helpfully to give the victims an attitude adjustment to better deal with it.
Note that I mentioned how it does not do any microcode updates though. I blogged http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2015/06/why-your-core-2-process... about a problem that can prevent 64-bit Win8.1 from installing. I think you were there back then too, right?
Is libero still available anywhere? All the links I'm finding are stale, leading to 404s.

[edit] Found it.

https://github.com/imatix/openamq in the "./tooling/base1" dir of the historic openamq distribution.
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I am a Pacific islander in the US. While I mostly am "American" in my personality and values, the rest of my family lives on an island not too far from Kiribati. The thing is for any group of people, it's hard to really think with a full heart (that is, will full sympathy) for people outside our eye reach. Moreover, it doesn't help that these are tiny populations. The article says these are thousands of people. The people in my island, Palau number around 16,000. It is problematic, however, that climate change will be effected by nations who will not see direct consequences, at least not early on, so the hope that out of their own self interest or otherwise act to stem the change unlikely.