skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would perhaps the best advice there to be exercise your options at every company you work at for all that you're vested for?

If you worked for 5 companies in 10 years, then you've got 50% of your options (likely) at each of those companies. Seems a decent-ish diversity.
Of course I have seen people lose. I've personally lost on options as well. I didn't make the assertion that you can't lose. With options, you are betting that the company will not fail and that it will become much more valuable. Both are statistically unlikely. You are also betting that you won't leave or be otherwise eliminated before the exit.

Mainly I'm framing this in comparison to additional salary which is also unlikely to generate significant wealth unless you are very good or very lucky (Probobally both) at managing your money.
That's a nice way to put the fallacy. That one is so common it needs its own name and Wikipedia page with list of hacked products that used the fallacy. Anyone already do that with a link?

On my end, I always tell them any system or scheme is to be assumed vulnerable until proven otherwise through analysis and pentesting. If they doubt that, I show them plenty of stuff made by pro's and associated CVE's. Then ask if their people were better and with more budget for security. Usually a no...
there were two emails, sent to him, that were retroactively marked as classified.

he personally reviewed them and said he has no idea why they are marked classified, and they shouldnt be.

sounds like politics to me.
Not to mention the fact that child molestation, for example, is almost never reported at the time by the child, or is hushed up by the family, etc. It is impossible to know the true re-offense rate for sex crimes because reporting is so low.
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Yes, typically there is withholding to help cover the taxes, but for four year grants in the range of $1m+, the default withholding doesn't fully cover the taxes.
> non-unionized

How much would they have made if they were unionized workers who got OT for the countless hours? Would they even have been asked to? Could they have gotten a proper office if they weren't non-union contractor to contractor workers?

What sort of benefits do they get? You're working yourself at an insane pace, do you get health benefits and some guarantee of time off at some point?

> young, male or educated

At the exclusion of older, female, and minority workers.
He states one problem and states that its existence demonstrates that a proposed solution is obvious, a relation that is extremely tenuous.
you are correct to point out the "flaw" in what s/he said.

I don't know the actual answer (and it would be difficult to convince me that anybody has all the data either) but many people "experienced" with startups believe that so many more options come out worthless that cash is strictly better, better expected return at lower risk.

however, in the same way that the freakonomics guys explain people playing state lotteries even thought they are "not worth it": state lotteries (and startups) offer some of the few chances that most people have to actually get rich, so even though they don't pay off on average, they are "the only way" and "worth it" to some people. Not claiming that these people have clear ideas about either expected values or risks involved, but they have clear ideas that "it's the only way". For workers at many skill levels, they may have a sense that in their industry they won't be too much worse off in the long run so why not take a shot.
Yes, but it's still WIP and you need to go all-in on JavaScript IIRC. I don't dislike JavaScript but would like to have options.
Fantastic! Glad you liked it.

(and nice cover-up with the Python, smart to use a language named after the greatest comedy group of all time).
Fascinating. This bit is troubling though "A follow-up study with miniature loggers that monitor sleep will test this hypothesis". How would such a logger unobtrusively monitor sleep?
What is wrong with political discussions, as long as people are respectful of each others' views?
That's really a moot point, important only from a "risk neutral" standpoint. You've just discovered why risk-averse people don't work for startups.
Not as bad as being stuck at #1, which can be rephrased as "don't get caught." Far too many adults are still there.
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A single person making 100k+ has a ~90% chance of saving enough in 10 years to retire in a cheap location. That is a life changing amount of money.
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Perhaps you don't live in a typical town. Most small towns don't have beaches, and most have tiny parks. Trails aren't the most common either.
> The city needs to evaluate and track people in homeless programs

> San Francisco, which gets an influx of about 450 chronically homeless people a year, needs to shed any perception that it is a sanctuary for people who are unwilling to participate in programs designed to get them off,

> It is neither inhumane nor “criminalizing poverty” to enforce laws against aggressive panhandling, tent encampments or defecation and urination in public places....are no longer afforded the option to flout the law with impunity.

So plan is to build a few houses and put everyone who is left into jail.
> It's obviously true that "those who commit sex crimes are more likely to reoffend" than the average citizen.

Do you have figures for that?
Such a great illustration!

* You can use great hardware, but the choice of it is rather limited.

* You're OK with upstream making a lot of choices for you, though the upstream is considered good at making the right choices.

* You don't mind running a lot of proprietary stuff (anything above the Darwin level).

People who choose Linux (over OSX and even BSD) look at these bullet points differently, thus the divide.
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Generally companies hand out options because their expected value is Less than cash. Put another way, they could also just hand out stock instead of stock options.
I think the point is that at some level of granularity, it's an announcement that you are currently working with the authorities, which is expressly forbidden in the NSL.

There's some point at which a court will decide that you aren't complying, and stepping over that point is bad for your business. Since that point is very fuzzy, it's a dangerous thing to play around with.
OK, not intercepting returns is at minimum about as bad, and unlike commingling it's not optional. Yow.
Yup..."back then" you would arrange all your cards in a shoebox and then take a marker and make a diagonal mark from top left to bottom right JUST IN CASE you dropped said shoebox on the way to class to turn in your homework/take home test. Without that mark there's no easy way to recreate the correct order of the punch cards.

Source: dad was an engineering major in the early 70s.
We saw many of these birds and tropicbirds during our Atlantic crossing. They used the trampoline on our catamaran as a rest stop. They also learned that they can't do a carrier landing on solar panels. It was funny to watch them come in for a landing and slide right off the back of the boat.

It looks like they feed on flying fish, primarily. These would jump out of the water and skim across the surface for hundreds of meters, and then BAM!, a bird would swoop in and end its existence.
That's the name of the game. You take a risk to make big money, and sometimes that risk doesn't pay off.
That's a "duh" moment.

I think it'd be more relevant to interview retired persons in reasonably good health.
Changing the designation from "unemployed" to "retired" raises happiness.

Source: Tyler Cowen, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pk654J8-5c
Yes, it's a US thing.
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> I wonder if borrowing Googlers is the government tech fire fighting equivalent of "nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM"?

probably. Reasonably high chance of getting the smarts you need, plus you borrow a name.
It's like a `this` pointer in C++, with a method table, yes. See the first link in the update from 30.06.2016. `v3` would be `RtServices`.
I went to James' home to see the Megaprocessor a year ago, when he thought there was only a few months more work to do.

It really is amazing to see the thing up close. Especially when you look at the sheer number of transistors that had to be soldered to make this.

My favourite part was when James said that he's started off by just wanting a better understanding of how logic gates worked, and it just escalated from there.
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cmd + 2-finger trackpad down in FireFoxDeveloper works for me.
In this case they are still withholding, but the withholding doesn't cover enough because of AMT and other reasons.
But isn't SF a magnet because of its policies and programs making it a desirable destination for the homeless? Homelessness is definitely a nation-wide program with all kinds of root causes that need to be addressed, but the city of SF is somewhat unique among other "top tier" US cities in the scope of its homeless "problem".
You're assuming a utility function of someone that's either risk adverse or risk neutral. What happens when you plug in a risk seeker?
Neat project. Nice quote from that page:

"How big would a modern CPU be at this scale?
The Apple A8X, found in the iPad Air 2, contains about 3 billion transistors. (This is comparable to the number of transistors in modern desktop computer CPUs as well.) At the scale of the MOnSter 6502, that would take about 885,000 square feet (82000 square meters) — an area about 940 ft (286 m) square."
The maximum federal tax rate on what "you eventually make from your options" is likely 23.8%, whereas on the equivalent salary it'd be 43.4%.
Does no digital copy of this exist to the public?
Huh, interesting. I managed to do it successfully on my X201, but only after supplying power through the RasPi I was using to flash it (no power to the board, battery and clock battery disconnected, though I doubt the latter was necessary).
You are correct, but that still doesn't make it right.
Grandparent was talking about AMT, which is still a valid concern even with RSU withholding.
"We don't submit to terror. We make the terror."
Correct. Just because everyone does it, doesn't mean it's OK to do. "If everyone jumped off of a bridge..."
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But... entitled millenials...
You specifically called out Google in your comment. As a result your arguments feel odd, since Google has a reputation for high salaries and high quality of life. If you specifically mention Google as a problem, you must hate the vast majority of the industry that both doesn't compensate as well and doesn't offer comparable quality of life. In other words, if you aren't happy as a software engineer at Google, where would you be happier?
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I was in sf for wwdc a few weeks ago - as a separate notion to humanitarian ideas, the mental ill and homeless in the streets really struck me as having a very adverse effect on the vibe of the city -- worse than my impressions as a visitor during previous experiences in the area.

- if you are in the city and need to find a bathroom, good luck -- hearts and minds of the people are closed to you and there is nowhere a restroom accessible as service jobs are constantly under assault from the mentally ill. It's extremely dehumanizing -- I would invite anyone who wants to feel the homeless experience to put on some decent but non fashionable clothes, wait until they urgently need to pee while in an unfamiliar area of the city, and then see how the city feels to you.
- the battery in my phone died and I asked a random passerby if he had the time -- he said "no".

Just an isolated sketch -- but the people in that city generally struck me as terrible and generally very close to depressed -- and I attribute at least some of that to the fact that they are constantly barraged by the souls of the crushed masses dwelling all around them.

Cities have psyches, and sf strikes me as very sick right now.
Many people build computers of varying complexities, but they usually use IC-s from the 4000 and 7400 series. These IC-s are mostly simple things, like NAND gates, adders and such (there are some complex ones). Making discrete equivalents of those IC-s is rather easy, especially with modern high speed low capacitance FET-s.

I am impressed by this computer because it is verbose and thus educational.
In my mind, startups are less like the lottery and more like blackjack. You are gambling either way (as with any investment) but, with blackjack and startups you can optimize.

Unlike the lottery, knowledge and skill play a role here.
I can't reply to nosegoes directly so I'm replying to you in the hope that he'll see it.

http://www.solresearch.org/report/Look_Whos_on_Registry_Now

http://web.archive.org/web/20070315180914/http://www.msnbc.m...

There is your example for public urination.

I found other comments and stuff about people fighting to get these crimes reduced to disorderly conduct, but I figured they wouldn't hold weight for you so I dug a little deeper.
The upside is a non-zero chance of becoming filthy rich. Some people are willing to put up with a lower expected value in exchange for that chance. It's a fancy version of the lottery, which many people also play.
Mitigating the risk doesn't eliminate it. Take your own chance, of course - but don't think you're not taking any chance at all.
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This is pretty cool in theory. Especially if the fees charged to sellers are much lower I could see it getting some adoption.
While it's true that you can find them using a phone book or any search engine, it is not a similar experience to using Alibaba.
Capturing data flows and applying machine learning to them seems to be one of the hottest topics in the infosec community right now, so I would not agree that hardly anyone is doing this.
That sounds right. The principal business model for AdSense is that it is cheap and profitable because it is self-serve and automated. That's why there is no in-person support.

I think things changed about five or so years ago when they began offering support for their largest accounts.

Maybe there is a business model in this mess. Set up an ads business that feeds traffic to AdSense, but with a markup. Use that markup to provide actual support. The support would be mostly from internal staff, but the hardest questions would go to Google. And they'd be willing to do this, because of the collective size of the aggregated deal-flow.
On OpenBSD, just do `pkg_add -Uu`.
Completely agree with this sentiment... I'm extremely disappointed by even the consideration of this idea by the core team. This could be a very hard but valuable lesson for both the community at large and the core team, but instead it is turning into a political drama fest in complete violation of the principles this entire idea was founded on.
Not if you live in the Bay area. Definitely not if you have to support a family.
Can we s/Fransisco/Francisco/ in the headline?
Ah, no - you're thinking of "Form Mutatro", which is a $15 utility card: "Your mutates in the target lane merge into Mutatro, the Goliath Mutate God!"

Mutate Stargod is an $85 "Tactician 5" card: Generates a 5 in your calculator when deployed, and gives all allied mutates in lane +1HP.

I think that even without machine learning, you could build a pretty decent AI just with the "spam maximum units" tactic; that's why my favorite deck is all mutates, preferring things that deploy multiple units.

I think hardcoding exceptions and edge-cases like Tactician cards would vastly increase the number of calculations you'd have to make - because now the order in which you deploy units matters, and calculations have to be re-considered from every possible deploy-point on - although it may be enough to get to a solution in which you empty out your calculator, and hope that the second calculator deal lets you empty the rest of your units.

(This naive approach may not work for the harder bosses, though - spamming a single row against Hate Bit is a good way to roll out the red carpet for him to your base, since it's likely he'll get there before you do unless you get an incredibly lucky deal.)
> I think there's something specific about suicide in the East that we just don't have in the West for whatever reason.

Are you sure? I'm not so sure. I think we just don't talk about it. There is a lot of suicide in the West. Staggeringly plenty.

Look at any statistics and you'll see that in most of the West, suicide is at the very peak of causes of death. 10th leading cause of death in 2013 officially.[1] And that doesn't count all those "Swerved left into oncoming traffic for no obvious reason" cases.

And pay attention to the news. Every "found dead in their apartment" news report for a famous person is a suicide. There's a lot of those.

But the West has a very strong ethic of not reporting suicide for fear of suicide epidemics. That's why celebrity suicides are never reported as suicides and why suicides in general rarely make it into the news.[2]

In short, suicide is a very real problem in the West too.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/suicide-datasheet-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_suicide#Journalism_cod...
The two are largely the same thing. If you have basic income, you can spend it on cheap housing and effectively have Basic Housing with no additional administrative overhead. If you're saying that we need to specifically provide free housing to the homeless and/or poor then that's a program that some cities have already tried with mixed results. Homelessness is often tied to drug addiction and mental health issues, neither of which are really directly helped by free housing or free money.
I used to work in Downtown Dallas: the building turned off their HVAC on weekends and holidays. I don't remember if they did the same for nights.

But I distinctly remember that whenever a holiday was coming up, they'd post notices on every entrance warning that the building would be closed on the holiday, pointing out that you'd have to use your badge to enter and that HVAC would be shut off all day.

Then again, that building was terrible. They operated on a shoestring budget. For example, they once cut water to the bathrooms for maintenance on a work day because they didn't want to pay more to have their maintenance people on a weekend. For another example, the elevators were scary and they were lax on maintenance: I've been stuck in them, most of my co-workers got stuck in them, and I've actually been in the elevator when it violently shook on the 6th floor and then slowly drifted to ground level. They were notoriously unprofessional, and they were literally the only property management company I've ever had to file a complaint with the city about (though it wasn't over their maintenance issues).
This ignores livestock which is both a huge vector for resistance and part of the food chain. It's not like this is new, Sulfa drugs worked really well for a short period of time before penicillin and are now somewhat useful.
Seems to me the author here makes little effort to weigh the positive safety benefits against the risks. That's not a particularly helpful way to advance any new technology.
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Yup. SF has a dearth of public restrooms (and almost no public showers). Criminalizing public urination is criminalizing homelessness.
*Most of the time in the case of startups
Most have lake, rivers, or access to an ocean. If not this, they have mountains or other natural features. If you're living in a barren wasteland, I suggest you get outta there!

Let's take a typical american city, cleveland ohio.

Plenty of trails:

http://www.traillink.com/city/cleveland-oh-trails.aspx

Beaches:

http://www.cleveland.com/travel/index.ssf/2015/06/the_10_bes...

Parks:

http://www.clevelandmetroparks.com/Main/Recreation/Hiking-an...
I don't see how that image proves your point. Shitty designs are shitty if they are in a web-app, or mobile-app.

OK, fine. I'll concede devs want more interactiveness. I have yet to see evidence that users want more interactiveness. I think that points to the arrogance of devs "who totally know better than the user".
Many "single people" in the Bay area make less than 40k/year. They don't starve.

If you are single, living in the bay, and making 100+k and not saving like a bandit it's because that's your choice.
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That's a fair position. From mine, Apple gets its vig from me in plenty of other ways. There's zero pirated software, music, videos, etc. in my house or my business; giving Apple another channel through which to sell me stuff, from developer licenses to apps, doesn't trouble me.
I dunno man, if you don't like the offers at Google where do you think you'll do better? They pay pretty well...
I never realized the San Francisco Chronicle has two versions of its site. I always used to go to http://www.sfgate.com (which has become like a gossip site). I now realize the more traditional newspaper is at http://www.sfchronicle.com/ (although they have an overlap of articles).

Why would they do this?
The finance industry has its own risks. It's a tournament type structure where as long as you stay in the tournament you are doing very well, but if you fall out you can end up doing pretty poorly. Whereas the tech industry, at least for the last several years, has offered a soft landing to many of those that choose to enter the startup lottery and lost.

Probably the least risky choice among high paying jobs that exist in reasonably large numbers is to become a doctor.
It's certainly a gray area, and a potentially dangerous one, so for legal protection if you take that warrant canary down then you would normally publicly state that it is absolutely not because you got an NSL, but for other reasons.

Like say, "business reasons".
There are digital copies if you search around the Internet (at least a couple have been linked in other comments).

For me the most interesting part is that there are hand-written notes in this version which are from the development process.
The reality is that most mid to long term homeless are 100% unemployable. There is no solution for most of these people in our current system. This is not a San Francisco problem but a national problem as it is a direct side effect of our chosen system of resource allocation. We as a country need to either change our current methods of allocating resources or accept it as a price we are willing to pay.
I wonder how John Deutsche and Samuel Berger feel about this. Both were charged for retaining classified data. And the many regular people whose clearances have been revoked or who faced administrative sanctions and lost jobs. The FBI recommendation is statutorily correct, but the absence of any accountability doesn't seem just.
no but they sell you the food too. I want to just get the food from the cheap mexican market near my house.
Sailing with flying fish around is great. Dinner catches itself when it lands on deck and knocks itself out.
That's a great bet if you ignore the possibility of not being single your entire life.