skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very much napkin math, take with salt:

$3b purchase price + $300m in Walmart options

The company raised $500-800m at at least a $1b valuation, no idea on later round(s), seem less reported, maybe a downish round?

Investor liquidation preference guarantees investors get their money back 1x or 2x or 3x or whatever (assuming they don't lose all of it).

So if they raised at a $1b valuation, sell for $3b, a 2x preference means there's $1b in profit left after paying investors. Again, assuming you know how the rounds were structured, which I don't. And not counting taxes. Or other contract terms that kick in on certain conditions.

So best case scenario, there's $1b for employees + $300m in options. Unless liquidation pref is 2.5x which means $500m cash left + $300m in Walmart options. If it's not vested, they can make a problem out of it (or they can accelerate vesting, but it's up to Walmart mostly). Most employees will probably need to do their time at Walmart, so to speak, and not get fired there.

Early employee maybe got 1%? That would have been diluted of course. But $10m is probably best case scenario (after taxes, you can afford a pretty nice place in the Bay Area and have some left over) If you got more like .1% of the company (still kind of a lot, really, and the founder sold their last co for $500m so better odds?), you just made a million bucks, which will be about 700k after taxes. And you've got a job at Walmart.

I would be surprised if the actual outcomes for employees were higher; unsurprised if lower.
Many benefits exist now; politicians seem to be falling over one another trying to restrict them. I don't see the risk as that great.
That isn't really viable yet. Browser vendors could decide that they will introduce this functionality in a few years though.

IMHO, the feature would need to be implemented as some have suggested, by enabling any website to transmit securely or insecurely, but for the web browser to request a secure TLS connection first (trying HTTP and HTTPS to reduce incompatibilities) and if a website appeared to have issues, then try insecure connections. If an insecure page were to be served, the browser should indicate this with a broken padlock.

Furthermore, I believe that browsers should warn when any data is input, e.g. clicking items that cause JS calls or text is typed - this strict implementation is important. Single page JS applications have made it possible to send any input data via JSON, we cannot only warn the user on a form submission, since it would be very possible to capture details via AJAX. E.g. If I were impersonating an e-commerce solution, I could hope the user would not notice the padlock and use AJAX to send the data preventing any form submission warnings. This would be annoying for users when they were using such websites regularly, but this would be a good thing - pressuring websites that handle user inputs to act responsibly and use encryption via TLS.
Great question. The answer is the same for all of them: roughly 0.

Jet's last valuation was $1.6bn and it was, and continues to, burn cash like crazy. Investors aren't dumb, they see that.

So they add a terms to their investment whereby they guarantee a return on their investment. For a company that needs hundreds of millions of dollars and is trying to beat Amazon? Let's say 3x.

That means that if I put in $100m dollars at a $1.6b valuation, then you sell at a $4.8bn or above, then everything is fine because I got my 3x. If you sell for less, as they did, then I get my $300m first, before anyone down the line. That's called liquidation preference.

Jet was burning capital so they likely had to make a lot of concessions in fundraising. Given that their estimated total funding is around $800m, there isn't much else to go around.

You'll notice that some employees and the founders got around $300m worth of Walmart stock. Why would they need that if the company just sold for $3bn? Because the sale likely netted them next to nothing.
So I've never done Scrum-with-a-capital-S, but I've worked in environments that practice by-the-book Extreme Programming, as well as other flavors of Agile.

I agree with a lot of what the author is saying. They're describing a process that appears to be relatively broken, and identifying some good reasons why they're broken.

What's missing is flexibility. As per e.g. the Agile Manifesto (http://www.agilemanifesto.org), the entire point of frameworks like Scrum is to provide a loose set of processes that you adjust and tweak to your specific team. If you're blindly following the process, and slavishly adhering to things like how precisely your daily standup MUST work, you're following the letter but not the spirit. You're being "Agile" with a capital A, but your team isn't actually being "agile" (the adjective), which is actually the important bit.

The correct response to "our team is unhealthily obsessed with story points, and yet doesn't get value out of them" (or standups, or retros, or whatever) isn't to say "story points are broken". It's to say "this bit of process isn't helping us right now. What can we do to modify the process to provide more value to our team?"
Doesn't Walmart already have pretty decent tech? I recall seeing some impressive scalability blog posts from the team st "Walmart labs."
Technology seems to be a black box for journalists, including technology journalists. I'm expecting them to start using words like 'boffin', in addition to 'glitch' to show that they have given up trying. That's the language of tabloids (and outlets that do a tip-of-the-hat to tabloids).
I 100% personally believe that population control is the best answer. However, I would probably not support it going into law, because I believe it would end up just moving into a form of Eugenics that preys on the poor. Not to mention the international political doors it would open to non-trustworthy nations.
I don't know how you manage to read this. He seems to say he would like to be in a situation where he has the means to give good estimate but scrum forbids it and forces to give random and biased estimations.
The implicit argument you are making is that off world colonization or mining is more valuable to our species than finding alien microbes.

Space mining is fun in sci-fi movies, but it makes very little economic sense. More so when you are talking about lifting resources out of a planet's gravity well.

Colonization is interesting, but in the early years it will primarily be focused on science and not building a second place for us to live. Destroying the exact thing we came to study seems dumb.
I think Scrum is successful in organizations where there is a lot of finger pointing and cynicism, and the engineering team is happy to measure progress in "sprints" in order to deal with upstream requests that they fundamentally don't respect, and possibly a product vision vacuum in which decision are routinely made and reversed, making careful and judicious architecture impossible.

In such an environment, developers prefer to drastically over test their code, and to undertake work in manageable sprints that let management claim success and understanding even when neither exist.

If you already have a very strong product market fit, and you need to hire developers whose judgement you don't trust, or if there are extrinsic sources of timeline pressure (like investors or non-technical management who think developers are lazy... essentially anyone other than users or customers), then Scrum is perfect for your organization.

The other constituency that seems to love Scrum is product managers who either have no vision for the product or no control of the vision, and are essentially being asked to be cat herders and manage engineers without earning their respect or having any authority over them.
Also, many of my favorite tabs have no equivalent in Chrome that I can find. One of these is "Tree Style Tab" which is important to my workflow.

IE is not the default on the current version of Windows, though it is on older and still supported versions.
You're absolutely right on that. However, the topic here is friends. If you think people that fear you make good friends, you don't have any.
Instantly deleted it? That doesn't sound right for the spam folder.
I am not convinced by this explanation.

If I can afford to have double the number of registers (in one or 2 sets), surely the extra time cost of some extra logic is still far quicker than hitting the first level cache? Hitting a cache doesn't just incur the access cost, but we have to store the value in a register somewhere before we can act on it.

Or am I remembering my arch classes wrong?
Sorry - thanks - was in a bit of a rush and forgot to add that.

"YAGNI" is... in general... not that useful when used by people who've never worked on a particular type of project, because, almost by definition, they don't what what they will and won't need.

And... defining "needs" is its own set of headache. Needed by who? I'll tell you what, we need to ensure we have a logging system in place that can alert folks, and we'll need the ability to view logs in production, and share access to those. Years ago I got "YAGNI" back on that, and months later... weird bugs that no one could reproduce, and the minimal logging in place was only accessible by one guy who was out of town for a week. But hey... we got those "rounded corners" to work in IE5 and IE6 with only an extra week of work - yay...

YAGNI is a good principle, but as with most ideas, you get problems when you introduce various types of people in to the mix. Someone who's never done a project type X should not be the one making YAGNI decisions when other people on the team have done multiple "project type X" before, and are trying to introduce basic requirements.
I don't use an adblocker. Wired is the problem. I already wrote a letter to their editor suggesting that they serve ads from their own domain--which I have not set to 0.0.0.0 yet, out of respect for their contributions to the development of my culture.
I am just asking, not stating a fact.

Is it possible people are associating Neo <anything> because it sounds like Neo Nazis and it just instantly turns it into a negative association?

I know every time I hear Neoliberal, I cannot stop myself from hearing Neo Nazi either.

It sounds like a good PR rebranding would help here.
Great visualisation. It's good to focus on the stocks instead of the flows.

"to feed the continued growth in industrial output there must be ever-increasing use of resources. But resources become more expensive to obtain as they are used up. As more and more capital goes towards resource extraction, industrial output per capita starts to fall [...]

As pollution mounts and industrial input into agriculture falls, food production per capita falls. Health and education services are cut back, and that combines to bring about a rise in the death rate" [1]

"Broadly stated, most ecological problems reduce to a single problem of balancing supply and demand." [2]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/02/limits...

[2] http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/info/quotes.html
Not really, SRAM(what most caches use) isn't just more costly is also consumes a lot more power. You'd be hitting thermal limits much sooner than with traditional DRAM.
In other words, supply of money has increased demand.
"the mobile web interface is actually good" That's funny you should say that. I use gmail on its mobile web interface exclusively (using chrome on ios), while my wife who is a fastmail user can't make heads or tails of their mobile site. What is it you prefer about fastmail's mobile site?
Time for Delta to move to AWS
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Don't bitch about greytext. It will always result in greytext and is against the site guidelines.

You're also incorrect about the reasons for pay gap, and also incorrect it's due to different jobs. The pay gap occurs at people doing the same job with the same skills. The reason has to do with things like taking leave from work (gaps in employment) and being less likely to negotiate salary as aggressively.
A better way to read this map: countries in the deep red are places where people have tamed this inhuman, unforgiving Earth, and people can lead happy and self-defined lives.

Countries in the deep green are where people are at the mercy of nature and die of 20th century causes.

People in the former complain that it is too "antiseptic" or "artificial", occasionally gawk at the latter and chastise everyone for not living in misery, always from the comfort of a city where the vast infrastructure that supports their lives is perfectly out of sight and out of mind.
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Re your point about Palaeontology -- the same goes for economics (and much of astrophysics, for that matter). Which was my point.

(The rest isn't relevant for my point and I am not really an expert. So just post a reference if I'm totally wrong. Popper isn't the last word in the philosophy of science anymore, either.)

"Scientific method" only discussed in US and not relevant to Popper? :-) As I wrote to Beefield, in the end:

Hint: [The scientific method] is in the first sentence of the second paragraph on Popper's wikipedia page.

...

Another hint, Popper was amongst others professor of "logic and scientific method" at the University of London. It is also noted on his Wikipedia page. In short, you argue Popper without understanding what Popper argued about.
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Not sure where you got that from but 'sustainable energy' production (includes more than just wind, but safe to say that in our country is mostly wind) was only 3.9% in 2009. The government set a goal of 20% by 2020. So no, we are still mostly reliant on other forms of electricity.

https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windenergie
In my interpretation of Western democracies, it is the job of the private sector to make life better for people (if a bit unevenly), whereas it is the job of the state to keep lives from getting worse.
I second these points and would add:

- support for U2F/FIDO second-factor authentication (among other, lesser beasts of similar burden).

I also find their blog interesting and informative, at https://blog.fastmail.com/

* edit: Google/Gmail supports U2F as well, so it's not a distinction - just a baseline benefit.
I did not say that Delta being down was of "systemic importance". However a bank being unable to send or receive payments for a week is of systemic importance; hence why I would like a regulator to decide what is of systemic importance e.g. banking, utilities, telecoms. We are getting more and more where broadband is out, banking is out, etc. and the root cause is never transparent.
Right; religion only makes you go to confession once a week.
Not compared to Amazon.
I moved from Google Apps to FastMail for six months or so. I'm back to Google Apps now. For me, I had a quite opposite experience...FastMail searching was much slower, and the return to folders instead of labels made organizing my mail more difficult. Additionally, GMail's Inbox organizing (slicing in Primary, Social, Promotions, etc) is invaluable when you receive many, many messages a day. Fastmail's interface, along with the increased spam messages which got through, simply didn't provide me with a good user experience and meant I was more likely to miss an email.

YMMV.
People who don't have very much space in their house?
Dittos! I actively use it and it's great to see such a storied project continuing to be supported.
I call BS.. Keeping the power on is a well managed process. I doubt a Data center like that will go down for power reasons.
My bet is on ancient mainframes giving up. Been there, done that.
There is a threshold for spammyness that will cause email to be dropped silently and never reach the spam folder.
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I double this. Listened to the audiobook recently. I've always considered myself quite a communicative person, but only after the book I realized how much improvements can be done here.
Still, I find it a bit manipulative, so I would only use the techniques in working environment and stay "myself" and direct with friends.
London is often called a town, e.g. London Town. If you said "I'm going into town" or "I got it in town" most people would know where you meant.
Ahhh, that old self-hating lefties nonsense.

What a waste of effort.
We are not talking about the same thing. I am not arguing they should be more responsible for third-party codebases, this is not an issue of ports vs base. This is far more an issue of infrastructure, of source vs binary. Simply offering binpatches for their core OS would still be a huge step forward.
Read Plato's Revenge by William Ophuls
ah the rentier economy.
Good to know I'm not the only one who feels this way. When I was battling my way through calc III or setting up 1000-node monte carlo network simulations for my master's degree, I never expected to be treated like an auto-assembly-line worker, but here I am, punching a virtual clock (er, "timesheet") day after day, trying to come up with excuses for my existence in yet another daily standup.
Omaha has had it for a few years now, not sure which cities you've been in, but we aren't known for being ahead of the curve here.
The Soul of a New Machine: it's the 1970s and the mincomputer wars are hot. A bunch of young engineers at the upstart Data General race to get a new mini out the door. Tech has changed a lot in 40 years, but the way people work on it hasn't.
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Playing video games mental health, cognitive and social skills in young children
Probably, but should language package managers wait until all major OSes add this functionality or should they implement it themselves?
BBC Will Use Wifi Detection Vans to Catch TV Licence Evaders
I use them pretty regularly, since I discontinued my Amazon Prime membership. Amazon without Prime is a shipping fee quagmire. Jet is terrible for ordering books, but other than that they are pretty prompt on delivering stuff within 2 days. You get discount for using debit card (1.5%) and using a larger cart drops prices(which stops after you added a bunch of items).
Did your MiL refuse to set it up as a protest, or just because she couldn't be bothered, same as the blinking 12:00? My understanding of the blinking 12:00 wasn't that people refused to set them up, but most simply couldn't figure out how, and didn't see the advantage in spending more than five minutes in trying to figure it out, when there was probably a clock hanging above the TV anyway.

When we bought a new TV, we picked the dumbest possible one, and did the bare minimum to make it work, skipping all the solicitations to hook it up to our wifi.
> For all practical purposes, creating a new object that differs from its predecessor in one field is equivalent to mutating that field (except that it's far worse for performance).

(0) If the object has, say, just two or three fields (which isn't uncommon in functional languages, since they really tend to decompose everything in a piecemeal fashion), this is no big deal.

(1) If a functional language has substructural types (which admittedly most don't), the compiler can even tell, purely from type information, when an object won't be used anymore and can be overwritten anyway, as though you had used imperative assignment all along.
> This means that we'd have to stop free trade entirely (catastrophic for developing countries) or implement UBI across all countries at the same time (definitely impossible in the near future).

That's a valid and important concern, and one that I don't have any answers to right now. One possibility is keep capital fixed while making people mobile, i.e. very tight capital controls combined with very loose immigration controls. Capital thus cannot escape to low-tax regimes, and people in developing countries can take still advantage of capital by moving to where the capital is. If that's too difficult to handle, there is also the possibility of "virtual" immigration through political union.

> You'd have to grow your capital at a rate greater than the tax every year to be successful

Since the tax would be about the same as the current (or 1960s, if you're generous) share of the national income from capital captured by wages, capital already grows at at least this rate--otherwise wages alone would be dragging down all economies today, and that's just not happening.

> What if your whole economy had a bad decade and assets failed to outgrow your capital tax?

We'd do what we do today, and draw down the sovereign wealth fund and/or borrow from the bond markets.
Source? I'm interested into reading why - given Henry VIII.
A startup is not a Résumé
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How to make an efficient payment system in Erlang
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"Is time spent playing video games associated with mental health, cognitive and social skills in young children?"

Here is the paper for those who do not have academic access:
http://sci-hub.cc/10.1007/s00127-016-1179-6
> Implement backpressure throughout your system.

This is a subtle one and gets lost among CAP theorem talk, but it is important.

Just recently had to struggle with adding backpressure. Did some things as just sending a message (a "gen_server:cast" in Erlang). The sender shoved all 300K+ messages in the mailbox of receiver which could not process them in time because of a bottleneck and bug. Receiver's memory usage went to 120GB when it eventually restarted.

The simple solution was just to switch a gen_server:cast with a gen_server:call i.e. make the receiver acknowledge, and the sender wait for acknowledge before sending another message. (As an aside that's the nice benefit of Erlang/Elixir there, it was really a 2 line change. If it was some kind of serialization library + rpc socket layer, it would have been a lot more code to write).

An obvious corollary of this is "always test on production workload and conditions, not just your laptop". What had happened locally is with a smaller test data it would fit in memory and for a 10Gb or so it wasn't noticeable. So it seemed like everything was working fine.

But speaking of CAP theorem this is always a great fun:

http://ferd.ca/beating-the-cap-theorem-checklist.html

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Beating the CAP Theorem Checklist

Your ( ) tweet ( ) blog post ( ) marketing material ( ) online comment
advocates a way to beat the CAP theorem. Your idea will not work. Here is why
it won't work:
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Interestingly the dock in Mac OS X has a similar bug. I have to do a `killall Dock` from time to time to fix it.

My guess is there some kind of difficult to handle race condition around the states on this type of system UI, particularly for laptops that go in and out of suspend mode.
Oh I misunderstood GP then without double-checking the website. My apologies.
I have had the same experience. It has always been difficult for me to handle social relationships with others when growing up (I cannot understand how others feel/think about me). "How to win friends" offers an (behaviourism?) insight into what you do can make others feels what. It's like a handbook really!
Sorry, I don't see how it does. Could you show an example of a falsifiable economic theory? Thanks for the hint by the way, but it looks like a non sequitur to me. How does it follow that I don't know something from the Popper's job title?
Raven has some really beautiful maps. Their landforms and drainage, in particular, is a real work of art. I used to have it up on an office wall but I don't have any surface big enough for it at the moment.
You can temporarily fix it by right-clicking any taskbar button while holding shift. It works for me, until it's back again.