skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If [an ex-employee] knows (as a result of having been at the company) that the prospects of the business are looking grim or a product launch is significantly delayed, that’s important information a buyer would deserve to know in evaluating whether to buy the stock, and failure to disclose that information creates real legal jeopardy for the seller. This risk exists in a 90-day exercise program as well, but it becomes a lot more acute when you move to 10-year exercise periods.

It seems to me there would be a lower risk under the 10-year exercise window scenario. Under the 90-day window, the ex-employee would be forced to exercise or lose all of their equity and thus liable for a large AMT bill. To mitigate this, that ex-employee, with recent inside knowledge of the company's operations, would look to the secondary market to unload some of those shares and ease the tax burden unless their are strict transfer restrictions in place, increasing the divide between cash-rich and cash-poor employees.

Under a 10-year exercise plan, the ex-employee would be less likely to exercise (better to wait until the company's outcome is more certain) and wouldn't need the cash to buy the shares and cover those AMT taxes.

> ISOs have better tax treatment for employees because the employee does not have to pay taxes at the time of exercise on the difference between the exercise price of the option and the fair market value of the stock

This doesn't seem to count AMT taxes which is the big elephant in the room. In California and most high tax states, employees will have to pay AMT taxes on the difference.
CIA and Amazon Using AI to Spy on Earth from SPACE
Apple patented a way to catch thieves via Touch ID
> if you don't want your personal information to be shared, don't use these "social media" tools.

Since Faceook is using cookies and is able to read your data from other websites than FB alone, can you please fix your sentence to read this:

> if you don't want your personal information to be shared, don't use internet. period.
Hmm, is that really true though? If so, ideally, people would choose an institute that teaches them as well as possible for as little as possible money. But that's not at all what people do: they prefer prestigious schools that (hopefully) lead to good job prospects.

Prestige is a funny thing - the fact that a school is hard to get into and expensive may well raise prestige, regardless of educational outcomes.

Don't forget, it's very hard for students and (future) employers/investors/business partners to tell how good an education is. It's quite difficult even for the institutes themselves and any oversight that may exist.

That means incentives aren't as simple as you suggest. Sure, at some very, very long term horizon, better education helps an institute. But that may well be multiple generations away; much too far away to work well in an open market. Especially since there is so much other noise that can be optimized instead.

By constrast, the state's interest in decent education is much more straighforward (not that the politicians making the choices have their incentives straight, but that's another story). In particular, whereas it's clearly in the for-profit institutes interest to milk students no matter how and no matter how unfairly. This is a normal risk in any organisation - but the point is that for-profit organisations aren't magic optimization bullets. These downsides don't need to be a problem, but they do need to be dealt with, and there needs to be some upside to the deal too. What's the upside here?

I think you're clearly right for short-enough courses with clearly demonstrable and measurable outcomes. And I bet you're right in the abstract too, in the sense that "it should be possible to align incentives such that..." - but I'm not sure it holds given the current way education is structured.

Real-world evidence certainly doesn't seem to suggest profit-motive works very well here.
I think that's the epsilon parameter. That's the chance that, instead of playing the move Mario thinks has the highest value, he plays a random one instead. That in theory should help prevent him from falling into a local minimum. This probability starts at 100% at the beginning of training and over the course of 1 million steps, ramps down to 1%
The easiest way to do this is to use mirror vdevs, that way you can add disks two at a time. Of course, you miss out on RAIDZ functionality that way, but that's the simplest setup.

I've gone ahead and actually created a new array using btrfs raid10 instead (with an eye towards a RAIDZ2/3 like configuration whenever the btrfs guys get around to fixing it); btrfs allows for online reshaping of the mirroring configuration, so it doesn't have the limitations of ZFS in this instance.
VanillaDB: extensible database system components for new-system prototyping
Because once we solve the big problems, we can afford to care about smaller ones.

Throughout history people washed clothes by hand (at least the ones who had clothes), are modern first world citizens mentally weaker because we'd much rather have washing machines?
CRISPR techniques allow us to modify gene expression in organisms long after birth; it has been heavily used in adult animals, but I don't think it's been used in humans just yet.
I should have been clearer; I trying to note the irony of saying "heat death of everything" could be a much shorter timeframe than we usually mean when we say that phrase, if Hansen's forecasts turn out correct.
Why you should believe in Planet Nine
An economics paper would usually try to exploit a natural experiment changing work hours for people in a way independent of their intelligence and jobs. For example, new labor legislation banning 40-hour work weeks, causing a drop in worked hours: you should be able to see cognitive scores of the same individual increase after the legislation takes effect.
Would something like proofpoint help?
VRLA Summer Expo 2016: Keeping VR Human [video]
Absolutely, ebay dug their own grave by treating its sellers poorly. I think amazon is also digging their own grave by becoming ebay, but more because the customers are expecting amazon customer service and keep getting referred to lousy third party sellers to fix problems. Third party sellers on amazon are often gaming the review system and even selling counterfeit products, not something amazon customers are expecting when they think they're ordering from the online equivalent of wal-mart.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
Oh, for God's sake.
So, the solution is to literally use Führer instead of Master?

That’s a great choice, not only reprinting tons of literature, changing tons of code, but also choosing a Nazi analogy instead!

Every word triggers someone, society can’t be expected to adapt to anyone.

And I’ll continue to use Master/Slave, and continue to support the Sinter Klaas and Zwarte Piet tradition in the Netherlands.
This might be a naive question, but how do non-English-speaking people use programming languages, which are seemingly all in English?
If you go through this much trouble to exploit a technicality in rule, perhaps that rule need not exist.
And it certainly does. I daresay you will not find a self-hosting platform that requires less work to implement but is equally as secure.
> Do you believe that speakers of hate speech...

Who gets to create the definition of 'hate speech'? You, I assume?

> ...and not because they are saying anything of substance.

Because he's not substantive to you and people who agree with you, right?

Free speech is great as long as it's within acceptable boundaries!
I think NASes should become the things of the past. They are too fragile, too maintenance-greedy and don't scale enough for the modern world. I'd much rather see a tiny distro with ready to use Swift, Gluster, Ceph, whatever, but not ZFS (sorry ZFS fans).
CRISPR techniques allow for editing genes of adult organisms.

Here's a good video about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAhjPd4uNFY
The CEO of EpiPen maker Mylan once claimed she had an MBA that she never earned
>give examples

I wouldn't even know where to start.

How about: a belligerent country invades your sovereign and abuses and kills the populace. That's happened repeatedly, to millions of people, throughout history.
Separating code from knowledge was part of the fun of the decss debacle. "That's not a haiku; that's an illegal perl script!"
Sure, I'm an occasional rule breaker and I know the traffic rules well enough.

I'm talking about people like the person I saw slowly riding a 3 wheel cargo bike up the wrong side of one of the busier streets in this small town.
<< Instead of clicking, Mansoor sent the messages to Citizen Lab researchers.

The story is great but I really doubt this. I'm wondering what made him suspect the link? Does he send all the links he receives to Citizen Lab?
It also doesn't help that all the privacy-aware tools suck.

I was using Signal, but it was sufficiently unreliable that I was now forced to sign up for WhatsApp because Signal was practically unusable. And usability-wise, WhatsApp is sadly miles better than anything else I've seen, especially Signal. Great call quality, automatically reconnects (with an audible hint that the connection is down) instead of silently dropping your call, at least appears to work more reliably than Signal where recently about half of my call attempts failed and message delivery is pretty much random. Also supports read receipts.

I won't even get started about XMPP where clients act out in ways that would make any non-geeky person immediately stop using it. Even for the more privacy-aware people, there is a limit to the brokenness that a person can tolerate.

It's great that other messengers provide more privacy, but all that's pretty useless if they fail at fulfilling their main task. And that's before the network effect you mentioned.
I think you'd have to give a small kickback just for the test drive, but if the owner goes with them (and presumably does a good job selling them on the car) then the owner gets a bigger commission for a sale.

I would actually prefer this to a dealership since a real owner probably knows that one car he/she drives everyday way better than the lazy sales guy who is trying to sell 10 different models and rarely drives them himself.
What does not being able to watch a beheading have to do with "handling the real world"?
http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/secrets/ works well for me. Not every problem have to be solved by Docker, and in a way that's good and more aligned with Unix philosophy.
Yes, who doesn't click on random links received from unknown numbers over (get this) SMS?

Some people.
Folks, I suggest that while Slack may have some mechanical advantages over e-mail, the 'problem of too many emails' will absolutely not be solved by Slack, or almost anything else.

'Communication discipline' is the key issue, and it's a social issue regarding how organizations work. Some people, in some jobs, are simply rewarded for broadcasting BS. It's their job to do that. Sadly.

It's funny how much time we waste communication, and how, most often, there is very little guidance on how we should do that. Very few 'rules'.

Like typing, or 'interviewing' - there should be some effort to control this.

If you think about it - isn't it absurd that someone from some group can do something that possibly interrupts dozens of other people?

Would you allow them to shout loudly in a room?

In the Army they call it 'radio discipline'. There are specific ways to communicate. Entirely inappropriate for corporate life, at the same time, we also don't want to quash the serendipitous opportunity that sometimes arises from great chats ...

But still.

Perversely ... because Email clients usually offer finer control ... maybe email with tight discipline is the way.

I feel dirty for saying that :)
Uh... I can send those WAP push SL messages from my rooted android with an app that costed like 5USD.
Elaboration as follows: I think that people putting signs on their lawn asking others to be considerate in their fireworks usage is less an effort to avoid PTSD triggers and more a misguided attempt to gain attention and recognition. It also has the effect of reinforcing the "veterans are damaged goods" narrative that is pervasive through much of our popular culture.

More generally, PTSD is not what most vets have, it's PTS. It's not a disorder to be a bit agoraphobic when you come back from theater, or to drive in the middle of the road, or to have a short temper. These are natural responses to stimuli that dissipate over time. The best way to help people through these acquired reflexes is to treat them as normal people, not as special snowflakes in need of coddling.

Also, people putting signs on their lawns identifying themselves as combat veterans and saying "please be courteous" or whatever else....that's classic passive aggressive behavior that is a demand for all practical purposes.
The car owner maintains the car, and the customer pays the driver for the ride. Uber is the platform and just takes a little off the top each time.

That's the idea at least.
Roger Ver ‘Honoured’ Recipient of Liberland Diplomatic Passport
> but I'd rather have them use XMPP and not federate than build more custom protocols

Well, bad news then: They never federated and they modified their implementation of XMPP to the point of third party clients not being able to connect.
Pretty cool,
I like how they figured out the French flag emoji is associated with italy, #montreal.

It reminds me of the Android app dango which does a pretty good job at suggesting emoji associated with full sentences
Why Are Texas Instruments Calculators So Expensive?
I have a pile of links for getting started with DL in my comment history you can use: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10676455

What really helped advance my understanding from zero to knowledgeable novice was rewriting some existing code line by line (using expanded variable names and comments), and thinking about each line and what it does as you go. It's the software development equivalent of Hunter S. Thompson re-typing The Great Gatsby just to get the feel of writing a great novel. Here's one I did based on Denny Britz's tutorial:

Britz's Original: http://www.wildml.com/2015/09/implementing-a-neural-network-...

My version: https://gist.github.com/sthware/c47824c116e6a61a56d9

HTH
What's really interesting about this business model is not the fact that you can buy a car online, it's the price transparency that you create with this: Car dealers often have 10-20 % margin on a car sale, and they make most of their money by providing services to you after you bought the car, so they are usually able to give you some big discounts. Also, as they usually receive a bonus by the car maker for selling a given number of cars, they have a strong incentive to sell more. The money that they make for themselves depends therefore on the margin that they can achieve, which in turn depends on the customer's knowledge of the "fair" price. Having all the transaction prices out in the open would therefore be quite a nightmare for most of them, as it will allow customers to push the price down quite a bit. Especially for small dealerships (that have higher fixed cost in comparison to their sales and receive less bonus as they sell fewer cars than big dealers) this could be highly problematic, while it could be beneficial for the larger dealerships. Truecar has been doing this model for a while, and I guess Amazon finally wanted to have a share of this market too (and the data associated with it).

On the technical side it looks like they're using the JATO database for their search/configuration tool (http://www.jato.com/). A few years ago I also implemented a car configuration website/app for a German startup (which doesn't exist anymore) using this data. The most challenging aspect was the huge amount of possible configurations/options that exist for some models (especially BMW and Mercedes), which would also have very complex inter-dependencies (e.g. choosing package A + B means you can't choose package C except if you also choose D). To resolve this I had to write a dynamic constraint solver: Finally some abstract computer science that was usable in practice :D

As far as I understand, in the US there are usually less options to choose from, which makes extensive configurators unnecessary. Still, it was an interesting challenge.
Only one European country would be better off without its capital city
I didn't find this article to be well researched. There is a minority of athiests living in Pakistan quite openly and no specific law in Pakistan carries the death penalty for athiesm.
There is informational asymmetry in every transaction (as well as in non-profit schools); this is a red herring (unless you can show that it is causing a specific, large, unsolved problem). The current administration has repeatedly demonstrated hostility towards for-profit schools, and has chosen to use discretionary enforcement of rules against them rather than enforcing standards universally, because they know that the standards would hit many non-profit schools as well. I am not sure about the specifics of this case, but the Department of Education has been looking at for-profit schools much harder than non-profits.
Yeah, I saw that before, but that isn't quite what I wanted, if I'm reading it right. That tells me how to replace all the drives in my array with new ones; I'd prefer to (for instance) start with 4x 4TB drives, and add new ones as my storage needs build up.
" Where as Slack is company only. "

This problem is easily solved with a filter, no?
Learning from Imbalanced Classes
I scanned this, but didn't catch where it defines what work is. I'm probably taking this paper out of context of what it's meant for. These sorts of things never seem to define work though. This is important for situations where you never have to leave the home to do your work. Is reading considered work? How about brushing my teeth? Does anyone actually do more work over 40 hours in the office than someone who would do the same tasks from home?
Can you do btrfs with FreeNAS? I didn't think that was available.
> No significant difference between women and men.

{{citation needed}}

The article crisply called out differences between men and women, on page 13.

If your argument is that these differences are not significant, could you point to the part of the paper that justifies that statement?
Don't forget that Etisalat is now the majority shareholder and pretty much runs PTCL, the incumbent/largest telephone and telecom company in Pakistan, either... PTCL is to Pakistan as Verizon, Frontier or Centurylink are to various regions of the US. It's the ILEC.

Etisalat is not your friend. Etisalat has great marketing and is building GSM-based (LTE, etc) networks in many developing nations but it is no friend of an open internet or democratic institutions.

Etisalat is the reason why in some places in the world if you try to run a VoIP to Phone system gateway, armed men with carbines will show up and ransack your offices and home. They will use their influence with whatever local government exists to "deal with" threats to their revenue and/or tax base. This has happened in Pakistan and the UAE.
I want to know what deliberate practice means - Is it going
through a prescribed set of exercises towards a goal? Wonder how that helps with creativity. I somehow get the feeling this is not the whole picture - practice with some innate talent is required. Simply drumming up hard work makes people just tired and dazed. We all heard variations of this - passion, not working for money, loving what you work etc., Somehow all this didn't add up in my case ;), considering I have put more than 10 years into things I like.
I know how decorators work and you might be missing the point I was making by a fair mile

The following don't mutate the mental map of how the function works, its "this function is still what I typed":
"add logging" "add tracing" "register functions/objects for various reasons"

The following act as a filtering role, the inside isn't "changed", the mental map becomes "This function will operate within this feature in some way, but otherwise is still what I typed":
"enable type validation" "change output formats to json/xml/yaml" "swap out implementations for global functions/vars" (assuming the implementations are comparable)

The following is "What I've typed is not a proper representation, and some things may act differently than usual" e.g. things that can take lists can no longer, due to needing to be serializable (and the least common decorator case):

"take a class, inspect a database schema and bind various internal attributes to update items in a row for that schema (somewhat common in ORMs)"

(and that is usually implemented via a subclassing of a Model class, which then in turn can implement a metaclass, to get the full mutate-class-on-creation funs, iirc)

- - -

> In particular, I don't see why mutating a type via a metaclass is preferable to using a decorator.

Its not a technical topic, its a semantics topic. while both can do whatever silliness they want, decorators are usually reserved for incidental tasks on the side, and wrapping the original function in some light filtering. Metaclasses are expected to do mutation to the class (hence requiring a metaclass), so semantically a subclass or metaclass would be more appropriate to use for this task, compared to a decorator (from the standard library, Enums come to mind as an example for this)
The "too-long-didn't-read": A Governor on the Federal Reserve Board (Kevin Warsh), is motivated to write this by this week's gathering at Jackson Hole, Wyo., where "the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City hosts the world’s leading central bankers and academics to consider monetary reform." In it he mostly decries the application of old/current methods directed at raising inflation, in a strategy that is in accordance with the "groupthink within the academic economics guild". He then says via the Dodd-Frank Act the Fed "now micromanages big banks and effectively caps their rate of return."

His essay doesn't convey even the smallest hint of what any alternatives may resemble - only a platitude is offered: "The guild tightens its grip when it should open its mind to new data sources, new analytics, new economic models, new communication strategies, and a new paradigm for policy."

The one clear idea is how "in bed" the Fed is with the financial industry:

(1) "[The Fed] appears in thrall to financial markets, and financial markets are in thrall to the Fed..."

(2) "A new inflation target ... would please the denizens of Wall Street who pine for still-looser Fed policy."

(3) "From the beginning of 2008 to the present, more than half of the increase in the value of the S&P 500 occurred on the day of Federal Open Market Committee decisions."

(4) "Long after the financial crisis, the Fed holds trillions of dollars of assets that would otherwise be in private hands."

(5) "...[I]ts compulsion to keep asset prices elevated..."

In the end, though, the only message that comes loud and clear is "inflation bad", but no mention of the apparent worldwide deflation that brought on the very idea of encouraging inflation per the "groupthink".
Somewhat off-topic but can anyone point me to any resources that explain the hardware architecture differences between x86 CPUS and the old LISP-machines? Was there hardware level support for s-expression evaluation?
Gun-safe OPSEC. Manufacturers passing out codes
Ah excellent, thank you for fixing my understanding. :-)
I strongly recommend that people think about workplace diversity when considering job offers. Explicitly ask about during recruitment phases and think seriously about passing on roles where the teams are dominated by young white males.

I'm currently in a dev team 60:40 females:males and with a good mix of skills/ages/cultures and it's really great.