skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way startups run today and the way compensation is often structured just makes startups a bad deal economically in the best of times.

Imagine for a second that you become employee 10 in a new startup that you believe in. You dedicate it 15 hours a day for 5 years, everything went awesome, and now the company is worth 5B. Your stock options would be worth millions in case of a liquidity event. Great, right?

The thing is, it's 5 years later the company is probably 300-800 people now, and therefore is a very different company than the one you joined, and if it's still growing, it's be a different company still next year. But there's no liquidity event: You cant exercise your options because you can't pay the taxes. If you want to exercise anything, the company has to go public, and you sure don't control that. So you either wait in a job that probably doesn't fit you anymore, or your stock compensation was worth nothing. Therefore, whether the startup does great or not, you have to apply the 'I might want to quit' discount. If I am assuming 8 years to IPO, which is not insane that discount is going to be huge by itself. I'd not rate my chances of staying in a job for 8 years as 1/10. And that's without considering that, career wise, you'll be learning more changing jobs every couple of years or so.

Let's compare this to a public company: Their stock compensation has none of that complexity, especially now that RSUs are the way to go. You can sell them for cash immediately at the stock price that day. The downside is minimal, and chances are your first block of shares comes after one year, so if you hate your job, you sit there a year, sell your shares and quit.

Given how much stock the bigger companies are awarding developers, you have to completely ignore compensation to go to a tiny startup: You kind of have to bet in the world around you changing to make exercising options early to be more or less free, along with believing that the startup will go the distance. Those are odds I'd not take
Agile is terrorism for people who aren't technical enough to make bombs.
But prurient is the whole point!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaHDBL7dVgs
Turns out the tools used by previous administration and the expansion of executive power the predecessors created, doesn't disappear but carries over to the next Administration. Gasp. Shock.
> The reality is that the research literature is filled with over 90% jun

Based on what? There is a problem of non-replicated papers - but where exactly are you getting your claim of 9 out of 10 - particularly in high quality journals?
> Catered lunch, free food in the kitchen, kegs onsite, etc.

Without getting into the relative availability of these things (I think you are underestimating how available they are in big companies).

These are extremely cheap to provide. The perks that cost a lot for companies to provide, health insurance, better pay, better retirement options, education reimbursement, etc. Are where real comparisons between perks should be made. In my experience those are systematically more common in big companies than small ones (that is governmental policy makes it easier for big companies to provide these).
As if the previous administration was using these powers "responsibly"
Hands on the most starred GitHub repositories
Taking Dan Rather's advice on a responsible attitude to science is like going to Bill Cosby for dating advice, or asking Rolf Harris to run your kindergarten. Booted from CBS in disgrace for confusing journalism with character assassination. Read the original CBS report. "This man is a truth teller". Indeed. Here is the full report.

http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/complete_report/CBS_Report...
he also wanted to spend tax payer money on 'Conversion Therapy' for gay people. This is absurd and a huge step back for us.

http://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2016/jul/28/...
> The touch bar is the type of gimmick

Sorry if this comes off as rude, but what's the difference on HN between a gimmick and a feature? In dictionaries, it says that a gimmick is a feature that exists to get attention. However, doesn't that describe most new features in technology?
While I love the idea of a crystal ring of any kind, metal beats it in two cases:

1. Crystals can shatter if stuck at the wrong angle (unlikely but possible).

2. Unlike a gold band the crystal ring can't be resized later in life.
> “It does me no good to get rich when I’m 45 when I’m 30 now,” goes the thinking of many prospective hires these days, he said. That’s helped him make some hires out of companies that would have been tough to recruit from a year or two ago, including Uber and Airbnb, he said.

This part doesn't make sense to me. Wouldn't it be the opposite? Doesn't the "want to get rich now" crowd prefer the start-ups and the "want to get rich later" group prefer the larger, stable companies? (Spoiler: Chances are, neither of these groups are going to "get rich", sorry.) The people that big companies ought to be going after are the ones who TRIED to get rich early, ended up holding worthless lottery tickets, and are content to toss them away for a little stability.
I run several side projects[1], with varying degrees of profitably.

I haven't incorporated any of them, I see that as an unnecessary hassle.

I'm in England, and (as far as I'm aware) quarterly taxes aren't a thing here. Until this year the income was negligible enough not to bother paying taxes, but this year I've been keeping track of finances with ledger[2] and I intend to pay taxes as "self-employed" for the first time at the end of this tax year.

And to make sure I'm going in the right direction (not going to run out of money) I add up my net worth, split by category (bank account, peer-to-peer lending, stocks and shares, Bitcoin) at the start of every month and keep track of it in a big text file.

[1] currently focusing on SMS Privacy, read my Indie Hackers interview at https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/sms-privacy

[2] http://www.ledger-cli.org/
This article is impossible to read on my iphone. Page jumping, continue reading button that keeps moving, ads, turned my music off....
They weren't looking for the medals specifically, they were looking for evidence of wrongdoing. If you're going to search for evidence, you're going to do it at least semi-thoroughly , cause you don't expect that sort of thing to just be sitting on a workbench (though you probably wouldn't go as far as digging holes in the backyard, unless you have specific reasons to think evidence was literally buried).
VM's! We need the memory for VM's! Not all developers are "web developers", some of us make real things that those web devs take for granted.
> growing intolerance for scientists to hold opinions of faith or conservative ideals

Conservative ideals and science don't have any inherent conflict, but uhm, that other thing...
You don't tolerate them but want them to tolerate others.
TBH, I'd be totally fine if Linus ranted over my code because that's the way he is and I don't believe in community that tries to isolate an individual because he/she doesn't have a popular mindset.

Edit: typical -> popular
Sometimes I wonder if humans have hard wired deep neural nets that recognize parts of the male and female anatomy, and are tied into dopamine release, nitric oxide, hormone release etc and that's basically all there is to sexual attraction. Kind of weird to think that we could in fact be that simple? Makeup, lipstick, nice clothes are just there to foil those neural nets into recognizing favorable secondary sexual characteristics.

Manipulating these neural networks in our brain would be the perfect strategy for an evil AI to take over the world... :/
There are plenty of Americans who would disqualify a candidate that doesn't believe in evolution, global warming, or some other widely known scientific fact.

Unfortunately, there are just as many ill-informed Americans that share these views. It's sad and depressing, and is usually just the result of being in a conservative bubble. If you live in rural America, your friends and family all regurgitate the same things they hear from Fox News, Glenn Beck, Alex Jones, Breitbart, and other conservative sources, which, for whatever reason, seem to hold a lot of scientific things in contempt.

They're ignorant, sure, but it's hard to see things from another perspective if you've never really been exposed to anything else.
Also, there was a transitionary predecessor to DirectX that some (primarily edutainment) games released for Windows 3.1 (and for a short while into early Windows 95) called WinG. So far as I know most of the WinG games also relied on Win32s to get access to 32-bit code, but I don't know if Win32s was a requirement to build a WinG game or if there were 16-bit games for that platform too.
Look, Democrats are suddenly concerned with civil liberties again, after 8 years of a "change" President who continued the "fascist" policies of his predecessor.
Censorship is a concern quite outside of classification, though.
> The "uneducated" argument is beyond played out now.

You cannot equivocate on this point. When considered in the aggregate, leave voters are less educated than remainers. You can read whatever you want into that, but to say it's "played out" sounds like you're disputing it.

> One does not become "enlightened" and align some common set of views by simply getting a degree.

Nobody said anything about enlightenment or aligning around a common set of views simply by getting a degree.

> If this is true then it's not called education, it's called brainwashing.

Actually, no, it's probably called education. It's impossible to quantify, but it's axiomatic that traversing through to most classical forms of higher education has the effect of opening one's eyes to a broader range of viewpoints and beliefs than one might have previously been exposed to.

Education isn't about specific points of view or pieces of information, but about philosophy, critical thinking, and communication. For the many thousands of Brexit voters who feel duped by the economic aftermath and winding-back on promises made by the leave side, a little education on critical thinking and the outright, literal lies of the media they consume would probably have led to them voting differently, and feeling happier about it.
With any economic policy, including those, it depends on who you are. He did get people jobs, albeit many of which were semi-disguised military training. However, he did it by progressively and systematically pushing the jewish population out, and looting them of their possessions.

A cynical way to look at a fair segment of economic policy is that it exists as solutions to the desire of "I want your stuff"- and at the extreme end of both left and right, the answer is outright theft and murder.
Ttyd 1.2.0: Share your terminal over the web
Agree with your sentiment, but wouldn't Cadence or Altium be better candidates than Mentor for that goal?
Isn't this one of the appeals of the "Don't break the chain"/Jerry Seinfeld approach? My working on something each day, even if only for an hour, you keep the mental tasks associated with development in the "front" of you brain.

Likewise using tools like Trello - make simple lists "To do, doing, done", rank them in order, and start working on whatever is at the top of the "to do" list?
You have to be careful. My cousin and his friends were being rather rude (in Irish) about a woman on a Belgian train, she managed to keep a straight face throughout, before lambasting them before leaving.

Ach, ar aon nós, táim an-shásta bheith ag léamh faoi Ghaeilge ar hn. N'fheadar liom cé mhéad atá anseo a bhfuil in ann sí a labhairt.
I can echo this sentiment and pile up on it by saying that a self-proclaimed atheist could not be president of the United States. It could happen in France, Germany, the UK, Sweden though (and has).
Apple has historically avoided worst of both worlds solutions.
The amount you would need to reclaim is related to the efficiency at which you recycle the water you have. You would need to invent a real-life culture like the Fremen of Arrakis.

Of course, if you got efficient enough, you could simply buy water to be airdropped into a catch pond. Then you drain the pond and pipe the water into your recycling system. It would likely be cheaper than trying to dehumidify desert air.
Some of the greatest scientific discoveries in history were made by people thinking they were glorifying god by doing their work.

Faith and science go together just fine, and I say this as a hard atheist.
Comrade, thanks for not actually voting Trump, but those of us whom the alt-right wants to exterminate are really not enjoying the prospect of having to mount an anti-fascist resistance with the weakest radical Left in decades.
So, Barack Obama's administration has been expanding the drone program, and illegally murdering people from the air, for years.

But… It's the next president that we should worry about, pertaining these same drones.

The kind of opposite-speak that the MSM uses has reached ludicrous levels.

This is much like reading, "Ted Bundy fears that the ideas he created will be used as inspiration by future mass murderers as they kill even more people.", except that analogy doesn't hold up, because Ted Bundy hasn't murdered anywhere near the amount of people that the Obama administration has.
This is like the Creative Nomad vs the iPod. HP was first to market with everything that's in the new MBP but it's incredibly unpolished and downright cumbersome to the point that it's hard to tell that these products do mostly the same thing. This how Apple captures the market, when they release a product it's so polished and functional, and they commit 100% to it that it almost always succeeds. HP and others don't spend much time if any refining ideas, they just throw sh*t against the wall and hope it sticks.
[...]cryptography is the study and practice of obscuring information

What about authentication?
Smart Watch Will Charge Itself Using Heat from Your Skin
>Donald Trump himself has asserted on his own Twitter account that these protests are illegal.

I'm going to need to see that before I take your word for it.
NNTP is one of the most underrated protocols.
It's a distributed superset of email + RSS + twitter.
Yeah, and they were doing that well before automatic online monthly payments were a thing!! People actually took some minutes every month to send them money.

But, to the point, it's not like you could accuse the Zach bros of "selling their own image as a brand". They just have this thing they are making, a healthy relationship with the community (but nothing histrionic like your average youtuber), and people just gives them money because they want them to continue making that thing.
Learning Latin in school helped me to understand what this grammar thing is. Before I didn't even understand/cared about the grammar rules of my mother language, so learning Latin did improve my German.
I actually tried that. It's not as interesting as you'd think. Perhaps having an 'other' category makes it more difficult.

It's trivial to drop the model into the deepdream ipython notebook they provide: https://github.com/google/deepdream/blob/master/dream.ipynb
Flashing Coreboot on the ThinkPad X220 with a Raspberry Pi
I'm very proud of my state. We also voted to legalize marijuana.

RCV was especially relevant to Maine because our Republican governor, Paul LePage, won his seat -- twice -- with around 35%-45% of the vote, primarily due to votes being split between the Democratic and Independent candidates (a.k.a The Spoiler Effect).

To me, LePage and his path to election and re-election closely mirrors Trump and his campaign. He ran on "telling it like it is", "being a businessman, not a politician", and "draining the swamp". He has said some really horrible things about minorities and his fellow politicians, he's vetoed a record number of bills, and he's held very controversial policy stances.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/us/controversial-gov-paul-...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/10/06/samantha_bee_...

Edit: I never meant to imply blame of any candidate in creating the Spoiler Effect, and as such I modified my comment to reflect this.
Maybe, maybe not. But isn't that for the businesses to decide, depending on their needs? As it stands, large numbers of businesses (and residences, etc.) are required to have more parking than they ever need at any point. How does that make sense? Why can't the owners of a property determine how much it's worth to them?
I understand his desire to leave tech (my name is "techxit"). Most people want out by the time they're 30. They realize that the job isn't about advancing the state of computer science or building useful things. It's about micro-optimizations of business processes that don't matter and that won't be rewarded.

I've actually considered an exit consultancy as a side project: helping techxiters find jobs in government, research, and business when they're 30-40 and the traditional career switches (e.g. MBA school, which only provides elite connections at the top-5 level) aren't available. There are a lot of highly talented people who have no idea how they're going to get out of the mess they started making at 22 when they thought this career (which pays very well in the early years but fails most people in mid-career) would do more for their careers than it did.
That's been gone for a while.
They've probably gotten better since I looked in 2012, but at that time, they weren't much cheaper and they had both superior and inferior properties. IIRC, they had less imperfections in the crystalline patterns but more impurities that lead to a more yellow color because of impurities leaking in during fabrication. So they were kickass for practical uses, but didn't look at good.

Maybe they are overall superior now.
Since the non-touchbar model has the MacBook Air class CPU and your 2015 MPB has the higher voltage pro class CPU I'd say that's quite an improvement.

This years "MacBook Air" like model is as powerful as last years MacBook Pro? Money should be flying out of our wallets.
I incorporated w/ a basic LLC pass-through back when I started freelancing just for the liability protection. I don't freelance (much) lately, but I've kept the LLC going in the meantime and run my very small side projects as part of that LLC. If you decide to do a side project w/ an LLC you might want to read up on "piercing the corporate veil" and be sure to keep your project's income and expenses separate from any personal stuff. I personally have a completely separate bank account, again from my freelancing days, and keep the two things separated paying myself w/ distributions occasionally. I'm no lawyer or accountant so I don't know if this is "enough," but I figure it can't hurt.
I'm doing a blogger client.
Is very straight forward to think on how it should work.
Day 1 - Implement Google SignIn
Day 2 - Implement List Blogs.
Etc.

I do research during the day and save important bits on pocket or google keep, so when i have that hour i can be more productive.
The part about "hero culture" that needs to be said more often is that you need to reward the teams that have boring and predictable production environments rather than the ones who put in heroic efforts to keep unpredictable and blowup-prone production environments working.

I've seen way too many orgs be appreciative of employees that give over-the-top efforts without appreciating those that plan, test and deliver in a fashion that makes over-the-top efforts unnecessary.

Not sure if that was part of his spoken presentation, but it didn't make into his slide.
One answer is unshared cars, or shared only within a possibly extended family.

Not all Americans are atomized urbanites. Many are in families.

My MiL, wife, myself, and my two kids could easily share one self driving car although the number of miles traveled would likely be staggering.

If my kids destroy "dads car" they are in big trouble, and "dads car" has "car alexa" and she will yell at them for awhile if they misbehave and god help them if "car alexa" has to resort to facetime dad at work to mediate a child argument. "Wait until your father gets home" worked on gen-xers when they were kids, but now we have facetime and dozens of equivalent systems.

The mileage used and CO2 footprint will likely be much higher than individually owned cars because every trip everyone takes will be twice as long upfront, plus my kids will be car mobile which means much less sitting at home (Hey, you want your allowance, have the car drive you 10 miles to grandma's house and rake her leaves while mom and dad at work and behave yourself because Car Alexa has her eye on you and I will ask her). Also my senior citizen MiL would never road trip at her age and driving ability but a self driving car would result in a lot of visiting rural relatives and doing stuff in the hypercongested and terrifying to drive in downtown. Heck if I had the car at my beck and call why would I ever eat lunch at my desk when I could hang out at a nice park instead and never care about parking or driving. Hey why drive the whole family to the library when you can just send all four separately at their convenience, each of which takes twice as many miles because its pick up and drop off service unless no one else needs it, for 8 times the number of miles driven. I need a head of lettuce for dinner tomorrow, normally I'd get it on the way home from work for "free" ecologically speaking, but my son is just doing homework on his ipad so I'll send him out shopping on a special trip because he can do his math homework for 90% of the time while the car is driving him.

I would realistically estimate we're doing about 25000 miles per year across three cars and if we replaced it with one extended family self driver, I think it quite reasonable we'd knock out 60000 miles per year. Given that the self driver is likely to be staggeringly more expensive than any of our three cars, it probably cheaper and better for the environment to have separate cars, at least until self driving is so cheap its "free".
How is it different than other metropolises like London or Paris, Tokyo or Seoul? (I live here and I'm not sure).

Sometimes I hear people say these things and I wonder if you have to live in Manhattan to understand, I commute from Brooklyn.
> lonely people are somehow broken or stuck in a fantasy world.

That's almost a useful place to start, as long as you're not being judgmental about it. No one should think lonely people are stuck in a fantasy world.) If you can recognize that something is broken, then you can work on fixing it.

Recognizing that lonely people have fantasy notions of how friendships work is recognizing that in your 30's, it's a bit more work to form a friendship, compared to the lifelong bonds forged by the act of sharing a juice box during recess.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is widely used to help reframe and de-fantasize a number of unproductive thought patterns so that instead of fantasizing about a chance meeting where someone instantly becomes your new BFF, mental energy is spent planning and arranging aromantic dates to form the foundation of a friendship, much like trying to find a romantic partner. It's an evidence-based practice for treating mental disorders originally for depression but it's proven helpful in a a wide range of mental health conditions, including identifying upsetting feelings and anxiety that frustrates the a person's attempt to make friends.