skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To play devil's advocate though, you are being provided more information than the external market would be by virtue of being an employee of a company, and also someone working in the industry, etc.

Having more information at your disposal to evaluate a company means that option grant is worth more to you than to a random person on the street, which is why the company will pay you in options. It's better for the company, since they would rather sell equity to you than to a random person, and it's better for you, because you are an informed investor and know more than just from reading balance sheets.

That said, IMO you should basically only work at a startup that you think will be successful. Given that, you should buy as much equity as you can afford to. From a financial perspective, working at a startup then not taking equity is just throwing away a big chunk of informational efficiency. If you just want a cash paycheck, go work at a big company instead.
Right now we maintain few select percentiles from the latency distribution over 1 min time-period. We plan to maintain latency histograms which will allow you to look at latency distribution on arbitrary time intervals.
You mean Apple bought back Steve Jobs, right?
Jevon's Paradox!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons's_paradox
It's already been mentioned; the comment about integrated tools first showing up in Chrome was off.

But Safari wasn't the first either. WebKit Inspector was built under Dave Hyatt after being lured to Apple. It was meant to bring the tools available to Mozilla developers over to WebKit/Safari. Joe Hewitt's DOM Inspector was checked in to the Mozilla codebase in 2001, and Robert Ginda's Venkman JS debugger in 2003.

(After leaving Netscape, Hewitt took a second run at integrating both tools' featuresets, and that's where Firebug came from.)
You will learn far more and work on more interesting things by doing side projects than you generally ever will at work. This will result in having a better resume and getting more interesting jobs as a result.
If she is pursuing a demanding specialty, consider having your kids while she's a resident; I've known a few people that did it and while it's hard, it can be the lesser of evils. Fellowship is just as hard - maybe even harder - than residency, and when you're practicing she likely won't be eligible for maternity leave initially and can face pressure from the group to keep on working (otherwise someone else might end up having those brutal all-weekend calls back-to-back... not a good way for the new person to make themselves popular with their group).

Of course, it's a different story if she will be in a more sane line of work, such as hospitalist, ER doc, etc.
My father's most regretted financial move is ignoring his weird thought to buy 10 shares of Apple stock at this time.
Really, you're putting fake news in scare quotes?

There's like a 0% chance in the U.S. that the government will be able to censor any kind of news. As much as I dislike the Citizens United decision, the fact of the matter is that now both conservative and liberal jurists have committed the legal system to a radical notion of freedom of expression untouchable by legislative powers. That can't be walked back, at least not in our lifetimes short of a constitutional amendment.

If you're bored and really want to be scared about government speech police, then your best bet would be worrying about mandatory filters and monitoring. Government regulation can still impose a chilling effect by that route, though I would think it would be significantly attenuated for topics beyond sex.

In as much as restrictions around encryption are a free speech issue (think DMCA copy protection schemes, or chilling effect from being unable to secure your porn browsing habits), that's for sure the most likely area to be concerned with. It's too nerdy, though, for the frothing masses to understand. Few non-nerds, non-lawyers, regardless of political affiliation, believe requiring Apple to [have the capacity to] unlock a terrorist's iPhone is undesirable, even though it's by far the most legitimate liberty threat. I'm not optimistic on this front.

Also, you might want to watch out for a re-emergence of libel civil suits. I'm not sure that would be a bad thing given that trolls have managed to carve out a lucrative industry for themselves. But if you're the kind of person who believes that "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me, or you, or do any kind of harm whatsoever", then it's definitely an avenue to be concerned about.
Why May SaaS Companies Not Get Enough Leads?
AirPods are impossible to repair or recycle, low-quality chips
I thought it was implied that they were talking about a GC for Go specifically.
So, You Want to Be a Computer Programmer
i love my 4th gen carbon (work laptop), but i have to agree the speakers are appalling. way worse than the 1st gen carbon it replaced.
Thank you for your reply, but I'm still a bit confused. I would have liked an NVidea dGPU instead of the AMD for GPU processing with CUDA so that is a disappointment, but from my understanding, the AMD 14nm node GPUs consume much less power than the NVidea GPUs.

The new 15" unit is smaller and somewhat lighter with a longer battery life so for those that value portability, this is really helpful.

I see value in having to lug around less weight, to better able to use it on an airplane because of smaller size, to have the extra battery life.

For my needs, the TB seems gimmicky and yet another possible point of failure so a negative.

As for the USB-C and the dongles, I think that is a transitional issue.

So, from my perspective, I see lighter, smaller, 2 hours longer battery life, a much faster SSD interface, more colors in the display panel and can do what I want functionally. That is why I was trying to figure out what it doesn't do for some people that makes them so unhappy or what they would do to improve it without making it larger and heavier and have a shortened battery life?

For those doing graphics, doesn't the better display panel help them to do their job.

> and more about what wasn't released alongside it.

Can you be specific on what this means regarding the 15" rMBP 2016?

Generally, the cost of the laptop, this tool, is little compared with salary and benefits and it really makes sense to do frequent upgrades.
Plenty of website builders out there (someone mentioned Wix). Not to mention Facebook is the de facto website builder for a LOT of small businesses.

People will still pay money out of convenience :) (fortunately for a lot of guys).
I'm in the same boat. I've used and loved Apple products for the better part of a decade. Used to tune in to Steve Jobs doing his keynotes. Got excited about everything they launched. Maybe that fades with age, I'm almost in my 30s now. But, I just don't care anymore. In fact, almost every new Apple product does the opposite of what I want. In my day job I do consulting on Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. And sometimes that involves CUDA. There are no Apple solutions with Nvidia cards. I'm an avid hobby photographer, the lack of storage space on these devices make me cringe. A single RAW from my dSLR easily takes 20 megabytes, do a day of shooting and I ramp up gigabytes of data. At night, I'm a hobby astronomer and play with astrophotography, this requires a lot of IO. Often I have 7 to 8 USB devices attached via various hubs. This works fine on my 3 year old Macbook Pro … the reports from flaky IO, even if you use their branded adapters, make me really reluctant to upgrade. That stuff is hard enough without having to deal with dodgy transfers or incompatible hubs. For some of this I've started using the cloud and bare metal servers in a rack … but it's not a proper substitute for doing it in a train with flaky wifi. And it drastically adds to the latency of my iterations. I realize I'm a minority, but I once honestly believed that Apple catered to my needs, that it would provide me with the best possible hardware to achieve my hobbies and professional goals. No longer so, not by a long shot.
On a related note, here's a quick guide to infosec in the defense industry:

1. Graduate from any school with a degree in CS/CE/Math/Physics.

2. Solve one crackme in your free time.

3. Apply for all entry level jobs at GENERIC DEFENSE CONTRACTOR that involve keyword "ida pro." Prepare to move to a deserted town in Florida or the DC megalopolis.

4. Die on the inside when you spend years working on unbelievably complicated problems that do nothing else except get a government employee promoted. Have everyone else in the news/online tell you you're evil.

5. Spend several months working for a government employee that is amazing at what he or she does. (part of the 20% of employees doing 80% of the work)

6. Watch as that employee is immediately promoted and replaced by someone else who doesn't care.

7. Try to transition to non-defense and discover that for all the talk about "cyber!!!!" and infosec in the news, all anyone actually wants is an IT professional that took a one week course at Blackhat on exploitation/has meaningless certificates/knows how to buy and install Nessus products and Palo Alto products. That has to be 90% of the job postings out there.

In all seriousness, if you do think you want to go down the government route, stick to a dedicated research institution or try to get a federal job. There are a very, very small few defense contractors that truly do good work, but they burn too bright and are eventually snuffed out by corporate greed or insane management.
Is there a shred of evidence in that article that anything has changed at Apple? How much more on the back burner can the desktop product line be, considering Apple already only updates the line every few years? The only information I can glean from the recent spate of overly negative Apple articles is, people click on them, the sites make money.
> Unfortunately, it doesn't scale. There's a limit to widening the roads.

That's true of everything though. All infrastructure doesn't scale. The water pipes / fiber lines / housing stock / schools / etc in the city today likely won't handle the needs of 50+ years either.

It's ok to build infrastructure to meet today's needs, even if it won't work 50+ years from now. "Perfect is the enemy of good."
The 5k iMac is gorgeous, weighs only double your brick laptop, runs faster than any stock laptop, and is a delight to use every day. It has a lot more than 3x 1920x1200 pixels but it will take two external displays if you want them. I like mine -| with a 1920 on the side, but you could do |-| or even -|- (wtf is wrong with you?).

Desktops are a shrinking market, but innovation continues. I'm glad I looked into them.
Fair point, but I thought the actual title of the article was misleading since most of it is about gifts for men.
I'd be very interested in the details on how you were able to accomplish this. What kind of part-time job will both pay enough to fund college while being flexible enough to allow for both class time, and leave you with enough mental energy to study and do homework?

I worked through my college education yet still graduated with a modest amount of debt. There were choices I could have made to improve my financial situation, but no amount of penny-pinching would have completely mitigated the debt I would have had to take on, save a rich relative bankrolling me.
> The biggest decision is : Do you want to sell your stocks before or after the 1 year Long term capital gain wait, but that decision is common to all stocks.

The decision is more along the lines of sell now vs. sell later. The LTCG decision is not nearly as important. The conventional wisdom is just to treat the RSU as the same as salary by selling immediately upon vesting. Since you're already employed and paid by them, holding equity in the company you work for is unnecessary additional risk.
The problem is that while the government cannot censor free speech, corporations can (on their respective platforms). And when those platforms make up the vast majority of Internet communication, say, when Google, Facebook, and Twitter all agree to ban certain content, effectively, yes, censorship has occurred. Because it becomes impossible to reach the largest body of the population. And of course, while government cannot censor, they can certainly encourage corporations to.
Master Chief and Cloud Strife? Honest question, perhaps I'm missing the intended meaning of iconic.
I doubt it. More likely, who will progress to even more insane monetization schemes...
uber. i have nothing against improving these services, but doing it with such blatant disregard to the law.

if this was just some guy on the street, or even most businesses the authorities would come down on them like a ton of bricks... but its a silicon valley posterchild so we don't.

its so difficult to see and not feel anger about it. if i don't do my due diligence or act intelligently i feel uncomfortable like i'm taking a stupid risk... why don't they?
touchpad weirdness is only on linux, btw

due to libinput. you can switch back to the old input method though
> bureaucratic inefficiency

I.e. state welfare by another name.

Government jobs (and contractor jobs) are stable, pay well even for people who don't have great educational backgrounds, and companies like Lockheed know how to spread around defense dollars so it becomes a jobs program in all 50 states.

In this sense, the inefficiency is a feature, not a bug.
Developers: Stop undervaluing software
The interesting part of this is that truck drivers are heavily regulated, as they should. They are forced to take breaks after driving a certain number of hours. Not sure exactly, but I think it's about 8 hours.

The same treatment for doctors won't be a bad idea.
Your sense of human decency is you made a bad decision decades ago so now you should starve?

That's quite something.
> The screen could be further to the edges a bit for a more modern look.

I have the new MBP 13" (love it), but the one thing that annoys me slightly is the smudges on the edge of the screen from opening it, or adjusting the screen angle.

It's impossible not to get marks on the screen. As it is, they're in the thin bezel area and not on the actual screen. I'm not sure I'd want the screen to go all the way to the edge...
Parent suggested supporting 'transit and cycling'. Mixed-mode commutes can meet a lot of people's needs.

BTW asking other commenters for 'data' (especially to support claims they did not make) is not great commenting etiquette.
Arena allocation in C/C++ is doing something similar to generational GC. I was about to type "simulating it" but that's not quite right ... they exploit similar observations to similar effects in different ways.

In C/C++ you have to manually decide how short lived allocations are ahead of time and either stack or arena allocate them. Freeing all the allocations on the stack or the arena is then very fast.

In a generational GC the programmer doesn't annotate allocations like that ahead of time. Instead it is assumed that all allocations might be short lived. How long they actually live is then tracked and eventually they're moved out of the "arena" (young gen space) by copying them. But again, freeing the contents of the young gen is very fast because you don't actually touch dead data at all, you only copy the live objects.

I've heard of GCs that can actually do "pre-tenuring": when the VM knows an allocation will definitely live for a long time based on profiling data it can be allocated directly into the old gen space. That reduces your minor GC pause times further.

All this adds overhead of course, but makes automatic something C/C++ devs would do themselves. Given the potentially catastrophic security consequences of screwing up in the C/C++ model I've become a lot less sympathetic to that approach over the years. How much extra performance is a security advisory and possible resulting botnet worth to you?
society needs liberal arts just as much as workers which are useful to capitalists.
I know you are being facetious but is there actually a connection between Modula-3 and Swift, .NET Native, D, Nim?
For me it's a deal breaker -- I could never live in LA because of the traffic. I have relatives there, and I am reminded anew every time I visit how horrendous the traffic situation is.

Still, millions of people manage to make it work somehow, so I guess you eventually get used to it and plan accordingly.
Individuals are pretty poor at making personal decisions on the basis of risks that are well-proven numerically but not tangible from personal experience.

Why do millions of Americans still smoke cigarettes? Do most smokers have awesome health plans and optimism about medical research so they assume that cancer treatment will be pleasant and affordable in the future? I think it's a pretty good test of how many people seriously believe cigarettes are carcinogenic. Do not tell me the incentive of a miserable premature death is not strong enough.
Go's garbage collector sacrifices pause times over everything else
You might not agree with the design decisions, but to say one of the most successful contemporary systems programming languages was born out "old man rage" is insulting
The reason that the government takes your money up front instead of letting you use it against your debt is because the government has liquidity/solvency issues.

Social security is a wealth transfer program, not a retirement saving program. Social Security takes money from the young, and gives it to the old; this is exacerbated by the fact the 'current old' did not 'pay-in' as much as they will be taking out, so they need your money right now.
Yeah, that's probably step one. But I think people will reclaim time commuting if they're not actively driving--likely by working remotely (or personal entertainment). I hope that'll lead to changes in work patterns like working remotely most days or allowing people to shift their schedules even more.

I'm also hoping self driving cars will let people choose more appropriately sized vehicles and perhaps untether luggage from human transport (reducing the vehicle size even more).

You're not going to get around congestion, but I think we can break the norms of 9-5 sitting at your desk office hours. White collar jobs have changed dramatically in the past 40 years due to other forces; offices to cubicles to "open floor plans." But we've stuck to 9-5 and people expect me at my desk.
If I'm already blocking the ads and their tracking scripts, why would I let it load them first, 'click' them and then block them afterwards?

Doesn't it just re-open the attack vector?
Yep. People frequently have a strong aversion to paying directly for things, unfortunately. It's the same way with parking - people feel like they're getting all these huge quantities of available parking for free, but they're still paying for it, just hidden in the prices of goods, the increased distances between places, higher rents, and so on. But it's just so easy to make laws saying "thou shalt provide enough parking for everybody", so that's what you get.
I'm sorry this is entirely offtopic, but do you play rocket league? I played a game last night with someone with the tag "busta_reimertz" and it seemed like too big of a coincidence not to ask.
How you invest depends on what your goals are. You need to define the "why" before you can move on to the "how".
It's really sad. There are so many good places, food, events, activities in LA, but the sprawl and traffic ensure that meeting up with friends or exploring the city is a difficult headache. It feels like punishment from a fable or something.
Out of interest; why do you care about GnuPG decryption specifically? (I write cryptographic software. I care about usability. I might want to provide people with GnuPG-compatible crypto, but that's not necessarily where I'd start.)
It's interesting to see NY Times covering this story not LA Times covering it.
It is completely absurd and user hostile that you need to buy an adapter to plug it in.

I charge my phone in my laptop often.
The article fails to mention that the genie lamp configuration relies on additional "point weights," which are blocks of zero height and width and non-zero weight. In the figure, those are represented by arrows.

http://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/upload_library/22...
At first glance, this existing site: https://startupsanonymous.com/ looks incredibly depressing.

Over the years, I have participated in various kinds of support groups for various things. They are often incredibly depressing and are often drama fests where it is difficult to really talk about solutions. Social pecking order and "respecting" the pain of people who can't get their act together becomes far more important than actually being useful to people who desire to move forward. This means anyone with real answers is shouted down by the folks saying it cannot be done.

So, I will suggest you put some thought into how you intend to keep the focus on problem solving. It is all too easy for "support" groups to just become places to vent and not places to get real solutions.

I am semi interested, but I am not going to give you my city and I am not sure I am a good fit for your group. But I would be happy to exchange a few emails. (And I have posted this HN discussion on my blog.)

Best.
Yes, its more about religious rituals than simple logic.
This was my understanding of that comment. How else could that be read? I am not able to think of another interpretation of that statement or a context when increased access times would be desired.
I hate this trend of getting rid of comments for many reasons, but honestly it's usually because the comments section in many publications has some of the most insightful ideas. Yes, you'll occasionally have to see some idiot spouting off or see some spam, but I think the cost is worth it.

Look at Techdirt for example: great articles, and actually insightful and funny comments that add to the discussion. Every article of theirs that I check out gets at least 1 extra page view from me simply because I love checking out the comments. Shoutout to them for nurturing an actual community.

I agree with you that this trend of getting rid of comment sections has more to do with controlling the message. The corporate media doesn't have to (and can't) fool the majority of population with pro-establishment news anymore. But what they're trying to do is convince enough people that they're mostly alone and isolated in opposition to official policies. When there is no comments section with lots of dissenting voices, it's easy to feel like you're alone in being against war propaganda or whatever the latest cause the establishment is promoting.
Or PKCS#12, or PKCS#8, or ECDSA (OpenSSL has determinism now, but different than RFC 6979), or ASN.1. Basically anything where you are using crypto as part of another protocol, not simply for encrypt/decrypt, sign/verify.

So using crypto code will be good once we rid the world of contemporary code and move into the future where all protocols are implemented on top of poly1305, ed25519 and chacha20. Considering how long it took to get rid of SSLv2 and v3, I just think perhaps some effort should go into making good, usable solutions for crypto that needs to be used now.
Then you have limbo... worth a lot on paper but no liquidity events planned.
I expect when self driving cars are introduced congestion will be more or less unchanged. It will take 20 years or so for people to switch over, and during that time roads won't be expanded. The net benefit will be we won't spend much money on new roads for for a few decades.
Why doesn't software reuse between generations work?
> if people pay for the privilege of commenting, they will feel entitled and less likely to self-moderate

Not if getting banned means they have to buy a new account to post again.
So looking at the price difference... I'd buy a smaller car and tell my boss that its not worth it (unless I'm being paid the big bucks).

Then again I'm British, and an American I've recently befriended has shown me how different attitudes to the employer employee relationship can be