skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At Blazing we also build GPU db and have always loved what this project (Alenka) is doing. First of all when you are talking about I/O bound which I/O are you talking about? Do you mean from disk? From RAM? There are many ways of getting around some of these I/O bottleknecks like sending compressed data or processing while transferring. You're assumption that these workloads are typically I/O bound is correct but then agian GPU databases aren't always going after the most "typical" workloads. If you are doing large amounts of transformations, or complicated joins then you also can benifite hugely from the use of a gpu. Ever try to join several tables together across multiple columns? If you do then you should probably use a hash join and if you are using a hash join you better believe you are going to want to do be doing computationally intensive things like sorting and hash generation. Have you tried any gpu databases to see if this concern is valid? GPU dbs can take advantage of things like very expensive cascading compression that many normal databases can't.
observing historical data is absolutely NO indication of how the bot would have done during that period. it is not fun, it is dumb. you are dumb.

the second another bot in the real world sees you get triggered, they'll manipulate the market and keep you biting until you're broke.

you're all idiots.
> The correct amount to value your options at is $0.

Agreed, but ...

Try to negotiate a deal such that the employer gives you a one-time sign-on bonus which, after taxes, will pay for the early exercise of the offered equity, and get the employer to give you the paperwork for filing 83(b) election.

This values the equity at $0, but prevents drastic financial implications (at least for the initial grant) should it actually become worth any real money.

What does HN think about such a scheme?
I'm really appalled about how the foundation keeps burning money on frivolous stuff like this or Firefox OS* or Persona and on the other hand they killed Thunderbird and they have been unable to release a sandboxed Firefox or a fast Gecko.

* I consider Firefox OS to be a frivolous waste of money because Gecko is barely bearable on a mid-range desktop computer, how did they even think of putting it in a low-end ARM CPU?

I understand guys here don't like negativity like the one in this comment, but Mozilla being a company that asks for donations, I feel like I can complain about what they do with them.
I mean, Chef Automate doesn't support rollback after all the usual toe dipping (https://docs.chef.io/workflow.html), but that isn't terrible. Automatic rollback generally comes with a fat "but not the database" asterisk, and if you are building something general, it's a pretty reasonable decision.

Screwdrivers docs all seem to mention CD, not sure why you'd say that.
> he wasn't the one that under-budgeted the roads originally.

Im not sure who caused the budget deficit in the first place, but he is the one that took more money from citizens to fix a problem that should have been fixed by reallocating existing funds.
Coincidence, I happen to also be an anesthesiologist :-)
> Your options have a strike price and private companies generally have a 409A valuation to determine their fair market value.

Is this exactly accurate? My understanding was that you owe gains tax on the difference between the 409A and (strike price + wages traded for options).

In other words, if you take a $1000 / month cut for one year in exchange for options, you get to add $12,000 to your cost basis for the purpose of calculating gains taxes.

Is this incorrect?
2br in Sunnyvale can be had for that much with some looking. A buddy of mine is renting a decently nice detached house with 3br for 3000/mo.

So the apartment costs 30k a year. Taxes will be quite low if a 401k are being maxed -- maybe 15k in total taxes? So we have roughly 80k - 15k - 25k = 30k to cover everything other than housing. This is very doable. It is not a lavish lifestyle but it's more than most Americans get to cover the same slice of expenses.
Why would this fact be particularly significant?
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wrong thread, take the best programming language fight elsewhere
I didn't read the actual study, but from the article they are basing this on the amygdala size being bigger but the male brain also just overall being bigger.

My question is: What rules out the bigger size itself (irregardless of overall brain size) causing differences? Perhaps, the ratio of amygdala size to brain size does not matter but rather just the absolute size.
Um, all the things that are not bodily fluids. And anyway you picked one particular bodily fluid, not even essential to the functioning of a body.
Or maybe the European team simply agreed with the concern?
I didn't say he should have stayed, he did the right thing, but going in at x and expecting x+20% in six months is ridiculous. If he was expecting that then he should have got that pecific number negotiated up front.
I've worked at several small startups, in the range of seed to C-rounds. Except for the one that I've was co-founder, I never knew when/how to ask or negotiate options things. It always felt like something that was supposed to happen at 'other companies' and not the one I was applying/negotiating to work at.

I know I should in theory ask to see the cap table, but it seems awkward and if shown it right then I'm not sure I'd entirely know how to read it properly (along with the terms), or how to immediately negotiate from it.

Stock options have been frequently presented to me as just a standard piece of paper offered, and not a thing for negotiation. It feels easier and less scary to haggle on salary (which I do quite well at generally).

Is it even reasonable to ask for twice as many options when I'm negotiating? Or is that like asking for double the salary and not reasonable?

Is it reasonable to ask for a bonus (at an A-round startup) in terms of options after being there for a year?
Just to clarify for those who may be less familiar with Canadian tax rules: Canadian-controlled private corporation is exactly what it sounds like and has special tax rules (including lower tax rates) in Canada.

I interpret the parent as referring to options in a corporation that is not a CCPC rather than options in a private corporation controlled by non-Canadians.
1. Not everything needs to be pushed up to the GPU. Some things are better left in RAM.

2. What if you only push indexes or similar up to the GPU, like an AB-tree index? You're keeping all of the 'heavy' stuff down, and only uploading a representation of it, to be later replaced with the actual data.

3. Think compression/decompression done on the GPU directly.
They are demonstrating that they didn't find difference. Not that none exist. They do exist, and this is easy to verify with the Piaget Water Level Task.

The task is simple. Draw a cup like |_| and then the same tilted perhaps 30 degrees. Hand the pictures to someone and ask, "If they are both half-full of water, draw the water line." Conduct this experiment on 5 random adult friends of each gender.

With extremely high probability, you will now have very strong evidence that there are very real brain sex differences. No demonstrated ones that seem particularly important to me, but clearly they exist.

(I first encountered this as part of a pair of questions, this one and another which women got and men didn't. I thought it was BS, a month later gave this one to my then girlfriend, and have never again found the other. Incidentally there is no difference on performance in this one until puberty. Interestingly the odds of success for gay/trans people are between straights, suggesting that their brains tend to be mixes of "normal" in more ways that one.)
If you ever wanted confirmation of this, suggest to your company that instead of "unlimited vacation", which is really vague and hard to understand, the company give 8 weeks vacation that doesn't accrue or roll over year to year.
Anyone around here know details on the encryption used by Galileo, Beidou, and GPS? Google does not turn up much. It would be interesting to hear about how they're doing this.

With the constraints that they have (receivers not necessarily always online to receive key updates, extremely low bandwidth to work with, systems depend heavily on this information, fast locks are important) it would not surprise me if the encryption scheme has big holes in it.

On the other hand, some of these constraints can be dealt with by making receivers fall back to the unencrypted signal until they're locked long enough to get their new keys. And given that this is military, they might err on the side of security rather than accessibility. So who knows.
Clicking through to the original tweetstorm [0] is recommended; it goes into more depth, and there are some continuing showers at this time.

It jibes with this page that I found striking, from a book of interviews with ex-Apple executives: http://i.imgur.com/dGmHcqv.png

[0]: https://twitter.com/bob_burrough/status/821085627084984320
That article has some kind of hasty judgement, saying that because a tiny brain structure is equal in men and women it is evidence for the whole brain being the same...

Yet what about other obvious evidence of the differences, like the fact that men brains are usually obviously heavier? Or the differences in overall distribution of grey and white matter? or that many neurological disorders, like aspergers syndrome, have different symptoms depending on the sex?
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I would like to add "don't drink any alcohol" to the list. I know that even a teatotaler can have a major depression but for me the decision to stop drinking any alcohol was THE key to make my depression much better.

It took me years to realize but drinking alcohol makes me sad and anxious for a a couple of days. The more I drink the worse the mood on the next day.
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Apologies, and thanks!
In sales and marketing, the job becomes orders of magnitude easier if the product is actually as good as promised. When your product is lower quality than the competition, advertising it is possible but difficult (and I would say ethically questionable) and you're not going to succeed with everyone.

It's the same with "convincing someone of something". The job becomes many times easier if the thing you're trying to persuade them of is actually true. If it's true, you can use plain facts and clear logic. If the thing you're trying to convince them of is false, you'll have to make increasingly more effort and will see a lower success rate. You'll also have to use dishonest tactics, like changing the meanings of words and declaring certain lines of argument taboo or unacceptable in polite society (i.e. political correctness).

A corollary is that, if you (from your POV) find it increasingly difficult to persuade People of Things, it might be worth considering the possiblility of whether those Things might in fact be wrong, rather than jumping to the conclusion that those People are deficient. You should at least consider it, and maybe take some time for personal study of the issues and arguments before redoubling your advertising budget.
Doesn't make any sense to me. If you wanted to avoid the threat from such a system, then you'd develop the techniques to sabotage it and then not actually do it until you needed it. If you sabotaged it now, then you'd just give them a heads-up that the system was vulnerable, and give them time to fix it.
I agree that at one point GPU h264 encoding was lower quality. But it's always been much faster, for me.

And today's NVENC h264 encoding quality is approaching x264 levels of quality, until you get to the lower end of the bit rate spectrum. x264 really shines at bpp values of 0.05 and lower, a feat NVENV has yet to achieve.
No, you are missing the point.

An example:
If the science pointed towards NFL players performing better in 6 inch heels, would NFL players promote such a study?

It's an entirely pointless hypothetical if you entertain the notion that their preference _IS_ the primary factor for their productivity.

Or more likely, their productivity is the major factor for their preference.
CapitalOne.com also authenticates without case sensitivity.
coming from the machine learning research community, i am in awe of the availability and relative ease-of-use of the deep learning frameworks. Rarely can i find comparison code in ML that i didn't have to bug the author for, or try and implement myself based on the paper alone. in short DL is on a much better path than the author realizes. Perhaps we have to thank the github/bitbucket era. The real problem with DL is that until there is a more robust theory(if even possible, the bane and boon of ML is the complexity of the models), much of the application research will sorta be a form of digital alchemy.
Android dev has improved by leaps and bounds. iOS dev has drastically regressed.
I think you meant "subjectively" - if it were objectively better then you could surely provide some evidence!

I for one like the new logo - it's less staid, a bit more playful, and more indicative of Mozilla than the previous one (which was just the name rendered in some font). But that's a subjective opinion, and I'm not going to pretend there's an objective truth to it.
I don't question the free time, I doubt the ability for someone already under a fair amount of emotional distress to be able to hide reading thousands of pages of classified data.

Even with the route she took, it was only a matter of months for her to make a mistake that got her arrested. Giving it to wikileaks reduced her anxiety, going through it likely would have ramped it up. Additionally, needing to keep a local copy of the data is a huge risk.
"Worse yet, by exercising options you owe tax immediately on money that you never made."

For NQSO this is true, for ISO this is false. The exercise of an ISO grant is not treated as ordinary income.
Respectfully, I'd rather not wade into that on HN. It's in the past, and there's a great deal of nuance that would be hard to convey here. I'm confident that Mozilla is in a good place today.
The article does mention wire-protocol tapping. In fact, it makes a strong case for that technique.
I own, use, and enjoy Ulysses, but I wouldn't buy it at its current price.
While there is some possibility (a few percent chance?), in these cases I think the majority chance is Hanlon's Razor.

It's probably just a mistake on the ESA's part -- space is hard.
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It's much worse in late stage startups where expiration means use em or lose em.

It comes down to a gamble. With your numbers, a big one.

But until that choice is forced on you, I say wait. There's no reason for an early exercise. Even with slight tax advantages I'd rather call that the cost of minimizing my risk.
and QT

and anything iCloud (whatever it was called back then)
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There is leveraged trading, but using the leverage exposes you to directional risk, and in HFT you want to have as little directional risk as possible :)

On OKCoin, my flagship algo generates more than 4000 trades per day (and many more order placements). However, OKCoin is glitchy.
This. I would also optimise on cash compensation. Stock options are a nice to have but the windfall is ultimately very hypothetical since most startups fail.

Don't fall for the stock options trap if you are an employee: you are just as fortunate (or not) with a lottery ticket.

Obviously if you are a founder it's a different story...
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You don't think it's a pretty big leap from political pressure (aka what all countries do to each other all the time) to sabotage, a literal act of war and something that would, if discovered, at the very least put Nato into serious jeopardy?
I am french here is my earnings:

24000€ of gross (the company pay ~0.30 * 24000 = 31200€).
18360€ (1530€/month) is my income but on that i pay ~1000€ of taxes (salary tax) and ~400€ of city tax(this vary from city to city).

My rent is 360€/month for 60 square meters, sure i live in the middle of nowhere regarding jobs.

After all the mandatories costs of life i can save ~550€/month ~6600/year.
There is a good amount of evidence, much of it studied, (and much from the transgender community, but not just there) that there is -something- inherent in gender psychology besides hormones. What it is no one knows, but there are clear examples of people who grow up their whole lives with say testosterone but their "intrinsic sex" is female.
I don't see a "disclaimer/disclosure" (kinda standard practice around here) so I assume your username is entirely coincidental?
I work on Gaggle Mail which is a group mailing list provider that avoids all this by only using a From address that we control. I do think stricter addressing policies will become the norm in years to come which is why we took this approach.

More details here: https://gaggle.email/how-emails-are-addressed-and-sent
It doesn't cost money to file taxes in the United States. Well, you have to pay for the stamps, paper, and the printer ink, I guess.
Almost a googlewhack!:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22qubickles%22
You can go to Mozilla website as it is used now on it.
I found it funny he slagged on using JIRA, as oftentimes I found startups using Rally, which is a lot more painful :( .
What is an enemy for the USA might not be an enemy of Europe. I can just repeat myself. If it is in the interest of Europe to turn Galileo off, they can do so. If it is not in their interest, they shouldn't do so. Now, that the decision making in the EU is inefficient might be an _internal_ issue that needs to be solved, not be workedaround by giving the USA the final say.
This is partly why I had historically gotten everything else in place before messing with the heatsink/fan. Those older ones could be really touchy and I was petrified of crunching the exposed die of one of those older processors by having to remove or otherwise futz around with the mount after getting it attached.

One time I really did think I heard a crunching/grit type sound when mounting a heatsink and my stomach dropped out until I got the system powered on and verified that nothing was broken.

Seriously, these things were terrifying to mount a heatsink on back in the day with the way that thing sticks out, rubber pads be damned: https://i.imgur.com/6w1oVMS.jpg
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It's not about making it easy for the US. Shooting down satellites is not going to be a tough problem for the US military. It's about convincing the US not to do that.

It's like not leaving food out to avoid attracting bears. Sure, it would be nice if the bears would just not bother you in the first place. But you can't influence their behavior directly, you can only influence what you do.
Maybe do a little guerilla refactoring? If you're spending 55 hours per week staring at the screen, then using some of those hours to work on something unauthorized isn't really stealing or cheating your employer at all. Either openly or in secret, come up with a rewritten or refactored version of your product that doesn't have all the technical debt. Couldn't hurt!
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So, you're saying that nobody is going into the NFL because of peer pressure?
For me it was alcohol. At least there is a very strong link between alcohol and my mood.

Just a few drinks and I feel sad and anxious for a couple of days. My mood recovers by staying abstinent for one or two weeks after drinking alcohol. My solution is to avoid alcohol as much as I can.
I think it appears only if you scrolled a bit
Exactly. Jira UX is terrible (it've very hard to find things) and closing a ticket that was a mistake is at least 3 steps.
Yep. Fix a number and limit the number that can carry over, so that people actually take a vacation and decompress.
> Why does it still cost money to file taxes anyway?

It doesn't, but because of the complexity of the tax system most people either use a tool like TurboTax or an accountant, to file for them; that costs money.

And the reason it exists, the lobbying of special interest groups for exceptions to taxes. If you can convince people in government that you deserve a break b/c what you're doing benefits society somehow, there's a tax loophole waiting for you too!

And now, there is the multi billion dollar industry that depends on this complexity and doesn't want it simplified. This is a huge waste, we waste money individually that could be spent on actual goods, and the IRS/government waste money needing to audit all the people who decided that maybe they did deserve a tax credit that perhaps they did not.
I'd argue that Swift is one of the best things that happened to iOS development in the past few years.
You could also turn off Galileo only in some areas.
Could you please explain how the satellite observing the arctic sea ice affects climate change? As far as I can tell, until this past year (the paris climate agreement) that hasn't been a significant effort to reduce carbon emissions on a global scale, which almost certainly wouldn't have an appreciable affect on the extent/surface area of arctic sea ice (carbon cycles through the atmosphere very slowly (the fastest processes take about a year and the slowest take millions of years[0]) so it will take a while before the affects of human intervention actually propagate to the scale of global climate).

Also, you can certainly study outliers with statistics. In fact, most scientific discoveries (these days) all start out as outliers or statistical anomalies. The Higgs boson, Top quark, J/Psi,... every single particle described by the Standard Model (the most accurate scientific theory by far) all started out as anomalies and outliers. The fact that this years sea ice measurements are outliers doesn't mean they are necessarily a large statistical fluctuation, it could be that there is a new climate phenomenon taking place (look up the runaway greenhouse effect). I'm not saying that is what is happening here but we have no idea a priori which is the truth at the moment: it's a statistical fluctuation or it's a sign of a new climate phenomenon. Clearly all we can do is continue to study it using, among other tools, statistics.

[0] - http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/CarbonCycle/page2....
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Here's the part that resonated with me.

> we fought the losing battle of educating the market.

I've been at ten startups. At least half of them chose that battle, and that would be the less successful half. Sales cycles are fragile things. Anything that slows them down can be fatal. Clearly you need to explain how your offering is unique and special, but if you have to pause to explain basic concepts before they get it then you've probably lost their attention and their business.

The VP of marketing at one of my previous companies was generally an idiot and one of the chief drivers of that company's failure, but he introduced me to the concept of market vs. technical risk. A product can be easy to market but a challenge to build, or it can be the other way around. You can build a strategy around either. If it's hard in both ways, you're in trouble. Frankly, it sounds a bit like that's the trap RethinkDB fell into. They were doing things that were technically hard and hard to explain to users. That's how you get three years behind.

It's a sorry situation, but kudos to the RethinkDB folks for trying to do the right thing, mostly succeeding from an engineering perspective, and writing honestly about how that played out in a market of people who aren't equipped to appreciate it.
It's not case-insensitive. Try it. I knew they had the case-flipped version but I didn't know about the others. Why would a user's password have an extra character on the end anyway?
no, in this case I don't think it is a huge leap.