skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get your point but I think a clarification is useful here:
the risk for gp was not "options might get underwater" but rather "stock is too illiquid".

Options are underwater if the strike price is less than the current market price; shares in private companies might not have an actual market price but you can estimate them. Underwater options still have >0 value since there's a non-zero chance the stock price will decrease before the expiration date -- of course, if the expiration date is close by and the strike price is much higher than the current price, the option value might be very close to 0. Still, you practically never exercise underwater options (there are some rare exceptions not very relevant here).

In grandparent's case, the issue is not underwater options; they are about to exercise the options and get stock.
At the time they left the company, the stock price was presumably way above the ~$1 strike price. They could have bought (say) $60k worth of stock for only $30k, making a profit on paper. The problem is, as the article says, you have to pay taxes on capital gains AND that stock is illiquid (you can't easily sell it if at all).
I had 26,000 share in a company TouchCommerce that got bought out by Nuance for about $250-million. I netted about $9,000.

What did I learn? Start your own company is best. second best is to license a trademark or a patent to the startup to ensure that you are square in the center of the equity pie. YMMV
Not my main point, my point was you can't keep wanting to feel ill 3 times a week.
Thanks for posting this, had no idea there was a meetup like this.
I think the mainstream media is using this to support their own delusions.

It is because of the drop in credibility of mainstream media that people have begun believing in unverified sources. It is because of the blatant and obvious bias and hypocrisy in mainstream media that people seek other sources to support their own biases.

If the mainstream media were to be more honest and unbiased in their reporting and did not try to massage delivery to suit a narrative, the fake news out there wouldn't have that many takers. As it stands today, people place as much credibility in a CNN or nytimes piece as they do in a whatsapp forward or tweet.
Disclaimer: I haven't used WeChat at all, but its mini-programs sound just like apps. Maybe it simplifies the process of installing and using them but what does that do to the security model? Does that mean WeChat is in total control of your information, providing it to 3rd parties that you may not have verified for yourself?

Granted, there are plenty of problems with apps and security as it is, but at least you can have separate registrations for each and one sketchy app doesn't necessarily compromise your whole system.

Maybe the article doesn't make the point well or I'm just missing it.
No, you don't. You want an aggrieved party to be able to pursue for defamation, which is quite tough for public figures in the United States after Sullivan. This is what 'danso (who would know) is talking about upthread; I agree with him that specifically named figures in these stories would likely have a quite strong case for libel if they can prove intent, what Sullivan calls actual malice. The article runs a very long way toward showing actual malice itself, so deposition will likely end this guy. These civil cases succeed, too. Rolling Stone lost more than once after the Erdely affair.

What you are otherwise proposing with the call for jailing is criminal prosecution -- as in, the state, prosecuting a citizen -- for what we would tend to call "free speech." Don't propose that, particularly with the incoming administration.
In terms of IDE support Go has Gogland by JetBrains.

https://www.jetbrains.com/go/
When I started my first job, I was shocked at the amount of racial self-selection there was. Although the company itself was diverse, many teams were 80%+ white/Chinese/Indian. If you looked closer you saw that they had all gone to the same schools (albeit in different years or even decades) or had worked together previously.

This wasn't a top-tier company, so my theory was that candidates with options went elsewhere, while those without options stayed here and hired people like themselves. I could easily see the same thing happening at a place like Oracle.
I asked what the difference was. The difference he came up with was intent. The intent was the same: to make money.
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Moving will increase your heart rate... It might no be at v02 max but it will be higher than resting
> What I don't get is why people are always so goddamn defensive of companies and their hiring practices. "The problem lies elsewhere, don't blame the company!!"

Because the problem actually does lie elsewhere. Being a corporation is not evidence of guilt.
Now I'm wondering if I have some degree of that. I've just commented on a sibling comment that while I love exercising, I just feel terrible right after it.

I also have this funny thing where I can't build endurance. I've been doing push ups on every work out and I can't for the life of me do more than 20. But I have no trouble increasing difficulty (putting hands closer, elevating feet, etc.) or weight (for things with weights like squats).
The downside is that if your relationship goes sour, your wife owns your company.
Their "revolution" is using federated logins and an integrated pay service. So a google account or the like and google pay. About the only interesting take home here is that developers would do well to keep their app sizes down and to design for their market. Everything else, you can get from android and from ios today.
Heh, I was kinda hoping this study would be about how spending too much time at LessWrong was bad for your mental health- because speaking from experience I have this vague suspicion that it might be- but this is interesting too.

The increasing amount of evidence that autistic spectrum disorders are at least partially about a failure to do automatic "holistic" processing of incoming sensory information, and thus have to do it, for lack of a better term, "in software" is a big deal, both in terms of making people's lives easier and possibly figuring out where this mechanism comes from and what exactly it consists of.
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There are a good many fractal renderings which meet the bar as far as my taste is concerned. Have you seen any of the videos by Julius Horsthuis, for example?

https://vimeo.com/juliushorsthuis
I found Google Keep much too basic. Now I'm using Google Docs and I'm fairly happy.

Some of the features I like about it:

Searchable
Formatting support
Edit history
Android App
Good web interface
Syncs perfectly between platforms with simultaneous editing
Google is unlikely to disappear with my data anytime soon, and has been good about letting you take your data with Google Takeout

And some things I don't like:

My own Cloud/NSA paranoia
no end-to-end encryption AFAIK
Android app sometimes slow to open a note for editing
> Of course, if they don't want to learn, they won't. But no algorithm or laws will change that anyway.

Hasn't the recent cycle shown the power of algorithms, whether we recognize their work? If fake news was less back in the "good ol days" of the Internet, it was because Google's PageRank was inherently biased towards sites maintained by organizations with the resources and brand names to have popular sites, e.g. news organizations.

If Facebook prioritizes shared stories in your news feed based by how many people shared it, then that makes it much easier for randomnewssite.biz to make it to your eyeballs via FB's ranking and filtering algorithm.
You know SIM cards run Java, right?
Health Moves Forward
Configure your editor to do it for you, just like most people do for closing braces.
Forward – Design Your Health
It's personally weird to me that auto loans can be a serious bubble, since I would not feel comfortable buying a car unless I have 10x the sticker price in spare cash, or free cash flow that covers it. Seriously, since it's just a depreciating asset with maintenance liabilities.
> I'm Daniel Stenberg, lead developer of curl and employed by Mozilla.
If that's the case, how did they get almost everything wrong? Reading the original stories on The Guardian, I couldn't find any response from the US government.

Why did you ignore the SCMP entirely?
The Google one is interesting. Page 4 points 9a-c outline what the DOL wants. Point C says they want names and contact information for Google employees.

https://www.dol.gov/sites/default/files/newsroom/newsrelease...
You could read the top level article and find out?
I don't think you understand that the proposal for ubi comes from the futurist idea that humans won't need to work anymore.

If you take issue with that idea: fine. Let's hash it out not in a basic income thread.

If you accept the above premise, then the notion of humans needing employment is absurd.
It could be that this design covers this as well - but one thing worth calling out explicitly is the effects that message passing can have on GC.

If you spend tons of effort making your queues low contention and super low latency, you best make sure the API you give the user doesn't then undo all that fine engineering by overloading the GC by allocating a million messages a second.

Shameless plug, in that I tried to address that in 4fq by having the queue own the memory for messages. The main job of the queue then being to arbitrate who controls which message slots in RAM:

https://github.com/jakewins/4fq
Are Servo and rustc in the Rust documentation? Literate programming of some sort? Maybe you're replying to a different criticism.

I've been through the Rust Documentation (doc.rust-lang.org) and Rust By Example (rustbyexample.com) several times now, and I have to jump on IRC to get answers to (what I think should be) some pretty simple questions.
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On the lender side: I wonder if somehow auto loans are packaged and resold like some other loans, thereby hiding/moving the risk away from the originating lender and into more unsuspecting hands? Not sure how that might work. If it does get repackaged and resold, that may explain some of the reckless lending, if that can be said to exist.
Slack Threads: A Missed Opportunity
I don't know. Calling into question and misleading voters with fabricated information about a crime that didn't happen under the auspices of a legitimate news source?

I hear you on first amendment concerns, definitely. And generally suing where there is a party that has been harmed is generally the right recourse. But in this case it's generally the, American voter...
Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, and non-Adobe tools like Affinity Designer all use portable, non-native UI code. That hasn't stopped artists from using them. I don't out-of-place UI is the reason why people avoid Gimp.
I now sue NBA for having too few whites and Asians.

The goal is to make sure everywhere people are distributed on their population and color and gender and age ratio, instead of merits, after this micro-level-equality is accomplished everywhere, let's then work on making sure everyone has their fair share of fortune, finally, communism will be realized and the world will be a peaceful place, starting from US!
There's definitely a market for it, but the market also tends to be adverse to international shipping. It would also likely view North Africa as a region, not politically stable enough overall (not speaking about Tunisia, just the whole North Africa region in aggregate) to make them comfortable with using such a facility.
"[1] I can't find drinking-by-income data, but anecdotally"

Wow, your "non-reference reference" is a brilliant way to criticize that my comment was not based on factual reference!

I didn't say that 'drinking and smoking' is only a problem in 'poor neighbourhoods'. So your comment is not relevant.

In fact, I didn't even refer to 'poor neighbourhoods', I indicated 'Aboriginal communities' in particular - where the problems are systematic and acute.

What is 'laughable' is that anyone would consider that the total social break-down in Aboriginal communities - and the issues that some kids in wealthy areas are remotely related, or should be treated the same way.

In Scandinavian countries, as I mentioned, there is no 'taboo' about drinking. It's 'not positive' but nevertheless 'socially acceptable' to be a kid, drinking every so often. A 'drunk 14 year old' is nothing to make a huge fuss about. Of course, 'a community of drunk 14 year olds' is.

In America - there would indeed be much fuss over a single incidence of fairly underage drinking. It's not socially accepted.

There are basically zero middle or upper class areas in America wherein 42% of 14-16 year year olds have been 'drunk in the last month' and also none where 25% of 14-16 year olds are smoking.

In America overall, the data (which was trivial to find) has it at about 5% [1] (using average of 8th grade and 10th grade).

As it would stand America already has lower teen drunkenness than Iceland even after Icelands 'amazing social program'.

Iceland before: 41%, after: 7%. America now: 5%.

Whoops!

Also - smoking is definitely a much greater issue among lower economic classes, this is consistent in most advanced countries. Drinking - it's a mixed bag. College kids drink the most of any group.

[1] https://responsibility.org/get-the-facts/research/statistics...
I am fascinated that you decided to make a new HN alias in order to articulate this point, which btw I think has a lot of merit. Making the huge assumption this is not your primary HN alias, out of curiosity, why did you decide to disassociate yourself from the thread?
This seems recursive or insipid. How do we compute what it is we focus or attend to? Isn't that the real answer?
this is really interesting, thanks for posting
New to software development, but doing my own startup. Best language to use?
So quick background: I'm a recent CS graduate, and have some limited experience working on projects in school, but not much outside of that. I'm planning to start my own startup, essentially it would be an "AirBNB for ---", meaning it would be a platform for a type of peer to peer service. What do you guys think is the best language and framework for this purpose? I was going to start with Python because that's what I/we used for a school project, but I wanted to get some suggestions from more experienced developers before I commit.
That's a romanticized view of the way the world works, or how people make choices. When music sales started falling precipitously around the rise of the MP3 player, was it because music became measurably worse? When artists started making money from digital downloads, was it because they just started making better music? Or because iTunes/etc vastly improved the digital download purchasing process?

Most big cities had morning and afternoon newspapers. Now there are only morning newspapers. Is it because afternoon newspapers just happened to be shittier than their morning competitors in every city in America? Or because the advent of radio and TV news changed the timing of how we get daily news?
Those questions are irrelevant to your first question. You asked what is the difference between the guy in the story and the Onion. That answer doesn't depend on people being cautious or rational about what they chose to believe. It only depends on the intent of the writers.

In one case, you have the intent of humor, not at all immoral by itself, though perhaps tasteless from time to time. The other case you have the intent to deceive, to fake reality with the goal of changing people actions: deeply immoral.

And for the record:

I never heard the Clinton story before this... I find most the news is written for emotional engagement and actually doesn't help to inform me in any important way, so why stress myself out with it? I read very little news... haven't watched a local news broadcast in decades. The recent election was the perfect display of this deficiency.

For the Onion, there are documented instances of people taking it seriously... but what can I say? There are documented instances of people doing and believing just about everything. I don't bother with them anymore than I do with "the news".
> being misgendered all the time

Saying "guy" isn't misgendering because it's a gender neutral pronoun. People call women "guys" all the time. Most people realize this.
Would just like to say, that as a moderator of r/SpaceX, I appreciate your kind words.

Reddit really is a hit and miss barrel of communities. We (r/SpaceX mods) tend to find that a lot of our users don't even bother commenting in other subreddits. I certainly don't. Some of communities and the stunts they pull are downright embarrassing, and being hosted on the same platform sometimes feels a little ugly; so having our own little island that's peaceful and courteous is a big breath of fresh air.
Oracle was sued for hiring too many Indians, and for paying not-(white and male) employees less than white male employees of the same job title, seniority, and experience.
Garbage collection does not actually solve the problem of lifetimes. At least not in the gc'd languages I am intimately familiar (c#/java). I cannot comment on whether or not Go solves the problem of lifetimes because I don't know the language well enough, but I feel confident that if it does solve the problem, it is with garbage collection in conjunction with another concept
I wish more people would donate to them. So many tech billionaires, you'd think at least one of them would be aware and not mind spending what amounts to loose pocket change for them to preserve information.
I find it almost offensive when they entertain that it is the public's business to dictate what one man does to a small section of his bodily tissue.

Human life is not precious anymore. If somebody wants to risk their life for scientific progress, I feel that we should support them instead of discouraging them.

Just as we did when life was more precious.
Hmm, good point, looks like you can export individual notes as PDF, but that's it.

I use the Workflow app on iOS, and I have a feeling it would be relatively trivial to write a workflow that loops through all your notes and writes them all to text files in Dropbox or something else like that. Of course Workflow is a paid app, but it's about the closest you can get to "programming" on iOS without a paid developer account.
> 4 out of 21 were Asians, this was too low given the size of the applicant pool.

What if they were actually the better candidates?

Bias in hiring may well reflect bias in talent.
Python is great -- I've built a bunch of stuff in it over more than a decade. Readability and ease of use are the most important for something new IMO -- you can optimize for speed in another language if your thing gets huge, but you may not even have to -- youtube and plenty of other sites still run Python as their main frontend at larger than you're likely to get scale.
This is praising WeChat for having a built-in web browser that supports single sign-on and credit card autofill.
I agree it's very unlikely that sabotage is what's going on, but what you're saying is the one compelling argument in favor of sabotage. "Everyone but that one actor has very bad luck" is exactly what sabotage looks like.
> What I don't get is why people are always so goddamn defensive of companies and their hiring practices. "The problem lies elsewhere, don't blame the company!!"

It's because we've been in roles in companies like these, dealt with diversity and hiring policies that seemed ineffective, counter-intuitive, and bureaucratic, yet there still always seems to be this cloud over us that assumes we're all secretly just racist.

It feels like we already bend over backwards to try to hire diverse candidates and comply with policies that suggest / require that. I'm sure Google, Oracle, and Palantir certainly have them. Yet these lawsuits have these big bold headlines basically implying the companies' policies are racist based on (if you think other factors are much bigger causes) unreasonable assessments. When we see it happen to them, we know it can happen to us, and it's easy to get defensive.
Also, when you've got something that's the same in two places it's hard to tell if it's really the same concept or just a "rhyme" that might later evolve into two distinct things.
CIA unveils new rules for collecting information on Americans
it's unfortunate that rust seems barely more than a compiler. it's... empty. the "ecosystem" feels like a namespace-free dogpile of college spring break experiments. a wasteland of pre-pre-pre-pre-alpha 0.0.0.0.0.1 stuff. it'll be 10 years before it improves to even being underwhelming.

in go, you can download it and have the pieces to actually do useful stuff right away. legit productivity. not to mention putting together graphs or graph-like structures and other similar things aren't the obtuse sphinx riddles they are in rust.
Shiny is slowly expanding its dashboarding capabilities. I have rolled out dashboards with hundreds of thousands of rows which don't need any explicit pagination and can be used simultaneously by dozens of internal customers. All this spun up in a matter of hours.
Since graduating college I've stayed continuously employeed at several different Bay Area tech startups, so I'm pretty sure I have at least decent technology skills. Yet I've been to several interviews where questions about race/ethnicity were brought up (and I failed to get offers from those companies that ask such questions). I can only imagine what it's like being a woman going for these positions. My point, a lot of the filters these companies put up are totally artificial.

I even had a chance to ask a well known SV entrepreneur/investor about what VCs look for, and he said one of the things is "people who look like him." I appreciated his honesty, but it certainly seems like there is a lot of talent that is ignored because people and companies are using poor hueristics.
The way extensions work is that you can enable an arbitrary number of sync providers all at once. So you can have Dropbox enabled, Google Drive, maybe you even have a webserver on your computer so you run an extension from there that writes to your local disk - you can sync to all 3 of these at the same time. So it doesn't have to rely on a centralized server.
Being deposed to testify in someone else's case is a lot different than having the NYPD looking to press charges against you. The latter implies some very concrete evidence of wrongdoing.

But you do have a point. I think the fake news purveyor in this case could argue that Clinton's reputation wasn't measurably harmed, given his already infamous reputation. It's a different impact than if the fake story was about Bernie Sanders or Jeb Bush.
That's because the spaces are not monospaced.
Statement on the Release of the CIA’s Updated Executive Order 12333 Procedures