skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine you had the money today (you'd already, automatically sold all the stock). How much would you buy?

Once you've figured that out sell everything except the amount you would buy.

It's effectively the same decision, but framing it this way can be helpful. Say your stock is worth 100KUSD. If you had no stock and 100KUSD, would you really spend 100KUSD on the stock? 5K? 10K? That's how I have made these choices in the past.

Also, keep at least one share. The information you get by virtue of being a shareholder is often interesting.
What about creating more private research centers? Where the benefits are not tied to individual company profits or have them hoping for patents stash. OpenAI is an example of one of such initiatives. Similar centers can be spun off more often. Does CERN have satellite labs across the world? Sure committing to funding can be a problem for private entities (companies/families/individual billionaires). Perhaps govt should these entities tax breaks for funding such centers.
There have been a good number of posts on HN as of recent about hiring, interviewing, etc. Generally, the post lands, and many folks on HN come out of the woodwork to criticize the method or approach negatively.

The same happened with this post. (Of course I think in this case the behavior is exploitative and abusive. But do notice that not all folks in the thread disagree with the practice. Unfortunately they’re getting downvoted for disagreeing.)
I'd be more concerned that you are basically drinking poison.
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Yeah this one has been tricky. I haven't bothered to spend a ton of time on it, but I've done a deep dive or two on a user's history when it seems suspicious...and often had my suspicions amplified. Lots of pro- industry stuff and not a lot of discussion on other topics. Sometimes it's just people who work in the industry and have a huge portion of their identity influencing their view...which given that they have some expertise and lingo complicates things. But sometimes it's just a laughably one-dimensional HN account.
Open discussion is welcome. But I cannot ever remember when paid shills are helpful, in my experience.
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I would at least sell 50% (or some number) and keep the rest. I have seen people sell stock bought from options on the first day you could and then live to regret it when it screamed up later. If you sell a portion and keep a portion you always get something, and maybe you will get more later, but never zero.
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It's incredibly telling when someone makes a defense and comes off significantly worse as a result.

He should have listened to his lawyer, but I'm glad he didn't.
Rad hardened is only for GEO or long term missions. If you're throwing cube sats, or other micro (maybe even a small) sats, you're going to use off the shelf hardware. If you're worried, throw a little polyethylene around it. First few mm are going to do the majority of shielding. But at these low altitudes you're not going to get many bit flips and semiconductor damage isn't a concern because the low lifespan of the satellite. For the little errors you get, you can always reupload software, which you check on large or small satellites.
Using it for a current project:

Phase 1

Non-technical and semi-technical business analysts write scenarios as acceptance criteria for the requirements.

They are still so high level that the devs need to re-write or refactor the majority of them to be able to get any sort of re-use out of them.

Phase 2

Writing scenarios is largely seen as a time sink and the test coverage is falling behind. This is then changes so that the BAs write a headline scenario and some high-level bullet points (higher level than they were doing already) which are then fleshed out by devs.

Devs re-write statements in ways that aren't very good english ('When I log in as a "Tim_test5"') and scenarios are no longer good to show to the customer.

Phase 3

Test writing is still slow, so BAs and testers start writing and performing manual tests to close the user stories. Step 'library' and feature files are building up but still only a relative handful of tests are automated.

So yeah, in an ideal world they would be perfect, but I would recommend the following:

* Don't include BDD in your 'definition of done'. You will never close anything.

* Only write BDD for things that are stable - some changes can mean that tests need to be updated, split or take more arguments. Syncing up changes to statements in feature files is extra overhead.

* Deciding on wording to reflect business meaning of a statement and technical meaning of a statement is harder than you think. Factor in time for this.

* If your team haven't used BDD before, create some central resource with statements in that can be used by non-technical users to build up scenarios lego-style. If what they need isn't there, then it can be added. This is especially true when a set of actions is easily abstracted to a single business action ("I send the request" or something which takes many clicks and form filling).
> For stationary lights and dynamic props, Unreal uses per object shadows, meaning that it renders one shadowmap per dynamic prop per light

Isn't that a TON of shadowmaps?
>noticeably improve build times

yes, the newish build model is modular, allowing to only compile what needs to.
Still not perfect but a huge improvement.

>general smoothness

Just as before, give enough ram to AS. Generally if it is slow it is because it is constantly trashing the memory.
Democracy is the heart of the US, and an attack on it is an existential threat. If there's any evidence of this, it should be responded to with due measure.

This is nothing new though. For decades (perhaps longer), democracies have been subverted and are, unfortunately, a liability for many countries. Patriots see it as their duty to protect their countries by insulating themselves against this subversion and consolidating power. It's a dangerous trend.
i hacked on sideprojects when i had more time, but most of my sideprojects are automation things that i did when i had something to solve or help a friend, or some scrapping for my needs. the rest of my programming outside of work is freelancing. if somebody would ask me for sideprojects i would have nothing of value to show.
Haha that’s hilarious.

I suggest everyone apply for the internship from HN and send them all our resumes with all the mediocre things we have all helped build!
"Should" (in any moral sense) and "Monsanto" don't play nicely together.
Any good pointers and/or advice on getting into stoicism?
This is profoundly disappointing, and is yet another indication that Twitter is clueless about being a platform and wants to be a content company. There have been many other decisions where Twitter was tone-deaf about its platform status, but this is perhaps the worst.

RT has had some great coverage of under-publicized issues in the US... issues involving the poor, failing infrastructure, hypocrisy, etc. Yes it's not flattering to the US that these stories are written, but they are true and newsworthy and should absolutely not be suppressed.

During the election, RT ran a unflattering stories about both major candidates. This is now being spun as "trying to sow discord" in the US. Journalism is supposed to shine a light on things that need to be improved, it is supposed to rally people to act to fix those problems.

If you read the major newspapers in the US, particularly in the section on world affairs, there is a steady stream of stories that address the dangers of living abroad, the corrupt politicians, the failing infrastructure, etc. These stories may or may not be true (many are obviously overblown to anyone who has visited those countries) but the purpose they serve is to help foster the idea of American exceptionalism.

Our papers don't have to run headlines like "Americans happiest citizens in the world" or "America has the cleanest water and the happiest children in the world" when it can simply run stories that make other nations (particularly political adversaries) seem far worse.

We still don't know much about the Hillary Clinton or Podesta emails as none of the few possibly troubling things (mostly campaign finance violation stuff) has been investigated. RT ran stories about that topic when it was fresh during the election, even when the major US papers were focused mainly on rude things Trump had said.

When RT first launched I was surprised that it was "allowed" to exist simply because of its origin. But after reading the reporting for several years I came to appreciate that it was offering a view of the US that was not really available from American news outlets. This makes RT valuable to the sharing of ideas and the creation of an informed public.

Twitter's decision to block the advertising is cowardly in so many ways.
Oh, I've no doubt their tech stack is very complex. After all, if you're clever enough you can come up with arbitrarily complex solutions to simple problems.
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I'm a single data point in this story.

I've been vegan since 1991. I also have Crohn's disease.

I had a bowel resection in 2001 and subsequently my B12 blood tests revealed a deficiency. I was then prescribed a course of monthly B12 injections. These went down to 3 monthly and for the last 5 years my yearly blood test have deemed them unnecessary.

However, I now have Vitamin D deficiency instead. Plus ça change.
I would say "won", actually. Think about how the average person behaves. Our community here at Hacker News is unusual. Most people believe whatever they see and tell their friends and family so. Once enough people in a group acquire a belief this way, there's almost no way you can make inroads into their minds. I believe that Russia, and only Russia, won the election in 2016. We just depend too much on the internet for information nowadays and its too easy to disseminate disinformation on that platform.

I mean, come on, a lot of us here know how web sites work. For a major country's spy agency, it would be trivially easy to automate account sign up and posting. Is it that hard to imagine? And when every dumb Joe on the planet is likely to believe the first thing they read that strategically appeals to their emotions? You do the math.
If I was Amazon LLC I'd sue for defamation.
I couldn't find anything besides Russian propaganda outlets. Do you have links to any reputable sources?
> Lots of my coworkers seem to just hold their stock though. Am I crazy that that's a bad idea?

They are gambling. If you sell and they hold, they might make more money than you. They might make a lot more money. Or, they might lose most or all it.

Playing the lottery is a bad idea, but lots and lots of people do it.

One way to view it is you can trade your potential (but less likely) future gains for a guarantee today. If you won't feel bad taking your 10x now and watching a co-worker get 100x later, if that possibility doesn't bother you, then sell and don't worry about it.

As far as an advisor, if you have goals and already know exactly how to meet your goals, and you stay on top of your investments, you might not need one. Lots of people are like me and hate actively managing their money. Lots of people don't know what their investment options are and don't have concrete steps in mind for reaching retirement with a specific amount of money.

That said, I've found the fees for financial advice to be worth the money almost always. Similar to getting a lawyer or having someone do my taxes. I usually discover that doing it myself is a mistake and that getting professional help is worth paying for.
Wait, the US allows widespread use of potentially catastrophic chemical substances without conducting independent research of its safety or efficacy?

America circa 2018 everyone.
Such as the radio stations involved in the Rwandan genocide, or the current allegations that Facebook posts are being used to incite violence and ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.
This problem has been a structural feature of the academic profession for a long time -- Max Weber famously wrote about it almost 100 years ago: http://anthropos-lab.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Weber...
Figure out what your tax situation will be before selling. Short-term capital gains are taxed at your ordinary income tax bracket whereas long-term capital gains are taxed no higher than 20%.

If they'll be taxed at the short-term level, wait one year until they turn into long-term capital gains. You'll be saved from paying thousands in taxes.
Is the emulator getting better?
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I wouldn't at all be surprised if all interns are let go after three months for a bogus reason ("you're toxic!") so that the company can continuously get free work from unwitting internship candidates.
You claim that I'm "parroting lies", but the article you linked confirms what I said: American intelligence claimed that there were WMDs in Iraq. Notably, it says that "Before the October 2002 NIE, some intelligence agencies assessed that the Iraqi government was reconstituting a nuclear weapons program", and that "The intelligence community consistently stated between the late 1990s and 2003 that Iraq retained biological warfare agents and the capability to produce more". It is reporting in greater detail what I briefly mentioned in my comment.

It is true that parts of these reports were exaggerated and parts were not given attention, but the same can be said of intelligence reports about Russian influence in elections. About your three points, none disproves my implication that the reports mentioned by Twitter are fake - if anything, b and c may make it more difficult to produce false reports, but certainly not impossible
Don't get a financial advisor until the generally accepted advise of "Vanguard index funds" doesn't make sense anymore. Typically this is at the point where you're considering a second home or something that costs approximately as much, but if you live in the Bay Area or somewhere similarly expensive, you could do well with an advisor well before reaching that point.

When you do, be aware that financial advisors who take a commission have an incentive to sell you products that will make them money. Look for a fee-for-service FA who has a fiduciary duty to you. NAPFA[0] can help with this. You pay them for their advice. They don't make money off your investments.

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They probably have nothing. I've never seen a job posting for a junior position saying you will be a key part of the design and implementation of the entire product.
Or maybe, juuuust maybe, people have different opinions about things.

Imagine that.
Actual court briefing:
https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/MDLLetNothingGo...
You either didn't read the post, or you are taking their informal problem statement ("our frontend will call your endpoint [..]") WAY too literally. Hint: their frontend will NOT actually be calling your endpoint. They will probably never even run your endpoint once. It's just a way to describe where in the flow they want you to plug into.

They want an HTTP endpoint that takes a file over POST. Then they want an HTTP endpoint that returns the list of files over GET. They would also like basic things like a way to take an auth token to check if you have permission to upload, some unit testing, etc.

If you think this is anywhere even near to the ballpark of "actual work that they will use in their product", you're insane. This is basically 95% Django boilerplate that an experienced Django dev would be able to type out faster than it takes me to write this comment. To suggest that "write and read a .jpg" is somehow a part of their system that they're outsourcing (rather than the kind of thing you can find written out in dozens of Stack Overflow answers) is absurd.
So it's propaganda to talk about the Flint Michigan water crisis and the utter failure of US officials in dealing with it?

That's the kind of stuff RT publishes most of the time! Read through the historical headlines. This is a very embarrassing and inappropriate move by Twitter, likely intended only to curry favor with American elected officials.
This reminds me of the Tyrone Hayes story https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/02/10/a-valuable-rep...
Looks like they just took down their Facebook page due to negative reviews (as I was viewing it, interestingly enough). Curious to see how they attempt damage control.

https://www.facebook.com/thebeeinc/
Hey, I work with AWS Serverless Stack (Lambda, DDB and API) along with Angular 2. I also do work with Xamarin.
If you only release half of a narrative to fit your view, are you being truthful? It is debatable as it allows people to potentially infer untruths.
Again: The US media have admitted the error and have engaged in considerable soul searching.

Can you say the same for RT and Sputnik?
AI that writes code. Will it replace coders??
Locally sourced = bought from the supermarket down the road
You are delusional if you focus on Russia as a threat. It's like all these talks about guns. Guns and Russia are the least of our problems.
Not in the USA, it can't. Some darker corners of the internet say that's the case in Sweden, but even then they're mis-stating the case.

In the USA, even rape is often questioned as rape. We've had national politicians make false claims about "legitimate rape," and how rare that was.

In no case whatsoever is there any idea that "regret = rape," and if you've been led to believe that about the USA, you've been in some very disturbing places on the internet.
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> Research supported by my organization, Atlas Network, shows that there is a measurable connection between economic progress and measures like property rights and legal protections for businesses.

You don't say...
So your comment is completely irrelevant. You're just trying to distract from the point. And speak for yourself about not caring. You're just trying to get people to stop talking about it.
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anyone have experience using one of these array data stores to handle large amounts of weather forecast data? At my job we've come up with our own clever postgres solution to handle the large amounts of gridded binary data. Essentially we are inserting large 3D arrays (a series of images where each pixel represents a geographic location and a value, like windspeed or temperature or rainfall) into our postgres. Our solution is solid but am always on the lookup for new novel approaches.
That's true regardless of whether or not Twitter exists.

It's still a false equivalence inasmuch as a rich American is spending money in a way to maintain the status quo; rich Americans like the Koch Brothers benefit from American hegemony. They spend their money to enrich themselves, but they still want the US to remain in power.

A rival government, however, does not want the US to remain in power. As an American company, Twitter benefits from American hegemony, and will act to protect it.
Thank you, this will help!!
> an attack on it is an existential threat

You may want to investigate the voter ID / disenfranchisement question.
That book is great, but it’s discussion of graphical techniques is shallow (by design, it’s an overview book). Real-time Rendering was the book given to me back when I was first learning game development:

http://www.realtimerendering.com/book.html
It's typically best to sell immediately, unless the stock has a fairly historic pattern and is currently oversold. Instead of looking at the the grant as part of your investment portfolio, simply treat it as a cash bonus...
It’s almost the same. The biggest difference is the tax consequence of selling. If I have $100K of cash then I have no tax liability to enter any distribution of holdings. If I have $100K of shares of company X then liquidating it will incur a tax consequence of the full value (assuming I got them at a price of zero as a bonus).

Now that’s not justification for keeping it in company stock. If anything, you’re better off liquidating it and putting it in something else you’re not going to sell for a long while (say diversified ETFs). But it’s not apples to apples like having the cash to start.
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Proper response: "OK, so I found a problem with one of the open source tools we use and I know how to fix it. Do you want me to 1) not fix it, in which case our code is broken, 2) put a workaround in our codebase, which you'll have to maintain forever 3) create a fork of the codebase which you'll have to maintain forever, including merging upstream changes, or else forego future bugfixes and improvements or 4) contribute the fix back to the original project on company time, which means you'll never have to pay to maintain that code?"
Lol, where is AI that writes code found on this website?
Whatever it is, I think we can all agree that "Work unpaid for 3 months and then maybe have a job" is so far from the mark as to be laughable.

This is not HN being picky about interviews. This is a delusional company making absurd demands for which they are rightly being mocked.
How can the brain of your business be so boring?
Bloomberg

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-07-13/does-the-...

This reminds me of the campaign against Rachel Carson.
But how do you pad your resume with a simple stack?!
Trump doesn't know how government works other than playing king. How is that better?