skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surprised you are being downvoted, you are absolutely right. "Housing" supply is kind of a joke, because what we're really talking about is land, which is fixed in supply. And not just any land, but prime land that is near jobs and infrastructure.

You can build as much housing as you want, in the middle of nowhere, and it will be useless.

What is needed is housing in prime areas, but those areas are held as speculative investments, because it is cheaper and safer to just wait for the price to rise than to take on the risk and cost of actually doing something with the land. Or maybe they only do some trivial use, like a surface level parking lot, in an area suited for skyscrapers.

Every vacant lot or abandoned building is owned by someone. The trick is to make it too expensive to idly hold. At that point, the artificially high demand for land as a speculative holding will go away, and prices will decline.

But, rent itself will always approximate the value of the location, and if the location keeps getting more valuable, the prices will keep going up. The question is whether they are high because of real production or artificial speculation.
I remember that ultrasound[0] was very promising a few years back. Does anyone have any more recent info?

[0]: http://www.sciencealert.com/new-alzheimer-s-treatment-fully-...
Be Somebody Nobody Thought You Could Be
They used several techniques that clear beta amyloid from the brain.(antibodies and ultrasound). And they've have little if any effect on cognition. I'm starting to think beta amyloid is a red herring, or maybe just important in the prodromal stages of the disease.
People know how to use computers just fine. Very few people need to know how the programs they use are implemented, or even the data structures they use. For most people nowadays, computers are for playing games, sending and receiving mail, watching videos, reading the news, shopping, and organizing your photograph collection. You don't need to know how to program to use a modern computer.

Also, whether photographs or anything else use files stored in hierarchical directories is a historical accident. There are alternatives to file systems. For example, Squeak doesn't have files, hierarchically organized or otherwise, just persistent objects. EROS also took that approach.
Does this mean Firefox is comparable to Chrome wrt/ sandboxing?
So, by flying on an airplane I forfeit my privacy in exchange for a facade of security?

Nothing suspect about this.
> A founder is supposed to think about stuff that often competes with that, like making employees feel motivated or delivering value to customers.

Honestly, I think this explains why sidelining founders early has such a bad track record. They may not be expert managers, but they have goals consistent with building for the long term. (The ones who make it to successful companies, anyway.)

A lot of the horror stories from the dot com era are of visionary-but-unskilled CEOs being replaced by experienced executives from big 90s companies. And so management improved and waste was cut, but the company promptly became adversarial with its customers and even employees. Without the capital reserves and institutional power of BigCo, weak talent and angry consumers drove them into the ground. (I vaguely suspect this is why tech companies this cycle have been so slow to rationalize around perks - it's worth overspending on worse-than-cash offerings just to ensure you don't go too far the other direction.)

I've heard it said that at a certain size, companies stop being entities in a market and grow markets inside the company. Certainly, many large companies appear to view their employees and consumers as enemies. (e.g. Walmart's view on staff, EA's view on game buyers.) So CEOs who don't operate like that after winning are framed as 'bad' executives, while startups that bring in BigCo thinking too soon destroy all of their advantages.
This letter shows a frank and direct understanding of the opium epidemic in China prior to the wars that essentially wiped out millennia of national prosperity and relative economic superiority. Advanced Persistent Threats in cyber security sponsored by nation governments are considered one form of multi-generational retribution. Would we write a similar letter today regarding fentanyl?
I'm continually fascinated by the gaming community's relationship with EA.

It's like, "Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me 37 times. . . ahh, what the hey, let's throw another 60 quid in this hole. I'm sure this time it'll be different."
Newsblur offers personalization of your feed content through simple up down feedback. Surprisingly effective.

That being said I prefer the firehose to a crafted cocktail.
So we need to split this issue between companies that are public (or otherwise have liquid equity) and those that don't.

For the big companies it's pretty easy. They're largely RSU based. Shares are vested/released. Many companies allow full autosale. Easy. Even in the case of selling enough shares to cover withholding your still left with something very liquid.

Options in public companies are in basically the same boat.

The tricky one is early stages startups.

If you have options that have an exercise price at or over market value then you can take a Rule 83(b) election to defer your entire tax liability til exercise.

If the exercise price is below market then that would mean paying tax on the entire grant even though you may never receive it. Easier option for founders than employees.

Either way it doesn't cover grants along the way.

I do think it's a reasonable complaint to get taxed on something you can't liquidate.

So two things jump out at me:

1. Issuing RSUs in a non-public company send like a bad idea. Does anyone actually do this?

2. The vast majority of tax revenue would come from FAMGA shares which are already taxed so what's actually going to be gained by this? Or is executive compensation (ie ISOs) able to get favorable treatment already? This reason sooner makes it seem like a bad idea.

EDIT: an answer to my own question (emphasis added):

https://www.recode.net/2017/11/12/16640530/uber-peace-deal-r...

> Under terms of the deal agreed on, those eligible employees with stock options are capped at selling half their holdings (and those with restricted stock units cannot sell in this round).

So apparently some Uber employees have RSUs and Uber obiously public or liquid.
It's not playing a stupid game if you got press-ganged into working for them.
103BN is more than a GDP of entire countries. This is just mind blowing.
Hackers Claim to Break Face ID a Week After iPhone X Release
If people hate EA so much, why do they keep buying their games? It's not like Time Warner, with a monopoly you can't avoid.
Firefox 57 Final download
Kubernetes, explained in comic form
No. Now that they have multi-process in good shape they can start getting there though.
> There are two truths here: 1) Any language can be as fast as C and 2) When they are as fast as C, they also look like C regardless what it was to begin with.

Hence the maxim:

"The determined Real Programmer can write FORTRAN programs in any language."

It applies to C as well.
Annoy your users and waste their time: the secrets to a successful freemium
While I don't disagree, it's still hard to turn a blind eye to the Texas church shootings, or the Las Vegas shootings, or the NY park pickup truck slaughter. Any politician that just throws up his arms and says "it all just statistics" is likely out of a job.

Privacy invasion has to be stopped by law. There is no way, currently, for a person who has public safety as a responsibility to say "no" to this kind of technology.

It's much the same with businesses invading user privacy and using it to drive profits. Without a law forbidding it, everyone has to keep up with the profits of the most "evil" corporation.

We need explicit laws.
Ask HN: How to deal with clients that want a signed agreement on a deadline
When dealing with client work what's the best way to deal with a client that want's a signed agreement on a deadline?

My best guess is to explain to the client why software projects miss the deadlines so often, explaining that if we follow this way we cannot have reviews on the project requirements as the project evolves and that I'll have to significantly raise the estimate so I can throw money at any unexpected/unantecipated difficulty.
Why shouldn't it keep you away from Chrome ? It's faster, uses less memory, and the "maker", Mozilla is more trustworthy compared with Google.

What's missing ?
I felt exactly the same while watching it. Neat promise and entertaining. Something you can binge and enjoy without thinking too much. 3/5 is a nice rating when you compare to some of this season's anime series. There are a lot of show that I would rate 0/5 or even -1/5.
Good question!

That’s why we need research. We don’t know if they have a common cause or just a common mechanism of action. They very well could be the same disease; Lyme Disease is not well understood and has been implicated in all sorts of neurological diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis and Alzheimer’s.

But the link isn’t quite obvious enough and the potential treatments, which rules out government money; and aren’t considered to be profitable, which rules out commercial money. Good for Gates stepping in here
I guess this is also what made Lisp and Smalltalk so powerful, right?
It sounds like instead of turning off GC, the algorithm was changed to an "automatic" allocation/deallocation scheme that's closer to what you might see with manual memory management in a C like world. I wonder if the Go runtime has any optimizations to turn things into stack/static allocations in that scenario.
Though when you navigate to a new page the address bar does show as the page loads.
How do the results change if you use DynArray.make and pass the count instead of DynArray.create? I think the comment you're replying to was talking about preallocated static arrays, not dynamically resizing ones.
Is any computer program a bot now?
I have been thinking of switching back from Chrome to Firefox. I haven't been able to find decent profile support though (so I can keep work and private data separate), and all profiles addons are broken at the moment.
> I do think it's a reasonable complaint to get taxed on something you can't liquidate.

One way to sidestep this would be to force the taxing authority to take some of the options as payment, rather than cash. You've been granted 100 options at a value of $x each and the tax rate is 20%? Just give them 20 options. That way it doesn't matter what x is or whether the market is liquid!
Looking at the Totes comment, I can see why: https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsBattlefront/comments/7cff0b...

That's a lot of linked subreddits, plus you've got people from HN and probably other places going to check out "the most downvoted comment in Reddit's history".
It's worth noting that Broadcom does not make one. Qualcomm and Broadcom overlap in WiFi + Bluetooth.

I know of three LTE modem manufacturers: Qualcomm, Intel, Mediatek.
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In a way, it is - who else is making a Star Wars game like this?
So far, I don't believe we have much, if any, concrete evidence that pervasive surveillance makes anyone safer. What little evidence exists is self-serving and sounds more like advertising then anything else. These surveillance organizations cost large amounts of money and produce nothing but large backlogs of data that no one has time to analyze.

In my opinion, that only makes it more likely that this data will be misused in order to prove that the dollars spent yielded _something._ That the cry of "safety" is accepted as somehow obviously true is a significant problem and exacerbates the issue.
I was just thinking that...
If it's not an app, yup.

I'd have actually read the article if had been titled: You won't believe how I increased sales by 10% with this one simple trick.
Can someone explain how the taxable amount would be calculated if the company isn't listed on the stock market. My options are for value x per share. I would expect to pay taxes for y - x with y being the market value. How does the actual market value get established? Will that number just come from what was used when someone invested previously?
The Firefox Multi-Account containers are great: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

Multiple profiles within a single window, visually distinguished by tab highlight color.
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Autonomous cars also has a regional learning curve that benefits from having many human drivers on the road in many cities. For a purely autonomous company to enter a new market, they need to map it and there is a learning curve to building out maps sufficient to provide all the possible routes in a city. An autonomous network that can only do some routes and is useless for other routes, is going to have an expensive time scaling as they will have to put human drivers behind the wheel until they know they can operate safely in that new market.

A company with many existing human drivers can easily enlist those drivers with autonomous-car quality mapping kits. The drivers are all already driving all possible routes, so mapping a new market is much easier and cheaper. Furthermore, a mixture of autonomous cars for routes that autonomous cars can operate safely and human-driven cars for routes that are still being learned guarantees that the service is useful for any route a rideshare customer might want to take.

Lastly, you won't be able to operate a self-driving network without great ops. You need people to maintain the vehicles and provide customer service. Building out a great ops org is yet another massive learning curve for a purely autonomous company.
In aggregate yes, but it would be interesting to know what Uber’s numbers are for just the markets where they compete with Lyft.
I'd suggest that the kind of people who get things started are often not well adjusted to the kind of guard-labour that's so often typical of management and C-level roles.
> let me go pick up that management skills and MBA book

If a founder were going to devote time to management skills, I wonder what the most beneficial topic would be?

My first two guesses are a decent guide to hiring (if one exists), and an HR guide to crisis management. CEO-style leadership is impossible in a startup, so it seems like hedging against crisis is the best bet. If you can slightly lower the odds of a bad hire or internal schism, that's probably higher-value than any marginal improvement.

I'd definitely be interested to hear other thoughts, though: whats the best rapid improvement available?
I don't really know, but it isn't impossible to do a takeover when index funds own a lot. If ISS is on the side of the acquirer, the index funds are likely to go with what they say.
> I'm not up to date on current research into that direction, but I think hydration plays a very big role in Alzeimer's symptoms on the elderly.

Here's some recent research you might be interested in:

https://www.nutraingredients.com/Article/2017/10/31/Major-EU...
"But, sadly, I don’t think this is really about what makes sense. It is about politics."

Clearly this proposal is targeted directly at private SV and tech companies.

And the mortgage deduction and state tax write off proposals are targeted at California / NY.

Outside of just a big FU from the Republicans to largely Democratic states what is the end game?

E.g. - what are the Republicans actually negotiating for, assuming points like the RSUs are proposed as leverage vs real reform?
Do you remember the name of the book?
> Wow that's some incredible brigading.

Is it really brigading? The entire gaming community hates those practices. Nobody is manipulating people to downvote this comment. It's genuine hate and digust. Paying the price of a game to unlock one single character is a joke.

EA's reply is also very bad. "The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heroes."

I fail to see how paying $80 gives players a sense of pride and accomplishment.
It seems from the article that security tokens were not unique and being generated with a 20 millisecond granularity, furthermore the security tokens were the only thing required to access files (no username etc).

If this is correct then this is astonishingly poor design and this problem was completely predictable and obvious.
Leela Zero using volunteer computing to train a reimplementation of AlphaGo
Apple approves “Notch Remover” app for iPhone X
I'm actually going to be very interested to hear how FaceID works for the average user. False positive is one issue and one Apple lauded as being lower than TouchID.

What about the false negative rate however? This is what will actually aggravate users.

As a user I like touch unlock. I can do it without looking at the phone, having the phone gave me, in the dark, wearing sunglasses and so on.

To me face recognition just seems like a huge step backwards. I'd love to be proven wrong.
Of course it would be an informative comment that pepole don't like.
Nothing, so far. I have completely switched in the hope that I don't hit a showstopper that makes me switch back.
Ah ok so you made a feature for an already existing business model. Expanding and improving your product is surely important :)
Thank you Soneca!
The one kind of people who aren't named in this article: investors. Ben Horowitz of A16Z explained why A16Z prefers to invest in founder-led companies.

(...)

The macro reason: that’s the way most of the great technology companies have been built

(...)

Professional CEOs are effective at maximizing, but not finding, product cycles. Conversely, founding CEOs are excellent at finding, but not maximizing, product cycles.

(...)

Innovator’s requirements – what does it take to find the product cycle?

So where did Jobs get this “founders courage” and what is it? In addition to general brilliance, we see three key ingredients to being a great innovator:

1. Comprehensive knowledge

2. Moral authority

3. Total commitment to the long-term

Great founding CEOs tend to have all three and professional CEOs often lack them. Here’s why.

(...)

https://a16z.com/2010/04/28/why-we-prefer-founding-ceos/
This is the perfect solution if they really want to tax illiquid assets.
You're going to have to be specific about who's backyard. Western Europe doesn't allow executions. The UK doesn't accept organ donation from executed prisoners due to moral perceptions. And the US flat out doesn't do it because the AMA will have no part in it. So if there is evidence of prisoner organ donation please present it.
+1 I haven't been back to a casino since they kept thanking my friends by name even though they never told them their names. I don't gamble so the only loss was expensive bufffets. The 3rd f is for fat.
> That should be a clear enough example to the lawmakers that vesting should not be a taxable event.

Vesting has the unique property that before it occurs the shares are not yours and after it occurs, they clearly are (and can't be clawed back).

If you don't tax vesting, are you going to instead wait until the shares are sold to tax them? That would be very easy to abuse.

> If this provision becomes law, startup and growth tech companies will not be able to offer equity compensation to their employees.

Nothing stops you from offering it. It's up to the potential employee to accept it, weighing the possible tax liability.

> We will see equity compensation replaced with cash compensation and the ability to share in the wealth creation at your employer will be taken away.

In the vast majority of cases startup equity isn't worth the paper it's printed on. Paying their employee bonuses with cash would be a net win for their employees. The "losers" in this situation are established companies that arguably are already in a good position to pay out bonuses in cash (or at least include a cash component to cover taxes).

> This has profound implications for those who work in tech companies and equally profound implications for the competitiveness of the US tech sector.

I really doubt that. The talent pool, networks, and legal infrastructure in the USA are second to none. That's not going to suddenly shift because of minute changes to tax law.
Of course they are preparing. Facial recognition, perhaps with voice confirmation - a good idea to have a built-in safety word or phrase so if stated then it silently triggers the authorities to intercept the vehicle - for beginning the vehicle/route to destination; the buttons in trunks should perhaps even notify authorities (?) if they are pressed while the vehicle is moving; it'd go badly for pranks amongst friends ... though hopefully the first occurrences of that will go into the news - would be good marketing anyway - might not be a good idea with further thought.

Edit re: safety word or phrase - It should also trigger recording of audio and video, perhaps they will record video and/or audio to make sure there's no shenanigans; as fun as it might be to have "fun" in a vehicle while getting driven somewhere autonomously, if it's shared then I think we as a society would opt to dissuade that behaviour...
You didn't test with a static array, though:

let insert_array_test () =
let result = ref 0 in
for i = 1 to iterations do
let work = Array.make count 0 in
for j = 1 to count do
Array.set work (j - 1) j
done;
result := !result + Array.length work
done;
!result

I have the following numbers:

# main ();;
linked lists 2.983 seconds
linked lists (rec) 2.827 seconds
dynamic arrays 5.152 seconds
static arrays 1.718 seconds
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I don't understand the rage here. EA is a busyness, kindly explaining the reasoning behind their product decisions in the open. We should be thankful, not angry.
I think a bot implies some level of automated communication with a human (in this case, an email reminder).
What is mind blowing is that even $103bn is not a lot of money in the grand scheme of things. $100m isn't even a rounding error in the global economy. AB Inbev, a beer company, also recently paid $100bn to acquire their main competitor.

That puts into perspective how reasonable it is to expect to be able to make $10-20-50m building and running a business.
"Saint or GTFO" is a poor tactic against even the most minimally aware opponent.
At the rate surveillance is encroaching upon us, how long before we start receiving visits from Grammaton Clerics? Or precog women in bathtubs are reading our thoughts?
Doesn't Samsung make its own LTE chips, too, for Exynos?

I also wish Samsung would sell its Exynos chips to other smartphone OEMs. They've hinted in the past that it's Qualcomm the one blocking them from doing that with patents. Regulators should take a closer look at that.
How do niche projects like this gain traction? Is it just about SEO?
isn't this already a problem for RSU's, where you get taxed at vest time (or on the value at vest time)? Are there startups out there granting illiquid RSU's? seems like a bad fit.
How else will I be able to bank the lower-level cache for the absolute highest in performance?
Wow and I thought removing AMT was throwing folks with ISOs a bone.
A lot of people made a lot of money just researching key words, and building a product around that. I'm sure it's a quick flame, but cash can be made for sure.
I have a friend with an X who just bought a new pair of ray bands because her last pair wouldn’t work with FaceID. Pretty bizarre but understandable.
The premise flawed.
A better question is: When should I use a noSQL database instead of a SQL database?
Each tool has it's purpose.
Drugs are bad.
"... if you’re building a server, I can’t imagine using anything other than Go... I think Node is not the best system to build a massive server web. I would use Go for that. And honestly, that’s the reason why I left Node. It was the realization that: oh, actually, this is not the best server-side system ever."