skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, there's a couple reasons for RSUs to exist and the cap is a big one (the other is shareholder limits). However, the issue is vesting, not the RSU itself. You can delay RSU vesting to happen at a liquidity event and the problems go away. That leads to a bad situation where employees are stuck holding their "earned but not vested" RSUs and can't quit (similar to what already happens to people who can't afford to exercise their ISOs, or even if they can, they get bombed by AMT and don't have a liquid stock to pay taxes with). This seems like a solvable problem. If all it did was cause companies to figure out how to make their shares liquid in some fashion (IPO, secondary market, private exchange -- something) that would be net-positive for employees.
Also gives employers air cover to let go of the non-workers hiding on the payroll.
Multiprogramming a 64 kB Computer Safely and Efficiently [pdf]
I have totally turned into an Alice recently. I am watching an important project turn into a failure for no good reason at all, and I feel like I can either just stop giving a shit about the outcome and go along with it, or I can keep saying that this isn't going to work, and to recover we need to do x.
I read about these only in response to the situation a lot of engineers were in at Uber -- was this a thing prior?
https://www.fenwick.com/publications/Pages/Proposed-Tax-Refo...

> The proposed bill leaves Section 422 of the Code, governing the taxation of ISOs, untouched, apparently exempting it from new Section 409B. As a result, ISOs may continue to offer employees eligibility to receive favorable tax treatment by deferring taxation until sale
Agree. But reverting this is really hard. Because it is crucial to .NET to play both fields right now for the next ten years :). Reworking Xamarin is not an option in a time when the race against Cordova, React Native, Node, Swift, Go and Python is fully ongoing. They are pragmatic here, how they should be.
That seems correct:

However, it is intended that statutory options are not considered nonqualified deferred compensation for purposes of the proposal. An exception is provided for that portion of a plan consisting of a transfer of property described in section 83 (other than stock options) or which consists of a trust to which section 402(b) applies.

Page 209 of https://www.jct.gov/publications.html?func=download&id=5031&...

But I'm not sure how this impacts ISOs with an 83(b) election.
I too benefited from relatively unfettered access to the internet as child, but as a 14-year old, not a 4-year old.
"No CPU involved" is not strictly true, as the CPU is doing the LFO. You can observe this by, for example, rapidly moving the data slider and noticing that the LFO slows down.

I considered doing a super-accurate "dirty" mode but ultimately decided against, as most of these changes would make it sound worse. One important subtlety is that after the DAC (which is just sample-and-hold) there's a Sallen-Key low-pass filter tuned at about 16kHZ, to round off the worst of the DAC artifacts. Many digital replicas (my own included) miss this, which gives a harsh brittleness to the sound.

I know dexed added multiple bit depths (this work was done after mine, and I haven't followed their fork carefully). I don't know about the other aspects of the signal chain though.

I get where you are coming from, though, and think it would be a good project for a super-dedicated contributor.
You can't be a superior engineering contributor unless you are honest with everyone, from superiors to peers, to reports. The key is how you present information. I just proactively scheduled a 1-1 with a Sr VP three levels above me for later this month to cover an important topic.

This is what I want to tell them:

Our core customer facing application is shit. The contractors who wrote it cut tons of corners and the marketing people who designed did a horrible job, the UI emphasizes features customers don't care about, and makes it extremely difficult for customers to actually reach and use the revenue generating sections of the app. Not only is the marketing leadership is disfunctional, and worse, you (the Sr VP) have created a disfunctional development organization, that makes me wonder if you understand how to develop commercial applications.

This is what I will say:

The weaknesses in our core application are costing the company millions of dollars a month. We are struggling with making quick, effective decisions and shipping new versions to address the major problems because we have "too many cooks in the kitchen" in our team meetings and planning. I will give specific examples and relate them to specific examples from my long history shipping quality commercial apps on time. I will finish by saying the team is demotivated and underperforming, which makes you, the Sr VP, look bad, and plead that we need to solve this, for them and the company both.
> A friendly reminder that it's VC's like Fred Wilson who insist on provisions in option grants that require exercise within 90 days of leaving a company.

Well, except that the IRS also has a say in this as well. The IRS won't let companies issue ISOs with no expiration date like that; if the company tries, they'll be treated as NSOs for tax reasons, which defeats the whole point.

There was actually a bill last year that would have fixed this specific situation (taxation of ISOs for startup employees in a way that doesn't expire 3 months after termination), but the Senate Democrats blocked it, because they branded it as a "tax cut for the wealthy".
In which case there needs to be easy to employ mechanisms to redress grievances, which tech corps currently don't have. For example, account lockouts and DMCA takedowns (when done by error or if the user thinks is unfair) are pretty much permanent. Your best option is to accept the data loss, move on and create another account.

My point is censorship is a huge responsibility and power, especially when it is done at the scale govts and multi-national corps do, and therefore it needs serious transparency and checks and balances, in both cases.

I don't see this happening to satisfaction. Instances of regrettable censorship stay regrettable, and keep recurring.
A good point. Firefox sync has zero-knowledge encryption, Chrome sync doesn't. It is just that if Firefox sync stores your history, Chrome sync probably does it too.

And interestingly, you could have a page showing your search history with Firefox sync just like with Google. Just because a page shows you private data doesn't mean someone else has access to it, and the more common opposite is also true.
Just hijacking this question for my benefit as well. I am a product manager in enterprise focused software. I want to transition to the world of AI. Is Udacity's $600 Deep Learning Nano degree worth it ?
Great article for anyone interested.[1]Thanks for making me aware of this.

[1]http://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,166732,...
What do you do with 150 tabs?

When I have 20 open I already start to get confused about where stuff is...
Why does this annoy you? Some of the MOOCs are amazing and they certainly don't shortcut. I had many hard-learned lessons and realizations when going through the MOOCs I have taken. They also help in "knowing what you don't know"...which is essential in breaking out of ignorance.
I've been pretty happy with FF57. One thing I've noticed is that opening a new tab seems to block the browser. I have my new tab page set to a personal web page, which takes 150ms to fetch. If I open a new tab and press F6 before the page is loaded, it doesn't read the input.

Other than that the only thing I really want is tab groups.
Thanks, you beat me to it!
Amazon will run a multi-season Lord of the Rings prequel TV series
roll less than 10: you lose your job... :|
If there's anything to take away from this article, it's that machine learning is the future. I feel like this articles says:

1. Machine learning for healthcare

2. Machine learning for language

3. Machine learning and brain-computer interface

4. Machine learning and flying cars

5. Quantum computing
OpenMP is great and all, but you're going to have an awfully hard time beating numpy on either speed or correctness, since it's using LAPACK under the hood already.
The EVE-Online marketplace should satisfy the "kinda Wall-Street software" requirement.

(No I'm not making the spreadsheets in space joke.)
Personally I would prefer them to go even further into the early Third Age. The Fall of Arnor, the Kin-Strife -- there is a lot of epic events, with a much darker tone.
D-Wave Announces Upgrades to D-Wave 2000Q Quantum Computer
You can find pretty much all the data that Google has on you - they allow you to examine the history of it. As far as I know they don't track your entire web browsing history but they do record all uses of their sites with your account.

But personally I certainly don't need to be logged in using any of Googles services except for GMail so I'd rather just not build up the history rather than having to go about deleting it (or not because there's so many other things to get distracted by)
>Any country that run his own currency can produce an infinity quantity of it.

Obviously, but in reality countries only mint more currency according to a strict schedule to avoid destabilizing their economy. UBI has to abide by this otherwise you will do real damage to your economy.

My statement is not without meaning, you cannot pretend that a country will be able to give out more wealth that it actually possesses. Technically, the US is over this threshold, but we have a massive amount of credit that we are able to leverage.

>We know empirically (see your comment, for instance) that some people would vote against a raise. That idea that 'people' is unable to control their passions is not supported by history. Not so long ago, basic income was rejected by referendum in Switzerland.

In regard to Switzerland rejecting UBI I think the issue is once people are dependent on UBI dialing back payouts is near impossible even if it makes the most sense economically.

Educated voters will reject raises, but this is like saying that educated people will not eat in excess of what they need. In reality, America has lots of people who know better but are still overweight because of the dependency cycle it creates.
thanks for the direct ftp link, and congrats to the firefox team! i've been using 57 (and 58) via the developer edition and really like the improvements.

but i think i'll stick with 56 as my default browser for a little longer since quantum breaks some great legacy add-ons:

* NoScript -- control script execution
* RequestPolicy (and its variants) -- control content requests
* Blend In -- use the most common user agent string

ublock origin can somewhat replace the first two (although i think its UI could use some improvement) but the latter one and a few more that i use don't have direct equivalents (yet).
I think having access to rides at all hours is helpful. You might not take many rides at 2am, but when you do, its something pretty important. Having a safe option that's available at any time of day or night will make self-driving equal to or better than actually owning a car and far superior to conventional taxi rides.
I wonder if those studies that link latitudes with cancer accounted for cold weather? A quick google search revealed that there seems to be a relation there: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/269266.php
free() is O(n) in the number of dead objects, and needs to defrag unless your object sizes are very stable. A GC can just copy the minority of live objects and then reuse the whole arena.
Flying cars and more: 6 Cool Ideas from Web Summit 2017
The South had been the UK's biggest cotton supplier prior to the war. If you think that UK textiles manufacturers were ecstatic that hey, now they might get more cotton from Egypt or wherever, you're not right. And those manufacturers employed many, many people in the UK.
How about having AI actually fly the car?

In other words, I'm not going to see flying cars in my lifetime, then? I mean, from my POV, that is some serious hand-waving, at least until we get some demonstrable AI in consumer products that's anywhere near what I'd trust to drive a car, let alone fly something.
I think that is some kind of rowing/swimming/boating course. It shows up in the running layer because a few people mislabel their activity types. It shows up much stronger in the water layer. Next update to the heatmap I intend to add a activity type classifier to help with these errors.
> The difference is that in most situations you can sell vested options on a secondary market, Uber made it a contractual requirement on vesting that they could not be sold on any secondary market (they could only be sold back to Uber for the strike price).

After Facebook learned this lesson the "hard" way[0], that's actually pretty standard. Every startup started within the last 5+ years has this same provision in their options, if you read the fine print, and older companies all amended their option terms for new grants.

[0] hard way for Facebook, not for the employees.
Sure, but who said we should simply "trust" that?
Sounds like "the individual responsible" forgot to set some communities on the peering session.

Not exactly: https://bgpstream.com/event/112734
Intro to AI

https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-artificial-intellige...

Machine Learning

https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning

The Pacman programming exercises in python

http://ai.berkeley.edu/project_overview.html

And the Kaggle Titanic Survivability dataset

https://www.kaggle.com/c/titanic

But if you desire an even gentler intro. Try Daniel Shiffman's Nature of Code in P5

http://natureofcode.com/

best of luck ;)
I have two critical extensions and a few others that would all break with 56 or 57. No thanks, I'll stick with what works.

Shoving webextensions down everyone's throat, and only afterwards starting to work on implementing APIs and giving anyone a chance to start working on porting stuff. No thanks.
British Expats living abroad were allowed to vote. As long as you lived in the UK within the last 15 years you can vote in Elections and Referendums.
I've learned computer science in college, so I do have _some_ linear algebra background. I'm by no means an expert coder, but maybe 'intermediary' would have been a better description than 'novice'. :-)
The common vs preferred spread is usually enough to make this a non-issue unless you are a very well-paid executive. This is why I was careful to say the _average_ employee is likely to do better, strictly in terms of startup compensation.
Firefox has had syncing built in for a while: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/sync/

Haven't tried it on iOS yet, but it worked great on my Android.
You seem like you're imagining a very ideal world. I personally know many engineers who joined a company for one reason, then the team/company began a new project and migrated to Java. I have seen people argue about the choice of underlying technology in code reviews. And if you think my specific scenario was unrealistic, then perhaps attempt to understand it as a general example of "something that is obvious to you and which you think you have explained adequately in the past and should not need to explain again and again". If you still can't understand it, then I think you may simply have never worked with anyone who was at a significantly lower level of knowledge/comprehension than yourself, and perhaps you just aren't capable of understanding the situation without having been in it.
Thank you! Should I start with the Machine Learning one?
Found a text only version too. Don't have the graphic novel to know how close it follows the text.

http://www.unexploredworlds.com/RealPulp/htm/rpulp145.htm

edit: Huh there's a weird repetition in the middle it looks like, unless there's two almost exactly identical passages.
Whether it be the sun, the moon, or the stars and regardless of what we thought we were seeing, when we looked up in the sky we saw things we could not reach that fueled our imagination and our desire for exploration.

A subsurface dweller would always see and feel physical bounds and would probably assume that's all there was to it.
This seems to have a rather strong focus on speed.
If someone does something wrong, Alice tells them plainly, and they get offended, whose fault is it? Some people say it's Alice' fault for offending; some say it's the person's fault for doing it wrong in the first place, and for subsequently getting offended.

I think we're conflating is and ought here. It's probably a fact of reality that most people aren't happy to be told they're wrong. But arguably people ought to accept the consequences of being wrong, e.g. feeling bad when they're told.

I've talked to lots of startups in San Francisco. Most are failing, just due to the nature of startups, but can survive if they reach a finite set of straightforward goals. They've found product/market fit, they know what they have to do, they just have to do it, and the correct 10,000 characters of code input into a computer would solve all their business problems. There's often a lot of handwringing about why they're failing: the process is wrong; communication is wrong; something or other. But the largest reason they're failing is that they're insufficiently good at technology. You know who'd be really good at fixing that? A team of Alices.

I think Alices get too much flak. Bob is genuinely a toxic character. But if your only fault is telling the truth, which offends people, and you're otherwise excellent at your job--- there's a huge opportunity for twenty Alices to get together, bypass the inefficiencies of being offended, and win big. Tech has an obvious historical example.

Edit: I reread the description of Alice. All right, maybe don't browbeat your point into others.
I don't. I use a mix of Google services and non-Google services, and I've never had a hard time finding a good competitor for a Google tool.
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On my phone it often uses 100% CPU for extended periods of time, and does lots of writes to storage. And it has never been fast to begin with.

I mean, a five year old phone isn't top of the line anymore, but if other browsers work just fine, I'm reasonably sure where the blame lies...
ORM going down is good news indeed.
>I know many early stage employees that achieved significant financial upside by working at early stage startups .Working at an early stage startup is probably the only low-risk way of achieving that.

I mean knowing "many" is different than that being the majority of the cases, and I would strongly dispute that working at a startup is a "low risk" way of achieving some huge financial upside. I in fact remember seeing on Hacker news a few months back (I'll see if I can find it) a study that basically stated that in the aggregate employee stock options at startups aren't worth the risk.
There are people, including highly skilled, who are not jerks and are not destroying anything to others. There are even people who are not jerks despite management itself being evil.

Management has part of blame, but jerk is responsible for his own behavior. Jerk is responsible for what strategies he choose to look brilliant. (And people with autism don't count as jerks unless they are. Most of them are willing to stop behavior when explained what the issue is directly.)
> Being a fellow northerner, walking outside doesn't do much in the winter when 95% of my body is covered in clothing.

Even if you were naked it wouldn’t help, the sun would be too low.
Lyme can be asymptomatic for _years_ and in many cases it doesn't even cause the initial rash!
> the questions seem pretty easy for anyone who has dealt with trying to create useful indexes in different databases and debugged slow running queries on an index.

"Should be obvious to the most dim-witted individual..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4F8jfeLog4
Passenger aircraft use a lot of fuel because they are flying 10x the speed of a normal car.

Low speed flight can use significantly less energy than driving somewhere. The advantages of only slowing down once and having a shorter trip end up being significant.
And in this case, the "bear" is biter evolution. The biters (enemies in the game) get stronger over time. At the beginning they're trivial to kill with your basic weapons or turrets, but as they get stronger you'll need walls, AP ammunition, and then finally laser turrets (in increasing numbers) to fend them off. If you aren't automating construction of this stuff then you'll fall behind and get killed.

I discovered this in my first play-through because I was prioritizing high tech research over military research, and thus didn't get laser turrets until well after I needed them to take on the stronger biters. I had to roll back an hour and change my research priorities to get them in time to prevent getting stomped.
Andrew Ng's courses are excellent. Another pretty good Coursera course is Machine Learning Foundations from the University of Washington. It is very high level and novice friendly. While it covers non of the math and very little programming it does give a nice quick introduction to the most popular ML techniques out there and when to use them. It all depends on what level you are interested in starting. They also have follow up courses that go deeper into the different techniques.
Humanity often has periods of instability following major discoveries that unseat orthodox ideals. An argument can be made that much of the cultural instability in the modern US and its animosity to science can be rooted in an "allergic" reaction to the ideas of evolution and a greater understanding of just how old and vast our universe actually is.

Personally, such an argument would be a bit simplistic, but you'd be a fool to ignore how discombobulating evolution has been to much of Evangelical America. People who believe they are the center of universe tend to find it difficult to accept evidence to the contrary. To use another literary reference, there are a lot of warty bliggens in the world.
> It mentions deferred compensation, which I'm not sure was a comment on options specifically or something else.

Deferred compensation plans are something else entirely; they're a way to say "hold back part of my salary and invest it in a 401k-like thing, and give it to me later". (Such plans are non-qualified and not backed by anything other than the credit of the company, unlike a 401k, so not something you want to do if you have any doubts in future solvency.)
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Thank you! Didn't knew that about LFO. And I just found your wiki page [1], it's very informative. So I would like direct any curious reader there :)

[1] https://github.com/google/music-synthesizer-for-android/blob...
> This just feels like a very safe "me too Game of Thrones" play.

No more than Game of Thrones was a "me too Lord of the Rings" play. I mean, seriously, Tolkien's work was first in both book and movie/TV form.
Generate a Random Tensor in Tensorflow
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Also, you don't need the perfect app just something your customers can use.

and, if you can't get this done without people you personally know, meet more people.
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At your level yes, I would recommend starting with the ML course. It is really beneficial to understanding how the mathematics work.

The two most important things to remember, since the courses are challenging: 1) don't be in a hurry, and 2) don't give up! Take the time to learn every detail presented, do the optional exercises, and dig deep.
Perhaps remixed, trimmed and partially augmented are better terms
What to ask an interviewer during a tech interview
Same here. I'm just not updating...