skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember reading about a nightmare scenario of earlier Uber employees having to give up hundreds of thousands (or possibly millions) of dollars because of how their options were taxed. It has since changed, I believe, but it used to be that:

Upon leaving the company, they would have 90 days to exercise options. If they'd been there for a couple years during the fast growth phase, it's possible they had (e.g.) $500k in options with a strike price at $10k. Uber prohibited secondary market sales, so if you exercised your options, you had to hold on to them until IPO. However, you;d have to pay taxes on the gains on those vested options despite being unable to sell them. Suddenly you were on the hook for $171,500 in taxes ($490k * 35%) plus the $10k to vest as you quit your job -- or else lose out on $318,500 in value on those options. It led to a real golden-handcuffs situation where engineers couldn't really leave without walking away from fortunes.
Thanks for your work!
Disclosure: I'm probably exposed to every stock in this comment.

Eh. If you're smart and in technology you can beat index funds pretty easily. I'm not even counting Bitcoin. I time the market too.

Your advice works for the median person, but if you're in the intellectual 1% or 0.1% beating the market is pretty easy.

1. You should have a really good reason for buying a high P/E or negative EPS stock. It should be grounded in unit economics and entrenchment, not marketing. Tesla is a good example, I knew it was just a matter of unit economics. The technology was solid. Made over 10x sans options. Apple is another good example: They had a low P/E and I thought they were well situated to make money from services if they could just figure out how to design better software. They did it.

2. When the cover of Time magazine is this:

http://img.timeinc.net/time/images/covers/pacific/2005/20050...

And The Economist is this:

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/qcYAAOxyGwNTFJSE/s-l300.jpg

Put two and two together and put everything in cash. Sure I missed out on two years of growth, but after the recession hit I bought back at half. Bought back in when things had stabalized and recently sold 85% of the portfolio because fundamentals look wacky. It might take a month it might take two years, but another recession is coming.

3. Research the damn thing. If you don't understand it well enough don't buy it. You're not losing money by failing to buy the next hot thing. I read the entire Bitcoin paper before buying to make sure it could handle different stresses. My only regret was not leaning harder into it when I bought it at $4 CAD / BTC. I was too sheepish about "internet monopoly money" even though I knew it could hit $10k or $50k a coin if it took off.

4. Don't necessarily max out your 401k / RRSP. Tax rates are going way, way, way up once the baby boomers hit the social safety net. If you aren't at the top marginal rate you're using up tax deferment that will be better once you are. Plus having money outside of these vehicles makes investing in your friends startup easier. The only exception is if you're buying a house and you can loan yourself money from it (since it's like buying the house tax free).

5. Bubbles can go on for way longer than you think. Just be fucking patient. Do I wish I mortgaged a house in Toronto in 2009? Sure. But the stock market has gone up too and housing at these levels is unsustainable. At the very least housing price growth will subside.
you should try to refresh your FF profile. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-a...
How are you defining 'motivated'? To me it seems like an oxymoron to be motivated and not do anything.
Don't go gatekeeping the gatekeepers, it creates a hostile environment for the people creating a hostile environment.
I often wonder that myself.
Ask HN: Do you use dedicated GitHub/NPM/etc. accounts for work?
I'm tired of work notifications mixing in with notifications about my personal projects on platforms like NPM and Github. I'm thinking of making separate accounts for work. It occurs to me that others might have found a nice solution to this problem. Is there any better option than simply making a second series of accounts?
-P for the lazy.
Europe has a bad history with records misused to later pursue political enemies. The records the Germans used come to mind, but also things like the Staszi secret police in East Germany.

Interestingly, a lot of stuff that just “works” in America is dangerous when exported abroad. This is a strange sociological concept I only encountered recently, but one example is that the American conception of “fame”, dating back to PT Barnum‘s days, was an impetus for fascism in America. So something that’s “culturally safe” in the US due to our history and institutions can be dangerous when exported abroad.

For more information, check out the book “The Frenzy of Renown”.

The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679776303/
Less "dire warnings on forums" and more "slow development pace for required pieces to make my workflow even possible again".

Here's an issue opened June 9 that hasn't been addressed by the Mozilla team and hasn't had any updates in a month: https://github.com/cmcaine/keyboard-api/issues/1

Here's the request for a better keyboard API (referenced in the above) that's been open for over 2 years with no end in sight: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215061

I'm sure the new FF is going to make some users happy, but as you said, having your workflow broken is quite painful, and the Mozilla team has known about this for years but still not made the upgrade path bearable.
It was a government policy, not a law. It is basically meaningless.
Uber Elevate is on-demand, urban air transportation
You simply said something that was flat out wrong, that does not people were 'cranky'.
When would the new law take effect?
As a follow up: I want to pursue a math degree study. What course titles and textbooks starting at the calculus level do you guys recommend? I want enough math chomps to then go onto a PhD in ML.
Its not that trivial. ISO's have a $100k limit.
Eventually I threaten to quit because of him. The guy who was hired as his replacement had apparently made a similar threat after it was clear he wasn’t going to get the job he signed on for. And an incident meant others in management got a small view into just how little he actually accomplished.

It helped the company wasn’t doing great and cutting his salary was probably useful.

Years too late though. We’d lost good people because of him. I was only there because I could minimize my interactions with him (through role and power) so I didn’t have to deal with him much.

OH. The other thing was he got shuffled to a different manager who very quickly learned what he was dealing with and didn’t want to waste his time with it.
there is no Ralfs [sic] API to plug into to give real-time inventory information

[citation needed] :) there are many ways to "vertically integrate" with retailers (and yes, some do in fact offer a real-time API of what is in store, and our availability information for those is fantastic)
I believe it's automatic with human oversight. In the UK there's always an officer or two watching the feeds from each of the electronic gates. Whether they're actually confirming each match, or just checking for outliers, I don't know though.
Neat presentation but not sure it's really served by the fake slideshow capturing your scroll and progress. Wish it'd just be an article.
Qualcom got working on 5G technology as soon as 4G was finalized. I'm not an expert but it seems that the standards are written to be very close to the technology that Qualcomm is developping in parallel, if only because they demonstrate feasibility. They have a tremendous amount of headstart and expertise, which makes it very hard for new actors to enter this market. Also the amount of overlapping patents between successive technology generations is probably a big deterrent as well.
Do you have a link to this analysis? I couldn't find it online.
The article provides possible explanations. A politician running for office soon positions himself as fighting on behalf of the local little man and against big bad out of state corporation. It's pretty much the exact kind of populist protectionism that has lately proven to be politically effective.
Those RSUs are a particular kind of promise, and it makes sense to use RSUs when the company has gotten very valuable because you hit the ISO cap pretty quickly and NSOs already have a tax-at-vest issue. My guess (IANAL) is that you'd just change the promise. "You will vest these RSUs when we go public and you can pay the taxes". I actually think there's _already_ an issue around this, because you can be vesting RSUs while the company is public but you are personally locked out and not allowed to trade them -- and yet you need to pay your taxes and the normal way to do that is to sell a portion of your RSUs. In the case I know of (Twitter), there was a special way of handling that on a one-time basis. I don't remember the exact details (it didn't apply to me), but they managed to work it out.
If you’re genuinely a novice programmer/lesser background in linear algebra, AI should be the last thing on your mind. Any attempts at a shortcut will enhance the difficulty in learning AI, and being able to code things besides simple examples. (which is why I am annoyed by many of the ML MOOCs which are targeted toward novice programmers)
... which is how you end up in a company with mediocre engineers, developing mediocre products, sliding into mediocre abyss.

But at least while making those mediocre salaries they can all hate those "brilliant jerks" that they fired.
Agree. History has not played nice with .NET but neither has with Java or Python.
Inadequate Iquilibria: Blind Empiricism about having good models of users
In that case, you could opt for cod-liver oil from a renowned brand.
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His point is, that you have to assume that will happen quite often. We're simply not equipped to forsee all the legal and financial risks of having stock options. We've seen too many ways that employees have been taken advantage of. You can't simply "trust" that if the company does well, you'll do well.
Camino used to be exactly that: https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/7548/camino
Oh the manager was definitely a huge part. The manager thought he was a great worker and maybe just needed closer watching (he could do good work if watched like a hawk, was a mess left on his own) but that never lasted long.

Lots of excuses, ‘one more time’s, ‘not right now’, ‘on his final chance’, ‘we are looking for a replacement’, etc.
Yeah, not happy about Big Brother intruding even more here. I hate to say it but why can't they do face recognition on more likely suspects visiting ISIS strongholds and regions. Instead they want to vacuum hose all Americans in a wide dragnet. This is BS.
since then, we've formally partnered with Costco and have adopted their online pricing model (still more expensive than the store, but not by very much): http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Costco-debuts-new-gro...
As expected, my laptop blows what was arguably the "fastest" PowerPC computer out of the water: http://browser.geekbench.com/geekbench2/compare/1989293/2644.... However, I'm not sure this difference is enough for emulation to work at native speed. Taking the Wii (which used PowerPC) as an example, it wasn't until recently that most computers could handle emulating it without a significant frameskip. The G5 is much more powerful than 729 MHz Broadway that the Wii had.
When I was working on my BS in Physics we measured Cesium-137 from nuclear accidents and weapons testing. We wanted to see if we could detect any change due to the release of material in Fukushima. We didn't see any change though because we were using a pretty insensitive gamma spectroscopy method and the increase was so small. I think they later found a small increase using a mass spectrometer.

It's amazing that you can still detect the results of the Chernobyl disaster on the opposite side of the world, decades later. That was one heck of a meltdown!
Not really sure who in their right mind considers "upsell prompts" part of a great user experience.
> a lot of poorer EU citizens did go to the UK to essentially go on welfare

Do you have actual sources to back this up? As in, where it actually happened, as opposed to everyone talking about it supposedly happening? EU law makes it very clear that the freedom of movement does not hold in such cases. EU citizens who never worked in the UK would not be entitled to welfare and be subject to repatriation. (Or, I should say, if the UK did grant such welfare rights, that would be based on its own decision, not on any EU requirements.)
While that advice is fine, I do not feel like I am getting things done. It feels more like I am getting things out of my way. And while I have to admit that getting things out of your way, is the first step towards getting things done, I still feel like my mind ist creating ideas/projects at a much higher rate than I can finish them.

This is probably because my mind loves great ideas and doesn't feel satisfied by small ones. Yet small ones are the only ones I am able to finish within an acceptable margin of time.

So the result is, I have a few large ideas I am working on from time to time and a list of smaller ones I barely even touch, because the price of time to finish one of them doesn't weight their value. And in the end I am getting nothing "done" ;-)

At least I have fun working on my own ideas :-)
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> Upon leaving the company, they would have 90 days to exercise options. If they'd been there for a couple years during the fast growth phase, it's possible they had (e.g.) $500k in options with a strike price at $10k. Uber prohibited secondary market sales, so if you exercised your options, you had to hold on to them until IPO. However, you;d have to pay taxes on the gains on those vested options despite being unable to sell them

Unfortunately, this applies to every successful startup that issues options (instead of RSUs). It's not just Uber.
I find there's something you can do even before standing up that helps get you closer to your goal of getting out of bed. If you stretch a bit while still in bed it gets your blood running and gives you the 'kick' you need. Feels good and requires no effort.
I want to put a comment on how awesome the drawings are. Just skimming the drawings is sufficient to get the concepts. Style is awesome too. Whoever drew them deserves a moment of attention.
There’s a lot more space in 3D and computers aren’t going away.
I could work with such people when I was younger, relatively low confidence and inexperienced. It is when i learned nore and had enough experience to have own opinions and gained confidense when being expected to do constant "yes sir" no matter how much I disagreed bothered me way more.

Most of those people are much less briliant when you are not a junior. It is mostly that they are rewarded for being jerk.
I think you should reword your question as it's not a realistic scenario.

Engineers freely choose to learn Java and apply to Java job postings, and if that's not the case I doubt they'd be vocal against the "value" of Java.
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Yep, makes sense -- take my comment as "how things stand now" not "everything is hunky-dory" -- we will definitely be looking at this.
Correct, I meant to say opposing political parties.

I suppose my point is: criticism and being a jerk are orthogonal in theory, but in practice it's much more difficult.

Making a rule that says, you can get someone fired if they hurt your feelings gives disproportionate power to anyone with thin skin.
I was more making a statement about how those kinds of disorders are over treated with medication when a change in the home environment would make a bigger difference.
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We'll see an FPGA implementation soon enough :-)
I honestly haven't calculated the tax difference for the rural red state poor. Are you sure they won't benefit from the increased standard deduction? If you're sure then I'll trust your calculations over my not-calculations.
I don't understand why you think tech companies will be any better at this than biomedical companies. All businesses have the same incentives to make things chronic issues (subscription revenue!) rather than curing them.
>My main issue with Chrome was the endless nags to sign in to a Google account, and just generally wanting less dependence on Google

One thing they have been doing very well is allowing history to sync between multiple devices on different OSes.

Right now I use Chrome everywhere because :

- It feels pretty fast (I still have to try the new FF)

- Any replacement needs to come with an extension covering this feature and working across all my OSes.
Firefox 57 brings better sandboxing on Linux
That's right, lets disregard the views of the people with life experience in favour of a bunch of highly impressionable, inexperienced teenagers.
Yeah, I doubt upon discovering a wider universe most beings are going to follow the path of the Krikket in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Otherwise every discovery would have the potential to discombobulate them under the right circumstances.
It’s worth noting that there are companies who will front you the cash to buy your options and cover tax, in return for a cut of the proceeds. People in this situation have options.
Nothing will help the third world more than effective vaccines for children so that living past 5 is not an anomaly. I would expect the Gates foundation to focus on that. Quality of life for old people is a nice thing, but not on the same level.

As a rule when children normally live to adulthood population growth halts soon after.
I highly recommend Andrew Ng's Coursera courses for both Machine Learning and Deep Learning. Good for beginners, Math is taught along with the course, and gets you a solid foundation:

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

https://www.coursera.org/learn/neural-networks-deep-learning...
The other thing to keep in mind is how much comp is the right to in the future buy $100k present value of stock for $100k. Even if that option prices at 20% the “100k” is only 20k of comp. For many positions 100k/year of stock may be too limiting. If there are ways to manipulate the share value of the class of shares you are getting to a small fraction then it might work. But if this excise price is the VC round price for a worse class of share the amount of comp here is fairly small.
The hilarity of this advice in a single chart:

http://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/ERIC/prices/ericsso...
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.
It really isn't "made up." Issuing equity compensation triggers all sorts of activity. The notion of vesting is that the individual will come to own shares after the conditions are met sufficient to lift the restrictions. The restrictions often include time in service to company ("after 1 year of service, you will earn 100 shares"), performance toward some specific goal ("prototype passed QA by Q3"), and financial performance of the company ("EPS increased by 2%").

In these arrangements, the recipient is agreeing in advance to accept equity as compensation. The company must account for that essentially as if it were cash, and it becomes an income statement item just like any other compensation expense.

The economic event, for both the issuer and the recipient, is the moment when there is no material risk of forfeiture. In simple terms: if the company can't take them away from you, they are yours.
Yea, I was a little unsure about that one, but realized that the columns in the `SELECT` were the indexed column and a `COUNT` making it index-only scan. Even if the `SELECT` included `b` it still would've slowed down things a tiny bit, but I think I would've chosen "Doesn't really change performance" in that case.
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).
btw: If you fancy a free VST clone of the DX7, check out dexed

https://asb2m10.github.io/dexed/
My money is on A.I. Health Care. It is not about displacing jobs of existing health professionals, but it will expedite the diagnostic process for many patients. For example, AI doing 70% of the analysis and a human technician gives thumbs up or down on. Fast forward 10 years and all of the analysis data aggregated can act as a continuous training model to improve accuracy. Because human anatomy is not going to change and AI analysis will get better with time. It is definitely an area worth considering for VC to look for investment opportunities.
Not unless you overdo it.
1. figure out one segment of your ideal customer that would be easiest to reach.

2. figure out biggest one benefit/reason they would buy your product. turn it into a question. "Would you like to ...?" example: Would you like to easily find potential customers for your new business idea?

3. find 5-10 of these potential customers and ask them the question. If one of them isn't even into the benefit, find a better/cheap way to reach your potential customer or find a better benefit.
You say that like they don't all use commodity phones and laptops. The idea that people are buying super secure hardware for CEOs is firmly in the realm of screenplays.
Yes I can. Here in Australia we've just held a non-compulsory national poll (technically a survey not a vote, although it's been debated in public as though it were a plebiscite) on making the legislative changes to permit same-sex marriage. The turnout is 78.5% of eligible voters, thereby exceeding the Brexit voter participation rate.

NB: The comparison may be confounded by local behavioural standards. Participation in this survey wasn't compulsory, but Australia has mandatory voting in most local and national elections. So there may be a prevailing culture of compliance. Nevertheless, a cursory review of the popular press suggests the turnout is substantially higher than that expected by most pundits.
Those are not "fake quotes" -- they are directly in the parent I was replying to...

I am not sure you can matter-of-fact state that "Precisely the opposite is true"; this is in fact, not true.

I am not going to respond further as it's not entirely clear where you are getting any of your information ("layered-over-retail model carries all the overhead of retail and then some" as an example of a totally unsubstantiated and untrue statement).
I have to say, a similar thought crossed my mind. This is the result of political correctness: No one should ever feel wrong or bad.

But then again, it depends entirely on the author's definition of "selfish" and "bad team player".

Having worked at a small startup with 10 people, who would... not berate, but explain bluntly, you if you did something wrong, and a big corporation where you have to always read between the lines to get to the point of any conversation, I see vast differences in productivity.

But my sample size is so small, so I shall sit and ponder some more, and only talk about it on online forums...