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Sure, these founders went too far, but the basic problem of Founders >>> Employees is there at every startup. When even employee #1 at typical SV startup signs on for 1% and employee #4 already for half that, why do “employees” still think there’s anything equitable about equity?

Listen up, prospective employee: if your founder makes several million, you’ll get zilch. If founder makes tens of millions, you might get enough for a modest car. If your founder makes over $100 million, you might have enough for a down payment on a house. Then you can go to the next startup and work super hard all over again to try to mint another mega-millionaire.
It's not Freudian dream theory (which the virtually most psychologists happily agree is not science), but it's not experimental psychology, either. Unlike dream theory, though, it still claims to be science. I agree that the question is a scientific question, but there is a difference between a scientific question and a scientific endeavour. If we don't have the science to answer a scientific question (e.g. about multiple universes) we call our thought experiments and hypotheses pure speculation; we don't try to present them as carrying any sort of scientific validity.
> Hardly anyone uses gold as a storage of value

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_reserve#Officially_report...
Most recent grad/entry-level people generally don't have a family of 3 yet, or do they?
Being a manager is about being loyal to the company and not individuals. It pays more precisely because it causes pain to peoples' consciences to put an abstraction above fellow employees.

Talking about a CEO catching bullets in their teeth is ridiculously inflated language. Why use such imagery? Because the mission of a typical company does not sufficiently compensate for the guilt produced by putting the organization ahead of individuals.
Not yet.

The audio adversarial examples we construct in this paper
do not remain adversarial after being played over-the-air, and
therefore present a limited real-world threat; however, just as
the initial work on image-based adversarial examples did not
consider the physical channel and only later was it shown to
be possible, we believe further work will be able to produce
audio adversarial examples that are effective over-the-air.
Saying that something is not maladaptive and saying its adaptive are two very different things.
> I don’t think you can predict risk well enough for that to come true.

Which doesn't change that that is the ideal goal that GP is suggesting, right?

> No matter the predictive power, real life still carries probabilistic nature. We can assign 0.0001 probability to somebody’s house burning down, but in real life it either will, or will not.

The question was not whether the goal is reachable. The question was whether the goal is actually a good idea. And in order to evaluate that, you have to consider the consequences of the hypothetical case that it is reachable.

> They can then choose to skip insurance, and carry a very small risk of loosing a lot of money. Or buy insurance, and carry a very high probability of wasting much smaller amount of money.

What do probabilities matter to the outcome here? If a hypothetical insurance company managed to achieve the ideal goal with regards to fire insurance, in that they made the insurance as individual as (logically) possible, that would by definition mean that they would charge a premium only from exactly those people whose houses would in fact burn down lateron, and then pay them back when it does indeed burn down. Not insuring yourself gets you exactly the same end result that you would get in that hypothetical world: If your house does not burn down, you don't pay anything and you don't get anything back, and if your house does burn down, you pay/save massive insurance premiums that you later get paid back/have in your savings account. Or rather, you don't, in the latter case, because you can't afford it. So, if you think that that is a goal to strive for, why not realize it for yourself now?
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Love it! And Balthazar is awesome too :)

Best wishes, this is such an awesome idea.
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But a $5k Mac will lag a $5k Pc in performance.
I don't know Go, so I can't really tell.
> Only if "as individually as possible" means perfect prediction. If you assume that there's a limit to how well the future can be predicted, insurance still has value.

The question was not whether insurance has value if that ideal goal is not going to be reached. The question was whether the goal makes sense in the first place.

> Also, car insurance specifically is usually legally mandated. There's a tangible benefit to having it (being allowed to drive) besides the risk mitigation.

Which admittedly does not allow GP to realize this now with regards to car insurance, true.
Not sure what you mean by "object", but this is a white-box attack against Mozilla's DeepSpeech model that relies on being able to compute gradients for the complete pipeline. They didn't test whether the adversarial examples transfer to other models.
Poor people are not allowed in the store. A login to your Amazon account with the app on a smart phone is required to even enter the store.
> DACA recipients were brought to the country as children and literally know nothing else, often including the language of their "home" country.

Not the country's problem. If you expose children to the consequences of your wrongdoing and mistakes, they suffer as well as you. Otherwise, that incentivizes wrongdoing.

Another example - if you rob a bank, and pay for your kid's private school tuition is it "wrong" to take away the money you stole because the kid is just accustomed to attending private school?

The laws are fairly clear. Most illegal immigrants know full well they're breaking the law by entering illegally. If they get caught, everybody involved suffers the consequences.
Surely regulators wouldn't let Bloomberg be bought by a large financial firm whose competitors all rely on the data?
Steam-powered brass analytical engines were very substantial. Or would have been. As it is, they were insubstantial: very virtual indeed.
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They sell alcohol, I would imagine that would be worth taking to some.
https://paulstamatiou.com/responsive-retina-blog-development...

Jekyll, and a whole lot of attention to detail.
From what I understood from that link, /Qspectre is for variant 1, while retpoline is for variant 2, so it's not equivalent.
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From what I understand Go-Jek is kicking Grab's ass in Indonesia. Go-Jek is presently only in Indonesia, and Grab is probably larger in SEA as a whole , but nothing prevents GoJek from expanding to other countries, so yes major war going on. May the best company win!

I think Steve just wrote a great recruiting piece for Grab and Gojek ;-). Both are incredible companies, so all for the good. $Diety knows we need some great companies outside SF.

Due Disclosure: (I have no real interest in the ride sharing space but) Some of my friends are driving the tech at GoJek, and they are incredibly sharp people, with great vision and the tech chops to match. If Yegge wanted to be in a war with formidable opponents, he's got it in spades!
>>There is a resurgence of C++ among younger developers.

C++ is the only tool of choice for the time limitations online judges like hackerrank have. So most people submitting code there are basically writing it in C++. Also most people using C++ there are using a very minimal subset of C++, which would largely look like C with things like vectors<int> etc.

That doesn't say anything about production uses of such languages.
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I completely agree on how it will lead to innovations on the restaurant side. Sharing infrastructure and bringing down costs.

The question really is on the app side - today they might be in making say $X from 3-4 places serving steamed rice. But tomorrow as you pointed out this might reduce down to $x/3 because all 3-4 can band together to pay for the same delivery. It will affect the food delivery app's bottom line.

So, the question remains is - how do food delivery apps deliver long term profits from this?
#1. People get hired for what they are good, their skills and then get promoted (to management) for same technical/IC skills not for the MGMT skills. No MGMT ramp-up. No MGMT tools. No MGMT framework. You are now tasked to lead a team. it's surely will fail.

#2. Next the mindset. Typical mindset when you move from technical (or any IC) role to MGMT and the higher you go in MGMT should completely change.... unfortunately its not so easy to give up the control. MGMT is about making others successful... giving up your control to others is very frightening and often causes identity issues... moving from do it all (as an IC) to ask_and_inspire is not easy...

#3. Assuming you overcome these two... typical problem of MGMT/leadership is they try to find, "What's the matter?" where as the focus should always be on "What matters to you (an individual/ICs in team)"
Maybe you could use https://www.cartida.com/, they offer more 'bland' maps.
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May be. But it may be that we share the same car/minivan.
I've seen a variety of managers doing bad jobs, and it never makes me think I could do it better. It makes me think about managerial problems, and how they are inherently difficult because of conflicts of interest.

On the other hand, I got tired of technical problems, because the real problems always seemed to be managerial where I worked.
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Smart cities’ sprawl boosts IoT technology revenues to $60B by 2026
Iain M. Bank's Culture is perhaps my favourite example of a "working" communist society - but it does rely on "magic" technology, engineering of its inhabitants to be nicer and ultimately on god-like AIs to actually run things. Most humans in the stories are effectively pets of the AIs - pets who are very well looked after, and who can leave the Culture if they want (which the vast majority don't - of course) but where they don't really matter.

Edit: Personally I would sign up in an instant.
Maybe they meant that SoFi should've promoted internally instead of hiring Noto.
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How is that comparable? Running everything as root is a) asking for accidents; b) a different class of problem.
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Hey all,

I'm the blog author, Rich Archbold from Intercom. Just to clarify …

I wrote this blog, with the exaggerated / cliched title, to try to speak to the large cohort of over-confident, under-skilled and often lacking-enough-self-awareness, managers out there. I was (and often still am) a member of this cohort. Being a great manager all the time is really hard and almost impossible IMHO.

The goal was to hopefully try and generate some more self-awareness and introspection and thus make life a little fairer, more pleasant, more growth-oriented and hopefully more successful for all concerned.

I wasn't trying to deny or downplay that people also leave their jobs for all of the other reasons highlighted by folks here.

Thanks,
Rich.
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$10 (USD)? Luxury!

NZ craft beer six pack: $22.99
UK craft beer 6 pack: £14

You Americans complain too much, easily one of the cheapest countries to buy booze I've been to
Why does APT not use HTTPS?
Lagers are (or should be) fermented at around 10 deg C, and thus take longer to ferment than ales that are fermented at room temperature. They also need to be 'stored' (that's what 'lager' means) at 8-10 deg. for several weeks after primary fermentation to develop that characteristic lager flavour.
Meanwhile, 30 (thirty!) were shot in Chicago this weekend alone, and the Times doesn't print one article about that... because such contrasts don't help their narrative.
Sure yeah they were a "almost cult-like group that favored each other" but so are freemasons, old Etonians and so on. It doesn't mean you should arrest all those. (Well, maybe Dave and Boris... but not all of them).
Not money; weight and time. Working with off-the-shelf components is much faster, and usually weighs less. Shielding is basically fancy foil; it weighs precious little. I used to wrap components in the Air Force and the rule was don't exceed three layers when touching it up.
My take based on my experience is,

#1. People get hired for what they are good, their skills and then get promoted (to management) for same technical/IC skills not for the MGMT skills. No MGMT ramp-up. No MGMT tools. No MGMT framework. You are now tasked to lead a team. it's surely will fail.

#2. Next the mindset. Typical mindset when you move from technical (or any IC) role to MGMT and the higher you go in MGMT should completely change.... unfortunately its not so easy to give up the control. MGMT is about making others successful... giving up your control to others is very frightening and often causes identity issues... moving from do it all (as an IC) to ask_and_inspire is not easy...

#3. Assuming you overcome these two... typical problem of MGMT/leadership is they try to find, "What's the matter?" where as the focus should always be on "What matters to you (an individual/ICs in team)"
Entry-level developers with a couple of years experience, perhaps. Not the case for senior developers (more like 60-90k), and getting six figures GBP is not difficult if you're working in finance.
I always liked that quote. In full:

I hear you say "Why?" Always "Why?" You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"

(https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw)
... and by hemorrhaging cash.
That sentence is quite easy to misunderstand. The 50 characters per second are the capacity of the attacked model (it chops the audio in frames of 1/50th second), and what they want to highlight is that they can cram the maximum amount of text into the adversarial example.

The actual generation takes an hour on an nVidia 1080Ti, but they can parallelize the process to compute multiple examples on the same GPU, giving an amortized cost of a few minutes.
Ask HN: My post is not visible to anyone but me?
Yesterday I submitted this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16212222

Not sure what's wrong but I'm the only one who can see it... Also no abillity to add comments...

Anyone know what's with that?

I suspect it has something to do with the fact that my previous submissions were all on the same subject... But I have the 'showdead' feature enabled in my account, and that post isn't marked as 'Dead'...

Can anyone clarify this for me please?
the compiler doesn't care about indentation, look at IOCCC https://www.ioccc.org
Do people really dislike ride sharing more than public transport? Why? I dislike public transport when it's ineffective.

It takes me about 45 minutes to get to work by walking + train, and there's about one train every hour (less often in the morning), so it's inflexible.

If I go by bike, it's about 55 minutes (but then I need a shower, which can take a bit more if your company doesn't provide the right facilities). I'd say that the time saving for a train is ridiculous if we factor in the price for the railway system.

If I go by car it's 25 minutes, but then I need to find a parking spot, and usually pay for it.

If I could rideshare to work and just be dropped in front of my office, and forget about it, with a price on par (even slightly higher) than my car ride, I'd pick that solution most of the times (I'd still ride my bike for training that's it).
Can you explain where Kuhn-Tucker enters the picture here? Non-convex optimization problems do not necessarily define constraints for the domain.

Most non-convex optimization with bounds for the convergence speed exploits on some sort of structure. For example Lipschitz bounds for the gradient. There is some recent work that requires only a semi-metric around the optimizer. That opens up a large class of functions that could not be efficiently optimized before.

http://papers.nips.cc/paper/4304-optimistic-optimization-of-...
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It seems to be a case of beer crafting moving from a production economy to an 'heritage' economy.

In an 'heritage' economy, proximity, uniqueness and the story of the product matter more than the product itself. We have seen it happen in France for 'macaron', wine and cheese.

More on 'heritage' economy (in french) : http://www.gallimard.fr/Catalogue/GALLIMARD/NRF-Essais/Enric...
How to Emulate a Raspberry Pi (Raspbian Jessie) on Mac OS X
I'm not a massive fiction person (though I was as a kid), but "The Lathe of Heaven" is one of my very favourite works, in any medium or genre. Near-on perfect. RIP.
Really cool! Reminds me of distellamap by Ben Fry (co-creator of Processing) - http://benfry.com/distellamap/
If you calculate unrealistically, yes, sure :)

Day-to-day expenses are a tiny part of a typical budget. In most scenarios, housing, income taxes and transportation alone will easily cost you twice as much in SF compared to Zürich.

As a software engineer, the salary difference should make up for it, or even reach levels that are unlikely in Switzerland. That's great, but for most people, I can guarantee you, Zürich is a lot cheaper.
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>>I've (thankfully), never had to whiteboard. Think it's a US/SF thing.

And that has spread all over the world now, because a lot of companies outside of SV, tend to view these BigWebCo's as something to emulate and imitate from, and are doing these whiteboard interview all the time.

In fact the whole point of these Hacker rank kind of sites is to basically provide the web equivalent of a white board. You are asked to submit code(Typically some question based on a exaggerated edge case of some algorithm) and see if it passes all test cases. You are in if it does, out otherwise.
Still, the author observes that, generally, a more efficient system will boost economy and increase the quality of life, which will again attract more "users", until it becomes again unbearable.
Thanks! I thougt they didn't have GPU servers.
IME this kind of experience comes when you have a manager who has no fundamental understanding of what it is that they are managing and has no particular reason to trust you.

A manager who can monitor your output by reading your pull requests simply won't engage in this type of behavior whereas a manager who can't will usually instinctively gravitate to terrible metrics like "does he show dedication by being in at 9am rather than 9:05am"?

Managers should form a very deep understanding of whom to trust and why or understand on a very deep level what it is that they are managing.

Managers who cannot do either of those things should be terminated with prejudice.

>You have performance metrics for a reason!

As far as developing software goes, every single performance metric is terrible.
That is probably because they are buying non running examples for parts and also do DIY as they cant afford the > £200 ph for a BMW mechanic.
More worryingly, they also appear to be using first name to influence insurance prices. Which is problematic, since first name correlates with race. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16212991
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I was wondering why some of the languages listed as being popular in the graph by employers seemed so out in left field with my understanding of the market, then I read this part:

A total of 39,441 professional and student developers completed the online survey from October 16 to November 1, 2017. The survey was hosted by SurveyMonkey and HackerRank recruited respondents via email from their community of 3.2 million members and through social media sites.

It's a self selected sample and probably skews a lot toward what the "cool kids" are doing and not what most corporations are actually doing. There is no conceivable way that Lua, Kotlin, and Go should be more highly represented than Swift/Objective C and C#
Fun story... Major supermarkets in my country announced they're phasing out caged chicken eggs. Vast majority of feedback I saw so far is people pissed off cheapest eggs will be gone. Looks like there's agreement this is conspiracy to rip off customers.

So yeah.. I doubt people could gang up on unsustainable businesses as long as they personally pay less.
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I just found I had an old Bitcoin Wallet from 2011 containing 0.02 BTC (currently worth about $200). I think it came from the original Bitcoin Faucet. AFAIK this is the only BTC I own.

What would you do with it (sell, spend, or hold)?
> I suspect it has something to do with the fact that my previous submissions were all on the same subject

Yup. Stop submitting the same thing repeatedly.
More, even. Driving into SF at rush hour is an exercise is mostly about being stationary with occasional jerks forward. You could improve that throughput a hundredfold if things could keep moving.
I really don't like the concept of a 10X developer - it implies linear scaling.

If you keep writing very similar implementations of very similar things (without actively damaging the code-base) you may very well be an O(n) developer. You keep working at the same pace regardless.

If you are a developer of some calibar, the work that you've already done will feed back into the work that you're doing - making you an O(log(n)) developer, until the work levels out and you slip back toward o(n).

Then there's the other end of the stick, the idiot who has no business writing code, but who management keeps around because he's cheap in the short term.
Everything he touches turn to shit, each change corrupts the code base just a little more, and each change to the corrupted code takes an amount of time proportional to the level of corruption.
This is the O(k^n) developer, and he needs to be stopped.
It's shuffling the order of its 256-byte sprite buffer each frame to implement sprite flicker, which is done because the NES can only render 8 sprites per scanline.
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The odds are that self driving cars will stick to the posted speed limit, and that those limits will not be raised. This will reduce the available capacity of many interstate grade roads, as the posted speed is often unsafely low. On the roads around here, the accepted and safe speed is often around 70mph, but the posted speed is often 55mph.

https://www.motorists.org/blog/speed-limits-slower-safer/

Additionally, self driving cars appear to have a higher accident rate per mile driven (5x). This appears to be at least partly the result of the self driving cars performing unorthodox maneuvers in some situations.