skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is no private market in place yet but that is also meant to change end of year; I am not entirely familiar with the concept and how this impacts the comp evaluation

A company may decide to join/setup some private market to make it easier for insiders to sell their shares, and also know the price being offered for them, but this is not a prerequisite to selling shares. Even if the company doesn't follow through, you should be able to sell your shares to a private buyer. It's a pain in the ass and the company has a right of first refusal, but with 98% certainty you will be able to turn stock in a late stage company into cash.

> Historically all my employers over-promised on bonus payments; is it legitimate to ask for their track record on target bonus payments on the C-level?

I definitely think it is fair to ask about track record, but you should also ask how you will be evaluated. I don't know if there are clear targets in your line of work that you will be measured against or not, but it might be clearer how achievable that is depending on how they plan to evaluate your performance wrt targets.

I've found US companies to be surprisingly good at paying bonuses to engineers, though they are not 50% bonuses so maybe they don't care as much to play games.

If I were you I would get to know how pre-IPO stock works in a bit more detail, it's a very big part of this offer. Assuming the numbers you have are right it's ~280k/yr in ISOs. The biggest question you should answer is where the $9 came from. If they just took the headline valuation number from their last funding round and divided it by the number of shares, it is probably an over-estimate since investors over-pay in terms of valuation to secure downside protections like liquidation preferences. You should learn what liquidation preferences are; you could try ask the company about what liquidation preferences/etc investors have, and maybe they'll even tell C-level hires :)

Depending on how much research you want to do, you could try and do some research on how much a private investor would pay for shares in the company now to get an accurate view of how much the stock is really worth today. But this might be getting in to the weeds. You could ask the company too, though I dunno how much help they would be. Most companies internally price some optimism into their ISOs when handing them out.
It certainly could be a trademark, just not an exclusive one like Coca-Cola. If you wanted to market a "France" brand of chairs in the US, that'd be allowed most likely, but wouldn't prevent a "France" brand of dish towels from being registered by someone else.

You'd still need to avoid a false impression of origin for your chairs, but it could work if they're actually from France, you provide an alternate association for the word France in your context ("From Mr. France himself, your Kentucky neighbor since 1993!"), or just include in your branding/advertising enough clarity on where the chairs are from.
Fyi... a related debate is "sealed classes" by default.

E.g. Eric Lippert's comments:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ericlippert/2004/01/22/why-...

A StackOverflow q&a: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/268251/why-seal-a-class/...
> The largest rewards have for some time been going to equity plays and financial schemes

The largest rewards are going to people using their money to finance the creation of businesses that create products people want to buy? Yeah that makes sense to me.
The guy who owned the domain wasn’t “cyber squatting”. If he was, there is a process for that.. which wasn’t followed here.
I have been using Google Inbox since the launch and I absolutely LOVE it. It finally solved my email problems.

- I have notifications disabled for all but the important emails. So I respond to emails in time and I don't keep checking my phone anymore.

- Easy to read and discard emails. Especially promotions. I actually do check them - once a day and once a day only and then delete them all.

- Social/Updates ...etc are neatly organised. I check them during a downtime and not often. They don't alert me.

- Organising emails by trips are great. I can find all the relevant emails in one bundle.

- Absolutely love the GTD features - Marking as Done and Snoozing emails. My Inbox is always zero. I use that as pretty much a task manager as well.

Overall, classification of emails make emails actually usable for me. I used to be meticulous with creating email rules and filters in Outlook so I get to the ones I need to and ignore the rest for my sanity. Now it's done automagically and pretty spot on.
What are speed sports?
Why Are So Many of the Framework Classes Sealed? (2004)
T-Mobile seals merger deal with Sprint
COMODO has revoked their certificate, probably under a court order.

You can temporarily work around this by disabling 'Query OCSP responder servers to confirm the current validity of certificates' under Privacy & Security in Firefox.
Well, it's the Template Method pattern from the GoF book and, like most design patterns, probably independently discovered by most people writing OO code.
The courts, in the USA, have found that domain names are not property, instead they are like telephone numbers

The implications of the current legal position you describe are troubling.

These virtual identifiers, whether it's a phone number or an email address or a domain name or a Twitter handle, are now the dominant way we contact someone. Physical addresses that are inherently tied to their current occupant (and the well-established pain that comes with updating everyone if you move home or office) are becoming secondary.

More than that, these IDs are becoming trusted ways to reach a specific person. Many organisations, including the likes of banks and governments, now rely on some form of two-factor authentication using phones for access to important facilities. Many organisations will grant you the keys to (your part of) their kingdom as long as you can respond to an email to the address they hold for you. Many businesses reach their customers through services at their domain, and that domain may enjoy special privileges that a customer has permitted such as being whitelisted for sending important emails or just simple things like being bookmarked in the customer's browser or turning off an ad-blocker to support a site.

The law seems to be outpaced significantly by the technology and society's use of it here. If we aren't going to enjoy real property rights in terms of these essential identities that are managed or hosted by third party services, stories like the one we're talking about here today may be the tip of the iceberg.
That's a dangerous precedent.

If nobody has the right to a phone number, and governments can assign any telephone number to themselves that they wish, that the Russian government can take over the phone number to the Whitehouse Switchboard? Then the Whitehouse would have to take it back and it would be the start of a perpetual tug-of-war?

I assume your response would be that "no, the US has already reserved that number". But isn't that what happened with France.com? It was already reserved.
If you want to make a very sour loaf all you have to do is use well-ripened kefir [1] instead of water in the dough. Not only does this make the dough extra sour, it also adds some extra raising power by virtue of the yeast in the kefir.

For those who don't know, kefir is made by fermenting milk with kefir grains, a combination of yeast and lactic acid bacteria which forms a symbiotic colony.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kefir
The UN having any such powers is a long way off, for now you get your rights ensured by your country.
High inflation benefits those who have high debts and little savings. Low inflation benefits wealthy people with minimal debt and large savings.

The federal reserve driving limited inflation has occurred for around 100 years, and the time in America with the least income inequality fell squarely in the middle during the 1950s and 1960s.

The Federal Reserve and it's monterary policies aren't the issue.
Firefox will happily accept self-signed certificates chaining to manually imported CAs. However, there are a lot of severely outdated guides on creating self-signed certificates out there, and many of the certificates produced that way won't be accepted by any modern browser. OpenSSL's terrible command-line UX certainly doesn't help matters. I've found easypki[1] to be the most convenient tool for this purpose.

[1]: https://github.com/google/easypki
He did, but more importantly, the French government isn't a business either.
I am against emi ent domain but at least it is justified by the fact that there are no alternatives. A road between two points must pass through some land, but if a domain name for your website isn't available don't be a bully and buy another one. Also you have to compensate with eminent domain, you can't just take. Not in decent societies anyway.
What we have here is maximum statism. A bunch of french bureaucrats had some stupid idea on how to spend stolen taxpayers money to "improve" society, and they used their position to steal a domain name from a guy who was minding his own business.
In this case bureaucrats should be condemned as if they were thief.
Isn't rent seeking a type of pyramid scheme?
Technically, nothing requires a cert. It's just best practice to have one.
This is absolutely insane, and Microsoft really has no position to make these demands. Does McDonalds have the right to get your drivers licensed revoked?
(Even if you say... use the drive thru to steal mcnuggets?)

Hell no, and neither does microsoft.
Correct me if I am wrong. It looks programmers are more prone to get depression(or obsessive disorders). I am thinking if this is related to the thinking patterns of programming, which is quite 'unnatural' if you think about it.
You can definitely get certs from LetsEncrypt that have SANs for multiple unrelated domains. I haven’t tried out wildcard certificates at all yet, but I would be surprised if it didn’t allow combining those features…
I felt dumb. Sorry.
the most charitable explanation might be that they can't afford good web design because all their money is funding their legal defense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio

He was convicted of 19 counts of insider trading in Qwest stock on April 19, 2007[1] – charges his defense team claimed were U.S. government retaliation for his refusal to give customer data to the National Security Agency in February, 2001.[2] This defense was not admissible in court because the U.S. Department of Justice filed an in limine motion,[3] which is often used in national security cases, to exclude information which may reveal state secrets. Information from the Classified Information Procedures Act hearings in Mr. DiNaccio's case was likewise ruled inadmissible.
Well, problematic are mainly dead trees. Thus, I do not see why quickly growing and dying wood should be best. Instead I see better suitability of trees that can become very old, hence avoiding dead wood which turns to CO2. Also, ever greens avoid generating dead leaves.
I wonder if there is anything unique about this that might make it interesting to use in a sampler or a synthesizer or something .. maybe some random noises that could be generated by stroking the core, or some such things ..
> In fact, many of them get their devices handled/repaired by Apple in a good manner.

Did you watch the video in full? The examples of Apple screwing its customers are numerous.
Going by iPad.com as an example, you'd play a game of chicken with Apple, because the moment you try to monetize that site in almost any way, they'll sue you for trademark infringement. You'll hope they offer you a ton of money for it, but Apple's brand is strong enough that they don't need it.

Mr. Nissan is lucky that he had an existing business that wasn't car related and he only registered his name...
Grapevine being drinking with DRAM engineers. I don't know if there's a reference.
Interview with James Comey
Are Hackathons Losing Their Luster? Survey Says Yes
Why do you think a small business can weather a downturn better than a big one? I saw tons of small businesses wiped out in the 2009-11 time frame.
Only factoring in the manufacturing cost (that is, not including the cost to haul to site and use) wood products are solidly carbon positive [1]. Lumber harvesting, hauling and processing is surprisingly efficient: It's a cutthroat business with razor thin margins.

The more important aspect is that something else would have been used instead. Each building that is of wood construction is one that wasn't built primarily with steel or concrete.

Also, effects of scale can be significant. As a simple example, there is about 200 billion kg of carbon sequestered in the contiguous US just in wooden telephone poles. If you can find a widescale use that makes economic sense, you make more immediate sinks. If you can also find ways of long-term sequestering the waste as it enters end of life, you can make ongoing gains in the CO2 balance.

[1] - http://articles.extension.org/sites/default/files/CIWP%20pub...
I believe it might be possible to replace the HD firmware that will effectively hide code, even in the HD firmware itself, that can only be accessed via a backdoor. For all we know, it comes that way from the factory. Just thinking, while we're being all paranoid here :)
I don't think Civ's simultaneous turns would work for NetHack. In Civ, you make quite a few actions on a single turn (especially in the late game). In NetHack you are always taking a single action at a time, though with some actions taking no time at all (viewing your inventory, naming and calling objects, naming monsters, applying a stethoscope for the first time that turn, etc) and other actions taking multiple turns (running, travel command, moving while slow).

Essentially, NetHack has a different concept of turns than Civ. NetHack uses turns as a discrete time resource whereas Civ uses the more conventional boardgame style rotation. You could try to convert NetHack into the Civ model by giving the player a number of action points based on their speed but this would allow fast players to move around a corner, take an action, and retreat without the enemy getting a chance to notice them. This would fundamentally alter the balance of the game.
So do you have an actual proposal for how we should be rewarding these people?

Your rhetorical question provides no value. I want to know how we should decide who should be rewarded, how we can obtain the money to reward them and what benefit does rewarding them in this fashion provide to society.
Did you read the part that says he's the past CEO of Intuit? Not involved with Intuit's current lobbying. In any case attacking the author or Intuit about something that has nothing to do with the topic doesn't make sense.
He should consult the guy that owns nissan.com.
You're mixing up levels of indirection. Financing the creation of businesses that create products people want to buy isn't itself an example of "practical products that provide value that the average working class person would want to spend money on".

You can say that what our system rewards is always derived from practical products the average person wants, but that doesn't seem like a useful way to think about things.
I agree, I'm 48 and I feel keeping in physical shape is the most important thing to do. It's easy to become complacent after age 40 and to settle. My thyroid crapped out, even with meds it sucks, physical recovery is much harder even my skin is a concern due to the sun and lack of hair. Internally who knows, I could have arteries ready to slough off a chunk of goop that will kill me.

Even though exercise is important gyms feel alien with loud current pop music, ever-present perfume/cologne, intimidating healthy younger people seemingly at will, current slang words and gym fashion. Even the smells of hair products and cologne are alienating, in my heyday it was CK-be and CK One. The experience can be a strong deterrent to be so isolated generationally.

Certainly the only thing to do is to mitigate since you can't reverse aging. At least with your body there is a possibility if you don't have and age-related diseases. But it seems almost impossible to exercise your brain and if so how would you know it's getting better or maintaining?
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Maybe I'm weird but I think France.com belonging to France is the just thing. The last thing we need is giving more rights to squatters.
No, they use solid state disks.
They want to create magic with regulation like gdpr that removes the ability for other organizations to have as much data. NSA-types are trying to appoint themselves as the only people able to massively collect data with no opt out.
A Fast File System for Unix (1984) [pdf]
> Did you notice, looking at history, that whenever there was a crisis humans discovered that "money" is not an obstacle?

If this were true humans wouldn't even have a concept of "hyper-inflation". The Venusualian government could just print up all the money they need instead of trying to get people to eat their pets[0].

Money, as an "idea", serves two purposes -- as a store of value and a means of trade. Without money trade would be so inconvenient (ie the coincidence of wants problem) complex societies probably couldn't even function as you would have to go out and perform multi-party trades for everything you needed. By solving the coincidence of wants problem money also allows you to delay consumption of current production since it, historically speaking, is generally based upon a non-perishable good.

[0]https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/09/14/551026492/...
We don't need rich bosses. We need hands-on leaders who aren't afraid to make the world a better place and who respect the integrity of all their collaborators.

Replace business schools with institutions that foster leadership, collaboration, and inclusive positive project management skills from a wide variety of alternative forms of organization.

For example: cooperatives are a legitimate, sustainable form of business, so why aren't they being taught and innovated in business schools?

Also, project management skills should be something everyone gets. Every working person should be afforded opportunities to grow in their ability to lead.
Agree with your general point, though note a 5% withdrawal rate is likely not safe for very long term (especially if this hypothetical millionaire is not yet at normal retirement age).
It belongs to a person born there, who registered it and is using it. How is he in any way a squatter?!
Not burning man but I had an amazingly similar experience of normed compliance.

I was standing outside a bar waiting for a friend. A couple stopped to show me their ideas at random. I was so shocked I just muttered 'oh no you are fine'. Within about 10 seconds, there was a line of other people waiting to go into the bar trying to hand me their ID's.

No request, no effort, just...people assume authority and comply. Taught me something I have been trying to watch myself do and break a habit of since then.
I agree, but you can't have the latter in a dynamic language anyway so I don't see why calebh said dynamic language users would miss it.
My understanding is they kick in automatically. So even if you're on someblog.com, the FB 'Like' buttons won't be tracking your behavior, nor will Google analytics and Google Doubleclick.
Nice work! Would be good to add a CLI option for specifying a font.
This is a much bigger deal than people are giving it credit for.

At any point in history, have CAs revoked certs solely to censor a target website?

Maybe the answer is yes. I don't know. But this is a rude wake-up call for me and everyone else who tried to force the world into this shape.

We've all been shouting "You have to use TLS! It's fundamental security 101. If you're not using https, your site is probably broken. And there's no reason not to do it, since it's so easy."

Surprise: Now nobdoy trusts http, and those that control https can revoke their trust based on arbitrary human morals rather than solid technical reasons.

I was a pentester for years and not once did anybody mention this threat anywhere. It's blindingly obvious in hindsight, but it was too easy not to think about it.

Let's Encrypt is in the exact same position. Why do we trust them? Think about it -- they're under US jurisdiction and subject to US laws. The government could compel them to revoke certs.

We're lucky that it's just a minor annoyance. Picture a world where no major browser renders http at all, and the only way to get a site online is to have a trusted cert.

This is not far from reality: If the Magic Leap turns out not to be vaporware, they're going to be launching a DRM-powered internet that can't be adblocked. And that means we'll all be subject to government whims far more than we'd like to admit.
AFAIK, most people are concerned about screen temperature for affect on sleep, not eye strain. At least that's what it is for me. Eye strain isn't a problem.
Germany doesn't seem to care much about http://germany.com :)
Registered and used it with, apparently, the blessing of the French government for a couple of decades - they were aware of its existence, and worked with him in providing some content, as I understood the article.

It's ... nothing at all like cybersquatting. At all.
APL has a long an interesting history. It was successfully used for decades in Wall Street firms.

It's also worth looking at

* The A+ programming language, an APL derivative created at Morgan Stanley by Arthur Whitney.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%2B_(programming_language).

Roger Hui also worked there for a number of year.s

* The J language from Roger Hui - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Hui#J_language

* Arthur Whitney and Kx Systems - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Whitney_(computer_scien...
France is a terrible country. I was forced to leave France three years ago after my family has been living there for several hundred years. It was no longer safe for us to walk the streets. We now live in Tel Aviv.
I can see that happening in cases of regulatory capture (e.g. present-day EPA and FCC), but how would it happen otherwise?
Last time I checked, the site-specific container extensions (Facebook and Google) had a "don't open anything except the target site in the container" feature that appeared to be missing from the multi-account containers extension.

I agree that the best solution would be to add that functionality to the base extension rather than create a specific extension for every site people might want to block.
Huh, this seems like a new way of thinking about Crawl to me as I've only ever won three and four runes, and I've never collected more than six in a single game. So it still feels like a huge gap from that to 15!
Can you explain to me in simple words what you are refuting in your comment?

Nowhere did I suggest that the only way to become rich was to sell practical products. I will state that this is the primary way people acquire vast amounts of money and that whether people become rich via second order and abstract systems such as financing makes no difference. Ultimately the products would not exist without the financial system that was in place.
I don't see a hard line between math, then physics, then the 'real' world. They are levels of formalization.

Both in math and in the real world we don't have 'perfect observation'. There is plenty of conjectures in math and the real world that lack a proof of something being true or false.

I think "can't prove a negative" is one of the least informative ways of trying to say something, I assume he meant to say "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" or perhaps "absence and evidence don't commute"
Microsoft runs a root store. That gives them more leverage over the CAs than McDonalds has.