skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kind of depends on your definition of "getting screwed." The venn overlap of companies that are very successful and also screw early employees out of stock options is very small, but sometimes expectations aren't properly set about how options work.

It is difficult to make money as an engineer via early stock options, but it is not impossible and the problems of a. understanding what you're being offered and b. making sure you don't get screwed are fairly tractable imo. The hard part is building a company that makes these things matter. Survivorship bias, n of 1 etc. of course, though.

The main problem with startups is joining as employee 10-500ish/public. That's where you aren't getting good stock offers, no one has heard of your company yet and your salary sucks. The upside is this is a great place to learn as a junior both about engineering and about stock options.

You are right that you need to have a lot of business experience to really understand this stuff too. Dabbling in startups is a good way to spin your tires and get screwed, but if you commit to the industry and go through enough deals you can learn enough to protect yourself.

If anyone is currently considering an offer that includes equity and wants some help thinking about how to value it my contact info is in profile, feel free to reach out.
Not unusual if the hiring manager is at all experienced.

I MUST keep 15% or so in my pocket if I can. There are some people that simply will NOT feel good if the don't negotiate with you. Shrug. I let them "negotiate" their 15%.

To the ones who don't negotiate, I put the 15% into their final offer to sign.
>> Before the 20th century, we ate a lot of saturated fats, and it wasn't until the creation of vegetable oils (which are made through extensive industrial processes),

This can't be right. Olive oil is a vegetable oil and it's been known since antiquity. Its preparation requires an olive mill and a donkey to turn the millstone. Not "extensive industrial processes!
"If you have so many crashing issues that you need something like this, you have serious problems."

You don't have to have many crash issues for a process manager to make sense. If you just have a crash from time to time it's nice if the whole system recovers without somebody having to restart it. However, every crash should be taken very seriously and analyzed.
My doctor brought in his laptop and showed me this site. I was completely floored that these are cheaper then my co-pay. I now recommend this to everyone. My neighbor who is low income retired senior, was paying more with all these government subsidized prices, then Safeway. He was absolutely livid he could get a $15 that cost him $280. At this point I realized that the entire insurance scheme is a scam. The co-pay is above what the prices you can find on GoodRx. You end up paying MORE with the insurance co-pay then you would if you were to just shop around. This should be felony fraud! From speaking with my friends, nobody knew about GoodRx so I bet a majority of medicine is overpaid with "insurance" -- this should be headlines everywhere.
Nor provided any means by preference to disable. Which means they aren't even willing to acknowledge a significant portion of users don't like the behavior and allowing them any recourse. Which means the autoplay is more for them than for us.
I could not really believe the 521 year thing, so I had to look it up. Its 521 years for a 242 bp fragment (even nature news reports it like you though) which ends up at a degradation rate of 5.50 × 10–6 per year per base pair (and they estimate double that for nuclear DNA versus the mitochondrial DNA in the study).

Still much too short for anything in the million year range though.
In my (admittedly PL-influenced) view the primary concepts in programming are:

1) Compositionality - primarily via functions which implement substitution, but also composition of larger program units, e.g. via (ML-style) modules.

2) Recursion and induction -- sure, imperative languages make recursive solutions impractical, but ultimately most data structures (including programs) are defined inductively and algorithms on them are most clearly defined recursively.

3) Abstraction vs. representation (e.g. via existentials/modules, not necessarily or even primarily via OO).

I don't think these things are particularly complicated (although the proper semantics for modules is) but can't be learned overnight.
The problem is that you often can't anticipate in what ways other system may f..k you over. So automated restarts make sense. But you should then try to analyze the problem and handle it properly the next time.
Can you elaborate a bit? Sounds interesting. I had never heard of AWS Step Functions before.

What does your workflow look like?
at different times we crave different things, young adults may have a lot of social pressure to be surrounded and liked (maybe a pre-sexual builtin to ensure being part of a pack) that can cause sensation of loneliness through a feeling of not being normal.

I, and a few others, felt that urge to fit in, until a point where your brain just matures and says 'fuck it, I know what I need, and "others" may not be that, or rarely so' which makes being alone a lot less of an issue.
You go ahead and start selling copiers branded Xerox and tell us how diluted that trademark is. It may be a common term, same as 'googling', but the test here is whether the company is willing to actively defend the trademark. I can assure you that all of the companies you mentioned would certainly have lawyers ready to prove they hold a valid trademark.
I think you're being harsh on Netflix. They have great stuff people have never heard of; advertising doesn't automatically mean it's crap.

When they first started, people came for The Office or Scrubs. Then they started creating their own, and every new show huge press. House of Cards, Orange Is The New Black, etc. But as they add tons more content, they need more traditional ways to get people interested.

People have a "no ads!" stance and forget the way they got into most shows they like are ads. As they make more content themselves (as opposed to The Office or Arrested Development), they need more steady ways to get people interested.
Right, you definitely have to understand what you're getting into. Being a successful startup engineer is probably a specialty in itself, that requires a mix of business knowledge and software knowledge.

Many startups are beginning to offer the ability to convert your ISOs (which the SEC requires you to exercise within 90 days regardless of company preference) into RSUs (which allows the company to set the terms, I believe Stripe and some other big ones offer 7 years). You do lose some tax benefits of ISO treatment when you convert to RSUs, but this is just something you need to understand going into the deal and consider part of the offer.

Another thing being offered frequently is early exercise. If you join a company early enough you can often afford to exercise all your options outright. If you couple that with an 83B filing you can eliminate your tax liability until you sell your shares. Frankly I probably would not consider joining a company without early exercise at this point because of the exact issues you pointed out.

It's not as straight forward as cash, but you can definitely create a mental model for thinking about the risk.
Four really: Apple with Jobs (76-85), Apple without (85-97), Apple with (97-11), and Apple after.

Each period was very unique.
And the titles they do have are incomplete. A number of shows i've gotten into only have a few seasons on netflix despite being several years old already - and more frustrating is it's not always season 1.
> Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names.
Yes, I am. I like the auto playing feature. I like the idea of interstitial promotional ads. I am Netflix’s target user and I consider myself a fairly nuanced consumer of their media.
>The current show had a woman eating in a restaurant with some men... At the time it was mildly amusing, but in retrospect, it was quite inappropriate.

Probably was Shokugeki no Soma

The first few rounds don't really seem too dissimilar from other firms (in that they'd ask a bunch of random algorithmic problems that you will never likely come across in your job). That being said, six consecutive rounds of interview with these sorts of problems does indeed seem a bit too much.
More commentary found here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16173345
If a certain account is present then the attacker might know a certain service is running and then target that.

Might also reveal the purpose of the machine (oh, this is probably the build server) or who is managing it.
"Someone" got it right, you need to have a passport. A visa is only required for stays exceeding 180 days a year. You also need to book a return ticket.

The Netherlands (the country) also has overseas territories, namely Bonaire, Saba, and St. Eustatius. They are considered regular municipalities, but you still need to have a passport to visit them. They also have some duration limitations to prevent migration from the mainland.

About the governance: Long story short, it's complicated. Some laws apply to the Kingdom so they're for both continental and overseas, but most laws are made only for country of The Netherlands. The other countries are mostly self-governing, including making their own laws, but stuff like international treaties and military is done on the Kingdom level, which in practice means it's done by the Country.
To give an example: after Irma, St. Maarten had to formally ask The Netherlands for help, otherwise the military would not have been allowed to give any assistance, as it could be considered an invasion. In general, any form of intervention is seen as a form of neo-colonialism. We try to intervene as little as possible.
Browsers are being cautious here initially, e.g. certainly the Chrome "intent to ship" post says they're doing ordinary 1RTT TLS 1.3 first

Each TLS application (e.g. HTTP) is expected to write up a "profile" if it wants 0RTT which explains how to do it safely. The one for HTTP is currently in draft. The most obvious thing is: truly idempotent operations are safe. GET /favicon.ico looks pretty safe for example. If you log it, and bad guys can cause you to log it more than once, well, OK, but so what?

On the other hand GET /database/delete/yes-really was already a bad idea before 0RTT and there's an arguement that we should not help people shoot themselves in the foot.

Since both sides need to agree to do it, if it turns out that the nice speed up isn't worth the endless feet blown off by it we can expect web browsers to just switch it off.
Many developers are commenting in here trying to fix a problem. I am a developer but I now run a business. From a business point of view, there is no problem here. Code has been delivered and it is running in production successfully. It might not have arrived at that point in the most efficient manner, but the point is that the business has executed successfully here. There is no issue. This is a lot further than most businesses get. If you see a problem to be fixed here then you are looking at a small picture of the business.
I think this comment is attempting to gaslight the issues the parent comment raises, which are valid and will take more than a trip down memory lane to resolve.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17676730
Far easier to hit something with several single-digit-megaton weapons than with one 50 MT weapon.

The Tsar Bomba was completely impractical and was shown off as a display of technological superiority, or slightly more accurately, dick-wagging.
If I remember correctly, some areas already have a fair amount of power infrastructure that is currently dedicated just to mining. I hope that the power providers in those areas have enough guarantees (with insurance, bonds, etc. backing it up) to ensure that the miners don't just walk away when the price gets too low.
It always felt a little strange running compiled Solidity contracts on mine. Compilers end up generating weird instructions sometimes.
Unfortunately religion is not widespread enough or practice d enough to support those who commit crimes out of need or desire.
Of course soon there will be real Ads too. That’s why you make contents anyway!
No side effects, no.
Interesting, I did not know this! That makes it even more interesting that Dutch citizens can visit it without carrying a passport (see https://www.anwb.nl/vakantie/sint-maarten/informatie/reisdoc...)
Rick Strassman’s book which this film was inspired by IIRC is a great read that I found hard to put down. People like him, at least how he comes across in his book, seem to deserve a lot of credit for the psychedelic science renaissance we are now experiencing.
One comment about books. I feel the quality of books has gone down a lot over the last decades. When you read K&R or Stroustroup's C++ books they are well written and give you a very deep understanding of how things work and why they are that way. Most modern books I have seen have 1000 pages and are just a bunch of recipes and screenshots without deeper understanding. Even user manuals from 30 years ago are excellent compared to what we have today.

I am sure there are exceptions but they are hard to find.
HtmlUnit API is really cool. It's fine for most use cases. But obviously the Javascript support is not perfect. [Shameless plug] I wrote a book about web scraping where I talk about HtmlUnit & headless chrome with Java: https://www.javawebscrapinghandbook.com
Very fair:

s|California|a handful of states/cities
Pretty much guaranteed Netflix will start going the Hulu route when they start to run out of user growth and Wall Street wants more and more. What they should be doing is focusing on pure quality, instead of burning so much cash on vast original content (their cash burn is insane.) The current model is nothing but throwing everything against the wall and hoping some of it sticks.

So many of their flops are so obviously going to be massive flops. If they would just focus on putting out new shows like Dark, Stranger Things, their murder docs with a seasonal release calendar, etc they would maintain customers. That and inking deals with non-Disney entities to get solid third party content. HBO has maintained customers and grown with just 3-4 shows keeping people hooked in any given time period.

If they think they can compete with cash rich behemoths like Amazon and Disney they are going to get destroyed. Amazon is going to blow no telling how much on this new Lord of the Rings series...but they don't care, they can afford it. Netflix should go the Apple model, go with quality. Let the others burn cash to get into the space.
Depends what you call good camera. For the past couple of years I have been using Nikon D600 with Nikkor 17-35 f2.8, Nikkor 70-200 f2.8 VRII and Nikkor 50 f1.4 as my workhorse.

Camera doesn't mean much. I give my camera to random people and guess what, I get random photos exactly as if they were done with a smartphone.

It is not the camera, it is the photographer that
takes the picture. The picture is the light field that was present at the moment of taking it -- your job as a photographer is to create or find an interesting light field and the camera is just technical means of preserving it. CAMERA WILL NOT MAKE YOUR PHOTO INTERESTING.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGsmVw4tCWY
The attraction of "Move fast and break stuff" is in its simplicity and focus.

Once you start qualifying it with "it's only for cosmetic changes not for serious stuff" it stops being worthy of a discussion.
I think this is a bit more nuanced. Humans rationalize ways to absolve themselves of feeling empathy for the sufferings of others. This is not an innate human behavior. (At least ive seen no anecdotal or published evidence of such.) what I have seen is people being taught to dehumanize others, usually following percieved wrongs (see hatfields v mccoys). Look at the way homeless people are treated. They need to just pull themselves up by their bootstraps, stop being mentally ill physically disabled addicts and get one of those impossible to live on jobs pushing carts at whole foods for minimum wage so we can stop being inconvenienced by their poverty and suffering on our way to our overpaid jobs or when we go shopping or out on the town. It's fascinating to juxtapose how children perceive the homeless versus how the media portrays them:

Children: why is that person so dirty? Why do they ask for money and food? Why do they hurt? Why are they talking to the air?

Media:

https://nypost.com/2018/08/18/state-senate-candidate-launche...

https://www.economist.com/britain/2018/08/18/no-end-in-sight...

(I cherry picked two articles from google news after searching "homeless")
Lack of experience is a nice word for incompetent.

It remind me of an outage a few months ago. Lost a pair of systems, couldn't login and run anything anymore.

Turns out, an operator ran a "rm -rf /home/user".

He was following a procedure that includes cleaning a subdirectory. The subdirectory didn't exist so he figured out let's clean whatever top path exists!
Not to sound obtuse, but I subscribed to their service to watch shows/movies and not be A/B-tested. I know I agreed to it in the skimmed ToS, but the main appeal was to not have ads of any kind. Oh well ->cancel();
The next time somebody refutes the Churchill "then why are we fighting" quote (he didn't say it, according to Snopes) we now have this story to point to. Churchill's comments before the war were about the arts, but this one about the sciences fits in the same niche: If you believed in the role of the seed bank/collection, eating it was the last thing on your mind.
Considering the number of GoFundMe's I see for basic medical care, staking one's self-worth on social acceptance is not some weird psychological delusion. In this economy and country, social acceptance is the difference between life and death.
Sounds right. If you don’t want ads on Netflix do this. The first time you see an ad, stop watching Netflix immediately. Then cancel your subscription, destroy your television, drop out of society, go live in a cabin in the woods.
> Sure build on top of it, but don't expect your users to implicitly know the defined, yet obscure, features of git you build on.

That's what documentation is for. Every application should be documenting (e.g. in README.md) how it can be built.
It seems that it could have many functions, and even many second order effects. It’s too early to tell but I really hope we find out in my lifetime.
Three little ostrich chicks recently brought in by a tourist bus were the main victims, and were ruthlessly hauled in with her whenever they came within trunk range. They were her constant playmates, providing the companionship so vital for a baby elephant, for they had immediately attached themselves to her as a mother figure to be followed: albeit a rather rough one at times, for in her more playful moments they were expected to take part in chasing games and had to put up with being dragged around the orchard by the neck whenever she managed to catch one.

This article apparently begs us to anthropomorphise and empathise with the elephant. We get some ostrich chicks later on that are roughed up.

Elephants come from Africa or India. Ostriches come from Africa. Given the sheer size of Africa does "come from" mean anything?

This is a pretty story.
Ask HN: How to start a netsec career from scratch, after depression and at 30?
After spending a few years unemployed treating my depression, and finally finishing my degree last fall (BA in geography), now it's time to get a job - problem is, I've never had a full-time job and I have no recent work experience or portfolio.

I would like to get into the cyber security / netsec field. My most recent part-time job was at college, making forms in Drupal and updating websites - very basic stuff that I wasn't interested in. I've been programming and using computers, though, for 20+ years. Fizzbuzz is simple, I've set up routers to break into with Metasploit for fun, I can easily throw together a LAMP stack... but I feel woefully unprepared for a career or even a technical interview (eg. recently I've worked a few side gigs installing printers or setting up filters in Outlook). Reading about sample interviews just makes me feel like I know next to nothing, and my long period of unemployment doesn't help.

What would be the best steps for me to take to get some sort of junior-level job? Should I focus on a sample application, a personal website? I'm located in the Atlanta area and would relocate to New York. Thank you for any and all advice!
How does density enter into that? AFAICT, that gloss depends on two things:

1. that you already know that a partial fraction decomposition exists (or else this argument proves that exp(x)/x(x-1) = -1/x + e/(x-1))

2. that every numerator is continuous at any zero of a denominator

It seems like we only need a finite number of limits (enough to determine the constants in our decomposition) and as long as the function is continuous enough at those points that we can compute the limits, it can do whatever it likes elsewhere.

That is, our global control over the function comes from our knowledge that the partial fraction decomposition exists in the first place; actually computing it only requires local information at a small number of points.
Couldn’t read the story because of awful redirecting ads to fake YouTube and amazon sites telling me I’d won something.
It’s not just that the quality of their homegrown content is deteriorating, its that they are flushing out any competition to said content- they are punishing their users
You can also be terminated immediately, forfeiting any protection of law (wrongful termination, etc) for lying or misrepresenting yourself. I've never heard of this happening personally, but I've signed a few waivers acknowledging that I have been informed of this (CYA at its finest).

I heard of one case where the dude said his GPA was way higher than it really was, and his employer found out and canned him.
I don’t know. Is that really a law? I feel like I’m relatively confidently able to pick out people above and below my level by now.
Cringe-worthy stat of the day: 70% of execs think they are “blockchain experts”
That's absolutely insane. I have separate cards for different bills, and had Netflix done something like this to me, it would have severely messed up some careful planning.

I'm sorry to hear that it happened to you while you were in a vulnerable position.