skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition to what you said, I think our perception of the Manhattan and Apollo projects is skewed by survivorship bias [1]. These projects kept hitting milestones, so they kept getting additional funding, until their successful final delivery. It's quite likely that many, many more projects (laser weapons, scramjets, ekranoplanes) experienced a funding flatline like the fusion famous graph, simply because their milestones proved elusive. It's better to deliver results than excuses and delays.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1827/
First off, unless you were really early, you are going to need about 1.5-2M of that for taxes, so plan for that.

That said, I put the remainder of a similar outcome in 60% stocks (VTI 75% + VEA 25%) and 40% short term bonds (VCSH). The stocks give you growth and the bonds give you stability. Rebalance this once a year and you are done. You are financial secure. Don’t get sucked into crazy complicated schemes - simpler and more diverse is better
1) https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Managing_a_windfall (the Bogleheads community is great)

2) Read this book: https://www.amazon.com/Investors-Manifesto-Prosperity-Armage... (or anything else by Bernstein, for that matter)

3) Try to steer clear of people/firms who want to manage your money for a hefty percentage fee. They're one step above crooks, sometimes not even. In the wise words of John Bogle, "you get what you don't pay for."

Good luck, and congratulations!
"far-right group that maintains a Deep Web database"

How to set this up is a more boring than it sounds...

https://doxbin.org/robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow:

Although it's done incorrectly.

site:doxbin.org

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxbin)
There's an even better solution: make the "destructive" behavior not destructive.

Instead of taxing elderly people for selfishly installing AC so they don't die, we should focus on improving technology such that running AC is not harmful to the planet.

Using taxes to reduce bad behavior can slow down climate change, but it could never stop it. Technology is the only real solution.
At The Breakers, all the bathrooms had hot and cold running fresh and salt water. I believe many of the fancy mansions in that area had.

I remember visiting on a field trip from nerd sleepaway camp in Massachusetts.

As an adult, I could see myself splurging to get running salt water in my seaside mansion. I've always loved salt water.
The standard advice that is recommended for windfall recipients is to stash it in a savings account and sit on it for 3 months. The goal is to avoid making any rash decisions based on euphoria.

You can use that time to read some books on wealth management. Two classics are The Four Pillars of Investing and The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing:

https://www.amazon.com/Four-Pillars-Investing-Building-Portf...

https://www.amazon.com/Bogleheads-Guide-Investing-Taylor-Lar...

It is also a good idea to not tell anyone, unless you want to be bombarded by requests from family and friends for loans, invitations to invest in weird ideas/schemes, and so forth.
also, just remember unicode is packed with icons though I find you do have to check if they render correctly.... but mostly they just work though you may need to make your font a bit bigger or it may look like

UPDATE: apparently.... HN Isn't unicode friendly...https://pasteboard.co/IpxYWjH.png
If they are going to release this to the public it would help encapsulate the brand as a whole and represent the company in a more professional way.
I disagree, this may sound a bit heartless, but it's the engineer's salary that should be measured here.

The hard part is translating frustrated users into financial cost (e.g. lost revenue when users are leaving for competitors and such) which in turn can be translated into hourly wage which then can be used to calculate if optimisation is worth it. And then compare to the lost opportunity of making other optimisations or improvements.

Obviously this is near impossible so the best you can do is make an educated guess.
When did you join the company? What percentage did you own? That’s a nice payday, congrats.
Not related to the article (which is great), but I love the site design. OP should look into making this a Gatsby Theme.
It doesn’t matter. Pretty much every place that has enough people going in the same direction to fill a rail line already has one. Meanwhile, rail outside those downtown cores is vastly underutilized. The I-270/I-495 interchange (which connects the DC Beltway to the inner suburb of Montgomery county) carries 760,000 vehicles per day, more than the entire ridership of the DC Metro, and double that of the LA Metro.
> I personally, for instance, would not accept a dress shirt that billows like a sail around the waist as a "decent fit".

Though, could be a style, a la: https://i.pinimg.com/474x/44/99/04/449904cf74d56a096b1f5bb60...

I think some fit concerns could be mitigated by having a more diverse range of sizes of models. Women's clothing brands seem to be more open to showing a diverse range of sizes whereas men's clothing is still filled with models at least 6'0" of slim to athletic build.

Case in point, check the difference in body type diversity between the Everlane men's and women's clothing sections:

https://www.everlane.com/collections/womens-all

https://www.everlane.com/collections/mens-all
E-HBA: Using Action Policies for Expert Advice and Agent Typification
Your consciousness separates from the body. https://magiscenter.com/nde/
Two points: It's easy to learn to think in ASTs; it just takes practice. No more practice than it takes to get good at any other programming language.

Second: ASTs contain no ambiguity. English contains ambiguity. Javascript contains ambiguity. The full meanings of most programs cannot be discerned from just looking at them; you also need external documentation that describes the conventions in play (e.g. operator precedence).

This is less true with Lisp than with any other language. Lisp novices complain about Lisp being write-only, but a well-written Lisp program written today will still be self-evidently unambiguous (and likely even runnable) in 1000 years. Try that with C++.

Lisp is the Latin of programming languages.
It has no more plausibility than there being a giant pink dragon in my garage.
Bought myself a yacht
For someone like Me Darcy income came entirely from wealth. He wasn't working, and someone in his position wouldn't be. So Elizabeth already knew he was extremely wealthy before seeing Pemberley.
Could you explain why or link a relevant source?
Should there be a leaderboard for interaction speed? This might encourage employees to petition for speedups internally.

“We’re on track to be the slowest productivity app on iOS! Let’s prioritize those responsiveness fixes!”, etc.
Nope it does not. Writing the compiler self hosting has nothing to do with writing the run time system.
Feudalism has since been destroyed. Generally people want to increase democracy, not the other way around.
Yes they have. It's a great approach. Does Go have a precisely defined subset for this?
- Maxed out insurance (home, car)

- Set aside a large amount for taxes, invested it in US Treasury Bond (get an estimate of your taxes from an accountant)

- Got an accountant

- Read up on QSBS (this can save you a lot of money if you got stock when the company was small enough)

- Got a last will and testament drafted and signed. Also asked our probate lawyer about stupid things people do with money, so as to avoid those mistakes.

- Got a financial planner. Also asked about stupid things people do. (At your scale, probably ok to just do standard ETFs and bonds. Note that don't buy in all at once, diversify not just the investments but also by time, so you're not buying all into the stock market at once. This also gives you time to think and reflect about how you want to use your money and what legacy you want, while also getting some returns on investments)

- Set up a donor advised fund (you can donate stock directly to one and get a big tax break)

- Made a donation and got something cool named after two of my long time mentors

- Read book Silver Spoon Kids on how to talk to one's children about money (our financial advisor gave this to us)

- Read a lot about wealth and power in the United States, in particular sociologist and psychologist William Domhoff's "Who Rules America?" https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu/power/wealth.html
(I stumbled on this by accident, but found it a fascinating read)

Time is on your side here, so don't rush into anything. I was really lucky to have a brother who already had high net worth, so he was able to give a lot of guidance and discussion of tradeoffs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20522115 as I say here, this is unrelated.
Plumbing in general during that age was amazing. I cannot even imagine what it would cost like to build one of those mansions today.
You claimed that land acquisition was the cost driver. I used the silver line as an example of because it’s a relatively rare situation where the land acquisition cost was low because it is carried in a freeway median that was originally designed to host a metro extension.

I don’t see how you go from that to a comparison against literally the most expensive road tunnel in US history, especially given that the whole point of the silver line example is that it runs through the exurbs on an existing freeway median.
> > And while I'm it, many women I know don't wear dresses more than once or twice. Why? This seems wasteful.

> Come on. Don't be a sexist caricature.

This is a very uncharitable reading of the question, and a personal insult is a very unhelpful response. When someone doesn't know something, saying "Stop being an idiot" doesn't help anything.
You can experience another person's experience when you see them smile or cry. We call it empathy in modern parlance. The hogan twins joined at the head have an even more direct connection to each others' experiences:

https://www.cbc.ca/cbcdocspov/features/the-hogan-twins-share...

I've never been very moved by ideas that I can't know or share other people's feelings, or other fanciful ideas like their blue is my green. It's more reasonable to assume they are like me because we share similar hardware (DNA) and software (Culture). Others hands look like mine, more or less. Others legs are like mine, more or less. And so others perception of green is like mine, more or less.

Telling me that my experience is prime, or fundamental doesn't tell me much. Similarly, saying I think therefore I am doesn't tell me much. What then am I and what is existence? I think therefore I am only as much as I think I am. And sometimes I forget myself.
> I don't go to stores like gap, and don't really buy trendy clothes.

That's fine. But you made a totalizing claim that isn't true about men's sizes vs women's sizes. If you want to understand why your claim isn't true, perhaps you can stop into one just to look around.

> I've never seen tons of styles

The world is a big place with lots of variety.
I looked into buying a small estate in the midlands about 6 years ago and the price was around £1.5mm and upkeep was something like 500k/yr.

I passed.
Correct link for GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-kyoani-heal

Information for donation via direct bank transfer: http://www.kyotoanimation.co.jp/information/?id=3075 (The bank info is in English)
Sorry, I realised that's what you were talking about after the edit window closed. Though, a lot of mail is sent by mailing services not individual clients (and all the awful ones really don't like sending useful plaintext mail).
I read that as a worldwide figure. But, I would still like a source.
My advice to you is to keep your job. Work on your startup as a side project and gradually build it. If it takes off and starts to generate as much as your day job, then make the transition.

Survivorship bias will skew the success of startups. Success is far less common than what I originally thought.

Take a look at the $100 Startup book it has some good points to consider.
To be honest, you sound out of touch. Especially with the dropping of the "metrosexual" line.

You asked why there aren't more sizes for men, received a response telling you there are, and then somewhat indignantly responded with "well, I don't shop at those places." Well, if you want to find a better fit, maybe you ought to.

Old Navy (parent to Gap) sells a variety of jean sizes for a fairly low price: https://oldnavy.gap.com/browse/category.do?cid=5199&nvt=Hamb...
Hardly! Hypocrisy should always be examined. Let's take your example. I am currently typing on a computer, it's true, and indeed it likely contains minerals and parts made by slaves. The computer was sold to me by local wage-slaves. The computer was produced not just by humans, but also by robots[0]. We can thus see that slavery is not ended in the world, and that there are several axes (geographic, economic, (in)human) upon which we can still improve our efforts to understand and end slavery.

We become better people by learning, by examining, and by seeking to eliminate hypocritical beliefs within ourselves.

[0] The word "robot" has a fascinating history of its own. This quote is a good portal to the past: "Sulla isn't a person, Miss Glory, she's a robot."
There is some really good basic guidance on dealing with windfalls, available on Reddit's personalfinance board: https://old.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/windfall

I recommend you read it all and take some time to digest it.

Don't do anything rash -- in fact, don't rush to do anything right away unless it's necessary. Necessary things include:

* Figuring out what your tax obligations are.

- You should get someone to recommend you a
competent CPA who has dealt with this situation before. You want someone who will proactively help you sort out your tax situation starting NOW, not wait until tax time. But I would _not_ suggest a "wealth manager", or even a "financial advisor" at least to start with -- find someone who will just help you with the immediate tax consequences, and who will deal with you on a flat-fee basis with price given up front. A competent CPA should probably be able to handle this on a bare-bones basis for less than $1000, but _if_ you can get someone who comes highly-recommended and has significant experience with the specific issues you're facing, and can help you navigate the situation, paying a small multiple of that for more good advice won't kill you.

- Note that you are going to owe estimated taxes, which need to be paid quarter-by-quarter, not at tax time. At the federal level, you will not be subject to penalties, regardless of your income this year, as long as you prepay (in payroll withholding plus estimated tax payments) 110% of _last year's_ tax obligation. However, if you are in the state of California there is no such safe harbor for _state_ taxes if your income exceeds $1 million in a given year (which it will). (See https://www.bdcocpa.com/resources/articles/43 .) So make sure you pay California estimated taxes as promptly as you can manage. (But also, don't panic if you end up being charged penalties. For stuff like this (i.e. not fraud) they are generally quite small relative to the amount of taxes owed, especially if you aren't that late.)

* Figuring out your liquidity situation:

- Are you getting the money in cash, or liquid securities (i.e. that you will be able to sell easily), or illiquid securities (i.e. that you cannot reliably sell?) If your employer has been thoughtful towards you, you won't be in the third situation, which can be very messy come tax time. (If you are in that situation, there are people who can help advise you, but you'll want to start thinking _now_ about how you'll pay the taxes.)

- If you're getting securities (i.e. stock shares) that come to you in some sort of brokerage account, it's fine to _leave them there_ while you decide your next steps. Make sure you're able to sell enough to cover your tax bill, but you don't need to actually sell anything until you discuss it with your tax advisor.

- If you're getting cash, you will probably want to open a brokerage account to put it in (don't stick it in your checking account.) Charles Schwab and Fidelity are fine general-purpose brokers. Vanguard is good if your plan is to invest the money in low-fee index funds and then not touch it, which is generally a wise idea.
I have a stupid fascination with historical finance in literature myself. I focused on Early Modern Elizabethan literature. Wrote a thesis arguing that Spenser's Mammon in Book II of the Faerie Queene was not so much about the familiar allegory of illicit wealth but rather a vitriolic topical attack on the emerging proto-capitalist financial industry in Elizabethan England and the challenge it presented to the traditional landed aristocracy. The earliest bankers were the goldsmiths and that, if you read closely, is how Spenser depicts Mammon.

A lot of fun and led me down some interesting rabbit holes on Elizabethan monetary policy, the impact of Henry VIII's Great Debasement, and the role of the Royal Mint as central bank. Left with with a deep appreciation for the stabilizing influence of the Federal Reserve.

Anyway, for anyone interested (haha), here's the canto in question:

http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/TextRecord.php?action=GET&tex...
Your skills with the German language are exemplary.

We really have lost it with this air conditioning. It should be evident that the feedback loop has gone wrong when, after centuries of buildings serving us well, we can't enter them without the aircon, lighting and everything else turned on, with all doors and windows shut.

It is like summer comes along and we have excuses for wasting as much electricity as possible, then winter comes along and we do it again. There is no let up to it and people aren't necessarily directly paying for air-con and other demands. They are also not aware that they are heating up their environment considerably with this over the top lifestyle.

Modern offices are absurd alien places. The water can't come out the tap, it has to be brought by a man in a van. You can't wash and re-use a cup, cups and eating utensils have to be single-use disposable. Need an expensive fizzy drink? Have as many sugar rushes a day as you want, there is a vast refrigerator full of the junk, humming away, not too far away, all of it for free.

The noise of ad-hoc air-con solutions and the moaning people make about air-conditioning is a phenomenon deserved of study. A lot of people really do have this overly corn-fed obesity problem that can't be spoken of because to do so would be 'able-ist' and possibly a sackable offence. However, if you had to provide A/C for a group of fit people or for a group of fatties, which do you think would have the lower electricity bill? Also, why should those that can stay off the snacks have to endure these fattie-friendly alien workplaces?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbow_Room_(book)
Am I missing something or does this not help with air conditioning? Heating in europe is pretty high quality overall; the problem is with cooling.
I was being succinct. It is not the quantity of reactions that is important, but the type and nature. The quantity is simply what makes it a reliable measure.
Fixed the link, thanks.

Some people have also suggested purchasing digital goods from their online shop: http://kyoanishop.com/
Instructions here: https://twitter.com/gokunobaka/status/1151813889362989056
> Lisp is the Latin of programming languages.

Fuck I hope not
Dissenting Statement of Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter [pdf]
Well shoot good for you but it is not the norm in my experience
I like this finance website. Some of the advice surrounds improving your financial standing, but much of it is just about how to live well, and how money does and doesn't play into that.

https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/blog/
Agreed.

Also please donate if you can to help the families of those that lost loved ones and those injured that will likely face a lifetime of disability.
I have a friend who is a seasoned engineer, and he has worked for a few startups. He lives in the middle of the country, so the cost of living is much less.

I think you can find outstanding engineers if your willing to offer them the option to work remotely.

Remote teams have other challenges, but if you have managed them, you will have no issues.
He has three films marked "Post-production, posthumous release"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutger_Hauer_filmography
Tried, after force stopping and disabling (which reverts it to factory version, 9.72.2) on my Verizon Galaxy S7. Says "App not installed." when trying to install APK after running through the install process. =(
Just so you realize, the DoD budget does pay for a lot of research. About 15% is directly going into research, and there's about another 10%-ish that's research disguised as procurement. And that research isn't all weapons system--I've been funded by the DoD to do compiler research.
Agreed and point well received.

Just want to point out that the situation in NK is different than Turkey because, as we all know, it's a nuclear power in close proximity to a treaty ally.

With Iran... well, we can see the ridiculous predicament that we are in today because of the unilateral actions of one party over a treaty agreed to by 7 signatories. I would not rule out direct military intervention and regime change in the near future there just yet (at massive cost of human life). The world has seen one too many times what happens when nations disobey the global hegemon.

It may indeed seem silly and tin-foil hat-ish, but there are many ways of forcing regime change without overtly declaring war. Coup d'états, spontaneously occurring uprisings, etc.

Not to indulge in the paranoia of world leaders too much, but Erdogan famously survived his 2016 coup which he claims to have been backed by the CIA [1]. The Philippines' Duterte has mentioned in several interviews (in a non-sarcastic way) his fear of being assassinated by the CIA after his pivot towards China [2]. The truth is that geopolitics is probably simultaneously more boring and more full of intrigue than we can imagine.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Turkish_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...

[2] https://youtu.be/rHjlCmdyesY?t=645
It’s not rare, though it may not be for a year. And you can’t sue because the government did nothing wrong. You were found innocent at trial, that’s how things work. People found innocent don’t get to sue the government for wasting their time. If you can’t bail out you’re stuck waiting in jail.
"take matters like this seriously", not really.
You're right, thanks for clarifying.

I agree - it doesn't feel like the most honest way to represent that data and I doubt that subtlety came through in his testimony for congress.
I think you can learn something from it.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Read_a_Book

The techniques in this book provide some insight on how you can approach your situation.
The great thing about markets is people get to vote on what’s important to them. The bad thing about government programs is they can force everyone else to pay for what’s important to a few loud voices.

There are lots of high quality subscriber news agencies struggling because their services aren’t that important to most people. Using the state to force people to subsidize that won’t make them care more.
Oh, and don't post all over the internet about it. ;-) But I see you're using a throwaway, which is a smart move. As the reddit PF link will also tell you, don't go around telling everybody about it. In fact, for now don't tell anybody but your spouse (if applicable) and your tax advisor. You can always tell people later, but you can never un-tell someone. You'd be surprised (or not) at how people can get when huge sums of money are at stake. Even if people know you are getting an IPO windfall (or what have you), be vague and downplay the amount. Don't promise anybody anything. This goes 10x if they are asking you to.
Both seem to work pretty well, if only I could actually use them. My aging eyes just can't deal with all the gray text on a white background in Fork, or the tiny text in GitUp. Sigh!