skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We's corporate structure is a bit complicated, but the short answer is that Adam relinquished the options in questions in return for an interest in a different piece of the company. See this in the S-1:

Shortly after the option awards were issued, Adam exercised the time-based option described above in exchange for a $362.1 million full recourse promissory note payable to the Company (with an interest rate of 2.89% and a maturity date of April 11, 2029). In August 2019, Adam repaid the promissory note (including interest) in full by surrendering to the Company all of the shares received in respect of the time-based option described above. Following the settlement of this loan, the Company issued to Adam the number of profits interests equal to the number of shares surrendered by Adam in settlement of the loan.
I think it's hilarious that in this one HN thread we have a complete word swap of terms. You said Hare when it should be Hair and they did the opposite.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20682918

It's supposed to be hair-raising because it's alarming and surprising etc. Nothing to do with taking care of hares :)
Are there plans to list new limitations and why they are being implemented?
I appreciate the efforts, and thanks for replying. My fears are mostly for performant web apps (e.g. games, 60hz+ refresh) where timers are inexplicably inaccurate on one web engine with no documentation explaining why. I hope the restrictions are more subtle, and I understand the desire to keep them somewhat secret this early on.
This is a perfectly reasonable transaction. He just wants to exercise the options and then sell the stock. The loan was just a formality to make it easier to do that, there's no fraud here.
The optimistic case for WeWork is that they have a shot to become an extremely powerful player in the office real estate market. The idea is that they could get to a place where most big companies looking for office space would prefer to do it from WeWork because it's better than leasing directly from a building owner. And most building owners would prefer to lease their space to WeWork because it's better than trying to lease directly - after all, at this point everyone looking for office space is going to WeWork so it's tough to find companies who want to lease directly. Once they're in this position they'll be able to bully building owners into leasing to them at very favorable rates - who else are the owners going to lease to?

The idea is that WeWork can do in real estate what cloud infrastructure-as-a-service providers like AWS and Azure are doing in computing. Most companies find it easier to build on AWS instead of running a data center directly. And data center hardware providers find they kind of have to accept the big cloud providers' terms because they don't have a lot of other people to sell to these days.

In order to believe this optimistic case for WeWork you have to believe that they are providing a useful abstraction on top of leasing office space the traditional way, and you have to believe that they won't face any deadly competition. Personally, I'm skeptical of both of those, but I think the best case for WeWork providing a really useful abstraction hinges on two things: 1) a secular shift in the way people work leading to highly flexible office arrangements (e.g. instantly spin up an office in Berlin, run it for two months, then shut it down) becoming much more attractive; 2) WeWork being able to structure lease terms in ways that are better for corporate accounting somehow (i.e. it's not a better product at the end of the day, but it looks better on the books). The best case for them winning out over competition comes down to them getting such a big lead in the amount of space they offer and brand recognition that nobody can challenge them - hence the rationale for burning a ton of money quickly to open as many locations as possible as soon as possible.

I'm skeptical and I'd argue WeWork is more likely to end up like MoviePass than AWS. (MoviePass had pretty much the same idea and playbook - burn money to get to scale and market power quickly then dictate terms to the suppliers who have been eating into your margins - and it didn't exactly turn out well.) But anything is possible.

tl;dr Long-term investors hope that if WeWork can achieve a dominant position in the global office market then they can increase their margins by both lowering their cost to acquire space and increasing the rents they charge. If they pull that off then they can rake in hundreds of billions of dollars and be worth trillions.
Around here, you would try and classify your tiny dwelling as "transportable".

This means having it sitting on, rather than attached to, the ground, and having some "skids" on the piles.
But it's my camera
We've had a mostly different (positive) experience doing a similar thing at FullStory for mobile instrumentation, though I think I know where some of the key differences are.

Our core "business logic" lives in Rust. This is a shared bit of code between Android & iOS that mainly deals with orchestration, serialization, and server communication. We managed to extract ~1/2 of each platform's native code into this shared orchestration. What's left on each platform is more like a platform driver.

I fully admit that things are different for us because we're not dealing with a bunch of UI that we manage (instead we're dealing with UI that our customers have written in Java/Swift/Objective-C/etc), but I think that there's a few places where we've made this work in a better way:

- We've chosen flatbuffers to serialize most (not all) of the data between the platform drivers and the shared library.

- We're using a language that's a little more hip. It's still not very easy to hire Rust developers, but developers interested in Rust are _very_ interested.

- We built tooling early on to make this pretty seamless. Our Rust code builds in XCode and gradle, so there's no real friction to a developer getting up and running.

Our team is about a year in on this transition to Rust and so far it's helped us move far quicker, especially given the size of our team.
I did not said that a programmer (even the best one) do not create bugs or misunderstand requirements. Of course they do.

The original question is what is more important when hiring: a team player or technical skills. Everyone has both but at a different share.
An $80M Mistake // Acquisition Goes Wrong, Learning from Founder Mistakes
In my experience thus far that feature is rife with false positives, so it ends up being more of an annoyance than anything. Or even potentially dangerous in itself, as it can be disconcerting when the steering wheel shifts unexpectedly—it can feel like a loss of traction, which could cause the driver to react in a detrimental fashion.
HR rarely controls problem CEOs for the same reason the Justice Department doesn't effectively constrain a criminal President.
Popular with dads? Really? I'd love to see some evidence. I actually though Pinterest died off because I haven't heard anything about it in a long time. There were times long ago where I'd search for some project inspiration, but Pinterest image results felt like a cancer that needed to be removed from existence.
Exactly. There was a Kirsten Dirksen video showing some cabins built on a piece of property that was zoned (I think) for mobile homes. Voila', they welded some big wheels on the bottom of the structures.

They still seemed poorly laid out with crummy bathrooms (in this case, no piped water and a terlet that was basically an indoor plastic porta-potty) but I did admire the law-skirting.

There can also be avoidance of property taxes in some states I believe.
Another good reason to barbell bench and skip the machine!
I was very excited to try this. Particularly as a hypersocial super-connector, I've dreamed about my ideal personal CRM.

What I want is:

* The ability to do something like a spaced repetition with my contacts. If it proposes I connect with someone, and I'm like "great", they stay high priority. Or I can snooze that contact for a little while or a long while. (There might be an orthogonal feature to track who is important but I only need infrequent contact with.)

* The ability to accurately search my contacts. e.g. Friends who are into crypto and art.

So I went all in on Dex for ten minutes and granted read permissions for my calendar + contacts and added the extension access to read and change data on all websites.

The results were pretty underwhelming. It showed me a handful of contacts scraped from Google, many of which I didn't even recognize. I understand that this is perhaps I'm not much of an email guy, so I do know that a scrape of my Google contacts (or even my emails) will poorly reflect my social graph.

Here's what I want:

* Scrape and import my contacts across all platforms. If you need to use a Chrome extension to read my Facebook activity (not the messages, but just the people involved), fine. If you want me to spend 20 minutes downloading Facebook exports that don't include message text, or maybe screenshotting my message feed subjects for Facebook and Instagram and emailing them to you to OCR, to avoid you being liable for TOS breaking, fine.

* Auto-tag contacts, and allow me to update my tags.

* Auto-prioritize my contacts, and allow me to update the priorities.

Dex isn't really what I need, but thank you. I appreciate you trying to solve this problem.

[edit: Give me a Chrome extension to take screenshots of pages with key information about my social graph, whenever I browse onto them, that will then find sensitive info like message text and black them over and then allow me to easily email them to you?]
Ask HN: Are bootcamps generally worth it?
I'm a developer with a CS degree, and my girlfriend went to the General Assembly bootcamp (which is supposedly one of the better ones) and now works as a developer herself. She and most of her classmates seemed to do pretty well afterward.

I mentioned offhand to a friend of mine in a different city, that she switched careers and quickly found a well-paying job. That friend now has a child and is seriously considering doing a bootcamp purely for the income potential, even though he has no prior experience.

I'm a little worried. There's so much hype around it right now that people who may not be right for it are jumping in, and there are at least some fly-by-night operations trying to capitalize. I feel satisfied that General Assembly is a good program but I don't know of any others, or how to distinguish. I also don't know what the job market is like without the prestige and huge amount of job search assistance that come with a well-known bootcamp.

Does anyone have anecdata, and/or recommendations for other bootcamps?

Edit: This thread has a lot of good anecdotes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13338539
Here's my low tech solution to random LEDs from electronics in my bedroom while I sleep: electrical tape.
Genuine question: how do you feel about Apple preventing Japanese users from disabling the camera "click" on iPhones when they first came out?[1]

1. https://www.wired.com/2008/07/pervert-alert-j/
Known: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/22/tyres-an...

Stop wearing shitty clothes.

I don't know why this is remotely controversial or unknown; somehow people imagine the plastic bottle they drank from, or the plastic bag they stored their lunchtime sammich in, will instantly atomize into micron sized particles which snow on the arctic. No. Micron sized particles of plastic come from micron sized fibers in your goddamned cheap "high tech" polyester hoodie (and dipshits burning rubber).

If programmers really want to do their bit on this issue; start wearing a wool suit, cotton shirt and silk necktie.
You're correct in that many financial instruments with traditionally inverse correlation started moving differently. However, this is mainly from the natural correlation between two instruments that may develop over time.

For example, assuming the cell phone market only had 2 players, apple and samsung. And let's assume investors think it's a winner takes all market. So, historically, if apple shares went up, it means investors think they will dominate, which means investors think samsung will lose. This may lead samsung stock to decline when apple stocks increase and vice-versa.

Now imagine a recession. Investors don't care about that relationship anymore, because they just want to pull their money out of the market. Now everyone is dumping both apple and sumsung, so now, the correlation has changed.

I assume this is what you are talking about for the instruments you were mentioning. But, we use options, which are artificially created, so when we buy put options, they will always be 100% inversely correlated to the underlying REIT/ETF. Therefore, if the REIT/ETF goes down during a recession, our options will increase in price.

Hope this clarifies things!
At what point is a region so distinct from the state in which it resides that the best course of action would be secession? When I read the news I see conflicts in integration every where: Hong Kong, Kashmir, Kurdish Syria / Turkey. My general feeling is that due to a number of factors (imperialism, war, etc.) that our current global map just doesn't reflect the reality of international relations, unfortunately border disputes are rarely resolved peacefully...
A Universal Modular Actor Formalism for Artificial Intelligence (1973) [pdf]
The Fourth Horseman of the Next Recession Approaches
>Kashmir, an area of 12.5 million people that is claimed by both India and Pakistan and has long been a source of tension.

There is also a portion of the area that is claimed by China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jammu_and_Kashmir#/media/File:...
I’d think there is upside to the stock speculation vs the loan interest rate. You can also default on the loan should the downside get realized. The other less obvious option afforded with leverage is that with the stock assets he can probably secure other leveraged items against it (real estate, other investments etc).

The reality of this behavior is that free capital/cash should be looked at as fuel for growth. To judge the financial merit of this you have to wonder why WeWork could not have made more than 2.98% on that capital.

I could be missing something, any finance folks please correct me if I’m viewing this wrong or incomplete.
> rather than develop or implement solutions at home

I find this absolutely infuriating... it's the perfect job to give to the CSIRO (our public scientific research organisation) and provide government grants to get local recycling off the ground. There's so much talk around "supporting local industry", but when decisions are actually made, they use overseas suppliers 9 times out of 10.
Not just internet but mobile phones and even landlines. Only a handful out of 100s of newspapers are being published and that too with restricted pages. Mainstream pro-India political leaders have been arrested along with lawyers, professors, activists and general public.
Audiences aren't shocked, but onlookers are outraged.
Of course, and that's how most webcams work. But my point was with this particular camera, they clearly didn't build it that way, but now they're going to make people think they did, and that's what is dangerous here.
Your wording implies more-recent Macbooks no longer bother with this security feature. I believe I've read elsewhere they actually switched to a custom control board which renders this hack impossible. Is that not the case?
> If I bring a compromised device on your network

Then I'm in real trouble with or without this. A compromised device can sniff the network, masquerade, inject network traffic (inc. DNS), and can attack every other device on that same segment.

> I don't need code execution from an existing internal resource.

If you cannot execute code in an internal context then you cannot exploit this bug, you'd effectively be an external attacker. Your own example had you running code on a locally connected "BYOD" device. Therefore you're already executing code in that context.

> Why wouldn't you patch internal servers for this anyway?

Nobody suggested that. In fact quite to the contrary.

By the way while we're discussing niche edge cases, what's your strategy to protect against Van Eck phreaking? Seems about as concrete as the attack vector you're proposing (local network access with no way to execute code).
Am Kashmiri. Was born there. Have family there. My parents were born and raised there. This is scary even for a region marked by persistent curfews, border clashes between two nuclear powers, and an ongoing series of conflicts between insurgents and the Indian Army.
We have extended family from whom we haven’t heard any news since this went into effect. It’s all just anxious waiting.

What could possibly be the endgame from this unless you’re trying to actively foment rebellion? How can this have any widespread support?
We're willing to do specifically targeted mitigations, but only if we have to. So far, nearly everything we've done has been universal or algorithmic. The one exception I know of was to delete tracking data that had already been planted by known circumventers, at the same time as the mitigation to stop anyone else from using that particular hole (HTTPS super cookies).

This is in contrast to Mozilla and Edge tracking protections, which are based on block lists to a significant extent. The disconnect.me list is likely to be trustworthy, but ultimately it is manually curated. We've tried to stay away from using lists like that.
I think investors like the fact that Twitter and Reddit control all of the user data and (mostly) where and how it's surfaced. The idea is they can somehow monetize this data (e.g., ad revenue).

Obviously they haven't been able to do that yet. There's a chance those platforms are very over-valued... but you can see where some people think the golden goose is.
The data is just being relayed through my server to a websocket. Nothing is stored, but I'm planning to post the source so people can see that clearly and run their own instance if they want.
Followed by a flurry of downvotes that are undoubtedly from HN accounts at the company.
Black nail polish also works well to "hide" obnoxious LEDs.
You realize you're defending a government that illegally shot and attacked the person in question and then arrested and tortured him, right? After which he was released and fled back to the US for medical treatment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kyagulanyi_Ssentamu#Arr...
The confusing part to me was the language that he "surrendered the shares" as payment for the loan, which implies to me he gave it back at the same price, rather than selling it at a profit. But as a sib pointed out there was a further step to the transaction where they gave him a different asset.
Absolute repeat of what happened in 1984 against Sikhs in Punjab. Play by Play. This is just the start of worse for Kashmir unfortunately. The young ones are in for a brutal ride especially. And no one will listen, as they are not Upper caste Hindus.
Note that I'm talking about shutting down the internet in general, not this specific issue. I've heard that India has done this in the past for other things as well.
Let's be clear that senior C++ developers are masters of their domains because they enjoy solving a particular set of problems that a low overhead systems language requires.

However, in the mobile world, from my experience, hiring good senior mobile engineers means they come with a specific skillsets already. They can take a view, animate it a certain way, and then respond to touches. Those are things that are entirely platform specific domains. So they will come from Swift/Kotlin or ObjC/Java backgrounds. The ultimate problem here is those same engineers are typically turned off by C++ nor have the desire to learn it.

You can throw C++ engineers at the problem, but they will most likely be turned off by having to solve animation timing issues or custom navigation stack designs.

If you have a venn diagram of the two sets, there would probably be very little overlap.
That this passes as reasonable transaction is the insane part.
Thanks for the kind words Doreen, your father sounds like a wise man :)

We have tried to engineer the agreement to the point where only during times of nuclear war or some crazy natural disaster, would we not be able to cover the losses.

And per our contract, we are not liable for these act of god events. So, we recommend all of our customers to purchase insurance on property, especially if they live in risky areas related to weather phenomenons.

Down the line, our priority is to incorporate climate modeling , so that we just no longer recommend properties prone to natural disaster damages.
The limitation on high precision timers isn't due to privacy, it's because of the Spectre/Meltdown family of attacks. We'd like to lift those restrictions, at least conditionally, and are looking into it. I appreciate the note about your use case.

(BTW requestAnimationFrame should give you precise callbacks at the screen's refresh rate, and is probably better than using timer-related APIs.)
Preventative measures are necessary for the kind of thing it can spark. The change is not like demonetisation rather a well thought and long-held demand of the present government. It has been there in the election manifesto since they started publishing election manifesto.

The new york times is entitled to its view on how India's elected government ought to run the country but that does not mean the government is going to forgo one of THE demands of the party founders.

The other thing that is ignored is that for seventy years Kashmir has gotten the biggest share of the central government's outlays for states and they have nothing to show for. Doing the same thing expecting a different result is bad in any environment.

I am not sure if this will work or not but what I am sure is that the previous status quo did not work. Moreover, how long would the entire state's ambition be held hostage because of an intolerant minority in four districts in the Kashmir valley?

Edit:

"Intorelent Minority" comes from Taleb's essay/book on the skin in the game

here is the link here is what I meant by Intorelant minority. I am sorry if It came as bigoted but I would call any small group of people this

https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
Earlier this month I took my work MBP in for a recall for both the HDD and keyboard(I received an email from Apple notifying me about this).

The "geniuses" "checked" their system and told me there is no recall and I'll have to pay. I had to physically go on Apples site on my phone, enter my serial number and show them that the recall applies to my machine.

With much sighing they accepted the machine and "made a note" on the service sheet, so the tech's would confirm.

My next personal computer will not be an Apple.
Isn't this kind of good for youtube? They've been struggling with better organization and would probably like to deal with one collective than many small youtubers. It would probably help with things like better overall quality, better understanding of legal issues like parodies, better communication, etc.

In a worst case scenario, how much can a union even hurt youtube? If they decided to go on strike, the barrier to entry is so low that people would easily fill up the void until the issue got resolved. Not to mention a lot of videos are things from tv shows and music videos that probably wouldn't be part of this union.
A reasonable substitute for ground truth might be to get a single drawing done in an anime style with the appropriate pixel dimensions. There are many artists out there who can produce such a thing for a modest fee.
I didn't mean to imply that, sorry.