skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On some level that makes a lot of sense. If you're several years from IPO (or expected acquisition), 10/20/30/40 won't do any harm to people who stick around until the stock has value, and it helps keep short-turnover employees from eating away at the total stock.

Flat vesting sort of implies that four 1-year tenures are just as desirable as one 4-year tenure. And if people can get a better cash-compensation raise by switching jobs, then staying 4 years is probably less profitable than staying 2-3. (Of course, companies could also cure that by making internal raises competitive with job-transfer raises...)

Although I do find .../30/40 a bit stranger. If somebody leaves at 3 years, you save 15% of their stock compared to flat vesting. But if the extra stock gets them to stick around, they're obviously going to leave after 4 when their effective compensation plummets. It's not obvious to me that pushing employees with no long-term intent to stick around and claim more stock is a winning move.
Microsoft is a trillion dollar tech company.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/25/18515623/microsoft-worth-...
It really is. We've become insanely dependent on the internet, massive electrical grids and GPS.

GPS is especially interesting because the USAF didn't even want it and it almost never happened yet ever shipping company, every cargo ship, every semi, ever FedEx and UPS truck, many pieces of large farm vehicles and most of us use GPS daily. The larger farming operations even use GPS to harvest as GPS is far more accurate than a human being trying to make optimal rows and optimal rows end up in huge time & fuel savings as each acre goes by.

And take the internet... all of those delivery/freight companies use the internet to manage their shipments all across the world and to adjust routes on the fly, and most commerce is conducted via the internet either via websites or servers.

Then power. If you don't have power you don't have water pressure, you can't pump gasoline, you can't make gasoline, you can't use the internet, etc. If you even just manage to take down one region (like happened in Canada in 1989 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1989_geomagnetic_storm ) for even a day you have a massive disruption.

It can honestly be terrifying if you let your mind obsess about it, just how fragile our technological civilization is. More and more I want to live as simply as possible but man, it's hard, we rely so much on gadgets and SAAS and the general convenience of an electricity/GPS/internet driven society.
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Not sure how well the comparison works. Decades of shifting conflicts in several regions opposite the globe and against different "enemies" backed by opposing foreign nations, vs quelling localized rebellions at home where the areas are already saturated with police forces.
Is there such a thing? Do you have an example?

Because every time I heard about people getting banned / disinvited, it was usually because of old ideas.
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Some methods I've commonly seen in Enterprise Duct Tape:

Screen scrape the other service and do data exchange via a Selenium script.

Directly interact with the other service's database.

CSV files and nightly batch jobs.
Do people actually interact with each other over LinkedIn? The only people I've every talked to are recruiters. I thought it was just a directory of potential employees for recruiters. If people actually do social things on LinkedIn then that's news for me.
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I used to do so too, but sometimes had problems with very restrictive firewalls killing connections to high/unknown ports when traveling. They would only allow vpns or ssh to connect.
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I don't think there is a substantial difference. I had an account (which I've since deleted) with thousands of karma points. I was becoming obsessed with the validation of getting upvotes. And I'm somebody who never cared about likes on Facebook. But validation from the smart people here? It was addictive and really tainted how I interacted with HN. I went into an emotional tailspin if I started getting downvotes.
Well said, I am very tired of these blasé remarks about the second amendment. Sure, the people don’t have tanks, but when the people and the guns out number the tanks 1000:1, and the tank driver doesn’t really want to fight, and those 1000 guns are all playing geurrilla tactics, I like to imagine the people stand a chance.
So? It's not like he goes around shouting racial slurs at everybody who passes. His strangeloop talk had nothing to do with his political beliefs. People who have unpopular opinions are capable of behaving like adults in public.
Who?

In the case of Caleb, I assume because he has a religious objection to it - he thinks that a person cannot alter truly the gender given to them by God, and thinks it would be against his faith to use pronouns in a manner that implies otherwise. Though I may be misstating his view, in which case I apologise to him - I have not seen anything he's written where he spells out the basis for his objection, and may be guessing / inferring wrongly.

In the case of Monica, she would in fact do this in all but maybe a situation involving the singular they where she might prefer stylistically to use names (which seems fair enough, since it's clearer).
I don't think Carson's anti-vax.

I think he's being used as an example of someone who can be brilliant in one specialty while demonstrating /u/magashna's "doorknob level intelligence" in other fields like Egyptian archeology.
Read up on the civil rights movement, specifically Robert F. Williams. You have a situation where blacks stood up to their local governments that refused to convict whites for lynching blacks, local governments that refused to protect blacks from white violence, where police actually sought to disarm blacks in the face of white lynch mobs with little to no federal oversight, and all the peaceful protests in the south, the diner sit ins, and the freedom riders were backed by armed black men and the threat of reciprocal violence. I think that counts as a successful instance of Americans standing up to not only their hostile government but their adversarial fellow Americans as well.
I quit twitter about 20 days ago - the account is deleted. I do not miss it one bit. I tend to use HN in the same way. I wish I could delete this account as well. I suppose the best I can do is change my password.
I'm imagining that this was only for effect, because a conference of bad actors banned for poor conduct is just going to be a smorgasbord of normal, very not heretical ideas from people. Otherwise, what, are the banned going to give talks about how they were banned from the conferences?

You're right then, but this just makes the conference just a conference of provocative ideas, which aren't really banned in general because we have free speech in this country generally?
I gave up facebook in 2014. It was a good decision. Some contacts I've lost. Others I picked up on email.

My sister now posts her baby pics to me via whatsapp (yup: facebook owned) and email. Mom SMSes me when she wants to contact me. Dad emails me from overseas bi-weekly.

Other people, I meet over a beer, or a coffee. And the best of it all? You have actual stuff to talk about. No! I did not know you had a second child already. Wow! Do tell!
Boris Johnson is a man of average intelligence pretending that he is an idiot, so in case when something goes wrong and he really looks like an idiot, people wouldn't be able to blame him, since obviously, from the start, he was an idiot!
> do you really think a militia of armed citizens would be anything but gnats against the windshield of the United States Armed Forces?

Turned out to be very effective in Vietnam and Afghanistan.
Different it may be, but I doubt it's maintenance-free. Got a source?
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That’s not the flaw, that’s the outcome. The purpose of a post-mortem is to identify the flaws that caused that outcome, and ways to fix those flaws.
Really good read.
Provides a new abstraction model that we've not seen before. It shows the depth of the problem and why we have never solved it since the days of PGP, 1991. It does not mention the idea of owning your own identity[1], a possible solution.
[1] https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Self-Sovereign_Identity
Social media is very much what you make it.

I use facebook to keep in touch with hundreds of people that I would never normally keep in touch with.

I use it to plan events like birthdays, bachelor parties, and vacations. I fully believe it enriches my life.
Do you think people who make innocent, if tasteless, jokes deserve to lose their jobs and not be allowed to attend conferences ever again? I guarantee you that you've made at least one joke in the past year that will qualify you for such a fate at some point in the future.
Or it’s just a filter for perseverance.
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I see some people using LinkedIn in an attempt to boost their public relevance in their fields, but I only see recruiters interact with their content. Hence, nobody cares about the content.
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What do you mean by "triggering" here?
If you describe each of your beliefs as a preservation of individual liberties then you may get farther in helping others understand your position.
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Some people don't put any weight at all on animal suffering as long as a human benefits. You can't really prove that killing a pig isn't worth the ham you get, how would you even begin to make that objective?
Simple: don't allow yourself to be distracted. Even with a paper book, distractions abound if you allow them.
Or it is a feature because they don't care about your particular production support issues.
What policies does China have which are expansionist?
At the very least it does mean not suppressing opinions that you consider 'wrong'.

This is not a discussion on a technical or scientific topic. This is not black and white.

In fact, and since someone mentioned the American nationality of HN, the lack of subtlety and the need to see everything in black and white, right or wrong, is a common 'criticisim', so to speak, about Americans.
There are a lot of strategic reasons to do this:

1. Internally you'll feel like you're growing still even though you aren't

2. Externally to investors same feeling

3. You will collect resumes in case you want to fire up hiring again quickly
In the US, would genetic information like the kind collected here be covered by HIPAA? Are there any similar laws/regulations/protections in place for Africans? Is there something unique about those protections (or lack therof) when it comes to Nigeria, where 54gene is operating? I'm skeptical.
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No, the biggest global problem is the same one that is causing inaction about climate change.

It is domestic enemies of the public. People with money and power, who are happy to push the rest of us under the proverbial bus, in order to acquire more money, and more power.

They have, historically, caused incalculable misery the world over, democracies have, historically, not had a great track record in dealing with them, and they have, and will continue to have a lot more impact over my life than China ever will.

Unsurprisingly, it is in their interest to point fingers at foreign boogiemen.

If you disagree, please consider enumerating the ways in which China has been a threat to your, or your fellow citizens' prosperity, life, or limb. Then consider enumerating the actual threats to prosperity, life, and limb that you and your neighbours have to deal with in your lives - or have had to deal with in the recent past.
Upvote for the iCE40. Last i heard it's one of the only devices to have a fully open source toolchain. I had a good experience learning on altera, and they had a pretty comprehensive dev environment, but my impression is that every aspect of their "university program" is ultimately geared towards extracting money from people in exchange for use of ip cores regardless of whether it's really appropriate for the users needs. That being said, i can vouch for cheap terasic boards. I might reccommend buying a sub $50 altera board to get over the initial learning curve, and then expanding into less commercially oriented stuff for more complex projects.

Edit: the iCE40 is a popular choice at CERN, and you should be able to find materials geared towards young physics grad students and other fpga non-experts.
I support the idea in principle, but it's inevitably going to serve as a flame to bad-actor moths. Relevant: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/22/rip-culture-war-thread...

I think Haidt's Heterodox Academy has a better approach, focused around academia, and all the accompanying values and norms which often aren't present in "heretical" ideospheres. (Perhaps there's a corollary to Gresham's Law regarding emotionally inflammatory ideas?)
> the ability to defend yourself against a tyrannical dictatorship made sense until the government developed better technology, now it's pointless so just give up your guns?

Basically, yes. Do you honestly think people would have any chance against probably the most powerful army in the world?
Sure, they could try fighting a guerilla warfare, they'd even inflict some casualties against the enemy but it's unlikely that in the end they'd succeed against an army that is professional, highly skilled, better equipped, has better offensive and defensive capabilities, knows a lot more about tactics and logistics and has trained for this type of situation on a daily basis.

> Are they going to destroy their own infrastructure?

Would they even consider it their own infrastructure? Or would they consider it infrastructure currently held by rebels, which needs to be either seized or destroyed?

> Do you think the real men and women of the military would follow orders to destroy its own hometowns and families?

I suspect a lot of them would destroy towns if they we're told that these are now enemy bases. This has been repeated in many parts of the world throughout the history, even recent one. If they wouldn't, they'd be defectors and it really wouldn't matter whether the war was fought with modern weapons or sticks and stones.
Call out to a shell? Pass structs between C-based programs using sockets? Use runtime marshalling? Make your "API" be just different arbitrary JSON objects mapping to maps? Hide the entire API behind a lazy cache with undocumented side effects when cache misses occur? I wouldn't consider any of these "API"s although they are interfaces.
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Actually the alleged affair, is not the important bit. The important bit is him appearing to mis-use public funds for a friend ( whether that friend was with benefits or not ).
I worked at an organization that had a similar declaration. Here's how it played out:

1. Everyone is super excited for other teams to share their data

2. Everyone wants an exception from sharing their own data because it's too hard or too sensitive to share.

3. Eventually everything gets shared, but it takes 3-4 times longer than it really should.
I was going to give an opinion but wouldn’t it be more fun to make an experiment?
> The US military has an urban warfare document that states the number of troops required to secure N population

Are you expecting the whole US to join this insurgency/rebellion/civil war? Most of the gun owners today already support Trump - a man who idolizes authoritarianism.

Instead of a scenario where the entirety of the U.S. police force quells a rebellion made up of 100% of the gun owning populace, it would be more likely that the dictator gets the gun owning populace on his/her side (not far from today's situation!) as reward for supporting the authoritarianism policies under the guise of democracy.
That's largely because the US poaches the smartest graduates from around the world by offering bigger salaries.

The list of Nobel laureates is full of hyphenated-American scientists who were born and educated elsewhere.
Maybe you're being sarcastic, but this seems unrelated. The attacks are on internal networks with an attempt to gain unauthorised access to technical data; it seems to have nothing directly to do with attacks on the software that directly flies the plane.
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> 21 feet is often quoted as the minimum distance where a gun wins over a knife

Against an already drawn gun and a trained as well as attentive officer? Do you have a source for that? I have a hard time believing that. Or is this the case after factoring into the US mentality of "there may not ever be any residual risk for a cop"?
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If this is an OFAC case, which anyone who’s worked for a financial institution can tell you this sounds like a dead ringer for, there is literally an actual law requiring them (both JP Morgan and Square) to withhold the funds.

None of the companies involved even actually get to keep the money IIRC as it’s eventually handed over to the US government. Everyone involved would almost certainly love to save themselves the headache and bad press of this situation if it were at all possible.

When there’s an article about PayPal, Square, or any other financial institution holding on to some person’s cash for vague, inexplicable reasons and refusing to hand it over, the reason is virtually guaranteed to be OFAC. They can’t turn over the funds and they can’t even explain why they can’t turn over the funds without someone facing potential jail time.