skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Selling a covered call" is when you own the stock and then write/sell a call, using the stock you own as collateral.

For example, TWTR is currently $73/share. Suppose you own 100 shares of TWTR. The March 2014 85 strike call has a bid of $7.90. Suppose you sell one 85 strike TWTR call for $7.90. (1 call equals 100 shares.) You immediately collect $790 in premium. Your cost basis in your TWTR shares is reduced by $7.90 per share. (for capital gains tax purposes)

If TWTR is above $85/share in mid-March 2014, whoever owns that call option will exercise it. You sold your TWTR shares for $85/share, even if the actual price is much higher. You effectively sold it for $92.90 per share, because you also collected $7.90 when you wrote the call.

If TWTR is below $85/share in mid-March 2014, the call option expires worthless, and you keep your TWTR shares and your $7.90.

It's a covered call, you already own the shares, so your loss is limited if TWTR skyrockets. If TWTR goes to $200/share, you lose big on the call, but that is offset by the shares you own.

Superficially, this seems like a good trade. You get $7.90 now, and if TWTR goes up, you sell at a price you're happy with.

However, this is AN IDIOT TRADE. You might as well just write Goldman Sachs a check directly if you're going to do such stupid things. Why? In the Black-Scholes formula for pricing options, the "average gain" of stock equals the risk-free rate. However, on average, stocks go up MUCH MORE than the risk-free rate. When you write a covered call, you're giving up all the upside.

On average, the stock goes up by more then the premium you get for writing the call, making this an idiot trade.

The whole point of being in the stock market is that you make good picks and get a 100% or better gain. You give up that upside when you write the covered call. The premium you receive for writing the call does not offset (on average) the missed gains.

When you write the covered call, you still have the risk that the bubble pops and TWTR crashes. But, you miss out on all the potential upside if there are many greater fools willing to buy it later.
My biggest gripe to date about UPS: For years, they would deliver stuff to the doorstep & sign it themselves as stupid stuff like "Dr. Door."

Well one delivery this backfires when the driver takes the package to a house up the street and signs it as delivered. We check the tracking page, it says delivered. Give it a day or two, package still hasn't shown up. Alert UPS and the vendor. Eventually, the purchase was reimbursed. Maybe 2 weeks after that, the neighbor wanders down with the missing package. (This is a guy that isn't friendly towards my family because we do fireworks on the fourth of July, he holds a grudge for the rest of the year as a result.)

Anyway, ever since UPS made the error & delivered to the wrong address, they will no longer leave packages on our doorstep. We must be physically present to sign for the package - we cannot sign the slip and have them leave it the next day. Must be physically present. UPS comes at about 3pm. You can see how convenient this is.

You can sit in the house and watch as the UPS man runs up to each house on the street, drops a package, rings the bell, and runs off. But at our house, they always have to stop and wait. The delivery people must hate it as much as we do, since they have to fill out the paper slip if we're not around to answer the door at a time when most people are at work (luckily, one of us works from home now, but I can only imagine how bad the 3pm deliveries would be if that weren't the case.)

Long story short, my address is flagged (only by UPS) and someone must be physically present to receive the package. Which is a huge pain. Especially when vendors don't give you an explicit choice in the matter as much as they used to.
I'm not sure if the article is supposed to be attacking the people that convicted Turing or the legalese used by the Crown in the pardon. On both counts, it seems to miss the mark and just wander greatly.

Unless there's precedent for not using formal wording in the pardon, I don't see what the author's point is.
Yes, that's what I said, _if_ you have an app server that supports concurrent request handling. If you are deploying a JRuby app with thin or unicorn or the free version of passenger -- you don't get multi-threaded concurrent request handling.
"To all the people that don't have an account (I'm serious): why don't you?"

1. I've never felt the need to have one. E-mail, phone and face to face meetings are enough for me. My age may have something to do with it: I'm over 50, so I don't have a lot of friends who think that Facebook is an essential part of life - we all survived most of our adult lives without it.

2. I disapprove of Facebook's policies (real name requirements, ever-changing privacy settings, "like" buttons that track people all over the web, etc.) and don't want to support the company in any way.
Shitgoose,

You create something. I create something. We create money to exchange these things.

You don't create money. Give it a value. Trade it. Raise its value. Then after 3 years, ask people to BUY that and use it to trade other things.

Bitcoin is nothing like money. Bitcoin is a card trading game and the card have a value now. Saying a bitcoin is like money or currency is like saying a car is like money/currency.
Email me there are some things that people can't tell you publicly on how to deal with this type of situation.
"You have deactivated your Facebook account." That was about 18 months ago. I've heard various things about what I could do with it now.
Very cool. I didn't know that freebase existed. The next best source may be some of the sites that have poster prints of art.
I was in a similar situation exactly two months ago. As others have stated here, COMMUNICATE with your cofounder. Express what you are thinking and how you view the situation. My cofounder didn't. He immediately tried to push me away from the company and eventually removed me 'without cause'. We are in a legal battle right now. Even to this day I still don't know what or why he did what he did.

Communication is key in any relationship. If you can't manup and talk to them, you are part of the problem.

If after you two talk and there is no movement, then seek out other alternatives. But always try to keep an open line of communication. Sometimes the alternative is way too costly.
its a terrible thing for them, but hopefully only a temporary one.

it'll be a shitty couple of months
MPS is really amazing (or crazy, depending on your perspective). It's been in development for years and is perhaps best described an IDE for building languages and IDEs. So there's a structural/projectionally edited language for defining structurally/projectionally edited languages (yes really), another one for type systems, another one for converting such languages into other languages. Eventually things compile down to Java (textually) so you can use all the standard libraries and so on. There are even languages for defining IntelliSense style IDE features.

The main problem with these kinds of things is the incredibly sharp learning curve. It's more of a learning wall, really. It's a lot of effort to learn, and then it turns out that it's really hard to get in the mindset of defining new languages to solve problems, even when it's been made a lot easier than using yacc/lex/writing your own compiler backend/etc. I never really found a use for it, but I keep it filed away in the back of my mind in case one day I do.
Just an anecdote: I ordered something from Zazzle about a week before Christmas and it had a "guaranteed pre-Christmas delivery" option, which turned out to mean delivery on the 24th (using UPS!). I would have been bummed, but not incredibly surprised, if it hadn't arrived, but either way, I would have considered it Zazzle's rather than UPS' "fault". Seems like Amazon giving refunds is the right call.
I wish there was an option to see all artists or all paintings near me. As it is, I have to know in advance what I'm looking for. Nice work anyway.
I don't necessarily disagree with some of your points, but you are asserting your own opinions as fact. Do you have any sources to support this? I personally think there is a distinction and it is important to be known.
HTC explains that your late update is probably your carrier’s fault
Good news you might have missed in 2013
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But before UNIX there was Symbolics, and Symbolics failed in the market whereas UNIX succeeded.
It's kind of weird, you would expect a requirement of having your hands in display at all time.
I thought about setting that as the default view but would need HTML5 location approval. What were you thinking would be a good call-to-action?
difference is that the remainder of Amazon sales are retail sales. the remainder of Oracle's sales are software (and some hardware).
Poll HN: 1440p monitor owners, could you help me out with a defect survey?
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cuzRVUrrdkdrr2qsK-PzIvOGbLhW1Bj0VLHpbRueq_U/viewform

If there's something off about my method / a question I should be asking I shouldn't, by all means please tell me. Thanks!
Thanks for making me look up [1] that term.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
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The first two are standalone, yes. They're also different in style to the rest as Pratchett had yet to find his voice for the series.

However, they do introduce two very important characters that remain some of the most popular in the series.

I would call that a false dichotomy, Colin. Most of the books are standalone, technically, yes; but consider this: most people who look at the reading order wouldn't know why they should read the witches novels nor the watch novels - so why not just start at the beginning and let it unfold as the author wrote them?
That's hilarious, but I don't think it belongs on HN.
That's great. Fun idea and good execution - well done.

Quick note (sorry to be the grouch): you're using OpenStreetMap map data, so you need to give OSM an on-screen credit. Not much to ask for the best source of map data in the world. :) Details: http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright
For a system comprising tens to hundreds of millions of acres, incidental and transpiration water losses are going to be nontrivial.

Hermetically sealing such a system would be ... prohibitively expensive.

You'll be pumping water in from somewhere.
I started to write this a few years ago: http://www.mrspeaker.net/2012/03/24/syntax-highlighting-for-... - "syntax highlighting for writers", I called it. I was using an MIT library to get the semantic meaning for each word. Didn't get much interest from writers I asked, so dropped it... Though that blog post did get a bit of traction. I wonder if Information Architects ever read it ;)
http://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1tok41/firefox_forc...
I am proud that the technology industry, of which I am a part, has created Bill Gates, a living saint.
Thanks, I didn't know that. Though presumably a 2013 fellow hasn't yet had that opportunity, given the 2014 window is still open.
Plus the Probation Service's mandate to be a rehabilitation system has been almost entirely dismantled; compartmentalisation of tasks meant that offenders don't have the same level of single point of contact as they used to and a lot of the older (largely male in that generation) probation officers took early retirement, to be replaced by young women who've been taught that the job is paperwork-with-a-bit-of-face-time. The final death knell of the old school was the merging of the Probation and Prison services into a Prison Service run organisation called the National Offender Management Service, which I suspect has made the changes irreversable (even if they weren't at all).

Note that my father was among the people who took early retirement in disgust at the way things are going, so my views are almost certainly coloured by that.
I said yes. This is to keep in touch with some of my friends who do not leave nearby and have FB accounts. Also, some of my friends maintain FB accounts in order to keep in touch with children (and friends' children) who tend to stay on FB.

I understand the limitations and potential dangers of FB, however the convenience outweighs them.
This is very rare in the UK, everyone's pretty good at looking left & right (although many will run/jog rather than wait). I guess this is more an education problem. To be frank if you're stupid enough not to look then you deserve to be hit (of course that attitude won't work in reality as often the driver/car will be at fault by default - certainly in the UK).

Perhaps the best approach would be to not punish 'safe' jaywalking but to give out harsh tickets for those that cause cars to slam the brakes/similar.
We use TinyGrab: http://tinygrab.com/download.php

As a design agency we are constantly sharing stuff between each other. You can configure it so it automatically uploads to FTP and copies the link. Really fast and super handy.

We've also been really happy with the dual cursor screen sharing tool Screenhero: http://screenhero.com/ when screenshots just don't cut it.
Exactly. People who don't have it would be more inclined to click and vote.
I completely agree with you. In jail, if you're not a mafia boss, your prime target is to get out safely asap. That may be advice to live by while you're in prison with "violent morons" because they made that rule. That's the rule of "violent morons". Not a very good source of rules, I think.
>which is a direct indictment of google and their (as you put it) ineffective search results

I think Google has the best quality index of all search engines. There is a Kaggle challenge for Yandex right now where you can optimize the search results taking into account data like user sessions and dwell time. It's hard, but very cool. Google owns hard and cool stuff. Web spam is a multi-faceted and complex problem. But these guys are training neural networks on Youtube stills and make it detect cats. The last time I found a top 10 spam result that irked me was months ago. I filed a report and move on to the otherwise great index.

>If the best content is not being served based on its merit, the search results are bad.

If the best content is in an image without an alt attribute or longdesc or HTML fallback, on a page with no surrounding text, no sourcing, no pagetitle, no meta description. On a domain that accidentally blocks search engines with robots.txt, has no structural interlinking of pages, no backlinks, takes 50 seconds to load, redirects crawlers to a different page by IP, and only works with javascript on. If that happens to be the best content, then that is a shame. Google could probably still index it :). But the search results are better for not ranking that inaccessible, untrustworthy, undiscoverable piece of content very high. A store can sell the best goods, but if they put blinds in front of the window, do not promote or advertise, make customers crawl over obstacles to place their order, then such a store will simply not do very well.

>optimizing for good search results and optimizing for high ad clicks from searchers are two different things, and you can't do both.

Why not? Major sites both optimize organic results and their SEM. AirBnb could create content for each major city they host in and rank organically. They could advertise locally or very targeted to people interested in making use of their services and link to the actual property page or listings.

>I mean parasite in the nicest possible sense and I think it's an apt description. I'm not here for the business owners - I came for the hackers.

Google compresses nearly every information in the world to a single search query. That search box is the shortest program to expand to any related content that is currently found in the world. A giant information retrieval intelligence sends out its bots to crawl information every second and store it in global time consistent databases. From a black box algorithm with supposedly 200+ ranking factors, an SEO has to give each web page the optimal chance to rank for what its worth, by reading public documentation, experiment, analyze, track, predict, format HTML documents in an information retrieval friendly way, do split testing with contextual bandits or multivariate A/B, improve accessibility, improve the link graphs of the internet and semantic web with metadata. You come for the hackers, yet you treat SEO's and Google like script kiddies.
Not like the US, Uruguayans never say they're celebrating easter, they call it tourism week. People say 'christmas' but the government calls it 'family day'!!!

Compared to the rest of latin america or the US, Uruguayans are much more like Europeans in terms of being very secular. That said, Uruguay is culturally catholic.

The link you provided shows that %40 of the population claims no religion at all, the highest numbers of any country in the americas. Then on top of that, looking at church attendance, most 'Catholics' in Uruguay haven't attended mass in years, and then only for christmas and easter.
This is important

If you want to (you should and must) get to the board and present your concerns, they are going to need those questions answered

It will only help your case

If your cofounder is as bad as I'm imagining, you should do your homework: get emails, recordings, etc which is strongly hinted by his threat (make sure you get him on that, record with your cell phone - hidden - or something)

But there's also a possibility things are merely like this: "some credit needs to go to an individual who has taken ownership for responsibility of finances, considering the amount of onus that falls on the need to maintain finances optimally for a start-up, this can also be really stressful."

You need to work a very clear and ironed out case for the Board. And remember, to them everything is still ok, and they hold him (and you) in consideration, so you'll have to work the case real slowly, be tolerant of their questions, as dumb as they are (it's a dumb question to you, not to them)

And talk to your lawyer, of course. And make sure he doesn't know about this.
The situation I provided was hypothetical, but one I've thought of previously. I would agree that #2 should be the focus, for sure.
Well, http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SmugLispWeenie had to go somewhere and what place would be better for them than Emacs? ;)

Actually I had exactly the same feeling when I started using Emacs: the very first thread on some newsgroup I remember reading was about moving lines up and down, like in sublime(?) with M-S-<up>/<down>. The poor guy who dared to ask was immediately told that this is "not the emacs way", that there are many better ways to do this and so on. Ofc, halfway through the thread I found working code which implemented this feature, but the impression it made was not very good.

But Emacs architecture and it's consequences, like extensibility and customizability, and giant heaps of free, working code are enough for me to just ignore people like this. Or rather to ignore most Emacs related discussions. It's good that Emacs makes it easy to just stay away from other people: all the docs, and the source, are there in the editor itself, so if you don't mind spending a bit of time you can figure anything on your own. Which is what I do and what I like doing.

But I certainly do understand your feelings in this matter and think they are justified.
Growth Hacking: How Can I Become a Growth Hacker?
> I see the "wisdom of those who came before" embodied, not in governments, but in social structures and organizations that people create and join voluntarily

I see it in both. Though I would be willing to entertain the idea that people, at the age of majority or at certain milestone ages throughout their life, sign a 'declaration of civil life' or some such that basically says "Yes, I am aware of the laws and mores that cover my area and I agree to be a good citizen and, in return, I expect to have a voice in that governance."

Those that don't sign can move to a zone with laws they do agree with or a Christiania type 'freezone' where people can live free of social agreements that they would have otherwise inherited by accident of birth.

I support this because there has not really been a government free zone in any stable sense since before the written word. I'd be curious how it actually plays out.
A Look Back at Popular Web Design Trends from 2013
1. Until we see what they're trying to claim, we don't know what the patent covers. At this point it seems it's just a provisional, which means they might not even have drafted the claims yet.

2. The use of Apple's existing APIs to do the "heavy lifting" has no bearing on the "quality" of the patent or the novelty (if any) of the work. All inventions are built on prior work.

3. As a corollary, the triviality of implementation is orthogonal to obviousness of an idea. As an extreme example, RSA is pretty easy to implement, but it was a breakthrough nonetheless. (Of course, patents very rarely cover anything as groundbreaking -- the bar is and always has been much lower.)

4. If you are concerned that this leads to an unnecessarily broad patent, submit it to askpatents.com, along with any relevant prior art. This will increase the chances an examiner will find it, especially since it's highly unlikely that they're going to look at WWDC videos.

Unfortunately, as it's not even a non-provisional application at this point, you would need to wait for one to be filed and published. This could be as much as two and a half years from now, and I doubt anyone will even remember by then.
He links to a pretty decent site too -- 'oooh shiny visualizations'
http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/gbd/visualizations...
Chicago makes Computer Science a core subject
Devtools Console, from Novice to Ninja
There's a horrid and eroding legal concept called a "reasonable expectation of privacy."

Unfortunately, it is not referred to in the positive in most cases. On the contrary, it is invoked in the negative based on some legal precedent that eliminates that "reasonable expectation."
> and Jeff Atwood's blog (which is a marvel of SEO and affilate marketing in itself).

Really? What makes you claim that?
I suspect that if Google put it's collective brain power on it they could do what we've done and not rank comment links. One of the 'easy' things to do is run your ranker on the crawl where you disregard any reader contributed content. That does wonders. What is less doable is when the blogger is in on it (as they were with the recent scandal) and the links are in the page.

But here is the thing, Google has a content evaluator as part of their Adsense for Content product and they should be able to compute the equivalent of the 'hamming distance' between the linked pages and the content on the current page and construct a decent rank. Certainly that is what I would do if I had the resources to crawl as much of the web as they do.
I thought this was going to be a Kickstarter for a community pottery kiln in Brooklyn, which felt very Brooklyn to me. This works too.
what's your facebook?
Mandela is a recent example of that.
Thank you for sharing your experiences. Incredible, thought provoking, and inspiring in how and what you learned from those experiences.
Don't point it out and they won't notice, if they know how to spell it in the first place.