skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is good advice, with 2 caveats.

1) Options don't start trading until well after the stock has gone public, usually atleast 3 months so you can't use this method to hedge out of the IPO gate. This is an exchange issue, not a liquidity issue.

2) So, after selling calls you can take that money you made from the premium and buy puts with it at around the same price.

Put call parity assures you that you won't make enough selling calls to buy puts at around the same price. ie you'll need to put some of your own money into this. I think the author did a good job of indicating this but it should be made clear to people before tyring to do this.

To be clear, following this strategy it helps lock in a price lower than the current market price for your shares, so you know what you'll make if the stock goes down.

However it also means that if the stock takes off you won't get any of the upside. Keep that in mind as it can be very hard psychologically to watch everyone else around you make money while you've capped your upside.
Extreme portability.
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How to Make Breakfast with Your Vagina
This Uncanny Valley of Voice Recognition
I can only answer for the UK, but we have to go back to last autumn, when everyone started finding out about VATMOSS at all. HMRC did not communicate anything about EUVAT to anyone but businesses above a certain size which were already VAT registered. Their estimate was that only 34k business would be affected. So part of the outcry was the fact that marketplaces, gateways, and payment processors were not advised or consulted. They found out the same time everyone else did, in the same way everyone else did. One of them was PayPal, who were expected by the EU to be compliant in time for 1/1/15. This was news to them. HMRC were forced to admit they had no idea that gateways like Paypal did not already capture the information required to create the place of supply burden of proof, nor that your average non-technically minded microbusiness knew how to handle the API and the information passing through it.
http://www.clarejosa.com/articles/from-passion-to-purpose/up...

One would hope that by now that it's all been sorted.
every time I account for a digital purchase I make from a US company and mark it down as "zero-rated" for VAT. It's not zero-rated as far as my government is concerned; the seller just didn't bother to charge the VAT and as the buyer it's not my problem.

Except that as soon as you became a VAT registered business it legally became your problem ;-) You have to "reverse charge" the VAT for those non-EU supplies and include them on your VAT return: https://www.gov.uk/vat-imports-acquisitions-and-purchases-fr...

Nearly all of my own purchases are subject to this and it's a bit of a pain in terms of admin overhead, but the good news is in many - but not all - cases the net financial position is the same as if you hadn't paid, since you can reclaim the reverse charged VAT.
This might be easily overlooked: optional has been introduced (back-ported?) to Objective-C in the form of nullability annotation!
> it tackles a much smaller issue [than AI as an existential threat]: ... will our AI be a little Pinnochio wanting to be human?

I think this is an ungenerous read of the film - indeed one of the things I took away from it was the psychological opacity of the lead AI character.

Difficult to counter without getting into spoilery detail, but .. although we hear her dialog and see her actions, we are still amply reminded that we shouldn't be fooled by her human-like appearance into interpreting this behaviour in strictly human terms, even if we can infer strategies, goals and concerns.

> Why an AI would seek to frame itself in human terms is a truly fascinating question or more interesting than anything asked in the film

Maybe it's just me, but by the end of the film, I feel I got at least one clear and very specific answer to this question!
FB stock falling was actually a big embarrassment for both the company and the banks that ran the IPO. At best Zuckerberg had mixed feelings about selling at the (temporary) top of the market.

But my point was more that the institutional investors want a low IPO price and have the power to make an IPO fail if they don't get it, the banks running the IPO want a low price to make the investors happy, and the founders selling into an IPO have the least power and also have mixed incentives about the price.
You might not. One of the problems with dropping tungsten rods from space is how large the rods must be to achieve the acceleration necessary to bust bunkers. With a space-based solar-powered platform, you could accelerate much smaller projectiles for similar effective damage. The logistics may be much easier -- for example, the rods might fit on a SpaceX capsule.
> Because that's what EU law, and its member states, have decreed. For example, here is the guidance from HMRC in the UK.

But Patreon is not in the EU's jurisdiction and therefore isn't subject to their laws (with the exception of any treaties that the US has with the EU).

> …hired a consultancy firm whose raison d'etre is tax avoidance…

You keep saying that like it's bad. The whole point of tax accountants is make sure that a business or individual pays the minimum legal amount they have to.
Tangentially-related note: does anyone happen to know of a (preferably Firefox) browser extension (or perhaps some sort of addition to AdBlock) that will block the incredibly-annoying full-screen in-page popups that seemingly-ever-other site harasses its viewers with?

It's getting to the point where I'm - without fail - simply closing whatever article I was hoping to read rather immediately. Perhaps I should just start using NoScript or whatever JS-blocking add-on happens to be the latest fashion.
>Where did I say I wanted an argument for why it is wrong?

In your first response.

>Should we ignore those laws that codify the opposite of our beliefs? Many people would say yes. Many of our heroes are lionized for doing this.

First, this defeats the purpose of law. Everyone has their own beliefs. Imagine what would happen if everyone started selectively obeying the laws that are compatible with their beliefs. Believe me there is quite a diversity of belief systems out there.
Secondly, those many people that would say yes, should try to change the law instead of ignoring it. I can also accept a code of ethics that accepts ignoring the law, as long as it waives the rights given by law.
Which Companies Wasted the Most Money on Super Bowl Commercials?
I wish the es6 const would allow this.
Because Apple chooses to only give access to betas and their release notes to registered developers.
I agree reviews would be the most helpful. You will have a tough time getting negative reviews however, as there's a strong disincentive against making an accelerator you've gone through sound worse. Good luck I hope it gains traction.
Puzzles and Paradoxes in Mathematical Induction [pdf]
> He wrote of how, as a boy, he and his friends bought a lump of sodium from the local chemicals supplier...

Whenever I read stuff like I this, it saddens me just how much safety and common sense have eroded the spirit of scientific experimentation. These days, the most reactive chemical in a chemistry set is sodium bicarbonate.
Indeed about the put/call parity. Or, you simply buy puts at a different strike and take on some risk. But yeah, you'll probably spend some money to "lock up" this deal.

And you're right, options generally take some time to begin trading - especially if the volume is low on the common stock anyhow.

Another method if you can is simply short the stock as soon as you like the price. Then replace the stock when your stock is freed up. Naturally this requires margin and problem that you could get margin called if the stock goes through the roof! Hedge with calls then that are way out of the money then too.

Also, there's the issue of shorting your own company!
I've been moving my Drive sheets over to EtherCalc on Sandstorm and all of my new documents I write on Etherpad for Sandstorm. Draw.io also just released for Sandstorm, which is one of Google Drive's original third party apps.
UT Austin did a lot research for a tank-caliber railgun; in fact a lot of novel developments for pulsed energy from flywheel storage happened there.

Rifle size is currently a non-starter as a significant issue for rifles is the weight of the ammunition, and any electrical source of energy is likely going to be heavier than modern gunpowder.
Mostly modern game engines use an entity system[1], which is a form of database (global data, I guess, in as much as any database is).

The main loop then steps through each component (of which physics would be one) and lets it update the entity data for all entities.

This pattern took over from class/inheritance based architectures about 10 years ago.

There have been some suggestions that Functional Reactive Programming is a better approach. I've used it in some prototypes, but I couldn't scale it to engine-size, and I'm not aware of it having been used successfully for a full game engine.

So, this approach is pretty much it. You keep a database of state, then you run a system (the physics system, say) to update that database.

[1] http://t-machine.org/index.php/2007/09/03/entity-systems-are...
Any age restriction?
Krugman's argument fails to see the massive misallocation of capital worldwide and the resulting instability and wealth distortion.

Just like he didn't see the 2008-2009 crisis, his models cannot see the current distortions and where they mar or may not lead.
Just purchased :-)
We have to obey laws we dont like or agree with, in order to be able to enjoy the benefits of those we do agree with

There is no such tradeoff - there is only the existence of the law and its enforcement. An unenforced or almost never enforced law need not exist and is treated as same.

I don't have to pretend to respect the copyright lobby to gain the benefits of not being murdered in my sleep.
As a fellow, certified autist (High Functioning Autism diagnosis since 2009), this article resonates with me on many points.

Since the diagnosis, my life has improved 100 fold. Not so much because I got go to some courses and group meetings about the subject, but because I was finally able to understand who I was and why. All the weird and inexplicable things I saw in my past, suddenly fit. Like a giant puzzle you've been trying to solve for 30 years and in a matter of weeks, every piece just falls into place.

And more importantly, being able to explain to others who I am and not feeling the need to try to 'fit in'. I learned it is perfectly OK to be me and this almost solely improved my mood, energy and ability to function in daily life.

For those interested, I've also written up a few articles on my experiences in various daily things:

- https://jteeuwen.nl/autism/hfa.html
- https://jteeuwen.nl/autism/a_night_on_the_town.html
- https://jteeuwen.nl/autism/phonecall.html
How does that benefit Apple?
Firing something that distance is easier than hitting anything specific once the projectile gets there. Projectiles must have some kinds of internal guidance system (that works at Mach7) or else the Navy is just going to be slamming random meteorites down anywhere within very large swaths of countryside.
The issue there is that ownCloud and Sandstorm share a lot of goals and functionality. Both are meant to be app platforms in a respect. And both are meant to organize your personal data. Since Sandstorm wants every file to be a granular document, putting the entirely of ownCloud in a file would be kinda odd. It'll likely happen sooner or later though.
Ender is a full featured package manager for the browser
Lots of other examples here too https://github.com/PistonDevelopers and website available here http://www.piston.rs/ for those who want to get started with piston
The History of Patenting the E-Cigarette
Well, so says the EU, but extraterritorial jurisdiction issues are very complicated and ultimately require cooperation between different countries to ever enforce.
Internet in Indonesia is ridiculously cheap. For $500 a month you'll have a very nice place in Bali. No need for a year lease.

3g Internet in Portugal is a little bit expensive. Not too bad -- about 2 euro a Gig. 500 euros a month will get you a nice place. Not sure about how long a lease you'd need to sign.

Mexico City. Why on earth would you want to go to Mexico City?
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• Noon Pacific (http://appstore.com/noonpacific) is an internet radio app built upon the 8tracks API. I designed the Noon Pacific app as a seamless extension of the existing website. Within weeks Noon Pacific reached 9th place paid Music app in the App Store, and received accolades from both Lifehacker and Twelve South.

• Color Myx (http://appstore.com/colormyx) provided a chance to build custom UIControllers, develop a mastery of Auto Layout, and explore an image-free (i.e. resolution independent) interface with PaintCode. In just one month Color Myx grew to support support over 3,000 listeners worldwide.

Please browse my personal website, http://alexgivens.com, for my fine arts portfolio as well.
The problem is, there's already plenty of garbage collected mostly portable languages with slightly painful FFI.
This is part of the plot for Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
Something, something globalized gentrification.
Ask HN: Career trajectory? I'm terrible
hi, hn.

I'm in a fix, of sorts. All I've done in my career is fix bugs and I feel that I'm actually quite terrible at programming. I have no value in an engineering organization.

I've been on a few interviews and they always say I'm smart and have technical chops but not the experience they want. Even taking them at face value, I do realize that for someone whose been a software engineer for 7 years, I don't have the experience of 7 years; more like 1-2 years a few times over.

How do people get good at this? Practice I assume. I mostly did embedded or c++ daemon work, again, fixing bugs. I know I did not satisfy engineering people at my last job; I tried to move in to a dev role and they said they were dissatisfied with me as an engineer.

I'm trying to learn more about programming and practice as much as I can but it feels like it's so insurmountable. I can't envision anyone wanting to hire me.

I feel like I've wasted the last several years and I should go away and do something else and let the real engineers work.
Honest question: What's the use of compressing the counter for n smaller than log(n) bits? Even if you were counting something on the order of 10^30, log n is only around 100 bits. Wouldn't storing the algorithm take more space than you'd save through this counter?
Do you think is practical to build an internal invoice system that takes care of the whole VATMESS? How long do you think it'd take a single developer to do it?

I know that there are many different services like the ones in this thread, but as a single developer, on a bootstrapping project they'd still be out of budget
One concern is that it makes it cheaper for the USN to blow up a vessel; this is way cheaper than the short-range cruise missiles it replaces, so it can be deployed more often.
When was the last time we shot at another warship with a warship? (honest question)
In the same way a drivers license does not grant you the right to pilot a ship or aircraft, a tourist visa doesn't allow you to work. A government is allowing you in because you stated your intentions to be a tourist, spend money, and then leave. They are under no obligation to allow you in, so it is a privilege being extended to you. Working without the correct type of visa could subject you to imprisonment or deportation.
The thing that will improve your focus most is called "The Well-Tuned Piano".
This is where the reciprocity promised to the world by the US over FATCA (the US's extraterritorial tax law) may begin to rear its head. Every bank and financial system in the world has had to comply with US tax law with no choice. Sooner or later the world is going to want to claw back the money it has had to spend on compliance.
Anybody know when nginx will support it?
iOS 9 to have ‘huge’ stability and optimization focus
They probably aren't interested in catering their beta kit to people who aren't Apple Developers... A good way to cut out a ton of noise in one step.
Imgur pro features now free for all users
Not only that, but because you don't need room for the powder (and all the safety armored bulkheads & systems around it), you can store a lot more of these projectiles on board. So far as warheads are concerned, E=1/2 m v^2 means kinetic energy is probably just as effective, given enough v.

I think I read elsewhere the rate of fire is 5 or 6 a minute. Combine that with the 160km range, and you've got quite a good shore bombardment system. I'm wondering how well it'd do ship vs. ship, over the horizon. Presumably they'd have a drone near the target so they could adjust fire.
The mythology of the Lord of the Rings
Note that Hematite uses gfx-rs for rendering, it was mentioned on HN earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8610459
Correct, although I'd be very surprised if this actually happened. HMRC has enough trouble staying on top of non-compliance and lost taxes in the UK, let alone chasing people for VAT due in other EU states. I can't imagine HMRC being too quick to rush to become a debt collector for other EU states.

Bear in mind that if people merely keep operating now as they did in 2014, HMRC loses nothing - it's only the tax authorities in other EU states who lose out. While no-one should take this as legal advice, I suspect all we'll see is other EU tax authorities taking action against the biggest non-compliers rather than individuals.
This seems to have about the same energy of bullets as some slingshots, and is considerably more expansive and complicated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMuI634RAYI

It also shares some problems - namely the lack of riffling, and the bad accuracy/bullet stability problems over long distances (but it also probably can't shoot with enough energy for it to matter).

I think till we solve batery problem - portable railguns and coilguns will be about as realistic weapons as slingshots.
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> but the situation is not improved if efforts to reduce debt end up pushing the economy into deflation and depression.

I don't like how mainstream economists tend to portray deflation: that it's a terrible thing that necessarily leads to depression. I mean, is the average man on the street going have more money to spend if the stuff he needs (food, energy, etc) costs 5% more than it did last year? I'm not saying deflation is always a good thing, but particularly in times of declining incomes, I find it hard to believe it's the scary monster mainstream economists make it out to be.

And I particularly don't like how Krugman is always so quick to defend large debt loads. He keeps advocating to borrow borrow borrow, with seemingly no restraint. Is that really sustainable?

> America has actually been borrowing less from abroad since 2008 than it did before

Ya, because we're printing the rest. That is NOT a good thing.

But of course, Krugman won't say that, or consequences that result from such policies.
Show HN: Simulate Facebook Chat Conversations via the Graph API
First person to say something like "This isn't minecraft, minecraft is way more than just placing blocks!" loses.
I redirect all of my external accounts into my personal Gmail account, and then the filter marks them as read. That means I can search/sort all in one place.

I use that with Checker Plus for Chrome, and that serves my needs.

As far as power, flexibility, and performance, the latest version of Outlook is actually great.
What if I need to do some extra customization or if I want to disclose the final amount to my customers, do you offer something like that?
I have been hired by a software company to develop one of their SDKs which has been open-sourced later. After this job ended I kept working with them and a some of my contributions were and are still towards open-source projects which are mostly promoted by the company themselves. I, personally, don't have experience with working fulltime on OSS but I read some stories about it where companies hire people to maintain a project they use internally similar to a SLA.

In my freetime I try to publish as much code as possible although it doesn't get much attention but without this I would not have gotten the job. For me open-source is not about getting famous or working on the next big thing but giving the community something back and not just consuming the work of others.
How about opening Swift compiler source code (and porting it to other platforms?)
And, what are the OS requirements for xcode 6.3? Is it possible to install it to old macosx system (snow leopard, for example)?
Wow, great feedback! Totally agree regarding average funding (it's biased and averages don't say much about distributions), I'm working on ways to get other metrics.

Also love your suggestions for better ones. I could do 3. and 4. relatively easy, 1. and 2. are harder but definitely worth considering.

Regarding verifying identities, I'm fully focused on getting real reviews. I've been gathering more than 100 reviews already by reaching out to people I know that have actually been through accelerators. As for the reviews that come in via the website, there is a verification process to make sure they are real.
Apples New Touch ID Method Using Full-Display Fingerprint Sensors
Last I heard, Hematite was more of a Rust-based renderer of Minecraft worlds than an actual game. For example, I don't think it currently supports construction or destruction of blocks.

Piston, the project that's backing Hematite, is very interesting in that it's an attempt to explore idiomatic approaches to game engine design in Rust. I'm not sure how many game developers will value Rust's memory safety over C++'s sheer flexibility and mature tooling, but I commend the Piston developers for taking a chance on a new and unproven language!

EDIT: If you'd like to take a closer look at game development in Rust, be aware that there exist dedicated communities for this on reddit ( http://www.reddit.com/r/rust_gamedev ) and IRC ( http://client01.chat.mibbit.com/?server=irc.mozilla.org&chan... , a.k.a. #rust-gamdev on irc.mozilla.org).
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I always thought that using a two-stage design, where a coilgun does the injection for a railgun, might be interesting.
It should be supported, but it's not thoughtfully tested yet, at this point it's just an experiment :)
Will Thinking Machines Evolve to Be as Wonderful as Dogs?
Watson now brings cognitive speech capabilities to developers
Most out of the system? In what way could this possibly be true? 100 billion is 1/6th of UK government expenditure in a year. Moreover that money was generated by these people not money creamed off the UK taxpayers. Simple arithmetic tells us that the people who get the most out of the system are the ordinary UK citizens who use government services .
Better than Google Alerts and integerated with #slack http://notify.ly
I've never seen a hobbyist compulsator--did anyone ever get that working?
How can autism be diagnosed so early?
This is so strange. Right now we have

iOS 8.2 beta and 8.3 beta

XCode 6.2 beta and 6.3 beta

How is the release cycle going to work? When will 8.2 and 8.3 come out and which is more stable for Swift work.