skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is for the special case of options in successful startups, a problem which affects well under 1% of the workforce.

Nobody is going public because borrowing is so cheap, resulting in round after round of leveraged private equity. This may change when the Fed starts cranking up interest rates around the end of this year.

Also, the new JOBS act rules for small IPOs are now in effect. So far, nobody seems to have done much with them, but that's now an option for companies at the point they need a follow-on round.
Not all illiquid assets are worthless. It's specifically the combination of being prohibited from selling and no prospects for ever receiving a dividend that make these shares worthless. In fact, a share you cannot sell but does pay dividends is very similar to the kind of revenue- or profit-sharing arrangements the author suggests.
Samsung silently disabling Windows Update on some computers
For the same reason that I ask the waiter questions which are clearly spelled out on the menu: I'm a dumbass... most people are. Don't take it personally.
Hmm, are there any that were actually sold as corporate tools . Wave etc. were freemium experiments as far as I can recall...
It's like being paid in IOU: "1% of this lottery ticket's winnings".

There's multiple layers of risk and trust, too many dependencies. The transaction is too complicated and takes too long to complete. So the probability for exceptions to occur is great, and handling for those exceptions will likely fail due to the complicated nature of the transaction.
Inadvertently, HeadlineHawk has shown you the probable reason: there are plenty of people who will knee-jerk downvote just because of its source and POV, and HN is far from free from that.
Why China warned the US to stay away
Options are just a fancy lottery ticket. I have learned to consider their value as $0 when evaluating a prospective employer's compensation offer; they have lost all incentive power.
Going paleo largely cleared my psoriasis. A delightful unexpected side effect. And I feel better overall. I previously had been going vegetarian, based on the belief that it'd be healthily for me. (Oops.)

Becoming a foodie makes the incremental change in nutrition easier. Reward yourself with awesome meals with the freshest ingredients, instead of mourning the loss of daily comfort food like pizza.
Unpacking Git packfiles
Yes, it's not well-formulated, unless the intent was to pretend the cases against 5 and 6 are as clear as the case against 1.
I think you may be thinking of the US? In the UK it's pretty rare to prosecute the innocent. If anything things are a bit lenient with a quite a few criminals getting off free.
Were you on the free or the paid plan? I am guessing if you were on the paid plan, you would have more recourse?
This is nothing new. And it actually makes sense. You can't have people running around selling restricted shares willy nilly. It wold be a nightmare.
Really?

When homosexuality was mental illness : http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/26/970357/-When-homose...

Milky Way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Debate_%28astronomy%29

Neutrinos: http://www.scienceclarified.com/dispute/Vol-2/Historic-Dispu...
The odds are very good. CEOs at venture funded startups tend to have small salaries.
I'm familiar with the tracking image "trick" but I assumed most email clients wouldn't load those by default. The other comments seem to indicate I was wrong. :(
Single-catalyst water splitter produces clean-burning hydrogen 24/7
often much more than thousands -- I've personally spent $12k in strike price alone, not to mention the potential tax implications which can be ruinous if you aren't careful
> Animals turn chemical energy into heat, but plants turn energy from light into chemical energy.

They do, but the heat is byproduct of that conversion. From the 2nd law of thermodynamics there will always be some residual heat (probably quite a lot, efficiency is given by the ratio of absolute temperatures between the heater and cooler, which is quite low in plants). And don't forget that plants also burn sugars to feed their processes. As I said, you can see for yourself in early spring that plants do indeed generate more heat than surrounding dead objects, such as rocks.

In any case, forests have, I believe, lower albedo than deforested landscape, so deforestation should cool the planet if anything. And one of the big arguments for global warming is that we observe more warming during the night, during the winter, towards poles and stratospheric cooling, which is again indicative that the problem is outgoing radiation being recaptured rather than more incoming radiation being reflected.
> But at $100 dollars a night a tremendous amount of people more can afford to stay

That's irrelevant to the comment I was responding to, which was suggesting a transaction with a hotel chain "would funnel a greater percentage of funds away from the local economy" (despite its lack of relevance to the per-transaction discussion you do bring up a valid point which further shows we don't care about the percentage).

> I'd also say, yes, the percentage is important in general.

Why? If more money spent within an economy is beneficial to the economy then you want to maximize the amount of money spent within that economy.

Imagine a hypothetical economy of one person, you. Would you rather have a million dollars taxed at 50% or $100,000 taxed at 5%? Even though the percent you end up with is less you're still going to choose the million because $500,000 is more than $95,000.
The rise and fall of the celebrity sex tape
> There's nothing to prevent people from posting arbitrary e-mail lists to pastebin, with purported matching passwords

Your password is: xttp://someporn.site.the/spammer_wants_you_to_visit
> I think we overvalue logos.

Only if we let the ends justify the means. If we consider them as ways to learn about the world, logos beats the other two hands down.

That being said, I am slowly turning into a Machiavellian pragmatist: what can I say that will get the results I want? Mayhap that would be the best approach to change peoples' minds. Some people would call it deceitfulness; others would call it diplomacy.
"If the famine didn't happen Ireland could easily have a population of over 30 Million"

Would you really want to become Bangladesh? 30 Million seems an awfully high number for a country of such size and latitude.
It's a lead-generation technique. Interesting content -> capture leads -> send content -> qualify leads -> sell
Yep my computer architecture class used the same tools. It's only been 2-3 months since but I'm already having painful memories of the syntax errors and nights of staring at red "UUUUUUUU" undefined registers.
> and the uncertainty of future technological developments ought to inform our current decision of how much to spend addressing climate change.

Well, that does not necessarily sound like something the author of the grandparent comment would disagree with, especially when you consider that the technological developments may not universally be regarded as solutions (e.g. geoengineering).
Here's a good place to start:
ftp://ftp.cdc.noaa.gov/Datasets/20thC_ReanV2c/Monthlies/gaussian/monolevel/air.sfc.mon.mean.nc

It's netcdf global monthly mean air temps. Pick some grid points and plot time series. Have fun.
Lexus did it
There are some very tricky legal issues for companies when employees start selling on the private market. I will admit that I'm not terribly well versed on them, but IIRC these private sales essentially forced Facebook into an IPO that they weren't necessarily ready for.
Proceeds.io – Automated tax returns and payments
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Brilliant. And if I get caught with coke in my glovebox, I can go to court file an "amica ignis" defense.
A lot of stories like this are coming out, and it really leads me to wonder: Why do the FBI, the courts, and prosecutors have such strong incentives to convict someone?

This story elucidates a lot of problems: Poor standards on the part of the FBI for determining what kind of test produces accurate results, poor scientific literacy and critical thinking skills on the part of the jury, a belief in forensic technology that treats it as basically voodoo magic.

But what strikes me as most problematic is that it seems like people in this story, prosecutors, the investigator, etc., simply need to convict someone more than they need to find the truth, and face no consequences for getting it wrong, even though it ruins lives in a really serious way.

Whether it's a systemic career incentive or simply confirmation bias for the first suspect they get combined a desire to see "justice served", something about the way crimes are prosecuted is horribly broken, and bad science being used to justify locking people up is just a symptom.
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I think you are confused. I'm criticizing the JIT library, not the toy example.

http://developerblog.redhat.com/2015/04/07/jit-compilation-u...

"As the author, I may be biased, but I believe libgccjit makes it relatively easy to build a compiler"

I think this is flat out wrong :)
We're actually not sure what most people use (apart from ShareX) for uploading images, but we're looking to implement functionality into new clients to support Up1 for sure.

That would be awesome! If you run into any trouble, be sure to hit us up in the IRC or throw an issue on Github.
I disagree. Negotiation is their talent, obviously.
Throw in Emacs/vim keybindings and you got a stew going.
Mr. Bloomberg's privately held equity undoubtedly makes distributions to its shareholders. Stock that does not pay dividends and is unlikely ever to do so is not wealth; it's just a piece of paper. And if you cannot legally sell it to someone else, it's effectively worthless as there is no way to convert it into something of value. The exception is if you have a majority of the voting rights, but that's not what this article is about.
U.S. Power Grid Being Hit with ‘Increasing’ Hacking Attacks, Government Warns
IF there's enough liquidation preferences, even a successful exit in the $50M range could leave nothing more than a fraction of your annual salary for everyone but the founders.

Every dollar taken in investment reduces the likelihood of regular employees cashing out unless it boosts the ultimate stock price and success chance of the company significantly.

Too much money is chasing too many companies so the founders are tempted to take the money, roll the dice and hope they become a Facebook, even though the odds of that are extremely slim.

This is the difference between a "startup" and a business. Startups used to be a phase of business, but it's become it's own thing now.

A business will not take money it doesn't have to, realizing that profitability will fund growth. (And to be honest, I don't see a lot of mechanisms by which VC money funds growth-- all of the successes hit a viral growth loop or opened a massive unmet need... the VC money just made product development easier... mostly after the tornado started.)
Six colors of productivity. The mine is violet
Yeah, but no one ever got rich off salary.
It is... just not on Twitter anymore. The account was suspended about a week or two ago and I haven't heard anything back on my appeal from Twitter.
I strongly disagree.

It claims to have types, etc. It doesn't say "these are GCC types, see the GCC docs". It says "here are some types, they act kinda like C".

It's certainly a library, but that's not relevant.

It has it's own expressions, lvalues, rvalues, Something, somewhere, needs to describe the semantics of these operations.

The JIT docs at https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/jit/topics/expressions.html, again, don't say "this is identical to GCC's NEGATE_EXPR" or whatever, they say:

"GCC_JIT_UNARY_OP_MINUS
Negate an arithmetic value; analogous to:

-(EXPR)
in C."

IE It defines it's own UNARY_MINUS operator, not "GCC's" (GCC is NEGATE_EXPR).

It then tells you nothing about what it actually does (because it's only analogous to some random version of C).

If it said "this has the semantics of GCC's NEGATE_EXPR", that might be something (but the semantics of GCC's operations are not well defined either :P)

A lot of JIT's are programming language specific, and so they have it easy. They just define their operations/results/etc in terms of the programing language they are a JIT for.

But they are not attempting to do that here. They are attempting to present it as a JIT for "whatever you want". But you couldn't actually use this to produce a JIT for a language and know how the end result will act when you produce certain JIT operations with what they have given you.
That is a pretty basic requirement for using a JIT, library or not :)

In short, again, i think this is built the wrong way around.
Building a Jit for a bunch of not-well-defined operations doesn't give anyone anything interesting.
I'm also curious in this if anyone has an answer.
If you use the formulation of class as power, then the unemployed are definitely part of the "working class", as they have no more say than the workers do.
The vast majority of new option grants for VC-backed companies are under the 1/48 monthly with a one year cliff.

More companies are now switching to converting ISO grants to NSO after you leave a company, and allowing a longer term to exercise. Pinterest famously allows, in some cases, employees to have up to 7 years to exercise vested shares after leaving [0]. Most companies do not do this (yet). Exercising an ISO grant can be much more favorable taxation wise than exercising a non-qualified NSO grant.

If you give shares to an employee, it will likely be a taxable event, as the IRS sees this as taxable compensation.

Also, most grants are at non-trivial strike prices. If you're a super early employee, you might have grants at a very low price, usually a few cents. However, the vast majority of grants are at much higher strike prices where exercise costs are processed in the tens to hundreds of $thousands.

Exercising and taxation are a difficult topic that very few fully grok.

Source: work at eShares.

[0] http://fortune.com/2015/03/23/pinterest-employee-taxes/
A talk from David Malcolm (main contributor) about libgccjit (2014):

Slides: https://dmalcolm.fedorapeople.org/presentations/cauldron-201...

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=CA&v=XsaDtUkPu34&list=PLOGT...
It would seem that the founders have "won" their own GoFundMe campaign. But kudos to them for realizing that the company's growth had exceeded their personal threshold for interest/time/size, and handing over the reins early.
no its not?
Over many years as an employee for startups, I was employee number 24 of a $30M cash acquisition exit. The result was 6 figures, but just. Effectively it was a year's salary.

That's all my options were worth and to get that return, I worked for about 20 startups over 2 decades... only one paid off.
Know of any good web-apps or other easier to use programs for the layman to calculate these things? Thank you for mentioning these formulas too. These give a person something to argue with.
After reading these comments, it is clear that the ones who have their mind made up and are not open to debate are the warmists. The fact that merely asking questions incites such aggression suggests only one thing. They just don't know and are scared to admit it to themselves. This is the exact same behavior seen among religious cultists. They have not read all the evidence or most of it themselves, but follow the high priests unquestioningly because 1) It makes them feel better and morally superior and 2) The burden of proof is not on them. They can always evade and say "all the experts/high priests agree" or "read the IPCC" etc
Author here. I discovered this while working on a clean-room implementation of Git in pure Go. While there are a lot of references to packfiles online, surprisingly, the actual format of packfiles was rather underdocumented. Most resources just mention that they exist, and describe how to use `git verify-pack` to inspect a packfile, without explaining how to parse packfiles and apply deltas.

I decided to write this up to save others the trouble of having to reverse-engineer it from scratch!
Sorry about that.

What I meant was that Mattermost is blatantly disregarding their UI/UX by just ripping off Slack. If design was that easy we'd all have the same looking/feeling/functioning product.
> google docs writer editor is so bloody horrible

You can thank it to the broken ContentEditable HTML API. Google Docs v1 used it, for v2 Google reinvented the wheel by coding a word processor render engine using one DIVs per line. If only the browser vendors would fix the ContentEditable API, then a Google Docs implementation would need just a few lines of code. Multi column, multi page would be no problem with contenteditable. http://caniuse.com/#feat=contenteditable

Sadly, three of the big four browser vendors have a competitive advantage if their own cloud office suits cannot be reimplemented with a few lines of code.
I do support for startups at VC: What would YOU like to see?
I'm the vp of platform for NextView (based in Boston and NYC). We create content (blog, podcast, templates), host workshops, intro talent, and a few other support projects. I do lots of local customer dev but I wanted to ask this community -- if your VC could support you in any way possible, what would you want to see during the seed stage specifically? Thanks!
%0.01 Because even if it's %1 at the time you join, by the time the lottery ticket can be cashed in it will be diluted, plus liquidations preferences, etc.
I wouldn't say Sen grassley is anti-immigrant. He is infact open to h1b visa provided the tech sector accepts his bill as well to protect abuse. In short what Grassley is providing is a poison pill for Body shops but not for really talented advanced degree graduates. Sessions on the other hand is out right anti immigrant and a racist Pig.
All Americans fail to understand that 30-40% of H1B's are Masters/Phd's for American schools.. Not all are body shop products like the ones used in Disney.
Well, on one hand it is a pain the buns for the company in facilitating secondary transactions. On the other, it makes good sense that it should be doable. The secondary markets like Sharespost/Secondmarket don't seem to have made much progress in getting companies on board.
Yes, it was a problem to be solved for several reasons:

1) 409A (option pricing) valuation problems

2) Increase in # of shareholder problems

3) Legal issues (for both the company and employee) if buyers of shares later felt deceived by sellers

4) Team cohesion issues if different employees were getting radically different prices for there sales

You might disagree with the solution, but these are definitely real problems worthy of consideration.
>If you had a sore stomach, and asked 2 groups of people to help you figure out why, would you trust the diagnosis from a group with 100 world-class doctors, surgeons, dieticians, etc... or 100 random people?

Not unless two of those 100 random individuals were Barry Marshall and Robin Warren and the stomach pain was due to a peptic ulcer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Barry_Marshall

"Marshall and Robin Warren showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is the cause of most peptic ulcers, reversing decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid."

The point being that a reasonable belief long held by experts was shown to be false by careful scientific investigation. That said, I don't find this kind of meta-rhetoric helpful as it serves only to steer attention away from the pertinent matter at hand and to shut down discussion.
I don't think the general population is thinking about it that much. To me, the main denial seems to be a dislike and/or distrust of the people advocating the AGW theory.

For example, having Al Gore as a prominent figure of the AGW theory movement for a number of years is enough to make them suspicious. They see him fly in private jets, own multiple humongous homes, make investments that will pay off if things like carbon credits become mainstream, release a movie 9 months after Katrina that promised more and more severe hurricanes that never materialized, etc, etc. He might not be a duck but he sure seems to quack a lot.

The other main denial seems to be things like, "It's cold today - in your face global warming".

I think Michael Mann is giving people far too much credit.
That's becoming a rather cliched comment unless you have a solid justification for bringing it up. I don't think it really applies in this case.
It's starting to happen. All we need is a non-C OS that can run Docker containers.
Barber and tattoo artist requires holding violent objects right up to a person. Athletic trainer often involves (hopefully) mildly enhancing medicine, and architect requires considerable thinking skill and trustworthiness. I see why they are banned, but at most it should be something like for parole. Roofing is often associated with fraud.
I haven't read that paper, and the abstract makes my head spin! I'll have a look later, and try and figure out the argument. I agree with you that things like the I-measure are based on the idea that simpler is good, and it works well in practice - both in Machine Learning and in the real world - which is why humans tend to prefer it. But (the paper you cite aside) I don't know of a deep reason why simple is preferred by nature.

Also there is a deep cognitive bias here, perhaps we lack the machinery to understand the world as it really is!
Wait what? Two friends of mine sold a company for $10M last year, that was like them and 4 other employees, and the (technical) founders easily did more than half the work..
Heh.. every time I read one of these 30 somethings founders (as I am) striking it rich on some buy out deal etc.. I think to myself, why the f%$k am I still cranking behind this desk? Then I return to work the next day oblivious and pretty much content sigh...
Ad hominem fallacy fallacy: http://laurencetennant.com/bonds/adhominem.html

Pointing out that someone is not trustworthy when considering whether or not to trust their conclusions is not ad-hom.
Mattermost team here,

There's been a number of questions of what's coming from Mattermost, and how we design things. I wanted to share some raw, unpolished work we have of what's coming up.

It's a feature called "App Center" that we're working on to support 3rd party applications.

It's just a Google Doc of our early design that we're sharing on Hacker News to get feedback: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s6vrticxgz9PsxePQ-dFrsKp...

Would you find this interface interesting for building 3rd party apps?

What do you like about the design?

What do you wish we changed?

There's a couple 1st party Apps we'd start with, like an Admin Console and a Custom Web App. We're thinking there could be a marketplace for 3rd party workflow apps.

Example: create an "Expense Report" app where a user can upload the photo of a receipt from lunch from their phone and type "#expense #meals" and have a 3rd party app create a labeled expense report that would be viewable in App Center.

Would love to hear thoughts from the community. This is an early idea, it's just a Google Doc right now. Your input would help shape it.
Down again for me :( Good news is you're very popular! :D