skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a few other secondary solutions, including mine (full disclosure: co-founder of EquityZen here).

Ultimately the company (the issuer of the options) holds the cards on these transactions. For a robust secondary private market, you need to:

- keep the company aware of the transactions, and understand their transaction process (right of first refusal, board approval, other transfer restrictions)

- provide that the buyer has been vetted and is an appropriate entrant on the company's Cap Table

- ensure that you are non encroaching on the company's own plans to provide systematic liquidity to their employees

- keep an audit trail of the transaction process to ensure no leakage of sensitive (or non-public) information

We're headed in the right direction. Pinterest deserves credit on a few different fronts:

1) Allowing employees to extend their window to exercise their options once they leave the company
2) Providing liquidity to their employees

I'm curious to hear from any hiring managers on this thread: do you think that offering liquidity/financing solutions for exercising options/helps attract better talent?
AFAIK, this is standard on any Unix platform, not just OS X. I also fail to see why this is news, this behaviour is decades old.
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> I was still stuck. It’s at times like these where working without an initial design can prove extremely difficult. You look at what you’ve got, and struggle to see where to take it, knowing that each step in one direction is a step away from a solution in another direction - and you don’t know which way is going to turn out better. It can be tough knowing what to do next, and sometimes you question whether you should scrap everything and start again

As someone who makes music for fun, this definitely resonates with me.
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MPs are under no obligation to respond to a letter
Leaving mobile behind: The indie developers heading back to PC
Yes I do agree with you. My previous comment was probably ambiguous as well.
So hackerish
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Why Circa failed
Yes definitely. Increased regulatory requests means it takes longer and costs more to go public.

The Emerging Growth Company Act (EGC) helps this somewhat: companies with < $1b in revenue have less reporting requirements if they file to go public. Most VC-backed companies that do an IPO will leverage this.

Clearly, the benefit of staying private (and still being able to raise $100M+ rounds) outweighs the consequences of illiquidity for employees....at least in the eyes of the founders and management.
They never took capital and now they exited to an investor syndicate led by VCs. Wow - how times have changed. Founders (of hot companies) hold all the cards. No wonder valuations are sky high.
The founders received (probably) an amount equal to all employees combined. Do you know?
What's happening to all of the Earth's water?

It is circulating differently. The most impact on the cascades are changes in the Pacific currents, for a while those currents have facilitated the existence of the "Ridiculously Resilient Ridge"[1] as water temperature differentials drive changes in pressure zones above them. Without the more typical Pacific current moderating the high pressure ridges along the coast, low pressure systems which would bring condensation (clouds and rain) have been absent.

That said, if Texas is any indication, and we get the same effects we saw in 1983, we're going to have a lot of moisture in the Cascades this year.

[1] http://www.weatherwest.com/archives/tag/ridiculously-resilie...
It's actually not all that impractical. Venus' atmosphere is much more dense than Earth's; floating in it should be quite a bit easier.
In fairness, it's more like Qtr1:5FTE, Q3:10, Q5:15, Q7:20 and so on.
The issue that I have with the folks who advocate anthropogenic climate change is that near as I can tell there is no way to preserve the standard of living on the planet (feed, clothe, power, etc) and end climate change soon enough, the only way to get even a 50% cut of emissions within a decade is effectively managing to reduce the population of the planet by a similar number.

I think we'd be better off figuring out how to cope with climate change and generally reduce our consumption of natural resources, rather than focusing to tightly on one evil (carbon).
There is no way you could sell a lottery ticket for the price you paid for it. You could probably sell a $2 lottery ticket for $1...maybe. I know I wouldn't buy it...I would just buy the $2 ticket at the store and avoid the complications of the ownership trail and possible fraud.

I know, not exactly your main point.
> there is value in the "platform", publicity, etc.

That's really what you're paying the 5% for. Not for collecting the money.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9742794
While we wait for the site to come back up please enjoy this amazing video showing Conway's Game of Life in APL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4
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How often does it happen that a layman manages to get published in a well-regarded journal? Out of all the papers that laypeople publish anywhere, how many survive scrutiny from experts in the paper's problem domain? And out of those, how many that actively seek to overturn a paradigm succeed?

Based on this metric alone, it is highly unlikely that Monkcton is qualified to discuss climate change, and as it happens, his published work tends to be published by fairly obscure journals whose standards of review are questionable, and when they pass the desks of career climatologists, the result is generally unfavourable to him.
Office for the Mac was hamstrung in a way that made it usable for home users, but difficult for businesses. There was no Outlook, no Visual Basic, and IIRC: No pivot tables in Excel, no OOXML until 2011 (4 years after Office for Windows), less integration with Microsoft's backend servers (Sharepoint, etc.), and some other missing features. I'm also thinking that Group Policy management didn't work or not as well.

Much of that was later fixed, but for a long time it was another powerful reason for businesses to use Windows.
If you want to work remotely: http://offsite.careers
I'm not seeing how that was implied. Saying, "You don't have to be an entrepreneur" is not implying "every entrepreneur is successful."
That's the value in derivatives. Equidate & others like it avoid all these problems by selling the economic interest of the stock without adding shareholders.
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Tor Nørretranders (1998). The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size. Viking. ISBN 0-670-87579-1.
Would you kindly provide details?
Ludlam is (I saw him panel at a sec conf once), but the Greens in general don't. It's not a very important plank to them - check out their site, and you can find it hidden away somewhere in one corner, behind everything else.
True, but I think lots of folks here have no idea how much revenue you have to bring in to cover 20+ employees. Lots of people think it's just salary*20.
This is an intellectually and morally bankrupt sentiment that is all the more worth calling out because it is both impractical and nonsensical.

1. This sentiment is nonsensical. Scientific funding often funds more than just salaries, and when it does fund salaries, those salaries are almost always modest. Furthermore, many of the salaries it funds are for non-scientists: technicians, software engineers, etc. The tired trope that scientific funding is primarily funnelled to wide-eyed loners who produce nothing but "useless" abstract ideas is demonstrably inaccurate. And to the extent that this caricature is accurate, Simons himself is a counter-point to the argument that this is a bad model.

2. This sentiment is impractical. Basic science is important to society as a whole and there's almost always no way to become ultra-rich doing basic science(++). All of society benefits when a good lot of our best and brightest go into science (rather than e.g. consulting or finance). And the best way to ensure that great minds go into science is to ensure science remains funded so that it is possible to work on truly important problems.

3. This sentiment is intellectually bankrupt. A great mind following its dreams without prioritizing financial reward is responsible for most of the major scientific developments that make it possible for you to bash their would-be descendents from behind a keyboard.

4. This sentiment is morally bankrupt. Punishing passionate people who give up highly lucrative careers to do something that is good for humanity is nothing short of vindictive -- I hate my work day so everyone else has to as well!

(edit: As an aside, you really think CEOs don't like the rush from having lots of power and making important decisions? They may work long hours, but I guarantee most of them fucking love their jobs. I also bet there's a pretty strong correlation between top-of-clas software engineers who command high salaries for their expertise, and software engineers who love their job.)

(edit2: Furthermore, science has lots of drudgery and hard, frustrating work to it; it's not all sitting in an office and drinking coffee. The idea that scientists unequivocally work on fun problems all day and never bash their heads against the wall to solve problems that they're more extrinsically than intrinsically motivated to work on is also pretty wrong.)

(++) Simons explicitly answers the question in his interview: No. Nothing we do at Renaissance -- no matter how impressive from a finance perspective -- is useful to science. It's just useful for making a handful of people rich.
While we wait for Let's Encrypt, you can use a free certificate from StartSSL.
Hrm. Perhaps things have changed? I was told a while back by someone closer to Canberra than me that there were legal requirements for responding to letters; email was a boon, because it wasn't subject to those requirements. My apologies if I've misled.
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I'm pretty much in phase #6. It's the only thing that keeps me functional on a day to day basis!
The scientists say so, therefore the commenter is wrong? This still doesn't explain why the above is wrong. Attacking the premises of an argument is sound logic, and should be welcome. Ad hominem arguments should be called out.
Most modern email clients (and webmail clients, and smartphone clients) hide webbugs by default, so the 1px image technique won't work.

This'll only work on very very old desktop clients, or users that actually click the "show images" button.
I have been a fan of Toshiba and Samsung. Samsung is really underrated IMO. I started using them a few years ago for a client site I worked at when the client wanted to replace a bunch of Dell laptops. In general people don't realize that Samsung is many times a silent vendor behind other laptop brands but they build to spec. They brought out their own laptop line a number of years back and they seem to really be pretty well thought out. And warranty when I had to use it was really painless.

I can't say I have dealt with them in the last 2 years, but I'd definitely look at Samsung and Toshiba. In general I would still follow the same advice and freshen Windows from scratch to remove the crap and make it the way I want it.

My primary laptops right now are a Macbook Pro and a 4 year old I7 Windows Toshiba. I rarely touch the Tosh now adays, but it is there when I need it.
I'm assuming they slowly lure people into using AWS or Amazon products for something or other.
There is a Javascipt emulation available here. Its gnuapl and not Dyalog APL http://baruchel.hd.free.fr/apps/apl/
I work at a very large enterprise and we've been in need of a cloud storage solution for the enterprise. Not where everyone shares the folder and all files are stored locally, but server-based cloud storage, so multiple servers can synchronize their folders for sharing in the local office. With A/D integration. And granular permissions.

We looked at all the usual suspects: Dropbox, box.net, google, amazon, etc. For some strange reason, no one seems to offer this service except for some niche companies that have immature products. I don't get why these companies aren't aggressively pursuing enterprise services.
If you come in with groups many places have study rooms. I've used these for team work in the past, works out pretty well.
> In the UK it's pretty rare to prosecute the innocent.

Really?

When i did jury duty, probably about a third of the charges i heard were pretty obviously groundless.
Judging from the steam pouring out of the contraption, it would seem they're using superconducting electromagnetics. I don't imagine you'd get more than 15 minutes before it needed to be 'recharged'.

Also, depending on it's operation, it may require an agreeable surface beneath the board (some form of metal or metal composite).

Edit: visited the Lexus site. Yes, it's superconductivity. So, you need to keep your magnets in a very, very cold state for it to achieve its quantum levitation. Unfortunately, you're not likely to be able to do stunts on this board.
Part of their problem must be that they haven't done DropQuest in years. https://www.quora.com/What-happened-to-Dropquest-2013-2014-a...
I'm aware of that. I was mostly responding to the specific notion of "non-C OS running Docker containers", which is asinine.

The research OS space is mostly doomed to languish in obscurity, but it seems like MirageOS just might stand a chance.
> People are probably solving a problem that needs more, but still a finite amount, of memory, and very likely not solving a problem which needs infinite memory. So calling it an optimization is perfectly warranted.

Consider the following C program:

long long i; /* assume 64 bit */
for (i=0;i>=0;++i) {
if ((i*i*i -(i>>12) +(i>>24) -(i>>36) +(i>>48))%3819 == 5) {
printf("found an example: %64i\n", i);
}
}

It is not directly useful itself, but variations on it are (e.g. hash cash proof of work computations are not dissimilar). It will run practically forever on every machine on which "long long" is 64 bits. It will likely terminate in finite time on a machine in which "long long" is 32 bit (there's undefined C overflow behaviour, so it might never terminate). And it will do so with zero additional space.

A tail-call equivalent (the only kind of loop available in Scheme, for example) will -- without TCE/TCO -- overflow the stack on a 64-bit integer-or-more (e.g. Scheme's arbitrary precision numbers) on every machine built so far. It will likely do the same even if ints are limited to 32 bit - although a machine with >16GB ram is likely to complete a 32 bit run with reasonably optimized language runtime and stack allocation scheme (neither of which is common - x64 ABI red zones would require >128GB just to do the 32 bit count with full stack frames).

If the int goes to 128 bit, all the memory chips ever produced in the world (and likely all those that will be produced in the next 20 years) would not be enough to stop this program from overflowing its stack - much unlike a TCE/TCO/C version.

In my opinion, something that switches between bounded and unbounded memory requirements should not be called "optimization", but to I guess to each their own.
Be careful what you wish for. You might end up with "Scrum" and a de facto "story point" weekly/daily quota.
Java please, no more.
Always one of my favorite days.
Somewhat related to screen size, but the biggest problem (at least for my use case) is multitasking.

For instance, sometimes I translate documents, which requires an editor (displaying original / result texts), a dictionary, a browser (for reference, etc.) and maybe other texts and images open at the same time -- and switching between those, let alone seeing them side by side is nearly impossible. (And this is probably specific to Android's limitation, but when I switch back and force between apps, there is no guarantee I will be getting back to where I was -- I might have to open the app again, open the document, which makes it a lot more disruptive than working on PC for most simple translation projects.)

Maybe this will improve, but simple copy and paste across different apps on the phone is frustrating enough that I wouldn't personally do anything beyond simple quick tasks on my phone.
even though your account is only 5 hours old, and has only posted on this thread, i'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt.

some uses for redis, as we use it:

* pubsub (publish/subscribe) - push information through to other servers on channels

* job queuing - redis supports lists, which can easily become job queues

* statistics - redis supports incrementing and decrementing keys very quickly and easily, allowing for real-time statistics gathering and reporting

hope that helps.
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I know Atom stopped using React for the editor component in February [0]. Do they continue to use React elsewhere?

[0] https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/5624
have you guys checked out aerofs?
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Agreed. If "everything in their power" doesn't extend to writing it into the contract, then they are already lying to you.
Dropbox has the most brilliant engineering team in the Valley.

But they've hired fairly weakly on the business side.
This was about the time I stopped using Dropbox:

https://imgur.com/uoShTDo

Syncthing has been an excellent replacement in team environments. As well as Tarsnap for more technical set ups.
It's amazing how popular dust then dust2 have remained throughout the lifetime of CS.

The underpass being isolated from the rest of the map was a feature in my opinion because it gave noobs a space where they only had to worry about what was directly in front of them. It wasn't optimal gameplay but new players liked it.

Dust2 pioneered what is basically the standard competitive layout - one bombsite with one entry for the Ts, one with two entrances (a short but dangerous way and a long but safe way) and a middle part that both sides fight for control of.

Essentially every popular map since is a variation of this kind of layout.
They call it a water problem but it's really a mass overpopulation problem.

A tiny fraction of the world's water evaporates from oceans and falls as freshwater precipitation. Unless we expend enormous energy into artificial desalination plants, natural evaporation is the only desalinating process we have to get fresh water.

As human population grows, the fresh water per person falls in proportion. Iran has rapidly growing population from crazy unsustainable birthrates as part of the national policy of extreme oppression of women. California has and unsustainable mass immigration overwhelm its environment even as the native population wisely reduced birthrates to a sustainable level.

Most of the water is captured in reservoirs and diverted to agriculture. Growing food for people takes far more water than lawns and toilets and factories. Growing meat takes even more than other food, and people sure seem to like meat.

When water is used for agriculture, it mostly evaporates back into the air and falls back mostly into oceans mixing with salt water, so the fresh water is lost.

Older populations lived in wetter places where some water would trickle back into the water table instead of evaporating. Mass overpopulation has led to growing populations in places like Iran and south California where all the water evaporates due to extreme dry that would be uninhabitable without reservoir diversions.

The natural stream and lake life on Earth is dying out from diversions of rivers into reservoirs. That's what the op is about. It's all based in mass overpopulation. If we can't find a way back from our disastrously high numbers on this planet, we're going to see a lot more misery and tragedy.
> AFAIK, this is standard on any Unix platform, not just OS X.

This is incorrect, and the linked question actually mentions this…

> This differs from what ls on Linux (the one coming from coreutils) does.

> I also fail to see why this is news, this behaviour is decades old.

Straight from the guidelines,

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

I found it interesting, as the behavior surprises me, and I had no idea BSD ls did this.
Lenovo Thinkpads? They weren't hit by Superfish.
Chuck - the problem I'm trying to solve is that there's a mismatch in expectations around the value of options in comp discussions. The options are often a large portion of comp, so that's pretty bad.

The pay to perform model could work, but that would raise burn quite a lot, which is something startups should be very careful about.

End of the day, options are an imperfect way to incentivize employees, and they work better when both sides are thinking about them right.
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FWIW, I really don't like the new Mac client. It may be partially Apple's fault - changing the way they have to integrate with Finder - but it's just not as robust as it historically was.

Have you tried creating and moving a bunch of folders? Something about the sync causes them to jump around, you get leftover "untitled folders" all over the place, it's just not a pleasant experience.

If you move folders (full of folders), the web interface reports that you "Deleted 4118 items" (!) then you "Added 4118 items" (aaah). Stupid.

I've been a Dropbox user forever and only recently have I lost faith that it "just works".

[Edit: stated that I "hated" the new Mac client. Realised that was perhaps too strong an emotion for a bit of software.]
When you think about that $6B company, which if you are human you will do from time to time, don't forget to remind yourself of the other companies you turned down in the same timeframe. You know, the ones that went out of business. :)
You made yourself clear. To follow the metaphor, if the increase in tidal levels over the past 19.5 years were significantly different to the increase in tidal levels over (say) the past 30 years then it needs an explanation.

If they were not, then the simple explanation is that 19.5 years is not enough data to draw any conclusions. That's just how it works. You can't draw a conclusion from a lack of data.

EDIT: Forgot to say: at the moment, what you are trying to show is that there has been no significant warming over the past 19 years. Your null hypothesis is that there has been no warming over the past 19 years. When what you're trying to show is the same as your null hypothesis, you're doing something wrong.
What does leaking timing information mean?
Fascinating read. Does anyone know how Dust II came about?
I think Dropbox lost a reasonably large share of its market when the crowd that is both technical and privacy-conscious starting moving to more secure alternatives.

I love Dropbox and still have an account, as it has a great user interface and always worked on Linux, however I won't use it for anything that I don't consider "shareable" anymore. I prefer Spideroak [1] for actually saving my important documents. Sure, it may not look as nice, but for zero-knowledge guarantee I'm OK with that.

[1] https://spideroak.com/
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