skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have a better way of socializing wealth. It's called the public stock market. Workers can buy shares of any corporation on it, not just their own, and they are protected by regulations.

This is a good idea in theory, and indeed I've often wondered why unions don't actively invest in the market and use their voting rights to ensure themselves a seat on the board - but my radical idea about the future of unions is another topic.

The problems with the stock market approach are twofold. First, if workers are not paid very much then the extra income they derive from stock ownership, even in the aggregate, is unlikely to make them competitive with existing forces of capital, unless the labor force owns 50% of the company, and even then individual workers are easier to buy out. Second, everyone in the markets faces a principal-agent problem where management involved in the day-to-day running of the company exerts far more power than shareholders because management can shape how shareholders perceive the company and which information they receive, such that it is very easy for managers to get shareholders to do what they want. Sometimes managers go overboard and become subject to criminal charges when they are too blatantly corrupt. In the US that just gets fines and maybe a short stint in jail; in China people can be given the death sentence for corruption, and yet it still occurs, notwithstanding the ongoing anti-corruption campaigns of Xi Jinping's administration.

My point here is not about China in particular, but to suggest that the mere existence of capital markets is by itself insufficient to make capitalist structures responsive to the public interest.
> ..prohibited from selling...

That would be a Big Red Flag for me.
True, but it takes a lot fewer resources to thoroughly catalog and monitor all large NEOs and divert the potentially hazardous ones. Estimates I've seen put 5km impacts at an average frequency of one every 10-100 million years range, and those are survivable. Larger impacts are even less frequent, but we can still likely divert them with existing technology.
What do you know? A lot of problems get solved by increasing the wages!
Worth being clear that splitting water into hydrogen gas for use as a fuel, no matter how efficient, is still just another form of battery. If they really are achieving >80% efficiency that's getting up there with the best Li ion batteries, but hydrogen still presents a lot of handling and transport complexities for use as something like a motor vehicle fuel. Probably best used in large industrial scenarios, e.g. storing excess energy from solar or wind, and fueling gas turbine generators at night or low-wind periods.
The latest stable branch is an amazing show of readability. It's very simple to follow, and very easy to hack at if you want to try and manipulate structures to how you're wanting them.

10/10 would read through again.
That could be done with one time purchase. But subscription?

No, thanks.
The science is quite clear that sitting is incredibly bad for our health; yet many of us are sacrificing both our time and health to do something we don't want to.

Seems like a bad deal
With Gradle's build language, I can't easily remember when to put an equals sign in a line and when not to, e.g. from your example code, this has equals:

bintrayRepo = 'maven'

whereas this line doesn't:

classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:1.2.3'

I notice you've also got an example of a colon

apply from: 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/attwellBrian/JCenter/master/installv1.gradle'

which further complicates things. Why not just "apply" ? Not sure if I want to remember all the special syntax cases in the build language.
I don't know about 500k but 250k is achievable at big companies that are serious about tech talent and matching responsibility with compensation.
15 startups in 21 months: Part 2 - raising $12M from Seqouia
Why ethics is more important with prison than with other things, like finance, health, food, drink, etc.? I would assume if I let somebody cut up my body or brain while I'm unconscious and pay tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for it, I'd be a bit worried if the said person had bad ethics, wouldn't you? Still, I see not many are having problem with brain surgeons not being government employees, as far as I can see.

>> And when all costs (even extraneous societal ones) are considered in an all encompassing cost model, outlawing them would be the optimal course of action, anyway

That would sound much stronger if it were backed by an actual consideration of the cost in an actual model, rather than a blanket unsupported statement of the outcome.

>> The price of some things just seem severely disconnected from their actual value (or lack thereof)

Or maybe their price reflects the actual value instead of the value you think they should have. How do you discover the actual value (not for you personally, but for the thing that concerns the whole society) anyway? Do you hold a vote? What if vote goes in favor of privatized prisons?
It's called "android market fragmentation", thus why they are indeed correct saying "Android Phone".
The worst that happens is you gain entrepreneurial skills and lose a few thousand dollars in the process. SMB's have always had these odd's for hundreds of years. It really depends on what you value: freedom or perceived security.
That's been in GCC since, what, 2003? [1]

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.2/gcc/Function-Attribut...
Thanks for this; I am starting Python coming from C# and I kept looking for LINQ equivalents. Apparently I can stop looking, it was driving me nuts :)
Yes, it does.

I am quite happy saying, "Climate change is a plausibly serious problem and the current best solution is to build nuclear (fission) power plants today to replace base load coal, to shift from income taxes to carbon taxes and tarifs immediately, to build solar power and storage immediately, and to phase in regulations that will make it essentially impossible for new thermal coal development. We should also have public subsidies for nuclear and solar to ensure rapid deployment."

When I say that I fequently get called a climate change denier, because that is a label used primarily (not exclusively) by people whose primary goal is smashing global capitalism, and who find climate change a useful stick to beat their political enemies with.
"fjords elsewhere"

Fjords in England? Where?
it's disappointing that the author didn't even seriously discuss the possibility of simply paying higher salaries in lieu of equity. Apparently that's simply taboo.

I think most people would like that, but options can be created out of thin air, while money cannot.
Insultingly easy to make, foolproof.

Leiebovitz's Perfect Scoop is mandatory read.

The way I freeze it - I make big stockpot of brine (23% salt by weight) and chill it. Then just drop the ready made small pot of custard inside.
I think a difference is that as soon as you can break down parts of the software development work into rote and unskilled tasks, you can write software to do those tasks. An example would be compilers, which do plenty of routine work (converting higher level algorithms into low level machine code) which used to be done by hand.

That said, I also don't agree that software development hasn't been at least partially "Taylorized"; it's just that, like the factories where the original Taylorization happened, that work has been moved overseas. There are plenty of companies doing custom development upon preexisting platforms (Wordpress, Sharepoint, etc) and which employ people that could barely code Fizzbuzz, to do stuff like adding a field to a report, add a simple conditional filter or read some XML file into a database.
Install Ghostery to block these and other trackers.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ghostery/

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ghostery/mlomiejdf...
They had version running on Android tablets out for months now.

Now they released version for phones.
Port-mirroring would work for any traffic that traversed the smart switch ... I actually tried that at one point, but it's somewhat limited:

> If the smart switch is on the LAN side of the router, then I only see traffic from wired devices on the LAN and miss anything from wireless clients.

> If the smart switch is on the WAN side of the router, then I see any traffic destined for the Internet, but now the Pi has to account for NAT (everything coming back from DNS has a destination of my router's WAN interface).
I met the founders once at a StartUp-SD event hosted by Brant Cooper, back when I lived in the area. Great guys from my experience then and I'm really happy to see them get this outcome.
Eric Schwitzgebel specializes in papers about studies about this: http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/

The citations will probably be helpful for you to find the studies and similar ones.

My favorites:

Why did we think we dreamed in black and white?

http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzAbs/DreamB&W.htm

How well do we know our own conscious experience? The case of human echolocation.

http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzAbs/Echo.htm

edit: here's an interview - http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-splintered-skeptic/
Stanford's CoreNLP and Clojure: Sentiment Analysis
Heads up: when scrolling down, the signup element overlaps some of the body text in the latest Chrome on OS X.
> I can't pay my rent with options.

This indicates that what you're looking for at the moment is cash, not ownership over assets. This is fine. However, this preference is by no means universal. I imagine that beyond certain amount cash isn't useful anymore and you begin looking for ways to invest it anyway.

Generally, cash loses value due to inflation, but offers high liquidity (you can spend it right away). Many other assets offer capital gains, but are a lot less liquid (you cannot easily sell them, e.g. the options in the blogpost).

I wonder to what degree the preference for cash expressed by the author of the blogpost may be driven by low interest rates (which reduce the appeal of many types of illiquid assets) and low inflation (which increases the appeal of cash) thus tipping the balance of incentives in favor of cash. Probably not the whole story, but may be a factor?
Don't use the word rockstar.
Incidentally, they do use system-wide file dialog since this version. It is possible to use storage access framework providers now.
Lsmod answers your question, but on top of that the English police force has an extensive fingerprint and DNA database. People who are arressted will have their fingerprints and DNA taken and that's held on file even if the case does not go to court (or goes to court and the defendant is found not guilty).
How to sell your agency and freelance services at a higer price
Sure, $30m isn't a great exit from a VC fast growth point of view, but with burn rates as you stated (if their revenue is about their burn) it's at or better than the traditional 5 x Static Revenue figure used for more established buyouts.

Of course in crazy VC world this is probably supposed to be $12billion valuation or some nonsense to be worth it.
If they collect stats on this (and I'm sure they do!) the data will be skewed. I've purchased it twice over the last few years and feel entitled to download the free version everytime because I'll be on a new/formatted computer. It's just faster, but I've still technically paid.
I was hoping some of these big numbers would show up on the #talkpay twitter excitement a while back, but didn't see anything close.
@dmitrygr:

What kinds of machinery/technologies are used to make frozen custard?

Are they different than standard ice cream?
I ran into this same problem: everybody only seems to want senior talent. There's a chasm between intermediate and "unicorn" that needs to be bridged. I hope these guys can improve that situation.

It's tough to find good mentoring when you're a n00b to intermediate.
OT:

Awesome, great, APIs are good.

Know what's better? Open specifications and federated services. It's called XMPP and if it's not enough, then something better should be developed.

Is this the replacement of SMS? Not sure what people would have thought at the time if they could not send SMS to other mobile carriers. It saddens me even more to see public institutions moving their SMS infrastructure to the new 'carriers'.

Protocols are not a new thing. Let's not go back to the time were computers could not talk to each other.
Options and equity are financial instruments. Like mortgage, but with different rules.

With a mortgage, you're buying a present house with your future income. Presumably because you cannot afford to pay for it in cash right now.

With options, the startup is compensating you for your present work with a future share of ownership of the company you're helping to build. Presumably because it cannot afford the risk of accepting the fixed expense of your salary right now.

It's hard to tell whether the author is right that the current compensation structure needs to change. The real question is: are there potential employees around the labour market who accept the risk and prefer the potentially large future bounty over fixed income at present?
Telegram is not truly open source. They utilize a pre-compiled library for the actual messaging code, as seen here:

https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/tree/master/TMessagesProj/...

They would like to have you believe otherwise through their PR efforts, but I wouldn't trust them simply on the fact that they claim they are open source when they are not, and it's not clear what's going on in that binary lib. If they never claimed to be open source in the first place, it would be a different story.
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Your potential payout is your number of shares x the share price.

So let's say that comes out to $100K.

You have to discount that to present value. Money is worth more now than it is in the future.

Assuming an interest rate of 5% and there being a liquidity event in 5 years that is (1.05 ^ 5).

So $100K in 5 years at 5% is worth $78K now.

You also have to factor in risk. There are various models but I like to simply multiply by the probability of exit.

So if there is a 10% chance you will see something then I take the $78K and multiply by 0.10 which comes out to $7.8K.

Also, if you exercise early there is even more risk. Let's say you paid $10K for them. That $10K invested at 5% would have netted $10K * 1.05 ^ 5 = $12.8K.

So you are risking $12.8K to make $78K. But I would compare it as $12.8K vs the adjusted average expected return ($7.8K).
Because I like making things and working with other people and don't really like meetings or traveling.
Bitcoin technology could bring an end to banking as we know it
It sounds like they are still in the middle of possible negotiations... Maybe things might change.

Are there any details on their metrics?

I've seen a few of these posts in recent times where the app/company decided not to compromise (for a subpar? experience) on their product and went out of business.

I guess it comes down to principle, but I'd be curious to hear about ones that have faced this dilemma and compromised and maybe made it through the crunch to continue building the product.

Is a great product that can no longer be used better than a good product that might be able to evolve in the future?
I'm not following. I'm not venturing an opinion; I think I'm stating a fact. Stipulate:

* VC funded company

* 24 employees

* <80th percentile of SFBA burn rate (ie: in Portland)

It doesn't matter how the VCs feel about the company. 30MM is not a very lucrative outcome for that company, mathematically.

You can make 30MM be an amazing outcome, but not if you bought yourself to an exit at barely-profitable on 6MM annual revenue using VC money.

30MM is a fantastic outcome for a bootstrapped company.
Impressions from the European Lisp Symposium, Goldsmith University April 2015
might have been someone who thought it was some sort of phishing-attempt
Help: anyone able to get it going on Mac with Kitematic?

Does it set up mail server that can get email to my Gmail account? I signed up but didn't get an email. Are emails dumped somewhere or possible to lookup whatever I need to get started?
Pretty misleading article, mostly linkbait - the catalyst doesn't actually split the water, it's merely holding up to the electricity splitting the water better than other low-cost alternatives before. The principle and its disadvantages aren't different to William Nicholson in 1800. Electricity isn't for free. Hydrogen is hard to store and transport. Nothing new to see - move on.
I feel you. It seems like the very high paid tech workers prefer to be incognito. This makes sense since they must have an essential and scarce skill set to bring in that kind of money.
I didn't quite follow your scenario, but of course you'd be paying 9.3 CA and 28 Fed on your salary as well. And you wouldn't be paying FICA on capital gains.
"New option to skip prompt to save T-SQL files"

That option alone is worth so much to me.

I can't believe it took them this long to make it a standalone product. However, it's a very welcomed change.
You're right, of course. Unfortunately, the trend right now doesn't seem to be open protocols. Until the pendulum swings back again, i'd like to think that i'm beter off with a platform that isn't being run by Facebook.
I bench marked fortran vs. x86_64 SSE extensions in C and .... C's fine.

I'd rather have local clusters than Amazon or Google "cloud" any day of the week.

Spotting a methodology bias is not that hard.

Why the heck would you need CUDA ? NVIDIA ???

C'mon man.
Password is already compromised, so this is a worthless step. And only seeing part of the password may cause them to think it's largely still secure or something. (Some people don't understand wildcards.)
Google post 9/11 cloud cover
https://www.google.com/#q=post+9%2F11+cloud+cover

The effect on daily temperature range is huge (1.1 to 1.8 degree C depending how you look at it). The effect on global average temperature is harder to get at, but it looks quite likely that planes increase average temperature. How much is very much in question and I'm skeptical of 0.02 degree F - that seems really low. Unfortunately we can't repeat the experiment and good models don't exist yet.
It happens all the time. More often than not the C-level will get a bonus on employee retention and tie the new stock vesting schedule up with that retention period. They in the meantime are able to immediately get bought out.

I think Michael has a very legitimate position here, and one that is not well understood at all.

As a side note, I think Netflix' strategy of paying people a lot of money with no stock/rsu's/options is the right one.
Another thing that would make the options worth more (less of a risk) is if the company started making a profit they started issuing dividends.

This is not likely to happen though because the company is going to be focused on growth and then an exit and they can't grow as fast if they are paying out their profits instead of reinvesting them.
> I mean that's how things work, you don't have to invent anything, just make up some new expressions.

Let's be somewhat more charitable, and say "you don't have to invent anything, just provide an insight". Which is pretty reasonably, I think.
A layperson named Steve McIntyre did just that, after reading the IPCC's 3rd Assessment Report and seeing the prominently featured "Hockey Stick" based on a paper by Mann et al., and wondering, hmm... perhaps this study is reproducible?

The rabbit hole that McIntyre and his colleagues have found themselves in over the last 10 years has, in my view, demonstrated the value of hacker-types taking an interest in climate science.

See here for a paper detailing the point where McIntyre's descent into the rabbit hole began:
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~rmckitri/research/McKitrick-hockeyst...
It's more like replace "H1B worker" with "anybody". The idea is that tech workers are being asked to expand the labor pool and basically contribute to eroding their own value without realizing it. It doesn't matter the race gender or citizenship; by reducing the scope to individuals instead of anonymous groupings it becomes clear what is happening.

It is probably noble to say that you would personally hand your own job over to somebody else. But of course it is never framed that way even though that is what is actually happening.
Not to discount the OP's points, but this smells like the tech industry equivalent of your worst Facebook friend—the one with a penchant for selfies with Starbucks skinny vanilla lattes—hashtagging an inane event with "whitepeopleproblems".
But this is actual spam! It's bulk, and unsolicited. The content doesn't matter.
No, TFA outlined the reasons that options may not become liquid even if the company is successful.
but hydrogen still presents a lot of handling and transport complexities for use as something like a motor vehicle fuel

With this efficiency, it could be feasible to just split the water at the point-of-use.

I'm reminded of the "run your car on water/save fuel" scams which involved "HHO generators" - basically the same thing - located in the intake manifold and connected to a source of water and electricity from the car's electrical system. This time, it might actually do something interesting...
> The device generates a lot of O2 as a "waste product" (obviously) so could this be a viable way to oxygenate an atmosphere?

Oxygenating atmospheres is easy (and obviously dangerous if you get high partial pressures), the issue is generally scrubbing CO2 out.
Textbooks? Seriously, I finished a BSc Computer Science degree then did MSc in Games Engineering and never had a single textbook. Lecturers would hand the notes out(but they were also available online as pdfs), that was all that was needed.

Edit: obviously there were books which were "recommended reading" but very few people bought them, they were all in the library anyway if someone needed one. I think you can see the list if you click on "modules" and then click on a specific one, it tells you the structure of the module and recommended reading.
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