skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BT is a multi billion dollar company, not to mention that sharesave isn't the same as an equity compensation.

Share As You Earn SAYE is a savings plan in the UK which allows employees to save money from their salary in company shares.

The UK has really weird schemes because people have historically had no pension or savings plans from their employees (most PAYE workers still do not have pension as the date mandated by law is always being deferred).

With SAYE as far as i know the employer is not allowed to grant you equity, what they can do is give a fixed yearly rate (usually heavily discounted) for share purchases, but it's not as sweet as it seems.
The dividends and the equity rights from the shares belong to the employer not the employee, this is basically a way to allow employers issue shares (in large volumes) without losing control over the company, having to do payouts, and decreasing the market value of their normal shares as SAYE shares are not tradeable.

It also allows employers to bypass various laws preventing normal employees from having too high of a share of the company, and ties employees to their employer since not only do they rely on it for their salary but also as their investment/savings provider and since SAYE plans are either 5 or 3 years long it pretty much means that invested employees will not living the company during the SAYE period unless they want to lose their investment (and yes they will lose it).

BT's Sharesave is also a "unicorn" and from the current buy-in value it will probably won't repeat it self, yes a few people who saved up the max amount (225 GBP a month) gotten about 80K in return. But and this is a big but those were the 1st shares issues at 80p per share, when they matured the shares closed at over 300pp/s the last round of the SAYE program had a buyin of 250pp/s so pretty much no one will see these returns again.

P.S.
The money you gain for SAYE Isn't tax free you pay capital gains tax on it if you sell them once they are matured.

Also since SAYE with all of it's bells and whistles is a company options plan (with heavy tax incentives to the employer) it's still a risk, some people got huge returns others didn't since the share price was lower than the option price.
Yes, you are correct. 43% as W2 vs 15% from capital gains. That should be factored in as well. I'll add that to the original comment.
I've always been surprised something like this never really got going. I think the issue here is that it needs to be on message platforms that people actually use (iMessage, WhatsApp, Gchat, etc). Is it really not possible to hook in to those platforms?
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Bear in mind that those statistics are enormously skewed by plea bargaining, for both good and bad reasons. Good plea bargaining is where the evidence is extremely strong and the defendant has little criminal history, so admitting guilt and serving a minimal sentence is in everyone's interest. The bad kind is where prosecutors have a weak case but bring so many charges that defendant is facing a horrendously long time in prison, and pleads guilty to a crime that wasn't committed rather than take the risk of extended incarceration.
Author (http://research.google.com/pubs/author39086.html) of the paper here. I'm amused this is on Hacker News. The goal was to learn very long-timescale limit cycle behavior in a recurrent neural network. The chord changes are separated by many intervening melodic events (notes). As it turns out, even LSTM is pretty fragile when it comes to this. One problem is stability: if the network gets too perturbed, it can move into a space from which it never recovers. I'm not all that proud of the specific improvizations from that network, but I did enjoy learning what's possible and impossible in the space. I think now, with new ways to train larger networks on more data, it's time to revisit this challenge.

Edit: Formatting. I clearly don't post much on HN.
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AMA. It's used in production in combination with Jenkins and will probably keep being developed unless someone else comes up with a more popular replacement.
Strong agree on cash over options. I like how I understand Bloomberg to do it, too: internally liquid equity; ie, equity that is practically immediately as good as cash.
Children in Germany can be educated about their own history, but public in most of the world is not.

For whole world "Polish death camp" sounds like it's Polish responsibility. "Nazi crimes" etc. sounds like it's some abstract Nazis, not democratically elected German government with huge public support. Ignorant public all around the world can think "Who were these Nazis? Maybe they were Polish?" Then things like Jedwabne: http://www.ppu.org.uk/genocide/case4.html gets blew up out of proportions ignoring that there is a plenty of doubt on what actually happen. Rather mediocre movie Ida: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_%28film%29 gets Oscar award, (speculation) because it's main story is about Jedwabne and portraits Polish citizens as Jew-murderers. I see it as slow and continuous process of shifting blame using PR methods, for political and material gain.

All of this in the background of a big controversies and political struggle about Jewish organization claims for retribution money and property.

It's sad that a nation directly most affected by WWII, than struggling with Soviet occupation that was a WWII consequence, now is under PR fire to manipulate world public into blame it for the horror of it.

> encouraging people of other countries (like the US) to think "that was a German action, it could never happen here."

"That was <<Nazi>> action, it could never happen here.
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> With this efficiency, it could be feasible to just split the water at the point-of-use.

Isn't it still a pretty slow process? Efficiency doesn't matter if it generates a trickle of H, and you need a large fixed volume.

Splitting at point of use is silly anyway- why use power to split water into hydrogen you can use for a fuel cell to generate power, at the point of use?
This is also now in Python 3, both for single and double splats.
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telegram is getting pretty popular around here. To the point where people you meet ask you for your telegram without explaining what telegram is
Hey Zach, great start.

Founder of http://InterviewKickstart.com here. We do something similar, but with two differences:

1. We do it from a bootcamp angle. Candidates join us for rigorous (re)training in CS fundamentals.

2. Our revenue comes from candidates and not from companies. That helps us stay on candidates' side.

Let's grab coffee some day? We're in South Bay.
Options should be thought by employees as a future bonus based on performance - a "thanks for sticking around when there was lots of hard work to do". Meaning your salary should be market rate and not lowered in exchange for options.

It's been a while, and I can't find it right now, but somebody once put together an analysis of average employee payout for companies with exits that valued the price of the options above their strike price (meaning they were actually worth something). My memory is hazy, but they found that a tiny fraction of employees managed to make something under $20k per year worked out of their options. And many of them were working under market rates for their services meaning the financial outcome, the years of belt-tightened living, and missed opportunities came out to something like under $10k extra compensation per year worked.

On the flip side, I know from personal experience, you can learn more in startups than in more traditional businesses, and so the experience you gain might be worth more to you over a career than any specific financial compensation.

Basically go into startups as an employee expecting to learn, but don't expect a big pay out. If you get one, count yourself lucky and enjoy.
it gets worse. there are tons and tons of spatial references, and they can all be defined differently.

see: http://spatialreference.org

oregon, for instance, has two official state spatial references (if top of memory is correct).
It's not clear to me from the article, did they actually make any spurious comments on his chart or was it just chat?

Also is it normal for the Jury to say "Alice thinks he should get everything, Bob says nothing, well damned if I know - give him a weighted mean"?
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Frankly, I'm quite surprised by the average connection speed values. For Portugal, they report 9.2Mbps, while you can't even get a <10Mbps connection nowadays - the slowest broadband package I could find was 20Mbps. Even the 4G connections are faster than 10Mbps.
You're only comparing the Amazon instance cost with Heroku's full bundled cost. The article is including provisioned storage, IOPs, backups and data transfer - all factors in AWS pricing - to the included levels with that Heroku tier. AWS comes in around $1,156/month on demand when equivalently compared to everything in the $1,200 Heroku plan.

If AWS pricing was that simple, the comparison would be a whole lot more straightforward.
Assuming a planet has water, would it not be safe to assume it also already has an atmosphere?

Unless - you have a nuclear powered device which melts trapped CO2 ice and then generates O2?
Except this probably violates everybody's Terms of Service....
The oxygen is not really a "waste product" - it just balances out the O2 that gets turned back into water when the hydrogen is burned...
> Hydrogen is hard to store and transport.

If only there was a stable medium in which it could be transported, and an efficient way to extract it from that medium at a destination where it could be used...

I think perhaps your focus is a little narrow.
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Except it isn't counter-intuitive at all, even to undergraduate economists.

All the interesting economic decision activity takes place at the margin, efficiency improvements move the margin and the unprofitable becomes profitable.

It's not even paradoxical.
Telegram has an open specification, called MTProto. I guess XMPP wasn't good enough, so they DID develop something "better" (better for this specific use case).

Also federated services have their disadvantages, so I wouldn't necessarily say that's better.
As I see it, most of the blue blobs are in Portugal and Galicia or the Northwest in general. Other population centers in Spain are growing despite the recession and stratospheric youth unemployment.

Also worth mentioning, Spanish people are still regarded to be religious to some extent and so are the Greek. So, I'm a bit surprised to see the divergence here where Greeks shun marriage and raising children while their Spanish counterparts still hold to these traditional values.
What I'm saying is that taxis don't drive for an hour or two and then park, they're congesting the streets all day.
Not only for usage. The protocol is open and the clients are GPLv3.
I think there's something right about that idea. It seems, to me at least, that this idea of storing and re-using motifs with variation is at the heart of improvization. (Author of paper).
There should be an initiative to add free WiFi and power to parks. The power outlets could be current-limited and off at night to discourage freeloaders (e.g., people charging their cars).
wait what

What's in this thing? This isn't just some build optimization thing they're doing? Nobody's picked it apart yet?
There is Telegram-FOSS [0]. I believe they have removed the binaries. It's also the version you can find on F-Droid.

Edit: Also, the maintainer of the Android app is making all his changes locally and then submits all of them in one giant commit. There are pull requests, but he just includes these in his giant commits.

People do have complained about this [1][2], but he obviously doesn't (want to) understand git.

0: https://github.com/slp/Telegram-FOSS/issues

1: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/pull/76

2: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/issues/1007
one of the most difficult things to learn when you become more senior is that 'not how i would do it' is a different thing to 'this is broken'.
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There are some long-standing weather stations going back over 100 years. And they almost all show a distinct lack of warming:

http://www.john-daly.com/stations/stations.htm
AMA. It's used in production in combination with Jenkins and will probably keep being developed unless someone else comes up with a more popular replacement.
"We are currently working on a much more interesting set of training melodies and chords". More like "my postdoc ended in Switzerland and I started a faculty job at University of Montreal (LISA lab) and never had time to get back to LSTM and music composition. Sigh.
Thanks! I wanted to start learning GAs and this looks like a great intro.
Investing in the stock market is not a game of chance. You may lack the skill or discipline to engage in that activity, and that's fine, don't do it, put your time elsewhere, such as the real estate method I described.

Calling it gambling, however, is dishonest, and is popular among those who want to use that characterization to serve the purpose of denying people the opportunity to invest. For instance, despite working in startups for 20 years, regulations prevent me from being an angel investor (though it seems its common in california to simply ignore those regulations) ... because people like you think that I shouldn't be allowed to decide where to invest my money. Yet I could go to Las Vegas and blow $100k in a weekend.

So, no, it's not gambling. It's investing. And shame on you for saying otherwise.
My favorite place to work. Unfortunately they close at 7pm in my city. University libraries are even better if you happen to be near one.
It's not that easy: How would you exchange the private keys when using multiple clients? This would require to user to transfer the private key files or to remember a secure password. Both options aren't possible for usability reasons if you want to beat WhatsApp.
I think that was a justified breaking of the rules.
I know this is another article about electrolysis catalysts, but this one actually seems pretty incredible. Does anyone know more about how far long this lab group is in their research and whether or not there are any commercialization partners at this stage?

Have they run tests for longer than a week? Have they seen any degradation to the cathode or anode? Is there a reason to go beyond water electrolysis with the electrochemical tuning process in terms of energy storage?
All of the lines model global temperature. Except the temperature line... right?
can't help but wonder how the employees fared in all this?

walking in to work today to find out the people you have been following have taken a check and bounced out is never a fun way to start your day.
I've done this before (after checking state law of course). I only made a recording because of simple curiosity. When I listened to it afterward, I discovered that nothing was said during the procedure other than that which related to the work being performed. (What was hilarious though were my attempts to speak after waking up.)

Sometimes it's not possible to do this in an elaborate surgery where you have to remove all of your clothing.

I couldn't care less about the surgeon's personality (bedside manner) or what he/she thinks about me personally as long as he performs his job well.

I think a much bigger problem in the medical field is the lack of performance review. I remember reading one study that provided video recordings of gastric bypass surgery to a panel of experts (professors, top-rated surgeons, etc.). The experts did not know who performed the surgeries, but they gave each surgery video a "quality" score. After a year, the outcome of each patient was compared to the quality score, and strong correlations were noted.

Yet despite rankings of universities, professors, cars, computers, books, and anything else one could possibly rank, you won't find rankings of how good surgeons or anesthesiologists are at their job. Oh sure, you'll get some subjective metric of how people feel about the doctor (sites like HealthGrades), but it's been shown this really corresponds to how personable the doctor is.
There are also lots of multi million or multi billion dollar successful businesses that you have never heard of.

I think it is more about your bandwidth as a mere mortal. Even with the number of advertising messages laid on us per day, there is no way we can know about every business that may be relevant to us. There is only so many Kb/s that can enter our brains!
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I have options for 0.4% of BuzzFlop. After 2 years, I walk away with 0.2%. After 2.5 years, Hooli buys BuzzFlop for $100M in stock. What do I have?
Yeah, I agree. For VC funded, the investors won't be getting a good return (if any) on their investment. They'll probably lose money after all the venture banking fees are out of the way.

I think the question of what is a good return these days is a bit crazy. For this size company VC's should be looking at wanting a $150-300m exit on the low end. But unicorns are polluting this kind of idea.

For non-VC funded (bootstrapped, etc.) it's about an expected sale price for an established minimally growing company.
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was bored, this is just for fun. nothing to do really.

be me, 2020, race war threatened for 4 years. english royal family (and cheneys cousin obama) in white house for 29 years.

- alliance is called aliəns
- humans are called dieticks
- pyramids are called radio rocks
- matresses are called impression satellite receivers
- vaxxines are called aluminum mercury radio receivers
- merkury under the pyramids, in the lightbulbs, and head is called the intherenet
- mARK of the pepes, you heard it on hn first
- aluminum deoderant is called pacemaker potion
- chemtrails are called skynet

i literally did nothing wrong. im feelin fuck et.

mark ore λ

edit: schwa

edit 2: this is a resistance roachcast
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That is true.

What surprises me is how lazy and clueless mobile network operators seem to be despite the power they still hold. They have all the power they need to develop or implement modern messaging protocols. Granted they can't charge for it. Still seems a better option than pushing SMS, MMS and letting new players enter their yard.

I am all up for letting mobile network operators just provide internet services. Surely the trend seems to be to flush everything down the Internet tubes and if that's the future, we need something better than a couple of companies that do not respect free choice.
Amazing!

http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~szheng/crfasrnndemo/classify_url...
> With this efficiency, it could be feasible to just split the water at the point-of-use.

You need electricity at the point of use, which is mobile for a motor vehicle. If you have mobile electricity, using it to get hydrogen out of water, so you can run your hydrogen powered generator to get electricity doesn't make a lot of sense.
http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/stories/2002-03-03/the-bottom-li...

> The good news: Because few meaningful statistics exist about small, privately held companies, the astronomical business-failure rates that we hear quoted so often tend to be misleading. For instance, a survey done by the U.S. Commerce Dept. says that of every 10 small businesses, 7 will survive their first year, 3 will still be going after 3 years, and only 2 will remain after 5 years.

> Most of us know through experience, however, that a lot of independent businesses do indeed close their doors quickly -- with certain industries more prone to see startups fold than others. Figures compiled by the National Restaurant Assn., for example, show that 80% of independently owned eateries fail within their first two years, for instance.

It doesn't seem to be much worse/different for non-VC. Just smaller scales.
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Great article! Just one small correction: OFS_REF_DELTA should be OBJ_REF_DELTA.
Calling it a waste product here was mostly in jest. It's not every day that oxygen is the byproduct of a process, and not the goal itself.

This is something I'd forgotten about this process - use energy to separate hydrogen and water, then recombine later to release the energy. And the waste product from this is the water used to start the process (and the energy and heat lost to entropy). Very clean!
That was a joke... but I guess when it comes to front-end frameworks, we can't laugh.
I wouldn't even call this inflated in the valley anymore. There are outliers making serious money right here, right now. Such a salary pairs nicely with our lovely $1M+ median house price to insure we can never afford to buy one without living like a monk or going up to our eyeballs in debt. If you don't believe me, then just who's buying those $2M+ houses that stay on the market a week or two? SPOILER ALERT: Double income couples each making that kind of money.

In fact, I'm making the kind of money from my first post (not bragging, you asked for evidence). But what's really funny are the isolated unicorns out there making $1M+ annually because they were both very smart and very lucky to have the specific skills for a hot technology that ignited a runaway bidding war between giants. I have never been close to that lucky but I have witnessed it firsthand.

As for me, my offers are $250K+ when I've interviewed for big co or late stage startup positions. In contrast, my startup offers are $150-$200K with 0.7% or less equity. The startup offers are completely uninteresting to me at that level. I'm better served branching out on my own which I may or may not do someday (YOLO and all that).
No, water really isn't fuel storage. If you're at the destination where you want to use hydrogen for fuel, and you also have at your destination the electricity needed to split it, you can just use the electricity. No need to turn it into hydrogen and then burn the hydrogen.
Why is it phrased as 1/48 of my (say) 48000 optipns/shares vest rather than a fixed amount of 1000 options/shares are awarded every month?

Alternatively, why aren't salary offers phrased as "you will get $640,000, which vests at 1/48 per month"? (Usually you'll hear "your salary is $160,000 per year and we do payroll monthly.)
It's really cool to see more projects tackling location problems. The API is very simple which is another great plus.

Had Redis Geo been around at the time we replatformed at Hailo we would have given it some serious consideration. But instead we have developed our own solution and open sourced a library in Go called "geoindex" to store and retrieve geo information: https://github.com/hailocab/go-geoindex .

It's part of our core functions within our microservices stack. You can read more about it on our blog too: https://sudo.hailoapp.com/services/2015/02/18/geoindex/
> Twitter left Ruby because of perf issues.

That's not completely true. Some parts of the stack were written in Scala, etc., but to my knowledge, much of the front end is still Ruby.
If Ireland had the population density of the Netherlands, they'd have 34m people. (Ireland ~73.5/km^2 density and ~84k km^2 area; Netherlands 407/km^2 density and ~41k km^2 area).

For reference Bangladesh sits at just above 1000/km^2 density.
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Where does it say that in the article? Or that Rennaissance was found guilty?
The engine could draw on a smallish stored reservoir of H2 for normal operation. That reservoir could then be continuously supplied with H2 from the process until it hits some pressure metric after which the system temporarily turns off until the pressure in the reservoir dips below some threshold.
Except then you need 125% (at 80% efficiency) of that energy from another source handy in order to split the water electrically.

It's not magic.