skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bloomberg is an owner. While an employee that owns stock is technically an owner, it's not a significant distinction because they are in such a minority that they have no control over the stock, and are therefore at the whim of the majority owners. It doesn't mean the options are worthless, but they have to be discounted.

I owned stock in a company that will, very likely, never go public or get acquired. It doesn't need to. Because of the shareholder agreements, I could only really sell back to the company. Sometimes they were amenable to buying, other times they weren't. Essentially, I was playing in a monopoly market, except the monopoly was on the buyers side. Fortunately for me, the majority owners were much more generous than they needed to be. Without that, I wouldn't have been able to make anything from the stock.
I'm a big fan of Panera in pretty much any city (though I spent a lot of time in the Mountain View location at El Monte and El Camino Real when I lived nearby). They always have decent wifi, available power outlets, and they bring the food to your table so you don't have to leave your computer sitting around.
Not integrating with Google Drive isn't really the main issue - it's not integrating with the system-wide file dialog that would automatically enable Google Drive support.

If this is the casualty of politics then it's a big thing to throw under the bus.
They also typically have good coffee and food pretty much any time of the day. :)
The problems are

1) You can't tell whether someone is "just asking questions" in good faith or not.

2) Dismissing a horde of people all raising the same problems with one's beliefs as "sealions" is a tempting shortcut to actually examining one's beliefs, which might in fact be wrong.
Yes. Because Microsoft is so likely to nail that user experience well, for a market that is 2% of the mobile market on its best day.
Another thing to consider, these emails were also sent as a way to educate people about web security. I am not surprised that unsolicited automated emails to educate oneself are considered rude by some people.

Also for ref: http://dontevenreply.com/view.php?post=99
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I agree. $70 seems steep for a text editor, no matter how good it is. I use Textpad, which I got my company to pay for years ago, but it's much cheaper. Maybe it's not as good as Sublime, but it's good enough. Since I know the nag screen would bug the heck out of me, and I'm too cheap to pony up $70 (and not willing to go to the trouble of talking my boss into paying for it), I'm not tempted to even try Sublime.
Sounds really nice! Coincidentally, I just posted my site here on Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9773383

Feel free to signup and post over there too!

Is there plans for an apple app as well?
Really fascinating. I wonder if distinguishing between a motif and a random set of notes would help provide structure here. So, the model would decide "I'm going to build a motif and save it for variation later" for 4 bars, then could decide to play randomness in the turn around. Next pass through it provides randomization to the pre-established motif?
"Did you know that there are parts of Venus which are a shirt-sleeve (and breathing mask) environment?"

Please expand on this.
I've made more money investing in stocks and options than I have from options. Over 20 years as an employee (so excluding time as a founder) my returns from investments is 2-3X the return from startup stock options.

And that's as only a part time investor. I like sure things (like I knew in 2001 from an understanding of economics that there would be a housing bubble and that it would eventually burst. I was never able to buy CDOs against the market, but I did profit from it until 2007 when things got crazy and I got out of the market-- a year early but I'll take it.)

I suspect most people can't do this... but they can buy a house or two in up and coming areas, and put extra salary into that. Rent one out, get your mortgage paid by your tenants and you're building a real estate empire... slowly, but it can make you rich.
> Is there any evidence that two masses don't attract ?

The answer to that question does not in any way proof the existence of gravity.

I don't mean to offend, but if you honestly ask these types of questions, I doubt you are able to evaluate the quality of original papers dealing with climate research.
Actually the ISO C99 language standard requires that every source file ends with a newline (§5.1.1.2, 2.):

"A source file that is not empty shall end in a new-line character [...]"

So if your C implementation doesn't complain about source files that don't end with a newline, you're unknowingly relying on a language extension.
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The Javascript framework space isn't competitive...it's saturated for the exact same reason that the PHP framework space was saturated.

Javascript and PHP frameworks are all built on top of a language that does everything you need for the web before you even start the framework. Frameworks in both languages are basically an exercise in arranging things according to your personal preferences...and people have a wide range of preferences.
This is great, nice work guys
Bananas or oranges anyone? http://telegram.me/PollBot?startgroup=c4dd5512c96b2952a17396...
Please don't tell it to look for cockroaches again.
> Did you know that there are parts of Venus which are a shirt-sleeve (and breathing mask) environment?

Nope, that's news to me. According to:

http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/eoc/special_topics/teach/sp_clima...

the minimum temperature on Venus is 870F, well above the melting point of lead. Do you know something that UCSD doesn't?
It's just that the presentation overreached. They should at least mention the other inputs to a comprehensive model that were tried but just didn't have a big impact, otherwise it feels like they just decided in advance that CO2 was the answer.
And even then, who knows?

http://wccftech.com/intel-possibly-amd-chips-permanent-backd...
Can't stress this enough. If you have Employee Incentive Options is way better to exercise them as soon as they are vested than to wait (if thinking of exercising at all). When you exercise them you pay AMT on what they are worth when exercised (of course the "fair price" is a hidden secret left for the CFO). As time passes, the "fair price" is probably going to keep increasing, but with no liquidity and inability to sell your options you are stuck with the AMT with the fair price at the moment of exercise
because they tried hard enough?
Yeah, but no one ever got rich off salary.

These people called "executives" can. Programmers generally don't, unless they're very good and very mercenary, and even then "rich" means "7-figure net worth and the ability to consult at a decent rate as much as one wants". Which isn't bad at all but isn't VC MegaBux.
5) breaks golden handcuffs if the employees can afford to leave
> I tend to think of options as worthless

That's why they are trying to pay you with them. For them it's a one-way bet. It's sadly just another case of pushing risk onto the worker and not really passing on much of the upside.
I get what you're saying, but Marshall was a doctor. He'd be in the 3% of the group of informed scientists that are working to figure out this scenario. My point is that the general public's opinion and perception of the issue shouldn't carry as much weight as the experts.
Why is analog simulation needed? Is it mostly for timing issues? Did you have to use any passive components in your design (like resistors or capacitors)?
I played this game when I was 7 years old, and I am re-playing it now with one of my friends who also played as a kid. For a game that can fit on an old 1.5 MB floppy disk, this game is truly incredible.

I even tried getting some of the modern remakes and fan-based sequels, which were many megabytes and had fancy graphics and sounds. They all paled in comparison and were simply not playable. This 1987 game is a testament to solid games not needing any fancy graphics, just brilliant game design that is deep, challenging, and interesting.

I highly recommend playing it, you can download it on the internet easily and it runs on DosBOX.
Salary is the only hedge employees get that is congruent to the liquidation preference preferred stock provides passive investment. It is increasingly important because capital is finding 1x liquidation preference in a startup investment a reasonable alternative to parking cash in near zero interest rate bonds. The same institutional investors who used to buy IP's can now provide capital directly and the beneficial outcome gap between passive capital and employee equity is increasingly wide.
Is there a comparison between libgccjit and llvm in terms of compilation speed and produced code quality?
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I paid, and I use it daily, but I have noticed the drop-off in support lately.
The point here is that due to the factors the author noted (and probably others), the perceived value of options in nonpublic companies is now low enough that many (most?) candidates/employees no longer consider it relevant. I happen to agree with that choice, regardless of whether the expected value to the employee of the options is actually zero or just some very small number. We can debate the true ev of an option, we can apply various formulae to attempt to compute it, and we can each agree to devalue various restrictions differently according to our own preferences. But I think we can probably agree that in many if not most situations, the value of the options to the employee is too small to affect the decisions that employee is going to make. It doesn't matter whether that value is zero or $50 or $5000, it matters only that it's too small to be material.

To the extent that this is a problem for founders/owners, it's largely of their own making. It seems like it should be easy enough to correct if they want to, but they will have to give up many if not all of the wildly favorable (to them) terms and/or give up more equity to their employees to do it. The alternatives all involve paying more cash, which is probably the right answer for everyone anyway; 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.
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Why is that not religion? Certainly there are religions that fit themselves entirely within the "believe something unprovable" niche, but there are a lot of religions that go much farther than that.
Just yesterday I was trying to get a bot working on the TextSecure platform. A vastly disappointing experience: almost not existing libraries, sparse and incomplete documentation, unstable protocol breaking without any kind of notice (https://github.com/JavaJens/TextSecure/issues/6, for example). And still no way to register without a phone, which would be amazing for this kind of project: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/1085

I think Telegram is succeeding in what TextSecure is failing: attracting a widespread community of developers. This is only a confirmation, in my opinion.

EDIT: and, by the way, while Telegram security is no good, I wonder why we cannot have both (security & developer-friendliness)
Cool. I prefer http://memeifier.com/.
Oh yes, most other comments here seem to assume that the stubborn guy is actually right technically and objectively, many times they are not, many times there is no right or wrong and many times there are multiple right answers. NIH is one effect of it and you can see it each day here on HN with new js frameworks popping up all the time, half of them essentially doing the same thing. If you haven't experienced it, it can be hard to believe but NIH can be observed within teams also, with certain individuals always wanting to do things their way, often deciding that before they even looked at the solution the others have come up with.
This is the historical perspective I was talking about, but I'll just note that your points are not orthogonal to mine. The end result is that post-crash, Japanese companies have been very reluctant to expand, either close-by or far away.
The trouble with the FB button is that is lets FB track you just by visiting the page, even if you don't click on the button. You could use a non-JS version of the button, or use a "two-click" button that doesn't load scripts from FB until the user is ready to share something.
Don't wait until they vest. Do it as soon as they're assigned to you. Avoid the AMT completely.
Here's a county-by-county map showing population change in the 2010 census:

http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/map
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To put this in perspective that's a lot less than last years share options (5 year plan) at BT. The last sharesave to vest returned >£100,000 Tax free if you had the max amount.
Treat options as wastepaper. They're lottery tickets. If they are worth something someday, then great, good job.

But you can pour yourself into a company heart and soul, one with options and one without, with exactly the same outcome: Zero. And to a large degree the outcome is not only not under your control, it is often under the control of predatory entities who do not want you to realize any return.

As an employee, get a competitive salary because the chances verge on certainty that those options will be worth zero, no matter how hard you work and no matter how much you think your contributions will move the needle.

The equation is different for honest-true-and-blue founders. But for a worker bee, sure, make a show that options are interesting to you, but don't trade them for cash compensation, it's a bad deal for you.
That says it all really. $30M and you see under $100k as 24th employee. So 0.3%.
That too. Though that is a much more nuanced issue with a lot of arguments on both sides.
> There is value in the marketplace they've created.

I'd argue said "value" is artificial or inflated (inclusively), but whatever.

> It's somewhat like complaining about the right of console manufacturers to limit and profit from the software that runs on their platform.

Something which I do actually object to in a lot of circumstances, since it presents a significant barrier to entry for "indie" developers. Thankfully, though, at least game consoles' arbitrary restrictions are typically easier to permanently circumvent (though perhaps this is starting to change).

> If you want different rules, use a different platform.

And I do; I've been an Android user exclusively for the last few years after I got sick and tired of continually jailbreaking my iPhone just to install apps that Apple didn't approve of.

> Is it ridiculous to limit your potential userbase to android users, or users savvy enough to jailbreak devices?

I have no problem at all with the former. It's the latter that's absurd. At least in the former, one doesn't have to jump through seemingly-endless hoops to maintain a semblance of user choice.

> One might wish for iOS policies to be different, but there is no intrinsic right for them to be different.

You're right. There's also no intrinsic requirement for me to, say, let houseguests bring their own food for a party at my house. That doesn't make me any less of a dick for painstakingly inspecting and rejecting each individual platter and charging each food-bringer a $100 "food preparer fee" in order to serve said food at my party.

The walled garden is pretty and all, but all walls eventually crumble, and forests are way more fun anyway.
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I like Scala. And I'm used to programming in Java.

Scala presents itself as THE programming language for concurrency and scalability, but I've heard of many cases where Scala was not sufficiently efficient in really big and complex applications and when changed from Scala to Java they achieved a much better performance. Something about Java libraries/frameworks being much more tuned...

Does someone has real world experience that can confirm/deny this?
Everyone is really bad at making money with making video games.
It's very weird. It looks good to me, but I do see half of the hits are coming in from a cached version. I'll have to prepare better if I'm to post another article and not melt down.
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I don't think human nature changes drastically between politically defined boundaries. Besides, a simple google search shows roughly the same proportion of innocents convicted per trial.
You're the first person that I've ever heard of using a cloud dev environment for real work. Can you talk more about your experience and why/how you ended up with that solution?
read my post again: most manufacturers have no time for this sort of diatribe, and most users have no time or inclination to "hack the drivers" -- especially in rigid "efficiency-first" organisations like the military.
> Anyone who knows basic chemistry understands how carbon dioxide interacts with infrared radiation.

I'd say this does not exactly fall under basic chemistry.

When arguing serious matters, choose your words wisely.
In a legal context there is the concept of a "fishing expedition" which is more of a looking for evidence when there isn't sufficient underlying evidence to justify the intrusive methods being asked for.
You know, why don't you help us out and wget some data from CERN and give them some insight into their ongoing LHC experiments.

I'm sure they could use a nudge in the right direction, and I bet a little bit of Perl or Python is all they need to solve some deep mysteries.

Oh, and you have 6,000TB of disk space to download the data from the ATLAS sensor, right?

Once you're done that there's all kinds of data regarding cancer treatments you can crunch through. I bet that's a weekend of work at the outside.
Sure, and non of that is left-wing.
I prefer Wall Street's model of annual profit sharing.

VC-istan: you can get dicked out of your bonus for reasons you don't understand (liquidation preferences, vesting resets and cliffing) or that are purely political and lose 6 years' worth of expected bonus.

Wall Street: you can get dicked out of your bonus for reasons you don't understand or that are purely political and lose 11.9 months' worth of expected bonus.

I'd rather have the losses be limited, and have more opportunities for negotiation and revision. Wall Street's system is just better. We may not like that industry, but the facts are clear.
Really? These are "premium" features requiring a subscription??

• Change page orientation

• Insert page and section breaks

• Highlight table cells with custom color shading

• Enable columns in page layout
If Ireland had similar population density to Southeast England, it would have a population of around 39 million.
Indeed.

I have, for twenty years, used stock option agreements as a cheap alternative to toilet paper. I was talking with a friend who says he knows one guy that cashed in $8k worth one time. I prefer a bonus plan or profit sharing.

But the original response to my original comment was informative.
The link says "Q1 2015 SOTI report - FINAL.pdf", but the footer in the report says "The State of the Internet / Q4 2014".

I wonder what is in error.
Something to keep in mind...there is nothing standing in the way of you negotiating your own compensation package.
Does it have email notifications? That's a killer feature missing from most Slack replacements.
Disclaimer: I come from C++ and PHP world, but in the last few years, have been working in Java after a long gap.

So here are the pros and cons of Java I see (not comprehensive but somethings that I tend to care about):

Pros:

1) The strongly typed features does help in finding potential bugs during compile time.

2) The Generics and Container frameworks seems fairly sane when compared to the complexity of C++ templates.

3) Concurrency features are nicely standardized now - Executor framework, concurrent container frameworks and so on.

4) In short, 'stock java' (without all the heavy-weight frameworks) seem nice comfortable and sane to work with.

Cons:

1) Fairly large and legacy XML-driven frameworks like Spring and Hibernate is a huge time-sink to figure out all their intricacies, not to mention very hard to debug things esp. when some 'business logic' resides in these mysterious XML incantations.

2) While not really a Java problem, but due to these humongous frameworks, there is a tendency to build giant war files with code and configs all bundled together. Need to make a config change? Check it in some xml file, and then build to deploy wars/jars. It takes some work to separate code from configs, and convincing traditional Java engineers to move away from this model - i.e. check configs separately, deploy them independently, restart servers etc.. without any need to build and deploy process.

3) Legacy app-server based architectures where there is apache in the front with IPC overheads to a Java app-server.

The way I get around some of the cons is to convince the engineers to sparingly use the frameworks (just enough to get some basic routing rules to map urls to controller entry points in the MVC setups), use more lightweight servers like Jetty (directly listening on socket ports), esp. when it is just handling some API requests, and sticking with JSON as the payload format.

It is been a challenge but I have had success in using Java in very limited ways, and decoupling it from serving web (jsp) pages and so on.
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They have nowhere near the resources of commercial groups and they don't get nearly as much access. Anyway, "there are environmental groups" seems like a facile response because pollution is only one of the costs of adding more cars driving around in circles all day to the streets.
Are you guys willing to coach to self-taught programmers(who do not have a comp sc. degree) for the entry level jobs? Or you are focused on taking experienced candidates and groom them for more senior level position?
>Besides, we have a lot of limestone, veritable rock-oceans of it.

Sure but the amount of carbon you burn to get to that rock, excavate it, process it, move it, etc, etc is non-trivial. A computer and projector on 8 hours of day is a drop in a bucket to that.
Yeah, I wonder about the gender discrimination too. So a plurality of men/women, at this point, are more likely to apply if you emphasize certain words. But won't that keep changing? The dataset isn't going to remain static, especially for non-overt language. (Their website mentions women prefer premier to top tier, and I remember reading the same about expertise and specialty).

Most people now get that synergy is a terrible word. But they'll just replace it with something that won't show up on the radar until it seriously starts putting people off.
And, if they do have access to such a rich dataset, why not be more precise, as someone mentioned? Find out what kind of listing is most likely to appeal to a networking person who is looking to switch into dev ops.
Probably safe enough if you've just changed it.
I was about to go looking for "what stuff do I need office 365 to do" but you saved me the time!

Sounds like it's best to just keep using google drive.
Which is why you should not follow along the denialist gambit and grab just those two data points.
What % of the company do you think the 24th employee should get?

Obviously it's highly variable depending on the role. #24 could be a COO or could be a receptionist. But for the sake of argument let's assume they're a mid level engineer (taking a stab at what MCRed might have been at the gig in question).
In this situation it would be great if there were something similar to the 83b letter for non-founder employees. I know too many people who have exercised options when leaving a company (and paid a hefty tax) only to see the value of the resulting equity trickle down to 0.