skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree - rents are poorly understood. I read epic flamefests on nntp://sci.econ during the last 20 years and that is the only reason I "got it".

Sadly, I have to differ on multiple other points:

- Substitution pretty much makes resource constraints a nonproblem. We've gotten so good at this that there's a large trade in "antiques" largely based on the numismatic value of old materials.

Whether or not the carbon content of the atmosphere counts is a very slowly closing but still open question. Having dealt with CARB, the California Air Resources Board, the probability of an honest solution based on public goods seems bleak.

- The planet very well can be largely private. Let it be private and tax the rents. This leaves more open the question "what does government do?". Consider private and public as merely possible management - or finance - schemes, each with weak and strong points.

- Perpetual ownership is just a lease with an undefined term. The British renewal rate of 99 years as a standard is just using a different constant.

Of course people overvalue their contributions. It takes a long time to get calibrated properly. And when I was a kid, the grownups were a lot more likely to be blunt about this than I am led to believe they are now.

But Libertarians are still the "R&D" department for politics.
> Plenty of the Edward Snowden haters are <= 30 and plenty of the people that applaud him are > 40 so let's not add age into that discussion.

> Whether you are pro/against Snowden probably has more to do with your life experience to date and your general views on what a government should be able to get away with.

I only said, "middle aged" for exactly that reason: you might hate Edward Snowden and be a totally technically literate person. Age doesn't necessarily shape your view on Snowden, but age almost certainly correlates with technical literacy, and I think technical literacy definitely plays into your perception of how much effort Snowden went to in order to gain access to the files he leaked. If you think that he went to great lengths to gain access to the files, you might think his actions were more malicious / that he was looking for trouble.
This trend also makes startups just less attractive as destinations for employees. My experience is that startups that have started to scale still don't have as much compensation as larger more mature companies.

Employees join for a number of reasons but stock compensation is one of them. This compensation has always been risky and hard to value but it is now becoming risky, hard to value and even if the company succeeds the compensation won't be realized for a very long time.
I see a lot of people thoughtlessly applying computer-security mindset here to vehicle-safety. They're really not the same thing, because they are handling very different risk models. Vehicle safety is about "how will this system perform under typical conditions when something goes wrong?". Computer security is about "how will this system perform if a smart asshole tries to abuse it?". Vehicle safety generally doesn't concern itself with deliberate sabotage. You won't see a product recall for a car because "under some circumstances, a criminal might cut the brake cables". What Chrysler are doing here is, though, effectively that, and why they have to do that for a computer security issue is interesting.

We're all used to the idea that if you put a computer on the internet, it will come under attack. People will try to snoop on the data it handles, or subvert it to use it for their own purposes. So why do we then move on to assume that, if such a system is attached to something safety critical, that those same people who will attack the computer to get at its data or processing power will now move on to attacking the brakes, or the engine, and try to kill people?

Most vehicular crime isn't homicide, it's acquisitive - people will attack vehicle security systems to steal the car, or get access to valuable contents. Sabotaging the vehicle to kill the driver is way down the list.

As a society we tend to assume that physical security is not the only thing that stops random strangers from trying to kill us. We do not all drive around in armored cars in case someone decides to shoot at us from an overpass. We don't all sweep under our car with a mirror for bombs before we get in and start the engine.

And it's certainly not a failing of Chrysler's engineers to adequately consider customer safety that they sell Jeeps which are not bulletproof and which have exposed frameworks on the underside where bombs can be attached.

So why is it that we're so quick to assume that because a safety-critical computer system is exposed to the internet, that this is the worst thing ever?

Is it that as far as physical security of your Jeep goes you only have to trust the people in your neighborhood, but for internet security we have to trust the whole world?
I stopped drinking for about a month in order to diet. I was doing Paleo. I was doing it pretty hardcore, so I avoided drinking all together. I did feel better, but going out on the weekends was a bit of a bummer since everyone else was drinking. It's like the old saying goes: It's annoying being the only drunk person at a party or being the only sober person at a party.

I'm off the diet now, though I've been thinking of starting it up again next month, and recently started drinking a bit more on the weekend. It helps me unwind and have a good time time. My girlfriend and I usually bring a flask of rum to the bars, that way we don't spend a ton of money on drinks (it really adds up). So we usually try to keep it to 1 drink at the bar per night on the weekend and then use the rum to keep the buzz going.
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> And yet there may be a connection between a predisposition to work in tech and autism.

Maybe, or maybe wealthier folks are more likely to a) have computers for their kids b) have access to doctors for diagnoses and c) be white. We'll have to get the causation right.
I've been using very similar features of Google Voice for several years and I have to say it's been GREAT. I can't imagine going back to a regular number.

I sincerely hope Phone Janitor can compete in that space, I'd love to see what improvements can be made and what new features may result from the differing perspectives.
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> The question is about tech culture's drinking problem.

Since when does tech even have a drinking culture, let alone a drinking problem? All the tech companies I've worked for have had a weekly happy hour where most people have a beer or two, and that's the extent of it. It's nothing like the sports world, where you have guys regularly downing 10 or 15 drinks on the bus or airplane. Or like the entertainment industry, where some of the top people in the field show up to work so shitfaced they can barely even stand up. Or like the mining industry in Siberia, where the nightly entertainment is/was sitting around with a bottle of vodka and some potatoes.
Is this true of, say, Chinese mining engineers?
Security is hard; lets build stuff with new shiny tech instead!
Create a normal user, DON'T add them to the sudo group (or any other special group), and then generate keys for them. Store those keys in some online "cloud" storage (DropBox, Google Drive, OneDrive, et al).

Then if you need to get in, download the key, type in the password, login as that user, and the su up to root by entering the password only you know.

As an additional layer of security you could encrypt the key using AES-256 (e.g. 7Zip archive, Microsoft Office's Word .docx (NOT .doc) format (just drag drop the file into Word, "Encrypt with password") now AES-256 encrypted, others).

Now you have four layers of protection:

- su password.

- Key password.

- AES-256 encryption password.

- "Cloud" storage credentials.
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I have in the past, but for some years I've just kept good xylitol gum handy and chew most of the day, esp right after eating.
why would the pump and dump merchants (sorry "owners") want to do this?
you're right on the disclosure issue and cost issue - but I've always been more concerned with voting rights, which a strange interloper would certainly have. Especially in the context of M&A, the risk of a rogue common shareholder can be significant. I don't think it's a show stopper, but it is an issue.
You should understand the tax (particularly AMT) implications of exercising. $20k cost to exercise. $300k to Uncle Sam (given your 50x increase).
To secure SSH, the more I care about a system the farther down this list I go.

1. Disable root
2. Use keys, disable passwords
3. Install fail2ban
4. Restrict incoming subnets
5. MathAuthTries = 1
6. Run on high random port
7. Use port knocking
I ordered the other european clone, Queal. https://queal.eu

It's perfect for my purpose: eating on time when I can't be bothered to prepare a meal. Soylent and their clones are, however, way too expensive compared to food in Spain (grocery store food; but cheap compared to restaurants).
Just to clarify on this subject: the 83(b) election applies to stock options where early exercise is involved. Not all companies permit early exercise.
Put a key on your phone or an USB stick. I make a key for every machine that I have, and that keys never leaves that machine. In addition I keep another key that I can use to get started again if my laptop gets stolen or breaks.

If I lose the phone, there's a pretty good password on that key that should give me ample time to remove access rights for it.
Security glory hole, is security glory hole!
>> The company added that hacking its vehicles was a "criminal action".

> I don't think that's the case, but I still commend them for doing a recall this quick.

It is illegal under existing laws. Basically, it falls under the same set of laws as cutting someone break line. You are, at a minimum, in the "Reckless endangerment" category.

It doesn't take new laws, the old ones have seen enough people doing stupid things to other people's cars.
Can you briefly expand the e2e test aspect of Angular?

I'm looking to learn ways to do e2e test without touching the DOM (e.g.: from Controller all the way up to the back-end; imagine firing up Chrome DevTools console and start writing JS code that executes some logic and eventually fires AJAX request and process the response, of course in this case the View will be mocked but the app logic and everything else can be executed).
Hi HN! We've been using this within our portfolio for a couple of weeks, but excited to open this up to the world today. Here's some more info on why we built it: https://medium.com/@kpcb_edge/introducing-edge-office-hours-...

happy to answer any questions/discuss any feedback you have here
Sure, $20,000 for the shares but what about the taxes you'd owe on the shares? If the value increases 50-fold, does the IRS not see that as 1,000,000 - 20,000 = $980,000 of taxable income?
I've thought about solar desalination a lot lately, pumps + glass + desert = water. Then you can sell the salt by product during the cold weather to the north east.
> And maybe prepare for physical violence. This may get ugly in a few years.

French here too... This law is sad but keep in mind that our justice is still the only place where they makes sense. Overall, our country is still a great place to live.
My personal philosophy on drinking boils down to the following.

* I enjoy the taste of certain alcoholic drinks.

* I do not enjoy messing too much with my brain chemistry.

Therefore I drink to experience interesting flavors and as a social lubricant. I do not drink enough to get buzzed nor do I wish to. So far it's working.
What about calling out? I know with GV you can dial your GV number to dial the number you actually want to call (So the recipient sees your GV number in their caller ID). It was a little cumbersome, but it worked. Does PJ have something like this?
Most founder series preferred shares have voting multipliers built-in. The fear of an interloper led takeover based on voting rights is another myth.
I'm amazed that you feel this way, because my experience is completely the opposite. Banging out the REST API portion of things is usually a mechanical wrapper around some business process in the systems I have been creating. CRUD comes into play with entity manipulation, of course, but that's only one facet and in my current case, not even the dominant one. In fact, I don't even know why you'd think you have to map business processes to CRUD at all. It almost seems like you have some religous belief about what REST actually is, much like how the article talks about "de facto" standards that are nothing of the sort.

I suppose you have strange requirements or design impositions that make your life difficult, but I caution you against believing that your use case is universal because in my very real experience, none of your opinions are supportable.
Data Elixir #45: Machine learning for smart non-experts. Import anything into R
Are you really saying that what a technical consulting company does is not interesting? Or is this sarcasm?
"Further, eradicating racism, sexism, etc.. IS EVERYONE'S CALLING. If you don't hear the call, you're part of the problem, PERIOD."

I guarantee that if I knew you and how you spend your time, I could quickly point out endemic, crucially important problems with a clear moral imperative, that you are contributing very little, if anything, to solving.
> The recall doesn’t actually require Chrysler owners to bring their cars, trucks and SUVs to a dealer. Instead, they’ll be sent a USB drive with a software update they can install through the port on their vehicle’s dashboard.

http://www.wired.com/2015/07/jeep-hack-chrysler-recalls-1-4m...

> Chrysler says it’s also taken steps to block the digital attack Miller and Valasek demonstrated with “network-level security measures”—presumably security tools that detect and block the attack on Sprint’s network, the cellular carrier that connect Chrysler’s vehicles to the Internet.

Oh great, they'll install an antivirus and think they've fixed the problem.
The cost of exercising does increase after a big jump in valuation because you have to pay AMT tax on the unrealized capital gains.
just to add, some writers distinguish between societies where slavery existed (almost every human society) and "slave societies", where "the definition of the relationship between ownership and labor -- is defined by slavery". (see: http://www.theatlantic.com/personal/archive/2011/09/the-slav...)
This tool is still a bit beta-ish, but you can use it to browse neighborhoods, see your home's remodeling history (in about 1000 cities, not everywhere), and some other cool stuff.

If there is a particular restaurant buildout or home that you like, you can use this tool to figure out who built it.

Let me know what you think! david@buildzoom.com

Thanks.
> Sometimes these things are easy to miss, but once you are on the lookout its a slippery slope to thinking that almost everything happening to you is because of your gender and its good to call people out on that.

Yes, probably. Both if you're a man or a woman.
I'm rather fond of Alpine Linux (https://www.alpinelinux.org/), but echoing buserror, I doubt it's as small as OpenWrt.
Nice! Cool. :)
Did the WIRED story demonstration take place on a public road with other cars around?

[edit: viewing the video - yes they did - they should be charged with endangerment - someone could have been hurt rear ending the jeep]
https://phonejanitor.com/faq.html#general-price

"We charge a simple $15 per line per month. No hidden fees, no hidden limits. Even our Terms are written to be human readable."
Read the backbone source. http://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html

Read the underscore Source first: http://underscorejs.org/docs/underscore.html
You can filter calls in Google Voice?
I would add that shipping cars with such vulnerabilities should be a criminal action, if it isn't. It's certainly negligent (however unintentionally) and unsafe for consumers.
The definitely are inductors (being labeled "Lxx" on PCB is a sure tell-tale sign), and the small 48ish pin packages near them are most likely SMPS controllers. Seems bit crazy that there are total of 18 of them, but I suppose that's what you gotta do when you are pushing possibly hundreds of amps of current.
Life is nothing but loneliness and boredom without an achievement,
but is it really possible to go through life without a single achievement?
I don't think so, from birth through infancy to adulthood, the worst losers have achieved little things like crawling, walking and running,
okay, these are no achievements? then, what are they? Please go on, I am listening.
It's all about goal setting and the attainment of set goals, right?
If you agree with me that this is a fact, then living a life powered by the desire to achieve big thing is living the real life.
So, I am here to set goals, to plan well and work hard to achieve set goals,
the achievement of set goals is the only reliable indicator of my positive growth,
there's no way I will know that I am growing taller and getting better,
without living and working hard to great things as a great achiever.
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What's Romantic Beyond Infosys' Q1-2016 Results
You should understand that every situation is different. Are you talking about NSOs, or ISOs? Have you factored in the minimum tax credit?

Very few articles on ISOs and AMT highlight the minimum tax credit that is applied when the amount paid under AMT exceeds what would otherwise have been paid.
There have already been plenty of exhaustive analyses of this sort of issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwvlbJ0h35A
It's the AMT issue. In your example, if the company's valuation increased by 50X, the spread between the FMV and the exercise price would be $1,000,000, so you would have to pay taxes on AMT income of $980,000 - assuming AMT is 20%, that's almost $200k. It sucks =)

Of course IF you are lucky enough to have $20K sitting around, enough faith in your company the day you get your options AND your company lets you early exercise, then you can avoid this. Unfortunately, for most folks those conditions are not all met =(
Have you tried shortening your circadian rhythm with light therapy? Mine's about 26.5 hours and it's been quite helpful, though I have to sit in front of this light for a little over 2 hours every morning.

http://www.cet.org/
Humphry Davy and the “safety lamp controversy”
I like the control. I wouldn't use it.

Why? The CEO of PhoneJanitor is no longer reachable by a bunch of people in ways that I find useful. The associated at the VC firm that wants to follow up on funding this company? Denied. The CVS courtesy number reminding him his prescription is ready for pickup? Never gets through. His wife borrows a friends phone after hers dies? Can't even leave a voicemail.

It's one way to deal with spam and cold calls, but there's a real cost to these limits.
Capital gains taxes. When the "fair market value" of the company increases away from your strike price, when you exercise your options you have to pay tax on the difference between your strike price and the fair market value. And it will be a short term capital gain so it isn't cheap. If those .20 options of your have a fair market value of 5.00 now, you will owe tax on 4.80 of capital gains. 4.80 * 100,000 is 480,000.00 and a tax rate of about 40% on that means you will owe $192,000.00 in taxes to exercises $20,000.00 in options. So you will need around $210,000.00 to get out.

And even after that you're holding a non-liquid asset which could be diluted to nothing or the company could simply fail and you can't dump the stock.
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Future Work Relationships
Depends on the lawsuit. How much effort would you go through to secure software that runs on a decade old vehicle with a very particular set of options if the exploit requires a very particular set of conditions?

You might fix it just to have a similarly obscure zero day be discovered (unknown to you) and exploited in a different place. Then not only were all those resources spent in vain, but you've got to deal with the opportunity cost of not having thrown those resources behind current of future safety and security tech.

People accept the risk of driving vehicles with legacy safety equipment, why should software be any different from hardware or legacy software in non-embedded applications. At some point you have to let stuff go. Just ask Microsoft.
Why did you buy 2 glasses for your household? I sympathize with your situation, but it seemed always clear to me since the beginning that this was a device that Google was putting on sale mostly as a PR statement ("hey look, we don't do just ads, we can do innovative hardware too!"), with no future beyond the 6 months hype cycle.

I'm curious to hear what you saw in it. Don't get me wrong, I also own early devices that turned out to be useless pieces of plastic (cough cough leap motion), but the price of Google Glass was just completely insane.
The article doesn't state this well, but the additional cost comes from AMT. If you exercise your options you pay AMT on the face value of a share of common stock at time of exercise minus the exercise price (the spread). This is true regardless of whether or not those options are liquid at the time. For a unicorn, the stock has most certainly increased in value over time, which means the exercise price is a fraction (possibly a very low fraction) of the current value, and you'll be writing the IRS a much larger check than you write the company.

The only escape from this problem is an 83(b) election, which I've heard many companies say they don't allow (IANAL and am not sure what the circumstances are here). It's also the case that with an 83(b) election you are putting real money, potentially a significant amount of real money, into the company's bank account with no expectation of when that investment will become liquid. So this also has risks, but at least the AMT is on the spread, which is $0 in this case.
I have been tempted to play with the entertainment screen in airplanes a couple of times.

But as it is on an airplane traveling 900km/h 10 000m in the air. I dont feel like poking at stuff that is connected to the stuff that is keeping me and the other passengers alive.

Also it i don't feel like speeding life in prison.

But those things don't exactly feel like top quality stuff. They feel more like something that than be crashed and taken over in 20 minutes using a teensy++ and a Linux laptop.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/21/upshot/finland-shows-why-m...
I've heard from several sources that the company has no say in the matter. That it's basically rule by fear. That said, thrusting 83b paperwork upon a company that doesn't "allow" it isn't the best way to start your new job.

Also, Peter Thiel always told his portfolio companies to allow 83b elections. It's smart for the employee and the employee. I guess it's a changing of the guard from the Founders Fund types to the YC mania today.
Are there other areas where shipping with known vulnerabilities that can endanger lives is criminal? EG in medicine?
Best response so far. Your equity compensation is worth what you can currently sell it for. If you can't sell it, it's worth nothing. You should consider it an extremely fortunate and lucky turn of events should your equity become both liquid and in the money--you shouldn't expect it as a given.
It's easy to get lost in the noise of the "enthusiast" webring with their semiliterate "benchmarks" and overly paginated "reviews". They punch well above their actual purchasing weight and thus think they're a lot more important then they actually are.
The company's valuation increases fifty-fold. Now you decide to exercise your stock options, and you pay $20,000. You have just paid $20,000 for stock that is now worth $1,000,000.

The IRS now expects you to pay tax on your $980,000 in income. However, your stock is not liquid, so you can't sell it. This is why you can need "millions" to acquire your options.