skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US, with enough foresight, they can be purchased through a Roth IRA, which would prevent any tax from being applied. The (major) caveats are three-fold:

1) The money cannot be touched until retirement. So… if it turns out to be Uber and worth hundreds of millions, you can't touch any of it! It's probably a good idea to only put 25-50% of your stock in the account.

2) You can only contribute a tiny amount yearly to an IRA ($6k I think). So, the options strike price must be dirt-cheap for this to make sense.

3) Actually doing it is quite complex, and requires a third-party account custodian. If you're accepting a random startup offer pre-funding (the only time you'd have essentially free options, allowing #2 above not to be an issue), you're unlikely to go through that trouble.

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The huge benefit, however, is that if you do succeed in hitting in big with something that way, you'll have a gigantic Roth IRA balance, tax-free, and you'll be able to use it to make other investments, whose cost basis and profits will all be tax-free.

https://www.google.com/?q=max+levchin+paypal+roth+ira
We are in Singapore and our ELB is automatically deregistering our instances. Has happened twice in last 1 hour causing system downtime.
>I am however utterly ignorant of the difficulty of doing this.

It is very difficult since the symbiotic relationship needed is difficult to recreate - it is not just a matter of introducing a few new genes.

Even doing this would not avoid the need for the Haber-Bosch process. The symbiotic bacteria just can’t produce the amount of organic nitrogen that we need to get into modern crops to have them produce at the level we need to feed everyone. Even crops like legumes which have the symbiotic bacteria are supplied with artificial nitrogen when grown under modern agricultural conditions.
No, we don't need clean energy innovation. And that's a problem.

Right now, there's an oil glut and a natural gas glut. The US may be self-sufficient in energy in about four years without even trying. The fear that fossil fuels will run out in the near term is gone. This has taken the pressure off the need for alternative energy.
I always though that both good mystery and science fiction fit most of those criteria listed. Except deconstruction, which I can happily live without.

Of course, neither SF not mysteries are actually like the stories this page links to.
I understand that Microsoft does not make Office very interoperable, but whatever the reason for that is, anything but a basic document tends to get garbled formatting. Perhaps I misinterpreted, but I took friends to include the non-technical who would be set back by this.. definitely if they send out resumes looking like a madman who's never used a word processor.

The Canadian government and the vast majority of businesses I know of use Office, so that would also be a hindrance.

Sorry for the pragmatism.. I also probably shouldn't have written the query for MSSQL...
Half of our servers in Singapore (100+) are all down, cant access console either.
Damn it.
exactly what is happening here.
Companies and Carriers Should Be Required to Issue Updates to Fix Security Flaws
There is still the need to do something about the GHG’s we are dumping into the atmosphere. This large uncontrolled geoengineering experiment may not go so well given the current usage of fossil fuels.
From my original comment on this article:

> [the internet was a place where] Anyone could publish and be heard and read about certain taboo subjects and not be publicly shamed for entertaining a certain thought.

It's hilarious to me that you're doing just that.

You're trying to shame me for finding some ideas interesting simply because it came from a crazy person? Does finding a piece of writing interesting imply that I agree with it or the actions of the person who wrote it? Are you going to shame me for finding van Gogh's art beautiful in spite of the fact that he cut his ear off? Have you ever even read what I'm referencing?
This is from the paper,

All the COSAC organics can be formed by UV irradiation and/or radiolysis of ices
due to the incidence of galactic and solar cosmic rays: alcohols and carbonyls
derived from CO and H2O ices (19), and amines and nitriles from CH4 and NH3 ices
(20). Hydrolysis of nitriles produces amides, which are linked to isocyanates by
isomerization.

"Organic" only means "made of C,H,O,N", and doesn't imply biology. (But these are actually pre-biotic chemicals, which is why it's very interesting).
It takes much less time to read an article. AFAIK LWN does a great job. Still, thanks.
Frankfurt is up and running. Only the Web Console is slower.
"The main character is thrusted into greatness and power without any effort and continues to do great things with little effort."

This perfectly describes my reaction to Ender's Game, except Ender is also smug and arrogant about it as well. Nobody grows or overcomes anything in the entire book.

That and everyone believing Card invented manoeuvre warfare annoys me.
Here are some of Sam Altman's thoughts http://blog.samaltman.com/employee-equity
The point is that Mozilla ignored their published principles ( 'The Manifesto' ), and also their stated testing and release processes, in order to shove Pocket out the door and into peoples' faces.

Basically they trampled on everything for which Mozilla stood.

In those circumstances merely reacting to backlash is insufficient. Heads should have rolled and assurances been given that they would alway uphold their principles regardless of 'brand benefit' or 'user acquisition'.

Was anyone demoted, reassigned or dismissed? No, just some PR lacquer slapped over the issue.
we use Opsworks.
"Near worthless" is an entirely overblown characterization. The central factor is not the strike price, but the spread between your strike price and what you can eventually sell at (which should hopefully be higher than any strike price set at the last 409A). If you get an initial grant at $1/share, and then a later grant of the same number of options at $5/share, then is the later grant worth 1/5 of the initial one? No - if you end up selling for $15/share, then it's a difference between getting $14/share and $10/share pre-tax. It only ends up being a much worse deal if the strike price of the later grant is very close to what you later sell at, in which case your company is flatlining.
I wonder how does NBA generates these data (X, Y position and shot attempts), if it's manually input from video or something smarter
In comparison to an early grant a refresher grant will be smaller and worth less, but that doesn't make it "near" worthless.

First, if you have 7 years to decide if you want to exercise it, then every stock option has risk-free upside regardless of the strike price. Without the 7-year rule then the upside isn't so clear cut, but that doesn't mean they are near worthless at all.

Second, companies really don't grow that quickly. Over a 1 or 2 year time horizon, even a really successful company will 2x-4x in value (and the common stock might grow even less than this). If the strike price was low on the original grant, the strike price will also probably be pretty low on the refresher grant. Especially at early stages of a company's life when the options are priced at essentially zero, even if you 5 or 10x the value, the strike price will still be very low.

When you have more established companies and higher strikes prices, it is less of an issue because there might be a shorter term path to liquidity which takes away risk of exercising without being able to sell the stock.
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It's complicated. I like HPMOR, but... not necessarily because it's rational?

I mean, Eliezer is an impressive writer whose style resonates with many people. And it's indeed frustrating to see idiocy in fiction, like in Star Trek where the most powerful weapon is obviously the teleporter but no one acknowledges that. We can all agree on these things.

The problem is that removing idiocy doesn't automatically make a piece of fiction good. It seems like Eliezer has convinced a ton of nerds (I hate the word but let's roll with it) that they can succeed in writing fiction by applying this one weird trick. But you need much more than that.

Our enjoyment of stories comes mainly from emotions, which we then rationalize by saying "I liked that story because the hero was really smart". A few people have noticed that the actual plotlines in HPMOR are kinda weak, and it's really the characterization and "epic" style that makes the story work. A version of HPMOR that was just "smart", with better intrigue but less emotional appeal, wouldn't attract nearly as many people. A version of Worm without the raw moments of suffering would be kinda pointless to read. These things don't come for free if you just try to write rationally.

To conclude, here's a few recommendations:

- If you want to read a work that succeeds purely based on rationality, without much emotion or characterization, check out The Metropolitan Man. It's probably the best example of its kind, and a damn good read too.

- If you know your way around the Harry Potter universe and want another good fanfic in that setting, try The Seventh Horcrux. It doesn't give a fuck about rationality, but it's so amazing that you won't care.

- If you want something extremely smart, well written, and emotional at the same time, read anything by Ted Chiang. I'll never stop recommending him.
This is amazing discovery. By this we can say that organic molecules might not be a rare phenomenon in the universe and hence the chances of life increases...
Wealth 're'-distribution? So where was the wealth distributed from to start with? It wasn't; by and large it was earned as businesses across the world know very well.
From the article: Von Rossum is still running Python 2.7 in production at his day job at Dropbox.
I had heard the humans were close to midway between the Plank's length and size of observable universe.
Trusting closed-source applications over open-source sounds odd. Security by obscurity is not desirable. What you said about open-source, everyone can read it, is a strength not a weakness.

As long as there is programming there are bugs. We can't prove correctness of all programs by writing purely functional code. Having more eyes on the same code is more likely to expose these bugs. The caveat is that everyone hopes someone else has checked the code. But I don't see how using closed-source application would solve this issue.
CAn confirm we are also experiencing massive issues, took AWS about an hour to update status page. Attempted to file support ticket and that timed out, when the request finished it had created 10 duplicated tickets and still waiting on the phone call from AWS RE ticket.
And they are also quite pricey for locals too, given our fragile economy. We're not some inhabited island in the ocean.
Authorized shares is a pretty much irrelevant number. Companies typically have millions more shares of common stock authorized than they have actually issued to anyone. The relevant number is the number of shares actually issued and outstanding. You might also care about how many options have been issued and could in theory become outstanding shares, so in that case you'd want what is called the total fully diluted number of shares.
Some of my Portland neighbors are concerned with rising rents as well as Oregon's No-Fault evictions.

San Francisco too. While it has rent control there are such workarounds as remodeling an apartment.

They figure they can give all the hipsters the boot by cutting optical fiber. Good thing it's clearly marked with all those "Call Before You Dig" signs!

HOWTO Win a Cold War When It Suddenly Grows Hot

http://www.warplife.com/tips/defense/national/c3i/fiber-opti...

tl;dr: backhoes are cheap to rent and easy to operate.

AWS Boston failed the same time Portland and San Francisco did, but I don't know why yet. My concern when I posted the above was the Livermore cut, I figured Vladimir Putin had grown weary of America's craft beer export restrictions.

"The FBI is investigating" according to all the newspapers, but when I reported the Portland cut to their national crime tips hotline, the FBI agent I spoke too didn't even know there was such a thing as optical fiber.

There was a cut in San Jose in June 2010.

8-1-1 exists specifically to prevent fiber cuts but there is no way to report that a cut had actually happened. Santa Clara Vallet 9-1-1 hung up on me when I requested they connect me to a Network Operations Center.

6-1-1 is what I wanted. I called the FBI for the Portland cut because 6-1-1 was down as well.

Emergency Responders all use radio for many good reasons but that Portland cut disabled 9-1-1.

What actually made the news around here?

A local TV station's cable channel was down for a few hours.

Mom's Earthlink was down. "That's because of the cable cut, Mom. There is nothing that Earthlink Tech Spport can do."

"That's fine, so long as I can get my eMail!"

Mom pays for her dialup, therefore she expects it to work.
> I'll bet everything in my pocket

and as we don't know what is in your pocket, the bet is off. :)
Servers in Japan seem ok, but e-mail (N. Virginia) is more or less dead for me.
> I can see why some people might not, and to be fair I use Linux on my work laptop because the work I do demands it. I would never put my client data on a Windows machine.

How do you handle business e-mail ? Only on the linux laptop ? Is the windows device only for personal and entertainment purposes ?
> Sadly Capitalism and the ideology that Americans and now it seems the entire world has bought

Oh the whole world hasn't bough it. North Korea is still free from it. Cuba seems to have regretted it though
It's certainly an interesting idea, and I have to admit it's one I've pondered over in the past as being an 'opportunity' for a small competitive advantage in closing a deal.

The biggest problem is capital tie-up. Buildings are expensive, in Cali, they are even more expensive. I've always wanted to try this idea though, perhaps in a large converted-warehouse or even a traditional down-town office-space somewhere like Austin.

Again though we must ask ourselves, what's more likely to help a start-up, office-space (in a time when more and more companies are moving towards virtual working arrangements), or an additional 100k/200k? Just some food for thought, like I said, if done right, it could be a very good perk to offer, but it's hard to justify the cost.

Cough And, shameless self-promotion, I'm looking to move into the VC space in an entry-level analyst/associate position if anyone has any exciting opportunities. Or even boring opportunities, I like boring too. :)
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> But like I can see your side of the argument, you have to be able to see that some other people want personalization and learning and all that. Pandora and Apple Music are both heavily tailored that way. Google Now on your phone knows everything you do. Netflix can find videos for you to watch based on what you've watched before. Amazon will recommend purchases to you based on what you like. Hell, half the people on this site build these systems. You know how many machine learning articles there are on the front page every week?

But that's the thing, right ? People want their computers to be more intelligent, reactive, adapted to their needs. They don't want Google, MS or Apple to know everything about them. How did the first came to automatically imply the second ?

Apple, Google, MS and others could deliver the same products (software that learn user behaviour and adapt accordingly) without sacrificing privacy, invading personal space and storing private documents on the cloud in order to parse it to deliver relevant ads.

Machine learning should keep on trying to be machine learning and not solely data scraping for marketing tuning and exploitation.

What does it bring me that MS or Google knows my search terms of the day ? I want my quad-core CPU to know that when I browse HN it should automatically split the screen in half and open my media player to listen to radio music because that's what I do most morning. Why do I have to do that by hand ? Can't it know or guess my routine by now ?

Or is all the tech just a glorified lexical parser to fine tune ads to increase their efficiency ?
The dramatic difference in price is really between pre-funding to post-funding. e.g. I know many companies where options were granted at 1c a piece, even as seed notes and safes were given out, but as soon as the Series A equity round hits, the 409A & thus options grant went up to $0.50+. That's a huge difference.

That said, your point about having 7 years to decide is entirely fair, and mostly negates that downside.
All of our opsworks instances are currently being shut down, we have already had 20 servers automatically terminated...

There goes the weekend!!
AWS issues on Sysadmin Appreciation day.. what an irony.
hey vonklaus, what u can do is just login to console , when u see 500 error page . Just hit the back button you will be logged into the account
"We don't assume you are stupid."
http://prgmr.com/

Tell Brother Luke that Brother Mike sent you.

Their tech support is excellent, it is run far far better than Amazon could ever hope to achieve.

If any prgmr.com server ever goes down, Luke's girl puts his testicles in a bench clamp until that server comes back up.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/mega-denies-claims-by-kim-dotco...
I never understood what kind of changes Guido made from 2.7 to 3.0 that kept everyone off.
python needs her alan cox!
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We shouldn't have had to argue that. If it's either speech or an arm (and it's both), it's inalienable.
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"Rust can leak memory" is an overgeneralization of the issue and misrepresents it.

Rust doesn't break RAII in the usual sense. The leak issue in Rust is not something that can be cleanly talked of in the context of other languages.

In all languages with RAII till now, it's possible to "leak" memory by sending things to a permablocked thread, or stuffing them in a global hashmap, or whatever. This is something that no compiler can prevent, and it may even be desired at times.

Rust has always allowed this sort of "leaking". So have all the other languages out there.

However, Rust has the concept of scoped/borrowed data -- data with a lifetime which cannot escape that scope. Stuff that isn't scoped is said to be `'static`, i.e. it's lifetime can be the lifetime of the whole program (we can keep moving it out of functions and throwing it between threads). Scoped data can't be shoved into a global hashmap or sent to a random blocked thread, because it's not allowed to escape its scope.

Except, it turns out that using stuff like Rc cycles, it's possible to leak such data too. This affects RAII guards which use lifetimes to bind themselves to a scope to say "run destructors when this particular scope ends" (this is different from "run destructors when this object is no longer accessible", because with regular objects they can be hoisted into a larger scope by moving).

Note that the entire issue is about _scoped_ data (data with a lifetime, containing borrowed references), which is not a concept that exists in other languages.

So Rust still provides de-facto leak safety via RAII, it's just that it is possible in safe Rust to leak stuff, but you have to be explicit about it (global hashmap, mem::forget, etc). This is unlike languages where you must `delete` the object explicitly to avoid leaks.
I think I'm going to wait for his opensource, non-profit alternative.
We've been having issues with SES N.Virginia, but have managed to get mail through. It's intermittent, but we are getting our batches out. It's not pretty.
The real problem comes from the fact that any amount of stock that would generate significant return becomes prohibitively expensive to exercise. If you're granted 100k shares at $5/share, and they could eventually sell at $15/share; it does you very little good, because there's no way you can swing the half a million bucks it'll take to exercise in order to make your uncertain $1M profit.

On the other hand, if it's an amount of options you can afford to exercise (e.g. 1k shares @ $5 = $5k… most people could scrap together the funds for that.), your profit is unlikely to be more that 2-5x, which likely would return $10k, and at the most $25k on your $5k investment. A lot of risk and trouble to go through for very little gain…

That said, with a 7+ year time period to exercise after leaving the company, it's not an issue
Ok. If you're receiving errors, and you're NOT using opsworks, please respond. We're using opsworks too and have ~30 servers down. Maybe we all should be looking at the opsworks agent.
Using OpsWorks. Got several deploys timing out as "unreachable" between 2h ago and now.
It's automatically extracted from video, using six cameras and a commercial system called SportVU: http://stats.nba.com/tracking/
Would it be a violation of a non-compete to drum up interest before the non-compete expires?
Crowd funding would have been fine. What you did was pre-mine. This undermines the currency. Nobody is going to trust a currency where you hold so much of it and there is no way to prove you gave as much away as you clam you did.
We are getting errors across multiple AWS API's. It's nothing to do with Opsworks itself, rather it appears like there is an internal networking issue.

Both SQS and SNS were erroring and now SQS has gone down completly with all requests timing out.
Are we talking about owning or leasing and then sub-leasing?

VCs that plan to use LP money to own and operate a commercial real-estate project are likely to get a "no, thank you", as LPs have access to REIT sector with much better purchasing power, IRRs, cashflows and operator experience.

If the VC firm is leasing and then sub-leasing, the reverse selection bias works against it, as the rapidly growing company is going to be the one moving out the soonest, needing higher square footage and shopping around for entire floors (or buildings, or campuses) will give it much better rate per square foot.

With that said, if anybody was doing it, it would be A16Z, considering how much Silicon Valley land and commercial real estate belongs to Arrillaga family.
hey fredonrails, what u can do is just login to console , when u see 500 error page . Just hit the back button you will be logged into the account. this seemed to be working for me please try
Why Side Projects Die
That's exactly it. When a startup is just starting, the bugs can be exposed and exploited. Someone's got to fix them. Not every project is huge like linux and webkit. Yes, the mantra is with enough eyes, all bugs are shallow, but in the meantime anything that could be exploited would be exploited, if the network becomes big. The effort to result ratio would be small.

Security by obscurity can be better than exposing all your code to the world where any hacked can compromise the whole network, BEFORE the fix is patched.

And even with open source, would I trust a random small host to secure it better than google? Look at all the android vendors that don't even install the latest patches.
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>Think about how terrible that is.

In theory, absolutely.

In practice, too much of the useful web is concentrated in a small number of fiefdoms. And that is ultimately our fault, not theirs.
Czechoslovakia had .cs domain for very short moment. Not sure what happened to it.