skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Train birds of prey.
I mean, we're almost at 200 episodes at this point! Kudos to Jonathan Mann for writing a song that seemingly never gets old, but at this point it just feel like I'm brainwashing myself into remembering a bunch of Twitter handles.
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Ok, that is helpful. I'm still a bit confused though. (where's collida when you need him?)

So I get the point where the scammer is selling options amongst themselves to get the stock price to rise. I put out an "ask" and then later come back with another shell company/identity and buy that stock with my "bid". Brokers are handling these transactions by connecting the buyers to the sellers (which happen to be the same people so they can buy an sell at an arbitrary price and only the brokers are making any money on the transaction fees.)

Now you stipulate this causes the stock to show up as "over valued" based on pretty standard technical analysis. Sort of "look no revenue but people are buying this stock for $2? WTF?"

So our short seller (who isn't a scammer right? they are being scammed?) goes to their broker and says we think this price is too high and its going down, so we want to sell a put option (that is the promise of a sale) of these shares at $2 a share, 6 months from now. Since they are an options trader and they know how these things go, they also buy a call option, to buy shares at $2.25 6 months from now. This is known as a "butterfly" if the shares go up you will be able to cover your put options with shares from the call option and "lose" only 25 cents per share, if the shares go down, the person on the other side of your put buys your shares for $2 and you sell them for less than $2 and pocket the difference.

What I don't understand is what broker is going to play the other side of the short seller's order book?

If our scammers agree to sell a call option at $2 to counter balance the short seller's put option, they are forced to sell at $2, they can't decide to sell at $20.

How does the scammer get the short seller's broker to take a bath here? They aren't some dupe in an investment club who things "its going to the moon!" and so buying what ever comes out, they are trading options on high risk securities over the counter (in many ways the highest risk securities).

So the only way I see this working is if the broker in this melodrama is corrupt and telling someone to short a stock which the broker does not ever get control over (essentially con them into a naked short).
Small correction: you used the diameter of the large Hyperloop design, but the cost estimate of the small one. It should be $7.5b or $1870/tube foot.

Fyi there is a cost breakdown on pp55 of the Hyperloop PDF, which lists the tube construction costs as half what you specify. What kind of "pressure tubes" are you referring to for these cost estimates? http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/hyperloop_alpha-201...
I think it's because they mostly spend money on current customers not new ones. To attract new customers they probably use another ways (like SEO, cold call, and so on).
Same here. Reading the original makes things clearer though.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2014-07-11/cynk-make...
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If you want canadian talent you can get it, but you cannot pretend you deserve it. You must work for it.That means identifying talent in university before the Microsoft or Google recruiters get ahold of their resume. It means finding developers before the skill is obvious for the big corps. Then you treat them well and have them start their career before graduation.

During my university the local division of Coverity did a good job of this. They sponsored the programming club events. They sent real engineers to every career fair. They gave internships to 2 years. They kept on skilled programmers throughout the year. One guy I knew got married and bought a house while working part time there even before graduation.

I would say that company grabbed the majority of the high-performing nice-to-work-with students from my year. The only ones they did not get was me (video game programming japan), and my friend (C++ standard library programming at google).

Or you could whine about why you deserve to get Canada's best at insulting wages. Maybe that will work.
Apologies for not seeing your reply sooner.

There's a few on Ebay[0] though you'll likely want to pick a seller in the UK for a really good price, there's currently one for under $20 from a UK seller with free worldwide shipping (like I said: in the past it's been ridiculously discounted here in the UK)

And here's an Amazon link [1] with it for only $30 or so (a decent-ish price, though you should find it lots cheaper elsewhere... if you have good google-fu!)

Note that the game has different names in different countries, Wikipedia should help you there.

[0] http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m5...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Pokémon-Typing-Adventure-DS-Nin...
This is sadly how policy decisions get made in government. The smart people building stuff are usually busy building stuff and are turned off of events with titles like "leaders of Canada". At the same time, a lot of the successful Canadian founders, who would have time for this, found success via acquisition by US companies and aren't around to attend.

I'm curious if there are articles about Canada hemorrhaging math/finance talent to New York? Or is this just something we perpetually complain about in tech as if talent/industry centralization wasn't a phenomenon in almost every big new market in history.

All of our good Canadian musicians, comedians, and actors go to the US and become big, countless have done so. That's how we can tell if their good or not, usually. And nothings wrong with that. No one complained when Drake signed to a US label when his new career took off...
The crankshaft is in the middle part it doesn't move in relation to the head.
The image explains is pretty well, the piston is connected to the "multi-link" which changes the angle make the piston head move further into the cylinder.
"It turns out CEOs are way more likely to be psychopaths than any other job title... About 1% of the human population are psychopaths. But CEOs are four times more likely to be psychopaths than the average person"

The article is perfect anecdotal illustration of this.

It's kind of sad that we've built a business environment where being a psychopath actively helps, not hurts, your climb to the top.

http://thehustle.co/your-ceo-is-probably-a-psychopath
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Here is something for all to ponder. Remember when someone switched the TV channel into the middle of a movie you haven't seen for 20 years. How long did it take for you to recognize the movie? And how often did you have a good sense of what is next? Most people report "a second or so". Think about this: when you saw the movie you were not trying to remember it, you did not know you would be tested 20 years later.
One way to think of this is that it is highly likely that memory is not the problem to be dealt with, but that recall is.
four times more likely

So 4%?
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In Hulk Hogan's sex tape he goes off on a racist rant. That's the reason the WWE fired him. I'm glad my kids won't be exposed to that racist and I'm thankful for Gawker's public services on that issue.

Also, Hogan was never going to earn $140million for the rest of his life. That judgment was ridiculous.
I didn't know the term either, so thanks for digging it up. I'm close to, but not quite a psychiatrist, so I think I squeak through on a technicality :)
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Not to mention, the supposed uber-libertarian supporting government restrictions on free speech.
I'm starting to become a little shocked at the lack of black box warnings involved with Acetaminophen given how easy it is to poison yourself with it, and what appears to be a growing list of long-term side effects
This makes no sense...OTC stocks are almost never bigger than a billion dollars. This used to be at $28 in 2012, which meant is was still worth over $20 billion but the SEC didn;t notice then. No information about this company. not even a wiki page. I think the $35 billion may be a typo and it's only $35 million. There is something missing in the reporting. Maybe it traded at a penny and went to $55 ,maybe it wound be worth billions but it never got lower than $10
Holy hell... what is going on!

I believe it's pulled from here?

http://www.eurasialasvegas.com/our-mission.html

Or re-used...
This definitely seems on the extremely low end. In Toronto, you can easily find a job making 90k+ with a year or two of experience.
Yes; Ilya Grigorik, in one of his talks, said that one of LTE’s biggest benefits is the much-lower latency for initial connections. I don’t remember which presentation, though.
It isn't allegedly if it was caught on video and he admitted it.

If feminists stopped bitching about microaggressions and dealt with cases like this I'd have a lot more respect for them.
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Back in the days of the Itanium debacle, Intel made the mistake of assuming everybody would be willing to rewrite their code to work efficiently on whatever hardware Intel wanted to give them. Instead, AMD won (briefly) by making a 64-bit chip that was much more x86-compatible.

Now, though, it sounds as if Intel may be making the opposite mistake. The Larrabee/KnightsThingummy family was built around x86 cores to make it easier to port existing code to it, but now it looks like this time people really are willing to rewrite their code to work on GPGPUs after all.
Why would Eve worry about being caught? Everything you've outlined is perfectly legal, and in fact was executed brilliantly by Porsche (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-idUSTRE49R3I920...) in 2008.
i am against outing people. gawker's policy of outing people, at best, is terrible. saying people being outed could cause them to commit suicide is true.

but

> He is going after them for outing him as gay. Gawker does this to people as a matter of policy. This policy has lead to people committing suicide, they have fired reporters who disagreed with it.

you're going to have to cite any firing. there have been resignations because nick denton took down an article about a conde nast executive who was gay and the editors disagreed with the article takedown. no one (afaik) was fired. they resigned because their article got taken down. also saying gawker outs being as a matter of policy... what.

also let's talk about thiel's outing. thiel was a huge investor in facebook, therefore he is a public figure. and is it really an out-of-the-closet "outing" if nearly everyone who worked with thiel knew, and told that to people outside of thiel's general circle? you think the author of the story dug through thiel's trash to find out that he was gay? it was pretty much common knowledge regardless of what thiel's dislike of talking about it.

and imo he is suppressing dissenting opinions. cross peter thiel and you better prepare to go through a legal battle for it even if what was said was not libel.
That particular class of error is caused by bad application programming, not the actual database.
Good grief! How pathetic!
That's less than what normal interns make at Google/FB or a hot startup.
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$35-45k sounds insane for Vancouver. FWIW, jobs I currently see advertised in the Toronto/Waterloo region (both on Stack Overflow and by recruiters) for mid-level devs are more like $70k-$110k.
Probably a lot using static generators like Hugo.
To me originally I thought it was just a library that replaced || with or() with no added benefit while promise support would have at least reduced the amount of overhead to create a readable logic wuth asynchronous situations (which is common in js). I now understand thos is a step towards making test code and runnable code one in the same.
False dichotomy. They were very much up in arms about this guy. I sure was.
If you're interested in startup tech stacks, we have a lot of different ones curated at StackShare.

http://stackshare.io

Some well known startups are "verified" with a blue checkmark, which means they update their tech stack themselves so look out for that.
Ok, off topic question. Not an expert in grammar, but something about "Go 1.7 is released" seems wrong to me.
Anyone could tell me if this is an correct usage of grammar?

Edit: Dont know why so many downvote, but it is a honest question.
Seconded; I've been a happy JetBrains customer for like 6 years now, partially because of their awesome support.

I would have expected an intelligent response from them based on my experience, but this is above and beyond even my expectation.
How does one actually see the bug report? What is `rdar://27848317` supposed to open?
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Does it matter that the video is inadmissible? They all saw him do the crime.
Any Canadian developer will tell you the problem is the abysmal pay that Canadian companies offer.

I love my country and would love nothing more than to stay here, but when moving south of the border means a 50% bump, it's hard to stay in Canada.

It doesn't help that most Canadian CEOs talk about the issue as if they're entitled to Canadian graduates working for them without making any attempt at matching US pay packages.
I'll take that action.
Allegedly by video. This is the media that asks us to whitelist them on ad blocks.
What aspect of Facebook's business model is not based on monetizing surveillance?

Sure, it's possible that Thiel has been a silently pushing for pivoting to eg a subscription model or static banner ads. It's just not likely.
Does it? I came away with the impression that they were trying to convey that there seems to be significant anecdotal evidence that Applebaum was a boundary pusher, could be inconsiderate of others and sometimes had a crude sense of humor but that the mix of paranoia, hedonistic excess and nasty power games within this part of the Berlin hacker community, and their habit of avoiding the police and other state institutions, make it very difficult to get beyond the "he said, she said" accusations being thrown around. Maybe he did all or some of the illegal things he is accused of doing and maybe he did none of them. And since nobody wants to go to the police and press charges the whole thing remains in limbo.

The only thing that's definitely true here is that the Applebaum et al. hacker "commune" has gone the way of so many hedonistic leftist/counterculture groups: down the drain.
This was a huge fucking deal in 2014. Just because you were unaware of it doesn't mean that feminists weren't up in arms about it:

- http://valleywag.gawker.com/ceo-who-pled-guilty-to-domestic-...

- https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/26/we-are-dropping-radiumone-...
For certain index funds, Fidelity is now lower than Vanguard. As of a few months ago, their 500 index and total market index funds are 0.045% compared to vanguard at 0.05%.

Not much of a difference, but it was enough to prompt me to shift my auto deposits from one to the other (still have stuff in both).
This thing appears on their social network too: https://www.vica.io/our-story/

What a creepy story
Nice demonstration of smart system design, but the first item on the Australian government's specification would be the use of a private Australia-based system. The bureaucrats who wrote the spec will have limited understanding of data security, and will believe building their own local system costing an order of magnitude more than a cloud-based system must be an order of magnitude more secure.

On a much smaller scale, we provide a school interview booking system used by thousands of Australian schools, built on Appengine. Sadly Queensland's state government has woken up to the fact that the data (names, email addresses and booking times - not hugely sensitive information) is stored overseas, and we're having to jump through all sort of hoops to avoid a blanket ban.

Basically if your customers are not in the US, you'll be well aware of this issue.
Why would I buy two switches when I can solve the problem in general with a consensus algorithm that handles hosts going away for any reason?

Especially since a flaky switch isn't the only issue. Power loss could bring down even redundant backbone switches, but leave communication within the rack going. You could accidentally push a bad routing config and blackhole traffic to a bunch of hosts. You could send out a bad push that intermittently breaks connectivity to some hosts. And so on.
Huh? What's inaccurate about "allegedly"?
What about it seems wrong to you?
haha wow i never knew about this part of the case.

kinda makes this whole thing even more of a shit storm.
I was unfamiliar with the use case that this offers and thought it was a mostly useless replacement or what we already have available.
You are absolutely right. This close to an election, its hard for some people to be charitable in politics.
Who said it is inaccurate? I only pointed out.
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Thank you. You have introduced me to something I can get excited about
Boiling it down, the S&P 500 is the strategy of riding the winners and dumping the losers. Most active investors have the reverse strategy - dumping the winners (locking in profits) and keeping the losers (don't sell at a loss).
Danielle Morrill( https://twitter.com/DanielleMorrill ). Cofounder and CEO of Mattermark ( https://mattermark.com/ ). She is one of the most brilliant founders I can think of, regardless of gender.
Psychopaths are very useful. Surgeons, butchers, salespeople etc. are more likely to be psychopaths.

You don't want a surgeon to have empathy when he's cutting your leg off.

You don't want a butcher to have empathy for animals.

You don't want a salesperson to care about rejections.

You don't want a CEO to be reluctant about laying people off.
Thanks for getting back to me, it's been two weeks now, how long do you think I should give them before I reach out through another channel?
Why do you need to be a feminist to think that anyone who beats anyone 100+ times should rot in jail?
50%?

I'm just shy of 4x.
It's the shiny end, right?
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They were all coding/programming roles. I am not from comp sci, was fresh out of uni and only had limited programming experience. I asked the recruiters why are they extending me the offers at all then?
I have to agree with T-R. Japanese is much easier to read with Kanji. If you run into a kanji you don't know, that's too bad, but I run into words I don't know in English, too. You just look it up. English spelling is just as complicated, in my opinion.
Also, "stop teaching kanji in public schools" is pretty much the same as abolishing kanji.
Why is this interesting? They will have 8 people take different formulations of of TA-64/cycloasrageol to see if those improve bioavailability.

It was "First received: April 4, 2016", with an expected start date of May 2016, but "This study is not yet open for participant recruitment".

Who knows if this study will ever occur.

Some background: anyone can register on clinicaltrials.gov. As a consequence, less than ethical researchers (and frauds and quacks) will register some experimental protocol. Why? Quoting
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/want-... :

> Critics worry that some people seeking to participate in clinical trials may be desperately sick or in pain and vulnerable to requests for money they don’t have. These patients see the “.gov” domain and the NIH imprimatur as stamps of approval that mean the research is legitimate, they say.

> “The average patient and even people in health care . . . kind of let their guard down when they’re in that database. It’s like, ‘If a trial is listed here, it must be okay,’ ” said Paul Knoepfler, an associate professor at the University of California at Davis School of Medicine who writes a blog about stem-cell research. “Most people don’t realize that creeping into that database are some trials whose main goal is to generate profit.”

I am not saying that this trial is in that category. I am saying that the existence of an entry in clinicaltrials.gov is not, on its own, interesting.

Instead, references to it might be going around specifically to hype something beyond its intrinsic value.
I grew up in Vancouver and miss it daily but none of the salaries would allow me to purchase a house anywhere closer than New Westminster. Instead now I live in Sydney, Aus and have the same cost of living but a salary that's scaled appropriately.
>i said outing peter thiel is not illegal. and in fact the supreme court has ruled that reporting facts is permissible. _but_ it is a really shitty thing to out people.

What does this have to do with the case? The case is about a sex tape not outing thiel.
Maybe I'll get there someday :-)

I should have mentioned I'm still a student. I'm sure that for a senior developer, the difference is significantly larger.
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I am 42 years old and own and manage a successful bootstrapped online business. I "grew up" in an IBM community, going from IBMer, then the business partner community, and I haven't been on half this many interviews in my entire career.
A huge factor that I don't see any comments about yet, is the exchange rate. Look at this chart of the USD/CAD in the past 3 years:

http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=USD&to=CAD&view=10Y

A 35-40% swing in the purchasing power of the currency is a pretty big deal.
When I was searching for entry level SWE jobs in Canada in 2011 after abruptly dropping out of grad school, I applied to ~50 positions and interviewed at around a dozen (public+private sector) in Vancouver + Alberta, all paying $50K-$60K.

A year later, Google swooped in with an offer that quintupled my compensation. The thing that struck me about it most was the supposedly-intense Google programmer interviews were actually far less difficult than most of the all-day interviews I did for Canadian institutions. I was a bit outraged that these interviews could be so tough for such meager compensation, especially given the cost of living in Vancouver. I was surprised they were able to get away with it, and it looks like it's starting to bite them in the ass, for which I am glad.

Edit: The specific places I would name, if anyone's curious, are Zymeworks and SAP in Vancouver, as well as staff research positions at UBC, University of Calgary, and the BC Cancer Agency.
Your comment is confusing then. What is the

this is the media that asks us
to whitelist them on ad blocks

statement regarding, if not a misuse of the word "allegedly"?
I'm sure that's true about many, perhaps most gay conservative Christians. But Thiel is demonstrably a smart, capable, and educated person, which makes it all the more impressive that his worldview can apparently accommodate what amounts to wizardry, manifested through a dizzying array of fables whose magical interpretation violate both common sense and Occam's razor to a degree I can hardly begin to express.

I can understand how this system of beliefs could seamlessly cohere in the minds of children or proto-humans. Thiel, and the rare others like him, are harder to fathom.
> When you make a podcast, maximum compatibility is the priority over audio quality and file size. So standard old MP3 it is.

Interesting how the incentives can be different. Stuck without proper broadband and paying for all the precious MBs for a few weeks I made a proxy for downloading/recoding podcasts as VBR on external server to save my data...