skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Meanwhile, there is tremendous potential for abuse and fraud by those giving out the basic jobs. A long running program whose criteria for success is "employ a lot of people at marginally useful things" is a large pile of money just waiting to be spent on making improvements that especially benefit the connected few.

A point well-illustrated, in fiction, in The Green Mile.
> I've never met anyone that has traveled in Africa that would say otherwise.

That could be survivor bias.
Bermuda? Can you provide a reputable source for this? As far as I am aware, Apple does not have any subsidiaries in the Caribbean.
The 21st century has transformed rail again. We'll look back in another 10 years and realize what a difference high-speed rail made to a nation's infrastructure.

The first 12,000 miles are done. Another 12,000 to go...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_China
This is true, and relevant as long as a) you don't need to commute by car (or you have all the time in the world to manage convoluted public transit) and b) you can rely on that same public transit for all the errands you will need to do.

For people outside of select cities, these are far from given in the USA.
> created through corruption and regulatory capture

Who is corrupt, who creates the regulatory capture, and how do the people in a democracy correct that? Or do we just throw up our hands?
https://localvoid.github.io/uibench/

I think Inferno should be fastest in most cases.
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Same in China. The Chinese firewall throttles TCP connections making direct downloads very slow. Not uncommon to have an unbearable slow connection while browsing web pages and then when starting a torrent download, you immediately get 2 Megabytes per second download speeds here.

A tip is to use a tool like axel (https://github.com/eribertomota/axel) to do direct downloads. This will usually speed it up.
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Ronald was Roalds less successful brother though
I'm not sure where you read all of that into OP's comment. I don't read it as there being a moral reason, I read it as them thinking they have better things to do right now than to seek or even entertain finding offers. Taking other people's money is a total pain in the rear, and worth avoiding if you can build the company you want to build without it.
For someone who has a very limited sense of blockchain, it was very difficult for me to understand the idea of Dot. Would be kind enough to explain what exactly is it that Dot is trying to do, in a layman sense.

Cheers.
What's considered a medium town in Poland? I was checking out housing in my dad's hometown in Serbia, and it's like a shitty agricultural town pretty far from anything notable with a population of ~12,000 and a place was still like $40,000-50,000CAD.
Did a 2 year trip with wife and daughter (2-4yr) from UK to Malaysia to California to south America.

Met a few other families (usually German, swiss) along the way. Craziest being English family with 3 daughters 11,9,7 in a VW t3 / vanagon.

The trip was great but couldn't do it permantly.
Can confirm. Was crashing in my van around Palo Alto outside of Social Capital's office for a bit. I wrote a few articles about them: https://medium.com/@sinkorswim/one-free-night-425196d2e2fc#....

I basically founded my entire new startup and team while homeless. It sucked sometimes, but it was an experience. Would I recommend it to everyone? Probably not hahah, but if you're brave enough you should try it at least once. :)
The few employees left at WrkRiot are constituted primarily by Chinese developers being exploited, as well as the almost-exclusively Korean clique surrounding Isaac Choi.

The CTO, Al Brown, posted a thread here mostly corroborating Penny Kim's story. Al Brown noted that attempts to investigate CEO Isaac Choi's background story were utterly fruitless. Al Brown also cutely noted that Isaac Choi has a "real" lawyer somewhere as an indirect reference to the fake lawyer and law firm posted on the photoshopped Wells Fargo wire transfer receipts.

There were many Wells Fargo wire transfer receipts, each individually faked for the respective employee. The then-intern initially expressed skepticism over details of the wire transfer receipt, and upon checking Wells Fargo's current site, red flags were discovered. That spurred some Googling which discovered the original source image for the Wells Fargo forged documents. This culminated in an explosive moment at the office where a young intern was furiously and very visibly (it's a small office) yelling at CEO Isaac Choi for what looked like incompetently forged Wells Fargo receipts.

Al Brown may or may not have made mistakes with regards to mismanagement of product features and hiring and management for the front-end team, but his skill and professionalism was broadly recognized by other developers in the office, and Al Brown staying on board as long as he did brought a lot of faith to the product.

And now WrkRiot is engaged in legal intimidation.
The Bermuda connection is explained in the wiki link I cited.
You're being downvoted for the unhelpful 'redneck startups?' comment, but I am actually curious what the cause of that large circle is! There is no city right there. (Although amusingly, not too far away are places named Mountain View and Manila, both of whose namesakes house a lot of developers.)

Update: I took a look at the source for this Qwartz story, and their graphic doesn't show that interesting circle. There's nothing at that tri-state intersection. Screen shot: https://d17oy1vhnax1f7.cloudfront.net/items/3A2K1v1v3U2t0E2k...
I can really relate to him throwing most of his precious stuff out. My life turned upside down a few months ago. Now all I have is a backpack with a laptop and some essentials and Airbnb life as it comes. I've never been happier.

Owning things obeys something similar to Newton's 3rd law. They also end up owning you. They need constant care, attention and maintenance. I'm not saying this the right way to live, but do give it a try if you've been thinking about it.
Colorado's circles for Boulder, Ft. Collins, and Denver are smaller than we'd expect, so maybe they got shoved in the northwest corner.

--edit: I just saw alanh's sibling comment. They moved Denver!
How realistic do you think it is to add to the protocol? I've played with it some and it can be great for what it has, but I want just a little bit more... like a way to view user-generated events. I'm debating whether to play with an extension, or with the protocol itself.
According to the HN front page, it takes 60 days for most people to form a habit.
"The meetings will continue until moral improves."
For one, I've never seen the telepathy be interfered with by other electromagnetic radiation or anyone build a faraday cage to limit the communication. Telepathy goes right through the deflector shield in star trek.
Posted 5 minutes earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12386296
Amend: I meant internal fragmentation, and not external fragmentation (allocated hash buckets left empty after deleting elements)
That doesn't disprove that they are, in fact, NOT shooting themselves in the foot
A quick Wikipedia search says the whole Bay Area accounts for about 2% of the population of the US, and Silicon Valley itself a little over 1% (7.65MM & 3.5-4MM total, out of 324MM).
Very interesting! I'll definitely be buying a copy of that with one of my next pay checks.
My attempt at simplifying (a subset of) regexes:

https://github.com/crdoconnor/simex
Rural communities spend more carbon than city communities. Basically they drive farther. Also less people live in apartment buildings which are more efficient to cool/heat because of shared walls.
It's not "my" library, that's how it was defined in the article (Part II).
I agree, I'd love an Adobe Lightroom plugin that extends a second screen image preview through Google Cast

My TVs are typically much larger and at a different aspect ratio than my monitor

But unfortunately, there's no SDK or API to even begin considering this sort of thing

No desktop apps are able to get it
Thanks for the suggestion,it looks commercial, do you know any open source tools ?
Greek? He says he is Armenian.
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned GitKraken yet (gitkraken.com). Cross-platform and beautiful. Edit: oh and free!
The source for this story reports that 89% of software devs work outside the Valley. 89%. Apparently Qwartz didn't find that number punchy enough.

But yeah, 11% of US software devs live in SV? That is remarkable, although not surprising.

http://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=b1c59...
Deep learning program to generate image from text https://github.com/paarthneekhara/text-to-image.

Art and music generation using tensorflow https://github.com/tensorflow/magenta.

I think the technology is already there, all we need is lots of training examples.
> that will be thrown out on
> appeal to the European
> courts, mark my words

And if it's not, you'll accept it's not bullshit, or?
Yep, I'm in a similar situation, except I have a house, mortgage, etc.

Honestly, I prefer the minivan. The house, stuff, and 10K sq feet of maintenance nightmare is such a PITA.

I will say though, shell out a little bit more :) 1500 is a bit tooo cheap and undermines your stealth.
I was expecting this to be about the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant[1]. They're disposing of radioactive waste from weapons production there, and it will remain dangerous for 10000 years.

It happens to be in the Permian Basin, which has deposits of oil and gas. Also, the area has salt and potash that can be mined. WIPP itself is in salt. So there will almost certainly be people digging for one reason or another in that time.

The problem is how to place a message that will be understood as a warning to humans over that long of a time scale. The last thing you want is future archaeologists digging there because they think it is a tomb or monument.

Gregory Benford also talks about it (and some other interesting topics related to communicating over long time intervals) in his book Deep Time[2]. It's an interesting read.

[1] http://www.wipp.energy.gov/picsprog/articles/wipp%20exhibit%...

[2] https://smile.amazon.com/Deep-Time-Humanity-Communicates-Mil...
I never said I didn't appreciate it but context also matters. Tactics matter, I agree, but so do intentions. Russia has more to lose than America has to gain. If Ukraine joins NATO, Russian then borders NATO. Ukraine is essentially their queen on the European front. There would be no Ukraine crisis if we hadn't courted ex-Warsaw pact countries into NATO in the first place. You need to appreciate that, unless you think Russia should be destroyed. I'm an advocate for peace and balance so we would subjectively disagree at that juncture.

There is a reason we gave Poland to Russia after WW2. Buffer countries ease tensions between superpowers.
We definitely should not throw up our hands! But one of the first steps in fixing the problem is to convince more people that there actually is a problem, and that it is not bad or hypocritical to oppose the use of tax loopholes. That's why I bristle whenever that quote shows up here; it's a deliberate effort to convince people that there's not even a problem. Hacker News seems to have no problem understanding that "legality != morality" when it comes to drugs, so I don't understand why it's so much harder to grasp re: taxation.
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> Apple is abusing legal
> loopholes

Which they have a legal obligation to do, or be sued by shareholders, right?
For another absolutely stunning van build, check out this one: https://imgur.com/a/RijZM

If you see only one photo, it should be this one: https://i.imgur.com/kTtWZ3f.jpg
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I wondered the same thing, even tried Googling his height. I think it's partly exaggerated by a somewhat-wide lens, and the two flankers leaning back in their chairs while he leans forward (nearer objects being represented as larger).

Also, he's probably huge.
Unlike a regex string, using incorrect syntax with a parser combinator generally results in a syntax error. Regex parsers generally treat "unknown" characters as characters to match, hiding bugs.
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I also know Python, Go and Rust, but I only use them for tinkering and experiments. I'd still use JS+CSS+HTML via Electron for a GUI app over traditional systems languages any day of the week.
There's Malta, too
For an open source alternative, remember there's also the forked version of GitX:

https://rowanj.github.io/gitx/
There's an MIT CS assignment that goes along with exactly what you are saying: "Regexp Disaster" by Gerald Sussman. It's a good read for those that want to learn more about the combinator approach.

https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6.945/psets/ps01/...
What an absolute dick move to fire the employees without telling them in advance.
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I like the EU slowly becoming a friendly and peaceful counterpoint to the US. Two democratic superpowers of about the same size is better than one.
Some basic Googling https://www.quora.com/What-great-companies-did-not-raise-ven...

https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-197e2d2c5a20d31682ea09...

Apparently Dell had no external capital
Here's a command line client I wrote:

https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt
Pretty sure parent has heard of those situations since he explained why this wasn't one of them.
This world isn't the 80s and 90s dystopia I craved. This is far worse.
Everyone is focus on the wrong point. Anyone could help those poor Chinese kids to get a job? They might have to go back to China
Having to fake a smile to feel slightly happy is fairly depressing to me.
Thanks for clearing that up. I'm catching up on the other discussion now : )
I did touch it; I stated that it doesn't matter what the international community things.

"Foo did something wrong."

"Bar did the wrong thing as well."

"So what, Quz, Qid and Qaz agree that Foo did something wrong."

It doesn't matter what Quz, Qid and Qaz think. Plurality does not justify propaganda.
In short: an old server running un-updated software was broken into not once but at least four times since the start of the year.

The post describes some steps the author took to investigate and block the attack. It's an entertaining reading, but I'd strongly advise against trying this at home: it is not worth the risk. Reinstalling the system from scratch instead would have been much more prudent.
You might want to check on the price of weed vs rent in a typical city. The brother is unlikely to forgo the weed if doing so just means he's sleeping in the streets sober instead of high.
Denver was a hive of software startup activity back in 90s. I flew in there to look at a company in 1992 o behalf of my employer (Geac at that time, based in Markham, Ontario, I was based at a subsdiary FACT in New Zealand). My lasting impression however was Freddy Fudpuckers. Hilarious name and hilarious food. Anyway I digress .... for those just out of kindergarten you would be excused for thinking startups are a new idea. For those of us with decades of creating new bugs, we have seen the locations for startups move around depending on tax policy, cost of living, and being close to a major innovator (Austin Tx = IBM and NASA as an example).

My 2c.
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Anyone can help those POOR Chinese kids. They might have to go back to China because of this.
Poland does not require visas for US citizens (even though US requires visas for polish citizens).

As for working you could just incorporate. It costs maybe 30$ and most hacker-type polish friends can help you with that. Later it costs $250 per month to own a company (mostly social security fees and health insurance, not sure if this is obligatory for foreigners but probably yes, plus service to help you deal with paperwork).
My assessment of the USA as being an Oligarchy is in good company[0]; feel free to google further.

0: http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FPPS%2FPPS...
Ugh, can't we just use the Unix epoch? Time's already too difficult to program.
I think the quote is used to point out that Apple did nothing (legally) wrong by following the existing law. It seems to be appropriate.

Do I think corporations should be paying more in taxes? Sure. But Learned Hand's point is still worth considering, especially in a climate where many think everyone should pay more taxes.

I say, OK, you first. There's a line on the tax form where you can voluntarily pay more. Put your money where your mouth is, I say.
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Well, what are your goals?
And I think SRE is a good middle ground. Plus, you can use paredit on it.
Zero in and zero out.
That Wikipedia article describes the general strategy of the "double Irish arrangement" as employed by many multinational corporations, but does not actually describe Apple's international corporate structure specifically, and to the extent that it mentions Apple, is actually rather misleading.

I'm just going to go ahead and state, as a matter of fact, that Apple does not have any subsidiaries in Bermuda or any other Caribbean country, and anyone who believes otherwise is mistaken. Apple's international tax structure was thoroughly documented when they were called up to testify before the Senate, which you can read about in the Senate Subcommittee Memo on Offshore Profit Shifting and Apple[1], and while they do have several Irish subsidiaries, they do not have any subsidiaries in the Caribbean or move any money into the Caribbean.

This is further reinforced in Apple's testimony before the Senate[2]:

> Apple does not move its intellectual property into offshore tax havens and use it to sell products back into the US in order to avoid US tax; it does not use revolving loans from foreign subsidiaries to fund its domestic operations; it does not hold money on a Caribbean island; and it does not have a bank account in the Cayman Islands. Apple has substantial foreign cash because it sells the majority of its products outside the US. International operations accounted for 61% of Apple’s revenue last year and two-thirds of its revenue last quarter. These foreign earnings are taxed in the jurisdiction where they are earned (“foreign, post-tax income”).

[1] http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/download/?id=CDE3652B-DA4E-4EE1-...

[2] https://www.apple.com/pr/pdf/Apple_Testimony_to_PSI.pdf
I think you're right. The source for the story, on arcgis.com, seems to have updated maps that don't show the odd circle, and Colorado displays with a bigger circle right on Denver. I think for some reason Denver was rendered at (0,0) within Colorado's boundaries in the screen shot Qwartz used.
The facts are what happened, not an interpretation of what happened.
The only thing you demonstrated is that you read what you want to read. I said my attitude is equal regarding Christians.

And that you haven't learned correlation vs causation. And are extremely prejudiced.
Something that has worked for me is 5000 IU of Vitamin D. I do not seem to suffer from any Vitamin D absorption issues, nor am I (any longer) overweight, and I try to get sufficient sunlight (although I live in the north).

On top of that, walking about 5 miles a day also has its own benefits that stack well with Vitamin D usage.
I work out you have an '81 T3/T2.5/vanagon (depending where you are). Got a 1.6 diesel '88 and have to put it in 2nd to get up some hills lol.
I have 4153 karma and have been an active Hackernews member for over 5 years, so I feel like I have a decent amount of insight into general patterns I see in the community. I'm aware that HN is super diverse and people have different backgrounds and viewpoints, which is one reason why I like HN over other technical communities.

That said if I was to treat HN comments as a hivemind and generalize I'd say overall HN leans negative on the game industry. There is a lot of truth in these views but people tend to generalize towards "all game programmers are underpaid and over worked and should work on business CRUD apps" and not look at individual cases of motivations, success or failure. This is both stereotyping and anecdotal but I see it in game industry related threads time and time again. I wasn't trying to sound smarter than the community, I'm sorry if I came off that way.
This. I can't really tell how much time of doing "git commit -p" GitX has saved me. It's a much easier way to visualize, stage and group changes into commits when you've made a bunch of unrelated changes.
And super slow and lacking basic GUI functionality like multiple file selection and individual line staging.
You're not gonna change your comp with a benchmark. You're gonna change your comp with a simple 3 step plan:

1 - get a new job

2 - quit

3 - see how indispensable your ex-ceo sees you as now
How are you supposed to figure out the morality of something when there are hundreds of pages of very special case rules for how to follow the tax law?
$30K bought me a studio apartment near the center of a city with over 700K people.

I'd say that medium town is from 50K to 200K people. Above that I'd call them cities but I don't think those are strict terms.

Here's a list of polish towns and cities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_and_towns_in_Po...
Taxes are evil. Taxes are theft.

Or not.

You're not going to change behavior by moralizing to people who consider what you think is moral to in fact be immoral, or who at least are amoral about the whole manner as corporations tend to be. Since we can't seem to agree on the moral issues of taxes, all that's left is the reality of law, and the incentives of the law. It's posturing to think we can solve the matter by any other means than top-down legislation and enforcement, if indeed there is a problem to solve. (Corporations and individuals both have many arguments for why they are paying enough taxes already thank you.)
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Considering the amount of code written out there for emacs making the original scripting language a second class citizen would be an enormous undertaking. Most other languages have taken years to convince people to upgrade (Python, Perl.. ) . I really don't think having elisp as a second class citizen would happen anytime soon.
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We (the Hyperscan team) have spent a lot of time staring at regular expressions over the years (shameless plug: https://github.com/01org/hyperscan).

I think a better format for regex is long overdue, but this isn't it. It's way too verbose (other commentators also noticed the resemblance to COBOL). I'm picturing a Snort/Suricata rule with this format regex, and you've now doubled the amount of screen real estate per rule.

The real problems with regex readability are (1) the lack of easily grasped structure, so it's almost impossible to spot the level at which a sequence or alternation operates (PCRE's extended format and creative tabbing can help) and (2) the total lack of abstraction - so if you have a favorite character class or subregex you write it approximately a bazillion times.