skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I have read on Kim's blog and other articles, this appears to be more a case of the CEO Choi being an immature and incompetent individual who started out to earn some big bucks but couldn't handle failures and ended up creating one fraud after another. To me it doesnt look like he started the company with the intention of committing some grand scam.
Yes but instead of booking an available room or cubicle, everyone gets their own. Sort of like a dorm room but just a desk and a small closet/locker? Just brainstorming ideas. I was talking to someone about what college libraries can do to stay relevant in fields like computer science...
In [2]: u"\u000A\u002F\u002A"
Out[2]: u'\n/*'

It appears java will interpret the inline escaped unicode, which is hiding a block comment.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4448180/why-does-java-per...
> Lawlessness, scams, and dishonesty are endemic in this area.

And homelessness. I was disappointed to see hundreds of helpless homeless people, some in horrible mental state, right there on streets in the middle of huge ivory towers that SV thumps its chest on. It's such a shame!

And with young kids coming out of those glass doors flashing gadgets and gizmos at each other, with that certain bay area flair … I mean the collective blindness of the place felt only surreal.

It's a personal thing but I guess my family will never be at home in the bay area.
Why would they not be able to come back? Just build their bodies back up. Or keep them in shape to begin with.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Dropbox's bug bounty program: https://hackerone.com/dropbox

You have to wonder if all those grumbling whitehats were on to something when they said bug bounties should pay a lot more than what they do and that there IS a black market interest for them.
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Sure, but (I don't know if you saw it before he wiped his profile) it was puffed up wa-aaaaaay more than that. He'd have been lying somewhere.
How do you deal with websites that won't let you use >8char or certain characters?

I use this same method, but my method will often generate special characters, and AWS as an example, and several others (apparently following AWS' lead) won't let you use those. (Any punctuation not on the shift-numbers row of USA keyboards are not considered legit for password use)

I still mostly use this system, and given my lucky memory I can memorise the exceptions, but I doubt a vast majority of the population could follow my example.
Check out https://geltbox.com

With it you can basically create financial scrapers by just browsing the web. No API in the meantime but works just fine.
This is awkward for me in public as well, but I found that the only way to get any (light) work done on days when I'm also taking care of my baby at home, is by dictating. Suddenly I can reply to emails and quick asks from coworkers, and still be present.
As an aside, I use 9-key swipe input for Japanese and it's really great once you're used to it. I feel like there's still some way to input English we haven't found yet which really suits the language..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClDenxOxeeM
The Autobahn does fine with very varied speeds.
Is like trying to help your drug addict friend get better. No matter what you do if they don't help themselves it is a lost cause. Eventually you just have to keep going with your life and wish them well.
> What actually exists in computing is procedures

You can't free yourself from thinking in terms of languages :) Not a single one of the machine models -- TM, RAM, neural networks, DNA, digital circuits, quantum computers -- has a concept of a procedure. Procedures are language constructs. Whether you choose to compile Pascal or Haskell to x86 machine code is up to you, but in either case there would be a complexity price to pay.

Machine models take bits and they compute bits, period. Like an apple that falls, they just do they're thing. If a person then wants to say, hmm, that apple's path describes an integral of acceleration, or I will assign the input and output bits mathematical objects, and say that the mapping is a function -- they're welcome to do it, but it's not what the computation does.

> A meaningless symbol might as well never have been computed at all.

Everyone agrees on that. But an apple that falls without Newton to grasp its meaning still falls, and a machine still computes. For meaning you have to pay real, measurable complexity. It therefore doesn't make any sense to compare a model that pays that price with one that doesn't.
This reminds me of my last job, where the karma gods smiled upon me and not so much for another guy.

I've always written my resume somewhat uniquely for SEO[1] and happen to work quite heavily in the Linux space. At the time several years ago, my resume was on the first or second page google search results for something along the lines of "linux system administrator" and variations.

The stars must have aligned as some poor schmuck thought he'd spruce up his resume by copy & pasting lines verbatim from the first 4-5 good Linux resumes he found via google. Unfortunately for him, one of them was mine. Also unfortunately for him, I'm known as a very technical interviewer that doesn't take any bs.

So besides the fact he wasn't qualified from a technical perspective for this position, I decided to see what he'd do. I stopped him mid interview and pulled up my resume on my phone. I handed it to him and asked him to read a few lines. Then I asked him to read a few lines that were verbatim from his resume. His face lost all color and he shuddered. There is simply no way I was buying that he and I both came up with the following 3 lines in a row:

* Re-implemented the global dns/ldap setup for higher availability. Used keepalived for auto-failover
* High performance computing, benchmarking, and kernel tuning. Constant review of upstream kernel activity
* Maintenance and engineering on a from scratch Linux distribution in support of high volume electronic trading

Amongst two or three additional ones, it was too much of a cooincidence. He swore that the recruiter had doctored his resume and that the recruiter was a liar. I gave him a shot at doing tech for the rest of the interview. However, I turned it up to 11 and was visibly agitated at this point that he'd stolen from my work trying to market myself. Now I'm normally extremely friendly in interviews, but teched him so hard it hurt my brain. He failed miserably.

We told his recruiter the story and said if it was true we were going to immediately stop doing business with that recruiter and his company. He quickly and happily forwarded us every single email from that candidate clearly showing they'd done nothing other than rearrange the styling and put their awful logo on it. The recruiter decided to stop working with this candidate as well.

Moral of the story: Don't steal people's resume, they work hard making it and that is dishonest. Don't lie to technical people about your technical skills. It will ruin your future career prospects.

[1] http://www.digitalprognosis.com/resume.htm
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well, there are variations of the problem. some people ask candidates to print the number, some ask to print empty string, etc. I'm just used to the latter.
My biggest concern would be ending up with a crazy cap table. When a crowd SAFE converts does the entity stay consolidated?
you should look at the code again.
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you leave the interview and say you're not interested in the company anymore :P
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Despair not my friend.

To criticize something as useless and unimportant is a value judgement. How you arrive at those values is what the humanities is all about. Tech and science can't do an end-run around the humanities because whilst their domains overlap (somewhat) their methods and materials differ.

> I'm so disappointed in how deeply they've lost their way.

No. No they haven't. See my reply to you above. The more you repeat phrases like this the more I'm going to believe that part of your identity is invested in this world-view. It's a brutally pessimistic one, and it rests on the prongs of a false dichotomy.

> they're my tribe

I'm in the humanities and I'm not your tribe.
Just simply having interrupts will mess with a hard real time processes. Total sketchtastic, some modern processors have background stuff that takes control every so often.
Turing personally addressed the question of analog computation and determined that they add nothing over discrete machines, as discrete computers can compute anything an analog computer would do to the desired precision that matters to you. He even discussed the subject in his 1936 paper, when he introduced his model. He wrote that eventually one would need to distinguish between two states, and so a model where states can be arbitrarily indistinguishable adds nothing, so you may as well discretize. When he wrote about the operation of the brain he said that it shouldn't matter if the brain is continuous or discrete; its operation could be simulated to arbitrary precision by a discrete process. He did wonder about quantum effects, though (he understood quantum entanglement when he was 16, Hodges writes).
It turns out that living in SF or Palo Alto is a big part of their recruiting pitch, believe it or not. The social signaling of saying you work in SoMa means so much in materialistic Bay Area social life.

Nobody wants to work for a startup in Gilroy...
Academia is feudal and thus no answer to this is about to become widely accepted. :(
We have now heard one story from one person and read corroboration of that story from a professional news organization along with some new information in the form of interviews and requests for comment from the principals involved. That isn't "doxxing", it's news.

I use both LinkedIn and HN quite a lot and don't really see what you mean about the capital/ labor split between the sites, for what it's worth.
Proper title: A Silicon Valley Dream Collapses in Allegations of Fraud.
Oh hey look, a single-threaded runtime running a callback-oriented language performs poorly. how surprising.
How is Jarvis AI?
> It is said that it was not until 2001 when the first website to adapt to the size of the browser, Audi.com, launched. It was called “responsive web design” because it was designed to respond to the changing screen sizes being introduced to the Web at that time.

All websites were responsive until we started doing things like using tables for layout.
"Fake it 'til you make it" is more about pretending to have confidence before you really have it and less about falsifying your past in a way that's easy for someone to fact check.
Agreed! Although it may take a long time to get there...
Gold rushes bring in the fraudsters. @honkhonkpants response, I take it tongue in cheek. Born and raised here. There is a lot of good that does happen, the Valley used to be more balanced (tech, manufacturing, ag, etc)...

In the 10+ companies I've been at, I could see one as having been fraudulent, that was mostly at the non-founder level pushing work overseas for kickbacks. His career has since stalled.

When things are easy and fast and loose, study the gold rush or any other similar history, these things will happen. Today, it's sad that those backing people like this don't use all the tools at their disposal to do deep do diligence. It seems like if you tell the right story, have people skills, and the surface isn't scratched, you can end up with a seed round that isn't warranted.
Spaces or Tabs?
I think its just my feed of subscribing to terrible people :(
> Equity > GDP as a return to risk would require you to be able to "invest in GDP" in a relatively variance-free way

Technically no, it just requires one to be able to construct a basket that approximately returns GDP growth (along with GDP variance).

Note that total returns to equity include dividends, so you can easily have equity give outsize returns without total market cap approaching 100% of assets.
The reigning ethos in SV is something very close to nihilism, but we do believe in one thing: property. A homeless or insane person has been assigned a near-zero value by markets and is therefore to be ignored. When the only thing you recognize is the exchange of goods and money, how can you assign any value to a person having neither?
> There is no guarantee that higher risk leads to higher returns. It's not like the stock market says "We should keep up increasing stock prices so that equity investors are being compensated for their risk."

The mechanism is much simpler: asset prices of risky assets today will fall because willing buyers demand a higher return for the risk.

E.g. you have a stock and a bond both at $100 with the same expected return. Investors aren't happy with that, so they refuse to buy the stock until its price falls and its implied return rises.
Ask HN: What problems are solved best with Haskell?
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Alternatively, you can use Python in RMarkdown with the same syntax.
Damn, after only a paragraph I was hit with the anti-ad-blocker message. Now I'll never finish that article.
hey cool, a Perthian :-)
1)How to filter out good ideas?

2)What work/jobs will teenagers of today will be doing in the future?

3)College degree is deemed crucial in India, how important will it be in years to come? Both for hiring people and maybe for getting hired by some company.
Here's where I stand on this:

Without the opportunity I was given to serve as one of those "Laborer of Academia" during my time, I'd still be paying student loans.

Three years of grad school and I didn't owe a dime at the end.
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A lot of the time, a university will raise money for the stadium via private money and revenue bonds. So none of your tuition goes to funding the stadium, although the university likely doesn't profit.

Real estate and businesses have a vibrant financial market, so you don't necessarily need large figures to participate. You're not going to raise $100 million in revenue bonds for a professor to study sea slugs, because there isn't any revenue.

University administrators do not have the power to make investors fund sea slugs over stadiums. If you can convince the nation's pension funds, hedge funds, and private investors to somehow buy science bonds rather than revenue bonds, then the administrators would stop buying stadiums and start hiring sea slug researchers.

I would tend to agree that the money might be better spent on building up dormitory or apartment housing for students rather than stadiums, if the revenue and costs were equal. But I'd need to look at the financials.
"You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should"
Unfortunately, I don't have any good ideas there. It seems to me that emulating the IR sensor trigger for a mid-right or mid-left touch is the first approach I would try. My next attempt would comprise of adding a cheap device to the USB port and look into writing a driver to interact with it. Mobileread.com/forums has an active Kobo forum and I suspect they might be able to help better.
Things to be taken care of while incorporating your company
Not that its an excuse, but don't all large cities have homeless or poor people?
I want to do the cool things there with there, but I'm glad I'm not there.
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To your first question, I think the easiest is to upload to FB, or Theta360 (the makers of the popular cameras, e.g. https://theta360.com/s/dAKje30mhbrEIpEcWC3Hs4YzY) or youtube and then use each site's "embed" feature
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I am not familiar with the industry at all, but my understanding was that there weren't enough programmers to fill the demand. So it turns out to be the exact opposite?
What the hell? Did I read the same book as everyone else? I read Everett's Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle to be a recounting of his apostasy. How his faith crumbled in the face of his inability to do his missionary work. His work was to translate the bible into the Pirahã's language so they could be saved. He found that their world-view precluded this because they essentially don't give credence to hearsay (though of course they have all sorts of superstitions).

By way of example. If you are a Pirahã dude and you meet someone and they report that a volcano exploded you will believe them if they saw it with their own eyes. You'll believe them slightly less if it is second-hand knowledge, that that someone heard it from someone else. Not into gossip are our Pirahã! But after that all bets are off. So to believe the reports of 1st century AD writers, many many times removed, not a chance. If I remember correctly their epistemology has visible syntactic features in their language, that's how embedded in their thought it is.

So I read Everett's book as religion-questioning tale. His marriage broke down because of his apostasy as he tells it.

I do not remember anything about recursion and universal grammar and a take-down of Chomsky. Religion is an easier target than Chomsky, sure we all know that -- Everett would have to mad to attempt that.
Content advisory: I talk about my experiences with suicide below. If you're thinking about suicide, please get help by talking to a friend or making use of the many suicide prevention resources out there.

I'm male and I almost committed suicide earlier this year. (I still have suicidal thoughts, but I'm doing mostly better now, and I'm getting plenty of professional help.)

This is anecdotal speculation, but I wonder if another contributor to the gender discrepancy is that men are more likely to deal with compulsions and other "demons", and thus are more likely to want to kill themselves out of shame. That's sort of a vague and hard-to-measure claim, but I think it's pretty well-established that testosterone increases risk-taking behavior, and I imagine that includes addictions/compulsions as well.

In my case, I am/was a sex addict (or sexual addict) and I had been fighting for years with compulsions that caused me to mistreat women, even friends who I deeply cared about. I did feel deep shame and emotional self-hate, but my decision to commit suicide didn't happen due to overwhelming emotion, it was a (mostly) calm and solid decision that my situation was hopeless and that my death would make the world a better place. When I was making plans, my main focus was to make sure that I would actually die, and I had plenty of time to work through the details. I ended up changing my mind at the last minute, but I just as easily could have gone through with it.

I don't really know how common my type of situation is, but it's at least one example of a reason for suicide that I believe affects men much more than women.

That said, I believe I've heard that suicide is most commonly caused by depression rather than shame or other factors, but I don't know how reliable those findings are. It seems like something that's potentially hard to measure. At the very least, it would be interesting to try to explore how the motivation for suicide varies across genders.
Previous generations remember where they were for the Moon landing, just as I'll always remember where I was for the first successful Falcon 9 first stage return.
"If they don't help themselves it is a lost cause". In a country where socialism is not a dirty word, this is not necessarily true at all.
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Spotted the guy who's never been to downtown San Francisco ;)

It is an order of magnitude worse there than just about anywhere else I've been (and I have traveled a lot)
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Show HN: Remote debug and live update tool for Unity
Found this while Wikipedia-ing the history of HBO. Ended up learning some interesting stuff about satellite broadcasts and the history of TV service payment models—arbitrary, I know, but enlightening nonetheless. Enjoy!
This is a tool that I'm selling on the Unity asset store. It's a live update tool for builds that have been deployed to a device (e.g. phone, HoloLens etc). It's mostly transparent; it uses reflection to find all public fields and private fields marked up with SerializeField on all components of GameObjects in a scene. It serialises all that data and sends it back to the client running in Unity. Any changes you make in the tool in Unity are sent back to the server and committed to the GameObjects.

I actually think this sort of feature should be built in to Unity; a lot of AAA engines have things like this. It's really handy for debugging issues that only happen on device or for tweaking settings like UI layout on device. Deploying to some platforms like iOS and HoloLens can be time consuming when you just want to tweak something, because you have to build out to an Xcode or Visual Studio project, build the project, package/archive, and then deploy to the device.

Happy to answer any questions here!
A student can buy into a group insurance plan, whereas a contract worker cannot.
Could you please explain what's so special about Halide?
BTW, I didn't downvote you.

I think you are splitting hairs here on rape. OK, 8 years average conviction on rape, if the victim pursues it. Still 8 years with possible time off for good behavior on a very violent crime vs. Selling LSD -> life sentence. I still fail to see aside from the law how you think the punishment is in proportion to the actions, which was the point I was trying to convey.
Yes. I forgot about xxHash :). I think it was created as part of checksumming on LZ4 (not entirely sure). That is another amazing part of his work. He is producing this things xxHash, FSE, Huff0 that are state of the art projects in their own right for his state of the art compression algorithm making sure others can benefit the most from his work without reinventing it. At the same time he is also blogging his though process and experiment in a manner that even a layman like me gets the gist of for most part. Now whether its useful enough for an expert in the field I can't say.

There is a lot of other gem in his blog. He points to resources and other people he have worked with making it much easier to get a bigger picture on the related items.
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Do you find that this is because you like them but they don't fit well? This became a very apparent category of clothing once I started consistently working out.
They will eventually.

And then they won't.

And then they will again.
I stayed in SF for a couple weeks when I interned at a startup.

I live in Toronto, we have homeless people here too. So I guess the only real way to solve this is with data?
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This is often called a "polyglot" program, if you're interested in finding more examples.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot_(computing)
This supposed lie is so easy to disprove. If a single person brought forward their receipt, it'd be a lie.

But in a year, no one has. So it's almost certainly not a lie.
FedEx is both an established airline AND one of the most trusted logistics companies on the planet. So Amazon can beat them when they can do this on demand:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-qPtWc4heA

For brevity: the above purports to show a time lapse of FedEx's fleet of DC-10s, Airbus A310s etc - packed with fuel, valuables and people - scrambling for the Memphis, TN hub and hooking in handily around a massive angry thunderstorm.

It looks like a perfectly organized, well timed dance - with incredibly high stakes.

edit: clarity.
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I use splits often in Emacs, and I am wondering whether there are browsers that can split within the browser. That would be much more effective!
SV is all flash, no soul.
Are there not feeds that already collect this data? I was just listening to a podcast that described something similar from Nanex called NxCore.
It is on Slackware, at least! :)