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The above comment seems to be rubbing some people the wrong way. I'm honestly stumped as to which parts are disagreeable and I'd listen and appreciate any further feedback, especially if I was accidentally offensive. My one any only goal was to contribute positively to the discussion.
> all have their prices set to 123.47

Which is what you'd get if the price was 123.456789... and rounded to two decimal places.
I considered this platform innovative, but I must say like someone stated above that most of the comments here have no clue about what we will see in the next year.
The evolution of venture capital. The future of finance.
And most of users at HN just see all of this as a scam.

The money raised will be invested and you will see then the result of the investment.

It's funny how people think about the future looking at the past.
>>> Can AI Write Pop Songs?

Doesn't matter. There is no value in the songs, they are easy to write and many are written in a day with the premise of becoming the next pop song.

Pop is about distribution and marketing. Control it and your songs will be the next thing played everywhere.
Not OP, but as a Python developer with interests elsewhere, I'm very productive in modern C# with ASP.NET Core MVC. (And I can write it on a Mac and deploy on Linux, too!)
That only happens with a handful of words: those that 1) are feminine and 2) their first syllable begins with an "a" and 3) their first syllable is stressed.

It's similar to English which uses "an" instead of "a", but it happens very very very rarely.

(Needless to say, "águila" and "ala" ARE feminine nouns, what's changing here is the determiner so the two a's don't clash, not the gender of the nouns)
Bloomberg[0] is showing the same thing, so if it's a data glitch it's not limited to just Google Finance.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/AMZN:US
While I agree this article is pretty bad, why is it disappearing from the front page so fast? It's being upvoted pretty quickly. @dang is adamant that they don't punish articles that are negative towards Y Combinator, and I don't see it as flagged yet, so I'm curious.
This is a pet peeve of mine, and makes me want to scream every time I see some click bait about how much better roman concrete was. If their concrete was so great, where are the ruins of the toman skyscrapers?!? :)
The biggest issue I see with the goo metaphor, is that it seems to suggest some sort of stationary ether that we move through as we move through space. That is to say, the mathaphor suggests that it makes sense to differentiate between stationary objects and moving objects in an objective sense. However, the core insight of relativity is that there is no such distinction.
Hah, no problem. I'm just glad I'm not having some kind of vocabulary-related stroke ;)
Plausible, but wouldn't it be 123.46?
Galois theory without functor... Without fundamental theorem of algebra. Are you kidding?
Pando is trying to present action against Pando as being because Pando reveals sexism amongst VCs (which it does) rather than because it's a muckraking gossip mag (which it is too).

It's possible to dislike Pando without supporting sexism and there are many reasons why one would do so.
It's even worse as an old sysadmin, since my Groundhog Day permeates almost every part of the organization.. and I've learned to avert my eyes from the code itself and leave that nightmare to the Old Programmers.

Not that any of this is surprising, since the lessons of the semiconductor boom and bust weren't put to adequate use during the dot-com boom and bust, so whatever new lessons we learned then still aren't being put to use.

Since being in what is, fundamentally, a support profession, the most I can do is play along. That means, sadly, as another commenter admitted of himself, I'm in on it.
Here's the first paragraph. Makes the context and outfall more apparent:

If CenturyLink is allowed to buy Level 3, then California will lose a major source of dark fiber. That’s my reading of a settlement agreement between CenturyLink, Level 3 and three of the organisations that challenged the deal at the California Public Utilities Commission. The fourth challenger, the California Emerging Technology Fund, isn’t part of the agreement.
I see it as flagged, at least currently.
I wonder what this is going to do to all the sub-second quant algorithms. Do they have the ability to recover quickly from this kind of data corruption?
I think you only see the [flagged] token once a story hits a certain threshold of flags. I know there's been at least one flag, since I flagged it myself. shrug
The HN audience isn't the intended audience for this paper by Stillwell, who wrote for other math profs like himself.

To members of HN audience who want to learn GT, I recommend the freely available book by Postnikov.

p.s. Fwiw, the paper did make clear the distinction between the a_i, x_i, and the alpha_i. See the second page proper of TFA.
It is now. The difference a minute makes :)
It's hardly worth even commenting on this, except to say that it's dishonest to conflate how the tech industry treats women with how YC treats journalists who write bad stuff about them. Every organization does its best to control how people perceive it, for better or for worse. There are real problems for women in tech; Pando getting on YC's bad side is hardly one of them.
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Patients (all of us) should be able to control the information and get health data in return. I'd love to just get an email with all my records and a link to a Google health app where I can get to know everything about my health that can ve inferred
I completely agree, but (sort of incidentally) I do wish that there was some recognition that the "tech industry" is not one specific group of people. Even at the most basic level, there are the hackers, and then there are the MBAs that flocked in when the money started flowing. Two completely disparate subcultures that are lumped in together under one banner, and not only lumped together that way by outsiders, but by "the tech industry" itself.
I disagree somewhat with the "sign-up pages" restriction, since it's technically possible to try out a sign-up page.

In this case, though, I agree with you. This doesn't seem to be ready to try out for its intended purpose (besides perhaps the submissions process).
Can someone explain to me why this was flagged?
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Same here. I still have high hopes for the Purism Librem 11[1]. I really like the tablet form factor, but every option so far seemed rather "meh" to me.

I'm looking for a real computing device and don't want to be confined to "toy operating systems" - the option for touch-optimized apps is nice, but unless there is a viable way to use desktop- (and especially terminal-)focused software without hacks I don't really see the long-term appeal.

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Hey there, I believe the whole process does have email verification, depending on which login you use. Can you explain a bit further on this?
everyone in tech knows what pando is. but this needs to be unflagged so that stories of conspiracies and hiding the truth won't pop up. put it back and let it die on its own.
"Ethereum now has half the market cap of Bitcoin, despite the total failure of the DAO, the one big application of the smart contract technology. See "Use Cases Of Ethereum In Different Sectors 2016"

It's funny how tech people can't understand that innovation is a trial and error path.
Ethereum is doing something that has never been done, trying to disrupt the concept of finance and you are talking here about the DAO failure of one year ago that was already fixed with an hard fork solution.
Do you really believe that with the hundreds of millions and the back up of some of the most successful companies in the world they will not be able to take the invention to phase 3?
You are a really pessimistic folk man.
It really depends on a lot. I do 1 million views most months. Highest my earnings have ever been is $400. Last month I made $170. Most of my views are from an African country though, so we're talking low CPCs and fill rates.
Like with a lot of tech trends, I seem to be one of those people who doesn't "get" the excitement about letsencrypt.

I don't find the process of generating a CSR and submitting it to a CA for signing to be more complicated than setting up letsencrypt. In fact I think it's quite a bit easier.
I agree with you. I think the site caters mostly to children and young teenagers. Most popular videos, those shown on the home page, are of guys talking to a camera loudly and making silly jokes about videogames and current events, or very bad pop music.

And video thumbnails are the most cringy thing you can see on the Internet. http://buyviewsreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/custom-...

It's sad to admit it but I avoid youtube whenever I can.
Honestly, this reads doesn't read like a piece of "journalism"... It's closer to a Facebook rant.

Clearly, Pando staff don't like Sam Altman, and I think this whole article is pretty unprofessional.

> How is this the culture that we built? How did we end up creating an industry in which lying pipsqueaks like Sam Altman are heralded as “thought leaders” and “visionaries”?

I don't know if Sam Altman is a visionary, or thought leader. I do know that in this case, he kept it way more professional, and the evidence Pando (or Sam for that matter) bring to the table adds nothing to the conversation.

> What the Sam Altmans care about is that three years ago a website run by a woman wrote a mean thing about one of their portfolio companies. In the Sams’ world, there must be consequences for that kind of insubordination. She must be brought to heel.

To be blunt, none of this on Sam's part seems sexist (at least I don't see it). Perhaps I missed something, but this seems to be using the "women in tech have wronged" craze to rationalize some way the Pando staff feel wronged. I grant you, many women (and probably a whole lot of others, minorities, non-citizens, etc.) have been wronged, but this... this just detracts from the discussion. Pando, the New York Times, or anyone can't just attack people for being in the positions they are in. I can't blame Altman for being in his position, he's there, all we can do at this point is try to work together to improve the situation. To do that, petty stuff like this needs to stop.

Occasionally, I'm sure we will need to remove people causing problems, like a CEO who enables sexual harassment, or a board member who says inappropriate things. Hopefully, this wont happen too often, as I refuse to believe the vast majority aren't decent human beings.

That being said, in this case, it seems like Pando is the problem -_-
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If it's your native language, or if you're at a good level of fluency, you don't have to "remember" it, it comes naturally.

I agree it's harder for students though.
Partially. And partially over-the-top tone.

But it's also got a very troubling incident of Altman publicly stating he's got "some interesting information" on Pando, implying of course that it's negative. Without bothering to say what it is.

That's a hard no-no, and should be called out as a bullshit approach whoever does it.
because its a boring political story that has no technical relevance.
Does WeChat offer any thing over LINE? I ended up uninstalling WeChat because it was using up 20% of my daily battery despite only opening up the app once every couple weeks.
Please change the title instead of flagging this. It may not be a crash but this is newsworthy.
Yahoo finance shows similar numbers https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AMZN?ql=1&p=AMZN
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Actually I was a bit surprised when I learned that Unicode only added a codepoint for it in 2008 (and even rejected an earlier proposal). While the spelling rules have said for some time to replace it with "SS" the glyph was used quite often, including official documents such as passports.

For sorting there is standard (DIN 5007). Replacing ß with ss is correct (even in the lower case variant). The other letters are more fun: ä is replaced with a for sorting, except if you sort a list of names. In that case you need to replace it by ae. Probably not something international software is aware of. The Austrian sorting of names is different and other languages that have the same glyph (e.g. Swedish) also have other rules (e.g. by placing ä at the very end of the alphabet).
Bitcoin is already outlawed in some countries, like Venezuela. How do you think law can stop something so important that the governments don't provide?
There was some news years ago that there was a bacteria that could hold the key to ensuring modern rebar reinforced concrete could repair itself over time: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/concrete-fix-thanks...
Beyond creepy. It seems he has a pattern of this behavior, and I'm wondering how often he succeeds in his hunt. Thanks for getting your story out!
Not spot on the same issue perhaps, but these sorts of effects are an important reason I cringe at the uptake of newspeak like "alternative facts" by regular media and writers. If you not only let your adversary pick the framing but actively contribute to it, you're placing yourself at a potentially severe disadvantage for no good reason.
I meant that at least AFAIK all the English characters exist in several languages. No special tics or dots that are unique or very unusual.
Why would you need to build skyhigh, if there is still plenty of land available for low-rise building?
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That's pretty much the justification for cronyism, racism, and nepotism in promoting sociopaths to positions of power.

Appeal to "superficial charm" isn't the greatest argument here.
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The article makes the point that the founder of the site was a woman and tries to show the parallel between systemic harassment of women in VC-backed companies, and the isolated harassment of Sarah's site by Sam.
I don't think it is a given that languages naturally evolve to become simpler and only narrow-minded people are holding them back.

Languages evolve to suit the needs of their speakers. If people find themselves without words to describe something succinctly, languages will evolve to become more expressive.

I think compound nouns (as used in German) are a good example of this. They make the language more complex and harder to learn, but allow speakers to capture what exactly an object is or how it relates to others by slapping multiple nouns onto each other.
There's a YouTube money calculator which offers an estimate of earnings:

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M code isn't up to snuff, but I still check the mailing lists - just to see his rage manifest. As near as I can tell, you're mostly okay so long as you don't break userspace. Mostly...

They are a beautiful thing. People may not like it, but the efficacy is beyond doubt.
This honestly makes more sense to me than Elm itself. I don't see the reason to make Elm a separate language. It's the architecture that's important (given the type system of the language you choose doesn't suck, which is certainly true for Haskell.)
I don't think there is very much money in the integrated pre-roll ads on Youtube. The real money is in sponsorship deals and live reads or pushing viewers to sites that that have a clearer revenue model for content creators like Patreon. However those generally require a decent sized following before they open up as potential options.
There is certainly hyperbole in the article but there is also a good point.

Why is Sam dropping smears? If he really thought there might be something worth "investigating" he would keep quiet and investigate. It's a total dick power move (and transparent bullshit) designed to undercut someone you don't like by spreading innuendo and veiled accusations without actually making the accusation.

The adult thing to do is say "oops, sorry. donation to charity made" and move on with your life. That's a good deed no matter how you slice it plus good PR in general. There is no win to be had here because Sam is punching down.

I'm honestly disappointed. The faux-apology just makes it worse. Much respect to you Sam, but this is childish behavior. We know it, you know it.

(I say this knowing I've doubled-down and done stuff like this in the past and regretted it every time)
You're doing fine. Do cheer up.

No field of rational functions here, that's waaaay off given what Stillwell intends to do.

Also, subfields of reals are a bit restrictive, don't you think?
> goes back to the 19th century

Yes, and so that indicates people are reviving a problem that their great grandparents didn't bother with.

> German ID cards only use capital letters and need to distinguish ß and ss

Are these newly introduced? If not, why hasn't it been a problem so far? If they are newly introduced, why do they only use capital letters?
You don't seem to give it much weight, what motivated you to apply, did you just want to see if you could get in? I am not a Mensa member, I'm just curious about what makes people join.
Thanks for sharing this. Reading Dave's post the first time, all I could think was "this seems like the most bland, cop-out, vague apology I've ever seen." He didn't list the specifics of what he felt bad about, and the whole thing read like a PR release to get ahead of any potential fallout.

Reading the "kudos" from men who thought he was a great guy for coming forward only after years of harassment came to a head was unpleasant.
It is unfortunate that these kind of things happen. They shed a bad light on our industry as a whole due to (hopefully a few) rotten apples.

Thanks for writing this, takes courage!
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I'm not a YouTuber but I do subscribe to a dozen of channels. It seems to me that the sustainable channels are making their money from donations either via PayPal or Patreon not so much from ads which was my long-standing belief.
Advertiser friendly also means having considerable audience numbers. If I could hazard a guess, I'd say most of the big YouTube channels have built their numbers up with edginess as their differentiator and they worry about losing that.
Have any of the big Palantir critics on here actually used their software for anything? Because compared to the usual fare of craptastic trashware that passes for "software" at NYPD, I can assure you that Palantir is excellent. Even the old Java/Swing installation still being used there is a godsend (though Palantir has moved on to a more modern UI in their current versions). It is (or was, I suppose) the most flexible investigative platform in that place.

The real issue at hand is internal politics. Tech at NYPD is run by a lawyer with little law experience and no technology chops who attained the position due to nepotism (daddy is rich and a huge contributor to the NYC police foundation). Coupled with brass who have zero understanding of technology and an aggressive IBM sales team, you get the result outlined in this news article.
I know quite a few super smart sociopathic jerks - I wouldn't let any of them be in charge of a company that I'd built my reputation on.
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I know the site/magazine/whatever is called "PurpleProse", but...

...does my submission necessarily have to be prose? I like to dabble in poetic verse every once in awhile.

Also, do I get bonus points if my submission is actually purple?
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White privilege is a systemic problem, especially in tech & finance, which little is being done to address. It's worth calling out whenever it appears, to avoid normalising it.
On the other hand, it also does a good job of removing what I might call accidental propaganda. Most youtube videos are not even skin deep, running off of one article in the news they read, and some youtube person is going to have almost no real understanding when making a video about Syria for example. By removing the people who are only there to drive clicks and revenues, I can probably get better results when I search for a serious topic. Maybe some topics should be left to pure enthusiasts.
I always thought finding the optimal diff (from the user perspective) was an NP Complete problem.
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If your shell script needs sudo access, just:

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(x<32)?1:0 asks for a branch. Presumably the compiler will remove it.

However, you can just write (x<32), which is defined to be zero or one by the language spec. This shouldn't save anything on ARM, but who knows what the compiler will do.

Similarly, the scalar version might be faster if you do manual loop unrolling. It probably still won't beat Neon, but it makes for a better "scalar vs vectorized" bake-off.
Do you think Flask would be any better a choice for a smaller project?