skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly I haven't done any analysis of this, just going off a gut feel. When I look at this data my claim seems to not be true:

http://ssti.org/blog/useful-stats-share-us-venture-capital-a...

But there are programs like Google Demo Day and Rise of the Rest that are reaching beyond SV for value. Several accelerators trying to copy the YC model have emerged across the US - in Atlanta, Chicago, Austin, Detroit, Raleigh-Durham, Boulder, etc.

https://events.withgoogle.com/demoday/siliconvalley/

https://www.riseofrest.com/

The other day Capital Factory in Austin announced they are kicking off a program pulling Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio under one big startup umbrella:

https://austinstartups.com/the-texas-startup-manifesto-42f06...

Without digging more I don't have much else to say on this :)
iTunes Connect and other Apple properties that developers tend to bookmark should have favicons. Then you could just edit out the title/name and identify by icon.
I've found that searching for the article's title on Twitter works well;

https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=The%20Secret%20to%20St...

Then just click through via one of the links that shows up.
Also most banks got badly burned with fines after the Libor scandal and introduced a pretty strict process to ensure that doesn't happen again.

The "fantasy" the article is referring to is the fact that large banks have to submit a number for every currency and every tenor every day, even if they didn't fund in that currency and that tenor that day. They will usually interpolate based on other tenors.

However this is only a problem for the lesser used tenors (like 2m, 8m), the most referenced tenors in private contracts (1m, 3m, 6m) tend to trade very frequently.
I agree, ignoring the serious problem that is a tiny number of private monopolies owning all of our communication infrastructure (boy, 1996 me hopes those oligarchs don't choose to compromise the privacy or rights of their customers, since we have no other viable options....) the current state of affairs is really not too bad in that a whole bunch of people can get reasonably fast service at reasonable prices.

As far as I know concerns people have with the telecommunications act of 1996 are very serious but they concern primarily media/press consolidation, and allowing for vertical integration, since it provides dangerous incentives for companies to violate net neutrality. And of course people have problems in general with massive consolidation of private power over critical communication infrastructure (see previous paragraph) but I didn't realize there was any worry that it would make things much worse when it comes to "what kind of service can the consumer buy" efficiency related issues.
> where would you recommend starting [emphasis mine]

Play with http://playground.tensorflow.org/ . Read today's https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14992865 about https://pair-code.github.io/deeplearnjs/ .
Time to move the ad blocker hosting to a country that doesn't have backwards ass laws and then hit back as hard as possible.
Except it doesn't. Libor IS an arbitrary number decided by a cabal of bankers. This process has zero transparency and accountability which lead to the fixing and abuse in the first place.

Its not Matt Taibbi but the regulators who concluded there is no basis for LIBOR as reported in the article so perhaps you meant to accuse the regulator of sensationalism.
It's not about typing. It's about code legibility. With a series of if/elif's you have to mentally evaluate each condition to verify what's happening. If the use case really is switch/case, then a switch/case statement would allow the programmer to mentally evaluate only one condition and quickly glance at a list of possibilities.
I ran across this a couple years ago because Tumblr let you use a leading - for your subdomain... I remember being so shocked reading this thread, but clearly nobody on that discussion had heard of Tumblr at the time. Very surreal.
> There are checks built into LIBOR to discourage fraud

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal
That would of been easier since the seller must accept returns within 30 days of purchase.

This is also how buyer-side fraud works, say you got the wrong item, and return a block of dry ice of the same weight. By the time the sellers gets it, the box will be empty and you can just blame it on the shipping courier, since it had xx pounds when they weighted it.
The first thing that comes to mind is sending them affiliate links to Amazon/Audible, that's pretty straightforward.

You could also find authors who are looking to promote their books, and charge them for adding their ad to emails.

Also I'm sure there are plenty of software/info-product companies and startups looking for audience in this niche.

If you can segment books by niche, it should be even more awesome and profitable. Send programming books and courses to programmers(a lot of them have affiliate programs), business books to business people, etc.

If it's not a secret, can you share with us what you did to build this list? The more details the better, it would be incredibly useful!
The capitalism that you deride with the Amazon/Bezos example is the same exact capitalism that allowed the mom and pop place to have ever sold anything in the first place. So you will need to expand your argument to be in opposition of them too.

Capitalism (and relatively free trade) is the only mechanism in history to have ever pulled large quantities of people out of grinding poverty. You lament the loss of the (capitalist) mom and pop shop, where's your lament for the loss of having to plow your own field just to avoid starvation? Where's your lament for having to dig coal out of the ground with a shovel and pick just to burn to keep your home warm in the winter?

I agree that we've lost a lot of social worth in the form of our real life social networks, but the primary culprit there is government. Government guarantees you a retirement fund, savings rates plummet, and people don't bother to have enough kids to make sure they're taken care of. Government guarantees your parents an income, so you don't have to take care of them. Government feeds the poor, so there's no need for you to be involved in your community to aid your neighbor. Government destroyed the family by subsidizing divorce and single motherhood, creating broken homes which are factories for poverty and misery. But sure, the real problem is Jeff Bezos is part of the machine that is improving the standard of living for all humanity.
You deposit on Coinbase and the transfer to Gdax where you can place post only limit orders which have zero fee
Mind sharing the name? I'm curious :)
Historically though, and even today, the biggest impediments to progressive social programs have been racism. DuBois has good analysis on this with regards to white planters during slavery and reconstruction. Welfare queen stereotypes and even employment incentives carry opposition on racial grounds today.
I've noticed they really don't like to take risks on that show, they want to invest in sure things that already have a proven market and tons of sales. It seems kind of silly, like if you already have all that you probably can easily raise money, so it often becomes a situation where the biggest reason to go on the show is just the publicity from it.
it's cool, but can't scroll them w/o mouse/trackpad. cursor keys don't work :(
Here's one of the best pictures illustrating the wake of an aircraft in flight I've seen: https://s00.yaplakal.com/pics/pics_original/7/3/7/4872737.jp...
Does rail time differ dramatically where you are? For me in los angeles, the frequency of train departures can vary, but other than that, it's pretty predictable.
> We're well into ad hominem

I'm not saying it is wrong because Taibbi wrote it. It's wrong because he got basic facts about interbank lending wrong, i.e. that it exists. I'm then passing along my observation that, whenever I've fact checked Taibbi, his facts have tended to be wrong.

> Matt Levine...said the exact same thing

Taibbi said there is no interbank lending. Libor is totally made up. Levine said that there is less interbank lending and so some of the numbers had to be made up some of the time. He concludes the paragraph you quote with this sentence:

"[Libor] was all more or less good enough as a casual system for resetting the rates on a few billion dollars worth of syndicated loans, but it was not accurate down to the hundredth of a basis point as a foundation for the financial system, or as the source for pricing hundreds of trillions of dollars of derivatives."

That's important context. Libor was a good enough number for a market where precision didn't matter (syndicated loans). It proceeded to be used, and abused, improperly. It's not a totally made up number like Taibbi makes it out to be. It's a totally inappropriately-used number.

TL; DR You'll walk away better informed about almost any financial topic reading Levine over Taibbi.
The Democratic Party establishment would rather have prime seats on the titanic than let Bernie Sanders or Tulsi Gabbard lead the party forward.
Well, sure it is. There will be some people who make it out before or after rush hour. If you take those people into account you will get a literal average.
The major policy point of contention is border policy with Mexico. Even in just the last 12 months, the left has become more enamored with open borders. Bernie was chastised during the primaries for making some statements in support of immigration restriction, a reflex from an old left veteran. It's hard to imagine a Democratic candidate making that mistake today.

With relatively free flow of people across the southern border, birthright citizenship, and family reunification, Democrats won't need white working class votes much longer. For a certain segment of the white working class and sympathizers, they see this as an existential threat to their political power. They also compete with freshly arrived Mexican immigrants directly in the labor market, who tend towards working-class professions.

Migration across the southern border would have to be paused for some time to reunify a fractured national identity and reduce the demand for Trump-type nationalists. But as long as the left sees the potential for permanent electoral victory with sufficiently rapid demographic change, that's unlikely to happen.

The sad bottom-line is that race-oriented politics is likely to be a growing force over the next decade.
They're not claiming copyright on the domain name. They're saying that by blocking it, they're violating the anti-circumvention clauses of the DMCA.
A New Blockstack Internet – Blockstack Summit 2017
Is Damore not saying that it would take "authoritarian" measures to get the gender ratio to 50/50?

The assumptions are stated bluntly, but I don't find them inaccurate.

The rebuttal gets off to a rocky start, but each assumption is explained. If you object to a particular one, please point it out.
Naval Ravikant and Ryan Shea – Blockstack Summit 2017
That's up to you. I find the current system of stable releases to work just right.
Pretty much, I thought it was an insane prospect, but that is what sells that audience, action.
There were two kinds of libor manipulations. Those instructed by the management of the banks to reduce the perception of the bank struggling to fund during the crisis, and the manipulations requested by the swap traders before the crisis.

I suspect the swap traders were mostly targeting future delivery dates (4 fixings a year). That's the only way the fraction of basis points they were asking the submitters to move the fixing by would have any material P&L impact. So it's kind of like other markets with strandardised contracts.

The former manipulation would have affected every days fixings.
Does this have something to do with getting out of town if Trump starts a nuclear war?
I think often times people want to say "In this particular case, for this particular situation, with my particular constraints, X was useful for me" , but they end up asserting it for a much larger context.

The people who don't agree with that, ironically also end up making the same mistake when they assert that X is not at all useful, but do it in the reverse way by using their particular scenario to guide their statements.

I've come to believe that the vast majority of peoples opinions on programming are BS. I've come to rely on simple practical things. If you try something, and it works for you, you can safely ignore the people telling you you're doing it wrong.
Predictably dishonest.

> I suggested that at least some of the male-female disparity in tech could be attributed to biological differences

...and then said whole lot more. Sundar Pichai did not specify which parts of the memo were considered to have violated the code of conduct. Without that, it's disingenuous for Damore or anyone else to assume it was the one part they want everyone to focus on (because the rest are weaker).

> I committed heresy against the Google creed by stating that not all disparities between men and women that we see in the world are the result of discriminatory treatment.

OK, James, who was claiming all? Show us where that claim was made. Or is that just a strawman?

> Upper management tried to placate this surge of outrage by shaming me and misrepresenting my document

Who among Google's upper management misrepresented the document? Where, when, and how? Or is that just a Trumpian persecution complex?
Wells Fargo sued for targeting mom-and-pop businesses to overcharge them
Exactly this.

If I'm buying something off of Ebay from a private seller (particularly used gear and such) that is going to cost more than I feel I can possibly comfortably lose ($200.00 is the upper end there), then I ask the seller first (before doing a buy-it-now or bidding) if they'll do escrow (usually via escrow.com, since that used to be an ebay thing).

If they won't, I don't bid or buy - because it is likely a scam of some sort. Usually, I explain that the protection is both for seller and buyer, and that I will pay all fees involved (so they aren't out anything). If they still balk, then forget it. Not worth it, no way.

I've never used Amazon Marketplace to buy used goods or anything like that (everything I buy from Amazon is prime stuff; rarely do I do third-party seller unless its from a place that has a real website too - and even then I exercise caution).

For large cash transactions via Craigslist? Take a friend with a gun, in case things don't go the way they should. My last purchase from CL was a car, and I swear I thought at one point I was going to be rolled for cash I didn't have with me. It was in the vehicle my friend was driving; I was riding with the owner in the vehicle being sold - we were trying to find a place to transfer the title - I know that doesn't sound like it should be difficult, but the story is much more complex. In the end everything went fine, the guy got the cash, I got the car, and we parted amicably.
Ask HN: What is the best telepresence solution?
I am going to be going remote, and really like the idea of trying to create a feeling of colocation any way I can.
I've had issues with Amazon Essential products (keyboard and mouse).... they are probably sold via Prime but I refuse to get Prime. The replacement was easy to get but the quality was low.
>Just wanted to say I appreciate this post so much. I didn't know tempura was originally Portuguese.

The name "Japan" is thought to have come to Europe by way of Portugese traders as well.
Filecoin already has investment from USV, they have their runway using real money to pull anyone looking for a paying job into the mix, and could give them crypto-assets to incentivize their loyalty.
Defending the memo does not require having conservative views.
That's just asking for eminent domain to be declared.
This is the single reason I don't use Safari.
> regulators...concluded there is no basis for LIBOR

Regulators did not conclude this. They concluded (a) better metrics for banks' costs of capital exist (e.g. the Fed funds rate [1]), (b) the market Libor is based on (wholesale unsecured interbank term lending) is too small and inactive to provide the sort of precision Libor implies and (c) transitioning from Libor will be messy [2].

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS

[2] https://www.fca.org.uk/news/speeches/the-future-of-libor
Also from the memo:

> We have extensive government and Google programs, fields of study, and legal and social norms to protect women, but when a man complains about a gender issue issue [sic] affecting men, he’s labelled as a misogynist and whiner[10].

"Gender issue issue", as in complaining that gender issues are taken too seriously?

Damore kept saying he acknowledges that sexism exists, but none of his suggestions actually address it. It's as though he paid just it enough lip service to scrape by. The thrust of his argument is that the gender gap can be entirely explained by personal choices or innate qualities.

I agree the rebuttal gets off to a rocky start because the assumptions seem hyperbolic. It gets better by the end, as each one is explained.
Re #2: How to make a PayPal tip jar:

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2015/11/how-to-make-...
I'm atm planning to do the same with every provider or company that has any data about me, including Google.

This is going to get interesting. (Especially as "probabilistic models" includes likely also all neural networks trained on your data that are used to rate your behaviour. That'd be a wealth of data if one could enforce that.)
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It will certainly be interesting to see how this plays out in court (if they are caught).
The only correct way would have been for the buyer to suggest using escrow to the seller. Since it was a scam, the seller would have backed out quickly. For $1500, it's going to be via escrow.com with a credit card. It's the only sane way, even if it is completely legit. Protects the seller, too (because such scams can happen in the other direction as well).
> How can this kind of assertion lead to intellectual and open debate when Damore's argument: there exists jobs are just not suited/optimal for women.

Truly: Is there any valid way to say anything about women in general, at a macro level, that won't be twisted as explicitly meaning all women like has been done here?

Like, if one suggestion were to start serving salads at the company cafeteria because that is likely to appeal more to women, would this prompt claims that all women only like salads, or that women aren't suitable for eating burgers?

We can discuss how to make a restaurant appeal more to women, or an apartment building, or a car. And we can do it without jumping down each other's throats, because we all acknowledge we're not talking about all women--we're targeting general preferences to apply to a general audience. Why is it that the same can't be acknowledged for software engineering or leadership roles?
Opinion pieces aren't taken kindly in these parts of the woods.
Since you ask :) https://copower.me/en/

Green infrastructure investments; lowish risk fixed income; licensed dealer in Canada.

We've also actively sought strategic investments from financial institutions (Royal Bank of Canada, a couple others) rather than raising from tech VCs. We've heard from a few clients that our brand-name shareholders made a difference in deciding whether or not to invest with us.
They're going to have to drop all their flexbox language once Bootstrap 4 leaves beta.
> Same now. You could play within the system, or you could go off dancing with wolves.

That's the issue, though. You can't decide to opt-out of society without first playing into it. In ancient Egypt, with fewer people and more natural resources, maybe it was possible to leave your local village and go out into the wilderness. That doesn't seem possible today, both because "wilderness" is largely owned by private individuals or government.
This is hilarious. How are you judging the quality or performance of my code again?

Being fair, you're wrong on all fronts.

Our code quality has increased dramatically if only by being able to replace swathes of thread and Twisted glue with asyncio. The very same upgrades saw a ×10 runtime speed-up in some claggy mixed-layer code.

But even just comparing runtimes, 3.6 isn't slow[1]. They're about the same.

If your only opinion of Python 3 is it does unicode and it's slow, you may want to read the first line of the comment you replied to. Your arguments may have applied to Python 3.3 but they hold little weight in 2017.

[1]: https://speed.python.org/comparison/
> documentation rant. They cover the simple cases and leave you in the dark if you need to do anything more complex

The business model for Apache Groovy and Grails after Groovy creator James Strachan was pushed out became to hook users in with free open source software, then charge them for consulting and conferences when they'd amassed some technical debt.

> The recommended upgrade path from 2 to 3 is "start a new project and copy over your files

Virtually no-one's upgrading from Grails 2 to 3, or even starting new projects in version 3.
All of this adblock tech works on domain blocking for the most part. If they wanted to, they could host the ads on the first party server and most ad blocking wouldn't work anymore.

They haven't yet, so it hasn't gotten to the point where they have been forced to. This adblock whining / detection lets publishers keep third party ad hosting and reduce adblock usage.
Bordering on off-topic: what is, "Id?"
It also explains why vindaloo is often served without potato, which bothered me for a long time. I grew up with my Dad making what he called "vindaloo" that was at least 30% - 50% potato and I loved it. But if you go to an Indian restaurant, it's the only dish with "aloo" in the name without potato. Turns out the name has nothing to do with "aloo" as in potato, and it just means meat in garlic wine sauce, which is exactly what you get at a restaurant.
http://playground.tensorflow.org/ is fun and worth looking at.

As I recall, Google created it to give their engineers an introductory feel for DL, and then open sourced it.
mixcloud, bandcamp
I can't recommend Patrick Smith's writing highly enough. I used to be somewhat uncomfortable when flying: the lack of control was extremely unsettling. But after reading Ask the Pilot for a while, I came to understand and respect the role of the pilot.

I would also strongly recommend his books, _Ask The Pilot_ and _Cockpit Confidential_ for anybody who travels (and especially for nervous fliers). Now I fly quite regularly, and love it.
In other words there is no basis for libor.
I don't think it will completely go away. It will be replaced by some other benchmark calculated differently. Derivatives won't be a problem as the ISDA association can make a decision that would automatically convert all contracts. Bonds and private contracts will be more of a problem as they don't necessarily have a language for what happens if the index stops being published.
>What is also not obvious is that they don't. Since men and women differ in pretty substantial ways, I think the burden of proof is on people who claim they're both interested in the same things equally.

How convenient that the burden of proof is on people who disagree with you!

I think this is a very odd position to take, given that men and women have far more commonalities than differences. (After all, they are both human.) It doesn't seem sensible to take it as the default position that men and women are going to be differentially interested in any given thing to a significant extent.

>no gender/demographic quotas.

I didn't say anything about quotas, and I don't think anyone in this entire discussion said anything about them either, so I'm not sure where you're getting that from.

>my entire point is that we should make it so each person can freely choose what they want,

Everyone agrees with this point. But women are not free to choose what they want when they are systematically excluded from some professions.