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Sure, yeah, that's basically where I was coming from. I'm not 100% set on moving yet, just testing the waters. I have some personal connections at large companies that I intend to use to get referrals into the hiring pipeline when I do actually move, because that's apparently the only way to reliably get interviews at the huge places. For now, it was a lot of applying to jobs online with targeted resumes/cover letters at smaller to mid-sized startups in SF/bay area. There really just are a huge amount in the 20-50 person size range.

I found that once I actually got an interview or two, it was like a bit of a waterfall. I applied to companies X, Y, Z. When I got an interview at X, I emailed Y and Z and said I'm interviewing elsewhere and if all goes well plan to be in SF, and would love to interview with you. I think this is confirmation bias at play or whatever, because that really seemed to help get additional interviews.
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Sure, kind of answered below! I'm more than happy to answer additional questions.
> Within days of the assault, I decided to report the incident to the police. The police investigator tried to track down the yoga instructor, but initially Equinox wouldn’t cooperate. Equinox initially refused to acknowledge the existence of the yoga room security tapes and they would not release the phone number of the instructor or even help try to get him on the phone with the police. But, when the investigator and a member of the District Attorney’s Office finally got legal access to the tapes, both agreed that the actions of the yoga instructor were bizarre, unethical, unprofessional, and inappropriate. The investigator also told me that the instructor had been terminated from the gym.
> "While the big guys don't like regulation, as such, as long as the regulation is applied evenly across the board it doesn't really affect them that much (they just raise prices). It does do a wizard job of discouraging upstart competition, though."

Regulation can exist for good reasons though. Take the pharmaceutical industry as an example, do we want to ensure the drugs that are on the market have gone through clinical trials, even if doing so limits the group of companies that can afford to pay for these trials?
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Well, this is the case where you get a new job, so that doesn't apply.
> Thanks to High Priest of the Harvard-Wall Street Order, Gregory Mankiw, the Fed even has an influential academic paper that craftily provides a logical dogma to minimize theft through seignorage, and how muxh the public really is being taken for.

source?
I regularly went to a gym in Jakarta and tried the massage service since it's cheap compared to the western. One of the masseurs was male and I confirm with the author that it's hard for heterosexual men to perceive subtle actions taken by gay instructors/masseurs. Initially you attribute certain behaviors to cultural differences but luckily I realized why the masseur kept asking to continue selling his service to me. It felt very awkward for me too and obviously I skipped any future massage in that gym. I give my respect to the male author about speaking up. You can see easily how dumb some of the commenters are in this thread failing to recognize the value of that article.
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Why do you think the C was easier to write?
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Ah, yes, I botched that description, since there has to be more to support things like encryption. A more accurate claim is that the bulk of the work currently done would be replaced with a memcpy.
In Northern Ontario there are quite a few people that have half or three quarter wolves, usually crossed with German shephards. I absolutely love them but I would not want one of these unless I lived by myself and in the bush somewhere, these are not your average dog. Super nice animals though.

And if you've lived in places where dog packs roam then you know that even in regular dog breeds the wild animal is just under the surface, all it takes is the right (or wrong) environment to bring that out.
This has to stop. A 33/hetero/male doesn't expose a gay rapist yoga instructor by writing an expose in the form of an erotic novel on Medium.

Also-- Why is this on the front fucking page of Hacker News?
> Three weeks after I’d sent Equinox a request for assistance, I received a call from a senior global executive. Without an ounce of compassion, he told me I was banned from Equinox — that, as a private gym, they had the right to cancel my membership for any reason, and they’ve decided to terminate mine.

I bet this came from the legal department. It seems blunt (and it is), but the rationale would be something like, "This guy got assaulted, we may be liable for something, let's keep him away so we don't make things worse until its settled.". Not so much victim blaming as covering your ass going forward.

> In my view, this is deplorable. As the major leading fitness brand, Equinox should never take this kind of approach in dealing with customers. I’ve paid over $10,000 in fees over the past two years, and I did not deserve to be treated so disrespectfully by the instructor, and I do not know why I should have been banned. For Equinox to cancel my membership, to ban me from the gym for no apparent reason only feeds a culture of victim-blaming.

$10K for a gym membership over two years?! That over $416/month. Is that normal for the area?
This has 100 votes after one hour. It has no connection to technology. It's an unverified post on medium. And the punishment referred to in the headline is that the $5000/yr membership to his gym was cancelled.

Meanwhile, discussions of women' discrimination, in the tech sector, from reputable sources are flagged as fast as possible. C. f.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15267221
In general, 'something nefarious is going on overseas', beyond the Anglo cultural domain. Interesting thing to me is, as you point out, how the "mechanics of power" are held to be a byzantine mystery in Communist Party of China, but it is over here just a matter of a 'pick the least ugly' beauty contest over here in US of A.

Of course, what is truly opaque is just which groupings in the West hold the true power and just what is the nature of the "mechanics of power" here in the West.
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The UX for Discord around group chat is also miles ahead of Steam's. Unlimited history, granular notification options with @mentions, rich media embedding, third party integrations, and seamless voice chat support (and now with video chat and screensharing to boot). Meanwhile Steam's chat client has been stagnating in terms of both features and UX for what feels like a decade.
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I love my coworkers (not just engineering) and the projects I am working on are interesting to me. I have the right amount of ownership/freedom and mentorship someone my age (23) should have.
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Can we please retire this vapid caricature, the ticking bomb argument already. Defunct tropes like these need to die.
If this is anything like open source in software (in the beginning) then many either never get to compile the dependencies needed to build from the source or run into hardware incompatibilities and incompatible derivate packages with all the ensuing bugs like blindness, deafness, and more serious malfunctions. And when it works the functionality will be severely limited. I'm half joking, but this will need a huge caveat emptor.
Heroin, BTW, helps from cough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin#History

> From 1898 through to 1910, diamorphine was marketed under the trademark name Heroin as a non-addictive morphine substitute and cough suppressant.
If by reducing regulations we increase drug deaths but also decrease deaths from newly treatable illness, not to speak of the benefits of cheaper drugs, it seems the calculus can come out against the regulations depending on how the numbers shake out.

That is to say, the regulations should be subject to a cost-benefit analysis and only those with a positive ROI should remain in place.

At the very least we should be allowing drugs to be sold that have been trialed and approved in other first world markets.
But I'm talking about deaths, I have yet to see even one case yet this is supposedly an epidemic. Sorry if I'm not convinced by statistical handwaving.
SolarCity failed (and he had to buy it back himself with Tesla), Paypal was a success but it wasn't his, his part was x.com which was kind of a failure on its goal and had to sell (just because it sold for a lot of money doesn't mean it succeeded, in the terms of "success" we're discussing in this thread).

Tesla has yet to make any money and fails to meet its deadline, and it's yet to see how it will far now that the car giants are turning to EV (especially with many countries setting deadline in 2016 and 2017 about the end of non EV cars, which jolted all the big ones into joining).

Space-X is for me his one real success so far, it leaned on a lot of public funding to do it so it's really not the kind of things usual for HN, but they said they would re-use when everyone else said "can't be done" or "not worth it", and they're getting there.
True need - versus - water snobbery.
Here in Toronto, I see water snobs buying bottled water of assorted brands, versus free tap water. Part of this is the urge by the restaurant to monetize water (routinely free in an open glass) with a high priced bottle with a low true cost.
In Puerto Rico = true need, thus bottled water is just a simple way to transport water in human useable form.

Fresh water is virtually free in most places in Canada, not so in the Negev, so why should Nestle not do this? We tax Nestle at several levels, retail VAT at 13% as well as corporate taxes.
Every second, of every day we allow more than Nestle's annual consumption to flow into the North Atlantic - for nothing.
Sure, they should limit Nestle so locals do not run dry. This may mean seasonal restrictions on what you can bottle to ensure this. Otherwise that water ends up in the sea.
Let Nestle operate, as restrictions allow, for their good and our good...
The unforgivable action here is the badmouthing of the workers that they fired, gloating about increased morale. Not even Uber would sink that low.

This crap from management shouldn't be tolerated, much less celebrated.
> It bothers me that dead cyclists are seen as an inevitability, that “accidents happen”, rather than as the result of irresponsible behaviour.

Not all dead cyclists are the result of irresponsible behavior on the part of a driver.

Sometimes people die even when everyone does everything right, or at least nothing wrong. And sometimes people die when the cyclist does something irresponsible.

A few days ago I was driving down the road through a crosswalk. There were no pedestrians in sight and no visible cross traffic, so I continued through. A cyclist shot out at a high rate of speed (for a cyclist) from behind a building and shot into the crosswalk while I was checking the other side of the road and very, very nearly got hit. (And then had the temerity to scream and cuss at me, but that's adrenaline I guess.)

All it would have taken would be more me to have been driving maybe 1mph faster and he would have been toasted, but I did nothing wrong. Even if I had been watching his side of the road (I caught him in my peripheral vision) I couldn't have reacted any faster. In this case the cyclist did do something wrong (in this area he should have been behaving like a car and therefore driving in the road and coming to a complete stop as required there, not assuming the crosswalk granted him invincible right-of-way powers), but there are plenty of cases where nobody did anything irresponsible and an accident happened anyway.

Criminalizing accidents sounds to me like a way to just indulge the people who want to get rid of cars altogether.
That's awesome. Pharaoh and Caesar III were some of my favourite games as a kid. Never thought I'd bump into someone who worked at Impression.
The real answer is more sinister. Throughout the 19th century, South American slave raids took away as much as half of the native population. By 1877, the Rapanui numbered just 111. Introduced disease, destruction of property and enforced migration by European traders further decimated the natives and lead to increased conflict among those remaining.
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I'm in the US, things I would like:

1. app based two factor auth

2. ability to create read only credentials for aggregator sites such as Personal Capital

I'm currently with Chase, 1. is via sms, 2) is only available via their business account and they do not seem interested in providing for personal.

The only financial platform I have seen that provide both is Betterment, which guides the setup as part of account opening.
Sure, because everyone has enough money in the bank, no running expenses, no health issues, and a new job just around the corner.
What I was trying to say was that if someone questions AGI then you should first ask yourself if you have the right perspective on this or whether you are letting details get in the way.

If humans can evolve from basic physical buildings blocks of the universe then why shouldn't AGI be possible especially when we now reach a point were computers can learn i.e. like we have become pattern recognizing feedback loops. Sure there is some way yet, but there is absolutely no evidence that it shouldn't be possible.

To me technology is a natural continuum of evolution i.e. it's part of nature. The reason why I believe this is that information is what really matters here which is why we have evolved to become pattern recognizing feedback loops and why what seems to be the most powerful innovation besides fire and the wheel is the ability to simulate more or less anything around us manipulating and storing information.

Our DNA is what made us possible. Other animals DNA weren't configured to turn them into self-aware entities. I believe that all biological life will be replaced by digital/silicon-based life because it's simply a better information carrier and that is what evolution will always be giving preference to better information carriers. "Technology" not humans will explore the universe and escape the next big life-destroying asteroid or whatever else endanger the survival of the DNA.

And yes I am aware DNA is chemically based but technology will be able to simulate it. Whether there will be true transcendence between analog and digital is anyone's guess but I don't believe humans are the last step in evolution.
There is a pretty long history of The Woz being taken advantage of, starting prior to Apple when his best friend ripped him off.
As far as I'm concerned this whole discussion is severely hampered by failing to differentiate between intelligence and agency.

Almost all of the bugaboo about runaway superhuman organisms comes down not to machines learning and reasoning about the world but to the effective high-level objective function controlling the actions of an autonomous system.

Not making the distinction obscures important things. For one thing we seem to be well on the way to a situation where we arguably have something worthy of the moniker artificial intelligence but the agency is delegated to the human objective function. Considering what complete refuse of human specimens are likely to command some of the first moderately general AI systems that concerns me far more than any summoned demon of Musk's for the foreseeable future.

Also, studying these high-level objective functions for autonomous behavior is a very worthy goal, but going first for issues of "value alignment" and "safety", without any specifics of what works for an implementation?? Sure, do it if you enjoy it and have resources to burn. But be prepared to spend heroic efforts coming up with results that are either trivial or non-issues if you were to consider them with a working mechanism in front of you.
$416/month is higher than I pay, but I have been an Equinox member for years, and yes, it is very expensive. I started going when I was in SV working at a tech company that paid 50% of my dues. Currently, I pay $180 CAD/month right now, plus another $90 CAD/month for a dedicated locker with laundry service.

It's expensive, and I could certainly get a cheaper membership elsewhere. But it fits perfectly into my daily routine, and is part of why I've lost 40 lbs over the last 3 months, so for me, it's a worthwhile expense.
Thank you very much for your reply. That's helpful and fits in well with my experience so far.

I asked the question in the context where self-hosting was required, but I probably don't need it.

On the other-hand, more dependencies does complicate things. So I was interested to know whether Flex & Bison (or equivalent tools in other languages e.g. Alex & Happy for Haskell) were worth the extra complexity.

I started from one of the Appel books that I had on my book shelf for years: Modern Compiler Implementation in ML.

Reading Appel, he writes "The task of constructing LR(1) or LALR(1) grammars is simple enough to be automated. And is so tedious to do by hand that LR parsing for realistic grammars is rarely done except using parser-generator tools." p68. (Agreeing with what you advise, even Appel admits that the lexing of tokens isn't a big deal.)

But after that the only C compiler (for example) that I could find that used Bison (or Yacc) was the Portable C Compiler, so I was starting to suspect that Appel might be taking a rather academic view.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_C_Compiler
This is a fairly devastating passage:

"And money talks. When Xi visited Seattle in 2015, America’s technology giants allowed themselves to be summoned

The bosses of Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, IBM and Amazon all stood alongside Xi in the front row of a group photograph. All have since embarked on multiple partnerships with China despite its commitment to perfecting internet censorship.

Also prominent in that photo was Mark Zuckerberg, but despite a charm offensive which included inviting the Chinese Communist leader to suggest a name for his baby, and praising Xi’s book on governance, Facebook is still barred from China. Google’s founders were not even invited to be in Xi’s photo.

Xi has ambitious plans for control of the internet and that means leverage over foreign companies.

Facebook’s messaging tool Whatsapp is increasingly blocked in China and Apple has now removed from its China App Store the VPNs which once gave Chinese users access to social media tools in the West, including the YouTube channel which gave the gleeful Guo Wengui such a devastating platform to discredit Xi’s rule.

To fully control China’s cyberspace, Xi has had to take action against the world’s."
I've interviewed a fair number of programmers over the years. There's a surprising number of people who interview well and who have good resumes, but who can't actually code. (By "can't code", I mean, "Can't sum an array of numbers in their favorite programming language.") And checking references is hit-or-miss in the US, where many employers will only confirm title and dates of employment.

I know of three possible ways to evaluate coding ability:

1. Ask coding questions in interviews. This is biased against people with performance anxiety.

2. Give people take-home "work samples". This uses up more of a candidate's time, and it may filter out high performers with multiple offers. Plus, if you give anything that takes more than a few hours, it really ought to be paid.

3. Ask for a GitHub profile with open source contributions. This is biased against people who leave work at work, or whose previous employers don't contribute to open source projects.

It's been a few years since I last interviewed candidates, but if I were designing the interview process, I'd probably want at least one of the above before hiring a candidate. Maybe the candidate could choose? "If you have public open source contributions, please submit a link and a description. If you don't, no worries! We'll can do a coding test instead."
You should study the person you're commenting on a bit beforehand. It is perfectly possible for Steve to want them to do well even if he does not have any incentive.
An actual example of this concept coming up:

I had a question about something with a distance formula, and the choice to either explicitly check the length of the points coming in, which were a list of coordinates, (either to ensure a particular dimension or a matching dimension) or another option to iterate over the components, which has a sane "dimension extension" behavior.

It wasn't until I looked up the available floating point math functions that I knew their limits and could decide on how to implement the dimensionality handling.

So in that case, my thought process went:

Figure out the math -> Figure out how to apply it, eg map to a list of pairs of points (which also constrains math implementation) -> implement guarding on input to match contract
Corruption is everywhere in business, but it's selectively enforced. No finance execs went to jail for the financial crisis.(0)

Perhaps the most frustrating thing about the current political climate is that while fighting corruption headlined presidential campaigns of the long-ago past, it never headlines them today even though almost all of our country's problems are direct results of corruption.

Jobs is a headline issue, but corporate corruption is endless. The financial sector has not been punished, in fact, Goldman Sachs has an influential post in Trump's cabinet(1). The auto industry was awarded bail outs for its corruption. This list goes on forever.

Healthcare could not be fixed, despite the desires of a popular President that wanted to make it his trademark legislation, because of corruption.

We have spent trillions on the War on Poverty, but it's hard to say Americans have much of a social safety net. The War on Drugs has created endless misery and violence, while the journalist who accurately exposed CIA drug running somehow suicided by two gunshot wounds to the head.

We have endless wars, police murdering people without punishment, unconstitutional three letter agencies, and useless government bureaucracies. All the while growing socieconomic inequality.

As developers, we are builders, and so it is in our self interest, and not just moral interest, to fight corruption. And personally, I'd much rather live in a world ruled by innovators and builders than by thugs and thieves.

But every election cycle it feels like there is a divide and conquer to distract us from threatening the plutocracy. Goldman and Wall St win every time. The military wins every time. Healthcare finance execs win every time, etc...

0- https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-07-26/why-no-on...

1-https://theintercept.com/2016/12/09/trump-makes-america-gold...

2-https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb
Really? Everything? His life? His children’s lives? Or just money? Or just his investor’s money?

My point being if you have a lot you can risk a lot in absolute terms, but maybe not so in terms relative to your own wealth or well-being.

I don’t think he even risked his reputation with his space rocket thing. ‘Fail fast, etc’, right?
I agree with you about the questionable nature of this post's popularity on Hacker News and also question its validity. I am confident that many others would agree.

There are many other relevant stories that fail to rise through the ranks here, not just the one you mentioned.
If he was sexually assaulted and they're banning him to cover their own ass, that's way worse than victim blaming as it suggests they are aware the victim is not at fault yet they punish the victim anyway. An economic incentive does not excuse immoral acts. It's disgusting how quick people are to defend this kind of behavior. Anyone who was involved in making that decision is a worthless piece of shit.
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Kissinger would certainly qualify.
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