skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What exactly does "succeeding" look like for bitcoin nowadays?

Because back before it became "that the thing that everyone was trying to profit from", there was at least the sense that it would be somewhat useful as a currency, if not replace cash entirely for most online transactions.
Completely agree. A tight and respectful partnership b/w scientists and technologists is table stakes in any of these ventures.
Ha, I did read Other Minds! You're right, it's absolutely fascinating. The book makes an interesting point how interacting with cephalopods are probably the closest thing we have to interacting with an alien intelligence. I'm adding Being a Beast to my reading list too.
In theory, but I'm not actually too sure multiculturalism is actually the case for America, at least not from my personal experience.

The American melting pot rejects plenty of aspects from other culture, and does more along the lines of "this is how we do things in USA, take it or leave it" rather than assimilation (at least from what I've observed in the recent decade). From elementary schools to the workplace environment, things have only been getting harder for immigrants, to the point where I'm not sure if USA can claim to be multicultural by strict terms.

By contrast, a mosaic setup like in Canada, where every cultural aspect brought into the country are welcomed and celebrated, is much more comforting to immigrants. Because multiculturalism is actually incorporated into the Canadian federal policy thanks to, surprise surprise, the previous Trudeau.
Did you even try to play this out in your mind?
Thiel is a stain on SV.

He's a billionaire Trump supporter that knowingly bankrupted a press outlet by funding a known racist(Hulk Hogan, as was revealed in the very case he funded) because he didn't like what they reported about him. He obviously didn't mind what Hulk Hogan said about African Americans though! Google it lest you forget.

Not to mention he somehow has finagled his way into working as a CEO-by-proxy for Palantir and Facebook simultaneously. One is a defense-contract funded software thinktank, and another is the largest media organization on Earth.

I don't think his intentions are good at all.
The more directly balk at the prospect of paying cash they simply don't have.
Moxie Marlinspike is involved in: https://www.mobilecoin.com/
I am actually wondering how many readers of the blog post rolled their eyes here. I am not saying that React is the best thing ever; there may be different arguments against using it, but man, this "CSS in JS" (or, alternatively, "HTML in JS") argument is not even funny anymore.

I would have discarded this as a meaningless complaint coming from a hardcore backend developer who is repeating the principles of single responsibility and separation of concerns he has heard in older days and has not yet had a chance to realize that a component is no lesser way of thinking about separation of concerns than an html or a css file. But judging by the appearance of the blog site, the author is a frontend developer, with pretty decent skills. I am confused.
Yikes. I’d regret having to be corporate legal counsel having to defend firing “for cause” in these political correctness scenarios to a jury of 12.

More like go directly to S as in seven figure settlement package.

EDIT: Direct reference to Google's incident.
Wow, completely orthogonal. So, curing Rickets and Scurvy by identifying the nutritional deficiencies behind them us totally not an advance in medicine.

This explains a lot of what is wrong with medicine today. It was different when I was growing up. Doctors would treat all the kids in the family at one time so some infection didn't simply get passed around endlessly. We seem to have stopped doing that, and we wonder why drug resistance is such a problem.
> The idea of the noble savage is problematic given that "society" is the product of individuals.

I think that there are a lot of problems with the idea of the noble savage, but surely the idea that people (or any system) behave differently individually or en masse is not one of them.
The hiring market is like a disfunctional dating market: A whole bunch of mediocre singles complaining they can't find supermodels of the opposite (or their preferred) sex.
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Millions, yes it is... the world is a lot bigger place than you think it is.
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I've been unemployed for ~4 months now (by choice) and it's been the best time of my life. Yeah, I'm burning through my savings, but I can focus on projects that make me happy, I can focus on honing skills I actually care about, and I don't have to partake in endless meetings that serve no purpose whatsoever.

What I realized as I entered my 30s is that some people are okay with that. Some people are okay with endless streams of bullshit and office politics, with building sub-par products, and with anxiety-inducing whiteboard interviews. All they want is a paycheck and all is well. Last year, I discovered that I'm not one of those people. I tried hard to fit in that mold and just be happy -- but what makes me happy is fundamentally at odds with being a model "company man."

Why the job search sucks is that there's a lot more people in the former camp than in the latter. It's the same reason why most people don't start companies, don't try to write novels, and don't compose orchestras -- a fundamental lack of creativity. Unless one of my projects really takes off, I'll inadvertently have to get another "real job" soon, and even though I loathe the process, I'm happy that this time away from work really helped me reflect and figure out who I truly am.
> If they don't meet your communication expectations, then it isn't a good match anyway. So don't wait. Move along.

You do realize this is like, every employer right? Or maybe I have bad luck.

Your last point is good and I thought about it for a good minute before I decided to go with it anyway because, if these companies don't care about me, why should I care about them? I'm already in the reject pile, right?
The GP just incriminated themselves now though I.e.

“The defendant installed software that they knew could be used to store illegal materials, proceeded to profit off it, and did not put any protections in place to try to limit this”

For some judges that’s all they’d need to hear. Amazon have lawyers and essentially an endless budget, processes and teams to defend their position and support law enforcement, they have no trouble defending themselves, but an individual could find themselves in a really tough position.
"... gives maximum freedom ..." nice way of putting the fact that there's basically no consensus; i've got even better idea, with more freedom - everybody can write whatever they want into append only database and they have freedom to choose which bits make sense.
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Agreed!

Great to see YC address the lab space issue and give a larger cash/equity cut for biotech focused companies.

I am wondering how early/late stage the desired biotech company should be. Right now, many biotech-y YC applications/interview participants seem to be rejected with the comment that they should come back later.
Will require two things, a shift in vehicle insurance costs.

And the costs for personal insurance and fuel to be a barrier swaying public interest.

There will still be a desire to drive, although falling out of popularity including stigma against "drivers" who less safe than the systems designed to protect passengers, but are willing to pay for the pleasure.
>> Nobody can contemplate a decent CPU without cache!

I like to contemplate a huge SRAM on die. Get rid of caches and speculation entirely. Of course that doesn't work for really big systems, but we might one day have a full 32bit address space available like this. Now hopefully you can contemplate it too!
This does not alleviate the issue where you can reuse package names. I suppose they believe what they mark as spam packages won't be used enough or is already bad enough that reusing the name is harmless. And they probably also believe that they can catch fuckups in a day. I don't think either are necessarily true and are only true in this case because it hit popular dep trees. But what happens when something is erroneously marked as spam that's not as popular and the downstream dependents don't realize in 24 hours? If the problem is that "placeholders" are too heavy, then they could be made lighter weight or put some rules around when they will add them and when they won't.
I suspect these comments will descend into a pit of chaos within a few minutes as everyone talks past each other... but the principle of this disturbs me. Basically, a billionaire secretly funded a lawsuit against a media organisation he doesn't like, and now that's it has been successful, he wants to scoop up the remains of it and (presumably!) delete it. The free speech implications of that are a little unnerving.

Now, I know the immediate retort to that is "Gawker was garbage", and indeed there's a fair case to made that Gawker wouldn't have been sued if they hadn't opened themselves up to it by doing publishing Hulk Hogan's sex tape. But it isn't just Gawker - Mother Jones was sued by a billionaire for reporting true fact, simply because he didn't like the reporting. He didn't even need to win, he just needed to bankrupt them through legal costs, and he nearly succeeded:

http://www.motherjones.com/media/2015/10/mother-jones-vander...

(Thiel followed this same idea by narrowing the suit in such a way that Gawker's insurance would not be able to pay out)

Personally, I'm concerned that the individual factors of this case (i.e. Gawker being Gawker) will overshadow the principle at stake, which feels a lot more important than a gossip site.
Because that's the pitch from bitcoin fans.
So you conclude that I have a sexist line of thinking because I dispute that the reason for the pay gap is men's sexism?
The gist is:

Google Project Zero Variant 1
(Bounds Check Bypass or Spectre)
can be contained with an operating system patch.

Google Project Zero Variant 2
(Branch Target Injection or Spectre): it's complicated.

Google Project Zero Variant 3
(Rogue Data Cache Load or Meltdown) is not applicable to AMD processors.

All of this does not apply to AMD GPUs as they don't use speculative execution.

Further down they say about Variant 2:

> Differences in AMD architecture mean there is a near zero risk of exploitation of this variant. Vulnerability to Variant 2 has not been demonstrated on AMD processors to date.
Society has an obligation to end poverty.
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It seems like you're more interested in promoting a particular worldview (see your advocacy of a "primary breadwinner") than seeking out medical solutions based on science.
That certainly does sum up the cryptocurrency market, though.
I've tried that a couple of times. Of course it was a bad idea. The same as honestly answering questions. When I managed to get a nice job, it turned out that they also hired people for upper positions - who couldn't program, didn't know more than one language... and I still have no idea how they passed such a whiteboard test.
I think the 4-color teaches us that sometimes software has to be shit. A lot of people held out for an elegant proof but what they got was auto-generated spaghetti. I cannot think of a better demonstration of the fact that sometimes you just have to write a lot of boring code and solve all the cases than the fact that an important theorem in mathematics was solved this way.
>But you can't fake the thinking process, or how you approach a problem. You can't fake your communication style. And that is what doing it in a stressful situation shows - how do you really think and communicate under pressure?

Totally different type of pressure. You're assuming timeline pressure and social pressure is the same thing. It is not.

>does anyone ever get a better result in their job search after ranting about it online?

I don't believe that was his objective. Maybe some hiring manager will read this while simultaneously complaining about not being able to find anyone and a light will come on. Maybe not.
Having the privilege of being unemployed by choice sounds amazing. Unfortunately, I was blindsided by my employment and didn't have enough to just take it easy all this time. Thankfully, unemployment exists and I've been able to pay my important bills on time.

This experience has reshaped how I think about savings though, that's for sure.
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But I'm not asking for a comprehensive list, I'm asking what people are afraid to say. I think it's incredibly disingenuous to claim oppression, but also be unwilling to discuss it any further. I also think it does nothing to help the situation.

The obvious answer is "I voted for trump". But then of course, why?
Are you equally concerned with other billionaires owning major news orgs (Bezos, Slim, etc.)?
Yes, I've been in this type of situation for 9 months. My reaction to it is that, yes, the golden boy is much better than me and he knows what he's doing. I respect his competence.
I'm kind of okay with that as long as they're not holding out to give themselves an advantage. If somebody is going to discover these, why not a cloud provider who can protect huge numbers of clients early?

If it was a little guy who discovered it, then everyone except maybe a fraction of a percent of the world (or nobody if the discoverer runs no servers) gets the same late start.
Home care is important, but technology can make major impacts, too.

Here is a Kaplan-Meier curve for statins:

http://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/337/bmj.a2423/F2.large.jpg?wi...

That is a lot of life that these drugs have given a whole lot of people.

AIDS is largely a managed disease now, thanks to therapeutics, starting with AZT.

Steve Jobs thought that he needed better nutrition to manage his disease, and he was wrong. He had a chance of living a much longer life had he let medicine intervene earlier.

(And I had no idea what your gender was until you mentioned it. I'm sorry that you don't feel heard.)
He couldn't have been more explicit about his goal being totally destroying Gawker.
What Peter Thiel did to Gawker is despicable and will no doubt become a pattern for aggrieved billionaires.
A candidate we passed on reached out and asked for more specific feedback about why we passed. I happened to have some time over the holidays and agreed to provide him with some additional information personally and to meet up for coffee.

> It's not you: The first thing I told him was that 80% of whether you get hired at a company is nothing you can do anything about. It depends on the company, your skills, their needs gap, the timing, the manager, so if you're batting .200, that's pretty good.

The second thing was that there were some really basic stuff to make sure you're doing every time you interview that you CAN control to narrow that gap further:

> Dress: wear dark jeans, nice shoes, a button down dress shirt. This outfit is almost never "too fancy" or "too casual". If the company requires more fancy than that, might want to question if you're a good fit (unless you like wearing a suit shudder)

> Give Specific Examples: Always try to start your answer with a summary, then give a specific example then abstract it into a generalized theory. Don't start with the generalized theory and never give specifics

> Know your stuff: If you list something on your resume, especially in a recent job, make sure you can not only explain it but that you have an opinion about it and that you've considered other opinions.

Edit: the outfit above applies mainly to men, I'm less versed in what the equivalent would be for women. If someone wants to add that, I am sure it would be helpful.
> Amazon was a 20 year old company before it was reliably profitable

Amazon’s decision was quite obviously a choice. Snap and Twitter are more natural comparisons for Dropbox if it’s still unprofitable.
Compilers are sort of at the edge of technology, there is always some value in trying again, no matter how many times it has been tried before.
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Besides all the tips you already got I also recommend pramp, I tried it a couple months ago and had a good experience.

https://www.pramp.com/

Besides the coding part you should also think about your non-coding interviews. There will be interviews where you'll be asked about troubleshooting and technology in general. I don't have a good source for that but you should think about that side that is just as important as your coding interviews.
Surely "owning a major news organization" and "shutting down a major news organization because you don't like what they published about you" are not exactly the same.
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As a mostly back end developer, snazzy front end templates are either cheap or free.
Here's another example of an out-of-context screenshot: the "I'm white!!" comic is not mocking whiteness, but is in fact referring to the artist herself in a cheeky way — a brave and well-meaning teenager who was incidentally bullied off Tumblr after making it. Maybe not work-appropriate, but certainly not "agit-prop" (really?) https://www.buzzfeed.com/aaronc13/this-teenage-artist-was-bu...
Isn't "not publishing microcode instructions" security by obscurity?
Thiel may not be a saint, but it's hard to have any sympathy for Gawker after the Hulk Hogan scandal and their myriad other nefarious behaviors...
There needs to be a point at which one can reasonably determine that someone has done everything they possibly can, short of not running the node, to keep illegal content off of their machines. I don't think the only solution need be to abstain from using the system. This is an age-old problem, almost as old as the Internet itself.
this is a good take. id like to add that this is one of the negative externalities of entrusting a single person with an outrageous amount of power by allowing them to have many millions or billions of dollars. there are certainly counter examples, but on the whole it seems very unlikely that billionaires are going to, as a group, do a better job allocating their money for public good than if that money was distributed more widely among the populace. i dont think people should be billionaires basically.

edit: to preempt some questions- my guess is that by raising the marginal tax rate, especially for people who earn alot, we could address this problem to some degree.
Here is the source of the most of this knowledge by the way:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlMxTpONKT0
Adam at PsychedSubstance does pretty good job educating people about how to do the stuff right without getting your brains fried. His advices do work great, it would surely be awesome if the reserachers could validate and/or improve them scientifically (or at least make use of them practically so nobody will actually get sad or experience any other adverse effects anyway).
burning cash to destroy parts of the internet you don't like seems bad. what's next?
I wonder if he's only buying them for shits and giggles, to shit on their corpse, so to speak
It really doesn't seem like crypto could ever be useful as a replacement for currency, because it's deflationary. There are a few interesting projects looking to create a stable coin on top of Ethereum.
What is Bitcoin Really Worth?

By ROBERT J. SHILLER DEC. 15, 2017

Robert J. Shiller, Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale, is an adviser to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, part of the CME Group. These are his views, not those of the exchange.
Do you have an argument against women being hypergamous, or are you just going to be derisive in every comment?
The article mentions in the first sentence that it is about North America. So presumably it is talking about specific apparent population groups that are minorities in North America? With this in mind, you can probably imagine some examples. But the first sentence does include some, if you're unfamiliar with America.
> the courts have never simply ruled that only the federal government has the power to regulate commerce amongst the states

The court has ruled exactly the opposite, in fact. Rice v. Norman Williams Co. made that very clear. That case established the test of preemption of state statutes by the Sherman Act.

There's nothing that prevents a state from regulating commerce, even interstate commerce provided that such regulation isn't pre-empted by Sherman or other relevant federal laws.

It does seem like the states would be on very thin ice with regulating ISPs however. The Dormant Commerce Clause doctrine states that if the federal government has remained silent on a point of interstate or international commerce, states can pass laws regulating it if that law doesn't discriminate against or burden interstate commerce.

However, the federal government as explicitly NOT remained silent on net neutrality.

The Dormant Commerce Clause affirms that regulating interstate commerce isn't exclusively a federal power -- as long as the federal government has not remained "silent" on the regulatory area in question.

I might suggest reading the following legal note since the ideas contained within are extremely relevant to the discussion: https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article...

That note deals with The Dormant Commerce Clause and California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard -- I would expect some similar arguments to appear in the event that state-enforced Net Neutrality hits the courts.
Is this pixel 2 exclusive or can I install this on my xiaomi? I skimmed the paper but didn't find any name for that app.
OK then I'll rephrase it to using one's massive wealth to significantly control the fate of a news organization
Not a fan of the OP's language, but in terms of the overall rant, actually I'm absolutely going to be more interested in hiring somebody who is calling it for what it is. Lengthy and convoluted interview processes and non sequitur whiteboard sessions are the scourge of the industry. The more programmers revolt and refuse to accept these bizarre practices, the better.
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Isn't Peter Thiel in with the "neoreaction" guys who want to bring back feudalism, more or less?
I have zero experience in writing applications with it but I do know of it. I investigate it every now and then to see what's going on with it. Even I started writing a React app the day I became unemployed, I still wouldn't have the years of experience a lot of these companies are asking for.

Maybe "fad" wasn't the best word choice but you know how it is. How many frameworks are introduced to HN? You never know which one is going to be popular.
I've done some work with it just recently. Happy to answer any questions, though I am not an expert. Overall, I think it fits very well in the Swift space and the tooling is clean. I wrote a sample DLL in it yesterday to become more familiar with it and work through some of the FFI challenges [0]. I have found it much easier to use than Scala Native (especially if you're a Windows person).

0 - https://github.com/cretz/kotlin-native-sample-agent/
A perfectly orchestrated hostile take over.
"...it could be one of the best ways to address our healthcare crisis."

It seems to me a great deal more people face a very different question, "how can I afford to live longer?"
The idea that it's about "sympathy", rather than "what makes a good and just society", is misguided.

Billionaires being able to destroy the media, acquire its corpse, and stuff it in the memory hole is not a recipe for a good and just society.
Good luck proving that conscious will has any effect on the world whether waking or sleeping. People report that it does, and that's all we are sure about.