skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have the flip side. My partner, finishing her Accounting degree, looked up her "Worst" professor, who was openly saying she had no interest in teaching and was just doing so as she wrote a textbook. And also had a very poor command of the English language in general.

She found that professor had no less than four profiles in RMP. Every time she accumulated sufficient negative reviews she changed her name slightly and created a new profile.
But that's only because at the moment they align with your PoV. An alternate example might be Tencent, Baidu & others.
No one can rant like Yegge. Rant on!
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Hi there,

While it shares a lot of similarities with conventional Bayesian Optimization, I was reluctant to call it BO since it doesn't have a concept of explicit error bounds.
> Reagan and Thatcher were conservatives. Why is everyone trying to rebrand their ideology as something called "neoliberalism"?

Neoliberalism in its modern sense is a particular politico-economic viewpoint, a subset of what in modern America is political conservatism. (The term in its current sense is European in origin, where “liberal” has a different meaning, and although there is some overlap in applicability to the 1980s American term “neoliberalism”—both apply to much of the pro-capitalist faction of the Democratic Party that reached the peak of its power in the 1990s and remains dominant in the party but weakening—its a different term that is largely unrelated to the usual sense of “liberal” in the American political context.)
I saw this as serving primarily as ironic humor. Tunnels are boring, and a boring company selling flamethrowers... Even if the flamethrowers are real, their purpose is to serve as a joke, not as a flamethrower, hence the justification of the $500 price tag.

Nobody has to buy the flamethrower any more than they had to throw their money into Cards Against Humanity's money pit.
> It was rarely a place where politicians posted anything

Twitter was founded in 2006 and Barack Obama joined in 2007. Today he has 15.4k tweets. Seems like a lot to me.
FWIW, outside of the bay area, it's not nearly so easy to get access to capital anyway. Not trying to throw shade on anyone, but it seems far less likely that "ideas" that have no product, no users, etc. would be funded in the DC/Baltimore VC markets, but seem fairly routine over there.

Bootstrapping seems pretty much the same everywhere. Pare down your living costs, build a true MVP in your spare time, start selling in your even sparer time until you can either show enough traction for a small business loan or hope to catch lightning in a bottle with virality.

It isn't easy, it takes a lot of talent, persistence, and luck, but it isn't impossible, and if you can manage to build something people want, it isn't reserved purely to the capital class. Of course, it will always be easier for them to take the same idea, reach out to their network for capital, hire a team to implement it, and all of that increases their chances for success.
Hey Rich! The graphics are on point for this article. I really liked the unfading faces at the start. Also, the times should put a tip jar on these kinds of articles, I'm not an avid reader to subscribe, but would want to appreciate any good articles I find.
They seem to do reasonably well on the Transparency subsection.
You can use IAM to auth to a cluster using heptio authenticator
https://github.com/heptio/authenticator/blob/master/README.m...

You can grant IAM roles to individual pods running in k8s using kube2iam, though there are new advancements seemingly coming, or already out, now that amazon has announced eks.
https://github.com/jtblin/kube2iam

Kops can provision and manage a cluster that incorporates multiple subnets allowing you to have a multi-az buildout
https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/blob/master/docs/high_ava...
It would be ideal if you chose the fake plate numbers from the population of actual plate numbers used by corporate plate-tracking vehicles, just in case one encounters its "namesake" -- you might trigger some highly entertaining edge condition. ("Um, wait, that's... me! WTF?")
I've had recruiters tell me that I will have to go through interviews with them and potentially even someone from the company before they will reveal the name. No. I'm not playing "hour for something good" with my interview time.
Thing is, I think our brains effectively run on epistemological relativism -- it describes the map the brain builds about the world outside -- but "objective reality" indirectly measured via action and reaction is what keeps it honest.

You might believe you're the leader of your country, and you are as long as everybody else also thinks you're the leader - and as soon as they stop believing it, it's no longer true. This is shared, constructed reality in action, and it's also "objectively true": if you imagined a disinterested observer looking at a human society through a set of powerful instruments, they could identify you as the leader. It still doesn't stop you coming down to earth with a bump if you believe you can fly, of course.
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Yes, this is a problem that requires careful specification. You only get streaming access to your input, not random.
I went in hoping for blood, but that’s actually pretty good. Unless they’re fudging their financials in a truly criminal way, and there’s no reason to believe that, it’s a tight ship with low administrative overhead. They’re spending a bit over 70% on their programs, and not too much on admin or fundraising.
I setup an IPSec tunnel on it a while ago just to test , pretty neat IMO
ICE is starting to act like Trump's little gestapo
Less safe: Take one of these ...

https://www.amazon.com/Indian-Galvanized-Fire-Smith-5-Gallon...

... filled with lighter fluid, plus one of these ...

https://www.amazon.com/Flexible-Lighters-bernzomatic-flexibl... ...

and some duct tape.

Got that from William S. Burroughs' The Wild Boys.
Maybe for screen equipped wearables we'll see buttons disappear. Though I doubt keyboards on laptops and game controller buttons will be replaced any time soon. Consider the move from tablets to laptops and paper in schools.
I just bought a Pebble 2 SE and it's absolutely phenomenal. I'm hoping over the next few months an open source OS comes out, otherwise I'll have to look for a worse alternative.
I don't see how that debunks it -- seems like that legitimizes that it is an actual working flame thrower.

The video makes it quite clear what it is -- no one should be expecting a 50 foot range military flamethrower.
I think it had some (critical) comments of the statistics on HN.

Not saying Tether is legit. Just haven't heard that this report is especially persuasive.
Interesting how they make use of tmux sessions for the cloud shell session feature.
That's where various fingerprints (the sort of thing, incidentally, AI/ML should be pretty good at sorting out) should come in to play.

Spammers, ultimately, act like spammers, and bots like bots. Unlike legitimate accounts, which typically either a) follow a small number of related accounts or b) are fairly-well-known high-profile accounts (and yes, pseudonymous accounts may be high-profile), bots either need to act within specific networks or be very indiscriminate in whom they follow / link with. And they're tremendously active.

Whilst Google+ is not Facebook, Stone Temple Consulting ran an analysis of 500,000 profiles in 2015 to see what posting activity looked like.[1] I'm fairly familiar with the methods used as I'd pioneered most of them on a smaller, 50k sample.

Looking at public posts only (not private posts, and not comments), there are roughly 53,000 G+ users posting 100+ times monthly, and 106,000 posting 50+ times monthly.

From an independent analysis, I've estimated that Facebook traffic is, very roughly, 10x greater than G+ (as of August, 2015). So you might bump these values up by an order of magnitude to get Facebook-level scales of operation. Twitter is actually far closer to G+ in scale.[2]

That is, the search space for bots is roughly 500k - 1m accounts of major active players. And it should be possible, even with only computer-assisted human intervention, to make a pretty good cut through that space.

So the problem is not all that intractable.

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Notes:

1. https://www.stonetemple.com/real-numbers-for-the-activity-on... STC's Eric Enge credits me on that page.

2. https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3hp41w/trackin...
Code clarity includes the interfaces of the tool of choice. I suspect that shell files checked in to a version control system will have a longer working life because IDE/Notebook interfaces are more likely to change and become incompatible over time driven by the commercial needs of their vendors.
Just wait till someone uses RipOffReport.com to bash you guys for something completely untrue. That site basically only takes down posts if you get a court order or pay their fee for arbitration (and win).

The original poster can’t even take down a post if they make a mistake.
> The goal is to raise money for the Boring Company

I thought maybe raise money for charity or something.. but no. For Yet Another Musk Moonshot Company.

Seriously though, how much money are they going to raise from selling hats or flamethrowers? How many millimetres of a tunnel does one flamethrower fund?
People don't really trust them, but it's not like you have a choice if you want to be in crypto. It's more of a calculated risk that you have to take.

The explanation behind them putting off the audit might have nothing to do with tether. It could be concerns about what an investigation could uncover in their creative bookkeeping, being an incredibly profitable, offshore, unregulated company and all.

In the end, the whole situation boils down to

1) Did people really wire them the equivalent of the entire tether market cap?

2) Did they use the money?

I don't think it's unrealistic that ~1.5B has entered the market in the last few months.

I also don't think it's impossible they didn't need to touch that money, given that they seem to pocket 8 figures in fees daily. That's not even counting all the other things they can legally do as an unregulated exchange, like front-running, liquidation fishing with unlimited assets, etc.
Right. So the true answer is

log2((32*31*30*29)/(4*3*2) + (32*31*30)/2 + (32*31) + (32*31)/2) = 15.675

which is still smaller than 16.
This sbumission has turned into a Reddit sub commentary. Anyway.... I will start a competition: very boring famerthrowawayer. Please let me know in the comment section. I will sell the product for free (except you pay for shipping).
BEGIN and END? Curly braces being an issue comparable those faced by a language like APL? We clearly have very different opinions on what drives or impedes language adoption
There are actions other than deletion which can be undertaken.

You might target suspect accounts for increased validation -- Captcha or other elements, or simply logging them out more frequently. Changing programmatic elements such that they cannot be scripted as easily (this is one of the primary credible arguments I've seen against APIs for large public services).

(Craigslist, and several other services, have applied what's effectively a service-degredation level to accounts suspected of malicious activity. It's not a hard fail, and it's possible for a real human to get past the hassle, but it slows down attackers considerably.)
"Family, especially an SO, to an extent looks up to you based on your success, typically, and more importantly, counts on your (e.g., financial) success. If you lived in the now and didn't succeed career-wise or financially, your SO probably would've left you long time ago, and you wouldn't have a family to begin with."

Jeepers, I really disagree with this and I hope it has not been your life experience. We're happy nobodies; we settled for modest jobs with modest incomes, limited hours, and good family time. We both contribute financially and have stability if not super-duper success. And I am certain neither of us "looks up to" the other in any way based on financial or career success.
Couldn't you just do that with radix sort or am I missing something?
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I don’t understand, Europe has national ID laws I can fill up a form and get the details including owner details for any license plate in the EU (you need cause but it’s not verified in most cases it would land you in trouble if it’s abused tho), and automated license plate tracking is pretty darn common across all EU countries yet no one here yells Stasi about this.
I am probably in the age bracket that puts me in the 'old fashioned' end of the spectrum of HN readers, but I fully agree with the premise of the article. Craftsmanship is a lost art form these days.

While I admire, and respect the wishes of a lot of younger people in my industry these days to want to travel a lot, and build a business that can be operated anywhere, I think a lot of them don't yet have the realisation that anything you do day in day out, can become routine, boring and something that you will yearn to be 'free' from after a while.
1. No, the point was that fork(2)+exec(3)/spawning processes is an expensive way to run code, not how long it takes for the parent to be able to do something else.

2. Your new benchmark is better. However, it is still a useless microbenchmark, as it is an unrealistic best-case scenario. Your spawn of sleep is happening within a fresh subshell started by the pipe you made. fork(2) depends on things like VMM size and open file descriptors of the parent process, and your subshell basically has nothing at all. A real application likely holds at least a few gigabytes of virtual memory (more likely tens of gigabytes—note that virtual memory isn't the same as resident memory), which will make fork(2) take much longer, split between parent and child.

I suspect you might be confusing asynchronicity with concurrency or parallelism. Go is heralded for concurrency, sometimes in the form of parallelism, but not asynchronicity. Concurrency does not have any positive effect on execution time or cost. Parallelism can reduce execution time, but does not decrease execution cost, it simply throws more hardware at the problem.

In fact, Go is a worse-than-average language to call fork(2) in, due to it running fork(2) under a global lock. This is mentioned in the linked article. The lock contention caused by fork(2) execution time as memory consumption increased was what made the process unresponsive.

However, as I also said, whether fork is too expensive depends on the use-case.
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Ok but what if it's just really expensive?

You know, like healthcare, or trips to the moon.

People with a lot of money get access to things before people without a lot of money.
While it has roots in the ML family (which, being from 1973, is one of the newer families itself), Haskell (1990) could be considered the branch point of a distinct new language family which also includes Curry, Agda, Idris, Elm, and others.
IDK. A few data sets that might make for good starting points:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_prevalenc...

This data isn't up-to-date and the list is for opiates, not opioids But this still gives you a good sense for which countries to look up. IMO opiates are closer to marijuana or cocaine than to heroin -- i.e., an otherwise healthy, happy, intelligent, and drug-educated person using in a purely recreational context is unlikely to die or even become severely addicted. Different from opioids in that respect.

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic#Outside_North_...

Not much info, but we get pointers to some of the same countries at the top of the opiates list.
If you are willing to limit your statements about reality to things that can be described by (hard) scientific theories, then sure, I'm on board with you (for the convenience of communication and language, i.e. for instrumental reasons).

But if you think that e.g. the evening news represents reality and that people who deny this reality in favour of an alternate reality are harming the distinction between subjectivity and objectivity, I'm afraid I don't agree with you at all. It's all shades of grey, there is no binary distinction. That perspective is a political perspective, and it encodes whole piles of assumptions about what is and ought to be.

Times were simpler before because the people were easier to fool, not because we had a better handle on "reality".
Interventions programmes of almost any sort face this problem, and it's part of an ongoing monitoring and evaluation effort.

Ultimately: you monitor direct and indirect effects, offer an appeals and communications process, and try to sort out who is and is not participating in good faith.
I used to think so but I think that is incorrect for the following two reasons:
- Stock compensation is not included. This is significant now.
- I believe the salary numbers are purposely underreported. The numbers are given to show they are paying a professional wage. I heard (not confirmed) that someone getting paid $200k/year in base salary can be reported as $150k/year, since 150k clears the threshold. I saw salaries in my company that did not reflect what I understand to be the market rate.
The more interesting question is why has Tether been allowed to run wild for so long?

Imagine if you were part of the current elite that had control over the current fiat currency system and something like bitcoin appeared. You could ignore it and hope it and its kindred doesn't catch on with the population, or you could allow a fraudulent scam like Tether to run that pushes up the price into the stratosphere and then allow the bubble to burst tar-and-feathering the whole concept of crypto currencies. It is not like hundreds of trillions of dollars are at risk if we move away from fiat currencies.
It constrains some freedom, delivers others.

You gain other freedoms that you don’t have when you’re not the owner. You can build, paint, have messy pets, smoke weed, knock out a wall, be a landlord yourself, and rip out the carpet. You gain some freedoms in exchange for giving up others.
>use a hmd with low transparancy

Any recommendations?

I owned a Xybernaut and a bunch of other HMDs throughout the years. Few were practical for reading and walking at the same time. (Interestingly, I've had several solutions that allowed me to do cardio on a machine while watching a movie.... and watching a movie, even a regular 2d movie in an occlusive HMD is, at least for me, super immersive and fun. None of the solutions I've tried were very robust, and they all end up breaking. If someone has a recommendation for something robust-ish that is easy to hook up to the major streaming services, I'm all ears. )

That said, I haven't looked at the current Microsoft solution; I thought it was tethered to a serious PC like the oculus. I own an Oculus and haven't yet setup a rig that lets me use it on a cardio rig.

As an aside, there is a lot of focus on the various two degrees of freedom treadmills look cool, with the 'teflon dish, felt shoes" design looking the most practical, of course, but I haven't even setup one of those yet; I don't know if there is a useful game ecosystem for them yet.

But, yeah, if there was something in the neighborhood of a kilobuck that would let me walk and read with reasonable safety, I would be super interested. I already live in an area/live a lifestyle where the 'dork factor' isn't an issue, which I think is the hardest part of solving this problem.

I'll probably be buying an oculus go (or one of the competing 'all in one' HMD products) for treadmill use, and using them for watching movies on the treadmill (watching movies on a HMD is way better supported than reading on a HMD, but that means being on a machine)
Speaking of endless night, an idea that has always intrigued me is the prospect of some rogue planets [0] out there, that don't get any light from a star but may still support life through their own geothermal activity and other chemical processes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_planet
This is probably more because they're afraid you'll skip the middle man and apply directly than because they fear you'll look something up on Glassdoor.
Yes, you're missing something. Radix sort, like most sorting algorithms, requires storing the intermediate results in memory. This problem seems impossible at first blush because storing 1 million 4-byte integers would seem to require 4M of RAM, and only 2M is available.
I'm guessing this is because most people who trade tether don't intend on holding it for long, so the "shennanigans" surrounding tether aren't as likely to affect them.
So what is the trick?
It's a practical example of how to bootstrap your startup!
That's a pretty reasonable price for a fire extinguisher.
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They could be buying up the excess supply from the reserves. In fact, I thought that was part of the design of Tether, but I haven't really dug into the details.

What will be interesting, if that's the case, is what happens if their reserves are not enough to cover the outstanding supply. Things could go sour very fast.
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I find it much easier to do cardio while reading... this is difficult while walking outside, pretty easy while on a treadmill or elliptical.
This app works very well on Android. I've been using it for many months now. It creates a local VPN connection and only funnels DNS requests through it. You can specify which block lists to use and exclude certain apps if the cause issues. By default certain apps with known issues (like Gmail) are excluded. And of course the best part of all is that it does not require root. That and it's open source so you can install it from Fdroid for auto updates.
Most plate cameras rely in part on the reflectiveness of the plate. You can definitely modify a plate to be mostly illegible to these cameras but easily human readable.
Perhaps, Glassdoor could add company address to the title?

So then, the reviewer that had bad experience with "XXX, Singapore", would not post it against "XXX, Austin, Texas".
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> philosophical viewpoint that no objective reality exists

I'll only add not to forget the situation of the leader: his perception of reality is that he is the leader, but it is only true because other people's perception of reality is also that he is the leader. There's no reality here outside perceptions, but it's still true: you can still observe who the leader is in a group of social animals from observation.

(For philosophical purposes, I believe the quoted definition is true, primarily because every alternative seems to be unsound.)
I was surprised except for California (and maybe another state) owning a flamethrower is legal.

https://throwflame.com/

$1800 "Get Yours Today".

Complete, of course, with a Napalm mix package https://throwflame.com/products/napalm-mix-fuel-gelling-agen... "It thickens normal fuel to create a long lasting burn that goes great with your X15 Flamethrower"

These are basically in the same category as WWI/WWII military flamethrowers. It seems these should be very illegal but I guess they are not. That just boggles my mind.
> I find it hard to believe that people outside of the ecosystem of these companies have more skill, knowledge, or capabilities

The methods described in this article would be corporate espionage. I don't know what the legal implications would be, but ethically, I'm personally a bit frightened by the idea of a company as large and in possession of so much personal information as Twitter getting into the espionage business.
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Is there a way to make it work with just make? I'm way too used to just typing make at this point and it's not too much work to just copy the same makefile everywhere.