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Writing a new comment would be fine! and linking to an old one would also be fine. I agree that what you did is better than #4 (and am grateful for that) but it's still not kosher. Think of how good conversation works. People can make the same points in different contexts without literally repeating past statements. Something about creating each statement in the moment—even though there are only so many ideas to go around—serves conversational flow.

I don't agree with you at all about what the typical HN commenter is endorsing; it seems to me you're adding a lot of interpretation to a lot of disparate information and constructing something of a straw man.

By the way, if anyone is interested, only a small minority (10% if that) of HN users are in Silicon Valley. And plenty of those identify more against it than with it.
The universe breathes at a set rate
Every VC has 100s of failures. He just proved that he will go to bat for his startups even if they're doing fishy stuff :P
I believe the grandparent was talking about machine-language. Take some WASM, produce an EXE, for example.
I don't see any mention of the matter being referred to the Department of Justice in the press release. I mean sure, DoJ surely watched what is coming out of the SEC and will decide separately, but (as we see here) the casual reader who is unfamiliar with agency structure will understandably conclude that the government is done with her.
I'm guessing trauma which causes disassociation and can be somewhat reversed or healed because of the neuroplasticity of the brain. But a psychopath might be inherently wired to have disassociation between rational/logic part of his/her and brain and his/her emotions.
That's a good point that the word fellowship is potentially misleading.

Although...I do want to clarify we actually offer advice on project development, the interview prep goes to a reasonable technical depth, and you are connected with other engineers at top companies. So in many ways, it is still a fellowship.

We struggle a little with how to describe ourselves because we're not quite just career coaching but calling ourselves an accelerator is too nebulous.

We try our best not to be intrusive - if you don't mind, could you actually email me on the things you disliked the most about our cold email? We definitely want to make the changes we can to be more well-mannered here. I'm at kevin@pathrise.com.

If anybody else has any questions as well, feel free to use the contact information above.
Finally, some sense of responsibility kicks in.

Another platform is LinkedIn, where I have been getting a ton of invites from "Blockchain Experts", "ICO Experts" whom I have never heard of. Some of my connections are connected to them but I think that's more of a blind "Accept".

If you connect, I've noticed they immediately start promoting coins or ICO. Massive scam going on here. Hope LinkedIn bans these fake promotions too.
They can have all the lavish lifestyle they want in Russia, as those that reside there already do.

The idea that they would put pressure on Putin is silly, it's the opposite, Russia in fact puts pressure on those who don't want to repatriate. That control of resources you are talking about can be a rather uncertain and fleeting leverage as many have painfully learned on their own example.
Actually a galaxy's spin curve significantly diverges from a what we'd expect, like a "whirlpool" or say a solar system. It turns out stars on the rim do not complete orbits significantly slower than ones nearer to the center. It acts more like a frisbee. They're moving faster than they should but not getting "flung" out.

It is one of the reasons why dark matter was originally postulated; basically the galaxy system is much larger/massive than what we can see.

Adding a "Halo" of massive particles that are weakly interacting explains the curves fairly well--hence Dark Matter.
Yep. It's puzzling how it won over hg. Linux is a powerful mannequin I guess.
Very interesting. Seems kind of odd to me - it costs 169 USD per day to visit. Thats more than any other full day activity I can think of.
Martin Shkreli was extremely intelligent, and the court recognized that. He continued to not show remorse (I think it's arguable that he did a bit more than simply not show remorse), why shouldn't the court believe that he truly is not remorseful?
It was really surprising to me that Walmart, being as anal about logistics as they are, didn't invest all that much in their digital marketplace. Even now their website is not ideal.
I don't write C but I have to imagine that the language being small doesn't really save you from having to look up stuff in documentation. If the language doesn't have it surely some library will and you'll have to read the docs no? The "problem" has just been outsourced.
Was it a Ponzi scheme? I've read that he basically lost his investors money in a real investment failure, and then 'donated' some of his shares from his other, unrelated company to make the investors a profit and look good.
I'd recommend saying so in your emails. I think your service does have value but I was turned off by the cold email. Our .edu emails get tons of messages from companies saying they are impressed by our skills when in reality they sent the email to the entire listserv. If you really are personally evaluating candidates, say so. Honestly, that would be a big plus in my eyes and I'm sure many others. Little things like that make all the difference.
Not in my opinion.

I remember those interviews, with the black turtle necks. She was playing the part of genius, but looked full of it, especially with all the secrets.

She is basically being fined $500,000. This is pocket change. I imagine so much money is hidden. This hidden money just might be the next fraud charge?

"Bared from hiring as an officer, or director for 10 years."

She will get hired on somewhere under Something of Something, even though she's a complete fraud? She didn't even finish her degree? Hell--most people don't know anything about blood testing. In a few months, the victim will be on stage somewhere. "If a was a ---, I wouldn't be treated this way!"

She got off very light. She's pretty enough to be scooped up by a Valley Boy. We have not heard the end of her. She will be fine.

I can't imagine any retirement money went into the company, so I really don't care about the 1 percenter's who lost some pocket change.

The only thing I'm glad about is no one is going to sport the black turtle neck, for awhile at least--that look belongs to Steve anyways. Any maybe, when the genius card is thrown around, people might do a little homework?

She did enter the market, with the right look, pedigree, though. The Lookers were looking for the next Zuck. Oh well, and the band plays on.

(I have a feeling under Trump's reign, the SEC, federal courts will go very easy on these types. So--if your planning on doing something fraudulent, white, and have family money; go to work.)
Hospitals which experience surges of unexpected trauma victims publish post-event write ups. I've read a couple on the web. They basically go to triage, training and practice.

Your german hospitals will all be thinking about this, all the time. Any construction site in a german city is only one mis-placed digger bucket away from an unexploded wartime 4000kg blockbuster bomb event.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass-casualty_incident

Just google "mass casualty incident" -They think about this. You will be looked after as best you can, because its planned for.
But - how do you know for sure that Bezos had a master plan all along? It could have been a series of cunning changes just as well.
Exactly!

One of the basic skills that an instruction gives you is the ability of quickly reading and categorize informations as you go.

When you went through studying tons of books, skimming short texts becomes a breeze.
Just rely on an extern mod to integrate the voice for the mod and continue.
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> Compilers could stop worrying about obscure/old architectures.

No they wouldn't. They still need to turn WebAsm/IR into assembly, which is the thing they already do today anyway. Nothing changes for compilers, other than the potential for optimizations gets much, much worse as the IR is comparatively crippled and restricted to the IR they already have.

> Deploying an application onto multiple platforms is no longer a problem.

This has never been the result of CPU instructions. That's a library problem, not an IR problem. WebAsm does nothing to help with this, particularly as it intentionally has no real standard library to speak of.

Or put another way every compiled program is already on a perfectly portable IR called x86_64. Runs on just about every desktop, laptop, and nearly every server in the world. Yet good luck writing a portable "hello world" in it.

It marginally reduces your release artifacts as you only produce a single webasm set instead of x86, x86_64, arm7, and armv8, but using webasm instead comes at non-trivial costs, too. Instead of compiling once on a known toolchain you're now compiling millions of times on uncontrolled, unknown toolchains. That's not a great trade-off in many, if not most, circumstances.

> Sandboxing is much simpler.

Sandboxing is already a solved problem using process isolation, which has the nice property of not caring how your process runs at all. What benefit does WebAsm add to this?

> Formal verification becomes possible (the WebAssembly spec actually reads like a spec, unlike the C standard which reads more like a religious text).

WebAsm is an intermediate, not a source. Formally verifying it is about as useful as formally verifying assembly. Which is to say, not useful at all. That doesn't help you verify anything about your code, which was a compiler, optimizer, and god knows what else away from the webasm that was generated.

It's good that the spec is actually a spec, but this isn't a unique trait to webasm and it won't help your code any since your code isn't in webasm. It's still in C/C++, Rust, or whatever else and they all remain just as verifiable (or not) as they always were.
This is usually how it's done. See, for example, OpenMW. It extracts the resources from your already-installed copy of Morrowind during the installation.

E: Also, some total conversion mods will make a copy of your game installation, then install itself into that copy. I think (it's been a while since I've played them) that Nehrim (Oblivion) and Enderal (Skyrim), both from SureAI, do this.
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> "People are sick of the Federal Reserve, sick of bailouts, sick of inflation. You know what we need? Internet money with the usability of PGP and the stability of BART service"
The last para is even crazier.

> Ms. Holmes and Balwani falsely claimed to investors [...] and that Theranos would generate more than $100 million in revenues in 2014, the SEC said in its complaints. In fact, the company’s revenues were a little more than $100,000 that year.

I couldn't figure out why investors were putting all that money in. Telling them you were making $100m makes the investments make a hell of a lot more sense.

What's 3 orders of magnitude between friends? She deserves prison time for this.
Interesting I wonder why there hasn't been any action taken against the the three senior executive that were previously reported to have done similar:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-07/three-equ...
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There's quite a push in many disciplines, but there's many different circumstances that make it difficult, such as monographs being more common than articles, research moving slower, fear of scooping, and just habits in general.

(Disclaimer: I have started a project aimed at getting more arxiv-like initiatives in other disciplines off the ground, but am pivoting a bit now as I've noticed that the barrier to running such initiatives is also rather high: https://medium.com/flockademic/announcing-flockademic-academ...
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> the Go lib sqlite3 just provides bindings for the C library

So compile SQLite for your target platform and use the bindings?
Meta, but I'm really turned off by this gatekeeping title.
I see it a little differently. I think the world has just gotten too big to comprehend.

In a small town, you could conceivably have firsthand knowledge of every restaurant and person you see each day. As we trade and communicate over longer and longer distances, we rely more on the opinions of things like Zagat/Yelp, intermediaries like booking/expedia, etc. These intermediaries are becoming extremely powerful as growing numbers rely on them, and all business is transacted globally.

In "the olden days", perhaps you could be just good at a craft. Now it feels like every single person has to play this elaborate reputational game, down to the level of individual careers, etc. I think it's always been like this in the law profession but it's spreading to everything as more of what we do is traded.

Blog post on this topic: https://blog.shortbar.com/the-end-of-the-country-developer-7...
Ask HN: YC hackathon Apr 13th, need idea? a team?
If we'd like to apply, are we expected to have an idea or a team assembled beforehand?

Can anyone who is familiar with YC hackathons before can share some details on the format of the event? and what we can expect compared to a traditional hackathon?

If so, I'm an entrepreneur with full stack skills looking to attend the event with a team.

email patrick.y.xie at gmail
I saw this go by and was a bit confused. Normally the way this is done they don't supply the content from the original game you have to provide your own copy which you then mod to use the newer version of the engine. You might need a copy of both the old game and new game to legally have everything you need to produce the modified version.

I don't see what claim a copyright holder has against either the user of the mod or developer of the mod. I thought this was one of those first sale doctrine things where once you buy it's yours to use modulo restrictions against redistribution and EULA related things with questionable legality.
Because criminal litigation can foreclose other criminal litigation from the same transaction, meaning that splitting up criminal litigation power crestes a significant risk that an agency would accidentally block prosecution of more serious offenses within a different agencies jurisdiction. Centralizing prosecutorial authority prevents that.
My brief advice is: it's easier to work backwards.

Said another way, rather than falling in love with one domain and working hard to get it, try to come up with a shortlist of ~10 domains that are acceptable where they aren't obviously in use, and then work that list until you get something that's acceptable for you.

(Also, depending on your budget, also happy to connect you with the domain broker we used.)
Perhaps we are all in a simulation and the galaxy rotation is tied to a single clock source. Developers are sometimes a little lazy.
> but now read The Economist, The SF Chronicle, Stratechery, and a handful of blogs from authors I trust. I

I'm the complete opposite. I've gone from being a subscriber to the economist, nytimes, npr, etc and accepting them as gospel to seeing them for agenda pushing institutions.

> but I suspect "willingness to pay for good information" is a pretty strong correlate of wealth worldwide.

I think you are missing the point. The wealthy don't read the economist. The wealthy hire the people to write in the economist.

Ultimately, social media is ( or at least has been ) the "people's" propaganda. The economist/etc are the wealthy elite's propaganda. It looks like the elite want to take over social media and make it part of their message platform as well.
When I was in the Marine Corps, we didn't need a 3D printer, we just improvised.

Best job I have ever had.
The thing is... it shouldn't be this way.

The whole point of TLS is to provide privacy, integrity, and authority. Having a secured connection is pointless if it's a connection to an attacker. Oh, great, nobody can spy on my connection to the NSA.

All DNS is supposed to do is to point you at the server to get your connection from. It isn't supposed to mediate the security of the connection.

This is back to the old chicken-and-egg of public key crypto: public key connections are secure, as long as you provide the initial host key in a secure, out-of-bound method. If an attacker can circumvent this and inject their own initial host key, they can MITM. Hence why PKI exists: to prevent an outside service from defeating the security of the connection. But apparently, DNS can compromise the connection, by allowing attackers to just generate certs willy-nilly if they can guess your GoDaddy account password.
I wish this view didn’t have a reputation of being conspiracy, because if the perch of criticality can be achieved, this process is very accessible and observable. Media theory can be very nuanced but the general ideas are daily routine for any American, but we lack daily awareness.

The awareness is very obviously hindered by capitalism. The market incentivizes misrepresentation.
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The judicial system makes calculations to mitigate punishment based on belief of whether someone will present a danger to society. This includes the sentencing decided by the court, and subsequent reviews by parole boards. You think it better to eliminate such leniencies and move toward mandatory sentencing and 3-strikes type of policies?
Maybe you can reach out via email, it's in my profile. I'd rather not tear into Nim in this thread, we're getting pretty off-topic.
> I have encountered many people who have internalized "fake it" to mean "pretend that you are hitting all your milestones and you executing against your plan".

This thread is the first time I've heard it applied seriously as to encourage lying and fraud.

Another similar common saying is "dress for the job you want, not the job you have." But sayings imply that you should act as if you've made it even if you haven't. You aren't "what you want to be," but you can present yourself in that way.

Finally, while you may have met many people who have turned "fake it" into lying and fraud, they are not the majority.

> Everyone should believe in themselves.

At least you admit here admit I'm right.
It should be noted that sociopath is not a formally defined psychological term currently in use. The modern terms closest to the term are conditions like Antisocial personality disorder and Conduct disorder. And those conditions are associated with lower, not higher, IQs. The same is the case for serial killers (http://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Serial%20Killer%20Information... and https://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/serial-murde...). One of the primary symptoms of those conditions is poor impulse control and planning ability.

I've never seen the claim that serial killers tend to be small business owners, do you have a source for that?
> I know Americans call it soccer

Correct, and most native English speakers are American. That doesn't even account for Canada or Australia where it has also traditionally been called soccer.

The fact that the "F" stands for "Football" in the name of an organization with a French name seems irrelevant.
Point of clarity: are all of your services rendered remotely? No need to move to a big city (until a job requires it, at least)?
While arXiv is great, the sad thing is that even in disciplines where researchers are used to reading research from there, researchers still feel the need to publish in regular journals (understandably [0]), which keeps us dependent on the traditional publishers and hence wastes a lot of public money...

[0] https://medium.com/flockademic/the-ridiculous-number-that-ca...
It's pretty close. If you use the download feature on a playlist that contains local files while in the same network, the file is copied to the device. So you'd have it at the gym or at work, you just need to make sure you've downloaded it to the device first.

It's basically music upload without the upload (and therefore always-available nature).
Yup, everything is online.
> I never claimed that language features can obviate all the things.

You did more than that: you've suggested that C was only usable if a pile of safety infrastructure by providing sqlite as your proof, and once that claim was debunked you kept insisting on your baseless assertion.

> I'm just saying that you can't use SQLite as proof that C is A-OK okey dokey

There is no need to prove that because it's quite obvious that C is fine. If you feel the need to prove otherwise then you need to put forward your own proof. Either you support your baseless assertions with rational and tangible claims or you're just venting an irrational dislike. Meanwhile the world runs on C and has been running for decades.

> it's OK to just keep programming in it forever, because it does not use C. If you're not putting in that much effort to your C codebase, then you're not getting those results.

You're somehow turning a blind eye to the fact that that "effort" is patently language-independent and has absolutely nothing to do with C. Either you somehow missed the whole point of the post or for some reason felt the need to keep repeating baseless claims that were already debunked.

I have no idea why you've developed an irrational hatred of C, but it clearly is a personal issue, not a technical one.
Yes it does do roughly half of online sales.

>If you are thinking that online sales will eclipse retail in the near future (even groceries: http://www.nielsen.com/tz/en/insights/news/2017/grocery-e-co...), and that this is an inflection point in buyer behavior, then Walmart is a leader who will run out of gas soon, and Amazon is just hitting their stride.

That is not likely. The report you are citing does not support the projection you are making.

>then Walmart is a leader who will run out of gas soon, and Amazon is just hitting their stride.

This kind of fantasy is almost ubiquitous among people who write articles about tech-y business or who run non-ecommerce internet businesses. However it is not supported by actual breakdown of online vs. physical retail sales.

See Nielson on what that breakdown is: http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/news/2017/as-us-retail...

You can't necessarily draw a straight line based on the growth or even compare the US directly to China which has a much greater proportion of online vs. retail sales. There are various complications across many different product types that make it challenging for pure online mail order to completely displace physical retail.

The complete lockstep faith in this 'inflection point' stuff that I have seen and heard from people leads me to be extra-skeptical of it. Just because Marc Andreessen said it doesn't make it so.

Pretty much every dollar my household brings in comes directly or indirectly from ecommerce. I am very personally invested in the continued growth of ecommerce. But I am also quite aware of the many difficulties and risks that the industry faces.
Go has a bad fitness to this kind of problem as any language with non-deterministic GC would.

Candidates may be: C, C++, Rust and maybe Swift(if the deterministic ref-counting doesnt get in the way).

Of course you can do it in other langs, but it wont be able to compete with products made in languages with better fitness to this.

Eg. CouchDB vs. MongoDB. The first invented the concept, but the later used a language with better fitness for the kind of problem, and therefore was able to create a better product.
Battery powered ships to transport all the oil they are selling?
I don't think that is OP's point or intention. I read that as saying in the good 'ol days on a small forum someone spewing nazi rhetoric would get reported/taken care of by the community. But now that the internet is so widespread, the few people who spew nazi rhetoric can find eachother and create a decent sized group which can't be stopped as effectively. Then trolls join in and it snowballs out of control.