skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First you have to define what you mean by "genius", preferably in some way that is at least generally consistent with the commonly understood meanings. Then you have to assemble an unbiased set (very difficult) of people that fit your definition. Then you have to see what styles of thought that you didn't explicitly or implicitly filter for by your definition are also largely (and disproportionately) present in your set of geniuses.

Then after you have found you styles of thought dominant among geniuses, you have to see if they actually work as predictors.

I don't feel that the author of this article did these things.
The opacity of the market for shares in speculative ventures is the perfect breeding ground for conspiracy theories of that sort. Remember that most of what even the interested parties knows about any given deal (even the big ones like Instagram) is hearsay. There is no standard reporting format; nor any mandatory disclosure of ownership for startups. So even people who are involved in the process do not have a clear view of what is actually going on across the broader market. Everything that even experts 'know' about the startup funding environment comes mostly from press releases which are not objective in any way. The 'startup bubble', could be entirely the result of inflated numbers and bullish hope.
Yes, basically. UTF-8 doesn't encode a code point as a single integer; it encodes it as a sequence of bytes, with a particular order, where some of the bits are used to represent the code point, and some of them are just used to represent whether you are looking at an initial byte or a continuation byte.

I'd recommend checking out the description of UTF-8 in Wikipdia. The tables make it fairly clear how the encoding works: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Description
No 3d models for new proteins?

The protein databank exists precisely for that reason.

http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/home/home.do
Google makes the donation, so yes they get the tax benefits. However, as it still means twice as much money going to charity I don't know why anyone would have a problem with that.
The hinting looks fine and freetype2 is currently capable of emulating everything OSX or Windows does. The fonts look like (I'm no expert here) they are from the Liberation family that Red Hat created, and I'd agree that they are somewhat utilitarian and ugly.
Totally agree re: UTF-8 vs other Unicode encodings.

But are there still still hold-outs who don't like Unicode? Last I heard some CJK users were unhappy about Han Unification: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification
The strangest thing about Unicode (any flavor) is that NULL, aka \0, aka "all zeros" is a valid character.

If you claim to support Unicode, you have to support NULL characters; otherwise, you support a subset.

I find most OS utilities that "accept" Unicode fail to accept the NULL character.

FWIW, UTF-8 has a few invalid characters (characters that can never appear in a valid UTF-8 string). Any one of them could be used as an "end of string" terminator if so desired, for situations where the string length is not known up front.

We could even standardize which one (hint hint). I suggest -1 (all 1s).

UPDATE: I meant "strange" as in "surprising", especially for those coming from a C background, like me.
According to his first submits, he's in the online gambling (and maybe porn) industries.

Hence you're not likely to get a URL here.
though i am at the same ship, with a startup, the problem of his analysis is that he already has a lot of investments waiting for an exit. it would be nice to watch carefully opposite ideas to this, of course, with actual data.
http://www.utf8everywhere.org/#faq.cvt.perf

If the function you're calling with UTF8 is non-trivial, converting a few dozen bytes is unlikely to make a significant difference. Benchmark it, of course, but don't be surprised if you don't need to care. Modifying the DOM is probably going to be non-trivial.
if you're the CEO/CFO and you're not looking for every legal way to maximize shareholder value, then you're not doing your job.
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I am not sure that this will work anytime soon, even if NLP gets better substantially. I think the problem reduces to examination of patents and their novelty. I think that having algorithms to find related work is going to be hard to the point of it being unreliable. For example, in CS there is a trend of changing nomenclature every n years, which I think makes it hard to find related work.
If extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, what do farcical claims require?
http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2...

You don't have to use a DNS provider to do redirection with AppEngine.
The idea of making a chart from prime numbers is definitely not copywrite-able. So go for it! I got the idea from a knitting magazine where someone described a blanket with a chart of prime numbers that fascinated a student who walked by who was in a remedial math class. They had a small picture of part of the blanket, and I couldn't figure out how their method worked, but I put those ideas into a sweater.

I have attempted to write a children's book about using this idea to make cyphers or just fun art. But I haven't tried to sell it yet. And I did a library program that went over very well with kids. Anyway, if anyone makes a t-shirt let me know -- I'd order one.

Though maybe I should do it -- I've got several colored charts already made from when I was working on my book. Give me some time, and I'll make a cafe press account....
What a bizarre and unfortunate opinion. Too bad so many people actually believe that is the way it should be.
I am NOT 50!!!! (for a few more years, anyway.)
Are there any tech investors who say there is a bubble right now? Or do we not get to read about that until after the bubble pops and it becomes status-enhancing to have "known all along" that it was a bubble?
The mark isn't useless; it clearly identifies files as UTF-8 so they can be processed as such immediately. Otherwise a program has to "sniff" several bytes to see if the encoding could be something different, and it may not guess correctly.

Also, how can "all kinds of things" break with this mark? If something is reading UTF-8 correctly then it'll be fine with the mark; and if it's not reading UTF-8 correctly then it will screw up a lot more than the mark at the beginning of the file.
I haven't looked at the flux-less bonding patents mentioned in the article, so I'm not sure just how difficult it would be to create that bond without flux, but otherwise it shouldn't be that difficult in principle to spread a thin layer of solder paste, then attach the heatsink and heat them to reflow and form the bond. That's basically how the QFN[1] and other 'no-leads' ICs are mounted.

There are 2 big problems though: You've got a huge overhang area, so if you do use flux, it's not going to be able to escape, and will stay as voids in the joint. But if you don't, you'll have to find some other way to replicate the cleaning and oxide stripping behaviour in order to get the solder to bond properly. Chemical cleaning and then storage/soldering in an inert atmosphere might help, but I don't know.

Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, it's really quite hard to reflow (heat to melting point) the solder layer attached to your big heatsink, without bringing the whole assembly up to that temperature (what with the whole point of the heatsink being to get heat away from there as fast as possible). And if you do that, even if you don't fry the chip straight away, you've now got all that thermal energy stored in the large mass of the heatsink to dissipate. And it has to be done relatively evenly to avoid mechanical stress on the joint due to material expansion/contraction.

Actually yeah, having thought it through, it is going to be pretty tricky :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quad-flat_no-leads_package
"When this army got it's ass kicked and left with it's tail between its legs a few years later, leaving those farmers to live their own lives as they chose to, did our society come crashing down?"

You are seriously undereducated on this. Were you born this stupid, or did you put effort into it?

At the very least, go read about how the war was actually executed, and to what degree politicians influenced military decisions (where to bomb, etc.). Read about the push to let natives do more of the fighting, and read about how shitty the South Vietnamese government was. There were a lot of factors involved, and few of them were failures of the military.
Not that we know of, but we'll definitely look into it! If you could drop us a line at support@pythonanywhere.com with your OS and browser versions then we'll try to repro.
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This is a classic example of singling out one particular actor for blame when the problem is clearly systemic.

There is little value for society to spend its time saying, "Apple is bad because it minimizes, within the contours of the law, its tax burden." And, contrary to Mr. O'Reilly's assertions at the beginning of his piece, I don't say this because I think Apple can spend its money better than the US Government can. For this argument, I don't care either way because it's irrelevant; he merely dismissed a strawman.

The question has to do with our tax code. Is it achieving the goals that we created it to achieve? If so, then there is nothing to discuss, so presumably it's not. If it's not achieving its goals, let's look at the entire picture and talk about where its failures are and how we should change it. Attacking any one particular company is merely a distraction that impedes our ability to discuss the things that actually matter.
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Taxes are at a 50 year low. The current deficit is large with most of it coming from non-recurring expenses but with long term deficit of around $500 billion. Corporations are having record profits and are sitting on over $1 trillion in cash. Solution to the problem is easy. Tax more (or spend less but in the present situation that would be more hurtful than raising taxes). It can't be said that taxes are too high unless one is a fanatic that thinks all taxation is theft or evil. A lot of the large U.S. corporations pay no corporate taxes.

Consult Wikileaks cables for how corporations benefit from U.S. soft power and hard power. Apple benefits from being in the U.S. It should pay for this benefit. I don't know the optimum rate. It should not only pay for the tangible, easily understood benefits. It and other corporations benefit from the U.S. exerting its power to their benefit. The U.S. does this quite a bit.
We're looking into that, hopefully we'll get it fixed soon, but it's a problem in a third-party library we depend on so it's proving harder to fix than we'd hoped.
I'd love to hear about a PERSON who routinely went out of their way to overpay for a service. When was the last time you arrived at a store, saw a shirt, and said, "I'd like to pay you an extra $10 for this shirt because I believe in what you're doing."

Never.

For that matter, when was the last time you called up the IRS and said, "Dammit America, you're doing such a good job, I'm sending an extra $5,000."

Never. In fact, the most you or I have ever given extra is the $3 election fund.

Let's stop joking around, people. Companies, like people, are going to find ways to pay as little as possible, so long as it's legal. Let's stop blaming Apple and blame ourselves: reform the tax code to be simple, fair, and progressive.
-1 is not a valid Unicode code point. "All 1s" is not adequately defined without saying how many 1s – and Unicode does not specify a maximum bit width. Even if you said "the maximum Unicode code point", that is not all 1s – it is 0x10FFFF.
I disagree. From what I understand, he is not talking about government needing the money, but society needing the money (in his example, which is, after all, the central reason for his post, he talks about him taking in money for a group of people to organize an event for everybody).

This maps well to his addressing those "strawmen" libertarians. Most libertarian rhetoric builds on the fact that people have been made suspicious of government and are suggested to think of government as "the other". Likewise, you seem to try to force his argument on its head - Nobody argues whether government should exist and you suggesting it makes me wonder how closely you've read the post.

"The Government" is the subgroup of society who have been elected by the rest of society to invest part of societies resources to the advantage to everybody. The basic math being that society will be better off having spent the money in that way than had it kept the money. Whether or not you agree that that is happening, that is the basic plan.

Tims post simply says: If we want to be a society, that comes at a cost and somebody has to pick up the tab at the end of the night and the system to make that happen is called taxation.

Claiming that this in itself "fallacious argument" because you actually know what his argument is seems ambitious, but I simply have no idea where you take that from. Let's argue the reverse: Since you don't seem to disagree that a government in itself is a good concept, who do you think should pay the price for it?
It's not an opinion, it's a fact.

The opinion question is whether or not that's a moral job. Either way, it's still the job.
In context: $200k is roughly what attorneys are paid in their 5th-6th years at large firms that service large corporations. Lawyers are in surplus right now.

In finance, talented individuals are routinely paid well multiples of $200k for their work (even post-crash).

So while $200k is high for salaries generally, it certainly is not high enough to imply a shortage in a highly specialized field.
It's not bullshit, it's just that it isn't the only factor to keep in mind, and after a certain point, higher IQ doesn't seem to do much.
Gaming, yes. Not porn. And most of the focus is on building a platform and creating new games that can be licensed to entrenched casinos, vs. trying to compete with them. We deployed it as a Bitcoin casino because it was a quick way to bootstrap. The site is StrikeSapphire.com. Be warned, we block the US and TOR nodes, though.
That's the entire point of choosing -1 as an "end of sequence" marker for a UTF-8 string when the length is not known up front.

A byte containing all 1s is not valid in any Unicode encoding, so if one appears, you'd know you had hit the end of the string.
It's my understanding that overseas profits are only taxed when the money is brought into the U.S. Do most countries do this? Is this abnormal?
By the same logic Ballmer is doing right thing by collecting tax from every Android devices out there.
I think you may mean the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

We need to try more.
You are certainly welcome to your opinion, but it's unfortunate that you seem so heavily defined by your tools (especially when they aren't even one's you've written).
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Wait...why does Google say that how Android runs on Samsung's phone is Google's trade secret? I'd expect it to be Samsung's trade secret.
cat a b c

There you go, a BOM in the middle of the file.
Study suggests that knowing a secret, causes you to feel physically burdened.
No. NUL is backwards-compatible with ASCII, and is used everywhere. Choosing some arbitrary invalid UTF-8 byte for use as a terminator would be a terrible decision. If you want to handle NUL, simply use length-annotated slices instead of C-style NUL-terminated strings. Anything else is completely wrong.
What's most unfortunate is that he's drawing attention away from the real issue by whipping up this largely unfounded public safety concern.

There aren't a lot of places on earth that put SAMs in residential areas apart from North Korea.
There's always more data you can have. I was merely saying that the author presented enough data to make a credible argument, not that he was correct. His approach, though undebatably imperfect, is much more valuable than the typical "Complain because company x got acquired for too much damn money" approach you see most everywhere else.
If Nils wanted to claim it as a deduction, first he would have to claim it as income and pay gift tax.

Not worth it for him.

Google could deduct it either way - either as a donation or as a business expense.

The rules for paying tax are different for corporations (which incidentally is one of the reasons some self employed programmers incorporate).
"Qualified candidates will have at least 5 years of experience with using Flowmatic in an enterprise setting."
This makes me wonder, again, whether I have read a different article. If you want to attack the NYT piece, maybe you should comment on that thread, but this is the discussion about Tim O'Reilly's post containing reflections on the general theme, not apple as an actor in particular. That makes your comment seems misplayed here.
If you're reading something in pieces, like a buffer that fills 256 bytes at a time, you have to be careful. UTF-8 is a multi-byte encoding so the last byte in your buffer may not completely finish a code point. Unlike older code that can just read a bunch of bytes and use them, with multi-byte encodings you have to have a way to deal with "left-overs" until new bytes show up.

Fortunately the UTF-8 encoding (e.g. see the Wikipedia page) makes it clear when a byte is the beginning of a new point and it tells you how many intermediate bytes should follow.
Microsoft Research created Spec#, which extends C# to have Eiffel-style contracts (pre- and post-conditions) specified above a function body. While the requires and ensures aren't dependent types, they do allow for extended static checking via Microsoft's Z3 theorem prover.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spec_Sharp
This doesn't work well with handling ill-formed sequences.

The length is of course known upfront if not of the whole string but at least of the individual small substring.
I think you misunderstand -- I'm referring to the actual systems-level implementation of the browser engine itself. I'm not talking about the implementation of web apps.

Consider a pattern like this: A page calls document.createElement(), adds a large text node (say, the collected works of Shakespeare in text form) to it, calls window.getComputedStyle() on that element, then throws the element away. This series of DOM manipulations must go through the layout engine. If the layout engine knows only UTF-8, then the layout engine has to convert the collected works of William Shakespeare from UTF-16 to UTF-8 for no reason (as it needs an up-to-date DOM to perform CSS selector matching for the getComputedStyle() call). There is no reason to do that when it could just use UTF-16 instead and save itself the trouble.
I've had the same annoyances/issues when using recent base Ubuntu distros.

I really dislike alterations in user interfaces for what seems to be little end benefit, so looked around and found Xfce and LXDE which both have Ubuntu variants.

I've been running Lubuntu for a few weeks now and have been quite happy, and hopefully it will only change at a glacial pace.
Emacs calc is one of my favorite computer algebra systems: it can derive and sum and integrate, numerically or symbolically. It can do unit conversions, graph equations, and do geometry. It's really very neat and useful.
No, that would be overly relativistic. There is a huge corporate culture that drives tax law lobbying. This has created a situation where tax law more likely reveals the will of the corporations, not the will of the people.
Did you even read my comment? NULL is a valid UTF-8 character.

If specific languages and their standard libraries choose to treat it as a string terminator (C, I'm looking at you), well, then fine.

But it's still valid Unicode. If you claim to support Unicode strings, but don't support the NULL character in those strings, you don't support Unicode strings in their entirety.

Going further, there's nothing in the ASCII spec that requires NULL to only appear at the end of a valid string. That's a C language convention, AFAIK (maybe it started earlier...).
Unicode-compatible cat(1) would strip BOM from all but the first file.

Applying non-Unicode compatible utility to Unicode files of course doesn't work.
The problem I have with this is that there's a lot of conflating what "should be" with what is – he talks a lot about "intelligent investors" and "good investors" – but that says nothing about what is (or isn't) actually happening.

It's precisely when bad investments get made quickly, at irrationally exuberant levels that we get bubbles – and the claim is that there is exactly that sort of irrational exuberance going on with many startups/or in VC funding in the tech sector. The only thing that the author offers to refute that specific claim are his own assessments of valuations, but no hard numbers.

Further, he tries to argue that the Instagram purchase is justifiable because it's only 1% of FB's value – but that's just it – that sort of thinking is begging the question (in the old sense of the term) or circular. Based on what I've read, a 100 Billion valuation of FB would put its P/E ratio at around 100 – that's high. Really high.

So, what if it trades closer to a 20 P/E ratio (where many other tech companies are) – that means the Instagram purchase was nearly 5% of FB's worth – for a 13 person startup with no revenue – made only as a defensive play, according to some. To me, that's excessive.

Details aside, the whole point is that you can't use numbers from within the suspected bubble to support the argument that other numbers are rational and thus reflect the lack of a bubble.

Those sorts of short-sighted arguments are on my list of warning signs for a bubble. When we get enough of those, the idea of convergent evidences should lead objective observers to bet on it being a bubble...
I'm sorry, did you read mine? "If you want to handle NUL, simply use length-annotated slices instead of C-style NUL-terminated strings."

Seriously though, using 0xFF as a UTF-8 string terminator would be a terrible mistake.
Why should I choose vimified over spf13-vim? [Especially because I am on Windows and I don't see any details about Windows support.]

Also, why should I install plugins about languages which I don't care?
this is my background music.

http://youarelistening.to/chicago

police radio with ambient music.
You could argue that lower taxes on individuals stimulate demand and encourage job creation, too. More to the point, right now most of the fortune 500 companies are sitting on piles of cash and not hiring, so I question your "money making -> job creating" quote.

At the end of the day, we've got bills to pay, and any deviation from "everyone pays a fair share" should have the burden of proving it's worth it.
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That may be true, but I think the conditional probability that a person will kill you, given that they are stalking you, is much higher than the probability that a company will kill you after stalking you. The fact that an individual is stalking you is more significant than the fact that a company is.
FRACTRAN. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRACTRAN
Did you have any facts or logic, or were you hoping that casting VCs as the next subprime mortgage brokers would remove the need to present them?
Is this idea like Plaxo?
> Q: What do you think about BOMs?

> A: Another reason not to use UTF-16. UTF-8 has a BOM too, even though byte order is not an issue in this encoding. This is to manifest that this is a UTF-8 stream. If UTF-8 remains the only popular encoding (as it already is in the internet world), the BOM becomes redundant. In practice, many UTF-8 text files omit BOMs today.

That's one of the central points of the article --- "sniffing" is completely unnecessary if you can assume a UTF-8 encoding type.

You're right that the mark isn't useless, we want it to be useless.