skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you could have done from the beginning was to sell on the debt to a debt collection company. It's something you can still do now, and you will sleep easy in the knowledge that the collectors will not let the matter rest until they get their due. Note also that the threat of selling a debt is often much more effective than that of legal action.
I suppose open threads by default would be more friendly, or maybe defaulting to open for mobile layouts.

But it taking more time would kind of be the point - opting in to participate rather than opting out by scrolling past content means fewer sarcastic comments about how a thread is off topic and irrelevant.
Choosing a Winning Business Idea
Thank you for this thoughtful reply.

> not thinking about stuff isn't always as straightforward as just pushing it out of your mind

That has been the problem. I will 'get over' it and not think about it for months, but eventually I am reminded of the situation and angry thoughts return.

Whether I eventually take legal action or not, these seem like useful techniques.
The professional delegation of this issue to a Lawyer can be your closure. This is when your emotional anguish ends -- after that, it's no longer personal. Sure, you'll pay $600-$900 for the consultation plus a % contingency fee, and one hour to explain the issue. However, the moment you hand it over to your council, it's settled.

The Lawyer will draft the invoice reminder, and a scary advisory that it's a bad idea to build a business upon stolen intellectual property and know-how. They will follow up directly with the CFO of the organization, professional to professional. It might cause the CFO to have a meeting to discuss the risks of not paying. The lawyer may decide to play a short or a long game. They may decide that it's simply not worth it to pursue further. In any case, once it's delegated, it's their professional opinion, and you accept it.

In this way, you've done what you can, and you've moved on with your life. If you get a check in the mail a few months (or years) later, great. If the concern about a check arriving in the future causes you anxiety, this one is also easy to solve, tell your attorney that the beneficiary of any money extracted is the local food bank. Then it's closed. You move on.
Resend a demand for payment. The possible answers include "A check." and "A universe of other responses, any of which you can get checked by a letter-writer." For example, "X Corp owes you money. I don't." is entirely possible. It is an incredible step forward over where you are today.
In the poker community, nobody ever writes a contract for anything, but people typically still pay off their debts. One strategy for dealing with outliers that has shown success is creating a website like this:
http://www.stevenwareisathief.com/
People don't like it when you can google their name to learn about their misdeeds, and tend to feel their reputations are worth paying off their debts.
Reading the abstract and the conclusion is the most important part of reading and selecting academic papers. Especially in the beginning.

If you read the abstract and the conclusion you should have a good sense of what this paper is about, what it is trying to prove, and perhaps also a sense of how they prove this. These are the primary factors for you to see if this paper is worthwhile to you.
You did not read the long story, or you lack the ability to understand the written word, or both.
It seems that a group of humans have discovered how to automate vampirism.
However, the good part with buying train tickets from a machine is that the machine always knows your local language (in this case, Swedish, and English, and possibly a variety of other languages). This is not necessarily true with low-paid service workers. I'm pretty happy to buy my Arlanda Express tickets from a machine. You'd never have enough service booths if they had to have people in them.
Thanks you, that a great advice. I think you are right about applying pressure on youself, that might be the case. I'm getting very anxious trying to get things right from the first shot.

Another thing I noticed is that the less you care about the outcome of the interview, the more likely you are to succeed.

That said, it seems that the key to master those interviews seems to be the mind control, rather than raw experience and intelligence.

On your last point: I don't have any problems showing off expertise and I have a bunch of cool side-projects. The problem is that I'm weak at the low-pass filter of a basic technical screening.
But VC's are investing in very high risk investments not the sort of mature companies that big generalist funds/trusts invest in.
The sabbath mode on my oven:
1) oven light is disabled when you open the door
2) when you press the start button, the oven starts after a random period of time
I am actually on mobile, and the biggest problem on mobile is spotty coverage. I click stuff and there is a slight animation but no more data shows.

I have no idea if that was because a TCP connection broke, or if this is just a design concept and the actual data is missing. I have to reload the whole page, then click down to the sub-heading I just opened and try again to know.

I haven't looked, but I get the impression you don't have any error handlers (or maybe there are crazy high timeouts?). You should always, especially if your users are on mobile networks, to put up some sort of spinner when loading data and make a serious effort of handling the errors that inevitably happens.
This is true. It is a problem that this is taking up so much unwarranted space in my mind. But that's why I finally wrote about it and am seeking advice.

To play devil's advocate, wouldn't it also be a red flag to have someone in your fund who simply rolls over and gives up when they have been clearly wronged?
Well to be honest I enjoy writing Erlang as it is. But there is something about python -- the language, the flow, the imports, the speed, the tools -- which makes it a pure joy to work with
http://blog.regehr.org/archives/213

I would downvote you, too, if I could.
Naturally I had to introduce Martin Luther to Eliza the Psychotherpist.

"Luther: The hellish Satan drives you.

Eliza: Why do you say the hellish satan drives me?

Luther: You are like a magician who conjures gulden into the mouths of silly people, but when they open their mouths they have horse dirt in them.

Eliza: Is it because when they open their mouths they have horse dirt in them that you came to me?

Luther: You run against God with the horns of your pride up in the air and thus plunge into the abyss of hell. Woe unto you, Antichrist!

Eliza: I would appreciate it if you would watch your tongue!

Luther: I was frightened and thought I was dreaming, it was such a thunderclap, such a great horrid fart did you let go here! You certainly pressed with great might to let out such a thunderous fart - it is a wonder that it did not tear your hole and belly apart!

Eliza: Does it bother you that it did not tear my hole and belly apart?

Luther: Is not what I said before true, that you have eaten and drunk yourself full of devils, and so spew vainglorious devils out of your hellish gorge?

Eliza: What do you think?

Luther: You reek of nothing but Lucian, and you breathe out on me the vast drunken folly of Epicurus.

Eliza: Perhaps you could try to be less abusive."

I stopped there.
That's debatable.

I actually had the same impression from my Google interview, but at the same time they claim that they actually judge you based on you cognitive skills, rather than the output.
Is There a Line at Berghain?
Entrepreneurs have mixed fillings about the apple watch
I completely agree most applicants are going to be ones you wouldn't want to hire (this is true for any job) but it's not going to be as low as only 1% are worth hiring (which is what the comment I was replying to was suggesting). Even your 5% number seems suspect (i.e. that sounds like your company doesn't have good screening to determine who to interview...you shouldn't need to interview twenty people to fill a position).
Then why not say leveraged buyout firms, since your issue is with an exceptionally small segment of private equity, instead of referring in general terms to private equity (and PE CEOs) across your entire post?

Having a good understanding of what KKR does, I fail to see how they're so bad. Most of KKR's deals have involved voluntary buyouts, which were then spun back off and voluntarily purchased by other investors. Almost all of the deals that made them famous in the 1980s were friendly deals.

Can you give me a better understanding, in a short summary, of why KKR is so terrible?
I remember this being a hot topic on usenet back in the '90s. It's great to see it getting an outing today, and inciting equally as vigorous argument!
Accepting that I have to read a paper two or three times before I really understand it has been the biggest breakthrough I've had.

Usually this is because I just didn't have the background to understand the paper until I read it, but academic papers can be pretty poorly written. For example, a recent paper hinged upon something that I considered physically impossible - only in the last paragraph did it explain why it wasn't (they were even like "everyone is probably assuming this is impossible - here's why it's not". I really wish that had led with that as it was an overwhelmingly convincing argument.
you are right, I didn't read the long story, just the comments I replied to.

but if he had gotten the 2/3 payment it would have been long-since spent by now. his problem specifically seems to be that the guy,

>However, while Project A was in progress, he presented it as his own work to land himself a job as an investor, and then used that to land himself a seed round for a tangentially related but materially different Project B years later.

>I make no claims for the funding he received from Project B -- it's just bothersome that he earned it off of my back (to a degree).

It simply sounds like sour grapes. This is in the longer version too:

>Shortly after, the client presented the site I had built in job and business school interviews and on his LinkedIn profile. He landed himself a job at an investment firm working as an advisor for startups, worked there for a few years, and managed to land himself a seed round as CEO of a company that -- get this -- provides business and accounting support for startups.

>Now, four years later, I am more established and quite satisfied with my career. I can afford legal representation. But I am having trouble letting this go. I think about it often. The money isn't the issue -- it's a matter of pride. This guy used me for his own financial benefit, lied to me, and is now starting a business purportedly to help freelancers.

A central theme by OP is that the guy "used him". But OP could have also "used project A" to land OP_project_B and seed funding for it. it's just that he didn't.

honestly, this seriously comes off as sour grapes given the extra information I've now read.
Jeff: They might be effectively leavened, but that's the whole point of a legal system, and of scholars to interpret it. What looks to you (or me) as a layperson like the same thing might not be the same at all. In this case, the technical definition trumps what might seem like leavening to you, because of debates and decisions that rabbis had about 2,000 years ago.

Of course, you can decide not to eat such kosher-for-Passover products. I do know some people who refuse to eat things that look like the year-round versions, because they feel like it's too close to the "real" thing."

As for sparks and electricity, the legal reasoning has nothing to do with "work." It has to do with "melacha," which is often poorly translated as "work," but has absolutely nothing to do with physical exertion. Rather, it has to do with creation, destruction, or just changing the nature of the world.

For 2,000 years, Jews have avoided anything having to do with light or fire on Shabbat. Electricity posed a bit of a problem -- here was a way of lighting and heating that was previously unknown, and which didn't fit previous legal categories. Should it be allowed or not? There were debates over this, and many Conservative rabbis argue that it's totally OK to use electricity on Shabbat.

I grew up in a home that used electricity on Shabbat, and I slowly came to the conclusion that even if it's permitted to use electricity, my Shabbat is radically enhanced by not doing so. Not using the computer, not using the phone, not watching TV -- these make my experience better and special, rather than worse.

Is that sometimes a pain? Yes, it is. But I have found that the trade-off is more than worthwhile.

Moreover, as I wrote in a previous comment, much of Jewish law is a forcing function toward community involvement. By forbidding people to drive on Shabbat, you increase the chances of having a culture of home hospitality and spending time with friends -- something is nearly universal among people who don't drive on Shabbat, and something which is almost completely non-existent among those who do.

Even if you could argue that driving a car is OK on Shabbat (and there are very few ways to justify that; remember that it's also forbidden to drive a horse or ride a bicycle), the social ramifications that I've seen are almost entirely detrimental to the community. Non-driving communities tend to be much closer knit than those in which people do drive.

So, why not do these things? Because it changes the way in which the day operates -- for you, for your family, and for your community. This doesn't mean that it's meaningful or appropriate for everyone, I'll admit.
Marketing/advertising is a bullshit job 99% of the time (the only time it isn't is when the product you are marketing is not well known and is a better option for some people than a competitor's product).
I never trust in tiobe. Never ever ever :)
Chalk it up to life experience.

You should always have a contract even a simple hand written one is better than nothing. While you maybe getting screwed over you still, imho, need to take some personal accountability for not managing your business affairs. At least enough to the degree that permits you to let it go emotionally.

Also, how much money are we really talking about here? A few months work at just out of school wages? Seems to me like that's peanuts compared to real cost it has taken being on your mind over the years.
> due to the large number of homes which are owned by foreigners and are vacant. I'm not aware of a concrete way of measuring this.. but anecdotally, I suspect it's close to 30-40% of the downtown residential core.

There have been studies out of UBC that estimate 30%+ van can't condos in the downtown area by using anonymize do BCHydro electricity usage data. As far as I know this number has been increasing. This has gone on for so long that the city, province, and federal government (all three are implicated) are between a rock and a hard place. Canada has one of the highest levels of personal debt-to-income ratios because property prices are overvalued. Anything they do now to try to correct for affordability, and bring down property values would result in a large number of defaults for domestic owners, and big hit to the economy.
I completely agree with you.

Unfortunately, the best companies use this interview process (at least for initial screening). Yes it is broken, but I think of it just as a set of hoops you have to jump through to show your ability to commit (i.e. in this case get better at algorithmic trivia).

I'm not desperate for any job, but I am desperate for a job in a breakout company.
One of the key differences between poet-musicians and lawyers is that if the former group do something that benefits you, you quite literally hear it. Corporate lawyers talking the board out of doing something damaging to the public because of potential legal ramifications do so behind closed doors. And lawyers for public companies are often quietly propping up the value of an awful lot of ordinary people's savings even when defending frankly indefensible acts. Similarly, the public is only indirectly picking up the tab for the production and distribution of unpopular music albums.

Shareholder return isn't an especially useful gauge of the redeeming features of sleazy corporate lawyers or artistic merit of moderately unsuccessful musicians either, but calculations of social benefit are a lot more complex than they first appear
> The people saying they support gays but are against gay marriage are the same ones helping African governments pass laws enacting the death penalty for homosexuality.

I'm curious what this alleged political process actually looks like -- are people writing checks to re-elect Robert Mugabe? -- and the extent to which "people saying they support gays [etc]" here in America actually are participate in that sort of process. When I hear those words, I think of some of the people behind SB 296 in Utah, the antidiscrimination legislation which has received praise from both the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the American Civil Liberties Union.

Also, way to go easy on the left. "High speed trains" is the worst you could do? Ha! You could at least apply the "help African governments" standard and start digging through their support of various leftist / Marxist regimes for convenient atrocities, I'm sure there's something :P
It wasn't so crystal clear then. I'm assuming the documentary you saw was Nova's "Battle of the X Planes". Recall that a Navy requirements change made Boeing's design overweight, so it never performed any STOVL operations in its full flight configuration. Lockheed Martin had an aircraft with enough margin to do a short takeoff, supersonic dash, and then land vertically, all in the same trim. So the DoD had to choose between Lockheed, which had a plane that had already shown it could fulfill the mission, and Boeing, which proposed to build an aircraft significantly different than it had tested and hadn't had a single flight that demonstrated all capabilities like LA had.

Proven versus unproven. That's the choice that was present.
I think you could just ask for clarification. I suppose the whole point is to have a conversation.

Of course this again biases against people who suck at interviewing (too nervous or whatever).
> Consider the set ( -10, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 20, 50).

I didn't say it was impossible to construct a set that would yield only 10% as above average, I said there "is no reasonable definition of average" - if you feel the above set accurately represents the distribution of the caliber of developers then we clearly have very different opinions of what's "reasonable."
Please do share. I am nonplussed as to why someone (on HN, the bastion of entrepreneurial culture, nonetheless!) would have problems with a societal framework that is #1 for doing business.
First, the title is click bait and inaccurate; short of the author having a magic crystal ball, this is 100% speculation and theory.

The move from PowerPC to Intel was great and helped break down several barriers that were in the way. While ARM could offer them some advantages, it has its own downsides that must be factored, and is not as clear a slam dunk.

Also, the author references a projection they made three years ago about how ARM-Based macs are coming - Which would make sense if it actually since came true, but there has been no change in the state of ARM on Mac's that would justify even mentioning this. They are still making a wild guess that still has not come true.

So maybe they'll roll out a mac mini with an ARM processor - or maybe something else entirely. Or nothing. It's (relatively) safe to say they'll keep pushing the ball, but it remains to be seen which direction.
Then why did several examples come from UK universities?
I live in a US state where the deadline to bring breach of contract claims is six years.
by giving up hours, all of the precious times your phone is put away and you can fully participate and be present in the world around you, you can save seconds a day.
It appears the author was only looking at gist indexes (which AFAICT haven't got faster in 9.4), rather than gin indexes (which have).

Gin indexes can certainly be used with the trigram extension, in exactly the same way as the gist ones, and you would generally tend to expect gin to be faster for queries, but slower for updates and inserts, compared to gist, though I've never done a serious comparison on trigram data.
Thanks. I'm starting to feel like, as you mention, I need to at least go through the legal motions to feel like I've done everything I can.
Dynamic LokiJS Views and Flux Stores
Can I ask why 2nd criteria?
I find the idea that writer thinks they have a chance competing with $17,000 Rolex watches laughable. Yest they may all be machine made, but they long heritage and are globally recognized as a high end watch.
The article does touch on this:

> According to our Immigration Minister “There is little evidence that immigrant investors as a class are maintaining ties to Canada or making a positive economic contribution to the country”. Indeed, there is an estimated 300,000 – 400,000 Canadians living in China, the majority of whom are ethnic Chinese.

If someone who started life as a foreigner, with no ties to Canada at all, comes along and essentially buys Canadian citizenship, then continues living in China, do they stop being a foreigner? Whilst they are indisputably Canadian citizens, i would say they aren't Canadian in any other sense, and so yes, they are still foreign. They aren't even immigrants, as they never immigrated!

Whereas, of course, someone who moves to Canada and makes a life there is a real immigrant, and becomes a real Canadian. I don't think the author of the article would dispute that.
Read the abstract. Then the figures. Then the introduction. Then the conclusion. If you're still in the paper, read the whole thing.
A gorgeous visualization of 200 years of immigration to the US
I remember the advances being made by companies like Wang and MIPS in the 80's and early 90's - things which seem so foreign and distant today, yet still we're working towards them. Wang, for example, had some amazing document/image-management features which are still yet to be realized in the modern era. When I think about all the tech that Wang put into making a decent system, how it was all taken for granted - and subsequently lost as new markets emerged to ruin the company - its astonishing!

It makes me wonder what sort of things we're taking for granted today which will be re-invented in the decades to come, spiced up with a bit of marketing-boy fairy dust, and rolled out to the masses for consumption.
I've now read that Apple Watch Edition gold has more gold per unit volume (this article, [0]), and less gold per unit volume ([1], [2]). Which is it?

[0] http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/03/is-apples-real-watch-in...

[1] http://pdfaiw.uspto.gov/.aiw?PageNum=0&docid=20140361670

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-watch-special-gold-cera...
There are in fact a huge number of both usability and accesability issues with this that do not exist with the original:

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-c-manual/gnu-c-manual.html
Something similar happened to me, but with a different scenario. I hibernated my Arch Linux system and then booted into Windows (I unmount all of my NTFS partitions beforehand), did some work, and then rebooted into Linux again. The GNOME lock screen doesn't play nice with my NVIDIA drivers (closed-source), so it doesn't reinitialize the lock screen texture when it wakes up from suspend-to-RAM or suspend-to-disk. The lock screen now sported a portion of the desktop from the Windows system which was shut down before. It was a really interesting thing to see, but a bit unsettling too. Lots of surface for information leakage through VRAM, it seems.