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by akanet 5y ago
Any former employees interested in speaking to a motivated reporter about their experience, please feel free to contact me. My contact information is on my account bio. I am happy to speak to you completely off the record, in any manner tha
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by akanet 5y ago
Austen call me we can work through this gaffe
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by akanet 5y ago
Listen, I wrote underappreciated first and then had the parenthetical second for a reason. You read the entire piece and this is the bit you reacted to? Jesus Christ. The entire piece is completely factual. Name even one bit of the piece no
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by akanet 6y ago
I really haven't, maybe we can work out this misunderstanding. I think you really do need to hear a sincere perspective from the other side and I am happy to provide this for you privately. Reach out anytime!
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by akanet 6y ago
Austen unblock me on twitter. We can have an OTR chat about the current state of lambda. I promise none of it will be published if you don't want it to be.
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by akanet 6y ago
I found this blog post describing some of the mechanics, but I am still interested in reading how this may be implemented branchlessly. http://ticki.github.io/blog/how-lz4-works/
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by akanet 6y ago
There is no entity that would pay anywhere near that amount of money for this. This is useless to black hats, and of course no legitimate service could pay to exploit this flaw. The last remotely plausible actor is like, various espionage a
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by akanet 6y ago
I can imagine this simplifying the development of B2B SaaS tools that are primarily about presenting and interacting with data. The bit about broadcasting to a large number of clients is harder to see the value of in a Rails application whe
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by akanet 6y ago
My first job out of college was working on Fulfillment by Amazon, which was part of sellers central. The place was a huge mess technically, with like three different authoritative databases, and services constantly trying to second guess ea
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by akanet 6y ago
When I spoke to Allred about this, he indicated that he and pg did not have a particularly close relationship. If this is true, it seems likely that pg's vocal patronage is mostly based on the theory, not practice, of Lambda.
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by akanet 6y ago
sensationalized? how dare you. it was all completely factual reporting
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by akanet 6y ago
I did have to do some amount of flickr scraping from the dataset. The browser also aligns and crops the faces according the way nvidia did as well. I thought it would be an interesting commentary to look at the faces in the same way that th
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by akanet 6y ago
Oh, interesting. Do you see any js errors in your console log?
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Show HN: This Person Exists(thispersonexists.net)
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by akanet 6y ago
This is not the case. It's hard to overstate the magnitude of the increase in risk you take by pursuing a VC-backablr business strategy vs a bootstrappable one. There are many, many totally good business ideas that will "only&quot
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by akanet 6y ago
I read about half the paper but couldn't find an answer to my first objection (perhaps I missed it), but if this was the case, wouldn't we observe sudden changes in cognition in those who were subject to the strong magnetic fields
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by akanet 7y ago
Neuralink is even more speculative - they want to embed like a thousand tiny metal filaments deep into your brain.
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by akanet 7y ago
It's not disingenuous; I think an earlier draft had it. This came down from 4000 words. I'll try to ask my editor to add this as a correction but things are pretty hectic. It's a fairly minor omission in my opinion, but I und
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by akanet 7y ago
Why? Its prominence.
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by akanet 7y ago
Not having VCs of my own helped a lot!
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by akanet 7y ago
Yeah, got cut for brevity, but students definitely experience serious anxiety about even the five year horizon.
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by akanet 7y ago
i see now that i could have worded that better - but 10k per entire ISA, and half of ISAs minted
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by akanet 7y ago
Bootcamps probably need a longer and more rigorous trial period - one thing that students were really pissed about was that they didn't find out that Lambda was bad until after the month-long forgiveness period ended.
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by akanet 7y ago
allred copped to straight up actually selling ISAs in the past (despite denials) as well
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by akanet 7y ago
that's a fair enough point, and I suppose I could have built the point more clearly in the article that I feel that the actual transgression is a misleading statement made to a student.
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by akanet 7y ago
The claim made to the student is not that they have some long minded financial alignment with the student cohort in aggregate - it's that specifically, the school does not make any money off the student (individually) until the student
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by akanet 7y ago
I disagree that this is an accurate assessment of my claims. When you claim that you "never have" done something after you've already done it, you're making a statement about both the present and the past. Your point abo
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by akanet 7y ago
It's a coincidence. I was working on the story for five months, but some recent student unrest catalyzed Kate Clark's (excellent) reporting.
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by akanet 7y ago
Hi, I'm the author of the piece, perhaps better known here as founder of CoderPad. Feel free to ask me anything but things are a bit crazy right now!
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by akanet 7y ago
This is a really wonderful piece, written with a clear voice, style, and appreciation for history. Pieces like this make me glad to read HN, if only for a straightforward way of finding pieces like it somewhat regularly.

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