Hacker News: demonshalo

New comment by demonshalo in "Ask HN: UK Startups – Are You Thinking of Leaving the UK Because of Brexit?"

demonshalo — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 13:02:55 +0000

No. I work as an advisor for a ton of startups and I a co-founder myself. There is no better place in Europe to be than the UK.

New comment by demonshalo in "Arabic characters found woven into burial costumes from Viking boat graves"

demonshalo — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 12:14:41 +0000

> That is interesting in the context of trade and cultural links, but is in itself exceptionally uncontroversial.

Exactly. It is more than likely that something like this is the result of trade. However, the way the narrative is built around "findings" like these by professors in the departments of said universities is something completely different.

New comment by demonshalo in "Catalan referendum: preliminary results show 90% in favour of independence"

demonshalo — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 01:20:35 +0000

This to me is essentially eternal political debate between the collective vs. the individual. Do we "put down" the individual in order to promote the well-being of the collective (read tyrannical majority rule) or do we value the rights of the individual regardless of they impact the collective? I am personally on the side of the latter.

Secession is by definition a break out from the collective. So considering what the collective wants seems to me like asking the majority to vote for their tyrannical interest (very biased way of doing things).

New comment by demonshalo in "London's Uber Ban Is a Big Brexit Mistake"

demonshalo — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 02:28:33 +0000

so can you therefor your opinion is invalid... Examine what is said on its own merit not according to who said it or why.

New comment by demonshalo in "A 400-year story of progress – How America became the world’s biggest economy"

demonshalo — Sun, 24 Sep 2017 22:00:10 +0000

so you are comparing a country to a union of countries to demonstrate that one country is not equal to 28... Here is the funny thing: depending on how you look at it, the US is still bigger than all those 28 combined. So no it's not a myth, it's just you conflating two different things!

New comment by demonshalo in "Ask HN: How did you get started in Network Security/Penetration Testing?"

demonshalo — Sat, 02 Sep 2017 07:38:33 +0000

I remember when I was 15 and asked that same question on hellboundhackers :D #nostalgia!

Jokes aside, go with Python. It was my first language and to this day I can't think of a better language for people to start out with!

Good luck to ya!

New comment by demonshalo in "The Accidental Elitist: Academia is too important to be left to academics"

demonshalo — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 11:48:38 +0000

> Descriptive science

The whole point of science is for it to be predictive though. Calling "descriptive science" (whatever that is) a science is sort of... wrong!

New comment by demonshalo in "We Need to Nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon"

demonshalo — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 13:00:16 +0000

> That expression is a cynical look at the relationship of the individual to the State: so long as my belly is full and I am entertained I'm all right Jack.

Wow. You just describe Sweden O.o I'm mighty impressed how this saying fits perfectly into the context of the modern Swedish culture!

New comment by demonshalo in "All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1"

demonshalo — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 12:52:35 +0000

Aside from a selected few, I am not very impressed with said "offering" :/ It feels as if it is all a bunch of recycled stuff. But I guess that's just the cynic in me talking!

New comment by demonshalo in "Ask HN: What's your spectacular burnout story?"

demonshalo — Sat, 19 Aug 2017 19:03:13 +0000

Watch Rick and Morty's S3 E3.

New comment by demonshalo in "Naming things (2015) [pdf]"

demonshalo — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 16:51:19 +0000

thanks for the links!

New comment by demonshalo in "Naming things (2015) [pdf]"

demonshalo — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 16:10:17 +0000

Couldn't we just come up with some convention for "expanded filenames" where the meta-data is included in the file name itself? In the UI portion, you see what you see now, no difference, but say anything after the // delimiter in the file name is considered meta data and not shown in the windows/terminal UI.

Not sure if it's a good solution but if I were to put the meta data somewhere I would somehow try to put it in the identifier of the file (the name) as it is data that would help me identify the file AND it's content!

New comment by demonshalo in "A Solution of the P versus NP Problem?"

demonshalo — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 05:59:05 +0000

Goes to show that even the even the so called "experts" are humans after all.

New comment by demonshalo in "OpenAI at the Dota 2 World Championships"

demonshalo — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 00:01:00 +0000

MEH. I am not impressed. Restricting the number of parameters and variables in order to produce a bot that can do 1 sub-set of tasks really well is nothing special imo.

Complexity and simulations of what you have not yet encountered is something humans can do with ease. This is not something a bot can do in a complex environment like DOTA.

I'll be the first to admit that I was wrong and that AI is truly a thing once I see a bot like this one beat a pro-team in a 5v5. Until then, meh...

New comment by demonshalo in "Sundar Pichai Should Resign as Google’s C.E.O"

demonshalo — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 15:56:27 +0000

Extreme beliefs manifest themselves in extreme behavior.

If you so blindly believe in the diversity of skin color or gender while neglecting the diversity of ideas, I am rather sure that says a whole lot about you as a person and as a company. That, in my opinion, is the only PR they deserve.

New comment by demonshalo in "Outraged about the Google diversity memo?"

demonshalo — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 12:09:10 +0000

A pussy grabber won over Hilary Clinton. You don't have to be a Google employee with PhD to see how bad of a candidate she was.

You see... two people can play that game. If anything, a pro-trump person could have used that same sentence of yours to demonstrate the opposite sentiment. Don't attribute biases to situations that are nothing other than complete and utter incompetence.

New comment by demonshalo in "Talks at Google: Noam Chomsky [video]"

demonshalo — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 14:42:57 +0000

His contribution to linguistics is definitely great and no one can take that from him. But to call him a great modern-day thinker is a bit of a stretch.

New comment by demonshalo in "China mall introduces 'husband storage' pods for shopping wives"

demonshalo — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 14:35:28 +0000

I CALL SEXISM!!!!!!

But then again, I like it so what does that make me? O.o

New comment by demonshalo in "Battle for the Internet"

demonshalo — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 12:17:53 +0000

> we are living in a capitalism world

Far from it. Far far far faaaaaaaaaar from it!

New comment by demonshalo in "Is the Universe Made of Math?"

demonshalo — Sat, 01 Jul 2017 21:27:20 +0000

That all came about because Java/Swing sucks!