skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet, there are detractors such as Fred Wilson, co-founder of
venture-capital firm Union Square Ventures, in December declared the Watch a
“flop.” Mr. Wilson, who owns shares of Fitbit through a fund, had earlier
predicted the Watch wouldn’t be a “home run” like the iPad, iPhone and iPod,
saying many people wouldn’t want to wear a computer on their wrist.

Why should we take the word of Fred Wilson on the Apple Watch when he is an investor in a product that the Apple watch directly competes with? Of course he's going to say that the Apple Watch is bad; he makes a product that competes directly with it! It'd be almost negligent if he didn't.

More generally, I find criticisms of the Apple Watch very similar in overall theme to criticisms of the original iPod. The Apple Watch is derided as over-priced and under-featured, and commentators can't fathom why ordinary people are buying it in such numbers. The original iPod showed that people are willing to pay a hefty premium for a product that offers clear design and ease-of-use benefits. As long as Apple Watch maintains those advantages over its Android counterparts (and fitness tracker rivals), it won't matter one whit if it loses the spec. sheet war.
The trucks will likely drive at 45 mph so it would take 65 hours to cross the country. Still a huge improvement.
I responded to a job posting for a YC company on the HN front page. The CEO responded within an hour and we scheduled a call for the following day.

40 minutes before that call was scheduled to take place, he cancelled it and asked to reschedule. Understandable, these things happen.

When the rescheduled call was meant to take place, he just didn't show up. I emailed him about an hour later, just saying that I'm not sure what happened but I didn't get a call. He never replied. A few days later they were posting jobs on YC again.

It's not like it was my dream job but it just made me so mad that someone would treat me like that. When I get to be in a position of hiring people I will never treat anyone like that. In the rare case I ever have to miss a call without informing in advance, I'll at least have the courtesy to apologize.

Extremely disrespectful and I definitely wouldn't want to work at such a place, especially when this behaviour comes from the CEO.
Thank you, Bill Campbell
I mean average compounded over 20 years, including inflation. Seriously, look it up. Almost no fund or person has done it. Everyone who has is a billionaire that you've probably heard of (Buffet, Soros, et al).
I think there's less incentive for automating trains because of the cargo:driver ratio. The cost of the human at the helm is a much smaller portion of the cost of operating the railroad.
"Where drivers are restricted by law from driving more than 11 hours per day without taking an 8-hour break, a driverless truck can drive nearly 24 hours per day. That means the technology would effectively double the output of the U.S. transportation network at 25 percent of the cost."

This suggests each truck has one driver - the truck stops when the driver stops. Aren't there systems that let drivers pool/share trucks so the trucks can be on the road 24 hours a day?
It is the cotton mill workers who are famous for their dislike of technology taking their jobs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
Immigration is another way to solve this.
no-one says "I wish we never introduced tractors"

The Amish?
The best strategy I've found is to simply be unavailable on those other platforms. Regularly initiate conversations on email, and they will get used to it.
> join a free software foundation like Apache that has resources

There's a reciprocal arrangement here. One of the requirements of joining the Apache Software Foundation is using "Apache" when refering to the name of the software product for the first time in a new context, e.g. first mention on a webpage. Apache Groovy was promoted from Apache's incubator last November (2015), so I've been doing just that ever since. Unfortunately, many of the developers who work on Groovy don't bother, availing themselves of those resources but not giving back to the foundation the small amount asked.
Okay so we had eight years of a conservative President who pretty much ran on the charitable self-definition of conservative you have there, i.e. so-called "compassionate conservative". Especially in the 2000 election that was the message and it was largely successful and that was how he was able to present himself nationally.

And that President was a disaster.

On the other hand for the past eight years we've had a President who has, more-or-less, defined himself as a centrist, but who has been successfully painted as the less-charitable definition of liberal from your post, in national media and especially in social media

For all his faults, he has not been a disaster on anywhere near that scale.

Now it might be that you're right and that everyone should take a deep breath and a step back and tone down the rhetoric. But when this article brings up the Daily Show and Rachel Maddow and John Oliver and so on, it forgets what all that stuff is in response to, which is a largely conservative national media and a successful framing of pretty much every single national issue of import, by the right from 1990 or so right up to the present day.

And, furthermore, if I look at my Facebook feed, or on Reddit, and try to figure out where the most obnoxious posts are coming from, e.g. pictures of Obama being flushed down a toilet, or "proof" in the form of gruesome pictures that Hillary Clinton and Obama just lounged around and laughed their asses off while folks who worked for them died in Benghazi, for literally no other conceivable logical reason than they are just evil, evil shits, etc etc...

...I mean, maybe some of the stuff you hear about the Koch brothers or whatever, or the Kansas state government, isn't fair either, but it doesn't seem to be anything like on that level.

So on balance, an article that specifically calls out liberals, for poisoning the well and arguing in bad faith, being condescending, etc. - while maybe not technically wrong in each and every aspect, seems misplaced, you know? Like, seems like the concern for it is a little off-balance compared to what it should be if you really wanted to address the broader issue.

And so, this article is trash.

e: I guess TL;DR what I'm saying is: where is the article suggesting that conservatives maybe should stop accusing liberals and the people they vote into office of literally wanting to destroy America because they just hate it so much? Where is this article, and are any conservatives reading it?
The HR person at that same place told me that they often hired people knowing that they'd quit sometime into their employment and hinted they were there for only for political weight. So yeah, acculturation often runs deep and sharp.
But the article states what it thinks the reason is. You clearly think that reason isn't plausible. Could you help me understand what reasons you would find plausible?
The PC system is overclocked 50%!
What a pointless article.
The best jobs I've had were all handshake deals, short and simple.

The 10-hour ones (screenings, exercises, interviews ad nauseam) are usually still open months later. It's not you--it's them.
I feel like I'm missing something - this article seems to conflate capsacin and zanthoxylum (Sichuan). The latter is native to China, the former a New World import. The article mentions this briefly but doesn't really tie together the connection between the Sichuan and its impact on an appreciation for spiciness.
Pros for Stipe: hire a lot of people at once, hire a bunch of people who are probably working well together.

Cons for stripe: risk of the team bringing not only their previous company culture, but also their group micro culture. Risk of all of them leaving Stripe all at once (they did it once).

Pros for the new team: I can't think of any, I've never been in a group where I thought everybody was great (and beside I see meeting new people as a perk of changing job).
> But the offer is made either to everyone, or to no one.

That is indeed what they say. But, say they interview a 5 person team, and really like 2 of them, but not the other 3. So, no offer is extended.

Now they are left with these two resumes of people that are just perfect. They know what those two people want for comp. Are they going to be disciplined enough to shred those two resumes right then and there? No discussion about "what if we wait a month or two, and...?"
The article answers its own question. Amazon decides which neighborhoods get Prime Same Day service by the number of Prime subscribers in that neighborhood. Predominantly African-American neighborhoods have fewer Prime subscribers, so they don't get Prime Same Day; presumably it would be even less profitable to serve those neighborhoods than it is to offer Prime Same Day to neighborhoods with high concentrations of Prime subscribers.

The article feels to me like a stretch. It isn't up to Amazon to solve racial and income inequalities in the US. And, by all accounts, Prime Same Day isn't a money-maker for Amazon. So the writers of this article are asking Amazon to lose even more money in an effort to offer same-day deliveries to underserved neighborhoods. It's a valid ask, but I won't be too outraged if Amazon continues on its present course.
As someone who spent five years as a "sad French poetry PhD student," I'd like to know when French poetry became the single most pathetic thing anyone could deign to study. Probably ~40% of the people in my grad program ended up in translation or international affairs/relations jobs solely or largely because of their strong language skills, so I think French literature is a safer choice than English or history.

Heck, even my software engineer colleagues who are trying to pick up French are glad there's another engineer who can help them with what they're learning or accompany them to a French conversation meetup.
>She also had the audacity to do things like 'talk at conferences'.

Sure. That would be believable if the year were, say, 1850.
I'd certainly be interested - Docker ID: predakanga

Specifically, I'm interested in exploring integration with JetBrains IDE's docker plugins
This is a thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPj794EtJqU
ankopainting :) thank you
Can someone explain why we're supposedly getting driverless cars and trucks yet the simplistic task of ordering food isn't automated? Why does McDonald's have order takers?
So is "man". As in, "You totally should have gotten than promotion, man." Or "Man, I really love this pizza." Yes, it's used gender-neutral. But both historically and in common practice it's a noun, verb, interjection or vocative adjunct that most commonly refers to a male.

That aspect, that it was at one time, or still is, gender-specific, is what makes it inappropriate to call a person who doesn't identify with that gender. Like many other words which can apply to more than one kind of person, you have to think about how the listener will interpret it, not how you want them to interpret it.
Very detailed implementation of various methods in RL. Surprised by the work!
My head is fairly asymmetrical, so I wonder if there would be some kind of strange signature which wouldn't allow a standard system to work, or perhaps it would identify me as a monkey or something.
It looks like a cross between Klaus Nomi [1] and the Three Stooges [2]!

[1] http://40.media.tumblr.com/cfb98ae2e453a1402aaab4a676a4da16/...

[2] http://www.frieze.com/sites/default/files/Editorial/Bowie3.j...
Or, alternatively, do they wait at truck stops on the edge of town and meet the trucks as they come in (much like harbor pilots meet container ships at port entrances)?
Or how they transitioned so quickly from Hunan (red chili pepper dominates) to Sichuan (more competition, old-world ma peppercorn is just as important, maybe even more so, as new world la chili pepper).
Would also love to try it for a new architecture we are developing. Docker ID: timc3
Very true, but I guess my argument is that the author is wrong in terms of this being a devastating thing to our current workforce.
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Personally I don't understand the hype around smartwatches in general.

Don't get me wrong, I understand them as a viable product and why a lot of people like them, but the demand for them was wildly overblown.

Of everyone I know, only one or two people have one, and it's not because of price. If you're a huge fitness nut, deal with an enormous number of messages, or just plain like the gimmick, they're great. But otherwise they really don't offer much that offsets the cost, need to charge the things on a daily basis, and general hassle of having yet another electronic device to keep track of.
Sorry, too busy coding bots.
This is what they're calling a chatbat these days? It's just a text interface responding to keywords, with a fall-through to a human rep. I was expecting at least some sort of lightweight AI. Okay, so there's a recommendation engine behind it, but I wouldn't really consider that part of the "chatbot", it could just as easily be hosted on the web.
Automation is driving humans out of jobs. Driverless trucks will layoff 1%+ of the US population, because driverless trucks are far more economical. The general trend is profits go up and employment goes down.

What to do with such an economy? Basic income. Tax the profits and give everyone sufficient income to pay for the basic necessities. That's one of the conclusions of the 2011 book Race Against The Machine, by two MIT professors.
We use vero & mailgun.
I was able to find this from the Congressional Budget Office

> Estimates of pavement damage by trucks, the largest per-mile external cost of truck use, range from about 5 to 55 cents per mile depending on the weight of the truck, the number of axles over which its weight is distributed, and where it operates....

https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/112th-congress-2011-...

The fuel tax is 30 cents/gallon of diesel, which for an 18-wheeler getting a typical 6 mpg is about 5 cents / mile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_taxes_in_the_United_State...

So at the absolute highest end of that estimate you need to increase fuel taxes to $3/gallon, i.e., double the price of fuel to ~$6/gallon. That would make trucking 40% more expensive (since that's the fraction of operating costs devoted to fuel).

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/infographics/cost-of-trucki...

And a more realistic number might be closer to 20% or 30% more expensive. This would change things on the margins, but it's not clear to me that it would be transformative in pushing transport to trains.
And you will take some cut? How does this make money?
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Yeah, damage to roads goes up superlinearly with weight.
Forgive my ignorance but how do you say that something was pushed ahead by a specific duration? In this article for instance, how did they say that encryption was pushed ahead by 7 years? Is this based on previous rate of advancement in the field? (how do you even quantify that)
I think the competitors to the apple watch are much more mature and sophisticated as well as have more mature "ecosystems" compared to the "Rio" or Jukebox MP3 players had.
At one point the author says something about convoys of trucks and taking advantage of the speed for maximum fuel efficiency, 45 mph. I'm not sure that people traveling on the interstate will appreciate being stuck behind convoys of automated trucks all running at 45 mph.
There are more people living in slavery today than ever before in human history.

These things are not binary.
Firefox/Android with Self-Destructing Cookies -- not a problem.

I may have to manually add "about:reader?url=" to the head of the navigation line. I'm taking to doing that by default.

A small number of sites revert to the default page, but few. NY Times isn't among them.
Where is the money going to come from for produce suppliers, some on thin profits, to automate where hiring a bunch of seasonal laborers is less overhead, maintenance, etc.
Just wanted to side-reference this comment to some of the comments about the Theranos' CEO's appearance that frequently come up.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11552144
Opt-in, like optional security, rarely gets used.
BMW "let's" owners rent out cars that they _own_? Why do the owners need BMW's permission?
It actually does happen to a lot of people. The reason is not "because they're good at their job", its usually because they are people who are in the public eye and are seen as leaders. Some people have a problem with women being leaders and so decide to harass them. Yes, people like that do exist. Jessie is a really awesome hacker and it makes me sad that she left her awesome job (allegedly) because she didn't feel comfortable. I (presumably like you) don't like diversity quotas and all that other bullshit, but denying that people like Jessie are harassed for no reason other than "being a public figure" doesn't help your case.
It's basically going to decimate the blue-collar workforce. "short term disability" is already increasingly the new stopgap between gaps in social welfare for unemployed and underemployed blue collar workers.

If driverless trucks become the new norm, expect major jumps in SSDI rolls, unless we institute some form of basic income.

http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/
My god, how could anyone be expected to overcome poverty and inequality without same-day prime delivery? Sure there's still two-day prime delivery that the majority of Amazon Prime members of all races have, but clearly that's no different than the grim inequality of segregated water fountains and poll taxes.

The implied conclusion is that a business should do something that loses them revenue if the alternative is a vague insinuation of structural racism. By this same logic, luxury car dealerships should build their showrooms in inner-city ghettos and rural areas because everyone has a right to test drive a Ferrari, economics be damned.
opt-in by default is fine with me. Thanks for the great tool!
Please leave it like countries with good organ donation opt-out policies.

Speaking of which, become an organ donor if you live in an opt-in country.
Great battery life, but not very lappable...
What a silly article completely devoid of any actual content.
I'm sure that many women in tech have problems, although I view them as equal whenever I work with them. Also I am sorry if I hurt anyone's feelings with my comment. I'm just not sure if it helps the general view on women in tech that I read 4 times as many articles complaining about the problems for women to achieving something technical.
Orchestrated to music like the Sorcerer's Apprentice [1]!

[1] No link necessary.
My initial work with it was pre-docker networking. Admittedly, I need to spend more time with Kubernetes, but the rapid evolution and multiple solutions to service discoverability, load balancing, and networking in the Docker eco-system is a bit of a challenge to keep on top of and figure out what's best/right for the situation. I suspect, near term, the solution is "what works for me now, I'll figure out something else as I have time/down the road."
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I sympathize, but honestly, the fourth thought - that you don't want to do the data entry the client has agreed to pay you for - is a bad thought that you need to evict from your brain ASAP. You should want to do it. It's a good deal - you get paid the same rate for easy work that you would get paid for hard work. We technologists sometimes get bad thoughts in our heads that are variants of the idea that we have the power and responsibility to optimise the entire universe, but in reality of course we have no such thing, and we need to get rid of those thoughts and draw appropriate boundaries.
"White areas get organic grocers and designer boutiques" - no faster way to get out of poverty than shopping at Whole Foods
Hopefully our convoy of self driving cars will learn to stay separate from the convoy of self driving trucks.
Love it. Every time I try to talk about these things with those who participate in these sorts of mentalities, I'm shrugged off as cynical, or non-appreciative of a perception of positive progress. It's very difficult as someone who's naturally not "in it", to explain why it's so difficult and soul crushing.
I don't really understand why you think that there was no harassment (or that Jessie deserved it or did something to rile the community against her). The solution to problems like this isn't to deny it. I've worked with her online for several years and she's an awesome hacker, and I'm not aware of anything she did to "deserve" being harassed.
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Why my friends moved to the Midwest in search of financial security
Specifically, the automation of long haul trucking, comparable to what large tanker ships do, may be more feasible. The last mile, scheduling, and the rest, is a horrid mess. A family member is in the business and I live in an area where ag work is prevalent and know people who have worked in such.
How can I find a mentor outside of a company?
I'm a software engineer a few years out of university who is going to be joining a
new company soon and want to make sure I'm successful. As part of that, I want
to find a mentor who doesn't work for the company whom I can ask for advice.
Why am I looking for someone outside of the company? Mostly so that I can talk
to someone about the sort of insecurities, problems, and weaknesses that I'd be
afraid to reveal to anyone that might hve any input into a performance review.
Also, much of what I would want to ask advice on is about communication and
I don't want to gossip to someone that is connected to whatever situation I'm
asking about. There are a couple challenges I foresee with this:

1) How would I pursuade and motivate someone else to mentor me?

Is there a way I can pay them? Is there something I might have to offer them
in exchange for advice?

2) How would I convey a situation without breaking the confidentiality and trust
of my company?

Has anyone else done something like this? How did you go about it?
If you scroll down there is a time lapse video :-)
Essentially, I agree with everything you said -- the core of my complaints about this book excerpt is that it seemed to confuse the areas of responsibility for caches (and their structures) and efficient storage data structures.

I do think that analogies should be less, for want of a better term, leaky than those presented in the article: if they hadn't dragged CS topics into the discussion, I would've upvoted a reasonable productivity article and left it at that.
It was ten years ago. I believe this has changed since then…
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> It takes the intimacy out of the person-to-person conversation of catching-up.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels this way.
This story is both entertaining and depressing. Still, it echoes some of the themes I wrote about in "The race to the bottom of victimhood and 'social justice' culture:" http://jakeseliger.com/2016/01/28/the-race-to-the-bottom-of-...:

I’ve seen the offendedness sweepstakes play out in classrooms. It’s ugly. It’s also impossible to adjudicate different people’s different levels of offendedness because there’s no real standard to compare one person’s level of offense to another’s. I can tell whether a paper is poorly written or well written or whether an argument is well-researched or poorly researched, but I can’t tell whether student x has a better “claim” to victimhood than student y.