skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. ..... I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it." - Steve Jobs

The Steve Jobs Apple fired was not the same man that returned to save the company. The caricature portrayal of him with an aggressive, petty, demanding, obnoxious style were all pretty much true back then. If Kalanick is at an equivalent stage, then Uber may really desperately need to get rid of him. Whether he ever vindicates himself and realises a greater potential remains to be seen, but it may well be that remaining at Uber regardless of his behaviour will just feed the negative side of his nature.
Uber's board can't, though.
>Side note: I've noticed that comments like these tend to inevitably kick off comments about how backstabbing and bitter the socialization between women is, a position often vigorously promoted by women themselves. I really can't say, other than the specific qualities I list above are positive

Yep, my ex-wife could easily go on a tirade about that, and that was her #1 complaint about working in the legal field: other women. But it wasn't all women, it was just a certain, small minority of women, and also the HR department for refusing to do anything about it, or somehow blaming her for these women's crazy behavior.
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"perhaps a project I care about deeply is axed, or I’m denied a raise... or gets fired"

Women more likely to encounter this? This stuff happens all the time to everyone. I'm not sure how this is something a woman is more likely to encounter.
As a counterpoint, my springboard has been sporadically crashing since I installed 10.3, and I have no idea why, but the FS change seems like an obvious culprit. Doubtful it will go away with the official release.
and #4: become the CEO of arguably the most successful and fastest growing company in history, very early
Ugh Matlab. Someone needs to rewrite it in Julia
This is the inherent problem in having children's programs produced by adults. If parents would strictly monitor their children's viewing habits and ensure only content produced, directed and written by toddlers entered the home this problem wouldn't happen.
It does say right on the front page: "Showcase and discover Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Sway, Minecraft world and PDF documents for free," so it's pretty clearly intended for public distribution of e.g. document templates. On the other hand, how on earth did MS release it and let it live without noticing that people were using it completely wrong? They should have quickly noticed that people were using it to exchange sensitive documents, then pulled the service and redesigned it so that sort of behavior became exceedingly rare.

Even sophisticated users will misuse these services: remember the fad of putting all your dot-files on Github, when a bunch of people uploaded their Amazon credentials? This is giving the same opportunity to much less sophisticated users, with predictable results.
I admittedly haven't explored it in great detail, but when I've asked on their Slack channel a lot of people seem to just use the ingame tools which are "good enough".
I think GEB holds up almost 40 years later - it's very much steeped in GOFAI[1] optimism, but the substance of the book, the intersection between math and art, its silliness and approachability, its pure fun, is absolutely as important now as when published.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_artificial_intelligen... i.e. AI that isn't machine learning
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Yes and no, a detailed article covering the terms of the debate is here:

http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2016/09/19/the-politics-of-med...

Most relevant quote:

"One bargaining chip to attract market-oriented Republican votes was the so-called “noninterference clause”—a provision drug manufacturers had a major role in writing and getting through Congress—which banned negotiations between Medicare and pharmaceutical companies on drug prices and prevented the government from developing its own formulary or pricing structure. Instead of CMS negotiating on Part D plans’ behalf, prescription drug plans compete for enrollees and negotiate directly with manufacturers."

Part D (and presumably Part C plans that offer prescription coverage) negotiate with the drug companies individually. CMS cannot negotiate en-bloc for all the Part D plans. Therefore Part D plans have the same leverage as traditional insurers, which is to say some, but not nearly as much as All-Of-Medicare has.

The VA and Medicaid do regulate/negotiate drug prices, but those are much smaller populations. I think something like the VA system might work, but you'd have to have politicians willing to take some political risk or find a way of isolating drug price negotiations from political pressure. I think in this political climate, that's a really tall order. Remember when "If you want to talk to your doc about end of life plans we'll reimburse you for the visit" turned into Death Panels? I suspect we'd see something similar...

EDIT: and yes, private companies with a formulary are a great way to isolate yourself from the political heat, but you then lose the negotiating power government has ;)
> If you want to take things next level, you can try Tor, which is extremely private, and extremely hard to de-anonymize

I don't think Tor would eliminate the need for a VPN; wouldn't your ISP still be able to see the requested URL?

Edit: I was thinking of DNS leaks, but that's really not an issue if you use Tor Browser.
It says open source on steam and it links to a GitHub repo. Didn't verify, but seemed legit
I have an OLED 4k from last year. It was a massive improvement over my first generation Samsung 4k tv. It's insane how dark blacks can get and likewise how bright the lights are right next to darks. Most people are used to black being a shade of gray. That's starting to be a thing of the past now.
Great find, thank you!!

I hope the combining diacritics will not be relegated too far off the BMP.
Indeed. I built a Lisp in bash. I used a different approach to reading and consing than the FA uses. Basically what I wrote uses the idea from the IOCCC '89 "xlisp" which is that the s-expression is represented by a string instead of by a graph of cons cells. That means that the car operation must only be done on parenthesized strings. One obtains the car by searching for the first atom after the left paren. Similarly the cdr is the rest of the atoms within the parentheses. I didn't consider other encodings of s-expressions.

Of course if you have computing to do in a bash script, bash already supports that so there is no real point. A colleague implemented a BASIC inside TECO which may have also been pointless.
Why do you assume he meant "gold standard"? Have you ever seen how fast a golf ball flies just after a strong hit?
Yeah. These issues get talked about so much in our industry, but I don't understand how they're supposed to change if the way we're expecting to fix it is just "business as usual, but uh, don't do discrimination". Obviously there is something wrong with how we got here.
I remember reading a study about female teachers grading female students more leniently, while male teachers did not show a bias.

Source: http://cee.lse.ac.uk/ceedps/ceedp133.pdf
I don't see the same result on my own blog (actually a wiki).

I've posted hundreds of how-to type topics over the years. I started simply recording instructions for myself that I didn't want to forget. Most of those posts get single digit traffic, some of them get an early boost on Reddit, but a few of them gain popularity via search and those ones stay popular (a couple of them has been popular for a decade).

I can never predict which will gain popularity and I often don't know why they stay popular. I hear odd stories on some of them such as an associate at a store sharing it with a customer.

I often look at my site stats and try to monetize the pages that are getting a lot of organic traffic. I've had mild success with that. Most of those pages get their traffic from Google but a recent article (which got a bump from Reddit) is getting 16% direct traffic. It's hard to tell why. I highly doubt people are typing in my very long URL.

I've never figured it out so I write to help people and some of that becomes popular.
I'm in the same boat.
> I thought it was strange that they started with "walking" because the aliens don't walk the same way humans do!

Neither dogs (Dogs don't(?) think(!) in that as "walking"). You still walk with your dog, and I think most people see a dog walking, and think: "Is walking!"

Even if the way aliens "walk" were more like "swing" them see us moving from A to B. Maybe them translate them as "Moving from A to B".

The we show them "running", and them translate it as "Moving from A to B faster".

Eventually, them see a dolphin, and is moving more like them. Maybe them translate it as "Moonwalking".

Still, different words and concepts from them eventually must equal to our own, and even if are not a perfect 1:1 translation is enough to convey things.

For example, some ancients languages have different words for "Love" but ours use adjectives for them.
> Talented people already move from one coast to the other, so they could as well move to any other place.

But any-town, USA has nothing else to offer them in terms of entertainment, arts, food. I live in the 77th largest city in the US and this place is dead.
I don't see how what you're saying opposes what fixermark is saying. Sure mainstream media may not be providing good material, but the way to fix this isn't to not hold people accountable for their actions.
Wow: "Approximately one in thirty £1 coins in circulation is a counterfeit."

I have about a dozen £1 coins in my informal 'collection of currency from other places' bag and it looks like 2 of them are probably counterfeit (at least by the standards of the Royal Mint) one clearly is, the date and back picture don't match, the other has fairly poor milling around it.
It could, and did, get approved as a mobile crane.

Then it was unapproved, thanks to political pressure.
> Right. That's the point. This clearly shows that Chinese has multisyllabic words.

...but I never said it didn't.

I think you're trying to respond to a different argument than the one I'm making. I'm not trying to say that Chinese only has single-syllable words. I'm saying that it has multisyllable words made up out of single syllable words --- that's what compound words are. All the examples you've given are clearly compound words, including 'flower born' (which I'll admit is not very like a peanut).

The article you just linked to uses jī as an example of a word which is only used to make up compound words. But they're still compound words. jī has a meaning of its own (well --- several meanings, depending on context). You glue it together with another word to produce a compound word with additional meaning. That's pretty much the definition of a compound word.

I don't know where you're going here --- sorry.
All models are wrong, some are useful. I don't think your nit undermines any of the point I was making
I was thinking of mentioning Wilson and Shea's Illuminatus!. It touches on a lot of the same themes in Prometheus Rising but via fiction; it's full of not-so-subtly-disguised lectures and parables on How Brains (Fail To) Work. And a bunch of cheerful sexism but what're you gonna do, it's from the sixties.

And then there are the appendices, which eventually pointed me towards... yeah. "New mazes of research" is a good way to put it for the HN audience.
I would love to see a display with, say, 8 primaries instead of 3. With a careful choice of pixel pattern, it should be possible to get much wider color gamut (especially among intense light reds and blue-green colors which are very poorly supported by “RGB” displays), without causing the metamerism problems that very colorful 3-primary displays have. Unfortunately there’s a big chicken–egg problem since images and other content are all created with the expectation of current display technology.

They definitely don’t want to completely drop the short-wavelength primary for many purposes, but it would be nice to have a “late night writing mode” where that is possible.
> Either way, the idea that you can write code in a safe language and compile to C to eliminate the type of bugs that C allows isn't true.

Is a bit different statement than:

> I'm saying "rewrite it in Rust (or whatever)" isn't some silver bullet that fixes security problems.

The first one is wrong, the second one is true.

Using a higher level language rules out some classes of programming errors which are possible in lower level languages. The fact that compilers have bugs does little to diminish those gains.

Semantics of Haskell does not allow to express program that generates double free [0]. Perhaps one of the compilers will compile some Haskell code to binary that frees memory twice. However, this bug in compiler is far more less likely that a programmer making this mistake in C. Whats more when this bug in compiler is detected and fixed. The problem can be fixed in all affected code bases without need to change the original source code. Thus chances of bugs are lower.

Nobody really argues that Rust (or OCaml, or Haskell, or whatever) is a silver bullet, i.e. solution to all problems that will miraculously make programmers produce no bugs at all. Obviously we will have software bugs even with most restrictive languages. No amount of formal proofs will save us form misunderstanding specifications or making typos. And then again we will also have bugs in implementation of those high level abstractions.

And for the record I am really annoyed with movement to rewrite everything in Rust.

[0] Yes, you can call free through FFI with whatever arguments you like, as many times as you like. But for sake of brevity let's assume this is not how you write your everyday Haskell.
Tipping should be outlawed.
3 Tips for Overcoming Shyness at Conferences (2013)
seemed like joke not a criticism. I laughed.
The world needs more toilets – but not ones that flush
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You can't even set up the hours you want f.lux to run.
And the reason given by the developers is insane.
Just for that I say good ridance.
You can start with Weibo. You can get a Weibo account with a phone number or email address. Many famous US brands or celebrities have a Weibo account nowadays. Some of them have more followers on Weibo than on Twitter :)

Some may argue that Wechat's official account is better than Weibo in terms of reaching users & engagement, as every Chinese internet user is on Wechat now. But it's tedious to get an Wechat official account: https://admin.wechat.com/

Old school email newsletter may work for reaching well-educated Chinese internet users. However, Chinese people don't use email much. Again, everyone's on Wechat.
Actually the title and the interview didn't mention "women's difficulties with the masculine tech culture", and none of the women who were interviewed brought it up, either.

It seems to be kind of implied by the approach (why ask only women), which is exactly what annoys people because it is such a sweeping accusation.

I wonder in discussions like this, how many people who bemoan the masculine tech culture consider themselves to be part of the problem? Do you consider yourself part of the problem and too masculine? Or do you think it is only the other men who are to blame?
Well, he owns the company, so it's moot:

> The 50-year-old crane operator and president of crane leasing company Vertikal Solutions was helping to build the 34-story Hilton Garden Inn in midtown.
(It's too late to edit my post above, but thanks for your edit, panoptispeech.)
Thanks. Rentention is the big one. It's the problem - the lack of it - I notice the most. But I tend to agree with your assessment as a whole. Of all my blogs, past and present, and the thousands of posts on them, one single post got real traction. The reason? It got reblogged a dozen times, always with a link back to my blog as the source. Obviously none of that was in my control.

But I'm not after traction like that (although it'd be nice). I just want to reach an audience that cares.
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I just said CS isn't the sole outlier. But exclusion of women is an anomalous state for STEM, whether or not you include "generic engineering" in the mix.
Yes. You can look up the stats yourself; they're not hard to find.
Yes --- we do that because we are symbolic creatures. We serialise thoughts into sequences of symbols so that we can express them tonally, in series, to other people. We express mathematical concepts the same way. Naturally, the machines we built to help us do these things also work symbolically.

Machines built by people who think differently will work differently.
I really doubt a crane operator's contract said anything about assigning IP to his employer. If that is the case, he owns them.
Only if statistics are racist.
> Influence helps me a lot to deal with my 3 year old.

I'd been teetering on the fence with this book for about a year, but I think you just sold me on it (haha!)

Any idea whether it's worth an extra ~$7 for the (I gather) textbookified version of Influence subtitled "Science and Practice", 5th edition, versus the Revised Edition of the more mass-market "The Psychology of Persuasion"?
Britain has relatively liberal gambling laws, so you wouldn't need to go to a casino. High-street betting shops can have up to four fixed-odds betting terminals, which offer electronic versions of standard casino games. European (single zero) roulette has a house edge of just 2.7%.

FOBT winnings are paid out via a receipt that is redeemed over the counter, so you can use them to convert coins into notes very easily. Gambling winnings are not subject to tax in the UK, so these machines are an extremely attractive money laundering method. Britain has around 9,000 betting shops, so it's easy to move around and avoid suspicion.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/08/gambling-mac...
This. I don't understand why the people who like PDP's content should care about him not being being able to get money from mainstream agencies such as Disney. He hasn't been banned from youtube, he can pretty much continue doing what he's always been doing. But those endorsements are predicated on certain restrictions...
Apps can constantly ask but the API prevents their requests from appearing. It’s limited to something like 3 requests per year.
Okay that sounds completely illegal and the exact definition of digital hijacking. Any type of modification of the packets themselves outside of dropping them for network control is a clear violation in my book.

I don't see that working for connections over SSL. I wonder how the companies that operate these questionable "services" deal with the rapid rise of SSL the past few years.
I didn't say it wasn't an issue worth discussing. I said that the article we're commenting on is highly misleading. It would lead one to believe that the community is penalizing consensual sexual behavior, when in fact the concern has virtually nothing to do with his BDSM subculture.
>Animation transition between pages is still being worked on

check out react-overdrive[1], which is also referenced in issue#88 but deserves to be mentioned here imo. The author provides an example[2] what overdrive looks like based on the instagram example[3] from next.js.

[1] https://github.com/berzniz/react-overdrive

[2] https://nextgram-overdrive.now.sh/

[3] https://nextgram.now.sh/
Most efficient is f2(x)=2 or f1(x)=1 I think, not sure yet :-)
For me, the larger screens made for either more wasted space or more effort to figure out placement of windows on each screen.

With my three wide screens, I'm almost always running one window per screen - not necessarily full-screen, but still, one-per. With two larger screens, I constantly found myself trying to tetris my screens into an "ideal" layout.
Do we really need the complete list of things he said before we can judge the wisdom (or lack thereof) of the headline-grabbing ones?

"Is what you listed the complete list of ingredients to this homeopathic medicine? Or just your selection of the poisonous ones? It seems likely they would have put in some other healthy things on the level of ginseng"
The person we got in to fill a spare room in our house uses Uber to pay his rent, so I'm slightly concerned if his income will be affected as well.

I'm hoping not so he can continue to pay rent.
No, the isp could see that you're connected to TOR, but that's just an SSL connection and they cant see anything inside it.
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I wonder if The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander would be similarly interesting. It's not trying to be a novel, but explores similar concepts.
I have a device that I unregistered from the beta's and it never picked up a newer version, I had to manually restore it.
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Skilled immigrants often struggle to put degrees, credentials to use in U.S
> Around twenty people signed on to Trump's advisory committee, many of them very well-known figures in the tech and manufacturing industries.
How many others, besides Kalanick, can you name off the top of your head?

Given the volume of comments mentioning their role in the committee I've seen on HN, I'd say that HN users are probably at least as likely to know about Elon Musk being on the committee (and unlike Kalanick, staying on it.)

And Musk and Kalanick are the two that have been high profile media figures as part of startup media strategy; most of the rest are big blue-chip finance and manufacturing CEO, who despite leading more powerful firms, normally have lower media profiles.
extract a lot of questionable value from society.

So they've become "extractive" in the parlance of economists and sociologists studying 3rd world economies?
How quickly history is rewritten. This is the same company that presented at Startup School several years ago to significant applause.
Ask HN: Building spreadsheets for the mobile era, is it worthwhile?
I have been thinking about a spreadsheets like app that gives you a minimal but required functionality with an ability to share built in. Consider a monthly spends you want to keep, or the say a list of things (along with their prices) you bought for a shared home and you want to share it with your room mates. I think having a excel spreadsheet might solve this for you, but its too cumbersome. Even though there are apps that track specific things like monthly spend (through sms) or split bills, I guess I need something a little more generic where I could keep track of everything. Do you feel it's an overkill, or building something actually might help someone.
Unions have a purpose. Suppressing innovation and competition to protect their gravy train monopoly should not be one of them.
basically they thought no one would bother... and then thought fudge we;re screwed