skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IBM Launches “IBM Machine Learning”
Unicode Nearly Plain-Text Encoding of Mathematics [pdf]
The Hard SF Renaissance

So many of the stories in this collection impacted me heavily or changed my thinking. Some of the ones I felt stood out:

"Understand" - Ted Chiang

"Reasons to be Cheerful" - Greg Egan

"Bicycle Repairman" - Bruce Sterling

"The Good Rat" - Allen Steele

"Beggars in Spain" - Nancy Kress
How much of a say does Netflix has on the production of the shows? I thought one of the advantage of Netflix was that they don't interfere with the production of the shows and they let the creative people make the decisions.
I think that's fair (especially in light of some of the other racially and sexually off-color things he's done), and a good way to phrase it. I had tried to figure out how to say that in my initial comment, but I couldn't find the words for it. Thank you!
So how high are the total production costs of 1 coin?
I wrote a letter to Amber Rudd based in part on your comment: https://medium.com/@flukes1/my-letter-to-amber-rudd-on-encry...
> Yes but a player who was an absolute shite programmer could just throw their bank account at the problem.

Seems to model reality fairly well.
Haversine is a dialect of Logo based around spherical geometry
400k will barely get you 3 people for a year (in the US.)
You'll have trouble finding anyone for under 100k in this market.

For those small seed rounds you describe, you're better off self funding and saving up the money yourself.
The actual article title is "The Trump Administration’s War on Science", but that title is quite political. And I think that the HN aversion to political stuff is in general good thing, I think this kind of article is a good exception to that rule (and by extension, the Republican party war on science). But I realize that it can often end up in a flame war.
It is a continual frustration to me that the male-dominated tech community is so bad with these issues. Predictably, the top comment on this post that tries to move forward on a very real problem that has been empirically established is an appeal to stick with the status quo.

I'm sorry, but companies have always focused on making money. Saying that the way to handle this very specific problem is to focus on making money is an appeal to brush the problem aside completely.

The top comment, for good measure, even obliquely swipes at active events taken by small local groups to tackle the issue, such as Girls Who Code, because men might be silently stewing over their existence...[1]

I am opting for a top level comment here because my frustration is less with the comment itself than that the community as a whole has voted this comment to the top.

[1] Before I get kneejerk responses that the comment didn't specify the group, let me belabor the point that the context of this discussion is SPECIFICALLY women's difficulties working within the masculine tech culture, so MinorityCodingClub trivially translates to WomenCodingClub, which sounds an awful lot like Girls Who Code, which has been gaining prominence of late. It is a cowardly oblique swipe at these sort of organizations. It's a cop out not to name the organization that you have a problem with explicitly, an attempt to lash out at such organizations while maintaining the comfortable position of plausible deniability. Everyone gets it though. So I won't countenance "shocked and appalled" denials that organizations like Girls Who Code were the target of the swipe.
"Crain's Cranes of New York"
Google billionaire Eric Schmidt shares his top 3 tricks for building wealth
Wow. I did not read this carefully enough the first time: https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/9173

I had no idea that Dropbox Paper supported Latex until reading your comment. That makes Paper even more awesome.
There's a lot of pressure on smartphone makers to make really good image processing software because they are extremely restricted hardware wise -- there's just no space for a proper lens and a big chip. And it's amazing how far they've gotten in the past few years. Phones are now better cameras than most point-and-shoots.

I wonder if there's any chance that some of that amazing software makes it's ways to pro cameras? It seems that camera companies can't keep up.

For example, the autofocus and whitebalance on my phone is almost always spot-on and perfect. My 'real' camera (a Fujifilm X100T) often gets the focus wrong, and the automatic white-balance is not as reliable. It seems like camera makers just can't keep up on the software side.
> It's not a coincidence that a lot of C/C++ compiler developers have ended up moving on to other languages.

Some examples are Chris Lattner, Doug Gregor or Cliff Click.

Or as Chris Lattner puts it, he writes C and C++ so that we don't have to.
Eh? If she was deceived (intentional or not) she is in fact telling the truth, since to her it is real.

There aren't more than three option present, but you're more correct that you may not have enough information to deduct which option is a proper representation of the true fact.

There's no real issue with the logic, outside of arguing that making a conclusive decision here is perhaps premature. That's situational though.
"The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness" by Todd Rose.
I'd be very surprised if your average airport xray would be able to distinguish between lithium battery cell and well disguised explosive pack. Doubly so if the cell/explosive is inside an aluminum body of a laptop.
That's untrue. You can upgrade to a newer release version if there is one. (source: just did this today with 10.3)

You only need to restore if you want to downgrade to a release version when you are on a later beta.
I'm not saying there's no regulatory capture, I am saying that an angry citizen calling their congressman is a very different kind of problem then cozy relations between industries and the agencies that regulate them. Both exist, but they have quite different political and policy ramifications, and I would suggest that citizens calling congressman is more fraught than agency/lobbying reform (already difficult in its own right).

You can already see people calling the FDA saying, "let this drug through, it helped me, though it failed its clinical trial." Right now, the FDA has some insulation from political meddling, but that's not a guarantee, and I think that problem gets 10x worse if the government gets involved in direct negotiations and price setting.

For example what happens when if/when Medicare says, "we're not paying more for name brand than generic."? You'll get tons of people calling their congressman saying, "I need NameBrandSuperDrug because GenericSuperDrug doesn't work." Despite the science being quite clear that the generic is virtually always fine.
Just tried it and seems to work nicely. Looks like $AAPL partnered with Yahoo for the data. I wish Apple would get into the finance game. Google Finance and Yahoo Finance are really not very good.

http://pasteboard.co/OzOlLndbg.png
I haven't used Uber since about the third crisis of their own making. Even if it IS a coordinated attack, they launched it themselves, and plenty of folks turned away from the service before the media had a chance to finish their conspiracy plans.
That is the same feeling I got from A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn. I was a bit less proud of being an American after that read.
There will always be some companies paying more and some paying less. People who are not as good at getting a better salary in current system, would probably fail to get into better paying companies then. And we're back at square 1.
Yeah, the style is a little weird on smaller screen sizes - this is not intentional. Another thing to fix.
It is most excellent.
Great little intuitive routing convention, plus plays well with express
Warning: Also not a linguistic!

> by using names and human concepts...should start with concepts that are universal: mainly numbers

The way the movie do this make perfect sense.

Some examples:

- Your tribe in a island make first contact with a advanced civilization. You started with 1 coconut. Then you show 2 coconut.

Your advanced emissary think the coconut must the base food of your tribe, and yours is very poor.

Numbers rarely are used in abstract ways. Similar in how (big mistake) people try to push programming as math (because "obviously is math").

- You have a baby. To communicate with him, you start with some universal laws that hold across the universe:

"A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors"

What you consider universal laws, the most important and more universal, maybe are not the first kind of laws others are thinking. And this guys do everything in perl, his civilization have discovered functional programming and discard them 20 centuries ago as annoying.

- Your atlantian civilization, the most advanced that ever existed in earth, make first contact with the atlantian civilization on Andromeda. Both talk in perfect english, obviously. Correctly, you understand this guys must be smart, so you start conversation like this:

"So, do you guy know that the Spirit is the same than the Everything times the light instant and the light instant?, and the light instant is perfect and stay always as before or after?, and you spaceship obviously feed on spirits?"

Both civilization know than E=mc2, but his notations, names and ways to transcribe them not align at all. And probably sound incorrect nonsense.

- You start teaching them your numbering system. Them get confused why 2 + 2 is equal 4.

Your numbering system is decimal, them is not.

Then you try to showcase that exist several systems.

Them start get more confusing. Why your result contradict each time?

----

Not matter how I look at this, walking, eating, you, me, my name, your name look like far more universal and more sensible things to know than anything related to science or tech.
Sigh. There is no "coordinated, orchestrated" campaign against Uber by the media. The media will pretty much pounce on any story they are given, provided it checks out.

This pattern of stories about Uber is very familiar and very predictable. It starts with a single, note-worthy story. Based on the reception of that story, other employees (former or current) are emboldened to leak information of their own to the media/write their own blog post/etc. That story feeds another leak, and so on, and so forth. At this point I don't doubt for a second that numerous people inside Uber want Travis gone, and consider the short term bad press to be worth it in order to achieve that goal.

There's no conspiracy here. Just the media reporting things they are told by people in the know. If there were other ways to get rid of Travis (more diverse stock ownership, or, dare I say the word: unions) people would probably go for that route. But when you shut all that off your employees will use the press as a last-resort pressure release valve.
In a way it looks very much like just the same issue that has come up before with people getting banned from tech conferences for example: Should the beliefs a person holds that are unrelated to the community in question be grounds for ostracizing him from said community. I don't really understand why you think that isn't an issue worth discussing.
From what I hear, shipping is tough these days since Amazon delivers the small stuff and tasks big items to the shipping companies. The margin is in lots of small packages, it's tough to make money from a truck that is only delivering big stuff.

Point being, winning is relative.
> During the many hours of downtime on job sites, perched hundreds of feet above the street, he would pull out a journal and sketch new ideas for cranes, hoping to solve some of the machines’ fundamental problems.

Per last week's discussion, who owns those sketches? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13921433
Unless, of course, you have the "Disable cache" checkbox enabled.
Or they could just raise the driver's share slightly, which would have the same impact on drivers, riders, and the company alike... without adding the unnecessary friction/confusion of tipping amounts and customs.
> Does software engineering have a gender problem, or a social validation problem?

The two are not mutually exclusive (and, indeed, can be mutually reinforcing.)
And that's why Google and Facebook (I think) both took steps for the founders to retain control in that manner. So that they would be able to focus on what's important to the company vs. bs next quarter results. And it's worked out well for both of them. But of course, they don't seem to have the "ethics" issues that Uber does.
It does when you click "Disable cache" (and maybe forget to turn it off). But it doesn't appear to affect this, at least.
I suspect management quitting has to do more with options being deep in the money and no longer having a financial incentive to stay with the company, more than Uber actually being in much trouble. Sounds like more alarmism. Uber has gotten a lot of bad press over the past few months but the business itself is doing fine.
Uber is too young for the phrase "biggest crisis in its history". It has no history. It has none of the institutional depth to warrant such comparisons. That comes only after decades, after a company has survived multiple boom and bust cycles spanning multiple administrations. This is an upstart company run by upstart kids. That isn't bad per se, but we should expect unpredictability. Talk about company history when the CEO is in his 70s, is the child of a former board member, and the head office has become a listed building. Those companies won't grow massively every quarter, but they do know how to weather a storm.
"Jacques le Fataliste" by Denis Diderot.

I found that this book illustrates perfectly well the underlying way that I, as a materialist and scientific man, perceive the world around me. It also illustrates the contradiction and idiosyncrasies of this way of thinking.
This is sort of like how when the waterless urinal was first commercialized, the plumbers union blocked it from getting approved in the general building code. Eventually a compromised was reached that involves requiring a plumber to draw an water line (unutilized) to every water-less install.

Unions for skilled, high-pay jobs in highly regulated industries really extract a lot of questionable value from society.
The new coin will not get rid of forgeries completely, at least not until the old is removed from circulation.
In pure money terms, it's not worth it.
But since they're printing money anyway, I guess if it's too costly, they can just print more money to pay for it ;)
The Text Message You Can't Afford to Miss
Are uber rides ever not available?
Of course, I wasn't comparing US domestic service with the international ones offered by the gulf carriers. I know that's apples and oranges. The international service from US carriers is just as bad too. Just compare the flying experience from HKG to SFO on United vs Cathay Pacific. Cathay is better by a country mile.
Attacker could lower temperature of washing cycle and make it shorter, enough for a given type of germ or virus to survive the washing, if the thingy is used in hospital and records are kept it should mean that actual sterilization is the main scope.
Just an exposé of Corrupt Bureaucracy.
Do Things That Don't Scale
Can you point to the coordination and orchestration?

Who is the conductor?

Extraordinary claims and all that. We've had enough of this hand wave-whispering of dark plots for one year.

If you are not going to name the bad actor you think is pulling the strings, don't make the claim.
>Now, imagine your business hinges on all these random changes.

I have a hard time finding much sympathy for this argument. When you build your business on top of somebody else's business, you get to be subjected to their whims. that's how it works. If you wanted complete control over your platform, you're welcome to host your videos on your own website. And then you can see how many people view them, and the value that youtube is providing.

I see Youtube acting as a buffer between the wishes of the content creators and the wishes of the viewers as a big part of their value. I subscribe to a few channels, but i absolutely don't want a push notification every time any channel i subscribe to uploads a new video. that would be annoying as hell, and i'd stop subscribing to channels if that was the default behaviour. But that seems to be what the author of this article wants. For me, the fact that youtube is exerting some control to make sure their channels don't abuse notifications is a great thing.
I was standing in front of two vending machines the other day: one for food, one for drink, and all I had was a $5 bill. I wanted food, but the food machine would only take $1s and coins. On the other hand, the drink machine took $5s.

So I put my money in the drink machine and hit the coin return. Nothing happened. I tried a few times and figured the coin return was broken or that it was out of coins. The only thing in the machine was soda, which I can't drink if I don't want to trigger my acid reflux. But I bought one anyway since otherwise my money was "wasted", thinking I'd give the soda to a friend later.

Of course, once I bought the soda, the machine spat out all my change: 3 quarters and 2 dollar coins - now I finally had coins that I could buy food with. Naturally, the food machine didn't accept dollar coins. Most machines here don't, so no food for me.
Sam Peltzman in "Regulation of Pharmaceutical Innovation" shows with statistics how the 1962 FDA Amendments resulted in massive drug price increases and a halving of new drugs being developed, with no net increase in efficacy.
But they actually can't survive. You're assuming the current demand can offset all the money they're burning.
tl;dr - It's like a crawler (mobile with a boom, street level crane) but you put it on top of something already there. Since its on top of something, it's not a "mobile" crane and couldn't get certified as one, however, it also didn't fit into the tower crane (tall, lifts things) certification. So it got stuck in between two classifications and as a result made it too hard for construction companies to bother including it in their building proposals (the only way that NYC would allow anyone to use it... maybe).
Why do you post about things you obviously have no clue about? Any web developer knows that you use DevTools to disable caching.
OK, I should have said garbage collector, not runtime.
Brain Teaser: Calculate Max Stock Profit
How operation of this machine is different from pretty standard small derrick cranes? Like Liebherr DR? Or even spider cranes (Maeda & others)?
The Missing AWS OpsWorks CLI
A mapping for the keyboard matrix can be "discovered" by pressing all keys in sequence. There are lots of AVR-based projects that emulate an USB HID for a custom keyboard matrix or other input; for an example, see [1][2].

[1] https://deskthority.net/wiki/Easy_AVR_USB_Keyboard_Firmware

[2] https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=51252.0
A lot of it involves techniques for detecting that overflow will occur (without actually doing the computation - because in C/C++, once you've signed overflow, you're already into undefined behavior).
No thanks! If drivers need to be compensated better, I would suggest increasing the fare or Uber taking a smaller cut. A lot of people prefer Uber just so they don't have to deal with tipping like in traditional cabs.
I thought silicon valley loved disruption.
Anecdotal, my impression is that women tend to have much lower tolerance for people they dislike. Seem to remember reading the theory that for men it was important to work well in random groups (like war or hunting parties), whereas the sphere of the women was usually more tightly knit, so perhaps it was more important to weed out unpleasant individuals in the tightly knit sphere.

Might have read that in the infamous "Is there anything good about men" essay, but not sure.

As an example for my experience: in the student hall, there were sometimes people who smelled bad or didn't integrate. The men would usually just ignore them (after all, most people only live in student halls for a limited time, so the problem would resolve itself), whereas the women would start banding together and mobbing against them. They would become more and more preoccupied with plans to get rid of the unwanted person.

To a lesser degree, I saw this kind of thing play out at companies or shared housing situations, too.
Built-in instead of third-party.
While using the "anti-semitism" label is overused today (I once heard Rush Limbaugh say a Jewish person was an anti-semite), calling someone an anti-semite who had someone hold up a sign that says "Death to all Jews" is not exactly a stretch. When he was making fun of those other cultures, did he say "Death to all _______ (other culture)"?
There are also semantic masks applied (can be found in the github repo), I think that's how the Colorado swapping is done.
Essentially, blogging should be a part-time job if you want to get any real traffic to it. The old days of "blog and they will come" are far behind us.
I noticed that your company does develop on WordPress. Don't you think it has the same issue just as much if not more since Automattic seems to have even more control over the platform than Acquia?
It also raises another good question: how big of a fool would you have to be to take the job Gurley and the board are trying to fill? How do you rein in a CEO who has total, unchallengeable control of the company?

(Maybe if they offer enough money, it's worth it even if it's a suicide mission? Though "just cash the checks and wait for your inevitable dismissal" doesn't seem like an attractive offer for anyone who's good enough to have alternatives.)
Claudia Goldin, Harvard economics professor, has some really interesting info on this I heard on a Freakonomics podcast a while back [1].

A big takeaway for me was that the data showed men and women being largely equal in pay for the earlier parts of their careers when you control for various things. When families start entering the equation, women often prioritize different things in their job, or consider changing jobs that offer these things. One of the big new priorities is...surprise...flexibility. When you have a family, flexibility because worth its weight in gold. If women are still predominantly the primary caretaker at home, it makes sense that they would need to optimize for whatever gives them the best balance there.

However the dark side of this, as discussed int he podcast, is that it can often lead to things like bosses not giving out choice assignments with lots of travel for example, because they don't think the employee would want that or be able to manage it. That sort of thing compounds over time and leads to slower progression, less leverage when asking for raises, etc.

The episode was a real eye opener for me because it brought some interesting data to the table.

[1] http://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-true-story-of-the-gender...
I just updated and was greeted with an Analytics screen asking to send usage and other telemetry data back to Apple. The first option to opt in was in large text while the second option to opt out was in very small text. Is this new? I don't recall seeing this screen before.
Whoa, that would be a real game changer. It gives one hope that the Mac will be seen again as a "pro" platform.

But realistically speaking, I think they're just doing it because Word supports LaTeX syntax already.
Ping me too, I'd be happy to help build whatever
Yes, "available" isn't probably the correct term, but what the author of that comment probably meant was stuff like "surging prices", "wait time", etc.
Joel has stated that there's a good chance we'll see a Season 12. :-)

He didn't give specifics (as usual), but it makes me happy.
Which I could not care less about, because I don't use. So?
The Apple TV UI is the worst since they have to stay within the Apple world. The Samsung TV NetFlix interface is vastly superior.
Strange that there is another dragonfly, a framework for newlisp.