skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's one of the greats. Gates famously wrote "If you think you're a really good programmer... read (Knuth's) Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a résumé if you can read the whole thing,"

"It took incredible discipline, and several months, for me to read it. I studied 20 pages, put it away for a week, and came back for another 20 pages. If somebody is so brash that they think they know everything, Knuth will help them understand that the world is deep and complicated."

His books are probably the most owned, least read volumes since the Bible.
You're right. I'll have to take down that shrine to Mark Zuckerberg in my closet.

????

"Cult of the entrepreneur"? What does that even mean? What concrete action would cause an end of the "cult of the entrepreneur"? Not starting new businesses? Or just not being friendly to Zuck at parties? What are you talking about?
This hovercraft is just the beginning of innovation in flying cars
True, but on the flipside, if revenue is cut, to make up revenue, many sites will probably only write about big apps/games and make them good reviews, or do 3x the reviews again biased to be good.
How did you go about selling them?
I enjoyed his thoughts on his youth and artistic struggle, but as an artist I would say the fact that he quit making art is the proof that he just wanted to be an "artist" rather than make artwork. I think there is a difference between someone who wants to be an "artist" and someone who wants to make art and very often that is what determines success or failure.
Ninety-five percent of people are fine – but it’s that last five percent
Makes you think you should always choose the driest names possible, even for internal projects. That said, I agree, who would name a tool like this "Hell"??
Ethiopia enters its seventh month of emergency rule
You wouldn't go to Verizon, you would need to get a publisher, which was very hard to get.
Yep, I should have deleted this comment. This was something that I saw repeated often on the early Silk Road forums and I naively trusted it. Sorry.
Basically you can chose any *.jp site...

https://www.yahoo.co.jp/

http://law.e-gov.go.jp/cgi-bin/idxsearch.cgi

http://www.rakuten.co.jp/

https://fc2.com/ja/

http://kakaku.com/

https://tabelog.com/tokyo/
I'm 48 and working on shifting back into coding after too much time doing more generalized IT consulting/support/admin/etc. for medical practices, and I'm not nearly as likely to spend time on Stack Overflow as I was 6-7 years ago.

There's still useful stuff on there and some gems, but it feels like there's a lot more cruft to wade through as well and I'm not feeling the same desire to surf the site or look for questions to answer because that's just not as personally rewarding as it once was.
Hey Dan, thanks for replying back to me! The main reason that I felt it was strange was that it didn't feel like your personal post, which I feel warranted more professional/reserved writing. The way the current post is written is a lot better (it also does feel more like a personal blog post now), and I appreciate you took the time to rewrite it when you didn't have to. It really has a different tone now, and now that feels a lot less defensive and flippant wrt the original post. Thanks for all the work on React, excited to check out React 16!
Very sad to hear this news. May he rest in peace.
I've worked with Oracle versions 4,5,7,8,9,10,11, and 12. Worked as DBA, developer, architect, and consultant. Also worked with most other major DB players. Oracle has the besttech - period. Sure you'll find this or that player who tries and maybe outdoes Oracle for some period in some niche. Oracle isn't used by startups because they rarely have the funds or the expertise to make it feasible. I've spent months building and fixing what Oracle has out of the box. Referential Integrity for starters. People who don't understand it, or its value, or have a need for it today will skip it. 3 years later they need it bad but can't afford to fix it, don't know how to fix it, or have made so many bad decisions they need a redesign. If you can afford it - use it. Data is typically the most valuable asset for a company.
I read it three times. Still trying to grasp everything. Will keep on reading it. Great book.
> As someone else said, Google and Facebook haven't been caught breaching terms of service or accessing others' "computers" [1] without authorization.

Google developed a hack for Safari to bypass the default third-party cookie blocking[0]

Facebook made private profile information available to apps installed by friends[1]

It seems rather arbitrary to distinguish Uber from the multiple occasions both Facebook and Google have had to answer or settle with the FTC for mishandling private user data.

[0] http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-pays-17m-to-settle-safar...

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/092-3184/f...
Heh, I prove my point. After paper prototypes, I prefer using React for proof of concepts and something lower-level for prod.

However, my websites tend to be backend heavy and front-end light... no more interactive than Reddit.
I totally get you on your critique, but I think the ambiguity is somewhat intentional - think koans in Zen Buddhism. Haven't read it in over 10 years now, so if I were to read it again I might not think the same, however. He probably directly mentions the koans thing himself haha.

Around the same time I read Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman [1], and Illusions by Richard Bach [2], and felt they were both better than Zen. At the end of the day I think the real value of any of those texts is the introduction to philosophy/self-discovery in general, in a really accessible form.

"A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsion... this is the place to go now.

But the sky knows the reason and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons." - Illusions

1. https://www.amazon.com/Way-Peaceful-Warrior-Changes-Lives/dp...

2. https://www.amazon.com/Illusions-Adventures-Reluctant-Messia...
Personally I think being straightforward can work pretty well which I think Obama mostly was for example.
Ask HN: What are some collective blind-spots amongst people working on AI?
i.e. Many of the people share similar backgrounds, so would expect them to have common blind-spots.
It really wasn't the loss post-bubble that was Ballmer's issue, it was that the stock price was stagnant.
Cool idea, but I was annoyed by the signup, and it doesn't seem to work for me -- the video plays, but it just shows "Loading Lyric..."
There's been numerous logics and unified methods for specifying, synthesizing, or verifying software. The problem wasn't that we didn't have one. The problem is intrinsic complexity of the domain. It leaks through in all the formalisms where the formalism gets ugly if you want to automate it and it gets clean only with much manual labor.
I've done management, and I can say that management experience has been invaluable to me.

I do consulting and freelance development now, and my success is in a large part due to the people skills I developed when managing others. You learn a lot about the many different ways people work (and don't work), and you learn a lot about yourself that you'd never see otherwise.

You learn how to mediate differences. You learn how to spot interpersonal problems on the horizon and head them off. You learn how to protect yourself. You learn how to promote harmony and goodwill. You learn how and when to compromise. You learn how to cooperate better. You learn to hear peoples voices. You learn how to be worthy of respect.

Without these skills, you'll forever be at the mercy of the prevailing political and emotional winds. The satisfaction of knowing you're 100% in the right won't unsink the ship.
https://taskwarrior.org/docs/timewarrior/
"Phædrus' provocation informed the Chairman that his substantive field was now philosophy, not English composition. However, he said, the division of study into substantive and methodological fields was an outgrowth of the Aristotelian dichotomy of form and substance, which nondualists had little use for, the two being identical.

He said he wasn't sure, but the thesis on Quality appeared to turn into an anti-Aristotelian thesis. If this was true he had chosen an appropriate place to present it. Great Universities proceeded in a Hegelian fashion and any school which could not accept a thesis contradicting its fundamental tenets was in a rut. This, Phædrus claimed, was the thesis the University of Chicago was waiting for.

He admitted the claim was grandiose and that value judgments were actually impossible for him to make since no person could be an impartial judge of his own cause. But if someone else were to produce a thesis which purported to be a major breakthrough between Eastern and Western philosophy, between religious mysticism and scientific positivism, he would think it of major historic importance, a thesis which would place the University miles ahead. In any event, he said, no one was really accepted in Chicago until he'd rubbed someone out. It was time Aristotle got his."
I think you are right and that the same applies to many other things, too: wanting to be a developer vs. wanting to develop things, wanting to be a manager vs. wanting to manage things, and so on.
It's sort of what the Minimum Message Length formulation says.

It's hard to communicate the "essential meaning" of Occam's Razor in simple language, because the only good analogies for it involve things like compression algorithms, quantum physics or topology.

If you know what the word "axiom" really means, and can picture an address of a thing in a set taking up space (e.g. bytes of a URL) as your query gets more specific, then Occam's Razor is a very "obvious" statement about the probability of reification of mathematical objects in our universe given their size. If you don't have that context, someone can talk for an hour and it won't communicate the point.
60 in 2017 => 20 in 1977. How many programming jobs were there in 1977? Plenty, sure, but not to the extent we see today. Is it really suprising that a brand-new industry is also full of young people?
Maybe a PE expert should partner with an AI expert. They seem rather different skill sets.
This is the article I remember reading about the linguistical evolution of distinguishing different colors that discusses it well and shows examples in different cultures http://www.empiricalzeal.com/2012/06/05/the-crayola-fication...
The conclusion to one of my favourite sections:

"In other words, any true German mechanic, with a half-century of mechanical finesse behind him, would have concluded that this
particular solution to this particular technical problem was perfect."

Anyone else remember that bit? I now ride a big BMW R1200RT. I wonder if this book influenced me to do that? RIP Mr Pirsig
If you're developing on Apple hardware in Xcode, you have a number of simulators available in the development environment to test/optimize most of that. I'm sure someone will come up with plenty of reasons that this isn't good enough for some developers, but it's not something I ran into when I was developing for iOS.
Total side note, but I do want to note: Gabe Newell can't lose his job unless Valve Software fails entirely, since Valve is a privately owned company. He and Mike Harrington pretty much own the company outright. And given that Valve had ~2.5 Billion in equity in 2012[0], I don't think Valve is in any danger of going away.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Corporation#cite_note-1
That seems like what stock compensation is aimed at. If the company gets a better deal on something, it retains more of its assets and is thus worth more to its owners.
I haven't watched the video yet, so please forgive the possibly premature comment... But this is something that I've found myself thinking about a lot lately. Are the things that we're currently building or maintaining truly that complicated or are we over-engineering things? I've been humbled on more than one occasion where I initially thought an enterprise-y solution was over-engineered, until all the details of the problem were explained to me.

What I wish we had was a "man" equivalent to provide every-day examples of how to use the tool "correctly" (although I'm aware there's stuff like "bro" pages), as well as another tool to explain why some tool / option even exists and how they're "expected" (by the creator / maintainers) to be used. As I've gotten into the habit of reading man pages I've become increasingly aware of how many options certain tools provide, but in many cases I really cannot fathom why those options are available or in what kind of situation they might be used.
China too. Reddit users seem tolerant until you find yourself in the outgroup.

HN is the new reddit for me.
Good catch! And, recognizing an old password is much harder than recalling it, which would seem to suggest the law firm volunteered the passwords they had first. Morevover, if anything, the fact that all passwords had been changed reflects well on the people in question. It seems I was indeed perhaps too hasty...
Brains are incredible differential engines not evolved to handle current technology.

A standard quality video is just a projection, a high quality video stream on a 4k set running full 122hz is a weird window from wich we don't get stereo depth clues. The brain constantly has to rethink it's not real as we shift the head and the pov doesn't adjust.
Wasn't it the main character's teacher?
After long searching I've settled on python for hardware control, number crunching and ML stuff (it's really just wrappers around C libraries and GPU kernels) and Erlang for everything else. So far no regrets. I wasn't aware of that software, thank you for the pointer!
Why does an adrenaline shot have to cost that much?
Your comment should have a spoiler alert.
Are you sure you've fully read and understood every ToS for every product you've ever signed up for, and also never violated any clause?

I know that this is a different situation, because you could make the argument that if you're a business, you'd better fully read and understand every clause of every ToS. But it was difficult to integrate that mentality when we, as consumers, don't treat ToS's as legally binding. And most of us didn't have an ethics course in university. So when we're being asked by an employer to do X, and X is something that we do as consumers, then at what point are we supposed to think "Nope, this is wrong"?

The point is, treating these issues like they're incredibly obvious helps no one. It takes more effort to debate it in good faith than to simply assert "It's obvious," but it doesn't change anybody's mind.
Which laws did Uber break? You said it was a "clear" violation, but it seems like there's a lot of debate.

I don't know enough either way, so I'd like to hear your explanation.
Just because you write code, doesn't make you any more morally sound than the person who asks you to write code.
> The meaning of the characters "如" (such as) "果" (fruit)...

You shall not take the 'fruit' meaning for "果", as it also means 'just as expected' and 'effect' in 'cause and effect'.
Wipro?
Another exception is peyote, which is legal to use by members of the Native American Church. Other religious exceptions may be made for other substances, like Ayahuasca. Studies in to the therapeutic potential of psilocibin may eventually lead to enough of a shift in perception of that substance to make it legal for certain limited types of therapy. Then, as was seen with medical marijuana, that may eventually lead to legal "recreational" (ie. non-medical) use.

There could still be a big backlash against all this. I'm holding my breath waiting to see what the Trump administration and their supporters do.
Interesting Hybrid model - But the site seems to be down now (503)
It would be nice to see more adoption of electric motorbikes and scooters in western cities, too.

Motorbikes and scooters are some of the noisiest and smelliest vehicles on urban streets, and in cities like London and Paris there are huge numbers of them used for commuting and food deliveries, over relatively short distances.

Unfortunately, unlike in China, so far they don't seem to be catching on as fast as electric cars are!
I think the relevant part that distinguishes whether it's ethical is whether you are deceptively taking advantage of another party. If Uber wouldn't be willing to tell Lyft what they are doing with their API, and Lyft would stop them if they knew, then that's a good signal that it's not very ethical to do it.

(Of course, if you're a consequentialist, then you might still like the action if it were serving some greater good. But this seems more like a zero-sum game between Uber and Lyft, at best.)

I suspect that if you were working for the same startup and you were tasked with "Implement a way to know how many Lyft drivers are out on the road, and make sure Lyft can't tell we're doing it" then you might hesitate.
> You know we're talking about changing the whole infrastructure - and that's messy, and painful, and can take many years.

Not as painful as you might think, and it's already happening. At the home level, it's very straightforward to add a charging station to your house, and at the grid level utilities have​ been preparing for this for a while now, evidenced by the fact that they offer EV-specific rate plans to their customers.

The harder part is public charging infrastructure, which is still too sparse, but it is less critical than gas stations because of home charging.
His son Chris was murdered long after the book was published, there is nothing spoiled unless you're really into the plot of postscripts of later editions.

EDIT: (And, yeesh, it was forty years ago. What "spoiler"? BTW, Vader is Luke's father.)
Then this could work for Elixir as well, which seems to be a little more approachable for the majority of programmers.
I could ask a similar question, how many businesses would fail with a 0% tax rate. If we reduced that barrier to entry, more people would open businesses, thus creating a ton of competition, which would lead businesses to fail.

Businesses are going to fail no matter what. Sometimes it's the tax rate, sometimes it's the market, the location, the product, the employees, the manager, the owner etc etc etc.
It's completely heartbreaking, but how is that a spoiler for the book? The book ends long before that tragedy.
As bad as this is, techcrunch should be noted for its bravery in using a term that is sensitive with Christians. I'm not sure exactly why common sense and decency has fallen to a level where a name like "Hell" can describe any program invented by human device. That is, outside of civilian terror. Supposedly the government maintains some monopoly on civilian terror for the greater good, and leaves the meaning of that up to the civilians who have a little experience in how that term is used or abused by those who make claims on the greater good.

The notion that corporations can terrorize civilians outside of this moral universe is not acceptable. We can't allow a chaos of civilian terror that is "made legal" by some court decision. The notion that democracy will devolve into a paroxysm of legal terror must be treated seriously and swiftly by those who are equipped to handle the mental load.
Why don't you make a unique code for each user?
> You purchase a license to play a copyrighted game on a particular medium.

The default right is ours, to be permitted to retell stories, replay musical works we've heard, and even reproduce works of art like video games.

We -- from whom the power to govern comes -- cede this freedom for the sake of promoting arts and sciences. But we do so in a limited fashion. See Article I, Section 8, Clause 8:

> To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

Our representatives scribbled in "but 'limited Times' means a century or two lol" underneath this and called it "Title 17".

As chc states, the copyright gives its holder the ability to grant us licenses. But we could make the case that the limited-monopoly we granted them to begin with has expired or is no longer valid. The copyright holder has concluded that it's not worth their time to continue to offer this work to anyone. So, who then, can curate this work of art that is now an element of our culture? In the mid twentieth-century, if the materials to produce the yellow, green, blue pigments featured in "The Scream" were licensed to painting copiers by Munch's estate, would we be obligated to source those pigments from them? What if his estate no longer sold them?

The point I'm trying to hit upon is that you're drawing a distinction between copyright and the consumer's legal rights. But the copyright is merely the instrument by which our freedoms are limited to those specific terms. If we reject the copyright claim, then the license's terms are moot.
A roller is what I thought of while reading this too. It seems fairly obvious, but I would be surprised if there wasn't an even better design. Juicero's people must have thought of this and the superior alternatives in the very early stages and then decided to do it the way they did anyways.

I know nothing about Juicero, but it seems like there must be somebody who thought they were the second coming of Steve Jobs overriding both the engineers and accountants. That person's reality distortion field must have just popped rather loudly.
I mean in being able to generate source code as text files at any point, or update from text files, since that's what programmers are used to, and there are so much of the tooling is built around that. You're not going to be putting an image on github.
Because Super Mario Bros would be an absolutely terrible experience on a touchscreen. The game is hard enough on the original console with a zero-latency CRT. Put it through an emulator and a bunch of layers of abstraction to a comparatively glacial LCD, then try to control it with non-tactile onscreen buttons? No, thank you.
It's estimated that guns are used defensively (not necessarily fired) by private individuals hundreds of thousands of times per year in the US, and yet we don't see an epidemic of innocent bystanders being accidentally shot. Why do you think that might be? Could it be that your characterization of concealed carriers as "dirty Harry wannabe's" is wildly inaccurate?
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No longer live there, but did for a couple of years - e-bikes there are dirt cheap, require no tax, no insurance and no licence and in Beijing at least, there is pretty decent cycling infrastructure that the e-bikes share.

Car ownership is comparatively expensive and most foreign cars have (I think) a 50% tax markup on purchasing them, there is also (at least in Beijing, and I believe Shanghai) a lottery system for getting a license plate on your car.

E-Bikes are basically the new bicycle, and are treated as such. However, I think they are starting to clamp down on them and treat them more like motorbikes, but the enforcement is still very lax (rumoured because it will enrage the residents of the cities who can't afford a car)

When I was there, I owned one that cost around $300USD, took six lead acid batteries (could upgrade it to lithium-ion) had about a 100km range and an alleged top speed of 60km/h. Disk brakes, remote ignition and alarm. It wasn't super fast, but fast enough to cause trouble (as it's silent) and would certainly outperform 50-60cc mopeds/scooters.

I can't comment on the villages, but I'd expect you would find less of them there, as the rules on vehicle ownership in generally are likely to be more lax as well. It's also absolutely not restricted to the CBDs, in the more suburban areas of the cities there are still plenty of them!