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Print() is valid in Python2. It will print a tuple under some conditions, but that is still syntactically valid and a graceful degradation. (Print is for humans to read. As long as a human can understand it, good enough. Going for full identical behavior costs extra :-) Valid-but-incompatible is fine for polyglot stuff. Merge the files and put in a version test around those parts.
Kinda off-topic but I have to agree with the "it doesn’t matter where you come from" and myself am very grateful to the tech industry for that. If it wasn't the case I'd probably still be working at a fast-food chain currently, as in my country without years of formal education you're pretty much considered worthless - if it wasn't for tech I'd be doomed.
I had the opposite reaction to Blade Runner and thought it cut the most interesting parts from the source material, like Mercerism and the whole weird culture about buying fake animals.

I liked the movie, but the only real similarity to the book is character names.

Also, yes, to me the new Blade Runner is yet another signal that Hollywood is becoming focus tested to death.
I know right. Real "developers" only write in assembly with a completely separate codebase for each target platform. No code review or source control either, because they're not lazy.

Actual issues aside (yes slack takes up way too much memory and it's due to the platform they chose which is hugely bloaty but will undoubtedly get smaller/faster over time just as everything does) why would you choose to attack the developers for building a tool that millions of people use with great success? They're not lazy. They used the best tools available to them to deliver their product and they're reaching the limits of said tools. Now they have to address those limits. This is exactly how software is supposed to work.
I think those stories are actively eroding the fabric of the society. Note that in most dystopian fiction, the society and its institutions are either incompetent or outright evil. People keep reading/watching those stories, and just through availability heuristic, it colors the way they see the world.
There's no place for vicious comments like this on Hacker News, so we've banned the account.
He was most certainly a millionaire and so we're his grandparents who owned a 25,000 acre ranch in Texas. Jeff had a silver spoon in his mouth from birth just like many other successful businessmen.
50 votes, posted 12 minutes ago. No comments. Find it hard to believe that many people discovered and read it that quick...
Also thanks for the reference to Erin Catto's talk, need to check it out. Maybe physics engines aren't magic after all.
Please, before this degrades into the inevitable shouting match, let's please consider that there are two things that can both simultaneously be true:

1.Tech is less bad than many, many other industries. I can personally speak to overt, even illegal sexism in the field of medicine at a level that would cause riots in tech. I’ve heard similar stories in academia, to say nothing of fields like manufacturing. We live in a sexist society, and the professional world reflects that.

2. Being “less bad” than other industries does not mean we don’t have an obligation to do better. We as an industry need to be doing more to make sure that the vast majority of stories are like this one. We’re not there yet.
Tezos and zeppelinOS are very different things. zeppelinOS is building an operating system on top of the Ethereum Virtual Machine to provide secure infrastructure for the development of smart contract applications. A technology that is still being developed but used by thousands of developers, and maturing into it's next phase.
Tezos is building a new blockchain with a different infrastructure altogether.
Microsoft isn't just using TypeScript, they created and maintain TypeScript.
Maybe they had already read it then came here and saw it posted?
Yes, the example article I linked to on another comment has the name of the university and the download date watermarked. And that's on an article for a large, long-established journal; it's not like they're just missing watermarks on niche journals.

Thanks for the tip about tweeting. I need to set up another github account disconnected from my professional identity but that shouldn't be too hard.

EDIT: and maybe a separate Twitter account. And maybe both accounts used only from public wifi, too. I wouldn't put much past the publishers when it comes to getting revenge on people who help sci-hub. Unlike Elbakyan, I am not out of their reach.
> I think I used to assume that the point of dystopian sci-fi was to try to prevent nasty futures from happening.

That's the idea. Writers show us our possible futures, and it's up to us to pick which one we want to implement. Dystopias are cautionary tales.

> I only read stories to my kids that have good old-fashioned happy endings.

That's actually kind of a modern development, itself.
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I got fired from a startup for asking about my salary
Worked for a startup for 3 months,we were incubated so i had vesting after 6 months,I was the only employee of the company,i was bus dev and there was a backend who was a freelancer.In the start i was working as a bus dev,then there was a need for a front-end i told him if he want me to work on that i must get paid. He is a founder and investor in other startups.
Sure, range and sensitivity can be adjusted from the App, maximum ratings are 5 meters and 35° angle at the sound cone. So at two meters you would be able to detect head level obstacles with no problem. To improve the receptivity you can also slightly bend your elbow to give a little angle to your forearm and aim the band slightly up, that will catch even the ceiling of your room, fortunately the IMU permits us to understand the position you are aiming and trim the sound cone only to cover areas that represent a hazard, trying to drag attention of the user only with needed.
> "The report, published today in Scientific Reports used data from the Whitehall II cohort and analysed the sugar intake from sweet food and beverages and occurrence of common mental disorders in over 5000 men and over 2000 women for a period of 22 years between 1983 and 2013"

I don't eat refined sugar because it is harmful. However, I wonder how the study accounted for the MANY changes that took place between 1983 and 2013. Sugar consumption has gone up, so has US inflation, less overall exercise, social media consumption, and a variety of other possible negative factors.
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Sure, but I wish he'd answer since the fact that he mentions it would seem to include he does care at least a bit; but this is then directly contradicted by his recommending this course anyway. Seems a bit psychopathic to me.
Well if they remove the 140 character limit I'll start using Twitter again. Looks like they're breaking even.
I'm curious if this was a response letter to the other female-tech blog post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14868390).

You don't seem like a stick in the mud, which makes me believe that the other poster is. Not a fair comparison, I admit. I don't know either of you, so that's just the impression I get from these two separate posts.
Sweden has started doing medical age tests on migrants who claim to be minors. The tests are still voluntary and the results are not binding in any way. The first results are in with the 'expected' results: 76% of those claiming to be minors are in fact over the age of 18. they tested 581 asylum seekers (96% were men, 4% women). 442 of them (430 men, 12 women) were over 18 according to the test results. 5 of them (all women) were possibly over the age of 18. 134 of them (133 men, 1 woman) were possibly under the age of 18. None of them were certainly under the age of 18.

So, yes, those who expected the majority to lie about their age have been proven correct.

https://www.rmv.se/aktuellt/de-forsta-medicinska-aldersbedom...
Parents aside, I understand AsicBoost encourages empty blocks.
>If you don't want to be banned on HN you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that nothing like it will ever happen again.

Wow. Seriously? Go fuck yourself.
You're kind of ignoring the huge chasm of a gap between "perfection" and "average level of negative experiences".

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
I follow 44 accounts, a mixture of Eastern philosophy, interesting entrepreneurs/economists, Quanta/Nautilus, Patagonia, one design showcase, a few people in tech industry.

Twitter is mostly noise, little signal. Social media in general is to be honest. I get a little value from each of the major platforms. Reddit and Instagram are my two favorites.
That's tweet is factually incorrect.

Gavin Wood DID NOT write the change that caused that bug, he was not the assigned reviewer either. https://github.com/paritytech/parity/pull/3773
So, I think there is a worthwhile discussion here that's getting lost in all the emotions. The discussion comes down to this "Should we look at this as a gender debate, or an engineering debate?"

I can see why gp wouldn't want to see it as a gender debate, because it negates the negative experience some men have around other toxic male engineers.

I can also see why you wouldn't want to deny the sexist element's existence, that would just seem counter-factual.

I also want to express a hesitation to reduce this to a gender issue, because I find it so often creates an US-vs-THEM mentality. Because I'm a guy, and I think many managers in engineering are abusive, and I don't think the fact that the abuse isn't throwing out the word "pussy" negates the severity of the situation.

Consider Japan, where stress at work has gotten so bad, the country has made a goal of reducing suicide rates. I think we need to unite around work standards before we get to that point, not as guys vs girls, but as workers vs investors.
What do you mean by "stick in the mud"? Do you not see anything wrong with what the other poster experienced?
That source says that Rockefeller's net worth was $30 billion in current (2014) dollars.

The $340 billion figure is from a semi-nonsensical calculation that is popular because it yields eye-popping large numbers. They figured Rockefeller's assets equaled 1.5% of the US GDP at the time. And 1.5% of the current GDP would be about $340 billion dollars. But assets as a fraction of GDP is not very meaningful. It's like saying if I moved to a country with a small GDP such as Samoa I'd be richer than Bill Gates.

In effect, the $340B Rockefeller number is big because the US economy has grown. The worst part is many websites often confuse the scaled-GDP numbers with constant-dollar numbers, resulting in much confusion.
Those books exist. Daemon and FreedomTM are one pair of books that might be right up your alley.

The Culture series describes what is arguably the best possible science fiction society to live in. Player of Games is a good introduction to the series, which shows off what the Culture is by taking you, in the shoes of one of its denizens, to a place that's a high contrast.

David Brin always preaches scifi optimism, but I found Existence to be kind of a slog, so I never finished it - I think you'd agree with a lot of his writing, though.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6665847-daemon

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18630.The_Player_of_Game...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13039884-existence
I choose to attack those developers because they're taking an easy path knowing that it will end up in a bad product, yet they still do it.

At the end of the day I don't care which technology is used as long as the end product is good, however a chat client that uses 1,5GB of memory is the total opposite of good. Come on, it's a f'ing chat client - a solved problem and existing implementations (look at any IRC client) take like 100MB's max. I would have no problems with Electron if they somehow managed to get the resource usage similar to a native app.
Utopian literature has a fundamental problem where there is no conflict...because it's a Utopia.

The only popular utopian literature I can think of is Star Trek and all of their plots either involve characters leaving the utopia to explore or defending it from those who would destroy it.
Perhaps the universities should really look over the submitter contracts and see if they can directly grant open access to the university’s own past submissions. Some sort of collective group could help them share the cost of that legal analysis.
I don't follow. Please explain.
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Anyone else frustrated hovering over the strips looking for the title-text?
Yes, I've heard from people with mid six figures of inventory in Nike.

The trick is not to pay full price, use discounted gift cards, rewards, etc.

I don't do clothing, but I've used similar techniques on many other categories. Plenty of people have large businesses moving goods from retail to Amazon.
Well this should certainly make for some interesting dialogue.

I suspect there are some important truths in this post, and my intuition is perhaps a bit of naivete as well, it's hard to say for sure. I think humankind has a decade or two of suffering to go through before we can start to have conversations at a level above adolescence on topics such as this, but by then how many other things will have changed?
I think your second point is the thing that is it always so easy to gloss over. "better" or "less bad" are very relative. In the end, the Golden Rule is the target but the reality is that there are a lot of people that suck and have no concept of self reflection.
Slack might have 1.5 GB mapped between all of its processes but probably most of the processes many of the same pages, so it's a bit misleading to say Slack uses up 1.5 GB of "real" memory.
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How would they have forced the issue?
This explains Dr Dre's involvement in the production (assistant mixer) on 'Even Deeper' from Nine Inch Nail's The Fragile album.

Picture of Dr Dre in the studio with Trent, Charlie Clouser, and Danny Lohner: http://www.nin.wiki/File:Drenin.jpg
> But tech is hard on everyone, not just on me, not just on women.

It's considerably easier for women. Tech is:

1) One of the most male dominated fields

and

2) One of the most progressive and pro-diversity fields

So you combine those two together and you get hundreds of companies that will reject a more qualitifed male for a less qualified female because she will make the workforce more "diverse". Personally I find this practice repulsive and just as sexist as the thing it replaces, but I expect to get downvoted.
Some serious math errors here if you think 7% of $1.8M is only $12k / yr. (Even accounting for taxes.)
Going to 2, 4 or 8MB doesn't mean other things can't be looked at. It doesn't mean we end up with 256MB blocks. It's a cheap, simple extension for the time being.

How many independent nodes do we need to ensure it keeps working?
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The average young person working in retail has $0 in savings and ~$200 in his checking account on a good week.
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> Apple won’t let developers stay behind.

On macOS 10.12.5, released 2017-05-15:

$ /usr/bin/python -V
Python 2.7.10

That's a release from 2015-05-23. Latest is 2.7.13 released 2016-12-17.

And no system python3. Only through Homebrew/Macports.
And they don't get the full value ($22k adjusted for inflation) unless they wait until 62 to start taking benefits.
For those of you who got triggered by "feminist", please do note the quotes. I.e., it's their claim, not mine[1]. I personally don't see that they've done much for gender equality, so they only make that claim because it's fashionable.

In the end it doesn't matter how feminist a government is if it cannot properly rule a country, and their actions speak louder than empty words.

What I personally find so galling about the whole debacle isn't that Maria Ågren wasn't punished enough, but the signals the state sends to the people. She got away with a slap on the wrist, and she will continue to earn $14 000/month in the forseeable future[2].

If someone becomes a director general of a state agency their resonsibilities and culpability should increase with the salary. Criminal incompetence is still criminal, and should be prosecuted.

Instead, our government tried to bury the leak.

[1]: http://www.government.se/government-policy/a-feminist-govern...
[2]: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/maria-agren-plockar-ut-lo...
We must look very closely at experts who made the argument that anyone who is an expert agrees and understands this. If you do not agree you are not in the 'know'. This shouldn't even be discussed now that experts like myself have stated our opinion.

This topic seems technical but at it's core it is about self interest, fear and money.
Things that probably express similar sentiment, but with different language:

* "Not my circus, not my monkeys."
* "How do things in those other places concern *us*?"
* "People suck, news at 11."
* "You think we haven't been hearing this every day already?"
* "Thanks, but we already have more than enough things to be outraged about."
* "That doesn't look actionable."
* "We're here to do work, not to agitate for social change."

Does phrasing it in any of those ways still look "sexist by any possible interpretation I can think of"?
Maybe people enjoy a bit of positivity about partially successful efforts towards diversity. It sometimes feels like all efforts towards it get little recognition and only more risks of being falsely accused. So when someone says something along the lines of "Some people are great, even males", it gets upvotes.
> He makes it sound like anyone in the "know" understands this.

That's quite telling, isn't it? There's this huge debate, but his argument is that it's obvious?

From a 'tradition' or 'legacy' standpoint, the blocksize limit was never meant to be a persistent thing. It was not present in the whitepaper or the initial implementations, and when Satoshi added it, it was explicitly stated that the limit should be raised as needed and as computer hardware and network capacity increased. When Satoshi left, the project was handed to Gavin, who has gone to great lengths to support blocksize increase. Similarly, other early developers like Jeff Garzik and Mike Hearn strongly support on-chain scaling. I think it is quite fair to say that the original intention for the limit was simply an anti-spam measure, and was not intended to limit network usage, for whatever that's worth.

Larger blocks require more cost to run a node. It costs more network capacity, more storage, more time to spin up a node, etc. The argument is that these costs will decrease node count to a dangerous degree. More network use could, however, create incentive for more people to run nodes. Clearly there's a trade-off between extremes, so a careful consideration must be made about where the best trade-off occurs.

Larger blocks are a liability to miners as they increase the chance of orphaned blocks. This has two primary effects: it places a natural limit to the block size miners are willing to mine, and it creates incentives for miners to have excellent network access to the rest of the network. This later issue can mean mining centralization. This is one of the core arguments against increasing block size, but it's a very complicated issue. One of the primary confounders is ASIC development, which means rapid capital turnover and short investment timelines for mining. As ASIC development reaches state-of-the-art node sizes, and also as the Bitcoin price stabilizes, mining investment looks very different. This is very difficult to predict.

Small blocks greatly limit what Bitcoin can do. It places a hard cap on transaction throughput. The formation of a transaction fee market greatly discourages small transactions, making Bitcoin inaccessible to a wide range of people. It makes any address with Bitcoin less than the txn fee effectively unspendable. In the extreme, it limits Bitcoin to the role of digital gold, a speculation vehicle with little use as a medium of transaction.

There are two big open questions:

* Will larger blocks lead to dangerous centralization?

* Will 2nd layer solutions provide effective scaling solutions?

In the end, all of this deals with trade-offs, but worse, trade-offs with difficult-to-quantify risks at either extreme. I simply would not trust anyone that is dogmatic about their favored approach.

My personal view is that the conservative approach with least risk is to permit moderate blocksize increases while 2nd layer solutions are being developed, and to continue the debate as the network develops. This is, in effect, exactly what the '2X' compromise does.
> you get hundreds of companies that will reject a more qualitifed male for a less qualified female because she will make the workforce more "diverse"

I have never ever ever heard of this happening, as much as some people like to scream "preferential treatment" with no evidence.
Here's the calculation:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Geometri...

R ≈ 6.4E6

h = 0.3

d = √(2Rh + h²) ≈ 2.0E3

γ ≈ sin γ = d/(R + h) ≈ 3.1E-4

extra rope length = 2 × (d − γR) = 2R × (tan γ − γ) ≈ 2R × γ³/3 ≈ 0.13E-3
It's a great idea and I think the world does need a new book for pure JS.

There was a book released about 10 years ago by the guy who wrote jQuery. It started with basic JS and went all the way through to advanced features. It really helped me master JS.

Where I think that book is better then yours is that it focuses entirely on JS where as you spend a lot of time talking about http and the web works. Anyone reading your book to learn js will already know that.

An updated version for the modern day of the book I mentioned earlier would do very well.

I don't mean to sound negative and I applaud your effort and the time you put in to do it and wish you the best of luck!
Hundreds of companies out of millions. A larger majority struggles with subconscious bias and won't do anything about it.
You always need a trusted source! So making the trust the first block or the millionth... Not sure there's much difference.
per the source material there were a total (extrapolated) of 135901 concussions across the 9 sports studied.

55007 for football - 40.5% of 135901

20929 for boys soccer - 15.4% of 135901

29167 for girls soccer - 21.5% of 135901

50096 combined soccer

50096/135901 = 36.9% of all concussions were from soccer.
She goes to MIT by the way. (not saying she doesn't deserve it)

I bet if she went to some no-name university and people saw her pole dancing then her employment would be more limited
If you don't like dry, Houston is for you! ;-) It is one of the few places I know of where humidity can be 100% and it not rain...
A reasonable concern is that "doing better" to some metric or agenda pushed by outsiders or johnny-come-latelies will result in the degradation of the ability to foster diversity and merit.

For example, how would the relatively sterile and sexless HR policies of Big Co. handle the pole dancing the author refers to? How long before that had to go too?
Why not just type general AI?

Also, why would that be a particularly interesting worship object? I'd be curious to read some imaginative sci-fi if anyone can furnish it....
Even if we don't put all the copy-editing burden on the author (it's their reputation that is affected by the mistakes), the costs for organizing peer review and copy-editing could be covered by a fairly small submission fee, or alternatively donations or the sale of hard-copies. You could even offer freemium models where anyone can read the papers for free, but value-add options are sold to libraries and universities (integration into library catalog, better search, etc).