skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The crypto coin phenomenon feels a lot like the dotcom bubble of the 90s. You have to look back at that and say there was a lot of hype and a lot of bad predictions/investments, but there was also a leap forward in tech.

The blockchain is going to change how things happen in peoples daily lives in the same way that TCP/IP does now (Everybody uses it, next to nobody knows/cares about it).

The million dollar question is really which company do you back? Which is the next Google?

Blockchain technology is still in its infancy, I'd recommend researching the top coins/companies. Look at what they are offering, what problems are they solving, are they making the world a better place, do they have the team to make that happen?

95% of the coins out there, to my research, are garbage and little more than a scam. But I like those that are actually backed by a team and institutional investment (i.e. Ripple).
I wonder if they mean Tesla is going to actually produce a half million cars next year, or if they're going to ramp up production to a half million cars per year by the end of the year.
Thanks, I love seeing the FAQ being used! You can probably tell this is our own custom tool, we want to build more of a community around product Q&A and support in the future.
For the exact same reason Tesla won't be able to sell the Model S, because taking the difference between electricity and petrol prices, it will take 50 years to pay off the price difference from a Toyota.
A healthy Github account and some writing goes a long way. Shows your skill and definitely shows initiative and determination.

Whilst having a poor reference isn't great, many people in tech understand toxic workplaces. Sadly, we've all been there. For a new job, I don't think it's good to dwell too much on negative past experience, but it's possible to frame it up in a way people will get.

It's never been a better time to be a software engineer. Keep positive and show off the passion you mentioned.
That's people attending school, not having reading comprehension -- which isn't just getting something from the text, but understanding precisely what it says and doesn't say -- or having much of an attention span. Just an cursory listen and read to the gibberish in marketing, TV, movies, on youtube, not to mention people in real life, while not showing me a trend, shows me there's lots of FUBAR accepted as normalcy. Idiocracy was optimistic I think, no way is it going to take 500 years.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention, I never foresaw such a small vertical to horizontal ratio screen!
"Tesla (TSLA) bonds were oversubscribed by $300 million, $1.8 billion raised for Model 3 production"

https://electrek.co/2017/08/11/tesla-tsla-bonds-oversubscrib...
It's slow by 4 seconds
Golf is cheap. You could spend $1000 on equipment, get a yearly pass for $2300 right outside Google HQ. Spend $50 or is it $100 to join the men's club -- they'd love for you to join -- and get your NCGA handicap. Done.

Read the greatest kung fu manual ever written, "Five Lessons" by Ben Hogan, or use some other book. I met one kid that modeled his swing off of YouTube videos and with that got himself to a scratch handicap.

The real cost is time.
Sure: discredits other (an thus increases your status), people like complaining (increase your like-ability), feeds people interest (people return for more) -> better relationships. More chance to live.

Personally I am applaud by such behaviour. Even telling second hand is a no-go unless you know the source would be willing to tell the other person.
Thank you! The older the company (typically) the harder and slower it is to innovate, we think they've completely missed to opportunities smartphone present.
Maybe they can use it to pay their workers fair wages [0] or to improve work conditions to be not twice as bad as in the rest of the industry [1]

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2017/02/09/unionizi...
[1] https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/24/tesla-fac...
Rules to live by for strangers.
Rules to die by for keeping/making friends.
I notice that it has some problems with lots of visitors and some browsers that delay showing the next frame of the gif. I guess that's what happens when you misuse GIFs
Getting the nations of the world to stop bickering and balance our resource usage fairly and with in the capacity of our planet.
You misread that. It's 326,000 PER pga tour spot.
This doesn't do anything at all to resolve the ambiguity in this sentence.
Very similar trick my chatter bot is using here but it hasn't found a sentient thing to respond to :-)
C++'s implementation of OO isn't that good to begin with, mainly due to compatibility concerns. Perhaps we should look for a better OO language for comparison, say Smalltalk.
One could argue a lot of things. Humans once argued quite seriously that the human brain was composed of microscopic gears because that was the technology of the time.
I believe most rubyists would disagree with you.

I had a ruby loving coworker that made you feel like a moral failure if you commented your code instead of making it 'self-commenting'
All his contacts are lucky too.
Thanks, I do all of our design but I can't take credit for these other than some colouring and minor alterations, they're from a generic set I bought a while back
I once bought a projector that stopped working after 6 months. I tried all the "channels" directly available in the UI (like contact the seller) and got no answer.

When I thought there was nothing else to do, a friend told me: "The first thing you need to do in Amazon, is getting in touch with a real human". And he showed me how, which involved a complicated series of UI steps. Once I talked to a real person I got my money back in a week.

So, yes, I definitely agree. Amazon is making it increasingly difficult to talk to real humans. If I can't get into a phone call, or at least a chat, I don't bother anymore.
Many (most?) safe's also have caps...
What do you mean mass production of books ? Democratization of the printing press ?

It seems to me the printing press actually improved things, but in more recent time the educating power and self improvement potential of books got significantly diluted by drowning books into huge numbers of published entertainment pieces. Entertainment took over knowledge.

I'd say the opposite: today people are reading less book than 20 years ago, writing on paper less and language is on a trend ot become impoverished.
Company Culture: Actions, not just words
OOP did more to set back program design than anything else I can think of. It was incredibly wrong, has sent so many smart minds down a poor path. If for example functional has taken prominence in the 90s we'd be in a much better place now.
Ok fair enough. I meant what more could it to to rectify the situation after he received the item and found out it was counterfeit.

Why they choose to mingle their inventory with 3rd party inventory is beyond me.
Variety reports a failed attempt of #HBO to Offer a 'Bug Bounty' to hackers
Thanks for that, fascinating! I searched a bit further and found out he is also co-owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins NHL team. He seems like an intriguing person.
> Studying the copious literature of OO, the central features which define an OO system seem a little ill-defined.

I didn't know opinion pieces could be disguised as academia. Of course the article has some interesting points about human memory, but that's why we have things like single responsibilities.
They're talking about coastal migration over centuries. Also there's excavations of boats that are dated earlier than estimates for the wheel so I'm not sure what your point is.
But wasn't he a bumpkin that turned into an asshole once he struck it rich?
This App Can Identify Pantone Colors from the Real World
No. The value function for the AI will be way too specialized to look anything like AGI.
Big data in fishing industry
A trick to visualizing higher dimensions [3Blue1Brown]
Blaming people is almost never a good idea. It can very easily lead to a toxic environment.

It's often helpful to know who did it and have that person involved in fixing it and looking for other cases since they're likely to know that area of the code and best understand the thought process that ended up there.

However, it should never be done with any sort of 'blame' or 'fault'. It's something to handle with care.
> Tesla won't be able to sell the Model S

Citation needed.
Elon Musk he hadn't fired his assistant asking for a raise
The guy's just trying to be helpful. Think about it from his perspective.
I've long thought that arrival of the earliest people by boat made a lot more sense than coming over the land bridge from Asia.

There was a study published in Nature last year [1] that concluded that it took hundreds of years after the ice sheets receded and the route become passable before plants became established, and then later animals, to make it possible to survive off the land during such a trip.

We know that the Clovis culture was established before then, so if they or earlier people came by the land route then they must have brought their supplies with them.

That was before the invention of the wheel, so if they brought all their supplies with them for the journey it wasn't on wagons or carts. They only animals they might have had to help carry things were dogs, because no other animals were domesticated at that point.

So we're looking at carrying everything they need for the trip on their own backs or on crude sleds, possibly with the aid of dogs (and if they are bringing dogs, they have to bring all the food for the dogs, too).

This just seems to me to be too farfetched.

Now compare to coming by boats. With boats it is easy to bring plenty of cargo. Whatever food they bring with them can be supplemented with fish and other seafood they can catch on the way. Maybe they can even live entirely off seafood.

[1] I haven't seen the study itself freely online, but here's an article that goes into detail about it: http://www.history.com/news/new-study-refutes-theory-of-how-...
I think you will find you are breathing in that carbon monoxide in your car as well.
My parents moved from the Valley back to Beverly Hills when I was in college, so when I'd be back for break I would go between the Westside and the Valley a lot to see my HS friends. My mom would tell me that I should avoid trying to go between the two between 2 and _8_. LA traffic really is absurd.
It's the "Talent bound" vs "Effort bound" mindset.

I side with "Effort bound" as a life motto. To challenge myself, if not for correctness relatively to the reality.
OS/2 did not have the Start menu. Here is Microsoft's "TaskBar with Start Menu" patent: http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US5920316
Seems to me that you're basically trying to ask us to judge whether you're the problem or the company is.

Here's some questions to help you decide:

1. Does the CEO communicate down clear objectives for your role or are you having to make up your own? - if no this is a bad sign and they might have pulled a bait and switch on you. Ie you've been hired because someone has to run IT and your role is not thought of as a strategic necessity.

2. Do you have the same comms problem with all non technical staff? - if you do maybe it's you... or maybe th departments are very siloed and speak different languages. You know how corporate PR always comes off patronisingly simplistic. Ever wonder why?

3. Is the office full of "shruggers" (those for whom direction doesn't matter). - companies always have survival functions. if those that stay all have the same characteristics this gives you a strong clue about what the place is like.

4. What is it that you can't communicate? Is it structure and process? - if yes this is also a bad sign. There is a generic meta structure to every department and if you can't talk about pipelines, dependencies and projects then chance are he'll never understand you.

Given that you're not just a coder in a suit that doesn't know how to talk to the softer Cs and you find yourself surrounded by placid types and talking about the basics of processes is met with blank stares then I'd expect more of that for the foreseeable future.
Elephants unchained: 'The day has gone by when this was entertainment'
His memo absolutely fails to mention the biases women deal with on a daily bases. It fails to mention how unjust such things can be and how they must make his female colleagues feel. And that such things are well supported by research.

That failure makes his audience significantly less receptive, and puts them on the immediate defense. He should spend some serious time reading "Difficult Conversations" and other books of it's ilk. As much as he wants to avoid feelings, feelings always matter. Hence the justified accusation of his memo being "tonedef".

And you are not considering the context in which it was written, or are missing key statements like:

> For the rest of this document, I’ll concentrate on the
extreme stance that all differences in outcome are due to
differential treatment and the authoritarian element
that’s required to actually discriminate to create equal
representation.

For him it is clearly table stakes that women are discriminated against. He doesn't feel the need to argue it because he, and the Google culture which he is addressing, finds it so imminently obvious.

Something he states. Multiple times. Throughout the document.

> Sure, he says that innate traits are only part of the cause. But the rest of his essay implies they are the primary cause.

The weight [of the research on the matter](http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/Men-and-thing...) (a significant amount of it) indicates that interests are a primary driver in the discrepancy:

Therefore, from the inter-individual perspective,the
individuals who pursue STEM careers are more likely to
be male than female. For example, assuming that
individuals within the highest 25% of a population
interest distribution are likely to make occupational
choices consistent with an interest type, the number of
women entering the engineering occupation, then, is only
19.5% of the number of men entering the field. This
percentage is very similar to the actual female–male
ratio of individuals employed in engineering. In science
and mathematics interest distributions, the female–male
ratios in the upper 25% asymptote are 0.60 and 0.64,
respectively. However, the actual female–male ratio of
individuals employed in the field of physical sciences
is only about 0.40 and, in mathematics, it is about
0.45. This discrepancy between interest data and real
employment composition indicates that there may be
reasons other than sex differences in interests that can
account for gender disparity in science and mathematics.

A few observations though:

1) Google tends to pull a lot from Science and Math, not just engineering, in the "tech world". Dalmore is one such individual. This indicates the ratio should be much more skewed to an even makeup.

2) Even without that Google is still pretty "male" compared to what the research indicates.

3) Research on interests is largely still post social, so we don't really have a good feeling for the biological vs social components that drive the interest rates we see today. We know some pre-social effects exist, but we don't really have a good grasp on the magnitude of such effects. His memo fails to make this differentiation.
> Golf is cheap. You could spend $1000 on equipment, get a yearly pass for $2300 right outside Google HQ.

$3300 is not in any way "cheap" for the majority of Americans.

I like HN, but it's disheartening how many of my peers in tech seem to think that a West Coast programmer's salary is normal.
The Euribor, which governs my mortgage, uses the same interbank lending sources as the LIBOR.

http://www.euribor-rates.eu/what-is-euribor.asp

But I can't say I'm unhappy with it: never have I paid so little interest on anything I've ever owed, Euribor is negative right now and I'm loving it.

Whatever means of calculation or manipulation are being used, they are working out in my favor today. Maybe a stricter regulation would limit the banks abilities to lend competitively, which may not be in neither their, mine nor the government's favor.
Do they have incentive to do that?
OO was a huge improvement in the 90s. But as with a lot of paradigms it got elevated to a religion and way overused. I still don't understand why a lot of teaching emphasizes inheritance.

The same would have happened with FP. People would have messed it up too.
What do you mean social media ? If you're referring to a website please don't label it social media as this is PR and novlang.

Facebook and twitter share the characteristic of getting the worse out of people and capitalizing on it, so this would introduce a bias by giving a megaphone to idiots and people acting like idiots.

To answer your question, no one better that Ray Bradbury can tell what Farenheit 451 is about (and he's been vocal about how people misinterpret it). He knows what he wanted to put in his books. But that does not imply that readers will get it or that in a different context the main interpretation can be different.

His point is valid though, TV turns people watching it into morons, at least the worldwide scientific consensus says so and said so for decades.
He wasn't suspicious, he called it out.

And seeing how oeople block each other on Twitter and retreating into echo chambers all the time, people on HN and elsewhere react like babies to anything that is "too personal", he's perfectly right. It's not about knowledge, it's about being and remaining cut off from yourself and genuine emotions. Having a lot of knowledge about the world is a great way to go about that, while deluding oneself about it. Others are having power or respect. And it's not a long or complicated book, you know, so even just this discussion kinda proves it right.

Oh, and video games, where basically 95% of the "lore" just seems to be code for having issues? Don't get me started on that Deathlord McVoidtouch and all that inane BS. I've been playing games since 1990, and 99.9% of it has always been trash, while today hardly anyone is even trying. And people lap it up, the dumber it is, the more filled with marketing speak and alienated magical thinking, the better. "It's just a game, it's just a movie, don't be a party pooper". It's Fahrenheit 451 to a T.
The Renault-Nissan group sold almost 500k EV worldwide in the first six months of the year (481,151 units, to be more exact), and I don't see any news out-there of ICE cars "being toast". Link: http://www.media.blog.alliance-renault-nissan.com/news/the-r...
Indeed! And not every language that claims to be OO actually follows the basic ideas [1,2]. So, Smalltalk, as e.g Squeak [3] or Pharo [4] is a good place to start looking and learning but also Erlang [5] and Clojure [6]. State is necessary not "evil" but needs to be managed well. And most OO-languages have, apart from the assignment operation, no abstractions for.

[1] http://wiki.c2.com/?AlanKayOnMessaging
[2] http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/
[3] http://squeak.org/
[4] https://pharo.org/
[5] http://www.infoq.com/interviews/johnson-armstrong-oop
[6] http://thinkrelevance.com/blog/2013/11/07/when-should-you-us...
No, thank you for the explanation. I had a fever yesterday and had details backwards.
Ya. Lots of people think OO equals C++ and Java, but that is like evaluating FP on the basis of Haskell alone.
The inventor of the start menu and taskbar disagrees with you:

https://www.windowscentral.com/creator-first-start-menu-thin...
Why stop at SoundCloud? How about Tumblr, Instagram and YouTube? /s
This is really cool! Completely suboptimal but fascinating none the less. Great project and idea :) would be interested in hearing some people's ideas for real applications of this
Danes step away from patenting in favour of ‘open science’
It's cheaper than smoking. Edit: Well, depends on the accounting. The median U.S. income is $51K so by all means it's affordable. The main cost is time.
Prototype based inheritance (e.g. JavaScript, Lua) is a much better concept. (It's much more powerful and allows you even to implement class based inheritance.)

Also functional programming has its benefits.

The 1990s/2000s with the OO hype around C++/Java/C# was a set back.
this is pretty awesome, hopefully they'll release some more details about how it was implemented
What is going on now is partly a retreat from real literacy back to oral modes of communication and oral modes of thought (i.e. "texting" is really a transliteration of an oral utterance, not a literary form). This is a disaster. - Alan Kay (2016)

... from my fortune database @ http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
You're seeing both the old span (moved North from its original location) and the new bridge under construction in that photo. Once the new bridge was finished, the old span was torn down.

More photos here:

http://www.sellwoodbridge.org/?e=518
Thank you for mentioning MixCloud, I was not familiar with it and from a quick browse it seems great for my tastes (EDM live sets).
I sort of did a similar experiment from 15-35 with boxing. Trained a lot and became pretty competent. But to get to the top hard work is not enough. You also need talent. There are people in the gym that had speed and strength without any training that I couldn't reach with daily hard training.

But I think doing this was probably still the best thing I did in my life. Doing something that seems out of reach and then becoming competent is great. Even without having success in the sense of winning.
He is a Dothraki.
In a very subtle and non-evident way. He doesn't do it directly, but as a whole, given the 'memo's structure and its tone, it creates wrong assumptions, ignores important points, emphasizes secondary ones, creates doubts where there is nothing to doubt about and doesn't question things that should be questioned instead, which in general presents an incompetent and harmful way of thinking about the subject. It's like someone would write an essay with a list of science-based points on why raping children is natural and suggest to doubt that it is a crime. Its pretty easy to kind of support any bad thing with scientific facts and make it look right, but doing this is bad in the first place. His post provokes subtle doubts on very sensitive things like female competence and questions if diversity is important enough to tolerate a risk of not hiring the most qualified person. Given what we know about the hardships women often face in society and at work, provoking doubts around those subjects does no good. At least, not in the way he presented the whole topic.
Most users aren't developers they aren't judging the relative power of extension systems they just are liable to notice useful extensions going away.

Firefox on Linux seems to me to be slower and crappier save for interesting extensions.

Enough so that I've just decided to ditch Firefox even before interesting extensions go south.
Deathlord McVoidtouch actually gives me 0 results on Google, which is not something I'd expect to happen.
Re: taking issue with my statement on privilege -- I'm thoroughly confused by your comment "privilege .. [is] something one is given and gives." Male privilege is an inherent trait. It is up to us to become aware of it and not perpetuate it's consequences in our industry.

Not sure what you mean by "we've all already come to the conclusion that equality of opportunity is a privilege we all would benefit from".. equal opportunity is not a privilege - it's a baseline.

How can you genuinely say that everyone is "in some way privileged"? The whole idea of privilege is that only few have it, especially in the context we're talking about. I can think of so many marginalized groups in society that enjoy no privilege whatsoever.

Lastly, re: "we would simply be repeating history", please shed light on this, I don't really get it.