skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speculation: My guess is this is being driven by the slowdown in China, and the very low price of petroleum. Startup funding, circa 2008-2015, was helped by the sluggish Western economies, the 1% interest rates, and the desperation investors had for yield. That era is over. But sluggishness in China is causing Chinese investors to look overseas, and they too are looking for yield. And also, it probably helps that oil prices are so low, as that both helps Western economies and also leaves all of the investors in the oil countries looking to invest in something other than oil. (In 2008, the price of oil briefly peaked at more than $140 a barrel. In recent years it has not gone above $50 a barrel for any sustained period of time.)
Equanimity doesn't have to be numbness. You can be very passionate about something and still being calm.
Sorry, maybe I didn't get your original point - I thought you were insinuating that ICO was a technology in search a problem and that all super successful (i.e. good) technologies starts this way (which I would disagree).
> I haven't seen a fruit cake in many years, either.

Don't you see them at every wedding?
I heard something recently about how terrible we are at predicting the future inherently.

I can't find the source, but I heard on a manager tools podcast that ~50 years ago they surveyed professionals about the future of flight. There was a ton of predictions about crazy concepts, but the winner was "bigger planes going more places"

This is also kind of a fun read: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Incorrect_predictions
> and my understanding is that in many jurisdictions, a DMCA takedown notice qualifies as such a notice.

It sounds a bit weird that a notice that has legal ramifications and is written in non-official language of the country would be legally binding. Or would American judges accept DMCA notice that was written in Spanish (I was considering using something like Comorian, but that's probably a bit too different case)?
Best distro is the one people complain most about because they use it most. That would be vanilla Ubuntu. Also you have to appreciate the irony now that they are returning to Gnome there are people out there unhappy about that just as there were people unhappy about switch to Unity.
Travis Kalanick should have resigned as a CEO, and there is a collection of reasons why. The bar is quite high in terms of how bad things have to be for how long before pressuring a CEO out makes sense.

Google does not come close to that level. If someone needs to be sacked for the diversity memo, it needs to be the author in question. At maximum, you could argue that a VP of HR could be sacked, as to 'shake up' the hiring processes and address any issues in it.

This does not go to the CEO. More damage would be done by his leaving than him staying. He reports to the shareholders, not to the moralists.
It is not irrational to misinterpret poorly written, poorly worded, and inconclusive text.

Reading a text is a dialogue. If the writer did not appropriately express the intent, then they invite the reader to finish the thought. And this even rational people can arrive at different conclusions.

To suggest every reading you don't approve of as "irrational" is a predictable, even classical tactic. Many words exist for it, but in the end the notion of blaming the reader for finishing an incomplete thought is an exercise in futility. The reader has no choice.
> how it'd be impossible to configure a firewall at that point

Why is that? Wouldn't those addresses be hierarchical?

Mobile addresses for applications would make the usual case of "hey, you migrate service X to that other switch, and nothing works anymore" basically disappear.
Sorry, I don't know why. Care to explain?
Technology Transfer: From Obscurity to Hot Career
> ...the problem is the FUD he's spreading...

He seems earnest to me. If he's earnestly voicing ideas that result in fear, uncertainty, or doubt, is it his fault? What is the appropriate way to broach the subject publicly? Or are certain thoughts inherently unspeakable?

If Damore bears significant blame, what is an appropriate response for a boss to have to that situation? Why is Damore the only person in trouble if controversial discussions themselves are against the rules?
Tom Wheeler was a former telecom executive [1]. His perspective as a telecom entrepreneur informed his tenure at the FCC. Not saying this is fine, but it's not an automatic red flag. Just a reminder to remain vigilant.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wheeler
Turing Award Winner: Leslie Lamport
Frankly it sickens me that a company is making money out of ripping websites and other companies of their ad revenues.
But isn't that referring to DRM?
Losing out on an early five years of investing is huge. A ~$30k/yr stipend is not going to be enough to do anything with.

> But there are ways for making up for the lost pay; I do know of a few Data Science Managers who earlier dropped out of their Phd and earned good sums.

Isn't this supporting my claim that a PhD is a bad deal, if people decide they are better off completing the program?

I've also heard the story so many times. Once people have a good idea they realize that completing a PhD is just getting in the way. Instead of researching and studying for ~5yrs they leave and start a company/building a product.
This video is on youtube since 1 year and has less than 60 (!) views.
Seems to me like completely changing up the product was the previous direction (trying to squeeze in some kind of spotify-like product), and the article mentions explicitly the new CEO want to get back to the core value of the service.

Of course, we'll see what they mean by that and how it will be executed, but it sounds like good news, actually.
In most large companies today, the shareholders outside of the top 3 management levels are irrelevant and usually just a tedious burden.
Will Cities Ever Outsmart Rats?
Apparently https://freetype.org/patents.html
How Silicon Valley’s Workplace Culture Produced James Damore’s Google Memo
Like it or not, the new EPA guy is extremely efficient in transforming the agency quickly and probably with lasting effects.
The economy is only hot for people in the stock market or are high up the corporate ladder. The majority is getting left behind yet again so we can shovel ever increasing amounts of money at the rich.
ad blockers are cool but

1 - they block too much stuff thats not ads

2 - they break sites (I support sites...)

3 - they silently update

4 - their white list dont always work

just today I was white listing something and no matter what it didnt work.

Ad blockers (and their list) have been a bit lazy, and can stand to do better.
Some issues with 18.2:

- Nemo has huge issues handling icon spacing in HiDPI mode; this is a major regression and the reason I only upgraded one of my computers to 18.2 until this is resolved

- Cinnamon still freezes/stops responding/windows disappear with alpha barely above 0 on Intel HD either randomly or when switching to another logged in user
I would rather have my public agencies run by someone who maybe has no direct experience with the domain but has shown skill in public decision-making and an ability to learn new fields than run only by people who have worked in that domain. Which is to say if it's a catch-22 it's one that's completely self-imposed (or is being used as a scapegoat for regulatory capture.)
I don't know about now, but a year or so ago it was the most popular distro yeah.

Elementary OS seems to be on the path to take over for best desktop distro though.
Looking at your comments I believe you have a great front-end experience. As a self taught programmer I am curious to know what are the materials/courses that helped you to get off the ground or any other resources that helped you bossting your career. Thank you in advance.
I think people can be vaguely expecting something to happen yet still be entirely surprised when they see what it actually is in practice.
You might listen to the song "Fruitcakes" by Jimmy Buffett, he plays with this pun. :]
Yes, we changed it from “We fucked up: why we had to switch from Braintree to Stripe”. This breaks the guidelines and is the sort of blatant clickbait that's seriously disrespectful of the community, especially when promoting one's own stuff.
I had thought this was more about non-Hispanic whites being less than 50% of the population.

More info on that here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_minority

This is the case for five states right now: Hawaii, New Mexico, California, Texas, and Nevada.

That article suggests the whole United States will be majority-minority by 2043 and for children by 2019. (But a critique is that these studies treat somebody with any Hispanic, Asian, or Black ancestry as non-white.)
I am surprised that the majority of commenters believe that this marks the end of SoundCloud. SC just secured $170M in new funding with $100M revenue run rate. They have a product that many users and creators love. The new CEO is a Harvard Business School grad with experience as CEO of Vimeo, a similar media business. He brought the COO of Vimeo with him. If SC can reduce cost (not knowing what the drivers are, it is unclear how easy that is), they might be able to reach profitability quickly. This might be the start of operating SC like a real company by a real operating team.

"The new management should provide some additional confidence. I’d interviewed both Ljung and Wahlforss in the past, and neither had answers to the big questions facing SoundCloud about its product direction, business model, and the spurious copyright takedowns that have eroded its trust with musicians."

On the other hand, existing employees equity value is likely wiped out in the down round. They are underwater on strike price of options, face additional dilution from prior investors' anti-dilution provisions and now liquidation multiples/preference from investors.
Coding in of itself isn't a highly social activity, but you still need people who are reasonably competent socially to be able to handle a project that requires teamwork. Just because communication and social interaction is a means to an end doesn't mean they can be excessively devalued.

Sure, you can say time spent in front of a machine is the value center, and time spent interacting with others (in interminable meetings, at stand-ups, etc.) are cost centers. But it's generally accepted around here that neglecting cost centers is a strategic miscalculation, no?
Just double checked. There are only three pick up locations on this side of the world and they are all in the U.S.
Wonderful. This war ENDED in 1921, while USSR was created in 1922.

Please, check your facts better.
Ironically enough I last got bit by that trying to listen to Depeche Mode.
Keep in mind that we are currently running out of IPv6 addresses.

The slow adoption is pushed by entities that control a big number of IPv4 addresses. I have no idea how long this situation can sustain itself.
I sincerely feel for the author of this post, and am not really sure how to explain my reaction while still being supportive, but...

Based on what the author is saying, part of me thinks imposter syndrome and bubble are both justifiable ways of thinking about what he's describing, but to me as an outsider the bigger problem it reveals is the way hiring and career development happens.

Without exaggerating anything about me, or without this coming from a place of jealously (although I can't deny I'm a bit jealous), it seems that I could easily teach the course they're teaching, with a deeper understanding of the material, and more justification for teaching it in many ways. I know that if I taught that course it would be fairly easy and not really stressful--fun in fact. I've taught courses on equally complex stats and math, and published in related areas.

And yet, there are no recruiters pounding on my door. If I applied for jobs most places would throw out my application for all sorts of reasons.

This person seems competent enough, so I do think there's impostor syndrome going on. Part of what they're describing is a normal process of teaching higher ed for the first time. And there probably is a bubble--the stuff they're describing is part and parcel of hype that goes along with bubbles, and although extremely useful, I think there's also a lot of problems with AI being swept under the rug.

This post really touches a nerve for me, because it gets at a problem with careers, at least in the US, which is that the bases of hiring decisions (and by hiring I mean broadly, not just as an employee) are so incredibly superficial. My guess is this person would function fine in AI, but I think anyone who knew me would have to bet that, between the two of us, I would be better qualified and better able to work in that area. But because this person taught an AI course at Stanford, they're more sought after than me, who doesn't even have a CS degree (although I do have a PhD) and certainly not a degree from an elite school.

I'm really at a difficult place in my life because I'm at a point in my career where I should be happy, and lots of people would say I'm successful, but to me I feel professionally typecast and trapped, by stereotypes and superficial appraisals. All the time you hear admonishments that degrees don't matter, etc. but then the reality is, they not only matter but matter in the most superficial ways possible, where it's not just having a degree and publishing and doing research in closely related areas, but having a degree covering exactly what is the focus of a hot plasma-magnitude bubble, from an elite university no less.

Most of the time at this point I just want a job that pays enough, and where I can live in a nice, comfortable safe place that I love. I've started to feel like the whole concept of meritocracy is a huge lie, and not because the people benefiting from it are incompetent--not because of false positives--but because of the huge problem of false negatives that lies in the shadows.
You might have experienced data corruption in an old version of InfluxDB, but we haven't had any reports of that kind of thing in over two years. There are certainly still things to be improved, which we're doing all the time, but we take data integrity seriously.
yes, it was all over the discussion at the time and there's a ton of articles about it at https://www.google.com/search?q=adria+richards+ddos
But she wouldn't be confused if you said she wasn't a heart surgeon, because she's not. She can tell you a bunch of stuff about the heart, she can probably do surgery if she was in a position where she had to, but she's not a heart surgeon and wouldn't claim to be.
Bingo. Rarely if ever have i seen someone considered anti-systemd as being pro-sysv. What they are pro however is init diversity.

With sysv, it was relatively easy to slot in a different init as the admin wanted.

A distro i have used for some time, Gobolinux, may use the sysv init binary for example. But it forgoes the usual sysv layout for one more akin to just a rc.local.

But with systemd it is systemd, and only systemd, because systemd is so "invasive".

And the real worry is when third party developers assume systemd as the default and make it hard, or resist, supporting alternatives.
If they do go down, I sure am going to miss that creamy react / redux front end... Amazing work by those devs!
Why should Github take on unlimited liability for someone else's code? If a judge agrees that blocking this anti-circumvention technology is illegal (something the DMCA does prohibit), and Github had refused to take it down (which means they don't get safe harbor), then Github is the first-party that is liable for distributing that illegal technology, probably many millions of times. When you start taking statutory fines and multiply them by millions, you end up with numbers that would put Github out of business overnight. Is that beneficial to anyone?
Since 17 or so it's seemed extremely stable to me. It also tends to have drivers for just about anything, but that's also true of Ubuntu. It is sort of configured for Linux newbies, but it's also configured to just be A Desktop with as little crud as possible, besides that necessary to maintain its broad compatibility and ease of installation.

Its popularity came around the time that Canonical started doing things like inserting a 'shopping lens search' into default installations' desktop UI, pushing insane and bulky window managers, bucking Wayland to make their own X replacement, and generally making people uneasy about their monopoly on 'easy' Linux OSes.

So Mint is a solid 'No-Frills Give Me A Linux Now' installation. Sometimes you don't want to spend hours tinkering, okay? The last time I installed Fedora (21 and 22), it was consistently a ghastly, slow and buggy nightmare that approached a stage 3 Gentoo install by the time something functional was up and running. I was floored at how bad it was on such a popular distro, and once installed, it was also a lot of effort to get simple things like yum working properly. It could have just been me, but this was fairly standard hardware; I came away with the impression that it was not even close to an easy or pleasant install experience for a broad range of users, and nothing I'd be interested in using again.
He concedes the very point you mention here. That there are _real_ historical biases that should be corrected and removed.

From the memo:
I hope it’s clear that I'm not saying that diversity is bad, that Google or society is 100% fair, that
we shouldn't try to correct for existing biases, or that minorities have the same experience of
those in the majority.

He's saying that the inability to get to a 50/50% split on gender lines may be unrealistic. He makes no comment on if the 20/80 split that currently exists is fair or not. Just because he doesn't go into the history of all bias that did exist in the past, doesn't mean he discounts it and unworthy to be addressed. Further, at what point does a society atone for past biases? If you are even trying to correct the injustice in the past, should you not have an idea on what normalization might be like? Perhaps and this is his question, an exact 50/50 is not what a idealistic lack of bias would create in the first place. And the thesis is that it would not be created in that fashion because women self-select to enter different professions for biologically based reasons. Now all those items might be false - its a hypothesis, not a universal truth - but it appears the research from social psychologists backs up his claims as valid. Now perhaps they still want to argue between themselves, and fine I'm ok with that go for it - but it appears he's done with with good faith.

And even if you think his arguments are poor, or he's naive, or anything else, that's fine too. The problem is - and this is where my main issue and the root of all of this - is that he should not have been fired for this. This appears to be a betrayal of liberal free speech values that many people claim to support.
If it can be sold and used as a tool for subjugation humans will quickly determine and optimize the ways in which to do so.

That's the beauty of capitalism--or possibly even economics in general--it acknowledges and respects nothing that falls outside of its own scope. No matter how ancient, sophisticated, sacred, or meaningful a practice may have been--no matter what reverence our ancestral betters may have applied to it, capitalism will find the most effective way to utilize it as a strictly economic material and convert it into profit. For the true capitalist there is no extra or supra-capitalism. Capitalism envelops the world. It swallows and defuses all meaning and translates it into the small subset of meanings it understands. All is reduced to pure economic terms--it is no longer a question of interfacing with the practices of your ancestors, respecting history or engaging in spiritual practice--the meditation is only understood and useful insofar as it has an assignable quantity related to productive increase or related directly to profit.

I can at least take some comfort in the fact that articles like this still crop up and call the beast into question.
Try "apt changelog git" on the box.
It is one thing to make regulations and the other to enforce.
I don't think there's any difference in the way people face sexism in the software engineering field. I expect it's much the same sexism that people experienced in law and medicine; I'm not sure why there would be any material difference. The field is dominated by one gender and they do their best to prevent entrance by the other gender. It's played out this same way, as you point out, so many times in the past.

On the contrary, I'd ask you what makes software engineering so special that it wouldn't fall into this historic pitfall.
DI.fm - was my favorite for many years. But it's Flash only that crashes often and extremely annoying ads.
Spotify - ads and the discovery is broken. I usually listen to mixes and Spotify is more for albums/artists.
Additionaly, this account is borderline with regards to GitHub's TOS¹: “While using GitHub, you agree that you will not under any circumstances: […] impersonate any person or entity, including any of our employees or representatives, including through false association with GitHub, or by fraudulently misrepresenting your identity or site's purpose”. They haven't explicitly impersonated GitHub, but I bet I'm not the only one to have wondered for a few seconds whether this was an official GitHub account or not and I'd hardly believe this wasn't intended.

¹ https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service/#3-...
I don't know if "people" do. I have since about 2009, although not exclusively, and using Mate instead of Cinnamon.

I think it's funny that they mention running it on a "vintage" 2011 Lenovo. I've got it running on a 2009 Lenovo Netbook and a 2002 IBM R-series laptop too.
It kept "normal" desktop paradigm when everyone around was submitting to (IMO insane) design experiments everywhere. Then it was the only Linux distro that was handling HiDPI correctly and made it look better than Windows on retina displays.
They could, although there's a number of other players already in that space... https://www.audiomack.com/ comes to mind (but I know the lead developer)
I'm biased as I studied MSE but I think this is the best one. All the other answers - electric cars, AI, robotics, etc. - are already dominating headlines; they aren't surprising. A new material could be very surprising. This is a common saying in materials science - notice how the major ages of human development (bronze age, iron age, even arguably the silicon age) are named after materials? Who would have predicted them before they occurred?

Unfortunately, from my experience, the turnaround from finding an innovative new material to actually using it in real products is absurdly long.
Cheap Electrics Swarm Madrid in Challenge to Conventional Cars
Accessibility is another benefit from using Bootstrap. From someone who "hated" bootstrap in the past, this feature is the most significant for me.
What he is saying is that in a routed network (instead of bridged), you don't need MAC address. At least not at layer 2.
Isn't that front already open?

>uBO-Extra

>A companion extension to uBlock Origin: to gain ability to foil early anti-user mechanisms working around content blockers or even a browser privacy settings.

I think /u/gorhill is the lord of this particular war, and his followers are armed to the teeth. I type this on Firefox on Android with uBlock Origin.

I check his github occasionally to see if he accepts donations, and I donate to a couple of the lists occasionally.

In the war analogy, we have the best arms dealers. They other side is fighting a losing war.
And Apple was more than Jobs and Woz, but they get all the credit.