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1) Smaller companies are under less scrutiny than larger companies. "Databricks has an all-male leadership team!" isn't a good headline when hardly anyone knows who they are. I don't know who they are, and I'm a dev who's frequently on HN.

2) Larger companies have interviewed, hired, and fired more people, so they've had a lot more chances to recognize and promote female talent.

3) Larger companies are more attractive targets for discrimination, which is amplified by #2.

If a company has 10,000 employees and has been around for 10 years, it looks really bad for them to have no female leadership. In that time, they'd have to have run into a talented woman and overlooked her because they'd have received hundreds of thousands of job applications.

All that said, it's idiotic to have a 15-person leadership team and have so little diversity. It turns prospective employees off and reduces chances of success (kind of like having a baseball team comprised entirely of pitchers).
Is it a life you enjoy living? I'm just curious :)
The paper is from 2005, so not exactly current philosophy(I fixed the title to reflect that). I just saw this elsewhere and thought it's exploration of "five favourite rhetorical manoeuvres: Troll’s Truisms, Motte and Bailey Doctrines, Equivocating Fulcra, the Postmodernist Fox-trot and Rankly Relativising Fields" would hold true in regards to the sophistry that dominates the site and industry, even out of it's philosophical context. The Troll's Truism in particular is seen a lot in tech.
What are "something(s) not on our radar"?
Well, the main would be speed, possibly even stability, (Rust vs C), but if you're not after those, there's little reason to choose rg over ag. On the other hand, speed is also the primary reason to go with ag over ack, so the question is, why not go with the fastest alternative?
Relevant XKCD: "Gas mileage is measured in square meters."

https://what-if.xkcd.com/11/
What is Hadoop?
Transaction costs on 10K payments of $1 are a lot higher than one payment of 10K.

The optimum is probably somewhere in the middle.
I disagree. Teaching works best when your pupils can see what they're making quickly. The more interactive and iterative a process can be, the less bored they get. Many tools call this gamification but you really don't have to attribute scores to things for people to enjoy a chunked process more.

But with C, a complete novice spends most of their time getting beaten up by boilerplate (how do I build and run and debug this?) and syntax issues. You missed off a semicolon. You didn't declare this in the right place. You haven't allocated memory for that. All important things for C developers but to a novice it's all just jibberish error messages and take a long time to find and fix.

By comparison, abstracted languages give you a decent REPL environment which can be ideal for teaching programming basics.

Every layer of abstraction you remove is another layer the novice has to handle. If you just want to get a foot in the door, and keep things fun, why bother with that? They can learn about that stuff tomorrow.

(I'm not saying this stuff isn't important to know, just consider the order that you teach it in.)
Oh yes they can thrive .. for quite a while .. remember Jordan Belfort?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Belfort
[technical stuff] An algebra is just a vector space V with a bilinear operation * :VxV->V. [/technical stuff] There are plenty of interesting and intuitive algebras other than the stuff you get from the Cayley-Dickson constructions.

Some interesting algebras:

* you can have some fun making the imaginary unit i square to 0 instead of -1. The resulting algebra is called the dual numbers, and has some surprising properties. You can gain a bit of understanding of it by using analogies with the complex numbers.

* You can make i square to +1 without being equal to +1 or -1. Again you can gain some understanding using analogies with the complex numbers. It's perhaps not the most useful examples because it's isomorphic to R \oplus R.

* Another family of examples, a very important one actually, is the algebra of 2x2 or 3x3 or nxn matrices over the real numbers or the complex numbers.

The first two examples are useful for understanding the general concept of a quotient ring. They're hardly exhaustive, but they are easy to picture.

Now I can return to your claim about CD: What makes the Cayley-Dickson family significant is that it produces all the division algebras over the real numbers, which are the algebras for which division by nonzero elements is always possible.

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Needed to escape an asterisk. Third time lucky.

Corrected grammar.
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> This is not a new concept. The same regulations apply if you start telling your friends that you're smart and that they should let you manage their money for them.

u mean like a 'friends and family' investment round? ;)
> It's like visiting a store called "phone" that sells iPhone exclusively

Not really a fair analogy as anyone can submit elements to webcomponents.org: https://www.webcomponents.org/publish
We haven't abandoned all of the old icons yet, though: a disk for save, an envelope for email, etc. And I think you're underestimating how much physical 'buttons' are still a part of everyday life: you might well be typing on what is essentially a huge array of buttons, after all.
Oh neat, thank you!
The original statement was correct as of 2009.

When the coalition came in, one of Osborne's first acts was to push the banking regulators to issue more banking licenses, due to that 100 year+ stagnation. Since the coalition, there have been a variety of new licenses issued, so the problem is now resolved.
But Amazon and Ebay already are regulated systems, with feedback, refunds etc. ICOs aren't.
Ahem...

https://monzo.com/blog/2017/04/05/banking-licence/

https://www.thememo.com/2017/04/06/monzo-current-account-spe...
Just wait till China steps up and the world can get a taste of their style of economic warfare.
Yep, and - just to get back on topic - they (the good Estonian people) are seemingly (maybe) plainning a government backed ICO:

https://medium.com/e-residency-blog/estonia-could-offer-estc...

Previous (few) comments on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15071682
One downside I've found with hobbies like this: milling enclosures for the electronics is expensive in terms of either money (to have it done externally) or in terms of favours from your machinist colleagues. For anything beyond holes drilled with a drill press, I have to ask a friendly technician where I work. If enclosures/panels could be milled as cheaply as PCBs can be printed, that would be awesome.
Not really. The underpinnings of the OS were fairly basic.

I was a heavy BeOS user. I owned a BeBox. I developed for the OS. There was a *lot" of stuff under the hood that made the OS very immature. I just didn't sit here listing them. Highlights:

Messaging was flaky prior to R5.1. The BMessage got copied a lot, and the Ports used for messaging could get clogged and then messages got dropped. Quite fatal.

The API was multi threaded - it was a concept that at the time a lot of developers struggled with. It could be extremely complicated to port apps.

A lot of the code was rough and some of it badly documented. So, the guy who worked on it knew it worked, but I doubt many other people did outside of their team. They cut a lot of corners. For example, OpenGL was a disaster. I was told the original dev left and no one was able to support what he left. It never really got back up to the level he had it up to prior o the focus shift.

Media Kit ended up getting a rewrite.

There was quite a bit of 3rd party code in the OS. Some was licensed. Some was GPL. Some of the GPL was a little questionably used, given the license. This is quite probably one of the reasons the OS was never open sourced.
It's not true. Easy as that.
Whether its a thing within current academic philosophy is by-the-by though isn't it? The issue under discussion is to what extent has postmodernism entered and undermined current popular understanding of cultural issues as well as lets say less, ah, rigorous disciplines within the humanities. Perhaps the modern exponents of continental philosophy should be doing more to export their evolved criticisms of postmodernism to the rest of the academy and wider society?
With one exception, I have only worked in companies where this has been the norm. It's never been an explicit rule. It seems to me that it happens naturally unless culture is built to prevent it.

The fact Elon decided to send an email might be an indication that one or more people implicitly or explicitly have punished others for communicating.
Not those patterns, the extra adblock regular expressions.
>Its like saying that you are going to base justice on "protecting good people and punishing bad people".

That's exactly what our justice system is... Sometimes we fail at abstracting our morality to the courts but that's exactly what our goal is.

>I can be swayed otherwise if I was shown what a meritocratic system would look like, but most of the times I heard that word it was as a criticism of laissez-fair capitalism that would rarely claim to be meritocratic.

So your logic is "people usually use meritocracy as a knock against capitalism" and then establish your premise? "meritocracy is bad"? Doesn't make any sense. A perfectly meritocratic system doesn't exist and probably never will but systems which try to promote equality of opportunity are generally good. Our defense of "meritocracy" comes from the Rawlsian veil of ignorance. Behind it, it becomes obvious you would want to live in a society which provides a relatively equal chance for everybody and which, if you seize that chance, will reward you.
Never underestimate there ability to shoot themselves in the foot. I got offered a breakfast with Oracle the other day, and I said a very definite "no".
I don't get the impression that its relevance is due to any particular currency within actual philosophy circles, but rather because postmodernism is the motte to which the more academic strains intersectional feminism retreat when pressed -- and that very much is a "thing" in contemporary left-wing activism and internet flame wars.

On the street and in less academic varietals of intersectionalism, this just consists of "you should shut the fuck up, because you are male / white / heterosexual / cisgendered / wealthy / neurotypical / had good parents / some other form of privileged that I just thought up".

In more respectable garb, this gets dressed up as "your arguments have no validity, because <insert postmodernist gloss on ad hominem dismissal here>". Which is no less toxic to having any kind of rational and inclusive dialogue, and deserves to be taken down on its own terms.

(Note: this is coming from someone who is firmly left-wing and even has considerable respect for many aspects of intersectional feminism when applied in a philosophical / analytical context; I just despise what it has done to the tone of left-wing activism over the last 10 years.)
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As good as your past intentions sound, if somebody I didn't know from another department just came and sat next to me to watch me work, without me knowing it would happen beforehand, I'd put in a complaint too.
My position is that there should be no social safety net provided at the taxpayer's expense. If one is going to argue that we ought to provide a safety net, and ought to limit people's right to decide how to live their own life to prevent this safety net from being unduly burdened, then I would respond that even if one were to accept that assumption, a less disruptive way of meeting this goal would be with a forced saving mandate, rather than trying to prevent them from bankrupting themselves in a roundabout way, through laws that prevent spending on allegedly frivolous/addictive ends.

But of course I don't accept their underlying argument at all. Just making the point that even if one did, their solution is not optimal.
I mean this without any intention of belittling or suggestion that you should do otherwise, but why? Not that you need justify anything to me, of course.

It's so fundamentally opposite to my experience, and I'm curious about what's driving you to work like this.
A lot of them have inherent value. When you use Stripe to pay for something, you pay a transaction fee. When you use Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency, you also pay a transaction fee (which is often much lower than what you would pay with a standard gateway; particularly with large transactions). That's profit; the profit gives intrinsic value to the network.

The bitcoin network is quite slow and power hungry, so as a result the BTC transaction fee is now over $4 which is high; the BTC network is saturated due to high demand; so that's why we need altcoins to add capacity. There aren't enough altcoin networks to handle the demand for crypto-transactions. A blockchain does not scale unfortunately (each one has a hard physical throughput limit), so the best way to scale a block chain is to add more side chains (which is what alt-coins are; you can think of them as specialized shards of Bitcoin). It's like the Domain Name System - There is a hierarchy of machines and networks which together can handle a massive volume of domain name lookups.

Any network which proves itself to be a trustworthy and reliable way to transfer money has intrinsic value which is determined by the present or future value of the network of services around it.
I read a comment only yesterday: "I don't know any half decent Ethereum developers who are not currently millionaires". I felt poor and excluded.

Then I remembered how it felt in 2000 where all you needed was a website for pet food and folks would throw money at you.
Astronomers are, for the most part, terrible programmers. This is true of the general population too, but unfortunately almost every astronomer has to actually write programs. Python and co. are probably more of a help than a hindrance as it replaces things like old-school Fortran, IDL, gnuplot and Matlab. Clever groups are starting to wise up to this and have dedicated programmers supporting astronomers, rather than assuming that the computer is just a glorified calculator that everyone needs to be able to use.

For the record I am a numerical astrophysicist and I read and write plenty of bad code every day.
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You can use PCB as a front panel. It has arbitrary routing, colored soldermask (as background), silkscreen (as labeling).

Some enclosures are extruded aluminum with screw on end caps. If your device is suited to the endcap being made of PCB, you just have another PCB (printed end panel?) to layout.

Here's one example video that shows the technique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj0Bv4UEFSs&feature=youtu.be...
While this is true, it's also true that x-tags and whatever else that's not Polymer is entirely irrelevant in the context of WebComponents.

There's only Polymer.

It's gotten so bad that even the main proponents of WebComponents (working for Google, of course) cannot build proper WebComponents (and no one can): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK1ODp0nDbM
Could you please point me where the patent pledge is? I can't google it, and its license is GPL2, which is not patent-protected.
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A friend who works at Tesla said he has (had?) a bed in his office. So maybe he's counting the hours spent there, too?
Even if you own your home you need to pay the service charge.
In my house is ~1800/year = 150£/month.
The council tax is pretty cheap for my house, it's only ~100£/month.
Other bills let's say 100£/month.
To eat at home, unless you want to eat sh#t, it's 400£/month.
Total: ~750£
So if you don't do absolutely anything at all apart from surviving and eating at home you are already spending 110£ more than your pension.
And this is if you already have an house.
I would not call a final income of MINUS 110£ moderately comfortable.
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I think he is expecting people to have some critical thinking to not starting to send emails to a VP just for the sake of sending emails to a VP.

Let's say you are implementing the UI for the car's dashboard and you think it would be super cool to have the color of the cars' model in the UI matching the exact color the customer chose for the car. Maybe you could cut all the middle points of communication and directly email the guys that handle the paint job to know the exact color values that they use to paint the car.

Of course that you wouldn't email Elon himself to do this, it would be pointless.
I assume most of the HN readers are from USA and I can't believe my eyes what I'm reading here. People cheering a government's ban on what its citizens can do with their lawfully earned money.

I worked for my money, I paid huge amounts of taxes on them. Why is it ok for somebody to come and tell me what I can and can't do with them, and then telling me it's in my best interest to not be allowed to invest them.
> Supreme Court ruling requires that unions protect all of their members from firing, even the obviously terrible ones

What is this ruling?
OpenSolaris was really useful and innovative, too. I am happy that ZFS and Dtrace found their way to Linux (though not without some issues), however, I would rather prefer the whole package.
Monzo and Starling have secured full banking licenses for sure. Though recently, I think it was only this year. Tandem I think lost their license because of problems with funding.

So that claim might have been true few years ago before fintech boom started. Lots of new digital banks already got or are in process of getting banking license.

Banking industry in U.K. is getting shaken up currently, lots of fintech challengers.
I think Wizards of the Coast for example don't quite understand the value of having such markets.

When products of your brand reach this kind of status, you shouldn't be greedy about it... just play ball.

They only have positive gains imo...
Strawman arguments don't build your case, they weaken it.
The ACA ("Obamacare") did a lot to make the US system look more like Germany and Switzerland. Standardized, subsidized insurance with some mechanisms to increase subscription.

The problem is that it also mixed employer mandates and Medicaid with that stuff. In principle Medicaid is good, providing care to low income people, including millions of children. The problem is that it is a huge off the books tax scheme, mandating care that it doesn't fund. And with guaranteed issue individual insurance available, employer requirements should have been reduced, not increased.
Let's reverse this problem: we go back and try to send a manned mission to Moon.

This implies a huge amount of vertical engineering and research. But instead of saying that the government is going to pay for the project upfront - we say that all of these scientists and engineers are going to be paid after the mission had been completed.

How many of them would be motivated enough to go through the whole vertically-planned project themselves; even if the project is itself quite inspiring?

Same with software - I don't think that starting on the highest levels of abstraction is "not to get bored really quickly". It's the case where you can quickly try and see what programming is without spending another 5 years trying to understand every possible intricacy of a modern computer. Call it "time resource risk management".

More importantly, most of the time if you're young but are already employed - you're being told what exactly you should do anyway.
I did not recognize the title, but as soon as I saw the abstract, I realized that I had read this some time ago. While postmodernism may be history, this particular paper still has relevance because the rhetorical devices it critiques are timeless.
I like the list of potential projects to attempt, in order to learn a language. I would add a Battleships program to that list as I find that provides an interesting challenge to learn to program without being too complex in terms of data structures/algorithms.
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Per capita medical costs in the US are double that of most Western countries. Both private and public.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/health-costs-how-the-us-...
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Why not have a design market instead of a top down aesthetic dictator?

Give me flat design with cascading style sheets and lets have a real competition here.
Could you clarify?

If I'm using YouTube without signing in, which contract is being breached?

The existence of YouTube facilitates breach of copyright doesn't it? I don't understand which copyright is being infringed by rendering without Ads.

I guess the "Apple takes a cut" bit is where their liability comes from. But... I'm not really clear that any law is being broken here...

I'm not sure how this is a breach of the CFAA, in particular given that scraping content (in light of recent LinkedIn case) seems to be fine. And there doesn't seem to be much of a case against adblockers in general.
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It's partly true, see https://custom-elements-everywhere.com and linked issues.

The main problem: when the framework makes the developer decide whether to pass attributes or properties to Custom Elements, it's mostly ok. The framework should also allow binding any events (which cna be named as onEvent, or on-event or...)

Frameworks that are trying to be clever and hide the complexities of DOM behind proper APIs, and that implement their own event systems suffer greatly because DOM APIs and WebComponent APIs are a pile of steaming crap.
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I remember a admin at a company giving me a before and after on some tool- where the fat-finger-friendly UI reduced the presented information and thus the usefulness off the tool to basically zero.
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