skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think also, the dominant founder mythos is often required to propagate vision in the company. Equity distribution, especially in the earliest days, is about ensuring the company's survival and thriving early on.

Re-grants of equity, or what have you, are fine, but often times in the earliest days, it truly is two to four people working equally on something. Especially when those cofounders are all putting in nothing but sweat. Regardless of who's driving vision.
This is so sad. Any ideas on how stuff like this could realistically be fixed? Are there any incentives that could be put in place? What would be the incentive for the people that have that power to make those changes?
In case you're wondering, burning natural gas does produce ~half the CO2 you would release from burning various types of coal, [0] the dirtiest (yes, much worse than all of the nuclear power accidents combined[1]) of all methods of electricity production.

But it still produces CO2! And at the rate at which natural gas is taking over a greater share of the energy production of the world economy, we are still looking at catastrophic global warming.[2][3]

[0]https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=73&t=11

[1]https://climate.nasa.gov/news/903/coal-and-gas-are-far-more-...

[2]https://www.ucsusa.org/clean-energy/coal-and-other-fossil-fu...

[3]https://www.ucsusa.org/clean-energy/coal-and-other-fossil-fu...
He was inventing a lot of technology that didn't exist back then. I think not understanding computers was a strength of his, not a weakness. Someone more up on how they worked would never have come up with cyberspace, or with Wintermute. He made the usual "artificial intelligence tries to take over the world and exterminate humans" sound really trite.

I read an interview with Gibson way back in the 80s that was very telling. He had never touched a computer when he wrote Neuromancer. He wrote it on a mechanical typewriter, because word processors weren't even a thing then. With the money he made from the novel, he felt as a science fiction writer, he should own a computer. So he went and bought an Apple II, state of the art at the time. He took it home and turned it on, and it made whirring, grinding noises, which freaked him out. He had no idea computers should be anything but silent! He opened the case and looked at the disc drive... a Victorian clockwork mechanism of gears, belts, levers, and pulleys. That's like the most Gibson thing ever.
I don't read the parent comment as claiming that the people in power are not hard-working or talented, nor that they don't care. Rather, I read it as asserting that many white men have had the privilege of not having to deal with discrimination and harassment, and that it doesn't come to mind as easily as it does for underrepresented individuals.

Just like a developer is going to spot defects in applications more than a non-technical user because they are exposed to defects more often and understand where things will fail, people who have lived discrimination will be more likely to see it where it happens, and understand where to look to find it.
"The myth of drawing conclusions from one isolated data source that happens to support your own ideology"
> They argue that if zoning restrictions were lifted and development responded to free market forces, higher density housing would result and more people would prefer that to sprawl.

I think this is half true (that zoning regulations have caused a good amount of sprawl) but I think that other posters here are right that the free market may also create sprawl, as it will respond to preferences and cultural biases that may favor sprawl.

Really the point of zoning is to prevent that, to guide the market toward development that is in the interest of the common good. Without zoning regulations you tend to get pretty nasty tragedy of the commons effects.

Zoning codes shouldn't be overly restrictive, in fact they should be a gentle touch that doesn't interfere with competition very much, but they are often hugely beneficial and guide the market toward a solution that benefits the community at large.
I disagree. I think in this topic, you often have to ignore a ton of side channel counterpoints to get a fully fledged theory out that spans a wide enough set of phenomena to be useful.

After reading this, and recognizing that of course it’s not going to be a perfect analysis or perfect theory, then it would be good to create dialectical discussions and rejoinders that bring back in various specific side channel topics or disagreements with the overall theory.

If you tried going in a point-counterpoint-countercounterpoint manner through such a huge topic, you’ll get derailed by the million ways to bikeshed about different phenomena that the theory doesn’t perfectly account for, or predictions it makes which you dispute, and often the derailing will get political and super unproductive and zap the energy out of the bigger picture.

I think an essay like this is the right way to do it. Comprehensive, start from first principles, make the terms clear, and draw it to a full completion of the predictions or analysis you want to make.

Then rejoinders can easily proceed dialectically with counterpoints to specific parts, and the whole thing is much more organized, and side channel counterpoints have a prayer of getting discussed without it becoming loopy, unproductive politics.
related https://www.theonion.com/mark-zuckerberg-recalls-coming-up-w...
I'll take a look at this over the weekend thanks!
Thanks for this!

This is by far the most what the fuck language that I've seen in a long while. It displays an astonishing amount of creativity and novel (at least to me) ideas, most of which are probably bad and won't survive for long, but some of them are really cool! Things like "packed loops"

for i, j { println(list[i][j]) }

or using `return` as a variable without exiting

return = 8

Really cool!
Slack wins in ease of use. Although strangely their sign up process is cumbersome in their own way.

I suspect downvotes are from people who aren't comfortable with the idea of what's new... Is actually old and improving.
This is a decent, somewhat superficial, look into class in America from an ex googler. It’s simple and proves a nice read to understanding how class works.
COM files indeed had no structure. DOS would load the file contents to the bottom 64k of memory starting at 0x100, set code, data and stack segments to zero, the stack pointer to zero (so the first push would wrap around to 64k), and jump to 0x100. And that was as much complexity at the linkage had.

It's almost hard to remember how easy it was to deal with the hardware back then. We view things as simpler now, but just getting a toolchain installed via rustup or npm or whatever is multiple blog posts of complexity, vs. the paragraph above plus a half-sheet of paper required to scribble down the instruction set and BIOS hooks.
Bitcoin Price, Bithumb Hack, Gresham’s Law, (I Read the News Today, Oh Boy)
Immigrant is the English word that denotes someone moving permanently to a new country. Emigrant means someone going to another country permanently. That is to say, moving to Canada from the US one would be considered an immigrant in Canada and an emigrant in the US. An EXPATRIATE(expat for short) is someone working or living in a country not of their origin, and still consider themselves to be whatever nationality they are from. Typically used in the UK or anywhere else that speaks English. Not necessarily meant to be exclusionary of other nationalities.
> I find that the messages she hears from society are quite the opposite.

Curious about this statement, what are some of these messages?
I think it's probably best taken as an interesting thought exercise, not a study.
Removing lobbyists, removing buyable politicians, electing politicians that believe in science
> binary, the most fundamental number system

I think base 1 is a little more fundamental than base 2, no?
What is the "largest customer base" relative to? In the early 2000s, most Fortune 100s used Solaris [1]- presumably this trend started in the 90s, so I don't know why you think that a manager during that time period would choose Microsoft over Sun except for specific use cases (e.g., smaller hosting providers).

Let's look at yesterday's equivalent to AWS- Sun Grid. Sun was viewed back during the first dotcom era in much the same way that AWS is today. All that it would take to completely bork it would be an economic catastrophe that mirrors the first dotcom bubble. Obviously, Sun Grid is no more.

[1] https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/11/16/solaris_remain...
Heh, I wonder how many dads are going to find out they're raising another man's kids.

Great headline though, this is one of 535 people who can make a substantial difference in immigration policy and they want someone else to do their own job.
Renderless Priority Plus Navigation Vue Component
I kinda do the same thing, except I tap my other fingers on my thumb instead of holding them over a table. I might start doing that though.
Only tangentially related, but it's fascinating how number 12 emerges
in music naturally. And the fact that 12 has many divisors is a big coincidence without which Western music as we know it would be impossible.
I have a short write-up on this:
https://github.com/resource0x/concert0x/blob/master/doodle-s...
Were your user tests measuring perception or performance?
Slack is inspired by irc and uses irc's core approach of channels, usernames, messaging, bots, and more.
Ok, you just made me laugh.

That comment just triggered work mode too hard, and at the moment, any point but a hard, way too specific, and nasty to refute point is void at work. It's been a rough week.
Thing is... The browsers will restart, opening the same tabs. ;-/
Administrative action happening within the context of any executive branch administrative unit that impacts civil liberties is always fraught with risk.

It is a vicious cycle as the public has no way to actually find out about bad actions or negligent actions. Public officers in a bureaucracy have broad discretion to implement or ignore controls and are minimally accountable.

In the actual justice system, law enforcement, prosecution and judiciary all have different interests and all have formal process for interaction. For the most part, we know how many warrants are issued, because of court filings. In most cases, state/local prosecutors are elected officials directly subject to the consent of the people. In many cases judges are as well.

That's not to say that the justice system is wonderful and perfect. There's a balance between your privacy and the public interest to prevent crime. We also have things like civil forfeiture that are problematic. But for the most part, we don't have the police feeling empowered to randomly search our cars or homes, because of the legal protections re: search and seizure and the warrant process. That was happening with cellular phones, and this judgement will help eliminate the practice.
I'm inclined to agree, YouTube just doesn't have any good faith left at this point
> The Neuromancer AI made a copy of Case to keep its copy of dead Linda company:

A small detail - while it's left ambiguous, FWIW I always thought that was Dixie, not a copy of Case.

That's why Case hears Dixie's laughter at the very end; earlier Dixie disappears and Neuromancer says he got more than his wish; later, Case asks where Dixie is and Wintermute/Neuromancer says its kind of hard to explain.

This makes the ending a little darker.
Gluon recently added implicit arguments with the latest release (see http://marwes.github.io/2018/06/19/gluon-0.8.html). In spirit it is like modular implicits (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.01895.pdf). This is really exciting because modular implicits represent a pragmatic balance between the flexibility of ML modules and the convenient overloading of type classes.

Another cool feature of Gluon is modules are basically just records. This is a strict improvement over ML modules in my opinion. (See http://gluon-lang.org/book/modules.html)

Congrats on the recent release!
COM files have no structure; they're loaded directly into a segment and control transferred to the first byte. I think the smallest valid COM file is a single return instruction.

Or you can have one file interpreted multiple ways: http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/poly/polyglot.txt
Yes, you're right - it's an unmemorable startup name and I admit I made a typo
"You are equating your kids' reaction to your code to scientists who have spent their whole life doing science on a topic."

I have a sneaking suspicion calling people who ankle-bite about giraffe nerves and backwards eyes and the one or two other stereotypical complaints "scientists who have spent their whole life doing science on a topic" is, how to put it, comprehensively false.

When humans build anything even remotely resembling an organism that can survive on the same terms as living organisms, I'll pay more attention to the design criticism. Preferably criticism coming from the people who actually did it. Until then, though, even though you misrepresent me (or perhaps rather, badly misrepresent the people making complaints), I'd still stand by the misrepresentation. Today's scientists are still at the point where they are examining the syntax highlighting and hoping to derive insights about the programming. This is not because they have made no progress, but because there is so much progress yet to be made. People complaining about giraffe nerves aren't even that far; they're just repeating propaganda with no understanding, and deserve all the respect such people should be accorded.

Let me give you a concrete metric as to when I'll say we're starting to get a handle on it: When humanity stops systematically discovering that organisms are even more complicated than we thought. When genes could be sequenced, we thought that was going to be it. Then epigenetics. Then the discovery that introns actually aren't as useless as we thought. And so on. Long before we've got it all figured out, we'll stop discovering entirely new sets of dimensions of variation. We clearly aren't there yet, and I see little reason to believe we're even close.
Uber car's 'safety' driver streamed TV show before fatal crash: police
This is a variation on the tragedy of the commons.

For each person, the most advantageous outcome is if everybody but them participates in a union. The end result is that nobody participates in a union, making things worse for everybody.
lol right, China is going to stop exporting $100B a year of electronics to US. Even though Xi Jing Ping begged Trump not to kill ZTE.

China is not fine. China is trying to balance its shadow debts (12T, 170% corporate debt to gdp), prop up stock market (lost 15% this year), prop up real estate (decline in 1st tiered cities, 25.96x House price to income ratio), and prop up yuan (4% loss this year).
Ask HN: The Week is Over. What Are Your Completed Goals?
Hi,

The week is almost over. Any goals completed? Let's share...
>I have seen multiple companies explode, friendships deteriorate, businesses die a slow death, or waste hundreds of hours (and dollars) working through the emotional debt built up from not splitting equity evenly.

Do you think it is a coincidence that the leader of Alphabet resigned not long after failing to answer one of Google's own interview questions about how he might split up pirate booty?

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/285789
There is already incentive for the private operators to not lose these gases during production or transmission as it cuts into their margins. This is like leaving money on the table.
Dual and quad CPUs used to be defining features of PowerMac towers back in the PPC days. The competition might’ve had Pentium 4’s with much higher clockspeeds, but the PowerMac towers had multiple PPC G4s or G5s where most of the competition only had a single P3 or P4.

The Intel Mac Pro’s that followed had options for multiple Xeons, but the multi core nature of everything from the C2D forward put a major damper on the demand for multi CPU configs.
Look into Cmder (http://cmder.net/) for an alternative to iTerm/zsh. You can also try Babun (https://babun.github.io/).

Try Wox (http://www.wox.one/) as a replacement for Alfred.

And Chocolately (https://chocolatey.org/) and Scoop (https://scoop.sh/) to replace Homebrew.
So far, yes, you are resilient. You're here today.

I'm somewhere around 20 years older than you, and I feel like I could have written this at numerous times in my life.

I don't really have answers, but I have learned some things about myself and in general that I think are important.

If you have a fear that you may become abusive you should take that fear seriously and be proactive.

Go to therapy now if you can (maybe you already are, I'm just talking). I avoided this for a long time because I had bad, or no, health insurance. I wish I had made the investment in myself early.

Be very careful with alcohol and other substances. Dependence and substance abuse creeps up on you. That quote about day by day nothing seems to change, but looking back everything is different applies to destructive behaviors too.

Deprogramming/unlearning unhealthy coping behaviors is really damn hard and never stops. Things can seem perfect for months and one day you catch yourself taking a step backwards. Don't get too hung up on those steps backwards, two steps forward and one step back is still forward progress.

Almost every day the thought I want to kill myself enters my mind. It's all but lost it's meaning, but I've never completely eradicated the thought. I have no intention of ever doing it, but I find it strange that the thought never goes away.

I never wanted kids either, because I hated every day of my life as a child. But, now I have two. Their mother committed suicide a few years ago and they live with me full time. They are a great motivation and have taught me so much about life I would have never learned without them. It turns out I'm a pretty decent father and have been able to give them love and understanding I never had.

No amount of anger or frustration is going to change the past or fix the future. Acceptance (of self and past experiences) and seeking therapy (group and private) have been to the two biggest positive influences on my life.

I'm not SV successful, but I provide for my family financially and emotionally. I feel resilient because I could have given up before I even tried or after any number of shameful personal failures. I feel like I've won because I have things I never thought possible 20 years ago. A loving family. A pretty decent job that I enjoy. A place to live that I'm not ashamed of.

It's ok to hurt. It's ok to have bad habits. It's ok feel everything you've expressed. I thought I was the only person on Earth with my issues, but it turns out there are many of us.

One thing I didn't realize in my early twenties was just how much life laid ahead of me. It felt over before it started and because of that I wasted most of my twenties and early thirties.

What you went through sucks and you didn't deserve it. It won't always be fun. You may wake up at 40 with some of the same emotions you have now.

That's just from my personal experience. I'm not a doctor of any kind. I don't even pretend to have any answers. I often think if I knew then what I know now how different life might have been, but maybe that is impossible. Or maybe something I said will help someone. I wish you the best of luck.
I don't mind someone being nice to me. I just want that if they're going to do it, do it when they want to. If some airline person isn't having a great day I don't need them to wish me happy birthday... let's just get through this transaction so they can get get on with their day.

IIRC there was a lawsuit where some retail employees were required to wink at customers as they came into other store. Someone at corporate decided this was a good idea. Something only folks disconnected from the actual store would come up with sitting in a conference room and certain that they would never have to wink at strangers all day long... or be winked at unexpectedly.
Lifeline: Suicide Aide Mobile App for Apple|Google
It's weird. He actually called out your name in the article.

I don't think the article makes the claim you're defending against. It was all about averages.
> Justice Sutter's dissent

Justice Souter

Hadn't heard about this, though. It is certainly a juicy story. Some people think that Roberts delayed the ruling on the case in order to keep Souter's dissent from being published. Bears more looking into, for sure.
dont the flowers only show for a 24hr period and if not pollinated wont produce vanilla?
There might be a more general chicken-and-egg problem: Ubuntu/Linux doesn't support new desktop hardware well and is leaning towards older hardware. Look how common 1, 2, 4 GB of RAM is and of course those people don't want to gamble with HiDPI or 4k displays too.

As an example, latest well supported desktop hardware that I have is a Haswell-based system from 5 years ago. A few of my more recent systems have too many problems.
lol, it's just enough money to hurt, not enough to sue :/
>Cyberpunk dates at least a decade before Neuromancer

No, it doesn't. Proto-cyberpunk ideas existed, certainly (and more than 10 years before Neuromancer; you can trace the roots back to 60s New Wave SF), but the word itself only predates the book by a year. Neuromancer was very much a crystallization of ideas that had been floating around the zeitgeist.

Or 3 years, depending on how you consider it. The word was coined by Bruce Bethke for his short story Cyberpunk, which was written in 1980 but not published until 1983. Gibson began writing Neuromancer in 1981, though it wasn't published until 1984.
Is there a proposal to build in IPFS auto pinning of history to each user in IRC?

That way you could have full history of the channel provided someone remains in the channel or keeps it pinned.

Maybe it's an entirely new protocol but it seems that we don't need a centralized server to fulfill your requirements now.
Does anyone have numbers on how light it is? How much memory Does it need? How big is the library? Does it compare favourably to Lua or Guile? Guile shouldn't be hard to beat for size, but that's generally not what they try to achieve.
If you open it in an editor, you'll see no indentation problems: https://monosnap.com/direct/cSBUU3ik31upjfdxpc8p9RJjLyVtda

This is a result of using 'elastic tabs' which GitHub is not able to display correctly (and also the reason people will use spaces for alignment in a tab-indented project).
I think Neuromancer aged better than a lot of sci fi. Gibson didn't go into technical details, which is a blessing when you deal with early 80s computer tech.

Incidentally a lot of cyberpunk feels off in 2018. Nobody seemed to forecast the rise of China.
Semi-related - the YouTube clip in the article was linked to on a little subreddit called "Obscure Media", https://www.reddit.com/r/ObscureMedia/

A wide variety of stuff shows up there, some of which might be interesting to the HN crowd.
> Of course I mean 'very easy' for someone who is used to the technical side of things. A normal user of GUI webapps likely isn't interested.

Then it's not "very easy". It's "mildly complicated" at best. For IRC to succeed it needs to actually be very easy for all users, going down to very basic users who likely have never even heard of the terminal, let alone touched it.