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50 Years Ago – The Mother of All Demos by Douglas Engelbart on December 9, 1968
Apple is in Cupertino, the author was an Apple executive, and was likely privy to enough firings to recognize what the prelude to his own sounded like.
If someone really wanted to know the answer they'd ask for responses anonymously. Since then people are free to answer without reprisal.
The very quote you linked explicitly contradicts you...

"It was intended to be a second language for people who were already experienced programmers, as some of the early design choices reflect. "
Well... that's what makes a market... Differing opinions.

I will probably pick up some stock in the next few months. Because I will put my money where my mouth is. (pun intended)

They are changing their business strategies and growing in different ways. (They sell prepackaged food in Costco in California).
Media-types and their semantic were always supposed to be sideband information, just as the meaning of <a> and <form> is documented in HTML.

An easy way to think of it is that a Web Browser is a client for a REST architecture consisting of the web. If you create a new system and use a REST architectural style, the client app(s) will be the "browsers" for your API.

When you implement a web browser, you do need to receive sideband information about the media-type (HTML) and your client application has to be able to understand those, including what <a> and <form> mean, for example.

In a custom API, you use the same HTTP verbs if you want (REST doesn't mandate HTTP) but you need to define your media-types.
It's not their problem because way too many people want to work for those companies.
I understand both of those points : )
TidalCycles, free live coding environment for music, turns 1.0
I presume they will statistically choose the more likely option - ie, people listen to 'Simon and Garfunkel' more than they listen to 'Simon' or 'Garfunkel'.

Humans will also screw this up. They don't have statistics about which you most likely meant but they do have context which an AI may not.
In the minds of many, the city of Cupertino, California IS Apple.

He's saying "After half a decade at Apple"
For context: this is written by a Frenchmen from Paris who had moved to SV. Gasseé previously has written about his French/US cultural mis-understandings. Especially regarding being too blunt and assertive
That would mean even more strength to the labor?
So my local grocery store chain is offering what blue apron does, except it's just their in house butchers and whatnot preparing the ingredients. Then you buy the kits the way you would groceries: off the shelf or online for pickup.

I'm not sure blue apron has any magic that can't be reproduced by everyone else.
Online grocery delivery is fairly widespread in the US at least in the general vicinity of urban areas. I've had Peapod available for over ten years in the Northeast even though I'm far enough out of Boston that I don't get most of the delivery service things.

However, the only time I've used it was when I had a broken foot and, while I could drive to the store or pick up one or two things, doing a grocery shopping was difficult.

At least at the time, they'd invariably be out of something I needed for a recipe and/or they'd make substitutions that weren't really what I would have wanted. Quality was "OK." Normally, it's not a big deal for me to go to the store and I just didn't love the service in general.
> of the only two people I know who have interned there

I don't think you're disagreeing with me. I assume those people were relatively young since they interned there?

I was not at all trying to imply they don't have talented people working there. It sounds like a great opportunity and honestly anyone who is willing to spend so much time on their craft should get good at it over time.

I am just trying to say that they are also probably missing out on many talented people who don't want to commit so much time to work.

I mean it's working out for them clearly. It seems they consider dedication to be more important than "talent" and I wouldn't necessarily say that's wrong. I only work in software which may be different but it's rare to encounter problems which require some sort of ingenuity. Most of the time work just involves.. putting in time and effort to get things done.
2 alternatives who tie pricing to revenues:

https://www.servicebot.io/pricing

https://www.chargebee.com/pricing

this one is free: https://www.chargebee.com/open-source-customer-portal/
Is that so bad? We can protect human freedom through the US constitution.
Fake package covers thieves in glitter and fart spray
> even Sun did a reverse split 3:1 on its way out of existence

"on its way out of existence" being the operative phrase there :).

Either way, Sun had been a public company for 20 years at that point - Blue Apron's been one for a year. Far more reason to believe that Sun could turn it around (and AIG and similar companies), which is why it works for them and not for Blue Apron.
Well, if someone goes and grabs 10 packages, and they have 15 random things, 14 of those won't be worth selling for $. If I think about the last 10 things I've ordered, and my thinking of my last garage sale. Nothing was really that valuable that there would be an easy sell.
It's because the syntax has 'for' in it.

The 'for' is used to differentiate it from a while loop.
To a significant extent, it has. The article assumes you will use distro packages for the language, and pip for installing libraries. And that used to be standard practice.

Today, if you are interested in a reproducible build environment, you will use pyenv to locally install an interpreter and stdlib, and pipenv to locally (to your project) install libraries and dependencies.
Facebook’s Illusion of Control Over Location-Related Ad Targeting
Apple TV 4K is the most essential product Apple makes
Because the second meal is going to be eaten at work: I only have a microwave, they frown on anything sharper than a butter knife, and my time is limited. There are lots of options that can work; but they compromise taste, quality, speed, price, or time - often all of the above. (It need not be - but good luck finding exceptions). Making a little extra and bringing it in latter is useful.
I never knew where so many studies on miscarriage and their external factors.
And of cause there is always the question of correlation versus causation.
I find these interactions fascinating because from your own perspective it may seem like everything is kosher.

Little do you know you’re a dead man.
It goes even further nowadays. Get into niche media journalism, and you see groups of journalists who collude to purposely create emotional impressions which bend the "truth" in whichever direction they've agreed on. Niche media journalism also acts as a filter for mainstream media's coverage of their niche, which amplifies their narrative.

I see this as an extension of post 2000's web forum culture, which was often censorious and authoritarian in nature. You toe the line, or you get the banhammer, two orders of magnitude faster than the cold war eastern bloc secret police even dreamed. Posts that go against the mods were deleted in a brazen fashion that would've made Pravda blush. It's the generations who were kids and high school students when exposed to those modes of behavior, awash in online mini-regimes of instant totalitarian power, who are now getting into their 30's and are rising in power.

Freewheeling obnoxiousness has its downside online. There were parts of that chaotic side of the internet that I absolutely hated. However, I now see that the fakeness of the totalitarian version is ultimately worse. In future years, we'll look back on these years like we looked back on the 50's. The cultural milieu that bought all that "Midcentury Modern" furniture thought themselves fantastically "progressive."
a very conspicuous camera housing on his house although it had no camera in it.

Radio Shack used to sell these in the 80's.

A guy I knew who worked at one said easily half of the cameras in his mall were fake RS shells.
Kuvo.org (jazz public radio)
Wikipedia and Internet Archive
just another clickbaity blog post with no substance for the sake of self marketing.. I really don't understand why HN of all communities still falls for such baits
Opting out of tracking via first-party cookies. I mean the owner of a website could just share my page visits with an ad network regardless of third-party cookies.
How about some middle ground? In my country almost everyone owns their home/apartment, but they don't think about it about investment, because most people will live in the same home for most of their lives. So they don't care about the house price going up or down. Let people own their homes, just don't sell them bullshit that they are "investment" - regulate the financial markets, forbidding mortgage-based derivates and other instruments that artificially pump the home prices.
I built an aluminum forge and made some castings following one of his videos. Only about ~$50 worth of parts needed (and $100+ in safety equipment to be safe)
https://www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-spacex-tesla-employees-b...
Put the work into writing good company policy and less emotional policing.

So you "Don't want to work with a person" means you should be able to fire them for your emotional good? That sounds horribly selfish and an environment people wouldn't want to work in.
My brothers friend was sued for medical expenses by a perp who broke something falling over toys the kid hadn't packed away. More than a decade ago, but it does confirm your understanding of the situation.
If Starlink succeeds, it can easily deliver recurring revenues of >$5B yearly. This will dwarf all the other revenue sources SpaceX will have in the next few decades, and easily justify the current valuation (and even a substantially higher one, for that matter).

The moment Musk made the call on Starlink, he made all the other ambitions of SpaceX conditional on it. If Starlink succeeds, they can fund Mars colonization out of petty cash.
It seems at least half of the comments here are responding to the original submission title (taken from the article subhead rather than the headline) with no context at all of this being Jean-Louis Gassée, John Sculley, and 28 years ago. I see the mods changed the title to the article’s headline instead, which will likely cut down on the title-only responses, but it’s still surprising to see just how many people clearly commented before clicking.
dynamic access to private fields is considered a "non-goal" of sorts, so `example['#myVar']` will act the same as it does now, it will always refer to the public property of that name.

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-class-fields/blob/master/PR...
We found it quite nice for properties of objects that appear over time. Think things like Order that might or might not have delivery details. In C# you are making classes with nullable delivery timestamps, delivery person, etc. And one or two properties isn't that bad but it gets a little onerous when you start to have constraints like "these four properties are either all null or all populated". In F# it is trivial to set up a new constructor for Delivery that includes all of these properties. There is no unspoken agreement about that, you can set it in the model.
I think the flaws actually help him. It protects the ego of his followers. (Musk is more succesful, hard working, .... but he is an asshole)
Many people are already irratioanlly triggered by him because their ego compares themselve to Musk. Would be way worse if he would act normal in Puplic ... and less PR of course
If the police are not going to mediate property disputes between people, they take a lot of risk those disputes will escalate into violence.

They're too busy training on their new hand-me-down military gear. Local cops need tanks to keep you safe, citizen.
Yan Hongchang – The Farmer Who Changed China Forever
To some degree. The portions the meal kits ship for things like spices are only what's needed for the recipe. For people who don't have a well-stocked larder that's probably one of the big advantages of these kits.
> I don’t think it’s unreasonable to post a final “I’m leaving Facebook” message there so everyone sees it.

Especially if an important part of that message is to disseminate a forwarding address.
Never believe HR, they neither represent your interests nor are impartial, even if they’d like to appear impartial.

HR represents your employer interests. Period.
All you have to do is look at the buy/sell curves. Crypto is 80% market manipulation, 19% traders and maybe 1% genuine use.
Your comment "And yes, defending your property from theft is categorically "innocent" sounded stronger. Glad to be in agreement with you.
Yeah, you said yourself that’s “in a interview only”. I agree that many modern interview techniques are stupid. Perhaps they think the leaders know how-to communicate well already or perhaps because soft-skills are notoriously hard to assess. But in my experience, algorithms and data structures questions can only reveal very little about the potential of the candidate. A lot of truly important skills can only assess through interaction with experienced human evaluators.
>To switch from framework learning to soft-skill books doesn't feel like much of an upgrade. If you want to learn something with long lasting value, learn actual computer science.
>This means algorithms and math.

Uh, huh. It does, because that's how you get past interviews.

After that, though: how useful are they really, your algorithms and math?
As long as you have low customer acquisition costs you can still have a large stable business like this. Look at huggies diapers, some kids spend a lot longer in diapers than others but generally it’s a short but profitable window.
Accusing one of the divers that rescued the kids from the Thai cave of being a pedophile was where my admiration flipped to a much more measured regard.
The article's title is facetious because the author was a high level manager at Apple, the boss was the CEO, and HR was the VP of HR acting in a capacity as a trusted advisor, and it's not really about HR. I thought it was a good read.

Relatedly, I remember that the Macintosh-oriented press hinted that there was trouble brewing at Apple for a long time but they didn't want to come out and say, "Apple's management is slowly killing the company." This story suggests that Sculley would have cut off those reporters if they had.

Edit: at the time of writing, the submission title was "My boss asks me what I really think of him. HR advises me to tell the truth. I’m fired."
Yep - I'm in the latter. Did Blue Apron for about 9 months and then "graduated" to making my own recipes based on my experience cooking with them. Just last night I made gnocchi with a gorgonzola cream sauce.

It's a great way to learn how to cook, and though I cancelled a while ago, I do sometimes miss their precise portioning. That is probably Blue Apron's best long-term value for customers: accurate grocery delivery.
Implying that $10 and $15 are approximately the same is telling. I'm talking about 6 to 40 person-meals per week for a family. (FWIW $10 per person-meal from blue apron is at the high end of home cooking, unless you are cooking high end ingredients like fancy fish or steak or including wine)
F# was actually OCAML for .NET.
Until VS 2010 you had to actually use the #light attribute to be allowed to break the compatibility with ocaml.
> I don't want the police to be able to perform accurate facial recognition at the kind of scale you're talking about

Amazon is helping cities and counties implement Rekognition systems fairly cheap with cameras tied to criminal databases. It's happening. They've done it in Washington County, OR, Orlando, FL, and others [1]. Amazon is also teaming up with law enforcement to install Ring doorbells with cameras (Amazon owns them) hooked up to the same type of system.[2] Palantir Systems (CIA backed) have done similar in NYC[3] and even doing PREDICTIVE crime analysis in New Orleans[4] and Chicago [5]. In the case of New Orleans, the public and city counsel was not even made aware. Only the mayor knew. Yes, be very, very careful what you wish for.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/customers/

[2] https://qz.com/1495241/amazon-has-a-clever-way-to-catch-pack...

[3] https://gizmodo.com/how-palantir-is-taking-over-new-york-cit...

[4] https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/17054740/palantir-predict...

[5] https://www.theverge.com/2016/8/19/12552384/chicago-heat-lis...
You are absolutely proposing restricting freedom, just that you want to be the one defining how to do so, i.e. you want to be in charge.

It is a story as old as time.
Yes, they were pre-nomination articles. At that time Silver was acting in the way an earlier comment in this thread said he does not act:

> saying things with false-certainty and then basking in self-proclaimed genius when luck happened to run in his favor

Something seems to have gone wrong at 538 after their stellar performance in 2012. In 2016 even their Congressional predictions were only 90% accurate. Or perhaps 2016 was simply different from past elections.
Right - I'm pretty familiar with Ocaml so the distinction is pretty clear on my end. I'm just a bit suspicious of this one thing in the comment I replied to.
Facebook has massive reach, feels essential to most people, has gone through a difficult news cycle, issues bad news on a weekly basis, may have undermined democratic stability in some countries, and is a significant component of most corporate marketing PPC strategies.

When influential tech personalities, especially ones who are as corporate and CEO friendly as Mossberg, say the are leaving because of a values mis-match, it might be the tipping point for a broader exodus.

That's why it's news.
Ooh, this is clever.
They could, but flour is sold in sacks. With blue apron you get your 2/3rd cup of flour not the full sack. The labor to measure out is too high, and you need larger scale factors than a store would have to make automating that work out.
Show HN: Trambar, a social space around your GitLab project
> author is admitting he's unhappy because Python isn't C

That's not the point at all. I mean, did you read it?

How do you mischaracterize the specific point about the casual opportunity for foreign module metaprogamming? Module initialization is bad in a pernicious way. While you can't do operator overloading, you can clobber namespaces (which was referenced). Paired with a community repository, this is exactly the same case of what's so dangerous about npm.
Nobody's home during the day. What neighbor? How do you know which neighbor will be home, or which neighbor to trust? When 90% of your package recipients are not home, you spend 3x as much time per package delivery.

Carriers offload responsibility by allowing the sender or receiver to opt-out of signature/package acceptance, so why would they care?

Just one data point, but I've been having packages delivered to my home my entire life and never had a single one go missing. Seems like a really high cost to prevent something unlikely.

On the other hand, I had never had a home or vehicle broken into until someone smashed my car window last night at the movie theater. So, there's a first time for everything.
Makes sense, however the practical application might help you gasp the theoretical concepts...

"Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play."
Hmm... web/bittorrent over tor, with update file references. Just have the swarm on a given directory, update to the latest "full" swarm every day/release with the same directory for the keys available.
What I'm curious about is how can I use something like this for books, or podcasts? Re-reading entire books or re-listening to 1hr+ long podcasts is obviously not realistic.

Should I be re-reading/re-listening to certain chapters? Keep notes and refer back to them often?

How do you all do this? I'm very curious.
The project website of Trambar is rather oddball. I couldn’t come up with something more conventional. You see, it’s hard to write promotional materials for a tool that doesn’t solve any particular pressing problem. “A place of programmers to hang out when they got nothing better to do” isn’t much of a pitch. But that’s what Trambar basically is. It combines the GitLab activity log with—well, random stuff that users submit.

Here’s how I imagine the typical usage scenario: A programmer is on a train, returning home after a hard day at work. He opens the Trambar app on his phone and quickly flips through the events of the day…

“I check these fixes into git. Yay me.”

“Tom did something to the backend code. Okay.”

“Oh, my manager liked my push! That’s nice.”

“Look what Kate had for lunch...”

“Here’s the TODO list I made this morning. Let’s see...check...check...”

“CAT VIDEO!”

Trambar is sort of modeled after Facebook. The critical difference is that you run the software. You’re in control of your data. No one’s going to monitor what your team is saying and then bombard with targeted adverts.

The aim of Trambar is modest: to make the lives of programmers slightly happier. For the price of a pizza (the cost of hosting the app at a cloud provider), you can raise your work morale by just a little bit. That’s the bottom line.

I hope the website manages to convey the idea behind the software. My apology in advance if anyone is offended by my strange sense of humor. The whole thing was put together under the influence. I blame the beer.
There was a bit of irony in the phrasing of my post sorry it was not clearly inspired by trump tweets...

I dont think my point was totally unsubstantive though
I found this article pretty good about the whole IPO “experience”:

https://equity.guru/2018/08/01/galaxy-digital-holdings-glxy-...
Because it was started by people who are not subject matter experts and funded by people who are not subject matter experts.

It may have a place at $5 per person per meal, all inclusive and even that it is questionable for the majority of the market.
Most of these new rent stabilized units aren't actually rent stabilized in practice.

I used to live in one of the newer high rises in downtown Brookyln and my unit was technically rent stabilized, but since I was paying a "preferential" rent of $2500/month vs the "real" rent of $3700/month (that no one in their right mind would pay), they were able to raise my rent beyond the approved increase once the lease was up for renewal, and could have raised it far beyond the market value if they really felt like it.
When the economy goes down, the first thing we stop spending money on is luxury stuff. See it as a sign.
>I've always been intrigued by F# but haven't found a good project / use case for it

I would highly recommend trying F# on a project with complex data processing.
Wow. That's less than half the rate for a 500sqft one-bed in a nice part of DC. I hadn't realize the stabilized rent units were so out of whack with the market.
Oh, OK. I was working with a French guy recently. I really liked that we could bluntly tell each other when we're full of shit. Didn't realize it's characteristic of French organizational behavior.
French would be easier to understand as peanut butter is "beurre d'arachides" (butter from peanuts). The "de" (or d' in that example) is given you the "context"/what the butter is made of. Same for apple juice, it's "jus de pommes" and etc.
Agreed. Also, it reminded me of that quote by Colin Powell - "you'll know you're a good leader when people follow you if only out of curiosity"