skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hardly complicated econ work. Naming it Will was an apt choice, in my opinion. If you really need something done to accomplish your job, you'll pay for it. If it's not worth the cash, maybe you overestimated its value.

It also strikes me as a great way to make people feel invested in their work, since they're constantly evaluating its real worth and apparently free to move to teams they believe are more valuable
Lessons learned from Magic Leap: don’t sign a non-compete agreement with your employee; you have to pay and it’s legally not enforceable in California. Ask your employee to sign a board confidentiality agreement and sue him if he works for a competitor.

Also, I wonder if people would think differently if this case is about a Facebook employee left to work on a social media App like google+.
There is a problem space and a solution space of programming languages. We all love to have a language is performant and expressive and maintainable simultaneously, and that is a problem description. We have no definitive answer how to achieve that though. We haven't explicitly ruled out that it is plain impossible, but it is evident that no single person is likely to deliver such a language.
Given how many other languages interface with C (basically, all of them), this statement is a bit silly and clearly false.
> ... than the $15/hr guards

is it good form to insult someone based on how much money they make?
they also inexplicably made the first iPhone 2G only!

This has been one of the go-to plays in Apple's playbook since the very beginning. Steve Jobs was always opposed to Macs having any form of user-upgradable parts [1]; he wanted people to buy a brand new computer every time theirs became obsolete. As it happens, this occurred almost immediately after the Mac 128k's launch (almost no 3rd party apps supported it). The first generation iPhone was an exact repeat!

[1] https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Diagnostic_Port....
WebOS. That was a good one. Came out of Palm if memory serves? I think LG TVs might still use what's left of this?
I like patterns too. For example have you ever noticed China artificially props up the US economy via bonds/debt/investment and in return has flagrantly been allowed to steal pretty much every byte of US IP, both from the private sector and defense with zero pushback from our "intelligence" community, legislature, and only a hand wavey stop it from the Obama admin?

You still like patterns?
That does sound terrible to not have desks. We used to joke around about pms and their navigation from meeting to meeting without sitting at their desks.

Little did i know, it could be a future i may have to find myself in :)
The pill link is just a portal to other links. When I used DDG to search for "the pill" it took me to one of the child links first, which has rich details on one form of the pill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_oral_contraceptive_pi...
Possibly, but copying a web app is substantially simpler than copying AR tech. Considering magic leap was stealth with hundreds of millions in R&D, I would put it in a different category than making a similar web app.
I have to question how important the choice of language is.

Nobody[+] was writing Objective-C before the iOS SDK came but that didn’t stunt its popularity.

Google ended up writing their own Java runtime and ended up getting in a messy fight with Oracle over it.

Microsoft had their own developer platform (arguably better than anything the Android ecosystem had to offer) so it made total sense to capitalise on it.

The iPhone taught us that however obscure or bad your ecosystem is, developers will come to your platform if demand is there.

[+] (obviously Mac developers were writing Objective C - I’m unfairly rounding that down to “nobody”)
I wish they'd go back to using healthy wheat protein (gluten) in their product, too. They did in early formulations, but eliminated it later on.
Jibo Closing: Welcomed a robot into their family, now they’re mourning its death
I think some of it is surveillance related. I don't know how many times I've heard someone say, "I said something out loud, and an hour later I got an ad for it! My phone must be listening to me."
I can't help but think that insiders who knew the product was doomed to fail are breathing a sigh of relief that the blame for the killing blow won't land on them.
Over the thousands of years we were eating foods before the inventions of GMOs, we had plenty of other ways to breed crops and livestock to be more desirable. We also tended to die a lot of malnutrition.
Funding programming language development via Patreon is relatively new that it might be a reasonable characterization. I do think that many PL projects are underfunded and should have better BMs to sustain itself, and one positive aspect of V is that it showed you can actually have a good chance of sustainable cash inflow with proper marketing (more generally, [1] is a good start).

[1] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/04/09/what-heartbleed-can-tea...
There's a really cool app I saw a while back that did calendar audits... typical for 20-40% of employee time at tech startups being spent in meetings, most of it useless and poorly run and managed.
I’m pretty sure Facebook backend is a lot more sophisticated than Magic Leap. I’m using Facebook as an example so that our judgements won’t be biased by the current sino-US tech climate.
As other commenter said, this is not really the point of this particular article.

But I totally agree. I recently had the opportunity to try to develop (with a team) something for the Magic Leap One over a period of about 3 months, and it was an awful experience, a complete and utter disappointment.

Here are just some of the issues we faced:

- terrible overheating: we offloaded most functionality (basically everything in our app but image tracking) to a remote server and both the headset and the lightpack would still overheat to the point of being very hot to the touch within 5-10 minutes

- image tracking in general pretty much doesn't work: the effective range is like 2 feet, and even then it's laggy and inaccurate. And forget about trying to use your own images.

- controller drift: the tracking for the controller literally just starts floating away. We had attached something to the controller and during demos people would say, "woah it's just floating away" and look up as the virtual controller slowly faded into the distance

- unexplainable throttling: once it starts overheating, things like image tracking just stop working, apps freeze or shut down, etc.

- dizziness: everyone who tried it started feeling eye strain within minutes of wearing it

- awful field of view: to put it simply, if you look at someone eye-to-eye, the field of view cannot even show things right above their head

- clunky design: the lightpack is heavy and constantly getting in the way, and the cables attaching it to the headset are very stiff

- Lumin OS: sucks

- controller trackpad: the least functional trackpad I've used in my life. The circular scrolling is incredibly hard to use; our team just dropped the entire scrolling feature for demos because not a single person we trialed with was able to get it to work. Theoretically, it's just a circular motion with your thumb to scroll. In practice, after 3 months of experience using the device I was still unable scroll consistently.

- dim screen: like wearing dark sunglasses

- heavy headset / awkward weight distribution: it feels uncomfortably heavy on your eyes & nose area

And there are many more issues that make it feel more like a prototype made by a couple people in a garage than the flagship consumer product of a company with $2.6b in funding. Really makes me think the whole thing was a big scam, like a slightly less completely-made-up version of Theranos.
The potential downside of not worshiping Roko's Basilisk: Superintelligent Godess is similarly human extinction. She kills all pagans, you see. That's her thing. Kill the non-believers. Which is everyone, currently. Come to think of it...there are a literal infinitude of things which may result in our extinction. Zombies. Aliens. Rogue trapezists. Who knows!

But we don't sweat the zombie thing. There's not sufficient evidence that Roko's Basilisk will destroy us. Or aliens. And so on. And until significant evidence shows that GMOs will destroy us, they're in the same boat. As the old saw goes: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Doubly so for extinction claims.
Really interesting article. This actually seems like a really smart move but only in short term. In the long term, they will definitely suffer because the employees will take poor decisions in order to complete in the cut throat environment and high turn over. Perfect example of this approach is GE. They started implementing something like this in 90s and in 2000 it was one of the most valued companies. By late 2000s GE was completely ruined. It is not even a Fortune 500 anymore.
Meaning you didn't read the RFC which specially states:

"Is this like Python 3 / Do I have to rewrite all my code?
No. The new API is 100% compatible with current syntax and purely additive. All new additions are contained within the new setup() function. 3.0 standard build will support 2.x options plus the new APIs, but you can optionally use the lean build which drops a number of options while providing a smaller and faster runtime. Details

2.x options compatibility will be kept through the entire 3.x lifecycle."

https://github.com/vuejs/rfcs/blob/function-apis/active-rfcs...
It's just Bluehole suing Epic Games for PUBG and Fortnite all over again, get on with it.
I dunno, this seems pretty powerful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJLr0KMsRAA
Free self run app here: https://app.execution.com/report/2c2754f
They’re doing this so they can irresponsibly dump roundup on the soy plants without killing them.

Roundup is a non-specific herbicide, so this will damage the environment near the farms. Also, Roundup is almost certainly a carcinogen, and impossible burgers already have higher levels than competitors.

I definitely won’t be buying any more of their product.

Edit: Fun reading: https://www.regulations.gov/contentStreamer?documentId=EPA-H...

The US is updating exposure guidelines for 2019. For soy, they recommend treating 20ppm as acceptable, even though they recommend keeping dietary exposure below 1mg/kg. So... it will be legal for the GM soy that impossible will be using to have 20x more glyphosphate than is considered safe. Assuming their product is mostly soy... well, you can do the math.

On the bright side, they’re proposing tighter regulations regarding application and drift into adjacent farms.
> back in 2010 no one except Stack Overflow was writing anything other than enterprise software in C#. So you literally had to write 95% of your software from the ground up.

C# was well established by 2010. The TIOBE Index lists it as the 6th most popular back in 2004. Meanwhile Objective-C was only the 34th most popular in 2009. Java was only released 6 years before C#.

There were C# libraries for pretty much everything by 2010. I think you're mixing it up with an earlier date.
As a celiac, I certainly don't. Even for those that aren't celiac, making the claim that gluten is healthy is dubious at best.

I'd also imagine there are many more celiacs out there than those with soy allergies.
To get both sides of the story, I encourage reading the official rebuttal against that article:
https://assets.ctfassets.net/hhv516v5f7sj/77NQsg1qDb6d9Hi4PB...
I feel so surprised, didn't realize this song had such lyrics. Makes me really want to come up with a modern set of lyrics and go to a karaoke. Something like this:

~~~

Mitch McConnel, AOC, trade war, Cardi B,

fake news, ICO, arnold schwarzenegger,

wiki leaks, bitcoin, hacker news, facebook,

North Korea, South Sudan, annexing Crimea,

Game of Thrones, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Key and Peel,

Buttigieg, Snoop Dog, can you "feel the Bern"?

We didn't start the fire, sha-lalA-la-lAla

(and so on... please someone finish the rest)
How are they supposed to know the extent of what was stolen without seeing the source code from the offending product? The reality is that a relatively insignificant employee up and left and had a competing product out the door in a very short period of time. Everything points to him stealing as much IP as possible and throwing a competing product together. Seems to be enough probable cause to justify an investigation.
That's the point. There is no value over real cryptocurrency.
So basically you've come up with a way to rationalize that people who write cleaner code than you are just dumber.
Magic Leap promised Fiber Scanning Displays ; They conned everyone into believing they had the tech to beam photons more real than reality's directly in your eyes. Now that they baited and switched, they should just STFU. Who cares if someone copied their disappointing actual stuff?
Not from either of those countries but I was curious.

https://www.gemalto.com/govt/customer-cases/belgium

Belgium has a digital ID card. It's a smart card that contains fingerprint info. So you can put the card in a fingerprint reader to verify you match the card. Cryptographically secure so you can only get them from the government. Second, they have an online identification service and mobile app that can be used to verify your identity to banks online. There's also an under 12 kids version of the card that includes emergency contact info, etc.

Looking up info for Switzerland has a bit of a language barrier. It looks like it's still mostly just a national number similar to a SSN and national identification card. Documents from as far back as 2016 have their government planning a biometric id card and an electronic id. Some docs said they were aiming for a 2019 rollout but I couldn't find any recent updates.
The street I live on has not been repaved in the 22 years I have lived here (much to my chagrin!).
I despise Leetcode style problems because I think being asked to give an impromptu CS lecture is not a great interview technique. I wrote code in the interview for my current job, but it wasn’t “find the longest palindromic substring of a given string in linear time.”
No, those with more time on their hands are more likely to get tickets. Or those willing to pay others to spend the time.
The fact Supermicro didn’t sue kind of says it all to me.
There's been a clear pattern spanning over a decade, maybe more, of routine IP theft by Chinese companies. Calling out xenophobia, while ignore these facts, doesn't help anyone.

Lack of respect for IP is also very ingrained in Chinese culture. It's not a new revelation. Whenever the subject comes up with my relatives on the mainland, they reply with, "Is anyone surprised? Why risk wasting time and money, when someone else has already done it for you? Why pay more when you can get it for less?" When I bring up ethical concerns, I get patronizing comments like, "You just don't understand, you are too American now."

If there's any place in the world where actors are rational according to economic theory, it's mainland China.
Do you have any evidence they plan on doing this?
Grass fed cows are about as close as it gets
I had the reverse of that happen to me today. My iPhone gave me an ETA and suggested route for a place I hadn’t heard of. Three hours later I found myself there for an event after getting free tickets from a friend.

Turned out my girlfriend had put the event on our shared calendar because she was interested in it which I suppose is where the suggestion came from.
The burden of the proof is on the GMOs. We have plenty of evidence that eating food that we’re not used to eat can cause catastrophic harm. If this was a local tribe experimenting with GMOs, then it’s fine. But if we expose virtually every person to that downside, the risks are considerable.
Luck is often a better determinant than willingness to pay because it biases towards more “superfans” who will have the time of their lives at your show. Jeff Bezos might be willing to pay $100K for a ticket even if he had only the slightest interest in Ed Sheeran, while a 14-year-old who knows every word to every song might be willing to spend every penny she has, which is $12.57. By requiring something like endless clicking on a website, or standing in like for 5 hours, to get a ticket, you make people pay in time rather than money, which although not fully equally distributed is still more equally distributed than money.
MS is still making the mistake of not pushing the Laptop-Tablet combo device. The "Surface Pro" series are ideal for merging Laptop+Tablet+Phone devices. In this day and age, i do NOT want to carry three devices but NEED a multi-functional device.
ACLU is mass-mailing thumb drive-like devices as part of a marketing campaign
Owning 28% of a government's debt is "propping" up said economy?

Lmao this lad never passed Econ 101.
I mean this article and its moronic title do not support the claim of “pretty great place for journalism,” even though it might be that in other articles it publishes.
I haven't ever seen any evidence of "rampant" IP theft by Huawei. Every time, it's the same one Cisco case that got settled 15 years ago, unsubstantiated claims about Nortel two decades ago, and T-Mobile's "Tappy" robot. This for a massive company with over $100 billion in revenue a year. If there were actually something to the characterization, you'd think there'd be more evidence. It's a bit like defining Google solely on the basis of Oracle's case and Apple's earlier claims of Android being an iOS clone.
It's not super clear to me if Microsoft made a mistake by not having a compatibility path for WinCE 6 applications on Windows Phone 7; the UI was completely different. Incidentally, you could write native code for WP7 with the WinCE tools.

I think the mistake was in doing the same thing for Windows Phone 8 and Windows Mobile 10. Yes, you could run an app built for the old platform on the new one, but in order to do it right, you had to rewrite everything to the new frameworks, and then maintain two seperate stacks. This fragmented the already small market share into even smaller pieces.

The other big mistakes were a) not allowing other browsers, given IE and later Edge aren't the best, b) focusing Windows Mobile 10 towards flagship phones and ignoring budget phones -- where they were actually doing well with WP 7 and 8, c) not making a good release of Windows Mobile 10 until a year after launch.
lolwut GE is #21 on the fortune 500
That has always happened. People have thought their prayers were answered, for example.

I think it says something about human understanding of causality and our place in the world. Not technology.
Most tribal people died of natural causes or traumatic injuries, malnutrition was not widespread.

Read Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston Price for more background on this.
Never really figured out how to use it with for Minecraft server for over predictive firewalls.
I'm thinking back while I was in college, which would've been before 2010...
This. Gluten allergies or intolerance seem to be on the rise. Probably makes sense to exclude it if they wanna be the future of food.
Why do you assume unnatural foods are inherently safe for human consumption?
Let me put it this way: if it has a package manager, it's not what I'm looking for.
It would be more useful if the jobs were searchable or sortable. It's frustrating that I have to go to each company's page to see the jobs.
Related: there is a fantastic, oft-reposted, and quite in-depth article about the difficulties faced by developers porting 'Resident Evil 2' to the N64 - the primary challenge being fitting it within the 64MByte limitation, as compared to the Playstation's 700MB CD.

A fantastic and critical read to anyone interested in this sort of thing:
https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131556/postmortem_ang...
Broccoli have been eaten for over 2000 years. If they killed us, we would have known.
A lot of GMO soy actually lets them use less additional roundup that would contribute to runoff.

Edit: I was talking about run off specifically, not about the end product.
What they sell is not the product that they teased. People got excited by their amazing promises of light beamed to your eyes and we got a lackluster Hololens bis. Bait&Switch
When people don’t feel a cost for a thing, they have no reason not to continue to ask for it.

It’s the same reason you have to have rush rates for a contract programming business. There will always be people who insist they have to have certain work done urgently. If your rate doubles and they still need it...it’s truly urgent.

If it’s not, you’ll quickly find out and save yourself a lot of headache.
Yes: meat, fruit, vegetables, nuts... Quite a lot.

It doesn’t have to be 50000 years. For example: I trust that drinking cow milk won’t kill me even though it hasn’t been common for long. Can’t say the same for GM food.
I've posted basically all the major points in what they've dug up over the last few months.

In particular I had the force response curve problem deduced since about 3 months ago.

I hate being right about stuff like this.
>The levels of glyphosate detected in the Impossible burger by Health Research Institute Laboratories were 11 X higher than the Beyond Meat Burger.
> You still like patterns?

I like patterns, do you have some?

> China artificially props up the US economy via bonds/debt/investment

I don't believe you can support that claim. The US economy is far larger than the Chinese economy and far wealthier. The US consumer is far wealthier and far larger than the Chinese consumer. That also includes the US equity markets being far larger and the US bond markets being far larger. Further, US manufacturing is also not dramatically smaller than China's manufacturing sector and their manufacturing has already peaked.

China's holdings of US treasuries and US debt in general is entirely trivial. It's so small now the Fed could wipe it out with a modest round of QE and the dollar would hardly notice (especially since the dollar is very strong right now). It becomes more trivial by the day as China's holdings have been stagnant for many years, the US economy continues to grow larger in real terms, and the US Government's debt continues to expand (reducing China's relative share; their relative share has plunged over the past decade).

Since late 2009 / early 2010, China's US treasury holdings have not net expanded. In inflation adjusted terms, they've contracted considerably (by at least 20-25%). In that time the US economy has added an economy the size of Germany + France (about ~$7 trillion non-adjusted).

China is less critical to the US today, than at any other time in the past decade. That is especially true given their imports of US goods are not very considerable and have not expanded in about eight years (a time during which the US added ~$5.x to $6 trillion to its GDP, even further reducing China's real import contribution value to the US economy).
OT but relevant to your comment. AWS is hiring for various service teams[1]. I highly recommend it as the place to be if you want to work on massive distributed systems. DM me on Twitter if any of those jobs appeals to you.

[1] http://bit.ly/2L8cPHL
I've never worked with the official OS routines, but I think standard malloc() and free() just weren't provided, in favor of a custom arena-based system. Ref: http://n64devkit.square7.ch/pro-man/pro10/10-05.htm
Is that in the US? Discrimination laws don't have a minimum age in the UK.
You're right. On further checking, I believe that what I intended to say would be "hectobillions".
To keep more girls in school, stop focusing on just girls