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People Like You More Than You Know | These are true stories. I don't wish to come across as bragging.<p>The last day of a job I had for seven years, the director of engineering told me I was the best engineer he ever knew. And he worked for some pretty well known engineering firms. If he had told me that before, I might not have left.<p>A woman came into my office--someone who didn't seem to want to give me the time of day--and the conversation got around to her telling me how depressed she was about her life and loves. After maybe 10 minutes, she thanked me for being such a good listener and said something about I was just so charismatic. I almost fell out of my chair.<p>I taught electronics at a trade school to a morning class for a couple of years. There were hundreds of students, and I knew I was a good teacher, but I didn't think the students thought once about me when they went home. On my last day of work, one of the guys asked me to give a special last lecture on a topic. As I walked into the room, I was followed by students from my class, the afternoon class and the evening class! They filled the room and presented me with a fairly expensive bottle of whiskey.<p>I've had a few girls tell me, after it was too late, that they always had a crush on me. Well, I was interested in them, too.<p>If someone would have just said something sooner, life, for me, would be totally different now. |
People Like You More Than You Know | These are true stories. I don't wish to come across as bragging.<p>The last day of a job I had for seven years, the director of engineering told me I was the best engineer he ever knew. And he worked for some pretty well known engineering firms. If he had told me that before, I might not have left.<p>A woman came into my office--someone who didn't seem to want to give me the time of day--and the conversation got around to her telling me how depressed she was about her life and loves. After maybe 10 minutes, she thanked me for being such a good listener and said something about I was just so charismatic. I almost fell out of my chair.<p>I taught electronics at a trade school to a morning class for a couple of years. There were hundreds of students, and I knew I was a good teacher, but I didn't think the students thought once about me when they went home. On my last day of work, one of the guys asked me to give a special last lecture on a topic. As I walked into the room, I was followed by students from my class, the afternoon class and the evening class! They filled the room and presented me with a fairly expensive bottle of whiskey.<p>I've had a few girls tell me, after it was too late, that they always had a crush on me. Well, I was interested in them, too.<p>If someone would have just said something sooner, life, for me, would be totally different now. |
People Like You More Than You Know | These are true stories. I don't wish to come across as bragging.<p>The last day of a job I had for seven years, the director of engineering told me I was the best engineer he ever knew. And he worked for some pretty well known engineering firms. If he had told me that before, I might not have left.<p>A woman came into my office--someone who didn't seem to want to give me the time of day--and the conversation got around to her telling me how depressed she was about her life and loves. After maybe 10 minutes, she thanked me for being such a good listener and said something about I was just so charismatic. I almost fell out of my chair.<p>I taught electronics at a trade school to a morning class for a couple of years. There were hundreds of students, and I knew I was a good teacher, but I didn't think the students thought once about me when they went home. On my last day of work, one of the guys asked me to give a special last lecture on a topic. As I walked into the room, I was followed by students from my class, the afternoon class and the evening class! They filled the room and presented me with a fairly expensive bottle of whiskey.<p>I've had a few girls tell me, after it was too late, that they always had a crush on me. Well, I was interested in them, too.<p>If someone would have just said something sooner, life, for me, would be totally different now. |
People Like You More Than You Know | These are true stories. I don't wish to come across as bragging.<p>The last day of a job I had for seven years, the director of engineering told me I was the best engineer he ever knew. And he worked for some pretty well known engineering firms. If he had told me that before, I might not have left.<p>A woman came into my office--someone who didn't seem to want to give me the time of day--and the conversation got around to her telling me how depressed she was about her life and loves. After maybe 10 minutes, she thanked me for being such a good listener and said something about I was just so charismatic. I almost fell out of my chair.<p>I taught electronics at a trade school to a morning class for a couple of years. There were hundreds of students, and I knew I was a good teacher, but I didn't think the students thought once about me when they went home. On my last day of work, one of the guys asked me to give a special last lecture on a topic. As I walked into the room, I was followed by students from my class, the afternoon class and the evening class! They filled the room and presented me with a fairly expensive bottle of whiskey.<p>I've had a few girls tell me, after it was too late, that they always had a crush on me. Well, I was interested in them, too.<p>If someone would have just said something sooner, life, for me, would be totally different now. |
Qualcomm’s Chain of Trust | I mean, why can't they just have a regular bootloader like a PC? It's a lot of effort for what is essentially 0 gain if you just have full device encryption.<p>The phone should at least always be unlockable by a single switch in the developer settings - none of this "oh go to our website and generate an unlock code/pay us money for an unlock code/phone us" which is a HUGE pain in the butt.<p>I swap between roms a lot, and the whole idea of a system partition and data partition etc is just stupid. They always are the wrong size for what they need to be and then I try to install gapps and its like "oh your system partition is too small my dude," so why separate these and just have everything like a regular linux OS.<p>Maybe I'm missing something stupid? But I kinda just want a phone that just starts a linux based operating system like a PC, and lets me do everything I can on my linux PC in a touch-centric way. |
Sloan Kettering’s Deal with Startup Ignites a New Uproar | Thats nothing compared to the work in China right now. In ten or 20 years, the west could be permanently behind.<p>From <a href="https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/data-sharing-giving-chinese-ai-firms-a-head-start-36039570.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/data-sharing-...</a><p>> DeepMind, the AI lab of Google's Alphabet, has laboured for nearly two years to access medical records... Last month, the top UK privacy watchdog declared the trial violates British data-protection laws, throwing its future into question.<p>> Contrast that with how officials handled a project in Fuzhou... The summit involved a vast handover of data. At the press conference, city officials shared 80 exabytes worth of heart ultrasound videos, according to one company that participated. With the massive data set, some of the companies were tasked with building an AI tool that could identify heart disease, ideally at rates above medical experts. They were asked to turn it around by the autumn. |
C++ Lifetime profile v1.0 posted | I don’t know the real narrative driving so much investment in safe C++, but it does appear that Rust is really driving C++ in this respect. |
The epic rise and fall of the name Heather | Recently the UK Office of National Statistics released the 2017 baby names, having a niece born last year this was of great interest to me so I know the dataset quite well.<p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/datasets/babynamesenglandandwalesbabynamesstatisticsgirls" rel="nofollow">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...</a><p>So that is 43 Heathers born last year in the UK. Not very many, however, compare that to the 106 Margarets born last year. Margaret is an unpopular name, however, Margaret was all the rage a century ago, Prime Ministers and Royal Family members are testament to that. But nowadays the name has gone the way of 'Adolf' (of which zero were brought into the world in the UK last year).<p>What I find most interesting about names in the UK is when you have to identify yourself in hospital, with the police or anywhere else where they have access to the 'full database'. Even if you have an extremely common first name then the authorities only need to know your surname and your date of birth to have a pretty good idea who you are and what your National Insurance number is. Add the town or hospital of your birth and they have an exact match. Unless your name really is 'John Smith' and you give your birth town as 'London' there is no chance that the police will be getting you confused with anyone and even then the other 'John Smith' characters can probably be eliminated from enquiries very easily.<p>The police, secret services and others needing to go undercover go to extraordinary lengths to get the birth certificates and other particulars of 'dead babies' that died a long time ago without distressing anyone except their mothers. You wonder why they do this rather than just make up any old name. Surely they could ask the passport people to just make up an appropriate passport and get the DVLA (drivers licence people) to do likewise? Well no, the statistics are quite hard to fiddle, you wouldn't be able to just fake a 'Heather' or even a 'John' as people really are not as anonymous as you might think. |
Oracles, or why smart contracts still haven’t changed the world | The smart contracts concept has an inescapable flaw: it's software. The problem is that software has bugs, ergo some smart contracts will have exploitable bugs. So what happens when someone triggers the contract, based not on the performance of the contract, but on a bug? Do you shrug and treat the software as the final arbiter or do you go to court and seek redress? If the former, then it may become profitable (and legal) to employ talented hackers to go around cracking contracts. If the latter, then why not just write the contract on paper from the start since courts have well established traditions for dealing with paper contracts? |
A forgotten hero stopped the My Lai massacre 50 years ago | There are a lot of people who use the My Lai massacre as an example of the 'real' America. There are a lot of My Lai's and William Calley's in other countries throughout history. But far fewer Hugh Thompson's and to me that's the 'real' America.<p>In Michigan we've got the recent example of Dr. Hanna Attisha and the Flint water crisis. She was vilified by Flint officials, state officials and by the state's universities. The state health director called her irresponsible and execs at her hospital wanted her fired.<p>Worries made her physically ill. I do not know how she stood courageously for so long but she did. Eventually a Detroit Free Press article supported her and in time everyone withdrew their opposition.<p><a href="https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2015/10/10/hanna-attisha-profile/73600120/" rel="nofollow">https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2015/10/10/h...</a> |
A DMT trip 'feels like dying' – and scientists now agree | > “There is nothing here to begin to enable us to propose that on DMT, you literally transcend the laws of this universe and do actually go to another world,” he says.<p>This is faulty thinking. An afterlife doesn’t presuppose a violation of natural laws, or a separate world. It just means you continue living in a different form.<p>The only thing that would be required for that is a causal relationship (yet to be observed in science) between your dying mind and some other living structure.<p>The causal eelationship needn’t even be mind-out. If your mind is caused by the enduring structure and you experience its presence at death, that would be physically indistinguishable from you becoming that thing.<p>Given that we continue to discover entirely new structures in both the biological world and our own bodies, which were hiding in plain sight, I don’t find this implausible.<p>That’s not to mention psychoaocial structures which science hardly can model, and to which our individual minds are very tightly coupled. |
Chinese Thesis Ghostwriting Scandal Reveals Huge Gray Market | My stance on that: ex-bloc countries have that¸ I tell you as one who did part of my high school in Russia. Weak students cheat, strong students cheat, and only few cranky principled oddballs reject the system and shout "Hey you, ex university prof, throw whatever you want at me, I'll solve it and shred it to pieces" - those being universally hated for "making life harder for everybody"<p>My mom once had fun listening to shitty talks from parents of other students along the lines "hey, can you tell your boy to quiet down a bit, he raises the plank to high for the rest of the class"<p>You can understand weak students' reasons: they simply can't do it otherwise. But why do strong ones cheat? That what dazzled me about Russians, and Russia in general. What that was is the gigantic, monstrous, totally pathological fear of failure that permeates country's "socially endowed classes."<p>And secondary to that is the element of social pact: when pupils with excellent marks begin cheating and copying from one another, they begin to embrace the "omerta" created by this, sealing their social contract with their peers.<p>Most rich, powerful people in Russia teach their children very intentionally to behave along the lines - get close and sycophantic with others privileged people. And you know, to infirm young minds, the reasoning that any privilege one gets in life is through joining some "exclusive social clubs" of other privileged people, is hard to challenge, especially when this comes from their parents.<p>And after some time, their children become completely accustomed to not to taking upon any challenge straight, because they genuinely believe that even simplest things in life are not doable without tricks, cheats, and favours from other power powerful people. This is the culture in which social elites in Russia grow up.<p>After being around mainlanders for 11 years while working in electronics, I feel it is very much the same for them. For both of above reasons, people from both nations are extremely afraid of challenge, and more so when you deal with people higher up on the social ladder. |
A Programming Language Underdog | I read the article. Still no idea what Nim is good for and why it's better than some other language.. and for which use cases? |
A Brief Guide to CLOS (1998) | I wondered if the author would mention method combinators, which he did. They are super powerful, very useful...and a marvelous opportunity for spaghetti code.<p>Actually the CLOS combinators show learning from earlier mistakes and allow only :before, :after and :around, the most useful and the most comprehensible combinators.<p>Lisp Machine Lisp (including the "zetalisp" variant dreamt up by Symbolics' marketing department) had an enormous panoply of method combinators including full control structures: IIRC I had cause to resort at one time or another to :or, :and and :progn combinators (the latter being somewhat like :around, I suppose, but not the same). They made the code extensible, compact, and completely unpredicatable (if you didn't understand the <i>runtime</i> method hierarchy precisely which combined methods would be run in an :or combination?<p>Nevertheless I sometimes miss them to this day, even in my C++17 codebase! |
SpaceX's rise can be traced to a critical launch from a Pacific isle | I have to say, it's surprising to me that none of the megacompanies is taking on true moon shots with their billions in spare cash sitting around.<p>Google's "Moonshot" department is mostly ironic, at this point. Literal moonshots have been demonstrated by SpaceX to cost somewhere in the 2-20 billion dollar range with current technology.<p>Makes me wonder why they're not funding more large scale research - throw a few billion at carbon sequestration, maybe? |
SpaceX's rise can be traced to a critical launch from a Pacific isle | I have to say, it's surprising to me that none of the megacompanies is taking on true moon shots with their billions in spare cash sitting around.<p>Google's "Moonshot" department is mostly ironic, at this point. Literal moonshots have been demonstrated by SpaceX to cost somewhere in the 2-20 billion dollar range with current technology.<p>Makes me wonder why they're not funding more large scale research - throw a few billion at carbon sequestration, maybe? |
SpaceX's rise can be traced to a critical launch from a Pacific isle | I have to say, it's surprising to me that none of the megacompanies is taking on true moon shots with their billions in spare cash sitting around.<p>Google's "Moonshot" department is mostly ironic, at this point. Literal moonshots have been demonstrated by SpaceX to cost somewhere in the 2-20 billion dollar range with current technology.<p>Makes me wonder why they're not funding more large scale research - throw a few billion at carbon sequestration, maybe? |
White House Drafts Order to Probe Google, Facebook Practices | This sounds like they want the equal representation policies that the Republican Party got rolled back in the 80s (ruled unconstitutional iirc). It’s what allowed the rise of partisan “news”. It seems like any “equal exposure” policies would hit the same issues.<p>That said the primary “imbalanced exposure” seems to be due to evicting people who simply spend their time attacking minorities, attack equal rights, and promoting violence towards anyone that they dislike. For whatever reason the Republican Party seems to have decided that those people represent “conservative” views that private companies should have to support. |
PostgreSQL 11: something for everyone | Note the following passage:<p>"It's clear to me that a certain proportion of application developers are allergic to putting business logic in the database system, despite the fact that batch processing logic is often a great deal faster when implemented that way. Perhaps the fact that clients are now able to cede full control of transaction scope to procedural code running on the database server (code that can be written in a familiar scripting language) will help application developers to get over the understandable aversion. Hope springs eternal." |
Gut directly connected to brain, by a newly discovered neuron circuit | Dozens of doctors over the years have rolled their eyes at me whenever I reported that my excruciating migraines were connected with flare ups in intestinal pain.<p>Many would make passive aggressive remarks like "What?... Maybe you should have a psychiatric evaluation." At one point I decided to trust them and go along with it, resulting in years of medication and dealing with withdrawal symptoms upon deciding to quit, which they claimed did not exist at all and that I was making it up.<p>I am happy that numerous studies like this one continue to vindicate all the things I reported to doctors over the years, although it is likely that the arrogant doctors continue to lack the introspection to realize what they did to me and many other patients, and thus admit nothing, in spite of the increasing evidence that they were flat out wrong. |
Gut directly connected to brain, by a newly discovered neuron circuit | Dozens of doctors over the years have rolled their eyes at me whenever I reported that my excruciating migraines were connected with flare ups in intestinal pain.<p>Many would make passive aggressive remarks like "What?... Maybe you should have a psychiatric evaluation." At one point I decided to trust them and go along with it, resulting in years of medication and dealing with withdrawal symptoms upon deciding to quit, which they claimed did not exist at all and that I was making it up.<p>I am happy that numerous studies like this one continue to vindicate all the things I reported to doctors over the years, although it is likely that the arrogant doctors continue to lack the introspection to realize what they did to me and many other patients, and thus admit nothing, in spite of the increasing evidence that they were flat out wrong. |
Gut directly connected to brain, by a newly discovered neuron circuit | Dozens of doctors over the years have rolled their eyes at me whenever I reported that my excruciating migraines were connected with flare ups in intestinal pain.<p>Many would make passive aggressive remarks like "What?... Maybe you should have a psychiatric evaluation." At one point I decided to trust them and go along with it, resulting in years of medication and dealing with withdrawal symptoms upon deciding to quit, which they claimed did not exist at all and that I was making it up.<p>I am happy that numerous studies like this one continue to vindicate all the things I reported to doctors over the years, although it is likely that the arrogant doctors continue to lack the introspection to realize what they did to me and many other patients, and thus admit nothing, in spite of the increasing evidence that they were flat out wrong. |
Show HN: Thi.ng/hdom – S-expression based, pure ES6 UI/VDOM components | I'd still rather write markup in a format that looks like markup. I think this is why JSX is so popular.<p>This is why I prefer something like lit-html with actual markup.<p>Example from hdom readme:<p><pre><code> // component w/ local state
const counter = (i = 0) => {
return () => ["button", { onclick: () => (i++) }, `clicks: ${i}`];
};
</code></pre>
In lit-html:<p><pre><code> const counter = (i = 0) => {
return () => html`<button @click=${() => i++}>clicks: ${i}</button>`;
}
</code></pre>
Yeah, there some extra weight to the close tag, but it looks like HTML.<p>Disclaimer: lit-html author. <a href="https://github.com/Polymer/lit-html" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Polymer/lit-html</a> |
Why I’m done with Chrome | Google started going down the path I would describe as an "evil" path years ago. I'm glad people are starting to notice. I used to be a huge Google advocate, up until about 2008. So many things have changed since then.<p>Adsense was the first breach in trust for me, when they banned my account for no reason and ruined any chance of every monetizing my content...since they are basically a monopoly in that area. Getting off their blacklist, is literally impossible.<p>Then came Chrome and Android, which grew to collect so much information on people that it was genuinely baffling.<p>Then my agency work and work with previous Google employees telling me about Google sales tactics to SMBs in Adwords. Intentionally not focusing on ROI because they knew the companies had such high burn out rates. They would, and continue, to milk them for whatever they are worth. They know the company is statistically going to go out of business in a year, so just take them for whatever they are worth! Luckily agencies act as a middle man, if not for that, the abuse would be so much more widespread. But if you deal directly with Google ad sales (and this is something I never knew existed tbh) they will intentionally screw you if you are under a certain spend.<p>Now they have growing and creeping monopolies in advertising, and their only real competitors are Amazon and Facebook... which to me are both on or near the level of sleaze that Google has crept to.<p>Now things are accelerating, with Chrome's increasing intrusion, Android's increasing intrusion, deals with Chinese governments to stifle freedom of expression and speech. Google AMP being a closed system that's only goal is to push Google into controlling more of the web.<p>Add to that, let me preface that I am not a Trump voter and never will be and probably lean more towards the politics of Google leadership, but the video that leaked out (it sucks it leaked to nutty Brietbart and not a real new organization, maybe it would have been taken a lot more seriously) of the Google town hall also baffled me. I think Facebook might even take their moral obligation of objectivity more seriously than Google...and that's a serious problem. Algorithms can determine electoral outcomes, and Google is one of the top tech lobbyists in Washington. Doesn't that bother anyone?<p>This is no longer a company I can advocate anyone using. Unfortunately because of their monopoly status in advertising I have to deal with them. |
Why I’m done with Chrome | Google started going down the path I would describe as an "evil" path years ago. I'm glad people are starting to notice. I used to be a huge Google advocate, up until about 2008. So many things have changed since then.<p>Adsense was the first breach in trust for me, when they banned my account for no reason and ruined any chance of every monetizing my content...since they are basically a monopoly in that area. Getting off their blacklist, is literally impossible.<p>Then came Chrome and Android, which grew to collect so much information on people that it was genuinely baffling.<p>Then my agency work and work with previous Google employees telling me about Google sales tactics to SMBs in Adwords. Intentionally not focusing on ROI because they knew the companies had such high burn out rates. They would, and continue, to milk them for whatever they are worth. They know the company is statistically going to go out of business in a year, so just take them for whatever they are worth! Luckily agencies act as a middle man, if not for that, the abuse would be so much more widespread. But if you deal directly with Google ad sales (and this is something I never knew existed tbh) they will intentionally screw you if you are under a certain spend.<p>Now they have growing and creeping monopolies in advertising, and their only real competitors are Amazon and Facebook... which to me are both on or near the level of sleaze that Google has crept to.<p>Now things are accelerating, with Chrome's increasing intrusion, Android's increasing intrusion, deals with Chinese governments to stifle freedom of expression and speech. Google AMP being a closed system that's only goal is to push Google into controlling more of the web.<p>Add to that, let me preface that I am not a Trump voter and never will be and probably lean more towards the politics of Google leadership, but the video that leaked out (it sucks it leaked to nutty Brietbart and not a real new organization, maybe it would have been taken a lot more seriously) of the Google town hall also baffled me. I think Facebook might even take their moral obligation of objectivity more seriously than Google...and that's a serious problem. Algorithms can determine electoral outcomes, and Google is one of the top tech lobbyists in Washington. Doesn't that bother anyone?<p>This is no longer a company I can advocate anyone using. Unfortunately because of their monopoly status in advertising I have to deal with them. |
Why I’m done with Chrome | Google started going down the path I would describe as an "evil" path years ago. I'm glad people are starting to notice. I used to be a huge Google advocate, up until about 2008. So many things have changed since then.<p>Adsense was the first breach in trust for me, when they banned my account for no reason and ruined any chance of every monetizing my content...since they are basically a monopoly in that area. Getting off their blacklist, is literally impossible.<p>Then came Chrome and Android, which grew to collect so much information on people that it was genuinely baffling.<p>Then my agency work and work with previous Google employees telling me about Google sales tactics to SMBs in Adwords. Intentionally not focusing on ROI because they knew the companies had such high burn out rates. They would, and continue, to milk them for whatever they are worth. They know the company is statistically going to go out of business in a year, so just take them for whatever they are worth! Luckily agencies act as a middle man, if not for that, the abuse would be so much more widespread. But if you deal directly with Google ad sales (and this is something I never knew existed tbh) they will intentionally screw you if you are under a certain spend.<p>Now they have growing and creeping monopolies in advertising, and their only real competitors are Amazon and Facebook... which to me are both on or near the level of sleaze that Google has crept to.<p>Now things are accelerating, with Chrome's increasing intrusion, Android's increasing intrusion, deals with Chinese governments to stifle freedom of expression and speech. Google AMP being a closed system that's only goal is to push Google into controlling more of the web.<p>Add to that, let me preface that I am not a Trump voter and never will be and probably lean more towards the politics of Google leadership, but the video that leaked out (it sucks it leaked to nutty Brietbart and not a real new organization, maybe it would have been taken a lot more seriously) of the Google town hall also baffled me. I think Facebook might even take their moral obligation of objectivity more seriously than Google...and that's a serious problem. Algorithms can determine electoral outcomes, and Google is one of the top tech lobbyists in Washington. Doesn't that bother anyone?<p>This is no longer a company I can advocate anyone using. Unfortunately because of their monopoly status in advertising I have to deal with them. |
Killing processes that don't want to die | <p><pre><code> Step 1: Install a kernel driver.
Step 2: Do blocking IO in the kernel that will never finish.
Step 3: Your process is now literally impossible to kill in any way.
</code></pre>
This works in windows too (for similar drivers).<p>This happens fairly regularly with devices with crappy drivers. If something gets wedged in kernel IO, there is literally nothing you can do to kill it, bar rebooting. IIRC, the kernel won't do anything until the IO finishes.<p>When shitty <hardware driver tool> craps out this way, it's <i>extremely</i> annoying. I have semi-fond memories of trying all sorts of interesting tools that attach to a process and inject faults to kill a wedged TV-Tuner application when I was in high school. I never found a option that works.<p>Literally zero of the examples here for preventing unkillable processes would work, too. If you can load kernel drivers, you're hoseable. |
Killing processes that don't want to die | <p><pre><code> Step 1: Install a kernel driver.
Step 2: Do blocking IO in the kernel that will never finish.
Step 3: Your process is now literally impossible to kill in any way.
</code></pre>
This works in windows too (for similar drivers).<p>This happens fairly regularly with devices with crappy drivers. If something gets wedged in kernel IO, there is literally nothing you can do to kill it, bar rebooting. IIRC, the kernel won't do anything until the IO finishes.<p>When shitty <hardware driver tool> craps out this way, it's <i>extremely</i> annoying. I have semi-fond memories of trying all sorts of interesting tools that attach to a process and inject faults to kill a wedged TV-Tuner application when I was in high school. I never found a option that works.<p>Literally zero of the examples here for preventing unkillable processes would work, too. If you can load kernel drivers, you're hoseable. |
How FPGAs work, and why people will buy them (2013) | > FPGAs are a programmable platform, but one designed by EEs for EEs rather than for programmers.<p>This is the problem with FPGAs. Their performance and utility is not really disputed. Working with them is so un-ergonomic that it's frankly embarrassing.<p>The EE world is notoriously closed/proprietary making it incredibly difficult to explore novelty or customize tooling to suit specific needs. The situation is reminiscent of the pre-gcc era proprietary C compilers. Sure synthesis / place and route are much harder problems than compiling to machine code but I would guess that fact amplifies the need.<p>One can't really expect software's current development comfort without acknowledging its driving force (GNU/the free software movement). |
If You're Not Writing a Program, Don't Use a Programming Language [video] | I wasn't exposed to spreadsheets until a few years into college back around 1996 or 1997 maybe (I had been programming in C/C++ for 7 or 8 years by then). I wasn't taught matrix math until pretty late in the curriculum, I want to say junior or senior year. Also I was lucky to have a semester of Scheme but they were transitioning to teaching Java around the time I graduated (I don't know if they ever switched back). And this was for a computer engineering degree at one of the best state universities for engineering in the US.<p>Honestly I think it might be time to phase out teaching imperative and object-oriented programming. Most of the grief in my career has come from them. I don't care if they're where the jobs are. The mental cost of tracing through highly-imperative code, especially the new implicit style of languages and frameworks like Ruby and AngularJS (which have logic flows having no obvious connection to one another, or transition through async handlers connected by a convention which isn't immediately obvious to the developer) is so high that the underlying business logic is effectively obfuscated.<p>I think we should get back to fundamentals. Maybe start with the shell and explain why separate address spaces connected by pipes are such a powerful abstraction, maybe touch on the Actor model, maybe show how spreadsheets and functional programming are equivalent, and how even written notation is superfluous. Really focus on declarative programming and code as media, and how that made the web approachable by nontechnical folks before it was turned into single page application spaghetti. There are so many examples from history of where better ways were found before the mainstream fell back into bad habits. |
If You're Not Writing a Program, Don't Use a Programming Language [video] | I believe these are the kinds of ideas that might actually create a genuine <i>engineering</i> culture in software development. Until we start applying this kind of rigor to our work, I don't believe the title of "Software Engineer" is justified. It doesn't have to be TLA+; it doesn't have to be any particular tool or technology or pattern or whatever. But the attitude that rigor and formal technique is <i>worth</i> the additional effort is something that I don't find often in the current culture, or at least the narrow slice of it that I've experienced.<p>The quote at the end sums it up nicely. Coding <i>should</i> be the easy part. A sentiment everyone tends to nod their head along with, but rarely has the discipline and willpower to implement. |
Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of Chrome browser change | I don't understand why the Chrome team is picking this hill to die on- their team (managers and developers) are all over twitter and reddit trying to explain the privacy violations away as if the people upset about this are just not understanding what's going on.<p>I really expect this change to push a lot of people away from Chrome, and frankly I wouldn't be surprised if it started opening up more antitrust possibilities due to how they're using their browser to give their services special functionality others can't get. |
Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of Chrome browser change | I don't understand why the Chrome team is picking this hill to die on- their team (managers and developers) are all over twitter and reddit trying to explain the privacy violations away as if the people upset about this are just not understanding what's going on.<p>I really expect this change to push a lot of people away from Chrome, and frankly I wouldn't be surprised if it started opening up more antitrust possibilities due to how they're using their browser to give their services special functionality others can't get. |
Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of Chrome browser change | As a Googler with no connection to the Chrome team: I'm pretty sure they made this change in good faith and are shocked people don't like it. Just imagine yourself in their shoes: wouldn't your first instinct be to explain yourself? |
Creating a bash completion script | Shell programmable completion highlights how slow the OS community can be to change/improve core tools (shell, coreutils, ttys). Completion should be specified in the binary, and compatible with all shells. A similar interface could be designed for all scripting languages. It was obvious ~20 years ago that it makes no sense for each shell to specify their own completion system, and yet here we still are. |
When Do We Have Empathy for the Mentally Ill? | >For example, one vignette described “Terry,” a 28-year-old woman who felt deeply sad for the past four weeks and lost interest in activities she usually enjoys. In the “biological” version presented to the study participants, Terry’s father also suffered from symptoms of depression, a doctor told her as a teenager that she might have an imbalance of neurotransmitters, and an MRI scan revealed that she had an unusually small hippocampus, which could affect her reaction to stress. In the “psychosocial” version, Terry’s father died when she was five, her mother has always been highly critical and not very nurturing, and Terry suffered from a recent breakup and problems at work.<p>>...respondents felt less empathy for the fictional patients when they read the biological explanation.<p>Am I missing something here? Of course people would empathize more with a person who has relatable experiences. Nobody is going to relate to "an MRI scan revealed that she had an unusually small hippocampus" but almost everyone has experienced relationship troubles and problems at work. |
When Do We Have Empathy for the Mentally Ill? | >For example, one vignette described “Terry,” a 28-year-old woman who felt deeply sad for the past four weeks and lost interest in activities she usually enjoys. In the “biological” version presented to the study participants, Terry’s father also suffered from symptoms of depression, a doctor told her as a teenager that she might have an imbalance of neurotransmitters, and an MRI scan revealed that she had an unusually small hippocampus, which could affect her reaction to stress. In the “psychosocial” version, Terry’s father died when she was five, her mother has always been highly critical and not very nurturing, and Terry suffered from a recent breakup and problems at work.<p>>...respondents felt less empathy for the fictional patients when they read the biological explanation.<p>Am I missing something here? Of course people would empathize more with a person who has relatable experiences. Nobody is going to relate to "an MRI scan revealed that she had an unusually small hippocampus" but almost everyone has experienced relationship troubles and problems at work. |
When Do We Have Empathy for the Mentally Ill? | >For example, one vignette described “Terry,” a 28-year-old woman who felt deeply sad for the past four weeks and lost interest in activities she usually enjoys. In the “biological” version presented to the study participants, Terry’s father also suffered from symptoms of depression, a doctor told her as a teenager that she might have an imbalance of neurotransmitters, and an MRI scan revealed that she had an unusually small hippocampus, which could affect her reaction to stress. In the “psychosocial” version, Terry’s father died when she was five, her mother has always been highly critical and not very nurturing, and Terry suffered from a recent breakup and problems at work.<p>>...respondents felt less empathy for the fictional patients when they read the biological explanation.<p>Am I missing something here? Of course people would empathize more with a person who has relatable experiences. Nobody is going to relate to "an MRI scan revealed that she had an unusually small hippocampus" but almost everyone has experienced relationship troubles and problems at work. |
Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company | Posting anon.<p>In 2009, the startup where I was working was hitting the skids, and our investors (correctly) were not willing to back us. We all kept grinding for a month or two in honorable futility, but after a while, my bank account depleted and I had to go.<p>To make various ends meet and to keep my mental health during the wind down however, I took up some contract work that I found through various friends in the SF startup scene. One company that I really liked and did some small stuff for was Burbn, which was a mobile-only location check-in that was hinged around taking photos of your location.<p>Missing my friends in NYC (I made a lot of friends in SF, but my inner circle were my college buddies from CMU; I went to tech and they went finance, sigh), I decided to leave SF to head to NYC and get a fresh start.<p>As I was leaving, I wanted to tie up a few loose ends, so I emailed my contact at Burbn and said I was likely to be unavailable for any more work, but that I liked the project and hoped for the best for him. He responded and said that he was near funding on a small pivot, and that if I was interested, there might be a full-time role available. I declined - I was mentally done with SF and the startup scene (Larry Chiang, 111 Minna, the rise of FB spam-crap like RockYou, etc.) as it was then.<p>That person was Kevin Systrom; that pivot was Instagram. |
Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company | Posting anon.<p>In 2009, the startup where I was working was hitting the skids, and our investors (correctly) were not willing to back us. We all kept grinding for a month or two in honorable futility, but after a while, my bank account depleted and I had to go.<p>To make various ends meet and to keep my mental health during the wind down however, I took up some contract work that I found through various friends in the SF startup scene. One company that I really liked and did some small stuff for was Burbn, which was a mobile-only location check-in that was hinged around taking photos of your location.<p>Missing my friends in NYC (I made a lot of friends in SF, but my inner circle were my college buddies from CMU; I went to tech and they went finance, sigh), I decided to leave SF to head to NYC and get a fresh start.<p>As I was leaving, I wanted to tie up a few loose ends, so I emailed my contact at Burbn and said I was likely to be unavailable for any more work, but that I liked the project and hoped for the best for him. He responded and said that he was near funding on a small pivot, and that if I was interested, there might be a full-time role available. I declined - I was mentally done with SF and the startup scene (Larry Chiang, 111 Minna, the rise of FB spam-crap like RockYou, etc.) as it was then.<p>That person was Kevin Systrom; that pivot was Instagram. |
Simple Thought Experiment Shows Why We Need Quantum Gravity | "General Relativity describes gravity perfectly everywhere we've ever looked. From the smallest-scale attractions we've ever measured in a laboratory to the expansion and curvature of space due to Earth, the Sun, black holes, galaxies, or the entire Universe, our observations and measurements have never deviated from what we've observed. "<p>So correct me if I'm wrong, but the rotation of galaxies completely defies even Newtonian principles, right?<p>So we invented concepts of Dark Matter / Dark Energy as a placeholder, crossing our fingers that we're right on that? |
Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to delete all cookies | Seriously don't know why anyone is surprised that a browser built by an ad-tech company pushes the user tracking tech of that company.<p>Just use Firefox and have done with it - there's been a series of these kinds of posts over the last couple of days with people suggesting insane workaround hacks instead of just changing their browser.<p>P.S. if you keep chrome because some websites only work properly there, maybe y'all should follow standards at work instead of targeting a proprietary browser like its 2001/IE6 again. |
Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to delete all cookies | Another confirmation that engineers and product developers are no longer in control at Google.<p>Engineering and product first is how Google won the game initially, very easy to forget that when the money rolls in massively and the power structures move away from those driving forces.<p>Microsoft already went through this engineering/product growth to bizdev/marketing control to stagnation and is already in the return to engineering/product first phase. Basically their own Ballmer era is what Google is entering.<p>Bizdev + marketing are hugely important, but the products and engineering need to be the focus. It is much easier to bizdev and market a product and engineering led system/focus, though success through this is always forgotten when massive success comes around because engineering/research and development are hard to quantify and put metrics to which the power structures move away from.<p>Let's hope there are factions of engineering/product focused people in Google that can gain back control. |
WWII Bombe operator Ruth Bourne: I'd never heard of Enigma until after the war | After I watched <i>The Imitation Game</i> lately I read about the Polish efforts, almost totally ignored in that movie and everything I'd read, as if the British invented the whole thing, possibly Turing single-handedly. The article says "based partly on an earlier Polish design" but doesn't say<p><i>Up to July 25, 1939, the Poles had been breaking Enigma messages for over six and a half years ... </i><p><i>The Poles' gift of Enigma decryption to their Western allies, five weeks before the outbreak of World War II, came not a moment too soon .. Gordon Welchman, head of Bletchley Park's Hut 6...writes: "Hut 6 Ultra would never have gotten off the ground if we had not learned from the Poles, in the nick of time, the details both of the German military version of the commercial Enigma machine, and of the operating procedures that were in use."</i><p><i>..French and British military intelligence,...had been unable to make any headway against Enigma. This Polish intelligence-and-technology transfer would give the Allies an unprecedented advantage (Ultra) in their ultimately victorious prosecution of World War II.</i><p>Also the name <i>bombe</i> is explained:<p><i>The first machine was built by the Poles and was a hand operated multiple enigma machine. When a possible solution was reached a part would fall off the machine onto the floor with a loud noise. Hence the name "bombe".</i><p>There is a Polish movie about that story, <i>Sekret Enigmy</i> (1979), but I haven't been able to get hold of it yet.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomba_(cryptography)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomba_(cryptography)</a><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Rejewski" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Rejewski</a><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biuro_Szyfrów" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biuro_Szyfrów</a><p><i>Sekret Enigmy</i>: <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079878/" rel="nofollow">https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079878/</a> |
Startup Nation? Entrepreneurs Still Toil in Macron's France | France has plenty of early stage startups, in fact the increase in size and quality in their ecosystem in just a few years has been very impressive.<p>What’s missing in France right now is an ecosystem of fast-growing mid-stage startups - series B and above. I think that’s caused by a combination of:<p>1) mindset (thinking globally from say one is easier said than done when nobody around you has done it before)<p>2) lack of late-stage funding. The seed money scene is not as bad as it used to be, and is in a virtuous cycle of early exits / successful entrepreneurs who want to give back. That is looking very good. However, the VCs still suck, with a few exceptions. They’re mostlt bankers, they’re risk-averse, ownership-greedy, and intrusive. Good luck growing a world-class business with them on your board and in your cap table.<p>3) The EU market is just weak conpared to US and China. So every european startup has to start outside their confort zone and attack foreign markets from day one... Which creates friction compared to growing at home for the first few years.<p>Here are factors that in my opinion are NOT to blame: taxes (comparable to California), salaries (yes they’re lower than in SV; that’s a good thing for startups), bureaucratic red tape (that’s what lawyers and accountabts are for, it’s not rocket science), lack of work ethic (in my experience French employees work very hard and are very loyal - although they do complain a lot), brain drain (sure French people leave the country. Plenty stay, or come back. It’s nothing like what third world countries have to deal with).<p>What I’m seeing more and more is French founders moving to SV, raising money there and keeping their engineers in France. Other international founders are doing the same. I think it’s the best available move at the moment. |
Evidence that addictive behaviors have links with ancient retroviral infection | Every time I find interesting (and frighting) that we are nothing but a collection of ourselves and virus and bacterias, written down to our DNA and RNA or living together with close dependence deep in our guts (literally).<p>Going further, a lot of what we do unconciously is just what a virus or something else "did" to survive or spread in the past, and our free will isn't that free...<p>Edit: "did" wasn't meaning that a specific goal was set, for example, but just that the survival rate was better for certain configuration of atoms |
Millennials Are Causing the U.S. Divorce Rate to Plummet | They really buried the lede. There are two things happening here that can arguably be traced to one cause:<p>Educated millennials apparently see marriage as something you do _after_ you've finished establishing yourself. It is a goal, not a given.<p>Uneducated millennials apparently have the _same_ point of view, but they aren't established and therefore they aren't getting married.<p>Given that marriage often means you end up with the lower of the two credit scores, you're on the hook for debts, you're going to be paying jointly filed taxes regardless of future marital status, etc -- it absolutely makes sense not to get married until you're financially established. Now that the mystique of marriage is broken (thanks to those baby boomers get divorced in record numbers), it's no longer a rite of passage into adulthood. |
Ask HN: What sucks about where you live? | Salt Lake City, UT:<p>1) Very poor air quality in winter due to inversions.<p>2) The local popular religion (Mormonism) has an outsized influence on legislation, so there are weird laws surrounding alcohol, business on Sundays, use of downtown property, etc. Outside of SLC proper people assume everyone is Mormon, and one's religion (or lack of it) can affect job opportunities, etc.<p>3) The city is extremely car-centric, with large blocks and narrow sidewalks. there are few places where it is pleasant to walk or linger outdoors.<p>4) Public transit is not great, but still better than some US cities. This seems to be slowly improving.<p>5) Homeless communities are concentrated around a few service locations, so certain parts of the city can seem overrun and unsafe, especially public parks. Panhandling is everywhere.<p>6) Local culture breeds busybodies; neighbors will complain to the city if they deem your grass is too tall, etc. There is also a lot of casual racism; for example, neighborhoods with a majority Latino population are considered "bad" despite having no higher crime, attractive houses, etc.<p>Gripes aside, SLC is mostly a great place to live. There is beautiful scenery, reasonable housing, lots of restaurant variety, and so on. But nowhere is perfect. |
Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career? | I did following things that helped me grow,<p>1. My engineering ended in 2013. I was shit broke. I started doing online courses in 2016. Till now I have done 51 online courses in different things and just a month ago I got moved into a DevOps role (from a WordPress developer role). $0 invested in it.<p>2. The other best thing is growing my LinkedIn network. I grew my network from 200 people to to 15000 people (most of which are founders and recruiters). I invest time in writing articles and sharing new opportunities via LinkedIn.<p>3. I started reading a lot of books (related to tech and business).<p>4. I started emailing, tweeting to people (and getting heard by people like Jimmy Wales, Elon Musk, Tim Draper, Craig Newmark, Charlie Cheever) etc. This helped me grow exponentially.<p>5. Planning ahead. I started visioning life 30 years ahead. What was what I wanted. If your goals are clear, it will be much easier to find the path.<p>6. Ask, ask, ask. I asked a lot of questions on StackExchange, Reddit -> r/webdev and Hacker News. Whatever I plan to do, I take feedback from these groups. I have also joined Slack channels of professionals from different groups where I talk and take feedback. From ideas to resume review and career guidance.<p>7. Anyone that could teach me, I made him/her my mentor and listened to them and acted on their advice. Everyone I work with (founders, coworkers etc) see the passion in me and tries to mentor me. The trick is to always be willing to listen to others and keep connecting dots. |
Abstract of the NTSB Report on Air Canada flight 759's taxiway overflight at SFO [pdf] | CVR overwrite is bad news here. The crew knew this was a serious problem when it happened, there's no way they should have allowed the CVR, crucial evidence of exactly what happened, to be overwritten.<p>Perhaps the full report will have more detail on this, as it stands I have to believe somebody made the decision to overwrite this because they thought it'd be better if it didn't exist. Whether that's the crew, their bosses or other staff, somebody managed to go from "serious incident, preserve evidence" to "maximum ass covering" and that person or persons are an obstacle to effective investigation and thus to safe air travel. |
The Printed Word in Peril | The Norman Mailer anecdote seems strange. I think I read more than average; I finish about 30 books a year, most of which are literary fiction or history books. Still, I haven't read a Norman Mailer book anytime recently. There's literally thousands of years' worth of literature from all over the world; why him, in particular?<p>Some other things that strike me: I agree that a phone or iPad isn't much good for reading a novel, but I love reading on my Kindle (and the built-in dictionary makes it easier to approach foreign-language works, although I still don't do this as often as I feel I ought to).<p>The idea that books have to compete with more stimulating technologies isn't new either: radio, movies, and TV were there first. Is this a wholly new trend or the acceleration of an existing one?<p>The distraction of always-on Internet is certainly real, though, and exacerbated by smartphones. And it is striking that even journalists and political leaders often don't seem very well-read, particularly when you go back and look at 19th-Century rhetoric rife with allusions to the Bible or Greek myth that are opaque to much of the modern audience. |
Walmart Requires Lettuce, Spinach Suppliers to Join Blockchain | IBM is quietly brushing its Watson mess under the carpet and now they’re trying to focus on blockchain. However this is just as substanceless and full of marketing fluff as Watson was.<p>There’s nothing being done here that couldn’t or shouldn’t just be handled with a traditional database. Having IBM “run it” also sort of defeats the whole decentralized aspect of blockchain technologies.<p>You don’t need “blockchain” to track where your produce came from. This is just a marketing play through and though. |
Demolishing the California Dream: How SF Planned Its Own Housing Crisis | If you look deep enough into the history of any modestly large Amercian city (pop. 250,000 +) and it's surrounding suburbs, you will see a metro area that was and still is being shaped by race.<p>It's not a surprise that SF's first zoning law was a veiled attempt at curbing Chinese immigrants, it's not a surprise that when the highways were built in Portland, OR the mostly black neighborhoods in NE Portland were razed to make room for cars.<p>Here is a quote from a recent Cupertino City Council meeting where new apartments, with a % allocated to affordable house, were up for discussion:<p>“The idea of Cupertino is to have people living here that are educated with degrees. Bringing this in would bring a lot of probably lower income people, and that would definitely bring down our median average household income.”<p>American urban policy is filled with slight of hand comments and maneuvers just like this.<p>A poster has been down-voted to oblivion for pointing out the hypocrisy that the bluest states have the most un-affordable housing, but I do think there is a thread here which highlights the hypocrisy of those who virtue signal for equality but advocate for policies that secure their wealth and make it almost impossible for lower income folks to survive. |
Demolishing the California Dream: How SF Planned Its Own Housing Crisis | If you look deep enough into the history of any modestly large Amercian city (pop. 250,000 +) and it's surrounding suburbs, you will see a metro area that was and still is being shaped by race.<p>It's not a surprise that SF's first zoning law was a veiled attempt at curbing Chinese immigrants, it's not a surprise that when the highways were built in Portland, OR the mostly black neighborhoods in NE Portland were razed to make room for cars.<p>Here is a quote from a recent Cupertino City Council meeting where new apartments, with a % allocated to affordable house, were up for discussion:<p>“The idea of Cupertino is to have people living here that are educated with degrees. Bringing this in would bring a lot of probably lower income people, and that would definitely bring down our median average household income.”<p>American urban policy is filled with slight of hand comments and maneuvers just like this.<p>A poster has been down-voted to oblivion for pointing out the hypocrisy that the bluest states have the most un-affordable housing, but I do think there is a thread here which highlights the hypocrisy of those who virtue signal for equality but advocate for policies that secure their wealth and make it almost impossible for lower income folks to survive. |
How we solved our office Wi-Fi problems | >Assign static IPs for infrastructure like access points. This makes them easy to reach when reconfiguration is needed<p>Am I missing something, or did they buy consumer routers to use as access points?<p>Triplebyte, I can save you a ton of management, troubleshooting, and learning time: switch to Ubiquiti Unifi or an equivelant now, youll have one pane of glass to reconfigure every device. The devices will talk to each other, to help hand off clients between them. All channel management will be by the devices working together, they can throttle down power if they are causing each other interference. I cant even begin to list all the different benefits with a single set of settings vs devices that dont work together. Even an asus aimesh network would likely be better. Youre asking for a troubleshooting nightmare.<p>You can either pay a couple hundred a year for the management interface, or $80 for an on prem tiny little stick that hosts it. (paying for the cloud hosted one, has its benefits, and is my recommendation.)<p>Access Point - <a href="https://unifi-hd.ubnt.com/" rel="nofollow">https://unifi-hd.ubnt.com/</a><p>POE Switch - <a href="https://www.ubnt.com/unifi-switching/unifi-switch-poe/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ubnt.com/unifi-switching/unifi-switch-poe/</a><p>Management Interface - <a href="https://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-cloud-key/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-cloud-key/</a> OR Cloud Management <a href="https://unifi.ubnt.com/" rel="nofollow">https://unifi.ubnt.com/</a><p>Router - <a href="https://www.ubnt.com/unifi-routing/usg/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ubnt.com/unifi-routing/usg/</a><p>You should never need to track down or log into individual devices to configure them.<p>I dont mean to be a complete ballsack, but isnt it weird for a company thats mission is matching talent to problems, to fail to find the talent to adequately address their problem, and to be giving authoritative (mis)advice on something they are not remotely domain experts in. It doesnt seem like the best advertisement.<p>That said, this is the KIND of post companies should be making when their seo expert says to use keywords. Good job writing about improving the internals of your company, and not just what your company does. Write a V2 of this post once you upgrade, and rename the old one, "How we Created (and then mitigated a Device Management and Troubleshooting Nightmare) |
How we solved our office Wi-Fi problems | >Assign static IPs for infrastructure like access points. This makes them easy to reach when reconfiguration is needed<p>Am I missing something, or did they buy consumer routers to use as access points?<p>Triplebyte, I can save you a ton of management, troubleshooting, and learning time: switch to Ubiquiti Unifi or an equivelant now, youll have one pane of glass to reconfigure every device. The devices will talk to each other, to help hand off clients between them. All channel management will be by the devices working together, they can throttle down power if they are causing each other interference. I cant even begin to list all the different benefits with a single set of settings vs devices that dont work together. Even an asus aimesh network would likely be better. Youre asking for a troubleshooting nightmare.<p>You can either pay a couple hundred a year for the management interface, or $80 for an on prem tiny little stick that hosts it. (paying for the cloud hosted one, has its benefits, and is my recommendation.)<p>Access Point - <a href="https://unifi-hd.ubnt.com/" rel="nofollow">https://unifi-hd.ubnt.com/</a><p>POE Switch - <a href="https://www.ubnt.com/unifi-switching/unifi-switch-poe/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ubnt.com/unifi-switching/unifi-switch-poe/</a><p>Management Interface - <a href="https://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-cloud-key/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-cloud-key/</a> OR Cloud Management <a href="https://unifi.ubnt.com/" rel="nofollow">https://unifi.ubnt.com/</a><p>Router - <a href="https://www.ubnt.com/unifi-routing/usg/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ubnt.com/unifi-routing/usg/</a><p>You should never need to track down or log into individual devices to configure them.<p>I dont mean to be a complete ballsack, but isnt it weird for a company thats mission is matching talent to problems, to fail to find the talent to adequately address their problem, and to be giving authoritative (mis)advice on something they are not remotely domain experts in. It doesnt seem like the best advertisement.<p>That said, this is the KIND of post companies should be making when their seo expert says to use keywords. Good job writing about improving the internals of your company, and not just what your company does. Write a V2 of this post once you upgrade, and rename the old one, "How we Created (and then mitigated a Device Management and Troubleshooting Nightmare) |
How we solved our office Wi-Fi problems | >Assign static IPs for infrastructure like access points. This makes them easy to reach when reconfiguration is needed<p>Am I missing something, or did they buy consumer routers to use as access points?<p>Triplebyte, I can save you a ton of management, troubleshooting, and learning time: switch to Ubiquiti Unifi or an equivelant now, youll have one pane of glass to reconfigure every device. The devices will talk to each other, to help hand off clients between them. All channel management will be by the devices working together, they can throttle down power if they are causing each other interference. I cant even begin to list all the different benefits with a single set of settings vs devices that dont work together. Even an asus aimesh network would likely be better. Youre asking for a troubleshooting nightmare.<p>You can either pay a couple hundred a year for the management interface, or $80 for an on prem tiny little stick that hosts it. (paying for the cloud hosted one, has its benefits, and is my recommendation.)<p>Access Point - <a href="https://unifi-hd.ubnt.com/" rel="nofollow">https://unifi-hd.ubnt.com/</a><p>POE Switch - <a href="https://www.ubnt.com/unifi-switching/unifi-switch-poe/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ubnt.com/unifi-switching/unifi-switch-poe/</a><p>Management Interface - <a href="https://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-cloud-key/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-cloud-key/</a> OR Cloud Management <a href="https://unifi.ubnt.com/" rel="nofollow">https://unifi.ubnt.com/</a><p>Router - <a href="https://www.ubnt.com/unifi-routing/usg/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ubnt.com/unifi-routing/usg/</a><p>You should never need to track down or log into individual devices to configure them.<p>I dont mean to be a complete ballsack, but isnt it weird for a company thats mission is matching talent to problems, to fail to find the talent to adequately address their problem, and to be giving authoritative (mis)advice on something they are not remotely domain experts in. It doesnt seem like the best advertisement.<p>That said, this is the KIND of post companies should be making when their seo expert says to use keywords. Good job writing about improving the internals of your company, and not just what your company does. Write a V2 of this post once you upgrade, and rename the old one, "How we Created (and then mitigated a Device Management and Troubleshooting Nightmare) |
How we solved our office Wi-Fi problems | Generally pretty solid advice. I say that as someone who is known for solving tough wireless problems. :-)<p>On the cable termination part: I've (mostly) stopped crimping cables because I've had too many go flaky and don't have 4-5 figure testing equipment. One thing I'll add is that there are ends for solid conductor and stranded, make <i>SURE</i> you have the right ones for the cable you are using.<p>These days I always just put on keystone ends and then use commercial patch cables from there. I've had very good luck. I'd recommend against the advice to use a screw driver to punch them down, the Leviton ones I prefer you just put the cap on and they punch down themselves. The random ones I get from Ace Hardware have a little punch tool included.<p>One additional recommendation I have is to put 5GHz radios in each space. 5GHz has more spectrum, and less interference, but it penetrates drywall significantly worse. But that's a good thing, because it cuts down on interference from your neighbors.<p>Beware of microwave ovens, baby monitors, cordless phones (last 2 more in residential areas). They can be intermittent interference, and won't show up on the non-commercial spectrum analyzers. Our 2.4GHz used to go out when we'd run our brand new microwave. But it would also go out at other times, possibly when a neighbor ran theirs? 2.4GHz penetrates buildings quite well, which kind of sucks.<p>My credentials: <a href="https://www.tummy.com/articles/pycon2012-network/" rel="nofollow">https://www.tummy.com/articles/pycon2012-network/</a> |
Ex-Google Employee Urges Lawmakers to Take on Company | I actually applaud Poulson for leaving Google in protest of Google's Chinese business practices.<p>Having mentioned that, I think I have to part ways with him when he implies that the correct way to "fix" this is to have the government come in and make these sorts of business decisions <i>for</i> the company. I don't believe in the government obliging businesses to do things. Especially when it looks like this whole thing is Google specific. That's unfair to Google.<p>What about all the other American companies doing business in China? Do they get to keep doing business because they are politically popular companies but Google is not? Or would this be a government mandate of a broad based American pull out?<p>Or just forcing Google to let its employees have a say in how it's run? (But again, you gonna force <i>every</i> company? Or just Google?)<p>Etc etc etc.<p>Once government gets involved and starts playing favorites, everything gets messed up. |
K3s: Kubernetes without the features I don't care about | I created this (I'm the Chief Architect and Co-founder of Rancher Labs, I experiment with stuff like this all the time). The purpose of this project is really to embed in another project (<a href="https://github.com/rancher/rio" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/rancher/rio</a> is an example) but as a side effect it's a nice little standalone k8s package. I never had any intention to support it as a standalone project, but hey if somebody is interested who knows.<p>All of the features removed are based off of two basic ideas<p>1) If there are X ways to do something, I choose the best one (obviously subjective).
2) The features are not commonly used or really shouldn't be in k8s to begin with.<p>The end goal of what I'm working on is basically to use k8s code as a library to do orchestration. Step one was to reduce the footprint of k8s (I'm 80% there with this project), step two is to completely rework the state management such that you no longer need to persist state in k8s. This is a much larger goal. I've fooled around a lot with the persistence layer in k8s (this project is running on sqlite3) so I'm basically doing a lot of work of figuring what state I can throw away. The theory is that all desired state comes from your yaml files. Actual state is actual (what really exists). Everything else in k8s should be purely derived and not important. |
K3s: Kubernetes without the features I don't care about | I created this (I'm the Chief Architect and Co-founder of Rancher Labs, I experiment with stuff like this all the time). The purpose of this project is really to embed in another project (<a href="https://github.com/rancher/rio" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/rancher/rio</a> is an example) but as a side effect it's a nice little standalone k8s package. I never had any intention to support it as a standalone project, but hey if somebody is interested who knows.<p>All of the features removed are based off of two basic ideas<p>1) If there are X ways to do something, I choose the best one (obviously subjective).
2) The features are not commonly used or really shouldn't be in k8s to begin with.<p>The end goal of what I'm working on is basically to use k8s code as a library to do orchestration. Step one was to reduce the footprint of k8s (I'm 80% there with this project), step two is to completely rework the state management such that you no longer need to persist state in k8s. This is a much larger goal. I've fooled around a lot with the persistence layer in k8s (this project is running on sqlite3) so I'm basically doing a lot of work of figuring what state I can throw away. The theory is that all desired state comes from your yaml files. Actual state is actual (what really exists). Everything else in k8s should be purely derived and not important. |
CBS Shuts Down Stage 9, a Fan-Made Recreation of the USS Enterprise | Back in the day, early on in Reddit's life, people started making fan art of the Reddit alien, and some cases they started making products with their creations and then giving them away. We pretty much just let that go. Then someone started selling their products with their fan art, just to make their costs back. At that point we had a decision to make. Do we shut down all the fan art, or do we do something about it?<p>The decision we came to was that our fans are what make us, so we asked our lawyers to write up a licensing agreement for us that we could use with all the fans. It included provisions for profit sharing so that people could even make a profit off their fan art, as long as they cut us in for a small percentage and got our permission first. And that's how we ended up things like a complete reddit bike kit. [0][1]<p>After that, it was easier for us to license stuff than it was to try and shut it down, not to mention the right thing to do. I'm sad that CBS couldn't come to the same conclusion.<p>[0] <a href="http://i.imgur.com/AEPJh.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/AEPJh.jpg</a><p>[1] <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/bicycling/comments/2je6z2/2015_reddit_kit_start_your_design_engines/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/bicycling/comments/2je6z2/2015_redd...</a> |
In defense of functional CSS | But wait, what exactly is so hard about doing something like<p><pre><code> // _profile.scss
.profile-card {
@extend .m-5;
// several more lines of extending
@extend border-gray-light;
}
</code></pre>
and just get the best of both worlds? That variant also has the advantage of letting us JS folk use element classes for useful stuff, and makes changing all instances of "profile-card" simultaneously a lot simpler. |
Introducing Cloudflare Registrar | I would never use Cloudflare. They hide spammers and refuse to do anything about them. The same mass spammer will register site after site for months, sending snowshoe spam, and cloudflare refuses to do anything. At one point this was taking up about 80% of our incoming spam, and most of it was getting through spam filters due to the snowshoeing. You could see the same registration info for hundreds of domains over months, all sending spam, but cloudflare doesn't give a shit.<p>The only solution I found was to put a 15 minute delay on all incoming email from a cloudflare domain, then do a second check of the blacklists. This solved the problem, as the sending ips (not cloudflare) tended to get blacklisted within 15 minutes.<p>In my mind if you're hiding people's websites behind your "cloud", you have a responsibility to kick off the spammers. |
Linus Torvalds: 'I'll never be cuddly but I can be more polite' | IMO the most interesting part - especially relative to the discussions I've seen right here - is near the end.<p>"But if people at least realise that I'm not part of the disgusting underbelly of the internet that thinks it's OK to show the kind of behaviour you will find if you really have been reading up on the 'discussions' about the code of conduct, then even that will be a really good thing."<p>Yes indeed, if you look at many of the anti-CoC comments (e.g. in the "killswitch" thread) you get to see a lot of that underbelly. There are people who will oppose any kind of general rule restraining behavior, because that would prevent them from exercising their own more personal and arguably more subtle kind of coercion against those they don't like for whatever reason. The other alternative is for an even bigger bully to keep them in line, but I shouldn't need to explain how "might makes right" is even more problematic. Linus is deliberately stepping away from that bigger-bully role to give the alternative a try, but in the above excerpt he makes it pretty clear that he thinks there's a problem to be addressed. The creeps should consider themselves on notice, whether there's a CoC or not. |
Hire people who aren’t proven | I think hiring has become more difficult now that programming has been discovered as a well paying mainstream career. When I started in the 90s most people I worked with had a passion for the craft but now I find we interview a lot of people who have a CS degree just for the career prospects but not out of interest for the craft.<p>I find it much easier to deal with someone who has no relevant experience but cares vs someone who had 10 years experience but doesn't care. Now someone who has 10 years AND cares is rare but pure gold. |
Hire people who aren’t proven | I think hiring has become more difficult now that programming has been discovered as a well paying mainstream career. When I started in the 90s most people I worked with had a passion for the craft but now I find we interview a lot of people who have a CS degree just for the career prospects but not out of interest for the craft.<p>I find it much easier to deal with someone who has no relevant experience but cares vs someone who had 10 years experience but doesn't care. Now someone who has 10 years AND cares is rare but pure gold. |
Hire people who aren’t proven | I think hiring has become more difficult now that programming has been discovered as a well paying mainstream career. When I started in the 90s most people I worked with had a passion for the craft but now I find we interview a lot of people who have a CS degree just for the career prospects but not out of interest for the craft.<p>I find it much easier to deal with someone who has no relevant experience but cares vs someone who had 10 years experience but doesn't care. Now someone who has 10 years AND cares is rare but pure gold. |
Hire people who aren’t proven | I think hiring has become more difficult now that programming has been discovered as a well paying mainstream career. When I started in the 90s most people I worked with had a passion for the craft but now I find we interview a lot of people who have a CS degree just for the career prospects but not out of interest for the craft.<p>I find it much easier to deal with someone who has no relevant experience but cares vs someone who had 10 years experience but doesn't care. Now someone who has 10 years AND cares is rare but pure gold. |
Coinbase Wants to Be Too Big to Fail | >Armstrong belongs to a generation of evangelists who view digital currencies, and the blockchain technology on which they’re based, as tools that will make investing, borrowing, and saving money faster, cheaper, and more egalitarian.<p>My main question about cryptocurrencies has always been the "faster, cheaper" thing. Last I heard it was pretty expensive to do a bitcoin transaction, and slow. The quote thrown around:<p>>The networks that Visa and Mastercard use process, in aggregate, “more than 5,000 transactions per second with capacity to process volumes multiple times that number. Bitcoin in contrast takes 10 minutes to clear and settle a single transaction vs. Ethereum that takes 15 seconds.”<p><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-bitcoin-wont-displace-visa-or-mastercard-soon-2017-12-15" rel="nofollow">https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-bitcoin-wont-displace-...</a><p>I wonder what someone as heavily invested as Armstrong would say to that? |
Coinbase Wants to Be Too Big to Fail | >Armstrong belongs to a generation of evangelists who view digital currencies, and the blockchain technology on which they’re based, as tools that will make investing, borrowing, and saving money faster, cheaper, and more egalitarian.<p>My main question about cryptocurrencies has always been the "faster, cheaper" thing. Last I heard it was pretty expensive to do a bitcoin transaction, and slow. The quote thrown around:<p>>The networks that Visa and Mastercard use process, in aggregate, “more than 5,000 transactions per second with capacity to process volumes multiple times that number. Bitcoin in contrast takes 10 minutes to clear and settle a single transaction vs. Ethereum that takes 15 seconds.”<p><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-bitcoin-wont-displace-visa-or-mastercard-soon-2017-12-15" rel="nofollow">https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-bitcoin-wont-displace-...</a><p>I wonder what someone as heavily invested as Armstrong would say to that? |
Coinbase Wants to Be Too Big to Fail | >Armstrong belongs to a generation of evangelists who view digital currencies, and the blockchain technology on which they’re based, as tools that will make investing, borrowing, and saving money faster, cheaper, and more egalitarian.<p>My main question about cryptocurrencies has always been the "faster, cheaper" thing. Last I heard it was pretty expensive to do a bitcoin transaction, and slow. The quote thrown around:<p>>The networks that Visa and Mastercard use process, in aggregate, “more than 5,000 transactions per second with capacity to process volumes multiple times that number. Bitcoin in contrast takes 10 minutes to clear and settle a single transaction vs. Ethereum that takes 15 seconds.”<p><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-bitcoin-wont-displace-visa-or-mastercard-soon-2017-12-15" rel="nofollow">https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-bitcoin-wont-displace-...</a><p>I wonder what someone as heavily invested as Armstrong would say to that? |
Coinbase Wants to Be Too Big to Fail | >Armstrong belongs to a generation of evangelists who view digital currencies, and the blockchain technology on which they’re based, as tools that will make investing, borrowing, and saving money faster, cheaper, and more egalitarian.<p>My main question about cryptocurrencies has always been the "faster, cheaper" thing. Last I heard it was pretty expensive to do a bitcoin transaction, and slow. The quote thrown around:<p>>The networks that Visa and Mastercard use process, in aggregate, “more than 5,000 transactions per second with capacity to process volumes multiple times that number. Bitcoin in contrast takes 10 minutes to clear and settle a single transaction vs. Ethereum that takes 15 seconds.”<p><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-bitcoin-wont-displace-visa-or-mastercard-soon-2017-12-15" rel="nofollow">https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-bitcoin-wont-displace-...</a><p>I wonder what someone as heavily invested as Armstrong would say to that? |
Understanding user support systems in open source | Core developers that created and grew the project should shift over time to almost exclusively a role of only offering advice on the core implementation and spending their time introducing newbies, patiently answering support questions, and creating tutorials.<p>Most of the dysfunction I see in open source projects that take an ambivalent attitude towards the bug fixes and urgent feature needs of long-term users seems based in pure ego. Core devs want to keep being the leading edge designers and implementers of the project and are extremely stingy about letting new or intermediate contributors to the project bring fresh perspective and excitement into big new feature implementation or refactoring.<p>You can make a lot of disingenuous arguments that this is to protect the style and design approach of the original core, but it’s not. It’s just ego.<p>Look, people are obviously free to say if they are dedicating their free time to some open source project, then they only want to work on the aspects of it they like or the aspects that might seem glamorous in a blog post or conference presentation or whatever.<p>Being “allowed” to take that attitude is pretty much inconsequential though. If you do that, your project is entering one of two modes: death mode where new developers realize you will only permit them to work on gruntwork and you lose any capacity to actually fix things because nobody joins your project, or North Korea mode like the linux kernel where some crazed monarch or oligarchs use intimidation and public shaming as primary code review techniques.<p>If you are a really smart core dev of open source, stop working on the big new features. I know it hurts your ego to let your baby into the hands of newbies. Instead, do more code review, tutorials, answers on SO, and go way out of your way to make new contributors feel like you are impressed with their skill, that you want to pair with them through meaningful PRs right away, no “good first task” grunt work ego crap. |
Stop writing lambda expressions in Python | Python really needs much better anonymous functions - Lambda expressions just don't cut it.<p>To be clear, what Python does need is multiline, inline anonymous functions. In JavaScript/ES2015, the fat arrow function syntax is just remarkably powerful in its ability to simplify code. I would go so far as to say that the ES2015 fat arrow syntax completely changed the way my programs are written, increasing power and reducing complexity. ES2015 fat arrows I think are possible the best programming language feature I know.<p>async programming in JavaScript benefits massively from the beautifully terse and powerful anonymous functions in ES2015. Python now has powerful async programming, but no equivalent to the ES2015 terse inline function anonymous function syntax.<p>I raised this issue elsewhere once and someone said "there will never be multiline, inline anonymous functions in Python because it would require brackets". If so then it is a great pity that Python is simply not capable of including a language feature that is IMO absolutely critical.<p>Also, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, using the word "lambda" to describe anonymous functions is a really really bad decision. Lambda sounds very deep, very computer sciencey and very complex. Probably they should just be called anonymous functions in keeping with the rest of the industry, which also is not a great name but is much better than "Lambda" functions.<p>Beginners might think along these lines: "Lambda .... lambda calculus? I don't know calculus. I'm outta here."<p>Names matter. |
Stop writing lambda expressions in Python | Python really needs much better anonymous functions - Lambda expressions just don't cut it.<p>To be clear, what Python does need is multiline, inline anonymous functions. In JavaScript/ES2015, the fat arrow function syntax is just remarkably powerful in its ability to simplify code. I would go so far as to say that the ES2015 fat arrow syntax completely changed the way my programs are written, increasing power and reducing complexity. ES2015 fat arrows I think are possible the best programming language feature I know.<p>async programming in JavaScript benefits massively from the beautifully terse and powerful anonymous functions in ES2015. Python now has powerful async programming, but no equivalent to the ES2015 terse inline function anonymous function syntax.<p>I raised this issue elsewhere once and someone said "there will never be multiline, inline anonymous functions in Python because it would require brackets". If so then it is a great pity that Python is simply not capable of including a language feature that is IMO absolutely critical.<p>Also, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, using the word "lambda" to describe anonymous functions is a really really bad decision. Lambda sounds very deep, very computer sciencey and very complex. Probably they should just be called anonymous functions in keeping with the rest of the industry, which also is not a great name but is much better than "Lambda" functions.<p>Beginners might think along these lines: "Lambda .... lambda calculus? I don't know calculus. I'm outta here."<p>Names matter. |
Stop writing lambda expressions in Python | Python really needs much better anonymous functions - Lambda expressions just don't cut it.<p>To be clear, what Python does need is multiline, inline anonymous functions. In JavaScript/ES2015, the fat arrow function syntax is just remarkably powerful in its ability to simplify code. I would go so far as to say that the ES2015 fat arrow syntax completely changed the way my programs are written, increasing power and reducing complexity. ES2015 fat arrows I think are possible the best programming language feature I know.<p>async programming in JavaScript benefits massively from the beautifully terse and powerful anonymous functions in ES2015. Python now has powerful async programming, but no equivalent to the ES2015 terse inline function anonymous function syntax.<p>I raised this issue elsewhere once and someone said "there will never be multiline, inline anonymous functions in Python because it would require brackets". If so then it is a great pity that Python is simply not capable of including a language feature that is IMO absolutely critical.<p>Also, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, using the word "lambda" to describe anonymous functions is a really really bad decision. Lambda sounds very deep, very computer sciencey and very complex. Probably they should just be called anonymous functions in keeping with the rest of the industry, which also is not a great name but is much better than "Lambda" functions.<p>Beginners might think along these lines: "Lambda .... lambda calculus? I don't know calculus. I'm outta here."<p>Names matter. |
Stop writing lambda expressions in Python | all i could think of is "stop writing python". it seems to me that a lot of these problems are fundamental problems with python. i continue to not understand why anybody likes python the language.<p>the fact that creating a function with lambda versus the normal way is different is bonkers. for example, in f# (and other sane languages), the following are identical:<p><pre><code> let test1 = fun x -> x * x
let test2 x = x * x
</code></pre>
both return:<p><pre><code> x:int -> int
</code></pre>
are they really different in python or is it just a weird naming problem? the article isn't explicit on the actual differences other than what is reported by the REPL.<p>also, you can't pass operators as functions in python? in f#, you simply wrap them in parentheses.<p><pre><code> let test3 f x y = f x y
> test3 (*) 2 3 ;;
val it : int = 6
</code></pre>
i read an interview with hal abelson where he called python's lambda broken. seems so.<p>edit: also, this guy's thoughts on map and filter, in my opinion, show the python community's backwoods thinking regarding functional programming. yes, it seems generator expressions are nice (they are called sequence expressions in f#), but map and filter, even for his simple examples are much more clear. they communicate better what is actually happening. the fact that he never uses map and filter at all and then goes on to basically say map and filter aren't even needed in python says a lot. |
Stop writing lambda expressions in Python | all i could think of is "stop writing python". it seems to me that a lot of these problems are fundamental problems with python. i continue to not understand why anybody likes python the language.<p>the fact that creating a function with lambda versus the normal way is different is bonkers. for example, in f# (and other sane languages), the following are identical:<p><pre><code> let test1 = fun x -> x * x
let test2 x = x * x
</code></pre>
both return:<p><pre><code> x:int -> int
</code></pre>
are they really different in python or is it just a weird naming problem? the article isn't explicit on the actual differences other than what is reported by the REPL.<p>also, you can't pass operators as functions in python? in f#, you simply wrap them in parentheses.<p><pre><code> let test3 f x y = f x y
> test3 (*) 2 3 ;;
val it : int = 6
</code></pre>
i read an interview with hal abelson where he called python's lambda broken. seems so.<p>edit: also, this guy's thoughts on map and filter, in my opinion, show the python community's backwoods thinking regarding functional programming. yes, it seems generator expressions are nice (they are called sequence expressions in f#), but map and filter, even for his simple examples are much more clear. they communicate better what is actually happening. the fact that he never uses map and filter at all and then goes on to basically say map and filter aren't even needed in python says a lot. |
SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private Deal | This comment I made a few weeks ago is coming alot closer to the truth than I would have expected.<p>I hope for Space X and Tesla's sake that the reports of a directory and Executive ban don't come true.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250#18016292" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250#18016292</a><p>SpaceX is doing well, Tesla has pulled itself back from the brink and may actually become a profitable car company.<p>All Elon had to do was keep his head down and not pick twitter fights....<p><i></i>EDIT<i></i> one thing I should point out is that some people have questioned if the tweet had any adverse affect at all on the shorts, given that the stock is down now.<p>The answer is hell yes and the fact that the stock ash gone down since the tweet only strengthens the shorts case.<p>The reason is that when you are short the biggest issue you have is that the stock could go against you, in this case that means it could go up. So to guard against that you generally have a price level in which you would exit the trade.<p>So when Elon tweeted, a whole whack of shorts got stopped out, intentional or by their risk limits. Infact there is a lawsuit already filed by Citron due to this. That momentary bump, while short lived was more than enough to close out some short positions.<p>If he's found to be in the wrong here by the SEC, then it seems like it wouldn't be too hard to find him guilty in the coming lawsuits. |
SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private Deal | This comment I made a few weeks ago is coming alot closer to the truth than I would have expected.<p>I hope for Space X and Tesla's sake that the reports of a directory and Executive ban don't come true.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250#18016292" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250#18016292</a><p>SpaceX is doing well, Tesla has pulled itself back from the brink and may actually become a profitable car company.<p>All Elon had to do was keep his head down and not pick twitter fights....<p><i></i>EDIT<i></i> one thing I should point out is that some people have questioned if the tweet had any adverse affect at all on the shorts, given that the stock is down now.<p>The answer is hell yes and the fact that the stock ash gone down since the tweet only strengthens the shorts case.<p>The reason is that when you are short the biggest issue you have is that the stock could go against you, in this case that means it could go up. So to guard against that you generally have a price level in which you would exit the trade.<p>So when Elon tweeted, a whole whack of shorts got stopped out, intentional or by their risk limits. Infact there is a lawsuit already filed by Citron due to this. That momentary bump, while short lived was more than enough to close out some short positions.<p>If he's found to be in the wrong here by the SEC, then it seems like it wouldn't be too hard to find him guilty in the coming lawsuits. |
SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private Deal | This comment I made a few weeks ago is coming alot closer to the truth than I would have expected.<p>I hope for Space X and Tesla's sake that the reports of a directory and Executive ban don't come true.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250#18016292" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250#18016292</a><p>SpaceX is doing well, Tesla has pulled itself back from the brink and may actually become a profitable car company.<p>All Elon had to do was keep his head down and not pick twitter fights....<p><i></i>EDIT<i></i> one thing I should point out is that some people have questioned if the tweet had any adverse affect at all on the shorts, given that the stock is down now.<p>The answer is hell yes and the fact that the stock ash gone down since the tweet only strengthens the shorts case.<p>The reason is that when you are short the biggest issue you have is that the stock could go against you, in this case that means it could go up. So to guard against that you generally have a price level in which you would exit the trade.<p>So when Elon tweeted, a whole whack of shorts got stopped out, intentional or by their risk limits. Infact there is a lawsuit already filed by Citron due to this. That momentary bump, while short lived was more than enough to close out some short positions.<p>If he's found to be in the wrong here by the SEC, then it seems like it wouldn't be too hard to find him guilty in the coming lawsuits. |
SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private Deal | This comment I made a few weeks ago is coming alot closer to the truth than I would have expected.<p>I hope for Space X and Tesla's sake that the reports of a directory and Executive ban don't come true.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250#18016292" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250#18016292</a><p>SpaceX is doing well, Tesla has pulled itself back from the brink and may actually become a profitable car company.<p>All Elon had to do was keep his head down and not pick twitter fights....<p><i></i>EDIT<i></i> one thing I should point out is that some people have questioned if the tweet had any adverse affect at all on the shorts, given that the stock is down now.<p>The answer is hell yes and the fact that the stock ash gone down since the tweet only strengthens the shorts case.<p>The reason is that when you are short the biggest issue you have is that the stock could go against you, in this case that means it could go up. So to guard against that you generally have a price level in which you would exit the trade.<p>So when Elon tweeted, a whole whack of shorts got stopped out, intentional or by their risk limits. Infact there is a lawsuit already filed by Citron due to this. That momentary bump, while short lived was more than enough to close out some short positions.<p>If he's found to be in the wrong here by the SEC, then it seems like it wouldn't be too hard to find him guilty in the coming lawsuits. |
SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private Deal | This comment I made a few weeks ago is coming alot closer to the truth than I would have expected.<p>I hope for Space X and Tesla's sake that the reports of a directory and Executive ban don't come true.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250#18016292" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250#18016292</a><p>SpaceX is doing well, Tesla has pulled itself back from the brink and may actually become a profitable car company.<p>All Elon had to do was keep his head down and not pick twitter fights....<p><i></i>EDIT<i></i> one thing I should point out is that some people have questioned if the tweet had any adverse affect at all on the shorts, given that the stock is down now.<p>The answer is hell yes and the fact that the stock ash gone down since the tweet only strengthens the shorts case.<p>The reason is that when you are short the biggest issue you have is that the stock could go against you, in this case that means it could go up. So to guard against that you generally have a price level in which you would exit the trade.<p>So when Elon tweeted, a whole whack of shorts got stopped out, intentional or by their risk limits. Infact there is a lawsuit already filed by Citron due to this. That momentary bump, while short lived was more than enough to close out some short positions.<p>If he's found to be in the wrong here by the SEC, then it seems like it wouldn't be too hard to find him guilty in the coming lawsuits. |
SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private Deal | This comment I made a few weeks ago is coming alot closer to the truth than I would have expected.<p>I hope for Space X and Tesla's sake that the reports of a directory and Executive ban don't come true.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250#18016292" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250#18016292</a><p>SpaceX is doing well, Tesla has pulled itself back from the brink and may actually become a profitable car company.<p>All Elon had to do was keep his head down and not pick twitter fights....<p><i></i>EDIT<i></i> one thing I should point out is that some people have questioned if the tweet had any adverse affect at all on the shorts, given that the stock is down now.<p>The answer is hell yes and the fact that the stock ash gone down since the tweet only strengthens the shorts case.<p>The reason is that when you are short the biggest issue you have is that the stock could go against you, in this case that means it could go up. So to guard against that you generally have a price level in which you would exit the trade.<p>So when Elon tweeted, a whole whack of shorts got stopped out, intentional or by their risk limits. Infact there is a lawsuit already filed by Citron due to this. That momentary bump, while short lived was more than enough to close out some short positions.<p>If he's found to be in the wrong here by the SEC, then it seems like it wouldn't be too hard to find him guilty in the coming lawsuits. |
SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private Deal | This comment I made a few weeks ago is coming alot closer to the truth than I would have expected.<p>I hope for Space X and Tesla's sake that the reports of a directory and Executive ban don't come true.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250#18016292" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250#18016292</a><p>SpaceX is doing well, Tesla has pulled itself back from the brink and may actually become a profitable car company.<p>All Elon had to do was keep his head down and not pick twitter fights....<p><i></i>EDIT<i></i> one thing I should point out is that some people have questioned if the tweet had any adverse affect at all on the shorts, given that the stock is down now.<p>The answer is hell yes and the fact that the stock ash gone down since the tweet only strengthens the shorts case.<p>The reason is that when you are short the biggest issue you have is that the stock could go against you, in this case that means it could go up. So to guard against that you generally have a price level in which you would exit the trade.<p>So when Elon tweeted, a whole whack of shorts got stopped out, intentional or by their risk limits. Infact there is a lawsuit already filed by Citron due to this. That momentary bump, while short lived was more than enough to close out some short positions.<p>If he's found to be in the wrong here by the SEC, then it seems like it wouldn't be too hard to find him guilty in the coming lawsuits. |
SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private Deal | This comment I made a few weeks ago is coming alot closer to the truth than I would have expected.<p>I hope for Space X and Tesla's sake that the reports of a directory and Executive ban don't come true.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250#18016292" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250#18016292</a><p>SpaceX is doing well, Tesla has pulled itself back from the brink and may actually become a profitable car company.<p>All Elon had to do was keep his head down and not pick twitter fights....<p><i></i>EDIT<i></i> one thing I should point out is that some people have questioned if the tweet had any adverse affect at all on the shorts, given that the stock is down now.<p>The answer is hell yes and the fact that the stock ash gone down since the tweet only strengthens the shorts case.<p>The reason is that when you are short the biggest issue you have is that the stock could go against you, in this case that means it could go up. So to guard against that you generally have a price level in which you would exit the trade.<p>So when Elon tweeted, a whole whack of shorts got stopped out, intentional or by their risk limits. Infact there is a lawsuit already filed by Citron due to this. That momentary bump, while short lived was more than enough to close out some short positions.<p>If he's found to be in the wrong here by the SEC, then it seems like it wouldn't be too hard to find him guilty in the coming lawsuits. |
SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private Deal | This comment I made a few weeks ago is coming alot closer to the truth than I would have expected.<p>I hope for Space X and Tesla's sake that the reports of a directory and Executive ban don't come true.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250#18016292" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250#18016292</a><p>SpaceX is doing well, Tesla has pulled itself back from the brink and may actually become a profitable car company.<p>All Elon had to do was keep his head down and not pick twitter fights....<p><i></i>EDIT<i></i> one thing I should point out is that some people have questioned if the tweet had any adverse affect at all on the shorts, given that the stock is down now.<p>The answer is hell yes and the fact that the stock ash gone down since the tweet only strengthens the shorts case.<p>The reason is that when you are short the biggest issue you have is that the stock could go against you, in this case that means it could go up. So to guard against that you generally have a price level in which you would exit the trade.<p>So when Elon tweeted, a whole whack of shorts got stopped out, intentional or by their risk limits. Infact there is a lawsuit already filed by Citron due to this. That momentary bump, while short lived was more than enough to close out some short positions.<p>If he's found to be in the wrong here by the SEC, then it seems like it wouldn't be too hard to find him guilty in the coming lawsuits. |
SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private Deal | This comment I made a few weeks ago is coming alot closer to the truth than I would have expected.<p>I hope for Space X and Tesla's sake that the reports of a directory and Executive ban don't come true.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250#18016292" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250#18016292</a><p>SpaceX is doing well, Tesla has pulled itself back from the brink and may actually become a profitable car company.<p>All Elon had to do was keep his head down and not pick twitter fights....<p><i></i>EDIT<i></i> one thing I should point out is that some people have questioned if the tweet had any adverse affect at all on the shorts, given that the stock is down now.<p>The answer is hell yes and the fact that the stock ash gone down since the tweet only strengthens the shorts case.<p>The reason is that when you are short the biggest issue you have is that the stock could go against you, in this case that means it could go up. So to guard against that you generally have a price level in which you would exit the trade.<p>So when Elon tweeted, a whole whack of shorts got stopped out, intentional or by their risk limits. Infact there is a lawsuit already filed by Citron due to this. That momentary bump, while short lived was more than enough to close out some short positions.<p>If he's found to be in the wrong here by the SEC, then it seems like it wouldn't be too hard to find him guilty in the coming lawsuits. |
SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private Deal | This comment I made a few weeks ago is coming alot closer to the truth than I would have expected.<p>I hope for Space X and Tesla's sake that the reports of a directory and Executive ban don't come true.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250#18016292" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250#18016292</a><p>SpaceX is doing well, Tesla has pulled itself back from the brink and may actually become a profitable car company.<p>All Elon had to do was keep his head down and not pick twitter fights....<p><i></i>EDIT<i></i> one thing I should point out is that some people have questioned if the tweet had any adverse affect at all on the shorts, given that the stock is down now.<p>The answer is hell yes and the fact that the stock ash gone down since the tweet only strengthens the shorts case.<p>The reason is that when you are short the biggest issue you have is that the stock could go against you, in this case that means it could go up. So to guard against that you generally have a price level in which you would exit the trade.<p>So when Elon tweeted, a whole whack of shorts got stopped out, intentional or by their risk limits. Infact there is a lawsuit already filed by Citron due to this. That momentary bump, while short lived was more than enough to close out some short positions.<p>If he's found to be in the wrong here by the SEC, then it seems like it wouldn't be too hard to find him guilty in the coming lawsuits. |
SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private Deal | This comment I made a few weeks ago is coming alot closer to the truth than I would have expected.<p>I hope for Space X and Tesla's sake that the reports of a directory and Executive ban don't come true.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250#18016292" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250#18016292</a><p>SpaceX is doing well, Tesla has pulled itself back from the brink and may actually become a profitable car company.<p>All Elon had to do was keep his head down and not pick twitter fights....<p><i></i>EDIT<i></i> one thing I should point out is that some people have questioned if the tweet had any adverse affect at all on the shorts, given that the stock is down now.<p>The answer is hell yes and the fact that the stock ash gone down since the tweet only strengthens the shorts case.<p>The reason is that when you are short the biggest issue you have is that the stock could go against you, in this case that means it could go up. So to guard against that you generally have a price level in which you would exit the trade.<p>So when Elon tweeted, a whole whack of shorts got stopped out, intentional or by their risk limits. Infact there is a lawsuit already filed by Citron due to this. That momentary bump, while short lived was more than enough to close out some short positions.<p>If he's found to be in the wrong here by the SEC, then it seems like it wouldn't be too hard to find him guilty in the coming lawsuits. |
SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private Deal | This comment I made a few weeks ago is coming alot closer to the truth than I would have expected.<p>I hope for Space X and Tesla's sake that the reports of a directory and Executive ban don't come true.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250#18016292" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250#18016292</a><p>SpaceX is doing well, Tesla has pulled itself back from the brink and may actually become a profitable car company.<p>All Elon had to do was keep his head down and not pick twitter fights....<p><i></i>EDIT<i></i> one thing I should point out is that some people have questioned if the tweet had any adverse affect at all on the shorts, given that the stock is down now.<p>The answer is hell yes and the fact that the stock ash gone down since the tweet only strengthens the shorts case.<p>The reason is that when you are short the biggest issue you have is that the stock could go against you, in this case that means it could go up. So to guard against that you generally have a price level in which you would exit the trade.<p>So when Elon tweeted, a whole whack of shorts got stopped out, intentional or by their risk limits. Infact there is a lawsuit already filed by Citron due to this. That momentary bump, while short lived was more than enough to close out some short positions.<p>If he's found to be in the wrong here by the SEC, then it seems like it wouldn't be too hard to find him guilty in the coming lawsuits. |
SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private Deal | This comment I made a few weeks ago is coming alot closer to the truth than I would have expected.<p>I hope for Space X and Tesla's sake that the reports of a directory and Executive ban don't come true.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250#18016292" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250#18016292</a><p>SpaceX is doing well, Tesla has pulled itself back from the brink and may actually become a profitable car company.<p>All Elon had to do was keep his head down and not pick twitter fights....<p><i></i>EDIT<i></i> one thing I should point out is that some people have questioned if the tweet had any adverse affect at all on the shorts, given that the stock is down now.<p>The answer is hell yes and the fact that the stock ash gone down since the tweet only strengthens the shorts case.<p>The reason is that when you are short the biggest issue you have is that the stock could go against you, in this case that means it could go up. So to guard against that you generally have a price level in which you would exit the trade.<p>So when Elon tweeted, a whole whack of shorts got stopped out, intentional or by their risk limits. Infact there is a lawsuit already filed by Citron due to this. That momentary bump, while short lived was more than enough to close out some short positions.<p>If he's found to be in the wrong here by the SEC, then it seems like it wouldn't be too hard to find him guilty in the coming lawsuits. |
SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private Deal | This comment I made a few weeks ago is coming alot closer to the truth than I would have expected.<p>I hope for Space X and Tesla's sake that the reports of a directory and Executive ban don't come true.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250#18016292" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250#18016292</a><p>SpaceX is doing well, Tesla has pulled itself back from the brink and may actually become a profitable car company.<p>All Elon had to do was keep his head down and not pick twitter fights....<p><i></i>EDIT<i></i> one thing I should point out is that some people have questioned if the tweet had any adverse affect at all on the shorts, given that the stock is down now.<p>The answer is hell yes and the fact that the stock ash gone down since the tweet only strengthens the shorts case.<p>The reason is that when you are short the biggest issue you have is that the stock could go against you, in this case that means it could go up. So to guard against that you generally have a price level in which you would exit the trade.<p>So when Elon tweeted, a whole whack of shorts got stopped out, intentional or by their risk limits. Infact there is a lawsuit already filed by Citron due to this. That momentary bump, while short lived was more than enough to close out some short positions.<p>If he's found to be in the wrong here by the SEC, then it seems like it wouldn't be too hard to find him guilty in the coming lawsuits. |
SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private Deal | This comment I made a few weeks ago is coming alot closer to the truth than I would have expected.<p>I hope for Space X and Tesla's sake that the reports of a directory and Executive ban don't come true.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250#18016292" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016250#18016292</a><p>SpaceX is doing well, Tesla has pulled itself back from the brink and may actually become a profitable car company.<p>All Elon had to do was keep his head down and not pick twitter fights....<p><i></i>EDIT<i></i> one thing I should point out is that some people have questioned if the tweet had any adverse affect at all on the shorts, given that the stock is down now.<p>The answer is hell yes and the fact that the stock ash gone down since the tweet only strengthens the shorts case.<p>The reason is that when you are short the biggest issue you have is that the stock could go against you, in this case that means it could go up. So to guard against that you generally have a price level in which you would exit the trade.<p>So when Elon tweeted, a whole whack of shorts got stopped out, intentional or by their risk limits. Infact there is a lawsuit already filed by Citron due to this. That momentary bump, while short lived was more than enough to close out some short positions.<p>If he's found to be in the wrong here by the SEC, then it seems like it wouldn't be too hard to find him guilty in the coming lawsuits. |
SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private Deal | A short while ago (per my comment history), I asked whether Elon Musk should remain as CEO of Tesla.<p>I think, for my part, the answer is clearly no. He might be brilliant, he has undeniably had a hand in creating something awesome with Tesla and SpaceX's technology, but he's now a danger to the very thing he helped build. This is just <i>one</i> of the lawsuits filed against him or Tesla in recent weeks that have him as the primary cause. I want Tesla's mission to be achieved, I want them to succeed, and to me, Elon Musk is one of the biggest stumbling blocks in their way now.<p>Where does the buck stop? In my opinion, with Tesla's board, and Elon's ouster as CEO.<p>Edit: Worth noting that Elon's removal as CEO is one of the remedies the SEC seeks as well, and could thus be part of any settlement. (I'm not knowledgeable enough to handicap how likely that is.)<p>Another edit: Tesla has no D&O insurance, and therefore might be liable for whatever misconduct Elon is found to have done. That's a pretty big deal, and also a bad move on Tesla's part in not insuring against their (known quantity loose cannon) CEO. See <a href="https://www.dandodiary.com/2018/08/articles/securities-litigation/tesla-investors-file-securities-suits-elon-musks-take-private-tweets/" rel="nofollow">https://www.dandodiary.com/2018/08/articles/securities-litig...</a> |
A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks (1970) [pdf] | relational databases are secretly supposed to be logic programming languages like prolog, each “table”, (relation) representing a predicate function. each row (tuple) representing a fact about the world that satisfies the predicate. with proper structure and labelling you can ask very sophisticated questions. somewhere along the line people forgot this and typically just dump spreadsheets in, to satisfy the fields in a form or an app screen, then think they need a graph database to represent relationships. it is unfortunate that SQL based systems became accidentally synonymous with the “relational model” as it actually mostly gets in the way of implementing the relational model. oh well. |
Seattle judges throw out 15 years of marijuana convictions | > "For too many who call Seattle home, a misdemeanour marijuana conviction or charge has created barriers to opportunity - good jobs, housing, loans and education," she said.<p>The problem isn't the marijuana convictions, the problem is a society that believes people with criminal records can and should have their entire lives ruined for it. It's a society that doesn't believe in rehabilitation, just "good people" and "bad people". |
Did I just waste 3 years? | After being active in the indie game dev scene for many years I see this kind of story again and again. I see many people ask why didn't it work or others say he should have done better marketing. I think they all don't understand the real problem.<p>You have to look at really successful indie games, such as Terraria, Factorio, Mini Metro, Stardew Valley, Darkest Dungeon, Papers Please.. and there are many more. If you look at these games do you really think there is an alternative reality where they would not sell many copies? I don't.<p>And if you have a good look at them you should realize that they all are extremely polished and coherent. None of them has realistic AAA graphics but they still look good. None of them is just a "copy" of an existing game. They either bring something totally new or bring something known but with a greater overall quality.<p>Then you have successful niche games such as Cogmind or the Zachtronics games. They still have the mentioned properties but also target only a subset of players where there are not many games. I think that makes them guaranteed sales.<p>Now what's wrong with all the stories about failed games? They all are generic. They don't offer something special. And this is what doesn't work in a saturated games market. And I'm not saying the authors didn't work enough. They just don't see what's wrong with their games and continue on their path to demise.<p>I guess what I'm saying is: to make a successful game you don't need to be the greatest coder or greatest artist. But you need to understand what makes a game great and enjoyable.<p>Maybe the days (years) will come where I finally will make a (bigger) game of my own and maybe I will totally fail like many have. Maybe I will revoke everything I said here but today this is my opinion. :) |
A Texas-Sized Pavement Problem | What is the counterpoint to this argument? I feel like I'm only getting half an explanation here.<p>It's apparent from looking up Charles Marohn that he's contributing to a lot of pieces on the web to push this idea, but I don't buy that infrastructure expansion is a straight up ponzi scheme. |
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