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JCzynskion The Future of APIs: APIs aren’t the endgame they won't stay forever

HTML pages are a sufficiently limited domain that integrating them is easy. More full-featured domains are progressively harder to integrate, scaling superlinearly with the possibilities added. (Probably exponentially.)

JCzynskion The Future of APIs: APIs aren’t the endgame they won't stay forever

I am extremely skeptical that autonomous APIs are possible without 90% of full natural language processing. Whatever we do to make APIs have their purposes be self-documenting, there will still be inferential gaps between what we say explicitly and what we mean.

We could adopt a highly rigid language describing what it is that an API provides and what purposes that data is useful for, but that's restrictive and very brittle, especially against Silicon Valley's favorite activity of disrupting established ways of doing things. Like going from proofs in ZFC to proofs in first-order logic, we can make it more stable but only at the cost of losing lots of power and expressiveness.

JCzynskion Waymo: Google's self-driving car company

Self-driving taxis are in principle way cheaper to operate than human-driven taxis. They never have to stop, they can operate at all hours, there's no cost to pay drivers, and if they do stop they can do it somewhere very cheap.

And when self-driving cars are a viable option, insurance will strongly encourage it. And by strongly encourage it I probably mean "absurdly high fees for driving your own car", because people are much worse drivers. Which should drive up the price of car ownership significantly. The increased cost to car storage in populated areas will probably lag a long while behind, so the second cliff will be much slower to hit.

JCzynskion Meaningness

At one point the way to do that was to post it to reddit. A bunch of things which are not what HN wants to cultivate rose to the top, and HN's core material sank into obscurity.

JCzynskion Meaningness

He is postmodern, but hipster postmodern who's noticed that postmodernism is unfashionable and wants to attract the people who liked the concept but are too hip to stick with it.

And if that makes him cry, I'm OK with that. Consider it retribution for all the junk he's shoveled out.

JCzynskion Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2016)

Location: East San Francisco Bay Area

Remote: OK, but I have Bay Area cost of living Willing to relocate: No/Not outside the Bay Area

Technologies: Ruby, Python, JS (Rails, Backbone, jQuery)

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobkopczynski, github.com/jkopczyn

Email: ja.kopczynski@gmail.com

Currently looking for junior development positions or ideally a long-term (~6-month) internship; I'm applying to grad school. Strong mentoring essential.

JCzynskion Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2016)

Location: East San Francisco Bay Area Remote: OK, but I have Bay Area cost of living Willing to relocate: No/Not outside the Bay Area Technologies: Ruby, Python, JS (Rails, Backbone, jQuery) Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobkopczynski, github.com/jkopczyn Email: ja.kopczynski@gmail.com

Currently looking for junior development positions or ideally a long-term (~6-month) internship; I'm applying to grad school. Strong mentoring essential.

JCzynskion Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2016)

  Location: Richmond, CA
  Remote: Yes, but at Bay Area prices it's impractical.
  Willing to relocate: No. (Except South Bay.)
  Technologies: Ruby, Python, Javascript, Rails, Backbone.JS
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobkopczynski or email me for a one-page PDF.
  Email: ja.kopczynski@gmail.com

JCzynskion Show HN: Hacker Hall - Virtual Coworking

When actually interacting directly is not the point, it's pretty effective.

JCzynskion Show HN: Hacker Hall - Virtual Coworking

Ah, but what if instead strangers are looking at YOU?

JCzynskion Movable Housing for Scalable Cities: A Reply to YC

[Citation Needed]

And since someone's said this every couple years for decades, it better be a pretty solid one.