Hacker News on 31 August 2017

• Criticizing Google got me fired
• Announcing Rust 1.20
• ESPN Football Analyst Walks Away, Disturbed by Brain Trauma on Field
• Interview with Ryan Dahl, Creator of Node.js
• What's Functional Programming All About?
• The FCC.gov Website Lets You Upload Malware Using Its Own Public API Key
• Astronomers have found the stars responsible for an explosion recorded in 1437
• Transformer: A Novel Neural Network Architecture for Language Understanding
• Tesla Model S battery degradation data
• Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber (2000)