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Former teacher and current developer here: this was exactly my reasoning.

I've always been talented with computers and had actually written some applications for my classroom, knowing full and well that I could be making twice as much with that skillset. I had always felt like the public school system had failed me, though, so I wanted to be a part of it to try to make it better.

Turns out, there isn't a whole lot a teacher can do in the face of an overwhelming emphasis on testing and meeting state standards rather than just being a charismatic and passionate person who gets kids excited about science, math, english, and history.
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It even includes a function for padding strings. I think you would be doing better for yourself using lodash over left-pad, and the cost of including a bigger library on server-side JS is negligible.
no this is the fundamental engineering issue... there is no magically mythical perfect package manager, and even if one exists there is a real intrinsic cost to adding a dependency. It is not a huge cost... it is minor... but the benefit of using a one line package is also minor... so when you are making a minor trade off over and over again as with npm where its not unsually to end up depending on 1000s of packages... then this is not a trade off that should be made without thinking...

just saying be an engineer. weigh the costs
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It looks like all the analysis is just on base salary. It would be much more interesting if it included bonus and stock.
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I'm sure the PM for this project is having a wonderful day...
I don't know why this got downvoted. This is exactly spot on.
As someone who has spent 10 years writing online with little to nothing to show for it, this does not work. You need connections, good luck, and or genetically endowed talents to succeed. More hours will not cut it. Also, becoming good enough to be an expert requires being better than 99.9% of people, which by virtue of the Bell Curve is unobtainable for most people. The chess example may be measuring something else (some other normally distributed variable) than IQ, with IQ being an important but only secondary factor.
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I suspect API Gateway + Lambda.
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Reading the NPM blog today - that's not really a problem in NPM.

Reclaiming a module name requires a breaking version for any new code, so it shouldn't be an issue there.
Once I made a todo list web app with tons of excel like features and unlimited hierarchy and could do any kind of automation with it with built in python script subset. Could be even used as database for other apps. Ultimately features pile on. It gets Harder to maintain, nobody really bought the concept. ( imagine seeing excel for the first time. ) had to give up ultimately. Guess I should clean up and open source it for the interested.
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Going points in both replies. The equivalent in Asia has been a raving success, there is an implied conclusion that it didn't face these same issues. Still, I don't enjoy being part of that sample to the degree of even trolling about these subjects.
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Saying yes to stupid questions doesn't make the news. So maybe you didn't see all of the tweets. Liberal usage of the words: Hitler, Jews, N-word, Mexicans, whores, etc. Very dumb AI.

http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-deletes-racist-geno...
Wealthy white folks that is. Whites are more than half the population. Not surprising of wealthy pop many would be white. Plenty of poor ones.

And this is SF the gentrfiers are white and Asian
This is a person Rebecca Solnit chose to single out, carefully juxtaposing reports of his (incredibly obnoxious) behavior against Nieto's shooting, to which, even by Solnit's account (read carefully), he was not a party.

I don't want to get drinks with this character in Solnit's story, either. But I'm not sure we should applaud the tactic of summoning up and focusing outrage on people like this.
I meant using their firearm as their first response before even knowing what the situation is. Tamir Rice was shot by police before the car even finished coming to a stop at the scene.
>Hitler did nothing wrong

That's a 4chan meme alright: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hitler-did-nothing-wrong
There's another vote in November.
Source?

This source [1] [2], a police detective with 26 years of experience, contradicts it directly:

"Officers are told to shoot until the threat is neutralized, down, and no longer a threat to themselves or the public. They are not trained to empty the magazine into a target."

[1] http://www.hlntv.com/video/2014/08/19/police-protocol-your-q...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Brooks_%28journalist%29
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The most common exemptions from rent control are for rental units that are:

- Federally or District-subsidized

- Built after 1975

- Owned by a natural person (i.e., not a corporation) who owns no more than four rental units in the District

- Vacant when the Act took effect

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To be clear, DC has an extremely tenant friendly set of laws. But the rent control is basically just a legacy of an earlier era.
Piece of paper.
It's easy to say things like this. It's a lot harder to actually suck it up and live with what happened. Try to make progress, remember that's what all of the offenders in this story are trying to do. Whether or not it is perceived like that by the community.
Obviously then the US police officers are trained badly.

For 2012 the stats for the german police are: 36 bullets fired at humans, 20 injured, 8 dead. 54 bullets fired as warning shots. So it's possible to incapacitate. Stats for other european countries are similar.

Firing 40 bullets at a single human, some of them after the suspect has been hit multiple times and is on the ground (and still missing the majority of shots) seems excessive.
When reading anything on The Guardian it's important to ask what they aren't telling you, because it's almost certain that they are omitting many very salient details out in order to fit the story into their own narrative. If you knew that Nieto had other problems, you likely wouldn't come away from the Guardian article believing that he was executed for being Hispanic.
Is there a word for people refusing to move? Because then every possible housing decision by a white person could be framed as a terrible thing.
Is going private even an option?
Hey rylest14- glad you liked it :)
This paper from 2014 is a comparison of 5 different open source speech recognizers: http://suendermann.com/su/pdf/oasis2014.pdf

The Word Error Rates (lower is better) for each recognizer on two different corpora, VM1 and WSJ1:

RECOGNIZER VM1 WSJ1
HDecode v3.4.1 22.9 19.8
Julius v4.3 27.2 23.1
pocketsphinx v0.8 23.9 21.4
Sphinx-4 26.9 22.7
Kaldi 12.7 6.5
Who said anything about 64 bits?
Boost has been incredibly successful as a breeding ground for new C++ libraries. Much of the functionality that was added to the standard library in C++11 came from Boost. This continues to this day.

It's a collection of libraries, no one is using all of it.
Do you have a report of your tests? I'm interested in using speech recognition, but there are many start-ups and big players that it would be quite time consuming to get a quality/price analysis.
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If I had to speculate, oil companies will probably follow the steps of companies in other industries that have faced similar threats.

Big Tobacco's reaction to the electronic cigarette market is an example of how they could respond. I'm not expert on this topic, but I have seen reports indicating a large percentage of e-cig sales in convince stores is still going to companies owned by Big Tobacco.

tl;dr - Oil companies have so much money they could easily invest in the competing technologies to stay relevant.
And you got downvoted into the fade. Welcome to the Internet, where getting offended by "Hilter was right I hate the jews" is your problem.
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Why OpenBSD?
You wouldn't even need one container per apartment/resident - just a reasonable number of various sized compartments. A keypad/pinpad or touch screen login would open the appropriate container for the customer. This is how Canada post handles parcel deliveries with their 'super mailboxes' (without the keypad part as they do have a small box for each unit where a key is dropped).

[edit] Authentication could be handled in a lot of different ways: QR code, RFID or other card/dongle/phone/internet based ways.
> Police training demands they shoot to kill.

Something that is incredibly fucking stupid, and there are plenty of countries who do very well without this misguided use of of lethal weapons.
Very dense residential areas still seem rare in London, compared to other cities of comparable size (it has lower population density than e.g. NYC, Paris, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo...)
Its because compensation for killing someone is on average less than for disabling someone.
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I think this is the key point. In a society with as lax gun control as we have here, police are placed in much greater danger than they are in Europe, and their training is adjusted accordingly, with lethal repercussions.

It also doesn't help that we leave our mentally-ill citizens to fend for themselves on the street, instead of giving them the care they need like most other first-world countries do.

Put the two together, and American police are faced with the very real possibility of facing an armed crazy person any day they report for work.
> It is amazingly easy to create speech recognition without going out to any API these days.

Not really. The hard part is not the algorithm, it is the millions of samples of training data that have gone behind Google's system. They pretty much have every accent and way of speaking covered in their system which is what allows them to deliver such a high-accuracy speaker-independent system.

CMUSphinx is remarkable as an academic milestone, but in all honesty it's basically unusuable from a product standpoint. If your speech recognition is only 95% accurate, you're going to have a lot of very unhappy users. Average Joes are used to things like microwave ovens, which work 99.99% of the time, and expect new technology to "just work".

CMUSphinx is also an old algorithm; AFAIK Google is neural-network based.
> More hours will not cut it

That is not deliberate practice. Merely spending 10 years writing online is not deliberate practice. Doing something every day is not deliberate practice.

> genetically endowed talents to succeed.

No. You are not born with the ability to write. Mozart was not a naturally born musician. Tiger Woods did not one day suddenly become a golf pro.

> As someone who has spent 10 years writing online with little to nothing to show for it, this does not work.

Spending 10 years writing does not mean you spent 10 years deliberately practicing. It merely means you spent 10 years writing.
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No, it's certainly not that simple. It's still a very stark contrast that the SF police department fired a years supply of bullets in a single incident. I picked 2014 because it's the last available stats atm, and it's actually slightly above average.

On average, per use of deadly force, the german police fires about 1/20th - 1/40th in terms of number of bullets. One reason for that is that the german police is trained to use deadly force as last resort and rather retreat than fire.

Shooting 40 bullets at a person in a park instead of trying to clear the area is unlikely to happen here. (or anywhere in europe, for that matter)
If somebody gets shot by the police because of having a gun like taser than, well, it´s exactly the right time to talk about gun culture and gun control.
McCarthy was right, and the criticism based on his conjuring daemons that weren't there, as popular as it has been, is misguided. If anything, as the archives open after all these years, they show the Soviet threat and the extent of infiltration was far greater than anybody even imagined.

Watergate was a quaint bespoke little operation. Much wider unconstrained eavesdropping capability is available to grunts like Snowden on tap. And all the perpetrators were indicted or jailed[0]. A president even was made to resign.

If anything, the magnitude of the threat the Un-American Activities Committee dealt with, and the constrains Nixon faced (both technical during, and legal after the fact) provide a contrast to the post-PATRIOT-Act reality of threats and constrains, all imaginary at best.

[0] http://watergate.info/analysis/casualties-and-convictions
> No-one else gets a choice. Only the white folks.

That's not really fair. White flight was a result of mandatory school integration policies, which forced middle-class (i.e., by-and-large white) and lower-class (i.e., by-and-large black) children into the same schools; white folks didn't have a choice about that, nor did those who stayed a bit longer have a choice about the continued decline of their cities.

Poor city folks have the same choice now that white city folks had in the 70s: stay & deal, or flee elsewhere. The sticky point is that it's a lot easier for someone middle-class to afford to move to the suburbs & commute to work than it is for a poor person.
I also love the reddit tracker in the URL:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/.VvMLpmu3Gb4.reddit
I am normally anti-activist investors (my own company has poison pills up the wazoo), but this seems like a sensible move for Yahoo. Their attempt to become a media company has mostly failed, and from all accounts they seem lost. Yahoo still has a number of valuable properties that could strive in the right environment, and strip mining it would perhaps not be the worst idea.
If you are saying that it's incredibly stupid to routinely put police into situations where they have less than 5 seconds to decide whether or not they are required to kill someone to protect themselves or their partners, I agree. I think we should disarm most police.
> The cost of a dependency for a good package manager is zero

The recent left_pad fracas has proved that that is not the case. Snapshot dependencies in-tree? Sure. But a package manager based dependency will be predicated on trusting a lot of things.
I just removed the tilde and caret of all my dependencies (in my package.json) and maybe that's the way to go. Seal a local version of your packages and don't update unless is completely needed. But I'm still worried about the fragility of the package environment.
I think it's possible for you both to be correct. The definition of "neutralized" could be taught to officers as "you are 10000% sure he is dead", which is only done by firing your entire magazine into them. So while not explicitly trained to empty a magazine, it could be taught implicitly. I get the impression there are lots of "gotchas" like this in police training. Evidence in many police shootings seems to suggest emptying their magazine is normal.
Yes, I'll be excited when the lower bits will be open sourced, as that is what I care most to see (I don't even run Mac/Windows). But in an era when even Microsoft is open sourcing and giving developer tools away for free, the idea that this won't be an open source product is odd.
Am I the only one on HN who actively avoids every political discussion or post as much as humanly possible? Or are there others like that out there too?
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There was a big increase from Hongkong during the handover period, but now it mostly from the mainland.
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a. Yes, Canonical will provide you with a patch to an issue in Ubuntu the same as RedHat.

b. Yes Canonical has follow the sun support for the "Main" section of Ubuntu. This includes the OS, the virt layer and the hardware along with relationships with the hardware vendors.

c. No Ubuntu doesn't do enterprise J2EE
The only open source solution is TomCat and as you know they won't co-operate with other distributions.
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Looks cool, hate to look a gift horse in a mouth. Can I get a part list/build plans for the HW side. This might be what actually gets me into playing with SDR. :)
No, the parent just spelt it wrong. Practice (the noun) is spelt with a C in Britain. Practise is the verb.
Is Godwin's law happening here? [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
I'm generally sympathetic to Solnit's previous writings on gentrification in SF, but this just seems too much of a stretch to me. Police violence in SF (and across the US) is out of control. They need training in how to de-escalate confrontations without resorting to overwhelming firepower.
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"Zero" isn't a cost of anything -- there's no free lunch.

NPM, like any package manager, pretty much blindly accepts user input. I, as a module maintainer, could happily change every single function in my modules to

function whatever() {
return "WHHEEEEEEE!!!";
}

and check it in. Doing that will result in no fewer problems than just deleting the module entirely, and it's not NPM or any other similar package manager's responsibility to vet changes. Obviously curated package managers like those used by most Linux distributions do carry some responsibility, but even then, there's not ZERO risk.
Yahoo should be split up into lot's of possibly good companies and stop trying to be a weird unsuccessful monolith. Then it might have a change of growing.

For example, when I worked on the Yahoo! homepage we made about 20 or 30 amazing modules (including personally implementing half of Facebook's functionality in a module).

All of these modules were removed because people were actually using them and consequently the rest of the Yahoo! network didn't get the expected foot fall from the homepage.

Yahoo! as a company has been exploring a local maxima for a while and there is no way for them to get out of it until they accept some pretty huge short term losses. Artificial foot fall onto properties from the network prevents them needing to be the best of breed; just being on the Yahoo network allows them to be moderately successful businesses.
I disagree. You can call this "moving the goalposts" if you want, but I don't think it is. You seem to be basically be claiming that something is only "maintainable" if you can easily disassemble it down to the smallest component; I'm not arguing for that at all.

If there's an actual engineering reason to reduce maintainability (e.g. it improves performance), that's a worthwhile consideration. What I'm talking about is when a product is made intentionally non-maintainable, or maintainable only by people with service tools which are non-obtainable, solely because it increases profits. There's no good reason for this.

Now, for your battery example, I don't think that even applies. From what I've read and heard, most "non-replaceable" batteries are actually completely replaceable, it's just not so easy to do and requires a bit of skill. "Maintainable by a service technician with some common hand tools and half a brain" does not equal "non maintainable". I've seen tons of videos on YouTube showing non-professionals how to take apart their phones and replace those "non-maintainable" batteries. It's not like the things are epoxied in there. And you're right, you can save a bit of space by going that route; it's an engineering trade-off.

My example of something that's deliberately designed to not be maintainable (by the end-user or someone not employed by or affiliated with the manufacturer) would be a car that requires regular service, but where it can't be done without connecting a laptop to the car and using an extremely expensive software program to really do nothing more than tell the car the oil has been changed. This makes it impossible for the customer to do the service himself, or have an independent mechanic do it unless that mechanic is willing to shell out the money needed for that tool.
I might get down voted a lot for this but...

Speaking as a millennial. If you need a safe space at the university you will get walked all over in the real world.

Same with raising small children. I got scrapes and stitches as a kid and most of the people I grew up with broke a bone at one point. We didn't die. We're actually stronger for it. Yet most parents these days freak out if their kid trips (even if there isn't any blood). When that happened to me, we washed it, stuck on a bandage and went back to playing 2 minutes later.

The only way things will change if people stop hiding from problems in these safe spaces and confront them and learn from them.
I'm really hoping that this will be available via homebrew and not a way to force everyone to use Docker Toolbox or, god forbid, the Mac App Store.

Docker Toolbox just brings back too many nightmares from Adobe's awful Updater apps.
So, let's say if I am developing a Java EE app under windows with eclipse and want to use docker container for my app, how do I go about it?
Can Facebook target on the condition that user and spouse both work at Google. Or AGI bracket?
I can't tell if your comment is satire thanks to Poe's law.
Her implication is that this guy's dog is why the taser was visible, and the taser was reported as a handgun, and the police responded to that. I'd say he's a party -- his self-reported distraction started the whole series of events.
But not all? Any comment from the Docker folks on here? I thought docker was open source.
I've also been thinking about the long-term effects of the current situation and I don't see anything good. All this QE and low rates have caused people to borrow like crazy. I'd say people are either max'ed out or near that after 5-8 years of "partying". Even people who tripled their home value are at the trough taking out HELOCs (home equity line of credit). A debt is a claim on future income. If most of my future income is already spent, who the heck is going to spend in the future? The young (demographics in most developed countries aren't too great)? The professionals have significant student loans. Maybe the young who got cheap educations, earning great salaries able to live in low cost of living areas?

I am surprised the baby boomers aren't downsizing in droves at this point. They should be the ones getting out of homes, locking in their gains and grabbing a condo where they don't have to spend too much effort doing maintenance. I suspect some are holding onto their homes for their children's sake?
Todoist support was awesome, but after about a month of investigation the ultimate solution for me was to stop using stacked items -- since I have none of those, the problem doesn't exist either, and I can keep using Todoist (as I've been, for 6+ years).
I found docker-machine and VirtualBox quite stable (running multiple Flask, Python, and PostgreSQL containers). The only major issue I had was from a 5 year old VirtualBox bug and sendFile. That said, I won't miss the extra steps of running eval docker-machine etc.
Orrrrr, people can dress however they like without the fear of getting assaulted by police, sexually assaulted, etc. What a close-minded and dangerous view to have, attaching one's perceived morality to their clothing.