skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it can be detected the first time its attempted with any particular group of users.
I'd really like to know what the details are:

> since LG employees can go off, form a startup and -- if everything collapses within three years -- come back to the company no questions asked.

Is this an open offer to all employees, or just to those that decide to join these sanctioned startups, and how does one go about getting your "crazy project" inside LG turned into a startup. Is it in their contracts, or just spoken? It's certainly an interesting approach.

I think there's an interesting idea here - and an interesting article to be written on the topic - but this one didn't go where I wanted it to.
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I am currently 41, went to a Coding bootcamp in Bay area and after I graduated, I struggled to find a job for 6-8 months but ultimately succeeded to land one as a developer job. But I have had to drop $12k on tuition which I think it will take couple of years to pay off. The bootcamp did very little to add value to my learning skill and portfolio of projects.

I would have applied to institution like this in a heartbeat but I guess 42 would have been a no-entry for me. Why this discrimination?
And also it is irony that they wont take anybody above 30 much less 40 years old but the institution is named as 42. Can anybody tell me why the organization named itself 42?
Just imagine the TSA line for the hyperloop.

You'll have to arrive days ahead of time.
If a user is too non-savvy to click a couple of check boxes in Options > Security to turn off Safe Browsing, they probably need that protection. Users this non-savvy are probably already being tracked left, right, and center and an easy target for malware served by advertising networks, and Safe Browsing is the least of their worries.

It's similarly easy to turn Health Report and Telemetry off from Options > Advanced > Data Choices.
Since we're on the subject of hard drives, I hope this will be helpful or interesting:

It has been our experience that it is no longer possible to buy new, non-fraudulant drives of a sort of recent, but not brand new drive model from Amazon.

So, for instance, in early 2016 if you want to buy 4TB enterprise drives from Amazon, you will find them, they will be classified as brand new, and they will be sold by some big amazon parts seller.

When you receive them they will be nice and shiny brand new wrapped - perfectly sealed - and when you spin them up, SMART stats will show 4000-6000 hours of use and that they are 2-3 years old.

This is almost universal and has been happening for at least 3-4 years. These sellers are selling the drives as brand new and they are anything but. When you complain, they will immediately exchange or refund - there's never a hassle there - and once in a while the seller will spout some bullshit about the drives being "new pulls" ... that is, drives they stripped from unsold servers/desktops.

Hope that helps.
There is something similar called NMITE, which is run by a few universities.

If you want a 42-like school, speak with your local MP. 42 is run on a budget of €7m (approximately) per year, and it would be very affordable if the government got behind it with a Royal Charter.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11711467
The autonomous transport you mention in the end is also an issue for Hyperloop directly. Highways are "easy mode" for autonomous cars, so automated services to move you between cities may be available substantially before they can necessarily move you within the city. Sure, they'll be a lot slower than the hyperloop, but they'll probably be a lot cheaper. Perhaps the hyperloop could win the deploy-to-production race with fully autonomous cars, but at this point, I bet it can't win the race with autonomous cross-city quasi-personal transport.
Crain's story is tragic. Geez.
Cheaper != better.

It's important to look at the hyperloop in the context in which it was proposed. This is California and environmental aspects need to be taken into account. Airlines are a major source of CO2 and California wants a more environmentally friendly solution. There is a proposed high-speed rail project with a $10B initial estimate that's sure to at least double by the time the project is complete. The high-speed rail project is only high-speed compared to existing rail since the max speed will be around 200 mph.

It's into this environment that Musk proposed the Hyperloop. On paper, it's better than the high-speed rail in every way. Cheaper, faster and with less pollution. The "more airplanes" alternative may be cheaper and probably faster (with the TSA is doing its best keep air travel slow) but fails horribly on the CO2 emissions front.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11713015
Yev here -> From what we can tell and have been told they are run as completely different entities. Hopefully that quality spillover will indeed happen in the future, but for what it's worth WD isn't doing all too poorly, they just tend to be slightly more expensive for us than the Seagates at the moment.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11712665
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I had always heard that as "for want of," but whatever, it's too late to edit
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Is the premise here that Google could already have market ready self-driving car tech that they could be selling but they're going slower to make people comfortable? This is the first time I've heard such an argument. It's very interesting if true. Are there any data points to back that up?
leak it to the press. you cannot deflect this type of accusation, at least not easily.
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"Except insolvency, nothing prevents the domain name owner from keeping the name."

Ah, the halcyon days of the Internet's adolescence.

This was before fiascos like Mike Rowe, of Canada, having his mikerowsoft.com taken away.
And that's Microsoft saying this, officially. It's not some comment on Stack Overflow.

So does DFPCommon.dl do, anyway? Does it have something to do with "telemetry", the built-in spyware in Windows 10?
From what the staff have told us in Paris, 42 isn't approved by the authorities, so they cannot use the official channels to offer visa sponsorships.

Some students sign up for language courses so they can attend. Sad, but not much that can be done at the moment.
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> 2. Python's runtime is completely and utterly incapable of threading. Threading being almost essential to any decent user interface, this whole idea falls flat.

While you're AFAIK correct about running Python on mobile devices, and I think anyone will admit that Python's performance has never been great, one can have a great UI without threads: use coroutines and channels instead.

Fortunately, Python does have coroutines, and a channel library can be built in the fashion of Lua's channel library (https://github.com/majek/lua-channels). I don't know if anyone has done it yet, I'll grant, but a cursory look suggests that it's possible.

The basic idea is that one would spawn a coroutine to handle each UI element, and the coroutines would send messages to one another on channels. I've no idea how fast it would be (at a guess: terrible), but it should work.
sametmax disagreed with the sarcasm.

So do I. There is a selection process. It is not selecting for non-criminality. It isn't selecting for criminality necessarily either, but it certainly is not strongly selecting against, in the sense intended.
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I think you may be reading the OP wrong. The YK NEO used a secure element chip, too.
The article is formatted oddly, but the middle section starting at "On January 4, 1991, MV Tarmugli," talks about the actual encounter with the Sentinelese.
Related: http://quora.com/Will-Hyperloop-One’s-Hyperloop-product-work...

I think the deal breaker is the high speeds, which require a much straighter track and much larger turn radius (410ft for a train, ~4.6 mi. for HL). That means a lot of tunneling through mountains and bulldozing expensive buildings. Land is the biggest expense in these projects.

I'm more hopeful of NASA's current work trying to reduce the sonic boom on airplanes. Flying high solves the air resistance problem, and going in a straight line isn't a problem up there.
Rust still requires stack unwinding info (dwarf CFI) so it's still going to be bloated on anything non-trivial.
12k should be a drop in the bucket for a Bay Area developer. You may be underpaid?

42 is the answer to life.
Portuguese is a pretty obvious mix of Spanish and French. I wasn't aware there were other predominant influences (though there always are)

And you're right about English, there's a joke about how our tongue stalks other unsuspecting languages in dark alleyways, knocking them out when opportune to steal loose grammar and vocabulary
I can't speak to instability, but I had to rewrite a massive stack because gorilla gave me callbacks to execute on control packets and x/net/websocket didn't.

If you have any sort of long lived mobile connection, you will encounter half closed sockets due to mobile network quirks. At scale you really want to clean these up. To do so, you need an application level timeout and you want to listen to the PING/PONG control frames to reset that timeout.
WDC is likely not selling directly at such low qtys and if they do pricing would not be good.
Last time a did a full on MVC app I ended up writing strongly typed extension methods to handle this. I don't suggest everyone do this themselves, System.Linq.Expressions is a deep dark hole, but surely there are some maintained open source packages out there.
Flash games still exist but I doubt there are lot of new ones created. It seems that there are not that many HTML5 games created either.

My theory is that it is because most of casual gaming now happens on mobile where flash is unavailable and HTML5 is subpar.
I couldn't agree more with you. This seems like an old model of assuming that those under 30 can't work well with those over yet they are expected to enter a diverse workforce. I'm 37 and in my 4th month at a school similar to 42 in SF. I'm glad that Holberton School didn't have that age restriction or I'd still be looking for another option.
That's not what happened here. Read the DOJ's filing.

* The accused admitted to knowing the password and refused to provide it, on the auspices of not wanting investigators snooping through his files. Only later did they claim to have "forgotten" it.

* Prosecutors entered into evidence multiple factual claims establishing that the accused knew the password; for instance: years of eyewitness testimony demonstrating the accused entering the password from memory.

Whenever you get to an alarming conclusion like "this means forgetting the password to your laptop means life in prison", chances are, you've missed relevant details.
Do you know the probability that this correspondence happened by chance?
Tried it with all the different network adaptors Virtualbox provides. It basically comes up with a driver installation request, then fails, saying "The device could not be installed because the driver could not be found". Same goes for audio, and pretty much any driver.

This is on the latest Virtualbox (which I just downloaded) and the latest ReactOS (which I just downloaded).
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TL;DR: Using a lower-level, compiled programming language results in lower memory consumption and faster software. Shocker.

Besides the lack of data to illustrate their point, their point is well know and has been well documented for decades. The reason people use these higher level, higher overhead languages is generally time-to-market, maintainability and development cost.

I don't so much care about the performance difference data, I can measure that myself easily and cheaply.

Measuring frustration, development time and bug-hunting time is something that would be expensive to measure (you have to build a real world product in both languages with users and maintain it, which they seem to have done). Yet this part is glossed over and never quantified in the article.
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I assuming you mean writing all the business logic in stored procs and functions. Every time I've seen this, it ended up horribly. I use the database for storage and data validation only. I write a middle tier for the business logic, and of course the front end layer.

I'm not saying it can't been done well, but it poses enough problems that are difficult to avoid, like calling an external web service inside a stored procedure, and the general mess of maintaining a bunch of chained stored procedures, functions.

It also guarantees vendor lock-in.
Man, I used to love the times when try/catch was used to exception only, and with exceptions that leaves the program in a bad state, I used to think when you see a throw something really bad is going on, not just a simple ajax fail.

Dont know why people love so much async/await. In the end of the day, this all (in node land, for instance) will be just a function call in the libuv, this will never change, this is because the pattern is really good.. Why overcomplicate that?
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Took less than a minute to set up a Go collaboration with my pal in Amsterdam. Nice free trial! I'll keep it. Now maybe I can build something interesting.
As much as I want. I usually swap the work one about every week or two; parent's house is a few months.
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> If you have any sort of long lived mobile connection, you will encounter half closed sockets due to mobile network quirks. At scale you really want to clean these up.

Could golang.org/x/net/context.WithTimeout be used to handle this?
LendingClub is carrying more than $5 Billion in loans on its balance sheet [1]. That means $5 Billion still owed to Lending Club by retail borrowers. At an average of, say, $20,000 [2] per loan, that is 250,000 borrowers.

That same $5 Billion is owed by Lending Club to lenders. A portion of the lenders are institutions. The remainder are also at the retail level. I don't know the average amount loaned per investor, but I'd guess there are more than 100,000 lenders.

Contractually, through Lending Club in the middle, those hundreds of thousands of borrowers owe the hundred thousand lenders that $5 Billion, which will be paid off over (at most) 5 years.

As the middle-man, Lending Club collects about 1% in fees. That is $50 million in fees outanding.

If Lending Club ceases operation, that $5 Billion is still contractually owed by the borrowers to the lenders. In Lending Club's prospectus, under bankruptcy or if they become unable to process loan payments, the whole thing transfers to a trust, 'Portfolio Financial Servicing Company (“PFSC”)'[3] to continue collecting from borrowers and paying lenders.

This is shaping up to be a pretty interesting situation. If legal expenses, ballooning compensation and declining loan origination revenues eat up Lending Club's cash and drive them to bankruptcy, a bankruptcy court judge is going to have to decide on the fate of these hundreds of thousands of Lending Club customers.

Is there a precedent for this? Would a fail-over to PFSC definitely happen? Is it possible a judge could rule that money being paid back by borrowers is to be used to pay off LC stock holders, should shareholder lawsuits prevail?

[1] https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ALC&fstype=ii&ei=vzI7... (select Balance Sheet)

[2] I don't know the actual average, but the max is $35,000. The average may be much lower since many loans are paid down below $10k already.

[3] http://kb.lendingclub.com/investor/articles/Investor/What-ha...
This will be helpful! Thank you so much.
Exactly, but it's nice to be able to follow your logs without all that clutter. Though with journald I mostly look at logs on a per-unit basis anyway (or via e.g. an ELK setup), so it's a slight nuisance rather than something essential.
And homestarrunner.com! The Internet of 10-15 years ago was awash in legitimate Flash content, and we're rapidly losing the ability to view it.
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It's easy to find examples of "protected class" filing discrimination lawsuits in cases of employment, housing, and retail (e.g. "ladies night pricing" ruling in favor of males.)

However, I can't think of an example of a "protected class" winning a court judgement over how a non-profit chooses to donate its money.
A team of high schoolers reverse-engineered a fitness tracker to control a drone
Trade secrets are not 'anti-competitive'.
Technological frontiers are no place for dogma. Sure, blockchains probably aren't a good choice for publishing, but a culture that constrains people's technology choices is incompatible with progress.
Ignore the user you are responding to. Their expectations of Firefox are unrealistic and misinformed.
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42 is from Douglas Adams, the answer to the question of life and all that.

I do t know about the age limit, but it might be some (possibly faulty) reasoning about commitment. Staff have been tight-lipped. We have some people from the Pole Emploi (unemployment agency) here at the moment, and they are a bit older, so some kind of trial is underway.
More likely yes. If you manage to get it to the right people, and not get it confiscated, and get it on display, then yes. It's a lot of if, but the odds are definitly better.
You are correct. I doubted JIT was the right word at the time but couldn't think of the right term. Incremental support is what I mean.
I wonder how much of it goes back to the attitudes of decision makers.

A theme of this essay[1] is that decisions makers will outright reject ideas they are uncomfortable with.

So say someone believes that businesses in the aggregate will, say, do the right thing rather than mercilessly and rationally responding to maximize their benefit from a contract. It's going to potentially be difficult to convince that person that the structure of bidding and contracts is important.

I agree that this is seemingly absurd and terrifying.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11577074
Unfortunately this won't work on most modern systems where the password hash is held in nonvolatile memory, rather than a battery-backed volatile store.
I don't know if that's as much culture as that the former are institutionalized and have a say in every step of the process, and the latter are fighting to exist at all.
Having had many years of experience as a sysadmin, I have one word for those concerned with hard drive reliability - temperature. Heat is the enemy of hard drives (and other system components).

Sometimes heat causes a machine room meltdown, where machines start failing left and right. This is not uncommon. What usually happens is this - the company knows enough to put their web server etc. at a controlled colocation facility (which isn't always ideally controlled, but that's another story). But the developers would like a local file server, development source control server etc. There is a spare, windowless room in the office, and without much planning, a machine or two goes in. Then a machine goes in attached to a tape drive, which backs up those machines and the local desktops. Then more machines go in, then more. All these machines generate heat, so a room cooler is bought. But it drops condensation in a cup, and shuts off when the cup is full of water. So someone's job becomes to empty that cup every morning. But then summer comes, and on a particularly hot Sunday afternoon the condensation cup fills, the cooler shuts down, the outside temperature combines with the temperature of a closed, windowless room full of machines for hour after hour. Finally one machine has a component fail. Then another. Then e-mails and phone calls and panic starts flying.

I have seen this happen more than once, and have heard about it more. It always starts as an ad-hoc, unplanned, "temporary" solution for "unimportant" machines. But as time goes on, and machines are added, and business dependencies are formed, you have to start supporting a machine room that was never planned as a machine room.
Hey Subcomos, great work! We've been working on something pretty similar, an app called Logameal (only available in the UK). We have run into (are running into) a lot of those UI issues too and would be glad to help. Let me know if you'd like to chat.
Yes, I can think of programs that can only be designed and implemented by top 1% of programmers.

Regarding "programming is not a [...] thing to waste those precious early years on.", well, this is not something I'd like to argue about, just want to say that learning programming by a kid doesn't have to be (and, of course, shouldn't be) a 8h or more daily activity, like for a professional adult programmer. I think an hour per week of learning programming can be a valuable exercise in logical thinking, creativity and problem solving. It can easily be a lot of fun, too.
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It's a pity Shumway project died: https://github.com/mozilla/shumway

Because despite all attempts to kick Flash off the Web, it's still lingering around.
Exactly. Provide a 'Gene list' similar to an ingredients list. It lists a gene identifier, and a percent regulation (+/-, up down). And a QR/link to more info. That way the public can both be informed about what is going on, and can figure out if they want RoundUpProtexion™ or Vitamin B Synthase in their food.

And it is not information overload - or at least that should be a non-argument. The idea that the public knows what monosodium-glutamate, or high-fructose corn-syrup, or cholesterol, are all a result of labeling. And on the balance, significantly for the public's good.
For actual syntactical breakdown of the Bible, I agree. Biblical Scholars, and even competent pastors, can syntactically analyze the the Bible sufficiently well.

I would think the technology could be helpful in a fairly narrow way: identifying syntactical constructions outside the bible to help explain ambiguous syntactical constructions within it (For example, Ugaritic texts, another ancient Semitic language similar to Hebrew, are often studied to aid in understanding portions of the Old Testament). Scholars have been doing this without computers for some time and have begun to do this type of analysis with software. I would imagine more sophisticated software would yield at least some new insights.
One thing people don't realize is that Union affiliation is actually still quite high in New York state--25%, and probably higher in the NYC area.

New York YIMBY address the topic two years ago: http://newyorkyimby.com/2014/09/the-mta-wants-second-avenue-...

In it, they cite union rules that require four times the necessary personnel on underground construction projects. They don't blame it all on unions, but I'm definitely in the camp that unions do much more harm than good.
Wow. I remember watching these stats, waiting for Firefox to edge past IE in the 2000s. Chrome really took the ball and ran with it. They had the advantage of seeing things that FF did that really worked (tabs, extensions, find-as-you-type) and the intelligence to iterate on that (multi-process support, a world-class debugger) and a really solid foundation in WebKit (née KHTML).

In a way Chrome was in the right place at the right time, with the right bunch of people. If they hadn't launched, Firefox would likely be sitting where Chrome is now, though likely without a bunch of drive to improve things as much as they currently have.

Of course, in an alternate universe where Firefox was #1 and IE #2, we might have had royalty-free video codecs mandated by standards and no W3C-endorsed DRM...