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The AP exam is in Java, so I could teach the beginners Python and then switch to Java for their second year. Many teachers do.

Introductory Java works for me, though.
It's hard to say, utilities can't just jack up their prices whenever they want. However, it's possible that there might be capacity issues, where there's more demand for electricity at peak times than can be generated.
Our energy grid is incredibly vulnerable to climate change
Unions did a lot for working people. But that's not relevant to the question of whether or not they are on the right or wrong side in this particular case.
The French or doing anything they can to revive there stalled and dismal tourism Industry that is suffered from the Islamic terrorist attacks and over bearing waves of "Muslim refugees" who have harassed tourists, actually, Muslim terrorists who mowed sightseers down with a semi truck on basil day.
"In California last week, legislators and interest groups declared dead a measure pushed by Gov. Jerry Brown to allow certain apartments with some low-income units to sidestep the state’s environmental review process. "

It sounds like unions objected to using "low income housing" as an excuse to "sidestep the state’s environmental review process." I would also.

Environmental review shouldn't be an excuse to engage in NIMYBism but environmental review is important to prevent projects that are environmentally destructive.

It sounds like every interest group involved here is using "low incoming housing" to ram through the "reforms" they're after.
Big O Notation and Time Complexity
Australian govt computer networks breached in cyber attacks
Yep. Looks like it's now called "1for.one". Their CEO has a stock photo on LinkedIn and owned a mining corp.
Thanks for the advice!

>What are your showcase-able skills?

I know html, css, js, jquery, and a little bit of php. I know how to make websites responsive. I know how to make AJAX calls (although, I'm a bit rusty). I have some knowledge of design.

>Who are you intending to showcase them to?

I plan on displaying the projects on my portfolio site for recruiters to see.

What exactly do you mean by 'target it like crazy'? Do you mean that I should create a project that relates to the company that I'm applying to?

Using your example.. I could create a vehicle page for the 'Model Y' Tesla car (which hasn't been released yet), and make the design similar to the other model pages.
> I do work with older students (aged 14-18) and the key is TREMENDOUS support. I'll happily show them the command-line stuff over and over again for a month if need be.

I think the article was written more in relation to teaching younger children, rather than high schoolers.
As an Australian man travlleing the US for a few months half a decade ago, I was genuinely puzzled by the very high water level in some of America's toilets - so high that sometimes you have to hold your undercarriage up to keep it from getting wet when sitting.

I asked several locals during my visit about how to deal with this oddity, and all I ever got was laughter. I still don't know what the supposed method is... :)
I think the general assumption is that QFT is true, it is just whether you can call the physics it creates as being particles. At least that is how I interpret it. QFT is QM, but it just has a lot more degrees of freedom (infinite) than what you are talking here about when you say QM. You can write a Schroedinger's equation for a field. Rather than the wave function being a function of X, the wave function is a function of F(X) where F(x) is a field configuration over space.

I would say some of his argument comes down to semantics because by his definition in order for something to be a particle it can't have spatial extent. I think a lot of people don't include this in the definition of a particle. They do associate the number of "Quanta" with the number of particles, at least in a field theory.

What I was saying above is that I believe you can create an object by the "Quanta" definition in QFT that has no spatial extent. His argument is based on the fact that this is not possible.

Adding these Quanta together to form a zero extent object is similar to saying in Fourier analysis you can take a number of different frequencies (like the quanta at different wave lengths) and create a delta function (which has no spatial extent). The thing is, even though we are dealing with adding a bunch of frequencies together, it is not exactly the same as a Fourier series because we are adding them together in a different way.

You make a good point about people first teaching the simple Schroedinger's equation of particles because it is a lot easier. I think what is so hard about quantum mechanics is relating it to the real world, and not the axioms themselves. The simple form is much easier to relate to the real world.
Welcome to the club. It's pretty much a rite of passage here to spend some time with a psychopath VC, a completely self absorbed CTO with a rich investor dad that fuels his fantasies, or an idiotic CEO with an ego problem, and to pay the price for it (just time if you're lucky, time+money if you're not).

I've encountered this myself several times (down to the CEO using hire fast fire fast as a mantra), and judging from my friends' stories, most people have or will. When there are large amounts of money at stake, I guess it makes sense for charlatans and sharks to flock.

There are very few ways to tell accurately from the outset at first who's going to screw you over - I've heard horror stories of the sort from friends at startups backed by high profile entities like YC, famous startups that are often in the media for being "the best places to work at", companies with celebrity founders who have reputations for being "the nicest guys in the world", etc.

It's the kind of thing that you can only learn through a few painful experiences, I think. You do learn your lessons: never pay in advance for anything, don't put your own savings or core livelihood on the line for someone else's dreams, get everything in writing, talk to former employees of a company/colleagues of a founder before getting involved, never ever assume that what you have is anything more than an employer/employee relationship, etc.

I have to say that I'm impressed by how the poster handled it - keeping documentation, filing wage claims, etc. - the only thing she could have done better was not staying on so long when she wasn't getting paid, but it's an understandable mistake when you're in the moment.

I for one am glad I learned my lessons at 22 rather than at 45 with a family to care for and a mortgage to pay. The upside is that there are plenty of genuinely nice, passionate people - when you find them, stay close to them.
With all due respect, terroir is a major aspect of wine.

However, you shouldn't believe me. What you should do, if you doubt, is perform a blind taste test:
Pouilly-Fuissé vs Pouilly-Fumé.

The two regions are literally across the river from each other and have distinct characteristics.

Simply, to de-romanticize[1] "terroir", it's all about chemistry. The taste is a chemical reaction and certain climates, soil, etc. allows an individual to taste "stuff".

[1] http://winefolly.com/review/where-wine-flavors-come-from/
Also, support for unions is waning. Here in Philadelphia, union support is at an all time low. They were rendered toothless in recent elections for the first time ever, and a series of bad press (arson, assault, and destruction of property by union members) and continued ties to organized crime have worn thin sympathies.

For good reason. They prevent accountability among police: http://reason.com/blog/2014/08/14/police-unions-produce-rule....

They also prevent educational innovation: https://www.amazon.com/Special-Interest-Teachers-Americas-Sc... and pr event urban schools from even functioning.

As the topic article points out, construction unions are attacking the housing supply.

Should it be a surprise that anyone who pays attention is unhappy with unions?
God yes. We got taught how to use MS Works Spreadsheet in middle school through some sort of exercise sequence that each student worked through independently. The first bit of programming I ever did on my own was to make a spreadsheet that automatically calculated scores (with an unnecessarily complicated scoring system and a leaderboard) for a March Madness pool I was running. It wound up using a 900 byte formula that had to get split across four cells.
Yes, I mean that they can code everything in my class without needing a reference.

I don't make them memorize anything -- I agree that's a waste of mental capacity -- they just learn it through tremendous repetition.

Once you know a half dozen programming languages then Stack Overflow and reference manuals are of course useful and I'm sure most of my former students do use them.
@justinsb - based on the bug link I posted above, what do you think is the direction that k8s logging is going to take?

From what you wrote, it seems that lots of people consider logging in k8s to be a solved issue. I'm wondering why is there a detailed spec for all the journald stuff, etc.

From my perspective - it will be amazing if k8s can manage and aggregate logs on the host machine. It's also a way of reducing complexity to get started. People starting with 1-2 node setups start with local logs before tackling the complexity of fluent, etc

Is that the reason for this bug?
The authors' of the paper feel it is being misinterpreted and tried to submit errata to PNAS:[1]

They tried to change the following sentence:

“These results question the validity of some 40,000 fMRI studies and may have a large impact on the interpretation of neuroimaging results.”

To

“These results question the validity of a number of fMRI studies and may have a large impact on the interpretation of weakly significant neuroimaging results.”

Link to discussion in /r/NeuroScience: https://www.reddit.com/r/neuroscience/comments/4ri72b/the_so...

[1] http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/nichols/entry/errata_for_cluster/
Even if you don't reuse a function it still encapsulates certain things. By looking at the name you know what it does (self-documenting-code). The interface tells you what variables it depends on. And finally it logically segregates your code.

I think the real reason people don't like small function is simply code navigations - which honestly is a poor excuse. That's an editor/IDE problem
Wow, that whole tale of woe is giving me flashbacks to a startup game studio I worked at once upon a time. They never resorted to outright fraud in the 'lets not pay them, but say we did' sense but there was plenty of the other sketchy behaviour.
"The only problem is that electric cars won't do anything directly to mitigate global warming, because they will still be powered largely by fossil fuel."

But electrical generation is more efficient than an internal combustion engine in terms of carbon output. According to PG&E:

"Additionally, from well to wheel, electric vehicles emit approximately 66 percent less carbon dioxide (CO2) compared with internal combustion vehicles. CO2 is the principal gas associated with global warming."

https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/solar-and-vehicles/opt...
Yes you are.
And the source of all computing value.
Crunchbase company profile, as determined from the comments on HN: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/1for-one
Ahh, fondly remembering LOGO for the Apple II in grammar school when I was about 6.
Do you think it is any different in the USA or any other country for that matter?

I don't know the answer but it stands to reason that if it works for the Russians it will work for the US aswell
I think 1for.one is the old name, then they changed it to jobsonic and, more recently, to wrkriot.com.
The Manga Guide to Databases (Amazon)
> that seems to drive people crazy

Schrödinger's catnip?
Ah, got it. I also took AP Computer Science—good memories!
That's a mischaracterization. The law Jerry Brown proposed dealt with "as-of-right" zoning, i.e. if a parcel of land has been zoned for housing, and someone wants to build housing on it, they can do so without the NIMBY neighbors holding up the project indefinitely with frivolous lawsuits and "environmental" reviews. Unfortunately, Brown attached a low-income housing restriction onto it, but it was definitely a step in the right direction.

Real environmental review, by qualified people, happens when the land is zoned in the first place. Most "environmental review" lawsuits are not about the environment at all. The real environmental experts already had their say, or else the land wouldn't have been zoned. Most of these lawsuits seek a new review, often for bullshit reasons, and are filed by NIMBYs to bully the developers into giving up on developing the land by piling on years and millions of dollars of litigation. If that fails, they fall back on "quality of life" and noise complaints.
How far does a TDI travel on a tank when it's not cheating on its emissions?
Interesting, because I saw a very similar scenario play out at the very first job I had after college. A coworker's paycheck was delayed then when the check did arrive it bounced. Coworker complained to CEO. Coworker was then fired. As a sibling comment says: this kind of thing happens often enough that everyone has seen it at least once.

Definite bonus points for the fake wire transfer receipts though. Above and beyond!
Kaggle asking contestants not to share solutions
Links to Hinton papers from the article:
https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/mixex.html
https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/csc321/notes/lec15.pdf
The battery decay is going to be gradual, even though noticeable in a Model S, given its huge battery, it would still be a drivable vehicle even if it loses 50% of the battery capacity. So that 14-20K expenditure will not kick in till 15 years or so with a patient owner, which is pretty much lifetime of many cars in US.
Tesla charging stations outnumber gas stations in Manhattan. Guess which will continue to decrease in number and which will continue to be deployed.

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/225088-tesla-charging-sta...
This is really cool! You have coded up some timesteppers in Simit already; any plans to release them as a standard package which would be officially optimized, or do you mostly expect users to just roll their own as needed?
Rather, "well-rounded people" is an ill defined term that can be twisted to justify almost any educational choice.

Why is being a well-rounded person a good thing? We live in an age of specialization.
I wish there was a place I could go to read translated versions of notes kept by German scientists. They did horrible things but some of the other research was really cool like what I've learned about their attempts in creating nuclear power.
Illustrations of the rule against perpetuities
Small US college focuses on teaching traditional construction craftsmanship
Cooperative monitoring of the airwaves
Isn't that the point? If phone's are significantly less useful without the internet, then doesn't that mean that the internet is the more transformational technology?
I generally agree with what you are saying, but I should point out that private-sector and public-sector unions are very different animals.
You expect your average high school student volunteer to be comfortable with command-line pipelines or be briefed in that vs. just using excel??? The conceptual overhead for a beginner vs. the payoff is just not there.
If it has the capability to communicate cross-version, it should just do that, instead of displaying an error message that /doesn't/ point you to `DOCKER_API_VERSION`.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/08/19/the-red-and-the...

Granted, "Study after study" was clearly wrong.
UVB-76 Signal
I think this is a very solid theory if you think of satoshi as an average developer. How many of us have created an app that had promise but let it die due to apathy/boredom/etc

I believe, based on the white paper, that his creation was ideologically motivated. He believed in what he was making, and would have taken every precaution possible.

There's always the chance he didnt think it would take off and let his Bitcoin stagnate and get lost. But I don't believe it is so.

There is a quote of him saying something like he would never destroy a private key. And the fact that his disappearance happened right before everything really took off, but I clearly remember there was a very tight knit group of people who absolutely believed in the cause.

And he handed development off so carefully, I can hardly believe he would have just neglected something in my opinion he personally believed would be world changing.
>> these are brand-new students who have never coded anything at all in any language

Is this really a thing? I just can't imagine a student going into CS unless they have at least a bit of experience playing with it in their own time. As someone who started programming at age 7-8, I just can't believe people go into CS without a pre-existing interest in the form of a hobby.

Do people really enter into CS for the money grab? No interest in programming, no idea what they are getting into, and solely interested in the salary once employed? That seems so counterintuitive based on the reason the majority of us enter the industry. Maybe this is where the 9-5ers come from? I can't say this without ego being involved: you can tell the difference between a "real developer" who spends some time most nights digging into new tech, vs. someone who is in it for the salary who adds nothing but code debt every time they touch the codebase because they never improve their skills outside of office hours. ie: The "senior" after 10+ years whose every commit looks like the work of a first-week developer.
I honestly don't understand where you're going re: number of people. Care to elaborate?

I won't argue with you about the 99% data, 1% behavior changes thing. I can't argue with unreferenced statistics :) I seriously doubt your percentages, though. In any case, for business/enterprise software development it's definitely NOT the case. Software changes are both very common and a reasonable activity, so common in fact that if you disagree with this I have to ask (if you don't mind me asking): do you work in software development, and if so, what kind of software?

Edit: and to answer a previous remark of yours: writing new code for feature/change requests has little to do with "making software as complicated as possible". It's likely the opposite: software that does just one thing is easier & faster to write and maintain than needlessly "flexible" and "customizable" systems. If I wanted to make a mess -- and myself indispensable -- I'd definitely go the "extremely customizable, this thing does everything you want sir!" route ;)
...So you're saying we're just going to have a bunch of new mistakes to amuse ourselves with? Oh good!
Yes, I work on a mixed team of physicists, engineers, and computer scientists, and the most frustrating part is trying to work with some of the physicists' code. For the most part it is fairly functional, but the problem is that it is almost unreadable. It is quite clear that they write it as fast as possible so they can do what the OP would call real work without regard for others will need to work with and maintain that code later on.
Yep. Just looked at the Wrkriot Facebook page. Previous posts have the old name... and the Spongebob memes
Almost half the comments here are just to remind everyone that C can/will never be replaced. Is that really the most insightful we can be? Is HN so pedantic now that we can't analyze an interesting language idea, but just nitpick at its existence?
> but it'd also include Americans telling you how great Trump is and how they can't wait for him to get rid of Mexicans,

> Or the 36% (currently) of Americans who support Trump's policies? [1]

You are making a shortcut. There are probably various reasons why people favor a candidate, and you should not underestimate the "I hate the other one even more" factor.

> French people going on about how muslims should all be imprisoned

This is a preposterous statement. Even the FN's proposed policies is not about putting folks in prison, but to make them leave the country if they had the power to do so. Plus, French prisons are already over-capacity and most prison sentences are not applied because of that. Do you know what you are talking about or do you read tabloids?
More than that.. Your device will see it's on a Wi-Fi network, and freely download software updates, do backups, etc. All the stuff it normally wouldn't do on mobile data.

I wonder what the general uptake of usage is? Anecdotally, do any HN readers use their car's Wi-Fi? Why?
Thanks for the feedback! Do you know of any interesting engineering problems that I can try solving? Perhaps a project like this:

https://haseeb-qureshi.github.io/n-queens-visualizer/ The blogger used it for his own portfolio. It solves the 'N/Eight Queen Problem'. I actually tried doing it myself using JS and I ran into a lot of problems.. My skills may not be that far along yet.
> Isn't the photoshopped wire transfer literally outright criminal fraud? The government should move fast and break him.

Definitely fraudulent.
The BSD license is great for code you don't care about – Linus Torvalds
Singaporean startup founder here who moved from the US. I have yet to meet a psychopathic CEO here in Singapore, but I've met and heard about quite a few in Silicon Valley / Bay Area. It may just be selection bias (a lot more companies are founded in the Bay Area) but I wonder if there's something more. Any other insights into Bay Area startups vs. international startups here?
Hmm, the CFG bookmarklet worked for me...https://blog.umur.io/2015/03/02/paywall-bypass-bookmarklet-c...
Gawker was basically a Supermarket News Rag Tabloid on the Internet and sort of like TMZ trying to dig dirt on celebrities.

Hulk Hogan got hit really bad when they found he was using racist words in the video, and they tried to blackmail Hulk Hogan and threaten to release the sex tape if he didn't pay it. Hogan didn't pay, the sex tape was released and he lost his job at WWE and they erased him from most of their history. HHH and the McMahons want a PG rated show, and won't allow R-Rated stuff on their show as they try to appeal to children now with the action figures and other toys.
One interesting development is that I see the small "Nissan Leaf" style electrics competing against electric bikes now for the "second car / commuter car" role. For 1/10th the price ($4000) you can get a very top-of-the-line electric bike which is free to park, doesn't get stuck in traffic, has no regulatory costs, more flexibly to charge (removable battery), etc, etc. Of course it also has downsides (weather, exercise, safety), but I see those bikes more and more around Cambridge and they seem to make a lot of sense.
Out of curiosity where else have you lived?
I recently had the pleasure of tracking down the source code for how this works. There are a few methods, but the main one is at least a hundred lines long.