skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't matter. If GM sponsored a law that won't specifically target Toyota but all cars competing with GM cars, not naming Toyota by name - the argument "it's illegal" would be as disingenuous. It's subverting the meaning of the word to make it serve special interest. We think illegal things are bad, because we assume there are just laws that ban bad things from happening. So if we make a law banning somebody from competing with us, they'd be "illegal" and thus bad. But it's easy to see through this - sometimes "illegal" means just "bad law" and not "bad thing". US has a history of many extremely bad laws, I won't list them because I am sure you can name them by yourself, and even more laws that aren't as bad as those but merely self-serving and protecting some special interest. Laws against Uber and Airbnb usually are of this kind.
When Not to Translate
PM Modi says move had to be secret
Scalping is definitely sub-optimal. The reason being that it rewards a middleman, not the person doing the effort. It discourages labor.

A proper capitalist system for an event like a concert would have everybody enter bids for the seats, and once the venue fills up (or on the date of the event) the seats are assigned based on the bids. Of course if you're poor and the event is popular then capitalism says you're SOL. Money is everything and without money you are nothing.

One nice thing about this system is that prices are set by the people, not by the venue. People pay exactly what they think the performance is worth and no more. Artists get direct feedback as to how popular their act is.
It is worse than that, because now there is often an awkward sharing of responsibility where customers start to pack their own bags, then stop to pay, and the cashier/bagger isn't sure whether to take over, and usually doesn't
Yeah, those are the laws that shouldn't exist.
>> e.g. block chain, deep learning, etc.

> Most bootcamps that I'm aware of are for training web developers, with a few going into mobile app development.

Yeah, I'd actually be pretty interested in a bootcamp that teaches deep learning. AFAIK that doesn't exist, but it should (?)
Long lines and fights at banks as India cancels some rupee notes
Leaked from NASA: A Rocket Propulsion System That Ejects No Mass
At the risk of getting too far off topic, that isn't the comment that got jrcii banned; this is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12698197

As for several repeat violations mentioned in the thread, you can find several other comments in jrcii's history that have been marked as [flagged][dead].
Chaos at banks continues after ATMs reopen
I agree that one could interpret the quote in context that way. I also appreciate the effort to correct misinformation and cherry-picked quotes.

In this case, the gp quote is accurate, though arguably cherry-picked or purposely misinterpreted.

Trump: And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.

Bush: Whatever you want.

Trump: Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.

I've trimmed the quote in the interest of space, while leaving enough to attempt to show the context. If you'd like to add more context, I have no problem with that. I chose the sources I did as they were the first that came up in the search results when looking for the full transcript.

- http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/donald-trump-tape-trans...

- http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37595321
> write good code that can be reviewed and maintained

This is an interesting thing to think about. I just opened up a Google spreadsheet that I created in 2009 to see if I would be able to understand and update it if necessary. I managed to make a change and see some new results in under a minute.

The time to get back up to speed inside a long-lost spreadsheet is way faster than going back to a program you wrote 7 years ago. Even in complex spreadsheets, it is very easy to follow the flow of data by just clicking inside a cell to see how it was computed.

Incremental improvements are also typically easier on a spreadsheet than in a standard programming language. Part of it is because each cell or column is quite modular and I don't have to worry about extra state that isn't specified in that cell's formula.
Start there and then read hundreds of other snakeoil tutorials and in the end you still wont know what the correct way is.
Some in Canada left with worthless cash after Indian rupee cancellation
"Google has nothing to gain from commenting."

Defusing a court case would seem helpful. Explaining to those worried by this might be good.

Acknowledging you screwed up, fixing it and publicly stating you will do better (then doing better) can actually boost the way a company is seen.
For anyone wishing to follow this topic over time the subreddit format works great:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nesclassicmods/
Stampedes and scuffles in India as rupee banknotes withdrawn
"Are we back in fourth grade now?"

This country just elected Trump. Yes, I think we are back in fourth grade now.
I use Uber for a lot of time and never used Paypal with them. They accept regular credit cards. If you think (like Stallman) that using a credit card is an intolerable invasion of your privacy, then you'd have a hard time using Uber. You would also have a hard time convincing many other people to stop using credit cards.
You'd need to show paper bags are less impactful than plastic before knowing whether to recommend them.
Absolutely.

I didn't even realise the significance of the date until after I'd posted it.

https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/foKDxbyh...
Rs 500, 1k ban: It is the common man who is affected, and his anger is showing
Management will only become more important in the future. As technology gets more complex, it will take greater numbers of people to create and maintain it.

And truthfully, most companies today are really bad at management, particularly related to technology.

Learning to code is a great idea but I would think of it as supplementary to your management work.

You're right about all these amazing technologies that are being developed, but truthfully, the stuff you learn in a bootcamp is not going to put you in a position to do much in those fields. It might be a small step in that direction, but you would need to go way beyond it. Advancements are coming from folks with deep knowledge of math, algorithms, systems engineering, etc.
I find it really valuable, and follow a few dozen sites.

I'm curious, if folks don't use an RSS reader, how do they find articles and follow sites they're interested in?
How India's currency ban is hurting the poor
There are actually some good arguments for a cost to bid system.

In theory it encourages people to bid their true preferences rather than waste time sniping.
Labeling is simply creating a reference to a body of analysis that has already been done. (A particular proposed label may or may not be accurate in a given case, but that's an entirely different issue.)
Didn't expect to see a link up to my graduate alma mater (Kent State U. mathematics department).

I know Oana, if there are any questions about the problems or the course sequence that they fit into let me know.
Demonetisation effect: No takers for Indian rupee abroad
UAE Indian Banks Not Accepting Old Rs500, Rs1,000
Oh come on, do tell us what NES emulator you made? :)
As a hiring manager who has interviewed many many bootcamp grads and supervised a couple, I don't think they're are worth it. They're vastly overpromising what skill level you will be at when you graduate and how easily you will be able to find a job.

Because they are trying to compress a lot into a short period of time, and because they are trying to keep it interesting and give students early wins, they seem to not spend nearly enough time on the basics, and jump straight in to using frameworks that do everything for you, the end result being that a bootcamp grad can quickly whip up an ok looking app that has basically no functionality but as soon as you ask them to do something complicated, they get stuck. Sure, that's not true of all grads, but I'd argue that the ones who come out of a bootcamp with serious skills are the passionate ones who would've done just as well or better on their own, so at best they wasted a bunch of money.

You are much better off going the self taught route to start off, maybe take community college classes on the side. If dabbling like that doesn't inspire you and give you the fuel you need to learn what you need to know on your own then software engineering may not be the ideal career for you anyway, what you know is a small part of the job, what you can figure out and learn are also huge factors.
The threats compound.

Gov't plus commercial is worse than either individually.
Please ‘Note’: How to Exchange Your Old Rs 500, 1000 for New Ones
I can point to 44, all of whom had the title "President of the United States of America." That's one of the fundamental reasons separation of powers was built into the constitution. The assumption was (correctly) that all people are corrupt and will abuse their power if left unchecked by other self-interested people who have equal power and opposing agendas.

So in addition to those 44, there are all the people who have had the titles "Representative," "Senator," and "Justice." Not a popular view today, I realize.
Could someone who understands this space weigh in on how technically interesting this is? (Or isn't?) In particular, their research paper on "End to End Learning for Self-Driving Cars"[1] seems to yield a system that requires an unacceptable amount of manual intervention: in their test drive, they achieve autonomous driving only 98% of the time. But I have no real expertise in this space; perhaps this result is impressive because it was end-to-end or because of the relatively little training? Is such a system going to be sufficiently safe to be used in fully autonomous systems? Or is NVIDIA's PX 2 interesting but not at all for the way it was used in their demonstration system?

[1] http://images.nvidia.com/content/tegra/automotive/images/201...
I can pursue an agenda while being both polite and thoughtful. If I were to ask a series of questions, using the Socratic Method, you would absolutely want to know what my motive was before misspeaking and harming your position.

Commenters on HN post both to persuade other commenters and to expose their own opinions to scrutiny by the community. I attempt to persuade and be persuaded by other HN commenters. It is useful to add disclaimers so other commenters can see if I have an agenda. Often I do, and it's useful to disclose that so suspicion is suspended and discourse can continue.
Is 10 watts the correct figure?

The powertrain uses 300+ Watts, so it seems like a manageable number if it is correct.
What India’s New 500 and 2,000-Rupee Notes Will Look Like
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/121026...

http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/33880/dcs-libraries...

I hope no one here is surprised by this decline...
Crowds Line Up at India’s Banks to Exchange Banned Rupee Notes
>But what if those people smarter than you don't share your vision?

I find someone who's smart and also share my vision then.
I agree. In my case, I spend around 3-3.5 hours in commute everyday. This is the biggest challenge for me. After I get back home, I feel very tired and don't feel like doing anything.
Thought that too, but not everybody instantly finds the thing that is rewarding to them. And probably, before everyone sets out in university to find his own interests, even with this a number of students will remain bored for the time they have to learn this. Its sad but not avoidable.
Which one of those is GPLv3 and not GPLv2?
Rs 500, Rs 1,000 notes valid for key utilities till November 14
Also in LA. The main thing I notice is people bringing their own cloth or plastic bags into the store. I have not noticed the "dig for a dime" thing. People do spend more time fitting stuff into their bags.
Thanks for the responses guys. A few more points of clarification. PM means product manager. Top 3 tech think Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple. In terms of my motivation I think today we are where the internet was in 1994-95, at the cusp of the next big technology wave. I think technologies like deep learning and AI more broadly will fundamentally change every single industry and the next big tech companies will be created during this period. Not knowing how to code I think places me at a big disadvantage when it comes to the software jobs that will open up and at a disadvantage if I want to take a stab at starting a company using these technologies. It is a risky bet for sure, but if I think long-term I have a feeling learning to code and being immersed in engineering by working as a software engineer will be a very smart move. But I could be completely wrong lol :)
Rs 500, 1,000 notes ban: While India plugs black money holes, Indians find leaks
I even kinda enjoy it, but the last time I had to do any kind of separable partial differentials was... a decade ago? There's very few domains where it's commonplace.
Depth map extraction from vision in real time depends on accurate algorithmic merging of past frames, color gradients and motion vector extraction to come up with a 3D map of what's around the vehicle. Contrast this with LIDAR, which can present a depth map in real time by sending out an array of light pulses and timing how long they take to come back to the IP.

Which method is more likely to have implementation errors?
Pretty sure 3.1 doesn't need knowledge of Markov Chains (even if you implicitly use them)
India's Move to Curb 'Black Money' Will Break Backbone of Traffickers
The NDAA is the bill that funds the military; it is passed every year.

I guess you might be referring to a particular provision from a particular year? You're going to have to be more specific.
I haven't seen anyone being attacked over admitting to supporting President-elect Trump, but I have seen a few hyperbolic posts from both sides being downvoted.

The debate in the comments was lively and both sides were represented over the Sam Altman post defending his decision to keep Peter Thiel at YCombinator.
> make an average of $60/hour

Are you kidding me?
Indian rupee falls sharply against US dollar amid domestic, global headwinds
'Panicked' woman kills herself over rupee bank note ban in India
One more thing I wanted to know is, how often do you guys practice coding competitive Data Structures and Algorithm questions? I feel it is very important to crack interviews these days.
How Do Banks Decide My Personal Loan Eligibility?
Agreed.

Hiring the best qualified people who wants to Make America Great Again is different from giving favors to unqualified foreigners who wants to screw over the American people.
What percentage of usable land is actually used, and what percentage of that usable land percentage is used destructively?
A $300 pair of jeans also isn't indistinguishable from a $30 pair. And you're talking fashion here, where the value is derived from the associated brand. That's not at all the case with people buying up a $60 item and reselling it for $600. They are providing literally no value at all to the buyer.
Fleeing gangs, Central American families surgevtowards US
Indian farmer commits suicide after rupee note ban
In the English language, saying that a product or service is "free" is commonly understood (and has always been understood) to mean "gratis, free as in beer." Stallman has spent the past several decades trying to get people to redefine "free" to primarily mean "libre" in the case of technology, a far less common usage of the word "free" in English.

This is what people mean when they say Stallman is trying to redefine "free."
I agree with your projection for the future and that PMs in general develop only limited skills for building products or contributing at the ground floor, but I would not get into programming unless you feel like you're wired for it, because you may invest years only to become mediocre, and can even grow to hate it.

Why not contribute by launching a startup as CEO? If a Harvard MBA with deep pockets and PM experience reached out about her startup idea, that is a beer or coffee I would take seriously. In other words it sounds like you have the background to attract a talented programmer cofounder.
Indian diaspora caught out by surprise currency clampdown
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$60/hour? The average person definitely does not make that.
Unbelievable hypocrites. It was fine during Obama but somehow he needs to shut it down because they all despise Trump ? no it was shameful back then and it should have never existed.
Ok, lets walk through a scenario, how that might work in practice.

- A law is enacted that says that H1b workers must leave US after training their replacement.

- One of the big five companies puts out a requirement for a Software engineer with 10 years of experience who is also a US US citizen.

Currently, there are about a thousand job openings for software engineers with 10 years of experience in all big 5 companies combined that they are not able to fill, so a change is law is not required for this and won't do any good here.

- So say they relax the rules and say anyone can apply and will get trained.

- A laid off steel plant worker applies for the position of a software engineer.

- Once hired a H1b worker starts training him for the job that he was doing. Which might take a lot of years. Nothing against steel plant workers, they are just as honest and hardworking as any engineer. It would have taken me the same number of years to be good at steel manufacturing, just the transition takes time.

Now if I am any of the top 5 companies I am thinking, it will take a decade for us to hire these replacements and make the transition, and they are right. So what do they do, they come up with their own plan. They send that H1b worker home (india/china) and say 'you know what work from home' or they send him to a third country like Ireland or Canada and get him to work from there. Effectively its a sum negative for US economy because a tax paying job has now left US.
It never hurts to know as many tools as possible for data analysis, as they all have their advantages and disadvantages.
> If You Want to Connect with White Working-Class Voters, Place Economics at the Center

She means jobs for the white working-class, not economics. Every economist values free-trade. Consumers will get higher quality products at lower prices if we pass more free-trade deals.

Sure, we can create price floors and impose high tariffs on imported goods to increase jobs for the white working-class. We'll just have to raise taxes for the people who actually earn their jobs. This is a ludicrous argument. We would never say something similar to create jobs for under-represented minorities.

We need alternatives to Silicon Valley in the rural areas of Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Florida. Stanford graduates have to think about moving to Iowa. If we can create great companies elsewhere, the white working-class would start to see different opportunities. Once their financial situation isn't at risk, they'll start to engage in politics in a more meaningful way - in a way where we'll actually talk about who is fit to be President and not the person who's just saying all the right buzzwords.
I don't think this is entirely accurate. Yes, enterprise coding can be really boring and mundane, but just as often it can be interesting and challenging and involve new technologies. As an entry level programmer, sure, you'll do Jira tickets and HTML fixes, but once you get just a touch of seniority, depending on the organization, you can get some neat opportunities.

Lots of enterprise coders are tasked with evaluating new technology, working on greenfields experiments, like building a Hadoop cluster or starting out an OpenStack test deployment. Other times, there are extremely specialized jobs in enterprises. I have some friends who write Erlang in enterprises, and they go home at 5, don't find the work too stressful, and have plenty of interesting problems to solve.

Yes, there's a lot of great tech to play with out there. You can do that on your own time as much as you can do that at an enterprise. Yeah, startups might be more inclined to work with this stuff, but they're also just as inclined to make a big tech mistake and end up 1 year down the wrong road.

Finally, I am not a fan of bootcamps to learn to code. I think they're fine to get you started, but I doubt you can actually make a real career out of just a boot camp. You'll need experience and a lot more real-world time to learn how things work when you're developing software with a dozen other people at the same time. It's a lot more complicated than just knowing how to write functions and use git.

Everyone I know who did a coding bootcamp and got a job, got a job doing the absolute most basic stuff imaginable: bug reports, bug fixes, testing, etc. There's a lot of stuff you won't learn at the bootcamp that needs to be done in an enterprise: compliance and governance work, requirements gathering, documentation development, CI/CD concerns, how to build and tweak a delivery pipeline, deployment stuff, provisioning stuff. There's a ton to learn in enterprise software development, and learning how to whip out a program in Ruby or JavaScript won't adequately prepare you. It may get your foot in the door, but expect another 2 years of working there before you'll be truly ready for a promotion or better job.

And, yes, ageism is a thing, but the absolute best programmers in the world tend to be over 50. They may not know JavaScript, but they can write an entire OS in assembly, and they tend to understand the hardware/software stack down to the bit. Old coders are absolutely incredible and wise. Anyone who is ageist in the valley against coders is really fucking themselves over.

I think the best bet for you is to do the coding boot camp, then go back to being a PM. Knowing how to actually write software is probably the most valuable skill a software dev PM can have: it'll make it a lot easier to understand why everything takes so damn long. It'll also make you much more appealing to a Google or a Facebook.
OK. The photo is misleading.
I still consider a continent-sized patch of dense plastic particulate cause for alarm even if it doesn't photograph well.
Blackmoney SIT calls scrapping of Rs 500, Rs 1000 notes as ‘bold’ step
I guess some of these could be considered basic math, maybe if you associate only with physicists and statisticians. The calculus / related rate problems are straightforward, but most folks will have had no familiarity with Brownian motion, matricies, and most other topics here. Hell, there is little point for > 99% of software developers to think about or use arctangent in any given year.
Cleaning the Indian Rupee: Cash-Only Businesses of Old Delhi
Some libraries provide free access to eBooks -- handy.

In SF: http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=2000005001
I don't agree with everything in the article but it's angle is obviously trying to figure out the reason for Trump's popularity with "white non-college educated males".
Looking for fat profits, Japanese households are betting big on the Indian rupee
Your comment is beyond ironic given who it's directed at.
Well that's disturbing. Algorithm enabled censorship.