skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great, thanks for your response. You sounds like someone who is on au fait with these kinds of deals so I'll ask you your opinion on who were the winners and losers here.

So, presumably TPG lose what ever the initially put in now that it has hit the wall. Does that mean that they will have lost money over the course of the investment or would they have found a way to slowly extract money from the quite reasonable revenue that Avaya was generating over the last 10 years? Their only regret being that they werent able to offload the company before it hit the wall.
With the mortgage/LBO analogy: when the bank repossess the home it is theirs to manage. By what process does the venture guys give up ownership and wash their hands of the day to day operations?

Since this was a leveraged buyout presumably the big loser here would be who ever holds the bonds that were created to fund the buyout and whatever else debt the company holds. Is there anyway to know who they are and why they thought it was a good idea to put their money into this? Are likely to end up owners of this company after the bankruptcy is resolved?

I guess the employees will take a large hit here, layoffs all round and whatnot.

The leadership members that were put in to run the place: do they typically take any kind of a hit in scenarios like this? It seems common knowledge that KK was getting paid serious compensation for his time but it looks like the only downside for him is that he didnt get the big bonus for selling off the company. Can we expect a clearout at the top or is this up to the new owners who result from the chapter 11 process.
I'll be honest. I can only remember one company actually asking me about my projects. They invited me on-site for a $15/hr position. Then randomly, out-of-the-blue prompted me to bring up my code, somehow, on their laptop. I obviously didn't have it, besides some poorly looking code hosted on Github.

"What are they asking instead?"

SAT score. Why did I choose my university, instead of going to a higher ranked one? Expected salary. Favorite programming language. Most commonly, how well I know the skills listed in the job description, what I'm interested in learning, and whether I'm more interested working with front end or back end. Tell me about yourself. I did once get actual STAR questions from Quicken Loans

An example of an interview (more like a phone screen) I had with Booz Allen Hamilton:

1) "Why did you leave your last job after 2 months?" (it was obviously a 2 month contract)

2) "Are you more interested in front or back end, or more full stack?"

3) "Will you be able to pass the background check?"

4) "Have you ever worked for the government?"

5) "How well do you know the referrer?"

6) "How did you find about this job?"

With an on-site at a software shop for a .NET role. Note: that they gave me a take-home project to do, then never discussed it:

1) "How well do you know this <skill>?"

2) "What do you read to learn about new stuff?"

3) "How do you know when to stop researching and instead actually do the coding?"

4) "Do you play video games?"

5) "Tell me about yourself."

With an on-site at a travel company -- that you probably haven't heard of -- for a VB.NET role:

It was simply a "tell me about yourself" to the CEO, and a couple of implementing some functions on paper, and writing some SQL. I aced the writing portion.

I've applied to startups, most of the time. They generally ask tech knowledge/trivia.
ProtonMail's verification requirements are determined by a complex system of IP reputation and other factors that are analysed in realtime when the sign up page is rendered. As an e-mail service, one of the most challenging things for ProtonMail is preventing abusive accounts from damaging the service's SMTP sending IP addresses' reputation to the point where deliver-ability becomes impossible with other e-mail service providers. This is especially difficult for e-mail providers that work to deliver privacy, and potentially pseudoanonymity, to users.
The comment wasn't about the human race shrinking in size, it was about the human race ceasing to exist.
What would have replaced it?
My previous router did this to obscure password length, by inserting three stars into the field for every character typed. Which completely broke browser password managers, and the ability to paste the password.
Thanks, missed the "Money amounts are in thousands of dollars" - corrected the comment above.
California will use location data on their smartphones & send some drones over. The Wyoming kids won't know what hit them.

Better yet, California can combine some data points & then update certain self driving cars, sending them over a cliff.

Then there is the virus route. It has been shown that being a dim Republican is actually genetic. CRISPR to the rescue of humanity.
Ask HN: Making time for side project?
If you work full-time and also work on a side project outside of work, what strategies do you use to really make progress towards completing your project?

I try to get up early in the morning to hack on it, but progress is very limited.

I have taken the train and that has given me an hour each way to work on it. The only downside is that the train takes twice as long as driving.
Similarly, there's a strong need for more developers tools in varied languages. A lot of great minds are being wasted because they are not proficient in English, and don't have a programming language in a language they know, or have difficulty bridging the gap because of a lack of in-depth tutorials in their language.
These things have cascading effects. As your regional economy implodes, everything is impacted.

Your home that a lot of your wealth is tied up in? Worthless.

It's not just like getting laid off by a company and looking for a job. It's about having a skilled career that suddenly is worthless.

Plenty of examples in tech. Ask your average >45+ year old getting purged from tech companies about "adapting". There are still DEC alumni floating around in their 60s in shitty contract gigs who cannot retire, but haven't had a "good job" since getting nuked by HP/Compaq.
Hmm the article plagiarises one of it references pretty verbatim (https://www.lammertbies.nl/comm/info/modbus.html). Tacky!
Machines cost money to develop and buy. They will only replace a class of worker/task once the value exists.

It's very expensive to develop a machine that can replace sewing workers (DARPA is working on one because the US military has a need for it). It hasn't yet created any value because fabric is ridiculously complicated for robots but comparatively very easy for humans to manipulate). So far, the sewing robot is neither very useful nor very valuable (since it is still orders of magnitudes more expensive than fabric workers).

If low-paying work is less desirable than it is now, companies will have to deal with the game theory reactions of how consumers react to there being a shortage of fast food workers, bus boys, valets, etc. There is a certain amount of slack that consumers will absorb, either in resources (time, money, effort) expended. IKEA makes you bus your own tables like a cafeteria. I imagine if bus boys and fast food workers suddenly became more rare / expensive, companies would ask their customers to inconvenience themselves to maintain their profit margins / economic viability.
What about 3D acceleration; does it come with drivers which fully support OpenGL?
I made a moral judgement, which IMHO is not the same as being judgemental or "the moral police". If, as you say, discourse on HN often unfolds in tangential directions, surely moral tangents like mine are as permissible as historical ones like yours?
Yes, these systems that are mismanaged by bureaucrats & politics. It's not like our water is safe & people who wish to manage water on their own property are prosecuted by the state.
> onKeyDown

Right-click paste from my password manager, and it doesn't work. Thanks.

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This idea is terrible in general, but if you do, against all that is holy, implement it, please, please use onInput.
Projects are useful because you can stick them on your CV, and because if they're interesting enough people will reach out to you, especially if you write a blog post about what you did. For best results pick a new up and coming tech or one your target companies are using, the ideas are low hanging and there's less competition. No-one will read the code or use your software, but as long as it sounds impressive and you can talk about the things you did and challenges you overcame, that will be enough.

Though that's really only going to be at tech companies, non-tech companies are usually looking to see that you can hit the ground running with their tech stack.

Also, contact people at hiring companies directly, find their email or message them on Twitter or get a trial of LinkedIn's premium plan that lets you message anyone. Look at angel.co. Talk to coworkers from where you contracted, if there are developers there and they liked your work they can help you, though I guess if it's contract work they may not have any more devs.

Also, I've found startups to be stingy unless they really need you, check out what people list on Angel.co, and consider the middle or bottom of those ranges given you're right out of school. A stingy job is better than no job in your position.

Sucks that your network isn't coming through, it would be really useful to find someone who can vouch for you, especially if you worked on projects together.

Consider using someone like Triple Byte or Hired or interviewing.io who will conduct a technical interview then recommend you to companies they work on based on how it went.

Don't give up and get discouraged, it can take a while.
^ 100% agree. I think just marking HTTP pages with password fields as Not Secure would make HTTP pages without passwords fields appear to be secure. This is obviously not the case---they are just as insecure because you are sending your session cookie which is equivalent to your password---so all pages should be marked Not Secure.
You are conflating fairness vs. justice.

There's an entire philosophy based on the work of John Rawls [0] that codifies the conflation of these ideas [1]. It's not at all a simple matter to strive for justice in an unfair world. Some libertarian folks elsewhere in this discussion have brought up the idea that taxes are theft. On the opposite end of that spectrum, I've heard it argued that property rights are a form of violence. What does it mean for the rights of an individual if, in a hypothetical future, all arable land is owned, fenced off, tended by drones, and guarded with extreme prejudice? A Mad Max-style dystopia sprinkled with little walled gardens.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rawls

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_as_Fairness
I Love Coding, but I Almost Missed Out
Having a constant that stays with you in good times and bad has helped me. Could be a person, a piece of music, a book, a video/tv series/movie or just a long a walk.

Following stoicism helps. I read the book listed below that explains it well. My main takeaway from that book was that it is much easier to be happy if one stops caring about two things - External validation and Instant Gratification.

"One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life." - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5617966-a-guide-to-the-g...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26043368-the-gita-for-ch... answers questions like 'How can one win a war when it involves killing ones own family?' with teachings like 'Do your duty with single minded focus and great sincerity, without worrying about the results of the work'
Except when they're caught short during a natural disaster, Walmart is not supply-constrained. If they sell more they'll order more and factories will make more. The problem is (3) people don't always have the money to buy, which limits the size of that market.

Inflation happens when the market can't adjust fast enough or they hit real supply constraints (such as real estate in big cities).
The Six Types of Business Models for Startup
What about methane, anyone got stuff for that?? It's much more potent of a greenhouse gas than CO2.
While Caucasians, Asians, blacks and so on are more clear cut races (for some definition of it), Latinos are more of an ethnicity (it involves cultural components). Thus, a latino may also be white, Asian, black, etc.

At least that's my understanding of it.
I view this issue differently, and I would love your opinion on my view.

First on sex/gender: I feel that hormonal differences create psychological differences in the norms between genders. This is why men are generally more aggressive and violent(see higher incarceration rates) and women are more nurturing. These differences lead to people in general choosing careers that reflect their psychology, and forced diversity hurts those that do best in their field.

Then on ethnicity, I feel many of the differences come from both differences in opportunity(which should be overcome) and differences in cultural and social norms, which lead to people choosing different careers.

In my opinion, forced diversity hurts those who would normally gravitate towards those fields because they are displaced by someone who doesn't necessarily want to be there, but just sees opportunity.

Again, I'm not looking to fight. I'd love you opinion on why I'm right or wrong.
The Danger of Drones
"Isn't it up to a country to make itself attractive to investors, i.e. by not pulling all that shit?"

Yes, but it would defeat the purpose of a trade agreement.

Moreover, if country ABC signs the agreement, indicating 'they won'd do this BS' - and then they actually do do it - then they get access to other markets while cheating.

The agreement is supposed to prevent countries from cheating.

It has a side effect of preventing governments from doing things they ought to do - for example, punishing international companies from polluting etc..

It's a tricky problem.

There should be clauses that allow governments to make laws to stop companies from polluting etc.
Theft is a crime committed by another citizen. Redistribution of wealth is a "social program" committed by the State. See, with language, you can justify anything. One can make anything legal or illegal. It all depends on which Entity is saying those words. That's the nature of political power...

"A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me."
---George III of the United Kingdom
If I misrepresented it, please correct me!
The perfect example of this approach is Concepts, Models, and Techniques of Computer Programming. It covers a wide range of paradigms [1] using Oz/Mozart and it also shows examples using many famous languages.

[1] https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/VanRoyChapter.pdf
So I should agree to go along with humiliation because other people do? Well that's some fucking logic.
People know instinctively that smog and dens of homosexuality and degeneracy are not safe for children. For those discussing daycare: It's basically an abandonment simulation run daily and it destroys your child's psyche.
Same with my degree program. Learning the programming language used for any particular class was an "exercise left to the student."

After I finished my undergrad degree I had an "exit interview" and I mentioned that this was one of the things I liked about the curriculum, because it helped me see that the abstract computing theory is what is important, and languages are largely a matter of syntax and convenience. The professor's response was that they so often hear the opposite, that students complain that they don't learn languages that employers want.
> Republicans who think government shouldn't pick winers

They don't actually think this; they just pretend to
Sure, but this thread is about "middle-class cars", which the M5 definitely is not.
I think that learning C before C++ might hurt you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnWhqhNdYyk
The 32-Bit Dog Ate 16M Kids' CS Homework
It's one of the few things they do that I can't find a reason they would be financially motivated to do so, other than increase developers' opinions about the company as a whole, which is a good thing for all.
"Do you think government agencies and leaders should be above the law"

In this case - it's not about suing the government for doing anything outside the law.

Company ABC decides to extract tons from freshwater from country XYZ.

Country ZYZ realizes this is damaging the environment, and puts in some regulations.

Company ABC can now sue country XYZ - just for having good governance.

There are many reasons that company ABC should be able to sue country XYZ ... but the it's so broad that it can lead to problems.
This largely depends on where you live. In urban areas, I think two working parents is the norm. In rural areas, one parent staying at home is a lot more common. Cost of living is a big part of that, for sure.d
Edited my comment to reflect this accounting error, revisit the comment to see the correction and related revision.

At the point you're spending billions in sum in a country for a reoccurring & necessary theoricially non-profit service, it would make more sense to do this via the government; yes, I get it's not a requirement, assumes government is functions efficiently, etc.
Thanks let's encrypt.

Google should've started way way earlier
"Thanks, Captain Obvious!"

Is there an option to turn this off, for those of us who feel we need it like a hole in the head?
Not the poster, but i just made the same choice. My reasons:

- Typescript has excellent dev tooling. I've been using vs code and intellij, and typescript integration is first class.

- Typescript seemed to have a richer type system. I didn't look deeply enough into flow to know for sure though.

- Outside of facebook flow didn't seem to have much traction. With angular 2 being built with typescript I have more confidence in it sticking around.
Off-topic, but Americans literally are shooting each other in the streets. More americans have died in gun homicides than died in all wars since, and including WW2. Include suicides, and gun violence exceeds all US war deaths ever.

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/aug/27/...
How early? Put a year on it. What should they have done, and when?
Storing co2 under the sea? Imagine what a leaking well will look like: a giant soda straw injecting c02 directly where it can do the most damage.

Carbon storage may be a stop-gap but, as with "clean coal", is also used as a pr flag to justify continued fossil fuel expansion. With the price of solar dropping, that is where we should focus (and fusion).
Separate tasks into smaller bites - trying to do too much at once will feel overwhelming as if nothing is being accomplished. This way I can do at least one thing a day and feel like I'm making progress.
"I'm willing to hear an argument for why TPP would be good for working people in the US. I've never heard anything even close to that. "

It's a free trade agreement like any other.

The benefits of free trade are well understood.

Consumers get access to a larger variety of goods, at better prices.

Companies get easier access to parts/services in their supply chain.

Etc. etc..
I think that the largest simulation of a quantum computer on a super computer is about 40qbits. Therefore quantum supremacy (weak...) is 41 stable qbits. There are numbers of groups out there that are building (working on projects with the funding to complete) machines with 100's of stable qbits now, so my argument is that quantum supremacy of the weak sort is a matter of engineering. I think that quantum computers that factor primes with 100's of digits (like 2048 bit ones) requires 1000's of qbits, say a couple of orders of magnitudes beyond the machines that are currently in train to be built.

The Hooft thing is that there are limits on computation due to the process of the universe and that if a classical computer that was at the plank scale, runs at plankian speed (help help I am using terms I can't understand!!!) and covered the whole of the universe couldn't do it from the beginning of time to heat death... then nor can an arbitrary QC. Shores algorithm does factors in (log n)^3 maybe we'll find that there are physical limits on the scale of QC which hold it below hundreds of millions of qbits where a plankian computer could be synthesised, and/or it may be that such a computer can't run at high clock speeds, and because of this BQP algorithms can't be run on problems that are not allowed in the sense that they somehow solve the universe.

I don't think anyone has any reason to believe this is true in an engineering sense but there is every reason to believe that large QC will be very, very difficult in an engineering sense and I think that the people building one do expect to run into problems of this sort eventually, but at the moment they are delighted to find that they are able to do things at the lower end that will create devices that are going to be transformational for reasoning about some components of the physical universe - for example simulation of the interactions of very large molecules - maybe mapping seconds of a virus interacting with a cell membrane using months of QC ?
It's great that vendors are standardizing on the layout. The same thing happened with the IBM PC/AT motherboard, and that spawned the entire PC clone industry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT_(form_factor)
JS experts: what is the best JavaScript tutorial for beginners?
I am going to teach Javascript and I would like your opinion on what is the best tutorial. By best I mean:
- most eloquent;
- most accurate;
- most up-to-date;

I am teaching this for a wide spectrum of people, including kids but also people over (40).
It's more nuanced than that though, because OP presumably is not talking about a specific model, but rather one with the likeness (and possibly sound) of a Ferrari.

For example, I don't know what the next Porsche model is, but I know I'll be able to recognize it when I see it because they are so distinctive.

See what happens in places where such trademark protections don't exist: http://www.carnewschina.com/2016/11/11/zotye-sr9-porsche-mac...
Exactly. We have pulled an unnatural amount of "usable carbon" to the surface, which, even if it becomes a part of a natural, stable, cycle, will leave us with a higher net amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. We can only go back to "natural" CO2 levels through unnatural means, unless we are willing to measure time on a geological time scale (the millions of years it will take to replace oil reserves from the swamps of today). So until then, we would still be dealing with an acidic ocean and a greenhouse atmosphere.
While using fewer, better languages for more is fantastic, I doubt you really want a single language.

Try replacing shell, Structured Query Language, and C with the same language. I won't say that it can't be done, but I think you'll lose a lot if you succeed.
Can someone explain what prevents a board like this from supporting USB3 (vs. the Odroid boards)?

I either want something much smaller and cheaper for IoT tinkering or something with USB3 and gigabit ethernet for NAS and high-bandwidth sensors (cameras and depth cameras). Does anyone know a board in the latter category?
They could add more ski stuff...at wages 50% less.

Mining is a horrible business and worse job. If people are fighting for that, they have no options.
I like this and agree with this argument. Most arguments for "diversity" are simply based on race and gender in the US, but your argument really was help me understand why true diversity on a global scale would help.
Most definitely. Cities need to unite.

Heck, I'm sure Wyoming would love to leave. They've got such a great economy with all that gas & coal. They can keep it! Or Texas. We'll miss the BBQ, but that's OK.

Seriously who needs them?