skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shawn was actually the person who sent me that link and said "some guy wants to teach people to code in a coffee shop or something, you should check it out." Back then, I had been hacking things together and had an engineering job, but never felt like I had enough credentials to be a 'real' programmer. I ended up deciding to join the first class of DBC to see what it would be like. There ended up being 21 of us in a tiny sublet at 923 Market. We literally had to go in through a door that was part of a larger garage door. CEO's and CTO's would come speak and everyone was very excited about what we were building together.

I think the thing I learned from the most was the way that Shereef carried himself and ran the community. We all felt like we were building something bigger than ourselves. Shereef was a next level community manager and wasn't afraid to cajole people into the uncomfortable spots for them. I think literally everyone in my class cried at some point. DBC was more than just a technical education, it was an emotional education. I've tried to emulate and embody the emotional balance I learned while in DBC, especially as Shawn and I were creating HR. I think DBC's longest mark on the industry will be in the insertion of 'engineering empathy' into the curriculum.

Shawn, don't forget that the founder of Epicodus came out of that first class of DBC, as did the founder of Codeunion. And the Bloc folks were working out of DBC early on as well. DBC set in motion a whole industry.

As a member of the industry, a former student at DBC, and a former staff member at DBC, I feel for the people (staff, students, alums) affected by this event and am saddened by the void that it will leave for many. I still have my dog tags, and took them out tonight in reverence. Props to everyone on the team who no doubt fought this closure until there wasn't fight left.

Anyone have great DBC memories to share? My two favorites:
1. Speed chess that happened just about every lunch in the first class
2. White water rafting with DBC2 students and staff
Sorry about that—it's going into the site guidelines, just very slowly.
Mirrors are also less safe. [0]

For a 6x8TB and assuming a (optimistic) 10^-16 URE, you get 3.5% failure rate for a RAID5 array, 0.7% for a RAID10 array and a 1.06e-08% failure rate for RAID 6.

Why be greedy for all that performance? Most home-grade NAS or even some business-grade NAS isn't used for performance sensitive operations, more like Word Documents and Family Pictures, stuff you don't want to loose.

I'd rather take safety over performance here.

[0]: https://redd.it/6i4n4f
What is the max tx/s speed? Still no consensus???
> A mature company can pay out all its technical debt, iron out the kinks in the tech stack and polish well-working solutions.

Sorry, Hacker News is a place for serious discussion, not absurd jokes.
We would hope that American's, and the good tech informed people on HN, would recognize that the innovation in tech was done by tech firms, which is welcomed and lauded.

But it is the unwholesome development and innovation in your political and lobbying fields, that is being used to set standards around the world.

A vast chunk of problems today trace their roots back directly to the MPAA and the RIAA, and their efforts to stamp out piracy.

Piracy which in turn was defined by a set of copyright protections which ensured that the people with the better lawyers and lobbyists now dictated when a good or creation escaped protection.
15 years time?
Paying Professors: Inside Google's Academic Influence Campaign (WSJ)
As far as I recall, IE, since reaching adulthood some few years ago, has identified itself as Mozilla when asked. It's a very pragmatic solution to the problem of a lot of websites having code to check for IE and apply all kinds of hacks to make stuff work anyway. It's also a tacit concession that .. yeah .. our track record wan't too good.

I'm old enough to remember the days when IE was a dominant force and they could pretty much thrash around and invent their own quirks and standards, forcing everyone else to play to their tune. So I find great joy in seeing IE disguising itself as Mozilla in order to not be treated as a rotten egg.
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I think the heart of the question was more, if the members are already public, why does Scala need to produce getters for them, why not access the members directly?
(Now More Than Ever) You Might Not Need JQuery
> If you watch the Chinese making pilgrimages to Qufu, the burial site of Confucius, you'll learn just how strong the long-term continuity of their history is.

Qufu is highly recommended. It is the holy city with continuity streteching back at least a thousand years, visited by many emperors from different dynasties.

A similar site is Ise Grand Shrine in Japan.
At the same time, Netflix discovered that keeping only the good one accelerate your time to market and productivity by a huge factor.
If you are comparing cryptocurrency exchanges with the real world transactions, stuff like this could have happened quite often in the old times. There is the story of the man working cast away for years with little connection with the rest of the world. After he comes back to a town he finds out that the king has changed, so all the notes and coins he has accepted as salary over the years are useless.

In reality, our banking system is much more chaotic than what the end-user sees it because central authorities are keeping the whole system together. and their authority is just what all of us believe in. Now, some people, for better or worse, started believing in something new.
A Highflying Tech Entrepreneur Crashes Back to Earth
"evergreen" means self-updating, with a rapid release cycle. Chrome, Edge, and Firefox follow this model. IE (essentially a legacy browser at this point) and Safari don't.
Adding 3 drives at a time is expensive and a non-option for a home NAS. As is "just copy it to a new server".

Both have high investment costs for something a plain mdRAID, snapRAID or LVM RAID can achieve far simpler with better results.
It would be interesting to see benchmarks on load time. This seems to be absent in many of these types of posts so it's not a clear what impact these efforts have on end users.
I'll set up an autodraft. And thanks.
> any changes require consensus from the miners who create Bitcoins and process transactions, and because it's not in their best incentive to do anything to reduce those transaction fees

Can you explain how this jives with miners supporting Segwit2X, which brings both segwit and bigger blocks?
On Roberto Osuna, and Dealing with Mental Health as a Pro Athlete
California will be changing dramatically how it charges for electricity in the next few years[1]. I was talking to a person Tesla today about putting solar on our house and he mentioned in passing that Time-Of-Use Rates will be the default for everyone in California in 2019 by law (AB 327 in passed in 2013). For your net metering you will get credit/pay for power to/from the grid at the rate for the time it happens. A good up-sell for the powerwall. If the rates get way out of wack due to high solar input, one could do well charging your powerwall during the peak solar production hours (see duck curve [2]) and putting them back on the grid a 3-6 hours later.

[1] https://cleantechnica.com/2015/06/08/california-rolls-out-de...
[2] http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/solar-energys-duck-cur...
It’s Never Obvious: About Percentiles
The 24 hour upswing may be another bull trap masking the bearish trend that has taken hold for the last month, which has hit the entire crypto market and sent some market caps down over 50%. The BTC scaling crisis has been a known factor for even longer than that and may have precipitated a runup in other coins that directly preceded this downtrend.
Hahaha, me too, but the old Word format really is as bad as everyone says, and we were trying to build a system with formal correspondence from spec to code (and sometimes from spec to proof to code), so having a "cobbled" together something really didn't fit the model.

The real problem was using word as our documentation format, but at Microsoft in the early oughts there really weren't many alternatives.
The Great Divergence (aka the Industrial Revolution's impact on GDP) is the obvious candidate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Divergence

But the population of Europe at the time or even America is only a fraction of China's, and the speed of China's growth has been even more spectacular. It took Britain ~50 years to double GDP between 1840 and 1890: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Biaroch_European_GDP_per_...

While China tripled their GDP/capita (both US$ and PPP) in a bit over 10: https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/interprete...
I remember this from a similar example in C:

#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
int x = 10;
while (x --> 0) /* x goes to 0 */
{
printf("%d ", x);
}
}

(prints 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1642028/what-is-the-oper...
Thats awesome, I was only aware of turbolinks. Sadly, I will never use it for real.

I, like many other, spending some time to ensure server side rendering works, and web site can function without JS.
If intercooler were part of browser, and not separate code it will be possible to adapt any SSR ready app to work with this.
There is a large portion of land in the US (area, not population) that is in the same boat as you - minus the kangaroos.

Challenges in my area and others:

Cell reception is not just poor, it often doesn't exist.

GPS on my phone and car drop now and then. Maybe to many trees?

Roads are of varying condition and can change anytime. Some you know not to go on in certain weather, etc.

Road maps are still wrong. I've fixed the ones I care about on Google. Some roads don't exist, others have addressing issues that are so bad it will put you in the wrong end of the county.

I'd enjoy a self driving car, but they are a long ways off in my area and many others. I'm sure it will happen, but it is a whole different world than a city.

I don't know that making it work in the middle of nowhere is worse than a city, but it is a different set of problems and manufacturers will of course target the cities first. So to you in the outback (not the Subaru), you aren't alone. Most discussion about what life is like in the US doesn't apply to me either.
What would you say are the worst pain points?
Who can afford to live in San Fran without working for 2 years (9 months)?
Could you elaborate about what you don't like about it
YES!

India in particular bore the brunt of Facebook's fortunately ham handed approach to pushing non neutral net down our throats.

And the success and failure, of the American system is used as a reference point to study Net Neutrality in India.

To be fair, the responsibly authority also uses references from interested parties, and legal examples set in other countries.

The TRAI (Telecm Reg Auth Ind) focuses on the best outcome for its citizens, so its relatively open minded in its focus.

At the same time, the Indian telecom Authority is severely lobbied by Indian telecom firms, who are now mounting their second assault on the neutral net.

And they are learning from their debacle. The TRAI is now asking questions on scenarios in which it might be a good thing that NN was not applied and so on.

Correct rulings in America, their reasoning, their supporting documents, the evidence and so on, will be used and studied around the world.

And I suppose that if American's so chose, they could look beyond their borders and see what other NN related rulings have been made around the world.
what is the motivation for ISP to do that? if it is because FB signed deal with the ISP and covering the costs for those traffic out of its own pocket, what is the problem here? Friendster should offer something to match such deal and bring in real competition. Why there should be a law that stops companies for giving out freebies?

if some ISPs provide unmetered access to service A, the only thing that really matters is whether service B can get the same deal by paying the same $ - clearly this is not net neutrality issue.
Tezos isn't even a tradeable altcoin yet.[1] Do they even have a public blockchain? Right now, it just seems to be a site where you send them money and they give you a receipt. What could possibly go wrong?

[1] https://coinmarketcap.com/
He was almost implying that Witten came out of nowhere with very little mathematical background and became a physics god. He implied this by saying that Witten studied history and linguistics in college, but he failed to mention his previously strong background in mathematics during his childhood. That last part is the key signal to how Witten could have even possibly become a successful physicist, although of course it is not a sufficient condition.
In my parts even the deer aren't the same. The white tail and mule deer don't behave the same. I know I react differently to them. I can see why a kangaroo might cause issues too.
Bitcoin doesn't need to be prime time at all. Almost no banking services, outside of checking accounts and index funds, are "ready for prime time" and yet banking services is a huge market.
Each country faces their own NN battle, and any competent authority studies the examples of other nations, or they ask experts, who study the outcomes in other countries.

Including telecom lobbyists, who study how misinformation and complex arguments can help them win political capital to push their ideas.
I like small books that build progressively more complex projects (Dave Thomas's Elixir book was good that way, Realm of Racket was my favorite). Short video tutorials are nice as a supplement are nice, too. Daily Drip's elm videos were fantastic.

The #1 thing I'm usually looking for is something that eliminates any time-wasting hassles related to getting set up, and all the major language features in some set of working examples.

After that, I usually write little command line apps, play with graphics a bit and convert some simple games into the language.
I can't find it today, but I remember reading the AMC results with my own eyes many years ago. I believe he was one of the best scorers on either the AMC 8 or the AMC 10 in his state.
The opposing and (IMHO) ultimately greater pressure is that it's also in miners' best interest to keep Bitcoin alive and successful. It took a long time to hammer out SegWit2x and it's still not certain that it's going to work.
This is late FUD, a last minute whine by the owners of "bitcoin.org" aka core. The discussion over scaling has been happening for many months and consensus has actually just been reached in the last couple weeks. 85% of the mining power is signalling for segwit2x, and if this continues it will lock in before Aug 1st completely avoiding the scary situation talked about in the post.
Maybe a bit off-topic, but APIs always make me wonder a bit when they can be reverse-engineered or.. for lack of a better word, misused.

I know of one website (site A) that sells items for sports and uses an API of a sports website (site B) to provide current statistics and other information.

Thing is, that sports website's API is now deprecated for public use, there's no way to request a token, and from what I can tell it's only to be used for commercial purposes/paid for by companies.

But, I can easily find the API token being used on site A, dig through the private/deprecated docs for the API of site B, and use any of their endpoints and data for pretty much whatever I want.

At least, this was the case roughly 4-6 months ago and I haven't looked into it since; perhaps they've changed it since then.

But I wonder how this works. Wouldn't it be a misuse of their API and something they wouldn't want allowed? Usually sports statistics APIs are fairly expensive, and the fact that some random person like me can get access easily for free seems unfair to site B, especially when they don't want normal people using their API anymore.
In python there is the term "pythonic" describing if something is in the spirit of the languages founding fathers. As in: "The most pythonic way to write this down is ..." or "Map/filter don't feel very pythonic."

What is the equivalent term or expression for being in the spirit of C++?

The article, while a joke (just like C++ originally, look it up), feels very C++y.
Java UI with Toast and Validation
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WW3 GETS THUMBS DOWN FROM TRUMP AND PUTIN FIGHTING EVIL AT TOP
For a second I thought they were going to start using transactions, to avoid selling seats that they don't have.
With segwit, you can use http://lightning.network. Lightning network gives you essentially unlimited transaction speed.
Lux Group | Mid-Level Javascript Developer | JS/React/Node.js | Sydney, Australia | Onsite

Greenfield work in ecommerce - luxury holidays & experiences.

https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/companies/lux-group#jobs
So Elizabeth Báthory was just a little before her time it seems.
Opening the file at all should update the 'last accessed' time, no save required.
I know very little about this technology, but I believe that Bluetooth LE/Bluetooth 5 is actually quite different from earlier versions, and much better: the vendors basically swapped out the BT4 technology whilst keeping the name.
The company mentioned in the article as the provider of this technology, Volantio, is the entity that was previously called Adioso, which was in YC in 2009. Some HN readers may remember some blog posts I wrote a few years ago about the struggles we went through.

If you ever wondered what happened to Adioso, well, here's part of the answer. The company took the insights and technology assets it had developed for the consumer market and turned them into enterprise services to offer to airlines, and that has been the focus for the past 3-4 years.

As evidenced by this breakthrough, it has turned out to be a very good move.

The original Adioso product still exists but in a different entity, and its current status is best described as side-project. I'm still optimistic that the original vision we had for Adioso as a consumer product will be realised, but it will end up looking very different to what it's been to date.

In the meantime, it's extremely pleasing to see Volantio making such an impact.
I don't know why you're focused on greenhouse gas emissions with regards to the Clean Air Act. So far as I'm aware, the Clean Air Act didn't attempt to address greenhouse gasses.
I kinda dislike dealing with the configuration too but it's there for a reason; because one size doesn't fit all. Then again, it's not a major pain point for me as long as I stick to the defaults.

And deferring the transpiling to the browser won't really accomplish much, except increase load time for all users.

I'm currently working on a project with ~500KLOC of typescript, and transpiling it takes about 15 seconds on my devbox. It's still a bit too slow for my taste but I don't think there is a technical quick fix for this kind of stuff, rather it's a tale about a project which started small, organically grew larger over time, and would in many ways benefit from a clearer structure with clear dependencies.
"Such-and-such is (not) idiomatic C++"
Another story here, when I started working in an internship, the environment was conducive for me to work but I still didn't. What saved me, was a repetitive strain injury preventer app. Whenever it said to take a break I would sincerely take a break. This makes your mind more relaxed and I could work for 8-10 hrs a day without any mindless browsing. Hope this helps :)
Wow - not a friend of net neutrality? Such person exists?! And reads hacker news? Site which sucess is directly connected to open internet ..

I thought that this will be the one issue where hacker news crowd will be united.
Not sure if there is such a thing but if not, maybe it could be "Stroubie".
I see they use another approach to file systems. They sound very confident. A bit too confident to my taste. Are they experienced enough in building file systems that they won't run into huge problems arising when it actually goes into the dirty details?
In Tokyo they just built a second park right next to the first one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_DisneySea
This reminds me so much of my experiences working in a computer repair shop ~15 years ago.

Funniest thing about it is that as a sales rep I sucked, but once I got moved into repair, I was absolutely destroying our sales team in sales often by 4x their best rep without even trying.

There were a couple of Black Fridays where the store made all computer sales take place at the repair center because of it.
> You need to buy the equipment from some third party and hide your IP address.

No. You don't.

The other stuff is just confusing.
Long hair?
Not sure why people are downvoting you, you are objectively correct. segwit2x is at over 85%. https://coin.dance/blocks
It is probably not possible to solve the scaling problems on-chain - a secure decentralized consensus on a global scale cannot be fast. Currently the bitcoin protocol processes about 7 transactions per second. Doubling the speed by doubling blocks will not make it much closer to the 50K transactions per second of a system like VISA. But it is probably possible to scale the transaction system off-chain - with https://lightning.network/ - which works like a protocol for writing and accepting checks. As far as I know Lightning is impossible or very hard without SegWit.
But with Lightning off-loading the bulk of transactions miners will lose a bit of their power - so maybe this is what makes them against it.

Another aspect of the riddle is that SegWit will eliminate ASICBoost - which is an optimization developed by one of the biggest ASIC miners producer - so he is probably also against it. There is also the thing that ASICBoost is probably patented - so it has a lot of opposition in the community.
They do that for restaurant reservations. The effect is that getting a reservation for a restaurant usually needs to be made weeks, or even months, in advance. And that's just the restaurants...
There's all sorts of lore about constructive drug use in Silicon Valley start up culture but it's not as prevalent as people say it is

I've never seen anyone microdose LSD or take Ketamine for Depression, hell, most of my coworkers don't even smoke marijuana recreationally or otherwise.

It's just that weird drug use makes headlines and headlines makes money
Delta’s had this since 2011: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/how-delta-masters-t...
This looks like FUD. As I recall, the owners of Bitcoin.org are mad that their exact proposed scaling solution didn't go through.

85+% of miners are signaling support for segwit2x, so it's extremely unlikely that there will be any disruption. https://coin.dance/blocks
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There's currently 86.5% support.
I don't really understand the reasoning behind overselling seats. Every time I hear it happen when passing though the USA I am reminded of the Seinfeld line,

"You know how to take the reservation, but not how to hold the reservation."

Clearly there is some sort of profit motive for the airlines, but how can this be legal. It seems wrong to oversell a limited resource like this. Even if not legal it feels scammy on the lines of "upto" speeds for ISP's.
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Because the OP is FUD, not a well-founded concern. The network has already overwhelmingly decided on a scaling solution. https://coin.dance/blocks
On a side tangent but loosely related to the mutation subject, does anyone remember songs that were deliberately designed to destroy music players? I ask because this would be an interesting attack vector. You could deliberately design a file that when compressed and stored in DNA would code for anything in the biosphere. Just an initial thought.