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Lambda School (YC S17) Is Hiring an Evenings CS Instructor (Remote)
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About the role:

We're looking to supplement our six-month-long, full-time CS course with a part-time, evenings only course, which would be a year long.

It would use the existing curriculum (https://github.com/LambdaSchool/LambdaCSA-Syllabus), and be broken into west coast and east coast cohorts (different work times with an overlapping lecture).

This is a full-time role.

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I don't think the language is what's creating fear, here. It's the guns. More specifically the casual, easy availability of guns and the numerous mass murders that happen annually with them.

It's not like calling them "just guns" or whatever diminishes the fear. Or maybe it would diminish the fear--and I think that's a bit insidious to be honest. We (collectively) should fear a tool having as its only purpose to seriously injure or kill things, including (especially) people.
There are no differences.
the article doesn't speculate why that might be - whether shifting environmental conditions, adaptation, or benevolent coral fairies
I’m curious: why should one not rely on the BBC as a primary source of news about Britain?
There is no issue. Plenty of typed process calculi exist, and concurrent ML existed back in the late 90s and features channels and processes.
"He [Lewandowski] also said it was common practice to share work files via Dropbox"

Always interesting seeing company employees not using their company's products. Shows that what some view as a monolith is a bunch of smaller bands of people.
I am curious, why is HN keeping articles about the shooting off the front page?
Nobel Prize in medicine to Hall, Rosbash, Young for work on circadian rhythms
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More often than not, employers at startups seem to take routine employee departures personally. Common mistake. Probably has something to do with the amount of personal energy most founders have invested in recruiting, and how difficult recruiting has become.

Not an excuse, just a rationalization. Fairly common. Not at all excusable behavior on the part of the CEO.

Take it as proof that you were a valued member of the team. There's a chance you'll hear something like "CEO casually remarked you weren't that valued anyway", etc.

Honestly I've seem startup CEOs act like they just got dumped by their girlfriend after a good programmer leaves, even if they've went above and beyond and stuck around for several years.
Thank you for taking your responsibility seriously.

(I first wrote "...for being responsible", but then it has two opposite possible readings. Yikes.)
It won't. Our senators and congressmen are cowards.
I have heard some claims that they still exist and I can't argue they don't, only that they are rare and that I don't really enjoy the music from any of the examples I've been shown.

I understand that it is one of the reasons people are enjoying some of the new material on vinyl. As before, the album art ties in with the story/concept.

My struggle is finding some that I an appreciate. I love music from all sorts of genres and music that spans the ages. I have difficulties finding more modern examples to appreciate, unfortunately.

There's a whole bunch of new music. The ability to create and distribute music has never been higher. Discoverability has been difficult, in my case. I struggle to find anything that I can really appreciate.

Note: I am intentionally being careful to not say that the music is not good. I am not in a position to decide what is good. I can only authoritatively state what I enjoy.
> Valuing a company based on the accuracy of what is litte more than random noise makes you a bad investor

Some investors will value on random noise, and some other investors will figure this out and capture the mispricing, if there's any.
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No offense, but that's non-specific rambling.
I'm not sure what you'd design because, honestly, I have trouble understanding why analog is a feature rather than a bug. Because it's a little harder to replicate and distribute further?
Any reason why they presented it on windows 2000?
The map should be renamed to "North America prior to illegal immigration".
middleout: your hypothesis is that YC is elitist. Or you have to have PMF (evidence that what you’re doing is working), 2nd time founder (evidence that you have succeeded in the past), or deep subject matter expertise.

Traction, Prior Success, or evidence of subject matter expertise. Those sound like pretty good criteria to me. But, YC is actually looking for people who are “sufficiently determined”. Those three things are just evidence of determination.

As for the elitist case. I have no idea other than to say it seems false using a sample size of one (me) and a sample size of one batch (summer 2013).
This times a thousand.

Maybe in the future when AI can handle lots of that stuff we'll get there, but as of right now we have a LONG way to go.
Right, but you are addressing only part of the story to side-effects. IO is another story, which rust doesn't address.
This is not a material estimate, this is an estimate that Tesla, for whatever reason, volunteered.

Other manufacturers don't really do that, which is why you rarely see the headlines of Dodge Durango being three weeks behind schedule.
> Due diligence is something you'd do before making a decision.

There is such a thing as 'vendor due diligence' where a party that will sell something does their own DD in preparation to the DD by others to ensure they haven't missed anything obvious.

Other than that you are right though, this is an investigative report, but it would have been a lot smarter of Uber to have this stuff checked before making a deal, the optics are not pretty and the fact that they tried to hide this report makes it even less so.

I have seen a couple of these in the last few years that were 'exciting', this one is off the scale for me on a professional interest level, there are only three that I'd like to read more, the actual due diligence reports - if they exist - on this deal, Ubeam and Theranos.
An advantage of storing operations instead of using immutable data structures is that with them you can implement region-based undo.
Are the structure same throughout the areas where we think in general? Otherwise there could be some sort of programming involved to get the brain to think predictively
My previous reply was downvoted into oblivion and flagged, but my question was sincere.

You started your comment with:

>Say what you will about YC

Which implies that there are negative (perhaps commonly known) things being said about YC. I'm not familiar with any and was simply asking what these might be/why you'd chose that phrasing?
The technical details here matter. What features do we want the firearms owned by law-abiding citizens to have? The use of the term "assault weapon" is a tragedy of discourse norms that conflates in the minds of many the incidental features of military assault rifles with the necessary features for weapons to be used for mass murder.

And for what it's worth, if you can make an intensional definition for "weapons of mass murder" that includes the most dangerous weapons for mass-murder purposes without unnecessarily curtailing the design space for the socially acceptable uses for weapons, please go for it.
who needs to write more efficient software when hardware manufacturers ensure your slow code automatically gets faster year after year?

oh and when you've already cornered the market and become an industry standard
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There's a large difference between vehicles, which are wholly owned by a consumer, and services.

Running an open source news aggregator on my personal server is something I would own and be responsible for, similar to a fully owning a car. If I selected a ride share and the driver wrecks, then a company is responsible for my personal injury as well as the service I didn't receive.

> When you start to blame things like Facebook or Google for doing their job and presenting popular/trending topics, you lose any grasp on the real problem

Suggesting someone who blames Facebook or Google has "lost sight" is a very confident statement that you have not backed up. If this question were settled then there would be no thread on HN.

I _consider_ looking into the matter more. Google and Facebook play in the news aggregation space, and getting it wrong has lead to serious questions about their role.

I stand by looking into things further. Please feel free to clarify your claim that someone has "lost grasp on the real problem" when they start to blame Facebook and Google. Should either be responsible then blame should be expected.
> There is no way we're going to come up with something "objectively truthful" because, news as it exists today is not about facts. It's journalism and journalism has always been about putting a slant on things --quoting unauthoritative sources ("man named Joe claims," etc.) loose factchecking, and more. All to sell more news (packaged with ads or for subscriptions, where you don't want to alienate your subscriber "base".

I look at it much differently: Nothing is perfect, no news source, no politician, no text editor, no scientific theory. They all fail our ideals but some are a lot better than others, some are a little better, and as others have pointed out in this discussion, an essential skill is to differentiate between them and also to assume the uncertainties of imperfection and to read critically.

To throw together all journalism as 'imperfect' is like throwing together all science, from the theory of evolution to latest upload to arXiv, as all a failure because it's imperfect. Yes, read Darwin critically, but don't conflate his work with everyone else's. The more I accept inevitable human imperfection, the more I'm amazed by people like Darwin and by organizations like the NY Times, which cranks out a very good, very difficult product on an amazing schedule. That they and others accomplish all of that under the constraints of humanity is truly amazing to me.

> The Atlantic is wrong in placing blame on Google when they themselves ...

We're kind of stuck with ideas from hypocrites, at least until the great AI awakening - and if it's strong AI, hypocrisy might be the first sign that it's working.
Yes, at the time they were relatively powerful, however they were still weak in an absolute sense. One person misusing a musket could not have slaughtered a small town's worth of people.

The right to bear a weapon that can't do a devastating amount of harm without others to support you is different to the right to bear a weapon that can. If you disagree, let me know when your campaign to amend the constitution to permit the production, ownership and use of nuclear weapons is ready.
Ask HN: What are some communities that self-teaching novices can join?
Often times I am hitting some walls while trying to understand the theories like concurrency models, state machines and stuff. Most of time I am not sure what I need to google to find what I want and don't have a solid question that warrants asking on SO or here. These are the times I feel like discussing these topics with someone knowledgeable would clear things up. So are there any such places where I can do that?
>The problem of the right to bear arms is that it was done during a time when weapons were single shot, and hard to reload.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girandoni_air_rifle
8+ hours of working per day pretty much guarantees a burnout for most people
> There are a ridiculous amount of tech companies that have used dynamic languages to go from nothing to the biggest companies in the world and only switched to static languages well and truly after that occurred.

This is a biased sample though. You're saying 'ridiculous number', but the truth is most startups (using static or dynamic languages) fail and we don't actually know if their language choice had much impact on their success or failure.
Bump firing can be done with many unmodified semi-automatic firearms, though I hear special bump-stocks can increase accuracy and rate of fire. A trigger crank is pretty easy to construct. There are few moving parts, and nothing needs to withstand heat or high pressures.

Other limitations such as magazine capacities and bullet buttons[1] are also easy to circumvent (the San Bernardino shooters did so[2]). Most firearm components are simple pieces of metal and plastic, so it's hard to stop people from making illegal modifications. It's also hard to discover such modifications before the lead starts flying. The police can't go into every home and inspect every firearm. For the most part, these sorts of laws serve to annoy law-abiding people while slightly inconveniencing criminals.

That said, trivial inconveniences might make a difference. I doubt most criminals are willing to invest the time and effort needed to make reliable modifications to their weaponry.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_button

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_San_Bernardino_attack#Inv...
It's remarkable that you didn't just tick the box to show hidden files and directories, along with unticking the box to hide extensions on known file types. Back when I used Windows, those were the first settings I changed. (There was one more in that same section, but I've forgotten it.)

Anyhow, backup and restoration was both possible and pretty easy:

https://library.columbia.edu/content/dam/librarywebsecure/be...

While it was binary and proprietary, several freeware solutions existed to work with the files and a bunch of paid software did even more. Either way, backing up and restoring wasn't all that difficult and certainly wasn't impossible.

(For a number of years, I was awarded the Microsoft MVP in Shell/User, IE/OE, and Security categories. The latter only awarded twice as I stopped helping and went back to Linux, sort of returning to my roots which were in Unix.)
I'm not so sure about that. The leading "for" stands on its own without the e.g.

e.g., with some additional punctuation:

I like to run for the bus.

I like to run for, for example, buses, cars and airplanes.

I like to run for e.g. buses, cars and airplanes.

A little tortured but possibly valid.
Can it do virtual desktops like a VNC server can?
It isn't important for the general public to know accurate trivia about tragic events within hours of their occurrence. One would think a monthly magazine writer would know that...
Because BBC is influenced by the British power structure.
Those are not mechanical keyboards. Those are just computer keyboards with slightly better key switches. This is a mechanical keyboard.[1]

[1] http://www.aetherltd.com/images/keyboard1med.jpg
What about requiring military ships to illuminate their ships just like merchant ships? (TBH I think but I don't know for sure that the US ship in the singapore collision was unlit.)
You can have your physician prescribe you a course of melatonin. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12076414
The title at the top of every "green card" is "Resident Alien".
I wonder if you hypothetically had a list of every tech startup in the last decade, if the total net profit would be positive.
Create a RESTful API with Node.js, Hapi, and Couchbase NoSQL
I work in medical robotics and I can tell you that a lot of our code is quite old, and we have a culture that code you write will stay around. Some things don't change for example optimal control algorithms, while others things are very difficult to change such as network routing. So, while the applications get re-written on the 4-10 year time frame parts of the OS are 15+ years old.
Ask HN: What horrible things do you do in your own code when no one is watching?
It's your code, no one else will ever see it or maintain it. What worst practices and cheap shortcuts do you use when you really are going "quick and dirty?"
One aspect can be that it turns the audio itself into a physical medium that decays with environment. There are related factors to how audio is reproduced from analog formats as well that change the character of the sound. Perfect fidelity is one goal for music listening that digital was taking to the ultimate end. But there's an opposing goal of having individual character, slight warping of a vinyl creating modulation wobbles and similar for tape.

For me I liken it to how people find electronic music more interesting when dynamic articulations are added to the parameters of the sounds. For example, varying the amplitude of the hi hats will make it sound more natural and appealing versus just playing the sample back perfectly at equal amplitude every time. Variation can add detail. It's a bit different in how it happens with a vinyl or cassette, but still within those bounds.
judging that the 90 shots in the article were done without clip change i'd speculate (based on quick Googling as i haven't touched any weapons since AK74 shooting exercises during ROTC training 24 years ago) that it was something like 100 rounds double drum AR15. The rate of fire during stretches - 11-12 per seconds suggests that the rifle itself was probably either bump stocked or converted to fully automatic. According to some news the guy also had AK47. AK has slower rate of fire - 10/sec, so that specific sound clip in the article is of AR15 not AK (there are some other sound clips from the shooting that do sound like AK).
AMD already does "Zero Copy transfers" (the on-chip cache!!) with its "Fusion" APUs (ex: A10-7850K) for CPU <<---->> GPU.

I'm not really seeing loads of people taking advantage of the feature however. The platform is cheap, the technology is available but its just way too weird an architecture to become mainstream.

There are numerous benefits: the CPU can create a linked list or graph, and the memory will still be valid on the GPU. CPU / GPU atomics are unified, and GPUs can even call CPU functions under AMD's HSA platform.

* https://images.anandtech.com/doci/7677/20%20-%20HSA%20Use%20...

* http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/hsa10.pdf

* https://www.anandtech.com/show/7677/amd-kaveri-review-a8-760...

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I think Intel had a similar technology implemented on their "Crystalwell" chips, which were basically an L4 cache which provided a high-bandwidth link between the CPU and GPU (although not quite as flexible).

No, its not an FPGA, but OpenCL / GPGPU compute seems to be a bit more mainstream than FPGA compute at the moment. I haven't seen too much excitement in general for this feature however.
It's a phrase that's been used incredibly heavily in all of the litigation, filings, rulings, etc. in the suit up until now, so it doesn't surprise me that's what the post calls it - it's what the judges and lawyers often do.
It's a pretty typical symptom I've seen a lot of hardcore FP developers exhibit: they forget how much time it took them to reach their level of mastery.

It's like spending ten years learning to speak Russian and then criticizing anyone who says that learning Russian is difficult.

Puzzling out scalaz code is difficult and requires an enormous investment in hours and practice, investment that a lot of people prefer to put into different learnings.
The value here is in the footprint library. The question is whether it is any good. Footprints have lots of subtle issues, especially as the pin spacing gets very tight.

(I soldered some 0.5mm spacing pins earlier this evening. This works much better since I modified the footprint to not have any pad area under the raised part of the gull wing leads. This prevents solder bridges which are firmly attached to a pad under the raised leads. Those are tough to remove.)
For what it's worth, I'm just describing the ground reality of research, not the utopian vision we should aspire to.
It is so hard to actually get the VC business model. If in all these years, every single YC company had failed except for Airbnb, YC would still be 4X better than the second best competitor.
> CPUs are designed for one thing "few, large, complex cases" while FPGAs are perfect for "many, parallel simple cases" even more than a GPU

<offtopic>Hmm, where have I heard something like this before ... ah, yes, the brain - CPUs/FPGAs are like reason and instinct, because reason deals with "few, large, complex cases" and instinct has "many, parallel simple cases". The brain has its own CPU/FPGA divide.</>
i agree wholeheartedly that PMF, prior exit and deep industry/technical knowledge are pretty obvious things to look for when you're trying to make money as a venture investor.

let me try another way. let's say YC gets 20K applications. let's say 1K (using round numbers) fall into the above categories (PMF et al), and 19K do not.

of the 19k that do not, my guess is that of the ones (ie. the very, very lucky few of the 19K) that do actually get into YC, a high (statistically significant) proportion of those founders were very well connected. that's all i'm saying.

as for your last point, i think we can both agree that we're both just guessing, there's no real #s or transparency to prove or disprove, so maybe we can just agree to disagree.

edit: maybe "elitist" was the wrong word to use. OTOH, YC is widely considered the "harvard of accelerators". while that has many connotations, it would be silly to say that harvard and elitism are not associated
This is not common practice. Google has had a strict no iCloud, no Dropbox policy for a while. We can't even have code from the core codebase stored locally on our company issued laptops.
Global variables... I'm ashamed.
If you invest in a company that acts without ethics, don't expect their attitude towards you to be any different.
> Our forensic examination of Levandowski's devices and accounts corroborates his assertion that he stored and accessed Google files on his personal laptop in folders labeled Chauffeur and Google. However, contrary to his belief that there were no or few Google e-mails on his laptop, Stroz discovered approximately 50,000 Google work e-mail messages that were downloaded onto Levandowski's computer on September 20, 2014. Ten of those e-mails were last accessed between September 1, 2015 and January 28, 2016. It is difficult to believe that Levandowski was not, prior to his interview, fully aware of the extent of the data that he had retained.

50K Project Chauffeur emails stored on his personal laptop. People have gone to jail for less.

> Levandowski also attempted to empty the Trash bin on
his MacBook Pro while he was at Stroz Friedberg's office on March 22, 2016 at approximately 12:12 p.m., but our examination found no files were contained in his Trash at the time he attempted to empty it.

What kind of company does business with a shady character like this?
Scratch.mit.edu by MIT is a great introductory vehicle. They can play and share games that they or their friends have created. And then take games they like and change how they work.

Fantastic!