skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where I learned in the US, we had a few weeks of driver's ed classes in HS, then practiced with an instructor for a bit. After that, getting a permit then a license was simple enough. At this point, I don't get anything more than vision tests and I don't actually have to renew my license until I'm 60 or something.
From what I've read, Ada can do this.
I'm not yet excited about these getters and setters and new features in the latest JavaScript. I've put a lot of time and effort into developing ECMAScript (JavaScript) 3 patterns that overcome various limitations, and have got accustomed to the idea of deploying ECMAScript 3. In terms of providing an API, getters and setters will be very useful. It will be good to have out-of-the-box JavaScript functionality that does not require extra code to use, like various methods I use to overcome the ECMAScript 3 limitations.

Does anyone have an estimate for when ECMAScript 6 will be widely deployed across browsers, almost ubiquitous? I would say now it's safe to use SVG in many situations on the web that would not have been OK a few years ago, I'm curious about when the tipping point will be with ECMAScript 6.

Anecdotally, recently my customers have been a lot less interested in supporting older versions of IE, and I have used SVG in a couple of situations, and that would not have been OK a few years back. I have not been closely following the developments of ECMAScript 6, it has seemed like it will be a while until it's widely deployed. The only things I have found practical use for are typed arrays, and I have been using them in node specific code rather than in code that I expect to run across browsers.

Though I am interested in the latest developments in JavaScript, my focus will still be on what can be done with the JavaScript available in almost every browser. I am also interested in making use of getters and setters in my code but being able to compile it to ECMAScript 3, I may be able to do some relatively simple text replacement rather than having to parse and compile an abstract syntax tree.
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Question if I may since you seem familiar with gnome. I use 3.12 and really enjoy it, but gnome shell (or mutter, or the js engine) seems to leak memory pretty badly. That is, if I mouse to the top left hot corner, then escape, I see its RSS increase, as probably expected. However, it increases each time I do this. I can get it to 500mb by doing nothing more than going into and out of the dash for a few minutes. In real use, after an eight hour day I see it anywhere from 700m to 1g rss. Any idea what's happening behind the scenes, or if this still happens in 3.14?
This is interesting, you're saying something along the lines of: If a rule can be written, there'll always be someone to write it, people to approve it, and libertarians will lose. I'd like that to Agile, which says you can't overregulate the software development process.
BOUND instruction on x86 architecture exists for time immemorial, but not widely used and may be slow in modern microcode (like AAM/AAD and other stuff of handwritten assembly era, never emitted by compilers).
I'm an emacs user and I don't use any of that stuff, or really anything beyond c-mode (and c++-mode).
I know nothing about Korea, but one possibility is that a small phenomenal success generates an industry or makework that is effectively just siphoning off the value of the core success.

Imagine a startup that generates a $billion in profit from factory made gadgets, but reinvests the profit in bad ideas poorly implemented by office non-workers, effectively middle-class welfare jobs program.
https://github.com/google/traceur-compiler/wiki/GettingStart...
Many white collar American megaconglomerates are similar, without the karaoke bits. Depressing offices in the middle of nowhere, endless pointless meetings, not a whole lot of real work and a lot of looking-busy. Office Space exists for a reason.

Hell, I once dated a consultant with Accenture who flew around constantly to client sites but seemed to just sit around once there racking up the billables.

"Mandatory partying with the coworkers/boss" seems to be something American corporate culture has largely avoided, but sadly the startup tech culture has embraced.
In theory you can do that in any language that allows you to override operators. It's definitely being done in Rust. For instance you sleep for `Duration::milliseconds(10)`.
Yes, but you save money.
Check out F#'s units of measure. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd233243.aspx
Armin didn't address what I belive is the main point of adding type annotations to Python: compiler checkable documentation and as hints to IDE:s. Seen in that perspective, a sucky type system is good enough because it's use isn't to verify program correctness. Personally, I think a standardized format for describing types in docstrings would be 100x better but that's not the way the Python core devs have choosen.

Another argument in favor of types is that it will enable Python to optimize code better. But since Python isn't built for static typing, the CPython bytecode interpreter has no facilities for exploiting the extra information. And even if it had, the V8 Javascript VM proves that you dont need static types to generate optimized code.
"if you really have trouble finding the right talent"

I was under the impression that kids with all sorts of skills were lining up ready to be exploited if it meant they can make video games.
Small correction: Symbol¹ is available in Firefox since back in ~June and should arrive in Firefox Beta in ~10days.

1: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
You didn't notice in two decades that moving and resizing windows in Linux was an ugly affair plagued by graphical artifacts? I wrote this almost a decade ago and as far as I can tell it's still true today unless you use Wayland: http://www.osnews.com/thread?93850. Obviously a lot of pieces (graphics drivers, etc) have fallen into place since then, but it seems like ditching X was a necessary step to getting a clean, artifact-free experience.
I think you'd really also need to normalize by age of the driver. I suspect that younger (under 21, say) drivers are more dangerous in both countries, but that in places where it's expensive and time consuming the licensed drivers will tend to be older.
> Not to rain on the parade, but such glorification of "heroes" is... just awkward.

you need to stop putting words in my mouth. never did i use the word hero, never did i use the word worship. never did i suggest those things, either.
Class action lawsuit for deceptive advertising?
The limit only applies when roaming with Feel at Home (free roaming). Data is capped at 25GB, and I think calls are capped at 300 mins and texts at 3000, too.

When not roaming, there is no limit on data:

> "Does all you can eat data come with any limits? The limit is how much your device can consume – if you were to actively use data or the Internet on your phone every second, of every day, in every month (and we would be worried if you were !!!!) you would, subject to the current traffic management requirements (which vary from time to time), use up to 1000GB per month. So in essence there is a limit of how much data you can actually consume which is up to 1000GB. All this means that you can have absolute peace of mind and enjoy all the internet you need on your smartphone, without worrying."

(http://www.three.co.uk/Privacy_Cookies/Terms_Conditions?cont...)
The government is already involved in determining which groups are allowed to accredit colleges. Those accreditation groups tend to require things that prevent a college from simply selling the credential without the education.

The fact that the system already "works" does not mean it cannot be improved.

Also, if you want to argue that credentials and education should NOT be separated, should we merge them in cases where they are currently separated? E.g., should stock brokers be required to go to Series 7 school before taking the Series 7 exam? If not, why not?
Actually, the original mobile network licences issued back in the '80s required that the licence-holders sell airtime to any service provider who asks for it, at the same price and conditions offered to the service providers owned/controlled by the licence-holders. That paved the way for MVNOs.
Used to work in Florida, and it's a pretty noticeable difference in DR/Continuity strategy to what I work with now out here (SF). For the first 24 hours after Hurricane Ivan it was completely focused on: Are our employees safe; do they have water/food; what medical aid is needed; how can we get blankets and cots into our office so our employees have a place to sleep tonight? All the roads are washed out, there was no real in/out of town for a week, no power to our main DC for 3. Having redundancy in Chicago and Virginia didn't really mean shit when we couldn't get key people to those data centers to run them full steam.

The end result was a high reliance on contract employees at the fail-overs, and a real appreciation for the human element.
Definitely more than 2.
http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/laws/graduatedlicenseintro
The tablet gets eaten by phones and phablets. As somebody else put it: "Phone, tablet, and laptop; pick any two." No need to have three of them for most people. In addition, the customers who tink to need all three already have a tablet.
The source code is very well commented, a high quality piece of engineering.
Why can't that problem be solved by simply creating multiple closed worlds, each with a set of initial conditions, similar to a text adventure (eg. "you are standing in a room. Some eggs are resting on the counter top" etc.)
To clarify, our Rx Refill API is "inbound" in nature only. If the patient initiates a refill, one can be completed. This is not an API around "outbound" information from Walgreens systems. Hope that helps to clarify.
Worst still is to remove it and leave people guessing. If it is a security issue, they really need to let people know.
I have gone through the 'make it smaller' phase of mobile phones from when they were relatively large heavy bricks that ruined your clothes (or could only be carried in your hand) down to the small chocolate bar size where you could comfortably put two of them in your pocket without noticing them.

Now, I find we are going through a 'make it larger' phase where mobile phones are getting too large again to comfortably fit in your pocket. I dislike my Samsung S3 for that reason, and it is no longer one of the largest.

When a phone is too large to fit conveniently in your clothes because of weight or size, you can no longer think of it as 'mobile' because you rarely carry it on your person, and tend to put it down and walk away from it out of earshot.
How do you authorize the right to tag instances? It seems risky to automatically map an instance into DNS based on a tag, unless you have strict access control over who can tag what.

To expand, suppose the "app" tag adds an app server into a DNS load-balanced cluster. Then anyone who can tag a server with "app" can start receiving requests from end users; including passwords, PII, etc.
Frog flies as science defies gravity [1997]
Englishmen who drink might not drink coke (they're too busy drinking beer...) but come the end of the night they'll stuff their pie holes with any old shit. Slop that in the cold light of day they wouldn't even feed to their dogs: greasy doner kebabs, greasy curries, greasy pizzas, greasy burgers, greasy chips, greasy MSG-filled chow mein... all mixed up with chilli sauce, garlic sauce, brown sauce, tomato sauce and mushy peas. This can be seen in any town centre, anywhere in the UK, on any Friday or Saturday.

I believe that high fructose corn syrup is somewhat rare, though? So maybe that's it...
I still see this as a sign of an organizational problem for your startup. Naturally you'll have few(er) people and resources as a startup, but if your business plan requires that you constantly have output or be available to make changes, it sounds like you need to have more than 1 employee anyway and take that as a cost of how you operate. Alternatively, as a primary business owner you could take on that responsibility yourself since you reap the greatest rewards of the company success.
A Guide to San Andreas Fault Zone and the Point Reyes Peninsula [pdf]
I know Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Analyzing data is fun for me. Luckily I work for a company that has a distributed processing platform and copies of the web to crawl. I've built some simple data apps in Ruby, but and planning to learn Python as well soon.

Good advice on being focused. When I was self teaching I felt like I was getting great exposure, but not direction. My bootcamp was meant to solve that issue, which it did. To be fair my bootcamp was Bloc.io and is online, making it cheaper than most bootcamps. There were some tradeoffs because of that type of curriculum but it got me started. Now I work with a team that is super supportive of me wanting to learn more. Super helpful to have people to support you and answer questions.
I share the grandparent's frustration. I'm not opposed to the NYT having a paywall, but submitting paywall-protected content to a news aggregator is a bad idea, especially when free alternatives exist. The point of a news aggregator is to share content with the rest of the community, and paywalls are designed to restrict that access.
It's not a bad thing that people take trains rather than drive or that economic incentives favor living in cities.

Those are, in fact, things a country can want - for a multitude of reasons. Environmental impact, cultural centers, oil politics, etc. The fact that car-centric suburban culture is difficult to attain may be feature, not a bug.
When the same starts happening in the Arctic, then we have a really bad spiralling problem on our hands.

Bye bye ice. Hello higher sea levels.
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The Realities of Speaking Up as a Woman in VC
Market watchdog warns on danger of cyber attack
Typically, in Oracle speak, Webcenter typically refers to Webcenter Content or Webcenter portal, which are products that existed (under a different name?) prior to the Fatwire acquisition. The fatwire product was specially rebranded to 'Webcenter Sites'. From what I understand, from talking to Oracle VARs and consultants, the Sites suite isn't as common as the other two.

Browsing through the PDF, they make references to Webcenter Portal and Webcenter Content, but not Webcenter Sites.

Source: I implemented and supported the largest (in terms of assets and users) (allegedly, according to Oracle) installation of Fatwire as of a year ago. I work on a Portal/Content project now.
Fixed amount of money and therefore instructor labor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_economics

Basically, "stuff to help me keep my household clean and organized and running well."
A week spent on basic HTML (which should obviously be pre-requisite knowledge)

Why? I thought these places were about learning to program?
The boost units library does this for C++.
C++11 has user-defined literals: http://akrzemi1.wordpress.com/2012/08/12/user-defined-litera... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B11#User-defined_literals
A new bathroom for my Mother
Tells How It Feels to Go Up in a Geyser (1916)
I got my license at 16 without ever taking a driving test. To say it "varies" is a severe understatement.
I think they're talking about something at another level of scale and formality. I worked for Amazon too, but the "training" was more "toss you into the deep end and help as needed".

Don't get me wrong, I think trial by fire is largely a fine way of training, but it is very different.

Google has an actual, formalized Noogler course that you take when you first get there. This is closer to the model of training that exists at the large Asian megacorps - but think formalized, time-off, dedicated training courses rather than the ad hoc "tap your team lead on the shoulder when you need help" model of the modern American tech industry.
Yeah when I spoke with instructors I found it was a mix of experience. My instructor was great, but some of the others were clearly inexperienced.

I think a lot of people mention bootcamps thinking that it is their ticket into the industry. I looked at it as one piece of my resume that I can use to sell myself, not a golden ticket.

I never expected my bootcamp to help me get a job, and boy did they meet that expectation. In the end I tapped the network I was building along the way and that's how I got my job. People need to take a bit more initiative on things like that rather than hope someone else will secure the interviews and jobs for them.
The article suggests later on that Vanessa is atypical: To get a better sense of who these struggling students were, Laude started pulling records...almost all of them had low SAT scores — low for U.T., at least — often below 1,000 on a 1,600-point scale.

A 200-point difference in average SAT scores between the two sections (one of them being the "we won't call it remedial" section) is also discussed.

Also, take a look at why Vanessa needed help, at least as per the article's implication: "She failed her first test in statistics...At Mesquite High, she never had to study for math tests; she aced them all without really trying."

You also seem to believe that putting heroic efforts into teaching students thing will somehow help them become a capable worker. That might be true for a few rote fields - perhaps Vanessa's nursing career might be one of them [1]. But except for fields where college is mere rote training in procedures, that's not actually producing capable workers. When I hire, giving me a person who can only learn new things if I invest heroic effort and personal attention is useless - I need my employees to figure things out on their own.

[1] I know little about nursing - from the outside it appears fairly rote, but I'm open to being corrected on this
I agree that we have a different understanding of how markets work. To hit what seem to me to be the key points:

(1) Markets do not just affect the long term structure of production relations (though they certainly do that). Prices of many goods and services fluctuate on a daily or even hourly basis. That is markets operating in close to "real time" to restructure economic activity in response to all kinds of changes in conditions.

(2) Markets do not just change when new entrants appear. There are other actions that market participants can take on shorter timescales to respond to changes in supply or demand. One key one is finding substitutes for goods or services that have become scarce due to some change in conditions.

(3) It's true that markets can't solve all problems, and that they work less well when there are non-market constraints operating, such as those imposed by a natural disaster. However, people who support markets (like me) are not claiming that markets can solve all problems; we are claiming only that, in cases where markets don't work well, other solutions (such as central planning) work even worse.

(One key reason for this is that most problems of resource allocation meet the conditions of your footnote #1: they are difficult to model and the input data is difficult to obtain. This applies to natural disasters as much as anything else: your apparent belief that such disasters are "straightforward" to handle does not seem to me to be borne out by what actually happens when central planners try to deal with such disasters. Btw, I think these problems are also computationally hard, in addition to the other characteristics you cite; that's another reason why markets, which are essentially distributed computation, work better than central planning, which is basically the Von Neumann architecture with a single-core CPU, with all its well-known bottlenecks.)

(4) If your criterion for working well is delivering results that are acceptable to an average person's morality, I don't think any system devised by humans has ever consistently done that in times of crisis. We're all still floundering, from that point of view. Markets are simply the "least worst" of the systems we've discovered so far.

Btw, I'd be interested to see your response to the "mixed" (market + non-market) method I proposed, in the post in this subthread that you originally responded to, for dealing with shortages in a crisis such as a natural disaster: some charitable organization (which could be the government, but does not have to be) buys necessities like food and water at the (increased) market price, and then distributes them to those who need them and can't afford them. This would allow the market to work, by giving an incentive to suppliers to increase supply (because prices are higher), but would also provide a mechanism for achieving a fairer outcome, by having the charitable organization act as a market proxy for the indigent. (Of course, it still leaves the charitable organization with the problem of how to fairly distribute its goods, but that problem is going to be there no matter how the goods are obtained.)
I am a French dev and I plan to move to the Silicon Valley for various reasons but the driver licence is not one of them.
It is the first time I read such things about french driving exams and I can't remember having to answer inane questions like the car vs tank one.
Many bootcamps cover web development. Also, HTML is what I started with so I could get used to: I type code, something happens. Sounds super simple to people in tech, but I came from the hotel industry. I wanted to start at a very foundational level and build up.
I'm donating a kidney to a stranger at the end of September. People seem to think that it's crazy, but I tell them that if I ever need a kidney then they'll likely just be able to grow me a new one by that point.

I've been following this stuff lightly for a few years and if you look at the pace of technological progression, especially when it comes to things like mapping the human genome, it's easy to think that in 50 years the face of medicine will have undergone tremendous change.
Although it's not a discussion of the specific limitations of a closed-world system, Jeff Hawkin's 2004 book "On Intelligence" touches on many of the shortcomings of such systems, especially with respect to general problem solving and understanding. Even if you don't agree with all of his ideas, I would still recommend reading it if you have an interest in computer understanding.
I can't imagine you'd ever get the bandwith or data allowance... 480mbit is a whole lot of LTE dongles ;)

edit: actually that's not entirely true. A Class 5 device has a theoretical peak downstream of 300mbit. Real world might not live upto the hype though...
I don't want to throw away all regulations. If France has a good cheap internet and reasonable prices (compared to the US) and contracts terms for communications, it's thanks to heavy regulations. There are heavy regulations in consumer protections that I really miss in the US, where you never know what something will cost (taxes and tips are never on the sticker price), the contracts can be and routinely are leonine, and everybody is trying to rip you off all the time.
I need everyone else to be silent. I can make all the noise I want, play music loud etc, and I can still focus fine on whatever I am working on.

The second I hear other noises outside, in another room, etc I start to lose focus and get annoyed.
Original study: http://while-science-sleeps.com/pdf/275.pdf
I've got to confess that I love how the design of MS languages regularly exposes my ignorance towards them.

Edit: removed unrelated Wikipedia article (Unit Type)
Actor and director Richard Attenborough dies aged 90