skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Double jeopardy is a criminal law concept, and this is an issue for civil court.

It only applies to the extent that individuals at Lenovo receive criminal charges. Then they are only on trial once.

But if they harmed 10 people the same way, then all ten people can absolutely sue to cover the damages they sustained.
"It could be very well that the employee failed to communicate the fact his wife may go into labor prior to the event, and with no heads up of any kind, he gave the excuse after missing the event."

That's an excellent point that I had not considered. When my wife & I had a due date for both our children, I put everybody at work on notice about my possible lack of availability. That's just how I work. But it's entirely possible that the individual in question either flaked out completely or just spaced out about the logistics of the matter.

There are definitely some puzzle pieces missing from the story.
No, it was a question.

The statement was asinine. I'm legitimately curious if the comment owner knows who is part of the core team.
There's not enough information for a fair opinion on the matter, so I flagged the article. It's not the first time that ambiguous sources try to smear Elon Musk. The ex-wife rant was enough.

There are so many variables we are not aware of. Dismissing Elon as a "the bad guy" is giving too much credit to an unknown source.
Is that mixing up two different classes of devices?

Home embedded routers run into problems due to the overhead of state tracking and buffers for all the simultaneous connections. If they support 10k simultaneous connections, and they track 2x ip addresses for each, the additional overhead of 2x 12 bytes per ipv6 connection is 240kB memory. Buffers are going to be much, much more than that, and buffer requirements are about the same for ipv4 and ipv6.

Routers that have full BGP routing tables tend to be serious routers with TCAM. That's expensive and that does put pressure on BGP routing table sizes, to accommodate older and cheaper [real] routers. However, ignoring ipv6 is simply not an option, so there's no point in dreaming about how staying with ipv4 forever would allow quadruple the routing table capacity for a set amount of TCAM.
Cause different people experience different situations differently?

Sure, I could have responded like that, or punched them in the face or just stared at them until they walked away or given them the watch as a gift since they liked it so much...

You're you and I'm me, you maybe you get uncomfortable when you see people making out in public, maybe you don't. Maybe you get angry when you see people litter, maybe you don't. Maybe you get uncomfortable when people compliment you, maybe not.

I'm sure you get the point... or maybe you don't? Assumptions are stupid and using them to make other people defend their subjective experiences of situations you have little insight into seems self-righteous and arrogant to me.
Yes, I do agree with you. That's the real weapon we - as people from the western block - have and comes with little surprise that Russia is trying to redefine the whole economical system by joining with China.

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/could-chinas-renminbi-ri...
I'm a fan of Musk and his companies. I own one of his cars (as far as they can be called "his," obviously there are tons of people involved) and it's even better than all the "best car in the world!" people say. I follow every SpaceX launch and am eager to see them pull off their stage recovery attempts soon.

That said, this doesn't surprise me at all. He doesn't seem like the kind of guy I'd want to work for. My admiration is about vision and execution, not personal relationships. He may well be a dick, and it would be no shock if he is.

Maybe this is what it takes to do big things. Maybe it's entirely unnecessary. Either way it reminds me a bit of Steve Jobs, who was undeniably a massive jerk, but who got things done.

I forget exactly what my point was here. I guess it's just that this is a bit of a "water is wet" story mixed in with celebrity gossip. It's highly important for the people involved but not terribly relevant for the rest of us.
Where can I source panels that cheap, if I'm not in the US.

Genuine question, I'd really want to know.
If its just for Portfolio building and practice do this:
Code a client for any API (any really). Then crawl the site, do some interesting statistics and make them available as an interaktive Website/Chart.
These projects are always fünf. And Ehen your just starting out the difficulty should be ok

(written from my mobile, so PLZ no grammar autocorrect hatte)
Can employees manage themselves? Zappos experiments
> Everyone’s spending increasingly more consumption time dicking around in apps and snacking on bite-sized social content instead of browsing websites and searching Google.

True, but Google makes it very hard to find interesting websites. Search for just about any given topic and finding a website from an enthusiast and not a corporate entity is like searching for a needle in a haystack. The indie web might exist but it's buried under a pile of SEO garbage.
Sadly, no. Given the up-and-down nature of the points to my response, my own joke was that someone who needed a pointer for what "joke" meant, given simply as a URL, might also need a pointer for what a URL means. With of course the contradiction that I gave it as a URL.
...just when you start think there might be someone in Silicon Valley who is worth working for and learning from... it turns out he is also a flawed human being who can and will wreak havoc on this employees' personal lives.

If this is true, and not taken out of context, Musk has some serious soul searching to do.
>> I get working on big goals, I get working hard. I don't get throwing away everything else. It's not just your life it's the people who need a father and a friend.

Agreed.

The quote which finally got me to realize my family was more important than my job:

"When you’re gone would you rather have your gravestone say, ‘He never missed a meeting.’ Or one that said, ‘He was a great father'."
Great article. The main bit of new information for me was that while Rust supports dynamic dispatch, its implementation has a noticeable difference from C++. In C++, the vtable pointer is in the object itself. In Rust, it's stored inside what is essentially a "fat pointer." Pointers to traits ("trait objects") are actually two pointers: the pointer to the vtable and the pointer to the actual object.

This seems to have one major downside (pointers are twice as big), but lots of upsides:

- allows traits to be implemented for existing types, as opposed
to C++ where the type's declaration has to list all base classes.

- allows a type to be used through dynamic dispatch while allowing users
who don't need this to avoid the vtable overhead.

- one less indirection in the call sequence for dynamic dispatch.

I like it a lot overall, though the idea of 16-byte pointers on 64-bit architectures does make me slightly queasy.
It's pretty simple, then - don't apply there.
To everybody who is talking about this being out of context: in what context is the alleged behavior okay?
Yes, you have a rough idea when babies are due. My middle child was born 5 weeks early, however. My last was born 3 weeks early. I've had employees send me a note a day after saying 'sorry, baby came early. more later'.

If you have any reaction other than "oh, ok, hope everyone is healthy", you are probably a terrible human being.
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Playing by a specific, abnormal ruleset or not playing at all sounds more like a cult and a recipe for fatal groupthink than a healthy company culture. But hey, I'm not saying cults can't achieve great things. It's just that they are not usually that healthy for most participants.
"And let's face it...you have quite a few months notice on when the baby is due."

This simply is not true! You should understand that the "due date" is a distribution in normal childbirth. Even for cesarian sections, which are scheduled, things can go awry.

In fact the second case is precisely what happened to my wife. She still had about 15 days to her scheduled cesarian when she visited the hospital for a routine checkup, during which they found that her blood pressure was too high and presented a mortal danger to the baby. They took her to delivery room immediately. She just had enough time to call me at work, I rushed like a madmen, but due to my long commute I still wan't there when our son was delivered.
Working at Tesla is not a huge privilege. It's a job, maybe even a great one, but it doesn't make you a better person, it doesn't even guarantee that you'll be employable after working there. Having worked for a couple of very popular places, I realized pretty quickly its a job. You know what these places have in common? You're an employee, which means they can and will cut you loose when it suits them. "Reshaping the World" seems to be a popular refrain that gets overused by tech companies, and while Tesla may be more accurate then most, it's still hubris. Spend time with your real family.
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It is true that housing prices are sticky, because property owners are generally content to simply wait until prices rise rather than selling. There's little you can do to push housing prices down once they've risen, though you can get the same effect through inflation and through economic growth causing salaries to rise.

What you can do, however, is help create and sustain conditions where prices don't rise, thus giving inflation a chance to do its work while property owners hold and wait. You do this by upzoning, which makes formerly unattractive properties become possibilities for profitable development, and by loosening restrictions on the kinds of properties that may be developed. (Dropping parking minimums, FAR limits, setback requirements, etc.)

When new houses are popping up all over the place, owners of older houses will have difficulty competing if they raise prices, so prices of existing buildings will tend to stagnate. This is about as close as you can get to dropping housing costs.
A good number of "world changers" prioritize their work over everything else in their lives, including themselves and the people around them. They expect their team to do nothing less, so if he did say that, I'm not exactly surprised.

This wouldn't work for me, and I'd imagine it wouldn't work for a lot of people who prioritize their families over whatever project they may be working on. I still like Musk and the things he does, but I have no desire to work for him if that means working 24/7 like he does.
I don't even understand how to sign up. It asks me to choose a registrar, I clicked Namecoin and it just brought me to the Namecoin site with no further instructions. At Onename I am already signed up, technically having a card there.

So what is Passcard.info for?
Excuse the ignorance but is this OpenID all over again? if not, what's the difference?
I guess one cannot pick a non-controversial example. I recently had to deal with someone generating XML by string concat and it worked for years until recently. Something with international characters suddenly started causing problems. The solution was simple; I replaced the code with a proper XML library and it just worked. I didn't even bother to figure out what the underlying issue was.

Worrying about the bloat is premature optimization. If your process is actually too slow and parsing is the bottleneck then by all means rip out the XML parser library and roll your own.
Wow. It's no surprise that rms lacks empathy or social grace, but I'm kind of shocked one man's availability could single-handedly delay a release of a project like emacs. What if the poor chap had got hit by a bus?
For what it's worth, your English skills are passable, but not great. It's clear that it's not your first language, even in this two-sentence comment.

Perhaps that was part of the issue you had while searching.
So you want to build a successful web site, app, service or platform?
just wanted to let you know I agree with you and I'm sick of people whining about basic human nature. it's not gonna change no matter how much you shame people or complain about it.

cheers, mate
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That email chain contains one of my favorite quotes:

"It doesn’t take special talents to reproduce—even plants can do it. On the other hand, contributing to a program like Emacs takes real skill. That is really something to be proud of."
--RMS

(As a parent without any special talents, I am evidence supporting his claim.)
This free overview is great! I've been wanting to get a better grip on all the different types of 3D printing out there these days and this primer has already answered a couple questions I had about repraps.
Ironically, the Ivy League has been fantastically successful as an ongoing financial concern (see, eg, the growth of Harvard's endowment over time).
> fmap has a tight relationship with <$>

Yup, it's really tight: <$> is fmap
Right. The class action lawsuit is for all actions of the specified type over the specified period to members of the specified class who do not opt out. You do other wrong things, and you can get sued again.

I would love to see more information about the terms for the second lawsuit. Certainly you hear about cases with large settlements. But you don't hear about the routine cases. I don't know the mix.

That said, I do know that there are class action lawsuits which never really fix anything, no matter how many times they happen. As an example, consider printer ink. Every manufacturer has received class action lawsuits for their printers claiming to be out of ink when they are not. They have all settled them with coupons that are redeemable for amounts that are pretty meaningless. (About enough to cover one extra refill of ink.)

Did behavior change? I currently have a printer that was purchased last year, sees only light use (every month or two we'll print a few pages), and which has claimed to have run out of ink twice. It is on my mind because the second time last week. I know that there is no way it actually used up the magenta ink. But it is currently unusable.

And it works! No matter how bad my experience is, I'm not motivated to buy another printer because I have no reason to believe that any other consumer printer will be honest with me. And even with the printer lying to me, I simply don't do enough printing for it to be cost effective to buy an expensive printer that I would trust.
For those interested, Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising presents a pretty accurate account of a major modern day tank battle/ground war between two advanced armies. It's also a great Cold War era novel. Basically, short-range (1-4 km) anti-tank guided missiles wreak havoc on tanks and neutralize any advancing armor columns. Attack helicopters also are important but their effectiveness ends up being severely limited by Man-portable air-defense systems (think Stinger Missiles). Air superiority, for both sides at first, is limited by over the horizon radar and mobile SAM units, and so it ends up being too risky to use air assets to attack ground forces.

As for how it would turn out today, I think about the same. Point defense systems to intercept ATGMs are still relatively new and have only been tested in the field by Israel against Hamas during their 2014 war. They were supposedly very successful with intercepting RPGs and Metis-Ms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9K115-2_Metis-M). I'm unconvinced drones like the Predator or Reaper would be effective in an extended conflict. The real power of drones lies in their ability to loiter in area for an incredibly long amount of time and wait for a target to present itself. In a modern battlefield where the sky is constantly being illuminated by radar, a loitering craft in the area of battle is not going to be there for long.
Fedora uses cronie as crond, which does something similar: https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/cronie.git/tree/man/cron.8...
What does it say about a government that will implement a secret treaty like the TPP against the will of the majority of the people. Our so called elected representatives can barely even see it what's in it.
It's the same as with anti-piracy warnings and ads you can't skip on original movies. The pirates don't have financial incentives to milk you, and they have all the incentives to get the best version working as soon as possible. So that's why you often get better stuff from them than you can buy.
Seconded--I was hired without ever having an in-person interview. I've still never met any of my colleagues in person, after ~18 months.

I didn't have any video chat interviews, either, although that's typical practice for us.
> it's unconditionally making the world of the family worse

It obviously is.

The 48 hours or whatever curing cancer can and will continue another time. Child birth won't.

And if you can't even afford to prioritize your family at such little cost to your work, then I think it's also pretty easy to assert that the world of the family will continually be worse off. Unless you actually cure cancer next year, collect your $1billion and quit your job to focus on your family from then on.

It's much more likely you're going to continually prioritize trivial work events (or in this scenario, non-events) over important family ones.
I've heard him talking before, and this doesn't surprise me at all. He has a definite mean streak, and he's almost gleeful about being nasty.
"Changing the world." The world is bigger than the technology in it. The world consists of relationships too. I didn't learn this early enough. While you're out building rocketships don't forget to build relationships.

What a lonely world it would be if we had everything but nobody to care about us.
I think it's reasonable to expect an astronaut to report to work on the day of a launch regardless of personal circumstances. Also a soldier can't go AWOL in the middle of a mission to see his family. Same with a surgeon in the middle of a surgery. Those are pretty much the only cases I can think of.

I get the sense that, amusingly, Elon Musk sees himself and his company as that important.
This is CERTAINLY not happened to me.

Because I DIDN'T want Windows 8.1 installed, at all.

Unless you think this tutorial is useless and people invented it because they are liars too:

http://www.askvg.com/how-to-stop-automatic-forced-upgrade-fr...
I suspect that in this case it was easier to wait for the person to be available rather than transitioning to someone else.

BTW, since then Emacs development has been handed over to other folk and development has really picked up pace, including being (finally!) hosted in Git.
Airware launches new system and gets funded
"Passcards are securely encrypted and then stored across a secure network of computers (also called the blockchain)."

Is this where we're headed? Take any idea, then tack on "stored on the blockchain" to the end?
Also consider that additional housing requires additional utility service: water, sewage and electricity. Could the existing local infrastructure handle the load even if the cost of running additional power lines, drains and white-water pipes were negligible?
Your (written) English is essentially flawless.

I presumed you must be a transplant to Somalia after reading your initial post.
there are countless stories about men being overlooked or failing, you just never hear about them because it doesn't make a good story.
1. Click link.

2. Page loads.

3. Immediately blocked by nearly full page ad for a book or some bullshit...closed tab instantly.

This is a deplorable trend that needs to die.
How are the models generated? From existing assets, like a CAD file or something?
The blocksize debate asks the wrong question: not whether the blocksize should be increased, but more like what are the steps to do to make sure that the blocksize increase is as safe as possible: decreasing the header sizes, improving DOS attacks, synchronization between nodes are more important then the 15-liner that just increases the maximum block size.
It also applies for class action lawsuits. With minor twists. See http://epic.org/blog/2014/03/sometimes-in-class-action-settl... for more.
You don't think 6.9 million is enough to reinvent global trade?
Technically this was more of a parody rather than satire. Satire would imply that you were making a deeper statement about Buzzfeed. In fact you were just re-using the form in a joke-y way as a linkbait headline for something unrelated.

Hopefully the mods will enforce the HN guidelines and rename this submission with a non-linkbaity title :)
Choose a passcard Registrar:

* ONENAME
* NAMECOIN
* NOPE

I'm not interested in this rehashed blockchain crap. Why do people think this is the future?
-it true-

I don't know how people here are deffending this kind of attitude. If you decide to bring another person to this planet, you have a huge responsibility. You can balance things out and work a lot and have a family. But if you really want to work 23 hours a day without paying proper attention to your family, for the sake of your children and spouse, just don't form a family. The damage you'll do, is irreversible.

You can't have it all in life... And one has to make hard choices.
But what is it? What does it do?

"Introducing your passcard!", "Choose a registrar", "Your all access pass to everything.", "A system giving users control of their identity."

I still have no clue what this thing is, or why I would want it.
Current top seed investors make investment decisions (in pre-traction startups) almost entirely based on their own relatability to the founders, because it takes so much more work to judge actual merit so early.

But top startups make their hiring decisions almost entirely based on the skills of the candidates, because they can't afford to be at all self-indulgent. So this probably is a good thing and serves as a merit-based backdoor for some otherwise underestimated people.
More companies looking at Hybrid cloud adoption
Hack America: Field Notes from the Road
Yes but the power equation wasn't as bad as a modern totalitarian society. In a 100 people tribe, you are exactly 1% of it, and know in person the entire population.
Welcome to the golden age of
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New Debian project leader talks open source careers, PPAs and more
I agree that family is important and it's especially important to be there for other people, but regarding your quote, to the two gravestone inscriptions above I'd much prefer: "He helped mankind make its first steps on Mars.", or "He helped ensure the world is a good place to live for generations to come.".
Of course very, very many people also drive to work if their work is not downtown, outside the city, or otherwise difficult to access via public transport (which is a lot of places in the bay area). Or if they live outside of SF and commute in to work.

I have a car and dont drive it to work, but use it daily for transporting my child. I'd say people who use a car only once a month are definitely a tiny minority. Regardless of whether that is a better way to live, it's not enough people to support eliminating as much parking as the article suggests.
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This was a strange move. Personal references are normal, useful and understood.

But how does making a a formal policy and public announcement help YC or applicants? It looks and smells bad from the outside. I winced when I read it.

Imagine if beloved Stanford made that announcement. They would not be so daft.