skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The goal isn't to change anyones mind. It's to rebalance the chilling effect away from the kid back to the school.
Maybe couple this with a gamification idea, getting points for successful weekly reports? I don't know if that would be useful or really evil...
One aspect of inflation is that it is a tax on people who choose to hoard their money. Because inflation naturally makes every dollar worth less and less over time, you are forced to either spend it now or invest it somewhere that grows with inflation. As a result, money is actually utilized instead of sitting in a bank account.

Thus, I think the idea that a dollar saved today can buy roughly the same amount of stuff in a decade is actually bad, because in a world where that's likely, that dollar was probably sitting useless in someone's purse for a decade.

Inflation, in my opinion, actually does the opposite of what you suggest -- because it encourages lending and investing in order to beat inflation, money is actually put to use for longer term projects such as infrastructure that can last years and years.
The amount of confusion surrounding this post says it all. Very smart people are like dark age europeans debating health best practices. Why don't people know how the bedrock component, Money itself, of the economy works?
Show HN: iOS/Mac autolayout constraints tool
Clock ownership and general interest in technology are neither suspicious nor unusual behaviors.
And then teachers (some of them at least) complain why are they getting paid less? Go figure...
PayPal quietly re-enters online gaming
Make sure you drag Russia to China rather than the other way around. Otherwise the differences get exaggerated.
Docker for AWS
Yep, that's how America works. The holy dollar over its citizens happiness and well-being.
It seems pretty logical to me that we would treat people who want to learn to fly without landing differently than a teenager who builds a clock.
That is true as a general trend, but in my experience with SWI-Prolog the effect is not linear, and frequent small collections do cost more (in MY applications). For one thing, if you have long-lived data used throughout the program's whole lifetime, they will be visited on every collection without ever being freed. For another thing, if you have enough memory to fit all the data ever allocated by the program, you may not need to collect at all! Also, as mentioned in my previous comment, depending on the application there may be program parts where it is OK to trigger even a long-ish collection manually, while you want other parts to be fast and collection-free.

So, to reiterate: You are right in broad terms, but it all depends very much on the details of the application.
Sure. Great. However, there are other realities outside yours.
I would like to point out that homeschooling and unschooling are not the same thing. From:

http://www.pbs.org/parents/education/homeschooling/unschooli...

"Unschooling is a branch of homeschooling that promotes nonstructured, child-led learning. There’s no set curriculum or schedule."
That might work for a large company for somebody in customer service since it is not that hard to get a replacement.

It is absolutely going to be a huge issue with the company if it is the programmer who built system X and she is going to leave for a year.

And that doesn't even touch the discrimination against those who don't want children in the first place.
DeepHear – Composing and harmonizing music with neural networks
Remember the Boston Lite-Brite thing? (A more legit incident, since apparently quite a few people were spooked by the devices, but still a case where the authorities over-reacted and refused to back down).

Sticking to the line that something was a 'bomb hoax' keeps the responsibility with the accused: they shouldn't have perpetrated a bomb hoax; not we shouldn't have over-reacted to an innocuous object.
Here's a photo of the device he was arrested for having: http://i.imgur.com/upANL9d.jpg
Could be interesting if follows through on the promise. I prefer to see daily rates which is much easier for comparisons.
"...to find the best and brightest engineers."

Who doesn't say that though? No company says they hire average engineers.

But I agree that their success does kind of prove that they succeeded in that.
Remember to get a hall pass!
Cronyism, referring to a system where incompetent agents are given special favors, doesn't survive in the free market - merciless competition destroys any underperfoming organization.

Cronyism only exists when competition doesn't work by means of a government. Get some politicians, create regulations, build a monopoly. No matter how uncompetitive it is, you're still a billionaire.
It worked fine for me in Chrome in Ubuntu.

You can go to chrome://gpu/ to see more information as to why it's not working on your machine.
Can the non-Mac users have some screenshots? I dug around the GitHub repo and the website, but didn't see any.
Sure, but what's the most popular application hosted on AWS? Does it approach 900 million users?
Obviously your situation is the exception, not the norm. I've worked a lot of jobs and met a lot of people, I can't name one person with such an arrangement. Even the self-employed folks that I know don't enjoy that amount of leisure time. You're very lucky. What line of work are you in?
> Essentially as soon as you describe a pile of distinct legal parts as a "bomb" you've now got a class of controlled weapon even if it has no explosive components.

Source? If I describe a chicken finger as a gun, is that also a controlled weapon?
Looks great - in all honesty I probably won't use it day to day as I waste enough time checking HN, although perhaps it would be a less distracting way to check it. Source code looks nice and clean, look forward to digging into it!
​SYNful Knock: Cisco router malware in the wild
Well, then, why not consult a subject matter expert? They didn't ask his teacher or any of his potentially qualified colleagues; the police didn't consult anyone on their staff who might have been as knowledgeable. They didn't even try their bomb squad. There's no suggestion that even a semblance of a credible investigation took place.
Part of this "streamline things" includes lots of IT infrastructure, though.

You can’t get electronic tax filing without technology, you can’t get full open data availability with nice diagrams like https://www.destatis.de/bevoelkerungspyramide/ without lots of IT workers in the government (this is available for every data collected by the German Federal Statistics Agency, btw), and you can’t get stuff like http://ims.kiel.de/extern/kielmaps/ which show even lanes and zoning for cities without people working on it.

Part of the job of governments is also always having reliable, high quality data about their country, for government purposes. But it also means they need to publish those for citizen, and they need people taking care of that.
But, between you and a buddy or two, that's still a lot of precursor. It's not like they've actually solved any problems; they've just made the 3oz toiletries industry boom.
I wonder, did any of the staff actually know the kid? They're acting like he wandered in, and not like any of them could attest to his character.
Having a game over user to kernel exploit available for who knows how long is not my idea of anywhere near bug-free.

And who knows what happens or what bugs are fixed when intel/amd push new firmware to the chip.
The handcuffs are actually helpful so they can't claim you punched yourself.
Govt bureaucracy, Corporate bureaucracy, they just need to be part of a large enough organization with an insufficient connection to their customer base.
1) Nerdism is stronger than religion or race.
2) We need younger teachers who don’t think circuitboards are bombs.
I second this question, I assume many of us are interested in the story!
Absolutely,

And short of counting on the young & healthy expats' patriotism and sense of duty (or going the US route and taxing citizens on their worldwide income) the only way out for France is to make itself slightly more attractive to net contributors / high earners again, by cutting taxes & benefits slightly, so that balance is restored.

But people and organizations on the receiving end of welfare will hear none of it and don't understand they're killing the golden goose. They'd much rather see a citizenship-based tax obligation like the US has (oddly, as it's a very socialist idea)
I seriously looked into relocating to Germany as a mechanical engineer after salivating over their extended paid vacation time and ease of taking transit all over Europe. But if I were ever to start a company, fuck paying for that. I'd do it in the US where labor is cheap and business taxes are low.
The poster who originally wrote those words, wrote them in context of a much larger post. (That phrase was 0.8% of the entire posts by word count). That post was written in response to a propaganda article [0] that got 130+ upvotes. You can't expect a response to propaganda to not include at least a little rhetoric.

And as far as the quality of discussion, the point it really went downhill was when this responder seized on that one small sentence (0.8% of the post!) and responded with pure empty rhetoric: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10225065

> If you want serious debate I'd suggest you can start by not defending the comment that's clearly overstepped the boundary on what constitutes serious debate.

No. If you want serious debate, don't defend a comment that skimmed a thoughtful contribution to cherry-pick the most potentially objectionable bit of rhetoric and then posture off an out-of-context quote of it. And, don't repeat that same mistake.

[0] http://www.carryology.com/bags/whats-in-my-bag-what-refugees...

TeamCarryology: @Brad, I think you've missed the point entirely. Through this piece, and by using 'carry'as a thread, we're able to bring this 'serious' and dire crisis to the attention of our 130K + readers, in the hope that they may take interest in these people and visit the International Rescue Committee to learn more.
Ah yes, still with stupid way of building broken packages for Red Hat and Debian.
Analyzing 1.7B Reddit Comments with Blaze and Impala
Why developers should speak at meetups
What is the ethnic makeup of the teachers and administrators?
The Birth of a Digital Nomad
Yeah, pink-skinned people in the Middle East will get even harsher xenophobic treatment.
We have a discussion on this in Section 5.6 of our paper:
https://nymity.ch/active-probing/imc2015.pdf

By "hijacking" we mean that an entity in the network is "borrowing" IP addresses meant for Internet users for ~20 minutes of probing activity. That's not the same as IP spoofing, i.e., simply sending IP packets with a spoofed source address.
Microsoft and Google don't fire all their higher cost experienced engineers in favor of cheaper fresh graduates every year. They also don't forbid new engineers from making more than any longer-tenured ones.

Why is tenure-based compensation an efficient use of dollars in primary education but not elsewhere?
Yes, the idea is that you will be able to easily create reports from multiple sources of data you already use; so you don't have to do all the work yourself manually. And then subsequently you could schedule certain reports to appear in your inbox daily/weekly/monthly.

Good point on having a demo, we need to improve our website material so you can see things in action, or at least through cases studies.

We will not resell your data, we are simply helping you to understand your data. Similar to having a data scientist explore it for you, Zenit helps you understand what your LTV of users is, or other critical elements you want to understand.

Thanks for your feedback!
Developing Inside Docker Containers with OS X
I'm one of the co-founders. Here's a write-up on my own blog about the service, including a bit of details on the tech stack (runs on a combination of cloud platforms, about 12gb of laws in RAM): http://www.cameronhuff.com/blog/announcing-global-regulation....
Or don't do that, either, because it is not right to assume people are going to pull off bomb hoaxes. (Doubly so when the only real reason for the suspicion is skin color.)
Email me if he gets let go, there are tricks to getting healthcare that are questionable, but technically legal depending on the state that he is in. I'm not sure about Minnesota, but I could look into it.
This - I know teachers with 25 years experience making close to six figures, which seems fairly insane.
Landing page: ubiquitous design.
Search page: nearly a pixel-for-pixel copy of Airbnb's unique design.

I would advise changing that...
In my experience, 8 hours of face-to-face overlap actually makes me significantly less productive due to distractions. I can always get more done when it's more like 4-5, with 4-5 undistracted. Better yet is a remote work day. People can still contact each other via Slack, Mumble, Hangouts, etc.
This made me think about a book I had read where it stated Humans are very bad at estimating risk. I think it could have been Nate Silver's book The Signal and Noise. It might have even been the Black Swan by Nassim Taleb
> But we live in a shitty time where two yahoos can learn to make a bomb online and cause mass destruction

100 years ago you could read how to create explosives in an encyclopedia. A lot of people knew from hobbies and profession. Don't blame the Internet.
Police believe they’ve solved a murder in 1984. But what if they’re wrong?
Whoops. I edited, thank you.

And yeah. What a world we live in. Hopefully someday these people will find out how perfectly usual everyone is, even people from different cultures.
Charter Schools = They take 100% of the money from the public school and the money follows the student.

> why does the state really care which one the child attends?

Well I as a tax payer cares. If those school fare even worst and the administration and CEO/President of the foundations makes millions at the expense of children there is a concern.

Public Schools work and have worked for decades. We have a problem with inner city schools and a big part is unfair funding, but killing public schools and give it over to various schools with no public oversight just government over sight is scary. We vote on our School Boards and Directors. We can protest and get Administrators removed. Can't do that to these Charters School. Also privatizing schools will make being a teacher an even worst job.
A new build of Unity3d on Linux is released
How does healthcare work there?
Those are all things with very wide benefits, rather than incubators, where you get someone in the government trying to pick a company to give money to. So to me all those things still sound like 'infrastructure' that private companies probably would underprovision.
On windows 7 I have my updates set to 'tell about updates and let me install them' and the box 'treat recommended updates as critical updates' is unchecked. I have experienced no such activity from Microsoft.

A few weeks ago I downloaded an application from Microsoft essentials and it apparently checked the 'treat recommended updates as critical updates' as well as the 'allow all users to install updates' boxes. It then proceeded to install all windows 10 as well as 60 or so other updates and made my machine a misery to deal with. I thought I had a virus. I ended up reinstalling win7 with critical updates only and all is well again.
PubNub now on IBM Bluemix
Ah, that makes more sense. Though rather poorly worded tech specs.
I really like it, runs well under openSUSE (you have to download the repo and follow the instructions under "Development" in the readme). Hope to see it's functionality expand further.

Edit:

One thing I would change is maybe make the overall border a more noticeable darker color, I keep getting confused as to where the borders are for when resizing it, and maybe a way of dragging and dropping the window (that is more obvious if it is there, I haven't figured out how to move the window without using what I assume to be KDE specific features).
You're right, but think about what the implication is. In exchange for a lower quality of life, we have more billion dollar startups. Not the only billion dollar startups-- just more relative to the more civilized countries. Most of these startups don't actually improve the public's daily life significantly, and offer incremental efficiency, convenience improvements, or services that people will be not using 99% of their waking time. Sure, on the long view software is "eating the world", but it's nibbling around the edges first, occupied with the condiments and garnishings rather than the meat.

Successful startups in exchange for shitty labor protections are a shitty trade for the vast, vast majority of people.
Money is a measure of power. With money, you can make people do things for you. People don't crave money for its own sake. They crave money for the power it gives them over others.
To elaborate, there are many reasons
1. They have a no ads policy which is a really godsend thing when other messengers had stickers, games and just plain annoying ads.
2. The ones that did not, for ex Google etc were not really made for phones. They understood the importance of using your contacts as social graph really really well.
3. They almost never experienced outages.
4. Had sensible defaults.
5. Their apps are lightweight (memory and cpu wise) compared to amount of time one spends on it.
6. Had no api and generally very low spam compared to sms. SMS has really high spam in the developing world.
7. Rich media compared to SMS and no character restrictions

I think west really hates it as most of the people there have iphone and they had this $1 signup which made it unpopular there. They never had that on android which made it a darling of non-west
There is an implicit assumption that in the workplace, we're all rational adults. Reasonable people who deep down are all the same and just want to do the right thing for the company. That is usually true, but a leader should keep in mind that often it is not true. I disagree with your apparent assertion that people never have irrational and destructive motives at work.
> Serious question: Why is (bond) interest not adjusted for inflation (or deflation for that matter)?

Some bonds are, but with a moderate, low-volatility year-over-year inflation in the modern period its not that important (reasonably good inflation expectations exist and are factored into market prices), and before modern independent central banking -- governments weren't exactly inclined to surrender the power to monetize debt (when they were convinced to largely curtail that power, it was through independent central banking rather than through inflation-adjusting bond interest.)

Inflation adjusting bond yield -- if done generally so that it significantly affect debt service costs -- also creates substantial incentives to systematically manipulate official inflation measures; if you don't trust the issuing government to manage inflation within a reasonably predictable range so that it can effectively be priced-in to the bond purchase, do you trust them to accurately measure inflation when they have a substantial near-term financial incentive not to?

> Very long timespans such as these really devalue any interest payments, do they not?

Well, sure, they reduce the real (though not nominal) value of the annual income from a perpetuity, and those over time the real (though not nominal) value of the bond itself.

I'm not sure this is a bad thing inherently; why shouldn't bonds tend to have reduced real value over time?
Reproducible builds are useful for purposes other than security, though.

One day at work I found that we'd uploaded an updated binary artifact without checking in updated source (due to honest human error). We needed to patch the source, and if we dropped any patches, that could have caused regressions. I had a good guess about what the source was, but comparing the resulting binary involved dumping the resulting text sections and diffing them, and ignoring things like the debug sections. It would have been much simpler if I could simply recompile and make sure that the binaries were identical.

If you're shipping binaries via a delta-update system (send the diff between what the user already has, and the new version), it's useful for things to change as little as possible. Reproducible builds allow you to send down an entire system (large application, bootable image, etc.) by recompiling the whole thing, which is good for build cleanliness, and trusting that unchanged files won't have changed. While not quite "reproducible builds", a lot of the related work means that if you apply a tiny patch to source code, the diff of that object file is probably equally tiny.

I agree that this is a sort of "of course the compiler shouldn't introduce nondeterminism" thing. It happens to be primarily useful for security, but even in a non-security context, it's a nice base property to have.
I think this is the key line: “The number-one lesson is just be very focused on what you need to do”.

My sense is that WhatsApp spends all of its energy on the very core product offering and not a bunch of superfluous activities. I don't think the language choice has much to do with it unless there's some sort of "keep it simple" thinking that the languages somehow exude.
3 things you need to know before joining a startup
Because most of those politicians think Google employs roughly the same number of people that GM used to. Google has about 55k employees [0] and GM at it's peak had about 350k employees [1], a 6 fold difference. GM also had high competition in the marketplace with Ford and others, so the number of autoworkers was likely in the millions for the country. Since the car and the computer are synonymous for 'mental space' for most people, meaning they are about equally used in terms of time and resources, the 2 industries are considered roughly equal. Granted, there are a lot more tech companies out there than auto companies even in the 80's heyday, so the number of workers may be near parity.

Also, remember that Google and FB have put a lot of cash in to D.C. in terms of lobbying [2]. FB is essentially using the start-up scene as their R&D departments, occasionally having to fork out the moolah to buy WhatsAps and other viable competitors.

[0] https://www.quora.com/How-many-employees-does-Google-have

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors#History

[2]https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-google-is-transf...
Elephants, the Three Code Ilities, and Two Months with CSS Modules
This hits close to home for me too, and I am as WASP-y as it gets.

Just over a year ago I was flying to the middle of US with some prototypes for an agriculural automation system in my checked luggage. Going through DTW and O'Hare to my final destination was fine and went without incident. On my way back, again with a checked luggage bag of protypes and tools, this little airport in northwest IA got evacauted and I was very forcibly questioned about why I was flying with these things.

What struck me was that the larger airports (DTW and O'Hare) couldn't have cared less, but this 5-gate airport in IA freaked out that somebody flying with three laptops in his carryon would also have a bag of tools and equipment.

The best part out of all of this was after everything was cleared up, I asked the head TSA person what I should do in the future to prevent getting searched and interrogated. His answer was "just open your bag and show the luggage agent what is in it." I still don't understand how that would help - I envision that the conversation would go something like "Hi, these look like pipe bombs. They aren't. You can trust me." and I would immediately be detained.

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Le classement des .VILLEs (noms de domaine)
This discussion of Bazel, by a Google Blaze user, identifies four issues for adoption of Bazel by OSS projects, http://julipedia.meroh.net/2015/04/on-bazel-and-open-source....

1. Cross-project dependency tracking
2. Software autoconfiguration
3. It's not only about the build
4. The Java blocker