skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not evidence that's speculation.

They could be using really good tools. Or each of those 50 programmers are 10x more productive than regular programmer (I don't believe in this imo).
Did I say that? Don't think I did. You are basically arguing that they should not have investigated?
You're stating that the organization "as a whole" is "blatantly" violating the Constitution. Don't you see why your statement is being challenged? It's largely baseless. At most, a small number of programs that the NSA has used have been shown to maybe be unconstitutional.
It seems we're talking about schools' failure to support exceptional students -- those most likely to make outsized contributions to society when older. So of course we are only looking at exceptional cases.
Here you go:

1- http://i.imgur.com/5WjIJ5M.png

2- http://i.imgur.com/A1VHspL.png

This is about it. When you click on any link, it takes you to the website itself.
When I got out of the Army in the 90's, I had to fly back to America, and since I didn't trust the government's shipping contractor I took all of the guts out of my PC, stuck them in a carry-on bag, and went through security with it. The guy at the counter looked inside the bag and asked what it was. I told him it was a computer and he let me through. Oh, such an age of innocence!
I went down a similar route in a performance-sensitive lexer (started with naive code, spent some time fiddling with different ways to express it) and eventually used a lexer generator, which uses a combination of lookup tables and tests.

https://github.com/martine/ninja/blob/master/src/lexer.cc#L1...
> "Germany, the UK and the Scandinavian nations are the only European countries (that I was aware of circa within the week) to be actively accepting Syrian refugees"

You might need to inform yourself a bit better as most European countries have been accepting Syrian refugees[0]. Germany is now leading the effort to give documents to the new arrivals but in the upcoming weeks a part of them will be sent to different locations around Europe. Pretty much all countries' newspapers have been reporting this (in regards to its numbers and locations).

[0] http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...
> I don't understand why Europeans stick to their local languages when they all know English anyway.

Because the local language is a majority language where it is the local language, and, globally, every language is a minority language (and English isn't even the biggest minority -- its #2, far behind Mandarin, for total speakers, and #3, behind Spanish which is far behind Mandarin, for native speakers.)
In the case that they don't provide a world class education for all students. Why should we settle for less than that?
Kids have to be picked up at 3pm or, if you want to keep them for the whole day in school, at 5pm. Unless you hire a nanny, 5pm becomes a hard stop for you, no matter what start-up life you dream of having.
Then, during the week-end, your guilt of not spending too much time during the week will eat at you and you will try and to use most of the free time with your kid(s).

Or, you can decide not to get involved too much with your kinds, eventually shipping them off to a boarding school. even for that, you have to pay dearly.
From a survey of adults who had been "unschooled" (homeschooling without a curriculm):

> Almost all of the respondents, in various ways, wrote about the freedom and independence that unschooling gave them and the time it gave them to discover and pursue their own interests. Seventy percent of them also said, in one way or another, that the experience enabled them to develop as highly self-motivated, self-directed individuals. Many also wrote about the learning opportunities that would not have been available if they had been in school, about their relatively seamless transition to adult life, and about the healthier (age-mixed) social life they experienced out of school contrasted with what they would have experienced in school.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201406/su...
Why is this a link to an aggregation piece by TechCrunch, rather than the original reported story by Dallas Morning News? http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dall...
> Thank goodness he never took a clock he'd built into school.

Uh... From Steve Jobs's biography:

In twelfth grade he [Woz] built an electronic metronome—one of those tick-tick-tick devices that keep time in music class—and realized it sounded like a bomb. So he took the labels off some big batteries, taped them together, and put it in a school locker; he rigged it to start ticking faster when the locker opened. Later that day he got called to the principal’s office. He thought it was because he had won, yet again, the school’s top math prize. Instead he was confronted by the police. The principal had been summoned when the device was found, bravely ran onto the football field clutching it to his chest, and pulled the wires off. Woz tried and failed to suppress his laughter. He actually got sent to the juvenile detention center, where he spent the night. It was a memorable experience. He taught the other prisoners how to disconnect the wires leading to the ceiling fans and connect them to the bars so people got shocked when touching them.
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I'd certainly say that the Thai government are behaving in an bad manner towards prospective home buyers. It's not quite as bad - they aren't forcing Americans into dire poverty - but its certainly not an ethical move on their part.

I don't know the Thailand govt well, but India has similar laws and is explicitly racist about them.
Even if the machines only drew 50% of that at load, it would still be over $3 000 000. That's a lot of money.
That's true of tech startups. But think of startups that aim bigger. The South African who founded SpaceX would have struggled to amass his army of engineers in Europe. In the long run, these moon-shot innovations that are only possible with huge amounts of cheap talent might save humanity. The low-hanging fruit (first airplane, first rocket motor, first PC) that could be started in a garage by a few folks working in their off time is gone.

I like that we have both types of labor climates in the first world. High-risk, no safety-net and unshackled by regulation like in the US, but also a more cushy albeit less dynamic one in Europe.
I love it when "guilty until proven innocent" gets brought up in internet conversations, as if it were somehow the right way to have a conversation.

This isn't a court of law. Skepticism is, of course, always warranted, but equating it with high principles of justice is ridiculous. We're not putting someone in prison here.

And institutional racism against certain categories of brown people is far beyond a mere assumption at this point. Just ask one of the many, many such people who get "randomly" selected for additional security screening every time they take a plane, for one random example.

You say that we shouldn't assume racism here because the incident is adequately explained by CYA. I say that CYA is not an adequate explanation without also looking at race, because CYA would not have happened like this if the kid had been white and named John Smith.
When WH40k hits the business world
I resent them because Whatsapp is terrible, terrible software compared to Facebook Messenger yet somehow made $19B.

1. No web interface, I'm forced to use a tiny mobile keyboard

2. Identity tied to my phone number which changes every month

3. Ugly (subjective)

4. My friends are already on Facebook, why have another
service that does the same thing but worse.

5. No chat bubbles.

6. No meme search

I could go on and on. They just got lucky and hit the lotto with foreigners who couldn't afford decent phones and are now locked in to their platform.

Edit: formatting
> Capitalism is built on the idea of everyone 'working' and 'having a job'

Capitalism wouldn't work if everyone who wants a job has one, so I really doubt that. Employees could just demand ever increasing salaries until all profit is gobbled up, and there's nothing the business can do about it because they can't replace them since everyone who wants a job has one.
Private transit service Leap files for bankruptcy
Exactly what I meant.
JoeAltmaier you are breaching the negativity rules.

You're just being negative here by willfully ignoring that said doctor is giving the drug away for free, which is not the usual modus operandi of quack doctors.
Hey Ahmed - if you're reading this, post the plans to your clock. I'd love to build one in solidarity with you.
> Whenever we try to represent our 3D earth on a 2D map we necessarily introduce distoration. This tool attempts to visualize the phenomenon.

distoration?
The original term is utterly appropriate.

"Zero tolerance of differing perspectives" sums up contemporary USian thought.

(ding ding ding! we have some winners!)
I agree that it's more complicated than that! Maybe for any 0.1% of change in the interest rate or inflation rate there is a marginal effect. But eventually quantitative differences become qualitative ones.

When the interest rate you pay is 4%, the inflation rate is 2% and the interest that you earn is 0.25% quantitative changes become qualitative ones at numbers that seem very innocuous.
NASA: PRANTL-M project would help us see close up details of the martian surface
> these movements are not about everybody living much longer, only selected wealthy elite

This is probably what concerns me the most. And in fact this is already reality. E.g. in my country if an average person discovers they have cancer, their chances are pretty grim in contrast with e.g. Switzerland. And there are countries which are really poor where a infection which is curable for $20 can kill people.

An interesting movie to watch on topic: In Time (2011) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637688/ . This South Park episode is also exactly on point: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1198003/ .
For comparison, Norwegian employees have the right to take in total (both parents combined) 49 weeks paid parental leave at 100% of their salary, or 59 weeks at 80% of their salary. For heterosexual couples, the father is required to take 10 weeks leave and the mother is required to take 9 weeks leave.
That's what I've always loved about the "random" screenings at security lines in the airport. "We need you to turn on your laptop." and "Give us your bag so that we can swab it" are inane. If you think it's a bomb, everyone should be removed and no one should be allowed to touch it, at all. It's all just theater and no one gives a damn. It's sad.
How on earth is it better than Facebook Messenger?
After the OK City bombing my school banned wearing camouflage. They were afraid of school shootings at some point so they banned coats that were "tool long" or "too bulky". A friend of mine got in trouble for wearing a leather jacket.

Maybe this kid WAS singled out because he had brown skin, but school administrators were overreacting to stupid shit decades ago, in ways that obviously weren't connected to "racism."
The Hacker Manifesto by The Mentor from Phreak Magazine still applies:

http://phrack.org/issues/7/3.html
Google is 2B Lines of Code – And its all in one place
I have installed this and I agree with other users here - I like it. I can check it whenever I want to and it's non obtrusive.
To have a bomb you need explosives. Did this "looks like a bomb" have anything that looked like explosives? No. Therefore it did not actually look like a bomb.

I assume that you meant to google image search IED. Doing so, I see one image with an exposed PCB. I see several images with cell phones. One shows a Coke can. Are we to believe that an exposed Coke can also "looks like a bomb"? Or should we maybe believe that showing up in a Google Image search for a particular term is not sufficient to "look like" something?
> Because we all know banks put all the currency they receive in huge vaults filled with paper $100 bills, instead of, oh, lending it out (several times over one way or another).

Right?! Every bank vault is just huge piles of gold bars and ornery old men counting and recounting the money, hoarding it up and never loaning it out.
Facebook Messenger has none of those problems and is better in every way than WhatsApp.
What's more disgusting is the US has no law regarding paid parental leave[1]. Nearly every other country in the world does. If your company is giving you paid parental leave in the US, it's actually a nice benefit!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_leave
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If winter is coming, how well are unicorns prepared?
I believe you are referring to 10.5 (Leopard), but you are correct.
10.4 (Tiger) was released in 2005.
That's what I'm thinking also. I've been actively testing WatchOS2 since the second beta and had severe battery issues in beta 3-5. My watch would die by 2:00pm every day. I finally uninstalled all third party apps and that fixed things. I tried to find the culprit by reinstalling the apps one at a time but was unable to find the little vampire.
> People HATE paying school tax when they don't have children in school or never had children in school.

Recently (well, a few years ago), there was a controversy in my home state about the removal of funding for bus transport to and from magnet schools. I went to one of those magnet schools - as did my two older siblings.

I brought it up talking to my dad (who still lives there), and he said, "well, I don't have a horse in that race anymore."

Meanwhile, those schools' academic ratings are plummeting...
Sparkle Motion – Paging Animation Framework for Android
WA? I'm not familiar with that acronym.
I have seen this happen a few times, including at one point just skipping an entire expected X.Y.0 release of iOS and going back into beta for an X.Y.1. I don't remember them failing at an X.0.0, though.
Because I need to get less work done? It does look great.
> Capitalism is built on the idea of everyone 'working' and 'having a job'

Capitalism is structured so that everyone without substantial capital holdings needs a job. OTOH, its not built on everyone working and having a job, in fact, the desperation that comes with people not having jobs and people currently working being at risk of not having jobs -- and the effect that has on the wages and conditions those employed are willing to accept -- is important to capitalism (though its one of the effects modern mixed economies have attempted to mitigate in moving away from pure capitalism.)
Here is his resume including links to published scientific papers: http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K...
fwiw, buses can be equipped with bike racks:
http://www.fietsberaad.nl/library/repository/nieuws/busrek%2...
In middle-east the terrorists are using the children either as a live shields or are brainwashing them to commit terrorism.
Same in the europe. Same in the states.
Is every muslim kid or a kid named ahmed a terrorist ? Hell no. But you should be cautious at all time.
Malicious Cisco router backdoor found on 79 more devices
The discussion was on "credit" not "debit" card. The "debit" card for Sparkasse does have 2FA but the TAN based 2FA is atrocious. You need to carry a separate device, match diodes to your screen code OR insert at least 4 sets of numbers before you get your 2FA code. Yes, I know you could use SMS but it isn't the best idea particularly if you are traveling.

Finally, is the EC Maestro card from Sparkaasse really a debit card? A lot of online merchants would not accept it.
What an odd picture. Not sure why you didn't link to a real source. This seems to have a similar looking circuit board:

http://fusion.net/story/197958/irving-texas-police-arrest-mu...

But then this article has a completely different picture:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/09/15/student...

If it was really mounted in that case in your picture, it's indeed a little funny looking. I mean, all of this politically correct rage is misplaced if the fucking thing actually did look like a bomb. You gotta know that's not something to take into a school...

And who "invents" a clock anyway? It's sort of already-done. I mean, 50 years ago kids were putting together AM radios with electronic kits. At least that's sort-of interesting. It picks up signals from a 1000 miles away--cool! I mean, a clock? Why not invent an inclined plane next?

Oh, well. The media needs to push its narrative.
A piggy bank would have been a better example. Anyway, it's not an argument against inflation: the reason putting your money in a bank account is a good idea today is (among other things) because they do invest it to stave off inflation. So inflation doesn't preclude saving (as in savings accounts), it just makes sure you save in better ways, like storing it in a bank that does lending.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

http://www.nature.com/bjc/journal/v109/n11/full/bjc2013510a....

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0753332213...

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0753332212...
I bet you are the one screaming for taking the guns from people.
Why the difference for what mothers are required to take? Is it assumed that they're already taking a week for the delivery and initial recovery that isn't counted against the total?
This a million times. Tech entrepreneurship works in the US and fails in other states because we're in this sweet spot of low taxes and low corruption, with high levels of education and easy access to a large and powerful economy.

Euro states have most of the above, but the high taxation and labor protections strangles little shops and scares investors (would you invest in a French startup? I wouldn't). Corrupt autocracies might have some of the above, but the corruption strangles these companies as well (invest in a startup where the assets could be nationalized instantly? Or having to pay a % of profits to endless bribes?)
I totally agree with the idea of a basic guaranteed income, but who's going to do the grunt work? When are robots going to replace all jobs?
Long-term software support for Fairphone 1
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> If it costs $1000/student/month irrespective of if a child goes to a public school or a private school, why does the state really care which one the child attends? Why not let parents choose the school?

Except it doesn't. In fact, at-risk children going to poorly performing schools cost more per dollar: they need more extra curricular activities, possibly counseling, lower cost lunches, a lower teacher:student ratio, and so on and so forth. More children at poorly performing schools have more problems with their home life, and school is about the only thing other than organized crime that can give them structure.

There was a whole season of The Wire about this.. :)
I'm also having battery issues since the GM release. Beta 5 was fine, but now it doesn't even get through the morning.
>Yale, which has an endowment of $23.9 billion

Fascinating. Yet they still require their students to pay tens of thousand of dollars each year in tuition. They should do what Stanford did and make education free for students whose families earn less than $125k.
In the genre the world only moves when you do.
That has nearly as much to do with changing standards. While I was completing my teaching credential I watched the standards process dumb things down so schools could achieve an "acceptable pass rate"
many time this^.

Management in big companies cares only about benefits coming with position. Product? Fuck it, as long as they have power and cookies.
Ugh, seriously? The page says: "If you must read the rest of this document to understand the behavior of your program, you are being too clever. Don't be clever."

That's an idiotic thing to say. I don't care if you're saying it about memory synchronization or memory management, it's an idiotic thing to say either way.

Redirecting all criticisms of Go and pretending that they don't apply because Go isn't for anything or about anything seems to be the only defense Go users have. Why not, instead of telling us all the things Go isn't for, or all the things Go docs aren't talking about, why don't you actually use a non-shitty language that's actually useful for something.
Homeschooling may encompass a lot of different methodologies but as I said Homeschooling back when I did it which was a long time ago it had a lot of similarities to unschooling as it's defined now.

The point here though is that whether you call it Homeschooling or Unschooling it is still a labor intensive process that will likely require sacrifice on the part of the parents. Sacrifices that many times a lower income family can not afford to make.
Maybe now more money will go to the students who need it. ;-)
I guess "users" is a confusing concept, but a service like Cloudflare would be an example of a more complex application serving that scale of people.
Note please that I said "principle of charity", not "preponderance of evidence".
I'm actually surprised that Ethiopia can generate ~46B at all...
Interesting, I'm on the GM and have better battery life than WatchOS 1.
Android lockscreen can be bypassed by overloading with massive password
Sounds like the four "arresting officers" were so ignorant they didn't know that you need explosive material, not just a trigger, to form a bomb.
To me it's kinda obvious that any "major event" i.e. merger, large acquisition, split, extremely bad quarter etc. in a big company is an excuse to let people go. IMO the only way to survive these "events" in a big company is to make sure you are indispensable (which is not a reflection of how smart you are) or be politically astute. Despite this there are no guarantees, you just have to keep your eyes and ears open to the on goings of your company.
It's not quite the same, but WIRED linked to some videos of how to make clocks:

http://www.wired.com/2015/09/make-homemade-clock-isnt-bomb/
Why are you picking on the government :)?

There are many funded startups and publicly traded companies that are doing the same thing.
>People HATE TAXES. People HATE paying school tax when they don't have children in school or never had children in school.

Or maybe I hate paying school taxes because the schools promote sports as far more important than academics. End of last year I went to the awards ceremony for top performing students in academics and sports... the difference in treatment left me feeling ill in my gut.

Exercise serves a purpose. I've even remember seeing evidence exercise helps improve learning. And in no way am I against a group of kids playing ball together. But I do not like funding an educational institute which does more to foster sports are being more important than the very stated purpose.

Think about some other good goal. Say feeding starving people. Now imagine if you were forced to pay some charity that was grossly incompetent in how it actually worked. Yes, people got fed, but often after they were negatively impacted in other ways. And that is money that could'be been going to better charities, but you aren't allowed to make such a choice.
my wife always asked me why i called TSA a farce.

last month we were coming back to brazil from denver, when her backpack was flagged for "inspection". when i asked the TSA officer why, she was quite polite and said "the x-ray inspector said there's a water bottle on her backpack". we were 100% sure that there was nothing like that because we triple checked before getting into the line.

when the 'inspector' looked at her bag and the x-ray image on the monitor, it was not the same bag. the x-ray guy marked the wrong bag for inspection and the bag with the water bottle was already gone. the inspector apologized and let us go.

my wife's question after we were gone was: "if they think water bottles could be bombs, shouldn't they close the airport?"

now she knows why TSA is a farce.