skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about HP, but a common tactic is present a noncompete few weeks before a mass layoff and stipulate it is: "Sign or be fired". In some states, this works because your future employment can be viewed as sufficient consideration.

IMHO Noncompetes should be banned, or there needs to be legislation which requires the employer to pay 100% of the salary of the laid off person for the rest of the term of the noncompete. If they want to prevent the ex-employee from going into business and competing against them, they need to pay the ex-employee for the privilege.
I see a couple of paths to combating the way authority oversteps its bounds, sometimes fatally as we see in much recent news.

One avenue is to focus on those victims that happen to be a racial minority, and force the authorities to treat members of that minority group with kid gloves. This literally forces all of us to keep race and other divisive demographics at the forefront of our consciousness whenever we deal with other people. That's not a good strategy to reach of goal of everyone being blind to race.

Another avenue is to focus on the powers that are being wielded unjustly. By taking away to power to cause such damage, or at least imposing accountability when it's misused, we can force those with power to rein in their abusive behavior to all. This latter seems the winning strategy to me.
This is the dumbest thing I've read all week.

You're getting downvoted, rightly, but I wanted to explain why that is.

> Is that racist ?

Yes

> Do you people really want to live in a world where gays,transgenders,gypsies,blacks,hispanics,yellows,purples are favoured and put on pedestal

You've got a pretty distorted view of all this. No-one (sane) is advocating for putting any group on a pedestal, we're just asking people to treat others as if they were human beings, which they are. It's really not that hard to grasp.

For example, in this case we are discussing no-one is asking for the kid to get special treatment because of his race, instead they are pointing out that he should not be actively discriminated against because of his race.
I remember it being all over the news up in Canada. It must have made national news in America too?
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Yes, they are productive - just not when filling out all these government forms.
We Need an Ad-Tervention, and We Need It Now
> We need a change in priorities and not freak out about taxes for education.

People don't freak out over paying taxes for education. Even if they don't have kids in the system.

They freak out over throwing money at a broken system and the solution isn't to throw more money at it.

Attach a specific dollar amount to a student. Allow that student to go to whichever school they want. End of story.

Stop forcing children to go to broken schools.
> does result in thousands of dollars spend on extra electricity

Thousands maybe - definitely not millions as they are claiming. From what I read it was setup to calculate through the screensaver. For most of the day - the computer will be in use and I would imagine/hope that they turn them off when they leave.
This was my 'favourite'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2015/03/06/6-year-old-finge...
A lot goes back to the EDS acquisition, which seemed doomed almost from the start. A poorly planned acquisition + longstanding internal issues will almost inevitably get you to this kind of outcome.
It depends on where you get it. Some banks (most notoriously almost all Sparkasse) only give out chip+signature cards. But chip+PIN cards are common as well, just like "Verified by Visa" and such systems.
There is definitely a higher expectation for someone over 50 and with someone with an advanced degree. It's both unfair and understandable because the subconscious implication is experience and advanced degrees cost more, so they will be subject to intense scrutiny to make sure paying someone a premium is worth it. Basically, a guy over 50 with a PhD better be a convincing Donald Knuth or good management material.

Also, I think team leads tell themselves they can mold young developers in their image. Not only are you getting a developer at a discount, you're getting a potential clone. What's not to love?
That's a nice and easy setup. Is there a similar product for wall switches/plates?
The GC pauses locking entire JVM for several seconds are indeed a concern for many application classes, financial exchanges included. Exactly for this purpose even designated JVMs are built, Azul for example is providing a pauseless JVM which is able to handle the garbage collection concurrently. Or if the JVM migration itself is not possible, other solutions, such as tuning the application to avoid Full GC entirely or using off-heap allocations for big data structures are used.
It was a prominent national news story
Pretty much every single one of your test cases has already been solved in the XMPP specification, which WhatsApp is likely using (essentially all modern chat services/servers/clients speak XMPP).
It might not be as bad as it appears.

There's something called a design patent which IIUC prevents, e.g., Samsung from selling a tablet computer that looks too much like an iPad.
On behalf of all engineers
ScrollIntoView – When a DIV is scrolled into the view it executes a function
I have a feeling a lot of this behavior from teachers and school middle management is driven by fear of having exactly the same sort of irrational punishment come down on them.

Didn't treat the clock like a bomb? Might get fired. Did treat it like a bomb, turned out to be wrong, apologized? Might get fired. Did treat it like a bomb, turned out to be wrong, uhhh... maybe if I get the police involved I can make this not my fault?

Reasonable errors on all levels are often greeted with harsh punishment and sometimes demonization by news media. It's not just kids who are subject to it. People are rightly terrified of being blamed for errors that anyone could make, and their behavior makes a lot of sense in that context.
There were debuggers in the electronics shops that I remember. They were called multimeters. You debugged by deducing where voltage, current, and resistance levels were in your circuit.

I've also made my share of brittle programming projects where one errant line could act like a "loose wire" and take down everything.
It was national news when it happened if I recall. It wasn't like 20pt font on the nytimes home page, but it was reported.
Ignorance easily explains this unfortunate, embarrassing incident.

The boy's father is from Sudan and is well known for being outspoken against anti-Islamic policies. To an unworldly south/midwesterner that spells "potential terrorist". It's not too much of a stretch to see that diagnosis extended to the son.
interesting. I don't think fusion serves as many images as imgur but I guess every little bit helps?
"In his complaint, Mr. Ayanna cited a “macho” culture that “encourages male associates and partners to fulfill the stereotypical male role of ceding family responsibilities to women.”"

Ah yes, the good old macho culture that has been disfiguring men emotionally and physically for longer than I know. The macho culture is probably one reason why we don't live as long as women do, since we consider going to the doctor to be expressing weakness, which is verboten. Aside from that aspect of the issue, it's no secret that worker rights barely exist in the US, and a strong parental leave policy enshrined into law would massively help both men and women.

Getting real worker rights in the US be like pulling teeth from a stone (sic), though. We don't even have sick days by law-- seems like those should come first.

A quick list of things we direly need which we don't have:

1. Paid sick days

2. Paid vacation days

3. Hard limit of hours worked per week

4. Overtime pay for salaried employees

5. Paid parental leave

6. Control over scheduling of hours

7. A realistic minimum wage or some other way of guaranteeing survival of the poor

8. Paid childcare
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Why are you trying to teach me English? This teacher should be arrested for trying to overthrow the government... What is the "broader explanation" for this English textbook?
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True, though stupidity is not seeing how much this is going to cost them, ultimately.
I'm sure it's always diatribe when you don't agree.

"Asking for trouble" is what I mean. The default processes in the USA are not what I'm talking about, but everyone here is defending his "right to be creative". Nobody is saying "hang on, he put a clock in a case, brought it to school, not part of any school project, advised not to show it around, showed it around anyway and was passive aggro when asked about it".

He was asking for trouble, and got it.
Or even better- start by quietly calling him to the principal's office. Ask him about his clock. Tell him people were thinking he might be wanting to pull some bomb pranks, and that would be a very bad idea. Ask him to tell his teachers the day before the next time he wants to show off his gadgetry. Send him back to class.
I was impressed with browserquest and I am impressed with this also. Buttery smooth on FF40.

What I also liked was how quick everything was (both loading, introduction gameplay), and relatively well drawn/animated.
Im sorry, was I approving the overreaction? No. Im saying I don't think its truly race motivated and that a High schooler should be knowledgable enough to know how it may appear. Maybe he could have left it with his shop teacher or gotten a note from the teacher. The teacher would have saved the kid some trouble since the teacher obviously thought it wouldn't be great if another teacher saw it.

Imagine if it was a bomb how the media would be damning the school for not acting.
Thousands can be wasted on dumb stuff like bad office-supply purchasing decisions. Those folks don't get fired. Sounds overblown - folks afraid of anything they don't understand.
Terror on Wall Street
> It is still the most bureaucratic country on earth.

Not really! Italian here, living in France for the last ten years: France bureaucracy can occasionally be pedantic, but no French paperwork has made me miss Italy.
Except:

1. Bankruptcy can only be filed once every 7 years. What happens if there are medical complications and you are re-hospitalized after you filed for bankruptcy? Answer: You are screwed.

2. It's usually far cheaper and less hassle to purchase an ACA policy to prevent being presented with these large bills in the first place.
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Yes, and on an inflation-adjusted basis we spend more on K-12 education than ever before.

It isn't a funding problem. It's a problem with how we spend that money.
Exactly. Additionally, since it's a bond, you can always sell it.
But...but... Obama?
About 10 years ago I was heading to a client meeting and was about to enter the 'Ring of Steel'[0] area in the City of London.

I checked twice before crossing the road and a nearby cop car spun around and stopped me saying I had done a double-take when I saw them and they needed to search me.

Turns out the client I was off to see was a porn magazine and I have a bunch of their product in my bag. The nice police officer didn't even blink when she saw that. Perhaps everyone i the City is carrying around lots of porn with them in the middle of the day?

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_steel_(London)
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I was thinking of buying one of those on Ebay - do you see any better alternatives these days?
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The new Apple color: “Rose Gold” or very obviously Pink?
Apple Delays Release of WatchOS 2 Due to Bug
No: Bangladeshi Garage with a dirt floor.
I would happily pay 40-50% income taxes if our system was much more socialized like some of our European counterparts.
I've been thinking about your question. I suppose one appeal for me is that I understand how vinyl works. Putting a CD in isn't that much different from hitting Play on your MP3 player: you queue up your song, hit play, and music just happens behind the scenes, you can't watch it. But with vinyl, you can see it in action. I occasionally just sit there and watch the needle and cartridge and tone arm move across the surface of the record, imagining how the tiny vibrations of the needle are transformed into electrical amplitude, increased by the amp and played out of speakers. It's fun and, today, novel to be able to understand a whole system like that and observe each part doing its task.
Quebec has one of the best parental leave policies in North America, and it's all payed for by the government's unemployment payroll taxes, so there is little cost to companies (other than hiring a replacement). You basically get a full calendar year shared between the mother and the dad as you see fit at 70% of your salary.

It has made having a child a lot easier, especially for young professionals.
Imagine? Shoes can be a bomb. Any backpack could contain a bomb. An electronic thing with lights and a battery is no more likely to be a bomb. This whole manufactured issue is simply Idiocracy at work.
And those guys learning to fly the planes without the landing, why can't that just be an interest! With terrorism, if you want to avoid false negatives, you are going to have a lot of false positives.

NB I totally agree it would be a douche move to charge this kid with some BS, but investigating unusual behavior is much more understandable.
Yes, blame the victim.
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Fun fact, making this suggestion is probably illegal in Canada.
Does the pier still exist? It would be amazing to see it on Google Street View as a follow-up to this amazing story. I love stuff like this.
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So, you focus on attacking my point with insinuation and equivocation, yet ignore the exploitative anti-intellectual (fact-less) position of the TechCrunch author, whose sole contribution to the story was to inject race?

Conveniently, you ignored the facts and in doing so implicitly mischaractered me as equally lacking in factual basis for my "narrative", which, of course, is absurdly wrong, since my first word, "Exactly" presupposes the parents' citations.
People used to say the same 30 years ago of our current situation. "Who wants to be here in 30 years anyway? I don't want to live in a world of 7 billion people with little resources on a barely habitable world."

Apocalyptic predictions have a very poor record of being right, even those purportedly based in science.

Why would that change if you had 150 years? It wouldn't necessarily change but you would have more time to fulfill your potential, giving you a better chance of doing so.

Yeah, we need all the things you listed for a better quality of life. Being able to live without ageing would help a lot to improve quality of life too. It would definitely help with having less disease, since we would have less age-related diseases, which are the biggest burden on society today.
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I'd like to jump on the back of this and make the point that, referring to the clock project in question, it seems a lie to label the item as a "hoax bomb" as if it were actually intended to even be a bomb, let alone an article of the hoax variety. Not to mention the obvious claim of guilt by association that the prosecuting argument seems to imply, I would add that it also useful to distinguish the reality of the situation so as to ensure that "hoax bomb" doesn't catch on. "Clock thought to be a bomb" would be a more accurate representation of the situation.
Hanlon's razor
To my knowledge, it was not known prior to this experiment whether spacetime decohered as well.

And what I described was an experiment and the result. I said nothing about "how it works".
Sadly this is an important part of education.
Economy exists to serve the people, not the other way around. Making a "perfect" economy through the medium of miserable workers is failure.
very cool! thanks!
Obama faces growing momentum to support widespread encryption
Perpetuities are a great idea. One of their advantage is that new debt issues are fungible with old debt issues (provided the coupon payment dates debt align). The downside of that is that the duration of such a bond is fixed and depends on the prevailing interest rates.

However, one can issue a perpetuity where the coupon is set to decrease (or increase!) geometrically over time. Different issue of such bonds are still fungible (provided they use the same rate of exponential decay), but their duration can now be tuned at will, by changing the characteristic time of the exponential.

Why does this matter? There is a large market in government bonds (particularly in the US) and this market places a large premium on the latest issued bonds, or "on-the-run". This is because these bonds enjoy the most liquidity and can be used as alternatives to cash. The premium disappears as the bond is replaced with a new issue.

Real economic value is being destroyed because the bonds aren't fungible. Perpetuities with exponentially decreasing coupons would immediately solve that problem in one fell swoop.
This is not just a "brown" vs "non-brown" issue.

When I was in school, I was almost arrested at my school for having phreaker box diagrams in my backpack, which was searched illegally (do kids in public school actually have privacy rights anyway?) by police after an unrelated complaint. I was unfairly targeted this way many times in different schools. I am as white as they come. This is not a brown vs non-brown issue; all schools treat their intelligent, inquisitive students like criminals. I say this having attended five different middle + high schools, public, magnet and private.
the unfair thing about private school is only people who have money can go, thus increasing the social gaps.
>The problem with credit cards in Germany is that they don't use 2FA. It's the same old signature system. Even online transactions don't require 2FA.

This is not generally true. My credit cards use PIN when the terminal supports it and only fall back to signature when used with older terminals.

I've never heard of online transactions with 1FA auth, most banks use a combination of user login and challenge-response TAN lists or mobile TANs. Special hardware devices that require you to insert your debit card, enter a PIN and have the device read a code directly from the computer monitor using photo diodes are quite common, too.
This kind of zero tolerance thing does not necessarily have anything to do with racism. There are lots of examples happen to white kids too.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/02/7-year-old-boy-re...

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/03/04/watch-boy-suspended-from...

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/02/26/dad-arrested-stri...

http://toprightnews.com/13-year-old-boy-draw-caused-school-s...

http://dailycaller.com/2014/05/24/teacher-asks-second-grader...
Short-circuit evaluation.

The structure of the flow looks like a ladder. The (x86) assembly produced would look something like this:

cmp al, 128
jae false
cmp al, 32
jbe false
cmp al, 9
jz false
cmp al, '"'
jz false
cmp al, '('
jz false
cmp al, ')'
jz false
...

Edit: yes, I know 9 is less than 32 and would've been caught by the condition before it; I was just "mentally compiling" the expression directly without thinking much about optimising it.
Texas Education Agency (TEA)'s Accountability Report shows "NO DISTINCTION" for Science at MacArthur High School in 2015.

You would think these teachers would appreciate all the help they can get to earn some distinction in Sciences.

http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/perfreport/account/2015/static...
<sarcasm>Hey maybe bomb making might be correlated with success in Silicon Valley http://valleywag.gawker.com/peter-thiel-admits-the-paypal-ma... </sarcasm>
From the article:

* SoftLayer is their cloud provider, bare metal machines, fairly isolated within the network, dual datacenter configuration

Softlayer is an IBM Company, so ultimately it DOES require an IBM scale company to run this ( at some point in the chain).
I'm not sure if this code even uses the x87 opcodes or software emulation for the floats!

First of all, the source defines a "FloatType", which is set to "Real". But the real type is a 6-byte float type optimised for software floating point routines! I'd like to see the results when using the "Single" and "Double" types.

Also, it's easy to forget that x87 code generation in TP3 is an option that defaults to "don't".
"It could reasonably be mistaken as a device if left in a bathroom or under a car."

Okay, so charge him with a hoax bomb if he does that, but he didn't so what's the deal?
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And so we come to the realisation that the 'war on terror' is now in fact a civil war we wage against ourselves and our fears.

Every incident like this is another damning victory for those who sought to change our way of life. They may not have taken us back to the stone-age but they sure as hell took away a lot of the freedoms we had.
Advice used to be to not turn machines off but let themgo into sleep. This avoided power cycling which some people though caused problems. A sleeping machine still costs money, but much less than a machine churning SETI.

5,000 machines churning SETI for nine years? I'd be interested in estimates of cost.
The reason it was not done before is that we did not find a solution to the "trusting trust" issue until quite recently. David Wheeler solved the problem and did his PhD dissertation on this in 2009:
http://www.dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/

Once that was solved, reproducible builds became a lot more interesting as we no longer needed to trust the toolchain. As a result, all of the reproducible build projects mentioned in the PDF (debian, tor, bitcoin being the pioneers AFAIK) got started.
> Can someone explain?

&& short-circuits, so before each &&, if the LHS is false it will jump to the end of the whole thing with a `false` result

If you plug the function into goldbot (http://rust.godbolt.org) you see a bunch of conditional jumps:

cmpl	$7, %ecx
jb	.LBB0_10
movzbl	%dil, %ecx
cmpl	$47, %ecx
je	.LBB0_10
cmpl	$44, %ecx
je	.LBB0_10
movb	%dil, %dl
andb	$-2, %dl
movzbl	%dl, %edx
cmpl	$40, %edx
je	.LBB0_10
cmpl	$34, %ecx
je	.LBB0_10
cmpl	$33, %ecx
jb	.LBB0_10
testb	%dil, %dil
js	.LBB0_10
You're contradicting yourself there. When you were young, it was fine. This chap does basically the exact same thing, and he's arrested.
What the hell are you talking about?

Even if you ignore race, it's still ridiculous to arrest a kid for bringing a clock into school because someone believed it to be a bomb.
I rememeber that TurboBASIC (Borland's clone of QBasic), could use x87 math. And it was using a TurboC like IDE
Something was wrong with the trigger. Thanks man.
I've always loved this and many of the other insights and distinctions introduced by Nietzsche. While "The Birth of Tragedy" is a bit of a turgid read, the works following it are much sharper.

I'd honestly recommend his entire corpus as it's pretty much a goldmine of insights given that you take the time to read and understand the aphorisms. Nietzsche's prose style is undeniably powerful and beautiful, even after translation.
I've lost countless audio recordings due to hard drive malfunctions, bad data storage practices - misplacing them and overwriting the hd, importing cds and forgetting to name the resulting audio files then later accidentally deleting them and all sorts of stuff that you can definitely call user error, but user error with a record needs to involve power tools to be serious. For the most part all my old records are still around and playable. In that sense, it's proven itself a superior format for storing audio in my life.