skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are daytime TV ads really that cheap, or are there so many people with structured settlements out there (from what?) that buying them is a profitable business to be in?

On the other hand, if you're buying for pennies on the dollar and only need a tiny staff...
How We Made the 3D Tour de France Interactive
He's 14 years old. He'll figure it out.
Uh, if you were so smart you'd understand that this is in response to a school in Texas badly handling a smart kid doing smart kid things. Has any high level official in Texas apologized, or said anything decrying this student's treatment? If not, then it seems like Texas is standing behind this.
Looking at the photo it looks like he put a nightstand clock into a case.

I did this a lot as a kid -- removed broken stuff, poked around to fix it, glued it into a different box. It's one of the reasons I went into electrical engineering.
Lucky boy, to have parents so committed and willing to stand by him, and help him grow into his talent. Unlucky boy, to have to do it in a place filled with bigots and morons. On the other hand, this kind of setback builds character. It teaches clever children of the tyranny of petty adults with petty authority, so they know what to distrust, and what to not become themselves.
The linked article (which was on the front-page some time ago) was about scammers going after people who had structured settlements that they had won due to suffering brain-damage and developmental disabilities from lead-poisoning. So literally true...
Did you just miss the point then? I think the point was "Texas politicians will stifle the youth and further, stifle innovation at large".

Maybe try to see the merit in someone else's post instead of being butthurt. No one cares where you're from, soryr.
Threads+fine-grained locks sucks.

But it wasn't necessarily the threads, so much as the fine-grained locks.

I'm talking about threads-the-programming-model, where we don't throw away the gains we made with structured programming. I suppose I ought to get off my duff and finish the blog post that explains exactly what that means, but if you know what structured programming is, that's actually enough to explain what I mean. (It's just that nowadays most people don't actually know what it is, not because they have no familiarity with it, but because they have too much, and don't realize that it was not actually the "ground state" of programming but actually a hard-fought advance, which we are all collectively on the verge of spending the next, oh, 5-10 years painfully rediscovering the value of.)
Is it a good idea to bring a clock that looks like that to school? No.

A little common sense (by the kid, his parents, his teachers, etc) could have prevented this situation entirely.

I'm not defending what happened, but I'm just pointing out that this could have been easily avoided.

Let me provide a more extreme analogy to illustrate my point:

If I walk into a gas station with a ski mask and my hand in my jacket, I'm not breaking any laws. But I have enough common sense not to do that.
That's exactly what made it look like a bomb to the dumbass principal:

> The principal threatened to expel him if he didn’t make a written statement, he said.

> “They were like, ‘So you tried to make a bomb?’” Ahmed said.

> “I told them no, I was trying to make a clock.”

> “He said, ‘It looks like a movie bomb to me.’”
How a Car Engine Works
I've never seen Apple Maps turn to black and white on satellite, and I live in fucking Michigan. Both of you live in huge, techie, heavily populated cities. I live in Michigan, and the satellite maps are just fine.
The problem is, 1% of rapists is an awfully high number considering the severity of problem that is rape.

"<1%" suicide terrorists as passengers on your B747 means you're dead.

If a society is not able to reduce this "<1%" to at least strict 0,001% by filtering and background checks, it should probably reject the remaining 99% too. This isn't fair to the rest of immigrants but otherwise it will not be fair to your own citizens.
Bombs on tv ALWAYS have giant flashing 7 segment LEDs counting down to the time when the white male American hero disarms them.
Did he solder the board for that or did he just take apart a nightstand clock and put it into another case?

This is what happens when people in charge have no clue anymore what is inside electronics. Computers and smartphones are just "magic".
Do Makers Propose a More Open Source Future?
The advantages would include shared tooling, a cross-platform GUI, and the ability for end-users to modify the code.

Regarding size, it appears to be around 100 MB, so you could have 20971 separate installations of it before filling up a 2 TB drive.

Memory usage could be an issue, but whether that matters will depend on your audience the app. In this case, the aim is toward HN, so it doesn't seem like an issue.
How GOG.com Save and Restore Classic Videogames
> node install

It's `npm install`
Does anyone else think that this story seems a little bit contrived? There are so many photos of the incident at each of the various stages -- it makes it look like it was engineered as a news story. The youtube video comes across as prepared and polished and the response (no talking without a lawyer present etc.) seems like something you'd see on PR wire.

I'm not saying that the whole thing isn't ridiculous, but I'm skeptical that this is the full story. Honestly, I'm as familiar with working on circuit boards as the next guy, but if I saw someone (anyone, any race) carrying something like that in an airport, it'd raise an eyebrow.
There are still other blockers on embedded though. LLVM doesn't target every architecture, and still no allocator API or OOM handling.
Neither would you normally get invited to the White House or Facebook HQ for building a clock. But he should definitely take advantage of the 15 min of fame to go to the best place possible. And I mean top private high schools, not necessarily college yet. Pretty sure anyone who builds interesting science projects while in a clearly unsupportive environment would thrive at a top level STEM high-school.
As mentioned by other posters, it opposes convenience too much. I say it's unfortunate that SMTP/IMAP was not made easy/free enough to self-host. I understand cost, uptime, and admin challenges, I am just saying these communication mechanisms will continue to be centralized while there is financial incentive to make them better and appeal to the masses.
A few years (almost two decades!!!) when the filters weren't as good I read a proposal to make an email system that charges $0.01 to the sender. Spammers would be bankrupt.

It was difficult to implement and up against an already entrenched tech.

With Bitcoin I've been thinking of that idea again. Could a payment system on top of existing email be created? The receiver of the email could get the senders penny and Bitcoin might get a killer app that doesn't involve drugs...
Sad but true.
Idea Channel poses a very interesting idea arising from the maker movement. It's very true that as time has goes on more people will have the ability to mess with the internals of the machine/program but won't be able to. It's a very interesting argument
California might be confusing enthusiasm for genius.
Playing is an important part of learning.

When you're young is a great time to get shocked by 170v. Better than the rectified 340v from the caps in a power supply.
I think the biggest thing that says not a bomb was that he asked permission _before_ bringing it in[1].

[1]https://twitter.com/AnneClaireCNN/status/644158607035133952
How else should a homemade electronics project look?
I would say we had a population bubble. "Inverse pyramid" is a fallout from bubble.

It happened that many people were born and raised, setting all-time population records, and trying to keep this number increase forever and forever is unviable. One may argue that there's still a lot of land for people to live in, but truth is people skip villages and small towns for capitals because they're not needed where they used to live. There's land, but there's no demand.
This is all over the news here in The Netherlands, so probably in other countries as well.
Right. I really should have separated the two incidents from my single point.
Why is that a bad idea? What common sense would dictate what this child has gone through?

A tiny modicum of common sense from the police or school authorities would go a long way here.
I don't see anything on this page referring to the student remaining suspended.
Yeah I was fortunate to have grown up when Heathkit had stores, they blew away Radio Shack. Could never afford anything in there but the catalogs were fun to read and store was amazing to browse.

It's a shame we have nothing like that today, electronics are just "magic" to people now that is made elsewhere.
> There are so many photos of the incident at each of the various stages

Welcome to 2015. I think Ahmed is just really sharp and articulate.
Larry Lessig running as a “referendum president” candidate
He disassembled a clock and then reassembled it inside a case that resembled a bomb (however hollywood-esque it may seem). The kid might be "smart" but I wouldn't jump to the "genius" conclusion.
...the new learnings

Picked up a little Indian English along the way, I see. :)

I liked the attention to UX. Deliberately breaking the user's normal workflow in order to emphasize that something vital is different is a pattern I'll need to remember.
Surround yourself with intelligent people who don't take an attack on their beliefs to be an attack on their person.
Given that the original freakout on the part of the English teacher was precipitated by the alarm going off while the clock was in his bag, I'm thinking it was battery-powered, not plugged in. Power cords are cheap, easily accessible wire that are not necessarily always carrying grid voltage. Although that picture certainly shows a plug, so who knows? I do wonder how the alarm went off - if that isn't just embellishment after the fact.

That said, I certainly fooled around with live power when I was his age. The house didn't burn down because we had a competent electrician install circuit breakers when we built it.
Hollywood lernin. Bombs always have big countdown timers. And they beep. And they're made by brown people.

Ergo, bomb.

I'd love this to be parody, but it seems to be the literal explanation here - with a side order of revenge for having an uppity father:

http://www.vox.com/2015/9/16/9339063/ahmed-mohamed-elhassan
He wasn't at an airport. he also asked before bringing it in. He also kept it in his backpack, out of view.

What else should he have done? Just given up and not tried to make something cool?
For the purpose of being fully informed, and because you might forgot you have seen this photo, this is what happened when the police arrived: https://twitter.com/OfficalPrajwol/status/644011809351962625...

Regardless of what someone looks like or what their name is, if they did not do anything wrong and is 14 years old, I think it's reasonable to expect them not being handcuffed and parade out of school in front of their peers. It's hard to take in good faith that the police have done their job well - with diligence, compassion, professionalism, and without animosity or bias.

Police were called, kid were arrested, detained massively erroneously, interrogated without the present of an attorney [0], and potentially having his life turned upside down, or side way (for better or worse). It's a tragedy that we see people without understanding of Bayesian statistics (or frequentist, for that matter) - but we do see them, and far too often. These are the times we live in. So how should this have been handled?

Hopefully some will learn that reasonable and probable cause needs to have some basis in certain priori, and that opportunity cost and the boy who cries wolf are really and very harmful issue. I think if people handle the situation with rational thought rather than instigation, and understand that P(massacre | kids = 14 years old in the US) is some number that probably is smaller than IEEE floating point error, then everyone will be better off for that.

[0]: http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/16/us/texas-student-ahmed-muslim-...
I am (yet again) embarrassed to be from Texas. If you read what Steve Jobs did in high school, if that was today and he was Muslim, he'd never started Apple. Here we are looking at diversity in the face, a young engineer proud of his learning, and the hicks in Irving brand him as the next Osama. That stupid mayor's tweet is classic.
Your phrasing kinda implies the "Zuck" person of your sentence is more important than the "POTUS" person.

Does having something happen to you instantly qualify you to receive insightful recommendation letters from strangers though?

The Internet has developed an overly powerful hero amplification beam it shines down when things happen to someone, but does it necessarily reflect the person themselves?
Sudden unrelenting Internet-powred fame (either as the receiver or the giver of fame) can drive some people a bit mad after the fact too.
It's all about ease of use. https is probably the only user-friendly / good UX crypto solution in common/widespread use (unless you count transparent drive encryption), and it achieves this in part by being centrally controlled via registrars to eliminate the need for the user to understand PKI. This in turn makes it kind of a joke from a crypto-snob POV, though it's good enough for most routine stuff.

Even MacGPG plugins for Mac Mail.app are really hard to install, manage, and use, and require a level of expertise and knowledge of how PGP/GPG works that makes them off limits for non-technical users.
San Francisco Fonts – WWDC 2015
He built what was intentionally a fake bomb.

Notice: No felony charges. No criminal record.

If Steve Wozniak was 15 today and did the same things he did as a teenager back then he would already have a rap sheet too big to fit in a binder.
Ah, the bug was between the ears. Thanks.

The app seems pretty nice. I wonder why people are saying harsh things?
See my other post here for details, 5000 desktop computers using 100% CPU all the time can cost some 18000 USD per month (1) more versus keeping them idle.

1) if 1 KWh costs 10 cents, which is reasonable to expect, and the load increases just 50 W.

And for this guy here it's even much more:

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=54609&pos...

His single computer uses 490 Watts when turned on and calculating Seti, and he's keeping it on for 18 hour more per day just for Seti. Only 500 of such computers and such usage patterns make 14000 dollars more per month.
A school isn't an airport. And he ASKED to show his ENGINEERING teacher a project he had created. It's not as if he just showed up with an assortment of PCB's and wires that he whipped out in class.

In short, yes, it perhaps wasn't the greatest idea for Ahmed to be walking around in school with something that could be perceived as a bomb, but you'd think the police/school administration would have figured out he meant no harm after he told them several times that it was simply a clock. The outrage here is over the extreme reaction, not over the wisdom of his actions.
To clarify, could be said, literate code is ". . . ordered, to benefit readability and not for the needs of the _compiler_ or _interpreter_". Tangling and weaving are concepts by which compilable or runnable source code is created from the "literate" source, which will not generally be directly compilable. Here's one of many links to more info: http://www.ross.net/funnelweb/tutorial/intro_what.html
Maybe he can fix California's water and budget problems. The geniuses there now can't.
are you seriously implying that it's a conspiracy?
The technical term appears to be "allonge", which is also the first word on the added sheet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allonge
This is of course the instinctive response of all small-minded persons challenged in their "authority".

In the face of opposition, never change course! It's the ultimate downfall of bureaucracy, humans will burn down the world before admitting their mistakes.
He was a nerd as well.

It's just that the Woz vastly outnerded most people of his generation and they managed to meet.
Perhaps, but one can indeed go very far before the distinction even becomes relevant...
I don't recall any Texan politicians decrying cannibalism today, either. I guess we know what that means, right?

Or we could assume for a moment that not every event requires a politician's commentary.

I didn't need to see Obama or Zuck's responses before I had determined (for myself! Imagine!) that the school's actions were absurd, overblown, and counter-productive.

Perhaps you should do some research as to the response of some Texans to this travesty (e.g. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/dallas-hackers-are-already-... ) before you resort to the tired "Texas means backward and stupid" meme.
It doesn't really matter what Android has if you're an iPhone user.
I probably would have killed myself if it wasn't for pot and video games when I was younger.
Yeah, right. How and who exactly would they hand that over to, given that there are privacy settings on the photos that people expect to have respected?
How is cable tv going to survive this?
Homemade electronics are pretty fragile. A hardshell case is entirely appropriate for transporting such a project.
Slightly better picture: http://i.imgur.com/jGZ8RBU.jpg

This is just an off the shelf alarm clock disassembled and crammed into a box from Target. I see an AC cord going to a bridge rectifier, a transformer, 9v battery holder, a display driver board and a long thin PCB for buttons. Here is a similar clock with a 2.5" tall display: http://i.imgur.com/1FceYfG.jpg
Signatures aren't secure, but that misses the point. In this instance the signatures are used as evidence that those transfers were sent, reviewed, and approved by a judge. Had it been done a verifiable document trail would exist.

In this instance when it was discovered the signatures were faked (or cloned), they could go look at the document trail and it was quickly discovered that none existed.

People will likely suggest other alternatives to signatures, like a unique serial number, but ultimately if people aren't verifying the document trail in the signature case, they won't verify it with a unique ID case, or most other clever means you can come up with (e.g. QR code, some kind of complex crypo method, etc).

If it is a document that allows faxing and photocopying, and nobody is taking the time to verify the authenticity of it, there are no more secure systems you can create. Things like holograms, specialist paper inlays, seals, etc can easily be faked during fax/copy. Signatures are about as good/bad as anything else.

The legal system is built on trust, verify, and punish.
Joke That'll Get You Arrested – Schneier on Security (2007)
Also, that it wasn't a bomb
I hope you're just trolling. I hate to see this stuff on HN. This is ridiculous.
blink(1) is a small USB light to give you glanceable notice of anything on your computer or the internet. blink(1) makes it easy to connect data sources in the cloud or on your computer to a full-color RGB LED so you can know what’s happening

https://blink1.thingm.com/
Interestingly, the neural net used is not really that deep: it has only two hidden layers (see figure 3 in the paper[1]). The innovations are really in how the researcher is representing inputs using different "modalities" (see section 4.1 "Feature Representation"), generating a training corpus (section 4.3), and training the neural net (sections 4.4 and 4.5).

[1] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.01549v2.pdf
From section 3.7.1 of the paper

>"Because this is not a content-addressed object, pub-
lishing it relies on the only mutable state distribution
system in IPFS, the Routing system. The process is
(1) publish the object as a regular immutable IPFS
object, (2) publish its hash on the Routing system as
a metadata value"

How is the ordering done? In a quickly changing content, a blockchain would be required for ordering.
>>Your phrasing kinda implies the "Zuck" person of your sentence is more important than the "POTUS" person.

I like Obama 'n all, but in today's world of technology(this is about a student building a clock, unprompted)... I believe the opinion of Facebook's CEO tech-geek outweights Obama's.
It's a bad idea because pretty much ANYONE with a little common sense could have predicted that there would be a realistic probability of a BAD outcome by bringing that to school. Even if it's just a little homemade clock project.
Knuth is posting source and you want the assembly?
Attention all poor Southern states desperate for new revenue sources who coincidentally refuse to legalize, QC and tax something that people are already producing, trafficking, distributing and consuming inside your borders.
Um, you can copy things with 3D printers and even make weapons, they are still legal (so far).

Initially they might have chemical printers in hospital labs/pharmacies for emergency use.
Microsoft’s Cortana Now Supports Persian
Sidecar's On-Demand Market Infrastructure
Which is odd, it seems like people who are outspoken against ad blockers are either becoming more numerous or are becoming louder. I recently had a conversation here where someone was arguing that ad blocking is akin to MP3 pirating:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10222013
They don't constitute a legally binding contract. You and I could have a conversation on the street and form a legally binding contract. Signatures are just used a simple form of verification of a contract.
His father is also an pro-Islamic activist according to some of the news articles. It is quite possible that the father is taking advantage of his son's interests to further a political cause.

edit: I am not commenting on whether the father is righteous or malevolent; simply positing an idea which may explain why there is so much video, documentation, and attention on this event.
You get to use a similar kit that you're already using for webdev.

For example, the only time I've maintained a proficiency in both a webdev stack and a native kit was when I was paid to work on both full-time.

Node's main appeal to me is a similar consolidation: using one language. At least until I find out I'm immortal.
There are no neurons involved, essentially random number generators are making the decisions and in such experiments usually in the nanosecond range while particles are in flight between source and detector to ensure that the decision can not influence the creation and preparation process. And by using a source of randomness billions of light years away it becomes very unlikely that the particle source and the source of randomness could have interacted in an interesting way because the universe is to young to allow interactions due to the finite speed of light. There is of course still a possibility that an interaction happened when the universe was still young and tiny but you can probably imagine what kind of conspiracy the universe would have to have going on for that to work.
> I live in the US since 8 years and still misunderstood it.

in particular it's hard to tell whether you mean 'since I were eight years old' vs 'for a span of eight years'

also, a native speaker would probably use tense such as "I have lived", so casually, "I've lived in the US for 8 years and still misunderstood it."

and noone ever uses whom, but you probably used it correctly

ps you typoed 'possibly be' and 'it'
They'll still stand out, seeing as they probably have all their vaccinations :)
What you're saying, you don't have any control over the situation but you hope that it'll end well.

Кривая вывезет.

It doesn't always turn out right, you know? Holocaust happened as an example where situation has never fixed itself. See also Kosovo, previously populated by Serbs, then they let muslim move in, muslim then drive out serbs by fear and intimidation, take over the region just for themself, and THEN seek refuge as crazy because they don't want to live in the kind of country they created.

I can imagine it happen to some European regions.