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I worked for 3 years in France (Paris and province), and 3 years in the US (NJ and NYC). Things are the same. Humans are the same. It all depends on the company culture.
Exactly my thoughts. Depending on the kid, this experience could be so traumatizing to the point of killing his enthusiasm and curiosity. We need more tinkering not less. It starts with teachers. Too many teachers turn up in body only. Teaching is a role that should be held in much higher esteem than it is but instead we irrationally hold high paying but stupid money jobs like finance in high regard and leave the teaching jobs to the 'failures' of society.
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This is also a well documented phenomena in the US if the compound isn't patent-able. You gotta get the $50mm to get it through the FDA from somewhere, and if there are no patents there's literally zero years before the generics come out.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140925/08202528637/crowd...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichloroacetic_acid

So if this guy doesn't want to play ball with a pharmaceutical company, it's entirely likely that his research could go under-reported or under-utilized for many years.

Now of course, these facts don't MAKE his story true. Just that your offhand dismissal of the possibility of it being true isn't quite so rock solid.
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Uh, she's four.
I'm not concerned with aesthetics. I'm concerned with incorrect language which leads to incorrect thinking. I could talk at length about a single word and how its misinterpretation by a huge subculture leads to bad decision making, but let's just say words are very important.
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Actually I believe that answer is in the article:
“Our strategy around recruiting is to find the best and brightest engineers. We don’t bring them in specifically because the engineer knows Erlang,”

WhatsApp only needs 50 engineers because of who they hire. Even using Erlang, I pretty sure they would need more than 50 engineers if they hired mainly around average engineers.
Not asserting fact here but merely providing my interpretation:

The engineering teacher may have advised the student to bring the device to school but to not pull it out in any other class. This could have been done to avoid distracting other students or attracting unwanted attention from other teachers. This seems like a straight forward request that may have been taken out of context. I have not seen a quote that uses the word "hide", which really changes the connotation of the statement. I highly doubt the engineering teacher thought specifically that the device could be seen as a bomb.
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Not to step on jameshart's toes, but isn't that exactly the business model of astrology, using astronomical positions as a poor pseudorandom number generator to shuffle the profiles? They seem to do pretty well at convincing people not indoctrinated to make fun of them.
I find that ping-pong and watercooler discussions are necessary as breaks. Otherwise you burn out and you only get, say, 4 hours of real work done in an 8-hour day.
It's remarkable the difference that ~20 years can make. In middle school, someone's science fair project was building an actual briefcase bomb (with clay). It had a variety of sensors, and laid out (on a tri-fold poster board, of course) the guts of how each one worked.
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Nice piece of game! Any chance you could write a couple blog posts about the technical challenges you had to face, if any? I'm especially interested in the way you generate levels. Thanks.
Ah, right. Thanks. Still, if there were 60 developers, could they have this feature on all clients.

That was just an example anyway. I could easily have pointed to the ambiguous end-to-end encryption (are my messages even being encrypted?) or the lack of encryption in group chats.
I enjoyed it. I would love if it was tougher though. Most enemies are vulnerable when you strafe away and attack them from the side. I found that out pretty quickly and for that reason didn't like the power sword, because the knockback distance makes their movements less predictable. I did the first couple of levels without buying anything and was dissapointed that I had to buy the L1 bow first.

I actually like the game for its simplicity. However, I got a little annoyed by the baby steps in the first level. I guess I can handle walking, slashing and bowing things if its not fed to me with a ridiculously tiny spoon.

The game reminds me a little of Wolfenstein. In relation to that I felt that collecting money ("loot") was cumbersome and boring. In Wolfenstein, a lot of weapons were just laying around and posed an incentive for curageous explorers. I would rather find them and be surprised, or receive them as a reward, instead of having to buy them in the same boring store behind each level.

Well done, anyway :)
> If an employer felt it was a problem ... they need to find another deadline or another developer.

Be careful of this attitude nowadays. There's lots of people getting into software development these days, and there's lots that will work for less money than you. There's also a lot of managers that would love to pay someone less, regardless of their quality.

I know it's always been that way to some degree, but the problem seems to be growing exponentially as the years go on and more "developers" flood the market fresh out of school and racked with debt.
I get that it's fashion. It just surprises me, given there is no reason for it, as far as the actual quality of the signal goes. I mean it's one thing if you are collecting antique vinyl from the 1930s or something. But collecting modern recordings just seems bizarre to me. I am not judging, I am just amused.

Also, Spotify doesn't give you the same quality sound as an audiofile collection of CDs, due to compression
I mean the initial concern as in "What is that circuit board?"

Then it should go, "Oh it's a clock." "Is that true, engineering teacher?" "Yes." "OK cool."
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I know why imgur do it -

http://imgur.com/blog/2014/10/09/introducing-gifv/

"The above GIF started at a whopping 50MB. After conversion, the final file is 3.4MB and loads at warp speed. Pretty sweet, right?"
He might poke one of the five responding police officers with those toothpick arms, obviously.
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"Why would we want to start run company anywhere else?"

Rent? And living expenses in general. It's going to be you largest expense bootstrapping, especially since it's post tax. It also gets harder to invite people you know to come work with you and getting a larger/better suited apartment in general (location, contract terns, layout, furnished etc).

Not that this is that different from other big cities and I personally think Paris is one of the few that lives up to the hype. Still not preferred for early startups.
Hanlon's razor is a pretty stupid quote here, there definitely is no need to distinguish stupidity from malice here. The people responsible for this mess should probably lose their jobs. (Based on the story as it was presented here)
The cop's expression suggests he's not happy with what's happening to the kid.
> In short, Ahmed was arrested for making while brown.

This sort of demagoguery masquerading as journalism has got to stop. Upvoting exploitative personal political propaganda like this contributes to an atmosphere of narrow-mindedness on HN that plays to the bigotry of its readers, with the majority of comments here responding in like.

I'm certainly not defending it, but in reality this sort of (over) reaction, is perfectly explainable when you consider the risk of government employees responsible for the lives of children NOT reacting and being wrong.

Yes, those involved need some education, but no more so than the author regarding journalistic ethics, or the commenters here stirring up a witch-hunt. You can see all the anti-Texan/Conservative/School/Government-ists overreacting here right on cue.
If anyone is actually surprised by the administrations intelligence - I should remind you of 3 events:

- A teacher confiscates Linux CDs claiming that the student was essentially distributing illegal copyrighted software - because no software is free [1]

- A system administrator was fired for installing/running seti@home on school computers. There is a lot of controversy about this case - but I read one news article (that I can't find right now) where the administration said they would have been ok with cancer research folding@home rather than searching for aliens with seti@home. This combined with the backpedaling of "oh actually he was a bad employee, stole things, and cost the school millions in extra in electricity costs!" makes me believe that they just wanted to use it as an excuse to fire him and make the position open for a friend/relative. [2].

- Or an honor roll student suspended for buying candy from another student [3]. His statuses were only restored after it caught media attention.

I would go into my rant about the education system but you should just watch this video [4]

[1] http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2008/12/linux-stop-holding-our...

[2] https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=5169

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20080313141623/http://edition.cn...

[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
It reminded my of a quote by Milan Kundera in The Unbearable Lightness of Being:

"Anyone who thinks that the Communist regimes of Central Europe are exclusively the work of criminals is overlooking a basic truth: The criminal regimes were made not by criminals but by enthusiasts convinced they had discovered the only road to paradise. They defended that road so valiantly that they were forced to execute many people. Later it became clear that there was no paradise, that the enthusiasts were therefore murderers."

I found this in other places as well - e.g. in the autobiography of Jacek Kuroń (a figure in the Polish opposition against the communist regime, even though he was himself a socialist), culminating when he was in prison with a Nazi criminal. The later, even a decade or two after the war, was still convinced that he had been doing atrocities (he had no illusions about that) for a greater good (i.e. the new Pax Romana), a good that justifies anything.
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As Nietzsche became more and more isolated, socially and intellectually, he had less to say about the Dionysian impulse.

What he's describing is more clearly observed and understood by Jonathan Haidt in The Righteous Mind, when Haidt discusses the hive switch.
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No, it's as stupid as it sounds and your trying to rationalize stupid. She's 4.
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To try and explain....it's like the difference between fake "stressed" furniture which inside is just mashed up Ikea woodchip with a veneer stuck to it and the real deal.

There's also the joy and relaxation of kicking back and watching the vinyl spin on the table whilst playing, it's mesmerizing and hypnotic.
Wow, what an evil plot.

You shouldn't be caught sitting in your comfy chair eating popcorn though...
@Dang, I once posted a link and then someone reposted the same link but added /# to it. HN treated that as a new URL and that link, because karma -I think- got to the FP. Any solution to that?
Honestly, more and more, I challenge the idea of ever having a child: bright and smart kids have never been so intimidated.

Many of the hacks I did as a child could have gotten me in jail today. Something 'silly' or 'funny' becomes dangerous/offensive/harassment; creativity, ingenuity and imagination are turned into dullness, self-hatred and nihilism.
This needs to be at the top of this thread.
Neither is acceptable

I swear, if I was rich, I would have a PAC specifically for school board elections and go after these idiots and their supporters on the school board.
This is why it's often said that not just censorship but also mass surveillance are the killers of creativity and progress in a society. When you always have to look over your shoulder because the "state" might believe you're doing something wrong and punish you, that tends to make you not even want to try something anymore.
Yeah, someone always says something like this. I don't think humans living to 120-150 is going to destroy the world as long as we're productive. People like Warren Buffet or Stan Lee, for instance.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Lee

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett

The universe is enormous. Perhaps if we live to be old enough we'll get really bored and head off to other planets.
Well this is what happens when you blare Islamophobia from all the twenty-four hour "news" channels.
Well, it sounds really impolite saying that. But you can probably guess what I think of it: I think it is really strange that a nation as modern as the USA is in that regard 100 years behind basically all other industrial nations.

Though instantaneous they are also not in Germany, can take some time to arrive.
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Aren't lots of bombs in cartoons represented as clocks? Maybe that's how.
"things like this"

Please clarify. Things that are relevant to what you are studying in school and have been approved by your teacher for you to bring into class?

For someone who is speaking out against ignorance, this statement sure comes across as... ignorant.
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In fairness it was probably staged by the father to end in civil lawsuit.

"His father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, came from Sudan and is famous for arguing against anti-Islamic policies"
There's also the vinyl-only availability of a lot of recordings, especially if you're interested in niche pre-80/90s genres. I collect private press / avant jazz from the 60s and 70s along with some soul/funk, and while there are reissues available for some recordings in a lot of cases your only option for a good quality copy is finding an original copy of the vinyl record.

The 'niche' collecting part of vinyl records is really interesting and I wish someone would do a good story on that instead of the "vinyl's not dead!" approach.

(self plug: I wrote/run https://gripsweat.com which tracks auctions and sales so if you're curious about high-dollar niche records it's a good listening / browsing resource.)
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Huh? How many southeast Asians were denied for decades employment at a company in small town USA?

Regarding social responsibility, this is simply my opinion, but companies that wish to employ the full legal and financial protection of the United States and operate within its infrastructure bear some social and moral responsibility to contribute back into the system. Offshoring the bulk of a company's workforce or moving profits overseas to evade taxes and other things of this nature should disqualify any company from receiving the protections and benefits provided by the US, full stop.
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> How difficult was it to not suspect it anymore?

Excellent observation. It's really about people conditioned to follow scripts.

These people were missing the "de-escalation script" in which a teacher laughs, puts their hand on their forehead and says,

"Wow, That scared the shit out of me for a minute there. Now let's show you how to make a tidy wooden box for your amazing clock project."
The officers feared for their lives. He's lucky he didn't get tased, or shot.
>I get that it's fashion. It just surprises me, given there is no reason for it, as far as the actual quality of the signal goes.

I think one way to see it is that it being in vinyl (with all the romantic, old-music-industry, analog etc ideas it conveys) is also part of the signal.

As in, the signal is not the pure musical signal, but also the cultural one (the vinyl being emotional, nostalgic, romanticized, fashionished, fetishised, etc).

>Also, Spotify doesn't give you the same quality sound as an audiofile collection of CDs, due to compression

That's just a matter of time and better broadband connections. For most people, given their speakers/headphones quality, it's more than enough.
No, I haven't. I don't click on links that give ad revenue to buzzfeed.
Best proof of this I ever saw was when they did a test with 20 students.

Each of them got their own personal horoscope made and was asked to read it.

Then they where asked how accurate it was 75% thought they were very accurate.

Then they were asked to switch their personal horoscope with the person next to them only to realize they had all been given the same horoscope.
And then die slow death from NSA interrogation, great plan.
These topics bring the tin foil wearers out in droves. No, the government isn't cracking down on the intelligence of youth, it requires it to progress and grow. I don't recall any black SUVs outside my door when I built an alarm clock that had selective electronic outputs for my school project. Hell, my teachers docked marks because I didn't take it far enough and they felt I could add more features and better design.
And then you will complain when they bring charges against you.
"WhatsApp doesn’t talk much about its engineering work" - Wrong as hell.
They first talked about this in erlang conf about 3 yrs ago, in 2012. [Youtube Link]( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDk6l3tPBuw ).

I hate how tech blogs take a thing thats quite well known and old and spins into a "did you know?" post like it was just unraveled (Oh, maybe your staff just heard about it, doesnt mean no one knows shit.)
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>You can't legislate intelligence.

Not but you can severely punish idiocy, so that it doesn't dare act that way again (and I mean the idiocy of the police in the story, or the people having your daughter sign BS)..
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I'm thinking in something where you can generate a UI mixing both worlds (graphic tool and code) ; where you can alter the UI code and it will reflect it in the "builder tool" and viceversa.
Mostly I'm asking for writing with javascript for mobile, for example "react-native" look nice, but you end (i think) writing all the UI in code.
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In terms of audio quality, you are 100% correct. But for some there's more to listening to music than just listening to music. Going to the shelf and looking over the albums, remembering when you bought each album, who you've played them for, things that were happening while you listened to them. Looking at the cover art or the silly liner art or notes[1]. Noticing markings (or smells...) from previous owners and wondering about them, what they were doing when they bought or listened to the album. Physically placing the album on the turntable and aligning the needle. Listening to the lead-in scratches as you adjust the volume before the music kicks in. Sometimes you get silly lead-out loops[2].

It's just a fun, physical way to listen to music.

[1] The liner notes in Andrew Gold's "What's wrong with this picture?" was a recent highlight for me http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=1838376

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unusual_types_of_gramophone_re...
Well, that's not entirely true. I went through the process somewhat recently, and you can get a credit card by depositing some money first and using that as your max credit. That way the bank doesn't take any risk but you can build up your credit.
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Well I guess they could logically suspect that he might be doing something more sinister than just bringing around a clock project. So fine get a court order to search his house while keeping him detained at school. Find nothing. Apologize and let him go.
I work for a big company that uses HP software. It's horrible. If HP is anything like the company I work, HP is full of people getting free money for showing up and doing nothing.

My thing is, if you know you are getting free money you have to expect it to end at some point. Have a contingency plan.
I'd like to see this built into PostgreSQL in a way where I can optionally enable it for certain tables only (e.g. accounts, user profiles, sessions).
This story is at 1 and 2 on both reddit and Hacker News. Why is this so interesting?
>Usually the idea of having a child sign too is the idea having a child explicitly agree makes them more likely to be invested in complying.

No, it doesn't. If anything, the opposite (if the child is a teenager). If it's 4 it's just stupid.
This hits way too close to home. Not because I have brown skin, or because I've ever been arrested for making "a bomb" that is not a bomb, but because when you're that age you're constantly surrounded and disciplined by people who don't understand you. Or what you're doing. Or why it's cool. I'd be willing to bet part of the reasoning around his arrest is, "Why would a student need to make his own clock?"

I wish I could reach out to the boy and say, "Hey, it gets way better. Later on you can surround yourself with people who not only understand but respect you. You get to spend all day building cool stuff, and you actually get paid very well to do so."
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"will never quite make it" expresses my concerns that native apps have made high performance graphics in web apps a secondary concern. Basically if you want high performance graphics then you should develop a native app.
It makes idiots in offices feel good that their new policies are followed.
Schengen was conceived by the post WW2 generation, perhaps the most materially wealthy in history who view free trade radicalism through rose colored glasses. Like almost all policy they have conceived it is hopelessly romantic and self serving. They have the economic position to capture the gains from exportation of skilled labor to third world countries which increase dividends and form importation of third world immigrants to lower domestic wages.

If the Western world is to retain any semblance of an enlightened reasoned and prosperous set of nations free trade policy including free movement will have to be revised to ensure economic and social stability for the citizenry as a priority. Unless this is done civil unrest and division will only continue to grow as more and more people are thrown under the bus in a race to the bottom system.

Importing a permanent underclass provides the perfect scapegoat for civil unrest to deflect attention away from trade policy which is designed to benefit only the top few percent of the income and skills pyramid.
I am comparing vinyl records to CDs. CDs are recorded using digital sampling of an analog continuous time signal.
That's more likely to be the National Guard or something like that. Which is military indeed, but not the same type of military that we're talking about here.
you are on a forum of engineers. Most folks would not even know to call it a circuit board..
Not "parent" but search for Erlang Factory talks they talk about it. Here is one from Rick Reed. He explains how the product works :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c12cYAUTXXs
Not just cartoons but media in general. Pick a movie with a bomb involved, it's probably a mess of wires and electronic components along with a digital clock of some sort.