skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are implying the US is somehow close to what neoliberal thinkers would propose, that couldn't be more wrong.

Neoliberalism doesn't mean watered down free-market liberalism. The term describes a certain movement in (classical) liberal thought which wanted to seperate itself from former thinkers primarily based on the time they where living in.

While those thinkers have little in common, they genuinely disliked a productive state (as in the production of goods or the delivery of a service), cartels, interventions in the price mechanism etc.

All of that is far away from what the US or European countries are currently doing.

At least in Europe it's also used as a meaningless buzzword to scare people who think that the prefix "neo" means evil.
iOS 9 Update: “Software Update Failed” Affecting Many Users
No, that's not what that post says.

I'll reword it for you:

'Encouraging money to be invested, by motivating people via inflation, is a good thing overall because it puts wealth to work creating jobs and stimulating economic activity.'
A wise tool to be employed by the malicious.
So STEM is only okay when you're not in Dallas?
Yup, Erlang. If I move on from Python as my main programming language of choice, it would be to Erlang. So many are enthralled by Go and I never saw it. The Google association helps for those that idolize the corporation. Others feel Java is all we need or C# is all we need. Or JS and C++ and call it done. Some want to JS all the things.
Erlang is a bit niche but it's indispensable like C, and Python is just such a great gen purpose platform.
The most value is in the C/Python/Erlang triforce.
What is "a mushroom tied to a string"? I've never heard that colloquialism before, but it's hilarious.

All I got with a google search was some stock photos.
Thanks for working on this. I think what the CryptDB people are doing is doing is important, and I think it can't succeed without people like you finding gaps in their security.
Do you think it would be useful on the homepage as well as when you log in?

Thanks.
It was probably Instagram before they moved to FB datacenters, with around 150-200 million monthly users ...

http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/89992572022/mig...
Can the Fed raise interest rates?
President Obama has extended an invite to Ahmed to show his clock off at the White House: https://twitter.com/potus/status/644193755814342656
Only Michael Fassbender looks nothing like Steve Jobs.
Yup, Elixir is fantastic.
Il y a plus de 200 écoles qui sont des grandes écoles, donc ça n'a plus vraiment de signification. Si tu devrais le refaire une nouvelle fois, qu'est ce que tu conseillerais, et dans quel pays te serais tu installé?
You pulled a fast one there by linking to student body data and claiming admin and teachers are non-white.

It is quite likely that the school district administration and teachers are mostly white. Multiple reasons for this,

1. Brown people are recent (~last 25 years) immigrants in most cities. Remember, up until 1960s you had citizenship quotas and racist immigration policies.

2. By being recent immigrants, they are less likely to be part of the police force, political establishment, city administration, and so on. It takes a minimum of 10-15 years before someone who has entered the US becomes a citizen. School districts, etc. seldom employ H1Bs or other immigrants.

3. Most brown immigrants come to the US as refugees, illegal immigrants, or skilled labor. That creates a bit of a bimodal distribution in everything from income to educational outcomes of their children. Teachers, school administration, etc. do not, in general fit into the ends of this bimodal distribution. There are obviously many, many, exceptions, but I'd hypothesize that brown people are severely underrepresented among school district administrators, school teachers, policemen, etc.
> There's a whole spectrum of skin tones within ethnicities that affects how you are treated in the US more than where your parents originate.

That is so true. Personal I look very very stereotypically Scots/Irish but I also have a lot of Native American ancestry. As sad as it makes me to say I've had a far easier path in live than my cousins who were undeniably Native but from an extremely similar background and level of income growing up, in a 10 mile radius of each other. I was certainly treated differently then them.
Right now I earn less than a percent while inflation is definitely higher than a percent. Where is my real return on my savings?
For added comedy points, the word 'aryan' means Indo-Iranian, at least according to Tolkien, who I suspect knows a thing or two about the meanings of words. http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/i-have-no-ancestors-of-...
Obama:
https://twitter.com/potus/status/644193755814342656
In the bank's pocket.
Maybe Reddit now then? 200 million monthly uniques:

https://www.reddit.com/about/
Perhaps the correct response would be to ban circuit boards and items containing circuit boards from school grounds.

This would be quite educational, as everyone learned the hard way that cars, clocks, cell phones, loudspeakers, and so forth are packed with "threatening" fake bombs.
It doesn't help that the consequences of losing a job are substantially higher in the US than in most other advanced economies. And we're easier to fire, on top of it[0]. It's harder to take a stand over small(ish) things when it can bring financial ruin for one's family.

[0] yes, even many teachers. The power of unions in preserving teachers' jobs is highly regional, and often exaggerated.
'Murica.
I feel so sorry for the kid :(
I used to make my own beeping LED flashers with BC109C transistors and AA batteries when I was his age, and brought them to school to show my friends how cool electronics is.
It's a euphemism for genitalia. My inner circle uses it to refer to something that has become a joke of itself.
Hi there and thanks for your interest.
I also started writing emails with Pine, straight after using Portal of Power as a pre-Internet BBS point ;^)
Now keep in mind Jaro Mail is just a rather big wrapper around mutt / fetchmail / msmtp / notmuch with special support for generating sieve filters used by dovecot2. Credits are well due to all these programs for lasting so long and working well.

As I describe it in the manual, the primary use of JaroMail is to keep email local, yes. But as you well mention here there are situations in which it is very handy to have emails stored (or perhaps temporarily moved) on a server.

Jaro Mail so far works also in those situations, substituting the support for OSX-keyring and gnome-keyring with a simple "local keyring" storage using symmetrically encrypted (GPG) entries in an sqlite db. I'm not super-happy about that, but it works for now, it may change in the future.

Anything else is just the same, local or remote. To facilitate moving the stash around I use a Tomb which contains all what's needed - kudos to ZSh for being so lovely and portable, summed up to the small and very common unix programs used, you can imagine I never had a problem moving my setup around on desktops and servers really.

Please also note the difference between the 'peek' and the 'fetch' commands: you don't always need to use the latter, so one can have duplicate setups on servers where only peek is used and nothing is downloaded. Or perhaps one can fetch using the "keep" option as same options as fetchmailrc are supported per-account...
Ask HN: How did you land your first B2B customer?
As we're going through our own pains of landing our first customers, I'm just wondering how did you land your first customer?

Was it a referral? An inbound lead? Ads? Outbound calls and emails?

Hoping to learn a thing or two. Thanks!
We could definitely add a mouse-look like in your first video of LoG. It doesn't break the grid-based gameplay. Thanks for the suggestion!
Their economy is finally growing nicely, after 30 plus years of disaster.

From their small base, GDP has tripled in ten years. They've seen 11 straight growth years. The prior two years both saw around 10% growth, while inflation has been relatively low.

Life expectancy at birth has climbed from 50 to 64 in 20 years.

The poverty rate has fallen from 45% to about 25% in 20 years.

The infant mortality rate has fallen from 140/100k in 1980, to around 40 today, falling by 50% since 2000. It's expected to continue to fall.

They're actually generating wealth faster than any other comparable nation in Africa:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/04/ethiopia-faster...
POTUS liked it https://twitter.com/potus/status/644193755814342656
French here. I do believe that English is very easy to learn, because not really error prone. Do you conjugate verbs? No (well, kind of). Do the English nouns have genders? No. It's true that English is not straight forward to pronounce, but that's pretty much the only difficulty of the language.

On the other hand, I would say that French is very error prone: it's like Spanish or Italian (in the sense that you need to know lots of conjugations and the gender of the nouns), and the spelling of the words is very complicated, for example the sound 'o' can be spelled 'o', 'au', 'eau', 'ô'. In fact the spelling is so hard that I am suspecting it has been made hard on purpose so people who are not educated could be spotted straight away when they write a letter.

Please note that I am not writing this out of content ("Look how we French people are smart for mastering such a complicated language"), but because I like the simplicity of the English language. In fact, I believe anything made hard in a language is just some incidental complexity in how we express our thoughts, and if I had to create a language I would use English as a base.
VAT is a problem for a small company because you have two works and one of them (tax recolector) is unpaid and eat lots of hours that you'll need to blow some life in your startup.

If your client is a big company they can blackmail you to have a "VAT discount". If you want to do business with them, you'll need either to eat their VAT with a percentage of your expected benefits, or you are obliged to cheat to survive. You end figthing with your clients for paying the damned VAT. Always. With each one.

If you take in mind all the lost work hours, angry clients and nuissances that causes to everybody it is clear that is worthless and hurts the economy, but the problem is that VAT is like cocaine for the government. Is wonderful and they always want more. With VAT you can bill taxes to children and to elders for the privilege of buying something in your city but you are not obliged to provide them with a future pension, or any other service instead.

And like any other drug, you raise and raise the doses until finally all collapses. You want to raise VAT and bill 21% for a book or a film? Not problem, people can survive without going to cinema or buying a book. Now you have a 21% of 5 tickets, instead a 4% of 500 tickets and so.
From the picture on the schools's website, the school panel looks to be at least 50% non-white.
Ask HN: What should I be doing with our business' cash?
Using a throwaway account, since we are semi well known. We are a mature, cash flow positive and bootstrapped company that is sitting on a business checking account with $280k in it. $100k is earmarked for 2015 taxes with a known due date. The rest is just general operating funds, about 3 months of run. What should we be doing with this cash that we can't necessarily spend, but don't want to have sit idle making no money for us? Are there any good options that beat the measly < 1% rate a CD would get?
I was feeling the same before I left France: not in the right country.

And the article doesn't mention how stupid it is to use a 80's era ad to portray France's innovative mind set... or is it?

Also "reviens Leon" is quite condescending... again not a smart move.

The french who leave their country vote with their feet: you can't attract them back without a profound political change (which will "never" come).
The only irony here is your complete failure to understand my original comment and your own failure to provide reasoning for your own false conclusion.

Which exactly is my false conclusion? Weren't you referring to the real issue? Doesn't the determiner in that mean that there is a only a single such thing? Did you offer any basis for the assumption that it was indeed the single real issue? Those are the assumptions of my conclusion.

It's fair if you wrote "the real issue" and actually meant something else, in which case my conclusion would indeed be invalid, but not writing in clear terms hardly puts you in a position to accuse me of equivocation.
> Merkel was in bed with some green guy named Benjamin.

What a misguided reference. Last I checked no Euro note or coin has anyone called "Benjamin" on them, in fact they don't have people on them at all, they're places.

Americans really need to stop using the Benjamin/Jackson/etc thing online to describe money, it isn't a clever reference even in relation to US currency and just comes across as ignorant when used to describe other country's monetary instruments (such as this case).
> Probably because I simply don't think this way. I don't see color in people.

Statistically speaking, you're probably a racist. And the whole fucking 12 paragraph rant about liberalism. Lmao. You sound insane.
Or go even simpler, back to the days of Wizardry. Up to go forward, left/right to turn.
From the "WLAN" café I spent 2 weeks to find in Kiel (currently in a seminar, no internet access), and having just paid my €40 bill for 6 GB (bad) 3G Internet this month, I fully approve this bill.

I also hope at some point cellular internet will get cheaper in Germany... France 20€ 20 GB, Latvia 10 € 20GB with LTE, Germany 500MB 12€.
Yeah, that's true. But there's a limit as to how many you can put on a bus, and if they're full, you're not getting on the bus.

Also here in Boston, some buses have them and some don't. Often it's a question of the physical bus and not the route. Murphy's Law often dictates that when you're stranded in the middle of nowhere with a bicycle, flat tire, and a bus that comes every hour, the physical bus that shows up will be one without bike racks.
If unions aren't strong in your state generally, then teacher's unions are no different. Too many people jump on teachers in New Jersey making $100K at the end of their career as an excuse to not even try to aim above the bottom of the barrel.
The claim is that the device looked like a bomb. That he's being charged with "creating a hoax bomb" makes no difference to this. Either a hoax bomb still looks like a bomb, or we're giving control over to idiots to declare that a hoax bomb is anything that looks like their crazy and inaccurate ideas of what a bomb looks like.

Certainly IEDs can have exposed PCBs. So do hard drives. It's irrelevant.

What do explosives look like? I don't know. But I know that they look like something, and they probably don't look like electronics. So when you have a device that is a bunch of electronics and nothing else, I can pretty safely say that it does not look like a bomb, because there are no explosives.
>So, in the craigslist example, many American people are afraid because there is overwhelming evidence that

Is there evidence, or media reporting well beyond the actual rate of occurrence?
You must be a lot of fun at parties.
Let's not pretend that his name had nothing to do with it; it's all cute acting PC but let's get real. I've lived in Texas and the racism/segregation is very subtle but it's there (generally speaking).

I find it funny that as an outsider that Americans don't let their kids walk/play alone in their neighborhood because "they are so naive and innocent", and there are child/sexual predators out there. Yet they somehow believe the same kid named Ahmed (guilt by association?) can somehow conjure up a bomb.
2% annual inflation isn't a big deal, but 2% annual deflation would make all the money disappear in less than a year? How can that be so?

I do understand that for double-digit losses and gains things are nonlinear, in other words a 50% loss means that you need a 100% gain to offset it, and a 90% loss needs a 1000% gain to offset. But in the single digits, this is very close to linear. If you lose 5%, then gaining back 5% leaves you very close to even.

If 2% compounded deflation is the end of society, how can 2% compounded inflation be the savior?
I also grew up in the area and am always suprised when I hear people describe th climate in NH as the parent commenter. People do kinda keep to themselves, especially the ones who go back many generations. But the libertarian types seem to me to come from other places, attracted to NH because of the motto and the reputation, which Im not sure it really deserves. Its a pretty typical rural northeast place culturally, very close to VT or upstate NY (places I have also lived).
Depends, my country had a long history of phone bomb threats, by students to delay or postpone exams. They were taken seriously - the classes were dismissed and the bomb squads checked everything.
> A complete count should include all of the work that was out-sourced

No, it shouldn't. A complete account should just be people employed by the company.
That'll get you arrested.

Instead, label them BOX 1, BOX 2 and BOX 4 and put "geo-location circuity" (it doesn't have to work, just make it look like it could) in it and place those at various points in the school, preferably with visible wires.

Then you can claim that you were trying to build your own local mini-gps to monitor your movements throughout the day.

Same popcorn value, less time in prison.
Between virtualization, 16-core CPU's, and "the cloud", businesses have been replacing servers at a 1:10 ratio. Good for businesses that buy servers, bad for companies that sell servers like Dell and HP.
This.

He has the contacts. Make sure he takes his rolodex when he leaves. Day one after layoffs, call those clients up and say "Hey, they laid me off. Want me on contract?"

Even if he only gets 3 or 4 clients from this, the money they paid HP now goes to him, and it will be a LOT more than his salary. His client contacts are his core IP. Use em.
Germany is no longer going to be one of the only places on Earth which punishes Wifi providers for what users do while on their network? I may actually be able to choose between more than 3 different cafes' that offer Wifi from my half of the city? (One fewer than a month ago.)

Wow. That would actually be fantastic thanks for getting on that.
Europe is welcome to 1) come up with a catchier nickname for money 2) have a sense of humor.
President Obama Comments on Ahmed's Clock
I don't care how massive the app is compared to just web browsing...it's always great when people show off not just the product, but the open source code. Thanks!
Thanks for your input, makes sense.

Why should the real bond value reduce over time, though? Sorry to answer your question with another question, but I don't really see a reason why they should. After all, isn't some degree of predictability/fixed value the point?
This is one of the problems with defining a living wage. I also don't think at this day and age one can live on an entry level job --as might have been possible with some /many blue collar union jobs. People should look at entry level jobs as that. Entry level where the goal is to improve and go beyond entry level.
nauseating. how long did it take you to trust "grownups" again (if ever)?
>so what's the deal?

What you just did is the deal.

What do I mean? You just said that had he left the device in a bathroom it would be more reasonable to charge him with the crime. They shifted the debate over and you followed with it. Instead of arguing if a kid should be charged over leaving a clock in the bathroom, you've now given them that ground and have moved on to debating charging them for having a clock at all.

Of course, on an individual level this doesn't do much. But they are pulling this sort of trick on the whole of society. At that scale, it is not ineffective.
Amplifying, the bank is also spending money to service your account. There's also the issue of how much your money is worth to the bank: demand deposits where it can all be withdrawn without notice are worth less than forms which lock it up for a while.
That's how I feel when the local factories lay workers off. Guys and gals with 30 years in at the same plant, assembling parts day in and day out. On their feet for 12 hours a day, the factory shuts down and what is there for them to do? You might lay 3,000 people off from a plant and all they can do is work at Wal-mart or McDonalds.
Simplified call
Part of the problem is Hollywood's reliance on tropes like the beeping timebomb with bright red LED countdowns and scary-looking wires, and then people judging reality based on what they see on 24 and CSI.
In this case, we know to read "my made up bias and stereotypes" for everywhere you wrote "statistically".

I mean, you even fucking admitted it.
What? I pay 15€ per month and have 5GB. And when I exceed that I can pay 3€ again to have full speed.

ALDI Talk/MedionMobile
Maybe, just maybe, we should just bundle Node and Electron into a package, install that as a shared library (similar to the way .NET and Java are installed) and then just ship, in the installer, a tool that downloads those if not already installed?

Would save a lot of memory and time for everyone.
"Because it consisted of a board with a digital display and a tiger hologram on the front, the teacher recommended he hide it from the rest of the staff."

Anyone know why the teacher had him hide it? Are they restricted from having electronic devices and toys at school? Is it because the teacher thought it looked suspicious?

Either way it's unfortunate that the teacher didn't just ask to hold on to it until after school was out. If one reasonable adult had stood up for him before another adult freaked then it may not have been an issue.
I wonder if there's a timescale-dependence of the appearance of randomness here. Subject the data to a series of Gaussian high bandpass filters in Fourier space and repeat the analysis. Does the randomness get higher the higher the frequency?
Is it safe to turn your children into YouTube stars?
Thanks Merkel for the small mercies! I do know of at least one free WiFi providing service in Germany - "Freifunk Saar".

https://saar.freifunk.net
Surely you know that anyone can access the binary code of your first-party applications (using a jailbroken iPhone and a rooted Android device), decompile it (using jd-gui, the Hex-Rays ARM decompiler, etc.) and arbitrarily use the APIs they expose, right?
Should we ban backpacks from schools? No.

Some schools have actually done that.
Were the machines always on regardless? Wouldnt they have consumed some portion of the said electricity no matter what? Or was he preventing the machines from being shutdown or sleeping?
Wow, I never really thought if it like that before. I always had the same sneering reaction to the bin of "possibly explosive liquids" at the security line, but now it actually makes sense.
Would be good to know what sector it is. I would say almost every company I've been involved in, first customer came from at first not getting anyone, ie rejection. Finding out a reason, and solving the cause which prevented this customer to commit is the key. Once you solve that, (ie solve a worry customer might have, or lack of info/specs, or not knowing the cost, or being confused about the product) the next attempt will lead to getting the customer. TLDR: Pro actively push (ads,calls etc), make note of rejection, tweak, repeat.
I actually misunderstood the entire statement because of this. I thought this was happening because of a politician from the green party and was going over green party politicians to figure out whom could possible me meant.
I live in the US since 8 years and still misunderstood it.