skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our YC company (Heysan, W07) was very similar to WhatsApp except we decided to shim mobile web into the IM networks of that time. We were closing our doors as they were just getting going, and we really liked what we saw of them. At that time we had pretty much re-written everything to be erlang - it definitely makes writing IM software easy to reason about. Interoping with the IM networks was very graceful in erlang.
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And it started beeping in class- depending on the kid's history/attitude sending them to an administrator is not an over-reaction. The zero-tolerance b.s. that happens next is the problem, but even there it's hard to blame administration- I'm sure there's zero tolerance for anything that looks like a weapon, and unfortunately a beeping case full of electronics qualifies.
They were enlightened enough to separate State from Church but not State from Market.
I did my entire bachelor degree studying in cafes at night.
Each coup of coffee was very vivid reminder: I've payed for a coffe, so I had one hour (as much) to write, to study, and to think.
It was a great constraint. I'm still searching for great cafes everywhere I go. It's a great personal pleasure.
Watch nearly any episode of the TV show, "What would you do". There are often examples of people giving some* the benefit of the doubt when they are in fact stealing, etc, while others are reported immediately to the police.

In the context of this show:
* "some" are always white and/or female
"others" are some white males, and all non-white males.

This "benefit of the doubt" is a privilege.
This is a blog post about FoundationDB SQL layer mapping from the VoltDB guys:

https://voltdb.com/blog/foundationdbs-lesson-fast-key-value-...
I don't have a strong opinion, but let me turn this around.

Assume the code is sorted well (it is).
Why does breaking them into "proper" repositories help anything?

What does "proper" even mean when tons of stuff is shared?

You act as if there is some obvious split that if they had "done it the right way" they would have done. That is 100% not obvious to me.

How do you demarcate these lines, maintain things across these boundaries, etc.
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> I'm not taking anything from you because you gave it to me for free

logical fallacy. You took it for free, but it had a price. If the ad has a $3 RPM it means you seeing the ad pays $0.003 to the content producer.

The price was just to let that ad load. not even to watch it or to read it.

It was free for you because you took it, by using a browser extension that lets you watch the site in a different way than the one that was intended.
I wasn't going to make that last point today but yes, black race was for centuries a legal construct in addition to an ethnic one. The American concept of race doesn't travel well.
"Ignoring the gag order would see you thrown in prison. "

Yet the history of our country is one of "commit civil disobedience and deal with consequences if you actually want change". Remember, they were revolutionaries.

"And there's another rather obvious solution to the volume of cases going through the criminal justice system that doesn't involve expanding it to handle that volume...
"

Good luck with that one too :)
> but it's also divisive to make it seem like a group is inherently more valuable for no reason other than the color of their skin, or life choices, or whatever.

it is also the truth, and it is a problem. labelling is like a joke compared to all the things that discriminated groups experience.

edit - apologies, i thought you said 'vulnerable'. valuable? where did you get that from?
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> Loans are then (strictly) duration matched with financial instruments offered to the public.

So loans are funded by the public?

> It's pretty straight forward when you just think in terms of contracts. Its a testament to how fucked up (or, perhaps, effective) our education system is that smart people like yourself can't see these problems straight away.

Why are folks like you so afraid of discussing issues that might challenge your worldview? I would argue that only by being able to articulate answers to these questions (some of which you claim have such obvious answers) can we obtain a better understanding. Maybe your schooling encouraged a blinders mentality, but I humbly suggest you be open yourself to provide answers and not insults.
I know I remember at the time talking to a couple of friends who are school governors in the uk.

Overhear both the Head and It guy responsible would have been fired and be on the "not allowed to work with kids and vulnerable people" list for the rest of their lives. They would have been lucky not to get prosecuted for child porn as well
> Then why don't the Obama kids go to public school? Citing security would be silly. A school is a school.

In the matter of experience in dealing with the issues (and dealing with the Secret Service on security is far from the only one) that attend children of major public figures, no, a school is not a school. And Sidwell Friends, the school that has been attended by every school-age child of a US President since the Nixon Administration is, arguably, sui generis in that regard.

The President not sending his kids to public schools is probably, as much as anything, a service to the public school that they would go to if they weren't going to Sidwell Friends.
How much of that is actual bad behavior. The school to prison pipeline is a worthy discussion.

But this sort insane, zero tolerance of total normal behavior is much more limited.

I agree we shouldn't be using the criminal system of kids who bring pot to school or who get into fights. But it's a different issue than a kid getting arrested for being a hacker.
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Indeed. Money comes later as a business model has not been the most statistically successful model. ;)
Yeah. And the NSA should have access to all our data. You know, just to be safe.
My favorite clip is of the police who said something to the effect of, "When we asked him what it was, he only said it was a clock he didnt tell us why he brought it to school..." so they arrested him for a hoax bomb.

That statement reeks of a story made up after the fact. You can imagine them sitting around their police station after they let the kid go.

Police A: "Oh shit, this kid was just bringing in a clock to show his engineering teacher. There are several witnesses who heard him tell us it was just a clock. And now everyone in the world is watching. We're fucked."

Police B: "Nothing's fucked, bro. Be cool. Think. Think. Wait, he never told us whhhhy he brought the clock to school."

Police A: "Why does that matter? he told us it was just a clock and it is just a clock! Did we even ask why he brought it?"

Police B: "I didnt ask why. Did you? Even if you didnt, its still somethin' you could say."

Police A: "That is so stupid."

Police B: "Still, you know... it is somethin' you could say."

Police A: "That is so stupid. You are stupid. And, we are fucked!"

...later at press conference

clears throat

Police A: "...he told us it was a clock buuuuut, he never told us whhhhy he brought the clock..."

glances over at Police B who has the stupidest grin on his face
Thanks! I was curious about this, because having volunteered for FIRST robotics, I can tell you that the number of HS students in the US with the skills to design and build a digital clock is pretty much 0. Looking at the picture, I think that maybe he re-homed a commercial clock into a different case and added some leads to run it off a battery ... which is still beyond the capabilities of 99% of US HS students.

Either way, congrats to Mohamed for being curious about how things work, shame on his teachers for not doing due diligence (maybe asking the electronics teacher to take a look before calling the police?), and I wish there were more information available about exactly what Mohamed had done, because I find that to be the interesting part of the story.

Not that the response was appropriate, but I'm pretty sure that if I'd taken a similarly looking device into my very WASP-y suburban school, even though I'm white as a sheet, my school administration would have had a similar response. People are really paranoid these days, and right or wrong, we all have to deal with it.
if combined with other data, it could show how inefficient/efficient programmers are
> I'm curious what privileges you perceive, or know to be true, for non-minorities.

* Innocent until proven guilty (See driving while black)

* Citizenship is rarely, if ever, questioned

* Friendly relationship with Law Enforcement/Authority

* Better health care[1]

1: http://www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-health/black-kids-get-les...
It's a wonderful theory, but here's an actual data point: when I was at JPL, in the very early days of the internet (mid-to-late 90's), they set up an internal usenet newsgroup, and they set it up so that by default all posts were anonymous. The group was only accessible by JPL employees. The express purpose was so that employees could state their views freely without fear of reprisals.

It was an unmitigated disaster. It basically degenerated into the on-line equivalent of lord-of-the-flies, with some of the the most vicious flame-fests I have ever seen (and I've seen some real conflagrations). They eventually removed the anonymity-by-default and all the vitriol ended instantly.

Two interesting facts:

1. The "anonymity" wasn't real anonymity. The server simply rewrote the "from" header in each message to be from anonymous (which, of course, made things very confusing)

2. After "anonymity" was turned off, it was still trivial to spoof a "from" header and achieve the same level of anonymity as before. But no one did.

I do not deny that anonymity can be useful in some circumstances. But it's no panacea.
No one wants to be the person who ignored all the warning signs for the next Columbine. Its as simple as that.
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Following that logic, why is the tech industry targeting mostly white men creating harm? Why did the Boy Scouts banning gays create harm? Why did all-white country clubs create harm? Why did a ban on gay marriage create harm? We can easily justify any exclusive institution by ignoring the outsiders and weigh only the benefits to the insiders. Of course, this is painfully ironic when the purpose of the institution, in this case, is inclusion.
>Why should banks be able to do this, but not other companies or even private persons?

Companies and individuals are most certainly able to create "money" on their own. You can issue all the debt you want, as long as you find a willing counterparty and sign your own name to it. It's balance sheet expansion.

For example, you go to purchase a new car, and sign a note telling the dealer that you will pay the price of the car, plus interest, over five years. You've created an asset out of nothing, for which the bank is more than willing to pay the dealer cash for. People and companies create such assets every day. There is no magic to issuing your own liabilities, which is what the Fed does when it prints money.
5k is easily within an order of magnitude of what you would find believable, and he's only expressing an order of magnitude. I think your dispute is rather academic.
Well, the other thing we need to do is look and treat schools differently.

To me every dollar legitimately (with a HUGE emphasis on the legitimate part) spent in schools is a valuable investment in the future. I hope that is a statement that cannot be disputed.

However, we've performed badly enough and have wasted so much money that we are in a situation where someone who thinks teachers ought to be able to make $150K per year would be laughed out of the room.

We are slowly destroying our country from the inside. And a big part of that is in how we are not educating our kids. And perhaps even our population in general. I mean, the fact that the Theory of Evolution is cause for debate in the US is down-right shameful and a sad indication of just how backwards some of our population is in their thinking.

The problem of schools and education is simple. It get's complicated when we are not united in an understanding of what our objectives should be.

What are they? In my view: science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) and entrepreneurship. Arts belong in school as well but we are not going to float the boat on arts alone. STEM+E need to be our strong suit and our kids need to be exposed to the arts in order to see, feel and experience the beauty in the human condition.
If a statement is made anonymously you can't know whether it is the work of the freedom fighter or the government propaganda office.

Yes, but in case of important message, isn't its content more important than knowledge of its true originator?
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Anyone have any actual technical details on what Mohamed built? Judging from the pics I've seen, it's clearly a commercial PCB. I'm wondering if maybe he worked out a power supply or display driver himself or if he simply re-homed a commercial clock into a cooler case... I don't expect that anyone in the 'news' actually cares enough to go into detail.
I agree. The corporate policy is to not disclose that number, so all that the parent comment translates to is an appeal to authority. "You're wrong because I work for Microsoft and I know better!".

But we're not told what the correct number is, and we have no way of assessing the validity of the claim anyway, so the whole discussion is completely vacuous.
Weird that the label specifies "ahead of time", which is implicit in "compiler", but does not mention that it is a Javascript-to-C++ translator rather than a normal machine-code-producing compiler.
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Something that has not been mentioned (because it is such a small feature) is that you can now disable the vibration on a per alarm clock basis.
I've been waiting for this for several versions now. You could argue that 3rd party alarm clock applications provide that, but they don't get the special treatment the built-in app gets, mainly that alarms set are still activated even if the app is closed. Maybe it is also the case for 3rd party but I couldn't get it to work.
But while "1" and "9" are the same order of magnitude, so are "1" and "0.1". To say something is within an order of magnitude of netflix, you cover a possible range from 0.1 to 10 times the Netflix catalog, a range which is ten times bigger if you consider the minimum and maximum sizes...
Exactly, otherwise Greece and other countries wouldn't have been locked out of the commercial markets if they could set rates. German rates were/are low because the German economy is thought to be a decent shape, Greek rates are high because the opposite.
Please see my other comment [1]. I don't disagree with your points. I think the problem is much bigger than what we can discuss here.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10229785
Look I'm not suggesting that evolution is completely unfounded or anything like that. And I agree that we're witnessing it unfold with antibiotic resistance and the like.

But what I am saying is that physics has a lot more rigor for the claims by virtue of how it works, and what people are looking for there. Evolution is punctuated equilibrium and human beings haven't directly witnessed this to the same degree that people have in physics.

I think the direct witnessing aspect is important, even if others may disagree. The reason I think it's important is that there are other possible though highly improbable explanations for various physical phenomena we see on earth.

If there really was a "guy in the sky" he could have absolutely made a bunch of stuff and "planted the evidence" all over the place to fool people. But if also for some reason, he always handled the laws of physics just the way things are now, we wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

To me it's kind of like the people who suggest that we should try and see if reality is just a simulation being run in a computer. The odds -- at least in my mind -- are absolutely astronomical against. But just because it's a "crazy idea" and there's "no way" it could be true doesn't mean I get to dismiss it offhand and maintain my intellectual integrity.
> I doubt you could concisely articulate anything if your preceding contexts depended upon it.

Umm.... My "preceding contexts depended upon it"? First, as stated, the preceding contexts were not mine. Second, concisely articulating someone else's stance or summary, or a current context, while not easy, is trivially simple.

Here's an example: Contents of Moby Dick => "A whale fishing allegory about the idolization of man's desires and its limitations."
If one reads the U.S. Declaration of Independence, published in 1776 (the same year as Volume 1 of D&F), it's written in the same Latinate periodic style. That's just how they wrote in the 18th century. Dinging Gibbon for failing to stand outside his historical period is not really fair.

Or try the Federalist Papers, or anything written by the U.S. founding fathers. Same style. Even better, try Fielding's "Tom Jones." Prose as masterly as Gibbon's, but you'll laugh yourself silly at the ribald and bawdy humor, not equaled again until the 20th century. Gotta love the English Enlightenment.
You are right. The problem is far more complex.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10229785
Well, I remember when Library of Congress and encyclopedias were used as units of measure. I would guess Netflix is the new stack of media.
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> In 2010, the French drug firm Sanofi Pasteur in Lyon ceased production of Fav-Afrique, an antibody serum that reduces the quantity of venom circulating in the blood of a snakebite victim.

Here's the stated reason; http://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2015/09/07/doct... :

A spokesman for Sanofi Pasteur said the pharmaceuticals company was driven out of the market by competitors selling cheaper products, and it announced in 2010 it would stop making anti-venom. Those cheaper drugs are often seen as less effective.

"It's very strange that the relevant stakeholders are only realizing this problem five years later," said Alain Bernal, a Sanofi Pasteur spokesman. He said the company has offered to transfer the anti-venom technology to others.

...

WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl said the agency has a staffer working on the snakebite problem but donors have largely been uninterested. He said lack of snakebite treatment was also due to doctors deciding not to use anti-venoms because they were made from the wrong snake.
If $70 million isn't a "big new revenue source" then what is? Have there been recent tax changes in any other states that have surpassed this?
I just wanted to make explicit that "changing the system" is difficult, and there are many facets to the problem (and that I recognized that truth).

I discuss these issues somewhat regularly with some colleagues, so I feel like I have solutions that work for me (maybe I'll make a blog post sometime, but I am worried I'll just add to the noise).
> Charters are just vouchers in disguise

That depends; there are lots of different kinds of charters. Charters are public schools that have some exceptions -- enshrined in a particular charter, hence the name -- to the generally-applicable rules for public schools in the jurisdiction. These can be exception in terms of administrative process, specialty curriculum, alternate non-geographic admission criteria, etc.

They can also be exceptions in that the whole operation of the school is contracted out to a private entity, making it essentially a private school where tuition is entirely publicly paid for a cherry-picked student population with less accountability to the public than is usually the case with public schools. But that's not always the case.
Recent discussion of the beta: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10192738
I haven't read the paper, nor am I an expert, but the assumption (i) sounds fishy "the decision of which measurement is performed on a quantum system can be made independently of the system". By fishy, I mean obviously false. Which means being incompatible with this assumption is OK. I'm probably missing something...
We are using the EngageNY curriculum. I am teaching 6th grade in Baltimore.
The great cafe short story, "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" by Hemingway.
http://www.mrbauld.com/hemclean.html
> I'm white. I was once 14.

When was this? I also was once 14, and I look like my name should be Ahmed Mohammed. I too also brought in crazy stuff to school. I was never considered a threat.

Ofc this was 1994, and that was well before mass school shootings, and 9/11 (however it was during the height of gang violence and so any perceived gang affiliation was dealt with in similar manner).
My wife went to a private boarding school in New York that was paid entirely by scholarship money.
You would think all the efforts towards social outreach would focus on poverty as their #1 criteria

This is a really, really, really terrible criteria to use. It is one with a proven track record of actively encouraging people to be failures in order to qualify for assistance and it becomes a trap they don't know how to escape. It is much, much, much more effective to define need or merit on some basis other than poverty. It is much better for society to say children, handicapped individuals, new parents, people recently fired...etc... deserve or need assistance and not "poor people."
Different state and so different courts / justices, but seems very relevant to the previously big story here about buying out structured settlements for lump sums: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10120489
That sounds like a good idea, might have to give it a go. Thanks!
I don't think it was even that. From the pics, it looks like he liberated a commercial clock from its housing and put it in a different case. Unless it had battery backup, he may have soldered in a 9V battery connector, but since it still has a power cord I kind of doubt it.
Video games are one of the best investments during bad times as well.
My, how gracious of you.
All of them "failed" for legal reasons, not because there weren't making enough money, with enough funding legal reasons also vanish..
When I was ten, 1971, I asked my father for a chemistry set for Christmas. My parents were divorced so when vacation was over, I had to return to living with my mother. This involved a short plane ride from SoCal to NorCal on PSA. I was traveling by myself.

I recall putting my bags on a table so they the airlines people could look at what I was taking on the plane. When the FLIGHT ATTENDANT looked at my chemistry set, she turned to another official and said: "He could make a bomb out of these chemicals", My first reaction was to laugh.

I waited a minute while the adults thought it over and said: "I'm 10, I don't know how to make a bomb or anything. I jusy got this for christmas!"

They taped it up and made me check it, so I could not carry it on to the plane. To this day I marvel at the idea that a child would be suspected of making a chemical bomb.
This is really great. I like that it remembers read stories, even across sessions.
Have a listen to this as well!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kfqm6
Making while brown, really? That's the best explosive phrase they could come up with?

Maybe it was stereotyping of one kind of another or maybe not. When Asians or whites are arrested under questionable judgement is it also appropriate to say making while while or Asian?

Dammit, there is an injustice here, but going inflammatory is not helpful. Who does the editing for tv? Are the awol?