skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least for your craigslist example, the fear is not unfounded. [0] That one example happened just last month in my town. The weapon in that case need not be a gun, a knife or baseball bat wielding friend hiding in the bushes would work well too. Perhaps better than Starbucks would be the police department parking lot. That is actually a preferred place for private gun sales - if the buyer is uneasy about conducting the sale at a police station, they are probably a person prohibited from owning a firearm. Our town has added a designated "craigslist zone" at a local fire department precisely to help deter robberies. [1]

So, in the craigslist example, many American people are afraid because there is overwhelming evidence that craigslist robberies A) really do happen with some significant frequency and B) meeting at a public place is a simple, low-effort way of mitigating that risk. I can understand people living in lower crime areas not worrying about craigslist robberies (though I would take the precautions anywhere because it is so simple).

However, in general, I would agree with you that Americans eat up FUD. You can see it in our DHS/TSA, the Patriot Act, collective disinterest in the Snowden leaks, and general anti-Muslim sentiments.

[0]: http://wlfi.com/2015/08/18/man-robbed-at-gunpoint-while-meet...

[1]: http://wlfi.com/2015/08/18/lafayette-adds-monitored-exchange...
is it facebook's mission statement to provide foreign intelligence to US agencies?
> The EU has a default assumption of "you have to prove that this will not be harmful before you can do it"

This is bad for big business, good for citizens. As a citizen I hope it stays this way. Regulation is our friend and it's the reason so many in the EU are against TTIP.

A race to the bottom of common regulation on either side of the Atlantic is something that will only be harmful to the average EU populace.

Suddenly we'd have growth hormone in our meat and shit like this;

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/22/eu-droppe...
"zero culpability"
odofdopif
Having a healthy 1-hour+ lunch is one of the things that French do very, very right. Esp. as they tend to eat in small places with home cooking. I wish we all did this.
Completely agree. It's unfortunate how many Americans don't realize how poorly they're treated as employees. I don't think it even becomes obvious until you've traveled globally and had children.
Medium is pretty cool, I've actually intentionally visited a few times just to check it some stories on their front page.

Still, there's far too much noise in a platform that hosts so much published content. Of course, I could "follow" a group's collected writings, but it just isn't the same as reading from a publisher's actual, custom-branded, web presence.

I mean, take Rock Paper Shotgun (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/). For those who don't know, they're an online news blog covering games with a special balance between the mainstream and the indie and a certain taste that I can't quite put my finger on.

Medium is an awful, awful fit for these guys. It just doesn't have the right style to fit their needs.

And he did go on to mention that there will be other platforms, naturally, but how many? How many will it take to satisfy the wild originality of the collective internet?

But whatever. Unfortunately an easy tactic for a startup to gain publicity is for their CEO to say something mildly controversial. Not something smart per-say, just controversial.
But not sufficiently unhappy to do anything about it.
It will take one hundred years or another world war to clear out all the crap that France makes businesses and individuals go through to live there and make a living. Hollande's Socialists, while well meaning, are fairly incompetent compared to past governments, and they are the last group on earth capable of shrinking the French state and making the laws simpler. I lived in France for 14 years, through Chirac, Sarkozy and part of Hollande. They all say the same thing, but France is in a vicious circle: unable to drive private sector growth, they have to employ large numbers of people in the public sector, which continuously adds to the burden of laws and regulations and complexity that the private sector faces, slowing growth more. I'm sure that Macron is busy coming up with a new, improved law that adds to the size and complexity of the legal code in order to bring back tech talent. Good luck.
Something is wrong with your math. $227.52/year is $0.62/day

Also, bear in mind that PSUs do not use their full rating unless the hardware they are powering requires it. [0] Your number could easily be double what the machines actually used, if the PSU was somewhat oversized, as they typically are.

[0]: https://superuser.com/questions/106792/does-a-power-supply-d...
From Assumptions to the Truth (startups)
There is a better quality version of the video for those interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQZGppeO1lY
I'm curious about what your argument is, since "think about having children though" and stating an opposite position doesn't lead anywhere.
Part of the reason Yale holds this artifact is due to Prof. Geert Rouwenhorst, who researched Dutch financial instruments. If I recall correctly, he actually collected a few decades of interest on behalf of Yale during the purchase of the bond back in 2003, and even had an ancient ledger updated to reflect the payout.

I still consider the more 'recent' 19th century bonds he passed around in class to be the coolest show-and-tell item ever from a professor.
Authorea: Import from ArXiv, Sharelatex, Overleaf by URL
Here's part of what I don't get - there are so many government organizations, state and federal, jumping over themselves to provide funding, incubation and support to IT product/app companies across the country claiming it creates jobs when, as this shows, it is entirely possible to operate at incredible scale nowadays with a mere skeleton staff. So why do so many government-run and government-funded programs fawn over such companies when their ultimate goal is job creation and these companies are designed to run with barely a couple dozen people at most?

This has nothing to do with private VC's; I completely understand why they are in the game. I'm talking about government programs or government-funded NGO programs that provide tax incentives and other funding or support to startups in the product/app space hoping it will create jobs. Maybe this isn't every state, but where I live this is the case.
Of course, people would rather that part of his heritage weren't brought up, leaving us with Michael Fassbender portraying him on the big screen.
If it's Electron & Node, why is it OS X specific?
Maybe he's being downvoted because the so-called facts he's basing his suspicion on can be easily disproven, as demonstrated by the other replies?

I don't get how this can possibly be about left vs right. Common sense hopefully doesn't depend on which side of the political spectrum you fall into.
I thoroughly agree with your statement. However, it seems that there's a lot of managers who are okay with mediocrity if it increases the bottom line.
> For instance, you don't go to the store, take a can of WD-40 home, use it, then go back to the store to pay for the can.

That's true, but may have more to do with an unwillingness to track a squillion IOUs for individual cans of WD-40 than a sign of a fundamental difference. Were you a company buying a pallet of the stuff, things would be different.

(That said, if I pay by credit card it'll be at least a month before the card issuer thinks about charging me interest, so things aren't so very different as an individual, either...)
Do you mean the duration is infinite in the bond-market sense of the word (i.e. sensitivity of cash flows to interest rates)? In that case, a perpetuity still has finite duration.

The maturity, of course, is infinite.
Next time he should build a cuckoo clock that shouts Allahu Akbar.
Wait, people start at the top left for 8? I start at the top right. I also write "e" by first writing the "c" and then filling it in, so it's very conceivable that I'm the outlier. I blame wanting to finish those dang writing practice sheets in 2nd or 3rd grade as quickly as possible.
> It could reasonably be mistaken as a device

Oh no. A device!?
Announcing PyCharm Edu 2: Simple is better than complex
I wasn't allowed to do my high school science scholars project on electromagnetic propulsion because it was around the time of Columbine: "You could potentially make a gun out of it".
this is fucked up beyond belief.
Just depends where you work. I work 2-3 days a week and get paid for 5. This is in America. Hacker news is such an echo chamber for American hate.
Cool idea, but the UX is very unintuitive. For example, when trying to search for a hotel in LA, every time I zoom (the mousewheel doesn't work?) it begins searching. Slowly. When it finally updates (I have clicked zoom several times by now), it zooms out again to the first zoom level. This really needs to be fixed so that it behaves more like Google Maps' search, where I can continue to zoom in until I have reached my intended geographical area, and then the search could finalize. It's fine if it searches as I zoom, but it's not fine if it refreshes the map. It's almost unusable unless you uncheck the box to disable searching when the map is moved.

My thoughts about the landing page - It's pretty, but again, the UX is bad. While the screen is loading, I see the slogan drop in (pieces at a time), a second tagline drop in, and then a how it works button. By the time the search has dropped in (this is really your call to action, right? You want people to begin searching, and see it right away), I have already scrolled passed it down the page looking for the search. When I come back up and finally see "Oh, there it is", I've wasted a ton of time looking for it. I recommend that you make this static. The slogan can drop in if you'd like, but this needs to have a permanent place on the landing page.

Upon searching, it took as long as it did to write this paragraph to find any hotels. It returned 11 results, and I'm searching near USC in Los Angeles. Zoomed in a bit further to only encompass 2 hotels, and it took roughly 11 seconds to find them. Anything you can do to speed this up?

It's a neat concept, just hoping to give some constructive criticism.
Have him take a look through the current openings at MTS.com in Eden Prairie, we hire FSEs and related skillsets.
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Every member of society[0] (including corporations) actions within the social contracts of that society. Society provides corporations certain affordances, in return corporations contribute to society (by paying taxes, reasonable wages and so on). Corporations don't have any god-given rights of their own, they merely have the privileges granted to them by society (via laws and regulations).

I realise HN is a weird place to argue this, but corporations don't exist in a vacuum. They can't exist in a vacuum. Without a state guaranteeing its rights and the means to enforce those rights, a corporation is just a group of individuals. This is not only true for corporations. You don't have any rights other than those afforded to you by society (whether on a local level like the US or a global level like the UN). If there's no-one who's going to enforce your rights, they become purely philosophical (cf. Guantanomo -- unless you believe the UN is going to take on the US government and bail you out of there).

The social contract is primarily between an individual and society at a local level. Thanks to globalization it now extends to other societies across the globe, but the responsibilities of a local corporation to residents of a country on the other side of the globe they don't already have any business relationships with is only secondary at best.

That said, you're kidding yourself if you are trying to argue that increasing profit (or cutting costs, which boils down to the same effect) by outsourcing to cheaper markets could even remotely be considered something ethically positive.

[0] I'm using the terms "society" and "state" or "government" interchangeably here based on the democratic principle that a state derives its legitimation from the people, i.e. the society it governs.
We're trying to promote stem in the U.S., not say, "middle school is too early"

Anecdotally; I was wiring together simple switches, electric motors, and solar panels in and out of the classroom in elementary school in the mid 90s. I was programming timers and games in middle school by the late 90s.
When I first read the HN title, I thought it was that HP was going to cut somewhere between 25 and 30,000 jobs.
This is misleading.

Many many countries are worse ...

And the level of bureaucracy is not the same everywhere in France. Education is a very conservative administration. Universities even more so, because they don't have much money (it's very different than in the US), so they stick to the process (with paper) they have.

In the private sector, this is quite different. Also many company-focused administrations (URSAAF, CIPAV) provides web site/app where you can manage your file. It is not perfect, but it's getting better every year. I think my accountant is doing 80% of her job digitally.
I think the liquids ban is dumb, but given that it exists, throwing confiscated liquids into a bin is completely reasonable.

It's one of those weird game theory things. Your goal is to prevent dangerous liquids from being brought onto planes, but you can't reasonably tell them apart from other liquids, so you ban all liquids. Because it's banned, you can be reasonably sure that nobody is going to try to bring dangerous liquids through security in the first place. (Not because people always obey bans, but just because they know it'll be confiscated.) So you can be confident that all the confiscated liquids are not dangerous, and it's safe to just throw them in a bin. Yet you still need to confiscate them if you want to keep people from bringing the dangerous materials through.

If someone wants to blow up a security line, there are much better ways to do it than allowing their liquid explosive to be confiscated, so you can be pretty confident that nobody is going to attack the system that way either.
It's all about showing everyone who's boss.
> 350 watt psu,

PSU's arent light bulbs. A "350 watt" psu doens't draw 350 watts. That's the theoretical maximum you can draw from it. Sure, SETI was probably drawing a higher load than idle, vs off, but I highly doubt it was drawing 100%.

Even more complicated is the heat. If they lived in a cool climate, at least some of the waste heat that was emitted would have been absorbed by the building, which they are (presumably) paying to heat at least a few months of the year.

Edit: also if it was a public school, wouldn't they be off for about 3 months over summer ?
Can anyone explain how you can immediately attribute any of this to outright racism and his brown skin, when the staff and students are predominantly non-white in that school.

School body is 86% non-white:

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/texas/dist...

And in the entire disctrict, whites are 12%, and "browns" are 70%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Independent_School_Dist...
> It's likely that funding gets allocated in stupid ways

That's exactly what it is.

When I was in high school we got a shipping pallet of new $100+ calculus textbooks that sat unused because they were the same as the old calculus textbooks but with material cut out because the curriculum had been dumbed down.

Thank god our teacher saw them as the worthless turds that they were and continued teaching us prohibited advanced material like gasp integration from the old books.

Meanwhile our CS teacher was actually a history teacher who stayed a chapter or two ahead of us in the book because who in their right minds would become a teacher making $50k if they actually knew how to write software?
God! You are ignorant! Saudi Arabia and Quatar have been financing the war in Syria by sending arms and recruiting mindless criminals around the world to fight the "bad" Assad. 18.000 Syrian childen in Turkish camps are missing because their organs were harvested and sold to "customers". And, of course, their supportive partners (US and Israel) have been helping out a lot. But i guess it's Turkey/Saudi Arabia/Quatar and not their "God bless their souls" poor Americans and their European dogs massacring the world.
Putin saved Syria one too many times:->
What if Americans Had Known in 2013 that U.S. rejected Syria Deal in 2012? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42867.htm
You American/British/and other of the North are just killing logic. Really.
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Unless I'm missing something, there's no actual data about per capita crime or criminality rates by country of origin or even immigration status in that article. That's the data that would actually be useful.
The Pixel Factory: WebGL, GPUs and Math(Box)
The case in Boston a while back involved a white victim. Granted, that was TSA, not the school, but it seems like a pretty similar group of idiots.

https://boingboing.net/2007/09/21/mit-student-arrested.html
Some true stories go viral because they "confirm" what a lot of people think is wrong with society.

Because they go viral, there is a lot of talk about them, which "confirms" even further that this is a Big Problem, and that it is caused by What I've Been Saying All Along.

In reality this is one single idiotic decision by some local knuckleheads. As a social science study, it has a sample size of 1 and a huge selection bias. The problems you think it "shows" may well be real, but retelling this anecdote does not prove that.
In Arabic, "fass" means fart. That's right, he's a Fart-bender, which I suppose is a type of airbender.
I've been a French expat in London for 5 years and I used to think like you.
Having recently reconnected with Paris' tech scene though, things have changed a lot wrt to failure and things like that.

And the difficulty of finding an engineer willing to be paid in equity only, in a market where they can get both equity AND a good salary, is nothing special to France believe me.
Kardashian Unseats Facebook (the #s behind their apps)
Given the cultural sadness of the Kardashian / Jenner apps taking over Facebook as the #1 app in the App Store yesterday, i thought you might appreciate seeing the download numbers behind the nonsense:

Kylie = 116,590
Khloe = 79,309
Kim = 68,579
Kendall = 40,624

Note: these were their worldwide download #s in the iOS App Store from yesterday alone.

Source = http://apptopia.com
Funny. I had to translate french document to get something from an american bank. Rigidity goes both ways.
LocationKit iOS 2.2.5 released
I'm not quite sure but I think the bond is for repairs to a 32km long dike. E.g. (in Dutch) http://shhv.info/projectgroep-harmelen/geschiedenis/gedenkst...

"Aan de noordzijde van de Lek was een dijk aangebracht van ruim 32 km lang en hij liep vanaf Amerongen (aan de rand van de Utrechtse heuvelrug) naar het Klaphek bij Vreeswijk, de Lekdijk Bovendams genaamd."
> Sorry Mom, no cancer treatments for you until everyone in Africa has an iPhone.

Huh? That is a response to me?

What I am talking about is --> Hey, we treated your cancer so now you can go back to your .50 an hour job.
Amgen to buy Dezima Pharma for $1.5B
Here is an European unicorn. Dezima was founded in 2012.
Okay, somewhere near the top at least.
Isn't the fact that they've actually done it with so few people fairly concrete evidence that it's not incredibly complex?
How your smartphone betrays you all day long [2014]
Opening Up the World of Robotics: 'The Internet of Toys'
> Is the GFW using dedicated machines behind their thousands of probing IP addresses? Does the GFW even "own" all these IP addresses? Rumour had it that the GFW was hijacking IP addresses for a short period of time, but there was no conclusive proof

There should be more research about this. Does GFW have the capability to spoof any IP address for a TCP connection?
Ummmm No... Sorry, you are confused.
Why on Earth was this down voted?
I'm a French expat in London so I know what you're saying, but look at my post above and consider what comes with the salary in France... you're not comparing apples to apples here.
Between the natural grumpiness of french complaining about their country and the casual french bashing, it is hard to get some quality comments here.
Crowd-Sourced Zoology
> a mutation in a gene called p53

The gene is called TP53 and p53 is the protein it produces: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P53
The answer to mass hysteria and public scares and paranoia is combating this atmosphere not embracing it or coming to terms with it.
Bigotry, maybe. There's a chance (which I'd estimate at smaller than 1%) that there was no racial motivation here.

But I don't see how you can say there's no grounds to make accusations of ignorance and cowardice. Being unaware of what a bomb looks like is clearly ignorance, and being so terrified that you get an innocent kid arrested for it is clearly cowardice.
Ignoring the gag order would see you thrown in prison. Yes, obviously, a suit to get that law thrown out doesn't take priority over a murder trial, but that doesn't mean it should have the same priority as someone griping about their neighbor's fence color causing them emotional distress, either.

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...
Automated application analysis gets better at stopping potential vulnerabilities
Dad and Daughter Dance Easy Love from Sigala
What if he were a communist instead?
Also mobile. ARM processors have less-sophisticated branch prediction, and on the lower end, no branch prediction at all!
I think you're not appreciating that most people don't know anything about electronics. So a bunch of wires and LEDs does in fact look very scary from their perspective, and you know.. better be safe than sorry.

Would it have been better if the school staff were all familiar with electronics projects? Sure.. but that's not the reality we live in
That's pretty bad. Reminds me of Amazon's payment schemes for authors. Month ends, your pay is marked off-- and the check is in your bank account long, long after, allowing them to have more liquidity at your expense.
Sorry, type-o, math is still correct though. Meant it to say "per month" not "per day".
> in general people do not pursue goals aggressively and methodically.

On the other hand, people may want to believe that they do this.
Public schools also do plenty of dumb things. It's not as though charter schools have a lock on this.

A lot of people want "vouchers" so that private schools are more affordable. And plenty of private schools have a good track record, while having similar per-pupil costs as public schools.

If it costs $1000/student/month irrespective of if a child goes to a public school or a private school, why does the state really care which one the child attends? Why not let parents choose the school?
Vouchers. Socialistic Denmark use them. It would only cost me slightly more than 200 usd/month to send my (non-existing) kid to a private school. Scaled to US cost it would be something like 50 usd/month more.

Sure those are not the super fancy private schools, but they will always be out of reach of anything but the very rich.
Well, I wouldn't know for sure, but I haven't seen it differently yet (yes, I know, anecdotal). I don't think it is generally taught that way elsewhere. But the main intention of my post is to find out, so your data point is welcome. :)

There are some corpora of handwritten digits (for OCR training) lying around the net, I guess I should check those to be sure.