skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps we can all pitch in on an airplane ticket to someplace he can get a tour of a facility where people like him are valued and rewarded. SpaceX? Mountain View? Cape Canaveral?

Also, if/when he considers higher education I'm sure there are plenty of alumni who could consider opening doors for him.
You know layoffs are coming up when your boss starts announcing things like dress codes in R&D due to "customer complaints". Severance packages are way more expensive than people leaving on their own.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-pFCXEqB7A
They'd be stupid to confuse him for someone dangerous. He's benign.
You've obviously never had to build a system that tracks bonds when their original currency no longer exists. ;)
"How To Make Friends And Influence People".

AKA Everything You Need To Know To Manipulate People.
Serious question: Why is (bond) interest not adjusted for inflation (or deflation for that matter)? Very long timespans such as these really devalue any interest payments, do they not?
I see no chance in the world that a bleeding company busy laying off and restructuring will sue a laid off worker because he's trying to make 50-100K a year. Why would they pay more expensive lawyers to do that?

If the lay him off, it really meams they don't want that kind of business anyway. Companies are driven by business people, not lawyers.
Related:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/cipherbase/

http://www.cs.hku.hk/research/techreps/document/TR-2014-03.p...
Extending the deadline for add-on signing
Well, works at very low level stuff, do real virtualization, instead emulating. The most similar stuff is using VirtualBox or KVM.
It seems like just yesterday politicians were banning video games. Now gamers found a way to play video games to help charity. Its pretty cool
@mattkevan could you provide a citation for this? A quick search nets Arthur C. Clarke's three laws, with the third reading:

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - 1973, Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws
Sure. And someone's got to take the XMPP package and put it on the different platforms, test them all for correctness, etc. I'm not saying there aren't existing parts that can be used. But even if you have a plausible component, someone's got to look at the docs, maybe build a toy version, think about whether you're hitting the limits, integrate with the rest of the codebase, and so on.

It's easy to see what pieces you need. But there's still work in glueing them together and testing the result.

I think 50 is a sensible number of in-house engineers for this sort of thing. You want cover as well in case someone leaves or gets ill. You want people to be able to upgrade the system when things change. You want people to look ahead at future requirements. And you want to be able to do these things all at once, with slack built in for peak load.
I think thats a very cynical view point which reduces to a platitude an extremely complex issue especially when your evidence primarily appears to concern a smattering of cases among a system which serves millions of children a year.

Technology is very esoteric and almost brand new in a sense. It's been as little as two decades since the advent of schools even having computers.

The fact there are misunderstandings, growing pains, and abuse associated with the system that results should be a foregone conclusion.

The answer isn't to give up on the school system or assume bad intentions by administrators, curriculum developers, or legislators. The only thing that can come of that is an even more broken school system.
That's really not so weird. In taste decisions (order a drink for me, decide what movie we're going to watch) I'm often glad to get outside my own head and try whatever you're into. In practical but short term or roughly equivalent consumer matters (which hotel are we booking, which rental car) I'm often happy not to have had to expend any executive function in choosing.
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They are not entities as such. If we granulated things such that everyone was self employed, some people would forgo self given benefits and some people would take all their self given benefits. Of course in this case people would be making that decision themselves, rather than a company.
Would you still consider it "overblown" if he had run, say... a bitcoin miner on all those machines?

Sure, he didn't make profit from the seti@home instances, but he did it without approval, did ultimately cost the district money, and likely caused other issues along the way (like additional wear-n-tear on the machines)
Trusts are sort of like this. I think the key is you have to have signed away the money irrevocably to the legal entity of the trust, so it's totally out of your control when you die and thus not taxed with your estate.
I'm not arguing TP3 couldn't produce x87 opcodes - I'm wondering if the author remembered to properly tell it to do so!
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I'm curious... when you travel do you pay extra for services you don't receive? For example, if you are going to stay in a hotel for five days, do you pay for seven?
As a scientist I'm interested in his results, but highly skeptical. Let's see someone else replicate them.
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Whilst I agree it's a pretty poor situation (and has been for years) it is often easier just to never touch a dirty IP for relaying, ask your hosting provide for clean IP.
I agree that asking a four year old to sign something outside the context of a fun game is stupid.

But I just wanted to make the point that four year old — or even a three year old — can totally understand the concept of signing something and a parent could even use it to enforce a future event (e.g., sign this bath time contract which means you must have a bath after dinner).
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Couldn't you just ask for repos with > 5-10 stars instead of maintaining a list of popular C projects?
It's really not that easy. Location and transportation logistics factor in greatly and are hard problems to solve for the disparate network of connections a system like that might create.
I'd think administrators would have a very different approach to disciplining a "bad office-supply purchasing" decision versus a well-thought out choice to use school equipment & electricity for non-work related causes.
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Any manager who believes they can staff a non-trivial project with fresh bootcamp grads instead of formally trained senior engineers deserves the seven kinds of Hell they are going to get.
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Hm, interesting. I hadn't though about it that way. So basically, he's the Greek equivalent of my Grandfather who walked to school up hill both ways in 6' of snow.
Why is there never any intelligent person with enough of a moral compass to intervene and tell these people to leave the kid alone?
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Presumably an English teacher has the communication skills to ask any one of the number of staff who were involved in the entire affair. You know, like the engineering teacher. Did he somehow go on vacation in between? And how about the police - they have nobody on staff who can tell the difference between a homemade clock and some sort of "unauthorized device"?

The accusations are justified. Your apologetics are misguided.
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Google vs China. (A few years ago)
Google vs EU (For a while now)
Google vs Russia (Now)

Where/which country will be next?
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we don't know wether the teacher made the bad call. (s)he could have updated the principal to ask if it's ok to demo electronics projects in a K-5, only to have the principal think it's a bomb.
let's trust everyone until they give a reason not to.
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People tend to assume that everyone else thinks like them. Because the arresting officer couldn't wouldn't build a clock for the enjoyment of learning (as opposed to some "broader purpose" like blowing up a building), then nobody else should either. Simple explanation, but likely true.
blackhat had some problems (when Helmsworth apes the "you son of a bitch!" scene from Manhunter I groaned in pain) but overall is, if only for the type of person that might browse this site, worth watching.
> If anyone is actually surprised by the administrations intelligence

Unfortunately this is not a lack of intelligence, which in fact it was, but instead it is a Christian right society that fears everything and anything.

The USA has become a country that is now scared of it's own shadow.

The problem started when someone with a Muslim sounding name brought something clicking to the school and naturally everyone though it was Muslim terrorist with a bomb.

Luckily it was not a bunch disenfranchised white youths, carrying hand guns, machine guns and grenades as they would have walked straight through the security check, because they had the correct skin color.

Here is a simple lesson for the people of the USA. Clocks don't kill guns kill.
Some are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation-indexed_bond

Back then, inflation was probably less of a problem for investors.
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Wow, this thread makes me ashamed to be nerd. It's all bashing the intelligence of administrators/educators while hypocritically trying to make the point that we shouldn't scorn groups of people. "Hey, kid, if a person can't tell a clock circuit from a bomb, it invalidates all their motives and education."
Let's not turn this into a private/public school thing
Not sure if there's a formal definition, but this page distinguishes between a scare and a hoax:

"Though city prosecutors eventually concluded there was no ill intent involved in the placing of the ads, the city continues to refer to the event as a "bomb hoax" rather than a "scare." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_bomb_scare
Oh my, I don't even want to think of the horrors I unleashed upon the various Apple ][, DOS, and Mac Classic systems in my public school. Nothing like malware--just really lucky I never bricked anything. On the other hand, I did learn some valuable lessons such as that LinuxPPC in the mid/late 90s was not appreciated as Mac OS 8 by my peers.
> Some banks (most notoriously almost all Sparkasse)

Coincidentally, I have a Sparkasse credit card without chip+pin. Regardless, there shouldn't be a choice for 2FA.
It didn't use to matter much. Consistent inflation is a rather new phenomenon that basically only appeared after WWII. There was for example almost no inflation in Britain between 1814 and 1914.

For the record, in case there still are Ron Paul fans/goldbugs out there: moderate inflation is generally considered a good thing by economists today and inflation is probably too low at the moment.
I appreciate that you are being careful about the possibility of a latent variable here. I don't have any data about poor-on-rich/rich-on-poor accusations and conviction rates, so I can't speak directly to that.

However, the general conviction rate for "high class" black men is higher than the rate for "low class" white men: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/07/18/chart-of-the... I can't see any reason why I shouldn't assume the same applies to interracial murders as well.

I do appreciate your point, and perhaps it is time for a civil rights movement among the poor, or among the white poor. I would support that. We should at least be getting the data.

But since we have this data about black people specifically, it seems fine to try to solve that problem from a race-based perspective. As other data rolls in that shows there are similar problems for the white poor, then I think we should try to solve that problem too.

Saying we shouldn't try to fix this problem because new data might come along that shows it part of a bigger problem is, to me, "great is the enemy of good" thinking.
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A similar project created by the National Library of Poland: https://github.com/Polona/malakh

Example: http://polona.pl/item/8214762/2/
I think a "living wage" is a somewhat ill defined, but also overly political concept for several reasons. One, what does it mean? Does it mean allowing you to get by at a minimum level, or, does that mean allowing you to have an upper lower class income?

Also if we mean it to allow upper lower class to lower middle class, then we could see consequences such as: people not caring about education and higher skills development (blue collar union job mentality) no big deal by yet could strand these people later. Second, it pushes lower skilled people out of the labor force. Why hire someone who barely went to highschool when you can get a liberal arts grad at that wage?
Wanna try it, can't zoom out on map, only in, wich makes it unusable (also can't zoom out with mousewheel)

http://puu.sh/kdmXo/47f8988ac6.png
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I posted this once regarding a related incident, but it's appropriate here too.

One day in college, a friend and I decided to pack a plastic bottle with dry ice and hot water. In our hung over state, we thought this would be fun to watch. I was in my apartment. It took all of five seconds to realize that I couldn't rip apart the bottle. So, if the force of this explosion was sufficient to do so, it was probably really fucking dangerous. I figured it was too late to take the cap off -- the bottle was already making weird sounds. So, I threw it in the bathroom tub, and shut the door. Two minutes went by, and I felt momentarily foolish. Almost as I thought "nothing is going to happen," it exploded. The force knocked my friend to the ground. Granted she was tiny, and it was partly from fear, but I felt the shock wave rattle my bones.

I lived in the more expensive apartment building on campus. No one even came to say, "what's going on." If they did, they would have seen the bent metal of the tub's faucet.

And, that was accidentally but very literally a bomb.
> Attach a specific dollar amount to a student. Allow that student to go to whichever school they want. End of story.

Allow it to go where there is little to no public over sight, no public school board or checks and balances, under performing scores, teachers paid $20,000 less with no pension, and CEOs making millions. Charter Schools are a part of the problem with American education. Sure some Charter Schools are good so are some Public School but as a whole Charter Schools are not for America's children but for the non-profit and for profit companies that run them.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS are the back bone of our educational system and democracy. Sending to school that take monetary advantage of our tax money with no over sight is wrong for everyone but the people who get the money.

Who is running America's Charter School: https://schoolfinance101.wordpress.com/2015/07/22/whos-actua...
I doubt they acted outside of there authority under the law. That does not mean the post 911 paranoia is reasonable, but the root problem is the Patriot Act style legislation. Administrators, Judges and Police have to fallow the law whether it makes sense or not there is just as big a chance the administrators get a lawsuit from over protective paranoid parents then the reverse.

The authors trying to shoehorn this story into identity politics is unfortunately predicable click bait at this point. It just detracts form the actual issue which is overboard paranoid legislation which makes these incidents more likely.
You should write Hollywood; it is their electronics profiling that has everyone but engineers thinking that every homemade clock is a bomb. Why? Because every homemade clock we ever see (we only see them on TV) IS a bomb!
Thanks for that. Would adding extra brackets (turning it into a tree structure) allow the CPU to use multiple ALUs to evaluate branches in parallel?

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Labor isn't the same as other commodities, and shouldn't be treated in the same fashion.

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.

Labor (unjustly, but not hugely so) is given to employers on credit from workers. You work a week (giving the commodity of labor away for free during that week because you have no choice in the matter) then get paid afterward.

The point of this push for labor rights is that laborers aren't being fairly compensated in a variety of dimensions for the work they've done.
Right now we're focusing more on users who already know their destination and not on users with an open destination like in your case.
But this sounds like a pretty awesome product.
Some are! TIPS (https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/products/prod_tips_glan...) are US government-issued inflation adjusted securities. You can also buy debt with coupons based off of other things (like LIBOR).

Generally speaking though, bonds are fixed income securities and are not explicitly inflation adjusted. The price you'd pay to buy a given bond fluctuates in part based on market expectations of future inflation.
Interesting post. That being said, point one isn't that important for most young healthy people. Point three is in the distant future: I'd rather have a dollar today than one forty years from now. Point four is not very important for highly paid engineers.

Point two may be the most interesting one: for a given individual, it may make the most sense to get high-quality French education and then go out and earn high-end American wages that are keyed to U.S. education costs.

In short, France may be facing an arbitrage problem. People who are sick, old, or receiving educations have high incentives to stay. People who are young, healthy, and have already received educations have incentives to go where they can earn more today.
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Does it work inside other vm such as Virtualbox or vmWare?
That sounds wonderful...but does that mean if you have three children in a row you get three years off work and get paid for it? If so, that seems like it could be difficult for companies to work around.
Raluca gave a job talk at Princeton a year or so ago and she said CryptDB has been adopted by Google, among others.
Thank you for sharing this.
Why not explain why it is called "Frequently Questioned Answers?" Yes it's cute, ten points for you, but is that the only reason?
I can personally guarantee to you from direct current experience that there is nothing particularly solved about running services for even 50 million users.

Go watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TneLO5TdW_M#
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I'm pretty sure you are in the minority — REPLs are provably immensely popular, for example (I've never heard anyone criticize their usefulness).

Sometimes I write code like you do. At other times I'm "feeling out" a solution and want the language to not fight my half-baked, messy (but syntactically valid!) program. At other times I'm writing a quick and dirty script I will use today and never after; it doesn't need to be pretty, only functional. But Go wants your code to always be fully realized and clean, which just doesn't mesh with reality.

We don't need "universal critiques". Everyone has a style, and a good, mainstream programming language needs to be receptive to those styles.
This attitude tends to stem from having been managed by non-engineers. Spend a year or two working for someone who interrupts you for updates every 15-30 minutes, and you get extremely protective of your focus. You also become aware that the cost of interruption is relatively high. Generally, developers don't want to be special snowflakes. We want to be allowed to actually get our work done in a reasonably time-efficient manner.

Perhaps that is not a desirable trait for someone working in a company.

Also, I submit that if your company is larger than a couple dozen people and there are many questions that cannot be answered by more than one person, then your company has significant compartmentalization problems.
Being handcuffed is the worst thing I have ever felt. It is inhumane and should not be practiced in a civilized society. The fact that a 14 year old child with that look on his face felt it makes my blood boil.
What they're hoping for is "zero liability"
Some very nice work with the mapping visualization although I am not too sure how to use the tool. Perhaps an intro or walk through might help?
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His father ran for President of Sudan, and came in fourth.
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To be fair, though, I'm sure this incident will be a TV episode within 2 years.
Thanks for your comment. Never happened to me. Yes, I think that might be the case. Could you send me the URL you tried, so I can put away those videos without audio track?
How would you do that?
Quick and inaccurate estimate:

Let's say 100W per computer running at full blast, and assume 12 cents per kWh for electricity. Running for 9 years straight, that's about 5 million dollars. If they're running for 16 hours/day then it's more like 3 million dollars. Adjust other factors to taste, but "millions" sounds pretty reasonable.
Depending on where it is, it is possible the shoreline doesn't even exist anymore. Land reclamation is great at stuff at like that.
> electricity for non-work related causes

I wish we could fire teachers for using their computers for Facebook and Amazon shopping during the day.
I think you need to find someone who has a decent vinyl collection with a nice listening setup and go visit them for an evening, have a few glasses of wine or a beer and listen, handle and chill with the records...then you might understand.

If you still don't get it then you probably also don't get why people run vintage/classic cars (why bother when - to paraphrase - you can get the same things as running a modern compact saloon as well - both get you from A to B, the modern compact probably more reliably so) or operate steam engines or collect stamps.

In my home office I have a fully working refurbished GPO model 746 rotary dial telephone [0][1], I use it all the time if I'm sitting at my desk. Sure I have a DECT and VOIP handsets that do many more and very clever things but I enjoy using that old phone. I like "dialing" numbers on the rotary dialer, I like the sound of its ring, I like the clunk as I replace the handset, I like the faint click it makes when you lift the handset. It's also ergonomically better than most modern phones because the handset part fits better around my neck and chin so I can talk away and have both hands on my keyboard.

I'm mostly a functionalist (to quote coldtea) but there are little things in life I enjoy for their aesthetic (as I perceive it) and nostalgic pleasures, in particular electronics and audio kit from the 70's (I was born in the late 60's :) )

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPO_telephones#Type_746

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPO_telephones#/media/File:GPO...
A real engineer probably will not say "on behalf of all engineers", nobody in this case is 100% innocent, plus don't jump into conclusion too fast at this internet age until you do know the stories from both sides fully.
Hi Ismail, it does take a while get activated, sometimes upto 30mins its not ideal it's something we are fixing.

Thank you for the feedback.
It's also a dopey to think the student in this particular case is not getting an education.
Thanks man. Something went wrong in the last update.
We're on it.