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Hmm, I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand everyone goes crazy because of the arrest/suspension claiming racism and unfair treatment.

Now Zuck and even the President invite him to visit for the same reasons (because he is a muslim who created a clock and brought it to school) and everyone is excited about this.

In my opinion both acts are seemingly being done for the wrong reasons. It's sad really, because now the boy will never know if he is being invited out because he created a cool clock, or because helping minorities is good PR. It's also disappointing because of all the other kids out there who are working hard on making things that will never get attention because they are not being discriminated against.
I'm pretty sure looking up to anybody in management roles at Facebook is a sign of advanced mental illness.
This is the first time I'm seeing IPFS. So when the IPFS servers are running, they register themselves with some central node to let everyone know they exist/are online? This is how they get away without a static IP address? Am I thinking about this correctly?
The sample size and selection of this survey of you and an internet celebrity renders it scientifically useless.
Hi, I'm very happy to talk some more about this. My email is jslandy@gmail.com (will delete this post after you email).
To lay the ground work for what's going on here....

In the US you can be an ATS(Alternative Trading System) or a full blown exchange. All dark pools are ATS's. This gives you a bit more leeway in terms of what you are allowed to do, ie hide orders, trade only at midpoint, trade only at certain volume's etc, even report trades in a slower fashion.

A full blown exchange has alot more scrutiny but comes with one huge caveat, all other exchanges must route orders to you if you have the NBBO(National Best Bid or Offer) as dictated by the SEC's REG NMS 611.

This means if an order to sell comes to the NYSE for 5.00 and takes out the entire first level forcing the NYSE to have a bid of 4.99 and there is still more volume in the order, the NYSE has to send the order to another exchange still showing $5.00 as its bid.

Since the exchanges make money when each share is traded they don't really like to do this( as a side note, this is how flash orders came about, exchanges "flashed the order to a select few market makers for 50 milliseconds before sending it to another exchange giving the market makers a chance to fill it, and keeping the commissions at the exchange, people got pissing about it and it no longer happens).

If IEX transitions from being a dark pool to an exchange this requirement to use their quote as part of the NBBO might mean more liquidity, and hence more profit, for them.

The issue with this is that IEX is the first proposed exchange, atleast to my knowledge, that has an intentional built in delay, meaning that its quotes are by design slow and stale as compared to the other US exchanges.

They are arguing to the SEC that since the NBBO is determined by the SIP(the system that aggregates all other exchanges quotes to determine what the NBBO is), which itself is slow, that this doesn't really matter much.

On the other side of the debate is a literal whose who of the finance world, not just HFT's, arguing the slipper slope defense, ala well if they delay 350 microseconds, what's to stop someone from having a 2 second delay or 1 day delay in showing quote.

I don't really have a dog in this fight but most people I know believe that IEX is going to lose this fight, though there is a loud contingent at the SEC itself that wants IEX to win to act as a test case for what the SEC can do to shape the market microsructure of the US cash equity markets.

As to becoming a place to list your company, I think Levin is right here... no one cares at all what exchange the company is listed on, even the company itself.

EDIT replaced ECN with ATS above
Oddly enough, I feel the opposite. I can't find a smartphone with decent build quality anymore. The iPhone 5s was the last phone where I thought it both looked and felt good, but it's still so damn fragile. The Lumia 920 was the last device where I felt it was strong enough to withstand a normal level of use without treating it like an expensive hunk of glass and metal.

Big screen, I can understand. But build quality... for $700 you can do a lot better in an expensive feature phone than a cheap iPhone.
The pictures I've seen look like the guts of a cheap digital alarm clock. I'm a little disappointed; from initial reports, I was hoping it was something he'd actually cobbled together using discrete logic or a microcontroller. :)
Nah, it's just Irving that's a shithole. Most of the cities around it are fine, including Dallas proper.

Last year, an article about the least LGBT-friendly places in the US was published [0]. Irving landed at #2. That same article mentioned that Dallas proper was one of the most LGBT-friendly places in the US. It's not much of a stretch to say that this applies not just to LGBT people but to all kinds of people that the crazy right-wing fundamentalists dislike, including smart people and Muslims. From my personal observation having lived in Dallas and Richardson all my life, I can vouch for this. It's widely acknowledged here that Dallas is a very progressive city and that Irving is a shithole.

Besides, most of our tech industry is concentrated in Richardson [1]. Between UTD, TI, and the Telecom Corridor, Richardson is a pretty damn good place to be if you're smart.

[0] http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/11/22/247-...

[1] Richardson is a suburb to the northeast of Dallas in the same way that Irving is a suburb to the northwest of Dallas, so it's a pretty apt comparison. Actually, Dallas is kind of shaped like Godzilla: on a map of city limits, Richardson and Irving look like they sit on Dallas's shoulders (though Irving is kinds leaning off the edge).
The comparison bewteen the total LOC across all of Google's products against just one of Microsoft's is a bit unfair.
Oh come on, you're extremely naive if you couldn't have predicted some type of negative reaction by bringing that project to school, in Texas.
Is that some kind of political organization?
The comment was a sarcastic joke and did not further the discussion. I like that HN is a community that tries to promote insightful comments and not jokes to the top of the comment page.
You diminish the value of your brand as a quality leader, but the saying the HP Pavillion affects the quality of the HP Elitebook is absurd.
If you have the public keys of all senders, one can easily white/black list the known known/non-spammers. All the undecided goes into just one folder.

Probably not be that hard to sort out.
Fair enough - there are several countries that have 25% (my country included) so I should have said >=
They're not inviting him because he's a muslim who made a clock. They're inviting him because he's a kid who was wronged, and the situation is representative of the rotten american education system.
So is looking up to anybody in management roles in the United States government. ;)
One precedes the other.
Then perhaps they shouldn't provide an option to view it as one page...?
POTUS's tweet has gotten more press than Zuck's from what I've seen. More people recognize Obama's name - I think that's all the GP meant.
My understanding is that the police put it in that case to take pictures.
OTR is great if all endpoints have the same software clients (e.g. client-side IM). Doesn't necessarily work so great if your clients are all "in the cloud" though.
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This depends upon which country the street is in.
When they outlaw clocks only outlaws will be on time.
It could be even more convenient, if it only charged for unauthorized contacts. Emails back and forth between friends/coworkers? No charge. Email newsletter you signed up for? One-time cost to them to send you the opt-in message. Random spammers? Never get authorized; have to pay every time.

It would also put a slight amount of friction in place for contacting people out-of-the-blue (when e.g. sending fan-mail to famous people)—but the fact that some stranger paid $0.05 to say something to you could also make you just fractionally more interested in what they have to say.

On the other hand, for accepting bug reports, help tickets, etc., there'd have to be some kind of email equivalent to an "800 number", that is free to initiate contact with. Either that, or a lot of behind-the-scenes pairing magic to get your email address into the directory service of all the products and services you use.
A good question is did the kid take apart an alarm clock and just rebuild it in another case or did he make a synthesis of many different parts? In that Brad Pitt movie about the Dalia Lama, the later had to take apart a clock to learn how it worked, I think the quote is "the best way to learn how something works is to take it apart." However, in this case the kid might have put together several different parts such as an LCD screen, the circuit from an alarm clock, and something that rings to act as the alarm. I don't think the point is that the kid is some type of genius but rather that he is doing it and not until today afraid to do it. That at 14 he started the process of learning so in 10 years at the age of 24 he can be at the top of a career in EE. It's not the skill level that is impressive it's the passion.
Very cool. It'll be interesting to watch as the debate gets underway.
That's funny, I would have thought the utter lack of anything explosive would differentiate it from a bomb. :)
Yes ideally they'd be able to be composited together at the depth buffer level. But even separate I can see a ton of devs making some very cool more UI-centric applications just with CSS mode. Can't wait to see the webdev community understand what can be done with VR and the webstack in 2016.
7 having a line through it is common in Europe and the UK, but totally unheard of in the USA.

Do you write Z with a line through it? My British family does.
Do you know of they will be required to show book depth/qty or just best bid/offer prices?
By the time the kid graduates high school, Zuck will still be running Facebook and Obama will be just another ex-president. ;-)
M2 is derived from M0, which is created by the central banks. The person was clearly under the impression that private banks were creating M0.
I've always thought that the biggest win of legalizing marijuana is simply that it keeps a lot of the low level thugs off of the street. You know, the run of the mill thugs who might or might not lace the marijuana with cocaine or something worse to keep users coming back?

If it is legal to get those thugs will have to shift to the harder stuff which pushes them more underground and off of the most common streets. This makes it safer for a lot of users who would use regardless of legality.
What's the Deal with Classroom Trigger Warnings?
I've seen an OCaml library, but I'm searching for solutions in other languages:

https://blogs.janestreet.com/introducing-incremental/

http://www.umut-acar.org/self-adjusting-computation
I'm not implying its a "conspiracy." It happened, but likely not in exactly the way it is being reported in the news.

From what I've seen, this looks like it was engineered for sensationalized media consumption. The photos, press conference, celebrity/politican PR releases etc. indicate to me that someone wanted this to blow up to make a point -- it didn't really happen organically in the way that the press is making you believe. If you are actually interested in how these stories end up making headlines, I would recommend reading "Trust Me, I'm Lying." It completely changed my perspective on our media and why it emphasizes the things that it does.
Idea channel once again poses an interesting idea. This time in the form of a discussion about trigger warnings and what is really being argued when we are talking about them.
I've had a hard time convincing many of fellow Coloradoans of how harmful alcohol is compared to marijuana. It's newly legal, so people fear it more irrationally.
Nor have they decried ten-foot-tall lizard men, but then there aren't any national stories about ten-foot-tall lizard men in Texas right now, are there? The President commented on this, fer chrissakes. I think a few remarks from Texas politicians are warranted.
Very interesting opinion IMO. The end discussion being the power dynamic between teacher-student-school is very interesting to me as a student. The real question however is if your trigger is trigger warning discussion, should a trigger warning be put on a trigger warning discussion :P
You're assuming people want to be contacted by people in their address list :D

For me there's an annoying aunt who periodically send the latest get-mad-at-this email.

Or, how many times do we receive a mass email from friends who use CC instead of BCC and then we're flooded by everyone's replies?

If you're in my address book, then you should be charged more!
Should we start a HN smokers club?
http://i.imgur.com/jGZ8RBU.jpg
"Dear Sir/Madam,

I believe this child, who was a complete stranger to me before any nationally publicized incident, would make a fantastic candidate to your programs at (school).

I have no knowledge of their abilities other than that he has an obvious interest in electronics, and that my PR group said that this would be a fantastic opportunity to remind the public at large just who I am, and the power I can exert.

Please accept this child; also I would request that you would be reminded of this recommendation should any world-changing positive developments come of it, and my part in those events.

If this child should be a dud, please dispose of this letter and any public recollection of it.

-Signed (all the people who wish to piggyback onto this terrible situation for the sake of publicity)"

Maybe some big powerful person should be talking to the people that caused this situation, rather than promising the world to the victim? Misunderstandings like this are going to keep happening until way after the worlds' elite run out of personal stock for their recommendation letters.
Less "can't" and more "won't". A lot of the most water-wasteful crops (like almonds) might as well be staple foods in your average rich-Californian diet.
http://www.wired.com/2012/05/3-d-printing-patent-law/

And if you think the pharmaceutical companies won't pursue legal action faster and with more power than a gaming company...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_printed_firearms#Effect_on_...

It's illegal to make any firearm that is undetectable by a metal detector, and lawmakers are still working to make 3D printing weapons illegal.
Those stories about his father are awesome. I'd like to be that guy.
Can anyone in India take a screenshot and show us how this transaction looks? taking pictures of drivers, but not showing how the interface looks is not super useful.
California and confusion?
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Put yourself in a 14-year old's shoes. If you had a passion for electronics and invention and were snubbed this badly for building something cool and taking it to school, how would you feel? I, for one would have been devastated. At best, I would have lost interest in school and developed deep mistrust of teachers. At worst, I would have developed an aversion to being a maker and started neglecting my grades. Mind you, 14 years is when people are hyper-aware of such things. If this had happened in college or in primary school, most of us would have weathered it.

Zuckerberg, Obama, Clinton, Dash, and others are overcorrecting for this in order to ensure that the kid doesn't get dejected and discouraged from being a maker.

There's already far too much ostracizing of nerds and geeks in school to add powerful adult actors like school principals and police into the mix. I don't see any room for 'mixed feelings' here.

We just have to hope that the kid comes out of this as happy or happier and as or more successful than he'd otherwise have been.
Assuming that a driver can opt into cash payments, it seems like a fair choice for a driver to make based on their own risk assessment.
Considering those get taxed on top of VAT and are even higher in my country (it's not a % tax but a fixed number per defined unit but it comes down to ~30% post VAT on tobacco products for eg.) and AFAIK US has no VAT (maybe I'm wrong ?) I wouldn't call 25% tax incredibly high.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7731022

(thanks for the new clickable site-history link; it makes resurfacing the duplicate posts much easier)

Also: (2014)
I've worked for a big insurance company, a medium sized company that went public, and a couple startups, and two school districts.

I made waaaaay more money working in industry and never worked anywhere near as hard or long as I do being a teacher.

Sure, lesson planning gets easier. And you can reuse old lesson plans (although, the standards get changed fairly regularly and in my district you need to use "data-driven metrics" to improve your lesson plans year after year, so if you're just reusing lesson plans you get put on the "bad teacher list" in a state with no unions which means no tenure).

Without the PdD, you don't cap out at that 6 digit number. But $93k isn't bad. That's about the entry level salary of a Software Enigneer, right? And you only need to be a teacher for 20 years to earn that. What a deal!

That's probably all a teacher deserves though. As a society we really need incentivise our best and brightest to use their skills to build new ways to share photos.

All I'm saying is that you get what you pay for. If you pay teachers $40k, then you're going to get $40k value.
> All dark pools are ECN's

This isn't quite true. Every dark pool is an ATS (alternative trading system). An ECN is a different kind of ATS that displays its quotes publically, unlike a dark pool. I don't think there are any ECNs left that have any kind of volume (since LavaFlow shut down in January).
> not every event requires a politician's commentary.

No, not every event. Just the ones that give the impression that there is an ongoing systemic abuse of the very rights and principles that America is founded on.

The fact that you brush this off as unimportant is exactly the problem here.
> Now Zuck and even the President invite him to visit for the same reasons (because he is a muslim who created a clock and brought it to school)

Wait....what? You think they're inviting him to visit because he's a Muslim student who made a clock? Do you really think he's the only Muslim student who's made a clock? I'm pretty sure it's because he was a student whose school reacted to his inventiveness by having him arrested (and of course because Obama/Zuckerberg heard about it). Even aside from the racism side of things, it's a fairly explicit symbol of the endemic squashing of children's creativity that makes the American school system such a (relative) disaster.
This is the same (il)logic people apply to rape victims.

"If you didn't want to get raped then you shouldn't have dressed that way."

How he was treated (and profiled based on his skin color and name) was wrong. To suggest anything otherwise is victim-blaming.
not just the education system, but the legal system as well.
This is ridiculously overblown. Glad to see people defending him and righting a wrong, but all of this is going to inflate his head.
I prefer to take the optimist view:

While you, I, or anyone else might debate the novelty or inventiveness of what the kid made, I'm sure he genuinely thought it was cool, and was excited about it.

Then, after asking if he could bring it in and show it off, he was wronged.

I want to believe they're inviting him because they don't want to stifle his spirit, and that not only is it good PR, it's also a message to kids who are interested in technology that they should absolutely pursue it, and to not get discouraged.
Accepting $20,000 for a cash stream worth $180,000 doesn't indicate much understanding of present value.
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... while being brown, and quite obviously a latent tenorist.
Affordable 3D printers won't be good enough to copy most consumer goods for a while yet. And 3D printed weapons are shit--they're basically useless except for sticking it to the Man. That means that 3D printers have many more "legitimate" uses than illegal ones, so for the most part they are accepted, now; as they grow more capable, that foundation will see them grandfathered in, for the most part.

For a home chemical factory like you're discussing, synthesizing drugs illegally would be by far the most popular use case. I'm sure someone would think of something legit to do with it, but it would be an edge case. They would never be allowed to get a foothold, legally.
What makes you think he is a genius?
In England several people (including children) have been arrested, and prosecuted, (and convicted?) for terrorism offences because they owned things like The Anarchists Cookbook.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7030096.stm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-33705944

(The explorer Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes while on service with the SAS used to work out how to efficiently use explosive, allowing him to keep small amounts after training exercises. He accumulated a small stock of explosive which he used to demolish an ugly damn.

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

)
I disagree. He seems level-headed and focused enough that he could take this as motivation. If he was arrogant, he would have capitalized on it, created a social media account and a gofundme. He seems humble to me.

Source: 17-year old who faced similar media attention, it did inflate my ego a bit despite attempts to remain humble.
> 1. No web interface, I'm forced to use a tiny mobile keyboard

Not a problem for most people. On the other hand it works well on pretty much every phone out there. In comparison Facebook messenger runs terribly on my iPhone 4. I'd hate to try and use it on a lower end android phone.

> 2. Identity tied to my phone number which changes every month

I've had the same phone number for over 10 years. Everybody understands and is familiar with phone numbers and have been for a long time. My 70 year old mother has no problems using whatsapp. Many more people have my phone number than have my email address.

> 4. My friends are already on Facebook

Good for you. Many of my friends aren't. Most of my family and relatives aren't. I'm thinking of leaving it myself as it's just a big time waster.

> I resent them because Whatsapp is terrible, terrible software compared to Facebook Messenger yet somehow made $19B.

Except it's really only bad for your particular use case. For most people Facebook messenger was late to the party and doesn't have any real draw.

Facebook messenger still doesn't have basic functionality I want. For example if I scroll to a particular point in a chat conversation and later come back to the conversation FB Messenger has not kept my scroll position. Basic basic usability problems.
So, should we consider this event a net negative because this poor teenager got perp walked by a bunch of people who were quite likely racist and apparently too dumb to tell a circuit board from a bomb? Or should we consider this event a net positive because he's almost certainly going to end up at a much better high school after getting to meet the president and Mark Zuckerberg?

On the one hand, no one should have to go through what he did. On the other hand, the fourteen-year-old version of me would've happily put himself in handcuffs for a chance at getting out of my cow-town high school.
Man, I'd love to go poking around on the dark web, specifically those black markets just to look around and satiate my curiosity but am to afraid that I'll be put on some NSA watch list for doing so.
I live in Arizona, so I understand living in an area that is nationally famous for being a bit backwards. Parts of Texas are absolutely amazing, just like here in Arizona. But we both are paying the price for our states' having a poor reputation.
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