skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think anyone commenting along these lines on HN is that ignorant. Everyone on here understands that anything executed at the WhatsApp/FB/Instagram sort of scale is going to present all sorts of tough problems and require software engineering know-how in spades.

However of all the various applications you could conceivably scale to hundreds of millions of users this is one of the simplest. I do not think acknowledging that is cringeworthy at all.
Why do people try to boost their metabolism (or demise) these days then? I strongly believe that being physically lazy (i.e. not expending much energy and keeping metabolism slow), but mentally active, and walking 30-45 minutes a day is the healthiest lifestyle one could have (if they can afford it).
Texas doesn't deserve this young man. Come on up to Seattle.
The trend towards a "security theatre" and all that does indeed seem to be much stronger. Even where security measures in Europe were increased (i. e. ban on liquids), it was more on the behest of the Americans than intrinsically motivated.

I see a few possible causes:

– 9/11 was a much bigger attack than anything that happened on European soil

– there is a more influential lobby for militarisation/criminalisation in the US

– Americans are more fearful

– America is more democratic. As such, the unfounded fears of parts of the population (on both sides of the Atlantic) are less likely to be buffered by the more rational thinking of experts

and, my favourite:

– Americans love excitement and violence & it is amplified by the media. Nothing better than a bomb scare on FOX.
I do not need my TV to fit in my pocket; would it really hurt it to put a 1TB hdd in there???
Exactly! Apparently it's really difficult for some people to admit they were wrong. How difficult would it be to just say: "I'm sorry, we screwed up."? Instead they still insist on calling his clock a "hoax bomb".
You're not making very coherent arguments. What's wrong with a voucher system whereby the PARENTS of the children being educated are the ones who determine which child the school goes to? Doesn't that make it very easy for the parents to shut bad schools down very quickly? It seems like that solves all the problems you're worried about, while also providing more choices to parents and students. What's the downside?
At the age of 14, I had to fly solo from LGA to ORD for my uncle's funeral. I had a one-way ticket purchased 18 hours before the flight.

We all assumed that because of my age and appearance it wouldn't be suspicious.

Wrong! I was stopped and questioned for an hour before being allowed to board.
How to debug Ruby memory issues
New Blog: Autumn Wedding Ideas Inspired with Fall Leaf
Why shouldn't a teacher with 25 years experience not make six figures, or close to it?
You just argued that we need inflation to stave off inflation.
Modern cpus use speculation, they continue executing code after a conditional branch, so you get that automatically.
In most states children in a school have little to no rights as the school is assuming responsibility for the welfare of the children.
My guess is the battery drain issue reported in the Apple Developer Forums: https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/17002
I wonder at what age a parent should have The Talk about shutting up and asking for a lawyer.
Frankly, if someone showed up with a clock and a circuit board with wires leading to a box on the board, what would people think?

I don't think we should assume that everything we don't understand is a weapon. I don't understand a lot of things, the vast majority of which are not bombs.
It seems odd not to consider a control scheme that is so familiar to so many people. Would adding mouse-look break a lot of things?

BTW - this vid seems to show Legend of Grimrock playing with mouse-look: https://youtu.be/xALsxZv0pwg?t=8m53s

BTW 2 - just discovered that cursor keys can rotate. WASD for motion and L/R cursor keys to rotate is waaay better for me.
Absolutely!
The hotels I usually stay at have:

* a business center with pc/printer/fax machine

* a gym

* a 'meet-and-greet' with complimentary beverages

* an inexplicable twice a day cleaning schedule

* tennis/basketball courts

* shuttle service

* cable television

All of which I do not use, but are definitely included in their overhead costs and passed on to me, the consumer.
That was, from what I can remember/find from a quick search, simply a resource issue. They had all their top engineers working on iOS so ran short on engineers for OS X and as iOS so important to them they decided to take the hit on delaying the launch of their desktop OS. A good decision considering how well iOS has taken off.
All of those worked out how to make money for Evan Williams quite well, though, so there's that.
As a result, money is actually utilized instead of sitting in a bank account.

Because we all know banks put all the currency they receive in huge vaults filled with paper $100 bills, instead of, oh, lending it out (several times over one way or another).

Unless you're converting it all to gold, or stuffing it under a mattress, your savings are in institutions like banks which are not a sink where the velocity of your money goes to zero, outside of economic messes where they aren't willing to lend, or people are afraid to borrow. And your being encouraged to spend your money doesn't seem to help those situations.
I think you'll observe that there are periods of inflation offset by periods of deflation, meaning that over time the value of money was somewhat more stable than your image implies.
> 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?

Because it doesn't cost a flat amount per student. The fact that funding is fixed per student doesn't mean that all students are equally costly to educate, and private schools that don't have a universal acceptance mandate impose selection criteria which tend to select for students which are less expensive to serve, increasing the per-student costs (but not funding!) in the public schools if public funds are used on an equal per-student basis to support students going to those private schools.
> an engineering teacher suggested that he not show the invention to other teachers. But it beeped during an English class, prompting Ahmed to show his English teacher what it was

Ok, I can't help but be reminded of my recent comments about English classes in high school.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10205670

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10204756
Really surprised to hear it's big in the techno scene!

What's your email address? Email me first if you prefer to stay anonymous - My email is in my profile :)
> The Go docs don't have that because they don't want you to know, they have that because they want to be able to change it without blowing up your programs.

That's a very charitable interpretation. If that's what they want to say, they could say that. I just don't buy it.
Another boy makes gun gesture with hand, gets suspended:

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/04/us/ohio-boy-suspended-fing...
No citation is necessary, they're just quoting a clever anonymous adaptation. It's not anything Arthur C. Clarke ever said.
...meanwhile in reality: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/04/us/ohio-boy-suspended-fing...
Not arguing that but someone offer a German example so I'm offering an American one.
Seems plausible.
A failed attempt to switch to https
HealthKit was one of the major features of iOS 8, but there was a last minute bug and they didn't allow the release of any apps that used HealthKit until a week later when iOS 8.0.1 was released.
Project Gutenberg inaccessible through VPNs, TOR, or anonymizers
Following the recent library - TOR relay thread, I thought I would highlight this Project Gutenberg error message from

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/.

I was trying to download a copy of the Communist Manifesto -- not that I support the authors' views.

Considering the years of volunteer effort that has gone into building this resource, I think they should be more supportive of the freedom to speak/read than this:

----------------------

Error 403

Maybe you have just a wrong url. Go to http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/ first to see if the error persists.

If you get the error again check that you:

Don't use anonymizers, open proxies, VPNs, or TOR to access Project Gutenberg. This includes the Google proxies that are used by Chrome.

Don't access Project Gutenberg from hosted servers.

Don't use automated software to download lots of books. We have a limit on how fast you can go while using this site. If you surpass this limit you get blocked for 24h.

We have a daily limit on how many books you can download. If you exceeded this limit you get blocked for 24h.

If you use the RSS feed, set your update interval to 24 hours.

If you are sure that none of the above applies to you, and wish us to investigate the problem, we need to know your IP address. Go to this site, don't sign up, just copy the IP address (it looks like: 12.34.56.78 but your numbers will be different) and mail it to us. If that page also shows a proxy address, we need that one too.
I'm not the GP but I hear your argument. It's a very compelling one when you have a family or are getting older.

To a twenty-something however, pension & healthcare don't seem like very compelling arguments compared with just being paid 80% more for the same job. The only thing that has kept me in Paris until now is that all my friends live here, but the London salaries attraction is getting stronger every month.
The Future of Ads Over the Internet
That's Node (V8) and Electron (Chromium and all its dependencies) for you.
The Right Way to Ask Users for iOS Permissions
I agree with regard to inflation. That should be taken into consideration.

I don't see the contradiction. Today, if we move min wage to 20, undereducated people will get pushed out by people with two years of coll.

In the long term, if we increase min wage to make it a livable wage by which you can raise a family, what would motivate a 16 yo to further studies and become the two year comm cool grad? I grew up with disaffected youth. These are the guys and gals who thought, I dont need much, I'll get a job at Joe's dad's shop. College ain't for me.
I don't get how this point is debatable.

I did this when I worked as a network administrator for a new school campus. It was folding@home vs. SETI but same concept. Once the administration realized all the computers were running folding@home they compared the bills after turning it off and it was tens of thousands of dollars difference (granted this was 2001 and full-size desktops).

Now, one could say they overreacted, sure, in my case I just got reprimanded and told to uninstall it off all the computers. But firing for costing the district significant amounts of money isn't some testament to the ignorance of the South, unlike the "bomb" clock.
If your girlfriend feels she is a better teacher and deserves more she needs to help start a movement to de-unionize schools. We should not have incompetent dinosaurs teaching our kids. We want brilliant, dedicated, hard working, up-to-date teachers who are worth every penny they earn in front of our classrooms. And, yes, they should make $150K per year or more. And, no, it's not free money. They have to be that good. Everyone else needs to be fired.

Imagine building a company where you cannot get rid of incompetent, mediocre and down-right caustic employees because some third party (a union) gets in the way. This company will never amount to anything and will never be able to compete with one where excellence is the goal and people are well paid because they are worth it.

For some reason we seem to be OK with the idea of supporting the unions and lose sight that our goal should be to ensure the kids come out of school with absolute genius level knowledge, experiences and enthusiasm across a range of topics from arts to engineering. Kids ought to leave school with a hunger to succeed and contribute to society resembling a massive buffalo stampede with a purpose. Today a huge swath of them leave school with a "thump" and no passion, direction or real knowledge to guide them forward.

The system is broken.
I know, I know, sample of 1 does not a study make, but I am single, don't have kids and live alone. I wish more of my tax money went to education, if this meant I was taxed a little bit more, then so be it.

Education is so incredibly important, and honestly the education system here in the United States is abhorrent. Not due to the teachers mind you, but due to the requirements that are being made by legislators.

Testing requirements don't allow for a wide variety of curriculum anymore, students are all taught at the same baseline (lowest common denominator because otherwise it's discrimination) and students are no longer allowed to excel for fear of making their peers uncomfortable.

As a country the United States is not teaching students to think for themselves and challenge viewpoints, instead they are becoming complacent followers. Which is perfect if you want people that can easily be controlled.
Systems admin.
There's been some reports of code-signing issues, where apps from the app store can't be installed on watches that have been upgrade to watchOS 2.

That couldn't be tested before today because the watch apps weren't available from the app store.
If you're angry with the school's horrible reaction to this, let Jose Parra, http://www.irvingisd.net/Page/3010, know: (972) 600-5001 / jparra@irvingisd.net. He can fire the principal of that school - Dan Cummings
Provocative headline but the article isn't so compelling. There's some value in framework stability which goes unmentioned. Node doesn't seem quite ready for broad prime time use. Rails still excels in developer productivity which I think continues to be an important attribute.
One of the best articles on this topic. Must-read for app developers.
I can only imagine the effect of an interrogation like that on a 14yr old. I was 24 and was completly drained by mine.

I was questioned by each of the TSA, the local sheriff, and the plane's pilot and an airline rep.
Three different interrogations all asking the same questions just to determine if I was going to be allowed to fly.
He lived in Arizona which is hot and a school full of space-heaters (humans) will probably run AC more often than heat.

What grandparent commenter showed was the school district's numbers are plausible. I doubt the district entered into a legal battle without first consulting an engineer or two about the electric costs.
Maybe there should be a fund to provide a workshop for the teachers, administrators, and police of Irving to attend and acquire some critical thinking skills.
I'm not ignoring institutional racism, merely not assuming it, which is consistent with the American justice system tenet of never presuming guilt, even when you really want to and everyone around says you should.

You're making a lot of wild assertions that really are tangential and not intellectually consistent with my original point that there are no facts specific to this case to support the author's narrative, merely the assumptions and presumptions you espouse.
Podcast: Discussion on React Router, Flux Architecture and Web Components
> He sees on the news daily about Muslims using bombs and blowing things up

Did this happen with the Irish in the US during the Troubles?

Same reasons Italians and Germans weren't interned to the same extent the Japanese were during the 2nd World War: They can't be told apart from "proper" folk as easily. You can pick out most Arabs, but it's much harder to pick out most Irish.

Still a travesty. We need to move beyond hatred, especially of people we've never met.
That really depends on the specific bank. I've got a debit card from a Sparkasse with Chip+PIN and 2FA for online transaction for quite a few years.
Hi Kevin! Excellent questions. "watch later" is a great feature, I use it mostly for shorter videos. The analogy of a bookmark versus a reading list comes to mind. The clipping feature allows you to save segments of videos, rather than whole ones. The other way we hope to differentiate ourselves in the near future by allowing you to clip anywhere on the internet, with any video platform, not just YouTube.

Not sure if you got a chance to checkout the video tutorial, but the idea is the video segments are parsed by keywords made by users, rather than video/audio recognition technology. Each segment of video is like a document with keywords, meta-data, etc. so we just run our search algorithm through that, and it's pretty standard from then on.
> That's how today you wind up with someone in their late 20s that's never had a credit card or a loan.

This was me till I was 28. I was able to skip having to use a secured credit card by getting a joint card with someone who already has great credit.
>Yale, which has an endowment of $23.9 billion

As a side note, that's about half the entire GDP of Ethiopia last year. That's a country of 100m people.
what if the middle managers are phoning it in?
How is it 100 MB? RAM or disk space?
MEAN stack.
Actually, Catholics and trade unionists are the reason why Poland is no longer communist.
Yeah, but what's the best way to explain concurrency to a general audience?
I moved to the UK in 99; At the time I worked for a startup and was getting around 12000FF 'brut' (pre taxes, outside paris (Sophia)). At the time, the GBP was around 10FF (roughtly, in fact, more like 11-12).

When I moved the the UK, my first salary was 44000 GBP/y, so that was bringing me around 2500 GBP a month, /post taxes/ (PAYE).

I could not believe my EYES when I saw my payslip... These 12000FF were the equivalent of around 7000FF (post tax) so by crossing the channel, I multiplied my pay by easily 3.5. And I had a great time at that company, despite my pretty accented english. Of course life was generally more expensive, but /nowhere/ near 3.5 times more expensive.

Of course, income might have levelled up since, but since then, I've had 15 years of working for the best companies in the industry (ie, worldwide names), increased my experience and income, and all of that with minimum red tape. I created my own LTD company with just 240 GBP almost zero bureaucracy; you can pretty much calculate your tax bills in your head too.

I love it. I'd never go back, I'd never had dreamed of the stuff I have achieved here during that time, when I was still living in france.

Of course, there are downsides, it's a lot closer to the US in the fact you need to handle your own pension strategy, healthcare etc, but for people who have a drive and will to do stuff, it's a LOT easier to get things done here.
Really, that's why? Or is it because most people would rather watch a movie where the actors look like the characters? I don't know of any Syrian actors that look like Steve Jobs. And I definitely don't know of any Syrian actors who could play him as well as Fassbender could.
In Berlin apartments are absurdly cheap. You can live on < 1000 euros a month nicely. Contrast that with SF where you have your media $3700 a month apartment!
Thanks! I'd like to dismiss and/or mark as read for stories I'm not interested in.
So everyone should live paycheck to paycheck and thus keep money circulating in the economy more rather than "hoarded" in checking accounts to absorb shocks like big car repair bills and stuff like that?

I think the idea that a dollar today buys just as much in a decade IN NO WAY precludes people from investing their money to earn a return. It just eliminates the stupidity tax that some people pay for not understanding how things work.

In a non-inflationary environment nearly all people would still invest their money and put it to work. It's just that they wouldn't be taxed for not doing so.

Inflation doesn't encourage lending, it encourages borrowing. It's smart to pay back with dollars that are worth not as much as the dollars you borrow. Inflation actually discourages lending because you now have to find borrowers who can pay you back higher than the interest rate.

Of course, all this is predicated on a real market in interest rates which we don't have in the US because the Fed sets the rate through various means.
Have a look at the political leanings of the teachers unions and the administration and you have your answer.
Facebook was never been talking about a traditional downvote button. From the article:

> However he went on to say he did not want it to be a mechanism with which people could "down vote" others' posts.

> Instead, it will be for times when clicking "like" on "sad" posts felt insensitive.
So neoliberalism is socialism?
Hey they were recently acknowledged for their use of cutting edge technology!

http://www.irvingisd.net/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&Domain...
I think the real reason is that Germany had working debit cards for a very long time already, there was simply no need for credit cards. Every bank and store was accepting every banks's debit card. Since the big international credit card companies cream of a couple of percent when you pay with a credit card, but German debit cards don't, retail was really reluctant for a long time to accept credit cards.
All this modern TPM stuff had me a little confused, I thought this was counsel for the Intel corporation, not US intelligence.

> So he advised "keeping our options open for such a situation."

If this isn't just cherry picking on the part of the journalist, it strikes me as fuel for conspiracy theorists. Perhaps there really are agents of the government who would sabotage ourselves in favor of their selfish interests.
Most states are "right to work" states, which means that it is difficult (or impossible) for an employer to enforce a non-compete if they lay you off. Unless he signs something to the contrary while taking severance. It'd be worth the $150 half-hour lawyer fee to get an official legal opinion on this.
Sure they do, in Canada anyway. Interac email transfer is quick and painless, although it costs a dollar or so.
>However of all the various applications you could conceivably scale to hundreds of millions of users this is one of the simplest. I do not think acknowledging that is cringeworthy at all.

What other apps besides social networking and communication apps even get to hundreds of millions of user?
I do speech analysis for a living, and automated emotion detection from speech is fantastically hard.

I'm sure Moodies (and their parent company) is frantically dumping money into it, but it's likely an AI-Complete problem to get beyond the absolute simplest of metrics. No shock that it failed here.
What do the cops ever do with their time that isn't a waste? They only rarely and incidentally protect anyone from any actual threat. Mostly they hassle, ticket, menace, and otherwise inconvenience the public. If they all went on strike next week, violence and mayhem would decrease.
> Jobs didn't look stereotypically middle eastern.

No kidding. Many people in the Middle East are completely "white", by every definition.

In fact, it's amusing that the word "Caucasian" has been corrupted into a euphemism for "white", given where the word comes from....[0]. (Most people who are Caucasian aren't even white!)

While we're on the topic, the most pale and fair-skinned people I've met in my life were not European; they were Indian (Kashmiri). People have this notion of what regions stereotypically map to which skin tones, and this doesn't actually reflect reality at all.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasus_Mountains
That's quite an interesting point. It's similar to the reason why insurance companies won't cover pre-existing conditions, isn't it?
I would happily pay 10-15% income taxes if our system was much less socialized like some of our European counterparts.
Piecing Together the Tesla Strategy Puzzle
The "living wage" is much lower for a single person than for someone supporting a family of four. Are employers supposed to pay workers based on family size?
This article did not frame it that way.