skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the time, even C/C++ compilers had little memory available to perform any meaningful optimization. GCC on UNIX, for example, had optimizations that would be unthinkable for C compilers running on DOS. Microsoft was the first to invest in better optimization for Windows, and since then TC++ was left in the dust.
My view is that government should stick to 'government' things like providing infrastructure, education, health care, and stuff like that. If there's money left over, lower taxes some, or even better, get rid of annoying fees and streamline things.
Make Magazine should put him on the cover of their next issue.
The first one doesn't say anything about constitutional issues.

The appeals court did not rule on whether the surveillance violated the U.S. Constitution.

The second link has a ton of links. The first one is only referring to a preliminary injunction; i.e., it found that "there's a good chance the plaintiff will win", but did not find in favor of the plaintiff. As far as I can tell, all the other links there are about the same ruling.

The third link is talking about that same ruling, again:

A federal judge said Monday that he believes the government's once-secret collection of domestic phone records is unconstitutional

Emphasis on believes; that was not a judicial finding that the government violated the constitution.

He didn't even order the government to stop:

However, he put off enforcing his order barring the government from collecting the information, pending an appeal by the government.

What happened on appeal? http://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/ED64DC482..., or a more readable summary here http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-28/u-s-appeal... and http://www.ibtimes.com/nsa-phone-surveillance-ruling-reverse...
>I feel the language choice is probably the least contributing factor in terms of what's interesting at that scale

Erlang and BEAM were designed for highly concurrent messaging applications. Surely that's of some importance.
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From the article:

> I’m angry, and I’m a little upset with myself because I want to be useful.

I'm thinking the same thing. What I'm wishing is that I held a position of influence at a private high school, so I could offer him immediate entrance and a full scholarship. Mostly to correct the injustice, but also because he's clearly a top student: unassisted home-made clock trumps perfect SSATs.

So if anybody reading this has such a position -- even a little bit -- please try to make it happen.
You are absolutely correct. I initially wrote maturity then changed to duration, and forgot to correct the sentence. I now have.
Let's examine info diet like we do real food. Imagine you work in a dense part of town that regularly features a number of food trucks that show up around lunchtime. You have your favorite styles and vendors, and know what to expect from them.

Medium is like a set of unmarked vans where the cooks and cuisine change every day. Sometimes there will be something you don't normally get (I would kill for a decent Indian spot in this town) but other times you would rather have what you're comfortable with, and enough subpar experiences would make you wary of coming back.

I used to read Medium, a lot. They had some interesting slice-of-life pieces I doubt I'd ever see at the New York Times or the Economist. But nowadays it seems like a lot of self-congratulatory startup humblebrag stories, and for most of them I'm starting to wonder if their prominence has less to do with the quality of their writing and more about their relationship with the Medium staff.
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"Countries are not bound to frontiers anymore", well from a fiscal point of view it is, you got a free education while you were in France, and now you work and pay taxes in another country, which couldn't scale because it breaks the French system
It sounds to me like Exodust is just trying to validate preconceived notions and is unwilling to consider evidence contrary to those. Honestly, when I read the headline I was skeptical as I feel like I have been burned in the past many times by immediately siding with the 'victim.' However, this seems like a pretty clear case where one should be outraged about what happened to the student, even if one takes presumptions in favor of the school.
Very nice and polished game!
Small problem I encountered: whenever I died in the game, the dungeon I respawned at was much easier than the initial one.
Absolutely. (Although bear in mind that the term 'African-American' for someone with brown skin is American-centric, and other countries don't use it. Luckily WA understood you.)

On the other side of the coin, while visiting Dallas on work from Europe, I was asked, quite seriously, whether I was worried about the the Muslim campaign to control Europe by outbreeding the natives (or something, I'm not good at remembering this stuff). I don't think they'd ever met a Muslim in their life.
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You can see when the interest has been collected: more or less yearly until 1963, then in 1971, 1976, 2003.
I would like to do a little more than reach out to him. He is a nerd and we should protect members of our tribe who are in trouble.

Can we make a go found me for getting him into a private school?
Man, I must have interacted with weird middle schoolers at my local hackerspace... Seemed like every last one of them had either some simple arduino project or something with a RasPi they were working on. I'd hate to live in a place where most people have no idea what a circuit board looks like.

Also, asking doesn't need to get the police involved: "Hey, what is this?" "Oh it's a clock I built" 'Why'd you bring it to school?" "Cuz I'm proud of it and wanted to show you"

If there was still doubt, ok, find someone who knows something about it (there's gotta be a tinkerer SOMEWHERE in the school district) and ask them to take a look. Maybe couch it as "Why don't we show it to X, I think they'd get a kick out of it?"

But arresting a 14 yr old tinkerer for a clock? Whatever happened to having sane reasonable conversations?
You're assuming that it actually looked like a bomb.

It clearly did not. (There are pictures linked elsewhere in this comment thread, so you can see.) What happened is that a bunch of complete idiots thought it looked like a bomb, only because they have no idea what a bomb looks like, and they are additionally ignorant of their own ignorance.
> Interrupting someone because you have a question is terrible for knowledge workers.

A couple people having the sheer clanging temerity to ask me a question doesn't bother me a bit, and I'm not special. I've learned to work in the kind of comprehensible chunks that allow me to be useful to other people, though, because being a multiplier is vastly more valuable (and pays a lot more) than being an adder.
These administrators are so politically correct and political with how they get their jobs (usually favorites get promoted, etc.) My father was a teacher for 40 years and never stopped telling me stories about the people at the top. The school system is ran by circus animals.
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> Go wants your code to always be fully realized and clean, which just doesn't mesh with reality.

It certainly meshes with my reality.
There are starter cards for people that don't have an established credit history. It's really not complicated - stop trying to make it out to be something it's not
The whole point was that I cannot specify this criteria when searching for code. This option is for repository search only.

Searching: "typedef struct language:C stars:>100" doesn't do the job.
Hi HN, this is the first time we're sharing this with the world, after we've been working with it internally for a few months.
We're really excited about the problem it solves and we hope you are too.

If you have any comments/questions about the product or what we're offering in this test be sure to let us know!
Power corrupts. As such we should always assume malice when dealing with people in power.
I'm glad I never had to, but that edge case doesn't obviate the advantage of issuing perpetuities.
> PSU's arent light bulbs

You are right. I was just going off the source I found, which accounted for some of the aspects you point out, but not all. These numbers simply provide a rough estimate, and detail how the sys admin certainly did cost the school district real (and potentially very substantial) sums of money.

> Even more complicated is the heat.

You make a good case for the winter months, but the opposite would hold true for the summer months when the heat becomes a real issue and additional air conditioning may be necessary, etc...

> Edit: also if it was a public school, wouldn't they be off for about 3 months over summer ?

Not necessarily. Usually over the summer months (for a traditional schedule school as opposed to a year-round schedule like many public schools are these days) some of the staff is typically on campus monday-friday doing various administrative tasks, workshops, prepping for the next school session, moving classroom furniture, cleaning, etc... IT staff would be included in this, and therefore we can reasonably assume the sys admin was still running his systems.
I think it's both: ignorance is the source of their power, and they are afraid of losing it. (I also grew up in the South.)
Not really.

Anyone with a background on classical economics realizes the U.S is much closer to socialism than capitalism. The existence of 'prices' and greed doesn't imply it's capitalism.
Which ever is fastest.
The spirit of Murray Rothbard personally touched the poster and imbued him with sacred realisation, obviously.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if he had communist viewpoints for at least a period of his life. The dude was a full-blown hippie.
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$1 doesn't help; I sold about $100 worth of indietracking.com in four years. It was really disappointing :(
Well even if he did it wouldn't matter much. 5 police officers, multiple school officials in a room, he's the only child. And effectively being bullied, manipulated, into feeling like a guilty sack of shit that should count his blessings and admit their version of his intent and give thanks and apologies. Par for the course. Public school systems are ran by political patsy thugs when you inspect the few ranks below the top.
Contrary to popular belief, xenophobia is not the monopoly of pink-skinned people.
"If public schools are going to succeed, then many states need to "catch up" when it comes to funding. More funding will attract more teachers, creating a stronger candidate pool.

If you look at the average funding per student by state, Texas isn't doing so hot [1], especially for being the second largest state [2]. There's definitely more to it than just funding, but I think that would be a good starting point."

I used to think on these lines too. After talking to two teachers in different districts, they both said the same things. More money is fine, but it usually goes to Administration.

The two teachers I knew, and talked to, lived and taught in California. They were both tenured. I talked to them a decade ago. They were both making, I belive 150k a year. At the time, they weren't complaining about wages. In fact, they had no complaints. Maybe, they just got lucky? I don't think money is the answer?

(Actually, I just remembered--my ex'es mother-inlaw was a school teacher, and she told me countless times the money always goes to bloated Administration. I don't know why I just remembered her? She taught high school back east.)
Hey, we have a gaming startup here in São Carlos. Happy to go out for a few beers. A place you might like is Bridge Coworking[0], though I do not know them.

Couldn't find your email (it's hidden by default), but you can reach me at renato at hackerexperience dot com.

[0] - http://bridge.sc/
For startups where technology is not the only infrastructure of the platform your observation is likely not true.

Look at startups like Cloudfactory: http://www.cloudfactory.com/home (they are actually on a mission to create jobs for millions)
I agree that lots of money is wasted in the public school system, but we don't need University of Phoenix brought to elementary schools.
"Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing … after they have exhausted all other possibilities."
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How do you know if an engineer is average vs one of the best?

I haven't heard of anyone who has figured out how to measure an engineer's abilities.

Some people test algorithms. Others test how often they've shipped things. Most just look for years of experience. A few even test whether you know certain facts.
Stupidity adequately explains the initial reaction. Bringing charges is merely after-the-fact butt-covering. The whole world knows you're stupid, but if you can get the entire legal system to be just as stupid, it's no longer your fault!

Remember the Aqua Teen Hunger Force "bomb" scare in Boston? The city rigorously pursued legal action to spare their police department the embarrassment of having wasted millions of dollars carefully dismantling DIY Lite-Brites.
Sadly, Ahmed is being taught a lesson that all minorities in the US learn as part of growing up. Just like African American kids are taught to be terrified of the police and other authorities. If they behave the same as white kids or make similar assumptions about how the power structure interacts with them, then they're going to get murdered or punished in unfair ways.
Something doesn't seem quite right about this story. He made a clock and then chose to store it in a metal briefcase with the numbers on the outside. In other words, he built something that looks exactly like a bomb from a movie: briefcase with red numbers on it. Maybe this appearance was entirely accidental; but I would bet that he originally intended it to look like a bomb, probably for humour.
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Their twitter page promoted their first "maker space" which I have trouble squaring with this story. Is the message the school wants to send: creation, making, and learning is very very dangerous and only allowed under strict supervision?

https://twitter.com/MacReads/status/643784222394552320/photo...
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So... kid with an Arabic name, whose father is a belligerent Islamist known to the townspeople to rail against imagined anti-Muslim racists in the town square, shows up at school with a homemade electronic device with a timer on the front of it. He takes someone's bad advice to conceal it under his clothing, and walks into a classroom where it starts beeping.

I think reasonable people can understand why the police might have been called.

It was of course unreasonable for the police to have actually arrested the boy, once they found out what they were dealing with. Reading between the lines though, maybe the article's use of "arrested" just means they took the kid home to his parents.
Great product idea. I was quite taken aback by how similar the UI and UX is to Airbnb's though [1]. Of course that's not necessarily a bad thing - it's a much nicer interface than most hotel comparison sites - but it's extreme to the point of brand confusion. My first instinct was to check if this was a spin-off business!

[1] Triprebel vs Airbnb UI: http://imgur.com/a/FALP0
I have a suspicion that 'job creation' is just the new codeword for trickledown economics.
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you're already bending fass into faswa. Not cool.
Well, here's anectdata to contradict yours. A new teacher in my fine town starts out at $43K/year plus benefits. 9 month work schedule. Here in the Midwest of the USA, $43K to start with nothing but a degree and teaching credential is a perfectly good salary, above the median for the city and state.
Just downloaded! I love it. The only thing I was going to say was I wish it had the ability to resize the window and save the size for each time it opened...then I realized you were one step ahead of me and had done exactly that! Very impressive, and a fantastic example of React and Electron. I'm definitely bookmarking this to come back and learn from the codebase later.
You're right that the reaction is explainable by pervasive CYA and the risk of not reacting and being wrong.

However, you're missing that pervasive and institutional racism is a big part of that risk.

Imagine a kid brings an actual bomb to school, the authorities don't react, and he detonates it. Then what?

The kid's race is going to play a huge role in how that decision is analyzed afterwards. If the kid was white then the discussion is likely to be of the form, "We need better mental health treatment to catch this stuff early!" If the kid was the wrong shade of brown then it's going to be, "He was obviously a terrorist and the administration should be thrown in a hole for not taking appropriate measures."
That either meant "Yup. The kid that's always building electronics", or "Yup, the Muslim." When in doubt, always assume the worst.
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I guess Ahmet could be the person pictured in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=9&v=zi-nhO77uvo
People don't like the fascist Islamic mendality and are quick
to judge anyone who looks islamic.
It all stems from not having a backbone. Less weasels, more passionate people with some step in their walk. But all the political bullshit that educators have to waft through kills most passion and flare to go against the grain, to do what they feel is right. Unfortunately the nazi-effect is in full swing for most salaried office workers. No one wants to get fired, so everyone just obeys arcane rules and doesn't do anything the least bit outside the box. It's basically raining with grey skies every day.
> I don't understand why Europeans stick to their local languages when they all know English anyway.

Because they don't all know English and even if they did, why the fuck should they?
Have him setup an account on http://www.joinjune.com - there are plenty of other OEM players out there who need talent.
I think we read that line differently. My understanding was that biological mothers were given the standard 6 + an extra 6 + more if needed. They actually come out a bit ahead here, but it's still only 3 months.

The company’s current policy — which went into effect this
year — gives six weeks of paid caregiving leave to all new
parents. Biological mothers receive another six weeks of
leave, and more if they have additional medical needs.

Quoted so people know what we're referring to. The sentence on biological mothers describes two things. The extra six weeks for being the biological mother, and additional time as needed (with some limits, but probably covered under insurance at this point) for medical conditions.
Biological father. His (adoptive) father was white, and Jobs didn't look middle eastern, the key part. There's a whole spectrum of skin tones within ethnicities that affects how you are treated in the US more than where your parents originate.
But this is also why we have more billion-dollar startups than the EU. Isn't it?
2007 Boston bomb scare (Wikipedia)
I guess they hope for startups that eventually will be tech giants like Apple and IBM, that actually do create jobs. It's only a fairly recent development that it's becoming evident that technology allows for a tremendous centralization and automation. Algorithms are invented by one person, implemented by ten and used by billions. Eventually, only a tiny elite will need to work, and at that point we will need some sort of basic income.
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Public educators frequently make stronger arguments for home-schooling than I ever could.
It's Influence by Bob Cialdini. I've also read How to Win Friends and Influence people, and it's very weak in comparison. The Cialdini book is rigorously researched and backed by science.
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Why should school policy be driven by how scared somebody gets, as opposed to statistics? If I look more into how scared people get by LEDs and wires, will I understand how staff attention and resources should be allocated to investigating any potential threat, no matter how small?

This is unfounded neuroticism.
"Ahmed, for his part, wanted to bring the clock to show an engineering teacher. Because it consisted of a board with a digital display and a tiger hologram on the front, the teacher recommended he hide it from the rest of the staff."

This statement implies there was a conversation with the teacher before bringing it in and that the teacher told him to bring it, but to not bring it out in other classes/in front of other teachers.

Your other points are not even worth replying to and border on trolling. You're upset that he didn't invent something new at 14? Building a homemade clock is too simple for his age and only 8 year olds should do it? This is one of the most insane posts I've ever seen on HN.
Looks very nice, although the name is a bit confusing.
I get why you called it that, but I doubt your targeted users really care about the fact that is was built using react.

My first thought when I opened the page was that your title ({{ reacttant }}) wasn't rendering properly.
Actually opening links isn't very intuitive.

Good work though.
It makes me sad that showing off something you made can be seen as "asking for trouble."
Who's the we? These administrators are put their by their buddies in city and state positions. They almost never are educators themselves. In order to get competent caring administrators, who know what education is about, we need reform that actually puts educators in the hotseats.
If you put more money into the system, you could be pretty sure that the teachers would not see more than a dime of it. Tenure is what prevents schools from removing a higher cost experienced teacher and replacing them with a cheaper no experienced teachers.
What part of his appearance gives the former away?
So... what are you doing? Link?
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Conversely, there are plenty of people who work for 7 days and get paid for 5. Anecdotes don't change the fact that labor protections are nonexistent and desperately needed in the US.
It might seem like a nice idea that cash stuffed in a mattress for a few decades would keep it's value, but that's not beneficial to society. Encouraging money to be invested in order to earn a premium, and stave off inflation, is a good thing overall because it puts wealth to work creating jobs and stimulating economic activity.
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Your product page... doesn't really answer any of my questions.

So it presumably asks for access to any analytics platforms we use... and uses that data to do what, exactly? Generate reports? How is it better than the various report generating features in various analytics today?

I guess I'm not convinced you can automatically link data together. Correlation rather than causation.

Is there a demo available? Personally I wouldn't want to grant permission to access to a tool when 1) I am not sure what it will do with the data (or who it will resell it to...) 2) I'm still not sure what I'll get out of it.

That said obviously its in my space and I'm interested.
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Does anyone remember when we were talking about futures in tech that weren't dystopian nightmares?
> Download the latest build for your platform from releases.

Cool !!

Oh.. Mac only right now.