skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author is Donald Knuth, in case you didn't catch that. Since most of these are dated from the 90's, you should probably be comparing verbosity to COBOL or PASCAL and keeping in mind this was from before the ubiquity of Linux or Python, and long before Java, Javascript, or C#.
I suppose Ahmed has a bright future.
I guess your HS days were in the period of pre 9/11, right?

It is not about race or skin color. The kid was arrested because he's a Muslims and Muslim terrorists are wreaking havoc around the world and he was profiled and treated unjustly because of this, don't you agree?
At a high level; wealth, education and jobs which is easily afforded due to 400 years of slavery, 100 years of blatant discrimination and 50+ years discrimination built into the American Justice System. White Americans also do not have to worry about mass incarcerations and racial profiling. Laci Green does a fantastic job a breaking all of these down: https://youtu.be/h_hx30zOi9I
Possibly to get settlements "approved" which would otherwise have been rejected, or which they didn't want to bring to a judge's attention for whatever reason?
I take it the nutshell version is that Affirmative Action is a failure (according to this book at least)? (I mean, that is what your phrasing seems to imply.)
A Whatsapp chat analytics web app: http://groupstats.io/

Basically, you upload your chat history and we show some nice visualizations (no, we do not store your chat).
The ‘premature optimization is evil’ myth (2010)
The police detained him until they could investigate the device and question him about his intentions, then released him. Sounds like a rough afternoon, but hardly a ruined life. He's been released and he's exonerated.

> Hopefully some will learn that reasonable and probable cause needs to have some basis in certain priori, and that opportunity cost and the boy who cries wolf are really and very harmful issue.

I put the security of a school full of other kids above the 'opportunity cost' of being questioned by police. I'm guessing many other people would as well - especially the parents of the other kids at the school.

> understand that P(massacre | kids = 14 years old in the US) is some number that probably is smaller than IEEE floating point error, then everyone will be better off for that.

Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Just because it doesn't happen in the US often, doesn't mean it won't. 14 years old are involved in violence all over the world, especially in bombing incidents.
Once upon a time it was all in one repository. Shortly after I started there in late 2005, the "HIP" source code (high-value intellectual property, I think it stood for) was moved to its own source tree, with only precompiled binaries available to the rest of the company.

Looks like there is a Quora question that mentions this too: https://www.quora.com/How-many-Google-employees-can-read-acc...
7 Research-Backed Ways to Stop Procrastinating (And Get More Done)
I'm trying out TutaNota (not the easiest to remember name :/) and they do encrypted email: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/tutanota-end-to-end-encrypt...

Recipents basically receive a password from you in another channel (email, IM, phone convo, face to face) and can use it to decrypt the email from TutaNota when they receive it. I tried it out myself and the only clunky thing is that they load up their whole web app just to read one message, but it's kind of a clever piece of marketing because the web app works pretty well so the recipient who doesn't use encryption gets exposed to an interface that's just as easy to use as what they're used to.

For everyone using TutaNota, the decryption is transparent which definitely is encouraging.

I've seen some people sending around credit card info or social security info and forcing the intended recipient to use a password when receiving that info is a small price to pay for piece of mind. It's almost criminal to send signatures on documents and social security/credit card info in plain-text!
Agreed. I was focused on the parent commenters point that Asian Men have been successful, despite being the time of "White Privilege."

We (asian men) are well represented in tech--even when I was a kid, MIT specifically said they did not consider Asian as a underrepresented ethnic group.
Even a few months ago, I was kind of like that. Then I started thinking about it in terms of my own "autonomy", for lack of a better word -- what gives them the right to "force" my browser to make extra requests to download and display ads, to use my home network for that, to use my bandwidth and data cap for it, to use my CPU, to use my eyes and brain to look and understand the ad. They have no technical ability to enforce some of that, and any agreement that viewing ads is "payment" is implicit and thus the moral argument is weak. They don't even implement some technical measures they could do, such as YouTube bundling video ads directly into the stream so it would be harder to detect and block, so maybe they don't really care enough either.

At some point it starts sounding too much like "it's stealing to watch broadcast TV if you mute your TV and look away from the screen during ads", and hopefully most people would say that position is insane. (And yes, I do recognize that automatic blocking is a bit different, but at the same time, sending instructions that your computer download and display something to you is different than changing the radio waves from a representation of a show to a representation of an ad.)

It only works because the majority of TV watchers and internet users are too lazy or unskilled to block ads. When the majority are blocking ads, the model will either change, or blocking be explicitly criminalized (a session of Congress I'd pay to watch.)
The mayor still stands by police. Madness, pure madness. Public officials, more and more, are a self-selecting group populated only by some of our worst thinkers.
I would not have thought of that :) I just thought it was a contraction of "doesn't it".

Perhaps they are like farmers we paid to not grow corn in the past.

But that's just for the time-servers, not the dedicated professionals, who are probably the majority.
The more I think about it, the more I'm skeptical that the teachers were too dumb to tell a circuit board apart from a bomb. He could have gotten in trouble for making something that looked like a bomb even if nobody that it was one. Just as in most schools kids get in trouble for making (or even drawing) things intended to look like guns even when it's totally clear to everyone that it isn't an actual gun.

That's a stupid policy too, but a different kind of stupid.
In the ideal world, the school administrator would be reprimanded and a note put into their personnel file. The best punishment for a lifelong bureaucrat is to put them in fear for their job.

They however will just say they were following the rules. The rules put student safety high on the list, and events like Columbine and others only make the risk/fear higher.

Schools are limited in what they can do to/for problem students. What that means in practice is that to limit the threat from a problem student they suppress the privledges of all students. This avoids the stigma of "singling out" someone for special rules.

In a more functional system the rules would allow for things like electronics projects and pocket knives and what not, and when a student did some damage that student would be pulled from the school and moved elsewhere. Unfortunately that puts students with an unstable home life more at risk of being expelled than students with a stable home life, and if, through suspension, you end up segregating the school along student problem lines, it often correlates with other student traits which you can specifically not discriminate against. You can take on the burden of defending a bunch of lawsuits from suspended students, or you can just strip all the students of the opportunities.

And this leads to zero tolerance policies for non-obvious reasons.

What we haven't internalized as a society yet is that this is much more damaging to the societies eventual stability than the whole segregating thing would be. We have yet to learn how to run a system where people can readily move back and forth from the 'offender' side of the street to the 'cooperates' side of the street. Thus a trip to the offender's side leaves a stain that gets harder and harder to erase, regardless of maturity, later. It can be really hard to listen to people who have been imprisoned for life because of a mistake they made in their teens, which now prevents them from ever reaching their potential.
You are using a non-standard definition of "verify". For the purposes of this discussion, we don't care whether a political speaker accurately predicts how many undocumented immigrants will steal old ladies' purses in the next year. We only care that e.g. the radical dissidents we hear from today are the same ones that we heard from last week. This has nothing to do with CP.

EDIT: I'm pretty sure we're all responding to your invocation of Satoshi Nakamoto. If anonymity wasn't important to that person or persons, why don't we know who she or they are?
When a story has already had major attention on HN (which this one has: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10226196), we treat follow-up posts as dupes unless they add significant new information.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&date...
I'd like to actually see a tech conference with people over the age of 50 who had a breakthrough later in life
The BBC had an article on snakebites a few days ago. It states

"Snakes get closer to humans and cause more damage and more deaths than any other venomous animal, including spiders, scorpions and jellyfish.

Each year, up to five million people worldwide are estimated to be bitten by snakes. Out of those, around 100,000 die and 400,000 are left disabled or disfigured by their injuries.

But the numbers could be even larger - because many of the worst-affected countries don't keep data on snakebites and research into this problem is scarce."

Article: The amazing science behind fatal snake bites
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34214029
Surprisingly that box does make it look like a TV bomb, but I'd never actually mistake it for something that could explode.
موعد الإعلان عن نتيجة القرعة السادسة للإسكان الإجتماعي 209 و 276 2015 – تراخيص
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Ask HN: Standing seats – all day use OK?
So about 5 years ago I cranked up the legs on my Ikea Galant to standing height and couldn't stand it for all day use, so went back to sitting position for the last 4 years, which isn't that bad with a Stealcase Leap as the chair.

Anyways, I've recently discovered these standing seats like the Focus Upright Mobis. How are these for all day use? I know I could get a height adjustable desk and vary the height through the day, but I'd rather use what I already have - which is a height adjustable desk, I just can't adjust it on demand.

And while on the topic, what are people finding is optimal for software development these days. My setup was built in 2008 - triple 24" 1920x1200 monitors. I'm do for a full redo of my office and am thinking that one large monitor may be best - with my laptop on some arm or something.

Thanks!
> For most people Facebook messenger was late to the party and doesn't have any real draw.

Facebook Messenger has been around since the launch of Facebook. I've personally been using it over 7 years in various forms. WhatsApp is the one that was late to the party.

> On the other hand it works well on pretty much every phone out there.

Of course it does, because it has no features. You can't send money with it, you can't send stickers or GIFs, you have to physically open the app to send a message, it doesn't have link previews, and so on and so forth.
Improving Snowplow's understanding of time
> it perhaps wasn't the greatest idea for Ahmed to be walking around in school with something that could be perceived as a bomb

And women should dress modestly because you know... there are bad people out there who might perceive a short skirt as an invitation, amirite?
Ah, just happened to see those two blog posts together in same place. Those are really good posts on explaining replication scheme of Apache BookKeeper.

One thing to add on Flavio's blog post. Readers of a log (ledger) agree on LastAddConfirmed (lac), which LAC could be thought of 'commit' message in most of consensus protocol. In replicated log, commit means making data visible for readers.

BookKeeper doesn't enforce 'commit' like what other consensus protocol does. Instead it exposes the core elements of a consensus protocol as primitives and let applications decide things such as when to commit, how often to commit. Readers could use API (readerLastConfirmed) to catch up to latest 'commit' data. Controlling when to commit is the way how DistributedLog uses BookKeeper to tune end-to-end latency for different types of workloads: for latency-sensitive workloads like database, it does aggressive commits, for analytics workload, it does periodical commits to get benefits (such as reducing bandwidth by compression) by grouping.
You'd still sign your transactions. You only need to trust the players not to DoS or double spend---and these things are easy to audit for.
I completely disagree with this, but can you elaborate on racism not being in policy. I think you are confusing systemic racism (in regards to white privilege) with slurs, discrimination, hating someone's skin color, etc.
I think you're very wrong about educational funding. There's a high correlation between a schools relative wealth and its relative academic success in each state (mainly tied to property taxes). Yes, I'm sure there are exceptions, and yes there's lots of room for systematic improvement. But more money could absolutely make a difference at the underperforming schools.
Hence the `should'. In any case, banks do compete in practice. Even if not for the customers, then at least for capital.
[1] The charges contained in the indictment are merely allegations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. All factual recitations are derived from documents filed in court and statements made on the record in court.

The headline of this should really read "Paralegal charged with forging signatures of 76 justices to reach structured settlements". Even the linked document itself makes this distinction and carries the above footnote.
You think "bad" neighborhoods are arguments in the police's favor? I guess you've never had your door knocked down in the middle of the night...
Maybe the original article has expanded, but this seems to have more information to me: his invitation to the whitehouse, the fact that the mayor stands by the police, and that he is still suspended and will change school.
https://www.techinasia.com/india-uber-vs-ola-infographic/

750k rides/day for Ola
200k riders/day for Uber

Uber is in more cities, and in more modes of transport.
Git Punish – The Missing Git Command
> Also, even if someone at the NSA carried out a program that violated the Constitution, there still wouldn't be jail time.

It is true that such would be unlikely to be prosecuted, especially if it was authorized from above (and, depending on how it was authorized, there might even be a legal defense -- while ignorance of the law is not a defense, reasonable reliance on legal representations of those responsible for enforcing the law can be), but there is a specific criminal statute that applies to government employees acting deliberately contrary to Constitutional rights (deprivation of rights under color of law, 18 USC Sec. 242.) And an unconstitutional program might also violate the criminal provisions of FISA.

So its not impossible for them to end up in jail, just unlikely for them to prosecuted.

> That's not how the Constitution works.

Sure, the Constitution itself doesn't provide criminal penalties, but there (as noted above) are statutory provisions creating criminal liability for government officers that use their position to deny people Constitutionally-protected rights.

> The Constitution is strictly a metric by which courts decide what laws are allowed to say. It binds Congress, not other government workers.

This is not, in fact, true. Government actions by actors other than Congress, and not justified by appeals to statute, can be decided on Constitutional grounds, both negative (Constitutional limitations) and positive (questions of whether positive authority is granted.)

Some parts of the Constitution, by their own terms, bind Congress directly (but even these have often been construed as more general restrictions on government power even when not exercised through Congress.)
First time i hear about this and right away considering signing up.
Heroku Data Links with Postgres and Redis
And they probably didn't count all of the test crap and IDW tools that nobody's used since Bill Gates was there, but still get built every time.
You're welcome! That's one of the reasons we added it. (The other is that it's fun to explore HN's history.)

Since it has been over a year since that thread, though, we won't bury the repost as a dupe.
We can imagine a lot of things.

I was thinking of rather more evidence-based evidence.
It's pretty simple, create an email client and/or server which bounces emails from new addresses indicating delivery costs 1¢ paid to the receiver.
So, with TSX support in TypeScript, node and react-native, its now possible to write end-to-end type checked web and mobile applications (from database to templates). With full language service support (refactoring, intelligent navigation etc) that is also exposed via a standalone language service distributed with the compiler relatively easy to integrate with any editor. All that while seamlessly leveraging the entire node (and JS) ecosystem (just add a few definition files). And there even is a free, cross-platform editor that packages it all into one neat package: https://code.visualstudio.com/

Seriously, how cool is that? (Even though admittedly there are soundness issues with TypeScript, its still pretty damn amazing)
It's not just you.
Isn't that precisely what privilege means? Having advantages that accrue to you simply by membership in one group?

There are degrees of privilege, too. I'm not white - I'm multiracial white/Asian, though I look basically Asian. I'm also not a Stanford grad, and my parents weren't millionaires. However, I grew up middle-class in a reasonably affluent suburb, my parents stayed married, they were highly educated, and I'm not black or Hispanic. These are all privileges; they are unearned advantages that I obtained through circumstances before my birth. That I'm not white and can't call up a VC to get them to fund my company doesn't make me unprivileged; it makes me less privileged than certain 1-in-a-million individuals.
>"I am driving from Soma to Palo Alto so just notify me about the customers trying to do the same thing"

This exactly BlaBlaCar's* thing...unfortunately they have no plans to come to the U.S. I live in NYC and unlike most people here I have my own car. I often drive to nearby cities to visit friends. I would LOVE to have a widely used service like this, I'm so jealous to see, for example, BlaBlaCar's listings for people looking to share a ride from Paris to Lyon this Friday evening.

[1] https://www.blablacar.com/
Then whats the cause of the poor treatment?
"Communicating" doesn't solve deadlocks.

Thread 1 sends message A to thread 2 and waits for a response.

As part of processing message A, thread 2 sends message B to thread 1 and waits for a response... forever, since thread 1 is blocked waiting for thread 2...
You're right to some extent, except in cases where the data is easily verifiable by a third party.

I also think you're right that anonymity is of limited use for deeper reasons: it doesn't inspire, and it shows a lack of courage. Real change happens when people publicly stand up against power -- at risk to themselves, their livelihoods, their friends, and their families. Real change requires the will to put yourself in harm's way, but that will is precisely what inspires others to do the same and actually gets the ball rolling. A bunch of anonymous trolls will never inspire resistance even if they're right because they are not taking a leadership role.

Unfortunate that you're getting disagreement-downvoted for making a valid criticism.
ANOTHER UNIVERSE? NOBODY ON THIS UNIVERSE SHOULD HAVE THIS MUCH POWER
“I'm a Button”
It's also pretty trivial for smokers to grow a few marijuana plants if disposable income gets low. There goes that tax revenue. Cigarette tobacco on the other hand requires more processing and growing it for personal consumption generally isn't done.
Better english wouldn't help hiding his incompetence. https://twitter.com/lino/status/558222792496537600
Obligatory: http://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt
These are not the critical facts. The news media wants you to be outraged because it drives eyeballs. That's why it is in their interest to write the story in such a way that you think these are the critical facts.
Does TS really require type files for every JS library you use?

I tried to use it the other day with node.js but couldn't find a type file for the popular simple-oauth2 package.
I absolutely agree with you and was going to post a comment to similar effect but couldn't really find the right words. I'm presently a university student so I'm really just a few years removed from Ahmed's age and mindset. It's tragic to me that the default position of figures of authority toward students who are interested in technology (even in today's increasingly technology driven world), is one of suspicion and fear.

While I suspect that a lot of this is due to a generational divide between administrators and students, the message this sends is that students should not be interested in science and engineering because those topics sort of abstractly distant and scary. Students should be ENCOURAGED, not punished for being creative and inventive, even if it means they're being a little bit subversive or have viewpoints that run counter to those in people of positions of authority.
> This "benefit of the doubt" is a privilege.

I've never watched the show, but when one group of people is disproportionately represented in crime statistics, in some cases by a factor of 30x, then it's just common sense rather than benefit-of-the-doubt.
Most of them are dated from the 2000s.

It's hard to miss that it's on Knuth's website. Just because it's published by one of the gods of computer science doesn't mean that it is code in a style that anyone should be encouraged to emulate.
I don't think you grok the concept of privilege as I'm using it. My guess is that like many people who reject the term (or its common usage), you think "privilege" is an indictment of the people who hold the privilege, or a demand for them to relinquish it. That may be some people's notion of privilege, but it's not a very useful one.

Better is just to see it as a positive attribute, rather than a normative one. It is a fact that white men have some advantages in most tech workplaces, simply because they don't stick out. That doesn't make white men bad people, or obligate them to do things to genuflect to non-white non-men. It's just a useful thing to know, is all.
The NSA are not all-powerful. Grab Tails (https://tails.boum.org/), put on a pair of sunglasses, hit a local wifi hotspot, and go nuts.
Some physicists argue that there might not be such thing as independence even with "quasars which are located diametrically opposite to one
another"[1].

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.1811 - page 12