skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was surprised, too. Remember that they introduced cashless payments just ten years ago.

I think it has much to do with the EU capping interbank fees.
Breaks are still necessary, but they're a lot less frequent and a lot shorter.
From eastern europe...
If a gypsy kid walks behind you you better keep guarding your belongings. Is that racist ? Yes maybe it is. But it is because most of the time THE gypsy kid is really trying to steal something from you.
Should you start being careless because somebody tells you that it's racist ?
Do you people really want to live in a world where gays,transgenders,gypsies,blacks,hispanics,yellows,purples are favoured and put on pedestal because some hundred years ago a white cowboy enslaved them and made them to pick a cotton ?
Ever heard of positive discrimination ?
And they didn't even call the bomb squad. Evacuated the school, etc. So I doubt they were even that concerned it could potentially be a bomb.
So how do we get his idiot school admin fired? That's the only way to fix this now. He's essentially marked the kid for life now with an arrest record because of his own stupidity. If our society doesn't punish these people (and it doesn't) then this would be a good use for Twitter shaming. He deserves to lose his job.
I have to disagree. They were messaging brokers masquerading as or mistaken for CRUD apps, which directly led to many of their early scaling issues.
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I'm always find the "more funding" idea to be somewhat dubious. Don't we already spend a ton of money on education? Perhaps even more per pupil than other developed countries?
#JeSuisAhmed
#JeSuisAdmed - let's show support for a kid, who quite frankly was victimised for reasons out of his control combined with ignorance - pure and simple.
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Typically it's very easy to get a credit card from an institution with which you have a checking or savings account. I wouldn't be surprised if you had to "opt out" at this point in order to NOT receive one based on how aggressively companies target people new to the credit market. (This is especially true for college students who routinely get cards thrown at them with insane limits)
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> If he didn't have permission to do it

From a previous news article I've read (not linked) - he claimed the previous system administrator told him to do it and he continued following their instructions. Again this has to have some other side to it - because if someone told me to do that and I googled what it was I would definitely question it and bring it to the administration and let them decide what to do (which some reports claim he had permission from previous administration). Originally they reported firing him because of running seti@home - but then they changed their story quickly afterwards.

> My point being, comparing what this kid is going through -- pure racist overreaction -- to a teacher installing seti@home on school computers without permission, isn't a great comparison.

It's a great compare because it shows how out of touch with reality school administration is. Yeah it's two completely different cases - but if common sense was introduced to both then we wouldn't be here discussing it. And this wasn't a teacher - it was a system administrator that was running it for several years. I find it hard to believe that if it truly was using that much more electricity that someone who does the budget for the school didn't catch it right away.
It's difficult how much of this is a race issue and how much if it is a zero tolerance issue.

At first I wanted to say, "If he were white today the same thing would have happened," but the more I imagine a nerdy white kid with circuit board in a case, the more I think that race played a big role.
Someone did start from scratch, almost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FITALY
There's the case of WebCamGate:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School...
The more difficult it is for the people living in a country to find work, the higher the productivity of the work force. For example, if only people able to obtain degrees from prestigious schools or able to succeed in low-paying internships that last for years because they have family to help them survive are able to get jobs, productivity will be high.

And France is known for make it hard for people to find jobs.

Productivity, in other words, is a measure of the value produced per hour worked.

If instead we look at the most often cited measure of value produced per resident, namely, GDP per capita, France is not doing better than Germany or the UK -- in either "nominal" GDP or GDP "purchasing power parity" according to the most recent World-Bank data.
but why not a CD collection?
Circuit board and wires? Must be a bomb. - Texas teachers and police 2015

D cell batteries and LED lights? Must be a bomb. - Boston police 2007
No, a PEP was required because there was a lot of discussion on the API, and also non trivial choices on the implementation (pure C? pure Python? C+Python?). To have an idea of the amount of discussion, read the "Rejected ideas" of the PEP:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0471/#rejected-ideas
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The language has nothing to do with it. Japan has a good economy while speaking in average even worse English than Spain. When the right conditions are there, the business is growing regardless of the spoken language.
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One thing that people haven't been pointing out enough is that the administrators didn't make the mistake when they questioned Ahmed about this device. If there's even the smallest chance that it could cause harm, they need to investigate. What they did wrong is everything after they learned that it wasn't harmful or anything resembling a weapon. They should have apologized and then sent him on his merry way. Instead, they're doubling down on this "no tolerance" BS and taking it out on a kid who has done nothing to deserve it. It's ridiculous. /endrant
Sounds like he was asking for it.

Notice in the video he says "he used a simple cable to lock it so it wouldn't look like a threat".

People are forgetting that there's nothing impressive about a "clock in a case". He called it an "invention". Sorry kid, you're 14, not 8. Nothing inventive about sticking a digital clock in a case.

His own engineering teacher suggested he not show it to other teachers. So what does he do? Takes it to English class where it makes beeping noises. Real smart kid, real smart.

It's a clock in a case. NASA are not interested.

Then, when first questioned he was apparently "passive aggressive", not explaining why he made it or why he brought it to school. Gee kid, you're really making all the smart moves.

Ask yourself, why would his own teacher suggest he not show it to other teachers? Here's why... his "invention" looked dodgy as all hell.

Hashtag "I'm not standing with this kid, not this time".
This whole situation screams a breach of the poor boy's liberties.

According to TEX. FAM. CODE §51.095 [1]:

In order for a custodial written
statement to be admissible, the following
sequence of events must occur:
1) the officer must take the child to a
magistrate;
2) the magistrate must then inform
the child of his rights to remain
silent, to have an attorney
appointed and present during
questioning and to terminate the
interview at any time;
3) the child must knowingly,
intelligently and voluntarily waive
his rights;
4) the officer may then take a
statement from the child; and
5) upon completion of the statement,
the child shall be taken before the
magistrate again and sign the
statement in the presence of the
magistrate (and outside the
presence of the officer), who will
then certify the statement.

This makes me sick that this kid was seemingly wrongfully interrogated. Sad to see that 'doing science while brown' results in him being treated as a second class citizen.

[1]http://www.tmcec.com/public/files/File/Course%20Materials/FY...
As a general philosophy, I like fine grained production of content. That is, lots of small independent developers, publishers, writers, etc.

For somethings, like giving Google specific permissions to make my life easier, I am willing to go with huge companies when I want things like Google Now to work. It is worth the privacy hit (sometimes) to have voice interfaces to my calendar, what music I want to listen to, generating quick notes, warnings of air flight delays, etc.

But, for content, I like to go to the sources (like democracynow.org) not the aggregators. While I enjoy reading some content on Medium, I can't help but think the writers are better off having their own domain and work long term to develop their personal brand. I think that social media like Facebook, Google Plus, and Twitter have value for publishing references to your work that is on your site, on your domain. I think of social media as micro-blogging: stuff that is short and doesn't derserve a full length article on your own site. Social media is also great for pointing people to good writing on people's sites.

So, I would say go with huge companies (Apple for Siri, Google for Google Now, Microsoft for Cortana) for specific services that have value. For everything else, support small producers.
Upvoted for correctly invoking Alan Kay's vision of object oriented. :)
Unfortunately in the US, bike paths have often tended to occur not because of sustainable planning for bicycles, but because people have tended to favor gas-guzzling cars over railways, the railway tracks fall into disuse and abandonment, and then get paved over as bike paths.

What would be much nicer for the environment is having both railway AND bicycles. Trains and bikes complement each other amazingly well; in much of northern Europe this combination is a perfect way to get around.

Having bikes and no trains sucks because you can't just cram bikes onto buses and cars, so bicycling becomes a hobby exclusively for the athletically fit who are determined to cycle long distances and carry repair tools wherever they go.

Having trains and no bikes sucks because once you get off the train you can't get where you need to.
They really, really try. Back when I was an AS400 jockey they started the transition. It went from having a guy on-site whenever we needed anything to having someone on the phone walking someone (usually someone unsuited for the task) through a debugging process.
Well OK, "but"...

Let's not pretend that the web site is the only party that can be hit financially here. Downloading megabytes of unexpected extra crap costs visitors money too (sometimes exorbitant fees if they don't realize they're on cell vs. wifi, or they trigger data-cap overages, or they're out of the country; not to mention consuming extra battery power for unwanted videos).

And of course ads ARE ANNOYING. They have terrible algorithms for avoiding repetition so you see the same exact thing 14 times a day. They are obnoxious as hell. They tend to do EVERYTHING wrong in terms of being user-hostile (e.g. hijacking interfaces or trying to trick you into clicking) and generating noise pollution and animations. They auto-open other pages and app stores, and sometimes auto-open them again after you close the first one, until you have to give up and kill the original tab entirely. Oh, and endless tracking. Given these things, why are advertisers and site owners remotely surprised that people are taking steps to avoid all this crap?

I'm not saying that it's been easy to solve the problem of paying web site owners but advertising in its current form is clearly not the solution. At the very least every page should have a "Here's how to donate:" link at the top to minimize the amount of revenue that seems necessary from other sources.
There was a good Planet Money episode on this phenomenon[1].

The short version is that, apparently unlike most European countries, there are thousands and thousands of banks in the U.S., each operating under both Federal and one of 50 different state regulatory regimes.

It's also the case that the U.S. was one of the first countries to move to electronic interbank check clearing and funds transfer, and the resulting clearinghouse is a big hairy legacy system that they're not particularly inclined or motivated to mess with.

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/10/04/229224964/episo...
They ask for a birth certificate here as well, already when starting. If you are foreigner, each year again. I guess they think the place of birth could've changed…
Do you have any examples of this being used on a live website?
I did know WhatsApp uses Erlang which supports hot deployment. But after reading this article, I still don't know Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users.
Well, they do more than just "one thing" like text-messaging. They support voice chat, location sharing, group messaging, games (I read that the Threes game is a WhatsApp game in Eastern Asia) -- lots of features.
This is a fantastic project from the MIT CSAIL team that builds brings together many cryptographic components into a integrated system. The academic papers on this are available from here https://css.csail.mit.edu/cryptdb/

Conceptually it's a sql proxy that decides how to maximally encrypt data based on the operations that are required. It can then weaken and re-encrypt portions of the data on the fly so that more powerful operations can be performed.

You can chain the encryption to the users login to to prevent cross user leakage.

This model allows you to have a database that is protected from adversary who have access to the database.

The encryption techniques include a partially Homomorphic scheme and other non-homomorphic schemes.

I believe that the team behind it seem to have moved on to a startup using similar technology. The code is not being actively maintained anymore. I was able to build it successfully on Ubuntu 12.04 with Bison 2.x(The code requires a mysql build which chokes on BISON 3).

They claim only a ~15%-25% performance hit although I've not yet be able to replicate that myself yet.
And the cop said (and I'm paraphrasing) "Yup that's who I thought"
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This isn't a comment on whether the original scenario was ridiculous or not, but you'd be surprised by how incredibly aware very young people are.

Even a three year old can easily understand the significance of signing something. Especially if you, as an adult, place importance on the ritual.

Asking toddlers to promise things, to explicitly agree to future events, is a big part of preventing tantrums. Three year olds are very capable negotiators.
As it's been stated, the problem is that insurance negotiates a lower rate, in addition to helping pay for it.

Example: I needed a sinoplasty/septoplasty. The procedure was $26k if I was uninsured. My insurance company had negotiated the procedure to $4k. I owed 10% of the procedure cost at $400. This is for a minor outpatient procedure. So, losing insurance means paying 6500% more for healthcare in this case.
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"I recommend using this opportunity to talk with your child about the Student Code of Conduct and specifically not bringing items to school that are prohibited."

As a parent, can I see the list of "items... that are prohibited"? I'd be pretty shocked if "clock" is actually on there.
I don't think there's much wrong with inequality in cases like this. It's a bit like pirated software: someone gets a copy, but the original doesn't disappear. Some people live longer, but the other people don't live shorter. Sounds like plain old jealousy to me.

Anyway, my point with the cars and phones was: innovations will often be accessible only to rich people, at first, and then get commoditized later on. Some people say this is a big flaw in communism: if there's no rich upper class, who's gonna finance the fancy stuff?

I don't give a shit that people are expected to die after 100 years and society is built on that. I would sign for 200 years in an instant. Speaking of dystopia (like GP), robbing people of 100 years because it would hurt your feelings if they lived longer than you sounds like a few not-so-utopian scifi stories to me.

"Why shouldn't the aim always be to let everyone benefit from advances rather than just those who can afford it?"

Of course it should! Didn't mean to imply otherwise (tho I can see why one would interpret my comment that way). If you nip something in the bud (=upper class), you can be sure noone's gonna get it.
We don't have a problem with Muslim children bringing bombs to school in America. I am dumbfounded by the idiocy of this comment.
I grew up in France; gradutated from University (so not from French Ivy League known as "Les Grandes Ecoles").
I'm currently in a consulting position and tried to launch several startups-ideas at the end of my MS degree with the "Auto-Entrepreneur" status and it was very difficult to find investors because french people are very pessimistic by nature and the atmosphere created by the state and the media is really oppresive.
It means that if you fail (and I failed), people around you will break your mood down (very hard to handle that).

You need to find your team of talented people who will be ready to use their own money to reduce costs.
It's almost impossible to recruit someone you don't personnaly know without a large amount of cash.
Splitting equity seems to be not attractive enough with french tech engineers...

The one and only advantage in France is that you can restart your life because you can easily avoid indebtedness in case of failure.
Holy shit, that is one of the most insane stories I've ever heard of. How was this not made into a prominent national news story? How have tons of school administrators not wound up in prison??
> Amongst the most noteworthy, Detective Lounsbury stated in the trial that a red link proved that Amero had deliberately clicked on the link to visit a particular pornographic page. Huge blown up pictures were shown to the jury. In fact, forensic investigation showed that the link visited color for the browser was olive green. The link was colored red because there was a font tag on the page turning the link red.

I have no comment for that.
After living in the US as a European for 1.5 years, I've come to the conclusion that americans tend to be more afraid in general. For example I've never heard in Europe of recommendations like 'when selling stuff through craigslist always meet at a starbucks but never at home' either. Also being smart and/or nerdy actually is valued in Europe.

It may also be a Southern thing though.
I've asked the question before on Quora and while having a co-founder is great, having the wrong co-founder could spell disaster.
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> What do you all think a company like HP should do when they (finally) realize that they're overstaffed by a big number like 20%, 30% or 50%?

Fire the person(s) responsible for letting things get that bad.
Exactly. To quote the Police spokesman; "He kept maintaining it was a clock, but there was no broader explanation" and "The concern was, what was this thing built for?"

Why shouldn't he make his own clock?! Why does there need to be a 'broader explanation'? How can one develop an interest in anything if you must first provide an adequate explanation? sigh
Hard to say. There's a formula for valuing such things:

http://www.financeformulas.net/Perpetuity.html

Whether it was a good idea or not depends on whether the pier generated enough revenue to exceed the amount that's been paid in interest over the last 367 years.
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(French expat here, so impressions are from a few years ago and reading the press)

The tax people are generally competent, and there was a huge effort to streamline the process a few years ago. The rest of the French bureaucracy often lives somewhere in the middle ages ("of course you need to waste several hours by physically coming to our offices"). And the bastards are totally unable to communicate with each other. And that's the ones with funding. The parts which are criminally understaffed like Pôle Emploi (nominally tasked with finding work for the unemployed and distributing benefits), you really don't want to have to do anything with.
Well, given that the police implied heavily that his religious background makes him a candidate for making a bomb...
In my day we called unschooling homeschooling. And it's a lot of work. It's a fix for those families that can afford to do it.

However the families most harmed by public school policies are precisely the people who can't afford to unschool or homeschool which is perhaps the saddest part of all of this.

[edit]: spelling
If the kids have any intelligence at all they're only going to grow up hating the bureaucracy.
It's called a secured credit card... as in it's secured by your balance with the bank. Using it helps build your credit score and history so you can get a standard credit card. I have a friend doing this now who's just never used credit before.

It's more of an issue today since so many people just use their debit cards whereas years ago people used cash and credit cards. If you wanted the convenience of not carrying cash, you had to use your credit card since ATM cards didn't have Mastercard/Visa logos and couldn't be used to pay for things in stores. That's how today you wind up with someone in their late 20s that's never had a credit card or a loan.
FWIW - The 20th edition Blu Ray release has some great documentary materials talking about the cast attending computer meetups in character to get context. Also some bits with the costume designer talking about creating the the 'look' of the hackers.
I bet they have the same understanding that roads can be used to kill people and transport illegal goods. It might be scary that people could at any whim kill pedestrians by unencumbered turning the wheel and pressing down the pedal, but is that knowledge worth forbidding cars and inhibiting free movement?
> If I had been a black kid? No way. I can’t imagine that the teachers of a white, white, white suburban Boston high school would have patted me on the head for all of that. Opening unlocked doors would have been taken as breaking and entering. If I told them that I’d put in a lot of time to decipher the mechanical workings of a common school lock and how to exploit its weaknesses, they’d have assumed the only reason I’d have gone to all of that trouble was because I planned to steal stuff, not because I was intellectually excited by an intriguing puzzle.

Too polarized and emotional. There is a problem, yes. But that doesn't mean that all teachers will treat a black or brown child differently from the white one. And also America is not the worst case. Here in Ukraine almost everyone hates black and brown people.
I'll also throw Elixir out there for being a much more approachable way into functional languages(and it runs on the Erlang VM to boot).
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The papers I mentioned above) indicate that it can be used against postgres. You can annotate your scheme to configure how you want the tables to be handled.
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