skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I have heard from similar cases previously is that in a school you basically have no rights. Previous cases the school has been determined to be within their legal rights when doing things like this(including involving the police). I don't know much more than that though.
Studying:

Machine Learning via Ng's course.
Modeling for Discreet Optimization using MiniZinc with Stuckey.
Devops via Managing Remote Teams on Edx Edge.
Org Babel.

Thinking about:

Construction industry economics and processes.
Who could be a cofounder.
CQRS, event sourcing, testing, actors.
Sheds.
Tiny Houses.
To quote (approximately) from Clive James (essay in Cultural Amnesia) on Gibbon's style "the Grand National, with fences 10 yards apart, each to be jumped forward and backward; and you have to carry your horse."
Hi Dan. I got a question, most people watch video on youtube, so I usually just save it in my playlist or "watch later". What features will you add in the future to make me use what you are offering?

That app in beta sounds really amazing. I was thinking about that kind of problem before in one of the classes that I was enrolled in. One thing i find interesting is that how will you do this cheaply? Since searching segments of a video will be really expensive from what I recall.
It might be worth outlining a bottom-line for yourself, from which to value-add.

Start with your value added.

For the extra:

For example, 40GB monthly bandwidth on DigitalOcean currently costs YY, therefore my cost is bandwith cost is XX depending on how much extra (new resources to spin, and people to admin this) is used.

Don't pick a number from the air. Have some bottom line to, first, make sure you're in the black, and second, can re-buff pricing challenges.
If my 17-year-old brother did the same thing, he wouldn't be arrested.

But my 17-year-old brother doesn't live under a racist cloud of "probably a terrorist."
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How about just "misconduct"
Top 300 Markets Slow Progress to Full Price Recovery
I'm guessing the author meant 'cofounder' and not 'confounder'. Although that might be factually correct as well.
All parents should send their kids to school with clocks tomorrow as a show of support.
..and the unscrupulous actions of advertisers have been devastating to the web I love.
"So they should have to actually break the law to get justice in a timely fashion? "

If you want to multiply the judiciary budget by a factor of 50 (which would be a lot of your tax dollars), yeah, i bet we could make this work, but as to the philosophical question:

Yes. If you have no danger of actually being criminally charged, the courts should be free to resolve the issue at their leisure. Yes, there is a chilling effect, blah blah blah. That is not the same as "some guy gets the death penalty or thrown in prison for life". Courts resolve those issues first, and others second. Period.

" that shouldn't be a necessary step."

Sorry, but i completely disagree. Criminal charges involve possibility of being thrown in prison. Civil things do not.

"The whole mess needs abolishing, but in the interim, 10 years is about 9.95 years too long."

Remember this the next time the federal judiciary has to sit in front of congress and beg for money to fill the existing vacancies in appeals courts, let alone become large enough to make what you want happen.

The pendency of appeals and length of lawsuits is directly related to docket sizes growing without bound.
I bet you don't have kids, or aren't currently thinking through the logistics of having them. Your mind games just don't apply equally to labor.
Well, you sort of are making my point -- 50 engineers is plenty (maybe even too many) to cobble together a solution to a problem that already has been solved and solved again.

WhatsApp did nothing technically challenging, but they did strap a business model (err, sort of) to something many others failed to capitalize on.
Whitepaper with about 10 different patterns for continuous delivery
As with almost any cool map you'll see these days, it's OpenStreetMap, via CycleStreets specifically.
When a currency disappears on a planned basis (like the Deutschmark) the government issues a recall of the currency in banks at a set exchange rate: e.g. for the Deutschmark it was set by law at 1.95583 DM = 1 euro (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Mark)

When a currency disappears entirely (like with Zimbabwe), there's a much more chaotic basis as it switches to separate sovereign currencies, which often have different inflation rates baked in. As this can be much more unexpected than a planned currency transition, the market often doesn't incorporate the expected changes in real interest rates, and often the exchange rate needs to keep floating for a while to account for ongoing inflation. More info on Zimbabwe's abandonment of their currency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwean_dollar#Abandonment_...
> How the fuck are the accoutants supposed to connect "big increases in electricity use" with "unauthorised installation of software on 5,000 school computers"?

Use common sense and ask people? Unless the school is doing something that requires that much electricity - it's probably reasonable to assume that it's the 5000+ devices that consume 300-1kw/hr of electricity.
Someone named Jacques Vroom buying one of these has to be right up there with "Headless body in Topless Bar" as godsends to lede writers.
I teared up a little bit because this article made me remember believing when I was a child that we lived in a truly free country, and I remember being proud and grateful of that. That sense of freedom has been eroded so gradually I didn't realize how significant it is.
Ask HN: Anyone interested in a mastermind group?
Looking for fellow startup founders to build a mastermind group.

The plan is to have a 30 min/1 hr session every week where we share victories, discuss challenges, set goals and encourage each other to achieve them.

The reason being it's been tough to find a mentor to guide me. Not sure whom I can reach out to. Hence, the thought of creating a group where we can push each other.

If you're interested, leave your contact information and I'll reach out.
True, but this is an edge case that is unlikely given the toll that pregnancy takes on a woman's body and the challenges for the family. If you have kids, can you honestly say that you think this would be a good thing to try?

Another issue is where the parental-leave financial support comes from. Should it be the company's responsibility, or is this a government initiative to invest in the health of its citizens? Would you support the idea if the company had zero financial responsibility for the paid-leave (and only had to bring the parents back on once leave is over?)
These rules do not exist because the government used them as loopholes, these rules exist because citizens used them as loopholes to sue other citizens :)

The government was already protected.

For example, you literally cannot sue the US government for torts without its permission.
This has been absolute since day 1 of our government.

The government has decided to abrogate immunity in a bunch of situations, but in general, the government was already protected from whatever it wanted to be.
only in america
Lisp in sed? There are two things wrong with that ;)
Seems like the easiest way would be to tie the payment to the cost of a basket of goods at the time of the issuing of the debt or at the cessation of the currency, whichever paid less (assuming you are the person paying) and then converting that to dollars at the date of the cessation of the original currency and then paying that amount.
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"never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence" isn't the case here I think. I think this is more about racial profiling more than anything.
Heartbreaking photo of why Ahmed Mohamed's arrest was such a travesty
Personally, as a reductionist, I like the idea that money is somehow permanent. Maybe economists like inflation, and perhaps it is "good" for the economy overall. But the idea that a dollar saved today can buy roughly the same amount of stuff in a decade or a century seems like a powerful idea to me. To me that seems like a goal that's worthy of pursuing because then money becomes a true abstraction that's not leaky. And because of the way my brain works, I see that as incredibly useful. Not having to always inflation adjust things, not having to do this or that, not having to worry about how much retirement you actually have versus how much you think you have, etc. I understand that for various reasons few other people want this, but that doesn't convince me personally otherwise.

One person described money as "sweat, distilled" and I find that definition incredibly attractive. I recognize that plenty of people making money not by sweating but thinking or whatever, but I still find it an excellent description. And I can't see how devaluing a person's effort over time is a viable strategy for building a lasting civilization. I think it leads inevitably towards the kind of throwaway society we have here in the US and virtually guarantees that we won't build infrastructure of long lasting value like exists elsewhere in the world. Well built stuff can last for hundreds or thousands of years. I wish money was the same.
The art and science of the scatterplot
Missed it? I said it twice :)
Although this may seem bad for many of these workers, I know of a lot of other tech companies that will be chomping at the bit to pick up many of these talented affected workers, though it may require a relocation in some cases.

As for HPE moving to these "low cost centers" for their talent, this is actually something I've seen happening where many larger companies are moving to smaller and mid-sized cities farther inland or down south in the U.S., places with adequate amenities to support their infrastructure and a decent workforce, but also within striking distance of large metros. The overhead and salaries in the DC beltway and Silicon Valley, for example, can be as much as 30-50% higher than locations just a couple hours drive away from them. So such a move to lower cost of living areas makes sense from a business perspective if you're running a services company in the IT industry and especially if you're serving cost-conscious government clients which HP has been doing in a big way lately.
> showed it around anyway

A teacher discovered it when it beeped. I'm not sure how you've lept from that to "showed it around".

EDIT:

> and was passive aggro when asked about it

I'm not sure where you got this from either.
And your employees are cool with being bugged day in and day out by potential hires? I am skeptical this could work for anything but a small shop.
Yeah dude, I live in Geneva for last 5 years, which is probably more full of french people rather than native Swiss. And let me tell you, I see this phobia daily, by people speaking often moderately well english, but having extremely hard time convincing to speak in it, in any possible way. If I go to France, same effect becomes 5x more obvious (of course this is anecdotal measurement). Every single person I've spoken to says same. I mean, every single person. Also those who spent years living/studying in France (Paris, Lyon).

It doesn't matter how crappy your school english was (btw why do I keep hearing this excuse all the time?), in very few places it's stellar (neither was mine at home). We all sound a bit funny. So what? What makes difference between French and rest of the world is that any guy will try to speak English, even broken one, and will try to help anybody speaking it (ie in his own country). With English in France, story is consistently different.

Yeah, just 5 years of daily experience, only only mine and all expats I know (this is always a funny topic to talk about). Who knows, I could get it all wrong :)
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> Crony capitalism still is not capitalism.

This reminds me of some people who pointed out that communism was never implemented and all the totalitarian regimes were still in the socialism phase. A phase which was obviously never going to be replaced with the communist utopia.

This is just a delay tactic. We all know what we talk about when we say "communism" and it's the same for "capitalism" - we mean the real-world, flawed implementation.
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"Defining" something is a fuzzy concept. Do we mean trying to find an obvious and reasonable meaning for it (like "get by at a minimum level") or are we trying to make it appear a worrying and unjustified excess with important and negative unintended consequences?
In fairness, a lot of us have built systems that are just as complex, if not more. This is par for the course these days. The article seems to imply that they're doing something special, and that Erlang has something to do with it. It's no surprise to me that people are skeptical of such claims.
School administrators should investigate whenever there's the slightest bit of harm? That would be an awful allocation of resources, only made wise because of fear of lawsuit. It would also be a theatrical exercise in neuroticism.

Sounds like schools should appropriate part of their budget for threat consultation.
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Those two consequences you predict are entirely contradictory. Less educated people will be pushed out of the workforce, but for some reason people will also disregard education that would increase their employability? Say what?

Living wage does have a specific definition - it is a minimum subsistence wage, that takes into account the cost of living for a various area as well as various things that are necessary to be able to work (eg child care, transportation, and medical coverage). It does not budget time or money for any entertainment or leisure time, or any long-term financial planning such as retirement or savings.

So in short it's a minimum wage, except a minimum wage that's actually based on the immediate day-to-day costs needed to keep you working at your job. In fact it's really less political than the minimum wage itself, since the minimum wage is just an arbitrary number someone chose - one that's usually low enough to require the government to subsidize businesses who employ minimum-wage workers, through various social programs. Why is the minimum wage currently $7.25 instead of the $15 equivalent it was in the 70s? We simply haven't legislated an increase.

Can you change what costs are considered essential to keeping you working? Sure, and those do change over time. 70 years ago you wouldn't have had to include child-care costs since you'd have a stay-at-home wife to care for them. And indeed such things should change when justified by conditions on the ground - we no longer live in an economy of 1-income households, and it's not just foolish to pretend we do - it's harmful.

I assure you that Americans demonstrate ample resistance to perceived increases in the living standards of the poor, it's unnecessary to preemptively rule out any changes down the road.
What's with the bashing of languages excluding English & countries that are not part of the English speaking world as of late on HN?

It's getting annoying and bordering on obnoxious chauvinistic & ethnocentric rhetoric.

Not the prettiest nor easiest one to learn either.

What makes you think that English is any better?

Actually and this is an objective assessment English is one of the hardest languages to learn at least from orthography and pronunciation standpoints and in contradiction to the prevailing belief of the opposite.

Unlike in Spanish or Italian and to some extent French which enjoy an almost uniform rules regarding pronunciation and orthography, in English you should memorize how individual words are pronounced and written and you can't deduce correctly how a certain new word to be pronounced or written based on the pronunciation because it is not 1:1 translation from official letter sounds to words.

On the other hand, when you encounter a Spanish or Italian word and you know your alphabet and letters and simple rules, you pronounce the word as is no surprises in the process. When you hear a word correctly, you could decipher how it's written even when you encounter it for the first time and the success ratio is around 99%.

Good luck trying this with the English language. Please get off your high horse and don't kid yourself, we foreigners are not learning your language that's English because of its innate "superior" qualities to other world languages. It just happens to be the global lingua franca of this age and we're adopting to this nothing more nothing less.
The current circumstances indicate a really high failure rate. Another approach would be prudent.
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Clearly.
This is why there are real ones.
Search laws/regulations from many countries at once; autotranslated when needed
Inside the hotel converted from Karosta Prison (2013)
probably his glasses. :P
> Anything bigger, whether a phone call or tap on the shoulder can really kill my session or workday.

This is so manifestly out of proportion to the disruption that I would (gently, as I am not unsympathetic, and personally I have no problem with IM, though emails can go to hell because developers generally ignore them) call it the kind of personal problem I'd hope you could work on and improve rather than imposing that on everybody around you who expect generally reasonable parameters of human interaction.
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange interested in publishing drone attack details
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I definitely wouldn't consider nuclear power in Canada to be a complete success.

In 1999, Ontario Hydro's debt stood at $38.1 billion, most of which came from the construction of nuclear plants. For comparison, the entire government debt at the time was a little over $100 billion.

These plants will continue operating well into this century, so when all is said and done, all of the cost overruns (and the 17 year shutdown at Bruce) will hopefully be worth it.

But it's unreasonable to consider nuclear power to be a complete and clear-cut "home run" and to suggest that, as the original article stated, "only fear and capital" stand in the way of rolling out more nuclear plants.
Why not make an indicator like the ReplayKit does for SpriteKit with a big REC indicator.
https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2015/?id=605
Wouldn't more funding in public schools just eventually lead to more expensive private schools which leads to there being new standards set for education? We've seen this recently with a college degree becoming the new high school diploma in regards to the job market.
Its for their safety so you cant fight back when they are beating / tasing / shooting you.
Some of those suggestion are counterproductive. For example unpaid overtime is great way to eliminate gender pay gap.
Having lived in the deep south most of my life I think I understand what's going on here.

It's not that they're afraid of things they don't understand. It's that there is a certain type of person they generally don't like. In this case it might have been a man that had some sort of intellectual curiosity, maybe a bit eccentric. And they will use their ignorance as a weapon against those people.

The police department knows full well they can determine whether this was a bomb or not. It's within their ability to interview every person he interacted with to find if he claimed it was a bomb at any point. Instead of doing that they will use their lack of knowledge to allow falsehoods to move the investigation.

It was within the ability of the staff to determine the monetary cost of this man's actions. In the very least they could compare the electricity bill during a month he was running SETI versus the next month when he was not. They could calculate the power consumption of the machines.

It's not that they are afraid of knowing. But that knowing or admitting the truthfulness of the facts makes them less powerful as people.
I appreciate the effort and kudos on being proactive, but this is not an effective way of talking to someone whose mind you are hoping to change. This will be read in a positive light only by people who already agree with the author and are already upset about the situation.

In the very first paragraph, the author mocks the people he's talking to ("Much to my surprise, this was not a satire article on The Onion"). Then he resorts to hyperbole ("inexplicably horrifying"), diverges from the topic at hand to get in a jab at someone else ("as much as I like to criticize our New York Police Department"), resorts to sarcasm ("Congratulations"), insults the people he's talking to ("such a severe lapse of applicable common sense"), and finally basically blames them for the downfall of a whole country ("Reading news stories like this makes me quite ashamed to be an American; I want to love my country and all that it stands for, but as long as this is the new precedent that we are setting, I can no longer do so.").

This style of writing is great for riling up people who already agree with you, but it's not effective at reaching people who don't. If you want to reach someone, you need to respect them, listen, assume honesty and good intentions, focus on the issue not the individual, and all the other aphorisms you've heard about dealing with other people. It does no good to put the person you are trying to persuade on the defensive.

Or in one sentence: You catch more flies with honey.
Depends on the product!

Are you making something that searches the entire internet for relevant documents based on a custom query? Or are you sending a picture to another phone that goes away in < 5s? Or is this a blog?

If you're talking "minimum" then theoretically it could be 1 person. It's very easy to scale static pages. Heck - you could host a static page on S3.
Perhaps surprisingly, to a small amount of people, "Exactly" isn't the source of the irony that I pointed out, but the fact that you are referring to the real issue, by which you dismiss that there are any other real issues involved. You did so without making a factual argument and without sharing any of the reasoning that had you arrive at that conclusion.

The mystical real issue for which no other explanation is offered is like a textbook example of a political narrative.
I agree it would be hard to take advantage of today. I hope we'll get better tools over time, like package managers and forensics tools that are aware of these things.
CryptDB is cool, but be very careful if you're thinking about actually using it for anything.

Muhammad Naveed, Seny Kamara, and I have a paper appearing at ACM CCS next month where we show that the approach used in CryptDB and other similar systems is vulnerable to a raft of statistical attacks.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/senyk/pubs/edb...

The problem happens when you have a sensitive field in the DB, and you actually need to run queries on that field for your app to function. CryptDB will "peel the onion back" so that your column is protected with a weaker deterministic or order-preserving encryption primitive in order to let the queries succeed. But then you're vulnerable to the statistical attacks that we describe in our paper.

Of course, the CryptDB authors are smart people, so they foresaw some of this. They describe functionality in their tool for marking certain columns as "sensitive", so CryptDB will never peel the onion back too far. But then you can't use that column for most queries.

Like I said, be very careful.