skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This experience, may make the boy turn into a terrorist- -being racially profiled..I could imagine someone being like "well they think I'm already a terrorist, might as well not let them down...' -- I mean seriously -- I hope the cops, and principle have their arses sued off for this crap.
Foley artists and prop guys are so responsible for this (obviously not morally).

Guns don't "sound like guns" (pew! pew! click!), bombs don't "look like bombs" (red dynamite strapped to a modernist circuit board with dramatic technicolor wiring), drowning doesn't "look like drowning" (dramatic flailing & yelling) etc. etc.

"Mr. X, it's like you're not a real teacher! You haven't even given a dramatic monologue about believing in myself yet!"
Politics is also a hierarchy and its worth keeping in mind that local politicians may have much better connections to people in the next tier than you do from outside. Your local state senator may have much better access to your federal senator and that level of access can turn into opportunity for them to influence them. If your state representatives know how important their behaviour with regards to federal issues is to you as a voter, you stand a much better chance of the system working how it's intended.

It's systemic lack of involvement that's causing the most issues in American politics. From the top with "lifetime senators" largely immune from their constituencies, and from the bottom with voter turnouts under twenty percent.
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dall...
Poor kid. Idiot adults.
Google Refugee and Migrant Response
I'm guessing it was some sort of standard lesson plan. The problem wasn't with the lesson plan so much as it was being taught by someone who didn't really understand or wasn't personally moved by code.

At that age I was the same kid who typed random characters in my Apple IIe at home pretending to be the G.I. Joe "Sci-Fi" who was "hacking" the Cobra Terrordrome. But somehow the static pixel assignment came across as the slowest coloring book ever and I didn't get the point of it at all. What I would have done for a reference manual or any bit of the internet back then.

I remember hacking Logowriter to trace out a clock's second hand in 6 degree increments over the course of a minute, but my regular teacher thought it was stupid and told me to finish the assignment drawing squares.
If he's called-in to early retire or otherwise let go, make sure he doesn't sign a non-compete at that time. He should have anything he has signed, and is asked to sign, reviewed by an attorney. It's just not reasonable for companies to terminate someone's job and tell them they can't compete including being hired by a competitor, but they try this all the time in blatant ways and it's not just the old guard companies like HP that do this. I've seen my share of "umm, excuse me but this basically puts me out of business, I'm not signing it" type contracts.

Contract work is not as difficult as it sounds. He already knows the work involved, can do a good job of estimating the hours of work, and getting the number of employees to match that work, and then par for the course is 2x-3x of the salaried rate because a.) the contract can be terminated, no severance, no health care, no bennies, b.) the companies can afford it and are likely already paying that or more for the same contract with HP, c.) he'll need business liability insurance, and slightly more complicated book keeping and tax assistance. It's completely sane for him to ask a company he has a very good relationship "what's in the budget?" if he doesn't already have an idea what this amount ought to be. Don't undercharge. It's reasonable to offer a discount for say 2 or 3 year contracts. If it's hourly, it should be expensive to incentivize contracts.

Anyway, this can also be referred to as "slow retirement" which is a working retirement.

Oh and the home improvement investments seem sane also. They certainly aren't getting done, and will need to be done at a bad time if he does get let go or goes for early retirement.
I really think that's a distinction without a difference. For all intents and purposes, they spied on google. If you consider the fact that Google considers consumers to be more product than client, the distinction matters even less. But to your other point:

This is the NSA's mission statement:

The National Security Agency/Central Security Service
(NSA/CSS) leads the U.S. Government in cryptology that
encompasses both Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) and
Information Assurance (IA) products and services,
and enables Computer Network Operations (CNO) in order
to gain a decision advantage for the Nation and our
allies under all circumstances.

And again, considering that HT sold weaponized crypto to non-allied countries, it's by definition "interesting" intelligence (in relation to the NSA).

Also, I'm quite sure that the language in that statement indicates more of an offensive role than defensive, since that's usually what "advantage" signifies.

Even if their purpose was defense, the way our Government is set up, it's defense of the government, not the governed, so you can't say with any confidence that they didn't patch internal systems that mattered to them.
Just not for the uber drivers exactly because there is no medalions :)
Wife and I made a joke political t-shirt. http://teespring.com/get-dump-trump
The sad part is that it's Carly Fiorina's fault for turning HP into the mess it was. And now she touts that as the reason why she should be president. It's a sick joke that she thinks gutting one of Silicon Valley's preeminent companies makes her worthy of being president.

HP was the first company to pioneer Silicon Valley culture, ie. The HP Way. It was only after Fiorina's tenure that HP turned into a shadow of its former self. They were one of the first to aggressively lay people off in the US and hire in India, and under her, they lost "The HP Way".

Every CEO since Fiorina has been a complete joke. Now Whitman is coming in to finish the job.
That's a considerably better article than the usual ZeroHedge standard. The mentioned law review article is worthwhile as well.
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That seems like a great idea ...
The uncomfortable truth at this scale is that some employees are absolutely essential and some are just phoning it in collecting a paycheck. Ideally management would have visibility into where the performers were, but with this many layers of management it's very very difficult to see the forest for the trees.

It's one thing to repurpose people when the trend lines are positive or at least flat, but in HP's case there is a real question mark about what growing sectors they can successfully move into. Certainly they still have the talent to do amazing things, but have the leadership with the deep visibility into the organization's inner workings and talent pool and the outward facing vision to actually pull off a reorg like that seems almost impossible.
Take a 15 minute break yourself. There's objective evidence that getting up and going walkabout every for fifteen minutes every hour or two is good for you. I mean, it's not like you stop working right? The break and the distance can really help.

If you happen to smoke (or are gregarious, or can pretend to be) you'll also meet everyone (for values implying a random distribution of all people working at your company from AP to exec) outside. You might be surprised what you can learn.
I hope nobody takes this article seriously. Having worked at a lot of companies and been involved with too many firing decisions, I can safely say that this fellow has no idea about all the situations and consequences of his suggestions. At the very least, talk to an attorney. Firings have legal implications which can't be dismissed by this naive advice.
They haven't even denied breaking into the HT Network. Should they be accused, would they?

I bet a dime-to-a-dollar that should they be accused, they'd release a non-statement to the press:

"We cannot comment on...."
Ask HN: Big Companies built by founders that had already failed
We often hear that failure is OK, but I wonder, how many companies with an exit were built by teams that had runs on the board before they started their "big idea".

Does anyone know of anywhere that has data like that?
Meg Whitman's 2014 compensation was 19.6 million, which is exactly 200 times your Dad's salary.
South East Vastu Defects and Remedy
"We penetrate targets' defences."

That would more likely be a GCHQ or MI5 or MI6 motto than an NSA motto.

A quick bit of Googling finds that the "PTD" in the slides refers to GCHQ's Penetration Targeting Defences unit. So it's their motto. Which explains the spelling.
Seeing others cheat makes you more likely to cheat
Wow. I wish Kickstarter allowed lawsuits to be funded, with perhaps some back-end participation on the award. That school needs to be taken to the cleaners.
13 years ago was still after HP's heyday. You need to look back further.
Apps can download an extra 2GB initially, which happens immediately after install. A further 20GB can be fetched as on-demand resources, hosted on the App Store.

The 200MB limit makes sense because it allows the OS to purge any old download-on-demand data when space starts to run out.
why do you have more pictures of your weird keyboard than screenshots from the device?

who photographs lcds honestly
Is it the result of spending $10.3bn buying Autonomy and $1.2bn buying Palm?
I guess he doesn't need a college fund, now. The inevitable settlement should be enough for him to attend a top-tier engineering school.

I wish there were a way to easily send him a $100 GC to Adafruit/Digikey/Mouser/whatever (and for others to match it)
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Yes, it would expand M2 money supply and affect inflation, but I don't think the scenario I painted was what Kinnard had in mind when he wrote "Banks don't actually borrow the money. They create it." To 'create money' under my scenario, you have to borrow it from someone else first.
The blockchain provides an immutable store of data. Access to that data may or may not be assured, but the data will be there regardless of whether it's accessed or not.

An immutable data store of data would be a new type of storage system the world has never seen before. Up until now, things stored in a database have always had a decent amount of probability they wouldn't stay there forever.

It would be nice to be able to pay a decent amount of stored value to keep some truths as universal truths, where the probability of losing those truths approaches zero. I think there are truths that are worth keeping around and ones that are not.

Figuring that bit out is the next hard thing.
British money is - or was - explicitly an IOU. The notes bore the phrase "I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of (n) pounds ..." Used to be gold, not sure what you get these days. Other countries also, like India.
One thousand times NO. The rule of law applies to all equally. This the ideal insofar as it is agreed that our current implementation does not achieve that it is an agreed deficiency.
The president murders their spouse, expect them to be charged.
By definition the rule of law applies to all. The End. Period. The price of freedom is eternal... etc.
FinTech and the poor – opportunities?
I am just baffled at the ignorance. Not only does everybody in that school automatically assumed it was a bomb, but the police has the audacity to: "They led Ahmed into a room where four other police officers waited. He said an officer he’d never seen before leaned back in his chair and remarked: “Yup. That’s who I thought it was.”"

The engineering teacher advising him to not show anyone else is just sad. He just wants to show people his passion, but everybody else's inability to for one second think that maybe this kid has great potential, rather think that he made a bomb, because what else could he possibly be making. This is infuriating.

You can buy your own damn clock kit on Amazon for $6! http://www.amazon.com/Electronic-Production-Suite-Clock-…/…/

How are these people in these positions?
Have a look at https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...

On-Demand resources allows you to have a total of 20GB of assets per app, of which 2GB may be in use at one time. Downloaded resources do not get purged until the device is running out of disk space.

The 200 MB is the limit for the initial bundle, so in the worst case your binary plus the assets of a loading screen. Everything else you can on-demand load.

The advantage of the 64 GB device is that you have more room before apps start to re-download assets. In my case (1 Gbit/s fiber), I'll go for the 32GB model and count on fast downloads.
It is o my the initial download that is limited to 200MB, once launched the app can then download another 2GB right away. You can have another 2GB on the device, and up to 20GB in the cloud. So 4.2GB on the device at once per game and all the slices in the cloud.
So common content in the initial 2.2GB and the rest in the swappable chunks.

I'm guessing this is for a few reasons, one would be to get debs into the habit of creating these downloadable slices for something down the track. But that's just a guess.

Another would be that the game is downloaded really quickly, from the end users point of view, and able to begin being played really quickly, without having to wait for 4-20gb to download first, then realize you've run into storage issues and have to deal with them.
Common files and first level or two while the next 10 are on their way down. Seems like a decent plan for a fast user experience, if that's why they are doing it.
I agree with the parent; I live in the EU and use both Uber and taxis a lot in Paris, Amsterdam, Malaga (and other cities in Spain), Faro, London; these are all quite heavily regulated and the normal taxi drivers are definitely generally unfriendly (sometimes they actually smell bad, will act annoyed because the ride is too short for their taste and cough without blocking their mouth and at one time a cab driver in Amsterdam had a baseball bat in his car because he got robbed too many times), the cars are far worse than Uber black cars and they are more expensive generally. In London I have been beside the road trying to get a cab for > 10 minutes while Uber takes less than 5 in most of the city. And I rather sit in an Audi a8 or Lexus than in a one of those uncomfortable London black cabs for less money (and free bottle of water which just makes it even better).

Edit: in NYC & Orlando I have the same experience by the way; unfriendly cab drivers, no seat belts, crap cars and generally more expensive. But I guess that's not well regulated?
Ya, I've been enjoying it :) I was worried you hadn't based upon your previous comment. I'm sorry I haven't returned to this yet, but will soon I promise.

I think we should try to find out where we have agreement and where we begin to diverge. That should make the remainder of this discussion tighter.
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> good content sometimes doesn't get noticed first time it is submitted.

Amid all the discussion about catching dupes I can see why this wasn't clear, but the point of these changes is to let more reposts through. That's the motivation for what we've released today (see "We've adjusted the dupe detector to reject fewer URLs" above). Every good story that doesn't get attention is a loss for HN.
Managing down is easy. Managing up is hard. How you go depends on the problems you want to tackle.
Years ago I did a website for a person who sold health insurance for businesses. It turns out that a business is defined as 2 people and can come in most any form. With business healthcare they accept anyone even if you have pre-existing conditions. It gets around trying to buy health insurance directly. Cost is pretty reasonable.
Facebook's new “sorry” button
This is a good idea. Someone should start a kickstarter like site, exclusively for dealing with shit like this. If it is run correctly, it might even take some load off of ACLU, EFF etc
If some employees are phoning it in, I think it's worth asking why. It's been a long time since I felt that way at a job, but for me it came out of shitty, disempowering, unrewarding environments.

But even running with your argument, that the people laid off are slacking, I think it's an enormous failure that they let 30,000 of those people accumulate such that they were wasting $3 billion per year. Especially given their massive layoff a few years back. And if they've built an organization where it's difficult to tell where they're wasting $3 billion per year, I don't see how that's anything but an enormous indictment of the managers.
Is that something you've experienced?
If you actually read the article, it says that the NY Times' operating costs were $1.48 Billion last year. $80 Million would cover a very minor portion of that.
Idiots vote for Trump to "make America great again" and when a smart American kids tries to build something they arrest him.
I quite like the way Stackexchange displays a list of similar questions when you're submitting a new question. It doesn't stop you from posting, but it does give pause if you didn't know it existed.
After they bought VoodooPC they turned that org into their Envy line which put out industry-leading PC's for a minute. Now it just makes low-end Mac knock-offs :(
You're right - private health insurance will be far more expensive than what he's paying now.

I don't think there's any way around that.

If he can afford to pay the vig, then COBRA makes the most sense for the short term.
If his employment does end, he can do COBRA for 18 months (although he'll lose the employer contribution of course).

Afterwards, ACA guarantees that a plan will be available. Depending on the state, you may be able to even get a quick quote online to get an idea of what the cost would be today.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ws7e8WyQvrsLfhSFvdGot3n9NWK...
Zipbooks
I like the app. Good UI/UX, nice features. Thanks for posting.
Signal Identification Wiki (VLF to UHF)
This is just one data point, but I bought an HP Stream 11 this year and run the latest Ubuntu on it. For a $199 computer the build is good and it makes for a good light weight spare laptop. I used it for some Haskell hacking tonight, and it is also OK for Java and Ruby dev using IntelliJ or Atom.
I agree. A lot of the techniques can be used in different markets outside of Jakarta. Would like to read a little more about the specifics of working in Jakarta - local rules, cultural nuances. But definitely lots of good advice here about building a team!
> for the last 2 years

Still solid gains over the last 2 years, but the chart forms a classic "head and shoulders" bearish pattern centered at the beginning of this year. I'd say there's a 50% chance that it will continue to fall.
You know it's bad when real headlines sound like they're from the Onion...
Tor's statement on Kilton Public Library's decision to reinstate its Tor relay
I'm risking getting downvoted to oblivion here, but as an EU citizen I strongly believe that the core reason we have this crisis in the first place (as opposed to something controlled) is nonexistent border protection from southern countries like Italy, Greece. Never have I heard of them employing border patrols to veer off illegal boats.

I am by no means denying the need for help for actual war victims, if I could say that, but current situation not only allows for, but actually encourages everyone seeking "better life" (and having financial means to do that) to come over. We call those [economic] immigrants and have rules. Now its wild west. And in the news reports I usually see people toying with iPhone 5/6 and wearing [designer] jeans/jackets. These may not even be the majority and quite probably a lot of those people are with a pair of shoes, some clothing and a mobile phone and food for a week is not included in the list of possessions.

I am all for growing a pair and actually declaring what is a war zone. Working with UN/NATO to establish a peace there. We (EU first, UN later) can and should establish "refugee camps" and TEMPORARILY accept people fleeing from previously declared war zones. After the conflict has been resolved, the very same refugees should be helped to get back to their homes. For everyone else we have rather clear rules on how immigration works. Because unless we do that fast we are sending the signal that EU is accepting everyone, giving homes and income. And in several years the crisis will be unmanageable. Oh, and do not think that USA is the other end of the world - you are already struggling with illegal immigrants from the south. Now just imagine the effect if whole countries decided it was worth a shot at least attempting to "find better life"?
VGeek:+Powercli+Get-Esxcli+install+VIB+files
When I was 11 or so we had a class where the teacher spent probably a total of 10 days of the year doing instruction, and the rest of it he just cut us loose on a bunch of late 80s-era Macs, with a few games, a word processor, and Hypercard installed.

We were allowed to play games a bit if we were bored, but otherwise we either had to write something, or make stacks. I mostly made stacks, and while I stuck to the visual tools in Hypercard at first, once I realized how much more I could do actually writing the code myself I got pretty into it. I didn't actually realize I had been doing computer programming until years later.

That might be the most influential class I ever took, looking back 25 years later, and it was so mostly because the teacher got the hell out of the way and let us be kids. Also, I miss Hypercard :-)
meanpath.com can do around 200 million pages per day using 13 fairly average dedicated servers. We only crawl the front page (mile wide, inch deep) so the limiting factor is actually DNS. Looking at the network traffic the bandwidth is split evenly between DNS and HTTP. Google public DNS will quickly rate limit you so you need to use your own resolvers (we use Unbound).

Unlike Blekko we are just capturing the source and dumping it into a DB without doing any analysis. As soon as you start trying to parse anything in the crawl data your hardware requirements go through the roof. parallel with wget or curl is enough to crawl millions of pages per day. I often use http://puf.sourceforge.net/ when I need to do a quick crawl

"puf -nR -Tc 5 -Tl 5 -Td 20 -t 1 -lc 200 -dc 5 -i listofthingstodownload" will easily do 10-20 million pages per day if you are spreading your requests across a lot of hosts.
Байкал+Картина+мира:+Кто+и+где+Я,+Бог+и+Боги+҉+Текущее+время:+16+сен+2015+12:41+
It wasn't unfortunately. The SPARC 10 had no built in CD drive like the newer 5 and 20 models so that couldn't control the audio interface and it didn't issue the right incantations to the CD drive I had. I was cheap so it was a non-Sun drive. There were no standards back then past things like MCI which only worked on PCs running DOS and windows 3.1.

There's a whole thread on Usenet somewhere with me complaining about this. I tried to find it but couldn't now unfortunately as it would be funny :)
Ignoring the crisis wouldn't make it go away. Maybe it is possible to keep the refugees out, but that doesn't help them. The whole world has an obligation to help these people.