skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is actually very hard to sort out and is a deal-breaker for end-to-end email encryption. https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/000780....
Is it good or bad? The last time I was in Germany I was using 3G-only Aldi Mobile, with some tiny amount of data.
7 with a line through it is unusual in the US, but not totally unheard of.

Z with a line through it is quite common in mathematics in the US (to prevent confusion with the number 2.) Many people who do a lot of math carry the dash over to Zs in general.
These are fair points, though outside of a discussion focused on expanding access to tech.
If you trace back the source for these facts, the source is a tweet referencing an interview with Mohamed's father. These "facts" get bubbled up the chain until they make it into reputable news services without verification. It may be true that he asked, but I guarantee you that some of the critical "facts" you're reading about this will turn out not to be true.
Coincidentally, that's exactly the problem that notaries solve.
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Entirely depends on the the type of workload / application architecture. In some cases the rollback ratios will be massive (I've seen 70%). In other cases adding such a retry loop is unattractive because the latency jitter. Or retaining all involved data for a retry is unattrictive.

Yet Another problem is that you need to enforce all sessions potentially involved in a data race need to use serializable; that can be easy or hard, depending on the scenario.
Messing with that faders feels weirdly good.
Seeing that photo did remind me of an episode of "24"
This is thinly disguised marketing, spinning a huge negative for Uber in India into a positive.

The situation in India is that Ola (Indian Uber clone) is by far and away the leader. The cool thing about Ola is that you can pay by cash. Indians prefer cash and dislike credit cards, and so Ola rode that desire to huge success (http://fortune.com/2015/09/16/india-ola-unicorn-funding/), while Uber held tight to their cashless utopia, receding away in Ola's rear view mirror.

This then is nothing more than Uber finally admitting that their pristine model was wrong for India. So instead of a mea culpa, they turn it into a fantasy design trip and journey.

I do admire the chutzpah though. Hustle hustle hustle.
Yeah what would Black and Hispanic people know about that?
> In short, yes, it perhaps wasn't the greatest idea for Ahmed to be walking around in school with something that could be perceived as a bomb

This part of the issue has been less focused on than the racist angle, but the fact that kids are scared to tinker because of the zero-tolerance hyper-sensitivity of schools is in my mind the more interesting part of the story.

You're probably not wrong, but it's hugely sad to me that you consider it a bad idea to bring in a personal project, with permission, advance notification, and repeated clarifications of what it actually is, simply because it "could be perceived as a bomb" (which means it has wires?). I can't think of a better way to discourage kids from tinkering around with electronics.
Sarcasm son....
Its a negative situation (and almost certainly symptomatic of a system and culture which produces other, less noted, negative situations), but one which -- because of the notice is has attracted -- is likely to be net-positive for the person who was the direct victim of the initial negative consequences, and might (one hopes) raise some attention that might be directed toward dealing with the underlying problems.

Its not a simple positive or negative -- it depends on what people do because of it, only some of which is now known.
The public intervened, and I think it is a net positive. Bad that it happened, sad similar things happen and don't get reported on. Would do us well to try to find similar, more pernicious failures, (kinda like the FAA does when there is an accident). Glad it is getting reported on in this instance.
Look at the companies that are non-Google entities (the ones under Alphabet that aren't under Google):

* Google X - moonshot projects that aren't software centric.

* Google Fiber - mainly a infrstructure setup. May share some stuff in piper.

* Google Ventures - investment arm, not code related.

* Google Capital - more investment stuff.

* Calico - R&D for biotech.

Anything that would be software centric will probably still live under Google inc. As well, you are forgetting so many products that Google has. There are various lists of them out there [0][1].

[0] http://www.google.com/about/products/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products
As a large white man, similar things have happened to me.

"Can we have this conversation in the stairwell so I can stand 2 steps down and make you feel comfortable?" <- actual thing I've had to say and do with a crazy female coworker

There may be some racial bias here (I don't have enough reliable data to have much of an opinion), but don't think majorities are immune.
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Self-hosting is not a solution, in particular because it simply pushes the "entity you have to trust" from Google to your VPS provider or residential ISP.
So you're saying California needs more geniuses then?
Thanks for sharing your thought. We talked about this and are going to implement it.
As someone who was once 16 and suspended for much the same reasons, I developed a severe mistrust of authority, became a libertarian, and am pretty highly successful in my adulthood because of it. Unfortunately, it doesn't make me very popular at parties - Most people seems to have some strange stockholm syndrome for the shitty teachers they encountered.
You may be right that the kid doesn't deserve all the attention he is garnering. But he did go to jail unjustly. He deserves something. To say otherwise is being a dick.
The specific systems I'm thinking of were Google-internal, but there's a close public analogue with Guice & Dagger:

https://github.com/google/guice

https://github.com/square/dagger

Imagine injecting Futures into your code. Now imagine injecting them, but having the Provider record a lot of metadata about who you were calling, how you were calling it, how long it took, whether an error occurred, letting an SRE turn off the call, etc.
That sounds like a roundabout way of saying "filter bubble". Having to defend your opinions once in a while isn't all bad. If you have to surround yourself with people you find intelligent you might just be biasing your social circle towards people who agree with you a priori.
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@Pixelcloud, very well put!!
It's the worldwide presence where Uber had the massive advantage. If Didi/Ola/Lyft/Others decide to merge/parter only than will they stand a chance.
Yikes, you are 100% correct. I appreciate the correction!

https://www.sec.gov/divisions/marketreg/mrecn.shtml

I blame wikipedia which says:

> ECNs are sometimes also referred to as alternative trading systems or alternative trading networks.
Anything over 50% of rides being cash causes this to become an issue. Assuming everyone who can use credit always does, since there's about 20 cash users for every one of them the uptake of Uber among cash users only has to be 1/20th of the uptake among credit users to get to 50% cash rides. If anyone who could use credit chooses to use cash instead this number could be much lower.
> In fact, what we're talking about is stopping people at the door because they have the wrong skin color.

What makes you think that YC is categorizing by skin color rather than, as is more typical, self-identification?
Did I suggest otherwise? Re-read my comment.
> Regardless of what someone looks like or what their name is, if you see them at a school with a device like this and it's beeping, I think it's reasonable to call the police.

I don't. All sorts of electronic devices beep. A bomb requires some kind of explosive and that suitcase looks empty apart from some electronics. Giving people a pass on assuming random electronics they don't understand is a bomb does not make us safer.

> It's a tragedy that we see bombings and shootings in schools - but we do see them, and far too often.

School shootings are far more common in the US than I'd like, but still fairly uncommon. School bombings on the other hand are incredibly rare. I can find only two in my lifetime. One in 2009 had no casualties. The other was the Columbine shooting which was quite deadly, but as best I can tell the deaths were all the result of gunfire rather than the bombs.
>Whenever you update your site, just do step 4 again, and IPNS will make sure anyone asking for your peedID gets the hash of your latest site.

s/peedID/peerID :)
I mean this in the friendliest spirit possible, but if literally everyone you meet feels you are condescending, perhaps some of them are right?
The critical facts are:

1) He took a clock to school

2) He got arrested

3) He got suspended

That alone should be sufficient to cause anger. US isn't a crime free zone. Why aren't police spending time dealing with real actual crime?
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When I was in HS, I did Bot Ball. Our robot was powered by a HandyBoard, which definitely looks like a bomb: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HandyBoard_GJP.jpg. Remember going through the airport with it on the way to finals, joking around about how it looked like a bomb. Didn't get in any trouble despite being brown. And it wasn't just us--thousands of kids did school projects with the HandyBoard over the years. It was very popular.

I'm tempted to believe that people are just dumber than they were when I was a kid, but the truth is that this sort of thing is a freak accident. A hundred kids bring something like this into school and it's virtually guaranteed that one will eventually hit school administrators that are low on the bell curve.

Also, I'm seeing a lot of "Texas" in comments to this story. It's really unfair. I'm here in the DC metro surrounded by highly educated latte liberals, and they're some of the most paranoid parents in the country. Don't think for a second this wouldn't happen in, e.g., Silver Spring (where those parents got CPS called on them for letting their kids walk home from school).
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At the time it felt like it should be something rewritten in C++ (or Rust now).

I do miss getting to play with stuff like that.
What evidence do you have to support this? What personal knowledge to do you have to support this? What accompanying expertise do you have to support this?

It's odd to me that people with (assumingly) no knowledge on the matter feel they can aptly deduce complex situations into one sound bite of a sentence.
It depends on how this school and others change in reaction.
The article has one picture of the device (obtained from the police), one of Ahmed being led away in handcuffs (probably from someone's phone), and two that look like they were taken after this became a media sensation. Are there others?

You don't think a 14-year-old or their parents would know better than to talk to the police without a lawyer, especially after what's happened so far? Or that they haven't been contacted by dozens of lawyers wanting to represent them?
You'd be surprised at how many people assume these bigcos are open to doing the right thing when they're shutting down.
You're debating that he was at an airport? Or that he didn't keep the thing in his backpack?

Both of those were reported by the school itself. And the tweet came from a reporter at the CNN.

I'll grant that CNN isn't the best, and has had issues, but for the purposes of this convo, I don't know how that is relevant (it's not like anything you or I say is going to matter to anyone anyway).
I figured this sort of thing is talking to the perpetrators. It lets you say "fuck you" but without people getting upset at your swearing.
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"Independently" is also a loaded word - one could mean that there's no direct causal connection between the state of the system and the state of the measurement apparatus, or one could mean that those two states are (in ensemble experiments) independent in the statistical sense.

In order for Bell's theorem (and a lot of subsequent quantum theory) to work, we have to interpret causal and statistical independence as being one and the same. But the more one learns about the theoretical justification for this conflation, the shakier it seems. Bell, in particular, justified it by claiming that it was unscientific to assume that experimenters didn't have free will. Okay, sure.

Any universe where the assumption that experimental measurement settings are always already statistically correlated with the state of the system being measured (even if that correlation would have to have been established millennia ago) is fundamentally weird in certain ways - these kinds of theories are sometimes called 'conspiracy theories' as it sort of seems like all the information is there and nature is conspiring to hide it from us. But there's a whole branch of super-determinist interpretations of quantum mechanics motivated by the sense that this kind of weirdness is not as bad as the kind of weirdness we'd have to otherwise accept. This kind of work has been out of fashion for a while, but it seems to be gaining a certain amount of momentum in the last decade or so.
>Plus, the laws of physics are based on a set of axioms,

Well no. They're based on empirical observations.
Is it really a good, constructive point, though? Boo hoo, too big? Having to make concessions drools?

The cutting edge of building xplat desktop apps with browser tech involves independently bundling Node and Chromium, so it's gonna weigh 100+mb like a single Chrome browser tab. That's life.

Yes, we all have different appetites for different sets of trade-offs.
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As usual, the results are positive only if your story happens to have whatever peculiar mix of characteristics make it get picked up by the media. Especially with the advent of crowdfunding, a person who's been wronged and whose story goes viral very often ends up "net positive" (e.g. the old lady chaperoning a bus who was verbally abused by her students and ended up having strangers send her almost half a million dollars.

The far more important subtext (and the reason that most of these stories take off) is that they are often indicative of larger phenomena. Most kids facing racism or having their creativity stifled by their schools _don't_ have their stories blow up and so their stories are nothing but "net negative".
> The situation in India is that Ola (Indian Uber clone) is by far and away the leader.

Do you have any source for this?

Personally, I have stopped using Ola due to its shoddy app and "service". I find UberGo more reliable and cheaper. Uber hit a bump last November where Reserve Bank of India mandated 2FA for credit card transactions. However, Uber has come up with a nice hack to get around this - direct to credit card payment gateway after the ride. That has enabled them to use debit cards (which is common in India) for payments as well. They already had tie ups with virtual wallet services like PayTM after the credit card directive.
Agreed. Just verified this by checking Apple Maps. I do not understand why you are being down voted.
Most teachers aren't teachers after a few years[0] so most teachers do not benefit from having old lesson plans, most teachers are not making the upper levels of salary, and most teachers will never collect on their not-social-security-pensions.

The school day may be 6.33 hours (including lunch) but do you only count football players as working 3 hours a week when you watch them on TV? Teachers have to do a lot of "under the table" work to make those 6.33 hours (including lunch) happen.

When are those tests getting graded? When are those struggling students getting extra help? When are those lesson plans getting written? When are those parent-teacher conferences happening? When are those teachers going to football games/plays/other events to make connections with the students? When are those teachers writing letters of recommendation for those students? When are those lesson plans being modified to meet the needs of students with IEPs? When are those lesson plans being modified to meet the needs of ESL students? When are the formative and summative assessments being analyzed to modify lesson plans to better meet the needs of the students?

Those 6.33 hours (including lunch) are just the hours that teachers spend in front of the camera. There is so much more work involved to support those 6.33 hours (including lunch). Even for the long tenured teachers. If a teacher is resting on their laurels and just rehashing old lesson plans, then that's one of the "bad ones".

[0] http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/03/30/395322012/the-hidd...
I'm not sure I see the point...

You could make things much more readable by just using decent formatting and descriptive variable names. I know, it's decorated C code, and academic C code at that, but damn, some of that stuff is a mess to try to read.

Maybe I've been in C#/Java/Python/JS land for too long, but javadoc/xmldoc/docstring documentation is a lot more readable. If you really want to, you can dump in markup, pictures, non-ASCII characters, etc into the html-based documentation.

The more I look at it, this stuff must be a monstrosity to try to actually write. I can't see it being at all attractive, unless you were doing well-defined, algorithmic code. Or you could write it in normal C and package it as a library that people might actually use.
where "pro Islamic" means he ran on a campaign including things like "ratifying human rights" and repealing laws against converting from Islam.

There's a bunch of anti-Muslim sentiment around. Standing up to that doesn't make someone a radical hardline Islamist.

This is a kid that enters robot competitions. https://twitter.com/sudanibae/status/643999495131262976/phot...
"It is an example of a white male privilege"

No it is not. You cannot point to poor treatment of one group as evidence of the "privilege" of another group. There are more than two colors of people.
"The fact that you brush this off as unimportant is exactly the problem here."

And how does "absurd, overblown, and counter-productive" (my words) translate into "unimportant"?

The words of politicians are generally unimportant, as they are easy to come by and seldom backed by action. That was my point. Must I too engage in today's Two Minutes' Hate to pacify the Outrage Patrol?
I've had similar as well. Literally had managers tell me I can't express anger the way others do because it was intimidating when I did it. Size matters as much as anything in that kind of situation.

At one job, I regularly interacted with a man who was larger than me and often angry. He was a few inches taller and 70-80 pounds heavier. He'd had a couple people threaten him with going to management for official notice when he got angry. I ended up dealing with him because I sort of understood how he felt about all that, so I'd just let his anger wash off my back. I knew he wasn't actually threatening.

But it did give be the perspective of seeing someone larger than me who was angry, which was something I hadn't encountered as an adult. I could then see where others were coming from as well.
Not white privilege, but profiling of Ahmed.
Ah, well I stand corrected. Thanks for the pointer!
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I don't think people are dumber now. They're just scared of different things. This generation has the boogie man of terrorism, and last generations had DnD and Satanism.
Racism happens in people's hearts and minds, not in policy. Fixing racism means fixing hearts and minds.

Calling us "one group" diminishes the value of diversity, which is more or less a fact of nature. We are NOT all the same. Cultural intelligence is a thing.

Anyway the specific problem with your race-blind view is that throughout American history we have employed race-sighted policy at every level of government to ensure peril for certain minorities.

Correcting those efforts is an _active_ process of reaching out to the historically disadvantaged who, it can be proven, continue to feel the negative effects of racist American _policy_.

Is that a more reasonable argument?
> It's not much of a stretch to say that this applies not just to LGBT people but to all kinds of people that the crazy right-wing fundamentalists dislike, including smart people and Muslims. From my personal observation having lived in Dallas and Richardson all my life, I can vouch for this

My general observation as an outsider in Texas (Dallas 3 years and Austin 4 years) is way off from yours. It's not a question about right wing hatred, that's just hyperbole. There is an attitude in Texas where if "you aren't one of us", you don't belong here (in a subtle way). That in my opinion is undeniable. I bet if this incident was at Highland park, the result would be the same.
No, action from Texas educators is warranted: specifically, actions that acknowledge that what happened to this 14-year-old is incompatible with a positive learning environment and a commitment to education and actions to ensure it doesn't happen again.

A pox on the politicians. They'll spin this eight ways to Sunday and nothing will be accomplished.
> 1. It sounds really awkward in German (most speakers will pronounce the "W" as in German, i.e. "Vi-Fi").

This would hold true for Dutch too but I don't think WLAN is used in the Netherlands. Permanent residents may confirm.
If anyone here wants to know about the long history of Affirmative Action you should definitely read "Affirmative Action Around the World" by Thomas Sowell.

Can't sing enough praise about it. Sourced incredibly And clear logical points.
I'm with you. Disregard the downvotes cast by people here, who live in their San Francisco bubble.
This is a good point but I was not suggesting surrounding yourself with people who agree with you. I meant people who disagree with you without getting emotionally invested or spouting logical fallacies.
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> Not that this actually matters but out of morbid curiosity - did he actually assemble a clock kit or did he simply disassemble a regular nightstand clock and put it into a little carry case?

Either way, he is 14. Like the saying goes, 'everything is a remix'.

> I don't think he actually made anything

That's pointless judgement for something that a 14 year old himself claims in this video as 'really easy... something small': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mW4w0Y1OXE

At 14, all that matters is you are willing to learn, persevere, and have the courage to create something. (Actually, that's all that matters at any age of one's life.)
Have you actually seen the history of Affirmative Action? I'd suggest you read 'Affirmative Action around the world' by Thomas Sowell. There's a plethora of sources and facts packed onto every page, very enlightening.
You can pay by cash when you take an Uber in India now.
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Also, even if someone at the NSA carried out a program that violated the Constitution, there still wouldn't be jail time. That's not how the Constitution works.

The Constitution is strictly a metric by which courts decide what laws are allowed to say. It binds Congress, not other government workers. And there's generally a presumption that a law is legal until decided to be unconstitutional in court, otherwise people would be afraid to do their jobs.
Dear HS Hackers, build your own clock and bring it to school to show support
This idea started around the HS Hackers community: please build your own clock at home and tweet #IStandWithAhmed, to remind him it is OKAY to bring this stuff to school. Let us encourage creativity, not break it down :).