skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say your expectations around car ownership are significantly out of line with a typical car buyer or someone who may be reading Consumer Reports. I don't think most people buying cars have any real expectation about communication or any relationship with the manufacturer of their car, and having the drivetrain replaced twice would seemingly be a dealbreaker in terms of brand loyalty for a great many car owners.

Obviously early adopters make for a different market, but I think your experience only serves to confirm Consumer Reports' latest report.
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Because that's what he's criticizing - the fact that he didn't build the electronics, but only made a different case.
It changes it dramatically. People are saying he got in trouble because of racist school administration being overzealous. The reality, according to the best information we have, is that he was intentionally antagonizing his teachers for attention. What he made is a few blocks of play-doh away from looking like a bomb. A teacher sent him to the office for making what undeniably looks like a hoax bomb. Zero effort went into this - it wasn't a science project, it wasn't inventive, it wasn't something worth showing off other than "hehe this looks like a bomb!".

The way he was treated by officers was absolutely shitty, but it wasn't any different than how officers treat people all day, every day, at schools all across America.
Now if only they would let me see all my past Google searches and known web sites they think I've visited, then that would be interesting.
Then the user can never click to open the link in the same tab, they have to copy the link-> open a new tab -> go to the URL.

The UX problem seems to be browser-side and is there only by convention. The default should be "new tab" and "same tab" should be "hold control". This should be a user-toggled option. It makes `_blank` unnecessary and gives all control back to the user.

The next step is an issue with users: most people I meet who aren't tech-savvy don't know how to open things into new tabs. Which is why `_blank` is used so liberally.

It seems to me the defaults are wrong. More often than not, I want a new tab. But there are still times I don't want a new tab.

I don't know of anyone who wants "new window" but I assume they must exist somewhere. Probably in hell, where they belong. /tongue in cheek
Regarding your analogy: I still never had it explained to me who pays child-porn producers.

The economics of invasive celebrity photography go like this: companies pay (down-market) advertisers to get them name recognition; those advertisers pay tabloids for ad-space; the tabloid pays paparazzi for a hook to go on the cover.

What are the comparable economics of child abuse?
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Why is it absurd?

Whether it's true or false is another issue (I don't claim to know his motivations) but absurd?
> And it changes nothing. To claim that he was trying to make it look like a bomb for attention is absurd.

What is more absurd: that a teenager violated a school rule to get attention, or that a whole bunch of school administrators and police officers couldn't tell an alarm clock apart from a bomb?
Backscatter deposits that radiation disproportionately in areas of the body that are prone to cancer - skin, testes, breast tissue, etc.

So those areas that are particularly sensitive take a disproportional hit with this technology.

This [1] is a letter from a group of prominent scientists and oncologists at UCSF who wrote a letter to the White House about the uncertainties of the technology when it was used by the TSA at airports.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/os...
The school and the police didn't over-react. The media simply glossed over what the kid actually did.
Why is it so absurd? Because young people never do stupid things for attention? Was the school/police reaction over the top? Yes, for sure. Is the counter-reaction given to this kid in an effort to appear to appear to be on the side of goodness and rationality equally silly? Absolutely.
While I agree the voyeurism is distasteful and a blatant violation of privacy, in my mind the more egregious aspect comes from the written content accompanying the photos -- The faux narrative about the rich and famous that twists reality into a narcissistic and somewhat psychopathic social order which people try to emulate. Their fictitious stories perpetuate copy-cat behavior from the lower and middle classes yearning to reach the rubicon of celebritydom, leaving a vacuous and cruel chunk of society brainwashed by sadistic fairy-tails.
Zero tolerance policies effect everyone. I'm sure if the kid was white he would be treated exactly the same. Now, it depends what kind of white kid, certainly. The captain of the football team? Probably a slap on the wrist. Anyone who wears black more than a day a month? Definitely getting arrested.

According to the district documents, the policies for a "look-alike weapon" are the same as those for a weapon -- see:

http://www.irvingisd.net/cms/lib010/TX01917973/Centricity/Do...

http://pol.tasb.org/Policy/Download/367?filename=FOD(LEGAL)....

Zero-tolerance policies do disproportionally damage students of color (like many policies in most countries...) but they're perfectly capable of damaging white students as well, and it's almost certainly false to say that if a nerdy, technophillic white kid brought a strange device to a Texas school, he wouldn't be arrested for possessing a "look-alike" bomb.
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>Al Jazeera is based in Qatar. Watch for the dad to appear on that network as a frequent commentator on anti-Islamic prejudice in America -- this was probably arranged weeks ago, possibly even before the hoax bomb incident.

Care to record this prediction on predictionbook.com or better yet, a betting site?

Edit: Because it's interesting, and I think something like this deserves to be aggregated and quantified.
>For those of us who remain in the United States: I think it's a sad state of affairs when "embracing opportunities" that result from horrendous discrimination in Texas means associating with a country best known for one of the worst genocides in recent memory

Yeah I'm sure the only option was to move to Oman. Come on, this is one of many opportunities offered and they decided to go to Oman. You're aware this kid just got his picture with al-Bashir - a man facing ICC charges for genocide in Darfur. I hope this kid's family has his best interests at heart.
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I like the comps you use - we have baseline companies providing just part of the equation, like ZipCar, so we just have to extrapolate for the tech overhead to auto-drive.
But not usually worthy of a White House invitation.
I'm surprised that Obama stuck his nose in this. He really should let "local news" be local. Not everything has to be a federal case.

And when I was 14, I was building real digital clocks out of 7400-series TTL chips. And so were many other nerdy kids back in 1976.
It actually started as a wrapper around Young's much earlier DES implementation, written as a drop-in replacement for Solaris's DES tools which were unavailable outside the US because of export restrictions.

I know this because I've dealt with a company that distributes files in Solaris-compatible DES format from an unencrypted FTP server and helpfully supplies Young's libdes to interface with it.

Well, at least it isn't EBCDIC...
luckily, this article mentioned that,

> Little more than a decade ago, stars like Paris Hilton would “inadvertently” leak their plans to the paparazzi — part of the wink-wink symbiotic relationship that fueled their tabloid fame. But what once took an army of clamoring paparazzi can now be tweeted, Instagrammed, Snapchatted, and Vined.
Where is the developer community going 2 years from now? I think we can derive some sort of Moore's law for new languages/frameworks for JS/Web/Mobile. Objective C and now Swift. Coffee script and now Type script. JS frameworks and more frameworks. What can be the tighter bound Moore's law alternative for new frameworks and languages for Web / Mobile/ IOT. It almost always doubles every two years for sure.
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A 7 Series on its third drivetrain within three years would have people tearing up message boards about how terrible internal combustion engines are
I was expelled from 7th grade (1996) for just holding a toy gun[1] (a friend brought it to school, but let me play with it, which lasted for about 5 minutes). The superintendent said they had a zero tolerance policy for guns and lookalikes after Columbine. My mother made an embarrassingly huge fuss about how overboard they were going, and ended up getting the expulsion overturned at a sort of appeal "hearing", which resulted in me missing just 3 days of school. It was a really stressful situation. I'm Caucasian.

1. Something like this: http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/orange-plastic-water-pistol-i...
Maybe I misunderstand

Yes you do.

which implies some kind of unmoored Cartesian ego selecting one alternative or another

"Implies". Hmmm... no. You're stubbornly insisting in the wrong mental frame that muds the waters, where the self is outside nature. That's a relic of religious thought. That vision has no support from science at all.

Quite the opposite: that what we experience as will is actually an after-the-fact event

That doesn't follow my question, just returned to your absurd premises and described what you think it happens based on them.

What does that mean?

We're not free in a vacuum means that we don't get to choose that we like food, sex or games. It means that we get to choose our behaviour to feed, have sex or play at different times or delay gratification to optimize satisfaction for our whishes.

Actually we're also free, to a certain extent, to change ourselves, to refine our tastes, to train our body, to increase our will power observing how it works and controling our reactions predicting them.

Do you have any evidence that, given the same circumstances, I could have chosen to do something differently?

The same circumstances!!! Do you realize how absurd is what you're asking for? So freedom for you consist in the ability to contradict nature laws? No wonder you think it doesn't exist.

The Stanford encyclopedia link is a great read.

Fine, you're not going to get bored.
There's no where in the US this kid can go and pursue an education in a STEM field? You really believe that? Good lord HN is a pool of overreaction.
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Because he didn't, period.

There are only two scenarios here that are tenable. Either he built a real bomb and brought it to school or he didn't build a real bomb.

If he didn't build a real bomb then the question becomes whether or not he attempted to scare people with a hoax bomb.

Unquestionably he didn't build a real bomb. Moreover, he didn't attempt to scare anyone with a fake bomb either. He brought a clock to school. He insisted to everyone that it was a clock. And he tried to avoid showing it to people.

That is not a hoax bomb in any sense of the word. If you don't have a hoax bomb and you don't have a real bomb then what do you have? Panic, and bigotry. Nothing more.
this entire incident is inextricably linked to the fact that he is Muslim and not white.

Based on what proof?
What's most absurd is that his parents weren't wise enough (optimistic theory) to tell their kid that this was a very shitty idea.

This is a case of parents using their child as a publicity stunt (pessimistic theory).
The official USDA-certified label is, in my view, just clever marketing.

When common people say "organic", they think of local farming, no pesticides, renewable resources, and other warm and fuzzy thoughts. However, the official label is quite different.

The organic label, contrary to popular opinion, does not forbid pesticide use. You merely have to use "organic" pesticides, such as Rotenone. If the organic pesticide used is not as effective as conventional pesticides, farmers will use more chemicals. These of course leach into the watershed.

There are many articles about this; here is one I found on Google.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/science-sushi/httpblogss...
What he did is not impressive to literally anyone who has ever used a screwdriver. There is no initiative or creativity that goes into dumping the contents of a digital click into a pencil case. It was attention seeking.
Funny because in this very discussion

> This kid stuck a Radio Shack clock in a pencil case, and deliberately disrupted a class with it after he was asked to put it away -- he plugged it into the wall and left it beeping until he was kick out of class and arrested for having a hoax bomb.

> The only thing the clock this kid made is telling is that we're still in a time where racism and xenophobia is rampant still in America.

Sure ,but is it about racism ? or is this about the media making stuff up ?

Was he arrested because he was "brown" ? or because he behaved like a moron in class ? I don't have the answers, but let's choose our champions carefully here.

The media often make up their own stories just for the sake of milking them ad nauseam. It wouldn't be the first time.
I just found I was being charged by Heroku for a service I never used for 8 months. I emailed them, and they offered me half off this month's bill, and nothing in for the past charges. Granted, I should have been more aware, but I've found Amazon to be extremely forgiving of my mistakes, crediting me for quite a bit of the charges for the few I've made. Given that I didn't actually touch my Heroku account, I actually feel they could have been more helpful. I say this because the big fear of cloud services is that you'll rack up charges you didn't mean to. I think a forgiving attitude for true mistakes is just good business. I'm not interested in Heroku from here on, as a result.
Can we not argue about vi(m) vs. emacs? Thank you. :-)
I was thinking of something similar recently. Does a crowd-sourced type weather system make sense.

My initial reaction was yes, yesterday we had a rain storm in Sydney, but when I got home to Bondi, it barely rained. I would have planned my day slightly differently had I known that.

But that points to the problem with a crowd-sourced model. It can only be for real-time. So, getting the weather where I'm going to be in 30 minutes, is maybe fine, but how does that change in the next hour?

Those were my thoughts. Doesn't mean this won't work, just my experience.
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Okay, just donated to Pro Publica.

https://www.propublica.org/site/donate3/
>Al Jazeera is based in Qatar. Watch for the dad to appear on that network as a frequent commentator on anti-Islamic prejudice in America -- this was probably arranged weeks ago, possibly even before the hoax bomb incident.

One of the biggest allies to US doing that? Can you not talk about things you know nothing about please?
For anyone who doubts this interpretation, here are the relevant district policy documents outlining the classification[1] of "weapons" (which includes "look-alike weapons" in the terminology of the district) and the penalty[2] (mandatory expulsion, as required by Texas state law).

[1] http://www.irvingisd.net/cms/lib010/TX01917973/Centricity/Do...

[2] http://pol.tasb.org/Policy/Download/367?filename=FOD(LEGAL)....

Does anyone think that the American media is some unbiased, objective actor that brings stories to the national attention on nothing more than journalistic merit?

Because if you do, you're either stoned or stupid. Remember that this happened in the middle of a news cycle about Donald Trump and other Republicans being islamophobic.

I'm willing to think that the kid and his father aren't deliberately gaming the media machine, but obviously nobody above that level is acting out of anything but self-interest.
> versus one larger motor on just the front axle.

I think you mean rear ;)
Hey, thanks for the feedback. I totally agree about educating people on good practices. This is a big part of what I want to do over the next few years - I think educating people on the scientific method, especially in regards to self experimentation is important. We want to work to create best practices and protocols in the self-experimentation/quantified self world. We are planning on putting together some content (videos and such) on the topic and incorporating that educational aspect in our platform.

As far as the supplements go, I agree with that as well. We're planning on adding more once the L-Theanine trial is sorted out. This is just our practice round to get the protocol right. What other supplements would you be curious to see?
> This whole episode was engineered by a politically active family, who is now running off to Qatar with all the free publicity and stuff gullible Americans gave them.

The more I read into the story the more it seemed like the kid wasn't as innocent as he appeared to be when the story broke out...
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The administration knew it wasn't a bomb. If they actually thought it was a bomb, even slightly, they would have had a bomb drill. They have bomb drills for anonymous phone calls for shit's sake. They knew it was a hoax and he was attention seeking which is why he was sent to the office.
One school+police district screws up, the entire nation up to the POTUS and numerous corporations extend their support... and his family then decides to leave the country?? Eh, fuck 'em. Seriously, he has huge opportunities here, both for himself and also as an advocate for other minorities in tech.

This is a pretty bad insult to the USA, no way around that. Very ungrateful.
How about people stop changing what links do, and let the user decide by via right click or ctrl+click/cmd+click?
Do the producers actually get paid, from some kind of market, or do they do it to on their own (like "amateur pornography") and just share it / leak it? The moral issues and the huge risks involved seem to big for people to go into that professionally and I can't imagine any viable market.

Secondary sources might get paid for access of course -- or might even not, all those stories in the media always talk about forums / clubs etc. and people exchanging stuff, not so much paying for it.
That is not how zero-tolerance policies are enforced in any school district.
Ah thanks, it's been over a year since i did the initial evaluation, sounds like i'm overdue another :).
If the photo was taken with an Android device, and uploaded to Google Photos, most likely Google associated your location with the GPS coordinates in the EXIF data of the photo.

I was at Zion a few weeks ago, and did not see any equipment on the road or in the parking lot that was automatically capturing license plate data, if that's what you're asking.
With that thought, I wonder if GE, Siemens, Mitsubishi, etc will move into the market of creating electric motors for automotive use. They all have a lot of experience in electric motors.
The one thing I don't understand is how it went off in class. Did he plug it in? Do classrooms all have plugs for laptops now or did he have to situate himself near one? Alternatively, did he use the battery backup? Wouldn't that mean he set the alarm for during class when it was plugged in and then unplugged it?
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"Turning voice Activity off doesn’t stop Google storing your recordings, but it means they get kept with an anonymous identifier, and can’t be easily linked back to your account."

"Off" is the new "on". The Direct Marketing Association's definition of "not tracking" is similar.
But the fundamental problem is that it shouldn't matter - you can't legislate away bigotry. In fact, attempting to do so just creates resentment which is passed to the next generation.

You can legislate a sane school/legal environment that removes the arbitrary and capricious power from possible bigots, overreactors, and other adult bullies.
If a kid was waving around a plastic gun that was painted black, would it be the same social justice concern?
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I assumed they did something to improve matching, but I never imagined they stored the 'raw' (as in actual voice, albeit probably compressed) recordings.
https://history.google.com/history/

Search history, and chrome browsing history, both from the desktop and Android.
Mercedes isn't a car you buy for reliability, and the core market are people who want to be seen driving Mercedes -- most of whom lease, because who wants to be seen driving an old car.

So yeah, they aren't Honda Accords. A friend had a "hanger queen" S class that was in the shop for 3 months in its first year. When the car itself is good, electronic doodads are supremely unreliable as well, reflecting poor reliability.
What you're saying is against everything else that has been said. He showed it to every teacher that day until he was sent to the office. He plugged it into the wall so it would beep and get the teacher's attention. I am sure he said "hey guys it's just a clock!!!" with a shit eating grin knowing people's reactions to it was that it didn't look like "just a clock". I know because I was that kid at his age too and did shit like this (but with pictures of things like looked like a penis but TOTALLY WEREN'T GUYZ!!!).
Sorry, I can't get past the fact the CIA director has an AOL account.
True, as soon as I wrote that I thought of the few counter-cases. But they are all genuine navigation cases: clicking a link in Google search results, clicking an actual nav link, etc. Most of the time, I don't want to actually navigate, I want to open the referenced material like it is a foot/end note.

Far too often, I accidentally forget to ctrl-click on a link, and lose my place in the original document. Especially for something like HN, which tends to be long, and somewhat dynamic, so that items can reorder themselves or have new items added into the DOM when reloaded.
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If you're using Chrome, have it authed to your google account, and have browsing history enabled in your sync settings, it's all here:

https://history.google.com/history/

I find it invaluable.
His father emigrated from Sudan, so not so unlikely that someone who is ethnically Sudanese might be invited to visit Sudan and meet the president.
Can we at least admit to ourselves that what he built would have passed for a bomb in a movie? Because while I agree the whole thing was handled poorly, it's not completely implausible to think that was a bomb.
> he plugged it into the wall and left it beeping until he was kicked out of class

I'm trying to imagine how this would happen and I'm failing. Do you have some sources to back this story up?
No, but the media has shaped the narrative to instruct the public as to what the intent was. If a kid brings a fake gun to school, they'd be arrested too (wrong or right)
That's irrelevant to the question of Ahmed's intent
> That is not how zero-tolerance policies are enforced in any school district.

Zero-tolerance policies are their own can of worms, but neither such policies nor any possible explanation of their enforcement explains the characterizations made after the fact by both school and law enforcement officials regarding the supposed "hoax bomb".