skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>How dare they successfully make music for a living, and expect their family to live normal lives! The arrogance.

How dare they successfully make crappy music for a living, beating the shit out of the art of music, and willingly watering down their offerings, while at the same time selling themselves as sex symbols and teenage idols, oftentimes willingly cooperating and provoking the media for cheap publicity, and expect their family to live normal lives!
So you have no recordings, and you claim Google doesn't allow you to delete recordings...

I guess you're technically right, Google doesn't let you delete things that don't exist.
Just wait a year - the news cycle turns, and this kid will be forgotten.

In 3-4 years when he applies to college, unless the administrators explicitly look his name up, I doubt they would care.
On the (in)security of a self-encrypting drive series [pdf]
He wasn't arrested for building a bomb, but for building a fake bomb. I don't think you should arrest a kid for that even if it did, it's not worth it.

However, it's not insane to think he was trying to cause an incident. The hypothesis goes: he wanted to get a teacher to believe he had a bomb so that he could claim religious profiling and racism. If that is what happened, that technically is a crime because the bomb was a hoax bomb.

Why would someone think he was trying to trick a teacher into thinking it was a bomb. It's a weird thing to bring to school. It's not like he actually make a clock on his own. Clocks are not super impressive, but it's a good beginner amateur electronics project. But he didn't even do that. His comments in the media don't really show any understanding of electronics.

Why was he so proud of pulling apart an off the shelf alarm clock and nailing it into a pencil case? He brought it out in each class of the day for no reason. He set it to go off in class for some reason.

And then when he was questioned about it, he was reportedly very tight lipped. He could have been nervous being in trouble. Or he could have been trying to create a scandal.

Mark Cuban said when he called the kid that someone else was feeding him answers. His sister got in trouble in a bomb scare situation at the same school district.

And then the family goes on a media tour meeting with mass murdering Islamic leaders--al-Bashir. And suddenly the family is moving to Qatar.

His Father was also involved in a high profile media circus regarding a Koran burning.

It's not clear that it was a purposeful stunt. But I don't think it requires conspiracy level thinking to believe it was.
This is an incredibly dangerous position, all the more dangerous because it doesn't seem so. Fundamentally you are dehumanizing someone. You are denying someone the protections of civilized society, you are refusing to empathize with someone else's suffering. Because their status as famous and/or rich obviates the need for compassion.

And yet, is that even remotely true? Does being rich and famous make someone so much happier and immune from suffering that a little extra suffering here and there (such as invasions of privacy by the paparazzi) still results in net less suffering than the average person? Every indication seems to point toward that not being the case in the vast majority of cases. And there are many indications that the cost of fame can indeed result in significant suffering, as many high profile suicides and overdoses after long battles with drug addiction testify.

Celebrities are just people, they should be treated as such.
Specifically, the claim that you can get all the sleep you need if you just get your 15 min of REM each session. There's so much more going on than just REM. Really, there's no good evidence for the claim that only REM is required. Meanwhile sleep problems can have a huge impact on health.
Provided that swift was created for doing ios gui work, which i think deals a lot with run loops, i wouldn't be surprised if the first server side technologies we see with that language are based on event loops.

Yet, after having tasted go channels, i can't help but think that it would be so wonderful to have the same kind of tool ( or even something closer to erlang actors) for concurrency along with such a fantastic language as swift...

Anyone knows of people experimenting with those ideas anywhere ?
> 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.

That may make unwarranted assumptions about competence of the particular officials involved. Though, I'd say that if they thought it was a bomb, then their reaction was just as bad as if they didn't, for a different set of reasons.
Yep. "target=_blank" is one of those things that, like pop-ups and BLINK, seemed like a good idea at the time, but proved too easy to abuse. If I want to make your site more "sticky," I'll open links in new tabs by myself. This should probably be blocked by default in most browsers.
Unfortunately for your snark, the facts are against you.

Fact 1: Ahmed claimed to have "invented" this clock in a video. He did not. It is proven without a doubt to be a radio shack clock's guts stuffed in a case.

Fact 2: The clock was powered via AC, meaning no beeping (one thing all accounts report on) unless it was plugged in. Which it did. Who plugs in an alarm clock in English class?

Fact 3: His engineering teacher, the guy he supposedly brought it in to show, told him to leave it with him / not show it to other teachers. He did otherwise.

Fact 4: There is no legitimate evidence that this incident was based on race. Plenty of white kids getting kicked out of school for toy guns.

Fact 5: His dad is a known political agitator, most famously for a koran-burning incident in Florida a while back.

Taken alone, any one of these things don't really mean much. Added up, there aren't many scenarios that look good for him.

I really don't see why this is so outlandish to consider - it takes knowledge that school admins are generally idiots, combined with a misguided desire to either highlight a legitimate problem (said idiocy or islamophobia, take your pick), or plain old fashioned fame seeking.

Not exactly rare mindsets.
While i knew that google saves my location, i have explicitly told it i can. That fucking map scared my god.

Not sure how it got all those locations some of them makes sense i used google maps in my iphone or i caried my Android tablet with me.

Some of them seams to be based on to me unknown sources.
I do not like being tracked when i dont know how it is done.
Google says Google was doing a bit over 3 billion queries a day. Let's say 1% are voice (which is prolly way high). 30M voice queries at 5 seconds each is 42K hours. At 10MB per hour that's 420GB per day. Seems rather trivial.
> Each exotype achieves expressiveness similar to libraries written in dynamically-typed languages but implements optimizations that exceed the performance of existing libraries written in low-level statically-typed languages

Terra seems to grant a lot of the benefits of writing a compiler for your problem with much less of the pain. A high-level dynamic language for metaprogramming and scaffolding paired with a low-level static language for performance-critical sections.
...assuming there's no shielding between the equipment and the cabin, right? Turns out there is shielding:

"Law enforcement officers operate the system in conditions of complete safety from inside shielded cabins." (Source: http://www.nethun.it/index_en.php?sez=security_en&sec=rm )

Don't miss this delicious advertisement video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iABPKd0vFxQ
> modern GUI toolkits actually provide presentation freedom similar to the web

They let you change colours, typefaces and shapes slightly. You could do that with Windows 1.

That's not the same as what CSS allows (complete reconfiguration).
True 'nuf. I suppose I meant "selling" in terms of promoting, not dollar bills.
There's a difference between pursuing an education and being treated normally socially. I mean "ruined his life" is an exaggeration, I'll admit, but it's pretty tough to get this much attention in a controversy and then just leave that all behind. A significant portion of my friends think he's a terrorist, for goodness sakes...
>That "look for where traffic is routed through a single lane" makes me strongly suspect there's going to be traffic officers in the very near vicinity.

In that case those "traffic officers" will be further down directing traffic to the van, not in the van's target.
> 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 kicked out of class and arrested for having a hoax bomb.

Cite? That's contrary to all the reports I've seen.

Even if he did plug it in in the classroom instead of simply forgetting that the alarm was set, it still doesn't justify the actions of the school employees or police.

This is the second time in this comments section someone has posted a conspiracy-esque "it didn't happen the way the press said!" and the second time that the conspiracy theory has completely missed the point of the incident.
By the way, radiation exposure is cumulative throughout your lifetime. There is no safe minimum level of radiation exposure. How much radiation you get on a flight is irrelevant to the topic at hand.

AIUI the "linear no threshold" model of radiation is widely accepted, but not universally accepted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model#Cont...
> I'm surprised that Obama stuck his nose in this. He really should let "local news" be local.

It was already national news getting heavy coverage at the time. So, letting local news be local wasn't relevant to this case at that point.
Sure, and to be fair there are people who needlessly use angular, scrolljacking, and other horrible magicks when building something that doesn't need it. But my experience of the debate has been that there are many many people who think that MVC frameworks are only suitable for "cool" projects like soundcloud, and that the other 90% of front-end developers don't have legitimate use cases for them. I don't think this is a fair or informed assessment of the field, but it can sound like one because it appears to offer a "simple" solution.

As for the 1MB download, angular is about 100KB minified (most of the space in angular is comments, which contain ALL of its documentation). Angular is also used in so many places that if you pull it from a CDN your users should never have to download it. In my experience, my SPAs themselves rarely outweigh 10-20KB. Worst case: I have to download 120KB of JavaScript and parse it. Still though, I find that AJAX requests to slow backends still take up most of the load time -- meaning that if my app was a conventional one, the page would take a while to appear at all, then load instantly. Of course, with Angular 2, I've heard server-side rendering comes into the picture, making the whole "where should I render my templates" discussion moot.

Sure there's a lot of back and forth and a lot of complexity. But in my experience, many clients and businesses want the kinds of modern touches that only a SPA can give them, and the tooling we have around our code exists to make the task easier, even if it may seem complex at first.
Yes, but you often end up with half an angular app: a bit of templating, a bit of boilerplate around your AJAX calls, some AJAX here and there. But you quickly run into problems:

- Your designers need to change the markup of the invalid form alerts, and you have to point them to a string building function in your JS rather than an HTML template.

- Once they change the string builder, you need to run your unit tests to make sure it still works. If you don't have any way to do dependency injection, writing unit tests of client side code will be difficult.

- Now your presentation logic is split between front and back end. This makes engineering tasks like assessing test coverage and refactoring more difficult.

For some use cases AJAX only may work. When I'm doing a side project that involves a lot of visual stuff and little state management, I'll ditch the MVC framework and task runner and work with just jQuery or D3. But if I'm working on a large project where many other people are contributing, I want a framework that helps me write testable code and provides structure to help keep my concerns separated.
Django 1.9 beta 1 released
You might know something when thinking about it but never have been aware of it. "Oh yeah, I guess all this time they must have been doing that."
EasyBCD 2.3 released with full support for Windows 10 and EFI installations
No, my actual argument is that all arguments of the form "If the government is allowed to do X then they have to be allowed to do Y, Z and Z' " are a bit silly.
A surprisingly well written article, by buzzfeed standards. I always thought of buzzfeed as a clickbait silo, but that appears to have changed at some point.
I would say Rust's type system has a lot more in common with Haskell/Ocaml than with C++, at least, although it's not quite as flexible as what Haskell offers (a lack of HKT is painful sometimes).
I always assumed Scandinavians were the gullible dhimmis but quite refreshing to see how far Americans are willing to bend their reality distortion field to appease Islamists. The kid is innocent and was used as a pawn. The same can't be said for the impressive list of asshats that tried to capitalize on this as did the boy's jihadi dad and the Muslim Brotherhood - though you know them as CAIR.

While everyone who brought up an ounce of critical thought was instantly dismissed as a "nazi" by the Good Guys™

And you wonder why people are growing increasingly right wing. Stop appeasing Islamists while throwing people like Nawaz and Khan under the buss
But see, I could make something that I called a "clock", and tell people that it was a "clock", and still deliberately make it seem like I've got a bomb that I'm trying to pass off as a clock. The "trying to avoid showing it to people" kind of fits this idea.
The clock was AC powered (you can see the cord and transformer in various pics) - it's not going to make any noise without being plugged in to a power source.
Yeah, it's a situation that should never have happened. If your friends think he's a terrorist, get new friends. It's one to think his family faked it for attention (which I don't, but it isn't like the father doesn't have a history of attracting attention to himself on purpose), another to just call them terrorists.
Neither would actually building a clock from scratch have been, usually.

The White House invitation was a direct counter to the negative overreaction of local officials, and a means of sending a message to other tinkerers -- and other local officials -- that the kind of reaction that occurred was not acceptable.
I've had ok experiences with Comodo for wildcard certs (through Namecheap and direct). Both times the cert never arrived in my inbox after domain verification. Had to contact support but then they (re?)sent it straightaway.
Obligatory fleventy-five reference: https://panglott.wordpress.com/2015/01/27/fleventy-five/
Stick to python- Numba is a python compiler that compiles numerical code to Cuda and LLVM that is faster than Julia (single threaded and multi threaded).
Made in the U.S.A.!
The Sexism of School Dress Codes
I wonder if this, or a variant, would be appropriate for septal defects? My daughter had open-heart surgery at a very young age (~11 months) due to an atrial septal defect. It would be astounding if this were a viable option to avoid such drastically invasive surgery.
Ooops, left out the link to Gartner. It's this: http://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/windows-10-does-no...
Ask HN: Is there a market solo-man pentesting / vulnerability assessment?
Out of curiosity, why would a drivetrain replacement be a dealbreaker? The replacement is usually a one or two day job in the service center, and they give you a loaner Tesla while they have it. Why do you care if they pre-emptively replace your drivetrain?
Arachne: a self-contained graphical web browser for DOS and Linux
Yeah it's looking like a well executed pivot.
Wolfram gives away 10^6 Cloud credits and Wolfram Alpha Pro for a simple challenge
Best self-hosted Dropbox alternative as of 2015?
Me getting new friends doesn't help Ahmed. The same attitude is all over. That's my point. Huge portions of America think the kid's a terrorist. That's not HN exaggeration. That is literally the words coming off their keyboard. I don't think he stood a chance of a normal life in America.
Software as an asset. Software as a liability
GNU vocaloids?
http://www.irvingisd.net/cms/lib010/TX01917973/Centricity/Do...

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

These are the relevant documents. They are short enough to read them in less than 5 minutes. Can you tell me what the legally-mandated punishment is for bringing a non-weapon that resembles a weapon onto school grounds is?

It's easy to bikeshed about "characterizations", but there are legally no other ways the school district could have reacted on the day they were making decisions.
The fact that you disagree with someone doesn't per se make them wrong.
Induction is a very practical solution for when you don't have your USB charging cable with you. Plus, who's going to steal the coil to use at home? And it's a pretty magical experience when you use it.
I suspect other high end brands don't have fit-and-finish issues, but is it true or just brand distortion field ? any actual bmw / mercedes owner ?
It's true, not every language goes all-in on functional programming — but just because some functional languages are less strongly functional than others, that doesn't mean it makes sense to call every language currently in use a functional language.

I mean, it seems pretty useless to define "functional programming language" in a way that includes both C and OCaml just because you can pass functions around in both of them.
There are several parts of this I disagree with, but the one I disagree with the most is onboarding emails.

Can I use your product in the email? No? Then don't send me an onboarding email, do the onboarding in-product with overlays when I log into it for the first time. Google does this with some success for Gmail if I recall correctly, it has arrows pointing at different sections and everything, and you can click to dismiss them.

Bombarding the consumer with multiple onboarding emails may generate a high click rate, but if your target market has people that hate spam, it will instantly leave a bad taste in their mouth. It really sucks when I sign up for a new product I am peripherally interested in, and they clutter up my empty inbox with 5 enthusiastic emails, none of which has any content that I can actually use -- just links to the website.
Maybe, but my negative view of BuzzFeed has nothing to do with Reddit since I barely go there. It's more the fact that BuzzFeed is the tabloid of the internet.
https://history.google.com/history
Understanding burnout
Didn't the AOL dump still have a per user id for each record?
A lot under their BuzzFeed News banner seems pretty well researched and written (in general, it's actual news)

They do still have plenty of clickbait stuff under their other sections, though.
That's what really pissed me off about this charade. It would have been the perfect opportunity to talk about how fucked up our school administrations and their "zero tolerance" policies are, and instead everyone wasted their time rehashing the same old arguments about race that we have every day, that everyone has already made up their minds about.
Yep, let's see the actual discharge history of the vans.
Dark matter is estimated at 23% of the universe, not 96%. The other 73% is dark energy.

And I'd argue that it's reasonable to presume that life would be "normal" matter, simply because life requires structure, which requires both attractive and repulsive forces over nontrivial distances. Dark matter, by definition, does not interact electromagnetically; the strong and weak nuclear forces are too short-range to give rise to meaningful structures; and gravity provides only attractive force, not repulsive force.
Is that high or low?
I used to work there as an engineer, Dr Freudenthal was by far the best person I've ever known.
It's not a challenge, it's an essay contest with five winners, and requires a new Wulfram Community account.
They'll have to build some billion-dollar battery factories first. (Or someone else must). This will take some 5 years per factory, so that's a clear leading indicator. Also, most new cars will be electric in 20 years, and that's a lot of cars.
The “Secret” Awfulness of Saudi Arabia
"Police state is a term denoting government that exercises power arbitrarily through the police."

Like say....stop and frisking "shady" people who've committed no crime?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_state
If you had spent most of your life integrating with Western culture, only to have your very identity targeted and put into the [inter]national spotlight, I wouldn't be surprised or disappointed if your first reaction was to go to the polar opposite (in this case, other nations whose government and population are heavily influenced by Islam). We're not even talking about basic discrimination but a situation where the victim was put on a stage many years before he could be prepared for it, if such a thing is even possible for an unwilling participant. Imagine the horror his parents went through when their child was subject to such an ordeal and it's hard to blame them for throwing their hands up and saying "fuck western nations", especially given the response of many European nations to the Syrian refugee crisis and the mass migration of Muslims to the EU overy recent decades.

My comment was rather flippant because in reality he can have a much better life in poorer parts of the world where he is in the overwhelming majority (and educated) instead of in a nation where he is overwhelmingly a minority. Regardless, going from the United States, a country built on the idea of a cultural melting pot, to Qatar or Sudan makes me very sad.
Does anybody who keeps up with browser extensions know if there's a way to disable any kind of ad-hoc link handling on Firefox? When I tab-click I'd like to get a new window, always:)
America has been deeply suspicious of nerdy white boys since Columbine. That's not to say Muslim kids don't get discriminated against. My brother in law had a hard time in post 9/11 Virgina because he's Afghan.
> It's easier (and more likely) to explain these outcomes through hardened, zero-tolerance policies.

IME, zero-tolerance policies are highly-selectively enforced; they are quite convenient for administrators who want to act arbitrarily, because lack of action is less likely to be challenged if it doesn't lead to someone else getting injured, but any time action is taken (however flimsy the justification) the nest of zero-tolerance policies for (for drugs, including anything that could loosely be interpreted as associated with drug paraphernalia or drug culture; for weapons and violence, including anything that could loosely be interpreted as being suggestive of, related to, a simulation of, etc., a weapon or violent act; etc.) provide a convenient excuse for any response disproportionate to the substance of the act.

Zero-tolerance policies aren't an alternative explanation to administrators acting arbitrarily including based on racial, religious, or other prejudiced animus, they are an enabling mechanism for that arbitrary action.
I think we agree. This is a broken application, built upon a sound technology. The card is perfectly capable of signing the transaction, and will only do so if the correct PIN is entered (smart cards can also be programmed to disable themselves after a number of incorrect PIN attempts). However the banks either don't know how to, or do not want to, run a public-key cryptosystem, so they don't ask the card to sign.
Re-Com – flexbox based UI components