skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LP typically stands for "Limited Partnership", a form of organization where one or more general partners have agency and unlimited liability similar to that of a general partnership and one or more limited partners whose liability tends to be significantly less but whose role in the enterprise is generally passive. There's a wikipedia article.

Generally, a limited partnership have been useful when there is a plan not to bring on additional investors later, since later investors are able to renegotiate terms. In other words, LP's are common when all the money ever needed is going to be raised at once and any future expansion of the project will be funded by traditional loans [a construction loan for a shopping center] and from projected revenues [e.g. ongoing maintenance of the shopping center once it is operational].

This also means that projects structured as LP's are not really tailored to take advantage of hockey stick growth. Though an LP may use equity growth as a means to an end, the focus is usually on income, and matching the cashflow objectives of LP like investors is why individual Venture Funds have limited lifetimes.
That's not clear at all. Education fees have gone up, but it's not clear that the cause is student loans (and the subsequent increase in demand for education), and even if they did, we would expect at least some increase in education as a result of loans that allow more people to get an education. Should people who have the cash up front be expected not to compete?

But I think the main difference is a shift in jobs where higher education becomes a requirement, and this is not just because of competition among employees, but because the supply of jobs is changing. Low skill jobs are moving offshore or taken by (sometimes illegal) immigrants who can live more cheaply. In order to obtain the (higher) standard of living of today's America, people need to create more value which requires more skills. A perfect example is the IT industry. Company's like Google create huge amounts of value[0], and employees who contribute this are rewarded.

[0] no, not selling ads, but the service that people use in exchange for the micro-payment of viewing an ad.
Clearly better? He still has quite a way to go.
Luckly there are less than 10% of you in the Russian population despite how vocal you are. You'll never get support because your philosophy is one of hate and denial of what was and can be a great nation.

You always have the option of moving to Kiev. I hear they are building a European nation in line with your Putin hating values.
This is awfully cynical. I really don't see a problem with teaching people how to code, even if they don't become masters on their first try.
For stats plotting in python:
https://github.com/mwaskom/seaborn
https://github.com/yhat/ggplot

For stats plotting and web apps in python:
https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh

For calling r libraries in python:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rpy2

For out of core datasets in python:
https://github.com/blaze/dask
https://github.com/blaze/blaze
Well, CINNIC and the French CA both did this before
They've been trying to Javaify the Matlab syntax for close to two decades now. They're moving towards making everything an object like in Java. They're getting pretty close to that.
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If they switched the Flash IDE from ActionScript to Haxe, Adobe could reclaim their lost developer mindshare, and make it enticing to continue using it for 2D games and animations.
Because the distinction between being a victim and being a willful participant in a malevolent scheme is an important one. Recognizing that makes it easier to diagnose why things aren't as ideal as we wish they were.
So... your link agrees with what jogjayr is saying? It's just saying that a trivial level of taxes on a relatively cheap item won't do anything, which I don't think surprises anyone.

Australia has near-punitive levels of tax on cigarettes, and smoking levels have dropped considerable over the past few decades. About 50% of the price of a pack of cigarettes is tax here, which marries up with your quote. Taxes aren't the only thing making smoking rates drop here, but among the smokers I know, most of them have reduced their rates simply due to the expense.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/a-doll...
Can you post the contents of `cat /etc/hosts` and `cat /etc/resolv.conf` from terminal?
There's no reason you need subsidies for quality education.

I as a private investor would happily extend loans (with interest) for a smart student from an underprivileged background to attend an excellent non-profit university. There's a high chance of them graduating, getting a good job, and paying me back.

I would not, however, give loans for a mediocre student to attend the University of Phoenix. There's very little likelihood of that leading to a better life for them (and my loan getting paid back), and I fail to see why we as a society should subsidize it.

Loans are great. They allow all kinds of people who can't afford high-return investments like higher education to buy them in exchange for sharing the profits. Why do we need a subsidy to facilitate this?
There's just you and me here now, and that makes me 50%.

Of course many people struggle to admit the miserable result of their whole lives, but the result is objectively miserable.
I quickly glanced at your bio, but day-to-day work is that? Count yourself exceedingly lucky!
Sure, they would probably charge higher rates. They may also provide other support to make sure the kid actually graduates, since they are invested in that happening.

All I'm saying is, the parent post that "nobody will invest in minorities" doesn't really properly reflect the incentives.
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That is pretty much it. I would guess that most people pay back their debt in the end, so it is not entirely equity-like, it is more like a mix of debt and equity (the interest rate is below market, so lower income people end up paying back less in net-present-value).

I guess this is the economically efficient solution. The main problem is that it needs to be administered by the government, for practical reasons as well as adverse selection. In Australia it also happens that the top 5 universities are of roughly equal quality, and the next 5 are not far below, so that a one-size-fits-all approach makes sense (there are no good private universities in Australia). I don't see how this system could work in the US where there is such a wide range of qualities in universities.
Given that the battle has been lost, why should we continue to subsidize the hollowed out shells and the armies of deanlets and deanlings swarming over them?
That is the prevailing attitude here, that there should not be any limitations.
I've used Python professionally for 8 years, and it's my favorite language. I have used numpy and a scikit-learn a little bit. That said, I've really enjoying learning Julia recently. It's been easy to learn and it really does perform well (read: it's fast). In fact, I think learning Julia has been about as much work as learning something like numba would be, and gives similar (some say slightly better?) performance.
Actually, USAA is a bank. At least the bank part of them is a bank. They're also an insurance company, an investment company, and a few other things. But the banking part is a bank.

From their site's front page: USAA means United Services Automobile Association and its insurance, banking, investment and other companies. Banks Member FDIC. https://www.usaa.com

Notice the FDIC. Credit unions are not insured via FDIC, they use NCUA. http://www.gobankingrates.com/banking/fdic-versus-ncua-insur...
Absolutely. It's a poor use of taxpayer money to pay a for-profit school and it's a poor use of the veteran's time.

In my view, the ideal way to structure these subsidies would be as tax credits. If you can successfully convince private lenders to invest in your education, taxpayers will help to foot the bill. But we shouldn't pay for arbitrarily poor programs.
All true, but you can't regulate away bad decisions. By attempting to do so you just make the next scheme even more disgusting.
Various European and Scand. models (I like Denmark's especially) would be ideal by a large margin, but that's very unlikely to happen in the US, so this at least attempts to deal with the problem in a way that might actually happen.

The advantages of this over the current system could and should be:

- Your family income is not considered, so you never wind up in the "donut hole" where they make too much to allow you to get much in terms of loans, but too little to get you full-rides for having tiny income.

- Your own savings shouldn't/couldn't be considered, so if you've managed to save up some money (emergency fund, etc.) as an adult (because we need our personal safety nets in the US) it doesn't vanish in a semester. With the current system, the amount you're given is dependent on your own savings as well as income. Everything is considered. That's a huge risk.

- The money is guaranteed to be there when you need it. Not subject to shifting political winds or anyone's variable income. No yearly reapplication.

- The amounts calculated with the current system are sometimes laughably low, particularly when it comes to housing costs. You should be able to ask for what you need based on actual extant reality.

For the investors, it could potentially be very lucrative. Most of the students would likely go on to make decent money and so you'd get paid back plus extra, but in cases where students hit it big, you could make a windfall (I'm sure Larry Ellison's school wouldn't mind 10%/year of his income.)

As someone who had to leave home as a teenager and has had zero family support (but would still love to go to NYU or Columbia: https://medium.com/@opirmusic/why-software-developers-should...) - if I could take out $300k or so for 10% income for 30 years, I would do it in a second. They'd probably wind up with 450k or so.
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Nice collection, let me add one more item to this list:

Seaborn: statistical data visualization: http://stanford.edu/~mwaskom/software/seaborn/
I use the shell every day, and I have mixed feelings.

1. The core concepts are beautiful.

Pipes are elegant. Simple programs that read and write text are one of the most enduring abstractions we've come up with.

I've used a single, surprisingly readable command that:

- dumps a database with mysqldump
- zips it
- sends it over to another server
- unzips it
- loads it into mysql

...in a single streaming operation, without creating any files! Making a lot of disparate programs, written decades apart, work together so seamlessly is simply impossible any other way. The shell is powerful.

2. The implementation is unnecessarily complex and fragmented

The standard commands all have cryptic names like `ls`, `cat`, and so on. They're second nature to us, but we've made the barrier unnecessarily high for new people who are just learning. Man pages suck (bro pages are much nicer). There are a lot of shells (bash, sh, zsh, etc). They're similar but subtly different. Standard commands like `ps` are incompatible between OSX and Linux, or even different flavors of Linux. Simple operations often require cryptic incantations. I type `tar -xzvf` at least once a week. The original Unix ideal is minimalist and beautiful, but the rest of the experience feels like it was crafted by neckbeards without regard for usability or learn-ability.

3. Shell scripts are terrible

A fresh, out of the box Ubuntu installation contains (very roughly) 100k lines of shell script, probably more.

For writing actual programs, `bash` is one of the worst programming languages that exist.

It makes languages like Perl or PHP look sane and principled.

Every time I use a solidly engineered system (say `buck` for building a large Java project) next to an equivalent shell-script-based system (say autogen + configure + make for a typical C++ project), I'm blown away at how much faster, cleaner, and more robust our software could be, and I feel sad that we've built so much on top of Rube Goldberg shell script contraptions.

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I think there's room for a ground-up Unix, true to original principles. I would love to make a minimalist Linux distro that boots without executing a single line of shell script. Configuration would be via a small set of JSON files, not some Turing-complete hairball language. It would still have a shell, but it would be a minimal, sane shell. You'd be able to type `help` for a complete and concise listing of available commands, each with a one-line example.
Since the author is wanting to sell the original photos, you'd think someone at Microsoft's corporate archives dept (I assume they have something like that) or PR would snap these right up.
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Today's CS graduates are much better educated than people in those days. Early programmers wasted much of their energy fighting the platform, reverse engineering undocumented features, and haggling vendors for better access.

Today, you just focus on the problem and take the underlying platform for granted. Free Software has liberated computing from vendor-reliance.
This is typical of the coverage we got with blocking of github and reddit. Very much a knee-jerk reaction with little understanding of the Russian laws and procedures. Of course, it is a mistake to expect otherwise. The problem is that an average reader will come away with an impression: "those backwards Russians are censoring the internet again!"
This is apparently an order from the Russian government to individual ISPs. Do you think the individual ISPs have the ability (and desire) to issue fake certs from compromised root CAs to MITM Wikipedia connections?

The question in this case is not whether some CA is compromised or malicious, but whether the entities involved have access to such a CA and are willing to use that access.

Also, a very wide-scale HTTPS MITM is more likely every month to be detected because there are more and more people looking for it. That may not be true of small-scale MITMs for some time, but it's probably true, for example, for a large-country-wide attack against a major site -- especially a site used by lots of technically sophisticated people who've been given prior warning that something sketchy is going to happen on a particular date!
Yes. Yes I Do.

If Free Speech is defined as "whatever the government deems free speech" then the word itself becomes, at best, meaningless or, at worst, the twisted definition becomes itself a form of oppression.

"WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH." - 1984

Free Speech is an absolute. Every country falls short of it in some respect, but that does not detract from the concept.
so, Russia refused foreign food, foreign medical supplies (including contraception, Russian joke sites are boiling with it, and, this isn't a joke, Russian deputy prime minister and former Surgeon General of Russia publicly stated that it will help to solve Russian demographic problem, as if Russia needed to breed more stupids), and now foreign knowledge... There is no need for nuclear weapons to turn Russia into wilderness populated by savages... with savage leaders sporting $600K foreign watches. Very shiny...
Resulting in a lot of shouting. :-)
The statement says "U.S. law," it says nothing about requests by the U.S. government. Copyright, libel, etc.
This is really cool to see an American with such potential.

The explosion of Crossfit is exposing a lot of people to Olympic lifting. However, Crossfit's programming can be incredibly dangerous - encouraging Joe Sixpack to do such complex and technical lifts "AMRAP" (As Many Reps as Possible) is a recipe for serious injury. Source: I got rhabdo and was nearly hospitalized.
You are way more likely to get stuck up by a mugger (aka the real cash risk). But 2500 is insane. Is it really that much? Or does that include attorneys fees.
Actually, there are -40% of them.
It's almost as if the further the asset price gets disconnected from the amount of labor it takes to own it, the more expensive it gets.
On balance, I've met people who claim they are intermediate programmers and use matlab only, and are freaked to shit when they see higher order functions in other languages, or even the idea of passing a "function", like, say, a pointer to a function, into another function, even though function pointers have existed since C.
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Diploma loans sound like they would bring all the benefits of title loans and payday loans to a younger group of consumers in an age when credit card debt does not really offer high enough returns on capital.
Gold was also down today.
> Would you prefer to start a business on a loan?

Absolutely, as would almost any entrepreneur. If I could fund my startup with a long-term low-interest loan that requires no collateral I'd jump at the chance.
Growing up in South Carolina, I had a classmate in high school that as part of his summer science project, attempted to extract ethanol from Kudzu. The plant was worthless even for that, as he couldn't get a drop out of it.

The fact that the local moonshiners weren't using it should have been a clue.
.Net recruiters? Nobody comes to mind unfortunately. I don't know many recruiters actually.
in your order, they refused gmos, toxic vaccines, foreign knowledge
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Just want to leave a comment about the "Matrix" object. I remember the first day I got started with NumPy. Coming from MATLAB, I really felt tempted to use it. However, I also saw an recommendation (can't remember if I read this in the NumPy documentation or in an online forum) that ndarrays are more widely supported. I never really bothered about `Matrix` then, and honestly, I have never ever seen anyone using it. Maybe you will find some examples on GitHub if you really search for it, but it is practically non-existend.
I don't understand why they don't use simply a prefix-free code, for example the Huffman code. You can have arbitrary length instructions at entropy-optimal efficiencies that way, and decoding in binary-tree fashion should be linear and very fast in hardware.
Yeah, it is very annoying -- perhaps they just talked to an oly lifter?

For power lifters, the measure of an athlete is how much he can bench
press—something not included in Olympic competitions.

That's just flat out not true, and not something anyone familiar with powerlifting would say, except perhaps in a pejorative sense. For those of you who may be unfamiliar, the standard measure of a powerlifter is your total: the combined single rep maximum in three attempts of your squat, bench, and deadlift.
Looks like that will happen now.
Without plastic bags.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing :)
There is nothing in the article that suggests that the bank would be entitled to anything but a fixed share of your income, female or otherwise. In theory [0], if women on average earned less than men because of taking time off to raise children, then they would have to pay a higher percentage of their future income for their education. But on average they would pay the same total amount (in an efficient market). I'm not sure why you think this would be unfair. This would not differ from the present market where women and men also pay equal amounts for education.

[0] Personally I don't think that selling equity in oneself would ever be possible for practical/legal reasons. As mentioned in another post, the only thing that comes close is Australia's higher education loans.
A key feature that seems to be missing is that the people making the decision about what course to take and even what students to send to university are still the students themselves who are notoriously bad at deciding that. With a proper equity system, the decisions would be influenced by people who are actually trying to be most efficient.
Show HN: An Electron starter project using Parched
So a couple of things:

1. Why can't the bank refuse to process the charge?

2. This seems to be failing, in practice, at dissuading people and making them pay attention to keep a positive balance. At least according to a couple of comments here, there are people who are repeatedly hit by overdraft fees. Is there something better that can be done do solve the actual problem, which is banks having to come up with money to cover these tiny loans?

3. Is there a more proactive way to solve this, such as notifying people (phone, text, push notification, whatever) that their balance is low and they have a recurring charge coming up? Wouldn't that be better for the bank, so that the problem wouldn't happen in the first place?
Underrated comment. I was just listening to a bitcoin podcast with the Bank to the Future author discussing this. Bit one sided, but really interesting essentially he posits that capitalism is somewhat problematic but still a great way to organize actors in a market, however the ability for banks to create money and the false assumption that they are intermediaries has lead to the problems we're in now.
Very slick analysis!

No Diggity is a great song, but the song it samples might be even better: Grandma's Hands by Bill Withers.
I've previously posted about Parched[1], a build system that we have
been playing around with at work. In usage, it is a lot like Brunch,
only built upon Gulp.

It's not much use without the webapp tasks[2], which adds browserify and
bower into the mix.

Most recently I've been playing with Electron after not being satisified
with single-site browsers on OS X. Thus we have parched-electron-starter.

The commands are no different that standard parched:

gulp parched-clean
gulp parched-watch
NODE_ENVIRONMENT=production gulp parched-build

Only you get an Electron app out of it.

(And a web app if you'd like).

[1]: https://github.com/BraveNewWorldDev/parched

[2]: https://github.com/BraveNewWorldDev/parched-tasks-webapp
Those are our ideals but the reality is that countries have long restricted free speech. And each countries makes its own judgements and decisions on what kind of speech can and should be restricted. Personally I find "free speech zones" in the US disgusting.
Nobody blames Roscomnadzor too much - not much more than sorry fellows who dug the graves for people killed in concentration camps.

The current illegitimate parliament is to blame. Being appointed to their chairs by Putin's grey cardinals instead of popular vote, they did every thing to please the dictator. Probably won't get any punishment for that other than karmic rebirth into a frog in their next life.
Last para is sweet -- "Austin deserves to be commended for its candid assessment of what its plastic bag ban has actually accomplished ... it should encourage a more thorough and realistic assessment of what such a ban can actually accomplish"

Just as every other task, as long as the administrators are ready to monitor and calibrate their approach to environmental policies, good intentions matters!
They exist in Matlab too. They're called function handles. Matlab has functionalish functions like `arrayfun`, `cellfun` (akin to `map`) or `accumarray` (akin to `fold`), but the Matlab documentation prefers to teach loops, presumably because they're easier to understand, and usually faster in Matlab thanks to their JIT compiler.

I'm surprised that people are so surprised that you can pass function handles around, since there are some Matlab functions for solving ODEs or root-finding that are very commonly taught in intro courses that require function handles. I guess not everyone's first exposure to Matlab involves solving ODEs or root-finding.
Why in-app purchase instead of just making the app $5?? This is akin to a demo version and it's a bit misleading to call it Free.