skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went through the same thing! After 18 months on my first real job, I had zero debt (ever), no dependents, and income of three times the median for the area, and yet I was still classified as subprime.

Why? Because I'd never gotten a credit card before. Had I simply moved existing purchases onto it, and taken the same (zero) revolving debt, I would have appeared as much less risky. [1]

What's worse is that when I went to the "what's my FICO"/credit report sites, they would consistently say that my credit score should be 740, even though this never translated into any observable consequences in terms of ease of getting loans.

And what made that even worse was that there were actual critics of the subprime practices then that refused to believe this was happening, that anyone classified as subprime must have deserved it in some way, even after I offered to forward this information over!

[1] Yes, I know, I should have known to pointlessly get a credit card and switch which buckets expenses go in, which is somehow informative about my credit risk.
I think the right avenue is to keep the license GPL but provide a permissive as-is use license. The idea is that you want people making improvements to the algorithm to contribute those back for the public's benefit rather than charging people for their "upgraded" version. A separate unmodified-use license could be much more permissive in the use of algorithm as-is for compressing and decompressing images.
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Two primary reasons.

1. The GPL is incompatible with many other licenses, including free and open source licenses. Viral licenses do not play nice with one another.
2. For many people, the risk associated with the GPL death penalty is simply too high. Even the watered down GPLv3 version has some scary scenarios.

Aside from that, a lot of people simply aren't bothered by a proprietary fork of free or open source software with a permissive license. Keep in mind that permissive licenses or proprietary forks do not affect freedoms 0-3.
With the [Opera addons catalog](https://addons.opera.com), every update goes through a moderation process to prevent this kind of situation from happening (which is one of the reasons why we encourage everyone to install extensions from the official addons catalog site rather than from other sources).
Doesn't the GPL license generally ruin being able to use this in a commercial product by having to provide source code and affecting derivative works, too?
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The price is x% of the sum assured discounted at the risk neutral rates, plus admin expenses, plus customer acquisition cost, plus a target percentage of the economic capital (because their is a wee bit of risk), plus adjustments based on your demographic's price sensitivity profile, combined with adjustments based on the market cycle. Of course, you should also factor lapse rates in. Then maybe factor in whether this is a good beginner product for new customers.
Wouldn't a better tl;dr be learn how to stock a pantry and plan meals?
Here's an article about the differences: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/27/business/la-fi-medic...

The specific incantations are different for every provider or hospital. Sometimes you can get it just by saying up front "I'm paying cash today." Sometimes you have to go through a complicated Patient Financial Services system to get the bill reduced, and then you have to say the right words to the right people if you want reduction.

A massive bulk of "medical" labor goes into these cat and mouse games between patients, insurers, providers, and facilities. They're all trying to figure out how to maximize their profit and/or savings and it gets very complicated.

If insurers learn that other people, even cash patients, are getting "a better deal", they'll punish the provider and/or facility by removing them from the network, thus cutting the patient traffic. When providers and facilities bill insurers, they expect to get maybe 10%-20% of the billed amount, so they rack the cost of everything up through the roof so that they'll be OK with the pittance they get in return. And that's the tip of the iceberg. There are a lot of people whose jobs are dedicated to nothing more than these billing shenanigans.
Just be sure NOT to install "U Block For Origin", by www.z1z2z3z4.com, which is currently the top hit if you search the Chrome extensions store for 'ublock'.

I don't know what it does, but I bet it's not good.
> Curious why I can't offload this task to a DNS server?

DNS doesn't provide nearly enough precision for ad blocking. Many servers serve both ads and content. Random example: some sites host actual non-ad video content on doubleclick.
> In the standard foundations of probability theory, as laid out by Kolmogorov, we can then model these events and random variables by introducing a sample space (which will be a probability space) to capture all the ambient sources of randomness; events are then modeled as measurable subsets of this sample space, and random variables are modeled as measurable functions on this sample space.

This matches the definitions of Wikipedia pretty closely: "A probability space consists of three parts: A sample space [...], A set of events [...], The assignment of probabilities to the events".

So either you misunderstood that sentence or both Wikipedia and Terrence Tao are wrong.
yes. there is a eyedropper icon on it's popup and you can use it to select dom elements.
No they are not... http://www.openbsd.org/papers/libtls-fsec-2015/mgp00007.txt
It is indeed cultural. Take how India for example - a place where 20% of the world's population steeped neck-deep in traditional culture is jostling for 2% of the earth's habitable real estate - dodged this economic disaster by its own cremation culture. Lucky culture on that.
I'm pretty sure men and women are now required to get the same rates for health insurance under ACA. How are they allowed to charge people differently based on age? Well, because there's no law against it. Age discrimination is illegal in employment and housing, but not in what you charge for insurance.
Most introductory books on probability I have seen open with the combinatorical approach you describe. When it is applicable, this approach is very powerfull. However there is essentially nothing novel in combinatorical probability relative to combinatorics, so research and advanced topics in this field are done under the title of combinatorics, instead of probability. Probability becomes a field in its own right once we move beyond the cases where a combinatorical approach will work.
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Nah. You can get comfortable with the Unix shell in a week.

First thing's first: you have to know what's out there in order to find out how to use it. Go to a book store (they still have those right?) and pick up a 50 page Unix command line reference. Read it cover to cover. Play with each individual command in some way.

Note: this should be a UNIX reference, and not Linux. You want something ancient and decrepit, because it'll be the most universal and simple set of commands to start with.

Get another book, something like an Introduction to Linux System Administration. Besides telling you all about the system itself, this will task you with running commands and modifying different parts of the system; you'll be doing lots of command-line work, all following the book's instructions.

Finally, attempt to write basic shell scripts and run commands with a basic user interface, like lynx or mc. This will not only teach you how the shell interprets everything you type into it, it will give you an insight into the other ways the console works with the terminal, applications, i/o, etc.

It may sound like a lot for a week, but if you spend a couple hours a night on these you can't go wrong. When in doubt, buy another book.
I think it's great to have a free software solution which wholly eclipses the competition. It's an incentive to use free software (use free software and get the best image codec in the world).
Bullying is something that people do because it's easy -- picking fights with people who can't fight back. So this maybe be a fine distinction, but I think that anything that enables or makes bullying easier is not just a symptom, but is contributing to the root cause. In any communication tool, certain kinds of interactions are easier than others and are thus encouraged. For instance, the fact that Facebook has like button but not a dislike button is a deliberate choice that affects how easy it is to express different sentiments on Facebook. I believe it's possible to design a communication tool that encourages positive interactions and discourages negative ones.

Other good examples: George Orwell's concept of Newspeak from 1984, a language literally incapable of expressing concepts like freedom or dissent against the government. For another example, consider Journey, a multiplayer video game where the only possible interactions between players are positive or helpful.
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So good to hear we've been able to help your team!
It's nice to see handsontable put to another good use! What other open source libraries did you use?
Those are both examples of employment. It's true that there are some exceptions to employment anti-discrimination laws, but they don't apply at all to how much you charge someone for health insurance.

(And not to belabor your example, but the person in the wheelchair has to actually be unable to do the job even with "reasonable accommodations" from the employer. It's not enough to say "it seems like it might be dangerous" or "we don't have ramps")
more more more :D you have me in tears here.

I recently had one in The Netherlands that was trying to look smart by using expensive words but then failed to apply the basic syntactic rules of Dutch grammar. They also always start these days by : "I can understand that you're being spammed via your linkedin profile", and then provide no excuse at all and just spam you some more.
Drugs, prostitution, money laundering, violence and protection rackets. I really don't think that we should have a problem with the removal of such people from our society.
>From my experience with recruiters, something like 90% of them DON'T GIVE A SHIT. I tried offering them constructive feedback and they acted like it went in one ear and out the other and kept doing the same shit they always did.

This isn't exclusive to recruiters, but I get it. I sometimes get the same resume without context applying for every job I have listed. I'll suggest they might want to mix up their job search tactics, and then the same resume hits my inbox 10x a month later. Happens more frequently than you'd expect.

>You gotta look at their relevant experience and guess at their interests or even -- gasp -- ask them!

I don't find the candidates answer questions like this in an intro. Responses to "I'd like to get to know you so I can share relevant jobs" aren't as likely as one might hope.

I understand the complaints. I obviously don't get emails from recruiters, so my insight is largely based on the mockery that we all see everywhere.
Yes, our position as a courier service purchasing tickets on the behalf of our users makes our service perfectly legal and as a result we have substantial legal backings and opinion letters confirming the legality of our business. We have been transparent about our status and operations with the State of NY and the NY Lottery throughout this process.
Worst recruiter ever, for me:

He sent me an email for an 8-month contract on the other side of the country. This despite my profile on every job site saying "full-time only" and "I am not willing to relocate". I ignore it.

Later that day (or maybe the next day), he calls me. I tell him no, and I make it abundantly clear I'm not interested in any kind of contract position. He starts arguing with me, and he starts going into how it's more like a full-time job since the contract is long term. I say "don't call me again" while loudly speaking over him, and then I hang up without waiting a response.

A week later, he sends me another email for the same position. I reply with a strongly-worded email telling him to cease and desist from ever contacting me again and that I will never work with him or his firm.

An hour later, he calls me again. I chewed him out and hung up on him right away.

I planned on calling his recruiting firm's HR department and reporting his extremely inappropriate behavior, but I never got around to it. And if I'd had the money, I would've hired a lawyer to properly C&D him.

As far as I'm concerned, this guy is a spammer. I've dealt with dozens of recruiters offering contract and/or out-of-town positions, but none of them have been as pushy as him. With everyone else, I just ignore their emails without reply, and they never call me or send a follow-up email.

Other terrible recruiters include the legion of people who insist on asking for me by my old name, despite me having legally changed my name (first, middle, and last) well over a year ago.

And just for fun, I saw a recruiter link his LinkedIn profile by posting the URL that takes you to editing your own profile.
I wonder how it compares to lossy (but high-quality) compression codecs.
> Hmm... so is nytimes conspicuously missing from that list or did I miss it?

It's there, 15th from the bottom (2.5/4.3)
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Do not ever try comparing "Linux" man pages with the OpenBSD ones, which are much better than even bro-pages.

A badly written man page or worse, an absent one is considered a bug at OBSD.
Their PR team deserves every cent they're paid. International media coverage for a startup long before it has launched is really impressive.

They managed to upset thousands of people without even writing a tiny bit of code.
This is the main reason why I think eliminating leap seconds won't be harmful. Very few people have "correct" solar time today anyway.
To clarify: at the moment FLIF is licensed under the GPL v3+. Once the format is finalized, the next logical step would be to make a library version of it, which will be most probably get licensed under the LGPL v3+, or maybe something even more permissive. There is not much point in doing that when the format is not yet stable.
It's not because FLIF is GPL v3+ now, that we can't add more permissive licenses later.

And of course I'm planning to describe the algorithms and the exact file format in a detailed and public specification, which should be accurate enough to allow anyone to write their own FLIF implementation.
> I have set up this unofficial one that tracks the changes between each zip published on their releases page

Nice, this makes it much easier to track changes. For those interested, here is a URL which can be used as a template to diff across releases:

https://github.com/kzar/watchadblock/compare/[old version]...[new version]

For example, for all the changes between releases 2.40 and 2.41.1:

https://github.com/kzar/watchadblock/compare/2.40...2.41.1
The sample space is not the probability space. The probability space has a sample space though, which is what the Wikipedia definition says, but not what Tao literally said. I think it is pretty clear what Tao meant though.
Sigh. As if online bullying was not a severe enough problem already. How many suicides will this contribute to?
Ok then. Build an application heavily dependent on caching. Restart memcached in the middle a production workload. How long does it take to get out from under the dog pile?

EDIT: This started out a bit flippant. Wanted to make the point that antirez is not just handwaving.

For example one of the points without elaboration was 'there are “pure caching” use cases where persistence and replication are important'. Sometimes caching warming isn't feasible i.e. needing to restart the cache in the middle of a production workload. Using entirely volatile cache one can find extended downtime from the dog pile of requests waiting for the cache to warm up. Persistence can be an attractive form of insurance against this scenario.
choosed -> chose
There is a Pelias leaflet plugin which serves as a good demo: http://pelias.github.io/leaflet-geocoder/#12/40.7258/-73.980...

Working on a better one that highlights all the levers in the API :)
My experience is stuck in the 90s, as are the coworkers that drive that experience. Most of them refer to the Chrome browser as "the Google", I haven't a snowball's chance in teaching them how to connect an Excel document directly to a central data source.

But what I can do is provide them with an easy interface for interacting with that data directly, and give them the option to "save" their results within the context of those interactions so that they can share a simple link instead of a static file.

As for embedding runtimes in HTML, ActiveX is dead and I do not mourn it. Our office has finally decided to standardize on a modern web browser, and I couldn't be happier about that.
> Insurance is a large-scale perverter of the market,

Government-mandated insurance is a large-scale perverter of the "market".

FTFY
I encountered this problem when playing Cities: Skylines. Simple solution: build more crematories
So we go from the extreme of JPGs to the extreme of no-nav text pages.
I am uncomfortable with the line you're taking here. The sentence "javascript makes it better amirite" was a bit juvenile, but otherwise the comment was perfectly valid. We do not want to be forced to be positive about things which have serious flaws; this sort of kumbaya HN thought police makes this seem more like some sort of Christian summer camp than an environment for rational discussion.
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Being a great mathematician doesn't necessarily make a great math educator. It is odd Tao chose Durret, but I assume it's due to the book being freely available online.
And what about folks having a hamburger at a restaurant that apparently didn't do anything?
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Indeed, anyone who thinks Google Spreadsheets is the end of all spreadsheets and nobody would ever need anything else, has never tried to embed Google Spreadsheets into a larger application.
GNU Linux main help system is "info". And it sucks. At least its interface.

"pinfo" is much, MUCH better. And it has "hjkl".
I would love to work on this. It would require getting a dump of all of their data, or scraping it from them however.
I'd be really interested in data from China and Japan.

China has one of the fastest growing tech industry in the world. As for Japan, I really want to live there because of the high quality of life, but am hesitant since the tech industry doesn't look promising.
Brotli is excellent at text and does a great job at compressing overall, but FLIF is written directly to excel at lossless image compression, hence FLIF will be much better unless it's a really poor solution (which results show it's certainly not).

Likewise Brotli will not beat FLAC at compressing audio, since FLAC is specifically written to do that.
Having kids and generally rising US prices for housing, energy, childcare, school and health care certainly make it feel like I need to work. Certainly didn't feel as important before having a family. Kind of ironic as you have to work more to provide for for them materially at a time when your family most needs your presence.

I for one would like to see us pay teacher in the US a lot more so they can do something good for the community and their family at the same time.
Well yes, that would have been quite distasteful if said spreadsheet had made its way out of Google.

But it was definitely not a secret internally.
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> Pond messages are asynchronous, but are not a record; they expire automatically a week after they are received.

That's not email.

Ok, that's less "instant" than most instant messaging system. But it has the same trade-off. It has a bigger time window when messages can be decrypted, and messages last for longer.

If you give-up on reading your email latter, yes, you can have some kind of forward secrecy.
Or at least LGPL, but that is still a hassle for embedded use. GPL may prevent some from trying to embrace/extend/extinguish, but you get around that by writing a spec and clean room code from the spec. Right?
None of those things were actually occurring here: the shootout happened at a sports bar.
I understood that to be a joke, and I was amused by it. It's not intended as a literal comparison.
From the Washington Post article:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/09...

> Positive ratings post immediately; negative ratings are queued in a private inbox for 48 hours in case of disputes. If you haven’t registered for the site, and thus can’t contest those negative ratings, your profile only shows positive reviews.

This seems like this would strongly disincentive anyone from registering for the app in the first place.
In Sweden, the waste heat from many crematoria is used for home heating.
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We are looking for any strong developers who want to use TDD to develop sites and services that’ll benefit all UK citizens (and more).

Oh yeah, and much better pension plans than the private sector too :)

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The advantages this app will be bringing will be very less compared to the creepy features. I don't want to sound like a cliche, but there are no second chances once you are on there. People improve and change over time. But, once you have a history of everything for everyone to see, bad stuff comes back to haunt you.