skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This particular argument is just not interesting to me. I disagree with you: I think lawyers dress like pretty much all the rest of the accountants, salespeople, marketing managers, and project managers that make up the modern workforce. I think that if there's any profession that does have an informally enforced and idiosyncratic dress code, it's the programmers, with their surreptitious warnings to preferred job candidates not to wear a suit to the interview.

I respect that you've had a different set of experiences and drawn different conclusions, but respectfully: I think I'm just going to be hard to convince otherwise on these points, and having a message board slapfight over which jobs wear more ties --- I can visualize myself trying to Google my way to a survey answer to this question now --- shudder --- just seems like a terrible use of our time.
I would hope as a CEO you would know of something major like the wheels falling off immediately after you exit. If the event was truly unknowable before you exited then you are morally fine, but to knowing exit when you know there are serious issues is not fine.
Public-Private Partnerships Could Be Improved by Startups
I don't have a citation, but I think they might be referring to the fact that the government sometimes outsources this collection of students loans.

E.g., the government backs a Sallie Mae loan, you default, the government pays Sallie Mae, the government wants to collect, the government sells the debt to Sallie Mae to collect it.

It's this that gives at least the perception that the originator of the loan has it in their best interest to have at least a portion of their loans go into default, as they can then purchase the debt from the government.

Edit: I think some of this has changed post Sallie Mae's split into Naviant and Sallie Mae, but perhaps this perception still exists?
Because the thinking was that by allowing access to higher education to less well-off students, you could end or reduce the classism and perpetuation of same.

A loan for which no collateral can ever be repossessed necessarily has a different economic profile than a personal loan and even moreso than a real property loan.

Absent those protections, you would see a very different (read: people who need loans won't qualify) student lending market.

Whether that's good or bad is a matter of which there will be a variety of opinions.
True, but that doesn't change the fact that Android makes a massive dent in Apple's profits.

This is false. Apple's percentage of the profits in the cell phone industry has only increased over the years; it's up to 92% now: http://www.wsj.com/articles/apples-share-of-smartphone-indus....
You make a good point. I haven't used autocad before but after trying other cad programs and being frustrated with the lack of cli control it makes sense. What you explain sounds awesome!

Unfortunately, the current paradigm of tools for gui's (and even cli's) remain incredibly static and inflexible in their approach and design. It's not a problem that we don't know how to do it, as the autoccad example shows, but rather developers and companies lack the gumption to figure out how to make portable libraries and platforms based on it.

By this I mean, that the autocad program would have to have some kind of dynamic data and code system with rules and an internal grammar for composing them. It reminds me of the old joke "every program evolves until it reimplement common lisp -- poorly". This can be done in C++ and java, etc, but you end up basically building your own dynamic lisp like system. This often gets encapsulated in design patterns built into complex class hierarchies.

Basically, my take is that while it's possible to build on autodesk's and others examples, most efforts are either too academic and esoteric or just poorly executed. I think the culture in development is getting to a point this approach could be widely adopted.
The distribution losses won't be too bad if this is at the rack/row level. Of course, you wouldn't want to distribute HV DC all over the datacenter.

Though cheap high temp superconductors would be AWESOME. Can't wait :)
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10371039 and marked it off-topic.
And remember, who is getting the money for those 6 figure English degrees? It's not the students. They are liable for the funds, and they do get the degree, but if you follow the money it goes to the universities, and within the universities, it goes increasingly to high paid administrators, who pad their work with increasing capital expenditures on building construction and the necessitated salaries that goes with so many projects on the table, and not the faculty.
> The "discussion" never seems to focus on systemd

All the more reason to try making this one better.

(We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10370446 and marked it off-topic.)
Nonsense, it's just inflammatory language unbound by facts, it should never have been posted.

> It's really a kind of liberal tyranny...

>I bet that if the government had not or would cut off the economic centers in the country from government spending

>...only perversion of a manipulated, mutated, and distorted market due to the spike in oil prices...

>...authoritarian dicks???

These are not the ramblings of one based in reality or the basis for a reasonable discussion.
Says a person on a technology forum. Without the media arts people who do you think does your UI, and your UX, and all your graphic design work, and makes those snappy Apple commercials. Or works for all those ad companies that you love so much. If anything, he is part of your ecosystem.
What sort of 'real harm' are we talking about here.
Interesting. Reminds me of Montreal's external stairs[]; oddly I still haven't found a historically backed (citations, research) account of why it has them.

[] e.g. https://chicagomontreal.wordpress.com/2007/05/19/les-escalie...
Doesn't having to ask your users to go to chrome://flags and click the "Enable" button next to some very scary looking technical text have the same effect?

I can't imagine asking users (either public or internal) to do that.
Laws preventing bankruptcy on student loans is tantamount to indentured servitude imho; ergo a violation of Thirteenth Amendment. See Debt Bondage.
That's a horrible precedent. Most noncommercial advertising is popitical advertising, which is funded by the special interests who will commercially profit from the advertised politicians.
When there wasn't uptake on an interesting article the mods contact the original poster and ask them to repost it.
Is it? Just because it's political and long-winded doesn't mean it's quality. He doesn't even have a point. "Rah, filthy liberals and poor drones trying to live in the city where they have jobs, rah fight against big government imposing its control over you, oh by the way you should vote for a socialist."

Does that make any sense? It's the pointless rambling of someone who wants to use the government to force you to stop using the government to force him to do something he doesn't want to do. It boils down to "the government should stop letting poor people vote". Pure nonsense.
Much as I respect Thompson's insights (his Stratechery newsletter is worth subscribing to), I think that he's off base with this analysis. Moments seems to be one of those products that media-watchers like, but that actual users don't really care for. I wrote a post on the reasons why I think Moments will fail (or at least not contribute meaningfully to user acquisition) [1], the main points being that Twitter users are not interested in curation, they are interested in sharing real-time information; and the tweet format is not good for curation -- it's designed for real-time information, not for the past. Curation implies context, and there's little context in 140 characters. In defending Moments others have said it's like Circa. The only problem with that argument is that Circa failed. Twitter needs to concentrate on product extensions that work with the real-time nature of the content.

[1] http://newslines.org/blog/a-momentary-lapse-of-reason/
I remember reading about Google doing this years ago. I've been disappointed ever since that Dell et al haven't adopted a similar option for their commodity hardware.
One of the problems with this that probably occurs to everyone is that there are many more actions you can do with a file than there are files in a typical directory. So you might say > how file, and it might return 1000 things you can do with it.

To answer my own objection, > how (or whatever the tool is called), or just the object itself as in the author's example, could display categorized actions, or offer a way to navigate submenus, or it could limit initial output to things that a non-superuser would want to do and offer additional options for superusers to browse more advanced options (or assume they know what other tools exist and use them directly).
I have selected BSD3 license!! It is embedded in readme (at the bottom) and in both PJON_ASK.cpp and .h
Node-RED: A Visual Tool for Wiring the Internet of Things
The government sells the loans out of the gate. Once the loan is complete, and consolidated, they sell them to second and third party loan servicers. Please see the article about the number of times his loan has been sold. And people willingly buy them because they can make a boat load of money of late fees and other penalties, and because they are 'backed' by the government. But to maintain the liquidity of the market, the loans are sold immediately. The government doesn't hold the loans for a day longer than they need to. And from what I understand, the school of the loan, the degree of the loan, the race of the borrower, the home address of the borrower, every available data point all impact the income from the secondary sale of the loan. So it's all already in the marketplace as it is.
Doh! Many thanks; have updated.
This happened with people in the highly gifted magnet at my High School. It didn't matter that they were taking nothing but AP classes by teachers hell bent on being extremely difficult. They saw consistent C and B grades and a 1600/2400 (I went to High School during the transition from 2 part to 3 part SAT). Some didn't get accepted anywhere due to the fact they only applied two a few Ivy League schools.
So there's a map of SF meeting its housing goal. What is the goal and how is it set? According to these graphs of housing stock vs population: http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2015/02/04/sfs_population_is_g... the goal for SF may need to be pretty high.
Engaging in consensual sex with other adults is indeed fundamentally different than sexually assaulting partners that do not or cannot consent.

Who would have guessed such a thing? Well, anyone who spent any time thinking about it who actually cared about the principles of individual liberty.
That's right, they could just as easily have found a Java school or second-tier law school graduate. Or someone from the University of Phoenix.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10370773 and marked it off-topic.
Guess what - suethesuburbs is applying for Y Combinator for non-profits. Sooo....... get ready
The Man Who Grew Eyes
> But if the startup gods aren’t smiling, and you can’t either figure out the cause and/or figure out how to correct it, it’s time to start working on a Plan B for the business. Plan B often includes kicking off a strategic process that ends up in the sale of the company before it becomes as obvious to others as it is to you that you’ve got a dying shark on your hands.

That sounds not entirely ethical / honest..
Firefox all set to say goodbye to plugins by the end of 2016
In my experience (albeit not SFBA), people tend to support development in the abstract while loathing any specific development that is currently ongoing or proposed in their own cities. It might have something to do with the sausagemaking aspects of getting municipal approval and the back-and-forth about who pays for which infrastructure upgrades.
Go watch the movie "A Scanner Darkly". It contains a couple of characters suffering from amphetamine psychosis. Phillip K. Dick knew these kinds of people well. If you find your behavior to be similar to the characters in the movie, you should really lay off the Adderall.
> Indentured labour was also the result of a "voluntary agreement between individuals". See also the working conditions of migrant workers in the Gulf states - again the result of "voluntary agreement between individuals".

The only problem I have with such things is when someone agrees to one thing, but winds up with something else. That probably happened at least some of the time with indentured labor.

> It's the utility-minimizing choice for the rest.

You usually can't maximize utility for every single person. Maximizing total utility is the standard, and you haven't explained why we shouldn't do that here. "Won't somebody think of the ~~children~~ poor riders?"
No, that's not correct. Character is what the neighborhood looks like, visually. Some people like to live on quiet tree lined streets not in a Manhattan like neighborhood. Immediately assuming they are racist is ridiculous
Sorry if it wasn't clear I was referring to death of intelligent life.

Heat death of the universe is definitely a problem but for a later time. I think having lifespans on the terms of millions of years or longer is qualitatively different than what we have now.

I don't find the before-birth argument very compelling. I just don't see how it's relevant.
dang's announcement thread explains it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223645
If death is so noble and necessary, why should anyone have a problem with murder? Why should we bother trying to cure diseases? Do you think the world was twice as dynamic and full of vitality 100 years ago, when the global average life expectancy was half what it is today?

I don't think making people immortal would "prevent change" because there are plenty of kinds of change that don't involve ending a person's life without their consent. Is that not obvious?
> no matter what you do, since you are white, your actions are of less value

I'm saying, no matter what you do, your actions have the same value as anyone else's; but if on balance you've benefited from unjust systems, yeah, in my mind your starting point is different. This is part of how I judge my own accomplishments; I'm on the "favored" side in most of these systems.

It's not as simple as "if you're white", since of course there are a lot of unfair systems in place in the world, not just racism.

But just in the context of racism -- if Peter Norman had been aboriginal Australian, it seems quite unlikely he would have even been there, and thus never in a position to make a statement anyone would notice in the first place. Though it's hard to say, since this was still around the time the state was deciding it should stop forcibly removing Aboriginal children to be adopted into "proper" homes.

Honestly, it's a bit weird to me that this idea gets such a negative reaction. Most people have this as a basic moral principle on a small scale.

If you had an awful teacher at school who only liked kids with blue eyes, and he gave you a bag of sweets but nothing to the less-blue-eyed kids, would you feel some duty to share the sweets around on the playground, or would you sit in a corner and eat them all?

If you join a card game, notice the dealer is an old friend (and he suggests he can "help" you win a bundle)... do you switch tables, or just figure it's your lucky day?

On a small/simple scale we feel a responsibility to correct small injustices, and to avoid profiting from them. For larger, longer-lived (and more complicated) injustices... that feeling just tends to go away.
Hey Sam, re: solving internal communication, you should checkout a non-profit called http://www.helloinnerspace.org/ funded by this group called YC ;)

Seriously though - after attending their cofounder communication workshop, we invited them to do it for our whole team. I think Innerspace is the best tool I have seen to prevent cofounder fallouts and improve internal communication.
My apologies. I believe my intent was misinterpreted. I was not, in the slightest, commenting on the need for social services; I was commenting on the general cultural attitude that children need to be constantly coddled and, tangentially, that it is the state's job, not the parents', to ensure that the children arrive safely to school (e.g., via school buses).
I can download them individually, but how do I get the torrent of all of them together?
I fixed a button on my shorts. It's not pretty but my pants stay up.
Good luck to her. Although unless you also fix the Bay Area transport infrastructure then building more housing in the suburbs isn't going to solve anything. BART is already at capacity, Buses are constrained by the lack of bus lanes on the major freeway interchanges leading to the bridges. Congestion inside the city is choking things.

So yes we need more housing, but that is merely the first step.
I worked in the Electronics/Sporting Goods (sometimes both when understaffed) and Gardening departments of the local small town K-Mart when I was in high school.

Can't say I was overly fond of the throwback 80s music it played or the cheesy product ads after hearing the same ones for weeks on end. This was 15+ years after the 80s as well. Thanks to this discussion, I unfortunately have them stuck in my head once again after years of suppressing them :(

It was actually a pretty decent job for where I lived and for being in high school (with above average high school pay). However, I never ever liked the radio system or the pre-recorded announcer.
Is it really a 50/50 balance for you between joy and suffering? Do you think that's the case for most people? Also, my claim was a weak one - simply that death is not the most vile thing imaginable/humanity's greatest enemy, because, at the very least, it does represent an end to suffering. In fact, I believe suffering is our biggest enemy..
Hey folks! Ben from Nylas here - I've been working on N1. Happy to answer any questions! We're excited to be open sourcing the client, and I can't wait to see what folks do with the plugin system.
Dead sharks are worth a lot of money in the art world: http://www.amazon.com/The-Million-Stuffed-Shark-Contemporary...
Masking Design Competence
Do you know of any specific implications around consolidation itself? Or is it just the simple fact that it's easier to resell one big thing versus four small things?
> So, if you are looking for good design in a language — PHP is still a disaster, I assure you.

PHP is like an unholy blend of Python and JavaScript with Perl syntax rules. If there's some feature you like in one of these languages, PHP probably has a slightly-confusing variant of it.

It has first-class function support (more-or-less), closures, classic OO, dynamic OO, reflection, namespaces, exceptions, auto-resolution of missing classes, generators, iterators, something like eval(), etc.
Wasn't this already on here recently?
But without one of them hiring enough lawyers to end up looking the inventor, we'd have nothing. Right?
It would be crazy expensive to do it all at once in the US. I'm from the north east and almost everywhere is above ground on poles. Only the newer developments are moving to underground.
Please try thinking more holistically.
Do private schools have similar incentives to keep children from passing to extract more fees?

If they are paid per graduating student, are they incentivized to pass (or ignore plagiarism, etc) for under-performing students?

If they are paid based on standardized test results, are they incentivized to teach to the test only?

If they are paid based on average grade score, are they incentivized to expel students for poor academic performance?

(I've seen the last one happen, but I don't think the cause was quite as direct - possibly high average scores => high first year enrolments)
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Thanks for bringing this up. I've had the same experience.

Doing a virtual business based nowhere, where even my own country of residence is constantly changing, it made sense to explore the lean efficient jurisdictions for incorporating.

For what it's worth, I've tried a bunch of incorporators, but found the best success with Trident Trust. Great bang per buck:

http://www.tridenttrust.com/corporate_overview.html

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http://www.tridenttrust.com/PDFs/Companies-IND.pdf

But like "hackerboos" said here, the hard part can be finding a bank willing to open a business bank account for your foreign company.

So contact your bank first and ask. Especially if you have an existing relationship there.

At Wells Fargo, for example, I was able to just walk in, talk to my usual dude who knows me by name, and open an account for my foreign corporation in 15 minutes. He didn't care (or even seem to notice) that it wasn't a U.S. corporation. All they cared about is that I had my U.S. Tax ID#. (IRS form SS-4.)

But even with international-friendly banks in Hong Kong and Singapore, even ones where I had a deep relationship, I've found they're averse to opening accounts for foreign corporations. They require a lot of extra paperwork, and a $50k minimum balance, but will do it.
Do you make a complaint? That is the only way this stuff will get changed.
they already get low rates.

the problem with discharging such loans is that people will game the system. so what do you do if suddenly they come into money or have the means to pay them?

I can see putting them off without interest for a set period of years but it is debt they willingly took on.
I don't mean to intentionally misunderstand you. I really do appreciate your patience, though, and willingness to engage, too, and am sorry if I come across as thick or willfully being a jerk.

I actually think it's great how much you're doing, outside the patched-together work, to get your own business/content marketing stuff going.

I wish some of the people I knew who were in a similar situation to you (i.e. some disability or another that prevents them from taking regular employ) had your ability to get things done. I wasn't even thinking about them until now, but I just got a linkedin connection request from one of them (and it's like, I know there's no point in them doing it like this, because regular scheduled employ is not in the cards for them, they're just tired of being so poor) and it got me thinking.

Let's say, it's not you I'm worried about, it's more for them that I'm concerned. $12 isn't much, but you're already doing stuff to do better. If my friends could do better, though, given their constraints, their lives would be a lot better off for it. Maybe a basic income isn't the answer, but an extra hundred dollars or two a month would go a long way toward improving their quality of life.
Yes this is written by a VC for VC focused businesses where growth is the only metric that matters. Same for publicly traded companies.
I rode in a Model S with Tesla’s v7 Beta Autopilot – Here’s how it works
Ha, as opposed to all the poor people using them now, to talk about what they had for lunch?
The initialization vector is exported in the last character of the string and so who will decrypt will be able to get back the correct message.
The thing is we don't figure out drugs, we find them by inspired accident. The attempt to move to a "let's figure it out" approach with computational methods seems to be what's making us worse at drug discovery.
It only affirms that you have all the rights on the code and that you are not liable if someone does something with it. What's missing is the part that actually gives other people rights to do stuff with it. Compare the MIT license, which has a middle bit doing so, between the copyright and the liability parts.

http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT