skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the tip! I found it. Interestingly, this is a very boring version from the one I remember. What I recall was a kids voice saying something about buying his parents photos for Christmas or something. Still pretty cool. Thanks again!
I think that those that are proposing more development would heartily welcome simultaneously expanding the infrastructure.

Those who oppose such infrastructure improvements typically oppose them because they want to stop growth entirely.
I'm happy to agree to disagree, though we both agree that IT is more tolerant of shabbiness. I do think that your definition of 'professional' is too narrow - 'professionals' are more than finance, sales, and middle-managers. I guess my point was primarily that the stereotype of developers doesn't seem to match up with the actuality of developers. I just get verbose and waffley at times.

And yes, this isn't a debate that should send either of us a-searching :)
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The major issue I found is that you wrote your own crypto system without developing a security model and without explaining why well-known and well-tested crypto methods aren't appropriate.

I don't think that can be so easily fixed.

Again, unless you are an expert, do not write your own crypto system and try to encourage others to use it. Even for experts it's hard work.

Just because you or random strangers on the internet can't break it in 5 minutes of side project, doesn't mean it's not breakable.
you kind of tune them out. however I have nothing against them provided they are maintained. as kids we used to play games by "collecting" them.

still if they don't require hacking down a trees I have no problem with people using their property this way
EDIT: thanks for looking into it and changing it!

BSD contains the magic line:

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: which I don't see in your files?

To me it seems like you left all the bits that allow other people to do things out.
They have some. But its not about predictive power, its about replicable experiments like you have in the sciences...

Economics is a useful social science (it's what I study), but it has challenges that the more established sciences don't encounter...
To me the only sensible way to judge privatization is to look at the incentives that are created.

Prisons - If we assume the corporation profit comes from prisoner rent, the private corporation is incentivized to encourage more prisoners and longer sentences.

Im not convinced that is a healthy incentive, and the evidence seems to show it is not.

School privatization - Where does the profit come? if it is based on children/hour then the corporation is incentivized to have more people attending school for longer periods.

that again sounds like a problem to me - you COULD achieve it in positive ways, but you could also achieve it by not teaching anyone anything....or by teaching at a slower rate...

Hospital privatization - This just sounds like a total cluster fuck to me, assuming the corporation makes its profit from rent/medical treatment then the incentives are there to keep patients as long as possible and undergoing as much treatment as possible, while actually curing as few problem as possible...

Some things, are just not meant to be privatized IMO.
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Great idea. Very clean and easy to understand UI. I'll take a look at the plugin API. Looks like it'd be a breeze to add to.
Best argument here.
What words in the article suggested eminent domain to you?
The government always outsources collection. Further, collection is distinct from origination. Underwriting a loan is also distinct from guaranteeing a loan, but none of this speaks to servicing a loan.

And even with all that jargon, we still haven't covered what it actually means to own debt.
> ...rent control seems like part of the problem to me, in the sense that it hides the true extent of market distortions from many people living in the area...

musesum mentions:

> Am lucky to have rent control. Right now, if I move away, I wouldn't be able to afford moving back.

Everyone I speak to in my building [0] is very aware of the current ludicrously high rents in the city and how it limits their ability to keep a slumlord in line. I can't imagine the situation is substantially different in any other rent-controlled building in the city.

Also, be aware that SF's rent-control is more correctly termed rent-stabilization. Vacated units can have their rent set to any rate. Stabilization only kicks in once that unit is occupied.

> ...while incentivizing weird and unethical behavior to circumvent it by developers who could probably be nudged...

I honestly don't know what you're talking about here. Were you aware that rent control in SF doesn't apply to new construction [1]; only to housing built or occupied before June 13, 1979? [2]

If you were aware of that, would you be so kind as to tell me what you are referring to? :)

[0] Including the old lady who is afflicted with alzheimer's.

[1] Unless -as happened with Sangiacomo's Trinity Place on Market street- a special arrangement is reached to destroy existing rent-controlled units, but have a 1:1 replacement in the new construction.

[2] https://www.sftu.org/rentcontrol/#Rent_Control_Coverage
Do you have sources for those?

I've never heard that.
Student loans are at below-market interest rates and are guaranteed to be available in quantity. The market does not generally offer non-secured signature loans for $20k to $140k to people with no credit history or limited credit history and no income. When it does, it charges literally 10+% more.
It doesn't get much press, so in the metric that counts (VC availability bias), Yahoo died.

Microsoft's corpse has similarly been squirting billions of dollars of profit through its several layers of tombstones for decades now.
Simply getting to a finder window where I can do a "Get Info" on a hard drive requires finding your way to the "Computer" finder window, which requires digging in menus or right click context pulldowns on window titles (?).

While it works on folders, it just gives you a question mark for the size while it is working out the size of the sub-items on disk with no indication that it's actually going to change that.

So yes, there are alternative methods, but they are no more friendly to discoverability as the Apple Menu method.
So you think apoe4's should eat a high carb diet?
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No Windows support yet?
Female students are more interested in enrolling in CS if they think it doesn't involve computers or science... maybe instead of trying to trick them encourage them to like computers and science? If you think solving problems by looking pretty rather than thinking is 'being female' then you don't think being a Computer Scientist is very 'female'.

(Obviously I think being female is orthogonal to such concerns.)
This is a very good point--the friends I had that were guys an nerdy tended to work together to form our own merry band of misfits.

Girls in secondary education, though, seem to be all-too-ready to screw over each other and throw "friends" under the bus if there is any perceived benefit socially (saw this happen with family and female friends).

It's downright ugly.
Yes, if the incentives are structured by the employing government as such. Governments shouldn't do that though. Nor should governments entertain the proposals pushed by these firms.
If you need some content management and like Sculpin then check out Concrete 5, they're both based on Twig and Symfony components, but Concrete 5 has the CMS features you might expect a customer to ask for.

Also worth mention is Zoltonic which is an Erlang thing (iirc it also works with Elixir). I've found it pretty easy to get set up with my very baisc understanding of Erlang.
IMO, there is a reasonable complaint that people who live somewhere for 30 years might be continuously paying for infrastructure that's only needed because more people moved into the area. Basically, when an area needs to build a new school to accommodate new people that cost is split among everyone not just the new people. Then in 10 years when they need another school you pay for it again etc. This results in developers being able to pawn off the majority of infrastructure costs.

Currently, areas often use zoning to try and limit growth, but that just means whoever get's to build new property get's to pocket the difference which opens the way to graft etc. IMO, the reasonable solution to that problem is simply to tax people who build new property a share of the existing infrastructure costs. (Note: Bonds seem like a way to side step this, but your still splitting the costs with everyone not just immigrants.)

Of course there is also NIMBY issues where people don't want change. But, that's a separate issue.
Looks like it could be cool, but can't try it until you release a Windows client.

By which time I may have forgotten about the product. :(

Seems like simultaneous release is the way to go, so that you don't waste your time in the spotlight with a product applicable to less than 10% of the desktop/laptop market.

I'm sure there are more Mac users on HN than globally. But for what Windows users are here, it still puts us off to be made feel that we're considered to be second class customers, with delayed feature releases on Windows, permanently missing features, etc.

Finally, from the FAQ:

>Why is search sometimes slow?

This is a key problem. If you want to be competitive, search can't be slow, especially if you're hosting your own server solution. You're competing against the Gmail client, where search is pretty much instant. Yes, Google is the king of search. But you need to find a solution that fixes this problem or you're dead in the water, IMO.
that's a good argument for using human readable slug.. definitely
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Thank you for putting your code out there as open source!
Illegal activity takes place on the side of the originators and the services, and you still argue that the loan recipient hold the moral weight of compliance?

No. As this article clearly shows, and as was the case with the subprime lenders, many of the originators and the servicers acted illegally, it's not a simple argument about 'what I agreed to'. There are two parties to that agreement, and if anyone acts contrary to the contract, the other party has a right to respond, and not be morally required to follow through on their end of the agreement. In fact, they are morally required to respond to those changes by the people on the other side of the negotiating table.

Lastly, these loans were not just provided for fun. They were provided to the students with the promise of higher income. If that doesn't happen, and the jobs and income are not there to support it, that promise becomes false, and both parties to the agreement have to face the consequences, not just the student.
My HP laptop transmits built-in mic audio on ~38 MHz, also with deactivated mic
I knew Moments was doomed when I opened it for the first time and the top card was Astros beat Yankees. I don't think I've ever tweeted about sports, why on earth would you show me this?
You want society to view death as being wicked rather than acceptable. Since death is inevitable (either on millions of years or a decades scale), and it isn't that horrible of a state to return to anyway, viewing death as a kind of wickedness is like telling a Christian to accept he is going to hell, and make life miserable. I think it's important for people to be allowed to accept the inevitable, to accept they will return to a state that isn't that vile or wicked.
i don't have much of a reason to believe that breakthroughs need to be regular, since by nature they are unpredictable.

in a monstrously reductive sense, I feel like this article is analyzing a series of coin flips and commenting on a streak of tails.

it doesn't help that the scope of the topic is far broader than could be covered in the given text, and entire fields were ignored out of existence.

in all, I was entertained, so I'm happy.
Sorry, I meant to say that it only benefits him. It's great that you're consulting a lawyer! I'd definitely talk to him/her about the reverse vesting.

A cliff generally protects shareholders against someone leaving with shares before spending a meaningful enough amount of time at the company to add value.

Imagine if you incorporated two years ago, and you started your cliff clock and vesting schedule then. Ask yourself and your co-founders: would it be fair to you to allow reverse vesting now, when your new CEO joined? To give up all your vested shares up to this point, and start from scratch with no vested shares and a new cliff?
>The key is to make it a priority to move to an area where...

Plans that begin with that phrase are never sustainable. All sane people will want to move to the same places, rising prices substantially until people are forced to borrow huge amounts of money to buy houses in nice places, causing a housing bubble, causing a crash.
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And this, to me, is the root of all of humanity's self-inflicted problems. Too many "good" people, at the end of the day, wimp out and take the personally safe route, not just not taking action but also staying silent so as not to risk their social and economic standing. The Holocaust, slavery, racism, the shame felt by rape victims, police injustice[1] could not have happened if those who felt the stirrings of their conscience didn't then snuff those feelings.

[1] http://www.vox.com/2015/5/28/8661977/race-police-officer
The whole vaporwave community is going to have a field day with this stuff.
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Yeah, but it was his fault that he or she is only second-tier. Right? It's always his or her fault, regardless.

In which case, the solution is still the same one, don't let to the second-tie schools get loans, and force them to become more affordable, competing on price with first-tier programs, or if there are not enough students interested in low cost second tier programs, force them to shut down.
That's fair in general but this kind of stuff ALWAYS comes up on this topic on HN. It's derailing behavior.
Who down voted this? Why?
It was. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10333193

The other post linked to the Nylas website, this links to the Github repo.
This is at least the third time it's been posted. Note the hashbangs in the URL.
Hi Ben,

First of all, congrats for shipping, and thank you for your work. I'm currently hacking something based on your inbox-scaffold-html5 project. You're clearly very talented, but I have one question. Is there any chance of you ditching coffee script for something more sane like plan ES6 or even better TypeScript? Aside from Github and you guys I don't know anyone still backing that horse. There's just too much people (myself included) that consider it unreadable.
So they live in an old, bad quality building in a relatively good location. And they oppose replacing the old bad buildings with modern, well build buildings, because then they could not afford them anymore?
Yes, there is evidence, but you don't need AI, per se. Just automation in its various forms (robots, software, etc.):

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21594264-previous-tec...

http://www.npr.org/2011/11/03/141949820/how-technology-is-el...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/science/05legal.html?_r=0

Automation is moving up the skill / knowledge chain.
Maybe it's just trying to cheer you up (:

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Please post a "how to compile on mac" tutorial.

I'm stuck waiting for an "invite" despite that I got the email announcement.
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They were provided to the students with the plausibly deniable implication of higher income. I think you'll find, should you actually look at any printed material, that nowhere is there any promise of higher income. (That's how you know it's a long con.)
There already is a DC standard, it's for telecom and it uses 48V. You can buy PSU's off the shelf for many systems.

48V is better than 12 because the wiring gauge is smaller and line loss is more efficient.
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=GBXqCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA28&lp... possibly? Failing that, byuu (developer of the Higan emulator) might know.
Do look at it but you need to considered the ecosystem around it, not simply the language.

http://www.phptherightway.com is a good start. I would also look at the Symfony 2 framework and even try this as a learning resource: http://symfony.com/doc/current/create_framework/index.html
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Any references for the first paragraph? I would like to learn more.
Here's a thought: If we, as an industry, started to move away from this "everyone in one big shared bullpen" / open-plan model, and started giving people individual offices again, would that make things better? Because now, you, as, say, a female programmer, are free to decorate your office in pink and with "Sex In The City" posters, and issues of Cosmo or whatever (if that's what floats your boat) while your co-worker can have Doctor Who and Star Wars posters, and electronics magazines, blah, blah (or vice versa).

Personally I think that one of the best way to accomodate the uniqueness that makes us all individuals, is to embrace that individual nature and give people solo offices. Of course, that's not the only reason I advocate for private offices, but it's hard not to think that it would help in this regard as well.
> Why can't the shared culture be a mutual commitment to high-quality work?

Because that's not how human beings bond. We don't bond over a single facet of our lives; we bond as a community. The modern world, in which we live different places, believe different things and pursue different jobs, is poison for any sense of community.
Renting an apartment isn't the same as buying an iPad. Having a safe place to lay your head at night is something our society has determined extremely important bordering on essential. Housing rentals are highly regulated due (mostly) to this fact.
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Also, what is "DSP proposal"?
If someone didn't build your house, you'd go find another house! How is that sobering?
Well, it did get an add for Partyline on the frontpage of HN. Not sure that's failing, even if people disagree with your premise.
Would you be okay with the new student loans be given out based on default risk? For example based of GPA, SAT, major?
Confusion arises because who gets to say that's the metric that counts? What are your criteria for a business to be considered alive and healthy? Why are those your criteria?

Growth is not inherently positive, it depends on context. For example, if I tell you my cancer has grown 500% this year, it wouldn't be good news. And before you say this is a stretched analogy, it's not necessarily positive in tech either - if you're growing while bleeding money, all you're doing is bleeding more money. So how do you reach your conclusions?
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No experimental feature is cool enough to require you:

1. To register
2. To Use an API key
3. To detect support for (and presumably fallback)
4. To provide feedback for

You have a problem with burn-in of your experimental APIs? How about you semver your APIs and console.warn when it's deprecated.

This problem has been solved many times before.
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Death happens, if not now then when entropy is at maximum, and birth happens too. Murder happens, and people angry at murders also happen. Diseases happen, and cures for diseases happen also. People go to work late happens, people go to work on time happens too. People fall in love and is rejected happens, and people fall in love and is reciprocated happens also. If you were to tell me what life is, that's life. That's vitality. You can have both left and right, good and bad, or nothing. There is duality, and then there is oneness, and you can't have one without the other. Life is duality, non-life is oneness. Maximum oneness is maximum entropy.
I only care at what the banks' interest percentage is. Student loans should be at that. And that's 0.25%

Student loans are 8%. And that's bullshit. Theyre making 8% on us for absolutely nothing. And they get guaranteed repayment, since default risk is 0 due to garnishments.
I agree that suffering is a bigger enemy than death.

Unfortunately any viable technology for brain uploading would also allow bad actors to simulate huge amounts of suffering and conceal it from detection. I guess some technologies really are too scary to be released into the world, unless we can create a central benevolent overseer first.
Disclaimer: I haven't read the article in full.

Corporation tax in the UK is payable on 'profits subject to corporation tax'. In laymen's terms this is roughly equivalent to to accounting profit.

Employee salaries, bonuses, etc are generally deductible; if you pay me 50K, that's 50K out of your bottom line.

The employees in question likely pay a variety of taxes including but not limited to the standard income tax. In an extreme scenario (recent graduate + highest tax band) that could be 61% rate.

(For comparison, the 2015 rate for Corporation Tax is 20%; so as far as the Exchequer is concerned, a salary payment is preferable, at least in immediate terms).

In summary, I think there's a discussion to be had here about abuse of taxation frameworks but the headline here is bait; the bonuses are irrelevant, any oddities regarding transfer payments etc. are what should be focused on.
I mostly agree, but for some types of projects I think the initial setup phase can be worth doing as a scale, because it's important and often under-practiced.

Server deployment, setting up a build system, wiring up some system that you know you'll do again, etc - there are benefits to knowing a process that works, rather than stumbling through it each time and thinking it's magic. Another thing that helps is just writing down all the steps you did, after going down a windy path that eventually worked.
On the contrary, they predict the data they studied extremely well :)
dumb, unrelated question - why is the original posters name green ?
There is rampant blocking of religious freedom in Russia - online and in real life, enforced by government and England's by the Orthodox Church. It is a regime and it is a tyranny.
Ben,

You might want to fix your privacy page. It says 'HIPPA' ready when it should be HIPAA ready.
One would hope.

As long as everything is fully disclosed, an investor may purchase without recourse.

For example, M. Cuban achieved a $1 billion valuation of a company on $3.1 million in revenue and $2.7 million in net losses. This was transformed into a $5.7 billion exit months later. Yahoo's market cap was then chopped down by about 80% over the next few years.
Did he actually say something terrible, or did he just commit a thoughtcrime in public? In this sort of discussion, one never knows. I didn't see the original comment, so I have no idea.

But, given the context of this discussion, I am concerned that there is a decent possibility that he wrote something not outrageous, but simply contrary to the current received wisdom of young Bay Area Californians.