skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see a lot of people blaming the government for college costs, but the fact is that, unlike for graduate school loans, the amount of guaranteed undergraduate loans individuals can take on is capped at $12,500 Stafford + up to $5,500 in Perkins loans. Beyond that you need parents to sign on for PLUS loans, which require a credit check.

The real problem is that we've been indoctrinated to overvalue education and artificial college rankings. If you're a Virginia resident, going to UVA will cost you almost $30,000 a year, in-state, including room and board (unless your parents happen to live in Charlottesville). But you can go to George Mason for only $11,000 a year living at home. But few people who can get into UVA go to GMU because you're giving up a lot of job prospects in the process, plus have to deal with the "commuter college" stigma. And employers don't really ascribe a much higher value to a UVA education versus a GMU one--they just want to sort people who managed to get into UVA from people who didn't.
Precisely! ;) Thanks for the link I'll read through it, might have features hiding in the comments :)
Same here with a Surface Pro 4. Lots of little bugs that I'd never expect in an Apple device. Weird keyboard issues, random screen shutoff, DPI issues, etc. Luckily, Windows Updates have been fixing the issues a handful at a time, but this means that initial impressions will suffer. Hopefully they get their QA issues sorted out.
> And this is why Monsanto ruins the lives of farmers, driving many to suicide.

Monsanto does not force farmers to not use their product in the way they want. IP enforcement (which a lot of westerners seem to think it is about) is nearly absent in this countries. Farmers kill themselves because of debt from the bank (which is and will be enforcable).

Look at India, farmer suicides are a huge problem in certain states, and the moment you cross over the state boundary the problem goes away. These states have few things in common:

* A land ceiling limit, most states in India have a limit of maximum agricultural land to be limited to 14-20 something acres. This means that when you're farm is failing, you have very limited buyers for it. Only a buyer who doesn't already own enough land which touches the limit can buy the land.

* Monsanto seed is used by a LOT more farmers than those who commit suicide. This is called survivorship bias. You only see the seeds used by farmers who committed suicide, you don't see the farmers who succeeded because of it. Thankfully some research has shown otherwise. http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll2/id/14...

* Farmers suicide rate in India per 100k: 1.55
Non farmer suicide rate in India per 100k: 10.3

* 5 of the 29 states account for 79% of farmer suicides: Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Kerala. The common theme is these states have higher industrialization than the rest of the states(except for MP, that state is backward as fuck). Keep in mind, a factory owner can buy a LOT more land than agricultural land limit would allow.

* Most of the stories westerners are being fed about Farmer suicide are from mid-2000s, when suicide peaked. When you look at the long term trend, it seems that more farmers used Monsanto's seed, farmer suicide comes down to historic lows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bt_Cotton_Hectares_and_Fa...

> And this is why in large parts of the world mothers have come to believe that formula is better than breast milk.

Regarding this, I admit I don't know much, but I learned this lesson long time ago. Be very ware of stories generated by people with an agenda. These facts and figures are generated by the left wing of India. It's not difficult to show that Sweden's rape epidemic is caused by it's recent influx of immigrants, it might be the case, but I can promise you, this statistic will be thrown out almost immidiately.
I have small hands and hate large smartphones.

Best smartphone I ever had was the Motorola Defy but unfortunately it is too underpowered today being only single core and half gig ram.

Check out the size difference:

http://www.phonearena.com/phones/size//phones/8908,8346,4875

If I could have phone built to spec, 4 inch screen with edge-to-edge no-margin 1280x720, quad-core 1.5ghz+, 2gb+ ram and user-removable battery. Oh and hardware button which are becoming extinct.
That's about how much it would cost if you get a degree from an in-state public university. At that cost I can only imagine that he decided to go to Rutgers as an out-of-state student. That was the big mistake here.
There is no skills-gap
Any OpenCL/CUDA program for GPGPU would require this. Different GPUs may have different characteristics (core count, available instructions, memory sizes and speeds), that need to be taken into account and can be optimized for. This can only be done when you know the run-time target device, which is only at run-time.

This is the reason why for GPGPU programs, you often supply the kernel/shader as C code or another intermediate representation (vendor-specific assembly), and the final compilation step is done by the GPU driver.
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> "Sean is now pursuing another bachelor's degree, this time in computer science, from the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg. He is paying for this degree as he goes, with help from an internship program with the U.S. Navy."

... or he could have just driven 40 minutes north and gotten a CS degree at George Mason University, which is a far, far better program than Mary Washington. OR if out of state tuition is not an issue, he could have driven another 30 minutes further and gotten a CS degree at U Maryland, which hovers in the top 15. Both of which are basically the same price as Mary Washington. Is it worth mentioning that the Navy has close connections to both schools? Particularly GMU.

Indeed of nearby schools, the following are all superior to Mary Washington in CS and cost about the same: GMU, U Maryland, Virginia Tech, UVA, ODU, VCU.

So one son decided to blow $200K on a journalism degree, and his parents helped him. Now the other son, already $60K in the hole, is going back to school, and has picked the worst of several options to get a computer science degree. And no doubt his parents are helping him again. One wonders if the problem is the parents.
I agree with the sentiment but I think somewhat higher loans are reasonable.

The rule of thumb that I use is total student debt shouldn't exceed the normal starting salary for a job in your field.

If you are getting an engineering degree, go ahead and feel free to drop $60k+ on an education, but if you are going to be a teacher start looking for grants.
I've had many of these same problems, with the addition of automatic driver updates breaking my display and forcing me to spend an hour fixing their (M$, lenovo, I don't care. read: Not My) mistake.

I've searched, but have you found a list of those login screen pictures? I want them.
I think that's accurate. I just get tired of the culture of newness. Knowledge who's age could best be described in months gets derided for be old and irrelevant.
Hey, You'll be able to add notes for previous days but not for days prior to when you signed up, sorry I don't think this is particularly clear at the moment and maybe I should remove this restriction from the UI.

Currently it's not possible to edit topics, high up on the todo list though! :D Thanks for your feedback, muchly appreciated!
Please don't pretend to understand nutrition if you don't. Doing this hurts people.
From a different point of view, the parents are age 57 and 59 and if everything went well, they would already have retired.

In contrast, European Union asks Greece (and other PIIGS countries) to set the minimum retirement age at 67 if it wants to stay a member...
Terrorism needs your help. Do you really want to lend a hand?
So many submissions, so little discussion. Are people not worried about this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10799477 (2 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10799325 (1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10799070

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10798168

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10787571

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10801154 (4 comments)
You were asked the question twice[1][2] and ignored it both times, so I was trying to pin down an answer. I'm trying to find where our disagreement lies.

1) We agree that the TSA agents' actions should make me angry.

2) We agree that the TSA agents themselves are culpable for their actions.

3) Therefor, it makes sense for me to be angry at the TSA agents.

4) I think our disagreement lies here, where I think I am allowed to retaliate (within the bounds of the law, obviously) against those who upset me, while you think I'm not.

You were couching your argument in terms of "they're just doing their jobs; be angry at the policy makers, not at those who carry out the policy," which made me think the disagreement was in (2) above. But your reply here makes me think the disagreement is in (4).

I understand the viewpoint that one should always turn the other cheek to one's oppressors. I don't subscribe to it myself. If they're going to harass and anger me and waste my time, I really don't have any problems returning the favor.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10801547

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10801549
An "all-blue" channel is an artifact of your television. Modern televisions put up a solid color rather than snow when they fail to detect a carrier wave on the chosen channel.
Interesting, which online school if you don't mind me asking?
The argument was that a service like Bandcamp, where you sell file downloads, wouldn't exist - which is a stronger position than arguing that streaming wouldn't exist.
One Startup's Struggle to Survive SV's Gold Rush (2014)
Source code without any permission to use nor any exclusive right to prevent others from using maybe isn't worth much to any buyer, but this was black market. Is access-only source code ever sold on the open market? How much does it fetch? Or given that software is heterogeneous, what is some code that would fetch a high access-only price if it were so available on the open market, and how much, order of magnitude?
Edit: better link https://github.com/10se1ucgo/DisableWinTracking/blob/master/...
All of the people here writing about how these people shouldn't have picked non-STEM majors are missing the point entirely.

These people in the article are the population we've got, not the population we want to have; Monday morning quarterbacking is completely useless, as the debt is already accrued. To state it again: this is the population we actually have. They are not technically skilled, but they are educated and heavily indebted. They were told "go to college, get any degree, and you will have success." This was not accurate, and now, we have an entire generation that is suffering.

Student loan debt is smashing the potential of the millenials and is now increasingly seen as a massive burden on their parents and (mostly uncreated, due to insufficient funds) children as well. Large-scale debt relief is mandatory at this point, as all of the money siphoned to debt maintenance is severely limiting the amount of demand that the economy's primary consumers are able to create. Millenials aren't buying homes, aren't having kids, aren't buying cars, aren't able to put their parents into nursing homes, etc.

The parents of the millenials typically have some wealth that can be extracted, and so, it's on the chopping block. This is why loans have cosigners-- so that their bank accounts can be emptied, too.

Debt slavery is the reality we live in, and predictably, debtors parents aren't thrilled that their retirement is being siphoned away by their children's debt.

As I said, this debt is a massive drag on the economy, and debt relief is mandatory. Unfortunately, there's not so much going on politically right now, so I think that a mass student debt boycott is a better decision. It's unlikely that the lenders will be bankrupted, but it'll send a message at least. Sure, they'll ruin everyone's credit and dock people's wages, but that can only be sustained until there's white riots due to poverty. And it'll probably take riots to end this debt slavery-- it takes riots to fix things in a broken country.
Another Hackathon Makes an IP Grab
It is important to know and not perpetuate the myths about student loans...

-Federally guaranteed student loans can be discharged in bankruptcy (it is just a different standard than other debts); and

-Federal plus loans (a type of educational loan for parents) can also be discharged, not just through bankruptcy but also directly through the US Department of Education, for example one program is for permanent and total disability, and with the aging population more and more parents with $100,000's in loans for their kids will be eligible for this discharge.
Do you honestly expect them to open source software that earns them significant revenue? They are a business trying to make money.
why not 1e? 3 is library functions
David Foote's Winning (and Losing) Tech Jobs for 2016
Yes, the World Still Needs COBOL Programmers
If you leave the US, you don't stop being a US Citizen unless you revoke your citizenship. And most nations won't allow you to become a citizen if you have foreign debts.

Also, expect to see more of these types of rules, since many student loans are backed by US Government entities: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2015/12/...

> A new enforcement provision passed by Congress and signed into law earlier this month allows the government to revoke the passports of seriously delinquent tax scofflaws — people who owe more than $50,000 to Uncle Sam.
Texas doesn't have party registration, which is why that field might be blank for the example query listed in the article.
I got hold of this stuff when it first came out last year, its fun.

Amazon does a whole range of similar products, including one that's safe to use on animal fur. I've often been tempted to spray the cat - keep him safer when out at night, and the idea of a shiny cat is pretty amusing.
Have you known anyone who has experienced sudden death / heart failure from ingesting one drink ?
I wouldn't be surprised if Windows was open source in 10-20 years. I'm not expecting it to, and I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't open sourced, either.
I believe that's the purpose of the Harvard Depository:

http://library.harvard.edu/access-services-2/depository
Picture Swap [NSFW]: Upload a picture to discover what the last visitor uploaded
Stupidity, not malice.

In my observer experience, the higher the official, the less interested he was in falsifications; it was the lowest ranks that wanted to prove that their areas are loyal with any means necessary, while the higher-ups wanted to avoid the embarrassment and didn't worry much about the outcome, since population's loyalty is pretty sincere, thanks to the propaganda machine.
Thank you for sharing this. A wonderful listen and perspective.
Be careful of this author. He has an ax to grind with Amazon: http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/253744/david-streitfel...
The Ones We've Lost: The Student Loan Debt Suicides (2012)
The instruction set should represent a suitable compromise between the RISC principle that enables fast decoding, and the CISC principle that makes more efficient use of code cache resources

I doubt these have been the real issues behind instructions sets for at least 15 years.
FTFY: Jet.com's Strategy: Low Prices, Fast Delivery, Happy Workers, Huge Losses
> "The ABI, object file format, etc. should be standardized as far as possible in order to allow the same code to be compatible with different operating systems and platforms. This would make it possible, for example, to use the same function libraries in different operating systems."

So what are we talking about here? Sounds like by standardising on a higher level of abstraction, you're free to make more changes at a lower level. What does that mean in practice? Do compilers target this standardised abstraction layer rather than machine code? How is this better than the JVM/CLR approach?
Why are so many of the books listed 2 or 3 times with the same title but different filename? Are they different versions or just redundant copies?
Sure no one said they need to dig up the street. But they do need to make CHANGES.
Adventures in Erlang – Web Front End
The question that needs to be asked here is how to get all installers using MSI. MSI is a secure, declarative format which runs off MS code in known directory. Because it's declarative, it can also be queried and tracked. I recently packaged an installer using it and it worked really well. WiX has terrific documentation and it was straightforward.
Demo: Visualize data from MongoDB
Is it public information in which elections a person votes?
Wow, living in Germany I graduated in CS with ~7k in loans. Just the idea that a government does not pay its childrens education is freakin me out and from my perspective seems to be a neo liberalism horror story.
The GMO-Suicide Myth
>Given that you can't get out of student loan debt through bankruptcy...

Yes you can, that is a myth perpetuated by lenders. And for Plus loans there are multiple programs available for parents to discharge their loans directly with the US Dept of Education, and as the baby boomers continue to age more and more will qualify for discharges.
I have Sony Z3 Compact for that very reason. I am much more attached to size than to platform so if next time iPhones end up being smallest of the bunch, then that's where I will go.
ok sorry I thought this really is common knowledge so didn't provide a link.

http://betanews.com/2015/02/22/os-x-ios-and-linux-have-more-...

https://www.gfi.com/blog/most-vulnerable-operating-systems-a...
> -Federally guaranteed student loans can be discharged in bankruptcy (it is just a different standard than other debts)

As a practical matter, it is not dischargeable. The standard is nearly impossible to meet.
there's an excellent torrent of springer books out there, about 12gb.
Wow. I been looking all over for this: http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/3-540-44890-X
Here's a source that shows a correlation between ice cream sales and homicides: (http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2013/07/09/warm_weather_hom...). I'm sure if we unpacked the BLS data you cite we'd also see a correlation between higher earners coming from intact families and the possession of other forms of social capital in addition to a degree. The question is which is the dominant driver?

As for the citations you requested, I'd point to the raft of sob stories that have been published over the last few years which feature unfortunate stories of people six figures in debt, but working jobs that require no training. It could be these are cherry-picked examples to help advance a faulty narrative (e.g. http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html), but to the extent they reflect a real problem we should examine the broken logic that created it.

So why would I suggest anyone go to a state school? As I mentioned in the last paragraph of my previous post, since WWII we've become more credential-focused and made a BA the bare minimum for many professional career paths——something that should be remedied in my opinion, but the reality.

You suggest the commodification of education is the problem—I'd argue the problem is that we don't treat college enough like a product. Because we treat it like a rite of passage for young adults, and subsidize it heavily, you have horrible colleges offering degrees at the same price as elite schools. Instead of analytically valuing the degree based on the quality of the education offered, we treat degrees as fungible goods and splurge emotionally to obtain them.

In many parts of America you need a car to participate in the workforce. We don't offer subsidies so everyone can go out and buy a Bently.

If you can afford college, go, it's a great, mind-expanding experience for a young mind. It is a good rite of passage into adulthood in the US, but so is joining the military or going on a religious mission. So is night school after you've found a career path you like, but need further education to advance in.

I don't understand the reflexive desire to turn the protection of 3rd rate colleges into a cause célèbre.
People not constantly staring at their phones. Everywhere. Outside. Inside. In restaurants. At work.
Yeah, no generics either.
Thanks, you saved untold fortunes I was planning on surrendering to Bezos in pursuit of these tomes of arcane magic.
Typed Up CRUD SPA with Haskell and Elm – Part 1: Spike Time
My IDE is full screen emacs, with one emacs window running a shell for when I just want a command line. This works great on MacOSX and on Linux. It gives me integrated debugging, code navigation (with cscope-mode), code completion, git support and more. The downside is the steep learning curve, but I climbed that years ago and haven't looked back.
Show HN: Where SF public transit breaks rules
I've been collecting SF MUNI's GPS info (including speed, current position) for the past 2 months and comparing it to what should be happening (speed limit, route). This is a heatmap of where MUNI speeds most often.

Full source available at https://github.com/eskibars/Oddball
perhaps my context was unclear. I was considering number of vulnerabilities among the different OS. that has actually little relation to the other problem that it is of course as spyware-as-OS.
You could package <SolitaireView/> and SolitaireGame together and distribute that? For somebody who just wants to drop a game of solitaire on their page that would work.
There is already a lot of information available about the labor market in general, and colleges are also required to provide gainful employment statistics for graduates. Despite this, it seems that many students make poor decisions, probably for more subtle reasons (easy availability of loans, wanting to experience college, wanting a gap between school and work, etc).

Securitizing student loans by major and having a liquid market for the securities is an interesting idea, but its hard for me to imagine that the information provided would have any impact on this problem. If students, counselors, etc already ignore the plentiful labor market statistics available, a I'm sure they'll have no trouble ignoring a proxy for those statistics.
I don't want to be harsh but the reality is either you can afford to try a very hard path such as "bachelor's degree in journalism and media studies." where it seems competencies don't really matter or you push your kids to study something where the odds of finding a jobs are higher.

Unfortunately it seems like, journalism, acting, professional sports is not about talent but about who you meet and when :/

May be I'm a pessimist but that's how I feel about certain jobs/career paths.
Are you saying there should be no need for rear lights on cars?
Vernor Vinge envisioned such future in his science fiction (for now) novel Rainbows End :)

"The UCSD Library conflict actually grows directly out of the other aspect of the book of interest to e-book fans: the digitization of the contents of the library. In the timeframe of the book (sometime in the 2020s, apparently), physical books’ intrinsic value has declined to the point where the books themselves are considered much less valuable than their contents.

So, to get at the contents, a company is destroying the books themselves—feeding them through a shredder then blowing the shreds through a tunnel lined with high-resolution cameras. The cameras capture images of the shreds, then batteries of computers stitch them together into reconstructions of the pages, like jigsaw puzzles. The idea is to gather and collate all the world’s knowledge, to unlock synergies that had been prevented by it all being so inaccessible before." -- Review by teleread http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/review-rainbows-end/
I don't think their open sourcing is some kind of desperate attempt. They open sourced .NET understanding that developer tools and languages have to be open source nowadays, if they want adoption.