skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't know anything about my loans, and only had a ballpark knowledge of the cost of college. And it was fine--I paid off my loans after graduation relatively quickly and with little fuss.

Of course this was because I went to college 24 years ago (dear god I'm getting old). College was far more affordable, and the loan conditions were more humane.

The landscape has changed dramatically. At least part of the problem is parents in my age group not realizing that their children's loans are far more onerous than their own loans were, and failing to give them adequate scrutiny.
I was lucky enough to not have to take out loans, but we did finance my wife's law school education predominantly with loans.

The thing I never understood was the interest rate. It seemed like we were locked into a 6.5% rate no matter what, but others were getting loans at nearly half that rate. I'm not sure if this was based on need (seems like a dumb way to set interest rates), when we first started taking the loans, or what.

Once you graduate, you're able to refinance into a private loan, which will get you a lower rate, but you seem pretty stuck while in school and unsubsidized loans accrue interest while you're in school. Our loans will be paid off in a few short months, but we have been scrimping by the past two years in order to put as much money as possible towards the loans. I'd guess most people don't graduate as undergrads to this type of scenario. With law school, you're hopefully graduating into a nice paying position and are in a better financial place to pay off the loans. I do find it a bit ridiculous that during a period when you could finance a house at 3%, a car at 2%, and could only get 0.5% or 1% on a savings account that the government was collected 6.5% of student loans. Yet, they did, and lots of students are going to be stuck paying multiples of their actual education cost as they pay interest on those loans for 30 years.

There is a government program where if you work in the public sector for 10 years, they will forgive your law school loans. I did the math on this and it ended up costing less money to just pay off the loans as quickly as possible rather than pay 10 years worth of interest on them, while being indentured to a single public-service job that likely pays less than the private sector anyway.
It seems like the general advice for many years has been to just get _any_ college degree. If you have a college degree you are supposed to be able to get a good job. I think the main problem with that advice is that it was good advice when a college degree was relatively rare. These days, everyone is expected to get a college degree so the degree itself becomes worthless. Instead students should focus on acquiring some kind of skill in their post-secondary education. For example, a history degree doesn't actually give you any useful skills while a computer science degree gives you skill in writing software which is a high-demand job right now. Actually, many students who get a college degree would be better off going to a vocational school to learn welding or some other skill. They'd probably actually earn _more_ money than whatever job they can get with a generic 4-year degree.
A curse is literally what economists call these situations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
Very well, what is "leftism" and how many Americans actually support whatever it is?
> US Treasury Bills, in turn, are an investment in the future US economy as a whole

If only the debt/GDB ratio wasn't growing over the years...
This. 100x This.

I'm certain that there are thousands in a similar situation. People are starting to recognize that the crippling debt is having a negative impact.
See first-time home buyers average age.

(recent college grad)
> Increasing share-holder value is a nice side-effect at most.

Rubbish, the board works for its shareholders who wants ROI on their investment. Who do you think is forcing their expenses / 15% workforce cut? and putting pressure on Marissa to waste her time/focus on re-structuring Yahoo to maximize their Alibaba investment? Shareholders are the primary benefactors.
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Mostly positive though? I wondered if you meant that you were being bashed for being related.
Yeah, it sucks Parse shut down. But that's not an argument to avoid SaaS. My startup is built on over 20+ different third-party tools. It will really, really suck if any of them shut down... but I'd rather deal with that possibility in the future when we have more money and time, than struggle to build everything out ourselves now.

Like I said, it sucks Parse is shutting down. But in ~2 hours, you can get the open source Parse clone they released going and be back to new. Seems better to deal with that now than to have slowed down initial development by building everything in-house.
In the summer of 2014 (after graduation) I was sent to a web site for my loan provider that told me "everything" I needed to know and even quizzed me on it.

I'd say I'm well-informed now but I learned nothing about my loans until I graduated.
Thanks for this, didn't know there was a limit. Apparently it's 10% of your net worth [0] and there are other restrictions by state [1]. Which is a shame, because it beats the pants off the stock market.

[0] http://kb.lendingclub.com/investor/articles/Investor/Is-ther...

[1] http://kb.lendingclub.com/investor/articles/Investor/What-ar...
WebKit has supported kerning pairs via `text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;` since 2010. It works just fine.
>Rather its hand rolling your own every time.

So your had rolled one will not have the typing overhead we are discussing, but it will have 2 much worse issues.

1. sync.Pool's have thread local storage, something your own pools will not have.
2. sync.Pool's are GC aware; meaning if the allocator is having trouble it can drain "free" pool objects to gain memory. Your custom pool will not have this integration.

I have a feeling that the performance you gained not type-checking you will loose by not having #1.
What do you think of Canada(and where in Canada are you?)
That sounds like a perfect match for using machine learning. The exact connection what we think is the perfect kerning isn't obvious and the model used by Adobe seems to be arbitrarily selected. Machine learning probably can approximate how a human decides which kerning is best better.
Yahoo is profitable, right? Am I missing something?
The Jon Stewart of Egypt Is Coming to America with a Brand New Show
Imagine having the ability to see and hear the thoughts of everyone around you.

You'd either be a superhero, the best politician, running a sane, stable, healthy 'democracy' where people who were upset had things fixed just the right way - or you'd be a crumbled mess, an incoherent madman.

There's no middle ground. With a singularly outsized ability like that, you simply could not function in a 'normal life.'

Perhaps huge oil revenues are like that - without a stable cultural and political setup to use the resources wisely and for the benefit of the whole community (norway) - perhaps the only other course is a totally connected political mafia that extracts the value of the primary resource for itself and its supporters.

A history of colonialism would set the country up for the second track.
Actually LW is by majority social democrats (according to the 2014 survey). It just has some very vocal neoliberals.
It is definitely worrying, though perhaps not surprising.

Many people who aren't accustomed to dealing with {figures, values, numbers} won't put much time into doing a back of the envelope calculation, and perhaps didn't put much thought into it. My best guess is that for these folks, "millions" or "billions" simply means "a lot, a really big number that I don't know/can't estimate right now".

I don't know how that particular question was phrased, and whether or not you were allowed to answer with "I don't know", or whether that option was presented as one you could answer with.
It's still zero sum for the current employees. Only the following scenarios are possible whether a company is growing or not:

1. Nobody gets the promotion
2. Somebody outside the company gets the promotion
3. Somebody inside the company who isn't me gets the promotion
4. I get the promotion

With the exception of #1, I only get the promotion at the expense of my coworkers (who want and are qualified for the job).

Edit: Put a better way, it is zero sum because you and your coworkers cannot equally share in the benefits of a promotion.
- 2m/70cm seems best to start (?)
- Not business oriented, just ham.
- mobile or handheld, though mobile in the sense of base station, not for in truck use.
- no serious objection to odd cables or dos as long as parts/software is not so obscure as to be frustrating to find or use
- would like to retain front panel option

Thanks again
Bitcoin Mining Rate and Waste
and sse regs?
I'm not too familiar Google Wave. I was thinking about it a bit more before I went to bed last night, and the internet has always had chat and message-board style communication. They've always been complementary.

Slack _could_ try to tackle this, but I feel like it would need to be a different format than the chat room and it would be moving away from their strength.
Which people, exactly? I don't think I've ever seen any American leftist defend the Chavez regime. Is this some fringe movement being blown out of proportion?
Should.

Most of those adults are treated like legal children up to and beyond their first year of college. There's a lot of paperwork adult students can't even fill out by themselves when applying for college until they're 24 unless they've been emancipated.

My SO went back to school for another degree as an established professional, and her university addressed her graduation paperwork "To the parents of...". If colleges aren't even comfortable addressing the people they intend to graduate as independent adults, what opportunities do you see students have in filling that role themselves?

And for some, loans are their only opportunity to attend school. It takes experience most don't yet have to realize that $1000 is a lot of money to spend and not a lot to have. To those, it's. "just the cost of college".
totally fair point, i think i misunderstood your meaning before.
Most do. Try the word "AVAVA" as a test. You'll also need to set `text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;` for WebKit.
Ah yeah, I wasn't sure if fusion was going to happen. You're probably right in macro-op terms; sorry about that.

The first compare is a bounds check against the array backing the pool, and the second compare is against the type field on the interface, not a null check. Golang interfaces are "fat pointers" with two words: a data pointer and a vtable pointer. So the first cmp is against a register, while the second cmp is against memory, data dependent on the register index. The address of the cmp has to be at least checked to determine if it faults, so I would think at least some part of it would have to be serialized after the first branch, making it slower than the version without the type guard.
Watchmaster Scores $8M from Cherry Ventures, Piton Capital and Zalando Founders
Interesting. Are you suggesting that the current production glut is an orchestrated move to topple Venezuela's government?
Sorry, I did not realize it was hard to tell from his original post but he's extremely entitled, rude, and snobbish. He wrote personal attacks against the founder of a company for being late to an event and then complained about his expensive BMW.

I don't really have sympathy for anyone who thinks having to wait a little bit is grounds for someone else to be "ashamed" and to write TWO blog posts complaining about it.

He's a VC so he's used to people treating him like a king. He gets mildly inconvenienced one time and suddenly that's everyone else's problem? Nah, screw him. I would have done the same thing in Musk's shoes.
> I do find it a bit ridiculous that during a period when you could finance a house at 3%, a car at 2%, and could only get 0.5% or 1% on a savings account that the government was collected 6.5% of student loans.

You can't repossess an education... yet.
These practices should be completely exposed because they're dead-end businesses. There really should only be expensive meat from ethically treated animals raised on small farms for sale. And instead of investing money in shutting people up, the money should be invested in growing meat without animals, as the competition with the small farms. These giant agribusinesses are terrible.

It's dark comedy how "modern" agriculture insists upon the necessity of cruelty to animals as a business right, compared to how animals are raised and slaughtered in 3rd world countries today, and actually for most of human history. We're so completely stupid, and these companies just want to protect that stupidity and ignorance for profit.
So Google App Engine doesn't fit into your thinking at all here. I know of large IoT efforts going on there though. And gaming. Both of which would make sense for Parse if Facebook were serious about it.
Exactly the problem for many computer science graduates and has been a problem since 2000's at the very least.

It's made worse by the fact that you are dependent on your employer for health care.

Worst case scenario: your wages are garnished due to student loans that cannot be forgiven (bankruptcy not allowed), while your health issues are going unaddressed (with varying levels of long-term consequence).
Luxembourg to support space mining
I think there's a marked difference between conversations about basic income and "two-cent gasoline".

In this case, direct market manipulation of specific goods paid for by a budget entirely reliant on the price of oil being at historical highs doesn't seem like good policy, even to those who'd vote for Bernie Sanders!
"The Board's goals are generally to build long-term value for the Company's stockholders and to assure the vitality of the Company for its customers, employees and the other individuals and organizations that depend on the Company."

Source - Yahoo Corporate Governance Guidelines - https://investor.yahoo.net/documentdisplay.cfm?DocumentID=11...
metastore was used in etckeeper in the past.

https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/announcing_etckeeper/

In less than half a year it was replaced with find scripts.

http://git.joeyh.name/?p=etckeeper.git;a=commitdiff;h=a9ce99...

And I cannot blame etckeeper. Using binary format for storing metadata, i.e. owner, group, perms, xattrs, mtime, makes it too opaque for many use cases, especially in VCS.

metastore v1.1.0, as you can already read, was meant to give metastore (from 2008) a proper release, with fixed bugs and small improvements only. There are plans to make metastore more useful in the future, though.
The financial aid process is horribly dysfunctional. Some loans, grants, etc, are based on financial need. There's expected family contribution (i.e. they assume your parents are going to cover part of your expenses). There's the PLUS loan that they give to parents, because of course parents should have to take out a loan to even begin to cover what the federal government expects them to pay. If your parent isn't going to pay for you to go to college, it can be unaffordable.

I got screwed in 2008 when my mom was denied the PLUS loan. I tried talking to student financial services for advice. After talking to the dean of my college, I received a large grant in order to cover my senior year. I thought I wasn't screwed anymore, but I got screwed again because nobody told me that a whole other part of my financial aid, "need-based" aid would disappear because my parents are expected to pay so much, regardless of their ability to do so. After that I was still able to pick up a few more grants and scholarships. However, I ended up having to take out private loans to cover much of the rest. I very much do not recommend taking out a private loan to pay for college.
The lesson is that everything is just fine until you run out of other people's money. Oh, they never talk about raising taxes a bit, if they do they know they are just throwing lies about because it never covers the cost of everything they want to give away; for your vote.

The typical egotistical reply is that "if they just did" or "we will do it right" when people point out the follies that you have it all if we do it right. Simple how they sold the ACA, after all the we are the US we can do it better than Europe.

So it is with most forms of governance which are based on exploiting jealously instead of good government spending. It is far easier to convince people that others have an unfair advantage that to admit the over regulation, lack of respect for property rights, political favoritism, and inefficient government programs are the cause.
Can anyone elaborate on this point? I found the article too short and too technical for me to understand.
What's the emoticon for mortal terror, though?
Certainly no one in the US mainstream. Mostly people you see in internet discussions like this one.
wow, this made my fans go crazy!
Don't know about him, but I use -- https://www.sync.com/
I don't think the poster is referring to only this post.
Which “mean” to use and when?
Yes, but it's not growing, therefore it is a complete failure and should be wiped off the face of the Earth, according to certain investor logic.
"I did it in this specific area, so anybody who can't in the entire country is just lazy" seems to be what you're implying here, and that's an incredibly unhelpful position when dealing with tuition that in many places has inflated well beyond what an entry-level work can hope to cover while also dealing with room and board.
I know a lot of people who are in a similar situation to the Sociology major you described (well, not quite that bad a ratio, but not far off). They all have opted for the income-based repayment plan and are basically resigned to the fact that they'll be paying several hundred dollars a month towards the loans for basically the rest of their lives. It feels kind of like an education tax that gets used really inefficiently. Actually, since most people I know in this situation are getting a little help from their parents it's effectively an inheritance tax.
Step 1: go find out who makes out those valuation numbers.

Step 2: see how people on step 1's answer make money.
It also highly depends on your office culture around email, and how it affects your personal workflow.

At one job, it was like writing letters to fellow warriors across continents. You'd try to be thoughtful, taking a day or more to write really concrete and informational pieces. At another job it was basically the office instant messenger, replies were expected within 10 minutes of almost all email. Having direct reports changes a lot of how you're communicated with as well.

Right now I've been using notmuch+org-mode (to do list management that can link to emails, files, websites, etc), and so now I file tasks called "Read X" if it doesn't need immediate response, or archive/mark as read if I don't need to read it. Things that take less than a few minutes I do right away.

Once you take things as merely inputs to your personal management system, you no longer have to worry about how an app pushes it's workflow on you, you have an external one. This is why text files/physical papers are amazing - it's the lack of an interface that lets you organize things in whatever fashion makes sense.
Angular2: extract array element form http.get response
It seems like you're being a little biased.

Writing the architecture for a new Intel CPU is much more difficult than writing a calculator on an FPGA or designing a circuit board.

Similarly, designing and maintaining the UX of Amazon.com is a lot more difficult than a personal website.

Is Physics 'harder' than Psychology just because it's 'more hardcore' or 'more pure'?

Apples to oranges. You cannot really make comparisons like that.
Alexander Hamilton's goal was to assume the debt from the independent states to bring power to the federal government. He wasn't a lover of debt. He was a lover of federal power.

As a side note, how this figured into the creation of Washington DC is pretty interesting.
Shareholder primacy is a recent development in capitalism , and a negative one in my opinion. [1]

Since we've chosen to give so much power to corporations over areas of our lives, they need to be good citizens more than ever.

It's quaint, but corporations are granted a charter by the state, and the people have delegated that power to the state.

So it's the people who decided what a corporation is and its rights and responsibilities.

Now of course we've been lulled into thinking it has to be the way it is now, and that the current state of affairs is 'natural', but it doesn't have to stay that way.

Maybe as more and more industries are disrupted and automated away and people lose jobs, we might be forced to rethink the current arrangement.

[1]: http://www.europeanfinancialreview.com/?p=883
For now yeah that's all they do, and the 'underground app' itself is tied in with your amazon.com searches advertising stuff you've been browsing.
So, your claim is that the global price of oil is being manipulated lower solely to punish Venezuela for having a Chavista-style government?

Allow me to indulge in some counter-prognostication. Shale technology will cap the oil price at $50-$60 per barrel in perpetuity. Since the Chavistas rely on a price far higher than this to fund their theft and largesse, their system will be revealed to be no more economically sustainable than the dozens of other socialist revolutions that have been tried.
Can't you spin up a cloud server and install a proxy in short order?
What should have happen is that the US should be banned in all eternity from any kind of rendition, "extraordinary" or otherwise and the plane put up on the white house lawn as a permanent object of shame.
Back when Java was introduced I was disappointed that they decided to ignore value types, specifically given that Cedar, Modula-3, Eiffel and Oberon variants all had them.

Also that they went VM instead of AOT like those languages main implementations.

Oh well, at least they are now on the roadmap for Java 10, 30 years later.
Also looks like the Chavist party is busing running around, fingers in the ears and singing la-la-la in a futile effort to deny the actual situation (no, guys, price controls didn't work in the past and they still don't work now). When your politicians try to unsee reality, you're in trouble.
No, less wrong is just so neoliberal, socially conservative, and outright fascist in the extreme that the ones that are "only" neocons think they're social democrats, in part because they aren't as extreme as the extremists and in part because they think they're all socially liberal because their Glorious Leader is polygamous.
Can you clarify what you mean by "short circuiting"?
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Show HN: Building a CSS library from scratch
> Ah yeah, I wasn't sure if fusion was going to happen.

Well, I didn't profile that case. Who knows what will really happen. Modern x86 processors are hard to understand.

> ... while the second cmp is against memory, data dependent on the register index

Hmm... that sounds like something that would dominate the cost? Memory access and data dependency. Ouch.

Also of course in that case, second compare+branch can't be fused, because cmp has a memory operand.
...and this is why I will never buy a Tesla, no matter how cool they might be.
Google search chief Amit Singhal is retiring
Somehow adding to space junk, even if it burns up quickly, seems wrong?
i suppose that once every software comes from the cloud and their data is stored in the cloud as well, you'll barely "see" your files anymore.

but i don't think it will happen anytime soon. even on iOS, i often find the need to make data backups using files.
Using Gulp with Jekyll
Looking ahead: Microsoft Edge for developers in 2016
No disadvantages to your service? Come on.