skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you think that student loans are systematically overpriced you should consider starting a student loan company that charges a lower interest rate. There are ample backers for this sort of thing if you have strong enough evidence for your thesis.

Or maybe student loans are pretty much a commodity product in which sellers viciously compete to provide the lowest possible price so the interest rates we see are commensurate with the actual risk being taken.
This has been my observation as well.
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One aspect is that upgrading Go only requires upgrading it on the build infrastructure rather than a deployment of a new JVM. The "next build" will simply be a binary built with a new compiler version.
If it is carefully tuned why it needs such a big GC tuning guide and 100s of JVM flags to tune runtime. Any Java product of consequence comes with custom GC settings meaning they do not find default ones suitable.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/vm/gc...
Okay, I have.

I haven't seen any code that could not be refactored to be clearer and shorter. Not being a dick, but five lines is a lot.
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Attempted pure adherence to the commonly stated Agile principles, via common scheduling and reporting events in Scrum.

Any vague attempt to do that, even with customization and variation within a given company, has always resulted in the same unplanned mess of randomized sprints and burndown graphs.
Also his use of "boots on the ground"
Sorry. Wanted to get featured on the frontpage for once but never got lucky thought it didn't get any attention under 'new'. We will tone it down.
"Give me money* or I'll buy your whole company and fire you."

* We just call it a dividend, or share buyback, or sell me your real estate in bulk so I can sell each piece individually and take the spread.
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>they buy a small share and the company bends over backwards so the 'investors" get an extra percentage point instead of focusing on long term strategies.

They take advantage of the rights afforded to them as owners of the company to push for change, whether you agree with their particular view or not. That's how corporate governance is supposed to work.

Though, not surprising that people on this board might prefer the "don't give shareholders any rights" model of Facebook or Google.

Why do you put "investors" in scare quotes?
Loans are the only way that some students can compete with the other students who get to go to school for free or at a discount. Maybe free money should be banned, or distributed more "intelligently" even if that means spreading it uniformly over everyone who gets accepted.

And when students graduate with loans, they have to pay for themselves as well as the other students who got free money (via taxes).
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The important thing is to participate and be acted upon by Earth's electromagnetic field.

Be barefoot in the grass at least once while in that state, even if its in the garden.
GOOG was happy to get rid of MM, she's a hack.
I'm not clear what the therapy is. How are they removing the cells?
Too Much Prototyping?
It's Yahoo who cares...
I don't think this would work for a number of reasons. If it's a database that you're modifying, you can see that a lot of operations (increment, delete, etc...) will do the wrong thing if they're called twice. If the operations themselves are idempotent, you wouldn't be able to verify that the intended side effect was correct. This is one reason developers spend a lot of time building mock objects: to capture "side effects".
True. You're better off shifting 100% of your spending to the card and keeping what you'd otherwise be spending in savings/investments.
If it's more than 10-20% of Dropbox users, that says pretty bad things about their market share.
Yes. I had similar experiences. That Videx card really shined.

At NTSC timings, 80 column text is basically color information. It's just terrible.

Interestingly, sets from about the 80's onward can display 80 column text nicely, given a good DAC driven signal. The signals from back then were square, or coarse, if not square. This makes NTSC light right up. I've been toying with a micro and a DAC and a full interlace, color phase shifting NTSC signal performs well on older analog sets. If the timing is right for the digital ones, they do well too, but it's all about hitting that 13.5Mhz sample window common to most digital sets today.

Back then, just having a full interlaced signal would have helped considerably with text, though at the expense of tearing. Low ambient light and moderate contrast on the display would have largely mitigated this.

As we got Y-C capable displays, one could just use a resistor and send the composite signal into both inputs. This actually did very seriously improve text.
Andrea, you should point out some examples of this in use - as it is, it looks kind of dry.

I see there are a few things filed under 'tutorials', but I'd add it more prominently.
Yes, that's my counter-point. Depending fully on oil has many negative repercussions for any country. Unlike private entities in the USA, you can't just downsize a country to maintain profits.
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IMO: Heroku is a bad example of vendor lock in. To use Heroku, no code changes were required which would prevent it from running else where. A counter-argument to my counter-argument, Heroku limitations (i.e. 30-second HTTP request timeouts) required code changes for any and all web apps to work on Heroku. Anyhow, code that runs on Heroku can run anywhere.

Parse, on the other hand, was both the code and the infrastructure.

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Outsourcing functionality or work makes a lot of sense for things that aren't core to your business. If you're building a web or mobile app, backend services should be core to your business.

It's a very different thing to write a web application or web services that can run on many hosting platforms than to give responsibility for your entire backend to a service provider.
Yes, we have looked at Transit recently. Transit encodes using JSON or MessagePack. We believe ION to be a more versatile data format than MessagePack, so Transit could benefit from serializing to ION instead of MessagePack.
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Calling someone a "terrorist" only when they've engaged in "terrorist activity" is circular reasoning. I'd wager the GP's point is that defining what makes a "terrorist" is all in the eye of the beholder. The tone of the posted article avoids using words ("terror" words) that are quite readily used when other demographics engage in similar behavior.
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but that's a star - on time & on budget are results. still better than just "lead team X"
Most of my friends in the US are in the same position. Then I look at my friends overseas (same age) and they've bought houses, have investments, seem much happier and healthier and less stressed about the basics ...
No, I'm afraid it really is as simple as a madman communist dictator.
Just bought 2 copies myself.

Looking forward to taking an introductory/exploratory trip to Shenzhen by this Summer.
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I treat emails as open loops. I currently have four in my inbox representing three open loops. I consider "inbox zero" to be a counter-productive strategy focused on the wrong things.

I still do GTD-style triage, but I'm more willing to let stuff sit in queues. Inevitably I get sick of looking at it and do something about it, moving it into a backlog or working out a way to just do it right now.

But my life isn't one where more productivity would really net me all that many life improvements. Generally, if I can visualize a pathway to a real life improvement, motivation to get it done is not an issue.

My life generally consists of trying to solve really hard, complicated situations using mostly intuition. Staring at something sitting in a queue is often all I need to get that intuition going. "Why do I want this? How does this connect to other parts of my life?"
They don't, they get an investor to throw them a few million for their ridiculous idea and they pay themselves a good salary in a major city. It's not real life.
On a related note, Debian annonced [1] a new unified communications in November:

https://wiki.debian.org/UnifiedCommunications/DebianDevelope...

I'm not a DD, so can't comment on how well it works - but I've had it on my todo-list s while to look at their real-world setup as inspiration.

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/11/msg00...

Previously submitted to hn, but didn't gain any traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10531061
Where's the evidence of that? Why do you think venezuela should be able to solve all their problems by pumping more oil but don't expect failing companies to do the same?
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I am looking for a few small freelance Front-End design/develop gigs for the next few weeks and was wondering where I should be looking for them? Are sites like Fiverr worth it?
This is the rub that I never understand with right-wing politicians who prize the free market, but then enable things that actively hamper it: tying health care to having a job, tying startups to people who could somehow afford college or just didn't go.

If you want to enable the free market, you have to remove the barriers.
The floating houses remind me of China Miéville's novel The Scar, with a floating movable city constructed from thousands of ships lashed together.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scar
Because the JVM developers had customers who asked for the ability to tune the GC for their particular application.

Go will receive those feature requests too. The Go developers may not be as willing to provide so many knobs (which is a position I'm entirely sympathetic to, don't get me wrong). But the settings always exist, regardless of whether Google hammers in values for them or leaves them adjustable. GC is full of tradeoffs; they're fundamental to the problem.
having not read hackers and painters, what's this about getting hustled? it's in my queue, but haven't had the chance to actually read it yet
I started out as an analog guy, way back. Digital control of the feedback loop is still mysterious to me
Heavily? Heroku was making about 2M in annual revenues when it was bought by Salesforce, and I guess it didn't grow much since then.

Also, Heroku was essentially a great funnel for AWS. Start on Heroku, as soon as your footprint grows, move to AWS to save 2/3 of the cost.

Source: I worked at AWS and saw this happen over and over again.
A "USB Type-C to USB 2.0 Type-A cable" has 4 wires (same as any USB 2.0 cable, really; only the plug in one end is different).

The problem is that this was being sold as a "USB Type-C to USB 3.1 Type-A cable", which is supposed to have 10 wires.

(A full USB Type-C cable has some 18 wires, since it wires both sides separately so the alternate modes which use both sides separately can work.)
Not at all. It's too unsafe, and the tourism industry is not good either. If you still want to go, do so with a local. That way you'll reduce risk quite significantly.
Especially not a river with fast moving water! The sound compounds on itself and soon you end up with a lion at your ear
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Previous code-base should rely on your own parse-server hosting IMHO. The dream of not worrying about servers AT ALL isn't exactly tangible, I think.

I've written a short introduction to a BaaS I've been working on in the last couple of years, it would be great if we as a community embrace new ideas and have another good tool to do a great job as Parse had been doing: https://medium.com/@endel/hook-open-source-alternative-to-pa...
The situation is identical to health care. Decades of propaganda that you will pay anything for a 4-yr degree or health care. Pay anything, eh? How much you got? Oh you have $100K of loans, I guess it'll cost $100K then.

This is the pointlessness of the article. Like asking what percentage of heart attack victims know how much their bill will add up to. Oh you say without that treatment I'll die, well then I guess I like that treatment. How much does it cost, well, lets start with how much do you have?
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Too... Plain for my tastes. Not really feeling this whole "apps should look like websites" thing. And too much whitespace!
Often this means the market is expecting ~13-14% inflation against the USD.
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>Maximizing shareholder value is NOT a company's primary purpose. Stop spreading this lie.

The lie is when people say a corporation's purpose is to maximize profit, which it isn't.

The purpose of the corporation is to maximize the value to ownership, be that monetary or some other measure.
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They never went after their fans. That's the hypothetical scenarios most people were afraid of. They had one angry twit against Ellen, they had some weird take down (which didn't need theses trademarks either).

All I've seen them trying is to allow people to legitimately do a copy of their show. I wouldn't never try to copy that format, I wouldn't be afraid to make my own "react to" but I would try to be different, original, with the concept. Having access to their format, their contents, etc... that could be a good way to try, to start, a way that I wouldn't dare taking because of copyright, but would be interesting for simply 20% of literally not much revenue.

Stopping React World does nothing else than stopping legitimate copy...
Investors want management to be efficient capital allocators. Not surprising.
A developer who lacks the communication skills necessary to write a resume by hand isn't worth having. They may be great at what they do, but everyone needs to be able to communicate effectively.

Any HR department that relies on automated tools, that only reads resumes that match a profile dictated by the needs of an automated reading machine, isn't doing its job. If they are getting too many useless resumes that they need robot to read them, they need to better describe the offerings and/or broadcast to a more focused audience.

Announcing jobs to everyone in the world and sifting through the millions of applicants with a machine might make you feel good, it might make you think you are finding the diamond in the rough, but in reality you are selecting candidates almost by lottery.
There is currently no way that 50 people (roughly the number of employees at Basecamp) could support a Dropbox-like product at scale. It's just impossible. At their scale, the technical challenges of maintaining a decent user experience (good transfer speeds, little downtime, no lost data, etc.) are enormous.
Sometimes things need to be on a different order of magnitude than a few weeks. Sometimes a single sprint should be months, especially when the subtasks involved require novel research and pilots / prototypes (which is way more often, I find, than what typical "Agile thinkers" believe is true about business projects). You just cannot know what will be hard or what reasonable time estimates or how to divide up the work until you begin trying things for a significant amount of time and hitting the unanticipatable failure cases.

Agile is great in small, well-controlled cases where the path to a solution is easily seen by everyone to consist of commoditized, been-done-a-million-times-before tasks. But the issue is that once you use the Agile hammer, now everything looks like a we-must-solve-it-in-only-the-been-done-a-million-times-before-and-fits-into-sprints nail.

The other big thing is that so, so few Agile implementations are remotely like the Agile ideal that we should probably stop pretending there even is an Agile ideal. If everyone using a given tool consistently messes it up in the same ways, we should just stop trying to defend the tool and admit it's the tool's fault for being intrinsically easy to misuse/abuse, and seek to invent better tools that make it very hard to misuse/abuse them.
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The first question is Europe does many things better for their citizens. Hell, they do a lot for foreigners too. In the United States, we have been conditioned to believe colleges, and their outrageous cost, are doing us a favor.

For some reason, Americans don't seem to realize when they are being taken advantage of?

I see these guys gallantly paying off the hospital bills. When I tell them the prices they pay are literally 10x more than an entity with collective bargaining power pays; I get this Amercan pride bs. "I--always pay off my debts!". Companies/government counts on this mindset, and exploit it when the opportunity arrives.

Most Americans are in dead end jobs, unemployed, or working a part time, below minimum wage, sharing economy job. You wouldn't know it looking at these posts.

Americans are also prone to making a bad situation look good. See in America, a lot of our sexual self-worth is tied to how much money, and power we have, especially after the beauty wears off. Some of us--pretty up the picture--in order to find a suitable mate. It works differently for females, but that's changing too. And people wonder why Americans take so many drugs?

As to starting a company. Well let's just say a wealthy dad, on one side of the family, is one of the biggest secrets to success in the United States. Of course, no one like to admit just how much dad helps, but almost every success story I have seen involves a sympathetic family member. It's usually dad. He knows just how hard it was to get started in your twenties, if you come from that family?

If I knew what I know now, I would have high tailed it to Europe right out of high school. I was told to give France a shot, but didn't believe anyone in my twenties.

You are not missing anything, on any level by living in Europe! Including your social life. These are just my opinions. I'm sure you will hear a litany of Horatio Alger's who "made it" on their own in opposition to my post.
I think it can make quite a difference in long messages, as well as when serving a high number of requests.
This is typically my routine. Make sure everything is all good, then embark :)
While I like painting and I like dogs, this is quite literally the opposite of "passive income".
Why do you ask? I don't see how the two are related.
I wonder how many of the other products using the exact same marketing copy[1] are the same part.

[1]https://www.google.com/search?q=%22The+combination+of+sturdy...
I have no idea whether she is or isn't, I think it's irrelevant here. The key thing is that expecting for a one person's turnaround of a 20y+/10k+ organization is a little bit like waiting for Xenu's ride to Syrius, it's ludicrous at best. It's funny how some people always refer to how Steve Jobs did it at Apple, without acknowledging that something like this is extremely rare. In other words, they are always hoping/betting on an exceptional rather than likely outcome. Interesting ..
Are you implying the next Republican president will put a stop to it? That's what the partisan argument in your comment seems to imply.

Which comes down to probably Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio or Donald Trump... I don't see that happening.
I don't believe you ought to be able to give up either.
This is great work, but this is another article trying desperately to give one person credit for something that an entire community of researchers has been working on. They go as far to claim ultrasonic haptics was "abandoned" in the 70s and they're the only one working on "in the air" haptics, and yet, a few minutes of searching shows similar work done at University of Tokyo and Disney research:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7593444.stm

https://www.disneyresearch.com/project/aireal/

That said, translating this stuff to a product line is the real challenge, and they seem to be doing impressive stuff there. But priority claims really take away from that.
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