skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What are my interest rates, how long do I have to repay, how many months after I graduate am I expected to start paying that down?

All that will be in the contracts you signed. It'd probably be worthwhile to see if you can audit or sit-in on a contracts class with the business college, as the info will be very useful in your future, like when you buy a car or a house.
No, the government just needs to stop subsidizing loans. The price of tuition has reason in step with the availability of loans---Colleges and Universities are simply charging the maximum amount they can get away with. The federal government has created an artificial externality in higher education.
Hm, it's been over 2 years, so I don't remember many details. I do remember having a couple projects (Kafka, maybe more?) using Scala which required specific JDK versions. Also some databases would recommend certain JDK versions.

So that means you either run different JDKs for different services or you stick with the lowest common denominator.
Parse made no sense as part of Facebook, but would have made sense if part of AWS or even Microsoft.
> Unfortunately due to politics nobody (schools or government) is up-front about where jobs exist and shortages occur. A lot of the time when you hear about a "shortage" it is actually just whining that wages are too high.

There's no absolute fixed quantity of any good or service (including labor in particular job roles) that is "correct"; "shortage" and "market clearing cost higher than I prefer" are actually equivalent concepts, not things that people misleading conflate.
This is great! Is all of that income from affiliate links? Does it take up a lot of your time curating the list of items? Where do you get most of your traffic from?
With Bail in Doubt, Shkreli's Interviews Come to an End
Slack is (or should not be) mission critical. If Slack shuts down, you can still communicate with your team through email, SMS, or any other alternative. Your product will remain in operation even if Slack dies.
Do you market it at all?
Maximizing shareholder value is NOT a company's primary purpose. Stop spreading this lie.

And even if it were, there are many ways to do that. And many of them do not involve short-sightedness with respect to the business.

If you're unhappy with how the business is being run, then sell your shares and get out. Quit bitching that they're not sacrificing the long term to give you an additional point.
Wrong. The exit-node might control the traffic but that does not know where you came from. You need to watch the connection into the torrnetwork as well.

When you connect to https its pretty hard and risky for the exit node. If the user uses https with pinning its even harder and more risky.

The Tor Network is not perfect, nothing is in this space. So you need to make a more detailed analysis then yours to evaluate it.
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I got an automated notice of a Copyright violation for a song I had added to my video through the YouTube interface, out of their own library of free songs.

Just how profitable does your business have to be before you can start hiring people? Apparently not even Google or Facebook or Apple have enough money to hire a bunch of minimum-wage help-desk employees to police content on their own sites.

Of course, we know it's not a matter of ability, but desire. They know people come to YouTube to be able to find whatever content they want. Content ID and their DMCA process is just paying lipservice to the idea that they are playing by the rules. They want this system. It keeps the new content churn high, which keeps users refreshing the page, which gets new ads served to them.
Bwa ha ha ha ha. I guess the perception is different depending on where you're from. I immediately thought of the swipe left/right aspect - though I'm in a community that is more chaste than most though. For example, I know a couple who met through tinder without any sex before marriage. That's probably why I thought different - I just really haven't known enough people who use tinder like you described. Or used tinder at for that matter.

edit: minor spelling corrections.
A Not-So-Rosy Path to U.S. Expansion for Flower Delivery Startup BloomThat
This is the first I'm hearing about Sync. Any comparison with SpiderOak?
Yes. AWS lambda.

It's micro services.
Remember 2000 data centers? Everyone was afraid to go Cloud.

I predict cloud is going to die, like it or not, up next is microservices by many names. http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory

That is the future.
Parse makes sense in general, but not for Facebook. Facebook is a walled garden that makes its money selling advertising. They don't offer any other developer oriented offerings and don't seem inclined to opening their data centers up for a public cloud.
But loan payments delayed cost the loaner money. We also have loan forgiveness programs. You pay 10% of your income for 20 years and whatever you have left is forgiven.
Start a company. Hire a hardworking and dependable general manager on a salary and give him/her great autonomy.

Sit back and enjoy the dividends.
you are correct about integration costs.
We do have 3.10 (latest rhel) kernel support as well.
Private and public enterprises don't use the same definition of risk. For a public body, risk is measured in political capital. how their failures and successes may influence how they are treated by governments. A private enterprise measures risk according to the likelihood of turning a profit on a venture. While there is certainly an overlap, such as SpaceX having PR/lobbiests or NASA launching commercial sats, they are two fundamentally different approaches to risk.

A dangerous situations occur when either uses the wrong model. When governments try to turn profits, they may cut something that the perhaps shouldn't (Flint). And when private enterprise spends like a government, ignores the bottom line, they are ripped apart by irate shareholders. It's apples and oranges.
Can we implant them with Human DNA packets and randomly send millions of little "DNA Bombs" off into space?
This is a valid point.

I think the most reasonable way to understand public apathy is through the lens of Chomsky's "manufacturing consent". We all consent to whatever government policies we don't oppose, and powerful interests tend to have a large role in shaping the media message about what matters and what is worth being complacent about vs outraged.

We should all regard all institutions with some degree of skepticism, but unfortunately a lot of information slips through the cracks due to our limits on attention and information processing. The net effect is that most Americans accept at face value whatever explanation our leaders offer.

It's just not necessarily going to benefit the average person to dig deeper looking for truth, and it's far more pleasant to just get on board with the powerful interest group and feel the psychological benefits of group cohesion and being on the "winning" side.
"It seems weird to go with the assumption that because something is extremely unlikely that it won't happen."

No, it's rational.

As for the rest of your post, you are confused between a priori and a posteriori probability.
Well, on some level, if you don't have a job and you had no cosigners then there isn't much that a loan company can do to force you to repay your loans.

Interestingly enough, they can't garnish my contractor work because I don't have an employer (and you also don't pay you SE taxes ahead of time).

It's a terrible idea to pursue that too far (or at all), of course; you really can't discharge these debts by any means other than paying them. So while it's possible to put off paying these loans and I've done it for periods of time, I still pay off my loans, not out of a love of banks but out of a sense of self preservation :D
I don't think this has much, if anything, to do with 'skin in the game.'

Rather, what additional "skin" would have prevented this from occurring?

Th major issue I have with that phrase is that we're all playing different games. If they aren't properly aligned, then increasing the risk for one game might destroy the other.
It's worth noting that the money received from the peer-to-peer lending counts as income, and hence can be taxed quite highly if you're already a high-income individual and/or live someplace with a state income tax.

I invested a moderate chunk of money in lending club, and I don't regret it, but between the defaults and early payoffs, I ended up at around ~8% return, and then had to pay income tax on that 8 percent, which cut it way down.

That being said, there's the more intangible return, which is that some of hte people I selected to fund were trying to get out of high-interest debt, or fund purchasing a car for work, etc. Some(all?) of it was probably BS, but it was nice to feel like you were investing money in someone who had a specific need and helping them achieve it.

I'm not doing that anymore though, it's just not worth it.
Oh thanks. I totally see your side! Sorry. I definitely want this to be supported by a paid membership eventually but I think it's unreasonable to demand that right away and am willing to put out as good content as I can at the moment so I can earn trust but I felt I needed a channel to communicate with those who find this content interesting and I consciously picked email over RSS after deliberating for a while.

> Will it be a platform for other authors too?

Yes I do want to have other's have shows with their own individual style as long it adheres to being BS and grandiose free.
No.

They always have options.

They choose not to take them, but they have the options.

Not accepting responsibility for those choices is the 100% guaranteed way to make sure it keeps happening.
> Nothing says secure like PBKDF2-SHA1 with 50 rounds.

This code is deriving an encryption key and an HMAC key from a master key. The master key is already a random value, so even if you managed to "crack" either one of the derived keys, you wouldn't know it.

> or timing attacks on MAC validation

Good point, I'll fix that!
This is a story about Snowden on HackerNews, your facts and logic are of no interest here.
Indeed, the problem has not been "socialism" or "populism." The problem has been and continues to be complete and utter idiocy. Finally, after Chavez died, Venezuelans began to see this for themselves, and as mentioned in the article, voted massively for the opposition in the latest parliamentary elections. Unfortunately, the president remains in place and apparently maintains the power to continue the idiocy a bit longer. It is very sad to me to see, especially after the people so emphatically rejected him and his party's policies in the 2015 parliamentary elections.
Sorry I'll set aside some time this weekend to re-evaluate the fonts and color choices.
It's nice to not have to assume the client and server are running the exact same version of the protocol. If you use ordinal numbers instead of names, you can never remove or reorder things without completely breaking backward compatibility. You can only append new fields to the end.
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Empirically, the way to do really big things seems to be to start with deceptively small things. Want to dominate microcomputer software? Start by writing a Basic interpreter for a machine with a few thousand users. Want to make the universal web site? Start by building a site for Harvard undergrads to stalk one another.

...

I think the way to use these big ideas is not to try to identify a precise point in the future and then ask yourself how to get from here to there, like the popular image of a visionary. You'll be better off if you operate like Columbus and just head in a general westerly direction. Don't try to construct the future like a building, because your current blueprint is almost certainly mistaken. Start with something you know works, and when you expand, expand westward.

The popular image of the visionary is someone with a clear view of the future, but empirically it may be better to have a blurry one.

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Paul Graham, on Frighteningly Ambitious Start-up Ideas.

http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html
Others have argued differently.
http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/international/sweden-is-no-soc...

http://www.newgeography.com/content/002287-sweden-a-role-mod...
i was just facetiously quoting a stupid cartoon (Rick and Morty). good conversation though :)
"Or maybe it's that somehow the probability changes when we have more information"

Um, yes, that's all that probability is. See Bayes Theorem.
IMO this is the video equivalent of a lot of the early Internet software patents. They took something that was a natural evolution of a larger community and tried to seize the intellectual property around it. I'm not even sure that what they were trying to trademark would be a valid trademark.

But beyond that, WTF were they thinking? On YouTube, your viewers are younger kids who are also creating their own videos. If they're really a fan of your content, they're going to copy you - shamelessly. Did they really think their viewers were just going to sign over royalties from their videos to the Fine Bros and not be pissed off about it? Is it really a good idea as an entertainer to go after your most dedicated fans?
I don't think you can. We tried & failed. Maybe in the future. The main problem is with switching process/thread from cgroup to cgroup at very rapid pace (with small overhead), and identifying to which cGroup you need to switch them.
Don't get me wrong, it is possible, but requires some extra / tiny modifications to kernel.
Economics dont always work to split the three because each business needs to have sufficient competition for it to work. You can't exactly build 5+ grids running parallel to each other. The generation part is already competitive FYI. IPPs are a thing (as pointed out in the article). Deregulated markets tend to have spikes or lots of space for IPPs to build and compete. Have you ever looked at the financials of a utility and understood the different rate regimes? Your suggestions come across as pretty naive tbh. Power generation, distribution and retailing is not equivalent to setting up a Walmart. Texas has a deregulated regime and regulators there are always looking into price spikes because customers don't like their bill to change radically from month to month. And their bills aren't exactly lower.

And customers can already buy electricity from different providers. One of them is solar city (under a lease). Or resellers.
> I could see a service like Parse being useful,
> but it would need to be owned / operated by a
> nonprofit in order to gain any adoption.
> Otherwise, it's just another proprietary
> platform that will get shut off or changed once
> Facebook (or whoever) pivots to another
> business model to address that market.

It's not that companies that lock their business customers in wouldn't be successful. In my experience the vendor lock-in argument is always low on the
list of arguments, sadly.

> There's certainly demand, but I think most
> developers are wary about putting their
> company's tech stack at the mercy of a profit-
> driven company that may abandon them.

Developers, sure they know better because service migration is their work and it's boring and unrewarding.
Management is a different story.
Saas is shared hosting of a specific application. Paas can be shared hosting.

Both most often do not use distinct vms per user.
I agree and I'm also a happy customer of Dropbox.

But how long will it be until OneDrive or iCloud Drive catch up? I have 1TB of OneDrive space for "free" with Office. I have plenty of spare space in my iCloud storage plan. If either of those two options catch up to Dropbox's reliability, why would I stay with Dropbox?

Long term, why will Dropbox survive?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11025266
Previous reporting: https://medium.com/backchannel/canary-in-the-code-mine-90388...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10592754
Are we reading the same article? Chavez didn't simply subsidize the poor. He also (a) nationalized the oil industry and (b) handed control and management of that industry over to political allies who mismanaged it badly. He did the same with the central bank.

There are much more significant criticisms of Chavez than that, but these are the ones germane to the immediate article.

Whatever you might think about his overt political objectives, it didn't work: there are long lines for toilet paper, and even the lines are now rationed.
Their Youtube channel has 13 million subscribers and most of their videos top a million views in a couple of days, with their most popular videos exceeding 30 million views. This isn't an upstart channel trying to get noticed - Wikipedia ranks them at #16 across the entire site[0].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_subscribed_us...
> But that's not an argument to avoid SaaS.

Actually it is, at least the kind of SaaS / PaaS that locks you into proprietary APIs / tools. Speaking of which, Parse never made sense to me. I mean, you can quickly assemble the needed functionality from open-source libraries, deployed on AWS or Heroku, without the never ending issues, limitations or the lock-in of something like Parse.

You do need the know-how and that might take time if you don't have it, but on the other hand that technical know-how becomes your secret sauce.

Somebody wise once told me that the best product managers and project cofounders are highly-technical people, preferably former engineers. The reason is because imagination is limited by what you know is possible, which is the reason most non-technical folks aren't capable of proposing good solutions to their problems.
Some of this is silly.

Lie 1 is wrong. The uber rich (Gates and Ellison) are not a prescription for how to aim your life as a young person. Also, in the 2008 recession, people without 4-year degrees were hurt far worse and recovered slower than those with degrees.

Lie 2 is reasonable, except in particular majors. My wife was a historic preservation major in undergrad (I think there's less than a dozen in the country, and one happened to be in-state but she would have gone out of state if necessary) and her graduate program was out-of-state for Museum Studies. There are only a handful of these programs in the country, so being out-of-state was not a choice.

3 is also incorrect in my experience. While the employers may not care a lot what's on your diploma, they also don't recruit evenly across universities. Wasn't everyone complaining a while ago that Google was basically where people went after graduating from Stanford?

4. When I was looking at school, the scholarships on those "find scholarships for you" sites were all under $1000. While that's not insignificant, you can't count on getting every one you apply for, and it's not reliable for paying for more than books. Community colleges and living with parents are underutilized, but you eventually have to attend at least 2 years in a 4-year institution if you want the 4-year degree.

5. I wish this had been drilled into me

6. Reasonable, but I don't think it is widely talked about

7. This is complicated. I was in school during the 2008 recession, so there was really no way to know before going in what was going to happen after graduation. Students do need to know it isn't necessarily a given, and this was a big pitfall for me. Unfortunately, our parents' generation didn't know about this because it is different from their experience with college.

8. I've never heard anyone say this, but attendance levels are up in bad years

9. Nobody thinks they're going to need bankruptcy when they start their college education; they're still young and bushy-tailed.
Actually (counter-intuitively) college would be more affordable for middle class and the poor in a situation where there are no loans. Consider, there are only a tiny amount of rich people and there are many, many colleges. If there were no loans, colleges would have to make themselves affordable enough to get any enrollment. A large portion of tuition increases have come from bloated administration and useless degree programs. Those would disappear if people weren't given gobs of money in loans.
Binary format makes me believe it's not human-readable. How doesn't this compare in size to gzipped JSON? JSON overhead is fairly small (some quotes, colons, brackets and keys) - it's no XML.
Awesome, I'm a huge fan of new and innovative tools that help improve the process of refactoring and improving existing code. This looks like a really promising tool for Ruby developers, and I'm always grateful when companies and their employees invest the time and effort to release their tools to the community. I really liked the point about "buggy data" as opposed to just buggy code, I think that's a really important point.

A few reactions from reading through the release:

Scientist appears to be largely limited to situations where the code has no "side effects". I think this is a pretty big caveat, and it would have been helpful in the introduction/summary to see this mentioned. Similarly, I think it would be nice to point out that Scientist is a Ruby-only framework :)

You don't mention "regression test" at any point in the article, which is the language I'm most familiar with for referring to this sort of testing. How does a scientist "experiment" compare to a regression test over that block of code?

Anyway, thanks again for writing this up, I'll be thinking more about the Experiment testing pattern for my own projects.
Sorry I missed this yesterday! They have a pretty amazing PDF annotator https://paperpile.com/features/pdf-annotator but not sure how it looks on an iPad.

Here they suggest that using iAnnotate synced with Google Drive files works like a charm: http://forum.paperpile.com/t/tip-sync-with-goodreader-on-ipa...
> Rubbish, the board works for its shareholders who wants ROI on their investment.

Sure, but honestly most shareholders would prefer not to take a share of the profits. Dividends are so passé.

Today's modern investor wants growth, and the easiest way to get growth, without all the hard work , is to find another investor willing to believe in your portrayal of the value of the stock you hold[1], and to convince them to buy it from you.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory
Clearing the Body's Retired Cells Slows Aging, Extends Life
It even has a term for it: "no enemies to the left"
I agree here. They should have pushed these popular products. In particular, they could have become a financial platform that could have rivaled Bloomberg...
$800MM is a small business and $10BN is a small industry fyi.
Perfect. That clarifies things. Thanks!
Sounds a lot like a certain Seinfeld episode.
You pretty much do get a piece of paper that says you borrow X dollars.

One problem is you get one piece of paper each year for 5 years. The total amount sneaks up on kids.

If they had to see an estimated borrowing amount for the total degree, they might do things differently.

Especially since families tend to blow their wad the first year. Use their small savings to pay for the freshman year and then all the sudden there is no money for two.
"If its not growing, for from many investors, yes, that is a failure."

Then those investors should go invest in something else, and quit trying to push a bunch of shortsighted crap on a company.