skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would interject that the problem is that problem isn't a lack financial literacy but a lack of good choices for those 17 year olds.

No amount of financial understanding can squeeze a good deal from "barrow $100K and maybe get great success or start on a minimum wage job now".

And sure, there are half-way points like entering a trade but the future of those positions is pretty uncertain as well.
Except the government owns most of the debt, and can easily adjust it since it also mints the money.
There's an even simpler solution -- fire the middle managers that are the largest driver of increases to college tuition[1], raise taxes, and provide higher education at low or no cost the same way the rest of the wealthy, industrialized world does. This is a solved problem everywhere else and we should be embarassed in the U.S. that the system we have persists.

[1]http://blogs.wgbh.org/on-campus/2014/2/6/growth-nonacademic-...
For some reason, it seemed to make sense as a reply when I posted it. In hindsight, I should have just not replied at all.
RISC-V Offers Simple, Modular ISA
1. I'd rather go democratic than "elitist": e.g. it would be nice if a post gets deleted because a majority wants it deleted and not because of moderators. That said, "even more exclusive community that can pin things" is actually nice because it increases the motivation of this "more exclusive community" to contribute.

2. I often ask myself that. Some thoughts;

- Not only can users see the popular stuff of the last few days but also of the last month, 6 months, 3 years, etc... Effectively "smoothing" this "slipping" you describe.

- With tagging, slipping is less a problem; even though a product has slipped in the general ranking it can still be on top in certain tags.

Thanks for the comment, what do you think of the overall idea?
If anyone's trying to find these streets on a map, they're all streets, not avenues, e.g. 45th St., Mercer St.

In Seattle, Sts are E/W, Aves are N/S.

This is an extremely common mistake in Seattle, and I have no idea why.
Thanks for the response. I like the idea of having a date/metric that I should stick by.
You probably want 2 years of expenses saved if you want to do a startup. Generally during the first year you are adjusting your idea for market fit and figuring out how to get your product in front of your potential customers. I would also budget an extra 4 months to retrain and find another job in the advent the startup fails.

An option would be to see if your employer is willing to let you work on a side project for money (they might be OK with it provided the side project doesn't relate to what they employ you for). If so, while you are figuring out the startup, you will still have income and can quit if it takes off.
Part of that is because Chicago is considered the baseline "accent" for many news broadcasters, radio personalities, etc. As a result, most Americans have heard that accent their entire life and therefore don't really interpret it as all that different.

I've found that it's the keywords that indicate where people are from within the Midwest:

Is it soda or pop? Is it car-mel or care-uh-mel?

(I do linguistic stuff in my day job.)
Depends on your definition of "purpose". The purpose of the DMV is not necessarily to enable people to drive, but they are the ones who do the test and hand out the piece of plastic, so we're kind of splitting hairs.
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Is it necessary for the 17-year old to fully grasp what he's getting into and how to deal with it? The point of an education loan is that it will pay to mature the young person and provide him with the capital necessary to become educated about how to handle debt. And more specifically to obtain skills and experience that can be converted to a prosperous career which allows him to repay what he owes.

If a college graduate is not able to keep up with his student debt is it his fault for not being fiscally responsible? Or is it the school's fault for not doing the job it was paid to do?

It is as if we are building bridges that collapse easily then blaming it on the trucks being too heavy when the problem is the engineers are making crappy bridges.
Information asymmetries put the burden of guilt on institutional actors. The educational and lending institutions which have a strong awareness of true costs and actual employment prospects. Over individual young students who don't, and are often relying on those institutions for information and guidance.

Related: principle agent problem.
Nest’s Revolv and the Internet of Broken Things
I have been dumping my links into an email address for years - reading with thunderbird. a long while ago, i was turned off by not being able to try it for a few weeks (i'm slow to take something like this and integrate it into my life)

alright pinboard, ill give you a shot.
Topology optimization is still a new and emerging technology and it's viewed somewhat as an exotic engineering technique. Most software vendors recognize this and figure it makes better business sense to charge exorbitant prices to major players while focusing on their core products elsewhere. Also these vendors have been in the business of selling software directly, rather than as a service, for nearly half a century now and have yet to enter into the software as a service market. It remains to be seen how willing or able these companies will be to pivot to a software as a service model, especially given the size and age of their codebases. (Ansys was designed for punchcards!)

Also, yes, we do go about solving things pretty differently from existing players. Other solutions use very old, very large finite element solvers which were never really intended for this sort of thing in the first place. Our discrete finite difference approach allows us to make a lot of performance optimizations and iterate very rapidly through the search space. For example, we don't need to remesh each iteration and we can also look more directly at the nature of the search space, letting us make better decisions about where to traverse.
Ballard -> Redmond has gotta be 45 minutes by car at the BEST of times. I'd think it'd be closer to 90min by bus at rush hour. 520 is an unmitigated traffic disaster (granted, I haven't been on it since the tolling began).

When I lived in the area I often joked I'd drive 405-90-5 if I was going from Kirkland to the U-District. Having spent 2 hours in traffic on the bridge alone in the past, it's not far from the truth.
Education isn't the problem. Indoctrination is.

Responsible, reasonably intelligent adults are encouraging children to take on this debt. If there is anyone to educate, it is the adults, not the children.
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Apply HN: Infection Resistant Materials for Preventing Infections
--- What we do

Using the properties of nanostructures we can create low-cost polymer nanotextured surfaces that are anti-microbial, prevent biofilm formation, reduce protein absorption, and increase blood biocompatibility, leading to increased patient outcomes through reducing healthcare associated infections.

1 in 20 patients that receive a central line catheter get an infection because of the catheter, about 7000,000/year. 1 out of every 10 that get an infection will die, about 70,000/year - these are stats from the CDC. We are nanotexturing the interior of a catheter to prevent platelet adhesion and thus clotting and the exterior of the catheter to prevent bacteria from getting close the catheter site.

- How?

Nanostuctured topography creates mechanical stress on settling bacteria. Nanoforce gradients caused by the surface variations induces stress gradients within the lateral plane of the surface membrane of a settling microorganism during initial contact. This stress gradient disturbs normal cell functions, forcing the microorganism to provide energy to adjust its contact area on each topographical feature to equalize the stresses. This expenditure of energy is thermodynamically unfavorable to the settler, inducing it to search for a different surface to attach to.

TLDR; microorganisms can't find a surface to rest on.

In preliminary testing we found a reduction of platelet adhesion by 82.3% over the control and 84.9% over the positive control. Staph. E. observed an adhesion reduction of 68.6% over the control and 81.2% over the positive control. Staph. A. (also known as MRSA) had a reduction of 64.6% over the control and 83.7% over the positive control. E. Coli had an 84.1% reduction over control and 97.5% over the positive control.
Perhaps this is a problem due to corporations/wealthy using tax shelters to move their funds where they won't be taxed?

Imagine if Google/Apple were forced to pay even 0.1% of their profits into local cities - Cupertino/Mountain View would look like utopias.
Thanks! I'll need to factor in a few more months of runway for a potential job search.
The first example of how HSV's hues have different perceived brightness is an interesting topic.

Some researchers have been looking into better grayscale filters that could pick out colour distinctions better, too.

PDF, in case you're interested:
http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~ago820/color2gray/color2gray...
Note that matriculation without graduation confers debt without degree. You pay for nothing.

Higher-education attrition rates are considerable, often above 50%.
- What's our Secret Sauce?

Not the technology... Nanostructure manufacturing has been around for decades using lasers, heat, and/or pressure to texture a surface. My startup has developed a new method for texturing a polymer surface without lasers, heat, or pressure. We developed the process (accidentally) while working in a material science lab at the University of Central Florida's Nanoscience Technology Center. We are currently patent pending (no publish).
Traditional manufacturing processes often require a clean room and can cost over $300/sq in. Our process doesn't require a clean room and costs about $1/sq ft.

- Is our Secret Sauce repeatable and scalable?

We have textured hundreds of samples (by hand), and are working on designing an automated process that can replicate our process and eliminate human error.

- Funding to date?

After the accident that lead to the new process we applied to and have received funding from the National Science Foundation to continue research. We have applied to additional National Institute of Health and Center for Disease Control grants, but they aren't suitable for building a startup. Yesterday we submitted a grant worth $225K, but we won't even know if we get the grant until September, not exactly a system that is good for funding startups. They are great for alleviating costs for product R&D but that's about it.

- What's our team look like?

Brandon - He's the inventor of the process and the omniphobicity expert.
Dr. T - Is our Science lead and material scientist.
Myself - I play with data and do the business side.

We started with the idea of a self-cleaning film for solar panels, while the technology worked the finances didn't. Solar is an industry trying to drive costs down, not add another $20 to the price of a panel. It shocked me, but that was the general consensus from the industry (SunPower, SunTech, Solar City, and many more).

Questions?
Ideally there should be a way for the model to say "soccer is a type of sport, let's apply this question to every other sport and only say yes if soccer is the best answer", right? I'm not familiar with Word2Vec, but, presumably, there may be some way to get that information and work it into some logical layer on top of the model.

One thing I see all the time with machine learning is trying to solve everything with pure learning, which is quite similar to human intuition in that it can be hard to rationalize. But the thing about humans is that we have these logical constructs that filter our intuition, so it makes sense to create generic abstractions of these constructs and apply them as a sort of filter to the output of a trained model. Of course this has probably been done before, though most of these project I see don't seem to attempt it.
Ask HN: Who uses Kubernetes in production?
Kubernetes is making amazing progress. A lot of people are involved and even more people are watching closely. But, who actually walks the walk and runs production software in Kubernetes cluster?
Unfortunately my current employer is fairly unopen to the idea of any kind of commercial development on the side.
A lot of parents grew up in the era of "get a degree, get a job". Their experience doesn't actually help as much as they'd like in today's world.

Nothing malicious or anything, but times have changed.
take my money already.
Some would say the network is the product.
> Pull in package from npm and it is nowhere near usable until you figure out where it actually puts the files you care. You only know it's somewhere in `node_pacakges/`.

Not usable for what? All you need to do is `npm install package` then in your project `const package = require('package')` and it's usable. Also, it's `node_modules`, and gulp itself is a task runner for... Node, so I don't understand your point there.
I've been seeing a lot of references to SRE recently. Is Google trying to market this position and acquire more engineers?

The SRE book, and Google in general, have mentioned that SREs are notoriously hard to hire, and I'm wondering if they are doing a marketing push.
You could create much larger power grids, that smooth out these fluctuations, even if they don't eliminate them entirely.
It's effectively waving a wand to make their bad loans go away when the federal reserve buys toxic mortgage backed securities from the banks with quantitative easing.
I appreciate the way this was disclosed, especially that the author was very clear. Often security vulnerability disclosers are hard to understand.
I'm always on the lookout for good books on effective communication. Ones that I've read and found insightful include:

- How to Win Friends and Influence People

- Difficult Conversations

- 5 Dysfunctions of a Team

I also bought Miscommunication by C. David Mortensen, but I haven't been able to get through more than a few pages because of how dry it is.

I suspect I need something more specifically focused on how to build mentorship relationships. Anything come to mind?
USA: The country that did not win any war
The Skew language compiles to Javascript, C#, and C++ (which is still a work in progress). So if you don't like that it's in Skew, you might have the option to switch it to one of those languages. It probably won't work for the more system-dependent parts of the code, but you might get something out of it.
> Ha! There is a bit of a hypocrisy there -- if big banks / companies piss away money and choose to strategically default then (and some even get bail-outs), it is just business. If people do it for whatever reason, well clearly the are immoral, deficient somehow, their psychology needs to be studied by a special committee.

A lot of misunderstanding here. Education department doesn't have any enforcement arm as far as I'm aware. Understanding why students are defaulting on loans is 100% in the realm of what the education department SHOULD be doing.
I used to be a scientist and I went to work at Google to apply their technology to science problems. My first team was SRE- and I have to say, Google's SRE approach to computing completely changed how I thought about things, and more importantly, how I programmed systems that went to production. I've read the SRE book and can highly recommend learning from the principles it lays out.
For a application that mostly does CRUD stuff (no offense) this seems a bit pricy. Anyway, good luck!
The Breathless Rhetoric (and Prosaic Economics) of Virtual Reality
We're currently focusing on a broader application at the moment, since our primary goal is to bring this technology to the wider market. Our initial focus is on optimization of heat transfer and structural mechanics problems, however.
Wouldn't it make more sense to abstract away the analytics code in your app and write it as an independent entity and then just implement an entity gateway for all the providers you want to support?
Hey, remember Obama's campaign goal in 2008 to switch our power
transmission to HVDC?

What ever happened to that?

[0] https://www.sindark.com/2008/01/07/hvdc-transmission-for-ren...
I was going to call you out on conflating TARP with QE, which bought Treasury bonds, but I now see that was just QE1. QE2 and 3 bought mortgage backed securities and bad bank debt. Disgusting.
Can you please give reference to that book ?
Just don't let them have any kind of job that means they need to work with information that should be secure.

No, you don't understand that "those people" are in charge of the American state already. This is what the ruling elite looks like, not geeks or technical experts - lawyers, business school grads and ideologues generally. No one else is going to tell them they don't get access ... because they are in charge.

Hillary Clinton's email server and Sarah Palin's hotmail account were both symptoms of this.
Did your parents never talk to you about this kind of thing? I have already had this discussion with my 10 year old. For what it's worth, I never went to college but I understand the importance of compound interest and understanding financial contracts which involve you.
Discriminating against people with college degrees is the last bastion of acceptable racism.

We would look askance at companies that put out ads that advised that people of color should not apply. But there's not nearly the same level of outrage when a college degree is required to be an administrative assistant.
if only the Bay Area likewise had some sort of similar industry as lucrative as that in Seattle, which similarly yields the tax revenue to fund such endeavors
Without help from the government, those loans would have never happened at those rates.

If you don't like FAFSA loans, you are perfectly willing to go to any bank (or maybe a rich uncle) and get another loan (or convince your rich uncle to bankroll you). But for the vast majority of people, FAFSA is the only way to pay for college.

And taking out 8% or 9%+ loans from NON-FAFSA institutions is a lot worse than taking a 6% to 7% FAFSA loan. I think funding the loans and keeping interest rates lower is a good thing.
My company (Fivetran, YC W2013) offers the same service and supports a lot more sources (https://fivetran.com/integrate), including relational databases.
Err, well, bars which hold a primary liquor license in Vancouver can operate until 2 AM. Many do, but after 1:00 AM a majority of the night life leaves and you're left with a couple of awesome regulars, someone passed out on a table who you have to help get home, and staff from other restaurants which close earlier.

All the great things that Vancouver has to offer happen in the day or afternoon. The only thing I'm sad about is the Jazz Cellar closing down. RIP Ross Taggart.
Yes, the use of idioms and slang is basically a cheat around the thousand-word limit of Basic English by writers trying to use it.
If you're ignorant of the norms and values of the social classes more one degree below you, that's simply due to not watching television.
hey there! One feature that XBMC (now called Kodi) had since 2004 but I haven't seen anywhere else, is the ability to play the contents of rar files.

So you could download movies and never have to bother unzipping them.

It worked for multipart rars too.

The lore is that they implemented a custom rar algorithm but anyway, that was 14 years ago and its an open source project so I should see this somewhere else by now!

Since you guys are doing something over the torrent network where these kind of video releases are common (multipart rar, reminiscent of the release group's newsgroup roots), could you implement this functionality too:

When streaming, discover the sequence of the rar files in the torrent, prioritize the file downloads by rar number, and play the video file within?
I think the economic phrase that you are referring to is "moral hazard".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard

It's one way that an economy can break down...
I've thought about writing a post mortem but could never bring myself to do it. After we decided to shut down I entered kind of a dark time of my life. I needed a break to really separate myself from the startup.

I might tear of small stories, though. In particular some of the things that did go well. Doing a whole write up is probably too much to bite off though.
Honestly, screw the modern "higher education" system. It's a business, pure and simple, designed to milk out every penny from kids and their parents, as much as humanly possible while still being "legal". It wasn't always so unbalanced, but that's the way it is today, and that's a crying shame.
Two things:

(1) Our first step is to provide analytics regarding patients focus, cognitive acuity, etc. Currently, this does not require FDA approval, however we will measure accuracy.

(2) Technically, we are providing an alternative treatment and do not need to get it approved with the FDA. In fact, you can already get the treatment we plan to provide (albeit at 10x the cost).

That being said, we are getting setup to run medical trials and already have people signed up[1], we have a facility, and a professor at the University of Illinois to help us with the process. We just need some financing to get it going.

[1] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Eut-aii72ch7nySpB_oGDLiJx_X...
Thanks for this link. I don't particularly like it but this is the clearest explanation that I've seen.

On the plus side, it does encourage them to have a major release every year so they can keep resetting that 12 month clock.

And if it's a trivial "major" release, then you can fallback to the last version without much loss. If it's a useful major release, it's motivation for you to hang around.
See https://segment.com/
At grid scale Peaks are unimportant, it's median and minimum numbers that matter. The grid needs to meet demand anything past that point is useless. Remember wind and solar don't use fuel they just need infrastructure. Hydro does use 'fuel' but can act as defacto storage by ramping up when there is a gap between supply and demand.

Also of note you can smooth out or shift solar by shifting power east-west without involving storage.
> Education department doesn't have any enforcement arm as far as I'm aware.

The IRS will garnish wages for student loans.
> And sure, there are half-way points like entering a trade but the future of those positions is pretty uncertain as well.

I would totally go with welder or carpenter. Or better yet, robot repairman. Things will have to be pretty far gone before robots are able to repair each other.