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A just system is where all humans have the same human rights and the same opportunities

No just system can be formed on such a principle. No two humans will ever have equal opportunities, without destroying all progress, individuality, and justice (it is unjust that one person should be held responsible for the choices of others).

I've come to think that equality of opportunity is wrong, and the alternative that we should fight for is equality before the law. We should also strive to treat people as they deserve, based on their character, choices and actions.
The Axolotl construction was invented for Signal Protocol, which was itself originally called "Axolotl".
I kind of feel like neither dang nor Kevin really explained it very well, but they are both correct. In order to tackle meaty issues in a constructive manner, there has to be a certain amount of trust and that requires a higher degree of civility than what "be civil" suggests to most people.

And, unfortunately, I have work to do and a headache, so I am not likely to be able to improve on either of their explanations. But you simply can't get there from here in terms of building something if all people do is tear it down.

But I welcome this experiment if only in hopes that it sets a social precedent and teaches more people here how to communicate better. Because if you think being nice involves not pointing out legitimate flaws, you really have a lot to learn. It actually isn't nice at all to let people keep shooting themselves in the foot, but it is possible to point out the connection between aiming the gun down while cleaning it while loaded and the holes that keep showing up in their feet without saying "God, what a fucking idiot! Do I even need to TELL you how stupid that is???" Yeah, when it comes to ideas, you often do need to tell people that because metaphorically shooting yourself in the foot isn't anywhere near as obvious to most people as literally shooting yourself in the foot.
"About 1 in 6 borrowers, or 3.6 million, were in default on $56 billion in student debt"

I thought "default" is technically impossible with respect to student loans, your solvency matters not, you're obligated to pay it off even if takes your entire life (and/or life's earnings)?

This problem would get fixed very quickly if students were allowed to actually default on the loan and stop paying it, at which point it becomes a loss to the lender, like it is with any other loan. Then these loans wouldn't be handed out like candy to people who are not mature enough to understand what it takes to pay off $100K and thereby ruining their lives.
I'm curious, what is the issue here?

Is there some sort of ethical or technical deep end that they dove into that causes you to not only swear, but to swear twice (and once without apologizing for it!!)?

Because, really... if requiring a more-or-less anonymous account is the biggest problem you have with it, I have a hard time understanding how you can say: "I am still impressed how much Canonical has fucked up the Linux-powered smartphone idea"
'idlewords once demonized the last 2 industries I worked in, in a single presentation and it was one of my proudest moments.

I feel like with proper funding he could hit all 5 and possibly call me out for my high school indiscretions as well. I for one can think of very few things that deserve funding more than that.
it's these 'for profit college' they have to go. i suspect most are total trash. also - with all these coding bootcamps popping up nowdays, im not sure if people are able to get govt student loans for these or what but it sounds like trouble. ppl are desperate to jump on the coding gold rush and the great salaries and job market. ppl are going to get fucked over big time.

first time i saw this[0] all kinds of warning bells went off. im sure there is a way forward so that people can learn and share the value created from software development job market but i think we should move fwd carefully. ppl will definitely get fd over.

but yea most of those 'for-profit' colleges are totally shady.

do they have everest college in the US? perfect example of this kind of bs. in canada they got shut down, but not before screwing over tons of people out of their money for years[1].

[0]: http://www.inc.com/maria-aspan/max-levchin-affirm-better-stu...

[1]: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/everest-college-closure-no-s...
How does this integrate with existing tools?

> This will drastically reduce the time and manpower it takes to design cars, space vehicles, planes, etc.

I don't understand how this follows. Can you give an example of the savings your software will offer?

How well do you understand this market? Have you worked in it before?

To me, it's obvious that writing things in a word doc and emailing it to my boss sucks. But do you know why it's done this way? Are there better options without traction? Is there something about accountability that I'm missing?
Wow, modern-day debtor's prisons making a comeback. Welcome to the Middle Ages.
Last time I looked, inverters were the elephant on the room. They are a big fraction of the costs, and the small end scales to power^(1/2) in price.

Not to say that you are wrong, but you'll need at a minimum a several hundred thousand investment to stay competitive.
I for one, am extremely dissapointed with the concept of "bus rapid transit". I live in Prague, and so I experience all three froms of mass transit: metro(subway), tram, and bus. Busses are extremely uncomfortable. They rock as they drive, and they have really awful seating arangements due to the need for tall wheel wells. I don't see the point in including busses as a part of a modern system. They also have a much shorter lifespan, and have horible gas milage/electric efficiency compared to tram cars which last over 50 years. I think that busses are only included in the system due to the convenience of not having to have a line to the depo, and perhaps the corruption of the consultants involved.

As Americans, you may have this impression that mass transit is a horrible thing for poor people. That impression comes from busses, where the bus is rocking around so much that you cannot whip out your cellphone and read on the way to work(one of the big advantages of mass transit over a car). Trams, however, are very comfortable. The floor is always extremely stable, you can comfortably read or do work on your laptop. You no longer feel the stress of driving and your commute can become a "free time" part of your day, rather than a stressfull period between home and work.
One more:

* It's surprisingly fun and liberating working on a completely noncommercial project.

I have no problem at all with commercial software -- especially if it's free of ads and "microtransactions" and is simply sold to the user for a clear up-front price.

That said, it's fun just shipping something that anybody can work on, with no boss, no formal user requirements, no worries about whether the app will sell or whether the client will pay you.

The only goal here is to make something we're proud of and which users enjoy.
Hey hey, I work on the community team at Rethink and I'm happy to send you a mini version which is a little stress doll Thinker.. The plushies were an Etsy order and we only have a few left. I think we'll do more down the line :) christina [at] rethinkdb [dot] com. Also, thank you for the kind words!
As a straight-forward example: if the typical electric car is plugged in for 10 hours every evening, and only needs to charge for 3 of those hours, you can see that there's a lot of opportunity to reschedule load if today's wind forecast is for high winds after midnight.
Right, but just because they're taking on new debt that they're prioritizing over old debt doesn't mean that they weren't financially able to pay back the original debt.

The important piece there is that the new debt has ramifications for non-payment that are much more obvious than the student loan debt.
Shopping on Amazon's mobile app is pretty good. How is shopping with you better?

How does this work? Is it just like installing lastpass on your phone? Why is it better than that option?
Lucy Aikin was an 19th century author who wrote novels using single-syllable words, including versions of Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Aikin
This won't pass with the current proposal. No one is going to vote to significantly increase their taxes for something they won't even see in 20 years. Most people have no idea where they'll be in 5 years, let alone 20. Further, the entire proposal is for at-grade rail. That means that these trains will be delayed by both road and waterway traffic. Do you really want to be stuck in a train for 30 minutes while some rich guy needs to float his yacht through a major city?
Do you have any other significant advantage over Stamplay.com, than API stats about the performance? It seems that they are doing the same thing
I'm not really familiar with the vim code base. From the little I've seen I'm astonished that people are actually willing to voluntarily work on it.

Having said that, googling revealed a bug report[1] where one of the main neovim developers states he would rather avoid "messing with a very obscure part of the C code." So yes, it seems to be difficult to implement into the existing code base.

There exists a plugin which adds some features, but because it is not supported by the editor core (hence the above emphasis on "native") it isn't properly integrated with other plugins etc.

[1] https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/211
Sometimes at least recently. I feel that sometimes software for example the default apps on a phone are doing more harm than good by taking up much needed space.
TCPTuner: A Linux kernel module and GUI to modify congestion control behavior
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--Story--

A while ago I worked in a call center at a university. Their business software was a mess of hacked tools and scripts because their needs were constantly changing. The cool part? The student leads were the ones implementing the business rules.

The idea is to build a flexible and fun tool for managing organization data. Things like: call center tickets, work orders, incident reports, media requests, event requests, feature requests, etc.

--Business--

SaaS. This is a crowded field with many specialized solutions but I believe that the available solutions aren't right for many organizations.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11417050
yes absolutely. this is a great idea. loan defaults by school would be an excellent indicator. more upvotes please.
>I think that busses are only included in the system due to the convenience of not having to have a line to the depo

Busses are just a lot more flexible in general. The costs with starting and stopping bus lines are much less than other forms of transit, the vehicles tend to be more interchangeable, the infrastructure is less substantial, and so on. I'm not saying I generally enjoy riding busses, but the costs to the system are very different than other forms of transit.
Hello folks, my name is Frank and I am also one of the co-founders of Rendezvoux. Feel free to ask away.
Thank you. I wish you the best of luck with the project.
There's quite a lot of $10/hour parking in downtown Seattle -- almost every high-rise building has multiple levels of publicly available parking. Also, if you take a taxi/Uber, you don't need parking.
The other big missing piece is a cross-town rail line. Currently there are three main corridors for going east-west in Seattle: Denny Way (home to the 8 bus line), Mercer St (a glorified entrance/exit thoroughfare for I-5 and the bridges across Lake Washington), and 45th/50th St north of Lake Union (home to the 44 bus line).

Now that UW and Capitol Hill have a station, it makes sense to at least study the feasibility of an east-west line that could provide an alternative to at-grade transit and connect to the Link.

Another advantage of a crosstown route north of Lake Union is it could continue east over the brand new 520 bridge, which was designed to support Light Rail and connect to the east side.

As a resident of Seattle, the current plan is vexxing. I love transit, and I don't mind voting for something that I'll never see (as long as there are good reasons for the long timeline) but I'd certainly prefer a different set of priorities for light rail.
Click on the "web" link below the story title here on HN. Essentially a shortcut to the Google hack :-)
Why? If anything, Snapchat's success shows that they don't need a desktop version. Mobile usage in the U.S. now exceeds desktop usage. I'm having a hard time believing that anyone on the Snapchat team is stressing out about having a desktop version.
I think 20% is system-wide. The percentage is probably higher specifically for people who work downtown. Also every new building in Seattle starts out as a large hole in the ground which will become underground parking once the building is completed. So kind of like carpark skyscrapers, just in the opposite direction.
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Thanks for the feedback.

I agree petervandijck's question has to be asked and getting the answers and validating the hypotheses have to be done. As a start I should go to find "fresh-out-of-uni" as you've called them to see if they can get out some money from their pockets. As the summer break is close, should be a good time to run the experience.
Alex Tabbarok wrote what I consider an extremely good piece about the relationship of this with the trouble in Ferguson, Mo over the last few years:
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/08/fer...
I know you can't connect to normal clients. My point is normal clients don't really matter.

"Which means that you do not have almost any sources of seeders"

All it takes for someone to seed a file is to open a web page. Think about it.

At any point if I wanted to promote a song via WebTorrent, I could build WebTorrent into an audio player and encourage my user base to click a checkbox and seed the track (toss in IndexedDB support for storing it offline and it's even better).

Complete serverless resharing with almost every benefit of BitTorrent to boot.

The only thing WebTorrent needs the existing BitTorrent install base for is the existing torrents, which don't matter as much as you might think they do (most torrents are pirated content anyways).

So yes, WebRTC adoption does matter.
Just do what Japan does and put into place super strict vehicle maintenance and emissions standards...that go into full effect when the car is six or so years old. Though in this case it wouldn't be a truly complete obsolescence, since the owner could just spend more to keep up with the standards.
There was a time when Twitter wanted to be king and Snapchat and well Fb sure dominated them all
Thanks for the kind words. We're pretty excited about the platform.

For our first sets of APIs we'll probably focus on payment since this is where we've heard consistently that this is a struggle. Either users cannot effectively switch easily or they want to use more than one. So we're focusing there.

As for APIs that may not have another solution like Facebook, not sure there's much we can do there. We're offering social integration for FB, Twitter, Github, etc.

Hope that helps.
The paper is old, but it's actually a fairly trivial application of signal processing techniques that have been well-understood since the 40s. For sub-pixel anti-aliasing, the approach would be to

1. Construct the underlying continuous field. This is just a function f(x,y) that returns one if the point is within the text and 0 otherwise.

2. Convolve f with an anti-aliasing filter. The filter could be tall and skinny to account for the fact that the horizontal resolution is 3x the vertical resolution.

3. Sample the resulting image at sub-pixel positions to produce the red, green, and blue values.

In the special case where the anti-aliasing filter is a box filter, this is exactly the same as computing the average for each subpixel. For the technique proposed in the article, the filter kernel would be the sum of six shifted impulses (Dirac deltas).

Anyways, I liked the article and wasn't trying to be critical of it. The convolution approach described above is of theoretical interest, but implementing it with any non-trivial kernel in real-time is almost certainly intractable. What I meant was that every implementation of anti-aliased vector graphics is a kludge, and it's pretty easy to coerce aliasing artifacts out of all of them using zone plates as inputs.

Edit: your article -> the article
Who is supposed to work those jobs then? Even if Yelp relocated their non engineering staff, paying them minimum wage in some other city won't help them.
If this is serious, the first part sounds reasonable to do, matching face to hair styles.

Actually cutting hair I don't think one can do cheap enough, even if the only hairstyle it can do is a bowl cut. The human head is not uniform, and the actual surface is obscured so you have to find where it is by physical touch, which is not easy for a robot. You might be able to build a prototype for a few million, but the production units I can't see being done for less than $50k (you could spend crazy amounts in R&D to get it lower, but I doubt one can drive it down to less than $10k).

Main killer is the number of degrees of freedom the robot would need to cut the hair and the sensitivity in movement so it doesn't injure someone. If someone figured out how to do that, they could make boatloads of money applying it to other problems (eg: non-fun nursing tasks, like replacing bedpans or washing patents of which there is a endless list of complications stemming from them not getting done often enough).
Worked for me...
The bus line you are seeing on that map is literally a "bus only road". It could as easilly have rail on it. I realize that the flexibility is lower. But I thought that America is the richest bestest country ever, and why should you have something that is horribly uncomfortable just because doing it right is "kinda hard"?
Busses are a lot more flexible in terms of routing - normal gasoline busses can be rerouted at will, and the cost of changing routes for electric busses (like the ones in Seattle) are much lower than street cars, where you basically have to lay new track. Essentially, there's a lot less buy-in with busses which can be good for expanding transit where you aren't sure about.

That said, I agree that busses are the least desirable, and I for one would much prefer a well-thought-out transit system that eliminates the need for busses.
Isn't the proposed solution very close to a typical CRM? Maybe I'm wrong
Sorry, I was referring to the in-browser version. FF 45 on Linux.
I agree completely with you. I think the answer is you can't help some people. It's just sort of a myopic view. Could you imagine in 50 years someone asks you what regret you had about your career and you said "that I ever used node that one week in 2015"? I mean, wow.
nice try, Nathan.

Intellectual Ventures charges money for licensing, nothing free about it. I'm not saying they should be free, just saying they aren't.
The Dashboard houses all the information about the API. So you can see performance (jitter, packet loss, etc), usage data, and cost projections. So you can tell if an API is costing you more than a competing API. This way, when you want to switch APIs, you can do so knowing you're switching to a better API that will cost you less money. The API switching on the fly is just a bonus. :)
Worked fine incognito for me.
This writing style is itself a performance of Rationalist culture. Read anything by The Last Psychiatrist or Scott Alexander or Eliezer Yudkowsky for comparison.
The same way you tax more people earning more money ?
If you can't meet up with researchers at a university that you attend by directly asking them, you do not have a tech problem you have a social problem (which may not be your fault!).

I guess a Tinder for non-sex makes since though. Hell I would have tried it.
I wrote a simple editor that used Google Translate's web service to round-trip translate the text you enter in real time. I had been thinking about intermediate representations that might assist in the automatic translation of human languages. I wanted to see how one's writing might change to ensure that the round-trip translation was identical or still made sense, thinking this would improve the odds that the translated version actually meant what you intended it to.
That's doubtful--- it's young white men who tend to execute mass-shootings, and the officer in question knew he was responding to a mass shooting.
stubbornness seems to imply rigidity; you can exhibit grit while still being flexible and adapting to changes
Ah, perhaps I misread the GP. But I agree that there's no way to control for all these factors. It would drive one mad to try and probably make consensus harder to arrive at.
A big problem is that at age 17, all of the adults are saying go to college & take out these loans. Guidance councilors, teachers, parents. The most compliant high schoolers will just do what they are told without thinking about it further.

I imagine this will start changing. When I was a kid, that group of adults had the benefit of cheap degrees. Today, now that group of adults is us and we did not go to school cheap (personally I don't fall in to that category out of personal choice, but most of my friends do.)
Actually, it can. It's not just the payment; it's payment against cost of living.

$9 an hour might afford a house in the suburbs of a small city, or an apartment in a smaller city. It doesn't scratch the paint on the cost of a basic apartment in the Valley.
> schools to do their damn job and teach useful skills

That may be the purpose of the loans, but it is not necessarily the purpose of universities.
> Because it is serving areas without major jobs centers or walkable neighborhoods, the long light rail corridor is inherently oriented toward suburb-to-downtown commuters.

This is the biggest problem with transit outside NYC/Chicago. Those cities are surrounded by walkable suburbs that justify regional rail. Everywhere else, the surrounding suburbs were not designed at all, and it's questionably valuable running rail out to them.

I take the Silver Line to work in D.C. None of it runs through any sensibly designed area. There are a tiny handful of apartments within walking distance of any Silver Line station, and even the closest ones are separated by enormous dangerous parking lots. My commute is actually takes longer than it did back when I used to commute from a walkable New York suburb into midtown, even though the physical distance is about 40% less.

I'm pretty skeptical of the return on transit dollars in place like Seattle. It seems to me that it's simply too late to turn these places into real cities.
While she doesn't have a job that pays enough to trigger repayment, is the loan accruing interest? If so, is the interest rate higher than the one on your mortgage? If so, you might want to reconsider your strategy...
Blendle link:

https://blendle.com/i/wsj-com/more-than-40-of-student-borrow...
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Free Labor? What? This app will let sponsored teams to do work with zero cost to the initiator? So for example, there needs a house to be demolished, why hire an expensive back hoe and contractor when you can hire a sponsored team, this demolishing work will then be periscoped' to an eager audience as they watch a bunch of a Jackass(Knoxville Steve-o) like crew go on and destroy a house. I would watch that. I presume the sponsor would be some energy drink.