skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's a bit disturbing to me how enthusiastically the SlaterStarCodex crowd latches onto this "fuck you, got mine" essay, gushing with praise and admiration about telling it like it is. The entire thing is a rationalization for the thinking illustrated in these quotes:

>> I feel the need for a disclaimer of sorts. I am writing about class and some of the injustices of classism, but I do not particularly pretend to position myself as an enemy of classism: I'm pretty classist. And by "pretty classist", I don't mean in the sense of "Everybody's a Little Bit Racist" or "gee, internalized misogyny is hard to totally eradicate". No, I mean closer to Segregation and PUAs.

> The idea that "the Left" engages in "Orwellian double-think" with regards to class, is also pretty puzzling.

It is not at all puzzling that humans -- regardless of their gender, age, race, nationality -- are bound to identify themselves with particular set of groups to the pointing of "segregating" themselves (and their ways of thinking, mannerisms, etc) from other groups. Left's Orwellian double-think of "insisting the problem doesn't exist and shouldn't be spoken of" is but a cunning way some acculturated groups achieve the said segregation under a moral veil.

The only solution to all of this is to cease identifying once and for all, and treat one another as fellow human beings. It will however be eons before the LessWrong/SlaterStarCodex crowd can even get close to such a stage if they were to continue their current modus operandi.
Do you speak with an identifiable accent?
I don't know about all teachers but in Maryland it's definitely a decent paying profession (50K starting out for 10 months). To me this is almost a state school thing. You can spend like 10k a year on tuition at a great in state school and at least halve some of these outrageous amounts
We have 47 million on food stamps, that's about 15% of the whole population. 47% does not pay a penny for tax, now even for those who are luck to have college educations that 40% of the borrowers are not paying back, I'm just wondering, where will the money come from to fill up the holes?

Adding on the military expense etc, the country is so totally financially broken. How sad.
I don't know why this isn't on HN, but this is another interesting post from the Google Cloud Platform blog from today:

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/04/Google-and-Rack...
It's such a shame that he prioritized his work over his health, not to mention that his cofounder insisted that he cancel a doctor's appointment for an event when he was experiencing facial paralysis!

It seems like only after his recovery when awry post-surgery due to work did he actually decide to take steps in helping his body heal. Hope his health will continue to improve.
There has to be something way more awesome than a diamond ring that costs a bundle.

I'm probably fucked; I don't like hanging on to stuff as momentos. That goes double for expensive momentos. Triple if it breaks some societal norm.

My college had a class ring that was kind of a big deal. College buddies pester me years later about when I'm going to get mine. They teased the guy who got silver instead of gold (seriously).

Never. Why do I want a $1000 reminder of something I already have? It's also a huge psychological ploy to get people to rep the school and donate whether or not it deserves it.

I guess buying an expensive ring could make somebody think of me constantly. I'd vastly prefer to have some crazy experience or donate to something we care about and buy a regular priced ring to use as a social symbol.
* It's a pity that many people here in my country do not know still about RethinkDB. Other mainstream databases are more common knowledge. *

I guess is because this guys have been jumping around to see what sticks, their focus nows seems to be the "the database for the realtime web".

Why should companies bother if rethinkdb doesn't show to have clear goals yet? tomorrow they can be the "database for the (whatever)".
That's where you store it. Where does it come from?

I understand initially you'd need investment. I understand that in future, a secondary market could come into existence which would allow Gresham dollars to be exchanged for real dollars, at slightly below par value. But in order to actually have a profitable business, you need to obtain more dollars than the GD you're giving out over a given period of time. How does that happen?
Or perhaps let the free market do what it does best, allocate efficiently.
This concept has been around for a very long time. The first question I would ask is, if it's feasible and superior to rockets in some way, why hasn't it been done yet?
No, I think it was well before that, and he was just more vocal at that point. IIRC became rather disillusioned with the project quite a while back, and he wasn't even involved with it (maybe nominally) at that point.
See this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8557654
I'd try IntelliJ if I were you -- really, Netbeans is no match.
nobody disputes that waste and fraud are bad and should be stopped. But the problem is not nearly as widespread as generally believed - and that is the problem, because it elevates an minor issue to an outsized status at the expense of other, larger issues.

Makes me think of voter fraud vs electoral participation...
"real cities", like there are only two real cities in a 320 million person country.
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Yeah, but publishing a statement that announces that you're a cheat, and that your education is a sham, actually damages your reputation and your career. Cutting up some paper so you can be debt free would just show that you're not a complete nit.

Even if you actually needed that paper to prove that you are in fact qualified, an entire industry would appear overnight dedicated to providing certified copies. The free market ultimately decides what credentials to trust.
But "you are having a bad problem and you will not go to space today" is one of the funniest understatements I've ever read.
It is -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440179
Subject to many stipulations. One of them being that you are making regular payments...
> so env variables would not be necessary

My initial thought as well — but it’s simply not true. Let's say you want to demo something that is using Firebase on the back end. You can't just give away your credentials or your demo may get very broken very quickly… and you’ll foot the bill
Big thanks to the authors of this post. It's written in such a way as the scope of the vulnerability is immediately clear and immediately actionable.
Like the idea. How do you prevent false alerts? Some reporting a false traffic jam is annoying, some reporting a false shooting is worse.
heh, reminds me of The Big Short; "no one bets against the housing market!" (since the implications of the housing market failing are frightening)
How about gov do quantitative easing for these student loans. Basically provide contracts and various incentives for companies that are employing these students who have loans. Also to various vendors like house owners etc who provide service to these students. This would create a negative impact on students who did not took loans or got good jobs and paid up in time etc. But that's how largely it was done for QE also.

/s
I went to college for a number of reasons despite already being skeptical of the "party line" everyone was telling me about how important it was to go to college, but ultimately I was able to swallow the estimated $100k price tag at the place I wanted to go the most (which was small, private, and out of state) because I made the calculations that let me be confident that if I made it to the end it shouldn't be too difficult to get even an entry level job in some field of tech I already had experience in (my degree was computer engineering) at $60k/yr which wouldn't be too bad for paying off that debt. Things more or less worked out, I too don't use any of my degree knowledge on the job and the thing that gets me the most recruiter spam is my broad experience working for peanuts on/off at a local startup while I was still in school. Certainly the degree would have been cheaper by going to the state university, or a community college first, but even those figures are starting to rise and when you can't get any job $30k of interest-accumulating debt probably feels about as back-breaking as $100k. I don't know if I would go back and take the safer, cheaper path. I think I did alright given my information at the time, so I don't put all the blame on the system -- too many college students just don't do the steps of calculating the full program cost (including any loans for housing), the desirability of employees with this particular degree over a degree in general, and then figuring out a plan to actually pay back what they borrow for the degree.
Interesting. What is this based of off?
IIRC, one of the main complaints from boeing is that the traffic situation is disastrous for their JIT parts deliveries and have threatened to pull out of Seattle b/c of that (not just the HQ, as they did a few years ago).
> A big takeaway from this article (for me) is that people are surprised that 17 year old kids don't understand what they're doing when they take out that college loan.

Student loans are the only legal way to sell yourself into "debt slavery"[0] in the United States. It's not the 17 year olds that are screwing up, it's society as a whole by even allowing this situation to exist.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_bondage
I'm not worried about the inconsistencies. I'm worried that we can't even define natural number and be sure that there's no infinite natural number.
X over TCP works (to something like Cygwin's X server, or an X server on a remote Linux box), but it's of somewhat limited utility right now since terminal emulators don't work (broken pty support). No idea on GLX, though, although I'd be surprised if it works well; IME XMing and Cygwin/X are both on the slow side, which wouldn't be great for performance in 3D games.
They both bear responsibility, but only one party got the bailout.
>Curious, as someone in a similar position as Textexpander: Don't you think TE will be able to provide with more, stable updates thanks to the stable income a subscription provides?

What updates? Most updates are fluff even in something as complex and demanding as Photoshop and Word.

TextExpander is a glorified text-replacement tool. They'll just start cramming more crap in to call it "updated".
Could you give an example of a process you can optimize using the data you gather?
You'd need to drain them of their college memories too, somehow, for the hypothetical question of "was it worth it/can I give it back?" to have merit.
It seemed like they were hoping the 2nd engine wasn't totally cashed. So they lied to the ground about having only 1 engine failure. I would imagine being alive is worth embarrassment but given the prestige of a pilot, I really can't say more than, bad choice.
EEGs have already been used to diagnose mental health conditions for decades. As for treatment, that has only appeared in the last 15 years or so, with treatments for ADHD, anxiety, depression, and epilepsy[1], using something called neurofeedback [2].

Further, with the advent of consumer EEGs flooding the market it is become increasingly possible to do this at scale. However, these consumer EEGs have a much lower accuracy (85% for consumer EEGs vs 95-98% medical EEGs), and being done in the home is difficult because EEGs are very sensitive to movement.

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There's a different between taking your assets and sending you to jail.
Hardly - try 6% of our tax dollars.

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Conversely, why should a bank should be protected from their stupid decision to make that loan? That's supposed to be why loans charge interest. It's to cover the risk of default. But they didn't even consider what would happen.
That's awesome that you identified a problem you yourself had that you want to solve.

I'd encourage you to do some more competitive research as there are a LOT of proofing services that use humans. One can also hire proofers off of sites like Odesk, etc.

So with the knowledge that there are lots of competitors with humans doing the work, you might need to find a different strategic differentiator.
>But I do sympathize with how difficult it is to move a product -- especially a well-loved product -- to a different model.

If it's well loved, then why move it to a different model?
>Also, couldn't we set the number of (free) admissions to certain areas of study based on the national need for those professions?

Philosophically, American universities are meant to 1) search for truth, 2) produce graduates who are educated about the most important findings and methods of the search for truth, 3) contribute to the general or local welfare in the process. Suggest to them that they are workforce training systems and you'll have a mess on your hands [0].

The private ones were doing this among the elite for hundreds of years, the public ones were meant to let the masses join the elite's party. Aside from specifically designed trade schools, neither are intended as (nor do they think of themselves as) servants of business needs for specific kinds of labor. That is why you see people required to take all kinds of "unnecessary" subjects like chemistry, physics, math, art, literature, philosophy, social sciences, etc. and even specialize in those things, regardless of whether they are relevant to career ambitions. And why this proposal is not tenable in the current system.

Part of doing this for the masses is being unselective. If public universities became more selective to decrease their dropout rates, it would be seen as a betrayal of their identities and the very purpose of public education. (For some reason people are a lot more tolerant of their children washing out then of their children getting rejected).

At the time, teenage/minimum wage was high enough in real terms were high and tuition was low enough (partly because public institutions had lower overhead, partly they had a lot more taxpayer support) that this was economically tenable. White collar employers found that college students were useful enough to put to work, even though their curriculum wasn't really designed at the employers' direction.

Even in computing. A philosophically pure Computer Science curriculum (and mine comes close) asks the question, "So we have this model of computation, and these machines that implement it. What does that mean? What can we do with it?" It does not ask the question "How do we best prepare workers for the IT departments of the big local employers?"

And this is why you get students learning things like theory of computation, fundamental algorithms, functional programming, operating systems, compilers, programming language theory and design, networking in the general rather than Cisco sense, etc. - things that re meant to be fundamental and timeless - instead of How To Contribute To Local BigCos Java/Win32 Codebases Right Now.

Maybe we've outlived the usefulness of this notion. It's less present in Europe, but in Germany at least the college liberal arts curriculum is simply shifted into high school and reserved for the academically inclined (Gymansium). It's not that they don't do it, they just do it differently.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/02/...
HN Is a lot more combative with posters making broad assumptions than I remember.

In that hypothetical situation I might wish that they had taken some high performance driving courses from me or my colleagues/friends. And spent time behind the wheel of cars at the limit, as I have, so that they had better skills to potentially avoid the accident they caused (with or without ESC).

ESC doesn't save people from bad driving, it masks some of their errors.

There is nothing wrong with disabling traction control. Please don't use the ESC in your car as a crutch. It won't save you.
Sure it will help them. Paying a $1200 rent in San Francisco is much harder with a $10 wage than paying a $200 rent in Alabama with a $8 wage. It may not help them enough, but it will help.
I’m potentially one of those people, at least for personal projects and such. But I also need to understand what the hell I’m getting into before I make the leap.

I haven’t kept my personal site up with no linkrot for the past 10 years by making technology choices on a whim, you know?
You can tell your browser to not download images:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/981640

This would disable all images, but that's what you want, because you can never tell if a site you're going to has been compromised and what content they're going to serve up until you've already downloaded it.

This doesn't completely solve the problem though, you'd also need to make sure you don't have Flash or Java, and disable SVG and CSS now that I think about it... plus an encoded text of an illegal image is still probably illegal, even if it's text-encoded, so, uhh... I don't know, it depends how paranoid you want to be.

If someone wanted to force you to have illegal data on your machine, there's almost certainly a way to make it happen if you're connected to the internet in any way. Hell, even gmail shows embedded images by default... and even if you didn't open the email containing the illegal content, you still have it in your inbox, so there's that...
Popovers are the worst feature of the modern web. They're usually a very aggressive way of drawing attention to something I don't care about. Even when they're supposed to be a useful part of a web page interface, it's an obsolete modal dialog paradigm.

Should I block popper.js via an ad blocking filter?
Syncing requires backend services which in turn requires an ongoing recurring cost to the developers. Which they must pass on to you or go out of business.

The alternative is to try and cover ongoing costs from new sales. This never ends well. But it does end.
Probably my favorite so far. What is the business model and how do you get your first customer?
~90% of student loan debt is federal, but there are private loan companies like Navient/Sallie Mae. You could buy put options on the equity.
You mean, they paid it back by having the USG buy all their shitty home loans to get them off the books?

I'm not a fan of the financial sector but let's keep the facts straight here
I personally never got that message. I got the "you will go to college" message, but it came bundled with a "don't borrow $40,000 for college" message. In fact, I turned down my first choice school (Rose-Hulman) because I would have accrued $50,000 on loans over four years. That seems to be unfortunately typical now.
Sounds like you're internalizing a really complicated situation in your head, bro.
It's a bit awkward - plus I'm worried about getting where I'm going; Once there, often I have way more time (in line @ airport or waiting for table, or just trying to compose myself before stepping into customer's office) to spend a few seconds to evaluate rating and tip. Just ... better.
I really encourage you to do so - so many mistakes can be avoided by learning from the experiences of others. Anyway thanks for sharing what you have of your experience.
They're totally doing great! (But we should use less violent language to describe it...)
I'm living out of a van right now in Palo Alto, after having sold everything I own to build projects that work. My worldly possessions can fit inside a single backpack. My co-founder and I are generating revenue and grinding on making sure the community loves what we're building.

My burn rate is close to 300-400/mo, less if I eat less per day. #grit

Beyond that what else is there?
Yes. IRS. Not Department of Education. IRS is in Department of Treasury, run by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.

On the other hand, a study conducted by the Department of Education, run by Education Secretary John King Jr, makes a lot of sense. and is hardly malicious at all. Department of Education wanting to know the effectiveness of their FAFSA loan program (and why or why not people are able to pay those loans back) is definitely a good thing.

Besides, all the loans are being handled by Sallie Mae (a private company with some Government support). So its Sallie Mae who is officially on the hook with regards to collections and such. The Department of Education is rather removed from the whole finances thing, as far as I'm aware.

So basically, you can assume a malicious force if the IRS or maybe even Sallie Mae began to conduct this sort of investigation. But the Department of Education? Collections isn't their thing. They're likely interested in the state of education, college readiness and the like.
I think so, because I don’t think "updates" are a thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440659

But I wish they would clarify this, either way.
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