skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will be interesting to see if this creates economic migrants. When I was traveling to China regularly, I met a few Americans fleeing debt. They didn't have much to lose if it turned out to be a bad idea. The plan was typically to teach English in a 2nd tier city where visa enforcement might be lax.
Yes. My nephew is a Junior and starting to look at schools and my main message to him is "wherever you can minimize your debt."
Stuck to his guns? This is very naive and is really not a good criticism whatsoever. On some level, putting yourself into a position where you have to be, as another commenter wrote, Sisyphus, is probably something to regret in itself late in your career.
It will only change if there is an alternative.

As it stands now, the "Brand" of having a university degree on your resume is still one of the signals used in hiring candidates for jobs.
OT: I hope that's not a new trend... "Renewables’ share of power generation. Scale is shown in doublings."

It's a logarithmic scale, labeled as "doublings", with the background lines suggesting linear scale, and confusing rounding on the left (0.03% is "double" 0.01%). Also the left chart starts at 0%, where i think they wanted 0.00625% which got rounded.
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I couldn't agree more.

Facebook is great but is really generic, I think each community has its own needs.
On my project as an example if somebody post an image of a plant species asking people to help identify it, then the image would be indexed on the Plant's page increasing the number of images of that specie. Eventually when we have a great number of different images we can better train an algorithm to identify/suggest species automatically.
The navigation and content organization will meet the community's needs.
If I understand correctly, you're providing a service where users wire into your API as a generic, switchable layer between their service and the service(s) they want to use. You're also providing analytics on top of that, presumably based on the usage from your users.

Is there a natural pairing between "monitor my APIs" and "switch between APIs"? I guess what I'm wondering is, if "monitor my APIs" is valuable, do you have plans to prod them synthetically so you're not vulnerable to, e.g. missing an outage because nobody buys things via Stripe at night?
Appreciate the candor. The beta is really meant to "test drive" the platform. Hopefully you keep tabs on what we're doing. Thanks!
Dude, that's not an argument - that's a whole bunch of ad hominems. Could you bring an argument against Trump at least instead of literally smearing him and his supporters? The guy is acknowledged to have won (basically) every republican debate.. would you suggest a child can do that?
I agree. I particularly like your emphasis in last discussion on fact that they "buried PGP." PGP and then GPG have a long history of working against most powerful of the nation-state hackers. The Snowden leaks feature NSA smashing almost everything except for a rare few you can count on one hand IIRC. One of those is GPG. "NSA-proof in 2013" should get put next to its name on top of list, bolded, highlighted, etc.

Curious, what do you think of the worth of a LibreSSL-style effort to clean up GPG's proven code and build better interfaces for integrating it into other apps? Of course, to be done in parallel with development of things like Signal that will get more adoption.
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Sounds like the solution is contained in the article??

More people are finding that the only work they can find is a desk job working long hours with a long commute and many expenses to worry about.

Throw in the US' massive subsidies for meat, soy, sugars, a cultural love of fried food (just go to any restaurant or convenience store)- and voila, you have a cheap vice for those overworked, unfit people to indulge in.

The solution would be for work to be less hours (more time to exercise), from home (no commute = live somewhere more active and financially sustainable), and for all food sources to be unsubsidized, so that people can decide that $2 for a pound of frozen veggies and some sauce is a great deal compared to the $3 box of oreos/goldfish
Hey, jwise. I'm gonna call you Justin wise.

Seems like everyone suddenly is having this idea now lol. Hopefully you don't delete your comment after I respond like the last two guys.

Well, Justin
1. It may seem like a recipe for disaster and we won't say that every interaction will be golden. That's why we have a review system to make sure there's no trolls and everyone is being nice. And we also have a key feature on our current build, which is 'find help' or 'help'.

2. We think 7 cups isn't doing it efficiently. They are chat based and their listeners have to go through a sign up process that takes too long. We want things on demand. And voice.
Can not agree more.
definitely breaking down incumbent high-fee ticket seller platforms
I have seen this claim made many times and accomplished seldom or never. The BRT which is inexpensive is not the BRT which is good. Roadways are not cheap, and if you actually spent the money and political capital it would take to develop new, dedicated, grade-separated smooth concrete roadways for your BRT system, it would cost so much that you might as well just build a train - people will like it more, they'll use it more, you can expand it later by hitching cars together, and your long term maintenance costs will be far, far lower.

I believe that BRT is popular among people making transit proposals because they are thinking about it as designers, not as users; they don't care that it is a bus, so they don't understand why other people do. All they see is a politically expedient way to draw some lines on a map.

Ask people who use transit, though, and very few of them will be impressed if you try to sell them a bus when what they want is a train.
One thing that happens in Tokyo which I think is very successful is transit companies building train stations and commercial centers at the same time. At worst you now have a commercial center that's easy to access, at best you now jump-start a walkable suburb.
Do you see a synchronous collaboration solution in the future ? is it feasible technologically - due to latency ?
Sallie Mae was created in 1972 as a government sponsored enterprise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government-sponsored_enterpris...

It didn't become private until 2004, and wasn't expected to be private until 2008.

It is much more than a private company with some Government support.
> I'm so tired of

I know this is the kind of thing it's easy to lead with on the internet without thinking, but for present purposes it does not count as nice. Please be nice in these threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440627.
It's a huge area. In 2011 there were nearly 1 million total joint replacement procedures in the US alone (that doesn't include many other type of procedures involving hardware)[1]. Rates of infection are around 1-2% depending on the joint. Many infections can be treated with antibiotics, but many need the joint replaced. Replacement means another procedure that carry risks and costs. Therefore, prevention of these infections is key. Most of these infections occur as a result of biofilm formation on the surface of the artificial joint. Seeding of these biofilms occurs either through break in sterile practice during the operative procedure or from a BSI or some other systemic infection. Either way, surface improvements could drop the SSI rate, and therefore drop associated costs.

1 - http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=a00233
Cities really, truly, do not have a monopoly on the production of those things.
And Facebook doesn't?
I want to grow organically, through the content quality and word of mouth. Right now most of the people come from social networks(reddit, medium, tumblr). I am an aspiring writer myself, so as I promote my own work, and works of other writers, people discover the platform.

Also I've been thinking about creating fiction writing competitions - that would attract more writers, create original content, and give us some publicity.

And, many of the writers have their own audience, so if they choose to use fictionhub as their main platform - they will bring their readers with them.

Ideally, I would like to first attract readers and writers of rational fiction(basically hard SciFi, you can read more about it here: http://fictionhub.io/story/rational-fiction), that is people from HN and /r/rational.
I've met a few glib midwesterners that still had that characteristic way of pronouncing "roots".
Stereotypes. They exist for a reason, it's just that we think they are true more often than they are, so we end up making the wrong choice much of the time.

Most elite Northerner whites are just as insulated as they think Southerners are, when it comes to traveling within their own country. In fact they typically know jack shit about Southern culture. There was a time when Southern accents were considered deliberately slow, enunciated, cultured. Yes, at that time whites were at the top of the class food chain, and yes most of that white privilege was racist or at least depended on it. But the accent is orthogonal to racism. We've just come to associate one with the other, using a stereotype.

Another stereotype is white Northerners will pretty much assume white Southerners, identified as such by their drawl, may be a racist.

Assumptions are traps.
Right, but now the book is considered "finished"
Activist: upsetting the established order.

This would be in my opinion the best description of ÓRG while president.
I think this was to coincide with the Open Power summit going on right now, there a link of the hardware announced at the top of this:

http://openpowerfoundation.org/openpower-summit-2016/
I do! The hardware layer consists of physical machines running XenServer. Networking layer is 1Gbit WAN interfaces and 10Gbit LAN interfaces on "virtual switches" all wired together with pfSense. Gitlab-CI takes care of deploying just about all of the fabric on top of that including the images and app / system components / resources. Ingress is currently being overhauled, but right now it's essentially exposed HAProxy (pfSense) on top of dedicated, HA ingress VM's. Oh and it's all CoreOS. We're running three sites on it each with dev environments. Maybe a couple random API's, too. I haven't looked through all of the namespaces in a bit.

Edit: Gitlab-CI runners run on kubernetes as well using the dind images. Ingress nodes will soon be given public IP's. Public IP's are currently on CARP failover. After the gitlab-ci-multi-runner 1.1.1 release (allowing shared artifacts) and Kubernetes Deployment resources (providing a way easier deployment workflow and orchestration of pods), CI/CD is a breeze. We have dedicated nodes for MySQL (PXC) and ZooKeeper because these don't play well in the Kubernetes network environment - don't ask me to look at the examples ;) Currently running with Flannel for the overlay, but we're evaluating Calico and waiting on new Docker features to pull the trigger on something else... Multicast, isolated namespaces, VLAN's would be awesome :)

Edit2: I don't know why I keep saying "we" ... I've built and run this thing solo on top of programming... Not enough hours in a day...
Kubernetes in Production in The New York Times newsroom
https://kubeconeurope2016.sched.org/event/67f2/kubernetes-in...
This was rightly flagged as a dupe but it's also such a good summary of what we're doing that I think we should leave it open as an existence proof.
Could they replace the pictures with links to a Google Image Search of the statue's name?
> Part of what makes Pinboard great is knowing it isn't going to break

If you're not following him on Twitter, you really should be.
That picture of the phone dangling upside-down while charging freaks me out way too much...
The people who live in Dildo, Newfoundland will be disappointed.
That is ... remarkably classist of you.
They still do come packaged directly from scene releases. Smaller private torrent trackers have these releases. Public trackers usually contain just the media files so people don't have to unzip. But I agree, playing from archives would be a great feature.
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My federal student loan I got in 2003 was at 3.6%. My parents had good credit and co-signed.
For other good (albeit fictional) accounts of social class, there's "Gone With The Wind's" treatment of Rhett Butler by southern society, and "The Blue Max's" treatment of Bruno Stachel who rises from being an innkeeper's son to a role formerly reserved only for the nobility. (Neither is about money, but manners and behavior.)
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That has no basis in reality. Smalltalk is to implement that one implementation fits in the Smalltalk-80 book.

C got popular because it allowed low-level code to be implemented in something higher-level than assembler and moderately portably too (machines back then where as lot more dissimilar than today). It's hard to disassociate C from Unix, the former making the latter easy to port. A symbiotic relationship.

It's important to remember C was designed for the processors of the time, whereas processors of today (RISC-V included) are arguebly primarily machines to run C. C has brought a lot of good but also a lot of bad that we are still dealing with: unchecked integer overflows, buffer under- and overflow, and more general memory corruption.
No ISA since the SPARC even tries to offer support for non-C semantics.
Can you tell us more about what you're doing and how? This seems like the kind of story HN would eat up, if you might like to write about it.
"QE for the people" is essentially just Basic Income.
The same thing happened to me. I think they phase you out of the student loan interest deduction after you pass $65,000 taxable income. I'm actually going to increase my 401k contribution to try to retain more of that deduction.
Apply HN: Qbix, Inc Aims to Do for Social What Bitcoin Did for Money
Hi everyone. I've been posting on HN for the last 8 years (just checked). I'm also the CEO of Qbix, a startup which embodies a lot of the values that many of us here share, so when I heard about Apply HN, I got excited.

A few "impressive" stats first: our apps are already in stores & have been downloaded over 4MM times. They're used 3MM times a month! We've got users all around the world and most reviews are 5 stars. See http://qbix.com/blog

We already make steady revenue. But we've poured it all into building an open source platform that will:

1) give every community a way to host "its own facebook"

2) give people a consistent experience across domains & devices enabling unprecedented privacy, ease and control over their own data

3) give developers a stable, thoroughly tested platform on which they can build apps for communities, without reinventing the wheel on a thousand things (literally) that we take care of

You can see more here: http://qbix.com/platform

When Fred Wilson recently said this at Le Web, he was speaking about the platform we built: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R43OKYmGbhU&t=24m0s

Email, the Web, Wordpress, Bitcoin, Git are all decentralized. Yet social networks are still centralized; it is a hard problem to solve.

What if there was a web-based platform that ran on every device, letting any community choose their own host and install apps which would all work harmoniously? What if it would reconstruct people's social graphs across communities seamlessly and the apps would "just work"?

That's what we built. We're now working with several local communities that paid us to release apps for their members. After the beta, we will roll it out as a self-serve platform to all our 3MM users of Groups. We made several apps on top of this platform that we estimate will generate about $15/user/yr

The YC community can make a huge difference for us going forward would be happy to apply for YC!
A clip and pulley system which could hook onto a barbell or kettle bell would be great.

Hrmm, perhaps this isn't so feasible. Performing a clean & jerk of 95 pounds to a height of 7 feet would yield about 900 watt seconds of potential energy. So even if you had a very efficient laptop (15 watts) and perfect energy conversion, you'd have to perform a clean & jerk every 60 seconds to keep computing. Even if you were in good shape, you probably couldn't keep that up for more than a hour.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/gpot.html
Right because the first thing I think as a founder is oh definitely I'd love to have my work judged by the insane neckbeard posse that is Hacker News Commentariat. That's totallllllly something I'd love and will likely to end up producing better and more diverse result. Sorry guys I should really not even get involved but this is baffling. HN is second only to Reddit in terms of its nasty, divisive, anti-anything that doesn't pattern match to the literalism horror show that is white men in technology.
Also, lots of chilling effects: you can't decide to be black, but you can decide whether to pay in cash, or drive the speed limit.
Kansas is rolling out a website now that shows salaries for different majors at different universities in state.
You should read more Hemingway.
Shhh ... You are supposed to buy into the deep anti-American bias and pretend that only Americans want money and property or some such nonsense. :)
In case people think you're being dismissive to the parent, this was a quote from a popular "drink driving" ad which ran in New Zealand - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtWirGxV7Q8
I agree. That's why I'm not really thinking about the invoicing angle like some of the other tracking apps seem to do. Making accurate project estimates (and measuring current progress) is at least as important and relevant to a lot more people than just freelancers.
Not really.

Shamelessly copying a comment by /u/MasterCookSwag on reddit:

THIS is the major piece everyone misses. Mortgages were such a disaster because banks held the debt securities thinking they were safe assets and they weren't. This caused a chain reaction of devaluation of balance sheet assets and paper losses which resulted in the collapse of some major institutions. It then caused credit to dry up so businesses couldn't borrow and a crisis of confidence in the fundamentals of the economy.

Student debt won't do any of these things because the underlying structure is not even remotely similar. What student debt will do is represent a long term suck on the taxpayer both directly(through payments) and indirectly(through defaults). This will result in a drag on GDP. There is no way to short this and there won't be a collapse. That doesn't make it not a bad thing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/4cj937/e...
Unless the educational and lending institutions are contractually agreeing to the loan on behalf of the students, it's not a p:a problem.

Salary and career signals are publicly available. If a student happens to rack up six figure loans for a career that can't support it, then that is ignorance on their part. At 17-18, they're not exactly minors, and even if you do consider them a minor the fault lay on their guardians (parents).
hahah it's very strong
Nor did I suggest to stop striving for the ideal.

But just like any other institutional problem (racism, sexism, etc), it does no good to simply ignore it while it negatively impacts you. Instead, acknowledging your current situation, and working to make it better, is key.
Not so fast! If everyone who couldn't bet as well as the crowd chose to defer to the crowd there would be no crowd.
> Seattle [is] actually less rainy than Munich

Seattle doesn't get heavy rain, it's just damp for weeks at a time. How do they compare in dry days per year rather than total amount?
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Very similar items are ~65c (USD) on aliexpress, can imagine the suppliers are the same.
just be careful with SFDC, bunch of harsh limits, killer one being 5k bulk api requests per rolling 24h.

if you think that's a lot you haven't seen big orgs with a shit ton of integrations and custom stuff on top of them.
Is this the syllogism?

Trump uses political language
political language makes murder respectable
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Trump makes murder respectable

Why focus on Trump then? Care to name a politician who's not using political language? That seems to be an oxymoron.

Trump was against the Iraq War, probably the biggest killing event of the last xxx years.
Add chat to the mix. A generic API between all the chat services these days would be awesome :)
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Well both are right. Yes, 17 year olds need to fully grasp these decisions, and yes colleges and gov should do more, much more, too.

For example my gf's now doing her 2nd master's to become a teacher, in a field which, surprise, there are no jobs in. Now frankly she mostly knew this, wanted to do it anyway because she's got the resume to get that 1 job that opens up every 5 billion years and she's really passionate about teaching this field. But what struck me was that a few days ago as she was complaining about her job prospects, I said 'your uni has a responsibility here, too', and I went to the website to see if they offered any support. Got to the 'employability' page, and it essentially said the prospects were 'good'. In reality, the employability of this particular degree is probably in the bottom 5%. I mean this is the Netherlands, tuition is $2k a year, it's a 1y programme and student loan rates are currently 0.01% (fixed until 2020, and averaged < 1% in the past 20 years), so it's fine. But for other institutions in other countries, that's blatant false advertising bordering on the criminal as we're talking about multi-year time investments in addition to tens of thousands of dollars. And I see this all the time, but institutions and governments aren't currently willing to be dead honest about job prospects.
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Placewire (https://placewire.co) is a new platform for sharing interesting neighborhood information and gossip via photo sharing.

Everyone likes good dope about their neighborhood, but when you spot something of interest, it doesn’t fit on the social apps you have today — your sorority brothers on Facebook and the lifestyle pornographers from work on Instagram probably don’t care about the new dog run in your park, or the manhole fire you spotted on your way to the train because you’ve carefully chosen to live far away from such people. On Placewire you follow and post photos into the neighborhoods where you live and work.

We're launching in NYC in the next 7 days. You won't want to miss your chance to grab a low user id which you can subtly lord over people when Placewire becomes literally the first hyperlocal business in history to achieve colossal success.
These are all really tough questions, and I don't necessarily have all the answers yet. I think part of what was exciting about throwing the idea out there is being forced to think about these things.

1. I think there will probably need to be some kind of reddit/hn voting system so that good authors float to the top. (Perhaps even a steam greenlight system were your compete for space in the store?)

2. I don't know. I imagine we will have to just do the hard yards. Reach out to aspiring authors and get them to try this platform. We won't be exclusive. Authors can publish on Amazon as well and compare the results.

3. Yep, another of the core problems, but I think authors could consider the premium content as short stories in the same universe.

In its simplest form you could think of the Novel to get you hooked on the world and the characters, and the follow up short stories as what you buy, but I would like to think we can come up with some premium content that is more exciting than that.

If the platform looks like it's working, in the same way we had to change the way games work in f2p, we might see authors building their books for f2p as well.