skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with your statement that they are not at all different from a payday loan service.

Payday loan services' model is to roll over debt so you can never escape needing them. LendUp pretty clearly has a program in place (their "Ladder") that tries to help people get access to cheaper loans once they prove themselves creditworthy. And LU seems to genuinely want their customers to get fluent in money-talk so they can build their credit.

I do see your point: from the outside, based entirely on the incontrovertible, objective facts (who they loan to, what rates they charge), they seem no different. However, I feel like their intention, their path, is one that will try to help people. It's the opposite of predatory, even if they do resemble their doppleganger mindset.
It certainly takes time. I never learned how to touch-type on QWERTY (I got really fast at pecking at keys) - so taking the dive from ~30WPM to ~15WPM for the first two weeks wasn't too big of an issue, now if most of the online typing tests can be considered "good enough" I now type roughly between 80-95WPM on average using Dvorak - which is mostly excessive when it comes to my day job of programming since I spend more time thinking about what I'm trying to write than I do typing it, but it comes in handy when replying to comments on Hacker News and Reddit or when I have to type up documentation.
Everyone wants to be the only walled garden... https://xkcd.com/927/
C and C++: All other languages they support have a nice property - they're not architecture/platform dependent in ways that are often exposed to the user. Basically with all of them they can migrate from big-endian 32b environment to little-endian 64b environment and applications are very unlikely to get affected.

For coffeescript: you can use JS, so just compile before uploading. C#: they'd have to start using mono, or host on windows with .net - neither one may be a good solution for them.

When they added Java, they get Scala "for free" in a way. I don't think there's much difference in supporting architecture.

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How do you fake it? And how do you know if someone's faked it? :S
Being a zealot from one side of the horse shoe or the other is not a reason to think their ideas are incorrect.

Evidently commonly held ideas today like democracy or social welfare or multinational corporations not explicitly backed by the mothership would have been outrageous daydreams, utter folly to believe in the 16th century.

The problem with centerist positions is that they seem so reasonable because so many of them are reasonable. That makes us too comfortable.
I mean, you can always Google it, but that's personally what I read these comments for.
What fun! I like the suggestion here for 'kindness' as a good first search, but don't forget to try the inflammatory ones too! "liberals" and "gamergate" seem like fun places to start.

- Why the arbitrary 12-character limit? There are so many more controversial phrases yet to try.

- I seem to frequently get this error in Chrome when trying to submit: "hivemind.js:62 Uncaught TypeError: arr.map is not a function"
The colonel interface is called 'bat' Guano, but then you have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.
gotta spin!
Backstory: Pieter Hintjens, Belgian software developer and Free Software advocate, diagnosed with terminal cancer, continues to muse on chemo, technology, life, and what odd stray bits of writing do or don't go viral.

And he's chanced upon a Chinese manufacturing practice, Shanzhai, which incorporates the anti-patent concepts he's long fought for.

(My Pocket entry for this blog post has a curious set of associated tags.)
oh, and I dont really have any idea how quickly the revenue will decline. I'm surprised it's still making some money now actually. The market may take another decade to completely dry up though. The data recovery stuff does work on digital cameras / SD cards, external hard disks, USB sticks, etc. I'm not sure what people currently buy it for generally.
Really who do you know? Because Comvest helped spread that around at time of filing and it is not true they have a whole way of spinning story..while I couldn't say anything against it under threat of $6mm dollar garuntee they said they wouldn't enforce if I kept quiet.

We built an eCommerce company that did over $100mm a year for 5 years, and was profitable for 6 years you really think it was a roman orgy in the office? Did we have wild parties once a quarter yes? But other than that we worked hard and focused... Secondly, of course we had lawyers look at docs unethical lender have laws in Deleware that are completely one sided in banks favor.. The truth is you can sign away right for future wrong doing by your lender.. Believe me I have tried ever angle to get around this so I could not just defend myself but counter suit..I will cover in future posts... It is unfortunate my fellow entrepreneurs would buy such nonsense but . We had 240 emlpoyees all in 20's and 30's we had as much drug use as any company that employees people that age.. Hubspot.. People love to sensationalize things but I think this group is smarter than that, come on guys! I decided to share to be helpful to others and exspose Comvest .. Who incedently just lost their right to enforce by summary judgment their garuantee against me and judge ordered trial as she felt there was enough evidence they acted badly she could not just uphold the contract.. So I fight on! But also work on new stuff right here at YC happy to provide insight around this topic or any others.. I built a company that did roughly $1 billion in revenue over the 15 years I ran it and started it out of my parents Basment ..I did it once so I learned a lot and always happy to share and help!
I have tried open sourcing other stuff, and it's been completely overlooked. I guess you have to promote it somehow. But I've tried putting stuff on GitHub, and I don't think anyone ever looked at it. If it were to have an audience I'd do it.
Hi ,yep there are lots of issues, I only started developing this yesterday- I should be able fix it now, basically that occurs if no results are returned, maybe due to censorship (if it is a harsh term).

[EDIT] The arr.map issue should be fixed now - thanks for the heads up
[EDIT] Also fixed text overflows in bubbles
The Rise of the Data Natives
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I'd like to get involved in AI and I have already found a research group at this university along with a list of graduate students working on projects and their professor.

I'll begin reading through some of their research and getting used to reading papers as you suggested. Should I go through their professor to get to the students or contact them directly?
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He doesn't seem to mind!

https://twitter.com/jeresig/status/733413302982877185
The default rate would be lower with a lower interest rate. #secondordereffects
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They probably fit the technical definition of a "payday loan" but that's exactly my point - everyone has decided that anything that meets the categorical definition of a "payday loan" is inherently bad, no matter whether it is or not.

The TRUTH is "predatory payday loans" and "payday loans" are different. People NEED payday loans, and we need to stop lenders from praying on that need. Lendup is doing it so, so right. Proud of that team every day!
I am the author of Batsh. Batsh is a toy language I developed 2.5 years ago in a hackathon. It was just for me to play with OCaml. Feel free to play with it at http://batsh.org/.
Someone should host a mirror--Youtube just pulled it.
Yet another thing they have in common!
2007

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rhino-on-rails.html
It's pretty....
But..but I have linux.
> lurking in the kernel. That way, Windows lies.

Windows implements many overrides (e.g. "My Documents") as NTFS junctions with some hidden (+ system?) property set. (Sometimes you will find a proper hidden property handy, like in this case.)

Stuff like CON, NUL in non-UNC paths do hurt, though. Device files from an age without directories....
I'm sad they still don't provide an option to hide all contributions. There is a huge difference between presenting all contributions in an immediately visible chart smack on someone's landing page vs. tacitly allowing the "same data" to be public but requiring people to do a lot of work to actually track down a given user's public contributions if they are so interested.

I don't mind really if someone wants to do that work. If third party sites pop up that do that work and turn it into visualizations, that's OK too, because you can always dispute the accuracy or intentions of third parties.

But I am not OK with my contributions being extremely easy to visualize just by looking at the landing page of my profile.

I've had several recruiters and interviewers comment on it, and ask me antagonistic and probing questions about my commit history to a particular side project repo that I just have for fun. Even when I explain that I've had significant family issues in the past year or so which has greatly impacted my ability to do as much OSS development as I want, they never seem satisfied. It just gives them an extra lever to use to reject someone for political bullshit reasons.

Since this is common from recruiters and employers, it's only fair, in my view, that they should have to really work a lot harder to aggregate that data themselves. Or at least allow me to control whether or not my own user landing page does or doesn't present that data directly.

Hilariously, at the bottom of the page GitHub says you can send them feedback by notifying @github on Twitter ... except I don't have or want a Twitter account ... so I can't even provide feedback.
> minnesota is $10k

Do you have a source for this? Considering I've been looking at in-state MN costs for a couple years now, that's absurdly low.

Current costs for in-state attendance including everything reasonable you would expect (aka fees) is more along the lines of $25k/yr then of course add in your daily living expenses on top of it.

This of course assumes you will be living on-campus. Even if you assume free rent and free food, you are talking $15k/yr for tuition and books alone.
Consider posting in here then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11718197
It would be nice if that returned the number of characters printed, ala sprintf() in c.
I agree in all points.

How i usually justify this (anti)pattern in hiring for myself:

For startups it's hard to think/plan/project further ahead than they are old. Especially if you are measured by short term impact vs spending or long term planning.
I feel like it was created just to make this sentence possible. Love it!
If we're arguing for a clean room implementation, then it absolutely matters if he copied his old code.
Well I would say some comment on articles that people have written are more thought provoking
Insurance companies that have GPS trackers / driving analysis boxes could add sensors and sell that data too.
Using animal training techniques to teach robots household chores
Probably because people want to actually reach it, so they used a TLD that people already have access to without additional configuration.

Alternative DNS roots seem amusing, but not even slightly practical.
This does, however mean that

1. This depends on closed-source code (libhoudini is Intel code, and it's not open, last I heard). I guess it's not the first piece of closed-source code in Chromebooks, but it's a crucial piece.

2. This code is still not portable, it just runs on 2 archs, unless someone writes a libhoudini for all other archs as well.
Pronounced "bath". The s is silent.
Because Google will personalize your results to maximize your CTRs, which are based on previous interests and likes.

DDG doesn't do this, and when you use it to query google search, it doesn't let google do this either.
Self-healing, flexible electronic material restores after multiple breaks
It's a pretty interesting idea, more so when developed under the context of of a hackathon. Where did the idea come from?
I'm even considering a bootcamp after graduating university for the reasons that this article points out. I feel woefully inadequate when it comes to practical programming skills.
A simple home urine test could scan for diseases
Yes, but xmlschema allows for a decent platform-agnostic system for defining objects. The problem is that most tools default (or even force) to "sequence" instead of "all". With "all" you get object-ish XML behavior.

There is no well-adopted analog to xmlschema for json.
Awww, mean old Google API. Why have something like this at all if you can't look up flamebait?

I wonder if you could build the same thing with the Twitter API and a quick clustering algorithm. That might even fit the spirit of the application better: Google definitely curates its search suggestions, whereas Twitter posts really are "the hivemind".

Still, this is cool. Thanks for sharing!
> It's the worst kind of UI modality because it does different things depending on whether you've reached the beginning of the form.

I've never seen backspace act differently once I'd deleted everything. If a form field has focus -- even an empty form field -- backspace doesn't make me lose the page.

(On the other hand, I started this morning hating Chrome for getting rid of the functionality I've used since last century, but I'm now coming to accept it.)
You're talking about a clean blood draw though. I don't know how well it compares to dried cells you left somewhere for hours which are possibly mixed with many other people's cells. Do you have information about that?
> You really are presumptuous, aren't you?

Indeed not, and the irony of you asking the question is not lost on me. I am not telling you what to do (thereby failing to observe the limits of what is permitted or appropriate) — your goal is evidently not to enjoy life no matter what (you’d rather feel morose and listless and frustrated at times) — rather I’m conveying that what you, the nihilists and the spiritualists are doing (withdrawal) is a second-rate solution for the purpose of enjoying life no matter what.

Is it really that difficult to grasp such a simple thing?

> Let's assume my goal is not to be morose and listless, but to enjoy life no matter what. What is your suggestion?

To not withdraw, of course, as a reaction to stress is not the same as a solution to (ending of) it.
Takeaway: the far right and the far left are both nutso.
I don't consider Rhino nor other Javascript environments like Adobe Actionscript and Microsoft JScript as contributing to the "Javascript identity." It really seems like the Javascript apologia/evangelism was kicked off by Nodejs' popularity.

As a consequence, we see many "I'm leaving Nodejs for Go" and virtually zero "I'm leaving Rhino for Python".
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Are those boot times still so good if the first apps you use are Android ones? That would be an apples-to-apples-comparison.

If that's true, then I wonder why ChromeOS would boot up so much faster than Android? I suspect it doesn't.
This analysis fails to take into account the popularity of a language. The repository of a library is likely to have more users if it's written in a popular language, and these users will probably report more bugs and feature requests.

Considering this I'm not surprised at all to see that Java, Python and C++ repositories have a higher "bug density" than Clojure, Go or Erlang ones.
Wow, you just out-generalized Paul Graham. nice.
Sounds similar to my project, AppFS ( http://appfs.rkeene.org/ ) which lets you run software over HTTP with no install step and no additional privileges. It's the universal package manager that solves almost all packaging problems.
I think I finally get why libertarians have a boner, so to speak, for legalizing prostitution. That's the ultimate expression of adding elasticity to the labor market, and vastly more people could be participating in that market than do now. It makes such claims about there being infinite work to do ever so much more believable.
Me too.

Is there any other dedicated button or shortcut that would work better for that purpose for us?

I suspect there is, but I don't know what it would be yet.
When you have to draw the borders between two giant companies, you are going to spend significant resources drawing those borders, but the total time spent may be a very tiny amount of effort compared to what the companies are worth, or the long-term costs of just letting the borders be undefined.
Under the "scams" category no less, what a crock.
Insurance: best diamond platnumz won best insurance award
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Back in the early 90s, a friend of mine was using Imagine on his Amiga 500. I think it was 1992 that he showed me a rendering of the Enterprise-D, and how he had made a shield impact (and the subsequent flash) animation. He eventually ended up with an Amiga 2000 with an '020, I think.

For years afterward, I confused Imagine with Lightwave, but of course they aren't actually related.
So, I am an uber driver and install a gas sensor. I gather data on every ride (realtime hook to a cloud log). A company buys my data to give it to muni for free, in some manner of green tax payment?
That is at complete odds with what I've heard from all of my buddy-developers. Maybe it's a cultural difference or something? Most devs I know here usually want to work their way into a position of a CTO or alike where they no longer code, but rather supervise the development process.
But I agree, they are hard to get here...
well, if people don't check for nulls they are just asking for trouble
[As one of the developers in charge of this feature...]

That's a fair question.

Rust was a personal itch, but it also provided a good test for supporting native compilation while providing an excellent dependency management story. We learned a lot from Rust that will apply to C/C++ and we're talking about how we want to address the dependency management story of that ecosystem (and we still need to build a C/C++ client library).

Scala support came alongside Java (and because we're a Scala shop). Ruby was low-hanging fruit because the client already existed. Coffeescript support would be pretty easy to add on top of Javascript pending some demand and interest. C# (on mono) and Go are both interesting languages for us to reasonably land that didn't make this round.

We definitely have more to announce on this front soon. And by all means, we love hearing our users request their favorite languages. :-)
Ah thanks, that is a good idea, I am unaware of any suggestion API in twitter but I will look into it. I am unsure how I would approach parsing such a volume of tweets. Fun fact, did you know that as you type characters into twitter, your tweet gets saved to the DB and is accessible via the API BEFORE you press the submit button? ^_^ , seems a bit OTT regarding bandwidth use.

My code is now open source and the repo for this is at: https://github.com/craftfortress/thehivemind.online

I am just refactoring some of the files but it should be up soon.
"low" versus "extortionate" ? We've also got modern biometric technology that would allow a lender to never lend to someone who was delinquent twice. This significantly reduces the default rate over time as the pool of possible borrowers is characterized. And default comes in many forms, from not repaying to partial repayment.
Credit cards are about 3.75% [1] so a filtered borrowing pool will be what 6%? 8%?

Check my math here, so lets say you charge 10% for 30 days (120% APR) so your $200 loan has a $20 interest fee. Now if every year, one month out of 12 the lender turns out to be a deadbeat and doesn't repay anything, your net income on the $200 for the year is $40 and 1/12 or 8.3% of your loans aren't being repaid. $40 is 20% of $200 giving you a net APR of 20%.

I have to take the North Dakota numbers with a large grain of salt. It seems like if 25% of your lenders were defaulting and you were not re-lending to them, you are doing something else wrong.

[1] http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/credit-card-deli...
Errr, yes they are. From the article:
In Q1 of this year, Chromebooks topped Macs in overall shipments to become the #2 most popular PC operating system in the US.
http://www.russianschool.com/location/dublin

From the site:
"compare RSM's average math SAT score of 774 (out of 800) to California's average math SAT score of 516."
CH₄ and H₂S in particular, you would think.
I like it because if a potential employer were to look at my github it'd look pretty lame. Seeing a boatload of anonymized activity sends the message "hey, what you see mught not be indicative" instead of them saying meh and moving on
Why is it bad? I've been able to write some pretty great PS scripts to automate tasks. It's easier than firing up Visual Studio and writing a C# program I'd need to recompile if I ever want to change it.
A little disappointing, given that I own a first-gen Chromebook Pixel and have kept ChromeOS on it with the hopes that it would eventually get Android apps.

Maybe it's time to finally wipe out ChromeOS altogether and install Fedora on it.
I don't have to make any of those choices with Backblaze.
Start looking now. Leave when you gave something else or when this company can't pay you, whichever comes first.
I don't use windows much anymore so there might be a better way to do this, but I'll propose a use case: Automating the installation of python on a fresh machine.
Perhaps that obviates the need to include Twitter
> Nothing boils my blood more than someone referring to all short term loans as "payday loans".

You must be into usury.
Yes, families of the past were a lot more like corporations today. House this or Clan that. It was basically GOT.

The modern family must look weird from a historical perspective. Also in Japan men are often adopted into families to continue that line for the corporation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_adult_adoption
Huh, all I'm seeing is yellow journalism.
The most effective way is to take notes on a pad or a spiral notebook. Eventually, run them through a scanner.

(How are you going to enter equations, draw arrows and diagrams, etc., with a keyboard? If you have a stylus "works almost as good as a pen!", just use a pen on paper. Yes, I'm old, and I wear a watch, too.)
Ask HN: What job to get after failed startup?
Been working on an app startup for a while, and while I'm not 100% convinced it has failed, financially I'm in a spot where I can't really continue.

I'm at a bit of a loss as to what kind of job to pursue next. I have a very broad and deep set of skills. On the technical side, this includes: full stack dev, hardcore machine learning / applied math stuff, finance and algorithmic trading.

On the nontechnical side, I've now acquired all kinds of experience that comes from conceiving and building a product from scratch.

I can go back to do something technical or finance-y but that seems a bit limiting after being responsible for literally everything on my product. But I'm mostly interested in maximizing my economic outcome and would only consider things that pay at least 200k/yr.

Any suggestions of things that could be a good match aside from data science or finance stuff? I have no idea what's out there and my network is essentially zero. I didn't have investors for this so pursuing a soft landing via that route is not an option.
Edward Snowden Thinks Google's Allo Is 'Dangerous' and 'Unsafe' Right Now
In the US, the smarter students don't generally waste their time with these programming competitions. Grades, research, and extra credit would matter more towards a student's academic success. These contests generally appeal more to "hobbyists" or those who have nothing better to do with their time, and so you get biased results.
This strikes me as an excellent IoT application, gas sensors are cheap and simple SMS texting could send a message from an IoT device that it detected gas and its GPS co-ordinates.