skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The latest disclosures Tuesday, uncovered by a company probe, found that in the last few weeks of December 2009, Laplanche and three relatives took out 32 loans for a total of $722,800. All but three of those loans were repaid in full over the next two months, implying they were taken out to artificially goose Lending Club’s loan origination numbers.

If true, would that be considered fraud?
Twitter sometimes uses NEMA to provide corporate housing to new employees while they look for their own place.
I'm a Gyroscope user and really enjoy it. It combines tracking from different sources well, making it easier to understand your day, and take action based on that.
Visualization is not Periodic, Period (2009)
Reaper is amazing, as well as a lot of Cockos' software. People will probably recognize Licecap which is also them.

Their WDL library is also great. It can be a great "batteries included" start for realtime audio apps (and other purposes I'm sure), or you can just grab individual classes if you need a Mersenne Twister, or fast sine waves, or image format conversion, or...

http://www.cockos.com/index.php
Was my first thought as well.
I think that you will find evidence in both directions. It was a feedback loop. The Americans soldiers had a racist preconception of the Japanese, and at the same time were exposed to the the atrocities that the Japanese committed in China, way before fighting the Americans. You cannot ignore the indoctrination of the Japanese (and please, don't make me here recount some of their massacres in China). Many Americans considered them killing machines without heart with whom it was impossible to reason.
That is good to know. I have enjoyed writing C++ in the past - I like the clarity and forced obviousness of specifying whether you're talking about a variable value or a pointer reference to it. When switching languages I always have to remember which types and assignment operations duplicate values on assignment vs just copy references.

Maybe I'm just bad at it, but one of the big things that keeps me from writing more C and C++ is getting a dev environment setup, though I did find it a lot easier once I left the Windows Visual Studio ecosystem (ambiguous missing msvc103kd.dll error messages and the like) and drove gcc straight from the command line in a Unix environment.
They can probably get by on the remaining $60k/year they take home after taxes and rent.
Back in the day all the DATUs and SASS stuff were on regular exchanges, so I don't see why that would change. People like dec0der were indicted for rifling through all the carrier's "special" COs with wardialers to find them. And different providers would have different ranges for admin functions, maintenance, customer support, etc. It doesn't take long for a bored teenager with a modem to cycle through most of them (remember, only 540 COs per NPA, and while each CO had up to 10k subscribers, you could guess which ranges had something interesting on it)
Open source projects that are not GPL'd cannot adopt the code; it's meant to be linked into the kernel, and so distribution will trigger the viral licensing clause covering the entirety of the kernel.

For example, there are a myriad of products based on BSD; everything from pfSense at the low-end, the Juniper routers at the high-end.

If the goal is to make money by licensing the code for non-GPLv2 use, then the GPL might make sense, if you're unconcerned about limiting market adoption by precluding integration by non-GPL products.
Lives on Hold: Student Loan Debt Crisis
I'd much rather live in PA than SF. Not everyone has the same tastes.
Our Neural Net Dreams of Cars
You can always refrain to use their technology. There is plenty green grass in the neighboring fields.
I suspect an effective tactic would be 'eat your vegetables, or I will start automatically ordering meatless and reduced calorie versions of everything'.
It means in bands of 1000 starting with 0-999.
>In other words, if fifteen dollars an hour makes it a little easier for a McDonalds worker to survive, that’s great. But if it leads to some of those jobs disappearing entirely, then that forces us to confront an even bigger and more important question.

>Namely, how do we separate the idea of providing everyone with a decent standard of living from the idea of getting everyone a “job”? I’ve argued before that job creation is a hole that we should stop digging.

"Forces us to confront"? No it doesn't. More people will be unemployed, but it wont be enough people to change the political picture.
You can apply your logic to basically any entity in history to belittle them. Everything can be positioned as a "massive case of blah" if that is your goal.
Are you implying that helium weighs nothing? That it's unaffected by gravity? What's actually going on is helium is lighter than air, so the pressure of the air around it pushes it up. Just because it rises at ground level does not mean it weighs nothing. I can jump, but when my feet are off the ground it does not mean gravity has stopped pulling me down, it just means I have moved upwards with enough force to overcome the effects of gravity. Eventually my upward momentum will slow enough for gravity to pull me back down. Same thing with helium, eventually it gets high enough that the neutral air molecules are sparse enough that it can float on top. It doesn't continue to rise past that point because gravity is still pulling it down.

So what is the weight (that is, what is the force of gravity pulling down the helium molecules without ambient air pushing it up) of helium? If you have a cylinder of a known weight, you can fill it with helium and subtract the weight of the cylinder. What's left is the weight of the helium. To measure this effect without air pressure pushing the helium up, you might need to do this in a vacuum, but the logic is there and I think my analogy fits. I weigh the chicken on a plate and subtract the plate to find the weight of the chicken.

What I was asking is "how do you weigh a gas without it spreading around and mixing with the air?" "Putting it in a cylinder" is the answer I was looking for.
The Unbearable Difficulty of Opting-Out
Just installed Dash and it's awesome! Thanks
Does it have to be a treadmill? I mostly do the elliptical (ski whatever it's called) since i'm not much of a runner. Just curious if I need to take it up a notch or not.
Where I perceive a tendency to ADHD is in myself. I used to enjoy long in-depth journalism, now after a few paragraphs I get the urge to open another tab. I used to enjoy long plodding movies by Kubrick and Malick, now when I watch a 60 minute television drama I keep pausing it playing with my phone.

It's like my mean-time-till-context-switch has gotten shorter out of habit.
And yet, if everybody followed this logic we would never get new standards.
In short, "floating particles can travel upstream as much as 1 cm up a waterfall and several metres up a channel against a downstream fluid flow." (this is from the actual paper and not even mentioned in TFA despite it being the subject. Thanks, Nautilus...)

It's surprising that such an easily observable and probably very frequent effect wasn't described in detail until 2013! Though I'd guess this effect has already been mastered and used since times immemorial by freshwater fish and other current-riding creatures. Either way I'll make sure to blame the Bianchini effect whenever my kettle is full of leaves (why does the article insist on calling him Bianchi instead of Bianchini? Am I missing something cultural with last name contraction?)
Wait, a tech company in a residential area (RadPad, Venice Beach) has relatively cheaper housing within a 0.5 mile radius than tech companies in an urban area? Stop the presses!

(granted, it's impressive that this holds true even so close to the beach)
That is still your problem and you need to take responsibility for it. It is wiser to learn and know what you're talking about, don't just add ambient, useless, incorrect noise.
This little town has the worst income inequality in America
Walt Disney, the World's First UX Designer:

https://uxmag.com/articles/walt-disney-the-worlds-first-ux-d...
The Scientist- Coldplay(Cover) by Ayush Phukan
Would you mind sharing your Alfred dash workflow?

Edit: Found it. For those interested, you need the Alfred Powerpack and Dash installed. Go to Dash Preferences -> Integration & click 'Alfred'.
That's an interesting trick, but it does create a whole bunch of throwaway booleans. Still, I can see that if the situation gets really complex breaking it down like this can be a benefit (but not so much in the current example where it actually increases cognitive load because you will have to read more lines to figure out what is really going on rather than what the boolean name indicates, for instance, userHasPermission does not fully cover the load and if validate would return false on being sent 'null' for that data element then you could get rid of the flag altogether).
I think something went wrong here:

; For each [version, reads] pair, discard those with one value
multis (remove (fn <a href="/data/posts/332/k vs">k vs</a>
(= 1 (count (set (map :value vs)))))
They are "planning to add [obj-c] to the migration guide before we retire API v1".

Which sounds a lot like obj-c will not be supported, and is not even addressed in the migration guide at this time.

This makes it hard to prepare for September 28 when users will start gettings warnings about obj-c apps if the developers have not acknowledged the deprecation they cannot prepare for.
D3 is great for updating / augmenting a server generated chart on the client side, with one caveat. Usually it's good practice to do the D3 DOM binding with a key (similar to the react key, but is a function; second argument to .data()). This allows the proper identification of a data point to be identified when it comes to enter, update or exit. However, with server-generated contents, you don't have the __data__ properties on the DOM elements initially. So, before there's any addition/deletion/update on the client side, it's best to establish the binding and populate __data__. An alternative is, if your use case permits, to not use the key function and work off of DOM element sequence. Either way, the best resource IMO is the GUP I, II, III series from Mike: https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/3808234
My experience with InCorp was exactly as described earlier. They resigned and that was that.
I'm very aware of dtrace. probes are kinda like faking dataflow on top of control flow I guess.

I was thinking more of a development aid that would render a dataflow graph like max/msp---in the general case the graph itself is changes but thats's OK.
How is this different from Clearbit's Enrichment API?

https://clearbit.com/enrichment
> After public protest and court ruling, it is now admitted it was the Japanese army which ordered people to kill themselves and even killed them:

That's a bit of revisionism as well. The reason why many okinawans killed themselves was because the allied soldiers were raping and killing okinawan civilians.

From your own wikipedia link...

"There was some return fire from a few of the houses, but the others were probably occupied by civilians – and we didn't care. It was a terrible thing not to distinguish between the enemy and women and children. Americans always had great compassion, especially for children. Now we fired indiscriminately."

The nonsense about "distinguish between the enemy an women and children" is just egotistic nonsense. We have a long history of butchering women and children ( especially non-white women and children ). All we have to do is review US treatment of natives, blacks, etc throughout US history to see how compassionate we were.

The reason why the okinawans killed themselves was because of the brutality and savagery of both sides ( americans and japanese ).
I'm not sure about that. Pollution comes out of the back of the car, and the drivers sit well in front of the tail pipe. As long as they're not standing behind their running car for long periods of time, the person inhaling most of the exhaust will be the car behind them in traffic or more likely, the pedestrian standing beside them on the sidewalk at a red light.
I think it's really interesting to mimic certain positive effects by various substances.

One example would be Resveratrol, that mimics caloric restriction. For exercise, the challenge seems to be quite hard (http://sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2015/10/02/exercise-i...), but there can be seen some progress in animal models (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/0...).
I'm also using Path Finder because I prefer it's visual appearance much over Finder and Total Commander. However, it does have it's fair share of issues so I wouldn't recommend it to anyone anymore at this point. It is often giving me spinning ball cursor (lack of proper threading?), and there's this several year old bug that comes and goes, where the Places list disappears, which resurfaced for me just last week, and still haunts me :-/
Why there is no beta in health care
5,000-year-old pay stub shows that ancient workers were paid in beer
The amazing (and inefficient) 3D file system browser in Jurassic Park
I have rent control, so no worries except these golden handcuffs.

People I know who have young families bought their houses a long time ago or have so much money from when their startups IPOd or got acquired that the high housing cost is still small compared to their investment returns.
"Brain-healthy"... that's the BS language you hear in commercials for vitamins and supplements and breakfast cereals... "Heart-healthy whole grains", "Supports breast health", etc.
Continuing my thoughts for earlier, I personally see a need for less-frequent monitoring checks of various kinds. For example, if I could set up a daily check that my SSL certificate is valid for at least 2 more weeks, your service would warn me when my certs are about to expire.

SSL-related asserts would be awesome in general.
Mmm... true. Though if you're truly paranoid then you'll never really trust anyone to encrypt your data. :)
I use tools like attic (https://attic-backup.org/) to create encrypted snapshots of my backups.
Except when you live in a 200 year old house like I do with 1 foot thick stone walls. I don't have to worry about "polluting" my neighbors because my nearest neighbor is a mile away. Any "standards" ought to not just assume everyone lives in dense, multi-family residences.
YNAB compared to Mint, anyone?
Discuss investing opportunities in real-time
> earning four figure salaries

thousands per year?
In my mind, "startup" implies that there is still risk that the company will cease to be a going concern in the near to medium term. The transition from "startup" to "former startup" is more of a process than an event. The magnitude of exit for companies like Uber, Airbnb, Dropbox, etc. may still be in question, but the chance that any of them will fail, go bankrupt, firesale, etc. seems very remote at this point.
I feel like almost every startup that "made it" used dark-hat growth hacking tactics to pad their numbers. But the other companies were typically in the consumer internet space. I would expect some additional rules to exist for a highly regulated market like Finance.
Venice is one of the most expensive neighborhoods in L.A. right now and is no less "urban" than anywhere else on the Westside.
Ok, thanks for the clarification. It looked a little strange, that wording.
I got four paragraphs in and the author still hadn't said anything interesting, informative, or useful, so I dropped it. Thanks though.
> What I'd like to see is someone take the Nim tech, subset it, change inconsistent stuff to be consistent...

Here's someone who planned to create cleaned up subset of Nim:
http://www.13rhinos.de/

I have no idea about viability of this project but it was his recent plan.
"Tesla is just growing off of government subsidies!"

etc.
You can generally use them with 'is', for example: <marker id={'bar'} is markerHeight={viewModel.height} refX={viewModel.xCenter} markerWidth={viewModel.width}>
Please continue, you're on a roll.
Computer Vision Pattern Recognition Day 1 Roundup
git is so reliable that I forget that reliability used to be a problem in version control (I've had to reconstruct CVS and Subversion repositories that got corrupted via various bugs and quirks of the system). It's also pretty fast.

SQLite is an automatic, and easy, answer. It almost goes without saying at this point, I guess.

vim is everywhere. I like knowing I can always run it no matter where I am or what server/VM I'm logged into. That knowledge provides comfort.

go. I don't actually love the language, but the solidity of it and it's ecosystem is really nice. Everything around go has a patina of workmanship about it; not in a corporate "professional" sense, but more like a well-made wood plane or something.

Perl. Again, I don't entirely love the language, but the incredible backward compatibility (we have ~20 year old code that still runs unmodified!), the rarity of bugs (especially given how big the surface area of a huge language like Perl is), and the overall culture of testing, leads to a pretty nice experience. I feel like I can count on it, even if I might get grumpy at some of the quirks.

Python, for different reasons from Perl. I can come back to Python after years away and find that it's maybe even a simpler (but not less powerful) Python than I used a decade ago. I just poked at Python 3 for the first time a few weeks ago, and found it immediately readable and intuitive. The language is more reliably "Pythonic" every year.

OpenSSH. Always works. Always trustworthy.

Google Inbox. I want to host my own mail (and do, for my business), but nothing is as good as Inbox.
I agree. Our society tolerates white collar crime far more than we should.

We've got a good handle on things like punishing criminals that rob someone at gunpoint. However, we struggle with seeing the CEO making short term loan to his company as theft from investors (the short term loan hid the fact that the company wasn't meeting its presumably publicly announced growth targets).

The issue is that white collar crime needs to show criminal intent. But, in this case the CEO didn't have criminal intent to steal, rather his intent was simply to boost his business (with the consequence of misleading investors).
I run Android with Chrome and Firefox. On Chrome browser messaging has been disabled from the mobile website, on Firefox it still functions just fine (still redirects to the Play Store frequently however).
UK is a net beneficiary for research funding.

https://www.researchgate.net/blog/post/uk-scientists-rely-on...

> RG: What do you think Brexit’s impact on research and science in the UK will be?

> Wilsdon: On top of six years of flat funding from our own government, we now have to contemplate a significant reduction in research funding from Europe. It’s important to remember that the UK is a net beneficiary in this area: between 2007 and 2013 the UK received an estimated €3.4 billion more than it paid into the EU in terms of funding for research and innovation. So losing those funds will further destabilize our research system, and for some subjects, particularly in the social sciences, the proportion of EU funding is 20, 30 or even 40% of the total.
I agree you can hack together a better take-home pay situation, but Pittsburg, CA isn't exactly a quiet, pleasant suburb... it's more like shooting-and-stabs-ville. There are, of course, safer suburbs - with commensurately higher prices.

You can generally assume that if a property near San Francisco is affordable, there's something wrong with it: usually something like 'not actually being near San Francisco' or 'crime'.
Among other things, someone sent 20 requests for removal of their fonts (each request contained numerous files), and jetbrains requested the removal of ~500 product keys from across GH.
You can tell that it's cut-and-paste blogspam because of its choppy nature and that it refers to "she" multiple times well before naming anybody.
Qubes OS¹, the only reliable OS of our time.

See also "The Linux Security Circus: On GUI Isolation (2011)" by Joanna Rutkowska².

¹ https://www.qubes-os.org/

² https://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.de/2011/04/linux-securit..., via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11229517
LC has been bouncing up and down with 5-10% daily changes very frequently ever since the news broke about their security fraud and CEO departure. The 7% change today (given the general market rally today) likely means that the market sees this news as neutral.
they also don't need to adhere to any government regulation that actual hotels do
Meet Codemoji: Mozilla’s New Game for Teaching Encryption Basics with Emoji
Computing Without Clocks [pdf]
Ask HN: What's the pathway to working on YC Research-like problems?
Hi guys!

I'm a rising senior in high school trying to decide what I want to do with my life. I've been looking at these YC Research projects (universal basic income, city building, etc.) and am absolutely fascinated. I've truly never been interested in doing anything more than working on projects like those.

My question is, what is the best path to doing so? What can I do, in college and on my own, that will put me on the path to researching and implementing ideas like those? My plan is to study economics... does that give me the skills to work on problems like these? I'm particularly interested in the two research projects listed above, but I'd love to hear advice concerning how to work on any "big idea" project like that.

Thank you guys in advance.
CMD+F for Xcode; not a single mention. Well, until now.
> I used sed today to complete a "large story" in a single command.

Great, I sometimes do that, too. Downside is that your patience level for "enterprise architecture" goes way down.
I work in south bay but my wife studies in SF. We live in an east bay city roughly half way between SF and San Jose. Quiet neighbourhood, close to BART, pretty quiet and the rent, while horrible still, is much more reasonable (we pay $1600/month for a ~650sqft 1br).

The downside is that you'll deal with a ~1hr commute to SF depending on how far you are from BART and if you're a young single engineer who loves to party, there's not much to do.
>In fact you can barely see the change on this graph:
> http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=GBP&to=USD&view=10Y

The reason you can't see it isn't that the drop isn't significant. It's because it's only been a week, and on a 10 year scale, it's just that last pixel on the graph. Meanwhile, it has shifted the entire graph upwards.
There is a strange dichotomy here... I do believe that exercise helps thinking, but when I was growing up, very few of the smarter people were involved in sports, either formally or informally. Perhaps 1 in 20 was on a team, and few were that active otherwise. The link to drama and music was much bigger.
You get speed. For animation, doing a dom diff each frame is really slow. D3 is way way faster. For data visualization, d3 has a lot of well built extensions.

I tend to go in the other direction, I use d3 rather then react for the rest of the page, so I don't have any issues with integration.
I've been using cmus for a while, which I've been pretty happy with. Anything I'm missing with moc?
Emacs with org mode, iTerm 2, Sublime Text 3 and Winamp.
Isn't it though? Affordability has a different meaning for different people, and everyone has to make tradeoffs.

Is $3800 for one bedroom absurd? Yes, but I'm not going to feel sorry for the guy making 160k a year who can afford the apartment and a nice lifestyle. Especially when someone making less got forced out of the city because of the ridiculous rent.
To be clear: I'm not advocating for no standard. I'm advocating that BT needs to simplify the existing standard
I'm not sure what their growth rate was at the time. There is no set number, but if you're tripling in people every year it tends to feel like a startup.
From what I've read it is "encrypt then sign, unless signatures are optional and could be stripped from the message in which case things are complicated"