skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not interest free. However, for personal, federal loans, the interest only applies to the principal, which is (value of principal + interest) when the loan enters the repayment period (so 1 year after graduation). So the loan only compounds once, when it enters repayment.

My federal loans were a mix between 4.5% and 7.9%, with the 7.9% loans making up the bulk of my total amount. Additionally, I had something like a 4% "disbursement fee" added on to my loan principal for some (maybe all?) of my loans the day that the loan hit my bank account.
Was honestly expecting an obese -> skinnyfat runner body transformation. Pleasantly surprised. What's your diet look like nowadays and what are your lifting stats/height if you don't mind sharing? Thanks.
You can't equate the Brexit to war.

British politic elites haven't been listening to the lowly for ages - They've done many things against the countryside English people for long, for example importing new workers in London and forcing multiculturalism on people who don't want it. I don't care whether it's good or bad for England to welcome extremely good Indian talents - If the People didn't want that, then don't do it, because it's how the democracy works. The Brexit vote is just a vote against the elites.

The cause of the war, if any, is not the Brexit as you pretend, but the divide between the People's opinions and their elites certainly causes a war.

Another thing. It's all a democracy theater. In France I'm persuaded the police is not doing its job. In a single day I could find cocaine and photograph a hundred of traffic infringements. A trained reporter could buy a gun. So why can't the police? We have police everywhere but I don't see them working, they sometimes kick a thief at 10 policemen against 1 civilian, or they themself jaywalk or use their sirens. Terrorism is the result of the police letting things go. It's a theater, they just have to wake up and do something to find criminal networks, but they want people to vote more extremist, so they'd rather not work.

Next time you have an opinion on which vote is right and which one is war, please also consider that the people only vote among a limited set of options. For example, in France, the next vote is for the president. No-one is asking the French people whether they want to limit the family visas, extend the refugee visas, add more education in poorer areas or get the police to work. No, the French people are just asked whether they want the same president (the one who didn't listen to 6 months of demonstrations, didn't improve economic results, created new taxes and searched 3200 Muslims without due diligence the week after the Bataclan attack), or whether they want to switch to someone (Le Pen - extreme right) who will bark against immigrants. It's an extremely narrow choice. I'm not sure whether an incompetent president is a good thing.
> Intergalactic void is so empty that next galaxy could be made of anti-matter (it probably isn't) and we couldn't tell.

But not completely empty and we should be able to detect matter-antimatter annihilations.
Meditation while running sounds fascinating. Can you explain the technique? Any good sources of information online?
FWIW, this story parallels the reality that most professional artists have experienced for a long time: hyper competition, extremely limited grant opportunities, no direct commercial market, everything paid out-of-pocket. A "compulsory hobby" is a great phrase.
In Go, each version corresponds to a given import/Pkg path.

If you want to change version (major), you need to create a new package.

The advantage is that you do not have to download a manifest such as package.json or whatever.
It also provides a constraint on library authors to provide a backward compatible API for their published package.

Eventually, I guess we could use go/types to enforce/check the API backward compatibility requirement.

The main issues for now are:

* make sure that packages importing a same vendored one are able to use the same latest minor version in use.

* allow a project based approach to go get for people who need reproducible builds (or alternatively allow for multiple $GOPATH and make being able to switch between them easy)
FBI warned Hillary Clinton campaign of cyberattack by foreign government
> I still publish in computer science academic conferences

Having just recently attended an academic conference as a non-academic (but not submitted anything this time), I was wondering whether non-academics do, or should, feel guilty about publishing at these venues. It was very apparent how other people there were looking for jobs and using their publications and presentations as a part of that process. If non-academics publish in journals and conferences, should we feel bad that we're potentially taking away spots from those these venues are "meant for"?
Stop working at home (where my PC / funbox is a massive abstraction).

Start reading slashdot and later hackernews. I am still a CS student, these news sites allow me insight into the world after college, allowing me to plan and visualize my future better.
Congrats, but there is no fricking way you are natty. At 235lb 15% body fat, and perhaps 5'11" - ish?

Whoever is readying this, don't think you can get that amount of muscle in a natural way so fast. Only Testosterone, trenbolone and other stuff will make you that large.

According to a simple calculator, if you cut down below 8% fat (which is pro body builder territory), you'd still be at above 205lbs, which is no way achievable with normal/simple workouts.

I don't want to chastise you, but to whoever is reading this, make sure to have realistic expectations once you get into weightlifting. Getting below 15% while body fat, while having some decent muscle definition is a goal achievable by everyone. It might take a couple of years for some, but it is realistic. Trying to looking like the models in the fitness magazines, unfortunately is not, as 99% of them take hormones and other performance enhancing drugs.
Stopped watching TV. Can't even think how much time I spent on TV before.

I can see within a few years from now I would have similar moments for stopping to use facebook and twitter
I have mutt configured to open the html email in lynx and dump the text. Lynx is a terminal browser and does not support images and does not execute javascript. Prior to configuring mutt this way, I frequently encountered the kind of bad content you talk about in mail, but now I get the content and can still feel safe. I am still vulnerable to HTML parsing bugs in lynx, but I don't think the risk of anyone targeting lynx is all that big.

To read and send mail, I ssh to my mail server and use mutt there. For the most part it works great, except when I receive links I need to visit longer than about 70 characters because then I have to copy the URL in parts rather than all at once due to the plus signs inserted by mutt to indicate that the line continues.
It takes me about a week to get the feeling of a currency. It's more problematic if exchange rates fluctuate by large amounts, but a daily lookup takes care of that.
I have noticed there seems to be a lot of engineers that think life is an optimization problem, that time spent not working is time wasted. I don't understand it at all, the primary purpose of life should be in pursuit of happiness and joy. I don't get the people that deny themselves joy and happiness in lieu of slaving away with their work.

There are some people that genuinely find joy in their work, I have no problem with those people. They probably have a bit of a problem in their personal life with overdoing it at work, but as long as they genuinely enjoy it I can't fault them.

edit: I should say before somebody jumps down my throat, I'm not saying we shouldn't have to work, or work is so terrible. I'm saying work is usually a means to an end, and you're very lucky if you happen to enjoy what you do to any degree.
Ok, good point. I should have probably said protected by the government not regulated.

But with that said, regulation is more efficient than going after every polluter on a case by case basis. Legislation can at least be used to set the guidelines so everyone knows what rules they are playing by. Either that or you're just replacing law with case-law which would have relatively the same effect. A rose by any other name...
New Tool to Help Notify Users When Their Content Is Taken Offline
Story in my own family: we had some relatives who lived in a village near Ypres. In their living room they had this giant iron stove. When the Germans invaded they buried some cash and jewels under a tile under that stove, and fled to France. After the war they returned to the village, in the hope of retrieving the jewels. However, they were unable to find back the stove, due to the fact that they could no longer locate the house... due to the fact that they could not find back the street. The whole village was literally dust.
Also, why was no mention made of the "avoid discovery issues" discussion?

I'm sure plenty of people would like to "avoid discovery". Few would be stupid enough to commit those words to text.
You're wrong. I just Googled the phrase plea deals life without parole and found literally pages and pages and pages of articles about people plea bargaining down to life without parole. [1][2][3][4][5] And that's just from the first page.

You do realize that you aren't executed right after the guilty plea, right? In capital cases many levels of appeals are mandatory and a death row inmate waits an average of 15 years before they're executed. In California, which has the largest death row population, no one has even been executed in a decade and there are no plans to so in many places it's a de facto life without parole sentence anyway.

[1] http://www.kesq.com/D-A-Approves-Duncan-Plea-Deal-Life-In-Pr...

[2] http://www.aol.com/article/2016/04/23/cody-rackemann-receive...

[3] http://articles.philly.com/2016-01-14/news/69738739_1_mackie...

[4] http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/courts/plea-deal-in-hicks-par...

[5] http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/07/ariel_castr...
I sincerely hope that people who are genuinely excited about research do not adopt this attitude. Our affluent society allows us to specialize in what we like; allowing the best of us to create art and mathematics and make discoveries in science is as important as being a "contributing member of society".
I'd never thought of it as stateless / stateful before but this is exactly my feeling, great vocabulary for it.

I still like building things so Age of Empires 2 is perfect for me - there's a lot of base / army building but it's ultimately a short stateless activity.
Reading SSD Total Bytes Written from Linux
A very obvious mitigation to this and similar issues seem to be to forbid HTML in domain validation emails.
I don't see a reason not to do this and I totally expect that Comodo is not the only CA having such issues.
> "So where on earth does this idea of "steady" exercise come from? Nobody in the Pleistocene jogged for forty-two minutes three days a week, lifted weights every Teusday and Friday, etc... Not hunters. We swung between extremes: we sprinted when chased or when chasing (once in a while in an extremely exerting way), and walked about aimlessly the rest of the time.""

Based on my own experiences, I agree with the main point, I find steady exercises like jogging much less exhausting than dynamic exercises like playing football (soccer) where you're frequently switching between exertion and rest. This also seems to tie in with High Intensity Training (though I've never formally tried it):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_intensity_training

However, isn't weightlifting a couple of times a week an example of exercising to extremes? At least if you prioritise weight over repetitions. This is purely anecdotal, but I've heard from various sources that free weight exercises like squats and deadlifts are some of the best exercises you can do, as they work out your whole body and the proper form relies on getting different muscle groups to work well together.
>no idea on how this kind of structures work

I admit to confusion. However considering who was behind the coup there are two leading hypotheses - Gulen or Erdogan, both widely suspected of being responsible by the Turks.

A main instigator was "General Mehmet Dişli, the brother of a long-serving MP with the ruling AK party, allegedly gave the order that set the coup in motion, sending army special forces officers to arrest the military’s senior command." (Guardian).

He's "a two-star general who happens to be the brother of Saban Dişli, a former vice president of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). Saban is a close confidant of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan."

So that's a fairly direct connection for Erdogan being linked. Is there anything like that for Gulen? Like a coup leader being a brother of one of Gulen's mates? Also Gulen has preached peace throughout whereas Erdogan seemed quite happy to go kill Kurds when he felt it would help him politically.
I use an old and otherwise unused vanity domain hosted on a private server for this.
> we're kinda old

I'm curious, what do you think the average age on HN is?

Not that I have the facts, but I don't think HN is such an old audience.
Wow, you actually look younger and way more badass. Good job.
I can say that emacs will survive till the end of the keyboard era. It's not tied to any OS, it's portable and is a general purpose programmable programmer's tool. It's the archetype of long living software already.
If something is "a luxury" and you do it nearly every other day... it's not a luxury.

This woman is totally out of touch.
http://robrhinehart.com/?p=1152

http://robrhinehart.com/?p=1331

Definitely an interesting mindset.
What is the point here? If you take a postdoc position that means that you are aiming for academia, and expect to be paid poorly. And if you have a PHD in electrical engineering you should be able to find a job that pays at least 100k with no problem.

Is the surprise here that postdocs aren't paid well? Because everybody and their dog knows that.
Technology = bug sex
MS Jails Are Losing Inmates, and Officials Are 'Devastated' by Revenue Loss
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12185457
For a long time, Federal student loans had an interest rate of 6.8%. That's high enough that it is probably a good idea to defer investing until you can pay them off. Some private loans have rates above 9%.

The alternative, which is much easier now due to some of the fintech startups like Sofi and Commonbond, is to refinance to a lower rate. The downside is that your loans become private, so you lose various Federal loan protections such as hardship deferrals, income-based repayment plans, etc.

If you have a low income relative to your monthly payments, you should probably keep the Federal loans. But if your monthly payments are easily affordable, and you have decent savings in case you lose your job, refinancing is a no-brainer. You can get as low as 3%, which is low enough that paying the minimums and investing your extra disposable income is better than paying off the loans faster.
I've never heard of Great Courses before, thanks for the recommendation. Do you have any recommendations for other audio entertainment/learning while you're here?
Flagged. Links to a github page that blatantly ignores the Copyright of the original:

"Copyright

I would like to remind you this essay is copyrighted material. It is illegal to repost it without permission. I will usually give you that permission if you translate the essay into another language and if you provide a link back to the English-language original. I do this for three reasons.

That way any change I make to the essay is instantly reflected in any English-language copy anyone reads.
That way the formatting and images are preserved. Pirated copies usually screw up the formatting.
Google ad revenue from this essay is the main source of income from the website. It pays to keep me on the air.
Please report any copyright violations."
This is the third story I submitted today from a series called Into the Black: https://medium.com/tag/into-the-black which is about people paying down debt. This is the title that grabbed the HN crowd. The others got one and zero upvotes, respectively (so far).

Feel free to go read the other stuff in the series if this is not your cup of tea. I didn't think it made sense to submit the link (above) to the series as a "story" on HN. But it is hardly surprising that this is the title that would grab the HN crowd. (shrug)
Yes and I admitted it probably wasn't the best historical comparison. But given that that less than five years ago this country was being touted as a model for democracy, religious moderation and pluralism for the region, I don't that it's that it's entirely inappropriate.
I'm trying to save money hard, and we eat out once a month. Yeesh, 2-3 nights seems crazy to me
Same here!

Linux support though, I'd stay up all night for someone who's curious enough to use (or try using) Linux without being a computer guru already. Windows people bought a product, they can call the support hotline.
This is insufficient to prevent XSS, or DMI -the de facto anti-XSS is contextual (generally HTML) encoding, and it is the only proper mitigation. Blacklisting specific characters such as angle brackets is not safe, and will end in tears.
It scares me a little to acknowledge that despite how much I like the creative parts of being a developer, and love the craft to the point of being a code snob, if I could figure out how to make my hobbies and volunteer work keep a roof over my head, I'd probably stop coding.

Everyone wants to hire me to do a minor variation on the same shit ten other companies are doing, and I'm still having most of the same arguments with people I've been having for 15 years, sometimes using articles and books written 40 years ago.

Go outside, get your hands dirty, and stop chasing your tail.
I believe nossl was intended as a concession for schools that believe in censorship. It makes it relatively easy to configure things so Google doesn't go over SSL so that your existing MITM boxes which censor continue to function as before.

If they continue to support this use case, it may be hard to do without introducing bugs - one exposure to a 'real' service which spits out an HSTS header (or the preload list), and the machine loses the ability to conduct Google searches.

I think they'll either have to use some nasty workarounds, or they'll need to use a different domain - which isn't necessarily something you want to do when you are trying to provide simple rules which allow users to identify phishing.

More likely they'll simply force sites that want to continue to MITM to load their own CA roots.

Although I don't think this is their motivation, it also has the neat side-effect of making Google's Chromebook & device management services more useful.
I talked to the CA guys at my university once and they don't have access to the keys. They do identity verification and send the documents onwards to some other CA folks at DFN for the actual signing. Makes the whole thing rather pointless imho.
Now that you've discovered polyamory, I'm amazed you have so much time for the other stuff
It's a trap! Also, VirtualBox is a lot better than you remember it.
Yes, and this person has a phD.. I would have expected that degree to fetch even higher salary...
I think this interview with Ray Kurzweil[1] does a good job articulating this question. I know Kurzweil can get way out there, but in this case I think he makes sense.

1: https://youtu.be/v3f4pQOHKPA
Edit: I thought you were referring to debt, not salary. My mistake. I'll leave my post intact in case anyone finds it useful.

Yes, absolutely. Fees are £9000 per year. The minimum guaranteed maintenance loan, if you take it, is £3821 per year (though you may be entitled to a larger loan depending on your family circumstances).

If you're doing a four year course, this comes to 4 x £9000 + £4 x 3800 = £51200 ~= $68000.

If you come from a poor background (and so your parents cannot provide financial help), you may be entitled to a maintenance loan of up to £10700 per year. Grants (money you do not have to pay back) that used to cover most of this have recently been eliminated, leaving poorer students with larger loans.

Over four years, this would be £78800 (approximately $104k).

Having done three-year courses, many people go on to do a one-year masters at a cost of £10-15k.

On top of that, the current interest rate on the loan is 3.9% - meaning that most people will actually be in increasing debt until they earn £40-50k.

The only bright spot is that you pay 9% of any earnings over £21k towards the loan (like an extra tax). If you earn less than this, you pay nothing. The debt is wiped after 30 years. As a result there is no US-style problem of graduates struggling to make repayments. However, with the government having shown itself willing to retroactively rewrite the terms of the loan, who knows what will happen.
Creepy. My city local taxis are a mafia. The global one is even worse. I'm afraid about what would happen when they became a de facto monopoly.
Pretty much the same as any other meditation - the goal is to stop your mind from racing and to clear your head, stop thinking.

As you run, you focus on your breathing, or on your body motions, or on the environment around you - whatever makes you feel "present", experiencing the moment around you instead of being in your head. And you just keep running without thinking for some period of time.

Couple more bonuses of meditating while you're exercising:

- You can focus on motions instead of breathing. That way you move better, and it's more fun, and it makes meditation easier.

- You don't need a timer, you can just meditate while running a certain distance. Since you're doing it every day the timing will be pretty much the same, and you aren't subconsciously wondering when the timer is going to stop, you can just focus on enjoying your jogging.
Well done on your project.

Any news on Google's Soli chip?
That is about to change to webpack on next release - a big PR landed in the angular cli to switch it to webpack from broccoli.
That's fair. I've never felt that I was being blamed for anything and every feminist I know (including myself) explicitly includes these types of issues in their scope of problems.

Obviously it seems Tumblr-inas get awfully large soapboxes to stand upon, but my personal experience indicates they are outliers.
Ask HN: What do you listen to focus when you're working
What do you listen to when you're working that keeps you super-focused?

For me, I have a few different goto sources - white noise tracks (noisli), video game soundtracks, and movie scores (esp Hans Zimmer) that I listen to on repeat. Sometimes I listen to a single deep house track over and over, and I can't stop writing.

I'd love your perspective.

I'm researching for an article I'm writing on flow state and productivity.
downloaded ubuntu gnome 16.04 and it's hogging my CPU really badly. VMWare is way more light weight than this, at the moment.
Lots of work to do.
You should hook him up with his old work address!

I actually went on an adventure of re-registering old company addresses a few years ago.
No, of course not. Factorial are just an illustrative example.

My goal was to dispel the myth that the lamdba calculus is nothing more than an intellectual curiosity. It is much, much more than that, not because you can use it to compute factorials, but because the techniques that you use to compute factorials in LC are generally applicable. If you really want to master the craft there are a few things you really need to know how to do: write your own compiler, your own editor, your own implementation of the Hindley-Milner type system. Writing an efficient factorial in LC is like that. It's not useful in and of itself, but for what you learn simply by going through the process.
So, the debt was a very good investment and this is a success story?