skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trailer looks true to the book. Looking forward to this.
The two proposals they explicitly call out, allowing employers to subsidize the debt, and allowing farmers to write off their debts, are the exact kind of special carve-outs that caused the damn problem in the first place (the genesis being the non-dischargability & government guarantee of education debts, which was an enormous give-away to the higher ed sector).

This is eerily reminiscent of the pre-revolution French or late Soviet Union trying to keep their spinning plates of state obligations, onerous taxes, and corrupt subsidies aloft.
Your calculation is very very incorrect, not the math, but the concept you are missing too many variables.

The US navy actually is building railguns, their efficiency is very very low due to the resistance from inductance it seems that if we go the the equations for railguns your 200KM EM gun cannot be built.

Overall the US is designing a 64MJ railgun, this gun can't put anything into orbit, it will have a range of about 20 miles, the ship that is going to be equipped with it is going to have a 78MW power plant and while it can power a single rail gun it will not be able to power multiple ones.
By the US Navy's own calculations it would require 28MW to launch a projectile at 32MJ which which means yeah.... these figures are all off by orders of magnitude.

It seems there is much more to railguns than classical mechanics.
OK well there are all sorts of programming, and DNA is one of those, so is culture, so is family. We're programmed to say pledges to flags, desire an education, get married, buy houses, go into debt, have children, have more debt, etc. It's all programming. But what you're doing is putting a very broad value judgment on a particular variety of programming. I don't think it's terribly interesting to only criticize university doctrination without exploring the opportunity costs. Let's say all the kids want to go to Costa Rica and retire instead of going to college, oops, small problem. So I'm unclear on what your scalable alternative is.
"Drowning in data"

http://www.zdnet.com/article/nsa-whistleblowers-security-thi...

More data does not make for greater accuracy or efficiency. More intelligence (human effort) does.
The magic keystrokes are whatever fires the "edit-and-execute-command" command.

If you're in emacs mode, it's C-x C-e. Mnemonic: e for editor, x because it's emacs and lots of stuff starts with C-x

If you're in vi mode, it's v from normal mode, so if you're in insert mode it's escape, then v. Mnemonic: v for vi
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I was citing the article. I think the author's point was a publicly traded company has a fiduciary responsibility to maximize shareholder value.

I agree with you though.
A good friend of mine has been into ham radio since he was a young guy, and this is definitely true. In fact a lot of people in that community play a role in plans for a disaster that would knock out other communications, integrated with some local, and state governments. I'm not sure about the federal level, but I'd guess it's integrated there too.

And there are a lot of them, and at this point if you're into ham radio, it's for the love and you tend to be pretty proficient.
"Given the location of the find [in Terror Bay]"

I tried hunting around online to find out how Terror Bay got its name after I saw this article on another site last night, but I couldn't find anything. Makes you kind of wonder whether the location of the wreck was known at some point, but nobody bothered to write it down.
Is it really possible for blockchain to work with the legacy finance system in a cooperative, non-competitive way?
America's general policy for the last 80 years on any particular issue you can name.
BTW I have ordered 100,000 tons of iron on prime.amazon.com.mars and it still in status "pending", they even didn't charge my SolarPay account.
The US has been in decline since before I was even born, mid 30s now. Things have gotten better in other developing countries, yes. And things have gotten better here as well.

The only people that truly believe the US is in decline are Trump voters, neoliberals, and survivalists.
Has there been an increase in the number of large hacks originating from Russia in the last 12-24 months or is reporting just increasing?
And social engineering.

I think in one case the "secret questions" used to reset accounts was actually asked during a media junket by a fake reporter.
What's Oracle's patch deployment strategy now? The last time I had to deal with it was around 2008, when a security update was a tarball with a README file telling you which files to copy where. I've heard it's improved considerably since then.
Also, I know some of the top Italian manufacturers have started sourcing at least some of their most technical electrical components out of Seattle already
Not sure why the downvote, do we not ask for evidence anymore?
"Belief" implies agreeing with or without evidence, otherwise it would be fact - no need for belief.

Even if it wasn't so, the evidence IS inconclusive.

I think our hacker, left-brain bias leads to dismissing anything that isn't cold fact, as invalid.
I BELIEVE validity rises from people's experiences, so a little benefit-of-doubt goes a long way to respecting people's experiences.
> We should treat student loan debt like any other debt.

We should! There's no asset to secure the debt, so just mark the trade line as unpaid/collections and have it be a black mark for 7 years.

If Congress isn't going to fix this, Millenials can max out unsecured credit, pay off their student loans, and then go bankrupt on the unsecured debt; 7-10 years of bad credit is better than the federal government pursuing you for the rest of your life.*

* Not legal advice. Confirm with an attorney first if you attempt such a feat to ensure you stay within the law by doing so.
How about a tax on college endowments instead?
This has already happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberattacks_during_the_Russo-...
Another question is why doping tests data paid by taxpayers of the World are not public? Why do we need for hackers (thanks a lot guys dependless on your nation, race, gender etc) to know the truth?
The first iPhone only barely beat to market theHTC Dream. It was very similar to the iPhone in terms of being a modern smart phone, and the way we use smart phones today would not be that much different or that much less common if the iPhone never existed.

If there was a bigger gap between the iPhone and HTC Dream, you could maybe make an argument that one influenced the other. But that's not really the case.

If it wasn't for the first ride-sharing company like Uber getting successful, we could have very well seen another decade+ of shitty taxi cabs.
Why would you think that? I didn't read them carefully, but the TOS seem reasonable, granting Evernote a limited license to the data for the purpose of providing the service.

https://evernote.com/legal/tos.php

But choosing where to store the data is sort of obviously inside the umbrella of providing the service.
There is some basis for it. If someone actively and aggressively wants to stab you you should have your weapon drawn. But the training seems to be around assuming everyone within 30 ft wants to stab you.
The first claim this makes - that people don't line up for iPhones any more - is categorically false.

https://mic.com/articles/154018/people-are-already-lining-up...

It sounds fucking insane to me - it always has, and I'm a lifelong apple user - but people still line up for DAYS to buy these things.

The problem is, the media (and social media whiners) are never happy: if Apple makes small steps and incremental upgrades and focuses on making things super reliable/stable, they're considered boring. If Apple takes giant, dangerous leaps and has slight missteps (i.e. Maps) they're considered reckless.

Make up your fucking minds. You can't have it both ways.
I read in that wiki article that the data from Russ George's efforts discussed in the OP article - that all that data was opened to the public in 2014 - but I can't find the data so far. Do you know where it might be found?
Startup Playbook is good too (it's roughly the course condensed into a half dozen essays).

http://playbook.samaltman.com
oh really? there are petabytes of data proving ads work?
Ask HN: Can anyone recommend debt collection cloud software?
I have a friend that runs a debt collections agency and he is interested in buying software to help increase productivity.

Apparently the industry leader is Collections Max [1], which is the perfect example of what should be disrupted by a cloud offering (it even requires each client computer to have MS Office installed!!).

I have been searching all the usual places (HN, Crunchbase, Angel.co) for examples and the best I could find are the following:

https://healpay.com/

http://www.swordfish.co.za/

http://www.caponedebtcollection.com/

https://www.dakcs.com/solutions/debt-collection-accounts-receivable-software/

The issue is, the two best fit (I use 'best fit' loosely, because they aren't even the best fit just the best of what we could find) have been unresponsive. As in, he has tried emailing and calling multiple times and can't get a response from either. This is pre-sales, so they are obviously a no-go.

Those two were Swordfish and Capone.

Dakcs and Healpay are not really suitable for what it is we are trying to do.

So is there anyone on HN that has created debt-collection SaaS that would like a new customer?

Even if you don't have or know of one, can you upvote it so others can see it and hopefully we can get a fellow HNer a customer.

Thanks!

1 - http://www.collectionsmax.com/
One of the authors here. I couldn't find any library that carries out the P3 operations, but it was pretty easy to modify existing software[0] to achieve this.

[0] http://www.ijg.org/
From all the ramping up of their news censorship lately, you'd think this is the opposite of what they actually want.

Or is that what they mean here? "Improving" by censoring better?
YouTubers have started using services like snapchat that make it very easy to quickly make an announcement/update video. The YouTubers were still using video but using a service that made it far more convenient.
As someone who resides in the USA, I'd rather China or Russia have access to my data, regardless of any abuse of human rights. Unlike the US, they're extremely limited in how they can use my data to harm me.
You can go one further. I have an alias 'cbuf=vim - -ccbuf!'

This takes whatever is piped in and loads it into the quickfix list. So I get locations out of anything with lines of the format "file:line: something" or "file:line:col: something".

Eg: git grep -n | cbuf
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Big fat bank accounts let you control the action of other people: you buy some goodie or some service, someone works to provide it to you.

There is a point where having so much control over other people's lives can be considered a problem.

Now maybe it wouldn't be so bad if your own hard work indeed did produced that much value the world. But that's moot: virtually nobody gets rich by working —in practice, they got there by having other people work for them. That is, they accumulate the power of controlling other people's lives by controlling other people's lives in the first place.

Anarcho-capitalism is such an oxymoron.
Currently at $560, with $20 increases.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12490501 and marked it off-topic.
Right and also tuition doesn't mean cost of attendance where there are all kinds of additional fees, books, room and board, etc. Cost of attendance is easily double that of tuition. So it's actually in the vicinity of $25K per year for a state university.

State college and community college in particular can be a lot less, and it's possible to even split the difference and do 2 years community and then graduate from the university by transferring credits. Of course, you have to have your ducks in a row to pull that off.
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Like toomuchtodo mentions, we could treat it like other unsecured debt (like credit card debt).

Just because it's unsecured doesn't mean we shouldn't be able to discharge it with bankruptcy.

Get the government out of the loan business and the market will correct itself. You won't be able to get a loan for a useless degree and if you end up being unable to pay off your loan you can go through normal bankruptcy proceedings and their consequences.
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As someone who's been involved with university recruiting, it's clear to me that even great schools run moneymaker degree mill programs. There are degree mill programs in Top 5 CS schools because people from overseas are willing to pay substantially for the credential (and OPT).
In case anyone else was confused, those corpses retrieved and studied in the above article were bodies buried from the same expedition, not bodies recovered from the sunken ship. Thanks for sharing the clipping though, very fascinating.
while it's probably well known among HN's cognoscenti, the wsj.com paywall is easily breached by copying the title of the article then paste into Google search. Same with barrons.com (less often linked, however) Other paywalls, I've noticed, give a free pass to mobile browsers.
Thanks. I have tried them all (except notebook) and didn't find one more convincing than evernote yet - at least for my purposes, mostly note taking, documentation. Guess I'm stuck.
Certainly the internet transcends national boundaries. But ask yourself the question, whose economy is most vulnerable to a disruption to the internet? How much of B2B commerce today relies on the internet? At a time of war, doing damage to the enemy's economy and way of life from thousands of miles away with no risk to people or equipment is a pretty powerful capability.

China in particular has been building their own parallel internet universe. If Google goes down, most of us are going to feel it - but not China.
Extremely relevant XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/810/

But yes, even here on HN there are problems distinguishing between legitimate articles and paid news.
Just make sure not to:

1) Swear.

2) Say anything offensive.

3) Have fun.

4) Forget to mention how delicious and refreshing Coca-Cola is.
I had originally heuristically reasoned in a similar but opposite way, to the wrong answer. To wit:

1. P_{1/6} = 1/6 [when rolling one die, you have a 1/6 chance of getting more than 1/6 many sixes]

2. P_n -> 1/2 as n -> infinity, by the central limit theorem

3. I couldn't see any reason that P_n shouldn't be strictly monotonic.

Thus I expected that P_1 < P_2 < P_3
>sales will basically stop after the price hits a certain level //

Sales from the site, but not referral sales for bespoke logos.

Also it helps to provide information as to the price that people will pay for logos.
Yet again, another DDoS. Is this an specific client this time or the target is Linode itself?
>has a fiduciary responsibility to maximize shareholder value

Even that is arguably not true. The only real responsibility of a director is to not act in his or her own self interest to the detriment of the company.

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/8146/are-u-s-com...
> Is it limited to state actors, or could we all play?

Per the article, no, we can't all play. We don't have either the bandwidth or the expertise.
In the US very sensitive. Mostly because they contain all the personal information you would need to commit identity fraud. They also us information from prior year returns to positively identify you on subsequent years. ie: your AGI from last years form is used to verify your identity for the next year.
Any possibilities for part-time at SUSE?
It is a corrosive and toxic environment. Devoid of technical discussion and very hostile to "devops", CI and automation.
> Am I the only one who hates the notion of being forced to pay for other people's bad financial decisions?

you've got a serious lack of perspective if that's what you think this is
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combined with a project like this:

http://icrobotics.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Turning_the_Raspberry...

and you've basically got the web ;p

at least a one way communication network form
Although Schneier is probably correct in this instance, one of the most exasperating features of his computer security writing is an utter lack of citations or evidence to back up his claims. (His writing about cryptography should require no citations because he is an actual crypto expert.)

After the significant inaccuracies and frequent unsubstantiated speculation in Schneier on Security, I don't think credible security researchers can take his analysis at face value. Additionally, the halo effect of his actual expertise, cryptography, convinces people who aren't security experts that his opinions and speculations are correct. Worse, he rarely frames his speculation as such; he states conjecture as fact. This is counterproductive and leads to confusion among journalists and eventually the general public.

To the imminent downvoters, I'm not offended; I expect it with an unpopular opinion. I'd prefer you engage with a reply in addition to the downvote so we can have a discourse. I think it's important that I add my dissent to the conversation.
Schools can charge a lot because other people pay a lot. As individual you cannot single-handedly decide to pay less.

Compared to Europe the education system in the US looks like a system that is trying to get as much money out of young adults as possible rather than getting as many people as possible an affordable education.
If there is going to be any "debt relief", it should be accomplished by taxing the schools & administrations that have immensely benefitted over the past 60 years from the massive subsidies granted to higher ed.

This just shows how incredibly stupid the right wing is in the US. They could be using this as a cudgel to punish their intellectual opponents in the universities (entirely justified, since their claims to be increasing the human capital of their students in an economically productive way were evidently false), and simultaneously break down a barrier used to exclude a large number of their constituents (non-college-educated whites) from white collar employment.

Instead it looks like they might be setting up to cut another check and further solidify the role of colleges as ideologically hostile gatekeepers to decent employment.
It leads to people taking 'Software Engineering' degrees rather than computer science or maths or physics when really these less directed degrees generally allow people to explore what they are really most passionate about.

I share your concerns; on the other hand, is signing up for a 3-to-5 year course really the best way to help people discover their passion? As an exploratory path, it sound expensive both in resources and in time wasted for the student.

Around here, we have something called "summer university" wherein high-school students can spend a week or two getting an high level overview of the college course. It's extra-curricular, so few attend, but seems like a similar approach introduced into the regular HS calendar (say, the last two months), getting everyone to try a few courses of their choice, could provide even more exploration for much lower costs.
> *I’m going to be the President of YC Group, which includes Y Combinator, YC Continuity, YC Research, and our

Presumably it also includes YC (that used to be YC Core) - was including 'Y Combinator'in the list a slip - and it should have been YC?
Sounds like you just configured your Rpi wrong.
Sourcery(YC) raised $5M to help restaurants and food vendors deal with each other
That is per se correct.

I'm careful what services I use, sometimes I prefer local p2p such as bittorrent sync over uncontrollable clouds for personal data.

I'm mostly concerned about what they will use the deep-learning thing for though. Not sure I'll want it to work with my notes.
American coffee snob here (not that I necessarily have good taste though): I was blown away by the espresso in Italy. On a two-week trip, every espresso I had there was better than any espresso I've had in the U.S. Which isn't to say I haven't had great coffee in America, just not great espresso. I think mostly Americans just don't care about espresso.

Pet peeve: high-end restaurants in the U.S. mostly don't care about the coffee they serve. A high-end restauarant will employ a bar tender, a pasty chef, a somellier, but not a barista. So you enjoy a fantastic meal and then when you order an espresso at the end, you get something the server pulled out of an automatic machine. Nooo, why!?
Ex US Army bomb technician here (eod). This entire story is somewhat of a legend among our community (those that actually went through nukes at least).

Added to our (me and the SO) calendar for the weekend. Looking forward to seeing it.
Nowadays if you check bintray for Groovy downloads, virtually all of them come from Germany, which is where the server hosting the groovy-lang.org site is located.

Gradle 3.0, which came out last month, has replaced Groovy with Kotlin as its prefered choice for writing build scripts and plugins, so expect Groovy's use for build scripts to decrease.

I think Groovy will live long for scripting on the JVM, in the same way Bash is used for Linux. All the extra cruft Groovy bundles (e.g. MOP, static typing) will become irrelevant over time.
One of the authors here. There was some great work from the Max-Planck Institute that came out recently which looked into this[0]. They examined images that used black or white boxes to cover faces and found that neural networks could pick up on cues like body posture and the surrounding environment to identify individuals.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.08438
Thanks for the feedback! I can imagine a version of this that doesn't take over new tabs if that's not one's cup of tea. For example, maybe the icon dropdown could hold more of that functionality.

Personally, I didn't have anything on my new tab so its been nice to quickly jot todos and start a timer whenever I open a tab.
things along those lines are already happening in oakland and a number of other cities across the country.

https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh
Comma.ai will ship a $999 autonomous driving add-on by the end of this year
Trying watching videos of the Tueller Drill.

I've done it myself, timed the speed I could lunge 21 feet, it's true enough. And that's a minimum, allow more feet to realize there's a threat etc.
Agreed. That is what I was aiming for. You worded it better.
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And hope the random hammer of ContentID doesn't find your phrase similar to some corpo jingle.
I second the voices, one downvoted but none really addressed, wondering why this is manifestly an improvement over the bash equivalent.

I certainly don't demand that everything in Fish be an improvement over everything in bash for Fish to nonetheless be superior... but this was presented specifically as an example of how Fish is great, and I could just as well say "Guess what this does" of the obvious bash equivalent:

while true; do
clear
df
sleep 1
end
I hope it happens!

I wonder what his life would be like upon his return. I suspect his life would still be in danger.
shameless plug: I've made malloc hooking preload library for hunting such bugs, that automatizes most of the described work - https://github.com/samsk/log-malloc2
Is that your characterization or theirs? It's been a while since I read the book, but I don't recall either that or any other source suggesting that there was at any point a serious risk of the warhead going off.
That likely won't happen but then as mentioned in other comments. 1st collaboration with google, 2nd move to google cloud, 3rd acquisition by google...?
Millennials embracing the 'boring life'
Would there a use case for decentralizing DNS into blockchain, or for creating an alternative?