skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once again, I foolishly wonder why the problem people identify boils down to envy and why I should care that people want things they don't have. I get that calling it "inequality" as opposed to "envy" makes it more emotionally resonant but it doesn't provide any actual reasons for me to latch onto.

Is it some sort of attempt to head off a revolution that will never happen?
For any endeavor, including education, if we shift the source of funding from democratic government to private individuals, then those needing funding will shift their focus from pleasing the public to pleasing wealthy parties.

For example, there was a new park being designed in NY. Lacking traditional public funding, they sought private funding. As a result, instead of a design that serves the public, the park is designed according to the desires of a wealthy donor.[0] In higher education, instead of making progress and giving more and more people a better education, as prior generations did, we are going the wrong way (AFAIK). I believe it's fundamentally undemocratic, which is an American ideal much more than small government, which is a partisan ideology.

To me, the adherence to ideology (in this case, smaller government) over practical good results (educating people and opportunity), always is a terrible idea and can lead to dangerous results.

The free market allocates goods to those willing and able to pay most for them. That's efficient for many things such as soda and cars, but undesirable for basic human needs and societal goods such as education and healthcare, which we don't want to deny to people because they are poor. Funding by the public (via taxes) is a good solution for some things.

[0] That was the story as I read it maybe 1-2 years ago; it's possible the situation changed since then.

EDIT: added sentence, reworded another
I'm seeing a lot of commentary here that doesn't seem to reflect what this is: preferred equity for infrastructure, sometimes called mezz (mezzanine), applied to the residential real estate market.

I think this is super interesting! This type of financing is really common in larger real estate & project financing deals: one speaks of the "capital stack", which can include senior debt, junior debt, preferred equity, and common equity.

I think that the reason this hasn't been done before is because of the complications of finding, diligencing and funding individual homeowners. I definitely agree with the OP that this will be an attractive investment for institutional investors, but getting dealflow from the mortgage industry will be extremely capital intensive... I would expect both a lot of direct retail marketing expenses, as well as pretty rich commissions to real estate agent networks and mortgage brokers to kick home buyers their way. Really cool idea though!!

As other commenters have mentioned, this can only exacerbate any housing bubble, which is true but kind of beside the point. Yes, any reduction in cost of capital will eventually inflate asset prices, but is that a reason to stop offering mortgages, car loans, etc?
Yup! Using Projects will force us to maintain multiple projects for one single "real" project, as our code is split across multiple repositories. (Web app, desktop client, infrastructure, company issues, etc)

I suspect it's still a lot better than the alternative but not having org-wide Projects is a little sad.
> My idea of 'hard work' has changed a lot since then.

I'm a phd student and my idea of 'hard work' has changed a lot since I started, too. The master's was child's play. Now it's about determination and finding avenues forward when facing problems that are so large that even finding a good question to ask is a major success. Staying up late and putting in the hours is the easy part.

This is not as simple as you imagine it to be.
Anyone who owns a business containing the word "patiserrie" or "boulangerie" is exploiting the same bugs on a smaller scale. They regularly influence human behavior with the wonderful aromas they spread in their immediate vicinity.

So again, I ask: if Hostess corporation is genocidal, is La Bouche d'or merely a serial killer?

I'm asking for a little more than just whether a corporation could in principle be worse than Hitler (the specific claim lordarminius made), I'm asking for an actual plausible mechanism by which that could happen.
Trying to cause serious mayhem with spoofed addresses is pointless. Most DDOS comes from bot nets, not from the attacker's personal resources. If you deployed a system that tried to spoof addresses all the needs to happen to eliminate 90% of your attack is for Comcast and co. to implement edge filtering such that traffic inbound from people's computers is dumped if it's not an address that can reasonably come from that origin.

And, since each additional node in the bot net has zero marginal cost, why bother trying to hide the device anyway?
Thanks! It has been on our list for a long time as well, excited to get it shipped.
Going through a graduate program, especially in the sciences, can really prepare you with a lot of the soft skills (and even more of the 'hard' skills) necessary to do so.

>Writing a 100 page thesis is not hard work either.

You already said you didn't get a PhD, you didn't need to say it twice.
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This may not be a comfortable statement, but it's no less true in the world we live in. It's as much signalling as anything else, and while you can overcome it with talent and hard work, it's going to take it.
Heh, 404s if you aren't logged in to GitHub
"The brutal may have been moulded by a brutality you cannot exceed. Let guile be your ally." - David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
How is this not at the front page?
This is one of those things that gets tricky because of the number of factors involved. I've watched this debate at my alma mater for a decade or so and its boiled down to this:

As state funding decreased, lottery scholarship funding increased almost in parallel.

As lottery scholarships increased, tuition increased.

Administrative costs skyrocketed.

Lastly and most importantly though, when people in high school take out student loans they have no concept of what debt repayment looks like or feels like. They have no idea what taxes coming out of your paycheck looks like in terms of cash flow. They have no concept of housing costs in that cash flow. Job loss or gaining employment is not factored in and what THAT does to cash flow and debt payments.

When students graduate all they know is that they got into school X and they need to pay for it.

The one true check on prices going up despite ALL other factors is the number of people who will say "not for that price" which thanks to student loans is virtually nonexistent because even if you say that somebody else will just slide into your spot.

Pure supply and demand. If cost is not a check on demand, cost will increase.
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It looks like enforcing 2fa in an org (finally!) means anyone who doesn't have 2fa will be booted out (included whoever may be paying for it at the time) with an email explaining why. I'm afraid to tick the box because of this. :o/
Mostly thinking the "so noxiously but unusually bad it's briefly popular" type of creative output by people clearly lacking in much grounding or practice in their fields. 'Singers' like William Hung, 'writers' like Gene Ray, 'filmmakers' like Tommy Wiseau, or 'actors' like Robert Coates.
What do your kids do instead of TV?
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You might be able to do this using the new graphql api :)
But I am talking about overhead. People should not pay 10x price, while being educated by temporary postdocs.

In that sense foreign universities are already disrupting US education with much lower overhead.

Take a 4 year bootcamp which operates in semesters, and you got something very similar to university.
Do they still force you to upgrade the entire OS just to use an IDE?
Tokyo is also never mentioned in the article: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/023562e2-54a6-11e6-befd-2fc0c26b3c..., but it should be.
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This article and the study it cites miss the point.

Cities exist to make it easy for everyone in them to meet or work with anyone else as cheaply as possible. They are markets for jobs, goods and services. When cities make it difficult to meet and work with others, as they do when they sprawl, they have effectively failed. In a sense, they are not really cities, but just agglomerations of many towns without a center. This describes many so-called cities in America, with LA being one of the most egregious examples.

One of the reasons cities have sprawled is because their development has been entrusted to, well, developers. Those are the contractors that Buildzoom addresses as its audience, and the website is flattering their sensibilities. They like a supply chain that involves suburbs with lots of cookie-cutter mini-mansions. Easy to commodify and sell, and someone else can worry about the commuting headaches.
Few people outside of Manhattan picture a home as an office building with a doorman.
A few (closer to 20 now that I looked) years ago, Atlanta had a mini-boom of hi-rise condo building. A couple of the properties did very well; they were mostly pre-sold, though probably to speculators. Some of the others had trouble selling all their units.
Going vertical also brings a problem, mentioned by another commentor, of "viewing" rights (i.e. no blocking the views of established properties.) I think Trump had a similar problem with one of his projects.
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Maybe the extension could check the info on the SSL certificates (if available) if the domain is registered through a proxy?
Sorry about that! Is the link working now?
> Snowden used journalists (really just greenwald) to vet the documents.

It's a form of vetting, yes, but useful? Hard to say. It's also trusting a lot of information that could get people killed in someone's hands. Who's to say someone didn't pay Greenwald $10 million for a copy of all of it? You'd never be able to prove this happened unless they were really stupid about it.

> He did attempt to use internal channels.

The only thing I found regarding this was that he emailed a few "district heads" which, last time I did work in the area, don't really do anything. There is an actual, official channel to go through to reporting stuff like this (there are actually multiple; one for the NSA and one for the DoD in general). There are also more appropriate people he could have emailed.

Now I'm not saying internal channels would have worked but I haven't seen anything that showed me Snowden really tried hard to go through those channels in the first place.

> His original intent was not to go to russia, it was a last resort.

China is also not the greatest place to go. Honestly anywhere outside of a SCIF and you could get picked up by interested parties. But since he did go to China and Russia we have no way of knowing if both of those countries have a full copy of his data or not.
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Domenic, I do wish you'd at least try to engage fruitfully in these discussions without resorting to your usual snark and condescension.

When you talk about speculative fetches, are you suggesting that engines would guess at which modules were going to be imperatively imported before actually running the code? That doesn't seem like a general solution, or even a particularly desirable one, but I'm interested to learn what you're referring to.
You're right. If we're explaining this to adults, it is even simpler: Create something of value and you can exchange it for things other people have created of value.
That's a good point and not really correct to conflate the two.

It would then seem to suggest, that forces with more than say, 5 units (780 average sustained APM) and above, would likely be getting into super human territory.
Linked from there is "symploce", which may be a better match?
There is a recent thread on the mailing list about the subject https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2016-09/msg00...
Visual hierarchical organization as opposed to tag search is what I prefer, so that's a plus for Onenote. Evernote actually used to be better at doing that, but they obfuscated it for no reason, like so many things.

Also, Onenote seems to handle sync conflicts better than Evernote. I once emptied my trash in Evernote and it decided to delete the live versions of all the old sync-conflict duplicates I'd trashed. I lost about a third of my notes. That's when I realized I needed to change.

One other downside is that the OS X version of Onenote is not quite full-featured. It's not missing anything essential, but e.g. you can only have one window at a time, for some reason.

Basically, my use case is personal notes and data, mainly formatted text rather than images or websites, for my own use, organized hierarchically for easy browsing. Onenote is ideal for that. If you're big on group sharing, or clipping web pages, or tag search, or whatever the hell else Evernote thinks they're optimizing for, then I can't tell you much.
But it is presented as a state government action to cut funds, when the actual events were that action was to increase funds but not enough to catch up with increasing student numbers. Given that student numbers are not under control of the state government, describing it as a state action to cut funds in misleading.

It is misleading in the same way as to say that the company substantially raised the average salary of employees when in fact what happened is that CEO salary was doubled. Technically yes, that means average salary has increased too. But such statement omits important details that make it misleading.
Let me use the opportunity to advertise the rustfest, Europes first rust conference in Berlin, this upcoming weekend.

https://rustfest.eu

(I'm not part of the orga team, but affiliated)
I had plans to do the same, I'm glad somebody beat me to it.
Drivers don't care! No one thinks they are going to be an Uber driver forever most think its a temporary thing.

I am pretty confident self driving cars are going to create more jobs than they destroy. Whole new businesses will be economically viable once the transportation costs are super low, traffic is less of a problem and when you don't need parking. On demand economy 2.0.
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Physical assaults in schools are (usually) not intended to cause serious physical harm. They're more of a test to see if you're strong enough to be part of the established social order.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who has noticed that many bullies stopped bullying you or even became friendly with you after you made a real effort to fight back.
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> Yes, any reduction in cost of capital will eventually inflate asset prices, but is that a reason to stop offering mortgages, car loans, etc?

Dear god, definitely yes in the case of Point. Are we trying to price out a massive population of disadvantaged people? Mortgages made homes attainable, but there's a reason we enforce minimum down payments etc.: aside from mitigating risks to lenders, it's also to mitigate price inflation.

This is an entirely new product designed to help people with the capability to invest to do so on the backs of those who don't. If we're readily acknowledging the potential, ney, inevitability of price inflation for these assets, we're also acknowledging that there is absolutely zero benefit for people who might consider using Point to aid in lowering their upfront homebuying costs. The net result of this is that not only do disadvantaged homebuyers pay as much as they would pay before Point but for less home, they substantially lose out on upside as a result. All of this is an inevitability if the model proposed by Point catches on.

This has exactly zero long-term upside for tons of people who don't make substantial discretionary income.
Hey, I know I'm a bit late to the party. But I'm looking to protect my company's redis instance from these attacks and your approach looks very promising. Things is, I don't know what to do now that I've written a similar script. Where should I use this code? In the redis.conf file?

Bear in mind, I'm a front end developer, so this is absolutely not my forte. Thanks for the help.
You waste a lot of energy heating up and drying the drum, too, compared with a conventional dryer, where you're only drying the actual clothes.
The no bankruptcy thing still boggles my mind. Schooling is far from a sure return, so cutting out the final safety net seems just plain insane.

I mean these are people who largely aren't qualified for the debt otherwise having either no job or a low paying job and little credit history and are given the money on the promise that their degree will get them a career when they graduate, even thought that's far from a guarantee.

It's the kind of outrageous overreach some fat cat banker would put in the contract to reduce his liabilities but then the person in the government who's job is protecting the general public was asleep at the wheel and failed to have it struck from the contract. Did the clause pass because the kids don't put up any collateral? The college loan business is so screwed up.
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Neatly coinciding with GraphQL's announcement 'Leaving technical preview' [1].

In hindsight, sending a query, written in a query language from client to server seems obvious. So obvious, that I think I've seen it before...

select login, bio, location, isBountyHunter
from viewer
where user = ?

It's ironic to me that it took Facebook reinventing SQL (or a graph database equivalent thereof [2][3][4]) and Github embracing it to legitimize this practice, since if you were doing this before, you were judged in the eyes of your peers and clients for not being "RESTful" (the fake-REST kind [5]), as if everyone was just itching to PUT and DELETE blobs of JSON of your poorly mapped resources to quasi-hardcoded, templated [6][7] URLs.

What's old is new again, but this time I'll take it.

[1] http://graphql.org/blog/production-ready/
[2] https://neo4j.com/developer/cypher-query-language/#_about_cy...
[3] http://tinkerpop.apache.org/
[4] https://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/
[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12479370#12480408
[6] http://swagger.io/specification/#pathTemplating
[7] http://raml.org/developers/raml-200-tutorial#parameters
I think you're assuming more from Apple's privacy statement than they say.

"We don’t build a profile based on your email content or web browsing habits to sell to advertisers."

How do you get from a phrase like that to "... if I delete an email, its metadata is gone too (indexing, antivirus, etc.).?" In particular, the antivirus and indexing data---particularly any manual signal you provided to Apple on whether you thought that email was spam---is likely retained to improve the quality of their service for you and other customers.

They said they're not building a profile on you to sell to advertisers. It'd be really surprising if they aren't building a profile on you to improve things like, say, Siri's understanding of your interests, or Maps' understanding of your area, etc. So is the third-party advertising where we draw the line?
I stand corrected about packages vs modules, good point.
IIRC MIT is the only one that will actually run the SICP code out of the box.
As someone whose family is more steeped in higher education than most people, I have come to believe that the biggest problem with higher education is the degree with which we have allowed it to become the universal gatekeeper of professional careers.

I think college is a great experience, and I do hope for a day where everyone can experience higher education in their life, but the basic mechanisms of college are NOT necessary to work in a professional field. It is only our culture that prevents it from happening.

The nucleus of this problem is our obsession with pedigree. We want everything to be awesome and perfect and follow a neat little narrative where we all end up rich and famous and successful because we attended the right schools and worked with other people who attended the right schools. But life is never that clear cut, and this narrative ignores the reality that most of your ability to do a job is learned on that job. I didn't know a lick of ColdFusion or even more than a few lines of JavaScript when I graduated college, and within just a few months I could handle anything my employer threw at me.

A good amount of that success was because of my education, but most of it was because they were willing to take on the risk of someone that had to learn and grow, instead of insisting on a ColdFusion expert that could have done everything from day one.

College is great, but it's not for everyone. My GI Bill-aided grandfather didn't need the college he dropped out of to teach him how to run a successful restaurant and support a family. And most of us understand that a lot of what we get tested on from the age of 5 is bullshit.

The way forward is not fixing education, it's fixing employment. We need employers willing to take risks with people who aren't perfect by default. To do this we need to encourage and maybe even subsidize paid apprenticeships. Real, paid work experience is better than any welfare or job retraining or $80k degree. It shows what you are worth and what you are capable of doing.

As Ronald Reagan said, on one of the few occasions that he actually managed to make a damn good point:

"The best social program is a job."
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Somalia ... many, many other countries around the world where violence and corruption are far more commonplace.
Muh pronouns. I'm such a victim.
are you confusing the terms 'study' and 'research'?
I think gp meant that one would expect the project to be called debugger.js instead.
I really enjoyed this as well. It's often said that creativity comes from "embracing constraints" and I think it probably really helps the show that they've forced themselves to condense the process so much.
i feel like a lot of the freewheeling gibsonian stuff is happening on tumblr - it provides a relatively easy way to push content to the internet without overly constraining the form of that content.
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This has been why we don't use github's issues, wikis, and why we won't use their projects. For example if the overall product has a web site repo, server repo, iOS repo and an Android repo then they need to be used as a coherent whole. An issue might be reported against iOS but the cause is in the server, so the ticket would need to be moved. Rinse and repeat for all the other interactions of piece, and that collaborators often don't know (and shouldn't need to) precisely what issues, wikis etc correspond to which repo.

The now defunct Google Code had a very good solution for this. You could create additional "sub" repositories alongside the "main" one. Github already does that for the wiki, but doesn't generalise it to allowing additional ones. I'm somewhat convinced this is because github has the whole "charge by the repository" model, which is at odds for being useful for projects that require multiple git level repos.
'Burning bodies' experiment casts doubt on fate of missing Mexican students
I completed a PhD in chemistry and went straight into the start up world in 2008. I focused on building tools that would have been helpful in my research lab[1].

My feeling was I can work a lot of hours for little pay and questionable benefits as a post doc or start my own thing. I use 'start my own thing' since I hadn't ever heard of doing a start-up being in the Midwest.

[1] https://labspend.com/
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Do you know how long it took to train using that dataset and with what hardware configuration?
That's not right - the APU doesn't generate thrust.