skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised by the comments here. I am a fiscal conservative, but having taken and struggled to pay for student loans, and having hired people in the same situation, find that the lending programs are predatory by nature in that they know students will be unable to service the high monthly payments, and eventually default as a result.

Do I think people should pay their debt? Yes, but these lenders are the same lenders that get bailed out time and time again. They are in no peril. It is our students that assume this risk.

The only reason I was able to pay my loans was because the Army paid them for me after I completed my term of service. I tried for years to find employment that could help me escape a life of poverty but could not. It was not until I left the Army and started my own business that I finally started to claw my way out.

Our education system is broken. We know this. So lets stop punishing kids for doing what they've been told do to throughout K-12, and instead help them find a way out of the rat race. Kids swimming in debt are of no service to this country. We have to do better.
College should be a good idea for everyone.
Sometimes I think the Renaissance never happened.
You've posted like this repeatedly but all it does is make the site even worse, so please don't.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13903065 and marked it off-topic.
> So no, I don't want web service providers

Thanks for proving the example false equivalence. Palantir is not a service provider to you, it is a data analysis company.

If Google or Facebook performed data mining on data it owned, that'd be one thing. Palantir is providing tools that analyze publicly available information.

> Or a dozen other bad things could happen

Yes, that's life. At any point any bad things can happen that's out of your control.

If somebody in your family posted "I love weed" on a public billboard, you might expect increased police attention.

Extrapolating a dead dog and painkiller arrests (both vanishingly rare events) are hysterical statements not based in fact.
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One of the reasons I like BSD license as an author, philosophy aside, is there's simply much less policing involved.
A professional VC will be wrong about some 80% of the startups they fund. Yet you want to punish a teenager for not correctly evaluating the chances of receiving a well-paying job 4+ years into the future?
> There may not be much of a future for image rendering on Macs at imgix, but we have to factor in all the variables when deciding on our future roadmap.

I think the point here is that your roadmap may lead off-road once Apple finally does to the desktops what they did to the headphone jack on the iPhone(ignore the outcry, do whatever they bloody-well please).
I remember coming across this field of study some time ago, along with its psychological counterpart. I'm not trying to argue for or against your point but I thought it might me interesting to us all none the less:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_sociology
This is really well done. Code is well laid out, well documented. Will make it easy to use this for training new college hires for sure. Didn't expect something like this out of the government. Nice to be surprised here.
Hurrymy ssh terminal cannot login my server,and my server ip cannot open
Today I just wanna open port 443,I did these things as follows: vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 3306 -j ACCEPT systemctl restart iptables.service

Then,disaster happened,server ip cannot open,my ssh terminal cannot login,and the website domain cannot open.

then I opened the vps console and typed iptables -L screenshot like this :
https://cl.ly/2T1i3r372g1b
again and again,so so many different ips showed. and it is still going,no any stop, and I cannot type any command in the console now
Been using this on a govt. site Ive been redesigning for 2 years and could be doing so for another year or more.

We've went from one govt. design standard to another and I'm not sure if the site will ever get redesigned or finished as it has to get signed off by a 100 govt. VP types. I'm burnt out by the bureaucracy and they need someone to get this thing approved vs. what do you think and what do you think and oh what do you think ... each person having a different opinion and nothing getting done but revise it again. What version are we on now .. oh number 599.

Keeps me gainfully employed thankfully, but redesigning a website should not take 3 years or more.
I agree with the downvote and the fact that borrowers have skin in the game, but not that lenders have none. Debt should not be dischargeable, else it's not debt at all.
It breaks the HN guidelines to rewrite titles like this, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> I've often see .io domains rank lower than .com domains (i.e. the main product site being eclipsed by some .com review site)

Sorry forgot to give you an example. Search for example "videopal". You'll see that the actual website (videopal.io) is ranking at 4th or 5th. I've also seen this for many other sites too.

Disclaimer: It's just a random site I picked. I don't have anything to do with it.
Web fonts mean no platform-specific fonts. That's a very right thing to do for a government. Comes at a price of download size, but that's probably still worth it.
The use of math in economics is much like the use of Newtonian mechanics to understand elementary particle interactions at the horizons of black holes.
a lot more people are thinking about the actual utility of college

Yeah. It's time that lenders began doing diligence again on their borrowers. Even if the prospective borrower didn't know that that Kaplan degree wasn't such a great idea the loan officer at the bank would know and deny the loan.
I will second the Plutopia recommendation, with a caution. The author tries too hard (IMO) sometimes to narratively equate Richland and Ozyorsk in terms of contamination. By the numbers -- and there are numbers in the book -- Ozyorsk suffered far worse contamination. At the Ozyorsk site the ambient environment suffered far worse exposure, plutonium workers suffered far worse exposure, and nearby populations suffered far worse exposure.

But that's not to give the Hanford site a free pass. It is creepy and infuriating how the operators undertook casual large scale experiments and covered up accidents. It's doubly infuriating how locals with good plutonium jobs would turn a blind eye to, or turn against, people who were harmed on the job and whose medical/safety complaints threatened the illusion that everything was great.
> Yeah, I do blame them for their lack of due diligence.

While simultaneously absolving yourself of having to do any research.

> Because, how am I supposed to rely on Apple to meet my needs

I often see people saying Apple owes it to its customers to make x, y, or z product, as if Apple's role in the ecosystem needs to be expanded further. Apple is a company, not a nanny, they don't owe you anything, and I feel we should keep their scope limited rather than expanded.
What's the difference with tv[0]?

[0] https://github.com/daleroberts/tv
THe website is probably hosted on AWS :) As for the social media links, they all work for me...
Of course debt can be written off. Out there in the real world contracts are renegotiated all the time. More of that would be advantageous in the face of information asymmetry, the party with better insight would be less tempted to exploit their position.
> In fact I'm not sure sociology would still have its credibility intact if it were to have as many failures as economics have had just the latest 20 years or so.

We are here back at the fundamental mathification problem. Economists have understood that as long as their formulas look scientific enough, they can influence with their results policy makers et al.. Sociology rarely present their research in terms of the broad and universal truth as the economists do. So while Economists' results look rigorous on paper, reality still proves it often wrong.
For loans you can't default on it should be the market rate plus a tiny margin. So maybe 2% or so nowadays.
Thank you - confirmed. I just dug up a copy of Flash CS6 and tried this:

var val : String = "foo";
var foo : XML = <foo><bar prop={val} /></foo>;

...and it worked. I swear this wasn't documented anywhere. That said, I just googled a few Flex examples (I never used Flex) and it seems to be common there, so I guess that explains why at least someone knew it existed!
I keep seeing people say that the student loan crisis will be the next "bubble pop". It seems like colleges and lenders both got greedy and created a mass of debt to them that will never be paid off. That, and I imagine the current generation will send their own kids to college at a much lower rate than their parents did. The "college bubble" is going to pop.
This title is Fake News.
Firebase engineer here. We recognize the anxiety that comes with a hosted solution. That being said, Firebase has seen enormous and growing investment from Google (see e.g. Fabric acquisition).

Firebase feeds directly into two huge businesses that Google cares deeply about: Cloud and Ads. I can't predict the distant future, but unless Google's core business shifts drastically Firebase isn't going anywhere.
Honestly the most annoying thing about that community is that you're expected to wade through hundreds of pages on forums, piecing together information, and people get furious because the answer to your question was on page 63 out of 124. The custom roms will list the very specific things that differentiate them but there are hardly any guides with best practices except maybe if you have the most popular phone out that year.
Ads for lawyers have ridiculously high prices in Adwords. Since my first job was in a firm that handled marketing for personal injury lawyers, I had an impression that adwords was really expensive and ws wondering why the ads were so ubiquitous for low revenue businesses too.
My fav quote on that: "Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window." (Peter Drucker)
Except we've created a system in which you're told that you have to go to college your entire life. You can't be a damn hotel manager without a college degree these days. The price of college has been on the rise for decades and the only one assuming risk here is the borrower.
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Because the feedback would be "I want to use your software, but I don't want to pay for it"?
Can you offer a good link for the Richland site?
because .oi domains are much newer... many .coms have been around for year, so they have better SEO factors
It's curious how we're prepared to replace X (with people writing tiling WMs and the like that support it) but somehow the move away from xtermy things (and backwards-compatibility-all-the-way-back-to-way-back-when) hasn't really caught on much, at least on the Linux side of things yet. Any exciting work in this area? I'm aware of Black Screen and some other work on the Electron/rewrite-everything-in-JS front (Hyper, I think, is another).

I've been using Alacritty myself for a couple of weeks now. It's not too bad: the htop header bar won't render properly and catting random binary files crashes the terminal pretty quickly, but it's smooth and does everything a good "tmux VM" should do well.

I understand iterm2 on macOS is a significantly improved experience?
Yep, Apple does whatever Apple wants to do. That's a business risk, and we have done (and will continue to do) things to mitigate it.
That the study of economics has a strong connection to both capital and power while sociology is more academic/institutional and thus less influential.
> I think that a bigger risk than Firebase going away is Firebase deciding to fire you as a customer.

This is what it felt like at one point a little over a year ago. I host a SaaS on Firebase with some paying customers. They started having infrastructure problems and I was down for a whole week. Despite me sending them specific curl commands that reproduce the issue (30-second latencies followed by 500 replies), they really didn't have the same sense of urgency that I had. At first, they didn't even seem to believe me that there was a real problem happening.

After several days they finally fessed up to the problem, and then like a day or two later, my app started working again. The incident left a really bad taste in customers' mouths, and who can blame them... I was lucky not to lose them all!

So for a week, Firebase effectively fired me as a customer. My impression is that the outage didn't affect a large portion of their users. When that's the case, you end up needing Firebase a whole lot more than Firebase needs you.
VMWare ESXi officially supports Mac Pro hardware as a host. Guests will just work--you don't need to use any of the hackintosh bootloaders.

If you aren't running ESXi (or VMWare Workstation) on Apple hardware, you can use this to enable the functionality: https://github.com/DrDonk/unlocker
Im new to web stuff and this kind of confuses me. How would firebase ever make money if it didnt get bought? What outcome do investors expect?
Huh? Uncustomized Kwin is about as boring as WMs get.
Strava has apps for iPhone and Android so the barrier of entry is lower than owning a dedicated GPS unit:
https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/223297187-How-t...
Thinking in 3D
I know that we're pretty unhappy with Okta at work because they recently acquired & shut down Stormpath, which we were using for authentication. It's made us reluctant to trust Okta & similar SaaS.
I think this is a false premise. Politicians/decision makers merely listen to people they want to listen to speak. There are "schools of thought" in economics that really only exist because someone wants to hear that viewpoint.
I had a project that was doing some WebGL stuff using Lua, I found the Emscripten compiled VM to be at least 2x faster than the Moonshine. Compatibility was great, I seem to recall a lack of direct access to the underlying TypedArray. It needed something akin to a table that was directly mapped to raw memory.
So you're "very much" in the WWW camp but you don't even use it on your own site. Curious.
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You've been giving valuable insight in these posts, but that page isn't asking for begging, the message is simply "be a legit student".
You're talking about corporate debt not personal debt. Show me an example of personal date that is frequently discharged (outside of bankruptcy) and I'll adjust my position.

If you're referring to the fact that it can't be discharged as part of bankruptcy, then I tend to agree with you. It should be.
Maybe we can focus on making a rich real estate investor's debt non-dischargeable before tightening the screws on broke student loan holders.
Not a direct answer to your question but Pieter Hintjens' Psychopath Code addresses this exact topic and offers ways to identify and contain such relationships.

http://hintjens.com/blog:_psychopaths
a while ago i paid the premium for the mac sapphire hd 7950 and it works great. it significantly speeds everything up and allows me to run 4k + another display on my cheese grater 2008 pro.

i'm sure it's probably very easy to make a non-mac video card work but i can't be bothered.
If you are trying get OSX on an arbitrary piece of hardware, it could take quite a bit of effort and have any number of weird problems, as you suggest.

However, if you stick to known hardware (mainly this means specific motherboards with well supported chipsets) it's quite straight forward and reliable. If you're starting out without existing hardware, just stick to the known MBs and you shouldn't have any issues. Very dependable hardware lists are available at tonymac and osx86 project, just use that.

Hardware support has come a long, long way in the past few years.
I used to use this for my Hackintosh case:

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article163-page1.html

Lian Li PC-V2000.
Ironically, the head of the Dept. of Ed. invested over a hundred million dollars in a debt collection agency that tacks on these usurious fees and rates.
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IMHO this have really little to do with legal status, but more with work atmosphere in community. You can see exactly the same problem on console hacking / homebrew scene.

From one side there is huge user base full of people who want to get something working with no effort and usually tend to demand something from developers, but very few can provide even proper bug reports. On other side there is bunch of "experts" some of which tend to leech of others work and even less of actual skilled developers.

So it's just stressful to participate those projects. In the end most of enthusiasts that stick there must have very strong personality or be selfish persons that looking for cheap popularity.

Also there are humble guys who silently work on their own thing, but they usually work alone or in very small groups and don't communicate with outsiders. And of course most of time they don't ever get credit for their work on BSP reverse engineering and fixes.
"There is no cloud, only someone else's computers." Building on an external platform is fine for expediency, as long as you have a backup plan.
I don't think he approves or condemns. He says that monopoly of craftsmanship(product so good that you don't want to switch) like Google is not that bad.

It seems the antitrust action is inevitable. May first happen in EU.
Could be because as of yet the meat of terminal, the tty, happens in the kernel. And the kernel devs, as last as Torvalds remain in charge, is not as magpie about chasing the latest shinies.

Note however that there exist effort towards moving the tty into user space. And one leading figure in that is currently involved with systemd.

So i suspect it will happen, it is just a question of when...
I think what the parent post is referring to is the perpetual "grounding" of children until they become adults that has come into fashion lately in the US (last few decades) and that is quite cruel and horrific. It's one thing to ground a child for a week or two. It's another to ground them for their whole childhood as has become commonplace in the US to the point where these idiotic parenting ideas are enforced by police and taken out of the parents' hands completely. In addition to the immense suffering imposed on children, society too suffers from creating neurotic adults that act like children, have no life skills, and complain about micro aggressions and other nonsense when they're living the most comfortable lives in the history of humanity.
Would you say the same thing about doing an Ironman, or climbing Mt Everest when you can just get helicoptered to the top?

Part of the attraction of doing things like these lies in proving to yourself that you can do it, and by doing this you fortify yourself mentally for the challenges that lie ahead.

Another result is that you become a "team" precisely because you have this shared experience. It's sort of like going through basic training in the military.
As someone who owned both an older iMac and a new iMac, I really fail to see much difference. Form factor, overall, is much the same, as is the weight. I think it's more than a little exaggeration to call the older iMac a "behemoth".
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Connection limits to CDN from naked domain might also be limited. Can anyone confirm ? Ex: if browser limit is 2 connections per host, bare + sub will only give 2 connections, while sub + sub will give 4 connections.

If you are using Websockets or AJAX the connection limit can become an issue.

Also some users always write www in front of the domain. Although some browsers will just redirect to Google. So if you check browser referer a lot will be from www.google.com?q=www.yourdomain.com
Lol $7 per hour? When I was pirating software by default, I was making more like $4 per hour. At a "few hours per day" job alongside high school.

You betcha I pirated everything. A Windows license was like 1 or 2 months of my work.

Oh and I was really well paid for a high schooler. Those of my friends who did have jobs made more like $2 per hour.
> Why? That goes against everything we've done to categorize bugs - we do not treat all bugs the same, and we would not consider all bugs to be due to negligence.

That would be something you could only know by evaluating this on a bug-by-bug basis, the important thing to realize is that to an end user it simply does not matter what class of bug caused their data-loss, loss of privacy or loss of assets.
http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/643/brows...

https://github.com/svahne/browserl

https://github.com/baryluk/erljs
"America first!" :-)
There's a trillion dollars of liability we're talking about. I'm OK with some forgiveness, but if and only if the Government gets out of the student loan business. (Watch tuition drop like a rock if this happens!)
Using 'computer' is a bit disingenuous there. Upgrading a computer sounds like you're buying a new laptop or replacing hardware to deal with a software protocol change.
Is "plagiarism" even the right word for re-hosting something in a more accessible central-directory format? They're not claiming it's theirs; they're just giving you a link you can actually click to directly download the thing, where the source is e.g. a phpBB forum that requires registration to enable downloads.
I have two teenagers and a 7 year old. The oldest is 15 and doesn't even think about college. I don't nudge him either way, but find it interesting he has not even considered it.

My daughter is 13 and wants to go to college, but only because TV says that's where you go to meet boys and get married.
By charging their users, the way the rest of the world works.
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I know. I sold 40 btc at $100 EA a while back
The price/cost overruns of building the 2nd ave subway (and the large stations, which is were most of the costs went) is unrelated to the price of building roads and sewer in suburban America.

Also, doing stuff in America costs more than in China or India. News at 10.
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Then bad ideas propagated by non replicable "science" would spread even more rampant.
I hesitate to even respond to someone who's possibly just a highly energetic troll, but come on dude. The reason Kahneman wrote about psych is that it's the field he works in. He's not going to see these symptoms in ecological or environmental sciences because he doesn't read those papers, preside over those theses, vie for those grants, etc.

> On the contrary, psychologists were shamed into addressing the replication problem

It was raised by a professor of psychology, somebody IN THE COMMUNITY, and is being addressed, better than elsewhere. Your spin is absurd. A community takes some monumentally difficult steps to right itself in the face of bizarre pressures (mainly a broken funding model) and you take it as more evidence that they're inherently dishonest.

The article you link here seems to go almost completely against your premise, by the way.

If your goal is to make it obvious that some people have an absurd bias against the 'soft sciences', or to reinforce the stereotype of 'STEMlord' on HN, you're doing marvelously. Anything else and it's a flop.
Sometimes I do wonder why American Universities charge exorbitant tuition fee?

Education being the bedrock of an advanced society, isn't but natural the developed economies like US should be able to subsidize education to such an extant that youth of country don't have to worry about paying their tuition fee and focus more on learning and innovation that will take everyone forward.

It is but a reflection on the sad state of affairs that our higher education system has fallen into!!

What do you people think?