skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, but take it one step further: it is unethical NOT to walk away.

The whole point of the clause is to ensure everyone is taking equal risk in evaluating the property: the bank and the owner. It is bad for banks to make loans without suitable collateral. It is bad for you to take loans you can't afford.

In an overheated housing market, the house is NOT good collateral. The banks made a well-researched business decision to give you the mortgage with the house as collateral. They made a mistake (as did you) and everyone loses. The bank gets killed on the mortgage and you get killed on your original equity, interest and credit rating.

It would be unethical not to walk away as this would encourage everyone to repeat the bad behavior.
That's true, but it seemed like pulling out was the logical conclusion after "breaking local laws".

The thing I don't understand is why going from "autoredirect" to "click to redirect" was the crux for renewal. It feels strange that that was the key deciding factor for the Government.
Why would you want to wake into sunrise and early morning, if you could wait for them?
Work: Finished some batch jobs and starting a new semi-interesting web project. It'll be a welcome change from the boring admin/infrastructure stuff I've been doing :)

Home: Android notes tutorial. Also fun :)
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Which is exactly why more Americans need these jobs. If Americans never learn to work, America will never progress.

(This is on a macro level, obviously there are progressive Americans, but they aren't the norm.)
Fantastic.
And i agree.

Apple is going after the economic chain by acquiring the value elements of its suppliers , as opposed to reducing costs.
Answering support mails, thinking how to scale app to at least 1000 simultaneous connections, preparing presentation to brief Forrester, contacted some more bloggers, watched Mixergy interview on how to sell to Fortune 500 companies, finalizing on new feature: test result segmentation.
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Importing all of the actors/roles from IMDb into mongoDB for a little proof of concept. 12m documents and counting!
Ask HN: First $100 in a SaaS app?
My partner and I are about to release our first SaaS app and I'm starting to get worried that there's really no market for it.

How long did it take you to get your first $100 and first $1000 in rev, and what strategies did you use to get customer flow?
The other commenter makes a good point, but I also think we simply acknowledge that there are some jobs that do not require a full college-preparatory education. There are some trade schools available, but these are generally viewed as being for people who couldn't cut it, rather than people who have decided that the university route probably isn't for them.
Probably due to spam, but I wish PG would just add links with rel=nofollow instead.
Cool. I did something similar a few years ago with one mirror: http://www.instructables.com/id/Per-i-Sight:-MacBook-iSight-...
Cool application of Sugru.
True, it would be nice if the SDK was complete on first silicon. But that never seems to be the case. And if there is code to demo a feature, it's probably a hack.
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Today I am working on my strategic procrastination project - an Android game. I got bored with my regular project, a Data Deduplication file system, and decided to have some fun with learning Android development.
In this case the URLs differed by a trailing slash. Normally I do an auxiliary search to verify whether someone already submitted something, but I didn't have time yesterday.

I'm not sure I agree with the GP that the occasional duplicate is harmful. It may be that a small amount of randomness in these things contributes to the life of the site.
How the hospital purchasing system raises costs, stifles innovation
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we just launched our streaming movie portal. built it for those that run HTPC's and are tired of searching for movies to watch online. let us know what you think.
I read that just now. I agree with them. I think conscience is what stymies people sometimes because society has beaten into them a certain behavior. It took a painful year for me to go through foreclosure...but after reading that...I have a clearer understanding of what the contract aspect means. I am not saying everyone should foreclose just weigh the options from a more pragmatic view.
It's one thing to give both sides a fair hearing. Entirely different to not address science. Whether or not you believe in evolution, it's the popular belief, and on that virtue alone should receive an adequate explanation and hearing.

The arguments the students used also showed they have very little idea of correct argumentation. Maybe science isn't all they are lacking in ...

And to be fair, I believe in Creation, but that doesn't mean I think what was going on in that classroom to be good. It's unfair to the kids to teach either without proper evidence and backing.
Trying to figure out how to get my mom out of these cash advance schemes and chronic overdrafts due to her lack of understanding of how banking works. Then reworking her finances into something manageable so she can manage to buy groceries.

Got some google maps integration going for one of my web app ideas this morning while on the train. Hoping to knock out the remaining stuff on the way home.

What am I not working on? Anything related to my day job, even though I'm at the office while I type this.
I was figuring you'd hit the pizza up, first. :)
An Android app that turns the phone into a simple SMS gateway, allowing you to deploy SMS apps anywhere in the world the phone works (without having to install complex hardware/software, deal with service providers etc)

http://wiki.github.com/niryariv/txtgate/

Work environment: Java / Eclipse / Android (new to all of these, varying degrees of pain ;))
Version controlled laws would be a great idea. You could have an rss feed for each law and subscribe to any changes or make comments on the changes. So all this sort of technology exists now, and what's to be done is more about assembling those things into a form which is customised for government use.
I dislike what INotifyPropertyChanged imposes on my code. I also hate that faulty binding can't be found at compile time, but that might be expecting too much. I also dislike how binding is all or nothing, this isn't possible Text="{Binding PercentageOfFailure}%" But that also might be asking too much and even the idea that my view model should be formatting my data is a valid one.
So their respect will be gained when they are worse off?
Don't Worry About Content Farms: The Web Has Always Been Filled With Crap
Oops. But yes, that is the only difference.
Yes, I did an experiment with a uniform mesh about a month ago. It turned out to be a choice between awful detail level, miniscule view distance or unusably slow framerate, so I abandoned it after a day. But it was a useful experiment because it really made me understand my triangle budget.

I do have a large background in computer graphics. If I lost the knowledge and had to reconstruct it again, I would begin by writing simple demos in the lowest level environment I could find. Forget Papervision, try making a spinning textured cube by assigning colors to individual pixels using C code. This way you pick up the background awfully fast.
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NTP sues smartphone giants over wireless e-mail patents
A great rule of thumb I learned in Wilderness First Responder training:
"1 minute, 10 minutes, an hour"

It's catchy and easy to remember, and it means:
* 1 minute to deal with the panic response (i.e. first keep yourself alive for the first minute, you have plenty of time, and lots of people die quickly because of panic and inhalation.

* 10 minutes - that is roughly the amount of time you have to get yourself in a stable position before you lose motor control. Get yourself in a position with your head out of the water that doesnt require active support anyway you can - flotation, freezing yourself to an ice shelf, etc).

* 1 hour - that's how long you'll live (roughly) in 32F water. You may have a lot longer depending on water temp and your body.

There's a prof that did a lot of this research on his poor grad students (and you thought your thesis advisor was hard on you!). http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/kinrec/research/people/gie...
He's the source for much of the recent research.
Telling my girlfriend's parents that she's getting married. :)
Ask HN: Places to buy web application templates
Our startup can't afford designers at this point, and we decided to buy a Web Template so that we can use that design before we launch. However, we ran into several pitfalls:

1. A lot of "Website template" sites are, frankly, crap. A majority of it are just cleverly Search Engine Optimized and offer poor quality content.
2. Most of the templates are for companies who just want to plug in information. We don't want any fancy graphics or stock pictures demonstrating racial diversity. We just need a blank page with a sidebar and a top navigation bar which is well documented.

The best we found after hours of searching were the "Admin Templates" at ThemeForest:
http://themeforest.net/category/site-templates/admin-skins

I'm sure there are many well designed, well priced options out there. Any suggestions on where to find them will be greatly appreciated.
We are trying to model one reality. Surely there must be a model that models that reality better than either of our current models?
Part of it is that back then if a child was acting up, they would get disciplined at school and then disciplined ten-fold at home.

It is a lot easier to teach a room filled with children who are willing to put in the work or at least not screw it up for the other children. It is a lot easier for a teacher when he/she can kick a child out of class for misbehavior and the teacher is protected rather than chastised.
Don't have access to such a system. Will fix if you tell me how.
While I agree that "scripting language" is a bit loosely defined (though nothing like "object-oriented"), Lua was written with a "hard and soft layers" (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AlternateHardAndSoftLayers) approach in mind. To me, that seems like the defining characteristic of a scripting language.

I'm not saying Lua isn't a full programming language - it's actually my language of choice for day-to-day hacking, supplemented with C as necessary. It was clearly designed to accommodate projects where it isn't primary language, though.
Thinking of something to start...
Why Facebook Killed A $100 Million Baby (Virtual Gifts)
They want to avoid the repeat of the sudden Yen appreciation and Japan's Lost Decade.
In this case, we are just choosing to execute one of the clauses in the contract, as any business has the right to do. So, there is nothing unethical about adhering to the contract.

Agreed. The only thing I'm not fully on board with is staying in the house rent free for 12 months while waiting for the foreclosure process to complete. I can't quite explain why, but taking advantage of the slowness of the legal system seems different and less respectable than exercising the default option in the mortgage contract.

There are concerns about short sales and foreclosures bringing down property values in the neighborhood.

I wouldn't even worry about that. I've yet to hear any compelling explanation as to why high home prices are on balance a good thing. If car prices were to double because of a shortage of steel or something, we'd correctly realize that's a bad thing, even though everybody who owns a car would be richer on paper.
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From my experience (read on), jobs illegal immigrants have get paid at least minimum wage (Not that this is livable).

Most illegal immigrants get a social security number through underground document-makers. They give that number to the employer (who knows it's fake, but acts otherwise).

I've befriended many Mexican immigrants, illegal and legal, and have even gone to a house that makes these documents. (It was surprisingly low-cost. )

Now this doesn't speak to your other point, about whether a farmhand job is livable for anybody. But my main point is: it's probably a legit job that withholds taxes and everything.

There is a large set of jobs that has a high-turnover rate for everybody who works in them. Overnight cleaning crews in offices, table bussers, farmhands... This turnover rate is high for everybody, legal and illegal, who works there. My guess is that the employers assume anybody who works there will leave soon, and it's not worth thoroughly vetting whether the ss# belongs to a dead guy.

As for my opinion on all this... I'm still working it out. I'm also biased, have lots of Mexican family on this of the border, and am admittedly sentimental about it. Ideally we can first focus on making any job livable, and THEN worry about who gets to have it.
Optimizing the map tile rendering stack for our mapping platform (http://www.cellmaps.com). Finding the right streets to render in the whole world. Needs to be faster.
Google gets nod from China to keep search page
That's a good question. I suppose it's because even with Memcached taking the load off the database, we still have other issues. For example, because we're dealing with stateless connections here, it's hard to know if a client is still connected to the chat. We're polling from the client to the webservice every few seconds to 'pull' new messages and also tell the server, "Hey, I'm still alive". In order to determine if the client has left we have to monitor the polling to see if there are gaps in the poll times. Some gaps are allowed of course, because of slower connections or connection timeouts, so it gets a little tricky trying to determine if a client is still on the other end. I attribute that to HTTP, but maybe it isn't entirely to blame. If we were dealing with sockets directly, I would know the client is disconnected as soon as the connection was terminated.
> Dynamic languages are fast enough to implement internet services and outgrow the demeaning term "scripting language".

This is never going to happen, because "scripting language" is used as a slur or insult, rather than a term with any usefully defined meaning. It's not possible for Python to "outgrow" being a scripting language as long as that's used as a condescending shorthand for "doesn't look like C++".

Consider Ruby. How many applications do you know of which use Ruby for scripting? Or Python -- I think my system has two applications which can be scripted in Python (Gimp and Blender), but many dozens of applications written in Python. If Ruby and Python are scripting languages, then so are Smalltalk, Haskell, Boo, or dozens of other high-level languages. And yet, you'll never hear of these being called "scripting languages" because nobody has an axe to grind against them.

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Unrelated to that, Haskell does have pointers (including null pointers) -- you can use them just like pointers in C/C++.
So you're saying it's like investing in a band instead of a company. I'm working my way out of being only #2 and bit of #4 to #1 and #3. Hopefully I'll start on it sometime soon.
It reminds me of the London "Secure Beneath The Watchful Eyes" poster campaign from a few years ago:

http://www.art-for-a-change.com/News/eyes.htm

Either somebody is having an Orwellian joke, or somebody is frighteningly tone-deaf. I mean, even "Patriot Act" probably seemed like a good idea at the time (as did my personal favourite, Operation Infinite Justice), but Perfect Citizen is just weird.
It has been a long running debate which way viscosity would affect swimming. Higher velocity increases resistance to forward motion but also allows for more propulsive force from the swimmer - which will dominate?

It turns a research group at UMN actually was crazy enough to do the test - it looks like the effects balance for a human swimmer.

http://it.umn.edu/news/inventing/2004_Winter/goingforthegoo....

http://www.cems.umn.edu/research/cussler/pool/
You make some interesting points, but I must respectfully disagree.

A loan to an individual is an agreement to repay that according to terms. I believe that there is indeed a moral obligation to attempt to fulfill that contract. The foreclosure clauses are meant to handle the cases where the borrower tries and fails to live up those obligations, not the case where the borrower chooses to ignore the obligations they agreed to.
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I like other people like me designers and programmers. I know enough business to get by.
I don't necessarily agree with #2. Yeah, SML has formalized syntax, but it's also a frozen language. It simply isn't practical to have completely formalized semantics for a language like Python or Ruby that are still actively being changed. Nor is it necessarily always possible to eliminate all implementation-specific quirks.

In short, it's a good thing to have a language have few quirks, but there is such thing as overspecifying.
Right now, procrastination. Later, getting my las exposition as an undergrad ready.
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I don't know much about world generation, but the commercial product Terragen looks pretty damn good. Are you trying to solve the same problem?
Picky eating in children is an evolutionary adaptation
I often see people on street corners clearly standing there to get day-worker jobs. If you rent a U-Haul truck, they'll be there, eager to work and get paid.

I always thought this could use a bit of high tech. It should probably involve a web site to request workers and an SMS solution for people out and about. It should also have some sort of vetting and recommendation system to replace the quick size up that happens in person.

At the very least, why not have a day laborer office where people can sit in a chair instead of on a street corner. It could also double as a financial or immigration advisory role. That would be a great non-profit to make.
I wonder if DDG could benefit from http://www.80legs.com/ ?
I've worked in minimum wage jobs before (janitor, field work) and I just don't see how the work ethics of an average American worker will suffice on a farm."

Were you and your co-workers above average or non-American? As an American worker, reasonably close to average in physical condition, I did work low-wage jobs (loading dock, janitorial, landscape) when in my late teens and very early 20s. No doubt I complained, but apparently I sufficed.

"People complain when they work in air conditioned offices, how will they survive standing in 100 degrees weather in a field?"

Complaining, I guess.

Frankly, it isn't primarily the conditions of work that would deter me from farm work--though that would, too--it's the pay.
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I completely agree with the parser friendly syntax (and disagree with you).

The issue is that tools are important. C++ is famously tool unfriendly, when it in fact, has the most need for tools to verify it.

From my understanding of the generics problem, generics do not get in the way of LALR requirements. You just have to implement them slightly differently than C# does to make the tokens for the generic types more identifiable. So you can do generics, just they can't look like C++ makes them look.
Simplicity for whom?

I agree that on high traffic lists email should be kept to plain text, but for your daily business/social use it's far simple to format an email with html or rich text than it is to rely on ascii decorations for text markup, footnotes or any kind of table/diagram.
Such offices exists here and there, sometimes to the discontent of the neighborhood. The vetting and recommendation service might unfortunately serve as a handy resource for the INS, though.
Isn't that more of just a preference thing? I mean, I suppose Gmail/your mail client of choice could simply show the quoted previous email in the reply email box without any added spaces before, but I think most people would just hit enter a few times before typing (or go to the bottom as they prefer).
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It was not. It was a face-saving act for the CPC courtesy of Google, and both parties knew it. Now Google officially complies to Chinese government demands, and they can chalk it as victory (no matter if only very formal one).
"This is never going to happen, because "scripting language" is used as a slur or insult, rather than a term with any usefully defined meaning."

This isn't necessarily true. See Ousterhout's dichotomy: http://home.pacbell.net/ouster/scripting.html
As Apple's indie sheen fades and they're increasingly perceived as just another big consumer electronics company people are going to start feeling less and less comfortable about being locked in to the whole Apple ecosystem.

If kids haven't decided Apple is the establishment yet they will soon.
This was merely run-of-the-mill shocking until the very last student spoke.
Making user controls work in a MOSS 2007 Document library. So now front end people can just edit the control without re-building parts and re-deploying. It's actually fun :)
Thanks to automation the number of people employed as farm labourers has fallen dramatically within the previous century. The farm worker endures a hard life of continual struggle, with the constant threat of technological unemployment hanging over them.
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The thing that made me the saddest about what SCO has become was that during the time I lived in Santa Cruz, I had the opportunity to become friends with a bunch of ex-Sco guys who were among the smartest people I'd ever met.

They all left long before the company turned into a patent-troll, and were actually embarrassed to have worked there.