skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> adding any situation where bankruptcy is impossible seems like it destroys the purpose of having bankruptcy exist in the first place.

Agreed, but keep in mind we aren't talking about loans in the traditional sense. Normally a loan requires some entity to take on the risk of default. With student loans this would mean looking at what the individual was studying, how much of their own money they were supplying, the typical default rate, etc. The amount that they will loan and the interest rate will be determined by the answers to those questions.

When you have the government making loans to students without asking those questions, you are no longer running a normal loan program. When you remove the way a loan program usually adjusts to the risks up front, you have to try to deal with the risk elsewhere. This is done by removing the bankruptcy option.

I think the solution is to account for the risk of the loan up front like we do with other loans. This probably means removing or decreasing the government's role in issuing these types of loans. Eventually, I could see colleges sharing the default risk with a private bank. Colleges who don't think their education is worth much would be less likely to participate in such a program, but that probably isn't a bad thing.
I mean, yes, I understand that line of reasoning, but like... were any actual calculations done? This just seems like such a bad idea when (as is pointed out in the article) there are plenty of other things you could do in such a case that won't so adversely affect your ability to recover your money.
One must realize that the opinions of HN are not representative of the general population. If you have an IQ > 130 or so, school is going to seem like a redundant waste of time, but those those with average IQs need the 12+ years and find the material challenging at times. But I think there is major room for improvement in the public school system, in that smart children are neglected especially or can get by with less schooling.
Delegates are nice in the common case but I do miss anonymous classes.

Anonymous classes have better oo organization than passing in two or more delegates. Sometimes variable capture doesn't cut it or isn't as clear.

..And the biggest thing. I can pass it in to a method that already takes a class and not a delegate.
> At the plant’s entrance, a sign warned: “Games like Pokemon GO are forbidden within the facility.”

Was this a thing people were doing? Going to a nuclear disaster site as part of a game?
Agreed.

For some reason people in these threads think there's a battle between jQuery/vanillaJS vs a framework when the real distinction is the complexity of the application you're building.

Yes, when your needs are simple enough, you don't need anything. For some reason people get upvoted on HN/Reddit when they point this out.
Your first post mentioned the Bibliotheca, a review of many books written during thi period about things that already had commentaries. Aristotle was neglected for centuries.

What primary sources are you using? As none of the plethora you keep bringing up are primary. And why would something's state it had forgotten Aristotle? If you don't value something, it's just largely ignored.

Many of the philosophers brought up in this discussion recorded contact with the Abbasid Caliphate in some manner. They shared a border and the Mediterranean, it would be hard not to be in contact.

That one says the same as the rest.
Herman Miller Aeron second hand about a 1/3 Of the new cost, easy repairs.
Well, I did, but it never got any responses.

It is a platform where peers can give feedbacks

1. to each other. It was customary at many companies I worked to evaluate at retrospectives how we did the past sprint: what went right and what to change in the next one. Who did well, who should improve

2. to management, what are the impediments regarding work, how satisfied is one with the job, whether jumping ships is imminent etc.

In my experience these kind of systems are often paper based or there is some weird JIRA project abuse going on. Sometimes people just pretended issues were never raised.
Why Can't JavaScript just have c++/java/c# type classes? At least it makes it easy to identify what you class variables are and what your class functions are.
Original paper here:

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/11/eaao2710.full
The limits I mentioned include both subsidized and unsubsidized federal loan programs. Any further amount you receive is either a private loan or PLUS. PLUS loans are made to the parent on behalf of the student, and actually were dischargeable by the parents' bankruptcy last I checked.

The graduate school limits are higher, but still exist. Med school students, for example, simply cannot fund their entire education through federal loans. The maximum period you can get through federal loans in any circumstance is around $140K, and medical school almost universally costs more than that.
That'd be awesome. Submit a proposal! https://github.com/tc39/proposals
Yeah. The argument is more like everyone woyld be better off being the type of person to succeed in college. Which, yeah, being smart is generally good. But is college? How would large attendance to a peer learning center compare to a degree ih terms of skill?
Pushover is great for events that are delayed or infrequent - say you have a job running on an AWS server and want to be notified when there is a result, or you want some alert when your traffic reaches (say) 80% of the possible load.

It's a cheap and easy service that you'd use anywhere where "then send an SMS" would be your reaction - it's like an SMS but without the cost and/or length restrictions
A viable one is to let students default on their debt. Then colleges incentives to survive on tuition will align to the students capacity to increase their income.

There shouldn't be (considerable) debt going into dead-end college studies.
How is the hour rate of Colombian developers usually?
It’s true it rarely gets over 100F, but the Netherlands is known for having a unwelcoming climate. It’s often rainy and very windy or at least a kind of cold that’s more chilling than southern canada.

7 miles is also very far - that’s more like a city of 5M
Rape is traumatizing and the criminal prosecution process is not helpful in letting the victim recover. Imagine being told to recount the events in front of strangers countless times, while one party's job is to make anything you say doubtful and convince others you're wrong to be traumatized. At least with social media you only have to write it out once.
Well I'm not an idiot. Things like Siri do not exist to help me or improve my life like the marketing and Apple fans proclaim.

It exists to sell me shit and make people money.

Not nefarious, I accept capitalism. But at least let me turn it off.
Why I’m leaving Silicon Valley
I would never try this strategy on a teenager. My boys are 4 an 8 it works on them. With teenagers, it's about something else.
Cryptocurrencies described in four words or less
"Battle is the Great Redeemer, the fiery crucible in which the only true heroes are forged."
One possible benefit is giving you enough time to discover the breach and rotate keys before the keys are compromised
BAT white paper and roadmap aim at full decentralization. Ethereum is not ready yet, either on scalability or anonymity via ZKP. We're working in phases using ZKP off chain accounting and single-monthly-transaction on, no fingerprint of users or their supported sites.
To distract you while it reproduces itself.
For some reason it’s always things happening at the ‘Apple factory’ but in reality these are megafactories that produce the items sold by just about every consumer electronics company, like Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Logitech and many others.
I thought, that we as society surrender our right to judge and punish criminal matters to the court, in exchange for a fair trial for each and everyone of us.
not that fast
Last time I checked Amazon didn't remove the headphone jack from my phone or my USB-A port from my new laptop either. Doesn't get any more evil than that, really.
I am using both Qubes and Nix(OS) and would love to combine the two somehow. Nix store doesn't mix well with the template system used by Qubes.
Sure, I agree with that too. I'm all those things the main public is not (programmer as main trade, but make films and music on the side).

I hope we'll always have that general flexibility.

That said, I prefer something closed-but-works-98%-of-the-time like macOS's graphics engine (Quartz or whatever is called) than the infinitely flexible X-Windows (or whatever graphics engine/compositor rules Linux distros now) that seldom works properly and people write things in reviews like "it worked with my graphic card just fine on the first try" as if this is still allowed to be a good surprise in 2017.
This is patently ridiculous. Many people going to school also can't live at home with mom and dad or at least can't live off mom and dad.

3 years of unskilled labor will leave a lot with just enough to support themselves while the cost of education managed to go up in those 3 years more than inflation. Meanwhile you missed out on years of good earnings at your chosen profession.

Working your way through school has become somewhat laughable. Your advice would leave the majority of people much poorer for following it.
If I understood the article, he has confessed to this behavior, there are many victims with similar stories, and corroborating evidence. I agree he should have a trial and a criminal conviction, but reporting the abundance of evidence that a person is a serial rapist hardly strikes me as "character assassination."

What's especially troubling for me is that this was apparently known, by some, for a long time, and nothing effective was done to deter this person from committing additional rapes.
'This definition is interpreted as "you need to be White to be racist."'

I'm pretty sure that's not true from a legal standpoint and is therefore only your opinion.
Could also be workers at the site on their lunch breaks.
Oddly enough, I've never met anybody who believes that the government is solely responsible for educating children. I think that's a straw man, but it remains an interesting question as to why it seems to model the present situation well enough to become a widespread belief.

And maybe it's wishful thinking on my part, but I think the situation is more subtle: There are parents who just aren't capable of taking a more active role in educating their own children and supervising their public schools. They have no idea what a good education looks like, or what their kids are missing out on. They don't have the time or resources to be "involved" in their kids' schools. In short, they have no realistic hope to offer their kids.

And the schools themselves aren't set up to be fully self sufficient without the supervision of "involved" parents (euphemism for "pushy", I'm one of them) and a supply of children who come to school ready to learn.

Might they believe that the government owes them the best possible education anyway? Sure. I believe that too, even though I'm one of those parents who has taken an active role in educating my own kids.

So I think the government is responsible, but as a last resort, not as the best possible arrangement.
And that's just it, isn't it. Siri is just a name. A cartoon.

The reality is that at a minimum, it's an organization of profit motivated people trying to listen to you. Maybe Apple is controlled by nice people today, but how many other companies will justify their own actions by pointing to Apple's practices.

And when those companies are bought and sold, or go out of business after a period of desperation, what happens in those moments?

Justify this with Apple, and ten more organizations follow in those footsteps.
I've installed Xfce/Gnome/Mate on new computers for senior family members and they don't even notice half the time. They just think it's a new version of Windows or Mac.

In age ranges from 40-72+.

The "vast majority" you speak of probably mostly use a web browser and a mail client, so their interactions with the actual OS are minimal.

Sometimes I get calls about digital cameras (or phones nowadays), so then I either go there and set it up, or have them open external access in some manner (usually Teamviewer, because it's easier for them). But this is rare, and of course I don't mind talking to them and helping them anyway.

And it would also happen when they used Windows.
> and quite a lot of taxes for the co2 emisions, engine size etc

In other words, when you take away the implicit subsidies for the unpriced carbon, electric cars become cost-competitive?

(In Norway, the electric grid is primarily renewable/hydro based[1]... yes, I realize this argument is different for countries with different electrical makeups)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Norway
Imagine if other forms of violent assault were held at that standard.
Woah, all my points already here. Would add, and please don’t take this personal, but get a native speaker to do the voice over. You are unlucky to have a bad stereotype matched with your dialect.

In addition:

1. Don’t use thumbs up icons and smileys in your professional website. I’m not on Facebook.

2. So many grammar errors. Also in the video.

3. First overview in the video has so much information yet tells me nothing. To be honest your product already failed here for me. If not for the Ask HN I would close my tab and never look back.

4. What’s up with all the multi-page flashy text box questions? For me, on a professional site, don’t do animations and just keep a single page for one question list. Be really, really careful with animations. The one on your landing page already touched my nerves btw. Feels like someone who does his first keynote/PowerPoint presentation. Animations everywhere.
I agree the 1password client is very good.
People keep on blaming women, asking "why didn't she come forward earlier". Simultaneously, many women HAVE gone to the police and the police have ignored them. Often times, cases where women came to the police and were ignored come to light only after many years. Don't you think that these maters should be solved in public so that at least it is publicly known that an accusation has been made?
I went to Best Buy to buy a Pixel 2 and it was strange
> > "We help freelancers become more professional with automatic streamlined process for managerial tasks like client onboarding, signing NDA and requirement collection right from their personal website."

> "with automatic streamlined process" should probably be "an automatic streamlined process". I don't think the way it is now is technically wrong but it doesn't feel right.

Ambiguous plurality. Go for either singular "with an automatic streamlined process" or plural "with automatic streamlined processes".

I believe this is a common mistake for people whose first language is Chinese, which doesn't have indefinite articles. A co-worker drops articles pretty regularly.
You are still redistributing source code that is derivative of transporter's code (like goja_builder.go and other stuff). Not to mention that anyone can just roll back commits in your repository and get to the original code of transporter, with original license, copyright and even authors list.

I think that's a license violation, because you are not keeping an original copyright notice in repositor. If you think otherwise - whatever. I don't want to argue on technicalities.

I think I'll just forward info to transporter's developers, so that they can handle the situation the way they want. You can argue with them or maybe they just don't care.
Speaking of iCloud keychain, anyone know of a command line tool for manipulating its contents?

For local keychains there is /usr/bin/security, but it does not see iCloud keychains.
Did you take "Learning How to Learn" by Barbara Oakley?
Whoosh ...
Another alternative the author neglects is to use KeePass and to sync files between devices using Resilio or some alternative. The added benefit is redundancy and no reliance on a 'third party' server for operation!
The only purpose of life is giving purpose and meaning to your own life and collectively. Most prefer just accepting a collective purpose, meaning or goal in life. This will eventually lead to self doubt.

Few prefer defining their purpose and influencing others with it. We call them leaders, artists, visionaries etc.

Some prefer manipulation of lack of understanding of purpose. They become a leading to force in preaching things they don't understand themselves.
In 2001, just 16 years ago, Microsoft was almost broken up because Internet Explorer was shipped with Windows. Think about that for a second, I'll wait.

Seems like small potatoes today, doesn't it?

When was the last time you've heard of anti trust litigation because iPhones come with Safari or a whole bunch of Apple services? What about Google and its software on any and all Android phones? And why can Amazon tie Kindle to its book store and not get sued by competitors?

We are allowing these companies to integrate vertically to the point of insanity.
So theargument has a default value when in non strict mode， and like all other arguments you can partially apply it with bind. Got it.

Everything else, still explained by ”argument passed left of the dot at call time“

Oh yeah and arrow functions dont have a this argument so whatever this was already in scope is the binding.
Most of what Amazon's marketplace carries is not Amazon branded stuff.
I don't understand. So you have no problem with those donations to foundations run by your political candidates?

Also while you stated that donations to political candidates is illegal, is it illegal to buy adverts for political candidates as a foreigner? I was under the impression it was not, but that adds an interesting twist. Who would be held guilty in this case? Would the USA government try to use extradition treaties to get a foreign national onto USA soil if they bought adverts for a candidate?
Sit at least four / five users[1] in front of the app and let them use it for a real exercise, asking them what they see (but without using leading questions that would give hints that a user will not get in real use).

No matter how much you analyze and measure your design, there will be expressions that they understand with the wrong meaning, buttons they should use that they can't see, and ways to think about the app that you couldn't possibly have anticipated.

So see what those problems are that you couldn't have find out in advance, fix them, and put them again in front of some more users to test whether they really solve the problem.

1. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/why-you-only-need-to-test-w...
How a New Accent Overturned BBC Tradition and Messed with the Nazis
cf. libel and slander, and consider that in the United States and many (but not all) societies, a person accused of a crime is to be considered innocent (in a legal context) until found guilty in a court of law (by jury or bench trial).
Just the punishing is reserved for the legal system.

For instance, at least in the US, we have pretty strong free speech laws, so you can publicly state opinions about almost anything, such things aren't reserved for courts.
Should Apple provide US style standards and pay for labor in China?
Citation for what? These are all well established facts. Might as well argue the round earth theory.
What bugs me about the class syntax more than anything is that it encourages prototype classes, which in my humble opinion, are just worse than the Crockford module pattern. C Modules solve this/binding issues, and give you privacy. Maybe they use more memory (in theory), but I never thought that was a great argument unless you actually measure usage and it's noticeably worse. You're basically creating those functions anyway when you call bind, so I wouldn't be surprised if there's not a big effect for most applications.
Isn't Amazon also AWS' largest customer, followed by Netflix? And I don't know much about Azure but I wouldn't doubt Microsoft is their largest customer too. I don't know, this whole piece seems more like Cringely needing something to write about during his convalescence.
Even just with the input from the current game, the engine could get more aggressive by estimating the skill of its opponent.
At least in my locale, the necessity of a high school diploma has been easily overcome. Colleges know how to deal with this. I know at least a couple of families that have home-schooled their kids. One of those kids is now on a full ride scholarship at the state university, studying biochemistry.
As most irc networks we've been in decline for quite some time:

http://irc.netsplit.de/networks/statistics.php?net=QuakeNet
Ask HN: What's your favorite PaaS?
Hi all! I have been out of the Ops world for a bit and I'm dipping my toes back in. I'm trying to get a lay of the land around what's happened in the PaaS space since I've been away.

Right now it seems like Heroku is still going strong. I also see that there is Pivotal Web Services, which I guess is hosted Cloud Foundry.

I can't seem to find anything else with clear and obvious marketing that says "hey, we're a PaaS". Are there other platforms out there I should become aware of?
I like ZeroC's ICE and I use it as a form of component interconnect where appropriate. The pain level is minimal (although I disliked some elements of how they distributed their packages over the years.) Source builds have been problem free.
Ban China, Russia and India IP space. Problem solved.

Edit: what’s with the downvotes? Burned much? Hey, try looking at your failed ssh login attempts before and after doing this. You’re welcome.
Sure, but that's the mob, and I see two important differences between this case and the mob. (Well, one important difference, and one thing that might be, I'm not sure.) As the article points out, there's any number of other things you could do in case of default, that won't so adversely affect the borrower's ability to later repay. But (difference number one) I suspect those things will largely rely on the courts and so not be available to the mob. (That's the one I'm not sure about; the mob might have other equivalents.)

I mean, yes, the basic reasoning makes sense, but like... were any actual calculations done? Any comparison to alternatives? While it's not impossible this is the best way for the government to get its money back, it seems pretty unlikely.

It particular it seems stupid because, consider -- we're reading a news article about it! What's that mean? It means I didn't already know, you didn't already know, enough people didn't already know that the newspaper thought it would be a good idea for an article. And that's the real kicker; a deterrent -- and this is purely a deterrent, it is in fact giving up direct moneymaking ability to achieve this deterrent -- can only work if people know about it! The mob can scare people into paying up because everyone knows they'll kill or cripple you if you don't pay them back. But the government, apparently, doesn't have the mob's publicity, and without that, the whole scheme falls to pieces, and clearly can't do any good. This started in in 1990, going by the article. That's 30 years of a "deterrent" that hardly anybody knows they have to avoid. (That, obviously, is the difference I'm more certain of. :P )
Stranger Things theme played by cathode ray tubes and relays
This is, frankly, something that completely did not change since times immemorial.
Adding to the list that already exists:

- task oriented. Don't build a complex do-it-all UI, split it into tasks, one at a time

- use simple, clear language to support what you want to user to do

- have a flow to guide the user in the task, so that the user does not need to come back or jump all over in the page

- do the "mother test": show it to your old mom, if she understands then you are in the right direction, otherwise ask her what she gets and what she does not get from your app. Repeat until almost anyone can use your app