skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, I think you're being uncharitable and attacking straw men.

One doesn't need to "acknowledge... each time they want to talk" (whether it's smokers, needle-sharers, parents, or whatever). Rather, it's just a matter of how one phrases things, e.g. avoiding a sense of entitlement or being condecending.

> And I don't even think that having children is like sharing needles.

I think it it, in precisely the sense that I mentioned it: that it's avoidable, and may have severe negative consequences. No more, no less.

> There we are getting into category where you imply that having children is somehow morally bad

Not at all. I wasn't passing moral judgement, I was giving examples of situations where someone complaining about problems they're suffering may have to choose their language carefully, to avoid being judged harshly in a social context. No more, no less.

> or is it having children while not being 100% happy about every aspect of child raising?

Again, that's a straw man.
Whow, all of a sudden California is finally safe again. Remember Silkwood? This was it.
One of the most dangerous places on earth, with a potential critical impact on the whole nation.
Caring for and raising children is a sacrifice. It’s a difficult and unpaid 24/7 job that you’re locked into for 18 years.

You’re constantly putting the needs of a tiny human ahead of your own. If you do a good job then they benefit far more than you do. And they won’t realise the extent of your efforts until (or unless) they have children of their own.

Seeking praise is pointless. But it’s driven by the same themes the parents in the article talk about.
> There is no claim on productive enterprise involved

That's not true. Many coins offer practical solutions to real world problems. Whether they are adopted at scale is the gamble. Very similar to betting on companies with stock.
Yes, we do not carry much (the only flag is alpha thalassemia on my side), and nothing in common, which makes sense, since we are completely different backgrounds. We've had genetic testing on the babies too... all normal.
Just because someone can’t default on their loan doesn’t mean they can pay it.

It’s also not hard for me to imagine, in the near future, a social media movement like “don’t pay back your loans.”
> It's not paying by the hour that was the problem, it was the huge capex and million dollar service contracts that made people want freedom. In that sense, cloud is the opposite of mainframe:

Actually, it was identical according to you description. Today, there is the decision of on-prem vs of remote computing, which was the same decision then.

> instead of, "Here, spend a million dollars and get locked into a service contract," it's, "Here, spend $0 up front and just pay for usage, then leave whenever you want."

The huge capex and million dollar service contracts still exist today, for example. There have been articles posted here on HN about companies that moved to the cloud for savings, grew their business, and eventually left their cloud provider due to high costs.
> Let’s be clear, students will NEVER be allowed to default these loans, nor should they.

Why not?
> Your argument seems to be simply that radically more data would enable better predictors.

The point is that transparency enables markets to accurately price risk and prevents the sort of market paralysis that caused the liquidity crunch.

Yes, it's true that people COULD have spent weeks figuring out the status of at least some of the CDOs on the market. But in reality no-one was reading 200 page long prospects that listed the exact mortgage originators and housing complexes of their CDOs. Buyers and sellers did not necessarily even have this data in peer-to-peer marketplaces. Financial institutions and their brokers bought securities based on their ratings, and dumped them ASAP once it became clear the entire sector was poisoned and they were doubtless overvalued.

> unless you force every contract to be public, blockchain technology will not help you that much

Smart contracts are public BECAUSE blockchains are open access. All parties can see the transfer of tokens on the network for the contracts that matter to them. No-one in the public necessarily knows what any contract represents, but if I am sold one I can monitor it in real-time. That was not possible with mortgage backed securities in 2007.
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What do you mean catered towards juniors? I interview people a lot and part of the interview, junior or not, involves a short coding test. The reason it is done is because some people can skate along and make an impressive resume but there is nothing to validate that resume. How do I know someone did the work that they are claiming? Not everyone has a github, and even then it can take time to validate someone's work.
In all of those cases there was legislation passed after the crises... in this case, the US government has already guaranteed all of the loans and has no way of getting out of the without the US government defaulting. That only leaves room for printing money, which hurts all holders of US dollars.
Maybe if they hate the approach, the interview is a successful filter.
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ya, I had this thought as well, but then the IRS garnishes your wages until you die. So how does it pop? Seems like a lot of people would have to go to jail or something along those lines for it to actually happen?
I would say:

1. Decentralized

2. Anonymous depending on the coin

3. Less fees (once scaling is fixed) for international needs

4. Non-government / state-controlled currency
Debt doesn't pass on to kin, any that can be is paid off by your estate and what is left is written off.

You could theoretically calculate when the bubble is going to pop but figuring out when the majority of loans was issued, life expectancy and some financial details on student loan recipients. With details along these lines you can theoretically calculate an approximate picture of how much student loan debt will be written off and when.
>pass it down to their heirs.

AFAIK, (and I'm a pretty ignorant fellow) debt in America isn't passed down, the creditors just take what they're owed out of a dead person's estate before its divied up by a will. So there could be a big "pop" if a bunch of people with lots of student loan debt and no assets die.
Anytime the US wants the world to be a certain way but just can't quite get reality to conform debt is our answer. Everyone should be a homeowner but for some reason isn't? Simple, just give them cheap loans for houses. Everyone should be educated but it doesn't seem to be happening? Debt time. Why do we do this? Because it allows us to pretend that complicated long-term structural problems are simple short-term capital problems. People just need some activation energy to get over the hump, that's all. We're addicted to debt, if we ever admitted that it's not solving these problems for us we'd have to contend with reality, and who wants to do that? Especially a reality as dismal as that of public education.
More know BCH is Bitcoin every day.
> and making sure one is ahead of it.

I was with you till the last bit. How does one "keep ahead" with that timescale?
Because that was the deal.
Yes... it's a bit more complicated than that as well. Often times, if a baby is abandoned (on the street or in a hospital), the foster care system will not 'free' that child for adoption until the child is two years old. Not every person is able to foster (that's a very involved process), even if they would be able to adopt. These children basically languish in the system in the hopes that their current set of parents (the ones who abandoned them) will come back, and the law does not move fast. I do not know whether it's a good or bad thing in general, but for the children it fails it's pretty awful.
I think the bigger issue is that the interview-to-hire process is not fool-proof, and never will be.

It's a gamble, no matter how in depth or complicated your hiring process is (from personality interviews to whiteboarding to take homes). Being interviewed and doing well is a skill set and it's very different from a full time work-place skill set.

All of these interviewing processes that get refined and more lengthy just create a new class of people who are good at being interviewed.

I don't know what the solution is, but making candidates jump through 3-4 interview rounds, memorize algorithms just for the sake of it, and go through 4 to 8 hour on sites probably isn't it. Even if it happens to give you a better-than-average employee, what are you sacrificing (as a business) in terms of man-hours, productivity, and focus?

Personally I'd like to see more companies institute a temp-to-hire process. Bring in new candidates for a two or three week contract, see how they fit in, pay for the their time (at a discount), and then go from there. If it doesn't work out, you get some work done for your company, and they get some relevant experience for their resume.

Writing the perfect resume and re-reading CTCI for the 10th time won't tell you how well the candidate will perform, but seeing them actually work might.

As to your point about marketing - I agree. Not one of these approaches are really novel or helpful to anyone but the company themselves, and is just a glorified "look at how we took a chance" tactic.
You can still default on student loans, you can't discharge them.
If that's the case, shouldn't this be flagged?

Also, you mentioned the Fed, which isn't the same thing as the US gov't, right?
US government backed student loans were a huge mistake.

We needed something like rent control enforced on public universities, for government backed loans.
But we didn't.

So it created a situation that caused an enormous amount of millennials to be taken advantage of by universities and colleges. Those universities and colleges pumped full of government loan cash became increasingly predatory. They increased their administrative costs, they increased their tuition costs, and they lured unsuspecting teenagers into taking enormous debt for worthless degrees like gender studies over engineering.

This has been a catastrophe, that will be used as a case study of unintended consequences.

The extreme amount of student loans has lead to extreme unrest, unless action is taken quickly it will only get worse.
We see it in the rise of the alt-left and alt-right fueled by extreme fanatics in desperate and angry situations.
> Let’s be clear, students will NEVER be allowed to default these loans, nor should they. They must either pay it or take their debt to the grave and pass it down to their heirs.

You wanna try that again with a little empathy?
As autonomous cars go, I'm in the "maybe in 20 years" camp. So if GM offers these for sale by 1/1/2020, I'll eat literal crow (cooked, please; don't want disease). Given that, here's my cynical take: GM knows full well the Feds aren't going to approve this by next year, giving them cover when the car isn't ready.

OTOH, if I can buy a car with no steering wheel nor pedals, and it can take from my home in Redmond to, say, Seattle without my intervention, then I will happily throw a little Tabasco on that baked crow while I open a browser to order one.
Correct. The question is what, precisely, you'd use to bet against the student loan market. Since of the people who "successfully" shorted real estate found themselves running into trouble cashing out because the same institutions they'd bet against got hammered when housing popped and themselves defaulted. How do you successfully bet against the stability of the world-stabilizing fiat currency---the one other countries jam under their mattresses to back-stop against domestic economic turmoil?
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I am happy to announce actix web - 0.3 release!

It is complete redesign of the actix web framework. It got a lot of new futures, like http/2 support via just release h2 create or better streaming support. A lot of performance related work has been done, actix web now as fast as raw hyper server on normal load and faster on pipelined load.

New user documentation has been added and a lot of examples. It can be used with diesel and redis.

Features:

* Supported HTTP/1.x and HTTP/2.0 protocols

* Streaming and pipelining

* Keep-alive and slow requests handling

* WebSockets

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* Configurable request routing

* Graceful server shutdown

* Multipart streams

* Middlewares (Logger, Session, DefaultHeaders, CORS)
They can only garnish your wages if you’re a W2 employee, or use the banking system. Contractors need to pay their own taxes, and the IRS can’t garnish what it can’t see.

Gig economy + cryptocurrency + social media + student loan debt could lead to some very interesting times.
You can die without enough assets to pay off your creditors, debt doesn't pass to kin so anything remaining is written off.
I’ve heard Canada was bad from a few different people, that’s so surprising!

Czech Republic is an odd one, I’ve not had any problems personally and I’ve flown in and out of Brno and Prague a few times (though I prefer Vienna). Mind sharing what happened, purely to satisfy my curiosity? I had a weird issue when one customs guy was trying to tell me that I reported my passport missing a year prior, and he got extremely frustrated that I couldn’t understand what everything was saying. Nothing came of it, it was just a few confusing minutes with an obviously flustered person who was refusing to believe my Czech was as terrible as it was.
I was able to get similar numbers from:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FGCCSAQ027S
and
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FGTFASA027N
You can't get blood from a stone. If they don't have the money, they don't have it.
>The only 'solution' I can see to this problem, is to develop an alternative to the floating monetary unit, of solving the calculation of exchanging goods and labour.

So...communism?
I don't recall which FCC action it was last year, but as I recall, the large providers are no longer required to at least show they attempted to offer broadband to all households.

Previously they had to show state and fed gov't this info. Now they get to concentrate on providing access to the most profitable while ignoring the less profitable.
I always took issue with the primacy of young children as occupants, why didn't "middle aged diabetic on board" never take off? Is my father-in-law's life less important than my kid's? Does he deserve less careful driving?
One thing to keep in mind is that "assets" are far from "spending". Governments generally do not accumulate assets, everything they collect is reserved for spending (besides some operational accounts and things like foreign reserves). The student loan program is an exception and so figures heavily in this stat.
Thanks to baby boomers for depleting resources of this nation and now younger generations are stuck in this financial mess. Had they been more visionary with better overlook then today there would have been better opportunities for younger generation to earn and pay back those loans.

https://www.vox.com/2017/12/20/16772670/baby-boomers-millenn...
> Beside, when was the last time a conservative said, dammit, Bill won, or Obama won, I'm off to [some country].

If you mean, follow the patterns of suggesting if so-and-so wins, I'm out, a number of Republicans did that with Obama (and maybe the Clinton reelect in 1996.)

Though in the wake of the 2008 Obama win, there was also a big upswing in conservatives not specifically saying it about themselves, but predicting the wealthy in general would economically rebel by withdrawing from the economy and “Go Galt”.
It's tricky for interviewers because a lot of candidates claim to be "senior" yet can't even solve fizzbuzz on a whiteboard. Look for jobs with "Lead" or "Architect" in the title, but beyond that, expect that you'll have to go through some sort of stupid process as a bullshit screen.
Sure thing. BCH scales as Bitcoin was supposed to. It is supported by the original Bitcoin developers. It's electronic cash, directly peer to peer, not hub and spoke like Lightning. Bitcoin is now BCH.
>Turns out Swift does not have null pointers. At all!

Mostly true under the hood; optional value types are tagged unions (I didn't know this before reading this article and checking for myself), but optional reference types are still, as you'd expect, nullable pointers.[1]

[1] https://godbolt.org/g/QZk6wL
While reddit has a quite bad reputation, there are quite a few subbreddits which are heavily moderated and quite serious:

For example, /r/askhistorians requires that all answers be long form and cite peer-reviewed articles (no wiki, first person comments or pop-historians allowed).

Some of the tech subreddits there are much better than StackOverflow - for example, I get better answers on /r/rust than on SO.
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What's stifling about staying at home, and if you have kids, staying at home with the kids? Sounds perfect to me. Exactly what activities are you proposing someone would do in place of staying home that would be less "stifling"? Parks and hiking trails are nice, for one thing, which also happen to be more accessible in suburban or rural areas.
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Debt is the American way, it has been since the very beginning. When George Washington was elected President he was so broke he need a loan to get from Mount Vernon to NYC for his own inauguration.
If you do a regular sequence of major changes, you could pick that signal out. This would create a larger and more regular signal in the data than the random noise from leaves. I don't think you could accurately predict observation with just one set of environmental changes.
Wait, what? Since when is debt passed on to heirs? If I die with credit card debt, that debt dies with me. My kids don't have to pay my debt. Any assets I own will be sold to help pay off my debts, but if the sale of my assets isn't equal to or greater than my debts, the debt holders have to write off that debt.
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Notwithstanding entirely valid concerns about student loans, this is pure clickbait. The feds also own 30% of the nation's land (640M acres), and have the exclusive right to collect $3T+ per year in taxes (not to mention they can literally print dollars).
(I work on React.)

Note that this is based on React 15.6.2, an older version of React. In React 16 we rewrote almost the entire codebase so that one may be more interesting to look at, depending on your goals. I guess – just don't blame us for some of the strange code patterns in 15 (like that random TopLevelWrapper) that we've since gotten rid of. :)
The fact that private lenders are incentivized to give out more and more leads to universities charging more and more. Even with all the money being spent, the same (or in some cases less) level of education is being provided. On top of that, how do you repossess someones education in the case of default? You can't, so the government can do one of three things:

1.Pay off the loan holders (by printing money, huge inflation)
2.Allowing indentured servitude
3.Debt forgiveness (now all the lenders are out of money)

Sadly, I think the 3rd option is the best one, but is by no means actually a good one.
If there was a human inside the vehicle, why do they think people are thanking the car?
Which of those terms do you not consider modern? As far as I know all those terms are still in cirulation

Edit: sorry, I see you probably mean the content of the patent rather than the passage you quoted
Interesting. What might happen?
In the same sense that the mortgage industry was a bubble. For mortgages, the investor lent money to home buyers and expected a long-term payment schedule. The houses were being bid up.

If you assume student loans are a bubble: the long-term earnings potential of students is being bid up (and will collapse, leaving the government with lower worth/worthless assets.)
But so do a couple millimetres of extra depth.
And then the whole bus clapped!
well, you might be able to recover it using something akin to CDMA.
I don't really want to go down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole of who does what at the Fed but it's main decision makers are government appointees, it was established by an act of Congress, and it remits its profits to the Treasury.

Ginnie Mae is part of the government as well (also mortgages). Fannie/Freddie are GSE's but currently under directly government control since the financial crisis.

I'm not sure how the accounting works, but they are somewhat autonomous and have their own balance sheets.
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Healthcare is a much bigger problem for the government than student loans. The federal government spends about 1 trillion per year on healthcare, while the total of all student debt in the U.S. is around 1 trillion. This is true on a societal level too. U.S. healthcare spending is 17% of GDP, up from 5% in the 1960s. The problem with student loans is that the burden falls mostly on the least financially secure people. This is as opposed to Medicare/Medicaid where the government tries to foot the bill rather than allow people to get in massive debt.
How is that bailout guarantee structured? Fixed pool, or the money will just come from "somewhere?"
Part of me always wondered whether it was so if there was a horrific crash people would know to dig around in the wreckage for the baby seat.
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TIL I'm the equivalent of a badly written "Hello world".
Yes. The compression works by analyzing changes in the screen. A simple example of this would be if you are displaying data. Say you are taking real time data and it is scrolling across the screen. Your display moves the data to the left, drops off what moved out of the frame, and adds what is new. Pictures are more complex, but the idea is the same. Only take what is new.
Anecdotally, most if not all of the times I’ve been burned has been when I ignored my gut feeling.
the creditors just take what they're owed out of a dead person's estate

You mean the estate that contains value I would otherwise get the full value of were it not for the student loan debt that was taken out? The debt is most certainly passed down, it's just abstracted away a bit. The only way the debt doesn't get passed down is if the debtor dies penniless.

Another way to put it is if the creditor extracts anything to pay that debt after the debtor dies, then the debt is most certainly passed on to someone because that money didn't materialize out of nowhere.
Our coding test is over Skype and a collaborative editor. Is that a scenario when you would freeze up? Genuinely curious as there were a few cases where it seemed that people were way nervous.
Last time I checked, "the deal" as it were indicates, in writing, that student loan debt from the federal government is forgiven on death.
Well, it does actually solve the problem in the sense that it actually causes houses to be built and students to go to college. Probably this indicates the real problem is more about bad monetary policy and bad tax policy, not a fundamental shortage of resources.

Of course, it would be better to improve monetary policy rather than just making a bunch of dumb, risky loans leading to a dramatic boom and bust.

But that would require policymakers understanding basic macroeconomics, so don't hold your breath...
Government owns a lot of land, and land is most certainly an asset. Does it figure into these stats?

It would be rather deceptive to craft your definition of asset to exclude the most important one.
I was explained that the primary purpose is so emergency responders know to look in the event of a crash.
It is, of course, possible for the federal government to craft a deal that's actually bad for the American people.

When discovered to be so, it's also possible to alter the deal.
The point is they can’t recompile it.
US treasuries and mortgages are liabilities, though, right? This is the asset side of the balance sheet.