skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Anyone who can afford to not take out the loans ends up with a 9% pay rise.

You must take into account the potential capital income they lost and paying the risk of not getting well paying job from their own purse. If the government substituted loan has little lower rate than market rate, the choice between taking a loan versus paying it beforehand can be neutral or close to neutral.

>Anyone who can afford to pay them back early (high earning graduates) end up saving.

Isn't that a good thing? Aligning the incentives of the lender and the borrower.
what a load of rubbish. fake news & social engineering has always been around. it's just there are more channels for it nowadays, and due to the freedom of publish, those at top have to mix a lot of truth with a bit of nonsense, to keep control
Check out the The Simple Path to Wealth. It really made everything click for me, in terms of personal finance.
I live in the Heidelberg/Mannheim area of Germany and this problem is most definitely not restricted to passive houses.

I know several people with top floor apartments that regularly come home to 32°C apartments after work in the summer. Summers here are hot with little air movement and even sleeping with open windows it's impossible to get it cooled down in the night.

If I didn't live in a rental place I would definitely invest in air conditioning.
It doesn't seem to make much sense letting sour grapes direct policy.

For example, I eat healthy and exercise every day. I could complain that virtually nobody else does yet I'm effectively stuck in the same insurance pool as them. And I could use this to forever resent a single-payer system as well. But that's just silly.

Or something like "Ugh, I didn't eat pizzas every night because I had no health insurance. It's unfair if everyone gets healthcare for free! Think of all those pizzas I missed out on!"
Yes he did, apparently you didn't read the bit about wanting the torque, which electric cars have from 0-20, and then peter out (except Teslas).

For a mainstream electric car, the Bolt is exceptionally good in driving more like a 2009ish Rav4 than a 2017ish Kia Soul, but it's no sports car, even in sports mode. But in a world where people think a Scion FRS is a sports car, I can understand the confusion.
Congrats! That takes some hard work and sacrifice but it sounds like it was worth it.

The mortgage interest deduction has been capped (at $750k iirc?) in the latest tax law so that should get less absurd.
Yes, spanish and portuguese is all you hear when walking through the malls in South Florida.
I love how simple this is, but does it support including email attachments? I couldn't determine that based on the content of the website.

EDIT: similarly, does it support MMS in addition to SMS?
You can host your own repository and have full control over it without having to override all the github links to your internal links.
"That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about stars to dispute it."

Is usually my issue.
Data goes bang: understanding personal data and privacy in a data driven world
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Victim blaming requires actually blaming the victim, not just identifying and studying them. If this were an article about genetic predisposition to a particular disease, I don't think you'd call it victim blaming and point out that people without this predisposition get other diseases too.

Victim blaming happens when you explain what they should have done to avoid being victimized. You get a lot closer to that with your final paragraph than the article ever does.
Not comparable at all. The total value of owner-occupied real estate is 2.4 times the total owner-occupied mortgage debt. [1][2] It's not much of a problem having $300k in mortgage debt if my house is worth $500k. I can sell at any time and pocket $200k.

I can't do anything with a student loan. I can't sell my education. I can't discharge the loan in bankruptcy - something that could be done with a mortgage if I were somehow underwater. There's no way to escape it, and it mostly impacts the young who both have lower income available to deal with it and should putting away as much for retirement as possible.

[1]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HHMSDODNS
[2]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOOREVLMHMV
Even cookies aren't required (see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616 and https://serverfault.com/questions/163511/what-is-the-mandato... for an explanation). It entirely depends on the client and convention.

That said, browsers typically send headers such as ACCEPT, REFERER and USER_AGENT (see https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/what-http-headers-is-... for a complete list of headers for your browser).
Thanks. I just edited my comment.
> It rewards a poor decision, one that others handled better.

Do you believe this about health care as well?

Some people exercise and eat healthy every day yet they share the same scarce medical resources as someone who smokes and is overweight. Those people may be in the same insurance pool and may pay the same for those services.

Aren't we rewarding the poor decision? Why does the guy working his ass off in the gym every morning have to pay for obese people? These questions sound the same to the ones you're asking, except in this case, it's just money and education instead of public health which is far more grave.
Can you make that argument with numbers?
I've been watching zippy for a while, unfortunately it relies heavily on Jython which is dead. Would be very interested to see progress on this! (And maybe contribute as well!)
Because we live in a world where most people use large E-Mail services like Gmail. And those providers don't know how to filter spam from your inbox. So they decided to blacklist IPs and IP ranges (if they have bad reputation, which is a completely intransparent metric), so people are now forced to pay services like Sendgrid or Mailchimp to get their E-Mail in those mailboxes.

Funny part is, that Google has all the best ML engineers working for them, yet they seem to be unable to check a mail for spam... They can teach a computer to play Go at superhuman level yet they are not able to check an E-Mail for the words Viagra and Cialis.
A reasonable proposal if Baby Boomers wouldn’t continue to subjugate future generations to crippling tax rates due to irresponsible financial policy decisions today.

The US has trillions (!!!) of dollars in liabilities that will need to be paid and we're still inacting tax cuts “because taxes are too high”.

http://www.usdebtclock.org/
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2018/02/helen_pluckrose.htm...
Maybe the pihole is for you, then? Certainly the price is right to try it.

https://pi-hole.net/
The malicious use here is treating GitHub as a package repository. GitHub should not do anything about this other than explicitly stating that GitHub is not a package repository and they cannot be held accountable for using GitHub in a really dumb way.
To save others from panicked searching, Stewart Brand still is not a naive utopian; he has not died.
Show HN: Helping midwives conduct safe deliveries in developing countries
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Our solution helps them in monitoring the delivery and making timely interventions to save lives. It is a Mobile tablet based intelligent labor monitoring tool which not only allows the staff nurse to register and enter vital signs of a pregnant woman but also reminds to monitor the labor vitals, as per the standard intrapartum protocol. It also generates alerts in case of complications, based on an inbuilt algorithm. The doctor at a remote location can also view the live labor progress and guide the staff nurse.

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We know HN has a lot of people who have experience in developing or selling software to hospitals & governments. We'd love to hear your thoughts on hospital/government sales, entering a different country with an existing product, and anything else that you've seen come up on your journey!
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You can't build a "ANSI C GUI library", because ANSI C has no graphical capabilities.
same here, I had created my custom themed html templates and css for pelican, but recently moved everthing to hugo. Complete control, no third party dependencies, no javascript (outside of pages with ttyrec recordings) and extremely fast to regenerate. Note this does assume you do your css preprocessing/minifying outside of Hugo though (I use compass), from Hugo's perspective your css is just another file.
The Decision Hypothesis – The Mythical Man-Month and Software Decision Documents
As someone with degrees is math and physics, I used to think this. I don't anymore. I think that those fields offer many opportunities to examine and analyse ideas, and that is important.
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> Or something like "Ugh, I didn't eat pizzas every night because I had no health insurance. It's unfair if everyone gets healthcare for free! Think of all those pizzas I missed out on!"

Since this proposal is debt-specific and retroactive, the analogy would be something like: "It's unfair if everyone gets all debt for prior health expenses repaid. Not their actual health expenses (however they were paid for), nor a reasonable health expense, but instead, whatever part of their health expenses are currently outstanding as debt."
Nanosculpture – The Art of Jonty Hurwitz
"Without insider knowledge I don't understand how I could beat the market short term."

This is my own conclusion as well. Well, either that or luck.

This goes double for long-term success. As the disclaimers say, past performance is no indication of future results.
What’s Hidden in the Senate Spending Bill?
So true. Fake news/social engineering has been around since at least The creation of the bible. But now fake news can reach people faster, spread more quickly, and be consumed in larger quantities because of facebook.
I’ve been wanting theaters to adapt a protocol like this to control the color of light sources in the theater (row lights, emergency exit sign). Make all those lights with color leds and let the color be controlled by signal embedded in the audio track of the movie — then subtle mood lighting effects would become an option for movie makers... would be fun for some movies — the stars wars scene in the emperor’s thrown room comes to mind as a good example.
I highly doubt they will ban cryptocurrencies from their ad-platform when they can barely stay afloat. I speculate Facebook did so only because they're under pressure plus Zuckerberg said he's looking into the blockchain. I wouldn't be surprised if they'll monetize Messenger or WhatsApp with (the speculation it self of) a token in 2019/2020, akin to Telegram. Messaging-based apps are notoriously hard to monetize and Zuckerberg has said on earning's calls that he's unsatisfied with Messenger's progress in terms of monetization.
Just a clarification for anybody else who might be reading this: there absolutely are mutable variables in pure fp languages like Haskell, you just have to explicitly ask for them (and reflect that fact in the type), i.e:

do
x <- newIORef 0
writeIORef x 2
print =<< readIORef x

will print 2. In fact, I'd argue that many times writing programs with mutable state is actually easier in Haskell/etc, especially when it comes to concurrency where something like software transactional memory [0] is invaluable (and more or less practically unusable in other ecosystems), if it fits your constraints.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_transactional_memory
I graduated college (Hofstra University) debt-free. (B.S. (Math) and M.S. (Computer Science).

I took the bus to campus, live at home, and worked while in school.

So part of me says "why should kids who wanted to live in a country-club atmosphere far away from home on borrowed money for 4 years get a bailout?"

However, I also realize the crippling seriousness of the problem.

I think the immediate solution is: The Governments Should Get Out of the Student Loan Business. Now. Allow private companies to give loans, but they're like any other unsecured loan, and you can cover them in a bankruptcy.

Tuition will drop like a rock! And maybe people will realize that not everyone has a "right" to go away to a country club for 4 years on borrowed (or someone else's) money.

Only if the Government stops backing student loans would I be happy with any sort of loan "forgiveness" program. And I think these people's creditworthiness should forever be tarnished.
Hi - thank you so much for posting here.
Please please get rid of MX. Please move to a better build tool - you will pull the ecosystem with you. And people will help you with that.

Secondly - I have not seen Graal Python anywhere. Is there a repo ? The GitHub project seems centred around Truffleruby. Graal Python would be awesome!
There's certainly a question of appropriate pedagogy. In my own experience though, I find the abstract definitions easier to apply in novel situations rather than specific representations.

If I see a thing in the wild that has invertable operations, then I immediately think about an underlying group structure. As subgroups of Sn though, it's harder for me to make that connection.

When learning abstract algebra and category theory and such, thinking up several concrete examples on my own pretty much dissolves the "arbitrary list of axioms" feel for me and makes the definitions seem quite natural.
That’s a good argument for not engaging in another trillion dollar war, but not necessarily for spending a trillion elsewhere.

Also: why is it particularly bad for 20-somethings to carry debt? They’re 40 years from retirement.
How exposed are Nano/Raiblocks lost from the hack?
As of now there are many exchanges https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/nano/trading_exchanges including major ones like Binance.

This is also why i decide to hold coins that i know i can hold with hardware wallets. Yes I wont make much gain speculating on altcoins, but i know i wont lose money due to risk as such
I've had the feeling that modern gui toolkits copy the dom not due to any superiority, but because of the massive developer base it has.
Funny you should mention future taxpayers in utero, because it's the generation with student loan debt that's not having children because they're too busy paying off student loans. They're skittish about getting married because maybe you're in love with someone who's $50k in debt, and you're not sure if you want to deal with that kind of burden.

Also, the idea of taxing "teachers, parents, and professors who lied to you" is absurd at face value.
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I got a bit lucky. I bought UVXY before the correction as a hedge against a correction. When my stocks were all declining the UVXY soared, which offset the losses I had in stocks. Overall I ended up 2.5% and could have been up 5% if I sold on the worst of it. But it's so volatile you don't know if it will swing up higher.

Having a Robinhood account I could not buy options, but I didn't know about the SVXY play anyways. Now I do, but who knows if SVXY will survive.
“Observable” vs. “Observable”
On my phone at the moment, so I’ll have to come back with an in depth Excel spreadsheet later (and I need to do additional research on Illinois pension debt; numbers available show it somewhere between $130-250 billion).

Cliff notes are military spending is ~$550 billion a year. Halving that gives us ~$275 billion a year ($2.75T over ten years) to direct towards unfunded municipal pensions that need bailing out and student loan debt forgiveness (along with other policies such as reducing the interest on student loans to zero in the interim to give borrowers relief). I also assume that social security tax thresholds are removed, preventing the need for general fund transfers to top up Social Security.

My apologies if I made it sound like we could write a single check and this is all fixed. It’s more the thought that we have ample resources to resolve both issues in a controlled, orderly fashion if orchestrated by competent government representation (a guy can dream).

Edit: we spent $2.4 trillion on Middle East wars
ES6 is elasticsearch 6, right?
I agreed with you until you mentioned that the problem stemmed from people want[ing] to author documents (not apps) that are more complicated..., thus implying that to make "pretty, fancy" web pages you need to complicate the process of creation: I totally disagree with that premise and think that it's entirely possible to create complex looking and behaving web pages without complex code or processes.

However, for the sake of convenience (mostly), people have accepted the use of 15 different toolkits as the normal prerequisite to creating websites. Why add a one liner JS script in the head when you can npm install it, etc...

Writing html and css like the old days is just as possible today as it was back then, and you now even have better tools to do so (Html 5, CSS 3). It's just a matter of actively choosing to do so.
This isn't really true. jQuery's compatibility can stretch all the way back to IE8, up to the newest devices. If you require the web to be more than a document viewer, then you might in fact need some different tools; but HTML/CSS/jQuery didn't solve those if you're going back that far, Flash did.

But HTML/CSS/jQuery still work to solve the problems they always did. And they're still used in production today. According to W3Techs, jQuery is still present in 96.2% of the sites they could determine a JavaScript framework for in the Alexa top 10M.[1] And the very popular CSS framework Bootstrap still has it as one of its dependencies.[2]

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

1: https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/js-jquery/all/all

2: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/getting-started/introducti...
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It may be using tabular numbers, a common feature in many non-monospace fonts.

https://practicaltypography.com/alternate-figures.html#tabul...
Hmm, triangulation is what happened to give Strava user's home location away with privacy zones. I also read the other day how multiple mics ("smart speakers" etc) can help locate someone's movement throughout a house. There's also smartphones who have infrared cameras on them like the CAT S60. And there's research where Bluetooth and WiFi can be used to assess if someone's home, and where their WiFi devices are located. Finally, I saw this picture with regards to 5G [1]. None of this is about AR glasses but I still thought it was interesting. Because the AR glasses part -even though AR isn't widespread- builds upon all of the above examples as input data.

[1] http://ictvietnam.vn/files/tccntt/source_files/2017/01/27/06...
Addressing the "astronomically rising tuition" issue is equally important.
Do you (or anyone reading) have any way to expand upon this? I.E. what sorts of patterns/practices/tradeoffs lead to building a more "understandable" system?
I usually end up buying things in the supermarket I didn't explicitly intend to buy, and obviously the supermarket is set up in a way to encourage such impulse purchases, but I would not describe it as a scam. I am not reading any regret into that post.
That seems reasonable, and it’s what Django does as well I think. The change list doesn’t mention it hence my comment.

I’m not surprised that deprecation logic is harder than the new features.
Like a fridge / freezer which is usually left on 24/7.
For F#, is it a debugger designed for F# or just good integration with VS’s .net debugger? If the latter, I should mention that the problem remains even when using C# if your code gets too functional (e.g. getting rid of some LINQ for debuggability is a common trade off).
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ECMAScript 6, an expansion to JavaScript.

A concise feature list can be found here: http://es6-features.org
It looks like the Paragon data is nominal dollars but the Economist adjusted to account for inflation. If you flip the Economist chart to nominal dollars, it's a +158% difference, so that's a good chunk of the difference but not all.
You took the red pill ;) humans are group animals, we're constantly influencing each other. Individuality is a myth.
I'm not sure what you're getting at? I'm not explaining climate change, I'm simply explaining that sea level rise isn't uniform.

The total volume of water increases both due to melting of on-land ice and thermal expansion of the water column - however it is the case that the resulting increased volume is not evenly distributed, due to the factors I mention above.

If you're getting at "crustal thickness" - there are areas of thin or less dense crust where the value of g is lower by a tiny amount - but this tiny amount is enough to cause less water to gather in that area over the vast depth of the water column, as it's essentially uphill to there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_of_Earth#Local_topogra...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_anomalies_of_Britain_a...
No. This is more similar to finding out that x virus causes y symptoms: that doesn't blame the sick folks for having the virus. It simply explains some stuff that is happening. When we better know what causes something, we are better prepared to do something about it. We have some fact-based reasoning to base our actions on.

It is, indeed, rational to be skeptical of information presented, especially when things are still developing, it is likely that we don't yet have all the facts, or during times of high stress or panic. It is rational to realize we all hold misinformation, and that some of the stuff we've learned is no longer true. But it takes some intelligence to realize this stuff. Furthermore, it takes a bit of energy to do so. Hence otherwise smart folks believing the fake stuff or not being able to pick out truth from the mess. Cognitive ability varies during the day, after all, and with situations (stress, being sleepy or chronic lack of sleep, hangovers, and various other things affect this stuff temporarily at least).

I'll add that some folks that appear "smart" aren't any smarter than the rest of us. Rather, we just meet them in a context that shines the best light on them, they are good at memorizing facts, or their knowledge base differs from our own.
Not sure about this one, but it seems many of these exchanges (and blockchain solutions in general) were built by people with very little experience in building financial transaction systems. Almost like they jumped on the bandwagon although having little more experience than being a frontend dev. If you worked with traditional financial transaction systems, HSMs, regulatory bodies and their over-the-top audits, you will have more of a sense how to design solutions like this. Might not apply here but from what you say it seems likely.