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* you can view top posts of the past day, past few days or week​, with tabs!

* there is a sidebar (only visible on desktop) on which you can easily access your own posts (or someone else's post that you want to follow)​

The UI works well on mobile. The entire site is static and hosted on github pages. It updates periodically (once every 10min for now; You don't need to check HN more often than that, do you? :)).

This side project is our experiment ground to use artificial intelligence, especially natural language processing, to make consuming information more enjoyable. So there will be more to come (maybe slowly). If you think your reading experience can be improved in some way using AI, please feel free to share on this HN thread. We may be able to implement it for you!
If you have the React debug browser extension it lights up when it detects react. There is a way for the project to not as its supposed to be only for development.

Anyways, I'm a huge fan and supporter of React.

However, sadly, you can tell sites that use React due to a few bugs.

The most noticeable is/was funnyness with input box focus and state. Facebook's embedded Messenger on web always bugs out on me by not accepting the text im typing.
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> other than to tell a whole bunch of young people that they can't afford to learn further in the US educational system.

There are tons of alternatives to funding a very expensive university through debt. Work part time, pick a cheaper school, get a bunch of credits at community college, or do all 3. And that is all without a single scholarship - of which there are many you may qualify for.

It’s irresponsible to just throw your hands up and claim that there’s no other way around it...
If you want to argue Snapchat doesn’t have a market... go right ahead.
azure is definitely the nicest for jupyter notebooks
I see it mostly as a summary of the "common wisdom"; it has been a mantra for years that you should "just put it on github", but now that Mircosoft has reminded us all of how cynical the world truly is, suddenly the scientists that paid attention before are to blame?
“How did you accidentally erase your phone?” “I sneezed at the wrong time.”

Apple makes secure devices but doesn’t go for the type of customizable security you’re interested in, I imagine because the number of people compelled to unlock their phone under duress is so small as to be negligible. I hope.
No, IIRC from reports years back, there is considerable evidence that this kind of fraud was not often not initiated by applicants but encouraged by lender agents, who were in turn encouraged by lender policies and incentive structure, which was set by lender executives. This isn't lack of diligence, this is setting a policy with reasonably foreseeable consequences.
The logic is pretty much the same. Just replace kids with selfish interest. It's still qualitatively better to be Warren Buffet's partner #42 than Joe Shmoe's #1.
A college tuition in what sense?

College degrees have different values - an engineering degree has a very different value than a history degree. Since the tuition at four year schools for both degrees is (largely) the same but the financial value after graduation is different, I would argue that one of those degrees is a luxury degree while the other is not.

If you're arguing "the middle class should be able to afford college tuition without debt", that's a slightly different argument, but I'm not sure it has any merit (given the above that students make _choices_ about what degree to seek and that some degrees are luxury degrees).
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Don’t worry, I’m exactly the same way.

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Me: Dammit, which command is which again? angry Googling

It’s like the syntax for creating a symlink: I could live to be 100 and still forget the order of the arguments to ln.
I keep waiting for an article wherein the author details their move overseas and renunciation of US citizenship to start a debt-free life in Germany or Australia.
Now imagine the same about drugs. Sure you an blame people for taking bad decisions and ruining their lives, but some systems or laws seem to prevent people from taking those decisions, or limit their impact. While other do the exact opposite. The US system seems to encourage people taking those bad decisions right now. I think the combo super easy loan + no bankruptcy + expensive university + "american dream" mentality is financially deadly.
> How is it baffling when you literally did the same thing with credit card debt?

I entered college when credit card companies were just starting to practice predatory sign-ups on campus and at college events. And many of the tactics they used back then have since been outlawed. That was also at a time when the wealth of information we now have in the internet did not exist. Given the myriad of channels to learn these days, it's baffling. Hell, how many different reviews do we read before making a decision on where to eat, or where to get our oil changed?
The debt in this case was self imposed, and I'm completely confused about that. To follow a passion, why not take classes at a community college? I may be leaving empathy here, but but the decision seems inexcusably foolish.

Relatedly, I remain confused about why, in another common case for further education, parents are allowed to take these loans out on behalf of their children. College at this point serves a couple of purposes in society, but the financial driver is probably that it is a sign of successful parenting. If a parent can't afford to send their children to college, they should have to do so with a collateralized loan, not one they can saddle upon their child.
> Compliance is not the goal of speeding tickets

It's the goal of the state policy authorizing them, even if it isn't the goal of the local government issuing them.
I've read the real thing was to have aluminium cutlery.
Except it's missing 96 bits (which is the vast majority) of the hash. So it's not a SHA1 hash.

Why do you think that most passwords are just in the first 64 bits of a SHA1 hash?
Angels should be willing to take higher risk and their biggest motivation should be innovation not return.
while the thing did fit on a 5" 1.2MB floppy and ran fine on my 286, i do recall bringing this to a friend on multiple 360KB 5" floppies, and being amazed to discover it ran, albeit with serious framedrop, on his 4.77 Mhz PC XT computer after unarchiving the game to his 5MB HDD.
You can put a coprocessor inside the cartridge. I believe that Another World used the Super FX coprocessor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_FX
Umm, support staff exist largely for this exact reason. In college I worked in IT support for the CS professors and would setup whatever services a lab needed.
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Not after that update in February, no. I’ve never seen a product lose such a large percent of its user base so fast, and it doesn’t seem to have recovered at all.
Alcohol (ethanol) is often denatured with methanol when sold for purposes other than drinking. This avoids the excise taxes and other restrictions on selling alcohol.
I use it a lot when travelling. (In google translate) it’s great.
The only way these companies can reclaim the money that they've lent to students is through the backing of the government, and the legal mechanisms that have been provided to them to use the state to collect money.

Isn't cancelling debt a form of less government interference, where the government will no longer allow its resources to be used to go after another person's property?
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Awesome post :) There's a lot of victim blaming in the student loan debt world. Let me attempt to explain how we can fix the system.

1) Education is too expensive (especially relative to the value it delivers).

2) But, that money isn't even going towards the underpaid adjuncts who teach the classes. wtf??

3) Tuition expenses mostly go towards administrative salaries, very very old established professors, and buildings and services. This needs to change.

4) But it can't change, because you can't just open a college and get it accreditted easily. This is a regulated industry, just like the health insurance industry. You have to do the song and dance for months in front of regulators, who have their own interests in keeping competitors out.

So, all in all, the student gets screwed, the company that hires them receives questionable value add, and the college administrators and banks make a killing.

It is a massive wealth transfer that delivers little value.
Just the machine learning scientists, most every other community are more or less fine with them.
The worst kind of tech debt is test debt: the huge body of unidentified and undiscussed tests that never get considered. On an "agile" team where there are no test specialists, and the emphasis is on CI/CD with fully automated tests, those tests are confirmational: these tests verify that the code works as expected, and they have to run fast. If you have an SDET, then their work is most likely focused on tooling to improve the efficiency of the dev team, and not to exploring and learning about the applications to drive quality. This is delivering "working code" with eyes closed and fingers crossed, and this test debt hangs like the Sword of Damocles above your company's customers.

The role of test specialists is to try and make the unknown unknowns a little less unknown. If you have decided that it's finally time to hire a test specialist, then you have that huge test debt PLUS immediate pressure to focus on new features.
I agree. You can't have it all - a man with one butt can't dance at two weddings. You have to make a choice between aggressively getting ahead in your career and family.

I think more couples should think about the effect that thier (not just her) career will have on thier family and choose to make the necessary lifestyle choices accordingly.

I married my wife in our mid thirties and she had two kids she was raising by herself - in a good neighborhood (meaning they weren't struggling). We've made plenty of career limiting choices to put our marriage and our family first. She took a pay cut to work a job with fewer hours and less pay and I gave up all of my side hustles and refuse to work a job that requires extended frequent travel, long hours, or a long commute.

I don't expect a business to accomadate my family choices or to reward me as highly as someone who is willing to put in 70 hours a week. On the other hand, a business shouldn't expect me to sacrifice more than 40-45 hours a week with my family for their benefit. I'd much rather lose my job than lose my wife.
Neil Degrasse Tyson once said that if you wanna be the first trillionire in the world, start mining asteroids.
It does work offline, if you’ve got the right language pack downloaded.

Very useful indeed. (And on iOS too, someone above asked.)
I'm pretty sure the role of feminism in all this is, "women can do whatever the hell they want, if they wanna be a SAHM, that's fine, and if they don't, that's fine, too."
I did not know that but it doens't really change the conclusion. If the government left the banking sector alone then banks would have to handle loan and security as a matter of self preservation.

Looking from a historical perspective we are really running late on a dept-reseting event. Usually a civil war or bank run caused a reset on the economy once in a while but the latest period of government banks, global banks and banks too large to fail has so far been protected by government interference from the same fate. The result is that there is a lot more unsecured debt in the economy than a strict market based economy with no government interference would allow.
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What you're describing is a special medical scenario, not a universal burden shared by all women. Health problems can disable people of any gender.
Is it unreasonable discrimination or is there a performance degradation correlated with pregnancy?
We’re talking about AR’s market, not Snapchat’s market. Snapchat is popular, sure, but is it because of AR or because of something else?
The Perl Cookbook is just great. IIRC I have it, though not looked at it lately. (Had read most of it earlier, though.) I also have the Python Cookbook for Python 2 [1] and for Python 3 [2]. Both those are great too. All three are by O'Reilly Media. It's not only that you get ready-made recipes that you can use; you get to learn a lot about language and library features and software design too, from such books.

[1] The chapter on iterators and generators is excellent, and full of useful ideas and code snippets you can reuse and build upon. I think a large part of that chapter was written by Raymond Hettinger, who also has designed and implemented much of those features in Python, IIRC. This book is written by many contributors, for the different sections and recipes.

[2] Interestingly, the Cookbook for Python 3 takes a somewhat different approach. It still has recipes, of course, but they are presented without too much discussion. The authors expect you to (and say so explicitly up front) use more of your time and thinking to figure out how they work (and to read the relevant Python and external library docs for the background information needed), rather than giving detailed explanations (not that the explanations in the previous edition are very detailed, but they are there). David Beazley and Brian Jones are the main authors of this one, IIRC.

Both models have their merits, IMO. In fact, overall, I think the approach of the Python 3 Cookbook may be better, at least for experienced programmers, because it makes you think and do more on your own (using the book as a base), from which you grow more as a programmer.
Would also recommend. I watched nearly all of these videos without captions when I first came across the channel before I realized there were captions.

It's fun to "play along at home" and try to figure out why he's doing something without the captions.
The difference is that SpaceX realizes the goal is aspirational, and isn’t signing people up for doomed rides to Mars right now.
Is that what that argument says?
What would really take AR to the next level is something like Google glass, where you’re essentially always in AR.

The only downside is that you’d have to wear extra glasses, which might not be ideal if you already wear prescription, and that the technology is way too expensive for most people.

But overall, I don’t think an AR boom is that far away.
Awk is nice to know, but my experience is that Perl one-liners are a lot faster. And where you have Awk, you usually find Perl also.
It appears I’ve touched a nerve;

But I named the issue in the US that I truly feel the most consternation about.

That’s the nerve.
You’re being downvoted for what I suspect is a combination of moral disagreement and disagreement that one can practically do this without dire consequence.

But, this is an interesting thought exercise. I read some of these stories, and think to myself that living overseas for the rest of my life doesn’t sound too bad comparatively. I could even imagine a country seeking skilled immigrants might even pitch a citizenship path for people looking to start over.
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It seems as if VR is one of those things where getting to 90% isn't very useful for most people and even if you get to essentially 100% (wireless, usable with mainstream processing power, comfortable lightweight goggles), it may not be all that interesting outside of some niches like certain types of gaming or virtual worlds. A lot of the time people don't want to be immersed.

AR, on the other hand, is very amenable to incremental development. You don't need a Google Glass 2.0 with all the technical and social challenges associated with that. A phone that you can point at something and get information about it is already useful.
I bought a sailboat. Similar effect, but lower carbon emissions.
Well, sure. Which sort of reduces to "Australia doesn't have a problem with affirmative action because it very racially uniform". It's not like[1] the US can adopt these policies by deporting it's minority population in services to it's approaching-mere-plurality-status white cohort.

[1] No matter how hard the current administration seems intent on trying.
You lost the jury at “lender policies and incentive structures.”
Make it couple percent of the cost of the car driven :)
Do you have a 1 or more recommendations for how to fairly treat poor who are also crappy drivers? Poverty sucks, and I don't have any bright ideas that would keep poor+bad drivers behind the wheel.
FOIA is civil rights legislation from 1967. Clinton's entire campaign was based around the premise of rolling back those sorts of civil rights era protections, which is why she didn't turn over her email to the state department as was required by law.
> And of course, any growth is bad in the current situation since the current level is so unsustainable

Which resources are currently constrained? You'll find most of the growth is occuring in "low-maintanance" developing economies that don't consume as much (energy, food, goods, or any random metric per capita) as developed economies.

My counter-thesis: it's not the growth that's unsustainable, but the wasteful and environmentally unfriendly throw-away consumerist lifestyles.
Yeah, we're so close to that, better worry right now.
The first thing that struck me was to try to write, or port, some bare-metal emulators.

E.g. extend an Atari TT/Falcon emulator to use as much as possible of the RasPi's resources -- all the RAM, an emulated blitter & FPU, the SD card as a big hard disk. There are several FOSS OSes for the ST now; this would make an interesting selection of old ST OSes accessible to a new audience on the cheap.

The only FOSS Amiga OS I know of is AROS and they're already working on a native port, but a bare-metal Amiga emulator would be fun to have, too. Classic MacOS would also be great. :-D

AFrOS; SMSQ/E; CP/M-68K.
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> You shouldn't be able to put people in jail for a crime you can't explain to a group of a dozen ordinary people.

This sounds so wrong. Why shouldn't people whose only virtue (related to the case) is being smart enough to come up with complex crimes go to jail? Are we forgetting just how, well, average the average person is?
I'm pretty sure the Tunguska event was an asteroid aero-braking into the ground. Where are you going to put the kinetic energy? Once it hits atmosphere there's not a lot you can do. Maybe attach a really big parachute.
"Bank employees were instructed to tell prospective clients to lie about their income, drastically, and sometimes helped them do it. Bank employees did this because when people lied about their income, the bank made more money, even though doing so put people at financial risk."

I'm not sure this is a hard case to make.
I think it is interesting to reflect on the idea that high technology builds on top of primitive technology. Just as he uses past tools to make more complex tools, every human era of technology builds upon the last. You could say primitive stone tools are in the recipe for developing an ICBM or a semiconductor if you go back far enough.
There is both an abnormal amount of promotions that you have somehow personally witnessed -- doesn't sound like you were even involved with, we'll also ignore implicit psychological biases here -- while you happened to overhear THE core group of people involved in some conspiracy to enable your overall incredibly inordinary talking point.

There's a word for this: contrived.

It is extremely unlikely that such a company would exist in the current landscape, one willing to needlessly promote women, especially when considering their prior or current pregnancy status. I'm having myself a pretty big giggle.
Patton said, word for word, "We defeated the wrong enemy" when he was relieved of his command. Which is trivial to find had you spent 10 seconds in google.
I'd love to see it.
It's not exactly a blockbuster but it works. I've never seen anyone use it. Then again, I've never seen anyone use Snapchat.
do people still use BlackBerry in Washington? Seems a little out of date to me...
> Tuition expenses mostly go towards administrative salaries, very very old established professors, and buildings...

At many (most?) universities, established professors make only slightly more than new hires because the budget simply isn’t there to pay significantly more and so the salary range compresses. And honestly, instructor pay seems like a good place to be spending money.

On the other hand, administration costs are out of hand. Some universities have crossed the 50% threshold and now spend more on administration than everything else combined.
How hard is it for some ont to use the GitHub api and port all of that over to a new system?
There are soy protiens that structurally mimic thyroid hormones and can bind at receptor sites, if I recall correctly.
There's nothing like the unique joys of spending tens of billions of dollars and decades to have your metallic asteroid burn up 90% of it's mass on reentry, the rest explodes over a wide area or sinks into the sea, and being arrested for use of a WMD.
I hadn't really appreciated it when it was being built, it just seemed to be so much future tech.
Alternative: crash the asteroids into the moon, have robots recover the valuable minerals. Use a rail gun system to fire it back to Earth, processed, while enjoying the low gravity of the moon.
I oversee some junior and mid-level developers. In this person's opinion, based of course on my own experience, traits I most strongly associate with someone becoming a mid-level developers involves identifying issues that have not been specifically brought to their attention; seeing problems coming down the pipe or seeing ways that something they're doing (or not doing) now could cause problems later; seeing opportunities in how we work or what we do that we could take advantage of now for a pay-off later. Essentially, providing useful output in both directions. It's not just being better and faster at writing code. I'd expect a mid-level not to make various of certain classes of mistakes, but not making those mistakes just makes someone a skilled junior dev; mid-level is about seeing beyond the boundaries of the ticket at hand.
this would be unthinkable here in Iceland. we are looking for sw eng and sre here : https://jobs.netapp.com/job/Greenqloud%2C-Iceland-Office-%28...
The children of East Asian immigrants perform better than the children of white Americans. How does the language hypothesis you put forth account for that?
There are companies out there doing targeted industrial/corporate AR work that are not as visible.

Also, they suffer less from the bulky/inconvenient problems. If AR can save a company a lot of money, they can afford a more powerful and more expensive lightweight setup than a consumer. People are working, not doing recreation, so a slightly bulky and inconvenient headset would be put up with more etc.
And firing chunks of metal at the earth doesn't seem problematic to you?
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