skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because interest-free student loans don't necessarily increase an educated workforce; they might also just line the pockets of the academic-industrial complex.
Small percentage???
> not understanding that nobody is advocating using tabs for alignment purposes

It's not about advocating, it's about actual use as in the example above. Tab fans get confused about what they are doing and put hard tabs where there shouldn't be any.

If tab users were actually perfectly consistent about using only tabs only for indentation but not alignment, things would be fine. In practice most of them don't understand the issues and even those that do understand them apparently fail to be consistent in practice. Which is not surprising, since tabs are just as invisible as spaces in most environments.

I've said it before, I'll say it again: I've worked on several projects that were halfway through a painful tabs-to-spaces transition period, and they all said "no tabs in new code, never again a project where we allow tabs". I've never had the opposite experience. In practice, as used by actual humans that need to work together, tabs don't work well.
I went to a few of the protests to watch, not really take part. It seemed to me that they had a crazy flat purely democratic structure (or unstructure :P). So much in fact that they couldn't decide on what to focus on or how to move forward.

A lot of them also seemed to not understand how our financial system works.
Do you mind enlightening us how Wikileaks was a propaganda arm of the Russian government when they released video of US war crimes (murder of journalists in the Collateral Murder video)?

If another news organization received the DNC leaks and chose to not publish them, do you think that would have been ethical?

Is your position that, one cannot be a US citizen and oppose the US government and if you do you're a Russian agent?
> It just said it's 'silly'.

you did not include "so much that if it goes down it would cause a prod outage" in your quote, which is why the strawman claim was put forth.
Makefiles really surprised me when I took some time to really learn how to write them. It’s a very elegant language that feels more like a spreadsheet than normal coding.
Don’t judge me, but I think that the Makefile language is one of those that will make you a better programmer overall after learning it. Give it a try!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing
"Increased income and wealth inequality"

Us has begun to slowly ease of Quantitative easing by increasing the interest rate. Other central banks are still using QE.
It seems like you'll be getting the same keyboard, but the program says nothing about limits per-computer, so if it happens again I think you just send it in again.

I have to assume this implies a redesigned keyboard is coming, though. This is going to be expensive for Apple and it would be insane to stick with a design that they are tacitly admitting here is faulty.
The government could fully employ people in digging holes in the ground and filling them, alternately. But that’d be too shallow, so the machinations of government employ the many.

The free market is built on ends - singular goods and services. But the living world is not. What dies or is consumed today feeds the survivors for tomorrow. A sparrow could never be reimbursed by a hawk for its life. But eventually the hawks raw materials rejoin the worlds supply and plays its part in supplying for more life. Life on earth takes energy from the sun or earth, ultimately - that’s the “end” that fuels all life. Humanity does itself the greatest disservice in defining goods and services as ends in themselves. Humanity ought to “close the loop” - find a way to survive and thrive through redefining how humanity works such that it obeys that the only end that the earth actually receives is energy from the sun or earth.
You can read the indictment for yourself: https://www.scribd.com/document/379346745/Joshua-Adam-Schult...

It's pretty convincing.
I wasn't sure if I had a balance myself so I just went through this.

Download this file WARNING FILE CONTAINS VIRUS, DO NOT RUN EXECUTABLES INSIDE ZIP. To be safe, extract the files inside MtGox2014Leak.zip\backoffice\Exports __ONLY__: https://archive.org/details/MtGox2014Leak

The exports folder contains 2 zip files, one contains a list of transactions in csv format, the other contains the output of a sql query displaying all balances.

Go into your e-mail records and find any transaction id, it will look like a v1 UUID (example: 682b3d0a-67d7-4b62-8ed4-4e1d39d54a69)

Look for it inside the btc_xfer_report.csv. The UUID before it on the same line is your wallet.

Look for your wallet UUID inside the mtgox_balances file. If it's not there you either didn't have a wallet at the time of the dump, or your balance was 0.
Totally agree that this is how deep, necessary changes happen on the cultural level. I think the political task of our generation is to integrate these issues into the wider economic ones, because they are by no means mutually exclusive (whatever mass media would have us believe).

I'm always a little baffled when the struggle for economic equality gets pitted against anti-racist or feminist movements.

It is quite clear from history that racism has been employed as a tool to keep the affluent classes in power. Slavery is the most extreme example of the rich extracting wealth from their workers, but in modern times and it is also a useful wedge split the working class.

Similarly, it seems relatively easy to recognize that unequal pay and mistreatment of women suppresses the labor cost of half of the workforce.

There are obviously complex dynamics at play on both fronts, but power and wealth are being inextricable, it seems necessary to build a political movement that addresses exploitation across a range of inequalities, including economic, racial, gender, sexuality, etc.
Basic income is such a fundamental societal shift that until society starts to make actual headway towards it, discussions of the future shouldn't take it into account unless that's the premise of the discussion. It's just too big of a "what if" at this point. It's like hypotheticals about the 2020 presidential election. Regardless of the plausibility of any specific outcome, there's just too much between here and there for it to be a useful discussion yet.
The indictment goes into some detail on this: https://www.scribd.com/document/379346745/Joshua-Adam-Schult...

The guy is clearly guilty.
I'd like to contrast that with my own personal story. After college, I got a job that paid $60K in tech. Wife got one that paid $50K. So similar total income. However, We moved to a city with a lower cost of living and no state income taxes. We lived with family for the first year and saved up enough to put a down payment on a house. We got the house for $160,000 (cheap cost of living for the win). Our mortgage was only $800 a month, but we poured over $4K a month into it and paid it off in 4 years. We did not have student loans, but the extra we paid into the mortgage could have gone toward that. Once the house was paid down, we only paid $5K per year in property taxes for the house. We were living on less than 40% of our income. We both had good health insurance, but there are also high medical expenses.

For us the cost of living of a city and state were game-changers.
Completely agree. I avoided going to an expensive college. Went to a cal state instead and still ended up getting a 50k/year job. Some of my co workers have 60-80k in loans still. It is soul crushing because they want to buy homes but cant because their debt is too much.
But its not really a social network...BBSs were/are great too! Plus BBs let you actually manage content versus just chat and link. IRC is great and always will be but a social network it is not...and I doubt we are gonna see any real revival.
I once reported a chrome issue. Got no attention until I found a different issue I thought was related and commented there, which got the attention of someone competent who realized it was a hardware bug they'd fixed before but had a regression.

Not a security bug, just that a very large number of websites didn't load.
Satellite image of burning gas as a "waste product" from five years ago. Note there are no large cities of people there.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/28/article-2269517-17...
What do you suggest? I have a i7-7700 with 64GB RAM and a Samsung 860-PRO SSD. Is there any suggestion that doesn't involve a couple grand investment? :-)
Kubernetes vs. PaaS
> So, yes, one party has made it a mission to suppress turnout; yes, Election Day is a work day, which makes it harder for working people to vote; etc. -- we can change all that, but first we have to work in the system as it is today.

This is why non-compulsory voting hasn't ever made sense to me; it effectively biases the system towards those who care the most and enables those same people to influence the system further by making it difficult enough for others that they won't bother.

When it's compulsory to vote, things like weekday voting stop happening because laws will be introduced making it illegal to prevent your employees from taking time off work to go vote, so naturally both employers and employees alike want weekend voting.

Additionally, it incentivises the government to make voting accessible, because it is unreasonable for them to enforce voting via fines etc if it's not really possible for people to vote.

When I moved to the US from Australia I heard stories from my new colleagues about people in poor neighbourhoods lining up literally all day just to maybe get to vote before the booth closed, while those in richer neighbourhoods had practically no line at their voting booths. This is not how democracy should work. Your "freedom to choose not to vote" only serves to hurt any other freedoms you may have had.
ANN are great for a certain domain of problems, and a domain we have not been able to satisfactorily solve previously, which will indeed unlock lots of innovation.

However that doesn't diminish 'regular' software engineering, which isn't what your saying, however I have seen people interpret it that way. Programming is dead ML is the future.
> Given how much an educated workforce gives back to our country

Subsidized student loans produced many quality graduates. They also spun off reams of communication majors.

I'd actually argue part of the problem is lenders are totally immunized from the risk of their loans; if loans were priced to each institution and each major and each individual's academic record, that might pull wage and labor demand information from the labor market to undergraduate campuses.
I can usually get away with visualizing indices as being just before a memory cell (i.e. on the boundary between cells), whereas lengths are spans of cells. For example:

| H | e | l | l | o |

Index 0 1 2 3 4 5

Length |<--------5-------->|

This makes it easy to visualize that 1-based indexing has indices centered on the memory cell, so calculating a span requires reducing the subtractor by 1.
Isn't it simply guaranteed by the government? Private banks put up the money and the government only steps in to pay if there is a default. Isn't it a profitable business for the banks?
Exactly, some bad iframe could load CP files and not display them, later if someone checks the network logs they can "prove" you visited and watched those urls.

Combine this with the very specific ad targeting that is possible to pull of(like the guy that managed to make FB to show his ad to his roommate) and you get an easy and remote way to frame people
The Case Against Education is a great book on this topic.
Don't ever mouse wheel through that page if you want to Back out of it. Amazing Google Docs remembers navigation so finely-grained, but no thank you!
"I'm not a selfish entitled narcissist," I say as I open an NY Times article in incognito mode to avoid the paywall.
Here's a solution. Discharge student loan debt and directly fund public university budgets to cover tuition.
Quantitative easing is not what you think it is.

Yes, QE plus low interest rates inflate the value of risk assets like equities and real estate. However, the alternative was stagnation and high unemployment and low growth for decades.

Does it suck for the generation stuck in the middle who hasn't accumulated enough to own any risk assets? Yes. However it's better than the alternative.
I think we can start by cutting federal loan programs. If the programs have less money then it means less loans will be made and less debt.
> And the innovation never comes from the chip companies, it comes from companies that are building the products.

I agree with you.

Eng has really got to stop thinking they are the source of ideas, most good ideas come from customers that have needs that can't be currently met. Eng balances design constraints, as companies grow, hierarchies get stronger and creativity drops. Maximum innovation comes from small companies solving customer (the ones building the products) problems.

The Jelly Bean chip business could get disrupted by the proper mix of analog and digital. The PSoC [1] was almost but not quite there

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSoC
No, but there are client + server alternatives that are free. Mumble / Murmur is one. Rock solid and scales to large numbers of users even when running on a tiny VM. They are kindof slow to release new features, so you would want to try their latest snapshot of the server and client.
The article is about unburned leaking gas, which has an extra-large greenhouse effect. That's why the gas is mostly burned, if it can't be used.
Welcome to Chicago.
What's a source of MacBook tops?

Why do you transfer the logic board? Do you need to obtain a new logic board (as part of the "top", and trash the original machine's logic board? )

As I recall (no pun intended) from past recalls, a logic board change is $300 itself (but that includes some redundancy if you are already doing a service call to change another part of the device)
OK, so tell me why housing prices in high-density cities are significantly higher than in suburbs. Isn't that a revealed preference?
I'm pleased they're doing this, but that rubbed me the wrong way too. It is clearly a design problem with the keyboards themselves, it wasn't some manufacturing defect.
In my opinion America's educational woes starts far earlier than university, I doubt throwing free money at the problem would solve anything except inflate college costs and bureaucracy.
Hopefully the Apple store can do these repairs same day. I actually bought a magic keyboard and trackpad so I can have this issue not happen as often.
what would happen to that metric if you exclude NYC, SF etc. ? I think if you add "if you just work hard, you will be successful" in the appropriate field then it does hold true in most cases. If someone choses to spend 50-100K on a degree that has 0 relevance in the job market is it really a fault of the system?
> the biggest travesty is the non-dischargeability of educational debt

There's no doubt that non-dischargeable student can be really rough for a lot of people. I'm not in insurance or anything, but it seems like if we just implemented the simplest fix, i.e. let people declare bankrupcy to forgive student loans, the math might just not pencil out to make it feasible to grant any student loans.

For instance I couldn't take out an $80k loan to start a business with instead of getting a student loan, no bank would give it to me. So there's definitely something special about student loans and the way in which they're so easy to get without needing good credit or any collateral behind them.

And if they could be forgiven by declaring bankruptcy, what would stop lots of people from doing that right after they graduate? For a lot of young people (including myself at that age), your total cumulative assets are worth approximately nothing when you graduate. And it's not like you're gonna be able to buy a house within 7 years of graduating anyway so the hit to your credit score of a bankruptcy might not be that bad.

It really doesn't seem like there's a silver bullet solution to help people finance the massive cost of college easily. What's the best solution here? Is it possible to reduce the underlying cost structure of higher education enough to make a big enough difference?
The basis for the 14? New apartment buildings in Atlanta is that we are drastically understocked, also why rents are climbing to $2k for a luxury 1br.

Most evidenced by new luxury apartments at West end station with surprising rents for a studio (targeting pilots)

Most single family homes seem unattainable (going over ask price, quickly) in the North of the city, but South and West are still cheap and attainable.
There are lot of people incentivized to keep things one way or the other. They aren't all big people. Presumably no one wants to see the system crash. But if each person can cheat just a little, well, it's everyone else's fault in their minds.

The power elite conspiracy model in my mind is too simple and doesn't fully explain the phenomenon. Because instability isn't good for anyone so I belive it's much more complex and systemic rather than a planned conspiracy of a group of individuals.

Systemic change is inevitable I think. Sometimes it involves a hard reboot or re-install though and no one in their right mind wants that. So maybe some things in the system can be fixed to restore balance.

But first we need an accurate model of what is going on, and as loathsome as bankers and insurance CEOs might be, this isn't all their doing and they aren't the only ones preventing the fix.
Calling wikileaks a propaganda arm of the Russian Government is just US propaganda. 1984 double-speak here. Can you point to ANYTHING that wikileaks has reported or released that is untrue?
Many would agree with you, but Steve Jobs was always committed to putting OK functionality that fits inside the best form. Maybe one day Apple will change to allow best functionality in an OK form (where "OK" was "insanely great just 10 years ago. ) It's likely be >4lb though: today's 15" MBP is 4.5lbs.
The selectivity of Wikileaks' leaks put the lie to their claim of being a journalistic entity.

Julian Assange has an agenda against certain people/parties, and has demonstrably leaked things that support that, and not leaked things that refute it.

I say that as a detractor of many of the same people and institutions Assange dislikes, so check your assumptions of bias before you throw them, please.
So which facts did he get wrong exactly? Sure, it may looks so, but so far everything I've read on this blog is correct.
The quality at Apple, in both software and hardware, has obviously declined in the past couple years as their supply chain has come under strain.

In the past three years:

my MacBook has had replaced

- The screen

- The battery

- The keyboard

My iPad had it's screen replaced, and my iPhone had its battery replaced.

None of these are covered under AppleCare, they've all been replaced under individual recall programs.

Sure, they have fixed each issue for free, so that's fine, but for what is supposed to be the most dependable consumer hardware on the market, it's rather surprising.
I mean by tracking criminals cell phones locations, watching how they walk. Checking the network effect ie if a person contacts a previous criminal in the same gang network. Matching photos form surveillance cameras and public social media pictures. Matching walking pose you can pretty much track down criminals.

The power is when you combine the different databases and build a profile of the person. It is very similar to how advertisement companies like Google build up profiles of customers(gmail,search behavior,dns name resolution
tracking,cookie tracking) only in a different field.

It is probably even more powerful when you combine physical behavior with online behavior-
I mean, IRC is still going pretty strong. I've used IRCCloud [0] for years and swear by it. IRC is still pretty much the universal chat protocol you can expect to find discussion forums for pretty much any subject, and not encumbered by centralized commercial systems like Slack or Discord (as much as I like them).

[0] https://www.irccloud.com/
I could see the online free university thing happening. I already see some good moocs out there and they only get better and better. I could see them eventually replacing traditional universities for sure.

Also the united states already has a large land value tax called property tax. It helps to fund local governments.
They want to be exceptionally careful in Australia. They got fined $9M the other day for misleading consumers about repairs:

https://www.smh.com.au/technology/apple-us-fined-9-million-f...
> and then nothing happened

Newsroom series had a nice description for that. There was a disorganised mass of people with a very vague idea of who they wanted to change and why. With no clear goals, no actual representative from the other side that is held responsible for progress, etc. nothing could really happen. (Unless it turned into actual uprising)
If it is because it costs money, then bitbucket is your friend.
"issues" like disproportionate incarceration for minorities, sexual harassment for women, you mean? They may not be directly economic at first but building a society that is more just and equal is certainly the easiest path to increasing prosperity and well being.
Well then. Good to see you're doing the work you're qualified for.
Atlanta is the most tree'ed city. If you walk 4 blocks from the highway you might think you're in a forest with birds being the loudest things around
If student loans were dischargable in bankruptcy, why wouldn't everyone go through bankrupcy proceedings after graduation? If you finance education with debt, you're virtually guaranteed to graduate with a negative net worth, and no real tangible assets worth seizing.

Income-based repayment plans already exist, limiting your payments to 10% of discretionary income, with full forgiveness after 20-25 years if any balance remains. "Servicing that debt for the rest of your life" is not a thing.
I saw a chart that broke out the rise in various prices over the last ten years as the banks injected vast amounts of capital. Things like stocks and real estate went up 150-250%. Things that make up 'core inflation' went up 17%.

As someone in my 50's I've come to look at my remaining working years as an asset. The central banks did a bang up job of devaluing that.
> China broke all the rules TODAY. and is still breaking them.

Speaking about whataboutism...

Let's not forget the cases of state-level industrial espionage performed by the NSA against targets such as France (with Germany's help) as well as against Germany itself, which both occurred and came to light within the last 20 years. There's probably more but those are the ones I remember.

There's also no indication the NSA has stopped these activities. Unless the the former being revealed by Snowden finally changed anything.

Everyone is spying on everyone right now. And why shouldn't they? The internet age has made it much easier than it used to be.

You can't demand change and be outraged at other countries' behavior unless you first change your own. At least the Chinese refrain from virtue signaling at the same time.

So. In conclusion I don't think this is a case of "whataboutism", but rather a case of "Look who is complaining".
I am not sure I follow. I've run UnrealIRCD for a very long time and it has more security and privacy capabilities than any of the newer chat systems.
Implicit in your post is a call for improved social programs, meanwhile the GP already stated he feels he is paying too much of his income in taxes.

None of what you cite - affordable education, a better social safety net would directly benefit the GP at this point. Indeed, he would be the one paying for it.
Sure, Jason.

Btw this is the dataset used for training. It is a part of a larger open source project used for educational purposes, that might help you learn:

http://kanjivg.tagaini.net