skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's already a house of cards and we should just deal with it instead of tying large portions of the population to these bad deals

I guess the taxpayer is kind of screwed when it comes to Federal loans. I still think it is a bad idea to retroactively change laws even if the idea seems popular. As far as I understand, an individual's loan obligations don't automatically transfer to their surviving family members so if you have a massive student loan it will die with you.

If the loans were predatory, lets ban them going forward. If we find illegal activity and predatory behavior I am all for prosecuting bankers and throwing people in prison. In fact, I will go further and say we should rid of all the silliness of deductions and credits in income tax toward education loans as well.

New York made a good first step with its excelsior program. While I don't like the income ceiling for the program, I think overall this is the way forward. I think we should expand the program to allow people to go to school part time for free. Private schools can either compete with free public education or shut down.

> I'd say that a politician who stares at a problem head on and refuses to deal with it, because we didn't deal with it in the past, is the insane one.

I am all for dealing with the problem but I still firmly and politely OPPOSE any effort to make it easier to discharge existing loans with taxpayer money. I am not an expert on this matter though so I don't know much about it. All I know is we cannot give a handout to people who went to college by signing a loan letter and pay for it with resources that could have gone to people who didn't go to college.

I think the first good step is to make private education loans go away the same way as any other private loan going forward. I don't know how we can apply this to direct federal loans.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-is-federally-gu... According to this web page:

> As of June 30, 2010, Congress stopped the guaranteed student loan program for newly issued loans.

> If a borrower defaults on a guaranteed loan, the federal government pays the bank and takes over the loan. The federal government pays approximately 97% of the principal balance to the lender. At that point the federal government owns the loan and the right to collect payments on the loan.

Yeah, no. If you have a guaranteed loan (which apparently you can't get anymore), I say you are on the hook for it for life especially if you start making money later.
Former Origin Energy executive and whistleblower Fiona Wilson was detained by the new Queensland Fixated Threat Assessment Centre (QFTAC) and injected against her will and without any charges laid against her. Fiona has since been released but must report for her monthly injections otherwise she will be detained again.

https://www.gofundme.com/barrister-needed-for-fiona-wilson
What is K2 weed alternative and how dangerous is the synthetic marijuana?
Carne de Sol brasileira
I will say (and this is meta), I'm more than happy to take a hit every now and then for the sake of how comments work here because after my experience on other tech news sites' comment sections (e.g. Ars Technica, sorry to name names) which are full of emotional hysteria, mob mentality, and upvote whoring, I've come to see that HN has by far the most quality Internet comment culture anywhere - I've never seen it on the Internet before in my 20 years. So I don't mind, let's keep commenting when and where we think we have something useful to say, and thinking freely and openly in a way that's pretty strongly protected by the excellent guidelines established here at HN.
Brit here. Would love to travel to the States one day but it sounds like an awful hassle so I continually pick easier destinations. Even the whole "give up your social media passwords" is enough to make me go "meh..."

Vancouver was lovely. Might be as close as I'll ever get....
This can often be waived if you stay airside and have a visa from another first world country. I've done this personally with a US Visa in the UK and France, can't speak to Spain.
Pronunciation of English ranks high in the list of retarded things.
You can easily go a 3rd level (more) deep by adding another veracrypt file within the hidden partition. You could also use stenography techniques to hide your encrypted file/data within an image or video.

There are also use-cases that don't include a hidden partition, ex: I keep private code repositories in a veracrypt partition to protect them in the event of laptop theft while not avoiding the perf hit of full disk encryption. There's no need for the hidden partition / plausible deniability for a use-case like that.
If a candidate passes the fairly simple technical tests all I care about is culture fit. And it's a simple test. Would I want to work with them and would I think my coworkers would (the second being more of a judgement call). I am generally positive on people so that isn't exactly a high mountain to climb.
The environment I describe is not universal, nor did I claim it was. In fact, I am advocating walking away from the subset of companies that do whiteboard interviews.

About your reply for point #1, I agree that communication and collaboration are important. I have picked up chalk (I'm old) during an interview in order to draw diagrams related to robot paths. But you'll note that I decided that the chalk-talk was an effective way to communicate essentially visual information. A "whiteboard" interview is one where the interviewer decides that I need to use a whiteboard to communicate. Coding is not a whiteboard activity and the medium choice is inappropriate. I rarely choose to communicate algorithms with an interpretive dance for that very reason.

About your reply to point #3, in any large company it is highly unlikely that a single, new-hire person would have such a broad scope of activity. Hiring a person of that scope would cause me to invest in background checks and presentations by the person showing their prior projects, designs, and outcomes. I certainly would learn nothing by asking them to reverse a tree on a whiteboard in 20 minutes.

As to your final point, I did present a superior alternative. Have the hiring manager talk to the person about the job opening and the skills expected. Ask the person to provide related background information from their prior experience. Ask them about how they might appoach a current or previous problem related to the job opening. If THEY want to use the chalkboard to communicate that's fine.

An interview tells you a lot about a company and how it treats employees. If you see a "sea of desks" in a supermarket-sized open-plan floor you can assume you're "just another ball in the ball-pit". If they hold meetings in a fisherman's net strung from the ceiling (I wish I made that up, but no...) then you can assume they have a playground mentality. If they are proud of their "80 hour weeks" you can assume your pay rate is only half what it claims. If "free food" is given as the best reason to work there, you can assume the work is painful and boring. And, to the original point, if the interview process resembles a frat-house hazing-style "paddle line" of unrelated interviews, you can assume a frat-house "good culture fit" mentality. Every frat house strives for a monoculture (as in, "we only hire the best and the brightest").

But if you're a professional, working every day to improve your skills and breadth of knowledge and experience, then respect yourself. Walk away.
Completely forgot about vote buying for a moment. Secret, but verifiable is a hard problem.
Bad timing for those in America.
Haven’t almost all browsers always had this feature in the form of “keep until browser is closed” or “delete local data after closing the browser”? At least Firefox and Chrome have it hidden somewhere in the settings.
Yeah, that's a fair point. I agree that prescribing opioids is overkill in most cases, and is surely creating more addicts, but what I really take issue with is how we've been completely overlooking the environmental factors in addiction. This paradigm of reducing access to drugs to reduce addiction rates has prevailed for a long time, with pretty dire consequences. There's certainly more to this than the chemical component.
How Should I Tell My Brother His Work Ethic Is Awful?
I've been confronted with a situation I can't merely overlook because we're family. My Brother, whom I love just doesn't get it when it comes to coding although I'm sure it doesn't only pertain to his work. As an example and the reason why I'm posting today my brother and I are working on a project that needed to capture sensitive data, e.g., social security numbers, date of births, etc. The task was to capture and make specific fields available to analytics, e.g., subscription type and other user-specific demographics useful for analytics. Today I just happened to be looking in the analytics and low and behold I see ALL the data in there, social security, etc. I couldn't believe it but what made me even madder is when I confronted him about it he said do you really think I'm that stupid that I would leave it in there? In other words, trying to avoid the fact that it's even in there in the first place, why would it be? It's a constant pattern with him I find something and explain what I see, and he has an excuse. Really silly things that any developer that's been coding for a year or two should know like make sure there are messages (error, success, etc.) after form submission doesn't just redirect to a page that for one isn't even logical to redirect too and two there's no explanation of what happened after the user interacted with the website. To me these are very jr web dev things you should know yet time after time he will mark a task as complete and not do these things, he doesn't check his work. At times I wonder if I'm too hard because I am overly analytical, borderline OCD... am I wrong? I need help, can anyone tell me if I'm being a complete ass and need to chill or?

Advice and your guys' input is very much appreciated.

(There was no real user data yet in the application, thank God)

Edit: not sure this is formatted correctly it just shows a scroll bar on my end.
Not true; US citizens can't get into any of the BRIC countries without a visa. China and Russia require traditional visas, India and Brazil require eVisas. In any case, you can't just show up in these countries like you can in the EU.
Similarly, I star things in my rss reader when I’m skimming, and then consume them when I have time to properly digest. Then unstar so they drop out the queue.

Works well, works simple, and works for many more sources besides hn.
If you are saying that I should not be able to respond to someone else's speech, including a response of choosing not to associate with that person any longer, then you are saying that I should not have free speech.

If you are saying that I am advocating violence as a "consequence", then you are not discussing in good faith.
Memo to POTUS: Responding to Cyber Attacks and PPD-20
The project is a bit undocumented but the configuration offers a lot of possibilities. I'd recommend iterating with various config settings with `--load-config gource.conf`

A gource I configured recently of the Chrome DevTools team's activity: https://youtu.be/N48q9aiUMjI

Another plus for Mac users: it's an easy install on homebrew.
Then I disagree that it's privilege. A civilisation requires active effort to maintain, it cannot just float by on its own inertia. If people from western countries did nothing but inherit the privilege of their parents, society would quickly erode, and then their passport would be at the bottom of the list as well.
> He was working at an Arizona bank, where he was a “programmer,” not a “software developer.”

That's an example of nightmarish bureaucracy getting in the way of hiring. Titles don't mean anything in software development. If you don't know that, your notions of what to do or not to do are suspect.

> Everyone was arguing until Anthony suddenly said, “Can I speak now?” The room went silent

VP or not (lots of software devs that aren't supervisors hold VP titles of Software Dev in various industry), this is an example of a terrible communicator who is less creative than autocratic, due to insecurity. Again, so common an archetype that, the rest of the article feels tainted.
Just to confirm, the “red book” is the one by sedgewick and Wayne?
When in doubt just assume Mark Dowd found it first http://taossa.com/index.php/2007/01/03/attacking-delete-and-... (dead link) but see here too http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-07/Dowd_McDonal...
This really should work the other way around.
Your proposed system fails at one of the most essential properties of voting, repudiation. Voters must not be able to prove who they voted for, or they could be coerced to vote a certain way.
Show HN: Simple markov-based text generator in python (uses Hamlet)
Scientists sequence wheat genome in breakthrough once thought 'impossible'
Nearly half of Americans don't want a self-driving car: survey
What? I am completely confused by your statement.

Computer security VERY MUCH cares about offense vs. defense.

The attacker only has to win once and he wins. The defender has to win every single time or he loses.
Valence: A non-turing-complete blockchain application protocol
Could somebody please kill this story before the wrong bureaucrat realizes this is happening and I lose my precheck status when I fly with my wife? Snitches get stitches.
Thanks -- that is a very cool document. I hope he's able to finish it and polish it.
Video interviews are becoming quite common.
A closely related technique to SAT solvers is the "Constraint Satisfaction Problem" which I've been looking into recently.

Constraint Programming and SAT are BOTH NP-complete problems, and as such, they are mathematically equivalent. However, its sometimes more "obvious" to write problems in one form vs the other.

For example, Sudoku is simply written 27 constraints:

* All Different (X11, X12, X13, X14, X15, X16, X17, X18, X19)

* All Different (X21, X22, X23, X24, X25, X26, X27, X28, X29)

...

* All Different (X11, X21, X31, X41, X51, X61, X71, X81, X91)

...

* All Different (X11, X12, X13, X21, X22, X23, X31, X32, X34)

...

etc. etc.

Then define each "X" variable as "between 1 and 9" and bam, you're done with defining the problem in terms of "Constraints".

Representing Sudoku as a SAT problem is possible of course, but its just... harder. It just feels more humanly natural to represent Sudoku in terms of constraints. Or maybe not. Read "Part 1" if you want to see how the original blogger solved it in terms of 3-SAT (https://codingnest.com/modern-sat-solvers-fast-neat-underuse...)

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Here's an article from IBM hyping up their "CPLEX" Constraint solver for Sudoku for example: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/jfp/entry...

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Anyway, just plugging in a similarly fast, neat, and underused (and mathematically equivalent) solver to what the blogpost talks about. I personally don't know too much about SAT-solvers or their algorithms, aside from "They're same same, but different" to Constraint Programming.
Personally from experience, the prestige comes with network and the network is where it's at. The connections you have definitely grease the upward escalator.
I have a friend who is ineligible for PreCheck due to prior criminal history, and he has had the same thing happen to him. His wife got PreCheck and suddenly every time he flew with her he got it also.

Having known him and his family for years, he's not a security risk at all but it still seems like that probably shouldn't happen. Especially if the individual is already disqualified for PreCheck.
Sure Postgresql can handle doing metrics; been doing it for 2 years without any timescaledb.

I also use influxdb. Different tools for different purposes
Kinda like the way they built Lotus Notes on top of a document database?
> Assuming 1 teacher making 100k

Assume a PhD student making a $35k stipend or a foreign grad student making $14/hr.

This covers a good 25%-40% of the curriculum, depending on the institution.
High Quality, Fully Annotated Reference Genome Sequence for Bread Wheat
As a Brit it's as simple as filling out an ESTA which is valid for 2 years, you shouldn't miss out on a very beautiful country because you couldn't be bothered to fill out an online form.

In general, you shouldn't decide whether to go to a place or not depending on how easy the visa situation is.
Nowadays you can get a Brazilian e-Visa relatively hassle free: http://www.vfsglobal.com/brazil-evisa/
That's rough, generally having at least 1 first-world visa makes things a lot easier.
I'm not sure why people still have problems with modern PHP. Why is that funny?
Yeah, I just ended the interview process about an hour ago. I thanked them for their time and included some thoughts about the scope of the demo project.
While gource is incredible I would love if it was more versatile. It would be incredible if it could be themable.
Establishing a Secure Password Generator for Your Website
true. happened to me few days ago on an int'l flight.
To me it would be more concerning if the Alexa	was free. I would always be wondering what the nefarious business model was (data collection, advertising...) Free as in open source would be nice though
Depends on your goals, I guess. It seems to me we’re already trading both compensation and ethical say for perks.
The US is worth the hassle in my opinion simply because of its national parks. I have never seen anything like them in the world, in the span of like 3 states (Utah, Arizona and Colorado) you can experience 3 different landscapes (otherwise found in at least 2 different continents/countries) and just feel, truly happy, unlike other touristic experiences. (At least in my case, something about nature I find so serene)
Yes, and a union is emphatically not a positive or negative thing in itself. Arguably the police union is at the heart of the BLM movement.
All documentaries by: Scott Noble (available free at his site http://metanoia-films.org/), Patricio Guzman, Werner Herzog, Adam Curtis, The Yes Men.

Other great documentaries: Man with a Movie Camera, Sherman's March, Burden of Dreams, Bus 174, My Winnipeg, How to Start a Revolution, Merchants of Doubt, Silenced (2014), the Corporation (2003), Man on Wire, The Parking Lot Movie, Land of Look Behind, Intangible Asset No. 82, Brasileirinho, Jodorowsky's Dune, Revolution OS, Facebookistan, The King of Kong, Kumaré, McLibel, Harlan County USA

Why? Because they're amazing, important, will change your life etc. Sorry I don't have hours to go into detail. Enjoy!

ps I found a lot of these by googling best documentaries lists, IMDb lists etc. I judge whether to watch movies/docos by reading 2 or 3 pages of user reviews on IMDb, occasionally Ebert or Urban Cinefile etc also.
Oh hey, I had no idea about this, thanks! I wrote a short essay about this idea in July ("BCM: binary-coded milial") but I didn't know it was already widely implemented, much less standardized by the IEEE! Do they use 1000s-complement for negative numbers? How does the carry-detection logic work?

I also thought about excess-12 BCM, which simplifies negation considerably, but complicates multiplication.
Yemen is also conveniently absent from main stream media coverage despite the horrible bus full of school children incident this week.
Awesome 3D meshes
What's the con here? The "article" doesn't lay out how Elon is supposed to enrich himself unduely with this supposed "con". That would be a critical part of a con one would think.
This is a proof of concept track, just because it doesn't make money, it's not a con. Haters gonna hate...
Disease generally implies the damage or malfunction of a system of the body. Whereas addiction is a malfunction of behavior.

My comment likely didn’t translate my thoughts clearly enough. I would not argue against “mental disease”. The distinction between physical and mental disease is important (because treatment is so different) and under common definition physical disease is implied. That was the miscommunication in my and many other comments in this thread.
> The mechanism by which you default on a loan is bankruptcy. If you can't discharge a loan in bankruptcy, you can't default on it.

I think you may be confusing the terms 'default' and 'discharge', and have the ordering wrong.

You may be in default, which may lead to bankruptcy, which may lead to the debt being discharged.

Discharging the debt does not lead to defaulting on it.

This helpful Wikipedia paragraph should clear things up for you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_(finance)#Distinction_...

Note that 'default' is simply 'a debtor has passed the payment deadline on a debt they were due to pay'. 'Bankrupt' is 'a legal finding that imposes court supervision over the financial affairs of those who are insolvent or in default'.

See how 'bankrupt' is done to someone who is already either insolvent or in 'default'?
Right. Its nearly at the scale of being something I would finish in a 40 hour work week as an mvp internal tool. Way out of the normal scale of a demo app for an interview.

I just ended the interview process today in part because of this.
> Saying you don't know what you're talking about is not a personal attack

It's attacking the person, not the central point. Thus making it ad-hominem.

> You might be surprised to learn that there are in fact three branches of government in the United States

See above comment.
The narrow streets were never the problem. Sanitation was.
Hmm, I'd assumed Skiena https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781848000698
Games for the Nintendo Gameboy through to the last of DS line were a minefield of shovelware. There were a large number of really great games but they were still a drop in an ocean of crap. The jury is still out on the Switch.
Agree. Some of the most effective people can be "assholes" when they stick to their principles in the face of pressure.
Like "upperware" with a "t".
This is clearly a proof of concept not a con ...
Because its a public, verifiable data structure. That's not to say it's perfect, it's subject to 51% attacks so yes votes could possibly be discarded in that case.
My wife is an immigrant from Poland. There is a lot of truth in this article. Governments discriminate against other governments A LOT and the citizens pay the price for that. In the US it would be considered illegal to take a Puerto Rican to jail for not having a passport, but there are cops dumb enough to think Puerto Rico is not a part of the US.

Contrarily, many countries discriminate against people with a US passport. There is a hidden resort fee just for foreigners that hotels all around the world charge, but if you speak the native language, you can bypass the fee.
>I also don't want to be able to verify my vote. If I can, that means that somebody else also can. Given how tech-illiterate the average human is, voting crypto keys will be littered all around the internet.

Right, I should have been more clear. You typically do want voters to be able to prove that they voted and that their vote was counted, but you do not want voters to be able to prove the contents of their vote (who they voted for).
where do you search?
Hate to say it, but my first thought upon reading the headline was, "You mean, like, the return key on my keyboard??" But that's no fun at all – I actually love the spirit of this post.
There is an extension called "I don't care about cookies" [1] that takes care of those.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a...
Why would MKS with 4k keys matter? Is that really a real thing that people do? Seems nuts vs just using an electronic system at that point.

Alternatively - can MKS be applied to cool permissions problems not involving physical keys?