skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think the original intent was to incentivize more lending, and thus more access to higher education

If so, that is a classic intellectual mistake that comes from not understanding any Economics.

If you increase demand by pumping out extra education dollars to students, and the supply doesn't increase accordingly, all you've done is raise prices and give the suppliers a huge windfall profit.

Why the supply of college spots doesn't respond to a demand increase, like most goods and services do, is an interesting question!
I think now there's an incident with deaths every few years, e.g. last I could quickly find were 2014 (excavator hit one on a construction site, driver killed) and 2010 (3 bomb disposal workers killed while prepping a bomb to be disarmed).
Sure, but I said "if you're going to have a car anyway". And I, and I think most people who can afford it, am going to have a car even if I use mass transportation daily. If you ride the bus, you're not paying any less in registration, insurance, or car payment until you actually sell your car.

Sure and if you're riding the bus, train, cable car, etc. instead of driving the $500/mo you're paying becomes less worthwhile.

But let's say you're driving from Mountain View to SF daily, that's about 40 miles. Let's say you consistently get 30 mpg (unlikely if there's traffic or if you're driving something large) and let's say that gas stays at $3.50/gal. That's almost $190 in fuel alone. Parking, if you want a reserved spot, is about $300/mo in San Francisco. Daily rates are closer to $400/mo (or at least that's what I've had to pay for parking along the Embarcadero). So you're looking at $500-$600 in addition to whatever it costs to own the car. That's nearly double what you'd pay for Caltrain (which is typically not a bus).

Obviously things get more expensive if you buy something more status symbol like that requires high octane fuel or gets worse mileage. Things get less expensive with an electric vehicle but parking is still extremely expensive in San Francisco.
I suppose adding f.close() right after the flush might help.
Πάρμα vs. Λέτσε, κομβικό ματς για τις ομάδες
What does this code do? Is it an API call? How can I run it myself?
From the link:

> approximately one in every 6200 2688-digit numbers is prime.

So if you're lucky, you only need to brute force the last 4 digits! Maybe 5 if you're unlucky. In either case, that's a lot less work than I imagined. And of course you can skip all the even numbers.
It's not specific to bash -- it's in ksh as well. And zsh.

I'm also pretty sure it originated in ksh, not bash.
Barbell Medicine- you might think sports medicine is not for you if you’re not a weight lifter or powerlifter but it completely changed my diet, injury recovery and my understanding of how to talk to doctors and interpret all kinds of medical research and understand the limits of medical knowledge. The themed episodes are generally much more information dense than the q&a episodes, for a start the heart disease episode completely changed my understanding of blood lipids and risks of saturated fat.
In the case of Vancouver specifically, it was a combination of Ponzi schemes, lending fraud, and money laundering:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/vancouver/out-of-...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/vancouver/canadia...

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/chinese-police-run-...
Just don't use string mangling to combine parameters and queries. The most is switch/case in a loop or something like it doing state machine execution to combine fixed strings. And that only because one does not accidentally build something general enough to allow for SQL injection with such harsh restrictions.
I knew from the domain name that it would be interesting; Ned Batchelder is no dummy.
So there's this term called "Moral Risk". It means if there's no consequence for one's financial actions, then a person is likely going to do it over and over again.

Bankruptcy is one form of this. Corporate and bank bailouts are another form.

I'm not going to go into the politics and history like debtor's prisons, but to be honest, bankruptcy is not a cakewalk either.
I don't take it as defeatist: They are implying that it requires political means not technical means to solve it.
Suppose someone invests all of their savings into a restaurant that flops and they end up to their eyeballs in debt and declare bankruptcy. What did the government do wrong?
> We saw it before for fingerprints and learned from it that they are not unique as they assumed from matching terrorist fingerprints with a guy in Spaim who wasn't even in the country of the attack.

A quick search shows that you are talking about Brandon Mayfield. From what I can gather, there wasn't a collision in fingerprints, but a falty analysis (arches in opposite directions, etc) on the FBI's part.
Heh, I thought my "North Korea with stock options" analogy deserved much better than the -4 it earned on here when I first came up with it.
Would https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0446/ have anything to do with this?

We recently upgraded to celery 4 which had a side effect of file descriptors leaking between master and child processes, and database fds were being used for redis. Still no idea how it's happening, but the linked PEP seems to suggest there may be issues that I don't quite understand.
Provide an exemption or inflation control for the standard parcel size in an area when used as a primary residence.
A single flag doesn't bring a comment down. It means that more than one person found your comment in poor enough taste to flag it. It was a bad comment, and hurt the quality of the site. Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I'll tell you as someone in a large IT organization creating a new paradigm for us re: public cloud vs. private: Collaboration and communication are huge. Absolutely critical that people are talking more often than not. It's decision making and design at that point, not just DevSecOps.
Very curious about this wonderful magic. How were you able to get the call stack from the strace line?
Same thing. Do you realize that the average tenure in permanent positions is around a year nowadays? It's not longer than the usual contractor.
Effortless Scraping into GSheets
I’m confused why your correct rm examples include $@ twice. Do you mind explaining?

I’ve been bitten by $@ and —- related mistakes at roughly the same time within the last month or so. Luckily nothing to do with sudo.
That's more to deal with the fact that compilers insert calls to various support routines to implement certain functionality--for example, there are division routines to support architectures without a division operator.

It's not currently understood that the result of compiling code implies a claim to copyright or derivative works of any resulting compiler output, which is GP's point.

Actually, there's an argument that, even if GCC and its support libraries did not have the compiler exception clause, then there still would be no GPL "infection" of compiled code. License to use a software program implicitly carries with it a right to make any necessary copies that are functionally required, even if the copies would otherwise be infringing. So the compiler inserting copies of itself into your program would enable you to distribute those copies with your program without any further agreement (i.e., licenses) required, so long as you had legitimate license to the compiler itself.
Or [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVyRkl5qNb8
(0m59s from [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy ,
identity tattoing automaton scene)
Bankruptcy is a consumer protection. It gives people buried in debt an out, and it also discourages the banking system from making predatory loans.

I can’t think of any alternatives that accomplish both of these things.
Funny you mention Python being a better candidate than Oil as Oil is built a top a fork of Python 2.
https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/03/04.html#faq
Apple has much less marketshare.
>Welcome to corporate America.

enjoy it while it lasts. there will be more bloodshed soon
'Smile with your eyes': How to beat South Korea's AI hiring bots and land a job
TX Police Fired for Giving Sandwich Full of Feces to Homeless Wins Job Back
Might be better to capitalize the T in telegram, I thought this was a novelty project that literally lets you send telegrams.
You can apply for a grant to develop a new gait at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_of_Silly_Walks
Every single person involved with sending people to the moon in the 60's graduated college, but it doesn't matter that the graduation rate was 5% back then, because you don't need more than 5% of the entire population to send people to the moon. It's a weird non sequitur argument.

The reason there are more college graduates today in the US is that the US labour market requires more college graduates than it did in the 60's. Partly because the available jobs today have higher requirements, and partly because of credential inflation.

Now, having your domestic labour market require more and more educated workers is a good thing, because it means that your country is moving up the value chain. You're getting rid of low qualified, easily automatable, easily outsourcable jobs, and replacing them with higher-value jobs that (presumably) produce more value per worker.

Therefore, it is in your nation's interest to keep this process going, to make sure there's an ever-increasing stream of highly educated people entering the labour force. And if it's in your nation's interest, it might be worth spending tax money on it, and not leave the process up to for-profit companies whose incentives do not align with the national interest.
I highly recommend the recent documentary on Netflix "greatest events of ww2 in color"...

It's hard to think that something so horrible as ww2 happened in fairly recent history. These unexploded bombs serve as a good reminder of that.
Agreed, we have so much to learn. https://youtu.be/_tOkb1y7hEs
Generally speaking, if you’re launching a new project what are the downsides of posting to lots of these?

Thinking about seo, wouldn’t Google downrank duplicate submissions across multiple disparate sites as spam?

Would it be better to try and shoot for the top 5% of these sites with unique submissions (different text descriptions)?
>It's a goddamned buggy disaster and the usability is basically zero, but the concept is cool.

Yep, the concept is pretty nice, the implementation can be harsh.
Thought experiment:

A survey of straight men. They're asked two questions in a randomized order.

A. "Is 'guys' gender neutral?"

and

B. "How many guys have you slept with?"

Care to make a wager on how often the (B,A) group will agree with you?
IFS controls the "$* joining character, if I remember correctly, and so if you use IFS=\0 then you can “safely” pass multiparty args in and then somehow take them apart on the other side. But this is the bad kind of crazy to me, and if I was reviewing code with this in it, I’d flag it for replacement. It’s the sort of thing that leads to feeling smart at working around knowing $@ but in the end it’s best just to truly understand $@ or use helper scripts to avoid quoting drama altogether. YMMV.
This VERY heavily depends on your state and I'm sure a lot of other factors. Years ago when I set up my single-member LLC my lawyer was quick to point out a thousand ways the LLC would be useless in court. Mingling bank accounts was only one of them.

The IRS, for what it's worth, treats a single-member LLC as a sole proprietorship and all losses/gains are considered personal income.

As always, check your state laws and consult a real, in-person lawyer.
Given the amount of money, employees and resources these companies have, you can see that they are becoming and behaving like independent pseudo-nation states.

Each of these companies (FAAMNG) apparently are more worth or near worth the GDP of Luxembourg and other developed countries and their businesses are built like an entire economy.

There are also do’s and don’ts with some of them i.e rules that one citizen should follow. Don’t touch/hack google3 or you will be arrested. Thinking about virtualising macOS/iOS? You will be swiftly dealt with the Supreme Court of Apple Inc, You disagree with Mr. Zuckerberg on his platform? You will be expeditiously banned and charged with high treason with your real name, address, phone no. set to public for the whole world to shame you and list goes on.

Facebook has a population of 3B people and still calls it a community. If it were a country, that’s like the population of China and India put together. They have a town square, news, emergency services and more. The problem is it’s founding member Emperor Zuckerberg still doesn’t understand privacy and trust with its users despite the scandals of the 2010s. If it were a nation state, then it would be like an authoritarian one.

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the People’s Republic of Silicon Valley.
I really appreciate that this was episode 665.
The file is in a with block - it should be automatically closed at the end of the block.
I think the point is that the directory listing is the same, not that cat supports both syntaxes.
You are almost exactly describing seed funding, something I assume a lot of startups still get.
I'm starting to think people will refuse to understand just how deep in the proverbial mud we're already in until we're all actively on fire, given comments like these.

Which world do you live in has regular occurrences of fires so big they turn the skies orange in an adjacent country?
Why does it feel like we are discussing reality described in Cyberpunk?

Based on everything I read thus far, short of removing yourself from society, a true anonymity is not available to an average person. And that kinda defeats the point.

Maybe it would change if politicians' every move was crowd sourced.
Sounds like a great setup. Do you have any documentation on it that others could follow to build something similar or links to tutorials that helped you?
Only the high value suspicious ones. If a residence in a high value area is claimed as occupied, but no one put it on their drivers licenses/ID or any other existing government interaction then request additional documentation. Let neighbors report vacant property and require multi-family building administrators to report suspiciously under utilized units.
This is a good point, but as I understand it, it's the designers who run the show at Apple.
Yeah I was really excited about this when I heard of it,

the idea is less about identifying bombs for removal than just as a way to mark areas dangerous or safe according the presence of metals in the soil

Here, I found the company [1] via a 2004 slashdot thread [2]

Looks like they closed shop in 2008, according to a wiki citation they are mentioned in a comparison of landmine detection methods, where as risks it mentions "indeterminate false positive" and "Issues of ecological control of a new genetically engineered species" [3]

From reading [3] it sounds like landmines are not the only source of nitrous oxide in the environment, so the flowers may trigger without the presence of mines

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aresa_Biodetection

[2] https://science.slashdot.org/story/04/01/27/191211/genetical...

[3] http://www.greatcore.com/demining-comparison.htm
This setup goes back at least to Axelrod 1984. Not sure what the link is to any of Taleb's ideas.
Please don't. That's spamming.
this is huge. this terrible bush era provision set up some really perverse incentives for college administrators.

if you think about it, it's really pretty sick. let's soak young people who know nothing about money with nondischargable debt in the name of something that is supposed to be good before they're even eligible for a credit card.

if you ask me, i think people should be losing their jobs and/or going to jail for this sort of predatory behavior.
So... a spreadsheet then?
You're right, we probably should have said longer, maybe an hour and a half. I definitely know people that commute a long time for low wages. Or did. They're in better places, now.

One of them used to stay really late at night at a Denny's because the buses didn't run when he needed to get to work, so he would spend the night (basically) at a Denny's so he was at work on time.
Why wouldn't you do that kind of thing now? Those kinds of things don't even strike me as suspicious.
Have you tried the "inversion method?" less mess
Using sbrk(2) as an application stack seems like a bad idea. A lot of times that is where malloc gets its heap addresses from.

The article even says this but not strongly enough:

> It is worth mentioning that the C library malloc might be using and caching the results of sbrk it may be unwise to mix this trick with your C library malloc, but it is very useful in new programs that you have no intention of using the C library malloc with.

No it is not a good idea to write "new programs" to apply hacky uses of sbrk(2) and conflict with malloc. Any use of sbrk(2) outside of a malloc implementation is pretty suspect as code smell. And you will be hard pressed to find any program or library that doesn't use malloc, short of embedded use cases.
I believe "boomer" has already come to mean "anyone older and wealthier than me", so even though you're right based on the previous definition, their sweeping generalization is probably correct from their point of view.
>As for violence, I standby what is the more useful and regular definition.

Often, certain commonplace words become terms of art within the disciplines which study them[1][2]. For example, "kind" or "type" or "resistance" take on special meanings within mathematics and computer science. While these terms are clearly derived from their commonplace definitions, they either work alongside the original meaning (such as in "resistance") or they replace it ("kind").

Scholarship dating to about 1980 describes two forms of violence, objective and subjective. Subjective violence is very easy to spot, it involves physical contact. Objective violence, also related to systemic violence, is not: it's the backdrop against which we measure subjective violence[0]. This is not restricted to the description of society as violent. Go onto Google Scholar and search "systemic violence" - the term is used to describe security searches of children at schools, abusive familial relationships, drug markets, and a plethora of other things.

[0] "As Žižek would argue, we consistently overlook the objective or "symbolic" violenc eembodied in language and its forms, i.e. democratic state's monopoly on legitimate violence. He asserts that "subjective and objective violence cannot be perceived from the same standpoint: subjective violence is experienced as such against the background of the non-violent zero-level, asa perturbation of the “normal” peaceful state of things; however, objective violence is precisely theviolence sustaining this “normal” state of things. Objective violence is invisible since it sustains thevery zero-level standard against which we perceive something as [visible] violence – in order to perceive it, one has to perform a kind of parallax shift"."

[1] "One of the great controversies in defining violence pertains to its scope. Vorobej opts from the outset for a wider concept of violence and not for restricting it to cases of direct physical harm. With these cases and the more commonsensical notion of interpersonal violence the analysis begins. The first definition is borrowed from the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), to which he adds apparently more sophisticated variations, for example from James Childress, Robert Holmes, or the WHO, before finally returning to the OED as the most useful paradigmatic definition for this type of approach to violence: "Violence is the exercise of physical force as to inflict injury on or damage to persons or properties" (6). After having worked through a series of ambiguities of the definition and questions that arise from it, Vorobej finally rightly problematizes this approach for its one-sidedness. Interpersonal violence "emphasizes what individuals do to others, at the cost of ignoring what happens to people" (52)."

[2] https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/violence/v-1
I used to use google docs until they randomly locked one of the docs I was working on for a week due to one of their "suspicious activity" scripts. Really hammered in the message that if you don't host it then you don't own it.
That could be alleviated by having the owner provide proof that they live on the property they own, and then granting them an exemption.

Half-exemptions for rent-seekers who can prove 90%+ occupancy.
Sounds like self-censorship in dystopia full of secret laws. I'm glad Google isn't running a country.
Those pictures look... pretty rough. I know the author says you can clean them up in software but doesn't provide any pictures of the images they've received cleaned up in the software they've recommended.

Is this actually worthwhile for anything other than just hacking for fun? Or is getting any useful data from this going to be a full-time job by itself?
That's nuts. What state?

Comparing that to my alma mater (Johns Hopkins), a private university, your loans work out to more than my total cost for tuition for four years (2004-2008). Even looking up their current rates, the average four year tuition after student aid is ~130k. Without any student aid, it hits ~$200k.
An issue with these occurrences are the resulting costs, which sometimes can catch land-owners off guard, when a bomb is found on their property.

[translated]: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

[original]: https://www.t-online.de/heim-garten/bauen/id_81059224/wer-za...
I love IOT and appreciate Melvin Bragg, but I’ve increasingly felt he tends to arbitrarily challenge (and even bully) some of his guests - typically younger women. On the other hand, he has “regulars” who, suave as they may be, invariably get a pass to ramble - and they are all old English men. He also clearly has much less patience for scientific topics than the humanities, and on literary subjects he pushes his own biases pretty strongly (which is a bit of an abuse of power). I have this feeling that he’s turning into a latter-day John Humphrys, it might be time for some rotation.
60mg Dapoxetine, chosen for its extremely short half-life.

Often combined in a single tablet with 100mg of Sildenafil.

Take 1 hour before if possible. The Sildenafil kicks in before the Dapoxetine reaches peak absorption.

Double-blind cross over with placebo confirms a significant effect (~2x duration). You may find you cannot ejaculate at all at that dose, and end up taking half a pill.

Or you take the full dose on occasion and go for as long as your partner desires.
Personally i would say this is just a fun project and novelty factor of receiving a transmission from the satellite. If you actually want to get your hands on weather data and do useful stuff with it let NOAA do the heavy lifting. I can wager that most of us here probably dont want to write the code to seam together satellite images and clean them up. However i wont stop anyone, have at it friends.
To get better images you're going to need a better antenna. But if you have a use for the images is really up to you.
The original title was something like "Ned Batchelder, the author of coverage.py, was asking for help on Bug #915", but it was against the guidelines, so the title was restored.