skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe that the vast majority of student debt is not people going to an Ivy institution. The major concentration of serious debt issues has been in the private-education-as-big-business sector from companies like University of Phoneix and DeVry, whose business models depend on government backed student loans, or loans from private companies that are subsidized/guaranteed by the government (before President Obama signed a law that allowed the government to manage student loans without requiring a private company to act as an intermediary).

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/gi-bill-for-prof...

"Last winter, the Department of Veterans Affairs tasked its newly hired blogger, a cantankerous Iraq vet named Alex Horton, with investigating the website GIBill.com, one of many official-looking links that come up when you Google terms like "GI Bill schools." With names like ArmedForcesEDU.com and UseYourGIBill.us, these sites purport to inform military veterans how to best use their education benefits. In reality, Horton found, they're run by marketing firms hired by for-profit colleges to extol the virtues of high-priced online or evening courses. He concluded that GIBill.com "serves little purpose other than to funnel student veterans and convince them their options for education are limited to their advertisers."

http://www.motherjones.com/media/2012/08/explosive-growth-pr...

"The for-profit higher education industry was the target of a bruising report issued last week. Based on a two-year effort, the report detailed high rates of loan default, aggressive recruiting, higher than average tuition, low retention rates, and little job placement assistance. It was spearheaded by Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, a longtime critic of the industry. (ProPublica has written a number of pieces looking more closely at the explosive growth sector, including questionable recruiting and marketing.)"

And finally -

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/11/university-phoen...

"After federal regulators accused the University of Phoenix of systematic enrollment abuses in 2004, the school's parent company paid out nearly $10 million to resolve the allegations.

Phoenix allegedly had broken the law by tying recruiters' pay to enrollment numbers, U.S. Department of Education investigators found, creating pressure to sign up unqualified students.

In the years since, Phoenix cemented its stature as the nation's largest for-profit school and the single biggest recipient of federal student aid. But some of the school's recruiters have continued to use high-pressure, deceptive tactics, according to a dozen current and former students and two former recruiters who spoke to ProPublica and Marketplace as part of a joint investigation."
Spraying seawater also impacts in another way - produces a lot of aerosol (salt particles, and so on) which contributes a lot into pollution.
I havent been syncing my bookmarks on any devices. I wasn't signed into chrome the whole week before, so unfortunately this wasn't the case.
Do drugs help programmers?
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I thought it was a Bing thing at first.
This seems like the key insight about this issue. The debts OWS buys on the cheap are debts that were never going to be paid off in the first place. The net practical effect of this action is to transfer money from well-meaning people into the hands of debt collection agencies.

Seems like the only people being bailed out are debt speculators. Doesn't sound like a worthy cause to me.
This is a non-issue, because they're clearly not listening (at least in the US).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout#International_dif...
I agree that it improves the quality of outcomes. If the general population does not vote, then minorities will push their own agendas, which may be opposed to the general population.

Some examples in regards to one minority:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/nov/02/usa.religion
http://www.hopscotchfilms.com.au/catalogue/god-on-my-side
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff
Probably so you can't game the system.
*I updated the title to be more clear :)
As a feature, I think it has a lot of merit. Advertisers will love it, as it actually improves on TV ads (which you can fast forward through easily).

If you're already using some kind of ad-block, there's nothing stopping you/your ad block from disabling the visibility API on select pages (youtube et. al). It's a Javascript API, and that means you'll be able to alter its functionality fairly easily (bookmarklet, plugin, addon, etc).
Agree. They should use different APN.

Hope Smart would support it also
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But if you're insolvent, doesn't that mean you are... well, insolvent, as in not able to return credits? That's what "credit" means, no? If some company for some reason (which evades me, but that's their choice) doesn't want to hire insolvent people, wouldn't presenting oneself as solvent be a deception?

Student loans is a good cause though, indeed it is very hard to get rid of. But since they carry government guarantees (unless it's a private ones) - why would one be willing to sell it for cents on a dollar instead of just getting the money back from the state?
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I punched in my details and there are approximately 100 people like me. What has occurred to me is that people like me (20's, single) that live in rich mobile areas of Sydney spend less than the national average across most things, and overall. But also, compared to people like me, I get away with about 1/8th of what everybody else spends, and do not feel poor. To the contrary in fact.

What is going on here? I am inclined to believe the data.

What this has really reinforced for me is the extent to which other people must spend their income as it comes in. It has also reinforced the importance of my friends, connections, values & personal knowledge. My friends who enable me to live a life that feels rich whilst, apparently, spending about 1/8th of what everybody else does.

I really am surprised. I was not raised frugally and if I want something and have the money, I generally buy it & I don't need more than I have.
Naive in what regard exactly?

EDIT: Oh, I see. You think I think I had this idea first and out of nowhere. Wrong.
Spooky. Tried it out and found it's prediction accurate for brands and companies I might use. Which was disappointing in a way, I was hoping I might find something new to try. Instead I'm well, just like me....
In the real world (or at least the world of garage sales and Antiques Roadshow), one man's junk is another man's treasure.

In the programming world, one man's treasure is inevitably another man's unreadable spaghetti dependency-ridden junk.
Reminds me of Facebook Zero:

http://qz.com/5180/facebooks-plan-to-find-its-next-billion-u...
In this age of NAT and IPv4 address exhaustion, it's not uncommon to have dozens of people from the exact same IP.
They seem like two very separate cases to me.

The opinion I have seen is that it is perfectly fine to release the movie anonymously on the internet. Buying prime time advertisement on TV or other impractical, in the sense it is impractical to expect the vast majority of people, to avoid formes of advertisement should not always be protected. Rule of thumb seems to be easy to opt out is protected and the hard to opt out it is the more it makes sense to make sure there is funding transparency.

Free speech is limited, such as yelling fire in a crowded area(theater is the classic example I believe). Free speech is not guaranteed under all circumstance where the negative consequences are extreme.
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getUserMedia (alas, prefixed) should also work in Firefox, generally speaking... Though maybe it's preffed off by default? The patch for it landed for Firefox 15: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752353
To me, those are not even remotely comparable, so you can't really use the same criteria for evaluation. On one hand you're talking about allocation of funds -- it's just money. On the other, you're talking about depriving people of fundamental rights.

When it comes to the latter, the litmus test I use is, "Is there a clear and urgent need for this law?" In this case, as horrible as human trafficking is, I do not believe that prop 35 passes muster on those grounds. Bear in mind that we're not talking about going from "no penalties for human trafficking" to "some penalties for human trafficking". It's going from significant penalties, to even more severe penalties. There is no urgent need for this law, and therefore no justification for skewering civil liberties.
What I like about this is how crazy it seems.
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I don't think the US population would react so well to a non-voter fine, but I do think it would be interesting to see what effect there would be if an automatic tax deduction or rebate was offered. I suppose you run the risk of disincentivizing a few very young voters, but the perspective would seem much more appealing (hopefully forcing less quibbles over the 'point' or allocation of taxes).
>How am I supposed to know which is best? Do I need a degree in Keynesian economics or can I just listen to a few talking heads on the local news?

You're not supposed to vote for what is "best".

You are supposed to vote for what you WANT to happen.

It could be the worst thing for the country but very good for you. That's OK too, if a tad selfish.

Now, if you don't know what you want or what is good for you, you still get to decide. Anything major that will be legislated, like taxes, WILL affect you. So, what would you do if you don't know which option is the best? What you do in every similar situation in life:

a) User your direct knowledge.
b) Use your experience.
c) Try to learn for other people that know that stuff.
d) Discuss it with others in general.
e) Read up on the issue.
d) When everything fails, just your gut.

You'll have to suffer any consequences anyway.

And it's not like you can just have people with "degrees" and experts to make your opinion, or have the only right to vote on an issue.

1) For one, because those people also have biases, personal interests and hidden agendas. And even the non outright lying ones can be partisan, deluded, dogmatic, ideological or simply idiots with rich dads that bought them a good education.

2) Second, YOU'LL suffer from the consequences of any law, so it's YOUR decision to make, not theirs.
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Sorry if this gets lengthy:

Models predicting GW are completely unproven. The fact that any number of models say the earth will warm is not further proof that these models are correct.

I have witnessed attempts to model some really complicated activity. This is typically done with massive amounts of data, we're talking millions of precise observations per day. These models are back tested with decades of daily data available. Most importantly, almost all of these models fail to produce and accurate prediction of the future.

Now, these climate scientists, with models that are based on mostly extrapolated data, want me to believe that their models accurately predict the future. To prove it we just have to wait 50 years to see if their predictions come true...

Along the way, they seem to take every opportunity to use current events as further evidence that their models are correct. If there's a hurricane, then it's GW, if there's an earthquake[1] it's global warming, if it's a cold winter[2] it's global warming. As if none of these things happened before we started burning coal and oil.

Here is how the models can be proved correct though:

Produce a single, completely objective method for measuring the earth's temperature using the exact same hardware, locations, and environments. No recalibrations, no changes to the equipment or its environment at all. Then take the current measurement, use their models to predict the next 10 years, use the exact same hardware to recalculate that measurement every year for the next 10 years. Then we'll really see how good these models are.

[1] http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/15972840.h...
[2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1341388/Globa...
Which themselves have tied up in a price hike death spiral.

The world is complicated and now more than ever everything is interdependent.
Almost want to fly to SF to meet someone who can mentor me on startup. Let me know when you come to Seattle.
Your first point is pretty valid, it it basically the better way of not voting, since in this case the percentage of people wanting neither A nor B will be pretty accuratly known. And this, in turn could provide a much better picture of public opinion which in turn could take out a lot of political bickering and infighting.

But I completely disagree on your second point. A living democracy cannot live on just the "well informed few". In a system like this, fate of the society and almost all discussions would be dominated but exactly these choosen few, a self-percieved elite. In consequence, democracy wont be anymore, as are open discussions on issues important to any one. Voting in a democracy is not a privelege but a right to any citizen notwithstanding his position in life or his education or knowledge on a given subject.

If these "well informed few" have a special duty, it is to get all the rest at least well informed enough to not follow polical populists and extremist.
I think the theory is that it's 30 times better than giving $500 to people who are broke.
Make no mistake. Clever code is not necessarily good code.

I'm not in favour of littering the code with a pile of comments which will most likely become obsolete in three months, but it's very important to do whenever you are:
- implementing a non-trivial algorithm
- doing something surprising (maybe to fix something on a specific architecture or whatever)
- implementing a complex business rule
I've worked with ROCCAT for years (as well as other companies like Razer) and never heard about this before. How do other gaming mice do on linux if they haven't focused on supporting it?
Many jobs require a degree, but not every degree leads to a job. Unfortunately, easy access to huge loans and widespread confusion about the relationship between the degree and the paying jobs has lead to ever increasing number of people in huge debts with no way to repay it ever. It reminds me some recent history when people got into huge debt in order to get something that is sure to provide them huge value and make them rich - and then it turned out not to be so. We're heading into it again, full steam.
Seems to happen on hover too.
The enthusiasm is a measure among the reported data. Not among the survey sample. The data was culled for likely voters, then the enthusiasm spread was among those that survived the cut. At the bottom of each page it says the results are all from the weighted sample.

The concept here is that "likely" is a continuum, and the Republicans had an advantage at the extreme upper end of it.

EDIT- Adding a note and then moving on from this. I understand you're saying the enthusiasm is baked into the final preference percentages, but that's not the case.
I am 29 and suffered from high blood pressure. I am not particulary overweight but not super lean either. For the past 3 years i have worked at a startup that i founded as a CEO and programmer. Ultimately we failed but it still was a superb experience but the long hours and high stress also had alot of negative impacts on my life.

I got high blood pressure without noticing it, i gained about 10kg in weight, lost a long term (8 years) relationship and always felt stressed and guilty of not doing enough.
In the end the product didnt find success and i realized that even if i love my work and love to work hard, i dont want to sacrifice my health and life as a yound adult.
Now i go to the gym 4-5 times a week and try to maintain some balance while still working hard and most importantly more efficient. Even in 8 hours of highly focused work you will get alot more done than in grinding it out for 12 hours each day, and with regular exercise you will feel much better and be healthier!
I love working out, not only is my blood pressure in excellent condition again and i feel fitter than ever, but it also gives me something else than my coding work to excel at, which is very important to me.

This is just my experience and YMMV, but i learned it the hard way. Think of your health and happiness first!
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And I would have no problem with you tearing up the ballot.
As long as you were forced to go there, collect it, and tear it up instead of voting.

The important thing is that the effort required to vote or not vote should be the same. This prevents laziness, being too busy, as well as factors like transport or long lines from being part of your decision.
In the linked page all references are "Free Zone powered by Google".
Correct, pro-gamers (and amateur competitors too) will take their mouse to any tournament, and if they forget it they will try to find the same model to use.
It's only offered in Philippines...
Yeah: I ended up figuring out a way to add it. I now generally like having the feature, but it was a complete necessity due to the Hacker News IP ban rules (although, as I mentioned, still doesn't solve the underlying problem for this site, which is incredibly touchy).

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4717730
I told you to stop using IE6....
No! I'd rather people don't vote than vote no on something they don't understand... Unless you understand what you're voting for: don't vote.

No vote is better than a misinformed one...
Actually 13,000 per individual, so 26,000 to the household if married. And 52,000 if given from one couple to another (think parents to child+spouse.)

(CPA in Texas)
Personally I think they should try to recoup the face value from the debtor. If my debt was among the debt bought by OWS and they contacted me giving me the option to pay it off at face value so they could move forward with helping others, I'd pay it off in a second.
This compares top lines. I think a comparison of turnout model accuracy would be more informative. Most of the models that erred predicted that the 2012 turn out would lean less Democratic than the 2008 turn out model, based on the 2010 mid-term turnouts and a (mis)perceived dampening of enthusiasm among Democrats and increased enthusiasm among Republicans. Based on exit polling, there was a drop off of 7 million white voters, and I don't think anyone who predicted that.
I know this is mean, but you know what's really fun... undoing what people are doing in real time... someone just planted a tree.. and then I moved that tree.. (tee hee hee) - sorry. maybe this type of moves shouldn't be allowed? - but I just had the best 10 minites of my week!!!
48% turn-out doesn't mean people are listening, it could be that if so much effort didn't go into persuading people to vote that far fewer people would.
You're right, I didn't realize Nate Silver was using an average. Also after reading the article, it looks like not just predictions for the 2012 presidential electoral vote, but other votes such as the Senate races are also being compared.
Actually, the implied threshold is self-assessment. JWZ is suggesting: if you don't feel like you know or care enough to vote, feel free to not vote.

That's actually pretty fair and efficient.
The video is not blocked anymore.

See: http://youtu.be/4BZ06Kwbi5s
Yes, the financial crisis was real. It had a huge impact. Put that many people out of work, and GDP/capita drops.

Doesn't change the fact that there is continuing to be a huge amount of technological progress in a lot of different fields. Not just, as you seem to believe, one narrow area of technology.
> Small size reflects the quality of the code.

Not always. Case in point: a week or two ago, I refactored some C# code. It was an installer generator, which was coded entirely in the controller. Yeh who want to add unit tests, abandon all hopes.

So the code is now split into different pieces, according to responsibilities, with dependency injection, and I/O in its own layer. The result, in terms of lines of code, is a net increase. But according to your metric, I have decreased the quality of the code.

I agree that generally speaking, less code is better than more code, but more code can mean reusable, more readable code.
My first thought was that it sounded like a walled garden, basically AOL for the mobile age, but then I saw this:

When you click on a link in the search results page, you don’t pay anything. If you click on a link after this, you will need to pay for this data usage (but don’t worry, before you are charged, you will see a warning page with the option to sign up for a data plan if you want.) So for example, if you click on a search link to a Wikipedia article, you won’t pay anything. But if you click on a link within the article, you will be charged for the data costs incurred loading that link.

That part is a really interesting. As the old saying goes, the first hit is always free! It's freemium for data plans.

I wonder if the phone operators are keen on this because it's a way to get people who were previously hesistant onto data plans.
If you're in the world and someone is doing this to you, please say something in chat and we'll ban them.
I think we're starting to see the opposite. A lot of pragmatic people who are arguing that shipping crappy products is a good thing.

I like this article. It provides some balance to the wave of "worse is better" posts that have been coming out.
Facebook has had this for a while now. You can go to 0.facebook.com from a supported carrier for free access.
Would you have a problem with me instead voting for the closest equivalent of the nazi party?

Especially if that becoame the party to turn to for those of us who don't like to be forced to vote.
jawdropped

Are you using PhantomJS to render the page? (that "Notice: last satellite flyover was [x] minutes ago")

I'm guessing you queued the job via beanstalkd and call phantomjs renderBase64 against your URL?

It's nice to see more people using PhantomJS these days (I'm using it myself in my current work)
I'm happy to see someone take a stand against rampant, patronizing Non-Voter Intimidation.

Non-voting can be a sign of a healthy system: "Everything's working pretty good; I'm OK with either choice, or whatever my fellow citizens select."
> No vote is better than a misinformed one...

I precisely contend that, for certain categories of questions, that is not the case. If we want to try to pin this down with numbers somehow, it'll have to wait 'till morning though...
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Great Q/A! We're big fans of James Perse and a bunch of the other brands listed. Biggest complaint for JP is that nothing they make is athletic fit and downsizing doesn't work well with length.
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I think science likes to move faster than that. What does "completely objective" even mean? That's like saying you want something in real time or with no bugs. It's all evidence, not proof. We just keep moving from prior beliefs to posterior beliefs.
Google's wrong translation 
When translated "India is my country" from English to Urdu
http://translate.google.com/#es/ur/India%20is%20my%20country

and reversed the same
http://translate.google.com/#ur/en/%D9%BE%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%20%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%20%D9%85%D9%84%DA%A9%20%DB%81%DB%92

resulted in "Pakistan in my country".

Can some one explain why is that?