skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Possibly because the connection usually works the other way. Usually, mentors find themselves a protege, proteges don't find themselves a mentor. Supply and demand works in favor of them, since there are many more people seeking knowledge and advice than people willing to take the time to mentor someone.

And usually, the connection happens at a subconscious level: you see someone who reminds you of yourself at a younger stage, or who you think shows a lot of potential but just needs a little guidance, or who you just like. It's hard to gauge that without a fair bit of time in an unstructured unrelated environment. That's why you find a mentor - it usually happens through serendipity.
my thoughts exactly. After seeing this video on youtube today, I was expecting a sophisticated scheme involving at least hundreds of thousands.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuA_CyUdjkE&feature=relat...
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Like I said: there is no quality control.
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You're seriously suggesting affirmative action leads to social ills?

I'd also suggest you avoid hospitals because they cause cancer.
That didn't work out too well for the newspapers, did it?

Newspapers got away with it for so long because they held a monopoly on information distribution.
In my case I assumed until I started primary school that all boys had blue eyes and all girls had brown eyes, because this observation just happened to hold for everyone in my immediate family as well as all of the neighbours' children that I played with.
Big-time gaming coming to Linux
Not just for voter turnout. Higher poll numbers are important for raising $$. People (especially those with large bank balances) want to back a winner.
"More trouble than it's any reasonable person would have expected it to be worth" turns out to be a pretty good description of modern exploit development. For instance, from Derek Soeder:

The author's proof-of-concept exploit uses this technique to implement a six-stage approach, comprising: (1) the replacement INT 10h handler, a tiny, low-byte arithmetic / PUSH / Jcc sequence that computes the offset of the next stage, pushes it, and branches to a nearby RET, RETF, or IRET; (2) a larger, low-byte sequence stored over the 8x8 graphics font table (hopefully in video BIOS ROM pointed to by the INT 1Fh vector) that computes the bytes of the next stage, pushes them onto the stack, and branches to a nearby RETF or IRET; (3) a small, base-64-like decoder that decodes and executes the next stage, which was also stored in the font table; (4) a loader that reads the subsequent stages into RAM from the "guestinfo" database via the VMware backdoor interface, decodes them, and executes the next stage; (5) the main V86-mode payload, which prepares the next stage to execute in ring 0 using the appropriate, aforementioned HAL or NTOSKRNL infiltration technique; and (6) the main kernel payload, which creates an interrupt gate for convenient kernel access and cleans up the environment so that execution can resume without crashing. The Win32 portion of the exploit can then use the interrupt gate as needed.

(This is, of course, art, and it's hanging on the wall in our Chicago office.)
We're both zealots, but at least I'm not trying to spend your money on a problem that only exists if you believe me: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49751113/ns/us_news-environment/...

Disregard if you're not American.
You aren't likely to find anything that will be soundproof altogether. The best 'headphones' you can find to eliminate noise are likely considered 'ear protection' on a gun range.

If the objective is a standalone device for noise isolation, those are the closest you're likely to get.

Slightly better would be the earbuds you see with scalloped inserts (the kind that look like this: http://gearmedia.ign.com/gear/image/article/771/771337/gdc-2...) -- they have more layers of insulation when inserted, and have the added benefit of being able to be augmented by speaker-borne audio.
The top of the frontpage would certainly be.
Anyone know if the reasoning behind not being able to buy individuals debt is legal or if technical/execution?

A marketplace for this kind of relief a la Kiva could be hugely powerful.
Somehow I am reminded of rms.
if you buy $10,000 of an individual's debt for $500 and then forgive the debt, they have just incurred income of $10,000 and are obligated to pay taxes on it exactly as if you had handed them $10,000 in cash for services rendered.

It could alternatively be characterized as a gift, in which case it is not income to the recipient (but could incur gift taxes to the "gifter").

If you don't inform the IRS that you forgave the debt, via a 1099-C, you're going to get wrist-slapped mightily if they think it is an honest mistake or, if you're, say, doing it as a political statement, you will be afforded the opportunity to make your political statement in front of a judge hearing your case for criminal tax evasion.

No. If it is treated as a gift--gifts under a certain size do not need to be declared. If it is not treated as a gift, only a creditor that is a financial institution is required to file a Form 1099-C. loan. 1099-C is only required for financial institutions or entities engaged in the business of lending money. http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1099ac.pdf. Moreover, the IRS does exercise discretion over pursuing cases--as the OP has already indicated, they have provided their blessing to these transactions and it is unlikely that any negative tax consequences will accrue (especially in this political environment).
If these people are insolvent, why can't they just declare bankruptcy?
Wow, that is indeed a remarkable and inspiring story. Thanks so much for sharing it. You are right - most physicians - including mine - find it far easier to medicate you for life than try and cure you naturally. I am certainly going to try the approach of diet, exercise and lifestyle change and see how it goes. Incidentally, a great book on this topic that I recently found is "Spectrum" by Dean Ornish.
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Did you feel anything during the ablation procedure?
So people list their bad debts on a website and compete for the most compelling sob story to get them written off.

I actually cannot imagine how this would lead to better outsomes than just buying and forgiving debt blindly. You would preference the best and boldest liars over people who can't bring themselves to debase themselves in front of the world in hopes of your patronage.

Buying blind at least solves the adverse selection problem.
I guess you couldn't go wrong with theBoom...
http://www.theboom.com/v/military/index.asp

Bose does make some commercial-grade noise canceling headphones. They're like 1k but I'd be willing to bet they would work too
If you get hit by a car, by law, the driver of that car should have liability insurance which will end up paying all your medical bills.
I'm 99% sure HN runs on FreeBSD.
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No one has to let you work offline. You can choose to do so yourself by using offline applications if that's something you care about.

But web-based applications have major advantages to the application provider. First and foremost they have better distribution. I can write an app, and then hand you a link (and you know there's no commitment in clicking, so you do). I can show you why you should use my app on my front page, and then I can give you a demo, all without you having to confirm any "are you sure you want to make permanent changes to your system" dialog.

Now of course one can't easily make the above argument for a mouse driver. But I'm responding to your sentiment that too many things are web connected in general.
Here he says: "I would describe myself as being somewhere between a liberal and a Libertarian."

http://m.npr.org/news/Books/162594751
Actual wall street gets bailed out by government (taxpayers).

OWS wants taxpayers to voluntarily bailout private individuals.

I understand the human side of it, helping relieve people of debt seems like a noble cause. But the economics of it seem so warped to me, can someone explain why allocating money to forgive private debt is a good thing economically?
so great! can you open source the erlang part?

EDIT - sorry just found the link at the bottom - www.github.com/twilio/chessms
It won't ban them, it just throttles simultaneous connections from the same IP.

Unless there are dozens of people from the exact same IP and not an IP pool, it won't be a problem.

The worst case is they will see a longer delay for an initial page load in their browser by half a second. But it helps the server tremendously, especially since HN seems to use Apache.
He works at Microsoft[1]. I have been following his predictions on PredictWise.com for the last four months.

[1] http://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-rothschild/12/651/681
it's expensive and means-tested. You don't get to keep everything, even if everything doesn't amount to much.
The issue is using "generation". There's always been an entitiled subset of each generation. The question has it grown and are they more vocal?
I doubt they were paid anything by EA. The article doesn't mention that they were and it would be a much more serious charge if they divulged classified material for money. It's more likely that they just wanted to show off their gear and get it into a video game.

The dock in pay would be around $3000 total; half-pay for two months. This is a pretty typical punishment for enlisted personnel who divulge or mishandle non-critical classified material and probably won't end their careers. It won't help but probably won't hurt much, either.
Good thing you left that 1% ;-)

Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)

XT_CONNLIMIT does miracles for apache especially.

Actually looks like I am wrong.

Static objects are coming from Amazon while dynamic are coming from another server @theplanet.com

Apache/2.2.19 (FreeBSD)

So you are right, it's FreeBSB, but it's still Apache which really needs connection throttling. But there might be a reverse proxy in place. You can also IP throttle with a module in nginx.
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That's why we have bankruptcy laws.

Yes - bankruptcy laws that were passed in 2005 which made it significantly harder to get debt forgiven in bankruptcy, and also removed some forms of debt from being able to be discharged in bankruptcy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_Abuse_Prevention_an...

It was widely claimed by advocates of BAPCPA that its
passage would reduce losses to creditors such as credit
card companies, and that those creditors would then pass
on the savings to other borrowers in the form of lower
interest rates. These claims turned out to be false.
After BAPCPA passed, although credit card company
losses decreased, prices charged to customers
increased, and credit card company profits soared.

http://ssrn.com/abstract=1157158

And that kind of debt is entirely optional.

Not when the majority of jobs that create a vibrant middle class in the post-industrial United States require at least a college degree.
ITA get its data from ATPCO (http://www.atpco.net/atpco/aboutatp.shtml) the clearinghouse for flight data.
Unless I am mistake, newspapers have distribution costs that are orders of magnitude larger.
Andy Rubin, who's the head of Android at Google, said that the point of this phone is to spread the nexus brand to a lot more markets across the world, something that they didn't do with the Galaxy Nexus. Keeping this in mind, they chose not to put LTE since only a limited number of users in one country would actually benefit from it. It'd be great if this phone would actually go on to be a huge hit, say, like the galaxy series. A lot more people would get to use stock android that way, and see how good it actually is.
It's worse than that even. Having served as an election judge (and hence been obliged to assist those who needed it), many people needing help will ask "Which of these is the Republican option?" (where Republican = their party affiliation), even on issues that weren't particularly partisan, or national, or that even made sense.

The tact there being that party affiliation was more important than expressing their own choices, which isn't something that I understand in the slightest, especially as how centrist most candidates are.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/amer...

~62% of all bankruptcies in the US have a direct medical cause. Credit card debt and debt from overconsumption is certainly a problem, but if 62% of the debt forgiven arises from unexpected medical bills, I'd call that some pretty good work.

Though I'm somewhat uncomfortable with the everyman shouldering the fiscal brokenness of America's thoroughly inhumane and downright barbaric health care system.
Is Samsung Moving Away from Apple or Moving Closer?
Thanks for the reply.

> This can be mostly solved by context. T

Right, as I said. It's not too bad, but it's easier when you can just translate word for word.

かみにいのる gives me "pray to bite" on Google translate; as you say, it suggests the right kanji...but that's precisely my point. It needs you to disambiguate for it to be sure.

I'm not saying this is an insurmountable problem, I'm contrasting the difficulty.

> There are very few situations in normal speech where you'd hear "kami" and not know if they're talking about 神 (god) or 髪 (hair).

I ran into it recently in music. Babymetal has a song that starts:

伝説の黒髪を華麗に乱し

When you listen to the song, it'd be easy to momentarily think she might be saying "black god" or "black paper" since while the pronunciation wouldn't be identical, it's pretty close. Since I'm human, I figured out pretty quickly what she is saying...but in the equivalent English phrase there's no issue there...it's "black hair" or "black paper".

This is admittedly not "normal speech", but I could see it popping up there too.

I've seen confusion over 神/髪 in other situations too, though those were deliberately puns so probably don't count, but demonstrate it's possible to have situations where it's at least somewhat ambiguous.

> I find the whole homophone thing a bit overrated

I'm sure it's exaggerated to me because my Japanese is pretty atrocious, but I think my point is valid: any time you have homophones in a language it makes things more difficult to set up a system that listens to speech and translates. Japanese seems to have more homophones than English, and if that's true it is proportionally more difficult to translate in that regard.
While I'm not entirely disagreeing with your point, there is an element of dubious optionality wrt student debt when one systemically cannot find gainful employment without a college degree. College degrees are increasingly becoming the new high school diplomas—wherein they are, for all intents and purposes, of equal compulsory nature, without the defense of laws requiring all 18-21-year-olds to be there. Thus, for vast majorities of the population who wish to lead productive economic lives, the "option" isn't quite optional anymore.
Or your .bash_history might be very large.
The catch is that it's a feedback loop: the fact that a minority is disproportionately poor leads to stereotypes (conscious or not, and the unconscious biases can be quite substantial) about that minority. Those stereotypes throw additional obstacles in the path of that minority.

So even absent any idea of the government "owing" a group for historical wrongs, there's (to me ) a convincing argument that affirmative action is needed. It helps break the feedback cycle.

Completely eliminating class distinctions would also break the cycle pretty quickly, but that seems staggeringly unlikely any time soon. :(
Google Reconsideration Requests and Disavow Lists, an entrepreneurs struggle.
Should, but not necessarily. People buy insurance for exactly that case, where the other motorist is uninsured or underinsured.
It's very easy to encourage and support an outlook where the default gender is female, where heroes are female (even if they are princesses who favour pink). For us, all that was easy and natural. I'm now flummoxed by "Math is hard." And speaking of over-sexualized toys, that cultural norm is also easy to avoid.

It might be that part of our family culture includes a sense of cliquishness, so this all may circle back for ass-chewing later on; but for now it's good.
So what if the shoe's on the other foot? A driver hits someone. The driver doesn't have insurance. He's now liable for the other person's medical bills, but can't afford them. He's now massively in debt over some random accident.

No matter the moral judgment ("he shouldn't be driving without insurance"), the underlying point was that random debt does happen :).
If what you are saying were true President Obama wouldn't have campaigned on reddit two months before the election. Presidential campaigns don't take risks like that. You are vastly overstating the damage to reddit's reputation that small underground subreddits and a handful of users have caused due to a couple days worth of tabloid coverage.

If Advance were worried about reddit tarnishing their brands as you say they'd just have the admins ban anything offensive.
This is my site. I hope Google and friends can offer some insight. Let me know what you think.
Fifth paragraph:

>Now, after many consultations with attorneys, the IRS, and our moles in the debt-brokerage world...

I'm guessing they know what they're doing.
Damnit. This is pretty much the very idea I had in college around 12 years ago. At the time, there was nowhere near the required technology to pull this off. Over the last few months, I'd begun rethinking through the idea again, feeling the time was right to pull this off as a killer idea. Even began trying to investigate how to pitch this to create a startup focused solely on this problem.

Now it seems the time may be too late. Rats.
Hi Scott, saw this on your blog and re posted it hoping it would get some traction here. Really hope Google addressed this.
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Though the report lists top brands, which they must get from something other than the census.
But by no means is it "both halves." Game players are overwhelmingly male. And this has nothing to do with exposure or expectations, it's entirely possible that the female brain just isn't as interested in video games.

My fiancée enjoys Mario on occasion (and does complain that the princess always needs rescuing), but she flat out does not get into games nearly as much as I do. She could if she wanted to, absolutely nothing holds her back. She is also not unusual in this regard, women as a whole are less interested in video games.

So I disagree that game developers should feel obligated to cater to both sexes. Indeed, game developers should simply be allowed to make whatever games they please.
Nice. I wasn't aware that Hipmunk supported that. I just tried it and it even provides some helpful hints.
sfo::ua+
atl::ua+

Good stuff. Saves me the time from matrix.itasoftware.com to go to the airline or booking site.

What about limiting it to fare basis?
for example: sfo::/f bc=y atl::/f bc=y doesn't work. There another way?

Love what you guys do and will have to check on working there at some point.
The cost of medical care in the US is structured to account for bankruptcies - the hospitals get paid in aggregate. The real suckers here are people who actually pay for the care, because they've now paid several multiples of the real cost of the care to account for the people who couldn't afford this ridiculous number and went bankrupt.

The morality behind medical finance in the US is not nearly as clear cut as you think it is.

> "Well, it's beside the point."

It really isn't. It comes down to the core of the issue.

What we have is an industry that collectively charges many times the actual cost of delivering their service and have a monopoly on performing a critical service (licensing, certification). Whether or not this is acceptable hinges hugely on whether or not you believe access to this service is a fundamental right.

There is no way, for example, that we would accept a similar situation if the product in question was fresh water or air.
No. The software you sold them should continue to work into the future. I'm saying you shouldn't be afraid to make improvements and leave people behind if they refuse to keep up.
> You believe incorrectly. I did my homework.

My apologizes you did your fact checking.

> Being a minority can be a graduate level course on the extent and impact of racism. In America, most blacks and hispanics have had ample time to study up, sadly. And if you're from anywhere in the vicinity of the Middle East, god help you.

That could all be correct however the person would still lack perspective and sample size. Without studying it on a large scale you could never be sure.

You also ignored my question of what is the goal in the end. My personal end goal is to have no one look at a person and label/judge them based on characteristic without facts to back it up and I think affirmative action takes us away from that.
I agree that Reddit is taking a naive view on Advertising. There is a huge amount of value to be added here, both to Reddit and the Community by an effective Advertising platform. I'll speak with examples:

r/gaming, a post about Borderlands2 with a sponsored ad that links to one-click checkout on Steam.

r/politics
A post about Romney's many lies featuring a donate to Obama link, or vice versa.

r/fitness
Featuring a sponsored Ad to a local crossfit gym that is having a free trial.

To pull this off they need much better Advertiser control, sentiment analysis of posts, and inclusion into a larger Ad Exchange (or offer Reddit inventory via an exchange model).
I hope a Google rep sees this. It's one thing for Google implement new policies on how it's search engine crawls pages, it's another to penalize a business for past strategies used only prior to these new policies.
I am having the same issue with Waking Mars, sent a mail to the developer. I hope they fix it, the trailer looks amazing.
The implied supremacy and paternalism in the post is pretty problematic.

What is your threshold for informed?

Should we have tests at the polls to make sure people have researched before they vote?

Do you really want to make a case for an "informed" electorate instead of a more representative one?

I know this post isn't saying to deny the vote to the "uninformed", just not to encourage them, but that sentiment implies a) that those people and their opinions are less valuable and b) that the atmosphere of excitement around civic duty which accompanies those posts is itself a problem. I would reject both of those premises.
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Expensive in this case (for the US) meaning $700 to $2000. Which is rather a lot for the insolvent. Not to mention the paperwork sounds like an ordeal.

I think there is a psychological block for a lot of people too. It takes a certain point-of-view and education to be able to enter into lending arrangements with creditors with the perspective: "I believe I am going to make a profit and we will both win. But there is a chance I will not be able to. The lender is self-consciously taking a risk, which they are being compensated for via interest (same basic principle with an investor). If things go badly and I need to declare bankruptcy, then well, yes, it sucks. But I have done nothing morally wrong."

Fun fact: Henry Ford, Abraham Lincoln, and Walt Disney declared bankruptcy.
Hmm, Seems like they copied the idea of Goon Tower from Mr Wong's apartments. This is the original idea: http://www.mrwong.de/myhouse/
Still, taxes on $9500 are way lower than the $10000 you originally owed, so it sounds like a win.

Until everyone starts doing this and the whole system collapses, at least. That money isn't coming from thin air.