skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does the left hand know what the right hand is doing?

Hey, State Department, you should pick the log out of the DoD's eye before making this kind of risible statement.
I submitted a pull request, and just now I noticed other three identical requests. So I submitted a Github feature request to warn on overlapping contributions, probably along with a few others...
You've made some changes based on the most well supported bits of systematic reviews of epidemiological and intervention studies. Is the place you have stopped optimal in terms of effort:reward? You're going to be eating daily for the next several decades at least, small amounts of effort amortize pretty well.
Unsubsidized Stafford loans are, AFAIK, always available no matter what your parents make. They will cover half to most of in-state tuition (~3-5k) at many in-state colleges, but not much more. It wouldn't cover even half the tuition + fees at Cal Berkeley, but it would cover half to most at SFSU.
What worthwhile candidate would ever do this? Why would you create a recruiting process that selects for the most desperate, least informed candidates in the hottest seller's market for talent in the last 20 years?

I'm not "angry" about it, just bewildered.

(I'm also a hiring manager; we simply don't work with recruiters.)
Also, if the concept is so baffling, then good luck with understanding income tax.
What's worse is those people who characterise an entire community by one poster's comment, which isn't particularly mirrored in the rest of the thread.
I was in a meeting the other week where moving a bunch of computing services to the cloud came up. The local vendor was making great hay with the ability to assert that data stored in their cloud infrastructure would not leave our (non-US) state and their company was outside of any foreign legal jurisdiction (ie: not Amazon).

But I think the impact is actually far worse, because nobody actually cared whether it was US based. PRISM has not destroyed US business, it is destroying the cloud computing business everywhere, because nobody trusts that a) their own government is not in cahoots with the NSA anyway, or b) their own government is not even worse than the NSA.

Cloud computing has been one of the great revolutions of the last 10 years, and has seriously lowered the barrier to entry for large scale computing, dramatically boosting innovation. I think PRISM may well set us back 5 - 10 years in terms of migrating services to the cloud and the cost of that is pretty much immeasurable.
Take a break: live launch of Wideband Global SATCOM
Probably referring to emancipation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_of_minors
I'm looking at Albany Molecular. That is a contract shop in Albany, NY. Ten years ago they were still doing contract work there, and they advertising themselves as being in Albany. That was the downside, but the upside was that cost-of-living in Upstate NY is low.

Nowadays the work is done in Hydarabad, Shanghai and Hungary, and what is left stateside is supervisory work. I think we are seeing a trend in EE towards contract shops. The only thing that's yet missing is for the contract work to be done overseas.
"6 figure student loan debt" is a persistent but false meme. It implies a different distribution of student debt than actually exists.

Average graduating debt was ~$23k last year.
http://www.finaid.org/loans/
Pivo - Order a beer in any language
What about blueberries? Check and mate.
I think this is more evidence of how much the Oculus team owes to Andrew Scott Reisse, the developer who was killed during a hit and run.

It might be that John Carmack was trying to help out an amazing team who lost an amazing and talented developer.

I know the Hawken forums have been amiss with talk that more that one game is behind schedule since they lost the integration help from Andrew.

I guess there is some there is something to say when a company needs to replace your absence with John Carmack.

Thank you Andrew for getting VR this far.
That's the main reason I don't have a debit card. Only an ATM card, and a credit card.
At my current pay it'll take close to 10 years to pay off my college debt. The only hope I have to shorten that period is to produce more value (I'm trying my best), or get lucky with a startup (I'm in a good market). I know I took the long investment, and I'm fine with that. I'm confident in my skills and my drive, but I couldn't imagine being in a different market. My concern lies in the arts and humanities. They are very important, but will suffer immensely.
The expectation value of a lottery ticket makes it not worth spending any time "choosing numbers carefully".
In that case, you should be playing right after a jackpot is paid out. Your chances of winning are the same, but the chances of splitting a jackpot go way down because there are fewer people playing. Sure, you'll have to suffer with only a $40 million payout, but it's still nice.
Doing an adult adoption by a poorer family member would do the trick (if you are over 18)
I quite like it, and have almost a singalong bit for the meaning attached to each character I add to a long tar command

tar - [create] [verbosely] [a g/bzip'd compressed] [file named] foo.tgz (from) input_dir

tar -cvzf foo.tgz input_dir

Your version doesn't seem as 'fun', I guess zcat and PIPE are just hard to rhyme along to.
Wow the negativity here is astonishing. $5000 recurring revenue is an amazing accomplishment, and something that most startups never see.

Kudos on this achievement, for taking the time to share it, and for the hard work behind it.

Wishing you guys the best of success in getting to the next milestone.
It is not really surprising that a market with very high barriers to entry can be poorly-functioning. They usually are.
That's one of the big problems: "open" can mean vastly different things to different people and in different contexts.
Apple’s ebook penalties may kill iTunes’ iOS app monopoly
I was finally able to read the content by changing "https" to "http" in the link. Now even https works for me.
Your end result is useful, but it's bad that the most effective way to get there is wasting money to trick your stupid human brain.
I can't afford to go back to school, even though I desperately want to for CS because I have $120,000 in debt from law school. Absolutely hate law and going to LS was the biggest mistake of my life.
Oh, I hate when website follow your approach.

To start, it doesn't work if you use VPNs. Second, it doesn't update when you travel.

Here's one example. Even though I'm logged into Google and used Google Maps' 'pinpoint my location' feature, Google Reader is currently emailing me my daily schedule (a feature I enabled recently) in the afternoon. That's also despite my appointments being annotated with timezone information.

I call this bad engineering.
Don't forget parents with modest incomes but a lot of savings from planning their own retirement. That's the reason I didn't get any financial aid (other than some subsidized loans to cover part of my costs).
Here too. And has its sense. You have the proof the other party agreed the contract. I do not need to sign to demostrate I am too. My word right now is sufficient.
hmmh... nitpick but

log utility => maximizing the growth rate,

but maximizing the growth rate maximizes utility for many different utility functions, in particular all constant relative risk aversion utility functions, of which log utility is one. so preference for maximizing growth does not imply log utility, could be linear utility too.

(under a CRRA utility function, a risky income stream that varies between $1 and $2 gets the same risk aversion discount as one with a similar distribution that varies between $100 and $200, see e.g. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-123-microeconomic-th... )
Would private student loans still be an option in this case?
Shakespeare. amazing clarity of thought put to words.
My favorite, before online banking was like it is today, was the "please verify the last 10 (or 20) transactions" ordeal.
That's the point of financial aid.

Merit scholarships exist for the latter.
This is how private torrent trackers try to keep their content quality high and, for the most part, it seems to work relatively well actually. Obviously it's not the same for a social news site necessarily.
Why would the goal be fair representation in a broken, unfair system?

I swear everyone thinks third-party voters have somehow never heard the words "your vote is wasted". I vote green because I've grown very cynical and I've heard it all a million times.

The goal is to register as a lost vote to the established parties. If enough votes are lost they will change message and platform. The other direct goal is to give visibility and direct confrontation to the unfair system.
Interesting, I'll have to give that paper a deeper look. I have noticed seemingly skewed lottery results in the past, but I've never found a case where the skewness of the results made a material difference to the optimal strategy (excluding cases where computer RNGs were configured incorrectly).
While I agree that it is not due to skimming, I dont think it is database leak or breach. If it was, thieves would probably go for smaller transactions (since they are harder to notice ) on large scale. My guess is that she either got phished or shopped on compromised website. That could also explain hosting purchase.
Hey, at least you're not $250k in the hole with an incredibly low 7% interest rate, at the age of 26! What do you all think about a Kickstarter for student loans? I'm looking for $300k in investment or to validate my idea by raising $300k through the service.
The Art of Customer Loyalty
Nice! Is the decay for high ranked items longer than on HN?
And thinking about it, a VR headset is a lot less bulky than a few 30" screens or a TV, which it could replace once the technology is good enough.
What if PG sold ad space to HN users? Plenty of people here would doubtless pay to be able to drop something into a text-only banner at the bottom of the page or something.
It's been my experience that when people say any they really mean the straightforward stuff like Federal and State grants and loans. Being Ineligible for Federal grants is one thing, but so long as you filled out a FAFSA you were still eligible for school grants, private grants, and private student loans with deferred interest payments. That's a huge incentive to complete a FAFSA. Even people who have used up their Federal and State aid should keep their FAFSA going and check their school's financial aid office for other types of aid.

Case in point: in high school I lined up thousands of dollars in financial aid that no one else bothered to apply to. The largest check being $4,000 from my Alumni association for writing two paragraphs about how much I liked my school. A white friend of mine even got a NAACP scholarship because no one else applied (In case you don't believe this happens or think I'm joking, see [1] (not my friend). No one seemed to mind in his case).

I had some family issues and then had a falling out with my family and was locked out of FAFSA until I turned 23. Now THAT is something that does made you ineligible for pretty much any financial aid aside from traditional loans and working a lot. That really sucked. I ended up having not finishing my bachelors as a result. Thankfully Community College worked out pretty well for me.

[1]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/12/jeffrey-warren-whit...
The freedom to quit is vital to maintaining a non-exploitative workplace.
yes, agree with you and OP! just Kelly makes the OP's advice not to play stronger, even if you get +EV, unless you're a millionaire you will overbet and go broke before you win !
You are describing indentured servitude, which is illegal because it is a form of slavery.
I'm slightly confused about the logistics of this because I also attended Carnegie Mellon and received around $20k in financial aid per calendar year (grants and Stafford loans combined), and my parents made over $100k.

If this isn't too intrusive - how much were you making when you received $16k in financial aid vs. $104? Are you only including grants in this amount, or does this also include low-interest student loans?
Retirement accounts don't affect financial aid, they are not even asked for on the FAFSA.

Only if they had savings in a non-retirement account-- where they could use it for things other than retirement-- it would affect your financial aid.
Yeah, I realized it was hyperbolic immediately after posting; hence the edit to say "tens of thousands of dollars".

I also wasn't really trying to generalize; I was attending a fairly expensive liberal arts school (albeit to study math) with 100% need-based financial aid, and tuition alone doesn't cost nearly as much at most state schools.
"Parallel construction" is really perjury.
The diets dont look really applicable if you don't cook for yourself. Are there coaches that work with zero-cooking lifestyles, or is that just out of scope for Weilos?
I honestly don't see how "parallel construction" isn't considered "fruit of the poisoned tree" in considering evidence.

This whole "SOD" thing explains how minor traffic infringements end up as major drug busts so often. Perhaps it also explains why possession of kiddy porn is so often among the auxilliary charges on major criminals. The NSA dragnet catches it, and the DEA SOD tips off local police to it, or maybe the DEA uses "parallel construction" to be able to charge someone with drug crimes.
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None of the Google apps (like Maps, for example) are open source on Android either.
You could try http://elance.com or http://freelancer.com, but that's not going to work out long term if you need an income off of it.
To my ear, it doesn't sound better, FWIW, even when I'm frequently on board with verbing.
Yeah, the numbers don't really make sense. My parents made over $100k per year and I still received about $20k in grants and low-interest student loans, AND I worked part-time during the school year in addition to full time during the summer.
My parents helped me pay for college. In fact, they covered my tuition. We did take out some loans but not much. I am eternally grateful that this debt has not been saddled upon me for the rest of my life, because if it was I probably wouldn't have gone to college in the first place, seeing no way of ever making enough money back to warrant what I've learned.

I did not go to school for CompSci, btw, or anything programming-related (unless you count programming synthesizers as "programming" :P)
It likely is fruit of the poisoned tree. That's why they've been ordering everyone to cover it up.
Isn't the Canonical the first Major Corporate Backer?
successful launch!
I agree. This was massive for me. Being able to create a Droplet (from an existing backup) within a minute, test out an installation for a day, and have it cost almost nothing is huge.
> Most users will click through a security certificate warning generated by their browsers for the sake of convenience.

This can be avoided by using HSTS.
Or just marry your roommate. As soon as you're married (or get an honorable military discharge) you don't have to be saddled with your parents' income.
Or like flying a scout plane to be spotted by enemy ships before the cruisers intercept them, so they don't know you broke their codes.

Of course, what's appropriate in some situations is hugely inappropriate in others.
Xerox to update scan software after switched number outcry
Advice for a New Freshmen
Hi HN,
Fall is coming up and I'm an incoming freshmen going into a computer engineering major. I wondered if you had any advice on how I could make the best use of my time in college?

It's a very general question, I know but I'd like to hear anything that anyone has to say.

If it's of any coincidence I'll be going into a fairly large public university. I've had experience with software through web and mobile application development as well as some experience with hardware through my schools robotics team.

Thanks
My parents had just gotten divorced. My dad had zero net worth, my mom very little. Full federal financial aid and need-blind admission at Columbia U. Super cheap, but only later did I realize how lucky I was (in a way) compared to a kid from a moderately wealthy family with two siblings in college. Let alone my friend who came to CU from a rich family but with no parental support who had to get an official parental divorce to make it work!
True, but $5K recurring with predictable funnel and churn also means freedom, even if split by 3 people.

Depending on what you decide to do, it can mean any of the following:

- Paying the rent/mortgage and good food on the table. Nothing fancy but you'll survive even in the Bay Area as long as you live together.

- Ability to be picky with consulting clients or invest in longer sales cycles.

- Living in luxury on a beach in SE Asia while you figure out how to bootstrap the business.

All of the above are pretty fantastic imo. Not a finish line by any means but way more optionality than 98+% of the population.
Original report: http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_...?

Original HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6156238
Are you a US citizen? If so, write your Congressman. Write the rep for the University's district, your home town rep, and the senators of both states. Make the letter one page, and attach a narrative with the gory details and figures. Give them details on how to contact the financial aid office, the dean's office, and any student ombudsman.

The idea here is to capture attention (short, punchy letter), provide all the ammunition a staffer needs to make a phone call asking what the hell is going on (the attachments), and the targeting information.

Send 'em hard copy, to both the DC and the local district office. Wait two days, send an email. Wait a day and call, asking to speak with someone in reference to same. You won't get the Congressman, of course, but if you get a competent staffer they'll know how to look into the matter and make people uncomfortable enough to do better. Get someone who's worked in the district a few years and they probably play tennis with someone at the University.

These offices are heavily dedicated to constituent service. If you get their attention and make it easy for them to investigate, some staffer will pick this as a lay-up "good deed for the day."

Congress doesn't have jurisdiction, of course, but any public institution steps to when the office calls. They'll pay attention, and they may very well look harder for some discretion to fix this.

The overall system is, of course, stupid. That won't get any better, it's a set of compromises among reasonable sounding concerns that have amounted to a Kafka-esque impossibility. But there is a lot of discretion in the joints -- if you can make someone notice this particular glitch, it might get fixed.
Sorta homeless, more displaced...not really sure what to do...
So I left what was a very abusive situation the other day. Just got up at 3am, packed whatever I could carry, and left. Drove to some family a couple hours away who luckily had a futon for my cat and I.

I know this is a real long shot but does anybody on the east coast (preferably near the Carolinas) have room and board they can offer for maybe a month or so. I managed to carry off most of my electronics which I'm definitely willing to part with. Zero cash though. Recent graduate but I'm actually pretty credentialed and highly skilled for a graduate in my field so I'm sure I can pick up some work soon.

Not real sure what else I can do...just overwhelmed at the moment.
I'd love to hear how you're handling authentication, embedding, interacting with iOS, etc. It's very interesting!
You can't borrow enough to pay for tuition at many schools using federal loans as an undergraduate student. Stafford loans have a maximum borrowing limit of $12,500 per year, and 4% of that goes to origination fees, leaving $12,000 for tuition, less if you're a freshman or sophomore:

http://studentaid.ed.gov/types/loans/subsidized-unsubsidized...

That's not enough for many state schools, and definitely not enough for private schools:

http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-gradu...

The only way to get private loans is to have a creditworthy cosigner. Otherwise, you need parents to take out Parent PLUS loans to cover the remainder.

I assume the person here was paying for tuition with a combination of school-provided need-based grants and Stafford loans. Now that the need-based aid has been cut because her Expected Family Contribution has gone up due to her paid internship, she can no longer get enough money to pay the full tuition.
Hindley-Milner style type inference, which is done by MLs and is similar to what is done in Haskell, uses unification, which is a large part of how Prolog reasons, to determine if two types with still unknown subparts can be the same. You can do surprisingly complex things in these type systems.

For a more complex type system that does similar things and allows a lot more reasoning in the type system, you could take a look at Agda. This is a Haskell-like language with a fully dependent type system, i.e., types can contain arbitrary language terms. This has the downside of being not-quite-Turing-complete, as you want to be able to decidably typecheck. However, it is powerful enough that its type system is often used to automate proofs about both programming language theory and more ordinary math.
Anyone who frequented slashdot can see this. What a preposterous idea that there won't be another Slashdot/digg/HN. Its like saying there won't be another printing press.
Big guy vs. water bottle
So the Internet will be more distributed because of this? ;)
Genuinely new markets are really rare. They do happen -- VMWare was a great example. But they are few and far between.

This is why lack of competition is often scary to potential investors -- paradoxically -- they ask themselves, how attractive can this supposed new market be if there are no other companies going after it?

The advanced way to do market analysis -- which only the most experienced entrepreneurs ever actually do, but which works really well, at least with us -- is to spend very little time on market theory or top-down market estimates (handwaving), and instead put a lot of effort into building a solid, well-though-through BOTTOM-UP market analysis.

What I mean by bottom-up is, literally, start at the bottom -- with an individual customer -- what is their problem, and how much are they plausibly going to pay for the solution, and then how much is it going to cost to acquire that customer. Then sum up how many customers like that exist at various sizes and in various market segments.

E.g. "I estimate that in the US alone there are 50,000 small companies that need this solution and will pay $10,000 each, and I think I can acquire them for $3,000 of sales and market expense each. And then there are another 5,000 midsize companies that will pay $50,000 each..." and so on and so forth. You can slice and dice it however makes sense for the specifics of what you are doing.

This kind of analysis answers several questions at once for the investor:

(a) Is there a big market?
(b) Does the entrepreneur actually understand the dynamics of the market she's going after?
(c) Does the entrepreneur understand the sales and marketing requirements and costs of her business?
(d) Is this an entrepreneur who takes every aspect of her business seriously and rigorously?