skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I know it is impossible to default on a student loan. Even if you declare bankruptcy student loans have an exception so you can't get rid of them. If you stop paying them they can garnish your wages. The only way to end it is to pay it off or wait 25 years, after which they are forgiven.
Hi there, I'm the Chief Executive of Freelancer.com. This is ridiculous.

I were to believe you if I wasn't in the same guy place. I was "scammed" in around $250 from freelancer.com. Basically, the website refused to give the money back.
SEEKING FREELANCER - front end developer (web designer)

Looking for a front end developer to help finish and polish the website. If you are also well versed in web design, that would be great, but not necessary.

You can email me at mailmetomy@gmail.com with your portfolio, rate, and availability.

Thank you.

Thanks.
Really a great idea for a business. It won't likely go upsetting the powerhouses of the clothing industry but that doesn't mean there isn't a large revenue stream to be had on those of us who fall into these areas. Millions might be small sums for said powerhouses, but it could be life-altering revenue for a nimble and focused company and it's employees.

No need to send, I plan on ordering here shortly. :)
Good observation, a section got removed, adding it back now. Happy to write separate blog about it as well, if you're interested. We raised a unique round from mostly younger company founders - an advisory round.
A Haiku for the Imperative Encountering the Sublime

"It might help to start off with some text"

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The most confortable font for me is Lucida Console.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZRflz-93JA#t=0m35s
You're right, it's his mistake to believe this event was going to be attended by adults instead of children.
This is awesome because it means backdoors could have been inserted many many versions ago in a compiler and as long as there was a chain of using the compiler to compile itself through each version (as most compilers like GCC are), the hack would be passed ad infinitum. Pretty evil.
Does OpenVPN support ECDH parameters yet? openssl supports ecparam[1], and polarssl is now supporting it in their development branch[2].

[1] http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/ecparam.html

[2] https://github.com/polarssl/polarssl/commit/577e006c2fe4a361...
>>We work in a sort of strange field where intelligence and ability are highly prized, but some of these same qualities made some of us victims of aggression and abuse earlier in life.

Is this being "victims of aggression and abuse" due to high intelligence and ability is normal phenomena in US or just taking a potshot?
Nice work! One question: you said introductory price of $29 - how long will this introductory price last?
Pretty good overview and opinion of the status quo and historical retrospective here:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732416520457902...?

"Politicians subsidize the purchase of a good or service, prices inevitably rise in response to this pumped-up demand, and then the pols blame the provider of the good or service for responding to the incentives the politicians created. Think housing finance and medical care."

...

"We've got a crisis in terms of college affordability and student debt," said Mr. Obama, without a trace of irony at the State University of New York at Buffalo. The same man who three years ago forced through a plan to add $1 trillion in student loans to the federal balance sheet over a decade said on Thursday, "Our economy can't afford the trillion dollars in outstanding student loan debt."
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looks to me like it doesn't have a bathroom and you are supposed to go outside (or in an outhouse).

I'm also curious how this will hold up against strong weather conditions... heck even light weather conditions
This article was from about 3 weeks ago:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/ripping-off-young-...

Short version: The government makes money off student loans, and there is no defaulting on them (unless you die of course). There are no incentives to keep tuition costs in check because the lenders (government) are happy to put more money into the asset class. We're getting to the point where the price of education can't be made up with an eventual increased salary. The author considers this to be an unfair tax on the lower middle class and an eventual drain on the economy.
The solution is simple and obvious: All of us who have already paid off our loans are going to fund government-arranged loan forgiveness/reduction programs to those who over-leveraged their education.

(I wish I was joking...)
There's not much to it. I started an online "virtual helpdesk" company. The first company I got in signed a contract and promptly went bust after I'd spend all the incoming cash on marketing to get other companies in. It plummeted into debt and I folded it.

The sickening bit was to offset the debt, I sold the codebase to another company which did quite well out of it. They offered to hire me in but I couldn't face it.
I often envy them ! (The employed ones.)
Really nice. Here is how I think about security automation in the future. On top of web security in the web console, Plug-n-Hack (PnH) is a Mozilla initiaited protocol allows security tools to interact with the browser as if you were making an API call to a web service. ZEST is also a Mozilla-driven scripting engine that allows security developers to "replay" an attack through a ZEST script. When you combine all these things with Minion and other security tools, automating and debugging web security will be a lot easier and more powerful.
I have my PhD, and this is the standard angst that many aspiring students face. There's a reason we have the term "ABD" for All But Dissertation. If he got that far into grad school without realizing that a Professor is an entrepreneur - hiring employees (grad students) to produce his product (knowledge) which he sells to customers (government and industry) through sales and marketing (conferences and papers) - then he was just naïve or kept the blinders on. My solution was to graduate and go into industry.
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This was a great first print and has made me quite interested in taking a look at Land of Lisp sometime.

... But instead I think I'm more likely to take a look at that T manual.
JSON is defined as UTF8, 16 or 32 [1]. The escaped characters are UTF-16 not UCS2. It is unfortunate of JavaScript can't parse it correctly!

[1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt
Very nice.

This uses the same type of visualization as the train schedule in Edward Tufte's Envisioning Information: http://www.c82.net/images/java-railroad-lg.jpg
In the U.S. most of the outstanding student loan debt is held directly by the government. Pension funds and mutual funds don't really have exposure to student loans.
Whew. This explains a bug from six months ago that drove me up the wall. I could never figure it out.
Another good person to approach would be Dan Trepanier of The Style Blogger (http://tsbmen.com). They have a [self-proclaimed] readership of 100K+ monthly, and they offer style advice to specific groups like bigger guys, really tall guys, short guys, etc. I think your product would be a perfect fit for their audience.
Wow, that's a huge looking house. How is that more efficient though?
It also encourages one to separate data and code, which is completely (in my mind) counter to Lisp's great achievement in combining the two.
With smartphone ppi pushing above 400 it will be solved in the second or third generation. It will be possible today too but you have to jack up the price threefold.
It's actually in addition to all of that. Treating your body better also helps with self confidence and coping with stress. The routines can last after the job search is over, though perhaps just not with as much intensity or duration.
This is somewhat of a red herring. It's more feasible for the NSA to attack from a side channel, and with their influence that's what they've been doing. No doubt they may have optimized some attacks on already previously weakened ciphers (such as RC4), but there's so many other links to strike.
Probably for the perpetrators, probably not for the companies involved (which are likely to have the same set of Delaware and/or Cayman mailing addresses) :-P

But sure, I would expect that white collar crime is unsurprisingly correlated.

Maybe not though - boiler room style phone banks of investor fraudsters are a stereotype for a reason, and those aren't necessarily the high rent end of town.
It's really too bad that the laws surrounding student loans make them artificially cheap. You can't get rid of college debt through bankruptcy so you're basically saddled for life.

Normally the interest you pay is the combination of three things:

1. The (inherent) time value of money

2. Expenses the lender incurs to keep up with the debt

3. The average default risk of those taking the loans

Student loans only price in 1 & 2 because of the near impossibility of not paying the loans back. Which is great in the short term as it means that more people are able to go to school because the interest rate is lower and thus they can afford more debt.

But a college education is a lot like a house. The price of a house isn't how much it's "worth", it's an artifact of how much money you have to pay every month for the privilege of living there. A house of a certain niceness is (everything else equal) going to cost the same amount of money per month whether the interest rate is 1% or 15%. A $1500/mo mortgage buys you $250k of house at 4% but only $150k of house at 9% and only $95k of house at 15% like in the early 80s. (http://www.bankrate.com/finance/mortgages/history-of-mortgag...)

By removing all the default risk from the pricing of student loans, more students are able to afford college which is exactly the intended effect of the laws. But the size of most academic institutions doesn't grow; most colleges don't admit twice as many students just because more are clamoring to get in. This excess demand and fixed supply means that colleges can raise prices. And thanks to the lowered interest rates those who could have afforded college prior to the law (and lower interest rates) are still able to afford it because the lowered interest rate has increased their borrowing capacity.

Those on the margin prior to the change in the law still aren't able to afford college once the price increases follow the increase in available money and additional demand for degrees.

The law was changed in 1978 and it's taken quite a few years for this unintended consequence to play out. It's really sad to see it happen. http://www.finaid.org/questions/bankruptcyexception.phtml
Huge difference between student loans and mortgages - the only pain felt will be by the students and taxpayers who will (again!) make the lenders whole on their bad bets:

Student loans cannot be discharged even if you declare bankruptcy - while home owners could walk away and hand the keys to the bank.

Student loans are guaranteed by the government - the issuers just file for compensation.

The sickening part is that once the lender gets paid in full for a non-performing loan they buy loan back from the government for 10% or so and then file a lien on any future earnings.
how did the error JSON include the undecodable bytes? JSON strings are all unicode sequences, so there would have had to be some way that the raw bytes were mapped into codepoints.

on the other hand, if the offending bytes were blindly substituted into the JSON, then it's not surprising that there were decoding issues down the line...
There is more than one way to defeat this attack. One of the simpler ones would be to create a formally verified C compiler in X86 assembly, which you can use to compile an older version of GCC or whatever, and then use that version to compile the next one, and so on and so forth until you have a guaranteed clean modern version.

I don't think any buildchains currently implement anything like this though.
Really cool. A little slow to load, perhaps, but I say that with no knowledge of how much is going on behind the scenes.

I have only one real complaint, and it's unique to me. I use a blank page as my new tab page instead of the default, and I could find no way to launch this extension other than setting my new tab page back to the default.

Edit: what's the password for sudo?
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I think plumbing was solved by not including it. Acoustics can be solved by not having a loud child living in there with you as can privacy. Ventilation, insulation, etc, all easy to deal with if you don't concern yourself with building codes.
I agree with your statement whole heartedly. There are trade-offs to everything. I hope that you don't think I am claiming to have solved the housing issue. I am simply offering an "alternative" alternative structure. But there is a place for them and it works for me.

Please see the tiny housing / simplification movement for discussion about the trade offs of relocating and living simply. It's not for everyone.
Zero is not technically a number? It has been a long time since my grade school days, but I seem to remember zero being an element of Reals, Rationals, and Integers. Granted, zero is not an element of what we used to call "Counting Numbers," but really, it should have been.
Shen/Qi was the first Fluchtpunktish lisp I ever spent time with, and I had not used any typing system outside of Typed Racket and some other hand-made implementations. I remember being amazed that the Shen type system isn't more widely used across more domains. Once you start using it, you feel like the type problem is 'solved' in Shen. The author is right on about this language offering something special--Shen is one of those addictive hammers that you will want to hit all the nails with. More importantly it's a type system that can be used in conjunction with existing systems or even implemented in a different language.
A good test for how powerful a new means of abstraction actually is, is to try using it outside of its original implementation.
Definitely interested in this range but I'm still waiting on my order from the first campaign. How far are you guys from getting the UK orders sent?
Student loans look like they should be easier to predict than anything else. You can't see a bubble burst untill the inability to default is lifted. Until then, there is no defaulting, so there is no loss of confidence. The only metric to measure is how few payments people are making on their outstanding loans. For example, I only pay the minimum since I'm unemployed. I've drained around $300 of my savings just on minimum student loan payments.
Talk to your mom/dad what it was like in the 50s/60s/70s/80s: They'll probably tell you people are, on the whole, better off now than they were then.
Let's say I've just spent the last 30 years on an isolated island in the south pacific. Could you define sexism for me, please, in a way that doesn't make it sound like "thoughtcrime" from 1984.
They wanted to parse some bytes as utf-16, but are unable to do so because V8 only understands ucs2 (with invalid surrogate pairs). This is a major problem with node- ie, it happily produces/consumes invalid unicode encoded strings.
I won't argue for the aesthetics, but I am curious what you mean by "loss of generality."
Please. Political Correctness does no one any good.
Expert Chess Players Are Smart.  Yes, That Was Questioned.
Ah, what's old is new again. http://www.bagginsend.net/
The moments I saw what the rift was capable of I was thinking of simulations Renaissance.

Mechwarriors, Descents, Freelancers - anything where your in game "avatar" isn't tied to the camera can benefit immensely from the technology.
I'm happy to see things like this, as the easier it is for folks to use Haskell, the better it is for the platform.

I might try to experiment with some personal projects on it, although unfortunately, I can't use it for any of my actual work.
Actually, "decimated" is not the perfect word for it. He's done much better than mere decimation!

(Decimated means "reduced by 1/10th" ... not, as is popularly believed, "reduced to 1/10th")
That wasn't GP's point. GP went on a very hyberbolic rant about 50" screens and how no one uses laptops. I agree the site's design sucks even when it works as intended and could scale better, but it works just fine on several small screens I've tried, it just doesn't appear to work on GP's resolution, which has nothing to do with 50" screens nor people never using laptops.
Imagine running trucks 24 hours a day. With no sleep constraints, you can move almost twice as much stuff with the same # of cars. Increase utilization and speed which would have great impacts on efficiency.
At the low cost for that dome I'd be pretty tempted to stick another one on and divide it in two for kitchen and bathroom.
You are correct.

I am 25, and since my first serious job (I was 23) I've been in the government category for the most rich as possible in earning amount (the category is everyone in the top 5% of income... granted, there is still a GREAAAAT gap between the top and low of that... I reached the top 5% with 20k USD/year)

I don't own a vehicle (not even a bicycle), much less a living place.

I think if I sum all my possessions (literally, including my clothes, glasses, phone... without depreciation) and my debts, I am still negative.

According to my calculations, I will be able to buy my first apartment when I am about 35 years old, unless I move back with my parents and stop paying rent. Also I won't bother in buying a vehicle, unless it become really, really necessary (and then, I will buy a chinese QQ or J2)

When I think about that, it is really, really, really depressing and ridiculous.
Good point, I'm not sure if the US has enough money to take on the herculean task of providing non-oil fired generation for 1.5 million people.
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Why you should not pirate Google’s geo APIs
It makes me wonder how many have re-mapped their phone buttons to whatever the Dvorak equivalent of the numeric keypad would be. With blank keys, of course.
they're cheap to acquire, but long-term, not so good. They're also very flimsy, so everything sort-of goes at once.

Yes, you can spend a lot more on one and get nicer finishes, but the end state is the floor sags and none of the doors shut.
How do you explain a man on stage simulating masturbation to your 7 year old child who's asking what's going on?
There are many people who would rather live in a tiny little shack than in a larger house with 10-20 other people.
Prankster Filmmaker Calls NSA (4 Times) Asking For Help Retrieving Deleted Email
Except we don't. There are no clearly defined rules of what exactly defines sexism outside of "referring to women in a a way that makes anyone anywhere feel uncomfortable." It's entirely subjective and based on community, culture and societal standards. It's a landmine with wheels. Even if you stand perfectly still, it could bump into your leg at any moment and, I don't know, annoy you to death with shrill platitudes about patriarchy.
I'll definitely reach out. Any recommendations for getting the word out are much appreciated!
This student makes some excellent points, and it's a bit scary how some things reinforce each other.

Some journals, Nature being the most notable, chase impact factor above all else. The only thing they truly care about is that the papers they publish get cited. This means highly original work, which frequently doesn't get cited much for a long time, is less desirable than a turn-the-crank paper from a respected name.

Researchers have been taught to prize Nature publications (thanks to the same flawed metric of merit) and spend a disproportionate amount of time submitting papers to Nature. When you write a paper you choose your target journal, and writing for Nature means you need to avoid rocking the boat too much, because they receive so many submissions that one minor criticism from a referee will torpedo your paper, even if that criticism is demonstrably wrong. Sometimes invalid criticisms are made by referees who are jealous, threatened, or merely lazy, but the editor has so many other submissions to deal with that he/she won't take the time to evaluate and understand the referee recommendations. Real science invites debate, but Nature's editors run screaming from it.

Why do researchers care so much about playing this game if it compromises their writing and even their research? Even a tenured prof needs to hustle for funding if he wants to do more than teach and sit in his office. PI's are salesmen even more than they're managers! The very language itself is twisted at the core when applying for grants. The average researcher or project must be superlative in every way on paper or no money is going to come. You can't say you're doing something out of pure curiosity and the chances of it spawning another silicon valley are remote. It has to be imminently commercializable with potential for massive, revolutionary impact! Honesty will destroy you. If every research proposal delivered what it promised the World would be one giant Palo Alto. We would all be better off if some better way to allocate resources were found, but that's no easy task!

As for the PhD student... There is more than meets the eye here. You don't walk away from 4 years of work in the last month without reason. Perhaps his thesis is a hopeless mess. Perhaps his relationship with his supervisor is hostile. Perhaps he's mentally ill. The last few months are ridiculously stressful after all! It's also very possible he or she is a lot more than one month from finishing. Hopefully there are people who care about this person and will help him/her get back on track and finish. The game is flawed, but the best way to ensure nobody wins is to refuse to play it.
they have just assumed the audience is entirely male, entirely straight and entirely just as crass, rude and objectifying as they are.

No more so than other presenters assume that everyone in the audience is just like themselves.
And to connect the next couple of dots:

- All these young people who can't afford homes, cars or kids will cause the economy to not grow as fast as it otherwise would.

- And if the economy is slow, fewer jobs will be created, keeping these young people poor even longer.

Of course, not everyone has parents that they can move in with, and those who don't have that safety net will suffer the most.
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I used to live in a pretty small house. I loved it.

Then I had two kids =)

EDIT: added smileyface.
I'd definitely pay more for a bus ticket if it was more spacious and had 2-3 bathrooms.
Astrology has no formulas.
Astronomy has lots of formulas.

Whether you prefer Austrian or Keynsian approaches, FORMULAS ARE A GOOD THING.
This doesn't have a bathroom, it's just a place to sleep and work. Think of it like a workroom, or greenhouse. It was built on a foundation of masonry blocks and 2x4s If you wanted plumbing, you could certainly add it. That's the idea, you build it yourself.
This is not a standard terminal replacement, it's a Chrome extension providing quicker access to koding.com's vm service. Vague headline, cool product but not relevant to me right now.
Pete Warden would like you to use public APIs: http://petewarden.com/2013/09/09/why-you-should-stop-piratin... . Also, the association of low ground with poverty is old. Toni Morrison riffed on it in Sula: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sula_(novel)