skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we told banks to lower their lending criteria and look where that got us

There's definitely a mix of opinions out there on this, but there have been some good challenges against community lending targets as a significant cause of the crisis.

Somewhat more polemical:
1. http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/11/22/5086/
2. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/post/no-the-aff...

Wikipedia can sometimes provide a pretty good record on controversial topics with sufficient visibility.

The current article on causes of the US housing bubble, and specifically the section covering loan policy, cites useful literature on both sides. While it's not a completely one-sided argument, it appears the weight of the evidence goes against the CRA and similar government initiatives as a leading cause of the crisis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_the_United_States_hou...

At the very least, given the number of other sections on that page, you should conclude that the CRA wasn't the sole cause of the crisis.

Note from the same page, (and in some of the above polemics), it seems like there's a similar cry to blame deregulation for the crisis. There are reputable economists, even Bill Clinton claiming that the repeal of Glass-Steagall probably wasn't sufficient to cause the crisis. Regulation and deregulation make suggestively convenient bogeymen for the right and left respectively, so they should draw a sort of heightened scrutiny.

Events like this are naturally complex. Alarm bells should ring if anyone boils down the entire crisis to something so simplistic as "too much or too little government." Some problems and some solutions don't fit conveniently on a postcard.
A couple of people have hinted at the question, but I'll ask outright in case someone can answer: How quickly could you just start everything up sans checklist in an emergency? I thought I saw a couple of switches which actually started the engines, but I assume that at least some of the preparatory steps are required.
IN A RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR.

I am not terrified of CTR, by the way; I just think CBC gets a bad rap. It's interesting that people can be on a jihad against DSA for needlessly depending on randomness, but not at all perturbed by the CTR randomness failure mode.

(Granted, the DSA failure mode is much worse and much harder to get right.)
It's almost like the US government should just lend the money out directly. But they'd never do that, right? Socialism!

Oh right: http://www.sfgate.com/business/networth/article/Feds-take-ov...
Is it even known to be weak? Or is it, like P-224 and P-256 themselves, simply based on a constant that we don't know the provenance of?
How Weev's prosecutors are making up the rules
Of course, but some businesses like banks are also run by the government.
Yep, that's a pretty nasty example. I guess I got lucky; I originally joined Crossfit for the sole reason of learning the Olympic lifts, because they were the only local gym that had bumper plates. Not only did I get good instruction on the Olympic lifts, but I improved my deadlift and squat PRs considerably in the very first month because of corrections my coach made in my form.

The coaches I've had have often been gung ho, yelling "GO GO GO" and "DON'T STOP WORKING" at us, but they also made me take plates off the bar when my form slipped. I can see how the first thing without the second could be dangerous.
You can't have that, categorization is way too complicated for YouTube. YouTube is for everyone, not just nerds!
A "data scientist" or a "programmer" are hardly senior level positions.

In my experience as a PhD with (currently) almost 4 yrs postdoc experience, I rarely get an interview when I apply for an industry position. I think there is a good element of truth in what the original author is saying about a gap. As PhD students and postdocs we do a lot of things. We have to write code, we have to manage students, teach, publish, apply for grants, manage research groups or entire projects, handle scientific and financial reporting, etc. The problem is that our skills don't exactly match company requirements that normally have different people for most of these tasks. To make things worse, people tend to believe that we will be arrogant pricks who will demand really high salaries even though we are clueless about how things work outside academia. Just look at some of the comments here.

For an entry level programming position a recent CS BSc appears much more desirable and cheaper than any PhD. I doubt that we even get much of a chance to show how good (or bad) we are. For higher level positions a PhD rarely has the "right" experience. What we are left with is usually something that fits well with our research. This is what the author found and as far as I know he is not in the minority.
Cool. Thanks for putting this out there. I like it overall, but stepping through the beginner's sequence by highlighting different squares doesn't work great. Separate from the exhaustive glossary view, you could have "track" views where you could guide beginners through different paths, like an all JavaScript path that takes users from front-end stuff to Node to Heroku or whatever. Like Codecademy's tracks. Beginners love that stuff.
our co-founder put this up about 7 months ago.

Anyone know how "powerful" one has to be to have access to the "downvote"? I didn't even know this function existed before digging up this video.
I mean, fundamentally it's both. Touch controllers and their firmware can add 15-45ms of latency based on their technology (hardware) and the quality of their filtering in the firmware (software). On the other side of the spectrum it's all about fill-rate, inherent latency in drawing pipeline, whether the input dispatching is phase locked with the display refresh, etc. etc. Again, some of this is software, some of it is hardware, but most of it is directly tied to the specific device. The actual input pipeline on Android, once you get out of the touch controller, is pretty negligible today (<1ms from touch controller interrupt until the application receives the input event).
This is why people leave .NET. Why build tools when people will only use other inferior tools.
Crossfit charges 1000 bucks to certify that you understand the movements and general philosophy and 3000 bucks a year to use the "Crossfit" name. That's it. Each gym is only as bad as the trainers and/or person writing the programming. People got rhabdo before Crossfit and they'll get it when the fad dies down. The only thing I hate more than fanatical crossfiters is (are?) fanatical crossfit haters.
Unrelated to the actual post, I have seen that with pages on medium the images load first and then after about 4seconds the text loads. Its a rather long wait for the text to load. Did any one else see that?
What's different about CrossFit from regular exercise? It doesn't give a summary of what it is or how it's different. That makes me scared that all exercise has this risk, especially lifting weights, which I enjoy. Is that true?
hey everyone -- I'm actually one of the three developers-in-training who wrote this app. We just finished week four of Dev Bootcamp, and this was just a (admittedly stupid) project we invented to practice our abilities in html/css/javascript/sinatra/rspec/heroku. We built it in four hours late on thursday night, basically on a dare.

Also -- we love helping people! sitting down and walking someone through a problem is the best way to help them learn something and to crystalize the concept for yourself. Hell, thats basically the motto of DBC. And of course it's against the ethos of the programming community to belittle others who ask for help, since we're all going to need help at some point.

This site is just meant as a joke. I would hate it if someone actually used this on a curious and well meaning junior developer.
All comes down to UX. Simple example: the switches for the lights are oriented to turning them on is the same as pushing them forward (I.e. The direction the lights point in).
That is, broadly, the ideal. Your PhD thesis is your first masterwork that qualifies you to call yourself a real researcher, and you go on to do many more along the length of your career.

In actual fact these days, there simply isn't a career model set up to support that anymore. Your PhD thesis is now supposed to qualify you for your first postdoc, your first postdoc or two qualify you for a permanent position, and you earn tenure or permanent contract in your permanent position, and then you can just focus on contributing to knowledge rather than on careerism.
The GPU can matter as well. On the Nexus 10, for example, the fill rate is pretty low compared to the screen size, so applications have to be very very careful not to exceed the limit or they'll end up adding frames of latency (which looks like touch or interaction latency).

But in general you're right, those are the components that contribute the large majority touch latency to a device.
Everything on my Gentoo system runs faster than in the binary ebuild equivalent.

That being said, things like choosing the wrong preemption mode can introduce latency problems, etc. Most users experience higher throughput and higher latency when comparing Windows to Gentoo. I believe the higher user interface latency is the general case when going from Windows to Linux.
Devil is right. You're a psychopath, by which I mean that you appear to have not thought about the issue, or you lack many of the "limiting factors" built into ordinary people's senses of decency, morality, and value.

For instance, if I were to rationally maximize my net worth, I would spend 100-hour workweeks at Goldman Sachs becoming King of the Quants. Why don't I do so? Don't I want to be wealthy?

Well, sure, I like being financially secure, but working 100-hour workweeks and being involved in finance capitalism would actually make me so damn miserable I'd want to kill myself. And that's even before we talk about the damage I'd be doing to my closest relationships and the world at large through this "optimal" plan to get rich through genius and hard work!
There's even an (underdocumented so far) React library for drawing to either Canvas, SVG, or VML (using the same API):

https://github.com/facebook/react-art
Over the years I have contemplated joining Crossfit (mostly for the comradery aspect), but the insane level of cult mentality has made me shy away from it every time.

That's a good reason to shun a particular location or instructor, but I and a lot of other people have had completely opposite experiences. If the workouts interest you, I encourage you to give it a try and see what the instructors are like. Maybe ask Jane where her patients work out and go someplace else.
Every single article I read on medium is near worthless.
Show HN: Optimizing deep learning algo with BLAS and Cython
Pretty impressive that most diets fail and it is so easy to go the gym and not do much, this is pretty much one of the few stand out exceptions that can motivate people to the point of hurting themselves. Seems like a success if a little more precautions were added to avoid this one issue.
Decent Metro Apps: I recommend ReddHub - it's a pretty slick Reddit client for the Windows Store. I use it on my Surface RT all the time.
Your Deadbeat Facebook Friends Could Cost You a Loan
What happens if the computer malfunctions in mid-flight?

Many modern airliners actually have computers which will display common checklists and check off items that have been completed automatically. The reason they don't make this fully automated is because a malfunction in the computer, or a bug in the software, or a situation the checklists did not forsee could be disastrous. Having the pilots in the loop adds an important sanity check.

Note also that a lot of the steps in the procedure are testing warning lights and sounds, which really does require a human in the loop to listen or look at the alarm in question to verify it's going off.
Notice how abused land is mostly not privately owned by its abusers.

Clear cutters are given lumber rights temporarily, but since they don't own the lot, they gain nothing from replanting and controlled burning.

Another great asset of private ownership is the inherent drive toward efficiency, which has been great as far as environmental impact reduction goes.
We've already figured out the qualification part. This non profit is under the umbrella of another non profit which already does case management for poor families who are at risk of homelessness, usually due to loss of job. One of the big burdens on some of these families is a car payment from a buy here pay here scammer.

We're working on emergency housing, in conjunction with some other non-profits, however, the transportation situation is still unresolved.

We also noticed that many of the these families are in a similar area and often work in close proximity to one another.

Ride sharing or car sharing would not only be a greener solution, but I personally feel, it would be a far more effective solution. It may help lift some of these families out of poverty as they can actually get to a job/school and what is generally a usurious car payment and full insurance can go into a fund to get some training or actually save up to get a car.
Provide a great experience.

Trying to explain to my parents how to get a music file from their browser downloads folder into iTunes would be challenging to say the least. However saying just click this button to Buy and it will be in your Recently Added playlist is much easier.
10 pages to say:
if you over train, it's dangerous for your health. Crossfit mentality pushes for over training, over exhaustion.

thanks.
Sounds like you need a library like ART, which is described as a "Retained mode vector drawing API designed for multiple output modes".

https://github.com/sebmarkbage/art

Essentially, you write your drawing code once and it can render to Canvas, SVG, or VML depending on what you need. It doesn't yet have great documentation or a ton of examples, but it's in use at Facebook in their ads management and the page insights interface.

There's even bindings to Facebook's React (http://facebook.github.io/react/) drawing library which is a declarative library for building efficient, reusable view components: https://github.com/facebook/react-art. I haven't had a chance to play around too much yet but it looks very promising.
Of note is that the chart's error bars fill the entire scale near the end, so the measurements could really be anywhere there. It's anyone's guess whether or not temperatures have somehow mysteriously skyrocketed or not.

My personal inkling is that the alarmist reports are wrong, and the changes aren't as drastic as reported; since the same people publish results from proprietary, rigged climate models.
I think you might have missed the point. To the general public and other sports/activities it's little known. Yet here is a Johnny guy lay person Xfit instructor who knows what is ailing the person before she even tells him. Why would a guy guess right on something so rare?
Ask HN: Do you know of any resources for reuniting refugees with their families?
Today I was shocked when talking to a stranger. He has been working in different countries for the last 14 years trying to get his wife and children out of Eritrea (Africa).

In my life, I'm used to having ideas on how to approach any problem, being able to google it, and start fixing working. An unapproachable issue of this magnitude stuns me.

I'd like to be able to at least point my friend/acquaintance in the direction of an NGO that works on problems like these, but I could only listen, stunned.

Can you imagine working on getting your family out of a dictatorship for over a decade with no progress? Can you imagine if you couldn't even talk to your loved one for more than a few minutes before your connection cut out? Knowing they live in a place where water only runs a few days a month? Where the government wouldn't give them their birth certificates, and didn't allow exit visas for it's citizens?

I feel like the heart of a hacker reaches out to solve problems, to make the world run better, to destroy artificial inefficiencies.

Do any of you guys even have an idea how someone would get started on something like this? Further complicating matters, my friend Mulubrharn only has rudimentary English literacy. We live in Chicago, if that helps.
Just print the box titled a few degrees :-)
I wrote a lot of the "Dual FMS" BootROM and also the cross-FMS data link communications handling (TCP/IP originally over a high baud rate async serial channel). Most of my code is deeply embedded.
No problem; I'm glad that people can get something out of my experience.

I originally wanted to write everything down and be a primary source of information on exertional rhabdo (there isn't a lot of useful information out there regarding hospital stay, CPK levels, etc.) but it got written down on a long-lost TODO somewhere and forgotten.
Oh, totally my bad, it was a typo.
its 24k.
To be honest, Crossfit has quite a few dark secrets. This one, though, can kill you.

What are crossfit's dark secrets?

First and foremost, well, it's terrible. The programming coming from HQ is just plain awful. There are many programs out there now (Outlaw, Competitors WOD, CF Football etc) that fill the gap and actually give decent programming, but the programming from crossfit.com is really, really bad.

Did you know that ALL the athletes that competed at the Crossfit games do not use crossfit.com WODs as the base of their programming? It's true. Go and check it out. What does this tell you? That crossfit, the programming, is all bullshit. The elite athletes use strength training as the basis of their programming and complement that with met cons as they get closer to the games.

There is also a culture that promotes things like rips (ripping your hands, say during a deadlift), or rope burns or other types of stupid things as badges of honor. You can't go a few days on /r/crossfit without seeing someone mention their ripped hands with pride. This is dumb and promotes the wrong things.

And beyond that, frankly, high-rep olympic lifts, high-rep box jumps (DON'T JUMP DOWN! Seriously, trust me on this), and general bad form is ok in the name of better times. These are begging for injuries.

TL;DR - Crossfit is dumb.
A string would have to be short indeed for the capacity to be larger - something like 2 characters, I'm guessing. It's certainly a valid concern in occasional cases, but I wouldn't consider it a major reason to pass on an implementation.
Same here. I've also been heavily occupied with ML and AI for the past year or two. I think it's going to usher in the next phase of computers, we'll see. Computers are finally getting fast enough to do some interesting things with all of this data we're creating.
Thanks for the insight. But why is taking a little bit more here and there considered immoral? Isn't it the fault of the people setting the specifications, or rules, or laws for failing to be specific?

Is there anyone else that shares my thoughts?
Your Ex has endorsed you for "Family Planning".
Picking one or the other is a trade-off of effectiveness of water jet vs direct action and yet another part to clean. TP does create waste, as do wipes, so water jet is an environmental win and possibly sanitation one as well. TP and wipes are great for business.

In the West, it's generally considered faux pas disgusting to not meaningfully wash your hands before leaving a public restroom, regardless of business. (Turning on the water doesn't count.) What's the perception of hand-washing etiquette elsewhere?
Flip video isn't a great example either, for reasons I left in a comment there:

One example of this was the Flip video camera. [...] These huge companies put pricing and margin pressure on the category, and about a year from the acquisition, Cisco shut down the Flip business altogether

I'm not sure this is a great example: most of the press at the time claimed that Flip was still profitable and that Cisco shut Flip down not so much because of the company's profitably as because it wasn't profitable enough for Cisco, which had too many product lines and distractions.

Was this analysis accurate? It's hard to say, and I liked the company but found the narrative around itself shutdown unlikely: http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/will-we-ever-find-o....

Perhaps the strangest thing, as noted at the link, is that Flip had a new suite of products ready for rollout the same week Cisco shut the company down.
Or perhaps ZipCar isn't the business to emulate/disrupt but rather Lyft. I could imagine the poor getting a ride to their work much faster than the bus, and if it's faster that means more time with their children, more time for (or even the logistical ability to get) a second job, or hopefully more time to attend school. I could envision both outcomes: a service like Lyft that targets lower wage workers, or maybe even just subsidizing a Lyft membership.

The hazard I envision with ZipCar-lite is not only the monopoly the other commenter raised but also incidental costs (gas, accidents, etc) unless your plan is to subsidize those items, too.

Best wishes for your project, it could be great!
Is there any sort of proof of this "optimization" actually contributing to performance? The state of compiler optimization being what it is, I find it hard to imagine flag tweaking from the default -O3 or whatever can make an actual significant difference. The secretiveness of his build seems designed to obfuscate third-party replication of his results.

Seems more a mouthpiece for the this fellow's self-aggrandizement than anything else.
...perhaps Apple's intent was simply to drop support for the extremely old clients that Airfoil was emulating? That seems like a much simpler explanation to me than some sort of nefarious plan to break Airfoil.
How is there any sort of difference? The effect of reducing the supply of treasury bonds in the market and increasing the supply of money in the economy is the same, regardless of whether the bond is removed from the open market at auction or from the secondary market.
That depends on what and how much your product is.

For example -

A $10k per month email marketing service will need to go through many different stages of approval and have multiple buying influences involved.

On the other hand,

A $10 per month Gmail add on could be purchased on a corporate card or even one's personal card and then expensed.

Scenario 1 - no, building ONLY for the users is a bad idea because they aren't the only ones buying.

Scenario 2 - yes, the purchase is small enough to be handled by the user or at the highest the users boss (because they sign off on the expense reports).

We touch briefly on the subject in a blog post from last year: http://blog.voltagecrm.com/mapping-the-sales-process-part-36...

Hope that helps.
on box jumps: athletic coaches know not to have their athletes do drop jumps until they can squat at least 1.5x body weight, to make sure the tendons and ligaments of the leg (especially knee) can take it. Even then it is used in moderation. Jumping down from a box and immediately jumping again is REALLY REALLY stressful on your joints.
This reminds me a little of the "Ban PitBulls" argument. If we got rid of all PitBulls then wanna be gangsta's would go to Rottweilers then Dobermans then German Shepards etc.

CrossFit is tapping into and flourishing with a certain mindset of folks for whom this extreme form of punishment is desirable. Probably better to understand that and help folks dial it back a little vs thinking getting rid of CrossFit would solve the problem.