skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There's a question of whether more selective lending is in the best interests of such borrowers.

It's kind of odd to question whether it's in the best interest of borrowers. I mean, we're talking about the people who clearly cannot pay their debt and thus need it reduced. So, more selective lending would disqualify them and prevent them from getting in over their heads again.

>many of these borrowers would prefer to be in debt than not have had access to borrowed money in the first place.

Again, that's odd. We're not just talking about being OK with debt. We're talking about being so far in debt that they cannot pay. Why should they continue to have easy access to borrowed money? Their preferences aside, that doesn't really work for anyone under any system (including the current).

>this would make life harder certain borrowers who would pay back their debt but can't get a loan because they fall within whatever statistical grouping or heuristic lenders are using to minimize their losses.

That's purely hypothetical.
Google Eliminates Mobile-Huddle with Chromecast
They skimped on all the things I find underwhelming about my GNexus now. =(

Oh well. I'll just pick up an HTC One off Craigslist for $300.
As someone else has mentioned: SASS is an amplifier.

If you hate or don't get CSS to begin with, stay the hell away from SASS.

If you do serious work with CSS, SASS will probably help you solve things better.
Well, I think MS has been drifting away from their monopolistic character. Look at Azure, for example. They give you documentation even to develop and deploy with Java. That's not something I'd expect from the old MS.

Apart from that, why is C# a weak language? I think it shines in features: dynamic typing, code by contracts, runtime code generation (you can generate assemblies in execution time with System.Reflection.Emit), LINQ... you can even use it as a functional programming language. I wouldn't say C# is pretty weak.
The New and Noteworthy Features in Visual Studio 2013
From the article:
There’s no LTE on board, which makes sense given the target market (growing, developed countries where LTE is in limited supply or nonexistent).
Oh and it loads 20 megs of CSVs without skipping a beat. try that with google docs..
It looks like the point of this web app is to encourage you to re-read articles, rather than read them for the first time.
The fact that everything is a tradeoff does not mean that incompetent developers in the real world made a reasonable tradeoff.
Behind the scenes of making Visual Studio 2013
This is great and needs to be said more often. I feel as though I am the opposite. I absolutely love math, but I am terrible at it. I have taken tons of math, both formally in undergrad (up through diff eq) and on the side on my own. I struggled like hell through Calc 2 because I just couldn't visualize the transformations. I still feel like I want to take two years off and just start over from scratch.
Yeah! Better replace it with VB and you've got no security probl... oh wait!
Note how some propose more proper approach of not applying anticircumvention restrictions on non infringing usage, while others oppose it. It's good that Wikileaks now published this with demonstrating opinions of the participants as well.

> [CA oppose: noninfringing uses [SG oppose: of a work, performance, or
phonogram] in a particular class of works, [SG oppose: performances, or
phonograms] when an actual or likely adverse impact on those
noninfringing uses [CL propose: or exceptions or limitations to copyright
or related rights with respect to users] is [PE oppose: credibly
demonstrated] [PE propose: found] [CL propose: demonstrated or
recognized] in a legislative or administrative review or proceeding [SG
oppose: by substantial evidence]; provided that [AU/PE oppose: any
limitation or exception adopted in reliance upon this clause shall have
effect for a renewable period of not more than three [SG propose: four]
years] [AU/PE propose: any such review or proceeding is conducted at
least once every four years] from the date of conclusion of such review
or proceeding.]

The bottom line, they want to create some kind of DMCA 1201 clone as was expected. Now hopefully there will be more chances to stop this beast.
I'm guessing it doesn't work if you have javascript turned off, due to the unnecessary "splash screen".

It does look like you're addressing the right problems with "Signpost" and "Irminsule". Am currently reading your slides.
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It might sense if they planned to base base a product and a campaign on the acquisition. "Introducing: The Sandwich (tm)" That kind of thing.
As an econ nerd turned programmer, this is why I feel right at home.
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The original thesis on REST by Roy Fielding is a good start, to understand the real motivation behind creating it.

Martin Fowler has a good article on the Richardson Maturity Model, and what each part means: http://martinfowler.com/articles/richardsonMaturityModel.htm...

Finally, for an example of why HATEOAS is a good thing, and why APIs should be at level 3 on the RMM, Jon Moore has a good talk on Hypermedia APIs here: http://vimeo.com/20781278

As far as I am aware, there are very few companies actually applying these principles. GitHub is doing something close to it in their API, and I have heard that Google uses this sort of system for their APIs extensively on internal projects. In terms of new-web-API-startup like companies, Twilio/Stripe et. al, I have yet to see many take it this far.
I may be able to add more later this week. Right now, I'm planning on leaving my job this Friday with no job offers lined up. Not sure what I'm going to do just yet. I've submitted my resume to a few places in town. Perhaps I'll try freelancing if things get too bad.
Some people prefer C# over Java and VS over Eclipse, and the Xamarin team will probably do a better job of making cross-platform work than most others.

I suspect it will still lead to many lowest common denominator apps, but it's not like Android doesn't suffer from iOS-portitis and hordes of shoddy apps for other reasons, anyway.
In my opinion, yours is so far the best comment on this thread. You analyzed the model, made your own, and cut to the heard of the matter. That's probably because you actually wrote some code and played with the model.

Thank you. I look forward to seeing your alternative model. Please email me if this thread vanishes before you write it up, I really want to see it.
Agree completely. I can tell this was made with UnBounce, and i could duplicate it in roughly 6 minutes.

If you have an idea worth testing, it's probably worth spending 5-10 hours on the test, assuming you want to receive decision making data.

I would expect any landing page like this to "prove" the idea was terrible, when it in fact could have legs. I for one would like a salsa of the month club.
His elevator pitch doesn't sell for me. The color thing is correct. Having an easy way to handle that is neat. Right now i use templating, which serves fairly fine.

However the reusable block makes no sense. That's what multiple classes on an element and selector lists are there for. I can't tell if SASS will still help me, since this is merely a bad example.

So it could mean that either he didn't think that through, the book isn't very good because of his lack of understanding, or that SASS is mostly fluff.
"...pretending to have narrowly avoided being poisoned, hearing voices - standard lunatic stuff."

Not so sure fear of poisoning would be evidence of mental illness in this case, depending on the nature of the poison.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonium#Well-known_poisoning_c...
I'd be (pleasantly) surprised if devices like the Galaxy Player didn't still have binary blobs for the Wifi/BT and video hardware. Even NICs for otherwise fairly open PC/ATX machines all still have the proprietary blob firmware drivers.
Re 2:

Never, ever handle output files directly.

Re 3/4:

So far I haven't seen a single useful thing that SASS doesn't process. Chances are that those attributes/hacks aren't something you want to have in your CSS to begin with.
Agreed, it's a shame it took me so long to find this. Hope skeptics take a look.
Snowden is proof of part of that. The part that monitored him having access to and making copies of TS data failed. It doesn't mean any other part of the apparatus is incompetent.

Put another way, I have a friend who couldn't run a mile in less than an hour. He could easily put a bullet into an apple on your head at a couple hundred yards however. If we were to consider him an adversary, dismissing him because he cant run worth a damn would be unwise.
Chrome runs like crap in 1GB RAM. The keyboard frequently gets garbage collected while I'm typing on it, and the whole thing can crash if I rotate the screen.

That's running on a stock Galaxy Nexus.
I told myself i was bad at math all the way through high school. I realize now i was just lazy. Thankfully, through game development i discovered how cool math can be when you actually do stuff with it.

Now i find really enjoying differential equations.
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Desk or Garage Design?
Biological Semiconductors Could Transform Tech Industry
Why would they check if Adblock is installed or not?

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/c...

bool ChromeContentRendererClient::IsAdblockInstalled() {
return g_current_client->extension_dispatcher_->extensions()->Contains(
"gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom");
}

bool ChromeContentRendererClient::IsAdblockPlusInstalled() {
return g_current_client->extension_dispatcher_->extensions()->Contains(
"cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb");
}
Reminds me of this; a spreadsheet (with graphs :P) in 2KB of C

http://www.ioccc.org/2000/jarijyrki.c

Explanation:

http://www.ioccc.org/2000/jarijyrki.hint
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Oh well, didn't expect it to work but I had to try it:

0.1 + 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004

Awesome work either way. Would be nice to know how many lines of code Lotus 1-2-3 had.
Finally, someone paying attention to this. Browser extension should be high priority!
Cool man! Really not trying to crush your dreams. salsa of the month has a market somewhere. The biggest question is if you can access that market.
It is very energy intensive to get Hydrogen into a usable form, especially when not just deriving from existing Hydrocarbons. [1] They do at least acknowledge this in the article.

If they manage to crack that problem, there will be a lot more promising technologies than combing Hydrogen and CO2 to make a Petroleum-replacement-fuel.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_production
NoFlo and GNOME
I hate to say it, but the W3C has been making quite a few dumb decisions lately.
Not exactly a gif-image, because of license restrictions (which may also be a problem with any OSS library), but image/png, image/jpeg and (Chrome) image/webp and any animations built of these.
(This is a political issue and not a technical one.)
To have gif, you would have to implement the algorithm by your own and pay fees or ...
The President...shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur... Constitution of the United States, Art. II, Sec. 2
Nah, not anymore, doesn't scare the sheeple like it use to.
The only assumption that is missing is how much is a years worth od disability vs a years worth of BI. The reason I ask is that there is defintiely a population of unknown sized that is on disability that maybe should not be on it (NPR/Planet Money covered this)

http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/

without knowing how many would switch from disability to BI and/or BJ - hard to say (I would say based on the disabilities described, like severe back pain so no more construction, more would be inclined to switch to BI and not BJ)
>If you earn $2500 now and a Basic Income of $1500 were introduced, then you wouldn't suddenly earn $4000.

Yes, you would. That's what basic income is. If you make $1,000,000 per year and basic income of $10,000 is introduced, you now make $1,010,000 per year (before taxes).

>You'd earn something like $1000 (plus or minus a factor due to the incidental massive changes to the economy from a Basic Income/Basic Job setup) on top of your Basic Income.

This is similar to a completely different proposal called "guaranteed income" [1]. It's not what is being discussed by the OP.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income#Difference_between...
Just yesterday there was that Google email from 2010 talking about how JS can not evolve any further. It made me feel a bit wasteful about my time spent with the likes of node and angular.

Seeing things like this reminds me how much JS is capable of in today's browsers and also shows me how much more I need to understand about the language.

Awesome stuff.
I should explain - I'm in the UK and, at least when I was at University, there was very little that was optional in CS course I did (at least for 3 years of the 4). So the class given by the Electrical Engineering department on mucking about with stuff like UARTs was as required as the Lambda Calculus course - all CS students had to pass both.

[Amusingly, networking was one of the optional 4th year classes - but in the pre-intraweb days nobody seem to regard it as very important...]
I'm sure it used to be, back in the pre-Collateral Murder days. I remember being able to search through the pages and see people comment on the authenticity or not of publicly uploaded documents.
> Or how about repeated blocks of styles that are used in various locations throughout the stylesheet?

p {
margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5;
}
footer {
margin-bottom: 20px;
font-size: 14px;
line-height: 1.5;
}

I don't know why this situation is a such a common example of the need for SASS & company. It's easily addressable with plain ol' CSS. No mixins required.

p, footer {
margin-bottom: 20px;
font-size: 14px;
line-height: 1.5;
}
The unrelated evidence in this case (from other users) just can't be used in court, they need probable cause. In this case there is no probable cause to arrest Joe Blow for a crime, this was all about getting to Snowden.
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I'm being completely twitchy and pedantic and missing the point entirely but I'm still compelled to say, as a Mathematics and Computer Science teacher:

Computer Science is a branch of mathematics. It consists of axiomatic systems. There are many, many, many sure things in computer science.
I just sent this link to a friend of mine. He just crammed enough high school pre-algebra to get his GED. He is terrified of math, but realizes he has to learn it. I worry for him if he doesn't. He's 36.
Thanks--I appreciate you starting this discussion with this approach, and I almost feel guilty about pushing BI incessantly without doing this as due diligence before. Most people don't seem to get that models are useful starting places and tools for understanding, not the answer itself. Even when you state that explicitly...
truestorybro.com sounds more complete
but you are not thinking hard, you are running silly worthless simulations and puffing up your own ego.
It seems to me that perhaps the title of this link is misleading. The author doesn't model anything and shifts the burden of proof onto the reader if any doubt is cast on his assumptions. He also invalidates any conclusions regarding BI in the premise which makes the entire model meaningless (a kind of syllogistic fallacy iirc).

Really this article should probably be something along the lines of, "Monte Carlo Simulations in Python."

This is not a discussion of BI at all.
ANSITube
Pocket (which used to be called readitlater) is a superior option in my opinion http://getpocket.com/ it has a desktop app, ipad, iphone, android, chrome extension ... and integrates with a shitload of apps (Newsblur, feedly etc etc). It also very beautifully designed. I use it every day, and have done so since it was first released.
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It's also an incentive for the company to fire all of those 15 employees.
>over dramatize it into something like the bogus Gasland documentary

Generally, I feel the same as you. But, I understand that we need the over-dramatic to balance the under-the-radar.
> You would not need HTTPS on an internal network.

This is false. Good security is layered security.
Agreed. The value of something hyper-specific and enterprise-sounding (webserver.com) is dubious at best. In the B2B sales and service business, having a generic domain name doesn't carry much upside, and what little measurable upside it does confer will be outweighed by downsides (such as the difficult registration and enforceability of the trademark).

Apropos of nothing, a domain like truestory.com is an interesting tossup. At the expected going rate of $25k+, it doesn't appear to make a lot of sense. But if someone were going to buy this name and develop it as a blogging or magazine format, I could see some value (again, barring trademark difficulties). As a writer and aspiring publisher, I'd scoop up this domain if it were priced within reason: say, the $1k-$5k range, tops. As a businessman, I'm a little gun-shy about the price tag.
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>you should carefully think and model things

I agree and that's basically my criticism of the article. The underlying economic model can be expressed in 2-3 arithmetic equations. It competes in a field where people routinely spend years to research very sophisticated models that nonetheless often prove inaccurate in the field [1].

To give an analogy, how would this sound as an argument to develop a business: "I assume that we can borrow 10M at 5% interest and pay it back over 5 years and that sales will increase 50% over that period. Here, I wrote some code and it turns out positive. I'm not interested in discussing the reasons for my sales forecast; if you have a different opinion, just write your own code." And we're not even talking about a business here, but the whole economy.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Econometrics#Limitations_and_cr...
I always liked the idea of making income tax filings public. Seems like it would make catching people who are dodging tax and the relevant discussions around it a lot easier.
Since I was compromised, I finally went through all my passwords and made them all unique with 1Password. I've had the app for a while but I never did a security audit for myself and bothered to update passwords. Definitely one of those must-have apps/services.
Closures can be a way of implementing laziness, so I'm not sure you've shown it's "not because of laziness" - though certainly it's not because the language is lazy by default.
For all the rails asset pipeline's issues and the grievances it causes, it makes it really convenient to use either Sass or LESS. The tooling integration is trivial to setup (add [sass|less]-rails to your Gemfile) and it compiles assets automatically. Also, browser hacks work fine [1, 2].

[1] http://www.yonbergman.com/2012/05/19/why-you-should-use-sass

[2] http://getbootstrap.com/getting-started/
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You are sure all the scanners, or even most of them, have been updated and that they don't fall-back to showing detailed nude images? The TSA wouldn't lie, right?
I was never really got math when I was in school but after years of programming for some reason I've become good at it.
PUT should reference the object ID in the URL though.
The bothersome thing about these secret treaty negotiations is that they are something of an end-run around the democratic process in effected countries. In many cases, having signed on to some agreement relating to an organization like this in the past, member countries are often under some obligation to enact legislation conforming to future trade agreements these organizations write up.
i agree and personally dont use them either. they're really only ever useful for live-debugging production code, which should almost never happen.

i still use LESS for its conciseness, the abstraction layer really ain't so deep or different (like CoffeeScript) that you can't track down where the issue is very quickly.
I don't think this refutes the point that less wasn't mentioned.
I get the impression that the priority, among a large crowd here, is to say profound things rather than true things.
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I recognise that I am not an expert in economics. I am certainly not good enough to presume that I can create a model that compares with cutting edge models.
As a mathematician/computer scientist, I recognise that there is limited benefit to me expressing my simple thoughts in mathematical form.

However, I am opinionated enough to have an opinion:

- I believe that basic income allows people to invest in themselves through education or simply taking small risks without the constant and desperate need to either work or degradingly grovel to the state to pay for their basic upkeep. This would allow people the option of taking entrepreneurial risks which are generally available only to the upper-middle- and rich-classes. I do not believe that everyone would take any such opportunity but I believe we should seek to give this type of opportunity to everyone, and a basic income seems a fair way of doing that.

- I believe that basic income would create an economic shock in any country that implemented it universally, the consequences of which are not immediately obvious, may cause difficulties perhaps including rent-seeking behaviour from certain sectors and gross inflation of necessities. I believe that the unknown consequences make implementation politically difficult, but that the eventual outcome would be good for society as a whole.

Can you add these to your model?
Multitasking splits the brain, makes it more prone to distractions
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>Some students don't need to be motivated to work hard. Others do. Some in the latter camp are led to believe that they're not good at math, when the reality is that they're just not motivated for it. I'm glad that I ultimately found my motivation.

Approaching it without other academic pressures and plenty of confidence from being successful in other areas also helps. Plus the article gave no hint that he was taking a full schedule. Personally, I would likely get bad math grades if I had to go back and study math and other things.

Perhaps for these students that "didn't get" or were "bad at" math, maybe they just need to be given some time to only focus on math to raise their confidence and abilities. I had similar results as the author when all I was doing was working and doing some math during the day. I also barely graduated high school.
What you say it true, but that's missing my point. Yes, I understand that DVDs and CDs and records and tapes have been around forever. But Netflix hasn't. Steam hasn't. They only became viable (in the studio's eyes) when DRM became possible. Digital distribution could have been done for a long time. It wasn't (officially) until there was some method of controlling it.

That's the entirety of my point. DRM doesn't make digital media possible, it makes studios accepting of digital distribution, which is an improvement on user experience.
What's unbalanced about Soylent?
Iran’s Khamenei controls fortune in global assets
This devalues that grant considerably by making the vesting cliff equal to the date of the liquidity event. I would not take this deal as an employee. I want less cliff, not more.
Do you think they attacked the wrong problem?
Nexus 5 battery is bigger (2300 mAh) and lasts ~4 hours under real usage - lowest screen brightness and no LTE. Google claim: Internet use time up to 8.5 hours on Wi-Fi, up to 7 hours on LTE.

So don't take their word for it.