skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As with most policies...sounds great on paper. Let's think about implementation....

1. Who runs this bank? Ever deal with USPS workers? Yea...not great. What about the senior USPS leadership's management abilities? Oh yea that track record is borderline criminal. So we give them more responsibility and budget?

2. Loans for reasonable amounts to high risk people. Why dont larger banks or startups setup operations to serve loans to the folks who rely on payday loans. Do you really think that smart entrepreneurs have not thought about the $89B dollar payday loan industry? Of course they have and guess what -- they cant beat payday loan rates. Why are they so high? It's not gouging as much as it is matching the risk of non-payment to the loan. Low income folks already taking loans on their current paycheck are not the most reliable to repay the loan (for a larger amount) at a later date.

Overall, I am not against banking services to under served. I just have no confidence that the government can effectively become a (rather large) bank. Other government banking forays have not done too well (Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac anyone?)

Comparing other countries is hard as well...different cultures, scale, and needs muddy the water to do a real apples to apples comparison
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The last point is not as great as they think. If you go too far outside the user's comfort zone with the platform you risk making apps no one wants to use. Sure a more limited palette is limiting but often that's a good thing for user engagement.
I have to wonder whether there is an easy technical countermeasure to catfishing, or whether human psychology will always be the insurmountable hurdle here.

It seems like it would be easy to verify that a given message is from a particular internet pseudonym, or to construct a challenge that would be easy for a real person to respond to, but difficult for a catfish. We've had proof of life from kidnappers seeking ransoms before the Internet even existed, after all.

If you ever watched the Catfish movie or the MTV show, you'll notice that the common element is that the victims all have an overwhelming desire for their relationship to be non-fraudulent, to the point where they actively ignore any and all warning signs. Is there something that people with low technical ability can do to verify online counterparties that cannot be affected by their desire for the results to come out in a particular way?
Why do you assume I am defending coal?

It's irrational confidence like yours that nuclear power is in any way safe, and therefore a good replacement. Coal doesn't need a replacement, we need to start using energy responsibly. That means not using energy when we don't have it. A nuclear plant is not an acceptable way to generate energy.
A Case for Public Data in Higher Education
The demo is currently restricted to 4 languages: english, portuguese, spanish and french. We do have chinese editors and can support chinese characters in the live product, but are not offering it right now, as we don't have critical mass.

Thanks for the heads up about the blog. Corrected at the end of the post.
I'd love to see a writeup like this for Perl or Javascript. Has anyone come across one?

How about Java?
Which was not my point. Low pressure turbine exhaust gas serves a purpose. Hence the whole name of the engine, "aerospike".

It's not very important, it's just names. This project is hardly the first one to not distinguish between spike nozzles and aerospikes.
> Also, last time I checked jquery uses "querySelectorAll" for that fancy $("selector") syntax, which is slow as hell with every possible browser compared to "getElementBy".

I seriously doubt you ever "checked". You would know that jQuery's selector engine (Sizzle) is optimized and uses getElementBy* when it can. You would also know that every browser has bugs in querySelectorAll, and jQuery's selector engine detects the bugs and routes around the browser bugs.

https://github.com/jquery/sizzle/blob/master/src/sizzle.js
You appear to believe I accept your premises, definitions, logic, and conclusions concerning a social contract, or that it's material at all to this matter. I don't.

However, to invoke your own logic, assuming you've reached age of majority, you've consciously accepted that contract of which you speak.

The problem is that democracy...

Indeed. Those liberal concepts are rather problematic in many ways. I disagree that they have no feedback, and arguably democratic forms of governance have far better feedback systems than others. Their chief advantage isn't that they achieve the best results, but as Plato observed: they avoid the worst.

Libertarian dogma is grounded in von Mises Praxeology, and its axiomatic refutation of empiricism.

You state that there is no feedback in markets.

No, I do not.

The efficient-market hypothesis is bunk. See Quiggin, Zombie Economics. Full chapter on the topic.
I saw my first hybrid solar/natural gas (continually running) power plant commercial on TV the other night from a fossil fuel company (can't remember which one). I think you're right, that solar thermal storage (in hot oil for now and eventually salt) with trough reflectors instead of photovoltaics, will be the eventual winner, even against wind.

My excitement for it is that it relies on 19th century technologies that anyone can implement and doesn't need a fab or another country to provide solid state solar panels.
Well... I don't like this trend. I saw project once where main frontend guy decided to do stuff without jquery and etc. He said that vanilla.js is nice and people just don't get it. After project was done it worked only in firefox properly. Lot of time was spend after that to implement fixes for different browsers. So don't do that. Don't use vanilla js. Size of jquery is issues? Well you are trying to solve problem that does not exist.
One of the top complaints from employees at startups I've worked at has been the constant shuffling of priorities without clear justification. It manifests in this way typically: founder tells company on a Monday that the priority is x; then in middle of the week says priority is y while being oblivious to the fact that y directly contradicts x. This leads to the barrage of water cooler gossip wondering if the founder knows what the heck he is doing.

The sad thing is that usually founders have good reasons to constantly reassess priorities especially in early stages. But to change priorities without a clear transition about the why turns your passionate star employees into confused bots wondering why they are working for you.
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>> Shouldn't you aim to provide the best experience for the 50-80% of users out there who are on modern browsers instead of a mediocre experience for 100% of them?

In my experience, this decision is not as cut and dried as you make it seem. But I don't work for a startup, so take that for what it's worth.
>All that being said, doing this every day for 30 days will eventually result in your body acclimating to the external stress and you will begin to see fewer and fewer benefits. Same thing happens if you run 30 minutes every day or do the exact same lifts for a month.

I have some disagreement. Admittedly semantic, but I think important.

If you are consistently exercise the same way - you will stop observing improvements in your fitness (as you reach an equilibrium) but you will still have access to the same benefits, i.e. improved overall fitness and physical and mental health.

An appropriate mixture of strength training and cardiovascular exercise is ideal, even without changing it. What's important is that you actually do it.

Exercise is always a positive thing to do: for many people, it will be better to keep doing it in a way which they enjoy rather than change for the perception that they are challenging themselves more.
> Also, last time I checked jquery uses "querySelectorAll" for that fancy $("selector") syntax, which is slow as hell with every possible browser compared to "getElementBy*".

Not true, and has never been true; maybe you confused jQuery with Zepto? "#id" uses getElementById, ".class" uses getElementsByClassName, more complex selectors go through querySelectorAll, and custom selectors through Sizzle.

> And like others said, people mostly use like 1% of the API, which has as easy native browser support.

Hard to argue with that statistic since it's made up!
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"The common thread is that subsidies on the consumer side (in higher ed, healthcare, and home ownership) increase demand and thus increase prices."

But it is worth noting that in the long term that is only if there is something preventing the industry from growing (limited resources, barriers to entry). Otherwise, supply will respond to the increased demand and prices will be driven back toward the cost of production.
How to Get Traction – The Next Step for Founders/Engineers
Anecdote time!

I've been hacking on a little scripting language[1] lately. To see how its performance compares, I run a few benchmarks[2] against other similar (dynamically typed, bytecode compiled) languages: Lua, LuaJIT (interpreted), Python, and Ruby.

Like others, I had internalized "Ruby is slow" through osmosis. But the version of Ruby I happen to have on my machine is 2.0.0.

In my little benchmarks, it turns out Ruby is one of the fastest. I haven't compared to 1.8.7, but I'm guessing that was much slower.

[1] https://github.com/munificent/wren
[2] https://github.com/munificent/wren/tree/master/benchmark

If you want the gory details, here's the results of running them against Lua 5.3.2, LuaJIT 2.0.2, Python 2.7.5, and Ruby. (Yes, I should try against Python 3. I will.):

score time wren score relative
binary_trees - wren 3193 0.31s
binary_trees - lua 1366 0.73s 233.72%
binary_trees - luajit 6256 0.16s 51.04%
binary_trees - python 1376 0.73s 231.96%
binary_trees - ruby 3003 0.33s 106.34%

fib - wren 3078 0.32s
fib - lua 2785 0.36s 110.52%
fib - luajit 6900 0.14s 44.62%
fib - python 1331 0.75s 231.37%
fib - ruby 3548 0.28s 86.77%

for - wren 6080 0.16s
for - lua 1990 0.08s 50.71%
for - luajit 5914 0.02s 13.24%
for - python 2825 0.35s 215.25%
for - ruby 6595 0.15s 92.19%

method_call - wren 4707 0.21s
method_call - lua 1674 0.60s 281.17%
method_call - luajit 4221 0.24s 111.53%
method_call - python 767 1.30s 613.69%
method_call - ruby 3061 0.33s 153.77%

As you can see, Ruby fares quite well.
I should probably have explained further, but there is a certain amount of irony in that statement.

See ietf@ietf.org for more details: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/maillist.h...
Like other people have said, this is better than nothing, but I think the real direction workouts should go is towards being fun. I never workout per say, but I spend a good share of my free time doing fun stuff (in my case mostly bouldering) that I can't wait to do again when I'm finished, and the only reason I stop is because of physical exhaustion (and lack of skin). If the growth of climbing gyms is any indication, there is a huge market for fun, social workouts, which seems obvious enough. Although I haven't tried it personally, it appears as though Crossfit is also trying to make physical activity fun.

If you do stuff that's fun then you won't care anymore how long it takes.
You'll be stuck with the test harness for the foreseeable future, unfortunately. Releasing the submission infrastructure in a usable form would unfortunately be a looot of work. We're working on open-sourcing a lot of the dependencies, though.
My future recruiter and employer are my customers. I can assure you that they are most certainly interested in technologies I am going to use. Welcome to CV-driven development!
It is. I talked to one of the devs a few years back, and he explained how they used [Protocol Buffers][1] internally, because XMPP just didn't work at their scale.

XMPP is a protocol that Google uses in some instances to talk to the rest of the world. But inside their ecosystem, they have no reason to stick to it.

[1]: https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/
Tragic. I still don't get the objective of the person pulling these scams: it doesn't seem they want money or fame or any of the 'normal' drivers. Are the scammers typically lonely individuals or are they suffering from some social disorder such that they are rewarded by others' pain?
Apple is going to start mass producing sapphire, but it’s anyone’s guess why
A problem well defined is a problem half-solved - a great fortune cookie quote I recently came across and has been resonating with me alot lately. Its tough to move forward without having a clear vision of what needs to be done.
I can't speak for anyone else, but making time for the gym has always felt like a significant commitment and even sacrifice.

My gym time is typically ~2 hours, almost half of which is logistics : transportation to-from, showering, packing gym bag, etc. Of course there are theoretical means to optimize this time, but for the moment let's assume that's not an option.

That's basically 12.5% of my waking day. My schedule is tight, but not as tight as some others - and yet my gym days always feel like they're getting in the way of some other potential task (work / school). I can't even imagine what a 2 hour commitment will feel like once I have children.
I'm curious - is this spec'd anywhere? I just tried it in Chrome and it works great, but I couldn't find it in any of the specs for Element or Node.
The whole southwestern U.S. is basically a mistake caused by Big Government. "Manifest destiny" led the federal government to direct the Army Corps of Engineers to irrigate all these places that wouldn't have been habitable otherwise, and now we have a bunch of people living in places that are simply inappropriate for civilization given the water constraints.
I love the idea of removing Backbone's jQuery dependency. If I could use Backbone without jQuery, I would gladly leave jQuery behind.

For my use case, Backbone would also have to lose it's jQuery dependency for RESTful model persistence, but maybe that means I should get to work on it and submit a PR :-)
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It is just as arbitrary, but I feel jQuery's API is also easier to grok at a glance. Using either a couple times may instill the parameters in your memory, but what about coming back to it after six months?
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If you are writing a library, eliminating a dependency is worth much more then 4 lines of code.

But yeah, if you are just writing code for your own site then knock yourself out.
The "stresses" come from trying to maintain a middle-class lifestyle on a lower-class income.

As someone who once spent a considerable amount of time (just over a decade) supporting myself on a just-above poverty line income, I notice that a lot of people talking about the impossibility of living on minimum wage are implicitly assuming that everyone must conform to certain cultural norms (living alone, owning and maintaining a car, going out to eat or for entertainment, etc). Many of the financial stresses of low income are moderated by not conforming to those norms.

For example, take this story: http://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2013/07/18/why-mcdonal...

A major criticism of the McDonald's budget is that it only allocates $600 per month for rent. Ok, well, I'll grant you that it's hard to find a single-bedroom apartment in most major cities for that little. However, it is quite easy (I know, because I have done it) to find a two bedroom apartment in a nice, safe neighborhood in Los Angeles (of all places) for about double that. Living with roommates may not be everyone's ideal (some prefer it), but I find it disingenuous to assume that everyone ought be living in some culturally-defined way. Living with (a) roommate(s) is just one example of a "lifestyle sacrifice" that does not harm your health or safety, and doesn't affect your autonomy as a person (much). But it does significantly reduce living expenses.

Another example is car ownership. Even Los Angeles' "famously bad" bus network will take you anywhere in the county (and there is Zip Car for when it's absolutely necessary to drive). Resisting social pressure (from friends and potential mates) to own a car reduces living expenses dramatically. Some people will look down on you for not having one, but who cares what they think?
Equidate Launches A Secondary Market For Early Startup Employees To Sell Shares
I'm not sure I understand the point you're trying to make. Are you telling me I should not have written this series? That it's somehow not valuable because you don't like JS? That I can't effectively teach basic machine learning concepts to interested people without forcing linear algebra onto them? That, as a teacher, I can't try to use any and all tools and techniques available to the group I'm trying to teach?

I've even explicitly mentioned that I'm staying away from algorithms that rely on linear algebra, because I'm trying to bring these concepts to people who may not have a CS or mathematical background.
Same thing with selling apps on play store, it seems that google ignores most of the smaller countries.
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I like it this way. Less intrusive, but easy to find when you want it.
now this is rude.
It's bad enough to consume more water than is replenished by precipitation, but it's even worse considering that the recent century or so of precipitation (i.e. the entire development of the West) may have been a pretty wet outlier compared to the last millennium.[0] At the same time, I've learned never to underestimate the power of people to respond to incentives, and I don't want to overstate the doom-factor. But it sure gives me another reason not to move to California.

[0]http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_24993601/california-dr...
WalMart and Others Domain Name Land Grab – the New gTLDs
How do you guys deal with "context" around translations? Lots of shorter strings in web application require some hand-holding for translators to let them know where the phrase will be used, as the original English text might translate to vastly different things depending on surrounding functionality/text.
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>In the case of this 7 Minute Workout, just keep going harder - add a weight belt, incline the pushups and work towards full handstand pushups, etc.

I think we must be in violent agreement since this is the very definition of variability. Incline pushups are a different exercise. So are handstand pushups. Also there is some limit that you will reach if you go balls to the wall for 7 minutes as it relates to intensity. Increasing time at the same level of intensity necessarily means you do more work and get more benefit. You can't increase intensity doing the same exercises all the time as there is a finite limit of how much stuff you can do in 7 minutes.
Unrelated comment, but why is it becoming a design trend now to hide the scrollbars on websites? Luckily I accidentally hit the space bar, so I saw there was more content there, but without that I would have had no idea there was more information. I've seen this happen on a number of sites, so I don't think it's just Chrome failing to render the site. I just don't understand what possible reason there could be to deliberately hide the scroll bar.
wow! that's incredible. Well FB is making money now that its just old people on it.

He is a permanent fixture on the global investment scene.

start pitching
> Also, I decided awhile ago that I think the minimum income idea is stupid. Being fed and healthy are basic human rights. Having $15,000 of cash every year isn't. We should get the former right first before even thinking about the latter.

But the minimum income idea might be a much better way of getting to where everyone is fed and healthy (or at least fed and has access to medical care). It's probably more efficient than the massive bureaucracies that run the massive programs that currently don't seem to manage to do a very good job...
So you never use "else"? Else is the mother of inexact comparisons.
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I don't get it. Archive your travis builds, or archive every travis builds that are generated every day? In which case, wow, what a waste of resources really...
I say this as someone who does head to the gym regularly, and I get why going to the gym is probably a better idea than watching television for an hour, but... why would an hour at the gym be in any way superior to any number of inspiring and invigorating activities such as playing a musical instrument, learning a new language or learning how to draw, volunteering and so on? And you can't do all of those things at the same time, so something's gotta give.

Some might think health should be everyone's top-most concerns, and many others don't think that way and live perfectly satisfying lives too.
Elements is supposed to fix this:

http://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#elements

But AFAICT isn't implemented anywhere, which makes it not that useful. Perhaps a polyfill could be done.
Maybe a tangent, but I'm surprised at the choice of Markdown for formatting an entire book. Is that common these days? I guess when your output format is basically "HTML chapter files containing reflowable, resizable text blocks, with UA-selected dimensions" (i.e. ePub), most of the page-based considerations of a language like TeX or SGML go out the window.

A question to anyone on here who has published a technical book, where at least one of the shipped formats was page-based (real paper, or just PDFs): did you, or your editor, do much proofing and fixing to get the content "pretty?" (No hanging lines, no rivers, etc.) If so, do you think your choice of working format affected how much work this was?
Segway needed early adopters to drive the price down, but couldn't get early adopters in part because nobody wanted to be the first person seen riding a Segway to work.

Speeding up intra-city commuting without having to walk or ride a bike obviously would be awesome. When people pointed this out back when the Segway came out even the fattest nerds were saying they were being lazy, but the truth is most technology helps people be lazy, so it seems to me the dork factor played a huge role in preventing early adoption.
Guys and gals. If you don't do any exercise or do very little then this comment is for you.

Forget about all this crap out there about how to get results with the least amount of work. Instead, just go do something active that you ENJOY and can repeat. Health is about a LIFESTYLE change that you can persist.
I just got an email this morning that someone tried to sign me up for Kik. I was able to disable the service through that email.
why is this guy getting so much press for a twitter name when people are starving in the world and there are ideas to be made manifest?

Can someone explain it to me a a complete moron?
You can copy existing CSS into a SASS project using SCSS.
Actually, I moved away from Sass >because< of the Ruby tie in. Transpiling Sass to css using Ruby was using up most of my day. It's a dog!

Fortunately, now there is node-sass and it's grunt wrapper, making for vastly faster transpiling process.

https://github.com/andrew/node-sass