skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what you mean by "throw up" but my prediction is that a large portion of these education loans will end up being forgiven. It's housing bubble 2.0 and there's just no other way around it -- millennials leveraged up after being told for years that college was the path to prosperity and simply haven't seen the prosperity. The default rate on student loans is way up because, by and large, we're not making as much money, are less likely to have a job, aren't forming households and have massive debt/income ratios in comparison to our parents generation. If the government doesn't bail us out, the pyramid scheme implodes.

Of course, it's a terrible message to send and creates a moral hazard, but that's the way the game has been played for the last 30+ years. Your best bet to make it in America is to leverage yourself to the hilt. If you succeed, the benefits are privatized and you can sail off into the sunset. If you fail, the losses are eaten by the public.

In 2007 it was the bankers, mortgage lenders, GSEs and insurance companies working together to line each others pockets. This time around its the same deal, with (in order), the bankers, student loan originators (i.e. the government), Sallie Mae and the universities. Why would things play out any differently this time around?
Here is the script:

0. thing I don't like.
1. have a vitriolic outburst at that thing.
2. someone replies in defense with their own vitriolic outburst.
3. If you're fortunate enough the person used a forbidden word in their outburst, dogpile their employer and get them fired.
4. retweet everyone who is outraged at what you've done so that everyone on your follow list can shame and attack them in response.

https://twitter.com/ryan/status/474791621100199936

don't take the bait.
Privacy is inversely proportional to utility. It's basically the first rule of privacy.
This was also my favorite sentence of the piece. People sometimes criticize my writing as having to many parentheses. From now on I will just tell them to read it in the voice of Jon Stewart. Because that's exactly how I want all my texts to be read.
"Building something big insulates your ego"
Yes. And for that use case - intentionally tracking one's location (for maps, proximity alerts, etc.) through an app - there is iBeacon.
It's a free market -- tuition keeps going up because you, your neighbors, and every other American, is willing to pay for it. Prices will keep going up until people are so strained that they're not willing or able to pay anymore.
Last I heard, in some cities you had to have a BA to be a barista.
It's not clear what pain you're solving, or what you system does. I think it has something to do with converting the format of my email, but I'm not sure how that help me.

I'm also not sure why I'd want to give up the flexibility of using my own email address for one on a domain I don't control. Also, if this is a valid pain point, I highly doubt that software engineers would feel this pain any more than a dozen other professional classes. Would accountants not have this pain?
There is http://firespotting.com/, which brand itself as "HN for ideas", but it's not as active as HN.
The Right Way (IMHO):

Momentum, syncopation, rhythm-and-pattern: these make a sentence flow, because...
Frictionless data preloading in AngularJS
We are google's product. We are bundled and cleaned and sold to advertisers. The google+ process was just a plan to tell their customers that they had a nice, leaner, more refined product. Previously, their customers were complaining that the product wasn't as verifiable. This is a bit like the organic food certification process.
It's actually a pretty good blog post, the title is sort-of underscoring the central point:

"Yes, I have slut-shamed, body-policed, name-called, bad-joked, appropriated, derailed, co-opted, silenced, objectified, stereotyped, trivialized, slurred, punished, isolated, insulted, benefited, and stayed silent with the worst of them. A highlight reel of my life profiting uncritically and even participating in the systems of misogyny, classism, racism, cis-normativity and homophobia that oppress my friends, my family, my fellow humans would not endear anyone to me, least of all myself.

It fees horrible to talk about. But I am because we all must realize how complete, how intersecting, how deeply fucked up the system is, and the role we play in it."
It's easy to say that "they will be forgiven" but that's a huge evaporation of debt in the system: these are assets being marked at par in pension funds, etc.

Students are poor and don't vote. That's why it will be different this time.

EDIT: (I really should take more time in my replies) Also, let me say that I am in 100% agreement with you about the morality of the situation and how GenY (and GenX) were sold a bill of goods on the debt issue. But I think we are at the end of the line (in the next decade or so) and now it's a matter of who takes the most pain. I wouldn't bet on that being the banks, insurers or pension funds, and evidence so far confirms my non-bet.
I would advise against the acronym BNP - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_National_Party
Can it run real programs (i.e. not benchmarks)?

If so I will be impressed. Glancing over the code, it looks pretty short, and I can imagine benchmarks will run, but not real programs.

https://github.com/PythonJS/PythonJS/blob/master/pythonjs/py...

It's true that most programs don't use all the dynamism of Python, but they probably depend on something that does (e.g. Django). Python is more dynamic than JavaScript, in that it has __getattr__, __setattr__, __getitem__, etc.

If not, it's not fair to compare it to PyPy... PyPy actually runs arbitrary Python programs.
I had heard about these a million times and understood laser resonance, but hadn't previously made the connection to atomic resonance! Not sure I fully grasp it yet, but it's great to have identified that area :-)
I think on the general principle of privacy. But also, the idea that the more trackable you are, the more easily manipulated you are by marketers and advertisers. Free markets work better the more consumers are rational. Giving marketers deep psychological and behavioral insight increasingly enables them to circumvent rationality and "hack" consumers in various ways.
I would love to see an open source network of ADS-B collectors form, similar to what's available for the APRS-IS [1] network. The big ADS-B players (Flightaware and FlightRadar24) get their ADS-B feeds from the FAA (5-min delayed) and supplement it with real-time over-the-air collection from volunteers around the world. These companies give away small ethernet-connected collection servers to the volunteers and in exchange, they get the data and keep it proprietary.

It sure would be nice if there was a network to collect and pass around this data for free consumption by whoever wanted to use it.

[1] http://aprs2.net/
http://www.aprs-is.net/
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Right, a fairly massive decrease in convenience. And renders search for email rather worthless on my phone. (Which, to be fair, is already rather crappy.)
This is a great idea and I love that it is self contained.

However, I don't see a lot of benefit in the way you're using requestAnimationFrame. JavaScript is single threaded, so if your callback is a long-running function then the onscroll handler won't fire until the callback is done.

Instead of using requestAnimationFrame to delay both the checking and handler callbacks (which means callbacks don't know about the scrolling until 33ms after it happens) you'd probably be better off using it to just throttle the global onscroll handler.

You might also want to take a looks at mobile scroll events. Chrome is relatively sane but iOS Safari and the native Android browser do weird things like only firing a scroll event after the page has stopped moving.
Vaccinations (medical science) and disease control / pandemic response are not as divorced from "workings of the universe" as I think you think they are...
While I completely agree with your principle, I find myself interested in shimming the not-yet-standard "sticky" positioning, which is in draft specifications and available in bleeding-edge [0]. Depending on how many items use it, you would have to write your scroll handlers carefully.

In cases where this would really improve usability, I consider it an exception to my general antipathy towards "bells and whistles", since it will be native before too long.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/position
Thanks for the feedback. I guess my question to you is are you a developer who has had to write code to process emails? If yes, then you'd understand the pain of trying to cleanly extract and deal with all the intricacies and complexity of getting data consistently and cleanly out of those emails. Especially if you are processing attachments.
And yet those planes disappeared simultaneously with the explosions in the twin towers. Where did they go? Beware of "proofs" that don't pass the simplest test.
> What prevents me from considering Linux as a desktop or laptop OS includes: horrible battery life times (worse than half for a friend's thinkpad when compared to it running Windows), how difficult it is to get Bluetooth and Wifi working, really bad multi-touch for trackpads.

Not sure where you are coming from, to be honest.

Bluetooth and Wifi have unerringly worked out of the box for me since 2009 or so.

While multi-touch, and the trackpad in general, is _horrible_ on my Asus UX31E Zenbook in Windows, it is very pleasant to use in Linux.

As for power savings, have a look at TLP: http://linrunner.de/en/tlp/docs/tlp-linux-advanced-power-man...

Using TLP, battery life on my laptop is about the same as in Windows.
When did you last hear? Which cities?
The MAC address is stable once a device is authenticated (connected) to the network. With the trend of providing 'free' wifi access within stores, making sure that users connect to that network is enough to continue tracking them.
It seems I'm missing the context here that (almost?) everyone else seems to have. What actually happened?
I also wrote an interpreter, and it's 500x faster than CPython or PyPy.

(As it happens, my interpreter can only run a single fixed program, but I'm not worried: most people won't read past the headline when I announce it.)
It's a prisoner's dilemma degenerating into a tragedy of the commons.

This is how I feel about LinkedIn. I've seen so many losers and fuckups (people I've worked with who have destroyed teams and companies) with large numbers of tit-for-tat, glowing recommendations and ridiculous endorsement counts. I haven't played that game (and have an extremely boring LI profile, with past employers not listed) and my numbers are embarrassing.

It's more like the "tragedy of the uncommons": bland people fighting to establish themselves as somehow special or superior, and fucking up everything for everyone. It just generates noise, and the winners are the people who are best at making the right kind of noise.

LinkedIn also tricked a generation into giving up one of their most important professional rights: the right to reinvent themselves. I use it, because the information is useful, but I feel like the world was a much better place when professional oversharing wasn't expected. When labor overshares and capital doesn't change what it does, who should one expect to win?

As far as I'm concerned, I don't have an ethical problem with social proof arbitrage. Even if I did, that'd just mean losing to others who don't follow such rules. The main reason I don't do it is that I don't care. I'm apathetic about "social proof" in general because, in humans, sociality is inversely proportional to quality. I certainly wouldn't want to work at a job where the difference between a 2000 and a 6000 follower count mattered.
I thought this was going to be an article about software demos.
That escalated quickly! Yes, the fact that they can't find a source that says, "oh yeah, we bury those things all the time!" is certainly suspicious. But on the other hand, I don't trust any of the blogs involved to actually dig up a source. Instead they just post screenshots of Twitter, which doesn't really add any information.
a man called a woman a ct on the internet and lost his job. Actually I don't know what the rules are here so I will just censor the word
Samsung is a bad example because like you said, they actually did copy a lot more than the rounded corners. The patent though is incredibly broad, and regardless of who else has such broad patents nobody should. https://www.google.com/patents/USD670286
"Administrators...blamed students, who were supposedly demanding all manner of luxuries and would not be denied. “Students today want carpeting, they want furniture, they want voice mail,” an administrator at a Nevada university told USA Today for a 1997 story about the tuition spiral. "

I believe this is one of the biggest generally unaddressed aspects of this problems. The large public university near me has near-luxury dorms, a bunch of massive flat screen TVs in libraries and the student centers (which don't serve much of a purpose apart from broadcasting random news or campus stuff -- a couple devices would suffice) and keeps on revamping equipment / OSes in the general access computer labs (despite the fact that most students have their own laptops, and use the computer center ones for relatively mundane tasks like quickly checking facebook or typing out a Word document). The official reason given for this is, "Well, we won't be able to attract the best students if we don't offer them the best amenities."; and from all accounts, it works -- student enrollment, specially the wealthy ones, keeps going up.

As long as parents keep rewarding these lavish universities by saying, "Wow! Look how great that is. If Bobby hangs out in an expensive looking place, maybe he'll get a high-paying job by some sort of osmosis! Let's totally send him to the University of Money-Down-the-Flatscreen-Hole." instead of taking a hard-nosed look at the return on investment they are getting, this vicious cycle is going to continue.
The infinite scroll example shows a blinking "Loading..." text and that's it. Recent FF on Windows.

[1] http://lafikl.github.io/steady.js/examples/infinite.html
This is just for scanning, look at the slide that is mentioned. Connects will still use the real MAC address.
Indeed, it would be nice. Something like that shouldn't be too difficult to do. People all around the world would send their ASD-B data to a centralized server which would process it all and make it available via a nice, stable API. Something like http://www.openstreetmap.org/.
Cars don't run like horses, solar panels don't use photosynthesis, engines don't work like muscles, computers don't look like biological neurons, etc, etc.
I don't care if you spell out the word if you're going to cite it (punctuation would be nice though ;) - but this is clearly not an explanation of what happened.
>VIN number numbers

PNS syndrome plus one?!
Unit Of Work is the new Singleton
It's some pretty messy Python code, so at the moment no :)
If you decide on MongoDB, email us at support@mongolab.com. We'd be happy to help!

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There is a package called macchanger which is said to have the ability to spoof a random MAC address at each reboot. I have a new laptop with Ubuntu 14.04 freshly installed and I can't get it to work though. It's not a high priority but I would like to have this working soon. I used to do this about ten years ago on a laptop running XP and whatever program I was using worked flawlessly. I'm thinking it should be even easier in Linux but haven't found an 'it just works' solution yet.
China already has numerous "ghost cities" that nobody lives in, so this project just seems like an especially environmentally dangerous jobs program:
http://gizmodo.com/welcome-to-the-worlds-largest-ghost-city-...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-21/chinas-ghost-cities...
Except they're invisible if you have JS disabled, as I do for normal browsing.
But it's not a free market. It's a market artificially inflated by the government via Federal loans, guaranteed pay back to the banks, and debt that's non-dismissable via bankruptcy. Those may or may not better than the alternative, but they sure as hell mean it's not a free market.
> Now, we've (well, they) got 75 mbps FIOS. We also have 3-4 providers offering 10 mbps+ LTE.

You are by far in the minority by having access to FIOS as well as another cable provider. Most consumers only have a single broadband provider (and if they have only one, it's almost certainly not FiOS).

> for your average consumer, wireless service is much more important than wired service. The average Comcast customer uses 2-3 GB/month of data. That's easily accommodated by wireless.

First I question that statistic (it sounds unbelievably low for someone who uses Netflix even moderately). But even if I accept that, it's not meaningful to talk about a hypothetical world in which a user can rely on their mobile phone plan to provide this kind of service - essentially all users are on data plans that would be throttled heavily if they tried to rely on wireless service as their primary means of Internet connectivity.

Secondly, that's not a great statistic to use. The question isn't what people use today, given the resources they have available to them - it's what they would choose to pay for if they had access to a faster, more reliable network.

I know I would be happy to pay for proper, faster Internet access, but as it is, I'm paying through the nose for speeds that are consistently 60% of what was advertised. (This is illegal, sure, but clearly TWC doesn't care).

> Consumers have a lot more choice these days between cable/wireless than they did back then.

We have a choice between four wireless providers[0], whereas we had far more back in the early 2000s. And that only covers mobile access as far as I'm concerned (virtually no "average" user can use wireless networks as their primary access point[1]).

There is no way that you can convince me that consumers have more choice nowadays for cable than they did 15 years ago, or for mobile phone plans than they did 15 years ago. Competition has dramatically decreased in both markets.

> Those upgrades didn't build themselves nor were they free.

I'm not arguing that zero upgrades happened; I'm arguing that, for what we're paying, most consumers are not getting the level of service that they should be, and that is due to a decrease in the number of market players to a virtual monopoly, without a corresponding increase in regulation[2].

[0] Potentially three soon, if T-Mobile and Sprint merge

[1] In the US, of course. Third-world countries are a different story (look at many parts of Africa)

[2] I can't imagine Con Edison operating in NYC without the heavy regulation that is is subject to; I see no reason that ISPs should be any different.
You are right I left out a bit. The woman took a screenshot of the abuse and tweeted it to his employers asking them were they happy to employ someone like that.

That really is the gist of it.
What? Apple already get more than 1% of iPhone revenue!
The most obvious example of trying to copy the design is the charge cable of the galaxy tab. Apple's charge cable was ridiculously and unnecessarily wide, as is evident by the fact that later on they switched to the new design of the lightning cable. Samsung made their cable plug also very wide, and very similar that I personally, on one occasion have grabbed an off brand white Samsung cable, tried to shove it into my iPad, and was rather surprised when it did not fit.

Rather then looking at weather or not Samsung copied apple, let's look at the motivations. Because I believe that imitating someones design because you think its the best and the most practical way to do something should be perfectly ok. However, it is wrong to copy a design of your competitors in the hopes that consumers will confuse your product for your competitors. For instance, I would call BS on Apple arguing that a black rounded rectangle with rounded corners is somehow their design. It's just the most obvious and straightforward way of making an glass touch tablet. But then look at the power / sync cord. Can you justify that choice? No, there is no practical reason to make your cord look like that other than to make your product look more like an iPad.

They do say that imitation is the sincerest from of flattery, and I do tend to believe it, as long as the motivation is right. A company can look at the fact that iPads are doing really well in the market and tell it's designers and engineers: "Let's get a few of those iPads, play with them, figure out why people love them, and than make better one our selves, incorporating some of the features that we thing people really love about the iPad." I think that's what ASUS did with their Transformer line. They observed that a lot of people liked the simple and clean look of the iPad, and they made it even cleaner by removing all buttons. They also decided that people really want a option to have a keyboard on a tablet, as evidenced by the abundance of the keyboard cases for the iPad, so they added that function as well.

On the other hand, Samsung told its engineers: "Here is an iPad, copy it! No, don't bother figuring out why people like it, use those ideas, build on them, and maybe come up with something better. Just copy it. You see that idiotic, unnecessarily wide connector that only made any kind of sense when it was first installed in the original iPod, and not even then really. Copy that too."

So, to finish my thought, yes Apple is a bit bitchy when people copy their stuff. In case of most manufacturers I think they are wrong. In case of Samsung, I can see it, they copied Apple, and they did it for all the wrong reasons.
I don't know if it's parents so much as entitled students. You may enjoy some of the discussion here: http://www.reddit.com/27h7pl/