skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a quote from a police office involved to the crowd that went something like “bring it on, you animals”.
Replace our government with what and how? What is the timeframe?

Technical solutions can be implemented now.

Formal methods can be used to prove correctness. The number of flaws could be cut by a factor 1000 I'd imagine when thinking of the current state of code running on devices connected to the internet.
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I don't know, it depends on the investor. But I'd rather be in a position where I don't care what their preference is.
What's really covered by the warranty, for example if the stitching or leather on the driver's seat starts to wear out (very common for any car after 5+ years) is that covered? I can understand the drivetrain and critical systems being covered for 8 years but wonder if they're going to get nickeled and dimed by customers expecting a perfect car after 8 years of hard use.
It's not 1/12th of the debt, it's 1/1200th of the debt.
Most cases I see aren't exactly filled with technical terms.
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> How do you really validate what you've made is something people really want?

Market research. There are several ways to decide which project to start next. One way is to ask yourself what sounds fun. Another way is to find out what people need. If the point is to make money, the latter approach has it all over the former.
I guess my solution was more approximate but easier to reason about. You're right, it falls apart on the borders of max capacity.
Buddytruk, an on-demand moving and hauling service, launches in Los Angeles
BuildZoom (YC W13) is looking for a data analyst and QA engineer
BuildZoom is a marketplace for remodeling and construction services that is changing the way people approach home improvement. With over half-a-million monthly users, we're the fastest growing company in this enormous sector of the market.

We are looking for a detail-oriented engineer who loves data. We ingest tens of millions of records that require analysis and normalization before being used for economic analytics of the national construction industry. The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in data analysis and the technical chops to wrestle large volumes into submission.

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3. Work closely with software developers to develop and test features driven by our underlying data set.
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1. Normalize contractor licensing data and building permit data from independent and heterogenous sources from across the country.
2. Parse through millions of building permit records to identify data problems and emerging construction trends in the photo-voltaic solar panel industry.
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DNS is for humans to have memorable addresses, and can be trivially side-stepped.
OK, I agree that part is a little ridiculous but only in the "why bother" sense.
Another format would actually be a problem - finding a format that would be readable in 10K years is a huge challenge, since all current languages, semantic systems, etc. may be completely forgotten by then. Check out this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Interference_Task_Force

about trying to solve how to say "dangerous radiation" so people in distant future would understand. Not trivial task at all.
Kevin Rose Startup Domain Name Has 4 Hyphens
I deleted the comment immediately after posting, since I thought it was obvious that the title not deceiving. The details are in the article.

Here is a better explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8184109
Silly question: Doesn't this violate any sort of non-compete that Google would setup? I know they're usually gentlemen's agreements but what was the point of the acqui-hire of Milk if everyone quits afterwords?
That seems simple and fair at first, but I think it actually creates more problems than it solves.

First, you get a horrible incentive to not repay debts:

1. A relatively innocent and good-natured Bank lends a jerk $1.00

2. The jerk refuses to pay it back, knowing the bank can't transfer it to someone who isn't a pushover without giving him a steeply-discounted offer first

3. In response all loan requirements and interest rates rise for everybody

Secondly, it fucks up the negotiations, because would-be buyers can infer something when the creditor doesn't snap up their own debt:

1. The Bank offers the debt for $0.10

2. The debtor doesn't repay because he legitimately can't scrape up that much

3. The Bank offers the debt for $0.10, but nobody wants to buy it, because they can infer that the debtor has nothing

4. The Bank offers the debt for $0.09... (begin loop)

Thirdly, it's a logistical nightmare. The Bank can't just combine the debt of it's 1000 deadbeat debtors and sell it off to a debt collection agency for a lump sum. No, it needs to send 1000 mailing notifications and 1000 second-notifications and wait 30 days, etc... And then 120 of them buy their own debts, and the bank can't re-price it's set of 880 accounts without sending 880 mailing notifications (begin loop)

Fourth, what happens if it's not a straight sale? Suppose the Bank barters your debt to a collection agency for a thing (like privately-held stock) in the collection agency? You can't buy your debt because you can't provide what the Bank is looking for... And then the bank can just sell whatever-it-is later.

TLDR: Exploding legal complexity combined with shady/manipulative actions from everybody.
> Building a better technical solution is only a partial solution. All technical solutions will have flaws that can be exploited given sufficient financial resources being expended at the task.

History has demonstrated that this is true of social/political solutions, as well (unsurprising, as these are really "technical" solutions in a different domain of technology.)

> We need to replace our government.

This is occasionally a good solution for existing problems, but quite often -- even when the government in question is far worse than our current one -- the cure ends up at least as bad as the disease. So, with any such call, one must demand a detailed accounting of "with what do you wish to replace it" that stands up to scrutiny not just of its theoretical attractiveness but its ability to be established and operate as intended in the world that actually exists and the people that are actually in it.
That's about ~273 miles per day on average. If we take out weekends, then we get an average of ~383 miles.

For someone to do that every day for 8 years and still do sales work would be some kind of endurance feat.
A much better mental model of this stuff is Newtonian mechanics is always wrong at every scale. At human masses, velocity's and time scales you can't detect the error but it's still there.

As such the physical laws are unchanged at the big bang, but the simpler aproximations in current use may be noticeably off at these scales. If they are, then they would also be wrong at all other timescales and energy levels etc. The trick is looking for edge cases we can detect that seperate our aproximations from the actual laws running reality.

Given all that; simpler aproximations continue to be useful as long as the errors are hard to detect.
you are correct, i was mistaken.
I kind of wonder if swapping out the drivetrain is actually a really common and perhaps early part of Tesla's troubleshooting procedure. Since it's just a motor, batteries, and relatively simple transmission it probably isn't nearly as hard to remove as a combustion engine (especially if they designed it for easy removal). It's probably a lot easier to pull the drivetrain out, swap in a known good one, and have the customer on their way than spend hours and days trying to debug the unit in the car (and potentially having the customer back again if the issue isn't resolved).
It says right in the article. 8 year infinite mile warranty on the battery pack and drive train.
http://rollingjubilee.org/ ?

That is likely close enough.
Ah right, duh it was right there. :)
What we want/need is basically this:
http://extensiblewebmanifesto.org/

The problem for Google is that an extensible web is a threat t their business model based around search. This is why they are so adamant about force pushing web components and polyfills. It's the least offensive (and least compute intensive) approach to their web crawler.

It's much easier and cheaper for them (as a business) to get everyone to adopt a half-baked and half-thought out standard that allows their crawler to extract content from a page without having to execute javascript to understand what is there.

With the right APIs, a JavaScript rich web can still be an accessible web for the physically impaired. OS X is proof that this possible. However, this approach makes it far far more expensive for web crawlers at scale since it's not as simple as just parsing a document. Forcing everything into a cheaply parseable document is just Google externalizing their costs on the rest of society.

Every decision made for blink needs two be viewed with two lenses: (1) what does this change mean for the Chrome web browser?; and (2) what does this change mean for the Google web crawler? At the end of the day, those two are closely related.
And to think that I paid all of my debt last year only to be confronted on my latest credit check with an alert saying that it was all back, and had quadrupled in value.
What does he mean that scaling a mobile backend is a solved problem? What has changed?
It looks like the goal of the project is mostly to adopt the syntax of Go. Instead of using gevent, Greenlets, Coroutines, etc.. they use "goroutines"..
Elon founded X.com which merged with Confinity to form X.com PayPal where he served as CEO for 8 months or so. X.com had an email payments service but the PayPal service originated at Confinity.
"I want my landing page to look like a wes anderson movie"
Heroku's former COO Oren Teich on Leadership as Process
Conventional Wisdom.
Extended the warranty on the drivetrain makes me look at amortizing the cost of the vehicle over 8 years instead of 5, making it much more affordable to me.
Software consultancies seem like a great way to achieve that in engineering.
I'm sure it's just a place holder until he can secure north.com or some variant of that. The foundation video series run by Kevin seems to have gone through a dozen domains.
I was thinking the same. North.io? North.co so much better.
Seconded. And the 'Essentials' version is only $9.99.
This is beyond idiotic. My credit score is HORRIBLE due to little things like this accumulating in my youth. Pay everything, always -- always pay -- always. It WILL come back to fuck you over just when you need those extra few points.
Did anyone else actually laugh out loud at the "Scaling is a solved problem" line?

Guess I can take off early for the weekend then.
Doesn't use the shady, illegal tactics + settles for less than the dollar value of the debt.

For instance, they buy it for $.05 and settles for whatever the debtor can reasonably pay that covers costs plus a reasonable margin, like 100%. So they buy it at $.05 and let the debtor pay it off for $.10 + the collector's cost.

I'd guess that is something like 25-50% of the value of face value of the debt.
Medical debt rankles me like nothing else. The US, supposedly the most advanced nation on Earth has the worst notion of all: health care for profit. Simply evil. Health care is a basic human right. Full stop. Health care should never be based on one's ability to pay. Never.

I pray I see socialised medicine in the US in my lifetime. If Hilary Clinton gets elected, the push for this will be stronger than the thin edge of a wedge President Obama has managed. We need a full single-payer tax-based system.

I pay the ridiculous sum of $700 US dollars a month for my family's health insurance. If we raise taxes by 10% for every American, we could have awesome health care. I'd gladly take the 10% tax over $8400 a year I pay now. Sick, capitalist theft. I feel I've been politely robbed every pay period.
Of course accountability isn't a priority. Their priority is to arrest and detain as many people as they can, and being accountable might cut into their revenue.
I spent 16 years working for a medium-sized company that did debt collections, among other things. I think your experience is probably more the norm. There are certainly bad companies out there, and no shortage of horror stories, but I saw a lot of effort put into compliance, and training, and quality to ensure that collectors played by the rules.
The CFPB has made the debt buying industry more difficult to operate in. for better or for worse
I can't speak to intentions, but that was certainly my reaction upon reading it. But of course I figured it had to be too good to be true, and indeed it is. I can't fault them for emphasizing the unlimited mileage over the eight years, but that doesn't mean we have to cooperate.
The EU is the only hope we have to balance the power of the city. What can a government of only 60 million, where one house is not even democratically elected, do against the might of world's finance system?
He is smart, hard working, and makes cool products. But that hardly makes him "the best." He exhibits many of the personality traits that go along with being a driven workaholic and isn't someone I would want to see elevated to hero status for widespread emulation.
I feel like I would be safe saying 99%(if not all) of this paper is not small business paper. These are the debts that are sold off in large parcels by banks and credit card companies.

Small businesses typically use flat fee collection agencies and rarely charge of the debt like this. Part of the reason is because to a small business charging off $10K in debt is going make them a couple hundred bucks at most.

There is no "little guy" getting stiffed by bad debtors in this story.
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No cityhash (https://code.google.com/p/cityhash/) either
I'm not saying writing secure software in C is inherently impossible, but I'm not aware of it having ever been accomplished, and by now yet another attempt shows such poor judgment that funding ought not be provided. Certainly Linux has had remote root exploits, and so many local exploits that its multi-user model is no longer taken very seriously, and the other kernels have fared no better.
I actually saw that and forgot to update the link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games,_Inc._v._U...
Sounds like they beta tested on customers to accelerate the development/release cycle. Exactly like many people do with software development.

At least they are standing behind it, many corporations would just say "too bad, so sad".
They also extended the warranty from 4 to 8 years.
First of all, thanks for the mention! (I wrote Design for Hackers).

I'll just elaborate so OP and everyone else can get an idea of how I approach things when teaching design.

My goal with the book was to "reverse engineer" everything that comes together to make a good design. In my eyes, the factors of design are always the same (purpose, technology, culture), it's just a matter of understanding how they work together.

OP mentions whitespace/margins. I'm such a white space fiend, I did a whole hour-long talk at SXSW entirely about white space. So, definitely my book talks about that. You can get much better at design very quickly if you forget about everything else (fonts, colors, ornamentation) and just concentrate on white space first.

I also do cover color schemes, and how to build them. If you want an understanding of how I approach color check out the article I wrote "Why Monet Never Used Black"[1].

I also write about font sizes & geometry in design. If you want a sampling of those particular thoughts, Lifehacker picked up one of my tips on the font sizes I always use on projects[2].

Of course, there's also my free email course that creature mentioned.

Hope this helps!

1. http://kadavy.net/blog/posts/d4h-color-theory/

2. http://lifehacker.com/stick-to-these-font-sizes-to-simplify-...
People keep thinking that Go routines and channels are something new.
Game of Thrones + geeky programmer humor = weird parody
Even rich people take out mortgages, for plenty of reasons. Banks will look for any reason to charge you a higher interest rate. That $400 unpaid comcast bill is a perfect excuse for them to charge you an extra $15,000 in interest or more on a loan (over the course of the loan's lifetime).
Yan here, Zen99 CTO. Just wanted to thank everyone for their support over the past few months! I hope this can really help all of my fellow 1099er's out there(Not doing 1099 work anymore, but I did freelance development for a long time).
Exactly. Buying your debt off for a penny on the dollar is probably the stupidest thing you could do financially. You would be trading $10,000 in credit card debt, with a fair amount of legal protections, for $4,000 in IRS debt with very few legal protections.
Ya, that sounds like a workable solution :)
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> I'm sorry but your links lead to the same continuity example that has nothing to do with real world (and real mathematics, as well).

I guess that would explain why it's located in a litany of common student errors compiled by math educators, as well as the other reference I provided.

But you know what? I'm not interested in posting to a thread that downvotes posts with a probability proportional to their accuracy and relevance.

From: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0%5E0

Result: 0^0 = indeterminate
Until they try to get a phone contract, or a broadband contract, or even an electricity supply they can pay from a bank account.

I know people who have had problems with all of the above because of poor credit.

I agree that the credit industry relies on extortion. I also know for a fact that some debt collectors act as front men for 'legit' banks and credit card companies who use them to extort extra interest from written-off debt. So they get a double profit - a tax write-off, and some or all of the principal back, with interest.

The lenders should - and I guess do - run actuarial models which give them a good idea what current and future default rates are.

I know there's at least one credit card company in the UK that deliberately lends to people with poor credit - not because it's run by nice people, but because it knows it can maximise profit by taking defaulters to court and foreclosing on their houses.

It's a vile, despicable business run by failed human beings.
Right but in this case you would essentially have to use every salt from every user to hash the submitted email and say "aha user 123,456 has a salt and hashed email which matches the submitted email of foo@example.com" which is why I suggested method 2.
I am user "Arnor" and my email is "foo@example.com". Ok, your salt is #@$%@#$%DGDFfdgdawer.

If your hashing algorithm is appropriately "expensive" the scan all user salts would not work.
"don't ever give them ANY information they don't already own."

When I called the State Of Michigan treasury to pay a bill I'd hadn't known about (having not lived in the state for years), they forwarded me to a collection agency without telling me up front. I was confronted with "we have to ask you some questions for verification" and answered them until they asked something I knew they couldn't already know. I felt seriously taken advantage of, at all levels.
The author mentions Trefethen-Bau, “Numerical Linear Algebra” as a good reference. I couldn't agree more, it's a great resource.
Heh. Yeah, I'm a little bitter. I don't see life as all bad, but I know there is a lot of suffering in it. Not all life is beautiful - just like most people are non-evil, but a few of them, they are.

And dude. My own comfort levels? I moved across an ocean and married a man that practices chaos magick (I wound up reading some stuff, and am starting to practice. There was no pressure). I already had Discordian philosophies. I am lucky, and privelidged enough to have a level of freedom beyond what I thought I wanted... and I wouldn't give it up. But you are right. I value my own happiness above power, I'd only take the power over being happy temporarily. Poking at things behind the scenes is just as much fun, even if there is no real power in it.
Ah, fair point. So we agree they need a (possibly not unique) user name too. [edit: note this is for 5 billion accounts, on a 10 year old cpu. So for 500.000 accounts, it would be ~1 seconds (average 0.5). Still probably too long for log-in (or particularly log-in failure feedback)).]
There's a big argument against doing something like that in PhoneGap. Phonegap/JS does not have (low-overhead, easy to use) multithreading. I can guarantee you that something like Flipboard is loading/marshalling all the content and data in a background queue of some sort. Maybe even doing some background rendering.

It bears noting that running background tasks in iOS is extremely easy for developers.
With fewer connection points it would seem a given that the drivetrain is easier to swap out than an internal combustion engine. Musk has also mentioned on an investor call that drivetrain replacements were sort of a catch-all for some other unrelated issues (before they had fully discovered the issue).

Even if we err on the cautious side and say a better comparison is replacing just the transmission of an ICE vehicle, the Tesla drivetrain is only electrical connections (albeit some large ones), drive shaft, and mounting hardware.

I wrote out the list of ICE transmission removal steps but deleted it -- I think the point is clear: this is no big deal.

Tesla can absolutely reuse the drivetrains it removes, unless the defect is catastrophic. I wonder what exactly the cause is? (I'm sure Tesla is hard at work determining just that.)

Just speculating: if Tesla has gone ahead and extended the warranty, they might be doing it because they are certain that the issues are not catastrophic. Cost/benefit analysis was probably completed to Musk's satisfaction before this announcement.
Persionaly, I suspect a scale model of a DNA strand + it's encoding would be a strong enough hint for any society capable of using that data to build a life form. As up you only need 4 symbols for the encoding. Then just repeat that at ever smaller scales.

The real issue is you need to encode a lot of data in a stable form for a long time for cheap enough someone would pay for it. Pluss, the cost of actually sequencing 10K+ plants * a few examples so you have some genetic diversity.
I mean vote against the sort of politicians that empower these people and contribute to lobbies that are pro-privacy/civil rights.
Does someone here has already created a bot for the game ?
I remember reading a study that 60% of global black trading goes through the city. Why waste time at the periphery when the core is open for all to see?
Also sorting out Crown dependencies is something only the UK can do not the EU.
The difference is, Rob Graham isn't going to compromise the box and use it to mask the origin of future scans and malware attacks.
But you're getting shady/manipulative actions already.

The only difference is that this approach would favour debtors, not lenders.

It's not as if banks don't expect exactly the benefits you're not allowing debtors when their own debts blow up.

If banks get bail-outs - and do they ever - why shouldn't ordinary people?