skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've personally interviewed all of the borrowers; all the borrowers have stable career paths and no history of problems paying back debt, and most are already making monthly payments on their debt--this just helps them lower the payment. Of course, there is some small chance any one of them could have a problem, but we believe the odds of default are much lower than the risk of loss in the stock market or other higher margin lending options. Of course, part of the point is that you can read their bios and decide for yourself which ones you believe to be an acceptable risk.
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All I remember are the Via Unichrome series which made me feel like punching myself in the face just to relieve myself of the pain that their drivers caused me. It took a lot of work from the OpenChrome folks to make it usable.
Heh. We've come full circle. The "sources" for that second link include a comment thread on HN that was later deleted. Fortunately somebody at WSJ was kind enough to blog about it so you still have something to link to.
no individual or income taxes, how much did that weigh in the decision, or did Harry Reid weigh in?
> The TrackPoint is not a "legacy oddity," it's a far superior input method compared to a trackpad, if you take the time to learn how to use it.

IMHO the proper way to use a pointing device is "sparingly", which suits the trackpoint _perfectly_.
The rate required to stop experienced developers from leaving. That's quite easy to measure. Enough of the people will leave will tell you what offer they got, and you adjust up until the rate of turnover is acceptably low.
The Digital Attack Map presents data gathered and published by Arbor Networks ATLAS - global threat intelligence system. ATLAS sources its data worldwide from 270+ ISP customers who have agreed to share anonymous network traffic and attack statistics. Data is updated HOURLY.

> Got this info from one of my friend.
In your view, what important issues do these people who are shaping the future of mankind know and care about?
I determined it was an issue with an extension I had (ColumnCopy). I think Google should help prevent these weird bugs caused by extensions.
It didn't immediately occur to me, but the Gear VR uses a Note 4, not special Oculus hardware. This looks like an upscale version of "Google Cardboard", which isn't nearly as close to a product as this seemed to be, with an "eco-system" of content.
I worked in on gas pipelines for a while, and it was a 3 weeks on 3 days off, 11 hours a day schedule. Depending on where you were, it was often a waste of time to travel home during your 3 days stint so you just kept working.
This is a nice concept ! It seems like the "natural" thing to do IMO, just lend from people to people. I'm wondering though: Is such a system legal everywhere?
Methylphenidate was inducing psychosis in me: delusions and hallucinations, which gradually got worse over time. This is a known side effect of amphetamine and similar drugs (like methylphenidate) when taken for long periods of time. When I started going off it on weekends, the psychosis stopped, and I was able to take it for several more years before I finally stopped taking it altogether. I took it ages 6 to 12 or so.

Withdrawing every weekend was uncomfortable, but better than psychosis.
Hi- thanks for all the questions, since we are just launching- I am happy to get feedback because I want the service to be easy to understand.

I'll start with the safety of your information. Any critical customer information that a customer needs to enter or access is stored on a separate and encrypted server. Nobody except the CEO and tech lead have access to the server.

The letters are sent as hard copies to an employee from CIVILIZE who collates and sends the registered letters. Our team works closely and there is a protocol for how the letters are handled.

There is always the option to send the letters to the collection agency via registered mail yourself. The copies of letters are kept on the encrypted server.

The template letters are the ones provided by the consumer financial protection bureau to verify a debt, dispute a debt, cease and desist, and give instructions for future contact. You can't import your own templates- but if you have a good one, you can always contact our support team because perhaps we would add it.

For those who sign up for our paid service, they send the registered letter with instructions for contact and inform their creditor that the only way to be reached is through CIVILIZE email platform.

From that point on, the communication between creditor and client happen like a normal email service (like gmail) it is not visible to our staff (except our lead tech) unless it is flagged by the client as being abusive.

Our protection resources besides the letters and email are being rolled out so it isn't public yet.

We are not marketing this for "credit repair" as much as we are trying to address the pain of being harassed and abused. This is something that people seem to understand easily.

Please keep asking if there is anything I missed!
It should definitely include iTunes for Windows.
It didn't weigh in at all most likely (as Tesla is based in California, they're not afraid of having employees pay state income tax). If you read the article you'll find out what did weigh the decision:

> Based on Musk's public statements of what he expects a winning bid would be worth, the incentive package likely will total at least $500 million.
Independence is to strict. Take someone with an IQ of say 50 and there not going to be good at taking tests.

Now within a given range IQ rang of say 95 to 105 the correlation between IQ and test taking ability might be tiny. However, that's unlikely to hold up as you keep stretching the IQ range from say 50 to 150.

PS: IQ tests where initially more about testing the low end of the scale than the high end and in that context there not that bad. The early assumptions where also looking at the correlation with IQ and things like reflexes when that failed people started looking into mental retardation etc.
This has a gyroscope that senses 5x more often than your smart phone. I also has direct to kernel routines to render images faster -- its spec is 20 milliseconds! It uses the Note 4 screen, yes.
Today I learned that I was the last person on the internet to know that you can manipulate i.imgur.com urls so that they point back at the original post with a description, title, author information, etc.

http://i.imgur.com/<magic code>.png

--->

http://imgur.com/gallery/<magic code>

In this case, the gallery page has a link to a google docs spreadsheet which was used to generate the graphic.

I don't see citation of the source of the numeric data (but I didn't check all the links on the gallery page).
Vaguely along the same lines, I use something similar for keeping my journal. Because I'm paranoid. :P

I create/view/edit files and then I push the directory containing them to some git remote.

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/df1ba398dd4e4748c6cd

Usage commands at the bottom.
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Sony's SmartBand Talk combines fitness tracker with e-ink screen
Did nobody notice how wrong that math is?
That's gotta just be a flaw in the implementation, if the title of the issue ("Exponential parsing") is accurate.

Any PEG can be parsed in linear time and space.
The funny thing is I was being serious. I guess people just didn't like what I said. So then I turned it up a notch with the edit. Because, well, I am who I am.
Thanks- that is our goal
I was thinking of assigning everyone a fun title, and specific responsibilities to go along with it. For example, a staff member who worked as a barista in a former life could be the "Caffeine Queen" and make delicious caffeinated drinks for our team (only if she wanted to and time permitted, of course). Or I would be Senior VP of silly hats, and ensure everyone has access to a hat incase they needed to change their identity in a hurry.
Actually my experience with WeWorkRemotely was my favorite of all the jobs boards I've used. They carved out a specific niche and do it well. The other ones try to be everything to everyone, and always seem to fail.
No.
It won't just work, it's even shown on your comment how awful it is.

To understand what I mean, try to inspect your comment, add `dir="rtl"` to the <p> tag of the Arabic text...
... i'm interested. why / how did you do that ?
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Apple also received/is receiving additional incentives [1] for their new iCloud data centers which are being built near where Tesla is planning to put the gigafactory (the plot of land is already graded for the factory).

For those interested, Katie Fehrenbacher from Gigaom did some great coverage last month of what is happening out here RE: Tesla and Apple.[2]

1. http://www.areadevelopment.com/newsItems/8-3-2012/apple-iclo...
2. http://gigaom.com/2014/08/10/the-changing-face-of-reno-why-t...
This spec is not strict enough.

Okay, that came out wrong. While I understand why one would want any input to pass (web comment from non-technical users), I have experienced several failures (wrong emphasis, missing link, weird unintended brackets…) just because the original markdown.pl didn't warn me about some obvious mistake I made.

We need a strict mode, where paragraphs cannot be interrupted, where fenced code blocks must end by a fence (not just the end of the file), duplicate or missing references must be signalled… That, and many other precautions could turn Markdown into a serious and reliable document format.

Besides, this tolerance is complicating the grammar. I don't mind context sensitivity nor ambiguity (parser generators can now deal with both), but I do mind the sheer size. If you ask me, a formal spec (one that can be treated as a DSL and translated mechanically into a parser), should not take more than 300 lines. More than that is probably too complicated to implement, or even use.
"Tesla has said it would need about 10 million square feet"

Wow, that's big! Reno always made sense - structurally cheaper than CA, but closer to the Fremont factory than even Los Angeles.

Also, I hate business tax incentives, but $500M for a $5B factory + 6500 jobs is not terrible.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2.91+billion+%24+%2F+ye...
So, you work at github now ? That explains a lot about the new bits of UI we found here and there everyday.

What are you planning to do next ? Can't wait to get there.
It's been a few years since I've written a lot of C. ufo's sibling comment reminded me of how it acts (the last dimension is ignored).

Anyway, this is completely beside the point of what I was talking about. The point is that a static size is a very different level of type system machinery from a dynamic size.
Did someone find out about this early? At around 4pm, there was a momentary ~$8 stock in the price of TSLA in after-hours trading.

http://i.imgur.com/WOoJI1v.png
I got a kick out of my first plant job. HR manager asked me what title my position was, I shrugged, "Process Engineer?" And thus became such.

It's fascinating how titles can be both so important legally (i.e. In this article) or irrelevant (everyday life?)
Hardly; they bought S3 after S3 realized they couldn't compete in 3D anymore. As far as I can determine, the Chrome 645 is their top-of-the-line integrated chip, which is absolutely blown out of the water[1] by even the anemic Intel Sandy Bridge chips from three generations ago.

And let's not even mention the driver situation...

[1]: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/video_lookup.php?gpu=VIA%2...
Which is requiring a special bill going through the NV legislature, as that level of incentive is passed the caps that are currently in place.
I downvoted your question because it contributes nothing to the discussion at hand and is unlikely to lead to any interesting side topic. That's all. Don't be so goddamn sensitive.
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I'm pretty sure legohead was being facetious.
>>> Check to see whether the prior art reference explains every element of a claim in the patent. If so, the reference “anticipates” the claim, and the claim is invalid.

I'm not a lawyer, but I have over a dozen patents, and have participated in other IP related activities such as invalidation. Here is how I understand it, as explained to me:

It's assumed by default that the patent is granted in light of the information referred to by cited works. In other words, the examiner has declared that nothing in the references anticipates the claims. If you're looking for new prior art, it has to be outside of those references.

Of course anything can be challenged, but instead of "look, we found some prior art," you have to argue, "look, the examiner missed something."

OP, does that make sense?

A couple other thoughts: First, the body text may be gibberish, but the body of patent A can be used against the claims of patent B, if A is not cited by B. I've used this successfully, thanks to a few solid days of Google searching. Or, A and C can be combined to show obviousness.

Second, body text can contain useful information in its own right. I have a product under development right now for my side business, using an electronic circuit described in an expired patent.
Raspberry Pi Gets a Better Browser
Hey Conrad--it's legal for US residents. (Our payment processor requires a US address anyway, so we are currently US-limited regardless of laws in specific other places.) We've done ample research with experienced counsel and are configured a bit differently than some other peer-to-peer platforms, so we're confident it's legal everywhere in the US.
It has approximately the same economics as pizza delivery, minus everything that goes into making the pizza.
My solution was a Pi with OpenElec. That's all I use right now, connected via HDMI. The TV is unaware that a network exists.

I bought 'Yatse' on Android and I can only recommend it (if you're into xbmc). I can not only remotely control the xbmc stuff, I can stream a lot of content (video, pictures, music) to the xbmc/TV as well.
> With earnings of $2.91 billion in Q2 2014, Facebook theoretically loses about $22,453 for every minute it’s down around the globe.

Let's say they earn $2.91b per quarter for a year. $11.64 billion.

31,536,000 seconds in a year.

11,640,000,000 / 31,536,000 = $369.10 per second.

$369.10 * 60 seconds = $22,146 lost per minute

I got pretty close to their number. How do you think it's wrong?
> "In addition to offering insights on celestial movement, the book rebutted Aristotle, who had maintained that heavenly bodies were smooth and “perfect”; with his telescope, Galileo had also looked extensively at the Earth’s moon, and could see mountains and craters on its surface."

Surely you can see the moon's unevenness with the naked eye?
New map shows where the Milky Way galaxy is inside its supercluster
This assumes that the traffic doesn't just spike right back up after it goes down.

eg. Facebook may have a few minutes of $0 rev, followed by a few minutes of $44K per minute rev.

Also, having a larger concentration of users online at a given time can lead to increased rev. because there are more new stories for people to look at.
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New tLD .prod is messing with my configs
Isn't that talking about the other football?
I used to work in the "smart device" space at a small company called "Orb Networks" (since acquired by Qualcomm). All the CE makers we talked to were both terrified of being left behind by the pace of change and extremely resistant to changing anything. Everyone we talked to would readily admit that the current streaming media options (DLNA, service-specific "apps" or Airplay) were limiting for them and for customers. DLNA suck, the apps were expensive to develop and would often cover only a few TVs and Airplay was extremely expensive BOM-wise and restricted you on hardware partners. They would also agree that their interface was cumbersome and old-fashioned.

However, when push came to shove, no one was really interested in changing anything. The systems that exist are there due to a complex interaction between the various stakeholders in the product, least of which are the actual customers. There are huge challenges in sourcing components that: run as advertised, are priced competitively and will continue to be available into the future. Software is generally an after-thought, even if it's what the public sees.

The story of the WebOS team fighting tooth and nail to avoid the awful old menu system rings very true. Good luck to the people to stayed.
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Sounds like it can be done, but it won't be by them. Have they patented the technology, or is it even possible with standard Android SDK?
Climate change, ensuring continous access to energy, making humanity an interplanetary species, giving everyone access to all knowledge of mankind, life extension, fighting disease and death. Stuff like that - things we all care about, but don't really do anything about them because they're not short-term profitable.

I don't mean to pass moral judgement here. I only observe that some of the most important problems we have don't yield themselves well to capitalism (which is sort of obvious - the ones that were important but compatibile with greedy optimization are the ones we already solved).
Better than nothing, but your employer should be happy to pay you to attend those events that improve your skill set and make you a better employee.
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Thanks for the clear answer and good to hear! Any plans to expand this type of concept to Europe (or other regions) someday? :-)
Smart TVs are useless. I want a good screen, and a bunch of HDMI and USB ports. The only "smart" feature I want is a way to name what device the HDMI port is connected to.
Let my cable box/chromecast/Blu Ray player/Playstation be smart
They did $2.91B in the quarter that just passed. And are likely doing more and more revenue by the week. So doing the math by the quarter instead of year gets you the same number.
Anyone know more of the story? This sounds fairly one sided.

I know nothing about this and I'm just guessing, but I'd imagine that after Palm sold to HP and then at various times under HP's reign, a lot of people left. Perhaps a few stuck around that were handcuffed, in fact I'm sure some did but I'd guess a lot of high quality probably left.

Then when LG stepped up, it seems like it must have made for a somewhat difficult situation, HP's handcuffs would normally be paid out, right? So it's up to LG to renew as part of the sale, right? So I'd have expected another exodus but I'd also expect maybe some nice reasons for key people to stick around, no idea what these numbers would look like but I'd expect bigger than HP offered. Then as things under LG went on maybe those incentives didn't seem as appealing or something. Perhaps HP paid too much and the new incentives weren't as appealing.

Ironically, I'd think as for putting the product in front of people, the LG situation would be as good as the WebOS team has ever had, LG sells a lot of well made hardware products, they're serious. What I'd really think happened is WebOS's core team was depleted under HP, they sold it to LG, never reloaded and now there are gigantic demands on them that they simply cannot satisfy. That's rough, LG should double down and help them get some new talent that's hungry.

The idea that WebOS was going to "change LG" seems interesting...
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"Gingerich has examined nearly every extant first- and second-edition copy—six hundred in all—of Copernicus’s On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres."

That is a fascinating book; part history of science, part detective story and part bibliophile's wet dream: http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-Nobody-Read-Revolutions/dp/B0...
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I'm building a site that collects all the world's best speeches. I believe that the repositories that exist for speeches are often cluttered with ads and/or unappealing layouts. Speeches are works of art and they deserve to be displayed in pleasing manner. My prototype is here: http://beautifulspee.ch/
Was anyone else thinking about The Ninth Gate as they began reading this piece? The globetrotting, talk of valuable books and masterful antiquarian knowledge, and slow but definite buildup of tension were the same. Anyone know of another film or book that has this same feel?

Excellent piece, worth reading to the end.
In other words the toy model that I am suggesting is unlikely to be perfectly true. Granted.

But I think the point remains that a certain amount of what goes into the IQ score is something we don't think of as intelligence. And this means that IQ doesn't measure intelligence nearly as directly as most of us would naively think.
On my laptop at the top-left corner there is a "seeed wiki" logo and no globe.
Interesting thinking. Wonder if the money ends up evening out with the post-downtime spike.
If you are looking for a counter offer, you're pretty much burning your bridge. Nothing but resentment can come from that. Additionally it makes you look weak if you take the offer.
Great to be partnered with ZenPayroll. Lots of our customers are excited by the news and our integration.
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Exploration. I'm a geologist, rather than a petroleum engineer. It's a different culture than development or production. (Though there are crunch periods in those, as well. Plenty of situations where you're on-call 24/7, which doesn't happen in exploration.)

In development and production, you're typically involved in smaller business decisions at regular intervals. In exploration, you do work to support very large (100's of millions to billions) business decisions with longer timelines, but very inflexible deadlines.

Normally, you'd have a couple of months of crunch time before a bid round/prospect assessment/etc. You work 12-16 hour days for 60 days straight, and after that there's a period where no one cares if you head out early every day for a few weeks. During the crunch time, though, there's an expectation that you're "all in".

However, I'm more of an internal contractor (I prefer the term "mercenary interpreter"). I rotate between teams that are understaffed and help out during the "crunch time". The downside to that is that I rotate off of one understaffed team and on to another with no down time in-between. It wouldn't be as bad if I were actually on a particular team long-term. (The upside is that I get to see a lot of neat geology.)

Most of this is just me griping about my current role (I'm hoping to move to R&D soon). It's not quite this bad outside of the specific teams I've been on.

However, there's a strong culture of working crazy weekends and long hours that I really wish we could change. I've worked for three of the majors. There are differences, but this part of it is the same.

Overall, I just don't understand why salary is negotiable in a job, but time off isn't.
But it does add to the discussion. It's a serious question about titles, pomp and circumstance, and it's repercussions on one's chosen career. As for interesting discussion, uh, look below. Sensitive Susan.