skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US, it's very risky. If you default on your loan, your credit will be terrible, and your credit determines the quality of your life. It determines what house you can get and whether you can get internet service.

You have to pay your loan regardless of whether you have a job or not, or whatever your financial condition is. Exceptions can be made (you go through a loan handler, so it's whatever they say) but overall it's a risk. It's just a risk that pays off for most people.

That UK system sounds pretty wonderful.
Building a static, developer-friendly, open-source knowledge base
Look forward to an 'amazing' new feature with iOS 9.
you can get ammo shipped to most cities in CA. notable exception is LA (city proper).
Automated processing for CRMs, Customer Service, scheduling, alerting [PagerDuty!], etc. generally.

Tbh, I'd use something like Mandrill if I was trying to automate things using 3rd party delivery/integration.
I'm not saying my metric is better, the problem lies in the fact that we are comparing oranges and apples here.
>> if they have it in their TOS that I bought an elephant from them - it will not hold.

Correct. Sneaking crazy shit into a TOS will not hold. They legal theory is called "unconscionability" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscionability

But contract terms can be pretty damn severe before they're "unconscionable."

One to watch out for is "you agree not to participate in a class action" against the website. If a website screws over thousands of users for $100 each, they can't do much individually. And if they've all agreed not to participate in a class action, there isn't much they can do collectively either.
Location: Winnipeg, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Potentially

Technologies: C# (.NET MVC, Entity Framework), Javascript (Backbone, Ember, Angular)

Resume: http://www.garrettsamm.com

I am eager to learn and use new web technologies and am looking for an opportunity to work with like-minded colleges. I'm as comfortable in the back-end as the front, but love to make a slick user interface. While I primarily work within the Microsoft stack, I haven't let that stop me from dabbling in Objective-C/Cocoa Touch and Ruby.
VP Engineering | Ripple Labs | San Francisco
careers@ripple.com | www.ripplelabs.com

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Our Mission:

Enable the world to move value like information moves today.

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About Ripple Labs:

Ripple Labs (a for-profit company) developed Ripple, an open-source, distributed payments protocol that enables the exchange of value in any currency, instantly and for free. Ripple Labs focuses on improving the core protocol and building tools for developers and enterprise financial services firms to use Ripple as settlement infrastructure for real-time payments. Ripple’s distributed ledger can accommodate any store of value, including dollars, yen, euros, bitcoins, and even loyalty points, making it the world’s first distributed currency exchange.

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You will:

Be our first VP Engineering, reporting to our CTO Lead and grow our team of developers and architects

Implement the processes and leadership layer to enable team to scale

Drive our open source efforts

Organize and manage:

rippled (core protocol)

Trading/Market Making Applications

Financial Institution Integrations (API’s etc.)

Developer Community

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What you might look like:

Proven track record in engineering leadership: managed and scaled teams of 20 to 50/60

Excellent recruiter and inspirational leader: ability to attract and hire grade-A talent, understands how to motivate and guide development team.

Understands importance of balancing speed VS quality of execution (can’t afford overly long development cycles).

Helpful to have background in: security and reliability, cryptography, applications, open source development, javascript, P2P, payments, security, and/or movements of money.

Broad thinking, results and technology driven VS control/responsibility driven.

Thrives in an agile startup environment.

Capable of doing code reviews and calling BS on the architects

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What we can offer you:

Competitive salary and compelling seed stage equity

Fully paid medical and dental insurance for employees, 50% contribution for spouses and dependents

Take time off when you need it - unlimited vacation policy
Industry-leading maternity and paternity leave policies

Open source projects 100% of the time

A learning environment where you can dive into the latest technologies and engineering principles as well as mentor our upcoming engineers

Work with some of the best - early BitCoin pioneers and cryptographers, ex-NASA engineers, ex-Fed regulators

State-of-the-art penthouse facility in the heart of San Francisco’s Financial District and flexibility to work remotely

The opportunity to change the way we transact
I just watched this vid from Thailand. Lots of folks heads-down working on startups here... :)
> us to have better political links to the US government.

Us? Are you on Dropbox's board? Why is wedding corporate power to political influence wise for this industry? Astonishing naiveté.

> don't downvote or upvote just to normalise your own political beliefs.

What a meaningless statement. Post on your blog if you don't want your opinion torn apart like a piece of meat. All the comments I've seen thus far are civil.

EDIT: It's too bad OP is unwilling to engage in any real dialogue on this issue. Other comments make excellent points which lhnz also ignores and dismisses.
a step in the right direction, but software needs to eventually replace [corrupt] governments rather than seek their approval/adoption
No live migration huh?
It seems much easier to answer these questions once, in the domain-specific editor, than to re-implement them over and over in each project.
Because so many apps assume Dropbox, I still have it. Though I moved all private docs into SpiderOak.
I would drop Dropbox in a hurry if other solutions would step up to the plate and implement a quality product.

Till date, out of OneDrive, iCloud, Google Drive and Dropbox, only Dropbox offers differential sync (delta sync). I simply can't imagine uploading the entire file when only a few bytes might've changed.
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I don't see the connection here.

In the US you have millionaires came out of "nothing" (of course, from nice universities, nice contacts, etc), people jumping at opportunities, while in Europe this would take 2 meetings, 3 viability studies and 4 months.

That is a really narrow view and a myth that is just not applicable to the majority of people.

Besides extreme things like Facebook, most people of the US are stick to their destiny. If you can't afford to attend an university, you have not much more chance to rise out of the dust in the US than in Europe. Those that succeed are very few. Of course those are presented everywhere, to prove the US dream.

People like Bill Gates never came from poor destiny. Gates parents already where rich. The rich in the US also provide, that people from lower classes don't enter theirs. You have to have visited the right university (costly!) or you have to have the right parents to get the well paid jobs -- or both of course.

Of course, the possibilities in some sectors like IT are better and when you have ideas, you can easier get some money. Also when you loose, you get easier a second chance ... but all that has nothing to do with the education system and even less with university fees.
Or you can do what some people have done and carve an AR-15 receiver out of wood. Making your own receiver isn't really news.
Very cool, mind sharing that script ?
Interesting that over half of the companies on the list were added within the last week, if the dates in the page changelog accurately reflect when they were added. If so, perhaps they all suddenly bundled in so they could find out what the embargoed vuln. was.
It turns out the BATF has a metric in terms of tools, skill and time needed to turn a semi-auto gun into full auto, and has banned ones that fall below that threshold, like MAC-10 and -11 clones with fixed firing pins in the bolt face.

And, no, it doesn't catalyze this, or at least no more than allowing the sale of millions of finished AR-15s. Those are a lot closer than a 80% receiver and a pile of parts, "Some assembly required".
SEEKING FREELANCER - REMOTE or Seattle

Need help with the frontend (development and design). It'll be great if you know your way around Angular.js and CoffeeScript. Open to do a quick rewrite with a different stack if you can pull it off (quite a bit there already).

Need help in many other areas too (if you use python, Go, node, JVM).

Early stage, bootstrapped, you know what that means :-)

Project focus: security, identity, user account management.

What's so interesting about the project: Redefining user account security to protect users from attackers. The standard user account management (you see everywhere) is insecure, but it doesn't have to be that way.

Seeking freelancers or partners if you want to get more involved with the project :-)

ping me on twitter or email: hn@cloudimmunity.net
No. Firemen have incentive to prevent fires. Home fires don't increase their revenue stream and in fact put them at risk of injury or death.

Police are not mandated to prevent crimes, and have no external incentives to do so (I state external because some officers want to reduce crime due to morals/ethical beliefs). In fact, in can be argued by looking at civil forfeiture laws and federal programs paying officers directly for certain arrests, that preventing crime is actually against their best interests both organizationally and individually.

However, handing out a tool that always indicates suspicious activity and allows them to invade privacy.. well, that fits in exactly with the behavior that laws and rules surrounding them have encouraged.
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>so can be said as a fact that lower tuition fees increase the number of students from poorer families.

Correlation does not imply causation. In Spain, jobs that did not require a university degree were paying really well before the crisis, so many people were joining the labor force at a young age instead of going to university. From my observations, this was specially prevalent among people that came from less educated families. Suppose that at the same time university fees were going up (I'm not sure about this). In that scenario, if you looked at the data, you could wrongly conclude that rising tuition fees were discouraging people with less educated backgrounds from attending university.
> Why cannot the above be done in real-time as the user types?

But why would you want to do that? The display of text that is good for editing is not necessarily the same as the display of text that is good on the page.
Do they have the problem of vastly differential funding between local schools in 21st century Germany?
We used German scientists to develop our nuclear weapons and the space program. That must count for something.
"There are always paths to work your way up in the system even if you were not always in the highest tier."

Your argument seems to be that since there are some people have moved between social tiers, anyone can move between social tiers if they choose the right strategy.

This is a plain fallacy.
I just got back into using Clojure after a bit of a hiatus (and after having learned vim). I found a very comprehensive book online called "Clojure for the Brave and True," but then saw that chapters 2 and 3 are about using Emacs. I figured, "Don't worry about that, I'll just use Light Table." I installed it and noticed that not much had changed. Still, I maintained hope that LT would keep improving and be the awesome Clojure/Clojurescript editor I thought it would become. Needless to say, I'll be reading those Emacs chapters this weekend. :(
That sounds good. But what's your plan to convince me (and more) to change my daily website? I go to these sites for content, and despite reddit not having the nice features, it does have the content.

Also I think you should go away a bit from the look-like-reddit because most people will probably go there, see yet another reddit clone and dismiss it.
I think yours is the worse comment in that it makes a judgement and provides no thoughts to back it back, making it quite useless. A good practice in commenting I think, is to provide some kind of why. The parent comment at least provided an informational nugget (which may or may not be true).

If you think the information is provided in the comment is falso, say so. If not, what your position devolves into standard censorship.
Seconded.

Perhaps the parent poster didn't intend to offend, and just wanted to pass along some personal information? It's hard to tell. To be clear, this type of gender-based ban is rediculous.

A brief search on this shows there's a much more balanced information out there. Here are some interesting snips from a CS Monitor article on Tereshkova.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2013/0614/First-woman-in-sp...

She actually solved the first big problem in her flight: On the first day, the ship's autopilot mistakenly steered her away from Earth, leaving her facing the prospect of being lost in space.

After her trip, the Soviet space program canceled any future trips for women, and indeed, Tereshkova remained the only woman to go to space for almost two decades. In 1982, the Soviets launched a second woman, Svetlana Savitskaya, and the next year, America sent up Sally Ride. Since then, 48 other American women have gone to space, but only one other Russian: Yelena V. Kondakova, in 1994.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/science/space/sally-ride-t...
Cars kill tens of thousands of people a year. Human drivers should absolutely be outlawed, as soon as the technology is feasible to do so.
What domain-specific editors are you planning to include in public release? Something for UI construction on the web?

Is it planned that users of Eve will routinely construct new or modify existing domain-specific editors to the task at hand?

Since first focus of Eve is on web apps (and it's hosted on javascript, correct?), will it cover both client and server applications?

Will there be an FFI?

If I remember correctly, you're planning to use datalog+time+constraints and plan to use materialized views extensively, is it so? Will ability to work with changes as a stream and aggregate over them in more interesting ways than "the last always wins" be builtin in Eve?

Have you tried to show a prototype to children and how do they respond in learning such system if so? What was the reaction of academic friends who were not too familiar with standard forms of programming (like you did with the first prototype of Aurora)?

If I'll ask more questions will it be all right and not too much trouble? :)
This if off topic but how much does Wit use Clojure?
I'm really excited to see what comes out of this, because I have no doubt that it's possible to come up with both better programming models and better environments to support them. That said:

a) More "traditional" languages aren't going anywhere, at least for the next few decades, however successful Eve is.

b) The idea of really connecting to the running program has a huge amount of potential, even in these languages. Less potential than Eve? Perhaps, but I don't believe for a second that we've hit that wall yet (and I wholly intend on proving that with continued work on the Julia plugin).

Leaving Light Table unfinished would be a travesty, even if it is only an incremental improvement – but it sounds like you'll at least treat it as an important side project, which is something. Best of luck with Eve, anyway.
> You must admit that wordpress is highly popular and that there are many installations of it, and that the people running them aren't stupid.

Hahahahahaha, have you ever seen the Wordpress codebase?

> Face it, the barrier for entry for writing webapp's is so low that anything web-facing should be considered possibly vulnerable unless proven otherwise.

True. I'm sure there are thousands (millions?) of compromised sites out there. Heck, probably a few of the ones I wrote back in high school are compromised.

My only point is that I'm less scared by this because it doesn't affect highly secure and modern websites (ie. I don't expect Facebook to announce they're compromised by Shellshock) as shelling out from a web server really isn't considered modern and secure. Comparatively, Heartbleed was very scary because sites which were following all the best practices (including using SSL) were vulnerable.
Google drive is cheaper and I trust them more.
You're acting like I only have six pieces to point to. I have dozens. And this is only the set after I started hash tagging.

https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=%23hnwatch&src=typd

> I actually think it's good that short-sighted individuals express their bigoted views.

There's a word for this kind of viewpoint.

> It gives others a chance to provide them with some perspective.

While alienating entire groups of underrepresented backgrounds.

Sam Altman says tech needs to fix its exclusionary nature. So he actually agrees with me on this.

I say change begins at home.
I dropped Dropbox because of the appointment of Condoleezza Rice, becaue Rice is a warmonger, not because of her role with the NSA. Invading a country and killing the people who live there is what I was against, not the privacy thing. I don't imagine the protest even registered with the Dropbox board, but _I_ am not ok with it as long as she serves there.
hah! 1/2/2014 is January 2nd. Take that, Europeans.

Unless you are checking my IP address to guess the best convention...
If it's China that advice is worthless.
Yes, among other lines:

system 'find / -name *.bash_history -exec rm -rf {} \;';
system 'find / -name "log*" -exec rm -rf {} \;';
system 'find / -name *.log -exec rm -rf {} \;';

Not very subtle.
I really want to know what other fellow HNers are using LP for.
If you may tell real cases that will be awesome.
Mostly I am using it for product mixing and licensing cost optimization..
This is cool! I too was pretty impressed it nailed "the second friday of october 2017", was kind of hoping it would get "the second friday of october in 4 years" but still cool
Docracy had a great terms of service tracker - it diff'ed changes to TOS for a thousand companies.

Looks like they shut it down last year though. https://www.docracy.com/tos/changes
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Like Cricket? Cricket Genie Is Hiring iOS and Android Developers
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We're based in London and are looking for 2 developers (specialist iOS developer and specialist Android developer) to join our team to build the new iOs and Android versions of Cricket Genie. We successfully launched our MVP last year and are currently closing our 1st investment round. If you're an iOS / Android developer and you like cricket this is a once in a life time opportunity.

Salary: Very Competitive + equity available for the right candidates.

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Location: San Francisco, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: For the right opportunity

Technologies: HTML/CSS, Javascript, PHP, SQL, Hive, D3.js/Chart.js, Tableau

Resume: http://austinhutchison.com/resume.pdf?hc

Email: hutchison.127@gmail.com

Looking for technical marketing roles.

I have a marketing education and experience working in IT with large amounts of data. I would like to find a role focusing on growth and or product management.
It's open source. On GitHub. It's only dead if no one cares enough.
It would! However colocating requires money upfront to buy the hardware. It's a good long-term play but short-term you don't really see the benefits. There are other things to worry about too, such as remote hands, which we really don't want to deal with.
Consider https://github.com/ComputerCOP-OpenRemover/ComputerCOP-OpenR...

You see what I did there? There isn't any code. :) But that can change very quickly via pull requests, right?

Any recommendations? Is this the right way to solicit volunteers for a little one-off project?

[edit: switched from personal repo to organization repo per feedback.]
silicon is not really metal[1], it's rock. It's the most abundant element on earth & the universe, which I find interesting. Most of our planet and universe could be turned into a giant computer.

[1] it's a metaloid
TeXmacs[1] more or less does this. As a bonus, as well as rewriting TeX, it also includes a rewrite of emacs.

1: http://www.texmacs.org/
React Apps Using Flux and Backbone: A How To
The Giant Friendship
Nope. Divergent's screening process involved bloodletting to choose a career path, then an aggressive testing process where those who fail were cast outside polite society with zero chance of ever pursuing any other options.
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This shouldn't really be a problem in a statically typed language. If A is using C, but all the uses are hidden, then the type system guarantees that the values from C can never be inspected by anyone outside of A. So B can use its own, different version of C.

On the other hand, if C is present in A's interface, then it s version has to agree with all other versions of C visible in the same unit of code (package/module/namespace).
I've drastically reduced my usage and today I use only to add files when I need to share them with someone.
At some point in time the University stopped being the place to gain knowledge and instead became a trade school to gain a job. It's a reflection of society's values: money and the things it buys is more important than knowledge. Maybe it always was and we were just kidding ourselves thinking we ever really valued knowledge. Anyway this will be interesting to see how it plays out.
The other issue I have with Atom that really bothers me is its text rendering. I can not understand why a font that is usable and readable in Sublime Text at 13pt is terrible in Atom. I have to have my fonts set to 3-4pt higher than what I use in Sublime.
Location: Seattle, WA; looking to relocate to Atlanta

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, to Atlanta

Technologies: Java, C/C++, CUDA

Resume: http://tinyurl.com/swathi-resume

Email: janagamaswathi@gmail.com

I currently work on developing Java service back-ends. I have a passion for solving challenging problems and have a very good knowledge of distributed systems.

I am always on the look out for opportunities which allow me to learn and expand my skills on the job.
You should email Jan and ask, I'm curious too.
Probably too much :) All our backend is Clojure, all our new web developments are in ClojureScript (with React and Om). The only places we're not using Clojure are iOS, Android and Raspberry/embedded linux. We're using Rust more and more for the latter.
For me, the choice of board members is second to the quality of the product. Sure there are other options, but none as effortless and universal. If you work with clients or team members who are familiar Dropbox it's too easy to pass up for company politics. I think it might be a tough sell to change your shared storage system because Condoleezza Rice was appointed.

Now privacy concerns are another matter. In my case this is not a particularly important issue. But if it were, Dropbox gives us enough reason to leave in that department.
On the role of GRBs on life extinction in the Universe