skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Two of the three degrees are jobless anyway

>The rest of the article is just "I did a stupid degree and didn't get a job!"

This is interesting in itself. Why do people spend so much time and money on something like that?

The town planner was unlucky. Not much can be done about that.

The 'politics and philosophy guy' says he was misled. He does not say his age, but I bet he was young and immature when he chose his mayor.

The conservation biologist says she wanted to work in something that helps people and not just make money. If she had given half of the money she used to study biology to whichever organization she hoped would hire her, she would have saved money, time, and would have helped more.

The article doesn't really give an answer, but it raises an important question.
No, you don't have to drink 8 glasses of water, nor 2 nor 12, you have to drink what your body needs and asks for
So you think customizing the OS fully to turn off the privacy intrusion and using a network monitoring tool is an "acceptable" solution for the mass market (99.99% of the users)?
The end-user, of course.

"Surreptitious spying is all the rage. Everybody is doing it."
Any good examples of closed source applications being financially successful on Linux? How do the opportunities on Linux compare with investing in applications for other platforms?

It's not so much about "caring" as about the ability to pay programmers to create profitable software.
Google collects just as much as Microsoft if not more. If you're using an Android phone with a Google Account then they pretty much know everything about you.
couple that with reform in health-care billing and practice of medicine and I think we would have had a winner.
I don't think it's even true that keyloggers are any harder to write on say Windows.

This is false. Windows has a mechanism since Vista (UIPI) that provide some UI isolation (lower privilege processes can e.g. not listen to keystrokes on higher privilege processes):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Interface_Privilege_Isola...

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb625963.aspx

E.g. web browsers normally run at the 'low' integrity level and cannot eavesdrop on other processes (which are normally at the 'medium' level). It would be nice if someone with knowledge Windows internals could explain UIPI a bit more, I gathered this knowledge a while ago due to being interested in the topic :).

Of course, if users just accept anything at UAC prompts, everything is lost ;).
>people were expecting a correction in the stock market for some time

"People" are expecting a correction 100% of the time, so the forecast is pretty much useless. If it was truly anticipated, it wouldn't happen. Action, like that which occurred at opening this morning, is sheer panic.
> [...] becomes everything the OS can suck up including everything on the hard drive and keystrokes from the keyboard.

Not just on the machine.

It can scan the whole local network, understanding about LAN, devices, services, all of which could be hard to reach from WAN.
When you post "childish" in a reply I automatically mark you as rabidly ad-hominen and usually stop reading.
College/University has been a glorified and lengthy job prep center so that HR managers can quickly filter/find candidates to fill another seat. Big institutions like universities don't change fast so the current higher education system we are seeing now is probably one best suited for the business and economic environment of 15 to 20 (or longer) years ago.
Windows Embedded is quite common in factories where I live. What alternatives would you suggest that are vendor supported?
I haven't used anything that required ActiveX for at least 8 years.
I'll tell you what I told my little sister (who is in your shoes, i.e. just starting to save after graduating from college): you won't be using the money you're investing for 30+ years. Just invest, stop trying to time markets.

It's going to be okay.
I should mention that a modern antidote to this are the efforts of people like Dr. Rhonda Patrick (http://www.foundmyfitness.com/), who is on a mission to read research papers and distill them into digestible form for the public. Her appearances on the Joe Rogan podcast are all excellent (also available on youtube).
I am reminded of Stalin's quote

Tucholsky's quote.
There have been whisperings about Amazon's work culture for many years. I know I've read complaints from tech employees on social media for the longest time. I've also seen several articles about their warehouse employees and what they go through.

I think the reason you're seeing so many articles about it recently is that there is "blood in the water." And people love to bandwagon in the media in general, but in tech media especially.

I do think Amazon's work culture deserves some discussion, but will agree that at some point there is only so much you can say about it before you have to move on. Bringing up the 401K in particular just seems like a "me too!" article, with nothing specific to add to the discussion (i.e. this could have been a footnote in a full article on the topic).

The CEO (and other executives) coming out and saying "everything is wonderful at Amazon, I never see anyone upset!" (paraphrasing) only added fuel to the fire as it seemed so totally out of touch almost to the point of being laughable. That's what turned this from a small fire into a raging one (plus they love to try and humble CEOs).
>The rest of the article is just "I did a stupid degree and didn't get a job!"

I agree that the examples in the article aren't great. I think "I did a stupid degree and didn't get a job!" is a bit unfair.

In my state-run sixth form college (age 16-18 in the UK) all students were encouraged to go to university. But unfortunately, and I think wrongly, many were encouraged to study subjects which required both exceptional talent and luck to end up working in the field, e.g. music technology, fine art, and photography. Fair enough if they want to do it for personal reasons, but a lot of people were sold university courses (by further and higher ed institutions) as a way into a careers that don't really exist or very few in number.
Mike Masnick of Techdirt also got signed up post-breach: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150820/16523632021/day-s...
Teen Girl Squad (and the intro for non-flash devices): http://imgur.com/gallery/jXnYLQB
Why do Americans and British have different accents?
Disney stock was down almost 10% this morning. HOW POSSIBLY can it be rational for Disney stock to drop 10% because of a single day of rough trading in the Shanghai market, especially given how much Disney has dropped already in the last few months? I considered that the buying opportunity of the year. (knock on wood...)
Utterly useless to show a growth graph spanning decades without a log scale.
No. This is mostly about a bubble in China popping. Potemkin buildings have been a thing there for a very long time due to a series of perverse effects of policies by the Chinese government.

The Korea business is pretty much business as usual there.

The good news for the US is that we're a Chinese consumer, and they're not a major customer for our goods. Additionally, they're a competing consumer for resources. Basically, this means that the prices for American imports will drop, making the USD stronger internationally and encouraging international investment in the US economy.

The one thing to worry about is that the drop in import prices will likely cause a drop in the prices of domestic goods.
About all they have left is more QE. My guess is that the next step in this bubble they've blown (along with the rest of the world's central banks) is massive deflation.
And what leads to the vendors caring? Demand.

There is no demand for this software on linux. Professionals have better things to do than choose their software based on ideology.
The market doesn't distinguish the root cause of safe-havenism. There's a reason people think military-industrial is a sensible use of financial resources.
my parents lived off of grits (we're from the South) for three weeks when they were first married. They made it, with no help from the government - and my Dad never finished school, and could barely read. A lot of people have expectations of success without work.
Try Xposed App Ops. It shows when, if ever, was the last time an application made use of each particular permission, and lets you revoke them.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/xposed-appops...
Plunge Protection Team doing its thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Group_on_Financial_Mar...
I think they can safely do nothing and go along with the correction narrative, whether or not that's true.
Looking forward, these cross-coastal cities and villages, and even underwater towns, may come. We each have our part to play, humans with tech, dolphins with point.
Man's cement-dome home withstands wildfire
*All due

:)
Flash supports desktop websites using Flash Player, and mobile through Adobe AIR.
You are right there is no use case to support mobile browsers, because you can deliver your Flash application/game straight as an app on mobile platforms.
The Chinese model is nearing its end
If Microsoft did not advise OEM's to preinstall Windows, the cheapest desktops and laptops would be those with a GNU/Linux distro (no Windows license). Then perhaps Linux would have a wider adoption on the desktop.

And if Linux had any significant market share (I'd say even 10-20%) you would have native Linux versions of most of that software - not entirely unlike what you have on OS X.

Edit: clarified.
Both terms have varying definitions, depending on who you ask. Realtime, to me, means that there are deadlines and that those deadlines can realistically be broken. Soft realtime means that given some conditions, the deadlines will be met, at least x% of the time. Hard realtime means that the deadlines will be met, unless there's a grave hardware malfunction.

Then there's the hardness of deadlines, which is proportional to the consequence of missing them. A hard deadline means that a computational result is worthless if it's late.
Just use CloudFlare, it’s easy.
It is great until you power cycle machine that was behaving strange only to find out that it was due to HDD that was starting to fail and it does not boot anymore.
You can do everything you need with a Pentium 90 PC running Windows 95. That doesn't make it exciting.
I was going to ask what happened to his VA Linux money, but then again, it was stock valuation. How much did he cash out before the 2000 bust?
I think the term you're looking for is "anthropocentrism" [0],
though I don't see how you can construe this article to take an anthropocentric point of view.

If anything, it's implicitly acknowledging that we're not as exceptional as we'd like to think.

The title doesn't even indicate that the dolphins' brightness is changing, but rather that we're increasingly perceiving them as bright.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocentrism
>Last week, Roskomnadzor threatened that banning one article on Wikipedia would result in the complete blocking of the website, insofar as it uses https protocol. “In the event that [Wikipedia] refuses to comply with the court’s ruling," the agency said in an announcement, "Roskomnadzor will block the webpage on Russian territory using the registry of illegal information. In this case, insofar as Wikipedia has decided to function on the basis of https, which doesn’t allow restricting access to individual pages on its site, the entire website would be blocked.”

Wikipedia refused to comply.
> I'm unsure why I cannot reply to ionised to

HN rate limits replies when comments are nested. You either wait for the reply link to show up, or you clicky the time stamp.
Q&A with Founder and CEO of Vorex, Mike Salem
Ask HN: Do you think market is crashing(recession) again?
India, China, US top news today is about market crashing. I feel like deja vu from 2008. Is it going to happen again ?
I suspect that a "non-specific" degree in STEM is more valuable than a narrowly specific one. The very point of university education is to produce an individual with a broad spectrum of knowledge, who in the future can adapt to various specific conditions, probably not known or not existing by the moment of graduation.

If a four-year lag has any chance to eat your job, what's the point of getting a degree for it? A degree should land you jobs for several decades to be worth the investment.
Proprietary system as in Operating System, not proprietary applications.
Elasticsearch:+Shield+protected+Kibana+with+Active+Directory
So many beige boxes and giant monitors. I remember it being news that Microsoft secured the rights to "start me up"
I basically went to Windows 10 for DirectX 12.

Now I'm beginning to regret doing so.
Crashes, Liquidity and Unicorns
Yeah, it should. He should have known to short-sell pretty much everything if he really predicted it. I remind everybody that it takes no money to short sell. If you really think everything is gonna tank, do it. Put your skin in the game.
You see, your idea about how the water consumption works is invalid. Water is not vitamin C, there is such thing as drinking too much and it leads to lower sodium levels in blood. It is actually advised to not drink too much water immediately after exercise, when your electrolytes levels are already low and further dilution may affect your brain functions. Probably not in a fatal way, but still.
The article is actually right that insisting on drinking more water is bullshit, and a dangerous one. You should drink when you are thirsty, it is really very simple. The only people advising otherwise are either selling bottled water or have drank enough kool-aid already.
As bitwise said, best is to use a small linux computer on the same lan. You could use any computer really, just make it different than the host you are trying to capture on!
Off topic (educational computers) but I have mixed feelings about Chromebooks. It seems like you give up a lot of privacy (potentially) but they are very secure. The security is great for kids in school, but are advertising profiles now being created for people when they are in K-12? (I love my Toshiba Chromebook 2, so I hope I don't sound too critical of the platform.)
School for Dreamers
Because it's ignorant. There are cool down systems in place if the stock market swings too wildly in a short period of time.
No problem. See you around HN :)
Just accept unsatisfying, impractical truths, and despite that, allow yourself to have an illogical intuitionistic sense of things. That's what I do. :)
No one is going to raise interest rate right now, even if interest rate is raised in future it will be very minimal. This is the new normal, there is hardly any inflation and price of important commodities are falling off the cliff.
Is this satire? Not sure. If it's genuine why post about your gut feelings where you have no skin in the game and can make calls for a crash over and over? Stopped clock and all that.
It's very very likely to rebound, but there would be some question of when, and whether that happens before or after your futures contract delivery date.

I remember seeing gas at $4-5/gallon (in the northeast USA), and figuring that everyone should be happier to stock up while it's not far more expensive, and that it's bound to just keep climbing forever as we run out of global supply. Gas is selling for $2.50/gallon or so now, which doesn't mean that it won't climb again and retail for $20 or $100 a gallon in the future, but it does mean that if I bought futures in gas ten years ago for delivery now, then I would have lost of lot of money.
For nodejs there's https://github.com/netroy/image-size

From testing with 1800+ image URLs, you can almost certainly get the dimensions within the first 64kb.
The data is not always that good. For example, the BBC ranked Computer Science as one of the worst degrees to have when looking for a job:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7549106.stm

I've also seen it on the top 10:

http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/these-are-the-10-best-...

Although there's a 5 year difference.
There's old traders saying: Don't catch falling knives.
We need to stop thinking about an undergraduate university degree as job training, because it's not. Those years are supposed to expose the student to many different topics they wouldn't otherwise encounter. The best thing I learned in undergrad was how to study in a meaningful way and to synthesize concepts from various fields.

What people really are looking for is vocational education, which is not what an undergraduate institution is good at doing.
I think Amazon is the source of this attack on Amazon. :)
Can't wait till we link to this comment 5 years from now, laughing at how gullible we were – again.
> two unconfirmed reports of suicides

Maybe we should wait until we have some kind of confirmation before discussing this?
Inferno, Part 3: Let's Make a Filesystem
I think it's also important to understand that before the Communists took power, China had spent more than a century being trampled by various foreign powers, starting with the British and expanding from there, and finally ending with the Japanese rampaging through the country in the lead-up to WWII.

Under the Communists, China put a stop to all of this and became a major power again. There are certainly problems in China, but the average person is way better off today than before the Communists took over, and not just because of economic growth.

Now, one can argue that the Communists weren't necessary to make this happen, or that they even impeded progress. (Fighting a civil war and the Japanese at the same time certainly wasn't very helpful.) But the fact remains that they were the ones in charge while this change took place, and they get a lot of credit for that.
Note that UK degrees don't have "majors": you pick a subject at about 17 before you're doing your final "high school"-level exams.

The whole thing is probably fallout from the Blairite changes to the system. It used to be that degrees were free and scarce - limited by academic admissions criteria. They have been changed to widespread and loan-based. People expect them to have the door-opening prestige of the old system and haven't really adapted to them becoming an expensive trade school for the middle class.
Well, after a big dip when the US markets opened (the NASDAQ was down by more than 8% at one point, and the DOW dropped 1,000 points at the open), they've recovered and stabilised down between 2% and 3%. European stock markets have recovered from their lows too.

Move along, nothing to see here...
It appears a good portion of comments in this thread have been, many of them not obviously bad. HN seems to have developed a contingent of people who downvote anything they disagree with, without explaining why they disagree, and this thread is particularly heavy on them.
Never, EVER use a Microsoft browser as a reference for how things should work!

As far as Adobe is concerned, they stopped development of Flash on mobile and recommends switching to HTML5 video/audio so don't think Adobe is still head over heels about Flash.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240529702043580045770279...
Online Hearing Test and Audiogram
But by then the news cycle may be over! Gotta get in before the deadline.
Wind Turbine Makers Become Top Stock Performers as Growth Surges
I think it stretches the definition of "introvert" somewhat to include people who chose to do door-to-door sales or flogging popcorn at football stadiums for fun, as Warren Buffett reportedly did.

Ironically, your comment convinced me of the opposite of the point you were trying to make. Sure, door-to-door sales and flogging popcorn involve dealing with a lot of people, but you are only dealing with them superficially. Your job is to get your product in front of as many people as possible but not to connect with them in any meaningful manner. In fact, you will need to deal with near continuous rejection or at least, indifference. It actually sounds to me like those might be better jobs for an introvert than an extrovert.
The fed is paying interest to the banks for excess reserves they have parked at the fed. If they lower the interest rate they're paying out on the excess reserves, banks might move some of that money out of the fed and into other investments.
Not in a million years
Counterpoint: I lived in Eastern China from 2011-2013, and the majority of the people I met around my age (early twenties) hated the party. They hated the Great Firewall, hated the censorship and hated the Chengguan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Urban_Administrative_and_...). They just didn't linger on it much as they didn't feel there's anything they could do to change it. Certainly none believed it was "better" than the political systems in Taiwan, Singapore or pre-Chinese Hong Kong. Of course, that could just be due to selection bias in the people I associate with.
I'm a Web Developer with a few years of experience on the East Coast. I do OK, salary wise. I missed the first bubble and am not on the East Coast. What should I expect from this? Layoffs mean more developer supply? Just trying to be cautious and prepared for worst case.
Well, I stand corrected then :)
Will the tech stock plunge bleed to startups?
There needs to be a distinction between "my degree is as if I hadn't done a degree at all" and "my specific degree could have been any other degree".

Especially in the UK, your ordinary desk job can be a guy who studied anything, as long as he studied something.
I'm glad to see HN's mindless love of Nadella going out the window. I've been railing against his leadership for quite some time and have often been told how wonderful he is, apparantly because he's not Steve Ballmer. I can't imagine anyone defending his policies now. This scenario is far, far worse than anything during the Ballmer/Gates years. Nadella may be the CEO that watches the world shift to a non-MS OS in significant, company threatening, numbers. Its incredible how he just couldn't deliver "Windows 7 but better," instead of this privacy nightmare OS.

And just to nitpick, we had to change our patching policy at work considering how badly QA has fallen under Nadella's watch. Pretty much every patch Tuesday is a problem for us. There's always a rotten patch that breaks something. I also am unimpressed by all the marketing surrounding the start menu coming back. Its barely a start menu, its just a panel to stick Metro-style widgets onto. The default widgets are a lot junk. The Win7 defaults of Documents, Computer, Control Panel, Printers, etc was near perfect from a productivity perspective.
A 1000 point drop at the open is a newsworthy event.
Lion’s Lair narrows to ten finalists
In a production environment, I prefer frequent power cycling. You don't want to be in a situation where a dev/ops is afraid to power cycle a server with very high uptime. If there turns out to be a problem anywhere, better to find it sooner than later where recovery is more likely and in the worst case fail-over or restore from a backup.
>having a different opinion politely expressed

Do you honestly think you're expressing a different opinion by stating that everything is mostly bad? I'd say you're comfortably in the internet majority.

>I'd like a stat that was EBIDTA of the S&P 500, inflation adjusted against the real money supply, over the past 30 years.

Okay:

http://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-earnings/
> hat said, every single time I've tried to use a Linux OS either as my primary laptop or desktop OS I experience significant problems that no end user should have to deal with... the last time, I added a drive after install... the system updates included an update to grub.. next reboot, wouldn't even load... after 3 days of setting up my environment, applications, vmware, etc, etc... I can't even fucking boot.

was this in the 90s, early 2000s? Linux hasn't had those issues in a decade.
Suspend/Resume is horrible on Windows of me as well, my linux systems do so flawlessly, but there is a good 10% chance of blue screen when undocking my corporate windows laptop out of suspend.