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> You're exactly the kind of person this article is pointing out, because your ability to be wiped away by the market is a precarious position to be in.

Any scenario where the stock market declines by 99% ($100k to $1k) would basically mean the collapse of the entire financial system. I doubt your bank savings account would be very useful in that scenario.

Moreover, I don't think this article is actually talking about people who do save but just choose to save into high-return assets. I save 80-90% of my income, but it all goes into index funds. Does that mean I am not "a saver?"
I agree that it's possible to overstate the influence of immigration policy but I really don't agree that it is "not a motivating factor by any measure". When I was in grad school at Berkeley (didn't finish, dropped out with an MS), many international students were quite open about the benefits of a grad degree in gaining US residency, and expressed irritation that other fields weren't as open as STEM.

These are just our anecdotes, but there is some data to support this.

Take a look at this study from the RAND institute (historically a very pro-immigrant think tank) that compares STEM PhD programs to other options available to highly educated people with choice and concludes that the decision to avoid STEM graduate programs (PhD in particular) is a rational response to market conditions relative to the professions.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/issue_papers/IP241.html

A more general audience report on this research:

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/science/2009-07-08-scien...

Here's the thing - those "professions" are much more closed off to international students than STEM graduate programs. This absolutely influences choice!

It's pretty clear that some fields and paths to graduate study in the US are far more open to non-citizens than others, and that visa programs targeting STEM fields do provide an extra incentive for non-citizens to go into STEM graduate programs rather than other study paths. This doesn't make it the only reason, or the main motivation, but I'd say it is a motivating factor to go to grad school.

I tend to agree with you that once the MS is achieved, the motivation would be lower, but it still influences the field of study.
That's what I meant by bland. It could be said after nearly any staff-related problems.

For example, if they had a rank-and-yank system and decided it wasn't worthwhile as good people were leaving to avoid the internal stress, then they could announce that they are getting rid of the policy, and repeat almost identical text.

In any case, I find it hard to believe that it really took a lawsuit to learn that "people need to be treated right", so that can't be the real lesson learned.
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This is super cool. :-)

I think it'd be nice to have a SoundHound/Shazam-style audio fingerprint downloader too: then you can either repeat lyrics, or get a quick soundbyte!
Yes. He's now in a messy lawsuit over it.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-02/zuckerberg...
Parent opposes a device that would record the timestamp, location, and owner of a gun when fired. This information should definitely not be secret in a self-defense or other justified killing.

Why demand privacy with regard to who you kill, unless you would be punished for it (i.e. it's murder?)
Nay, a huge role. People who were far outside major economic activity can now participate in global markets, improving their ability to sell goods & services (and obtain tools & connections).

A few days ago I ordered & received a cheap scarf via mail. US$0.95 - delivered! from China! obviously whoever was involved didn't make much off the transaction, yet they WERE able to make & sell & deliver something to an idiot on the other side of the planet. Where there was no market before, Amazon & USPS & other businesses have pursued "globalization" to the point that a manufacturer & buyer a world apart could engage in profitable transactions.

The way out of poverty is capitalism, sellers & buyers making mutually profitable agreements, and globalization eliminating barriers of distance & borders.
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It's Python.

https://github.com/docker/compose

Is this the repository or is there another one?
Definitely! This prevailing sentiment that practical experience can replace a CS degree baffles me. There's a vast array of topics in CS that aren't encountered in 95% of typical programming tasks. Then you've got the greater efficiency of learning when you learn things directly and can interact mentors and other students. No book or tutorial will have all the details down like a human that understands something. Then there is the crafting of a holistic program that ensures students get exposed to the right topics in the right order, building a strong theoretical basis. Also, more advanced or cutting edge topics are not going to be well documented so the academic world is a great place to get exposure. Also, you don't have career pressure to meet business goals so you can focus on learning. Also, the time structure and social environment helps with people that aren't completely self driven yet (the majority of young adults?). And then you've got the entire collegiate experience which gives you skills and learning and networking beyond your chosen field. I could go on.

I think people who trash university education either never attended, went to a poor school, or were studying something they didn't care about and thus never engaged properly.
I agree. Just because the price of eggs and computers aren't going up doesn't mean inflation is flat. The Fed's printing machine has massively (re)inflated almost all major assets including housing, education, and non-disposables.

BTW, this is not the first time I've seen a comment mentioning this fact being downvoted. I would be more than happy to debate this with anyone who disagrees.
Love it. I would love to know how this works.
Right. It's fascinating how often I hear people saying that can learn by experience but wouldn't do a PhD.

A PhD is a guaranteed salary for five years to do pretty much whatever you want (plus a bit of politicking to explain to someone why what you're doing is related to an existing grant, which is way easier than it sounds). And bonus: you get to work on things that no one has ever done before, instead of just teaching yourself stuff everyone else already knows out of a book.
I've never had a good experience with Cygwin, and I've never really liked any of the terminal programs available for Windows either.
The west coast has a liberal population less receptive to change than Bush/Cheney era Republicans. SF has a lot of misguided anger towards tech workers.
Not taken as criticism, and I absolutely know where you're coming from; solid advice. My mitigation is tight stops, and yes, I know what the downsides of those can be in a crashing market. The risk/reward for me versus a savings account at 0.5% is acceptable to me.

Or if you mean it's all tied up in a 401K, yeah, I hear ya. The vast majority of our funds are in there. The mitigation to that is a goodly amount of cash (easily get by for a year with no income) in a standard brokerage account that has a debit card and a checkbook I've got lying around the house somewhere, under the assumption that something like AAPL should be liquid enough should we need the cash. But, see above...
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•Interdependencies allow dense in silico reconstruction from sparse experimental data

•Simulations reproduce in vitro and in vivo experiments without parameter tuning

•The neocortex reconfigures to support diverse information processing strategies
Given the interest rate so low, saving is definitely a "smart" answer. Keep cash and keep invest seems to be a "wise" choice in our current market. So, it might be the market (or policy maker) to blame...
Personally, I'm looking forward to owning (or even building) a self-driving tiny house sort of vehicle.
I have 2 really important things to say about this:

1. In 2013, the Los Angelos police department put more bullets into 1 man then the entire country of Germany shot during the entire year. Germany has twice the population of California and is roughly the same size.

2. For whatever reason, United States police are not required to keep a public record of how many shots are fired and how many people they've killed. This is not a common thing. It's pretty horrific. If they were to release such information we would see just how bad our police really are. And I don't mean bad as in evil, I just mean bad as in ineffective and out of control.
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I'm thinking those blue collar folks didn't want it to change either, but it did.

The only thing constant is change.
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The engineering was solid, it worked as intended, in contrast to the software of other car companies.
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Wow. This reminds me of Cory Doctorow's imagined whuffie social credit system [1], except in a terribly twisted way. I guess that's a logical extension of it though.

"Whuffie has replaced money, providing an esteem- and admiration-rewarding motivation for people to do useful and creative things. A person's Whuffie is a general measurement of his or her overall reputation and is gained (or lost) according to a person's favorable (or unfavorable) actions. Public opinion determines which actions are favorable or unfavorable."

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whuffie
Even so, under ZIRP it's really weird how little passbook savings returns these days.
It's "renters" BTW. [EDIT: Scratch the previous. I am, of course, wrong about the renters correction. Misread.] I'm not sure what he did to get your back up so much or when being a landlord became such a terrible evil. Also, "we" are not suffering. Yes he has a schtick and probably a pretty profitable one. His general advice is probably good for some but mostly isn't my thing because I like restaurants and traveling and that sort of thing. And I certainly don't care enough to go to his site and ask questions.
Breivik tried to buy illegal weapons. He was unable to do so. He ended up buying weapons legally.
The "Default Browser" plug-in is not responsible for the notification mentioned in that tweet. The plug-in has no opportunity to execute code when Firefox is launched, only when instantiated by a web page.

Besides, there's no need for a browser plug-in to detect when Firefox is run: the LaunchServices framework responsible for launching applications on OS X can simply check whether the application it is launching appears to be a web browser.
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This is why the University of California has a prohibition on classified research at the ten UC campuses. All classified UC research is undertaken at one of the National Laboratories administered by UC or Scripps, and even then only at the Secret Level, not Top Secret. I think that's a good policy, as it protects researchers and staff from impacts of this nature: http://www.ucop.edu/research-policy-analysis-coordination/re...
Someone else posted this higher up:

Then you don't know the motor industry very much as it has very strict coding standards like ISO 26262, the code has to be audited internally and by certified 3rd parties with every release to meet the development cycle requirements of the standards.
http://www.ldra.com/en/software-quality-test-tools/group/by-....
The industry also has specific coding standard for every language that is used in embedded systems like MISRA-C https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MISRA_C
Not even the worst stock crash in history was a 99% drop.

Also, you are almost 100% wrong about the intention of the article. It's not that they're trying to make some point about people's poor asset allocation, it's just sloppy reporting.

If their actual point was that people had too much money invested, wouldn't the most obvious and actionable advice for the "What to Do If Your Savings Fall Short" section be to sell some shares and transfer the cash into a savings account?

It's on you to prove why your financially unwise viewpoint is correct.
Well now you've changed the goalposts with "a reasonable amount of time" and self-study rather than industry experience. More to the "experience" point, I can't think of many jobs that will expose you to the sheer breadth of a good undergrad CS curriculum: think a solid foundation in algorithms, networking, calculus, linear algebra, databases, advanced algorithms (randomized, approximation), programming languages, compiler design, ai of various sorts, numerical methods, theory of computation, to name the big ones.
If you could have perfectly safe software, without requiring individual engineers to be licensed, would that be acceptable to you?

I'm not asking if you think such a thing would be possible or not - I'm asking if you would accept an alternate means of getting what I think we both want.
From what I can glean, content handlers should no longer be native, and WebExtensions are going to be more controlled in what you can and can't access.
Tarnsap

Tarsnap. But yes.
Oh yeah. Forgot about that one.

NSFW, assuming your workplace is opposed to drawings of male genitalia: http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2014/04/10/legenda...
interesting...
still doesnt talk about the actual API stack though. Conformal is using golang and Coinbase is using Ruby... wonder what these guys are using.
I just posted the exact same thing! I wish I read your comment first. What's more, is that the LA police department actually put more bullets in 1 man than Germany police shot during 2013.
I couldn't really say anything about the H1B program that hasn't already been said (you can see my post history as I've posted about it a few times myself)

Basically the way the program is run gives a lot of power to employers and very little power to employees.

In terms of salaries there are a few tricks employers use to suppress wages. Wages are set* by the department of labor but the data is very inconsistent which means you can hire someone as a level 4 software engineer with a market salary of 130k or you can hire her as a level 1 systems analyst at 65k... which do you think the employer picks? A big problem besides the nebulousness of it all is there isn't anyone responsible on the other side to verify.

* actually employers can submit their own wage data to support the wages given, which is just insane.
Yes, this was the work of individuals. Hundreds, if not thousands of individuals that did it with the blessing of some reasonably high up people.
There are many standards of engineering involving software.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_26262

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_62304

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MISRA_C
There's clear evidence that many cities throughout Europe have too high air pollution, and that it kills close to what smoking does. Cities have been ordered by the EU to clean up by the end of the year, or face harsh fines. Over 80,000 people die in the UK per year (smoking kills 100,000). Mostly from diesel engine pollution.

Now try to think how many people it kills in the rest of Europe, the USA and the world?

Cars (and buses) stink, are noisy, and worse -- they kill on a massive scale. There is alternative tech available for order now that doesn't kill as much, and provides better service.

Demand that the killing machines are replaced, and the makers, and the users are brought to justice if they don't!

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/15/nearly-95...
Seems like a bad choice to me given that ISE already has an Options exchange called Gemini.
"...or a xenophobic definition of "poverty" that only counts people living in your own much-richer-than-global-average country."

In which case you are no longer measuring poverty. You are measuring inequality.
How does owning rental properties invalidate his message of "avoid rampant, unnecessary consumerism"? Certainly, not everyone can derive their retirement income from rentals (the numbers don't work out). But lucky for you: There are other forms of investment.

BTW: I currently rent. It's the financially prudent thing to do in my situation, and I certainly don't begrudge my landlords for it -- they're the ones locked into an illiquid, overvalued asset.
And you're not familiar with what happened when a 3rd party (Michael Barr) was allowed to FINALLY look inside Toyota's engine code and determine the cause of the "Unintended Acceleration" problem:

"Barr checked the [Toyota] source code against MISRA’s 2004 edition and found 81,514 violations."

http://www.safetyresearch.net/blog/articles/toyota-unintende...
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The opposite is true. Many federal research scholarships are open only to U.S. citizens or at least permanent residents.
Does any one really thinks that true?

http://www.ldra.com/en/software-quality-test-tools/group/by-...

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_26262
I'd imagine it's at least in part cultural. I got a job developing after receiving a two year degree almost ten years ago now, and have felt almost zero pressure to pursue further degrees. My career has grown beyond what I ever imagined too. American development shops and developers in my experience value degrees far less than actual experience and ability. You can jump right in and start having actual experience or you can spend 6 years in school and come out behind your peers. My 2¢ anyway.
When the market goes down, you can still hold.
Or you can sell before the bottom. I was playing in the market in 2008, I got out after the down lost about 2000. Paid off all my debt, got back in at lower prices! Worked great.

I also have $1 in my savings account.
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Fascinating book "A First Rate Madness" goes into detail on Hitler, JFK and other leaders drug use/abuse and mental illness.
A local Credit Union had CAPTCHA's like, "4n1m4l" and (believe it or not) "b4nK3r". When I complained they snidely remarked that they were pretty sure they knew how to handle security.

That may be, but they no longer have my money.

Though, for what its worth, the biggest reason I left them is because they wanted to charge me a fee to deposit cash that my kids had saved up. "Because that's what Loomis Fargo charges us." So? Cost of doing business.

The irony that they were CHARGING ME TO GIVE THEM MONEY was completely lost on that particular teller.
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Extensive discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10347821
My bank offers 0.75% APR. For 10k I would get 6.25$ a month, or 75$ a year. Slightly more than yours, but still completely and utterly worthless in the long run.
The Edison Robot: http://meetedison.com/ was a successful KS project last year. I got a pair, and haven't played with them too much but they seem to work well. They've got a nice visual programming environment, and are compatible with Lego. And decently priced.
Because rampant consumerism isn't the issue. Most families are responsible with their money. Their greatest expense? Rent/mortgage which is pushed up by:

1. bankers issuing insane amounts of debt that out-pace wages

2. speculators borrowing from said banks to "invest" in pushing up living costs for families (ie people like MMM)

The media loves to portray people as feckless idiots but the real problem is economic rent extraction by people who are adding zero value to society. That is the rentier - they generate no wealth merely appropriate it.
the benefit is you get a fully indentured servant, if they dare defy you, they get a one way trip back home.
But is it worth missing out on the potential gains of 6 months' income doing nothing, just so that if you hit an emergency (by definition a rare thing) you don't sell during a down period?

I mean, keeping the money in savings virtually guarantees 'losses' in real terms.
Agree on the demo points here. I saw the video and want to try the product. I don't need a demo at all. Just let me sign up. Or request a beta invite, or something.

I definitely don't want a sales call to show me everything I just saw in the video.
Market fall of 80% in a portfolio that has been diversified isn't that bad. Say you 50% in shares. It has lost 80% of that 50%. That's not so bad. You still have a chunk of savings.

If goverment bonds loose all their value, it means goverments are close to failing.

If real estate is loosing all its value. It means people have no money to buy houses

If all 3 is going on the same time, some serious stuff is going and I'm not sure your goverment backed account is really that secure.
You have that backwards, during a recession Cash is King. $10,000 in summer 2009 bought you a hell of a lot more of practically anything than the same amount a year previously.

People with cash on hand in 2009 made out like bandits. Cheap stocks, cheap houses, cheap cars. Everything was cheap, cheap, cheap.
Essentially that's correct. We partnered with them early before we had a user base, and they were just trying to dip their feet into streaming. From our end we were not able to provide the audience to monetize their films, and from their end the economics of streaming were a completely different world from what they do with DVD, even for a company with the content and reputation of Criterion. We are still close with them, and hopefully we can do something again in the future.
Ok you've really shown you have zero background in economics with that one. It's "rentiers", I can spell renters fine but it makes zero sense in the context above. Go read.
I'm not sure you can argue MMM is trying to hide his rental situation given that he has published numerous blog posts discussing it in depth starting in 2011:

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/05/23/get-rich-with-owni...

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/06/29/good-times-for-lan...
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A few of those could make legitimately interesting articles. Idea 7 is very subtle clickbait - I might click just to see what is rated as #1.
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> Moreover, I don't think this article is actually talking about people who do save but just choose to save into high-return assets. I save 80-90% of my income, but it all goes into index funds. Does that mean I am not "a saver?"

Not at all. This article is about people who aren't saving because they don't think its necessary or because they can't afford to.

An emergency fund IS NOT an investment. It is insurance; treat it as such.
The list of movies looks fantastic, and considering that The Big Lebowski is leaving Netflix I may just sign up.
It won't be the decision of people who actually do the work, but of the people upstairs who decide what research the agency is focusing on.

The entire trend around public agencies trying to earn their own living on the market seems increasingly ridiculous. The whole point of having government agencies in a market economy at all is to have someone do the work that is necessary but doesn't make sense in market economy. Like feeding the poor, healing the sick, or doing basic research.

Agencies like NASA are one of two primary ways for society to tell the market: "you're a great optimization engine, but not perfectly aligned with our needs; sometimes you fail and we need to compensate - for instance, you rejected X, and yet we want X to be done". The other would be to become Elon Musk and keep shoving electric cars down market's throat until it gives up and suddenly there's a demand.

As Americans you can not - hell, as the world we can not afford agencies like NASA and ESA to drop basic research and pursue things that can be done by any random government contractor, but better, because said contractor would have less accumulated red tape.