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When I was graduating high school student loan debt was something I was encouraged to take on, despite my on uneasiness about doing so. My teachers, my family, everyone whose opinion I was supposed to respect told me that student loan debt was normal and even valuable (to build credit).

So while no, I wasn't FORCED to take out loans, the most trustworthy people in my life taught me that loans were okay, and never presented me with another option. Luckily this paradigm is showing signs of a shift, but for a lot people it's still considered "normal".
>Nobody forced them to take out loans.

No, but many people feel misled about the post-graduation prospects or are unhappy with their life options and feel trapped in a career they hate and can't take a break from or change due to debt.
They'd need more than the will to frame the separatists; they'd also have to get a big lumbering BUK launcher right into the middle of a separatist stronghold, sandwiched between Donetsk and Russia, crew it, set it up, launch the missile, and then get the thing out undetected.
But how many of those 294 mass shootings were criminal vendettas or some such? Something where there were four particular people that were targeted, or three that were targeted and one who was collateral damage.

The shootings that disturb us so -- school shootings and the like -- do not disturb because there are four or more people killed, but because those people had nothing to do with anything. They just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, falling victim to someone who just wanted to kill as many people as possible. There have probably not been 294 four of those this year.
It's not easy, it's very, very hard, but every journey has a beginning.

Some places have already started experimenting with basic income. Other places are experimenting with reducing the 8-hour work week. Those responses are much better than the knee-jerk response of this article, i.e. that we need jobs jobs jobs, and that we will always need jobs jobs jobs.
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> secure an entry-level job. Whether it be hustle to learn more about a business, the specifics about the company you might work at

What's the point? No seriously, other than stroking the ego of the interviewer with a 'please sir, I am just dying to work here because you're so awesome and I'm not worthy.' Especially at entry level, one job is pretty much the same as the other. I am not applying because working here is the most important thing to me, I am applying because there was an opening I might be qualified for and I was looking for a job.

I don't care how much you think I should think that your place is the best place ever to work and I should prostrate myself to get it, it's just a damn job and I am only looking for a paycheck so I don't starve and I can do things I want to do with my life.
>It's really a shame that the US has decided to let its most educated generation ever suffer for its biggest strength.

This is by design, of course. The more "educated" the society is, the more "menial" jobs they have to take. Wide-swath prescription of college degrees can't solve that problem (in fact, it creates it).
>saddled by seemingly insurmountable college debt

Does anyone know of a source for statistics on student loan debt? This site

http://ticas.org/posd/map-state-data

...claims that the average debt of graduating seniors is $28.4k. I'd like to see a histogram of all recent graduates and dropouts, with the bins in dollars of debt. I'd also like to see a scatter plot showing the median debt vs. debtors age (for all age groups, not just recent grads). And another scatter plot of debt vs. income.
Well I argue that point. I love both but I can't imagine running the streets of the Arab spring with my laptop, or trying to keep my phone battery going while I maintain my connection to an IRC network.

There are some things where the combination of public, easy to use, short, sms friendly are a big plus for some things. Not that twitter is the only one doing these things or that they couldn't be built on ICR.
Making the Semantic Web Work
Why not the other way around - just kill everybody above a certain cutoff and feed them as soylent to the rest? They've already spent most of their productive years anyway, right? Its equally ridiculous, isn't it?
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IT happened. It's much more sexy nowadays, providing immediate and tangible results, so media are all hyped about it. Maybe in a way it's better they shut up about nanotech - now we can do some real progress while having less frauds competing for research money.
The tone of that thread definitely makes contributing to emacs development an appealing project.
The question I have is how would the militias acquire such equipment. I'm assuming the answer is either the Russian government gave it willingly or someone within the government wanted to make some money on the side. Either way, it seems like trouble to me.
The problem with this explanation is that, for every such person, you can probably find another one that does all of that stuff correctly but still never hears back.

That's exactly what we see with the Fizzbuzz phenomenon, with every interviewer complaining that no applicant can do it, but everyone tripping over each other (including hobbyists and beginners) to say how easy it is, so "where's my job?"

I saw it too with professors and employers who blog, complaining that applicants and students can barely put together a sentence.

Where meets the twain?
What you're seeing is actually the opposite problem. That candidates aren't obsessed enough with a potential "false positive" hire where they end up working somewhere they don't actually want to work. You can't tell me that someone applying for 40 positions a week truly wants to work at all 40 of those places. Primarily, the candidate just wants any job he/she can get because of the fear of unemployment.
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This doesn't really apply to expats, but income tax isn't really about income, it's about funding all the public services you use. There are problems right now in parts of Canada where wealthy people from other countries are sending their families here and staying to work in their home countries. Their families live in multimillion dollar houses and get hundreds of thousands a year in "child support", but they also consume a lot of public services that they never paid into, like roads, healthcare, schools, and sometimes even welfare. Millionaires are getting welfare! It's insane.
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yes there are many sites that show flight plans. Here is flight plan for MH19 this the flight number that now replaces MH17 http://info.flightmapper.net/flight/Malaysia_Airlines_MH_19
Interesting blog post, but site is down.
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Rock star and wide receivers don't get to anoint themselves. They can only achieve their goal if other people cooperate and give them that status. This guy did not require anyone's cooperation and his motivations were internal.

Maybe he would not have followed through, but prior to discovery there wasn't much to stop him.
I sort of wish the article had gone further, it seems there is plenty of room to research and discuss other examples where negative behaviors became contagious or normalized, and were perhaps later arrested or where that segment of society "grew out of it" in some sense, and what efforts or policies were put in place to encourage that shift.

It sucks that the subject is so difficult to talk about (in that it can politically go off the rails so quickly). There's not going to be one sufficient cause, that if addressed, will eliminate these outcomes. But if there's a contributory cause, that if addressed, will reduce this kind of violence... that's a lot of lives saved. And the bit about so many kids being influenced by Harris (to varying degrees) is pretty convincing.

I wonder if refusing to name the shooters is counter-productive. Makes them more forbidden and romantic and attractive to learn about.
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All you need is logical AND, logical OR, and logical NOT. I suppose they could compose them from the operations there.
> It is very difficult to find the truth
Well, not for me. I was monitoring the war at that time and I saw a report by Lifenews (pro-Kremlin media) that the rebels shot down Ukrainian AN-26. It wasn't actually that shocking since it wasn't the first time it happened. But then the word about the Boeing came down and, oh my, I've never seen people erase their tweets and videos so fast. But it's the internet, not goverment controlled media, can't really erase everything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsmVZmSBaEg
I think it doesn't make sense for it not to be. It seems like a very good way to transfer data with almost no drawback given a decent setup. I don't understand why that isn't used more often.
No, killing people and feeding them to others is several orders of magnitude more ridiculous than simply voluntarily having fewer children.
The idea was to make it small, but not too "compressed". And I always like having braces everywhere for clarity.
All the UML I need to know? Frankly? Nothing. I am surprised people would still consider this thing useful.
Oh absolutely, and I think that maybe, just maybe, there should be a legally mandated annotation on such a posting that an internal candidate has been identified and you are competing with them.

In my experience, even worse than a rejection was being offered a salary not commensurate with my experience, and in the neighborhood of $5,000 less than what I was already making in a nearly identical role. I've had that happen on at least three occasions, where the employer was either being dishonest about the salary range or withheld that information until very late in the process; even if for innocuous reasons, it functionally seemed like attempting to put me in a difficult position (stay where you are or leave for us for less and no written/promised path for advancement of position or salary).
Musical Phonology with Bernstein (on the word "mom")
The reality is with $31 Billion in mobile app sales and rising those jobs will come from small businesses building mobile apps as we have 1 TBytes of free data to organize into mobile services every year that our current programming languages cannot self learn how to organize.

Yes there will still net jobs loss as tech progress eliminates them..the new job is your small business you set-up
CPU by common sense should be Turing complete.
> Everyone should take note of this person's excellent structure: he put the decision first.
If you are writing a decisive message that can greatly impact many people's lives: write the decision first.

I'm sure the guys being laid off appreciate their boss' rhetorical prowess.
I know many would disagree, but I don't consider rival gang behavior mass shootings. for some reason in my mind the come from a different perspective and rather than mental illness, they are more driven by turf wars and issues of "respect" or revenge. So yeah the shooting at the neighborhood block party committed by one or more gang members or the area drive-by just aren't the same kind of thing.
It's surprising that Playboy, as a print magazine, is still around.

The main competitor, Penthouse, is owned by Andrew Conru, the guy who did Adult FriendFinder. He's probably the most successful spammer, after beating California's anti-spam law in 2002.[1] Conru tried to buy Playboy a few years ago, but Hefner wouldn't sell.[2]

[1] http://www.dmnews.com/news/california-spam-case-appealed-to-...
[2] http://www.thewrap.com/media/column-post/penthouse-owner-mak...
Indeed, thinking of Marco Arment as an "indie dev" is sort of like thinking of Minecraft as an "indie game." Regardless of roots, at some point, they both crossed a money line. That being said, assuming he is somewhat financially prudent, Arment probably has enough money to just drop into mutual funds and live off the interest, so I guess it says something about his passion as a developer that he's still coding and trying to make an honest buck off of it.

I think the patronage model is interesting, and I'm curious how he or other developers will make it work within the confines of the App Store.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_kooRTnAbk#t=0m36s
Quick, dirty and primitive was my primary motivation for this exercise :-)
And: it's not really so easy to define "active warzone". As said, hundreds if not thousands of commercial planes fly over conflict zones every day, successfully.

Just to pick a random example: Flight TK7900 IST-SIN is up in the air right now (19:32 GMT on Oct 13, 2015). For a picture of the route, see this.

http://tinyurl.com/obzlxxv

Over the past few hours, it crossed from Turkmenistan/Iran to Afghanistan a bit north of Herat, crossed the country, passed south of Kabul, then went on to the Pakistani tribal area south of Peshawar, and continued across the hostile Pakistani-Indian border just south of contested Jammu and Kashmir, and then continued over India. There's plenty of conflict in these areas.

Then it was on the Indian Ocean, far away from anyone who could rescue it should something happen to it. Right now it is passing Andaman Islands. If it were forced to land due to multiple engine failure, the passengers perhaps would meet the Sentinelese people.

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

And I think Turkish Airlines is perfectly OK to do all this. Should someone shoot down the plane, I know some people would blame the airline. But I would only blame those who shoot it down. It's not okay to shoot down airplanes. Commercial airplanes are not valid targets.
Actually, one of my friends on Facebook saw that I was job hunting and offered me an interview. :/

I've gotten all of my best (and last few) jobs through connections, fortunately for me, and maybe unfortunately for me giving advice on how to get a job.

I'm specifically in the sysadmin/dba (and a little devops-y) side of things, and less in programming.
> If there was even a small cost (time or money) to applying, you can be sure that resumes and cover letters would be much more common and of higher quality.

I agree. I'd happily put a nominal fee in escro to ensure that the target company I'm applying to actually looks at the resume. I'd also happily pay the fee for them to drop any job ads that they don't intend to fill.

> Job seekers are much better served spending an hour sending 10 focused applications than spending that same hour to send 100 sanitized applications.

I'm not at all convinced that this is true. The response rate seems completely uncorrelated with the amount of time spent on the application. Even at a lower relative response rate, casting a wider net grabs a larger absolute volume of responses.

As an aside: the biggest thing missing from the job hunt process is respect for your applicants _time_. At this point I drop out with companies that don't seem to consider that. I don't need feedback, but I also don't have time to waste doing repeat phone screens and months of interview process.
If it is so obvious why do you think the report does not say that?
We can already see this in the US economy. Millenials are largely putting off traditional milestones like marriage, car ownership, having children, saving for retirement (or saving at all) and home ownership for lack of capital.

These are pretty major drivers of consumption, but think about the second order effects: fewer home pools being built, fewer new auto parts needed, fewer childrens clothes being bought, fewer weddings to need DJs, etc. There's quite a bit of fallout there, and it's going to be hard to pin John and Son's pool construction company going tits up on student loan debt slowing the economy, even if it's the case.
This guy proposed to his girlfriend in VR at the Void
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Good idea, bonus for not having to build it out like I did in Minecraft.
That'll teach you to do disk I/O on every page render.
That was a nice long read article. I particularly liked the curt-ish, even terse writing style, a kind of an eulogy (if not for the bar in question.) Thanks.

I currently reside in Scotland and wonder what's the real estate market with regards to pubs and pubcos here. Pubbing seems like an integral part of culture here, too.
Ask HN: I can't make the Lean Startup Conference – want to buy my ticket?
Hi everybody -

I was planning (and so excited!) to go to the Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco next month (http://leanstartup.co/conferences/lean-startup-conference-2015/). Unfortunately, I've developed a breathing problem that hasn't responded to any treatment, and my doctor recommended I don't go since it would require traveling :(

So, I am looking to transfer my ticket to someone who would like to go to the conference. I have a Bootstrapper pass, which gets you into all the main stuff but not any of the special stuff. I am looking to sell it for $200 (I paid $250), but am up for other offers - I just don't want to be out the full price. If you are interested, please leave a comment and we can figure out how to do the transfer.

PS - I cleared this post with the HN mods, so please don't flag!
While I know the strategy was high-risk, I made a very aggressive Cover Letter touting my capabilities and frustration with not geting interviews, and eventually that landed in the hands of the boss that hired me for my first professional job out of college and start in my field of business communications.
Who said it seemed foreign?

Why would repo access be terminated without prior notification?

The only topic here is how this behavior deviates from how Twitter claimed it would handle itself.
You know, I've never actually counted them although we can estimate them from pictures on the web

M8310 - 53 chips
(http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/My%20PDP-8%20Cards/M8310.jpg)

M8300 - 64 chips
(http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/My%20PDP-8%20Cards/M8300.jpg)

So 117 chips, so not quite 10X but the nibbler does have an LCD display and if you add the PDP-8/e programmer console to the mix you're probably close to 170 chips. So great estimate!
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So once you're successful you're not an independent dev, even if you have no staff? And once a band is popular it's no longer good?
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I got the same impression. I think your parent post is a fantastic example of folks not following the principle of charity. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
See I think Flux is too low-level. I think it's too hard to reason about from the top level. Not that the architecture is inherently bad—people are using it a ton–but that things get out of hand way to fast. Regardless I can't wait to see web development in a year!
I largely agree, but it's a solid, well rounded lifestyle site, which seems consonant with Playboy's brand - I could see them becoming a slightly refined/nerdy Maxim. Vice would pair more naturally with Suicide Girls if the concept of sexifying journalism/writing is at all worthwhile in the digital age. Now, combining a hard tech site like Anandtech/Ars with attractive models? How generous of you to just leave a billion dollar idea right out in a public forum ;).
>You can try as hard as you want to get a job - if no one is hiring, you aren't going to get one.

True as far as it goes, and I too am concerned about the future of work, but I'm skeptical that we have ever seen, or will ever see, a future in which "no one is hiring". Today, there is tremendous demand for certain occupations, even as others are being hollowed out.

The difference from historical expectations is that the rate of change between who was hiring last year and who will be hiring next year is growing, and quickly.

People "trying hard" to get jobs in technology almost certainly can do so. People "trying really, really, really hard" to get jobs in heavy manufacturing in the American midwest are probably going to have a hard time (as are would-be blacksmiths, weavers, scribes, typists, telephone operators and many others).

Said another way: the direction of the "hard work" vector is more important than the magnitude. Said still another way: "work smarter, not harder". Said yet one more way: "make something people want."
It seems some airlines do use the NK airspace. Despite being a horrible place in every regard, it's not exactly a war zone, and Pyongyang has no incentive to shoot down passing passenger aircrafts.

But I think the whole heavily guarded SK-NK border is a no-fly zone: it limits the usefulness of NK airspace greatly, because any plane flying toward Incheon (or some other South Korean airport) from North will have to take a detour anyway.
your question resolves to when to choose imperative vs OO v functional, and while I'm not going to try to discuss that here, they are profoundly different. Winapi is imperative, React is functional.
large and generic cells seem to be exactly what the current GPU architectures bring, and where did the 100x times number came from?
What did you expect from making schools Gun-Free Zones? Staff, students, and visitors would not be bring guns on the grounds.

Did you expect criminals to obey the sign? No, the sign it not meant for criminals.

How many school shootings do you think we would have per year if schools were full of security guards? A lot of schools do have security guards. Most schools DON'T have the funds to employ small armies.

How many bank shootings have we had this year? Do banks employ lots of security guards? I didn't look it up but know there are a lot of armed robberies in the US. I suspect there is not a lot of shootings because they are there to rob the place not kill people.

How ridiculous is it that we protect cash so well but we don't think kids should be protected? You have a point but there are a lot more bank robberies then school shootings.
This shows exactly why dismissing something as "victim-blaming" is usually missing the point. You can't discuss stupidity of that concept in terms of the most common uses of the phrase, but hopefully people are not as emotionally charged about airplanes getting shot down.

Yes, it's obviously moral fault of whoever operated that BUK system. But flying over an active warzone where planes have already been shot down shows lack of practical wisdom. So while only one side gets to be called evil, the other side can be justly considered irresponsible.
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this is not even the first time the russian/soviet military has been involved in shooting down a civilian airliner. The last time it was even more blatant and no one did anything https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007
Extra schooling only delays reality and leads to more debt. What really matters is simple supply and demand - whether people have the skills that others are willing to pay for.
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Yeah, I'm pretty interested in seeing what effect (if there is even any, not trying to push an opinion here) the bad economy for young people has on salary/compensation negotiations between workers and employers.

Do the employers think that young people are desperate for any kind of job, and then low ball their salary? Or do the candidates settle for a number once it reaches the threshold they think they are worth? Do people negotiate more or less than before the recession on average?

I don't believe that there's even data on these questions, but they would reveal an awful lot about the economic state of affairs if you could get enough good data to establish causation-- which might be very hard.