skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are jobs to be had, but you keep getting rejected. Are employers expectations unrealistic or are university grads really ill-equipped for the real world?

Not unlike many BBC articles, this one begins with a question presenting a false dichotomy. Why are you being rejected? Perhaps there are simply more people seeking work than there are jobs, and that however "well prepared" you are, the probability of being chosen for any particular job is therefore lower.

Perhaps it's a mixed blessing that our generation has faced such sobering difficulty in finding stable and meaningful employment. At some point as a result, our society might be prepared to recognize that the freer a market is, the less it guarantees a satisfactory way of life for its participants.
Why does this relate to presidents, I thought Obama is more 'friendlier' to Mexicans than Bush?

Isn't the economy now better than when Bush was the president?
Either Qmodem or Telix iirc.
Agreed. The more we push job seekers to seek extra education, the more employers will raise their requirements.
Think censorship is over? Express opposition to feminists/muslims/blacks/gays/multiculturism/drugs etc. and watch the fireworks. Neo-puritan morals police are stronger than ever.
Perhaps a naive question, but how do they benefit from the IPO pop if they are required to hold for a quarter or two?
> Western States were Mexican. So for Mexicans to come to America to inhabit them is only natural

That's an inherently collectivist premise. You're claiming that people are somehow connected to, or tied to arbitrary geographic boundaries. It's absurd and an insult to the people that live there.

You might as well claim that Americans of Irish heritage, are inherently prone to want to return to Ireland, as if drawn by some kind of ancestral magnet. That's obviously not the case. Or you could just skip to the logical conclusion on your premise: Mexicans must all return to Africa, it's only natural since that's where all of humanity originated.
This has literally just fallen off the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10592712
He did blame the victims.

France is a democracy. The French government has been elected and represents the people of France.

Plus all the things he refers to are not especially the doing of our current government. I do not like our current president or the current ruling party, but come on...
I'm also sure people actually feel inclined to rent movies more often than they need to rent clothes.

People buy the clothing they need to wear every day.
I don't think anyone would consider HN karma when making a hiring decision, so it's more like sharing your twitter handle than your github username.

The question is really, do you want potential employers to read the comments you've made on this site?
> If anything, more applicants have more qualifications in terms of degrees than ever before, right?

Yep, and that's the problem. College has been dumbed down over the past few decades, to accommodate the push (at least here in the US) for everyone to go to college after high school. There are more people with degrees, but on average they're less capable than the fresh graduates of 30 years ago. People today are getting bachelors degrees in animation, FFS.
Time to ban unencrypted communication I guess
The worst thing about using sarcasm with coworkers who aren't on the same page is when they miss it and not only take it seriously but accept the statement. If you tell them/they figure out you were being sarcastic not only did they miss it in the first place they actually supported a sarcastic statement so they hate you for making them look stupid. If you don't tell them they find out it's wrong and think you're an idiot for suggesting it. It really curbed my use of sarcasm after school :(
> “Now, we need to design curricula that are more aligned with employer expectations...”

What would that be? Classes in blame management? Email necromancy? How to beat your peers in stack ranking? How to obtain mandatory technical skills without training? How to live cheaply when your employer doesn't pay enough?

How about employers just admit that their problems are not unique (even though their software might be) and that training and retaining general-purpose employees is far more useful than hiring a bunch of (expensive) niche experts for every little project.
A fine equal to what you save doesn't factor in that there is a good chance you won't be caught.
That doesn't nail it down though. This just reshuffles the terminology so that we're talking about individuals taking self-interested actions. Then we can ask of this "madness": Why do we live in a society where individuals have so little common interest with the collective good? The language of rational self-interested actors does not predict the structure of society, it just gives you a convenient way of talking about that structure at the level of individual humans.

In particular, it does not explain why people perceive their self interest the way they do and it does not explain how those perceptions change. It does not explain how people come to find common interest with others and does not explain how someone's notion of self and notion of society commingle and interact. These things are the definitions that let you talk about rational behavior in the first place.

This is by no means a defect of the concept. A microscope is not defective just because it is not a telescope, but it is still just a microscope. If you magnify a festering wound enough, it ceases to look so gruesome.
What Business Can Learn from Open Source(2005)
BBC: Trump “not opposed to Muslim database” in the US
I've worked at a lot of companies where the devs are incredibly snarky. Most of the people making the jokes are straight, white, and male. I wonder if this is perceived as another barrier to minorities.
Depends on when you measure. The economy is better now than it was at the conclusion of Bush's presidency.
Yep. A properly configured, later version of ckermit was typically as fast or faster than zmodem (at least, as I remember from the mid-1990s).
> Nope, the problem is you need to identify the specific Bacteria that's causing a problem before you can use a bacteriophage to fight it.

Uh, that's not actually an issue as I understand it. The treatment, as I understand it, works by starting with a sample of infected tissue from the infected person. The bacteriophages are then grown starting from a few different kinds of starters, but the process I read about starts with a broad spectrum of bacteriophages. As long as a bacteriophage is close enough to being able to attack the desired bacteria, it some percentage of the bacteriophages will mutate into the exact bacteriophages you want. Since the available food for the bacteriophages is the bacteria you want to kill, the bacteriophage specific to that bacteria grows exponentially until there are enough bacteriophages. At this point the solution contains a large number of bacteriophages specifically bred to kill the bacteria in question. The solution is reintroduced into the infected tissue, where it eats most of the bacteria.

> Antibiotics are much simpler to use.

Chanting healing spells is simpler to use than antibiotics and in a few decades time it will be equally effective.
Emoshape's emotional processing chip gives gaming/ai devices emotional awareness
Locksmiths aren't clearly identified -- they don't have badges and such, and they're not an official in any way. You don't know if this person is working with the person entering the apt.
"Measuring migration flows between Mexico and the U.S. is challenging because there are no official counts".

I suspect many are avoiding official counts.
When their drug-voilence gets under control fully, it might be the best place(economically) for start-ups too, why outsource anywhere else when Mexico is so close and _safe_
Estimating Renewable Energy Econ Potential in US: Methodology and Initial Results [pdf]
My first thought on seeing this post was "Oh wow, people are still using the elm email client". I guess I'm getting old.
Agree. This questiom makes me think again what and why do people post here
Japanese artificial intelligence passes university exams
But checking this flag takes another instruction, no? I'm thinking more along the lines of some sort of interrupt being thrown automatically if the operation overflows.
> Perhaps things have improved enough in Mexico that it's no longer worth it.

My hunch is that its a combination of this, along with things getting "worse" comparatively speaking in the US.
AWS is having network connectivity issues
Their status page currently reads:

Network connectivity

We are investigating an issue with an external provider outside of our network, which may be impacting Internet connectivity between some customer networks and the US-GOV-WEST-1 and US-WEST-2 Regions. Connectivity to instances and services within the regions are not impacted by the event.

http://status.aws.amazon.com/
JavaScript XM Player
Mutual funds mark down unicorns. So what?
The right way to think about climate change and national security
> war they started

To paraphrase Lincoln: "can you inform us of the actual spot on our soil where US blood was spilled?"

https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/lincoln-resolutio...
Wow! That's a lot of code! I'm always surprised how nytimes comes up with these sometimes for a single story.
No I think people should be free to move around and find any economic opportunities that interest them and their employers.
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I wonder if this is actually bad for the US. I don't know enough about US demographics, but it seems that it has long run on an assumption of near-constant immigration or desire to immigrate.

If that dynamic changes, or starts to change, I wonder what the effect on US demographics/culture/etc. will be.
My apache says "301 Moved Permanently"
Ah, yeah, that's an interesting concern. Anyone with more knowledge about microbes want to weigh in on how much of a concern this really is?
> None of the examples in the song are actually ironic (i.e. taking an action with the intention of causing A which actually prevents A [or vise versa]).

There are several definitions of irony, and as far as I can tell, that's not any of them. The threefold division into verbal, situational, and dramatic irony presented in Wikipedia [0] seems reasonably typical. The song is overtly about situational irony, and the examples are all -- as would be expected -- situational irony (though in a few of the cases this is only apparent when you consider normal, but unstated, thought processes or planning that is likely to have occurred by the people in the events described; when describing a situation in half-dozen words, there is quite a lot of implicit context), and the longest example also features verbal irony in interior monologue of the subject of the example.

(And the delivery of the last stanza strongly suggest that the last two lines are, themselves, verbal irony.)

The usual complaints about the song not being ironic seem to result from restricting the definition of "irony" to dramatic irony, which the song doesn't feature (except perhaps in the longest example, where given the context of the situational irony of the previous examples and the initial setup, the eventual outcome is clear to the listener from the start.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony
CERN+IS+TRYING+TO+CONTACT+NON+EXISTANT+UNIVERSE,BUT+HITTING+UR+ANUS+-+YouTube
We've seen a rash of these "bad news bears" articles lately. It's important to note that this stuff has always existed in some startups, and it isn't inherently bad - it's a natural consequence of taking so many risks on inexperienced founders and managers. Some will train a new management elite, some won't quite grow into their expectations and some will devolve into Lord of the Flies.

It's just that as the tech market becomes softer, people stop deciding "my stock will go up" is a good reason to put up with terrible management. The hard part for people in startups is having the courage to walk away when things are still growing without a care.
if both are true, then it has nothing to do with US economy or president. It might just be Mexico is now good enough to attract them back and keep them.
Anyone have explanations on how this is possible? I'm familiar with the basics of options trading but it is still very confusing...
Reminds me of refugees stuck in France saying they never wanted to stay there but go to Germany. Massive national pride drop.
I think 3.x could have kept easily kept backwards compatibility aliases for unicode(), long(), xrange(), iterkeys(), itervalues(), iteritems(). It seems to me keeping those would have certainly have been a huge help when upgrading.

Basically, I think a lot of the shims in the six library could have been included in 2.6, 2.7 and 3.x.

Also, I think it would have been wise to spread the breaking changes over many releases, not saving them all for one massive breakage. That way you can deal with only a few subtle bugs and breakages at a time.
Melbourne: Is this the most liveable city?
Meta, an Artificial Intelligence Platform for Science, Receives $6M in Funding
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiar... - if everything you 'know' revolves around half-truths, conspiracy theories, and outright lies, I suppose sorting it all out gets kind of confusing.
Over the wire? I'm in. :)
Telegram itself is open source. Which means anyone with some technical knowledge can build it from the source. So banning some channels doesn't seem wise enough.
Why SSL-everywhere is not necessarily a good idea in all circumstances
I'm in a remote location where the only comms are via a satellite link. This is what my internet connection looks like at the moment:

[ron@mighty:~] ping google.com
PING google.com (4.35.21.152): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
Request timeout for icmp_seq 3
Request timeout for icmp_seq 4
Request timeout for icmp_seq 5
Request timeout for icmp_seq 6
64 bytes from 67.201.56.75: icmp_seq=0 ttl=46 time=7264.039 ms
64 bytes from 67.201.56.75: icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=6773.034 ms
64 bytes from 67.201.56.75: icmp_seq=2 ttl=46 time=7007.539 ms
64 bytes from 67.201.56.75: icmp_seq=3 ttl=46 time=6106.535 ms
64 bytes from 67.201.56.75: icmp_seq=4 ttl=46 time=5740.475 ms
64 bytes from 67.201.56.75: icmp_seq=5 ttl=46 time=5052.218 ms
64 bytes from 67.201.56.75: icmp_seq=6 ttl=46 time=4352.883 ms
64 bytes from 67.201.56.75: icmp_seq=7 ttl=46 time=3468.035 ms

Under these circumstances I can just barely open a regular HTTP connection, but most HTTPS connections time out before they can be established. So I can't do a Google search :-(

(Even submitting this to HN required multiple attempts.)
Thanks for the response. If I can keep bothering you, is any of this specific to using Comcast-provided equipment?
Has anyone attempted a Bayesian analysis of the problem?
Apple Pencil Teardown
Data science at petabyte scale is helping explain global trends
Identifying 1 candidate is a shaky argument. Even if the majority of popular candidates had an anti-Mexican (immigration) stance, you could not say for certain why they were popular without more analysis.

It's quite feasible that other criteria (taxes, job creation, etc) contribute more to a candidate's popularity.
As someone who doesn't really understand day trading or much about the stock market in general, could someone explain in plain English what is going on here? Why would E-trade even allow one of their customers to "go into debt" to them like this?
Why not give them all yellow crescents whilst he's at it...
Why We’ll Win in Local
> Revenue and no equity raise is a closely-held business. Equity raise and no revenue is a Ponzi scheme.

That doesn't stop both from being "making money".
I was expecting a rant, but actually this is quite a good article. Seems to look at a bunch of different data points, and while it is still opinionated I think the author goes to great lengths to justify their opinion (and intentionally evolves it).

Worth a few minutes to read even if it didn't really change my opinion about the topic at hand.
All professional communication demands a certain amount of care and moderation. Not just for humour but for criticism, praise, discerning preferences etc. Use of appropriate humour can greatly improve things but you have to know your audience.
Someday when this happens your thermostat, stove, refrigerator, and can opener will stop working because they can't contact 'the cloud.'
> Measuring migration flows between Mexico and the U.S. is challenging because there are no official counts of how many Mexican immigrants enter and leave the U.S. each year.

I think this is the biggest problem. I don't really care if people want to relocate from one country to another. I just care that they do it legally and the two countries know about it. If you are paying a coyote to sneak you across a lightly patrolled stretch of the border in the middle of the night... you should know you are doing it wrong. "Securing the border" does not have to mean "lock all those dirty Mexicans out." It can just mean "let's make sure we know who is coming and going." I do recognize that the process can be problematic and could use an overhaul... but anytime anyone even mentions any type of reform, they just get shouted down. Because... racist!
I agree this is scummy for what appears to be a profit-driven organization. Even if they had the approval of Hopper's estate (which isn't mentioned anywhere on the site), this is one area where the word "appropriation" seems fitting. This company is not a tribute to Grace Hopper's legacy.
I have the same issue with most IPOs on Robinhood too.
None of what you just said has any basis in reality. If you really did know all of that, you would have spent every penny you have a) buying the stock at IPO and b) selling it tomorrow and then immediately shorting it and waiting.
For certain cohorts, yes. Broadly? I wouldn't go that far.
Trouble on Kickstarter as two massive projects hit the rocks
moneyballed human resources
Eh you can look at charts

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/mexico/gdp-growth

GDP has not changed significantly in the past 10 years. With oil supplies running low, the government is going to have increasing pressure on finding money.
Don't forget that the investment bank buys a portion of the IPO for themselves that they sell off later. If the fee is 7% of proceeds and the pop is 60%, then retaining anything above 12% of the IPO would leave them making more from the pop than the IPO.

Secondly you have to look at the agency problem. The investment bank earns 7% fees, but the investment banker does not. However the people the investment banker sells the IPO to makes the full pop. And that list these days often includes a nice chunk for "friends and family". Nobody admits to kickbacks, but it is not hard to structure a deal where it is not in the investment banker's personal interest to act in the interest of the company going public.

Truth be told, I haven't paid much attention to this for a while. But look at http://www.econ.yale.edu/~shiller/behfin/2002-04-11/loughran... for an analysis of this issue during the dot com era. Their conclusion was that investment bankers were clearly NOT operating in the best interests of the companies going public.
not sure if you've got the wrong archive.org url or if I'm just being entirely thick, but the two pages seem to contain the same content.
>The situation of "ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife" is not "deliberately contrary" to "what one expects". It may be contrary to what one wants...but that's not the same thing...otherwise, virtually every disappointment in life could be described as "ironic".

If you found a couple of spoons when you searched for a knife, that would be merely frustrating ("damn, where's a knife when you need it?"). It's also close to what you'd deliberately expect ("I either find some knife, or I find some other cutlery but no knife").

Getting 10,000 of them but no fucking knife is not just frustrating but also ironic -- and outside of expectations.

It agrees to a T with:

"a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result"

One would expect to either find the knife, or find a some other cutlery but no knife.

Chancing upon 10,000 cutlery items and ALL of them being spoons --just the kind you don't need-- seems both "deliberately contrary to what one expects" and "wryly amusing".

(Note that it doesn't have to BE "deliberately contrary" -- just to "seem" so, e.g. as when you feel that luck or the universe conspires against you).
How would you feel about University/work cooperative programs? I see that as a plausible way to balance the trade offs of each system. Northeastern and Kettering have had a lot of success with both.
I think there simply needs to be more exploration in the area. I only know of one person who tried something truly different than the Elm Architecture who wrote about it on the mailing list. Anyone interested and with time to spend should just try different things, be critical of their attempt's ease of use and ease of abuse and see what works.

I think eventually there might be a performance problem with scaling, and yes each components seems to have a bit of boilerplate. But overall the pattern is very reusable and predictable, so if it really becomes the standard (instead of the experiment that it is now!) there could be compiler support for less boilerplate/ better performance.

For now I haven't seen enough people with actual experience using this architecture to really buy any complaints. I've seen more unintuitive things come around in Elm that seem weird (perhaps even wrong) at first, but by really trying it out, I've found that more of those things work really well!
Thornton Affair : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton_Affair

Mexico attacked and defeated America. At first.
These sites are really at odds with teams who have chosen the leasing vs. ownership of tickets, where leasees can only transfer and sell their tickets on the officially-sponsored marketplace.

I'm a season ticket holder for such a team, but can't go to all the games, so I list quite a few each year, and I really hate that demand for tickets gets unequally spread through the official market and these other markets.

Is there a legal reason why a seat aggregator like SeatGeek doesn't list these official site tickets? Is it just because they don't get a kickback from them? Some other reason?
They worked out in the end.
Mexico has seen a solid economic boom the last decade, one that looks set to continue for quite some time. Their unemployment rate is among the lowest in Latin America, and is lower than the US. It can easily be argued the economic opportunities for Mexicans in Mexico, are now greater than the economic opportunities for them in the US when you add in the other additional factors involved in emigrating to the US (general risk, citizenship issues, family, et al.).
Humor, sure. But sarcasm comes by definition at the expense of an idea or another person. Thus I submit that the article has not adequately supported the argument that sarcasm can be helpful in the workplace.
The way that our society funds pharmaceutical research (by granting subsidized, temporary monopolies on any resulting products) seems completely incapable of responding to this sort of situation.

A radically different incentive structure seems necessary...
They benefit because the price of the stock post-pop is a better predictor of the price a quarter or two later than the price of the IPO.