skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're actually quite a few apprenticeship programs here in the states. Learning a skilled trade just isn't sexy for a lot of kids and for some reason are looked down upon. Even though you can get a welding apprenticeship and be earning 70-80K right out of the gate.

High schools here are starting to encourage kids to take a more non-traditional route to a career and letting kids know there are other avenues other than 4 year colleges - including more vocational training, apprenticeships and other options like code camps.
Or not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12428925

Europe caught up, but the USA didn't stop, and now Europe is behind again.
I'm not disagreeing or agreeing with loan forgiveness, but to claim that going to college is a bad decision is really a poor choice of words.

Everyone you talk to everywhere says that "a college education is the path to a good job" and "college educated workers make - on average - n% more than their non-college-educated counterparts". When these people (kids really at 18) graduate from high school, they are making the best decision they can possibly make.

Yes, we know now that ITT was basically a diploma mill, but for a very long time ITT grads got good jobs in the tech industry.
You can work it out from dfj espirits blog post. They're a publicly traded VC.
I won't use or recommend HPKP until there'll be a way to recover domain with lost keys. I think of something like bit in the certificate which will override HPKP and this bit should be very thoroughly verified by issuer, something like EV. Risk of losing domain is unacceptable and overweight security gains.
In what terms are they "very meaningful"? There are still hundreds of millions of people living in slums in cities around the world; if these people now survive on $2 instead of $1, why is this "very meaningful"?
Like tptacek said, "Don't HPKP your blog".

There's only a handful of sites that need HPKP and that's okay. That doesn't mean there is something wrong with HPKP. It's a useful tool for people with a specific threat model. If you are one of these sites then deploy HPKP and handle the operational responsibility that it comes with.

If you aren't one of these handful of sites then do not deploy HPKP. HPKP is a huge footgun and the benefits are not super large on an average case.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11787271
sorry about that

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/cir79/iama_former_bik...
The only think I'm confused about is what 'long term' means.

Seems like this has been trending since at least the 80's.

How long does/should the wave of large profits last until we recognize it as a symptom of a problem?
Can this flat-pack truck save the world?
Worth mentioning is that objects keep their thermal energy for much longer in a vacuum since there is nothing that can conduct the heat away, so the heaters does not have to output that much energy.
I'm taking Andrew Ng's machine learning class now on Coursera. This might be a special case though since Andrew is a co-founder of Coursera.
That's what the edit button is for.
If you're using a tracking tool like Mixpanel, you can get the UTM parameters for each user and enter them as hidden field values into whatever form they submit so that you have them in your DB/CRM/email.
" I am very surprised anybody ever buys anything from pushy salespeople. "

Agreed. The irony is the majority of people do. Sadly, most people are irrational > 50% of the time. Sure. They are capable of being rational, but they don't exercise that capability.
I mean, I think it's informative even if percentage results are misleading in some ways. In particular, it's relevant because growth is a good representation of status relative to local prices.

If I remember, a tantalum miner in the DR Congo makes several dollars a day - a bit above the $2/day threshold, but then you have to correct for extortion/pay-to-work. In those Congo mining towns, buying a hot dinner costs around $0.05.

So for those miners, seeing your income double is a hell of a big deal, even if it's only to $4/day. Getting $10/hour wouldn't be a big raise, it would be bizarre hyperinflation.

To be clear, I don't think this means $4/day is a good outcome. Even with low local prices, it's still a pittance and the people getting it are living horribly in global terms. I share your annoyance with "extreme poverty is being eradicated!" stories, because they imply movement to a good position, rather than a less atrocious one.

But for the sake of analysis like this, I think percentage change is still a useful way to go. Raw dollars just means that everything at the bottom is effectively zero, while growth reveals interesting effects like the 5th percentile seeing near-zero gain while the 10th sees real growth.
Arguably having to use a mouse is too much action, because you have to move away from the keyboard, unless there are undocumented keyboard shortcuts.
>which teaches people to fall for scams

My New Zealand bank (.co.nz) sends you to a page on 'securesuite.co.uk' with their logo and asks for personal details, which goes against pretty much every best practice ever.
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Okay, imagine being a Kennedy.

Imagine that the path your life takes, every iota of it, including the big "key-frames", are vitally important to you: You join the Peace Corps. You run for congress after obsessing over every minor detail, to make your campaign appear flawless, accessible, and imbued with a subdued, worthy sense of popularly-directed power. You consider what to eat, in public and in private.

And why not?: Your /every/ decision is bound-up in the Path to Power And Glory: you are a rat, forever hitting a switch in your brain over all else, that says, "Yes! Yes to the Path to Power!"

I will not disguise that "addiction" plays a part in what I write here. I have experience with amphetamines myself.

Now, imagine that you are Philip K. Dick. You take amphetamines, think on SciFi terms -- not unusual, Hubbard being an example -- and read Greek poetry. /Why not you?/ Why not... Become a hero comparable to Aeneas, but within the confines of your past? Why not rewrite your own history to make yourself like a demigod?

Enter Philip K Dick. A mild man with big ambitions. Done.
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I'm pretty lonely. After years of moving around and making lots of 'disposable friends' - mostly work friends, I eventually settled in the burbs. The conversations out here are limited to the most superficial things: kids, weather, new restaurants, landscaping companies, etc. But, since most of us came from different places, took very different paths, there's huge cultural differences to overcome. And, there's almost no overlap in interests - so nothing to gather around.

Also, being a male seems to make it much more difficult - many of us are raised to be self-reliant, independent, reserved and undaunted. It's a sign of weakness for us to admit to loneliness. Plus, many are by biology competitive and view the other males as potential threats. Lots of the guys I meet are wearing masks, holding their cards close, sizing each other up, and trying to one-up the others. When I go to the coffee shops and see all the men sitting alone, it's depressing.
The FBI fitness test: hire people who have a higher statistical possibility of being narcissistic. (Wikipedia: "Narcissism is the pursuit of gratification from vanity or egotistic admiration of one's own attributes.")

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Text-based protocols are simple for humans to read, but anything requiring parsing is a security smell.

Even if you are sure your buffer handling is free of bugs (reasonable in new languages, but the known-size of binary fields has been a security strength for them), the ambiguity of text is dangerous.

Interpreting as text easily corrupts binary embeds if you aren't careful, and escaping bloats the size of what's already the largest part of your message.

Many security bugs have been triggered by implementations disagreeing about when they interpret UTF-8 and when they don't. UTF-8-encoded ASCII characters, for example, may cause one parser to recognize a keyword that another ignores; nevermind different sets of accepted whitespace characters.

You could define a very-strict encoding and delimination scheme, but at that point you can't trust text editors to edit it- making it effectively a needlessly-complicated binary protocol.
17 years, starting with the ‘yoyo’ of the clamshell iBook.
You should add shark (fin soup) to the list as well. Sharks take a long time to reproduce and grow to full size and, as apex predators, provide an essential function to our marine ecosystems. The practice of finning to make soup is a huge problem, and China is the largest offender.
I have a feeling that this is all related to the entry of women into the workplace. Don't get me wrong; patriarchy is oppression and it has to go- but I think there were a lot of jobs being done by women which are now being done by nobody, and among those are the jobs of maintaining social cohesion and networking and so forth, which are a lot easier to do if you and your friends are somewhere other than at work at the same time. But if you and your neighbors are not consistently at home and have free time at the same time, how would you get to know them? Also, if the jobs of doing housework and cooking now has to be done after work hours, when is there time to join a bowling league? We are all in debt up to the eyeballs and working too much - the loss of social cohesion is hardly surprising. I mean, patriarchy is a system that has been in place for literally thousands of years, until this generation. And we have nothing to replace it with. What really should be happening is that a) in households with two working people, the total combined hours worked by both should not exceed 40 hours and b) there should be some consistency to when those hours are, so that you and your friends can be home at the same time. If that doesn't happen, then we are going to start looking like Japan - sky high suicide rate, plunging birth rate.. Again, I'm not arguing that sexism or patriarchy was ever a good thing, I'm just saying that our current system of labor might not be sustainable now that it's going away.
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Fingers crossed that UoP is next...
This may be the case, but I'd guess the vast majority of software work is salary only. Having remote workers working as self-employed contractors should actually make the paperwork a lot easier for the company.
Community colleges with regional accreditation and freely transferable credits are not a problem. They serve several niches that large universities may find inconvenient or unprofitable--such as the hobbyist courses you mentioned, continuing education requirements, and remedial courses for students with inadequate high school education, and compete with some larger universities for the non-traditional students.

Spending some years at community college before transferring to a larger university's degree program is a great way for poorer students to save tuition money, and for academically unprepared students to catch up to their age cohort in a reasonable way. The disadvantage lies in the social networking, which is a big part of the value of (4 years of) on-campus university education. At a community college, it is somewhat less advantageous to make contacts with other students and professors, because they are less prestigious overall. Someone with an associate's degree is not as likely to help you get a job (at least for several years after graduation).

Most for-profit schools lack several of the elements I consider to be absolutely essential to qualify as a "community college". Many of them appear to be so horribly parasitic and exploitative that I can't figure out how they manage to get so many students.
Having replaced the screen on a 4s myself, I can say your 10 minute estimate was way off. You could replace the back glass in 2 minutes flat, but the front glass was much much more involved.

Replacing the front glass required you to disassemble every 0.something mm screw in the thing and pull all of the parts out. It took me over an hour, partially because I had to carefully document each and every screw to make sure they go back in the right place (I didn't want to swap a 0.7mm and a 0.8mm screw somewhere).
It would be funny if they released an SDK and someone wrote new games for the GameCube...
I spent the last 7 years working remotely. Never been a problem. The way I see it personally, is that I would pay to work at home. The money I save on transport, the time, the dinners, clothes, forced social activities. Not having to stand in the rain for half a year, late trains, queues, peoples annoying faces..... The list of positives = endless
Doesn't that just have the effect that everyone now has to pay for scientific articles? I mean, as a scientist, this benefits me, but I can see why your average Joe wouldn't be happy to pay taxes so he can read articles he can't understand...
What is the paper you mentioned in the reply below? (Can't reply to that one)
> companionship is what they need

I'm 40ish and married right now, but throughout my life I've alternated between being solitary and living with people. My take on it is that both are psychologically stressful in different ways. I've wondered once or twice whether it would be better to have some kind of drug or therapy that helps a person be content with being alone rather than assuming that companionship is going to be a magic bullet for everyone.
Since when are we worried about safety of the citizens? It is more cost efficient to worry about safety of the corporations. And it is a great way for corporations to externalize their security costs. What's not to love?
(sarcasm)
Fuck the word taxpayer, it's a lie hiding in a literalism. It pretends that people are paying for some service and they could stop. No. Society, as individuals on behalf of the whole, has responsibilities. One of those is to pick up the tab when people's lives have been ruined through no fault of their own.

The whole "small government" thing has just been people blowing off their responsibilities.
They do capture the information. I'd be shocked if it isn't considered in PageRank.
Several months ago I interviewed for a remote position with a startup based in NYC. The technical screening consisted of a project and of course a couple of phone interviews.

After I did well on all of that, I was flown up to NYC for a 'culture-fit' interview. Which I failed, apparently. As a mid-30s guy who was raised in the mid-west, I felt like I had very little in common with the 20-something urbanites with whom I was interviewing.

They didn't seem like bad people at all, and I didn't foresee any issues working with them (esp. remotely), but apparently I gave off a strong enough 'not-like-us' vibe to cause them to pass on a demonstrated technically-solid candidate (because if there truly is a shortage of good developers, this would be an incredibly silly thing to do).
"limited liability"

I think people forget how big a deal this is - people who don't have it (e.g. old fashioned "joint and several liability" partnerships) can be in for a whole world of misery.

I remember hearing a BBC Radio 4 program a few years back on a financial disaster where a bank was both mutual and didn't have limited liability and collapsed, that was a disaster for anyone who had deposits at the bank (no matter how small).
Any distributed storage option? Asynchronous chat-style messaging is rarely enough for social networking.
> Whining about not being able to say certain words is about the least productive thing you can do, and makes you appear to prioritize your desire to be a jerk over getting things done.

It's more about not wanting to "walk on eggshells". I don't want a speaker to spend >1/2 of his time prepping for the political side of a presentation. I want a speaker who spends the majority of his time on the technical details.

If you want to "get stuff done", sure, sometimes you have to be more polite than you want. But the other side of the coin is that you also have to be thick-skinned. If every little thing "offends" you, then you are not going to get any work done either, and your actively preventing others from doing so.
The Alexander Graham Bell/Western Union story is a fabrication.

http://blog.historyofphonephreaking.org/2011/01/the-greatest...
For the basement hackers who know no actual sciences (you disgust me): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_group
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That's a little elitist of you. There are lots of people outside academia who can understand and benefit from academic publications.

Consider, for example, somebody thinking of creating a startup doing research on what the bleeding edge of a field is. Or a former student considering re-entering academic research checking up on how the field has progressed since they left it. Or simply an independent researcher trying to understand if what they've created is novel and publishable.
Actually, looking at Apples stock performance I'd easily say that this is just about demanding normal decency from Apple.

They come to Europe to sell phones and we demand that they compete on the same terms as anyone else here.

Edit:

> they're likely on the hook for many millions of dollars of repairs with this issue in the article in the EU.

They can expect no mercy ;-)

They are big enough that they should know about key concepts like QA, continuous improvement and insurance.
While I agree that I see no reason to forgive these loans as opposed to any other education loans, I just wanted to point out that the taxpayers would not be suffering twice in this case because the only "suffering" that the taxpayers endure is if loans are not paid back. If they are, the taxpayers get their money back plus interest (still in the hands of the government, but it's not "lost").
My statement said, and maybe it wasn't clear enough, was that in cases (such as the OPs) where people found offence _and_ the vast majority of others didn't that _maybe_ the majority cause is stress related. So in other words what I am saying is that maybe in these types of really unusual cases there might be this particular unusual cause.
Yup this information is indeed useful for a lot of cases (for photo editing software, etc.)..But for images delivered on the web it makes sense to preprocess them to strip off the EXIF data since it is mostly not used by browsers.
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Yes I hope so. I probably won't fail in the exact same way this time :-) You can find links to the stuff I'm building via my profile

(sorry for the late reply, didn't notice the new comments here until I noticed my HN karma points had changed)
What's tong with refurbished? With regular devices, only a few are tested each batch. With refurbished, every single piece of the device should be tested.
How do you develop for the web?
Robots for sure. They're fun. The complexity scales so you can adjust that as needed. My 4 year old son absolutely loves little robot projects with Daddy. :-)
Don't bother with FB. It's a waste of money for B2B.

Nothing is guaranteed to work. AdWords could be a great way to jumpstart customer acquisition, or a great way to waste money.

The important thing is to _experiment_ and _evaluate_ (using analytics and attribution tracking) because what worked for one company might not work for you, and as a startup you often can't afford to blow $20k just to learn that lesson.

(Speaking from experience. I'm a b2b marketing consultant and I've been through this many times.)
Snap Circuits rule!!!
Federal student loans shouldn't be available to any non-accredited institution. If your credit hours won't transfer then it isn't a real College or University.
How is switching to IPv6 going to fix that problem?
I struggled through the same thing almost 15 years ago and finally found a middle ground.

We had a team of three co-located with the customer and then we arranged for everyone to work remotely one day a week, barring Monday or Friday (for appearances). Tuesday was my day. After a few successful months of that, we expanded it out to 2 days each. We would have gone to three but the contract wrapped.

But it gave us a small space to experiment and see what would work and slowly convince the customer that it would be okay.
What has been some hurdles you've run into using this phone?
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"handing out student loans to students who statistically won't be able to repay, and I'm OK with the DOE putting a stop to it"

Right, but ot depends on the facts.

Were they just asked to put up reasonable collateral, foreseeable from what they delivered compared with their responsibilities by taking federal money? Or were they blindsided with an arbitrary number from the DOE that was intended to force them to shut down before they had a chance to save their business?

Probably a little (or a lot) of both. And we should be as wary of the latter as the former.
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Sudden change in Stratospheric wind patterns for the first time in 60 years:NASA
I just think that's it's nuts how law enforcement can mess with radio waves(jamming), but if I did it I would have fines/jail time. BONKERS.
Ethereum chess had significant latency and the impossibility of consensus... sounds like lawyer's work to me.
A national study released this year showed Sixty-five to 79 is the happiest age group for adults in the UK. Though this declined in the over-80s.

So what happens around the age of 80?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35471624
Actually, Opera was pretty much the only browser with useful SVG support for a long time. All other browsers plodded along with little more than basic shapes.